skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think #3 is close, but it's not just that some users concentrate a disproportionate amount of wealth. It's also the quirk of human society that great hoarding of wealth winds up distorting it such that economic worth becomes directly tied to human worth. This is undesirable generally, and taxes are the main mechanism for the government to regulate this tendency.
"mandatory spending" - right

I take a bigger issue with programs like student loan debt forgiveness which would be a slap in the face to poor people like myself who worked their way through college in order to no longer be burdened by loans. Not to mention the fact that without a refresh of regulation on universities (specifically graduate degrees) loan forgiveness would just further embolden universities to increase tuition.

The issue with taxes in this country is that the budget is expected to always be met WITH excess. That's the disgusting part, the assumption that "well we can go over and shell out benefits to our beneficiaries (people who voted for us) and the american tax payer will foot the bill" is atrocious.

Both parties are guilty of this, however I also find it ironic that Americans (specifically privileged americans) seem to think that "taxing the rich" is a solution, when a) rich people already pay an overwhelming majority of taxes, b) the rich will always find ways to out-smart the government and avoid taxes they deem as unfit and c) even if you taxed earners above $400k 95% of their income it would only amount to maybe a trillion dollars - so not even close to bringing the national deficit down.
Yep. Founders would likely be on the board and just give themselves different titles from CEO if they really cared, so it shouldn't impact startups.
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I see the headlines now: Darling Startup Raises $20 million Series-A As First CEO-less Company
If you make more money with this money you stash away, that is taxable as well in most places in the western world.
You normally also are obligated to inform the government wherever you are about your holdings in the west.

The way to get around this, is to start an offshore company in whats referred to as an tax haven. Basically its a company that has an unknown owner normally some legal secretary or a lawyer firm stands as owner and somewhere there is a presigned agreement by them that transfers the ownership of the shares in the company to someone else that you can write in(TBD). So the company is basically in limbo between owners .

But yeah, that how you would do it, of course its a bit more, but that is the gist of it.Just make sure the legal company you hire or find on google isn't hacked, lol.
Oh, and also, don't get a company card with this offshore company and use it to buy groceries, the tax people look out for that sort of thing :)
There are rules such as Common Ownership or Common Control that prevent that kind of avoidance. I'm sure SF can come up with something similar.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.414(c)-4

https://healthcareexchange.com/article/common-ownership-what...

http://wkins.com/aca-common-ownership-rules-explained/
Cities consistently outlast Kings and Empires.

But to build empire you have to be in denial of that fact.
Key chord is a nice package for vanilla Emacs at least https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyChord
Concentration of market power and lack of risk capital, not regulation, is the primary inhibitor to normal people starting businesses.
I'm glad to see San Francisco is deciding which voluntary arrangements among private citizens should be penalized. Their governance has been consistently Solomonic.
Otherwise known as the "fire your lowest paid San Francisco employees" bill.
Is the tax assessed on options/grants even if there isn't a market to sell them?
I am not OP but my take is that hordes have been movin out of California to escape from taxes and regulations. Often they leave in a U-Haul, making it a booming business.
San Francisco is a well known culture hub. The startup industry started source of it in Silicon Valley but shifted north because of the appeal of living in San Francisco.
One thing to keep in mind is that most of our primary sources are incredibly hostile towards the merchant class. (For much of history, the merchant class had an incredible stigma attached to them.)
> What this does is, it collects money from today's FAANGs while disincentivizing future startups from starting here.

Does it? Startups probably start out with a fairly small Executive Pay Ratio because they start out without a lot of low-paid grunts, and its already not common for them to open satellite facilities or move HQs for grunt work when they scale out to more jobs where they aren't trying to attract locally-concentrated elite talent. Because its triggered on the ratio between the highest paid managerial employee anywere in the firm and the median pay of employees in the City, it really just adds further incentives to do low-level gruntwork outside of the city, but doesn't seem otherwise to really change the structural incentives much for startups.

OTOH, it does make it more expensive for any widespread organization whose headquarters and elite labor are elsewhere to operate a facility with mostly low-level labor in the City; a tech startup headquartered in the City might never be hit by it even as they scaled up if they are focussed on automation, as they might never have a low-paid workforce. OTOH, retail, etc., outlets, hotels, etc., of firms with highly-paid executives with their main executive and high-paid labor force outside of the city would be hit hard (as far as compared to other firms, I don't think the tax rate is ever high enough to really be "hit hard") by it on their operations in the City.
Running gear wear on trucks is where the costs are, and an engine rebuild every 200K-750 K km depending on how they are used (local routes vs long haul).

EVs should have a substantial advantage over trucks in the brake wear department, battery overhaul costs will match or possibly be lower than the engine overhaul costs.

