skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying tax is and will always be optional for the rich. Crypto offers the middle class a chance to evade taxes as well, so lawmakers are of course far more adversarial to it than they are to the methods used by themselves and their corporate friends.

One cold hard look at https://usdebtclock.org/ is enough to convince me that paying taxes to the US government is not a moral imperative. Every penny I pay is going towards paying off a massive ever-expanding black hole of debt that is mathematically impossible to ever pay off, the government is going to spend the same amount regardless of the revenue it collects since the Fed just prints it all anyways. So what's the point in "paying your fair share" in such a system? You'd be a fool not to evade as much as you possibly can.
Buying Chinese goods isn't actively hurting the US... it's helping by providing Americans with cheaper goods.
My take would be, if my employer requires some kind of credential on a mobile device in order for me to be able to work, they can provide me with the mobile device (which I will use only and exclusively for work purposes).
> Japan is still one of the safest and politically the stablest places to live on this godforsaken planet.

Unfortunately, racism in Japan is rampant.

If racism wasn't a problem, then immigration wouldn't be seen as a problem either.

The real problem will be: when the rest of the "undeveloped world" becomes developed, and the need to migrate is relieved. Then we're ALL "Japan" economies. Oh wait, I don't see a problem with that.
You've got it the wrong way around: usually companies have decided for whatever classist reasons that they have some kind of maximum raise per year. This ensures that after a few years people who are actually getting better at their jobs are falling quickly far below market rate for their level of experience. So, those that feel like they can move on, since it is the only possibility for increasing their pay meaningfully.

This is not specific to engineering positions, it is a pretty common fixed policy in many industries.
Apple ranks as most profitable company
NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]
The usage by Cubans is completely dwarfed by the one by Nigerians. The population size can probably explain it partly, but I don't think it's sufficient.

But most people depend on platforms to use BTC, so it's the same problem as with PayPal.

Also when I say PayPal, think "all PayPal-like services", including all the competitors.

In the cases where users were banned, PayPal did not prevent them from migrating their funds to others forms, so it's not really freezing.

Let's take China instead of Cuba because there are more data. In January 2021, Nigeria made 32% of BTC exchanges, whereas China only 7%. That shows you there is really some effect independent from the population size and from the nature of the political regime.
> Dismissing policy work for its complicity is a oft used trope.

Dismissing various forms of activism because “the law already handles that” is also a popular response, and the “law is code” meme reinforces it. As it does the misreading of laws that are superficially symmetric but don't apply in contexts of symmetric incentives, e.g., the DMCA safe harbors notice and counternotice provisions.

> What org is immune to proxy fights thru code, rules, budgets?

None.

But machines running code are, hence one of the major problems of the “law is code” metaphor.
Why on earth is this getting downvotes? You answered my question perfectly.
Anecdotally, all the devs I personally know who hopped around like this did so because promotions/compensation were stalled out at their current job. Almost all of them would have stuck around if offered competitive titles and compensation, but they were often being paid 25-50% less than they would be as a newhire at the same company.
Players already have to report substantial real gains on sales of game assets. If you’ve been doing this and not reporting income, especially if it’s beyond trivial sums (eg like 5 figures or so), talk with your accountant ASAP.

Beyond that, it depends, but the answer definitely isn’t “no”. That’s true even today, btw: game companies can’t knowingly allow money laundering through their in game currency, for example, and gambling laws almost always apply if you can cash out and the game contains any type of chance component (eg loot boxes).

Basically, if your game is setup in a way that could be trivially used for transferring real world assets between players, even existing regulations probably already apply. This is one of many reasons most games only support one way transactions — you can move money into the game but not back out (at least without breaking tos)

“X but in a video game” is almost always actually really X when it comes to money and other assets that can flow into and out of the game easily. A VR Wells Fargo branch is still a bank.
Words coming from an spoiled child who knows nothing about real tyranny. Take a look at other countries where people are truly oppressed.
It's pretty much the present background tale to the UFO/UAP scenarios:

That every mythology, magical treatise, and religious, occult, or otherwise spiritual experience, UFO experience, etc, are all aspects of reality tuned to the capabilities of our perceptions.

The running theory being that they're all the same thing, but rather incorporeal—based on yet-unknown physical principles involving consciousness or the larger reality we reside in and either manifesting from our own consciousness or another consciousness outside of material reality.

Of course, such a theory—while fantastical and exciting—is a pretty clever catch-all.

