skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fewer than 5% of U.S. households [0] (or about 1.5% of working-age people [1]) bring in $200k per year. This is a big country, so I guess that's still "plenty of people," but it's not ordinary.

[0] https://statisticalatlas.com/United-States/Household-Income

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-earn-200-000+-per-year...
How would you get double screwed? You would only pay income taxes on the gains.
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OK, so you use a non-standard representation of UUIDs because you can convert it to the standard representation for compatibility reasons. Fair enough, it's a good reason to do this if that's what you want. But then you complain that there's a different implementation of generating random identifier strings "not up to snuff", as if we all should settle on old crappy standards and stop creating something new. (One thing I don't understand with many developers is that they insist on doing something one way, thinking that their way is the best one and there should not exist other ways.)
Any idea what the guy in the middle's job is? Looks like he watches an instrument and pulls a lever based on what he observes. Seems like something that could be automated!
Pizza Hut told Irma-fleeing employees they could be punished for skipping shifts
Someone in the comments section actually blamed the fall of the Roman Empire on socialism.

See this is what not making education a priority gets you.
How to Wrangle the Wild West of Data Science
It is and people do use it, but it ultimately still exists as software that sits on top of POSIX in the vast majority of cases. It can clean up really bad POSIX I/O by buffering and reordering, but doing so induces latency, memory overheads, and consumes other resources that don't always pay dividends at all scales.
PEWDIEPIE one again using a Racist slur in Live
While the color depth of a JPG is 8-bits, it is not a linear 8 bits. The sRGB color space is gamma corrected (non-linear) and is roughly equivalent to taking the square root of a linear pixel value.

The same thing holds true for a processed RAW image as well.
lol, doesn't seem to hard. Words are still easily readable with the middle letters mixed up.
On my university, you do the same thing to get a website up. (Except the web server is actually a different server than the main server, so you have to ssh there, and you replace vi with vim and Solaris with Linux.)
In fairness, "serverless" architecture involves servers.

I am appalled by the constant erosion of meaning in the tech field, but there you are.
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Take a look into the EV1, it played out exactly that way with GM.
the corporation also pays taxes on the income before distributing it to you.
That's definitely the case, but the goal of modern politics and the top 1% is to accrue wealth, not generate it. Giving the middle classes more money to spend is great for the economy but it only accomplishes their goals if all that money ends up in their portfolios or assets, which means that eventually it all has to trickle up to the top.
Well, it's obvious for me.

Issue is that the root reply seemed to have taken it as a JS implementation issue (due to math.random) as it's quite obvious why you should not do the modulus (or when you can), if you know the underlying maths.

So did I, as a matter of fact.

You - on the other hand had given the answer to the wrong confusion.
Since you pay taxes on profits and not revenue how would they impede growth? Money reinvested is tax free.
Could you link to any "for dummies"-type resources that show how you can incorporate and use that corporation to reduce your taxes? Something that would hopefully be applicable to your typical middle-class homeowner in their 30s with young kids and a 9-5 making enough to get by but is looking for any edge they can find?

Edit: (in the US)
This similar to the logic that used to fuel Adobe's anti-piracy numbers. They claim they lose (number_of_pirated_copies X retail_cost) to piracy, making the huge assumption that everyone who pirated would have bought a copy, and needs photoshop so badly that they will sell a kidney to get it if you could stop piracy. You can't selectively change variables and assume the others stay the same.

Your life would be negatively impacted if everyone paying capital gains decided it was advantageous to avoid paying them, so you can't talk about adjusting that tax structure as if all of the same money would stay on the table. If it were less enticing to invest it, fewer would, and that changes the environment in complex ways. It's a big assumption that if you raise taxes, everything else remains pinned down and we can analyze that variable in isolation.
Three examples among many:

1. exchanges provide visibility into who is buying and selling crypto along with the ability to integrate crypto activities within real-name systems (i.e. whitelist wallets, etc.). This is the most efficient approach to market regulation as governments simply require exchanges to comply with policies and do not need to code the monitoring infrastructure themselves.

2. exchanges provide an infrastructure for supporting government initiatives -- the Chinese government is developing its own POW-based cryptocoin and has shown an interest in licensing ICOs and taxing transactions. And if China closes down all of the exchanges in the country it is a rather good question how it plans to accomplish either.

3. In the absence of a viable way to operate domestically, Chinese exchanges will simply move overseas (i.e. incorporate in HK), at which point they can continue to serve Chinese customers throughout the world without the need to bother with ANY Chinese policies (such as the elimination of zero-fee trades, KYC policies and data-sharing etc.).

