skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the most part, Western European countries have less redistribution baked into their tax systems than the U.S. Take Germany for example. The top marginal income tax rate in Germany is about 50%. In California, it's over 50%. Corporate tax rates are similar (with Germany's being slightly lower). Capital gains rates are higher in California than in Germany (and similar between Germany and the U.S. on average). If you make $2 million per year, your tax bill is probably a bit less in Germany than in California.

But the tax burden overall, of course, is higher in Germany. That extra money comes from the middle class. Here are the tax brackets for a single person (in Euros):

0% up to 7,664
15% 7,665- 52,153
42% 52,154 - 250,000
45% 250,001 and over

Then Germans pay various health insurance and pension contributions that are, like our FICA taxes, subject to wage caps, which puts most of the burden of their healthcare and retirement system on the middle class. They also pay 19% VAT, which again puts most of the burden on the middle class.

If Trump proposed implementing a tax plan that distributed the burden of taxation the way Germany's does, people would be apoplectic.
Meanwhile you're not putting you life on the line to protect a public who couldn't give two shits about you.

The police are is a game of heads they lose tails they don't win; what ever they do.

No one wants to hear about the lives they save everyday, no one cares about when a cop is injured or killed doing their job; they deserved it right.

It's one of the toughest jobs you can do; and you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Fact, society wouldn't function without the police. Fact if I was a police in America there is no way I wouldnt be armed.
If developers build out suburban neighborhoods creating an integrated plan like this make sense, but what developers are building now is individual infill properties. nimbys that ask for infill developers to should infrastructure costs for a neighborhood is either not up to date on what is being build which by effect means that they living in the past or are intentially stalling development. Both has the same outcome, and with our dire housing situation this deserves a negative reaction if the person refuse to cooperate in creating workable solutions that add significant housing supply.

With regards to who should build infrastructure developer fees and property taxes are there to fund public construction of infrastructure; roads, schools, hospitals, etc. Why do you think requiring developers of individual buildings to build these is reasonable or even a workable solution?
Cryptocurrencies and digital contracts are going to pump an insane amount of money into this.
The Presence Prison
Agree on the TIS-100 recommendation. What surprised me most was just how open-ended the puzzles are, especially given the limited instruction set. There's a great deal of replay value just in iterating your own solutions to improve performance (i.e. reduce cycle count).

Will have to give the game posted on this thread a try as well!
It’s worth also mentioning that as far as I am aware the OpenBSD folks also almost universally eat their own dog food. Most of not all the developers run -current. The bleeding edge. So they can find and fix any issues. I’m not sure how many of the other developers for FreeBSD or NetBSD do that.
that includes the US, where taxation still is mostly borne by the rich
Maybe but I know they are doing the best they can to increase inflation, to little avail.
Within my circles there has been a marked decrease in the perceived prestige of an engineering job at Facebook over the past few years.

I'm sure it still requires a huge amount of talent and isn't lacking in meaty, difficult problems, but the core product just seems so unimportant.
Of course. I think bodycams are a huge step in the right direction, in terms of holding police officers accountable for their actions whilst also protecting them from false claims.

Culture change is fundamentally slow, but I think process is being made. We're talking about a whole new generation of cop, from new supervisors to new codes of conduct and police union leadership.

The comparison to Duterte is unfair and minimizes the atrocities in the name of justice happening in the Philippines. The NYT has/had an excellent article, replete with photos, of the devastation. It is a whole order of magnitude more people in a much smaller nation.
I'm not sure what earthquake standards has to do with the aesthetic of the building. The main thing they need to do is drill 200 ft below surface into bedrock.

The competing design had a similar shape/weight distribution but was much more beautiful and unique:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zKV9lrNlb8M/maxresdefault.jpg
Recent studies have, in fact, shown that dietary salt has a significant effect on blood pressure for many people, and on endothelial function for everyone.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/sodium-and-arterial-functio...
Same here, for my all-organic ebook reviews it gave an F and said there was "HIGH DECEPTION" involved. It seems to penalize you for having above four stars.
Do not get a full time on campus MBA from any programme that is not spoken of as top 10. There are more than ten of those for what that’s worth. If you are already doing a job that people get an MBA to get and your company will pay for you to get an executive MBA that is sensible if a lot of work.

Most of the value of an MBA is in the network, not the knowledge so distance learning and correspondence degrees are worth drastically less. You can get an MBA from the UK’s Open University or Queen Mary’s, University of London for a little over twenty thousand pounds or thirteen thousand tespectively.
Hi Eric, the idea sounds fascinating.

