skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the term "law and order" is in reality a dogwhistle

funny that you brought it up then. You also provided a WP article to define "dog whistle", but nothing supporting "reds do not actually support law and order" which seems the crux of you argument.
Your income comes from a company which pays it with pretax money, you pay taxes on that money and then invest it in shares, companies earn money, pay taxes on the profits, and gain value (dividends/share buybacks/self-investment). The sum of corporate taxes and gains taxes are close in magnitude to income tax.

So a dollar goes into a corp, it either:

(1) gets paid to you, you pay your marginal income tax rate on it (say 28%), the corp doesn't pay a tax on it because you're an expense they deduct.

or

(2) they pay corporate tax on it (21%) and then it turns into gains for you and you pay LTCG on it (15%) = ~33%.

(and no, it's still automatically lower than your marginal income tax rate when you're in a higher tax bracket: LTCG goes up to 23.8% when you have sufficiently high investment income)

... and if you don't qualify for LTCG on that cap gain, you get taxed at your income tax rates on it even though you, as a (tiny) owner of the company, already paid corp taxes on.
I gave it a shot at my company, but we ended up using Redash. The UX for business people was much better on Redash.

We've considered Metabase as well, but the lack of SSO login was a show stopper for us.
Great! Hope the rest of the US and World catches up soon.
> I don’t think anyone involved at ProPublica grasps why virtually all developed countries don’t tax unrealized capital gains

This just isn’t true is it? According to the OECD Colombia, France, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland are the countries that raised revenue from net wealth taxes on individuals in 2019: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
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It is interesting to me that the main opposition argument to taxation of wealth seems to be that it could cause a crash of the stock when people need to sell. I would like to propose a counter argument and happy to debate its merits/shortfalls.

What if they don't sell. What if you pay in shares based on price increase over the year and we then transfer those shares into a sovereign fund. Obviously that would be a progressive tax to mimic what is already done for income tax. That fund could then manage those assets and could potentially redistribute them in people's 401K (US)/RRSP (Canada) or make them grow to pay for pensions/fund projects (like Quebec CDPQ). In the first case (redistribution), people are unlikely to all sell at the same time (there could even set a hold period to be sure) and since the transactions would be small overtime it is unlikely to stir the market. For the second option, then the fund would manage it more like any large portfolio and it has an incentive to keep the stock high so it would not dump their new stocks (it would also benefit from stock buybacks).

The fundamental end goal of taxation is to reduce inequalities in a society to keep it functional and peaceful. As we are seeing unprecedented levels of inequalities that tells me that the system is broken. You can call it tax delay all you want, but if I can delay taxes for 50-60 years it has sufficient negative impact on society at the scale we are talking that it should be reformed.
That doesn’t follow in the least.

Are you saying we should reconsider the ban on felons buying firearms because the law isn’t enforced?
How to make biomedical research less dangerous and more ethical, post-Covid-19
How is the US sovereign wealth fund doing?
Seems it went from $100B to $29B to $250B with tons of changes to the receipt list along the way. Does anyone have a clear answer of the spending breakdown now? The news articles I see seem to be rather vague on that part
Yeah it's an interesting concept. In the ML community recently there has been some informal chatter along similar lines. Essentially, you can prove that by modeling the probability of every element in a dataset given every other set of elements, what you are learning is the core underlying structure which defines the data you are modeling. A perfect model of this structure represents the most efficient possible representation of the information. This is kind of like how if you want to represent an arbitrarily long "game" in Conway's Game of Life you only need to give the starting position because we know exactly how the game state will look at every step because we know the rules of the game.

This basically suggests that generalization in a ML model is a function of compression efficiency. ML models memorizing data isn't actually an issue. It's memorizing data INEFFICIENTLY that a problem. Models which overfit have learned inefficient representations of the underlying relationships.
No monitor?
Users could achieve even better security by turning their computers off.
It’s very clear that the original article was a hit piece/advocacy editorial more than anything else. If you don’t believe, go look at the cover of drudge right now, where he’s using it to go after his favorite target, Elon musk. (making a claim that even the pro Publico article doesn’t make).

All that said there’s a fundamental challenge here. People conflate unrealized wealth with income because loans offer a mechanism with cash today while deferring tax until later.

As pointed out in many places, we target the 1% at the expense of not going after the .1% or even a .01%. I think it makes perfect sense for somebody to say that any loan that is backed by stocks granted on the basis of RSU, incur some additional special taxes. For all intents and purposes the principal is Realizing some of the value of the stock by getting a loan against a stock.

Unfortunately articles like this which conflate things actually make it harder for us to fix the real loophole.

Im fortunate to temporarily be a member of the top 1%, but not the top .1% or the top .01% my tax burden last year was 40%. That’s not including healthcare or government fees. I’m fine with that, but the fact that both people earning more than I, and earning less than I pay less in taxes as a percent is incredibly irritating.

