skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're still subject to nexus thresholds (though note: using Amazon FBA will generally trigger this threshold in any state where Amazon maintains distribution facilities and warehouses...which is most of them.) Generally, most states require you to have more than de minimis sales into a state to be subject to sales tax collection (again, unless you use something like Amazon FBA). Amazon and Shopify will handle sales tax for you (now), but they won't handle the threshold determination for you--it's an on-or-off proposition.

However, what's happening here is that Amazon is deemed to have created sufficient nexus for the sellers using FBA. Because Amazon is acting as an agent of the seller, and is storing the seller's goods in California, the seller is deemed to have nexus through their agent, Amazon. This is a long-standing interpretation of the law that has been upheld many times.

Generally, Amazon should have handled the collection of sales taxes for the sellers, but since it did not, the principal (the seller) is legally responsible for paying them.
If they're real, and if they have their claimed technology level, why do they only reveal themselves in such a bizarre way? The argument that it's to gradually condition humanity into accepting extraterrestrial life is implausible, because there has been no significant change in their alleged activities for many decades. Why wouldn't they instead plant microbes on Mars, or something like that? They could gradually increase the surprise level until they can reveal themselves openly.

Assuming they are real, the aliens do not act in a way consistent with a goal-directed intelligence, which means they are not the product of evolution, which means they are something so strange that the idea of befriending or defeating them makes no sense. They're something more like this story: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th...
I have yet to see the numbers that support this position.
I believe (from reading this article) that the people in it would not have been helped by having a 6 month or one year, or more of saving, because without the provision of sick leave they would have lost their health insurance and with it the ability to pay for the care of their baby.

So the state would cast them into destitution and kill their baby.

Also, imagine a situation where you suffer a misfortune and lose your nest egg. Perhaps an official, relative or adviser steals it from you, they are prosecuted and condemned but have spent the money on drugs - it's gone. Then you suffer another misfortune - you lose your job, or you suffer a non life threatening injury that prevents you from working. Now you are screwed.

This clearly isn't your fault. You saved, you worked, you are a victim. Now you are on the street.

Is this right?
You can choose not to update.
Most weeks (especially during climbing season or when travelling} I spend maybe 2 hours in total doing customer support and keeping things running. I can ramp that down to zero for a while if necessary, without much in the way of consequences.

That’s by design, since the entire goal operation was to maximise my free time.

When I’m building out a new feature (and when building the thing in the first place) I’ll sometimes push up closer to 20 hour weeks.

As one could imagine, I’ve never got behind this concept that building a product should involve 80 hour weeks and burning down your life until the day somewhere down the road when you “make it”. Life needs to happen while you’re living it, and happily I’ve found that one can build a profitable software business by launching early and building at a comfortable pace.
smalltalk, in particular pharo smalltalk, is doing exactly that. i don't think it supports including graphics in comments, but there is no reason that couldn't be changed.

to top it off, it had the potential for that already since its inception. so not exactly a new paradigm
>He said it is difficult to raise children in Norway if you are a christian.

What?
This article decries people the necessity of people banding together in tough times and want's more "humanity" meaning that expenses are automatically taken care of in bad times. The author knows nothing about humanity and what it entails. Humanity is not a robotic system where ants are ordered.

Societies are built by people interacting and building trust and taking care of each other in bad times for their own self interest. Not by forcing people to act against their own judgment.
Im not describing a different process, they had their money in a savings account on a bank that went under, they have been liquidating it's assets since the 2008 crisis to repay people and it's still not done.
Um, about half of Sweden’s ten richest people left the country.

I don’t get America’s obsession with Scandanavia. Have any of you actually lived there? It’s hilariously overrated.
Microsoft tells IT admins to nix 'obsolete' password reset practice
As you can't seem to afford your own children, presumably you are making less money than those who can. Thus, you pay less in taxes than they do, which means they're paying for your children rather than the other way around.
Land value tax is all about driving each parcel towards its highest-value, most economically rational use. City planning is all about cultivating low-value, (locally) irrational uses. So think about all the stuff that exists because planners kneecap its better-funded competition: art galleries, theaters, cute mom & pop retail, auto service & repair, manufacturing jobs, etc. Would you miss it? Could the city council get away with losing it?

LVT says the state should not only stop protecting these things, it should do a 180 and actively kill the uses by levying taxes they can't afford. Rather than slowing/blocking the transition to condos and formula retail, accelerate it.

In principle, the new denser buildings could have space for the old low-value uses, but new construction is expensive. The new buildings would have to age a while before those marginal uses could afford them, and in the meantime the tenant organizations would all die. Maybe this could be averted using some central-planning scheme, maybe not. But you can imagine how the electorate might not want to risk it. The trends LVT would tend to accelerate are the ones most residents lament.

