skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is simplistic to the point of absurdity, and doesn't model how any sensible wealth tax would be implemented or paid.

First, any wealth tax being seriously discussed has a floor and/or has marginal rates, probably starting at 1 or 5 or 10 million (or higher).

Second, taxes don't disappear into nothingness - they pay for civilization. It is clearly beneficial to everyone to live in a society where people are well cared for and have healthcare, public education, welfare, etc. There's a reason failed states and unstable/developing countries generally aren't where people are looking to startup the next big tech company.

Third, any smart founder isn't going to just sell 1% of their stock every year and pay the wealth tax with that. They'll take dividends, or take out a loan against the value of the stock, or use some cash from other investments, or whatever, and maintain control of their company. Yes, over the long term they'll lose some wealth, but not necessarily control of their company, unless that's the decision they make.

Fourth, this effectively ignores that wealth is a thing that grows and compounds. If your wealth is increasing at 4% a year (very attainable for the class of people a wealth tax would affect) a 1% wealth tax really doesn't have as big an impact on your long term wealth as this makes it seem.

Fifth, the idea that people "will just move to another country" is very silly. If some people do leave, or start companies only in other jurisdictions, that just means there's a market opportunity for the many people who remain. Unless this supposes that no one wants to take advantage of one of the richest markets in the world because they might have to pay a small fraction of their wealth to the government. Not to mention that even very wealthy people likely want to live in a good society - we don't see many people starting companies on boats in international waters for a number of reasons (left to the reader).

I suspect that Mr. Graham is wringing his hands over potentially having to cut a large (in absolute terms, but small in relative ones) cheque to the government in the future, and I certainly feel for him, but I'd much rather we have well funded schools and welfare for those who need it.
What phone number do you use for each account you create?
I'm 33. Starting my CS degree on Monday
That doesn’t always happen in court. Indeed the FBI will confiscate your electronics but after their investigation they might decide to press charges or not. I am curious if this situation was tested in court before: storing encrypted files as part of a p2p network, without having the ability to know what’s inside those files. If you are automatically liable for the contents of the files you store, even if they are encrypted and you have no awareness of what’s inside, then it would make p2p networks close to impossible. I would then also wonder how a provider like AWS can have safe harbor, while an individual wouldn’t.
I had an unwanted alter ego once. A colleague called me by the wrong name for the entire time we worked together (a few months). I considered correcting him, but I wanted to see how it would play out.
I'm in a similar boat. I purchase a Quest a while back (unaware of the Facebook affiliation), and really enjoy it. I can't see myself using it again after this, however.
Third-party Mac repair shops will gain access to Apple tools, parts
Perhaps it just needs to be graded. A wealth tax that only applies to the top 0.5%.
Which is a complex string you need to google, as opposed to the cli command that easily uninstalls edge. How will you download this if you just moved out of your mom's house and bought a laptop and a router? How do you set up that router? Displaying a web page is part of the core os. You don't have to use explorer.exe as a file manager either, nor /bin/sh.
Anyone remember the site https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ - it records all the startup acquisition letters.

There should be a sister site that records all the post-acquisition promises that get nuked
Good that i bought a index.
Do we work for the same company? Devs have just been running scripts on personal machines and uploading the output to google drive LOL
> Here the key question here is: what sort of things should you expect to have already seen, if they were really there? On the one hand, we clearly have seen enough to safely conclude that there aren’t large dinosaurs roaming the streets in our major city centers. On the other hand, we often hear reports of people uncovering old things that others had confidently predicted would never be found. Which makes many suspect widespread overconfidence in claims about what we know can’t be there, because if so we would have seen them already.

This wording is very reminiscent of a lot of writing from conspiracy theorists. It starts with a very plausible claim that experts are sometimes overconfident in a mainstream belief about topic X, but then immediately leaps to the conclusion that we can therefore make up any claim whatsoever about topic X and it ought to be treated just as seriously as mainstream beliefs held by experts.

You see this all the time in government/political conspiracy theories. Yes, we have in the past uncovered real substantial government conspiracies and attempted cover-ups. But that doesn't mean that any claim whatsoever about a government conspiracy is true or should be treated "with the same priors" as any other claim. Likewise, the fact that some experts have been wrong about what artifacts they expected to find in a certain archaeological dig does not mean that all claims about human history should be treated with the same level of seriousness. The fact that sometimes evidence is hidden (either deliberately, or due to lack of resources, or due to misguided research, etc.) does not support any arbitrary claim made without evidence of its own.
Be careful not to sing too loud at them https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

Incidentally I've tracked down a HDD (spinning rust) performance (and later breakage) problem to a very loud (and I mean awfully painful, intense vibration on your eardrums) alarm test every wednesday...

