skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Won't startups just go public sooner? Or maybe private company valuations will become less ridiculous since the value of your shares would actually matter for something besides ego now? I do think that taxing paper wealth is a problem, but if you are creating billions of dollars in economic value, there is usually a solution (e.g. as part of raising that $500M, a portion of that goes towards paying wealth taxes). Anything that incentivizes people to do away with this trend of a decade plus before exiting sounds fine to me.
> We spotted this squirrel in 18 of the 13 forest divisions of the state during a survey,

Umm?
IMO it’s still nice to provide links. For one, readers won’t know ahead of time if it’ll be the first result or not. Aside from that, search results can vary from person to person what with Google filter bubble. And on top of that, if I find a source I still don’t know if it’s the same thing that was being talked about. Worst case I might find a bad source instead and then disregard the information because the source I found for it was bad while there existed good sources for the information unbeknownst to me.
That line made me LOL.
The argument you'll get back though is that that 0.5% wealth tax will no longer impact you _at all_ if your asset value drops below $50M.

A 0.5% wealth tax is not going to make you poor. It could, _at absolute worst_, make you worth "only $50M". If you still manage to go from $50M -> $20M, a wealth tax had absolutely nothing to do with that.

As well, although it's not explicitly mentioned, I would expect any floor-value (such as $50M) to be set to keep pace with inflation.
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Sounds like they hit you with the Reid technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_technique
Length of support is not my only concern, but even if it were, I would prefer to have a phone that works until its hardware is literally incompatible with the network, even if I have to keep it up to date myself.
When it comes to the Rust project: it was already well outside the confines of Mozilla, with an independent leadership team, and with a lot of the infrastructure being run by other companies (Github/Microsoft for CI, Amazon for storage, etc)

The main stuff that was left over was the trademarks, domains, and some infrastructure.
You should setup donations ASAP. I think that now is a good time to do that since a lot of Rust users are somewhat upset by the recent events and would be willing to help out.
Hell hath no fury like print media commenting on tech companies encroaching on their space. When did anyone actually love studio executives and their excessive compensation?
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When I have done independent IT ops and software work I have carried professional liability insurance, and I would recommend that everyone does.

The irony is, of course, that PL/E&O insurance for software work runs pretty cheap, presumably because liability on the part of developers of software is quite rare!
I was an employee not a cofounder. I agreed to the terms. He will do anything to succeed. I invest money in people who succeed. That is my opinion about where I will place investments in hyper-risky early stage startups. The biggest jerk in this whole thing is the USA tax code / IRS that made me pay taxes on paper gains.
More precisely, attacking billionaires is attacking jobs. So you should ask, are jobs bad for society? Curbing billionaires will only curb job growth, wage growth and realized economic growth. It wont raise much revenue
I have a workspace separated by a floor mat and a bookshelf that's my "office". I would walk into that space fully dresses in pants and shirts like I work in the office.

After work I step out, change, and "go home". Luckily I have a rented garage space, so some evenings I would work on my bike in the garage.
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OK, if I really want one meme about X11 to die, it's this "network transparency" one. Nobody has ever explained to me what it means, what its goals are, what constraints it has on the system or the protocol. I can't find any definition of it in any official X11 documentation, protocol or otherwise.

The typical answer I see is "you can send the same bits locally that you do over the wire", but nobody ever explains why that's even desirable for a network protocol. Realities of distributed systems vs. local ones have a wide variety of tradeoffs. Transparent, distributed RPC was tried in the 90s and largely judged a failure. We know how to design much more resilient systems than that.

Not to mention that ever since the introduction of the MIT-SHM protocol, which is used by most everything to transfer image data, it hasn't even been true in practice for the last 20 years. Most modern enhancements to X11 have been about taking the X server out of the loop for as much as possible.

To make X11 usable over the network, even advocates of the principle usually use something like NX which is a network-designed fork of the protocol, which introduces a large number of new features aimed at network that wouldn't be required over a network, things like lossy compression, multiple independent streams so we don't have reach head-of-line blocking with roundtrips, and client-side rendering.

Problems like remote desktop and streaming can be solved by other solutions than "shove the same bits over the wire and hope they're helpful on the other side".
I guess I interpreted your statement as: "That single asset they own is more diversified than the S&P500", which I don't think is what you meant right?
Some folks believe very strongly in the advocacy that Mozilla undertakes, and believe that separating the software efforts from the advocacy would diminish the funding for advocacy.

