skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great you are familiar with the stuff, but you against skirted the question I asked. I'll repeate what is so bad about inequality? To be clear I don't think it's good either, and I would not be opposed to all manner of wealth taxes. But just saying "It's bad, duh", "MMT is a con for Mosler" doesn't give me anything concrete to respond to.

I mean really, would would you want me to say in response? Mosler would need a time machine to con Abba Lerner or Kalecki.

> Then consider that none of the social democracies that have large safety nets use MMT principles and all of them run fairly balanced budgets for a reason. That reason is not lack of knowledge about fiat currencies.

A good reason? The Euro is constitutionally ordoliberal and fucking over Greece in a way that makes the even Krugmans cringe doesn't look like deep wisdom to me. German nuclear policy is also insane, fwiw. I don't see the EU as being especially enlightened at all, I just saw a better and stronger legacy of the postwar era than over here, and better voting systems on the national level.

I can well believe they don't get it same as over here by and large, and the left fringe is only "wiser" in the anglosphere as a consequence of being radicalized harder by pan-Anglo austerity. That's certainly not an accelerationism worth being proud of.

> ZIRP is also a great way to privilege land over productive investment, because when you increase the duration of assets, then you want more stable assets whose value is guaranteed at the expense of more risky (productive) assets.

So do the hardcore form LVT where we essentially, and instant-auction keeps self-assessments honest.

> Anyways, if you want to create a feudal society, then this is a good way to do it. But don't worry, there will be a job guarantee in there for you.

FWIW I am clearly not a 100% MMT orthodox person because I kept on bringing up UBI in a positive light. I do want to reduce working hours and the cultural valorization of work too and so I find pure JG kind of aethetically abhorent, even if it could put preasure on the workweek.

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To sum up, I fully grant that unchecked unequality could allow a new powerful elite to suddenly end the JG or UBI. But a world in which either of those are possible in the first place is a) quite different b) should allow for the type of politics that also go after wealth / massage private property / undemocratic workplaces / whatever your boogieman is.

But I believe that in great powers not savaged by war, there can't be good politics without tight labor markets, so to the extent there is a economic--political chicken and egg problem, Post-Keynesian ideas like this provide when of the few forseable bootstraps.

If we fail to do so, we will get to that neo-feudalism you fear by austerity anyways, as lax labor markets make capital investment including maintainence uneconomical, and we barrel towards a less productive more dysfunctional society.
> Many want to be seen as a writer, filmmaker or programmer or they want the rewards.

Some want to be. Some want to have been.
IMO the most elegant definition of pi and e comes from differential equations.

e is the base of the exponential function, the solution of

y = y'

pi arises from sine and cosine, which are the solutions to

y'' = -y
> programming focus too much on a specific problem at hand instead of learning the problem solving themselves

you got the importance and focus wrong. People don't care for problem solving skills - they care for the specific problem being solved. That's why they pay someone to fix it.

They don't want to pay someone to "learn" problem solving (because the stakeholder don't care).

Stackoverflow immensely helped this sort of use-case - may be at the detriment of quality - but i cannot deny that copilot is going to accelerate this use-case.
We should start by banning cigarettes. One of the greatest killers ever.
Maybe https://haxe.org and https://go2hx.github.io could be a little related?
1) we here in Germany, for non-standard connections (including using the grid as backup for local generation), have split price between max-power-reached-in-any-15min-rolling-average, and per-kWh.
The former is low-medium single-digits per kW and year, depending on whether you hook up to the 6kV (to neutral; low-voltage would be 240V) medium voltage or they have to keep a 6kV->240V 3-phase transformer ready for you.

At 20-30ct/kWh, this sums up to (assuming low-voltage) 0.3% duty cycle getting you to spend as much on energy as you spend on power/capability.

