skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that article is about your friend, so I’m trying to be sensitive here.

The article says he was driving “80 to 100 mph in the 9000 block of Southwest Barbur Boulevard” in a Prius. This road has multiple stop lights, pedestrian crosswalks, and a speed limit of 40 mph. He crashed into a bus stop that could have had pedestrians.

Assuming it was a new 2013 Prius, “going from 50 to 75mph takes a slow 8.3 seconds” (from an article about that car in 2013). So he was driving at least double the speed limit down a commercial corridor with a top speed of 40 mph, for an extended period of time (at least 20 seconds over the speed limit to hit 80 mph), with a car that was not designed to be driven that speed. He had no respect for the law, his safety, or the safety of others.

You could say we need better laws (e.g. full self driving required) but he didn’t care about the laws then, and there will be outliers in the future won’t care about the FSD law and will override their cars to get on the road. For the next 30 years there will be millions of non-FSD cars mixed in with FSD, and then there will be classic cars.

One could argue the road needs engineering changes to make the road so it’s impossible to drive faster than 40 mph, but how many ambulances or police vehicles use that road and need to go faster in true emergencies with the added safety of sirens and lights? And right now the road is engineered for a top speed for 40 mph. So the engineers put a speed limit of 40 mph. The vast majority of drivers on that road follow the speed limit (or close enough) to make 40 mph acceptable.

Life doesn’t come with bumpers. Part of it is figuring out which things have lasting consequences and which things are reversible and recognizing the very real and often precipitous difference. Along the way we learn from others what the difference is, but it doesn’t mean we should necessarily make changes to the environment based on others’ mistakes. We can’t fill in the Grand Canyon because someone fell in. We can put up signs (speed limits) and guard rails in high risk areas, but can’t always re-engineer the environment. And even if it is re-engineered, someone will come along and exceed the engineering design of that environment.

Maybe increased policing on that corridor would make sense to enforce the existing laws.

This is Monday morning quarterbacking it 8 years later. I’m sorry for your loss. I’m sure he was a good guy. Sometimes people make mistakes and no matter how much one would like to say “if only it was designed differently” or “maybe we could prevent this in the future for someone else”, there’s a point that people need to be free to make the decisions and deal with the consequences. It doesn’t make it any less sad, disappointing, or frustrating to deal with.
Replace income tax with the sales tax.
I bet if someone uploaded a video of all the dodgy tax avoidance these crooks do a spree gun it all over the internet these bastards would find a way to trace it and take it down in less than 24h. Maybe someone needs to start physically harassing all the CEOs of those shit companies and video document it so that they can’t live a single day of their lives without being violently attacked and harassed before they will find a way to take harassment serious.
Depends on how you slice the market. Android powers 70% of the phones on the market, but iOS makes 50%+ of the profit.
Somewhat lacking in the aesthetic department
But does your tax system allow for company tax payments to be offset against the tax liabilities of those receiving dividends? Here in Australia/NZ companies can provide shareholders with franking/imputation credits.
The article addresses part of this, if you set the cookie as httpOnly then JS cannot read the cookie.

So it is harder for XSS to lead to token exfiltration if using a properly configured cookie than it is with localStorage.
You'd expect the NYT's to give both side's at a minimum, or is Amazon a cartoon villain ran by a duck who swims in a silo of gold coins?

News doesn't do that anymore, but more importantly, Scrooge McDuck is not a villain.
> It's not a curse, but it's not well-correlated with better outcomes.

You seem to have been implying in all your posts that it's not just "not well-correlated," but that it's explicitly correlated with worse outcomes.

Use of such scientific terminology implies that there is evidence of this. Is there?
After financial markets collapsed in 2008, Ireland was in quite bad shape and requested a 67 billion Euro bailout from the EU. The EU granted it under the condition that Ireland gets their finances in order and imposes austerity measures on its citizens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-2008_Irish_banking_cris...
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Hetzner has storage boxes and storage services. Not as cheap as Glacier of course. Otherwise there is Acronis, IDrive (nothing to do with Apple), and Carbonite. I've never dealt with the latter three only heard of them.
In a corporation who is this "they", employees? (paying taxes), c-suite? (paying taxes), stockholders (paying taxes)

The problem, there is no "they".
>> If it's paid out as ordinary (W-2) income, then your top federal tax rate right this minute is 39.35% (37% regular tax, 1.45% medicare tax, 0.9% medicare surtax).

There is also state tax, which can be significant (double digits), esp for top brackets.
Microsoft Reveals Truths About Working from Home
That's not how bailouts work. They were loaned money.
Asking someone experiencing sexual trauma to 'let it be' is such a dismissive take.

