skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well a dozen states so far have passed legislation requiring Amazon to collect it instead of you, and the others all have thresholds. California just passed the bill putting the onus on Amazon and more states will probably follow.
This makes the disease even worse than expected and it's already a wicked disease. Has a prion disease ever been treated?
here goes an unpopular opinion: the internet made me realize the age of the “state”, and it’s inherent “divide et impera” status is coming to an end. considering how badly huge amounts of moneys are managed by states, the monopolies these entities have on taxes, and the complete failure of democracy in general (by which tiny subsets of populations choose swaths of politicians) i say let the concept of the “state” and their politicians end. let me pay “tax” to whichever construct i choose rather than forcing me to contribute to garbage states. the more the internet connects, the less “states” and “nations” will be a thing.
> Simply put, people vote with their feet, and the rich have the best shoes money can buy.

I have been on vacations on Malta. It is a nice place for a vacation, but it is not the most interesting place in the world to live in.

Rich people are rich because they have access to luxury items, health care, transportations systems, etc. For all that to exist a complex society is needed where citizens have education, transport, health care, food safety, clean water, rule of law... and all that costs money, a lot of it.

If rich people leave that society, how rich are they? How easy is to just tax the business that produces wealth?

Malta, as a nice place as it is, cannot produce super-rich people. Is Malta decides to isolate itself it just becomes an inhabitable rock in the middle of the Mediterranean. The same goes for more tax havens.

Rich people will vote with their feet, but the economy will not care. Taxes are needed to generate any wealth independently of the tantrum of a few rich people.
I imagine that the court or some regulatory agency could order to automate these kind of reports and use them to shutdown autopilot or make it unavailable on some routes.

It would be interesting to design the ux for this. Based on the wording it could even make them more liable if accidents happen outside of roads with known issues.
> We only had 80x25 text mode for coding, iirc.

Traditionally a block was 64x16 I think (1KB).
>No fundamental change in their utility?

Yes. A given neighborhood might change, but a common, if not fundamental, characteristic of gentrification is that the associated demographic shifts constitute a commensurate shift in the location of community-related amenities, e.g., good schools, lower crime, public and private investment in public spaces. In other words, gentrification doesn't create more affluent communities, it simply shifts them, to places ready for new development as older communities become less desirable ultimately as a simple function of their age.

There is also the necessity of addressing the role of race and class anxiety in how, why, and when we invest in communities.
The article GP posted addressed this (among a lot of other things... It's worth a read.)

>“Rachel’s landlord needs to make money. How could he/she possibly earn a profit under this scenario?”

>Here are many ways Rachel’s landlord could benefit:

>The landlord could purchase the property at a steep discount, such as through a foreclosure auction, short sale, estate sale, or by “driving for dollars” (making direct contact with the owners of distressed property.) This allows him/her to purchase the property significantly below market value.

>The landlord could be holding the property for the sake of inflation-protected wealth preservation, rather than as a cash flow investment. (Don’t assume all landlords share the goal of cash flow. Some simply want to diversify their assets.)

>The landlord could be making a speculative play on potential appreciation. (I don’t recommend this technique, but many landlords do this.)

>The landlord could have inherited the property.
The landlord could have purchased the property decades ago, paid off the mortgage, and now enjoys the cash flow. They don’t want to sell/trade into a different property due to the hassle involved, so they let this property ride.

The other secret is, many people, at the end of the day, simply make very little to no money as landlords. My parents were landlords for many years and broke even for all those years thinking that the profit was going to be right around the corner. Never came. The steps to being successful at real estate is not 1) buy house 2) print money like a lot of people think going in.

The other thing is, their calculations take in opportunity costs of having your money in your house vs having it in a better performing asset, which a lot of people simply ignore as "not a cost."

It's also highly dependant on your local market which one is cheaper.
The link you provided doesn't say what you claim it says. The parent post is discussing giving away free games, not acquisitions. What is unhealthy about the way Epic is trying to attract users? I know they've received some negative press but I have yet to see a good argument for this.
It’s a good way to identify who is either not of taxpaying age or has never made a donation before. In either case, probably not someone who has things figured out yet enough to hold strong opinions on what other people do with their money.
> more of their OWN money

How is it their own money if it is the state money? That is all the point. It is not their money.

If I buy an apple an I do not want to give the money to the cashier because "it is my money", I am stealing.
With online retail, brick-and-mortar retail is no longer useful just for aggregating things into a location that you can go to buy them, except for things that can't be shipped for cost or time reasons.

So the value of brick and mortar retail becomes the ability to get you exactly what you need, and this often involves human expertise which by its nature specializes.

