skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to me to see these projects as alt-history, and see them as the dead-end technical choice that they were.

Has any programming language since then tried to use more than ASCII for its keywords?
>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).

Uh huh.

>Second, taxes don't disappear into nothingness - they pay for civilization.

But there are bad taxes. There is such a thing as too much tax. So you have to justify the wealth tax on its own merits instead of trying to pull a motte-and-bailey fallacy by pushing a wealth tax and then arguing for the necessity of taxes when challenged. Taxes are a necessary part of a functioning modern economy. Wealth tax is not.

>Yes, over the long term they'll lose some wealth, but not necessarily control of their company, unless that's the decision they make.

No. What are you talking about? The math is very simple. You will lose control at some point, because there's only so many ways you can rearrange the deck chairs.

And no, dividends are not an option because issuing a dividend may not be in the best interest of the company. Dividends are also taxed separately.

That you think taking out debt to cover wealth taxes is a solution is insanity.

>Fifth, the idea that people "will just move to another country" is very silly

But that's exactly what happens. We have data on this from various experiments. It doesn't bring the revenue you expect it to because there is capital flight and brain drain from the country in response - and when that is taken into account, you may end up with a net loss in tax revenue. It's also expensive to administer and enforce because net-worth is not easy to calculate. It's no coincidence that this form taxation has been falling out of favor.

>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,

No. That is a strawman if I ever seen one. Could Mr. Graham not be against this tax because it's an objectively bad tax with many unintended consequences?
I'm sure you meant to RAISE the standard of living.
I think the use of a polygraph in a situation like that is disgusting, but I also think it's very different compared to making it a requirement to work for FBI/CIA/NSA.
Hearty lol here. How do you associate some advice to use the type system to explain the meaning of your booleans to left-wing narratives of oppression?

Or are you conflating booleans with black/white and arguing for colour blindness because All Bools Matter or something?

I can't really make sense of this.
Just to clarify, "unsolved" and "hard" does not necessarily correspond with "big".
They replied to a comment mentioning meson as a replacement for cmake by explaining how cmake works.
https://twitter.com/dec_hl/status/1231316690933252098
Obviously it belies a very anglo-centric view of the computer engineering landscape, but frankly I think that's a good thing, as it allows easier exchange.
Looking out of my office window in Stuttgart I can see the big sign „Nokia Bell Labs“. You can almost smell all the history this sign carries
People call me crazy for having local backups, cloud backups, and offline backups for my critical assets.
And, in my opinion, that is exactly the position you SHOULD take. Stop giving up your data to any company. Even if your favorite company is nice now, they'll get hacked, they'll get sold, the CEO will get replaced, etc. There is no cloud, just someone else's computer.
Right, if it's about undo history, screw that, at some point you don't care anymore -- you might build a sort of VCS into the text editor so you can keep track of changes in a less granular way. If it's about knowing when you have all the history before some point in time, then that's doable.

And thanks for the link!
Can confirm, Tailwind is legit.
Bread Baker's Apprentice is a great book which will teach you everything. Peter Reinhart, the author, in general is a great resource for bread making.

You kind of have to embrace the random factor in bread making and develop a feel for it. A cake recipe is a far more mechanical process, just follow the instructions and it will work. Bread is more chaotic for sure (like, maybe it's a very humid day and your flour is heavier with water than usual) but it's not like pulling a slot machine.

My first few loaves were mediocre, some were bad, but after about 5-10 it came together. And now, like I wrote earlier, I make money baking. Anyone can do it, just treat it like a weird little hobby with no pressure at first.
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Switzerland has a wealth tax, but it offers an interesting option for wealthy people - lump-sum taxation based on cost of living rather than wealth and income: https://home.kpmg/ch/en/blogs/home/posts/2020/04/lump-sum-ta...

So, their wealth tax is just for their "normal" earners. Don't glorify it or ignorantly use it as an argument.
4 total, one not laid off, two laid off, unsure about the final person.
Some of the diagrams I've seen in the past show that as the air comes out of the compressor its passed through a gravel bed before being allowed into the general mine. This picks up a lot of heat and then when the system is run in reverse the incoming air is pre-heated by the gravel bed prior to going into the turbine.
Liquidation preference
Defending and perpetuating the power structure is what institution building is. If you won't be a steward of the dominant institutions, then you're not an extension of its power, your a transgressor to it.

"Thinking outside the box" is cute virtue signalling but honestly that's what gets you kicked to the curb.

It will always be that way for any established entity because that act is fundamentally one of disestablishment
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Yeah, but I hope the parent comment's author doesn't refer to himself as "we" while speaking in public
There's an infectious tranquility in the air when König is on the clock because everyone knows he'll get it done when others cannot.
I will probably implement the daily salt and remove the localStorage code as well just to be safe.

