skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like a mini Dwitter (which is 140 characters)

https://www.dwitter.net
We could even invent borrowing mechanisms where governments could get money today in exchange for a binding agreement to make future payments against those future tax revenues. We could call these binding agreements a government bond.
> Google derives a great deal of value by having your attention and data

They do. But does their ToS say that your data and attention is consideration for use of their services? I do not believe it does. In fact, it says:

> You have no obligation to provide any content to our services

Throughout their terms, I don't see anything that implies an obligation of exchange.

There are certainly other rights that exist... But contractual rights to a service is not a right you'd have without a valid contract.

You can sue your caterer if they run out of food, but not the soup kitchen.
There are multiple definitions of profit.

For example, if you sell something before you have paid for it (this is very common), and then put the money from selling into a bank where it earns interest, and then withdraw that money and pay for the thing you sold:

You will have made sale_price - purchase_price + interest.

In a VAT system, you will pay VAT on sale_price - purchase_price (or your customer will, depending on how you sell things), but not on the extra interest you earned.

So that's already a loophole. You can game the tax system by selling things before you buy them and earning interest.

If you're smart enough, you might even sell things for exactly the same as you pay for them, and still make a profit due to the interest while you hold the money. You could get even smarter, and hold that money on behalf of your upstream supplier to withdraw when they need to spend it. Before you know it, you're paying zero VAT, and all your profit looks like interest.

But you have to pay an accountant to make sense of all these for you. The cost of the accountant isn't a direct cost of making the thing you're selling.

So that gives you the difference between gross profit (sales price minus costs associated with the thing you're selling) and net profit (what you have after paying for everything needed to run the business).
You might be infringing a trademark - KORD.
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Imagine how much consumer process would rise of companies were not able to subsidize profits with leverage! Assets rise at a higher rate due to USD devaluation(printing) and the cash being directed mostly to asset holders. Directing cash to consumers will have a more significant impact on CPI.

I've read a lot of economics articles and this article was hard to follow. The writing was just not clear and concise. For example, she defines several types of inflation early on, and then does not define which type she is referring to later in the article. Wolf Richter is my favorite current economics pundit at the moment.
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Every couple of years Sun RPC/DCE gets re-invented, basically.
Companies buy a combination of goods and IP (patents and trademarks). The goods come from a developed country and the IP is licensed from a tax haven. The goods are sold at near cost with the markup being in the IP. The result is a supply of goods between countries that causes a significant diversion of the revenue to the tax haven. This is used by most big companies in tech, pharma, etc. The government can’t challenge these schemes because there is no open market for IP (because they’re monopoly rights) so there’s no way to argue that the price paid wasn’t the open market price.
Theoretically, if salaries were proportional to profit and therefore the overall tax burden, it would make less sense on a domestic level, I agree.

Similar to VAT you could argue that you pay with money that got already taxed.

But if companies have rights, you can argue that they also have burdens.
I don’t buy this argument. No one says “Coal-stuff” or “Stuff-change” in the Anglophonic world, so to the extent that those constructs form a lower register, the lower register isn’t spoken anywhere or by anyone. I can believe the idea that there is a gradient of formality that exists across the anglophonic world—I grew up in a rural area and my original dialect would be considered uneducated and low class, but I learned how to speak in a more educated manner in college (not deliberately mind you—I just adapted via immersion). There are probably more French-derived words in my “higher” dialect, but I don’t think that’s the biggest distinction between the two (probably the higher dialect has fewer irregularities and a larger vocabulary in general). Still, I get the impression that the author is describing an altogether different phenomena.
Correct, thanks for bringing to attention that distinction.

My point is that the idle capital held in monetary form does nothing, so I want to disincentivize that to some extent. While I have nothing against that capital being available to an enterprise, they inject it back to the economy through their CapEx, R&D, income for employees, etc...

Potentially a company may also sit in vast piles of idle money (e.g. Apple), the value of the company will take into account the DCF and also the existing liquid reserves. In that case the liquid reserves will be progressively diluted by inflation and again, that's a desired outcome (in my view).
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Taxing revenue makes companies with high capital and/or labor overhead non viable, like banks, oil companies. Only companies with high profit to revenue ratios could survive in an environment like that, I’m sure even France has lots of exemptions.