As for the substation: it doesn't care beyond possibly having to switch some taps that are used to correct for load-current-dependant voltage drop in that 6kV network, but I doubt they get anywhere near their delivered voltage limits in normal operation, anyways.
Just to be clear, Google console is a nightmare in terms of ui/ux. I had to use it a lot when publishing my games or creating ads for them.
It makes sense, you are indexing the function with concrete types to select your implementation. This is consistent with slices and maps.
That's why I included "flexible column widths" since it's definitely doable if you use a fixed layout table.
So your wife has access to [Amazon surveillance product x], therefore the existence of [trivially producible Amazon surveillance product y] can’t be possible.

Is your wife the head of the police intelligence unit of The World?
Does that means founders would lose control when they IPO?
Curious.

Doesn't this open up the possibility of debt slavery of the entrepreneur, to the government ?

If my stock in my biotech startup goes thru the roof and i get taxed X, i could perhaps sell some stock to cover. More likely, though, I will get into an installment plan with the IRS since the gains are so massive its going to be tough to sell so much stock without a discount, to pay the IRS off.

Next year, FDA does not approve my device, and my stock tanks to near $0. Now even if i sold all my stock, I can't even pay back the IRS for my tax debt.

I now have lost my company, but I have also incurred massive debt in the process. And if I am not mistaken, IRS debt is not dis-chargeable in bankruptcy.

Am I reading this wrong ?
Perhaps; although I'm not so sure. Another story from yesterday which didn't take off much, but I thought was pretty good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010941

I don't really see federation improve on that all that much, but maybe I'm just lacking in imagination.
The Space Shuttle is what happens with design by committee.
They tend to stagnate after the founder leaves.
"Isn't the "noise problem" with Go error handling the control flow rather than the lack of generics?"

It's both. Adding only concise flow control, such as with the ? operator, works poorly if all you can return is multiple non-generic values; various common permutations get awkward in that case. And as you point out Result<> doesn't achieve much without the concise operators. Rust has very successfully shown the benefit of the combination.
We used to use tables to style things that should be grids, now we use grids to style what should be tables. Back to square one :)
Whether you cut a pie into 10 million slices or 10 billion slices you still only have one pie in total in the same way that changing ten dimes for a hundred cents still means you have a dollar.

In a world where only 1,000,000 BTC remain in circulation if one person owns 500,000 of them means he controls half of the total value of BTC and that everyone else's coins will add up to the other 500,000 BTC, and being able to divide the each BTC into smaller and smaller amounts doesn't change that fact. Whether we can divide 500,000 BTC into 50 trillion Satoshis or 5 quadrillion "New Satoshis" worth 1e-10 BTC each doesn't make new wealth appear.
Forget cars. Think cigarettes. They kill way more people every year and even if we banned it tomorrow it would keep on killing for the next 20 years
So why would he uproot his entire life that he's happy with to move somewhere with a slightly lower tax rate when he can still support his relatively modest lifestyle a thousand times over?
Interesting idea and presentation. Writing streaks at streak.club seem to be built around a similar idea: https://streak.club/streaks/writing
People really have a tough time swallowing the fact that their hardware is backdoored, I'd just give up on trying to get HN to care. It's only attractive when you can Tweet it from iPhone and then go back to working on dotnet projects, so most people here will downvote you out of principle.
Are you worried about copyright issues from the code it produces?
>Nope, I didn't miss it, because it's not relevant. Giving money to poor tenants ends up in the pocket of landlords. Letting poorer people buy iPhones ends up in the money of shareholders and is realized as an increase in Apple stock price, etc.

That's a little extreme. It's fair to argue that giving money or benefits to poor people may not directly reduce inequality. More importantly, since progressive taxes do reduce inequality, it follows that the same level of spending with lower tax rates results in higher inequality than the spending with a balanced budget up to inflation.

But it also has positive externalities, such as improved public health. By contrast quantitative easing, almost by definition, has minimal externalities, although I'm partial to the argument that subsidizing real estate prices tends to increase inequality. These externalities disproportionately accrue to the poor because rich people tend to manage their personal environments in a way that insulates them from the winds of the societal landscape. Sometimes these are not easy to account for financially but that does not impugn their value.

