skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea but no business ever checked or cared. You could go in to Wal-Mart with smallpox and nobody would have said a word, let alone required a mask.

I don’t get the Covid-19 anti-vax stuff either (if you go far enough left you end up on the right), but I also don’t get the hysteria around people all of a sudden trying to require vaccines or masks when you didn’t care whatsoever less than two years ago with many other virulent diseases ranging from the flu to streptococcus and others.

I always feel like I’m caught between two groups of crazies. On one hand you have people who didn’t know they were anti-vax until Donald Trump said so (good god…) but then on the other hand you have people who are hell-bent on wearing a mask in conditions far less or at worst just as dangerous as two years ago. Like can everybody chill out?
So satisfying. The editing is so good I can't tell how he edit/plan this.

I always enjoy these kinds of slowmo shots, similar to the Quicksilver scenes in the X-men series.
Say what you will about global variables, they're at least an ethos. :P
How is that any different than paying with a credit card or using reward points? Those aren't taxable or treated like income so why should loans and mortgages be?
It's a bug in Trident/MSHTML, which includes a 'JScript' engine.

Anecdotally code execution exploits in pure HTML (that don't require JS) are exceedingly rare, so it is unlikely it doesn't use JS.
Haven’t there been tax holidays in the past where gains can be realized at a much lower rate so with this level of wealth it is worth putting it off just in case one of those rolls around again?

(Or is that just an urban legend I’ve been told?)
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I think what is at stake if the future of consensus on truth.
Its easy to accept that in this case we will never know for sure what happened.. but how damaging is it to peoples sense of trust in society, that even with an issue that has such existential risk as a pandemic, will never be openly investigated to the point that there could be a consensus about it.
Swabians have been playing the long game for centuries.
Look UMA in Mexico https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/mexico...
Thanks for sharing this. I just watched the video on executive communication and believe what I learned from it will be extremely useful.
any capital asset is stepped up currently.

https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/estate-planning/602701/...
> As long as the user in question is informed and alerted to the potential security risks shouldn't it be within the user's purview to decide what to allow and what not?

In a purely ethical sense, absolutely yes. But we're coming up on 30 years of people using the internet, and it's been clear for a while now that you simply cannot teach people what is safe and what is not in an absolute sense. Even highly technical, experienced users still make mistakes and install malware sometimes. Informing users is not effective, to a first approximation. System designers have a responsibility to protect the users of their systems.

> If a user decides to downright download malware we let them (Given, Chrome would block it but you can override that manually) why wouldn't the user be allowed to override these risks (i.e. you can enable it only in development mode etc. with a requirement that such extensions provide sufficient warnings etc.)

These overrides should exist, but making them too easy will just lead to malware tricking people into triggering them. And some doors are so frequently abused or fundamentally vulnerable that they probably should be closed entirely — most people don't think we should still be embedding Java and Flash in webpages these days.
Many countries have punitive inheritance taxes too.
Absolutely. Even with the US, as much as Europe & the US are more aligned than not on geopolitical issues, the last 4-5 years have shown that is not guaranteed to continue indefinitely.

And in terms of the fragility of the world's industrial and economic engines, perhaps this is a realization that globalization has gone too far and the pendulum needs to swing more towards slightly higher self-sufficiency. Not even for some philosophy of anti-globalism, but merely because things are too brittle as they are now.
What? Who says so? A politician politicking or a person trading on their looks or public stage persona certainly can expect some invasion of privacy, but even they don’t deserve illegal means of information gathering[1] even less a person just because they happen to be billionaires.

“Norms” don’t define things as right. I’m pretty sure we can think of some dark examples.

[1]I think I read about something called “The Watergate Scandal” about illegal gathering of information...
but in these cases people paid far lower than 15%, so they must offset those gains with something — what was it?

Be careful. ProPublica is conflating "wealth gain", aka unrealized, unsold stock gains, with income and actual capital gains.

ultrawealthy typically hold fast to shares in the companies they’ve founded. Many titans of the 21st century sit on mountains of what are known as unrealized gains, the total size of which fluctuates each day as stock prices rise and fall. Of the $4.25 trillion in wealth held by U.S. billionaires, some $2.7 trillion is unrealized
So if you require mark to market (as of the last day of the tax year), and then everyone subject to that waits until April 10th to sell (and then when the sales clear, sends in their taxes), that would let people know the right day to buy is April 10th, and this new flood of buying would act against the flood of selling.

Also, the IRS wants quarterly estimated taxes, so that you don't owe a lot in April. The TLDR of the rules is if you owe more than 10% in April, you did it wrong and you'll pay a penalty subject to details I'm leaving out. That would tend to move from one sell day to four sell days throughout the year.

And some people like to get things done early, or have offset tax years or notice a trend that selling for Q2 estimated taxes the day after Q1 estimated taxes are due gets a better price, etc.