Which is probably true; Google is unlikely to spend half a billion a year on Mozilla's advocacy efforts.
Confirmed! (I'm one of the founders)
Is it?

> In contrast to Chamley-Judd, the optimal tax on capital is positive in our model because we have finite long run elasticities of inheritance to tax rate

https://www.nber.org/papers/w17989.pdf
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There are already plenty of differences between Kotlin and Java, this would be a minor one.

I work reasonably comfortably in Java (largely due to lombok - thanks!) but keep an eye on Kotlin and... well, I much prefer the Kotlin syntax here.

I'm sure in the 5% case changing variable names is useful, but in the 95% case it's just noise.
Zig: https://ziglang.org/zsf/
Well, for that money you can buy multiple Android phones and never ever run a two year old phone anymore.
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pg already made the non-empirical argument about the compounding nature of wealth taxes.
So this wouldn't be helpful as an incentive to get them diversified?
To encourage investment. In order to incur capital gains, you have to invest, which is entirely voluntary.
That depends totally on the RSU package they got when they joined. Negative growth if the package was 50% higher than their previous or FAANG comp is still a net gain.
By this reasoning you’d “break even” on income tax if you got promoted?
The scale of property value and wealth value isn't remotely comparable. For the most part, property values are pretty low, and hence the tax that you might pay on property is also fairly low. The US State with the highest property tax is New Jersey (2.47%), and the median home value is about $330,000. The annual tax on the median home there is around $8,100 — definitely steep, but still well within reach for most families, especially those that are fortunate enough to own homes.

In contrast, if you were to take an individual worth $10 billion, whose entire net worth is derived from the ownership of their stock, and were to tax them 2% of their wealth annually, they would have to somehow come up with $200 million every year to pay the tax. This is a different proposition altogether, since none of these billionaires have that much money sitting around in cash (or any other asset for that matter). They're just wealthy on paper. The only way to pay that tax would be to either liquidate their holdings, or for their corporations to pay enough in dividends to cover the tax, which is an odd (IMO bad) incentive to create for corporations in general. Even the owner of a $300 million business who owns (say) 30% of their company at a $100 million net worth would have to come up with $2 million in cash every year. Very few CEOs have that kind of cash coming in on a yearly basis, and you're essentially just creating an incentive for corporations to inflate the compensation to their founder CEOs just so that they can maintain ownership in their own company.

A big reason for this disparity between the top 1% value of corporation vs the top 1% value of property is that, unlike land (which is fixed), corporate wealth is NOT zero-sum, it's created. This is a very important distinction, because a lot of the rhetoric around wealth is sometimes based around the idea that there's some fixed amount of wealth in the world, and the rich have just been stealing all of it — no the aggregate wealth has been created at historic levels.

Also Federal property taxes are unconstitutional, which is why it's applied entirely at the state / local level.
fair enough - I thought you were saying that you tried to implement a 3d graphics api in React and without React and the React one was much more difficult and I felt: that was as to be expected.
Always absent in these kinds of essays/posts is the reason why startups are able to get away with this. If it didn't work, obviously the options games would have stopped a long time ago. A lot of people don't want to admit that there's a small army of young, naive employees who are enamored with startups and are perfectly willing to sign up for below-market salary and extremely unfavorable options terms in exchange for "the startup experience". And importantly, this small army is constantly renewing itself. Repeatedly bringing up how much the game is rigged doesn't really do much to change anything.
Is open source development ad-hoc?
Is open source development ad-hoc? Our results show that OS development is less ad-hoc we could imagine. In a new paper accepted to present at IEEE EDOC'20, we compile 33 studies to understand and learn with OSS process. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.05015.pdf .
Total systen compromise. The backup for the files worked. the ones for the DB didn't.
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It is a growing market from 13% to 18% (compared to Desktop and laptop) https://www.statista.com/statistics/276635/market-share-held...

OS support will be a problem, they are going in the right direction though.

It will be interesting to see if consumers follow.
> They are not careless, they are uneducated on topic.

