skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another issue on my mind is that non-liquid assets are really hard to assess the value.

Let’s say I had a complete set of Picasso’s paintings for a year. Every painting he did that year, I have.

Who is qualified to say how much each painting individually is worth (other than an auction), and who can say what the total set value is in comparison to the individual value?

Of course this proposal isn’t quite the Wealth Tax that Warren originally wanted but I could see even this tax not being enough in the future.
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Is it just me, or does it not appear to be working for anyone else? It just shows "You have chosen the winner" and none of the buttons seem to have an effect.

Edit: Clicking 'Restart Tournament' seems to spawn a worker that pushes my CPU over 100%. Open source your code, perhaps?
I felt the opposite when I read the books. I thought it was rather clever that Frank Herbert invented a physical force [1] which accounts for much of the interesting tech that isn't possible or feasible in reality. I just wish there was more detail.

[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Holtzman_Effect
Research is relatively cheap. It also has a very low probability of success (on each initiative) and very long time horizon. Investor really don't like those two.

Normally, governments would invest those few millions. But government spending seems to have become almost completely broken recently and isn't generating that kind of result anymore.
The white savior tropes are mostly from activists. The actual book is a critique of the very idea of saviors in general.
I didn't mention lasguns, just guns.
100 years old and using the Mac for editing and rendering? teach me master, am 35 and can barely wake up in the morning
So much to be amazed about in this post. :) your 100 year old dad does video editing and 3d rendering to a degree that a Mac Pro is the computer he wants to use? I would love to see some of his work. (genuine interest)
I took a look at a colleague’s M1 Macbook Air after using an iPad Pro exclusively for 3 years and I was shocked to see how outdated MacOS looks compared to iPadOS. Animations and the UI are nowhere near as polished.

Apple has clearly focused on iOS and iPadOS the last 10 years and they tried to slowly phase out the Mac but people kept buying Macs so they begrudgingly started focusing on it again around 2016-2018.
Not quite the same, but for a book that shows the power of weaponized empathy, Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon" (the book version specifically) has the envoys as empathic super-soldiers.

When you can easily move a consciousness into different bodies, the most dangerous opponents are those that can empathize with their enemy to such a degree that they can pass as one of them seamlessly and unconsciously predict their motives and reactions.
Great questions and comments. I will try to comment on as much as possible.

1. I guess this is what we hope we can find a solution for with Eduflow. Pure self-led learning is not very motivating to most. Learning together with others is a great source of motivation, but this often ends up resulting in endless Zoom calls. So we try to balance this by allowing async social things. Examples of this could be peer reviews or something simpler like discussion activities. We also support setting things up like matching people in groups, and then having groups meet regularly, basically studying together.

2. I think it depends too much on the specific course. Generally the completion rate can be extremely high because there is an external pressure to complete. If you are going through corporate onboarding or taking a university course with a grade, then you are quite likely to complete all activities. In end, we are not in charge of the actual course designs, just the tool that enables instructors to deliver it. So we see everything from 1% to 100% completion rates.

3. We are currently running a course called Instructional Design Principles for Course Creation (https://www.eduflow.com/academy/instructional-design-princip...) on Eduflow. This is going well, and I think the places where we could improve is probably more about the actual content of the course (it was a bit too intensive for some learners). Before building Eduflow I taught data science with peer review (using Peergrade), and that was a pretty good success!

4. We are actually working on adding a bunch of dashboards to Eduflow right now. It is not just something instructors are asking for - it is also one of the most popular requests from larger customers. We offer an API already (https://docs.eduflow.com/) which gives access to data in Eduflow and manipulation. We also support Zapier which is pretty popular, especially for smaller customers.

Hope this is somewhat useful, otherwise you can just let me know and I will try to elaborate :).
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Not so. A "classics" department in a university is focused on greek and roman language and literature. Shakespeare is a thousand years too late.
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Very cool.

I also like coding with proportional fonts. I wish I could find some with coding ligatures.

[I've wondered if VSCode theming would allow for using a regular font for alphanumeric characters, and a special font (like Fira Code) for punctuation characters, so they can be displayed with all their ligatury glory.]
I don't like your description of sclerotic, implying the government is dysfunctional if it doesn't allow heavy industry open strip mining near "a few miles northeast of the ski slopes of Sunday River and not far from Step Falls, where swimmers can wade in shallow pools formed by hundreds of feet of cascading granite ledge." 50 years from now when the area is a wasteland with polluted rivers I'm sure the residents who remember going swimming in natural ponds will be grateful for the nimbleness of their government
Step 1 - print money, give it to banks

