skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to take a wild guess and say the author isn't from the US. He includes sales tax on items purchased for resale.... which is an exception in every state that I know of. Even if you purchase an item at retail with sales tax, you can file to receive the money back from the state. Additionally sales tax has nothing to do with whether your supply chain is fully integrated, and hiring all of your suppliers as employees doesn't affect sales tax.

What he also misses: is that if I sell something to another retailer for resale (meaning he says he's going to resell what I sold him), I don't charge him sales tax on the entire purchase. Not until it reaches the final consumer is sales tax charged.

He says this isn't true, and links to a wikipedia article on a gross receipts tax. This is another confusion on his part. Some states do not have income taxes, and instead have gross receipt taxes. This is an alternative to business income taxes, not sales taxes.

The confusion is understandable. No one has ever accused the US of having a simple tax system.
> I don't see this happening because those brands undoubtedly have a much larger share of the high-end headphones market, whereas Apple seems to focus more on a smaller niche with even more disposable income.

You do know that these headphones will probably outsell the ones you mention 100:1 or more, right? :-)
> 30,000-60,000 people die from the flu in the US every year.

COVID eclipsed that within a couple months. By year's end it'll very likely have killed 10× that lower bound. And like others said: COVID's killing the same number of Americans per day that the flu kills in a whole month.

The people who insist "it's just the flu" evidently need to brush up on elementary school arithmetic.
Shout out to EV Nova, still one of my top 5 videogames. It was the 3rd game in the series and the most polished. It had multiple storylines you could play through and each was epic and memorable.
In my experience it is faster to take the clean native bootstrap code and build up to components that are needed, instead of getting a template and altering what is used.
> as disposable in the eyes of the shareholders.

If a company is willing to sacrifice engineering talent and institutional knowledge for short term gains... Good luck staying in business.

Reference: Every outsourcing project I've seen.
Who today goes to the Harvard Business School to become a factory manager?

This is a serious problem. Starting up an efficient, high-quality manufacturing plant is hard. Look how much trouble Musk had doing it.
That seems nearsighted to me. Making it cheaper for vertically integrated businesses to make money kind of forces bigger businesses to buy smaller ones.

This same idea also means that smaller businesses aren't on the same playing field as bigger businesses, because they can't afford to vertically integrate as much. They don't have as much cash to spend. This means that small businesses naturally have a harder time growing.

And this becomes an oligopoly problem. The big businesses get bigger and the small businesses either get bought or get put of business.

That doesn't sound like a healthy market to me. I would much prefer a market with many competitive small businesses that work with other small businesses to build products.

Better products and choice of products are guaranteed this way.
I agree that it's a hard problem. And they need to find a way to solve it. They have made unbelievable profits by creating an incredible and unprecedented tool that connects and amplifies people. The value created by those connections is real. Facebook has also caused major social consequences, since the tool also amplifies ideas that are spurious, hateful, andnd harmful.

Facebook the near-trillion-dollar company doesn't get to keep raking in massive profits and pass off the social costs as someone else's problem. They should view solving it as integral to the viability of their business model. Society should hold them accountable for the lies that are spread on their platform, and for the hate crimes that wouldn't have been committed in a world without Facebook (e.g. the murder of Samuel Paty).
It makes intuitive sense right? There exist mutually beneficial transactions that cannot happen because they are mutually beneficial at the original price point and not at the taxed price point.
I saw this great interview recently with Anders Hejlsberg at MSFT on how modern compiler construction differs from what is taught in traditional University courses. Is this what you're alluding to?

After watching that interview, it's strange to read a comment like yours. While the architecture is completely different, it doesn't frankly seem like that big a leap to go from "senior engineer with X years working on thing that's tangentially related to compilers" to being able to be productive in a reasonable amount of time working with the new architecture. What am I missing?

https://youtu.be/wSdV1M7n4gQ
it applies, that's the whole point of the "added" part. you pay the government their full cut, but you get all the VAT you paid for back. so only the difference is taxed to you, as is to everyone else in the chain.
You're using the slippery slope fallacy and conflating disparate issues.

Shut down Facebook if they can't stop violent organizations from flourishing on their platform.

Tax church's and find a way to make these psychotic televangelists illegal, maybe the irs can get them for tax evasion?

All these problems boil down to money. If Facebook acts against these radical groups without a court order their Republican investors and shareholders will flee en masse. A federal order is unlikely due to Trump's appointments and lack of precedent or law. A new law is unlikely because Mitch McConnell would sooner die of covid19 then let the democrats score a win, or make Republican social media wetwork harder in the future. McConnell is a founding father of the modern problems with money in Congress and he's been boosting about it for decades.

