skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right or wrong, this reads as "Rich person doesn't like the government taking his money"

Whether or not the content is correct, it's tone deaf in a country with such incredible wealth inqeuality.
That's quite the shallow, narrow view, no? I also said high fat meat, so you're not even responding honestly or correctly to what I said.
You could check the ReverseEagle list: https://developers.reverseeagle.org/replace/google-analytics...

Also, anyone with a Tedomum account? It'd be nice if you could open an issue about adding umami.is. https://forge.tedomum.net/ReverseEagle/developers/-/issues
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That's not an "intentional misdirection", it's undeniably true.

> what would more likely happen is that loan products and other financial instruments and techniques would pop up so you could pay the taxes in a whole host of ways without actually losing the underlying shares that are used as collateral.

In order to pay back a loan, you have to realize some gain somewhere. That money isn't free. Even to simply pay back the interest, you would have to liquidate some of your own stock (which is taxed). Eventually when the principal needs to be paid back, the only way to do it is to liquidate the equivalent value in your own company.
Show HN: I built an extension to let my wife track discounts easily
Mildly OT:

> The advance was great at first. Then I started noticing " Your info was found on the black web" on my credit report!?? Turns out in the almost year I had been using Dave they'd been hacked like 10 times! Never said anything. A heads up would've been nice Dave! Hey btw might want to change your passwords, check your credit report, etc. We may have been hacked once or ten times or so!? Big fail Dave, big fail! DO NOT RECOMMEND
>bezoar shouldn’t have billions of dollars and influence society like he does... it’s obscene.

Why not? People voluntarily gave him and his company this money, voluntarily invested in Amazon. What gives you the right to try and take it from him? "Envy makes right" is not the basis for a very good moral system.
Like Setting One's Bible on Fire
Last year, my wife was complaining about missing discounts on items she she really liked, and planned to purchase when they were cheaper, just because she didn't checked the prices on the day the item prices dropped.

I liked the idea, and, with the help of a friend, we ended up building a browser extension. Turns out it's been more useful to me than to her.

I'm open sourcing the browser extension side, as I still don't know how the project will evolve, but in any case, browser extensions are too powerful to keep them closed source.

While this mostly works for Mexican stores, there are some US/worldwide ones, hopefully, it can be helpful to the community.

Thanks
I am not opposed to a wealth tax, but I wish we understood what it is we are undoing here. The Federal Reserve is now printing trillions of dollars. Some of this is going to Congress to attempt to distribute fairly. However, most goes towards buying financial assets that are overwhelmingly owned by the wealthy.

This printing, which has been going on in extreme for a decade since the housing crisis, is one of the main drivers of the current wealth gap leading to populism and necessitating a wealth tax. To me it makes more sense to figure out how to stop this process or fundamentally alter it then to keep it going and then tax it.
I'm not so sure about those numbers. Putting something directly in Bill Gate's eyeline is worth more than a thousand pleb eyeballs. If a billboard company can say "For the next three seconds, Whale#3 is staring at billboard#67" they can sell those seconds for many hundreds of dollars.

But I wouldn't limit it to the wealthy. Advertisers know that at particular points in life everyone become susceptible to ads. The young couple who just discovered they are pregnant: big spending on new products asap. The junior executive who just got a big promotion: new car time. The soldier who just got leave: hotels. The guy who just inherited a house from a dead relative: estate agents. I think most advertisers would forgo the attention of the regular commuters if they can target the one individual on the train who is primed to react to a specific type of ad.

My nightmare is the rise of so-called anti-ads, individually-targeted ads so horrible that users will pay to make them not appear. There are ads on television that cause people to change the channel. (The crying puppy ads, the borderline-obscene erectile dysfunction stuff.) Now imagine you cannot escape. That ad follows you around all day. How bad must it become before you will pay to make it stop? Bladerunner wasn't that bad.
That's still a discontinuity in the marginal value of income. You don't need the slope of the post-tax income:pre-tax income graph to go negative for there to be inefficiency. Any sharp change in the curve is enough.
We're not talking about the smartphone market, we're talking about the app store market.

If there actually was competition between app stores then you could put your app on Google Play and people with iPhones could get it there. People with PlayStations could get it there. They would be the same market so that you could use one app store instead of another to reach the same customers, rather than needing to be in all of them in order for your product to be available to all of your customers.

It's like the water company having a local water monopoly, you're not allowed to dig a well, and your proposed solution is to move out of their service area. Which is not only unreasonable, it doesn't even work if you're the water source because your business is to provide water to customers in every service area.

Which is why in real life, water utilities are considered monopolies and are regulated as such so that they can't impose unreasonable terms on providing water service.
> Still, employees receive cash dividends every few weeks (a salary), isn't that a positive?

