skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It befuddles me to see that there so little pushback against the use of these types of tech.

We can't trust advertisers to limit themselves. They are only limited by what current technology can achieve but the goal posts keep moving and so is their appetite for more intrusive ways to gather data.

There is a strong competitive incentive for them to build a system capable of proving that a specific consumer seeing a specific ad ended up in a specific sale.
Imagine how much value that information could have to a company wanting to sell its products! Near-guaranteed sales, ad expenses laser-targetted to those who will actually buy! A boon for both advertisers and sellers!

Advertisers gather and cross-reference public information, credit information, track people tastes, political affiliations, phone location, where they go, what they look at... all to present consumers with hyper targeted adverts that result in more sales.
The more detailed and precise the data, the more targeted the ad and the higher the chances of persuading a customer to part with their money.
Removing uncertainty is the goal.

I sincerely hope that these overreaching applications of what is basically surveillance tech meet stronger resistance. Legal challenges are best, but some old-fashioned 'guerilla' tactics may also be effective...
I wouldn't be sorry for companies like Clear Channel either way.
This is a problem for startup employees, too, and should be solved in both cases by allowing you to defer the taxes on your paper gains until you can actually realize them (yeah, there would be issues here, but the issues are solvable).
Dude, you said there was no research, so I found you research.

What you choose to do with that research is entirely up to you.
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> At the beginning he did not get the real news, but he said in a meeting on 7 January that the situation was under his personal command. If he knew on 7 January, why did it take until 20 January to announce the outbreak? Officials at all levels hide the truth and report only when they cannot cover up any more. But when he knew the situation on 7 January, he did not make it public or mobilise resources.

Interesting stuff in Transcript: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/18/cai-xia-chines...
US LEOs are big on traffic stops + delay tactics to buy time to have the drug dog arrive and sniff a car. Back when the show "Live PD" was on it was used heavily and officer calling a "hit" on the dog in some areas sometimes seemed like a stretch.

Coworker of mine was a sheriff deputy in Indiana and he confirmed this was a common practice.
That's ridiculous. This calculation only makes sense if you assume that the wealth generates no additional wealth. I'd just set the wealth tax at half of what is generated by investing that wealth.
While the sales side of things is pretty despicable, Sirius XM is pretty nice (an online subscription is only $8 a month). I also subscribe to Digitally Imported (electronic music, with dozens of genre-specific channels), a service I've listened to since the early 90s, for about the same price point.
The problem is that a wealth tax of just 1% doesn't actually raise that much money, a proposed wealth tax of 2-3% (Warren) would be the highest in the world.

If you have that kind of money, why would you not just take it elsewhere? Think about it, if that capital is actually creating returns to make up for the depreciation, it must be working capital. Removing it from the economy would be damaging.

What if the money is in government bonds? Those return below 1% right now, so you just dump them, putting more pressure on the Fed to keep stable rates.

Which brings us to the next topic: Dollar depreciation. You already need ~2% returns just even out the CPI inflation rate, but asset inflation is way higher than that.

So you're basically begging rich people to dump dollars, dump US bonds and move working capital to safer countries. Good Luck with that.
It doesn't matter how much your shares appreciate. You can't retain control of your company if you have to give up a significant fraction of your votes every year.
Agreed, I am 40+ and am a CTO at a startup which has great work/life balance. We pay approximately market (for a normal dev job, not FAANG), haven't had people do overtime in well over a year, are transparent about finances, and have practically zero politics. It is also possible for a startup to be "stable", especially if it's bootstrapped/profitable.
Is any of that a contradiction of what I said or are you providing context?
Is the EU hurting for tax revenues, or something? What is the problem that this would be solving?
> I bet a lot of people crack and admit to things they were hoping to hide.

I bet a lot of people also crack and admit to things they never did. You're essentially using the stress associated with the "magic" of the polygraph to coerce a confession.
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Is there such thing as an impressive title, in software development, if the company is unheard-of?

This is a sector where people with no relevant formal education and three years on-the-job experience sometimes get called senior.
In general, the difference is bucket loads of cash.
The US introduced a "luxury tax" on yachts in 1991. It was a disaster and basically killed the domestic boat industry (many jobs lost) because wealthy buyers just went offshore. A general wealth tax may be fine, but targeting particular industries like yachts is a terrible idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_tax#United_States
I've long been fascinated by the complex imaginal techniques of tantra in Tibetan Buddhism, in which you vividly imagine yourself as a yidam, or tutelary deity.

Via intense concentration on elaborate self-visualization, repetition of the yidam's mantra, and ritualized hand gestures (mudra), you take on the form, attributes and mind of the yidam for the purpose of transformation - to recognize that one's own mind is not, in fact, different from the all-pervading Buddha-nature.

https://studybuddhism.com/en/tibetan-buddhism/tantra/buddhis...

