I've looked at this question:
How to reset footnote numbering at \chapter* and at frontmatter chapters?,
but the answers concern using \chapter*, and assume the OP is not using the Tufte-LaTeX package. I use \chapter to indicate the start of a new chapter in Tufte-LaTeX; my sidenote numbers are not reset between chapters, and I would like to do so.
Here is a MWE, using the first suggestion. Unfortunately the sidenote in chapter 2 starts at 2.
\documentclass{tufte-book}
\makeatletter% so we can use @ in the command name
\@addtoreset{footnote}{chapter}% restart the sidenote counter for each chapter
\makeatother% resets the meaning of @
\begin{document}
\chapter{ONE}
TEST\sidenote{footnote \#1}
\chapter{TWO}
LOOK\sidenote{footnote \#2}
\end{document}