skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. The point is that taxation can't really be avoided. If you take out loans against your shares to fund a lavish lifestyle, those loans need to be paid back (and you'll also get taxed on much of your consumption via sales taxes / VAT).

Now, sure, there's a way in which you can just keep rolling over loans with new ones until you approach some max % of your collateralized shares. But this has practical limits, and you're still not really avoiding anything. What's happening practically is that the gov has an IOU for 20% of those shares, where the value of that IOU is growing faster than the servicing costs of their own debt. So pushing out the date of realization is basically fine. The rich person may never pay those taxes within their own lifetime, but someone will. And the gov has no meaningful reason to care who pays or when, so long as the increase in share value outpaces their borrowing costs (pretty easy).

EDIT: Should have said 15-20% to be precise, as lowest rate is 15% for long-term holdings.
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Users can check, Bing, Common Crawl, or even the other 9 links on the first page of Google Search for more search results, no?
> This would be completely impossible with Pulumi. If Pulumi didn't bless it, it doesn't exist in Pulumi's world.

This is only true (temporarily) for automatic plug-in installation - and was until recently also true of Terraform. In fact I had to reverse engineer the TF provider registry protocol because the documentation is manifestly incorrect, recently.

$WORK has lots of Pulumi plug-ins which they know nothing of the existence of, and it works fine.
Yep, I for example learned that my two bosses (CEO and CMO) in our roughly 20 person company took home roughly 100k in salaried income each, out of the 3 million or so turnover.

Company earnings, turnover and profit, are easily found for all Finnish companies as well. It's pretty easy to weed out the companies on an unhealthy base.

I also saw the salaries as a sign that they're in it for the long term as they could've easily taken home more but they also didn't feel the need to 'save' the company money so they had trust in the current market position and I felt comfortable asking for a 25% raise, which I also got.

It's good to know where you stand among your peers and superiors.
It's a cool demo, but obviously would not recommend running in any production environment. It's not battle tested (performance and security) and not constantly peer-reviewed like Apache or NGINX. Even further down the totem pole Caddy (which I really like) is better than Althttpd for lots of very good reasons. Ok, with what I thought would be obvious said; Althttpd it's still way cool and impressive.
Brave Search have plans to charge for searching and no ads.
Seems an interesting model.
Honestly curious, couldn’t you achieve something similar with style sheets, where you determine what .css file to serve based on the subdomain?
Can someone who has the time and money sue Comcast in court for this fee? I believe a judge will say that fee is not reasonable.
Senate approves $250B bill to boost tech research
I thought this a really interesting story because, as I remember it, Google was quite well-established and the dominant search engine in 2005.
Judit Polgár is to this day the greatest woman chess player of all time. She retired but is still the coach of Hungary's national team.
Look up your states abandoned property law, you'll have to inform them that you have it and don't want it and after a certain time it will typically become yours.
It's not terribly impressive when the compiler just outputs C and invokes TCC or your platform's compiler to do the actual work. V is far more like a different syntax for C than it is a real language. Perhaps one day that will change but currently V is to C as CoffeeScript is to JavaScript.
Worth noting that Pulumi IS declarative - the languages build a graph imperatively, but the evaluation is declarative in nature.
Many focus on "content" that is more than one paragraph.
“observers — you, me, and anyone else — live in a quantum gravitational universe and come up with "a globally agreed-upon cognitive model" of reality by exchanging information about the properties of spacetime”

Seems ripe for a sci fi concept: if the coherent conscious model of observers was able to shape the universe (rather than merely observe some “objective” truth about it), conceivably a society that believed in the daily intervention of gods could actually see that happen (not merely interpret it as such) in a way we might consider inconsistent with our understanding of physics. You just need faith as they say.

In retrospect, that concept has perhaps already been executed in Gaiman’s American Gods.
The results of any inquiry are most likely to be inconclusive.

What (if anything) is really at stake here?
I keep thinking about the ultra fickle and fleeting nature of fame on platforms like this.

The phrase "one trick pony" comes to mind.

There's nothing wrong with that, but it seems like most of the creators I see are just turning that 1 trick into as many videos as they can. Which again is just fine.

The problem is that once people have seen your cool thing a few times it starts to get old unless it's something that can maintain interest over the long term.

The hydraulic press channel is a good example. At first they just smashed stuff with the press. It was new and exciting, and different. You never saw them, and all the videos had a very simple format.

As they progressed, the format had to shift to maintain people's interest because we've all seen a hundred things crushed in a hydraulic press. They started doing a bunch of different experiments and things, and the current hydraulic press channel, and their beyond the press channel is much more involved.

