skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
still very gameable.

The LLC with the innocuous name of 123 Main St LLC which is the owner of the property at 123 Main St definitely has an owner, and it might not be a tax resident because the LLC is owned by 123 Main St Limited in the Cayman Islands and the ultimate beneficial owner, who is still unknown at this point, may not be an American to begin with.

So just applying heuristics to "hey that house doesn't appear in our tax records get it boys" would create more problems than you think.

And this also circles back to "not competitive". If your country has problems with expropriation people will stop coming there, and others will leave.

But also note, the US constitution does protect against expropriation in the 5th amendment. When rich people start being the subject of civil asset forfeiture the 5th amendment will suddenly start applying again.
With an extra hidden secret beneath it. That's true for effective taxes on corporate income - if loopholes exist to allow corporations to offshore their money easily and dodge those taxes they're going to do that so they can pull the money out (or, alternatively, temporarily stash their money abroad since the US has a tax holiday every decade).

Honestly, the tax holidays royally piss me off especially coming from a party that "embraces law and order" - it's essentially like pardoning a bunch of robbers - except the actual robbers stole far less money.
The top 1% also have 39 percent of the wealth and rising. The "and rising" means it's pretty clear that the taxes are not enough (and/or wages need to be wildly adjusted), if you believe that we currently have too much wealth inequality.
As an American, the first time I rode a train was in Canada.
I don't know what you mean by "because of the physics involved".

Suppose you send a 440Hz square wave, amplitude -1 to +1 V, to a speaker, and use a top-quality microphone and a reasonable oscilloscope to look at the resulting wave in the air.

Here are perfectly normal things that you can expect to observe:

- the wave is no longer square

- the beginning of each cycle (attack) is louder than the middle

- the middle of the cycle is louder than the attack

- the attack and decay are both ringing with new high frequencies that you didn't send in

- integer multiples of the frequency are audible

- the sympathetic vibration of the speaker enclosure is nearly as loud as the signal

- it's very good as long as you hold the mic in exactly the right spot, but if you move it you get different distortions

- the speaker catches on fire (this excludes plasma speakers, which are supposed to be on fire when active)

All of these things are because of physics.
Have they enabled reserved instance pricing ? Last I checked it wasn't available in many zones (I'm asia-south-1)
Typical turn the victim into the guilty tactics. Why not hunt down the extortionist?
I'm not wealthy enough for a wealth tax to apply, but a wealth tax is a colossal privacy and administrative burden on _every single taxpayer_. Assets must be accounted for when calculating wealth, so the tax service will be required to track and value assets including vehicles, homes, and material good etc. for every citizen to see if the wealth tax would apply to them -- if we didn't report material goods, the wealthy could sock money away in expensive cars, artworks, jewelry and other material non-real-estate assets as they already do for investment.

This creates a surveillance society on every possession and purchase, and facilitates confiscation and intimidation, an encroachment on our liberty. In fact, that the IRS and the government have a view on every single financial transaction due to the Patriot Act already has a chilling effect on freedom (consider donations). A wealth tax would absolutely be a massive and unnecessary further encroachment upon liberty as the majority of Americans would ultimately have to detail and report their assets to show they do not qualify, while the wealthy would very likely be able to largely anyway cheat on their wealth tax by manipulating valuations of their assets.
I've been a fan of "Opening Arguments" for awhile (https://openargs.com/). The co-hosts are the first to clarify that Mr. Torrez is in mostly corporate patent law, so he doesn't know the entire field... But he passed the Bar, so he has a lawyer's viewpoint on topics.

The most educational aspect has been their dives into the point of the law itself, i.e. the underlying theory of why we approach guilt, innocence, findings of fact, etc. the way we do.
Near 50% of American pay zero federal tax. The top 10% of all Americans pay 69% of all federal taxes currently. This is a point 'left out' of current discussions.

Instead of increasing entitlements or adding yet more taxes - we lower the size of the government spending UNTIL it matches where most people pay for the services received in a more scaled manner.

Source: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
> The President...shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

The Constitution makes no mention of trial, or of conviction.

Indeed, the Supreme Court has ruled that pardons can be offered prior to a conviction in Ex parte Garland[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Garland
I'm convinced the best strategy is a tax system where net worth is capped and heavily taxed based on average net worth of all Americans.

There is simply no other way to align interests of the wealthy.

https://anacyclosis.org/2020/05/25/how-do-we-save-democracy
Can't seem to render 2 out of 4 of my Gatsby websties:

Failing:

https://seleniumbase.io/devices/?url=videohubapp.com

https://seleniumbase.io/devices/?url=healthimpactfund.org

Passing:

https://seleniumbase.io/devices/?url=yboris.dev

https://seleniumbase.io/devices/?url=yboris.com
I'm afraid Poe's Law is hitting hard for me on this comment.
The main reasons I started using Ansible in 2013 were its agentless setup (which this article covers nicely) and its --check --diff options (which this article leaves out). Does salt have a do-nothing sanity check mode?
The British, Canadian and Australian Broadcasting Corporations.