When will it be open for individual investors to make a deposit? Is there a list of companies which will be chosen for initial listing?
If no other changes occur then yes because it reduces the concentration of power.
The interest in this article does not necessarily flow from its rather negative slant on the Israeli government.

What interests me are the consequences that follow from making a US corporation the global censor and arbiter, in the realm of communications, of other people's disputes.

The original article had zero factual content about the accounts that were suspended and presented no evidence that they were not suspended for completely valid reasons so I have no reason to think that they should not have been suspended.

Even with that being true, it is still interesting that people are both expecting Facebook to be a global censor, and then also criticizing them for the censorship decisions they make.
That's fine! Mendocino is gorgeous and Ashland Oregon is positively stunning. Grass Valley, Bodega Bay, Eureka, Crescent City, Klamath... there's lots of profoundly wonderful low density affordable places to live. Tens of Thousands of them, the vast majority of the world in fact.

But SOMA and Manhatten isn't on that list.
I think it is really smart that you are not excessively afraid of police, but train your children to be safe around them in practical and effective ways. Everyone should do that! Good for you! :)
Inflation is not theft.

If you genuinely believe that:

1) Please use a deflationary currency (like bitcoin) for all your transactions.

2) Study the impact of deflation on Japan. Or the deflations in the US that almost always coincided with a depression with one (arguable) exception. Keep in mind, that arguable exception was one of half a dozen such events.
Inflation as a variable for income inequality is dwarfed by tons of other factors. No serious economist is going to say that it's a terrible thing. A lot of countries have had to deal with inflation rates above 5% and they could still grow and lower inequality.
A really good way to get an intuitive grasp is to spend some time getting a handle on quantum tunneling.
How many languages/frameworks is too much for back end?
We started out with Python/Django monolith when we had less than 10 developers. Then the team chose Golang for a new service to have better performance. At that time we had about 25-30 engineers.

Then the company hired some people who have Erlang and Ruby background. So they decided to use Elixir for a couple of new services.

Now we have about 120 engineers and half of us are doing backend. Another team recently decided to use Scala for a service they were building.

It seems to me that people tend to choose their favorite language/framework and argue that we should be using 'the right tool for the job'.

According to Edmound Lau who wrote Effective Engineer book, we should be using the least number of tools so that our operational burden will be low and we can have impact.

What do people think of number of languages that are optimal for backend these days?
I'm genuinely curious about how states with high redistribution rates fair with regard to their impact on the broader world. For example, are the Nordics over or under-represented in Nobel Prizes? Is there some metric that takes into account population, perhaps GDP per capita, and patents filed or scientific papers written?

How about immigration policy, both statutory and real-world. I do know that the Nordics are largely mono-cultures where something like 98% of the people are the same color and religion. If the Nordics are such great places to be, and if they have statutorily open borders (they are in the EU, right?), why are they not flooded with poor people from other nations? Are they socially hostile to immigrants?
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The person making the prank is in the wrong, but so are the officers.

How I see it is that the officers of their own freewill took on the role of law enforcement and public service.

Fully aware that they would be put in life threatening situations.

Their first instinct shouldn't be to fire first to save their own skin, but be trained to take time to assess the situation and risk erring on restraint of force.

Most of the talk coming from police departments usually state their actions in terms of the officer's personal safety.

Though that is important, due to their choice and the role in society that they play, their safety should be a secondary concern to the safety and lives of those they are to protect.
That’s a terrible way of hiring. If they can’t get any other job than a police officer, then that that explains a lot.
This applies to the entire planet (except for countries with growing populations, and that is a substantially worse problem), and European states have much greater safeguards and are in general far more stable than most other places in the world.
I mean that the uncertainty in complementary variables such as position and momentum exists with or without the act of observation, or measurement. We can certainly observe it in an artificial setting, but it’s also the reason that the sun “burns” nuclear fuel the way it does.
Nope, US phases out social security taxes and has vastly lower rates for capital gains etc. If you look at total earnings vs. total taxes paid including non income taxes the rich pay a lower share than the middle class.

Remember gas taxes are just as much a tax as income or property tax.
I can't believe the number of downvotes this has gotten. It's a very large contributing factor that was overlooked by the author. Get over yourselves.
> 1) Public Option for Healthcare

So more money goes to doctors, who are in the top 10%?

> 3) Infrastructure maintenance deficits (we've fallen really far behind on that).

So more money to MTA workers and administrators making $100/hour: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-....

> 4) Basic Research in basically every field.

> 5) NASA.

So more money to privileged, highly-educated folks who are in the top 10%?

These proposals just benefit the top 10% instead of the top 0.1%. (It exemplifies American politics, which has largely become a war between the top 10% and the top 0.1%, with nobody looking out for the interests of the bottom half). It won't reduce the inequality that the article is talking about, which is caused by the fact that the bottom 90% have little bargaining power in a world dominated by automation and computers.

