skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without getting into the moral debate of taxing US Citizens globally... how could the US government stop this from happening? Surely these ex-citizens hold a lot of assets in the US, and most probably spend a lot of time in the country. Could the gov't effectively banish them or ban them from holding assets in US assets? What would be the side effects of such a law?
Novel test for brain cancer hunts for DNA mutations in blood and urine
WayMo is one descendant?
He was elected through the public vote. Politicians aren’t removed from office the instant they’re associated with negative press. There will certainly be an impeachment process that can possibly remove him in the middle of an election cycle, but it takes time.
So 50k a patient times 7,000 patients a day?
That 325 million a day... 119 billion a year.

I change my mind. You all are correct. We should definitely raise the price of insurance for Covid.

It would eliminate people unnecessarily going to the hospital, and getting frivolous treatment...and would give a more accurate number of people who actually need hospitalization.

If you go to the hospital for the sniffles and test positive for Covid, the hospital will put you in a bed for two weeks for monitoring... because it's profitable.
Pay back? You mean get robbed a bit more?
On the other hand: regulation is what made reliable and uninterrupted radio communication possible. Radio is not the internet: if I transmit with 100kW on 1234kHz I make that frequency unusable for anyone else in a wide neighbourhood. Bandwidth is a lot scarcer than IPv6 or even IPv4 addresses. The Radio Act of 1912 - the very first "radio law" - was a response to the confusion on the airwaves that contributed to the Titanic disaster (see https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Navigation/Community/Arcad...)
Watching House of Cards to learn about government and the Constitution is like watching Bond movies to learn spycraft. It bears little resemblance to actual workings of Congress and the White House.
so where are they all going?
> Oh no! The tragedy of not spending everything you own!

I really don't think this contributes at all to the conversation. We're not talking about going out and blowing your paycheck. If your total lifetime earning over 40 years of working is $1.2M, and you only spend $1M over your entire lifetime, you could have just worked for 16% less time and enjoyed the time. Otherwise what was the point, just trying to maximise the number??
I'm hoping that the Rust compiler is good enough to compile this back to a bit-shift instruction?
From the bottom of my heart, fuck off. If you get blackmailed, abducted, squeezed or raided in any way, the U.S. will have the privilege of not caring.

These tools accumulated massive wealth by corrupting the U.S. political system, gutting the IRS, and bringing their effective tax rate lower than most other citizens' - and it is still not enough.

I guess it's a tall order to ask to keep your grubby paws away and not pump more dark money into U.S. politics.
Ok, so you found 1 outlier out of 7 links I provided? None of the other ones have that opinion badge.
It is for a b2b business with huge market share
You can always upload a photo to imgur (https://imgur.com/) and link it here
I don't understand why people are so obsessed over potential long term effects of vaccines while completely ignoring the potential long term effects of covid. There are no examples of vaccines with long term side effects. On the other hand, there are viruses like HPV that despite producing essentially no symptoms cause cancer in the long run. Sars-cov-2 is a new virus. Nobody knows its long term effects. Even asymptomatic covid cases may have damage to their lungs. Given how contagious covid is, the choice really is between covid and the vaccine, and the vaccine definitely looks like the safer choice.
You'll have to venture into space to explore other inhabitable planets to find such publication!
Market Cap of Companies with Ridiculous Price-to-Sales Ratios Exceed Dotcom High
Your sarcasm detector is broken/not calibrated for Russian.
The shocking thing about Cuomo is how blatant it all was. Not just the sexual harassment but his character across the board.

This is a guy who wrote a book about his leadership in the covid pandemic during the covid pandemic. That's like Churchill writing his memoir of World War II during The Blitz.

We ought to have a culture where someone who behaves like this is laughed out of the building.
I don’t know why the answer is unpopular. I not an American and don’t follow the NY politics. I don’t know too much about the scandal. But the ^^^ description sounds like a playbook followed by many politicians in many places , and the one that seems to work quite often.
Once when young, I used to dream of living and working in the US, how naive I was!
I grew up in a family where “we can’t afford it” was a mantra. So when I hear that one I wish people could make up a more creative excuse.
This is something that applies to managers but especially to executives: You are a representative of the company at all times. Especially in a communications role, you are the corporate mouthpiece. All of your actions are under extreme scrutiny and you should behave accordingly.

More importantly, Facebook has to deal with sexual harassment allegations internally on their own all the time. If this is supposed to be acceptable behavior among Facebook's executives with regard to accusers, then I as an opposing counsel in a lawsuit with Facebook would be grinning from ear to ear right now.

Odds are Facebook is about to settle on a handful of claims, even potentially-bullshit ones. And that's why shareholders should be out with pitchforks.
Yes, that's the theory. So far Car and Driver's testing hasn't yet yielded those savings at their 30k mile update.

