skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah but they are depreciating things that aren't expected to depreciate.

You need to be more precise with "depreciate."

These assets (tangible/intangible) have a limited useful life and generate revenues beyond the current period. For sports franchises, there's no guarantee that they'll be around forever, and they also require continuous working capital maintenance and capex to continue operating.

There are limits to what can be depreciated.

Generally, IP needs to be purchased (not self-built) in order to be depreciable.[0]

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/061715/intellectual...
Google "tyranny of the rocket equation"
It was extremely difficult getting my knowledgeable and smart sister to vaccinate for COVID19, an eminent disease that we both agreed was killing hundreds-of-thousands of Americans. Fortunately, I pushed her hard enough with a little bit of help from the Demon Slayer: Mugen Train movie (we will go to theaters if you vaccinate).

Honestly: I don't know how I would have done it without that movie, lol.

Now my sister's sister-in-law also is an anti-vaxxer. Lets call her "C".

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Frankly, my political capital is still 100% on COVID19. I don't have enough political capital left to spend on climate change.

If I can't convince these people of the eminent dangers of COVID19, and the incredible relative safety of the vaccines... then climate change is hopeless.

C isn't dumb. But she's part of a family of conservatives. "Conservatism" is part of their identity, and right now, that means that they want to believe that the virus will go away on its own, that masks are stupid, the vaccine is made by Bill Gates (wtf??) etc. etc. etc. And climate change is fake is part of that identity they hold.

Pushing this part of their identity away from them is extremely difficult. Just pushing one concept onto them (ex: get the freaking vaccine) is hard enough.
> Who in their right mind invests in dog-named coin created 1 day ago?

I guess that at least 2 types of people. On one side you have the pump-and-dump experts, they buy early and then promote the new crypto-coin. The second type are the wannabe, people that see some new crypto-rich guy in the news and feel that they are losing an opportunity. People that have no knowledge about what a crypto-currency really is, that is not interested in long-term but need money now, people that listen to the pump-and-dump group to get their information. YouTube, Twitch, ... are bringing complex speculation devices to average citizens.

I would blame the lack of regulation and the lack of public education.
Nobody can answer this because it depends on the code and the resources of the entity suing you, but in general yes. This is why clean room design is a well-defined strategy: depending on the code and company, you would indeed not be allowed to work on the project because of the fact you'd seen a competitors solution previously.
Yeah it is, but i feel like novel is typically used in a more positive sense and this feels like a weird choice of word.
Just as an example, this is very widespread in music though.
This is 2017 all over again, back then it was worthless ICOs, now it's fake defi projects or meme coins doing the same. It attracts the same kind of people too, quick money chasers and ends up with relatively same results, large losses for most.
One possibility would be for YouTube to take a larger cut from content creators that do monetize, and the leave the unmonetized content alone.
I made new licenses [1] [2] that attempt this. The problem with adding a clause against ML training is that that is (supposedly) fair use. What my licenses do is concede that but claim that the output of those algorithms is still under the copyright and license.

I hope that even if it wouldn't work, it puts enough doubt in companies' minds that they wouldn't want to use a model trained by code under those licenses.

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

[2]: https://yzena.com/licenses/
This Podcast episode[1] and related show notes is helpful in breaking down individual actions vs systemic changes that you can support.

Personally I have gone through several bouts of feeling hopeless about the situation but sustained learning about solutions and the work others are doing has been helpful. Also, talking to family and friends about solutions helps too.

[1] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/xjh53gn/is-yo...
I provided the demo with some information about common cases, but if you ask more complex questions, it should be able to follow along, even without preprogrammed responses.

The bot is able to both use information given to it to answer questions and blend natural conversation together.
The worse scenario for GitHub is when a leak is published on GitHub. It's not like it hasn't happened before.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16992626/apple-github-dmca...
The FICA net benefit window for s-corps is pretty narrow in the face of the 199A deduction. I haven't run the numbers recently but s-corp doesn't make sense until you hit something like $100k gross income to start with because of the tax prep fees and then social security tax stops at $160k-ish of W2 income.

The 199A deduction lets most sole proprietorships deduct 20% of net income. S-corps can only deduct 20% of payroll.

There are certainly other benefits to operating as an S-Corp (using an HRA and HSA in the same tax year is a particular favorite) but the income/fica benefits are overstated these days.
The notion of intentionally polluting and over complicating your code base just to "poison the well" is bizarre. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

If you don't want others to use your code then the solution is very simple. Keep it on a secure private server and don't publicly release it.
To expand on said difficulty: the older I get, the more I believe Agent Smith was right when he said that "Humans define their reality through suffering and misery".

Also, homeostasis should dampen any long-term pleasure-inducing machinery (even if it comes from within).
So this is just saying "When I die, donate anything left in the CRT to $charity. But as long as I'm alive, pay me $amount monthly?"

