skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn’t apply to shares held by hedge funds like KKR, nor to corporate investors like Tencent and Sony.

If that's the case, then what prevents billionaires like him from creating "Tim Sweeney angel fund LLC" and have that entity retain control of Epic?

Then since this entity is private, couldn't it defer that tax at the time it sells the entity?

With the whole deferred tax scheme that applies to assets not traded on an exchange, i.e. a "deferral charge meant to replicate interest payments on taxes that went unpaid each year, together totalling a tax capped at 49%" as described in https://www.rollcall.com/2021/10/27/wyden-details-proposed-t...
No, with only 5 million in the bank, you are not at risk of losing your house - not unless you mess up spectacularly.

Even a catastrophic medical issue shouldn't make you lose your house, unless you don't bother to have insurance - and if you have 5 million in the bank, you absolutely can afford to have insurance.
I know some Philips Healthcare Executives. Tomorrow I will write an email. It would be great if they could help. Most likely I will get a "we'll see what we can do" and nothing happens. But you never know.

My son is just about to turn 5. Martha's story makes me so sad, I find no words.
1. Take the top n=10% of net worths

2. Shave off the most extreme outliers at the top

3. Give this group a catchy name and attribute values to them

4. Make enough money off of pop-sociology to be included in this group

5. Repeat with n=n/2
Nearly 500 Ancient Mayan Ceremonial Sites Discovered in Southern Mexico
I hope that little forest of stars is not just dark, but actually empty.
Lightyear Teaser Trailer - Buzz Lightyear backstory movie
I’d definitely pay for it. Though I’d use it outdoors in the woods to see where birds and other critters are hiding. Though I reckon the noise will pose a challenge.
They do make them like they used to and yes they are expensive. But they also have temperature control and can come in electric: https://agaaustralia.com.au/aga

https://www.esse.com/range-cookers/1000-x/

Like many things, people wanted cheaper and they wanted it now. I refer to this [1] excellent website to explain the economics of purchasing equipment or services, buying your first or last oven or for use in project management decision making.

[1] https://fastgood.cheap/
There is no bottom when it comes to Section 230 reform proposals
Stackoverflow content is generally creative commons not GPL unless I'm missing something.

(https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing)
My not too serious solution.

Have Japan designate one it's islands as New Taiwan. Keep it legally apart of Japan.

Then move every single resident of Taiwan there. Then strip out everything of of value and move it to New Taiwan.

Then the CCP can reunify with a deserted island. Everybody wins. Taiwan and Japan have very close ties so while this is a far flung solution it's better than WW3.
Yeah, OpenTelemetry was OpenCensus, and before that it was OpenTracing. The go client faces some of the same churn; metrics are in alpha and the API isn't documented, though spans and traces are on more solid ground than the Java client it seems.

It's been a lot of change and I can't wait for things to settle down and for companies to stop trying to get their piece. I feel like everyone (Datadog, NewRelic, Google, etc.) saw Lightstep as a competitor and wanted to get involved with a competing spec, which is how we ended up in this consensus mess.

Still, it's good progress and it's so much better than raw logs. Would recommend.
After reading this, it feels like a piece designed to get working class people to fight amongst themselves vs. the actual billionaires.
Like 20 Million is a HUGE AMOUNT
but that's 5x less than 100M, and 50X less than a billion. 50X
Maybe it's a regional thing but I feel like there are some pretty big caricaturisations is this piece.

On meritocracy:

"I think a defining feature of the group culturally is this belief in meritocracy, in the sense merit is what makes the economy work. The sum total of our GDP is the sum total of the individuals in it."

Nothing too controversial...

"Everyone earns what their merit is worth."

I feel like this only works in a very technical sense and doesn't translate to what people would mean using natural language. Merit is a morally loaded term which I think makes the whole debate over Meritocracy confusing. A better way to put this would be:

1. Individuals have different amounts of leverage, which is correlated to earnings.
2. Competency is non-trivial and significant source of leverage.
3. A person with competency has more leverage than a person without competency all things being equal.