'One of the most characteristic features of tantra is what we call “deity-yoga,” where we imagine ourselves to be a Buddha-figure. The term is usually translated as “visualize” instead of imagine, although we’re not just dealing with some visual picture of ourselves. I think the word “imagine” is great because we imagine that we really are a Buddha in the form of this figure. Not only do we imagine looking like this figure, but we also imagine speaking, thinking, helping others and experiencing pure enjoyment with all our senses like it does. We also imagine having all its good qualities, such as equal love and compassion for all beings and deep understanding of everything. Of course, to do this successfully we need to have trained beforehand in each of these qualities with sutra practice. Putting them all together with deity-yoga, then, is like a dress rehearsal for actually being a Buddha. By rehearsing now, we build up powerful causes for attaining enlightenment. This extremely efficient method is known as “practicing causes that are the most similar to the result.”'
Property taxes are a wealth tax, specifically a tax on real estate wealth. It's hard to see why taxing this form of wealth is so great, but other forms of wealth is so bad.

As for the argument that the US should be more decentralized - less money goes to the federal government, more to the states - this may or may not be true, but this applies equally to all taxes, not wealth taxes in particular.
Enforce work schedule. If it's 9 to 5, then it's 9 to 5 and not a minute longer.

If you have trouble disconnecting after the 'off' time, consider options like taking ashwagandha supplement or even smoking a little bit of weed.
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Nope. Definitely not rank-and-file engineers.

Suppose you fucked up, and the worst happened: You were the reason the database was misconfigured. What then?

Then you live your life. You think future employers are going to pass on you because of it? Maybe some would. Most don't give a shit. They care about one thing and one thing only: whether you can help them achieve their objectives.

Morals are a fine thing, but the reality is that the original comment was correct: Nothing will happen to these people. As it should be.

They are required under law to notify the affected people. THat's the extent of what will happen. There may be legal repercussions for the company. And I'm sure the engineers will feel pretty awful at this mistake. I know I would. Everyone does.

But that doesn't change the fact that the world is insecure.
Yep, it's also another line item when charges are brought. Kind of similar to how states like Tennessee that don't have legalized marijuana still have a tax stamp process. I doubt anyone ever applied for one, but if you get caught with some pot, boom pot and failure to present tax stamp. Two for one.
==If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America and ambitious people will never come here to begin with.==

This is a pretty absolute claim to make without any sources or data to back it up.
2 years back we had huge debate to choose between Kotlin or Java. While Java folks thought it was immature to even discuss anything other than Java, we ended up adopting Kotlin company wide. Looking back at it we don't regret the decision even single bit! We are using Kotlin and Coroutines to run extremely heavy services (almost 1K req/sec per pod, with complex logic, few hundred threads, 6GB RAM and 2 CPU cores). People concerned with Project Loom, should remember it's backwards compatible & upgrade path can be done multiple ways. I would highly recommend Kotlin for backend services, you won't have to code review IDE vomit, depend on annotations, or live with callback hell (project reactor, rx-java).
There's a disconnected in

"Suppose you start a successful startup in your twenties, and then live for another 60 years."

Framed as a striking-it-rich event that happens over a 10-ish-year period.

to

"Even a .5% wealth tax would start to keep founders away from a state or country that imposed it. That's more than a quarter of your stock."

Framed as the wealth being stuck under that country's tax laws with no means of getting it out for 60 years after.
This looks great! For what it’s worth, I also maintain an open source (and self hosted) website analytics tool called Shynet [0] (someone else mentioned it in this thread, but thought I’d share here as well). Really great to see more options in this area!

[0] https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet
How do I refer to myself in the third person without feeling like Gollum?
Gerard Depardieu and Bernard Arnault returned their assets to France, and their flight was not without scandals.

Their reputation shattered.
1. Do not use your phone for work.

2. Do not carry your phone with you.

3. Have a separate work space; even if it's one you must assemble and disassemble daily.

4. Have a timer that shuts off the power to that workspace outside of healthy work hours.

5. Do not leave visible work "nags" , like whiteboard notes, out and about.
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>If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America and ambitious people will never come here to begin with. America will no longer be the land of opportunity.

Has this happened in Switzerland? Would it happen in the US if we had a wealth tax of 0.001%? Obviously not. It likely would if we had a wealth tax of 100%.

An income tax should do more to dissuade ambitious people than a wealth tax. A wealth tax only kicks in once you've accumulated wealth, and income tax slows that accumulation in the first place. We already have a national income tax. That doesn't seem to slow down immigration.

> If you study the fall of the roman empire, you will find people abandon huge estates to just start over away from roman taxes.

I know that it's fashionable in some circles to compare every non libertarian move the US makes to "The fall of the Roman Empire", but honestly people can't agree on what economic lesson to take from the great depression, do you really think we are going to be able to agree on what lessons to learn from the economy of the late Western Roman Empire?
This is not true.

