skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried and failed: https://twitter.com/shazow/status/1295835462360338436

I used a realistic sounding name, I tried several email addresses that were rejected as blocked, eventually I landed on an email that worked and my account got immediately disabled.

I'm sure I could eventually succeed, but I don't believe that it's fair to brush this off as something that anybody could do easily.
Not in terms of class mobility. Yes the floor is higher but try accumulating wealth in Sweden.
Your first point doesn't really apply, because PG is talking about someone who starts a successful startup, which—at least for Silicon Valley levels of success—would be above the relevant floor. (And he specifies: "over the threshold at which the tax starts".)

Your second point isn't really relevant for a founder who can choose between one developed country with a wealth tax and another one without. Unless you think all developed countries are going to implement the wealth tax.

I don't think your third point speaks to the issue. The article didn't mention control of the startup, only finances, and I don't think the successful 28-year-old startup founder who's looking at the impact of a wealth tax 60 years in the future is primarily concerned with control of the company at age 88.

Your fourth point also makes no difference. Suppose you make $1 billion, and you earn zero interest on it. The wealth tax takes away 45.3% of that over 60 years. Suppose you make $1 billion and compounded interest at 4% would increase it to $10.5 billion over the course of 60 years. The 1% wealth tax still takes away 45.3% of that over 60 years, leaving you with 54.7% of the $10.5 billion. Multiplication is commutative.

To your fifth point—well, does anyone leave for tax havens, or arrange for as much as possible of a company to be officially inside a tax haven? I think they do. A wealth tax that ends up making a large difference over the long term might make a large difference in how many people leave.

I don't think you've shown that PG "doesn't model how any sensible wealth tax would be implemented or paid" in any significant way.
Informação Importante, Atenção
> Wealth doesn't grow for everyone

Yeah, but it does generally grow for people who have millions of dollars, especially over the course of the 60 year period that the original essay is discussing. In the short term, the stock market fluctuates and has recessions, but in the long term it's only ever gone up.

> How about we just enforce inheritance taxes and call it done?

Because having a semi-predictable tax base is good? It's a lot easier to manage the government budget if you get 2% of the value every year, versus 100% of the value in a lump sum at some unpredictable point in the future. There's only 630 billionaires in the US, so it doesn't seem like statistics helps even this out, either.
Well, good luck with that. Any employer that wants me to submit to a polygraph test will have to do without me. It's beyond ridiculous that this is permitted at all.
Would love to hear a generous explanation of scrum practices from the author.

> I dislike Scrum because it makes a few wrong assumptions. First, that developers are lazy and need to be micro-managed to deliver.

Weird take. Mine is that Scrum assumes that people have biases and that it advocates for behaviors and processes that attempt to address these biases.

I'm sure that he knows that standups attempt to address stuckblindness[1], that planning poker is a solution to anchoring and framing biases. It's pretty easy to go through Scrum practices and draw a direct line to a bias it's attempting to address.

Scrum's biggest weakness is that it is easy to cargo cult. A lot of people stop there and label it as a bad solution. I'm not asking anyone to Scrum harder, that won't work, but put on a generous explanation hat for once and try a benevolent or even neutral explanation before a malevolent one.

[1] - https://garybasin.com/noticing-stuckness-is-a-superpower/
Cold comfort for anyone born after 1990
Thanks for the suggestion. I love firefox for the privacy and being light-weighted yet they are lacking some features (zooming with touchpad on mac like in chromium browsers) and have some bad bugs (e.g. column-reverse flex not scrolling).
Do your separate accounts lead to the same history tab or are they stored separately?
Actually you can't, because Facebook will lock your account for inauthentic behavior. Try making a fake account, and see how long you can hold on to it without being extorted for personal, identifiable information.
It baffles me too. My Samsung smart tv started showing me ads in the control panel/home screen. I paid full price for it, why am I seeing ads.
I wish I could return it, but the snakes waited until the return period was over.
When I say "user" here I'm talking about me the service provider being the user of the network. Instead of "user hostile", what I should have said is it "just doesn't solve the problem of access".

The concern I have is about malicious actors being able to access the raw objects held on the Filecoin network. They won't be able to do anything with the encrypted objects immediately, but I don't know that you can claim that will always be the case decades from now.
I really think this is the key question:

> If anything, I’d love to know how many Mozilla employees were working on Rust full-time as their paid job before the layoffs, and then after. I can’t find these numbers cited anywhere.
I recommend reading this article that's linked in the evidence section: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
Its not just about the react being opensource. Its the philosophy that drives the ecosystem. Facebook can come up with a react component for VR on the browser which work's really well only with facebook account.
DARPA does have some interesting VLSI projects running currently. Some of the ones I've noticed are:

Chiplets: https://www.darpa.mil/program/common-heterogeneous-integrati...

