skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have no idea whether your dogs are properly trained or not

I think the assumption is, at least from mine and others like me, is that if your dog is off-leash, you can handle your dog off-leash. The same if you bring friends to some social event, you wouldn't bring them if you can't handle them and they can behave in public. I'm not afraid they are gonna attack me, although sometimes humans do attack other humans, most of them are fine so no need to worry in general.

> but where I’m from we have a scourge of ignorant owners who are not in control of their dogs. They ruin it for everybody.

Yes, I agree, it's terrible when owners have no control over their dogs. But that's not relevant to the leash itself, that's relevant to the expertise of the owner. Dogs on leashes misbehave as well, and can easily (if wanted and the owner is a terrible one) unleash themselves by either raw power or the owner not paying attention.
more money to accounting companies to do the taxes, and find loopholes.
The link to this HN thread must already be circulating in those RW Indian whatsapp groups by now.

Prepare for a barrage of new accounts flagging, downvoting and claiming this is inaccurate news.

Edit: Also notice, how said accounts will only blame the state government.
layout meaning i have to change the display type from table/table-row/table-cell to something else to recreate the way the table is structured. if there was a colspan/rowspan equivalent, i would not have to do this, and would the process would be much simpler. Yes, I know there are workarounds using flexbox, grid, etc. but as I've said before, it would be nice if i didn't have to reconstruct the whole thing in css just becuase there is no rowspan/colspan for table-layouts in css.

there is no equivalent of colspan/rowspan in css, as in not some convoluted workaround but doing exactly the same thing only via css instead of a html attribute. I don't really think I've been that unclear about this being what I want to be added. I was not talking about changing the html, but turning a table into a grid is more than just doing table {display:grid;}, you have to rebuild the whole structure, i.e. layout of the table using css. if i could use rowspan (as in actual literal rowspan not some other workaround), i would not have to do this.

yes responsive as in hide one or multiple rows of table cells on some screen resolutions to make things fit better. as I've previously said.

>Incorrect, it is certainly related, and works there just fine (along with other in-flow block-level elements).

it does not manipulate the amount of table rows a table-cell-display element takes up.
:(

Let’s hope we get climate change handled so at least the animals that didn’t add to it don’t have to needlessly suffer.
Most employees in Paris get lunch coupons at work.. I guess they may eat better than FAANG employees

Also fasting is better for you than eating all the time.
Taxes on corporate net income should not count as "double taxation" because the corporation is legally distinct in nearly every way from its shareholders. That's the whole point of corporations. The corporation gets taxed once on net income because that corporation exists as a construct within govt structures. The shareholders get taxed because of the relationship they have with the corporation. It's literally fee for service.
How does it work if the company is located outside the G20 and move all the assembly to outside the G20?
You're assuming the premise implicitly, that there are a large number of bulshit jobs, but Gerber did not show this and his evidence for it is thoroughly discredited. If there are in fact very few bulshit jobs, the 'problem' of how to deal with them is moot.

I know the popular image of UBI is a paradise where nobody needs to work anymore, but that's not actually the basis of actual UBI policy proposals. It's really just a different model for structuring social welfare. The problem is that all the studies have shown that in practice it discourages work and reduces overall productivity. People work fewer hours, students study less, take up of retraining opportunities falls.

If you can actually show that many current occupations are in reality not productive, then of course that's something we need to address. However that has not been shown and even if it is true, it's not clear why so many people and companies are willingly funding these roles with their own money.

So if you are claiming is that vast numbers of people in the economy are 'wrong' about their spending and hiring habits, you've got a fair bit of work to do to establish that (let's be clear, it has not been established) and come up with a credible plan as to what to do about it, and who gets to decide what the 'right' thing to do is.
George’s ideas are interesting to ponder now and then. I’d definitely want to be a billionaire in that system, though, you’d pay pennies on your penthouses split with everyone living below you. If only taxes were that easy to figure out.
If it's going to be anything like the digital services tax, then the answer is a resounding yes as the US is where your customers are.

I see two things come out of this:

1. Companies selling their B2C services digitally will be paying both their sales (or VAT) AND their corporate income tax in countries where their customers are. This will be a benefit for countries with large markets and leave smaller countries where the companies are headquartered wondering what the value of these companies to their economies is.

2. A major problem for digital businesses will be the fixed costs of compliance. I suspect that a lot of side-projects and lifestyle businesses won't see the light of day on account of how expensive it will be to keep them running for years while they build up revenue.
It's also irresponsible investing to hold anything without an exit strategy. Lord knows I've lost too much without this principle.
First, tax competition creates its own inefficiencies —- companies locate production in low tax jurisdictions instead of optimal locations given local skills, factor prices, etc.

