skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty sad that $600-$900 a week is a massive improvement for most people.

With state benefits and $1200 its nearly $45k a year, which is quite a bit more than $15 an hour. Its no wonder people have more money given around 30 million Americans make <$10 an hour.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/05/making-more...
(older source, but I am sure its in the ball park)

I am curious how long until US congress starts blaming anyone who is unemployed for "being lazy", and stop providing financial assistance, or only provides the bare minimum $7.25 an hour.
IRS FAQ on inherited assets is pretty good here:

https://www.irs.gov/faqs/interest-dividends-other-types-of-i...

Without any estate planning, you would pay $0 in capital gains because the basis resets to FMV at the time of death and the sale would be taxed as regular income (37% marginal bracket on $1,000,000 sale).

By my reading, this doesn't seem like a giant tax break.

Edit: Totally wrong. $0 taxes owed because basis is stepped up and sale is NOT treated as income.
yes, it's definitely anecdotal. so please see it this way.
> All I want are some blocks that I can glue together into a tensor graph and then deploy it for training and inference.

Something like that? https://peltarion.com/platform

(no relation)
https://area120.google.com/
My guess would be minimum-wage plus employment taxes. Nobody can afford the labor to keep up those kinds of estates.
Yep; this was it.
What do you mean by efficient and cheap? It doesn't fare well in https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... at least.
Mathematics and Its Symbols
Or people would just gift the money via a business. Add you and your kids name to an LLC. Invest money. Voila...
This is the fear of many people with mental illness: gangstalking.
Wealth is just the generative form of income expenditures.

How do you tax the "wealth" that is being able to get free food from a food bank, or a monthly check from the government?

How do you tax a bunch of experiences and education?

I dont think we should tax "wealth" when it's just a choice of what to do with post tax income. And pre tax investments are taxed on their exit (eg 401k)
The future of travel, according to guidebook editor Rick Steves
I have a first generation iPad and the App Store will still allow me to download compatible apps. The Kindle app still allows me to download purchased books.
It puts them into other, and it has a faster unsubscribe interface, though it doesn’t already work. When you delete a message you can trash or mark done all from the same sender, so that is nice.

For that use case you might look into Sanebox. It runs on servers and I think has a good reputation for that kind of filtering.

Personally I haven’t had too much issue with promotional email though, so I would take my comments here with a grain of salt. I can’t really speak to it.

The other folder filtering is decent, but I imagine gmail is also good at that with promotions.
I agree, there is no point in trying to change their behavior, we can at best understand them and offer alternatives
> Then something happened at Google. I’m not sure what. But they stopped innovating on cloud software.

What happened was they were printing money on the cloud software they already had. Classic innovators dilemma.
I have a hard time figuring what the purpose of taxes is with our huge deficits. It's almost like taxes exist only to redistribute wealth? Recovering even 50% of all inheritances via taxes does not make a dent in the deficit.
Why such an antagonistic reply? An honest reading of my comment is that I’m speaking primarily of black millionaires — while leaving the door open that there are other groups also deserving of exemptions.

It’s fine to disagree — but the tone is rather over-the-top considering. Let’s have a conversation. I’m open to hearing why it’s a stupid idea. But if we attack each other for posting ideas — then people won’t put forward ideas out of fear of being attacked.
Who does Google sell your docs and drive data to?
You might be able to spot the bug if you're lucky. Otherwise, it might go on undetected until it decides to show up at the "best" time.
Last spring I sat down to binge re-watch a TV series and just went back through my inbox looking for every mailing list I was on, unsubscribe, and then delete all previous messages. Probably took 8 hours total, but I deleted thousands of messages and now I get about 6 messages a day in my inbox, most of them from humans or services I just recently used. It’s worth my time to look at it again.
Also, folks with enough money will find a way to spend it on kids and grandkids one way or another: primary residences, targeted endowments, donations to private clubs their families enjoy, businesses that will keep their ancestors gainfully employed indefinitely, and so on.
Oh duh, facepalm. The significance of that tidbit was completely lost on my remembering...

And presumably not.
Try again and post back here. If this is here, then you may be ok.

After that, click the support link at the bottom to email dang / Daniel. He's super helpful and will help you get this sorted out.
It's front door social engineering. See also tobacco and alcohol.
It likely won't inflate the price of apples or whole chickens. It may drive up home prices or create a new market for super luxury vehicles. Consider that some big name billionaires could spend millions per day and not see a dent in their overall fortune. Imagine if you needed to spend $5 million a day, how quickly would you run out of things to buy that isn't collector cars, houses, or private companies?
I've never posted on Hacker News before, but since getting introduced to this community yesterday, I figured I would try contributing something.

I personally find the work Pixel8 is doing to make positionally accurate, high-definition 3D scanning possible to do with commodity smartphones thrilling. It's akin to making cutting-edge archaeological techniques accessible for everyone. And the stuff that will be built on top of these maps (autonomous vehicles delivering your pizza, AR games like Pokemon Go but much more interactive, insanely detailed asset inventories, etc.) are pretty exciting to think about, too.
Much as I take a more moderate view about taxation (some things that taxes go to fund are in fact ineffective and wasteful), I respect strongly the inheritance tax not just in revenue raising but in behavior influencing. (those who are on the receiving end of the tax, for reasons others have given here)

And I do not for one second buy the ridiculous argument, both on this tax and other taxes, that "money shouldn't be double-taxed".

Money is taxed every time it changes hands! Money doesn't have a "history", except where we create loopholes to allow it to, which disproportionately go to those who have the means to track and create vehicles that have "history". Poor people don't have capital gains.

The inheritance tax, though you may not think it intuitively, is a strong way for our society to renew itself and find new talent. It takes work to fight against those who would silently change the rules to start favoring the old and idle. (who are the ones who most have the ability to change the rules)
The Microsoft one is kind of vague. Maybe...

Microsoft is about trying to extract more value from their business customers.
A store in my city (in The Netherlands) replaces an 6S battery for EUR. 39 (US$ 44). They offer a 1 year guarantee. You can do some grocery shopping while they replace it.
That says nothing because the US has forced investment schemes (401k, HSA, etc). You may be saving substantial amounts of capital and yet still live paycheck to paycheck.
When was this?

I don't remember there ever being an inheritance tax on property left to ones spouse.
> Moore's Law had stalled on PCs but was alive and well for mobile platforms at that time.

That's not a very convincing argument. Moore's law was alive and well two decades ago for PCs, but Windows XP (initially released 2001, supported til 2014) was able to run on hardware from 1995 (according to https://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_en.htm).
The mods can change this link to https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it...

The linked story is audio only and is associated with the Morning Edition broadcast, but the full story appears under our Special Series section.

(I work for NPR)
This is a classic example of the false positive rate fallacy.

Let's say that there are a million people, and the police have photos of 100,000 of them. A crime is committed, and they pull the surveillance of it, and match against their database. They have a funky image matching system that has a false positive rate of 1 in 100,000 people, which is way more accurate than I think facial recognition systems are right now, but let's just roll with it. Of course, on average, this system will produce one positive hit per search. So, the police roll up to that person's home and arrest them.

Then, in court, they get to argue that their system has a 1 in 100,000 false positive rate, so there is a chance of 1 in 100,000 that this person is innocent.

Wrong!

There are ten people in the population of 1 million that the software would comfortably produce a positive hit for. They can't all be the culprit. The chance isn't 1 in 100,000 that the person is innocent - it is in fact at least 9 out of 10 that they are innocent. This person just happens to be the one person out of the ten that would match that had the bad luck to be stored in the police database. Nothing more.
The government doesn't want it's citizens to horde money. A ton of money sitting in the bank or in assets doesn't really do anyone any good. An inheritance tax pushes the rich into using their money - instead of leaving your kids cash and assets, you leave your kids a company or something similar. They can either continue to own the company and get paid for it or sell it and get taxed on it. Regardless, a company that provides jobs is a much more interesting prospect to the gov't than just rich people with assets.
> Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers

Here's where I disagree
O365 live collaborative document editing has been an absolute broken nightmare for us. We abandoned it in favor of Google Docs and everything has gotten a LOT easier.

Our general sense is that whatever MS is using for autoscaling the Sharepoint instances that run the service doesn't work. During busy work days Word loses its connection to the service constantly.
Indeed. This is why I also take issue with the “wealth is lost in three generations” line that’s often repeated. When I worked for a Bank & Trust Company we had a lot of clients who were “broke” on paper but had a substantial trust (controlled by the bank) that paid for just about every conceivable expense.
i'm glad there's at least a handful of comments like this. I'm watching my 8 year old through the window while on a conference call discussing raising KPIs for myself and my team yet again.

If I'm able to leave some money for my kids and save them from the grind i've spent the best years of my life enduring I don't see how the government has any right to one penny.
Yappi – yet another Python profilier (thread and coroutine aware)
This is definitely what America is going for and definitely not the way things are right now. It’s very much possible to leave and or or move money legally.
I much prefer Android over iOS, but this is the only reason I switched to an iPhone 11 last year.
UCLA Forecasts at Least 3 Years Before the Economy Recovers
What's the point if you can't update the OS and if you do you have to jailbreak it again, every time, until you reach a point where you device is not supported or there's no jailbreak available and you are back to the doorstop?

Unofficial Android builds are fully supported, maintained and updatable builds, they simply are not released by the phone vendor or Google.
Happens all the time, it’s just that the bad actors are usually more competent and better at distancing themselves than the people at eBay.

