skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rich people don't pay inheritance taxes. There are a gazillion ways to pass on money without falling prey to estate taxes. The only people effected are middle-class folks not savvy enough to avoid the tax.

The richest of the rich simply leave everything to a charity or foundation that their children draw salaries from (as well as having the use of the foundations estates, planes, etc.) Case in point... Warren Buffet; he's always going on about he isn't leaving anything to his children, but plans on giving it away to charity. What isn't frequently mentioned is that the kids 'own' the charities.

https://www.nbcnews.com/businessmain/warren-buffett-his-birt...
Gtalk was brilliant! When they launched it my appreciation for Google grew tenfold. It was so un-enterprisey and it just worked! Shortly thereafter they fixed their offering by launching the very Enterprise-friendly Wave.

Mmmmmm, Wave. (drooling dead-eyes Homer impression).
Transferable copyright and transferable real estate are the same thing imo. Not a huge fan of either, but I don't see how being the landlord's kid is any different from being an writers's kid.

> kids of inventors

Inventions are protected by patent or by trade secret, not by copyright. Patents have short shelf lives compared to copyright, mostly because mickey mouse was copyrighted but not patented.
I was replying to parent:

'I've never understood why people think that just because, e.g., their parents created a business worth millions of dollars, they should get that for free.'
Absolutely - the first few generations grinding and boostrapping are hard. Doesn't it make you feel great thought that 3-4 generations after you, with the proper planning and effort, they could be centimillionaires?
YC company, but not your usual startup
Community and society tax me for everything I do, eat or drink, all my life. Wealthier people already contribute more per capita than most other people, while getting the same benefits. What's the rationale for feeling obliged to contribute even more? Survivor's guilt?
Shared Drives are a disaster, because the files in them are removed from your personal drive which makes them less discoverable for you.

They work when highly managed (e.g., our training team for sales org) but not for product development teams in my experience.

The expanding symlink functionality makes everything worse, because people think they're moving folders, but they're not, and permissions don't get rationalized. Ugh.
Their domain doesn't work with Cloudflare DNS because they use non-standard records.
AWS's automated reasoning tools provide higher security at scale
This "multiple taxation" nonsense is nonsense. Everything is taxed multiple times: I pay income tax on my salary. I spend my salary buying apples, and I pay sales tax on this. From the money I paid for apples, the store pays the cashier's salary, and part of this goes to income tax. The cashier spends their salary on software from my employer, and part of this goes to the state as sales tax. My employer uses the cashier's money to pay my salary, and I pay income tax again to close the circle.

Money flows in circles, and every single transaction in the chain is subject to taxation. Picking out one particular tax on one particular kind of transaction -- surprisingly, one that only affects rich people -- and claiming that it is somehow extraordinary is intellectually dishonest. Abolishing the inheritance tax is what would create an exception from the general rule.

As for:

> why is an inheritance tax needed?

As a method of redistribution from the very rich to the very poor, to create a more level playing field for everyone. (I'm not claiming that there is a particularly level playing field anywhere, especially not in the US. But abolishing inheritance taxes would certainly not make it more level.)
“Corporations are people” was first inserted into the Supreme Court’s findings by an railroad baron that was for some reason acting as the court reporter.
Every part of this is wrong.

What happened to the targets was appalling. But why why why why do people believe the utter fiction that these companies put out after this happened?

If you are the Board, what the hell are you doing here? This guy was clearly not on the level, why didn't this come up? And why is anyone getting paid near $100m to manage EBay into the ground. As an investor, this makes no sense. The issue is that you have this perpetual circle of utter incompetent human beings on Board spending other people's money.

And if you are the CEO, it doesn't matter if you knew it about or not. He is quite clearly lying but what is most amazing here is that his lie doesn't even explain the behaviour. If you are the CEO, THIS IS YOUR JOB! Take responsibility. Also, he quite clearly was directly responsible for this. You have to be an utter degenerate to know the police have texts of you saying to take someone down, and then tell the media it was nothing to do with you.

This is why I truly despair as an investor though. You are surrounded by people who are utterly and totally incompetent. Boards aren't up to it. Executives aren't up to it. And I am trusting my reputation on them. This is like having to ride a donkey in the Kentucky Derby.

(And btw, the EBay Board is apparently "stacked". Omiydar, the ex-CEO of Bain is Chairman, VC/founders, CEO of Lyft, former Chairman of NBC, CEO of Intel...all people who have mostly made their living acting as agents rather than principals...btw, the head of the Compensation Committee was the guy who is known only for driving Gap into the ground...something of an expert in failure then).
If there was a way to interface it with a SIP provider (or a T.38) (in a similar way to iaxmodem?) it would make it ideal.
This is super cool! Pinouts and wire colors are only part of a harness, though. Other things I care about:

Branch lengths and locations, where individual connectors branch off the main trunk of the harness.

