skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct.. and it's in that specific circumstance: where you are licensed, and for whatever reason the retailer charged you sales tax anyway on an item for resale... then you can file with the state to receive that money back. My point was that there's no reason any retailer or manufacturer would pay sales tax on the inputs for their goods.
I tend to think of most university education as taxpayer and student subsidized versions of the sort of training that companies should be doing. I think, for most programmers, a well-thought-out apprenticeship program would be better both for them and for the company, except that the amount of money we send to universities makes this economically infeasible.
Microservices: How Amazon Steals Xmas
If we implement UBI (my preference is by taxing automation), or some post-capitalism model where people can get paid by the emotional and cultural value they provide, then the moral case for autonomy is to free everyone from boredom and drudgery.

I could talk about this for days, but: the more we automate below us on Maslow’s pyramid, the higher we raise our baseline.
> all land revert to it's ancestral owners

Because those who's great great great great great grandfather did well out of knowing Henry 8th don't already get enough headstart in life?

Land shouldn't be owned by the people, with rent paid yearly to the people based on its unimproved value.
From what a friend (who is one of those "third party content moderators") says, they don't have a clear definition for anything, even for their own moderators.
I think the fact that a billionaire can't buy a better iPhone is partly what supports the (now perhaps only slightly) higher price of iPhones versus other non-cheap phones. The same might be said of these headphones (if they turn out to be good) — other than those "billionaires" who happen to be audiophiles wielding headphone amps, it's likely these will be seen as an achievable luxury for people who like well-made objects and want to have (approximately) "the best and best-designed" good.
I used several of these in law lectures on content and IP. They are shocking but not actually illegal, which is what you need when teaching about illegal material that you dare not actually show. Two that I used even made the top 10 worst, although I would defend both as good art. Shocking the audience is part of what rock is about.
“We accept 20% of candidates and I'm 90% good at my job ”
I don’t know - it seems to me that the left would ban guns if they could, and the right would ban abortion if they could.

Neither side is wrong to be afraid of the other doing these things.
What exactly does (did) Keybase do?

It was my understanding that Keybase worked like this:

- Alice has a bunch of online accounts (Github, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc)

- Alice wants someone who knows one of her accounts to be able to find all of her accounts

- Alice generates a keypair (public P, private K)

- Alice posts a certain kind of message signed by K somewhere on her public Github, public Twitter, and public LinkedIn

- Alice uploads the account ID's to a server owned by Keybase

- Keybase verifies the signed messages and keeps track of who has what accounts on what platforms

- Bob asks the Keybase server who Alice (Twitter ID) is on other platforms

- Keybase server returns a list of accounts

- Bob can verify the returned list of accounts by running the signature verification himself (i.e. the Keybase server is only used for finding the account names)

Basically in my mind, "Keybase == Somebody duct-taped together a PKI using public posts on social platforms."

But reading others' comments I see that:

- Keybase is a chat

- Keybase is a better Git than Git

- Keybase shares files securely

- Keybase is a crypto wallet

- Keybase is the KBFS filesystem

- Keybase is easy for non-technical users to use

Did I miss something?
Facebook

Reddit

Instagram

Vimeo

Snapchat

CashApp

Venmo

Every single one of these companies has trafficking minors problem. All of them dwarf pornhub's.
You type a lot but say little to none. I don't know what to make of it, so I'll pass on.
I'm not sure if you're from outside North America, but I don't think nursing homes here are likely to have LAN parties unless we make some big medical breathroughs in the next few decades.

According to this survey of Canadian nursing homes, around 87% of residents suffer from some kind of cognitive impairment such as dementia, alzheimer's, or stroke related trauma [1].

Even assuming that you still have any friends around by the time your in a nursing home, the odds that neither of you suffer from cognitive impairment is about 1.7% (someone let me know if that math is wrong).

[1]: https://www.cihi.ca/en/dementia-in-canada/dementia-care-acro...
I hope you removed that dev to tidy up the team.
It is kind of surprising how many people have used Emacs for less than a few years. Org mode is a bit of a surprise, but it is very sticky and there is literally nothing like it out there.
I tried emacsformacosx and Yamamoto's port when I first started using Emacs on Mac OS, but since version 25 I've found the standard distribution compiled with --with-ns serves my purposes just fine. (I always build my own since I've found neither X toolkits nor distro packagers to reliably produce a stable Emacs, but if you're thinking about Yamamoto's port, building your own is already on the table. Besides, it's not any harder than building any other software, it just takes a while.)
Exactly, you can get several, and have money left over for a decent DAC.
I'm stubborn too. I find my traits are still working against me. Neither bosses nor professors like their mistakes being called out. And it seems being well networked or making a good impression is more important than actual work or results (you're better off with the abilities to build junk and sell junk, than with the abilities to build good stuff and sell nothing)
The best emacs for Macs might be Aquamacs (https://aquamacs.org/) as it has been adapted to work with standard Mac keyboard shortcuts among other things. I use it on a daily basis, not the least for keeping notes and clips in org-mode (of course ;-)

Cf https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AquamacsFAQ too.
I agree with this. I wish there was more of it. However it seems to me like this is becoming more and more rare on HN or harder to find by being drowned out.
I agree, and I would add that there is one good subjective way to measure the productivity of individual developers, and that is talking to their teammates.
Aren't RSUs granted like regular stocks are?

