skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously a 4 year old is much more together than a 2 year old. But we're talking about a fundamental difference so great that no memories can be preserved. That's a high bar.
What you tried to do was move the definition of "rich", i.e. the target of ire, to way, way, way above what most Americans consider rich.

"Rich and paying no income tax" -> largely the top end of the top end. The vast majority of rich people pay lots of income tax.

I'll go out on a limb and guess that you land in the category that most Americans consider rich, but you think attention should really be directed towards the ultrawealthy. Totally reasonable and capital gains obviously needs to be the center of that discussion, but let's not try to get there by just moving the line of what "rich" is and helping people delude themselves into thinking $300k+/yr is middle class.
Sorry I'm not a native speaker, the way it's written makes my mind itch and want to do something else, and I can read a lot of dense crap.

But it's starts from nowhere, without context, is this fiction? Opinion? AI rambling? Why should I keep reading?
As an artist, this sort of shit makes me apoplectic. I’m frustrated that society has no way to compensate people that do creative work for a living other than the same mechanism that virii like this extract money from other people’s work using a paper turnstile and heavy penalties for violations. And between the two kinds of entities, only one realistically even has the significant resources needed to engage the mechanism. I understand that a lot of folks in tech consider both of these usages to be largely equivalent but that’s a different conversation.
Space and weight. It saves on both while also being more flexible and presumably much simpler to install. Install times will save money at the factory and the space savings can be used elsewhere. In theory it can also be more reliable. It may also be able to provide smarter brake pressure to come to a stop quicker and more safely. The only real downside will probably be brake feel. You aren’t going to get a lot of feedback, but for day to day driving that isn’t much of a concern.
“Guy gets tired of doing whole ass job in his spare time”

Jk, thank you for your work!
Not here to judge anyone... but this might be too much for me :P
Discussion (762 points, 1 day ago, 775 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076710
What source(s) are there for cursor's growth rate/revenue ?
Wow, that's really quite something!
I think a lot of your thinking here is assuming somewhat frequent use - and I agree when you are going to be using the tools often, just get a decent or good one. For a lot of tools though - well lets just say my tool chest has an awful lot of things I need that one time 20 years ago, and haven't needed since. Often I don't know which tools are going to be in that one-use category, so the algorithm "buy the cheap one, upgrade when needed" has overall saved me more than enough money to upgrade to the really good version even for tools I use relatively rarely.
How? (not illegal Instagram schemes where you use a Bahamas company).
That's javascript ecosystem in general. A revolving door of breaking changes and yet another web framework. Not to mention many many many tiny libraries.

To give you a simple example.

"What's the best web framework these days for fullstack JS work?"

Ok, Hono, found that. Installed it, great, it even runs well with Bun. Holy shit, it seems like JS is catching up! But now how do I talk to my database? Hono has no such thing, you're on your own.

Ok, let's use Prisma but setting that up there is no one-true-way, it's all blog posts and praying you followed the right one. Also Prisma seems to now work with joins?

Migrations? You set that up manually.

Deploying is another story.

Very painful.

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Compare to Laravel, Rails or Phoenix. All these things baked in, one blessed paved road to tackle the common things 99.9% of web apps need. We are blessed to have all this great work for free, right at our fingertips. People donated a lot of time and love into building them. I hope javascript one day reaches that level.

It's still cowboyitis out there.
You can click the "eye" button on the player list to hide/show a player. It's not very obvious, I reckon! Thanks for the feedback!
It might be true. But I know that the shady cop in my neighborhood could easily put in a request to my ISP to get some data about me. But he could never get the same data from the NSA. I'm not a terrorist, so I don't feel threatened by the NSA. The thing I need to protect myself against is corrupt law enforcement.
Yes, I am aware of this, and it's a separate problem - which won't be solved btw.
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make it a neovim plugin and I'll bite!
>any country that doesn't incentivize investment will quickly languish

And yet the US is pretty unique amongst countries in treating capital gains as wholly different from earned income, and taxed significantly less if at all.

Even as someone who benefits from it, I've yet to see a good argument as to why a working stiff should pay more taxes than someone who makes their income from investments. That's inherently regressive.
I can't even begin to count the number of codebases I've seen where developers rolled with this idea and ended up with royal spaghetti. Everyone thinks they can build these frameworks from scratch, but they overlook the unknown unknowns. Nearly every custom implementation of state management, complex forms, async flow management, etc I've seen in the wild is riddled with countless bugs that could've been avoided if they just picked a boring and widely used library. And I've seen plenty, because I'm usually the guy that gets called up when no one else can untangle it anymore.
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You were getting downvoted but you're right and I was wrong so I upvoted you. I was thinking a large portion of his compensation would have been in options, but it looks like they're all some form of stock units.