Making mistakes is a crucial part of learning.
I usually like how in-depth PG gets into topics he discusses. I felt like he barely scratched the surface here. For example, any proposed wealth tax only applies to the wealthy. The number proposed by Senator Warren ("just two cents!") is wealth above $50 million [1]. PG says that startup founders would lose a majority of their wealth meaning there wouldn't be much point to starting up. But they'd have $50 million at least, and would lose up to half of wealth above that.

Is this really such a terrible outcome that people would avoid working on their startup? Are there founders out there who think "if I'm going to have less than $100 million when I'm 60, it's not worth it. I'll go elsewhere to start my business."

PG is actually in a great place to tell us how many startup founders leave their startup with greater than $50 million of wealth. If I had to guess I'd say not many, but it would have been nice to get hard data.

[1] - https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/ultra-millionaire-tax
Of course you can have data breaches even if you do everything right. But it takes incompetence to do everything wrong, especially when it involves medical records. The fact that this low hanging fruit of data leaks keeps happening is telling.
If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America

US taxes the income of citizens living abroad, so that doesn't help. They'd have to reject their American citizenship to avoid US taxation of their income (and presumably their wealth as well).

That's certainly possible, and wealthy retirees certainly do this. But, it's not without downsides.
Based on an inartful Googling, here are some additional ones:

* D [1]

* F# [2]

* Perl [3]

I'm sure there are more.

1: https://dlang.org/foundation/about.html
2: https://fsharp.org/
3: https://www.perlfoundation.org/
So, 3 to 4 years. Still less than Fairphone's 5 years. But hey, an improvement is still an improvement.
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He re-applied in 2003-2004, after giving information to MSS.
Xpra has a way to do this: https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Clients/HTML5

There's a similar thing for Wayland too: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield

And GTK has yet another way to do this built-in, that uses its own protocol: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html
I meant the opposite of that. The single asset that they own is less diversified and riskier than the S&P500, and therefore you can't take the annualized return of the S&P500 and then conclude that "money makes money" on a founder paper-billionaire's wealth.

The S&P500 is a portfolio that puts together all of these companies and diversifies them. In other words, Bezos is one part of the S&P500.
Capital depreciates at varying rates. I assume by "consume the capital" the parent means allow the total amount of capital in the economy decreases over time because the savings/consumption ratio is not high enough to compensate for the depreciation that occurs.
People with $50M won't be selling their primary houses to cover a wealth tax. If they're selling their vacant 3rd vacation homes, then that's all part of the idea to gradually reduce the amount of assets that the extremely wealthy are able to hold. The idea is that wealth concentration actually reduces competition.

Of course it's a slippery slope, but most things in life could be categorized that way.
I refactored some scikit functions to APL and I found Python inscrutable in its own way: call flow bouncing from a file to another, from Python to Cython, method shadowing, and explicit parallelization. From a productivity standpoint Python must be great as it has bunch of libraries etc., but from actually understanding what is going on, I found it frustrating to work as a OOP-investigator. Even IDEs debuggers don't help once you mix in Cython.
I always assumed it was to make it more difficult for me to hunt down and kill cold callers.
If the limit of one's experience with arrays is summing a column or row of numbers, perhaps one is not the target audience for an array programming language. Summing along an index is about the most trivial application of array processing imaginable.
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Owning shares isn't only about wealth, it's also about control. The kinds of people that create successful startups aren't likely, as a rule, to give them up without a fight. By the time you've divested 50% of your shares in the company you founded it's no longer your company, and yet with 50% in one company you're still nowhere near sufficiently diversified to be able to count on those average market returns.
The math on this is incorrect. This is not how a marginal tax works. I have not seen any proposals for wealth taxes that are not marginal after a certain (usually very high) level of wealth.

For example, the Warren wealth tax only kicked in after $50 million.
That would mean the death of Mozilla financially.

Mozilla will never let their golden goose Firefox become a separate Foundation.
Did she have troubles following movie/TV series plots? I also lived with exactly what you describe for years before realising it had a name, and looking back the strongest indication was finding it far more difficult than others to follow movies, especially if they switch between different story lines.

The Departed [0] was probably the strongest example as Leonardo di Caprio and Matt Daemon look fairly similar anyway so I was super confused for most of it.

