skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
are you just trolling for responses? well you got me.

You can't possibly believe that 70% marginal on > 100k is anywhere near reasonable. Here in CA, that means, you're income taxes would be 83% plus medicare and social sec urity which is +8%, and let's not forget the company pays another 7% of your salary on top of that (you don't ever see that 7% - that's the part they pay), and that's not even counting all the other taxes you pay after that. at that point, everyone would have to quit their jobs. to say that it would ruin the economy is the biggest understatement of a lifetime.
Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century essentially argues this, but more from a perspective of forcing investment back into the market to stay ahead of tax and inflation losses.
If I recall correctly, there were more deductions available to the middle class at that time as well. Credit card interest was tax deductible until the ‘86 tax reform that you mentioned.
I don't, because I don't make well over that. I make a little over that.

100k just isn't that much in a city nowadays.

I'd support it for 250k, but really we are just arguing about the cutoff not about the idea of raising taxes on high earners.
Love this thread!
Some of mine (excluding similar to what has already been mentioned):

alias cleangopro="rm -rf /Volumes/GOPRO/DCIM/*"
alias mkdir="mkdir -pv"
alias ssh<proj>="ssh <user>@<ip>"
alias clearmail='sudo rm /var/mail/<user>'
alias flushcache='dscacheutil -flushcache && sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder'
alias listenforpwd="sudo tcpdump port http or port ftp or port smtp or port imap or port pop3 or port telnet -lA | egrep -i -B5 'pass=|pwd=|log=|login=|user=|username=|pw=|passw=|passwd=|password=|pass:|user:|username:|password:|login:|pass |user '"
alias listenforuseragent="sudo tcpdump -vvAls0 | grep 'User-Agent:'"
alias listenforgetreq="sudo tcpdump -vvAls0 | grep 'GET'"
From a former C++ advocate on USENET point of view, it surely is.
I know this is not what you're asking for, but I'd recommend stopping at the end of the sophomore level classes in the open courseware material.

I finished an undergrad degree in math from a school that had a large PHD program, and once I got to the junior level it was a lot of proving obscure facts about complicated objects (say, Lie Algebras) that have zero applications outside of very speculative theoretical physics. Proving theorems was fun sometimes, so if you're interested in math as entertainment, it's worth trying the more advanced material.
I think the real issue is it's easy to find people who like high taxes, as long as it's applied only to people much richer than they are. It comes off as a lot more sincere if people advocate for an increase on their own tax burden.

The amount of revenue this will raise is rather low, compared to increasing the tax on, say, the middle class. You'll gain a lot, lot more if you revert the recent tax reduction on the middle class. I just looked at my numbers, and I thought my taxes wouldn't be impacted (high state income tax and real estate tax that can no longer be deducted). But even I saved quite a bit with the recent tax cuts.

I obviously don't have a problem taxing people who make over $10M. But if I had to choose, I would instead revert the current tax cuts, even thought that would raise my tax burden.
Wait, they said the lower nicotine made it safer? I'd always heard it as being the lower tar that was supposed to be healthier?
Yes. This article is about very low end CNC, just 2D routing.

Using a Dremel tool as a CNC router never works very well. The motor isn't constant speed, slows way down under load, and can overheat. The bearings can't take side loads for long, either. It's been tried. A Bosch router from Home Depot works much better. Those can cut wood all day. You can take off the handles, leaving a motor cylinder that can easily be clamped. Also, enclose the electronics in something that will keep the dust out. If the stepper motors are not dust-tight, they also need dust protection.

You need dust removal. Any CNC router doing useful work generates sawdust in huge quantities, much more dust than hand woodworking. Absolute minimum is a Shop-Vac sucking dust from the cutting area.

Trying to make a machine tool from low-end 3D printer parts does not work very well. There are some far better open source CNC wood router designs. The Maslow project [1] is especially clever and very useful, since it can make furniture-sized wood parts on a low-cost machine.

[1] https://www.maslowcnc.com/
curl http://slack.com -v
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< location: https://slack.com/
I'm pretty sure that cookie popups are EU regulation though.
Trillion dollar deficit means there are a trillion dollars extra floating around in the private sector. Trillion dollars more in people's bank accounts. If there was no deficit spending, there would not be money floating around in circulation that isn't debt issued bank notes.
When a UBI experiment runs for only a limited-time or can be ended abruptly by a new government (e.g. Finland's just-finished 2-year trial run, Ontario's 2017 project ending abruptly after a year, or Stockton's proposed 18-month trial), the data it provides is of no value whatsoever when determining the viability of a permanent scheme.
All of the top ones are anti pharmaceutical
Even if income over $10m is taxed at 90%, you still make more money when you get a raise.
"Yes, I'm aware he jerks it, we all do. Doesn't mean I want to watch him box the bishop."
There is a black mirror episode very similar to that blackmailing.
Carter, a library that allows Nancy-esque routing for use with ASP.NET Core
>I believe in addressing bad behavior on an individual basis, regardless of the offender's demographics

I mean...

