skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Language Log occasionally discusses "Escher sentences", with the prototype being "More people have been to France than I have."

I suspect this is the kind of thing you're going for?
I remember in law school my income tax professor recommended a book for those of us who wanted a more tax nerd approach. I can't seem to find my copy right now, so I may be getting some details wrong as the following is from 30 year old memories.

Anyway, there was some discussion in the book of what would be the ideal tax in terms of fairness, effectiveness, minimizing market distortion, and assorted other you want in a good tax if we did not have the constraint of it actually being practical to implement.

I think that the conclusion was that a tax on changes to net wealth was the best. Each tax period, subtract your net wealth at the start from your net wealth at the end, and that difference is what you are taxes on. (Whether it should be a flat rate or depend on on the size of the difference is a separate question). If that's positive, you owe tax. If that's negative, you get a refund.

Unfortunately, it is not practical because wealth (1) is often heard to determine, and (2) is often in forms that can be efficiently converted to cash or cash equivalents to actually pay taxes with.

Income taxes kind of approximate this for the large number of people that do not have a significant amount of money in real estate or in personal property (other than investments such as mutual funds). For them, most of additions to wealth come from income, and the standard deduction kind of approximates subtractions from wealth, leaving taxable include roughly matching net change in wealth.
I hate to break it to you, but literally all of humanity does that, most of the time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

This includes me. And you. And everybody else here.

Changing your mind is actually really hard.
Thanks and great questions!

> First, we’re using Postgres and some of our tables use JSON...

We've seen this before when we were talking to a company we were considering to pilot pre-launch - it's on our roadmap. Currently the JSON text would be treated as a string, i.e. it is classified as a categorical type or text.

What we would want is for the classifier to traverse the JSON object instead of treating it like text. This feature is going to be implemented when we extend to NoSQL databases.

> Second, I’m concerned about giving Synth access to my data as much of it is sensitive.

Absolutely. This has been one of the guiding principles in building Synth. We've built it so that our servers never have to see any sensitive information. (Hence why you can use Synth via a CLI tool instead of an API)

Also:

1) The CLI is soon to be OSS giving full visibility into exactly what's happening when you use it. (Really it's OSS now since you can just take a look at the source code running in the container, we just haven't had the time to make our repo public)

2) The models are designed to be transparent. You can inspect them by running `synth model inspect <model-id>`. This gives you visibility into exactly what the model looks like. (Looking at the data which has been sampled is still a WIP)

3) If something goes wrong and sensitive information is uploaded to the Synth platform, you can easily purge all traces of it using `synth model rm <model-id>`
> Near 50% of American pay ZERO tax whatsoever.

As stated, that is completely and unequivocally false.

Near 50% of Americans pay no "Federal income tax" where "Federal income tax" is arbitrarily defined to not include payroll taxes despite them being a Federal tax on income. They still pay payroll taxes, state income tax, sales tax, etc.
For some that has a day job meddling investments this is a surprisingly shallow model. The proposed wealth taxes start at 50m and 1b - there will not be many modern startup founders that achieve those numbers is the first year.
A) history shows these things eventually apply to everyone. E.g. FATCA was originally relevant to a few hundred people, no it applies to almost all Americans living outside the US (hundreds of thousands). It’s just a reporting requirement, but one that can potentially cost you 3%-50% of your net worth per year if not filed or improperly filed.

B) I know people who were bankrupted by existing tax laws - had shares in internet companies during the dot com boom; company IPOd making them paper millionaires, thus owing millions in taxes, but had 6 months lockup. By the time the lockup expired, company went bust, nothing to sell to cover the tax bill. Any law that takes valuations into account (as a wealth tax law is bound to) is likely to wrong some people in a similar way, especially entrepreneurs and early employees.
Since when have governments ever effectively redistributed wealth to citizens over lining the pockets of cronies and favoured industries?
You might want to think instead about your country (as in, tax, red tape, government) about your neighbourhood and people you live with and your family. Do you want to improve the life of the people around you and how could you do that? For some, off-shoring improves the lives of their immediate family, for others, it might detract to the community.

I guess it depends on how much your startup interacts (hires, sells to etc) where you are.
If you haven't listened to Soulection (radio show every saturday on beats 1 and archived on soundcloud), stop what you're doing and add that to your life.
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Trying to understand. In a world of gazillions of radio shows online on so many platforms including direct and indirect competitors, with traditional shows going online, with platforms like pandora. Why two radio stations from one big company is such a big deal?
> fairly often it’s obvious that participants in these discussions are searching for arguments to validate pre-held beliefs and policy positions.

