skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It hasn't not been legal for a while.

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...

"Third, corporate directors are not required to maximize shareholder value. As the U.S. Supreme Court recently stated, "modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so." ( BURWELL v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC. ) In nearly all legal jurisdictions, disinterested and informed directors have the discretion to act in what they believe to be the interest of the business corporate entity, even if this differs from maximizing profits for present shareholders. Usually maximizing shareholder value is not a legal obligation, but the product of the pressure that activist shareholders, stock-based compensation schemes and financial markets impose on corporate directors.
The Shareholder Value Myth , Eur. Fin. Rev. Lynn Stout (April 30, 2013)
The Ideology of Shareholder Value Maxim (Watch), Evonomics"
Surprised most of the comments here are risk adverse, you won't know if you don't take the risk. If you do decide to quit, plan out how long you can survive off your savings and give yourself a chunk of that time to get a business running that sustains you. If you don't make it in that time, you can get back into the workforce or freelance with your experience.

Having an idea helps, but be wary of working on ideas on the side, you likely have signed an invention assignment agreement with your employer.
> 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.

I can't get why many who advocate against a wealth tax are afraid of raising a single penny on a billionaire amid the fears of scaring him off the country. This is really a bad refuse of Reagan politics that hasn't proved to be true. Moving wealth around while bypassing capital controls is expensive. Relocating a whole business is even more expensive. And if someone really wants to do it to make sure that they don't pay taxes on their billionaire wealth, then they're welcome to go - a developed country has plenty of talent to replace them, and in many cases there will be one less lobbyist to keep inequalities high and politics hostage of his own interests. Lots of taxes have been raised on low-earning classes in the past decades without the blink of an eye, but as soon as someone proposes a tax on the rich some people cry out against the exodus of billionaires.

> 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.

Taxation on real estate isn't that different. As an house owner I pay every year a tax that is proportional to the value of my house. Sure, if I look at how much the tax compounds over 60 years I may get scared, but on a yearly basis I can barely feel its impact on my finances. And I consider it a fair tax as well - having a house in the middle of Amsterdam is a privilege, and I feel that it's fair to pay for my privilege and redistribute that money back to society. I don't get how someone sitting on a $1 billion wealth may consider a $10 million tax unsustainable. A large house, a yacht, $1 billion shares in a company or a luxury car are privileges reserved for few, and it's unfair to just let those few sit on such wealth while the government every year has to raise money from those who earn much less. That inevitably ends up with most of the wealth is accumulated in the hands of few, and that's a scenario that society should avoid at all costs.
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Depending on the proposal, a 1% annual wealth tax on Bezos would amount to $2 billion per year. If he borrowed that at 2% interest, that's $40 million/year in interest in perpetuity.

Even at a more modest 0.1%, Bezos does not have $2 million / year in cash, his book income is $82,000/year, and Amazon doesn't pay dividends.

Also, this is just for Bezos — depending on how volatile the paper-wealthy founder's company is, the interest would be higher, and the long run ability to pay off just the interest would be lower.
> Normally class mobility is not thought of as equivalent to accumulating wealth. In some ways they're almost opposites.

Accumulating wealth is the only way poor people can stop being poor. Of course it's related to class mobility.
We were in talks with a potential acquirer of our company recently and this was an explicit reason we gave to them why we ended up not taking the deal – we knew that whatever promises they made to uphold our current priorities, there is a very real chance they wouldn't stick. And we weren't happy doing that to our customers in our current stage (all early adopters).
By the same token, if you don't notice anyone suffering around you, the problem is probably you.
> Last year I was tagged in a photo from a camping trip by a person I met on that trip. That person's brother's girlfriend used to work with a guy I know from a totally different circle of people. He asked me about my camping trip because FB made the connections just based on who is in the picture.

First, most of your ire should be directed at whoever uploaded the photo to Facebook. Second, please notice how far afield you had to go to try and shape this conversation into "Facebook is coercing me": a friend asked you about your camping trip.

Compare that to what happens if you don't do things that the government wants you to do. If I don't go to jury duty, men with guns will come to my home and put me in a cage. If I don't pay 40% of my wages to the government, men with guns will come to my home and put me in a cage. Even though I object to how that money is being spent (such as bombing people in the middle east or developing ever more horrifying weapons of war), I am coerced under threat of violence into funding such atrocities.

But please go on about how terrible it was that your friend asked you about your camping trip.