Put it all together and for short haul trips EVs should have an advantage and for the longer haul they are as yet impractical. Keep in mind that a 1000 liter fuel reserve is a substantial amount of energy for relatively little weight disadvantage on a vehicle that already weighs 8 tons, the equivalent in batteries weighs many times more. Some of this weight disadvantage will be compensated by regenerative braking, with a diesel vehicle that energy is converted to waste heat every time the vehicle comes to a stop.

So, overall, I think short haul EV trucks will have the edge soon, long haul it likely will be diesel for quite a while to come.
Sorry, didn't want to spam, but here is the last paragraph of that thought:

> The middle classes, as well as the rich, began to distrust democracy as empowered envy, and the poor distrusted it as a sham equality of votes nullified by a gaping inequality of wealth. The rising bitterness of the class war left Greece internally as well as internationally divided when Philip of Macedon pounced down upon it in 338 B.C., and many rich Greeks welcomed his coming as preferable to revolution. Athenian democracy disappeared under Macedonian dictatorship.

TLDR on this whole thing: this never ends well for the poor.
> This simple calculator … 53.8 MBytes uncompressed.

So it's no better than Electron? I'm primarily interested in the cross-platform desktop part.
I agree companies will just suck it up and pay it if they want to be in SF.

But I don't think it will disincentive new companies starting out. They have a hundred other concerns more important than how the CEO will be taxed if they one day become huge and the CEO has extremely high compensation. It won't even factor into the decision of where to locate the company. Also, you should notice most highly compensated CEOs are not founders. Founders don't need to compensate themselves that heavily because they own a large chunk of the equity. Simple capital gains or dividends are the favourite forms of compensation for founders.

Since founders, by definition, are the ones deciding where to found the company, they won't care at all about this law.
Look at your mounts, then disable snap.
For github links specifically, tacking #readme on the end is actually a much better user experience since it jumps right to the "what is this repo" section, if it has one. I do recognize, however, in _this_ context it puts one back in a mildly bad place since "#readme." will not do exactly what is intended, but it will still take one to the repo in question
Thanks for this - this is really cool - and I actually signed up for an account to look around based on an earlier comment.

Now can I get a programmatic hook into storytime? I suppose some competitor products would use this feature for an "AI Bot".
He's looking to build a completely new system, so it's a toss-up between the 10900kf and whatever looks to be good from AMD at a similar price, but I do appreciate the data point :) From the few sparse google sheets I've seen, it looked like X-Plane was still preferring Intel cores and NVIDIA GPUs. It's a shame really, everyone's benchmarking the GPUs and nobody's looking at the impact of the CPU as far as I could tell. But now that we have an AMD core that's 20% faster than the previous one, the tables might've turned.

Best of luck developing X-Plane, I wish I could help you guys justify the Linux support, but unfortunately I've not got the enthusiasm or free time to commit to a flight sim just now.
Cities may stick around for millenia but their governments don't. Those come and go.
> At that point, what’s the difference between that and going to prison?

Despite some shockingly bad practices in the past and the common portrayal by media as "prisons for crazy people", psychiatric and psychological treatment is waaaaay different from prison. And yes, that treatment can be made compulsory, the legal instruments are already there, no new law necessary. DUI, for example, will obviously stay on the books no matter what, and you can work from there.

> Maybe keep it as a misdemeanor?

Why? Do you consider drinking alcohol punishable as a misdemeanor? We should just treat drug addiction the same way we treat addiction to alcohol, pills, regular smoking, etc.
- Uno dev here

The Safari Support for large WebAssembly binaries is not particularly great at this point. We hope that the Safari team will improve the performance aspects of WebAssembly, but it does not seem to be a priority at this point (see the Wasm feature map here: https://webassembly.org/roadmap).

For the iPad, the iOS built version of the same app works lots better (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/uno-calculator/id1464736591).
> This is the eternal objection to measures like this. But if every city and every state implement this, where will they go?

To another country. The world is a big place, there are also a number of tax havens that are relics of the British Empire, there will be other countries which will quite happily have large tech business move there.

None of these measures have the intended consequence (usually the opposite happens). All it ever does it make it look like the politicians are doing something.
And the public is allowed to watch the counting process by the local committee in Germany. So even lay people can follow what's going on if they want.
RISC-V is trying to launch an open-hardware revolution [video]
People will attempt to prove the counter with theoretical, I have an actual to support your claim.

Years ago, Denver placed a tax on companies that create software. By "magic", companies decided to found outside the county lines including Boulder. Boulder has an active software scene. Denver is getting there, but still not the advanced companies Boulder has. I believe Denver recalled the tax, but unsure.
Exactly! Other non-scalability concerns they address (specifically talking about Kubernetes here) is a primitive amount of monitoring/observability; no-downtime updates (rolling updates); liveness/readiness probes; primitive service discovery and load balancing; resiliency to any one single host failing (even if the total compute power could easily fit into a single bigger server).
The point I'm trying to make:

Taking someone's assets vs coercing them to hand over their assets, are not the same thing.

