skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you also need is self-multiplying investments and a lack of wealth, income, and capital gains taxes.

The current financial system didn't happen by accident. It was intentionally built in the 1980s by the Reagan administration, at the behest of rich Republican donors. It was not inevitable, it was engineered.
I'm fine with "it's down to taste".

"This course video doesn't need juvenile jokes" is an expression of taste. And some people enjoy the jokes.
Yeah getting more and more sign ups is another issue for founders.
Tax brackets are not what make doing taxes difficult. The tricky thing about doing taxes is figuring out what counts as taxable income, what can be deducted from income, what credits one qualifies for, and other details.

That's why the idea that taxes could be made easier by getting rid of brackets never made any sense. That argument is just a cover for undoing the progressive nature of the tax system (as in, the more you make, the larger the percentage you pay in taxes).
South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law
This source, who asked to reserve his name, was eloquent: “Outside the high season is one thing, but within the season, employers, to increase their profitability, force workers not to respect their hours of rest. The driver should say so, yes, but if you have your source of work at stake… ”

(link in spanish) https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/pequena-trampa-legal-habilit...
Rational economic actors going to act. Why be in SF just for the novelty if you can go somewhere cheaper.

Disclaimer: Schwab customer
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199?
The real issue should be the multiplier on CEO pay and boards. 300x or more is pretty obviously ridiculous. Hard work should be rewarding, but is anyone really working 300 times harder than the delivery guy? I could believe 10x I guess.
Here in Denmark the highest tax bracket applies to almost 10% of the Danish population. The Top 1%, Top 0.01% and billionaires are not taxed more than the Top 10%.

I belong to the Top 10% and I'm fine with that.

Why do Americans focus so much on the "ultra-rich" and the billionaires when you can build a successful welfare state by just taxing the Top 10% a little more?
Those offline mail readers were awesome - I preferred OLX.

In fact, when I finally got email, I wrote a QB program to convert my inbox to QWK format. I would then use OLX to read/reply to emails. I don't recall, but I probably used OLX's Save As to store my replies to text files which I then uploaded to my online mail server.

I used OLX for emails until at least 1999.
Sometimes I wonder if there’s a funded campaign against the Bay Area online. Where do you live, and where did you come from? I just moved to SF and yes it has homeless people, traffic and is extremely expensive, but these are things that every other big city I’ve lived in has. The costs and homelessness are worse than Seattle or NYC but not to the point that it’s a reduction in my quality of life. To say you have “no good opinions” is so extreme. The area is beautiful, has a rich history, amazing culture, food and art, and if you work in technology has the best availability of jobs in the world.
I struggled with maths as a kid, but gained a much better grasp as an adult, when I had to use it for practical applications.

I really think the abstract nature of the way maths is taught (at least in the UK) is a big problem that holds people back - kids don't understand the point of the more complex stuff.

I recall asking my secondary school maths teacher what the point of learning about some concept was (logarithmic equations, I think), what practical applications it had - he couldn't answer that.

If I'd understood how such concepts could be used in the real world for interesting things, I'm certain I and others in the class would have been better able to "get it", and would certainly been more enthused.
The saying “happy as a pig in mud” might have a root cause.
Thanks. Didn't know they existed. From their page:

https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/

"ArcaOS is more compatible with modern hardware, makes more efficient use of memory and system resources, and installs more easily than any other OS/2 distribution…ever. Really.

Do you have a system with 16GB of RAM in it? Want your apps to really fly? Configure ArcaOS to utilize all memory above 4GB as a RAM disk, and at bootup, copy your most frequently used applications there. It’s like running your OS/2, Windows, DOS, REXX, Java, and ported Linux applications on air."

And they develop further for the newer hardware:

https://www.arcanoae.com/arca-noae-progress-report-usb-arcao...

"When IBM left off USB driver development, OS/2 had a working, 16-bit USB 1.x and 2.0 driver stack. Fast forward to 2019, and this is no longer adequate for the needs of today’s hardware.

The Arca Noae USB stack is now fully 32-bit, and USB 3 support development continues to make good progress. Implementing USB 3 support has been tedious because the OS/2 USB architecture didn’t accommodate the peculiarities of USB 3 well."

"entry last updated: October 16th, 2019"
That's not really the issue. The thing is, taxing people making 250k year amounts to a lot more revenue than taxing only people making 250m+.

The wealthiest make a lot of money, but it's nothing compared to the aggregate of millions of Americans making upper middle class wages.
I am amazed at the fact that even going the slow path gets laggy with a mere 900 elements...

What are they doing?!
> The company said Monday that “a small percentage of roles may move from San Francisco to Westlake over time, either through relocation or attrition. The vast majority of San Francisco-based roles, however, are not anticipated to be impacted by this decision. Schwab expects to continue hiring in San Francisco and retain a sizable corporate footprint in the city.”