What will happen in crypto is exactly the same thing that happened with video-sharing and group-sales: the government crackdown will be used to push uncooperative companies out of the market, and then licensing requirements will be used to tax those companies that remain while ensuring their compliance with the government fintech agenda. The current back-and-forth is part of an intra-government struggle for political primacy over cryptocurrency activities: the reason the big exchanges are silent is because they have their backers and are working to blunt the impact of these policies on their own businesses and the interests of those with whom they are affiliated. Smaller exchanges without this support are screwed and will close, but that is how China works -- it is not a market economy.
If there was no capital gains tax it would almost certainly reduce investment in risky industries. For example, high tech.
The reforms are for business eligible for the small business deduction, sp isn't it mainly business at the doctor/farmer/incorporated contractor level?
It's not like Democrats have any desire to do anything about this either. The people who benefit from this are paying off both parties.
I love Atlassian stack. Yes, the UI of JIRA is slightly clumsy and overwhelmed and slow but the integration between BitBucket, Jira, Bamboo and Hipchat(and soon Stride) is the fantastic feature. I also enjoy SourceTree, that's amazing Git client, very convenient. I can't wait until Atlassian releases the IDE so that I give up VS Code. And I am not high as many might think.
I said this statement in the MB electrification article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15219469

Electric cars need a battery tech that offers a "refuel experience" if they want to change the game. Ive seen things like solid battery tech that may offer something close to this. Im not anywhere near an expert on battery tech, but I can say as a car guy that mainstream adoption hinges on this. Once this battery tech exists, then there is the infrastructure problem of charging stations. Musk has started the process, but there is a very long way to go. We also should start thinking about standardizing or at least categorizing charging levels in an ELI5 way to the average user. Maybe this already exists, but I dont think so. It seems like you need to have something like:
Level 1 charge(cheaper, lower power throughput, longer wait time).
Level 2 charge(quicker charge more expensive).
Level 3 charge(fastest, most expensive, if your car supports it, etc)

that would roughly equate to the 3 options you have at a gas station and ease the adjustment to the differences. Maybe Im saying things that people already know, but I just see this as the barrier to adoption right now.
I solved this problem a long time ago. Once solved, it did not take three hours to get a web side on-line (well may be, if you bought your own domain and set up your own server to host it).

https://www.jgaa.com/content/1/old_sites/july_2000/htmgen32....
You're the wrong way around on this. The poor pay very little income taxes. It's the upper middle class getting screwed to the benefit of the oligarchs.

Of course, the poor are getting screwed, I just don't think one of the ways they are getting screwed is income tax policy.
Are not homes exempt for CGT where you are?
> but I get scared any time storing a UNIX timestamp in 32 bits is mentioned

You're scared because an average app hasn't considered a problem that's 21 years off? Seems like a premature worry
A bad a excuse for a bad library. See this time and time again in NodeJS though.
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At this point, the fringes are the only groups that have any interest in changing this aspect of the tax system
Then start defining those into laws. I think my country already has those defined pretty well thanks to strong unions.

You'll never get there if you don't even start.
Wouldn't the lack of general consumer transactions ruin the economic viability of most tokens?

Yes.
It only has a counter assuming you have trusted compiler.
Yeah it's definitely true. You are right, I'm clearly an idiot. I am in the wrong
Would it be possible to filter out the pollution by subtracting an out of focus image from the in focus one? The pollution is already spread out while the stars are point light sources. So wouldn't that leave the stars untouched while greatly reducing the light pollution?
To make $200K post-tax, you need to make at least $260K pre-tax. In the US, that puts you almost exactly at the boundary of the 1%.

I suppose this is a matter of your definition of "plenty of people".
I was at dinner with Daniel the night before FOSDEM kicked off this year, and he said "I always get asked at some point in the Q&A about whether or not curl has a backdoor in it."

The next day, I was due to meet a developer from a vendor organisation I'd been working with, and he came and found me during the curl talk Daniel was giving. Because the talk was ongoing, I didn't really get a chance to say hello to him or anything.

Cue the Q&A section. My vendor contact sticks his hand up, and is the first person to be picked to ask a question. His question "Have you put any backdoors in curl?".

You couldn't make it up.

