skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just started getting glass milk bottles in the store here in Arkansas that I can return for a $2 deposit. Very happy about this and hope it becomes more popular (again, well not sure if the US ever did it).
The car you already own is not going to get outlawed.
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The root cause of wealth inequality is that some people value accumulating wealth more than others. At the working class level it’s some people taking jobs cleaning sewers vs. mopping floors. Without inequality no one would do the “dirty” jobs.
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Nope. It’s predicated on the observation that the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of economic growth.

Taxing income is perverse and disincentivizes work. Taxing capital makes a lot more sense IMO.

Income you get by working.

Capital you get by inheriting, saving or by having capital, which earns you more.

To be clear I think capital is good and necessary but I see no reason why work should be taxed more.

Wealth is created by work, not capital.
Things like AWS Cloudformation require YAML input, so there's no real choice on what you emit.

But writing the YAML is fiddly and annoying, so that's a good example of something where it is better to generate it via troposphere (a python module) or some similar system.

To be less specific I guess the answer is that sometimes you don't control both ends - the part that emits and the part that consumes, and having faught ansible, and similar tools, if I can avoid it I'd never want to write YAML by hand for non-trivial purposes if I could script it instead.
About once a month.
Both the left and right throw cash at their pet projects with no accountability and no standards of success.

When voting, you vote for where the cash firehose gets pointed. You never vote to taper off the firehose.
So far, the scientists say that the "escaped from lab" scenario cannot be dismissed :

https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/the-origin-of-sars-cov-2-is-be...
I don't understand this argument. You're framing it as though it's a choice between the government and yourself. Of course you're going to use that money more effectively for your own interests.

The problem is that it's not "you," it's the ultrawealthy, and their interests do not align with yours. While you're right that government accountability isn't perfect, at least there's an attempt at it.
As per Github (see languages section on bottom right), Cpython is 63% Python, and 29% C code, so its api returns Python as main language. cpython is in top 10 in python_top_200.csv
So to me the whole argument around inequality seems like a red herring simply because it focuses not on absolute improvement but relative comparison, feels a bit like a crab in the bucket mentality to me.

Now I understand the argument of why should so and so have $5 billion when other people are starving or can't afford their medicine, but to me that is a problem around people not having access to healthcare or food which seems incredibly orthogonal to how much money Jeff Bezos has.

I just don't get it, the whole idea of economic inequality to me seems like it is just trying to avoid talking about real issues. I mean sure wealth was more equitably distributed in fudeal europe but I'd much rather live now. As long as the absolute standard of living is generally rising why does inequality matter? Genuinely would love to hear the reasoning behind this.
Indeed the ObjC people were right (I was one of them). But there is nothing more useless than standing in the corner and saying “I told you so”. That’s the curmudgeon.
I just got onto Telegram this week and was pleasantly surprised to see completely native apps across iOS, iPadOS and a full featured native Mac OS X app.
So are property taxes. We already have tons of wealth taxes.
Stop regressive taxes, stop letting capital gains off the hook, yeah, these are all good. But I can't help but think that if you start from the phrase "wealth tax" rather than any specific injustice, the result will be something stupid that complicates tax code for at best marginal benefit. Maybe this is another case of leftists self-sabotaging with the names they pick for their movements, but I'm pessimistic. Hint: if your policy contains a dollar-amount cutoff, you're already off the rails.
Can anyone explain to me why exactly startpage.com is not listed? - They also list other meta searchers which have ads. I know some of the rumours about startpage but not mentioning it at all made me wonder what are the criteria for the list or whether I've missed something very bad about starpage (such that it becomes obvious to not list it)...
And the raid? Supervisor sent the raid you claim?
Check their username
Not that I’m advocating it or anything, but if we took an equitable amount of money from everyone, and then burned it in a pit, might be better to society in general.

Democracy, well most human social structures really, live on trust. Trust that we are all in it together and are better of participating in it.

When people start to perceive that others are taking advantage of them, unfairly, the social structure starts to crumble. Even if that advantage is then used to your benefit, the perception of it matters most.

In times past we’ve been “fixing” this by shaping the perception, manipulating people into believing that whatever way of government is used is good for them. Then silencing any doubters. In the 21 century its becoming harder to do that outright, because information is so readily available, so they have resorted to reducing its signal to noise ratio (fake news etc).

In any case, perception is key. If “the rich” (they) are treated better than “us”, and they are not supposed to, then you start having cracks in the fabric of society.

