skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you don't get a 100% credit for VAT against your income taxes; the credit only exists as an offset against your VAT payable liability.

If for some reason you can't offset your input VAT, then you get the same deduction against your income as you would for a sales tax, because it's part of your expenses. BUT NOTE: that if the acquired good is depreciated, then in both cases (VAT or sales tax) the tax-related deduction is spread over several years rather than all at once.
I am also bashing these headphones here but...

How many headphones do you have that are still usable after 7 years?
Base FTP/Gopher/WebDAV "file browsing" was at the time definitely seen as a common browser feature. It was much lamented when Firefox dropped those features and left them to be plugins/external applications.

Most "help" is just webpages or ebooks today. All Microsoft did with "HTML Help" was essentially a very early version of EPUB.

I think these are very strange things to complain about.
That doesn't read to me as something distinguished from narcissism. That sounds like it is exactly the same traits as narcissism, the only difference is how the person ranks himself in regards to his peers. Some maybe the level of self-esteem shouldn't be considered a determining factor for narcissism?
NY -> Miami

California -> Austin

I think you could probably chalk a lot of this up to where company leadership has their vacation homes.
> I've always wanted to see a practical combined heating and refrigeration system for a home that could tie in a fridge, HVAC, hot water heater, etc via CO2 refrigerant.

This has been done commercially for decades, but my guess is that the potential savings at home residential scale are not enough to offset the cost and additional complexity.
How ironic that we hold government combatants to higher standards of morality when fighting foreigners than their own citizens.
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Maybe, I can't tell if that's good or bad, but I also think all mindshare goes to SpaceX and it's not a good thing. And, also, can you compare the character of Tory Bruno to Elon Musk's? It's like comparing a day to a night!
Turing Tumble Simulator
You should maybe take as evidence that you are both grey text (what I replied to initially) and that the only subsequent replies you've had are me telling you that you're somewhat off topic as signal that you are in fact somewhat off topic.
The simplest solution always wins (2014)
I am glad there is a study behind this. However, I feel that it is too late to change victim hood culture though. It has become pervasive in society and the general mindset has changed already. We used to praise those who overcame obstacles, now we blame them for not giving up and joining the defeated.
In general, sellers only need to collect sales tax if they meet the legal definition of "reseller". The test varies from state to state, but is generally a combination of gross annual revenue from sales and number of sales transactions per year. Generally, transactions between private parties are not subject to sales tax.

eBay was hit by special "marketplace facilitator" clauses in remote tax laws that have popped up since South Dakota v. Wayfair. The tax is actually imposed on the marketplace, not the seller. It doesn't matter what the seller's status is relative to the above, because it is eBay that is being required to remit he tax. If the seller is independently obligated to remit tax to a given state as well, they count the eBay-collected tax against their own obligation.
Windows 10 has a setting where it'll wake up the machine to run Windows Update, and it's on by default. Perhaps if you turn that off, the random wakeups will stop.
Yes! Miami is where it’s at. Please move to Miami. Don’t defile the rest of Florida.
The next hip town is wherever you happen to be as long as you are doing something interesting.

The idea that location matters is so last 20 years.
The adage "nobody gets fired for choosing IBM" rings true here. Management at companies that pay $10MM per year on O365 don't see Office as a risk, they see it as foundational to their work. For that amount, they're probably also getting special deals from Microsoft to further integrate into their ecosystem and are constantly sold on all of the features that Microsoft products provide.
No one has vacation homes in Austin.
In my first startup (circa 2000 or so), no one had a title except the CEO (because ... someone needed to be a CEO, as you mention in another reply).

However, when I was on a roadshow through Silicon Valley, almost everyone I met (a few tens of people over a month) kept asking "so, what's your title" and writing it on the title-free business card I just gave them. One of the conclusions of that roadshow was that business cards HAD to have a title; I added "CTO", one of my co-founders had 2 stacks ("VP Product" and "VP R&D") which he used depending on who they were meeting. We both did the same kind of work.

My conclusion would be "don't have titles internally - but have some consistent externally visible titles for those people you meet who need them".

I haven't needed to do a roadshow since then, I don't know if that's still common in the valley - but that ritual of asking for my title and writing it on the just-received title-free business card was so prevalent, that I assume some people would still look for that.
From what I've seen with older relatives, if you're able to stay mobile, you'll stay mobile longer and have a better quality of life. I don't think it's impossible to have housing and shops together and still have parking within a reasonable distance -- for example a town center with parking lots a couple blocks from the main street.
Lol, like people have "vacation homes" in Austin.
You don't know much about European history and even less about Russia, isn't it?
Worst operating failure, or worst engineerable outcome?

