skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a reminder: reproducing GPL licensed code verbatim is not illegal per see.

The legality lies on what the user does with the code.
I don't like this "guilty by association" trend that has become popular. Steve has a crypto-coin -- so what? That means what exactly?

The implication you're making is that he is either knowingly damaging the environment, scamming vulnerable people or wasting energy without having to do anything to support that assertion.
> Ballmer pays such a low rate, in part, because of a provision of the U.S. tax code. When someone buys a business, they’re often able to deduct almost the entire sale price against their income during the ensuing years. That allows them to pay less in taxes. The underlying logic is that the purchase price was composed of assets — buildings, equipment, patents and more — that degrade over time and should be counted as expenses.

There’s the entire story for you. The owners took advantage of depreciation in the tax code.
The value of ancient biographies of philosophers
This is what I always find funny about people using billionaires as an example of failure of capitalism. Many of the ways that todays billionaires profit is more socialistic in nature than capitalistic.

This isnt a story of some ruthless baron aggressively beating his competitors in the market. He's literally just having the money handed to him as a redistribution by the government.
The design of NY's central park, a masterpiece of landscape architecture
> before a new equilibrium is obtained

Is there any guess as to how long this will take? It seems like the interpretation is weather will become a bit more stable after some time, at a +2* new normal.
Yeah but that kind of defeats the consent manufacturing illusion to say the actual entity instead of the vague "society" to brainjack people with presumed social pressures.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22040-tree-rings-sugg...
"How did the Romans manage to grow grapes in northern England when most climate studies suggest the weather was much cooler then? We may now have an answer: it wasn’t that cold at all."

Edit: oops I did mixup the late Roman and Medieval warm periods. Anyway both the RWP around 2000 years ago and the MWP 1000 years ago are what geologists call interglacial periods. The earth is currently in an ice age (when there is permanent ice at either of the poles) but every thousand years or so the climate warms and the ice retreats for a couple hundred years. Unfortunately most climate change studies only consider data from 1850 onwards, and those that do go back further only go start at the last glacial period about a thousand years ago.
Doesn't Liquid Haskell[1] use a SAT solver?

[1] https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell-blog/
This is why I relicensed my code [1] yesterday to a license I wrote [2], which is designed to poison the well for machine learning.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/07/poisoning-github-copilot-and...

[2]: https://yzena.com/yzena-network-license/
Extortion and theft implies you didn't voluntarily accept to be taxed and that you aren't getting anything in return.

Don't want to pay high American taxes and enjoy our roads and such? No problem. Guatemala has very low tax rates. UAE has no income tax. Don't like regulations in general? Somalia will be right up your alley.

No one is forcing you to stay in American and pay these taxes. That is your choice.
I wonder if something similar happened in India around the time of the Buddha and Mahavira. There were concerns by the ruling classes that monasticism was getting too popular, which led to "compromise" guidance being popularized that men were supposed to perform the householder role when they were younger, and only adopt the monastic lifestyle once they were done raising children, as a kind of retirement. Maybe a sex imbalance played a role.
> there is no chance that it's being driven by some global factors and events, like avaliability of cheap credit

There is no chance indeed.
You can make analogies to the current, active antiwork movement.

I think it is pretty clear that all of society is poorer for the existence of these people. Perhaps China’s ability to keep a lid on it is one small part of their relative economic competitiveness.
Why the switch from real dollars to income tax rates? When I pay for my meal at a restaurant, I pay for what I ordered, not a percentage of my income.
Just because it's legal doesn't make it ethical
Wouldn't a sane approach be to settle on one system first? Or to upgrade one of these to the target one? Migrating all of them at the same time sounds incredibly complicated, with no fallback option if something goes wrong.
This is true. One way to combat it I've found (as a CTO) is to ensure backend engineers are involved in the initial pre-mockup conversations and mockup iteration conversations and to give them just as much vetoing power as someone from bizdev. In some orgs this is impossible but it works great for us.

I also find that backend people tend to have extremely good ideas when it comes to UX (better, even, than a lot of UX people), they just don't enjoy or aren't good at executing these ideas (or aren't allowed to). The takeaway is to take your backend engineers' opinions seriously and let them touch the frontend when they want to.
Why doesn't the author just call it depreciation, which is what it is? It's as if they're trying to make a story about some new mystery loophole....
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This is the crux of the free rider problem. Consider this: my own hypocrisy has nothing to do with whether or not my statements on a particular topic are correct.
That NICE guideline says not to use a syringe as it can be harmful. The other commenter used quotes so maybe it was a loose reference to the irrigation devices that they do recommend.
Yes, sorry I confused it with mongodb.
I anticipate many “we have to get off the cloud” projects in the future for sure, but I think it’s clear that the demand for “public cloud” has not been met by a long shot. There is much more room for the market cap of public cloud to grow.
> gofmt

gofmt is in a small set of formatters that disallows configuration and choice, it's also the first to my recollection. This is a feature because deciding on a coding standard is bike shedding. It's also extremely aggressive, and undoes pretty much any choice you may make in formatting your code; a feature, again.