It was true for a brief period of time, several publishers challenged Apple on it, and Apple relaxed that rule.

They still have several silly rules, but not this one.
> because most of the tax money is redistributed by the government, not invested, while the wealthy generally invest their wealth.

Infrastructure, education, healthcare, and other public services count as investments.
> Slippery slope is a logical fallacy [0], which you likely already knew.

Falsely asserting a slippery slope—that A must lead to B which must lead to C when none of these things are inevitable—is a logical fallacy. It is not a fallacy to point out that the grass is wet and the hill is steep and suggest that perhaps we should put up a sign advising people to stay away from the edge. The argument is simply that this is a dangerous situation which we would do best to avoid, not that anyone who goes near the edge will inevitably lose their footing.

> The billionaires have so much more money than everyone else …

Do they really? It seems to me that what they mainly have is not money but rather illiquid assets, i.e. capital. That includes stocks, which can be sold—at the expense of giving up control of the company—but also stock options which can't be exercised immediately and tons of actual capital equipment, inventory, buildings, and so forth which can't readily be put to other use.

> Income taxes on the rich used to be near 90% in the top bracket, so it's not a one way ratchet.

Keep in mind that they never actually collected anywhere near that much. Those 90% brackets were purely theoretical.
I recommend having a chilling spot. It doesn't have to be a couch. Mine is a dedicated floor mat, in a corner of the room. That's where I read, watch youtube on my blackberry, and just unplug/think.

Also, if you want to use your computer after work, you can use a different "workspace" desktop on Windows, or equivalent on other platforms, where you surf the web and play games.
Why define it by generations instead of time? And also the fine print notes they do monthly and quarterly security updates. What happens if a more serious issue comes up in between those regular updates?
I'm sorry, that's really uncalled for and a complete misrepresentation of the topic. Would you like to add to the conversation instead? I'll be happy to read whatever you have to say.
Different parts of the community have different background knowledge.
Looks like my just-purchased S10e makes the cut, although the Galaxy Tab S5e purchased three months ago does not. Alas.

The more reassuring commitment, IMO, would be to four years of security updates. I don't necessarily need the latest-greatest version of Android to feel safe, but I do need to know that the latest batch of high-profile CVE's will be plugged.
I'd tell them, "OK, I'll change it", and change it to describe their bribe.
Totalitarianism of an individual is one thing, the future will be far more anonymous, you'll hear the name of a state, law, or corporation than an actual, particular individual
Android is OS agnostic, barring the NDK - I don't think it's too far fetched to see ChromeOS and Android be ported to Fuchsia in due time.
That can be important, especially if you've been "under-titled" at your previous job and need to reset yourself on the career ladder. It's a lot easier to go from senior -> lead -> VP -> CTO by jumping into the startup world than it is to climb the ladder at a megacorp.
Source: I know Wes and talked to him about it a number of times online and IRL (he was also pretty good pals with Kevin Lawler -we all lived in the Bay Area at the same time: none of us do atm, which is anecdata for the perpetual "fleeing bay area" thread). I originally got to know him as I was thinking of participating in the startup he had done that eventually got bought by cloudflare as he was explicitly hiring J dudes.

Anyway, ask him; he'll tell you!

data.tables in R has some strong resemblances to J notation as well; might be one of those inevitable things (Greenspun's 10th applied to array programming/APL), but I never talked to the author.
> Wealth is not money. Wealth is production. It is the flow of money. Wealth is efficiency. Wealth is production not consumption.

A flow of money is income, which is different from wealth. See "What are income and wealth?" by the OECD for instance

- https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264246010-3-en.p...
You say "welfare" like it's a bad thing? Like, yes, give money to people who need it?

I'd be more than happy to decimate the warfare budget. But that's an entirely separate conversation.

[Edit] Also, I'm not a fan of this argument. Arguing the merits of taxation of obscene wealth is one thing, and arguing against government inefficiency is another. I'm in favor of taxing obscene wealth at a far greater rate, _and_ making significant changes to government spending.
But is that Xi's popularity or CCP's? I can understand why CCP would be popular as they did make life better for most, Xi seems to be doing everything to undo the gains in global arena though.
So I've been using Vivaldi more so I can speak more authoritatively on it. Some missing pieces are mobile sync or ability to send tabs around on iOS, right-click and close all other tabs doesn't exist, and I wasn't able to right-click and get all of the back/forward history from the menu button. Vivaldi says to hold down the button to get the menu, but it doesn't work for me.

Otherwise, it duplicates FF pretty well. Its obviously lacking in everything else "Firefox" like container support and DNS over HTTPS. Firefox is just a very fleshed out browser that is hard to replace. Vivaldi also shares standard Chromium browser flaws, such as being difficult to pass all of Cloudflare's security tests[0], when it's trivial in Firefox.