That's..wild.
> that has 100 percent of their content provided FOR FREE

Not true. Creators can get paid for their video views and some make a living at it. Some of the content Google doesn't pay anything for, but tons of it (and most of the popular stuff) Google pays for on a per-view basis. It's not free to Google.

> There needs to be some balance.

That already is the balance, Google paying creators for the popular content.
This isn't entirely true, but it really depends on how you read OPs point. I know people who have LLC setup to buy rental property. At a very minimum they write off depreciation cost of the properties against their taxes. I wouldn't call it a tax haven LLC though.
Fragmentation doesn’t change the TCP checksum. The packet is reassembled and the original checksum verified against the rehydrated packet and TCP segment.
I don't doubt that an army of lawyers has poured over this but they have size on their side: the cost of litigation vs potential revenue will be a massive factor.

Edit:
> There's a decent bit of caselaw indicating that computers reading and using a copyrighted work simply "don't count" in terms of copyright infringement.

That means their computer can read any code it wants, do whatever it wants with the code, then they can monetise that by giving YOU the code. Would they then be indemnified by saying "no Microsoft human read or used this code"?

However, if you then use the code and look at it, does that make you liable?
Fucking duh.

It's not quite as bad as it looks, I've only accidentally opened man pages and siri a couple of times but I've also never once used it and thought "wow this is so much better than having a row of function keys" so it's been all negatives.

My personal keyboard doesn't have an escape key either, you can just use the alt key or c-[ most of the time so that wasn't as big a deal as everyone made it out to be.
As to what models are used, we use a combination of GPT-3 and in-house models.
No, the point is that there is no special treatment in the tax code with respect to depreciation and sports teams. Same rules as for everything else apply.
They don’t expect that. They create an incentive structure to attract creators they want at the price they want and are ok I assume if others choose to not work with them. It’s not like YouTube called him and said “hey what the heck man, why did you stop uploading?”
In the USA you're worth at least 100k. However, like many others who conduct interviews, I'm not the one who signs the paycheck :)
Totally get that the safety of your meeting notes is top priority.
We have not yet settled on whether we want to choose the "notes stored locally" path or the "fully encrypted on our server" path, mainly because of the impact on features we want to build in the upcoming years.

We will communicate publicly as soon as we take a strong stance.
This is probably going to happen on the Northern hemisphere coming Winter as well.
>> but bandwidth costs are, modulo volume discounts, very linear, and thus a direct per-viewer-minute line item

We need something like bit torrent for video, where the peers send chunks biased toward the beginning of the video. This would spread the bandwidth costs to the viewers. Sure, the main site might be constantly streaming 1 or 2 full streams, but that can be fairly low bandwidth.
> Sweden has half the number of deaths/capita compared to Czechia

> when in reality it's geography, structural differences,

Why did you cherry pick Czechia when you have neighbouring countries which are much more comparable in term of climate, culture, geography, density, &c.

Finland: 176 deaths per 1m hab

Norway: 146 deaths per 1m hab

Sweden: 1437 deaths per 1m hab
Eh? When one person dictates every aspect of the end result to another person there’s definitely some inequality there, but doesn’t it run in the opposite direction to the one you imply?
> By this description they weren’t actually good UX Designers. A true professional will take all constraints into account, particularly in what seems to be a custom display for an appliance/kiosk/dashboard

No true Scotsman would ignore the technical specs!

The fact is that many UX designers are designers first and foremost and maybe even entirely non-technical when it comes to specs. The existence of "true professional" UX designers does not mitigate the vast quantities of average skill UX people most teams will encounter.
I disagree. It is a genetic problem; some people have problems with it and some people don't. Importantly, Asians have different ear wax than those of other races.

I was born with small ear canals and have particularly sticky ear wax. My father has it, and so does my daughter. We've all found different solutions.
I’d wager the additional people caught “cheating” will likely be small business owners while the fat cats continue business as usual.
For a sufficiently big client, I’m sure they will.
There is a low hardcoded limit to how deep you can nest types. But I don't think there is a hardcoded limitation to how large match patterns can be. That's the difference.
Treatment that works for my own "wet wax" i.e. African/Western:

1. Pre-soften wax with warm water vapor, by taking a long hot shower.

2. Apply carbamide peroxide drops, available over-the-counter in US. Lie down with treated ear up, listen for popping sounds, indicating peroxide is reacting with the wax. Adjust angle of head to maximize popping rate. Expect 10-20 minutes for exhaustion of the reaction.

3. Rinse with plastic bulb syringe sold for that purpose. Water slightly above body temp, never warmer. Minimal intrusion of tip of the syringe -- it poses some danger.