"That is coupled with a market myth that says that whatever people do that earns money is essentially good for society."

Perhaps there are people that believe this, but they must be a small group of people. Everyone everywhere complains about the knock-on effects of different industries.

It's not clear to me where they are drawing these conclusions from.
> the change in atmosphere composition over the last 1000 years seems like it would be detectable

Interesting to think what conclusions would be drawn in these scenarios. Obviously atmospheric composition has drastically changed over the eons - I wonder what sort of civilization could detect these kind of longterm changes, and if they wouldn't have better observational capabilities than what we assume here given they have persistent knowledge over "long" timespans
I agree that it provides no evidence of the objective risks.
It is hard not to be this cynical but I was thinking the same thing.
First of all, you’ll need a webcam pointed at the local clock tower…
The operator. I am sure the EULA already says driver is responsible.
You're arguing semantics when you knew what I meant. Polio vaccines have all but eliminated the virus in the wild (33 cases worldwide as of 2018). It's more effective in every way shape or form when compared to Covid-19 vaccines, which makes the comparison invalid.
I’m not sure this is different than any other medium.

Examples that come immediately to mind: academic journals, vending machines, car dashboards, magazines, credit cards, TV remotes, washing machines, etc.
Yes, but Walmart is no longer a mom and pop shop.
Thanks for this! I was unaware of B612. It looks like I have a new coding font.

> About B612 Mono

B612 is an highly legible open source font family, designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens. Its design makes it particularly suitable for degraded contexts (ensuring legibility and readability of data), with a positive effect on reducing visual fatigue and cognitive load. Particular attention was given to the uniformity of the typeface, whether being used for isolated terms, reading information on a map, mixing capital letters and numbers, waypoint lists, long or abbreviated texts...

> In 2010, Airbus initiated a research collaboration with ENAC and Université de Toulouse III on a prospective study to define and validate an “Aeronautical Font”: the challenge was to improve the display of textual data information on all cockpit screens, concerning more specifically legibility, readability and reading comfort...

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/B612+Mono#about

To me it looks like the designers achieved their goals. Best to play this game after eight or ten hours' coding.
It's just absurd to think we can reduce carbon emissions to zero in 11 years. Let's take a look at global carbon output:

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

(billions of tons)

1969: 13.69
1979: 19.46
1989: 22.19
1999: 24.43
2009: 31.46 (Great Recession)
2019: 36.44

The great recession was notable because that was a global downturn with a significant contraction in economic activity, and CO2 was only reduced from 31.95 to 31.46.

So this number will not be zero in 11 years, or even the same it is now in 11 years. It will be about 5 billion tons higher.
you wanna take a loan against your stock? you pay taxes on that loan.

That’s exactly the problem —- loans aren’t income, they’re debt, and debt isn’t taxed. Worse yet, the ultra-elite can carry out “buy (or ‘found’), borrow, die” strategies that let them pass the debt onto their kids, who can sell the securities at a tax advantage due to the stepped-up basis loophole.
This 100%. I expect we will see a lot more of these articles
tldr: waaahhhhhh I might possibly have to pay taxes while I'm alive instead of living off of effectively no interest loans on my hoarded treasure because I got lucky and made a mint in imaginary money.
>How does the 9.9% vary across racial lines? The numbers are not very precise. White people make up about 90% of the 9.9%, which is not at all representative of the total. It’s not all white but much more white than the rest of the population.

