skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK, modern corporate law never required that, and the Supreme Court was affirming the existing state of things. The "Shareholder Theory" stems from an essay Milton Friedman published in 1970 asserting that corporations have no responsibility to do anything other than maximize shareholder value, but this was never enshrined in law or financial regulation -- it was just something a lot of corporations followed. It seems in the intervening decades it's become such an accepted "truth" that people assume that it's a legal requirement.
We always hear about lowering capital gains tax because it stops people from investing in new ideas. I'm sympathetic to this to a degree - and that's why a wealth tax (if implementable) is superior. Instead of being taxed at what you end up with you are taxed with what you start with. This would (as long as you can't get around it) encourage people to actually invest in new ideas instead of sitting on their money.

The idea that PG "modeled" a wealth tax without factoring in that investments grow (not just due to increasing their success - but many investments grow slowly and surely due to boring factors like inflation and population growth) is intentionally obfuscating the truth.
Whether or not that's true, it's not "a fever and a cough".
> in their right mind
This is part of a larger pattern where we are not investing in anything anymore that doesn’t bring immediate returns to some investor; not basic research as in the article, not public infrastructure, not planning for things like climate change. It’s all about immediate gratification, fast returns. Kicking the can on every problem and avoiding any unpleasant decisions or long term investments.
What I'd like to know is: did his friends have any symptoms? Or were they asymptomatic?
I'm honestly shocked that sellers can send us emails. Like, why does Amazon share that information with sellers in the first place?
> It doesn’t matter. Once you realize you have a virus that could kill you and there’s nothing anybody can do about it, you live in constant fear.

The normal flu also kills, does he feel this way about it as well? Yes the rona kills, yes it’s horrible to get. But 10% unemployment, massive growth in debt, and having a generation of kids fall behind a year or two on schooling and their careers is also horrible and will have long lasting effects as well.
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I would think there is little difference, you already want entrepreneurial developers in an early phase startup (later on when you need to hire dozens of developers at a time, there won't be enough entrepreneurial ones).

I'd wait until after an larger Angel/VC round, and not get a technical co founder before funding. After funding it's easier to get a better technical co founder for less equity.
Glad we've come to an agreement: high density urban living ("overcrowding" in your terminology) is an epidemiological nightmare with death rates ~40% higher than less dense areas.
> Ah yes, the economic argument of "punish savers and people refraining from consumption will lead us to our Centrally Planned Utopia"

Wealth tax would only apply to the very reach. i.e. the “job creators” whose wealth is supposedly “trickling down” the economic ladder.
Rocket blew up on pad during launch.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29634/trump-tweets-int...

Made me think of the movie "Enemy of the State" from 1998, and another action/sci-fi B-Movie from before 1980 which I can't remember the title anymore because forgettable, except of the FLIR inserts they made. Which were as good as anything you can personally buy today as private person.

In a B-Movie! From before 1980! (Maybe even 1975/76) W-T-F?

I really can't remember the title anymore, because "loading, looking, lösching!" (loading, watching, erasing)
The analysis here compares among wealth taxes between 1% and 5%. It does not include models with wealth taxes below 1%; in particular 0% is not present. Also, it would have been nice to see a normalized comparison of the ratios between predicted long-term wealth levels at different growth rates -- this can be weakly inferred visually from the graphs, but all I can say is "vaguely similar".
SpaceX crushes rocket engine world record during Raptor test
CANDU reactors support mixed Uranium and Thorium fuel.

"CANDU can also breed fuel from the more abundant thorium. This is being investigated by India to take advantage of its natural thorium reserves." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor
Nice hack.
As net contributors, part of the function of taxes we pay as, whether we'd like to acknowledge it or not, is to reduce the general level of suffering/struggling in the broader population, if not out of our humanity then at least because an angry, hungry, hopeless population at our doorsteps is a dangerous thing for us.

If we are clear-eyed, we have to incorporate that into any risk-adjusted evaluation of "benefits" that we enjoy in exchange for our taxes. That is the price of freedom, and unless we wish to slide back to the serfdom/slavery the feudal past (and all the horrors that entails), we'd be wise not to ignore that our shared sense of security rests on the contributions we make to society.
> The novel coronavirus is not a statistic. It’s not an agenda. It’s not a debate.

Sorry you had a fever but it is in fact still all of those things, and your appeal to emotion doesn't make it not so.
Serious question: do you really think that someone who is enthusiastic about VR would refuse to get the best headset out there because they would have to create an account on some service online? I can’t fathom how that would stop anyone who is truly interested about playing VR. It’s like telling someone they will need a PS account to play the playstation or a Xbox account to play the xbox, they’d probably be fine with that.
They fuse it off
What awful and melodramatic writing. He's lucky not to be dead? Really? Well I guess I'm lucky I didn't get hit by a bus today.

