skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why you should choose "eParcel" at checkout. Get your items within 2 weeks, with a tracking number, for a very small fee.
Of course, you can not give the tax relief claims to multinationals until it has been verified ;)
What that article doesn't make it clear is that the overseas cash was still subject to US taxation.

A few years ago, that taxation could be indefinitely deferred, but that's no longer the case. So calling it a tax haven is somewhat misleading if we're talking about US companies.
So the parents could provide N years of tax records showing they recently got money.
Alex needs to work way harder on this if he wants 130 bucks, LOL
A large portion of the value of a degree is simply in signaling - it tells potential employers rough information about candidate IQ, conscientiousness, and social capital. Graduating unqualified students is absolutely a favor, and a huge one to boot. The primary people harmed are the other students, who suffer the ill effects of inflation in the value of their degree.
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I think you'd want a chart going back a few years, grouped by month. Glad to see some actual data though!
Recording studios have had access to tunnels to create echos.

https://www.acontinuouslean.com/2013/12/02/secret-capitol-st...
Yes, I got the same impression from my discussion with him
Employees can take source code with them when leaving a company and share it with others.
Who isn't nowadays?
Wow I was heavily skeptical of Peloton until these numbers. I would have thought who would pay a few thousand dollars for a machine and then an additional $39 a month. But 92% of all customers who have purchased the equipment are still subscribers at the end of June 2019, that is extremely impressive.
Edit: This isn't a commentary on Peloton specifically, but all of the S-1 posts we've been seeing on HN recently.

I wouldn't interpret this behavior as success per se. I think a significant motivating factor for going public now would be to provide liquidity for your existing investors (and yourself as the founder) before a recession hits.

If you've had significant capital tied up in a company and you're worried a recession is on the horizon, then this is a great time to push your company to go public. If you wait much longer then you risk either:

1. Going public in a recession and losing some of your potential gains.

2. Waiting an unknown amount of time for the economy to rebound and to pull your cash out then. This assumes the company weathered the recession well AND given you the same or better gains than investing in something else during that time.

TL;DR: Going public now is a much safer time for investors to divest than closer to or after the coming recession.
> If tax relief claims are industrialised, it puts endless pressure on the services those taxes were supposed to pay for. These are local taxes, so that's libraries, community centres, road maintenance, etc.

I can understand how the existing system may have issues with this - but the total presence of WeWork definitely doesn't qualify for a rebate... and if the filing rate of the company seems absurd then the government should reject all the filings by that company and fine the company trying to abuse the system.

Unlike computer logic where weird edge cases can be exploited due to the speed and complexity of the system... when it comes to taxes this stuff is going in front of human beings and the government can always bring a hammer down.
The single consistent thing I have noticed in dealing with this type of anxiety is that if I spend time with people I actually like being with, it completely disappears. It's impossible to be so self-directed if there is another person in the room who I care about or love.

To that end, the fix is simple: surround myself with people that I love. Friends and family.

Easier said then done, especially in our modern world, which is why I suspect this comes up frequently.
> I don't know why people put up with it tbh.

They don't. [0] Ordinary people install Chrome, and FOSS-aware people install Firefox or one of its variants. Not many use IE/Edge.

I second the parent comment to yours: it's a pity Microsoft vandalise solid technology. Perhaps something could've become of Edge, had they done otherwise.

There's a certain irony in the way we avoid Edge to avoid its insufferable ads, given that they only make ad money if we decide to use it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...
First, evolve a high power laser.
I don't think they invented any of the things they do, but they made them much more prevalent.

Renting commercial space and brining it up to spec to be usable is a lot of work and overhead that a small or startup business very much should probably be allocating elsewhere (building out conference rooms, wiring for power and networking, placing WiFi, entry security, decoration, etc. etc. etc.) It all ends up being extremely time consuming and taking twice as long as best estimates generally disrupting everything, not to mention the years long leases, enormous deposits, contract negotiations and other upfront costs. It is at least somewhat revolutionary to have turn-key office space become prevalent.
Explains well the title of "Universal Solvent" if so.
I would. Then again, I’m gay.
I'm not sure how to line up what you are saying above, and my observation that bioinformatics algorithms work better the further they are from the RM+NS assumption, plus all the other discrepancies I see between theory and practice in bioinformatics.

Sure, Koonin and others can say RM+NS is primary, but I don't see this in the actual work people do that is quantitative and rigorous vs speculative stories.

Also, I'm not talking about genetic engineering, although the fact we can do genetic engineering vs just randomly jamming nucleotides together in the hopes something happens is also fairly surprising if it was all just RM+NS.
A cookie (or any fingerprinting) shouldn't be necessary for a search query. Yes, the results might be "less relevant". That's fine, acceptable, and even _desired_.
This data stores are the ONLY way to create decent chat bots (ones that know what they are talking about and can engage in a conversations).
> "alternative" interpretations of quantum mechanics that the popular media sell-off as "science" nowadays

What does this mean?
If you can arrange your life optimally, I'd recommend not running a startup while your kids are small. You'll constantly struggle to divide your time.

