skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Microsoft in numerous court cases had said the reason for the walked garden is because it is safe, then yes. But only Apple says that. This is not comparable to downloading for Windows but more like downloading malware from the Xbox or PlayStation store. Apple approved those apps.
Even if we discover the secret to everlasting life there are going to be plenty of people who would like to die eventually. Also if I’m 90 and in poor health the idea of living forever doesn’t sound very appealing in general.

I think your premise is incredibly ambitious but even if it’s true the vast majority of people aren’t going to get access to the veritable fountain of youth anyways, at least not for a very long time because society will have to fundamentally change both to accommodate the idea and also to allow your average person to have the means to obtain it.
If they're reinvesting money, that money is not getting taxed. If they still have obscene amounts afterward, c'est la vie.
Run-time detection and heuristics on a language that is hard to analyze (e.g. due to weak aliasing, useless const, ad-hoc ownership and thread-safety rules) aren't in the same ballpark as compile-time safety guaranteed by construction, and an entire modern ecosystem centered around safety. Rust can use LLVM sanitizers in addition to its own checks, so that's not even a trade-off.
This is a really bad argument. There’s probably a very large segment of the population that would avoid paying any taxes no matter how low you set them. What you’re arguing for is basically a pay what you want model for the rich, where if they feel like they’re getting taxed too much they can just utilize these loopholes.
Thus the massive rent seeking in San Francisco, for example, where the city spends $852 million a year for 8,000 homeless (https://www.hoover.org/research/only-san-francisco-61000-ten...), funding a massive homeless-industrial complex.
The 2017 “tax cuts” partially eliminated deductions for state and local taxes, capping them at 10k. This means people in high cost of living, high tax states effectively get taxed on income multiple times instead of being able to discount the money they already paid to state and local taxes above 10k.

https://taxfoundation.org/tax-basics/salt-deduction/
> Redistributing wealth is not the primary purpose of taxes

Yes it is. Also of government, more generally (well, power, of which wealth is a subset.) Before the modern era, this was pretty consistently upward redistribution, aka concentration.
Excellent analogies but oddly one-sided
Not by all ISPs, eg my ISP is Andrews and Arnold that does not censor the internet.
Why? The things you'd use for work, like monitors and computers aren't using a lot of energy - comparatively to fridges, electric ovens and washing machines.
You're right. Considering we just budgeted about 750 billion for the military, more than the next 7 or 10 countries combined depending on who you ask, me thinks even if they do get their hands on this money its not going to end up in the right place.
I look at my dad, and grandfathers deaths, and pray. As to retirement---I just hope jobs that are easy on the body, and don't require much thought are still around in a few years.

I figure the only thing that might give me a few more years them is I wasen't a huge smoker.

Although, they all had easier financial lives than myself which puts me in the early death catagory?
That 90% of all overflows are bugs doesn't surprise me at all, even if you include unsigned integers.
COOL STORY BRO
No, that’s the top 0.35%

Where does the middle class top off? $125,000/year individual income puts you in top 10%. Pretty normal for a software engineer. Is that middle class?
Those three initial novels are a really fun read!
For Budibase, we often hear enterprises talk about two reasons for their interest:
Cost of devs
Speed of delivery (leading to faster growth and operations)
Because legal tax avoidance isn't an issue and is a topic for another paper.

Why is every second reply in this comment thread trying to deflect away from the documented widespread, commonplace fraud that constitutes a wealth transfer away from common taxpayers?
> have been impossible to deforest that much landscape without at least steam powered tools

Or, as many people prefer to call it, goats.
The $100MM is the benefit. So they are giving back some of the benefit they already received. Yeah they call it waste when they have to give back but the true waste is the policies that allowed the $100MM in light of the overall inequality.

People who make $100MM are no smarter than those that don’t, I mean Einstein didn’t make that type of money right? It’s not merit either, it’s simply money...under our system money makes money, concentration of capital doesn’t benefit everyone it benefits the person with the capital.