Articles like this will result in politicians blindly saying the rich need to be taxed more while the hyper Rich continue to skirt taxes.
IE "worked" too. The main problems came from having to develop for multiple browsers with incompatible implementations. If you restricted yourself to IE, it was quite painless. Any quirk you'd encounter daily was documented, and at the time there were quirks in all implementations anyway.
Why do you leave your dock on the bottom? The sides are better places for that on most screens.
Yes, and using CSS Custom Properties/the var() function you can even keep that branding file as small as said table. Could even build it dynamically, if one wanted.
Times can change quickly and unpredictably. It was not too long ago that Dresden, where this plant is located, was under the oppressive East German regime.
I’ve unfortunately been waiting for the mass shooter types to discover this as well. Even something as simple as quad, light load of explosives/hand grenade, a simple hobby hardware release mechanism, all combined with public gathering/open air stadium. It’s pretty terrifying.
Being popular != Monopoly

Having Market Share Dominance != Monopoly

Being a monopoly means having sole control over the supply of a market (conversely, Monopsony is demand). When people say Bing, Baidu, DDG, Yahoo, DDG, etc. are all a click a way, that means Google does not control the market supply.

Just because the majority of people choose to use something on an open market doesn't mean that thing has a monopoly.
Yep, failing to differentiate unrealized gains falls in the realm of beginner information.

Taxes on Stocks Explained for Beginners that Know NOTHING About Taxes
https://youtu.be/EKYMbsjUUtE?t=46

> > Those gains are not defined by U.S. laws as taxable income unless and until the billionaires sell.

--yes, precisely because they're not income until then.

> but incurious about why the laws are that way (not just in the US, but across the developed world.

--this is a great characterization, this settling for grasping what little one superficially comprehends about a complex subject does indeed come across as incurious. They never apparently rose to ask the next 3 or 5 questions that should immediately follow. If one's curiosity stopped at question 1 or 2 that's pretty underwhelming.
PP also failed to disclose that their argument on Musk during 2018 was while Tesla and Musk nearly went bankrupt trying to scale the M3. Not Teslas current state which is dramatically more valuable given that Tesla scaled for the M3 and MY).
Philosophers have had thousands of years of deliberation with no concrete and objective consensus on the subject and priests have manipulated people for thousands to believe that they only have the agency to submit, not the agency to act freely.

I understand your point that law and ethics are not same. My question is when, where, why, how and with whom do these supposedly distinct concepts originate in a world where conclusions are require incontrovertible proof and not mere belief or peddling thereof?
> Why start a new company, if google can just take over everything?

If your company is defeated by Google turning it into some widget then you don’t have much of a business, you just have a feature you monetized and isn’t really a long term source of revenue. You need rigorous innovation and a clear advantage over your competitors.
The US tax code has had step-up basis for over 100 years, since income tax was first put in place. I don't think there are any archival documents showing the reasoning for that particular choice. I think the common belief is that it was a simplification due to the relative lack of record keeping 100+ years ago.

If you inherited some assets in 1909 it could have been very hard to figure out what the cost basis was, since you would have no idea where the records were or if any records had even been kept.
you should check out kst-plot from kde it is great for real time plotting and watching of machines and processes. I use it all the time to make plots and zoom in on the interesting parts. It is so fast and easy.
it'll be 'easy to break up' because that's what Alphabet was created to do - back in 2015 they knew antitrust and a monopoly break-up was going to happen at some point, so they made these companies largely operationally separate so that they have very little hiccup when it is required. The only one that'd be hard is YouTube where they might require spending some millions reworking the ad model, but otherwise they'll have little issues continuing business as usual. YouTube is likely profitable[0], so it's not like their monopoly over free video content is going to cease.

0: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...
Just having dominant market share does not make one a monopoly. Google would have to control the supply of all the search engines to have a monopoly (which they don't).
Who cares? These people seem to care https://twitter.com/v_language/status/1339223357800263682?s=...
I’ve built two multi-billion dollar consumer retail companies where we didn’t focus on SEO nor was organic or even SEM traffic a significant source of new customers. If you want to dump your money into SEO/SEM go for it but that’s not how the retail startups are spending their money.
> It consumes more power than Argentina and has increased 6500% since 2015 without providing any meaningful utility to mankind.

- Every member of mankind who chose to invest in Bitcoin for any meaningful length of time would argue it provided immense utility to them. At 150-200 million Hodlers, that is bigger than Japan.

