skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since Piketty's 'Capital' was published, there's been a lot of interest in the relationship between 'r', the return on wealth and 'g', the growth rate of the economy, and how this relationship is influenced by the tax system. The ProPublica story provides obviously relevant data to this discussion. It is not, as Arnold would have it, "bullshit".
> Kinda - although CGT is at a much lower rate than employment income, and you can write all sorts of expenses off against it.

Ya, definitely. Although Biden's tax proposals may change that. If ProPublica wanted to put out a piece arguing for a higher capital gains rate, i'd be totally fine with that, but that isn't what they did.

> Oh and you can write off unrealised losses against realised gains

I don't think that's true, at least not in the US. Do you have a citation for that?
It's So Cool
What is our state’s future?
Same here, I don't see how outputs is being treated any differently by Terraform than any other .tf file written in HCL. I'm not saying it's not possible, but I haven't experienced a failure more there yet.
What are your assumptions?
You can delete all of your data from iCloud through Settings.

Simply uncheck everything e.g. Photos and it will be instantly removed.
There are secure boot compatible grub binaries right? Can you use a legit grub to boot into a malicious hypervisor that runs windows?
Looks like El Salvador is trying to become a haven for money laundering.

Wonder if some economist can chime in. If there is a sudden influx of laundered capital in El Salvador, won't that lead to massive inflation in the local currency and basically kill the economy? Or, do I have it backwards?
This sounds like a verbatim copy of something I’ve read on Reddit a few years ago.
Well, the second Steve case really depends on the overall outlook. If a big chunk needs to be in C++ then the question is, do you really want to have two languages at the problem? Especially if the goal is a shipable binary later (which is possible but painful in python). Also it is a question about available stuff.
An app is a program that launches, does something and exits.

iCloud is an "always on" cloud storage/sync service where you choose what data you want to use it for.
`Customer Discovery` is always critical, and it is Product and Marketing people's job mostly. They need to discover something, a positive sign, BEFORE going to build the thing. They are scouts. They can use MVP's, small prototypes or even mocks to validate the path.

However most of the time managers skip that step. They want to move the army of the engineers towards a path where the path is not scouted enough. They want to first build the thing then try to sell or do marketing about it. What they miss is people's time and money, or in ancient times it was people's lives. It is really bad for a C-level or a leader.

What Suresh should have done is just doing it, because it is in his job description as a Sales and Marketing person. Besides producing marketing jargon, nice presentations or creating weekly reports to the C-levels; he should go there and discover customers, needs, potential sales. If he fails the discovery there is 2 outcomes. First he is a bad explorers, then you need to replace your P&M guy, sorry Suresh. Second, there is really nothing to discover. Then this is good, it can prevent a catastrophe, a potential bankrupt due to going to the wrong way. No offense C-levels, you should thank Suresh.
Explore the principle of iPad Pro Lidar and interpret DTOF sensing technology
Well, you can blame Apple for that, there is no way to developers to cancel a subscription or issue a refund.
Your comment re: bitcoin is not going to age well.
> If the information is valuable, why aren't we paying for it?

Several reasons:

1. You often can't judge the value of the information before purchase.

2. The downside of having to decide whether or not to purchase is often larger than the value of the information.

3. Microtransaction costs (time and otherwise) are higher than the value of the information.

4. That information is often available for free somewhere else (sometimes people just want attention or to inform others rather than money). The top results are just the ones that spent the most money on SEO (and hence have the most intrusive ads).
To me, even if you don't have an account deletion button. User retention isn't going to matter because the people who are looking for it aren't going to use the service anyway, you are just holding onto dead data
I’m all for not having dependency hell and a million frameworks. I just want some UI controls like sortables lists, tables and not have to type everything out.
Local currency is only a collectible item. USD has been used since 2001.
Will $150million USD be a big enough reserve? Assuming anyone can exchange against that, I can imagine that being wiped out in just a few hours of a bitcoin whale deciding they want to cash out...
People actually corralled into using webapps by big boys, phones not being pieces of shite.
I've just started playing again after dabbling as a youth (pre internet) and one thing I've noticed is that psychology against an inexperienced human is very different compared to playing an experienced human or a computer.

In a recent game I took a fair amount of time, and then when I noticed my time running out I made a move in a panic and left a rook hanging. A total blunder. All my opponent had to do was take it and I was ready to resign.

But because I'd taken a considerable length of time I assume my opponent thought it was a very deliberate move. A poisoned piece. He/she didn't take it and I went on to win the game.
This is conspiracy theory territory. You <100wh tv isn’t going to show a anything on your power meter during a commercial break.

Thermostat heating ruin your wake up time theories.