PIPES - optical chip io : https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-03-16

Automated ML chip generation: https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/Real%20Time%20Machine%20Le...
Can't they search for those anyway? It is the pretext that I don't get. You can't refuse the search. So just get it over with and leave the dog out of it.
> I can't remember the last time I saw a project that relied on Makefiles to build

I don't know what GNU/Linux you're using, because in my experience, most packages going into a distro use make.

Oh, and then there is that whole denominator in the GNU/Linux fraction that's built with GNU Make.

Maybe you don't see Makefiles because you're relying on binary packages?
TwistMetrics: Privacy focussed server side analytics
>Logically, if objects that can survive a million encounter with stars exist, they would seem a million times more common than objects that could survive one

That doesn't seem quite right. Wouldn't they be a million times more common relative to their overall proportion in the universe? Durable objects could be, say, one in a million, cancelling out the probability.
It'll be fun and motivating for a month or two, then the real work will set in. Unless you are prepared for that, tread carefully.
Anything you do is statistically insignificant when compared to the world's population.

But if one person in an average household quits that is a 25% reduction.

In the end that person and those around benefit.
> it doesn't work at all with everything that uses video acceleration (like a modern browser, and as a corollary all Electron applications).

Works for me. 15 years ago it was a bit more problematic, but worked still.

> works even on modest connections (like a 20mbit/s ADSL)

This is not modest by any means. Vnc works good on 56 kbit, and marginally at 24kbit.
Welcome to my league!
I've started my CS PhD at 48. :D
Have a degree in Physics (got it 27 yrs ago)
This sounds a bit hyperbolic when you have Microsoft doing pie-in-the-sky research on topological quantum computing, Google and IBM research teams arguing over quantum supremacy, etc.
While your points are reasonable and I’d normally agree with them, Palmer as a person seems to be the opposite of this.

Look at his exit from FB and his funding of Trump groups in 2016.

His life, in its successes and failures, has often been the result of what appears to be optimistic naivety.

He believed BigCo FB would keep their word to him on FB login not being required. He believed FB wouldn’t essentially fire him for his political opinions as well.
Webrings. Catalogs of sites, described and sorted by humans!
Whoa, how'd we miss that? Fixed noow.
I don't have the financials, but I expect that after spending $2 billion for the acquisition, they didn't live them alone.

One notable thing is that Oculus hired Michael Abrash just following the announcement of the acquisition. With John Carmack, who was already there, they are among the most (if not the most) prominent developers in the field. Even though Carmack stepped down as a CTO, both are still there. I have stopped following VR news but Oculus had pretty nice prototypes a few years ago which combined eye tracking, foveated rendering and varifocal lenses, all addressing fundamental problems with the current generation of headsets.

Also, even though I am not sure about Facebook involvement, they financed some of the best VR games at the time. Lone Echo is one of them. Ready At Dawn, the developer is now part of Oculus Studio, a branch of Oculus focused on making VR content. Note that having good VR content is extremely important, even more so than the devices themselves. I mean, you are not going to spend hundreds of dollars just to slash cubes, or maybe you do, can't blame you ;)
There is a Fossil repository at: http://zzo38computer.org/fossil/farbfeld.ui

(Although there are a lot of files, you will only need to compile the files that you need, and you can delete the files that you don't need.)
As a beginner you're just trying to keep your head above water and get the damn thing to compile. For me at least I cared more about that than making the code pretty.

Moreover I don't see much harm refactoring your code with these patterns and maybe losing time, because most people learn haskell off the job.
If anything I respect Apple more now. There's a lot missing from the story that I suspect the author deliberately omitted in order. Specifically what sort of backup it was, whether he used software from work, and how much of an observer he was into the data backup process. DATA being the keyword.

I respect that Apple treats customer's data with the utmost care, and that includes minimizing techs running around offering their gray-market professional services.

Disclosure: I have NOTHING to do with Apple other than owning an iPhone; I do hate when people are flippant about data sensitivity.
money printer go brrr, Trump doesn’t like to lose, and this time he’s at the controls
"The Most Toys" is another very good example, as is "The Measure of a Man". There's not much in TNG, especially early TNG, that strongly moves me, but his conversation with Riker in the latter episode's coda never fails to.
I went to purchase a replacement iphone audio jack adapter today and I felt totally unable to determine the best option. One vendor's adapter appeared about 6times in the first page of results and one of their reviews warned of fake reviews.

No cheaper than elsewhere, Amazon is chaos now.
> So now we should be penalizing unproductive assets? When did we all decide that was ok?

We already do that---it's called inflation. And the justification used by economists is that the economy will collapse without inflation to incentivize spending money.
Wait, Mozilla already is a foundation. The foundation owns the Mozilla Corporation and has some other activities.
I have a separate hardrive on my work computer that I installed Windows on. I reboot and do my personal stuff there (games, bills, or whatever). It's convenient because it's not straightforward to reboot into a different HD/OS.