I mean if you took the nuclear fuel and fed it to people one lethal does at a time - yes. You could kill tens of millions.

But both reactors experienced almost the worst possible operating failure and this is how low the casualties were. Fukushima is leaking into the ocean and still not expected to cause a single radiation-based death.

Vastly more people have been (/will be) killed by runoff ponds of coal ash slurry rupturing and running into rivers than from radiation from power plants or spent fuel.

At 10k pollution deaths per week, for even just ten years, no. A nuclear reactor couldn't meet that (5M deaths) even if you left the switch in 'boom' mode and went home for the night.
Not sure who you're talking to, but the answers to this are pretty straightforward. If you're only ever planning to work at or run small companies, an MBA is not for you. That's not what it was originally designed for, nor what it's meant for today regardless of what the program marketing says. If that's you, then instead you should take some community college or online classes in basic finance, accounting, statistics, and microeconomics, then spend some hands-on time learning how small business marketing and sales actually work in the real world.

Where an MBA will help you is if you do not have a business background, but want to either run a company that will one day be medium-large or work directly at a medium-large company. If that's you, a decent MBA program will teach you how large businesses actually operate - how they're structured, how they measure performance, how they interact with shareholders, how they make financial decisions, how they choose which market strategies to pursue, etc. - and how you can talk with and interact with other executives without being a naïve "engineering is the only thing that matters" idiot. Additionally, if a large company career path is for you, the network and credentials that come with a high-tier MBA tend to pay for themselves because outside of tech, hiring and job hopping don't depend on github profiles and whiteboard coding to get $250K+/year jobs.
Future is served: this kitchen robot will do the meals – for just $330.000
What makes best for you? Case in point, I have a decent amount of sunk cost in the android ecosystem, my nexus 5x had sufficient performance for me, and I use the headphone jack extensively and am unwilling to give it up. Consequently, for my requirements, most midrange android phones are "better" (high end androids on the other hand have mostly expunged the headphone jack in iPhone envy).
After reading the article, I have gone through the inventory of people who left a mark in my life.

One or two people fits to this template perfectly. Weak, soft, approachable in the beginning but, becomes silently more dominant and sucking your energy for their survival. If you cannot regenerate fast enough, they throw you to the side to find their new victim. Sad, damaging.

> These issues are probably intransigent...

My guess is TIV is not intransigent if you can attack it from right angle. The profile looks like grounded in good person turned bad for real or so, this looks like a winning strategy. Both foundations can be disassembled. First one needs someone who can cut through to anger to reach to the core of the personality. Second one needs an encounter with a bite-resistant person so, they have to think their strategy.

I'm overly generalizing here, but hope I could communicate the idea behind my rationale.
How long before all the Californians make Austin the exact same place they fled from?
I'm super curious how this will WFH Covid-era will play out for the Bay Area. I think the question I haven't figured out is job mobility. Pre-covid, even if you lost your job here as an engineer, finding another company thats interesting with the right pay isn't too hard which is one of the best appeals of SV. I wonder how this will play out in terms of this dynamic.
First, if you are in a place where the only two alternatives are (1) pervasive identity-bound mTLS or (2) Macaroons, you are wildly out of step with how security is managed in this industry. Most orgs, including some with very well-resourced security teams, don't do pervasive mTLS of any sort. And nobody uses Macaroons.

Secondly:

I'm also not arguing that some active mechanism to immediately remove attacker access is unimportant. Of course it is. I'm arguing that active certificate revocation is not the only way to achieve that.

An "active mechanism to remove attacker access" is revocation. That's literally what the word means.
Weedmaps agrees $1.5B deal to go public
I think this is a major news for Silicon Valley. Schwab, HPE, now Oracle. I hope that this would give somebody in California Legislature a pause.
A statically typed, Excel-like formula language
Aereon chairs last forever?

The arm rests got janky in mine after 2 years. Maybe they are replaceable...?
What does "good success" mean in this context?
It's for the annual reports and 'best place to work' advertising. Big corporations want to show how diverse they are. It might hence improve your chances to get hired if you fit at least in one of the minority categories.

Long time ago I worked in a small company were they hired a deaf girl as a trainee. One might think that it's so nice that they give disabled persons a chance (in her case the inability to hear unfortunately affected her ability to read as well, to the point that my boss discouraged me from teaching her the use of e-mail) however the company received some 100 grand/a (a lot of doe in Germany then) from the government for her professional development, so the company gained a little even if she wasn't all that productive. I don't think the company had any intention to hire her afterwards.
You created a burner account for this. Yeah, that's a good sign. Are they burner accounts all the way down? How many other personas are you in here?

"You also brought up India."

