skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the proposal is, much as with taxes on realized gains and losses, unrealized losses would be allowed to offset unrealized gains and be carried forward if there was an excess of losses.
There are parsers for it in every language, and it's more capable than JSON.

Here's what I want. Something that is more readable than JSON, so either TOML-like or YAML-like, but without executable code or any of that nonsense. On top of that, a schema definition file (think XSD) that asserts facts about the structure of the config, using a theorem prover like Coq or Idris.

This way, we get nice configs, but within a restricted space.
Because thanking someone means you're grateful for something they did or that you'll hope they'll do. It doesn't really apply to every email.

In contrast, expressing best wishes always makes sense unless you hate the recipient's guts and want them to know it.

Thanks, civilized

(See? It makes no sense.)
The first figure of the paper they reference [0] has the numbers for this study:

-- 18.5% of females were tuskless before the war

-- 50.9% of females were tuskless after the war

-- 33% of females were tuskless in the first post-war generation

Of the offspring:

-- 8.7% of females born to two-tusked females were two-tusked

-- 44.7% of females born to tuskless females were tuskless

[0]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe7389#F1
Smart leaders have a nay-sayer to whisper in their ears when they're making a mistake. That doesn't mean they aren't in command, though.

The fact that Musk can get rid of her at any time speaks for itself. It doesn't mean she's a committee, either.

I've long suspected that the reason McCartney and Lennon wrote great songs for the Beatles, and not-so-great ones afterwards, is because each was willing to tell the other when their work was crap. Afterwards, they just had sycophants who'd tell them every note they wrote was fantastic.
I love your closing.

I sometimes use as a formal valediction:

Loren Ipsum Dolor etc. I remain (paragraph break here, no punctuation)

Very truly yours,

[My Name]
Interesting product. I appreciate some of the practical touches of a diver's watch:

1. It has all the health monitoring things (heart rate, ECG, oximeter, sleep).

2. It has 30 day battery life.

3. It has a sapphire glass (scratch resistant).

4. It has 10 ATM water resistance (100 meters/330 feet).

On the other hand, the screen part of this watch seems very small, it doesn't run a standard smartwatch OS, and the water resistance isn't an outright claim of being waterproof (so likely OK for swimming but not scuba diving). An alternative like the Garmin Fenix (https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/641479/pn/010-02158-13) seems more practical in terms of screen size, although it is pricier and doesn't have the oximeter.
Excellent point, and something to avoid!

Not sure about other email clients, bit it is definitely possible in Thunderbird to set it up so the "Thanks/Regards/Best/whatever" is in the same font, style, etc. as the body and the rest of the sig is in a different font (that's my standard setup; compose it in TBird, save it out, extract, set as sig file, maybe tweak the HTML a bit).
This is a common mistake and doesn't account for sequence risk. While it is true that the long run, inflation adjusted, DRIP average is about 7%, over the short run, those returns are not guaranteed and a few bad years can break your retirement.

A much safer withdrawal rate is 3-4% with some inflation adjusted caps and floors so that in good years you grow your investments and in bad years you maintain a certain level of lifestyle.
I guess if your list is long enough, any song can be one of the greatest, but it starts to feel strained past 25th (eg "what's the 38th greatest meal you've ever had?"), and I could list 50 greater rock songs (than "Brown Sugar") just from the Beatles, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Queen, the Kinks, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and Clapton off the top of my head.
> We're missing a liberal center

The White House and most of the Democratic party are centrists.
I found quotes from Mark Cuban, but I’m not seeing any comments on this proposal from Buffett/Gates/Bloomberg/Soros. Can you share your sources?
It could be a wormhole exit connecting us to an interstellar highway, it could be anything.
Yes, the Framework laptop's battery is more easily replaceable than the new MBP's, from what I can tell without yet having seen iFixit's full teardown of the latter—there's no need to remove the trackpad or deal with adhesives on the Framework, in contrast to the new MBP.

(I'm still thrilled to see this improvement to serviceability on the new MBP, even if previous generations set a low bar.)
The CBInsights newsletter always ends with “I love you. Anand”

https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=0c60818e26ecdbe423a10ad2...
"Best" what?

These things may be somewhat culturally determined (including office/corporate culture). To me, "best" reads as mindless as any other.

In fact, they all read as mindless to me, probably because in most cases they literally are mindless. You choose one and write it automatically in nearly every message.

That's not to say they're useless. Politeness in social interactions is filled with formulaic, almost ritualistics niceties. I just don't think there's all that much difference in meaning between these common formulaic responses.

Take care,

Another Internet Rando
You don't work harder than south east Asian ship breakers, who work 16 hour shifts in carsophaguses of asbestos and rust.

But you earn orders of magnitude more.