> Nobody tells you about the dread.

Ah yes, the least commonly known symptom of Coronavirus, the "dread."

> It doesn’t matter. Once you realize you have a virus that could kill you and there’s nothing anybody can do about it, you live in constant fear.

Sounds similar to everything else about human existence. What a totally worthless article, from the totally clickbait title to the insipid writing.
It also deters some dishonest people. A while ago my suburb was hit by a drug addict who moved in and would steal change/ipods from unlocked cars and tools from unlocked sheds. He never touched anything that was locked because the extra risk and effort wasn't worth it.
Hydraulic power distribution systems did and do exist. Your dentist and auto mechanic both very likely have one based on compressed air, and they're popular among certain Amish for shop power.

Large-scale systems were built in the 19th century, especially in ports, where large intermittent loads were required, especially for lifting and operating canal locks.

Disadvantages include size, limited range (up to several kilometres, but generally far less) leaks, limited capacity (high applied force but limited energy storage), controls, etc.

Electric power distribution is the diect analogue of such systems, and is in virtually all regards superior, more flexible, cheaper, and more readily and precisely controlled, though hydraulic power distribution existed in London, England, as late as 1977.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_power_network
When I said source I meant something other than more anecdotes.
Stating that "some participants are searching for arguments to validate pre-held beliefs and policy positions" is roughly akin to saying "some participants eat food and breathe air".

Confirmation bias is part of the human condition, and should be expected by default.
If the average case is asymptomatic then I wouldn't classify this reaction as mild. Seems to still be up in the air though.
My friend is in his 50s and had it (tested positive along with his girlfriend who he lives with). He said he felt crappy for about a week, then got better. Moderately athletic and mildly overweight, but not obese. No lasting effects on his health.
I had a coworker who found about 418, found this hilarious and started returning this in case of error.

It made for an interesting troubleshooting session, because at the time, not all browsers would display a meaningful result. Some would return a blank screen - which is easy to find. But not as easy when it was a single call among many others in the page...
Do you fret about the flu as well? Obviously Covid is worse but covid isn’t anywhere near as bad as the OP’s article for most healthy younger people. Please take precautions but don’t live your life in fear.
I work for a large metro fire department/EMS. We have had lots (<30) of people under 50 get it. Nobody has been hospitalized and most report that it was a sucky flu. We had a retiree who was overweight, with diabetes get it at the ER where he worked as a Paramedic... he had a significantly different experience being placed on a vent and coding several times. He is still kicking however!

Long and short; You can only control what you can control... which is to say not much. Take precaution, but fear is occupying space in your mind rent free. I don't know about you, but I charge for space there.
Same here. It feels like an overreaction.
I see it as similar to the land value tax versus property tax. Property taxes (as I would argue) aren't ideal because it discourages people from making improvement to their land. It is good (both for the owner and society) if they improve it and it is bad (both for the owner and society) if they let it stay empty or rot. Similarly, capital gains taxes discourage people from building new companies and investing in new ideas. A wealth tax would, instead, discourage people from hoarding their money in investments that don't produce new value.

I do think the implementation is difficult with privately owned businesses. I agree - it seems very difficult to do so but not impossible to do if we figure that the wealth tax would only be implemented for those individuals holding stakes in companies worth more than 10M (or whatever)
He "thought" he chipped a tooth, which means he didn't actually. It's all just a bunch of emotionally manipulative language, which obviously had its intended effect.
HN hug o death.

anyone got a link to what this "obsidian" is?
Would we not be able to infer their existence by finding a white hole? I do see how calling that a detection could be a stretch.
> Requiring users to memorize a second keyboard layout is very demanding

Not really. It's a natural learning process as you learn the language. Very easy. If you are truly learning the language (rather than just messing around) you can get to the point where you are comfortable typing most common symbols in a week or two.

I used to touch-type APL back in the day. Even though I don't use APL at all these days, every so often, when I do, I am amazed by how quickly I remember where the various symbols are on the keyboard. Some of it just make sense, for example "iota" is shift-i, "rho" is shift-r, etc.
I keep trying to trick my coworker into looking up 418 but so far he ignores me and uses a code he already knows.
His case was mild? By what metric? His case was fairly serious. His case is also not typical for most people who get it.
> the more articles like this I see the more I realize it isn't.

There's a selection bias at play here though, a first-hand account of someone who suffered horribly is more "interesting" to the general reader (i.e. more people click, publisher make more money on ads).
Indeed. Biopharma has some of the highest spend on R&D as a percentage of revenue of any industry sector.[1]

However, keep in mind a big part of that is development, not research. It's still science and not guaranteed to work, but it's more focused on the development needed to bring a product to market versus doing science to make new discoveries.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/270233/percentage-of-glo...
https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/2/13/14580874/google-self...
Pretty sure the company is on the hook for unemployment if they're fired without cause.
I added
panic("I'm a teapot!");
to the FreeBSD kernel, many many years ago (sys/kern/kern_thread.c). It was for an impossible, cannot-happen scenario.