I think we should allow sites that are already dead or are transitioning voluntarily to drastically increase density. Letting owners do this forces tenants' hands, which is a sad tradeoff (and to the left-NIMBYs, a dealbreaker). LVT goes even further and forces owners' hands, which I'm less wild about.
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The touchbar is crap, and being a Danish programmer hitting those {} keys really sucks on a mac keyboard.

Everything else has been miles better than Linux though. I mean, when I left fedora 21 for a Mac I had close to a hundred scripts for modifications to make it tolerable. On my Mac I have 0.
Rent control prevents people who currently have homes from being displaced. It also limits the degree to which housing is a commodity investors can profit off of & the degree to which they can exploit their tenants. It is obviously not a complete solution to the housing crisis (and no housing advocate claims this) -- a complete solution means rent control and building more housing, especially high quality public housing.
Kudos to you, this is really badass to see and speaking honestly, once I’ve built up enough of a nest egg the idea of working in the public sector is exciting (outside of trying to find affordable housing in DC lol)
Lol this is such bullshit. I spent 4 years in Sweden, people there complain even more than Americans.
In related news, I built a simple tool to track real estate. For e.g. in San Francisco prices are down by about 3% across all property types (Condos, Townhomes, etc) compared to 6 months ago:

https://agentsunlocked.com/trends/San-Francisco

Out in the East Bay, in the city of Milpitas, prices are down by about 10% across all property types:

https://agentsunlocked.com/trends/Milpitas

You can very quickly get a snapshot of the latest price trends with just a few clicks for each of the 300+ cities in the Bay Area. Check it out - https://agentsunlocked.com/
The problem is too little capitalism in science. Hear me out on this one please. We humans have a natural fear of breaking up into small groups and parallel execute counterrunning endavours.
They are hoping to prove your assumption that money needs to come from ads wrong. While they are offering a free tier for librem.one on what seems to be an honor system, it is supposed to be a subscription service.
Right, so the market is what makes housing unaffordable. Making housing a guaranteed human right will make it entirely affordable—at least on the end of using it. Housing is entirely a cost that should be amortized over those able to afford and/or build it.
I think he means that this is really, really stupid.
In what way is this not possible with X11? Don't for example tabbed containers in i3 kind of work like this?
Seems unlikely that foreign governments could develop flying craft that violate most of the laws of physics as we understand them as far as momentum, propulsion and a variety other factors are concerned.
I think for the common man it's much harder to avoid taxation than for rich people. I am sure many wealthy Dutch people keep money in offshore companies and the like - there might not be much need for emigration. In the end I would guess wealthy people in The Netherlands pay very little tax.

I am just a "normal" freelance software developer myself, but partly due to crazy taxation I did emigrate from The Netherlands (though other factors where part of this decision as well).

I think I must have paid close to, or maybe even over 50% tax in The Netherlands, all things considered (including city tax, VAT on products, utilities, etc...) and I also felt I got very little in return (I am sure some people feel tax in The Netherlands is fair, but to each his own).
if you have problems with IRS and CA FTB, satisfy FTB first, because they are essentially irrational and act like rabid dogs. The state has the entitlement mentally permeating its government.

This is categorically false. In my practice as a tax lawyer, I deal with the FTB all the time and they are not only more than reasonable--they are willing to bend over backwards to help my clients comply with CA tax laws and to waive penalties. The IRS, on the other hand, especially under the current administration, is unwilling to negotiate on anything unless you have political connections to the administration.

If you are a small business, CA is the best place for you unless you don't care about making money. CA has the largest and best-educated employee base, the largest customer base, and the largest network of manufacturers, distributions, and various service providers you could ever need. There's a reason that CA has been one of the top 10 economies in the world for decades straight.
The above example is about a case where a driver did not receive an update. He can't choose to download it.
> So what might happen if California enacted statewide rent control? Capping yearly rent increases at inflation + 3%?

No-one would move, ever. People wouldn't be able to change jobs even for much higher salaries or better conditions. Children would live with their parents forever. Many people would live precariously in illegal sublets with inadequate fire exits etc. Developers would stop building. Landlords would stop doing maintenance and let their buildings rot. Everyone would be miserable.

> Many low income renters are paying 50% or more of their income on rent, that's not sustainable for the wider economy that relies on low skill labor to function, and the solution is not to have people commute 4h every day to clean an office, teach a class, or fight a fire.

