skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can already imagine ships being outfitted with hundreds of anti aircraft autocannons just for shooting down drone swarms, kind of like the USN ships of WWII. An old solution for a new problem
I think that was not_jd_salinger's joke, challenging the tacit assumption that academia produces nothing of value or practical worth whilst business people are inherently creative and value creating.
> The real world is constantly at risk of disruption

Only for workers being replaced by automation and such. For whole social classes - no.

All key indicators show how social mobility is not high in most countries and it's even decreasing in many.
The problem is that there is no way to track what flows into his bank account. Evidence says that he can avoid being taxed on any dollars flowing to his bank account.

This wasn't a huge problem a century ago due to the Estate tax ensuring that estates would shrink over time and eventually be taxed. In stark contrast to European laws that required estates to be maintained in their entirety to preserve the aristocracy. If Buffett can avoid tax during life and death and pass on a preserved estate then there is no guardrail against a gentle class. Fundamentally it also means that we've setup a tax system more akin to a feudal system where workers pay taxes and aristocrats receive benefits.
Through the natural way of how plants reproduce. The terminator gene gets spread through cross-pollination.

But I would gladly be educated on this matter of course.
I don't like this lesson; I rather a shitty attempt at an apology than no apology at all, even if it's obvious this apology would've never came without the attention of this post blowing up.
My second-hand experience is that many psychiatrists will indeed reach straight for meds when they are looking for a solution.

People are naturally incentivized to use the tools they've spent decades acquiring. Just like every programmer when presented with a problem tends to solve it with code. A psychiatrist's career is based on prescribing medicine, so that's what they're gonna do.

(Psychologists and therapists, however, will likely tell you to take a walk in nature and think about your mother.)
> Drug smugglers don't want to let just anybody buy a phone for their encrypted network, you know

I mean, if it’s well encrypted, it should be strong enough to not worry about any random being on the network too, no?

I guess that’s too counterintuitive for those sweating right now.
The thing that ticks me of most about this article is that the invented "True tax rate" obscures the fact that Michael Bloomberg had an effective income tax of 2% in the period they are talking about.

My point being the selected group of people is already paying effective income taxes at rates lower than a lot of people you don't need to make shit up to show the system is busted.
>Few folks will shed a tear for people who own a $3M house simply by virtue of living in a hot area, but that's exactly who the OP is talking about.

You lose a lot of money to taxes when you win the lottery, should we modify the tax code for those people too?
It has nothing do with physical infrastructure and everything to do with social infrastructure - the people and organizations that are located there.

And the weather.
There is a basic accounting truth at the heart of this: If land and housing are good investments -- that is, they return any amount greater than wage growth -- then at some point in the future, wage income workers will not be able to afford housing.

There is no getting around this truth. If housing and real estate are a good investment, eventually all wage income workers will be homeless, or will be forced to leave a region. So we need to make sure as a society that housing and real estate are _not_ good investments.

Prior to the 1980s, real estate was not a very good investment. There might be areas that were great investments, but there was no generalized appreciation in land and housing.

In particular, it's an obvious sign of a broken market when structure prices are appreciating. In a functioning market, structure prices should largely decrease in value over time, with the only exceptions being actual improvements to the property.

All of this is the same point as the article, that the basic issue is supply and demand of housing, and that supply problems are exacerbated by homeowners that have a large financial interest in restricting supply, and lots of tools at their disposal to prevent new housing.

Another important point is that while individuals might be responsible for improvements to structures which increase their utility, aesthetics, or value, in almost every case _land_ value increases are the result of large-scale societal factors, and nothing at all to do with any individual actions.

The question becomes, why as a society should we allow land value increases to be captured by individuals? The land has gained value because of societal changes.

If a new light rail line is developed by local government, land values soar within 4 blocks of the new rail line. Why do we allow that value to be captured by individuals?

If a region has great public universities, and high-paying companies flock to the area to hire those workers, land values soar. Why should individuals capture that value?

Rather than taxing property, we should tax land. Taxing structures creates a perverse incentive against improving structures. And land is the thing that is actually scarce. Taxing land would naturally encourage landowners to build higher densities where land values and demand are high.

And when land is sold, we should tax a very large amount of the appreciation in that land value, perhaps 90%. Society is what earned those gains, and society should reap the reward. Individuals can capture the value of increases on improvements to structures, but there's no reason they should earn a windfall from the societal actions that increased the value of the land.
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I don't know what to do with this[0], but it's pretty nice, great implementation, well done!

