skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Take that self-centered, unethical nonsense elsewhere.

You're the one who feels you have a right to other people's hard-earned wealth merely by virtue of being born, and you're calling other people self-centred and unethical? What on Earth is ethical about envy-driven tax policy?
I wish to see a line about backend platform on installation documentation. Yes, it's simple, but IMO no one will find "Umami requires bla bla platform on bla bla operating system." sentence useless.
> Do any cloud providers create backups on top of replication though?

Any serious database does offer backups in addition to replication, and that kind of validates OP's point. As for object stores there are a variety of techniques [0].

> But an entire cloud storage for photo and video for millions, we're talking maybe exabytes. The notion of making "separate" backups seems cost-prohibitive.

Cold-stores like the one Facebook built would be apt [1].

> I know there must be redundancy in case a disk fails, but do they keep 2 instances of your data or more? And are the instances spread out geographically, some or all?

See [0]. Backblaze do share quite a bit too about the space, too [2][3]. With minio, one could run their S3-like system on-premise [4].

[0] https://maisonbisson.com/post/object-storage-prior-art-and-l...

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/under-the-hood-facebook...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10540361

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17550837

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12392081
Why is it ok to fund that behavior if it’s victimizing people?
I would encourage the author to watch the talk “You Got What You Got” by James Powell, on restricted computation domains.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wbYG9KTxwdE
My expectation is the renewed interest in radio stations is part of an attempt to make the rumored Apple One offering more attractive.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/apple-rea...
s/cherry picking/showing an example with interesting properties that is different from France/g

So this is actually where the discussion should go: What properties does the Swiss wealth tax have (particularly in the wider taxation system) that the French wealth tax did not have?

What is needed for a wealth tax to have no negative effects? What about income and capital gains tax at the same time? Etc. etc.

I am not trying to make an argument pro wealth taxes, I am trying to make an argument against shallow and non-empirical arguments.
You're not wrong, but it's a little rich that a site full of programmers, of all professions, can't understand why an interview procedure exists even though everyone knows it's bullshit: done any whiteboard coding questions recently?

Even if everyone knows it's crap, it can persist because of institutional inertia and because no one has come up with anything better. That's what happened to us, so we shouldn't be surprised to see it elsewhere.
Thanks! PS. there is a typo here (should be 'statisfy'): https://developers.reverseeagle.org/replace/google-analytics...
> privacy

Encryption?

> legal (GDPR)

You dont have to delete offline backups...never heard of such a case

> cost etc.

Cheaper than loose your customer's data wich they trust you with.

EDIT: If you can delete a backup it's not a backup.
Is there a similar product that does this server side (without injected javascript telemetry) with http logs?
> - Making a lot of money in salary.

Startups pay more in salary than non-tech non-finance companies do in total comp. Startups that are far enough along (pre-IPO Uber, Lyft, etc.) pay more than FAANG (the RSUs aren't liquid but you need to only wait a year or two).
I get where he's coming from but there's a limit to this kind of thinking... If you treat everything as nature's course, there's no reason to do anything.
For example pollution can cause diseases for people. It's not some abstract thing.
Poor people spend money faster than wealthy people. Taxing wealth (up to some unknown limit) and redistributing it increases the income velocity of money--speeding economic growth.
True Story: the guy who leads our sales team is a super star named John (legal name). He’s fearless, organized, focused, determined “and Canadian” as he would say.

Any way, while he was a rising junior his GF came to the office one day and I heard her call him Jake (nowhere in his name legal name). I asked “who the hell is Jake?” to which she replied “oh, that’s what we call John back home”. I looked at him and he said “John likes to make cold calls, Jake doesn’t”.

It works...
See also, section III of https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-...
Actually the story I heard is that Kotlin/Native exists simply because Intel was laying off a compiler team in St Petersburg around that time, so they came on the market as a group and could be picked up easily and quickly. And they wanted to push into iOS.

