skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only seen one person break his arm, and that was a fall from a tree, the bone was completely broken (his arm was bent at an unnatural angle), and he was in severe pain, the EMT's injected him with a painkiller almost immediately.
You're thinking of ex-employee's well being, I'm sure, but is retail really the best place to grind your way up the corporate ladder and make a living wage? I would hope that the old employees would have moved on to better things rather than being given back what they had as is.
If you were a military commander and someone proposed attacking an opposing force with a unified front, would your answer be "You're welcome to go out there and attack them yourself if you want to"?

The point is to enact tax policy that applies to everyone, so that the sum total of the changes can actually make an impact. Saying "well people can always donate to the treasury" is a ridiculous way of dismissing it.
This is a great idea, but Eli doesn't need to wait for the law to be changed. He can donate as much as he wants directly to the US government right now. https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html
Thank you! This is important feedback.
Here's some good advice I wish I had earlier. At least I think this is good advice. Tell me if I'm wrong.

You need to maximize your IRA. Why? Because you can trade within your IRA without tax-consequences. Buy low and sell high. After selling keep the cash around until things go down again and it's time to buy.
> you can get most of this stuff much cheaper on Aliexpress

You're thinking of an entirely different market.

People who shop for something like a drone in Best Buy are never going to order one directly from China. First, they don't trust Chinese websites (and I've ordered from them all, so I completely understand why). Second, they probably don't know exactly what they want, so they need to talk to someone first. Third, even if they do know what they want, 99% of the stuff you see on sites like AliExpress is actually toy-grade junk, even when the price is $100+. Finding something that's actually worth your money is like finding a needle in a haystack.

I think there's a ton of potential in selling these types of hobby electronics to consumers, but it's only possible with salespeople who can demonstrate and explain the products. Fast shipping (or pickup) and easy returns/exchanges/repairs would just be icing on the cake.
The rationale would be focusing the efforts of the small development community on the important features and having to worry less about breaking existing functionality.
A CDC confirmed case requires positive on five bands which is pretty good. These are reported to the CDC. This only confirms infection with Lyme at some point in time (could’ve been years ago). It in no way tells anything about so called “chronic Lyme” or “post treatment Lyme disease” or possible symptoms from an untreated Lyme infection (which is real and can turn into bad news such as heart failure).

A reason for possible increases in reported cases is that Lyme infected ticks are now found in every state, and also it is a more widely known about disease possibly leading to more testing for it and thus more reporting of infections.

One problem is this test isn’t perfect. For example in my case I am five bands positive. I tested myself twice six months apart on Quest with the same five bands positive both times. But being a thorough person I also at the same time tested myself using the IgeneX test, which had no (zero) positive bands the both times. I reported this pretty bad anomaly to the CMS but haven’t heard a response.

It is my impression from most of the research and talking to a pretty awesome neurologist who deals with a lot of “chronic Lyme” cases that make their way to him: that most chronic Lyme is actually an autoimmune reaction. Possibly caused by a prior Lyme infection (possibly not) but if so then the Lyme probably long ago was defeated, as patients with those symptoms tend to improve once put on high dose IVIG.
To rephrase my complaint: "conformity factor" should be more appropriately named "Excess Factor".

Consider a car just barely passing a CF 2.1 NOx test in 2017, then it obviously won't pass the stricter CF 1.5 NOx test in 2021. even though the NOx emissions limit will be identical!:

>European emission standards for passenger cars (Category M)*, g/km

Tier Date (Type Approval) Date (First Registration) CO THC NMHC NO
x HC+NO
x PM PN [#/km]

Diesel

Euro 6c - September 2018 0.50 - - 0.080 0.170 0.0045 6×1011

Euro 6d-Temp September 2017 September 2019 0.50 - - 0.080 0.170 0.0045 6×1011

Euro 6d January 2020 January 2021 0.50 - - 0.080 0.170 0.0045 6×1011

As the emissions standard becomes stricter, then that same car would only pass increasing Excess Factors

A 2017 NOx Excess Factor currently named "110% conformity factor CF" of 2.1 would result in a "50% conformity factor" car in 2021, even though the emission limits and the car are identical... does that make sense to the reader who wasn't pointed out the inversely defined terminology?

It reminds me of "symbolic euro" which does not mean a euro as a symbolic gesture at all, it means a sum of money representing however high the cost will turn out to be, say in damages,...
They do not. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm
What's the point of the walled garden to the end user if they don't use it to stop behavior like this? The entire pitch was that it allowed quality control. Without that it's just blatantly getting a cut of other people's work.
*Google is listed on Nasdaq not NYSE
Maybe, but nothing I've ever tried has worked and I'm not the only one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/20...

