skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see where the article describes the other side of the transaction. For one, all of the assets that were depreciated should then not count as capital gains basis when the team is sold [0]. Furthermore, if any new contract is created that is declared to have value beyond a player's salary (to continue the depreciation game after purchase), that should look like an immediate chunk of income at the time of signing, right?

IMO the real tax inequality isn't "loopholes" of deductions that can be narrated into extravagances, but rather that the tax code deliberately privileges those with more wealth. Capital gains is limited to 15% regardless of income, instead of the same graduated scale as everything else. And even more harshly, individual taxpayers don't get to deduct their "personal" expenses (eg transportation, food, utilities, housing is limited, healthcare is limited) even though they're necessary expenses for performing whatever job gives them income.

[0] I guess this is escapable by dying, which is perhaps the long term plan.
The post states:

>"They encrypt data so that organizations cannot access information, use critical computer systems or restore from backups, and they also steal data and threaten to post it on a leak site (a tactic known as double extortion)."

Can someone say how you would be prevented from restoring from backups? Wouldn't you be able to find a point in time before the ransomware was installed, provided regular backups?
My non-new-grad employment with Microsoft had a 1yr vesting cliff. As others have previously mentioned, as long as it’s an established company I see no issue with this since you get a solid signing bonus if continued cash flow is the concern.
Presumed social pressures? There's plenty of very real social pressure against marketing vaping to non-smokers.

Alarmingly there are also many people, especially young people, who believe that vaping is safe, and if educating them is "consent manufacturing" then let's manufacture some consent on this issue.
This is fantastic and congrats on the launch. I'm a little bitter as I just spent an hour yesterday creating an Apple Shortcut to create a note for my next or current meeting, but Hera obviously does so much more than that.

Ignore the naysayers. Being an Electron app is not a dealbreaker for 99% of people and I see the feature list and just say "Yes, yes yes!" to all of it.

One question that is vital to me: where are the notes stored? Is it in the cloud? Are they encrypted? I ask because my company has rather strict controls on this, and does not want sensitive meeting notes being stored with third parties that have not been verified.

Looking forward to watching this tool grow and develop.
They are not a crime because the representatives of the elite wrote the tax code in the USA. Let's be honest here.
"when owners sell their teams, they have to pay back the taxes they avoided by using amortization"
How cheating billionaires defer millions in taxes with this one simple trick: spend billions on entirely legitimate business expenses.

Even the angle they worked in there about claimed depreciation not always aligning with eventually realized depreciation is nonsense. If he ever sells those assets for a profit, he’s just going to have to pay all those taxes back anyway.

I really can’t believe that the intention of articles like this is actually to inform the reader. It just seems like a way of getting low-information readers riled up about something they don’t understand.
But Buddhism doesn't teach to give up the material world. Quite the opposite. It states there should be a balance. The middle way.

Dalai Lama was even cancelled by twitter users for that. He said that his successor, if a woman, must be beautiful (since she would be working with people and people care about looks). An appalled journalist asked: "but isn't the internal qualities all that matter". Dalai Lama mentioned the necessity of balance infuriating some of the viewers who then cancelled him.
Is it even an abuse or unintended consequence of some rule?
Volume control is somethings that’s really terrible imo
I would love to see this as a flake8 extension. An own tool with own formatting, workflow, etc.? I'm not sure...
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
Sidney Weinberg
Neither. A fiber optic endoscope does not need a camera or a screen. It's purely optical. No electronics, zero latency.
"Not to be pedantic, but..."

That's exactly what you mean to be.
Data Phoenix Digest – 08.07.2021
EU fines VW and BMW £750m for colluding with Daimler on fumes
That’s where you’re doing it wrong. You buy a meal and you just pay for it, end of story. But you should buy a sports team and you can write off the $ against your earnings.

Both are full of intangible value to you (a nice seat where people treat you like you’re important because you sign the cheque, the hard value accruing to you being minimal in either case).

