skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me I'm far too naturally transgressive to work at a large company.

I really wish I could, life would be easier, less work, less stress, pay better... None of them will take me so I keep help building and (sometimes) exiting startups.

It's really exhausting. 20 years of this... I wish more companies would value those who "challenge the book" instead of "follow the book" or that I could find a way to obediently follow it instead of challenge it.

I've honestly thought about figuring out how I could put things on ice for a few years and get a PhD, because then I'd have the proper paperwork to allow for my disposition and could finally stop this exhausting startup life.
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I have been working remotely for several years. One trick I do is just disconnect my router from the power source at 5:30. After that I go and bike for 30-45 minutes or go swimming. Some days, kids have not been very quiet and I cannot go outdoors and leave the wife alone after a long day with them. Those days I just play some music and do some silly dances with the kids or cook something new from a recipe website. Anything you love more than coding or requires physical exercise will do the trick, for me cooking produces an effect that feels like coding but without the stress of doing it for work.
I was a medical researcher and also a data engineer for a biotech and I've never seen a dataset that required background checks, or "fingerprint locked rooms" (fingerprints are not biometric security). Instead, a partner company (a well-known, multibillion dollar biotech) handed us a pile of hard drives that were encrypted by trivial keys.

I sat down with the CEO and discussed our plans (to upload the data to our S3 buckets with ACLs) along with all our other security plans, pointed out the two of us were professionally and legally on the hook (her more than me, as I was not an executive and had limited liability), and what I was doing to protect the clinical data we had. We looked at our plans, and ultimatley concluded we could both sleep happily at night with what we were doing.

It was definitely a lot of work to maintain the ACLs and monitoring and checking to make sure we weren't leaking data, and a lot of education for our scientists. Even if something negative had happened, we would have been able to foresically detect it, and work with legal authorities with confidence we had done a good-faith, better-than-average practices implementation.
Hard to see how the government deserves it. I guess its Willy Sutton logic: that's where the loot is.
These are all just assumption "how bad" the government will be in the future and casting fear and lies of the American dream, You too will be rich tomorrow and you don't want the government to take your money do you?

Fuck off dude.
I know two startup founders who have both done that.
I'd add "Mental Health" to the bottom list.
This is not true. Only about 60%ish of Americans pay income tax. While those who do aren’t just the ultra wealthy, certainly not all Americans do.
Author here. I haven't updated this project in a few years. I burned out on it almost immediately. I wrote a little retrospective for it on here before, the last time it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041340

In the days since, I've joined the games industry, fell in love with it there, and am working a bit more on more video game-focused content:

https://noclip.website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnxs6CR6Zrk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rCRsOLiO7k

If anybody has any questions about game graphics, Linux graphics, or X11, feel free to ask.
I've been working on a project that integrated/deployed so rarely that we had a dedicated merge team consisting of about half the work force. Except the merge team wasn't involved in the actual development process so when they were trying to merge they had no idea how the various pieces should fit together. So the development team had to guide them trough the process. It was painful and it frequently took months for new development to reach the testing infrastructure and then many more months before reaching the customers. Debugging crashes on customer software meant checking out releases a year old or older and trying to figure out what could have been the root cause.
At what point can we all stop and say the federal government is 'big 'enough'? We can always find more for it to do, but I think most people here will agree the market is better, for most things, than bureaucracy. I'm all for trying different tax strategies to be more fair and efficient, but I think we need a line in the sand we won't cross before we add another potential slope to slide down.
I'm very excited to see this space heating up. It seems for years we defaulted to using Google Analytics and no one wanted in the market. Now there are plenty alternatives, with many of them open source.
The issue is accuracy. In terms of being able to infer lies from skin response, this is an effect that actually exists for many people. The net scientific conclusion is that can work but poorly, not that is is complete nonsense like ESP or something.

Being pseudoscience or not is not quite the same question. People claim acupuncture works for them (California is now forcing insurance to pay for it), but it is clearly based on pseudoscience.
How about: you're committing fraud if you bury a jar of gold coins in your back yard. What business is it of anyone elses' what you do in your own home? This idea of 'you have something; give it to us!!!' is very disturbing at some level.

Its different from other taxes, that tax an interchange with another person or entity. That is supported by society and its mechanisms, for which government (e.g. all of us) have some responsibility.

But just to start taking what I have simply because I have it, is upsetting at a very fundamental level.
Just like those dogs that indicate the presence of drugs. Except of course when there aren't any. I've had my car searched a couple of times at the Canadian/American border because a dog gave a signal. Given the number of times I've crossed that border the false positive rate must be ridiculously high.