Say, I join a public company. If they say they will pay me 500k USD worth of stocks, it generally means that I get 500k/(average share price of month, share price on stock offer date etc.) stocks subject to vesting cycle. Basically, I have fixed number of shares from that point and they appreciate or depreciate with the market.

I am assuming if AirBnB offered 500k USD of RSUs similarly and the RSU price was say 50. That means the person had 10k RSUs subject to vesting cycle. So, if the stock price is 120 now they have 1200k USD worth of stocks subject to vesting cycle.
U.S. Schools Are Buying Cellebrite Phone-Hacking Tech
I've not found in docs anything related to static site configuration files (like netlify.toml or vercel.yml in hosted services). How to configure particular site?
For how long depends how long till the designate the model "Vintage/Obsolete".
Typically 5 years if their computers/iphones/Beats headphones are anything to go by.
You can always try your luck on the third party market after that.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624
You are comparing the Y values for multiple points with different X values in the same series. You are looking for trends and fine differences.

I am comparing the Y values for multiple points with the same X values in different series. I'm only looking for course differences.

For my purpose, it makes sense for the scale to start at zero.

At a glance, the week of April 12, 2020 looks like it has four times as many deaths as any other year since 2015. In reality, it has roughly 1.5x as many. That's still a huge difference, but I had to check the scale and do some quick mental calculations to figure that out - which is more than I would have had to do if the graph's vertical scale started at zero.

I'm not arguing that all graphs must start their scales with zero. I'm not even saying that this is a bad graph. It's just not as effective for the kind of analysis I want to use it for.
It is better to be rich than poor. In other news, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
> and take away their basic rights
This is answered quite clearly in the article - because he's well connected. Largely that means people with money, but influence doesn't hurt either. He cut the line as a VIP.

Is that ethically wrong? Probably. Is it new? Not even remotely.
Enabling verbose ACPI debug messages might do it:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/acpi/debug.txt

I'm not exactly sure what options you'd need to enable/disable to just catch useful info.

Hopefully you don't need to enable everything, which may produce enough (realtime) logspam to make journald use a noticeable amount of CPU.
It works on my computer. Are you using Gnome? That might be your problem. Try KDE. It works.
Forsure, intel comes to mind when you say this. Focus on profits, milk 14nm, screw R&D for 10nm and appoint the CFO to CEO. Perfect combination for the current market where intel is dying and AMD ate their lunch.

Contrast that to AMD which has an engineer with a PHD in engineering from MIT as there CEO.

Look whos eating whos lunch now.
The comment to which you replied said you can deduct sales taxes paid against income taxes.

I think this means that paying $10 would reduce your income tax by $3 (if income tax is 30%). This is different from getting a 100% credit ($10) which is what you'd get with a VAT system.
Somewhat OT: Does anyone have any good recommendations on what to read next, chronologically speaking, after finishing Herodotus's Histories? I had in my mind to try out Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch. I'm interested in learning more about the rise of Hellenism, as well as anything related to Ptolemaic Egypt, since I know nothing about either. Herodotus has scratched an itch I never knew I had wrt. history
I wasn't specifically referring to the concept of exempting resellers from paying sales tax for items they are reselling.

I was questioning the problem of manufacturers selling directly to customers. I prefer to cut out as many middlemen as possible nowadays, in order to ensure the highest probability of getting the highest quality product.

I know Walmart gets lower quality products than other places and whatnot, and manufacturers make subtle adjustments to products to meet resellers' desired price points.

So now, I just buy directly from the brands whenever possible (and definitely not from Amazon for anything high value). I trust Costco's items to have been better vetted and especially Kirkland Signature branded items to be decent, as well as Apple and maybe Nordstroms.
No offence, but the economy and society in the US is long-overdue for an oil-change.
The stock market is not reality. Especially TSLA.
Indeed, an attempted coup.
Booking.com, a major online hotel aggregator and probably more akin to Airbnb than a physical hotel chain, has a market cap of $85B — not far off from Airbnb's $100B.

I don't think individual hotel chains are an equivalent business to Airbnb, since those have high real estate costs and have clear physical hurdles to growth: you have to buy property and build hotels, and staff all of them to run the front desk, carry people's luggage, clean the rooms, do laundry, etc. The comparison to other OTAs like Booking — that don't own the properties but make money from listing them and allowing booking — makes more sense IMO. The valuation looks a lot less frothy with those comparisons.