It would be far better to just give poor people money. Or better, yet, put the money in trust funds for them.
> "dictatorship of proletariat" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletaria...) You'll probably argue that this kind of dictatorship isn't to be understood in the common sense

I don't have to. Your own link says so in just the second paragraph:

Dictatorship of the proletariat is different from the
popular notion of 'dictatorship'
I don't think this is sufficient reason to make it a substantial focus of the core, required curriculum. Again, I do not have a problem with OO course offerings or teaching Java, just putting it front and center as a core, fundamental computer science skill.

I would argue that a large codebase at any company is going to be impenetrable to most fresh computer science graduates. Production software architecture almost always has idiosyncracies that they can't teach you in college, no matter what paradigm is used. So you are always going to have to learn on the job in those situations. You'll pick up the necessary object-oriented principles then.

Trying to teach OO programming in to newbies in a classroom environment usually leads to a lot of incidental complexity and dogma that feels like tedious make-work to students because it is. Meanwhile, with appropriate guidance and peer review from a senior programmer or software architect, and an opportunity to observe and participate a real production build process, an OO design is likely to just "click" in a relatively short amount of time.

One of the key points of OO is that it is a discipline. OO involves explicitly coupling data to logic in encapsulated chunks with a clear separation between the API and implementation details. Trying to teach that particular discipline to students who still can't accomplish anything meaningful with code is, I believe, a waste of their time. OO features like public and private methods seem obvious when you actually have an API to maintain, whereas for a student learning the fundamental techniques and technologies it seems like an arbitrary and largely pointless distinction.

Encouraging and/or enforcing coding discipline is the responsibility of senior members of a given team and is most effective when practiced that way.
That's not a response to any of the questions posed by my post.

With all the respect due a random person one corresponds with via the internet, the view you're espousing seems extraordinarily reductionist.

And that's okay in the end. We don't need everyone to be on board with concepts like asking questions first, compassion, mercy — with the idea that ending a life is a last resort.
> another company already did replacements for $30

£30, which is $40.
The same thing happens in the USA. In fact discharging a weapon for any reason with or without injury is going to be investigated.
Sure... link me to something you want to see on it.
That assume the police are normal balanced actors who care.. here's a video of a officer that was acquitted for torturing and murdering someone earlier this month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OflGwyWcft8

anyway that's the united states for you the government is run by a probable rapist and the police go around murdering people and get away with it great society my ass we might as well be in saudi arabia
>As these office high rises are constructed, we need to be pumping investments into public transit

Salesforce Tower is accompanied by the adjacent Salesforce Transit Center and several residential skyscrapers built over the last few years. It's not enough, but it's something. Not as egregious as a giant Apple/Google expansion with 0 homes.

>How else will the city be able to keep up with the growing housing demand?

Why would it do that? Less than 10% of the population is exposed to market rate rents. That segment (tech-driven transplants) also happens to be regarded as obnoxious, privileged, and undesirable.
OODA Feedback Loop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OflGwyWcft8
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Culture helps - everyone here wants to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer.

Taiwanese doctors don't get paid in money.

They get paid "credits" which have to be exchanged for money based on a parallel financial system.

Foreigners here sometimes complain that there's a focus on seeing more patients faster, so there might be a misdiagnosis or a less thorough examination.

The fact remains though - it's cheaper to fly here to have a wisdom tooth removed (without insurance) than the same operation would cost in Switzerland or the US. There isn't much resentment of medical tourism either - so, you're all welcome to visit!
Fundamental uncertainty is indeed caused by different observations "interfering with each other. And that interference is only inevitable because of the observer effect.

It's kind of meaningless to claim that observation is the cause of the uncertainty, but I do think you are on the right path. Still, even being related, the observer effect and the fundamental uncertainty are different concepts. For example, observations may not interfere at all, but they would still change your system.
Do you actually think that "a feeling" is the training standard for deciding whether to shoot?
if you're into this sort of thing, check out Scuttlebutt::SSB/Patchwork
I was born and grew up in a town with a few hundred people. There are businesses that were there when I was born and are still there (30+ years now) and there are plenty others that have come and gone over time. That is not any different than any city I have lived in and I have been all over the world.
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Wow, that sounds very profound - whether we observe (measure?) or not the uncertainty will be there.

I must admit I couldn’t understand the connection with the sun burning up the fuel. Perhaps you could elaborate on it a bit more?
Cool! Assembly has a lot of potential for teaching people the basic concept of a computer program's structure, microcontroller usage, etc etc.

But gee, have you ever tried to teach someone how to program a microcontroller using bare metal assembly?