The appeal for something like wealth tax is not that it would make it better for everyone in the long run, but rather it would be perceived as more fair and lead to less discontent. Weather thats a good trade is up for debate though, you could always hire more cops to “enforce the peace”
There was a company that took your items to a storage warehouse. They then added the ability to rent your stored items to others.

https://beomni.com/
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/omni-rentals
Yeah I remember Chris Sacca at one of our Tuesday dinners saying something like “sorry guys, don’t do this, someone is going to get murdered”

Which - to be fair - might have scuppered the company if it had happened early on by chance.

Ps Chris was my favorite speaker - he’s the only one who made sure to tell everyone to chill out, take care of your health, sleep, etc.
I disagree with property taxes as well. It is perverse because it means you can play the game (economically) based on one set of incentives, devoting your best years to some effort, only to have the fruits of your efforts taken away after the fact. It is simply not compatible with the notion of private ownership. And yes, home ownership with property taxes means you don't really own that property in a true sense.
Journalists can't help but write that way, but it rings true to me. The cockroach metaphor was definitely on pg's mind in late 2008/early 2009—he repeated it to us too, saying that they had optimized the W09 batch for survivors. Sequoia had recently issued its "Winter is coming" memo (https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/sequoia-capitals-56-slide-...) and everyone was expecting the climate to be tough—as it indeed turned out to be.

And the awkwardness when pg thought they were trying to give him a marketing gift is definitely true to character.
Honest question: what's the recycling story? Oil is a consumable but lithium is not. A battery can be charged and discharged and then recycled.

My understanding is that the biggest limitations with lithium battery recycling are the economics. Lead-acid batteries are already highly recyclable. Seems like as lithium gets harder to extract the economic forces will prioritize recyclable batteries.
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It isn't orthogonal anymore when it comes to housing. Money seeks returns and uses private housing as an investment vehicle.
money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
And yet people will still look for places to store wealth. All this would do is create more complex forms of money laundering.
I'm not so sure. Hydrogen is a consumable but lithium isn't. I asked in another comment but what's the closed-loop story with lithium batteries?
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That is a terrible take-away from 2008. Are you accounting for any of the (gestures broadly) terrible consequences of that course of action?
I'm going to assume this xkcd is relevant here: https://xkcd.com/1319/
Well I think landing a rover on the far side of the moon is impressive. It's definitely a first for humanity and the scientists and engineers behind that mission deserve praise for that, even if in the achievement isn't pushing forward space technology at all.
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Preventing concentration of wealth is more valuable than preventing oversized dirt clods. It prevents concentration of power.
Maybe we could fully replace income tax with a flat wealth tax. It might lead to better social mobility. The trend of the phrase "wealth tax" being effectively an untouchable third rail is quite silly to me -- it does not inherently mean higher taxes at all.
How about first we try and get back to actual capitalism? Like the stuff where the rich actually go bankrupt when their businesses fail, or where bankers go to jail for defrauding their customers? Believe it or not when a business goes bust often the jobs don’t disappear, you just get new owners (which sometimes, though rarely can be the employees themselves), and the rich get poorer.

I’m not on the left but I agree with the left that right now it’s capitalism for you and socialism for he rich. But that’s because of government intervention, and bailouts, and keeping the status quo in place.

That’s why the rich keep getting richer. It’s with government help and regulations.

More government, and more taxes will only make it worse. You can’t make something better with more of a bad thing.
The original text from the parent post is "Butler, at the University of Florida, said making an IP address that appears to come from elsewhere isn't that complicated."

There is no specific mention of IP Spoofing, so I wouldn't assume that. By far the easiest method of making an IP address appear to come from somewhere else would be a proxy, but it's never precisely claimed, because that's not how rules of evidence work. The burden of proof is on the prosecutor, and we don't know exactly what is being alleged, nor how it will be defended. I assume that the search warrant is somewhere on the Internet, but without at least the warrant to add context, we fart into the wind.
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What AirBnb did was not find a grey area; unregistered bnb's were already illegal at the time. They simply relied on their hosts facing the primary brunt of the legal and fiscal penalties.
Links involving MDMA, LSD, and shrooms often get upvoted to the top of HN. Is there anywhere to read the consensus on news, both legal and scientific, on what’s the current status of psychedelics and recreational drugs worldwide?
You're replying to evidence itself. The fact that there is no evidence of widespread consumer impact is that nobody wishes to fund such a study.
Are there accounts of what it's like to use psilocybin in a clinical setting?

I'm imagining tripping in a therapist's office. Doesn't sound very pleasant.
"Some people will do less pleasant jobs for more pay" is a very tiny fraction of inequality. It's technically a root cause but not one of the big problem ones.

For the most part, once you add in the other factors, the dirtier jobs pay you worse!
Income tax comes out of capital gains... it’s crucial to creating paper trail and removing the principal agent problem in business.
For simple use-cases [1] isn't replicated Redis much better in terms of cost?

