skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem like a loophole, such funds when used as income should be taxed. Probably more complicated in practice but it does seem like a strategy that runs counter to the intent of taxation laws.

And I'd bet if it was a strategy employed effectively by the 99% it would be vigorously labelled as tax evasion and dealt with accordingly
> Not sure if 20% (at least for the original strain) qualifies as rare

Even for the original strain a year after most people have recovered their sense of smell. This is not a long term effect.
> writing cryptographic code

Delegating the implementation of something that you are notoriously never supposed to roll your own, to a text generator AI.... What could possibly go wrong?
Prop 13 disincentivizes building housing.

Stop calling people evil just because your grandmother isn't the center of their policy concerns.
Could you do the inverse and use Melodyne to isolate a particular sound, click on it, and then have the camera scan for and isolate its location?

https://www.celemony.com/en/start
> I'm not so confident this is really different from how a pro Go player would react 10 years ago to the analogous question.

Yes, and there were people in the 1960s who thought computers of the time were only a decade away from being smarter than humans. The question is one of category -- Go is something that a computer could conceivably be better than a human being at. There were certainly Go programs better than some human beings at that time. "Reading a human language document, communicating with stakeholders to understand the requirements in human language, understanding the business requirements of a large codebase, and writing human-readable code" is so categorically different than what Copilot does that, and something that no computer is currently capable of. If such a thing is even possible, we haven't even begun to tackle it.

> in 5 years will there be an AI that's better than 90% of unassisted working programmers at solving new leetcode-type coding interview questions posed in natural language?

I think that's highly unlikely, but it is within the bounds of possibility given what we know about AI currently (and probably, like GPT, it will only work under specific constraints). But the gap between that and what an engineer does on a daily basis is enormous.
Coming soon: TaaS API. Don't own your own metal, rent it from the cloud. Get a block of text professionally typed on a classic typewriter and FedEx'd overnight.
Taking away the money, though, will cripple their ability to grow the companies.

No SpaceX, no Tesla, no iPhone, etc.
It’s not really like riding a bike though. There’s so much more effort involved.

It’s more like training for a race. Yes, you can pedal and get there eventually but compared to your competition - you’re coming in last.
An important technicality, since it's now 2021 and we are still observing DST.
Does it really take four years to update a laptop design? That's getting up there with automotive development time, and cars are significantly more complex.
> Being a CEO is one of the highest impact careers in terms of lowering life expectancy. Most high paid careers are extremely stressful and come with more serious health impact than the average worker.

Perhaps, though that effect must be offset by other things (and/or access to healthcare), since the life expectancy based on income graph is monotonically increasing for both genders.

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/health/

My hunch is that the well off might have stress on the job (though again, this is a subset of well-paid positions, and I think the subset is actually smaller than you think), but everyone else has a lot more stress outside of the job which is much more important. The stress associated with poverty cannot be understated - it lowers IQ by ~15 points.

(Poverty and IQ: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/analysis-h...)
Humans have near but exactly 1:1 ( 1.05-1.07 favoring males at birth ). Fisher's principle[1] explains why this 1:1 is common.

There is big imbalance problem for humans as well, many cultures prefer male children over females, the two largest countries - India and China have big imbalance for different reasons there is estimated 100 million less girls than boys in these two countries alone as result of sex selection/ infanticide etc .

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle
The thing is, it's really critical to have that <strike>dictator</strike>CEO in charge of the company to reign in the senior leadership, otherwise what happens is the creation of fiefdoms and <strike>intra-oligarchic</strike>turf battles at the expense of overall success.

Someone on this site mentioned Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...

And the CEO is the counterweight to that oligarchic rule. You see this, for example, in the constant battles that kings wage against the nobility.
A refreshing comment as the role of genes are so little talked about, yet I strongly believe it is one of the strongest influences in outcomes. I believe success is born.