Doesn't sound like they are leaving San Francisco, just building a new office in Texas (suburb north of Fort Worth).
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Please explain to me how rage against wealth hoarders will "eliminate the power to help those who need it most"
Are you suggesting that it's not possible to revise and enforce tax laws?

I can see the argument that, if a country attempts to close the gap with taxes, they will just lose a great deal of wealthy citizens and successful businesses, but that can change too. Nations can make new trade deals and treaties.
> bring your whole self to work

is a quote from mike robbins. not google. although i don't know if he works there or for them.

but since we are on the topic. i have always wondered about people who work in teams whose sole purpose is using all the tricks in the book to track other people online and accurately target them with ads and whatsnot. i wonder if these people are being "authentic" in the sense this article is portraying. are these people truly sad or something?

i may be speaking for myself here but if i was ever in such position, i would be doing it for the money or technology, not for well-being.

didn't one of the google execs say they warn their guests about their digital assistants in their houses?
I'm getting mildly amused at the spate of articles that zoom in on exponentially-distributed phenomena and find some kind of scale invariance.
This is exactly why this discussion should be about the top x% wealth and not income.
Yep never underestimate the capabilities and ingenuity of people, especially those with curiosity and time on their hands. They where basically sent to Boca to rot, so they really did not care what they did, they gave them a marginal budget and approved almost any project that did not increase headcount or budget. You would have thought IBM would have caught on then or at least after Bell Labs that incubators work and funding incubators is a good bet. The only strange part is incubators never seem to be able to retain their culture and seem to be temporal in nature.
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ChiselApp.com provides a similar "Hub" for Fossil and it still serves a useful function in the Fossil community -- somewhere to host your Fossil repos.

I've been thinking about adding CI/CD support and other tooling, but the CPU resources required would be cost prohibitive.
I think what they are saying is that framing the answer to the question, “What causes the seasons the change?” in terms of “tilt” conveys a misunderstanding of how the seasons work.

Yes, the earth is tilted on its axis. Yes, this tilt affects how much energy is absorbed (seasons). No, the seasons do not change because of the tilt of the earth.

The tilt of the earth does not change. The seasons change because the earth is rotating around the sun. That is, on one side of the sun the northern hemisphere experiences summer and on the other side, winter. It _is_ our orbit that causes seasons to _change_. Said another way, if the earth stopped orbiting seasons would stop changing.
I’ve always found it annoying that we have these multiple types of socket addressing, which were all invented before there was any concept of a URL, and yet there’s no clear bijective mapping between arbitrary socket address formats, and URL origins. I.e., you can’t just create a URL where the origin part is specified as a Unix domain socket path. (Or any other kind of format besides AF_INET and AF_INET6, despite there having been many other weird historical ones.)

Which means everyone who needs their client to support connecting to an RPC server over both AF_INET/6 sockets and AF_UN sockets, needs to invent some custom metaformat above URLs for specifying that they want a connection through a Unix socket path. Kind of ridiculous, really.
> I mean & I interpreted that the common user/man thinks of what (is the purpose) after hearing these site names.

I don't see any evidence that people in general assume the name of a site must literally describe its purpose, or that anyone is confused when it doesn't. Amazon.com seems to do fine, despite not being a site about the Amazon.

>Not many people outside HN Crowd or tech knows about reddit; many of those regular fols use Facebook for reddit-related things like discussions, meme, groups, meetings etc. So, for a common user (not HN Crowd), Reddit is unknown -> ????.

Reddit ranks as one of the top 10 most visited sites among American users, and is in the top 20 worldwide. You can find articles about it surpassing Facebook in popularity last year.
I’m not super rich but I wouldn’t call their wealth “unearned”. Why are you privy to their money?

The rich have an us vs them mentality because the media demonizes them for working hard. I dislike rich people as much as anyone but the productive response isn’t rage. Rage gives the rich even more power and reason to look for more reasons to hide their wealth and exploit.

If you’re so convinced the rich have “harmed” you why not try to move somewhere where you believe your ideals are more aligned?
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Of course you completely missed the point. All I am saying is that this may not be possible. This is 100% what I am saying.

Let me give you a concrete example: A visual recognition algorithm. Currently the way we do this is with a trained neural net.

Can a large crack team of humans reproduce the logic of this neural net in a way where it isn't a black box? Perhaps we can use abstraction and subdivide the logic into modular pieces and have different teams of people handle different components....

Or perhaps we have to leave it as a blackbox learning process. Currently there is no way to subdivide the core logic of a neural net into something even A team of humans can understand. The best possible methods we have in handling this complexity is to leave it to an automated process rather than abstracting components of the problem so that humans can understand individual pieces.