Income and wealth aren't solely functions of who worked the hardest and they never have been.
Is json code, too? Yaml, or json, can be used to describe programming instructions, in which case I could see maybe calling it code. In an informal setting. If you are, for example, writing documentation, please refrain from doing so.

But that's entirely situational. A yaml snippet containing my list of groceries is not code.

Yaml doesn't have to be classified as code to be testable. "We should have tests for our configuration files" is perfectly reasonable.
Taking the We out of WeWork.
It seems pretty clear from the example that the commenter is using time zone to not mean entries from the tz database but instead offsets from UTC.
I think humorously is the intended way for it to be taken. But not disrespectfully.
The reference frequency part is very important. There is a lot of test gear that relies on a 10 MHz signal for calibration.
Musk currently has a controlling interest in Tesla because of his stock holdings. Under the proposal, he would no longer have the holdings, and thus no longer control the company.
Tusken Raiders will be mad.
Then making it work with Neovim seems like an odd choice.
> 2. Disparate outcomes, either in terms of arrests, commission of crimes, or false positives/negatives, does not make this (or any other) system racist as long as explicit discrimination is not being performed based on race.

This definition of racism, and bigotry more generally, is too narrow to be useful. For some well known examples look up how applicants from certain ZIP codes were more likely to be denied financial services. Or how resumes with certain names were less likely to be hired despite the same experience. Race wasn't an input in those decisions yet the end result is obviously racist.

You seem like a critical thinker, so please consider this question:

If companies and government agents generally aren't even unintentionally racist, how do you explain people of color's significantly worse outcomes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...
A tutorial on the principles of fault tolerance (1987) [pdf]
I've only seen it from Americans, actually (though I am one, so not much evidence that it is strictly American).
You can presumably adjust this for how much money you actually took out. If you got a line of credit on your house/stocks, but you didn't take out a cent, then you don't owe anything. If you took out 10% of your portfolio value in cash, and the LTV ratio was 50% (that is, you can borrow up to 50% of your portfolio's value), then you're deemed to have sold 20% of your portfolio and have to pay capital taxes. You're free to play around with the parameters when it comes to how the capital gains are calculated (eg. tax lot, which stock was "sold").
Oh, great. Yes, imperfect but improves iteratively. But I never said that the mRNA vaccine (or any vaccine, for that matter - we also have vector vaccines and even inactivated ones) is perfectly safe.

Indeed, what I was saying is that it's illogical to expect it to be perfectly safe. That would only make sense if contracting COVID was (proven to be) perfectly harmless. But the thing is that you are forced to make a decision and you don't have complete knowledge about the consequences of neither of your (two) choices. However, the (imperfect) experts say that the vaccines are way safer than contracting covid unvaccinated. And if anything, we both know that they have a lot better chance to be right than us.

> after being developed in 6 months

This doesn't really matter given the above (that you should listen to those who know a lot better), but the 6 months is far from being true. They started experimenting with the coronavirus vaccines back in 2003 and there was ongoing research ever since then. I've just seen a video from 5 years ago where a virologist guy talks about their bat coronavirus research at the local (Hungarian) science meetup.

The mRNA platform itself has been under development for over 3 decades, too. But again, you can go for adenovirus vector vaccines, which are a more tested technology. In some part of the world you can get inactivated vaccines (e.g. here, in Hungary we had one from Shinopharm), but they don't do that well against SARS-CoV2. However, the actual candidate for Pfizer's (well, BioNTech's) vaccine was done in something like 2 weeks, IIRC. But that was only possible because of the decades of earlier research. In part the mRNA technology itself, in part because they could skip the animal testing thanks to the SARS-CoV1 vaccines developed around 2003. (But the animal testing only protects the phase1 maybe phase2 participants, anyway. It's not that a vaccine sometimes takes years because they experiment on animals for years with a vaccine candidate that otherwise seems perfectly viable.)
I know it’s way more than most people have, but $1.2M is not really FU money, at least in the US. It’s probably enough to take a gamble on, but it’s still not enough that you cannot be wiped out by bad luck or a significant health event while unemployed. And unless you are very young (and very lucky to have that much capital already) that $1.2M probably represents the gain from quite some years of work, and is critical as the basis for eventually gaining enough to actually be economically safe in retirement.
The worst for me was when I worked in investment banking and senior bankers would end emails with “Thx”.
The point is there has to be someone to make the final decisions, be they talented or not. You could vote on everything, but I don't think that would be efficient or even make sense for all circumstances.
> It’s a terrible time for a job search

I can only disagree. I like where I'm at, but it's such a low bar to pull at, I have been. I have lots of opportunities to get offers and leverage my current or change. All remote, all within reasonably stable companies (although I also interview at companies I have no interest in joining).
I too wanted to use adSense in order to drive traffic to my side project. I made a small calculator for estimating dosage in cannabis edibles, which gets a few clicks here and there (https://www.scientificedibles.com).

