skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's lot of detail here. I wasn't really surprised at anything. Of course this is going to be a game of whack-a-mole but arguing they'll just avoid it in the end is no reason not to try.

I'd focus on three areas to begin with:

1. Property taxes. They're simply too low on ultra high end property. A $100m condo in Manhattan only pays about 10-14x the property tax that a $1m condo does. Additionally, property taxes should be significantly higher if the property is owned by a corporation/LLC;

2. Debt. In the era of zero interest rates, the ultra-rich borrow money at near zero cost rather than repatriate money they would then have to pay taxes on. The worst case here is that they're deferring taxes indefinitely. This should apply to companies too.

3. Withholding taxes. Pretty much any asset sale not associated with an SSN should have taxes withheld at source by the holding institution. We have some of this already. We need more of it.

One final point about dividends. This system actually needs to be reformed and it's bizarre to me how easy this is and that no one in America seems to see it.

Currently, if a company makes a profit they pay corporate taxes on that profit. If they then pay a dividend it counts as income and that person then pays taxes on it again. This particularly hurts smaller businesses and was a big motivation for the complicated passthrough rules introduced in the Trump tax "cuts".

In Australia, we have a system of franking credits. IIRC the corporate tax rate is 30%. If a company makes a profit of $10,000 they pay $3,000 in taxes. The company then decides to distribute those profits to shareholders as a dividend. So if you own 10% of that company you receive $700 as a dividend. But you also get a tax credit of $300 (being 10% of the $3,000).

That means that when you do your annual personal return, if your marginal tax rate is <30% you'll get a partial refund. If it's >30% you'll need to pay a little more.

These are called "franking credits" and in this example the dividend is "fully franked". There are partially franked and unfranked dividends but they are uncommon.

This completely solves the double taxation of dividends problems and I don't understand why we're doing crap like passthrough entity allowances to work around it.
It’s different degrees of abuse. Moviepass committed fraud, and FAANG are not committing that kind of crime, they do engage in sketchy things. The whole ad business model is sketchy, getting people addicted to “binging” on content is questionable, Amz and its commingling issues, copying resellers, it’s terrible review system and well, social media siphoning personal data unscrupulously.... that’s not exactly stand up catagory.
Super common in French, and was a big hurdle in learning the language through movies/ TV.

I don’t want to put English subtitles, but sometimes I have trouble with accents. My best guess why would be that they are translated independently and at different times by different people. Some shows almost every single line is different.
I am very interested in knowing what extension prevents right click hijacking. Please share what it's called.
What are some of the tools that do this? The only ones I know of are Scalr and Pulumi.
Grafana?
I understand the feeling of being taken advantage of, but this seemed clearly like an over-reaction. A 100% apology was in order from my (sideline) opinion. He's just an ex intern having some fun, probably trying to impress his former boss even.

I was reading through the replit blog to see what kind of things are trade secret vs public, and noticed that they didn't go out of their way to highlight that Bret Victor's "Learnable Programming" is clearly the complete inspiration for replit's debugger (time travel, no hidden state, etc). They have a small link to Bret's work but don't mention him by name. Considering Bret's article is basically THE piece to read w.r.t. programming environments, and the gif that replit shows looks pretty identical, it seems right to have his name/article clearly at the top.

https://blog.replit.com/debuggest

http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
Tiger parents

A largely Chinese-American concept, the term draws parallels to strict parenting styles ostensibly common to households in East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. (wikipedia)

The idea behind tiger parents is that Asians earn more money. And it's true, but not the whole store.

But the problem is that average Asian incomes are pulled up by Indian-Americans. Chinese-Americans earn less than many European-Americans. So the whole concept is based on flawed logic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
Something people forget is the high amount of churn among millionaires in the US. It's the billionaires you're trying to go after, 500k should be ignored.
They are going with lasers instead. https://news.usni.org/2020/05/22/video-uss-portland-fires-la...
> No real political pressure to do anything, no assassinations, nothing. Thousands dead every year.

Assassinating a Chinese citizen in China would be a huge overreach and a major violation of sovereignty. Not to mention it wouldn't stop the drug trade.

Instead of looking at the Liberal Hegemony playbook for a solution, they should de-criminalize and regulate. During prohibition many people were dying from additives/impurities in bootleg alcohol, now we don't have that problem.
What the kimono's influence tells us about cultural appropriation (2020)
It appears the MoviePass master plan for world domination was inspired by the underpants gnomes of South Park[a]:

Step 1. Charge customers $10/month for unlimited passes to movie theaters

Step 2. Change passwords to prevent customers from getting their passes

Step 3. ???

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[a] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts
How long until this headline means what I considered it might, being already familiar with the backstory?