But people certainly do it and succeed. Many YC founders have had young children.
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Wouldn't a truly non-quantized field or dimension falsify this idea? AFAIK there are none known yet, though there are some (like time) where we don't know.
> What you end up with is equivalent to a denial-of-service attack against rates authority staff. They're overwhelmed.

On the other side it provides pressure on tax authorities to finally digitize their processes and automate what's possible. Ideally, an application review should not be more than 10 or 15 minutes - clerk opens digital file, reviews attached floor plannings and previous tax filings/business plans (or the system automatically has the flag "this is a small business" attached), clicks on either approve or deny button, system automatically sends paperwork to the applicant.

The only way that forces authorities to modernize their processes is when the demand grows large enough that the ROI calculation proves it.
Git blame only shows you the last person that touched the line, not the person who introduced a breaking change to that line (but it wasn't caught for weeks/months).

Comments are just as cheap as commit messages. Why not both?
RSS is “dead” as far as users, but who cares?

Every site I frequent has an RSS feed - even Reddit. As long as content producers support it, it’s not a problem.
Projections that I read from urbanists about autonomous cars is that it will make transit worst, not better.

We’ll have empty cars driving around the city to pick some up. Causing transit. It’s the same effect Uber is causing to cities. More transit and people taking less mass transit.

The scenario that I read from urbanists is that people will continue to own an autonomous car, and the car will drive you to work, drive back home to pick up your partner, drive her/him to work, drive back to pick up the kids, then drive them to school, and on and on. So more empty cars on the road.

While I see autonomous cars as a cool tech, I don’t see urbanists thinking it will solve urban planning.
Yup: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peloton-lawsuit-fitness-company...
It’s been a long time since this has made headlines. Last time it was microcavitation. Has that been debunked?
It means:

"I have to stretch the possible immediate practical applications of my research in order to better secure interest/funding/publicity, it's just part of the job"

Pretty much every every article like this has a couple sentences on practical applications that sound revolutionary. It's just part of how things are done and most of them will never come to fruition. Don't take it too seriously unless they have a proof of concept.
> This is wrong. You would have to additionally prove that the other thing is the only alternative.

A CA theory of physics would just be math, right? Wouldn't it end up being isomorphic with some mathematical representation, albeit perhaps easier to understand or evaluate in its CA form?
Feels like everybody in our society feels time anxiety, in a different level.

During my 20s, it grew (and I guess to all of the Y-generation when thinking of my friends).
It is interesting investigate the levels of time anxiety with different ages and different environment.

-- lately I had an increase of time anxiety, close to my 30s and big changes in my personal life :)
So thank you for the article, it makes me want to investigate it more with myself.
The picosecond shutter time scale part and high speed control of a powerful laser would make that awfully difficult.
The book is not about biological evolution. They are analyzing artificial life simulations like Avida and Terra. Different topic than what we are discussing in the other thread.

The fundamental point is that information is conserved, so if artificial life sims produce information, it must have been inserted into the code at some point, and it is possible to track down these particular insertion points, which the authors do. In information theory the conservation of information theorem goes by various names, such as the data processing inequality and independence conservation.

Anyways, I highly recommend the book. Everything is clearly laid out for your own analysis and application.
I understand that the process itself uses carbon. The site I linked is a carbon-free production process (which would result in zero carbon in combination with hydro power)
I've been assembling commercial ratepayer data across the UK quarterly for the last three years. While WeWork is certainly not alone, what is remarkable is the explosion in micro-hereditaments over the past year. We're talking median office sizes at 4-6m2,where some of the more established services are significantly larger. And the approach of fragmenting offices into ever-tinier spaces is accelerating.
I feel like there's this continuum:

Linux: Free, Doesn't spy on you

MacOS: Costs money, Doesn't spy on you

ChromeOS: Free, Spies on you

Windows: Costs money, Spies on you
There was a similar technique discussed in a Ted Talk using femto-photography, which had an animation showing how it was done for an ELI5[0].

The talk contains references future technology to see around corners. This article may have been inspired by the talk, but it certainly makes it much more available for the rest of us.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Y_9vd4HWlVA?t=354
> we need to focus hard on implementing solutions we DO have now - specifically, in the electricity and transportation sectors.

You should understand that there are no good enough solutions for electricity yet, so not much is going to change on electricity wrt greenhouse gases on the global scale, and the solution to transportation is to essentially stop making cars for personal use, but we only see the opposite happening.
I don't think we did. The issue (to me) isn't that things I say online might be revealed or remembered at all.

