skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loose definitions of "startup" means there will be lots of exceptions or talking past each other when one tries to make declarations about the nature of startups.

One popular definition of "startup" (Steve Blank's) basically precludes profitability.
That was my take, too. I really don't mind if the vendor has a standard browser installed, as long as you can install others and make it the default. That's way more than Apple does on iOS!
There are interesting correlations with the research on the sense of self, and how it relates to spiritual teachings which equate much of suffering with the sense of being a separate "self" entity (rather than seeing oneself as an indivisible part of a whole).

Maybe this trick helps reduce the activity of the DMN (default mode network) which is attributed to much of our worry based thinking, which is self centered?

https://jeffwarren.org/articles/neuroscienceofsuffering/
Oral History of Avie Tevanian
Are any of these projects ready for personal backup use, or still experimental?
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of where this wealth is sitting. For most of the super-rich, the wealth isn't sitting in diverse assets that can simply be liquidated (Elon Musk doesn't have a 3rd home).

If you were to impose a wealth tax on Elon Musk, he would have to gradually give up his ownership in SpaceX and Tesla.

> The idea is that wealth concentration actually reduces competition.

But that's just not been the case. Wealth is not zero-sum. Just because Bezos is a 100 billionaire on paper, doesn't mean that I can't go and raise venture capital for my startup and succeed.
The population 82% of species are "below levels that can produce maximum sustainable yields, due to being caught at rates exceeding what can be regrown." Fishermen are already losing money, and the worst going out of business, because the size of the total catch available to all fishermen is already smaller than in the past.
To gain, you must give. In real life there is no perfect ending.
Agreed, Caleb is awesome. I'm thinking of giving Sponsorware a go.
I'm not clear on the specifics, but will Mozilla continue to finance active development in rust? The announcement is ambivalent on this, could they actually be trying to remove another cost factor from their portfolio?
PG is noting that a wealth tax works as designed to slowly make society more equal.
People want to exit but in most cases can't because the company is not doing well. Everyone who has tried fundraising with bad results knows it's super hard. Despite popular stories in the press, that's the fate of most startups.

Having a struggling company is super stressful, adding the government asking you to come up with money to pay personally, because you are 'wealthy' on a paper would take it to a different level.
I would like to raise a different point from the many valid points already raised in this thread.

I understand this might depend on the definition of “wealth tax”, but if the founder uses the money they make in their 20s to, for example, buy a home; buy cars and other assets; invest in another company; give the money to charity... then the money remains largely intact. It is only by hoarding the wealth for 60 years that a founder would lose ~45%.

This doesn’t seem unreasonable, as people respond to incentives and will try to avoid the bad outcome by being proactive. This is akin to saying “if I have less than $1000 in my bank account, the bank will charge me a $5 fee each month. Then after just 16 years, all the money will be gone.” This is technically true, but no rational actor would actually just keep their money in the bank under these circumstances.
Can anyone tell how this holds up against Matomo?
The time-value of money is basic. 1% wealth tax, 3% inflation and 5% annual growth leads to more money in the future, not less. (Those percents are conservative.) Is it possible that PG doesn't understand this? Or is it shallow politics; lying and using his platform spread FUD. For shame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money
Very cool but how do I know what languages supported? It says "VEED is able to recognise and transcribe languages from all over the world - English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and many more".

From my experience with NLP/AST the tricky part is models for some less common languages.
“ and there is zero evidence that this has any deterrent effect on wealthy people settling in Switzerland or startups being created in Switzerland.”
- I can’t name any startup out of Switzerland, but can name at least one for pretty much any european country.
This is such a strange and bad faith argument.

I don't think pg actually doesn't understand the notion of inflation, asset value increases, dividends, etc.

I mean our entire pension system is built on top of the assumption that equity holders will see an average of 6-7% returns annually over a long stretch of time (TBD if this holds true).

If you're going to argue against a wealth tax and this is what you've got then you're really just saying you have nothing.
With the way the human population is expanding and the rising income of 3rd world nations we are really going to look at a major increase in both genetically engineering food stock to be larger and more nutritious as well as ramping up lab grown meat. Conservation is clearly not going to work as so many nations ignore it anyway and quite often regulations lack teeth due to the fear of killing an industry. Its difficult to ask 3rd world nations to cut back while first world nations have been reaping benefits for so long.

While I wish organically growing food and conservation was the answer, its unfortunately not. Society just wont change to support it. A science fiction style solution is going to be the only way to feed the world.
We should be fixing farmed fish. When was the last time people ate wild cow. It's not sustainable for a population to be exploiting wild fish, farm properly and learn to do it quickly. As long as we eat meat, we have to do it in the least intrusive way.
Still wrong, here's a DCM flight live right now, it is transmitting its real hex which is tied to its registration. https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ad9e03

Yes, you can change the hex code your aircraft is broadcasting, but the FAA probably won't like that - they will want you to join the PIA program. https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/privacy/
I don't think in absolutes. It won't "destroy any incentive"

But yes, it is a powerful disincentive due to the compounding nature of wealth taxes.

