skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wrong with an unequal society? I get that you might want to help out the poor, but I don't care if someone has more money than me. I don't like what some of those rich people or corporations are doing to the society, but I really don't care about their money.

When you talk about opportunities, what do you specifically mean by that?
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It's only reasonable in a competitive environment, outside of that, you have to actually show your reasoning. If we're participants in a market that is designed to be fair, to say the rules should be changed for everyone in order for you not to take advantage of a loophole with negative effects but competitive advantage makes sense. It's saying that you're participating in a market that was designed incorrectly, and asking for the design to be corrected.

To say you're going to keep dodging personal taxes until no one can dodge personal taxes is just dodging taxes. There's no market and no competition. Paying the taxes you think are ideal will just put you in the place you would be if taxes were how you think they should be.
They could make a public pact?
You wouldn't post these kinds of cynical and deeply ignorant remarks if you had the faintest awareness of the science behind the GMO debate, specially the warnings and problems already flagged in the real world where GMOs played a critical part.
I’m just surprised more wealthy people aren’t taking advantage of that obvious one.
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Can they actually just pin that on him just to get him? They need a scape goat and may as well
This one expires in 2066, for instance:
https://censys.io/certificates/3b639a3248914d0d5e3811c080f31...
The is a gigantic difference between a doctor looking at something in a scan and deciding it's an image artifact when it's not, subsequently missing a diagnosis, and an ML algorithm looking at that same image, deciding something is an artifact and removing it from the image. At that point you're not looking at an actual scan, you're looking at something different.
Try launching a local business before a global SaaS business
There's some truth to this - but opposite could happen as well. You might get to the end of your life and find that the tax situation is even worse. So it's a gamble.

If we eliminated the charitable "Foundation" dodges that the super-rich are using, then I think we'd see many fewer people playing this game.
I love how in America everyone is middle class. $10 million estate—-that’s totally ordinary!
I'm not convinced that most charities really get much done other than making their donors feel good. I think the government is actually more efficient. And I'm saying that as someone who really doesn't like the government.
That's not going to work.

$ curl https://old.reddit.com/robots.txt
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

Also, even if search engines are allowed, old.reddit.com pages are not canonical (<link rel="canonical"> points to the www.reddit.com version, which is actually reasonable behavior), so pages there would not be crawled as often or at all.
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The huge movements of various cryptos look like large financial institutions are also in that space. BTC losing half its value in a matter of a few months is not likely to be because of individual investors. The technical bits are decentralized but if there are major players involved with billions of dollars, smaller holders are subject to those movements much more.
How much does each customer pay you every month?
This looks interesting, logistics and supply chain seems to be one of the few recurring use cases I see that looks somewhat promising.
The biggest problem IMO with capital-gains step-up, is knowing the cost basis of the asset. If my uncle dies and leaves me his house, and he owned it outright, how do I know what he paid for it? It would put an impossible burden on heirs.
Great idea! I've to admit my knowledge about Mercurial is very rusty. Could you help out on that? May I invite you to share some insights in the discussion board of the project? https://github.com/Snowtrack/SnowFS/discussions
When you die, your estate pays taxes on the current value of the assets you’re passing along. Without stepped up basis, your heirs would get taxed again on gains that you essentially already paid a 40% tax on.
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Perhaps if the WLAN module was not disabled they could have used the mac addresses of the WLAN router.
But that's a good question.
1. Great scoop. It would be nice if we didn't have this issue but we have it and so this is an important dataset.

2. I like Buffett's response (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20798866-buffett-sta...)

3. I don't see a model on how changing tax policy will fix anything. My stance is we need to give people Intellectual Freedom, that is, the right to reshare ideas, and repeal Intellectual Slavery laws (copyrights and patents), which are both chains on the poor and gravity for the rich.

4. That being said, it would be nice if we removed unnecessary complexity from the tax system. I have a way.
Scenario D: You donate $800,000 to a foundation you control. Your net income is $960,000 ($160,000 cash and $800,000 with some strings attached).
Nobody said how quickly, to be fair
> only Javascript did not exist, it would be impossible for UX people to come up with something that bad.

Arrange the html so that the list of comments is at the end (via css). Keep the http connection open, have the show more button send some of request, and when you receive that request send the rest of the page over the original http connection.

As usual, solve people problems via people, not tech.
What do people use for Reddit on mobile these days (other than the official app?)

I got logged out a couple of months ago and have been weaning myself off that toxic, stupid timesink but there are a couple of subs that are actually useful to me and that I can't quite quit yet.

