skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a believer in being upset about the right things. "Expenditures" are not automatically "losses". There are things that may be upsetting about how businesses are taxed, but there mere fact that they are taxed differently than people, or that it subjectively feels unfair that they are, is not one of them. There are reasons for that variance in taxing. Many of them are quite good and ultimately play to the benefit of both the employees of that business (who like having a functioning business around to pay them) and society (who like not just the taxes that come from the business, but all taxable activity it generates, including paying people incomes and health insurance and such).

If most people feeling their way through this problem got their way, they'd simply destroy businesses entirely. They wouldn't necessarily mean to, and only a handful of people would actually appreciate that as a result, with even fewer of those would appreciate it after ten years of experiencing it, but it would be the result.

This is a thing that has happened, and can be studied in history, and is actually happening in the world right now; countries have destroyed their entire business base for good, feel-worthy reasons. Generally speaking, most people have not liked the results. It is not a thing that is beyond the pale, or impossible to happen, or can't happen here, so it's worth encouraging people to be more careful than just feeling.

(This is more opinion than the above, but I don't really believe in the existence of "businesses that aren't taxed", because the business is non-trivially responsible for all of the income tax their employees generate, and directly pay Social Security, health care taxes, sales tax on all the things they buy, and so on. It isn't really the case that there are companies that reach the end of their fiscal year and not a single dollar was "paid in taxes". All it is is that they aren't necessarily paying income taxes, one particular tax, in a field full of lots and lots of taxes. The idea that "companies aren't being taxed" is a lot of rhetoric, which isn't intrinsically a problem, but it can be very misleading and lead to emotions not well-calibrated with reality. By this standard, there's actually a lot of Americans who "don't pay taxes" too, which really makes it all seem a great deal less unfair, and even pay negative taxes, but they still pay various taxes even so, because income is only one taxation element.)
==when the Republicans did it, it was apparently the end of the world and the internet should be burnt to the ground for facilitating this terrible thing to happen.==

Here, you have proven my point by creating yet another straw man. Ignoring that, you never established that they actually “did the same” thing, you just make the claim. I don’t remember seeing evidence of foreign bot farms supporting the Obama campaign on social media.

That said, maybe the comment was more about net neutrality, municipal wi-fi or expanded rural broadband. All actions to bring cheaper internet to more people that US Republicans have historically been against. You know, policies that actually impact the internet and it’s access/usage.
Your math left out the biggest factor, which is useable bandwidth. Most satellites will be over water at any given time, so the number of users will be far less. Any you're talking about full build out, which is a decade away. Internet consumption has been growing nearly exponentially.
I think your view is too cynical. People also can be motivated by altruism or by wanting to pay it forward. I've answered plenty of questions on facebook/reddit/etc. and do so because people have answered my questions in the past.

The part you are correct about is that it is easy to then get wrapped up in how many visitors your blog gets or how many upvotes your answer gets. Those vanity metrics definitely pull on the vanity strings. But, some people definitely do not care about "showing-off" when they put something up online.
Road design and construction is regulated. Automobile function is regulated. Drivers are licensed. Roadways are policed.

Even so, they're not that safe. Imagine what they'd be like without all the oversight.
> In fact, we know that the intermediate results are not necessary to compute the final result, because that is how the message gets enciphered in the first place. It can be done by factoring the modulus, and obviously there is no proof that that is difficult to do.

Well, there's no mathematical proof. But physicists and judges would accept that there's lots of money and fame to be made breaking eg RSA, so countless people have tried and keep trying, but haven't come up with much good so far.
Tax burden shifted from corporations to people. The resulting inequity was bound to provoke some resentment.
I may not know who you are, but after reading this post I know that I would definitely never want to hire you. So there's that.
The law is more than what is written in an act of parliament. Sure, parliament can pass a law that grants anybody any powers – but parliament also passed the Data Protection Act 2018, bringing the GDPR into domestic law. Treaty obligations, legal principles, and the interaction of different overlapping laws can all result in inconsistencies.

The UK government has passed quite a few laws and government departments have taken their own interpretations of these – for instance, the home office has been using tax filing corrections (fairly routine practice in the UK) as evidence of dishonesty – in some cases the amounts owed didn't change – and using these to write the your-immigration-status-has-changed-go-home-before-we-deport-you letter. [0]

A lot of interpretations of legislation fall under the "there is no case law – it is probably unlawful but plenty of others are doing it and the worst that can happen is..." category.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/23/home-office-...
Google "china ndrc dram price fixing -digitimes"

If you are citing Wiki, you probably know very little about the older 2006 case. You seem to make haste assumption on what, how, and who are involed this time around without any facts or understanding claims made by different parties.

