skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article seems to be misleading. Then again, I'm not a US citizen so I'm not as familiar with their parochial tax laws.

When one of my mutual funds disposes of an asset at a profit and recognizes a capital gain it simply retains the earnings and plows them back into some other capital investment, thus growing the net asset value per share (NAVPS). When I sell units of the mutual fund, I am subject to capital gains tax (or can claim a loss) as appropriate. From time to time a fund manager may choose to pay a distribution classed as a capital gains distribution, in which case it's income I treat as capital gains on my taxes. No taxes are paid by the mutual fund and I only pay capital gains tax when I redeem units of the fund.

When one of my ETFs makes a trade of underlying securities and realizes a capital gain, it's a flow-through situation. What happens is the ETF adds up all the gains and losses from transactions over the year and at the end of December I get a special kind of distribution called a "return of capital" which is like a capital gains distribution on which I need to pay taxes, but I also add it to my adjusted cost base so I don't get taxed twice and I don't actually receive any income.

As far as I understand it, that's the way mutual funds and ETFs work in the USA, too. There's no reason a mutual fund couldn't do flow-through like an ETF does, other than it would require a greater understanding of basic accounting so it wouldn't be appropriate for Mom and Pop Sixpack who would probably steer clear of having to recalculate their ACB on an annualized basis let alone understand why they need to pay tax on income they haven't received.
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> Syntax becomes virtually irrelevant

This is probably a big mistake. Code must communicate ideas. Communication requires a shared language. A language has syntax, not just semantics. A given semantics has only a few natural expressions as syntax.

Can't pair program, can't program during a talk or a stream, etc. without that shared language.

If anything, we should be looking at the reverse of what you said: reading code is more important than ever due to the scale of programs, so we should be looking into creating the most readable language ever.

Edit: I think overloadable and definable operators can be very useful (like Haskell, OCaml), and that's probably as much syntactic flexibility as we need. Even this can be abused though.
It's not, it's just disappointing. I really need an upgrade. My Vive is semi-broken so I need a replacement.
> What I was hoping long ago was that KS would have been a place to buy shares of equity, and be part owner of these ventures.

I heard that Double Fine was doing that for Psyconauts 2.

https://www.fig.co/campaigns/psychonauts-2/invest
Nice try aliens!

"@$^#& Glar you were seen by one of their primitive aircraft! Quick, get on thier communication network and claim it's lens flairs and cmos artifacts!"
I'm clearly biased, but I think Guix's documentation is pretty clear, although it may be a little short on examples for some people.

I've never found the documentation to be outdated or grossly misleading.
Disagree. The alternative is people leaving the company, industry, or workforce as laborers entirely. If all companies offered $.02 per hour, with little change in purchasing power, basically everyone would elect not to work and instead steal from and destroy businesses. And you can't look at economics in a vacuum; economics are intimately related to politics. An angry, poor population is a violent population, and fear of reprisal can only contain them for so long.

Our minimum wage being so low puts great strain on our social services (and if they didn't exist, the situation would be even worse - it would just be a reversion to what we saw before and during the great depression). Noone should be fully employed and still require food stamps and public housing vouchers, but that's the reality of today.
I'm from Denmark, and my experience ranging from all the Nordic countries, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and a bit in other countries but not enough to have any real experience.

We could turn this system around. It would reliably cover the vast majority of semi transport if it just worked on major highways in Europe. Drive the truck to the highway on ramp, jump out and let it drive 1000km before someone picks it up and drive it "the last kilometer".

I think your timeline is overly pessimistic. 55 years ago way 1964 - a lot have happened in that time frame, and we put a man on the moon and a rover on mars in far less time. It can happen significantly faster. If we decided to start developing now, I believe that within 5-10 years we would get near a specification and legislation. That leaves changing the cars and that only have to be done gradually. We know so little about this problem domain that it's best done gradually and carefully.

I think we can agree to disagree.

I'm not convinced that weak AI will be anything but an enhancement to the human driver.

It's my belief that we don't even have a grasp of the AI domain to do this yet. Perhaps we will get it, perhaps we will not. Nothing that has happened in the AI space is new from the theoretical point of view. Neural networks was discovered in 1943, we just recently got the computational power to use it. But it doesn't scale and it's a black box approach. And it's easily fooled (see recent reports of a simply sticker on the road making a Tesla drive against traffic in the wrong lane).

The strong AI field haven't seen any real progress or breakthrough in a long time, and people still argue whether it's even possible. To put it into numbers, a worm, which we have not successfully modeled the brain of yet, have around 300 neurons. A human have 10^11, each witch have a far a greater connective complexity . Strong AI is not coming in the next 100 years, if at all.
I'm not a backer but I think people forget about what Star Citizen has actually accomplished. It's far from vaporware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjTf41QAnY
Tried to install nvidia drivers (the only piece of proprietary software I needed) — no luck.

