skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr the same logic that people use to justify taking more of an inheritance also is applicable against anyone having that much wealth in the first place

Because it is their parent's wealth to do with as they please? Why does death suddenly mean all or some of what you have worked for now belongs to the state? Why do the rules change when it comes to children of an estate compared to a spouse? That spouse could be there as little as a few months by the way law works.

It has been taxed as it was earned and accumulated. When it gets spent it will be taxed as well. If it is the transfer of investments they will be taxed when the recipient uses them.

It is private property and we need to stop with the jealously angle being the primary motive of voiding that right. Oh I know, some will fire back with fairness well if it is not fair for the child of a person to receive their wealth in death how was it ever fair for the person to have it in the first place?

Got to love that article, lamenting that the funds about twenty three million are ONLY taxed at forty percent. Seriously why are they taxed at all.
I doubt any sufficiently wealthy family "inherits" anything, the owning is done by a trust or company with obscured cross-border ownership.

Inheritance is for the rest of us.
The character "Hoover" in HBO's silicon valley is not extremely far off the mark, as a parody of ex-law-enforcement/intelligence types who end up working for big corporate america.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY2A3c3-lUY
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Google is an experiment in what happens when you give a bunch of smart people a 6-7 figure UBI (funded, of course, by search).
The Unix Time-Sharing System Annotated by Eric A. Brewer [pdf]
Seems similar to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88

The Cambridge Computer Z88 is an A4-size, lightweight, portable Z80-based computer with a built-in combined word processing/spreadsheet/database application called PipeDream (functionally equivalent to a 1987 BBC Micro ROM called Acornsoft View Professional),[1] along with several other applications and utilities, such as a Z80-version of the BBC BASIC programming language.
Why is left wing screed so welcome here?

Why do people think it's okay to steal a family business?

Jealousy.
Except that MS Teams is designed exactly the same way.
So many people were very upset about the barbies. Now that they're gone, I get complaints! Folks are never satisfied. :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMDXdxQc4SU
That you would contrast "gun nuts" with modern leftists already tells me you probably don't have a meaningful relationship with many of us -- we love guns. There's really too much diversity of thought on the left to consistently characterize it in this way, and there's very rarely an issue where there even is a definitive "leftist" take.

While this isn't the case for far-right arguments, I also wouldn't characterize far-right as "braindead." They're usually arguments crafted very specifically to appeal to a subset of people who already aren't experiencing much distress at our nation's political trajectory. This is why these arguments consistently appeal to HN readers.
From the article:

> The group’s account, @DDoSecrets, was permanently suspended, a Twitter spokesperson told Gizmodo, citing the company’s policy against the distribution of hacked materials. The policy specifically prohibits accounts from sharing “content obtained through hacking that contains private information, may put people in harm or danger, or contains trade secrets.”
The update cycle on Android is not so straightforward. For instance RCS messaging, a newly added feature, is also available on Pixel 1 and older devices because such updates are directly sent via playstore to all the phones. So you don't really need full OS updates like in iOS.

Also, you are forgetting that Android phones drop in price almost immediately, so it's not fair to compare launch prices. For instance my Pixel 4 was essentially 74000JPY just 2 months after launch compared to 120000JPY iPhone 11 Pro year round.
The "modern left" is people like AOC. The NYT really isn't representative of that.

Is it more left than Fox? Sure. But even in the graph you cite[1], it's maybe 5% to the left. Calling it part of "the modern left" is at best ambitious. Thinking it's left enough that it would be on a crusade to silence SSC is... creative interpretation of the reality.

Is their "we must cite real names" policy dangerous? Yes. Is it aggravating they cause SSC to shut down? Yes. But let's keep in the realm of reality, please. It's not a NYT crusade.

[1] That thing is brutal on any PDF viewer I tried. If I were to read the source, I'd find the entire yarn of spaghetti as a million individual line elements, wouldn't I? ;) For people wanting to look - have patience, it takes time to load. On macOS, most PDF viewers actually fail to display it. FineReader OCR succeeds, after 25s load time.
Actually, I think it's a reasonable question as to why I care so much.

I'd like to say I have a rational justification based on risk/reward analysis, but I don't have enough information or time to really do that.