NPR and PBS in the US.
Doing justice to everyone :)

But it still befuddles me how that simple explanation never crossed my mind.

And thanks for calling me a nice person - I don't really deserve that.
Mangling common cliche phrases is a pretty entertaining activity. Sometimes you gotta shit or get off the fan.
Disagree. Agree with 100% with OP. Taxes are high, reinvest in your company. Taxes are low, transfer wealth to yourself. As an aside, just to make some peoples blood flow perk up. In 2020, if you have paid any taxes in the last 5 years, you can expense up the wazoo, and carryback taxes. See cares act. In theory this nets out 5 years of no actual company taxes being paid.
I feel similarly. I will say that the lack of static typing compounds just about every other problem I have with Nix, so this seems like a marked improvement, but still it would be nice to have something that is more familiar and intuitive to programmers generally.
Inflation and property taxes are wealth taxes. Capital gains tax and tax on dividends is not.
> I imagine it's mostly build system scripting.

NetBSD has had this[0] for ~20 years (requiring only POSIX conformance from the build host). Think of it as a sort of first principle[1] in action. I wouldn’t be surprised if FreeBSD could achieve some success leaning on this work.

[0] http://www.mewburn.net/luke/papers/build.sh.pdf

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle
Without them, we wouldn't have a reliable way of acquiring and updating apps that Google doesn't want on its platform like NewPipe.
As a previous student in Professor Rompf's compiler class, I had the best learning experience while writing the parser for a Scala-like language. The parser logic has since influenced not only how I code, also how I think.
I downvoted you because the idea that 1% of the total population will die without lockdowns is directly contradicted by all available evidence.

Various countries had various levels of lockdown, and none had anywhere remotely close to that fraction of their population die.
The real solution: a flat tax. 20% for everyone, regardless of take. A fair, non-political solution.

Dismantle the IRS, ditch all of the complexity.
Sad to see ignorance being spewed all over. The Wealthy have tax engineers that make sure they pay as little taxes as legally possible. High Taxes only punish the Working class and Business owners making sure that social mobility becomes nonexistent.
Lower taxes means you have higher profit post-tax. You would not need to avoid paying taxes on post-tax money.
The same argument can be used against the poor. Poor-people-oriented media will be quick to tell that wealth taxes are a good idea.
Communism was an approach to gain fair equality, but humans are so corrupted it never was achieved.
Wealth taxes mean another evolution iteration for loopholes. Of course the politicians whose audience is poor would promote that idea. But is it fair?
Just copy the UK and pass a law allowing government agencies to do illegal things.
I love using cap'n'proto to store configurations. It's really slick.

+ Type safe since you define the schema for every part of your configuration.

+ Ridiculously easy to read/understand (writing has a small ramp curve to build the muscle memory).

+ Type system is very flexible & rich (lists, maps, unions), supports generics (for built-in & custom types) & everything is neatly composable (including constants that reference constants).

+ The config compiles down to a minimal binary file.

+ You can have arbitrary configurations in 1 file (you compile a specific constant to a file so each configuration you want is just 1 constant value you define in the schema).

+ The binary file can be converted back to text using standard cap'n'proto tools so it's easy to double-check the config you're deploying.

+ Perfect backward/forward support for the configuration as long as you follow the rules (similar to protobuf/flatbuffers) since you have to define the schema for your constants.

+ Loading the config file from any data source (disk, network) is trivial and for on-disk usages you could mmap the struct to get even better performance (only the parts of the config you access would get paged in).

+ Supports a variety of languages. While the RPC stuff has a bit less adoption, the parts needed for configuration should be available in the most popular languages (I think the only missing language generator is Swift).

The only negatives are:

- You do have to define the schema for your config

- There's a single upfront cost to integrate cap'n'proto into your build system if you're not using CMake.

Neither feel like prohibitive negatives though. If you're looking at strong typing, why not go all the way & make sure that your entire config has a strongly typed structure to it? Not just that some field is an int also that there's certain specifically named fields & that accessing these fields in a strongly-typed languages will result in build errors if you forgot to change something.
I like this idea. Am going to try it right now. Thanks!
Unfortunately, 'useful research' has been all but outlawed for nearly half as long as anyone on this site has been alive. All because we have an arbitrary legal distinction that's a hangover from the Nixon era.
I think it's pretty clear that corporate re-investment going up is good for the economy, perhaps looking at the equivalent lengths countries go to draw excess investment money from the international market in is a decent example - or maybe the WPA in the US where the government artificially injected money into employment to restart the economy.
Hacker says he correctly guessed Trump’s Twitter password–it was “maga2020 ”
We’ve been testing a few Graviton instances since before GA and have gone “all in” with our latest release targeted for EOY.

