skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
afaik, you don't actually report asset purchases to the government. at the time of sale, you report the cost basis and sale price and pay tax on any gains.

unless I'm mistaken on how the reporting works, this is much less intrusive than having to give the government an asset list every year.
Well it is pretty common for Millenials as we were literally raised on the "everyone is special, do your passion for work, never work a day in your life, blah de blah" message.

The reality is some people actually are just special. I watched an interview with David Foster Wallace and two other authors recently and it was blatantly obvious within a few minutes that he was just better than them. All three were professional published authors but it was clear who was gifted and who wasn't. I don't know if that means the other two were wasting their time, but it is definitely discouraging to watch as a fairly average person.
Benefits and welfare programs have been increasing dramatically as a percentage of GDP.
> There is no word to replace required that wouldn't be open to your complaint; e.g. needed, necessary

Appreciated is an appropriate word, you subconsciously swapped in required.

A citation is required if the goal is to maximize constructive communication - if that's the goal, of course.
Got Facebook blocked, or simply don't want to visit it directly?
I run a FB proxy for public posts:

https://nofb.pw/?p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F4%2Fpost...
If you love Wait But Why, Randall Munroe's What If? blog has a similar semi-visual explainer style, but has more of a focus on scientific answers to ridiculous hypotheticals: https://what-if.xkcd.com/
why have such low confidence in the intelligence of Americans?

people aren't dumb, and if it was just a higher income tax it would be called such.
It's not totally alien at all. It's the way we finance nearly all our local governments and school systems.

Tallying up property and paying a tax on it annually is something literally everyone does.
The belief that software should be free long precedes any app stores ("I paid $N for the computer, why should I have to pay for the software‽‽‽"). It's especially weird to peg the blame on the Apple App Store given that it has managed to get people to spend billions on flippant stuff they would never have paid a penny for.

In the pre-app store days it was incredibly difficult to make a business selling software if you weren't one of the very large players.

Having said that, to address-

"Companies need to make money. People need to be paid good wages"

-this would be fair retort if it was a new service charging {X}. If it isn't, the counter-argument is that they were undercharging to prevent competitors from making money / paying good wages.

I'm neither here nor there on this, but it certainly isn't a moral thing that you're holding it as. People are annoyed that they're going to have to pay more for less. Eh.
> Alternative title: Majority of Americans are not rich, and therefore see no downside to taking from those who are

Thats unnecessarily reductive and dismissive of peoples' beliefs. Probably more along the lines of:

1) The rich have the system gamed in their favor and thus its only fair that they pay more into the system that secures their wealth.

2) There are direly needed services that need to be funded and the rich can afford the pain more than the poor. Wealth itself has a marginal utility.
I think Amiga find themselves at the perfect border of extendable and retro. Mine has 1024x768 (over hdmi/dvi), 128MB of ram, a cpu almost 5x faster than it shipped with (66MHz vs 14MHz), and an ethernet (pcmcia) card. I don't have usb yet, but it's possible. I also have unreasonable amounts of storage (compared to the design) via an sdcard.

Much older and you lose all of this. Much newer, and you just end up replacing a PC with a crap PC.
>Could you be wrong?

Yea, but I can turn the question right back around at you. You are trying to claim that this law shouldn't have passed because people can make the best decision for themselves. I am saying that I view this law passing as one of the best decisions for me. I do not want to work in an environment where companies can be this predatory without regulation. Letting companies do so will embolden other companies and then put downward pressure on my wages.
How religious is AA?
Mostly when the very rich are elected to government positions and decide to shift the tax burden down.
From the Article:

>Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on ~~very rich~~

>A wealth tax, where a fraction of ~~your~~ bank balance is removed every month.

Most people's Bank accounts earn less than 1%. Maybe you didn't understand the question correctly.
It's true, but the main advantage of the Airpods is how compact and convenient overall they are. I keep them in my front pocket usually and I don't even feel that they are here.
Sony's case is just too bulky for my taste: https://i.imgur.com/OcJrMHn.jpg
Exactly. Its also why Elon comes up with lines like a car driver is an elevator operator and owning a traditional ICE car is like owning a horse. This gives everybody the tools to effectually spread the word via word of mouth. It is an under appreciated part of technology marketing that is extremely important to make a product succeed. Hence that is the part Docker was got right.
This is not true at all.

People are already familiar with property taxes. They pay them for their houses every year. In some US states they even pay property taxes on their cars.