Hope that with 1.0, somebody will find a way.
I was reading a book which was essentially the memories of some BBS nerd from the 80s (i do not remember the name, sadly) and he basically quoted a magazine post from around back then - the 9 out of 10 piracy was a thing even in the 80s, more than a decade before Doom. It doesn't surprise me that it would be the same 10 and 20 years after it.
> Does a lawyer do law outside of billable hours?

Yes, all of them study law outside of work clients pay them to do; in fact, they are required to do so as a condition of licensing, it's called continuing education requirement.

The same is true of virtually all licensed professionals.

Programmers aren't licensed professionals, so they don't have a licensing requirement for continuing education. But the programmers that are professionals, even if not licensed are doing continuing education anyway, and hands-on projects that aren't for paying clients is frequently a big part of that.

(Now, professionals with good employers will often be paid to do continuing education on work time, and that's true of programmers, too. If you have 20% time, your continuing education projects may not be “side projects”.)
Electric Vehicles have been around for decades. Arguably, if it wasn't for the weed-smoking twitter troll, those established car companies would still not be investing in EVs. Notably, the Electric Vehicle that surpassed all measures of quality by Comsumer Reports; giving away patents to expedite the EV development, research, and related infrastructure; cutting out the middle man in the distribution channel...

A bit odd how quickly the cynics and Monday Morning Quarterbacks usurp the conversation.
I was using Sublime Merge on the weekend and after doing a few changes with my remotes using the normal command line, it exited (well crashed I assume). When things like this happen do you automatically get an error report? Because you mentioned that you use the error reporting library from Google in that article.
> Different syntax, same language.

This is probably a fiction for any reasonably complex language. Being able to view a C program in S-expression form doesn't solve any real open problems in software engineering, but it certainly creates some new ones.
If you want to test out workers outside of USA but not have to solve the timezone related issues I recommend Colombia. There is at least one interested person there.
The statistic isn’t useful standing alone. The turn of the century was two decades ago, and college attendance rates have changed substantially. I can’t find a statistic for “some college,” but the percentage of people who have completed college increased from 20% to 30% from 2000 to 2015. The group of people who have “some college” in 2019 is much broader than the same group in 2000.
Many people run Nix in production — a similarly structured OS. Nix works fine. GUIX is relatively new; I played with it, but didn’t use in production yet.
Lyft operates autonomous taxis (with backup drivers) in Las Vegas.
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I don't understand. What other theory are you proposing than that he wasn't paying attention?
While we’re on the topic, I’ve never understood how Berkshire Hathaway isn’t triple taxed.

For example they own gieco. Say gieco makes a profit. Gieco pays a corporate tax on that profit. Then they send the money to the parent company, brk. Brk now pays corporate tax (and dividend tax?) on that same money?
I'm not the OP, but I'll answer the question anyway. When I'm not specifically looking for something, then I don't find out about them. My attention is limited, I don't have enough to give to every little outfit interested in taking my money. I don't need a new shirt, or car, or coffee or trip. And when I do, then I'll google it and I'll happily see all the ads that Google will show me.

The ads are blocked until then.
We are living in the age of misinformation.

Having people confirm or deny such allegations doesn't really mean anything anymore.

If "they" do exist, have enough technology to travel to this planet, control somewhat stealthy drones in our atmosphere which are detected every so often,
And don't want to interfer publicly with humanity as proven by their lack of public appearances...

Honestly, it's just beyond unlikely. But if they did exist: what does it matter? We wouldn't be able to do anything about it so worrying about them is pointless
I haven't been active for a couple of years, but I've contributed my fair share of packages and features since 2013 that I'm proud to see have made it all the way to 1.0. Congrats, Guix team!
Multimillion-dollar corporations behind the smiling faces of some Airbnb hosts
The strength of organized labor, particularly at Ford in 1914 was weak, both GM and Chrysler unionized in 1937, Ford was the last to do so of the big three, holding out until 1941.

Ford's rationale for increasing the wage for his workers, as laid out by him, was to make it so every Ford employee could buy a Ford car.

If you're curious, and want to know more about Ford Motor Company, I highly recommend a book called Wheels for the World by Douglas Brinkley. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067003181X/) Ford opened its full archives to the author, and it covers their entire history, warts and all.
Likewise, they can still compete: as a driver would you rather be "driving" in a 99% of the time self-driving vehicles that's a Tesla, and as a passenger: would you rather order a vehicle from Tesla Network and know you're guaranteed to be picked up in a Tesla - with cameras for safety, security - in a quiet vehicle, etc. Tesla owning/controlling the whole supply line and at the scale they're ramping up for gives them advantage.

