skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without consciously thinking about it I find that my "art" projects fall into a line between easy, hard and impossible but idealized. For instance

* high-production rate printed cards that have interactive features but need to entice people to interact or not interact with them (this is/is not a "public affordance"); this is active and ongoing
* putting an led light strip on my car and showing images as I drive by; hope to get this done by fall this year
* doing a sketch comedy routine with a "videogame character" projected with "pepper's ghost"; 1.5 years out at least

That last one is really hard (e.g. gotta make the hardware, the software, do the writing, most of all find a venue) but the earlier projects will establish that I have a portfolio and get allies to make it possible. (Generically I think "videogame characters" are capable of a level of interactivity that could be dangerous to human relationships and civilization as we know it.)

What is interesting is that making the cards interactive has gotten me into issues that overlap with that video game character (making something seem to have much more agency than it really has) and I didn't expect that at all until cards failed and I had to find emergency remediations -- now those learnings are fed back into new cards.

The cards themselves have the ability to absorb anything (e.g. people like X style of art or you want to make them do behavior Y?) so these projects are a lens through which I see everything. When I started the card project 9 months ago I had no idea the cards would be a tool to face problems I have right now, but they are...
Because in their twisted mind, that cheap looking bar is exclusive and useful, only to exist on their finest devices.
I presume after being asset stripped?
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At the long-term capital gains rate, maybe.

What would capture a lot of revenue from people like Bezos is to tax stock option gains, when realized, as regular income.

Then companies couldn't shelter their CEOs from tax by paying them mostly in options rather than salary. And the CEO would still care about growing the company so that their after-tax gains are maximized.
I wonder if you can do the opposite with speakers :)
Regarding your EDIT, I'd love to be able to answer, but alas, that is way out of my depth.

Something that's bothering me is your pairing of "symbolic" and "APL". As far as my (limited) knowledge goes, symbolic languages are those like Mathematica, where you can perform symbolic substitutions, for example. APL is not symbolic, it only uses "weird" characters as its primitives (its built-in functions).
> Unnecessarily driving an SUV, eating far too much meat and running the lines supplying peoples with those meat is morally not that different.

At the very least it's a difference in degree. If we use wealth as a proxy for power then a given billionaire has at least the same political power as 10K median Americans. And of course the median American has expenses which constitute a much larger share of his income than that of our hypothetical billionaire, and they need to work such that they can't devote their full time and energy to climate problems while our billionaire can live a lavish lifestyle on capital alone.

Beyond that, I find it particularly ludicrous that there's no difference between being an end consumer and literally being at the helm of the supply chain. A consumer has virtually no ability to control the emissions involved in the supply chain while obviously the supply chain helmsmen very much do have that ability, and the creation, refinement, and transport of those goods is overwhelmingly the cause of those emissions in the first place. You might argue that consumers can choose low emissions products but we don't even have the ability to assess which products are "low emissions". And this isn't even touching the "advertising/promoting a carbon-intensive lifestyle" or lobbying to maintain a system that incentivizes pollution.

So while "not that different" is relative, I can't imagine anything more different than our hypothetical billionaire and median American. The idea that eating a cheese burger is morally equivalent to investing in and lobbying for the fossil fuel industry is nothing but repugnant ideology.
Yeah, that bit I realise but the point I was getting at is this: if I take someone else's code, use chunks of it in my app, say that it's mine and make money from it is that not illegal? Or, at least in violation of the license?

Superficially at least, Copilot (from my understanding) is "copying" code, letting me use it in my app, and making money from it.

I'm just trying to wrap my head around it.

Let's be clear, I am not a lawyer, but it seems... strange!
Are you finding, getting and keeping the professionals you want? In other words, do your employees seem to agree with you?
TL;DR Treat sports franchises differently from other businesses.

“Please excuse any typos, wrote this on my phone in a hurry”

It’s less about sports owners vs person on the street than it is about any business owner and their employees. The business owner most likely does pay an overall lower tax rate. It is a broader philosophical conundrum.

On the one hand, you want to encourage entrepreneurship. Without a disproportionate reward, why would anyone be willing to take on the regulatory burden of a owning a business. On the other hand, we wish to promote equal treatment. Same laws for everyone.

