skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean like how every TV ad works? Yeah that sounds preferable.
On the other hand, the wealth tax is not the same across the country and definitely there is evidence of wealthy people choosing their residence accordingly.
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> Under the hood we use a combination of copulas and deep-learning models to model the distributions and correlations in your dataset (the intuition here is that it's much more useful for developers to have realistic data than just sample from a random number generator)

This is neat, but do users have the option of just doing vanilla RNG if they want?
That's exactly what capital gains taxes are tho?
I would posit that most assets are in relation to other real assets worth about the same. If I sell that building and buy the one that is say about the same right next to it am I going to 'pay more'? Cash wise most certainly. Utility wise not so much. Do not confuse cash with value. It is easy to get them mixed up.
So that’s how it looks on the surface...
It's almost like this was intentionally misleading...
What, John liked cold calls so much that he had to invent alter ego Jake, who didn't like cold calls, in order to get a girlfriend?
I think a 1% wealth tax is enough to encourage billionaires to move out or CA, but probably not out or US. I doubt most startup founders would consider it when founding the company.
The company that they own.
There is certainly a shortage of desirable land. Waterfront property is a good example.
Well, probably another house, but yes.
Spotify is extremely slow and battery-draining on my 6s. I don't want the random videos that play either. I also want the integration between my mac, apple tv, watch and iphone.
> ...the ultra elite ruling class type society

To me, the ruling class is the Ivy League graduate class. They run and rule this country to their benefit.

The Billionaires have fabulous lives, sure, but I don't think they have much political power at all.

If anything, I see them as one of the few counterweights to the real political power.
I have to agree, Apple when it comes to updates and how long they support devices do put Android offering to shame.
I find using any language without IntelliJ tooling to be a pain. Not sure that's relevant.
dcolkitt already mentioned an issue with that: if the company goes bust you're still on the hook.
That may be true in the US, but I doubt many Europeans would be able and willing to pay that much.
Sure I already mentioned this caveat regarding that population density figures, but the caveat is nowhere sufficient to defeat the point.

Sources will state about 80% of Canada is uninhabited, and 47% of the US. In the UK it' 1-2%.

In other words, even assuming you apply the population density figures I mentioned in my previous post to only 20% of Canada or ±50% of the US, you'd still get a large discrepancy in 20 people per square km in Canada, vs 72 in the US, and still around 270 in the UK.

Hooking up the same coverage with 3-4 (US) or 13-14 (UK) times fewer people in that area should naturally drive much higher costs per person connected, which may explain prices.

And given profit margins of all the big telcos aren't exceptionally high for Canada despite much higher prices, that hypothesis seems quite plausible.
I suppose everyone's definition of ultra-rich is different. There are many people who feel that earning $60k/year is unattainable in their lifetime. For them, the income tax rates (and proposed wealth tax rates) probably seem too low.

I agree that it's easy to tax people wealthier than you. When it might affect you, there's less support.
No, but if true it does mean Apple closed future designs, not opened them.
Wealth taxes are one solution. But in my opinion the only way to get extremely wealthy is to own a company that goes public. Personally I'm starting to think that when a company goes public there should be limits on what percentage of that company an individual can hold. Bezos being able to control 11.1% of Amazon given it's size seems a little ridiculous. The entire point of the stock market or "going public" was to allow public ownership and benefit of these massive behemouths (whether they should even grow that large in the first place is another discussion).

But when one person owns such a large percentage it really tips the scales.

I don't know how you'd solve this. Forced pay out to the owners when a stock goes public? There are probably negatives I am not thinking of. But it just seems like public markets let companies grow to levels so large that having an individual have such a large share doesn't make sense anymore.
Granted.

I was just using the bruhaha to demonstrate a point. A millionaire tax and a billionaire tax are totally different in practice, both operationally and socially.
The audited accounting is clear. Apple s gross margins on services are 68% on roughly $50B in service revenues. That’s roughly $16B in expenses.

Subtract $9B for Google safari payment, and you have $16B in expenses on $41B in remaining service revenues, or 60% gross margins.

Hosting and distribution of terabytes of data every hour costs money. Building and maintains hundreds of localized app stores costs money. Customer service costs money. App Review costs money. Developer support costs money. Maintaining Developer tools and store APIs costs money. Payment processing costs money, esp. on 99 cent purchases.

And why should Apple price these devices at a “fair price”? When you build a business from scratch that be ones far more successful than anyone thought possible, aren’t you allowed to keep the money people freely pay you?

Apple set the pricing at 30% day 1, and it hasn’t stopped a single developer from running to jump into the App Store goldmine. There has never been a more profitable software market for developers. I’d say Jobs clearly got the pricing right.
I've told this story in more depth in other places on this site - The one time in my life I have ever been accused of a crime was when the greenhouse I was working at was robbed. I went to the side of the greenhouse to fix a hole, and while I was gone, a lovely gentlemen decided to empty the cash register.