Maybe you could buy 1/10000th of the restaurant instead of the meal, and maybe pay for the ingredient cost while the rest could be a loss that was paid out to the staff.
isn't religion tax exempt?
> You are going to run into that issue with literally any OS or distro you choose.

PfSense offers a range of hardware they support, which disproves your assertion by itself without even mentioning companies like Apple and System76.

> one of the appliances that opnsense sells. Just expect to pay a premium to be lazy.

I'm totally willing to pay a premium to be lazy. Where did I imply otherwise? If OPNsense offers hardware these days then why didn't anyone just say so?
Corporations coopting government for their own gain is not socialism, it's the logical progression of capitalism. Socialism is when labor owns the means of production. Capitalists lobbying (bribing) the government to take money from citizens and funnel it to themselves is not that.
A $2 billion sports franchise is so obviously not a 90% amortizable asset. The Clippers don’t even own their stadium.
Apple founder Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement
What is capitalist about the government handing out wealth as privilege?

It seems like you just don't like our society. And then label our society as capitalist so whatever you don't like about our society is therefor a failure of capitalism. I mean sure, given those definitions I'd agree with you. The problem is that "whatever the US does" is not the definition of capitalism.
The Invasion of Transformers – Boosting Search with Latest NLP
Google faces new anti-trust lawsuit over app store
If we as a species develop enough to be able to electrolyze a significant enough portion of all of Earth's water for this problem to arise, it's almost a given that we have developed technologies that no longer require us to stay on Earth.

Plus hydrogen chemistry, as others have mentioned, will stop at least 99% of the losses you propose simply by reoxidizing in the presence of free oxygen.

Helium is inert and doesn't react, therefore is much more likely to be lost to diffusion.
You're basically seeing how some people would have had open source play out. You can look at and use the code but not to make money or in any other way that I personally disapprove of. This is a world where open source would have ended up being pretty much irrelevant.
Note that is is polynomial with respect to the size of the output.

That is to say, pathological expressions don't stay small but induce horrendous searching, but rather merely get a log bigger (and that can cause more trouble for the rest of the program).

That means a heuristic to bail out when something grows a lot probably not violate the users intent and get it back into polynomial time.
> Utter the words "national security"

And probably soon "public health"
For your convenience, part 1: https://mathspp.com/blog/lsbasi-apl-part1

I don't know if your wording is too amateurish because you are using lingo outside of my knowledge.
Does "make use of the speed of array-based language, but save computation time by compiling" refer to using an array language that is compiled? [Co-dfns](https://github.com/co-dfns/co-dfns) compiles a dialect of APL, so that might be interesting to you.
What is an advantage of this over just writing new rules to something like Pylint?
She was smoking as a teenager and switched to vaping in her twenties.
> The company was worth $0 on paper.

This is only true if you assume that everything involved (his time, knowledge, planning, etc.) had no value. Even if it would be unreasonable to predict how valuable it’d become, $0 is hard to defend.
I’m not so sure Copilot is doing so “unintentionally” either...
> You mean Chrome, since Microsoft Edge is based on that?

It's not, it's based on Chromium, with a lot of Google shit taken out, and new shit added in (some good, some bad).
Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules
The Model 3 actually uses aluminum cabling in some places (I think the main cable between the battery and the motor/controller assembly). In certain applications where weight is at a greater premium than volume, it can actually be superior to copper as its resistivity divided by density is lower than copper. (BTW, lithium is even slightly better on that metric than aluminum, although it oxidizes extremely rapidly so has to be carefully protected, making it impractical).

Extremely long-term, sufficiently high quality graphene or carbon nanotubes can theoretically have higher mass-specific resistivity than copper or even aluminum. But in practice, CNTs and graphene have much worse electrical conductivity due to defects and the need to conduct between tubes/crystal regions/bundles.
Doubts swirl around trial that saw 77% reduction in Covid-19 mortality
Yes, I understand the general idea, I am perplexed on the specific amounts/percentages, or better if they are "appropriate".