>>It's been kind of shocking to discover that despite decades of strong support for women, lesbians included, I've suddenly been deemed the enemy, by mere dint of being a man.

...clearly you have no issue with labeling bad behavior by women and/or feminists as a group, unless your earlier comment was in reference to some unnamed individual woman, which would be a really weird non-sequitur, so I don't see why you can't do the same for men.

Culture exists. Group dynamics exist. Men, like women, are individuals as well as members of a complex and interconnected set of social, political and cultural identities. One can recognize bad behavior in an individual while also accepting that behavior can be systemic, and that men have been facing something of a crisis of identity and purpose in the face of feminism. I don't think it's incorrect to suggest that this crisis of identity has manifested some harmful traits, such as an unnecessary defensiveness in the face of criticism.

After all, there was nothing in the posted commercial that was an attack on all men or on you personally, yet your response to it was to express how women have apparently betrayed your trust and deemed you an enemy for your gender.

That seems an awful lot like a persecution complex to me.

>I'll wager that I'm far less tolerant of such behavior than you are.

I don't know why you would, but ok.
They wouldn't be 83%, because it's a marginal rate.
That sounds like Google Voice, that’s how it works for me:

You have one physical real number and one number that is attached to google voice. You give the google voice one to random parties and the physical one to your friends/family. All calls to google voice will still reach your real phone, but they will be routed through google voice first. You can later discard that number and get a different google voice number.
> totally subjective

Some pragmatic numbers:

1. Health spending: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

2. Health prices: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/how-do-...
Really enjoyed Algebra: Category 0. Introduces some basic Category Theory and uses it to develop the standard practice of undergrad algebra. The exercises are medium difficulty (nothing ridiculous like a Knuth or Spivak problem, but nothing breezy either) and there are enough examples in the text of proofs with enough detail to get you working on the exercise problems.
I’m sorry, but what? Are you suggesting that being conservative in the United States is somehow equivalent to being gay in Russia?
Yes, and I live in NY which would also make marginal income over $100K have extremely diminishing returns.

I do not understand your argument that everyone would have to quit their jobs. They just wouldn't fight for raises once they made it to $100K. I started my career making $95K out of college. I can't say I'm more than $5K/year happier now. I just spend more to keep up with everyone else, mostly on housing.
Russia, England, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and large parts of Eastern Europe disagree with that assertion.
> Food, water, and air are likewise addictive

This is a perverse usage. The physiological need for food, water, or air is innate; it arises from your body itself, not the action of the external substance on your body. Additionally they do not induce the classical development of tolerance.

Many people would hold that addiction itself is bad. Even if there are no other negative effects, there is the effect of dependence on the addictive substance and commensurate loss of independence (the addiction always occupies some mental space since you must always think about how you are going to satisfy it).
In our testing, it’s multiple times faster, especially at scale. RocksDB’s compaction becomes a bottleneck fairly quickly when put under strain for extended periods of time.

Helium performs much, much better at scale and doesn’t have compaction issues. It’s proprietary, but in my experience it’s money well spent.

For the record, we were able to fully saturate a 4xNVMe with a 96 core server using Helium, while RocksDB achieved about 20% of the full NVMe capacity.

As with all benchmarks, YMMV.
> - Fewer hormones for growth

This is a urban legend. Not sure if it was true at any point, but it is not the case.

Chickens were selectively bred to grow fast enough as it is, to the point that some breeds have a percentage of offspring lost. Try to make them grow any faster and more will die.

> - Higher quality meat (Chicken gets more exercise and movement, as well as increased quality of feed)

At least for cows (and most game), you don't want them to exercise too much or the meat won't be as tender. Is it different for chickens?
This has what to do with technology?
"Alex's death on 6 September 2007, at age 31, came as a surprise, as the average life span for a grey parrot in captivity is 45 years. His last words ("You be good, see you tomorrow. I love you") were the same words that he would say every night when Pepperberg left the lab."

"The name Alex was an acronym for avian language experiment, or avian learning experiment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
Im opposed to providing the government more money when they cannot prove they successfully handle the tax revenue they already receive. I'd much rather see loopholes closed vs punishing people who are successful. I do not believe congress has my best interests in mind when they simply ask for more money instead of addressing their current situation.
Really? Taking a pregnancy test more than once and getting a second opinion about a medical diagnosis are certainly both well established in public consciousness.
I'm confused at all the comments focusing on the fact that he intends to make money from this because... so what? Making money is not a bad thing, and he still intends to accomplish good things. One doesn't need to be a martyr to be virtuous.
Pssh - China just blocks stuff they don't like. Nice and simple.
In the UK we've had stuff we don't like blocked, we've had mandatory tracking by your ISP, and now you have to register to watch porn...
I'm not saying it is or isn't, but...