However, there is no property tax on stocks, bonds, etc, which is how the rich store most of their wealth. So people pay taxes on their houses, but Bezos doesn't pay pretty much anything on his enormous giga-wealth.
Internet access will continue its steady progress of being more available and cheaper, and you have the burden of proving otherwise.

You can look up the CPI: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEEE03?output_view=d...

Broadly speaking it seems like consumer prices have decreased (CPI suggests ~25%, but that's probably very general). At the same time we've gotten incredibly better internet service compared to 1997 (how do you even account for the monumental jump over that time period).

If the world is ending, we've got it pretty good.
This is a wholly American problem - in Europe the view of the government isn't as the most efficient actor but certainly one that is acting responsibly to provide needed services that benefit the nation - in America the government is viewed as a garbage can on fire that money is continuously thrown into because that fire is heating some water that funds the military and we all sort of accept that if the military collapsed things would be bad while concurrently thinking that this might be the absolutely worst way to do things... the weird thing is that in America that's absolutely correct, because everyone expects rampant government corruption it isn't scorned but lauded when people managed to defraud the government and get away with it (Oh, you managed to get a refund on your taxes after making 270B revenue - good on ya Amazon, you're really screwing us over and making it look good). The result is that acceptance of this being inevitable has led to apathy towards the problem and gradual acceptance as contractors massively defraud the government, with calls for accountability being coloured as wasteful by those contractors and all that being accepted by the populace at face value.

So, America's way is stupid and idiotic and it's not clear that we can actually fix it - but, we need to try.
>In a survey context, all of these questions can be answered on autopilot by mistaking "wealth tax for rich people" with "higher taxes for rich people," which are definitely not the same thing.

That was my impression as well. I'd bet money that a large number of the respondents didn't really understand the question. I would love to see the exact question stated somewhere.
$120k per year is a couple of orders of magnitude below any threshold thus far proposed.
Well in one exchange, one person asked another if they would be willing to fly their family on a MAX plane, to which they responded no. And perhaps more importantly than the content of these messages is their volume. There's 100 pages of this stuff. This isn't an isolated case of disgruntled employees like you'd find at most companies. This is an entire project in which just about everyone working on it had something bad to say about it, and was acknowledged to be dangerous, and it still got rammed through.
In our experience running production workloads on k8s for over three years templating (helm) and structured editing approaches both have their place, and both are valuable. We don't feel the need to replace declarative approaches with another imperative language, or to use complicated helm charts for straightforward service deployments.

There are many ways to classify workloads, but one big distinction that we find valuable is between stable infrastructure components and our own rapidly deployed services. The former have complicated configuration surfaces but change relatively rarely, while the latter are usually much simpler (because microservices) and change daily in many cases.

We find helm works very well for the infrastructure pieces. Yes it's complicated and easy to get wrong, but so are most other package management systems. Charts for complicated things can be quite dense and hard to comprehend. See the stable prometheus chart for an excellent example. But once the work is done and as long as there is commitment to maintain it the results can be pretty awesome. We use helm charts to install and upgrade prometheus, fluentd, elasticsearch, nginx, etcd and a ton of other tools. Yes we've had to fork some charts because the configuration surface wasn't fully exposed, but they are a minority.

For our own services charts are overkill. They're hard to read, and crufted up with control structures and substitution vars. Essentially all of our microservices are deployments with simple ingress requirements. We currently use kustomize to process base manifests that live in the service repos and combine them with environment-specific patches from config repos. Both are just straight yaml and very easy for backend developers to read and understand, and different groups (i.e. devops, sre, backend dev) can contribute patches to the config repos to control how the services are deployed.

Bottom line: if you're going all-in on kubernetes, which you really need to do to get the most benefit from it, then you're going to need more than one approach to deploying workloads.
>The ultra wealthy's wealth is primarily in business ownership or equity which is only taxed on gains when it's sold.

So for the rich to unlock their wealth and make it usable they have to pay a tax? Well, let's tax it again, why not? And as for property already be taxed? Why not have two taxes? The more taxes the better. The war with Iran isn't going to pay for itself.
Paw is amazing indeed. The pricing model + the fact that it's native!
People don’t have those things any more than they do now 50 years ago when people weighed less.
I'm not defending them in the least (see my post on yesterday's discussion) but Postman isn't just a UI over curl.

The primary value add is the ability to organize groups of related requests and then run them as part of a test suite and assert against the outcomes. It's essentially a test tool for REST APIs that's accessible to a less technical audience.
To be more generous, they hire fantastically bright people, but they do not give candidates an ethics quiz, nor would it even be possible to construct a non-gameable filter.