And if they do reach fully self-driving first - and someone will have to lead the way and prove it enough for regulators to allow them on the roads - then they'll have everything else already in place to relatively speaking own/efficiently capture a large portion of the market.
I don't have my notes or the exact numbers anymore. It sounds like we might have been doing a very different calculation. For me, I didn't consider property value growth at all. That all just sort of went into a bucket labeled, "Equity I have invested in some asset; regardless of whether it went into a house or into T-bills or ICOs, for my purposes none of it counts as money I spent."

From there I just looked at the money I would never see again - interest, taxes, maintenance, fees, assessments (if a condo), etc.
You're incorrect about the inventory issue.

That was the argument California used, but it was never tested in court and there were strong arguments against it. You're basically repeating California's legal opinion as fact.

Then, the Supreme Court ruled last year that nexus doesn't matter, states can tax outside retailers regardless. So many states passed new laws doing just that.

The question of whether inventory in FBA creates nexus is still relevant for back taxes, and it's possible that will go to court at some point, although it seems likely California will end up waiving back taxes.
Working with Vim
That cd with stuxnet in autorun.inf doesn't do anything. It's the Windows that chooses to load it.
> I think in most fields the top performers are going to be investing significant effort outside work to practice, learn, and improve themselves throughout their career.

Agreed. I spend a lot of free time reading about and discussing technology. Occasionally teach, occasionally do some advising.

But I rarely have a side project which consumes my time. I guess the equivalent would be a nurse going and taking a shift at another hospital.
In a somewhat related arena, Dries Buytaert from Drupal has some great arguments on how being able to contribute to open source is a privilege, and you could extrapolate that it is sort of discrimination to turn down job applicants who haven't contributed to major projects.

https://www.drupal.org/blog/the-privilege-of-free-time-in-op...
Is that the same attitude that people would hold about telepathically connecting with people from Ancient Egypt or the Dark Ages?
Because your users might be actually using more software than what you deem worthy to put in your distribution.
Like Aperture from what.. 2014? Won’t run on the next macOS.. that’s an Apple application that can’t last more than a few years on an Apple system.

Even Linux desktops are better than that, but not much better. They seem so emotional.
My comment above being down voted is another reason why down votes are stupid.

Edit: Thanks for continuing to down vote this comment, bait to highlight how stupid it is to let lazy people click a down vote button to deal with an emotional impulse instead of contributing. 5 stars, 2 thumbs up, would protest again.
I am going to try to get to Salt Lake City for RacketCon this July. My wife just agreed to make it a fun road trip with me. I planned on going last year in St Louis but something came up.

I have been using Common Lisp since 1982, and feel more comfortable with it, but 2 or 3 times a year I will write some small thing in Racket and enjoy it. The Racket ecosystem is fantastic.
The problem is that you do not know on first sight if they are just misguided or actually malicious.

I remember a few names of the worst offenders that I just ignore now but it sucks anyways.

Edit: Using Stylus, the following solution is possible to highlight the names of selected people (the list needs to be updated when you want to add someone):

a[href$="username1"],
a[href$="username2"],
...
{
color: darkred !important;
}

Hiding the sub-thread in a similarly easy way is not possible though, due to the nature of the tree.
Apostate. Vim is the one and only true editor we all need.
Chinese database is tracking cellphone usage, car location and more
I remember my first visit to Berlin AFTER 1989 (my first time was in the summer of 1989 and one of the things my dad wanted to do was go through checkpoint charlie and spend some time putzing about in East Berlin/Germany and I vaugeley remember noticing the difference in the crossing lights as a difference but that was probably about it...) and in sometime around '92 the little guy was EVERYWHERE.
(for context to non-Germans or people who've never spent any time in Berlin/former east German cities the Ampelmann that the parent poster is referring to is the character of the crosswalk "green man walking/Red man stop" lights that was in use in the former East Germany before reunification. it was much more of a personable silhouette than the more diagramatic stick men of the west. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelm%C3%A4nnchen
You need to install like 60 npm packages just to enter LEO, can’t even imagine how painful it is to configure a landing.
Also, employers don’t value foreign degrees very much, so if the category of people with “some college” or a “college degree” includes many more immigrants, you’ll see average incomes go down.
It's been 5 years now since I dropped my smartphone. I now rely on a Samsung b2710, which is fine (has somehow a calendar sync and more or less gmail access).

I still have an old iPhone though, with a complementary SIM card, that I use for navigation or when travelling. Typically it stays in my car or in my bag.

I've never been so happy since I left social media and compulsively taking out my phone all the f. time.

I now read a lot in my commute time or just "do nothing" which I find very satisfying : I can think of work or personal life or interests and I'm always gaining something of this free time to somehow ... piece things together.
Bugsmashers was a particularly fun series, unfortunately (for us) Mark Abent got promoted, didn't have time for it, and the show was canceled.

