skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it were completely inconsequential to the outside world, then others would not value it, and it wouldn't be considered wealth.

That makes no sense. Just because the fair market value of Elon Musk's holdings in SpaceX and Tesla is some collectively decided amount, doesn't mean that Elon Musk actually possesses that money and can do anything meaningful with it.

If he wants to do anything meaningful at all with that theoretical value,
he will have to liquidate some of it and turn it into non-theoretical money, and that is taxed already. If he just lets it wither away, then it's of no use to anyone else.

> Where it really matters is when the wealth distribution becomes more unequal, resulting in less ability to initiate new economic ventures

But this just hasn't been true at all. Just because Bezos is a 100 billionaire on paper, doesn't mean that I will have a harder time raising venture capital for my startup. Wealth isn't zero-sum. And the paper value of one's wealth isn't backed by liquid money, I.e. Bezos's 100+ billion in wealth doesn't actually lock 100 billion dollars in cash from other investments.

If you're making the argument that it's difficult to initiate a new economic venture in the same space as Amazon, that's just because Amazon is a strong company — there is nothing wrong with that.
It doesn't allow you to match on individual members of the class. For example, in future Java I should be able to do:

if (p instanceof Point(0, 0)) {
// handle origin
} else if (p instance of Point(x, y)) {
// ...
}

and it will get even more complex with matching on nested types (e.g. `if (r instance of Rectangle(Point(0, 0), Point(1, 1))) { ... }).

This will be much nicer once it starts working with `switch` expressions too.
Why wouldn't backblaze use only HGST then? What's the purpose of buying seagates which was the most unreliable hard drives from 15-20 years ago and their stats show higher failure rates. (Still I don't buy them because of the bad taste left.)
There is this paper from Princeton that makes a convincing case for the US being an oligarchy because the superrich control what gets on the ballot: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

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.

It doesn't work like that. You donate to both sides of the aisle so you always have someone in your pockets. The famous cartoon from John Herzfeld about the "Millions behind Hitler" (this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heartfield#/media/File:He...) is bullshit. German industrialists did give substantial support to Hitler, but not for ideological reason, they'd have given to anyone in power. The cash did amplify Hitler's ability to implement his ideology, though, and the non-donors didn't choose that.
This is super impressive. How do you know which company owns which plane?
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SoftBank builds $1.2B Amazon stake; invests in Netflix, Tesla
I'm not sure I follow. Let's assume 10% growth of your assets every year, with 50% tax on gains. You start with $1k. After 30 years you liquidate all assets.

If taxing unrealized gains, you end up with $1k * (1.05)^30 = 4,321
If not taxing unrealized gains, you end up with $1k * 1.1^30 = $17,449 and then pay 50% tax on $16,449 when you liquidate, so you end up with $9,224.
I am a multimillionaire on paper due to restricted founder stock from a previous startup. I have left that job and don’t expect to ever see that money as the guys in charge now are unlikely to ever realize an exit. I’m now back to earning just a regular software dev salary at a big corporation. I never got to see a return on any of my founder shares and not wealthy by any means.

Nevertheless, I’m now at risk of having a six figure tax bill every year for paper wealth that is 100% illiquid.

If this passes I would be leaving the state and guarantee you I would NEVER found a startup in California again.
How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
The US is what I was talking about re: "money === speech," e.g. Citizens United.

I'll less interested in sound byte-like fixes like "wear sponsorships on their jerseys" and more with what you can realistically change without overturning Supreme Court precedent or ignoring the Constitution entirely.
Recessions are not necessarily bad, but spending generational wealth in months is definitely bad. This is why free markets are important, the government is putting trying to stem bleeding it created with bandaids to problems that cannot be solved by intervention. Like in medicine at the hospital, the intervention cascade. Once you mess with a homeoestatic system, it cannot exist without life support.
Oh cry me a river.. execs routinely fire people with less than a day's notice. People in leadership positions are expected to have a long-term vision of their industries, if they're surprised by this, it just validates the change of guard.
I think you're over-generalizing. Most people with an iPhone do not care about side-loading apps. They may be ignorant, but they also do not care. The same reason I am ignorant about the rules of NBA, or Cricket - I simply do not care.

The power you're talking about (and the risk you're not talking about) are of no value to me.
We don't think AWS does periodic offline backups of stuff stored in S3 so that they don't find themselves in this exact embarrassing scenario? Regardless of whether it's user-facing for AWS users, I'd hope they do, or certainly that they did before they got a good sense of the long-term reliability of S3 as a big system.
Not sure about the OP...but based on my observations this is the main misinformation I hear.

1) Masks, They are viewed as a violation of their "rights", do more harm than good, make people not be able to breath, feed the virus back into you.