Honestly, it's more visceral. They repeatedly try to deceive people to pry away their private information. I want it to stop, and (probably to my discredit) I have strongly vengeful fantasies against the perps.
Whatsapp is aiming to become an all-in-one solution. When I click on a link in Whatsapp my phone takes at least 10-20 seconds to open the page, and that could be eliminated - similar to M-Pesa in Africa...
Google will now auto-delete location and search history by default for new users
They're already working on remastering D2, according to leaks. Supposedly it's going to be announced this next Monday. It follows from the SC:1 and WC:3 remastering that we've seen. In that case, it'd be more than a quick million. It'll be many millions and it'll refresh their IP claims (which is why these things actually happen anyway, right?).
https://getfreewrite.com/

I remember something like this being announced a few years ago called The Hemingway. This is what I found when I DDG'ed The Hemingway typing machine.
In the real world: agreed on there being tradeoffs. But as a methodology?
This is one of the questions whose answer is not immediately obvious if you think only one step. If you generalize this in a society, riches will accumulate further over subsequent generations because it is easier to make money if you have money. Even if you are. It that skilled, your financial advisors will just turn your money into more money.

As a result, the split between poor and rich will widen and widen. Until at some point, where the situation will implode or be unfavorable in some significant way. Hence, to have a stable system, the limitless accumulation of wealth should be reduced.

There should be inheritance, of course, and half of few million is still lot. However, this requires some progressively adapting tax percentages, based on the amount of inherited wealth.
Never said it was. Note the context of this conversation, and the article it is in reference to
> Now it looks like office 365 is going to be the cloud editing future for word / excel type needs

You are in for a surprise. Office 365 (at least Excel and Word) looks like a toy compared to the desktop versions. I'm not talking about niche features or VBA, I'm talking about things like naming a table, which is explicitly only supported in the desktop version. Ah, of course! You need the table's name to use it in their Power Automate platform. Microsoft 365 is a mess right now. I hope it improves.
If compounding returns are subject to additional taxation then why wouldnt the government be responsible for such a property itself (compounding returns on tax base for investments). For example an investment in irrigation ought to increase the output of agriculture and therefore increase their tax base...
> Instead i keep hearing that google engineers are going on "strike" (ie, getting company paid days off).

What's that got to do with it? Are you suggesting this is the reason things aren't shipping? I saw the "strikes" as another symptom of a company that is now deaf. Employees can't get their voices heard as individuals anymore.
Brave on Android is pretty damn good imo. Brave on Desktop.. Needs work
Stadia?
Yeah, but I can install one of the many unofficial Android builds over and old Android phone.

My mom still uses my old Galaxy S2, which probably costed 50 euros/year over almost 10 years and supports Android 10 thanks to LineageOS.

An iPhone's faith is to become a doorstop no matter what.
The adage "If you aren't paying for it, then you are the product" is a bit trite and worn out, but it in Google's case "If you aren't paying for it, you aren't the customer" is entirely accurate. While individual Google engineers are almost certainly motivated to do great things for end users, the company as a whole has little incentive to make a great consumer experience.

Google feels like it's in a very awkward "You can't get there from here" position. I think they'd like to move more towards having a direct financial relationship (Google Pixel, YouTube's ad-free service, are good examples) with their customers but can't quite figure out how to get there. Pivoting a free product like Docs into a for-fee product often creates a ton of bad feelings for a company.
If you're interested in columnar database that can handle joins, Microsoft has one. It is called Azure Data Explorer(Kusto) and it is really fast. Here's the usual Uber Taxi Rides bench, you can see joins in the end:
https://yonileibowitz.github.io/kusto.blog/blog-posts/analyz...
If you read the article it will help:

"Some will argue that this example ignores any income and payroll tax the wealthy parents paid when they originally earned the $50 million. But if the couple paid their personal chef’s wages out of after-tax income, we wouldn’t think their personal chef should get credit for the taxes they paid. Similarly, we should ignore any income or payroll tax the couple paid when considering how much their son should contribute to the costs of government."
For people wanting something like this, there are still plenty of Apple’s EMate devices available on EBay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300
I like the "Alexander bias" term -- is that yours, or are you quoting someone else?
The postmarketOS project is trying to port these old Android devices to run on a mainline kernel, wherever feasible. It's non-trivial work, especially if you expect to submit patches upstream - I can see OEM SoC manufacturers running into issues with that. The whole Device Tree arrangement was intended to simplify this work, but a lot of hardware still comes with plenty of weird, one-off, entirely undocumented hacks. Sometimes it's a wonder how these devices can even boot at all!
People who think billionaires are so rich have never seen a federal budget.

You could guillotine a billionaire a day and their money wouldn't pay for nought. (Not even considering that their "networths" are always tied up in stocks.

As for using the term 1%, people rarely stay in the bracket for long, people change and move through different economic brackets all the time through their lives.The biggest indicator of wealth is age.

Others have commented on it, but inter-generational wealth is important for various reasons. Cultures that plan for their children's children make a lot of sense. I'd wager the West has some weird hedonism/individuality and we rarely just stop thinking of ourselves. Adding further estate taxes just removes even more incentive to work towards creating an inter genertional family. Rich families are also just better with money because it's what they know. Redistributing that money to others could just make it end up in coin machines.
I am overweight, love candy, chocolate, ice cream, both sides of my family have a history of diabetes.