I'm born into the lower working class, Western Europe. And so is my brother. From an early age it was clear that my brother has limited intellectual interests or ability, nor is he creative. He simply isn't a learner, not a man for the books. He's a most excellent blue collar worker and that is the outcome. He's doing fine and is happy.

Me, I seem to be born to live in my head. An almost exact opposite. It was absolutely inevitable for me to end up in a creative or intellectual field. Which tend to have better compensation.

I could brag about how very hard I had to work to actually arrive at that place, coming from rock bottom. But these self congratulations would be misplaced. Anybody can work hard and my brother also works hard, if not harder. What decided between these vastly different outcomes is the brains we were born with, as everything else is equal. Perhaps even a good work ethic is in part genetic, I'm unsure.

There is a huge catch to this story. I was fortunate to live in a time and place where education was open and accessible. My parents' economic status didn't matter, I was in the same schools as people far richer. Society allowed me to compete and thrive from an equal and fair starting point, and then let genes (and some merit) play out. Which not only enables a great outcome for me, also for society.

I believe this equal access is absolutely critical. In fact, access to education has such a dramatic positive return that I believe education should be free. Insane! Who will pay for that?

The future will pay for it, in multiples.
Want a slightly valid comparison? Please compare first year data of each vaccine for the very strain.
There's also synergy. Unfortunately it's commercial. I used it for a while. https://symless.com/synergy

Not sure if it works with Wayland either though.
The way I'm reading your reply seems like sophistry, so I expect I'm misunderstanding you.

Scenario 1: Copilot, operating as an IDE plugin, placed the suggestion directly into the text. To accept the suggestion, the engineer hit save.

Scenario 2: Copilot, placed its suggestion in an external file. The engineer copy/pasted the suggestion verbatim into their IDE, then hit save.

These don't seem as though they materially affect the situation. Regardless, the downstream user who somehow brought the copyrighted code into their codebase (which they subsequently redistribute) is infringing.

This theoretical case where Copilot is not involved and the user synthesizes something on their own is not germane. Copilot is involved.

What are you folks getting at? That Microsoft is in the clear? That the end user is in the clear? That "I'm just making suggestions" is akin to "I'm just asking questions" and absolves the suggester of liability? I don't get it.
Reads like a cash grab to me.
>You’re seeing too much conspiracies

Nah fam, I'm seeing my favorite tools like Netfabb disappear and become subscription-only parts of the Autodesk ecosystem.

CAD is not just EDA, or the niche that KiCAD occupies.
More empty "paradox of choice" cliches. It's not that we have too many choices, it's that our many choices are a sea of crap, we know it, and there's no way to find one good thing in ten thousand craps.
Polio took 50 years to wipe out with aggressive vaccination programs approaching 100% in some populations.

If we reach comparable levels of immunization for polio with the COVID-19 vaccine we may yet see that, too.

Where I live with ~90% of adults immunized for COVID, the number of infections and % testing positive continues to fall over the last few months, even as we get more social. I hold out with some cautious optimism?
Plus with CD's you could listen to the tracks in any order you want, or skip over the song you don't like instantly. For me it was a huge upgrade from casettes, I bought a portable CD player as soon as I could afford one so I could stop copying stuff to cassette to listen away from home.
I've always appreciated the fact that New Coke was more popular with Coke customers in a blind taste test. Pepsi usually wins, too, AFAIK. Probably why New Coke has a Pepsi ring to it.
Is Your Privacy An Illusion? (Taking on Big Tech) - Smarter Every Day 263
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMtrY6lbjcY
I think it’s because some people grew up having to make time estimates and deciding whether to do something based on the estimate.

If they were in the same boat, they might have not done it if they expected it to take a weekend.
Hope they get dropped v .
Exactly.. the laser introduces all kinds of safety issues. Simply shining a light and pointing me in the right direction vastly increases my lethality, especially combined with one of those fly swatter electric rackets.