[0] Other than this sort of video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzoPSV4ua94
The exact point is that because taxation does not consider this income, the vast majority of the money made by very rich people takes this form. Pro Publica's point is not that these people are breaking the law, but that the tax system should be different.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27437342
As an alternative, I’ve been using nextdns with great success to block most ads in any browser and most apps (but not YouTube sadly)
I had exactly one interaction with him, too, whereby he shared with me a very long list of companies that he knew of which were hiring at the time, this would've been around 2012 or so. I got quite a few interviews as a result, and quite a few offers, FWIW, though I ended up taking a job with a company that wasn't on this list.

I understand both that he is and why he is such a polarizing figure. Just wanted to put my positive anecdote on the pile, since they seem to be a less common when he comes up in online comments.
My reaction as well. I’ve used Replit lots. It’s great! No offence to Radon, but I would not consider his project a threat to Replit. The best case scenario is it’s a price-sensitive OSS alternative which would naturally have a much much smaller market. Interesting that the CEO was so threatened by this.
Very interesting concept. This happens with lawsuits. If you have enough money/assets to be an attractive target for a lawsuit, but you don’t have enough to pay to defend the lawsuit, you are also “unprotected prey”.

An example: in SF/LA (California), a decent civil litigator will cost about $400+/hr. And a lawsuit will run for 1-3 years. When you add all the legal costs up, it turns out that just to defend yourself, you’ll need to spend about $100-$200k. So, unless you have quite a bit of money, you’ll have to either default or settle in maybe not very favorable terms. Either way, you might end up bankrupt, in debt for a long time, or just with no savings at all.
> ... bank taking on the risk...

Banks don't take on risk. Seriously.

That's another conversation to have, but the simple answer is do you want the value of your checking account impacted by someone else's purchase of Gamestop, or Enron?

And that's why banks don't take risk.
While the hardware situation isn't ideal, secure software + vulnerable hardware is still better a better place to be in than vulnerable software + vulnerable hardware.
Tell that to Justin Zhu. But it's not just LSD and mushrooms. It's nootropics and stimulants too just to keep up in the Red Queen's Race of Silicon Valley at places like AWS. And I know people firsthand who are to up these shenanigans.

But ask yourself perhaps why a job should implicitly require this and I think you'll come up short. Tech shouldn't be a choose your dystopia misadventure IMO.
That you consider yourself upper middle class with an income of 1M a year already says a lot about how skewed your view is (not surprising there was some article on HN recently about research showing that the rich and the poor consider themselves middle class both). Sure you are not a billionaire but you are not middle class anymore, you earn 30 times the median income in the US. Now comparing yourself with the superrich might make you think you're not that rich, but you are.
Taiwan repeating world's Covid mistakes: Lock it down, now
Eat the rich bitch.
This is really bad. Apple can and should fix this through policy and training. They talk so much about privacy and so many people have bought into Apple ecosystem because of it that. Many years ago, I had to take an iPhone for repair, my first and only time. It was a week old brand new phone whose proximity sensor wasn't working. The service person said he would need to take it to the back room and debug it. I insisted he diagnose it in front of me and I refused to hand over my phone for him to take it to the back room. Later, I had to wipe the device and send it in for replacement. But I was not happy that they asked me to unlock the phone and hand it to them to take it to the back office.
Emmanuel Macron slapped in the face during walkabout
> The working class doesn’t get stock options, vesting cliffs, inheritance, or capital gains!

robinhood.com would beg to differ. Anyone can invest in the stock market and get capital gains.
So, v1.0, but still no dynamic providers, resulting in piles of copypasta especially when creating Kubernetes clusters and wanting to do something initially with them using the Kubernetes provider. So sad! Secrets are still stored in the state without encryption when retrieving them from the CLI. Last, but not least - even when using their commercial products, there's no way to do phased workspace, i.e. you do something in one workspace, then in another, then you continue in the first one, etc. Last, but not least - you can't override sensitive variables when importing using Terraform Cloud or Enterprise!
For those who don't know, if you plan to use a security model analogous to "one protonmail per account" please don't do this. I made maybe 1-3 new accounts every other week for 2-3 months and at random, Protonmail disabled all my accounts. This was not me making 2 accounts daily, there was no warning or really any indication that I was supposedly breaching their moronic "anti fraud" system.

I had to complain on their subreddit AND twitter for them to do anything about it and to this day I still receive notifications to backup emails that "I've received a new message in my protonmail account" but cannot actually access said protonmail account.

For now, I've just resorted to hosting email on namecheap and AWS, DO NOT consider protonmail as a "secure" stand in for gmail - it's flat out not worth it and their support is basically non-existent.
Hard to tell if this is sarcasm or not.
I didn't know that iTunes U was still a thing...
How would you write a better test?

IMO most tests are fundamentally flawed. The way most testing is done it would be easier and better to just write everything twice, have a method to compare results, and hope you got it right at least once.
There's a weird biological thing at play here. As if we have a reflex to clean what too many people agree on.

