skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the money. Imagine real estate. Today's value might be completely out of the owners. Say granny wants you to inherit their old penthouse in downtown New York (just an example, I have no idea if it is technically possible to own such a thing) or any other real estate that they used for living and is now worth tens of millions. The government won't let you have it. Or Grandpa's old company. It makes a little profit but was always in the hands of the family and it is now evaluated for tens of millions. Government forces you to sell it.

I could go on. Art collection, old cars, even immaterial rights or stocks that are massively undervalued right now for one reason or another (for instance because the founder just died suddenly).

Inheritance taxation is inherently unjust because it cannot distinguish between goods that are easily traded for and the ones that cannot easily be sold.
Once this is out, I'll be interested in any well written guides or books, it has always felt like "the one that got away" to me.

Back in 2002 I had to choose between learning between Python and Perl for a project, but "everybody knew" Perl 5 was soon going to be replaced by a new shiny different Perl 6, so I chose Python.

It will be interesting to see where Perl can live and gain new users nowadays. Python has so much become the "default scripting language", and has so many bindings and libraries.
I think your best option is AdGuard.
I believe MoveGB is running a perl backend.
> Having the law as the sole arbiter of what is allowed or not would be terrible for free speech.

Given the first amendment specifically says that the law can't abridge freedom of speech, I'm not sure I understand why you believe this.
> Then, people would just focus on making stuff better

And yet, Netflix had autoplaying videos at full volume that didn't even show trailers, but some random snippet from the movie/show
> Thus exacerbating global overpopulation and all the problems this causes

The others are valid, but not this one. You don't get to be cross about people not dying.
Water is not remotely as good as lead is by mass as a radiation shield. If you aren't already hauling many cubic meters of water for other reasons (and you wouldn't be), it absolutely wouldn't make sense to bring it along solely for that purpose. Water also has the severe problem of being liquid at habitable temperatures, so you either have to continuously spend energy to freeze it or deal with absolutely ruinous slosh.

The linked article is talking about the radiation shielding properties of what essentially amounts to a large swimming pool's worth of water. You know how much that would weigh?? Water is not a good radiation shield, it's just cheap here on Earth, so we use large quantities of it in applications where weight doesn't matter.
If you're in the "talking with customers" phase, you should also check out "The Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick.

http :// momtestbook .com (EDIT: I just noticed this is an http site... breaking up the link into pieces for now. Sill recommend Googling the book)

The tldr; is that as soon as you tell someone about your idea, it's going to bias their subsequent answers. They're going to lie to, try not to hurt your feelings, want to get rid of you, etc. So if you're trying to validate an idea, the most important rule is "Don't talk about your idea".

What "The Mom Test" recommends is to instead ask prospective users about their lives and specifically to recall individual moments when they had the problem your idea will supposedly solve. With this "unbiased" recollection, you (as the entrepreneur) have to put 2 and 2 together to figure out if people 1) really have a problem and 2) are open/looking for a solution.
Because its already been taxed and it was willed or passed down to them?
I believe it is selfish to grab what is not yours. A difference of definition.
I've always found it deliciously ironic that the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution both dealt with interstate commerce and set up the federal government as superseding the states in this regard... but then corporations are a state level entity not federal, complete with 50 states worth of regulations.
Mobile devices are typically underpowered compared to desktop systems. They've caught up to PCs in terms of power (as evidenced by the iPad Pro hardware being used as the basis for the new dev kit by Apple). But the early years, in particular, saw massive annual increases in performance, Moore's Law had stalled on PCs but was alive and well for mobile platforms at that time.

You have to track the actual hardware changes in that time and compare it more to the PC market.

PCs pre-2006 had almost universally 32-bit processors, fixed pipeline GPUs, and maybe 4GB of RAM, probably 2GB. Post 2006, more GPUs got hardware shaders, 4GB of RAM became the baseline, as did 64-bit CPUs (usually with 2 or more cores). Those have all aged reasonably well and can still run most modern software outside of the graphics intensive ones (and even those sometimes if you turn most of the settings down).

The iPhone 3GS (2009) was the first one to have hardware shaders. That right there knocks out the two prior generations from being able to keep up.

The iPhone 5S (2013) was the first 64-bit processor, creating another boundary line for long-term support.

The iPhone 6S (2015) was the first to have > 1GB of RAM (upped it to 2GB), which created another boundary line.

So it's not too surprising that the higher RAM, 64-bit processor, with hardware shader support is the oldest supported iPhone (from this year forward).

