skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the fines are too low. I could be persuaded of that.

I'm just saying that they aren't, as themagician asserted, lower than the actual gains from the frauds in question.
Nothing stopping you moving to a low tax environment and conducting all your business there if you think this is 'unfair'.

The concept of fair is alien with civilisation and taxation; society/economy/governments services are all intrinsically linked.
A lot of craft breweries in the US do this, particularly on the west coast. Ballast Point, Firestone Walker, and Ninkasi are a few examples.
When money is easy, the incentives switch to increasing consumption, rather than investment in increasing productivity. Why spend time and money inventing a better mousetrap when you could just buy ten more of them?

The principle applies at every level of the economy (individual, corporate, government etc)
The video you linked contradicts your statement. The portal lets law enforcement request video footage from a camera owner before handing it over, but the owner still has to approve the request. Personally, I don't see a problem with that.
I distinctly recall the ad-free experience of my cousin's cable service circa 1980, in stark contrast with the broadcast reception my family had. I can't definitively say that there were no commercials on the channels we didn't bother with, but in essence it was certainly a commercial-free viewing experience. This was in the Denver area. By the early 90s things like home shopping network channels and infomercials were increasingly common, and we eventually ended up with common disruptive commercials. Perhaps your "myth" sources are too young to have actually experienced the early days of cable.
Eschewing all hidden function calls is a reasonable design choice, but you give up a lot.

No destructors means no smart pointers – and Zig doesn't seem to have a garbage collector, so I guess you need to free() things manually.

No operator overloading means, among other things, no custom numeric-like types – including wrapper types for units (e.g. Feet) unless the language provides separate support for those (e.g. Go does, Zig seemingly doesn't).
The problem is that time spent online is not equal no matter where or what. Instagram/Facebook have engineered models against healthy psychology though and littered with ads, hence why they are worse than many places. Youtube has ads, but at least most are clearly marked. HN has neither.

I've found the best way to fix the non-productive problem is to find something you think is worth your time and also fun. I post a lot online helping people with the college search/admissions process because I enjoy it and it helps people. I probably spent more time with that than others do Facebook, but I don't think it's a problem. HN I would classify as a mix of keeping up with my industry + news + general interest.

To be clear, there are also ways to use Instagram/Facebook healthily, but it's much harder when it's literally made to be unhealthy because it's what the company wants.
As a somewhat picky consumer of hoppy beers, I really dislike beer cans in cardboard boxes for a simple reason: you can't see the canned-on date. It's not a problem with some of the smaller beer-specialty shops, but in both grocery stores and bigger bottle shops, it's not uncommon for beer to still be on the shelf well past a date where it doesn't taste as good anymore.

You can open the cardboard in the store to peek at the bottom of the can, but that sort of thing may be frowned upon.
Isn't the other half of the statistic something like "the top 0.1% of U.S. taxpayers earned majority of income"?
very good, thank you. i'll try to tidy it up
I like the idea is this useful for anyone outside of google?
you should check out https://vsco.co/
The top 1% earned 23% of all income.

They also paid 40% of all income taxes.
The article states

> Zig has no macros and no metaprogramming

but then in another place about zig[1]:

> Compile-time reflection and compile-time code execution

This does sound arbitrary more complex than macros (and is what actually got me interested in zig).

[1] https://www.patreon.com/andrewrk
Eh, I can certainly believe it. Remember that in addition to WordPress having an insanely large percentage of the CMS market/being used for many sites (30%), you've then got the next most popular ones also using PHP (Drupal and Joomla).

Additionally, most forum scripts use PHP (so add phpBB, SMF, MyBB, vBulletin, IPB, XenForo, Woltlab, etc sites to the count), MediaWiki uses PHP (and most wikis run on it), most eCommerce solutions use PHP (Magento + OS Commerce, Open Cart and obvious WooCommerce), and a large percentage of bespoke sites do as well (especially older ones, or those from less experienced programmers/teams). Educational sites use Moodle too.

It's just that these sites are less on the technical side than something like Google or Amazon or Netflix or what not, and likely require smaller programming teams working on them. It's entirely possible that most FANNG companies and Silicon Valley startups don't use PHP while most sites/visited sites in general do, hence the disparities.
>Tough decisions like this are the way you end up with a great product

Mozilla have been making "tough decisions" for the past 3 years but they haven't been able to even create a semblance of a "great product".
Science is hard. Scientists are people. People make mistakes. Not trusting 'Science' because scientists produced a good model that wasn't perfect is a stupid regression.

