skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recognized this a couple years ago at a startup I work with. Comparing Google Analytics numbers to validated event logs, the numbers were off by ~20-30%. Surely there must be a quick workaround I thought, there's no way there's an entire multi-billion $ industry of 3rd party analytics software giving bogus numbers to websites?! But that's indeed the case. I immediately made top priority building out an in-house analytics platform where event logs were sent via the API and thus didn't get blocked.

And for those saying relative direction is all that matters, I guarantee you the behavior of users with adblocker installed is very different from those who can't be bothered or don't know how.
yuuuup.

This is the reason I won't work for startups. If you want me to take a below market rate job then I'm an investor, and you can treat me as such.

I would argue early employees are investing much more, $ for $ than any VC.
You could have a look at our attempt, it allows dynamic SQL using templating.

https://github.com/ebenefuenf/quma
Steve Jobs fought with Steve Wozniak about whether the Apple II should have user-accessible parts. Anti-user-access is in the company's DNA.
Elon has said multiple times that he won't go public before Mars stuff has happened.

Gwynne Shotwell has said they could spinoff Starlink as its own company and IPO it and use that money to fund more Mars projects if they run out of money. But if Starlink is profitable once it is up and running why would they sell it off/IPO? Just keep taking the money over years probably will work better in the long term.
This is the same kind of naive calculation that people used to say Donald Trump would have made more money investing in index funds - start with 100% of the principal and do nothing else with it. A big understated problem with a gradual wealth tax is billionaires will fund an overthrow of the government if it compounds aggressively enough.
This would’ve been a great opportunity to share your unique expertise on the history, efficacy, or real mechanisms of tax laws that us non-lawyers aren’t privy to. E.g. comparative analysis of property taxes, which are wealth taxes but limited to one asset class.

In retort, these companies are started by young risk takers, many of whom have a safety net. A set of redistributive policies could expand that volume to folks who are arbitrarily excluded.
FWIW I strongly dislike IDEs and avoid them at all costs (my reasons are varied and off-topic, and controversial so I won't mention them now). I've been able to use Vim + plugins to develop in a dozen different languages/platforms except Java/Kotlin. While it is doable it is a nightmare compared to other langs. A ton of Java/Kotlin/etc code is written with the expectation that the user is using an IDE, in some places I've worked they ever require a specific IDE.
Any interest or dividends get taxed. Quite significantly in fact and historically, over 1% of the real value of your portfolio.

This is only somewhat different than taxing wealth in effect. Right now we have a world, where lower interest rates = lower inflation produce a reduced "wealth tax"
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“The wealth would be distributed by the items funded by that tax”

This is highly questionable - the idea that a dollar of tax is equivalent to a dollar of wealth distributed rests on the assumption that elected officials can deploy the money efficiently.

I’m not claiming that government can never do this - clearly nation building has been done before.
The difference between HN and Reddit is how many words people use to say the same wrong things.
Compression wouldn’t help the 8.5 seconds spent on layout and rendering of the text.
My house, my car (not a Tesla), and my fridge are all amenable to 3rd-party repairs. As is my phone. The fact that "most big companies" want to a monopoly doesn't make it acceptable.
Fire TV also has cross-service search which I find good. Roku has a more streamlined clickthrough interface but Fire TV generally shows me where something is available even if it takes a few more clicks to get there.
And very few will if this support cycle continues.

Samsung will sell you a device they claim can replace your laptop [1] for >700$ and then add the external keyboard and that can go close to a 1000$

The next generation one can cost over 1000$ [2]

I just don't see how they expect to sell these with 3 years of updates.

[1] https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/tab-s6/
[2] https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/tab-s7/
The Upton Sinclair quote has seldom been more apt.

Assuming it could be effectively and efficiently administered, replacing all income taxes with a wealth tax (and VAT) would massively simplify the tax code while making it significantly more fair and heavily rewarding those actively generating the greatest returns.

Under such a scenario, the only people significantly negatively impacted would be those who hoard wealth or invest it poorly, and as a consequence are unable to overcome the periodic tax.

As to its fairness: when the wealthiest pool their resources in order to protect their assets’ value, as is the case in e.g. a hedge fund, we see them happily sign up to a 2% yearly levy.

A more elaborate metaphor makes situation more vivid still: imagine the scenario in which America’s wealthiest were to all move to a “Galt’s Island”, except in doing so they left the American security blanket and became entirely responsible for the defense of their assets. In such a scenario, the idea that the merely wealthy would pay the same as the hyperwealthy immediately stops making sense, as it’s the hyperwealthy who are both benefitting most from the security afforded, and the ones who are most responsible for Galt’s Island being so tempting a target.

