skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty trivial to declare your car at $26,000. The extra tax is minimal, and if someone buys it, the $1000 bonus will cushion your annoyance.

If we think that "everyone" will have to "overdeclare" in such fashion, then obviously the government is collecting more revenue than it intended and will lower the tax rates to compensate, so in the end, you'll pay the same dollar amount in tax on your $26,000 car as you would have on your $25,000 car.

So, such a system would work fine. Particularly for property taxes, which are currently the subject of much scamming (apartment buildings in NYC being valued at a few percent of their actual market value, for example).
Self employment and social security will still take 15%
I played the piano when I grew up, same-hand chording is second nature to me. It's all about wrist movement though, never strain your phalanges. I same-hand chord most close combinations: Ctrl-W is 5-3, Ctrl-C is 5-2, Alt-W is 3-1, as is Alt-P on the right-hand side. But I use two-hand combinations for almost everything else because the right-hand Ctrl and both Shift keys aren't easy to reach with opened fingers. The Ctrl key on the left is only easy to reach for me because I touch it with the side of my hand, not the tip of my pinky.

I have looked at ergonomic keyboards before, and have the same reservations about the number of keys as you. I use the numpad a lot for data entry, and my previous favourite keyboard was a Logitech one that had an additional row above the numpad that contained keys for parentheses (without using shift), an equals sign and a second backspace key. I did seriously consider the Maltron L90 full-width keyboard, but I couldn't source it locally and the price was too steep for me to buy without testing it first.

Having something like that keyboard coupled with a programmable (QMK) controller would be an option I'd seriously consider though, even without a separate numpad.
Email spy pixels are dead now that Apple will follow HEY
That's an unfair response. It's reasonable to want the rules to change for society and be willing to play along. That's different from wanting to be the only one to do it.
Or, it lets Google know what they can get away with and for how long before they have to pay another similar fine.

Would it be far-fetched for fines to be part of an annual/quarterly budget?
Coming soon: insurance companies refusing to cover this because efficacy has not been demonstrated and stories of impassioned family members fighting against evil insurance companies in order to cover "the medicine their love one desperately needs".
And ignore the pre-agreed SLA targets and compensation for not meeting those targets that's in the contract they signed right? If you're going to say you're losing $X/minute of downtime, then either deal with it, architect around it, or negotiate the necessary SLA and compensation.
That sounds...like a great reason not to get into "mobile" dev and stick to PWAs.
Why not use something like Ansible instead?

It too is declarative. It too can be easily extended. It's also something a lot of people already know.

I used to use Ansible or Puppet for these things before Terraform was all the rage. It was a lot more stable than trying to distributing those state files, which is a strange design to pick. There are plenty of existing modules but it's also dead simple to write your own.
> It’s simple some vigilante having a vendetta against someone they don’t like and using illegal mans to skewer them.

If the leak's target did nothing illegal or unethical with their taxes, then how are they being skewered? Their taxes would just show them to be an upstanding, law-abiding citizen, right?

So sure, you can claim all you like that we already knew about these holes, but abstract arguments and aggregate data are far less persuasive and motivating than specific examples that clearly show the stark reality.

Or are you forgetting how the George Floyd video galvanized a world-wide movement despite everyone already "knowing" that racism is bad, that it exists, that police training is subpar and that bad cops kill people of colour?
This type of misbehavior is widespread, too. These foundations are not limited to the ultra wealthy. Tons of even moderately rich people (say, tens of millions in wealth) take advantage of these vehicles. Pumping their income into "charity" where charity is not Habitat For Humanity, but "MR JOHN B ENTREPRENEUR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LLC". The foundation is run within a millimeter of the law, and basically funds the owner's lavish lifestyle tax-free. It's such an obvious scam but since it's just barely legal, nobody bats an eye. And if anyone questions the practice, you have people coming out of the woodwork saying "why are you against charities like Habitat For Humanity?"
I do multiple stacks via changing the state file based off of env:

constructor(scope: Construct, name: string, c: StackConfig) {
super(scope, name);

new S3Backend(this, {
bucket: "some-bucket-here",
key: c.name("state-env"),
region: "" // wherever
});
}

// ... at the bottom of main
new Stack(app, 'something-something-dev', { environment: "dev", name: (i) => `${i}-dev` });
new Stack(app, 'something-something-prod', { environment: "prod", name: (i) => `${i}-prod` });

Then you can use stacks properly.
the more appropriate comparison in your case would be an open marriage where one partner complains the other is cheating. They set up the rules then complain someone is taking advantage of the rules.

I myself would like Jeff to pay more in taxes. I think the super wealthy pay too little in terms of parentage, but I should be upset with the Congress/IRS not the wealthy.
Correction: I meant "NADPH" instead of "NADH". It's been 25 years since I've done any biochem, and obviously my skills have rusted (haha, electrochemistry joke).

