skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a lawyer but this would be a small claims matter, if they wanted to sue they would have to do so in your state. Practically speaking you can do whatever you want because they aren't likely to travel to your state for that amount.
Haskell Is Diverse
NO. If the rich person dies the value steps up on inheritance, And nobody pays capital gains tax. (Although they do pay inheritance tax, which basically makes the most sense when thought of as a stopgap measure to plug this loophole.)
It's not a "loophole" to not owe taxes on lost money.
This is an unreasonable demand. By the nature of the situation, we will likely never get the data needed to put together such a specific hypothesis for how the virus escaped. Besides the political situation, containment failures are most likely a result of people not following the official written procedures in unpredictable ways that are themselves never written down. None of this makes the underlying idea less likely, so not being able to satisfy this piece's standard is a red herring, not evidence.

Another perspective: try applying the same standard to the zoonotic hypothesis, and (last I heard anyway) you will find the same void of specific data. This is again of no use for discriminating between our hypotheses.
Well, I think the strategy is to keep balancing your gains and losses to minimize taxes until you die, by which point you’ve transferred all your wealth out tax-efficiently through trusts.
It is much, much slower than a dedicated GPU or TPU, so it is useful for "edge" inference eg. local speech or image recognition, but not for training new models. It is using shared memory with the CPU so I don't know how much memory you could eat up while training.

In short, you will probably get much better performance using Google Colab to train a deep learning model, than the M1.
100% this ^.

Scientific results are very commonly misapplied in political arguments. Politicians often find scary numbers to push whatever policy they already believe is best. I often hear them throw out numbers or scientific results and think "is that number connected to the policy, or are they jumping to conclusions, or did the completely misapply the data".
I also use tmux as part of my deploy process. ;)
You have the FDA to thank for that.
I've made use of the property of compression algorithms in detecting redundancy and similarity in a slightly different way: Compress a codebase, and the most compressible source code files are also ones that are likely candidates for refactoring.
Seems to be exactly the intended effect. Tampermonkey essentially bypasses extension store security entirely by running "extensions" off-store, making people vulnerable to malware the browser vendor can't police.
How can wanting to know the origins of this pandemic not be scientific?

The idea of not wanting to know is just bizarre to me.

I feel like people are so wrapped up in the political sport/game that it is almost like 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. As if you can only lose from further investigation.

As someone who doesn't really care for either party, that is a completely insane.

To say it will be inconclusive so why bother, again, a bizarre line of thinking to me.
These billionaires are significant public people enough that this absolutely falls in the public interest enough to warrant disclosing their identities. Same with politicians. There is legal precedence for this and the norm in journalism.
Maybe, but lots and lots of software applications are not even close to being hardware constrained or in this specific case Rosetta constrained. If you're trying to get work done and you have the computational overhead available, this absolutely sounds like the right solution. Even if it's less efficient, I can easily imagine situations where "I need this to work without thinking about it" could win out.
Yes, but deduct the house that the loan buys as an expense.
Germany is playing the long game.

Congrats.
The idea that allowing potential income to compound before taxing it ultimately produces higher tax receipts in the future is WAY too nuanced of an argument for the soak-the-rich crowd. They want their pound of flesh now, dammit!
Calling somebody's work "bullshit" is about on the same level as name-calling, even if your criticism is totally legitimate. In general "it's true" doesn't really make sense as a defense for incendiary words. So I don't think it's unreasonable to say your headline is in some way trolling. Of course, it's hard to blame somebody if the thing they're replying to is dramatic enough, but I just don't think bad journalism on a tax article (giving you the benefit of the doubt - I don't know who's right) meets that bar here. There's enough noise in the journalist-hate genre that it's already a job filtering it down to the reasonable critiques.
I work for an educational company and a proprietary metric we license includes how well the text gzips as one part of it's scoring system for reading difficulty.

The better it gzips, the easier it is to read.

It's just one part of the score, I'm not certain what weight it has on it.
As Arnold says, this stuff has been known for years or decades but it has had little or no impact. It's well known that specific cases are more persuasive than generalities, so it looks like ProPublica is trying to use that effect to spark more discussion about wealth taxes.

Edit: I don't agree with what ProPublica is doing here, but I can understand how the ends might justify the means from their perspective.
Propublica's claims about how they verified the information seem to contradict the impression that they only recieved information about a few ultra rich persons-- comparing published returns from some 50 persons?

I'd guess you'd probably need the entire top 10% of all taxpayers to end up with the returns of 50 persons who've published them.

In any case, one thing this doesn't seem to point out is any significant nexus between most of the content of the article and the private data. Okay, various parties reported almost no income in some years-- We knew that. They talk about trusts used to escape estate taxes, but don't support it with their trove of private information.

