skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article complains a lot about tax loss carry-forwards, characterizing that as a "loophole".

It is not a loophole, it is a deliberate policy to accommodate business plans that simply do not fit in a single tax year. For example, building a chip fab, designing an airliner, creating rocket technology, is a multiyear process. There can be many years of expected losses before it is possible to start showing a profit. It is perfectly reasonable to offset those profits with the years of losses.

It also applies to businesses that expect to have lean and fat years, like farming. It allows companies to rebuild their reserves after years of losses.

BTW, individual taxpayers used to have this, too, it was called "income averaging".
It's remarkable to me how generally pleasant the phone/tablet power management experience is, in comparison to laptops. It's such complete shit on laptops. My laptop has better battery life in S0 low power idle than either S3 or (Linux) S2idle. I blame ACPI as a standard, and all of its bearers.
There's already a much easier path if you are going to drill coast to coast by simply going south.

Plus that reuses existing infrastructure.
Personal attacks are a weak argument, friend.
Is there any evidence in that article that you can cite for us? That website was started by an extremely pro-Trump Fox News contributor and I have no intention on clicking on it.
In a world where quack medical treatments are advertised on TV and hundreds of quack products like testosterone boosters and nonsense supplements being sold and advertised by YouTube, Google, etc, someone can't have a YouTube channel on Biohacking?

The 'establishment' you are defending has been rotten from the inside out, and has become so toxic that it endorses medicine and products that cause harm and censors and bans those who might actually be doing something productive.
Teenager on TikTok disrupted thousands of scientific studies with a single video
That's the point. 100 parameters is sufficient to overfit, and it's a number that's independent of the input size. Do you have a reference for your statement?
I'm willing to bet against that quite handily.
That’s not quite possible. I wish 10.14 supported the 2019 rMBP 16 but alas..
The argument is that by growing your own marijuana you affect Congress's ability to regulate the interstate commerce of marijuana, which is consistent with Filburn.

But where does that end? Can Congress prohibit you from earning an income because you might use that income to buy marijuana?
As someone sensitive to loud noises, merely passing by an open door to one was enough to overwhelm me. Regulars there must have hearing damage.
Over half of all individuals in prison in the US are serving for violent offenses. Even if we released every non-violent offender currently incarcerated, the US would still be in the top 15 countries in the world for prisoners per capita.

Everyone railing against the prison system in America seems to have bought into a myth that our prison system is out of control because of harsh sentences for “minor” infractions like drug offenses and theft. The reality is that American society, for whatever reason, is more violent than most other societies in the world. You can try and make the argument that the prison system is at fault, but I think it’s more likely that other more fundamental aspects of America are larger factors contributing to it, and attempting to abolish the police or overhaul the prison system are unlikely to do much, as that’s simply treating symptoms and not the disease.
More seriously than my previous response.

> I wish someone would just dump a bunch of money, hire former Windows/Mac devs and properly build a lot of the supporting components of some distro, then all the other distros can roll up those better apps and then we have at least something that can be called adequate in 2021

My point is not that you're wrong to feel this way, but rather that you should recognize that "adequate" is ultimately subjective. Adequate for whom? Adequate how?

The Linux ecosystem is largely designed by and for people who are willing to tinker, willing to customize, who want to design software that scratches their own itches, and who aren't looking for a perfect out-of-the-box experience from a distro. A handful of people want to bring about "the year of Linux on the desktop", but they're a minority and even for them the interest is usually secondary to their own use of Linux.

There's no "twisting your words" required here. What you want is a near-perfect out of the box Linux experience. What most Linux users want is ... something else. My point is simply that that's okay. Linux doesn't have to be for everyone. Your problems with it are not everyone's problems with it. In particular,

> that unfortunately makes it a non-starter if you are looking for a direct replacement for macOS or Windows.

Most Linux users don't want a direct replacement for macOS or Windows. Maybe there's a class of "theoretical Linux switchers" out there who would switch and would be the majority of Linux users if they did, but they are not, at present, the majority of the people using and working on Linux.

What Linux provides me with is (a) a well-integrated package manager containing fully free/libre software, (b) a comprehensible system (where I can understand fully how each part works), and (c) a modifiable system (where I can change how the system operates to the extent I want). Having a perfect replacement of the MS Paint application is not even on my radar. But that said:

> Plus "paint" is a near-instant loading app that is several MB in size whereas Pinta is installing loads of supporting libraries because it is a more complex application.