2) Fake news: The whole thing is fake. Nobody is getting sick. No worse than a cold. Just a flu.

3) Social distancing: Don't need it. It is harming businesses and therefore should be ignored. Violation of my rights.

Those are the main ones I really see in my area. My city is on the edge where rural begins. Also, 52% registered Republican last I checked...not saying that has anything to do with it but I have never once in my life observed so many locals out protesting as I did when they made a mask mandate.

https://cdapress.com/news/2020/jul/23/mask-up-kootenai-count...
Pictures here pretty much show the most common misinformation I see/hear but in sign form.

edit: forgot a word :)
This looks really useful, especially for small companies who need simplified metrics monitoring out of google analytics.

Have you considered adding a hobbyist plan or 1 month trial for startups or small projects to try before buying?
Are those backups for you or for your customers? The parent is referring to cloud providers, e.g. AWS S3.
Physically go out to do non-work related tasks. Go to stores, go buy a drink, jogging, biking, go around the neighborhood, listen to non-work podcasts, video call friends, etc.

Actually here’s a thought. Someone can set up a service like meetup.com but for virtual social meetings. It sets up schedules for gatherings that people can join. It’s a good way to pull people away from work in after hours. It can even be called videoup.com
Between rising consumption, rising populations in net food importing countries and global warming we'll see fireworks soon enough
The trademarks being transferred is the primary implication right now.

Part of why we've been discussing this so long and not made moves yet is that there are a lot of things that a foundation could do, like hiring devs. But we're unsure what we would want to commit to it doing. Hiring devs has some big advantages, but also a lot of disadvantages too. For now, we're focusing purely on the trademark ownership part, as a sort of MVP.
Presumably cost and availability. I remember reading at one point they were driving from store to store buying every drive they could find.
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I appreciate the details here.

You're right that it is more complicated. I had to refresh my understanding.

Apparently, the income requirement rises with inflation and the last number the IRS states is 160k. The 2 million net worth does not appear to rise with inflation. Leaving the US with these amounts creates the assumption of expatriation being for tax avoidance in the US.

With respect to your comment, though, all holdings are deemed as sold for the purpose of taxation at a market value so you do have to pay a very large lump sum on the date of expatriation if I understand correctly. This would be a pretty significant tax though you're right that what I stated above about expatriation was not complete.

I've also been an expatriate for a number of years. Owning a company in another country without being double taxed is nearly impossible as an American citizen with new rules pertaining to foreign-owned businesses. It ended up being a lot less hassle for my finances to simply move back to the US so here I am trying to plan my permanent escape. All the information is clear as mud.

It's also my understanding that getting a visa to come back to the US to visit family after renouncing your citizenship is difficult. It's like being excommunicated from a fanatical religious organization.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/877A
Nice idea, it would be interesting if you could integrate the wayback machine so it archives the webpage you add. That way even if the original page gets deleted, a snapshot will be permanently archived.
What about people who enjoy eating? Cheese, meat, vegetables, wine, etc? Let's not forget eating is a pleasurable activity, not only a source of energy and protein.
So what? That just means that you get ahead if the company you own grows ahead of the broader economy and that you lose out if you fall behind.
> I live in Texas, but that doesn't mean I'm always in the mood for Texas music.

But you are not in mood for egyptian music either, so there is definitely some correlation between your location and type of music you like.
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You'd be surprised. 1hr commute from London in reality is 40 minutes on the train (10 minutes walk either side, even getting out of a major train station takes that long). And 40 minutes ride from central London is Sevenoaks, Reading, St. Albans, and zone 6 commuter towns like Amersham or Borehamwood -- your 3-bed semi will still cost you half a million pounds if not much more. (Thanks to the NIMBY policy that designated dozens square miles of farms inside the M25 as "green belt" and dozens more as private golf courses...)
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Also I don't think the point of canon's service was to store heavily edited versions of photos, if you were able to edit them at all on their service.
We are small (<$5M ARR) and were indeed re-investing excess cash into hiring/ops, which actually caused significant problems when COVID hit and our revenue dropped.

So I'd call that a startup? It's not like we're not trying to achieve rapid growth, we just haven't found the secret magic yet to turn into a unicorn. Doesn't mean we're not trying.
Your comment said "no one writing in C has bug reduction as a priority." Bug reduction is a priority for the SQLite authors, and it's written in C. This feels to me like an indication that it is a priority: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
Not saying the partying behavior is justified but Travis is such an easy enemy for tech journalism. If I had a billion dollars I'd probably be traveling the world too if I could do it safely. Displays of exuberant capitalism can be obnoxious, but don't we need the spending right now anyway? I'd add that I think expenditure on education and subsequent experimentation is not a bad thing especially in the face of a struggling US education system.
> future with better humans

Mighty bold of you to assume we're not on the Idiocracy timeline :)
Is there a website that contains all of this information in one place? Could any founder be expected to know about the 409(a) and 83(b) without a lawyer?
> Not that you can’t eat a fish just that if you want that luxury you have to go catch it yourself.