Not all languages are this fortunate. Some have configuration (cargo fmt), others aren't aggressive enough (Roslyn).
Oh, interesting. I once lost hearing in one ear due to wax blockage and finally got annoyed enough I went to an urgent care clinic. They used a wax softener and then a big syringe with warm water (and maybe something else mixed in) to irrigate my ear canal. That did the trick and cleared it out. I wonder what about using a syringe can be harmful?
15 States Reach a $4.5B Settlement with Oxycontin Maker Purdue Pharma
Depreciation only defers taxes. Their cost base declines and on a future sale they have greater capital gains.

Jokes on them if the future tax rate is significantly higher than the rate they were writing off all along.
Hu bruno, I really like the project.

There was an a comment by someone about $100 for a mac app. We pay for a many mac apps that solves a problem for us and at present meetings are an issue. I have been juggling among apps to solve this exact issue. The alternatives suggested like itsycal and meeter don't've the note taking and template support especially to look at the history of notes in previous meetings. This is a feature usually found in CRMs.

A feature request or a blocker in using this for us? The notes are stored on your server, we can't have that. Exporting to google docs isn't really helpful, if you could somehow store them locally (encrypted of course) and sync them to our google docs where we don't need to export them and are automatically available as google docs where we can search through them, it would be great.
If google is generating content that you will sell as a book yes. Legally you could get sued. Remember google uses the content under fair use for there service. You can't claim fair use when you try to sell someone elses code.
Culture is downstream of money (how nerds rose)
You are ill informed regarding the US tax code. Unlike a majority of the world's countries, the US will tax you even if you live abroad.
I seem to be the only person who loves customizing and utilizing the Touch Bar for all kinds of nifty things… shame. To be fair, I agree it’s customizability is far too limited without 3rd party software which is pretty sad.
I envy you if that is your experience. Almost all UX persons I have worked with have a degree in "Design" and are artsy type that tell me. "You can't make this blue it just doesn't vibe with the green we have."

Many of who use the argument "Apple/Google does it this way" I'm not saying your now right it's just been my experience that they aren't engineers or Computer Scientists.
Only if you insist on microscopically looking at every single individual action, rather than the collective actions taken by society and corporations.

And some individuals have an extremely outsized effect on climate change a pollution, namely top management of fossil fuel companies and other gross polluters, as well as the politicians who enable them. They carry by far the largest guilt out of any of us. I'll accept my <millionth of a percent of guilt, if they accept their extremely outsized and enormous portion of guilt, and actually do something about it.

As a shorthand, we refer to these corporations as the entities guilty of gross pollution, rather than name every single individual in management positions in said companies, but we all know that the individuals in top management are responsible.

Similarly, the politicians are generally responsible for decisions and actions taken on a societal level, so they bear significantly more responsibility than Average Joe down the street, who's just trying to stay cool during a massive heatwave.
Really there were a lot of contenders for this title in the 8-bit micro age. I'd say I miss it, but I was too young to be a part of it. Sometimes I think I was born a generation late.
What would you say about the 104 year old practitioner in the article then? Do you think he was he part of modernized version?
That photo of the Juul advertisement with the huge government-mandated warning

> „This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is addictive“

made me wonder…

Maybe social media needs the same?

> „This Facebook product contains dark patterns and is engineered by a team of psychologists to maximize time spent scrolling the news feed. It is highly addictive.“
I'm not sure why you asking this. The poster quite obviously indicates you can trivially buy them on Aliexpress. You can verify this yourself in less time then it took to type this comment. And indeed the front-facing camera can be had for very cheap. The back module with Lidar is more expensive though.
What a laughable notion. The United States has its problems, but they aren't sterilizing Muslims, taking over city states, disappearing political dissidents, creating debt traps for the developing world, or shutting down newspapers. The United States launches inquiries into civilian casualties, enforces regulations generally aimed towards the public good, enforces rule of law, has free democratic elections, and generally upholds the rights and freedoms outlined in its constitution. If you would rather live in the orbit of any single other superpower or empire in world history, you're deluded.
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They are not arguing that he did something illegal. They are arguing that the system is biased toward billionaires.
"Savvy finance" is only available to those that can afford savvy accountants and tax people.
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How is handing the government 6 dollars instead of 10 a redistribution by the government? The entire article is about using depreciation, which is an unbelievably common tax strategy when you buy a depreciating item (tools, computers, cars, etc). In fact I’d say it’s used by nearly 90% of small and large businesses.

