skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of assumptions in there that the economy is rapidly proving wrong right now. Wealth doesn't grow for everyone - and an income tax is more fair because people whose wealth is going up pay more than people whose wealth is going down.

We live in a world where remote work is rapidly becoming not just acceptable, but standard. Post-coronavirus geographic mobility will be high.

Look, we already have a wealth tax. Instead of dinging you every year and guaranteeing plenty of billable hours for accountants, we bundle it up in a big charge at the end. Everyone dies. How about we just enforce inheritance taxes and call it done?
That's true but not relevant for a random user visiting a website.
I think Facebook worked as a king maker, giving Oculus enough financial backing to be a trusted (ironic) platform. Were they the only option? No idea.
> it feels like repairing an array takes time proportional to the size of the drive, not the size of the contents

This is only true for drive-level raid rather than filesystem level raid, or a non-raid solution like ceph's replication.

ZFS's filesystem raid can repair a raid in time proportional to the amount of data stored in it.

mdadm and raid controllers aren't aware of which parts of the block device are in use or not, and thus have to repair the whole drive.

It's exceedingly likely that backblaze's solution does not require repairing entire block devices, but rather is likely to be closer to ceph, where only the in-use portion of a failed drive must be considered / must find a new home.

I think raid and distributed storage systems (like backblaze or ceph) are more different than they are alike.

> From the behavior of my RAID (which also uses Reed Solomon, doesn't it?)

Maybe. mdadm raid5 doesn't, nor does mdadm raid1 or raid10. I think mdadm's raid6 does.
The Bell System, IBM and Xerox, which all had corporate research labs were all monopolies in effect - the Bell System by regulation and the '56 Consent Decree, IBM by overwhelming market dominance, and Xerox by patent protections. This gave all three corporations excess monopoly profits, some of which could be devoted to research. Although the antitrust suit against IBM was settled, it did modify IBM's behavior and it ultimately failed to compete well with mini and microcomputer companies. In Xerox case, the expiration of patents allowed competitors into the market.

Without a monopoly a corporation will find it very difficult to justify research that can be used by other businesses.

The transistor was a disaster for the Bell System. It was not particularly useful in the telephony system of the day, which used high voltages in tube transmission equipment and high, intermittent currents in electromagnetic switching equipment. On the other hand, the 1956 Consent Decree forced the Bell System out of other businesses (audio, computer, consumer electronics, etc.) and out of other countries (Canada, Caribbean). So the Bell System could not use it's new transistor to expand in the businesses where it fit, and having a fundamental patent on it exposed the Bell System to great anti-trust scrutiny and greater regulatory duress, such as the FCC Computer Inquiries.
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People leave for worse deals all the time, usually due to information imbalances or downright fraud.
clashmeifyoucan was saying "For me bookmarks are links that I visit often" which I interpreted as "browser bookmark".

When I read the description of Archivy, I had the same impression (it somehow captures the action of bookmarking).

So I looked at the code to see how it was done, and in fact, as you said, it's more like a local pinboard/similar "bookmark" services.

No real point to make, just clarify what 'bookmark' it was.
I was reluctant to provide a source because it was trivial to do so yourself. I found 7 just from the first page of a couple of quick Google searches.

But it turns out you didn't want a source for my claim, you wanted a source for a different claim that you didn't state. Your mind is so bogged down in racism that you can't read people's words objectively.

No, it's not like your blue shirt example. Many people credit race-IQ differences to fairly common differences in upbringing and treatment by others, not the existence of some small but very uniform sub-group. A better example would be "people wearing t-shirts are less intelligent than people wearing buttoned shirts". That might actually correlate with the jobs of a wide range of people.

But at the end of the day, it's very clear:

My claim: "those different ethnic groups have different average IQs"

Your interpretation: "different races have different intelligences BECAUSE of their race"

That is clearly a misunderstanding, so you misunderstood me. The difference between causation and correlation exists and you conflated the two.
Reminds me of Clever Hans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
It is silly. Your example isn't even about a wealth tax, it's about an inheritance tax. Sweden has a 30% Capital Gains tax (likely the vehicle for any form of future wealth tax) and seems to be doing much better than the US.
Please do not quit your job as things may become much worst and you might regret, find a side hobby, read how people tackle wfh now a days through submits here. Take some time off but not to long to build a different point of view.
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Not going to repeat the general criticism covered in other comments, but how is that going to work with professional users? Using employees private Facebook accounts in a work setting is somewhere between a really bad idea and impossible.
The zakat in Islam is a wealth tax. It is calculated based on how much wealth you have continuously controlled over the last year.
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If he got it just verbally then I can't see him having a case, they can claim they didn't say it and that will be hard to prove, it might still work but that's very thin ice.