And you avoided my actual point: a battery and solar/wind hides all of this,
Still I think 2 way calls would benefit customers by reducing lag and Apple by reducing server load if using p2p
In the aforementioned anecdote, the pianist was struggling with a new composition, not general piano skills. Which would make sleep a catalyst for making new neural pathways for that specific composition, not how to be a pianist in general.

That's my take as a layman.
I’ve seen that in multiple founding contracts for private companies and no lawyer ever flagged that. I doubt a judge will collect it. The mechanism is usually called Einziehung der Geschäftsanteile, basically the remaining shareholders can force-collect the shares of the bankrupt shareholder. A suitable compensation is required. See for example this random reference (German) https://kuhlen-berlin.de/glossar/einziehung-von-gesch%C3%A4f...

The shares immediately loose all voting rights in that process.

The reason is to prevent a potentially hostile party from entering the shareholder group.

Edit: Here’s a better reference with an example what such a clause in the companies charter could look like:
https://gmbhg.kommentar.de/Abschnitt-2/Einziehung-von-Gescha...
Pillsbury Launches Innovative Hydrogen Map Tracking Hydrogen Projects Globally
If what he wrote about Dutch taxation, this tax is a replacement for income / capital gains tax, not an addition (and so far none of the "tax the rich" schemes that I saw included removing income or capital gains tax).

At 1.7% a year it gives you quite a few years before it would even reach the same level of taxation as income / capital gains tax.

To make it concrete: last year I made $200k in short term capital gains in stock market. It was taxed at my high marginal tax rate of 35%+, that I had to pay this year.

In Dutch system I would be much better off: I would pay 1.7% on that increase this year and continue paying 1.7% for 20 years before that would equal the amount I paid this year.

And if I managed to, say, 4-8x that $200k in 20 years (at 15% you double the money in 5 years, at 7.5% you double in 10 years, which is a return on S&P index fund), I would be even better off in Dutch system.

So US system, at least regarding stock (which is how all those billionaires in ProPublica article created their wealth) is better only if you hold your stock for 10-20 years, which is generally regarded as a good thing. It both provides stability for stock price and shows the confidence of a person in the business.
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop" --Sir Winston Churchill (b. 1874)
Always Be Quitting
Oh, that makes it even more interesting..

Basically El Salvador becomes the new Switzerland due to laundered and hidden money?

I'm unable to wrap my head around due to the USD angle.
This comes up so often on HN that I feel like no-one is going to be converted in either direction at this point but I suppose just for the sake of completeness:

"No, you shouldn't use Brave.": https://web.archive.org/web/20210531085250/https://aspenuwu....
The irony is that one statement "Worse, given how expensive clinical trials are in medtech, I’m concerned if we build a product that isn’t commercially viable, we’ll be out of business before we even start.” actually makes it clear the real problem is they need permission for the device.

So it is more like 'you do not need permission except when you need permission' (no permission to ask your manager, but you still need approval by government agency)
If you think

type error interface {
Error() string
}

and then

if err != nil {
return err
} 10000x times

counts as a legitimate error handling strategy, you either have an extremely low bar set or haven't used Go much. Then again, people seem to be okay with Golang allowing nil pointer exceptions to exist in 2021, so maybe the bar is underground.
While I don't think the problem is as bad as you describe, we should note that Node's initial release was in 2009, while python's was 1991. They pioneered a lot and Node was thus able to spring from quite hefty shoulders.
Why?

(if your answer is going to include some form of 'but housing is an essential requirement to live', be aware that my next question will be how to differentiate housing from food, or some other essential requirements to living, which are also left to the market to the chagrin of only the most hardcore communist)
Woah, this is genuinely incredible.
How about my Google account? Is Google an app or my life?

Any app could follow into your description, should they have an exception? 1Password doesn't need this? Backblaze? Amazon Photos?

I already gave a solution to the problem: Allow it, delay deletion. Apple does not need an exception to its own rule.
I’m not trying to say SRS didn’t work very well for parent, but it doesn’t work “matrix style“ well for everyone.

I’ve sunk countless hours into Anki and I don’t feel like I have a lot to show for it.

If I could do it over I would use Anki less and read more out loud, and write notes on paper as if trees didn’t matter.

I feel like we are often met with the biggest success stories on the web with regards to tools and it can feel very discouraging when things don’t work as well for yourself. So my point is just to chime in and say “some of us also fail using these tools”
> I don’t think it’s right, if the person has not done something illegal

Public interest is the right threshold. Just because somebody has done something illegal, does not mean that their privacy is worthless. Likewise, hypocrisy is not illegal, but documenting the hypocrisy of the powerful is often in the public interest.
The stakes are also high for users of apps like Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. but I don't see them getting an exemption from this policy.
It’s not obfuscation, if you are concerned about privacy. You can completely hide your usage patterns with a battery or solar/wind generation.

