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> As far as I know there’s no basis for this ever having been done in human history

Two seconds of googling. The Wikipedia article for progressive taxation[1] suggests that the Roman Republic had a form of wealth tax:

> The tax rate under normal circumstances was 1% of property value, and could sometimes climb as high as 3% in situations such as war. These taxes were levied against land, homes and other real estate, slaves, animals, personal items and monetary wealth

Then we have the wealth tax Wikipedia article itself[2] that lists 8 instances in recent history of wealth taxes.

Then you say:

> Not to even mention California’s proposed plan to keep collecting taxes after the person flees the state

How is this any different from how taxes are owed today? I'm pretty sure all back taxes you owe a state remain even if you move states. Otherwise you could just rack up a huge tax bill & move states to escape.

Even federal US tax liabilities are applied on world wide income & has treaties with many countries to enforce these laws for expats.

> It’s also unethical. Taxing people based on how much money they have left over after paying all of their other taxes is just wrong

Aside from stating a personal tautology you haven't really elevated the discussion much & then everything else flowed from this premise rather than evaluating the argument on its merits. I'm sure there's a compelling argument against this that could be made against a wealth tax independent of constitutional issues, but you haven't made it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
I've been working on personal and professional projects where growth isn't a truly restricting constraint but is still an actual constraint. What do you mean by "meaningful"? Once I get into the 10's of terabytes there's no storage system where copying a TiB of data is "instant" or ignorable.

Professionaly I work on a financial reporting system where there are around 1.5 million accounts with trading activity. Things like moving a month of data around and checksumming still take on the order of 1 hour. If the size of that monthly dataset doubled, we'd be OKAY but it it grew 10x we'd have to start restructuring things both on the software side and the hardware side.

For personal work I am working with searching video frame substrings regardless of codec, resolution etc within videos in a ~50 TiB video set. Having to re-encode hundrends of GiB of video at a time is some thing that takes a huge amount of time and nothing something I can just "throw into an S3 bucket". The growth of said working set is not truly constrained but is actually constrained. I can only afford so many 8-10 TiB HDDs at a time! They also fail and have to be mirrored/backedup with rsycn at the very least which adds to the cost for me.
Temporal databases - where SQL:2011 left off. I think the concepts of bitemporality and tritemporality are what the post author is looking for.

Something the original post reminds me of a little is Crux [1].

[1] https://opencrux.com/main/index.html
"Neural-based", what a clickbaity way to say ml-assisted.
Bet it eventually becomes like Google but with less transparency. Apple will do the same stuff, but call it something different.
As of the next iOS release that will no longer be the case
Can you share some more details about the current state? Is it still written in Go?
Those GPL'd(eg. GCC, Linux) projects predate their current corporate sponsors. The sponsors may go away anytime if they feel the project won't add any business value for them. I highly suspect if they would sponsor support any new GPL project.
They’ll sell all that back to us.
And once again HN lawyers don’t understand the law. The US unlike Europe has to show consumer harm. Not harm to other businesses. This has been the school of thought since Bork.

Apple hasn’t blocked competitors. For every service that Apple charges money for, there is a competitor.

Every platform owner and reseller forces conditions on third parties - console makers, set top box sellers, physical retail stores, etc.

If what you said was any kind of reality, Apple or any other company could be accused of being a “monopoly” if they had any type of margins. Saying Apple is a monopoly because users choose to spend more is about like saying Nike is a monopoly when other shoes are cheaper.

It is not anti competitive to have a differentiator where users choose to spend more on your product than competitors.
pronounces it Gnar or Gener, depending if you are a gif or a jif person.

You can also go for GunsNRoses, but they won't like it and complain. Which might be good for visibility at the beginning.
I thought the same thing about Time Machine. It works really well with a local laptop that I plug in from time to time for this to work. However, is it considered Time Machine when an iDevice backs itself up to the cloud?

Mail is definitely a local app, even if they did screw the pooch pretty badly with that gmail bug they had a few years ago.
Can you talk more about the specific? What kind of parsers did you guys use? How about storage? How often did you update pages?
I don't want to upvote this, but it is so true.
Then they would completely stop Firefox development in favor of Safari.
That's coming in iOS 14, evidently.
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Have the lid slide or pivot to open laterally?
If it were so cut and try that anyone could be an expert based on reading one FTC rule, why has it taken 30 years and none of the platform vendors - including the console makers - been taken to court? Maybe HN posters aren’t lawyers?
oxide computing is taken... plus the name game around compound is tiring. I prefer to try rock bands.
It is possible. MDN does not have the edit to play feature of wc3 or at least it is not accessible so I can't test the different options easily.
Noms has gone pretty quiet since the acquisition. Dolt is based on noms (not sure how much is has diverged) and much more active: https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt
The idea is that all the money are earned in a society, so social equality is a common concern. People tried different approaches to control equality, and the proposal which currently looks like one of better ones is this.

