skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this article some time ago:

https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/origins-of-covid-19-...

But it was flagged nearly immeditally. I wonder why and by whom. Do moderators here check for state sponsored bots that try to hide such stuff?
But why did they need to introduce cURL into the article?
This sounds like it will be hell for small software companies with customers all over the world.

Paying taxes differently for each country of the customer you sell to is a ridiculous hardship.

It only benefits the large multinationals to reduce their competition. These sorts of rules centralize markets to fewer and fewer companies able to spend the resources to fulfill more and more complex rules.

The end result is higher prices and lower innovation for consumers. While employment gets centralized to slow-moving, inefficient, but compliant companies.

It's a real shame that legislation is actively trying to make it harder to do business as a small entity. Functioning governments should have it very high on their list of priorities to do the opposite.
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Now that they have market power and monopoly position in certain areas they lobby for regulation to make it difficult for startups to disrupt them. They used no sales tax and lower wages when they were starting up, but now want to prevent the same advantages for startups.
'Plugin' in this context refers to NPAPI or PPAPI.
People do move there. Singapore picks up a ton of US expats, as did Hong Kong before it got swallowed by China. Bermuda and the Caymans have tons of companies and restrict immigration so tightly that they are less attractive.
I think your choice of words here is confusing the issue a little, and would propose “incentive” for a tax break the government would like you to take (employing felons), and “loophole” for tax avoidance the government doesn’t want you to take (eg: sending all your profits to the Cayman Islands).

Given that, if min tax rate is 15% and standard corp tax is 20%, the government is happy for you to get to 15% and would like you to get to there with incentives, but not happy for you to get any lower however you do it. The incentives are generally not powerful enough to get you there anyway
Plugin historically referred to NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API), and later PPAPI (Pepper Plugin API) which were used for Flash, Silverlight and such. This historical reason was what distinguished between plugin and extension. The practice still continues today with H264 and Widevine even though they no longer uses NPAPI/PPAPI.
As I say, compare Google Groups today to Google Groups 10 years ago. Or gmail. Or Calendar. Though Groups is possibly the best example, as it went, more or less overnight, from one of Google's snappiest properties to about its most sluggish.

Google used to be very concerned about UI performance, but they seem to have totally lost interest in it.
Could you please add a description to your solution?
Cracking down on corporate tax avoidance is antithetical to 'neoliberalism', no?
We can't know for sure until the text of the deal is published, but it is the likely scenario. plus, all the accountants and tax lawyers on the world will be unleashed upon this agreement to find ways to avoid paying up. So, this is my hope, but it is not certain.
It's not just two programs reporting the same value. It's SSD controller reporting TBW amout that grow exactly as fast as specific kernel process writes grow in Activity monitor.

smartctl just reporting information that SSD controller returns from it's own SMART data. So this data even stored independently from an operation system.

Activity Monitor on other hand actually watch all system IO of currently running processes and keep record of how much each process writes / reads from / to disk while being monitored.
There's research that shows woke signalling is highly correlated with both psychopathic traits and narcissistic traits.

The correlation is around 0.3-0.5.

That's evidence that it's used actively as a tool to gain either social status or something else.
No access to nuke launch codes
It is relatively recent (20 years) that an individual developer could control the machine they work on; and that 'production' machines have hundreds of dependencies installed to support "your app".

Until those numbers exploded, a script, a list of instructions, or something like kickstart worked fine.

We have traded the complexity of writing code, for the complexity of managing how others code is installed and configured.

A good trade off? Probably in aggregate, but not in the extreme (looking at you, node-js).
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Guess what, Google does not sell mostly to the US!

Also modern CPUs on mobile are faaaaaar slower than 4x the desktop one for the majority of the world.
It would be nice to see some analysis. This is just a write-up of the G7 talking points.
China’s tax rate is considerably higher than 15% and they also don’t want their industries to be competing against companies who are cheating the tax man.
You consider people sending death threats to developers because they think curl is some evil hacking tool not an "actual problem", despite it already having happened? We sadly share the world with "absolute morons", yes.

(also, how is asking for a change a "war" against the publication?)
I spent hundreds of hours over a decade ago playing jump challenges in Q2 mods that were just there to hone movement skills and help experts keep an eye out for errant pixels in the map that could be used to help you get to amazing places on the maps.

Jumps like these on action quake: https://youtu.be/8Za4g8mKBcA

Took dozens of hours of practice to accomplish without taking fall damage (which was crippling in this mod).
"It’s a shame that Biden had to back down from the initial 28% because of domestic opposition."

