skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also invite people to check out Chu spaces (http://chu.stanford.edu/). They are essentially matrices with closure under norm (meaning you always have an inverse). This puts them on the same side as probability, linear logic, C*-algebra, and constructive mathematics.
It should be sufficient if the ID system has all the characteristics of a real world ID system, with just the real world link broken.

Inability to easily create multiple IDs for 1 person, One ID linked to one individual, inability to easily use another persons ID, etc.
I’ve been using GoatCounter for a couple of months now, it’s great! Super simple interface with all the data you need.
> Near 50% of American pay ZERO tax whatsoever

The link you gave says that about 50% of Americans pay zero federal income tax. Are you trying to imply that the only tax in the US is the federal income tax?

Federal income tax brings about 2000 billions USD, US GDP is about 21000 billions USD, and all taxes/GDP is about 25% or about 5250 billions.

Or, in other words, you're overlooking about 2/3 of all taxes.
I try Apple Music about once a year. Only when they are offering a free trial. I always cancel the trial quickly. Apple Music is just bad. Ignoring my experience with a privacy violation that still makes me question Apple's commitment to privacy, nothing about Apple Music is enticing. Ignoring the confusing UI, music discovery is awful.

Apple has a large selection of songs it can pull from to know what I do and do not like, and could easily recommend things for me. The last time I checked out the recommendations, they were awful. Spotify? Spot on. =) Also, Spotify is just available everywhere I want it. Apple? Pretty much "Apple brand" or nothing. Apple is not the end-all of my universe. I'm sure Apple Music is fine if you ONLY use Apple products or listen via Apple approved products, but no one I know does that. Not even the iOS developers I know.

Anyways, even if you are a fan, you have to admit their offering is pretty lame.
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I believe UBI zealots moved passed trying to explain how to fund it and now don’t really care.
enact laws to make real estate a really bad investment to stop capital costs of existing being sucked away from everywhere

start nonprofit companies in many sectors that lean heavily on automation and sell at cost direct to consumers open sourced/open designed products
This is just a political distorted stats view of the reality. It doesn’t help encourage discussion. You very well know that the wealthy pay a larger share because they own the larger share of the wealth. The 50% pay zero as you claim because those poor suckers don’t even own enough to qualify for the tax bracket.
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A step in the right direction but still a ridiculous situation for tablets now that they are pushing them into laptop replacement category, who would buy a laptop knowing that your >1000$ device is going to be impossible to update in 3-4 years...
“feature exclusive original shows from the world’s top music hosts and artists”

Do we need to worry about podcasts?
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By that line of thinking why not tax the poor to give to the rich, that would accelerate economic growth, wouldn't it?
But if the government redistributes the wealth to its citizens, wouldn't that boost consumer demand and thereby boost economic growth on the demand side?
I don't know what was promised, or by who, but the first federal income tax after passage of the 16th amendment applied to only the richest 3% of the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1913
His newest book goes much further, if you read Capital in the XXI Century you should give it a try.

My takeaway from this blog post and his book is that:

1. we should have way more transparency on who owns what: currently information about who owns what stock is in the hands of private companies and it's not disclosed to the public. One of the effects of having an income tax is that we have very detailed information about income. I would argue that measuring inequality is a good thing for a society.

2. we really really need to stop fiscal dumping and fiscal competition among countries. There are a number of ways to do that: stronger transnational organizations, more transparency and collaboration among countries (like what the US imposed to Switzerland), exit taxes (proposed by the US)

Overall pg's post ignores the fact that 1950-1980 saw the largest growth and the highest income and succession taxes in the US (also in Western Europe, but one might argue that reconstruction might have played a role in this)
"That depends on people believing polygraphs work though"

Are you sure that's true? In medicine, apparently placebos have an effect even if you know that it's a placebo. I imagine that even if you know that it's theoretically useless, being hooked up to a machine that can read your vitals while lying would still be nerve wracking.
> I wish Netflix would spin off the DVD service and give it a chance to thrive.

They were going to do that back in 2011, but then cancelled the plans

https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-cancels-qwikster-spinoff/
interesting idea, but I think I would decline. I don't plan on having children, but I would like the primary beneficiaries of my excess productivity to be my friends and family. plus, I think it sets up a weird incentive to spend as much of your money as possible before you die, which causes a big problem if you live longer than you planned.