Post-2015, the iPhone has improved (obviously if you've switched from a 6S to the 11 like I did) in performance and capabilities, but it's also stabilized in many ways. I haven't dug into the post-2015 phones yet to see if there are any other natural boundaries that will show up as devices drop out over the next 2-3 years, but I'm sure they exist there somewhere. Eventually the OS and the applications will be dependent on specific hardware features that cannot be easily (or efficiently) recreated on old, lower clocked processors.
The ability to install a custom OS like LineageOS again gives the advantage back to android
Great. Perl is not my favorite language, but the things its good at and the body of nifty code out there deserve more recognition than they get. Hopefully this will remove some of the discouragements to curiosity that have kept people from looking harder at perl to see if it fits their problems or their mind better than other tools.
Well, it got your attention so it kinda works :)

We see Lambda as a building block. For creating web apps you need more than a runtime, in most cases you need a DB, login and permissions, UI, etc.

For small ideas/tools (our target use cases) we offer you most of what you need with as little config as possible (ideally none) – things just work. For example in your Deta Micro, you can just import our Database (Deta base) and store data and it just works, no config required. Soon we will launch Deta Drive, then email, then cron... you get the idea.

We also have permissions built-in, so you can give your colleagues a run-only access.

We also focus more on the developer experience more than others, devs should feel as a first class citizen in the cloud. We think this will free them to be more creative.

We have lots of other features that we will announce soon: real-time debugging, online editing, etc.

I hope that was helpful.
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Imagine how much it would stimulate the economy if we did this! Instead of building up wealth to ensure the success of future generations, old people would be forced to use it or lose it. The Buicks, 0-entry bathtubs and high-end mobility scooters would be flying off the shelves with all this unlocked capital being forced to consume. Think of all the new JOBS!

Now that's what I call progress!™️
Right. I have some pre-existing breathing issues that, even though I'm an otherwise healthy adult under 30, would probably lead to my death if I catch this. Not wearing a mask seems disrespectful to the hundred thousand + dead in the US alone. If you don't wear a mask, and I get sick, I might die. That's such an easy thing to do to prevent passing the disease on by 70%.

Good luck with your recovery.
The NYT operates on an online subscription model, no?
Is that really a loop hole? If anything it’s just a temporary delay.
Interesting to me is that not-taxing inheritances is sort of a giant tax break. If your parent dies and they had bought a house for $100,00 and now it is worth $1,100,000. So a capital gain of $1,000,000. If they had sold the house they would have had to pay capital gains on the house, minus an exemption amount ($250,000 for single and $500,000 for married).

But you as the beneficiary get to take that house and immediately sell it and pay $0 in capital gains on it. So that tax is actually forgiven on death. If you held on to the house then you would pay capital gains on any gains from the value of it upon inheritance.
>none of them seemed to have any moral qualms about their employers.

Should they be expected to?

In my opinion, there's little morality, let alone shared morality, left in society. I'm not personally going to place expectations on people's morality with regards to their employment when almost everything has become a moral quandary at this point.
You tell a nice story with the data, but I cannot dismiss the potential selection bias: perhaps these PMs were not up to Google's standards and were invited to leave?
Engineering manager asked a report to 'bend over and take it' from the only openly gay guy in the studio. Lots of off color jokes, (e.g. including animals having crudely animated sex in the background of builds that got sent to playtesters. Jokes about 'red rockets' and 'bearded clams' likewise), loud and angry arguments about whether characters were 'sexy enough' to appease the straight male player (and being 'excited' to see what cosplay of said sexy character would look like.), etc.
Stadia is a cloud gaming platform. Like Nvidia Shield, Microsoft xCloud, Sony PS Now, OnLive, and the rest.

Gmail, maps, page-rank based search, and other pre-2010 Google tech were category makers. Every competitor has to massively step their game up to make something as good.

Stadia is not a category maker. There's no massive competitive advantage or leading position for anyone else to catch up to. It's nowhere near the pre-2010 Google products.
E.U. May Ban American Travelers as It Reopens Borders, Citing Failures on Virus
> it's not a career problem at all

It can be a failure of education even if it's not a career problem. The article is about what should be taught in schools.

Most programmers self-report becoming more skilled as they learn languages with different paradigms, so there's evidence that there's career benefit to knowing a diversity of languages.
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It's possible to invest small sums over long periods to get a large payback IF you're aware that such avenues exist. Having an understanding of personal finance and how money works is a privilege many people take for granted.

For most folks in the socioeconomic band you're mentioning, this is not something everyone knows and understands. Many times, they are already living paycheck to paycheck. It's hard to think about anything long term when you're in that cycle whether it's investing or even having the time (and energy) to educate themselves further on personal finance.
> Yeah I get that I can do google search and find docs wherever they live. But I can't find docs if I don't know that they exist.

To illustrate this point more. I used to work in a company where everyone had to submit their timesheet via docs. And if you did not keep a link or copy or whatever they call it of your own sheet, it's essentially impossible to search for it, because now there are 1000s of identically named documents.