Maybe you're exaggerating, but on my system Pinta has an installed size of only 2.88 MiB and has only two direct dependencies. Maybe you're thinking of the fact that it's written in Mono (the C# runtime), but that's a shared installation with all other Mono applications. It's equivalent to Windows shipping with the .NET runtime or UWP.
Exactly. "Would fname.i.lname be the same as fnamelname?" -> No.

"fname.i.lname@gmail.com" is the same address as "fnameilname@gmail.com"
I don't understand your comment. When the cost of capital is nil then the common expectation is that too much investment drives up inflation and we then have to prioritize and allocate resources. Governments are begging for this to happen.

I don't know why but when the central bank intends lower interest rates to overheat the market people somehow stop believing that the market even exists. It's really strange. I mean it. People talk about how the market works and will fix everything on its own but as soon as there is any government action even action that supports the market suddenly people think it will completely break down, as if the market didn't exist or function the way they say.
GPT-3 has been used in a ton of commercially important applications.

To name a few:

- GitHub CoPilot (transformative imo)

- Markcopy.ai, jenni.ai, etc.... Tons of content generation and SEO tools startups

- AI Dungeon and such

- Plenty of chatbots

- It's super useful for all kinds of classification tasks too (as are all transformer models)
I hesitate to try to engage in this nonsense, but it's worth pointing out that the Kennewick remains were 9k years old. He was all but certain a clovis descendant, just like modern native americans.
Can you imagine us non Americans trying to remember this things...
DL cannot be over-specified. However you do need to mind your endogenous and exogenous variables.
This is truly an awful summary. It is factually correct but completely misses any nuance or description of themes that make The Great Gatsby a notable work.

I doubt this has any value for what is considered to be literature, and probably isn't very useful for most of the rest of fiction either. I'd be curious to see this be used on dense non-fiction to extract the salient points (I'm imagining this being run on Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century), but based on this sample I'm not optimistic.
Free banking is cool until it fails.
"Not melting a hole"

Ha! While not related to the bag issue, I had a 15" MBP literally catch fire in my bed while I was asleep.

I fell asleep wat hing Netflix or some such and the macbook caught fire and woke me up.

It was in the recall batch for batteries at that time.

I took it to apple flagship SF store.

They had the FN machine for two months then came back and said that at some point the moisture sensor went off and due to this reason they would not honor the battery recall or address the fact it caught on fire and the "apologized" for the potential "safety hazaard"

They told me my option was to buy a new one, or take it to a 3ed party repair place and have it repaired for more than the machine was worth.

I haven't bought another mac since, and I have switched from iPhones entirely, even though I have had an iPhone since day one.
Macs are the only computers I’ve used that have had close to zero issues with sleep. But I don’t even bother sleeping on the machines running Linux distros: with SSDs, powering on and off is so fast that I just shut the computer down whenever I’m done with it. I should time it to know for sure, but a cold boot to fully operational Firefox window feels like maybe 15 seconds. Powering off is not even five seconds. Not as fast as waking from sleep on my MBP but zippy enough for me.
I'm 26 years old, living in US so I don't know if I have the best experience as we're probably in similar boats career wise. I don't know if I have the best advice to give but maybe you can find some wisdom in some of my experiences.

I was really frustrated earlier this year, left my job, got a new one that I was really excited about. It's a remote software job in game dev. It's a good job and I'm excited, but what I realized is that it wasn't some magical bullet for all my frustrations. Life is complex and I think I'm starting to realize that it can't all be boiled down into one thing. I'm not just interested in doing one thing. I want to work on cool things, I want to become really good at my job and pick up skills and experience, I want to get married, I want to waste time playing games and doing other experiences I enjoy, I want to pick up random skills that won't really benefit me in any meaningful way but I would enjoy having. And the list goes on. I don't think I can distill what I want or who I am into one thing or one goal. That said I'm very aspirational, just like a lot of engineers/geeks/nerds. I think a common path for many engineers in life is to try and reach some technical peak. There's the idea that if I could just get good enough, if I could be really competent at my job or some skill then I would derive satisfaction from it. I think I would if I reached that peak. But I think reaching that peak would be a bit like this new job I got; it wouldn't be the answer for everything. That doesn't mean I'm not going to go for that peak, I am, it's just I no longer have the illusion that it will profoundly change who I am. So I think I maybe see some parallels with what you want. You're looking to get into FAANG, ML, or even looking into moving to a different city/country. I don't think any of these things are going to profoundly change who you are or how you feel. I'm not saying don't do them, pursuing those things could be some of the greatest things you do in your life.

