skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time they face a "PR crisis", Facebook remains intact the year following. The establishment also has interest in keeping Facebook around, not to mention Zuckerberg's close involvement with the "big club" that "you ain't in".

Nothing's going to change in any sort of official sense. Facebook will naturally decay while the rest of the company plans to leave it behind like a hermit crab crawling out of its shell to find a bigger one, as we are already witnessing with "Metaverse".
Laptops don't need animations because they have enough real estate that they don't need constantly reflowing UIs to fit the most important information in the tiny bit of screen space, while maintaining a sense of spatial organization. A laptop can just show you everything.
Wouldn't the Google intitle/allintitle search operators work for this? Or am I missing something?
Theres a lot going on in Dune, not all of it is explained up front. Its the kind of book where earlier parts make more sense later because theres not a crazy amount of exposition explaining things and how the world works, and theres a lot to digest. The movie ends up being kind of worse in this regard for people new to Dune
Billion dollar is lot even for a value of a company.

On other hand with deposits it's nothing. Reasonably considering the needed investment for exploitation from equipment, planning, permissions, workers etc. I really feel that currently it is nowhere near enough to justify exploitation. Big mines are not cheap to build or operate. I doubt 1,5B of material is enough to justify initial investment.
If you're asking why sometimes people post, e.g. 'https://archive.md/oE13T', as single comment (example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29012142), that's a work-around for paywalled articles. Usually somebody will ask (or complain) that the article is behind a paywall, lately users post the work-around even before somebody asks.
Optics of it are bad given the CCP has been accelerating their crack down on billionaires, also known as state-independent power centers. This is the direction they want to take us I guess.
No, not at all. I think from this context you'd understand that "good" means most attractive or most desired within the scope of selecting a partner. It doesn't mean you're a good or bad person in general.

And of course, some attractive ones are returned to the pool. But most are not, so the bigger issue of low supply remains.
> Climate tech (ie hardware and software solutions) is a bad fit for VC money outside of carbon accounting software (which adds little value) benefits.

Can you elaborate on this assertion?
The "Abbatars" could've been plants, animals, or fantasy creatures. It disappoints me all that tech was used to put them in "youngface" instead.
> “… it doesn’t seem to be the starving artists making money on NFTs”

Starving artists are the marks for this scam. They spend $50 on Ethereum and other fees to mint some NFTs, nobody buys them, and they remain starving — but the crypto ecosystem has extracted another chunk of real money from hopefuls at the base of the pyramid.
The trend in any economic system over time is going to be for those with wealth to extract more from those without it. Ultimately, the end game is either going to be cyclical revolution / violence, or some sort of redistributive tax scheme.

There's no abstract plan that lets Bill Gates own all of the nation's farm land, and lets Blackrock clear-cut all of the forests of the Amazon jungle, and lets Michael Bloomberg mass-arrest protesters of his political party after buying his way into office, and/or lets Google cover the landscape with armed ai-drone protected company towns.

That said, the only reason DNC senators have proposed such a thing is that they have Manchin and Sinema to prevent it from actually being voted on by the 30 other DNC senators who would also oppose it for the sake of their donors.
>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.

This will hurt the middle class who have 401ks or pensions. I get wanting to tax the rich, but this is absolutely going to hurt more than just the wealthy.
It's definitely not worth the challenge. There's a lot of legal precautions at risk. The money at stake will not be enough for the hassle.
> For the vast majority of people the only piece of property they own in this sense is their home

I agree with what you said, and just wanted to make a minor(ish) correction: if you exclude homes bought w/ a mortgage which is still ongoing, probably the "vast majority" part does not hold, anymore.
I don't understand the unfettered hatred many have for NFTs. This is the first technology to come along and offer artists an actual avenue to payment for their creative work, and for fans to directly engage with and support with artists.

For once, photographers, artists, musicians, countless others can be in control of their own distribution and the terms of it.

Yes, you can right-click and save jpegs but that is sort of the point! Similar to having a print in your living room, copies of the original serve as marketing for it. People who own or sell NFTs aren't doing it just to "own" a jpeg, it's a digital representation of something purchased, or proof of attendance.
Web sites and forums of old are mostly gone. Everything is centralized on Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Discord and similar platforms. Really hard to find niche sites and independent groups on the web now.
Probably base 8.
One difference is that you benefit directly and personally from owning your home in that you live in it and don't pay rent. Owning equity in a business doesn't yield the same direct personal benefits.
Possibly the first planet discovered outside our galaxy
This is effectively a wealth tax and making people sell assets is indeed one of the consequences of such taxes where they exist.

These tend to be political and symbolic measures as in general they are neither really fair nor beneficial (in Europe the main result in countries like France has been to make people move to Switzerland, Belgium, London, etc).

