skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, so what's the solution? What are you doing to fix it? Do you roll your own silicon? Do you grow your own food (we have no idea what someone could be putting in it)? Are you completely off-grid? Or are you as completely dependent on society writ large as everyone else?

Making holier than thou comments about everyone else being sheep isn't helpful or thought provoking. Offer an alternative if it is a bad one (looking at you Mastodon). So here's mine: we need to change the power of digital advertising. Most of the most rent seeking companies generate revenue primarily selling ads to get more people to buy more crap. I want a VAT on all revenue passing through the digital advertising pipeline. My hope is that if these things are less profitable, it will reduce the over-sized impact these companies (social, infotainment [there is no news anymore], search, etc.) have on our economy and life. People are addicted to to fomo and outrage (faux?), I don't that that will ever change but we can try to make it less profitable.
It doesn't help that people are not only discouraged from asking questions (the whole premise of science), but are dubbed labels and ostracized when they have genuine concerns. This, in the face of evidence of actual side effects like myocarditis and other effects, doesn't help the cause at all.
Why? VPN is a thing you know?
By most western standards my family teeters on the line between middle and upper middle clas.

We sold all of our US property last year; and now we are shopping for 4-6 unit buildings within 100km of Barcelona to get our Golden Visas. Our goal is to get citizenship and access to the EU then renouncing my US citizenship.

It isnt about money, I am juwt ashamed to have an American passport and know my tax dollars are being spent on war and murder in the name of christ and oil profits.

I was born an American and would prefer not to die that way.
When we first started working on Beam.gg, it was clear that online communities are essential to brands in the modern day. As we studied on how to improve the formula of discussion forums, Gamification felt like a natural evolution of it, and the team is very confident that it is the "X factor" of engagement, and our product's strongest point.

I have learned a lot since working on it, and as the designer behind it it's exciting to see how people will interact with our app! Please let me know if you have any feedback, I would love to hear about your experience with Beam.gg!
I think the article said she’s 10kg but it didn’t say the size of the former alpha male. I wish they had mentioned the size difference for comparison, that’s interesting!
NPR covers a lot of ground. OP picked 7 articles across several days; I think it says a lot more about that selection bias than NPR’s.
They would not be EU citizens. The taxes are even higher. The article is around specifically renouncing American citizenships. Also, dual-citizenship is useless. If you are, say, in Russia, and you have your Russian passport on you, the American consulate won't lift a finger - your ass is wholly Moscow's.
I've been working almost nonstop (including many nights and weekends) for over a decade, became a skilled software developer, built some popular open source projects but I got to a point in my career where it started to feel like my employers were turning against me instead of trying to help me. I had to quit companies on several occasions to try to progress. Managers were witholding promotions and suppressing my career development and instead were promoting people who had no interest in software development and with less experience. I always told everyone about my ambitions.

Some of my colleagues at my last company suggested that my bosses may have been jealous of my open source success. But somehow it feels like every boss I've had over the past 6 years have been like this.

I often tried to raise funding from investors and Venture Capitalists. I must have applied to hundreds of different angel investors and firms over the past decade. I even attended events which I knew some specific investors would attend and managed to secure a coffee with some big investors. I'm a developer so networking is not natural to me but I pushed myself hard anyway.

In spite of having built one of the most popular open source projects in my country, I could not even secure a seed round from any investor. On the other hand, I've watched people I knew who were running projects with almost no traction at all raise over 1 million dollars. Everyone I know talks about it as if it's easy.

Everyone around me seems to be getting opportunities without trying and without any track record. On the oher hand I always seem to get overlooked for no apparent reason. It happens over and over. Feels like the world is against me.

My ex-colleagues even told me that my ex-boss (CTO) said that he regrets me leaving the company... I had made some significant contributions. I even saw a screenshot of a message that the CTO sent which paints me in a very positive light. Yet when I try to reach out to him to do some kind of partnership or sponsorship, I get no response. It's downright weird actually.

The only time I ever raised any money (or benefited from any exit) was a $10k donation from a member of one of my cryptocurrency communities. I guess they must have taken pity on my situation. I don't even care though. Nowadays, I will take anything I can get, by whatever means or social mechanism.
> I've never said anything different. I'm not sure what victory you think you've won.

You just said so in this thread:

“ > A virus doesn't just enter your body, and quietly go away.

Some do not. This one does.”

No qualifications just absolute dismissal of all long term symptoms.

> Until I see some serious, well-controlled, high-quality data that shows me there’s an unprecedented risk for a lot of people

Sure, because the only evidence you can infer is that which you already agree with. Raising the bar arbitrarily isn’t science it’s a logical fallacy.