Terminal types, because a single connector sometimes has different terminals per pin position, or per wire type, or other requirements.

Custom wire colors and gauges; multiconductor cables aren't always all the same gauge.

Inline splices (these may be implementable as a special case of a connector where most wires just pass through and just a few join on one "pin"?).

Is there a WYSIWYG or live-updating editor so you can see the result as you edit the markup? I understand why it's written that way, but it'd be a lot of work to translate certain harnesses to be expressed that way.
I think politicians must win prizes or something for showing who is the stupidest:

> The bill also allows the attorney general to create a competition with a prize for anyone who can come up with a way to access encrypted data while protecting privacy and security. Security experts have long noted that this is an impossible request.

Why they're at in, why don't they push a bill for permanent rainbows.

Also, the article states "The proposed legislation stops short of requiring tech companies to create a backdoor", so if end-to-end encryption is still available, this legislation does nothing. And if lawmakers try to ban end-to-end encryption, well then "banning math" should be the name of this legislation (yes, I realize politicians have tried to do that before). Sure, large companies may comply and average joes may get less E2E encryption, but anyone who knows anything about tech will be able to get access to E2E encrypted messengers.
agreed. was just responding to gp's sarcastic comment seriously :p
Most of the stuff in the article is not really central to Google's business, in my view. Google's business is dirt-cheap high-performance computing. They are well ahead of everyone in this line of endeavor. They use their ads revenues to fund R&D in hardware and software and build out capacity so they can opportunistically enter new lines of business. Usually these are businesses that nobody else could profitably execute, like YouTube. Or they are businesses that are technically unique, like Cloud Spanner, to which I see no competitors.

So when I look at Google's health I look at the research they are doing to see if they seem to be staying on the cutting edge. Stuff like Snap/Pony or TPUs makes me think they are. It's possible that the capabilities Google is developing won't lead to any new profitable businesses, but their success in geospatial data and other computationally-expensive products like machine vision and translation are examples of their abilities. The latent ability to just jump into a new line of business is a strength of Google's, and products they developed more than a decade ago, like Docs and Sheets, aren't really that important to their future.
Middle-class folks are affected by a tax that starts at $23M of assets? I suspect not.

It's fascinating how much propaganda has shaped this debate. People with a few hundred thousand dollars in their 401(k) somehow got tricked into thinking the "Death Tax" had anything to do with them.
You can't "hard earn" billions. Others must do it for you.
Well, now we're moving the goalposts. You can release a major product in an existing category. In fact, half your examples already existed.
The worse part is that the employee wasn't a witness to anything. He was making the "ID" from the same video the police had.
>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.

If you win a car on a game show, you are taxed on that just like you would be if you won money.

>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.

They are providing a service and not wealth or income. We don't directly tax the reception of services. However you can make an argument that this is the equivalent of providing a service at a pay of $0. I'm not sure if it applies nationally, but I know many states make exceptions for the minimum wage when working with direct family members. We don't tax people on money they were saved from spending or the excess value they receive by underpaying their employees.
Now I am curious how shady it is.
You're paying for the computing resources to run LibreOffice; it isn't free.

The quote is pithy but assumes some context - the [something] is being provided below the marginal cost to produce and therefore being provided with an expectation of benefit for the provider.

Acquiring LibreOffice is not $0 marginal cost but they have a big "DONATE" button top-right corner of the website and The Document Foundation turns a small profit from donations.
For sure.

I just wanted to shed a light on some unfortunate external pressures faced by a subset of engineers, which contributes to this problem. Didn't meant to come across as cynical.
The more I think about this the less it makes sense to me.

My understanding of UDP is it's supposed to be for heavy, lossy traffic where late traffic is pointless or harmful (like video streaming frames, if your frame is late better toss it out than keep it). But I kind of want my notifications even if they're late. I think I'm missing something in my understanding. I was thinking if you can stream using DNS, and cut out something like Kafka, that might be a big deal, but on second thought it doesn't make sense because DNS is more about service discovery than it is about piping load; you want an alias to a server that does the heavy lifting.

Brain messy today.
Ahhh good catch. Thanks! I always do that with his name. And I started stormlight recently!
Yea, totally wrong here.

My assumption was that a lot of estate planning would be required to avoid major taxes, but seems like the default choice is a pretty good deal (tax-wise) for those involved.