It's not about "how much money they have left". It's about "it's hard to effectively tax at the earning time, so taxation is applied to leftovers".

> As far as I know there’s no basis for this ever having been done in human history.

So wealth tax as a term exist for a purely theoretical concept?

The goal is noble, of course, as always. With good intentions... It would be nice if a better mechanism for keeping society on somewhat equal footing would be offered instead.
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Would you move to a city where you knew before hand that some of the regulations weren’t appealing when you could easily move to another city right next door?
Look for the arrival of cycling in Apple maps upon the release of iOS 14 in the upcoming weeks
Just FYI - bot management is basically snake oil. Distil can be circumvented by automating Chrome headful. Akamai doesn't even require browser automation. Can't speak to CF, but it's probably not different.

If your script kiddie is automating browsers and using residential proxies, he's probably sophisticated enough to get around this stuff. You're not missing anything.
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I'm using MB Air 2020 now because of that, just couldn't stand Touch Bar in my previous MB Pro.
It is slower unfortunately, but at least it has normal, usable keyboard.
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Well they've gone to the effort to build a search index and they have sufficient market power to push millions of user onto whichever search engine they'd like. It's essentially leaving money on the table not to take the final step of popping a web frontend on it and making it the Safari default.
I was born in Jakarta and lived there for the most part of my life.

For the most part of Jakarta's history, the city's state owned water company never claimed that the piped water are actually potable. People with money resorted to buy bottled water for all their water needs, and people with less means resorted to using groundwater.

I believe that even large apartment complexes in Jakarta are pumping groundwater simply because the water company is so unreliable. I know for a fact that a large housing development near Jakarta even have their own pumps, pipes, and distribution network. Such is people's distrust of the state's water company. In fact, my parents used to draw from groundwater as well.

The amount of groundwater being used means that more seawater seeps in, and the displaced groundwater resulted in parts of the city slowly sinking into the ground.

In short, Jakarta was originally a Dutch port that was never meant to be a capital of anything. It is well past its use-by date, and was definitely never designed to fit millions of people.
I think this is fake mews because the article is missing pictures. It would be trivial to create a really cool satellite overlay if it were true. Clicking the link just gives us a stylized “artist’s depiction”.
No idea, it's been years since I last worked on it. It was also not the only Go service written at Apple (90% of cloud services at Apple were written in Java), though it may have been the first one used in production.
This is interesting but I feel like this isn't even the foundational problem for most websites these days. Speaking as a consumer, one of my problems almost every day is that there seem to be a lot of missing data about products. So filtering only somewhat works.

Also, just get categories for products down well. Don't personalize it for me. Just make sure products are properly categorized, and make a logical, easy to use category menu.

Lastly, make search work. As in, if I type in a product name and it doesn't show up in the search but I can find it on the website, fix that.

And if I search for x today, I don't want my search results to change tomorrow or a week from now because it's "personalized".

I wish you success, but I wish the basic things would get some focus first.
I don’t really see Master Class being a thing for computer science. To be honest, I don’t see it being a thing for most engineering subjects.

The knowledge here is mostly objective and non-personal. The best classes are not necessarily those carried out by “masters”, but by really good educators. Sometimes the two aspects overlap (e.g. Feynman), but most of the time they don’t. And what’s more, it is actually okay to learn engineering with a teacher who is dry, accurate, but not necessarily the top engineer of the field.

For art and music, on the other hand, the deeper you learn, the more personal it gets. So, the subjective experience of a master is of great value. That’s where the this kind of class really shines.
That may be one of the stated pretexts but its false. The real reason is as always in history: inordinate corporate greed for wealth and power. Corporations are just privatised govts. Unless there are ever-evolving checks and balances, they will inevitably attract control to themselves.
Maybe because they are desperate for a different search provider than Google?

I don't use Siri or any assistant, so I don't seem to use what I'm being averaged into using. Majority opinion here is that Siri is seriously lacking behind the other offerings. Apple won't be oblivious to this. If it is solely due to their back-end search engine, then making that a public search engine website won't do Apple any favors if the results are truly that bad.
Its not even an option on newer UEFI machines, all consoles are a framebuffer.
I have to agree. I don't like the direction I see things going. I've tried more and more recently to shift to terminal usage only, as I find most terminal programs still respect the items you listed. I've actually been fairly successful, on my main machine the only dependencies I have on graphical apps are a web browser, image/video viewing/manipulation, and gaming. Everything else, I have at least one terminal based program that I use.