With in-mem DBs, there is no dollar cost for reads + writes and the IOPS will be way better than dynamoDB.

AWS has redis offering as elasticache.

[1] No indexes, strongly consistent get & put, < 10 GB
> For example, I've had fewer headaches using the regular Java Kafka bindings or JeroMQ than by using the "Clojure-ified" versions of these libraries.

As someone who is trying to decide how to interop Clojure + ZeroMQ, do you have any pointers for working with JeroMQ within Clojure?

Yesterday, I was browsing/evaluating the Clojure libraries for ZeroMQ, and all them haven't seen git pushes in the last three years and have between 10 and 120 stars on GitHub -- but JeroMQ has recent activity and >1.8k stars, so I'd like to stick with that for sake of support/documentation/etc.

--

(Caveat: ... not that GitHub stars are the best metric for quality... but they're not a terrible one...)
Well then it sounds like us poors should just grab our pitchforks if the rich can't decide how to tax themselves
> What would be the explanatory thesis for Clojure programmers being the most highly paid?

I couldn't find a breakdown of the stats by state or city, but here's my guess: Clojure is only used at companies that can take the risk. That is, SF, NYC, and a few other metros. There are businesses that probably run Java or something on their cash cow and want to throw a few bones to the developers for recruitment/resume-driven-development purposes. Whereas JavaScript/C++/Java developers exist at every company and in every tiny city with a much broader pay scale.

Anecdotal, my company does some Clojure. But it's limited to a handful of internal tools and we pretty much ended the experiment years ago. Nothing new is made in Clojure. To my knowledge, we've never hired specifically for Clojure. It's always some dev that knows another language.
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What is this? Is this a substack + instagram mashup? Or an Apple news+ clone?
I think that's a good point. Let's say that tax as a way of "dampening" "inefficiencies". Also, let's say that the accumulation of wealth through heritage + accumulation of wealth thanks to tools available to only the wealthy are unfair (in terms of opportunity) parts of the system / bugs. Then, taxing the wealthy a certain amount may be a way to dampen the wealth accumulated in unfair ways.

I was before thinking that a wealth tax did not make sense, but now that you raise these "bugs" in the system, then it makes sense to tax the wealthy a certain amount. 1% per year, maybe?

When the system allows everyone equal access to and equal opportunity to create profits, then it does not make sense any more to have the wealth tax.
We've switched from Java to Kotlin with Arrow for all our back end work. We couldn't be happier, and we're not impressed with Java's attempts at playing catch-up.

"final var" anyone? Non-monadic, non-applicative "Optional"? No? Ok.
You're probably right. However it does show that it's something on people's minds.
I think if I were to do that, it would be considered rude. But this seems to be related to what the author is saying. How disabled is disabled enough? The author is autistic, but to most people she appears non-autistic, and she didn't even know herself until age 42, and people question whether she's disabled enough to be considered disabled.
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The solution isn’t a tax but a deposit you get back for bringing back the bottles. It worked greatly for Germany and other European countries, but Coca Cola is heavily lobbying against similar laws.
I think we can all agree the tax system in most countries is very unfair.

My suggestion to make it fair is to simply abolish all taxes in nations with sovereign currencies. The government just prints the money it needs for it's budget each year and uses it.

Inflation is basically your tax rate and everyone can look at the government budget and plan accordingly.

This has the added benefit of getting rid of the entire redundant industry of tax CPAs and tax lawyers, freeing hundreds of thousands of smart people to actually produce new wealth in the economy.

It makes all illegal activities taxed just like legal activities.

It combines all the benefits people are wishing for when they promote a flat tax or wealth tax or simpler taxes into one easy system. Even a child could understand this tax code intuitively.
It is interesting stuff, but humans are only more intelligent by degrees. All animals and organisms must exert some sort of adaptability to their environment or they are DOA. Our brains are certainly fantastic developments, but we also see this sort of emergent intelligence in AI, so it doesn't necessarily depend on amino acids. There, we see electronic neural nets achieving much of the same behavior.

To me, intelligence is a system. It can be a network of neurons embodied in an individual, a colony of ants, or a group of programmers working on a startup. The system itself has inputs and outputs and needs to be viewed at that level. We can view ant colonies as a coherent system. We can view individual organisms as a coherent system.

The main difference between ants and humans is that each node in a human social system is more powerful and the bandwidth of information shared between each node is much richer.