Consider wealth management itself, you want to diversify your investments, you would never put 90% of your wealth into .1% of the assets you own. The rich know and live by this rule, well that same rule applies to society, you don’t want .1% controlling 90% of the wealth so investment is determined by .1% of the population. You want the wealth diversified and in the hands of many so no single person controls investment.
How much is it to fill up my used Nissan Leaf that I bought for $5500? :-)
Oh you mean “icy world”? With an L. You wrote “word”. Yeah, The Left Hand... is the one in a frozen planet. Great book.
I don't know - why do Californians have sky-high everything?
I don't think so. It seems to me that are policies are very clearly targeted to tax income earners, not capital owners.
If you put a data diode between your infrastructure and the internet, you can see the status from anywhere, yet never compromise it from the outside.
Telegram is not ideal for peivacy.
Hah, fancy that! Sorry, I had no way of knowing.

Well, I can imagine it feels wrong to combine with existing recipes - I'm pretty peculiar with certain dishes too, especially if my Chinese grandparents taught them to me, figure that's kind of a similar thing.

Which means that it's time to invent some new sauces to go along with it then! ;)
Gary Kasparov: we must consider how to reform democracy for the 21st century
It seems like even with taxes... at some point people are sitting on a multi-million dollar property that typical far exceeds the taxes they spent.
This may be a better link for this event.

https://new.uschess.org/news/tani-adewumi-national-master-ag...
SALT is “state and local tax”... you can deduct state and local taxes from your federal taxes, but a few years ago they put a cap on it so you can only deduct $10,000. This really hurt tax payers in higher tax states.
Ask HN: How to Cultivate Gifted Child's Interest in Science?
I'm a suit that lurks on HN due to my love of thoughtful discussion, Paul Graham's essays, and my layman's interest in science and technology.

I've never posted on HN, but now I am here awkwardly asking for good advice and ideas on a personal matter.

My four year old daughter is exceptionally gifted (generally), and profoundly so with visual-spatial intelligence and math. My wife and I, who are just regular people with no technical education or background, finally had this confirmed by a psychologist. She is a marvel.

My questions for HN:

1. If you were a gifted child, what were the activities, games, questions, or ideas that you most loved, or that ignited and really engaged your interest in science and technology?

1a. Was there any one person who had a disproportionately positive impact on your STEM education, and if so, why and how?

2. In what areas will science have the potentially greatest impact for the benefit of humanity in 20 years? What are the biggest and most challenging problems to solve just over the horizon?

We want to foster an environment that constantly challenges her, no matter where her interests lead (whether STEM or something else). This is not a matter of us pushing her, she is astonishingly self-motivated, and we just need to be supportive and provide thoughtful guidance.

Regarding #2, I'm hoping for some specifics, not "climate change adaptation" or "colonizing Mars" - more like, what are the most challenging problems involved in those broader topics?

She is the kind of kid that will ask her own questions and let them lead her interests. But I do want to plant the seeds of big, challenging ideas early on, instill wonder, and let her grow into them if and when she's ready.
The comments here are like a bad reddit thread. For shame HN!
What is “Apple brass”?

I see only one other mention of it in the article (aside from the title) with zero additional context, and surprised to see zero occurrences of it here.

A Google search of “Apple brass” turns up nothing, as well, besides other references to this article.

Am I the only one that has never heard this term, and also curious by its reference in the article’s headline?
Conversely, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel of parsing XML and all the nuances that come with that if you use a tried and tested library.

I see your point and agree with the general sentiment, but this is no leftpad.
They certainly will be, but not necessarily for the worse. Imagine oil billionaires having to live through the consequences of their actions. Imagine the societal benefits of people being able to use their decades of valuable experience for much longer, rather than having it die with them.