Over time, though, the lions share of Sundar's increase in wealth will come from appreciation of his stock, which will be in the form of capital gains. "Average" people don't have this luxury because they simply need to spend much more of their money to live, and thus most of their income (or increase in wealth) comes from a job.

FWIW I think a much fairer system would be to tax capital gains at income tax rates, but index the basis to inflation.
If you aren't a native English speaker, it makes sense you would struggle with this - it requires advanced reading comprehension. It's an essay from a first-person perspective that describes the author's feeling of existential dread from corporate make-work roles. It's written in a way that suggests the writer has worked in big-tech for a while.
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That is why many people become contractors/consultants/freelance when they are in the higher tax bands. Which was the point I was making, if people are being smart they will try to avoid the tax.
I'm suggesting that the dichotomy is "earns wages from labor" vs "earns income from assets". The difference of someone on the 2nd decile vs someone on the 1st decile is that the former looks at the price on the supermarket while the later doesn't need to. But the difference between someone on the top 1 percentile and the top 0.1 percentile is much starker.

> if the link had a 0.1% bracket it would show that the even smaller group pays an even higher percentage of the total income tax revenue relative to their size.

That's exactly the point: in absolute values, if you have a lot of concentration of wealth, those will come out to be most of the tax base. That doesn't mean that proportionally they are paying the same. As a matter of fact, someone that makes 100k being taxed 20% is actually more onerous than someone that makes 1M being taxed 20%. This is why most countries try to have a progressive tax system.
So many grifters in this space.

Someone I know desperately bought a $8000 red light therapy gun pitched to her by a chiropractor to help her father who had catastrophic brain damage from a stroke. :/

The gun has a dial on the side that lets you cycle through "Cancer", "Chronic pain", "Acute pain", and other ailments.

https://neuro-solution.com/

Whatever legitimacy red light therapy has, it's set back by the legion of people trying to make money selling confusing products, and it's hard to tell what's legitimate or not.

Between some red-colored LEDs glued inside an eye mask and those fan-cooled NIR array panels on aliexpress, what is legitimate and how do you tell? I think it's that confusion that seeds the field for people to say "none of it unless you're spending good money [on my product]."
Honest question - have you ever tried to use the actual web components API? It very much feels like a set of primitives to build a framework on top of. I can't imagine the amount of boiler plate you would need to write to just use web components.
Are we reading the same article? It's about this project:

https://crates.io/crates/scheme-rs
Its true that one purpose of a tariff is to protect domestic production. Another purpose is to hurt specific trading partners; when we impose an xx% tariff on China, companies who were previously importing goods from China may domesticate some production, but they may also just turn to e.g. Vietnam or Japan. A further third reason for tariffs is simply as a bargaining tool, as we've seen with Canada recently.

Sometimes you can tell what the real purpose of the tariff is based on what is being tariffed, and from who. For example, putting a tariff on Canadian energy: Canada is an ally of the United States who we generally don't have geopolitical interest in fighting with, and the United States has very, very strong domestic energy production and domestic energy consumption; so, the purpose is less about harming Canada, and more-so about protecting the domestic industry from being undercut by international partners. However, when it comes to electronics and microchips, we don't have the domestic production capacity, so the purpose is more aligned with: Yeah, we'll try to build that up, but we're most concerned about simply weakening China. If that production were to instead get built up in Vietnam or Japan because labor is cheaper, we'd have to see how the administration would react, but I suspect: there's a reason why we haven't levied similar tariffs against them.
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Well, yeah, you can go bug the authors of stories like this that someone (not the author!) at HN decides to post a link to that they need to change how they write for the benefit of an audience they aren't actively seeking, but I doubt that will do much good.

But its especially silly to post on HN that authors need to change how they are writing in a thread on an article that wasn't posted here by the author, and where there is no indication that the author is a member of the community.
Yes, but it's OK for the top 0.1% to shoulder a greater than 0.1% of the burden.

Why?

Because that enormously expensive army we're maintaining is protecting mostly their stuff. Setting aside the fact that, say, poor people, have no money; why should the poor pay an equivalent share to protect the wealthy person's property?
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If we're comparing to software estimation, I'd say the author's estimates were successful.

The job was done in a short amount of time, it likely didn't put the entire moving in project at risk.

Same with software estimation, nobody fills their day with back to back 10 minute tasks, or at least they shouldn't be. Rather you budget a day or a week to get a few tasks completed based on their rough size. And you're generally pretty safe for high level planning.
Also a shout out to Steel (https://github.com/mattwparas/steel), another Scheme-on-Rust which is more active.