But can't I pay a thousand dollars to a friend to catch the fish for me? I'm afraid of the sea.
The question is whether the EU is meant to be a federal government in the first place.
Well, versioned bucket replication is essentially backup when you configure it in a way that the writer to the first bucket can't do any operations on the second bucket. Since bucket replication doesn't replicate deletion markers you essentially end up with your data being duplicated instead of just replicated writes.
That gimmick didn’t even last through the next console generation. Neither the original 2DS nor the Wii U have folding screens, you have to suspend/activate the system to get past that part.
It is not at all that simple. Unfortunately we are "harvesting" the "food supply" way beyond the capacity for it to actually regenerate. For various reasons, several different groups tell us that there are "sustainable" levels of "harvesting" the "food supply", but reality is that the actual sustainable and regenerative capacity of the ecosystems is far lower than what people are willing to accept. Accepting actual sustainable/regenerative levels would inevitably change things for those groups, whether it is making less profits and putting people like fisherman out of business, or that the totally out of control African and Asian populations need to be dramatically reduced or massively have their consumption repressed and immigration from low to high consumption regions reduced. Either way, people will not like it on both sides, which is why it is ultimately not solvable.

If we wanted to really solve this issue, which most people, not just here, don't really want to; we would set definitive measures like allocating to every society an equal, fixed amount of consumption (e.g., x tons of fish, grain, etc.) regardless of population size, so that the incentives would prioritized sustainable human populations too; at the very least for the out of control African and Asian continents. I would say that regardless of "color" or culture of people; even if every human looked exactly the same … it's simply not sustainable that the Asian and African populations are net increasing by at least 2 people (if one believes the questionable numbers) every single second of every single day. Meaning that by the time you have read this, there will be roughly 120 net more Asians and Africans than when you started reading this. That's simply not sustainable when they all require feeding and are increasingly demanding more and more "diverse" foods.

Personally, I actually have a theory that some of this whole "pandemic" response is part of a response to that reality, the ruling class using the opportunity to at least hit the pause button to assess where to go with this, because no matter what, the path we were heading down fast was simply not sustainable.
The tax should really be tied to the risk free rate - the real issue is sitting on a ton of unproductive cash not necessarily forcing the wealthy to shy away from riskier investments.
> IMO the real problem is money in politics. Fix that

You can't. Economic and political power are the exact same thing: the ability to direct other people to do your bidding.

The idea that you can separate them has always been a fiction, and it's a fiction that is perpetuated for exactly one purpose, to support oligarchic capitalism by keeping people distracted by their engagement in the hunt for the “one weird trick” to make politically egalitarian democracy work without dismantling the radical economic inequality of capitalism.
Worth noting that this is written by a 15 year old.

This looks interesting, nice integration with Elasticsearch as well. However, I see and have tried tools like this several times in the past (tiddlywiki, org-brain, etc.) and haven't been able to stay on it, always reverting to paper, or, more recently, reMarkable tablet notebooks. Is it just me or it requires quite a bit of motivation and dedication to stick to it?
ScPrime has been looking really good too!
I think this comes down to price. They are constantly buying drives and to avoid supply issues, it is acceptable to have a hard drive that fails to a certain degree, if the price is balanced.

It would be interesting if these reports included prices, but that might be a problem for Backblaze to reveal so much about their business operational costs.
The SNES took a several years old, cheap CPU used in early PCs, and added some good 2d graphics capabilities. I wouldn't call it a powerhouse, but it was powerful for specific use cases/types of games.

Comparing to PCE and MD is interesting, the differences in capability seem roughly in line with the different release dates. Being first to market doesn't work in the industry and many consoles were skipped by most consumers. These days MS and Sony are synchronized in terms of release dates, and Nintendo does it's own thing, releasing whenever they feel like it.

GC is kind of interesting, it's kind of halfway between the high performance target of N64 and the philosophy of older hardware + something unique.

For what it's worth SNES is my all-time favorite.
> in the middle of a global pandemic

"global pandemic" is a pleonasm.
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How do you draw the conclusion that we dont know what sustainable fishing looks like.