Better to tax value adds than revenue, which is simply money flowing through the economy.
How would they know that you're you without the cookie?
And while Apple was always great at integrated experience in their cathedral, they took decades to get to external compatibility and competitive horsepower.
This is my personal opinion, but even if we had perfect global tax laws, people would still find a way to abuse the system. I see the issue being too much power concentrating into too few hands. If you have too much power humans naturally use it. Rich get richer and poor become poorer. How do you see better tax code and UBI will fix this? How do you prevent abusing power?
Nice write-up on how to make a cookie-free page. Thanks
it would be good if Rust would have as many programming models as possible. Different applications are likely to benefit from different approaches so having a wide array of choice is good.
From a national insurance POV I think you meant.

For income tax apart from the £2k(divi) and £500 (savings interest) allowances, it is already on the same basis.
First of all, Devuan wants to get rid of any and all systemd code. This includes for example libsystemd-daemon0, which is a tiny library that implements the stable notification protocol and is a no-op on systems not running systemd. You can reimplement it yourself in pretty much any language, but lots of programs just link against the systemd library because it's easier and has no tangible downside, even for people not running systemd. Eliminating such dependencies isn't particulary hard but takes a lot of work. Likewise, the rest of the world has left SysV init scripts behind, so they have to write those too.

The second reason is that systemd provides features for which there simply is no alternative. Desktop environments are entangled with logind, because it's the only software providing that functionality. Before logind they had a hard dependency on ConsoleKit, which was pretty much abandoned. Reimplementing all these features takes time.
I'm not convinced google learned anything with android WRT pushing GPU vendors to release driver source. Fuschia looks like it will only be a repeat of these problems.
You could have a market of simple exchange without profit-seeking behavior. A market is just a collection of social relations wherein people exchange things.
You seem to be talking past the parent comment. Their point is that a foreigner can make capital gains on an American company without America getting tax money. Double taxation patches that up.
> But it's possible to hit this button again and re-enable Cloudflare forwarding temporarily if we find ourselves under attack, so I figure this is a good option.

Plan to redeploy your production server to a new IP address too since the attacker will still be able to hit it directly.
A MAX7219 is an LED driver that can power an 8x8 grid of LEDs, so you could do the full 16x16 with 4 of these, or shrink down to 8x8 with just one. Then it's just a case of wiring up the LED matrix and connecting the MAX7219 to the Pi.
I am a fan of the thread-per-core model, but I do not share their views on the data sharding per core

While it increases the data locality, I have seen a few software following this sharding model (notably scylla) that work really bad once the load is not evenly distributed across all shards

When that happens it can be a huge waste of resources and can give lower performance (depending on the type of load)

Imho unless you are absolutely sure about the type of load, leave the sharding to dividing data between servers, or have some mechanism that can shift to sharing the load between threads if the system imbalance is too great
Are software metrics still a thing?
I would highly recommended reading "A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System." It compares tax systems around the world, unpacks common issues and suggests a fix (in short a "broad base low rate" strategy).

https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Mess-Global-Simpler-Efficient/dp...
Not excited enough to tell us what they are. You announced three programs, but gave no details. I can guess what the Nonprofits and Employee Funds are, but it's unclear where the SAFE fund gets its money, or where any of the funds go. You can click through, but I'd have thought if you were so excited, it would merit at least a single sentence.

The principles are all very high minded, but the impact is delivered by the actual organizations you fund. So my eyes just kinda glazed over your press release.
I must admit I had no idea what that was either and the first thing that came to my mind was some combinatorial explosion thing.

I truly don't care about this issue...
> the CDM vendors are Google, MSFT, and Apple

Also Adobe, although I'm not sure if their CDM (Adobe Primetime) is still relevant.

> which is why the CDM is a contentious topic because you have no way to see what's inside it

Related to this: Firefox takes steps to try to contain the CDM blob within a sandbox. [0] See also this old blog post from before Firefox switched from Adobe's CDM to Google's WideVine CDM. [1]

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox/Architecture#GMP_p...

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...
In the US, some companies do not pay tax, the shareholders pay the tax on any income (S Corporations). Sole proprietors and partnerships are the same. C Corporations are like a legally distinct 'person', and what they pay in salaries, etc, are deductions.

