skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a problem of choosing not to enforce it.

Some rich person says “teehee, I actually have no money! It’s all in (some country)!” and the US gov says “oops! Guess you really are poor!”

They take a letter of the law instead of a spirit of the law approach with taxes. If they start seizing mansions because clearly they have no money and the only way they could afford it is through ill-gotten means, people will start paying. Police already take cash from the wallets of random people because they assume it’s illegal—meanwhile the IRS knows full well where your money comes from but they pretend to believe the tricks of the mega rich.

Plus the IRS literally have access to banks around the world. You’re required to give them proof of foreign bank accounts or face imprisonment and other countries comply with IRS requests. They can literally seize wealth and know it’s yours. They choose not to.
You can drag&drop lots of older (ActionScript 1 & 2) Flash-Binaries into https://ruffle.rs/demo/
Lots of them "just work". Also lots of SWF-Archives on archive.org to download and try.
Some counterpoint thoughts:

> - consensual trades are win win (you want a sandwich, I want $5 let’s trade! And we both win)

Not all trades are exactly "consensual". The sandwich seller can probably live without selling a sandwich, I can't live without food, so the seller has far more power to set the price. Existing power imbalances make trades less fair, specially with essential goods (and that includes jobs, which is why a lot of poor people end up massively underpaid).

> - something about the model is overly simplistic, like it produces a statistical distribution that looks like extreme inequality from randomness, but lots of different sorts of distributions can emerge from aggregating random (for eg a normal distribution several dice and looking at their totals).

HPSquared said this in another comment [1] and I agree: what matters on this model is that every step is not additive but multiplicative, which is what leads to the inequality.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34091339
If you consider the ideological philosophy of anarchy as 'leftism terror', then you only serve to out yourself as having no idea of the tenets of anarchism itself.

He is also not saying HN readers should lean that way, but having an intellectual and enlightened view on life, often means having read up on multiple ideologies, theories or philosophies. Which if the HN reader base would generally consider themselves well read, then it is quite possible many would know about one of the most famous political and philosophical minds in history, Petr Kropotkin.
Things can be simple to fix but actually getting people to implement the fix won't be there are incentives against it.

They are two different problems.
No, not directly but Nim supports async. Effectively it turns the function into an Iterator whose state can be passed around. Those are put into Futures.

Its possible to write your own async engine, or you could use the iterator yourself if you really wanted. It's actually not too hard.

Checkout: https://github.com/status-im/nim-taskpools

Edit: also Nim compiles to C, so its possible to do whatever you can do in C with a bit of fiddling. Also theres coro https://nim-lang.org/docs/coro.html
Getting OT here but at least the end-user cost in that case is some kind of "normalized impact on society" if you're looking for a number to compare different busts with.
Yes, but that is often calculated incorrectly. Like it might take 4 hours to make beans, and people say that. But really, it takes 15 minutes. This is the amount of time to sort and was the dried beans, put the beans in the water. That's it. Then you let the beans simmer for 3 1/2 hours. But people will count the entire 4 hours as time they spent making food. Not saying you do that, but many do. Also, the more one cooks, the faster it gets. First time it might take 45 minutes to make something, but after you make it 15 times, it gets down to 10 minutes. Also, it is about making staple foods, like pasta. Of course if you make some complex dish for the first and only time, every night, that will take a lot of time. But if one has many easy dishes to make, then it is fast. I like oil and balsamic vinegar dressing - to make it from scratch takes me less than a minute to make a big jar of it that will last me 2 or 3 months.

It really does not take too long to make one's own food, if one does it correctly.
> What does VMT mean?

Variable modified types, they were introduces with VLAs (variable length arrays) in c99. C11 made both optional, and C2x mandates only VMTs.
What impresses me more is that the ship is under Norwegian flag and not "Cocoa and Burbuda Islands".
The model is zero-sum, there are no gains from trade, the people just speculate. In this context, trading is harmful and this type of activity should be banned, or at least heavily taxed.

If economic activity is valuable, but leads to inequality, then you need some framework to trade off the value created vs. the social benefits of greater equality.
I'm not for sure I agree, but that's a separate issue than de-concentrating wealth. What to do with tax funds, how to appropriately distribute them, etc. is another discussion. Just because those problems exist, we should allow more and more wealth to be concentrated?
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This has been my mindset all along, I called them weekend projects. I write small programs or scripts, if I find the time, for fun or should I say for myself. Last fun script I wrote was in Python to check if it is already my birthday if not it will return a dad joke from an API (python3 isitmybirthdayyet.py). Last week I wrote a small RSS reader iOS app with the Feedbin API for myself, so I could read it natively.