According to the article, we know the optimal sustainable take down to the percent. The failure is in getting any nation to adhere to limits.
Good friend looking for technical co-founder (SMB and FinTech)
See below. Samir is a close friend based in New York, who is starting a company and looking for a technical partner. You can reach him at samir.shergill@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sshergill/

I'm currently working on an idea to help small and medium businesses receive relevant financial advice and services.These businesses are increasingly digital but lack finance teams or technology access. This means that their financial data ends up being underutilized and can be used to significantly improve operations across a number of areas. There also are multiple existing channels that can be used to deliver these services which helps with the access issues.
At this point we've validated the core use cases with customers and investors and looking to connect with a technical co-founder to develop this further. In case useful: my background is in Software Engineering @ MSFT and I've spent time in management consulting and in product / business roles @ AppNexus (acquired by AT&T).
There are setups like this, but it all involves paperwork and legal stuff and time. :)

We do not immediately need funds, so it is probably a distraction, yes.
It doesn't seem that most people are willing to give up meat/certain animal products.
> Founder: Sure. We’re looking for a $100,000 commitment, and in return, you would be getting 0.1% of the company.

Founder: Sure. We’re looking for a $100,000 commitment, and in return, you would be getting 0.1% of the company on top of $100,000 in pay.

FTFY
I didn't downvote either comment, but I do appreciate the person who called out the individual's affiliation. In the current era of so much astroturfing, I feel like it's good manners to indicate when you make a comment that you are an interested party.
I enjoy eating too, I don't think I would ever switch to meal replacements completely. But I would consider switching my default from my own terrible cooking to a meal replacement and eat out for my other meals.
I don't understand this. Clearly not all people have the same political power, regardless of the existence of billionaires.

AOC, as a party firebrand, has more political power than Jeff Bezos, although it manifests differently. You can argue that the power was "earned" (in the sense that AOC won a primary), but how is the power that Bezos has any less earned? The same argument applies not just to politicians, but literally any influential public figure (artists, authors, journalists, actors, etc.).
WD acquired HGST in 2012, but was strictly independent until 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
No, it means that if you fall behind the broader economy, you lose control of your own company. It deprives the business owner of the ability to turn their own company around. All to raise a minuscule percentage of the Federal budget. That's a terrible system.
honestly closer to Mr. Data. Spock had emotions that were repressed; Data thought he didn't have them and had to discover them, as they were relatively weak.
It's true that a company can't issue ISOs if the termination window is more than 90 days, they have to be NSOs instead. IMO the downside of the NSOs (pay tax immediately upon exercise instead of at next year's tax deadline - ISOs don't actually change the amount of tax that is due, just the timing of when you pay it) is small compared to the very real risk that your options will go poof if you don't have the cash to exercise and pay tax if there is a termination event.
can't remember where but I think theoretical upper bound was about 11-12B, but realistically I think 9.5-10B based off nothing in particular.
We could try harder not to lose or waste food that we produce: FAO estimates that each year, approximately one-third of all food produced for human consumption inthe world is lost or wasted.[1] (Note that this is not just about people throwing away food they bought, though it's a big part of it.)

And at first glance it seems obvious that eating less meat, globally, is going to increase available calories/area; the fact that some areas are viable for livestock but not vegetables notwithstanding. About half of the area used for agriculture is used for livestock, if I read [2] correctly.

[1] http://www.fao.org/3/i3347e/i3347e.pdf

[2] http://www.fao.org/3/ar591e/ar591e.pdf
The article says:

"NCSU researchers said they ran 66,606 telephone lines between March 2019 and January 2020, during which time they said to have received 1,481,201 unsolicited calls -- even if they never made their phone numbers public via any source. "

I wonder where they got 66,606 virgin numbers? Otherwise, previous owners of the numbers have likely spread them, negating the meaning of the researchers not spreading them.
Could just be that there are more of them, due to less predators (the bigger fish), therefore the average size is bigger/older
How do you diversify restricted common stock in a non public company?
Used to be hidden and had disclaimers that it couldn't be used if income was over 50k or something ridiculous, making it unusable in CA.

It's still about 1000x more complicated than filing in New Zealand, which is comparable to filing on the California site. Basically a 15 minute wizard on a web page.
As a resident of a first world country I stopped eating all seafood about 15 years ago. It seems unethical to support over-fishing if I have plenty of other good food to eat.
Theory vs. Practice on Wealth Tax
Coordination with Swiss research organisations might provide benefits beyond any generic anti-US sentiment as well. Lots of excellent work happening there at the moment.
Cost and availability, especially at the higher capacities. Note that HGST was bought out by WD in 2012, and WD started sunsetting the HGST brand in 2018.
I hadn't heard of Plenny Active before, looks like you're right about the price. I'll have to give that a try, thanks for the suggestion!