skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amazing thing is we can ALL buy assets and be the "grandfather's grandfather's grandfather". It isn't hard. Even very small wealth compounds incredibly after 150 years.
One way to mitigate that is to not tax “wealth” arbitrarily. Instead imagine something more targeted like a land value tax. Property rights could be changed so that some assets that are in limited supply and posses capital value such as land, simply can’t just be owned, but are instead leased.

I mean wealth per se isn’t an issue. In the grand scheme of things what material goods you have matter little. It’s the unreasonable and unbalanced command over actual capital that create issues.
That's been one of the biggest challenges of this internship, since I'm so used to assuming that any bugs are problems with my code or some library I'm using. In general, I'll first try to debug as I would normally debug my own code, but if inexplicable behavior keeps happening, I try to strip the code down to as small of an example as possible and then look at the compiler output. In some cases (e.g. bugs with LLVM), I can just try a different compiler and see if it works (e.g. nvcc), but ptxas is the only PTX assembler out there, so confirming ptxas bugs requires much more work.

Edit: another indicator is if something works at -O0 but breaks at higher optimization levels. That could be undefined behavior in your code, but it could also suggest a bug in the optimizer. Sometimes it's helpful to fiddle with the code to figure out what causes the compiler to break. For example, with the ptxas bug, our code would work fine unless we had a long chain of function calls (even if the functions in the call chain weren't doing anything interesting). That sounds more like a compiler bug than a logic error on our part. Sometimes, you can even figure out which specific pass of the optimizer is breaking the code; LLVM has a bisect tool that allows you to run optimization passes individually until you observe the output breaking.
You’re confusing wealth with income. A wealth tax means it the government is taking a cut even when you’re assets are declining.
How about the victim applies security fixes in a timely manner and creates backups? The excuses at the end of the article are rather weak.

Edit: Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12870150
The services provided by the government have not been stable over time and have dramatically increased
You say it like that ambiguity is a bad thing.

I came to understand OAuth2 much better when I realized that it exists to make the lives of big companies easier, and to make the lives of small developers possible. If BigCo only offers an OAuth2 API, then developers will figure it out because they have no choice. And from the point of view of big companies, what matters is that they implement something that meets their needs, which they can pretend is a standard.

Ambiguities give big companies the freedom to do the different things that they want to do while everyone claims, "We're following the standard!"
> Near 50% of American pay zero federal tax.

I was looking for the lucky duckies argument to rear its head. The Intercept has an article which does a great job of eviscerating it[1]

> ...when you take all U.S. taxes into account — federal income taxes, federal payroll taxes, federal corporate taxes, the federal estate tax, federal excise taxes, and the plethora of state and local taxes — the U.S. tax system is just mildly progressive.

> If the U.S. tax system were perfectly flat, the share of taxes paid by each group of Americans above would be equal to their share of income.

> Instead, the top 1 percent — with an average income of about $2 million — made 20.9 percent of America’s income, but paid 24.1 percent of America’s taxes. Few people will perceive this as a monstrous injustice.

> Meanwhile, the middle 20 percent of Americans— with incomes between $41,000 and $66,000 per year — make 10.9 percent of America’s income and pay 9.4 percent of America’s taxes. The bottom 20 percent, making less than $23,000, make just 2.8 percent of America’s income and pay 2 percent of America’s taxes. That is, the “lucky duckies” of the right’s imagination who pay little to nothing in income taxes are still paying a significant portion of their income in taxes overall.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2019/04/13/tax-day-taxes-statistics...
Today I learned! I'm fairly familiar with "regular" spectral analysis techniques, ie FFTs and DCTs, with some CWT waveletty goodness thrown in here and there but I never heard about spectral graph analysis. That's what you get for staying in EE land too long I guess.
Matrix multiplication is like convolution.
> I have $1,000,000,000 in my checking account. This is my wealth. I am not going to be taxed a single penny on this

That's the point of a wealth tax, to in fact tax that checking account too. You seem to misunderstand how it would work and what the intent is. It doesn't treat your checking account differently from company ownership; both are wealth, a wealth tax suggests taxing both.

> I don't have IRS breathing down my neck to sell them, why should Bezos have them breathing down his?

You shouldn't if you're not wealthy (as in you have under 20 mil net worth). If you're wealthy, you can afford to pay a wealth tax, and your money will help those poorer.

Why shouldn't we be taking money from the rich and helping the entire country? Why should our country continue to have a wider and wider economic divide?

Anyway, the IRS absolutely would breath down your neck to give them money if you owed them taxes. If all your assets were stock, and you somehow triggered a large tax liability, you'd have to sell some stock to pay the IRS. That's already true. It's perfectly possible to trigger a tax liability larger than your liquid assets now, and have to sell stock to cover it.