It turns out that adSense, will not touch any cannabis content with a 10ft pole so it pretty much ruled out getting any traffic via them. There were some more niche advertisers but for those you needed substantially more funds.

In the end, I found that SEO and content were a good alternative (and free!).
Whaaaa! Cool and counterintuitive as heck
The point of contention is indeed how Amazon interacts with local police. I am pointing out that one second-hand example of one police force and their access to one technology does not necessarily describe an entire surveillance apparatus and its possible uses.

Are you of the opinion that it does?
which is why academic professionals such as Aswath Damodaran say that this law is a bit stupid, and poorly thought out - it appeals to popular mindset, but it would be ineffective at collecting new tax revenue, and at worst discourage entrepreneurship leading to long term damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQddA58hZdQ
In today's environment, yeah. But a few decades ago those loans would have interest rates more like 20%
One of his tweets in the chain:

>Every time a company’s value doubles, the government would force founders like me to sell 25% of our stake to pay the government. Epic’s value has doubled 8 times in the past 5 years. If this tax scheme had been place, I’d have been forced to liquidate nearly my entire ownership.

Epic Games has always been a private company.
1) They're trying to create a billionaire tax that will somehow pass the corrupt mess in the US Federal government and also not permit loopholes for tax evasion. I think it might be just a dog and pony show since there's little chance of anything passing the Senate at the moment and because it's a non starter for Republicans.

2) I don't agree with your reasoning here.

3) The US is pushing extraterritoriality pretty well, and the nations of the world have agreed to try to eliminate tax havens. Pretty soon there won't be an "overseas" to go to.

4) I don't accept the terms "liberal" or "conservative" to mean what most of the people who use them mean. As labels, they promote sloppy thinking. I consider the authors of this tax to be the Democratic party, who have already proven they are far too establishment to be allowed to continue to exist.

5) Not really possible, because raising those interest rates has other effects. Rather than taxing theoretical company values, tax purchases, VAT- style.

6) You're treating "the left" here as if it's a hard and fast definition of a group of people. Politics in the US is far more complicated than that. There may be some truth to what you say here if you are talking about specific groups of people, but just equating Democrats/the authors of this bill to "the left" isn't accurate, and that sort of inaccuracy perpetuates political partisanship and extremist thinking.
That's really just another reason not to like it. It's a massive disincentivize to go public, because as described, everyone's stake will get whittled down to zero by this tax over time.
With Love,

(name)

XOXO
I live in the suburbs and the police absolutely take porch pirates seriously, especially after a few events on the same street.

But then we only have 1-2 murders per year so of course they'll gravitate towards smaller crimes.
Its important to have a distributed consensus protocol like Paxos, which has been validated, as a lego block in building any larger system.

We need a lot more of those well engineered, proven, validated lego blocks. Memory safety is a cross cutting concern which makes all those lego blocks much safer.

We are about 30 years behind the curve and have a lot of ground to make up. That doesn't make these efforts useless, that just means that we need 10 times the effort.
Yeah, the rhetoric supporting the current system often sloppily suggests we should somehow prefer tyranny of a minority. We shouldn't.

The check on tyranny of the majority, beyond notional defense of rights, is that the representation of the House vs the Senate differ from each other and so agreement between them (and especially a durable agreement between them) probably means more than "mere" majority support.

Obviously that property can't be preserved while also making both bodies representative. It would be nice, however, if they were centered around "representative", differing in opposite directions rather than differing in overweighting the same voters a little vs a lot. I've toyed around with that a little but don't have a concrete proposal (... much less one that would get anywhere).
I really liked B612, but I couldn't take the tiny colons and semicolons. If they were normally sized, this would be the perfect font.
The quote mark?
Oof, that's a tall order, isn't it? I'm no professional philosopher, and not somebody who works all day making dictionary definitions, but the general sense of natural / artificial here is "not by humans" versus "by humans", although that's not very precise and you'll get into trouble if you read too much into much into it. There are loads of ways in which you'd need to refine this definition in order to account for various exceptions (due to convention) or the ways in which the sense is incompletely explained (e.g. it would be "natural" for me to drink water, but "artificial" to manufacture sunglasses).

Words like "natural" and "artificial" don't admit tidy definitions, and you know that, which is why you demanded that I define it for you, presumably so you could poke holes in whatever definition I provided.
Ouch. If I understand you correctly, this is then a really awful scenario for founders.

As a founder, my only assets were the stock of my company . I don't own any other stock, certainly none that would go thru the roof over a year or 2.

If the company goes south after a hot streak, I end up with excess unrealized losses that I can't use, because I have no other assets with unrealized gains to book against my carryforward losses.
> And Im in favor of banning video games, social media and pornography.

Those are quite bad analogies you have there.