On desktop I just force old reddit with a browser extension and have been OK so far, but mobile is unusable.
In the US (and most western countries), the difference is not reported as income until you actually sell it. This removes any debate about the value of the asset.
I guess it very much depends on your personality. I screwed up a a not very important project for a client 4 years ago while working at a different company, and I still feel bad when I think about it, despite the fact that my company had my back through the entire process and literally everybody involved has moved on and probably forgotten about it.
Dollars only have hypothetical value until spent as well, but we still tax them.

I'm not super rich but if the government wanted to tax my shares, I'd pay the tax out of my income instead of buying more shares. I could probably pay a decent chunk of it out of dividends too, if I wasn't reinventing them.

Property tax here in Australia is based on hypothetical value, the sky doesn't fall.

Even if people have to sell some shares, I just don't care, it's not a big deal. Sell em.
What if you ask them to declare the taxable value,
however anyone is allowed to step in and purchase the asset listed at that value?
If you want to list your business as losing money and worth no taxable value. Someone can pay what you say it's worth and take it over.
Using greed to align incentives.
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That must suck. All my life I've developed open-source software so I don't mind about people sharing it, but to think that people would not only take it, but actually SELL it for their own profit? People are lame.
Who is richer? Forbes says he's #1.

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
That simply allows you to create firefox themes. OP's changes are not possible with the firefox theme engine
If I had to choose between my kids getting good grades and working on ambitious projects of their own, I'd pick the projects. And not because I'm an indulgent parent, but because I've been on the other end and I know which has more predictive value. When I was picking startups for Y Combinator, I didn't care about applicants' grades. But if they'd worked on projects of their own, I wanted to hear all about those.

That was the most important part of the essay for me. I don’t see this reflected in hiring though. Most of my real challenging programming is on personal projects but interviewers just want to know about the boring junior CRUD work that I do at the job. When I go on military deployments I continue programming and solving problems and building things but none of that seems to come up.

As a web developer I prefer to keep my personal projects personal. On my current personal project I published over 950 commits before asking for feedback. Sometimes people will discover something of mine and use it, which is great, but it’s still a personal project.

The reason for that level of introversion is that I don’t trust other web developers. It mostly isn’t about ownership.

I find that my peers tend to fear data structures and present an extreme fear of original code. Call it Invented Here[1] or whatever you want but it is certainly there and it’s an irrationality I don’t want to deal with when I am writing an application.

As an example of the hostility, yes that is the best choice of word, mention explicit use of events or the DOM and the common sentiment reminds me of reading history about lynchings in Jim Crow era and sun down towns. As an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27419965

I wish the attitudes in the above example were rare, but they aren’t. So, I remain an introverted developer working on personal projects.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_here
No. It’s not. If it was superseded, and still kept in, that’s backward compatible.
> While everyone is talking about cutting unnecessary consumption you're effectively telling people to spend all their money on frivolous luxury items because they can't pass it on to their children anyway.

People will easily find a way to pass wealth to children. Naive example:

1. Register company in kid's name.

2. Buy a penny from his company for $1B.

3. Die peacefully.
Makes me wonder if those aren't already compromised.
I like Cloudflare's post mortems, and I like how they fight back against patent trolls. For me as a dev they are #1.
Besides wealth growth being something totally other than income, the very wealthiest people have very concentrated holdings. They want/need the associated voting power and believe in their business. So the position that accounts for basically all their wealth growth is the one they sell as little as possible.

Even besides that effect, that the dominant mechanism TFA found was ‘they don’t sell’ shows capital gains tax working as intended. Growth is reinvested to compound, which benefits everyone invested in those companies.

If the state wants to capture more wealth creation should participate in more of the risk - say by automatically buying 1% (or whatever) of every IPO conditional on the rest fully subscribing, and committing to a long (say 10+ year) lock up.

Not that there aren’t bugs to fix (step up basis), or opportunities for fraud (insufficient audit resources) , or loop holes. I’m sure they’ll find and publish plenty that won’t amount to much. But rich guys’ side bets netting -zero while they sell ~none of their primary holding isn’t shocking
This is the "never using r-pl-t again" nail for me. I never understood what people meant in online arguments when they accuse others of centering themselves. Now I get it.
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That is a law enforcement mic drop and it's well earned by doing good police work.
>> In its newest release, CouchDB [2] (arguably the firstNoSQL system) is being re-built as a layer on top of FoundationDB.

That is impressive. Like a framework for implementing noSQL DBs.
Would be nice if you could post some links to where we can read up on your claims. Not saying that you're wrong but my only real sources are from university when we got lectures on the very fringe of the core of my education on GMOs. And the source is of course a professor who work on GMO and was very steadfast on how safe it was, not biased at all...

