skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it sucks. However, not all goods, not all states even have an existence of a nexus. Virginia specifically exempts sales taxes of digital products delivered electronically, such as software, downloaded music, ringtones, and reading materials.

The basic rule for collecting sales tax from online sales is: If your business has a physical presence, or “nexus”, in a state, you must collect applicable sales taxes from online customers in that state. If you do not have a physical presence, you generally do not have to collect sales tax for online sales. In the court ruling that allowed this, it was determined that Wayfair did have a nexus in those states. Not all businesses operate that way and there are a lot of gray areas.
Exactly this.

I'm curious how much we're seeing effects that are present but just haven't been measured previously, because of the size of the newly-vaccinated population.

The second dose is obviously very stressful on the body - people are often down for a couple days dealing with the reaction - so it seems unsurprising that there's /some/ kind of measurable secondary effect. Stress is known to correlate with heart attack.
Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools
My skept-o-meter is twitching. I'd have to see actual numbers backing that up, as it looks much more like confirmation bias to me.
I get it, and I wrote that even though I'm a fairly big J enthusiast. It's fun to solve a tricky problem by cranking out two or three rows of line noise. :) Numpy is wordy, but you can still program in terms of arrays -- it might not feel like quick symbolic magic, but the underlying paradigm is (almost) the same.
You could maybe do a canal from the Gulf of California to the Salton sink and desalinate the water, which would help somewhat with the demands on water from the Colorado River. There are diplomatic (the canal would have to pass through Mexico to reach the US) and environmental concerns (where do you put the brine after you desalinate the water? Either you dump it in the Salton Sea, which is already an environmental catastrophe, or you pipe it _back_ across Mexico and dump it back into the Gulf of California, where you also cause a lot of damage if you don't distribute it well enough).

Still, it's a question worth asking and I don't know why you're being downvoted.
I would totally be willing to pay $20-30 for this, and not in a sense of "object of ridicule". And I would be willing to pay for this on more than one occasion, even.

The service you would be providing has been, in a way, so normalized over the past 5+ years in the digital form (people doing poems/paintings/various other art-related things on commission on public streams; entire successful companies built around a similar premise, just look at Cameo), that your proposition starts sounding more and more "normal" as the time goes.

And I don't care if the poetry is not good, as you claim you have no skills. Authenticity is what matters here. And you are being absolutely self-aware about your skills, which only adds to authenticity. Especially given the more minimalistic/industrial/lo-fi (not related to "lo-fi hiphop" type of stuff) direction that popular art has been moving in for the past few years.

Plus, I am willing to bet that after you do it for a month, even if you did it only for a few days each week, your poetry writing skill would shoot up massively. You use software to assist you? Even cooler, as long as there is still a significant human element in the process, and it ain't just some publicly available software doing 100% of the work for you (because at this point, I could use it myself; there is a reason people pay for concerts instead of listening to perfectly recorded and mastered music replayed on speakers at concert venues).

I will say this, though. Given it is a physical version of that successful digital approach i've mentioned, you got additional pros and cons. The pro is that the physical element makes it feel more "real", thus people are willing to pay more and more often. The con is that your success and viability, at least at first, will very very heavily depend on the location of choice where you are thinking of doing that.
I think it's reasonable to worry that WV or another company might start charging a variable rate for different "types" of autonomous driving. Pay-per-minute phone plans could be just as mysterious when you factored in long distance and peak usage hours.

It's not a huge logical leap to think that a subscription based service like this could lead to things such as:

You want to travel between point A and B several miles apart in rural Kansas on a straight road with a road density of 2 vehicles per mile? "Sure, that's 8.50 an hour."

Oh, you want to travel between Newark and Manhattan in the middle of a snowstorm? "That will be 15 an hour because we have to cover the costs for the real-time feed of data from our weather and control center"

Oh, you have a camper, too? "That's an additional 2 bucks an hour for our towing package"

Oh, you're traveling across state lines and the state over imposes an additional tax on autonomous driving. "we need to charge you 8.75 to cover the tax and our costs but only in that state."
For those getting worried like I was, it’s 0.002% or one in 50,000, not 0.02% or one in 5,000.
Don’t believe that sober people are good people or that addicts are bad people. That shame is a trap that will keep you there and it’s not even based in reality. If you’re struggling with addiction and you’re worried about yourself, that feeling is a reminder that you’re categorically worth saving.

