skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t say what percentage of wealthy people did this versus just regular asset hiding, but it happened enough to be visible among Belgians (my family lives in Brussels). Either way, hiding assets is relatively easy if there are millions of dollars on the line. Also, moving to CO or UT is even easier than moving to Belgium from France.

Put another way, the more complicated the tax, the easier it is to find loopholes. It’s basically impossible to write a simple wealth tax. If you do, you end up capturing people who shouldn’t be captured (for example a founder with illiquid stock and purely paper wealth). I’m actually all for taxing income pretty heavily especially in a progressive manner. Better yet, tax consumption. I think a luxury consumption tax, especially one that penalizes things like expensive cars, jets, boats, and similar would be a more effective way to tax the rich.
Yes, it works well. I moved all my contacts and calendaring from Gmail to a self-hosted Nextcloud instance about two years ago. My wife and I have a calendars in common, both of which are set up as the default calendars on our mobile devices. We recently discussed having a shared address book too. Shouldn't be any trouble to set up. One of us will own it, farm out r/w access to the other, and we'll transfer contacts we ought to have in common piecemeal. CalDAV and CardDAV.

In general, Nextcloud has been transformative in allowing us to move off Google products. All our music and photos are on Nextcloud too.
>This is still a game with typical 9/10 scores.

This says far more about the games industry and journalist incest than it does the game itself.
Kinds of Incentives
> feels like

> starting to look like

> seem to be

I mean, maybe, but it'd be more substantial if you could explain what you base those on or what you actually mean. Otherwise it's as good as scapulimancy .
Not to mention it has double the population of Australia and 80x the population density.
Not everyone has the same priorities as you, and some might find it completely unacceptable to ban religious services out of fear of a virus.

Hard to say who is right or wrong since it's just a function of weighting different values differently.
You are totally disconnected from the real world that most people live in. Of course I wouldn't expect anything more from someone who can say "I am a capitalist libertarian, with anarcho-capitalist sympathies" without feeling a sense of shame. Also your Linux desktop project is dope as shit.
So in the 70s you could pay per request billed to millisecond precision?

Wow times haven’t changed at all.

He has some good points on poor configuration languages and bad architecture, but it’s lost in the rant.
Do we know how much our our country spends to bomb other countries? I would like to hear the ‘tax the rich’ crowd to tell me how many cents of my tax dollar goes to help people and how many go to wage war.

It’s around 3.2-3.5% of our budget. That we know of. That’s close to a trillion/year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_S... : this is the United States federal budget. What is it that we couldn’t do with this much money can we do by increasing tax by a minuscule minuscule percentage that is nothing for the govt budget but makes such a massive dent for families, disposable income, consumer index, business development and investment.

Where is the accountability. The taxes are to run the govt. the job of the govt is not to manipulate taxes to impose laws to cancel inequalities. This is thuggery by taxation. Govt should be small and efficient. Big bloated govts with access to unlimited tax monies will only get bigger and bloatier. Until their expenses will explode like Mr.Creosote in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. It is that ‘wafer thin mint’ that was the last straw that broke the camels back resulting in the Silicon Valley exodus.
Underbaked, underproved.
One of the advantages I didn't see compared was 'machinability' I wonder if you're able to CNC the densified wood in the same way you would as the metals mentioned in the article without compromising it's strength.
Great to see this article here :-) nextcloud is easily one of the most popular apps on our platform cloudron and it's for selfhosters what wordpress is for web hosters (meaning: a love/hate relationship). Happy to answer any questions on next cloud.
I’m not sure where Bob Black stands on childhood autonomy, but anarchists tend to agree with non-anarchists that there are and should be limits to it.

Autonomous adults generally aren’t compelled into recreation by an authority.
Core and cache organization gets more difficult, yes.

So do thermals and layout, which is not where Apple has experience (they don’t make any custom chip that requires a fan that I know of).

That said, they have had a looong time to think out this, so I have confidence they will make it work over the next two years.
Cool, now do cable boxes
Google knows what a dinosaur sounds like
Yeah I still use youtube sometimes, but I do it without an account. You do lose a lot, like remembering what you watched and better recommendations, but you also win some, like Google not remembering what you watched :)
A Better CoinGecko
As an inhabitant of the Netherlands, I would be very surprised if we would police our border with either Belgium or Germany. There are no natural obstacles, and plenty of spaces with forest crossing the border. No-one but the military comes close to having enough man-power to enforce that border.

Sure, with actual army deployment we could get somewhere (it seems we have about 20 soldiers per kilometer of border). But the massive difference in effort between "police airports and the coast with radar" and "Mobilize the army" is huge.
Given the actual trajectory of the NY Times' reporting over the last few years, I don't share your interpretation of what Baquet is saying. The trends pointed out by Zach Goldberg (which I linked to above) are really striking, though not surprising to people who have read the Times for a while.