Rent control creates longer commutes. To the extent that the economy actually relies on low skill labour, it can pay the actual cost of having that labour where it needs it. In fact by having rent control you artificially depress wages and encourage companies to employ humans in bad jobs rather than finding ways to make things better.
Agreed, but a number of these accidents on dividers had previous accidents on the exact same spots with human drivers. So humans do have trouble with it.

I would also like to point out, that dividers like these are dangerous in of themselves. There should never be knife-like intrusions into the driving space on a high speed road of any kind. They are also quite uncessary, a few simple left right signs that bend over when you drive over them followed by basically grass would have been a much better outcome. That being said it is still tragic.
You ruled out everything we know/have tried, though. What is your idea?

IMHO we should improve technology in such ways to replace social security.
Or you could just landmark a couple charming districts of SF to preserve some of its uniqueness, and let the rest get developed.

You’d lose some neighborhoods composed of endless streets dominated by garage doors at the ground level, and all those surface parking lots, but I think you guys could figure out how to cope.
> Ultimately, people aren't making Steam accounts because of the Steam workshop or Steam forums or Steam chat or what have you

As a broad generalisation this is baldly wrong. I use a Steam account and buy things there because the platform has the things that you mention (on top of a multiplayer API that generally works pretty well). If it didn't have those things, I wouldn't use it anywhere close to how often I use it now. A very high percentage of the games on it are also available on other platforms (publisher-specific, GoG, the dev) and those are not materially worse than Steam if you only consider distribution.
You can absolutely crash a modern plane by entering altitude 0. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32063587
It is not tax heaven, but taxation in czechia is significantly lower.
>In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers. For Tesla, there is one fatality, including known pedestrian fatalities, every 320 million miles in vehicles equipped with Autopilot hardware. If you are driving a Tesla equipped with Autopilot hardware, you are 3.7 times less likely to be involved in a fatal accident.

I didn't know Tesla sold motorbikes too.

Why do they still do this? What's the point if not trying to mislead the public?
It generally means working for change through elections both through electing representatives and plebiscites.
Sales taxes are imposed on the buyer, but is collected by the seller. That is why buyers are supposed to file use tax returns for out-of-state purchases.

This is in contrast to something like Hawaii's GET, which is a tax on the seller that is "passed on" to the buyer.
Rent control doesn't work in the long run.

Sweden has had rent control since the 1940's, and as a result the rental housing market is completely dysfunctional by international standards.

In Stockholm, demand for central inner city apartments is way, way, way higher than supply. The rationing method used is a queue administered by the city, and the queue time for the most sought-after areas is on average 17 years. Even the most remote areas have a queue-time of at least a year.

SEVENTEEN YEARS. GOOD LUCK, COMRADE.

This means that if you want to move to Stockholm from outside the city or outside the country, you will not get a rental apartment, unless you rent one second-hand or third-hand, unless you buy a rental apartment under the table, unless you have "contacts", or unless you buy a condo on the perfectly functional condo market.

Since there's a functioning market for condos, but a dysfunctional market for rental complexes, the ROI on building a condo complex is decent, but the ROI on building a rental complex is abysmal. You're better off setting your pile of money on fire than invest in building rental apartments. No private for-profit company will voluntarily build new rental apartments. So the only actors left that could do that is the city itself. However, the city government changes politically every four years, and even if there's a left-wing majority, there is absolutely no budget to increase supply meaningfully.

In addition, there's political and economical pressure to convert the city's housing stock to condos. Current renters love it, because it means they can realize the value of their rental into cold hard cash, and the city council loves it because they get a temporary cash infusion. It's zero-sum for the housing stock, and the long-term effects are shit, because the rental supply diminishes, making the queues worse.

The net result is that it is incredibly hard for companies to attract outside talent, because finding a place to live if you don't already live in Stockholm, is incredibly hard. If you're a transient worker or simply doesn't want to buy an apartment, and if you don't have a decade of accumulated queue time, you have to rent from the much more expensive second-hand weird market, which means that companies have to pay you much more than they would have to pay a local for the same job.

Compare this with SF, or any other large city with a functional housing market, where every company has to pay their employees a wage that covers the housing market rate, which means that there's no difference between local workers and outside workers, and it means that the city has a much easier time attracting new people who want to come there and live there. Because anyone can live there, if they just show up with enough cash to pay the market rate.

Yes, market rates means you get a host of problems, gentrification most of them, but that's a positive problem compared to all the horrible problems that rent control bring.
You can get arbitrarily high dynamic range by tinting some pixels, or using a second camera at a different iso. As a silly example, imagine combining the image from a low light camera with one sitting behind a welding shield.
And yet in most of the world it does scale and US has one of the worst health systems in the world. Easily the worst in “The West”

What is that headline that The Onion likes to use? “Nothing we can do about this, says only country in the world where this regularly happens”. Applies to healthcare too.