If he got it written into the contract then it is clear that he does not intend to pursue it.

If it was written into the contract and he pursues it then he will need to show that he has suffered because the contract was not executed and I fail to see how he could make that case and do so with enough teeth that it would matter to FB enough to reverse course.
> Then hold our governments responsible.

With today's rampant lobbying and propaganda driven news, that's a bit of a moot point. When critical questions are asked of those in power, they're dismissed as asking nasty questions and saying it's fake news. The propaganda is also created to keep citizens fighting against themselves rather than those in power. It's a losing position from a citizens point of view. Either the politicians have to willfully change things themselves, or you need to play the waiting game until the country deteriorates enough until it sparks revolts like in Belarus.
> Why is this downvoted? This has been happening a lot recently on seemingly normal messages.

It's actually fairly normal for HN, posts very often attract a few stray downvotes when they don't really deserve it (the set of people who can vote is broad enough that that is blind to happen) and if that happens early on you'll often end up with a undeserved negative net score.

And it'll usually go away fairly soon, which is one of the reasons for the guideline about not discussing the votes a post receives. It is almost always a waste of time that will provoke one or more people to get up on a soapbox about the way they perceive a viewpoint to be systematically suppressed on HN, often about the same time the score recovers to net positive, never to return to net down voted status, so all that's left in the subthread is a bunch of conspiracy theories explaining why HN is biased against a message with a positive net score.
"In the strictest interpretation of GDPR, I don't think any analytics product can exist."
That's the point. Unless you aggregate the data.

Besides, it's not only GDPR you should consider, but also the latest cookie verdict by the CJEU. You need a consent if you drop cookies, session storage or any other tracking technology, no matter if you process personal data or not.
I've seen people hired into startups that just got their A-round and they made sub-FAANG market rate plus whatever crazy stock incentive they agreed to. And the exit strategy was usually acquisition by FAANG anyway.

So I would add as a valid reason:

- Startup will pay you as much as anyone else, and won't be boring.

Caveat: may only apply to early hires!
Lastpass has gone to crap IMO since their sell to logmein
I suppose you could say that about any online forum.

There is a qualitative difference between HN and Facebook or Twitter. One of these doesn't try to pry its tentacles into every aspect of your life while trying to capture every possible scrap of information about you known and unknown.
Oh, I don't disagree at all! Government spending is currently not how I would allocate things. But somehow I expect that wherever taxes were going, rich people would be displeased with the amount of taxes they were being told to pay. And honestly, I don't blame them, it's a very natural feeling, I'd rather not pay taxes either.

Here's my thinking: as a society, we should decide on what needs to be handled by the government. Defense, roads, pandemic response, scientific research, welfare, healthcare, whatever. Make your own list, we can all hash that out. Then we figure out how much that costs, then we figure out the best taxation method to pay for all of it. I think the goals of that tax system should be to encourage beneficial habits, support economic growth, lower people's standard of living as little as possible, and generally maximize utility. It seems pretty clear that in this kind of system, a progressive system that taxes the wealthy more is a clear winner.
Harshing on Palmer might feel like the right thing for folks, but they should be harshing on Facebook right now. Palmer has little to no agency and by focusing on the scapegoat, we ignore the avenues for change that are available right now.

Ultimately, energy spent on Palmer distracts from getting Facebook to modify its behavior.
This does seem a bit of a chicken and egg issue. If more countries followed suit, same as much of them followed suit on almost all other taxation schemes that were put in place in the past, then it's just a matter of time.

And the US is not Sweden. If the US blocks your company's access to its market for leaving or not paying taxes, you'll most likely lose more money than the tax.

Not saying I'm pro wealth tax, I'm still having to think about it, but I do feel the US is in a position to be able to protect itself from founders leaving.
> For all the power they hold, the innovation and improvements in society we get is abysmal.