You can take my gold, my dollars, my factories, my real estate, all by force.

You can take my freedom, you can take my life, by force.

You cannot take my Bitcoin by force. You might be able to put me through enough pain for me to give it up. But this is not a guarantee.

We have been discussing this in the context of being a sneaky cyber criminal with a just law system. But imagine you live in a nation where the government (military junta) is "nationalizing" all wealth and assets. Then tell me the best way to protect your money.
Walrus Operator in Python
Probably office rents only, not residential
Most of the mistakes are not exclusive/related to grep, they are actually shell mistakes.
I am saying that if it's ok for day TV to show 17 year old girls dancing like this, then yes, we should expect our 11 year olds to do the same.

Why are you bringing sex into this. Do you see sex on day TV with 17 year old girls?
The list of old Apple devices that still work well is impressive: I still have one original iPad, an iPhone 3GS, several iPhone 4. Same goes for the more recent ones, with the exception of the few devices that I dropped on hard floors over the last 10 years...
> just give themselves different titles from CEO

"Lead executor"

"Company Chief"

"Dear Leader"

"Head Director"

"Paramount Leader"

"Viceroy"

"Corporate Emperor"
But they voted to screw low paid uber drivers out of employment rights - talk about "presentism"
Honestly this not a bad move. It incentivizes the right behavior and the extra levy isn’t ludicrous.

I am as libertarian as it comes but this looks like a proportionate response to pay disparity and a way to generate extra $$.

That being said I am skeptical of it being very successful in either of its goals.
Does Intellij have remote extensions like Code? That's THE main reason I started favoring Code over Vim. Code's plugins working seamlessly over SSH is wonderful.
A one hundred thousand-fold enhancement in the nonlinearity of (optical) silicon
> Do people actually use Thunderbird still?

Heavily for the past 13 years. Never corrupted a mailbox. I've had to reindex a mailbox once or twice to get search working, but that was many years ago.

I recalling having a problem with excessive CPU use after it's been running awhile (weeks to months.) That seems to have gotten solved at some point; I looked into the problem a bit (strace, etc.) and found the IO multiplexing (select, poll, epoll, whatever) code was spinning. Solution was to bounce it.

My only complaint now is that dark mode isn't fully hammered out. At least not in the non-snap version available in bionic beaver. Anyone know if newer versions have got this right yet?
You're really pulling a "how hard could it really be??" to DDoS prevention?

You should at least be humbled by how few services can even offer DDoS protection that works against volumetric attacks and isn't just based on null-routing. The people with skin and money in the game might know something you don't.
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So what country are your funds in and what are you doing that has lead to the funds being seized? Don't you think we need trusted authorities for enforcement?
> If that’s the case, they’ll make a single 300 km trip or day. I doubt that the business case for that is strong.

You might have heard of UPS? FedEx? Amazon? Maybe you've had a contractor work on your home or business?

All of these businesses operate on less than 180 miles round trips per day typically inside the US. In Europe distances tend to be even shorter.

Semis are by nature long haul. It's rare to see semis pulling 40 foot trailers through urban areas even in the US. Semis are usually limited to long haul or short haul freight from industrial or agricultural areas. The Volvo trucks are designed to operate locally and it's a huge market.

> For a buyer of semis, the cost of running one is arguably the most important factor.

There is definitely a market for semis—particularly in the US—but it's a vastly different market than what this targets.
In the US, iOS has the majority of market share at 52.4%, and Android has 47%[1].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
This is what happens in many elections.

The problem is mail in ballots, which were significantly more this year. When do you start processing them? In many states, the answer is: before election day.

In other states, notably PA, the law says "day of election". The legislature there deliberately did not take any action to change this. Why?
If that’s the goal then I think this is a good initiative.
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What happens when future people want to use other addresses outside those rules? Tons of software will have been written only ever seeing the limited address range and will have bugs for more general addresses. Some programmers might even forget that other addresses are possible and intentionally limit what their software can handle. It could become a defacto smaller address space, making the rest of the address as complete waste forever.
I will say that I've been coding for almost 20 years and I think I've only had to touch perl once, so you may be right about that.

It's definitely the case that Python is very popular though. It's everywhere. As others have pointed out, it's become very prevalent in scientific/academic circles. Outside of that, it's very useful for scripting. They teach it in universities as an introductory language. It's in use at every workplace I've been.
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It is because at the time I was doing a lot of python development, and I was (and still) using my server as a dev workstation.
Isolation with virtualenv was not great and many projects were needing conflicting versions of system package, or newer version than what Debian stable had.