It is 100% possible for a C corporation to pay no tax because it pays out all profits (income minus deductions) or operates at a loss.

Many large firms are hiring contractors to perform 'capex' work that qualifies for R&D Tax credits: https://www.cpajournal.com/2017/10/30/u-s-research-developme...

Tax laws drive some crazy incentives.
Like NYT not letting you unsubscribe without contacting customer support

Use PayPal as the intermediary and cancel the payment in there.
I am the OP and I was not making this direct comparison.

I was pointing out that it's common for the small business to perform tax efficiency, which is extremely widespread and taught in small business courses. Most people running a small business or self-employed relate to it, and it's indeed a "set and forget" thing, mainly because you just do what the accountant tells you.

In that world, tax efficiency is largely seen as the right thing to do and sensible ("good").

And when you scale that up, the end result looks like international corporate tax avoidance ("bad").

That's not at all the same as saying the small business version is tax avoidance of the "bad" kind.

It's saying that one thing follows from another, not that they are the same thing.

And so we can't solve international corporate tax avoidance by a simple expedient of trying to "ban" or "shame" it, because there isn't any clear boundary at which sensible, approved, "good" tax efficiency turns into shameworthy "bad" avoidance.

And so, to solve it, we need to use a different method, and I advocated such a method.
Cool. Few times I thought about doing something like this (not for sapiens) my self. But always stopped to wonder how legal it would be.

Maybe someone here has an idea about possible copyright issues?
User-level threads do not solve the problem of synchronization and data movement. That is, with a “thread-per-core” model, you eliminate most needs to synchronize between multiple CPU cores, and, therefore, eliminate the overhead of acquiring and releasing a lock and allow the out-of-order CPU cores run at full speed. Furthermore, “thread-per-core” model ensures that memory accesses are always CPU local, which eliminates the need to move data between CPU caches, which eliminates the expensive CPU cache consistency protocol (that makes scaling to multiple cores more difficult).

That said, I am not claiming thread-per-core is _the solution_ either, just saying that if you can partition data at application-level, you can make things run plenty fast. Of course, you’re also exposing yourself to other issues, like “hot shards” where some CPUs get disproportionately more work than others. However, as we scale to more and more cores, it seems inevitable that we must partition our systems at some level.
Nope. They can go inverse when, say, an economy collapses and everyone is forced out of their homes as they go underwater on their mortgages and but they still need somewhere to live. Kind of like 2008/09
You are taxed but the starting tax threshold is high, 150~200K if I recall correctly.

I worked in Japan for a while and had to file but never paid taxes.
Closer to $2M will do it with a low risk of portfolio failure, $2.5M will do it with almost no risk of failure.
Ostensibly.
I don't remember where I saw this, but I thought I saw a display that you could step on and it would try to convince you to buy custom designed insoles? It used some kind of pressure sensor that would map your foot or something.

I feel like shoes are kind of like mattresses are marketed the same way - mostly talking about pressure points, that and memory foam.
Singapore schoolchildren must use Covid-tracing tech
>Singapore pupils aged over seven must use the city state's contact-tracing app or wearable device from December.
No, the point of async "coloring" is to indicate which function call does context switching, so that you would know in which piece of code you could do synchronization without something like a semaphore, as you'd need a semaphore if you synchronize shared memory access across async calls, but you don't if you do it in between async calls. And also to know which piece of code blocks event loop (i.e. everything in between async calls), so that you could optimize for performance: throughput, latency. Assuming, of course, that you run one event loop per thread, not doing dumb things like some Rust executors scheduling tasks to different cores.

Goroutine (loom) style concurrency only makes things worse both ergonomically and performance-wise, pushing programmers towards slow buggy lock-riddled code as the only way to use such models.
I heard eBay has been taking down PinePhone listings as well. Their reason was that PinePhones might be used for hacking.
I live in rural Utah. Population of our entire county (45 minute radius), is 50k.