(I am an ex-Airbnb employee and still hold many shares FWIW.)
He is the President of the United States' friend and attorney, and that, like it or not, probably gets the job done.
That's just the name of the game when you have someone high up in power looking out for you.

I wonder how the pressure from above manifested itself in that triage room. Probably something along the lines of "take extra good care of this person... or else"
> If it benefits you to say you are disabled and you have a qualifying disability,
In a lot of this, I see you trying to frame the argument as "should we do mTLS or should we do no TLS at all". And while there are threat models where TLS doesn't make any sense (Halvar's same-host or same-rack K8s model), I don't think people are generally advocating against encrypting network traffic. Encrypt your network traffic. Obviously, you don't need mTLS to do this.

Another sleight of hand I see here is the ambiguity between network authentication, service authentication, and user authentication. When it's convenient for the argument, it seems, mTLS is just a way to ensure both ends of a network connection are part of the super best friends club. But later, when it's helpful to argue that mTLS is "flexible", certs carry credentials. Maybe even JWTs! There's a subtext to the "be wary of mTLS" argument, and it's that unified site-wide PKIs don't work well in practice.

Finally, you've lost me completely with this "revocation is less critical to the threat model than you think it is" stuff. The step-ca website is even explicit about this distinction you're trying to draw between "active revocation" and "passive revocation" (short-lifetime certificates). No. That doesn't work in internal application environments. step-ca defaults to 24-hour certificates. Have you considered how weird that is? 24 hours is short enough that your CA needs to be highly available --- ask around about production outages that have been caused by certificates expiring at much longer lifetimes --- but long enough that you can't possibly "wait out" a compromised cert.

I feel like something that is happening here is that WebPKI-style mTLS advocates think that a server cert and a client cert are two different instances of the same thing. They are not. They are wildly different entities. A server certificate prevents a MITM active attacker from intercepting a TLS connection. That's a rare attack, and, more importantly, a second-order attack. A client certificate is an access token for the application. Lose a prod-viable SSH key and then tell me I should wait 7 hours for it to expire.

The reality is that every application that deploys "passive revocation" is ultimately going to have to implement "active revocation", and, if they follow the advice on the step-ca website, they're going to have to do it on no notice, and in the most disruptive way possible, because when an internal access credential is lost, it has to be shut off immediately.
But do they get to keep the $550 headphones? That's still a strong motivator. "I just got this really expensive thing - it must be good!"

If they have to send them back then I'd say it is fair, but I doubt that is the case.
> You haven't heard of error checking?

Is this an earnest question? No, I didn't understand, when I was reading the article, what an error checking framework was for. What sort of errors? Errors in what?

Of course I've since looked up flycheck - it's for syntax checking code as you type it.
The underlying problem is the lack of boundaries. Moving away does not solve that problem. Only setting and enforcing the boundaries will solve the problem.
Because many people unfortunately don't bother to read articles and merely check comments, the relevant section:

"HC is a highly regulated toxin, labeled as a “likely carcinogen” and skin irritant by the Environmental Protection Agency. Eye masks and gloves are recommended for people who handle the chemical. Defense Technologies, an imprint of Pennsylvania-based security equipment manufacturer Safariland, markets the HC canisters as “military-style” smokers, even though the U.S. military actually stopped using HC in grenades in the 1990s due to its extreme toxicity.

Activists are more concerned about the chemicals that leave the canister than those packed inside it. Firing an HC grenade triggers a two-stage reaction in which the chlorine in HC rapidly combines with metallic zinc, resulting in zinc chloride, a toxic metal fume that appears as a greenish-white smoke. “It’s a chemical reaction in a can,” says Simonis. “The zinc chloride is an intentional product of the grenade’s design.” The Material Safety Data Sheet supplied by Safariland, however, doesn’t mention zinc chloride at all.

Gaseous zinc chloride, also known as hexite, is more than an alternative type of tear gas. Because it contains the super-hot gaseous forms of both chloride ions and zinc, a heavy metal, hexite plumes are highly mobile and extremely dangerous to most forms of life. The chloride ions increase the uptake of zinc particles by exposed cells on the skin or mucous membranes. Zinc can accumulate in tissues and organs, then mobilize later and cause a new set of symptoms. The most striking effects of zinc chloride toxicity in the street — vomiting, burning skin, coughing — are only the first onslaught of a chronic, unpredictable respiratory condition that can cause severe liver damage, fatigue, weight loss, and anorexia, in addition to difficulty breathing.