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a30209598/2019-tesla-mo...

One of the pitches we hear often on the switch to EV ownership is that electric vehicles are cheaper to maintain. But, as we close in on 40,000 miles in a Tesla Model 3, the actual savings in service costs is turning out to be quite minimal.

Sure, the Model 3 needs no oil changes, which in theory should save us significant cost. However, the Model 3's requirement that we lubricate the brake calipers every year or 12,500 miles—something specified for areas that use road salt in the winter months—has cost nearly as much, totaling $432 for three such services thus far, which often also include a tire rotation. Although that's less than the $539 we spent on maintenance for our BMW M340i or the $728 for our Kia Telluride, that savings works out to between $6 and $15 a month over the course of our nearly two years of ownership, which would be barely noticeable in an owner's budget.
Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
> while simultaneously holding most of the influence.

There are 20 million millionaires in the states. This is not even 10,000 people year over year with assets, not even net worth, over $2 million. This is a tiny fraction of the population, most of whom are contrarian or pursue an alternative lifestyle, given that they are living abroad.

I would hardly call someone with $2 million as having outsized influenced, they're barely upper middle class or be able to afford a house in San Francisco. If we assume this distribution obey a power-law, there are a small percentage of individuals here there who are ultra ultra wealthy to have that influence.

There are ideological reasons to renounce citizenship, and maybe having a small amount of wealth enables to pursue this option as it involves legal fees and also affordance of living off investment income. There are likely many poor people who would like to leave to, but don't have the financial means to. The data set will be biased towards those who can afford the process.

Furthermore, renouncement of citizenship involves exit taxes, on which people have already paid taxes.

> The best thing to do is forbid them re-entry into the country

On what legal grounds? They can't enter on a tourist visa? To visit a dying friend or family member one last time?

> nor to hold controlling interest in any company in the US.

Then we should stop all foreign investments and investors.
unfortunately the CCP has proven to us that we can't trust their word. Over and over again

Blaming others, deflection, and dishonesty is a common tactic used by every nation.

Remember when the blackout in 2003 was caused by Canada?

"Canadian officials insisted a massive blackout Thursday across the Northeast and parts of Canada originated in the United States, though U.S. power workers denied that and American officials blamed Canada."

Remember how the 9/11 terrorists also came from Canada? Canada doesn't control entry to the US, and they never came via Canada at all but this was often quoted in the media, as a deflection.

"Not one 9/11 terrorist entered the United States via Canada"
They're not leaving, they're just giving up their civic rights (and duties).
For the doubters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_home...

>In January 2021, Attorney General of New York Letitia James released a report finding that Governor Andrew Cuomo had understated the toll of COVID-19-related deaths in state nursing homes by as much as 50 percent. The scandal was made public on February 11, 2021, when the New York Post reported that Melissa DeRosa, a secretary and aide to Cuomo, privately apologized to lawmakers for the administration withholding the nursing-home death toll in fear then-President Donald Trump would "turn this into a giant political football".

>U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme of the Eastern District of New York and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have launched an investigation into New York state's handling of nursing home deaths.
I always recommend this book when people ask me about learning statistics and ML.
They could impose a citizenship "exit tax", if you are worth more than X amount of dollars, I reckon.
It's also very common in the US to hyphenate family names when two people get married. e.g.: John Appleseed-McIntosh
Yes, the concept of "carving nature at its joints" seems apt. As does the quote "everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler". The ability to distinguish between essential complexity and accidental complexity.
NY’s Governor has quite a bit of power even if the Assembly and Senate refuse to work with him.

Right now, a majority of the Assembly has come out in favor of an impeachment trial. We will see over the next few days if that threat is enough to push him out. I suspect it won’t be.
Basically, it is the same reasoning. But it does not have to be force sterilisation.

You can say that any one that is not breathing through a mask is exercising their freedom to spread diseases, and so everyone should wear a mask all the time..

Basically, the point is there is a line where your right to be safe and the right of the rest of the world to exist in freedom is in balance. And arguments like the one that is being made is pushing that line to reduce the latter, and if we are not careful, the latter will be reasoned out, in the name of increasing the "protection" of the 0.01% of people from 95.02 to 95.03% (Just made up numbers to illustrate the point).

And it is not hard to imagine who benefits from it.

May be we need a "Citizen freedom index" for every country so that we will know when we are draining it.

Because if it is hard to improve what that cannot be measured, its hard to know when you are draining it as well..
Some to Singapore https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmitchell/2012/05/11/faceb...
"EDIT: I was lying."
An Alt Decision Tree
Yes. Definitely. Absolute staggering majority of people writing books don't sell even one copy. And my bet is - they know what are the chances.