> As an increasingly old computer nerd, I am holding on to what I have for dear life. Too much of my identity is wrapped around this idea that computers and tech are brain-amplification devices, and not appliances like everyone else seems to want them to be.

I feel this. I hate seeing everyone become more and more sucked into technology, but with less and less understanding.

I want to know my tech inside and out as much as possible, and be able to control it.

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As a preface to everything below this I'm not good at programming.

I've got a theory. I think that there are two main philosophies when it comes to creating $THING. One is to focus on pumping out features, and one is to focus on correctness.

Eventually, the project focusing on features will become unmaintainable, and a new project will form from the correctness project -- focused on features. This new fork/direction will continue, until it becomes to large to deal with.

And thus the cycle repeats.

I believe Linux is currently straddling the Features/Correctness line, and that BSD will be what follows up. This is obviously years/decades in the future though. I could also see something like RedoxOS catching on instead.

Edit: Spelling. Probably still missed some. Also, image -> image/video.
If I understand https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/6296 and https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/5777#i... correctly, what happened is the RealSense developers don't provide a pre-compiled version for 3.8 on PyPI.

Python is "broken" in that the C API does not maintain backwards compatibility. (See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0620/#the-c-api-blocks-c... for a proposed solution.)

RealSense is "broken" in that they don't provide builds for all the versions of Python their users use. But that's because "Officially, Librealsense is only currently supported up to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"

Perhaps also your process is "broken" for depending only on pre-compiled builds; the published solution is to build from source. https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/6296#i... says it's possible. Or "broken" for using an unsupported environment and expecting it will work.

Software in general is broken. It's amazing that it works as well as it does.
I agree with your assessment.
The state of New York is also known for pursuing high value individuals after they leave the state and trying to tax them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/tax-collectors-chase-rich-ne...
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I wonder how doable it is to make medicine more like aviation?

Medicine is for a large part trial and error (try this medicine and come and in one week to see if it helped), under high time pressure (general practitioners in the netherlands have 10 minutes to see a patient, including reading up on previous visits, and following up with hospital research results, etc).

Even if you'd try to determine learnings from every error, and put these in protocols to instruct healthcare people to avoid same mistakes next time, would they be able to effectively use this knowledge within the 10 minutes allocated?
That would eliminate the need for Rust. Just imagine, if your C code can be converted into Rust, would there ever be a case to start a fresh project in Rust? It will permanently become an Intermediate language.
10 days to a working week is not long if your weekends are 5 days long :)

Anyway, astronomy does use "Julian Dates" which are timezone agnostic (which means era and location agnostic), rational number time markers 0-based on the "beginning of history".

The problems of seasonality and divisibility remain when you start caring about human life patterns more, as you suggest.
At the same time, there's never been so much open-source software and hacker-friendly hardware available.

It's true that the average computing device is turning into an appliance (is it a bad thing?), but it also appears the options for DIY are ever-expanding.
> I'd personally love to see them make a search engine that isn't built around Ads

The ads that Apple sells on the app store contribute $2 billion in revenue -- I don't think they'd build a search engine that isn't built around ads.
If Facebook pulls news from its Australian sites it'll be less compelling
It's remarkable to see people so detached from their natural origins to believe produce will freze or spoil when extracted from the supermarket and exposed to the outside world for a few minutes. Unless you are living at the North-Pole and need to walk more than half an hour in arctic blizzards, there is physically no way your food can freeze on the way back from the supermarket.

Food grows outside, in direct sunlight, exposed to scorching heat or near-freezing temperatures. Most of the plant based food is still living in the shelf when you purchase it, and has imune systems to fight-off bacteria and the like that would otherwise colonize it. The only concern are products of animal origin in the heat, but even the most sensitive like refrigerated fresh fish, still needs at least a few hours in hot weather before they can become problematic.
>. Oh take a rock about the size of x(whatever x was agreed upon at the time), and see how many that item weighs.

I do not disagree with the above, I can totally see that being done (hell, when we didn't have a measure out while hiking with my friends we used "5 iPhones long" as a temporary measurement)

Problem is of course, that I can't see how that measurement can ever scale well beyond one medieval towns market place as a measurement, let alone a country, kingdom or a territory without confusion. It is ambiguous. Just as the example you said, it is easy for a fraudster to pick up any rock and claim that one to resemble the standard rock unit and get some unfair trading advantage. It is too easy to trample with. The purpose of measurement is exactly to REMOVE ambiguity, and establish a STANDARDS just as we established common languages for communication.