As the OP says, the Propublica piece is essentially a standard tax policy op-end that could have been written today without the benefit of any new private information. The connection to the private data seems weak at best.
In arguing that BSL-4 labs are so safe, and suggesting the reader focus on different, lower-level labs, this article ignores the history of lab leaks, including at such well-protected labs. Here is a list of a whole bunch:

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-long-histo...
edit: My comment sounds a bit angry, but it's not directed at you personally, so keep it in mind ;)

> The reason tables for layout were so bad was that the table as a whole couldn't be rendered (laid out) properly until every cell was fully rendered first, including images with unspecified width/height attributes as well as dynamic cell dimensions based on free-flowing text, etc [...]

That was purely a limitation of the CSS rendering engines, it had absolutely nothing do to with table layout themselves, from a developer perspective. There is no reason this problem cannot/couldn't be worked out by CSS rendering engine developers. I get what you are saying, but it wasn't a good enough reason to dismiss tables entirely (and that wasn't the biggest reason used back then when "a list apart" writers decided that tables were cancer).

Floats were so good yet developers had to resort to CSS frameworks and grid frameworks for years in order to make working with CSS bearable? No, float positioning was horrible, un-intuitive and just a hack. Again, the culprit was CSS itself (and by extension the rendering engines), not the developer using tables.

The irony is that all these CSS frameworks were essentially tables re-implemented on top of "floating divs".

A good measure of whether a web spec is good or not, or pragmatic enough or not is how much effort developers go through in order not to use that spec directly. Generally, if using a framework on top of the spec to make that spec somehow useful is what most developers do, it means that the spec needs to be revised and improved in order to fulfil the needs of the developer, not the other way around. Obviously that doesn't apply to low level protocols like WebRTC and co, but CSS isn't a low level protocol, it was supposed to make web presentation easy, and it failed at it for decades. That's all I'm saying.

Just thank god we now have at the very least Flexbox and Grid. Which makes bootstrap and co completely redundant even for devs allergic to design.
> But market share of what? No one pays for web search so that's not really a market.

The customer in a web search isn't the USER. It's the BUISINESSES whose ads are placed on the search results page.

THEY are certainly paying for the web search.
A forced selloff doesn't destroy wealth; it improves price discovery of the assets that were previously hidden withheld from the market and overvalued.

The GME HODLing "apes" aren't creating wealth either, just transferring it
> The NAP is a fiction made up by American libertarians.

That's true, but that's also true for any other human doctrine, from human rights to US constitution, so I don't see how it makes it any less important.

> It is not a doctrine adhered to by the Russian navy.

The beauty of it is, it doesn't have to be.
I think an important caveat here is that in a serverside-rendered context, linaria’s 70kb of CSS would be a bigger issue than styled-component’s additional JS. The page can’t render until it has downloaded the CSS.

Granted, many react apps aren’t serverside-rendered, so these numbers are still useful and interesting. But I would say that if performance is a priority, moving to an SSR solution (or away from React altogether) would have a way bigger impact on performance.
But there's a lot more oversight (from opposition parties, media, etc.) to ensure those grants are being done fairly.
Seems like AMD has been using Vega 20 to refer to two different things.

I was talking about the mobile GPU on MacBook Pros which is based on a 14nm chip. The full name is Radeon Pro Vega 20:

https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/radeon-pro-vega-20-pro-vega-...

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-pro-vega-20.c32...

Vega 20 seems to also refer to a discrete GPU. This has been later rebranded to Radeon VII (maybe because of this confusion). The number you are quoting is for the discrete GPU.
You have to look at the customers. If you push for Linux throughout your organisation and you got hit with a linux zero day, it's your fault.

If you use MS, then it's Microsoft s fault, you won't be blamed because almost everyone was exposed to it and you got hit.

These companies also have older workforce who are used to windows and the switch would be difficult. Yes I know some older users would be fine but that is not the majority.

It's similar to the "no one got fired for buying oracle" situation
There is such a stupidly easy solution to this, which is to set a lower limit for whatever rule applies.

Though... even though things like estate taxes have these rules (either "first million isn't taxed" or "primary residence isn't taxed" etc, depending on jursidiction), most people tend to not actually read the details and assume that the gov't wants to take the family farm.