In short, I wouldn't worry too much over this. Mark to market rules for things that aren't so easy to price would be a much bigger concern.
my point is, who cares? if they like it so what?
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I mean there are elaborate schemes to avoid this, but it's not obvious to me that many of them really work short of active (i.e., illegal) tax evasion.

You can, for example, shield stuff in trusts, which is tax-efficient. But when an heir wants to realize gains to buy stuff, it's going to be taxed. All you're doing is deferring, which is fine from the gov's POV as their share of the pool isn't changing, and the pool is in most cases growing a rate that exceeds their borrowing costs.

That said, if Congress wants to make estate/inheritance laws more strict, sure, fine! I think most would be ok with that. Or they could even put a max window on gains realization. But the thing to do there is write an op-ed directly calling for the desired policy, not some sort of alarmist piece about the rich and their "true tax rate".
Is using the same IV the same as not using an IV at all?
I mean, couldn’t the government just take the tax and put it in the exact same investment the person would have and achieve the same thing?
Half of Britons viewed adult websites last year, regulator says
Foundations are defined more by structure than by purpose. Some are charities and some are inheritance tax avoidance vehicles.
For GCP, both ansible modules and terraform modules are actually generated from https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules, so their "production readiness" are the same.

I understand that mitchellh himself personally created a bunch of cloud modules for terraform at the beginning, and those were likely of higher quality than whatever created by some internal developers assigned by Google/Microsoft, and might be slightly better than the AWS modules maintained by community.

Anyway, when it comes to ansible versus terraform, we shall move the discourse to states management instead. With ansible, you don't have to deal with states, but will need to clean up the cloud resources separately. With terraform, you can use the tool to clean up the cloud resources easily, but then you also have the headache of managing states. Plus, whenever you change something, there is always the nagging feeling that it will do a destroy/recreate instead of an in-place update.
> people who lean Democrat don't want to investigate this further because they don't want the Republicans who questioned this at the start to look good if it did happen to come from a lab.

And Biden himself called in February 2020 for US investigators to be let into China.

The entire politicization of this has been disappointing to see.

However, at this point I find it hard to believe if there was actually any evidence of a lab leak that it hasn’t been disappeared by China. We will probably never know unless further research does turn up increasing evidence for a zoonotic origin - on the other hand such research will likely involve the WIV themselves and be viewed with suspicion, I suppose.
> Just for reference Nvidia's flagship GPU(3090)'s FP32 performance is 35.5 TFLOPS.

In context of ML, nvidia’s flagship is the A100, which has 312 TFLOPS. You can also compare with a TPU device which has 180 TFLOPS (v2) or 420 TFLOPS (v3). You can use at least the TPU v2 reliably on colab for free.
“Why Are Developers Only Building Luxury Housing?” (2018)
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Why did they change the name to ODoH?
Except building this wealth gives you access to many ways to shield it from taxes.

Even philanthropic donations are effectively tax-shielded ways to further your particular interests (even if noble). Is it better that the Gates foundation is pushing COVAX rather than government institutions? (Which presumably could be funded by taxes on Gates’ wealth).

Gates Foundation does great things, but perhaps same things could be accomplished more effectively by government.

Otherwise way too much of a feudal vibe.
> This is a question of mechanism: How a breach could have occurred in a way that could produce widespread infection.

I’m not sure why knowing the exact mechanism of the leak is relevant. Lab leaks happen and it is enough to say so. SARS (the first one) leaked from well-run labs multiple times. The leak from the Beijing lab even led to deaths. Given WIV has papers (example https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/JVI.02582-15) claiming they developed infectious clones of SARS like viruses (AKA gain of function) in the last few years, it doesn’t seem outlandish at all that a new leak would happen. WIV also has not just BSL4 labs but lesser controlled labs too. But even leaving that aside, consider the diplomatic cables indicting a lack of trained staff at Wuhan to operate such a lab at an appropriate safety level (https://www.ibtimes.sg/shocking-diplomatic-cables-reveal-saf...).

To put it another way, this is a game of probabilities. There are numerous factors that make the case for a lab leak more likely. This is also why Nate Silver updated his priors (https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1396550770368172033) in response to the recent WSJ exclusive on WIV researchers falling ill.