I AM not saying it will be impossible for humans to ever abstract this problem into something we can understand. I am only saying it MAY be impossible to subdivide, but it is CERTAINLY impossible for a human to understand the brain as a whole.

There is the possibility that complex concepts exist in the universe that cannot be understood by breaking it apart into abstract concepts. A neural net has thousands of nodes as touch points and it is highly probable that to understand it you must understand all of the thousands nodes at the SAME TIME. This is a viable possibility.

Leave it to the internet to read a comment and take it the wrong way.
They're moving HQ and refraining from growing headcount here in the future
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Doctors' trade group actively lobbies to keep the supply of physicians below demand so as to inflate their guilds' average salary.

Critiques of the merely well-off can sometimes be more indicative of the major problems facing America, since there are so many more in this category. For example, by critiquing this 1% class you also get into very interesting questions about land use in California.
It's not about how hard you work, but how hard it is to find someone else to do that job. Anyone can deliver packages.
Appropriate Inheritance tax can cure it;
It’s the handful of people who control 90% of all wealth.

In reality you have a power law distribution where ~20% have 80-90% of the wealth.
If housing costs are a problem. They have too many people moving there and not leaving. All major cities in California has the same issue that people keep moving here and driving up housing cost and causing more traffic.
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> This story first ran in November 2013, and it appears unchanged below.
I would agree that Twitter's design has led to a lot of toxic discourse, but I would disagree that it's the result of people not knowing how to use the site "properly." Quite the opposite - that's what the intended usage of Twitter leads to.
Getting the metadata is great, but the content won't come back.
I was a fan, but looking at the UI now, it's too messy. Has any designer mocked up something like the OS/2 UI, but good?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that thought so. It was written as smug fact and man that rubs me the wrong way for some reason.
> The benefits of education go to more than just the (parents of) the recipients of that education.

I think this is exactly the intent — get the whole county / district to pay, not just the parents, right? And these payments are usually compulsory regardless of whether you have children or send them to private school...
Most revolutions that fundamentally changed society required a lot of rage to get going. The French Revolution caused a reorganization European society along much more rational and liberal principles, but the Revolution required a great deal of rage to break out and sustain itself.
I agree. Becoming and staying a non-profit is harder than you'd think. The IRS's rules are vague and subjective. This is specifically what I'm talking about: "If unrelated business income comprises a 'substantial' portion of an exempt organization's income, loss of tax-exempt status may result" [1].

[1] https://www.hurwitassociates.com/taxation-of-unrelated-busin...
This is part of Schwab's merger with TD Ameritrade. Relevant bits from Schwab's FAQ [1]:

Q: Where will the combined company be headquartered?

A: As part of the integration process, the corporate headquarters of the combined companies will eventually relocate to Schwab’s new campus in Westlake, Texas. Both companies have a sizable presence in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This will allow the firm to take advantage of the central location of Schwab’s new campus as the hub of a network of Schwab branches and operations centers that span the entire U.S., and beyond.

Q: What does the headquarters move mean for the future of Schwab’s presence in San Francisco?

A: Schwab was founded in San Francisco and has maintained a longstanding commitment to the Bay Area, which will continue. A small percentage of roles may move to Westlake over time, either through relocation or attrition. The vast majority of San Francisco-based roles, however, are not anticipated to be impacted by this decision. Schwab expects to continue hiring in San Francisco and retain a sizable corporate footprint in the city. Any additional real estate decisions will be made as part of the integration process, over time.

[1] https://www.aboutschwab.com/announcement
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Westlake does not have cheap real estate.
Yes. Call it "The Millionth", which would include the 300ish wealthiest Americans. Everyone in the Forbes 400 has a net worth of over two billion. Even though within that group there is a wide gap between the top and bottom of the list, it's nothing compared to be difference between the top and bottom of the 1%.
> Sometimes I wonder if there’s a funded campaign against the Bay Area online.

By whom and to what end? Has it occurred to you that some people just don't like living there? Not everyone you disagree with is a paid shill.
It could be because income inequality is much higher in the US.
I left the Bay Area a few months ago. We didn’t even last 2 years. Structure your rent accordingly. :)
This essay presents interesting comparisons and data, but then it goes on to try to explain that the top 0.01% are getting richer faster because they have special skills and technologies (such as being able to scale a business up using foreign workers, or manage 20bn assets because of computers).

What is not mentioned but certainly plays a key role in one's ability to perform so well financially is the special opportunities the top 0.01% have and circumstances they operate within compared to the lessers. If we were to review each person in the top 0.01%, I expect most of them would be making their huge gains not by exercise of special skills but rather by exercise of special circumstances.