Being a victim of revenge porn means that you can be blackmailed at anytime. Most people do not want to be sexualized, and it's humiliating to have to live with the fact that your coworkers will now have ammo to harass over you if they discover your videos. Don't get me started on what happens if you have kids, and their friends find out you were in porn.

Realistically, you can't scrub the internet of a video. I personally feel like the solution is that porn should be highly regulated. A formalized content upload process, licensing, required staff to deal with these types of complaints. It should be impossible to upload a video without a signed waver from the participants. Sure, this might remove pure anonymity, but you can still have mechanisms in place to protect your identity if you want to make amateur content without divulging your identity to the public.
not sure what side you are trying to argue?

The whole point, is corporations get the benefits of both, and the downside of neither. They have liability and tax advantages that people don't have, yet they also have tremendous politic power as if acting with personal free speech (citizens united)
if you receive stock as compensation, it is taxed as income. if the stock wildly appreciates after that event (and is later sold), it is capital gains.
Because we need to move beyond having 200+ countries? It's time we start converging toward a one world government.
To be fair it's not all the time the case. The fact that company is not publicly trade doesn't stop people, random investors, business angels, VC and others buy and sell its shares openly with some extra corporate limitations. The difference is only with a company valuation cap and how it was set. I guess that current investors of a Foundation are well aware of a current valuation. At least, for the tax purposes. So probably the author meant that rise in such a valuation that was somehow estimated.
I'd say it's not quite in the same category as Postgis, where the open source project is handily better than any closed source rivals. It competes well with some closed source competitors but not all of them.
Yeah we forgot it years ago because it was only an issue for a few hours and then lock files were introduced into NPM along with a CLI warning system for vulnerabilities.
Neat! I was playing around with min a while ago and it was fun.
To be honest, I don't really know the rules governing US phone numbers and just did a cursory google search, which came up with the simple answer of "10 billion".

That is very likely quite an overestimation. But if I'm not mistaken, the limitations you describe only reduce the search space by 19% (since it's two 90%-steps).
But the example you're responding to does employ people. A surgeon will have to hire a whole host of employees to run his outpatient clinic. Or if she works in a hospital, an entire team will be built around her.

Plus there is the fairness issue. Corporations are just groups of people working together. So why does a single surgeon not get to be treated as the economic growth engine she is, but two surgeons can incorporate and get special treatment?
Any good sources on this kind of media "sausage making" meta detail?
Amazon and Google are still growing too.. I don't feel like these are good basis to decide who pay or not taxes.

Should we only tax companies that are collapsing ?
Have you ever eaten chitterlings?
You don't know. The point was even if you did get there it could still be an overfit model you don't want, since it's based on a training data set, not the true statistics of the distribution the samples come from.
Apparently the NLRB didn't think the specifics of Amazon's explanation for why they were fired was compelling. Why should the NYT then?
> So of what use is the plugin without the streamed data?

None, but so what? Being open source is useful even if the data you use it with is proprietary.
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What proportion of fin-tech is dodgy crypto bubble? Is it a reputable field wholly or in part?
Did Backblaze ever issue an explanation for that?
They don’t know what they are missing, look at all the fun we have.
That Netflix isn't intending to, and that we don't need it doesn't mean it isn't contributing to it.

I don't see what Schengen had to do with anything - lack of passport checks is a nice convenience but that is all. Freedom of movement, sure, but that is separate from Schengen.

And I think dismissing light entertainment as not being culture is pointlessly elitist. A whole lot of culture is light entertainment, and often what spreads to the most people.

Most of Western Europe has close ties going back much further, but close ties does not translate immediately to the extent of shared culture diffusing through populations.

Not least because there is a stark difference between ties that are confined to a subset of the populations vs. those that are more widely shared.

I live in the UK, and have done so for 21 years, but come from Norway, and one of the first things I realised on moving here was how superficial cultural exchange often is - most people have no conception what it's like to live in another country. Even one they in many cases have often been to as a visitor.

And e.g. shared entertainment is part of that. Growing up watching different things, talking about different things etc. contributes to cultural differences even decades later. I still experience people bringing up cultural references that they share that I don't for that reason.

I agree with you regarding Erasmus for that reason, but I also think that seeing more shared programming will matter more than you think in giving more people shared reference points because it is a lasting and ongoing part of people's lives.

Irrespective of Netflix' motivations.
That’s also not google lol
An automatic rainbow unicorn pony supply would solve my rainbow unicorn pony shortfall, but that is also make-believe so never mind. This effort certainly will not accomplish the impossible thing they claim it will accomplish. Simultaneously it will cause a lot of problems for society that will make certain well-placed people even more money than they had before they installed the current government, which is the whole point of the show.
How will the loan be repaid? Only with donations? Then donations wont't be used for further development during the next 40 years?
Better air is the easiest way not to die
>> Among the mechanisms Netflix is using to achieve its next-to-nothing tax liability are accelerated depreciation (which appears to have cut the company’s tax expense by $148 million); deductions for stock options for Netflix executives...