[edit] I can't spell "Daniel" :(
It's hard to invest if you don't have any money, and as the article points out, investment income below $38,000 is already untaxed. Mortgage rates are a tricky lever to manipulate. Wealth redistribution (in the form of taxing capital gains / investment income more and taxing wages less, particularly middle and upper-middle class wages) is probably the only realistic way to accomplish this.
America has among the highest capital gains tax rate in the world, and if you live in California (which treats gains as regular income) the combination of ACA/NIIT, state, and long term capital gains I believe is the highest in the world.
But it's a really popular meme so who cares? It's not like Bloomberg is supposed to understand economics or something
Is there a piece of software that creates nice looking static photo galleries? I have used a few and they all seem to suffer from design that is 10-15 years old.
I'm between 200 and 300 and can't downvote, so they seem to have increased the threshold.
But it's almost worse.

In the cable system, if I want channel 1 from package A, and channel 2 form package B.. I can get mad they aren't in the same package.. but I can ultimately just buy the super package and for $200 a month get all channels.

How do I do that in politics? Get one view from party A and one view form party B? I can't. I have to pick my priorities and only get one. or maybe guess which party has more things I like.
What is it like for you ?
If there is no difference between income and capital taxation people wont invest in companies.

And companies wont last with out access to capital trust me I have chaired share holder meetings caused by lack of capital
Ok, so how about we lower the tax the "american workers" (more like upper middle class) are paying? Get rid of progressive tax system maybe? Fix the situation where the "bottom 50%" aren't paying anything thus making them an easily manipulated group by promising higher taxation of the "evuhl 1%"?
Start by getting paid on a 1099 instead of a w2
It's illegal in a lot of states to record calls without notifying the other party.
Not if you're Apple, et al.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/business/yesterday-outrag...
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(replying to myself as I can no longer edit:) My favorite feature in it is .entropy(n) method: when you want some fixed amount of unpredictable bits, but don't want to calculate how long the random string should be in your encoding to contain that many bits.
> The problem is a strong multiparty system can get fringe elements in power.

But as demonstrated, a two-party system can (will?) eventually lead to polarization, causing one of the only two options in the system to become a fringe element, and unfortunately the only option the people have now are the democrats or a party of right-wing extremists who are anti-woman, anti-poor, anti-education, anti-science, and white supremacists, all while lying about anything they can to make people afraid of anything that will drive them to vote Republican.

In other words, a multi-party system might end up with fringe elements, but we've proven that the two-party system can not only do that but effectively force a huge number of people to vote for that fringe element.
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Where there isn't amateur radio available, there's always citizens band. That has a truly terrible (metaphorical) signal-to-noise ratio but it's probably monitored by local police during disasters, not to mention a lot of regular people.
If a politician promises to take ALL of the rich people's money and give it to me, would I be voting "against my own interests" if I thought that was a stupid idea which would result in more problems for myself and others? Adjust "ALL" to some other high percentage and it's the same idea.
Should Research Funding Be Distributed Equally Among Scientists?
does it mix dynamically whole reading, like in the example or is it static like this: "Peoqle like hot bogs."
At least somewhere like Manhattan, the fact that Streets and avenues are very different things is pretty deeply ingrained. Locals are unlikely to confuse the two. More generally, it's easy this sort of thing could cause confusion though.
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This sounds like perhaps the top fix, to get my personal view better represented.

But then I see how coalition governments work in other places. I am not sure that is overall better? Better in some ways, but I think it has a lot of downsides also.
FTA “There is little empirical evidence showing that taxing investors less stimulates savings and growth,” said Emmanuel Saez, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley.
facepalm I see now.
No, I don't see it that way -- Taxing dividends is taxing profit twice, not capital gains. Capital gains is taxing asset appreciation.
It's a little skewed towards wealthier people, don't you think?
Registered my desired username there in case it took off, found a single friend there (who was also doing the same thing), haven't been back since.

It looks like it's done a pivot since the last time I was there, going by the new onboarding process asking me if I'm an artist or a fan.
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It makes my blood boil (ok, not really boil) that this is such a frequent talking point. People vote from a complicated set of principles and interests of which immediate economics is just one member.

If you can't figure out why poor republicans don't vote in their own interest, perhaps it's your understanding of their interests that's flawed. Maybe they're not stupid; consider that maybe you don't know anything about their interests and motivations.

In short: if people keep doing something that you don't understand, maybe it's time to take a step back and admit that you don't understand it (instead of surmising that they must be idiots).
The amount of capital you need increases somewhere between linearly and exponentially as you move closer towards federal office, which is why I suggested starting with local politics (which costs almost nothing to participate in; selling your soul is not required).