You are misrepresenting the situation. A 28% global minimum was never on the table. 28% was Biden's proposed domestic rate (which to your point, he is backing down from). But these are two separate rates so we should be clear what we are discussing here.
> A human was asked to fulfill a request to block the "tank man" search in China and forgot to add the country restriction.

But why would someone be asked to block it today - if it's to be blocked in China, wouldn't it be blocked all through out the year?

Why specifically would they ask it to be blocked just now and not years ago? I can't know for sure, but it just feels like a rogue employee deciding to block "tank man" globally on the anniversary ...
It could be worse. If these doesn't exclude small time exporters, and they need to report to foreign tax bureaus; I can see them having trouble doing any exports or having to go through intermediaries who will make additional charges.
Why did we need to get rid of NPAPI? This looks like we're re-inventing the wheel again?
Anecdote: Because of a months-long labor shortage and being unable to staff operations even after multiple temp agencies were engaged, an employer somewhere in the universe raised wages to a floor of 15 per hour this past month. It used to start at minimum wage, then went to 8 in 2014, now here.

Everyone who was getting +1,2,3 dollars over that got bumped porportionally, so if you were at 15, you now got 17, if you were at 22 (only things like paramedics) you were at 25 etc.

Why? Amazon has a warehouse nearby. We've bled staff to them for years.
At my second job around 2004 my boss was very strict about not having the page move on load, it was a big deal. But over the years, especially recently, I've noticed so many sites and apps that shift constantly and it seems that it's not a priority anymore.

Just yesterday, opening the Amazon app, and the "Orders" button shifted before I could click it!
I don't understand the downvotes you are getting, considering how they used such tricks whenever possible
As far as I know, yes, everything is connected to the internet with publicly reachable IPs, although some departments are usually placed behind an extra firewall.

My university does do filtering, taking action against port scans, traces of active malware, even does some DNS introspection I'm not 100% on board with.

Those desktops in Finance and those servers should have decent firewalls on them anyway, locked down with software policies. An extra layer of firewalls against arbitrary incoming connections is probably also for the best. Outgoing connections, though? Only blocked to known malware domains as far as I know. There's a third party that does network upstream that further monitors the security so I don't know the details on that, but I do know (and have run into this myself) that a mere lookup of a malware domain will get your network connection jailed.

I don't know about any IoT crap in use for monitoring. That stuff should be on a completely separate network anyway, behind many layers of VLANs, firewalls and static routes, because the tech simply cannot be trusted. If you mix Facilities and IoT into one network, you're bound to have problems, no matter the great firewall you put around the network perimeter.

My experience is mostly from the student side of things, but the system for registering WiFi and ethernet devices is not different from the employee side of things outside the OAuth authentication flow.
On the internet “neoliberalism” simply means “stuff I don’t like involving capitalists”
When I hear this phrase I think of this scene from “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJZ5wvlzt3o
There is an enormous difference between a demand from a government that would be backed up by the threat of violence and anything Google is doing. You are free to ignore Google without any risk of being shot or imprisoned.
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Was it blocked today, or did someone notice and make noise about it today?
The problem is a wealth tax is almost impossible to implement. People will form crappy charities or put the money in their kids' names or move it to the Caribbean or some other gymnastics that will make worse use of the money overall.
Yes, I use pydantic for that and it’s quite helpful - one of my favorite libraries in recent years. I do think your last point is key: this seems to be a community maturity point because a fair fraction of people will bounce off of a bad first experience and say it’s not worth the cost.
I think your argument actually also touches on something that I see as a fault in recent Western socialist or socialist-aligned movements, which is that market forces and capitalism are often improperly separated. There is often a large focus on how the market is evil, even when it's discussed in a language that decries them as problems of capitalism; for example, people might blame problems such as high rents on capitalism, and then imagine that nationalizing real estate companies will fix it, which it of course most likely won't. So, kind of coming at this from the other side, I do agree that a clear separation is necessary when talking about capitalism vs socialism on the one hand, and market economies vs planned economies on the other hand. But then you have to explain: what is the difference between a market economy and a planned economy, in an age where economic planning in China takes prices and market forces into account, while in the West, a company like Amazon, operating within the market, is so large that it has to do demand planning akin to the Soviet bureaucracy, lest they over- or under-order produce? Which of these societies is truly "more market"?

I think that the market can indeed be a very valuable system to reduce all kinds of inefficiencies. But at the same time, changes in tax code or antitrust enforcement will not alter capitalism's natural tendency toward monopolization, which ultimately turns everything into a planned economy anyhow. So in my opinion, the question is about how to effectively use the positive effects of the market, while also avoiding the less-positive effects that private enterprise has on society at large. And it seems to me like Kantorovich may have been closer to finding an answer than HFT yuppies at wall street will ever be.
Interesting
left to see how it will be enforced.
Definitely a step in the right direction
The G7 won't be able to make a decision on behalf of the world!

