skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish it were just me misunderstanding FMLA. It's not intentionally red tape and I was being a bit hyperbolic, but the "optional" certification forms for FMLA in the hands of a lot of corporate HR drones become "required" because HR wants "CYA" despite that not being the intent of the certification forms. Maternity leave doesn't even have a direct "certification form" nor is it supposed to because it should be pretty obvious to an employer (much less the Department of Labor) to "certify" a maternity, but a lot of mothers in the US workforce get burdened by idiots in their HR departments to fill out CYA paperwork sometimes in the hospital with an implied threat that their job is on the line if they don't. Despite that not being how FMLA works or is intended to work. I don't know why so many companies seem to misunderstand some of these basic facts about FMLA, I just know that forums are filled with pregnant people complaining about their HR representatives giving them paper "homework" sometimes in the worst possible moments, just to "prove" their maternity leave "because FMLA requires it". (It doesn't.)

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla/forms
I do investment stuff for a living and this was one of the single-most important things I ever learned.
Germany suspended it's wealth tax and some parties are now contemplating whether to reactivate it. Might be just pre-election noise but who knows
Your statement is contradictory - on one hand you agree that the US values Australia therefore justifying their decision for this agreement, and on the other you say Australia is independently matching itself to China - it’s not appropriate or correct to selectively choose parts of either statement because they are are in fact mutually exclusive relative to your argument.
Either Australia is a puppet of the US and therefore by postering towards China it is not an AU vs CN issues but instead a US vs CN (via AU) issue or somehow Australia has managed to convince US to give them top secret technology and have independently decided to tackle CN.
Over to you - which is it?
> But this lucid vision of circuit-like logic, which worked so elegantly in bacteria, too often fails in more complex cells. “In bacteria, single proteins regulate things,” said Angela DePace, a systems biologist at Harvard Medical School. “But in more complex organisms, you get many proteins involved in a more analog fashion.”

How does "analog" rule out "circuit".
What do you think would be good wording for a "no sales" contract?
> Basically, they contain very little, so you can pretty much understand everything .

Slackware (7) mentored me into Linux competence. RedHat was making itself more convenient at the time, but if the system got into a bad state, it was very hard for me to figure out how to correct it.

Slackware setup was more of a chore, but man did I end up an understanding of what was going on! I RTFMed because the M was fantasic. And if something did go wrong, I would usually have some ideas about where to start. That was such a valuable experience.
> Hydrogen has a much bigger hurdle: infrastructure

It has an even bigger hurdle than that: direct solar water-to-hydrogen isn't scalable (yet) and hydrogen is a petrochemical until it is.
Going behind pedestrians in a crosswalk is legal in many states. It's universal that you must yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk, but not universal that you must wait for them to clear the crosswalk.
I did not see a no right turn sign.

ed: modeless 1 hour ago

>That sign applies only to the lanes to the left of the pillars. It is legal to turn right there from the right lane. I've done it myself. Yes, it is confusing.
If you ever made the switch to C# or Java, there is plenty of work available in those and the work has been stable for a long time.
I think the issue is that the public hasn't been invited to participate in the discussion of what we want copyright law to look like in a very long time. Considering the last major change, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, was 23 years ago, and essentially written by the industry and never seriously debated in the public interest, I don't have good hopes for the future in this area.

I think the Supreme Court is going to continue to rule that neat hacks are not really going to get you out of what the law says, but also that the "content producers" are not going to be able to arbitrarily restrict a reasonable service as in the Cablevision case.

What the public really wants is a way to enable the thing they want without either exorbitant costs or heavy annoyances. We're not getting that because the system is not set up for automating micropayments or microdonations and the big operators are writing all the rules. For example, if I pay for a streaming service and listen only to one obscure band, I would expect that my monthly fee would go to them. Instead it goes to the top 100 and a tiny fraction goes to my obscure band, who really don't benefit at all from being on the service. If I had a micropayment platform, my consumption could be going to that band with a fraction going to support the platform.

In other words, record companies are killing music, and it's legal. That's what we need to fix.
Germany: Discontinued

Finland: Discontinued

Luxembourg: Discontinued

Sweden: Discontinued

France: Discontinued*

Spain: Current

Netherlands: Current

Norway: Current

Switzerland: Current

Italy: Current, but excludes assets held within the country

Belgium: Current

So 5 discontinued & 6 current? That doesn't seem like "Almost every single"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax#Current_examples

Do you have a better source for what countries had it an discontinued it? For what it's worth I am here considering Financial property exclusively, France still has it's property tax which can be considered a wealth tax.