Without any discount (i.e. if the issue was discovered by an external investigation, without any self-reporting by Daimler or cooperation by VW) the 875 million Euro would have been roughly 727+(502/0.55=912)+373=2,012.

The 2,012-875=1,137 million difference sounds like a lot of money in absolute terms.

Maybe when the money involved represents so large amounts the percentages should be lowered or a "minimum fixed amount" established.

And even if the Daimler (as whistleblowing company) might "deserve" the 100% discount (as possibly without their self-reporting the cartel could never be discovered) the VW collaboration "prize" is (IMHO) more up to debate, it should mean that the information from Daimler alone would have not been enough to prove that the cartel existed[1] (but then the 100% discount accorded to them would seem to much).

Not to start any conspiracy theory, and of course completely invented and hypothetical, but case #1 (what seemingly happened):

Daimler self-reports but does not provide enough to prove: 100% discount

VW provides proofs: 45% discount

BMW adds nothing: 0% discount

vs. case #2 (hypothetical):

Daimler self-reports and provides all needed proofs: 100% discount

VW can add nothing as the case is already proved: 0% discount

BMW adds nothing: 0% discount

The difference between case #1 and case #2 is worth roughly 410 milions Euro.

[1] from the EU site:
>The reduction reflects the timing of the cooperation and the extent to which the evidence Volkswagen group provided helped the Commission to prove the existence of the cartel.
I agree that it's nuanced and it's difficult to draw the line. but where copilot sits is way over on the plagiarizing side of the spectrum. Wherever we agree to draw the line, copilot should definitely fall on the wrong side of it

Copilot will replicate entire functions, including comments, from licensed code
> In a "normal" developer flow you only touch 1 or two crates at a time so normal developer compile time would be a couple of minutes at most.

Obviously this depends on your computer, but generally incremental Rust builds should typically be on the order of seconds, not minutes.

> Even for a new build on a machine most developers would never see the two hour compile time because they would have gotten precompiled dependencies.

Cargo doesn't do precompiled dependencies (even between projects on the same machine).
Right, but that sounds like the bigger issue here is that the model might spit out copyrighted material, not just that it scrapes it. The former seems like a technology problem that Microsoft can solve.
People sometimes use that phrase to mean “suspicious,” (e.g. “I have a funny feeling”) or to imply black humor.
> TV stations are mostly run by white men, too.

Your point?
Ask HN: What do you do with ideas you can't execute on?
Pretty much summed up by the title, but I frequently come up with ideas (products, podcasts, small apps, etc.) that I can't realistically ever act upon.[1] They go in a document or on a list somewhere, or I share them with one or two other people, and that is about it. Does anyone have any kind of procedure in their workflow whereby they make use of these kinds of bits of thoughts? Do you send suggestions to people in the respective spaces? Just tweet them in to the ether? Let them go?

[1]For the sake of argument, let's assume they are at least "ok good" ideas and the reason I can't act upon them isn't because they're fundamentally unactionable -- but I recognize that is possible too.
Because, it is hypocritical. Has a right leaning article ever made the front page of HN? This false narrative of freedom of thought and diversity of ideas on HN is just patently false. A few people with agendas flag and downvote stories they don’t like or align with and oppress valid thoughts.
Where did you get this from? All I have seen is that he put it into IRA when it was worth very little, as all early stage startups are. Do you mean he used price below 409A valuation or something like that?
> help a lot in mapping our roots

Do people actually care about this?
> And that's a bad thing?

If your product causes harm in any way—regardless of the benefits—you're going to have a difficult time getting regulatory approval. It will also greatly affect access to the product, as not everyone has access to good doctors, and most items that are FDA-regulated requires prescriptions.