Since you don't have much in terms of rights when crossing a border I wondered why they even bother with the pretext. I'm about as anti-drugs as you'll find and if those dogs are responding to my car then they'll respond to any car.
Most assets do not 'grow in value'. Take a building any building. Sell it today. Sit on the cash for 50 years. How much building can you buy in 50 years? Not nearly as much.

The only reason we are even talking about wealth tax is because of the crazy unable to be funded programs some people are proposing. These programs sound nice on paper until you do the math on them. Then they realize they can not pay for it at all.

Remember wealth != cash value.
What a garbage, pandering article.
Assume you start a wildly successful startup in your 20s and you'd never have to work again. Assume there are no dividends. Assume you don't take income I guess? Assume there's no floor on the tax. Assume there's no capital appreciation (or at least hide it behind percentages). Then I can show you some numbers to make the mean scary government look bad.
That is a very unfortunate name. I don’t think I’d ever click a link called adsbexchange if I didn’t already know what it was.
But none of the people you are trying to target with the wealth tax have their holdings in the S&P500. Instead they have close to 100% of their holdings in a single asset represented by the more diversified S&P500.

There is no guarantee that the single individual super-wealthy founder whose wealth derives from the ownership of their own company will appreciate at an annualized rate of 10%.

The two most pervasive myths about wealth among the super-rich appear to be:

1. They are sitting entirely on liquid cash

2. They are sitting entirely on highly diversified funds that enjoy 5+% annualized appreciation.
Enforcing those laws doesn't take a lot of money: see countries like Singapore (or America 100 years ago). In the US most tax money goes into welfare, and warfare (and I think it's hard to argue that America's current military expenditure is the minimum necessary to protect its citizens' property).

The talk of guillotines is completely out of place by the way: the French revolution was not a bunch of peasants guillotining the rich out of envy; they were guillotining the royal family, for taxing them too much!
By the same reasoning income tax doesn't exist because people sometimes get raises. Come on.
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> Now every tax payer pays it.

Well that's false. In 2018 44% paid no federal income tax.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/81-million-americans-wont-...
It’s been 6 months and the whole world is mad. Check in 2 years and you’ll probably see a yes to at least the first question.
Right but Purdue was behind the push for doctors to do that.

If there's evidence of doctors pushing oxy for kickbacks or something like that then I absolutely think they should be punished. It's worth investigating what the procedures/dosing/etc was and the extent of the wrongdoing.
lanyard

Hah! I just realized, I haven't seen my lanyard / "dork badge" in like 4 months. If/when we are asked to return to the office, I'll probably never find the darn thing.
Do you have a reference for this "promise"?

In the 50s through 70s, there was a much higher income tax on the upper income brackets: the tax was much more progressive. Ronald Reagan dramatically lowered the income taxes on the high income people and kicked off the dramatic increase in economic inequality that we've seen over the past 50 years. The GOP destroyed much of the promise of the American Dream in this case. Is this what you mean?
The company is almost certainly not a covered entity, and therefore HIPAA doesn't apply.

The amount of bullshit stated around HIPAA is ridiculous
I think the major distinction between salary and dividends is that the latter requires no labor.
What are the chances of an actual spy being able to beat a lie detector?

I'd put those at about 100%. So you will end up with nervous people who will increase the size of the haystack with zero chance of identifying the needles, which is a net negative.
DevOps automation startup Buildkite raises $28M at $200M+ valuation
It seems the thunderbird issue is actually an issue in xdg-open, see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613425
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/issues/177

So you are only affected if your system uses xdg-open to parse mailto links.
Two differences seem relevant here. Apps are reviewed by Apple, and are only able to use certain payment mechanisms.
Unpopular opinion: Near 50% of American pay ZERO tax whatsoever. The top 10% of all Americans pay 69% of all taxes currently. This is a point 'left out' of current discussions.

How about instead of increasing entitlements and stealing more from people that created wealth - we lower the size of the government spending UNTIL it matches where most people pay for the services received in a more scaled manner.

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
Yeah but it causes the much worse 'government getting richer' effect.
I bought the so called 5* battery. It seems good but it degrades quickly after few charges. People review mostly in the first week (battery works and seems good), but the battery will lose original capacity in few weeks. If you read carefully you will find these reviews.
In my case I am down 10% capacity after 11 cycles.
PS: Battery is a sensitive item and cannot be shipped by plane. This explains the cross border problems.
When I worked in an office, I had an alarm set on my phone to remind me to stop so that I could catch my preferred train home. There were others, later, but unless there was an emergency or someone absolutely needed to talk to me at the end of the day, that was when I left.