No, I don't think it's your god-given right to hand down a $2 million townhouse without paying taxes.
Does that mean you were doing an LZW compression but with a fixed table?
Let the bootlicking begin. It is not enough that all of the subjects of the article don't pay their fair share, but we have to listen to their apologists, like the author, use pretzel logic to justify why they don't pay their taxes, should not have to pay their taxes and we should just shut the fuck up and take it. I guess the new successors to Tucker Carlson and his ilk are lining up for jobs, once they retire to the Hamptons. Some how the author thinks that he is the only one who can read, comprehend and opinionate outside the right wing sphere of influence. There are other realities out there other than retreaded bullshit like trickle down and other moribund ideologies pushed by Friedman and Sowell. My advice to the subjects of the article is to sit down, take your talking to, and pay your taxes or deal with the political reaction and face something far worse.
I also don't care for either party, but also don't really care where the virus originated. Both possibilities seem plausible, and rather than waste time figuring out which one was responsible we should try to limit the possibility of either happening in the future.
Do you use their proprietary drivers on Linux? Or do you print over IPP? I can't use the drivers because ARM.
This is maybe slightly different than what you’re looking for, but my project Friends[1] is a journaling CLI that I also use to keep track of people’s addresses and contact info (via the “notes” feature).

[1] https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends
Somewhere in his writings he calls it a "user illusion". I _think_ what he means is that nature selects for the creatures that attach a lot of "weight" to their sensory inputs. In other words, if we perceived our thought processes as they really are (as a purely material computation by our brains), our evolutionary fitness would be lower.
if anonymous email causes a newsletter to lose subscribers, it isn't a newsletter, it's spam.
Chinese consumer tech do gamification
I've been using Pulumi for a new project after using Terraform for a long time. It's a little weird at first, but then it clicks and actually feels quite nice. The Input/Output logic with its async behavior is the weird part, but it works fine when you understand how it works.

The only (minor) problem that I've seen in it is that the JavaScript/TypeScript support seems more mature and featureful than the other backends. So, I'll simply use that.
> At the same time, email-based publishing has been of the few bright spots for journalism in recent years. (Certainly it has been a bright spot for me!)

Conflating spam with journalism. Sorry, but if this "journalism" relies on spy pixels and collecting information about me you've got the wrong customer.

No sympathy.
> they weren't making 500k, so it was irrelevant that they made income taxed as a capital gain

Sorry, but capital gains taxes start at $15,000.
The stock market is not all public. Stocks can be sold privately, (i.e. private contracts, stock bartering) or trading private collaterizable assets (i.e stocks in private companies). What you see on CNBC is the average buying price what people are willing to purchase on the public market. How do you go about valuing those transactions?
The author alludes to your concern in this passage:

"They’re [ProPublica] right about the laws, but incurious about why the laws are that way (not just in the US, but across the developed world)."

You seem to imply, with no evidence, that the rich influence tax policy. They seem to imply there is a reason tax policy is they way it is as well.

What should the wealthy do? What is the right amount for them to pay? It is unreasonable to expect them to maximize their tax burden. You could find ways to spend all your money on taxes if desired. So the whole premise is nonsensical. No one would ever do that.

Our anger should be directed towards Congress who makes the rules. The problem is that Congress is a red vs. blue team sport devoid of any reason, compromise, or proper incentives. This has resulted in the same politicians being elected year after year as they become geriatric. During that time they become incredibly wealthy and begin to benefit from the status quo of tax policy.

So really we have no one to blame but ourselves. Next time you vote ignore red or blue. Vote for a third party! Vote on issues and not party line!
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I dunno. I don’t think it’s right, if the person has not done something illegal.

What’s next, some news org wants Biden out, they don’t have a legit source, but a foreign source has dirt on him, now that’s cool cuz they want to change public opinion of Biden?

Was the pearl clutching around Biden’s son’s laptop material being illegally obtained just a flimsy excuse? [uh oh, it’s doxxing, it’s doxxing... suspend their Twitter, Jack are you listening?]
OP here. Can give some partial answers.

1. Lots of possible deductions. Charitable giving is a big one here. I guess we'll see from future instalments in the ProPublica series which ones were specifically used.

2. You can roll-over loans by borrowing new money to pay back old debt, up to a practical cap of a max % of collateralized share value. And this is worth it if the expected growth on your shares is higher than interest on the loans. But at some point you or an heir will have to realize gains if you want to exceed that practical cap -- or if the loans get called. Bezos could probably raise $2bn for a sports franchise on loan no problem coz that's only ~1% of his shares. If you're a regular billionaire with say $4-5bn in shares, much harder.