Why do companies already register their ships in Panama or hide their money in the Cayman islands? (Other havens are available)

Because these countries have decided they would rather have the income than agree that what they are doing is somewhere between morally dubious and completely ammoral. It is easy to point the finger though, some of these places probably don't have many other ways of making money...
> Good luck enforcing it and closing all loopholes when there are powerful people that don't want that

They are, essentially, agreeing to police their imports from world wide countries/companies; which makes them able to enforce it.
It's almost as if they get paid per click on that ad...

There's no incentive for them to fix this, unfortunately. Everywhere else on YT there's a nice gray box that keeps the place of a UI element until that element loads.
Are you trying to cite Singapore and Hong Kong as countries that aren’t neoliberal?
https://www.wikihow.com/Legally-Detain-a-Shoplifter
Rights != deciding what's a positive environment at work.

You're conflating two different things.
> Revolutions aren't won by the people they are won by soldiers.

While I might agree with you in these post-modern times, this is not accurate to all of history.
To make some of those people happy lets call it a portable macro Assembler.

Except on a proper Macro Assembler my code doesn't vanish just because I missed a condition that made use of UB.
A generator of kleinian groups, featuring a dos-like terminal for non-iconizable commands and a Javascript transcompiler. I hope one day to embed the second into the first project.
You are right, of course. But Rousseau made it quite clear that the sovereignty of a government is discretionary. This sort of thinking isn't convincing on an ideological or theoretical level to anyone but a medieval peasant, and it only increases my indignation.
Also, if you look at the vulnerability track record of commercial VPN products recently (some mentioned in this article even), they aren't necessarily any safer to keep publically accessible.
That is why I said imprison.

Even if the state does it in NL, there is a difference between imprisonment and detainment. They are even physically different : they are different buildings.
This is a G7 agreement, so it seems the success of the policy will depend how much sway this will have with G20 countries. If it doesn't get the G20's agreement, what stops multinationals from simply domiciling themselves in another country like South Korea or Australia? It's currently done in Ireland, so this isn't a big jump.

Also, there are countries that are not in the G20 that could quite easily undercut an agreement, notably, Switzerland. It already acts as a tax haven for personal income (and corporate income), so an expansion of this haven seems forseeable.

Despite this, I don't think this is a reason to not act. There will be reasons why multinationals will not want to be domiciled in Switzerland.
The classic usage for Brits is the 'ordnance survey' (maps) which originate in the need for accurate maps when calculating angles for artillery!

Also, while I'm a native speaker who does know this one I think it's obscure enough that most don't. In fact I suspect it's obscure enough that the mis-spelling will replace it eventually anyway.

Incidentally the products of magnet fishing often turn up on Reddit's /r/whatisthisthing sub. You also see quite a few munitions. Often enough, in fact, that they have a munitions bot that warns people to contact the authorities (and not, e.g., twist the end to see if it comes off...)
Or atomics, why do I have to memcpy a pointer etc.

I find these tropes are often perpetuated by people who program but are basically non-programmers e.g. the guy who taught me C at university (I already knew C) was one of those people who thinks everything fast must be implemented in C because his area of work hasn't moved to C++ yet.
>Having all that Tether massively increases trade volume.

How? Having massive amounts of tether in your wallet doesn't increase trade volume, having users who trade increases trade volume. If I own 1B USDT and deposit it to some random exchange and let it sit there, the volume isn't going to change one bit.
> The world needs at least somewhere where you can opt-out from Western neoliberalism and socialism.

Welcome to Iran...
Short-term whining from Ireland and Hungary, big words and little action from the true tax havens, and everyone else should be pretty happy with it?
I mentioned above how shared challenges is a way to remove biases among diverse people. In my comment I used small companies trying to the keep the lights on.

While there are exceptions, the military is one giant shared challenge. When people go through hell together and their lives depend on each other, they figure it out.
> Now that they have market power and monopoly position in certain areas they lobby for regulation to make it difficult for startups to disrupt them. They used no sales tax and lower wages when they were starting up, but now want to prevent the same advantages for startups.

That is an interesting argument and I'd like to hear from members of the community about how they feel about this. (Sorry if the questions feel like they are begging the answer, I promise you I am trying to not bring my biases into this)

Should everyone play by the same rules?