It’s definitely NOT something that only the rich know how to use.
The problem is not necessarily their incompetence, but that they're given the exclusive right to dictate every detail of the UX.

The problem is that they often don't know the constraints of the system you're working with, something that only comes with actually working on the implementation.

E.g. I was working on a display. The graphics were designed by a UX Team. However the display only had 256 colors, had to be readable outside, had a 320x240 resolution. They had designed everything as vector graphics with highest color settings on really good Eizo monitors. The customer thought the designs look cool, and I wasn't given any freedom in improving them.

I tried discussing the constraints with them, but because they were "on top" they wouldn't listen.

In the end the customer saw the prototype and said it looked terrible. But I had all the communication with the UX Team and them that I wasn't allowed to make it work for this display.

In the end it cost everyone an extra month and a lot of frustration to arrive at basically what I suggested when I first checked the hardware.

The problem isn't to learn about UX, it's that you have a "UX person" that may not know about UX and dictates the terms.
How exactly does this work? What are the AI models used?

I tried the demo with several scenarios and it was very underwhelming considering the AI/GPT-3 promises made as I got generic troubleshooting advice, e.g. "If your computer has a blue screen, please restart your computer. If the problem persists, contact the help desk at (555)678-9012".

Can the bot offer any meaningful troubleshooting to real problems specific customer might have? Otherwise, isn't it just like any chat bot that's been coded with to respond to specific text triggers?
I subscribe to Razib’s substack. His writing style is a little weird and scattered, but he writes a lot about how this area of science is rapidly changing, and has good coverage of new hominid fossil discoveries.
I have no idea. I have no expertise on any of these issues.
House wiring is worth stripping and recycling though. Scrappers will come and buy this stuff from the demo companies.
Most manufacturers haven't used Diacetyl in their juice for years (like 7+ years by now).
because the focus of the article is the social/societal context and impact of these rules not a technical description of how the wealthy use them. That is why negative semantic words are used as opposed to words that indicate a crime was committed. The point is specifically that these aren't a crime.
I concur with this. The point of the article isn’t to say he doing anything illegal. It is to show the rest of the population how screwed up the tax code is to allow such things to occur. It would be trivial to fix. Put an upper limit on what can be held in a tax advantaged account. $5 million. $10 million. Whatever. Not $5 billion. That wasn’t the original intent of the program.
Selling yourself undervalued assets into your IRA is not legal. Thiel sold his roth IRA paypal stock for much less than it was valued by his funders.
I don’t understand it. How can companies and office designers think that working in an environment like that is more productive than a “cube farm” with semi-private desk spaces?

Not to mention those chairs and benches? I can barely imagine sitting in those for 30 minutes, let alone a few hours.

Seems like they got far too carried away with the a e s t h e t i c of the place, and didn’t worry about practicality/employee happiness at all.
You are missing the forest for the trees. Quality wise, most American first and second tier universities provide largely similar levels of undergraduate education, with perhaps slightly differing rigor depending on the institution. The top 10 schools are uniquely able to provide strong networks, money, and access to opportunities that are not available to everyone else. That has very little to do with research output or its academic strength. You cannot buy old money. If academic rigor is the sole determinant of institution quality, then continental powerhouses like École Normale Supérieur and Science Po would be ranked on the same level as Stanford and Harvard.
I've heard it argued that the introduction of the potato to Europe, in order to support those larger populations, was a contributor.
I'm a big fan of prototyping functionality with no UX input at all, so that the engineers have full authority to look at all the moving parts and figure out the best way to make them work...without any design constraints.

At the point we have a functional prototype, go through it with UX so they can understand all of the pieces before they do the design. Sometimes it leads to minor improvements on what the engineers already came up with. Other times it leads to an overhaul.

But as long as all of the core functionality is built first, iterating on the design will just be moving a few things around.
Well, with that line of reasoning we cannot trust any corona statistics, can we?

Anyway, the effect of failing to "fallten the curve" in Lombardy are well documented. And this happened in December 2019 before we had a global pandemic.
Alright. I thought this was some weird/clever way to try and keep their software from being merged with other projects without introducing a new copyleft ala Sun/CDDL
I don't think it matters where Copilot is on that line. A skilled human programmer at the far end of that line, fully capable of producing novel programs that they haven't seen before, would still be violating copyright if they reproduced a program they have seen before.
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Worst case scenario in the game is ~1.5% of the population. The estimated fatality rate is 0.5%. This number is increased to 1% if the hospitals are overwhelmed (note that there was a strong consensus in the country that this needs to be avoided).

Note that only 1/4 of the infections get detected in the game the game so the ratio deaths/detected infections will be 4% (the deaths/actual infections is 1%) - likely too optimistic in the scenario of overwhelmed testing capacity.