Rich people are already leaving such as Eduardo Saverin. It's a growing trend and one that, as I mentioned, the US is desperate to stop by imposing an exit tax for renouncing US citizenship.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/renouncing-us-citize...
A good overview of over-fishing and why it's urgent to halt it: https://vimeo.com/43888692
The chance of "filecoin" or whatever else existing 12 months into the future is astonishingly low. The "completion" rate on ICOs is close to zero.

> "Obviously it could fail and become worthless. But if it works it could be huge, like Google-scale huge, which is why this became so contentious," a different investor explains.

That anybody put money into such a bleak concept is still beyond me.
I’ve always wondered if Amazon backs up S3. I don’t think they explicitly say but I get the impression that it is the user’s responsibility to replicate to a second region to guard against data loss so I am guessing not. Object Lock wouldn’t protect against an S3 failure.
Facebook’s Biggest Setback
"taxes both the winners and the losers".

Nobody who's sitting on $50M of assets is a loser.
Microsoft did this a few years ago for .NET and it seems to have been a really smooth process.

Hopefully they're advising Mozilla on this.
Hip hop artists use alter egos to explore different stage personas and styles. e.g. Daniel Dumile as MF Doom, King Ghidra, Viktor Vaughn or Eminem as Slim Shady.
I guess we can see that there is no planned obfuscation of eye "tech".
Apparently they do, otherwise the forums wouldn't be full with Java this and Java that.

Somehow those Kotlin devs have missed the boat that JVMs implementations have between 80% and 100% Java code, depending on which implementation from the top 10 JVMs one is talking about.
If you do ML on sensitive data from actual users, reproducibility is a crime, not a feature.
You need to ensure that your ML forgets deleted data completely and irreversibly.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

I'm subscribed to several mailing lists/forums and sometimes get a 3-figure number of emails per day. Since I can't (nor want to) read all of them, I score them based on the subject field (~s). Unfortunately, the scoring algorithm can't take the body into account (~b). That's why I considered notmuch for creating (virtual) mailboxes with context I'm interested in...
It was not reflexive. Perhaps you misread my post.

My reading of the way the slope slips is that rates go up, not that the minimum threshold is lowered. This reflects historical tax law changes, political sensibilities, and basic economic theory. This was all in my original post as well, so I'm not sure it'll land this time, but I'm a bit offended that you have mischaracterized my post as reflexive, implying thoughtlessness, when I believe it was anything but.

My opinion restated, billionaires have more to fear from this than any of the rest of us do.
Why is progressive wealth tax not being considered? The wealth tax steadily increases as your possessions increase. I think that will result in a much fairer system.
Tax avoidance has become an art form. Companies have minimized dividends so wealth can compound without being taxed, but that has negative economic effects as they accumulate effectively pointless cash hordes. Further, several things like inheritance let you change the tax basis. Selling stock and donating the proceeds is worse for you than donating the stock directly etc.

In other words tax income and the game is to hide income, tax wealth and you increase economic efficiency. Wealth taxes only erode wealth if you fail to make positive returns.
Yes but you'll have (at least) two children that will take care of you in your old age!
You might work at a small or young company that is not a startup. A "startup" is a specific type of business designed for rapid growth. If there are profits, that means holding cash in a bank offers better returns that re-investing into sales/operations which implies there is no fast growth.
How old is the dog? If she isn't already rather old then I wouldn't worry too much about trying to re-home her. We had to re-home one of our dogs when my son was born because the dog didn't adjust and actually bit my son. We had had the dog since she was about 10 weeks old and she was 4 years old when we re-homed her. We took our time and made sure to find somebody we felt would be a good fit and when we did we had the woman come meet the dog before she took her (the day before the 'adoption' day). I was really worried about how the dog would react because she was attached to my hip but as I watched the video of her leaving with the woman (we weren't home when the woman took the dog, we had a relative there because it was too hard for my wife and I) from my Ring camera the dog was wagging her tail and excited. We have gotten pics and videos since and the dog is super happy and just overall having a good life.
> Wealth translates into political power

This is debatable: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-c...

Consider that the representative from Bezos' own district in Washington is a socialist.