A good example is what Chevron is doing right now to Steven Donziger, an attorney who won a settlement against them for their polluting in Ecuador:

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-...

Also Weinstein’s use of Black Cube:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/30/harvey-weinstei...
"It's more like a savant, who can generate random stories that have no bearing on reality."

That's actually just a particular special case of how this model is used, where they use the model to predict "the rest" of a story. It is not the nature of the model itself, and it can be used for other things, such as compression or other NLP tasks.
Well I paid $0 in taxes on my parent's death. And when we sold it no income tax was paid. Our accountant checked everything and made sure it was done correctly.

From the page it does say:
If you sell the property for more than your basis, you have a taxable gain.

But your basis is set upon the FMV (Fair Market Value) of the property upon death of the decedent.

The basis of property inherited from a decedent is generally one of the following:

1. The fair market value (FMV) of the property on the date of the decedent's death (whether or not the executor of the estate files an estate tax return (Form 706, United States Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Return)).

Also, selling a house is not typically considered income. It is considered a capital gain. So you don't pay income tax on sale of a house. There might be exceptions if you are a real estate investor, but I don't have any expertise in that area.
I want to say it's beyond "usable". I am using iPhone SE from 2016 - it works flawlessly imo on iOS 13.5.1
I'm working through the Llama book, seems like a fun alternative to Python.
I agree with you for Google, Microsoft, and Apple, but I disagree about Amazon and Facebook.

Amazon's not about your wallet. They're frequently more expensive than other sites; they're about convenience and lock-in. If you need a Sprocket, you type sprocket into the search bar, click buy on the Amazon button, and you're done. The result will probably be a pretty good sprocket for an unobjectionable price. You don't need to worry about little details like who sold it to you or whether it's likely to show up functional. It'll probably work, and if it doesn't, you can return it. No need to do research, no need to drive to a store.

Facebook doesn't care about your attention; it just needs your eyes. That sounds like the same thing, but it's very different. If you're just scrolling through without really reading anything, that's absolutely fine with Facebook so long as you keep doing it.
Haha, yeah I see that you’re right. I never realized it before. That gives me a little peace of mind if I ever lose or break it.
From their FAQ page, you can try Gemini out, just run:

ssh kiosk@gemini.circumlunar.space
I think it's very different. When you're a parent explaining something to a kid, you are responsible for their life and actions. You can't just take a few hours/days out to formulate your response or decide this person isn't worth your time. Taleb can. Also, you are evidently more competent at dealing with life than they are, whereas it's unclear in cases I've looked at whether Taleb is more insightful or competent than people he's called an "imbecile". How is the layman supposed to measure whether he really know what he's talking about? His poor writing skills and attitude give off quite a strong impression that he's not secure in his knowledge.
You explained everything so well I feel like I don't even need to read the book!
This is a big myth. Wealthy people are not going to just get up and leave America. Where do you think they would go?
Like I said, people with $23MM net worth aren't influencing national elections with their wealth, though. That's what puts them in middle -- they may live a luxurious life, but they have very little real power.

You'd seem to prefer we ignore the existence of the ultra-wealthy, without appreciating the massively outsized influence they have. By pretending they don't exist or don't matter, you are holding them unaccountable for the power they wield on a national, and global scale. Yet they have the most responsibility to bear when it comes to inequality.

So you can scapegoat the middle class, but you're just doing a favor to those ultra-rich who hold real power, by eliminating their potential middle competitors for them. This is the high + low vs middle power dynamic.
> I still can’t figure out how to get in and out of insert mode in sublime text. When it happens I just quit and restart.

Not sure if joking, but you literally press the button labelled "Insert".
Yes... We have some high revenue, important contract type systems written a long time ago and maintained by the same subject matter experts who simply move the codebases (old and new) to newer systems and stacks. As you can tell, the SMEs have no interest in learning other things and so any new initiatives that require them to implement it is subject to their preferences.
Whatsapp could allow plugins from banks or other payment providers using an open standard that other applications could use.
Just like i can choose to open a link in Chrome or Safari or Firefox, why not open a 'payment request in ... '
I fear tech companies using their market dominance to gain a monopoly, like 'Apple Pay' with iPhone apps.
Nah, I don't only want to read the products of charity and advertising.
IIRC Craigslist was written in Perl but that's the only high traffic site that comes to mind.
Milton Friedman makes a good point (he completely disagrees with yours): parents passing on wealth to children is a good thing as it makes them invest. Not in trinkets of frivolous utility, but actual investments that puts money in important thinks like factories etc. If you'd. Prefer people to divert their wealth into pointless waste before the tax man gets it, then heavy inheritance tax is the way to do it.
> Inheritance is a transfer of wealth, also known as income. Why should the people receiving that income get it tax free just because it came from a family member or close friend?