Catch up on any modern UFO reading and that's where it all points. And probably fairly, given the kinds of endeavours various defence agencies and their investigations. I think it also follows Jacques Vallée's theories, but I haven't actually read any of his books or papers. I'm intrigued, but not enough to wade too deeply.

There are blog posts and online-forum-wiz expoundings galore.
Exception handlers are continuations.
REE Technology GmbH is hiring 2 full time security engineers in Berlin, Germany (with remote working felxibility)

REE is a startup working on a driverless mobility service.

Here are the links to the jobs:

https://ree.technology/#job-727538

https://ree.technology/#job-725626
> What if the votes of each age group were weighted

Because the principle of "one person, one vote" is widely (and correctly IMO) accepted.
X.ai scheduling tool will be sunset
We have no good leadership coming to right this ship.

Biden is a bust and next time around we either get Trump or Kamala...I don't think any sane person would feel confident in either of them. The elite in this country caused this mess with China and they will end up finishing us off thanks to their election games.

Maybe leadership at the top doesn't matter. There is the rest of the government, a huge organization of mostly unelected life term bureaucrats many of whom have probably seen the last cold war. They may end up saving us or China stumbles massively and their disadvantages(aging population, badly built infrastructure) bite them enough for us to survive.
I love my kids, it’s everyone else’s I can’t stand. :)
I understand japan isn't as exciting as it used to be, but they still have a pretty dynamic and influential popular culture. I understand their working population is declining relative to retirees, but eventually those old people will start to die. Anyway, its not as if this will be some sort of old people zombie apocalypse.
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> More than one person is responsible for the illegal culture

Firing them sends a better message than resigning. But if the culture is illegal then they should be charged as such. Otherwise this same problem will continue to fester elsewhere.
Ask HN: What do you want your ISP to do better?
Hi HN!

I’m a software engineer at a startup ISP. I have some ideas on what ISPs could be doing better in 2021, but I’m seeking more input from the HN community.

A couple of caveats:

- Better customer service is a given. We know ISP customer service sucks, and we’re working on that. (Feel free to share horror stories, though :)

- Speed, price, and reliability are a given. These are basically our number one priorities already.

Here are a couple things I’ve already been thinking about. Feel free to expand on them, disagree with them, or share something completely different!

- What does a more hackable ISP look like? There are obvious things like providing an API to change your Wifi SSID/password, monitor throughput, etc. What else could be made hackable?

- What does a more private ISP look like? A solid privacy policy guaranteeing that traffic isn’t spied on and data isn’t sold would be a good start, but are there more tangible ways to increase privacy? What if we ran Tor nodes on our edge so you could connect to one without traversing the internet? What else could be done?

- What does a more automated ISP look like? What techniques can be used to achieve a massive scale?

So HN: what do you want your ISP to do better?
Apple does not allow apps raw access to the NFC controller, so yes it's an annoying business decision from Apple rather than a technical limitation.
> in the F500 corporate and contracting world

Why are you stuck with this world if there's a clear ceiling?

> at best I'm going to get a salary offer of maybe $180K

If you get a $20k increase every 2 years starting from $160k by hopping jobs, that's way more than your yearly 2%. If you're in the right location, the only risk is to quit a job 2 months in because it's actually not what you expected and come back to a company you initially rejected, or start applying again. If you're a dev in your 30s you should have enough money to stay afloat for at least a few months, in which case this is not that big of a risk.

There's also a risk staying in the same company for very long: if you keep doing the same, using the same tech, you can become complacent and your skills irrelevant. At which point staying at your company is not really a choice anymore.
> A 180-foot superyacht and/or mega yacht costs a minimum of $4.75 million per year to operate and maintain. Kitty McGowan of the US Superyacht Association estimates an annual budget of $1 million for maintenance and repairs, $350,000 for dockage, $240,000 for insurance, $400,000 for fuel, and $1.4 million for the crew.

It's not hard to figure out how to hemorrhage cash. There was a movie about this - Brewster's Millions.
What if I have Android but not Google services?
Then that sounds pretty good that it's not ran in production and compiled out!

I guess my remaining alien issue is that the DSL for Vue is a mish-mash of JS, custom syntax, dom attribute context and possibly more?
Yeah, this is an Apple article, so it's silent on Android support. No college with any form of public remit would roll out a student ID system that required an apple device; it would run into all sorts of equity issues.
Believe it or not, I spent the last hour typing and re-deleting a response to your sarcastic comment that you probably casually typed in the span of 10 seconds. In the end I reduced a 1000 word paragraph into a short one, in hopes that people who share your views see this.