So, to sum it up. Mark is choosing to not do anything and keep profiting off of this shit because he has the legal cover to do so from Trump down. Trump just wants to kill platforms that aren't for him, just like he wants all democrat votes shredded..
I don't understand why you're using Brave then though. Don't get me wrong I think all the stuff you listed is crap I wouldn't want in my browser either but isn't that the whole reason to choose Brave over UnGoogled Chromium?
> If you're unhappy with how the pandemic has affected your business, you should ask the politicians why the CARES act gave the rich $5T and the rest of us a one-time $1200.

Better yet, ask why half of them won't get off their ass and appeal for everyone to wear masks. Call it a civil duty; call people who wear their masks patriots/hero; equate a refusal to do so is like kneeling during the national anthem or burning the flag. I don't really care what, but they need to do something.

There's a lot of science supporting mask wearing as an effective way of mitigating the impact of covid. If everyone wore masks in public and around any person who is not a member of their household, the economy would not be so stressed; hospitals would not be so stressed; and we could largely go back to "normal."

At this point, every time you go out in public without a mask, you are lighting cash on fire. You are hurting American companies and helping foreign ones. No amount of government stimulus is going to bring back all of the people who died or were permanently crippled from covid. Nor will it give back the year of schooling that children have lost due to covid.

The cynic in me thinks that some leaders are dragging their feet with the goal of dragging the American economy into the toilet so that they can blame the next guy for it.
What’s the point of an MBA?

Asking anyone this question who pursues the degree or has pursued the degree or insists on its value, often gives a non-answer. Like the following:

* it helps with networking.

* it helps with promotion.

* it helps with advancement in career.

* it helps with your resume.

Boiling it down, “I can show off better and tout an imaginary quality”.

If I was a person who was self employed or running my own company, how will an mba HELP ME SPECIFICALLY? No one can give me an answer.

I concluded to that it can’t help. It is like a dark personality trait. One that helps you relative to the people around you but doesn’t help the company, in the long run.

As an engineer, I think we need something else. Masters in engineering administration. Teaching engineers how to deal with bs that takes 5 years of career to figure out.
Tom Siebel, CEO of C3.ai, discusses failure and the future
Please don't post insinuations like this unless you have specific evidence. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We have this rule because internet users are too quick to imagine they're seeing these patterns when really they're just reading them into what they're looking at, much like a Rohrschach diagram.

It's not that it never happens for real, of course. Both things happen: real manipulation and imaginary accusations of manipulation. Both are bad, and we need some sort of evidence or data or $objective-thing to look at in order to have a hope of distinguishing the one from the other. We put a ton of effort into protecting HN from manipulation and have many years of experience with this. I can't say we're not being pwned but we certainly catch many attempts to game the system here.

There's plenty of past explanation here if anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Does this have anything to do with meli, the in-terminal mail client?

https://meli.delivery/
Even outside of startups, they can be detrimental to brands. After seeing what's happened to TravisCI, Sencha and QlikTech, I can only assume that the private equity firms that bought them are rife with MBAs. And the story is the same, buy the company, cut engineering, murder new development, choke support and off-short what survives and then eat off of the trapped subscribers. They don't create value, they don't make a better product, all they do is stagnant the company while eating off of the lowered OpEx.
Yes, I’ve been doing this in the past elsewhere. Quite a messy affair, you have to overwrite `Function.prototype.toString` – meaning for all functions, no real way to do it for a single function. And then you have to be very careful because your overwritten functions runs in an environment you don’t control. Not sure whether implementing this in a completely tamper-proof way is possible.
Of course he does, loose monetary and fiscal policy has pushed his wealth, and the wealth of other ultra-rich, into the stratosphere. It wouldn't surprise me if his net worth has doubled in the last eighteen months.

If you have a house paid off, a 401k, and a stable job....you should support as much money printing as the market can take. When it all unravels, just buy citizenship somewhere else. Rest assured Mr. Cuban has a house in a foreign nation and a jet ready to take him there when the unwashed masses are donating blood plasma to buy a head of lettuce.
> No, the dry brush is what makes the fires get out of control and cause more damage than they "ought to,"

Wait, am I making the analogy, or you? You can't just take my analogy and twist it until it fits your view. Make a new analogy, but don't correct mine.