My cat would serve a similar role for larger insects. Her eyes would track them for me so I could locate and destroy them. Unfortunately she either cannot, or more likely chooses not to, track mosquitos.
Steve Jobs at MIT Sloan School of Business (1992)
Here (western Canada) we have a requirement to check ID if someone looks underage for alcohol service. My hair is grey enough that I haven't been 'carded' for years.

Since vaccination doesn't make my hair chartreuse, I can't rely on that to avoid being carded for vaccination.

Same diff to me (and to the restaurant staff I've talked to).
I'm sure FB has done many, many things that affect less than 30% of users
So why not a "dead billionaire tax"? The heirs to fortunes seem likely to get even less sympathy than the ones who actually built them.
>She’s not appealing to males.

Calling yourself "sexy" and dressing in a bikini appeals to males, and males greatly outnumber lesbians, and that will lead to lots of male twitter followers who would not follow her if all she had were her actions and words. She can't not know this stuff.

You can argue that she isn't deliberately appealing to men, but at some point, "in the knowledge that" is indistinguishable from "deliberately" by anyone who can't read minds.
Wasn't 2015 still in the days of SATA? I put an SSD in mine and it was trivial. It's not at all what the 2016+ models are like.
The post I replied to was about the viability of Bitcoin being a currency

I made the point that it being used as a currency, right now

Discussion about the morality of legal tender laws is another matter
Have you used it? My experience was quite atrocious. Copilot is not auto complete. It’s nonsense. I attempted to use it continuously for three weeks. I tried because I know someone who built it and I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.

It never prompted me with any code that was useful. It only ever slowed me down and caused me frustration. It’s nothing like Intellisense. It’s just trash.
Mandatory standards xkcd
I said came from , I did not differentiate between whether it was modified or created. I was referring to the gene inserts. I have no idea what your point is please do elaborate thanks
I am not sure if this guy a Tesla shorter or what, but he comes out with all manner of irrational anti Tesla stuff, but he says nothing bad about other EVs, so this bias makes me suspicious - how say you all?
I actually do not know, sadly.
A pool is a social context in which a bikini is expected. Investigative reporting isn't.
> media keys, brightness control, keyboard back lighting

Gaming and hotkey macros notwithstanding, I think this is what people are mostly lamenting when they complain about the TouchBar replacing F-keys.
I've never benchmarked the two as I usually either need something small (so use alists) or of large or indeterminate size (so use hash tables). There's a clear performance difference between the two choices at that second case, but since I never hit the "middle ground" I don't know what the threshold is. It probably also varies with each implementation.

Hash tables, though, should be O(1) for retrieval and updates and amortized O(1) for insertions. Alists are O(n) for retrieval and updates and O(1) for insertions (if you don't check for the presence of the key).
What pressure are you running at? I find anything less than about 12-14 feels suffocating.
How does this relate to OpenMetrics, if at all?
5.1.x works fine, 5.99 is surely improved. Delete workflow unnecessary once you adopt the sheet-orientation. Also improves re-use, though you have to carefully manage .sch version/variant evolution outside of KiCad. Had an awesome scroll-wheel Wacom ~2010 and have sorely missed it since. You can emulate it with touch but it's not as precise. Rocker-switches for zoom in/out or mapping on-tablet buttons are another option.
Ask HN: Should we be stealing Intellectual Property from China?
> There is no evidence that rich people work harder than poor people.

It's not about working hard, it's about working smart. I.e. leverage.

For example, my patio door kept getting stuck. I spend a lot of time with a file and chisel trying and failing to get it to fit properly. Finally, I bought a grinder for a few bucks from the pawn shop and had it fixed in a couple minutes, and it looked a lot better, too.
You cannot grow them as a business model, however if you already have a preserve and elephants on them wouldn't a) be safer to remove the tusks from the elephants to make them less of a target and b) sell the removed tusks to fund your preserve ?
It'd net out to a consumption tax which is strongly negative economically to nearly everyone.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that he didn't listen to medical advice.

https://www.livescience.com/16551-steve-jobs-alternative-med...
Perhaps you will be surprised to learn that your web browser sends requests all over the place.
>>> in terms of difficulty, writing code is maybe on average a two out of ten

Imagine what's possible when that difficulty level shrinks to 0.0001 / 10

Github Copilot is a "code synthesizer"

Xmas time takes me back to one of the most popular "toys" of all time: the Casio SK-1. Music sampler for the masses.