I am struggling to find write ups that don't just echo "they all repealed it" but list the specific countries.
Seems reasonable. And to be honest, Teams is good for professional collaboration. And the MS Office suite isn't too bad. I used to be soslo founder until recently, and for that Office 365 was just perfect. No VPN, no really worries about it security. And even pricing was, I'd say, reasonable. Customer service is shit show, so.
I'm curious - what are people running on boxes like these that makes good use of 80 cores and 768 GB of RAM?
I happened to recently stumble upon a report[1] describing FTTH/B deployments in Europe. Personally I find that much more interesting/meaningful than simple Speedtest average (as others have noted its issues). I think Spains good result (87% coverage) there is fairly impressive, especially considering that it as a country has plenty of low-density regions.

For comparison, the best data I found[2] on US FTTH situation is that there are about 40M homes passed and 14M subscribers for FTTH out of 125M households, giving 32% coverage and 11% penetration.

[1] https://www.ropa.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/FTTH-Council-...

[2] https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/ftth-will-pass-60-mill...
A tiny salary, and not realizing capital gains on the stock but instead taking out margin loans using his stock as collateral.
I mean, just don't use it?
I mean do we need to sell Apple to know it’s worth money ? The existence of the stock market immediately makes it possible to convert assets into liquidity - something which firms do regularly.
Ginkgo Bioworks (YC S14) is going public today
>I live in rural Michigan ... I work remotely of course

Why? Wouldn't reliable broadband access be a primary consideration for someone working from home?
I don't disagree with this. They are indeed a form of equity.

My issue relates to how they're treated with respect to taxation by the various revenue authorities. In the UK, the tax paid on RSU's vesting is related to the personal income tax bracket the individual falls into. Which means for anyone in the UK's higher tax bracket, you end up losing ~50% of the amount vesting as tax.

If these behaved like other forms of equity, ordinary shares, preference shares for instance, they'd be taxed as capital, the gains of which would be taxed 'when you sell them' and at a much lower rate of tax - ~50% lower for a UK higher rate tax payer.

I'd rather a company just pay me a higher basic salary than award RSU's. At least then it's both pensionable and often used as a multiplier at bonus/salary raise calculation time.
Putin is the only president who spend many many months living in a bunker 24x7, hiding from the coronavirus. I rarely seen a more fearful person than Putin.
One thing Standard ML has that the others don't is a full formal specification, in terms of typing rules and operational semantics.
I think you forgot the sarcasm sign
Most important thing for me about my booster today was that I got a sticker this time. They didn't have any for my first two jabs. Yay.
I think it is fair to say that YC are not just "an accelerator", they have a massive pool of investors and advisors. I too was in an accelerator but although famous, was nowhere near as potent as YC.

Sure, there are things that you get frustrated at (like some 20 year old telling you, at 40, how to do finance, when you would rather be building) but it sounds like the biggest thing is the culture and being prepared to delegate a lot of what you think you know to the way YC tell you to do it. I think a lot of Entrepreneur types don't like being told that their way is not correct!
Yeah, they are microbenchmarks so should definitely be taken with a grain of salt but the top performing one (on 3 CPUs) was akka-grpc which is definitely not built by Google and uses akka's native HTTP/2 stack. It's not even written in Java for the most part but mostly Scala.
Is your enter point through these several posts that my definition of "peer" is too broad? It should have been obvious in context that I was referring to something along the lines of "western democracies" since I listed countries before ever using the word "peer". It honestly seems like you are arguing just for the sake of argument at this point.
His net worth is stored in company shares, which doesn't get taxed until it's sold.
False. The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act would impose a tax on the wealth of the top 0.05 % of Americans (people with > 50 million in wealth).
My understanding is that these ultra rich people have their wealth tied up in investments, so they never "see" any income despite their investments' massive growth. To get cash and buy things, they simply take out loans at super low interest rates using their investments as collateral. Basically, it's cheat codes.

It's probably why CEOs also like to take super low salaries.

What I don't understand is how their stock gifts or dividends don't trigger more taxes or why their taxes are indeed so damn low.
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According to the Smithsonian article, that was the original dating for the camels. The continuing work pushed the date back to 7000-8000.
What if we mandate that all workers must get part of their compensation in the form of company shares so that if the company explodes in value, it's not just the executives that become billionaires and the workers are just still going paycheck to paycheck? This seems common in the tech world but not so much in other companies.
> As a user, I don't care about Rust's type system, as long as the data I'm storing is valid. This is not a feature.

It may not be a feature to a user, but it could be considered a feature to contributors.
This is something I have always been curious about but really not talked about in any of these studies.