That an earth first movement decides a line has now been crossed and the gloves are coming off, and e.g. uses a swarm of cheap disposable kamikaze drones to sink a few hundred ships in one 3:10am coordinated unattributed assault?

KSR's The Ministry for the Future evokes this scenario, and makes plain the ethical reasoning behind it...

...we are all just waiting for someone with the resources to e.g. fly their personal 787-8 overhead, to decide that watching from the sidelines is not patriotic, for some value of patriotism.

I place my chip on within four years.
"Avoid speaking"
This is 100% a myth. The Defense Language Institute comprehensively disproved this in the mid-1970's.

I know this because it's discussed on the first day of classes at DLI as for why you need to learn to speak the language not just hear and read it. Because my job title was voice intercept operator.

Pre-1976 the Defense Language Institute did not score or rate students speaking ability because only reading and listening were considered mission critical skills.

Post-1976 it was considered a mission critical skill because it had such a dramatic effect on students final listening and reading abilities during the culminating Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT). Subsequently an Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) was developed and is considered an integral part of the DLPT.

Note: This was all direct, primary research done at the Defense Language Institute with thousands of participants annually, so it was direct cause and effect experiment.

It's hard to find the specific research results summarizing this, but here's one example from that time period.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1975-10458-001
A large UBI would address this OK, but FairTax seems to really work to keep the tax as regressive as possible without being quite so bad as a flat VAT. A "welfare payment" for "low-income earners" means you have to be in the system ("earner"), that income still has to be calculated, and that the payment is stigmatized ("welfare") instead of presented as an entitlement.

This also seems bad: "The proposed Fair Tax Act would apply a tax, once, at the point of purchase on all new goods and services for personal consumption" - "personal consumption" is arbitrary. A VAT tax applied everywhere for all goods would be fair and harder to avoid. Though even that seems like it would encourage financialization to hide material production.
Very possible for it to be contaminated without intent. I have friends who unintentionally consumed PCP-laced acid, ended up running through razor wire, woke up in the hospital.
Protonmail now supports bridging (IMAP, SMTP, and POP3), but to get the benefit of an encrypted email store I exclusively use their clients (mobile and web app). It's not a perfect interface, but I don't have many complaints. The old web interface was annoying so I've been using the beta. It seemed well polished at the time so I'm happy to see that they consider it ready for their entire customer base.

I don't have experience with the protonmail's bridge, but so far I haven't experienced any outages or slow behavior.

I use a custom domain and I think protonmail and fastmail are feature parity in this area. Protonmail just offers fewer domains and addresses at a given tier.
Maybe the demo server needs to be restarted, because it still does not work.
I agree, but my point is that this is a favourable tax treatment (which it is) because it doesn't have to be that way.
Wow the Analogue marketing is really working on me haha. These devices look really great!
I appreciate the ~decent <noscript/> textContent. Telling exactly what purpose(s) JavaScript serves helps make an informed decision on whether to open a graphical web browser or continue with w3m. (In this case, it was obvious I could read on about Playdate just fine.)

I've grown sick of create-react-app default <noscript/> textContent.

> Hello! Javascript is required for purchasing, signing up for the newsletter, viewing videos, and other content on this page. Please enable Javascript.

> Your browser doesn't seem to support video.
Romania is a very interesting place. An Bucharest, "The Paris of the East" must not be afraid compared to Prague or Budapest.

Estonia, is a third world country. Total breakdown of any governmental admiistration, corrupt etc. (dont ask how I know)
The solution would be to close the other loopholes used to not pay taxes on year 10.
We hope so, a UI for placing buttons and hooking up graphics to metrics is in the works.
This seems like a state-sponsored hack to reveal this information (Solarwinds?). Way too much information for one IRS employee to leak.

I would be incredibly surprised if anyone who had that kind of access to IRS returns (ie searchable database for everyone) would leak the 25 top earners. It does add up for the career risk to take that risk on especially as its not leaking anything illegal just shining a light on the injustices of the system.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What law though. You think all tax records should be public record?
have you heard about different cost of living in different places?
What if the person plans to fund himself/herself in the retirement and pay for kids college rather than expecting all that "for free" from the government?
Bingo, it’s the nicotine vapor
I think the hardware is notably whimsical (crank, very nice 1-bit display combined with ‘fast’ processor). I agree that there’s a lot hanging on marketing/hype, but part of it is just how people like Panic overall.
Amazing. Makes me glad I signed up with PayPal.

Near the end there so many people were cancelling that if you used a credit card they would, without your consent or interaction, start your service up again. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/559352/moviepass-reinsta...
I'm more interested in the potential of world leaders' drones harming regular people.
Please don't delete-edit your posts like that. It's not fair to the users who replied.