At the end of the day, the greatest check on wealth's effect on political power is the fact that legislators can only win office if they can win a democratic election.
There are lots of crossing lines, if the AI took those geometrical shapes into account it should have placed lines in front of his eyes and mouth. That would have been more accourate, incidentally avoiding the match with Goslin. Is that possible to implement in Gigapixel? Asking as a CV enthusiast that tailored a volume recognition solution in OpenCV years ago.
I've done a lot of this as a writer. I'll actually take an article from a favorite writer of mine and paste it on the page. Then'll I'll go through that article and write my own article on top of it paragraph by paragraph. None of the content or subject matter is the same. I'm not "rewriting the original article". But it helps keep the patterns similar. I can see how I might want to change pace, structure the story, etc.

But even more importantly it helps me imagine being that other, successful, famous author.
I think we've kind of established that, especially when it comes to security, that the onus is on the software to set secure and sensible defaults. I do not think an email client accepting untrusted input to automatically attaching any arbitrary file to the email is sensible or secure.

> A mail-client could contain

but it doesn't.
"Iron" seems like a fun/nice option.
Usually commercial exploitation becomes unviable before actual extinction occurs, although some species have been hunted to death for sport. You’d typically see this being a bigger problem for highly valued species like tuna where consumers are willing to pay premium prices for the remaining creatures, rather than more commodity species.

The bigger risk extinction wise isn’t that we’ll fish a species to death, it’s that we’ll leave it in such a rough state that any number of random events might finish the species off.
Basecamp used to, I have no idea if they still do. Databases were replicated, and also backed up remotely. User uploads were replicated in the storage system, and also backed up to S3.
Six Colours
You're forgetting benefit cliffs which are a large chunk of the discontinuity problems. Any benefit that does not have a gradual phase-out (like subsidized health care plans) will lead to these discontinuity problems.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-27/when-work-punished...
Azul systems made custom hardware for around a decade, tuned for running Java and highly parallel (IIRC they had 256 core systems when Intel was selling 4 core systems). Also had hardware accelerated GC, so people with large heap problems would talk to them.

With the rising ubiquity of Intel VT extensions, they figured out how to put the VM into JVM, particularly for accelerated GC, and it looks like they got out of the hardware business. All I see on their product page is runtimes. And now that Oracle wants to charge people for their JVM, I suspect they have more customers now.
A logical fallacy doesn't mean the claim is wrong, just that it doesn't logically follow. I think it's still worth pointing out when the claim is presented as fact.
NoCrunchGames: Find game studios that have spoken out against crunch
It's used a lot already for cross platform development for android and ios even though that has been experimental so far. This is where they've been focusing most of the effort and as far as I know it's usable for that and some people have already built apps using this.

I've been looking at multiplatform development recently and maintain a few oss projects on github that are now multiplatform. The build tools are getting there. The multiplatform gradle plugin has improved a lot over the last year. Generally you can get stuff working pretty easily. If you need to target IOS and Android, it's worth a look. Also if you want to share some code with browsers, it can do that too.

The main issues is with gaps in functionality. E.g. kotlinx datetime just reached 0.1. There were a few third party alternatives but if you needed dates, not having a usable datetime library is a bit annoying. That's just one example. When stuff is missing, you can actually fix it yourself. But of course that ends up being quite a bit of work.

I think for e.g. command line development on Linux or WASM development for browsers, the native compiler is not that great yet. They just started working on WASM only a few weeks ago and posix and Kotlin have not had a lot of attention. This is also an issue when using kotlin-js with node.js; they've just not done the work to expose all of the built in node.js stuff to Kotlin yet. On browsers you get a smoother experience with kotlin-js. Of course people doing stuff on servers can use the jvm and that's why there's just less attention going towards native on that front.

So, wouldn't recommend it for IOT just yet unless you are willing to deal with what is likely to be a rough experience and some gaps in functionality.

The big next pieces are finalizing the transition to the new compiler backend and improving the multiplatform library ecosystem. They have alpha versions of the new compilers currently but they are not ready yet. I also expect there will be lots of activity with both Jetbrains and others releasing multiplatform libraries. I've actually worked on a few of those and would love to see this get traction.
They could have added a regression test, no? Give it an example with ?attach= and verify that no attachment is added.
One important question not touched on my the blog post: Where will the Foundation be located?

Will is be US-based like Mozilla, or will it be somewhere else, like Europe?

A couple of foundations have moved away from the US in recent years, for example the Eclipse Foundation (Belgium) and the RISC-V Foundation (Switzerland).

It seems foundational (if you'd forgive the pun) to know under what laws the foundation will operate, and who (if anybody) will be excluded from taking part in the project because of sanctions regimes.
I hear Iceland and New Zealand have sustainable ownership based systems.
Mozilla has had to reduce its investment in Rust significantly, but it’s not abandoning Rust. Mozilla has committed to financial and logistical support while we get the foundation up and running, and we expect they will become a sponsor once that is an option.
I was trying to step into the shoes of a less generous reader there, sorry if that wasn't clear. I think the post was clear and I agree. Mozilla is still a massive steward and this post was made to directly address that.
After updating a brand new ipad from 12.x to ipad os 13, Safari tabs started crashing all the time. I got a replacement unit and it did the same thing. Tried out ipad os 14 and the whole device reboots frequently, usually if a tab plays any kind of video.