Do you monitor the noise in your DCs? Maybe for high peaks?
The more big players Apple pushes off its platform, the weaker the network effects are.

The 30% rule only applying to digital products is arbitrary and capricious.
Non-mobile link: https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-researc...
Fortunately, OpenHMD exists: http://www.openhmd.net/
S&P 500 Sets First Record Since February, Erasing Its Coronavirus Plunge
I fear the market Hanson proposes would incentivize skilled hoaxes as much or more than authentic discoveries.
You are of course right, but lets not conflate someone saving 5 figures by living with their parents for a few years with people who inherited 8+ figures which seems to be roughly a third of the Forbes 400 list. I don't know exactly where the appropriate place is to draw a line between these groups, but it is clear that these are vastly different scenarios.
I'd buy it right now if it came with a free Canadian citizenship.
I also have a bad sense of direction and I had to learn not rely on my intuition/sense and instead to look for landmarks and other cues. Sometimes an area looks familiar but really isn't or I'm actually going the opposite way of where I'm supposed to.
Facebook's reputations in 2014 or 2020 don't matter. This is what happens and how the world works.
Trying to uncover some facts to help infer the article's complaint with nuance prior to knee-jerk hopping on the "big apple is bad" flavor du jour was my intent in posting the comment.

My point is not that it is less "important or impactful" but that working within a retail environment vs a corporate environment - even at Apple - is an apples / oranges comparison.

Apple has effectively the highest retail employee retention rate full in the USA (1) - they have led the charge in changing the retail paradigm for the better for 10s of thousands of employees.

My first job was retail and I would have killed to work at an Apple store.

Petty bosses wielding a 100 page HR rule-book that some back closet McKinsey intern produced to fire anybody at anytime (even in states w/good protections) is PAR for the course in retail.

Is it because corporate is evil or because managing a largely lower-education(2), transient workforce is incredibly challenging?

Is it nuanced and two sided? of course!

Did this maybe happen at an Apple Store?

It might have!

Could it have been a manager looking for an HR dept defensible excuse to get rid of a difficult employee?

Could just likely have been.

(1) https://www.hrzone.com/community/blogs/mark-mccormack/apple-...

(2) https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/industry-at-a-glan...
A big chunk of US politicians are also self-made.
It may not take effect until 2023.
The tools have EULA on them, though.
> Why do we need to kneecap one business model in favor of another, and limit engineers ability to make design decisions because that business model is not viable?

That is what _every_ business-related regulation is designed to do so the general rhetorical question is a bit odd. As to why, well honestly there are many reasons. User control, business competition, e-waste, etc. Look into the reasoning behind similar sorts of regulations involving cars in the US for the last couple generations.

You may not agree with the reasoning, but acting like this sort of regulation is somehow odd doesn't make much sense. There's enormous precedence and lots of reasoning behind it.
Indeed, from the article:

> About 2 weeks later I was approached by my boss. Someone told him that I had helped a friend with his computer. I told him that yes I had in fact helped a friend with a data transfer (something Apple does for free) and that I had helped him on my own time. He told me that I had just admitted to a major conflict on interest, and that an official investigation in to my actions would now start, two days later I was suspended.

This did not sound to me like mandatory reporting.
Choosing relaxation/sleep/etc. as character stats is a great way to re-frame them as features, not bugs.
After all the attention OpenAI got for making the GPT-3 API semi-publicly-available, I wonder if Google has considered making some of their research models available via API. It would be pretty neat to be able to try these things out, rather than just reading papers about them.
if you really think the earliest adopters of this project are going to be sharing pirated copies of The Avengers over child porn you don't understand anything about the internet and incentives
Since you may be interested I would add that it didn't take much preparation after having worked as a sysadmin/dev/linux user for nearly 10 years, and my employer paid for it so there wasn't really investment from me. There are some targeted questions (there was a Docker question for example) that might throw you if you don't typically use the tech, but also a lot of general linux usage (grep, find, stdin/out/err manipulation, etc) so that even if you have to skip something (I didn't finish completely) you still stand a good chance of passing.

I did find it to be a good exercise in some things that I don't do often (and things like using man pages), and I also would say that I feel a bit more confident and validated walking around with the cert than I did before.

I also got a T-Shirt!
I've seen a bunch of these simple self-hosted log dashboards here on HN, but I don't think they directly compare with google analytics, which is just a much more powerful and much much more complicated product. Not to say this isn't a great product, but it really isn't an alternative to GA.
> Then is not the pretty standard outcome of that process Apple's as well?

We can't say that based on this single incident. How often has a manager in a similar position decided to handle it themselves by having a word with the employee and not documenting it? I can't know and I don't think you know either.