Much to my astonishment/amusement, it did.
Seems to be down? WebArchive can't access it.

Google Cache - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

Google Cache seems to be just a proxy thats loading resources from the main site.
Yeah, it's not like, come Facebook acquisition, Palmer Luckey had a stellar record on keeping promises. Honestly, the Quest is the first time I could say the Oculus brand did not "fail to meet expectations". Prior to... uh, last year... they had always been a day late, a buck short.
Note taking app. It's good. Missing a couple of features.

https://obsidian.md
Possibly you miss the mail, the mail into spam, forget to fix it.
I used to own one. Pretty clever technology, particularly for the time.
I’m moving out and selling mine if you’re in the bay
Distances between objects can increase faster than speed of light (due to expansion of space, for example) the problem here is that with wormholes you might have causality violation (also not sure if the universe’s topology supports holes).
Would the entry and exit points be orbiting another body somewhere?
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I’ve lost more weight from working out in the heat due to sweat. If he’s a typical 230lb overweight sports writer that is hardly any weight to lose over four whole days.
This may just be me, but I'm very particular about my software. I want it to look and flow a certain way. So I wrote Umami mainly for my needs first. Plus it was just a fun project.

I always start side projects so I can learn something new. In this case it was Prisma.io, Chart.js, Next.js authentication, JWT and Postgresql. All of which I didn't know about until this project.
"we did a/b testing and found autoplay ads prevented all the intelligent voters from participating in the voting process"
I had a project were in case of a 400 errors 418 error would be used.
People who get coronavirus develop long-term immunity via T cells: study
OP doesn't state he helped for free. If he charged the customer (that he met while at work) for the service. That's a HUGE conflict of interest.
Right? "Oh, you've got this full, 3D, completely spatial work space. Look at the fireplace, isn't it gorgeous? Now EAT A 2D MENU! EAT IT! RIGHT NOW IN YOUR FACE!!!"
> No lasting effects on his health.

How exactly would he know that? From all the information going around the virus might do some nasty things to your body, which manifest themselves years later.
It's mostly a problem in countries that aren't doing well economically and thus their young people leave to other (mostly also European) countries.

You cant make immigration easy only in these countries as once you are in the EU you can then move to any other EU state (there is some wait required, like a year I think). So people will basically use these as a jump off point to the countries they actually want to go to (which do not lack immigrants).

I believe the solution is to invest in the poorer countries to make them attractive enough so that their diaspora wishes to return and young people don't want to leave en masse to begin with.
before i go trying it out... it looks a lot like a personal wiki?

RTF etc?
I would not say that 2 hours of driving every day is affordable, if you calculate the fully-loaded euros per km cost of owning, maintaining, fueling, insurance and operating a vehicle, how many km you would put on it every work week, and the cost of paying for parking in the urban center. 0.75 euro cents per km would not be an unreasonable figure.
I personally think even with the language it's a fine post. At least, even If I don't agree with the language, I would critique the content.

He does a fine job in rebutting that PG post which made no sense and painted a very bleak picture of wealth tax. IMO this shouldn't have been flagged.
Guesstimating the infection cause to a maskless moment ("Nobody is required to wear masks at the tables, so I removed my mask when I sat") sounds iffy, the protection afforded by masks is very light? (Unless he was always using N95 masks)
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Hi, play this game for fun
Verizon forced to back off charging extra for 5G
Why are so many software engineer jobs in California, the highest cost of living state, and not in the lowest cost of living state with lowest taxes then?

You overlook the value of regional nexuses, and the positive externalities can dwarf the negatives of the taxes or regulations.

Ask yourself Nevada isn't Silicon Valley.
I think pg's original post was a bit tone-deaf, but personal attacks are poor form. I'd also say that the good-faith interpretation of the argument does in fact take growth into account -- a 1% wealth tax would leave you with ~55% of the wealth you would have had if not for the tax.

(BTW it seems there've been some changes made to pg's post[1][2])

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20200818133017/http://paulgraham....

[2] http://paulgraham.com/wtax.html
This sounds like a machine generated article with randomized jargon. Except that whoever made it also went to a lot of trouble to make a giant PDF (with text that's so low-contrast as to be borderline unreadable), and some sort of storybook (that also doesn't explain the jargon, but has plenty of helpful instances of "I see" and "You got it!" to make people feel dumb for not understanding what the hell he's talking about).
One thing I haven't seen in the discussion is the effect of the tax on the distribution of outcomes.

I'm not sure what the latest numbers are, but if 90% of startups are near 0 return for founders, and 1% are the home run swings which made it worth starting the company to begin with - then when do proposals affect the expected value for starting a company. This notebook doesn't show anything other than 'if you were going to make a bunch, you'll still have more than zero' which isn't useful.