That shift to regular videos and monetization requires a lot of dedication, while the early videos were probably mostly for fun, and done to share that fun with others.

At the end of the day, people are having to ask themselves tough questions about what people will watch. Often, the answer will be disappointing without significant effort, a fresh new idea, or a lot of... talent.
This is a really nice idea. I wanted to share some screen recordings recently and ended up recording them and putting them on imgur. I much prefer this.
Future regulation of such research, mostly.
I've heard this stated as "practice makes permanent ", especially in the context of physical arts, and also safety culture.

Once you start getting sloppy, it's time to context switch.
Imagine thinking that GitHub stars are indicative of anything at all. You might as well measure popularity by how many times your webpage has been bookmarked.
Regardless of legal aspects it's hard to ignore that Google is now very much in the business of putting to sleep innovative products. Either they acquire the startup and no longer invest in it, or drive it out of the search results, or invent it first in their "moonshot" division and file patents with no intention of executing on them. (Note that the innovators themselves may not fare badly if they get acquired and/or employed by Google. But their product will at best stagnate, at worst be killed shortly.)

In the last decade Google has no longer brought to the consumer anything major like Gmail, Google Maps or Chrome. I doubt it's because of inability to execute - they can and will hire large numbers of very smart people. It seems more like a conscious decision to err on the side of maintaining the ~2010 status quo.
>One of the billionaires mentioned in this article objected, arguing that publishing personal tax information is a violation of privacy. We have concluded that the public interest in knowing this information at this pivotal moment outweighs that legitimate concern

I don't see why they couldn't have anonymized the data [bracketed] and have the same impact. Exact figures are less relevant than providing a picture of what's going on. I think the only reason is to doxx and "shame" or whatever unrelated rationale they have.

And why isn't Twitter suspending their account for doxxing --which they appear to apply unevenly but usually not levelled against birds of a feather.
> I run everything python under Rosetta.

So basically the software that you require to run and do your work is still not available for Apple Silicon? In this case, Apple Silicon support for Python libraries.

The whole point of Apple Silicon is to supersede its Intel Mac counterparts and to run software natively with a noticeable performance increase, especially with software with high performance requirements.

In the case of python users and the ecosystem around it, it is still not ready.

Glad I sat that one out.
> Search is irrelevant for any consumer brand from a discovery standpoint point.

I can't believe this is a serious comment. Literally hundreds of billions of dollars would say otherwise. I search for consumer products on Google all the time.
they can easily do that. that's why I also think Intel will turn things around with it's fabs. You don't need to be manufacturing the latest node chips. Just a couple generations old, will do the trick for automotive, defense and non fashionable electronics.

also somehow people forget chips these days are really powerful.
This is the normal pattern of music or sports: you wish to have done them, but they're (for many people) not fun enough that you actually want to put the hours in. It's the same when you're a kid, IME, it's just easier for parents to force them to do something unfun.
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And apparently Fujitsu's work better in F but the same in C. I always thought these were display-only settings.
> So long as their products are free, it’s hard to argue that consumers are suffering harm

Well, that is the (Borkian) dominant understanding of antitrust right now, but it hasn't always been, and I think that view is under pressure again.

It has never been clear to me why we must limit our view to consumers when looking at antitrust - there is always much more going on than how much things cost. It effects competitors (actual and would-be), the environment, related industries, available jobs, sometimes national security - monopolies can have huge impacts on lots of things. Why exactly is this super-reductive, artificially crabbed view the only measure of a monopoly's harm?

Medium-term, I think the pendulum is swinging back.
Interesting perspective,thanks for sharing!
Which just points out that the issue is more political than scientific.
Nothing replaced them. The need for paper forms has mostly evaporated.

For the rare cases you need something printed you can use a dedicated print store / office store with printing or the local library. There is no need for the average person to need a printer anymore.
Indeed there's a legend that Albert Einstein refused to memorize his phone number because he said it was already in the phone book.
They didn’t engage with your criticism. Resist the temptation to extrapolate that to conclusions beyond yourself. The idea that as a profession journalists don’t engage with criticism is so demonstrably false it’s absurd. The entire editorial process is engaging with criticism, and it very often comes from outside the newsroom. On a story of this magnitude, that criticism is invited as a matter of policy before publishing (it’s called red teaming). Quite often, that process leads to rereporting, sometimes by another group.