I do believe it’s going to happen, but personally I’m more pessimistic than GP and don’t think it’ll be within my lifetime. Medical research is so tightly regulated when it comes to testing on humans (for good reason!), and there isn’t enough money going into the field.
for the same reason i believe that entertainment companies should have reasonable prices/practices if they don't want me to pirate movies, governments should keep taxes low if they want the rich to pay them.
Don't let them steal your Bitcoin
It should be perfectly fine to do this:

union reinterpret {
char raw[100];
struct myStruct interpreted;
} example;

read(fd, &example.raw)
struct myStruct dest = interpreted;

This is standard-compliant C code, and it is a common way of reading IP addresses from packets, for example.
From wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet#History_and...

> The concept of a Mediterranean diet was developed to reflect "food patterns typical of Crete, much of the rest of Greece, and Italy in the early 1960s".[43] Although it was first publicized in 1975 by the American biologist Ancel Keys and chemist Margaret Keys (a husband and wife team),[56] the Mediterranean diet failed to gain widespread recognition until the 1990s. Objective data showing that the Mediterranean diet is healthy originated from results of epidemiological studies in Naples and Madrid,[57] confirmed later by the Seven Countries Study first published in 1970,[58] and a book-length report in 1980.[59]

> The most commonly understood version of the Mediterranean diet was presented, among others, by Walter Willett and colleagues of Harvard University's School of Public Health since the mid-1990s.[60][61][62][63] The Mediterranean diet is based on a paradox: although the people living in Mediterranean countries tend to consume relatively high amounts of fat, they have far lower rates of cardiovascular disease than in countries like the United States where similar levels of fat consumption are found.

Comparing Americans with Italians and Cretans of the 1960's has so many confounding factors. For one thing, the Cretans and most Italians would have lived in villages and small towns and would have been predominantly farmers engaged in physical work (and so exercise) whereas most Americans of the '60s would live urban lives in large cities and not exercised a lot. I don't know if any research attempted to account for this difference in life styles, but diet can't have been the only factor that affected relative cardiovascular health.
There's quite a few of us here making more more than 400k/year but less than Billion dollar money.

My effective tax rate between state and federal is something like 55% before including sales taxes.

These Billionaires find ways to pay basically nothing in tax because their wealth comes from capital gains and not from RSU + salary compensation which are taxed as normal salary.

The bulk of the burden of new tax increases will fall on people like me who make more than 400k but make it in easy to tax ways instead of changing the law and making it easier to heavily tax people in the 100M/yr+ category

These aren't complaints, just facts.
Not so. The US can simply refuse to recognize or work with entities that don't want to report the incomes of US residents.

There is quite a bit of progress among rich nations, which is indeed why the article mentioned many of the individuals come from corrupt nations.

The issue, therefore, may not be so much of 'tax havens' but of 'corrupt systems that allow for tax havens'.

I don't think Bezos has a pile of cash secretly offshore.
absolutely fucking amazing
How usuable is it nowadays? Used to be a bit rocky.
“Brass” in this context means “leadership.” See: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/top+brass
I'll do a bit of self-marketing, but we at GeoPard Ag https://geopard.tech work on this. Have some big ag companies as clients
YES!

If the politicians actually wanted to tax the rich then they'd be closing loopholes, not raising the marginal rates.
Why aren’t software engineers valued more in EU?
I didn't assume anyone was offended. Nothing about the list was offensive to me.

I said that it shows a lack of respect and gratitude for customers.

Also, customers certainly might have a sense of humor about their names, but they weren't given a chance to laugh about it. If the people who made the list thought jt were genuinely funny, they'd have made the joke with the customer and not kept it private.
If you have a point to make, please come out and make it. Sarcasm is lazy and neither educates nor persuades.
unspecified people in charge at Apple
-- destroy the bad ones