Reuters and AP, as news organizations, do not typically make value judgements. Any opinions stated in the article are the opinions of whoever Reuters is quoting, not of Reuters themselves. Next time, instead of posting such a reductive and frankly off-topic comment, I challenge you to find something in the article that you factually disagree with.

On whataboutism: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#China

Now to help you out a bit with an interesting factoid: In the process of putting their own interests above other countries, the USA has made many mistakes, such as aggressive farm subsidies that ended up impoverishing Mexican farmers who could not compete. So there is a kernel of truth to what you are saying - that nationalistic import/export policy was something that America engaged with in the past. You can try and engage some logical debate as to whether the trade barriers China is putting up are comparable here, but it's certainly not obvious at first glance that they are the same thing. The morality of it depends on the strategic purpose of the barriers, what agreements / social contracts were established beforehand, and such. Certainly not resolvable in an off-hand comment like "America - Good / China - Bad".
Didn't the states try that at the start of Trumps presidency?
Don't forget that the remaining 54% (points) will be exponentially harder to replace
A few posts here bring up the BBC and while it is an interesting case because they are so specifically funded by the public through a "TV License" [1], I think maybe a better comparison for this "Public Internet" should be to CSPAN.

Using the CSPAN model, a public good commons of internet services would be carved out through an offset program in Wireless Spectrum auctions and other Telecom Service Provider Licenses and renewals [2]. Maybe if they ever get around to the Big Tech Tax that could help too.

[1]

You must have a TV Licence if you: watch or record programmes on a TV, computer or other device as they're broadcast. download or watch BBC programmes on iPlayer – live, catch up or on demand.

£159 for a colour TV Licence and £53.50 for a black and white TV Licence

https://www.gov.uk/tv-licence

[2]

C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit organization funded by its cable and satellite affiliates, and it does not have advertisements on any of its networks, radio stations, or websites, nor does it solicit donations or pledges.
At least for now, you should consider a persistent overlay that explains that Esc breaks out of view mode and releases control over the mouse. Not being able to use the mouse as you usually do is very unpleasant.

I really like these fun alternatives to ordinary web sites even though the UX designer in me is having a heart attack because of the countless usability and accessability issues
Genuine question: what’s the alternative? Perhaps a web app based solution?
You are thinking of “parallel”. This is a fine usage of concurrent.
This misses the point: 'loopholes' often require sacrificing optionality. Most "X billionaire paid Y in taxes" have to do with _deferred_ taxes or charity, which can't exactly be spent on lamborghinis.

There are definitely bad tactics and real loopholes, but this isn't the main problem. The real problems are more subtle and they require trade-offs.

These problems won't be solved as long as the tax code remains as complex as it is.

Massive tax regulation is a surprisingly recent invention.[1]

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/17/roy-blunt/...

EDIT: the parent author's very strongly worded statement isn't true. I'm trying to add clarity to a vague statement, not wage an ideological battle.
This is specific to interpreters but the beginning part related to parsing and AST is common: http://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
It sounds like you're advocating for an Apple monopoly here.

I'm also laughing that you say Android isn't secure enough to handle payments. Millions of people use it to do so every day.
How does the CEO of a company making mediocre (compared to the talent the seem to have available) games have a private jet?
> It would be trivial for a driver's buddy to "carjack" them on camera and seek a payout from it.

Driver's buddy risks prison in doing so. How many friends would do that for you?
Strawman, Mr. Luddite.

I don’t want cash, a wallet, plastic cards, metal keys, or tons of slips of paper from receipts and all other kinds of bullshit.

Putting it on the phone as a native app is hardly complex. Use QR codes, an officer won’t need to look at your phone
> This is exactly what I was thinking about. If Copilot is fair use, it means that all proprietary source code, as long as they're publicly available to read, will be free to use as training materials for a hypothetical free and open source machine learning project, which I think would be a good thing. An example is a proprietary program released under a restrictive "source available" license, you can read it but not reuse it under any circumstances (and I believe these projects are already included in Copilot's training data). This is why I said fair use can be a good thing and a ruling to reduce the scope of fair use can potentially be used by proprietary software vendors against the FOSS community.