The Z-scheme in photosynthesis is exactly the type of way I could see this being used: put a high energy electron into one state, and generate a cascade of subsequent chemical reactions as the electron relaxes into a lower energy state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis#Z_scheme
I come from a long line of farmers. It hasn't been possible to have a "family farm" for 4+ decades. Any profitable farm has 1000+ acres and is basically a corporation.

I know the intent of your comment is to support family farms, but now these tax incentives have become perverse and really only benefit rich people, not family farmers.
I really like Scrivener for putting together a book from scratch. The downside is that it's mostly a "just you" tool. Once you get into collaboration/outside editing/etc. I find you need to switch to something else. IMO, it's still worth it but I find it's something I use to get to a rough/first draft and then I switch.
The stack I manage with Pulumi is currently around 300 resources. (I think that count is inflated by all the secrets in AWS Secrets Manager, because each secret has two resources: the secret and the current version.) I currently manage it by myself, but I'm hoping that won't be the case for very long.

Maybe the ending of my previous comment was too cynical. But I think I've repeatedly made the mistake of valuing my productivity and happiness as a currently solo developer over what will let my company take full advantage of a big third-party ecosystem (including a large talent pool).
Happy 45th Anniversary to the Original Intel 8086 and the x86 Architecture
FoundationDB was proprietary software before the acquisition, and not open source, so I’d say close to “no chance”.
> quite selectively and carefully

> allowing readers to see patterns that were until now hidden

am I being too cynical, or is this a "pick one" situation? what "pattern" are the readers supposed to see in this carefully chosen subset of the data? what patterns do the unchosen subsets show?
Sure, if the person you send your message to receives his email on "leaky outdated OS with leaky outdated software" and refuses to use TLS. The chain is as strong as the weakest link in this case.
Nah. A lot of people care about trashiness and culture much more. And boy that does not correlate with bank account.
Let's talk about the actual damage that could occur to an individual here. The fact of the matter is, billionaires are effectively isolated from all societal repercussions, where the average person simply isn't. Even if you waved a magic wand, and prevented them from making any money through any mechanism, and they just had spend their wealth, their lifestyle would not change at all. They literally can not spend the amount of money they have, in the years of life they have remaining. Even the threat of jail time isn't a real threat, given the serious discrepancies in prosecution and sentencing guidelines, let alone the plausibility of someone pulling a Carlos Ghosn[0], which is much easier to do when you effectively have infinite resources.

Now let's look at the other side. The societal benefit is making these effects current preferential policies concrete. Often politicians and other supporters of the super wealthy intentionally muddy the waters by talking about "small businesses", "family farms", and other middle class and upper middle class lifestyles. (e.g. The arguments made by against inheritance tax, that only affects net worths in excess of $11.7 million, or the arguments based on absolute dollar amounts rather than income or wealth percentages.) By making the effects concrete rather than abstract, it's much harder to argue that there is any sort of negative individual effects on ultra wealthy.[1]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50964040

[1] For example: Even if you took half of Warren Buffet's wealth ($110 B) every year for the rest of his life (90 years old, today), he'd probably still die a billionaire. And even if he lived to be a 100, he'd still have $100 million.
Compelling evidence that the Neanderthal dug graves and held ceremonial burials.

Unrelated, but again I wish the science community would put the "conclusion" heading right after the "abstract". It's what everyone jumps to, and it would probably even enable more consumption by the lay public. You only read the body of the paper after reading the conclusion anyway.
I would be outraged if someone leaked my taxes to the public. I'd be looking for someone to sue, though in this case I'd fail to find anyone I can sue I'm sure. I don't care if these are the richest people in the country or if the data is really interesting, it's not ethical. In my opinion, even though propublica didn't solicit this information, they should not have posted information derived from private tax information without the consent of those involved. I don't what the laws are here, but I'm talking about ethics. I wouldn't want my private information summarized, by name, in this manner.

The other issue I have is that not only is the provenance of this data unknown, so also is it's veracity. They don't know who gave it to them or why and thus they can't confirm it wasn't made up out of whole cloth.
Just like Thinkpad owners, to hijack an Apple thread. /s
The three requirements for effective end to end encryption:

1. All cryptographic keys controlled by the users.

2. Some way to confirm you are actually connected to who you think you are connected to.

3. A way to confirm that the code you are running is not leaking keys/content.
The special treatment is at the time of sale. My comments were in response to taxing the appreciation at the time of a new loan (such as taking a second mortgage).
> I would have thought at least iOS Safari would be a major consideration for anyone due to the ubiquity of iOS devices.