How could you possibly tease out that covid triggered diabetes in me when I am doing such a good job myself?
The money that was used to purchase the stock originally was probably post-tax dollars
First world email problems.
Create wonderful things, be good, have fun
The second thing, and even more important, that you will discover later and YC StartupSchool didn't teach you is how to do this. People lie, are biased & don't know what they want most of they time. You will probably learn this in the hard way or probably never, but you know, it's part of the journey of every entrepreneur.
> Instead i keep hearing that google engineers are going on "strike" (ie, getting company paid days off).

That is a really strange false equivalency. Not even the slightest bit relevant, yet it reads as if you believe that protesting for social change is a bad thing.
There is a simple fix to this. You have to get rid of the stepped-up basis. Then anything passed down will be taxed at the prevailing tax rates. All these extra rules and tricks wouldn't be needed.

This is extremely unpopular because the upper 20% of society wouldn't be able to pass down their homes and what is left of their retirement accounts tax-free. That is why you have a stepped-up basis with an exclusion limit that has an extremely punitive tax rate that encourages gaming the system.

But you can see the political equilibrium. Regular folk think big inheritances are being taxed while they get to pass on their house tax free and the big inheritances go through all kinds of loopholes to avoid actual taxation. It is very American.
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> Which other 'boring' industry has that?

Meatpacking and logistics (Amazon!).
This starts with an excellent point - many bad, emotionally-driven arguments about how society works are predicated on the concept of "deserving". Bad people "deserve" to suffer in prison. Good people "deserve" every penny they make. The arguments rarely bother to go beyond those assumptions. The concept of "deserving" is real and important, but it's also commonly the linch pin of bad-faith arguments.
I'm guessing the iPhone 8 has some other issue (full storage?). Mine has had great performance and no app crashes since I bought it.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and answer the question honestly. Assuming we're talking about a country where "The Government" is pretty well behaved, said government doesn't put that money in its pockets. It makes it work for the people it represents. Working for your money and becoming filthy rich is fine. But when you die, you die. None of that money is yours anymore, because you no longer exist. We, as a society, are free to decide what we do with what's left of you and your belongings. In an ideal world, we can use that to better the lives of others.

Unless you were a truly stingy person in life, your affluence will have already have had huge positive impacts on those near and dear to you. Once you're dead, why should they be any more important than any other person?
Does it though? Most android users I know don't care how recent their OS is. Most Apple users I know don't care how recent their OS is. Most people I know don't update their OS because then they have to update a bunch of other stuff too.
You might be interested in the WikiReader, but not actually. You could probably do a Wikipedia export to a good e-ink reader and disable networking and call it a day?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

“Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony”

― Niccolò Machiavelli
That, and supported battery replacement from the oem is why I recently switched from Google Nexus and Pixel phones to an iPhone 11.
In my case, I replaced the battery four months ago.

It's not just the battery. Newer OS's are just slower.
Previous startup I was at had deployed the MacOS version of this and the entire Eng department had to petition to get it removed.

It randomly picks files to send to MS for analysis and hijacks 50%+ of the CPU to do it.

I legitimately don’t understand what it’s trying to accomplish other than another being a telemetry vacuum for MS.
It is if you actually care to understand human nature and how it is interrelated with the environment; rather than relying solely on surface level observations, like skin color, for example.
Yes. But they obviously cannot offer her anything in Denmark, nor much in the US either. Her degrees are in mathematics. Hence why I am asking whether she is barking up the wrong tree.
Goooogcorp: We have seen that you are displeased that we are not supporting product. In response we are shutting this down.

https://killedbygoogle.com/
I was given a first generation Alphasmart in middle school and told to use it for all my assignments since I had such terrible handwriting. At the time I thought it was incredibly cool, but in retrospect I wonder if I fell prey to some ill-thought technology in the classroom program. Perhaps it would have been better if they had just helped me fix my handwriting.
Also in that timeframe the privacy landscape and people’s sensitivity to it have changed a great deal. It’s a much bigger concern amongst normies than it was 10-15 years ago.
I don't really understand this sentiment, here's how my drive looks:

https://i.imgur.com/UUUboTd.png

does your drive look significantly different from this?
I'd posit that the passing of substantial wealth and capital between generations is one of the chief drivers of social decay. In the long term, it causes an immense amount of power to devolve into the hands of a small group of people who have done nothing to prove that they have the wisdom necessary to wield such power for the benefit of humanity.
The future does not belong to Google and Facebook. Data privacy is too important to allow massive grow in ads, and they are not companies organized around selling software. As the article points out, we can live without both. It isn’t 2009.
If someone decides to give you a bunch of money that they have earned and paid taxes on, should they be able to?
It seems unlikely that income tax would cause that. Property tax is a more likely culprit.
Time to Do Activism in Reverse
> Nothing Google will try to do in the years ahead will change the basic equation.