Good to know!
> Neither do Python/Ruby/JavaScript/PHP (although the need is somewhat reduced in dynamic languages)

I fully agree. Pattern matching is specifically useful for statically typed languages, where you can determine whether the patterns are exhaustive. Here pattern matching plays really nicely with the premise of having statically typed consistency guarantees.

In dynamically typed languages there is a use-case which makes sense: You want to conditionally extract nested values. But typically you have destructuring and a huge generic tool-set of predicates and transformation functions to do this. The advantage of being dynamically typed is how those things freely compose at the cost of having fewer run-time guarantees.
There is shared morality, just not universally shared morality. The people marching right now share some morality. As do the folks complaining about mandatory mask rules. We may or may not agree with them, but there is shared moral logic.
I just meant I want an editor that can help me express dataflow graphs but instead of the usual programming nodes I want to work with AI building blocks like convolutions and batch norm. This page on TensorFlow has some example graphs: https://www.tensorflow.org/tensorboard/graphs.

But I assumed the AI part was serious so if it's not then I think this currently would be out of the product scope so I wouldn't worry about it. Hope that helps.
That was fun, but not entirely wrong.

A decent computer science major will have all of that. In my times we used MIPS though, to reduce the complexity a little bit.
Fleetsmith disabled their entire third-party app catalog this morning and disabled Bash scripting (that was reenabled 15 minutes ago), breaking workflows for a bunch of users (and, according to the MacAdmins slack, tons of end users got random popups asking for an administrator to fix kernel extensions that were previously loaded via Fleetsmith). [0]

I can understand having to sunset the catalog, but how did Fleetsmith (or Apple) think that doing that without one peep was okay? Even a "we've been informed by legal that we can't host these packages, so within x days they will be removed from our catalog. we will provide functionality to replace them on your systems with packages you make yourself".

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/macsysadmin/comments/hf30qk/apple_b... (discussion about fallout)
How do you know Duck Duck Go actually prioritizes privacy though?

People on HN have said that Duck Duck Go is a for profit corporation that doesn't open source or independently validate their privacy claims.
Sure, I've got the same buttons ... but I've got >150,000 files in my Drive managed by >2,000 colleagues assembled over 6+ years, including files inherited from colleagues/reports who have left with their own approaches to file management, which turns it all into a massive disaster.
Prolog isn't going to save anyone - it's too hard to control the search strategy.
Firefox fired their CEO because he donated to a Christian group. So this guy went and forked the Chrome browser into Brave.

If you think Chrome is better than Firefox, then you'll think Brave is also better than Firefox.
Look at france. It added a wealth tax. A year later, it made international news when a billionaire stayed!

I think they would go quite literally everywhere.
Classical Secularity versus Liberal Secularism
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What happens if you rent (instead of own) a holding company?
All this advancement in text generation - but it you want to use it to represent sentences or documents in a semantic space you still have to use horrifically bad techniques like average or max pooling.

When is someone going to advance pooling techniques? We desperately need improvement!
Your opinion on Perl is based on one code base you worked at on one job?
They aggregate what they learn about each user across all their properties. (Their hope was the plus would make this easier). So while I seriously doubt they tell advertisers, “joshuamorton writes about JavaScript, metallurgy and anime”, whatever they learn from the enormous number of places they are collecting info increases the probability that you might see an ad on gmail relating to anime.

And they are quite public about scanning documents written using the free drive service, as they are proud that they take down documents with content they or the government consider inappropriate, as discussed on HN recently.
Love the movies, mixed on the books. They’re obviously classics and have a lot of beauty but I don’t feel the need to revisit them. I like a little faster pacing in what I read.
What makes you think it's untrue of wealth? 80th percentile wealth in the US is a net worth of ~$500k. That's where most people are at retirement when your house is basically paid off and there is money in your 401(k).
I made no reference to intelligence, it was inferred.

Many first generation wealthy live paycheck to paycheck, grind it out, figure the rules of the current game (which take persistent observation but not smarts).

My take away is any family, from anywhere, can become wealthy in their future lineage. Which is an amazing thought.
It's really weird how you don't understand the legal concept of an estate.

> they can't arbitrarily pass their money to whoever they choose

This is incorrect.
300M-year-old fish resembles a sturgeon but took a different evolutionary path
The arrogance is pretty amazing. That they didn't cut and run at the first whiff of the victims and police being on to them takes a special kind of delusional chutzpah.

One thing I was curious about was how the feds got the data from Apple. I'm guessing because they were eBay-owned phones and eBay gave permission but I don't think it actually says anywhere.