You seem to have emotionally reacted to criticism of your own work (which is par for journalism) by declaring that journalism doesn’t get it and needs to be “saved” (from who?). I’m concerned by your personification of a bad experience and the malevolence you’re ascribing to an entire profession as a result, while on the way to sticking your fingers in the same pie. You are coming across as an unreliable narrator in several ways. Even beyond that, you’re going up against ProPublica, not Daily Mail, and it’s very clear from your piece (which I read end to end) that you dove into it in bad faith looking for your intended outcome.

It is this comment alone that convinces me you will fail, because you don’t understand why you weren’t engaged and why a lengthy rebuttal to incoming was a waste of your time. You seem to have a chip on your shoulder based on writing about Elon and the Thai thing and not having it go as you’d like which, in the grand scheme of things, matters precisely zero. That you offered money to those journalists as part of that process simply reassures me that you were blocked in their email because that is a fucking stupid thing to do, and I wish that were more apparent to you. You did dumb things by your own account. That almost certainly wasn’t personal — it’s just that money and its involvement in journalism is extremely sensitive for very, very obvious reasons.

Source: Journalist.
How is that relevant? CPAN is a package repository, not a MCMC sampling library. Can you point me to a Perl library that implements an API for constructing a probabilistic graphical model and then performs inference on it via MCMC, like PyMC3 or STAN? Is it as robust and fully featured as either of those?
They’re in a different state than me, so I’m not sure which jurisdiction’s law(s) would apply.
> very vocal stodgy old timers that were really resistant to any improvements from the very earliest days

As one of the three maintainers of Terraform (for the core and all providers) in that time frame, your characterisation is not particularly accurate - likely hence the downvotes.

Many of the “suggestions” in that time frame were “we should do something and ‘X’ is something so we should do ‘X’” - which is to a large extent how TF came into being.

From the earliest days, breaking changes were avoided - policy which was not retained through later versions.

While you may have heard some “core developers” claim that reuse was unnecessary (I can’t claim omnipresence), the HashiCorp official training that I taught during that time period _used modules extensively_ for this.
A couple of questions I would love to see some info on:

1) if somebody actually sold say 100M in stock at long term cap gains rates they should be paying roughly 15% tax, but in these cases people paid far lower than 15%, so they must offset those gains with something — what was it?

2) borrowing say 100M and using their large qty of stock as collateral at say 2% interest rate means you can buy stuff with that money then they pay it back later, but how? If they sell stock to pay it back later, then in that year they should have to pay tax in that year.. so ultimately the cash flow needs to be tracked.. if somebody buys a sports team for 2B, where did they get the cash for that? Did they buy it by paying the person in stock?

Would be great to understand how people are doing this kind of stuff because it seems like the old line about “not taxing the job creators” translating to somebody only paying 1% tax might be fine if that was the societal trade we are making but if that person is not actually benefiting society in any way, then that person paying ultra low taxes does seem unfair.
Who cares about the date. AWK is old as heck, and with The C Programming Language 2e over "The Unix Programming Environment" (Overriding pre ANSI-C) you can do magic with very few resources.

Oh, you need to understand the underlying maths well in order to code your functions right? That's the biggest issue in data science management. Too much relying on specialized " biggies" like Numpy/CUDA with atrocious codebases where the calculations lasts months compared to a 1 hour chore with C or even Perl with Gnuplot.
Is this good or bad or irrelevant from a data/cookie security perspective?
Cats really aren't that intelligent in all cases, unfortunately. They are very picky eaters because of instincts about food poisoning, and if something scares them once in the presence of a food they might just associate them and refuse to eat that food ever again.

I think dogs are a bit smarter, but my aunt's dog checks behind the TV every single time there's an animal on screen.
> Seriously how often do you wonder why you just remembered, said or did something?

This has me thinking of the "plate o' shrimp" scene in the movie Repo Man.
> I know myself well enough that this would also just sit on a shelf somewhere looking cool but I would never touch it.

I would normally have the same reaction, except for whole "two new games every week" setup. I actually love these sorts of little timed deliveries, and I think it will keep me engaged.

Also, re: black and white, from what I understand they're using one of those high-contrast memory LCD screens, similar to what's on the Pebble 2. Those look super nice, kind of halfway between e-ink and a standard LCD screen.
If it required JS it would not be a bug in Windows HTML component.
We need a browser project whose explicitly stated goal is to act as the user's agent. No, Mozilla's "open internet" nonsense doesn't cut it anymore. There's no point in an open internet if every web browser acts against its users.