Specifically to point out that number of people is largely irrelevant. But, as with the Ferrari nonsense, way to completely miss the point.

"Of course you deleted it as soon as you realised it."

LOL, I deleted it because I realized there were newer numbers (humorously BETTER numbers as the iphone is seasonal), but by then you'd added more stupid edits to your insane comment. WOMP WOMP!

The Italy thing is uproarious, and betrays that you're a clown. Apple is shipping more units to Italy than ever, but at the very low end people replaced their dumbphones with junk Huawei units. Yeah, Apple isn't crying in their sleep. Apple still completely dominates the wealthy and upper middle class in virtually every nation the world over.

This all started with an insanely stupid comment that Apple only matters in the US, which is so profoundly dumb it disqualifies anyone from talking again. See - you.
Even assuming none of them get replaced ever, it takes around a century for the current taxes to pay for what it cost. Skewing the replacement costs isn't changing the argument.
You are being downvoted for a seemingly flippant remark, but someone should really check whether senior execs conveniently are already well positioned to move there.
That does seem to be how Bezos chose HQ2 after a nation wide search.
Austin has been dead since 1990. I leave it to you to remember why.
University of Hagen is primarily focused on distance teaching.
It is easy to moan about been counting when you are riding a wave of intellectual property rights that protect your business (patents on tesla/spaceX tech). Try selling apples. Try manufacturing nails. Try opening a family restaurant. Most businesses live and die in tiny margins. Been counting keeps them alive.
A large change to the code base would indicate to me that the product isn't ready to ship or test, possibility. At the very least, it would prompt a discussion about the code and how we are managing it. Maybe we need some process changes or tools to prevent junk code from accumulating.

Edit: if you're talking about the math, I think "changed" includes added and deleted. So, it's the ratio of added and deleted to the total change.
@minikites I didn't flag your post but this is clearly a politically charged and potentially biased article that has little to do with HN or its core demographic.
Here's the relevant rule from the guidelines:
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
You comment just reminds me of how lucky some people are to be born with ...IMO... the super-power of good memory.

> Obviously, this is from my memory and it's been over a decade

I would not remember those details if I read them last week let alone a decade ago.
Love the idea! How could non-applicants get in touch with everyone to perhaps join their team?
What ever happened to Endless Sky?

Is it still around? Or did it go to the graveyard of oblivion where games go to die?
TSO is possible to enable outside of Rosetta with some shenanigans in the kernel. Unfortunately getting Rosetta to generate code that is comparable with what a compiler would create is quite difficult: it needs to lift x86 into its own IR and then re-do register allocation, which it is quite good at but obviously not perfect.
My sister is building a vacation home there.
> Rust uses "traits" to do both generic-like things and inheritance-like things. It's not clear this was a win. The result seems to be a system which does both badly.

IMO the fact that Rust doesn't do inheritance well is a feature, not a bug. My understanding is that most people even in OOP circles have realized that composition is better than inheritance, and I see Rust's choices around it as a reflection of that.

> It's not enough that every operation on a type needed by a generic be implemented. The type has to be part of a single trait that provides for all those operations.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but do you know that a generic can combine multiple traits? For example:

fn foo<T: Copy + Add + Sync>(x: T) {
...
}

Here T must implement Copy and Add and Sync.

Maybe what you're talking about is the fact that methods' identities aren't fully described by their names + types, but also by their trait? i.e.:

trait TraitA {
fn foo(&self, x: i32) -> i32;
}

trait TraitB {
fn foo(&self, x: i32) -> i32;
}

struct Foo {
}

impl TraitA for Foo {
fn foo(&self, x: i32) -> i32 {
x + 1
}
}

fn requires_b<T: TraitB>(x: T) {
x.foo(12);
}

fn main() {
let f = Foo { };
requires_b(f);
}

error[E0277]: the trait bound `Foo: TraitB` is not satisfied
--> src/main.rs:25:16
|
19 | fn requires_b<T: TraitB>(x: T) {
| ------ required by this bound in `requires_b`
...
25 | requires_b(f);
| ^ the trait `TraitB` is not implemented for `Foo`

This was an opinionated decision made by the Rust team - which I think was a good decision - to address the fact that it's possible to have unwanted overlaps between trait method signatures. Just because fn foo(&self, x: i32) -> i32 is defined for a struct, doesn't mean it's the same foo that you're wanting to call. Distinguishing things by trait strengthens the contract. It also avoids the diamond problem. You're right that this isn't directly related to "safety" in a memory sense, but it's part of an overarching philosophy of Rust that encourages intentionality and discourages footguns.

> Generic parameters can only be types, not numbers.