It's like that ;)
Expectations for generics in Go 1.18
>It doesn't seem to me as though the distinction between "Copilot reproduced the code and the engineer copy/pasted/saved it" versus "Copilot inserted the code" is crucial.

Is Google responsible when they index licensed code, then others steal it? It's surely the liability of the programmer to "check" (Not really sure how this would work, either).
I feel like 10 years from now we will look at thread like this and laugh akin to 64kb being enough.
There are people with fear of unexpected strangers walking up behind them, frequently from PTSD. This can be crippling in outdoor walking situations. A bag/fanny-pack sized device which can tap the wearer to let them know it really is time to check behind them would find a market… of some size… at some price.
There are many cities where a 1M house is really just a basic house that would be worth a fraction of that 100 miles away.

Being wealthier on paper doesn't always translate to a more wealthy lifestyle.
jesus christ, yes. Elon didn't become a billionaire including assets until 2012, well after nasa awarded them the cargo contract and two years after Falcon 9 started launching. Before that, he was barely a millionaire after PayPal and his investments in Tesla and SpaceX. This tax wouldn't have affected him at all until both SpaceX and Tesla were relatively healthy with both Falcon 9 and Model S.

There's a reason CEO's at this level take $1 in salary.
It's like a junior dev who doesn't quit unnecessary code golfing. Somehow the AI is more comfortable with string-based URL manipulation, which is a straight anti-pattern.
Here's a chart of CO2 emissions by country: https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1452641577407590409.

Asia produces 53% of global emissions. Per capita numbers are meaningless here. If the citizens of Liechtenstein were emitting 1,000 times much CO2 per capita as people in Asia, Asia would still be where you need to start if you were serious about reducing C02 emissions.

I know, I know, but it's not fair!
Hissp is a Lisp clone in Python, with a tiny escape hatch to fully utilize the Python parts. https://github.com/gilch/hissp
If you own your house, is it unfair that you don't share it with all the people who contributed to building it? Or is it fair that you paid them what they asked for their efforts?
I expected a soft-sell somewhere in this article, and the depth of knowledge had me say “respect. I’ll check out this sell”, but I did not expect $2040/yr for the JS table library!
"We" who? I'm pretty sure it's not what I want...
Yup, Chomsky had the same observation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-37c3c8
All the new ports are pretty useless to me. I think that adding them back in shows a lack of vision and just caters to the lowest common denominator of complaints instead of making a better product from first principles.

HDMI: I guess it's good if you have an old monitor? My monitor from like 2015 has USB C and charges my computer while I use it.

MagSafe: I've never had a computer fall off a table. Seems like a weird overoptimization for an unlikely scenario. If you use it you've got to carry a different cable that you can't use for anything else, unlike the USB C power cable that i also use to connect peripherals if needed.

SD card: I've never used one of these. I guess it's good for professional photographers? Why don't expensive cameras just have 256gb of onboard storage and connect over thunderbolt?
No, wayland bits generally run well enough without needing the linuxolator.
Hypervisor Architect (Linux KVM)
It helped that I was already semi-familiar with it, but the other engineer and team lead quit shortly after I joined, and I was left by myself to complete the tasks. It was brutal, and I'm looking for a different job to get away from this workplace for this reason.
What seems odd to me (if I understand it correctly) is that prop 13 keeps your property tax low, but you still get the full benefit of the appreciation in price when you sell the property. It kind of seems like if it's artificially keeping the tax low, the full tax bill should come due at some point, which would logically be at the change of ownership.
Is there a tool that can simulate some types of Kicad outputs? I mean something like do a PCB design for a simple circuit and then "run" or debug it in some way.
Its not only in web development but software development as a whole.