This means that if I need to go back to work, I need to shut down my personal stuff and reboot. I call it my "commute."
To the non-rclone users, this refers to one of the targets of rclone; the crypt backend wraps the real backend by chaining them together, e.g. localdata <=> crypt <=> providerstorage (basically like a bi-directional filter). https://rclone.org/crypt/

Edit: I use rclone as the backend for duplicity, so you can also chain it through another tool with different encryption and use rclone as just the transfer engine, getting all the benefits of rclone's providers with the benefits of duplicity's backup strategies.
Please keep generic ideological boilerplate off HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not saying that people won't leave, I'm sure some will. I'm saying worrying about some people leaving is silly. What disaster befell Sweden because the IKEA founder left?
Ts-migrate: tool to automatically migrate JavaScript projects to TS
You're paying interest on top of the loan amount, which you still also have to pay. You may not get the income to pay the loan by selling stock, but you have to get it somehow, and you'll pay income taxes on it.
Prizes for finding specific things in specific years don't reflect the structure of how ancient archaeology actually works. Picking domesticated horses as a hopefully representative example:

* The earliest clear, irrefutable example of domesticated horses - horses and chariots put into a grave together - is from 2000 BCE.

* Most sources are confident horses were domesticated by 3000 BCE.

* There's archaeological evidence for domestication as early as 3500 or 4000 BCE.

* The closest known wild relative of the domestic horse diverged genetically tens of thousands of years ago. But it's believed that this was a natural event, and Equus ferus caballus was wild for some time before humans domesticated it and drove the wild stock extinct.

If there's a prize for showing horses were domesticated west of the Caspian see before 3000 BCE, is it awarded or not? I don't know and I don't see any great way to decide.
The same reason people set permissions on their encrypted S3 object blob or you have to login to download any encrypted file from a multitude of applications. As computing power increases and/or as flaws in encryption implementations are discovered, then what is encrypted today might not stay encrypted decades from now.
I'd give those drives a reformat... Some motherboards have firmware that does odd things to drives, like hiding the first or last sectors to store its own data or for various OEM recovery techniques.

That can make your data look corrupt. Yet reformatting (or just putting the drive in with the old motherboard) will magically fix them.
ARIA: Poison or Antidote?
This comment is written in a very aggressive way, but if you read it from another angle, the point still stands. My family buys Apple _because_ that way they lose control over the device. They trust that Apple will control those devices better than they would, it's one less thing to think about.

The ads parent is seeing are not actually for shitty apps (as long as Apple does a decent job in app curation). They are part of the customer delight strategy, by making customers think "Cool, I didn't know my phone could be used for that".
Indeed:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/john-carmack-steps-down-at...

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2547632585...
> Taking this money and spending it on things doesn't increase anybody's quality of life.

This would seem a general argument against the entire economy, or at least the concept of taxation. Why is spending this cash any different from spending any other cash? Why can't we spend this money creating a ton of new jobs, that will then create new goods?

We have tons of spare stuff just sitting in warehouses right now. There is plenty of slack in the system. Investing cash in to more jobs means pulling some of that stuff out of warehouses and temporarily reducing our slack, yes, but that also motivates people to go do whatever productive thing you're paying them to do - such as creating even more stuff to sit in warehouses.
Please, turn this into blogpost. I’ve had very similar feelings for some time.

I tolerate the borrow checker because I want to use Rust’s other features. I think Rust with no borrow checker is much closer to my dream language than it is right now. Rust with an optional borrow checker is in fact even better.
AWS S3 (and a few compliant providers) offer immutable options, both in governance/compliance mode.

Allegedly, compliance mode is unalterable by any account period, I guess the equivalent of the immutable attribute without an overriding account. I'm not immediately familiar with any literature on attacks on this feature, but I've also not searched hard; however, I know from my clients that it's an accepted form of WORM, and that cloud storages like S3 are considered in the same vein as tape when immutability is in play.

I suppose it will be a case in the future that proves the efficacy of AWS/Azure/s3 providers, but for now, a lot of regulatory policies for 3-2-1 allow for such storage to fulfill the "2" part of the 3-2-1 rule.
So now Apple has tied together access to iOS, MacOS, TVOS, WatchOS, and Safari extensions (think those are all covered under the same dev agreement) in a decision over App Store commission on iOS. I suspect terminating the dev agreement might terminate the "publisher account," too--it's possible Epic apps won't even be findable in Purchases.

I realize Epic is hardly a sympathetic company in this to many gamers, and their motives are pure profit and control of their own cash cow platform. That said, Apple is demonstrating about as much bundled-product market control as a company possibly can. They're preventing access to a whole ecosystem over a single product, and they can't even argue their ecosystem is vertical since individual TVOS and iPad devices can run without phones. Sure, Epic isn't on TVOS yet, but they could be...but only if Apple likes what they do on iPhone.