Not everyone has to do the 12 step thing. My experience with NA was very limited but I quickly figured out that I didn’t fit in there. If you’re feeling out of options, it’s probably worth checking out because it does seem to work for a lot of people. However if it doesn’t work for you, you don’t have to give up. At the end of the day the goal is to not do a thing, whatever way you get there is fine.
Amongst the top 1% of tech savvy users, maybe. In all my years of supporting 100,000s of “regular” users I’ve never encountered anyone with JS disabled.
El Salvador to use energy from volcanoes for Bitcoin mining
https://archive.is/8hrll
4CHANer buys domain of battlefield2042 redirects it to /pol/to create conscience
I've heard less than 1% of adverse reactions are actually reported to VAERS.
There's unfortunately no hardware or standards support for Rust, nor will there be any time soon. Silicon vendors don't provide Rust compatible toolchains, and the standards everyone is locked into is C/C++ only
Redbean v1.3 Released Featuring SQLite Support HTTPS://justine.lol/redbean/
I am not saying we should make oil cheaper. That is the point of the taxes. We should be raising the price through taxes, not by blocking the state of the art technologies.
Wouldn't that lead to heart inflammation with pretty much every sickness then? And given that the vaccine side effects are often less than a common cold, I don't know if that's particularly compelling.
I'm pretty sure the future is going to look more like Gattaca than Idiocracy. I wouldn't bet against genetic engineering.
A Wikipedia article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion

Anything even mildly combustible can make a pretty big fireball.
Bring up the content of this article.
Yeah, I tried Jellyfin, but I had problems when running from a Pi 4. Severely slow and unplayable on both Roku and Android clients, with and without hardware acceleration. Emby seems to work fine though, as does Plex.
I think you are conflating two things. Insurance companies want to know as precisely as possible to determine their liability. It is the essence of their job.

Now, what they communicate to customers is another thing. I bet they know very well what they are getting into... but I agree they aren't likely to be transparent with you about it.
I am quite interested in seeing how the pull by employees for more WFH plays out. There is lots of discussion of quitting by people over it, but how many actually will?

I can see that deciding the future of offices. Do employees hold firm on these demands or just return to the office grumbling?
Could someone suggest the solution that is easiest for highly non-technical users? I'm talking about users for whom Netflix is too difficult and YouTube crosses that threshold if anything goes wrong. (And don't criticize the users, criticize your UI.)

I don't care how proprietary it is or who runs it, as long as they can use it. I am arranging to have their CDs ripped (they don't use the CD player and saw me using my music library - which is just files in the file system and VLC - and liked the idea of hearing their long-unheard, beloved music) and need something they can actually use. Otherwise, they won't get to listen to their music.

All they need to do is select a track and play it. No other UI needed; it will only confuse things.

In fact, something that handles ripped music and new downloads and streaming would be optimal.
Because we're talking about an extremely complex algorithm that will need tweaking with time.
> For much of human history we pooped in the street and murdered each other with reckless abandon. I'm not sure the rose colored glasses mean much here.

Is this a straw man or a red herring? Try to avoid your logical fallacies on HN, regardless.

> That may have been how we did things in the past, but there's no reason to couple a medium of exchange (short term) and a store of value (long term). There's really no justification for it, and the economy has been much better off for it. Stability has improved dramatically over a gold standard.

There is a reason. Normal, hard-working people can thrive under that simple system, and wealth inequality does not systematically increase to the betterment of the financially savvy. Which is exactly what is happening in our inflationary utopia you are describing. Where have you been? I don't know what metric you are using to define stability, but keep in mind bear markets are the only periods in American history where wealth inequality reliably decreases as capital is reallocated [0]. Staving them off at all costs benefits the wealthy more than the many.

Betterment, which you linked, is a free market solution to a policy problem, but it's about 50 years too late, and unless they capture 100% market share, they aren't going to solve the problem going forward (and of course they will scoop some nice fees off your savings).

> Agree to disagree.

With data?...

All of your points hinge on CPI being a correct measure of inflation. It isn't [1]. CPI quite literally measures what typical Americans are buying, and how much of it they are buying. I.e. their budget. A budget directly set by their wages.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/perianneboring/2014/02/03/if-yo...
So, think about this. What if you could ship offenders who reach a threshold (violent felony) and you had a place to ship them to. A big island or large area 5000sq mi, let’s say. Let that body set their own rules within that geographic area. How would they organize themselves and mete out justice?

[not to be confused with early Australia or whatever in pop culture].
THREE, Takata airbag recalls on a single vehicle.
You mean "DNA sequences are digital" in that base pairs map to a sequence of enumerations.

However, genomes aren't digital. They're 3D structures with a ton of attributes that are not trivially representable digitally.
I think backlit E-ink screens would be great for cars. I too want something I can see well in the day.
As a developer I continue to be extremely happy with the Go language and the Go tools. Over the past 5 years Go has almost entirely replaced my use of C and C++. My Go programs (e.g., https://NN-512.com) are reliable, run fast, build fast, require no shared libraries, and have airtight error handling. Unfortunately, C++ is still necessary for my commercial work and I am amused daily by the absurd complexity and clumsiness of expression, slow builds, dynamic linkage problems across Linux releases, etc.
Blacktocats Turn Five
Not everyone buys an old 4x4 to go up and down muddy hills. Some people just want to be able to get to work in inclement weather but don't want to buy new or need to spend a lot on parts. If an old 4runner was the only thing in my price range for a 4x4 daily driver, I'd probably be a little disappointed too.
This stuff does make me uneasy, because it's what we all need, enough of a support system to be able to fail, but so few of us have it. When I failed I was homeless, and it still hurts. When I sock away a hundred thousand maybe I can have a journey.
"crackdown on cryptocurrencies" there I fixed it.