America is Galt’s Island, except we have seen a systematic shifting of the burdens of its upkeep from those who can most easily afford it to those who can afford it least.
"Anyone who knows me knows that I was among the biggest Apple Evangelists to ever live."

Think about this for a second. Is it possible that the 'cult', that by your own words are 'evangelizing', is ever going to turn against you when you make a mistake or do something that they don't agree with?

"I believed ... Apple’s mission (or at least what they said their mission was)" - these seems to be the words of someone finally waking up from a trance.
Last time I checked about a month ago, China reported ~6,700 total deaths, I would guess ~8,000 now.

I'm still surprised this isn't a more publicized, aggravating, and/or disputed figure, even given China's questionable reporting.
Strange Sweden has a strong private investor culture possibly employees should be lobbying for a change in the law.
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That's great in theory, but the personification of a company and the many layers in a large enterprise make it unrealistic to assume everyone is the same, does the same thing, or knows about each other. Doesn't mean bad things aren't bad or good things aren't good, but besides that the marketing and PR departments put out there are more differences than similarities between the people, teams of people and groups of teams in any company.
It's certainly plausible, but it still feels like something is missing. How did the boss hear about this? "Someone told him." This all just sounds so very odd.
If you find an OS without bugs, let me know.
Is microequity a good replacement for microcredit?
This is how apple operates and always has.
Or it may not be completely absent, just consciously. Who knows. Nobody knows exactly how our memory works. It's fun to think about though.
I wrote this during lockdown. It is not directly related as such but still have some points.

http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/13-tips-for-making-the-most-of-t...
> Doing this he completely destroys what reviews are meant to be

TBH, I think reviews, more than code, wants to be free. Amazon do a fine service providing a platform for product reviews, but I worry all this data now belongs to a private biased entity. Open reviews, anyone?
Could you share roughly how much did it cost to put together that custom box?
+1 Schwab

-I've had great customer service experience compared to competitors

-also refunds ATM fees at end of month.
My daily night routine includes looking at a picture of dinosaurs, and a high resolution picture of the hubble telescope[1] and realize that there is something that drove the making of all of this, the process of evolving, of galaxies, bacteries, dinosaurs, so on...being huge and getting big, as dinosaurs, galaxies, humans did. And the variety of those, and so on...None of those made any conscious decision of, for example growing a wing in the future, or the shape, or the structure, or the color if it. But yet it did happen.
So there is that thing that drove the making and changing of everything. And that there is no I or you, there is just this thing of making without knowing or being able to direct any of it. And this is the point where the we cant really describe it anymore precisely. Its everything you can not think of. The opposite of what the brain is capable of comprehending.
If I can keep this point of "worldview" so to say, before actually falling asleep, I get the best sleep anyone can wish for.

[1] https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1996/01/385-Ima...
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Most legitimate bots identify themselves with specific user agent strings.

Script kiddie attack bots are generally fairly obvious as they hammer away at things like /wp-login.php for days on end regardless of what error codes the server returns.

Most other bots are pretty evident just by looking at access patterns. Just identify their IPs and drop them from your analytics.
This is an awesome project. Is Postgres good enough for high traffic or would it be better to switch to Redis?
> Hiring devs has some big advantages, but also a lot of disadvantages too.

The Blender Foundation has been employing devs for, like, forever -- they're (usually) the ones who fix all the little things since everyone else wants to work on 'more cowbell'.

Maybe shoot Ton Roosendaal a friendly email or something as he has years of experience in this matter?
I love Ergodox (https://ergodox-ez.com/). There is a new keyboard by the same company which looks cool, but I haven't tried it yet: The Moonlander (https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/)
The strange thing is I can remember when there was a push to use whiting over cod, but on that site the former is 3-5 while cod is 1-2

Breaded plaice is my favourite, although often chip shops don't seem to have any
I'm guessing he charged the guy for his services. I don't see what the conflict would be otherwise.
Are these terms for stock any different for even the first 20-30 employees? Or are they also get the same terms? Why do people say being the first 20-30 employees in a start up is good?
Musk has mentioned a few months back that they're planning to have Starlink IPO as a separate subsidiary of SpaceX, or something to that effect.
That's the exact purpose of stock options. From the IRS's perspective, when you receive shares in a private company, that's still income, because those shares have a specific value (determined by 409a valuation), despite them being illiquid.
You had me until 'facing...overpopulation'. To boot, Elon Musk has talked about this [1].