And on a side note, usage of the "stone measurement" was officially prohibited for commercial use in 1985 in UK. It is apparently still used for body-weight, but I guess there ambiguity can be preferred ;)

Updating measurement unit according to societal needs is only natural, and the purpose of the Stone story in my comment was that, even among so many different national (with different culture, language, metric system) they thought the Stone measurement made no sense today. Except the Brit that had a mental model for it. Which was the point: sometime mental model can seem like an good argument, but as the Canadian and American also thought stone was dumb, (While everyone else in the room thought imperial units were dumb) they kind of proved that their argument for imperial units was also not found on good basis.
Economic viability is a function of cost today and profit tomorrow. Cost today depends on how much practice you had yesterday. It could be that projects in Europe and China are economically viable because the cost of civil engineering is lower than in the US since their engineers get plenty of practice and there's enough ongoing projects to justify capital investments in steel, cement, and equipment production that keep per unit costs of building materials low.
What I really want is something that will translate HTML/HTTP to Gopher. I'm really just kinda done with the web. I still need to set up Gopher for my site, but it's on my to do list.
You don't need particularly tight integration with the operating system to make a good maps app; you'd want access to CarPlay, which Google Maps has, and you'd probably want a good sharing extension, which I don't think Google Maps has but could if Google cared about making better iOS apps than they seem to. Google is rather notorious for being very, very slow to adopt new iOS features in their apps, and it's definitely not because Apple is making it difficult for them to do so.

The history here is also at least worth a passing mention -- the iOS Maps app originally used Google mapping services. The reason Apple built their own back end is because Google refused to give them access to vector-based maps and turn-by-turn navigation unless Apple shared more user data with Google than they were willing to provide.
It already is the Safari default. As you type your search, it gives you a Siri Suggestion. When you type a query into Spotlight, you use it.

Apple isn't an ad-supported business. It's not going to look like Google. It looks the way it's already released.
car bombs are an unfortunately regular thing in this world (e.g. Azaz last month). Along with suicide vest wearers (Afghanistan most recently) and of course the IEDs designed to avoid detection and jamming in Iraq.

In each of these theatres we have documented heavy use of drones for recon.

The problem is nothing to do with logistics or skillset.

Hobby grade drones (even the heavy lift types which can manage 20kg payload) are not viable weapons. Their payload is too small, their accuracy too imprecise in practice and the economics of a stolen car’s payload being 1000x that of a medium-large hobby drone renders these a plot line in a movie rather than a real thing.

Age of military equipment has nothing to do with anything.
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Good point! Think what I was thinking about was the large suburban homeowner (around 2 acres)
I think it's too soon to assume that Apple's search engine would be accessible directly from the web, rather than just being a backend for search functionality from within iOS. After all, they don't host any Apple Maps equivalent to Google Maps on the web.
Interesting stuff. I've used libcurl to crawl at that kind of pace, is the parsing/indexing separate from that count per day? Also interested in how you dealt with DNS and/or rate limiting
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I'm pretty sure Apple Maps is using Yelp's data for business hours -- those seemed to be mostly reliable until the pandemic. Now, not so much. I don't know if Google is doing better on that point.
And I sit here kind of shocked that Apple would use Java for anything, backend or not. I thought Apple had a strong preference for owning its own tech stacks, whether that be ObjC/WebObjects or later Swift...
Who do you think people complain to when their browser doesn't work right? It doesn't matter if an addon is responsible, many people will blame the browser (or at least go to them for support). This increases the support cost and leads to a very negative perception of the browser itself. Also I'd suggest that addon authors publicly complaining about broken Firefox APIs would be a whole other headache for Mozilla.

We've been here before with desktop Firefox when the browser got a lot of flak for issues that were mainly caused by addons.
Diversity would definitely be positive, the web is too important to have it indexed and sorted from one perspective only. Would prefer half a dozen engines and perhaps all enabled to provide results to metas who could further offer more diversity.
Methinks machine code and assembly is the way to go not high level pussification of the kernel.
I am yet to see any GB/TB project that cannot be handled by traditional RDMS systems, so I don't wish for new databases other than when I have to work without either Oracle or SQL Server and wish to have their productivity tooling around.
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>the average computing device is turning into an appliance (is it a bad thing?)

Yes, for those of us who mostly want the appliance, but sometimes want to tweak it. I don't want to have to build a system from the ground up to get my desired experience if it's 98% the same as the appliance would have been out of the box; I'd much rather start from the appliance and just change the 2%.
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