And, frankly, if you're going to produce a model that simulates something that is measuring risk (i.e., global warming), then I'd much prefer you leave out features that would understate the risk. Give me an upper bound on risk so we can see how bad it could get. If the worst isn't worth worrying about, well, then that missing feature didn't really matter. If it is worth worrying about, we can improve the model.
Announce post from a a couple months ago: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/08/introducing-tink-cry...
How low can you go? (Optimizing for power)
How did you come up with that?

The article just says that top 3% of US taxpayers pay the majority of income taxes.

If they pay 60% of all income tax paid, but have e.g. 80% of income, they're still paying "the majority of income taxes", but not a fair share of them.
From what I've seen so far, I really like the clean syntax of Zig. I want to like Rust, but it looks so verbose and loaded with special characters.
That video states that local police can ask Ring users for their security footage. No where is it made evident that it would be handed over automatically.
RadiaSoft offers that sort of work environment, with a small world-class team and plenty of interesting work.
David
radiasoft.net
> Engineers are just as prone to misinformation as any other field.

I would argue that this is exactly not the case because they know how to employ the scientific method. If humanities make all kinds of bold claims without providing logic and evidence engineers won't listen for very long. That is probably true.

The problem is that "tackle misinformation" and "ethics" get conflated here. If you want to know the truth you have to employ the scientific method.

Ethics on the other hand only contain very few "truths" and are mostly social convention. E.g. In some places of the world it is ethically perfectly correct to kill you daughter if she commits adultery. However there are some eternal truths that are correct for all different ethics out there, like the prisoner dilemma, contract/game theory and the fact that might is always right.

The latter eternal truth is the one that are interesting and worth discussing. However the former parts of ethics are the ones discussed by humanities. Hence from the viewpoint of an engineer useless.
My gym has guideless basic cable on the cardio machines. Anytime I channel surf I would estimate more than 50% of the 70ish channels are running commercials. Same when i stay at a hotel with cable. I’m surprised anyone is still willing pay for this.

Thankfully the new machines at my gym have Netflix.
Because if any of the A group discuss with the B group your going to get confused people that think you're price discriminating
This sounds so much like how things are done at Yandex. I guess we really copy Google at everything. I also disagree with people attacking the author, these sorts of things need to be aired out, in fact names should be named as well. Public callouts is the only way we can defeat toxic workplace culture.
These devices trade convince for privacy.

The minute you allow a device you do not 100% control to send data to a service provider, you should not consider that information private. The service provider has no legal obligation to keep the information or data private- I assume somewhere buried in the Terms of Service it says as much.
Well that again isn't an example of someone being caught and receiving a penalty lower than the gain from the crime.

I don't know why the justice department didn't pursue charges here. Maybe HSBC wasn't guilty? Maybe there wasn't sufficient evidence to win? Who knows. But this isn't an example of a caught party with a "so low that they don't matter" penalty.
Wow, edgy. The end justifies the means eh?

What about the part where the war on drugs doesn’t actually reduce drug use? Sure it funds itself by sealing money from innocent people but that’s just another negative externality.

It was not necessary for the Nazis to kill millions of people to develop rockets. Oversimplifying that period of human history doesn’t make reusing failed law enforcement programs a better idea.
Sentences lose meaning over time?
Seems like anyone trying to build something from basics with crypto?
The work behind that article was done at the European Molecular Biology Lab ("EMBL"), which is a government-supported research lab. I wouldn't call that "collaboration" --it's one of the three forms of R&D spending I mentioned above ("government as benevolent monopoly").

These are my made up definitions of course, so we can argue about what counts as "collaboration." I'd say something like W3C or Linux--companies and individuals working together who aren't bankrolled by either patents, the government, or a quasi-monopoly.
Actually the concept of fair is entirely inherent in civilization.

Nature doesn't care for "fair".

It's precisely within a civilization that you can deem a taxation scheme as fair or not.
dunno as the economist paywalls this article for me. i guess i clicked too many links into their site...
I apologize for repeating myself, I don't think I'm being clear on what I'm trying to say. Let me give an illustrative example:
Let's say I've got an 100% fair coin, but I want to trick you into thinking it comes up heads more often than tails. The way I do this is wit a meta-experiment: I will have 1000 trials with up to 1000 flips each, but I stop the experiment whenever I have a majority of heads.

What we expect to find at the end is, I get about the same number of heads and tails in the whole meta-experiment. About 95% of the runs will have more heads than tails, but each of those runs will only have one extra head. The few runs where I did all 1000 flips will be ones where heads never had a majority, so they'll probably have lots of extra tails. Same number of heads and tails over all is the relevant result, 95% of runs had majority heads is bullshit intended to baffle you.
Nobody would be fooled by such nonsense, right?
I dont think it's true. Remember Buffet saying that his tax is less than his secretary's?