If Google splits up their various products into separate companies forced to survive on their own without Google's monopoly money to fall back on, we might actually see some quality products and services out of Google for the first time in a long, long time.

Of course, the leadership will have to pull their heads out of their gilded asses for something like that to ever happen.
New technology for aluminum production promises zero CO2 emission
And not providing updates at all unless users buy new hardware is better?
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> There is value in all 3 approaches but don't make the mistake of thinking they're all the same.

I respectfully disagree, and would gladly take the counterpoint to that argument. You will find the intersection of the three inside of many real world engineering problems. On the contrary, I am skeptical of the idea that applications in any one particular area don't have corresponding mirror images in the other two. Based on achievements in all three (research, engineering and trade), it is my opinionated belief that a focus on the intersection is where you create compounding value. I would love to hear a compelling counter-argument.
What you mean to say is that the battery can lo longer deliver as much power.

Performance capability is reduced if the battery is worn, see iOS Settings > Battery > Battery Health.
Ruby has pattern matching as an experimental feature:
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/25/ruby-2-7-0-rele...
> Putting the exemption back down to $1 million doesn’t sound like it would heavily impact you unless your grandfather had a lot of beneficiaries.

This is also the difference between an estate and an inheritance tax.

If someone has a $25 million estate and divides it evenly among 25 heirs, under an estate tax with a $23 million exemption and a 40% tax above that, each heir gets $968k. Under an estate tax with a $1 million exemption, each heir gets $616k. Under an inheritance tax with a $1 million exemption, each heir gets $1 million.
This is the answer, I'm pretty certain.

But I think it'd be good with more female CEO's, for the whole world (this also based on biology).
I remember way back in the day my parents were invited to a “dinner party”. It wasn’t until they got their that they found out that it was a pitch to some MLM scheme like Mary Kay.
Fortunately you are not the only person under consideration, or it would indeed be extraordinarily difficult.
Why did you link to the ideas page?! There are 839 words on it and I have no idea what your product is or does.

After looking at the docs[1] and front-page, you're a serverless lambda/functions/zeit with all the normal limitations, but a pretty decent tech-specs for the free and paid tier.

What makes you different? I really like the lack of vendor lock-in, but you need some more killer features to stand out.

1. https://docs.deta.sh/docs/micros/about
You are, for a fee.
Lack of user input. Extrapolating MS could introduce "new" Edge every week forcing repeating the whole process on 1 billion people.
Unfortunately people's solution to this will be "edit this registry value" or "use this tool that disables it", just like with telemetry, instead of dropping this user-hostile data collection system off the face of the planet.

But it's OK - Microsoft <3 open-source :)
If you have a working gemini client, could you not just look at a server's response and piece together the format? I'm curious because I'd also like to play around with gemini.
Someone once described the big tech companies this way:

Google is about solving tough/new engineering problems;

Microsoft is about building software;

Apple is about the consumer;

Facebook is about your attention span;

Amazon is about your wallet.

I thought that summed up their personalities pretty well so thought I’d share.
Similar idea: https://youtu.be/R63x2TXm0s8

It's a raspberry Pi, with an e-ink screen, and battery to provide an 'offline' repository of information, including Wikipedia.
It's kind of fishy this is the only comment OP responded to. And OP's other most recent comment was on a basecamp thread
Another problem is that most users don't know what Android is and even less what version they are using.

If anything, a new update changing anything in the UX might be met with negativity.

So OEMs have even less reasons to care sadly.
I have always wondered what would happen if an inheritance tax were pushed to 100% for sums greater than 10 million. At that point the only way to hide the money would be to move it off shore, but then that money would be permanently off shore. The consequence of that is that it is mostly beyond reach of US taxation but in order to access that money people would have to leave the US, so it almost becomes a citizenship tax. I am basing a lot of this reasoning on what happened to the billions in wealth when large tech companies tried to dump it in Ireland to avoid taxes. The money doesn’t just disappear unless the companies are willing to never get it back or move to Ireland (corporate offices and primary investors).

There would also be economic consequences for those not wanting to evade tax laws because there is now a compelling reason to perform the impossible: spend all that damn money before the tax man gets it. That is one hell of an economic stimulus, but also means large injections of cash into charities and scientific research, and commercial investment.

To me all these options seem like a net positive.
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