Everyone else has solved this. Americans don’t want to. That’s an okay and fine choice just don’t pretend it’s unsolvable. I live here in the US with a 6 figure salary and my greatest fear is ever needing a doctor for anything.

Back home it wasn’t even a consideration. Need doctor? Just go without a second thought.

And my income was a fraction of what it is now.
That statistic is so so so misleading... It is akin to blatantly lying.
This sounds about right. And if you want something in between without rolling your own, Sorcery is excellent.

https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery
That's what happens when you mislead your customers into believing your self-driving technology is far more advanced than it actually is. I hope Tesla loses this case and is forced to change their bullshit marketing before more people lose their lives.
Co-Responsibility Is No Responsibility
Switching over from KM to your product and love y’all. Looking forward to ideally seeing some interesting product openings.
You can do that for example with Haiku, so the comments would be saved as extra attribute. Sadly you would lost it if you move the sources to non-extra-attrib friendy FS.
On Haiku some editor already using this functionality to save the cursor position, window size and position, current selection, etc as attribute.
I remember installing World of Goo on my iPad back in... 2010? It was super fun, immersive, well ported to the tablet, it was actually one of my selling points for the then new device.

I should get it again.
It's actually quite easy for a small business to be entirely compliant.

Step 1: use a SALT SaaS provider that handles your sales tax collection at point-of-sale.

Step 2: there is no Step 2. Seriously, there are a dozen providers that handle SALT POS taxes, including Amazon FBA and Shopify.
Unfortunately, this type of fraud has been a problem in the aerospace industry for decades. It's a scary thing to imagine.
The question is who owns the technology we are improving. For whose financial interests does that technology work?
If these things are real we never had air superiority.
“Equipped with” is not the same as “while using”. What’s that stat? They probably know it.
Consider, you have a job, an apartment, dignity.

Without taxation you would have none of these. You would be a surf or servant, or simply dead. Statistically it would be astonishingly unlikely you would be in the ruling class, and given that you are posting on HN you probably aren't a candidate.

You have standards, I respect that, but your community disagrees with you. Children are our future, they are ours - all of them - and we need to look after them. They should have food, shelter, healthcare and education. We should all give them that. If we do we can look each other in the eye and demand respect, dignity and community. If you are robbed or shamed they you have a right to be offended and outraged.

If we don't then you and I are wolves in the forest, with everyone else.
While I agree that there are problems with the paper, I think you are confused about suitability of ROC, PR and how test set class imbalance affects them.

Your first two suggestions combined together are very wrong. If you made the test dataset balanced and then measured PR curve the precision would be way too optimistic as it is directly affected by the class imbalance. ROC curve on the other hand is invariant to the test set imbalance.

You can find interesting this short article I have written about this problem: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01388
It changed when people realised the truth that was being revealed was the wrong truth. People remembered that huge swathes of society are built on lies and deceit and they aren't prepared to do better.
> So what’s the problem with programming ligatures? // They contradict Unicode.

The Unicode ligatures in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block (U+0FB00 - U+0FB4F) are only present for compatibility purposes, so that legacy texts in encodings which contain precomposed ligatures can be losslessly reencoded to/from Unicode. They aren't meant to represent the entirety of all ligatures.
While we may get to the point where sensors and a form of AI can reliably drive a car, we're so far from it that we don't even know if we're heading towards the goal post.

What we need, if we want to solve the partial self driving problem right now, is not fully autonomous systems. We could start by agreeing on a way for cars to sense the road - think in the way robotic lawn mowers work where you have to bury cables. Then implement that in highways, ring roads and other long stretches of road.

Then we can agree on a way for cars to communicate and exchange relevant information.

Then we can equip cars with hardware like the Tesla have, and then use it to collect data and compare the "auto pilot" with the known working system of following a signal in the road. We still need LIDAR to reliably stop for other cars, but that is a mostly solved problem today.
This still exists? I'll have to check it out again sometime...
I highly recommend Citations Needed's episode on Perseverance Porn. If you have ever been uneasy with stories about people walking 10+ miles to work or relying on charity just to survive a common misfortune, this will open your eyes to just how prevalent it is.
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-23-the-medias-gri...

Beware, you'll see it everywhere after this.
I've bought a few games on Epic, and had no problems. The lack of junkware like on Steam is great – I can honestly browse the store knowing that every game is high quality (even if not necessarily in the genre I enjoy).

Achieveemnts not popping up helps focus on the actual game.

Cloud save, family sharing etc. are of marginal use for me and I imagine 99% of consumers outside the vocal minority.