For example, how should countries handle pollution? Do emerging economies (China PR in particular but it applies to all nations) have a different, lesser obligation when it comes to pumping carbon into the atmosphere? Did we (USA) and western Europe get a head start with our economy and therefore should be subject to lower limits on how much we carbon we pump into the atmosphere going forward? Or does this question sound absurd to you?
Someone who understands always asks qualified authoritative source. If they have a job or family...!
It's definitely just another place. It must be in order for people to lead normal, content lives.

Politically, it has very alien features that seem unlivable and dystopian to people from countries with strong support of free speech.

I can't fathom the motivation for maintaining this. Because they stifle creativity, the authoritarian features of the dominant political culture in China do not seem to be productive over the long term. In my little scientific domain this is definitely visible. I cannot remember significant new approaches developed in China. Despite many attempts I cannot seem to begin meaningful collaborations with researchers in China. The good scientists appear to run away.
Can someone rain on my parade and explain how is it not going to work?
Some countries export streets, addresses and buildings in a machine readable format. So it could be based on a periodic import, not on image recognition.
I suspect a whole bunch of companies specializing and being middle men handling this will pop asap.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y+%3D+10000+*+0.99%5Ex...

It will then take slightly over 229 years until the multiplier has shrunk from 10,000 to 1,000.

After another 229 years the multiplier will have shrunk another order of magnitude, from 1,000 to 100. And it makes sense mathematically that if it shrinks an order of magnitude in the first 229 years then it will shrink another order of magnitude in the next 229 years.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y+%3D+10000+*+0.99%5Ex...

As a layperson this seems reasonable I think. But I also think there is no "right" or "wrong" in this case, and it will boil down to personal views.
Ah, government, those who don't even pretend.
There's a calculator like thingy here: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator?name=CV...

Down at the "Scope" section there's "changed" and "unchanged". If you click on "changed", it goes from 9.8 to 10.0.
Such a huge win, now poorer countries will get even poorer.
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But will it actually work? Let’s see if Apple Microsoft Google etc drop 15% when the market opens on Monday.
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The secret of high net worth individuals is they don't own anything and they don't earn anything.
Pretty sure I encountered a similar idea when reading Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene which was written 45 years ago.

In fact, Dawkins coined the word meme in that book, referring to a unit of culture which propagates through imitation and repetition. He clearly recognized the tremendous influence memes can have on the behavior of descendants outside of any genetic factors:

“But if you contribute to the world's culture, if you have a good idea...it may live on, intact, long after your genes have dissolved in the common pool. Socrates may or may not have a gene or two alive in the world today, as G.C. Williams has remarked, but who cares? The meme-complexes of Socrates, Leonardo, Copernicus and Marconi are still going strong.”
Don't payment processors like Stripe already handle different regional taxes?
Get this garbage off HN.
Net negative. This will put additional burden on small exporters who can't manage the ever-increasing bureaucracies linked to foreign exports.
Yeah, I have a custom rule in ublock origin to remove it. It's literally the only custom rule I have, but it happened to me so damn often that it ended up being worth the time to identify the element so I could permanently block it.

In case anyone ever needs it:

google.com##div[id^="eob_"]
Meritocracy is about selecting and awarding the best. This will always create an elite.

The best educated will be the rich and self amplify themselves by giving them the resources needed to succeed. They earned their merit by being better than anyone else.

The poor will always be disadvantaged, whether that's broken homes or lack of access to resources.

Meritocracy is a toxic idea if you don't understand the tradeoff. It will always exacerbates inequality.
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Don't worry.

The proposed tax does nothing you think it does, as the article explains. Pillar one does not apply small companies.

Small companies pay just corporate tax as they did before, as the article explains. Nothing changes in that front. Pillar two.
Can you link to some? Most of them are pretty modest, eg. create an account, make $500 worth of trades and we'll give you $50 in USDT. You certainly don't need to move all of your holdings over to take advantage. Moreover, I don't see how account opening bonuses are shady. It might be cheaper for them if they can get hold of USDT for cheaper than its face value, but if that were the case I don't see why they don't go with the more straightforward route of directly selling USDT for USD (eg. https://trade.kraken.com/charts/KRAKEN:USDT-USD).
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Only if they peg their currency to the dollar or each other: If they don’t then tax revenue has little to do with the rate of tax and more to do with the level of saving. And nothing at all to do with the capacity of the nation to provide public services - which is more to do with its overall productivity level and power structure.

Economists struggle with how money actually works let alone the function of taxation and its incidence.
Because NPAPI was basically a backdoor in the browser which has been abused by malware for a decade, at least. It wasn't safe and it couldn't be upgraded easily.

Also this standard refers to add-ons/extensions, and not "plugins". Browser plugins are dead, and have been for a while.