I actually think the current US estate tax rules (minus the loopholes) are pretty reasonable. you get to pass on $10mm or so to your beneficiaries untaxed, but any wealth past that is subject to a steep tax. if you remove the basis step-up for assets and somehow prevent super-wealthy people from avoiding the tax altogether, I think it would be a pretty good system. enormous estates would decay quickly through the generations, but ordinary to upper-middle class folks could still leave their life's excess productivity to people they care about.
posthog is really unfortunately named
>> Enforcing property laws is subject to limits on policing resources.

Incorrect, in the US I have no right to policing either, I have the right to defend my property myself from people that wish to take it. Our Courts have held continuously that no individual has the right to protection from the police force.

We do not have Positive Rights in the US, never have and hopefully never will because in order to have positive rights one must infringe on negative rights to supply them

So while I have the right to property, I must provide defense of that property myself. I can also ask the courts to mediate if there is dispute over said property.

Similar with healthcare, and one area I believe government regulations today intrude on my rights. I should have the right to ACCESS to care, but I would not have the right to require someone provide me with care. So for example I should have the right to purchase any medical supply, drug, etc from any person that wants to sell those supplies free from government interference, but the government should not provide me with that care, and should not steal errr tax other people's labor to provide me with that care either
Being an expert in one domain (pg: startups, presumably) doesn't make you an expert in all domains (finance, tax systems). I'd be more interested to hear from someone who true expertise, as opposed to a guy terrified of losing a small fraction of his wealth.

[Edit] "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."

Oh, the horror of only keeping ~75% of your wealth, at the expense of supporting the society that made your wealth possible. The horror.
Yeah, probably. It's certainly worth giving it a go.
No, but they also wouldn't be that effective at taxing wealthy people that would structure their wealth to avoid the tax. That's the issue. You either lower the limit to the point where you capture the upper middle class, or you don't get any revenue because wealthy people can avoid the tax entirely.
All open source:

https://count.ly/

https://github.com/vesparny/fair-analytics

https://goaccess.io/

https://www.kokoanalytics.com/

https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics

https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet
Of these, do any have a funnel tracking feature that shows what visitors went through a specific series of pages/events? Seeing how users moved about the site and seeing how many converted is a deal breaker for me.
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Amazing work! I can understand how you can burn out on it though. The explanations are very friendly and easy to follow, so don't be deterred if you want to create more EXPLANATION content!
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Being comfortable is far better for confidence than "dressing well" in my experience. I would never wear shoes in my home and I work in pyjamas mostly.

However if shoes or clothes make you comfortable then by all means, but I doubt this makes a difference for everyone.
Planned breaks. Plan to watch a movie or do something at a specific time for a specific duration.

Exercise of any kind will do it, but you need to
Do It for at least 30 mins, imo. It takes a while for your brain to context switch completely.
> He doesn't believe Bezos would have not started Amazon in the US if there was a wealth tax.

Did he elaborate? That seems like such a joke to me. Denying yourself access to the world's biggest market because, if you make it big, you'll only have $145 billion instead of $188 billion...

Although it is interesting of course that Amazon was founded/located right from the start in part on a tax optimisation. I can imagine say a French entrepreneur may choose to incorporate in Germany to launch his EU startup (though even here, extremely skeptical) based on a (hypothetically) better personal tax system. But skipping the US? Highly improbable.
So I have a PhD, and do empathize with being "transgressive", but I'll say I think it's less about the PhD than it is about being right.

If you are bull headed and drive really hard in a new area, you better be right because you are taking responsibility and accountability for that area (whether you think you are or not). High risk, high reward - sound familiar? This is true at Google, at startups, in academia. So it's really more of a personality thing - if you're ok being obedient, you also don't need to bear the stress of accountability. But if not, well, no degree will alleviate that stress.
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If your business is currently generating revenue and profitable, your best bet is to move to a low-hassle, low-tax jurisdiction. The United States isn’t a particularly low-hassle, low-tax environment, and the rules of the game are increasingly uncertain (especially in terms of future tax increases needed to pay for today’s crises), but you’ll have to deal with it if you are considering foreign investment into your company. Otherwise, look around and do your homework.

To overcome the moral dilemma, you should take the amount you’ll save in taxes in a lower-tax environment and reinvest it into your country. The irony is, since that money is now considered a foreign direct investment into the country’s economy, you’ll be celebrated as a hero. It makes no sense, but that’s pretty much how it works all over the world.
The book could really do with a subchapter on convolutional codes and the Viterbi algorithm. Those are the stepping stones to understand turbo decoders, used in LTE.
Definitely agreed on recommendations, I've just been switching over from Spotify to Apple Music this week (adding aftermarket CarPlay and Spotify's support for that was a trainwreck). Overall I like Apple's app better across all platforms, except using web rather than native on Windows. On Apple's platforms it's snappier than Spotify, feels properly native, and is presumably better for battery life since it's not made of a bunch of Chrome instances glued together. But I definitely feel like I'm losing something with Discover Weekly and Release Radar.