Flash forward to three police statements and one polygraph later.

My experience with polygraph tests is they are a way for police to coerce a confession. I "failed" the polygraph test, and "should come clean now so they would go easy on me." The problem is, I didn't do it, I didn't know who did it, and I didn't want to know who did it. I was 17, and they had no leads. Just an absolute joke.
I suppose the biggest risk is failure-to-pay, as with all cloud backups/storage. If I allow my payment card to expire, Amazon aren't obligated to continue to store my data. If I drop off the grid for an extended holiday, that could be a real risk.

To my knowledge, Amazon offer no means of prepaying.
Sure but everyone knows the titles are inflated so it only matters if you plan to stay in startups perpetually. Megacorps won't pay any attention to your inflated title.

edit: And I've seen interviewers pause at such titles and comment "are you sure you want to work here, we can't offer you as nice of a title." So it may count against you even.
Courts don't just mediate. Their judgements are backed by the power of the state (otherwise a thief could simply ignore them). And this is absolutely somebody having a positive right (to have their property ownership defended) that infringes on someone else's negative right (to take their property without the state interfering). It happens to be a right that I agree with. But I don't think you can differentiate it with the positive/negative distinction like you think you can.
Because they'd be using 'is' instead of 'instanceof'? That just really doesn't strike me as a meaningful difference.

Hell, they already have a lot of way more crazy changes (the radically different lambda syntax, different function signature, functions outside classes, extension functions, etc). By your reasoning they're already way past the point where "it's 'easy' to switch from java to kotlin".
Then 4G or Wifi may be worse than 5G. Experiments with inter-cellular adhesion were, among others, at 900MHz and 1800MHz, thus closer to 4G. However I don't know if other frequencies were really investigated (or with the same care, with different effects observed on male and female rodents, etc).

I appreciate that in your brief analysis you are considering several mechanisms of action besides just the heating. There may be many kinds of resonances, at molecular level, supra-molecular, etc. If very little 900/1800MHz suffices to alter BBB, then it is like a trigger to worse things, without the need of much energy. In the animals tested, the amount reaching the brain, at typical GSM levels, had already the observed result. Of course my tone is speculative here, but if the effect was confirmed in humans, it would not need much energy, and just the medium-to-weak signal reaching the brain could be worrisome.

There are not yet any studies on it, but if the effects of 5G on BBB were much stronger than with 900/1800MHz, it may also be the case that much lower signal intensities would still alter noticeably the BBB, even after the attenuation of the body traversal.

I am not a luddite at all, but I do hope that scientists working to certify that 5G is healthy are not hand-waving away the problem only by saying that the energy absorbed is too low or that the body is blocking its intensity. That would mean they did not hear at all about the effect of the mere frequency as a signal on the adhesion between cells.

I really would like to see some study elucidate the mechanism (or the absence thereof, and the flaws of the previous study), maybe some sort of resonance, soon enough to avoid to be in a situation were Wifi/4G/5G would be everywhere yet with dangerous long-term effects on health.
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I've had so many challenges with this, to the extent that at some point it began affecting my throughput at work. If I never switch "on" or "off", at some point I run into a place where I feel like I'm always working but never getting anything done. I've also historically had issues maintaining a consistent schedule, and even viewed my unique position of not having to do that as somehow special – after a few years, I can tell you that it's not. Some colleagues I know enjoy working a few hours in the morning, skipping out around 2:30 PM and getting the rest done late in the evening. Eventually and very recently I came to the conclusion that this just doesn't work for me. My manager recently recommended I just work from 9-5 and sign off and shut my computer at the end of the day. It might seem obvious or painfully conventional, but it just works. No more colleagues complaining that I'm off the map half the time or hesitating to reach out because I might awkwardly be unavailable. I'm working less hours, shipping more, and enjoying my life when the work day ends.
Not really disagreeing, but you seem to be implying that the non-wealthly would use money on needs as opposed to wants and also that the money would not be used for societal waste. I think part of that's true to an extent - eg how many ovens or microwaves can one billionaire need. There are plenty of normal people who waste money on things that do not improve society, such as TVs, expensive vacations, fancy new cars, and so on instead of using that money for education, healthcare, etc or using that time for productive activities like volunteering, growing a vegetable garden, etc.
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Read this and thought, might be worth a try to upgrade my aged SM-T719 as it's gotten dog slow... but WTF? All Samsung does starts at 10 inch (for comparison: the T719 is 8 inch), that's way too big for me - and it's a 2017 model which means everything is aged!