> You mean like a democracy?

Should a democracy vote on which vehicle we must all drive? Which movies we must all watch? Which jobs we must work? Of course not. Likewise for which businesses each of us patrons. The crowning achievement of our constitution isn't the form of representation (which mostly serves to prevent violent revolution), but the concept of human rights: No matter how much people want to vote for it, the government is forbidden from doing certain things to you.
This. (and you could probably reply to 90% of Hanson's 'you can solve problem X with a prediction market' posts with essentially the same argument)

It's not like people with understanding of archaeology aren't already highly incentivised - financially and otherwise - to discover evidence of ancient civilizations if it's actually there. Archaeological frauds exist even now, and even where there is no fraud there are enough disputes in dating and what actually constitutes advanced civilization to guarantee a prediction market in archaeological discovery is going to have a massive oracle problem...
Lots of people don't like stevia, monk fruit, sucralose, etc because of its aftertaste. Due to the unique mechanism of the miracle fruit (indirectly activating your tastebuds instead of directly), it does not have a weird taste. The fact that it is as close to tasting like sugar without having calories is a game changer for many.

The product is not for everyone. It definitely has that novelty feel of "oh shit I can't believe how this lemon tastes" but not everyone is going to use it constantly. Everyone has their preferences and while you may like sour, others might gag at the taste of greek yogurt. If this can make people eat healthy foods they otherwise wouldn't eat, I'd be overjoyed.

I see what you mean by the bitter compound Bitrex. It is something for me to think about on how to ensure kids don't abuse it. The upside for parents of picky eaters is huge though. My nephew used to only eat noodles and chicken nuggets but now with my product he eats greek yogurt, tomatoes, broccoli, soup, fish, fruit, etc. It is no longer a chore for my sister to get him to eat his food. All he says is "I'll only have it with Palate Pal" :)
If you don't want to get dragged into a lawsuit when a user gets sued on a GDPR claim, you probably shouldn't make any statements about your product's GDPR compliance. Stick to the facts about how your product works, and leave the legal speculation to the lawyers.
they won't sell them to you, they are simply lying. it takes 30 seconds to make a burner account for the VR headset and you're done. it's stupid you have to do that, but I'm really sick of commenters pretending like they're gonna throw it away. this is the "I'm moving to canada of tech" and if they really are, show me the receipt after you buy both of them, please.

they even have until 2023 before it matters.
Apple won’t “respond”...it would become actual news (instead of “Hacker News”) if they made any comment. Nope, this is going down like firing the worker for letting his little girl blog from the lunchroom with a prototype within view or the kid who blew his brains out in the conference room etc.
Not currently on my computer with that setup but afair I use Inconsolata.
> Compound interest isn't powerful because it happens every year

Yes it is. If you just got a one time payment compounding interest would not have exponential growth. I agree that payment on the principal and additional interest is another component of the exponential growth.
> Sounds like a tax like this would motivate him to work more not less.

You frame this as though this is somehow beneficial to shareholders, but if that's the case, they can work out this arrangement themselves.

Also the idea that SpaceX or Tesla would continue to be valued as highly as they are if he continuously relinquishes his ownership stake is also dubious.
Many times I get university assignments that are compulsory to be submitted as handwritten document. Most of the information needed for the assignment is available on the internet so why not save time? Just make a text document and let handwritten.js do the writing part!
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From the article:

Their subjects are still living. They depict women of color who are working scientists. Their images are intended to inspire girls to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers. In the language of the sponsoring project, #IfThenSheCan: “if she can see it, then she can be it.”

More about the goals of the project: https://www.aaas.org/news/125-women-stem-selected-aaas-ifthe...
I've never been able to switch off irrespective of whether I worked as an employee in an office somewhere or for myself at home. Maslows Hierarchy of Needs should explain why some people cant switch off, but fortunately as you get older your body fails you so exhaustion or failing health will literally switch you off.
Cool to see some Aussies getting some funding. But they should use that seed funding to pack the shit up and get the hell out of Aus. Else their software should be assumed to be compromised. Cheers Aussie gov for your shit laws allowing you to force backdoor and legally preventing employees or companies from disclosing it. It sucks. You literally can't trust any software from Aus anymore.
Facebook executives openly lied to the European Commission, to get approval for the acquisition. 3 years later they were fined $120M, a slap on the wrist [1].