> Telling me "no proof of collusion" without any source is the same as making stuff up.

You are the one making accusation against the DRAM makers of price-fixing, it's your obligation to prove your allegations. The burden of proof is not on me to prove the negative (which is a logical fallacy).
No, I don't think he is. I've run across enough dull people who say things like "think outside the box", to understand the power of conformist indoctrination. I think you're underestimating the formative power of educational systems to teach through punitively reinforced repetition. Children are being failed for expressing creative interpretations of something that purposefully offers its audience multiple and sometimes conflicting interpretations. Most will abandon attempts at expression in formalized settings and shift their brains into parroting memorized interpretations offered by their teachers. In this case the teachers are training their students based on interpretations offered by the state.
I was expecting a brick on wrist, but this surprised me! And the circuit looks simple. I love the charging dock and textual of the watch frame! Screen resolution is a bit low though. I'd join if there's an open source community dedicated to work on this stuff, I think there's a lot of room improve the OS and software. I'm glad to have seen this!
I think in part it's due to very few native English speakers being multi-lingual. Rudely correcting someone on their second-language is a faux-pas for most people in the UK. From my experience, people will try to be helpful and constructive with their criticism - because lets be honest, how many native English speakers could say much more than Hello, Please and Thank You in anything but English?

Conversely, I can see why some Europeans might be more passionate about correct grammar and pronunciation. As youth begin to speak in a hybrid of English and their native language, it begins to erodes their cultural identity. It makes sense if they're passionate about their countries heritage, which many French people are, to try and resist the Anglicising of a part of that.

Americans butchered the English language anyway so you couldn't do much worse ;)
> How do you know this is a good thing?

I know this is a good thing because I'm aware of what happens when there is no regulation of medical devices and medications. The FDA was created for a very good reason. Just take a look at what was going on that led to its creation.

When left unregulated, innocent people get mutilated and/or die . It's as simple as that.

Now, I think that there is room to argue that the regulation can be done better, but I strongly disagree with the idea that there should be no, or optional, regulation.
The best pirated versions are from Amazon streaming, which apparently has a higher bitrate. I’m surprised that Amazon would get a high quality master from HBO that they can re-encode, but supposedly that is the case.

However, I actually checked all the pirated versions to make sure I wasn’t crazy, and for me, all versions looked abysmal.
And it never crosses your mind that it's a little ironic how a human is born without freedom (tax) from day one.

Don't you think that's suspiciously convinient for the government?

There are clearly a lot of flaws in this illusionary order of systematic living.

You underestimate the possibilities outside of being chained to repetition. Maybe you think that countries make sense too on a global scale?

Clearly we have very different views on the human potential.
Sure you can, if that's more convenient for you. Personally I find it much faster to install from the DVD, and I imagine I'm not alone.
It's actually the algorithmic improvements that were faster, if I read everything here and in the article right. Not the raw single-CPU computer speed per se.
Just wondering how the economics of us manufacturing handles global logistics. Can a product made in the USA ship to the rest of the world at a price competitive to those made in China?

I honestly don't know the answer to this. If it's "yes", then bring on us production!

I ask because I'm in Australia, and we're a wierd case when it comes to global logistics.
Toward Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence
I've found that one of the the reasons why learning a second language at middle age is less effective, is because we already have a language we can express ourselves in with great mastery.

For children and teenagers, learning the intricacies and irregularities of a language is simply the only way they can learn to describe and apprehend the world --- and themselves in new ways and ideas, and not get shamed for saying something weird. Their quality of life is very highly correlated with how well they learn a language, whereas the same cannot be said for those who have already mastered one, or those who live in an environment that does not actively use a language they are learning (hence why learning French in school helps you so little, and why so few Japanese speakers are confident in their English).

Barring immersion, one way to force yourself to learn another language more effectively is to spend some time muting yourself in the languages you already know and allow yourself only to express your thoughts in the language you are learning.
I was surprised that it happened so quickly < 24 hours and Facebook is already showing ads related to my recent purchase. It looks like Facebook not only has access to data from multiple stores (which I was aware of) , but also can process them in (near) real-time .

Also, I was not aware that buying anything health-related, OTC does not fall into HIPAA. Thanks for that info.
We actually never burned any witches at the stake. They were hanged.

https://www.history.com/news/were-witches-burned-at-the-stak...
Sounds like a very fruitful career then.

A recent read of mine was "The Drug Hunters" [1] which talks about the "highly improbable quest" for a drug that actually makes it to market, and the history of those that have.

Author stated it was not uncommon for some researchers to never have a single discovered API make it to market in a total 20-30 yr career.