Is there anything of decent quality (including availability of spare parts like batteries and screens, as well as somewhat reliable updates and a somewhat new-ish CPU) on the market at the moment? Hell I'd even drop my previous hard requirement of a decent camera and NFC... but it looks like the market between the 6-ish inch Note series and 10-inch stuff is totally dead :(
Is this some kind of sarcasm?

Do you know about The Great Chinese Famine due to The Great Leap Forward (Backward) under Mao?

Between 18 million and 45 million starved to death due to failings of centrally planned economy. The single biggest man made disaster in the whole of humanity history.

The today success of China can be traced to Deng Xiaoping opening of the country and the free market reforms the so called socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Isn't his claim kinda... laughable? Most of us live in countries were overall income taxation is over the 26% that in his calculation correspond to the mystical 0.5% wealth tax that over 60 years would scare founders away.
> This would only be true if you allow your money to rot and don't do anything with it for 60 years. Inflation would eat into that a lot more in that scenario. Average inflation is roughly 3%.

This statement assumes that 'wealth' == money.
Agree! IMO the solution isn't a wealth tax, it's to just tie the capital gains tax to the income tax bracket.

That, or adding a top marginal capital gains bracket for any gain above (say) $100 million.

This also has the built-in advantage of not requiring a Constitutional amendment.
TL;DR:

's/Mozilla Foundation/Rust Foundation/g'

The creation of an independent non-profit foundation that will legally own and control all digital and physical property associated with the Rust language (from the Rust name itself to domains like crates.io) is a great development for the language.

IMHO, this was overdue: Rust's impact and influence today is global, and extends well beyond the confines of Mozilla. Many businesses and organizations building mission-critical applications with Rust will now be able to support and influence development of the language more directly through the new foundation. Long term, I have an inkling that it will lead to greater/broader adoption of Rust.
> I don't understand why you focus so much on "who gets the total above the threshold".

I don't care about that ordering at all. Assume N actors are each producing on average a mass M of carbon (in some unit time). We set a carbon production tax based on that. Some combination of actors scales up production so that the total volume being produced is 2NM -- we don't care which ones. Total taxes double while total externalities more than double (potentially greatly so).

> It's an independent system that needs to be maintained and supervised

That's a fair point. We have similar systems elsewhere for, e.g., fishery maintenance, but it would require something above and beyond what we have now.

> Besides measuring emissions is hard, measuring fuel usage is easy

Eh. Dealing with trace pollutants and particulates would be harder but for carbon you could easily just add up the major sources and sinks on the supply side rather than trying to actually measure the output. As I'm writing that though, I'm being swayed to your side a bit and agree that's bookkeeping the average household probably wouldn't want to have to consider (so...we're allowed X gallons of gas as long as we don't buy any coal or....).

> Then you have to somehow decide who gets how much. It turns a self-tuning economic system into a centrally planned economy

Potentially. Or you could open up an auction and treat the proceeds as a form of tax.

> and introduces politics into it.

That's going to be a problem with any solution.

> I see no problem with changing oil tax weekly in the transition period.

Is there any tax anywhere that changes faster than yearly? Where does it get applied? Do gas station owners in the middle of nowhere have to keep track of probably wild swings in taxes? Do we apply portions of it at several places in the supply chain and run the risk of somebody creating a more streamlined supply chain around the current tax law?

> I doubt we'll need more than 5 corrections.

I doubt we'll get more than 5 corrections. I bet we would need them.
> Function colours are a useful modelling tool regardless of whether the underlying platform requires it.

Without getting into the debate over what valuable information the "async" colour communicates on a platform where, unlike in JS, global state changes could occur at any time due to thread concurrency, any thread can be suspended by either the VM or the OS at any point for any duration, and "async" is no cheaper than "sync", the more practical problem is that Kotlin does not know what colour the platform's operations are. This means that some arbitrary mixing of colours would work on one platform but might not on another.

I know some two-colour frameworks use BlockHound, a dynamic "colour detection" tool, but even as a dynamic tool and even today BlockHound sometimes gives wrong results because it doesn't keep up with the frequent changes to the platform.

> Not sure how that's any different from a library's perspective than "this API isn't available on older JVMs, so don't use it if you want to target Android".

Because it's not about libraries or versions you can upgrade but core language capabilities that differ by platform. It could be acceptable, but it means that there are different Kotlins for different targets.