People are usually foregoing part of the salary in lieu of options. e.g. $25k paycut (really conservative compared to FAANG) will come up to $100k over 4 years.

One can consider those $100k as cost of options you get.
"The principle with which we are now dealing is that one which is called Expediency. The usage of this word has been corrupted and perverted and has gradually come to the point where, separating moral rectitude from expediency, it is accepted that a thing may be morally right without being expedient, and expedient without being morally right. No more pernicious doctrine than this could be introduced into human life."

-M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. Book II.
If you retrieve the data slowly it's cheap. It's expensive if say you are a retailer who needs their database restored asap.

I use a Linux perl client!
I think ABC doesn't have the friendly helping hand (but it does! he translates the first few...) because Pound is trying to imitate Aggasiz's technique, to force (though not going as far as banishing explication to the back of the book) the reader to engage with the primary texts.

I'm about 10% into Guide and it does have a bit of (pre-internet) crackpottery to it: he's veered off from Confucius into goldbuggery at the moment, and has his syntactic quirks, such as the modals wd. cd. and shd.

However, just as those latter abbreviations do make sense on their own terms (sound them out, which also explains kulchur), he is very well read, thinks for himself instead of regurgitating, and has kept my google tab incredibly busy. So I'm very likely to continue, to see where he winds up.

(A straight-up guess at this point: he wound up at fascism because he's looking for a universal system that not only explains how things are, but is also a modus vivendi, saying what people should do.

Personally, I see "Party On" as the balancing counterweight to that viewpoint. Many people in the twentieth century interpreted "Be Excellent To Each Other" to mean breaking eggs was OK as long as it was going to lead to an excellent omelette. But if one equally weights the injunction to Party On, one can't borrow uncertain utilities from the future to justify certain disutility now.

In any case, I take the scientific tack on How Things Are, which by and large is completely indifferent to What People Should Do for the simple reason that it is completely indifferent to People.)

Tangentially related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oven_of_Akhnai
From what I read in the Belgian post where I got this info [0], to be conform to GDPR, they will only track with opt-in.

The trick is that opt-in will be in partners apps you will install on your phone.

"L'entreprise insiste cependant sur le fait que les consommateurs doivent donner leur autorisation pour permettre à Radar d'utiliser leurs données de géo-localisation. Cela se fait en général via les conditions générales de certaines applis." which roughly translate as

"The company insists on the fact that consumers have to give their authorization to allow Radar to use geoloc datas. It will be done via CLUF of some apps"

[0] https://datanews.levif.be/ict/actualite/les-panneaux-publici...
The answer is: it depends on the fair market value of the shares of stock I own. If the shares are publicly traded, there's an easy answer.

If they're not publicly traded, it depends on how FMV is determined, but it would not surprise me if the wealth tax allowed the 409A valuation to be used for this purpose.
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I have looked at the Stripe Atlas service and although as a US resident I was considering an LLC I think that a C Corp makes the most sense. What components of what you do as an employee require hardware or services? If you are currently paying for ANY of that out of pocket you should consider that a Corporation declares those as expenses and they are all deductible. As for the morality, it seems you have an interest in improving things in the country where you live. Building an enterprise that could reinvest is a net positive. Your first resource, is of course yourself. By improving your situation, you are empowered to help others.
Isn't this just about what we want?

If you do some amazing thing, you should get rich.

But if you then rest on your laurels, you should get diminishing returns from your amazing thing over time.

Currently, with startups etc, you get accelerating returns, since other people who join your company propel it forward, but you get most of their reward (unless it's a co-op), just because you sowed the initial seed.
See also hunter s thompson.
Is suing Ms. Selkowitz and Ms. Merritt an option? Sounds like they have formed a conspiracy to inhibit interstate commerce to me (then again, IANAL...).

Apple definitely leans more to covering their own backsides from liability than defending app developer whenever someone claims a copyright issue, even if it's not a valid assertion.
Hey!

So we are soon introducing the Firehose API. Basically this allows you to point at an arbitrary database and fill it up with as much data as you need from the model.

The Firehose should work for use-case and be much more cost effective.

A more hacky solution for right now, you can spin up a database and run a `select * ...`.
Do you mean transgressive as another word for asshole, in interacting with your coworkers?
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And because that liquidation or transformation is a taxable event, and holding the wealth is not, people are far more likely to hold onto wealth rather than try to transform it.

Totally agreed that wealth is not zero-sum, and I thank you for bringing it up, because zero-sum-thinking is all too common, and the reason for so much misery when it comes to thinking about these things. (But even as a non-zero-sum, availability of capital is highly influenced by the degree of idleness of wealth hoards.)
> the entire point of a protest is to express outrage in a way that may be uncomfortable for everyone else

It sounds like your idea of a protest is necessarily aggravating. That may be non-violent, but it isn't peaceful.

