skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you're talking about how it's defined in the study, yes, it's defined very badly and it isn't very scientific.

But as far as nutritional advice goes - it's difficult to convey with any brevity or any precision, the plethora of substances added to food due to industrial process that are bad for human health, especially in the long term.

If you're to build a diet and do-able meal plan, shopping plan, and recipe/cooking/prep plan around food, it's easier to just state "processed"/middle-aisle/high-seed-oil/food-in-a-box.

or more simply, focus more on the white list of haves rather than the long list of things you shouldn't - produce, dairy, grass fed/antibiotic meat, pasture raised eggs and light on the whole grains . '

general conversation of "processed foods" evokes this contrary response that seems, frankly, to justify the consumption of Velveeta Shells and Cheese, fast food, Cheese-its, Doritos, and soda. Unless you're running a study that requires precision, this level of autist specificity isn't practically helpful.
I'm going with Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson. If British when he started, American when he finished.
Income tax and sales tax are double taxation.

Double taxation happens a lot. I don't think it's a good rule for determining if a tax is fair.
There's double taxation all the time. For instance, if I run a store, and I pay sales tax on what I sell, and then I pay income tax on net revenue, the income from the same transaction is taxed twice.
Speaking as a Nigerian, somehow I'm not quite sure we're thought of as real communities with real people living real lives and not just a vague political blob on a map.

You also see this in many people's inability to mentally separate a government from its citizens - they themselves know that they don't fully agree with everything their own governments do (even the ones they like), but other places get treated as monoliths whose governments' actions and opinions are obviously completely representative and in the best interests of the whole.
although I don't see how their memo has anything to do with the much clearer Coinbase memo, if employees left because the company isn't political enough or doesn't have enough secondary agendas, then this was a good move
Those would be taxable for the employees receiving those perks, giving away shareholders' money to employees to reduce a tax bill is absolutely nonsensical in financial, and if a publicly traded company were to do this for "every employee" (or even just management) there would be an immediate lawsuit.
It's interesting that Baumol uses "disease" to describe a rising tide lifting all boats.

Is that correct or did I misinterpret the phenomena he was trying to describe?
well there's a saying that when the Velvet Underground was around only a thousand people ever saw them (maybe it was a hundred, don't remember very well) but every one of those people went out to start a band.

So is Poe influential in the way of VU or influential in the way of Bob Dylan.

The article doesn't actually say, and doesn't make much of an argument for him being the most influential (what argument there is, is more hinted at then effectively made) but given the many things he did I suppose the influence is widespread like Dylan and not direct like VU. If so - I believe widespread influence generally requires quality as well - and the article won't argue that as to him being the greatest.
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Of course it will be, that's just the nature of making decisions. But these decisions have to be made anyway. It's better if they depend on the policies of an elected government than the whims of rich people.
You're making a semantic distinction, but I agree with your concept. I personally believe everything is luck and people's wellbeing shouldn't be defined by "merit" (luck) or luck.
I randomly flicked a few videos, the first segment I settled on was loaded with terminology from critical race theory. Instantly closed the tab
Don't underestimate the "high-levelness" of macro assemblers by looking at a raw disassembler listing ;) Programming with a macro assembler can be pretty close to programming in C.

What actually makes C a high-level language is the abstract memory model, not the structured programming features or type system.

(also, on today's CPUs, even assembly code is a high-level language)
So what? Wadham was also pretty wrong.

"X was wrong, so I'll support the words of Y who was wrong in a different direction" is not a very smart position to have.
If you’re going down this route, many will argue that all forms of income tax are equally “wrong”.

Henry George - a 19th century political economist - proposed exactly this, and suggested the only thing that should be taxed should be land: impossible to hide from a tax inspector, potentially a waste to the public commons if useful land that could be exploited isn’t and you can even protect land you wish to keep pristine more easily (tax it very, very highly).

His ideas are now considered eccentric, but I do wonder if the World would be a great deal simpler if globally we moved to a Henry George system and stopped trying to tax sales, income and everything else going we do.
So I register a limited company, undertake all my work through it and keep my revenue, money and saving in that company, paying no tax on them.

Then I have the company buy a car, laptop and every other possible expence I can get away with placing on company. You've solved nothing
>you are not offering attractive wages

IOW, not competitive in a free market in labor.

Employers who talk about free markets have less enthusiasm when it hits the expense side of their P&L.
There's a delicate balance between keeping authoritarian-esk institutional scientific momentum in check and borderline conspiracy level framing of things.