I agree with you that Gecko should be replaced with Blink, but another more popular perspective by a lot of hardcore nerds is that they like Gecko because new code carried over from Servo is written in Rust. Which has sifted out of the pile of new languages over the past 15 years as the real star.

Over the years I've pretty much written off everything except Firefox and native browers. FF for power users, native (Edge/Safari etc) for best system performance. Battery life is a killer feature in my book. There's too much missing in Vivaldi for me to move to it, if I ever throw in the towel on Firefox it'll be for Edge, but I'll be keeping tabs on Vivaldi.

[0]https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/
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This here is the argument that will make a wealth tax face severe opposition. Most wealth is held not by the 1%, but by the next 19%, living in their nice low-density suburban areas. Today there are proposals for taxing wealth over $50 million, but it’s just a matter of time before someone comes after their homes.
The image is likely zoomed in 800% or more. It's normal that it looks terrible from that close. When you see the images at a normal scale using Gigapixel AI they often look much more detailed (but not always).

Your phone also does this, but even more poorly.
Yes, you do. So why add yet another worry (a 0.5% wealth tax).

Keep in mind that "flat or depreciating" companies are way more common than you think. Not every company enjoys the annualized returns of the S&P500. Almost any non-tech or non-tech-adjacent company has remained either flat or depreciated, in the last 10 years.

That's the entire reason why lay people invest in the index, because it's relatively safe from depreciation. Most of the super-wealthy don't achieve that wealth on the back of the S&P500, they achieve that on the back of owning a single zero-to-one stock. It's one thing for the company to grow from 0 to {insert equilibrium valuation}, and another thing entirely for the company to continue to grow at a rate that outpaces inflation.
We don't know what we don't know
A company that they own?
> Wealth is always eventually taxed when it’s liquidated.

For large segments of wealth (real estate) this is untrue.

Inherited property receives a step-up in cost basis to the current "fair market value", such that the capital gains liability is removed.

You might argue that this is realm of the "Estate Tax", but that is a different topic.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stepupinbasis.asp

> if it is never liquidated, then it arguably doesn’t really matter.

This is also not true. It does matter. It is not difficult to take extremely large "loans" (loans are not taxed) against assets that you own, in order to avoid actually selling the asset. This is a not-rocket-science way to reap the benefits of an absolutely massive fortune without any of it ever being "liquidated".
Others have already pointed this out, but you're ignoring Social Security and Medicare which are both income taxes, just pre-allocated to specific government spending programs. 100% of tax payers pay these income taxes, including the self-employed.
I have a love and hate relationship with Ebean. On the outside it's a breath of fresh air compared to JPA (which is extremely stagnant atm), it provides ActiveRecord [0] if that's your thing, built in type safe generated query beans [1], built in migrations [2], and it's pretty easy to setup and easier to use than say Hibernate.

But, at least at my company, we always tend to hit some corner case that the documentation doesn't cover or some bug that isn't searchable because let's face it probably < 1% of people using a Java ORM is using Ebean compared to JPA or Hibernate.

In the end it's left me longing for a proper JPA implementation.

[0] https://ebean.io/docs/setup/activerecord

[1] https://ebean.io/docs/query/query-beans

[2] https://ebean.io/docs/db-migrations/#db-migrations
Can you name the company, I'm curious
Most people would be more interested in just getting security updates and bug fixes for 5 years+ or more.
If people aren’t motivated by owning over billion dollars of assets then what’s the point of brutalizing your workers? You’d be better off trying to earn esteem by making the world a better place.
Do you mean the Industrial Revolution? I think there were other factors at play besides the amount of public spending.
if this were in fact true, wouldn't Spotify have been banned long ago for competing with Apple Music? Google Maps vs Apple Maps, etc?
US is known to tax Americans abroad. IMO, rich people seeking to avoid taxation will have to loose US citizenship. And even after that, it's not clear whether US will let them off the hook.
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> RedBox skims some demand for current blockbusters and a lot of people want content right now.

I really can't emphasize the right now enough. I'm never planning things I want to watch days in advance, so a by-mail service just doesn't work (plus there's the physical hassle of having to mail stuff all the time and dealing with the inevitable hassle of things going missing in the mail).

I just can't imagine waiting for something to come in the mail when I could instead fire up BitTorrent and be watching it 30 minutes later. The music industry learned their lesson from piracy but the movie industry still hasn't. Things will hopefully change now given that theaters are a much-reduced experience; they did always have the benefit over music in that whether you buy the music CD on launch day or pirate it digitally, the listening experience itself is identical, whereas seeing a film in theaters on launch day is definitely still quite different than watching some shitty pirated cam version, assuming the shitty cam version is even out by launch day (it isn't always).