China has been very clear in recent weeks and months that is doesn't approve of this sort of thing and promised merely 3 weeks ago to "crack down on bitcoin mining and trading behavior"[0] - unsurprisingly, as libertarian crypto-fantasies aren't really their bag. "Money laundering" is probably just CCP-speak for any unregulated financial activity i.e. all mining. I believe some of the wording in the press release[1] the above statement supports this perspective; note the emphasis on controlling risk - cryptocurrency's volatility is viewed as a security threat.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-reconsiders-its-central-r...
[1] http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2021-05/21/content_5610192.htm
I still remember how to operate the stock radio of the Volvo 240 by touch and I haven't touched one in ten years.

(You kind of make an Ohm gesture around the volume knob with ring and middle for up down channel)

I am glad to see other's desire for analog cars align with my own views.

I have told everyone who will listen for a long time that I will never buy a new car because of these silly digital features that often include surveillance capability.
On Guilt
Splitting the request packet into two TCP fragments right down the middle of the offending pattern in the Host or SNI field, that's adorable
This would be reflected in the "expected rate" data that we compare against, though, right? Many people who naturally have an episode wouldn't ever see a doctor...
How to manage work-from-home will probably be figured out, but you won't like it.[1]

[1] https://www.teramind.co/
Specifically on the SaaS front, taxability has been murky and there's not a single standard across the US: https://blog.taxjar.com/saas-sales-tax/
Thanks for sharing your perspective, I found this pretty insightful.
> And how many religions would accept someone that says "I don't think we have enough evidence for the existence of god"

Buddhism, for one, would not only accept that someone but would say it loud and clear on its own.
Law professor: wealth tax is unconstitutional
Your question isn't really well-posed. It's more about scientific communications than about government communications, and scientists are notoriously poor at communicating nuanced technical information to the general public. And the general public is notoriously poor at appreciating nuance.

Really, if this were intended for public consumption, they would avoid abbreviations like "AEs" and instead spell out "Adverse Events" or maybe be much more specific. I doubt most people even on here know what "pyrexia" is, I had to look it up to be sure.

Anyway, more to your point, the data presented is collected from VAERS. I've spent some time reading these exact data lately to try to understand the risk/reward for vaccinating children. The system is intentionally, I think, focused on a free-text data input, along with a huge grab bag of drop-down-box symptoms. In any event, there's no obvious way to ensure people report other activities.

If you read some of the VAERS reports you might appreciate my point better. They range from professional reports clearly written by a medical professional, to personal discussions, and in this age group have a lot of reports written by parents. In none of the hundreds I read did a person describe participation in heavy sports. By that omission we can conclude nothing whatsoever regarding the relationship between heavy sports and vaccination.

The powerpoint from FDA that I read actually gave a lot of useful information. It was a much better summary of the VAERS data than I was able to glean by manually reading through the reports. Myocarditis <edit: no!> and syncope seemed to me to be the most frequent side effect of vaccination at least in this age group, and the powerpoint seems to align with my impression.

EDIT: Syncope seemed to me to be the most frequent based on eyeballing the reports. I actually didn't notice myocarditis at all when I first looked through VAERS reports, not sure why I wrote that originally.
The human heart has a lot of ACE2 receptors, which is what Covid binds to.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239191/

I wonder if you can get myocarditits both from exposure and the vaccine. Covid is in your heart tissue, triggering an immune response. When you get the vaccine, your immune system is going to ramp up even further to deal with this Covid in your heart. This would only affect people who had prior Covid exposure it would seem.
so? Maybe get some more employees into the public service and if the funds go bust make sure that noone ever can try to play the game by making land public for eternity (land != buildings!).
This. And I would also add how naive it is to think that you don't have to comply with the list of requests sent to you by the person giving you a paycheck each month.

Let be known, if you're accepting a salary from any person, company, or government, you are fully expected to do as they ask.

If you don't like it, don't accept the money.
So what happens when the tracking / fingerprinting / data mining that your industry keeps doubling down on, provides enough data for

-- your next health insurance change to triple your premiums because of that previous bill you had such a hard time paying down

-- your mortgage / refi / loan application to be denied for factors completely separate from your actual credit report, but have made it into a reputation system

-- you get quietly, passively bypassed for that job application from the reputation hit from that one really poorly thought through social media post last century.