But that's rare now. And with a wealth tax that would still be rare. Most people with 20MM+ net worth have liquid assets, or the ability to easily liquidate assets.

You're arguing about an edge case that almost certainly doesn't effect you in any way.
I looked into that, and I'm afraid you can't. My guess is that startpage has a special deal for some reasons, perhaps a long term contract. Perhaps if you have a lot of money and good connections with Google you can talk to them, but it's weird that no one else is using Google Search's results.

You can find some shady google search proxies that will query google for you so you don't get blocked, but I wouldn't recommend that. I didn't test them, maybe they are just a scam.
No, I get your argument. You have chosen a morally convenient abstraction that is allowing you to exclude the consequences of your actions/positions with respect to Bitcoin.

Comparing Bitcoin with a country like Iraq is pointlessly simplistic. Countries are complex social entities that aggregate behaviors through a large number of mechanisms. Bitcoin is a single mechanism whose characteristics have entirely predictable consequences.

Any sympathy for the University of California?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53214783

Bitcoin doesn't kill people. People kill people...right?
GM says 10 minutes for 100 miles, using the fast-charging standard that every car manufacturer (except Tesla) has standardized on.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/american-excess-is-back...
Hoarding wealth is bad for the economy, as it lowers the velocity of money.

See: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

Our current policy is to paper over bank liquidity or other problems by printing money. Big institutions and the mega-rich are hoarding massive quantities of cash. The economy as a whole would be better off if billionaires were doing stuff with their money rather than hoarding shares.
It is not the only one that matters, though it does make up (looked up, link at bottom) about 50% of federal tax revenue. Payroll taxes make up another 36%. Everyone who works and is paid aboveboard pays federal payroll taxes. It's only those whose AGI falls below whatever the present threshold is, or who are not paid aboveboard, who don't pay federal income taxes. If wages were keeping up better with inflation, we'd probably see a lot more people paying federal income taxes.

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-sourc...
He wrote "generally." Pointing out a single case does not negate his statement.
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without profit as incentive, no homes would've been build. Or maybe they would've been, North Korea style.
Correct on "Crimes untried," and my error. Ex parte Garland clearly covers that.

However, subsequent rulings call into question the absolute scope of Ex parte Garland (https://digitalcommons.law.wne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...).

In particular, in case of dispute, the Court has the authority to adjudicate the dispute. It's the authority the Court used to hear Ex parte Garland in the first place.

And to my knowledge, there has never been a case that considers the President's ability to pardon for all possible crimes that could be filed related to some action. So if a subsequent President chooses to tack on a fourth crime to the list of three Snowden is currently charged with, a Trump pardon would likely not attach. At least, it would be up to the Court to decide if it attaches.
I think the larger concern should be fire safety. Normal 3d printer filaments don't have the fire retardants required by UL/etc for power electronics. I've experienced power supply and battery failures that were contained by their enclosures enough times in my life to take this very seriously. Had any of those cases been wrapped in common PLA/PTEG/ABS from a 3d printer, i'm sure it would have been much worse.

So, if your printing anything that has a likelyhood of catching fire you should probably be doing it with something like: https://www.3dxtech.com/flame-retardant-filaments/firewire-f... or just wrapping that part of the design in sheet metal.
Long ago someone pointed out that the lower and middle class make the mistake of confusing money and power. As often as the rich get caught in tax dodges, much of the 'currency' that flows is only loosely denominated in dollars. We don't tax the cost of changing someone's mind.

At 100% tax rate I would expect that pattern to be magnified. As a board member, I'd use my success to hire or partner with anybody I had the slightest positive feeling for, until there is just enough money left over that I don't have the biggest target painted on my forehead.
>For another perspective, Gwern has some self trials with LSD that also showed some worrisome negative trends: https://www.gwern.net/LSD-microdosing

As usual with gwern always an interesting article. I admit that I only skimmed but his experience seems to me very atypical. He talks very little about his experience with the 250μg dose, almost dismissing it. 250μg is a very strong dose for a first timer. I would be very surprised to get a meh reaction from anyone after such a first experience. He then took only a week for a tolerance break when the recommended amount is 2 weeks. Then for the experiment he ingested 25μg. I took that amount a couple of times (my first experiences) and while it's not the classic LSD experience you are in no way unsure if you are drugged or not.

I think he just got bad tabs...
Upgrades should already be possible, using bundles and the Complete My Bundle functionality. It's not terribly user-friendly perhaps, but should (in theory) work.

A bit more expanded at http://www.eiman.tv/blog/posts/upgradepricing/index.html - haven't looked at this since 2016 though so perhaps something has changed since then.
> Modern OSes don’t allow userspace code to directly access peripheral devices, GPUs included

I was under the impression that user-space drivers (like Linux UIO) were given an address that they can mmap for direct reads/writes from/to the peripherals address space. Is this not "direct"?
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For some reasons some politicians really want to keep the CAD as low as possible?