The button store on the Upper East Side in New York City has a lady there who just hands you the button you need. You show her your jacket where the button got caught in a cab door, and she doesn't even have to hunt -- she walks to one of her thousands of teeny drawers, and pulls out your exact button or something pretty damn close. In the article, the scotch tape guy knows exactly what scotch tape you need, and that's the reason for his store existing. He could as easily have an office where he then orders you the tape online for drone delivery.
It’s impossible for a small business to be entirely compliant. The best you can hope for is to be invisible.

IMO it’s encumbent on the Fed to sweep all this away under interstate commerce and make compliance as close to a fully automated process as possible.
I'm really glad this method of execution was an honest banner. (The biggest problem here might've been cutting colleagues out of the loop it sounds like they were probably supposed to be in.)

When I started reading the story, I was afraid it was going to go in the direction of sneaky sabotage, like intentionally causing performance problems or crashes. There've been accusations of that happening, within the last year. Earlier, there was a long history in the computer industry of sneaky sabotage of competitors, which was suggested by the (perhaps only a joke, in that particular case) mantra "DOS isn't done, till Lotus doesn't run".
I just had a conversation with a non developer person using Stripe and he told me that Stripe was the worst. I was shocked as a developer because I mentioned how Stripe was hiring the best people I know and was acquiring really good startups so I would assume Stripe would be the best. It turns out Stripe was really good only in the development (API) end but not on the usability on their front end app.

Shows you that they are a development/technology company first and foremost, and payments second.
So, small countries should not be allowed to try to attract businesses? Only big and rich countries are allowed to do that?
> If Google or Apple had offered first-party solutions to each of those services, would they be criticized for offering bloatware as well?

The tech community seems to assume that software from Apple and Google will be well-thought-out and useful, and will be easy to dismiss if the user doesn't want it. The community seems to assume the opposite of anything from any other hardware company.

Honestly, those assumptions seem correct about 80% of the time.
Your comment actually emphasizes why having a lidar is better.

Cameras need neural networks to detect objects. Lidars on the other hand provide distance to all the surrounding objects. The neural networks processing the point cloud may not be able to detect what the object is, but because of the distance available in the point cloud data you will know there is something ahead.

Fusing radar with camera does help but radars are noisy and unreliable.
A computer supervising the driver is what got Boeing into problems with their MCAS resulting in the 2 plane crashes

Tesla also doesn't say that it's safe to let the car drive. There are ample warnings and messages and feedback that say that you have to keep your eyes on the road and hands on the wheel at all times.

There are likely more non-AP Tesla/non-Tesla auto accidents and fatalities than there have been AP related ones. I feel safer riding in a Tesla with AP engaged and the driver having his eyes on the road and hands on the wheel.
It's still true. Alluring taxation approaches rapidly turned Hong Kong, Singapore and Ireland into very wealthy nations. All three used very low tax systems to draw wealth and investment to their shores in various ways. Works very well for small, stable nations. It loses effectiveness with increasing population scale. The approach is better to the extent you have a population to tax system benefit imbalance (Ireland having < 5 million people and drawing hundred billion dollar companies to invest).

Ireland went from being an always-underdog to Britain, to having nearly twice their GDP per capita. Finland and Sweden in 1990 had a GDP per capita 100% higher than Ireland; now Ireland is ~50%-60% higher. It took only 30 years to transform Ireland into a far wealthier nation and it was mostly due to the very attractive tax structure for large corporations. It made them very well positioned to ride the globalism economic boom.
games are enjoyment and people are emotionally invested in things they enjoy, most people don't "get" it i think since every other form of media isn't as commoditized as games(yet). i wonder what kinda entitlement claims will be flying around in the future when disney yanks all their content to their streaming service and puts a nice HBO sized paywall around it.

What happens when amazon kills the last book publisher and then decides to dynamically increase the price of series that people like to read - the next GRRM book is coming out! but it's only on amazon kindle and it's a 100 bucks! chapters are streamed to your device in real time so no taking notes there you pesky pirate.

this is only the beginning, i can see why people are having knee jerk reactions to it
The keyboard changes honestly make no sense.

While I never used the context key (and indeed neither my 60% layout nor the original IBM Model M layout seem to have it anyway), I don't see the purpose of a Print Screen there either.

The Fn/Ctrl swap is... confusing. I'm guessing Lenovo tried to copy the MacBook format without thinking it through. Personally, I prefer Caps Lock as Control, though. I never use Caps Lock.

Home and End on laptops have almost always (it seems) been up on the function row. On a traditional layout, they're to the right, which obviously would not work on smaller form factors. Even with the 7-row keyboard, it was on the top.