Data mining and data stores that affect people's lives and opportunities, that aren't just obfuscated, but actively secret are a blight.
I'm not a neuroscientist, an AI specialist, or a hardware engineer.

But as an enthusiast of all three I really think that AGI is a hardware problem, not a software problem.

Reinforcement learning on a massive corpus of data is how we train all biological intelligence.

The crazy thing is that in humans we manage to do it on ~3 watts an hour.

I think we have the software cracked, my gut thinks silicon just isn't the right material
Stockpiling used cars sounds good to me honestly. Land Cruisers are pretty bulletproof, they're regularly on the road through 300,000 miles.
You don’t need to look that far: Syncytin, a protein involved in placental development, is derived from an ancient retrovirus[1]. In other words, a virus made mammals possible.

[1]: https://whyy.org/segments/the-placenta-went-viral-and-protom...

EDIT: If I recall correctly, endogenous retroviruses are involved in brain development as well.
Great points, this and the other comment.
> all this hardening stuff should ship out-of-the-box.

I mean, Brave kinda does that. It’s much more “hardened” by default.
I don't know about USA but over here it's very common for manufacturers to print their MSRP on their packaging. Retailers are free to charge whatever price they want, the MSRP is simply the recommended price. It's not unusual for retailers to charge more.
"Men may construe things after their fashion, clean from the purpose of the things themselves."
-- Bill S. (1599)
Powdered coffee creamer makes impressive fireballs with the distinctive mushroom cloud shape.
Lego typewriter launched with moving keys and carriage
That "brake for no reason" is a big one. I have a 2015 GMC SUV that has "adaptive cruise control" which I (used to) love.

Since my last service, it seems they've updated it and it's far more sensitive than it used to and seems to break in many situations where it previously did not. What sucks about that is the vehicles behind me are caught off-guard with no obvious signs of the need to break and then the jackass in the GMC SUV slams on his breaks.
As a business owner who wants to post online ads, I want the providers to be as competitive as possible on price and quality. As a user, if I'm going to have ads targeted to me, I'm hoping they don't blink, slow down my computer, or are the utter trash you see on today's poor news sites. As as user, I want competition to cause ad targeters to filter out ad spam-- it hurts the properties where they place things.

Any new ad provider (one that does not have 20 years of user data like Google, or 15 years like Facebook) will not be able to fingerprint as well with FLoC as they could with cookies. Existing FANG competitors like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast etc have lots of historical data offer and even some FLoC-like products but if Google's FLoC replaces cookies then it's harder to derive value from, say, Verizon's FLoC-- simply because a cookie is a more effective fingerprint than a Google FLoC.

So FLoC is anti-competitive and just further supplants Google's monopoly. Does that really impact consumer privacy? Well, if the ad market is less competitive, the level of privacy that the market can support will be less consistent. There will be people like Apple who make so much money off hardware that for ads they're fine with the unobtrusive choice of selling Google default search engine rights (versus, say, the loads of crapware that can be found in some Android distributions). But there will be lots of smaller ad players who will get more desperate for ad spam and more shady ways to target you with what little data they can get. For smaller properties, perhaps Google FLoC is so useless for targeting and lift that everybody switches to requiring a sign-up with a phone number SMS confirmation.

_Can_ FLoC be incentive compatible? What are the actual likely economic consequences? Google knows this (or they think they know), hence FLoC got launch approval. But Google won't share those details with you. They want you to think FLoC is just great for privacy. This is how Sundar addresses his position that "we need to work hard on user trust."
> will add hundreds of millions of lines of code to cars.

Er, no, it will add wheels to tablets.
The logic here is astounding. You blame the immune system instead of the vaccine, because the population has been conditioned to believe vaccines, even if experimental, are without risk.
451: Unavailable due to legal reasons in Europe.
Have to really consider if the 200 are but a fraction of the actual though. I mean how many are going to be reported?
> the selection isn't strong enough for that to happen

Your model is busted - the Flynn effect has already reversed and intelligence is decreasing again.

You’re right that it’s “not as simple” as my one-sentence summary but my claim is directionally correct.

> it’ll be completely different again

The risk has nothing to do with what the concrete pressures are, but how much error correction bandwidth we have vs background mutation load rate.
I'm profoundly ignorant in neither (PhD in biophysics, software engineer for 20 years). Genomics and programming analogies are cool, but the most important thing is that understanding that molecular structures can encode information in a replicable way, and the discovery of application of entropy to data storage and transmission, demonstrates that information is a universal concept, that the genome is a data storage system, and the enzymes that operate it are operating on information, in a computational way. To me that's a pretty useful comparison.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190514093208/https://www.lrb.c...
This is one possible way of artificially boosting error correction capacity. I hope you are right.