Zinc toxicity sharply contrasts with the effects of tear gas, which tend to be excruciating but short-lived, with dangerous exceptions. “[Conventional tear gas] causes pain through a specific mechanism,” says B. Zane Horowitz, PhD, an emergency toxicologist in the Portland area and author of a recent op-ed decrying the city’s use of tear gas on protesters in the journal Toxicology Communications. Tear gas shorts the nervous system’s pain response, essentially creating the experience of pain without doing lasting damage — most of the time. Still, says Horowitz, “There’s no reason to have pain inflicted on you if you haven’t done anything wrong.”

Seems like some war crime style agent orange kinda stuff to me. Why not just spray asbestos into the air instead.
I've flip flopped on issues and can see why people hold many of the problematic beliefs they do.

It seems to me that many lack the nuance and human experience to understand different people. It's the mindset of the raging homophobes that get caught with same sex partner(s). If you want to look to see how to deal with that issue in particular then look to media created by the people who've lived these experiences.

What's helped me the most is putting myself in uncomfortable situations and finding ways to cope. Don't like LGBTQIA+? Go to a gay bar, talk to the people there. Maybe find a way to get Fox to air humanizing stories about MPoCs, LGBTQIA+, abortion, addicts, and poor people.

It's harder to be close minded in typically blue urban areas where you'll regularly be confronted with norm defying people from all classes, colors, religions, and orientations. So the best way would be to find ways to bring these groups to the same haunts without them even knowing they're being funneled.
French businesses still pay VAT on stuff they buy from other companies.

Generally, most VAT systems work this way: Business collects VAT from customers for services or goods sold(output VAT), and must pay it to the government. But businesses may offset that liability with the VAT they paid acquiring goods or services that were used in their own revenue-generating activities (input VAT).

So, for example, ACME sells TNT for $10 and VAT is 10% or $1 (output VAT), so price to customer is $11 and ACME's VAT liability is $1. Say ACME paid $0.25 VAT to its suppliers for the chemicals in the TNT and the paper casing (input VAT). ACME's net tax liability is $0.75, and that is how much they would actually fork over to the government.

Note that if ACME's customer is Bugs' Mining Shop, i.e., a business, they still charge VAT on the transaction.

In a sales tax system, ACME would not have paid sales tax to its suppliers at all, and it would not have charged Bugs' Mining Shop a sales tax. Thus, sales tax is generally more economically efficient than a VAT from a business perspective.
> if it's going to halt we don't really care what it does immediately before.

The final move does not matter, but the symbol written matters to the extent that BB(n) is defined as the number of 1s on the tape upon halting.

So, while redundant, the 4(n+1) count is chosen for parsimony. If one is willing to specialize the transition to halt to have no move and a mandatory write of 1, then a count of 4n+1 still agrees upon the same value of BB(n).
This is exactly what I'm trying to address with Hadabot. A systematic / opinionated way to learn ROS (specifically ROS 2), understand its significance, in a hands-on manner, with a real robot. The next milestone for Hadabot is a very simple introductory ROS robotics curriculum / syllabus that is not as intimidating as a MOOC, requires low mental load to get started and reach various milestones. Lots of hard work ahead to get this right! Don't hesitate to reach out w thoughts and opinions - jack AT hadabot DOT com - Jack
If that's a coup, then obviously not all coups are worth worrying about. They really are not going to do shit.
I spent 5 minutes working my answer and reading through the others, I had a lot of fun and still have no idea what the answer is. ;-)
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And you have to want to work for a FAANG. Not everybody dream of that either.
(I guess since you posted this three times I need to reply three times. Can you please stop? this is getting repetitive and wasting time that should be going into doing other things.)

That's not evidence of what you claimed upthread; it was an inept bunch of content marketers who were easily caught by HN's anti-abuse systems. The thread you're linking to contains over 20 comments that I posted explaining various aspects of this. And if you read Troy's original report you'll notice that the examples he shows of them succeeding come from other places than HN:

https://twitter.com/troyd/status/1315441811658219520

https://twitter.com/troyd/status/1316038695535833089
Bold indeed.

So, the initial plan was to reduce emissions by 20% between 1990 and 2020 (3 decades) and by a further 25% in the next decade (to achieve a total decrease of 40%).

We exceeded this target; the reduction was 24% in 3 decades. And now the reduction target for the next decade was increased to 41% ( the math is (1-0.24)*(1-0.41) = 1-0.55). In other words, in a single decade a more ambitious reduction target that the initial target for 4 decades. And starting from a much lower base (i.e. all the low hanging fruits were picked already).

This is indeed bold. Is it impossible? I hope not. But I'd like to see the feasibility study to see what the concrete steps are to achieve this target.
Boris Johnson, PM of the UK, got his COVID care from the National Health Service, and while I imagine he got some VIP treatment, the delta between rich and poor in the US is the same as life and death. It's not an issue of an extra comfy pillow and a room with a view, it's being left to die because you can't afford treatment. Other countries don't do that.