Whites are 72% of the population so 90% falls pretty close to what we would expect to begin with. It seems an awful lot like the author was digging for any "us vs them" that they could find. Seeing as that the author of the book being reviewed and the author of the article are both shameless leftist shills according to their respective Twitter accounts, I feel comfortable sorting this article into the propaganda bin.
Site seems to have been hugged to death.. the about/ page here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

> Send us your page. Snap a picture with your phone. Each day I’ll post what I get. Send as often you want. But don’t just stop at one. If not for your benefit, then perhaps your page will inspire others to say yes to life. I won’t post your name. You can include it on the typed page if you want, but otherwise you’ll be anonymous.
Hand me $1.2M and I'll start thinking about how much I can adjust my retirement date. Hand me $20M and I'll retire the day the check clears.
What are you getting in return? The USA is turning rapidly communist, authoritarian, and corrupt, thanks to the current ruling Washington elite (and specific political party).

This tax move is little different than Communist China's recent crackdown against corporations. Its just a power grab to shift power from the corporate to political sector.

Founder CEOs like Tim Sweeney, Elon Musk etc. are the core drivers of American innovation. Otherwise you just get mediocrity like in Europe.

If you want to deal with Government spending, then reign in pensions, and secure the Southern Border. If you want to tax something, then tax land, and carbon emissions.
Where do people live that think having 1.2M in assets is no big deal? Where I live you're making big money if you make 80K a year.
For those interested, 'The Allusionist' had an episode where they learnt Toki Pona with a friend. I'm no longer subscribed, but I remember this episode fondly.

https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/tokipona
In the United States, private health insurance often includes a lifetime cap on coverage of certain conditions. Before the ACA was passed under President Obama, many policies would not cover pre-existing conditions. Insurance companies no longer deny coverage for pre-existing conditions but there are no price controls on premiums. It is very conceivable to end up with a multi-million dollar healthcare bill in the United States, even with a good private health insurance policy. Insurance reduces the chances of that happening but it does not guarantee freedom from the chance of a medical bankruptcy.
I feel a lot worse for a medical resident than I do for a Google L2. There are arguments for paying newcomers to skilled fields less, but we shouldn't pay people abusively low wages for physically and emotionally draining work.
Do you contribute to campaigns and attend fundraising events? I realize a corporation or PAC can drop a lot of money in expectation of influence. I am also amazed that I can can meet future senators, representative, etc. and have them listen to me. I can be cynical but sometimes feel my voice is heard.
More prosaic explanation: this "philosopher" (AKA dude with philosophy degree who was a management consultant for 20 years) is on a press tour for his new book.

edit: Not that I disagree about the existence of the dynamic you point to.
If you own your home, and are otherwise completely out of debt, you can live much better on far less income.

Income doesn't mean much if most of it is going toward debt service. Anecdote: Trump had an epiphany when he realized a bum on the street was literally worth more than he was financially.
I work in UX, I am constantly being given designs that don't work well with native/semantic elements- a great example is tables. As soon as the table needs some kind of animation, drag-drop behavior, anything like that, I can't use a <table> anymore; or it becomes some frankenstein kafkaesque amalgamation that is impossible to maintain. Does the table really need an animation? (probably not) drag and drop? (probably not) But management and the people in charge of OK'ing these designs have a 'make-it-happen' attitude and nobody really cares about semantic, native feel when they've invested so much into a "design system" that is largely antithetical to that.

Select elements are the bane of my existence. Impossible to style. I am constantly re-implementing a <select> because it has to look a certain way. Just terrible.
Apple Music on PS5
> A person with $20M assets at 8% earns $1.6M per year. A 20x difference in assets is essentially an entire generation of wealth accumulation..