Having tried other light laptops including the MacBook 13, the XPS 13, the HP Spectre 13, the Razer Blade Stealth, and the Dell Latitude 73 something or other (this was pretty good)... they just can't compete mechanically. No concavity on the keycaps is a big bummer. Some of them are obnoxiously loud. Some of them have piss-poor tactile feedback. Some of them are okay, but lack travel. Some of them bottom out too hard. Some of them bottom out too softly. It's a rough keyboard game out there. None of the layouts work for me on their own, so I always have to end up tweaking them slightly to my tastes. Caps Lock is useless to me, and I prefer Backspace being one key down. I've considered swapping Right Shift, but I'm not sure what to swap it to. Any ideas?
Thanks for responding. Very much appreciate it, and I totally understand.
All for poor people getting helped. Not for those with a particular skin pigmentation. If you are, then you’re a racist in my mind.
I would assume that Musk's claim was comparing manually driven Teslas on the highway with AP Teslas on the highway. But I don't think there's a way to verify.
> You could argue it's tax avoidance, but it's not even that, it's just making a donation, and that's how they are taxed. It's part of your normal activity: taxes are higher on some things than others.

Right, but if it's perfectly legal to emigrate to a lower-tax jurisdiction, is that not "part of normal activity"?

I think there's an argument to remove the tax deduction for donations. If you are doing it altruistically, then you still owe your fair share to the government, no?
Right, I am 100% on the same page that EVs even when powered by coal power plants are better. No brainer, let's get it done.

But you aren't thinking clearly about where the power for EVs is coming from. I'm going to attempt to illustrate with some made up numbers for simplicity.

This year, we have:

* 100 TWh electricity consumption

* 100 TWh gasoline consumption

The electricity is generated via:

* 20 TWh from renewables, growing by 10 TWh a year

* 80 TWh from fossil fuels, shrinking by 10 TWh a year

This system will reach 100% renewable consumption after 8 years, having consumed 80 + 70 + 60 ... = 360 TWh of electricity generated via fossil fuels, and gasoline containing 800 TWh.

Now if we could switch the system over to 100% EVs this year (to make the math easier), let's assume we can replace gasoline containing 100 TWh with 20 TWh of electricity. The capacity for this generation comes from our existing fossil fuel plants, which were in the process of shutting down.

Our consumption is now:

* 120 TWh electricity

Generated via:

* 20 TWh from renewables, growing by 10 TWh a year

* 100 TWh from fossil fuels, shrinking by 10 TWh a year

This alternate system will reach 100% renewable consumption after 10 years, having consumed 100 + 90 + 80 ... = 550 TWh of electricity generated via fossil fuels.

Even on an aggressive renewable ramp (which should be more favorable than reality), the addition of load from EVs has caused 52% more consumption of electricity from fossil fuels over the course of the ramp. This is still a significant reduction in carbon emissions, as the power plants burning fossil fuels are more efficient, and it's worth doing. But it is not correct to say that the EVs are powered in part by renewables until near the end of the ramp. Any amount of renewable energy you feed the EVs is simply being taken from elsewhere in the grid.

Now, you could ramp up renewables more quickly to make up the shortfall, but you could have done that anyway. The only real connection they have is that EVs can dispatch demand and even send power back in to the grid from their batteries, in order to allow the grid to remain stable as more intermittent sources of power are added to the grid. In places where wind and solar have caused an excess of energy, like Germany on occasion as discussed by a sibling commenter, or at times in my own Australia, you can start to attribute that otherwise wasted energy to fueling EVs.
> I think it's unethical to tax anyone's income

How will you pay for a functional society then? All these people that are rich, it is rich because they live in very complex, healthy, educated societies. That does not come from the air.

How will you make sure that one person does not accumulate all world wealth? Without progressive taxation, wealth accumulates naturally as having more money makes it even easier to make even more money. How could such a system work?

I would like to understand your position. Why paying for the sustain the society where you live in is unethical?
I consider myself a serious programmer (fond of Clojure, Haskell, writing hyper-performant graphics code, etc).

I'm also very fond of visual languages, so much so that I started collecting and cataloging all the noteworthy examples of them I came across in my research travels: https://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex

Yes, the vast majority of visual languages are uninspired and underdeveloped. But the same is true of text languages — look at Pascal or xBase or C++ templates.

Yes, it's possible to make a terrible mess in a visual language. But the same is true of text languages — we had to learn the hard way not to goto, not to do TCL style string-based metaprogramming.

When we think of the greatness of text languages, we're thinking of Idris and APL and Racket, not the Java you see on The Daily WTF.

When we think of visual languages, we should look for similar examples of greatness (modern Max/MSP is not a bad place to start), and not indulge in Blueprints From Hell schadenfreude.
Yes, it's completely backwards. http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
Yup. And even if you view housing as an investment and even if you create policies in favor of that, in the long run, you're not going to have greater gains anyways because the growth is not sustainable. Long run, housing always has to revert to a mean increase equivalent to incomes/inflation, even if in the short term you might have a huge run up. In the short term there can be a huge run up causing great pain, but after that it'll come back to it's income/inflation rate increase.
The American Manhattan Project came about because Germany forced a lot of Jewish scientists out of their research jobs in the thirties.