This likely goes for any company that grows from small to giant: early on, you hire people you know and trust, or that your (trustworthy) employees know and trust. But when you're deluged with applicants, you hire people who can solve leetcode hards in 30 minutes.
No PWA, but there's electron desktop build which can work fully online (and then sync).
I recently switched to Windows w/WSL after ~9 years on OSX, and ~7 years before that on Linux.

It's been challenging in some regards, but it mostly just works. It's also been a breath of fresh air. I've found paying the Apple tax just not worth it anymore (riddled with bugs and paying a lot more for the same level of hardware).

Note: I have admin rights.
I think you'll find our governments will never, ever fail to find the money they need for wars.

The "freedom dividend" may do some good but it's never going to abolish poverty or fix wealth inequality without lots of big systemic changes. How would giving everyone a fixed amount remotely "solve" wealth inequality when you still have even hundreds of billionaires out there?
Seconded on Insomnia - I switched to it when encountering a bug in the encoding of the curl command generation in Postman, and haven't looked back.
Yes. Although that thread is getting cold, I've moved the comments thither, so the discussion stays in one place.
My apologies, you're correct - edited to remove the snark.
Show HN: A 2FA proxy for publishing to npm
Was that a typo? Did he mean to say "put the user's privacy above the company's success"?
> primarily in business ownership

Businesses which employ people and pay a whole host of taxes every year...

> or equity which is only taxed on gains when it's sold.

How would it be fair to tax someone on an asset that only has a theoretical value, which isn’t realized until it’s actually sold?
Unlike good ole' bombing, raiding and shooting, which has clearly been so effective over the last 19 years?
> A wealth tax, where a fraction of your bank balance is removed every month, is a totally alien concept to most people. If you haven't thought about it before, it can take a minute or two to wrap your head around what it would actually mean.

Many Americans already experience a form of wealth tax: property tax. You are taxed a percentage of the value of your property, something not terribly liquid.

Incidentally, a handful of states prefer to tax wealth in the form of property rather than income (Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming)
> standardized, conventional set of practices and code that are well known and not hard to implement.

Every time I ask somebody about this, they recommend slightly different practices or else insist that you can’t use a checklist approach. I partially rolled my own auth as an experiment to see what they meant and it seemed not too difficult, but I worry I missed things and hesitate to use it for production.

(Still used libraries though like bcrypt and a session encryption library)
Ethanol removes inhibitions, therefore people make bad decisions and they lose their filters which prevents their immoral impulses from rising to fruition. This is why someone being a "mean drunk" is a very bad sign...it's surfacing what is below the surface. If someone is a silly/happy drunk, it's a much more benign sign.
Android First CVE's of the Year
The type of eye surgery may depend, in part, on the day of the week
The military has and will continue to be the politically-correct [to them] means of implementing a welfare state for republicans. I mean you get free high-quality insurance via tricare, free college via the post911 GI bill, subsided home loans via the VA — all the trappings of the welfare state but politically acceptable to most Republicans and centrist Democrats. The military-industrial-congressional complex is alive and well.

IMO there is no reason we should be killing people outside our borders or even have military outside our borders when there are much larger domestic problems that are unaddressed. I walk by homeless people shooting up right next to million+ dollar houses (yay Seattle + AMZN/MSFT) every day and fixing this shoes not seem to be the priority as the defense contractors and American people themselves are from this porkbarrel.

Yes, war is a racket.
My key takeaways from the article:

* "Women held 50.04% of nonfarm payroll positions in December, the highest share since 2010."

* "Over the past year alone, they’ve taken on a greater share of positions traditionally held by men: they make up 13.8% of mining and logging jobs, up from 12.6% a year earlier, as well as a growing share of manufacturing work..."

* "Women have the biggest presence in education and health services -- holding more than three-quarters of those positions -- and government services with about 58%. They account for 56% of positions in financial activities."
Windows, C#, formerly Visual Studio, now Rider. Of course with admin rights. Do you realize .NET is pretty big in the business world, long before it even became cross platform with netcore or there being a crossplatform IDE?
The wording used in the survey is included in the article.

> “the very rich should contribute an extra share of their total wealth each year to support public programs”

They included "extra share" and "total wealth". I think that's quite clear and 64% strongly or somewhat agreed with that statement.

> “the very rich should be allowed to keep the money they have, even if that means increasing inequality”

54% of respondents disagreed with that statement.