Lot of the issue was me messing around \o/

"just having the Kubernetes server components running add a 10% CPU on my Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2338 @ 1.74GHz."
Containerization is not a win here. Where's the second machine to fail over to?

I think it is worth it in order to get a centralized control plane for everything and automatic build and deployment for eveything.

But I agree with you, some apps (postfix, dovecot) doesn't feel great inside a container (Sharing data with UID issue is mewh, postfix with multiprocess design also...)

I just wanted to have everything manage into containers, as they were the last ones, so I moved them into.
Prop 13 is fucking horrible. We can't blame it for everything, though. It doesn't stop SF from zoning for more residential units or allowing the existing ones to be subdivided. All of those new units pay full freight.
The bill isn't about how CEOs will be taxed. It's about how their entire company will be taxed.
why isnt there an equivalent??? the 3700x is a marvel.
> The money will be used for what it always is - some of it will be good and some of it won't be very good. Once it's in the pot, it gets stirred around and all sorts of people and projects get a full bowl. That's not what's interesting about this story - taxes get raised all the time by all sorts of authorities.

Why is this not interesting to you? Just because it's the status quo of how things are done doesn't make it less of an issue to me. Maybe if we knew what pot of taxes were used for what causes, we could reason about their worthiness better. Just raising taxes for the sake of raising taxes seems like a meaningless and potentially regressive goal otherwise.

> What's interesting is that the tax is full of perverse incentives and may very well lead to lower, not higher tax receipts.

These things can both be interesting.
snap is a mess, no thanks.
Spain does this and they know the results the same night.

I don't understand how the US manages the election like a 3rd world country.
In a society that has reasonably established freedom of movement, which the US Constitution does fairly well, sufficiently onerous policies, where the sufficiently part is decided by those who bear the payment burden and not by the levier, eventually result in the target actively deciding to exercise that right to just leave. It's a big country, and there are many nice places in it where a decent life can be lived with less burden. U-Haul's stock price increase over the last two decades can be viewed as fairly reflecting such inter-state movement.
Footprint is at least partially due to regulations. EU regulations are much stricter with dimensions, whereas in the US the limit is more the weight.

Technical development might have some impact as well. I remember as a kid many trucks needing bigger engines (e.g. sand or concrete transport) had the cab-behind-engine layout, but nowadays those are more or less completely gone. Maybe turbochargers and intercoolers allowed a sufficiently powerful engine in the cab-above-engine layout?
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A hiker from Baton Rouge is less likely to be caught at unawares and more likely to talk through an encounter. Anyway the odds of someone making paperwork for themselves is pretty low in a chance encounter.
Don’t forget tracking which is almost impossible to block and promoting Chrome by annoying its users less
If I wasn’t, then why would I say IAM?
Is it ?

We sure are using more apps than ever. But I think we are also using more "smart" things than ever, and not just in the buzzword sense.

A ton of everyday object now have chips, from toothbrushes, thermometers, door bells, car keys, fire alarms, lights, even charging cables.

Considering drivers are coded for every variations of these appliances and chips, it look to me to be a tremendous amoubt of code written all over the world. Especially as writing code is cheaper than adapting hardware, even different uses of the same chip could get different drivers.
> The only open source-platform for creating true single-source, multi-platform applications.

What about Flutter?
> I do not believe that the rich getting richer is the cause of the stagnation, though. If anything, automation and globalization have been the main reasons for stagnation among middle and lower income levels.

Who disproportionately benefitted financially from automation and globalization?

> From that perspective, I prefer policies that focus on wage growth for the lower and middle classes, even if that's a harder problem to solve.

You need to do both. No one was talking about this 20 years ago because most people were participating in the "good economy", even if some benefitted far more than others. Now people are being told the economy is good (by both major polities), but it doesn't match reality, which you noted is a major cause of angst.

Additionally, if your goal is to create more jobs and wage growth for low and middle income people, the best way to do that is to reduce economic concentration and create more opportunity for competition and small business. It will be less cost efficient, but the economy will be more resilient and the wealth would be more broadly distributed, even though some people could still achieve obscene wealth.
Easier if you live on an Island, but still quite difficult - Victoria (about 1/4 of the Australian population, IIRC) had a serious 4-month lockdown that just recently ended.

I suspect most countries who would take a 4-month lockdown would be in a very good condition.

The place where being an island helps tremendously is with avoiding re-introduction.
In Germany you can watch the local committees while they are counting. it's an open affair. And you'll hear the numbers as the results are reported by phone to the next level. Which allows anyone who was present during the counting to audit the numbers when they are published afterwards. And yes, I did watch every now and then.