This article seems to completely ignore the brazen contempt from the political left in 2020 for any legitimate hypothesis about origins. The vicious attacks against the lab leak hypothesis, the lack of coverage from news media, and censorship from tech companies were all in service of keeping a negative focus on Trump. This happened because it was an election year where the Democrats were expected to lose, and this pandemic was the only available political opportunity at the time. This artificial interference with free discourse allowed the CCP and WHO to avoid transparency. We COULD have potentially had harder evidence, except that these actions delayed discussion of lab leaks and now we are some 18 months past when an independent international site visit should have taken place. So forgive me if I find the sneering demand for “extraordinary evidence” to be just completely tone deaf and absurd.
I don't understand how the presence of information on a website constitutes tying. What the hell happened to free speech?
Yeah, there's a definite asymmetry between billionaires with 30-50 year horizons and politicians worrying about 4-8 years.
> But to argue for a human error producing global tragedy out of this environment, a responsible reporter needs to be able to show how would this one hypothesized accident have played out: How did this pathogen make its way from a freezer to sealed work area to a moon-suited person and then to the streets of the city?

I am not a biologist, but AIUI the gain-of-function research (allegedly?) being done involved intentionally infecting various animals. Those animals would have been alive, not in a freezer.

It’s not that hard to imagine an error that would allow a lab worker to catch an airborne virus from, say, a humanized mouse.
We already know that non-SARS coronaviruses were being studied under BSL-2 conditions that are equivalent to a dental office.

Even if there’s only a 5 or 10% chance that this led to the covid-19 pandemic, it calls for action to update safety standards globally.
> In the US in 2021 (aka, right now) the magic threshold for capital gains is $445,850-$501,600 depending on filing status.

No, its not.

The transition point between the top (20%) and middle (15%; the bottom is zero) marginal rate of long-term capital gains rates are either exactly the top or bottom of that range for 3 of 4 tax filing statuses (you left off married filing separately, which is much lower than even the low end), but that’s not a “magic threshold” by any reasonable definition.
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russia has no relevant skills for modern space flight.

good luck selling that line
On what basis do you claim the subjects will not pay their fair share?

That looking at single years their tax burden was a small percentage of an entertainment website pure-fiction guess at their increase in net worth?

There may be a case to be made here, but Propublica didn't even attempt to make it. --- but it seems to have stirred your outrage well enough that you're slinging rude insults against a person you don't know and have never met. :(
Because when you return `foo, err` , your caller has to remember not to use the foo.

And when you're constructing your return values, often if you have an error, you won't have a real `foo` to give back, which raises the temptation to return a pointer-to-foo instead so you can give nil in that case.

But then your caller has to check for the nonsense case where there's no error but also a nil foo.

Usually what is meant is "I'll return a foo _or_ an error" but what go's type system encodes is "I'll give you a foo and maybe an error" or "I'll give you maybe a foo and maybe an error" depending on what choice you make.
>in our roughly 20 person company took home roughly 100k in salaried income each

And Fresh Grad from US are demanding 200K from FAANG....

I think it will be hard for countries not currently doing it to have this system in place. But we could at least start with price bracket.

The biggest Win for me isn't the peer checking or market rate. It is that we can also stop HR and Recruiting Agency on their constant lying and BS. Constantly have to play games with them.
In defense of the latter, printing with drivers doesn't work all that well either.
> Sorry, but capital gains taxes start at $15,000

Long-term capital gains less than $40,400 (or higher, depending on filing status) have a 0% rate.
i think 95% of my class enjoyment was based on how interested i was in the subject.

but i think things like the following are cool:

* teaching something that provides actual understanding of some real-world concept, such that it opens a door for them to go get more understanding if they so wish. so, e.g. maybe it's explaining what a browser is doing when you click on a link, then simulating it from curl, then eventually telnet.

* maybe have them do an MVP using one of say 10 different low-code tools - there's literally a new one every day. anvil.works. the new anvil-like competitor that showed up here yest. webflow. bubble. andalo. etc. that'd introduce various concepts of mvp/agile/requirements/scope creep/deployment/etc.

* teach them how to use postman - how it's a UI alternative to curl.

* maybe exercise they have to find an api and use it to show something on a web page.

* demo the ghostery addon on the college's home page to show the 50 trackers that show up and talk about what the heck is going on.

* demo google tag manager and what it's used for.

* talk about the EFF and how the US is becoming a totalitarian state like China with 'surveillance capitalism' - i.e. introduce shoshana zuboff -- i just learned some of her older stuff seems rockin, too.

* introduce hacker news.

* ask the students if they have plans for careers, etc. then build lessons/speakers around that.

* talk about career paths? this always sounded so boring to me, but i think it would not necessarily have to be.

* of course talk about what you know best, security, maybe introduce whatever you think is important there -- the most common types of attacks would be cool, maybe demo, etc. OWASP.

* rdbms basics, sql, nosql.

* navigating the command line and either vi/m or emacs. need to know 20 basic commands, ssh (not telnet anymore), just enough to not be scared of it all.

* RPA/automation tools - if that's even possible to demo.

* integration-type tools like Zapier - that can be thought of in the context of automation, but not necessarily RPA. i don't even know what RPA is.

* cloud providers - aws, azure, etc. create an account maybe? maybe possible w/o using credit card. set up a simple script/app/mvp.