Again not to try and be annoyingly profound, but try to find out who you are instead of defining yourself through your aspirations. Little things can end up having a large effect on you as well, not just huge life changing decisions, which I'm guessing you're hoping will get you out of this malaise. I don't think working at facebook or moving to London, will change your mindset. They might faciliate that change, but the change ultimately will be internal to you.
True but you can enable it on some laptops by telling the firmware setup that your OS is Linux. I'm not sure what Linux S2idle is in ACPI lingo, but that's what Linux uses on my newest lapop by default. S3 (suspend-to-RAM) is not available to the kernel. And yet it's a power hog compared to just not using the laptop and letting the display backlight turn off, roughly 1% battery life loss per hour in S2idle. Whereas it's about 0.5% battery life loss per hour in whatever Windows 10 is doing for laptop lid close.
> I don't think it has to do with defunding the police at all.

That seems like a reasonable on conclusion given that the totals for May 1 & Jun 1 were already record setting...
I can confirm this. Unity handles this differently. But this is also true of Exceptions in Unity in general.
This... is not a good thing
I mean who cares? Doesn't this sort of already happen for the opposite case?
Top Dawg Entertainment
Having opt-out instead of opt-in checkboxes is pretty much illegal in Europe and will get marketers banned from good emailing services.
I've used this personally: https://www.whatsmyip.org/lib/fios-wep-key-calculator/

WEP can be broken with: https://www.aircrack-ng.org/

WPS can be defeated with: https://tools.kali.org/wireless-attacks/reaver
I’d wager that a lot of people outside of think tanks have strong opinions about taxation. I’d even go so far as to suggest that if you were to ask some average Americans what they think about this topic, you’d see that a nontrivial amount of them would have an opinion one way or the other.

I think this is on HN because taxation and social mores are relevant to entrepreneurship, which is a very big theme on a forum ran by a venture capital fund that operates in the United States.
Per the Tax Foundation, the bottom three quintiles by income are net recipients of federal tax money. See the third graphic: https://taxfoundation.org/average-federal-tax-rates-income-g...
The difference is that I am not asking you to take anything on faith. I am saying it is wrong to torture animals, and you (most likely) agree with me. Some people think it is fine to kill animals for food, but most people would not DIRECTLY treat animals the way our food production factories do. So there is a lot of mental gymnastics involved. But that's not the same as religion. You can go to a factory farm and see animals suffering.

I absolutely understand why people are so resistant to being told that eating meat hurts animals. I wasn't born vegan, and I grew up eating the typical American diet and ignoring where my food came from.
Yeah, I can't tell if the clothing is supposed to be historically accurate (what clothing would survive that long?) or whether it's only there to satisfy modern viewers.
If we're going to outlaw automated facial recognition, which in general is better at recognizing faces than humans, we should release every person who is in prison because an eyewitness ID'd them.
It makes sense for UI patterns and any pattern where you need to bind to a specific OS thread.
Sorry, but all this stuff about the “scapegoat narrative” and so forth is clearly the sort of syncretic pseudo-spiritual voodoo that crops up from time to time.
Why are journalists, payment processors, and video content hosting services the establishment voices? Those are the platforms that are critiquing and banning him — not actual health experts. Just because a company bans someone from their platform doesn’t mean that person is wrong.

Here is this guys store: https://www.the-odin.com/ it’s not clear to me what’s so dangerous about this that these companies would deplatform him based solely on the content of the store. And if it’s not based solely on the content then what are they deplatforming him based on exactly?
The houses passes headline bills all the time, knowing that the senate won't pass. Is this presumably one of those with 0 chance of actually passing or is their actually potentially the votes in the Senate? If so I would assume this would be on non .net, news site.
Capturing it is difficult. It's coming out the end of a turbine or smelter at very high temperatures. You need to cool it and compress it down.

Then you need to secure a source of hydrogen. Over 90% of industrial hydrogen comes from steam reforming which emits CO2. So you'd need to build out massive electrolysis plants, and power these plants with carbon-free energy.

Finally you'd need to run the Sabatier process, which also needs energy.

It's much, much easier to drive down emissions by just reducing the CO2 released in the first place.
This is probably not up to the legal standard, but I suspect you know that. There are valid reasons to not support big tech, but is this case really one that you want to advocate?
Biden Backs Tax on Billionaires’ Unrealized Investment Gains
I’d love to hear some of them too (profile at gmail)
Interesting fact if you're in latam/caribe... if you're down here you have situations like DDoS saturation on MAYA-1 (caribbean side) and then you have to make some phonecalls and re-route your BGP over the PAC (Pan-American Crosssing on the pacific side). Fun shit to do getting woken up by your boss at 1am!
I started disabling Sleep/Hibernate on all my machines a decade ago. Everything just worked better without it. Sad to see they still haven't sorted it out.
If Ron Paul was the first person you heard call the middle eastern wars stupid then I don't know if I can agree with anything you say after that. It wasn't novelty, it was anti-establishment.
> Why would we continue to propose ideas to bolster no fly lists when they clearly haven't had the desired outcome of not having passengers become unruly.