> Just fix the broken process

I'm of the opinion no such fix could be perfect. It is the reason we have a common law system with precedents and judges interpreting laws with respect to them. And even then a judge may decide to throw the book at someone and an appeal can be lost.

Same thing happens in almost every single avenue of life. A cop has discretion to let you off a ticket and decides not to. A teacher refuses to accept late work. An employee stands-firm against a customer on a store policy like the wearing of a mask instead of letting it slide. Even if these things are statistically rare, it still stings if you are on the receiving side.
Yeah, like the last time Facebook "did that"! Merging data from WhatsApp and Facebook in that case.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_17_...
Why the focus on what he would do? The promises were made to Oculus's current and potential customers. That's who would sue and it's fairly clear that they would want money... e.g. to go buy a HTC Vive.
> A) doesn't embrace the same idea of building your own digital garden that holds nt only your notes but also automatically syncs with different services like hn, pocket etc to save your digital presence locally.

How does something sync with HN? Running tiddlywiki as a service means it's always "in sync". It is easily extensible with browser addons if you want. It most certainly embraces the idea of building your own garden. People have done incredible things with tiddlywiki.

>> B) Flexibility of search. Archivy uses elastic search with a neat nlp pipeline to process data and allow it to be searched with accuracy. This is all configured in elastic-search.json and the user can configure it to his needs as he pleases.

Elastic search seems like such an overkill for a personal wiki/note taking app. Even for incredibly large wikis. With proper tagging ( and even without ) you will be surprised how fast tiddlywiki search is. And also, for a personal wiki, I would want the least amount of dependencies. I really don't want to have to set up and keep up to date elastic search.

>> C) Ease of use and minimal interface. Archivy has a simple direct UI and its goal is NOT to become a note taking app nor does it pretend to.

"Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository". That's the same goal as tiddlywiki. They both have a simple and minimal UI, although I agree Archivy looks more minimal. But I think that's because Archivy offers much less features.
Would you mind sending me an email at s@assembl.net? I can't find any contact info in your bio.
These are relevant points, but not at all related to the article...
Some have observed that the average family income of dictatorships tends to plateau at about half that of mature democracies, regardless of the economic system used. Things inside may start to get edgy when they hit that ceiling after everyone being used to growth. (Due to China's sheer size, half is still a big chunk of economic power.)
Other people have pointed out that the certificates don't last as long and you need to constantly re-sign your apps. This can be worked around, for sure, but it does mean that if you're out of the house when the cert expires, you cannot use that app until you get home.

It also requires a Mac; Windows or Linux owners of iPhones are out of luck.

Lastly, you lose access to a lot of features; push notifications, IAP, automatic updates, iCloud, etc.

Basically, if Epic wanted to do this, they'd have to let everyone download the code and assets for Fortnite (likely hundreds of GB), then users would have to build it on their devices (which probably would take hours), then install it on their devices, then they would have to pay via Epic and not through iTunes. Whenever they wanted to update Fortnite they'd have to update the source tree and assets and rebuild the app again.

And again, all of this would have to be on a Mac. I know a lot of people who own Macs which don't even have enough disk space to build something like Fortnite, even if they used it for literally nothing else.

TL;DR Epic would have to open-source Fortnite and users would have to jump through irritating and potentially impossible hoops basically every day.
The cynical take is that this type of thing is favored because industry knows most people won't do this.

It's a painless way for vested interests to defuse the issue, diverting the energies of people who care about it- away from regulation.
See waypipe for an example of how this can be done "natively": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
I've been using Backblaze B2 + restic for automated backups of my working documents and photos. restic backups are encrypted by default and Backblaze B2 is one of the supported backends.
How is that different from an Oculus account, though? FB could keep the accounts separate but still funnel data in from Oculus to FB (as I'm sure they'd already been doing). If you create a throwaway FB account just for your Oculus device, the only material difference is which DB the entry is in.
Silicon Valley is a start-up culture which can only thrive where non-competes are illegal. 'Main players' rarely pivot and create new business divisions that can compete with all the start-ups. I'm not saying the main players were not too entrenched, but that there is a reason that the Silicon Valley microcomputer revolution happened there. Fairchild's children and all that came after.
For the people who worship at the feet of Bill Gates the answer is definitely yes.
If you compare this to how many people on this site talk about music ("You shouldn't expect to live off of your recorded music forever, you need to tour and sell merchandise, etc."), I don't understand the problem. Why should you be able to live for 60 years off of a company you founded in your 20s?
This doesn't work if you use OneLogin with IDP initiated login (and multiple accounts).

Which sucks. We've had to write our own tooling, and you even need to use an extension like this[1] :(

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/saml-to-aws-sts-ke...
Ditto. Twitter and Reddit both.
What are Customer Success teams? Phone support? Cold sales?
> The American dream of 'work hard and be rewarded' is bollocks.