>However, it was too fast to be part of a coordinated campaign

Being able to act fast doesn't mean something isn't coordinated does it?

If I had an army of bots designed to reduce exposure or otherwise AstroTurf a topic I could put them into action as fast (potentially more suspicious) or slow as I wanted (would seem more natural).
Usually when it's hard to identify with someone, even if you still strongly disagree, it may mean you're not familiar with and giving a charitable reading to their best arguments from their most virtuous members.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/ta...
Video: Pocketnet is a fully decentralized publishing and social platform
Definitely agree.

I remember a long time ago Facebook profile pictures used to be private. And then one day without notice they became public. For some reason, I can't find any news articles about when this happened. Maybe I'm crazy or maybe the Internet is gaslighting me. Either way, I had friends who grew up in very conservative muslim families who no longer wore the Hijab but hadn't "come out" to their parents yet. Then one day they woke up to their facebook profile pictures being public where they weren't wearing a hijab and they haven't talked to their parents since.

Anything you put online has a non-zero probability that it will be 1) hacked 2) released as a bug or 3) released as a change in policy.
It's very nice to see all of this consolidation going on in the Typescript ecosystem. For example Babel 7 shipping with direct Typescript support back in August, https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/08/27/types...

I am a Typescript convert myself and would suggest any daily JS developer give it an honest try.
Quick and easy ≠ good
It's interesting and a bit scary to see how the reporter from NYT rendering WeChat, a daily used app developed by a HK IPO-ed tech giant, into a scary, wretched, government-controlled monitoring tool for restricting personal freedom.

Tell me, how can a social media like Signal and WhatsApp win in a country of billon population without even a single one local office? Just because it's encrypted? Come on!

How to say that? Either charlatan or simpleton.

Talk with some "real" Chinese ppl, guys, and learn about what is WeChat.
it's more than 83% when you take into account all the other taxes: there's not just federal and state income taxes, please take a look at your pay stub, there's a lot of other stuff on there.
"The main idea behind RACK is that if a packet has been delivered out of order, then the packets sent chronologically before that were either lost or reordered. This concept is not fundamentally different from [RFC5681][RFC3517][FACK]. But the key innovation in RACK is to use a per-packet transmission timestamp and widely deployed SACK options to conduct time-based inferences instead of inferring losses with packet or sequence counting approaches."

Conjecture: This, at scale, plus machine learning, might grant some insights (or at least variables that statistically strongly correlate to different conditions) about network segments that were previously not known or understood...
That's a vacuous, disingenuous argument that implies that anyone who is not rich and disagrees with this type of tax is objectively wrong. This is absurd and detrimental to constructive discourse.
Just did a brief search and found a few links:
https://www.infoq.cn/article/the-road-of-the-growth-weixin-b...
https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1005631

There seems more on cloud.tencent.com/developer.

And you can check their presentations on major per-field conferences like AI or big data or something.
This didn't age well: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-celebrates-windows-p...
Conservatives control our federal and most state governments. They recently had control of all three branches of the federal government.

The idea that conservatives are a disenfranchised or endangered group is absolutely ludicrous.
Yes, Defined Benefit Pension Plans, 401K profit sharing, etc. There are an enormous amount of vehicles to use to legally lower your effective tax rate for wealthy individuals - especially small business owners.
I don't see why it wouldn't. Others already pointed out its curation and B&M qualities, but you can also order online without a membership which is what I've done a few times (I like their protein bars). I hope Costco survives Costco.
there is a constant interplay of molecular signaling betweeen mother and fertilized egg, nurse cells and on through development until full foetus is delivered. in analogy the compiler would introduce corruption into code and the hardware would be incompatible with such a transgenic system.

You would be in a realm of engineering a developmental chimera, [see genetic chimera]
Seems like another unnecessary slam on America. I think the UK, Canada, and most of Eastern Europe have greater alcohol consumption per capita.
Where did you get the idea that the regulation of "organic" labeling prevents treating sick animals? To my knowledge it is not true.
Tyson doesn’t use any antibiotics, Purdue says they used less than 5%, and most of the rest don’t use them.
I think fun is an extremely important part of keeping up the pace of learning. I would rank that much higher over "methodically combing through everything", which could cause you to quit from boredom long before you reach your goal.

I'd hypothesize that the problem you describe is due to insufficient curiosity about the way things are already done. Especially with Google, Wikipedia, and well-populated internet forums, it'd be hard not to find "foundational solutions" after a little research.

I had a music teacher who was obsessive over minutiae, and fussing about the exact position of each finger on a piano key was much less fun than loosely noodling around with chords and making things that sounded closer and closer to real music. I made little progress with the lessons and quit, but since I started noodling on my own I've been getting much farther.