But again, I'm not a lawyer here, where do you draw the line? Why not hourly salts? 5 minute salts? What is considered a reasonable effort? At some point you're storing data that can identify a user for the purpose of analytics. Still, I'm going try to lean to the safer side as best I can.
That is true. I'm not sure how it's relevant though. If we're trying to be independent, the status of Mozilla is not really of note, no? (And all Rust stuff is under the corporation, not foundation.)
“Monopolists can afford to think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can’t. In perfect competition, a business is so focused on today’s margins that it can’t possibly plan for a long-term future. Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.”
While Make can deal with spaces, you have to pass them through multiple layers of splitting. I've done it before, but I've given up on anything besides escaping every single space and pasting it into the Makefile (with a script), and not using any of Make's variable expansion functionality.

Spaces are how Make separates items in arrays, after all. For example, take this contrived example:

foo.c\ bar.c
echo $(patsubst %.c,%.h,$@)

If Make had some concept of arrays, it would echo "foo.c bar.h", but it does not. While this example is super contrived, it should illustrate the general problem.
More like "please drink a verification can".
Palmer is a first class jerk and other things I would maybe get banned for saying, but this is as good and honest an apology as I think he can give. Things change, and it has been many years since he said this.
Yeah this one made me smile.
I think you are forgetting the major difference between now and 70s - massive wealth concentration, and the complete destruction of sustainable middle class jobs. Look at the pandemic. 40 mn people were unemployed, but billionaire wealth continued to grow. Most people in the US are one paycheck away from bankruptcy. Poverty rates among minority population have soared, and the impact is starkly reflected in COVID related death rates. One can sit in an ivory tower and deflect all societies problems to be taken care of by some mythical concept of freedom. But more and more people are questioning why wealth in the US is not trickling down. And these are very valid questions today that should really span beyond political lines
Switzerland offers lump-sum taxation for wealthy people: https://home.kpmg/ch/en/blogs/home/posts/2020/04/lump-sum-ta...

So it's not 0.3%, but a mostly constant yearly amount that may be much lower.
I have prosopagnosia. I only learned what to call it about 5 years ago. But it is not total and complete. I recognize faces when I see someone I know where I have seen them before. But if I see someone I know in a new location I have never seen them, I do not initially recognize them. But as soon as they speak to me, and I hear their voice, suddenly I recognize them. One of my earliest memories when I was in elementary school, first grade, is being with my mother at the Kmart. I was upset because I wanted to go home, and she had this long conversation with someone, seemed like almost an hour, which I found excrutiating. I did not know who she was talking to. When we left, I complained, "who was that person?" My mother gasped, "catmistake! [not my real name] That was your homeroom teacher! You see her every morning in school!" I could not believe it. I knew this woman well. I think I may have been in love with her. Just recently, in a gas station I see this guy shaking hands with someone else, not 6 feet away, full view. He looked interesting, but I didn't know him until he walked up to me, "hey catmistake." It was my friend that I was staying with for the previous two months, knew for 20 years, that I had just seen about a half hour before at his house. It is freaky, going from seeing someone as a complete stranger and then suddenly recognizing them. It is difficult to explain the transition. I had balance problems as a child, and fell down the hardwood stairs on my head nearly every day until I figured out how to lean back when stepping forward. So I think it is permanent brain damage causing it. Doesn't get me down, but I have been abused for it, "friends," that are aware of it, know when to expect it, and screwing with me. Jerks.
This happened to me to. It now is not connected to the internet and never will be again. It's also the crappest TV I've ever owned. My old dumb TV is better.
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Except when you go into the eshop and have to scroll down pages of shovelware to find anything decent
Hy if someone from Oculus reads this requiring a Facebook (or Google) account for login means I will never buy your products.

I also now many other people who think the same.

Goodby, I'm happy I hadn't yet time to but an Oculus product.
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There's a cheap product called whitelines. Which might be interesting to you.
>>Second, taxes don't disappear into nothingness - they pay for civilization.
>But there are bad taxes. There is such a thing as too much tax. So you have to justify the wealth tax on its own merits instead of trying to pull a motte-and-bailey fallacy by pushing a wealth tax and then arguing for the necessity of taxes when challenged. Taxes are a necessary part of a functioning modern economy. Wealth tax is not.

Indeed. The parent is arguing that the wealth tax is better than, say, a carbon tax, which is considered a fairly efficient form of taxation.

> >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,
>No. That is a strawman if I ever see one. Could Mr. Graham not be against this tax because it's an objectively bad tax with many unintended consequences?

