skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much of "mental" health is really just physical health. As a young person with mood issues I could never really understand why I felt the way I felt at times, and would always just chalk it up to some vague self diagnosed mental disorder. But the older I get I realize it all comes down to my physical state. Am I tired? Have I slept right? Have I eaten? Too much caffeine? Too much alcohol? Have I exercised? Practically every bad mood can be traced back to these. Yet people will ignore all that and convince themselves they need to take a pill to make themselves feel better.
One of the primary mechanisms for tax avoidance is taking out loans against appreciated capital assets to avoid realizing capital gains.

What's stopping the average citizen from exploiting this tax avoidance strategy?

For example, every time I try to submit an order to sell stock that results in short-term capital gains, my broker should be asking me whether I want to take out a collateralized loan instead.

If there are loopholes in the tax system, they should be made readily accessible to all.
Also, if you end up having to announce your take on every "bad" thing that happens, your feed becomes nothing but commentary on the bad takes, almost always identical to everyone else, and you dillute or lose what makes you interesting in the process.

I've seen this in my own feed. Any time some "bad" person is exposed, I'm almost guaranteed to scroll past 30 almost identical takes on it by the same 30 people on my friends list. I click them, and 80% of their feed is just their takes on the daily outrage du jour. I don't really know who they actually are as people anymore, unless this is the entirety of their being now.

So now as a general rule I don't post anything about current events on social media, and stick with things actually about myself. I might make a comment on someone else's post sometimes, but not post about it myself.

I will probably make an exception here or there about climate change, because in my opinion that subject is being way too glossed over by society as a whole and is a much larger and more imminent threat than "this person did a bad thing and we must shun them now".
Regarding it's not tax until it's sold, this isn't necessarily true.

One little trick here is to take out huge loans using things like stock holdings as collateral.

You're not paying tax on the money, and you can pay it back a bunch of difference ways that can limit how much you pay.

There are nuances to this, it's not as straight forward as I mentioned, but that's the general idea.
On the subject of hangouts, I miss Hangouts Dialer which was killed earlier this year. Used it to call international phone numbers.
To run a simulator on it
Say the tax is 10%. You already have a mortgage on the property, and not a lot of other assets. "Big Ag" offers 20 times what the property is worth to buy you out and eliminate a competitor. The tax (10% of 20x) would be double the standard market value. No bank is going to let you borrow double the ordinary market value in addition to what you already owe to cover the tax. You have no choice but to sell.
I set up Terraform with libvirt for my local VM host; I think it's much better suited for managing infrastructure components than Ansible is.

Outside personal stuff, I've done a few environments where the (mostly unchanging) infrastructure is set up with Terraform and then configuration and operations (like upgrades) are orchestrated with Ansible, and it works well.

Now, I bet someone might be tempted to claim you should never even need to upgrade VM instances and immutable infrastructure solves everything, but sometimes it's just ridiculously simpler to do in-place upgrades; orchestrating image building, testing and deployment is not easier than running an Ansible playbook to do in-place upgrades unless you already have infrastructure that does it for you.

If the software you're installing is properly written and provided via OS package managenment, often you just don't gain enough benefit from immutable systems considering the overhead.
We have an on-site OpenStack cluster and use Terraform in an ad hoc way for managing (some) infrastructure. It's by far the easiest way to do so, opposed to OpenStack's API and SDK (the latter of which is so poorly documented it beggar's belief!). Ansible is usually used in tandem with Terraform, to decouple the infrastructure and configuration management.
> The most obvious example is that the very wealthy do not have to work.

Why is this a problem? People don't become wealthy through not working. Either they, or their parents or some of their ancestors worked to allow not working. What's wrong with that?

For what it's worth, the very poor can also avoid working and live off the government (obviously being poor and not working is a much shittier situation than rich and not working)
I can pretty much guarantee that in the semi-rural town where I live, there are households that are probably down around median US income (~$50K) and households making hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.
something like Microsoft's Fluid Framework ?
Bitcoin extends losses after U.S. seizes most of Colonial ransom
Large-scale community is an oxymoron, and I think the sooner we realise that the better.

Communities are built on trust and relationships, what happens at social platforms is that people with "large communities" are just creating followings the same way that celebrities always have, which are a weird modern corruption of the idea of a community (or if you want the academic term for it, a parasocial relationship).
SEC Announces Removal of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (Pcaob) Chair
They're pretty different in my experience (used to take LSD, run instead these days). LSD can be different things to different people, but for me it was a really intense experience, where everything was really vivid and alive. I think I get the runner's high you talk about, but it's much more meditative and (for lack of a less loaded term) wholesome. The comedown from LSD can be pretty grim, but running first thing in the morning improves my entire day.