EDIT1:

More than that. People don't live of royalties. Publishers do. Can people create without being paid upfront by publishers? Obviously yes. They can be paid upfront in kickstarter-like arrangement. They can be paid via donations later. They can even be paid via "retroactive funding of public goods" [0]. Or they can be never paid - just as they are today.

[0] - https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/retroactive-public-good...

EDIT2:

Also, imagine how much good could come of long-standing IP properties owned by Disney if not for them sitting on it. Vide disaster that is current management of Star Wars.
According to the Bible, nowhere good.
It's probably pointless to discuss this with someone who insists on generalizing anyone above a certain net worth as being selfish, but -

As it turns out, it's no longer the 80s, and there are increasingly multiple other countries were the super-rich can move their activities, wealth and lifestyle to without missing a beat.

Hanging around financial circles, I've seen a large exodus of people through the pandemic star the process of moving pieces towards places like Dubai and Singapore.
Can I get ‘long Covid’ if I’m infected after vaccination?
not sure where I equated standards with W3C standards.
The UAE sees a lot of wealthy expats from various countries move in.
Absolutely not, it’s a fantastical fiction. Completely made up for entertainment purposes.
Even if a "malicious" intent were relevant to the production or distribution of deepnudes being considered a crime (which I am convinced is not a crime under any circumstances), judges and lawmakers have historically shied away from arguments of intent in the past under the argument that it's too difficult and time consuming. Present laws regarding "revenge" porn , for example, are assessed under strict liability and don't require any proof of any actual revenge plot being involved. There was a case in Illinois [1] in which the defendant was trying to prove her ex-boyfriend's infidelity by distributing photos he had carelessly synchronized to her iCloud account. In doing so she was tried with distribution of non-consensual pornography without any consideration for intent. Her legal team appealed on 1st amendement grounds where the Illinois law did not apply strict scrutiny standard required for rulings that curtail free speech on the supposed basis of serving a compelling government interest. The appeals were eventually filed all the way to the Supreme Court but the case was not taken up.

If a deepnude ban were to happen, I don't expect the arguments and legal standards under which such a ban is judged to be any different. That's what I find troubling.

[1]https://www.cato.org/legal-briefs/austin-v-illinois
The first digital phones ran on 56 bit (symmetric?) encryption. They certainty weren't powerful enough to run public key cryptography at safe key sizes, which is needed for secure e2e.
You should read the rest of the linked Twitter thread, because the issue is that if the hash algorithm has a collision vulnerability, any image could be manipulated to show up as "child porn" to the scanner.
New Zealand it seems. An island country of 5 million with some of the most expensive real estate and highest suicide rates of the developed world.
Cuomo was elected by public vote.

Governor positions aren’t placed via connections or corruption or family power. The citizens have to vote them in.

These most recent issues weren’t known prior to the last election cycle. Given these recent revelations I don’t see the voters going for him again, if he were to run at all.
EDIT: I posted this and then realised it doesn't answer your question. To be more in line with what you asked... I am not aware of any companies that have no meetings. I have been looking at job boards recently and have not seen that as a selling point in any company.

Meetings are not inherently bad. For example, if I want to talk through some technical architecture diagram with you I will ask when you're free and schedule a meeting. That is a potentially useful meeting and a good way to share information.

Bad meetings are normally have some of the following characteristics:

* Too many attendees

* Only a subset of attendees do the talking

* No agenda

* Reoccurring

* Serve the purpose for one person rather than the group

* Are for planning about planning

* Are too high level - not getting into details
Soo, could a senior engineer that's lived here since he was three and pays absurd amount of taxes every year get a green card yet???
Yes that is around the time we implemented sentiment analysis into our trading systems.

I remember the firehose and $<Ticker> symbols, good times. Though it didn't last. If I remember correctly it lost its predictive value around 2014.

Bloomberg came out with a sentiment product right around then and nlp libraries got good enough that anyone could do it in under a month of work, heck now you see weekend projects almost daily on reddit of people who are still trying to do sentiment analysis on twitter, mostly for crypto to trade off of.

There was a time a few years ago when you could use the Robinhood hot list to trade from, well technically you'd trade against it as what was hot on Robinhood inevitably crashed as those types of trades have no conviction or fortitude to hold and they're always pulling money to put it into the next shiny thing, ex GME of course, that one seems to have sticking power!!
Will they have to update their EULA or something before they have it communicate to their servers? I hate everything about this and would like to know when it actually happens. So far it's just a rumor.
Yes, the way they describe it with "time traveling" is especially confusing. I still don't understand exactly what their claim is or what they intend on selling.
> and it is still not enough

It never will be.