So maybe, the real conversation should be about simplification of tax law to promote a less disproportionate divide between being an employer and an employee. The compliance frameworks and tax laws are as it is horrendously complicated in every country I’ve ever worked in. How about simplifying them? Have income > X? Pay Y tax. Not only will this promote egalitarianism, it will ease the complexity of running a business.

A good compromise then? In theory. In practice, that’s never going to happen. Governments are not autocratic. They need consensus to move forward. Making a change like this will involve appealing to all kinds of govt. leaders with differing vested interests. It’s the very reason behind our (US/Canada) countless tax rebates clauses and provisions. Local leaders creating new subsidy programs to attract more businesses (that translates into jobs) for their constituents.

Hmm..what can we do then? Treat sports franchises differently from other businesses. Somewhere in the countless points the author makes, they brought this up. I think there’s some real substance here.
I would argue that the failing is not in the education system, but instead that the tax structure of a country should not be built in such a way that those with the time and resources to spend can effectively game the system to pay significantly less of a percentage of their total wealth than those who are less wealthy.
I'm not against people quitting cold turkey if that's what works for them, addiction is different for everyone and if that's the most effective way of quitting for a person then fair enough. What I'm against is non-smokers preaching that it's the only way as opposed to something like vaping when they're in no position to make such a claim.
Fortune (1996)

>JOE KENNEDY, a famous rich guy in his day, exited the stock market in timely fashion after a shoeshine boy gave him some stock tips. He figured that when the shoeshine boys have tips, the market is too popular for its own good, a theory also advanced by Bernard Baruch, another vested interest who described the scene before the big Crash:

"Taxi drivers told you what to buy. The shoeshine boy could give you a summary of the day's financial news as he worked with rag and polish. An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market. My cook had a brokerage account and followed the ticker closely. Her paper profits were quickly blown away in the gale of 1929."

Are we at the same fatal stage in the market today, when people who aren't expected to have stock tips have stock tips, including hot dog vendors, shoeshine boys, the homeless, pedicurists, barroom dancers, toll takers, and the trumpet player at the racetrack?

https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv...
A lot of this comes down to how "do their best" is defined, as implementing things as requested would send many of the projects I have worked on careening off a cliff very quickly.
This is very interesting! I’m taking DSA next semester and learning on my own over the summer. this visual will be very helpful.
This is one of the main reasons why I vape.

I first got interested in the nootropic properties of nicotine long before I took up the pen when I came across Gwern's article on it. In particular, the possibility of reinforcing habits using it was the biggest thing that made me look into it. However, he uses gum instead.

https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
Clean room design is a technique to avoid the appearance of copyright infringement. If the courts were omniscient and could see into your mind that you didn't copy then there would be no need. Why this is relevant is because we can see into the mind of copilot. Whether what it does it considered infringement I think will come out in the details.

If the ML model essentially is just a very sophisticated search and helps you choose what to copy and helps you modify it to fit your code then it's 100% infringement. If it is actually writing code then maybe not.
There’s obviously much more nuance to our choices in the modern world than “live in a work-till-death society” or “live as primitives in the woods.”

For instance, many other developed nations take twice as much time off (or more) compared to American workers and seem to be doing just fine.
I think you're right. Especially given that Copilot can reproduce significant blocks of code: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

Famous code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...
Interestingly, the concept of Peak Copper [0] is as old as Peak Oil, people (including domain experts) were worrying about it since the early 20th century, but new discoveries outpaced demand and so far, the peak did not occur (unlike oil, which temporarily showed a peak before fracking was deployed). But perhaps we'll be there one day.

Another interesting fact is that the recycling rate is relatively high due to its economic value, "In Europe, about 50% of copper demand comes from recycling (as of 2016)", and "it has been estimated that 65%-80% of all copper ever mined is still available (having been repeatedly recycled)."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_copper

[1] 1920s engineers believed the Electric Age would die a quick death https://gizmodo.com/1920s-engineers-believed-the-electric-ag...
A transcript of his video "I'm leaving YouTube", that I pulled from the closed caption file[1]

https://pastebin.com/8ZTwaJEm

[1] https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/lazy-static/video-caption...
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter on why today’s data privacy approaches fail
When the shoeshine boys talked stocks it was a great sell signal in 1929 (1996)
Aren't these deductions built into the tax code? They are there to take advantage of and these people are using them. As long as they are not doing illegal and shady things like it was claimed about a recent popular figure, I don't see anything wrong with it. Would anyone not deduct their children's day care work because it's not fair to people below them in the economic ladder? We can have a conversation about whether all those deductions are fair or not but saying they are taking advantage of the system purposely built for them is unnecessary. There is no political will to change the tax code and may be these kind of perverse arguments will finally change the landscape and give our cowardly politicians the push they need.
Well, if you write software under a free license, you can't really prevent someone from uploading the source on GitHub...
Another reason why martial arts have evolved into sports or towards other non-combative priorities is that practising martial arts in an actual combative way is harsh and rough. Most people don't really want that, at least not on a level that might be required for practising and testing actual combat effectiveness.