Edit: Actually, if the comparison is microdosing I've never done that. But I'd take a run over microdosing any day, even if I could get guaranteed pharmeceutical-grade LSD on tap.
“RTFTaxCode” doesn’t answer OP’s question.

What is the mechanism for paying $4000 and avoiding taxes? I assume some sort of trust? What are the details?
Everyone is surprised to find the government does shady stuff, but many of these operations are even acknowledged like Iran-Contra where the government sold arms to the embargoed Khomeini government to generate black money to fund the Contras.

> Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.[2] The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

It's also discussed that the CIA does similar things with poppies to generate black money to fund regime changey activities.

Here's one such article which is a weird source, but points to more mainstream sources for evidence.

https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/a-conspiracy-theory-that-be...
Biogen's stock performance yesterday was disturbing given the efficacy questions... This market feels whack. Anyone interested in a potentially more effective Alzheimer's AND Parkinson's drug might be interested in Annovis Bio: https://www.biospace.com/article/annovis-bio-shows-alzheimer...

Given better results, it's a sign the plaque theory is wrong...
https://www.redditstatus.com/ had 115.000 comments in the 'comment tree backlog' about 20 minutes ago.
Love the Carbon Cub reference. STOL!!
> You can say you don't care for reality, but it's not going to help you have better systems.

No where in my sentence I said this so quit the strawman argument.

I know a client using a service that has 100% uptime for the year, that also relies on huge clients, I don't understand why Fastly can't guarantee at the very least and a failover system to counteract this, but clearly didn't work. (or even existed)

> (Or decided Fastly going down was an acceptable business risk, which it is for nearly everybody).

Then why did this cascade to almost everybody even indirectly? Surely their advertised failover system would have prevented this from prolonging further but lasted longer than it should have.

I don't think a store, exchange or trading desk not accepting payments from people for an hour is acceptable at all.
I ran a webmail service with 2m users that forked and exec'd a CGI for every request 20 years ago. 20 year old hardware was already fast enough that we were usually IO bound on the storage backend rather than constrained by the (much cheaper) frontends.

Forking for every request is slow, sure.

But if your code is written with it in mind it's faster than most people might expect, and most people never get to a scale where it matters.

It's not the right choice for everything, but people have ironically gotten obsessed with things we introduced a long time ago as workarounds for slow hardware (and fork used to be slow on Linux too) decades after the original problems were largely solved.

I do agree there are times this won't be useful, though.
I don't even understand why the state needs to know the identifiers that the high level language uses for various resources. If the high level language has a binding "foo_bucket" for an AWS S3 bucket resource with a single property `name = "foo"`, then why should the state need to know that the high level language refers to that bucket with the name "foo_bucket"? Instead, the state should look something like this (obviously simplified):

{
"resources": [
{
"type": "aws_s3_bucket",
"properties": {"name": "foo"}
}
]
}

Note that there is no reference to "foo_bucket".
> These runs can be transcendental.

I truly believe it. The happiness you feel after a race, or a good workout, is indescribable. I've never been happier than when I routinely worked out for 90 minutes a day, 6 days a week. I was floating, and had random endorphins highs during the day.

I've never microdosed, but from what I've read I think running (and more generally sport) can be similar to it. Maybe similar to meditating, too.
Countries join NATO of their own free will, mostly because they are afraid of Russia. So the reason why Russian sphere of influence shrinks is because Russia acts like an asshole.

Russia is not entitled to any "sphere of influence" outside its own borders. Personally I would gladly cut Russia out from the rest of the world with 2000 feet tall wall made of ice, so that Russian zombies can't get out.
I find that ownership of one's work is a gigantic motivator for me, though not necessarily for others. I moved from a consulting job to academic research and am significantly more fulfilled doing research projects rather than being a small piece of a greater machine at a corporation.

There is nothing I love more than finding the seed of an idea and spending a whole day getting it started.
It seems really weird not to have neighbors with different incomes. There would have to be really over-the-top HOAs and zoning to arrange such a situation.
I’ve been a Protonmail user for about a year. Previous to that I used GMail and Outlook.com.

My favorite thing about the new v4 interface is that it makes the settings mobile-friendly. My Filters (eg send all emails from x to Archive) can be easily updated from my phone. I couldn’t do that from Outlook or GMail.

PS to those holding off on Protonmail due to lack of support for catchall on your custom domains on the Pro plan, I recommend ForwardEmail.net. It’s free, privacy-focused and has worked perfectly for me.
Terraform is such an underappreciated tool. It seems like so much of the hate surrounds HCL1 (back in Terraform before 0.12) and doesn't reflect modern Terraform.