Apple has their "For You" tab, but it's not as streamlined and the recommendations have been much more hit or miss.

Maybe it needs some more time to figure out my music tastes.
You need to do what is right for you and the economic security of your family. Small businesses are notoriously difficult to sustain.

That said, if you consider a huge multi-national company I think many would say that this type of behavior would be unsavory if not unethical.
I don't think the subconscious mind is able to 'make certain decisions', it operates on a whole different level than the conscious mind.
But that's a discussion for another time.
Option 1: Everyone develops on the CI/CD platform.

Ops gives devs "disposable environments" to do their testing in. Basically, GitHub + Jenkins + Terraform + AWS. I've used this to stand up real infrastructure every time a PR is opened, and pipelines run against the infra. Code and infra match each other because they both exist in the same branch/repo (monorepo; you can of course do multi-repo, just takes more coordination). It's all destroyed as soon as the PR is closed, but you can also keep it up to do dev work against. You can also keep one copy of the latest master branch up at all times (the "dev" or "cert" or "test" infrastructure) as a shared test environment. Downside: you have to have access to the network (which is in AWS, so that's not so difficult). Upside: the dev environment always mimics production, devs don't need to do anything to stand it up.

Option 2: A bunch of mocks, and scripts to stand up stuff in Docker, using docker-compose or something else. This becomes a bit of a problem to manage with lots of devs, though, and docker-compose is not a good model for production deployments.
Let's make a law disclosing all financial relationships to scientific studies.
https://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_06.asp#:~:text=Cov....
I like the simplicity of your homepage.
I guess that's great... Now we need other manufacturers to do the same, and IMHO extend this time to be at least of 5 years.
1. The French income tax and wealth tax was extraordinary high.

2. France is part of the EU, there are dozens of countries that French millionaires can move to with almost zero friction.

Moving to neighboring Belgium is like moving from New York to New Jersey.
to be honest, if you are using nginx, just use / run https://goaccess.io/ It collects the same information as umami and is even more lightweight, since it just runs whenever you tell it to.

just add the command as a cron job, and you get an auto generated static dashboard. very neat.
I honestly don't. Working from home increased my output very much and I've embraced this change to just do more. I work longer hours and do more side projects/freelancing.

I worry about long term effects (especially health) and efficiency of this approach, but for now only side effect is less time for other activities. I'm happy with this tradeoff for now.
Property taxes are routinely pointed out as examples of highly regressive taxes which cause numerous issues for those who can least afford them.
I also think it's worth noting that the content that they're complaining about is saved to private accounts. DropBox (Google Drive, etc., etc.) isn't responsible for stuff you save to your private accounts. Also, Apple hasn't said that the app violates any rules or laws. They just want the complaints resolved, whatever they may be.
>See also https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/08....

Isn't that more of a case of "a broken clock is right twice a day"?
>Not the only reason at all. So many people are concerned with inequality beyond its connection the USA’s inability to fund public goods.

"Being concerned with inequality" doesn't give people the right to go and arbitrarily expropriate other people's assets.
Some of these problems are coming from the reason that many of the startups are unicorns, with other words pyramid schemes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/201...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-tech-startups-behaving-ne...
Apparently no, that is why they started Kotlin/Native instead of ping back into AOT compilers for Java, and in Kotlin forums tends to exist an high disregard for anything Java.
> If you accrue a wealth of $50M because you own half of your $100M company (or 100% of your $50M company), then a wealth tax will — over time — force you to give up ownership in your own company over time.

Why? There's a floor that below $50M you don't need to pay a wealth tax. In a worst case scenario where your entire wealth is tied up in stocks of a single company you own and you have 0 cash to pay your wealth tax, your ownership gradually approaches $50M.

They're are very few people who end up controlling 50+% of a $50M+ company at 20 and keep their 50+% stake for the 60 years pg references. Anyone who did that didn't take VC money.
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> most of the tax money is redistributed by the government, not invested, while the wealthy generally invest their wealth

If the money redistributed by government is given to poorer people, what do they do with it? Are you suggesting they save it somewhere it cannot be invested in the economy?
> So he'd currently be worth $145B instead of $188B.