Could they have done a SubstrateVM/GraalVM competitor instead? Yeah probably, but that's a very different project to adding another backend to Kotlin. Given they already decided to make Kotlin "multi-platform" (i.e. js backend) instead of making Java more portable, it then made sense to go the whole way.

JetBrains also developed TeaVM and arguably it'd have been better to just invest in JVM related tooling, and keep Kotlin as a JVM language. But I think they like the idea of it being its own ecosystem. Who wouldn't, in their position?
The extreme case of this is France, where the "income tax" (90B€/year, progressive) is not the largest income tax. Rather, it is the "generalized social contribution" (124B€/year, flat rate). Of course, public discourse is focused on the income tax (50% of households don't pay any tax whatsoever!), not the main tax on income.
The SNES was built to be a dedicated 2D gaming powerhouse, and in 1990 nothing came close to it. Yes, it was basically a more advanced version of what early 80s gaming systems had done - but it was the most advanced version of what they'd done. Its direct competition was the PC Engine and the Mega Drive, and it smoked both of them.

Comparing it to arcade machines and computers isn't really fair - totally different price points and market segments. But outside of high-end workstations nothing could spit out the kind of visuals the SNES was in 1990. The Amiga 500 was, what, like $500 in 1990? At least double the price? And that could display a mere 32 9-bit colours on-screen, two background layers, no alpha, no scaling or rotation. PCs were starting to come with VGA cards standard, but you'd need to spend at least 10x as much on one to get a CPU that could do much with it. And that's not even getting into the sound hardware!

The 65816 was an unorthodox choice to be sure, but you're doing it a bit of a disservice: it's still a fully 16-bit CPU internally, and even at ~1/2 the MHz the performance delta between it and the 68k is generally overstated (because the 68k is such a cycle hog), especially for the kind of calculations 2D games tend to do.

Anyway - weaker CPU + powerful video hardware (that gets outmodded by home computers within the next two-three years) has been, with few exceptions, the model for high-end game consoles since, well, at least the SNES. It's true of the PS4/XB1, it was true of the Xbox 360 (and the PS3, sort of, the whole Cell thing is complicated), it was true of the GC...CPU is rarely the bottleneck for games, so as a rule console designers don't get too spendy there. Exceptions might be the N64 and the Xbox, although even they had CPUs that could best be described as mid-range for their release dates.
If they were being globally-minded about these "global" stations, Country would not be the second station they make. What a misfire.
What China's national security law means for Hong Kong's status as a data hub
Just using AWS S3 as an example, you can copy a bucket to another bucket (preferably in a different region) with a policy of retaining all versions- preventing the problem of a delete whether malicious or accidental, from being reflected in the backup copy.

There is also the option of using Glacier for lower cost long term storage.

If you are asking does regular S3 provide a true backup capability out of the box, it does not, or at least did not last time I actively looked at this about 2 years ago.
> My question was why someone would bring up moving to rural montana, when most major cities are surrounded by uninhabited land

I'll repeat my answer with less sarcasm: Because building new cities there is not legally allowed. It's physically, but not regulatorily possible.
> In the US, we do not tax wealth, we tax income, because wealth is not money.

There is also the reason that income is easier to manipulate, and the rich-of-the-rich do not, for the most part, have "income".

The top marginal income tax rate is 37%.
The top capital gains (income for wealthy people) tax rate is 20%.

Why does someone actively working for an income pay a higher tax rate than that paid on someone's passive income?
>Nobody creates anything on their own. Full stop. Every single citizen is supported by countless public infrastructure initiatives, from transportation to safety to education to etc etc, without which no significant achievement would be possible.

America's fastest growth rate was in the 1800s, when public spending was extremely small compared to today, so clearly the current level of spending isn't necessary for achievement. Especially given most of the US budget is spent on military and welfare.
The recipe for ‘healthier’ milk chocolate? Just add peanut waste
Back in the days of Netscape 4 (I think), this is what I did. I’m not sure if it was CSS or just some custom browser applied styling defaults, but I found it difficult to read pages in all different styles so I had the browser make them all the same.