I propose that "intelligent" is a synonym for "gets enough pleasure from learning to do a lot of it", so I would overwhelmingly optimize for that.
All those lines would be better with ", except when you want it to" appended at the end.
My own family's dairy farm with 60 head of milking cows is currently set to go bust in the springtime. There's always been a steady drip of family dairy farms going bust but the pace has really picked up over the last few years with milk prices being so low.

Meanwhile there's a CAFO less than a mile down the road from them with over 5,000 head of milking cows that continues to grow and gobble up all the farmland in the area. They've had multiple manure spills, one of which ran down the hill onto my parents' land, into the creek that runs through their land and killed all the water life (that one they got a small fine from the EPA for).

They have literal manure lagoons that they don't know what to do with. Right now they're getting permits to put in pipelines to move it around.

I always wanted to move back near my folks but I worry about the drinking water quality due to this CAFO, with the probable high nitrates from spills and the high capacity wells sucking out all the drinking water. I shudder to think of what would happen if the planned manure pipeline burst somewhere and a large amount of manure seeped out underground before being noticed.

edit: I'm currently writing a blog post about this that I will post here next week; there is a lot of interesting tidbits to the story including the failure of farmer and dairy cooperatives. There is another post on the front page right now about Costco's vertical integration with chicken farms; well Wal-Mart is doing the same thing with dairy.[1]

edit2: A commenter had asked why my folks didn't go organic but deleted the comment before I could reply. We have some family friends who did that (organic crops as well), and it worked for a time, but the CAFOs have caught up on that as well.[2] Their story is very similar to this gentleman's: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/dairy-farming-is-dyin...

[1]: https://www.dairyherd.com/walmart

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-your-org...
I've seen this point before, but it's not an argument for keeping rates low. "If we raise rates, the rich will just find ways to avoid them!" People find new ways to try to murder and steal all the time; that doesn't mean we throw up our hands and make it legal to do so.

The solution is to raise rates and fix loopholes, difficult a political lift as that may be.
Another thing most engineering courses skimp upon is variational methods/calculus of variations, and that has effect in how they do classical mechanics. Physics majors and engineers do classical mechanics in very different manner.
I discovered this amazing YouTube channel recently that I wish I had access to back in college. It explains some very difficult math concepts in a very simple and easy to understand way: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
Love Inkscape. It's like vi for me - the tool I take everywhere, and I know all the keystrokes so well I can work at twice the speed of other tools.
Proponents don't automatically presume this. It isn't axiomatic. We just look at the data and disagree with your assessment. Yes, there is a tremendous amount of inefficiency in the entire process. Some people look at this and think that taxes are therefore not a good plan. Other people look at this and think that despite the inefficiency taxes solve such an important need that it is worth it.

The other problem with this sort of argument is that it works at literally every tax level. If federal income tax rates were 1% then your argument would work just as well at discouraging any tax hike. There is clearly an inflection point but it is worth examining where that point is.
A slippery slope isn't a good or bad argument on its own. It's just the mapping of a physical model of reality to data. Whether it's a good argument or not depends on its fit! In some cases it's a very strong model. For example, free speech seems to work best historically when there are enshrined rules that are never infringed. Obviously the fit is not perfect (e.g. yelling 'fire' in a theater), but it's a pretty strong fit.

On the other hand, the model appears to fit pretty poorly for gay marriage, where they posit if you move from traditionalism, before you know it, people will be marrying dogs.
React vs. Angular: Cost
They do have to take supplements, of course. It's their prerogative.

It's much harder to have a balanced diet eating only plants. You can't easily compete against organisms that only eat plants, and have been collecting all the nutrients, for their entire existence, for you.

Humans are adapted to eat from both plants and animal sources. Take away one source, and you have to adapt.
As the World Melts, an Artist Finds Beauty in Ancient Ice (2018)
have you ever been laid off for a year? you can't just assume you'll be gainfully employed your entire life. if another huge tech crash comes along, what will you do?

do you have savings? any retirement funds set up? any family? if you have family, your spending will skyrocket and you won't make it with 95K, even in new york. jsut so you know, child care runs about 22K per year per child (not tax decutible) and that's just the tip of iceberg. so don't have any children, if you wanna keep your spending low.

edit: serious question, is that equality worth it, if it means you're homeless and hungry on the street?

also, in SF 117K is considered low income for a family of 4: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Annual-Income-of-11740...
There are quite a few problems with your comment:

Medicare + Social security is 6.2%, and you don't pay it for income above $118.5K.

The 70% is marginal, not on the whole income.

The employer share (what you call 7%) is mostly irrelevant to the employee. It doesn't show up in my tax forms.

The whole point was that the exorbitant cost of living in CA would become unsustainable with such a tax, and the system will shift to account for it.

And finally:

>are you just trolling for responses? well you got me.

Violating HN guidelines.