4. Blow out excess water with puffs of air, delivered by the same syringe.

Prevention:

1. Avoid ear plugs for noise protection; get over-the-ear muffs.

2. Avoid cold-water exposure. Swim with a thermal over-the-ear cap, or break rule 1 and wear thermal plugs.
But then you have to have a laptop that looks and feels and works like a Dell Latitude.

That fixability has a cost in ugliness and weight and usability.

No thanks.
"Six Days of the Condor" by James Grady (1974) contains a very similar concept of extracting important predictions from literature.
What's the equivalent today? TikTokers?
No, it's simpler. There were a bunch of scientists who hated trump and don't want people to say bad things about china because they think it always leads to more racism. That led them to deny a hypothesis that was always theoretically possible (virologists who claim otherwise are simply wrong), which is nonscientific. The media then picked up on this, and the subset of media which hated trump and thinks that saying bad things about china always leads to more racism ran with it, attempting to give it the imprimatur of authority.
‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say
What is an example where the ontology does not work? It seems like a pretty accurate metaphor for all the everyday electrical/plumbing use cases I have come across. What makes it “poor and crude”?

And viewing it as a 6th grade penis joke is more of a 6th grade penis joke mentality than just using male and female. We use allusion all the time to use words to mean different things in different contexts all the time.
My personal recommendation to new developers is to never be tricked into caring about the product you deliver or the company you work for. Care about your professional reputation, sure. Delivery high quality work, of course. But if the company/product fails that's not a reflection on you personally. Nor is it a reflection on you personally if it succeeds. If you want to also put your "heart" into something, make sure it's something that's yours. That could be your own business/product, could be your family or hobbies. But don't let it becomes your wage provider. This is the path to misery for most people. The trick is you won't feel it until your 40s or 50s.

One personal anecdote in this area. I once had a manager compliment me in my 1on1 about how I always maintain my cool during stressful events and just get things working. He asked what my strategy was. I explained it's easy to not get flustered about project issues because I don't care about the project or the company. So a project or company failing isn't any reflection on me personally, it's just a minor inconvenience. He laughed in an awkward way that you could tell he wasn't prepared for that kind of answer. He promoted me the next year.
Consumers need to be able and willing to pay money rather than renting their eyeballs. (And creators need to be willing to pay for hosting/discovery.) If YouTube could make more money as a gated subscription site that charged for uploads and, say, $100/year to access, they'd be more than happy to do so.
Its capitalist if the government handouts are only available to people with a considerable amount of capital, which is the case in the article.

Is it a failure though? I'm amazed I need to say this on HN, but that depends on the KPIs you choose to use to evaluate the capitalist aspect of this particular tax policy. If the goal is that the rich get richer, its a capitalism success. If the goal is that everyone in society gets more leisure time and increased quality of life, it looks like a failure to me.
‘En garde!’/‘Zut alors! Pas de problème, mon ami! (…that’s probably all wrong heheh..) Your English is certainement a billion times better than my French! :) Bonne chance!
Very cool! I'd open a PR to implement it in our Python repo today if it were a flake8 plugin.

As a separate linter, I have to update the half-a-dozen places my current linters (flake8 and mypy) get applied (Makefile, .vscode/settings.json, shared vimrc, cloudbuild.yaml, etc.)

If it were a flake8 plugin, I can just pip install and select the TC codes in my .flake8 configuration.
LiveKit (YC S07 Alums) – An Open Source, WebRTC Alternative to Agora
I could imagine something a bit better controlled could be ok.

Large areas of solar panels, engineered to reflect as much as they can't use, would be a good double benefit. Excess electricity could be opportunistically used for GHG capture or the panels could maybe flip over and become mirrors.

An orbital umbrella that we could modulate such that we can deal with unanticipated consequences could also be ok.

I'm sure there are tons of other approaches that give control in both directions on reasonable time scales. Obviously cutting emissions Right Now is super important, and megaprojects shouldn't distract from that.
Well, to benefit from that, you also have to make more money than the reasonable salary every year, which a driver probably won't be doing by much.
They meant "Africa Major" would be a majority of Africa.
We don't have as much data on vaping as we do for smoking, but this reminds me of what cigarette companies said for decades: "where is the data showing our products are harmful?"

We already know vaping causes popcorn lung. I suspect 1:1 between vaping and smoking that vaping is safer, but who knows? We won't know until we have decades of data about mortality related to vaping. It seems plausible that it increases lung cancer rates and we just don't have enough data to know yet.

https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/home/cancer-topics/lung...
My main argument (even for low traffic sites) is the following:

> Centralized personal sites/blogs become fragile and expensive while a decent(ralized) alternative (like what is in use here) is anti-fragile and inexpensive.

> The only costs are the domain registration and running my own computer (where the IPFS daemon takes less than 1% of my cpu usage and 200 MB of memory) and some bandwidth.

> The more popular something is, the more peers replicate it.