For a product which is a superior, healthier option to cigarettes, it's a massive regulatory burden that could kill the business. I can't imagine anyone would defend that as preferable to the status quo.
While the phone number analogy does make sense on the surface, I have to agree, I don’t want my IP to be static for privacy reasons.

It’s not a great barrier, but I don’t want the bare minimum skills advertiser, hacker, MPAA consultant, web store, or whoever being able to easily rely on this IP being me.

Yes. There are tracking cookies, and fingerprinting, and whatever, but the bar being set this higher is better than lower.

The phone analogy makes sense until you realize you’re actively calling everyone all the time, and the callerid shouldn’t be easily readable. It’s not like phones at all really.
Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart
Building the same project even without re-installing node modules has absolutely no guarantee of reproducibility.
Some examples of what the OP means by "lost sovereignty" would be useful. I assume he means ability to monetize how he wants, or to avoid algorithmic claims against his work etc....but who knows - the author does not explain.
That is a good point, but easily fixed. Will do that now.

Edit: done. They are under the CC-BY-ND license now.
I've worked with many, and none have ever had a bona fide engineering or comp. sci. background, except for a few who didn't cut it in the ranks of developers, and so redirected themselves or were shunted off to UI (now "UX" to make it sound cool) -- they've all been visual artist types. I find it best to get high-level (graphics, the css, color schemes) design ideas from them, and then leave it to the engineers for implementation, who might tweak/adjust/remove some items in order to balance with performance, usability, and sanity. If, instead, UX is given "authori-tie" then it becomes ridiculous, fast.
On my M1 I press the fn-key. It also supports typing the name which is a lot be for less frequently used emojis
I've been looking into this subject lately as I am now moving into management positions and attempting to figure out the best way to do so.

Software Developers, let's say I gave you a problem, and that problem was currently being solved with an O(n^2) algorithm, and it turns out that problem was taking up 50+% of your cycles, and because of how it was solved there is hard-coupling that disallowed better approaches, and that you can resolve this problem into an O(1) algorithm?

Would you want to hear about that algorithm? Because it's called communication.

The model I now think of Development teams is that you have Developers at the center, and then everyone else are teachers assisting them. A UX Designer is there not to create the UI but to teach the Developer how to go about creating the UI. He will start by creating designs, but he will allow the developer to make their own mistakes and eventually the Developer will become a Master UX Designer in his own right. This is true of every element of the Software Development LifeCycle. From technical to designing the product itself.

Once you have a Developer that understands Databases, understands Backend, Frontend, CSS, UX, understands the Product, works with the Users and dog-foods his own product, you will find the amount of time that it takes to get a superior product will drop massively. The example I like to give here is that Linus Torvalds created git in 10 days because he was a master user of Source Control and knew exactly what he needed, while Microsoft's Source Control team had worked with hundreds of developers over years and couldn't compete. When you have hundreds working on a project the ability to communicate in a depth-first-search style drops to 0, and you are left to only breadth-first-search solutions. Metcalfe's Law destroys productivity.

Meta about the article: I think it's moving forwards but it's got so much going on it's hard to pay attention to any single point.
"If only I could satisfy my hunger by rubbing my belly!"

-Diogenes
Well that’s an inconvenient fact. So what the article should really say is “loophole allows team owners to delay paying tax until sale.” Snooze.
I wish they'd build a version for the Raspberry Pi. It makes a great router.
Iraqis might have something to say about that.
Python attributes, __slots__, and API design
> What if a human reads some restrictively licensed code and years later uses some idea he noticed in that code, maybe even no longer being aware from where this idea comes?

In general using the idea is fine, whether it is AI or human written. I think the major concern here is when the code is copied verbatim, or near verbatim. (AKA the produced code is not "transformative" upon the original)

> But what if the system memorizes entire functions? What if a human does so?

In both of these cases I believe it would be a copyright concern. It is not strictly defined, and it depends on the complexity of the function. If you memorized (|a| a + 1) I doubt any court would call that copying a creative work. But if you memorized the quake fast inverse square root it is likely protected under copyright, even if you changed the variable names and formatting.