My point is these small fun projects kept me young.
SciFi prompt: A future version of this enzyme that can render plastic down to digestible oils is engineered into gut bacteria.
If anyone's unaware: famous Ukrainian anti-anti-semitist/anarchist revolutionary who lead a peasant revolt that supported farmer communes in much of Ukraine before getting crushed by both the White and Red Army

pro-russian tankies hate him
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The cheat code is silicone baking mats.
As a practical matter, it is very difficult to tax wealth (and even harder to do it fairly.) I don't think the issue is lack of will but lack of plan that actually works in the face of assets with unclear value and/or difficult to liquidate.

And this doesn't just affect the ultra rich but people like SWE too. How much is the stock you have in the non-public company you work at really worth? SWE are probably one of the groups most likely to be "paper millionaires" and hence screwed by such a system.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/clutch-flywheel-...

A flywheeel is basically a bomb in all but name.
A diaeresis mark is not used in English. You claimed that it was. That's what I'm saying. There is no ë used in English.

> Sorry mate, but an umlaut does not represent the same thing as a diaeresis!

You're going to need to decide what you're talking about. The diacritic of two dots positioned above a letter is most often called "umlaut" in English. It is not normally called "diaeresis", but sometimes it is.

There is a phonological phenomenon also called "umlaut", which is related to the name for the mark in that the mark was historically used in German to indicate the phenomenon. The relationship is dead now; German ö is just a different letter from German o.

Don't get confused between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut_(linguistics) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut_(diacritic) .
on spot and futures, the UI is smooth on both web and mobile. they owned a separate wallet mobile app that is also smooth as well.

same great user experience can be seen on their developer api and otc user interface (otc.ftx.com).

the otc interface is somewhat comparable with b2c2 (another otc desk)
Maybe, but what's the alternative? Stand in line for 20 minutes so you can deal with a surly customer service person who's too busy playing on their phone to help you, and has a bad attitude too?

Here in Japan, it's entirely different. Customer service people are always polite, so it's always pleasant dealing with them, though westerners frequently complain that such people here aren't "chatty" like Americans; instead they're really efficient and don't waste peoples' time with chit-chat (which in America, frequently seems to result in making people wait longer unless there's only one customer). But I also don't see the segregation in society that I saw in America.
But as always they would deactivate FSD / AP 1 second prior to the crash, so that they can claim at the moment of the crash FSD / AP was not active
Can you list a few modern frameworks? Just curious, I was using Play a few years ago but that was Scala.
It can be. I would've loved to pick up Rust, the patterns for code structuring etc. that are evolving from it seem interesting to me. But getting the syntax right is just fairly difficult compared to other languages and at some point you just lose your patience. At the same time there's not enough learning material that works for me to dive into the deeper contexts to make it "click" for me.

Contrasting that to my experience with nim, I could get going almost immediately and thus didn't get held up much with the basics, which gave me more time to dive into more interesting concepts that it provides, like templates, compile-time-evaluation (new for me as a pythonista back then), macros etc.. I still got stuck here and there, mind you, but that was for more complex question than "How do I get a config from place X without the compiler yelling at me", and the discord was very helpful for that.
Making a big byte array and using some very basic jvm instructions will give you a very low-level compilation target for basically any language.
I know about ? in Rust - the one thing that isn't very clear to me is how often it is enough. That is, with Go, it's quite typical to do something like:

result, err := call()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("Error while trying to call: %v", err)
}

Essentially manually building a stack trace. If just doing "return err", you end up with calls to a REST service failing with messages like `couldn't parse "" as int` even in internal logs, which isn't helpful. With exceptions (in any language except C++), the stack trace is often decent enough.

Does ? add any kind of context implicitly, or do you have to actually pattern match manually to add context?
If you increase the payoff of the bet, it might prevent the poorest from becoming destitute, but the relative effect (where wealth concentrates in a few people) intuitively would still be present.
Only the super-rich in America feel wealthy. Everyone else is trapped in an unwinnable game of keeping up with the Jonses. I can almost guarantee that if you actually listed the concrete reasons that you don’t think of yourself as wealthy, they would seem ridiculous to the majority of middle class Americans. (Although obviously I don’t know your personal circumstances. I am thinking of the general case of a seniorish software engineer working for a big tech company in SF.)
None of that matters if your concern is to redistribute wealth. It's all excuses to keep it concentrated.
That doesn't seem to follow, unless intelligence and ability to make money are mostly uncorrelated, which I think is a very strong claim that needs to be substantiated.
Guns don't kill people, hotel rooms kill people
Because spending money on education doesn't equate to better outcomes. It creates more bureaucracy, bigger councils, etc.