However, the exact data you’re asking for is quite simply hospitalization rates. Severe cases of covid include the normal risks of severe viral infections, but it causes severe infections at significantly higher rates thus it also causes those normal complications at much higher rates. Along with it’s own unusual risks from blood clots causing all the things blood clots cause.
This article is about wealthy people. We all know they are paying relatively no taxes or doing their best to.

Yes, Americans who moved to Europe and are happily making a living there are also giving up US citizenship but end up paying taxes in 2 places or deal with a lot of hassle they’d rather not
Not if the wealthy campaigned to keep the minimum wage below a living wage for the sake of a higher profit, while also subsidizing the welfare system so the taxpayers pick up the bill instead of the company owners.

Creating a company _should_ be collaborative, but our current capitalist system has actually become more exploitative.
It's hard to rely on family when you're not even allowed to contact your family because the people holding you don't believe you are who you are.

No matter the fact that he did suffer from mental problems, denying his story and refusing to verify it has made the situation, and probably his mental problems, far worse than they could have been.
I dont know, they ran an affiliate program awarding Roadsters. This alone materialized a huge liability in their books. Electrek scored two of those, no wonder they are super pro tesla :) https://electrek.co/2019/01/17/tesla-roadster-free-killed-re...
"Don't let your cats out" people are too citified for me to imagine.

I'd have to walk a half mile to get a neighbor in rifle range; we need outdoor catS, plural, to keep the rodent population dented around the house. It doesn't "keep mice out" to have 3 cats around, but it noticeably reduces their numbers and comfort level when they come after the sacks of feed.

We're down to one cat this summer, and she's aged past much hunting but is too dignified and settled for us to upset her with new kittens.
Nick Clegg was once the deputy prime minister of Great Britain. The two hires are in no way comparable.
> Is the M1 keyboard significantly better than MBP (with the touchbar)?

Yes. It's slightly deeper, much more resistant to dust and one can write with very low effort, but with crisp feedback. It allows me to write at least 10% faster with no effort. I similarly use an old Microsoft Sculpt Comfort at office and Logitech G710+ at home.

Good keyboard is something hard to find.
Maybe I'm old too.. I would of said 14 big ones = $1.4k (a big one being a one hundred dollar bill).
This is classic libertarian thinking, and I used to subscribe to it, at least to some extent. The more you think about it, though, the more it doesn't hold up.

It's just undeniably true that individual freedoms exist only to the extent that society allows them to. To think that you can opt out of society is fantasy.

It's in everybody's best interest to make sure society works well for everyone, and that kind of thinking pushes you back to the political center.
I'm surprised more HN readers don't view citizenship as a subscription tier. Non citizens can work in the US but it's harder to do the paperwork.

What's wrong with comparing benefits between service providers? Yes the US will try to save you if you get kidnapped by extremists, but they won't go out of their way to get you vaccinated against covid unlike the Chinese government who sent sinovac supplies abroad to vaccinate their citizens.
How many of those never even lived in the U.S. but where born there and left as babies?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/10/27/us-citizensh...
In this case it was 'only' a nurse, but if she'd made $2 million she would be on that list, right?
I was never surprised but I was disappointed about the vast chasm between how Richard Stallman got treated for a couple of offhand comments about Epstein versus how Bill Gates got treated after flying on the lolita express.

Challenging existing power structures essentially requires you to be absolutely spotlessly clean, whereas being an elite who doesnt challenge the system gives you a lot more leeway not only to misbehave but also to be given the benefit of the doubt when it's unclear if you did. Epstein clearly exploited that to the max.
"If you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien, the rules for filing income, estate, and gift tax returns and paying estimated tax are generally the same whether you are in the United States or abroad. Your worldwide income is subject to U.S. income tax, regardless of where you reside." - per the IRS (https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/taxp...)
What exactly does "spend time" mean in this context? Just chatting and having a drink together?
Of course they are. When the dominant narrative is that America is a racist hellscape, built on oppression and plunder then things like patriotism and civic spirit seem absurd, quaint notions, ripe for ridicule.
Who cares about "typical person"?
With all the uncertainty and challenges brought by the pandemic, I truly believe that community is more important now than ever. We rely on those around us for solidarity, support, information, and empathy. And now thanks to technology, we can maintain and grow the bonds of community among us even while we’re physically apart.
These political hires remind me why I always question the "former" in "former CIA". Just like Lever seems to have carried loyalty to and willingness to work on behalf of her former boss into her new job, a lot of these "former CIA" types seem to do a lot of things that are beneficial to theirs.
Depends on the application. Plenty of SoCs in IoT/WiFi access point applications with no video out.
> The best thing to do is forbid them re-entry into the country nor to hold controlling interest in any company in the US.

Do we forbid foreigners from holding US stocks, assets, etc?