We are not facing overpopulation. Population is contracting currently and will continue for at least a few decades.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_4VnXHF64
> which did something well over 20 years ago

Not sure that was ever true. 20 years ago, MS remote desktop (called "terminal server" at that time) was vastly superior to X11 for remoting.
Basically no, we would have to decide as a society that your inability to catch your own fish does not outweigh the needs of all of the rest of the people. And this lies the problem in that solution a lot of people would be left without. The person in a wheel chair. The elderly who are not physically able. The person afraid of the sea. And so on. That’s why I also acknowledge it won’t happen. We could highly tax the sale of fish restaurants though and use that for subsidies and fish restoration. We could decide like fossil fuel use that this is important to the future of humanity and even though it would be near impossible we try anyways. Canada and the US could decide to subsidize the fishing industry and ask them to sit idle or offer retraining or something.
There are some great ADHD books out there, but many of them are deeply scientific or for parents.

My book is geared towards people who want to complete side projects and have better strategies at work, without reducing the scope of their goals or quality of work. I explain how to take a mindful approach to ADHD symptoms rather than chaotically bouncing from hyperfocus to burn-out.
> Look at access logs on any device with a public IP address and it's clear that people are constantly looking

Yes, I'd be a bit surprised if this database hadn't already been detected by some automatic IP and port scanning scripts, and the wrong people found out about it

(I don't with exactly these things though do I might be mistaken)
The bugs on Windows get fixed, the bugs on MacOS do not, and its the most ridiculous kind of bugs, like mouse freezing when an external turned off monitor is connected.
"brilliant in multiple fields and he's built large, effective organizations" vs. "obnoxious ass with a juvenile sense of humour"

I'm shocked at how often I see people put these on an equal level. We forgave our last rocket guy for being a literal nazi.
You are benevolent in these ways. Most people are not. If most people behaved the same way as you, tragedy of the commons and moral hazard would not be real things. But they are real things. A successful policy will take that into account, not just hope for everyone to be benevolent.
As far as I remember, I strictly followed the OPDS specifications when I implemented search, so it should work with any OPDS client.
Just in case,I just tested it successfully with Moon+ Reader on Android.

I can't test the clients you use as I have neither a Linux or iOS device at hand, but if you have any kind of error when trying to use them, I could take a look.
>> Our response was better than Europe's.

US's response to covid-19 was better than all countries in the whole of Europe?

Or, did you mean to say the US's response was better than Europe's, on average?

In what way was it better?
I agree with you 1000%. Now let me ask you, are you willing and able to put your life savings towards saving the planet? Will you make a $10,000 or $100,000 donation to groups like 350.org?

I do regret not following my instincts and going all-in on the stock market and Bitcoin, etc though. I had $20,000 in the bank after a lucrative contract when Bitcoin was $10. I've been following AAPL since it was $12 per share after the dot bomb. Conservatively, I'd have at least a bazillion dollars had I simply not listened to everyone who talked me out of investing.

For anyone reading this, if you want to change the world, it's time to pull your money out of your investments and make large anonymous donations to groups with a good track record on the environment (or human rights, or whatever floats your boat). This pump and dump scam that the global elite are doing to inflate the stock market is about to pop. Don't give them your winnings. Pull out now and do something positive with your money.
> Nobody has ever explained to me what it means, what its goals are, what constraints it has on the system or the protocol.

In today's world, what I think people want to do (and certainly what I want to do) is ssh to a machine, run a graphical program on that machine and see and interact with it in my graphical environment. X11 with ssh tunneling lets me do that. It's not a great experience, for all sorts of reasons, but it's an experience, and people who have been around for a while remember that it used to work better. It's usable enough on many applications to work in a pinch, or for ocassional work (I always run mythtv-setup via remote X, because it's inconvenient otherwise; sometimes I run a graphical browser over remote X to access localnetwork only servers from outside my home, but only if I can't get proxying to work, because browsers on remote X are awful in 2020 in ways they weren't in 2005)

I haven't looked in a while, and maybe waypipe fills this gap now, but I think at least some people are frustrated because Wayland is supposed to replace X11, but it doesn't hit all their use cases, and they may not care that much about the things it does better because they were used to the old ways. (Of course, if those things include hardware support, that will be a forcing function).

I certainly understand your frustration though. You built something new and better, and people won't use it because they're stuck on something that barely works.
Warming is the primary cause of coral die offs right now, but acidification will hit a tipping point pretty soon where it becomes nigh on impossible to get calcium ions out of solution. Pretty much anything that lives in the ocean and has a skeleton is in for a rough time - as well as everything that depends on them.
$25/phone. A small fee to compensate for a weakness in the $800 device.
> The symbol later took on a historic role in commerce. Merchants have long used it to signify “at the rate of”—as in “12 widgets @ $1.”

Many of my Indian coworkers will also say "at the rate", whereas I (a native speaker of American English) would just say "at".

For example, in the context of a Java annotation like `@Singleton`, I would say "at singleton", and my Indian coworkers would say "at the rate singleton".