> PG is saying Bezos would have left the US because of that?

I think most human beings would do most things for $43,000,000,000. Whether they morally ought to or not is beside the point: almost anyone would do almost anything for 43 billion dollars.
If they adopt other syntax, then kotlin is no longer 'java, with the warts papered over'.
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In my opinion, establishing habits - whatever works for you is best - to mark the start and end of you workday is the most helpful thing here. I have a dedicated home office but I also use that for private projects, but I think there are also room independent solutions - such as putting your laptop in a bag or a drawer once you are done.

Also: give yourself a reason to stop working in the evening. I almost naturally developed routines at the start and end of my workday:
- Alarm rings every workday at same time

- Might slack a little off on Social media, then get up

- Get dressed appropriately for video calls

- Make breakfast, coffee, grab a bottle of water

- Take those things into Home office, start working

- Work throughout the day, get up from time to time to get coffe, water, have lunch, maybe throw some laundry into the washing machine - however, not more chores during that time!

- When it's time to stop working, close all programs, put Laptop to sleep or turn it off, turn of external monitor

- Get out of the home office

- Immediately after stopping to work, either do some chores or hit a workout (Reason to stop!)

- Done. Mind is off of work. Have dinner and/or do whatever is planned for other free time

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> Other features of the tax system more than offset the 0.3% wealth tax.

In other words, you can have a wealth tax without detrimental effects, as long as you keep taxes low otherwise? What's the point then?
Then they'll find other loopholes as they have for centuries is my point. And the government has a vested interest in keeping those loopholes open for the truly wealthy since they're all friends and political donation buddies.
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I wonder if that is a more natural (and long-term) structure though.

The current tech formula seems to be "build the biggest moat possible - worry about profitability later"

While that is driving some of the fastest growth in history, one has to wonder what the landscape will look like once these moats are built. Will these companies have full power to price however they please?

If a company is incentivized to be profitable as they grow, would it lead to a more stable future where we have multiple competitors in each industry?
Thank you for putting this together. This answered many of the questions I've had about X for multiple decades.
The problem isn't the wealth tax but about creating a taxation system and monetary policy that actually helps people.

There is this false assumption that a wealth tax will somehow eliminate wealth inequality.

If you have an already broken economic system you will end up with more money in a broken system and it won't yield better results for the average person.

But this is about marketing and "winning" not about progress.

If you want to actually help people you should start with property taxes.

Increase them to 10% on a sliding scale as property values move further away from the median price of a home sold in a state or city.

This would discourage multiple home ownership, it would drive tax revenue that stays inside of the local community (state level) rather than creating a larger budget for the military. You could use those taxes to improve education and local infrastructure. Impose a system where those collected taxes are then redistributed on an economic basis where the poorer neighborhoods receive a larger percentage of those local taxes.

If you buy a $2M house in just 10 years you would have paid $2M in taxes. By increasing the carrying cost of property you will also reduce property prices as this is no longer an asset that you carry with zero cost.

To further improve the cost of housing make sure that there is a 100-200% tax on foreign buyers buying property in US markets. This will again drive down prices and help people afford houses.

Unlike paying into a large federal tax system where the effects are harder to observe you would see improvements on the local area immediately. Property prices would decrease, poorer neighborhoods would be helped which would lead to a reduction in crime and poverty levels, and your infrastructure that has been classically underinvested will receive more funding.

Low property taxes also lead to higher costs of tuition. By also removing the inability for people to get out of student debt through bankruptcy you would also decrease the price of education. And if we used the additional tax revenue from property taxes to create additional "vocational" schools for the new economy such as computer programming programs you can help people get ahead.

If you want people to be civicly minded you have to show them how their taxes have an impact and that starts at the local level first.
Apache too (and first).
Myths about the Middle Ages
The Swiss town that taxes its wealthy without scaring them away
Well apparently they think otherwise given the amount of Java bashing I see in most Kotlin related forums.

Your list was a bit cherry picked, GNAT frontend is Ada and other Ada compilers are fully bootstrapped.

And GCC has been C++ for quite some time as well.

Plus There are JVMs like JikesRVM and GraalVM, 100% Java.
Interest rates are so low that your income from your job at the startup is probably enough, right? Granted it won't work if rates go back up, and the current environment is a bit special.

Plus you might have some dividends on the whole amount.
Exactly, it is like moving from Los Angeles to Nashville, or from San Francisco to Austin. Which is what people are doing.