FWIW this seems to be the current interpretation of copyright laws when it comes to machine learning, at least in the US. The only questions I've really seen about the legality of Copilot is about it reproducing code and whether that reproduction is fair use or not. But few are arguing that training the model itself on any available source is violating fair use.
No deep analysis on this one. I just think it's a crazy good deal to be able to buy stock of the biggest corporations which lead humanity technological progress, have huge political influence and even at today profit levels return 3-4% per year (in reality much more as a lot of money is invested in research/new projects which are going to be profitable in the future). I think Apple/Amazon/Alphabet/MSFT etc are going make even more in the future and current price is a steal, especially considering those are highly liquid assets with 0 cost of maintenance.
The way housing supply seems to be a major driver here, has me pretty well convinced that the only way out of this, eventually, is a stable population growth. (ie. restrictions on reproduction). (Not like China - but this implies apocalyptic levels of resistance from groups that traditionally don't like people being able to choose their reproductive habits).
Yeah UTC/GMT is not intended for personal use, but try managing a SAAS product that has two user shards, US and EU, and keeping aggregated incident reports on your favorite monitoring system sane without UTC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYYh4aPXAM

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/31/out-of-co...
> In fact, I think the increased unemployment benefits during Covid proved that if people have some sort of UBI payment, they are not going to work low wage jobs (hence the labor shortage).

I don't think this is true. I am also of the opinion that UBI would decrease demand for low wage jobs, but I do not believe that the increased unemployment benefits due to COVID proves this. The increased unemployment benefits have an income cliff where they go away, so it is possible to return to work and end up making less than (or very close to) what you were making from unemployment. I certainly know a few people who would make barely any more money from returning to work compared to the unemployment benefits they receive.
No one's explaining it particularly well, so I'll try to break it down.

Let's say one company offers you $400k of equity vesting over four years. On your start date, they'll use the current price of the stock to translate that into a number of stock units (RSUs, typically), and then you'll get those stock units according to your vesting schedule. Let's say, for ease of calculation, that this $400k translates into 480 RSUs. So you'll vest 30 RSUs every quarter (let's ignore a cliff). If the price of the stock is rising, the 30 that vest in those later quarters will be worth more than the 30 that vested in your first quarter. Your last 30 units will be worth _a lot_ more than your first 30 units.

Now let's say a company offers you $100k for your first year, and promises to refresh you another $100k each year thereafter. Your first year, they give you 120 units for the $100k. But your second year, the stock price has gone up, so $100k doesn't translate into 120 units anymore; it translates into maybe 100 units, or 80 units. Your second year, the stock price has gone up even further, and $100k translates into even fewer units. Likewise your fourth year. These per-year refreshes "reset" the value back at $100k each year, when a four year refresh would "accrue" more value, year over year, if the stock keeps going up in price, which tech stocks typically do.

For a concrete example, at a former employer (GOOG) I was granted $150k of stock in 2019, vesting quarterly over four years. When I left in 2021, the value of the remaining shares of that grant was...$155k! The stock had more than doubled in price from the time of the grant, but it was still vesting according to the _original_translation from value to units. So the unvested value of _half_ the grant units were worth _more_ than the original grant, even after I'd already vested half the units.
How many engineers leave for salary as opposed to other reasons?

When I started my career after the dotcom bus, salaries were quite low. At one point, I was making less at each position after yet another layoff. Then the market improved, and I was making considerably more with each new job.

Nowadays, I still job hop, but primarily because I do not like the role I am in. Companies will over promise and then never deliver. Bad managers. Many many bad managers.
Furthermore, how many US industries and companies are compromised? Hollywood, the NBA, Blizzard, are a few that come to mind.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/10/steph...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy
> it's what it appears to be that is apparently the problem.

Yep, Someone mentioned in another part of this thread that Vue compiles most of this out before production, so my remaning confusion pretty much stems from the DSL being a mishmash of html attribute context, vue custom syntax, and evaluated JS.
So this scratches a big topic of what's wrong with WoW.

In short, WoW has transitioned to being run by people who don't play the game, don't understand people who do play the game and are targeting the game at people who don't play the game at the expense of those that do.

LFR undermines both the aspirational part of the game, which is extremely important, and the social aspect of building relationships, which is super-important and the real reason most people stick around.

Now we have 4 raid levels (LFR, Normal, Heroic, Mythic), which is too many. The differences are largely cosmetic and minor ilvl bumps. There are some unique items in higher tiers, to be clear.

Lastly, LFR is essentially an interactive cinematic. It's part of what I like to call "conveyor belt content". There's no choices to be made. The outcome is almost certain. You may as well be watching a cinematic. This probably goes well beyond LFR.