Remember the corps used to get in trouble for not deducting stock options. Now it has turned into a "mechanism to achieve its next-to-nothing tax liability"
Tunisia population is 12 millions but there is 39 millions users in the breach. very strange!!
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Lifespan... never before in history has so much disappointment been felt by so many by so few words.
> Janet Yellen to call for XYZ

My perception is that there is a marked increase in the someone "will do X", or "will call for Y", or "will ask for Z" type reporting. How about just report when it happens?

What is the strategy anyway? Is it to get the story first? Is it an attempt at preloading spin? Is it an attempt at taking the public's temperature? Or is it a means to manufacturing news content where none exists?
The stock run up was in an unrelated company called signal. People were confused.
What was your intended meaning for "of our time" in that case?
Another reason for the rest of the world to move a way from the US dollar as quick as possible.
Indeed. That varies widely, though, and corporations are subject to it too, with its own weirdnesses, so I was trying to stick to apples-to-apples federal tax comparisons.
Because the tax is a stealth tax on the populace.

The company needs a profit margin of x. If you place a tax of y on the company, that margin, simplistically, is now x+y.

The company can increase the prices on its goods by y, which means everyone now pays y more (so, the government is now making the corporation collect the tax). Or it can absorb the cost of the tax, which would hurt it’s operating margin to survive, a small amount maybe could be done, but after a while they simply raise the price and pass y along to the populace.

It is a stealth tax, pure and simple. If you want the more pernicious suggestion, the tax is a poor persons sales tax disguised as populace claptrap to make the electorate like they are sticking it to the big fat cats in corporations.
It would be unsurprising to me if Amazon had buried this claim and didn't want it to be repeated, because in my opinion that would be clear evidence that they were breaking labor laws.
Isn't this the problem? "What if I need to do something I don't need to do right now? I know I best add it in just incase!"

You have now recreated Drupal.
For years now, you could buy a VW Touareg, Audi Q7, or Porsche Cayenne all built on a common platform. The three vehicles are still readily distinguishable in the market and driving experience.
Historical reconstruction using a data-focused approach is pretty interesting.
I think they meant unrestricted signing certificate. A few CA's have been caught providing this to external entities and have been pulled from trust stores. The cynical side of me assumes the behavior just moves to another shell company. For those curious how to mitigate or at least identify when this is occurring, you could trust transparency reports, or if you don't trust those, then log certificate fingerprints of the sites you visit.

for domain in $(cat ./mydomains.txt); do echo -en "${domain} "; openssl s_client -servername "${domain}" -connect "${domain}":443 < /dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -fingerprint -noout -in /dev/stdin; done|sort -k2 -t"=" | awk {'print $NF "\t" $1'} | column -t

Fingerprint=4C:B1:F9:42:9A:58:CB:E2:7F:92:27:A9:41:5B:15:8B:01:3B:D1:64 ycombinator.com
Fingerprint=98:70:50:FF:B9:05:CA:D3:A7:9A:85:96:C2:12:0D:B9:7C:03:A1:65 news.ycombinator.com

It's probably also worth logging the creation/expiration dates too, given that certs expire so much quicker these days. If you wanted to make this information even more useful, have people all around the world run this and feed it into a distributed database and log the ISP the test was run from so that you can see if a particular ISP has been compromised. That is how some folks I know in Africa found out their ISP was using BlueCoat proxies and that the certs were being installed as part of their ISP's required package downloads.
Pixel 6 pode trocar Snapdragon por chip PRóprio do Google, indicam rumores
He also argues that we need regulation on AI (I agree that it is at least something that is lacking attention) and is simultaneously working on devices intended to allow people to hook their brains directly up to computers. Likely computers running unregulated AI.

This is a terrible idea. I hope it doesn't get anywhere beyond being a research project.
That's the reason why I don't buy anything from Amazon and prefer to pay a bit more to a local store instead.
It’s who you know, not what you know.
I think of that as the climate crisis's Prisoner's Dilemma: it's individually advantageous for countries to ignore carbon caps.

If carbon-heavy power generation didn't also emit particulate pollution, we probably wouldn't have a chance in hell. But thankfully, renewables and electric vehicle are also a solution to the pollution problem in many high-population areas.

But afaik, this will be the first time we're asking entire countries to forgoe huge things in their immediate best interest, in pursuit of a greater good.

The Montreal Protocol didn't touch as huge of a part of the economy, and nuclear weapons are their own ball of thistles.