Are you honesty making the point that: knowing you used 5 units of power in 1 month (where someone has to walk onto your property and read a number, as is the case in most dumb metered scenarios) is less of a privacy concern than knowing you used .3 of unit of power in the last 15 minutes (without needing to walk onto your property).

What am I missing?
Crashing the stock market is a short-sighted metric, but it would have significant impact over the levels of investment.

Once investment goes down, all goes down hill: productivty, wages, tax revenues etc.

Wealth taxes are also very distortive, the incentives to avoid them are large and the capacity to do it is plentiful: you could get your wealth in a crypto synthetic in another country and that would be it.

In the end, this is likely whats going to happen anyway to prevent hit pieces, getting targeted by media, etc.

What is salient is that people talk about taxes as if it were a christian sacrifice that it must be made: is it a virgin, a goat or a first born. Government in the US today is spending a lot more than it has in decades, even before Covid!

Any debate about adding tax pressures is simply more statism.
If you use TPM-stored keys with full disk encryption, the boot measurements will change and you won’t be able to decrypt the existing Windows install.
FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app
sounds pretty cool
I don’t off the top of my head remember that 506 is, that’s what ddg is for.

When fastly was broken and telling me that london was broken (lon3356 or something), that told me I could Reroute via Cleveland and have a chance of it working. It also made me comfortable it was a CDN error rather than a site error.

That’s far better than “oops something went wrong, we’re trying to fix it”
Well, here's a snippet from my GdprReportGenerator.java :

account = getAccount();
if (account.wasDeleted) {
return emptyPdf();
}

Of course there might be hell to pay if the EU catches this, but well..
Given the amount of money ASML is printing, they could easily build a decent fab that will over time compete directly with eg TSMC. But I doubt they have the balls to compete against their customers, which is a shame.

(by "easily", of course, I mean "super hard but possible"). If there's any European company that knows how to source and train people who can operate fabs, it's ASML.
Dependency injection is an idea that looks nice in theory, but it soon becomes pretty messy in practice. Without DI it is in general not too difficult to debug how an object is created. With DI you will also have to debug through the DI code. Fixing problems with DI configurations is one of my least favorite activities.
> This is absent from terraform-cdk

Curious to know how that is, or what an example would be? I don't see how you would have to give up state management with CDK, which I understand to be extending TF, not supplanting it.
> At some point the loan must be paid back

And in the meantime, they get to retain the full power and influence that comes with the stock/company that they control. The wealth inequality issue is as much about power dynamics as it is about dollars and cents.

> borrow without collateral

And it would be trivial to write the law to prevent that loophole. If a person has any unrealized gain over a certain amount, then any personal loan, secured or not, would qualify for some sort of realized gain tax.

Personally, I think it is simpler and more elegant to implement a wealth tax. It would encourage the wealthy to take more income or dividends to cover the tax, and it would also help shift investments towards more profitable/cash flow positive ventures. For example, all of the tech unicorns burning loads of VC money to acquire negative cash flow would be penalized under such a scenario.
"and the entertainment bill was huge"

Is that how it works though, 'even' in the US (where in my understanding there are a lot more options for deductions than in the European tax systems I have experience with)? Can you just deduct any expense that you can somehow however far fetched are connected to your investments? Usually once you start looking into the details, it turns out that it's not so outlandish as people (in the camp of the Pro Repulica piece, i.e. the 'tax others more' crowd) try to make it seem.
"Once the dollar inflow stops, it's over."

That's true of anything. If nobody is buying X, you can't sell X. If nobody is buying stocks, stocks are worthless.
Don't get me wrong, I know that my comment sounds a little bit weird in the context of your project. I know that I could just rightclick the file, download and open it in the browser.

It's just more of a hint to you that, whenever you want to show something to the public, every extra action the user has to make, could lose you that user.

Keep in mind that "we" want to figure out in seconds if we want to spend more time looking at what you have created or not.
yeah, an exception for paid apps would be ok.
But capital gains are usually on purchase price vs sale price. If you paid 20% cg on inheritance, presumable the purchase price would change/reset the the value on that date?

Bezos didn't avoid CG, he deferred it. By not paying CG, he also didn't cash out, meaning to cash out the inheritor will have to pay all the CG Bezos would have paid? i.e Bezos full tax amount on stock was deferred to the inheritor. Unless they get to dispose / realise gains on those stocks for only 40% - but I read it as they receive the unrealised stocks, and need to pay 40% tax to do so.
Can’t test right now, but very interested. Does it support these “mac guy who hates mac fonts” sites? (font-weight < 400; color: initial)
As someone using nvm for work, I disagree. NPM can't be installed from normal package repositories, because it's outdated the moment any long-term support distribution accepts it. Then there's yarn, which is fighting for command line dependency management supremacy, with the exact same problem. I'm still not sure what npx does but I think it comes with NPM, unlike nvm which you use to manage NPM installs. I'm hoping I don't need to learn it because I expect some new javascript tool to replace NPM and yarn any day now, as those did bower and grunt before them.