Who do you think is financing the profligate lifestyle we live, compared to our true earnings?
Well, it happened to all of us for months for the past several months: in many places, people were prevented from "living their normal lives": in San Francisco, you could no longer get your hair cut, go to a restaurant, or worse, have family or friends over etc. Now, we are saying instead of imposing such restrictions on everyone, we are giving the opportunity of those willing to vaccinate to get back to some of these things. Why is it a problem to keep some restrictions for the unvaccinated that we've had for all for months? Unless you think there should never have been restrictions, but then how would you propose to handle all the folks that would have come knock on the doors of hospitals and clamor for oxygen, like what apparently happened in India?
Importantly, it runs iOS games, which has otherwise been a weak point in the macos ecosystem.
Im going to be denied healthcare unless I submit to US Gov tyranny. My doctor said that because I've already had cv19 and he said my inate immunity is a more robust immune response than the vx antibody. Medical tyranny is here.
These are the same people who fund and profit from outfits that keep telling some of us that maybe we should be more patriotic.
By that time was Epstein not already engaging in the abuse? If so then it’s not doing anyone any favours to associate with Epstein for any reason.
did you also key his car, shit in his yard, and kill all the birds and squirrels?
If he’s apologizing, he knows he did more than “spend time” with Epstein. Epstein had already done jail time for sex trafficking by then and he was well known in wealthy circles as the guy who could get you young girls. There is no way Bill Gates didn’t fuck a child.
The wealthy in America cover the bulk of the tax revenue collected if the IRS stats are to be trusted.
I stand to make a life changing amount of money through an impending future liquidity event. I cannot understand people who do this.

Throwing away US citizenship for mere extra dollars in ones bank account… What is the state of your life? Have you no family or community? Are you really willing to uproot yourself and your entire lifestyle for mere wealth?

The HN libertarians love to comment on articles like this and point fingers at progressives like they are ruining the US. As someone who would actually feel a significant impact from this, I can tell you I cannot relate to that position at all. Even should there be a wealth tax, or whatever, it would take Jan 6 levels of violent upheaval on the regular before id ever consider giving away my citizenship.

Maybe the minuscule number of people who do this don’t have all that much to tell us—except that avarice knows no limits?
These are people with a few million in assets. Enough to retire comfortably. These are not the "Power Elite". At least, there is no evidence that these people are "Ultra-Wealthy", only that they have reached a certain threshold that the US Govt keeps track of them. And it's peaked at around 7,000 persons per year. Hardly a tidal wave of capital flight.

Have you considered that this story was titled in such a way to elicit an emotional response?
Not only multiple times, but AFTER Epstein's first charge of sex crimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
Architecting and developing a product like Beam has been challenging and fun at the same time. The team is passionate about our goals and is working hard to make all the visions a reality.

As a developer, my experience in building a multi-tenant SaaS community platform like Beam has been incredible. we'd love to hear from everyone about the product and are always open to new ideas to improve.
Fucking 13-year-olds more than likely.
The things described by the victims were indeed perfectly relatable for anyone who ever watched one of his press briefings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK_kB-JJMKo
I believe the US already has an "exit tax" where you're taxed on unrealized capital gains when you give up citizenship, similar to how you'd be taxed if you realized the gains by selling.
> how could the US government stop this from happening?

By taxing based on residency, not citizenship, like pretty much all other countries on Earth.

People have the right to lower their tax liability within the law, they have the right to move, and they have the right to renounce citizenship (if they have another one). We're not going to prevent any of that from happening. The only thing the US can do is to remove the incentive to renounce citizenship if they think that this is a problem.
>> professional lobbyists and consulting firms

Those cost and are not very effective. Lobbyists create paper trails and must follow rules. A more efficient strategy is to hire the friends and family members of influential people.
It is certain. Even if the vaccines always led to sterilizing immunity (they don't) and immunity lasted forever (it doesn't), we're not reaching sufficient fractions of vaccinated people literally anywhere in the world for the virus to go extinct locally - the newest variants are just that contagious.

And even if that was possible in some first world countries, that wouldn't be sufficient, it would simply be re-imported sooner or later. So there's really no way it's going away.

This is now an endemic human virus and, vaccinated or not, you'll be exposed to it many times over the rest of your lifetime. Barring some technological breakthrough in vaccine development and a big shift in people's attitudes towards them, it's with us forever.

You also don't have to take my word for it, this is an uncontroversial view amongst infectious disease epidemiologists.
Oh, bullpucky. This bully-cum-whiner isn't being censored; he's just not pulling in the money he expected. Google isn't blocking his column from being read, they're just not furnishing it with ads for the Daily Mail to monetize it.

Sure, that may be a breach of contract or something -- feels quite possible to me, so go ahead and sue them! -- but that's a matter of civil justice between two corporations, not "a threat to free speech!".

Sometimes Piers Morgan is a bully, sometimes he's a pathetic little whiner, sometimes he's a bit of both. Seems this is a case of the last: Google felt his previous column was bullying, so for this one they gave him something to whine about. News at 11.
My desktop system is a 24-core Zen 2. The M1 shouldn't be faster, and I'm certain the difference is almost purely a matter of software, but in reality the M1 certainly feels a lot faster.