Indeed, imagine saying: “there's not that much difference between $50,000 in assets and $1,000,000 in assets.” Of course more money earns more money, but it's still important not to underestimate the importance of a factor of 20. One can try it the other way: “there's not much difference between $20,000,000 and $400,000,000.” Except that many of us here probably can't really grasp either, I think we wouldn't believe that.
The Common Lisp debugger, in particular, is not part of Scheme (or at least the Scheme standards). CL is designed around interactivity in a way that Scheme is not and the interaction I describe next is a good example of that:

Try doing the Scheme equivalent of this CL code and REPL interaction:

;; in a source file
(defun simulate (instructions)
(let ((state 0))
;; this is based on an AoC problem I recently did
(loop for (op val) in instructions
finally (return state)
do
(ecase op
))))
;; in the REPL
(simulate '((inc 5)))

Note that nothing happens in that case expression right now. It will error out and send you to the debugger. Without selecting an option in the debugger, go back to the code and change it to this:

(defun simulate (instructions)
(let ((state 0))
;; this is based on an AoC problem I recently did
(loop for (op val) in instructions
finally (return state)
do
(ecase op
(inc (incf state val))))))

Recompile that code in the source file, and then tell the debugger to restart. Now it works and correctly returns 5 as a result.

You can also do this much deeper in a program (I actually implemented the Advent of Code "virtual machine" this way). It doesn't restart the entire program, only the offending bit.

(NB: All code written in the HN comment field, not actually tested so I may have mistyped something, should be correct though.)

To the best of my knowledge, that sort of interaction is not standard in Scheme implementations.
Why do you expect machines to not enter the domain of design and algorithms as well? Is there something specifically human about them?

I expect most human intellectual activities of today (from coding to scriptwriting to medicine) can be performed by machines if the current trend continues.
It never stops. I met a very, very wealthy guy a while back. All he was concerned with was how to preserve his wealth for the next generation. He did not feel financially secure at all.

So, what will happen once you succeeded bringing those risks down to zero? Is that the time you start pursuing your dreams or will you start trying to get the next set of risks down to zero?
But these things are relative right 1 million at 6% a year yields 60k per year which plenty of people live on. The median income in the US is only ~70k. I'm not saying you should accept a large reduction in your quality of life or to move, but that is the trade off you're making right?
this is simply because a single implemention doesn't and won't meet all needs. many times you need a simple component that just renders properly, but some people need a11n, others need a bunch of i18n which opens up another can of worms. and did I mention all of these need to integrate with whatever cluster fuck of a system they wrote? and different UX designs / coding designs.
And the Income Tax originally was only 3% and only applied to less than 1% of the population.

The idea that it would apply to everyone, and be 20% was literally laughed out of the debate on implementing a national income tax as a "crazy conspiracy", it took less than 50 years before that crazy conspiracy was reality.

There is little reason to believe history will not play out the same, and it will not be long before this expands beyond the evil billionaires you despise soo much to those mom and pop stores you seem to claim love for...
HN is the best so far. Respectful responses, smart people. Most have been very chill and rational too.

LinkedIn is second. The quantity is there, but you have to filter for quality.

Recruiters for more efficient acquisition, but the end conversion rate is lower. You spend less time filtering companies and writing cover letters, but people generally don't like to pay recruiter fees given the option.

Facebook has the highest success rate, though. I'd say I got about 90% of work through there, which included my first job, a few jobs as a manager, and current job at a unicorn.

Job sites are generally harsh and unforgiving, where people will reject you literally for a typo on your resume or because they didn't like the formatting.
> "they" who are receiving the data being collected about the user

I'm curious why you automatically assume data is being collected about the user? OpenTelemetry is about Observability, not user tracking.
Wanted to add:

I realized that my function above doesn't fully show how I use it. I recommend setting your $LESS to include -F so that by default it doesn't leave pages of output in your scrollback. That way you can get a quick tree, scrollable/searchable in your pager, and then don't lose your shell context. FWIW, my $LESS is:

export LESS='-iMFx4 --mouse' # smart-case, status bar, quit 1 screen, 4sp tabs

Also should mention https://github.com/Canop/broot as a good directory explorer tool.
They would have been happy and probably continued to never use the touch bar. I find it pretty cool and interesting to look at but I have basically never used it because everything it does can be done via the mouse which I am already using for other task so I never felt it was useful to switch to pressing the touch bar.
That's a bummer. I just got whitelisted and was hoping it could save me time with some APIs where they only have code in X language or curl and I have to work backwards if I run into any issues.
> It doesn't seem to me as though the distinction between "Copilot reproduced the code and the engineer copy/pasted/saved it" versus "Copilot inserted the code" is crucial.