1 - https://www.amazon.com/Drug-Hunters-Improbable-Discover-Medi...
Blue origin will have the same, or cheaper costs by the time it matters. Not sure what your last comment means, but 3 of those 5 are slated to have far more capacity in the sky by 2022.

Read the study again. It's useable capacity. You cannot use the 20Gbps number SpaceX advertises.
The answer to your question is, "No, there is no proof."

This is similar to the answer to, "Is there any proof that RSA is uncrackable?"

The security is based upon the assumed hardness of certain mathematical problems.
But it IS a nuanced issue. The founding fathers on one hand founded the nation ad a democratic republic with a government obligated to respect the rights of the people in an era when totalitarian monarchy was the norm. They also killed natives and kept slaves. That does not mean the good things they did do not deserve to be memorialized.
Amazon paid no income tax. Amazon paid a shitton in taxes, and will continue to do so.

It is probably the case that profitable companies pay too little in tax, but articles like this are misleading as hell.
Chinese apps like TikTok are quietly racking up American users
In which way does this help? I assume the police just plants malware when the device is in their custody.
> Jeff Bezos to have more money

Out of all the rich people we could talk about, Bezos is actually one of the ones I have the least problem with. Bezos has a lot of money, but he doesn't have tens of billions of dollars of "money". His net worth is mostly tied up in Amazon ownership, and if he tried to liquidate more than a small fraction of it then it'd suddenly be worth much less, both because of increased supply, and because Amazon's value is very tied up in his ability to drive the company. Maybe we could talk about problems with a system that allow Amazon to be worth as much as it is, but for the founder of a company to be worth a lot because they built a big company, that doesn't seem like a problem to me.
As a thought experiment: what do you think the internet in the next 50 years will look like?
The problem is that the NYT ignored the why almost entirely to generate outrage because they are creating an issue. Most people wouldn’t be outraged if you said “this company didn’t pay tax this year on its $2B in profits because it lost $1B last year, and invested $1B in a new research facility (and got accelerated depreciation)”
A Cloud Guru Raises $33m Series B
>and stock-based employee compensation.

Do we have any more information on this line item? I'm in a position where over 1/2 of my income is via RSU grants from my employer. If those are deductible from corporate taxes, that seems to make sense since they are treated as regular income to the recipients, just like salaries (other payroll taxes, etc. are another story). I know there are other forms of equity-based compensation as well. I'm curious to see how these things work.
I clicked thinking, this is just a guy who'll disassemble a smartwatch and put his DIY housing and strap on it.

But man! I was so wrong, and I'm totally impressed.
Possibly should be labelled "2018" - I believe several courts including the UK High Court and the European Court of Human Rights have found against parts of the Investigatory Powers Act, in addition to ECJ findings in 2016. Practical consequences of that are.. unclear. I'd think the lack of safeguards in the Act is one of the reasons this has become standard practice.
https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2016/may/deductibility-...

Says software is capitalized over 3-5yrs. The difference is that software dev costs usually grow smoothly year over year but gigafactory launches are spiky
I’ve been writing on my personal site [0] since 2006. Most of it is bad. The early goal was to rank first for my name on google. That worked until an actor with my same name emerged.

A few of my articles have made it to the front page here on HN. The traffic spike and follow on views from peoples newsletters and twitter is fun to see.

But nothing material has ever come from it.

I still enjoy writing on my site. When I’m in a mood where I write twice a week some of it even gets good. Then there will be periods of months where I stop. I tell myself if there was a consistent audience coming back for more I would write more. But that is undeniably the wrong answer to the personal site chicken-egg problem.

I suppose this thread is now pushing our personal sites.

[0]https://www.nicholasjrobinson.com
GitLab Product Manager for Verify (CI) here (who works for the Director above ).

Yes - that's something we want to get to this year. We call it "CI Views" right now but we want to expose better all the types of test results that get collected by GitLab. Today for XML (JUnit) results, you can see what fails in the merge request with https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/junit_test_reports.html.

But we want to make the XML, JSON or HTML output of _any_ type of test first class with CI Views: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/35379
This article does a good job showing how big an impact the concept of "time value of money" can have on a multi-year investment of any kind - pharmaceutical or not. (Particularly since many of us in software are effectively investing nontrivial amounts of our salary in illiquid investments.)

I'd imagine that many tend to think of a $X investment as a $X investment... but if that investor could get effectively compounded interest/returns, even at a single-digit rate, in another investment, they could be risking many times $X by forgoing that investment to take the one in question. Take a look at the chart and formulas in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow . Important stuff to know regardless of how large a financial decision one wants to make.