Step 2 - banks use it to buy stocks, commodities pushing prices up

Step 3 - tax the gains

Step 4 - you an awesome government that both prints money and taxes into oblivion. Obviously the country benefits. /sarcasm
The system you're describing treats Sasha and Malia Obama as disadvantaged, while handicapping Hmong people because they're Asian. How can we assert that race is anything but a proxy when the system you're defending screws things up this badly? Race homogenizes unique individuals into vague, ill-fitting, predefined groups, and ultimately hammers many square pegs into round holes uncaring of the damage it causes.
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is this broken for anyone else? it acts like I've already done the tournament and won't restart
It appears that Apple has lost its "courage".
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Seems like that would fall under the non-tradeable asset part, which is paid upon sale rather than mark-to-market.
Climate tech (ie hardware and software solutions) is a bad fit for VC money outside of carbon accounting software (which adds little value) benefits.

As well this direct air capture is slightly better than CCS (read: pretty bad) but is also a red herring in terms of climate solutions that will provide a lot of value. I say this because large amounts of money will get diverted into this kind of investment that hasn't proved to be particularly successful but has an easy to understand narrative.
Using [Char] as String was mistake. If Haskell used Data.Text everywhere strings would be fine
Cars are a special case. Grand theft auto is a felony and if you can tell the police, to whom you've already reported your car's theft, where your car is sitting, they're bound to take an interest.

Your other stuff, yeah, in general they couldn't care less.
Looks like it broke from a hug. Tried in a few different browsers: checking console shows a tonne of 404s for assets.
Same here. Might be a rate limit thing, lots of stuff not loading.
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When you hear something in Aerospace procurement is supposed to reduce costs (the F-35) you should run, not walk.
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They're putting guns on robot dogs now
NFTs occupy an interesting intersection between being relatively low effort to implement but having a very high ability to grab headlines and free publicity.

Can you think of any other easy feature that would get Photoshop into the headlines?

Adding NFT functionality to anything is an easy way to get free press right now. It’s also why so many of the aimless influencers are rushing to NFT topics: They can use those free headlines to build followings and communities.

But despite all the hype, it doesn’t seem to be the starving artists making money on NFTs. It’s all established crypto speculators and crypto businesses selling shovels in this gold rush. The starving artists are just a clever narrative to distract from who’s actually profiting.
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Hit by the HN hug of death?
Bitcoin processes, as a maximum dictated by technological choices, 2-3 transactions per second. Each transaction is around a few hundred bytes.
I like the idea. Some thoughts:

- Center the code samples on the page. So that your not unintentionally one over the other due to differences in viewing angle and vision ability.

- Make all the fonts equal in height regardless of font point. Knee jerk reaction will be to go with the font that is closest to a persons normal preference.

- Hide Font names and size/points.

- Light theme and other color options.

- Other programming language options.

- jiI1l0O test. I like to see those characters that can often be too similar in shape shown together.

- Controversial, throw in some non mono-spaced fonts.
There is no separation of capital and state in the United States anymore. It's just more "gentle". What we have is "broken capitalism".

We have a system where government figures trade as if they were teenagers on Robinhood, then disappearing through revolving doors to work for the companies they were supposed to "regulate", we have CEOs running companies into the ground while walking away with riches. This ain't capitalism. It's something.
> Do we force people to sell pieces of their property to pay the taxes on that property?

I don't see the problem here. Slowly breaking up ownership like that would be a net good to society.
> Do we force people to sell pieces of their property to pay the taxes on that property?

You answered your own question, but to add more context the answer isn't "For many types of property" but for most people the answer is an emphatic yes. For the vast majority of people the only piece of property they own in this sense is their home, and if they cannot pay the property taxes on that, the state sells it on tax sale. So yes, absolutely, we already do this.

The fact that ownership of businesses is exempt from this is part of the inequitable structure of our laws that benefits the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Because the primary property of the wealthy is currently exempt from property taxes (we only tax the gains, not the assets themselves), but the primary property of the middle class is taxed.
Same here. I loved the idea.
I would support this if I didn’t already know it was going to be thrown away by the govt. I would wager the capital is more effectively deployed to benefit society where it currently is.
I'm not sure I see what this has to do with what I said?
> If the founders of the USA were to resurrect today, I wonder what they would think about the nation they created.

I don't understand the fetishisation of the US "founding fathers". What does it matter what a bunch of people who lived 200 years ago thought and wanted and how they would feel about today's version of that? Considering some of the things that were normal in their time, like slavery, the subservient role of women in society, power only in the aristocracy or rich people ( even the "bastion of democracy" US wasn't a popular democracy where everyone had a vote until after WWI), segregation, etc. of course they'd disagree. And so would Louis XVI, Franz Josef, Queen Victoria, Hitler, etc.. so what?

