skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*Present day value. Not including fringe benefits like insurance, 401k match, etc. And if we have a period of high inflation, you have to make sure your assets actually stay on top of that; otherwise your 1.5M can quickly shrink in real value. And also you have to include the implied value of Social Security for the average worker, as well as any asset appreciation they experience from owning a house (Social Security is roughly ~500K present value, since avg. payment is ~1.5K/month, paid off house(s) could be worth up to another $1M in appreciation over a lifetime). So that's closer to $3M (minus taxes) to equal the average American (and whatever inheritance they might or might not have).

Yes, most likely you are set if you have 1.5M - but it's not a guarantee.
> This means that Google was careful to not make a large amount of copy-righted works publically accessible. Such is not the case for GitHub Copilot in particular Armin Ronacher’s tweet [19]

The fast inverse square root algorithm referenced here didn't originate from Quake and is in hundreds of repositories - many with permissive licenses like WTFPL and many including the same comments. It's not really a large amount of material, either.

GitHub claims they haven't found any "recitations" that appeared fewer than 10 times in the training data. That doesn't mean it's a completely solved issue though, since some code may be in many repositories yet always under non-permissive licenses.

> and I would argue that it will not be the case for ML models in general because all ML models like Copilot will keep suggesting output as long as you ask for it. There is no limit to how much output someone can request. In other words, it is trivial to make such models output a substantial portion of the source code they were trained on.

With the exceptions mentioned above, what you get back from asking for more code won't just be more and more of a particular work. Realistically I think you'd be able to get significantly more from Google Books.
And yet a developer still can’t assume that the customer will have such analog input tools available.
https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/1379534990174777345 and see also https://finnoworld.com/debunking-nft-myths/
The Iridium Museum
Link to article is here:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.26.174482
Surprisingly, tax schemes invented at the last minute to thread the needle with a couple of moderate senators and a Byzantine reconciliation process are not typically well thought-out!
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
As far as I'm aware, there are 3 main categories of explanations.

1) Systemic racism. I'd like to see an example of systemic racism that's holding anybody behind in current year so we can work on it. But to me, the fact that at least some non-trivial percentage of white students reportedly lied about their race for an advantage in life (among Senators who have done the same) is very telling about what systemic advantages actually exist.

2) Cultural deterioration. I think certain aspects of musical and sports culture may play a role, but I don't know if I want to come across as a cranky old man here.

3) Biological differences & IQ. If a scientist as renowned as James Watson isn't allowed to broach this discussion without being immediately unpersoned, who am I to think double-plus ungood thoughts?

I'm not sure what's the best explanation within the acceptable boundaries of public discourse.
>GitHub Copilot is optimising the part of the process that was already the easiest, and makes the other parts harder because it moves you from the “I wrote this” path to the “somebody else wrote this” path.

It is worth mentioning, I suppose, that from Copilot's point of view it is the inverse. Maybe a necessary or at least desirable step towards the inevitable 'Copilot debugger'.
If you can remember any of the Hungarian links you observed this behaviour on, and if you can cite any of the specific words from the machine translation you are talking about, I would be appreciative – not that I know any Hungarian or Croatian, but still this topic has piqued my interest
LLC are discarded entities for tax purposes so no change there. The reason it’s not an issue for hedge funds is ownership is split among many non billionaire owners. As opposed to llcs, setting up a shell corporation for stock holdings would lead to accumulated earnings tax. I think you will see some asset hiding as always but the obvious solution is the Peter Thiel billion dollar Roth IRA trick. Assuming roths are excluded I mean.
Try the following:

1. Have at least 3 ideally 5 text-heavy pages on your site. 500 words minimum each. Tell your backstory, explain the advantages of your product, create an FAQ, ...

2. Make sure the site has a navigation bar somewhere with links to the basics that most sites have: an About page, maybe a short privacy policy, a contact page.

3. The site can't look broken or have "coming soon" anywhere. It helps if the site has been given a "fresh coat of paint" from a designer.