IF Apple is dominant enough to be subject to Clayton Act controls, this sort of cross-product behavior will most certainly prompt that scrutiny. The fact that the developer program is a "single product" backing them is irrelevant when the consumer products are separate. Epic is making a bold move, but I think it's a very well-timed one.
Che straight up had people tortured and executed at La Cabaña.
I listened to a very good 'In Our Time' podcast episode about Paul Dirac recently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fw0p
"We are the Borg. Do you want fries with that?..."
> CMake lets you shoot yourself in the foot as punishment for not knowing its every subtlety.

Seems adequate for the somewhat-de-facto standard for C++ projects!
I don't think any employer should require or request them besides the 3-letter agencies, to be clear. (I've edited my post to clarify that.) I agree it would be completely absurd for any other organization to require them, and I would never apply for a job with such a company or ever accept such a test; but I'm not someone who wants to work in intelligence or national security.

If you want to work in intelligence or national security, I think that's just one of the things you have to accept, along with being investigated and monitored and surveilled and all that. You know what you're getting into when you apply for such a job. I similarly wouldn't apply for any job that requires my employer to ask all my friends and family about my character and habits.
Preferred stock? Priority?
I don't know J, but an APL keyboard layout is not a problem for any major current OS, nor is a layout with ISO Layer 3 (Mac Option, Windows AltGraph) mnemonically allocated to useful symbols.
Did the first company complain about you to Amazon, who then blacklist you for not playing ball?
If Americans are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, then many of the good people on HN are temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires.
Sounds like it's just classic Fredrick König to me.
Well the only trend that we can look at quantitatively, tax rate vs US citizenship renunciations shows the exact opposite correlation to what you've been arguing.
That kind of promise from Facebook should be enforceable on court.

If it is not it's only because the current government judicial system is so full of spam-cases and it is so inefficient that it doesn't have room for these things.
Thinking for Oneself
It's interesting that this post is falling off the front page so quickly. At the time of writing it has 537 points and is 8 hours old. There are many above it with much fewer points, that are much older (eg. 127 points, 12 hours).

It makes me wonder if YC intentionally penalizes posts like these, because ideas like these make it harder for their portfolio companies to hire employees.
>The team analyzed public data from ApartmentList and Indeed.com. On the latter, they searched not only for the number of open positions but the most jobs within a 25-mile radius of a particularly affordable city.

Both data sources are full of fake listings.
The best part of this is the Random button.

"It is against federal regulations to invent beyond this point."

Sounds like my old boss: "Think outside the box, but think within my box."
Ports and physical space for drives aren't free. (Though there's some trade-off available between time/money if you want to DIY.)

For my own use, I've found it isn't worthwhile expanding beyond eight drives rather than getting rid of smaller ones - adding additional ports costs money and it takes more power and space.
Describing Microservices Using Modern Haskell
https://twitter.com/tunguska82/status/1228713076607922176
>If you're the sort of person people will come to for help with whatever comes up (and enjoy being that), start-ups can be great

That's kind of odd from my perspective, because that's exactly my niche, and yet, my very first job was at a startup (of about 3 people besides me), where I was a rapidly jettisoned cog, and every since I've gone to progressively bigger and more bureaucratic organizations while seeking, I guess, less definition of my role.
Those PowerShell commands just kill me.
The operating companies were charged a 1% fee on revenues as a patent royalty and this funded Bell Labs Research, Systems Engineering, and part of Advanced Development of devices and systems. A similar amount was provided by Western Electric for advanced development, development and research on manufacturing technology. At times the research and development funding by the DoD was larger than the civilian part.

I was told that one reason that Bell Labs was formed from parts of AT&T Engineering and Western Electric Engineering was to keep the researchers from meddling with the business and to keep the business from meddling with the research. The latter was important because a strategic objective was to use technological change as a driver to prevent the monopoly telecom business from going to seed. Within Bell Labs there were often competing groups working on alternative next generation systems - analog versus digital, tube versus transistor, space division versus time division switching, coax versus microwave, microwave versus fiber, etc.
In a computer simulation or with a bad DM, you can get away with CHA=1 / INT=1 / CON=1 etc due to the limits of the simulation, but life tends to have rather harsh consequences for the MIN aspect of MIN/MAX.
How does a billboard know which phones are passing it? Do smartphones just randomly connect with nearby devices? Even if wifi and Bluetooth are off?
But is it scalable?
It sounds pretty cool. I heard a similar thing — someone advised to completely ignore word "I" in writing. So you don't write e.g. "I felt disappointed that moment", you write "There was a feeling of disappointment then". Don't know if it helps with anxiety, but nevertheless it makes you think more while writing, and that is fun.