The issue is that I'm being constantly spied on. That is just as objectionable no matter what I actually say or do online.
Right. Although if you can afford one, nothing wrong with that, but it seems many cities are designed as if every individual has or should have a car, which then forces people into that lifestyle. Then to get the most value from your vehicle, you have to use it more, which means more sitting down, more stress from traffic, more risk of accidents, etc.
Mirror: https://www.gwern.net/docs/longevity/2019-stekovic.pdf
Nuclear is being funded and built all around the world. There's 50 reactors under construction right now[1]. My original statement was that the aversion to it is political, not economical and certainly not scientific.

There is no panacea. We need a well-rounded, safe, stable, and diversified energy portfolio and it must include nuclear. It also needs wind, solar, and high-density energy storage (batteries and other such strategies).

1. https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-an...
Why have the apps installed at all? There is nothing I can do in the apps that I can’t do on the websites. Usually the apps are worse.
I don't think your criticism is very accurate here. Wolfram Language code doesn't show up until the second half of the (very long) article, in the sections where he is explaining how to represent the mathematical concepts in the Wolfram Language. In fact, in several cases he mentions the traditional mathematical notation and follows it with the Wolfram Language notation. What's strange or arrogant or egotistical about this? Yes, he's the founder and CEO of the company that created the language, but that doesn't strike me as a problem. It's a good language for doing this sort of thing, and it's pretty clear that he's genuinely interested in both the mathematical concepts and how to create a programming language to represent them. This is hardly just content marketing blogspam.
Out of curiousity, have you ever tried cannabis?

I wonder how it compares when some truly needs pain treatment.
Ask HN: What media publications do you read?
I'll go first:

I enjoy and subscribe to both The Economist to get a steady macro-focused news drip, as well as The Information (which is decent for tech news).

I also really enjoy IEEE and ACM articles I come across but am not a subscriber.

What do you like to read in terms of weekly magazines/periodicals?

Bonus points if they are particularly high signal to noise ratio publications!
Might still have applications for cogeneration though.
10,000 hours underestimates transfer learning.
Stressful for you, may not be stressful for someone else. Also, in my exp your manager, boss, lead has alot to do with the amount of stress. Also, try to not let these things stress you out.
Apple OS's are already overloaded with permission dialogues. Add enough of them and you'll start to really frustrate users, and/or cause them to blanket accept everything.

Desktop UI's are built around showing the user which programs are awake and active, and which are not. Mobile UI's are not. Unless/until that changes, users rely on the OS to make these decisions for them. It would be nice if we could rely on developers instead, but they will naturally be focused on their own app or page, not the system overall.
My goodness what an incredible journey!
The Extortion Economy: How Insurance Companies Are Fueling a Rise in Ransomware
Any company with local revenue of over $100 million and world wide revenue of nearly a billion should just not be eligible for tax breaks. It's really just that simple.

Frankly just remove tax breaks completely and make the whole system simpler and cheaper.
Do you have a Peloton or have you at least tried one? I don't/haven't but this seems pretty reductive.
Feedly. On iOS it uses the SafariViewController to show the actual web pages in an embedded web view - meaning any content blockers you have installed also work within Feedly.
Are Blueprints for 3D-Printed Guns Protected by the Constitution?
Happy Datomic user here – simple, flexible, powerful. I've recently heard good things about https://www.stardog.com/ which is a real triple store (Datomic adds a time dimension)
I doubt there's much desire around here to argue the merits of gender studies in good faith. However, those proclaiming that gender scholarship doesn't get biology, I suggest you pick up Evelyn Fox Keller's excellent book Making Sense of Life (HUP, 2002) and allow yourselves to be surprised.

(Yes, Keller is a physicist, not a biologist. Those trying to belittle or dismiss what women's studies has accomplished will probably use that to disqualify her contribution...)
Always reminds me of the limerick that ends “what he thought was H2O was H2SO4”
"According to the finding of the research, any amount of Pb, Hg and Sn were not detected in the organic certified nuts. In the organic certified nuts, the levels ranged between 5.53-123.78 ppb Cd, 8.22-16.62 ppm Cu, 0.24-1.86 ppm Ni, 15.03-46.37 ppm Zn, 444.1-810.6 ppb Cr, 22.06-67.42 ppm Fe and 1.24-3.14 ppb As."[1]

Perhaps you are speaking of conventional (non organic) nuts and seeds ? I would not consider consuming those.

[1] https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20183271188
It shows you the commit that introduced the current version of the line. That's what you want if you want to understand the current version of the line.

I feel like I'm missing something here. I hate this feeling of impending dumb.
I fear you do not sufficiently appreciate the gravitas of the energy storage problem.