We went live with R6g (Redis) and R6gd/T4g (ES) instances at the beginning of the month. We were coming from an ancient cluster from AWS managed ES (2.3) and using their i3 elasticsearch instances so it’s been an Apples to Oranges comparison.

We are running T4g/C6g/R6g
K8s clusters for web servers.

We do still have Postgres on R5 instances but I’m interested to check out R6g there since we can do a direct comparison
Smart dealers don't use the product themselves.
I just upvoted you because I am also shocked by the action of upvoting someone you agree with.
Exactly. Some people seem to believe that wealth in shares of a company are in some way different from other types of wealth. Just sell shares an you'll be fine with your taxes. By the way, if you're the controller of a company, you can sell shares without voting power (this has always been a possibility).
ARM Linux / Raspberry Pi F H client now available
So you think there is no need to make something different for Rust than using it as a shading language for Vulkan, or GPU programming can be improved with different approaches?

Basically, I'd like there to be something that's ergonomic, using Rust and can eventually help get rid of CUDA lock-in.
Multi-family buildings != squalor

It sounds like you've never been in an apartment building. Some are crappy, sure, but plenty are pretty nice or at least decent (the building, the apartments will be what the residents make of them).
If I've got some code I want deployed to nanovms cloud, say, there doesn't seem to be a way to do so. All I see on the website is "schedule demo".
> capital flight is a real thing

Yep, that's why all of the rich people have left New York and California.
Learn Mandarin if not already.
> have you tried using WhatsApp without the Contacts permission?

Yes, that's how I use WhatsApp. It sucks because all I see is conversations and calls from phone numbers without names.

But I don't trust WhatsApp enough to share my whole contacts list with them.

I would be happy to grant permission for individual number-name associations to be visible to WhatsApp, if that was possible. It's the contacts list as a whole I'm not willing to share; the people I'm actually talking with on it would be fine.

But no, we can't have sensible things like that.

Showing the numbers is very silly, because WhatsApp knows the name of every person I'm talking with. It has their name from the person at other end! But no, it has to use the Dark Pattern(tm) of showing numbers to pressure me into sharing all my contacts, which it doesn't actually need.
Yes. Yesterday I purchased a reserved Postgresql db.m6g instance in us-east-1

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/pricing/#Reserved_Inst...
> Taxes low? Start up something new, get it going. Taxes go up again? Sell it off (if they haven't already) and go back to early retirement doing whatever.

Sure, they may feel that way. But the person who bought the business off them is still incentivized to behave in the way that the GP post describes.
It's possible to be testing a live version of your own site when you can't easily change the Same-Origin policy for just yourself.
As an immigrant I concur. I have taxation without representation.
The problem it seems to me is that the line between corporation and those other types of groups have gotten blurred to the point of non-existence. How many of those corporations have board members who have interests in those NGOs, charities, governments and universities? How many corporations themselves are funding them or supporting them in some way?

In a lot of ways I feel like there needs to be some kind of separation of corporation and state, much like was done with religion and state.

I mean state as in generally, governments and other publicly funded things. Treating corporations as people with the same rights to donate and influence those organizations is inevitably going to lead to them becoming the dominant influence over those things.

Despite what the law says, there is no way and individual person can ever match up to what a corporate person can do. Corporations will always dominate those other groups as long as they are given the same ability to as an individual person.
Your header is your custom way .

If you add your header and the next hop is to apache or some other software (for e.g.), it won't know what you did.

Proxy protocol is a standard. Every software that supports proxy protocol reads and write it in the same way.
This is supported outside of software. All clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure ) support it. So does third party services like Cloudflare - https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/proxy-protocol
I see so many complain about these config languages. I think it is a bit black and white to think of a perfect separation between code and config. In a perfect world and easy situations yes. But I think you are all missing the point of these languages. In my eyes they are templating languages. Have any of you guys seen the Helm charts some of us have to write daily? Mustache coding is terrible! I would love any of these languages instead of that. The only thing worse would be to have to write all the yaml yourself every time instead of any templating at all.

To that end, you could use any programming language to generate the yaml for your config. But then some of these has some nice features. I really like that Dhall is only a total lang and it does some nice things with importing dhall files.

That is not to say you should unnecessarily complicate your config. Keep it easy and separate from code as much as possible.
Show HN: Text recognition tool I missed a lot for macOS
Now you've shown three different methods to achieve the goal where the third version has become sufficiently convoluted to make it hard to understand.