No wonder they keep making empty promises.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_17_...
Losing a restaurant reservation on a single night when surrounded by alternatives (aka - lots of backup plans) is not the same as losing data that people trust as the backup plan for their data - the loss of which causes a lot more harm. Especially if it’s a respected brand.
His father caused his "lack of desire to speak" by beating him for each speaking error while he was a child.

Dirac solved this error as best as a child could: by not speaking. This trauma lasted to his death.

Someone will now say "citation needed", and to those people I give these 2 books to read and what I wrote above will become as clear as day.

Alice Miller: The Drama of the Gifted Child

Alice Miller: The Body Never Lies
I've used a work hat and/or work shoes as a reminder to myself and my roommates that I'm working. Not like a hard hat, just things I wouldn't normally wear, that I wear "at" work.
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The difference between an income tax and a wealth tax is that currently those with wealth are able to avoid income taxes. Approaches like negative gearing and other strategies exist.

I'm on the fence on estate taxes as a general rule I'd say it definitely make sense above some threshold but if you look at the mess with Samsung there definitely needs to be some thought in how illiquid stocks are dealt with. I'd put a bit of cash on Lee Kun-hee sill being 'alive' until after my death or at least until a change in South Korean tax law.
"theoretically, life could have started on Mars just as easily as it did here"

Yes, leaving aside the 20% lower luminosity of the sun[1] a few billion years ago (when Mars had a reasonable atmosphere) putting Mars outside the habitable zone, and Mars's lack of plate tectonics and a protective magnetic field: -

Life certainly could have evolved on Mars. I expect that one day prion-like or viroid-ish molecules may well be found. But so what?

It's one or two billion years from there to a bacterium, let alone a lost civilisation. And Mars did not have the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faint_young_Sun_paradox
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>In the case of the smart tv it's actually because you didn't really pay the full price of the tv

How can the consumer know, if it is not disclosed?

And when every TV manufacturer is doing "ads in your smart TV", there is no incentive to not sell it at full price AND show you ads.
agda-mode in emacs has fallback option for latex like aliases. E.g. \infty gives ∞ or \cdot gives · it's very convenient if you use latex often. Other than that, if you have no clue, M-x describe-char explains you how to produce a character.
Aside from having to slice and dice things a bit to fit in the accelerator's memory and incurring a higher memory bandwidth cost in doing so, is there any reason a home lab's GPU couldn't be used for GPT-3?
I've spoken with the leading expert and it does indeed create the perception of sweetness where there once was not. The enhanced sweetness, however does inhibit the bitterness and enhances flavor. That is why you begin to pick up flavors you previously did not in something like a strawberry, tea, or IPA.
Note I was explicitly talking about spaces in the current directory (which is only dependent on where the user clones the repo), not spaces in the workspace (which depends on what's in the repo). Your examples are about the latter. The latter isn't as big of a deal because the repo owner at least has control over the contents and can avoid putting spaces in file names (and use relative paths everywhere). But they can't control where the user clones their repo.
We're seeing this right now with Epic's Tim Sweeney suing Apple for its mandatory cut on all digital goods. Yet a large number of people, people who claim to be pro-99%, anti-technocracy, anti-corporatism, are shilling the rhetoric that "it's Apple's platform" and "Epic knew what the terms were."

Well, yes, but that's exactly what SV activists and social activists are claiming has to stop. It's absurd that these same people are willing to defend the iPhone/iOS/Apple Services pipeline of proprietary anticompetitive dependencies.

I hope Epic wins this case against Apple. It's a precedent that needs to be set for limiting anticompetitive business and manufactured monopolies. Nothing Apple has in its portfolio is absent a perfect substitute in the very same market Apple is selling their products. But Apple has used proprietary inputs as a gatekeeper for their revenue. No one should have to buy a $49 dongle to plug an HDMI cable into their iPhone when every Android/Windows/Linux-based device has built-in support within the device. And if someone tries to push a "Lightning" to HDMI cable, Apple detects and deliberately locks off device content.

Too many big, beloved logos are built on anti-free market tactics, both by lobbying policy and private act. The sheer volume of this that Steve Jobs did in his lifetime made it hard for me to feel anything when he died. I genuinely felt relieved that this tyrant in technology, a man whose every product idea was just enough of a change of someone else's existing work product, slapped with intentional proprietary inputs to limit competition within the Apple eco-system, was finally gone. And then Tim Cook sashay'd on in.
If you want to respect user privacy while collecting analytics data, I recommend using
Local Differential Privacy (via Randomized Responses) when collecting information from browsers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_differential_privacy and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_response
very well put. my first impression was “apple is bad”.
upon closer examination (reading comments, including yours) this post became much less scandalous. Nothing out of ordinary and, actually, quite reasonable.
The link doesn't show any facts.
Then why are all the manufacturing jobs in China and other countries without those labor laws?

The remaining jobs in the US are salaried position where "8 hour workday" and "weekend" are often meaningless.

Plus we're talking about a wealth tax in California. You can start a company in Nevada and still access the market of California just fine.
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One of the most accomplished demoscene groups.
I studied NLP recreationally back around my last year of college in maybe 1999? as part of http://www.pickupguide.com . That site along with the show Mad Men probably taught me more about relationships and the business world than I ever learned in school. Thankfully I was able to forget it and move on sometime in the mid 2000s haha.

Anyway, something related that has helped me immensely is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). I had the worst burnout of my life starting a year before COVID-19 hit, due to some struggles with work and sleep apnea leading to digestive issues (leaky gut to IBS/IBD) I didn't know about. I woke up more tired than I had ever been, every single day, and my whole body hurt like I was hungover and getting arthritis, even though I was going to the gym.

Anyway, I got an appliance to fix my bite, isolated the problems with my diet to an inability to digest legumes and nightshades (see Dr. Gundry for more info), but even after doing everything right, I was still burned out. I finally isolated that to untreated ADHD symptoms that snowballed into severely negative self-talk.

At the time, I could barely get out of bed and brush my teeth in the morning. It was kind of like I had a stroke, and lost the pathways responsible for problem solving. I went through the motions of the chores I had to do each day, and switched from criticizing myself to repeating the mantra "I'm excited", since anxiety and excitement are experienced identically by the body. Any time I had a negative thought, I noted it like with meditation and set it aside, or actively reworked it into a positive spin on the situation, even if it was in terms of a positive outcome for someone else, or progress towards a long term goal of mine. Sort of a self-administered form of CBT.

I was able to learn new habits every 2 weeks or so, and finally recruited the rest of my brain to take over for the parts that had quit working. I started on the road to recovery about 6 months after the fallout with my work, and was effectively cured over the next 2-3 months.

The other main tool that finally got me out of the hole was to separate my plans from their execution by creating temporary todo lists. It turns out that I also had executive dysfunction from trying to hold huge problem spaces in my head for too long. It was like I ran out of room in my brain's hard drive and it began thrashing.

Now that I am no longer burned out or depressed, I've also noticed that the dormant problem-solving pathways have reawakened. So luckily I don't have to relearn the technical skills from before. I've been doing handyman work and spend a lot of time daydreaming about what I'd like to accomplish on the computer, so when I sit down to it, it's easier to overcome starting friction. I'm focusing on having no lost days, and treating every checked off item on my todo list as a victory, rather than criticizing myself for lack of productivity.
And how many people can be killed by a government which is mandated to enter the bodies of it's citizens by force? The people should be convinced to take vaccins and medicines (has worked pretty well thus far), but force is a slippery slope I would not like to see the bottom of.
Yeah, I don't have a lot of faith in UNIX-oriented tools in getting it right, because they just don't care. But at least it's possible to get it right if you care to; you just use relative paths instead of absolute paths, and avoid spaces in your relative paths (which you can control). With Bazel, it's literally impossible to do that.
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I can easily fire my asset manager, or switch to a plethora of low cost options, or manage my capital myself. How exactly will I have those options with the wealth tax if you like you said, I’m not getting that rate of return justifying the tax?
There's nothing wrong with shareholder dividends, but to add an extra incentive to pay dividends is distortionary and doesn't make much economic sense. On the contrary, society appears to want to minimize shareholder dividends because that's money that's not going to worker salaries and R&D.

It also ignores the fact that if Amazon had been forced to pay dividends 10 years ago, the stock would be worth significantly less today on account of their inability to re-invest into R&D and enter new business lines and grow from 100,000 -> 1 million employees. Even if we aim to strictly maximize shareholder-value (to the extent that's even desirable), it's penny wise but pound foolish.
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This is a beautiful start but much more content. Send PRs to kowainik.
Any reason the fork is better than the main project?
The point is by borrowing the money you avoid paying the same amount of tax, because the income tax on whatever you're servicing the loan with is not the same amount as what you'd pay if you sold the shares?

Depends on the numbers of course.