The Rust community has given us at least two Scheme runtimes, several JS runtimes, but no Clojure interpreter yet that I'm aware of. There are a few zombie projects squatting on the name (seems common in Rust) but no viable releases.
No, that is actually exactly what I was describing. If it was innate, they wouldn't need to trial and error their way (i.e. learn) to proficiency. But indeed they do.

Your analogy was puberty, which in fact happens with development regardless of trial and error (i.e. learning).

The two developmental processes are clearly distinct. The distinction is that one is a process of learning and the other is not.
What made you shift away from Spyder to Jupyter notebooks and VSCode?
It's telling that nowhere in you ad hominem did you attempt to give a simplistic answer to an argument against your position that a middle-schooler could construct; they may not know the Categorical Imperative, but can intuit what's fair and what's not, and are old enough to know the world doesn't revolve around them.
Oh yeah lol I should have put it in quotes, but by the time I thought about it I was past the edit window! C'est la vie, I'll take the mockery.
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Reagan put tariffs on Harley Davidsons and steel in the 1980s.

These gave HD a little breathing room to restructure which helped them to bounce back (for maybe 30 years), but couldn't cure the natural limits of selling a nonessential vehicle for over $20k to middle-aged men who bought a hog only to fulfill their bucket list.

But Steel didn't benefit as much as HD, since the economics of pivoting giant ossified corporations like USX take decades -- especially when hampered by old men in gray flannel suits and self-destructive unions that had no idea how unsupportable their benefits already were.

The question remains whether tariffs really accomplish anything lasting, other than attract votes in the short term, for re-election.
The blog is inaccessible in my region, gives "406 Not Acceptable". I used to get around these geographic blocks by using a European server, but now I just close the tab - more and more it feels like begging.
NLRB going away will be a short term pain, but long term its better for the health of unions to not have to follow restrictive legal guidelines.
The rich favor free trade. It effectively allows them to outsource production to cheap foreign labor and increase their domestic profits. You’re incorrectly assuming a static system where production doesn’t shift to domestic sources.

Yes, tariffs increase prices somewhat for consumers. But they encourage domestic production and domestic jobs. Ask yourself—are Americans better from importing cheap Chinese crap than they were in the 1960s when stuff was made in America?
> OK, so you should advocate for changes in the estate tax.

Haha, good one. Good luck with that, you’re up against the most powerful and influential people and their lobbyists. Others have already tried. Maybe if the U.S. were a democracy instead of a plutocracy.
That's like saying the only thing that ever happens with AI is people losing their jobs to AI. And unlike Crypto, they didn't opt in and literally buy digital assets and send them voluntarily somewhere. They get negatively affected regardless of any choice they have made. "Get on board, or get rolled." People worldwide would lose a lot more money to AI growing than crypto growing, regardless of never opting in. It will just be a giant wealth transfer to the already-wealthy and corporations. What about that? Oh, crickets. Dismissal from the HN crowd.

If I am going to put my money at risk, I expect it to be at risk. I'm happy to have a regulatory framework around that from the SEC, for instance, and there are. For example, since the JOBS Act, the SEC has greatly expanded the opportunities to raise money in a regulated way. I even interviewed the actual authors of Regulation S at the SEC, where I go into depth for an hour about how to raise money legally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocrqgkJn4m0

FINCEN has also been putting out guidances to the crypto industry since 2013:

2013: https://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/pdf/FIN-2013-G...

2019: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/FinCEN%20...

So the regulations are there.

And frankly, most true adherents of crypto have been yelling from the rooftops that Celsius and FTX and Binance are not actual DeFi. They are not decentralized, they simply tell you to do the very thing crypto was designed to avoid -- i.e. send them money and "trust them". This is the very thing Bitcoin and Blockchain were designed to avoid -- the middleman.

FileCoin and UniSwap and Aave Marketplace and so on are real crypto, and they have never had any scandals and billions of dollars, bits, etc. are entrusted to them every day. Ditto for most altcoins and networks, including Hedera Hashgraph, Polygon, COSMOS, Polkadot, etc.

Any shade thrown at, e.g. Telegram's TON or Ripple's XRP, is due to regulators. I can understand why Facebook's Libra was shut down. But it has to do with them becoming "too powerful" and "not subject to national oversight". Kind of like Facebook and Twitter and Google themselves.
This has nothing to do with being rich, tons of middle class people in the U.S. apply these strategies. It is a benefit of being in business for yourself, which is offset by higher risk and higher direct costs for things like healthcare and services and equipment (because bigger companies get volume discounts).