Second, this argument only makes sense if you think tax competition leads to “innovation” in tax policy, but it’s not clear why that would be the case. Almost any kind of tax structure is jurisdictional and would be undone by zero-sum competition between countries.

Third, would this hurt developing countries? Right now this is a voluntary agreement between developed countries to achieve a common goal, so that complaint isn’t super relevant. Think of multilateral tariff reduction agreements —- it’s often a good idea to unilaterally put up tariffs if everyone else lowers them, which can result in a high-tariff equilibrium even if each player would like lower global tariffs. Multilateral agreements are the way to achieve the collectively desired outcome that can’t be achieved in a decentralized way.

But a global minimum tax could be also be a good idea for lower income countries, if it’s not set too high. Typically the economic incentives are there to locate especially production in the developing world. If all developing countries had the same minimum tax, then companies couldn’t play developing countries off one another to get lower tax. Lower income countries would reap more gains from globalization and have more funds to eg invest in infrastructure and development.
It is, but it's there to protect the liability of the owners
It got voted up.

In any case, we all know from direct family and friends of what is going on and are helping.

Regardless of her bio ( seems like a young journalist trying to keep her sanity by learning dancing and being in touch with people who she can talk to on non-news topics), we do know that with unplanned lockdowns people are struggling for food. Having had ration (Public Distribution System) grains in the past myself for some years, I can attest that the quality is often poor ( with the grains being rotten indeed).

Edit: The article is reporting on the situation in Delhi. I’m familiar with the food situations in other parts of India.
The statistics also suggest that anyone who uses the term, Hispanic or not, is atypical.
Microsoft’s Bing Briefly Blocked ‘Tank Man’ on Tiananmen Anniversary
Growing up the goal was to try and treat everyone like equals. Not judge each other on color/etc. Get away from segregation and hate.

Now that viewpoint is consider radical right and will get you all the unpleasant labels.
That makes a lot more sense -- thanks for the data.
I think that "rising tide" usually refers to everyone getting more food and bigger televisions, and it even being good for farmers and factory workers.

In this case, though, haircuts get comparatively more expensive. Good for the hairdresser, and fine if your wages go up to match. Characterising it as a "rising tide" might be fair (both in terms of cost and in terms of standard of living), but it's not the "usual" tide of pro-market rhetoric.
I know this was discussed here yesterday, but it's interesting to see the NYTimes' take on it.

> Microsoft’s Bing search engine briefly blocked images and videos of the famous “tank man” of Tiananmen Square on Friday, the anniversary of China’s massacre of pro-democracy protesters in 1989, in what the company said was an error.
Ridiculous to think that it was deployed by NATO because NATO countries were affected by it just as much if not more. That would be the most idiotic weapon used ever. It literally makes no sense.

Sorry, but the idea of NATO deploying the most idiotic weapon imaginable on the entire world vs. the idea of an accidental escape from a lab are NOT equally plausible at all. In fact, this entire article goes thru evidence that it was not NATO because of all of the internal investigations and such.

What you are suggesting is tin foil hat conspiracy theory crazy.
The absurdity of this comment is actually useful because it forces you to question how much is too much.
Probably it would be easier for the FBI if they just started their own advertising/analytics company.
In the USA it is well known that popular opinion has little effect on policy. The last time a popular legislation got through was the affordable care act more then 10 years ago, and even that was only a half step in the direction that people wanted (universal healthcare).

Knowing that there is little incentive for USA voters to actually vote for a candidate based on policy. Instead you pick the person you hate less.
Repeated - and, sadly, successful - attempts to deny the right to abortion shows the religious wackos are at least a state-level force that can’t be ignored.
Damn. Kejriwal has really messed up Delhi.
Laws are about enforceability, not individual outcomes.

Your doing what you're doing stabilizes a culture where there can be no consequences for anyone in this domain, because there's no clear line of enforcement. What's a low-wage enforcement officer expected to do in this context you advocate, where people "mind their own dog's abilities" and only get fined when some clear violation occurs? Are they supposed to fine people only when they see dogs chasing birds, or scarring a fearful child, or jumping up on an elderly person, or any number of other things with unclear lines? No, you just outlaw dogs off-leash, and allow the $20/h enforcement officer to clearly execute their pro-social task. The anti-social behavior get fined.
I don’t use their website much, but that would be a shame if true. I did notice on the left I can checkmark Walmart as the seller.
I bet there are browser extensions that fill this gap.
G-7 back steps to deter tax dodging by multinational firms
Chrome standard is good enough and the other browsers that aren't chromium based should suck it up and implement their spec.

Next if you didn't code it in vanilla js, you probably shouldn't use on your daily driver browser because of the massive security risk.
Yes. Or worse, at least. Over a trillion dollars was injected and there was still a recession.
Thermoelectric Devices Will Turn Your Body into a Battery
Walking dogs off lead is totally normal in the UK as well.
At that time, most Americans still saw themselves as British subjects. People weren't American once the Declaration was penned -- there was still a war to win.