Edit: A fair way to tax is to tax all incomes equally and not to offer any loopholes. But politically an issue (or not) is that people will still be able to claim that e.g. Bezos only pays x in tax although he is worth zillions, which plays on people not understanding that they are comparing apples and oranges...
I Miss Working in the Crappiest Places
> Another issue on my mind is that non-liquid assets are really hard to assess the value.

If the assets in question are equities listed on a public market it's actually quite easy for the government to assess the value.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the feedback!
> I could crack open Visual Studio in the morning and simply add a web service dependency to my project. In a matter of milliseconds -- seconds at worst -- it would automatically cough up a C# client for whatever it is that I wanted to talk to, and I could immediately start coding some actual business logic

Visual Studio is a vastly underrated tool. If you're doing something it supports within the Microsoft ecosystem it can just plough through all of it for you. Doubly so if you add Jetbrains Rider.

The thing is, whenever we see something like this, it's because it's either easier to reimplement the thing from scratch than work out what the correct already-implemented solution should be, OR the already-implemented solution simply doesn't work in your environment because it's not supported.

It is sometimes depressing to watch the Javascript ecosystem try to build standard workflows only to knock them over again once they've managed to place one brick upon another, but Microsoft are quite capable of doing the same thing of their own accord (I say as someone surveying the wreckage that is WinUI3)
I think it varies, but I'm open to the idea.

However much we tax Elon Musk is too much, because he is the driving force for many fantastic companies in the USA.

However much we tax Mark Zuckerberg is too little, because he has weaponized the social network for politics and profit.
Please correct title - it's how to prepare for a PHP technical interview.
Lets face with real tax on the rich is never going to happen in the US as they hold and pull all the lobbying strings.
Perhaps when getting a loan against collateral, they could tax the value of the collateral. Make it so the loaner cannot receive more than they declare the collateral worth ( which should prevent overly low valuations by making them a risk to the loaner ), and require the loanee to pay taxes against the 'loan-value' of the collateralized resource.

Treating the lien itself as something created by the loanee and sold to the loaner, I suppose.
Lips dates back to Lambda calculus and the Church notation.

Far from a typewriter.
Recovered historical meteorite put up for sale on the internet for 50k euros
(not GP) Better distribution of wealth comes to mind.
We Build a User-Defined Function Engine Using WebAssembly
How did this ship like this?
I agree, except the confusing "instead of." You can do both.
This is the ultimate troll - your winning coding font is times new roman!
"Facebook's Class B shares, controlled by Zuckerberg and a small group of insiders, has about 18 percent of the shares, but they also have 10 votes per share."

So what you are proposing is going to be happening approximately never.
I have an LLC. Taxing it (more) would be catastrophic. Why should we tax the assets and not the gains?

I actually don't like property tax on homes/land. I dont like the idea of the government forcing people out of their homes (usually the elderly). I prefer taxing based on income/gains because they actually have money coming in and largely removes the government seizure aspect.
QSBS deduction, LLC to Type S conversions etc. These won't be fixed apparently anytime soon if ever.
macOS is hazardous for digital/analog I/O
I don't understand the anger/disgust at the addition of new addressable pixels to the left and right of the camera. The remaining screen area has the same aspect ratio as before, the entire extra space is black during full screen video, etc.

Would you prefer a screen where the areas to the left and right of the camera were black plastic/glass instead of pixels?
jony ive - good riddance. What a terrible era of crappy form over function.
Why is consent important when both mainstream political parties support the police state?

How would you vote to get to this meaningful debate in the first place?
401k already have a slew of different rules and exemptions and it would make sense to continue to exempt them from regular taxes.
I can accept the notch if the OS is smart enough not to render stuff behind it. Don't look at the notch as missing screen estate, look at the strips of display next to it as extra screen you'd normally never have.

For now, the OS doesn't seem to be prepared not to render stuff behind the notch. That's a really obvious flaw that'll hopefully get patched out soon if Apple is worth their salt.
Not with the internet. It's as simple as sharing a link.
You are saying the banks buy the stocks and the banks get taxed, that isn't what this plan is proposing.

==taxes into oblivion.==

Taxing billionaires on their (unrealized) capital gains doesn't seem like "into oblivion", does it? This plan applies to the 700 richest people in the entire country. I think they'll be ok.
You are using a pejorative directed at me, by calling me antivaxx, or, an antivaxxer.

That is actually an insult. Please refrain from insulting me.

I am not antivaxx. I am pro-vaccine, and as a veteran I am actually quite immunized. Heavily immunized in fact. Far more so than most of the civilian population.

However, this is a question of an unlike comparison.

I am vaccine hesistant in this case.

Thanks for prompting this clarification.
You need discrimination to end discrimination. If you and I are in a race, and I'm 100 laps ahead because I've been cheating and your pit crew gives you worse tires than me, you can't just fix the tires and pretend the race is fair.