* what is scrum/agile and why do 50% of all developers rightfully despise it?

* intro to devops/ci/cd.

* intro to qa and basic qa tools - selenium, celery, browserstack, etc.

* intro to indiehackers site/pod, techcrunch.

* which certifications should they pursue based on x/y/z?

* what is ai/ml, and how does it apply to the world, ie. is it going to put most devs (and everyone) out of a job? prob.

* what about less-technical roles that are good for MIS folks, like project/product mgmt, etc.? how to get there?

those are specific-ish examples, but i think they could be useful to englighten and get folks interested, and maybe even help a few become better-engaged citizens.
No, because the government isn't willing to take the same risks that private citizens are.
> why should earning income via wages put you at such a HUGE disadvantage?

Wages are paid out of pre-tax earnings. Capital gains correspond to after-tax earnings. This puts them at approximately the same level. (A lot of cap gains are also due to inflation, i.e. they're fake gains.)
>U.S. Undersecretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said, “if the EUV technology proves viable, ASML has agreed to build a factory in the U.S., similar to its Netherlands facility, as well as to establish an American research and development center. The factory will supply 100 percent of all ASML's sales in the United States.”

Did this actually happen? Does Intel buy ASML machines?
Oh sorry I left out half the argument. The other half is the rapidly progressing cost curve of solar.

Ten years ago I thought that:

* We wouldn’t be able to get renewae costs down fast enough

* Even if we did, we’d have emitted so much that the earth’s own systems would keep things going unless we got to zero

I didn’t see a realistic way out. Default dead, and almost certainly just dead.

But since then the cost curve on renewables has come down much faster than predicted. And further we are starting to bring the cost curve down on carbon extraction.

You’re right we need to get to zero. And I don’t mean to take that as a given. But I focussed on extraction because without that we’re still doomed even if we get to zero.

But the progress so far has come despite an ineffectual political response and a general lack of urgency from civil society. But both are turning around a bit, with carbon taxes, the stripe initiative, etc. So I think we may be able to move even faster on the cost curves.

Hence why I think we have moved from “basically no chance” to “some chance”. And that’s very optimistic to me, because humanity is pretty good at doing stuff if it focusses and success is actually possible rather than impossible.

I think the more apt cancer analogy is surgery:chemo = emissions halting:carbon removal

You need the first part, as you say. But without the second part you still die in the end.
Because the typical situation with error handling is that there are two possible cases: (a) a function succeeds with some result, or (b) it fails with an error. A sum type represents those two possibilities exactly. In contrast, a product type says "I have both a result and an error", which makes no sense. However, if things can be nil, which is the norm in Go, then you can represent both (a) and (b) with a product type, but you also have two additional cases to worry about: (c) both the result and the error are present, and (d) both are nil (and what are you supposed to do in that situation?).

When using static types, it is best to make as few nonsensical/illegal/invalid states representable as possible, so that you can rely on the compiler enforcing that they won't happen. Functional programmers have been saying this for decades, and these days Rust programmers are generally onboard with this too.

Sum types are the categorical dual of product types, so it always seems unnatural to me when a language only has the latter and not the former. I think part of the problem is we don't teach category theory to programmers, so they never stop to consider the duals of things.
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> Terraform is such an underappreciated tool

Are you kidding? It's the go to tool even for people who are brand new to IaaC.

If anything I would say CloudFormation is underappreciated a lot of reasons why TF was created were fixed almost a decade ago. TF users are still citing those things as the reason why they use TF without ever using it.
No that’s just bad estate planning… kind of like how a pair of rich siblings could gift each other $1 million and it would be taxed as income for both despite neither experiencing any change in wealth. Income taxation is impossible to implement without logical inconsistencies.
I wanted this for a long time, but eventually gave up on my MacPro5,1 that I had a Radeon VII in (before that, Vega Frontier, before that R9-280X).

Would like to see some benchmarks with that sort of hardware or with a 6900XT, driver support which came to MacOS only recently. Now I just have an M1 Mac Mini & a PC with Nvidia.
Thanks for the apology. I forgive the error.
> are NEVER taxed

You still pay the estate tax (40%), even with the stepped up gains.

Biden's plan is to pay income tax on the gains, and then the estate tax on the rest. Or vice versa, the news reporting on this has been deficient.
I know they happen for offshore wealth getting repatriated. Possible that they've existed for onshore too? Interesting thing to look into. But even if so, that just seems a vanilla case of "Congress should be held accountable to not give away the farm", as it would be a pretty perverse incentive if the rich felt that such a holiday were likely to arise.
Ah. My comment assumed its parent comment was written by an American. My point was that, if you hailed from an country with a common culture, it would be trivial not pick folks out of a crowd who share your cultural background. I don't think that Americans would not have such an easy time doing this.