Please do tell what you would do differently.
If you're one of those who expect a) Biden to win in November and b) not continue a Trump ban, you should know that US governmental skepticism of TikTok's user data vis-a-vis China is bipartisan.
What worsens the problem is that publicly funded research often solves toy application problems (at least in CS); academics know that they need to "apply" their research to get funding/citations/publications with relatively little effort, but from an industry/real-world perspective, many application scenarios hardly make sense and are hand-wavy-ly evaluated (for example, in applications of CS, too often the code is not shared so that the results are practically not reproducible). The current system simply rewards researchers who manage to get into the top venues with the least effort possible, and for many who aren't brilliant the pseudo-application approach is the way to go. IMHO, this broadens the gap between academia and industry, because it's hard for a practitioner to pick out the few relevant nuggets in a stream of half-baked applied research.
However, @lacker makes a valid point that most research papers lack interactive, well-designed API for people unfamiliar with the domain.
It’s not clear whether they will continue to be assigned to Rust, though. At least, I didn’t find this explicitly confirmed anywhere.

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.

Pietro’s sibling answer seems to be that Mozilla will transition to be a sponsor — I’d love to know whether this means they will keep investing development time (and how much).
You work for Google and have the nerve to call a diatribe about Apple's profit margins a legitimate complaint? Cool. Well Google should charge less for advertising because they make too much money off ad clicks!
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You can sue them. I think this is what it will take. I've got an orphaned GOG account that they are not responding to me about, and I am definitely entitled to access those games.
Fake news. Check out the correction. Needfuls doing the needful.
How do you feel about calling them "Participants" in this model instead of "People?"
I am but I am also aware that a functioning democracy requires that the people trust the polls. And one piece of that is verifying that those who vote are who they say they are (and are citizens of the country they are voting in).
> I'm really confused. When looking at artificial intelligence it seems that actually we have dominating corporate labs which through integrated services (such as compute and data), totally dominate academia.

But this is just one unique case - where access to a lot of data and a lot of compute makes a huge difference.

I'm not sure that it translates to many other fields in CS.
My wife shoots weddings. A wedding lasts an hour, the reception maybe three or four. She’ll spend the better part of a week editing the whole event.

Raw images seem to be very important until the very moment they’ve been edited (or, hell, rejected from editing). Then their worth is very little.
Employee feedback is valuable. Especially during Covid
Right, but I'm saying no one would actually sell off their shares to pay the wealth tax (I mean, maybe some would in some years). They'd borrow against the assets, or take dividends, or whatever.
Compound has several definitions.

The one that we are talking about here is in relation to compound interest: to pay (interest) on the accrued interest as well as the principal.

I'm going to take the fact that you keep talking about the power of compound interest to mean that this is the definition you're talking about.

>Compounding is not exclusive to positive feedback cycles.

Compound interest isn't powerful because it happens every year, it's powerful because you accrue interest on the principal and the additional interest. It's only powerful explicitly because it is a positive feedback cycle.

A negative feedback cycle is self limiting. The rate of change gets slower each year.

>It applies to negative feedback cycles as well. Have you heard the phrase "my problems are compounding?"

I'm positive that you don't understand what negative feedback means based on this comment.
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The one time facebook did that in a written way was with whatsapp and it made them lose in europe (germany specifically I think) where they had to cancel their plan to share data between the two entities.
Due to convergent evolution [1], I'm not sure life that originated on an Earth-like planet would look completely different from Earth life, at least on a macroscopic level.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
I agree it should never, ever be used in any capacity when it comes to criminal proceedings, but as an employment requirement, I think the 3-letter agencies should keep them, and I suspect they will unless/until they perhaps obtain some literal mind-reading technology.

It's a psychological tactic, and is all about pressure. It serves as a potential deterrent and mind game that works on multiple levels. Consider it like a scarecrow in a field. Yeah, some of the smart crows will figure out it's just some clothes on a pole, but it still deters and confuses the rest. The only silly thing would be calling a scarecrow a security guard or a polygraph a lie detector test. It doesn't mean it's silly to put a scarecrow in your field.