I think that could be crucial.

If I read a computer science book, and from that produce a unique piece of code which was not present in the book, I have created a new work which I hold copyright over.

If I train a machine learning algorithm on a computer science book, and that ML algorithm produces some output, that output does not have a new copyright.

In essence, there must be originality for a work to be under a new copyright, and that is likely a requirement that it must be a human author. See this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality#Mecha...

Similarly, if copilot synthesizes a bunch of MIT code and produces a suggestion, that may be MIT still, while if a human does the exact same reading and writing, if it is an original enough derivative, it may be free of the original MIT license.
> KiCAD is very good for an open-source tool that can produce basic PCBs. However, modern paid CAD tools are on a different level entirely.

Not all of them. I personally chose Kicad 5 over Eagle because Eagle's UX was a pain to use. I just never found any advantages over Kicad despite a few clunky parts of the Kicad 5 the overall experience in Kicad was just more productive. Of course, most of my designs have been sub-10MHz with a few 25-50 MHz Ethernet parts.

Statements like this just leave me wondering what useful features the high end software provides that are really missing? Do they automatically re-tune differential pairs after you move things around? Many companies still seem to have separate people or software for doing BOM management so it'd seem they're not superior in that aspect either. Just feels like I'm missing something.

> The differences may not be obvious for simple boards with low speed connections, but it’s a world of difference to use one of the high end CAD tools on a complex board with high speed traces.

That covers a significant amount of the board practical PCB's that are needed for a lot of projects. Still I've been told Altium and such are much better for high speed signals, but also been told that Altium _doesn't_ do 2.5D or signal simulation and that you need to goto the next tier of commercial vendors.
I’m virtually certain that if you compare hours worked among households worth $20 million and households worth $1.2 million (controlling for retirement age), the former is significantly higher.

In theory ultra high wealth buys the luxury of leisure. In practice, in the US today, leisure monotonically decreases with income and wealth. By far the bottom quintile works much fewer hours than the top 1%.
Without going down the rabbit hole of Goodhart's law, code coverage % is a poor metric particularly when used standalone.
Effect of fluvoxamine on risk of emergency care among patients with Covid-19
I think it might be unlikely that we see replaceable flash chips come back as it sounds like the built in ones are insanely fast and likely cheaper as well.
And how much would need to feel secure against the threat of asteroid collision? Absolute catastrophe is always possible. Jeff Bezos could die from a heart attach or a murder, even though he spends $1M on security.

Everyone knows they need 2x their current wealth to feel secure.
I wish he had listened to basic medical advice and not abused his power/wealth/influence to steal somebody else's liver, only to die anyway.
This could also be done with Apps, such as Lattice. If you impersonate you could ask you to reset your password with a link to latticechangepassword.com or something like that.

The solution might be a verified name system, if you change your name of display name, it gets "moderated" by an admin first. In a corporate environment there is no need for people to change their name often, maybe once ever when you either actually change your name or decide to use an alias in real life.

This is similar to HN not allowing someone to use the displayname "dang", or if display names were a thing, it gets moderated somehow.

Probably good idea to do that on the profile pic too!

I'm not sure if there is a cool technical word for this in security jargon, but the "Full Name" "Display Name" and "Profile Photo" are what I'd call "trust-centric fields" and need to be treated differently to say "What I do" or "Phone Number".

In a corporation this is easy, someone's job is to vet changes to this. Whoever sets up systems for employees for example.

Outside of a corporation it may rely on flagging and moderators.
Healthcare providers will work out manageable/fair billing and payment plans, if the patient will simply take the initiative to discuss it. They're just not going to advertise the fact.