The 1619 Project, which the Times presented as its flagship project last year (and which Baquet discusses in the transcript), is a case in point. The really wild historical claims they made, and then the way they dismissed a pretty impressive group of historians (Gordon Wood, James McPherso, Sean Wilentz ... these are really major figures in the historical profession) who asked for corrections, while at the same time hiding the fact that their own fact checker had asked for the very same correction, and finally the way the lead author of the project attacked the historians on social media - the whole thing was really shocking. That's not how the NY Times is supposed to behave. To me, it signaled that they really didn't care about accuracy - this was their big statement, it was selling well, and they weren't going to let a few historians spoil it for them.
Good until they capture enough market share to stop bribing people to switch.
That page seems focused on the file storage aspect. Does Storage Share also include other Nextcloud features like calendar?
Displaying graph data in a user-friendly way is indeed a challenge. The nicest user interface I've seen is on metacademy "explore" views:

https://metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/bayesian_logistic_reg...

and src code for the graph view is here: https://github.com/metacademy/metacademy-application/blob/ma...

they do some clever hiding of edges so graph is not overwhelming, but still only O(100) nodes.... for O(100k) nodes you'll need to do some selection for sure ;)
Yeah, my point on inertia was more that you could streamline it greatly by removing all those options to match modern norms.

1. How much cash do you want? 2. $x00 3. Done.

There have been some developments in this direction, but they're the exception rather than the rule.

To a non-American, in Asia, in 2020, particularly if under the age of 30, it is not a strange question to ask "What the hell is a checking account, anyway?"
Do you think he'd be interested in participating in the thread? (If so, please email hn@ycombinator.com so I can tell the software to be nice to him.)
This is why I never buy ambitious open world games until 1-2 years post release. It’s not just Cyberpunk 2077. I can call out every Fallout from Bethesda, Skyrim, No Man’s Sky, and the list goes on.

Stay away for a while unless you want to pay to do QA
It may have been more or less at the same time. Commit to buy X shares at the close; sell X shares now. Or vice versa.
> Assuming I don’t want to starve to death, what are my other options?

Welfare in most developed countries is enough not to starve and not to become fully homeless. But in many countries, it does not go one inch beyond this. Subsisting on welfare is indeed a very uncomfortable life. But it is not literal starvation to death.
Slackware.. my first Linux district. In 1995. Classic shell font. I miss those days, but modern Linux is amazing.
The Iliad and Ramayana were using the most cutting-edge information technology of their time, and spreading with the backing of the extant political regimes.

They were not competing with TikTok, CATV, and Disney.
I use IceWM as my daily driver since it has all the features I need and is very lightweight.

The maintainer is super nice too: I had a feature request in mind, raised an issue on GH, and the he eventually implemented it.

It may be appropriate to link to the donation page of the author: https://gijsbers.github.io/donate/

Thanks for IceWM!
How to Become an Expert in Any Field
I find it incredibly endearing. Obviously it's not ideal in terms of public communication, but there's something wonderfully earnest about the way a lot of domain experts just kind of forget that most people don't share their obsession, let alone their knowledge.
> 4) Poor people are less likely to donate and also have lower life expectancy.

Poor people seems to be quite generous [1].

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-science-behind-b...
i think it's rude to point out someone's plastic surgery, no?
been using it for five years now. it's no-nonsense and does exactly what i want it to. no fancy graphics. multiple monitors, autosuspend and fullscreen work without configuration. has a fancy liquid crystal clock.

it's the peak of desktop computing.
Don't forget the "intelligence" community is paid to find Russian spooks hiding everywhere. The 2014 JP Morgan hack was blamed on Russian state backed hackers[1]. We know now that was pure speculation and not NSA inside knowledge, since some time later a small criminal gang were successfully prosecuted for it. Apparently they were running a pump-n-dump scheme.
1. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/08/28/russia-jpmorga...
USB 3 pinouts and signals. Connector types
Nextcloud and owncloud are written in PHP like so are many other web server apps, especially wiki servers.

I've always had misgivings about the security of using and running PHP. Does PHP software still tend to be insecure as in the past? Why are there so many web apps (especially wiki servers) written in PHP instead of e.g. Python, Rust or some other language?
YouTube channel web feed bookmarklet
There’s a special brand of “clearly bullshit” marketing. The CP2077 marketing campaign was properly deceptive. Features were stated matter-of-factly and we all technically feasible.