> I do not understand this point at all. Should we not have allergen warnings on food packaging? Or glasses for folks with bad eyesight? There are plenty of reasons we intervene in the "natural course" of events to make people's lives better

Sure, but where do you draw the line? Should we move heaven and earth to artificially prolong the life of people extremely vulnerable to common diseases? Or just let them die and be replaced with more resilient humans?
so only the companies which sell to citizens add value?
There's also https://bibliogram.art/ for instagram, invidio.us instances for youtube. Only if there would be a way to "walk around" imgur - I'd be happy already.
I agree with most of this

One thing I've learned in my 30s is its not a genetic lottery. There are definitely very irrevocable dynamics but many can be molded with a level of concern, effort and boundary setting that we usually associate with work added with a dash of true sincerity and deep care.
The comment said this:

> I doubt it's studio quality but I also doubt that of apple's offering (or the need for such quality).

Seems to me that the doubt is on charging $550 for mediocre sound or on whether better sound actually matters, depending on whether the sound turns out to be mediocre or not. That way we can be negative about Apple’s pricey new doodad regardless of whether it’s actually good or not—how convenient!

> Airpods don't have the best sound, several rival wireless earphones beat them to that.

I have not claimed otherwise and probably never will.
Don't helmets have a completely different pattern of support? I think they're distributed over the entire head.
Old people are just deadwood. Doesn't matter if they died five years early. Great analogy.
Not offended. In fact your response like this is exactly what I was asking for in my comment.

You are right, the "at least hear me out" argument is often used as defense to say something very questionable. The reason I phrased it that way though is because I am very close to one person who is as far right leaning as you could expect any reasonable person to be, and very close to another who is as far left as possible. I'm kind of forced to be in the middle if I want to maintain both of these relationships.

So to myself, I was using those 2 people as stand-ins for everyone else who might share their views. Both are very smart, both have very strong opinions that have been reached through a longstanding evolution of very small differences core values, and both are so deeply vested in their views that they wouldn't even be able to talk to each other.

So my comment was an appeal to anyone who feels that way about the other side, because I see no other way to fix the extreme polarization of ideals in the US.
The bible was talking specifically about land because it is a limited resource, especially for Israelis who are commended to be confined to the limited area of the land of Israel.

Other types of ownership are not resetting, partly because someone having a corporate doesn't prevent other from creating one and partly because it is a much more dynamic market, if you check you will see that the corporate landscape changes immensely every 50 years anyways.

Another way to look at it is that land is not sold, only rented for 50 years, but this can't be done with a corporate because corporate is not rented in the first place, in many cases it is just created out of nothing.
Do you find it helpful to misrepresent other people's arguments, or do you simply not understand their arguments in the first place?
> Measuring closed tickets is an excellent metric if the tasks are written well and assigned based on business priority

Don't forget the weight.

I've seen single tickets taking weeks for bug investigation.
This is the exact same thing as applying a label. Even if someone who disagrees with you does "need to grow," telling them that is a pretty surefire way to get them to write you off. If you actually want to convince and persuade people, you have to meet them where they are. That's the hard work in a democracy, and it can be frustrating and infuriating to see the pain that some people suffer because of the ignorance of others, but that's the way this country is supposed to work—through persuasion and conversation. We've tried lots of other methods of government and social structure throughout history and none of them has done better.
He's not an elected official or front-line worker. He's not a resident of the community that the Georgetown hospital serves. He's obese. Why did the staff responsible for triage decide that he gets priority over someone more essential, or someone not obese with a better chance of survival.

From the article:

> A physician with experience administering the new monoclonal antibodies, who didn’t want to use his name because he’s not authorized by his hospital to speak publicly, said giving them to Giuliani “appears to be an inappropriate use outside the guidelines of the E.U.A. for a very scarce resource.” Very scarce indeed: According to the Department of Health and Human Services, as of Wednesday the entire country had about 77,000 total doses of the Regeneron cocktail and almost 260,000 doses of Eli Lilly’s monoclonal antibody treatment. That’s less than you’d need to treat everyone who’d tested positive in just the previous two days.
Friday is better. So you can get a 3 day weekend.

This would also help boost local or nearby tourism. It’ll give people an extra day to travel.
Chromium seems like one of the least-likely-to-be-killed Google projects.
Bean counting is not mba work. It is cfo work. Let’s not mix the two. And there is no one more disconnected from the work of the business than the cfo.
Believe me: writing Java is on average more interesting than COBOL (I've done both, including some terrible Java systems using Enterprise Java Beans -- I still shudder at the thought -- and Java still wins). Then again, Java has been called "the next COBOL", so that's an interesting comparison.

> Even if you're passionate about something, job stability and good pay are going to be the primary drivers in decisions about jobs.

For a lot of people, yes. Not for all. And even then, it's hard to argue that COBOL is cool or interesting. It's just paying the bills, but nothing to get hyped or write gushing articles about. And there are more interesting programming jobs that will also pay the bills, anyway.
Sales tax also cripples the used/resale/refurbish product, making it more locally efficient to buy new instead of used, pushing used goods into the waste stream.
> Cloud Data Acquisition

Is this the most expensive IoT?
Elon Musk is Donald Trump for nerds.