[To say nothing of the fact that, for supposed security people, their operational security was... not good. Just more arrogance I guess.]
Actually having used these kinds of 2D maps, I find they're not fun enough for me. If you're really into old-school original D&D dungeoneering-with-a-ten-foot-pole stuff, it's nice.

But I want more for my players. The best maps have very nice multi-level dungeons, with strange stuff like underground rivers or a dangerous precipice connecting parts of the dungeon.
Twitter is censoring President Trump
Yes, this is a story of police misconduct. The regulation of facial recognition that is required is regulation against police/authority stupidity. The FR system aids in throwing away misses, leaving investigative leads. But if a criminal is not in the FR database to begin with, any results of the FR are wastes of time.
are the use cases all really really fancy regexes?
It detected my Bulgarian (Cyrillic alphabet) test sentence as English:

https://www.deepl.com/translator#en/ru/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0...
That's more or less what some cities are going for albeit with shifting the released funds to community support programs, training, and other resources instead of into the pockets of donors and the rich via tax cuts and putting the strain on the deficit.

One issue is that most states and municipal governments are required to balance their budget each year or be in the black. I think there are only 2 states that don't have that law. Consider the loss of sales tax and more methods for municipal funding. Unfortunately, to meet that balanced budget requirement many may need to gut several departments through 2020/2021 and starting with the police budget is politically savvy but perhaps won't provide funding for alternative programs but just drop some red ink.

I don't think the federal government is functional, split as it is, to address these budget shortfalls and allow local governments to address these issues. I'm hopeful the (likely, by the sources I follow) pending economic disaster is recognized before the election and the feds work together to prevent another major recession slip. Unlikely but hopeful.
> Are there actually people that are still deploying new things in Perl?

Anecdote: I found this Perl image-hosting package a couple years ago as a self-hosted alternative to sites like Imgur, and I think it's great: https://framagit.org/fiat-tux/hat-softwares/lutim/tree/maste...
I can see why you'd only get 6 guys together for a physical "6 pack" line-up.

But for a photo lineup I can't imagine why you don't have least 25 photos to pick from.
PredictionIO: Predictive engines for any machine learning task
I mentally added the word time in the middle of the domain name and chuckled. It would be great if they did that, show that they still have a bit of humanity left over there
I do this every few months and it feels amazing each time. Even if I'm intentional about unchecking the marketing email boxes, somehow I still end up on dozens of mailing lists.
Yes it is very common: Ie on windows previously, Safari on ios, Chrome on Android. Or am I understanding it wrong? It's often integrated in UI frameworks.
Custom ESP32 PCB Soldering
I think the US Courts still use Perl for Pacer (https://www.pacer.gov/psco/cgi-bin/links.pl) and it seems to be used by the US Cours as well: https://ecf.azd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/ShowIndex.pl
> it's even slower than Python.

It's faster at some things and slower at others. It's fairly similar in speed profile to Python in my eyes.

> Are you saying the language doesn't change much or that it doesn't crash?

Both is probably what was meant. They are literally changing the major version so they can change some backwards compatibility, as Perl has made strong backwards compatibility a goal and selling point for decades. You can take a script written in 2000, and it will likely run without problem if you run it on a Perl 5.30, released last year.
What does your money do when it's sleeping?
Google phones are only popular in the US, but Android users are mostly outside of the US.

In Europe the most popular smartphone brand is Samsung.

Lineage supports basically all of their models.

Also: Nexus support is not bad

Nexus 6 and 6p are supported

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#google

They even support all my Xiaomi devices, including a very old Mi pad second edition.

It's probably the OS that actively supports more devices in existence right now.

iOS doesn't even support all the iPhones.
They’re gonna be mad when they learn that Star Wars is derivative haha
> Newer OS's are just slower.

In the iOS world, not generally so. Things generally get faster and more optimized (cruft gets removed) in the iOS world (barring some anomalies like iOS 13, but it's gotten back on track).
>Many modern people assume human behavior is an effect of upbringing and social cues. A mental model where it is a mix of upbringing and people's inherent human nature can be shocking to many.

Many modern people don't mean everyone. The actual scientific literature on the nature vs nurture debate shows a surprisingly balanced picture which leaves some room for the hope of change. Still, defining human nature, and using it in a way which is non-trivial, requires a lot of work, especially the more abstract you go. Something along the lines of the quote, "To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough."

Maybe we should be receptive to the arguments about human nature rather than (1) assuming it means what we think it does (2) assuming everyone who uses the term shares that meaning (3) assuming we know its essence and appearance right now.