Playing video games, reading/posting to social media (assuming you're not posting content inciting violence etc) and watching pornography (or producing pornography, assuming consent of all involved) are not actions that have any significant potential to cause harm to others. I don't mind if somebody spends their entire day jerking off with their left hand while playing video games with their right, all the while posting to Twitter via Siri. I wouldn't personally want to be that person(or follow them on Twitter, for that matter), but it's their life and they're not hurting anybody.

Socializing without taking proper COVID precautions however puts other people at immediate risk. Getting vaccinated is one of the precautions we can take to avoid that, and it has been shown to be tremendously effective. It is also very quick, and very low risk for healthy adults. So it is our social responsibility to get vaccinated.

FWIW, I'm OK with people choosing to not get vaccinated for whatever batshit reason they may cite. Their body, their choice, right? But my body is not their choice. So if they choose to commit to endangering myself and other responsible people, and potentially contribute to overloading the health system we rely on, then I also expect them to accept the necessary consequences: minimizing social contact, getting COVID tests whenever they want to enter any establishment, potentially having to look for a new job that can be done 100% from home, and waiving their right to be treated for any COVID infection they may contract while unprotected.
Koch industries does over $100B in revenue and has never gone public.

Bloomberg is another example.
The commentary about the cloth is fantastic
I think I'd cringe if someone showed me the first e-mails I sent when I was fresh out of university.
Is a charging dock for a mouse ridiculous? You can't use the mouse while it charges! How absurd! How silly!

Did you actually have one? Or are you remembering a picture you saw online once?
I don't know about "liberal tendency", I wouldn't go anywhere near that far...

However, I do so hate when people clearly use a maligned group and exploit them in their language to further their own agenda.

I've seen similar language used by groups to advocate for the wildest things like remote work, or bike lanes.
Basically they're trying to figure out how to increase revenue while still being able to claim they're not increasing personal income or corporate tax rates. That's why theyre also looking at schemes like reducing maximum retirement contributions- it's technically not a tax increase, it's just a change that increases the taxes you'll have to pay in retirement
>causing us to live in a time of renewed labor unrest rather than a second great depression.

So far, it's showing signs of being both.

UBI is a non starter for at least the next three or four decades except in limited cases. Education of all the rural ("red state") voters has to happen before anything like that would be possible to enact... right now their perception that other people are having an easier time in life because they're given things that the first group had to work for is reason enough for them to have put Trump in power.
> that's going to wreak havoc on finances during a recession.

No, among other reasons, because its not going to happen, just as it doesn't with the taxes on realized capital gains and losses, where losses can offset gains, and if there is excess a certain amount of regular income, and if there is still excess (or not enough taxable regular income to use the full offset) end up as carryforward losses that can be used as future-year losses, but don't result in negative liability on their own.

> if the economy goes to shit, the government has to come up with money to stimulate the economy AND pay back all the capital gains taxes they collected during the boom times

If they were to write the law so that unrealized capital losses resulted in tax refunds, that would be stimulus, not an extra thing on top or stimulus. It might not be optimally targeted stimulus, but that rarely happens, anyway.
I'm still pretty formal with new clients. It takes me years to leave out a valediction with some. But on the other hand, my favorite valediction is usually "Cheers," since it seems the most casual and least demanding. Still, I always worry this gives away the fact that I'm an alcoholic.

My runner up is "Yours," which I see didn't make the list.
Was the try() proposal for Go error handling?
I'm really curious what happened to the proposals for shorter Go error handling, rather than if err!=nil {...}
Every message you send is implicitly requesting something though - the time and attention of the person reading it.

Time is one of the most precious commodities we have - it seems appropriate to thank people for spending it on you.

Thanks, variaga
If you wrote the same thing in assembly language and, by convention, you return the value from a subroutine in the AX register. This function is not returning anything useful so you don't 'MOV AX,blah', yet your caller expected something in it, is it undefined?

Does the AX register exist in the caller? Yes.

Does it have a value? Yes.

Is its 'value' undefined. Yes.

Is there any undefined 'behaviour' of anything you told it to do? Not to me. Subtle maybe.
Wait a minute, what's special about roads?
I feel like "Write a page on a typewriter" and "Snap a photo with your phone" are sort of at odds with each other here...

If I'm inclined to use a typewriter for writing, I'm probably anti-inclined to use a modern smartphone.
Radio clocks are vulnerable to signal loss and spoofing regardless if it is GPS, cellular, or HF. If the time accuracy is critical, then the time signal should be delivered by wire to device, especially indoors. Wall clocks should have a manual way to set the clocks given there has never been a guarantee to receive the WWV signal. If expense is the concern along with wireless capability, then an integrated 2.4GHz SoC could be used that costs pennies; https://www.beaglesoft.com/radsynreceiver.htm appears to cost hundreds.
What kind of range/sensitivity could you get outdoors? Maybe spotting deer for hunters.
(caveat I'm not a hunter)