You should remain skeptical, you should question results, and you should be capable of understanding the data and responses. You should understand uncertainty that's often unquantified yet still exists. You should apply critical thinking as well. You should also understand when you're way out of your domain and realm, potentially misunderstanding the situation or missing critical information in your analysis.
It certainly isn't impossible for nations to tax foreign individuals operating companies locally without a corporate tax. A way would be:

a) similar to KYC laws, make knowing all persons who own part of a company mandatory, regardless of how many structures (corporations, trusts, whatever) you have to go through.

b) preemptively tax every individual on profits/salaries/perks/payments from the company at some established rate.

c) come tax season, ask for a global income statement from everyone taxed. Adjust their taxes based on whatever bracket they land in.
yeah. time to first plot (ttfp) is a real issue.
I'm not going to speak for Nigerians. If you want Nigerian opinions, ask Nigerians.

I am going to say that I don't see how laws imposed by an unelected foreign company are better than laws imposed by an unelected local government. And when we're talking about companies creating unbannable sites, we're absolutely talking about companies dictating law.

Edit: Please stop editing your comment after I've responded.
I find it highly unlikely that learning R will expand your programming views anywhere near Haskell.

Haskell is an advanced functional programming language. Most R stuff seems to be incoherent, hard to verify correctness, hacky. It does not seem built on a solid foundation like Haskell. Truly everything being a vector is not a huge take away.

As for "here's just a bunch of examples", well that seems sort of a brute force way to learn something. I agree examples are important, but they are usually to back something up. Having to reverse engineer some fundamental ideas out of just examples is more work. Seems like this is just promoting more hackyness. Seems like its training a neural network instead of actually understanding something.
Yes, that's also a very good follow-up idea to the OP's point.
No OP is suggesting that money get to the government via income tax. As opposed to the extra layer of complexity company tax adds.

There isn’t a clear equivalent where if you ditched income tax some other tax would make up for it.
Apart from the material question of whether or not it’s double taxation: why does it matter? Plenty of things are doubly taxed: I pay taxes once on my income, and then I pay it again when I exchange my income for goods or redeem any financial instrument that my income went into.
Just going back and looking through some of the homework, here's what I'm seeing imported:

readr, caret, lattice, ggplot2, RColorBrewer, mlbench, ElemStatLearn, klaR, dplyr, arules, arulesViz, tensorflow
I frequently walk my dogs without leash. They follow my command, don't disturb other people or dogs unless both parties engage and generally I don't do anything that someone who has a leash wouldn't be doing. They also walk side-by-side with me when off-leash. This is very common in the city I live and surrounding area (Barcelona, Spain and Catalunya). Both me and others without leashes are indistinctive from people who are using leashes.

How is inconsiderate if the dogs themselves are behaving? Maybe there is something I'm missing, and I'd like to understand your point of view. I could understand you think it's inconsiderate if people don't have control on their dogs and they annoy others while the owners do nothing, then I agree with you. But just because of being off-leash? Not sure I understand that line of reasoning.

Edit: Just to clarify further, if I did meet someone who asks me to leash my dog I would obviously do so without hostility or violence. In my ~6 years of having dogs in Barcelona, that has yet to happen even once.
Typified in the viral ‘Central Park Birdwatching Incident.’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_birdwatching_in...
Are you implying Ireland, Luxembourg, Bermuda (part of the UK), the Virgin Islands (part of the US and UK), Singapore, and Switzerland aren't western countries part of or at very least allied with and influenced by other western "neoliberal" countries/G7?

Because that's a very, uh, unique idea. Also weird to jump from implying escape from western influence doesn't exist to listing western countries as a way to escape from the west.
>That gaggle may be them deciding

Then take that gaggle to the back in a meeting room so that it's not visible to the customers.

>If you want good customer service go somewhere they dont cut corners

Where does this exist? I'm free this weekend. I'll see about taking a visit to this magical fairy land you speak. /s Seriously though, what public facing retail store doesn't cut corners on staffing or any other aspect? I need to expand my list of stores not on the "disgusted with" list
Moving anti competitive laws up a level of abstraction and then ignoring them completely just like our existing monopoly laws.
Yes, one thing is unavoidable, you have to assume that the majority is honest else the system simply can not work.

Identifying the majority is however optional. BTC for example does not. You pick the longest chain you can find at a given time. You assume the majority saw the same as the longest. If a longer shows up you switch and again you assume the majority saw that too and switched swell.