For example, after introducing `for_each` and dynamic blocks, it's possible to nearly entirely ditch variables files and local modules, and just add more infrastructure by editing a local YAML file. The only variables your Terraform code should have should be credentials / other secrets that are not loaded from environment variables by providers. A great public example of this usage pattern is supplied by https://github.com/concourse/governance to manage their GitHub repositories.
Don't think this is a useful comparison because wealth isn't taxed. Income is. If you take the top 1% of earners, they make 20% of the income, but pay 38% of the taxes.
The Many Questions of Reparations
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As a tangental point, I would like to point out that the United States has ~5 trillion in tax revenue annually. From which we spend the most per capita in categories such as education, and healthcare. We are continually rated worst in the developed world in those categories per dollar spent. We don't really need any more tax revenue.

There can be an argument for redistributing the tax burden, but it's really a secondary argument to the poor value of our money once it hits the public sector.
I have been in a couple of companies where they have had the "bring your child to work day" concept. Though it happens very rarely (maybe 1-2 times per year) I doubt that it has any impact.
You can microdose with mushrooms, or anything really. Microdosing has become increasingly popular over the last few years, but I doubt it's ubiquitous where everyone is knowledgeable on the subject.
> It’s literally small in the information compression sense.

How so? Your example doesn’t make this clear as I can’t relate those things to the actual parts of my identity you’re addressing.

Tell me more detail about how small my queerness, NBness and neurodivergence are.
> having an abstraction from cloud providers

I kinda expected to see many examples of this in this thread (whether they use Terraform or not). So, to ask explicitly: are there usable abstractions of the type "use-case-achievable-with-3-top-public-clouds"? Even something extremely simple like a bunch of linuxes behind a regional load balancer. I don't mean the lowest common denominator of all the clouds, but just a few popular ones, with an obvious intention to reduce vendor lock-in.

These would be probably very basic scenarios, but still the whole multi-cloud hype could have produced something decent-ish by now?
Before a family vacation recently, I went on a long 11 mile hike by myself. It helped just completely empty my mind, especially the transition from work mind -> family mind. Planning to do it more often...
When I do “tranquil” things like being on a trail I mostly wind up thinking about others things I can be doing

Like I get motivated to do things I’m procrastinating on, except now I’m in the middle of a trail and cant

This can have redeeming benefits like sorting out thoughts for things I hadnt considered and I can enjoy it when I get into it, but this is a different experience than psychadelics

Also not all trails I can get into. Some start boring and stay boring.

An exercise high where you zone off into your thoughts and get a (theorized) release of dopamine and serotonin from your muscles aching is very different than psychedelics

Some/Many people on the trails around you are also on psychadelics. You shouldnt be able to tell, but especially if they are microdosing.

I would say while using psychadelics that stimuli guides your thoughts differently. Your mind is sorting different things. And primarily different neuron groups are communicating that typically aren’t, or are now communicating at higher bandwidth. This is all theorized based on shared experiences and some MRIs that show enhanced activity but arent capable of corroborating how neurons are connected. The serotonin released is also considered to be amplified. For many, this has redeeming benefits. More study is needed so at least less redeeming side effects can be listed on the bottle like every fda evaluated drug.

Being in the woods and being on psychadelics isnt mutually exclusive
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I don't think it's a matter of popularity - clearly more people are going on walks than regularly talking small amounts of LSD. It's a matter of visibility and novelty. Microdosing is new and buzzworthy, it's been hyped low and high and a walk in the woods is as old (read boring) as time.
You can:

https://www.schwab.com/pledged-asset-line
https://www.wealthfront.com/portfolio-line-of-credit

And HELOCs are essentially the same for people who own a house but not stocks.
"What's stopping the average citizen from exploiting this tax avoidance strategy?"

Probably that the average citizen doesn't have capital gains.
I was a moderately successful scientist who reorganized his career around applying machine learning to medicine. After working in the field for a few years, I noticed that all the folks getting attention for their papers were basically publishing bullcrap. I have a high bar for publishing, I don't publish stuff that is bullcrap. But my competitors were, and they had a serious advantage over me (because most people couldn't recognize the bullcrap).

ML folks today are under immense pressure to show small-digit improvements over existing methods and they're using all the wrong techniques (p-hacking, massive hyperparamter runs, press releases that overstate the impact). It's really sad to see all the snake oil.
When statistics asks about itself
If you're using a CDN just to a cache a dynamic site you still need a server running, with the asociated costs, maintenance and security issues. With a SSG you really can have just a CDN: build and deploy direct to the CDN and you don't need to keep anything running. The costs and attack surface are much lower.
"People interested in software process" have been trying, and failing, to write secure C code for 50 years.

But they've made a ton of money trying!
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The book was initially titled "Drug Dealing for Fun and Profit". There is really no need to attack the "4 hour" notion since it's not even close to the essence of the book. The book is a collection of tactics, tools and case studies for people who want to design their ideal lifestyles. It's just has a clickbait title.