Obviously it's 99.9% pseudoscience, and obviously it's beatable and unreliable, but I don't think that's the point. I'm sure they're very much aware of that, and still use it because they see the value of it as a psychological tactic. It's one of many lines of defense: if you pass that line of defense, it definitely doesn't at all imply you're not a spy, but if you don't pass it (in any way), the security requirements dictate that the safest option is for them to not hire you.

Absolutely no positive value should be attributed to a passing result. The idea is exclusively to attribute negative value to a failing result. And then, not value in terms of some actual empirical finding ("was this person really being deceitful?"), but just value in terms of whether or not to hire them to handle the most sensitive of secrets.

The only abomination is using it as a consequential determination of truth or lie, or innocence or guilt, like in a police investigation or trial. It should never be permitted in such a circumstance for any reason.
I see. It's nice to know I am not alone :)
How do you deal with bookmarks and history? Do you just save it in one browser?
That's my point though; it may be irrelevant in many cases, but it is relevant to the matter of how long Zuckerbeg has had a poor reputation. Such a question obviously calls for the examination of old stories and quotes.
His point was that it's cheaper for big companies to innovate by buying startups than it is for them to do that research and testing in house
This sort of echoes what I meant by in my opinion the build system is better on Kotlin, if not more complex. My opinion of course.

Using a library from a big tech vendor I found a number of issues with the definition files. That led to me tossing in ts ignore all over the place, and asking if I could file bug reports on company time. Lerna is the closest for a good multi module project. But that has a number of quirks.

As an aside I keep harping on multi module. But I find they really help with service boundaries, and flow of the application. Allowing dependencies to flow from bottom to top like a pyramid.

The other day I was working on a new proof of concept tool. I started with type script because that's what the team was using. But after cloning the demo from the vendor, it didn't minimize into proper java script. It seemed to be a known bug. I redid it in Kotlin in an hour. Because of the syntactic similarity, the team was able to pick it up. Worked on the first try. Now we just need to fix the TS build.

Incidentally these tooling issues are the bigger plague of the js multi platform. Dukat while great is only as good as the type definitions. There are also so many incongruities with the output. I've come to if I just output js I'm fine. But don't try consuming js. This also was the issue with rescript/reasonml to me.

I can output common websocket/http clients via ktor. Data classes, and other elements. But we have async api, open api, graphql, etc. The core of the multi platform driving business logic is being eaten by good automated tools. What's old is new.
There are so many questions and so little data.

Oumuamua as the space junk of an extra-terrestial society naturally appeals to me even if it's not a legitimate guess (I understand that technological artifact is only a legitimate guess if all other options are exhausted, Ok).

One question would be whether the "axiom of mediocrity" implies that Oumuamua's flyby of the sun was not the object's first flyby. 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. Which would also be why you'd be more likely to find space junk than a working space craft.
I don’t think so. The parent was saying that Make isn’t a replacement for CMake because it isn’t multi platform.
> The short version appears to be that the author has managed to replace standard linear algebra notation with an alternative (but mathematically equivalent) graphical notation, which is harder to do computations and write programs in.

> This submission is the latest in a trend of what I would classify as "math-lite" category theory and Haskell articles that reach the HN front page, which purport to explain something interesting but end up just rehashing standard mathematics in opaque ways.

This is, coincidentally, the ambition of APL.
Managing the resources on the planet in a way that every human being has good quality of life and doing this in a way that's sustainable in the long term and without resorting to oppression, dictatorships or active population reduction.
My preliminary and not very careful analysis reveals that he doesn't give a fuck about anybody except for #1.
So because China bans American apps, we should stoop to their level? I thought the point was that America is better than China because America is free, is anyone really going to believe that if America starts censoring its Internet (even more than it already does)?
This thread has reminded me of a concept (whose term I am struggling and failing to remember) that is as important, if not more, than what is traditionally thought of as the cap table.

In the case of a sale, investors with <this term> would get their money back (possibly at an inflated ratio) before the rest of the money from the sale is distributed via equity.

This is important because it means that even if you get favorable stock terms, you might still be screwed (or at least disadvantaged) if there is no money left after this money is paid out.

Can anyone remind me of the term?
It is really wonderful when you get to know someone and they show you a whole new part of life you hadn't experienced before. I think it's a big mistake to close off the possibility of such things ("my life is about facts not feelings"), but then again I have no Nobel prizes to my name.