A person paid on a W2 can’t do these things no matter how big their salary is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43091919

I give an example of how you would do it in the UK. Similar restructuring can be done in the US.
I've already said that I have found it to be useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083815

:so please explain why I haven't :-)
>the successes of SpaceX have had to come DESPITE Elon's management

Can you elaborate on this? AFAIK all other rocket companies without Elon have not been as successful. Also Eric Berger and multiple employees at SpaceX seem to disagree with your statement.
It was a deacon and I was not afraid of him. I was afraid of being drowned. I probably had some prior notion of drowning from being bathed by my mother. She was a very results oriented person that did not have any idea that the details of how you do things are important. It is almost certain that she accidentally got water in my nose at some point (possibly multiple times), which made me acutely aware of the notion of drowning. It is a memory that I likely elected to forget, although traces likely remained, which likely caused my fear during my baptism.

Coincidentally, I have had a lifelong aversion to putting my head below water. It made learning to swim impossible.
This is only true for founders who had inherent ownership in the company to start with. Your average dev getting comp'd with RSUs is taxed the same as if that was straight income.
I'm pretty sure voters actively want "conflict of interest" as long as their team is winning the conflict. Though it should be obvious to them that Elon is only pretending to be on their team.
Is this new political system akin to a banana republic? Because that’s what happens when you replace non partisan workers with loyalists in order to eliminate all accountability and oversight. Turning the rule of law into a partisan issue is a receipt for endemic corruption.

And even if you think the rule of law is antiquated, you’re misanthropically cheering the destruction of the largest institution in the world that 330 million people depend on for survival.
State management is absolutely a real front end concern. That's what you're going to be spending a lot of your time on; you better make sure you do it well. Code style is roughly a solved problem thanks to Prettier, as is build steps with Vite. And I don't know what you mean that "framework madness" is a fashion concern. You have to pick a framework, you can't just avoid that part.
Definitely not a soldering iron (at least on UK plugs). Kitchen scissors in a pinch (or teeth in a real pinch) and presumably a couple of screwdrivers is in everyone’s toolkit if you own a house.
Just realized that I had posted a non-old.reddit link from mobile. My mistake.

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/nyocKWohon
I have not seen anything resembling a revenue projection. I have not seen any projections on how much import substitution we can sustain. Trump has persistently insisted that exporters pay tariffs. He calls trade deficits subsidies. I have seen no indication or intimation that he actually understands anything about trade policy. This entire thread is more thorough debate than is happening in the White House.
You can skip lifetimes in the beginning, and I think that's the sane thing to do, if you come from a GC languages.

Borrow checker, well, this actually includes lifetimes. But let's say "basic ownership and basic borrowing", there is no way around starting with that, and it should be a point to learning rust.
if you are curious about the breakloop as I was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35693916
A simple geometry question that fools almost everyone
The solution is available if you look but this one gave me a good chuckle to myself.
Maybe read some from the top, then some from the bottom. The person ultimately quit the job as was expected. The story is relatable.
> Sounds like an excellent engineering principle

Then you are wildly mistaken about the field of engineering.

Imagine needing to add back 20% to a bridge because you removed too much, or a rocket ship, or a team of nuclear scientists (like is actually the case here).
Probably my complex SQL is your medium-complexity SQL. SQL is not a big part of my current project.
Also free of blame, since the increases can be labeled "Trump Tarif Surcharge".
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That's a red herring because it ignores the part where they could have done the same things spending a tiny fraction of the money.
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> It's like recommending someone morbidly obese go for a run

To be frank, this is a dumb point. The morbidly obese person probably can’t even run for 30 seconds. It won’t destroy their joints for the rest of their life. Suggesting activity over inactivity is good advice for basically every human alive.
If I have to read a 1 page essay to understand that an LLM told me "I cannot answer this question" then you are officially wasting my time. You're probably wasting a number of my token credits too...
The politics in the comments here are really toxic. What’s happening to HN?

This is the largest computer cluster the world has ever seen.

Can someone please post interesting comments about things I can learn?
Good! They had losses because they were negligent in maintaining their infrastructure AND BURNED DOWN LARGE PARTS OF THE STATE.

A power company is a natural monopoly. Every dollar of profit it makes is because the state allowed it to.

The whole damn company should have been nationalized after the fires, it's nuts that we now pay 3x+ the national average for electricity to cover their mistake. It now costs more to charge a Tesla to fill a 12gal gas tank in a "green" state - and gas isn't exactly cheap here either.
Love to see startups continue to try to tackle the problem of the PM who refuses to use GitHub to review docs changes as Markdown diffs, and instead copies and pastes the published docs site into Google Docs (or a screenshot of it into Figma) so they can comment on it.