If the 'most influential American writer' means 'the one most important to the US becoming its own country', then the answer is Thomas Paine. His American Crisis papers buttressed the flagging revolutionary movement and made the common folk actually care. Before Paine's propaganda, the majority of colonists saw themselves as British subjects and the fight for independence was only really supported by the landed gentry.

The American Crisis papers made the common folk care, and without them there likely isn't enough popular support to win the war.

Paine > Jefferson as pertains to the American cause (and Paine > Jefferson as person).
The fact that they were able to deny gay marriage proves the First Amandment pretty worthless.
That’s great, and I’m a sea otter because it is so written. Send me a link to the portfolio of everyone who has influence over what gets written and I’ll show you how they decide what to publish.
This is largely true today but the PDS was very effective and reliable in the past. My family and a neighbor bought sugar and sometimes grains from our neighborhood ration store and I never heard any complains.
I currently do lots of data analysis in excel and know basic Python. I would be interested to get opinions on if R is better suited to data analysis than python if that’s all I was doing.
> This has been happening for some 15 years now, and accelerated after Brexit; covid might well be the nail in the coffin.

Estonia will be a useful barometer to keep an eye on for this in the future, but since their tax rate is actually basically in line with this floor anyway it may well be that this just doesn't affect them at all.

> their proximity to large adversaries actually makes them more dependent on soft-power diplomacy to maintain big friends.

Georgia already has recent experience with such relationships not keeping the bear at bay so may well view the extra capital from remaining an attractive tax friendly jurisdiction as more useful than bowing to parties who have already failed them in the recent past.

Malaysia seems even less likely to buckle to the "international order" as they have neither the cultural homogeneity nor the magnitude of the threat that Georgia has.

> You put your money into China, you can't pull it out ever again; you put your money into Russia, and tomorrow it might well be Putin's money.

When what your money gets you is absolutely nothing, one parasite is just as bad as another in the long run, it just becomes a question of which one costs you more. Russia and China have to restrain themselves in the looting sector less and less to the extent that their US & EU competition go all out in order to look like better alternatives.

And then, there's the implications of an extortion war across the global economy providing capital flight impetus to push the cryptosphere to obscene heights and complete inability to tax in a worst case scenario.

I think the fundamental fact of the issue will remain that as long as it's a forced payment not linked at all to delivery or quality of goods or services, all rational parties will be forever motivated to avoid it to the maximum extent possible, as it resolves to nothing more complex than "burning money" given what it actually buys you.

Time will tell I guess.
not really, it's important to me that we don't flatten things into a canvas rendering system, the idea is to remap abstract UI structures onto various projections (terminal, html, else)
And you don't need consent for cookies that are obviously required for normal site functioning like login etc.
when you elect kejriwal instead of kiran bedi.
How is debt collection useless unless you believe lending money as an investment shouldn't exist?
top is ok, but I'm always confused about the key-combinations, and the view is cropped (command line arguments etc.), so a scrollbar or some on-hover popup seems needed here.
All taxes are avoided (or illegally evaded) to some degree, and the most taxed (i.e. the wealthiest people and firms) will always have the largest incentive to avoid taxes. To reduce the incentive to avoid taxes, countries often tax capital (or labor) at multiple stages but with lower rates (e.g. a corporate tax, dividend tax, and sales tax). As you point out, the corporate tax is redundant to other forms of taxation, but the redundancy lowers overall taxation rates and hence tax avoidance. So it's a feature not a bug of modern taxation.

Some interesting alternatives to corporate taxation have been proposed[1][2], and I think they merit consideration for their potential to remove disincentives to invest or hire labor. I personally like Michael Pettis's argument that continued economic growth depends on increasing economic demand through redistributing wealth from capital (or more generally the wealthy) to labor [3], so I am skeptical of reforms that stop taxing capital.

[1] https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2...
[2] https://taxfoundation.org/value-added-tax-revenue-neutral-al...
[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/29/capital-flow-united-sta...
Probably no depositor insurance but whatever.
My mind immediately went to trying to match a screenshot of the article that someone posted.

The USA Today website does a little bit of localization in the navigation bar. If that's visible together with the system clock its probably enough to narrow to a very small set of IPs.
I've made a lot of foul-ups in the course of my career. When people ask me about mistakes I've made and what I've learned from them during interviews it's generally an easy question to answer because I have this overstuffed mental file folder of examples.

I can't speak for the US but, in the UK, don't misrepresent your work in a job interview. I can't say you'll never miss out on an offer by being honest, though I don't believe I ever have, but would you really want to work for people who'd prefer you to lie or misrepresent mistakes you've made than be open and truthful about them?