I suppose it might be possible for a martial art or tradition to be both actually martial and mainstream if it's part of the local culture e.g. for a significant proportion of men to engage in rough and actually violent martial arts and events. My perspective might be limited, but I don't think most modern societies do that.
> It's just that... most of us mere mortals don't know anything about them.

I thought it was just that the vast majority of mere mortals simply did not possess the sufficient wealth to take advantage.
I'd liken some of the smaller z80 machines and "trainers" to the raspberry pi.

But the reality is nothing quite like the pi existed back then. Computing was significantly more expensive than it is now.
Is it not already? Genuine question. In all of the coutries I'm familiar with, both smoking and vaping are illegal to advertise. Even alcohol in some cases, although more commonly it's allowed but strictly regulated (must be purely factual, no glorification, mandatory health disclaimer...)
This is basically turning Dropbox offices into WeWork spaces, overlooking the fact that actually working in such an environment is way overrated.
I use IPFS and host my media (mainly photography) on my domain. (With cloudflare as a IPFS gateway in case a visitor doesn't use IPFS)

Hosting cost: $0.

Some details: https://fabian.social/posts/2020-11-07-ipfs-blogging.html

Example: https://fabian.social/photography/2021-01-15-incidentes-vial...
If you said this about any other country not inhabited by anglo-saxons or "white" people you'd be called a bigot and justifiably so.

No one alive today should feel guilt/responsibility for something people they've never met did, full stop.

>But sure you can try desperately to come up with excuses to avoid any responsibility and enjoy the riches your ancestors stole from poor folks.

Yes because that's how the world works. There is no responsibility. You're here today because you had ancestors that fought and survived, many of them probably doing "immoral" things. Just because your "riches" are less than others doesn't mean you deserve to have them. Why should YOU get to enjoy anything they have? All I see is a jealous naive individual asking for handouts. Sorry but that doesn't grant you the right to take from others.
Without context, this is just like saying that people of certain color are responsible for most crimes committed in the country etc.

I once had a friend who slapped his wife in the face once. I was shocked when I learned about this. He was very ashamed and explained that he felt completely powerless, she was shaming him he is not a real man because he earns so little and one day he broken down and - not being able to defend himself verbally - he nervously slapped her. This whole event made me sad. It's not like I justify his action, it's clear what he did was wrong and he knew this well, but cases like these get into statistics and then people make up all kinds of uninformed conclusions.
It is actually quite interesting what you can find on youtube these days. There are people that have instead purchased very cheap property and are living debt free. Those people are talking about society as still having slavery - in effect - because they realize, after their freedom, what it actually was the entire time. So it's not just about tax evasion or what have you, there are all sorts of ways to restructure one's life. We don't all need what we think we need.
People have been abandoning walled gardens for many decades, but still walled gardens persist. Most either value the walls, or are indifferent to them.
Could this be the beginning of the true test of open source licenses? My understanding is that there has never been a ruling by a court to give precedence to the validity or scope of any open source license. I can see a class action suit coming on behalf of all GPL licensed code authors.
> necessarily their incompetence, but that they're given the exclusive right to dictate every detail of the UX.

Unless you have valid reason to think the user would prefer your way, this sounds like the correct chain of command for a strong product.
I’m by no means an anti-taxxer, but can we stop with these articles that suggest they’ve discovered some shadowy billionaire tax fraud, but then go on to explain the literal tax code?
I feel you there. I am also working on a project now that, I feel, is a net negative for my company. And you are right, no one is listening to me about it. And they shouldn't, as a software architect who am I to tell business owners that basing a company around SAP ERP is a good idea from the business standpoint.

However, as an internal technical team full of professionals, we are making sure that right technical decisions are taken during the implementation, and we don't allow inferior SAP tools that "work out of the box with the SAP ERP" to pollute our technical landscape, and we are not letting SAP consultants to further lock us in into their world.