If you do nothing in the game, you kill 1% of the population during the first wave and you kill another ~0.5% in winter after the natural immunity of some people expires. Again, the real country was simply not willing to go that far.
Iirc you can edit the patch in git add -p. So fine editing is possible.
$10k data bounty to build open source US menus database
We, DoltHub, have posted a $10,000 data bounty to collect menu items, nutritional information and prices for US restaurants.

Dolt is a MySQL database that can also branch, diff and merge. DoltHub hosts those databases on the internet and lets you fork and create pull requests.

Link to database: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/menus

Link to bounty: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/menus/bounties/35b2996b-3e28-4423-bbee-4c5f0dbb678c

Here is the schema of the table that participants will contribute to:

$ dolt schema show menu_items;
menu_items @ working
CREATE TABLE `menu_items` (
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`restaurant_name` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`identifier` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`calories` int DEFAULT NULL,
`fat_g` decimal(6,2) DEFAULT NULL,
`carbohydrates_g` int DEFAULT NULL,
`protein_g` int DEFAULT NULL,
`sodium_mg` int DEFAULT NULL,
`price_usd` decimal(10,2),
`cholesterol_mg` int DEFAULT NULL,
`fiber_g` int DEFAULT NULL,
`sugars_g` int DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`name`,`restaurant_name`,`identifier`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4;

I've also created data validation scripts on GitHub that users can clone to verify data submissions to Dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/menus/tree/main/validation. You can read more about the validation script through the bounty link. We imagine scripts like this being the basis of DoltHub continuous integration testing, and are focused on releasing an initial version of that feature in the coming months.
Exercise May Boost Your Vaccine Response
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/well/move/exercise-may-bo...
> This isnt a story of some ruthless baron aggressively beating his competitors in the market. He's literally just having the money handed to him as a redistribution by the government.

That is exactly why it's a failure of modern capitalism.
Not if you give up your citizenship. After all, why would you want to be a part of country if you think it's extorting and stealing from you?
that is handle-able as well

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...

you could also opt to make no money, that gets you out of taxes. It isn't 'fraud' or 'theft' or 'extortion' its a social contract.
I wasn't asking regarding the existence of the period. The Roman Warming period was ~250 BC to ~400 AD - much closer to 2,000 years ago than 1,000. It wasn't anywhere relevant. You're also ignoring that the medieval warming period WAS exactly 1,000 years ago and we're currently beating those temperatures.

Edit to match your edit: Neither the MWP nor the RWP were global phenomenas - they were hotspots at different times for different regions. What we are currently experiencing is a GLOBAL increase.
pfSense also allows for configuration of IPSec tunnels and VLANs etc etc. It’s not a WebUI for configuring pf
I would be a lot more depressed and anxious if I wasn't sure if the neighboring tribe would murder my tribe in the night. Minimalism is great in a civilized society where you can do your own thing and be left alone, but you don't get a civilized society without a widespread social contract built on an economy.
Let me rephrase. If I go to something and I see npm, I hit the back button.
When did anybody voluntarily accept to be taxed? It was a law created via the slippery slope just as they are trying to do now with the wealth tax.
Most of the ones I have ever encountered are former graphic design people.
I don't follow; why would you swear off FreeBSD because a derivative product misbehaved? Would you swear off all Linux distros because Ubuntu did something bad?
I wonder in this case if they are impairing goodwill (the price paid in excess of the book value of the physical assets) or if it is truly depreciating physical assets that need to be replaced in the future. If the latter, this is what all businesses do and makes complete sense, but if the former it is just a tax deferral strategy and in the future they’ll sell to another billionaire at a higher price and have to recognize the capital gain.
I want to understand what you're saying, but at first glance this is contradictory: housing prices are driven by density, and housing prices are increasing in Ketchum. But Ketchum didn't increase density, and neither did anywhere nearby as far as I can tell. So what is driving the increase there?

I've visited Ketchum and think I have an idea, but I'd like to hear your explanation.
If you're talking about income taxes in the US, that's a stretch. I worked my way into a bad place with regard to self-employment taxes owed, and I was able to set up a payment plan with a ridiculously low amount each month. Obviously if you intentionally refuse to pay, that's a different story.
> Of course we know drunk driving increases deaths, but if that wasn’t obvious then you couldn’t say either of these statements.

And we know that climate change causes more drastic heat waves. If that weren't the case, you'd be correct, but alas.
You're typing this on a computer, potentially one you keep in your pocket, that you purchased likely outright. There's a good chance you're going to get in your car at some point and drive somewhere.

What "productivity gains from automation" do you feel the richest pockets are holding back?
Yeah, it fizzes like crazy, but it seems to eat ear wax.

Do each ear for a minute or so then take a shower and rinse out your ears with warm water.
MS and Google have their competitors + the demand is drying up.