I bought CP2077 after watching this video. I returned it the next morning.

https://youtu.be/BO8lX3hDU30

There was similar backlash with Fable 1. Peter Molyneux talked a big game and didn’t deliver. I’d argue that Fable 1 at least made a genuine significant effort to have “actions affect the game”. Mechanics changed from behavior. That was considered a AAA disappointment in 2004. Now I long for the quality and depth in 16 year old AAA disappointments.
Setup nextcloud 2 years ago as part of a FreeNAS install. It runs in a jail and dumps my files to the local, shared filesystem as a result. I also put the nextcloud clients on my phone so that my photos auto-upload to my NAS vs google photos. It's been quite nice to be able to just drop files to it, right click, then share someone a link to those files.
Show HN: Upload, annotate, share Zoom recordings (for remote teams)
I've long been a fan of this essay, as something to strive for over the next, say 500 years, assuming that civilization lasts that long, technological "progress" continues, and all the surplus humans that are no longer necessary for work don't get wiped out by the elites who want more of the world to themselves.

However, this essay has always seemed to be heavy on idealism and light on practical or concrete solutions to very obvious problems.

Even if we assume that all work could be gamified, it's not clear that everyone will want to play such games. I love games, and have spent way too much of my life playing them, but I've gone months and years without playing any games at all, and don't see how being forced to play a game would be any better than being forced to work.

Also, its difficult to imagine how the most undesirable of jobs could be gamified. Who's going to want to play the garbageman game? Or the fix the sewage system game?

The products and services of our modern world also requires sustained, multi-year efforts by trained specialists. Something like the mass production of medicine isn't something you can just play with once in a while and still get it made in high enough quantities with serious quality control.

Some believe that robots will eventually do all these things for us. Maybe. That remains to be seen.

Whether the economic whip is really necessary to get people to do the jobs that need to be done today is an open question, but simply telling people to play instead of work doesn't seem to be a very practical solution for many jobs.
This could be interesting for wooden boats as well.
U.S. Marines Conduct the First Live-Fire Training at the New G-36 Company Assaul
> You can survive without working, although your existence will likely be miserable.

Miserable, but—be relieved!—short. Because you will die without food, and shelter, and the other things which you can't magically summon from nothingness: in the current society, you need to work to get them, or had to work in the past to amass appropriate wealth, or someone else has to do this for you. Few are lucky to be gifted it from their birth. As are those who can get those necessities incidentally from play, without deliberate planning in fear of not succeeding.

That's basically what this philosophical essay has to tell about the (non) “choice” that you are given: you work, or else you suffer. You do have this choice though, for sure. The play is when you don't have to choose.
Show HN: Mantel-top computerized musical chimes with MicroPython on an ESP-32
Still waiting on a Luxembourg KVM slice to come in stock.
We changed the url from https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/tag/2.0.0 to the project home page, since this project doesn't appear to have been discussed on HN before.
So is the use case that I want to write code for the Browser but in an alternative language (say, in Rust)?
Not really, the building windows are octagonal (you can see that they're straight) and the dots curve.

The brick wall at the front, though, has the exact same curvature as the dots, dead-on.
> Definitely not a TypeScript to WebAssembly compiler
Also: do you really expect people to live in penury or ignore their ‘immediates’ to deliver more taxes to a govt that has proven itself to be inept again and again and again showing no transparency, accountability or efficiency. That’s just daft. Who really dumps their money voluntarily to the taxman when your family..your friends..your neighbors needs and suffering can be alleviated with immediate results. I literally have no more words for you.
> The leftist desire to redistribute wealth (which I think is strongly misplaced and immoral) will become irrelevant once we achieve a certain level of abundance that is unlike anything we are accustomed to today.

What even is wealth if such abundance exists? I think you may misunderstand the left’s goal of redistribution. It isn’t about divvying scarcity equally, it’s about sharing and enabling the bounty you seem to be describing.

> It will be like wanting to redistribute oxygen or dirt -- two resources so abundant they are essentially free.

But not all oxygen or dirt is equal. Some people experience a greater abundance of safe, clean air and rich, profitable soil. They tend to be the same people who experience a greater abundance generally.
Was kind for 5-6 years, but found out It drained me out. Sorry, but I won't be this time, this year, later, ever again so much to so many people.
The point on the level of complexity being unsustainable is a good one.
Great article, it resonates with everything that has gone wrong in the industry.
YouTube has Atom feeds for each channel, but their markup doesn't link to them. This is a simple workaround - after saving the bookmarklet any channel feed is only a click away.
Everyone loves outrage but you should know not everything on the Internet is true (!).
>But Florida's policy approach has killed over 20 thousand people already, and shows no sign of stopping.

Keep in mind that the 20000 death number is highly inflated because it include death with covid not just due to covid. People who happen to be covid positive during the death is included in the number.

Most importantly with the current death number, i didn't say florida government handling it perfectly but I much much rather to live in this place if I have choice.

If you think its a horrible way to live then only thing i can say: to each their own.

>and shows no sign of stopping

as more and more the virus spread, more people develop natural immunity

as times go the treatment method improve

and then there is vaccine coming

>But Florida actually has 650k.