It is indeed bollocks, because it is "work smart and be rewarded". You have to work on the right things. Working hard at digging holes and filling them in again will get you nowhere. Looking around for an unfilled need, then starting a business to fill that need, will get you everywhere. Preparing yourself to become a valuable employee is another path.
It is off-topic, given that the article is not about the merits of Rust, but rather the Rust foundation
That takes huge amounts of bandwidth. There's a reason display lists were necessary to get it to work on dial-up connection.
Very interesting.

I am right now thinking about simracing as a way to meditate. You totally have to just focus on perception, no thinking, no ego, no self, nothing but the car and the road, and you repeat, and repeat, and repeat the track, over and over.

It works your mind, without any harmful effects (that I know of).
This looks like a great opportunity for pine64 to make a wireless 6DOF headset (Quest clone)

They already ship a mobile phone.
https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Open Source AI for Economic Policy Recommendations
I find it remarkable how rarely Find... CMake scripts actually work, even if they're shipped by the distro (especially if they're shipped by the distro). Also, on !Linux CMake scripts tend to require at least one manual variable change per dependency.
And that is trivial to get around, instead of a $1 clawback for the company, a $1 clawback for all acquired IP, trademarks, etc including any related developed under the same or derivative marks and companies.
Designing (and Learning from) a Teachable Machine (2018)
> You are free to compete, not on their platform at their cost though.

No he is not. Because Apple will make a call to the people with guns (The government) Who will prevent them from doing so.

Why do you support government regulations forcing people to not do these things?

> It's either open standards or inter-operability with a proprietory standard. If you don't want to get sued

Why should Apple have these rights? Why should. the government be protecting them?

He was arguing that we should get rid of Apple's ability to sue people for these things.

Lets get rid of the regulations that allow Apple to sue anyone for any of this.

Why do you support big government regulation, that allows apple to use threats of legal violence against people?
That's great!

I'm here if you want to have a look:

https://www.facebook.com/amosrust
Left New England for Texas. Good luck with your search.
Actually in games usually poorly balanced characters do the best, i.e. adding all your points to strength. Might be true in life as well, especially with hyper-specialization being the only way to stand out in a super competitive landscape.
> half the human genome was sequenced by a not just private, but a wall-street traded, entity

They reportedly were so successful in a large part because of re-using a lot of data already pain-stakingly produced by publicly funded research labs.
Please stop posting these links. They're nonsense conspiracy theories filtered through a thesaurus. There is little to no citation, and that which is cited is often dubious in nature or just wrong.
What you described sounds like a sovereign wealth fund, and that’s IMO a great idea.
Ligatures are an abomination. But a unicode j that uses those symbols natively would be cool; it's not the 90s anymore.
Going to try this explanation on my 5yo and see if this is really ELI5.

But in all seriousness, thanks for such a detailed explanation! It'll be a while before I understand it, but it's pretty great.
People should look at the business model as normal privately held companies:

When the consumer market is hot, sell more product.

When the share market is hot, sell more shares.

When the credit market is hot, sell more debt.

Token issuers currently make enough to just stick with the consumer market, but make too little subsequent revenue relative to their primary sale to access the equity and corporate bond market. This can be fixed by a continual stream of token sales for different products, currently the consumers that think they playing arm-chair angel investor dont want to see this industrialized because they think the teams should be married to the “vision” they “invested” in, and liberally call any predictable deviation from that outcome an “exit scam”. But token factories will happen and already exist, and will be taught in Harvard Business School later this decade.

In the token market, this is currently controversial because consumers themselves dont know what they are.

Outside the token market, this is currently controversial because “ICO” “blockchain” are bad words and there also is a general ignorance perpetuated by misrepresented exposure to things going wrong, combined with the same consumer-investor misalignment when those people do “invest” in something. It doesn't really matter, the market can bear what the market can bear.
I would much prefer a 'cash on hand' tax that would tax yearly the cash on hand that exceeds $1B. That private companies can just sit on all this capital rather than putting it to work in the economy is a real problem. It harms GDP and it harms working class people.

By some estimates its $325B[1]. If we forced companies to invest that cash in new ventures rather than sit on it, it would be a win.

[1] https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-compa...
I use this thing Nike made. Looks pretty similar.

https://github.com/Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds
Re: China aims to be..."Disneyland with the death penalty", rather than a totalitarian state.

So the death-chamber is well-decorated. A step up.
> If I put private data on the Filecoin network, I would like to be able to largely prevent most people from even pulling down the encrypted files.

Why do you want this? The files are encrypted and thus illegible. To anyone without the key they look like random noise.