Other systems like the XRPL dont assume, every node defines from whom they want a majority.
If 99% of them made a Tx final then there is no way that at a later point in time this final state can be changed because 1% can not ever reach a majority. The only thing that could happen is that the network forks and different parts of the network reach majority on different states. This problem is solved by raising the majority needed to 80% rather than >50% and on top of that is is further reduced by intentionally overlapping the nodes who are defined by each node.
Essentially you need many nodes who listen to each other both ways. So I choose your node to be part of my nodes that must reach majority and you list my node.
If you have 10 nodes all listen to the other 9 and require that form the other 9 80% agree then there is no way the network can ever fork. No 2 different states could ever reach 80%, its just not possible.

Now these 10 nodes are publicly known so if you operate a node you have to pick from these nodes the one you want but you must make sure that your node can not reach a majority without them. So you could pick all 10 and then add for example 5 others. Your node can hen also not fork because the 5 alone can never reach an 80% majority. and so on and on. every new node must have ~80% overlap to prevent forking.
And all of that is super simple because the nodes are public and use public key encryption to identify themself.
Isn't that just how every billionaire "spends" money tho?
How does `let` take up more space in your brain than `var`? I mean, write what you want to write, but the finger-wagging is bizarre. We're not talking about a new language feature here.
Really cool to see this being written with Rust/WGPU! I really hope it has a strong future ahead of it - being able to target multiple native graphics APIs with one codebase is very alluring.

A friend and I adapted a wgpu-rs "boids" example to render strange attractors with compute shaders, though we basically haven't applied _any_ polish to it yet:

https://github.com/bschwind/strange-attractors
We are speaking of the platform that find it ok to ban a legally elected president because they disagreed with him politically. Twitter needs to be controlled more effectively to remain politically neutral, or they should register themselves as a political organization instead of pretending to be a business.
Proprietary stuff just isn't worth it. They erect so many barriers around the format and the specification that it's essentially impossible to get anything done.
Thank you for the book recommendation. I try to read and listen to as much content as I can about climate change.

> IPCC was dramatically underestimating the thinning of ice

Much of the IPCC reports summarizes work of scientist, who downplay their own results out of fear that their results will be interpreted as alarmist or biased towards an agenda. This was shown in the documentary Merchants of Doubt. The specific mechanisms employed to carry this out is outlined in this drilled podcast episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drilled/id1439735906?i... it talks about the media, but it uses human psychology and applies to all people.
The example of China is also a difficult one. If you look at countries, sure they pollute a lot more than Switzerland, but if you look at per capita (or say you imagine China not as a country but as dozens of Switzerlands), then they look quite better.
Like I said, Gates relationship with Epstein is well documented. Go read the New York Times or The New Yorker pieces on it. What we know already disqualifies Gates from operating in the public sphere. He met with Epstein dozens of times after his conviction.
I believe this is one Yglesias' best writing. Simply because he has captured so vividly the wide gap between activists and the group that they speak for.
Reduction from 8 degrees of latitude to 4 doesn't tell us the area reduction, because the area depends on the absolute distance from the pole. It's also not linear because if the outer radius changes, the change should be proportional to the square of the radius, so potentially more than 50%, or potentially no change or even growth, if the ideal thermal area moved outwards
I hope the whales and other sea life can adapt.
Summary: exchanges may have only fractional Bitcoin reserves...
Capital gains taxes (paid by shareholders) are completely separate from corporate income taxes (paid by corporations). You're also forgetting (or ignoring) that the legal incidence of a tax and the economic incidence are completely separate. For example, employers and employees are both legally responsible for paying a portion of payroll taxes, but economically speaking that tends to lead to lower wages, making the employer's portion fall at least partially on the employee.

https://voxeu.org/article/effects-employer-payroll-tax-cuts
My guess as to the reason for the shift.

1. Up until sometime in the last decade or so, the UFO sightings that were not successfully explained as natural phenomenon or optical effects that made something ordinary like an airliner appear as something else were all accidental sightings of government projects.

2. Then sightings started that the government recognized as the same technology, except not from the government. Whatever it is the government was experimenting with that occasionally led to an accidental sighting is now being experimented with by someone else, and the government does not know who that is.

When it was just the government projects getting accidentally sighted, they wanted to discourage reports and discussion to try maintain secrecy. Now that someone else is doing similar work, they want to know who and how they got the technology. They need people to report and discuss sightings so they can try to get past the secrecy of whoever is doing these new experiments.
> Anyway this could be the push that the EU needed to start their own Silicon Valley.

Given the combined market caps of Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon (~$5.6T) is larger than the national net worth of all but the four largest EU countries, I don’t think there’s a lack of motivation here.
Even though it took quite I while, I feel like many(!) law professionals are starting to ”get” intellectual property law and understand the internet, so this ruling will most likely be overturned in the next instance.