He says things that are false, but that nerds want to be true.

He doesn't care that he lies. His followers don't care that he lies. He is shameless. He is vindictive. He is self-aggrandizing. He takes credit for all wins around his companies. He denies that the failures even exist.

It's sad that people still respect him. He's a joke.
Johnny Bench’s Friend Buys over $1M Worth of Bench Memorabilia, Donates It Back
Well if it makes everyone who wears them think it sounds better than the alternatives, that's really just as well. There's not any utility to better sounding headphones other than enjoyment, and you'll enjoy it the same whether it actually sounds amazing or you just think it does.
It looks like its more about generating IR. The professor wrote his own LLVM like tool called Brill, and use of the tool seems to be the focus of the course.
Also that it wasn't 3.
still felt like science fiction

It was a great game but it came out after Quake.
Facebook already does this. You need a real cell phone number to make an account. They'll frequently require users to upload pictures of their id's to unlock their accounts after they detect suspicious activity.
And what does that look like?
Google Jobs has a pretty good search interface. It seems to get a lot of the postings, but not stuff from smaller/non-job-board sites like this. I think the who's hiring thread has links to searchable postings from this site. Unfortunately, they aren't very useful for me since most of the postings are for seniors.
I have a Star LabTop Mk4 running Manjaro which suspends and resumes without any issues (laptop lid as well as sleep from OS). They build their laptops specifically for Linux and test on a range of major distros.

See https://starlabs.systems/ and https://starlabs.kb.help/compatibility-reports/
Their first success was a company called Zip2 that the brothers Musk founded and later sold to Compaq .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2
VAT is a tax on the final consumer collected with the aid of the companies in the supply chain.
yeah you are right, I'm wrong
> It got more upvotes because of the errant Show HN than it would have otherwise.

I'll trust you on that and reiterate my apologies. I have never thought that Show HNs get more votes by default (look at the Show HNs in my history, you'll see they got absolutely nowhere), and was not trying to game the system.

> More significantly though, this doesn't feel very on topic for HN

I thought that this was mostly determined by whether or not the HN community upvotes a link. I personally do think there's a role for (perhaps infrequent) satire about certain quite cringe-inducing types of articles you get here. I saw a similar piece the other day - can't recall the link though.
Please, release a mobi or epub version :)
If you use separate files for each, I would set up a new capture template, one for work that goes to a work file, one for personal that goes to a personal file. Then it's Cmd+N p (personal notes that save to personal.org) and Cmd+N w or something like that.

EDIT: The gist of that is here: https://orgmode.org/manual/Capture-templates.html
This is why Trump will stay on the news. He's too sui generis to be the creation of TPTB, but they would never let an iron grip on the brain stems of the more suggestible 70% of the population go to waste. At the same time a third of us expect nothing from their votes for Biden because It Could Be Worse, another third will be sure that Trump's Triumphant Return awaits only a few thousand dead Bolivians or gays or whatever. If he faded from view, so would the heat he generates.
Treatment has apparently improved dramatically in the few months since the pandemic began.
It's pretty hard to pick up compiler skills because very little of it is written down. It takes a lot of time (a few years) working with code bases and papers to absorb it.
Trump adopted Jones’ claims in a way that shocked even InfoWars staffers
> Or, more specifically, lowering the tax burden on the people that can't trivially shrug it off.

If you look at the estimates of the actual revenues obtained from wealth tax, you’ll see that they are laughably low compared to total tax receipts, and as such will not reduce the tax burden on anyone in any meaningful way.
If you identify with the left:

Why was election integrity highly questionable in 2016 (Russia, etc.), but not in 2020 after 4 years of Trump? Did something change in those 4 years to make election integrity unquestionable? In fact, election integrity is so unquestionable in 2020 that all the big tech companies are banding together to censor anything that questions election integrity.

If you identify with the right:

If there is a massive conspiracy to change the outcome of the election, why are not more whistleblowers coming forward? How was it coordinated across states?

The truth is that questionable things probably did happen in the 2020 election. The left needs to acknowledge this. The truth is that there isn't enough evidence that these questionable things probably didn't change the outcome of the election. The right needs to acknowledge this. Both sides need to agree on how to improve the 2024 election.
Actually the rise of suburbs was subsidized by the federal government.

Separately a lot of state and local legislation that is contentious can be copy pasted and sent along by lobbying groups.
The metric likely includes private group posts and networks you're not in. You could also be oblivious to some hate.