Those scientists moved to the States, which was America's gain and Germany's loss when lots of Weapons Research happened during the forties.

America seems determined to lose out when Chinese scientists are barred from US jobs, or when Chinese space engineers are refused any interaction with NASA.
It's naive to think that violence and laws that are onerous or disadvantageous to current residents are not employed in the process of gentrification. Suppose, for example, that you close a grocery store that serves thousands of lower-income, often low-mobility, residents, in preparation for building luxury apartments. Or you increase "broken windows" arrests in such a away that existing residents are disproportionately affected. How is that not duress? You have introduced conditions for continued residence that threaten life, comfort, and freedom.

Colonization is a fine word for it.
I want a language that is designed alongside an editor/IDE.

Why would this require a new language? And why would it require a new editor?

For one thing, at a certain scale, code and documentation are examined in a browser more often than in an editor.

Your requirements seem too focused on insignificant details and not enough on the big picture.
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We have a few more projects that are currently not live - glad to show design samples over email.

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Sure, humans can drive with two eyes and a brain. But do Tesla's cameras have the amazing abilities of the human eye, and do his "FSD" chips have the power of the human brain?

We'll find out in a few years...
What is the interview process for the Disney Streaming Service team?
English is not my first language. I am confused by the blatant use of the term "Auto Pilot". Does it not suggest more automation than is currently feasible? Why not intelligent assist? Why is tesla/musk getting a pass here?
Running ManyPixels, mostly doing Sales/Management/Culture/Hiring -- I divide my time in 2-3 blocks of 2 hours per day on each and leave a lot of time on weekend to think about the bigger picture. This could be considered as work.

I use my calendar a lot and every morning I start with 2 hours of sales and it built me a habit, and I become more efficient at doing it.

I would say on average 40 hours per week.
As I said, no thanks to the signs. It looks like the NYT may have even purposefully left them out of their coverage due to how cringeworthy they are.
I was born in a communist country, you don't need to tell me. There was Labor day march elsewhere, as I wrote in the previous comment. This was a protest. They did not move and actually did call themselves a protest, not march (if you asked about that, they pointed you to the march that was elsewhere and also at another time later in the day).
I think a bigger concern with investing in housing WRT alternatives is this:

Rents don't usually go down, but they often stagnate ESPECIALLY in units owned mom n pop landlords. If your rent doesn't change for 5 years, but inflation is 2%, at the end of the period, your rent has effectively declined by about 10% in real terms. Additionally, you have your 20% down that would be paid for a house, but instead you invest in the stock market that returns 6% annually, at the end of 5 years, you have increased your assets by 33%

If you bought a home, and the home price did not increase for 5 years and you pay the normal 20% down mortgage, %6 closing costs, and 1.5% annual property tax, you're looking at some significant loss of net worth when compared to the rent alternative.
Or, reduce demand by spreading out jobs to other cities and states where their more needed. (not ideal, i know, but it is a secondary option)
You are right. When you are hospitalized, you are in their clutches. I asked them once about getting my own Ibuprofen tablets instead of being charged $2 each. They refused.
Borderlands, Borderlands 2, and Borderlands Pre Sequel all appear to be for sale still on Steam.
> Free music and entertainment with zero data spent.

<conspiracytheory>That's probably why the phone manufactures were asked by Google and the carriers to remove that feature.</conspiracytheory>
Any Reason why Rails still does not include an any decent Auth by default?

Edit: I remembering keep asking this question but obviously no answer was satisfactory enough that stick to my brain.
But nonprofits encompass a huge variety of organizations, some promoting guns (the National Rifle Association[0]) and others paying for abortions[1]. Wouldn't it be better to force everyone to pay their taxes owed, then if they are truly altruistic, donate whatever extra they want?

I really don't see how tax deductions for donations aren't glorified tax evasion strategies.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nra-tax-exempt-non-profit/

[1] https://abortionfunds.org/
That money was very likely made off the infrastructure the rest of us contributed to.
You could can easily apply this logic to say "we should revoke laws that make it illegal to drive without a seat belt", or dozens of other examples.

Humans are notorious for thinking "I'm in a real hurry, I'll leave the safety system off because I likely won't get hurt". We know that laws, rules and protocols with enforcement and negative consequences are required in order to make humans act safely at scale.
As a web developer, I'm curious if Alzheimer's is really a cross-site scripting attack. If so, we could prevent it by encoding the amino entities, and that would be a game changer.
I think this is going away. I can play (some, and it's growing over time) Xbox and Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One, and if I bought them digitally or still have the original disc, I don't have to pay anything more.