To add to this, Paul Graham doesn’t live in California, and would not pay the tax. He’s opposed on principle.
Yes, I understand that. I have this same issue with using just pure IPFS to store private data. IPFS for public data makes a lot of sense to me. When using IPFS for private data there seems like there is an inherent risk (hopefully only a small risk) that the encryption or its implementation can be broken at some point in the future potentially exposing the content that is hosted on the network. Normally, in this scenario the response is just run your own network of IPFS nodes if you want to restrict access, which is totally reasonable. I'm just expressing my desire to have something like Filecoin, but at the network level have the clients enforce access permissions and honor deletes. I may be the only one though. :)
Yes. Since for games, personal email, etc, I use one browser exclusively, it doesn't bother me.

I don't usually go to the same sites bookmarked (like javadocs for fun, who needs that? goes straight in the "work" browser)
Non-broken link:

https://nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen...
I wouldn't pay for them, but I haven't found them especially unreliable when receiving recertified drives for RMAs of my drives.
Seniority?
Is population stagnation a problem across Europe? Why not relax immigration requirements? I’m not an expert, but every time I’ve looked getting into Europe seems ridiculously hard. You basically have to have a company agree to employ you and sponsor your visa application, which (as I understand) entails proving why the company can’t find an E.U. resident to do the same job. Plus the salaries are quite a lot lower than the US (roughly 40% lower after factoring in healthcare, vacation, taxes, retirement, etc for software engineering jobs last I checked).
They only released GPT-2 large after other language models came out that were even larger, like T5...
PG is tone deaf and missing the mood of the nation here.

He says:

> Even a .5% wealth tax would start to keep founders away from a state or country that imposed it.

Mr Graham doesn't consider the possibility of startup founders leaving / kept away from a place that doesn't impose a wealth tax. I am not a successful startup founder (yet), but I would consider it my duty to live in /start a company in a place with better laws and taxes that are more equitable for everyone.

Money is not the only thing that drives startup founders to do big things. Complaining about a wealth tax and suggesting it will ruin things in the valley / CA due to people leaving completely ignores the societal improvements that could come from those tax dollars.

The idea behind increasing taxes on the wealthy is to build a better society for everyone - including the wealthy! Why would the future prospective wealthy startup founders want to live in a massively unequal society, that is bent on increasing incoming inequality (the topic of another recent PG essay, where he argues that decreasing wealth inequality is a bad idea)? I sure wouldn't.

Mr Graham, a lot of startup founders may leave if large measures to improve society like a wealth tax are not 'imposed'.

You said,

> Taxes are a necessary part of a functioning modern economy. Wealth tax is not.

But you don't back this up. Why should wealth tax not be a part of modern economy? Modern economies are broken right now, obviously, for most people anyway, so keeping the status quo is a red flag and a bad sign.

> Could Mr. Graham not be against this tax because it's an objectively bad tax with many unintended consequences?

If that is his position, he does not explain it very well. Especially with the context of many of his recent essays, he does seem especially concerned with his image and wealth.

What about the unintended consequences of adopting policies that specifically intend to increase wealth inequality? PG doesn't seem to much consider the consequences that his models/opinions/plans would have on other people if implemented.
External USB drives for me. One set of drives is stored in a fire safe at home, one set of drives is stored at the office, and one set is stored at a relative's house in another state. The ones at home get refreshed most often, the ones stored at the office get refreshed about once a quarter, and the one at the relative's house get refreshed during holidays and family get-togethers.

The drives are encrypted (Truecrypt) since they will be outside my physical control. The ones at the office I am prepared to abandon should I get fired/laid-off.
They seem to believe in some magical distinction between disorders and non-disorders that I doubt can be established consistently in a meaningful manner and is pretty far from relevant. I think the meaningful way to think about mental disorders is that it simply means that a person have a slightly abnormal psychological condition that affects their quality of life in a significantly negative manner. The classification is helpful to get the right kind of help dealing with the condition.

That some abnormal psychological conditions can be reasonable reactions to stimuli isn't that relevant IMO. A broken leg is a normal reaction to hitting a tree when skiing, but we still need medical care when it happens.