The big Hornsdale power reserve in Australia is 130 MWh. Say you want to store 6 hours of US average energy consumption. That's 1 500 000 MWh, or 11 000 Hornsdale stations. Just for 6 hours of electricity storage.
Laws are hard and the legal system is complicated but (4) is where it breaks down to me. If there was a company leasing 100k worth of space in total they clearly shouldn't qualify, if the client is leasing 10k worth of space, maybe they should qualify... if that company mostly closes but has time to run out on their lease which they use by sub-leasing the property then still, _maybe_ they should qualify, their sub-leasors probably should qualify assuming the property isn't marked up in the sub-leasing.

Any company attempting to declare stewardship of multiple hereditaments should have the book thrown at them. Anyone using subsidiary companies to distribute their hereditaments should also have the book thrown at them... I'll just assume the UK got into this weird tax system because real-estate investors tend to have an out spoken amount of power in politics and tend to create some of the most absurd tax loop holes... especially since there is a specific coworking lobby.
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> Trackers are part of the web and have been for a long time.

And that's a big part of the problem. Just because something has wormed its way into common use doesn't mean that thing is acceptable.

> They fund the web and keep it moving along.

There are still large swaths of the web that this isn't true for. And for the parts that it is -- that's also a huge part of the problem and needs to stop.
Or for most of the tractors and combines that work the farm fields, or the trucks, trains, and ships that transport the food. Or for the power plants that run the air conditioning that keeps some people from literally dying in the summer, or for the natural gas that keeps some people from dying in the winter.
Yes. But it's hard to prove something is non-quantized. All you can do is measure precisely and say that the quantization must be smaller than X.
I guess law school grads gotta get paid somehow...
> It will only put first world countries at a disadvantage

My second link is a plan to avoid this free-rider problem
Finding the Sharpest Image in a Sequence of Captured Images
As a side note, Shopify acquired an app to help with this whole process of importing AliExpress products for drop shipping a few years ago for about $10-15 mil. Oberlo, it is called [1].

I would guess based on the acquisition price that there’s likely a significant enough number of accounts that depend on this whole drop shipping at minimal shipping expense model.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/shopify-acquires-ober...
Would be nice ;) although government IT modernisation programs don't always go so well...
US government awards General Motors $2M for solid-state battery research
It's an actual process. The ability of hydrogen to reduce hot iron oxides to metallic iron has been known at least since the early 19th century. But it has not been done on an industrial scale before because using fossil fuels is cheaper, and reducing GHG emissions has not been a significant priority until recently.

EDIT: Joseph Priestley actually discovered that iron oxide ("calx of iron") could be reduced to the metallic state by hot hydrogen ("inflammable air") in the late 18th century.

https://archive.org/details/b22281824/page/n57
I can speak to this a bit. I practiced intermittent fasting (eating once per day) for nearly a decade, while maintaining a very low activity level. My resting metabolic rate dropped significantly during this time (down to about 1300 kcal/day).

About a year ago, I increased my activity level significantly (distance running, hiking, strength training, cycling) and quickly found that:

a) I wasn't recovering quickly enough

b) It was extremely difficult to take in enough calories for a day in a single meal

c) I had very low energy when in ketosis

Eventually I gave up and just started eating on a typical 3-4 meal a day schedule. My RMR steadily increased back to baseline, I got a lot more explosive energy, my body began responding much more rapidly to training, and my recovery speed improved significantly.

Personally I think that intermittent fasting is not a good idea if you are very physically active. That's just my opinion from my own experience.
O2 is roughly two orders of magnitude more abundant than atmospheric CO2. Industrial scale O2 release in this manner is still relatively negligible.
I guess this is good, but all it means for us is higher prices. Shipping wasn't the thing killing these "small businesses".
> and the government can always bring a hammer down.

And if the government lacks the power to do so, that needs to be changed.
During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man
how angry did it make Googlers internally to learn a single non-executive employee was paid a $120 million bonus?
Currently, we only know continuous mathematical models of physics. A CA model would be discrete, so not isomorphic to anything we know.
You can spend trillions on reduction or you can spend trillions on adaptation or you can die. There's no cheap option.
It is still proportional to the crime, right? Just like with prison sentence: withholding of freedom is the deterrent part, and it hurts both rich and poor the same pretty much everywhere in the world (ignoring corruption). Day fines follow the same deterrent principle for smaller infractions: proportional to the crime and treats citizens in a roughly equal manner.

Compensating someone for damages, be it for the victim's health or possessions, is then supposed to follow the real inflicted costs and does not include a deterring component, thus monetarily equal regardless of the perpetrator's income. I'd suppose this is the same almost everywhere?

Edit: so to clarify, compensation paid to the victim isn't based on your income, only the fines part that is paid to the state as a deterrent is.
It should be up to the content creator to decide which medium their content is released as.

The platform should never step in and create new content based off your copyright content in a format that you didn't explicitly release.