Once I've seen someone 5-6 times it gets easier to recognise them, but it's always awkward if I meet new people in crowded situations and then "lose" them again and have to wait for them to initiate a conversation before I know who I'm supposed to be with.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Departed
+1 for matomo. Very easy to set up a self-hosted instance, good documentation, and works well. NB: My site is pretty low-traffic.
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Dividends themselves are taxed. So why make it a wealth tax, which erodes your accumulated wealth, instead of taxing the income directly?
https://getinsights.io has event tracking for webapps but is not open source
The use case is to do dataset versioning for ML. The dataset itself is updated frequently. It would be nice to use a tool that can store efficiently when small changes are made yet allow versioning for reproducibility.
It doesn't magically disappear in the same way that an incandescent lamp is 100% efficient if your goal is to heat your house as well as light it. The distinction isn't really meaningful unless you're trying to sell incandescent bulbs.

Most people would consider money directed at things that don't benefit the citizens (graft, boondoggles, arguably a bunch of things on the defense budget) more than the money would have had it stayed in the hands of whoever had it in the first place. Obviously graft and pork trickles down but does it really trickle down more than a chunk of money in a bank account but does it really trickle down more than if it had been spent on a yacht? Is hand-waving away efficiency (relative to whatever goal you're spending toward) losses as some sort of under-handed welfare really something we want to accept?
I often go back to this post by John D Cook

Category theory can be very useful, but you don’t use it the same way you use other kinds of math. You can apply optimization theory, for example, by noticing that a problem has a certain form, and therefore a certain algorithm will converge to a solution. Applications of category theory are usually more subtle. You’re not likely to quote some theorem from category theory that finishes off a problem the way the selecting an optimization algorithm does.

and

I had been skeptical of applications of category theory, and to some extent I still am. Many reported applications of category theory aren’t that applied, and they’re not so much applications as post hoc glosses.

At the same time, I’ve seen real applications of categories, such as the design of LINQ mentioned above. I’ve been a part of projects where we used category theory to guide mathematical modeling and software development. Category theory can spot inconsistencies and errors similar to the way dimensional analysis does in engineering, or type checking in software development. It can help you ask the right questions. It can guide you to including the right things, and leaving the right things out.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/applied-category-theory/
That would only work if you are already under suspicion for something. I don't think many random cops knew how to check the IMEI, also because you'd have to open the phone up. (I think so?)
The tragedy of the commons writ large.
As an investor I don’t ever recall getting a paycheck from a company.
I have seen no proposal for a wealth tax that is not a marginal wealth tax, in which case the math in this essay is wrong. The Warren wealth tax, for example, is for wealth over $50 million.
It's like when we deign policy we never have KPI's, OKR's, or any other metrics associated with it to define what we agree what success is. Everything is an ideological battle to claim a new trench and push the opposition back a trench.

I think we'd get along better if we first proposed and found agreement upon which metrics we want to achieve (gun deaths at x%, or a decline of x% by such and such date, etc) and then implement policy that get there. And then correct as needed.

There was a time when universities had a very disproportionate amount of males VS females. So we passed policy that was designed to make a university degree more achievable for females. And it has worked, which is great! However, we never really implemented an end condition to this policy. And the entrenched apparatus that makes it's living or achieves ideological goals continue the policy, as-is, in a never ending battle.

If we would have said "we want 50% of college students to be female by x-date" (or better, we want to maintain a balance of 50/50) then we could have either stopped the policies that were used to correct the initial condition or modify them to hold it steady at 50%. But we haven't and now 56% are females and it's growing and any suggestion that we either need to hold off on these policies now that we achieved the goal or even correct it to get more males into universities is immediately labeled sexist, etc.

I think it's easier to get a diverse group of people to work towards a common goal when you define the end condition (put a man on the moon) rather than using vague descriptions of what would be a better world. At the very least it stops skeptics from just flat out saying "no, as it will never end".
That's an arbitrary incentive that's not particularly useful. And in any case, it forces one to relinquish a significant partial ownership in their own company just to be able to afford to continue owning the rest...all so that we get them to diversify their portfolio?
Flagship? No. If you want an iphone level phone it basically costs you iphone level dollars whether you want Android or an iphone.

Of course you can buy a cheap phone, but for a 1K phone I expect support for more than 3 years or I wont buy it. That is one thing keeping me from switching back to Android. I likely never will with the preloaded crapware and lack of support.