This is true of discussion of almost any topic by almost anyone ever.
Interestingly, what you see as completely normal (other taxes) was once as disturbing as capital tax seems to be:

> Window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house.

> At that time, many people in Britain opposed income tax, on principle, because the disclosure of personal income represented an unacceptable governmental intrusion into private matters, and a potential threat to personal liberty. In fact the first permanent British income tax was not introduced until 1842 [note by me: not until 1914 in France!], and the issue remained intensely controversial well into the 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
I have to disagree pretty strongly. I have both Spotify and Apple Music, and the latter has spot on recommendations, sound quality, and the far better UX for me. Probably 80% of my listening time is in Apple Music. TIDAL seems better for lossless/master quality in my stereo setup but is really expensive, so I only sign up occasionally.

The only reason I use Spotify is sharing playlists with friends or on social media, which is something Apple Music recently added, but isn’t widely used. I will admit that Spotify has nailed The music sharing UX.
Normal working people watch ridiculous amounts of tv.
X also solved problems for a future that never happened. The whole client/server design was originally intended for a world where compute and storage were much more expensive than network bandwidth. I remember in the early 90s it was just kind of received wisdom that networks were going to get a lot faster. They didn't, processors did.

Which isn't to say it isn't great that X makes it blindingly easy to put a window on someone else's screen.
No screenshots? :(
It would be classical free market capitalism if anybody with any money could be investing in anything. This is not the case in the US where you need to qualify as an investor prior of being able to invest in startups or companies.
To me, Javascript objects are gross, but TS has done away with a lot of that mess.
fMRI machines are still quite expensive and require a technician to operate and calibrate. They also require the subject to be sitting/lying still inside the machine while it is being operated in order to get any kind of useful measurements.

Not really sure what the consensus among neuroscientists and psychologists is with regard to weather they are reliable lie detectors or not though.
I think its easy to get into this way of thinking. I have gone down that rabbit hole and it may well be that is the historical evidence but at the end of the day humans have agency and collectively countries and nations have agency.

My prediction is that in the near term western countries especially the U.S. evolve (devolve?) into corporate fiefdoms, the pretense of democracy will still be alive but they will just be lobbyists for massive conglomerates like in cyberpunk novels (are we already there?).

I think we will eventually as a whole of humanity go to a better system of governance but none of us will be around for it, first we human beings need to have some global catastrophes to humble us into some collective wisdom.
Good job. Getting 502 error!
to add another valid (yet totally invalid) point: You want an impressive job title. At an established company you're going to be a Software Developer or Engineer level n; at a startup you can easily be Lead, Director of or even a VP if that's important to you.
Demo is throwing back "502 Bad Gateway"

Hacker News hug of death?
... where else on HN, obviously.
The negative opinions on Beats often seem snobbish and dare I say bigoted. But I will admit it was a strange get for Apple as a brand.

Although I remember some gossip about them buying it mainly for the music licensing deals that Beats had, and probably the recording industry clout of Dr. Dre.
Just more reason to move out of California. California will tax away its elite economic status and force innovation to move to places where it is rewarded. This is basic economics.
I stopped feeling obligated to being fancy a couple years ago.

It's running off a raspberry pi at my apartment and is really more about giving me access to my network of computing resources here.

I've been meaning to make a generative poetry engine and just put it there without disclosing it. It could probably be pretty believably human if it's restricted enough.
This worked on our (then) 5 year old, who was shy on the soccer field but kicked it up a notch when we told her to be a dinosaur. Of course, this also resulted in her running around with t-rex arms and baring her teeth, so I guess you have to be careful which alter ego you adopt.
From Wikipedia: "A comprehensive 2003 review by the National Academy of Sciences of existing research concluded that there was "little basis for the expectation that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy."
The cited article: The Polygraph and Lie Detection. National Research Council. 2003. ISBN 978-0-309-26392-4.
(https://www.nap.edu/catalog/10420/the-polygraph-and-lie-dete...)
In terms of “tentpole” shows Elton John has hosted his for a long time and it’s fantastic. Josh Homme also does a great show (which seems to run in “seasons” rather than every week).
I really don't understand what they've done with the Beats brand. They've released a handful of headphones (that in my experience have suffered an array of technical faults compared to reports from Airpods users) and Beats 1. Now they're killing off the latter.