These days, that same alarm goes off, now at 5 PM, and I apply the same rule: this is when I leave, under normal circumstances.

I strongly advise doing something similar. Also: this is the time to take a walk around the neighborhood, take a shower, start prep work for dinner, meditate, whatever. Do the non-work things.
> The wealth tax seems fine to me.

It's not a replacement, it's in addition to all of the other taxes you already owe.

And if it's anything like the income tax in the United States, the percentage owed will increase dramatically over time and the floor will be lowered dramatically over time. The goal right now is just to establish the principle.
Yes, that was like assembly for dummies. Still, I don't think it really exploited its concept well enough. It was not remotely challenging to someone with a software background.
That is another of their goals, sell IntelJ licenses.

Eclipse and VSCode plugins tend to be a bit behind, and good luck for other IDEs or editors.
yep, i had a game that used the word "flow" in it. Some nefarious company trademarked the word "flow" for video games and started sending take down notices to all games that had the word "flow" in it. I just removed the app cause it's not worth the fight, but boy, there is no justice in the app stores, they apply the law of the jungle, the strongest wins and when it's getting out of control the "silverback Apple God Ape" comes to have his last word.
Asset growth is taxed by capital gains tax.
They more or less already do:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... Chapter 1 Article 4, definition of personal data

[...] an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly [...] or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

If I read this correct, if you can be identified by a tuple (sex,hair color, classes, more attributes), the GDPR applies, even if they have no name etc... Hence, even an anonymized ID is still identification for the GDPR.
Create a non-profit foundation that pays them, store assets outside the country/state, legally reside 51% of the time in a different state/country at their 5th house, etc. That's just random thoughts, I'm sure the truly rich have dozens more that their high priced accountants and lawyers dreamed up.

It's the same way Warren Buffett pays less taxes, percentage wise, than his secretary. When you've got millions to spend on lawyers and tactics amazing things are possible.

edit: Also trust funds and setting up a family corporation to manage assets.
It really is. Looks like the product of a very advanced high technology culture.
Without a functioning trust network, reviews are meaningless. You cannot have both anonymity and healthy e-commerce. We're in a race to the bottom, and there is no "invisible hand" to right the ship. Government will ultimately have to step in with some kind of online ID system.
I hope everyone involved in that company spills their drinks and drops their toast. buttered side down.
During 2nd quarter of 2020, there were 2M phishing attacks across Africa
> we could fix that easily by putting more housing on the same amount of land

As somebody who has been watching the process for this for years, let me tell you that it is the exact opposite of easy, and nearly impossible.

And it's nearly impossible because current wealth holders are able to stop it from being built. And in most areas where there are housing shortages, locals and local governments consider the current land "built out" meaning that the zoning does not permit more housing or more height than is already built, an the notion of changing these arbitrary restrictions is so inconceivable that it almost never happens.

This is what has really changed over the past yes decades to make housing prices soar: refusal to allow more housing to be built on existing land.
Clicked on love demo and get 505 bad gateway.
I hope they analyzed it
Does it distinguish between dev dependencies and runtime dependencies?
no, that's an intentional misdirection by pg, that you'd lose control of your company over time because you'd have to sell shares to pay the tax. 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. it already happens in a more limited, and sometimes private, context today.
Sea nearly doubles Q2 revenue to $1.29b
Some of these might help..

Compartmentalize your time:

First, dedicate space for work only, with a door you can close. If not, separate the space with folding dividers, or something.

Make your desk face away from the rest of your living area. If it feels different than the rest of your place it helps a lot.

Get an oversized whiteboard you would not expect to have in a home. It feels out of place and helps. 6 to 8 feet wide. A piece of glass board mounted on the wall can fit in nice at home too.

Get separate devices for personal use instead of work. If need be set up a smaller 2nd desk for personal use.

Shower and dress every day for work. It's still work. Just like sleep is a shower for your brain to feel fresh and focused so is telling your body you're ready to work.

Have a comfortable chair that feels like work, not home. Have a pair of comfortable monitors, 24 to 27" setup. When I leave this setup I only have my laptop and
it doesn't feel like serious work anymore.

Try to do some meetings by phone only, pop on a good headset and go for a walk. You might be surprised.

If you're used to a commute, help your brain with a familiar experience. In the morning, "go to work" by walking out your door, around the block and back inside to work. At the end of the day "go home" with a similar Wallin, ideally in the opposite direction.

Wear running shoes indoors that you put on during work hours only and take them off when working.

Take coffee breaks, physically away from your desk. Consider getting a caffeine maker you only use for work.

When possible, structure your end of day meetings to be lighter / creative to help transition.