It was a fun bit of cultural exchange when I first heard this said out-loud.
Not sure if others have opinions, but I remember when Andrew Yang was campaigning he talked about going after individual's wealth as the incorrect strategy since their wealth lies in their companies e.g. Amazon... and that a better strategy would be to implement a 20% VAT tax so we're gaining value from every transaction of their businesses that's hard to game and quite effective.

A VAT has the advantage of being simple to administer, and it's capturing the gains made via automation at every step of the chain.

Sounds good if true, and I believe most other countries have figured this out and implemented one. We don't talk about it here though.
but does this apply blanket-like to all farmed seafood, or is it mostly about fish?

E.g. I would expect shrimp, mussels, clams to not be fed processed wild catch, unlike salmon.
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Honest question, why do they need so much money? If their rockets are really re-usable, and with all these launches they've been doing, they should have tons of cash...
In the context of this and ignoring the insurance loophole mentioned (which probably applies here as another poster pointed out) I don’t see how this company wouldn’t be covered as a business associate where HIPAA would extend to them even though, as you point out, they aren’t a coveted entity.
Does new physics lurk inside living matter? : Life = Matter + Information
The same laws of physics apply to other devices. You can either throttle the device, or let it crash. All phones do one or the other.
I think I had this conversation word-for-word with one company. I told the CEO my salary demand and he could pay me in cash or in stock at the previous valuation (which had happened a week earlier, so I knew the price and that they had cash). He just kept blowing smoke at me. I decided I couldn't work for someone who lied to me (or, perhaps, believed his own BS?).
How to give access to AWS resources without creating 100s of IAM Users?
> sellers will move to other methods that are hard to trace

Just disallow it. Buyers won't care.
It is interesting because people perceive titles as being inflated at start-ups compared to the "equivalent role" (using your example) at an established company, and that's partially true, but it's also not.

I'd say the extent of actual impact to business relative to the entirety of the business operations probably remains roughly the same between two people with the same title at a large company and a small company. However, the potential loss (or perhaps gain) suffered from poor (or great) decision-making is likely much smaller on an absolute scale at a start-up, although roughly the same on a relative scale.
As many have pointed out, this is a pretty shallow critique of a straw man wealth tax that nobody has actually proposed.

If you want a little more depth on taxation proposals, I’d recommend the Saez and Zucman book [1] that underpinned most of the candidates’ policies: The Triumph of Injustice. All tax policy, including wealth taxes (like property taxes in the US), involves decisions about redistribution. Optimal tax theory is about trying to maximize revenue which includes considering the impact on capital / income “giving up”.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45894166-the-triumph-of-...
When you have a bad president you're going to be put through four years of hell - when you have a bad king you're going to be put through four decades of hell. Additionally kingship, no matter how well designed before hand, degenerates into nepotism since part of the assumption with kings is near absolute power. The dreamt of "Philosopher King" will never happen.

Putting the power into few hands is extremely dangerous. I think the ideal situation is pretty close to what we've got now - trust most people to choose the smartest people in the room, then ignore most people and listen to those people. We just need to work on flushing out decades of corruption that seeped into the system.
Creator:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101018012531/http://www.xcf.be...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pei-Yuan_Wei

> Pei-Yuan Wei was born in Pingtung County, Taiwan. He graduated from Berkeley High School in 1986. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a member of the student club, the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF).

> In the 1990s, Wei was a founding employee of Global Network Navigator, one of the first Internet-based businesses. Later he worked for various Palm OS-related businesses. Since 2008, Perry has been living in both Taiwan and the US, and has devoted most of his time to taking care of his ill family member

I remember GNN:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961024024732/http://www02.gnn....
> I imagine farmers who treat animals well

This is a cherry picked argument, at least in the US, where "factory farms raise 99.9 percent of chickens for meat, 97 percent of laying hens, 99 percent of turkeys, 95 percent of pigs, and 78 percent of cattle" [1].

Besides, even in this ideal farm where the farmer treats the animals perfectly and lets them live long, fulfilling lives, they're still killing the animal at the end of the day. Hard to see how that is "treating [it] well".

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-end-factory-f_b_1...
I never said wealth is the sole factor for a tech hub/ecosystem.

California is creating a huge incentive for billionaires to leave. So they are more likely to move and take their experience and move the tech ecosystem.

It's fine with me. I don't live in California. Boston lost the tech ecosystem with government regulation around non-competes... maybe California will lose it over a wealth tax or even the threat of one.

It would probably be better for the whole country if less wealth was concentrated in California and the wealthy moved to red states. Probably Texas.
That is, however, exactly what you're doing. We can see if apple responds, but until then, I'm assuming he's telling the truth.
Avoiding the alienation of labor, as Marx might put it.
Even so, I can't imagine anyone actually being let go over this as described unless the company was actively searching for a reason to fire them.