There are ‘readability’ plugins and services for browsers that attempt to provide this service for current sites. These days it’s a bit more complicated than just overriding a few styles to make a page ‘standardised’.

The plugins / services work for maybe 99% of pages I look at. Unfortunately I don’t know how to view the whole web through such a lens, without having to activate for each page.
I canceled my DVD service a year or two ago because I was doing a lot of work travel and I'd end up with discs sitting by my TV for a month. I've renewed it for now during the pandemic. It's fine for recent movies but the back catalog has gotten pretty bad. I've mostly resigned myself to paying for streaming rentals plus buying a Blu-Ray every now and then if I think it's something I might want to rewatch.

I suspect there isn't a critical mass for a robust DVD service any longer. RedBox skims some demand for current blockbusters and a lot of people want content right now.
This reminds me of something I read in a book about self love, where it's easy to confuse what you do with who you are. For example, someone who acts shy in large groups of people might start to think that they are a shy person, and that there is nothing they can do about it.
https://github.com/PostHog/posthog looks great for product analytics. If you've used it, can you please share your experience?
How do you get to your 15%? Long term capital gains in the US are taxed at 20% + 3.8% net income tax + state tax. In a city like New York, you're talking close to 40% depending on your tax bracket.
I agree with all of this, and I still use Apple Music. My only reason is that it offers fairly seamless integration between your existing library mp3s and the streaming stuff. Spotify is leagues behind in this regard, my assumption is that it's on purpose because their goal is to get people to stream as much as possible.
This is not what actually happened in several European countries that had wealth taxes. In fact, they found the taxes ineffective at collecting revenue, and abandoned them. This isn't exactly a recommendation of wealth taxes (which I'm skeptical of), however it is evidence that your assumptions about what would happen are not inevitable.
>Now that the US can't do the same to China (due to its sheer size and power), old globalization and free trade flag-bearers discovered suddenly that free trade might not be the "be all end all".

This is one of the main reason why US is fighting China.
Have you tried the app that is called Just Watch? I use this to find what is available where. Saves a lot of time.
Media Marketplaces and the Future of Digital Media
If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America (edit: renounce citizenship) and ambitious people will never come here to begin with. America will no longer be the land of opportunity. The US has already passed an exit tax to try to prevent the wealthy from renouncing their citizenship.

At some point even an exit tax won't be enough. If you study the fall of the roman empire, you will find people abandon huge estates to just start over away from roman taxes.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...
All of the above as accurate. I'd like to add, also go for a walk as soon as you stand up from work to "commute home".

It puts a firm temporal break between work and home, and also gives you a chance to clear your head of work to help get into home mode.
You could try organising your games with GOG Galaxy. I haven't tried it but I've heard good things.

https://www.gogalaxy.com/en/
>> Instead they have close to 100% of their holdings in a single asset represented by the more diversified S&P500

What do you mean by that? Can you give examples of that single asset?
That's true, but a fallacy. Because HKTs prevent a certain class of problems from even coming to existence.

What they predominantly do is help library author's to easily re-use and combine other libraries and provide them to their users while allowing for much greater flexibility than without them.

So yeah, that's not a day-to-day problem of a system engineer (which I and most developers are) but they prevent a lot of these problems from even existing in the beginning.

In the end, both are very useful in a different way and I don't like to work in languages that are missing either of them.
Spotify's automated recommendations seemed okay for me at first, but since I spend most of my time using spotify while working, I think the algorithm decided I'm really into instrumental or ambient music that isn't too complicated and that's all I get now.

Where Spotify really did a good job was just having artists create curated playlists that you can take. I'm amazed Apple doesn't do this more. They have "Inspirations" playlists that are kind of stuff that influenced a specific hit album, but they're clearly curated by someone at Apple.