Like prison, the idea is that the consequences are normally a sufficient deterrent. The fact that it isn't always sufficient is not a reason to remove those consequences. I do however believe in rehabilitation, and maybe a program that banned passengers needs to follow to be taken of the no-fly list could be a way out. But again, there's no silver bullet and someone will go through the program, won't learn anything and become a repeat offender.
The Scientific American of my childhood is dead.
And one could help those people we find today to tell their stories, in a way that will be accessible to people in the future (decades, centuries, or hours in the future).
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to come to the logical conclusion that catch and release of criminals will lead to more crime.
It'd be much, much, more effective to hook up a nuclear reactor to the grid to take fossil fuel plants offline, and avoid releasing CO2 in the first place.

Though in the long term, it might be useful to do what you propose to produce carbon neutral hydrocarbon fuel for things that need exceptional energy density. Like air travel or space launch vehicles.
All recognising people should be illegal
As I understand, eyewitness testimony is extremely unreliable. Although, it's valuable for convincing juries, because people think it's reliable.
> Not saying this is the case here, but in general these days (mostly?) right wingers completely mistake what censorship means. It seems like someone ignored my opinion is the new standard on censorship.

You should create a separate twitter, and tweet moderately conservative ideas, and see what happens to that user, and your experience.

I have the unique life perspective of changing political parties from Hillary Clinton (Elected DNC Delegate) -> Libertarian based on my life experience in San Francisco, and personal perception that my original thoughts may have been wrong.

The way I'm treated on Twitter is entirely different. My comments, while not angry or aggressive, or extreme, find themselves hidden below the fold. When just a few years ago they were highlighted and never hidden. Trends I'm not interested in are suggested, I provide feedback to the AI and they are still suggested. I hide terms and they are highlighted. It is very Amorphous, but I suspect there is a machine learning categorization behind the scenes. It's more than coincidence.
Not even close, most of my work has been in naturally occurring data and there is way waay more data available than can possibly be used (petabytes). Where they get this idea as being the rule and not the exception is beyond me.
What do you mean by this? I consider ConfigureAwait to be more of an optimization -- if I want to run something on a UI thread, I'm explicit about it.
>"I don't think it's accurate to say "you don't have a cent of that money until you sell your home"."

That's a bit different, as you generally reap some ongoing benefits from owning a home, such as an income stream (rent) or place to live (savings on rent, which aren't usually taxed), which you don't get from owning stocks (other dividends, which are taxed, and the benefit of voting if they're voting shares).

>"Nobody has anything valuable until they transfer some cash to receive that thing. The potential to transfer X for Y is valuable. Not to mention borrowing against one's assets."

We generally don't tax things that have the potential to increase borrowing power (because of that thing alone); we don't tax high credit scores or educational status/attainment, or changes in either.
You're simplifying the opposing position in a way that isn't fully honest. There are at least four purposes incarceration can serve: rehabilitation, retribution, dissuasion, and separation.

Rehabilitation meaning, giving people the tools and resources to avoid recidivism. Retribution being, punishment or justice for the benefit of the victim. Separation being physical removal of people incompatible or dangerous to society. Dissuasion being what you describe, punishment that rational actors will take into account when deciding to take an action.

Pro-rehabilitation people argue that rehabilitation should be the first priority, and retribution the last, with separation there when necessary (think: life sentences for people who murder without remorse) and dissuasion somewhere in the middle. Compare prison to something like an inpatient addiction recovery center, which aims to rehabilitate and separate (although sort of in the reverse way) and how much more constructive that is.

I don't think there's very many people at all (even among like hardcore prison abolitionists) who believe that it's possible to entirely do away with some form of separation of people who are dangerously incompatible with the norms of society. If nothing else, mentally ill people who can exhibit violent behaviors will continue to exist.

All that said, your comment also has very little to do with murder rates. Those don't really correlate a lot with petty crime or even petty violent crime. Someone who makes a living breaking into cars doesn't suddenly jump to murder.
> High population size implies Democratic party policies implies less police funding implies higher murder rate

Democratic party politics are correlated with higher population size. This is not controversial.

A high population size ought to correlate with more overall murders, but a similar murder rate. Moreover, in many countries, urban areas are less violent.