If web developers give any consideration to iOS, it usually results in a comparison of Mobile Safari to IE 6.

In reality, Google Chrome’s unilateral provisioning of unratified features drives developers to dismiss competing products as obsolete. In this way, Google Chrome advances the “extend” phase of technological dominance while well-intentioned and overworked web developers implement the “extinguish” phase.
It doesn't look like Ford offers AWD as an option on any of the Transit Connects. I suspect that fleet buyers don't care about AWD and aren't willing to pay the premium and fuel economy penalty for the option.
Gro Your Business by 110%
The key takeaways of FoundationDB is that it is a strongly consistent KeyValue store that preserves ordering (lexicographical). Although you might consider FDB's APIs to be quite primitive (get/set/scan), the payoff is how it seamlessly handles multi-key transactions without requiring you to write or manage some client side two-phase-commit process.

Given these primitives, you or other engineers can write higher level APIs on top (e.g. sql, search, etc). In fact, we make extensive use of their RecordLayer [1] library which provides a strongly consistent schema based write process using Protobuf. This includes on-write-consistent indexes. Apple has also open-sourced a MongoDB API [2] compliant interface that allows you to get all the consistency guarantees from FDB, but with an API interaction of MongoDB.

The beauty of FDB is that the primitives are done in such a rock solid fashion, you can write higher level APIs without having to worry about the really hard stuff (transactions, failures, config errors, testing, simulation, etc). Another example is that CouchDB is switching their back-end to use FDB for their 4.0 release.

Given that the database sorts data lexicographical...to us, it became a natural fit for an online (always-mutable) time-series database.

If you want more insight in how we use it, I go over it in some detail towards the end of my keynote [3] from last August.

[1] https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/announcing-record-layer/

[2] https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93b--lTq2ng
2020- The day Apple broke iPhone USB photo imports on purpose to force iCloud
How have you leveraged value pricing for software projects?
Does this hypothesize the lack of a functioning court system to issue a search warrant, the lack of observing the Fourth Amendment in the US (or equivalent in many other countries), or both?
There's really no reason other than custom that appropriate numbers of pigs couldn't be raised and slaughtered in any city. They can subsist entirely on table scraps, the disposal of which is a regular burden for cities. They don't require lots of room to roam. They do produce effluent, but that is only a burden at mega-farm volumes. An individual hog will produce roughly what an individual human will produce, but only when it approaches the right size to butcher. Eventually this will seem normal, if only because chicken husbandry is growing more common all the time in many cities.
4. Pumps millions/billions/trillions into failed financial corporations to prevent the financial system itself from collapsing.
You made something that doesn't work in Firefox and you're now surprised that <1% of your traffic comes from Firefox?
Not a counter example, but a legit question in spirit since autonomy vs human will always be a reasonable choice for some parts of a system. I just don't think real-time control of a system that's never been flown by humans is a good example of where that choice is hard. You can describe it with equations, solutions are well understood, there's no available humans that can do it, there's a well-understood need because fly by wire was necessitated to control some aircraft, and will be necessary to control more air/spacecraft in the future. Classic computer problem.

(But I'm guessing Starship will have human controllers in/on the loop to do interventions before or during landing if required.)

Doctor diagnosis is a good example of when that choice is hard to make. Hard to describe with equations, hard to model, not a well-understood need since professional doctors exist, decades of experience has been accumulated, huge swaths of industry are dedicated to helping doctors, etc etc.

What I meant by "Allow the human to focus" definitely should be interpreted to mean removing small, multi-dimensional, fast, annoying things like real-time stabilization during landing.
For sure, but I assume his calculation may be similar to mine: that it's even more optimal to advocate for a higher tax rate and give his money directly to charities he chooses (which he has done, sort of, by pledging to give half his wealth to the Gates Foundation).
XD, Figma, PSD and More Converted to HTML/CSS
How to Learn Nix, Part 39: How to Install Python
It seems to me that you're speaking a bit past heipei's question, which is about the actual consequences, as opposed to the intended ones, of policies.

If you have a 90-100% estate tax, then the intended consequence might be "redistribute the money via the government" but the actual consequence is much more likely to be "most of the money is spent on luxury consumption, because why not?".

At lower levels of estate taxation intended and actual consequences might align better, of course. This is pretty specifically a question about calls for near-100% estate taxation, not a question about why there's an estate tax in general.
The majority of working pickups are compacts way smaller than an F-150 that are part of landscaping fleets and the like. They're all FWD.
Show HN: Anonymous pulse surveys that aren't a waste of time
What's the argument in keeping it secret? Politicians routinely (Trump notably being the exception) release these all the time.
You're being coy.