I guess what I'm asking for is for them to recreate Ping, but make it good this time. Haha
Ahh the classic HN logician that spots someone mentioning slippery slopes and reflexively calls it a logical fallacy.

The history of taxes in the US (and especially California--remember the "temporary" 13.3% highest marginal rate?) has more slippery slopes than 6 flags fiesta Texas. It's not fear mongering, its a very solid argument against new taxes.
Spotify's emphasis on podcasts and other forms of media kills the experience for me. Apple Music is more of a final destination, I use many other sites for discovery and rarely make or update playlists - I think it excels in library management. The one thing I do find horrific is how it tries to 'prefer' original lp's vs remasters.
Show HN: Archivy – Self-hosted knowledge base embedded into your filesystem
Of course. As I stated, it is a trade-off. I think the most important thing is that everyone is honest about this fact - nothing is free.
China isn't totalitarian. I'm a little tired of the impoverished discourse around non-democratic governments. China is an autocratic country, which is to say it's a completely depoliticised society, whereas the defining feature of totalitarian societies is mass mobilisation. China aims to be like Singapore, as Gibson called it "Disneyland with the death penalty", rather than a totalitarian state.

In contrast to historical elite government or totalitarian states the party in China is very much accountable to the population and its well-being. The justification for their continued existence is rising the standards of living and successfully managing society, which renders comparisons to pre-democratic times moot.
There are many places where people do buy motorcycles based on utility and cost -- underbones, standards, and scooters between 49 and 250cc are popular. The most popular vehicle in history is the Honda Super Cub.
Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant
Laying the foundation for Rust’s future
I wonder if all radio apps like TuneIn will be banned from the app store because they will directly compete with an apple software, I believe I saw this clause in the apple TOS...
>Under HIPAA, you can be held personally liable. This includes jail time for certain classes of violations.

Has anyone ever been actually sent to jail under HIPAA for something comparable to an honest DB config mistake? Has anyone been credibly threatened with it in the court of law? Has anyone come remotely close?
I use a separate computer and turn it off and dont use it for the rest of the day.
This kind of naive wealth tax has all kinds of unwanted sideffects and bureaucracy monsters that come with it. Especially if you imagine holding non public stock and estate, this quickly becomes absurd. To reach the original goals of a wealth tax it makes much more sense to:

- Prevent inheritance to an agreed maximum (the dead does not care and the children basically should not complain to get a capped inheritance. 1 million or 10 or whatever society agrees to be max is still not equal opportunity but closer, family owned paintings and jewlery etc. Can be lended and bought back from the state

- tax luxury purchases by 50% to 100%, this is really what we want: a buddhist billionaire who spends nothing is not bothered by the tax office until after death and an asshole who buys a yacht, gulfstream and rolex is forced to give back to society in significant amounts

- make luxury tax apply for moving whealth outside of the country imediately
Off-Campus Crusaders: Understanding Remote Hierarchies and the Future of Work
I'd rather see individual strategies proliferate, on the belief that the government doesn't always know best.

I don't understand this argument because you get the opportunity to vote in government representatives who do know best every couple of years. They are accountable to you. You can even run yourself if it's really that important to you. This is a huge feature of government.

The same can't really be said about individual-owned foundations with no accountability by design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#Leg...
anecdata: i just rented a house. the listing said x. when i saw the property, the realtor said "rent is ${x+200}". I still felt like i expended my negotiations after clarifying that the rent was actually x. I knew he was fucking with me, but i needed a place to live, and i wanted to negotiate more, but it was hard to muster a negotiation after i felt like I already negotiated.
Oops, my bad. You are totally right.
Don't store your users PII in a git repository then.
I'm shocked people think a wealth tax on startup founders is OK. Let's think of a scenario for instance:

ACME startup raises Series C @500M. Founder equity is worth 100M on paper. Founder needs to borrow money every year to pay 'wealth' tax. After 10 years of struggles, company sells for $100M, VCs get money back, founder makes no money. But now founder is millions in debt for past 'wealth' tax payments. Founders will be declaring bankruptcy in those cases. And interest rates for wealth tax loans will skyrocket as a result, making effective wealth tax rate much higher.