Who cares what those people would theoretically think and why?
I already do things like you mention... walk most places, reuse/repair when feasible, buying less packaged food, avoiding leisure flying (I used to travel often)... but individual impact is fairly minimal, so I've been putting more effort into supporting local political candidates who prioritize the climate.

I also complain a lot at community meetings for new development in my immediate area (things like reducing parking in new buildings, including bike storage, EV charging, better public transit infrastructure)... I've found some of this stuff more fulfilling in that the impact tends to extend beyond what I'd be capable of doing alone... sometimes it's fruitless, but sometimes it works.
Thanks for this. I also noticed the bottom thanks on the index:

>In_memoriam Shamnad Basheer ; Aaron Swartz
there was also once a tax proposed a century ago...one that was to only be applied to the ultra-rich, and even then...sparingly

it was called the Federal Income Tax

you will be paying this new tax eventually too
no paywall:

https://archive.md/9DEtq
This reminds me of Joel Spolsky's CityDesk[1]. It was quite a nice piece of software but lost out to Wordpress.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/12/what-does-citydesk...
Why would it be a net good? (Just curious about your thoughts)
Good.

Aiming for USB-C sounded like a solid goal on paper, but it's become so fragmented with all the protocols, data rates, and variations in cable capabilities and it becomes obvious that compatibility is significantly worse than what we had before.

If you can't hit the lowest common denominator when it comes to USB-C you'll end up frustrated if you ever have a cable that doesn't meet your needs.
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Sure, let's stop most of that too.
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You might want to change the wording to reflect that. As it stands now, it seems to say "evaluate for free, a license is required for any real use, personal or otherwise". At least, that's how I interpreted it.
Yeah, the best version of Dune is somewhere between Villeneuve's version and Lynch's version.

Villeneuve left out too much and Lynch compromised too much.
Second layer technologies are the solution to that problem. We can build systems on top of bitcoin that have some tradeoffs but allow for exponentially more transactions at lower fees. Lightning is one example of these second layer systems. Custodial wallets like Coinbase and others are a poor, but simple and easy example.
Also note Stripe probably has a deal in that they will get equity in the company. By signing on as the first deal they will signal to others to join in and over the next decade if it is successful they will make money on a good exit. Its similar to how Amazon was an early client to Plug Power - good lots of good stock and thus their investment was free at the end of the day.

Direct air capture is different in that it provides little value with a large capex. I hate how proven technologies are in the background but because a highly successful tech company decides to splash money in climate tech all of a sudden low quality technology is getting all the headlines.
If anything zig or rust are the successor, Go is a language from the 90s. We can agree on C++ and java, though.
I'm curious, what are the tax loopholes they talk of for the companies? It seems they are using credits, etc built in by Congress to support policy, like EVs and stuff.

This sounds overly complicated. Why not just fix the capital gains tax structure to match better with the standard tax rate for higher earners? Keeping track of individual's wealth seems a little tricky, especially once people start hiding assets.
They turn blue when cut: https://shroombros.co/the-mystery-solved-why-magic-mushrooms...
>But constant testing and metrics seems to be what a lot of parents want //

Why?
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Imagine being the unfortunate developer to draw that ungodly ticket from Jira.
Yes, the high sensitivity is because the V-I curve of the PN junction is exponential.
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I don't see any benefit of using this over an online website builder like Wordpress, Shopify or Square. The site gives no comparisons though your HN title compares it to others. Also, all of this can be accomplished in VSCode with extensions and minimal effort, so I honestly do see who your target audience is for this... is it newbies? cause they are going to us a gui website builder, not a coder. dev who code by hand? VSCode already dominates this space and is completely free. If you're looking to be a niche editor like Sublime Text or Textmate then I wish you luck but honestly I don't see your product bringing anything to the space that is already crowded.
How about we implement a tax for any person or entity with more than 10 homes. More than 10 homes, each additional home has a 1% or more federal property tax against all homes. 15 homes = 5% property tax on all homes. For the big buyers like Zillow or BlackRock this would be business-destroying. Small investors and flippers would be unaffected.

You’d see home shortages end at light speed. And yes home prices may crash but it’s a long term fix. People would probably appreciate it long term much more than this plan.

Or maybe it phases in over a 5 year period. Something though.
They used to be separate occupation codes, but they were merged in 2005 (https://usa.ipums.org/usa/volii/c2ssoccup.shtml). Perhaps because there weren't enough legislators to justify getting their own category, so they got lumped in with the closest other profession?
The important difference is, normal economy[0] profits off efficiency. There's waste, but that waste means companies are making less money than they could be. Everyone is incentivized to eliminate the waste. In aggregate, the market strives towards minimizing waste[1].