Yes, the desktop has higher throughput. Of course it does. But that doesn't mean I don't feel a fraction of a second's lag whenever I do basically anything, and on the M1 that just... doesn't exist.
Always a pleasure working with you!
Ahh, I see, maybe you're right, I don't know.
No one's moving the Europe for the lower taxes.
Twitter Bot on AWS Serverless
I just ordered a copy. Very excited to read. I have bern dying to get more insights of that era, your work and everything that‘s evolved from that. I will be back after I read it. Congratulations for publishing.
Wow. Eric Schmidt, Cyrpruscian. Cypricite? Cyprosii?

The real question here is what the context and amounts of money involved are. % figures in small numbers are useless, a few billion dollars means nothing to America. It isn't even clear to me that this is evidence the "people will stay, even if taxes rise!" crowd have to admit a mistake.

And the US has declared a War Against American Citizens Investing in Foreign Countries. The restrictions Americans face on opening a foreign bank account are quite stunning from what rumours I've heard.
I don't think that follows.

It is deeply immoral to do what this person did. I'm not sure of the specifics but I suspect it might also be illegal. (however thats a guess, don't put weight on that)

From a shareholder point of view, one doesn't want to have a person who will do something so down right nasty to protect the person they are serving.
It's odd to me that Epstein's value to Gates could be "connections". He's one of the richest and most famous people on the planet, what trouble would he have making connections to anyone he wants who would be interested in global health?
Newcomb's Paradox
A browser is to 99% a canvas for other software to draw on, and neither Safari, nor Edge, nor Chrome are investing terribly much into constant UX changes, so where does Mozilla's perceived "need" for UX changes come from?
Energy is the finite resource.

Then Time.

Then way down is money.

For most things people don’t have the energy to continue.
Apparently a lot of these were brought over during the victorian period from America, so they’re the same species as the redwoods in california.
Big confounding variable: talking about money is taboo, so if you’re willing to discuss it you’re probably have an already close relationship with the person whose invitation you’re declining.
Consider two scenarios:

a) Undeveloped land is freely available, and anyone who wants to can go and cultivate it independently from anyone else, making a life entirely for themselves.

b) All land is already owned, and making a living must be achieved by exchanging (typically labour) with others.

Do you believe that people starting without capital in scenario b) will enter into contracts as freely as those starting without capital in scenario a)?
I never understood what the icon under the paintbrush was. A manilla folder with a rock suspended on a string? A boat with an outboard motor? A Cylon duck? What am I looking at?
> how Richard Stallman got treated for a couple of offhand comments

That's quite misleading. Richard Stallman was criticised for a repeated pattern of behaviour. Allegedly, according to many witnesses, he harassed and coerced women for decades.
Interesting facts about renouncing American citizenship:

- There is renunciation fee that has to be paid and currently stands at $2,350 (the highest in the world).[1]

- A final tax return will sill need to be filed. [1]

- An Expatriation tax is payable if [..] Your net worth is $2 million or more on the date of your expatriation. you will be treated as having disposed of your assets the day before your expatriation and will be subject to capital gains tax.

- The highest capital gains tax bracket in the USA is 20% [2]

Now there will be ways this is avoided but it would seem that the IRS is trying very hard make this process unappealing

[1] https://www.expatnetwork.com/how-to-renounce-us-citizenship-...

[2] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/capital-gains-tax-r...
The onus is on the person making the claim to provide the evidence. Forming a company (that doesn't work in immoral areas) is a perfectly ethical and legal way of making money.

UBI is not the only solution. Islamic countries have for over 1400 years had the Zakat system, which provides for the poor and needy.
Wouldn't this create loopholes? A US citizen could leave the US to make foreign investments, then come back to the US and be exempt on taxes on this foreign investments while enjoying the benefits of being in the US and not paying their share of taxes.
Here's what the posted article had to say.

> The RSPB says there is “no clear scientific evidence” that cats are causing bird populations to decline, but there is a perception among some British bird-lovers that cats are a menace and should be kept indoors. (In countries where cats are not a native species, such as Australia and New Zealand, they can have a devastating impact on wildlife.)

> “I do feel that cats are an easy target,” says Bradshaw. “Skyscrapers kill more birds than cats do. But you don’t see people standing outside the factories where glass is made, saying: ‘You’re bird-killers.’”
As the article mentions, the USA and Eritrea tax based on citizenship, not residence.
Spanish tax and legal system is a nightmare. Have you looked at Portugal?
I think are underestimating in general how much work it is. ReactOS has been developed for 23 years and is not in a useable state yet.
DiBlasio is leaving. The primary already completed..Eric Adams will become mayor.