Specifically top 1% average rate is 27% while top 0.001 - 24%.
Mozilla has been on a role lately of making statements that make me skeptical about the future of their browser. I just don't feel like every software I use needs to have a robust social policy behind it. I'm happy to just use something that works well
This assumes that salary is all that motivates people. In fact people like to work on challenging and prestigious tasks, and not only for money. Salary aside, given the choice, would you rather be an engineer or a janitor?
Is anything good if it's not democratic? I'm not sure if I want to pull on this thread too much...
It doesn't need to "follow." It is simply a fact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
C++ and Rust need destructors because they both have unwinding and thus need to know how to destroy things. If there is no unwinding then calling destructors manually is not that bad if compiler checks that you do it. That said, I haven't used zig and don't know how it actually works.
This shouldn't be downvoted. Changing the definition of failure is definitely what they're doing.

For a VC, anything that doesn't result in a liquidity event is a failure (in fact they might shut down an otherwise profitable company to sell off the IP and other assets for a pittance just to get it off their books).

TinySeed seems perfectly comfortable with no liquidity event ever happening, and just taking a cut of the profits.
Not true.

If you read the article, you'll find a graph which shows the fractions of income: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itOyNXaN9ah...

The top 3% of US taxpayers had a combined ~28% of income. You have to go up to the top ~12% of US taxpayers to accumulate 50% of income.
No chance. There are lies and there are statistics. It misses the point about local taxes and fees.

If you flip it around, and ask, how much of your total income is used to pay taxes and fees for federal, state, and local taxes, the ones at the lower end will be paying a much higher percentage of their income.

There is only so much you actually have to pay for when you become rich where the folks on the lower end must pay for certain things that take a larger part of their income.

No chance it is “fair” and we know who is writing the tax laws.
Ah thanks but I don't really need consolation, I knew what I was doing when I left California. Also I sometimes don't understand why we don't get more Brits over here in Ireland since we seem to have somewhat better pay.
Because for rich people its trivial to pay income tax (and equally trivial to hire top accountants and lawyers to pay as little as possible, perhaps even less than an average middle class citizen). In any case, a rich person can pay $100K tax and still have tons to spare.

A poor person might not even afford to pay $1K.
Trying to remove code from creating apps seems like an oxymoron to me too. Eventually you need constructs which code can efficiently provide.

if, for, while...
Around that time we had the Showtime channel and there was not (and still no third-party advertising?).

Of course when the "basic cable" started a few years later, for example MTV, those channels always had commercials.
The sentiments in this thread are surely one of the major driving factors behind techies being some of the most enthusiastic in the FIRE movement (financial independence, retire early). I often wonder why true lifelong career planning isn't part of formal secondary education programs. I've noticed a trend where especially in the software dev world, the reality seems to hit people like a ton of bricks in their mid to late thirties, seemingly with very little reflection on the likely paths earlier on, and FIRE seems like it is sometimes as much about saving face as it is about career and financial planning. Is it part of our inward nature spending much of our time trying to get in to a flow state to solve difficult problems that causes us to push away the messy and more difficult, human cantered, and politically loaded long term career development stuff in those early career years until that avoidance bites back?
AFAIK Nim has the same, but they call it by its name, hehe
This seems more of an issue with where the company invests resources than to the engineer themselves.
"earned" in a world of rentier activity. Some earn it, some appropriate it.
Which special characters bother you the most? Before 1.0 we largely removed most of them.
Why stop there. If you don't pay taxes you aren't entered into the draft system. And finally, only the taxed public will be entered into the state and national reserve.
Invites for new streaming site like Sagose/Superchillin
For me, parent's design definitely feels more premium than the original, which to me seems a bit amateurish.

Here are my observations:

* Layout is too wide. Parent has made it more narrow which feels more natural to me.

* Form inputs are too wide. Same thing as above.

* Weird color palette. I like parent's color simplicity. Notice how he has used different shades of the same color.

* Too random images. IMO the images used for the hero and pricing sections don't make any connection with the product. Parent has left out these images and it is much nicer.

Takeaway, prefer simplicity if you're not good at design.
Go's resistance to exceptions looks like Steve Jobs and his one button mouse from here. It's not like renaming them to panic/recover fooled anyone outside of the Pike reality distortion field. Sometimes unwinding the stack is exactly what you want. Optional types are nice too, but that's more for things that are intentionally missing. I have yet to see anything here that's an improvement over just doing the obvious thing.
This is the problem with much of this inequality talk.

If you actually ask people what they believe to be true, the usually way overestimate how rich the 1% are, and they WAY underestimate how much taxes the 1% pay (or whatever 'richer' group you want pick).

If you ask them about what the 1% SHOULD pay they often pick numbers that are actually below what they actually DO pay.