You can run a local office campaign for under $1000.
Queens, NY is full of weird, confusing addresses and intersections - ignoring the addresses for a minute, you can go down 30th Ave, take a right on 30th street, then a left on 30th drive. If you miss the house, take a right on 31st st, then hang a right on 31st ave - 30th street is a one-way, so you'll have to go to 29th street to make a right and then a right on 30th street again. If you miss that, take a left on 30th Rd, and give up on ever arriving.

And that's not even the most confusing block of streets.
Which means immediately higher taxes because you get to pay the employer side of payroll taxes, plus no pretax benefits like health care and no vacation or other untaxed benefits.
Neocities [0] does all of this!

- It's free (though you can become a supporter and get some extra benefits) [1]

- It's fast, since it uses it's own CDN. [2]

- It's secure, all pages support SSL, even with custom domains. [3]

- It has a command line tool [4] that can be wrapped to automate upload of pages, or used in a Git hook.

- It has a plethora of learning resources [5].

[0] https://neocities.org

[1] https://neocities.org/supporter

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI

[3] https://blog.neocities.org/default-ssl.html

[4] https://neocities.org/cli

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Norway's wealth fund hits record $1 trillion
Damn, I must be doing something wrong...

It took me three months to rebuild https://www.forthepeople.com as a Jekyll site on a load-balanced cluster from WordPress.
Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money (2013)
UUID is a misguided standard that should have been killed long ago if not for compatibility reasons, so I'm glad it's not in JS.
Can we get a more authoritative URL over this?

If this is even remotely true, this is big news seeing as it'd imply the US government is waging war against Kaspersky by pressuring big box stores to yank Kaspersky off store shelves (tinfoil hat notwithstanding).
Again, regulations are not all the same. It is heavily regulated in the direction of privacy and safety. Not so much in affordability.

Is the unaffordability of healthcare an indictment of capitalism? No? Then why would it be an indictment of all regulation? "Regulation" is not one thing - there are many many choices.

Profit-seeking incentives don't always align with societal good. When health insurance companies are not required to cover everyone, they can and DO reject very sick people because their models forecast a loss. This happened for a long time before ACA with pre-existing conditions...

Thats what happens in a completely free market - insurance only serves the already healthy and leaves the sick (who need healthcare the most!) to die or pay exorbitant amounts.

That is a direct result of a system that incentivizes profit. Thats one area it would benefit from regulation. It already does in so many other western countries where government either directly provides healthcare or ensures that insurers cover everyone at affordable prices.

If we aren't willing to examine and interfere with the free market when the most basic need of society - health is being compromised, where does it end?? The market exists to serve society, not the other way around. This has been forgotten.
Where does the double come from? Each dollar only gets taxed once... only the profit gets taxed when investing, not the principal, right?
It's not even all Kenians. It's Kalenjin minority in Kenia. If you need to hire people with best endurance why not ask them to run a marathon as a test instead hiring only people from ethic group that on average is better than others.
Working as a contractor for your wholly-owned company would never pass muster with the IRS. You might be able to avoid audit for a little while, but when this catches up to you it will be a huge mess. They would recast the transactions (they can do this) and you'd end up owing a ton of tax and penalties.

Source: I'm a (former) tax lawyer.
What about Lowes employees during natural disasters, or their schedules in general?
The context was definitely HPC, but that's mostly because it's the last place where this problem persists in a very big way. The WORM workloads that serve up most of the data we consume globally just rejected POSIX entirely and created the scalable object interfaces we know and love. It was very obvious that having every Roku in the world mount a Netflix file system over the WAN was insane, so nobody had to write an article calling for the end of that bad behavior.

Updating POSIX, whether it be through more expressive consistency options or just giving middleware developers the knobs they need to implement such mechanisms themselves, has come up before[1], as you say. My worry is that many of the serious efforts from years past were ahead of their time, and hyperscale has gone their own way so the ship has sailed on POSIX I/O.

[1] http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix/
Yeah if only someone else would launch an email service!
Imagine a vinyl record, and that you are sitting on the record, near, but not at, the outer edge of the record. South of you, but close to the horizon, is the centre of the record - containing a massive black hole. North of you are all the stars in the galaxy between you and the edge of the galaxy. Most of the stars in the galaxy are scattered along the disc, but with a fairly large variation. The closer you get to the centre, the greater the number of stars - that is the brightest part of our night sky.

Some ancient clusters of stars have drifted a fair bit away from the disc, but are still gravitationally bound to it, and its dark matter. If you were on another galaxy looking from above, our galaxy would look like a spiral with arms. If you looked edge on, it would look more like a cigar.