Keep in mind that unemployment number is not all solely caused by lockdown

But for sure some unemployment is caused by lockdown due to simple logic: if you don't allow business to open due to lockdown, the worker wouldn't have job.

My simple cost-benefit analysis:

The risk/cost of covid :

less than 1% death rate and mostly skewed to older population

The lockdown risk/cost:

Some unemployment, some bankruptcy, some mental health issue, some delayed treatment of other illness, kids can't attend in person school, etc

At least for me The lockdown risk/cost is much more than the risk/cost of covid

>So so far your cost is twenty thousand extra friends and relatives dead, and your "benefit" is fifty thousand extra unemployed.

More accurate example would be: 1 people I know dead due to covid, benefit : life continue as normal for the rest of people.
Pretty damn worth it to me.
You're not missing anything, and this lovely flowchart from NIST shows just how rare actual use cases are:

https://thefinanser.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/NIST-flow...

However, the execs making decisions about hot buzzwords like "blockchain" or "AIOps" etc neither understand nor care.
My business already can't run fb ads because of a broken algorithm ;)

Yeah, I definitely agree with your main thrust that a different business model, probably spurred by legislation, is needed. I just don't know what that business model (or the legislation) should be exactly - and I think the obvious things will have bad unintended consequences.
shameless ad: looking for a simpler way to host nextcloud? try homedrive[1] :)

[1]: https://homedrive.io
Sense and Learn: Self-Supervision for Omnipresent Sensors
> If I come to your home, mow your grass then "tax" your car from you as payment for my services you would still call that theft. and rightly so.

IMO, this is a false equivalence -- governments are uniquely different from other entities.

> This is false thinking, given your clear bias to socialism I can understand why you think that but it never the less false

I don't see how you can say that this is objectively false. It's ok to say you disagree and you see it differently, but just telling someone their opinion is false isn't going to further a constructive dialog.

I suspect our end goals probably align in many ways. I also support a UBI (though I think some forms of welfare may still be required. For example, to assist people who may need help getting access to their UBI, and to provide some mechanisms for collectively bargaining for things like health care if we keep it private.)
What is the logic behind the featured section?
I use IceWM for well over a decade now. It's a nice WM. It is close enough to Win 95/98/2000/XP to not feel too new in the beginning, with its start menu and regular window decorations. But it also has the features of a real Linux WM, with virtual desktops, window rules, mouse focus settings, configurable shortcuts, integrated command runner etc. I don't use use the taskbar anymore (replaced it with a combination of conky/simdock/trayer, but the desktop still works with IceWM at the core), but the integrated network and load indicator was very useful to get additional feedback, that a program is starting or stuck, or a download finished or paused.

It's a complete package, but at the same time a very lightweight WM. It's great.

Just back then the default theme was ugly. Coming from Ubuntu I'm still using https://www.box-look.org/p/1018090/ - doesn't look any worse than a modern DE to me now.
Ah, true. All my friends are surgeons =)
"A lot of people find work to be very satisfying."

I'd like to see some stats on this.
Work can at times be the obstacle or challenge that helps us attain a higher level of capability, and with it, satisfaction.

Pointless work, such as work on a small part of a large software system which is obviously doomed or moving in the wrong direction, can be incredibly demoralizing. On the other hand, there are still some lessons to be learned. To be honest, I'd rather _never_ have those experiences. But they do teach me things.

There's a mind experiment I like to play sometimes (and an interview question I like to ask candidates): What if you never needed to worry about money; your bank account always had what you needed. What would you do?

This question can unfortunately illustrate how your mind is wired/trained. In my case, I devolve into logistics puzzles of how to ensure the right sized private jet is within close reach and able to take me to the travel destination of my current whim. (And further, how to optimize the resource/jet allocation to keep the planes full of friends, family, or other passengers when they are being relocated.) Point is, I suspect we always like to do some kind of work. In my case, I like to find solutions which balance concerns and provide situation-optimal results.

Ultimately it is likely that individual human life is pointless. Certainly from a macro time or macro universe perspective it is. So we gaze at our own navels in our own entertaining ways.
Putting anything behind a firewall in combination with a VPN can be relatively turn key and self patching without too much effort.

Docker wi5 a tool like proxmox can go a very, very long way in a matter of a few days... and provide near identical vps maintainability.

Hardware is much more reliable and self monitoring than it used to be.
Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed
I mention the downvotes because when you find yourself thinking you're right and everyone is wrong usually it's you that's mistaken.

In this case anyone with experience in computer security can tell you multiple layers of defense are always better than one.

Seccomp is great, and I think you actually have a point about it, but it's hard to get right without locking out all system calls entirely - and that's hard to do and still run a program, even a barebones C program.

With higher level languages it's immediately insufficient.