(I am purposefully ignoring the companies not paying taxes since that I think is a valid issue if we are talking about income).

So Warren Buffet may have $84 billion in stocks and assets, but how much did he actually sell? How much money went from selling stocks to his bank account?

I think that number if far more important.

Yes it is true that we have excise taxes on cars and property taxes on homes, I feel like a just plain "wealth" tax is not the right solution.

I don't like the idea that the government can say, "you have X amount in stocks, you must sell a certain perfect so you can pay us in taxes". Which is what this sounds like to me? Or am I majorly missing something here.
Taking the Warren Buffet example, he would have to come up with 2.5 billion in taxes
Agreed. It's also a fact often ignored by politics and administration: my local university now offers all CS lectures in English to attract international students. Consequently, there are lots of them, and there's little incentive for them to learn the local language as they can get along in every day life pretty well, given that they stay mostly amongst themselves.

But once they graduate and start looking for jobs in the same area that they've become acquainted with over the course of three years or so, and where by now their center of life really is, they find out the same thing you report about Germany: outside the university circles, you won't get very far with English.

So the majority will go back home again after a while, often times not so much by choice but just because they're forced to.

I imagine this is double tragic for a place like Germany where studying is (almost) free: you give international students a high-quality, free education which is then promptly taken out of the country again.
While I wouldn't quite call it prominence, nor can I imagine you could make a living with it exclusively, elementary OS has something of a Linux app store with their AppCenter. Flipping through the website it seems to offer developers the standard 70/30 split.
...not using one...
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This is an initial launch, so the limit is maximally conservative to avoid promising too much before seeing what customers do with it.

The Cloudflare Image Resizing service this product is based on has been increasing its max size, and it supports 100MB images.
Yeah, I've run into that too.

Seems to affect most/all permissions, e.g. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213468

Looks like persistent permissions might be in the iOS 15 beta though: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228317

Also appears that they're implementing the Permissions API:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229504

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229590
This would also have the benefit that all money you save and don't spend is tax free. Normally you have to jump through hoops to save and invest pre-tax money.
I understood about 50% of this but wow, what a great writeup. Thank you.
Scene: Mid-city warehouse district. Me at job interview early 2000s.

Me: So what is it you do here. The job description says you are looking for a developer?

Them: Oh, we make and sell boxes.

Me: Like the cardboard boxes you get delivered?

Them: Yes, exactly!

Me: Okay, so where does software fit in that? Are you aware of development cycles? {Other interview questions I can't remember}

Them: Oh, we don't know the technical part too much. We want to automate some of it.

Me: ...
Not everyone has access to all options from internet providers. There's people on slow, satellite internet. Hell, there's still a non-negligible amount of people still using dial-up in the US.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/185532/us-household-dial...

(URL says 2009, but it was updated with statistics for 2019)
> Perret says they didn't work for a lot of reasons. Among other things, it costs a lot to enforce. It pushed rich people out of the country, and the wealth taxes didn't raise a lot of revenue.

In France at least, it has been a topic of political debate for decades before the recent abolition and what's clear at this point is that it costed much less than what it brought (both in terms of law enforcement, and in terms of rich people moving out of the country).

> Unfortunately, nothing in her proposal justifies that. Why can't companies and people just move out of the US to avoid this?

A wealth tax isn't a tax on a company, it's a tax on the owner of the company so moving the company won't help here. And the owner leaving the US won't help either, since they will still have to pay taxes as long as they remain a US citizen. Renouncing to US citizenship would still be an option of course, but I'd expect the opportunity cost would be much higher than the cost of the tax itself.
I asked my (relative to us) wealthy grandparents for a Walkman, one Christmas. Just a normal, cassette playing walkman, you know. They instead asked for the coolest model, which apparently lead them to, I think it was called a Sportman (?), which was sleek, yellow, and radio only. RADIO ONLY.

I lived in an unincorporated mountain town of 3,000 people. I still wore it sometimes, imagining I looked cool, but all it picked up were fuzzy, Spanish voices or snatches of talk radio.

One of those inconsequential, but massive at the time, disappointments.
> The Ultra-Millionaire Tax would apply to the wealthiest 100,000 households in America and generate at least $3 trillion in revenue over the next decade—all without raising taxes on 99.95% of American households.

Huh? 0.05% is 20x smaller than 1%
Time to exit the communist hasbeen USA.
What I find interesting about this is how embarrassingly low the United Kingdom is considering its history as a telecom power house. In my eyes, and maybe I'm reading this data wrong, it really showcases the devastating impact the privatization of our services has had on our country. We have basically stagnated on speeds since the early 2000's.