> unacceptable in a society based around individual freedom

The mob aren't acting as individuals - which is the point, and any actual individuals are no longer free to use the road, which has been taken to the exclusion of others - your freedom has to end where in limits mine.

Also, a large component of the threat posed by the mob is the anonymity it grants individuals to commit crimes; No society based around individual freedom should allow that kind of freedom.
> What I worry about most with a wealth tax is calculating your wealth.

This is an issue that the vast majority of people will never have to deal with. And the people who do have to deal with it won’t have to waste time worrying about it either because they will outsource their worry to an army of lobbyists followed by an army of CPAs.
> Wealth tax proposals I've seen don't kick in until $50 million or $100 million.

The very first U.S. income tax, imposed during the Civil War (the nation's bloodiest conflict), was 3% on income over $12,720, rising all the way to 5% on income over $159,000 (in 2020 dollars). This was unconstitutional at the time, and was eventually repealed.

The first income tax imposed after the ratification of the 16th Amendment was 1% on income over $78,510, with an additional 6% on income over $26,170,000 (2020 dollars).

The current U.S. income tax ranges from 10% to 37%, with a standard deduction of at least $12,200. There are also payroll taxes under FICA, which are even more.

I recount all this riveting history as evidence for my contention that there is absolutely no way that a wealth tax would remain at 1% for anything above $50 million. I guarantee that within a few years to decades most citizens would be required to pay wealth taxes, and that they would amount to a considerable amount even before taking into account their compounding nature.

> This means that there is a floor on how "poor" the government can make you via a wealth tax.

The only floor is zero: a government can, if it chooses, take everything from its subjects — or just from some of them.
People need to experience love to know that they want it. I suspect most people develop a desire for love from their parents, family, peers, and books/media. And that desire evolves into a more romantic notion of love as they mature.

The article briefly suggested that love was not something Dirac had received from his family, so he likely didn't know. If he indeed was a strange outsider among his peers and only read technical books, I can see how he managed to go so many years without developing much desire for an emotional connection with someone else.

It's not mentioned in the article, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that his reticence to engaging with Manci was probably the result of one or more terrible experiences with women which were likely caused by his social awkwardness.

I feel like "rationality" is really a mask that people use to avoid addressing difficult emotions like this. Growing up to be socially stunted is a very difficult handicap to deal with. Not least of all because it's imperceptible to the very people it effects.
(copying my comment to answer you)

From what I read in the Belgian post where I got this info, to be conform to GDPR, they will only track with opt-in.

The trick is that opt-in will be in partners apps you will install on your phone.

So, basically, your phone.
Cash, specifically, doesn’t grow in value — but most ultra-millionaires aren’t sitting on tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. If you’d held onto the building for 50 years, it’d probably be a very different story.
> but when it's built on top of people making $7.25 an hour with no benefits, it may as well be.

But...it's not? The only person who has concentrated an unimaginable amount of wealth for which this might be true is Jeff Bezos's Amazon, except Amazon workers all earn a $15 minimum wage, 401k matching, and are part of the same group health insurance plan as the engineers and product managers. They happen to enjoy some of the best health insurance available to an entry level job that requires no college education.

Outside of Bezos, the vast majority of the wealthy pay their workers handsomely (Bloomberg, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Page/Brin/Pichai).

And even if this was somehow a pervasive truth, the solution to that is a basic income, not a wealth tax. A wealth tax wouldn't even come remotely close to funding a basic income. If you were to seize 100% of all wealth of the top Forbes 500, you would get enough money to run the current Federal government for 8 months. Not 8 months per year, 8 months ONE TIME.
When You Can't Measure It, You Won't Fix It
The invalid reasons are all accurate. The only challenge is (almost?) everyone has a friend or colleague that worked at Slack or Uber and made stupendous amounts of money; far in advance of what they would get at a FAANG. It doesn't take into account luck & risk, but this kind of casual relationship with successful startups colours peoples expectations in a different light.
Is there any way to create and track custom events like clicks?
no, in a similar vein to my other comment, any founder who's reached millions in personal gain from their single, undiversified startup, will begin to employ financial strategies to diversify some of that gain into other instruments to reduce risk. there's a whole industry eager to help the rich and the getting rich do so.
"Modelling one example of a wealth tax"; Other wealth tax implementations available.
Looks neat! will explore.

Also, I did research on alternatives to GA few days back, might be helpful of someone:

https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics

https://matomo.org/

https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo

https://github.com/usefathom/fathom

https://www.goatcounter.com/

https://plausible.io/

https://github.com/PostHog/posthog

https://www.usertrack.net/
Does this use cookies and similar to warrant a GDPR prompt?
By adding a single pixel of gradient between color transitions effectively adds antialiasing:

repeating-radial-gradient(
circle, white 0px 1px,
var(--orange) 2px 10px,
var(--white) 11px 13px,
var(--blue) 14px 16px,
var(--white) 17px 20px,
var(--green) 21px 30px,
var(--white) 31px 40px
)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33091401/background-imag...
Duri campaign smuggles malware via HTML and JavaScript
That doesn't sound right. Why would Kotlin programmers dislike the JVM platform just because it tends to be implemented in Java (and C++)?