The problem as in many spaces in politics is that the waste majority of people have no clue about the facts that they are voting on. And they have no intensive to actually learn the facts because their individual vote essentially doesn't matter. This is called rational ignorance, its simply not worth informing yourself about what is voted on.

Voting is way more about proclaiming alliance to some sort of party or set of ideologies.
Ones where the team pivoted early on? I think that's how Reddit got started; they got funded based on the team with a completely different idea, then moved over to their current one and made it a huge success. Quite a startup accelerators fund teams rather than ideas, including the one that runs Hacker News.
Because we rich folks don't want to have the extremely exciting and terminal experience of being guillotined?

Also, wow why are we responding to this thoughtless comment, but you realize that income taxes aren't the only types of federal taxes, right?
Tax is paid on income. You linked to something about wealth.
Yea, I use this app already. Mostly for the editing part but the whole interface feels like an art project and for me always seems to be pretty annoying to navigate.

I'm carefully optimistic that at some point we'll get a IG alternative based on something like ActivityPub with different clients to connect to. One can always dream.
> And a bad engineer can destroy as much.

Often claimed, rarely proven. Usually in those cases it's actually management doing the value-destroying, by either misallocating people or refusing to act on removing bad engineers.
warn() is just as complex to write as print(). One is included, the other isn't.

If you classify all C-programs by what output they use (multiple counts allowed), printf/puts shows up with the highest percentage long before ncurses, X or anything else.
I'm a translator from the Chinese. Yan Lianke has had a couple of different translators, and his writing reads completely differently in different cases. I would recommend trying Cindy Carter's Dream of Ding Village -- I think she did an excellent job, and that's also one of his best books.

Grove Press publishes a novella collection of his called The Years, Months, Days. Those are also excellent examples of his work, and while I'm less enthusiastic about the translator, I know the story Marrow is pretty good, because I edited it :) Seriously, that's just a damn good story in general. Those novellas are I think more accessible to a general readership, because they're very specific, and very vivid. Even if you're unfamiliar with the place and time, the story will more than carry you along.

I think his other published novels, like Four Books and Explosion Chronicles, are not as good. They also require a little more background knowledge.
if the genuine product was doing a proper QA there wouldnt be so many counterfits from the very same factory would there?

Apple being a good example.. they have strict QA controlls and you never hear of a "second shift" creating fake iphones.

Ever complain to a brand and have them do something about it? most dont.

usually 'brand x' is more concerned with maximizing its profit margins, which is why they went to china in the first place (cheap labour, lax environmental laws...).
Glad to see more work from Quillette, strongly believe they're one of the only strong less-bias sources of objective journalism in our world today.
His effective tax percentage he meant. Since he has so many tax write-offs, capital gains distributions and carried interest, he was referring to the taxes he paid divided by the total money he earned. One can assume his secretary had only her income and the standard deduction.
The performance might be better in some cases actually.

In the case of perl, where regexps performance has been optimized for significantly, the regexp actually performs better than a more normal parser.

From http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html:

> It provides the same functionality as RFC::RFC822::Address, but uses Perl regular expressions rather that the Parse::RecDescent parser. This means that the module is much faster to load as it does not need to compile the grammar on startup.

Of course, if perl were a statically compiled language, the cost of compiling the grammar could be done at compile time.
Wait, you’re in support of the common practice of wealthy going to tax havens?
The science of climate change doesn't only depend on computer models. The broad strokes just rest on geologic history, along with some basic physics. The models are just to fill in the details.
Why stop there? How about only white male landowners can vote?
Wealth and income are not the same thing.
I think it would be helpful if you explained yourself. Or are you talking about iPhone 6 battery throttling palaver where they slowed down devices with other batteries to stop them crashing. In that case, yes it was stupid they way they failed to communicate that. But the while company has zero ethics? IOS 12 has given my 6 another couple of years of life, I estimate.
The OP is about income tax, not assets & wealth. Two very different subjects.
It will be interesting to see what they are gathering.

My Pi-Hole blocks twitters analytics endpoint so I get an annoying name resolution failure when clicking t.co links
And thinking about it, when something like the ad bubble drive up housing prices for example, other companies may have to participate too in order to pay competitive salaries.
Wealthier people also receive much greater benefits from the government. The court system makes complex contracts possible in a way that really only benefits holders of capital. Infrastructure for transportation and information technology benefits everyone, but especially people who own companies that ship goods and deliver services over the internet. Government contracts benefit people who have a stake in the companies that service those contracts. The police tend to provide better protection to wealthier people in wealthier communities, who have more to lose from property crimes in any case.

In case you're not persuaded that people who can afford to pay more taxes should pay a greater share, all of these things are valid reasons for the wealthy to kick in a lot more of their wealth, in relative and absolute terms, than other people.