For $60/month I get 1 GB down, and about 100MB UP. I have google fi, and yesterday I could barely get reddit gifs to load (it was slow for some reason)... usually it's better, but my FIBER IS WAY BETTER.
But I can already do that using an LLC, which also doesn’t pay any tax.
Maybe I am part of the problem by emphasizing context switching too much, but as penberg noticed, there is more to thread per core than context switching.
There are a LOT of companies just spamming github repo owners with job interviews nowadays

my last job was through an automated email i got about my github resume hashtags. iirc all they look for is certain tags and a regular commit history after which the recruiter takes a brief look at the repo and fires off the email if the criteria is met.

seems enough to call github a resume to me.
It’s impossible to be so certain of polls because certain demographics may change how forthcoming they are with pollsters over time.

Systemic bias is totally possible and can affect just one side, in a huge variety of ways, changing over time.

This is just one example of a fat tail event you can’t predict but which you can expect, and given Nate has only called a couple elections, there’s no way he can have 90% confidence a model of the polls will be accurate.
I'm not sure where you're getting "COM has been the underlying driving technology of Windows since Vista".

COM and OLE, which is based on COM, have been a core part of the Windows shell since at least Windows 95/NT 4.0/IE 4.

You can see this in the registry where shell extensions are simply registered OLE Components, using OLE Activation to to register themselves as toolbars, folder views, context menus and additional commands in context menus.

If you are referring to drivers or core OS concepts at a lower level, you may be right, but DirectX and class drivers were already using COM in places before Vista.

COM is a standard vtable implementing a single core interface, called IUnknown which provides a method of reference counting as well as a way to look up implementaions of specific other interfaces from a given pointer. These interfaces dervive from that base, so they can always be cast as IUnknown.

The rest builds on this base.

source: Inside OLE and Inside Windows 95

https://books.google.com/books/about/Inside_OLE.html?id=adpw...

https://www.bookdepository.com/Inside-Windows-95-Deluxe-Edit...

Edit: saw the reply below, the specific Longhorn components only expanded the scope of what is extensible to include searchable/virtual/indexed filesystem extensions and few other places, based on the innovative concepts in Longhorn. My reading of your comment originally was that Vista was a departure from what came before, though it appears that it may have been intended to say it was more of a return to the simpler COM.
> And you think that's not a choice?

Everything is a choice in the end. But I also think that out of the hundreds of thousands of camera operators in the world you had to look for an exceptional one to make a point. Before you take it personal and form a general opinion based on that one anecdote sit on it for a minute and think, is this example relevant for the discussion? Is he the rule or the exception?

What about the situation from the article? The operator who's sitting in a small football stadium of a small Scottish second league team pointing the camera at what could be charitably described as an average football match for 90 minutes? How many operators filmed Diana's crash in Paris and the fall of Ghadaffi, and how many only film mundane, mediocre things their entire career?

> (much of which was caused by the tech industry - specifically facebook)

I took the tech industry just as a good example of an all round good, well paying job in general, not to pass judgement on what it brings to the world. My comment history could tell you as much. Mass media deserves its share of jabs as I'm sure you agree. But neither of the jabs make any my arguments or conclusion any less valid.
It definitely seems like BS to me. At 3% it's 258% over 32 years (1.03^32). Most people are barely getting 1% annual raises which means income increases by 138% over the same period. From 1984 to 2016 housing prices in the Greater Vancouver area have gone up 800% [1].

Assuming I got the math right, it doesn't take much to see current young people are getting screwed. In the last 4 decades wages have barely increased, but major assets like cars and houses are 8-10x what they used to be.

Add in the cost of schooling for 2 people, which in my mind roughly translates to the cost of 2 brand new cars for my parent's generation, and it's easy to see why young people can't afford anything.

Then consider that "household" income is coming from 2 income earners now vs 1 income earner 40 years ago and you really start to get a picture of how tough it is.

How is anyone supposed to start a family when they can't afford to start thinking about buying a house until they're 35. Frugal people from my parent's generation could have their house paid off by the time they were 35.

1. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ypnexthome/canadas-housing-per...
Seastar folks are really smart.
I've been thinking of trying to combine self-hosted analytics and adding ad info in the urls of ads so I can track if a user arrived at my site via an ad without divulging that to any third parties.

Has anyone tried something like that? Did it work? Obviously what you give up is retargeting but that may have to go anyhow.
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Sure, but US has higher urbanisation rate. There's just no excuse not to link up your urban areas.
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