As if Twitter and all other social media media weren't about taking things and reframing them to make targets into bad people.
This would be great. Perhaps it could be based on https://dhall-lang.org/
My knowledge of the American tax system is limited to "I know it exists", so I hope someone can enlighten me on this:

If it's possible to use your investments as collateral for a loan, is there anything stopping you from reinvesting that into the stock market which (if your investment is large enough) will push up stock prices? This would increase the value of your position and allow you to take out additional loans, rinse repeat

I'm not suggesting "targeted" market manipulation or even malicious intent, but with enough wealth accumulated by a small group, it seems that as long as everyone has diversified their investments broadly, everytime someone invests with borrowed money it enables someone else to do the same

Am I missing something here?

Edit: the relation to the American tax system wasn't clear in the original post. My thinking is that this could create a unsustainable loop, where tax-free wealth increases are created by a circle of debt accumulation
Been a ProtonMail customer for years, still pretty dissatisfied. They've been promising U2F (a pretty standard security feature) for years, yet there is still no sign of it in this release. They've spent years obsessing over calendars for some reason instead of their core product. They also took a very long time to open source their IMAP bridge which caused me to further lose love for them.

PM also blatantly lie in their advertising. They cannot provide end-to-end encrypted mail because limitations in existing email protocols prevent it. All they can do is quickly wrap the contents of your mail in encryption once it has arrived.

With Apple now starting to offer unlimited email aliases to their premium users, I think ProtonMail will fall behind by only offering a handful.
Russell had the benefit of being born into the highest classes of English society and succeeding at everything he undertook. I don't think his advice is generally applicable, and he didn't seem to follow it himself.
Per The Millionaire Next Door (see https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Amer... for the link), most wealthy are those who have a reasonable income but good financial discipline.

Which means that a shocking number of millionaires live in poor neighborhoods and have modest lifestyles.

Those aren't the super-wealthy, of course. But most wealthy people can't be identified by where they live.
This might come as a surprise but not everyone sees the world from a "freedom" perspective. In terms of practical/day to day experience we won something that works over something that didn't.
If you've sunk a new F-150 (+gas) worth of money into keyboards then I'd really like to see your collection.
Ooo this is so cool [0]. I need to know the implementation details. How are the clips stored? Are they dynamically generated with ffmpeg or something or is every line of dialogue clipped out ready to serve? How many films and what are the storage costs?

[0] https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=this+is+so+cool
More often, I find the css property I want to use is in Firefox but not chrome. Eg, some of the sideways text values are still Firefox only, forcing you to use transform rotate instead
"conflating wealth with income"

The author(s) explicitly do NOT conflate these and point that out several times.
What the fuck is wrong with you.
Probably a fair complaint. I’d question whether enough people with foundations take bald-face risks with enough of the assets to be relevant to tax policy.

More pedestrian stuff (eg expensing a conference in Seychelles) definitely slips through, but we could make the same principal-agent complaint about business expenses or other settings where one person gets to spend money from different buckets that are taxed differently.

I’d challenge the notion that the rules are unenforced though - someone will have questions if you’re living in a house your foundation purchased or somesuch. At the very least several people with an obligation to know better and much less to lose we’re going to be very nervous.
The email from Phil Schiller to Steve Jobs and Eddy Cue is interesting in itself I suppose, but boy this makes me yearn for a return to the age of email.

I've read several "business magazine" type articles about how you need to be able to communicate quickly and that no one is going to read a long email that you write. I've had a manager say something along the lines of "I'm not going to read that novel" as well, upon receiving multi-paragraph emails.

Well, if Apple's top execs had time to email, maybe we all really do too. Maybe I'm extra touchy about this as someone on a Slack-only team who has experienced multiple miscommunications due to teammates' terse, poorly-written Slack replies. But I sure miss the days when it was normal to take the time to write and edit a coherent thought about something rather than sending messages sentence-by-sentence, as they come to mind.
It is fraud, which is why it is a useless example.
Akamai is balls deep in video streaming, which is probably the most bandwidth/traffic intense thing for a CDN to dabble with. My guess is that CF has much more diverse traffic. Hence the fallout from an interruption would be quite different.
>So evidence obtained illegally outside of due-process is fair game in your book?

So evidence of horrible crimes should be ignored if subjective "due-process" isn't followed? You do realize that the moneyed elite have disproportionate influence over "process" and law, right?

Focus on the leaks and whether they are true, not the messenger.
This is a good example of the debate about the definition of a blockchain.

Undoubtedly git's implementation is very similar to current blockchains but it's missing a reward function (PoS, PoW).

So I would argue it's not a blockchain because of that.
You can reduce a little bit of the repetition in YAML with anchors.

There are tools that convert JSON/YAML into HCL.

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/yaml/#:~:text=yaml%20also%...