It also happens when legal tries to share a generically named file with you and you lose the link, so you search for it and find a file that looks like it, only to realise that is HR's own special copy.
Like the siblings say, you may have some other problem. I have an iphone 7 that I always keep up to the date. I didn't notice any performace problem, and my battery is supposedly degraded (the settings page says I should change it).
I was listening to an interview from a manager at GCP on the “Screaming in the Cloud” podcast. He had written a great cost calculator that would show how much money that someone could save over AWS.

But because he couldn’t convince corporate to adopt it and when it became a feature it fell under the reliability guidelines, they canned it even though customers liked it.
It's not that surprising to me -- Apple was selling this 5y old device about ~16 months ago, so they should still be supporting it
Tesla knew its Model S battery had a design flaw that could lead to leaks
> PHP went directly from 5 to 7, and isn’t it time to steal something from that community?

:D
I don't disagree, but one cannot say "i want gobs of money in the future - but I'm not willing to sacrifice my lifestyle down a notch or two today to get it".
How does hoarding of I investments drive progress, or is there some double sarcasm that flies over my head?
Ah yes a member of the "Sacrifice your grandparents for the stonks" class. I'm sorry but the idea of discarding potentially millions of live for the economy is inhuman.
I use a Hermes Rocket (typewriter) for similar reasons: similar form factor, does not require electricity, saves your work to paper rather than electronic storage. About $50 used.

The keyboard is mechanical, as is the rest of the device.
Just as named functions replace multiline lambdas, I expect that named matcher functions (functions that consist entirely of a match where each arm is a return) will replace match expressions in python.

Abstractly, I'd rather have match expressions, too, but this does fit the rest of Python better.
Yeah these are the guys I was referring to when I wrote Just Write. Their prices are still insane. Plus are they ever going to release the traveller? I’m pretty sure it’s been listed as presale for 2 years now. My neo2 was $40 CDN with shipping. Paying like 20x that for something which is just a tad bit nicer is kind of wrong. You’ve either got to be a working novelist to justify the cost or like someone whose been sitting on the same handful of story premises for 20 years but never finished anything you know like I’m gonna throw down $700 on this thing because I’m actually really very serious this time about writing a book. No thanks. Laptop will do here.
> Once you're dead, why should they be any more important than any other person?

Why favor your family, friends, or countrymen over any other person during your lifetime either? Everyone behaves this way. For example, why does government sponsored health care in western countries only cover their own citizens? Do the lives of people in less affluent countries not matter? Do they have less intrinsic value?
It's ironic that that the parent comment has been flagged, leading to censorship of a valid opinion.
People can't be civilized if they don't take someone else's money, which has already been taxed? That's quite a threat of an unruly mob in a desire to quench jealousy.
So much that they use their proprietary OS to collect information about users in order to exploit them.
If they don't how are they describing the quality of video and clear lack of resemblance?
Got any more info on this? Like what models? Sounds really interesting to me.
It's a recipe for increased inflation by increasing money velocity marginally. Not hyper inflation.

Of all the money being transferred per year, little of it is transferred via inheritance. And and even smaller amount of the total money transferred via inheritance is above $10 million range. So maybe you'd see a 0.1% or 0.01% tick up in inflation.

Setting inheritance rats at 100% above 21 million is a silly idea, but not because of a risk of hyper inflation.
> It uses a dated, proprietary cable to transfer your writing to a computer.

I use the cable that came with mine, but isn't it just a regular USB A->B cable, available for $0.50 at any thrift store?
They will need to be trained and paid far higher then!
Sorry, this a poorly placed joke :/ No AI planned!
Most Android phones don't have a 'supported' version of LineageOS. It's very hit or miss, usually miss. Hence why my Nexus 6 and my girlfriend's Pixel have supported versions but none of the other Nexus or Pixel phones do. Or the HTC One m8 has a supported build but no other HTC phones do.
> But of prices on... what? Yaacts? It's not like people are going to start buying 1000x more bread loaves and corollas.

And then what will the yacht company do with all of the money?

> it might even drive down prices of certain goods. More demand => economies of scale => lower prices => more demand => ...

That's not consistent with economic theory. Economies of scale don't work "forever". At some point, the per-unit price will start to rise with quantity again.
Which is still really bad! Especially when wearing a mask may prevent spread by 70%. Just because other diseases are also bad is not reason to shirk personal safety and protection. I don't want the flu same as I don't want COVID.
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So you want to carve out an exemption that will largely benefit non-minorities and increase wealth inequality, in the name of helping minorities and closing the wealth inequality gap? That's quite some spin there.

How about we take in more tax from the wealthy, regardless of their ethnic origins, and use that money to provide better social safety nets for the poorest who are also disproportionately minorities due to system and historical racism? You know, close the wealth gap, instead of further increasing it.

Or heck, if you're really serious about this then tax the wealthy and pay actual reparations.