But seriously, some sources would be appreciated.
And how are those collective action problems solved?
So they seized 130 million, arrested 1800 people. Assuming even wealth distribution, that is 72k Eur. The distribution is of course not even, as some of the confiscation images show cars worth way more than that, also watched and many bags filled to the brink with money.
Some of the arrest images show the bedrooms and they do not look better than a prison cell.
This means many of the involved do this for very bad ROI ratio, considering that most will face 20plus years sentences.
I think Docker (the company) just admitted defeat to GitHub. Wow. It's amazing how they blew such an incredible lead over the last decade.
I had an abdominal ultrasound recently - the actual process of placing the probe and annotating the images seems like a pretty specific technical skill. I don't think any old person (or even a doctor) off the street can just rub the wand on you and find your kidneys for instance.
my question stands. why doesnt us tax system recognise accural of income?
I can count the number of developers I've worked with over the last 5 years that care about it working in any browser other than Chrome on one finger.

This idea that only Chrome matters is absolutely coming from the bottom up and when you point out something broken in Safari the first response from them is "Does it work in Chrome?" before they even look at it because they themselves don't even test in a second browser.
My understanding is that donating to charity, which would ideally be for the good of the common public, is purposefully encouraged, and that is not fundamentally different than giving money to the governments as taxes. In other words, someone may believe more in a given charity spending money towards social good than on the government itself.

I see some arguments along these lines here:

https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-are-donations-to-s...

Excerpts:

* The main argument for tax-deductibility of donations is that it is a form of government assistance or subsidy for what are considered publicly beneficial causes.

* A third argument is that indirect support mechanisms, such as tax-deductibility of donations, facilitates choice. So, taxpayers can direct a certain proportion of their tax to causes they choose, rather than the government determining how it should be spent.
You're pretty much defining webfonts!
I'm sure the FBI is keen to come up with a suitable product offering.
Basically, only English has a tradition where in closed captions, the spoken word matches the text. In many other languages, even for original content, even for subtitles that are a hearing aid, the text often won’t match. For example in French.

I guess the desire is to shorten the text to make it easier to read in time, but it’s kind of ironic that it’s called „subtitles for the ones with bad hearing“. Non-matching subtitles are not a hearing aid, but a hearing replacement.
> I don't see how that can be true, you eventually have to repay the loan, to do that you need income which will be taxed.

You refinance constantly.
Or just use spaces or special characters.
Yes, and:

The never ending struggle between wealth and democracy. Same as it ever was, including the pearl clutching and feinting spells.

This was my introduction to the nuts and bolts, written by Kevin Phillips, Reagan's economist:

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich [2003]
https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Democracy-Political-History-Am...
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i am not concerned about selling. i am saying when you "accrued" an income, you pay taxes on it.
So if Bezos has a few billion in unrealized gain one year, we send him a big bill. The next year the stock market crashes—do we send him a big check?
That's what I think to myself every time those language learning extensions/apps come up. Sadly the VLC code is not very well documented and the extension guide on the wiki is pretty bare as well.
I'm guessing one would have to extend the freetype text renderer but that's a tall order.
The increased menu item height was driving me nuts. Copying the stuff from "Menu - Reduce Padding" fixed that for me. Great!
This is putting the cart before the horse.

What is being proposed is to change the law. A court will absolutely uphold that law, once it is written. What it would do under current laws is irrelevant.
This is your chance to post sources on this topic.

"GMO is bad" may be true but I never seen a good sources supporting it.

What I encountered was always on a level of astrology, new age, homeopathy, vaccines-cause-autism quackery.
twitter is currently banned in Nigeria. But Fastly's issue as been resolved. See the article for details.
While the headline is obviously calculated to grab attention, the basic point seems to be valid. While they may or may not still be better than traditional alternatives, a lot of the app-enabled services are seeking their market rates which will probably make them less interesting for a lot of people, and therefore with smaller networks, and therefor unsustainable or at least luxury services.
It’s a symbolic step but hopefully goes a long way to convince various decision makers about long term viability of hashicorp products.

I remember when a colleague didn’t want to use TF from an unknown company in his saas.
His company is now gone but terraform is alive and widely used.
I really like this idea of leaving gaps every since I came across the videos by ItsNachoTime / DeliberateSpanish. Here is an example: https://youtu.be/7kbACgcnG8M?t=83

The idea is basically: Once the fill-in-the-blank text appears, stop the video, try to recall the previous sentence (letting the template help you) and repeat it until you can articulate it fluently – that way, you will improve your vocab but also train your hears, pronunciation and intonation.
> Fundamentally, the story of golden rice is a metaphor for how tech isn’t the
be-all-and-end-all for the hunger crisis, the web of bureaucrats, NGOs, and
geopolitics is enough to block any sort of disruption into the ecosystem.