I recall a pitch to Amazon for their headquarters that they could get away outsourcing for cheaper over there.
Sure - but only if you picture an innocent peaceful protestor being smashed to the ground by a mindless thug of a police officer who loves his job and has no family and nothing to lose.

It’s rarely that clean.
Most places don't demand email verification.
It's losing the battle but winning the war ...
If you're curious about this subject, there's a fairly new book [0] by James Nestor who argues for what you're talking about and quite a bit more. He did an experiment where he had his nose sealed to force mouth breathing and found that it caused a number of nasty health consequences, including elevated heart rate. So it's likely that your anecdote is representative of an actual causal relationship between nasal breathing and heart rate.

He did a promotional appearance [1] for the book with Joe Rogan that covers a bunch of the material, but the book is interesting beyond what gets discussed in the interview.

[0] https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/breath
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5o9b2RVC2E
I really like this technique. Sometimes it gives me a pleasant head rush which instantly relaxes my entire body. It helps me to fall asleep or to relax in every day life.

There's a nice dynamic with this technique where you end up using more of the oxygen in your breath, since you inhale for less time (4 seconds) than you hold & exhale (7+8 seconds).

With box breathing, on the other hand, I find it really unpleasant to hold the empty lung position, and also four seconds feels like it's really not enough to use my full breath.
I too was confused by this. Bad naming!
Aren't health insurance premiums deductible for individuals too?
Likewise, anyone that sells investing advice. Most make their money off of the service, not off of applying their knowledge, which really tells you their knowledge isn't worth much.
I was hoping there was going to be some explanation about how the climactic effects of the eruption influenced events elsewhere in the world. The way the article teed up the story of Napoleon's return certainly made me think it was going in that direction.
I stopped reading when I hit:

> wealth tax is a colossal privacy and administrative burden on _every single taxpayer_

I have not seen a single wealth tax proposal that doesn't have a gigantic cutoff where it would do nothing for 99%+ of the taxpayer base. Most proposals have a floor in the tens of millions.
I don't have a super-well formed opinion about this but I think a wealth tax has some issues that don't get enough attention.

Like that the market value of an asset can fluctuate wildly and become untethered from the actual rational value of the asset.

So imagine you're Bezos or Musk and you're not trying to be super rich per se but just trying to build a company according to your vision and so you have a bunch of equity in the company (so that you can control it) but no matter how loudly you proclaim that the market is overvaluing your stock the price keeps going up and now you have to sell lots of shares in order to pay the wealth tax assessed against your equity and you don't have a controlling vote anymore and your vision for your company just dies.

And maybe the hordes of people who think no single person should have a controlling share of a billion-dollar company are right - I don't know. But I'm pretty sure a large fraction of people who build companies (like Bezos or Musk) are doing it to build an enterprise, and not for the cash. Otherwise they'd just stop and have fun with their private jets at a certain point. So if a wealth tax were not going to let them keep control of their enterprise beyond the first decade, they probably would opt not to waste their time building it at all.

And maybe that's fine, but I'm not sure what society looks like in a world where people don't want to build companies.
Inflation is not really tax, more exogenous parameter of monetary system. It does not give much advantage to government (as expected inflation rate is accounted in bond rate).

Property tax would make more sense as a tax on limited resource than as a wealth tax.
Yes, it is considered more tax advantaged method of returning capitol to shareholders. Dividends get taxed as corporate profits, then again as income downstream. Buybacks are not taxed at either stage.
I think this is more useful than anything sponsored by rms/gnu. On the mailing list they are upset that MELPA was included as an option, for example (they consider it evil).

The purpose of this survey is to get an idea of the preferences of Emacs users. Not to get an idea of the ideal Emacs users that rms cares for. Given how many MELPA packages many (most?) power users use, excluding their opinions makes for a pointless survey.

Kind of like asking people their views on healthcare, and not listing any option other than the universal healthcare options.
>Also, Buffets effective tax rate is lower than his secretary's tax rate.

That should be a lesson in how much of our taxation system is regressive not a lesson on how little Buffet is taxed.