Good point. The government also taxes the monetary value of any goods transferred. After all, if I were to grant my car to my children upon my passing, that is income and ought to be taxed.

But let's continue even more. Whenever my mother-in-law provides childcare, the government should tax me for the money I would have spent on daycare. After all, that's giving me something with clear monetary value. Or when I visit my friend for a free dinner, I should have to pay tax on that too.

Why not... it's all transfers of wealth.
There used to be a big Python/Perl debate. I'm not sure I could have predicted how well that would turn out for Python, and how poorly for Perl. Readability and ease of use matters?
Not sure why he called it “TheFacebook”. That was an early name used way prior to even 2005. ChromeOS was released in 2010/2011.
OP is literally claiming that once I die, all of my money now belongs to society.

No adjective adequately describes this belief other than "absurd".
Ah yes, the old "poor people just aren't as smart" myth. It's definitely their fault for not investing smartly and not the fact that they live paycheck to paycheck. Increasing inequality has nothing to do with the fact that wealth compounds on itself, it's just a coincidence.

The reality that you and other "bootstraps" people ignore is that there is a basic cost-of-living. People need to make rent, they need to pay medical expenses, etc. If your income doesn't rise above this cost-of-living (which is true for literally half of the US population) you don't have any small amounts of money to invest. A lot of long-term investment vehicles have costs for taking out money early, which is a significant risk if you might need that money for an emergency.

The wealthier you are, the more ways there are to increase your wealth and there is absolutely a floor under which you have no opportunities besides luck
You really don’t know DHH or BaseCamp. I can guarantee you that he has enough of a reach and platform not to engage in shady guerrilla marketing
I've noticed this linking of physical space and memory many times, and I've heard of this memory palace technique, but I've never given it a shot. Thanks, perhaps I'll try it with some learning I'm doing on the side.
I guess the argument would be that some companies are pushing- actively selling- the technology to PDs.
My experience listening to the sales pitch by our sales team - of tech I helped develop; they would not only ignore the caveats attached to the products by engineering but straight out sell features that were not done, not even in the roadmap, or just physically impossible to implement as sold.
With that in mind I can see how the companies selling these solutions are responsible as well.
use a different browser?
List of easy to understand articles and videos about Quantum Theory
"Economics in One Lesson" would be a good choice for a lot of HN readers.
Please explain because every bank in the world needs to report to the US about their American account holders.

If you own a holding company in another country, you need to declare that and be taxed on it in addition to that country's tax.

I know this because I own a business and wish to live abroad so I really would like to leave but I can't.
PWAs need to be pushed more. PWAs are more private and don't have access to things that could contain sensitive information like the clipboard's contents which are often scraped and uploaded to shady C2s by some apps
> Is it not possible to imagine effective laws?

Good question. The Defund the Police movement should take notes from the conservative Starve the Beast movement.

Defund the Police: Because Our Modern Supercriminals Are Too Smart for Law Enforcement Anyways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Re: "All I want are some blocks that I can glue together..."
This is a bit over my head, any chance we could discuss this on Slack/email/call? I believe we might be able to help.
Wow. My heart-felt anecdote offended somebody. Down-votes don't contribute to the debate.
yes, definitely. If you are manipulating text, Perl is great.
Perhaps the angry reaction is justified given that the comment implied that “society” should be free to do as it pleases with a person and their property when they die. Most countries today vigorously protect the bodies and property of the dead.

> We, as a society, are free to decide with what's left of you and your belongings
Same for me. I do get an DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN in Chrome, but other archive domains like https://archive.vn/f7HSw works.
> Instead of building up wealth to ensure the success of future generations

I will and can retire now if I can't pass my wealth onto next generation.

Removing experienced productive people out of workforce would be silly economic policy.
> Nassim Taleb makes some good points about that here[2], for instance, ~ 70% of Americans will spend a year in the top 20% and only ten percent of the wealthiest five hundred American people or dynasties were so thirty years ago.

In this specific instance wealth vs income matters because the above statement is true of income, but very untrue of wealth.
I was part of a team that wrote significant parts of Amazon's payment processing systems in Perl in the late 90s. I really loved the language. It's object system was so flexible and powerful. Once you understood how write idiomatic perl. It was a joy to use. I'm looking forward to trying out Perl 7.
I also worked in the video game industry when I was younger (2000-2010 I think?) and had no idea that all the essentially terrible things that were happening were not really normal. Some companies were definitely worse than others but it was definitely quite bad looking back on it.

Some of the companies have had repercussions because of it now.
Does “sign up for early access” just mean get sneak previews, or that this is a new thing?

If the latter, then good for them but another thing they should have done ten years ago.