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2215353
The Meaning of Life Is the Meaning of Life
You do realize that the top 1% is more than just the wealthiest 100 Americans, right? And you do realize that nobody's saying "reduce everybody else's taxes to zero", right?
Oh look another rich dude who spends his money trying to get Charter Schools instead of actually pursuing raising taxes on the ultrawealthy. Where's $50m to a foundation set on creating a wealth tax Mr Broad?
Idea taken from Bitcoin SV and it cant work at scale because ethereum doesn’t scale.
I don't get the relevance of comments like this which I hear all the time. Say everything in the comment is true. It's all within the noise of a decade of research from now till 2030.

The big picture is, this patchy performance is the writing is on the wall. It's over for radiologists, for the most part.

The nature of this problem is a great fit for ML and it will in short order (10 years) be superior in the vast majority of scenarios to expert level humans.

People say, but psychology, fear, unknowns, will require human supervision indefinitely. Of course that's true.

The problem is, radiologists will effectively be relegated to proofreaders. The number of minutes required of them per patient will plummet and so will their job market (unless changes allow many more untreated people to get imaged).

What about the researchers? Even they will take a hit as the imaging analysis part of radiology research moves more along the spectrum toward yet another computer science problem.
I'll let him know he's been promoted!
I think people are taking this question in bad faith, which I understand, because I can see it come off as you essentially saying "if he wants to pay more, maybe he should voluntarily," which isn't at all in the spirit of the article. He CAN pay more, and he does donate to charity - his entire article though is about how the ultra wealthy are getting away with far too much, and society needs to step in. Non-voluntarily.

In any case, to answer your question: No, the IRS doesn't prohibit it, and as far as I can tell it's not illegal.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/the-right-to-pay-no-more-than-t...

> Taxpayers who overpaid their taxes can file for a refund. Taxpayers must file a claim for a credit or refund by the later of these two dates: Three years from the date they filed their original return. Two years from the date they paid the tax.

I guess if you overpaid, didn't file for a refund, and waited 3 years, the money would just vanish.

The problem is it'd vanish into a black hole - no congressional committee has budgeted for that "extra" money to suddenly appear, there's not really any accountability for it like you'd have for charity.

A higher tax rate means that economists can much more confidently say "this is how much money the US government will have for spending in 2020" than guessing how much ultra-wealthy will pay, and then not request refund on.
I see so I was mistaken about that. I still don’t understand why people don’t see that it would be trivial for a major bank (or now that Bitcoin has grown, a government) to look into making enough computational power they would destroy it.
Spending all of your free time soldering is not the same as making music.
No, don't believe so (I mean, I could probably reject my income tax refunds too). But I think what they're arguing here is that as a class they feel they should pay more.

While one billionaire paying extra for the Greater Good would be fine in isolation, how effective would that be in the big picture?
The problem is that if you don't have an insurance company for the hospital to attempt to gouge, all you're going to get is the bare minimum required to stabilize you and push you out of the ER. And if you do have insurance, you just need to keep enough bankruptcy-seizable assets to fill your out-of-pocket maximum and then play hardball over any excess that they attempt to charge you. Pay your OOP max, then cordially invite everyone who bills you to either work it out with the insurance company/regulator/mediatory or go pound sand because you're judgement proof.
It is slow! No question about it. :) To be honest, most of my projects have either gotten popular fast or died slow deaths. Slow, steady growth is the anomaly and it's taken me 10 years to really appreciate how weird and special that is.

And wow, the other comments to this comment really made my day. I haven't been to Hacker News in a while but it's amazing to see that it's turned into a positive environment.
Gas station on wheels: Booster Fuels raises $56M
UniFi controller, Emby, Syncthing
The Bitcoin blockchain stores and secures a ledger. So these websites are just content (text, code) encoded and published through various entries (outputs) on that ledger. You can publish on the Bitcoin ledger for 1 satoshi/byte and an average transaction is around 250 satoshis. These include info on the "sender", "recipient", amount, etc. But with the a special type of opcode you can also publish strings. So the cost of publishing on the Bitcoin blockchain depends on the size of the text you need to publish.

A satoshi = 0,00000001 bitcoin and 1 bitcoin recently crossed 10k dollars. So being conservative, 10 bucks would allow you to publish a very simple website.

Bitcoin's blockchain is a terribly inefficient place to publish websites, unless you're looking for censorship resistance. The Bitcoin blockchain is secured by the strongest network on the planet by far. So once you publish it you can be pretty sure it won't be easily taken down.