That's the part where we still can be professionals and do a great implementation of a "shitty" project we don't believe in. But you are right, if we were not allowed to be professionals and if business would not respect our technical decisions, it would not be our fault to be demotivated and just do the bare minimum required not to be fired on the spot.
Perhaps the problem is that user's are entirely too entrenched with using blackbox frameworks they don't fully understand like create-react-app, and not that we have a tool that discloses when these frameworks contain vulnerable dependencies.

If we are in a situation where swapping out dependencies becomes so difficult that we just throw our hands up, is that really an issue with tooling?

EDIT:

BTW I'm not opposed to a PR that would allow for a .gitignore style list to ignore warning on specified deps. That could be useful. The issue I have would be respecting other peoples "auditignore" list or whatever... Because just because someone like @danabramov thinks including some package is not a threat, I may or may not agree with him.
A sports team is a business, all businesses deduct their costs in order to calculate the profit, on which they pay tax. That is exactly what is happening here. The biased snide tone of the article pretends their is something unusual about this and says right in the headline that taxes are being avoided. In fact the correct amount of tax is being paid, it’s millions and millions of dollars, and hundreds of people are being employed.
I feel like the tax code ought to be biased towards benefitting small businesses, but super-tight on those processing larger amounts of money. And it ought to all be tied back to a person who controls the business so you can't just game this by creating more legal entities.
If you have to wait for old people to die off and young people to take over, you are looking at a timeline of at least one generation, maybe two. So 30 to 60 years. Climate change temperature goals of 1.5 or 2 degrees are unattainable if things take even 30 years.

So this is not a viable option.
I think if you use BetterTouchTools and modify your Touch Bar for custom needs (I use the GoldenChaos presets) - it can prove to be somewhat useful, and save screen real estate on certain things too. So I'm not 100% against it, but I understand the appeal of having physical keys.
Maine Has a Dangerous, Small, and Itchy Problem
only morons pay the estate tax
It is. Their advertising is extremely strictly regulated and literally all of their ads and marketing material focus on smoking cessation.

Note: this came after initial warnings from the FDA years ago that they were going to ban the product unless.
flake8 is the most common linter front end and allows for exclusions/inclusions in configuration files.

https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/user/configuration.html
The grandparent was building a binary utility, which means they were (hopefully!) building in release mode, which doesn't use incremental compilation by default in any version of the compiler.

For debug builds, where incremental is usually on by default, it was disabled for 1.52.1 due to bugs, and then kept off in 1.53 out of an abundance of caution. It should be back on in 1.54.
Video is the sort of thing that benefits significantly from economies of scale. Encoding and bandwidth costs are your two biggest factors. Encoding has to be done once -- well, once per rendition you ship, more on that in a second -- but bandwidth costs are, modulo volume discounts, very linear, and thus a direct per-viewer-minute line item. Those bandwidth costs typically depend on your desired quality of video (bitrate) and capacity of service. CDNs and traditional cloud services tend to have expensive outbound bandwidth. VPSes etc. don't, but it's not fast enough to serve many users, and what happens when you hit transfer limits is Not Great.

It is pretty rare in 2021 to serve video just as "video files". HLS and DASH allow for adaptive quality streaming for bandwidth- or performance-constrained devices -- which can also help keep costs down, if you're shipping lower bitrate 480p renditions to some clients rather than full-boat 1080p -- and make resumption of partially played media easier. (Because you can append segments to an HLS or DASH manifest, you can also use this technology more easily for live-streamed content.)

This stuff is complicated. You can build out the pipelines to do this stuff yourself with either cloud services or a lot of duct tape -- I've done it before -- but it's A Lot Of Work to get right and economies of scale are a real thing. There exist services like Mux Video (YC W16, https://mux.com -- this is a shameless plug; I work on the devex team) package this and present straightforwardly consumable APIs for folks who just want to ship decent video at a reasonable price.
I have started using lazygit in tmux splits or neovim terminals and I love it!
Depreciation was introduced to US tax code in 1909. If the legislators want to vindictively punish owners of sports teams, and deny them use of tool that’s available to everyone else, then they have to do it by new explicit rule making. However, it is beyond clear that it is not being “buddies” with politicians that allows sports team owners to depreciate them.