My other favorite thing was the monthly updates from their Frankfurt studio where most of the engine development happens, but it's been a while since they did those too.

All the community outreach content is currently getting rejiggered and the jury's still out on whether the new lineup is any good. Last week was the first episode of "Inside Star Citizen" and there should be a new one later today.

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

If you're curious to check it out but not interested in shelling out $45, they're currently a "Free Fly" event where anybody can play until the 8th.

https://www.pcgamer.com/star-citizen-is-free-to-fly-for-a-we...
They didn’t give away patents. They publicly announced they would cross-license patents. You only get to use them if you also give Tesla all of your patents.
Absolutely, and most AEB systems can't or don't do that. Everyone wants a safe AEB that functions correctly in all situations but we're just not there yet.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/why-emergency-braking-s...

I think the real question is did Tesla mislead customers into believing their system was more capable than it actually was, thus resulting in them relying on a system when they shouldn't have?
It was on PC and Wii quite before android and a bit before ios. The gameplay is definitely touchscreen friendly though
There are endless UFO sighting videos posted on Youtube every day.
It's a bit easy to say everything just works, after solving the easy problems and then chastising Musk for being weird while trying to solve the hard problems. A golf cart could reliably transport people from one side of Jeju to the other.
"Tesla will need to raise $2.5bn to $3bn this year, according to Jefferies, a bank"

This was the tweet (April 2018) Elon has replied to.
The only thing that has stopped me from using racket more are the performance issues. Hopefully Racket-CS will make racket competitive performance-wise with CL.

In regards to expressiveness, Racket is definately the most powerful lisp on the market, maybe even of any language, lisp or not.

Great GUI library, the most powerful metaprogramming the world has ever seen, FP, static typing (still a little rough around the edges), libraries for xml/json/http and a ton of other stuff, nice OOP libraries, contracts, and a truly awesome IDE.

Is there any other language that is as flexible, powerful, and elegant?

The only thing missing from the equation is a high performance optimizing compiler and industrial GC. If Racket could get JVM-like performance and a GC that could manage terabytes of heap, it would be the ideal language for me.

I used to program Racket professionally in academia, and it works really well for desktop applications. You can whip up complex single user apps very very quickly, with generally acceptable performance. Great for research and data science applications.

I now use Scala at work on a computation heavy multi-user finance application and Racket would be unteniable for this use case. High-load servers need the best GC (or no GC) and there are very few languages that work well in this use case. Pretty much just JVM languages, C/C++, Rust, and maybe Go or OCaml.

If Racket could get competitive in these areas, it might open the door for commercial adoption. Though, on the otherhand, both Python and Ruby have worse implementations and worse GC and that doesn’t stop everyone from using them for servers.

This is a tangent I suppose, but it’s a mystery to me why Racket isn’t more popular compared to Ruby/Python. For data science and ML the network effects of Python are strong, but the networking libraries for Python aren’t any better than those for Racket. Maybe people just think parens are scary?

Anyways, Racket is seriously awesome and developed by some great people (professors). If you haven’t tried it, I would highly recommend it. Very easy to get started because of the great IDE.

PS: Also HN is written in Racket (essentially), so I guess you can wrangle for high-load servers.
Introduction to Data Analysis with Rtemis
Not sure if this is true in Stripe's case, but in some cases contracts with clients (especially governments, financial firms, healthcare companies, and the like) have stipulations as to where work can be performed.
There are plenty of success stories, among many highly publicized failures. I don’t think we should write the whole thing off. When backing a product, remember that you’re playing the role of an investor, rather than a consumer, so you have to be more wary. When you pay to back an MMO, remember that it has probably the hardest road to success of any type of video game.
Ah, I see, abiogenesis is "tunnel vision", but unjustified belief in a deus ex machina which designed life is somehow enlightened...? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. There is no evidence of god, therefore I don't have any confidence in the flying spaghetti monster.

>> Yah, cell machinery is also complex yet it emerged number of times independently on this planet alone

That's not even wrong. I don't even know where to begin refuting this claim -- so I just leave it there.

Sometimes it would do us some good to accept the fact that we just don't know it (yet). Yet alone considering the philosophical consequences of ID: who designed the designers? How did the first designers emerge? What were they made of (considering that the chemical abundance of the galactical environment was heavily skewerd towards lighter elements 4.5 Gy ago)?

In the meantime, I stick to the models that don't rely on an allmighty entity to bootstrap biological evolution.
I still think you shouldn't be directly sending structs over the wire or to disk. The alternatives are so much better - SQLite or Cap’n Proto.

I'm a bit shell shocked from supporting both big and little endian in structs from previous jobs. I've had nightmare situations with it twice. I do embedded systems and while little endian is winning there too, you still have legacy things like the LEON (SPARC) that is big endian. I've heard lots of network embedded hardware is big endian too for obvious reasons.