Seems pretty clear cut and understandable.
Well, if you're only claiming median skill I don't think that applies.
That was the moral of The Man in the High Castle when it was written -- that every totalitarian state's wet dream is that a new generation can be enculturated to not believe alternatives are possible.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money” -Alexis De Tocqueville
This is totally unhinged.
Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004
What legal recourse were you looking for? What court battle would you have gotten into around this?
"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the guy behind the tree." -- Russell B. Long
Iraqis hit the USA Stark with air to sea.missile not long before and there was extensive low-level surface conflict in the gulf at.That time.
Quit your job and start something and holy shit you will come to realize the lotus is even more extreme than you thought. The worst is finding out how many, or probably most, raise their pre-seed entirely on connections, the ones you don't end up building at the companies you work for. So you end up an actually broke start up founder, realize the meritocracy is only for the poor souls who have to succeed based on their own merits, and that you might not stand a chance braving the startup seas. Talking to your friends who are employees will dial up the dissonance to 11...the myths they believe about founding startups and fundraising, what they've 'learned' from podcasts and blog posts about startups; anything less than over the top enthusiasm for the risk you take will shock you to your core. It's fucking hard.

The weird thing for me is how trapped I felt by my vest dates before leaving the comfort of a well-funded business. I could afford vacations and clothes I wanted, if I waited long enough and kept getting promoted I could eventually buy an overpriced but lovely home in the Bay Area somewhere but I'd never have enough money to really live free.

Do I regret leaving to start a company and ultimately fail? No. I used to be poor and I got used to being poor again. Leaving the island was awful however: paying for food and healthcare again, an inability to enjoy the myriad distractions of the bay. I might never be able to afford a home of my own but I'm lucky that my wife is an artist and is happy to entertain the struggle as well. I'm actually on company number two but this time with some funding.

It's a hero's journey, like the odyssey or wandering the desert. I somehow have found peace with all this; the debt, the fear, the stress. The journey itself is the reward even if it is a bitter one.

What I'm saying is, if you get the sense you don't want to be a lotus eater in Silicon Valley, say fuck it and pull the plug. You'll grow some scars, it will absolutely suck (even my peers who did YC feel this way), but you'll feel some kind of cosmic satisfaction with your path like Odysseus.

And if you don't gain that peace, you can always get another job :)
These sections really stood out to me:

"there is a significant difference between serving ads based on a Google search and working with the Chinese government on artificial intelligence or hosting the applications of the Saudi government, including Absher, an application that allows men to track and control the movement of their female family members."

This is a stark and honest way to put what Google is doing. These are actually fundamental values at stake. Not just 'privacy'.

"Although the causes and the implications are worth debating, I am certain of the appropriate response. No longer can massive tech companies like Google be permitted to operate relatively free from government oversight."

So FMAGAN companies are weaponzied in the geopolitics. This sounds good when dropped over the wall, but when you try to play this out against the current state of the USA, it seems near certain to me to go horribly wrong.

I would much rather break them up - all the way. Whatever that means.
That post is just one of many anecdata (to some degree of truth) out there about Google and other FAANG companies being "ethically challenged".

I remember having done a "computer and society" assignment about 14 years ago on Google and China. I also remember Microsoft's "Halloween Documents" (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) from early 2000s. And many other scenarios of Big Tech ignoring ethics.

In general, trust (like attention) is a limited resource to be used wisely.
Salaries are rising now, though.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N/
Yes. People often favor vague concepts that don’t appear to impact them. And often oppose actual policies when one is written and subjected to scrutiny. The devil is always in the details.
I honestly think so much of what we take as "normal" in society today will change dramatically once Millennials become dominant holders of political offices.
(Cross-posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22013580 per @dang above.)

I don't know anything about Postman, but this is an interesting case study on price increases.

No one likes price increases, but they happen. So long as you have a strong ROI use case, you can navigate those discussions with your customers. E.g., "You were getting a 50x return, but listen, we're running a business over here, and a 45x return is still pretty darn good."

The challenge in Postman's case appears to be that they ALSO reduced the bundle components. So you compound the perception from "paying more" to "paying more but getting less". That's worse optics.

What I'd offer you think about is this may be a perfectly rational and even optimal customer solution. It's unifying two different pricing actions: price increase and product bundling. The logic being that many customers weren't using all the users, API calls, documentation views, custom domains, and integrations that were previously included in, say, the Pro bundle.

So as opposed to increasing price by—I'm making up numbers here—12% and leaving bundle elements the same, they increased price by 10% and cut features by 2%. The end result is exactly the same, but is actually better for most customers because they will get the same level of features they needed and not have to pay that additional 2% for features they weren't using anyway.