To me that's something of a red flag: it's at least indicative of a culture where mistakes are likely to be covered up, leading to a lack of reflection, learning and improvement... and also quite possibly storing up bigger problems for later.

(FWIW, I started as a developer and am now the CTO of a mid-sized multinational market research and insight company. This is nowhere near as grand as it might sound, and isn't meant to be a boast, but hopefully illustrates that being honest doesn't appear to have done my career any long-term harm. Some things that have, if not derailed my career, caused me to take some fairly substantial detours: (i) taking things too personally, (ii) placing too much weight on others' assessments of me, (iii) and I say this as somebody who is wary of people who change jobs too often, but... staying in a job way past the point where there was anything else I could learn/give/progress. I am, of course, but a single data point.)
Three things:

- Laws are virtually never there to regulate the median case. They're there to reduce the risk of harm. The reason we don't let people have automatic weapons isn't because most people would go on a killing spree if they had one, it's that a tiny minority would, and that would be disastrous.

- It's literally only been just yesterday that I watched someone's "well behaved" dog attack my friend's dog on a leash. He had to pull the (probably 3x larger) dog off of his. My brother had stitches on his face from being bitten as a kid by someone's "well behaved" dog. I have zero faith in dog owners' ability to self-regulate.

- I'm sure you have the one dog in the world that doesn't chase birds. Most dogs do. This is specifically about that case.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#flag

> What does [flagged] mean?

> It means that users flagged a post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on Hacker News.
Real-time games are bandwidth limited. 100% increase is a real cost. Maybe worth some awkwardness in the engine.
Bookmarklets will die once Content Security Policies will get wider adoption, which I really hope will happen soon.
Ask HN: Summary of Anomalies Attributed to Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
Sabine does a really good job in this article to highlight some of the key anomalies arising from these two topics.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/05/dark-matter-situation-has-changed.html?m=1

I was wondering if there is a paper or article which goes into up to date deeper summarization of all problems and anomalies attributed currently to Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
For those that don’t know the “tidyverse” is a set of R packages that make using base R much easier/better (in my opinion)

https://www.tidyverse.org/
There is also a free ebook that’s a good reference.

ggplot2 the plotting package included is pretty awesome

I took a biostatistics class and after the basic examples in R using the tidyverse to analyze data for projects was very helpful.
The year right now is 2021. So yes, JPEG 2000 is almost as old as JPEG.
But that assumes the company has the choice of keeping dividends and investing it smartly.
Yep, the first style manager extension was released in 2005 (Stylish). Style manager extensions are a much more frictionless way to manage and share styles

The WebExtensions API has APIs for injecting styles: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
That is completely avoided if the person makes less than 12k/year though. So there is already a loophole, there just hasn’t been enough incentive to use it yet. Although I’d question if that’s why some executives take a $1 salary and the rest in stock. All of their benefits are now tax free*.

yes I realize it’s nuanced and depends on country.
Popsom: R package for the creation and evaluation of self-organizing maps
Yeah, to prevent the race to the bottom the world has experienced over the last decades and that led to widespread inability of governments to fulfill their responsibilities.

Time for that to end.
Totally true. However, doing those things is totally obvious while looking at the cards is invisible and not detectable. Anyone I would play with I would trust enough not to just ruin the entire thing just to be mean but I'm not sure I'd trust them enough to not look at the cards.
‘Bottom up creative disruption’ isn’t going to change the concentration of wealth … unless you count violence as creative disruption.
So basically the parties that are actually the problem are too hard to find, so we target everyone who fits into a similar category.
No the problem is they in bad faith went public on Twitter about their colleagues. It’s pretty clear from the original thread that this wasn’t merited. I know I wouldn’t want people like that in my YC class, and I especially wouldn’t if I were an investor.
> Henry George - a 19th century political economist - proposed exactly this, and suggested the only thing that should be taxed should be land

That may have made sense in the 19th century when agriculture dominated the economy, but it’s irrelevant today.

At scale it becomes a tax on how space-inefficient your business is. Bad news for farmers, great news for the business running a 1000-person operation out of a skyscraper. You could of course start trying to change taxation rates based on various factors to compensate, but those factors reduce to proxies for revenue, which puts us back to square one.

19th venture taxation theories don’t translate to modern multinational trade with digital commerce.
I have a toddler and I absolutely hate people doing this. I don't know you nor your dog. Sometimes I go to the park and people assume we can read minds and let stranger dogs come close to us. Please leash your dog
Software and Virtual Synthesizers
Is it possible that such an event would benefit people who keep their btc off exchanges significantly?
iPad Pro: Apple Developing Surprise Update with iPhone-Beating Feature