On their bug reporting app, switching apps while having a bug report half filled-in in order to e.g. check which URL caused a recent crash, will immediately throw the bug reporting app out of memory and lose your half-entered bug report.

Updates within months of getting a brand new device (on the low end RAM-wise), seem to have completely ruined it. People have told me to buy one with more RAM and most issues would be resolved, but I don't want to throw in more money for uncertainty.
That's not really what the product is about. They already had Beats 1 Radio before which is just like a regular radio station but with well known hosts they hired.

Some shows that were on-air are usually available as on-demand after the show.

If you are not looking for the exclusive shows or you want to avoid switching to a different apps it's probably not a product for you.
There are still Rust team members working at Mozilla, so yes.
> Nobody who's sitting on $50M of assets is a loser.

First of all, we're not talking about "$50M of assets", we're talking about $50M ownership in your company. That is un-diversified.

Second of all, a wealth tax necessarily means that you will have to relinquish ownership of your own company unless you're "a winner".
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> Its different from other taxes, that tax an interchange with another person or entity.

yes, taxing transactions between entities makes sense, because transactions is where wealth (or value) is generated.

Taxing accumulated wealth does not make for a good policy, since this erodes stored wealth. Unless it's somehow paired with a reduction in other taxes (and thus defeat the point of the wealth tax in the first place as a way to levy more revenue to the gov't).

This is why a consumption tax is, in my opinion, the best kind of tax.
I read it as "Mozilla holds all the legal assets and will work with the new foundation to transfer them" – so that's probably trademarks, logos, infrastructure, etc.

Seems pretty straightforward.
Japanese Fasting Study Reveals Complex Metabolic Changes in the Human Body
Or the ecosystem arrives at a different, stable operating point.
Vulnerabilities in ATM Milano's mobile app
I appreciate that. It ends up being a small diff but does help clarify, I think. Thank you! https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/pull/674
I wouldn't consider mysel a loyal iphone user, but this argument is one of things that tip the balance in favour of iphone, nowadays you really don't need new os updates to get the latest features on android as many are bundled inside the infamous google services, but some years ago, watching how new features rolled out to almost any iphone while the androids get those features slowly, was a dissapoinment.
A new step toward the Matrix.
"The Englese, she is the very hard language to speak."

Translation requires of the reader a forgiving nature.
I've responded to the logical nature of the fallacy in other comments, so won't rehash. I thought I was clear in the original post, but apparently not.

There are many millionaires for whom what you describe is a problem. I assure you that billionaires do not have a problem with liquidity unless they want to.
The particular structure of the trilobite eye didn't become the insect eye; it's just an example of a more general structure. Trilobites had calcite (mineral) lenses; insects don't. And they were lenses - proper biconvex lenses - not push-buttons.
The problem is that some people need money and can't say no. That's why anybody works for minimum wage...

The executives and investors and FAANG engineers have all made good money and seen decent RSU terms, you can't pull the wool over their eyes. Someone who is just getting into tech may be allured by a 50k salary and "1 MILLION OPTIONS!!!!" (There are ten trillion in the option pool).

I think engineers would do well to know that you are a COST CENTER to the business and the people who run it. They need you to make their product so they can make money but they hire you begrudgingly. You are in their power and they want to take advantage of you by paying you the least they can (shady options awards) and working you as much as possible (why did you slip on this feature you story pointed!!!).

Put yourselves in their shoes and you would do the same. Starting a successful business is all about customer growth and making money. If you aren't directly responsible for a part of that then you are a cost. Make sure you are getting paid what you are worth because nothing in this world gets built without great engineers, but the system is run by people who want to have power over you. Be careful.
It's the primary goal of a wealth tax. To reduce the concentration of wealth in a small minority of the population.

Let's say that there was a 1% wealth tax on all wealth over $1b. So Bezos would have to liquidate say $1b each year for that tax.

Yes, he'd have to sell Amazon stock. That would feed into the stock price of Amazon in terms of increased liquidity of the stock, but it has zero effect on the operations or growth or income of Amazon itself.

Arguably it would have little or no impact on Bezos' activities. He would still be running Amazon, he would still be working to make it grow etc.

What would change is that over time, the wealth would be distributed via the items funded by that tax.
This is hard to do in a legal environment where "money === speech" and you cannot, under most circumstances, abridge political speech.
Reflection on $1M made over 6.5 years from Internet businesses