- Every member of mankind who appreciates having an alternative to forced negative interest rates, or random haircuts to bank savings accounts (e.g. Gibraltor) appreciates having Bitcoin as an option

- A store of value that is impervious to the ravages of inflation and operates outside the domain of politicians or central banks is incredibly useful for mankind, but not maybe so useful to those who wish to rule over mankind

Bitcoin is:

- the people’s money

- peer-to-peer digital gold

- rules without rulers

- the hardest reserve currency ever invented (better than gold)

All that and it consumes less energy per year than YouTube or even hairdryers.

> Bitcoin deserves to be a first-tier target for reducing carbon emissions.

No, no it doesn’t

> That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t target other energy consumption too.

Yes, I agree completely - and we should prioritize the biggest and dirtiest energy consumption first if our goal is to address the real problem instead of virtue signaling.

There are a long list of polluting environmentally destructive activities much worse than Bitcoin such as Gold for example. 100% of Gold is strip-mined with non-renewable energy. Maybe we should convince the world’s central banks to dump their gold reserves for Bitcoin. Or maybe shut down the world’s hair dryer production because it uses more energy than Bitcoin.

There’s an idea.
PeerTube is not a serious alternative to YouTube.
Almost all of the most popular content is missing and there are no reasonable alternatives. It claims to have over 400,000 videos on the site; YouTube gets 700,000 _hours_ of video uploaded each day.

Android without Google Play, unless you live in mainland China, does not "work great" the way most people want. I've done it and it was basically like not having a smartphone at all.

You cannot use banking apps, social media, games, streaming/Chromecast, maps (yes, I know OsmAnd exists; it has next to no information about businesses or landmarks and takes several minutes to plot a route that Google Maps or Waze calculates in less than 5 sedonds). Firefox is a reasonable alternative to Chrome and K-9 mail is good but that's about it. Unless MicroG suddenly became good in the past two years it's not a feasible solution even for people who are technically-minded.
> Gravy Tastes Better When Loudly Slurped; Scientists Baffled

I always loved those.
Here is a link to the PDL book <http://pdl.perl.org/content/pdl-book-toc.html>.

I can share some examples of using PDL:

- Demos of basic usage <https://metacpan.org/release/ETJ/PDL-2.050/source/Demos/Gene...>

- Image analysis <https://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/zmughal/zmughal-iperl-no...> (I am also the author of IPerl, so if you have questions about it, let me know. My top priority with IPerl right now is to make it easy to install.)

- Physics calculations <https://github.com/wlmb/Photonic>

- Access to GSL functions for integration and statistics (with comparisons to SciPy and R): <https://gist.github.com/zmughal/fd79961a166d653a7316aef2f010...>. Note how PDL can take an array of values as input (which gets promoted into a PDL of type double) and then returns a PDL of type double of the same size. The values of that original array are processed entirely in C once they get converted to a PDL.

- Example of using Gnuplot <https://github.com/PDLPorters/PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot/blob/mast...>.

---

Just to give a summary of how PDL works relative to XS:

PDL allows for creating numeric ndarrays of any number of dimension of a specific type (e.g., byte, float, double, complex double) that can be operated on by generalized functions. These functions are compiled using a DSL called PP that generates multiple XS functions by taking a signature that defines the number of dimensions that the function operates over for each input/output variable and adding loops around it. These loops are quite flexible and can be made to work in-place so that no temporary arrays are created (also allows for doing pre-allocation). The loops will run multiple times over that same piece of memory --- this is still fast unless you have many small computations.

And if you do have many small computations, the PP DSL is available for the user to use as well so if they need to take a specific PDL computation written in Perl, they can translate the innermost loop into C and then it can do the whole computation in one loop (a faster data access pattern). There is a book for that as well called "Practical Magick with C, PDL, and PDL::PP -- a guide to compiled add-ons for PDL" <https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07753>.

---

I'm also active on the `#pdl` IRC channel on <https://www.irc.perl.org/>, so feel free to drop by.
Have they published a post-mortem for the outage yet? I'm curious as to what happened here
I've had more than one intern or young engineer that I've had to teach to resist the urge to put witty comments and jokes in project docs, comments, or errors. Especially in error messages or things that can be exposed to users/customers. Even if it's an error you think only the dev team will see, you never know if it will make its way out to audiences you didn't intend. Somehow I doubt people faced with this error message really were amused by the reference to the old Amiga OS errors....
whats your time zone? I also want to get some freelance jobs and i have a similar (1 year) experience in data engineering/analytics, customer support, bigquery, datastudio etc. would be nice to discuss, I'm willing to coop maybe gather efforts would be nice to leave my snobish douchey egocentric toxic boss
> Next thing he knew, the crowd had put tires over the alleged thief and set him on fire.

Ah, yes. Necklacing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
The interesting thing about San Francisco now is that people still wear their masks outdoors despite all the excellent news and the number of new cases going down. Not that that's a bad thing.