So deficit spending on the war in Afghanistan, for example, is probably worse for inequality than deficit spending on education.
I hate it when people use thanks for everything. What, you're thanking me for reading the email announcing the re-org? It reads as mindless and weird.

I'm a "best" guy. It's never inappropriate. Whether I'm promoting you, firing you, reporting up on progress or problems, "best" always works.

(I'm not saying it's the best closer in all situations, but if you hate thinking about closers, it's the best generic choice. And the best boss I ever had always used it.)

Best,

Some guy on the internet
+1. URL encoding is also very relevant on the backend and has security implications, e.g., you want to be sure you are protecting against double encoded URLs. If you elide details like URL encoding using copilot that's dangerous.
Of course those people helped.

But there's no doubt who was in charge and who set the direction. From everything I've read about Apple, it was Jobs who was in command, and everyone else followed.
"Criminals would be in favor of this" is a discussion-killing point to make in basically anything about crime and law. Some other things that criminals would be in favor of:

- the right to not be obligated to testify against themselves

- the right to a speedy trial

- the right to a lawyer

- the ability to appeal judgments against them

- the ability to walk away free when the police have gathered evidence illegally, even when that evidence clearly proves they did it (the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine)

- the very idea that certain methods of gathering intelligence are illegal

- the idea that it's better for them and their nine buddies to go free than that one innocent person be punished

- the deprecation of the rack as a method of extracting confessions

and so forth. It's uninteresting that criminals support a justice system that is not fully skewed in favor of the government - people who care about a free and just society also care about those things, and those are the arguments to engage with.
Yes, before reading the article, I was going to suggest a book I recently read, but I see it's the rejected "the commonly held association" footnote 7 (Anthony, D. W. The Horse, the Wheel and Language), so this will be interesting to read closer.
Actually those songs main subject is heroin. And its usage by slavers, something like "epiousios".
> Following your link takes me to an Ubuntu page. The first step is to open the 'Activities' overview and start typing 'Mouse & Touchpad.' What's 'Activities'?

It is the screen that shows when you click the top left corner. It is very obvious: there's 'Activities' written right there.

> So I click on 'Activities' and it takes me to a Gnome page. What if I'm not using Gnome?

Most popular linux distros nowadays default to GNOME. If you're not using it, you're probably tech savvy enough to search for yourself and not need this kind of help.

> What if I'm not using Ubuntu?

Read above.

> Is it the same in KDE or Cinnamon? How about different Linux distributions?

Read Above.

> Linux has become ridiculous in this regard, and that's the reason Linux will never be more than a geek operating system.

Linux is no longer a geek operating system.

> A place where the tech savvy can praise it's features and crap all over Windows, which is only for the unwashed masses who aren't smart enough to see the obvious inferiority of Windows and the great evil empire that is Microsoft.

Yes... I think I have to admit that I bashed windows and (indirectly) microsoft in this thread... That was uncalled for and is more emotion and feelings than reason. Sorry for that.

Thinking a little better... I don't regret it. They deserve!

> Yes, the desktop revolution is here! Finally we are free of Windows. Please... Windows is easier and more user friendly than Linux. Full stop.

This one I can't disagree. Haven't been using much windows for a long time.
I would bet on the source probably being gitlab-ci configurations
You're not. There are a lot of good reasons why governments don't implement or keep unrealized capital gains taxes for long.
Nothing worse than seeing "thanks, John" at the end of an email because it's a signature that's auto applied. And it stands out because the font/size/color don't match the body of the email
Bored suburban cops. They have bait packages and everything around here. They caught the woman who stole the passports out of our mailbox, so they seem to be doing some good.

Amusingly enough, my wife's response to the website in the OP was "Gee, that's some pretty good ad copy for Ring. Should we get one?"
The idea of this is that private control of companies by independent minded founders should not exist. Only large financial companies like Vanguard and Blackrock should own large stakes in public companies. The practical effect is not to raise more tax revenue, it's to seize control from founders and give it to the financial oligarchy by forcing them to sell.