There needs to be an adjustment, but only a temporary adjustment, to make things fair again. That's the whole point.

You can't just say, "ok, race doesn't matter anymore" and expect things to just be fine. The discriminatory systems will not fix themselves.
It's also shown as valid by the German CovPassCheck app.
I disagree, but only slightly. I think most people who were going to leave are already gone. There has been a seemingly endless stream of Facebook scandals in the last 2-3 years and if the first few (e.g. Cambridge Analytica) didn't convince you, these new ones probably won't either.

There's also the question of what "moving away from Facebook" means. Does it mean deleting your account? What if you check your messages once a month, are you still a Facebook user? Only Facebook really knows what impact this has had on their user base and they have every incentive to pick and choose metrics that paint them in the best light.
"keep ownership of the land like the government does"

Which government are you talking about? Private land ownership predates the modern state. The western world is by and large a feudal society where the [land]lords have managed to even outsource security responsibilities back to the peasants.
The federal government is literally chasing us out of our own country.
That sounds like easy money for the small artist if they sued.
What happened to MySpace from Facebook taking over will happen to Facebook too... nothing lasts forever.
The only way I'd support something like this is if they limited it to taxing investments when they are used. If a person holds onto an inflated asset they shouldn't be penalized. If they use that asset as collateral for a loan then I think it's fair game.

That said, I'd like to see an analysis of what the financial system would look like if we applied that sort of logic to all asset classes and included various entities like corporations, trusts, etc., before I'm fully sold on it.

I really appreciate the desire to reign in the massive wealth inequality in the world today. I'm just wary of these sorts of 'hackish' approaches. I think of the law like I think of source code. It should be clear, consistent, analyzable, and come with a clear set of testable goals and intentions.
Luckily Bitcoin has second layer systems being built on top of it, which allow it to leverage that 2-3 on-chain transactions per second to process thousands of millions more transactions off chain either through decentralized systems like Lightning or centralized custodial wallets.
Knowing where my build artifact came from and when is at least a good two orders of magnitude more important to me than my own binaries being reproducible.

Part of the reason why "reproducibility" has taken so long to appear is precisely that its use cases take a long time and a lot of scale to appear. I approve of distros pursuing this goal, but haven't got a lot of use of it for the stuff I build, which is why I have a very similar build script.

Please don't reply with a simple recitation of the putative benefits of reproducibility (I'm well aware) or some wild "what if" scenario relating to my own binaries that will occur once every few centuries on average. I have had multiple real problems in my life where not knowing the exact source checkout and time something was built has been a problem. I've only really once had a problem where I would have felt better if I could have reproduced something exactly, to be sure that the source and random unattributed binary were in fact the same, and even that ended up only as a "I would have felt better." (And now that I think about it, if said unattributed binary had just said what commit it was built out of that would have been fine too....) I am much more interested in solving the problems that actually manifest than problems that someone somewhere hypothesizes I may someday have.
Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K
Artists are marks in the NFT scam, paying large NFT minting fees with very few actual NFTs being sold to recoup costs.

It's not like artists are lacking ways to monetize apart from NFTs. If a popular artist can extract value from their art through it, more power to them, but the median artist is losing money from the enterprise.
Agreed… this is super specific to php and tbh I’m surprised anyone is still using it in industry
Frank Herbert liked Lynch's Dune. So there's that.

I'm also in the camp of having liked it. Maybe because I saw it young, but I'll still watch it today. There's a ton of memorable scenes and quotable lines.
When in a gold rush, sell shovels.
1. Kill the insane Opportunity Zone tax dodge.

2. Kill GRATs. I personally know of at least one person who has been passed a gain of over a billion dollars through that nonsense. And that was a decade ago.

Oh, but wait, both of those things affect major donors...

Yeah, never mind, let’s just waste lots of time distracting the populace with something with a catchy name — “the Billionaire’s Tax” — that will keep lots of polarized discourse going while absolutely nothing gets accomplished.
I got so pissed off about crypto scam bullshit that I made a picturebook about it: https://gum.co/marvelousmoneymachine

It's pay-what-you-want and suitable for all ages.
Had the same reaction, essentially since the article goes on in length about how the Brooksville mine turned into an environmental disaster that cost taxpayers tens of millions to clean up. It's not like there's no history here.
I have a ton of mixed feelings on this one, but by no means do I think Apple was "Wrong".

If apple was wrong, so is/was Google and Microsoft.

Realistically there is no reason USB-C could not be what all 3 were pushing it to be, the standard port for most things. Especially with more and more being wireless.