> As such more bandwidth and redundant fetch locations become available that could get the content to you (the reader) at lower latencies. (It is challenging to do a hug of death / slashdotting on such sites/blogs)
Depreciating things for tax purposes isn't about their actual value dropping, that's not always relevant, other than figuring out the timeline of how they can be deducted. It's about being forced to gradually deduct the expense of capital assets. (As opposed to all at once)

We tax income, because that's the actual money you make. So if I buy a business for $500 and only make $100 a year, I'm not really making money until after 5 years. If I have to depreciate that asset over 10 years then I can deduct $50 a year and have to pay taxes on $50.

Depreciation is a handout to the tax man honestly. The reality is that until you have made more money than the purchase price you are not really making money.
There's a phrase I never wanted to hear. But that sounds exactly like what it is.
> Picture rsync... as a service!

https://rsync.net

Not the cheapest storage, but it's a very good service.

> Cloud Storage for Offsite Backup

> We give you an empty UNIX filesystem to access with any SSH tool. Built on ZFS for data security and fault tolerance. You can back up any other cloud with your rsync.net account.

> rsync / sftp / scp / borg / rclone / restic / git-annex
I think the car is a bad example because the temperature gradient is high and it should be possible to harness some of that waste heat. We just don't try. With hybrids we could definitely put that electricity to use, so I'm surprised no attempt is made to harness it. Especially for long haul trucking it could be worth it, but they're aren't diesel electric hybrid trucks that I'm aware of. Or at least they're not common.

I do understand your point though.
Why not the standard `noqa`?
Why create a venv and then run poetry install? Poetry already manages virtual environments.
I once swore to myself that I'd never monetize videos. Now my small-time channel has ads before my videos and I don't even have enough watch-time (yet) to monetize them to grab the pennies that could be mine.

Once I do have the watch-time (4000 hours per year) to monetize, I will feel sleazy about it but I don't think it would make any difference to viewers, I'll just be taking the pennies I deserve.
> Whatever we can do

You need too large a we to able to do anything at a global scale. Much better to start facing it: install AC, move to fresher countries, accept that a big change is already happening and do whatever you can to cope with it.
I've been reading Razib for close to 20 years, and he's never been a great, or even a very good writer. He more than makes up for it with how prolific he is, and I appreciate how frank he is with his theories.
> But what else do you call a system of economics centered on government wealth transfers. It certainly isn't capitalism. It certainly closer to how socialism is usually defined.

The way I defined socialism is how socialism is usually defined. Per Wikipedia "Socialism is a political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production".

The way you are defining socialism as "government giving money to some group" seems to stem from a misunderstanding about exactly what socialism is. But the government collecting money from citizens and giving it to one group or another is just what all governments do. This flow of money isn't happening because of socialism.
With x1 = Just, the program is accepted instantly by ghc. I think you need a type variable to appear twice.
>So it comes down to a purely emotional response to someone else making money off something you made.

Exactly, as I said, the material situation is the same. But we all are emotional beings, you would do certain things for your family you wouldn't for strangers. I don't think this case is any different.

I personally don't work for free for a company, but I do charity work for free. Working for a company in the time I work for a charity would "cost me absolutely nothing" if I already spend the time anyway, but everyone understands the difference.
As an end user, and even imagining receiving payments, I'd be annoyed with a micropayment service that has some sort of conversion of what I'm paying into something else and then ... who knows how it goes from there...
It's as if Google doesn't want to host the world's videos for free
> There's a decent bit of caselaw indicating that computers reading and using a copyrighted work simply "don't count" in terms of copyright infringement -- only humans can infringe copyright.

I have read variations of "computers don't commit copyright" more times than I can count in the past few days.

How is Copilot different from a compiler? (Please give me the legal answer, not the technical answer. I now the difference between Copilot and a compiler, technically.)

Isn't a compiler a computer program? How is its output covered by copyright?

Am I fundamentally misunderstanding something here?
Yes, the platform must be financed somehow. However, that 'somehow' didn't seem to be an issue for 15 years.

A video series about parametric 2d/3d CAD is not going to do Logan Paul numbers, so what merit is there to jam ads into it anyway?
Microsoft has spent a lot of money and energy in earning developers' trust over the last 15 years.

They have done an excellent job and succeeded in their goal.

Now, with copilot they are about to lose it all.
Well, energy savings.

Where I am, you’re not allowed to deliver water to fixtures higher than 49C (120F), to reduce scalding risk. and this is usually accomplished through a mixing valve at the hot water tank outlet.

11m people live here, haven’t heard of any evidence of increased legionnaires:

https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/r04023
Not a monopoly there’s a ton of video sharing sites - like I guess peertube? Creators can walk away and bring their business elsewhere, as he did.

YouTube happens to be very good at advertising your videos and driving you viewers (just like, say, NBC was good at bringing viewers to Seinfeld).