Nowadays this kind of ruling is a surprising but it’s a small court and not really significant.
Back in the 90’s and 00’s you could almost bet on all courts making draconian rulings like this, but the general internet literacy of law professionals has surely (and finally) changed for the better :)
What's interesting too is they could not find other instances of this happening in others, could perhaps be unique to Krill

> Another important group of zooplankton, the appendicularians, have shown a dramatic increase, nearly quadrupling their abundance since the 1960s, suggesting that, while there has been an overall increase in phytoplankton biomass in this region, there could also be a trend towards a smaller size-fraction of phytoplankton. It is unclear why the euphausiids alone among the most dominant zooplankton taxa in this region have shown a particular decline since the 1990s.
This seems sensible to me, so long as I’m allowed to use corporate personhood to tax a company’s income under this scheme.

If your money counts as speech because you have first amendment rights, then your income counts as income because you have IRS obligations.

I’m 100% over letting corporations pick some of the benefits of citizens but skate away from all the obligations. If you want the rights, you get the obligations. If you don’t want the obligations, you don’t get the rights.
> because apparently everything data mining/ML related in R is actually just python

I think it is apparent only to you. The most popular package for ML in R is `caret` and it has nothing to do with Python. Similarly, `mlr` also has no Python. In fact, except for tensorflow and keras, I can't think of any major ML package that needs Python. Even torch package which brings pytorch to R doesn't need Python (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/torch/index.html).

What confuses me even more is that you were learning statistics but using R packages that use Python as backend. In my experience, almost all the new statistics and econometrics methods are first released as R packages by the researchers. Can you name any data mining R packages that you used that required Python? I am really curious to know.
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Low-tax countries in the EU are being ruthlessly isolated already. This has been happening for some 15 years now, and accelerated after Brexit; covid might well be the nail in the coffin.

I am also sceptical of your claim that jurisdictions like Georgia and Malaysia are "less prone to leverage" - their proximity to large adversaries actually makes them more dependent on soft-power diplomacy to maintain big friends.

Obviously the likes of Russia and China might not play ball - but they have much bigger issues to worry about, from a capitalistic perspective. 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.
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Why tax a corporation's income at all when you can tax its shareholders income instead?
Not arguing with the sentiment, but pushing back on using Reddit as an example. The likelihood of the behavior we see on Reddit being attributable to actual humans or humans acting in good faith/not purposely sowing division is rapidly approaching zero. If they aren't a bot, they're a troll, and not the edgy comment kind. Also, Reddit does have verifiable problems with moderation, specifically little/no oversight of mods and a small handful of mods overseeing the vast bulk of subreddits.
https://github.com/midiblocks/handsfree#examples
Windows PCs were way more expensive than alternatives like Commodore, Amiga, Atari…
Juce is pretty nice. https://juce.com/
I don’t really know anything about Wadham. I’m only commenting on the balance between mainstream estimates of climate milestones and what ended up happening - some more pessimism thrown into the models might be necessary.
Read TheQuint only for entertainment, not for news.
The risk is probably way smaller than intentionally collude to make a shitton of money and let it crash and burn.

The perfect exist scam if you want. If china for example would actually put an ultimatum on chines miners to shut down. It could potentially make perfect financial sense to leave with a big boom and make as much money as possible before closing.
> How is it inconsiderate if the dogs themselves are behaving?

This is the problem right here. We have no idea whether your dogs are properly trained or not. There is no certification or regulation for having a dog off leash. We have no idea if they’re going to suddenly snap and, in the worst case scenario, viciously attack a baby, something they are biologically quite capable of.

It is probably different in collectivist societies where folks consider proper training a prerequisite to going off-leash, 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.
This thing makes total sense and seems like a missing piece of Django
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> Do you have any alternative platform where people that genuinely feel oppressed can call for help or even assemble themselves.

Yes, it's called the Web. It's a somewhat decentralized platform where people can publish websites. With some effort, it's not too hard to escape local government censorship on it.
Not really. He’s embedded himself in public policy to a dangerous degree. He was advocating to horde vaccines for instance. And like I said, his Epstein stuff was post-MS.
I worked with it exclusively for a year. Its ORM is magic, its performance is terrible, its configuration is cryptic at best, its handler system is worse than just writing your own.

Everything about Django is terrible.
This is absolutely necessary.

Think about this Microsoft Irish subsidiary that "made" $200 billion with ZERO EMPLOYEES.

Not even a single person to go buy a sandwich at lunch and "help the local economy".

Nobody.

The only beneficiary is Microsoft because nobody gets any tax revenue. And Microsoft can just hoard cash, it's not like they are going to rain it down to everyone's paycheck.

This is a global problem, it requires a global solution. As much as that answer is anathema to some, it seems necessary here.