In truth, the planet produces enough food to feed its billions, but most of this
is produced in affluent, developed nations where supply outstrips demand by a
large margin, so a third of the supply ends in landfills as food waste
(https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/10/1048452) instead of going where it's
needed, particularly Africa and South America where "undernourishment and severe
food insecurity are on the rise" (from the UN article linked earlier).

This is not a bureaucratic issue, or an issue with regulations etc. Rather, the
people who make the food that feed us all don't make it because they want to
feed us, but because they want to turn a profit. If they can't turn a profit,
then they don't sell the food. So it's a matter of distribution, and economics
and not a matter of regulation, or technology.

As to GMOs, green hysteria aside, GMOs address the wrong problem at best, throw
fuel to the fire at worst: where there is a problem of distribution, as in the
developing world, GMOs address a non-existent problem of supply. Where
there is oversupply, as in the developed world, they just exacerbate it.

To be perfectly honest I'm not an expert in any of this and the above is my
clunky, probably half-wrong version of what's going on, that I've pieced
together from my patchy knowledge of the food production business (I make
cheese, not for a living, but it has given me a narrow perspective from which I
think I can safely extrapolate, up to a point). The most alarming part of the
truth is that most people -in developed and developing nations alike- do not
understand where their food comes from, who makes it, how they make it and where
it ends up when they don't eat it. We have centralised food production, made our
lives in cities far away from wher the food is made, built our societies around
producing all sorts of things we can't eat- and now we're all paying the price.
Because, what it all comes down to is that human needs food badly and there's no
way around that.
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The rich usually are escaping capital gains tax. There are a very large number of ways to avoid realising capital gains. A good example of this is John Malone...he has spent about two decades continuously trading assets up to $8bn, I would be surprised if he has ever actually paid capital gains.
"These hypocrites will have a different response when the situation is different, just watch."
Is this actually an accepted way to present content today? I actually tried to read this, but it's quite unreadable to me with all the images (memes?) in between. And no (to me) discernible structure.
> Apple (as other companies often do) sell many products of which the revenue from those sales pay for the wages of their employees.

I thought it was the responsibilities of company which contracted by apple to assemble iPhone like Foxconn to distribute the wages, so the wages are fixed and not fluctuates based on phone sales? Or does Apple give some bonus from phone sales directly to Foxconn workers?

> Using "the money to pay these people doesn't come from this line on a balance sheet it comes from that line" is not a justification for the, while unfortunately legal, unethetical employment conditions of others.

I do hope that Fairphone is being honest about, in addition to sourcing from ethical supply chain, also improving factory workers, as evidenced from workers testimonies here[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBK0LepZoj8&list=PLIc1-wxSJg...
The problems faced at a certain level of wealth are so alien that it's not uncommon for their solutions to sound totally nonsensical - even actively harmful - to anybody outside of that demographic.

In light of this, I don't think we can so easily dismiss delayed taxation of capital gains as unimportant and irrelevant. Maybe it is, but I think we need more information to solidly come to that conclusion. Even one of the things you (rightly, I think) identify as a problem seems to have some serious synergy with such a delay. What happens if one of these charitable foundations ends up with stock? How long of a delay might that taxation have then? And is there any way for them to get some liquidity out of that stock without actually selling it? Can they take out loans with it as collateral, for example?

I'm not actively making claims here, but rather trying to show the situation is complex enough that we can't write off seemingly innocuous mechanics simply because they appear innocuous. It's complex, and weird, and needs deeper information and data to really understand.
Recording state info in static variables makes it only suitable for embedded.

I really hate when people do that. Static should only ever be const, init once, or something intrinsically singleton. There are very few exceptions.
They forgot to review the app's source code.
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They seem to be suggesting it's better the money is earned through ownership. Which is funny as I'd lean the other way and say that beyond a point, allowing such large income through ownership and not actual work is a bad idea.

Note: Bezos and Musk, could ask for a hefty salary so they may work out to similar total income, unless someone else could run it cheaper and better. While hedge funds and inherited wealth that only own and don't contribute would receive less.
Indeed, sure some might have shared personal info etc, and this case shows that the English guy recently arrested because of a cheese image was a lie, but finding the real user behind the device must have taken a lot of work, the authorities seem hesitant to share this info.
Each one had also to pay a subscription and make a payment, perhaps this helped a great deal.