In contract, PoW cryptocurrencies have pure waste built in as a necessary component. They're literally waste incarnate, made into code and used to provide trustless consensus. It's a feature, that has to scale with the size of the network, and participants are encouraged to create more waste.

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[0] - Let's for the moment ignore the negative-sum game cancer the advertising industry is. But even advertising tries to be efficient at micro level.

[1] - In fact, it's a major source of modern problems with the market economy. Companies optimize way past the point it makes sense, because the consequences are borne by someone else (e.g. customers). See e.g. the whole field of value engineering.
Effective by whose standards? The market?
This will wipe put any wealth the middle class has.
It's becoming very clear that the US has few years left.
Go is a rehash of Alef/Limbo. Is not from the 90's.

If you say so, we could say the same on Zig.

BTW, UTF-8 dates back to the 90's, good luck finding a better alternative. And TCP/IP it's even older, but it works.

Something being newer doesn't make it better.
I happened to check Amazon a few minutes ago while writing another comment and found 18TB drives seem to be hovering around US$350. 6*18=108TB (and US$2100), however, that does not account for redundancy.

I recently learned the fun way that ZFS performance (incl read-only) absolutely tanks if the pool is full (the box was unusable until I deleted the data), so to use ZFS you'd want to add in a few TB of spare capacity. https://wintelguy.com/zfs-calc.pl says 10 drives ($3500) should provide 100TB of space.

Alternatively you could use dm-integrity (which is very new and does not yet have optimized I/O routines) and either layer RAID on top of that or manually duplicate the data yourself, which would let you just get exactly the number of disks. It's possible you could alternatively run Ceph with ECC, but I don't know if Ceph likes having some free space to work with.

This also does not take into account a server, but this does not need to be too expensive, probably US$750 or potentially even less.

I respond entirely out of curiosity; I also dream of backing up large datasets one day :D
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For the benefit of people who don't pay for a subscription to The New York Times or whatever.

People aren't supposed to do that, but they still do. People have tried flagging articles from paywalled sites, which is also something you're not supposed to do.

I have no idea how "archive.md" does what it does and doesn't get shut down.
>Unless and until major stock holders push for change in business model not much is going to happen.

but zuckerberg holds most of the voting shares?
Are there any signs that the NFT market is real?

I mean - yes, we can see coins moved around on blockchains. But how do we know that those coins aren't just moving from one pocket to another of the same person?

Any ideas on how to look at the NFT market and estimate its size would be very appreciated.

I throw in one idea in myself: The Alexa rank of the NFT marketplaces. opensea.io is at #407 which is higher than coinbase.com which is at #798. So this might be an indication that there really is something happening here.
The carbon removal plant in the picture is from climeworks where you can subscribe to carbon removal, if anyone is interested. Cost about $1000 per tonne https://climeworks.com/roadmap/orca
In theory it could work the same way as land/building assessment for certain assets.

Physical goods can be taxed on sale though, that's easy.
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X with extra steps... sounds like a REST call. REST is just HTTP with extra steps. DBMS is just a pile of files with extra steps.
Is that what Linus thinks?

You know it's his kernel, right?
> Doing that will make REST zealots judge you for heresy.

Yeah but why are people REST zealots I don't understand. Why are developers allowed to have "strong opinions" that align with goals of people outside of the organisation, that conflict with the organisations goal, isn't that misconduct
And you get a nice bonus that every wafer Intel buys can't be used by AMD/Nvidia.
Instead of taxing asset growth, they should tax the loan trick. For example Elon Musk uses loans taken out with stock as collateral, with no intention to ever pay them back - the banks are happy to take the collateral when the shareholder dies or something, because they're happy enough to put the debt on their books.
There is value in this. The digital humanities has given us new methods to approach the study of literature (and a great many other fields), which has been dominated by the method of close reading for a long time. For example, can scale our analysis of the transfer of techniques between works and use rigorous mathematical analysis to model influence and networks in a new way.

There is a lot of garbage work in the digital humanities (like all fields) that is basically just doing word choice analysis with computers, but it truly is a new method that is available to researchers to put in their toolchest and new methods are almost always good.
This line is telling: "Governments are going to need to be purchasers to get things moving, get the cost down and improve the technologies," he said.

If if it were so critically needed, why is there no market demand for this product? Should the countries with low carbon production endlessly subsidize high carbon producing countries?

The hysteria around climate is starting to look much like Corona hysteria. Next will be the carbon passport.

If Stripe was serious about climate change, they would support the development of nuclear energy, stop flying on airplanes, move their data centers to cold climate locations, etc