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.
Nevertheless there are real issues with regressive policies in energy pricing and high costs of electricity in California. Countering with "well, in the Bay area you don't need a lot of electricity" doesn't contribute a lot of value to a discussion of why Californians pay significantly higher rates than those in other states. It's also not very relevant if you expect a sizeable fraction of the state to switch to electric cars in the next few decades.
Please don't destroy the term "destroy". It means something very important and not at all what you are using it for here.
"Brass" is synonymous with "leadership" in this context, it has a bit of a military connotation, but can be used elsewhere as well.
Okay, but "surprisingly" has more possible meanings than "to our surprise", imo. How come you disagree?
Stupid question: is there a way to check if i accepted the news terms or not?
Ask HN: Getting back to C++ and looking for ideas
Hello .. I used to code C/C++ about 15 years ago, and mainly used it for MFC/Windows programming. I spend years doing Java and enjoyed using it for Android development. I since moved to Python for most of my work (mainly working on deep learning). I'd like to get back to C++ again .. I mostly remember the language but need to dust off details like STL, generics, libraries, etc. Here is my problem .. I can't figure out what sort of tiny programs are a strong fit for C++ today. I don't want to build C++ or work with some large existing code base. Best place I can think of where C++ would be a good fit today is Cuda dev. Is there anything else that I am missing? I'm desperately looking for something to get excited about wrt C++ .. would appreciate advice!
For the US it doesn't so much matter who is taxed or how much. We cannot break even if you take into account unfunded liabilities.
You can be humorous and juvenile at work without doing it at anyone else's expense, especially the people who put food on your table.
My family is from the Chino, Pomona, Ontario area, just south of LA. Lets just say a lot of people live there and it get hot as all get out there. You don't have to travel far from the coast for temperatures to rise pretty quickly and AC to be a necessary thing.
You're overcomplicating this. Back to my point:

"The lower the tax - the more money will stay and will be reinvested into the local economy."

Start here. Less taxes == more money is staying and reinvested in the local economy for the good of everyone.

Bonus: more money start coming in from other jurisdictions that are abusing their productive citizens and businesses with exorbitant taxes.
Imagine the misfortune of being 80 years old when humanity finally figured out how to do this.
Fellow South Carolinian and former Charlestonian. I nearly applied to Reify for the same reasons. Clojure is one of my favorite languages. However, I suspect I’d dislike it in a large product / team setting. Having moved from C# to Rails to JavaScript and now to TypeScript, I think I’d miss static types too much.

I’d be very interested in a follow up blogpost after you’ve been at Reify for a year or two.
> Sounds like it should be nationalized imo

There was a major effort by a coalition of local governments in the PGE service area along with community orgs and others to have a public takeover in the most recent bankruptcy rather than another private transition to continue thr cycle of bad behavior, massive liability escaped by bankruptcy, and further bad behavior which is PG&E’s history, as well as bids by individual public entities for parts of PG&E’s operations. Some of the latter mat have succeeded but the former failed, and so the cycle will continue.
Nice. I've actually built a startup doing exactly this a few years ago, called PriceLocal [0]. Though, unfortunately, it never really got off the ground in terms of traction.

We ended up spending I think around two years building out the functionality. Most of that time was spent arranging agreements with brick and mortar businesses to share their inventory data with us, so that we could make it function on a per-product basis. You could shop normally on Amazon, and it would drop down a banner when your product was available from a local business at or below the Amazon price. We also had it working as extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. This article had a good screenshot showing how it actually worked [1].

That was definitely one of the favorite startups I've helped build to date. It was also cool to see it featured on The Today Show [2]. I'm super bummed it didn't end up working out. Good luck to you!

[0] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pricelocal

[1] https://www.today.com/video/new-app-promises-to-find-amazon-...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/how-to/find-local-stores-that-will-matc...

EDIT: By the way, nice name! I can't believe we didn't think of that.
> In some places $400k can give 8 families this life. In others not even one. It depends.

Ummm, where exactly in the world is $400k per year not enough to survive? Monaco?