It seems clear to me that GitHub Copilot is capable of producing code that is copyrighted and needs to be used according to the copyright owner's license. Worse still, it doesn't appear of capable of knowing when it is doing that, and what the source is.
This is because the UI/UX of a 2021 website/app is far more involved and complicated than that of a 2001 website/app. Product cohesion and well thought out human psychology levers are very important in products of today.

I long for the days of building a simple site for my company. No fancy wizards, bifurcating flow, or complex animations. I unfortunately don’t think we’re going back to that time though.
Whiskers are due to tin, not aluminum.

Aluminum for wiring works just fine if properly engineered and can be cheaper once that engineering is amortized.
Agree here, if someone wants to offer points against majority climate change opinions, I say let them offer the points, and we can take those points and see what others think of them.
I guarantee you he wouldn’t have transferred it to you for $1 despite the fact that you claim that’s well in excess of its value
There obviously is no sharp line (e.g. it is 37. Immediate question: why not 36?), but that does not matter at all.

We already have the same fuzzy line for writing. Am I forbidden from ever reading other author's books because I might accidentally "generate exact copies" of some of the sentences? Clearly not, that is how people learn a language. Does that mean I am allowed to copy the whole book? Also clearly not.

Where do you draw the line? Somewhere.
Yup, I remember. You had volume and brightness, mute buttons for the mic and speakers, with LED indicators...saved me some embarrassment a few times in conference calls! Sliders to power down the wireless and save battery. You could even use a remappable button if you did want to customize it for something non-stupid, like launching a terminal. And the keys had comfortable travel and tactile feedback! We didn't need dongles and hubs, we had ports all over, and user-replaceable parts, upgradeable RAM, decent thermals. You could swap in a DVD drive, or an SSD, or a battery expansion. The standard batteries were hot-swappable with a thumb slide, rather than glued in...

*looks down at Thinkpad T420*

Oh, yeah, and the print screen/break/insert buttons like on a full-size keyboard; my fingers have muscle memory of them but my conscious mind forgot they were there. Yeah, those were the days!
Because depreciation is an accounting term, and a 101 understanding of it hides more than it reveals. Like anything accounting based, it's a collection of many little rules and norms that add up to something. Finding the operative level of abstraction is always a game of tricky compromise. It's either all forest or all trees, and to be more than a take-my-word approximation an article needs to become a multi part lesson in accounting standards and tax law.

True for most tax "loopholes."

All that said, I'd love to see the rolled up sleeves version actually going over the account... or a fictitious one. Let's be real though. It's more likely to get eyeball on HN than elsewhere, but 96.2% would not read it and we would still be discussing it based on a surface level, bias-ridden understanding.
I absolutely agree.

Even worse, of course, are 'passionate' developers. They're a real nuisance.
no the sensor has rows of 4000 grayscale pixels with different color filters on them. the actual rgb resolution is actually a quarter but the debayering algorithm upscales the data by 2x in each direction. So yes the RGB resultion is the same as the subpixel resultion, but at the same time it isn't.
That sounds discouraging. But you can apply the same story about any manager-like figure, no?

If one's priority is design freedom or whatever, a good working relationship with your higher ups is the best chance to enable that.

Working well with managers is also a good strat for becoming one yourself, and having more influence over things you care about.
As an alternative, there's no reason why one couldn't use neovim and magit (using Emacs only for magit). Emacs is an application framework, there's no reason why one has to use the "editor" application if all you want to use is the "magit" applciation.
It is the opposite. People of Northeast Asian descent more often have “dry” earwax, associated with a recessive allele of the ABCC11 gene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCC11
“Savvy finance” would be something like using standby letters of credit to perform off the books international asset transfers.

Claiming depreciation on your tax return is something I do with all my home office equipment every year.