Teacher pay is still abysmal, especially considering the fact they are expected to act as guardians and even security these days. And you'll never get better outcomes if you can't attract smart people to actually teach, no matter how much you pay the superintendent.

US public education should be called what it is, a government sponsored day care.
They want as many voters as possible to feel that they won't be among those who will be taxed. You're in the minority.
> more inheritance tax

won't fix anything

> don't let them get loans without taxes againt their illiquid wealth

You don't want to fix this. It would kill repurchasing agreements as a collateral damage, making access to credit more difficult and expensive for everyone. Not to mention HELOCs. You might say, "ok, exempt HELOCs", but that's just an arbitrary goalpost.

The economy is organic, you can just use a wrench and have a go at a couple of cogs and expect there to be no knock-on effect.
looks nice....

how do you do actual encryption of the data?
english orthography is so fucked up it's kinda fun seeing people desperate try to hold together different conventions loosely mapped to the phonetics they're supposed to represent
I guess it would be nice if they had iOS apps too. Probably various technical/legal reasons though.
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My partner is a teacher, and the money certainly does not reach educators or kids in need. It mostly gets stuck at the administrative level or is spent for expensive football teams. Hell, there is still a national debate about kids going into debt to pay for lunch
Of course! But MY favourite billionaire is definitely not like the other billionaires..
I'm talking about unchecked exceptions. It's not about what is possible it's about what patterns a language encourages. It feels like we've lost the thread of discussion.

- You say there is no difference between unchecked exceptions and Go's errors
- I say yes there is since Go forces users to handle errors explicitly
- You say that's not technically true in all cases.

OK. Yes. I should have said "nudges users" instead of force. It's a shortcoming of the language. It is still really hard for me to see unchecked exceptions and value-based error handling as the same thing. One of them encourages doing nothing and hoping that bubbling up is the right answer. Very often, especially in a multi-threaded context, it is not.
You tax capital gains, interest income, dividends, royalties etc etc etc exactly the same as income from labor is taxed.
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Intel changing up its GPU strategy with a pretty big reorg, which to me feels a bit like backing rather than doubling down, as they try to spin it.
It's not play if you're doing it for such reasons. To do it for play means just to do it for the activity itself with no ulterior motive (including career growth). Similar to kicking a ball against a wall - you do it because it's fun not because it will get you somewhere. The problem is everyone is trying to get somewhere these days (essentially to find security in a world that doesn't really offer any).
About gcc ignoring it: gcc doesn't check array bounds at all, even `int x[2]; x[9] = 1;` doesn't produce a warning.
The problem is, like 24fps is that film grain makes things feel "filmic".

The hobbit doesn't feel like a film in 60fps. it feels like a play, or something from TV.

Now. to your point, that motion smoothing stops this, its not strictly true. There are still artefacts that happen because its film. this then becomes the marker for "film".

> The meaning of art is up to the viewer, not the artist.

yes, but the delivery is key. your point about imax doesn't really add up. Unless you are printing out IMAX prints (which most people don't) they you'll at least do a technical grade for the IMAX to make it look like the version that the DoP/director agreed.

The House of Dragons chose to make it look like that. Mainly because I suspect the director was trying to chase the fashion for removing colour from everything. Grading, like most things is prone to fashions, and pushing against "what came before" is par for the course. Some people do it well, others are shite.
>Have never ever seen homes go like hot cakes.

Take a look at toronto or vancouver, to name a couple places in my country where no one has had to sell at or below sane asking prices for years.

>You have time, you have lots of time. The question here really is do you want to buy a home? If yes, there is always something you can do about it. You might not get a million dollar home, but theres always something you can buy.

You were originally saying that landlords buying up houses doesn't affect other people being able to buy a house. Sure, if we move the goalposts far enough and say 'it doesn't stop you from erecting 4 walls and a roof somewhere in the world', you're right. However, if you want a house anywhere near where it's likely to be of practical use, there is no question that landlords/investors scooping up houses absolutely affects those who need a house NOW and who are without the capital to compete against millionaires with multiple properties.

Also, if you say I/we 'have lots of time', that's implying that there's no marginal cost to having to rent for all that time. If that were the case all the time, why would anyone bother buying a house?
> Porsche viewed flywheel storage as more durable than lithium-ion batteries in the extreme power charge/discharge cycles of racing

A few years ago supercaps were predicted to be in every car for storing shorterm energy from breaking, since then Tesla sold Maxwell Technology [1].

Have any car makers deployed a different technology than Lithium?

1: https://passive-components.eu/tesla-sells-maxwell-technology...
>2 seconds later she hit a bump on the pavement with her foot and fell down hard (she even made a loud splash sound as she hit the ground). No, she didn't have a helmet. Should she have?