It clearly fits into the Music product better but even after the corporate takeover there was something cool about "Beats" as a brand. It even sounded good in the stings. Oddly this is currently in Music as "Apple Music Beats 1" next to Hits and Country, which is even worse than one or the other.

The visual branding of all three stations is amateur too. Quite clearly so next to the Beats branding.

I wonder what the real success of the station has been - it seems to have all the right ingredients even if I'm not that interested after Julie left. It's always seemed a little discard by Apple, as it often is with these big tech companies and their side projects. If this was a business in its own right, as with Apple Music, I assume there'd be more publicity and a more competitive product.
Totally! Just set an instance up the other day. Done in five minutes, you'll only need database credentials and a somewhat "normal" PHP setup.
Did they use the wrong week? Shouldn't it be weak?
same thing here. this sounds like a really cool project. an action gif or screenshots would have been awesome.
Have a few drinks or watch some mindless TV.
Sure and if you impose a tax a national level instead of a state (or EU member country) the diminishing returns for increased taxation occur at a higher rate because it's much harder to move to a new country than it is to move to a new state.

Also housing prices probably have more to do with people leaving high priced cities than taxes do.
Hey - great question!

We've been careful to design Synth such that the model doesn't contain any sensitive information. That being said I completely understand where you're coming from.

We do offer the enterprise version for on-prem deployments. Basically, if you have a Kubernetes cluster you can run Synth on-prem :)
This is wrong. The redistributed tax money doesn't magically disappear. Almost 100% goes back into the economy because the people receiving it actually need the money for various things.

It is much more likely that the wealthy will use the same money instead to buy another yacht or private jet, which while also providing some jobs is ultimately a net waste for society.

Not that yachts should be banned, but economic policy should never encourage such spending.
The best linter for Kotlin is the IntelliJ inspector, which is very powerful. You can run inspections from CI builds using TeamCity, at least, probably other CI builds. You may also configure project defaults to trigger various patterns as warnings or errors.

Even better, in the latest IntelliJ you can create new inspections from structural search, which is an AST based matching system. So you have a lot of flexibility to make your own lints and warnings without needing to write plugins.

However, I think there's a more general issue here, which is that if you don't trust your team to write tasteful code, linters will be of limited use. It may be better to invest in more rigorous code reviews, trainings, style guidance, mentoring etc. I've spent five years managing technical teams using Kotlin (yep, early adopter!) and found most of them could handle it just fine. A little training goes a long way. The worst problems came from developers creating overly complex abstractions, not playing code golf.
Here's a google sheet recreating the model, and some columns about what happens if you add in 5% growth to that wealth being taxed
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RUOyxXLZ-J_Nb_aPIhiF...
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You can do a similar calculation with prop 13:

https://www.hjta.org/about-hjta/estimate-your-prop-13-saving...

The effect? Those tax savings get priced into the housing market and further drive up costs for new buyers.
Exactly. Capital gains tax is equivalent to a wealth tax on appreciating assets only, which is the only kind of assets you should be targeting with a wealth tax. So just implement a sensible capital gains tax, and you're done.
Why did the seller get your information to contact you? Seems to me that should not be allowed.
I used to think that Paul Graham was a smart, serious individual, but thinking you can refute a wealth task with high-school arithmetic is such a vast, gross oversimplification of the issues in play that I am starting to reconsider.
It is honestly the center of modern life to many young people.

Half the things you mention are oblivious to the younger population. They don't have a vehicle, don't use physical mail (paper letters), and couldn't care less about journalism.

Consider somebody trying to get a job in modern society. The phone is needed to apply. The phone is needed to do the interview. The phone is needed to take a picture of your id and receive the contract when you're hired.
Every tax payer pays at a minimum their time and stress to file the paperwork, many don't realize that best effort is probably good enough for them, those who are fortunate can spend $150 to a leech of a lying, scheming company to reduce that burden.
Consumption is an important part of the process, without which production has no purpose, but you don't become wealthier just by increasing your spending. Consumer demand is an accelerant, not a fuel source. Boosting it gives you short-term growth at the expense of a long-term decline as you consume the capital that makes efficient production possible in the first place.
Shoes. For me, I have to put on street shoes. Pants too, of course. It's all part of sticking to a routine that I would do if I was going to work in an office. I wear jeans and t-shirts rather than business causal, but I shower, shave, and dress like I'm going to an office.