Navigating the blockchain in the sense I think you mean wouldn't cost anything. You'd just need to interpret the encoding of the text that was published.
We came second pitching Salesforce to a uni in the UK,which was supposed to cover all these aspects you mentioned.If you interested,drop me a message,I can guide you towards the right direction.The company we lost against did about 400 implementations for universities and schools.
IMO, their taxable "income" is typically very less.
They didn't mention it because Lightning network is only brought up and pushed by people who have a stake in it. It only scales with transactions, not users, and is still pinned to Bitcoin.
Except raising tax rates on everyone above a certain income is much more effective than one person voluntarily donating.
Only those with more than 50 million in total assets will be paying a "wealth tax" according to Liz Warren's plan, everyone else won't be paying.

I never claimed the top 1% is just the top 100 wealthiest Americans.
>allows fairly non-technical people to build fairly robust applications with very limited CS training

Ok. BUT... when those limited CS training people want it done right, they hire any one of the huge middlemen do make SalesForce integrations and modules.

ATG is one I know of first hand. Hiring tons of people to make SalesForce suck less. Mostly sales people themselves, then some programmers to do the real work.

This cottage industry would vanish overnight is SF just sucked less. That's a weak foundation to build anything on.

Think of the other tech companies over the years that have seemed like behemoths to be utterly knocked out by someone that came in and sucked less. What do you think happened to the industry of Certified IBM Professionals that relied on IBM being market leader in PCs?
You can make donations to the treasury. People can always raise their own taxes. The title is supposed to be: "I'm in the 1%, please raise other people's taxes."
I've read the IRS just returns the money, but you can donate to the government. But the argument is that charity does not make up for the negatives of low taxes. Also, the Broads are noted philanthropists, and they have committed to giving away 75% of their wealth.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/04/orrin-hatch-says...
I don't think Libra's collateralization is a hedge against fractional reserve monetary policy, I think it's just Facebook's way of ensuring consumer confidence that a Libra is actually worth something, and the most proven way to peg a stablecoin to a value.

I don't think this is necessary in a mature crypto economy where digital currencies are being used more than fiat currencies.

I agree though that crypto monetary policy will play a huge role in the future though, and in the case of Libra, policy will be decided by the Libra Association. All I'm saying is that the Libra Association is not necessarily the best group to be making those decisions because collateralization is how they're funded. The US Fed doesn't have that same conflict of interest... they're paid by US taxes regardless of how their decisions turn out.
Curation in particular seems to be Amazon's Achilles heel. They have no problem showing you pages of knockoffs when you are seeking a specific item. Then when purchased, you get to play comingle roulette!
Money at that level is power, and giving it up means letting people with similar wealth have more power over you. People don't generally unilaterally disarm.
I was told that if you find a tick on you, you should keep the bug in case you need to have it tested for Lyme.
Good article. Thanks for disentangling the jargon around Salesforce. I've always wondered why the idea of "CRM" never extends to more than the "Sales" process. What about more lightweight, easy-to-use system that someone who just opened a flower shop, or a yoga studio, could use to manage not just customers but also their employees and contractors? Why don't people use "Personal CRM" tools to keep track of conversations around the work-place, or interacting with employees? There is a lot of potential for a "contact interaction system", with many many use-cases, but I'm curious if the idea just doesn't have legs, or if it's waiting for something to popularize the concept.

Personal angle: I work on such a 'contact interaction system' with an app I have in the App Store, and though I market it as "CRM", my goal is to build something that's very easy-to-use so that "anyone" can use it, for the people who are looking for a good system to manage their contact and customer interactions. I would love to figure out how to drive more traction around the idea, since it's something that's beyond the regular idea of "CRM app for sales". Any thoughts?
1. You don't need fancy investment knowledge. In fact, you should actively avoid fancy knowledge until you have a firm grasp on the dead simple stuff.

2. Retirement investments should be: simple and boring. Once you have a solid financial plan in place that meets those criteria go ahead and gamble with whatever extra money you have if you wish.

3. Read this book cover to cover. It is very boring and very useful. After that read whatever else. https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Finance-Dummies-Eric-Tyson-e...
The walled garden isn't some impenetrable fortress, though. It does allow quality control and that is shown time again and easily seen when you compare the Apple App Store against the Google Play store, for example. All Apple is verifying, though, is that the app is coming from who it says it's coming from. It's these companies themselves that are selling the data to third-party companies. Unless Apple can someone predict and detect this reliably for every app, the onus of responsibility should be on the companies and their developers, not on Apple.
"Luxury, modern, new vehicles driven by statistically more wealthy drivers".