If you earn $400k year after year, then you are earning enough to be "rich". But true, it's still possible to live beyond your means regardless of how much you earn and incur financial difficulty.
Except we don’t get anywhere near 5 9’s in much of California, there are rolling blackouts in Oakland when the wind blows too hard because of the risk of wildfires. It’s just mismanaged and under invested because regulators let them and the market rewards them for it.
That's one way to look at it.

Another is that this is the endgame for medicine as there is no other path forward. A huge amount of resources, both human and monetary, is spent to care for elderly people to slow the decline of their fragile health as much as possible — while still inevitably failing eventually. It's as if we've almost hit the ceiling of what can be done here with "traditional" methods. So it's the next logical step to declare aging itself a disease, because it's ultimately the cause of all those conditions, and start looking for the ways to reverse and/or prevent it.
Open-Source Automated Cocktail-Making Machine
> Your productivity being high with a given tech stack does not disqualify an alternative tech stack from having equally high (or much higher) productivity for equally trained users.

Try implementing classic timescale features like down sampling in your straight RDBMS.

Certainly you can do it, just as you can build a house with a hammer and nails rather than a nail gun.

But you'll spend lots of time building undifferentiated infrastructure that you could have got out of the box.
Doesn't matter even with the high marginal tax rates of the 1940's the amount of revenue generated from those taxes was small. Most wealthy people choose to reinvest profits rather than converting them to personal income.
There are Unicode characters that are strike-through, bold, etc. It's not actual formatting.
You mean like not extraditing that diplomats wife who killed someone in traffic (DUI) and then ran home to the US?
You? I’m not sure what point you are making. Apple does not preload apps onto your phone.
So I could use this, for example, to create a dedicated volume control device out of a spare mouse? It would involve mapping the directions of the extra mouse's wheel to VK_VOLUME_UP/DOWN and to assign a no-op macro to the x/y axes so it does not interfere with the normal mouse?

Edit: for your information, I couldn't get any mouse triggers to work in a reasonable time. If someone else does, just reply here, please. Sending volume keycodes in reaction to a different keyboard event (e.g. pressing scroll lock/pause) worked somewhat. I had to send them with CreateObject("WScript.Shell").SendKeys(chr(&hAF) as scripted action though. VK_VOLUME_UP/DOWN is not defined, use characters &hAF for "up" and &hAE for "down".
If you are 90 and in poor health, it's likely because you are dying albeit slowly. The technology for everlasting life will likely reverse or halt the breakdown of basic bodily functions due to 'old age' and may rejuvenate organs who are simply suffering from maintenance issues.

So in the end, a cure for death is also a cure for myriad amount of ailments.
We’re Building a Replacement for Microsoft Academic Graph
That article description sounds closer to Joel Fuhrman's "nutritarian" diet.
This would be easy to do in active voice. I could write "I did this, and I was wondering why that anomaly turned up, so I did yadda yadda" without ever involving a "you".
There was also a ransomware attack on a natural gas pipeline in 2020: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/20/ransomware-attac...
I think the worst would be discovering that we can cure old age but only in utero, thus the next generation will be the immoral ones but we will all die eventually.
Has anyone worked out how cats react to vampire watermelons?
Are you excluding primary residence? A lot of paper millionaires due to lucky real estate
It's all relative. But no, making 400K after 10 years does not result in $4M. If you make that 400K as an engineer in a coastal tech hub and put all the savings in the bank after taxes and expenses, you have 1M after 10 years. Not much more than the median price of a home in LA county, and far below the median in SF.

In other words, you have accumulated 1/10000 the wealth of your FAANG employer.
But are you a hacker or just trying to stir up the pot?
In the comments why does everyone refer to the author as ‘Sabine’? It seems overly familiar and derisory. Men are granted the respectful use of their full name or their surnames.
Gmail doesn’t send instantly. This is why they could add the undo feature for sending emails.
TIL. Have never heard of this before.
“normal taxation levels” - a word salad without peer.

Those tax breaks happened to catalyze massive tax receipts nonetheless, but taxes are politically justified by who they poleaxe, not by the consequences that result.