Taking a walk is a great idea, especially for separating the end of the work day from personal time.
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An important point here would the magnitude of those effects: how much a 1% wealth tax would reduce wealth creation? Whether it is by .0000001% or by 99%, it would be "incentives to create less wealth" but in the former case it is all but negligible and in the latter case it is a catastrophe.

Capital tax opponents seem to always use the elasticity of wealth creation with respect to the wealth tax rate is extremely high, but I do not remember seeing any evidence on this.
How did the House find this email? Did one of the recipients leak if to the committee, or did Apple have to deliver all emails of this type?
Still got social security and medicare though which contribute to the tax wedge on income and employers pay those for 100% of employees.
Okay, but why would I, someone who doesn't pay for Apple Music, care about a grand total of two new stations? You say This is a good step in unifying the services into a cohesive set of offerings, but honestly, as someone who tries out Apple Music once a year for free and then goes back to Spotify, I have one takeaway from this announcement.

Apple Music users are getting... 2 whole new stations. That's it. Oh, and a rebrand.

If this is supposed to be a big marketing push, they are doing a good job at encouraging me to stay on Spotify.
Also NAL, but I would say it very much depends on the law in which-ever jurisdiction it gets tested in - which might be the one you are in, the one Canon are in, or somewhere else entirely.

Some legal concepts such as "fit for purpose" as defined in the UK's Consumer Rights Act (2015) certainly seem relevant here, but that states that companies should offer replacement or refund. Note the word refund, not recompence, is used: Canon may be required to repay you in full everything you paid for the service. All £0.00 of it.

> i.e. people paying Canon to host their photos

Is this the case though? Several other comments have mentioned it being a free service. https://image.canon/st/en/faq.html states that too. Unless there is a non-free option too.

> but when a service is advertised as being ideal for storing your work or photos

I'm not sure what it is advertised as, but that doesn't seem to be what the service is intended for.

Reading other parts of the FAQ it seems that the service is intended as a transfer agent, with the convenience of online storage being a useful side effect. Quoting the FAQ: "Image.canon is designed to ease your imaging workflow – whether you are a professional, enthusiast, or casual user. Wirelessly connecting your camera to the service allows seamless forward of images not only to your computer and smartphone devices but ...". The implication I'm making being that they can just argue that their service is designed to move images around your devices and the user should have been backing them up from there.

Users might try to argue false advertising if "fit for purpose" doesn't fly because of the purpose being defined differently. But good luck funding such as case against the lawyers that Canon can afford. It would have to be a class-action or similar, unless some government body takes the issue up (which from the users PoV will effectively be the same, and the best they'll get is a small voucher for a few £ off future Canon offerings). That is what a lot of things like this boil down to: legally enforceable sometimes doesn't exactly mean legal, it sometimes means "can be enforced by having a better legal team than the little guy"!
I feel like there should be a text that teaches assembly, not assumes it, but teaches it specifically with an eye toward shellcode and/or reversing. Every "learn assembly" text I've ever seen either teaches it in relation to C or architecture or simply by itself. Seems like a gap that could be filled by nostarch or someone willing to self publish
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Since scala gives you the option to not be FP, is this a criticism of the scala community?
You need to define rewrite and refactor. Extensive refactoring is rewriting. Analogy is not really great since most of the time in Factorio you will be refactoring by rewriting pieces of your factory.

But the balance is a good metaphor. After some time you will start your factories with at least some semi-bus, rather than just one belt for raw materials etc. but trying to start with final architecture from day 0 is probably a very bad choice.
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> You're wrong, they do not magically start working if you believe in them. If you're nervous for ANY reason it will give off a false positive. Not only if you're nervous of the machine itself.

If you're just as nervous during control questions as lies then it would be a false negative. The "tack in shoe" tactic is supposed to make yourself uncomfortable during control questions by stepping on the tack and raising the baseline.
Well, once upon a time, when I worked at a smaller company, I kept a revolving collection of tapes at home.

A slightly larger company also used tapes, and stored them at an undisclosed (to me) offsite location.

A much larger company kept it all in datacenters, but the "offline" backups were disconnected from the WAN when they weren't actively being used.
Frankly I'm getting tired of this drum HN keeps beating about startups not offering a good work/life balance. Some startups don't, true. Some FAANGs don't either, what's the difference?

I know plenty of startups that have a sane working culture as a key point of differentiation in the job market.