Very smart ppl very easly fall for “not invented here” way of thinking and pretty much solve the problems that were solved already like hundred times.

It’s hard to fight that, seems to be our nature. But this is something that probably diffrentiates “great” devs from “just” devs.
While Facebook has created an addictive and destructive engagement machine, I'm really unimpressed with the contrarian response - as if manual follow/curation & reverse chrono is the only alternative.

While transparency and control of the "ranking algorithm" is important, I reject the implication that infiniscroll content feed is the best that social media can ever be.

Facebook (and others) have decided that discovery, chores, social upkeep, political activism, learning etc all belong in One Big Recommendation System. This is entirely new territory from a psychological perspective: Throughout history, humans have focused largely on one mental task at a time. You don't read Dostoevsky while having a drink with your friends, or answer emails while watching TV. Mental multitasking quickly converges on the low effort/instant gratification task. Add your favorite attention disorder to amplify this problem to the point of surrender.

Any meaningful alternative needs to account for these psychological biases. Although this is new territory, we've been through this before - with porn. Basically, if you mix porn with other content, then porn becomes predominant. Hence, any non-porn platform needs to ban porn. Reddit is an interesting counter-example, because their subreddit barriers work pretty damn well, so even though there is porn on the platform, it hasn't infected everything else.

Similar to the porn issue, we'll never extinguish celebrity clickbait, conspiracy theories and racist uncle posting memes. However, we might be able to partition it. How about designing tech which makes it POSSIBLE to avoid "crap", at least temporarily, without an outright boycott, careful curation or browser extensions?
I imagine the same is true of all window managers.
What matters is that users of Copilot (the "others" who "steal it" in your scenario) are liable for infringement. That renders Copilot impractical as a tool for production use, regardless of whether Microsoft has any liability.
Incomes keep pace with inflation and generally don’t have crash years which diminish their future value.

If you are taking the full 6% then inflation is eating the asset, in 30 years the 60k will be equivalent to 24k. If you started this in 98 then you would have seen your assets halved twice, and would be living off of 15k or so in 2008.
There needs to a specific "up vote for humor" on HN.
There are efforts to get it to build on clang and I would imagine it's mostly done by now, since this started years ago.

But besides the Kernel there's also the whole rest of the distro. The Kernel is the easy part.
> nonsense

May I present Steve Jobs, another obvious example? Ray Croc who built McDonald's from a single location into a world empire.
Hard to justify the utility of the WWVB station with the coexistence of 4 going on 5 independent GPS systems along with telephone/cellular and internet systems. Pull is preferable over push given the use is not to be a canary; jamming a single time source is not strategically relevant. If it was there would be security at the station, but as is in a residential area some one could walk up with a power tool and take it down.
Now, them's fightin' words. Nothing beats a good buttercream.
Words. They mean things.
No flow style would be kind of painful at times. I like JSON5, because it has the two extra things I need beyond json: comments and trailing commas.
Everyone says "bluetooth is great, just use that". Only, there's TONS of bad bluetooth implementations out there. There's very few bad headphone jack implementations.

You can literally hear how much worse the bluetooth audio sounds in my wife's care compared to mine. She uses the aux port because it's so bad.
People who are interested in learning more about transmitting information between solar systems should watch this wonderful talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sImBlq542TQ
the author is a professor at harvard (known for writing 'The Art of Electronics' in addition to searching for extraterristrials) and put a lot of good thought into light transfer between solar systems.

TL;DR a powerful enough laser that is well collimated would work.
For todays lucky 10,000 https://xkcd.com/927/

For todays lucky 10,000 concerning the lucky 10,000 https://xkcd.com/1053/
Seems to me stock asset taxes should be on the same order as real estate taxes...1% per year or so of total assets (with a very healthy carve-out/minimum). If it's truly 25% per increase that seems counter-productive.