Every decision taken by the browser developers should only keep in mind the requirements of the users. You want to play DRM content? Sure, we will get that certification but also provide extension APIs that let you save the stream to your disk.

You want to block ads? Sure we will let you load an extension that will do that. No store, no signing, no crap.
No. Svelte are big proponents of the SPA pattern so I'm doubtful they would ever build something like this.
Untreated borehole water is often unsafe to for humans to drink, at least that's usually the case here in Australia.

As for cities, it depends entirely on the specific city.

The city I grew up in was supplied by a river that was unsafe to even swim in due to agricultural runoff and high levels of heavy metals from volcanic activity. Our drinking water was so heavily chlorinated that you practically needed a water filter to make it drinkable.

The city I went to university was supplied by an aquifer and modern, high quality piping. The water was such high quality, it required no treatment at all.
Check out Eufy. I'm not certain about how the protocol works with their phone app, but all videos are stored on-prem in a little appliance rather than in the cloud.
Taking a moment to appreciate the landing page. I had no idea about this device before, but at the end of the landing page, I know what it is, who it is made for, the idea behind it, the cost, accessories, when they start shipping, etc. They even did it with nice aesthetics and a quirky look.

Nicely done!
We are left in an inconclusive grey area because of non cooperation. I think part of the challenge is holding the Chinese government accountable for suppressing reporting, delaying a site visit, deleting information, and interfering with a transparent independent process by requiring review/approval of the WHO report. I am frankly in favor of assuming a lab leak in the absence of explicit evidence just because my estimation of likelihood points in that direction, and even more so given the obstruction of transparency so far.

The WHO and NIH also deserve scrutiny. And the press and social media companies for censoring discussions that could have pushed for transparency and investigations sooner.

Accountability will help us handle future situations better, and will help us get back to valuing civil discourse and freedom of expression. Beyond that, what’s at stake is safety from dangerous research. Maybe that means a ban on gain of function work, or updated protocols, or independent audits of BSL labs by an international team like we have for nuclear controls. Just a week ago Nate Silver of 538 wrote (https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1398678561599508480), "it seems very warped that a bunch of prominent scientists are saying we shouldn't investigate the claims for reasons that have little to do with science and lots to do with politics". This author it seems, is one of those pushing this warped position.
Sorry for the plug, but this is the exact reason why I build https://devutils.app

Developers paste their data to online websites too frequently these days.
I run everything on miniforge. Makes everything so much better. If you have the arm version of brew, just run "brew install --cask miniforge"
You can. The flow isn't great but you can.
Also, I remember web rings being helpful for content discovery in the mid-late 1990s. Different authors for a given subject would cooperate with each other and put something like a banner add at the bottom of their page with "next" and "previous" links, so you'd get a doubly-linked list circular ring of cooperating sites for a given subject.
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Consider, for example, that Berlin was bombed flat. Every industrial area was bombed. The houses were carpet bombed. The remaining factories were boxed up and shipped to the Soviet Union. The rest was looted by the troops. The young men were dead or in POW camps.

The people that told me this story were in Berlin at the time.
Fit-for-purpose quality(including design, construction, tech) vs efficiency of production(cost) has always been a factor for the battlefield since forever. Iron vs bronze vs wood.

In modern times, software already runs a lot of tanks/missiles/planes/ships/communications etc.

As I see it the single biggest new factor is that "drone enabling software" significantly reworks hardware design parameters and thus affects manufacturing capacity.

For example, in a plane, the drone technology allows removal of a lot of weight along with "human onboard" red tape safety factors while enlarging G force parameters. It has added other factors for control and operation. But on the whole it is deemed a quite significant win it seems.

Drone on drone warfare leads to thinking about "software exploits" but on the battlefield it is always about exploits. Historically see spitfires and their limited ability to dive being exploited by the opposition but then being hardware "patched".

edit: conciseness
Is Astro very different from using another SSG like Hugo, then adding JavaScript in places you need it like type ahead search box or an interactive map? Given that it’s possible to add JavaScript to an SSG made site already, I don’t get what Astro does that’s different.
There's not much there in this piece, it's a very longwinded story that doesn't seem discuss any of the recent evidence, including recent reports that other research from prior to this that surveyed the Wuhan wet market and showed that neither bats nor pangolins were sold there after a comprehensive sampling of the market.

There is a coherent theory of how this might've happened. It rests on the lab's own papers. That's not proof, but there's plenty of investigation going on here and so far we're not finding wild animal reservoirs. If that happened, it might change things.
> The rich person may never pay those taxes within their own lifetime, but someone will.

Citation needed.