I still have the same speeds I had 10 years ago (100Mb/S with no opportunity to improve it). My family who live in the countryside (keep in mind in the UK, countryside can mean less than 10 miles from the nearest city) have been stuck with the same provider with the same near unusable broadband for the last 7 or 8 years. It's a sorry state of affairs.
Awesome feature! Especially when creating those one-off resources to play around with them.
Not even Android. The Palm OS, particularly on Treo, did nearly every function that an iPhone does today. The Treo even had a selfie mirror near the camera.. I had Facebook for Palm OS 13 years ago.
I only know the numbers for San Francisco, but it’s 37.7% from California, 25.2% from other states, and 35.6% from outside the US (62.3% total from outside the state)[0]. I’m sure the fraction from outside the Bay Area is even higher. Anectodally, I’m the only one on my team at work born within 6000 miles of here, and we can’t say with a straight face that tons of super highly paid immigrants (and even more open job posts) don’t affect housing demand.

I’m from here, and have a lot of friends who left. The primary factor for most of them is wanting to afford a single family home, which is easier elsewhere. Restricting movement would be insane, but two thirds of the population being from migration is a huge factor in pricing my friends out, and it does kinda rub me the wrong way when someone from thousands of miles away complains that there isn’t cheap space for them here, and demands that we change the area to accommodate them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco
According to Tesla's own legal documents FSD beta is still at level 2.

Level 2 automated driving is defined as systems that provide steering and brake/acceleration support, as well as lane centering and adaptive cruise control.

So it is the same as in most modern cars (other brands also have 'environment awareness') but Tesla still market it as 'sit back and close your eyes' driving.
The ultimate skill of the CEO is looking at what is and isn't working and adapting. If you read an article A about how Air BnB worked out by visiting every customer and taking photos, you have to decide whether that translates to your business as a way to fix your troubles or not.

I think the use-case is more based on company X struggling with a particular problem (e.g. how do you please the mass market) and finding someone who has faced the same problem and learned some stuff along the way.
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Try taking breaks and doing simple exercises during your day. There’s a macOS app for that, check it out - https://apps.apple.com/app/id1160131071
> what was the car even trying to do?

I guess it thought that the road ahead is too narrow to continue. But if this is the case why did it simply not stop?
Your other reply feels like it could be packaged up a bit and published somewhere!
>60% of homeowners are in debt on their house, though.

So they are getting appreciation on leverage.

I would argue the median homeowner is being subsidized, having a negative wealth tax.

The local government takes away 1%, but the Federal government pumps up your asset price by >2% - that's a -1% wealth tax (paid entirely through inflation by non-homeowners).
Speaking of different climate in North Africa/Middle East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period

As recently as 5,000 years ago, it was a much wetter place.
Basic game theory dictates that if automated driving is seen as too safe, pedestrians will feel comfortable walking anywhere, anytime. Dense downtowns will become completely gridlocked and unusable for cars. Which maybe isn’t a bad thing. But if you want cars in cities you need them to be perceived as dangerous. Yeah I was convinced by Gladwell.
OP’s point is that anyone can lie in the DMCA takedown form and say they own the content. It’s illegal but I’m not aware of it ever coming back to the perpetrator in the form of jail time/lawsuit.
This is exactly why I won't work at a place with unlimited PTO. Sounds great in theory, but in practice theory and practice aren't the same!
I would expect visa to need more employees to maintain their systems, but that's just my intuition, and it might be wrong. You're right, too. Even though humans are very resource intensive (they need > 2kWh of energy per day), they're unlikely to outweight many orders of, magnitude difference.

I'd like to see an estimate of visa's energy usage using the same method the source you linked used to estimate bitcoin's energy usage. Take visa's revenue and multiply it by some fraction of revenue used for energy use (they used 52%). Some very rough calculations I did put it about 1000 times more energy expensive than visa's own report. That's still 1000 times better than bitcoin, using the same method, but it'd interesting to know where the discrepancy comes from, and whether that should also be considered for bitcoin's energy use.
> you can borrow against assets like this with secured loans

Okay, and how do you pay back these loans? That's right: with your income. You're just moving the problem around.
not an expert, but I thought the US is unique in that you can't escape taxes unless you renounce citizenship. and even then, there's an exit tax
Yes, this is a good exemplification of the "freedom as non-interference" view that Pettit criticizes. This conception has become very popular in the 20th century, especially among libertarians.

The image of society given by your picture does not resemble real life. Facebook and I are not equal actors akin to neighbors disputing over what gets put in their front yard.

It is this recognition that we are not equal neighbors that is the reason we have labor protections, minimum wage laws, campaign finance laws, etc.