In one of the interviews Tim Ferris described that the "4 hour" title was chosen just via A/B test to be a clickbait. It's a spin on the classic "# ways to do something" clickbait extensively used by Buzzfeed and other low-quality media.
So the drug has been shown to reduce these amyloid plaques, but the trials have not conclusively demonstrated any effect on patient outcomes. The author then claims it should be effectively banned for this reason. Why shouldn't someone be allowed to take it if they want to?
What kind of bubble do you have to live in where microdosing is more popular than parks lol?
No, it was a question, not an argument.
Let me restate it:
Buying a stock (or bitcoin) uses gobs of the same regulated, government-funded infrastructure. If that stock/coin becomes immensely valuable, that (the fact that I now have a high net worth) makes me "wealthy".

What I'm asking is: Please clarify whether the intent is to tax people based on their net worth (wealth), not their income.

The articles are not clear. They state that capital gains are lower than income taxes, but they are not 1%. Yet they state that Bezos paid less than 1% effective tax rate on his wealth increases. Implying that it's obvious we should have taxed that. It's not obvious. Presumably, and I'm asking for clarification here, he would eventually be taxed on that wealth when he liquidates it.

If so, forcing someone to liquidate by placing a high tax burden on them is unprecedented for stock holdings and other forms of wealth, but not unprecedented for, say, land valuations.
The classic “I’m sorry you were offended”
> You may never have future gains to match the loss.

C'est la vie. That's how Capital Loss deductions, Electric Vehicle credits and other non-refundable tax credits currently work: individuals may not have enough upside to maximize their benefits, That's just how the system works as it is impossible to balance everyone's competing scenarios. If you are eligible for a $7500 EV credit but only paid $3000 in taxes, you'll only get that $3000 back, and not the full $7500.
We use it for provisioning vsphere VMs with all of the provisioning done through cloud-init. Can't say I like cloud-init but our onprem stuff is pretty simple and almost all of the VMs can be rebuilt if a change is needed so it works well enough but I'd probably use ansible if I were starting new.
Cloudy with a chance of bullshit (2018)
> but it used to be that forking could be almost as efficient under Linux as starting a new thread in an existing process.

That's because internally it's nearly the same thing. Both forking and starting a new thread on Linux is a variant of the clone() system call, the only difference being which things are shared between parent and child.
I think to be be a true and sublime "forest bath", you need to be some ways from the din of human civ. Closest to Central London might be Richmond Park? But even then there are plenty of day drinkers idling about ;)
I think you're mostly right, but his writing never says or really even directly implies that it's relevant specifically to founders. That would be very easy to do, but by not doing so he lends an air or universality and depth to the whole thing that makes it feel more insightful to people. The examples about startups are interpreted not as specifics but as examples of universal truths when as you point out they almost certainly are not.
Got it, but why don't brokers more aggressively push this program onto clients? It seems like a win-win.

The debtor avoids the elevated short-term capital gains tax.

The bank gets interest payments on a loan that has an almost 0 default rate due to the loan being fully collateralized.
In case you haven't seen it, Fastmail supports subdomain addressing [0]. I use that to create ad hoc aliases for most services I sign up for and they don't clutter up the UI.

[0] -- https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html
For me it's less about HCL annoyance nowadays, but more about discoverability. Using Pulumi I no longer have to memorize resource properties because I get IDE autocompletion.
That is an unfair characterisation of the policy in the link. It is not quite clear which subsets they are talking about at times, and it's definitely not complete but there is an effort there and it looks like most cases (by volume of usage) will be unaffected;

> The Terraform v1.x series will be actively maintained for at least 18 months after v1.0.
Oh, Biogen's now guaranteed to make loads of money before the efficacy question comes back to bite them, because the FDA's approval greenlights them to sell it before the efficacy can be firmly resolved (i.e., they come out with their subsequent trial data which, if history is any indication, is pretty likely to say it doesn't work).
For Black kidney patients, an algorithm may perpetuate racial disparities
Lets hope you don't ever go into management. You clearly have no idea how to motivate and retain people or have any insight on how hard it is to hire good people to begin with. And no, I'm pretty certain this is not how Netflix's culture is.
> Consider the premature-merge problem in which a feature branch is merged into trunk before it is ready

That isn't the normal use case for commit squashing though. Generally, trunk/master/main isn't ever rewritten. Squashing is usually done on feature branches _before_ merging. What does that look like in fossil?

It seems like part of the problem is that fossil is designed for a very different workflow. See https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w.... The autosync, don't commit until it is ready to be merged workflow might work well for a small flat organization, but I'm not sure how that scales to large organizations that have different privilege levels, formal review requirements, and hundreds or thousands of contributors.