But so many time it ends up being entirely wrong I really wonder why it's still at play.

We kinda had to invent justice structures to avoid blunt reactions.

Also who thinks internet focuses too much on endless debates and abnormal relations. Did we spend so much time arguing before ? I'm so jaded I just want sharing chitchat jokes and food and nothing more. And I kinda believe that it's a more balanced approach to society. But i'm kinda digressing (an proving the opposite of my point partly)
I built tech like this at a startup in 2010. It was aimed at musicians but basically the same idea - transparent version control of all of their DAW projects and easy collaboration (sending of huge projects, hard a decade ago). In this case it actually indexed all of the drives (musicians use attached media a lot) and maintained an online searchable archive with previews as well. We’d listen for file system notifications and there was enough logic to understand project directory structure, flac-compressing the audio (while preserving metadata so the it’s could be perfectly reconstructed).

This was only a means to an end though - it’s clear deeper integration with these products works better for a number of reasons, and a much better collaboration workflow isn’t just sending entire directories around. Look at Figma for an example of that - they reinvented the entire product space around collab.

Eventually the company (https://gobbler.com/) pivoted the business model away from this space into plugins.

I’m not convinced the opaque file approach can provide / capture enough value to be a sustainable business over the next 5-10 years.
The Dutch (notoriously not the most Socialist of the lot) tax office assumes that any wealth above a certain “pocket money” stash, your first house and lifelong savings (money you effectively lock out of your reach until you reach pension) are invested and therefore taxed at ~20% on the assumed ~2% ROI.

Seems roughly fair
If I was a Professor teaching the same class to two different sections, it would be really neat to give the entire winning section extra credit based on the difference between the average values of the two sections. This would encourage group study and would ultimately lead to students helping their other classmates out. And since teaching is the best way to learn, everyone would do better.

Maybe you don't even need two sections. Just split the class into two teams? Has this been tried anywhere?
> The correct response is to use your legislators to change the tax code to be more fair.

My entire thesis is that vigilante leaks like this are a product of the perceived unwillingness of the legislature to deal with the abuse of tax loopholes or to tax the rich at anywhere close to the rate that the overwhelming majority of voters want. If my theory is correct, then saying “talk to your legislator instead” is almost hilariously tone deaf, given that these leakers are probably taking actions into their own hands in response to a belief that their legislator is lazy or corrupt.

More broadly, my point is that singling out individual actors is an ineffective way to stop stochastic law breaking. Decry and punish individual law breakers all you want, but don’t expect it to stop until you at least triage the underlying causes.
> I had no idea average typing speed is this slow, though the extreme slowness of touchscreen typing is no surprise.

same same.

we had to type at least 60 wpm in middle school in order to pass the "typist class" (around 2000) thou i did not maintain that level.

edit: clarification downthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27423762
If I try to imagine a room I have never been in or a landscape I have never seen before it comes out looking like in a fever dream. No proportions make sense, it's shifting around, etc. I don't know if that's worse than having none at all. :P

> On the other hand, people with aphantasia don’t do as well as others at remembering details of their own lives. It’s possible that recalling our own experiences — known as episodic memory — depends more on the mind’s eye than does remembering facts about the world.

This is true for me as well. I know that I've been to Italy several times from ages 10 to 15 with my family, but I couldn't tell you much more than fragments or how often that was, etc.
Look at E3-1245 V3, then 4770k, and finally 4770. Can you spot a difference? Its ECC and TSX-NI. Same die.
Why is participating in free knowledge important?
> which I assume aren't taxed?

It depends on which kind of retirement account. Might be in Roths and Roths-401Ks which are taxed when the money goes in (treated as regular income), or IRAs and regular 401Ks which are taxed as regular income when the money comes out.
Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy by Moving to Remote Village
On the (Virtual) Park Bench with Sarah Gilbert
Another little known form of microdosing is the microdosing of cannabis.

It would be great if it got as much attention and study as the microdosing of other psychedelics.
To add on to every other sibling comment, switching threads or processes requires a trip back up to the kernel space (a context switch), instead of just remaining in user space. in this switch, all of your caches get busted.

Not a problem for most folks, but when you want the greatest possible performance, you want to avoid these kinds of transitions. Basically, the same reason some folks use user-space networking stacks.
Yep, small union optimizations are a godsend!
1031 exchanges are not available to homeowners, they are exclusively available for investment properties. Homeowners receive a $250k/$500k tax shelter as discussed above.
MoviePass settles FTC allegations that they limited usage, exposed user data
New development already has to follow rules to prevent gentrification.
The rates of black-on-white and black-on-Asian violent crime are much higher than the reverse. If a race is collectively responsible for what it has done to another race in the past, it is even more responsible for current misdeeds. It it better not to open the Pandora's box of racial reparations.
Saying nothing doesn't sell ads and subscriptions.

something something incentives....
Add subtitles and translation to ads and you're safe. Now that I think about it this may unironically be a decent selling point.
Because there is leeway I personally don't know if that's actually their preference or not.