The meta point here though is that the taxes are always going to be paid at some point, and deferring that point to the future is fine if the rate of growth on the gov's share exceeds their borrowing costs (currently between 0-2% depending how you look at it).
> Microsoft also patched five critical bugs — flaws that can be remotely exploited to seize control over the targeted Windows computer without any help from users.

seems pretty bad...
The loans are usually interest only.
As long as I get a refund when the stocks I hold decrease in value then I'm good with taxing unrealized capital gains. I'm going to be belly belly rich!
The irony is we demand constant updates, pushes, recent commits, and maintenance, yet we use OSes with libraries and tools that were written decades ago and see little to no updates at times. Some of us go happily along using a decade old version of zlibc, for example. But when it comes to that latest NPM dependency -- if it doesn't have a commit within the last six months, psh! must be abandonware.
Don't regret today: http://dontregrettoday.com/

Each day a different message/tweet/video to encourage you to own your day.
I recall there testimony around Operation Fast And Furious where the DEA basically said that they chose a cartel to dominate the trade and busted them once a decade or so.

They justified this on the ground that otherwise, the various factions would be fighting things out. But yeah, this make the DEA effectively the ultimate Mafia boss.

And yet, each vicious step in this vicious game can be justified by a logic that seems reasonable on it's own ("Drugs" should be illegal 'cause of harm of drug use to society, drug dealing should be actually organized by the police 'cause of harm of unfettered drug dealing, the truth should be covered 'cause of harm of not trusting authorities...).
You don't think there's anything we could possibly learn that would help inform us on how to operate labs and what sort of things are safe to study going forward?

I don't believe that.
You don't have the god-given right to take it, either :-)

Taxes should be extracted as needed to support things that only government can do. Taxes should not be extracted based on envy, or just because they can be.
ProPublica is making a point about billionaire wealth generation being radically different than average person’s (and thus opening you to more money/influence/power even just by donating it all to charity).

Substack author got stuck on “tax avoidance” and missed the broader point. Sure, perhaps taxes get paid at some point, but it’s radically different if you can build up a huge warchest and sock everything away behind future wealth transfer schemes. (And point that you get one-time 40% vs 20% cut then 40% cut is also valid).

Beyond all that - when you can accumulate wealth without taxes like that - you get security and comfort. Certainly there are reasons to prioritize investment, but why should earning income via wages put you at such a HUGE disadvantage?

Def doesn’t rise to the inflammatory title. ProPublica has a different attitude towards wealth and investment than you do - fine! Not sure there’s a truly “objective” way to look at this.
The biggest difference is that the DX is more like Next/Gatsby type frameworks, where you develop build/client with the same tooling and components, but unlike those frameworks most of your components don’t get bundled or run in the browser.

A great use case is if you like to work with an isomorphic component library, but you’re building a mostly-static site (in the sense that it’s mostly non-interactive). Tools like Next etc provide that DX, but they bundle/run that static content twice per page load. Astro only bundles the stuff you specifically mark as interactive.

This probably sounds trivial if you’re taking a more traditional approach to server/client responsibilities. But for anyone wanting to render on build and hydrate with the same component logic it’s a huge improvement over most of the current isomorphic approaches.
>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.

That news came out early last year[1] but was mostly ignored by mainstream media (and the general public). China themselves disavowed the wet market theory rather quickly.[2] That disavowal was also mostly ignored.

[1]March 2020 "But no one has yet found evidence that pangolins were at the Wuhan market, or even that venders there trafficked pangolin" https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/from-bats-to-huma...

[2]May 2020 "The coronavirus didn't really start at that Wuhan 'wet market'" https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-did-not-start-at-wuhan-...
Agree. In this regard, think about how procedures changed following Chernobyl, or consider how the various "Broken Arrow" events (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear...) have influence nuclear policy.
CSS scoping without a hacky third party framework is long overdue.

Web components largely failed at this point though, the spec needs to be rewritten from scratch to be more pragmatic. People have been using React and Co for more than a decade now, spec writers certainly have enough hindsight as to how people practically program front-end applications.
Very interesting, thank you!

Do you have a tutorial and some examples? If not, could you write one?

I sometimes deploy perl code at large scale for financial computing where only performance matters: with XS the overhead is low while gaining language flexibility.

Even in 2021, this is usually faster than alternatives by orders of magnitude.

PDL could be a good addition to our toolset for specific workloads.
`pip install --upgrade pip` fixed this for me. (not in tensorflow directly, but while installing something else on my M1 last week which required numpy)
As the article points out, the step up basis avoids double taxation. The estate tax is 40% of the whole value, regardless of gains.

The step up in basis also avoids a logistical nightmare, as it can be extremely difficult to determine the cost basis of an asset owned by someone who is now deceased.

If we're not taking in enough from inheritances, we should change how the estate tax works, but eliminating the step up in basis generally would just result in a substantial increase in administrative overheads.

Finally, to the extent that there is a problem with gains totally escaping taxation (e.g. via trusts)-- the article doesn't use any of its massive felony private violation to make a case for that.
Plus that facility has Level 2 and 3 labs and no one really knows what lab they used.