And how is an Ansible user supposed to know what's more efficient and what are the side effects of calling the packages with name={{item}} or a list variable? The documentation of ansible.builtin.package for one doesn't seem to supply any indication of it.
That's fair, I might be wrong for sure. I'm still going to call myself American.
Ask HN: Are there any good books on the history of computer programming?
I'm curious about the history of the features that modern programming languages have, for example which was the first language to have subroutines and what did they look like, or conditional statements?
By that definition, older unixes were unikernels for the C runtime.
How many times did you have to pause the video to retype the link, song title, or any other text studying some tutorial? How cool it would be to have an option to grab any non-copyable text from the screen in a matter of seconds. This question I asked my self and as an answer to it, I have built TextSniper. The extremely convenient tool to capture any text from your screen. I would appreciate any feedback.
What you're describing is conspiracy to commit embezzlement; everyone who participated in that conspiracy gets a tenured position at Folsom. And why would you close the university? Are you seriously claiming that everyone in management is determined to do everything possible to hand money to criminals?
Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) Released
Any constitutional lawyer will take advantage of the constitution's shortcomings.
1 and 2 are easily surmountable. I wouldn't even call those challenges. (We've had property taxes for decades.)

3 and 4 are the real problems with a wealth tax.

The fundamental issue is that the government spends too much money. The politicians and the voters who support them refuse to support cuts in the magnitudes necessary to bring that situation back in hand. Many don't even believe it is a problem. On top of all that, the programs they refuse to cut, at every governmental level, are exactly the programs that suck up the most money. Medicare, Military, Police and Fire, on and on.

99.999% of all voters are like the family in the financial advisor's office who are willing to cut the trips to Starbuck's or go to a cheaper gym. So they feel they are being responsible. But they tell the financial advisor that the kids' private school tuition and the $50,000 cars they drive are not up for discussion. (Lord help you if you have the temerity to bring up the biggest issue of all, the $500,000 house they live in. You better have you kevlar on for that discussion.)

What can you do with people like that?
I gave the parallel answers anyway, but weird none of my parallel editors were on there (let alone previous, which even I had to look up the name of to remember). No Xcode, no Visual Studio - both extremely common.

Definitely a "web kids" survey.
It's not about taking single family homes away from people who really want one, but fighting the perception that it's the default. People in most countries (even most rich countries) live happily in multi-family buildings with much less space than the average American home. Most of those who believe their family needs 2000 square feet to be comfortable are simply mistaken - and we could build much higher-quality neighborhoods without the degree of suburban sprawl that mistake causes.
"by going after Snowden"

What a bunch of meanies.

You cannot maintain an Intelligence apparatus, a Military, or a Justice System without maintaining and enforcing classification.
Well Tesla didn't say they selected for defensive drivers to train their software on. So maybe the software actually imitates poor choices seen in the training set.
And also, if in an emergency you need to sell some of the equity you built up it is taxed as capital gains, which happens to be a lower tax rate then even middle income people pay on their wages. And, you can also avoid the capital gains by harvesting capital losses.
It's irrational to "bite the bullet" if the damage is significantly greater than the ransom.

It's not irrational. It's called doing the right thing.

Sure, it's better in the long term, but not for the person/organization being ransomed.

That's called being selfish. One would expect an institution like UCSF to act for the benefit of all of society and not like a six-year-old grabbing all the Easter eggs at the hunt and saying, "I got mine!"
You can tell the people who wrote these rules don't actually use the forum.
Well, as long as there is no definition of “wealth”, there is a slippery slope.

Is having saved 200.000$ in 30 years (not so bonkers) being rich?
I wrote a primer on speculative poetry. Made $12 last quarter from sales on Amazon.

It's going to my retirement fund.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086Y6MM72
Apart from the OS, the phones from samsung, xiaomi and huawei are pretty great with regards to speed, cameras, screens. Apple d overall package gets high mark but thats often due to the OS, not the phone tech.

Also consider that mainstream androids are significantly cheaper.

I wont go into further comparisons, but just check out the p30 camera
> ditch all of the complexity.

I fully agree with a flat tax w/ 0 baseline deduction.

but we still need a definition of what is "take". Afterall , paying 20% tax on $100 receipts makes no sense if it cost me $105 in expenses already.
Center City Philly is squalor now? I'll take that over a SFH in Conshohocken with > 45 mins commute on the Schuylkill Expressway each way any day of the week!

It's frightening that many people cannot imagine proper city planning when other countries (the Netherlands come to mind) demonstrate that it can be done and improves quality of life immensely.
24 minutes later from EU I downloaded the update and I’m locked out from Restore with a “Purchase Not Found” error.
No, it's not evidence in either direction, it's an anecdote.

Also, even if it was, there's actually no one criticizing Jobs in the 12 search hits in the thread, but comparing him favorably. So an unfortunate anecdote at that.
Now may be the best time to become a full stack developer
The Guardian is published by a charitable trust of which their most highly regarded journalists become trustees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited