skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually curious if Go would normalize the characters AND if it had used angle bracketd, and make those equivalent to angle brackets? Would he then not have to even change his code?

I guess that's a lot of ifs/ands but it's interesting that one could have future proofed their code if their bet on syntax paid off
Of course it's a loophole. Elon Musk takes essentially no salary, never sells his shares yet lives the life of a workaholic billionaire. The only reason he has any taxes at all is because he is taxed on his stock grants. He also has > $1B in debt.

The first $500K in residential capital gains aren't taxable. I sure hope your second mortgage is less than that.

Taxing the securitization of assets should cause a step up in the base cost of the asset. So it doesn't reduce the amount of tax you owe, it just changes when you owe it. (Unless you avoid the tax by dying).
Because people get used to what they used first. Since windows got a good lead in early 90's, network effects and inertia made it king on the desktop for so long.

Had microsoft been able to release real smartphones with windows phone earlier, we'd be probably seeing a very different mobile world than what we see today. I quickly tried windows phone when they were released, they didn't seem worse or slower or less capable (except for fewer apps) than androids or iphones of the time.
> I'd love to see less passive/aggressive responses, but this is the internet...

You're the guy who decided to drag this argument off onto the soapbox that you wanted to talk about that I never cared about. I wrote you off from the tone of your first response... because this is the internet...
Why humans, not machines, make the tough calls on comments
This is not really the point that I'm arguing--my point would be that if you wanted your house entirely encrusted in precious jewels, each of which was individually polished by a team of people paid 50 USD an hour to do this weekly, nothing stops you from making that decision even though you are monopolizing a large quantity of resources for status, almost entirely. Someone with a large amount of wealth is generally within their rights to do this, which I would view as a problem.

This isn't to say that I would accuse the majority (or even very many) individuals in positions where they're able to leverage a lot of wealth of anything specifically this egregious, but rather that because they're able to control many resources because their efforts have enormous leverage (and therefore are worth more to the system they operate in), they can consume orders of magnitude more resources to gain comparably minuscule increases in personal utility.

In addition, because of how valuable their leverage makes their effort, when they cause damage whose negative value is on the scale of individuals, the disparity leads a system that's self-interested to forgive them much more quickly--if someone can get 1% more value out of 10 billion dollars' resources than anyone else, that system doesn't have any purely value-driven reason to replace them in their position if they should murder someone and its negative effects never amount to more than a couple million dollars' loss in value. From any ethical standpoint that holds "death at the whims of billionaires" incompatible with "certain unalienable rights", this is a problem.
How do the GPUs compare?
Selective breeding is an important component of evolution. But evolution is certainly not just selective breeding. Population diversity whether it's through random chance, genetic drift, horizontal transfer etc. is also a key component of evolution. Equating evolution with just selective breeding is incorrect.
By coincidence, the passive-aggressive "Thanks in advance" is also the one I'm most likely to report spam on.
> Compared to the alternative of corrupt governments that have complete control to print money at will

Major governments in wealthy countries have done an excellent job of managing currency. It's far more stable than cryptocurrencies, and the stability has improved as knowledge of economics has improved. They went through two massive economic calamities in 13 years (the Great Recession and the Coronavirus Pandemic) with almost no economic instability.

Cryptocurrency seems to me to be a far greater threat to economic stability and for corruption and undemocratic seizure of power.
This is not a meme cure based on sketchy research. It appeared to be effective in a recent study in Brazil with 3,000 experiment participants (admittedly not enough, but more research is underway) and it has been covered extensively by mainstream (i.e., not totally crazy) news outlets.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/health/antidepressant-flu...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/antidepressant-significantly-re...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/02/27/coronavirus-pos...

By comparison, I recall that some of the studies that championed ivermectin as a treatment for COVID included experiment participants who were dead before the studies began.
You can pick up heartbeat and breathing rate (if they are relatively still) with simple cw radar, i did it with a $10 HB100 module and audacity.

I bet if you really worked on tuning and filtering you might even be able to pick up the vibration of a persons throat to hear what they say.
Open Telemetry seems super complex compared to our current setup of Micrometer with Prometheus and Log4j2 with Json output.

I wonder if it's worth it to replace both metrics and logging just to take advantage of OT's tracing capability.
There's really very many types of "CTO" roles, some of which:

* The pure people and executive manager: This is a VP of Engineering by another name, usually in a company that hasn't split the role into two yet.

* The pure technical CTO: Often the most active contributor to the codebase. Has a strong VPE or Director of Eng for people management (or regrets not having them)

* The innovator: Works on special projects to find new strategic direction / prove out new technology. Often has a small team focused with them on that or engineers get to do rotations on that team

* The all-arounder: Usually in a smaller startup, the CTO does a bit of all these things until can fill in with other folks

If you want to aspire to be a CTO someday, heed the author's advice: "Apply technology to the business need." You can be the smartest and most technical person in the room, but if you don't know how to resourcefully apply tech to efficiently solve business problems then the executives are not going to look to you for that role. And as the author notes: "respond to changes in the environment." I've so often seen the smartest and most technical team members get stuck in a rigid way of doing things, but the folks who advance are the ones that adapt quickly to the present need.
Yeah, they get style points for "scaling to zero". I've seen plenty of vendors who "are scalable" - but with a floor of $70k/yr.

I like their product offering - I'd be interested in using them for hobby projects, but not for work atm.
Brew will tell you how when you install the package.
I think this is a valid point in the United States (to a certain extent, of course: I don't think "working too hard and not seeing your kids enough" is really comparable to "living paycheck to paycheck", although I understand that they're directionally the same). Does the author address other countries, though? The logic of meritocracy has been used to justify huge increases in inequality in countries where people work significantly less hard (e.g. France, India, Sweden).
I'm surprised this hasn't become some sort of table game in casinos, like 4-card poker.
I don't think anyone's arguing people should be taxed twice.

What they are arguing is that individuals should be taxed at the event of first utility (that is, realizing value from the gains). And then the tax is paid, so not paid again, or offset, later.

And what we're really talking about here is individuals using equity loans for the majority of their income.
Sample size of one. I imagine not all wealthy people are interested in passing it to their children (if any).
>"&c" is the archaic form of "etc", the ampersand being a ligature of "et" - Latin for "and".

"etc" is an abbreviation for and contraction of "et cetera", Latin for "and so on". "&c" is, I think, an artifact of a particular time in history when writing skills were spreading rapidly but the process of writing itself was cumbersome and time consuming, necessitating macro-type abbreviations like that. It's not particularly archaic.
which other groups?
Or people getting killed in traffic accidents. Yet we accept it as normal.
Maybe this will help: https://www.selenium.dev/
“Best” is the worst. Like it’s the best you’ve got. And there is no interest or room for negotiation, development or debate. “Thanks” likewise isn’t very good and sounds too impersonal and somewhat dismissive. I started using “thank you” for a more sincere, serious tone in business communication. I use it because “regards” irks me for some reason.
Sweden did the same. A lot of people suffered during the dot com bust because they were taxed on enormous unrealised profits that had completely disappeared by the time they had to pay them (because the stock had tanked)
Shameless plug: we had a really hard time finding an accessible data grid that matches the specs, so we built one recently (in React) for our design system. It’s very minimal but completely composable. For example we don’t have virtualized rows or frozen columns but that’s something that can be added on later; we focused on a foundationally accessible data grid to start:
https://paste.twilio.design/components/data-grid

I hope that other data grid libraries can mimic some of this to improve web accessibility. These components can be really tedious to interact with today
No, it would never hit him in a meaningful way. He has no intention of ever realizing most of his capital gains.
I need to read more into that. If true, the cost basis should only be stepped up such that it accounts for the estate tax.

I'd prefer some simpler overall approach though. Removing step up in cost basis alone obviates the need for an estate tax, as eventually assets would be sold and tax revenue generated.

But important to do some research into how often inherited assets are kept permanently and gains never realized (thus tax never paid).

Just on gut instinct, I would guess most who inherit wealth eventually sell off any assets. I recall it tends to be that most accumulated wealth is lost by the third generation.
https://archive.md/lKqA5

http://web.archive.org/web/20211028004018/https://www.techno...
Go Generics Implementation – GC Shape Stenciling
I liked it enough to make this a couple of years ago, when there was an growing risk of WWV being shut down: https://wwv.mcodes.org. Alas it won’t give you your weak reception vibe, though there have been requests for that!
There are actually infinite ways to represent multiline strings since you can explicitly specify the required indentation.

some_key: >4
This text has to be indented by 4 spaces.
There are indeed. And those countries wound up repealing them because of the disastrous effects.
I was skeptical at first, but it could be explained by the implicit wording of the sign-off.

The highest rated sign-off "thanks in advance" implies that you're thanking them for their future action, which is most likely a response to a question in your email.

Whereas the lower rated sign-off's "kind regards" and "best regards" don't imply that you're expecting a response at all.
Xorg was not designed. It organically evolved.
>They are not free to do that.

Wouldn't they subpoena Amazon directly, who by virtue of this partnership is likely to oblige? The owner of the camera would have no agency in that transaction.
I don't know, "Brown Sugar" kind of seems incoherent. The tone absolutely doesn't fit with the content of the lyrics (which don't inspire thought, by the way). It's just not a great song.

If, in 50 years, you see me claiming some incoherent rap song with tasteless lyrics is one of the greatest rap songs of all time, you have my permission to call me a hypocrite.
I buy stock at price A and sell, it later, at price B. Assuming B > A, (if it isn't this is a whole different thing) then I am taxed on the gain the stock made, I pay tax on the value of (B-A). On the other hand, I do have all of the (B-A) cash, which is nice. (Or as my tax professor once said, it's always better to have more money rather than less, and to die later rather than sooner.)

Now let's say I still buy the stock at price A, but instead of selling I hold until my death and my heirs inherit. They pay the estate tax, yes (presuming that my total wealth is massive enough to reach that level), but they pay it as a % of value B- at this point no one owes the government any of that (B-A) tax.

Is that "double taxation"? Well, it kinda depends on your perspective, and this is a situation where perspective seems to be determined by bank balance. If you are wealthy, of course you feel that it is double taxation- it's two separate bites of taxes on the same underlying asset! If you aren't, then what you notice is that somehow this death has created a situation where the government never got it's cut of that (B-A) difference, so this is avoiding taxes.
Canadians now roll with the term Indigenous instead of Aboriginal
I am not an accountant, but I believe this to indeed be the case. If you previously took losses, you can carry them forward but not get an actual refund. It might not be practical to do because what tax bracket do you use? It's simpler as an offset, so I guess they just have to pick a rule and so they picked one that is advantageous to them.

The only other option that comes to mind is that if you take a significant loss, you get to retroactively get refunded from a previous year. This actually doesn't seem that intractable, it shouldn't be all that complicated to implement.
3D Printing for More Circuits
The article goes into detail about that.
Coming from a x220, x230 thinkpad, removing anything at all or needing to use a screwdriver at all is way above what most are capable of doing. Obviously what I am willing to do to fix my spouses iphone, and what the average person is willing to do to self - replace are very different.
Slashdot was bought out by Dice.com, then it became more corporate. Signal to noise ratio was bad for advertisements and comments. Seems like chatbots got into the comment section trolling users to try a product.
> I don't know if it's strictly endemic to web or frontend, but I feel like we're solving the same problems over and over again, using the same low levels of abstraction.

We've been solving the same problems over and over again ever since someone had the bright idea of putting a display on a computer.
KoL got me through some of the most interminably boring stretches of time at an early job where there was, literally, nothing to do. I was hired to help fill out a team for a project that was delayed for a year, and in the meantime fielded a rare request on the current system. And did maintenance on it-- once a week-- for half a day.

I would count down to the next KoL action point I'd get. IIRC, I was a saucerer.
Well I would suggesting looking a bit more into the company.

Because it's never been the case that Steve Jobs was in charge and everyone just fell in line. It's always been consultative and has always been the leadership team making the decisions. It's in fact how most companies run.

Especially given Steve was not 100% during most of his time at Apple.
The World‘s Best Taco Bell Is Right on the Beach in Pacifica
Edit: others agree - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-best-taco-bell-pacifica-california-2017-6%3famp
What’s the p-value on this bad boy? Also I wonder if they controlled for confounding factors. Ones I can think of are: “Thanks” more likely on emails containing requests, which inherently requires response if from colleague; personality could dictate which valediction you choose, which could also be reflected on how you wrote your email; whether “Best” and “Thanks” are used can be very cultural - eg everyone at Microsoft uses “Thanks” ONLY, and it would be very weird to see a “Best” and extremely rare to see a “Cheers”, those same communities may happen to have a larger response rate since some companies have better email culture, thus given their non-random sampling since they just used the responses from a small handful of online communities, that could bias results.
That happened to a friend of mine in the US. He had a "taxable event" when his stock options vested. By the time the tax bill was due, his stock was worthless, and he went bankrupt.

He lost his home and last I saw was living in an RV.
Do you have evidence of that? Local TV news has the biggest audience, IIRC.
If the United States accepts a federal wealth tax, moving to a low tax state like South Dakota or Alaska won't help. And despite what you imply in your last statement, owning a successful business isn't just limited to how much money it makes. Few people just give up the sum of their life's work or accept others' taking away from it. Just because others believe that the Warren Buffets of the world have achieved "enough" does not make it so.
> If I understand you correctly, this is then a really awful scenario for founders.

It makes having all your eggs in one basket (very slightly) worse than the generally bad idea it already is (if its a billion dollar basket so that you qualify for this treatment in the first place.)

But if all your eggs are in that basket, either the company bounces back later or you are wiped out anyway, so its not that much of a change from the status quo in that respect.

Not that I like the proposal, mind you
Argo Scholar: Interactive Visual Exploration of Literature in Browsers
I'm not sure driving is a great analogy to taking/not taking a vaccine or refusing to follow COVID restrictions, but if we do, we also need to consider this:

When driving, you can exercise caution and attempt to minimize the risk of an accident. I'm not from the US, but where I'm from you're also legally obligated to do so - if I drive and hit somebody, and it turns out I did so because I was going too fast or not paying proper attention to my surroundings, I will be held responsible for their injuries and damages.

Further, there are laws stipulating what safety requirements newly sold cars have to meet: again, this may vary by country/state etc, but fairly common requirements are having an air bag and seat belts (which you are legally obligated to wear where I'm from, and you will be fined if you do not).

I would say that the rules governing driving can be considered analogous to those governing social distancing, masking etc. And the safety guidelines for car manufacturers can correspond to vaccine mandates.

Of course you are free to refuse to follow driving rules, but the only legal way to do so is to refuse to drive a car entirely. Just as you can be responsible and stay at home and avoid contact with anybody as much as possible if you refuse to be vaccinated.
Me replying to my boss in chat when I first started working: “Yes I agree, thank you for the feedback”.

Me replying to my boss literally today: “lmao true”
I was hoping that Apple Arcade killed all play to win games or at least took a bite out of their revenue.

But again, you’re not standing up for the poor starving Indy developer. You’re standing up for companies that are doing far more sinister things going after “whales” than anything Facebook has ever done.
> routines externalize executive functions

That's a very concise and descriptive way to describe routines, thanks.
Neural-PIL: Neural Pre-Integrated Lighting for Reflectance Decomposition
It is archaic.
The goal of the legislation is to shift the tax burden towards high net worth individuals, and away from wage-earners.

Raising cap gains rates and/or increasing top marginal income tax rates are not very effective ways to achieve this goal.
I went to check this out, seems they're only focusing on React and beyond that, a maintainer mentions they're looking for funding. Doesn't sound too promising...

https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-ui-fabric-core/issues/12...
Because of civilization. While the word "artificial" is certainly overloaded, this is basically what we've designated the word to mean. That's not to say a human couldn't be a "natural" predator, if you assumed an isolated tribe, but that's certainly not what's happening here. If we call this natural, there is no longer any meaning you can ascribe to artificial.
Technically only half [0].

And my point is I would expect something more thought through than trotting out each legislator's favorite pet taxation overhaul. A few days to consider amongst the options doesn't really seem like enough time, but I guess we're still talking about "a framework" so there will be more time. They're not attempting to pass any of this right now.

[0] - https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-sourc...
Platforms based on automated curation thriving while platforms based on manual curation wither. If Facebook gave people the opportunity to turn off the algorithmic feed, and they took it... they'd just spend all their time on TikTok instead.
Dex-NeRF: Using a Neural Radiance Field to Grasp Transparent Objects
> Have you read the Mueller report? It explicitly says that they did not find evidence that Trump or his associates colluded (conspired) with Russia.

That's not what the report says. I encourage anyone interested to read it or a summary from a credible source.

The rest of the parent rehashes tired old Trump propaganda. Let's move on.
Some past threads:

My Love Affair with Dozens (1972) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26859695 - April 2021 (46 comments)

The Dozenal Society of America: Promoting Base Twelve Mathematics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20797052 - Aug 2019 (2 comments)

The Dozenal Society of America - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727864 - April 2018 (23 comments)

The Dozenal Society of America - Promoting base twelve mathematics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5307503 - March 2013 (1 comment)

An Argument for Dozenalism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1488190 - July 2010 (9 comments)
On first contact:

Regards,
Full Name

everything thereafter:

- Name

Seeing comments about "seeming insincere" seems crazy to me. You're keeping up appearances no matter what your signature is, the impression you leave is going to come from the actual content of what you're saying anyway. I'd rather show I don't care about the formalities to encourage whoever I'm emailing to do the same.
I understand the argument that medical associations intentionally limit supply to prop up their own salaries. I don't think there's sufficient evidence to demonstrate that's a critical factor. Any form of licensing "friction" introduced could be countered by a compensation increase - unless there's evidence that they're imposing a specific cap on licensing numbers then it seems implausible.
Recent and related:

New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28979532 - Oct 2021 (88 comments)
"don't talk to the police" is the situation for when you are a suspect or potential suspect for a crime. Do not talk to them, do not allow them to enter your property etc.

It doesn't (necessarily) apply when you want the police to catch a criminal who committed a crime against you.
I think the comparison is unfair to cigarettes, which at least provide some fleeting pleasure and look cool while you're smoking them.
But what does that have to do with that person having a majority interest in the company?