Problem is startup founder 'millionaires' and 'billionaires' are only that on paper. Any asset that is volatile (like startups) will become impossible to own long term even with a small wealth tax.
The learning curve on J feels like a wall everytime I try and use it I end up bouncing off pretty quickly because it's so dense.
If we pass a wealth tax we will be able to test your theory! I believe this action is lose lose. Let's see what happens
Isn't this model is ignoring the fact that the proposed wealth tax plans are _marginal_ rates?

Take Sanders' plan [1] for instance:

* 1% annual tax on net worth above $32M

* 2% above $50M

* 3% above $250M

* 4% above $500M

* 5% above $1B

Also note that based on those numbers this tax would impact the wealthiest 180,000 households in the US (out of 129M, which is roughly the top 0.1%).

Warren's plan [2] is less aggressive:

* 2% above $50M

* 4% above $1B

I'm not actually a fan of the wealth tax (more for logistical reasons) and I don't have the time right now to work out the math for a more accurate model, but I'm pretty sure 0.99^60 is not it.

[1] https://berniesanders.com/issues/tax-extreme-wealth/

[2] https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/ultra-millionaire-tax

EDIT: If my quick math is right then your wealth needs to be roughly $100M before you're paying 1% ($1M) in wealth tax, but that number would shrink as your net wealth does.

EDIT 2: Taking Bernie's plan, and assuming a net worth of $100M that's stuffed in your mattress (hence earning nothing from investment or interest), after 60 years you'd be left with $59,279,504, having paid a total of $41,086,086 in wealth tax (roughly 41% of the original $100M) over 60 years. (Note that this still leaves you with much more wealth than 99.9% of American households.)

Of course, if you can get a 1% return on your initial $100M then your net worth is still $100M after 60 years.
Thank you for submitting this as it reminded me to check the support status of my phone and it turns out that support ended in March this year. I suppose now I have to get a new phone. I don't think I will be getting another Android or iOS phone.
The notion that the time and stress involved with the paperwork is onerous enough to merit being considered payment seems tenuous to me. The gov't has been pushing (as hard as it can) free file services for all of the years that I've been doing taxes. Using those free file options, I--a standard W-2 worker who doesn't make much--complete my taxes in about 15 minutes these days. The companies that convince people to pay them to do that tiny amount for paperwork are also working to hide how ridiculously quick and stress-free it is for one of those 44% to do their taxes.
I just opened up Apple Music to see if it changed much. I tapped on a song to play. Instead of playing, I got a full screen ad.

A full screen ad. For Apple Music. The app I'm in.

Edit: And I want to make sure I'm clear here. I pay for iTunes Match. I have a nice music library, and it's in iTunes, so I like having it with me where I go when I want to listen to something from that. So, I'm in Apple Music, trying to play music I own. And it's synced through a service I've already paid for. And Apple has the audacity to ask for more money? Stop me from playing my music after I've already paid them and deal with an annoying full-screen popup Ad.

Opened Spotify, and is synced up with what my Desktop is doing.

It's fine you disagree. It's just Apple has done everything they can to make me hate using Music.
I have activities at the end of the day which require me to quit. I play pickleball with friends, coach my kids in baseball, dinner with my family.

I'd find things to do. Even in 2020, you can still get together with friends, even at a distance. Ride bikes, hike, walk to get take-out.

Set a calendar notice to "GET OUT" of your office to help remind you. Or you can borrow my 3 year old who will ask you to play "strong guy" with him until you give in.
But Kotlin is just a much better language. Not sure if you can call that "bashing".
> 2. France is part of the EU, there are dozens of countries that French millionaires can move to with almost zero friction.

Which is why taxing the rich and wealthy, as well as their companies, is something that desperately needs EU intervention.