And in the context of highly risky drug development, in a capitalist society it's a miracle that niche drugs are researched at all. It speaks to the passion of scientists like the author who endeavor constantly to develop tooling and processes to accelerate/de-risk drug research enough to be an attractive investment in today's increasingly optimized society.
I've only met French speakers who could switch to perfect English in Quebec province.

French speakers from France make mistakes all the time and their pronunciation is very far from perfect. (As long as I can understand them, I don't care.) That being said, someone from France's English is more than likely many times better than my French.
What you describe applies to any foreign language. The details differ, but they’ll all have different spelling and pronunciation rules, different sounds, different grammar, and all that.

I also learned French as an adult, first in school and then by immersion. I also learned Mandarin, although not as well. I’m somewhat functional in it but not at all fluent. French is really easy by comparison, coming from English. You get a shitload of vocabulary for free. It uses the same alphabet with minor differences in sounds. Grammar is different but with many familiar concepts.

English is basically French mixed with Germanic languages and then baked for a thousand years. English gives you a great foundation for French.
> If you apply for a job as a coder, you'll be asked for a link to a github repo, because people can't be bothered with looking at anything other than your code.

In my experience, this is not true. I setup a website to describe software projects, and my role in them. It was, per my current boss, a key factor in getting an interview. Browsing github repo's, imo, is much more bothersome than reading a well crafted project page.
Why in the world would you give an employer 60 days notice instead of the accepted two weeks.
VAT would work. You can enact it (most countries do) and collect the expected tax revenue.

But it's not a tax on profits. It's more like a sales tax.

The difference is market distortion. A VAT has more consequences. Higher prices, possibly some impact on employment and/or GDP.

So, in practice it's preferable because it's possible. In theory it's worse because corporate income is more efficient.
I think GitHub profile maintenance as a service would be quite a business model for body leasing type of consultancies (that cater a particular industry sector) ... for individuals, it would not be very sustainable.

Actually, a lot of work maintained by consultancies is half finished non production shovelware, so they probably already do this themselves.
> For my real-name vanity domain, I went with a `.org`, since I didn't want to be a `.com` in personal life, though today I'd prefer `.net`.

Why not use .us (if you are in the USA, that is)?
All the uplinks of my ISP with one exception (carrying traffic through various lines up to european IXs) are connected to the Internet through the same MSK-IX which is 900 miles away from my city and adds 4ms latency. I don't think GGP's traffic route is that long though.
Good question. This was over 20 years ago. I may not have thought it that far through.
But isn't that quite a big difference? MiKTeX will actively download and install the extra package for you there and then, whereas with TeXLive you'll need to rerun the installer (?) or download the packages from CTAN?

I must admit I speak as a Linux user who's installed TeX on Windows machines, but not really gone into detail myself, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Who would then make an even bigger profit, for no tax savings
I am excited about the possibility and think it will (eventually) sell itself though word of mouth (how exactly do you advertise better Internet access to a market with poor Internet access? Billboards and USPS mailers?). I doubt most consumers have the background to know difference between latency and bandwidth, so hopefully this is price competitive with HughesNet!
Terrific thread! Am enjoying reading about personal experiences around "building your brand." In fact, I believe this is so important you should fight your instinct to keep things "pure." And go ahead and contract professional services if you are serious. Hire professional developers, writers, graphics, video, and stylists if necessary ;)

For certain folks just coming up this is de rigeur. If you are a young writer / director trying to break into advertising to gain experience before conquering Hollywood. You need a killer demo reel. Same for a recent MFA grad living in Brooklyn seeking Manhattan gallery representation. An Instagram that tells a visual narrative is way more powerful than a series of unconnected shots.

Furthermore, learning to take a single piece of content. Such as an onstage presentation or demo. And slice and dice it into bite sized content tailored to specific platforms. It is one method for extending your reach 10x. It's the "attention arbitrage" in Gary Vee's Content Model ;)

https://www.slideshare.net/vaynerchuk/the-garyvee-content-mo...

And it's why "free tiers" such as Github Pages, App Engine and 1MB are so important in our community. Not only does it level the playing field. It offsets the risks for experimentation and self-discovery.

"Man, sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself" --Miles Davis
This is very correct. English's status as an international language does wonders - you can speak in any terrible accent, get all the vowels wrong, invert word orders, ignore plurals and be wrong about every preposition and people will make an effort to understand you.

Now for German, you can speak any of the awful dialects natively and it's fine. But never, never dare Hochdeutsch with with a _foreign_ accent as people will make a point of not understanding you! Because dropping a umlaut suddenly makes an entire sentence impossible to parse!