If scientists then wants to discuss whether it should be called unable-to-walk disorder or a broken leg, I guess let them, but that discussion is just about terminology and unless I see concrete proof that it's more important than the treatment I don't think it's clinically relevant.
Your right, once this type of tax gets implemented it sure is easy to lower/justify the threshold and change the very nature of our economy.
Finish work early, go out for a walk after your done and if you can, have a separate root or room divider so you can't see your workstation.
Depending on the company you'll see it defined a few ways. These may include activities like user training, a level 2ish enterprise support where they'll do some investigation/triage of bugs and can enable some feature flags for you or escalate to an engineer. Sometimes you will see phone support or account manager called customer success
Scale AI (YC S16) is hiring engineers to build infrastructure for AI
That's a weird way of spelling sugar daddy
Is "with a fun, whimsical look, inspired by Comic Sans Serif" something someone wanted?
No it isn't a bad thing to set aside cash for future risk. I'm saying that a limit could be established on how much is too much. And then tax just the too much part.
In my very limited, layperson understanding, all of these fancy multi-country tax schemes involve separate corporate entities in each country which then engage in some set of fictitious transactions (e.g. IP licensing fees) to move money between countries.

Also in my pedestrian understanding, around taxes on the value of some hard-to-valuate asset, one mechanism for encouraging owners to be honest in their valuations, rather than under-valuing everything, is that some party (perhaps the government) should have the option to purchase some property at the value claimed by the owner. "You say this trove of old master artwork is only worth $100k? I'll take it!"

Is there a reasonable form of this for the colluding branches of multi-nationals? "You've claimed your subsidiary in our country has had $0 net revenue every year for the past 10 years b/c it spends absolutely every available dollar on IP owned by the sister company across the pond? Then since we agree your subsidiary is really clearly struggling, I will buy it for the value of its local real-estate portfolio, plus a small markup."
Or where they will require that certain companies or people are doing the work because that's the only way they will be satisfied. Never mind that these are overpriced, deliver crap work or both, you won't get a permit in any other way. The best outcome is you pay them to stay away.

This happens in other places as well (Portugal, Spain).
No, they pivoted to shotgun sequencing earlier, which had better scaling properties because it's self-decoupled. There was a hangup about it only affording asymptotic completeness (aka completeness was "only theoretical") and them they realized how silly that statement is, and how the decoupling trade-off gave them an advantage because of their deep pockets.
> What disaster befell Sweden because the IKEA founder left?

It's not hard to figure out if you try to think about it in a curious, scientific manner instead of through your ideological glasses. Many wealthy people left and Sweden lost tax income, investments and angered people. To the point where the left-wing parties realized how bad an idea it was.

https://iea.org.uk/blog/how-high-tax-sweden-abolished-its-di...
What is not mentioned is that the Fed's printing of money IS a tax that is applied to every single dollar. The resulting cash horde was then used to purchase bonds, thereby "injecting liquidity" into the financial system.

Aka banks suddenly had cash to buy stocks, so they bought a lot of stocks.

End result is the Fed's everybody tax wound up actually taxing poor people. A "poor" tax. The wealthy wound up with this money in scads.

So... what Paul fails to mention is that his stock portfolio likely nearly doubled over the past 3 months. Using his math it will take 60 years to return to where it was 4 months ago.

This is why we need a wealth tax. Admittedly it's a bit like swallowing the cat to catch the bird...
Why can't you get vegan Chipotle?
I'm not saying there aren't positives, I'm saying that it's understandable why users who now need to choose between a peripheral and their privacy are having a hard time focusing on those positives.

I'm also not too cynical about the market, because thankfully there are multiple companies in this space who are making progress. So Facebook will trash Oculus and things will stink for a while.

Eventually somebody else will come along and offer the same functionality without feeling the need to create a user-hostile platform out of a peripheral. Eventually the Linux support will improve. Eventually some community group will take over WebVR and we'll get a general platform instead of a bunch of separate stores designed to increase user lock-in. Eventually the games will be disassociated from the peripherals. Eventually, we'll get what we want and the space will improve. And Facebook's early efforts to improve the raw tech will be a part of that story.

But in the meantime, for the people who were predicting what Facebook was going to do from the moment Oculus was acquired -- I think it's reasonable to step back and let them say, "we told you so."
We should also work out the costs of not having good cheap public healthcare, education, infrastructure - and not also having public access to the best R&D talent because it's working to make billionaires even richer through clever rent-extraction strategies from the markets.

And so on.

All of these negatives cost money. Aside from the humanitarian considerations - not trivial - they're a huge drag on social mobility, innovation, and business opportunity.

The fact that some people feel irrationally inconvenienced by the prospect of extra taxes - which in reality will not materially affect them or their opportunities in any significant way - is an unconvincing reason to ignore the staggering social, economic, and political costs of their uniquely privileged position.
Lol fuck this shit I’m out
The whole thesis of VC funds is to invest in many companies and have a few home runs drive returns. VC-backed companies failing is just the cost of doing business in a random extremistan world. For programmers it's as you say - either nothing, or at best "nothing to write home about". Unless you win the lottery.