This is what happens in Russia, Eastern Europe, Saudi Arabia, and other corrupt oligarchies. When a business gets successful enough, the oligarchs of the countries show up and offer a deal that the person running the company can't refuse and force them to sell to the local oligarch gang at a bad price.

If they wanted to raise more tax revenue, they could just raise the top marginal income tax rate up to 98% or raise capital gains tax rates and not totally screw up things by forcing the confiscation of companies from their founders.
I think they only pick starred repos not truly in the wild code. That's not a guarantee of good code but still a decent check.
if you tax unrealized capital gains, it's only fair to return unrealized losses. so

> stock tanks to near $0

means you get all your paid tax back.
Once China shut down the miners they mainly moved to he US and some other jurisdictions. A buddy was bringing over a bunch of computers and gear from a Chinese miner to some town in Pennsylvania with relatively inexpensive electricity.
Thanks for the "less -F" tip! I didn't know we could do that, and I'll definitely find it useful.
This is also valuable for other things than fonts designed for programmers.

It would be nice if there were different set of fonts so that writers could also use it.

Also this concept of tournament can not only be generalised to other types of fonts, it can be generalised to different things entirely as well. Really like the idea!
It does, see L136-143.
Can we not start another "meme cure" based on sketchy "research?"
what does the government need all that money for anyways?
I think my experience has been sort of between you two. Maybe 1/3 times it's spot on. The rest of the time, there is some minor tweak I need to make (it gets a parameter or variable name wrong). I've yet to hit cases where the code it generates looks right but doesn't run as expected, thankfully.

I've only had it for about a week now but overall I'm happy with it. None of the code I'm writing is crazy cutting-edge stuff and in aggregate I'm sure it saves me more time than takes, including the time I spend reviewing and potentially changing the generated code.
The point of contention is how amazon and local police interact with each other, specifically what constraints amazon has on its data sharing with local police. Wife of an HN poster or not, testimony from someone who directly works with those constraints on a daily basis should matter, I believe.
Ah, so in effect, this bill is just a massive IPO disincentivizer.
Desalination would be more effective, if energy is not a limitation.
There's a vast gulf of knowledge in between a hedge funder famous for vulture capital restructuring and someone capable of effectively and prudently running a government department.

It's like saying "I prefer someone technical managing my mainframe" after appointing a web designer to the role.

I would literally have more faith in someone who had served as treasurer at a large church running the Commerce Department compared to someone like 83-year old Wilbur Ross.
Is the garbage collector still an undergraduate project, or did Pike hire Cliff Click while I wasn’t looking?
> Could not disagree more strongly and it seems many others in software agree, based on this comment section and the original article.

They sure do! But lots of people also agree, as evidenced by people continuing to use it. The world keeps turning, and we engineers keep using suboptimal things.

> I don't know that Ruby support is why it's widely adopted. Ruby is common in some spaces, but not a wildly popular language at all.

Ruby’s now gone out of fashion, but it was the most popular web development language (especially among startups) for the better part of a decade. It’s conjecture, but I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if Ruby brought YAML into a lot of shops by virtue of bundling it. Docker (and Docker Compose) came into full force a few years into Ruby’s peak, so it’s the egg to Ruby’s chicken. And we’ve all forgotten that Hashicorp was originally a Ruby shop!
I don't think your first sentence was necessary.
Interesting question. I tried to introspect a bit about the reason and I'm still not really sure. Maybe an American cultural influence of things like salaries being taboo.
“Thanks” has become such a disingenuous generic ending on e-mails that I’ve stopped using it altogether. And it hasn’t seemed to reduce my replies or cause people to think I’m “not nice.” I end every single e-mail with “-NW” and if I want to say “thanks” I do it in a real way in the body of the message.
Yeah, maybe they would count that.