We get a language whose both syntax and/or behaviour differs by platform, and isn't a first-class citizen on any but one of them.
Have people put their card details in first to minimise friction later on?
Oh I got it, the nasty part is nabbing the SSH private key, not the fact that it's RSA... duh :)
I was employee ~150 at a company that essentially had it's exit event with a massive GE investment a couple years ago. DUring that investment, employees were required to sell their stock/options. To the credit of the VP who hired me, the result was exactly as he had told me: "when this company has it's event, you'll likely get enough off your options to put the kids through college or for a big down payment on a really nice house. But the only people who will sniff 7 figure paydays are the VP/C-suite and the only person getting rich(er) is the CTO/founder."
I've never heard of this "single-colour" / "two-colour" distinction, do you have a link with more information? Thanks!
I think they were already doing 4 years of security updates (3 years monthly, 1 year quarterly). My 2017 Note 8 just dropped to the quarterly updates train
Android is highly coupled to Linux, and this is visible at various places in the SDK such as: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/system/Os?hl...

But even just behaviorally it doesn't pretend to be OS agnostic at all. Setting thread priorities isn't even abstracted, it's just "uses the Linux values for this" https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Process#s...

That doesn't prevent building an abstraction layer and plopping Android onto a different kernel, of course. After all that's what Microsoft did with WSL.
It is good news that rust is settling up a independent foundation.

If other shelved or high risk Mozilla projects such as MDN , servo , thunderbird setup similarly it would enable us to directly contribute to the projects instead of the foundation or not at all.

The only project the corporation would never let go is Firefox as it their revenue source , however
other projects could perhaps be salvaged
Critical. I have been part of multiple startups that have fantastic work/life balance.

In one case I'd get meetings like "hey, I know you have a kid and all, but we're hitting a deadline soon. Just to let you know next week you're probably gonna have to put in extra hours. But I didn't want to sneak it on you. Let me know if there are any days you can't work extra so I can make sure the other days are covered by someone else." and other times not count my hrs if I work 7.5 hrs or 8.5 hrs in a day.

Startups can be kind. It just has to come from up top.

And I'm not even talking about my current startup which is significantly better.

So yeah. Don't think that startups are all shit. I interview the founders. Are these the people I want to work for, I want to make rich, I believe in.
There's still a good number of graphics hackers, but a lot of code has moved out of Xorg and as a result most of the hackers have moved on to working on Mesa, Wayland, and in-kernel GPU drivers. So there is some overlap there with the kernel hackers.
Then the strongest argument against a wealth tax is simply: "they'll find loopholes".

It's circular and un-falsifiable.
Good thing about wealth taxes is they don’t penalize changing your asset allocation. Capital gains is weird because you don’t get taxed for owning things, only for reallocating them.
It's often the other way around... Many times, salespeople use different names on the phone than in real life.
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You seem to have trouble understanding that you are not the user of nginx: the users who visit your website and use nginx to serve files to themselves are the users.

Does it make sense now?
PostHog founder here. Only if you split the name ;-)
I'm curious how the model handles text data. Does it use the actual input text from the source db to generate new synthetic data? If I have a column of a bunch of sensitive text that I need sanitized, how will that appear in the output? What is the risk of leaking something sensitive?
I have to be honest, I thought this was already the case.
The last mile in FTTC is more like the last few meters.
This isn't wildly impressive. Looking at the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history you can see a new Android is released every year around August.

So what Samsung seem to be saying is that we will support your Android device for 3-4 years. That is a definite improvement but not a lot of support for a $1000+ device.

> For example, the Galaxy S20 lineup, announced in February 2020 powered by Android 10, will get support for three OS upgrades starting with Android 11 to give users a refreshing phone experience. The Galaxy S20 line-up will also be the first Galaxy devices to receive the Android 11 upgrade later this year5, with other devices to follow shortly thereafter.

I had an original Samsung Galaxy Note which I loved as being one of the first big phones. The OS support was abysmal though which was one of the reasons I switched to the Nexus/Pixel line. Now Google hard cuts the support off at 3 years for the Pixels which I resent immensely on a very expensive device.
Your company can pay dividends and you can use that to pay the tax. It essentially becomes an operating tax on the company based not on its profit, but its value. What's interesting about that is it would work for companies like Amazon that intentionally engineer zero profits so as to avoid taxes.
That’s a lot harder to pull off. What methods do you use to accomplish this?

Depending on how much data you're backing up, sneakernet works.

When I was still in the office, my company had me rotate a set of backup hard drives between the office lockup and a strongbox in my house. The notion was that it was unlikely that both the office building and my house 12 miles away would both burn down at the same time.

Of course, now I'm working from home, so all of the eggs are in one basket again.
Aye, same here. It's really good!
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No one is saying the App Store isn’t very profitable for Apple. Just countering the misinformation from n the original post and the blatantly wrong assumption that the App Stores only costs are payment processing.

Disclosure: I’m a long tine App Store developer.
You can take a loan on your shares to pay for the tax, which happens all the time for most expenses.