Did she hit her head? Humans are hardwired by millions of years of evolution to protect themselves in falls using their arms and hands; they generally handle falls very well. Humans have not evolved to handle riding bikes, and using your hands to protect your head in falls isn't instinctive there like it is while running or walking.

>No, its not. The person who says this probably hadn't ridden a bicycle in their life, or if they have, not often and not recently.

This is just stupid and argumentative. Road surfaces are frequently bad and people make mistakes.

>Of course, if you are afraid of falling or uncertain of your skills on the bike, wear a helmet by all means.

Yes, because I'm sure you're such a perfect rider who never makes a mistake.
Yes, I learned that at some point. You say "had" - I hope it's not renamed / destroyed?
What's wrong with saying good riddance to the super rich moving abroad? I'm tired of these threats of the rich and corporations saying they'll just go elsewhere. I say go for it and call their bluff.

They still need to interact with developed countries economic systems, so still punish them there.
They are starting for a very good source material, but it still grainy - even from highend digital cinema cameras.
Well… except that many super rich had failed businesses, went bankrupt etc?

I used to kinda think along the lines of this post. However, when examining the performance of top investors for example (eg Buffet, Templeton, Marks etc) it is clear it isn’t mainly luck.
> The economy is organic, you can just use a wrench and have a go at a couple of cogs and expect there to be no knock-on effect.

What do you even mean by "organic"? Of course governments can, do and should intervene in the economy. And yes, there should be a range of experts evaluating policies before they are encated. I never stated the opposite.
If your simple problem hinges on solving a harder problem to resolve it successfully , then it's not a simple problem.
The top 1% pay 40% of the federal tax revenue. The top 5% pay 60%.

California has the highest income tax at 13.3%, the highest federal tax rate is 37%.

That makes the top income tax rate 50%.
I do not know where the inspiration cam from but that e with inverted commas is not a German letter
The coin flip game on this as an illustration of the gamblers ruin concept.
It is the real reason casinos make so much money.
People think they are taking off the small margin in the form of the house edge, but that is there really just to speed the process up a little bit, and to stop someone coming along with way more money than the casino and beating them at their own game.
They are able to make huge profits by regularly taking all someone's money, or atleast all of what they are willing to risk.
It's because of who is in control, who has also brainwashed the poor into "someday this could be you living this lifestyle".
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> Although such an unequal distribution may seem unfair, it might be justifiable if it turned out that the most successful people were indeed the most talented/competent. So what did the simulation find? On the one hand, talent wasn't irrelevant to success. In general, those with greater talent had a higher probability of increasing their success by exploiting the possibilities offered by luck. Also, the most successful agents were mostly at least average in talent. So talent mattered.

> However, talent was definitely not sufficient because the most talented individuals were rarely the most successful. In general, mediocre-but-lucky people were much more successful than more-talented-but-unlucky individuals. The most successful agents tended to be those who were only slightly above average in talent but with a lot of luck in their lives.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-rol...
This focus on super-rich individuals is totally misguided. What's important is the economic system. Rich individuals are simply a nauseating side-effect of capitalism. Nobody really likes it, but there simply isn't anything better. The burden of proof is on the complainers. Even Marxist-sympathetic Peter Singer gets it.

>Look, I think it would be better if you had an economic system in which we didn’t have billionaires—but the productivity that billionaires have generated was still there, and that money was more equitably distributed. But, really, there hasn’t been a system that has had equity in its distribution and the productivity that capitalism has had. I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

http://archive.today/2021.04.25-160837/https://www.newyorker...
The article mentions that instituting a 0.5% tax made the coin flipping exercise much fairer. Since the income tax rates in the USA are way higher than that, it seems like I might be able to conclude that the USA treats people fairly. Articles like this one are hinting that people only improve their lot in life through luck. While luck does play a part in life, focusing on that seems counterproductive to me.
> it gives the impression that it's even possible to define functions that cannot fail

Do you mean that e.g. an out-of-bounds error will panic? If that's the case, you can always access arrays/slices with some checked access, that will return a Result/Option and cannot panic. But it would be a PITA if you couldn't skip that.
Maybe start by not allowing this "stepping up" of the book value of asssets without paying taxes when assets are inherited:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped-up_basis

That means rich people can accumulate generational wealth without ever even paying capital gains taxes. And during one's lifetime, one can get liquidity out of assets by borrowing against them without selling them.

The rule also seems strange from an outside perspective. Either the book value of assets should be kept the same when inheriting (I believe Germany does this), or the book value should be changed to current market value but the difference be taxed as gains (I believe Canada does this).
that's just electrical regen braking
Yes I mean failure of the cron script itself.
If the EC2 goes down entirely there are other alerts you can set up on AWS, such as Cloudwatch or similar.