A lot of people point out that man can send a rocket to the moon, but really, only a civilization can do that. A tribe couldn't do it in a million years. They would lack the industry and the science and the labor and resources and technology to pull it off. Those systems can be viewed as having a sort of emergent, even if ephemeral, intelligence that requires massive amounts of cooperation and coordination to pull off.
It does seem to be popular w.r.t user downloads and other github metrics.
E.g. https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/stats/timelin...
Wikipedia - "As of July 2018, SourceForge shows a count of over 6.3 million downloads of the stable releases starting from November 1999[24] Also, Sourceforge shows that current downloads are running at ~7,000 per week.[25] This does not include other software download sites as well as Linux distributions that provide download from their own repositories."
Like what? Generally the terrible consequences came from the situation leading up to 2008, not the money printing that happened post-crash.
That's kind of like saying the river doesn't flow to the coast, it flows from the mountains. Trying to shift the onus of market effects onto consumers seems rather pointless—it's not like there's going to be some kind of mass revelation that this is bad sufficient to change market forces largely invisible to the consumer (by design!). It's a state problem or it's barely a problem at all.

If you're hinting at some kind of political conclusion I've come up empty handed after searching your post.
In Finland almost every single can, and drinks bottle, has a corresponding price printed on it, ranging from €0.10 to €0.25. You can return them at almost any local store and receive cash.

There are hundreds of unemployed/retired/homeless people who scour parks, and the city centers, collecting these discarded containers and recycling them for the money.

The return rate is pretty high, even with the tiny amount of money per-item.
Coca Cola is in the plastic bottle business plain and simple.
> Given the level of technical difficulty to do this, it seems extremely implausible that someone would go to all that effort just to send out this message.

I agree. I think the two most plausible scenarios are that she too technologically illiterate to know that IP addresses are logged by ISPs and login systems, or the Governor has it out for her and hired someone to do it. I think both scenarios are totally feasible, though it's really hard to imagine she'd never heard of IP addresses before...
> These are real problems and it seems the only reason people want a wealth tax is not because it makes sense by any economic or policy standard, or that it might improve the lot of the man lesser-off, but because they want to make other people poorer. Full stop.

You know that "full stop" doesn't make whatever completely ridiculous thing you just wrote any more convincing, right?
Neither the blog post nor project README directly mentions whether the 0.0 to 1.0 score goes from most-critical to least, or least-critical to more.

It appears 1.0 is most-critical, if you dig into ranking lists.
Like you said, hard to compare apples-apples without more info but couple 1000 users with 100s of writes/user/day sounds like it would handle fine on a $1/month vps (we have far higher workloads running few $1/mo, if I understand you correctly).

Not saying that you should spend time on that; it's probably insignificant on the p&l, however, other people should know there are alternatives still and aws is not always, automatically, the right choice (in my mind, it almost never is actually).
Strange list, PMD so high, quarkus also, but e.g. jackson is lower then those both.

elasticsearch at the top?
flink? It is first time I hear about it and I work in Java shops for quite some time.
Another wrong assumption. On many occasions i haven't voted because i felt i didn't know enough of the topic to make the right vote.
You asked about downvoting so I'll just say its is a bit silly to even try and play devils advocate on this topic. Expecting "rigorous evidence" and not accepting common sense deserves a downvote
Oh, I'm not thrilled to have Microsoft track me. Google disturbs me much more, though, mainly because their footprint is larger (Youtube, Gmail, etc).

Also, I don't live on Windows, which limits the amount of my data MS can get its hands on.
How can the state claim the access was unauthorized when it shared password between users and also published it on a document on its website? The former may be irresponsible but is commonly excused but the latter?
The problem is not other people money. It's lazy broke bums attempting to take other people's money
That doesn’t take into account the economic costs
Of a degraded environment or oceans gyres filled with plastic. It ignores the externalities.
Everyone?

Having not read the court filing that granted the search warrant I know nothing about the information supporting the seizure.

I know that she tried to make an emotional appeal on social media, I know that she has been accused of really sketchy behavior with a coworker, and I know that people who read her messaging are going to jump to conclusions about her being wronged with no information besides her being fired by republicans.

What evidence was presented which got the warrant granted? Why was it nonsense, and what led the judge to grant it anyway?

Why did she delay officers executing a legally granted search warrant for twenty minutes, hanging up on them and refusing to answer the door?

It very much strikes me as a “more than meets the eye” kind of situation that jumping to conclusions based on political affiliation does not do justice.
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Hi,

Why do you need the kernel support if you modify the binaries, why not insert a function to write your logs and then insert a call to that function rather than relying on kernel support via an int 3?

Curious really.
Can’t you set up a test database instead of testing against production? And set up timeouts to control the tempo of the tests if necessary?
Thank you for these resources, very helpful!
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Sounds like an interesting project, would love to learn more!
"... no one cares enough to make an advertising system that works without Javascript)."
Seems like we need both? A deposit encourages people to return the container responsibly but the product price still needs to accurately reflect the externalities. If the container is easier to reuse or recycle then the tax can be less.