Are those markets liquid enough to support large sales by the owners though?
Buffet/Gates/Bloomberg/Soros/Cuban have been saying for years the rich need to pay more taxes. Propose a tax increase that actually hits the super-rich and the screaming begins. Guess all along they meant the "other rich", anyone making 200k.
Could, but they don't. Someone with $1.2MM has enough that they could sustain a lifestyle that ~$36k/yr* could afford them. Someone with a NW of $20MM has enough that they could sustain a lifestyle of $600k/yr.

Those lifestyles are no where near being the same.

*based on a conservative 3% withdrawal, but the point stands irrespective of the withdrawal percentage.
> could the ID requirement be to enforce a no-fly list?

In part. I think its also an element of positive bag matching (making sure checked baggage is checked in by the same people that are on the plane.)
It depends, have we used this drug in veterinary medecine before?
It depends where you live. If you live in the US, you can sell your house, have 1M, move to a low cost housing part of the country, buy a house for 150k and have 850k leftover for retirement.

I live in Singapore. If I have a 1M house, I can sell it, have 1M. Now I have two choices. I can either choose to be homeless, or I can buy another house for another 1M and be stuck in the same position as I was in in the first place. That 1M is really just "on paper" if you live in a country where housing is equally expensive everywhere.
>"I am, &c.,"

I've never heard that before, is it cultural/regional? (Compared to US)
IMO apple’s peak ridiculousness had to be the Magic Mouse that required you turn it on its back and unusable in order to charge it.
Ayup. Exactly why a good and deep reading of the classics is imperative.

This is just the top of the iceberg:

https://www.writeraccess.com/blog/sayings-that-don-t-mean-wh...
It's not. The legal system doesn't have the consistency or dependability of code. A lot of legal 'results' (judicial decisions) are somewhat arbitrary, balancing abstractions with practicality and so on, but get attention because they include clear explanations of the basic issues. Other lawyers then treat those decisions as 'legal facts' by echoing the language and (basically) challenging other lawyers to come up with a more impressive explanation than the decision that they are citing.

Look into a famous recent copyright case, Cariou v Prince. Cariou is a photographer, who made a series of photographs of people in Jamaica an dpublished them in a book. Prince, an artist, liked them, and then treated them as raw material, basically printing them up large, adjusting them, and slapping some paint on top, and declaring it original art - indeed, he called it 'appropriation art' saying 'this is mine now.'

Cariou was upset (very understandably) and sued. The judge found for Cariou, said that Prince was a bullshit rather than a visual artist, and ordered the infringing work to be collected and set fire. Prince appealed, and his appeal succeeded, with the 2nd circuit saying it was "transformative" from the point of view of a "reasonable observer" and therefore fair use, because Prince had added a different aesthetic by turning the portrait photos into oversize graffiti-collage mashups. Cariou gave up at that point as he didn't have the resources or will to fight the case further, and eventually the two artists settled.

Look up the art and see for yourself. I think Prince does have his own aesthetic, but it's a very shallow one that just surfs on other people's work, not very different from drawing glasses and a mustache on top of an existing portrait and saying you made an original work. In many ways, what he's selling is his taste, and the modifications he makes to the picture are just a sort of signature that's semantically equivalent to saying 'I, Richard Prince, approve of this image' - the artist as curator-critic of others' work, if you like.

Back in the computing context, this decision substantially loosens the boundaries of copyright. Found some code you wish you had written and want to put out your own thing, but feel stymied by the license? Just refactor it, add a bunch of sassy comments, and make the interface (whether, CUI, CLI, or API) aggressively different - not necessarily better, just distinctive. If it's fun and whimsical, make it corporate and bog-like. If it's scientific and functional, make it silly and juvenile. Just futz with it a bit until you can plausibly say you either made it better or easier to read or more accessible/intercompatible in some way. Hell, slow it down a bit and say your code smells better because it cooks the JSON longer, and generates a bunch of 'useful' statistics that might seem superfluous to the original designers but are essentially interesting to you. You'll probably get away with it.