And needless to say, attacking other users like that will get your account banned here. We've had to warn you multiple times in the past about breaking the HN guidelines. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, we'd be grateful.
> will be barred from misrepresenting their business and data security practices

Bahahahahahaha I need that lawyer
Yep - i'd be surprised if even a tenth of all white-collar crime is known about.
I agree. It should be worded as "I won't attempt to sue you if you publish Riju", which is a completely different message.
Might be of interest but a few blockchain projects use formal methods like Agda, Coq, TLA+, etc
Looks blocky and uncomfortable to hold. Has a black and white screen with no backlight. Can't play Nintendo ROMS. Is a subscription service...

The marketing is flashy, but I have zero interest in this product.
Honestly, this is about what I expected. I have the admittedly niche and somewhat impractical opinion that it's within no one's rights to have ownership over an idea, an implementation, or a solution to any problem at all. When businesses try to base themselves off of that type of ownership, of course they'll be threatened by someone putting together a small side project for the fun of it. Ideas aren't something you can totally own: someone else will come up with them simultaneously, make a derivative work, or just have fun with it in a way you can't physically stop. I think I'm seeing that play out as a business in a bad position and a person trying their best here. I mostly just feel bad for the OP and a bit irritated at capitalism, as always.
You could do it in a weekend, right?
Yeah I think this should have been "I withdraw my request for you to take it down, and the corresponding threat of legal action if you didn't do so."
Oh nice, Lua support! Should make porting one of my games (that I already mostly ported to Pico-8) to this little guy. Maybe I'll finally finish the Pico-8 port while I'm at it.

This is the original Flash version from back in the day. I'm also working on a 3D sequel with Twitch support in my limited spare time: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/183428

I don't know why, but I have a good feeling that this device will be fairly successful. Maybe it's just good marketing on their part.

I don't really have a good idea of how to make good use of the crank, except maybe add something that allows you to go back and forward in time (at least undo support). Maybe I'll even alter the mechanics to take advantage of it, like that 5D chess game.
multi turreted tanks fell out of favor early in world War 2. I wonder if there could be a resurgence as a counter to drones.
This is all fascinating, and I learned quite a bit from this article, but it seems to conflate intelligence and consciousness repeatedly. It isn't at all clear to me why the former implies the latter.
Hopefully, eventually we'll be able to figure out why a drug works for one person but not for the next so that we can get pinpointed approvals for just that subpopulation.
Worried that a competitor is catching up or threatening your market? Use your cash reserves to buy their factory out from under them. Don’t bother competing with Tesla, just make sure they can’t keep going once they get a little traction.
Show HN: Bingeworthy: New place to debate the latest shows
Couldn't users just go through the reset password flow or did MoviePass disable that as well? Not saying this isn't bad just trying to understand how far MoviePass went to stop users.
I hereby grant you premission...
I don't understand why you are getting downvoted. When people say they support "Law and order" they are not talking about all crime—they are not referring to fraud or market manipulation for example (white collar crime). They are referring to enforcing laws on just a certain subset of society.
My pocket operators disagree - Love them to death, but I just know I'll break them some time soon (and I know I can get a case, but the device itself is NOT build that strongly).
Right. But the article (and I think the general consensus around the movement) states that the net worth (wealth) is a missed tax opportunity, regardless of whether it is liquidated. Is that correct?
Darn!, I am screwed...
Despite having little interest in buying one myself, a suite of specially-developed surprise games seems like an interesting idea kinda like the Humble Indie Bundles... plus the upcoming web-based SDK to make your own!

Also cool to see the fantastic poolside.fm in a screenshot although the pen-holder dock feels a little kitsch. It's promising, however, that the design partners are Teenage Engineering - known for their Pocket Operators and the truly amazing OP-1 all in one synth[0] for which I strongly vouch.

[0]: https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1
This was really good for lecture videos back in the day when YouTube quality was too low for it. I hope these courses are made available elsewhere.
I think when this issue is discussed it’s too black and white with no nuance given for support trade-offs. Yes storing passwords in plain-text is less secure but we make similar trade-offs all the time. LastPass’s enterprise offering gives your admins the ability to decrypt your password vault in the event you lose you password effectively breaking E2E, iMessage backs up your messages to iCloud in plain-text, WhatsApp silently rotates keys, SMS recovery very often breaks 2FA, DNSimple will store your private certs if you ask. Security and usability are always a balance.