Removing lead from gasoline is probably the nearest analog, although with a much lower adoption burden.
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Notion is definitely the closest but it lacks some of the magic (maybe it will get there).

Lotus Agenda for example would take your notes and automatically categorize them based on the categories you created in the earlier not taking process, allowing you to filter your notes by different "views" with no input on your end (after the initial category creation). For example you could mention a contact in a Task or Note and then that note would appear under the view for that contact automatically. Etc.

All this in 640k.
???

Amazon's POV is explained directly in the article. There's also this link [0] from the article elaborating on the firing.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/02/amazon-...
That is true that in some countries the employee income is taxed at source, but it doesn't mean that the tax is not paid by the employee just because the company sends it on his or hers behalf.
It is happening this way because governments don't trust people that they would send that money each month.
What employees pay should be a completely separated equation, as this is what employee makes with their own hard work, not the corporation.
I checked out moissanite when shopping for an engagement ring but I found even that to be too expensive for my (and more importantly, my future wife's) taste. I went with cubic zirconia, it looks great, maybe not as durable as diamond or moisannite but if it gets damaged I can replace it for $50-100.
> How do you protect yourself against incomplete writes?

I don't update files on disk in-place. I write to a new file, and once it's done I do an atomic move and replace the old file with the new one.

> What about when there's a critical update that you don't want lost?

I immediately write it to the disk? (:

I don't think it's possible to completely avoid this problem. In a traditional database if you suddenly lose power you'll also lose that critical update, if it hasn't been yet committed to the disk.
Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors
Everybody knows ;)

https://youtu.be/Gxd23UVID7k

And the lyrics

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/everybodyknows....
Caches seem to be much easier to handle using the actor model for handling concurrency.

Actors can have their own cache, and since they queue messages and handle them in order, one at a time, the cache will never be out of sync.

It does come at several other costs though.
You should check this out:
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-typography
Submit a request to have it removed. Lawyer up if the site doesn’t comply. If the site is overseas and doesn’t comply, then you’ll have to just deal with it. Google even has their own methods to have a URL removed. I’ve done this before myself. I agree content should have mechanisms which allow takedowns to occur. Taking Google’s approach and delisting certain websites from their search results seems a bit much (this refers to the mass censorship in my original comment)

Stories like this cater to people who aren’t savvy enough to do the work to get the content removed. I said I miss when the internet felt more dangerous and wasn’t catered to casuals. I think both of us have the same beliefs, I just think there should be a bit more freedom online, but these “platforms” are publicly traded companies now, so my thoughts don’t matter.
Some people believe (i.e. have faith) that free will exist, even though it is by definition a supernatural entity.

Some people, like what you say, do not have faith in free will.

I find it funny when nonbelievers profess to know the truth with such certainty.

Why did their carbon atoms have to type this on HN?
Something I learnt a while back is that the dots that punctuate headwords in dictionary definitions aren't there to show you morpheme or syllable boundaries, they're there to indicate hyphenation points.
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Well, and US corporations are taxed on profits, not income...like people are.
My point for trying start a HN discussion on this topic is exactly this: I think that "perception" will be more narrow than it is now, as all cars look more and more alike, and the quantifiable differences such as:

- range
- safety features
- audio system
- etc
- acceleration

Will be more difficult for high-end brands (Range Roger, Porsche) to use as discerning factors if the "heart" of the vehicle is largely identical between a Kia and a Porsche.

Will luxury car makers go to the way of Vertu vs. iPhone, or Omega vs. Apple Watch?
They could open source whatever they can though.
That would be awesome!

Honestly, webOS is not a bad platform, and developing for it is not even a terrible experience (you basically build a website plus a thin shim to make it appear as an "app"); what holds it back is just the braindead commercial mismanagement from LG - I had massive flashbacks from the Nokia/Maemo years, when looking into webOS app development.

Simple example: you can enable "Dev mode" to install your own apps into a tv, but it disables itself after two weeks or so, deleting all such apps. Why? Because fuck you, that's why! You have to talk to LG to get a "proper" app done, and that means submitting a presentation (I kid you not) to prove the app is "important" enough to warrant inclusion in their distribution channels. Despite all this, 99% of the apps they include are low-quality - the discriminating factor ends up being the willingness to deal with bureaucracy.

If LG fixed their app-development practices, they could easily turn webOS into "the Linux tv", onboarding tons of developers for free.
It is somewhat whacky, but what I'm doing is:

I created a library to have distributed data types directly on the browser [1]. So there are no servers, data is sync'd directly between people's browsers.

Then I created a library to bind react components directly to my distributed data types [2]. So the app is just a static page, hosted anywhere, that works as an SPA.

[1] https://github.com/hyperhyperspace/hyperhyperspace-core

[2] https://github.com/hyperhyperspace/hyperhyperspace-react