On Friday afternoons build a routine to unplug by 5 or 6 every day, and then do it consistently to let you have your weekend.

Last, but not least, it might seem small, but give yourself permission to disconnect so you can recharge and your brain can come back full force on Monday. This is literally something you cna tell your brain. The time away from the keyboard is as important as the time at the keyboard.
Sure, I agree with you that most people vehemently rejected that interpretation.

But the QM theory is not its interpretation.
what's wrong with RSA?
It’s like you all rediscover capitalism from a medium posh every two weeks.
Good luck investing in private companies with $100k. The only way us serfs can get access to those opportunities is to chain our futures to the company and go work for them. Also means we can't diversify our portfolio like the VCs can.
There was 0% chance of that occurring as the CEO was a total shark. You would be shocked at how much of the cap table he retained vs. all the crazy funding shenanigans that happened. Very astute player of the game, he did very well. I will invest in his future companies but never work for him again.
> It was originally only a small amount, and only on the wealthy.

This is a bit misleading. The first income tax of 1861 was on incomes over $800, which inflation-adjusted is about $23000. The next year the threshold was lowered to $600 or about $17,000 in today's dollars. Currently the standard deduction is $12,200. Certainly some creep, but it doesn't quite fit the described jump from only the wealthy to everyone, except perhaps to the degree that nearly everyone in the US today is wealthy compared to the average citizen in the 1860s.

Rates have certainly gone up since then (originally a 3% rate), but top rates today are quite low by modern standards - they were higher than today from the 1930s through the late 80s. Typical average rates have been on a slow downward trend since WWII.
You should get a therapist (or a life coach?), these sorts of problems are rarely confined to just the work space.
Why not feed it a text?
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Sure, wealth isn't zero-sum, but when it's built on top of people making $7.25 an hour with no benefits (or less than that as a contractor), it may as well be.

And yes, there are other options for solving problems like that beyond just a wealth tax, but maybe a wealth tax is part of the solution.
I just asked 4 people “what date Independence day is”, got 3 weird looks and 4 answers of “4th July”, no year specified.

Non-US people don’t like it because it’s (a) different, and (b) illogical. If it were different and logical (ie: the numbers were in some hierarchical sequence), there’d be a lot less criticism of it, IMHO.
I think the question was if the software itself is actually simple to set up with a commodity web host. As easy as upload via ftp and configure in webbrowser easy.
What would they buy a 150cc dirt bike?
The life concept here is so different from the recent post about the MIT media lab.
"I watched two brilliant students organize two massive hackathons to improve the breast pump, challenging assumptions about who gets to invent the future and what problems are worth solving. Another student launched a remarkably successful movement against facial recognition technologies by demonstrating that they often embed significant racial biases. ...And late one night, I saw a young woman walk past my door wearing a massive pair of delicate, filigreed copper angel wings"
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2020/08/15/to-the-future-...
Most wealth tax proposals include provisions for owners of assets which can't easily be sold or valued to defer payments for a decade or two.
Summary of issue:

App in question partially designed to scrape recipes from the web.

App dev believes that their app does not violate DCMA and that other apps allow saving of web content locally.

Two sites feel that this violates their copyrights and have complained to Apple (not sure if DCMA is part of the complaint or not).

Apple has removed app until complaints are resolved. Complainants demand money to remove their complaint (one wants $10k).
They need to re-ramp the UI/UX on Apple music app. I have been using it for fairly long time and you can see how other competition like Youtube/Spotify have much nicer recommendations and ease of use. Some sort of streamline and unification needs to happen.
I don't understand why you think the slippery slope argument works for the rate and threshold, but not for the existence.

The problem with wealth taxes is not slippery slope, but rather that wealth can be obfuscated and moved around much more easily. Transactions are easy to tax; wealth worth taxing is about what you control, rather than stuff you have.

There's good reasons the most successful wealth taxes are land taxes. You can't easily move land.
So what _is_ Paul's suggestion for addressing the insane amount of wealth inequality in 2020? Nothing better shows how rigged the game is than the S&P500 about to hit another all-time high while we're in a recession, with unemployment also hitting an all-time high just a few months ago.
I once did a bit of napkin math for a progressive friend of mine and have used it more widely since. Most people end up shocked and unwilling to accept this, which amuses me.

I ask: "Suppose the government took 100% of corporate profits every year and distributed them evenly to the people, how much will everybody make?" I do this for Canada and if you take the average of corporate profits over the last 10 years and divide by the population it's $7,500/a.

People don't like this, they're convinced there's way more money "out there" than there actually is. There isn't, we're all poor, and the existence of inequality doesn't change that.