If you say that “basically everyone should never store plaintext passwords” then I will 100% agree with you but there are cases where the trade-off in usability can be worth it for very non-technical users. We as technologists must every single day store sensitive data about or on behalf of our users in plain-text for them to actually be able to use our services. If you can do that then you can secure passwords as well.
Start with an ibm 7090 and pong. Hurry.
I think that’s why folks with morals complain in writing. Folks with soft morals complain via phone call
The issue, if I'm understanding the OP right, is that income taxes are moderately progressive until you get to the levels where people make their living off wealth, not income. Someone earning a wage is going to pay a monotonically increasing percentage of their income as they move up the scale. That's fine. Someone who owns a holding company that itself owns 80% interests in a variety of LLCs that reinvest their profits to increase their paper valuation, and then takes out loans against the value of their holdings to pay for living expenses - could quite easily end up paying zero tax. Warren Buffett once posted that he pays half the tax rate that his secretary does (17% vs. 34% [1]), and Buffett doesn't even partake of some of the tax avoidance strategies (like taking out loans against his holdings instead of selling them outright) that many other wealthy do.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2012/01/25/...)
I am thinking of multithreading. Mutable static variables pretty much destroy any possibility of multithreading without a major refactor. Test harnessing is an issue too.

But if this only ever wants to be an app binary, I guess it's sort of okay.
If you don't look at the world from that freedom perspective, you are simply being shortsighted.
Unlike a bullet you could hear an RC airplane coming.
Yeah, it was DDoS. Attacks continued after they paid up, to no one's surprise.

When researching what email provider to choose a few years ago, I found a lot of tales about it being a haven for spammers and with the baggage all that entails, but maybe that was pure FUD? Difficult to tell in my position.
Somehow the room I imagine never seems to actually fit the description well.

Especially if the text adds details later, I won't be able to add those in most of the time.

For example, for the fragment you quoted, there is no carpet in my room no matter how hard I try to add it. And the walls are made of wood.
If you really wanted to, I'd recommend a microwave 'cannon'. You can build one yourself for cheap-ish based off a directional antenna and some recycled microwave-link components.

Then you just need to target it. Probably need some sort of weather proof retractable cover so that the neighbors don't freak out. Gimbal under the cover to aim the thing, and then a means of target acquisition. People have tried to use audible input to pick up the propellers, but I don't really know how well that would work in practice and what kind of / how many microphones you would need to get a fix.

The generally idea would be, system detects and gets a fix on probable drone, notifies you and allows you to do a visual check and give the fire signal. Microwave directional targets and roasts the target microelectronics.
I disagree about the sidenote. go for it. get as far as you can.
Thanks for the feedback! I will look into this
Thanks to the Notepad++ maintainer for making free-as-in-free-beer software political.

Free software has always been political but judging by the reaction here and on the github commit, its philosophy is becoming less and less vocal.
How this isn't a criminal case is beyond me. The dissenting judge is correct: if there is no monetary penalty, what's the point of the judgment?
Unpopular opinion, but MoviePass could have survived a lot longer if they had more funding. I think there could have been a real opportunity with establishing themselves the main funnel to getting consumers to physical theaters. They couldn't hold on long enough to see what could be possible with such a moat.
Exactly. Importantly, SwiftKey was acquired by Microsoft after first being released as a standalone app following a couple rounds of VC funding.
I think the same concern exists with Gmail as well...

It would be good if there was a better alternative than self hosting.
Wikipedia:

》The first instances of kimono-like garments in Japan were traditional Chinese clothing introduced to Japan via Chinese envoys in the Kofun period
Banks loan money, and every loan includes some risk. If banks didn’t take on risk than the 2007/2008 bailouts wouldn’t have happened.
Yes. Debugging tool reduces number of bugs in the product. Formal design specification and design verification can do that. And even with something lackluster like gdb, you may be forced to do some redesigning before writing more of new code.
Or perhaps a missile full of drones, similar to those bombs with lots of guided submunitions.
The FBI launched an encrypted messaging system for criminals
I'm looking to get my first non-gas car and 40mpg is not good enough. Am I representative of a large part of the market? Dunno.
Your example seems to be mostly coordinated through Rolex and authorized dealers, so what is the advantage of a blockchain? Why not just have Rolex keep track of who owns a watch through e.g. a web interface tied to a serial number + username/password combination, that also allows transferring of the ownership of a watch to a different user? This would be much more user friendly, since you could have features such as "forgot my password" which are (by design) impossible to implement on top of a blockchain.
If corps are people, maybe they should receive jail sentences as such - and then their executives & beneficial owners can carry them out based on liability. A CEO that takes full control and makes a one-man-shop would therefore be fully liable for any sentence received, and can only avoid this be sharing control.
Funnily made that point three days ago here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27404513
Max Roser's tweet linking to the article:

>Some claim it is possible to end global poverty without aggregate global economic growth.

>I'm optimistic that only few actually believe this lie.
If many believed it, it would be disastrous.

>The world is far too poor to end poverty without large growth.

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1402244080139223044