I know people constantly complain about dongles, but when I plug in my laptop to work work area I have a single plug and it connects 2 monitors, my keyboard and mouse, webcam, ethernet, etc. That is... really nice. But is also something I don't need when I am traveling. The only dongle I carry with me is my ethernet adapter and even then, I am most likely using wifi.

That all being said, it think where this fell apart was a few things.

The first being the transition period, that was always going to be painful. As a large industry of cheap products was carried kicking and screaming into the future while also needing to maintain support for older products.

The second being... the USB-C "Standard" is a complete mess. Mixed with manufactures cutting corners all over the place on cables.

Maybe it was too soon? Idk, ultimately the conversation would have never happened had these companies tried to push it but even with all of their backing. The industry did not follow this time.

I wish it had, but I guess here we are... just as fragmented as we always were, if not more.

TLDR, Apple was not wrong. The industry just did not follow as Apple (and others) were pushing for.
I had a student who used Apple Chancery in her IDE, no joke.
Can someone please point me to a concise description of what an NFT is? The usual answer is "DUH! It's a non-fungible token" as if that explains everything.

I get that it's an image (maybe any digital media?) and it is associated with an entry on a blockchain somewhere but then I get confused.

For example, that beautiful graphic you're going to print and hang on your wall can still be copied just as readily as any other digital file so how is all that money someone paid for it worth anything?

If you copy it and change the color of 1 pixel (indistinguishable from the original) then reissue a new NFT, does that count?

=========================================
EDIT: I won't pollute the thread with individual replies but thank you everyone for the wisdom and insight. I have a much better picture of how it all works now.
> That said, the only reason DNC senators have proposed such a thing is that they have Manchin and Sinema to prevent it from actually being voted on by the 30 other DNC senators who would also oppose it for the sake of their donors.

No the only reason this bill is being proposed is because Sinema was a hard "no" on the corporate tax rate hike that was in the original bill, but she was amenable to Warren's 'Billionaire tax.'
It’s an incomplete version of an idea that already exists: Patreon et al.

NFT solves none of the actual challenges: the payment processing, the community building, the comms channel.

If the goal is to fund starving artists, NFT doesn’t actually solve any problems.
The billionaire tax would just restore things to normality.

Throughout human history people with money they have always hid themselves, lying low, slowly distribute their riches across a myriad of heirs and nominees in order to conceal their true net worth.

This makes sense both from a self-preservation point of view as well as a quality of life perspective. You don't want to second guess any social relationship that you have and think if people are just orbiting you because they want a piece of the pie.

In America none of that happens, you have 5 different billionaires having their own space program.

People inflate their number to get in the Forbes 400 , not the other way around, there is a sense of impunity about being rich and the notion is that you can buy your way out of any problem if only you can throw enough cash at it.

I am not saying that a billionaire tax on unrealized gains is good or bad, but looking at our history as a specie it would just be NORMAL.

What's abnormal and unprecedented is what is going on right now
Agreed. You could tax proceeds from this kind of loan as income and then make repayment tax-free. Or I suppose just tax that too as a form of disincentive.
Wouldn't that also force the less wealthy to sell their assets to pay the tax? They have less cushion and fewer assets, so they would be more likely to need to sell and reduce the compounding they could achieve, leading to less upward mobility.
>Can you think of any other easy feature that would get Photoshop into the headlines?

Reminds me of, circa 2017-2018, when anything with blockchain or ICO or the like would make a headline. The most obvious ones that stick in my mind were the "Long Island Iced Tea" rename[0] and the KodakCoin.[1]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin
But it's not a legal one. NFT doesn't really solve anything.

What was the actual problem in the first place?
Influencers that want to earn more?

Green washing is also a big problem in the NFT market.
Show HN: Notivize – Add product and user engagement notifications to your app
<Raises hand> I for one!
A few of them have to make money, otherwise the ponzi scheme blows up right away. Some of the artists involved likely understand that dynamic and they are betting on being a early adopter, getting paid and getting out before the flames consume the house. Some of the victims are merely aspiring coconspirators, if not most.
The username of the actual Element CEO is "Arathorn".
So much spin on HN today, i hope you all read this before poo-pooing it.

" The tax proposal would apply to just about 700 taxpayers, Democrats say — people who earn more than $100 million per year or who have more than $1 billion in assets for three straight years. It would require them to give the IRS a detailed account of how much the assets they own gained or lost each year, a process called mark to market."
In the long run, it becomes profitable to dig up landfills and recycle everything (see aluminium cans). Eventually, they'll dig up landfills to recover the old materials.
Other countries with their own health systems have independently confirmed these issues.

A friend of mine that happens to be a medical professional in a European country told me of the clotting related issues starting to show up in their own numbers far in advance of it being likewise confirmed in VAERS too.

That is why we know about these issues.

Country A and Country B have problems that show up, they ask which vaccine, which vector, etc, and they draw conclusions.