As far as risk aversion, I would say this group and Tesla owners are near opposites. Add in the completely different torque and breaking behavior. A completely different cockpit experience.
Can't they just pay more tax dollars that is higher than they are obliged to pay? I guess this is America.
Sure, but why does he need to wait for everyone else to support it? He should set a positive example by dumping his own money into the treasury first. After all, he really does believe in this and it's not just virtue-signaling.
Sure, Bottle is great but go and check out bitstagram.com all of these images are stored and served from the blockchain.

The entire site is front end, plain vanilla Javascript. It is using services that this developer also made.. Unwrter is a class act. @_unwriter
You're describing inelasticity of demand, which has nothing to do with whether or not a market is free in the economic sense (that is, whether supplier competition and consumer substitution are possible). It's also incorrect to pretend that all healthcare goods have the same elasticity of demand, as well as to pretend that even emergency healthcare is perfectly inelastic.

The reason this matters is that we don't see the same problems in other inelastic markets - for example, automotive gasoline is highly inelastic (estimated to be at -0.02 - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=19191), but we don't have the same pricing pathology with it that we do with healthcare (emergency healthcare estimated to be at -0.04 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5600717/). Therefore, we can't conclude that the problems are specifically due to inelasticity.
I think SAP is like 15 years older then Oracle.
Hm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

>In recent years, the term has been more commonly used within groups to criticize those who are seen to value the expression of virtue over action.

This man appears to be taking action, and advocating action.

> Two decades ago I turned full-time to philanthropy and threw myself into supporting public education, scientific and medical research, and visual and performing arts, believing it was my responsibility to give back some of what had so generously been given to me. But I’ve come to realize that no amount of philanthropic commitment will compensate for the deep inequities preventing most Americans — the factory workers and farmers, entrepreneurs and electricians, teachers, nurses and small-business owners — from the basic prosperity we call the American dream.

Lately, I find myself in discussions with people using the term to mock anybody that demonstrates care for liberal cause. I'm happy to acknowledge the transformation of the term "virtue signalling" to mean "supporting liberal causes," if that's what you want the term to mean in your post. Of course, I'd abandon any presumptive negative associations with the action of "virtue signalling," then.
That's an admirable expression of morals, but everyone with a calculator figure out that the 1% don't have enough money to pay for a welfare state.

The plain truth is, if you want a welfare state, the middle class has to pay for it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/demo...

I was really glad to find the Washington Post publish this. Perhaps it will wake up some people to the questionable promises that certain Democrats are espousing currently.

(The wording of this comment was edited to cause less offense)
If you can't get a Pi in volume, how can your competitor?
In most cases, you don't even need a pruned node.
https://github.com/interplanaria/bitbus
Free is hard to beat. Also keep in mind you could dump your excess cash elsewhere than the broker, right? As long as you're not margin trading, you don't need any cash buffer lying around.

If there's some savings account or bond that pays you a bit, you can stick your cash there.

Might be easier to access via IB, which seems to be a more complete offering, but I haven't actually checked what you can access there.
I've thought a lot about that option, but the problem is that wealth provides a disproportionate amount of influence in politics.

If all the people who didn't want to give any of it up hoarded it and spent it lobbying to keep inequality at a maximum and the people who wanted equality gave the majority of their wealth away then we would very quickly find ourselves in a dystopian nightmare.

It has to be everyone, equally. It has to by a systemic change.
Did you hear the big news about Google EDU account sign in to Office365?
> I never claimed the top 1% is just the top 100 wealthiest Americans.

But in a response to an article about the top 1%, you used the top 100 wealthiest Americans as a counterpoint. If you're not trying to make a connection, why bother with the analogy?
What is your take on the reasoning he put in the article on why he doesn't "just" do that?

> Two decades ago I turned full-time to philanthropy and threw myself into supporting public education, scientific and medical research, and visual and performing arts, believing it was my responsibility to give back some of what had so generously been given to me. But I’ve come to realize that no amount of philanthropic commitment will compensate for the deep inequities preventing most Americans — the factory workers and farmers, entrepreneurs and electricians, teachers, nurses and small-business owners — from the basic prosperity we call the American dream.
> just further erodes the liberty of private citizens

How does taxation do this? Taxation is a mechanism for funding the maintenance of an ordered society which enables extreme wealth creation. It's the wealthiest citizens who benefit the most from law enforcement, infrastructure, and national defence.
This is a dumb argument because it assumes that others would follow his example.
>Ask anyone who relies on accessibility features

An article written by a blind programmer[1] was posted on HN a while ago, and he said he uses Notepad++ because it's a native applications and plays nice with screen reader.

[1] https://www.vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words...