I don’t think you can psychologically become a billionaire if you have the mindset that permits leaving a penny on the table.
Where are you now? What do taxes cost you?
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about who is giving up citizenship here. Obviously there are some high profile people who are still highly involved with the US, but I'd imagine a lot of folks doing this are those who don't live in America and don't want to deal with the hassle and cost of filing US tax returns every year when they earn no money in the US.
If they were honest about being upset by past atrocities by past rulers of Tibet, then surely he’d be upset when mentioning Mao. I’m certain Mao in absolute numbers was responsible for vastly more deaths of his own people.
Wow, that escalated quickly: from buying a dog to locking him or her in a basement and beating him or her to death over weeks...

Can I think that one of those things is permissible, but not the others, or do they necessarily come in a package?

And I don't understand what you mean that if animals are considered property "anyone can abuse the shit out of an animal with no repercussions". There are laws against this in many places around the world -animal cruelty laws. In most jurisdictions where there are laws against animal cruelty, laws also consider animals as property, so it's clear that both can work together.

> You are perhaps misunderstanding what animal welfare advocates are up to.

I don't. It's the animal rights advocates that are confused about what is meant by "rights". Animals have no concept of rights, theirs or others, so it's only humans that can choose what animal rights laws should exist. But those are not really animal rights, they're human rights: rights that humans have, or don't have, to behave towards animals in certain ways. For example, I have no right to abuse an animal (and that's as it should be) but that is not a right that an animal has, it's a right that I don't (as I shouldn't).

Rights only make sense as laws of human socieities, but how are animals part of human societies? How can they participate in human societies, if they can't own property, vote, work to support themselves, etc? The absurdity that is obvious in granting animals such rights, that they can't even understand, let alone benefit from, makes it clear why the entire idea of "animal rights" is absurd.

Legislation to protect animals is welcome and much more of its kind is needed, but "rights"? That's "nonsense on stilts".
In my experience they are far from brainless, but the how much brainy they are and how much they show their capabilities varies a lot.

I have had extremely smart and extremely dumb cats in my life, single example here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13272071

but that did not affect in any way their hunting/killing capabilities, that part is something that is independent.
“Off the back” sounds like the wealthy took advantage of folks when, in fact, they entered voluntary contracts in a win-win scenario. Creating a company is not exploitative but rather collaborative and mutually beneficial (with workers).
Ah, yes, those greedy populist governments. They set up and facilitate extreme winner-take-all systems on the promise that they are better for everyone. How dare they ask the winners to make good on the "better for everyone" part! Such greed.
The "concise and clear" style of writing that's prevalent in the Anglophile world isn't nearly as popular in other cultures. In primary school in post-communist Bulgaria, we were given bonus points for constructing compound sentences with 3 or 4 clauses, for using different words for referring to the same entity (rich vocabulary, supposedly). Repeating the same noun in a consequent sentence was a big no-no. Writing in a "concise" way made you look "simple" to the teacher, and complex sentences made a good impression even when the content is factually or semantically unsound.
Perhaps a tax could be introduced for those who renounce their citizenship and which could work somewhat like the estate tax. Meaning it would only affect people who have considerable wealth.
Buy a domain from a registrar. Then either stand it up at home if your ISP is willing to lease you a static public IP or pay for hosting with a hosting provider. Which email server to use is a conversation all to itself.
> But who will formulate these laws that are supposed to give people freedom

I'd bet that most people in HN live in democracies.

> Who will put pressure on governments to formulate just laws if people are so hopelessly misinformed and cannot possibly take the time to understand the issue of being parted with their freedom?

You don't need to know biochemistry and medicine to know that you don't want carcinogenic elements in your food, right? In the same sense, you don't need to know how to check that a channel is private and secure in order to push for regulations that make your communication channels secure.

>It is that they should inform themselves once in order to understand the issue and be able to ensure their governments are not secretly becoming totalitarian states.

Which is exactly the same thing I'm proposing: push for regulations that align with their interests.
Suburbs of surveillance
This is fantastic, but where is the dynamite stick? I really need it. That was all I remember anyone doing. Maybe I forget where its located in the toolbar.
Pretty sure it is the original "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About x"

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
There's no reason to stop it. Their assets are still paying taxes.
Pretty crazy with people like Eric Schmitt applying for Cyrus citizenship. The guy is worth $20+ billion. You'd think at that point you hate tax like the rest of us but recognise it makes zero difference to your own quality of life and this is what funds great nations.

US and other countries need to come down hard on wealth movement in general. Biden's global tax minimums are a good start but government will need to start limiting physical, financial and business access bloc nations to make this effective.