It doesn't make any rational sense to pass a tax cut for the wealthiest in the name of "some of them could be minorities too!" It makes far more sense to tax all the wealthy, then help minority populations who would benefit more greatly.

The top 1%'s kids will have to survive without that third house or yacht, even if they're minorities.
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This might be a contributing issue, but it seems this is far from the only reason why Android has such shit upgrade lifetimes.

Android itself doesn't have a strict requirement for an updated kernel. It will typically run fine on the original kernel tree the SoC launched with.

OnePlus occasionally does this, they are currently rolling out Android 10 for the OnePlus 5 and 5T, based on the original kernel tree. That's a 3 year old device (and I hate that I'm using a 3 year old device as my best example)

It seems like most Android vendors simply choose not to offer extended updates.
> And then keeping the two devices in physically separate places.

I've recently gotten to experience this somewhat, although on a single machine. With the whole "no in-person meetings" thing, I've been working out at my cabin with LTE tethering as my only Internet connection. Since I've got a limited amount of bandwidth, I spend most of the time off-line. It seems like the (admittedly miniscule) activation energy to set up the tether connection is just enough to make me be thoughtful about when I'm connected to the Internet, and it's really refreshing to not have all the notifications popping up all the time.
I think it is horrible. I feel it's harder to read overall and harder to navigate. I am of the feeling, if it's not broken.....
You wouldn't have that opinion if you worked hard and achieved any sort of success in life

You have a right to your own property. This isn't communism.
Yet Microsoft, Amazon and Apple continuously diversify. Google still gets most of its profit from ads.
I've done a bit more reading. This is not as dramatic as it seems. First party GA is not blocked. Access to 3rd party storage may be blocked, but this would not prevent web interactions from being visible to GA.
That doesn't match my experience at all. If anything, Google suffers from the opposite problem: engineering teams spend enormous resources on migrations and rewrites that make their systems cleaner/simpler/more general, but have little or no business value. There are tons of teams that could be making incremental user-facing improvements, but are instead spending their cycles on projects that are mostly about internal development velocity.
Many languages have already figured out good trade offs, why shouldn’t we expect a high standard of Haskell?
Inheritance tax is not a wealth tax (the person who accumulated the wealth has died), it's just another income tax (which NYT wants to raise to an absurdly high rate).

Taxing wealth is far more equitable than taxing income; taxing wealth gives low-medium earners more discretion to spend on needs like housing, clothing, food, child care, education, transportation, etc (needs that differ between families, and which families are better equipped to assess than the government), while taxing income gives the government a share of people's money before they can decide what to do with it. Tax wealth while people are alive (on an annual basis), rather than destroy a company/farm/estate by having the government swoop in and take an enormous share of it (do we really want the government in the business of taking over companies and farms?)

Of course, wealthy people who don't want to pay taxes could buy yachts and fancy cars, but that could be remedied easily by instituting high sales taxes on luxury items.
> Yes, thank you. "When something is free then you are the product"

So, when I am using Libreoffice, who sees me as their product ?
I understood your point, I just think it's incorrect. For instance, I don't think search is even close to the hardest problem YouTube is solving. I would say that magically streaming a crazy volume of video at the best possible resolution is a pretty tough technical problem, and totally unrelated to search. Ditto security research for the most part, modulo some of the work TAG does on finding 0days in the wild.

This is a common trope about Google; they're only a search company, only an ad company. It's simply not the case.

Edit: if you wanted to make a broad sweeping statement, I would say that they're only good at hard technical challenges. That's why they succeeded at e.g. search and YouTube, and failed at chat and social.
We're talking about lowering the $23MM estate lower bound to a smaller number. That was the reason I asked for numbers. Nobody works hourly and has $23MM.
Also: the new-ish Windows "Scan" app will scan to PDF, which the "Windows Fax and Scan" app couldn't. Perfectly servicable for periodic light use, and you don't have to install whatever kludge came with your cheap multifunction printer/scanner.
It's not about capturing marketshare for the company, it's about capturing bullet points for your resume. Working on new stuff is valued much more highly than fixing old stuff, and you naturally move much faster with more impressive sounding accomplishments in the early days of a product.
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> Advertising in (consumer) gmail came long after paid gsuite

This is clearly false. The screenshots in this Time article show gmail having advertising from day one.

https://time.com/43263/gmail-10th-anniversary/
Seems like we're conflating wealth with income?
It's the default Cognito template. We are too focused on the actual product that we missed this one – will be fixed soon :)
CFS is nothing new when you're young and get serious viral infections.

When I got the right to vote, I also got EBV. I was stuck in bed for weeks with what the docs initially suspected to be leukemia. It tooks me months to get back to some kind of normal.

Even now I don't think I'm fully back to normal. I get tired much more easily.