If everyone took everything I ever said I "kinda wish" as a solid preference, I wouldn't be at all happy.
> The worse tax situation is always the person who makes 500k in a good year

What's the problem here? Income tax rates are moderately progressive. They'll pay a higher marginal tax rate and a moderately higher total tax rate in this year. That seems fine to me.

> or sells a house they held for 25 years which went up a bunch in value

This is what I have a problem with. This house has already had plenty of favourable tax treatment, which could include:

- Tax-deductible mortgage interest

- Gains on that property deferred for up to 25 years. To give you a comparison, zero coupon bonds don't get this favourable tax treatment;

- Possibly capped or even frozen property tax increases;

- Long-term capital gains are generally significantly lower than income taxes

Just how much tax subsidies does real estate need?

> I suspect this is a significant factor in social mobility.

Let me give you an example where this is definitely true. In Australia, pretty much every state charges stamp duty on the sale when you purchase property. It's typically in the 2-5% range. There are various exemptions and allowances for first home owners and the like (this varies from state to state).

This was all meant to go away 25 years ago when the Federal government replaced a bunch of taxes with a consumption tax (ie the GST) but it didn't happen, largely because the states were addicted to the income, which became hugely significant as property prices skyrocketed in the early 2000s.

The median price of a house in Sydney is now over A$1m. How do we expect anyone to have any kind of mobility when simply moving may result in a $50-100k+ tax?

Now the US has some of this. For example, to buy my one bedroom apartment in NYC I had to pay a "mansion tax" (that's literally what it's called) but at least it was only 1%.

My point is it could be much, much worse.
ProPublica confuses wealth with income.

If you have $2b in wealth, and lost $1b in bad investments one year, you're still a billionaire, and your tax rate is 0%.
And wake up in a hospital weeks later realizing you got a bad batch because these drugs aren't legal so there's no quality control and now you're on the fast track to early dementia.

Pass.
Plus beaches, mountains, culture. (I do like Kansas people better than my neighbors though?)
Yes, it's a pretty narrow group where microdosing is even on really on the radar, let alone a common occurrence. It makes good copy though, so the amount of media attention it has had is way out of proportion to it's actual impact.
Wishing the project had an active roadmap.
Yes. And the reason for that is the cost of lawyers to setup and run the structure. Lawyers could actually charge less and open access to more people, but then it wouldn’t be as exclusive.
Good. We don't need a single company with their hands in so many pies. Especially not one that is attempting to ensnare the entire economy under their "all computing and all payments" protection racket.

We don't need students caught in Apple's all-consuming net.

Apple needs to face common carrier / antitrust regulations. They can't put all Americans behind iStore, iPayments, iNoCustomerRelationshipForU and tax every company in existence.

Apple's end game is for everyone on this earth to pay them transactionally for everything they do. Use the toilet? Pay Apple.

They're not a government. Wake the fuck up, DOJ.
I pay STCG on option contracts written and on (profitable) short sales (where the holding period is defined to be short-term).

Other positions have a defined thesis and, if that thesis gets invalidated, I close out the position sometimes at a gain. I do try to make most of my gains be LTCG, but trying too hard to optimize capital gains rates can lead to poorer investment decision-making/asset allocation.
The abstract normally contains a brief conclusion.

"Our results show that a pit was dug in a sterile sediment layer and the corpse of a two-year-old child was laid there."
The Swift Programming Language: Concurrency
Fake Covid Vaccine Cards Are Being Sold Online. Using One Is a Crime
And git+[choice of issue tracker]+[choice of forum]+[choice of wiki]+[choice of project website]+etc. is the real competition against Fossil

I think that this is only true for some projects. For some people, the ease of self hosted setup (one executable) and the fact that you can change the documentation, edit code and close bugs offline is a big win that no centralized service can compete with.
I feel like there’s a middle ground? Encourage the child to do well and be honest about the importance of credentials/marketability of jobs without crushing their spirit?

I think the main issue is parents are largely ignorant of what’s important for a new generation - especially when things are undergoing radical technical change.

My fiancée is reading Walden - and there are comical similarities to a modern day van life Silicon Valley programmer. The industrial revolution left parents at the time clueless - something similar is happening again.
You just sparked the thought in my head about how much has the pandemic changed this?

With myself working from home and my kids being virtual that they have been to see what my day to day is like.

I think they realize that I have too many meetings and how much it stops me from getting real/deep work done..
Doubly so if you took the DMT in 2021.
How did Replit respond to this blog post?