I've also had to use nvm to install an old version of NPM for a specific project because otherwise one of the NPM dependencies couldn't compile a certain C++ executable that I apparently needed? There was also an incompatibility with some binary that another dependency downloaded that required me to mess with soft links to libraries in specific places.

I don't think either NPM or PIP are inherently hard to use as long as you keep them updated (which is exactly what the parent comment is suggesting to do) and as long as you don't need binary dependencies. When you end up in binary territory, which this type of software eventually will, you'll run head-first into stuff that requires arcane commands to get stuff to run.
There's also DecSync
Synchronize RSS, contacts, calendars, tasks and more without a server
https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync

And DAVx5
https://www.davx5.com/
The more useful question is, why does it matter? Let's say we are in a "mega bubble." What are you going to do with that information? On a long enough timeline, everything goes to zero.
Oh, I didn't know that it has finally opened.

Good foresight by Bosch.
I am just finding more about this space . Correct me if I am wrong, My understanding is Anki is helpful when you want to remember some extremely detailed information (might even be considered as trivia by some). My usecase isn't like that. I just want to remember the main concepts of everything. Don't want to remember things like who developed that thing or when was it developed.

Have you been able to do this ?
Apple introduces macOS 12 Monterey. A lot will change
Yeah you wrote that it made no sense semantically but it does, it rewrote your exact argument. This is great for a non native speaker for example, to rewrite a paragraph in a more standard language. Plagiarism will definitely be harder/impossible to detect.
Requiring merchants to accept it must be a boon for salesmen selling PoS devices... I'm sure they'll take this opportunity to extort as much as they can out of retailers.
> If I type "<city> weather" google will show me the weather, but which weather company has shutdown because of that?

I have noticed recently that the Weather.com app has added huge advertisements at the top and has roughly doubled the number of ads within the page. It honestly feels like desperation to me and I’ve been wondering if something bad is happening to the company.
> In 1990, twelve countries in Europe had a wealth tax. Today, there are only three

The "Today,..." claim is is simply false (both when the article was written, and now).

Wikipedia lists examples including six countries in Europe. Belgium is listed, which created a wealth tax in 2018 - why is that missing from this article of 2019?

Tax regimes in Europe change frequently according to the political situation, so this presents little evidence as to whether any individual tax "worked" anyway. But, this claim is just badly researched (generously speaking).
One lawyer pointed out that this introduce an interesting issue within Japanese law which explicitly exclude any foreign currencies as cryptocurrency. So Bitcoin is considered not a cryptocurrency in the definition of the current law.
Google is not the same as railroads or electricity companies.
Nobody pays for Google, and it's not owned by a government.
I see the anti trust issues because of Google dominance, but the answer to that is not to make Google a public utility.
If governments care about protecting local businesses, they should make their own directories so good that people go there to search instead of Google.

Google is a private company which has made a great product for over 20 years. And now it's benefiting off of it.
That's what private companies do
There is nothing in their terms of service or privacy policy that says personal information can't be used for an ongoing investigation.. just that it can't be used by "the Community". They even say that they collect personal information when submitting. When it is shared with the Community at large, it is assigned a non-personal identifier.
What about cost ? :D
They can control the spread on exchanging against their reserve
Similarly, my first programming class was a middle school lunch table where me and a few friends sat around abusing TI-81s. We found ways to do fun things with these devices and showing off your work to friends became a natural driver that kept us focused. This continued through all of high school and then people wondered how we all became software engineers when our school had no such classes.
I'm not sure how that applies to this app specifically, but it relies on Windows restriction policies. With those policies normally you have multiple options: You can add the policy to non-admin users only and run updates as an admin. You can allow whole directories, which means that windows update can work as usual. Or you can push new hash updates as needed.

But as I mentioned - I'm not sure how exactly lockdown integrates in this system.
Klong: A Simple Array Language
if you want to create the impression that it was intentional, you can call it a "soft launch"...
Bosch was fined €90+ millions for its role in the dieselgate scandal, too.

https://amp.dw.com/en/bosch-pays-90-million-euro-fine-over-d...
As I said this is all very simple, the one thing that makes it a little bit more interesting is the save button. You can do some computations/calculations and save the results (by downloading) into the same file or a new file.

I have even modified the javascript code of the page itself and saved it away (not really directly supported).
Yeah I am not running code which is hardware constrained and numpy was a real doozy tto get working because of pep517. I found Rosetta pretty fast anyway. Certainly faster than my Ryzen 2600 on arch Linux at running the same code.
Yes, people often don't see the benefit of a discrete boundary - if everyone draws the line in the same spot, even just legally speaking, then everyone can
coordinate their action whenever someone steps over it.