This is a work in progress and has partially been rolled-out; the full implementation is on the way: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2000-const-generics.html
I'm just a layman, but I often ponder this same "Why are some companies so big when a small team could do about the same thing?" and my mental theory currently is:

1. The amount of engineers scales very badly with respect to application complexity. I.e. you may need 100 or 1000 engineers to do something that "looks" about 2x as complex as something 10 engineers can do, and

2. The more complex solution tends to win in the market because on the one hand people value the application handling edge cases better, having shiny graphics, having slightly better UX, etc. and on the other hand you redeem the cost of paying those 1000 engineers thanks to software being free to copy and network effects / monopoly.
> Did we mention bad-faith arguments? Yes. Yes, we did.

A good example of a bad faith argument is repeatedly employing the motte-and-bailey fallacy by making positive claims, and then when asked to support those claims with evidence, shifting the burden of proof to your opponent by equivocating between statements of the form "there was no X" and "I haven't seen any evidence for X." People often do this unintentionally because they are confused about the difference between object-level claims and statements about the evidence for object-level claims. But one begins to suspect bad faith when this distinction is explained and then ignored, and the behavior repeated.

Of course there is no test for bad faith and people can be both confused as emotionally involved so they repeat themselves. Which may be the case here, I'm not a mind reader.
This. If you’re getting less than inflation as an annual raise it’s time to move unless you’re an owner.

Keep moving until you land somewhere that doesn’t just say they know your value, but will actually pay for it.
You did not done much reading about history and military?

Anyway, easier way to get food and not get hungry or starwe is strong reason to switch lifestyle. Human societies of all kinds have been doing exact that decision over and over.
A response from the InstaHide authors:

https://twitter.com/prfsanjeevarora/status/13374473410585681...

http://web.archive.org/web/20201211174253/https://hazelsuko0...
"They ideas are good, they just happen to be implemented wrong every time. But this time is different"
Shouldn't the republican party be worried? If the trend continues and a lot of companies move from California to Texas bringing along a lot of liberal employees with them, won't that tip the already narrowing margin towards the democratic party?
The personality differences between right vs left tend to be about maintaining social hierarchies vs freeing people from them (most effectively by generating new ones). You need both because no social hierarchy can fully account for the reality (or hyper-reality) it is in and needs to be challenged to adapt to the ever-changing landscape. You need maintenance of social-hierarchies, because mostly they are quite effective at generating the most positive outcomes for the largest number of people (at least at the point when they were generated).

Reiterating my comment in another sub-thread: It looks like TIV might be maladaptive because it is highly correlated to anxious-attachment styles, which usually results from poor childhood attachment. Someone with a very healthy attachment-style is unlikely to suffer from TIV (according to the paper). That being said, even individually maladaptive personalties can be adaptive for their social contexts, because if a social-hierarchy starts to generate a lot of victimhood that is probably a strong signal to healthy members of that social-hierarchy that the hierarchy they are in is generating too many negative outcomes and needs to be corrected somehow.
Hip is where you make it. Sometimes the best communities form in places where you wouldn't expect it. Freaks, hippies, and weirdos seem to stick together better in conservative places where they have a common enemy.

It's always dynamic. Being near some success is good for artists and creators because they can tap into the revenue stream without being priced out. Too few customers and the density of innovation can't exist. Too much success and only the most successful and profitable ventures can survive.
Joe Rogan was talking just about this[1], how he doesn't want to disrupt the culture and environment and hopes all the people fleeing California don't try to impose the same values and politics that caused them to flee California in the first place.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iajyvVaeFS4&ab_channel=JRECl...
Considering that one of the most prominent legislators literally told Elon Musk to get fucked on Twitter, I doubt anyone is listening.
Rediscover the web that Google "disappeared."

I recommend this tagline for Mojeek :)
Odd / possibly concerning error fwiw: searching for "respondsToSelector:, performSelector:," (with quotes) gives me a 403 Forbidden error.
Actually, I realise there is another point here, namely the distinction between manufacturer, brand and retailer.

Brands are somewhat confusing to analyse: a brand may manufacture its own products, or it may buy them in; a brand may sell its own products, or it may leave this to conventional retailers. In its purest form the brand does neither and simply exists to advertise itself and collect rent from other market participants.

Generally, it seems that pure-play brands, and DTC sales by manufacturers, are fairly rare, while brands that also sell products to consumers, or that manufacture their prducts are the most common. So it seems that in reality, neither total specialisation as a pure-play brand nor as a triple-play fully vertically integrated brand is efficient, but instead some combination of branding with another function is optimal.
Somewhere in the Southeast would be my guess. Nashville, or in the Carolinas, maybe.