The Python and Lua interpreters are written in C. V8 is written in C++, SpiderMonkey in C/C++. The Rust compiler backend is LLVM, written in C++. The GNAT Ada compiler is powered by GCC, written in C. So what? These implementations work fine.

Directly competing with the JVM makes little sense. Countless millions of dollars of effort have been poured into OpenJDK.
Because when companies make decisions, they'll need to think, "will this decision cause states to seek $2.2 trillion from me?"
You could be the future of advertising..
I have a lab coat with my name and company on it and I put it on in the morning and take it off after I close all work apps. Neat trick.
The wealth tax is aimed at the billionaire class.

That class paid less than the working class in taxes last year[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-tim...
> It makes it seem really bad when you say "Government takes".

Sure, but it's also perfectly accurate.

> … you're contributing back …

You contribute back by running the business successfully and providing things that people value. Any taxes you pay are above and beyond that. Society creates government, not the other way around, though the government loves to blur the line between itself and society and thus claim credit for what people have created on their own. The best way that the government can contribute to the success of any business, short of directly harming one party to enrich another, is simply to stay out of their way and let them get on with actually running the business.
I have a room I work in - you don't have this luxury, if I didn't I'd dedicate a space to the same purpose, even one end of a table or a corner of the living room. When my working period starts I dress for the office (not completely, I wear shorts and a T-shirt but due to Zoom meetings etc I clean up because I will be on camera) and when I go into that space, that's where I work, procrastination and fecklessness aside.

Conversely, when I leave that space I am no longer working, pages aside. I do check in on email via phone if there are things that need to be checked on, but otherwise I try very hard to leave my work in that place.

I think the ritual is almost as important as the place, both for "clocking in" and "clocking out". Even if it's just open/closing a laptop or turning a monitor on/off, it's training yourself to see that as the gate for being "on" and being "off".

If your work laptop is your personal laptop, you might also need to have two accounts and sign out of your work account/into your personal account at the end of the day for Ycombinator time, personal use, etc.
you mean like 4chan?
Could you elaborate with some links or something? What is a covered entity?
Now you're paying interest.

(If you're planning to wink at the bank, pay nothing, and let them keep the stock, that's the kind of thing that won't work if it becomes common. At that point, people will point out that you sold stock to the bank and didn't pay the income tax.)
Beats 1 has been the free version of Apple Music service for some time, but no one really knew that because of disjointed marketing/branding. This is a good step in unifying the services into a cohesive set of offerings.
Absolutely! We spent a bunch of time in the data privacy space before pivoting to Synth. Synth has utility as a dev tool but really does address exactly this issue.

This also ties into GDPR and CCPA compliance - we think that as regulations tighten (which seems almost inevitable) this sort of tooling will empower developers to go quicker and focus on their applications instead of compliance.
So theres numpy:

> b = np.arange(12).reshape(3,4)

> b.cumsum(axis=1)

or, would you prefer the following:

> b =. 3 4 $ i. 12

> +/\"0 1 b

Yeah, no thanks ...
A profitable company can pay dividends which would easily cover a wealth tax. Owning 50M worth of stock in an unprofitable company with zero other income sources or investments is a significant sign you should diversify anyway.
The values of democracy are touted in Hong Kong too, but that doesn't make it a democracy. Small groups with a NYMBY position, or large PACs depend operate on our current form of government, which is why I made the precise distinction in my comment. The 2016 election outcome was via the electoral college, and not the popular vote.
I think there should first be a disclaimer that Paul is actually quite wealthy and would be personally affected by a wealth tax.

I don’t see how a wealth tax would have prevented ViaWeb or YC from coming into existence. Unless the incentives to do these things are purely financial which I’m sure is not what his previous essays have indicated.
I already showed they cover fixed costs with a mere 5% of revenue and 12% of gross profit (note their reported gross profits actually already removed the fixed costs)
I wonder how much this applies to furries. How often is a fursona “the real me” vs roleplay? I’ve witnessed both in different individuals, and also both within a single person (primary ‘sona and some other separate ones which are just role playing).

Adjective Species probably had an article on this, though it also reminds me of the discussions about therianthropy, contherianthropes, and New Age discussions of the use of masks in tribal religions.
Get a personal laptop if you use your work machine for your regular internet surfing. I find that turning off my work pc and keeping it out of sight... in a drawer, helps me switch off after a while.

And every morning, I perform my morning rituals as if I’m commuting to work, before I pull out my laptop.