It'll be interesting to see what happens on June 15 when the mask mandate goes away in CA (theoretically).
Anti trust laws are written to protect consumers, not inferior competitors.
It seems like a smart move: do something safer to start to provide domestic supply.

But it also provides a stepping point for something more more aggressive if that's the future they want to move in.

The UK, given Brexit, needs to make at least 2 moves like this.

And the US needs to make 5.
And 2% is really high. Billionaires are likely getting less than 1% interest rates. Big banks are willing to lose money even, just to court these billionaires.
> The rich person may never pay those taxes within their own lifetime, but someone will

Which just goes to show rich people live under an entirely different system that gives them a huge advantage. I'm 39, and have never purchased my own home (can't afford it - prices in Canada are insane).

If I could have put off paying my taxes I'd have enormously more money on hand right now that I do, and I could buy a house without having to pay interest, I could buy shares.. I could do all kinds of things that would help me accumulate more wealth. .. then I could just pay my taxes on my death bed when I don't need it anyway.

Instead, I have to pay taxes now, keeping my down, and rich people don't.
Yes and? The losses are no less real! You're still much better not having them.
I think they've assumed `styled-components` is default?
This seems ridiculous in the context of a very popular cable news network and associated newspapers and web properties that were entirely free and highly motivated (according to your theory) to publicize reasoned theories about lab leaks. I don't remember any such stories. All I remember were conspiracy type stories about deliberate Chinese virus synthesis and release.
Good error messages are hard. There’s so many things that can go wrong, and each needs its own custom explanation. Never really found a good way to organize this. And since errors should be uncommon, it feels like a waste of time coming up with thoughtful messages.
OK... so basically, we should work to prevent future pandemics:

> we should try to limit the possibility of either happening in the future.

And scientists and researchers claim that to do this, we need to determine the root cause of the initial spread:

> [Peter Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine and a leading expert on the virus,] said coming to firm conclusions about how the virus emerged was “absolutely essential” in preventing future pandemics.

But we shouldn't do that, because China might suffer political consequences if it turns out that negligence or irresponsible behavior lead to the outbreak.

In other words: We should try to limit the possibility of this happening in the future. But, the search for the source of the pandemic, that scientists and researchers suggest are needed to prevent future pandemics, and indeed would follow standard incident response protocol in virtually any situation, is "political." But, the notion that we shouldn't do that because it might harm China from a political standpoint is not political.

On the other hand, it sounds a lot like doing the wrong thing in order to avoid causing an unwanted political outcome, such as creating justification for actions that a political adversary might want taken. It comes off a bit like this tweet:

> David Hogg @davidhogg111

> I feel the need to continue wearing my mask outside even though I’m fully vaccinated because the inconvenience of having to wear a mask is more than worth it to have people not think I’m a conservative

This is absolutely benign since wearing a mask is actually not a bad idea and stops the spread of flus and common colds. However, consider the reverse of not wearing a mask despite not being fully vaccinated, because you don't want to appear liberal. This is not making a decision because it is the right or logical thing to do. This is making a decision out of fear that it might come to a conclusion, or have optics that don't support your political causes.

This is, of course, hot garbage, and if we wind up with another serious viral outbreak, I'm sure we can all be glad that at least China didn't face unfair political retribution while huge portions of the population are dying.
Alpine.js works well for this use case too.
> people still wear their masks outdoors despite all the excellent news

The whole spring pollen thing hasn't hit me in any way this year - the cottonwood seeds are also in the air.

I notice that I don't feel as bad about all of that with an N95 this year, though I'm conserving some N95s for the eventual fire season this year.
That would be the difference between "private" and "personal" property, for reference.
The bail out in this bill for blue origin is unbelievable. It’s like somebody looked at the SLS and decided hey! We need more programs like that.
It distorts the market badly, and it Removes any Incentive for commercial entities to offer reasonable prices.
> The fundamental end goal of taxation is to reduce inequalities in a society to keep it functional and peaceful.

This is not at all clear. To many others, the fundamental end goal of taxation is to fund the government. The trillion dollar question is: is our goal to make the poor richer or the rich poorer? There’s broad disagreement on the answer to that question, and without acknowledging this, we’re really just shouting past each other.
A more cynical stance is to assume the 250 billions will go to contractors who will outsource the actual R&D to China in return for useless "IP rights" that they'll use to sue each other.

It seems, the "grumpy cat of the day" hat belongs to me now.
They are also one of the few to support Apple’s HomeKit secure video thing.

Unfortunately they got hacked a couple of weeks ago, and the attackers were able to get into users’ videos. According to reports on Twitter, this included users of the HomeKit encrypted storage. :(
Why did we just watch a 4 minute Ford ad?
Are we desensitized to large dollar numbers? The past year we have spent trillions more than previous years. Has anyone looked at the total govt debt in a whole?