Startups are in the land of "fat tails" - so talking about a policy saying it's fine for for most people since the people at the extreme in the fat tail are doing fine seems to be thinking under-critically.
Why do this at all ? This just promotes Nationalism and unwanted hatred.
Yes, the masks are used mainly to reduce your spreading to others. Not so much to protect yourself.
I’ll believe this when I see it.

There have been multiple “we’ll support releases for X years” in Android land, all of which have seemingly disappeared without providing the claimed support.
My roommates (likely) had it while I quarantined for a few months in a different location early on in this pandemic.

Their experience was extreme fatigue (totally exhausted going up two flights of stairs), moderate cough, and a very high fever they’re both healthy early-30s.

Everything I have read seems to indicate the severity is heavily tied to your viral load. If you get a lot of the virus your body has to fight harder than a small amount. This is part if the reason masks and avoiding indoor spaces seems to help.

Edit: They both recovered but one roommate says it took about eight weeks to feel “normal” again. No apparent long term damage, but we shall see.
Wow! How did you do this? Any tutorials or methods that would be helpful to learn how to produce something like that?
If in the US:

Roads

Available utilities due to regulatory planning with normally private companies

Your food supply is generally trustworthy

Social security.

Social safety net hospitals.

Generally clean and monitored environment to avoid carcinogens (less more recently).

Well defended.

I wonder if taxes are so high that anyone's income taxes, capital gains taxes, and consumption taxes are higher than the mulitipicative benefits from the above.
I think the reason they don't go the Thorium route is that Uranium is just so abundant -- and so incredibly energy dense -- there's not a hugely compelling reason to switch to Thorium.
It seems he was inside in that diner; as far as I read the latest, that is a risk factor, so it might not be his friends (only) that gave him a critical dose. If you have to do something, do it outside, preferably with a good breeze and keep distance. Diners are almost impossible to social distance when you sit inside and most places are hard to ventilate. Also wearing a mask protect others, not yourself (he seems to say he thinks the latter).
There is nothing immoral about a lawful business transaction to purchase a VR company. If this device required some signing of an EULA that has given away all your consumer rights then the onus is on you, no one forced you to buy it and many organisations and individuals have been warning about these business practices unheeded.

As an anecdotal example, many companies are now using instagram for image hosting that pester/ requires me to sign up. I say no thank you and move on, I'm not adversely affected but maybe that company loses some business.
So glad that new languages don't need build systems.

go build .
Yes. Offline notes in markdown. So cross-platform.

Great UI, 'Mind-mapping' thing that everybody wants, backlinking to other notes, markdown, offline (so private notes).

Other alternatives - roam research, notion, etc
The metric seems to be: Everybody who is not in intensive care is counted as a mild case.
And he was not hospitalised so he probably didn't have his lungs + heart scanned...
In our case it created entire "industry" of rewriting lecture notes by hand (some lecturers required it)
No, I'm pretty sure they used a real recording.

They link the actual recording in section 3.1: http://bit.ly/2JciYB6

What they are saying is to find their target keys, they physically modelled 330,424 candidate keys, generated an acoustic simulation and then ran the acoustic simulation of clicks though the tool described in sections 3.1 to 3.6. They used the insertion speed of 1 inch per second for this physical simulation of candidate keys.

Then they compared the output of the tool on all the candidates to the output from the original real recording to see which ones lined up the best.
Blockchain contracts definitely do not somehow preclude "evil", for almost any reasonable definition of evil. They preclude forgery and very specific categories of fraud — but beyond that the sky is the limit.
718 - I am not a teapot

https://github.com/joho/7XX-rfc/pull/180
Obsidian is a fantastic app and completely free. You also store the data yourself.
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> From all the information going around the virus might do some nasty things to your body, which manifest themselves years later.

?????

> years later

?????
Algebraic Number Starscapes
... which is why it's entirely reasonable for labour to unionise, to increase their bargaining power with employers.

One of the fundamentals of Marxism with which I disagree, though - at such a fundamental level that it drives an emotional response to the license we're discussing - is that paid labour is necessarily exploitation. That is, I consider the labour theory of value to be incorrect.

I'm reminded of the famous Reagan quote:

> How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
> by more than 10 years

Good point. Still, from 2020 both “available for 21 years” and “available for 33 years” more or less equal to “available since forever”.

> is a completely different beast than remote desktop systems

Pretty much the same. I think you’re confusing remote desktop with VNC, TeamViewer and similar. RDP doesn’t just send bitmaps, it sends GDI draw commands, later versions supplemented them with DirectX9 and D3D11 draw calls. The server implements that by replacing GPU driver with a special version which sends draw commands to connected client, as opposed to rendering stuff on the display.