Buffet and his secretary both pay a couple hundred dollars of tax to register their used cars or a couple dollars of tax on a pack of smokes or a couple tens of dollars fee for some government service or a buck here and there for toll roads and those things are a much larger fraction of the secretary's income. The less you make the more these "fixed fee" taxes screw you.
Often time it leaves corporations simply to inflate the price of assets, which is not productive. While we have been lowering taxes past many decades the velocity of money has gone down.
> As a business owner

You're already a business owner. You're faced with decisions on what to do with an already existing business, not whether to start a new business, and in what state or country to do that.
Why can't there just be a new amendment? Income tax was "unconstitutional" before the 16th amendment, right?
Right, today the logic is: If the risk-adjusted cost of a ransom is less than the cost of implementing proper backups, then it makes sense to just not do backups. If paying ransom was illegal, maybe they'd actually invest in those backups.
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It's also one of those things where if you succeed in staving off disaster, folks think you overreacted.
I don't think the intent was ever to attract more immigrants. It's simply prestige for your own values and a snub for the opposition.
Income tax appears to be half of the federal taxes that are taken in. Payroll is the other major one.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/policy-basics-wher...
I would look at it as the surcharge on protecting a person's wealth. A person with no wealth doesn't need to have their wealth protected. A person with a great deal of wealth enjoys the benefits of taxation, having their wealth protected from the starving mobs outside their estate.
>The more taxes you have on corporate income, the higher the incentive for corporations to invest in the company, so they can avoid paying taxes.

And the lower the incentive to make new investments.

And the higher the incentive to engage in socially wasteful tax-avoidance accounting.
And yours was formed based on gospel truth handed down from heaven? C'mon.
It's not the same as union types, but you can also often achieve polymorphic serialisation with any OO language, through the use of interfaces.
There's quite a lot of literature on the US and UK's no-concessions policies on kidnapping. Here's one example [1]. A few quotes:

> Despite the U.S. no-concessions policy, U.S. citizens continue to top the list of nationalities kidnapped by terrorists. This may be explained by the prominent role and perceived influence of the United States and the ubiquity of U.S. citizens around the world. Nationals of the United Kingdom, which also has a no-concessions policy, are second on the list.

> While a no-concessions policy may not deter kidnappings, it may affect the treatment of hostages in captivity and determine their ultimate fate. According to a 2015 study published by West Point, Americans held hostage by jihadist groups are nearly four times as likely to be murdered as other Western hostages (Loertscher and Milton, 2015). The no-concessions policy may be only part of the reason. Another factor would be the jihadists’ intense hostility toward the United States.

> While the U.S. no-concessions policy has not deterred
kidnappings, there is some evidence that political concessions and ransom payments appear to encourage further kidnappings and escalating demands.

> And although it did not produce any demonstrable decline
in kidnappings of U.S. citizens, a 2016 study published in the European Journal of Political Economy argues that, without the no-concessions policy, there would have been even more kidnappings of U.S. nationals (Brandt, George, and Sandler, 2016).

[1] https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE20...

My take: Arguably, part of the reason the policy has not been successful in preventing kidnappings is that most of Europe does pay ransoms, and Europeans versus Americans are not always easily distinguishable. Even if the policy hasn't directly stopped kidnappings, it probably has stopped them indirectly, by avoiding funding kidnapping organizations. Europe has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in ransoms to terrorist organization, and Qatar allegedly paid close to a billion dollars in ransom. This has to fund further efforts.
It looks like this is happening because the bypass paywall extension is still signed by mozilla, but not distributed through their normal addon website, which I just now learned is possible.

Still not great, but it is good to learn that it is just a little less restrictive than I thought.
> To be clear, _many_ statically typed languages have perfect support for this concept (Rust/Swift/Scala/Haskell, to name a few).

No they don't, at least in the way you're selling it. The "limitation" here is JSON which doesn't attach type information. You're going to have to implement some typing protocol on top of the JSON anyway which will face similar problems to the ones you raised (unless you do some trait based inference which could be ambiguous and dangerous).

If they were Enums/Unions over a serialization protocol like protobuf, maybe your case makes sense. Even then, Im guessing a large % of the OAuth 3 requests will go through Java/Golang libraries, so on a practical level this is a bad idea too.
> Some evidence for this are parts of Europe is abandoning their wealth taxes.

That's not evidence. We have right-wing parties in Europe too. They introduce right-wing policies when they have power, such as the above.
Can’t NSA (or FBI) track down these attackers, or help decrypt the data?

At least then it makes a useful service for the public, also clears doubts on its crypto capabilities.
State and local taxes have been going up in many places. Often in response to decreased federal support.
I do pay a wealth tax in Europe. It's fine. Claims here that it is impractical are overstated.

Income tax is already an administrative burden on every single taxpayer, and it works fine.

Do you imagine that people don't already track and value their vehicles and homes and other high value material wealth? That strikes me as unusual.
Why buy a house if the city will take 1% of its value annually?

We already have wealth taxes, only very narrowly targeted.
One thing that might work is if white hat hackers outnumber the black hat hackers and create ransomware that doesn't have a decrypt option. At a certain point, people will stop paying the ransom.

Another option is: forbid bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
At least in AWS, it will by default instantiate an application LB for every ingress (so at least one per namespace).

With an internal ingress controller, one can combine all ingresses into e.g. a single nginx service. That service can then be fronted by one single network LB for the whole cluster.
What do you use instead of OAuth2 yourself ?
I didn't see a link to the pricing for these.