It is not easy. If you tell someone that the GPIO registers start at memory address 0x48000000 and give them a list of what each register's bits do, they will look at you like your head just grew an extra head. These sorts of abstractions are probably a way, way better idea...
> Yeah, but when you have enough money

Imagine you are appointed the new CEO of Amazon.com. Please define "enough money," even a loose ballpark estimate.
I'm 100% with you, but unfortunately residential property taxes aren't going to be able to cover necessary municipal infrastructure in California until we get Prop 13[0] repealed. It may have been passed with noble intentions (although from the outside it sure looks like existing property holders transparently exploiting newcomers to the area), but the net effect is a systemic underinvestment in local infrastructure since the 1970s.

The YIMBYers would love to kill off Prop 13 and return to sane levels of local funding, but it's state wide and still far too politically sacred to be attacked directly.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
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Have you found any meaningful correlation between "talent" (engineering or otherwise) and tenure at a well-known tech company?

From my experience, and based on people I know that work at Facebook, e.g., getting your foot in the door is just a matter of studying medium/hard-level problems on Leetcode (speaking verbatim here). I'm not sure you need a strong foundation in systems programming or design, or even a strong track record of building great software to get hired at these kinds of companies. The metric is mostly Leetcode; it's for efficiency I guess, because of the sheer number of applicants.

I've also worked closely with a few people from such companies. I'd say only one was a great engineer. And he definitely didn't have a high opinion of his former co-workers.

The one company whose engineers I'd probably give the benefit of the doubt would be Netflix, because they're so intentional about "performance".
"If only there were some sort of mechanism for it to skim off of real estate value and use the money for public goods. We could call it... property taxes."

what schools? land has to be set aside for schools. no developer makes this sacrifice anymore. it doesn't matter if revenue is generated if there is NO SCHOOL because no one would build one. and yes this is becoming a problem in the Bay Area.

"Road capacity is an interesting one, because people who live in dense walkable environments close to their offices need less transportation"

maybe like 0.1% of people in SF are candidates for walking to work, you can't be serious
For those following the link, the shoes on the initial page are not what I personally would consider "minimalist" shoes as they have significant soles. There are others which are more moccasin like, such as

- http://www.russellmoccasin.com/huron-thula-thula/

- http://www.russellmoccasin.com/thula-thula-ph/

- http://www.russellmoccasin.com/thula-thula-short-ph-5/

- http://www.russellmoccasin.com/russell-tracker/
rushing a product out, putting extra pressure on your engineers, squeezing them, is always a sacrifice and a risk. and it's always a long-term loser. you can get away with it a few times, if you do it every single time your engineers will burn out or revolt if the product failure doesn't do it for them.
Your argument seems to pivot from the banks claim that it's too risky to saying that Ripple can solve the volatility problem. While volatility is a big problem, I don't think it's the only (or even the largest) risk to banks using it.
Wow this is amazing! I love these kind of open source projects.

I'll give a brief summary: they use two raspberry pi cameras (5MP) and a prism to capture images of a finger print. Then they use a new fingerprint spoof detection
schema (that they developed) through the extraction of highly discriminative
fingerprint spoof detection features (color local binary patterns) to determine spoofs vs not spoofs. Compared to traditional systems they have pretty high spoof detection rates.

Here is a video link if you are too lazy to read the pdf: https://youtu.be/sY4Yf4roEsI
Err, I must confess this is confusing to me. On one hand the GP stated that observation and the “inference” or the uncertainty are two different phenomena. But you seem to suggest otherwise. Did I get something wrong here?
Not thinking of consequences does not absolve one from responsibilities.
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Nature doesn't have any great goal just like economies don't. They are just chaotic systems we pretend to understand to claim control. The temporary periods such systems achieve some temporary stablity is when heirarchies form. Talk to an ecologist, if you want more plankton in a fixed amount of ocean you have to kill whales. If you want more whales you have produce more plankton as in you need a bigger ocean. Same story with the economy whether you pick Genghis Khan or Mark Zuckerberg you can't produce them without millions of plebs.
Question to e-bike owners - did you have to handle any sort of negativity from non e-bike riders? Stuff like "oh you are lazy", "this is unhealthy" etc?
> See the app store as something like "apt-get install"

You know, the first place I search for desktop software is on the apt repositories. Even when I'm looking software for Windows (then I repeat the names on Google to see if they run there).

Searching in aptitude is much better than on the web.
I do happen to know quantum tunneling a bit. I had the fortune to use a electronic tunnel microscope to observe the surface of gold (Ag) surface. But I can’t seem to “intuitively grasp” it
I doubt it. E-bike is pretty much still in group.