RISK - As we have seen with the 2007/8 financial crisis, there is a small group of very wealthy, very powerful finance people who can take enormous risks with other people's money, profiting whether they win or lose. The 07/08 crisis cost the general public (in bailout using public funds (debt)) hundreds of billions of dollars. But the stratospheric executive bonuses paid to fund managers and bank executives during the lead up years was not retracted. So the people that took unreasonable risks profited greatly, and the public paid for their profit and then some. Even during the following years, the executives and fund managers received significant bonuses. And thanks to golden parachutes, the exit/firing of some of them resulted in even bigger profits for that group.

OPPORTUNITY - The wealthier one is, the easier it is for them to get credit. Even in cases such as Trump where he has a long history of running businesses into the ground and leaving debtors unpaid, he was famously able to secure very large loans to take even bigger actions (which similarly often resulted in underperforming businesses which would later seek forgiveness or reductions of debts). The point is, once you're rich enough, you need never risk your own money. You can borrow huge sums to seize opportunities. When you win, you win big. When you lose, you can probably get away with no personal loss.

LAWS - With wealth and power comes influence. You can afford to lobby (sometimes a polite term for bribe) to get special laws or loopholes that have direct financial benefits for you. Perhaps it relates to a defense contract, and you hold a lot of Boeing stock. Or perhaps it relates to an FAA regulation and you hold a lot of Boeing stock. Or it's a special rule that lets you write off the purchase of a piece of luxury property as a business expense.

TAXES - This is a huge space for gaining an advantage over the normal people. Not only do you have the means to play the offshore/shell-company game (reducing your tax burden, perhaps to zero), but you also can do strange things like deferring your taxes indefinitely if you're a hedge manager.

I could go on with plenty more examples of special advantages that the top 0.01% have compared to everyone else. These advantages, even if modest, represent an exponential benefit in terms of financial growth over time.
Sounds like you live in SF rather than other areas of the bay. The bay has micro markets like its micro climates.

Also, the bay has good jobs, so there's that. I mean that's probably why you moved here?
Property crime is high in the bay.
Why did you move there? Tech exists outside the bay.
It will just slow it a bit. A non progressive capital gains tax even at 99.999% will still lead to power law distribution. And I don’t think anyone would say a tax that high is exactly done at behest of the rich. (EDIT: compound interest literally is self multiplying investment)

One has to rather specifically design a progressive taxation system to avoid a power law.

Read the paper. The conditions for power law are very simple.

I live in Finland. A place one hardly can say is friendly to the rich. Yet we too have a power law, just with different constants than what US has.
Bill Gates hasn't worked in 15 years, but his wealth has more than doubled.

He has literally sat around doing nothing, occasionally traveling to Africa to boost his PR, and got more money than the median American could make in a million years. How did he "earn" that?
Unfortunately there is little agreement on which programs aren't working or aren't needed.
It's a double edged sword. I loved math because I liked physics, and calculus text books had plenty of physics examples.

Then I tutored people doing "business math" - calculus but using finance for all its applications. Most people struggled not because of the math but because of the difficulty in understanding the finance part. And it was hard for me to give help because I had to learn the financial aspects to help them with their HW.

If the application doesn't click with you, then you now have two problems.
Obviously it's a conspiracy by Californians to keep others from considering to move there!
> very large, very often inherited, fortunes

The article addresses inherited wealth:

> On the 2016 rich list, two-thirds were self-made and one-third had inherited at least part of their fortune. More than 10 percent were immigrants to the US.
Do check out author's other project, Kafdrop[0], a web UI for Kafka.

[0] https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop
I use both. Frink is on my phone. I have SMath Studio (or Smath)on my phone, which is a MathCAD clone, and is now free even for commercial use [1].

I have a bunch of tools in my toolbelt from working in engineering for many years. I always recommend Frink, SMath Studio, and the J programming language among the many tools. I am a polyglot, and I find Frink's simplified Java easy to use for even creating an input window for applications I find myself using repetitively.

[1] https://en.smath.com/view/SMathStudio/summary
More risk for zero gain.
> Unix sockets (of the non-abstract sort) also need a way to atomically unlink an existing socket and bind in its place. Doing that as two operations is pretty common, but it's racy.

To atomically unlink an existing socket and bind another in place, without races, you should be able to first bind a new socket to a temporary name in the same directory, and then use rename(2) to atomically replace the existing name.

There may be queued connections that need accept(2) in the old socket after the rename, but that's not a race condition.
Everyone knows you come up with the cool acronym first and then figure out what the letters mean to fit the cool acronym.
Not really, most of the products/services that I launch are more on the B2B Enterprise domain and do not have a lot of crossover.

I do have a couple of products getting ready to launch that we will probably launch on a couple of those platforms.