I don't know for sure, but the feeling I get is some human at Google has a scorecard and they go and check your site. Google won't reveal the actual scorecard because it'd become too easy to game, but the things above are what I've learned through the process.
That is agenda pushed by media. Probably payed by big pharma. They can afford it. It is btw basic pattern for accepting totalitarian system. Create enemy and then offer solution. With price.
Isn't this basically the 80/20 principle that's present pretty much everywhere in life?
The is actually already a specific word for code changes to behaviour that contrasts well with the structural change of refactoring: Transformations.

The word fits well in to TDD's red-green-refactor with the "Transformation Priority Premise". The premise goes as follows: as the tests get more specific, the code becomes more generic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_Priority_Premis...
Looks like they have been implementing several long time open issues on OP's project. This is one of the reasons OSS is great.
The United States and SV culture especially have invested a ton into the idea that all you have to do is work really really hard and you will be rich and get all the rewards.

And that's just not true. As you're finding out.

Hacker News and Tech Crunch and all the rest of these sites are full of people who made it and companies that succeeded. How many people are going to come back here crowing like "bro I totally bro-ed down and microdosed and lived in the office for years and we went bankrupt hahaha I had to move back to Iowa!"

Very few. I mean the REAL dogs like Juicero that are comically bad sometimes get that treatment. Or Theranos.

But most just quietly let everyone go and liquidate the Herman Miller chairs and ping pong tables and either keep bouncing around San Francisco or finally have to pack up and go home.

You don't want motivational quotes so here's one: "you can do everything right and still lose. That's called life."-Captain Jean-Luc Picard -Michael Scott

The upside is you've been given a gift. You found out its all bullshit before you're 65 and on your third heart attack and realize you've been working your ass off to make other people wealthy and you haven't got that much to show for it in the end.

So go. You're free now. Go build a life. Go travel. Have kids. Build a family. Become a weird guy that lives alone and has a model train collection. Move to a farm. Go to cooking school.

You can do anything.
> Don't blame the developers some of this do push back. Unfortunately, "the creatives" too often have more juice.

It's so bizarre how developers are simultaneously considered 1. powerful in the job market, highly in-demand, with companies competing for talent, and 2. totally powerless to push back against dark patterns, privacy invasions, and poor product or design choices.

I mean has anyone even tried saying "You know what, I'm not going to implement that. I'm a professional, too, and in my judgment it's [ridiculous | unethical | poorly thought out | whatever]. We need to negotiate it down to something better."

Not going after you in particular, but I see this "developer power" dichotomy all the time on HN and it's kind of hard to understand.
Sure, it's a reason for the performance. But it's still not a reason for the performance to price comparison that I was making.

Surely a CPU that is on an older, more tested node (albeit an Intel node, take that as you will) should have amortized the costs of producing silicon products on that node.

The cost of an Apple CPU is cheaper than a worse-performing older CPU. The economics here are surely poor? You can't tell me that Apple of all companies are taking a hit on their new CPUs? I mean, they could be for all I know, but that would be very un-Apple like.
Indeed, whatever conditions there are on this tax, will become the new standard conditions all sufficiently wealthy people will have their accountants arrange their finances to satisfy in order to be excluded.
So holding patents is evidence of a licensing fee?
what $100 sound card has eight analog (TRS?) inputs?
Ask HN: Reliable/trustworthy 3rd-party Seafile hosts?
Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable, trustworthy company that offers Seafile hosting? I see lots of results on DDG, but I'd appreciate some first-hand experience reports. Even better if you've used it for business purposes, and not just for personal files.

For example, I found one company that has a really slick-looking site and claims to use "military-grade" security, but doesn't even support HTTPS on their website! That does not inspire confidence.
I fail to see how.

Entrepeneurs aren't going to not build a company because of some specific tax treatment that only applies whilst they are wildly successful.
Like I said, like riding a bike. If you actually know it then you won't forget it. Sure, you're going to need to practice to get your speed up - but so does everybody.
I recommend this instead of complicated standard yaml:

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
> those who are healthy and under 50 can more or less treat COVID like any other common illness.

That's best proof that we need more serious studies on its long term effect, instead of just judging by acute symptoms.

Does human know if COVID-19 make you older and mentally/intelligently affected?
Decades of economic research has consistently confirmed that large corporations have substantially higher productivity and efficiency.
It would likely increase pressure for stocks to pay dividends at a rate that covers taxes on the gains. Which would probably be a good thing.
"Pretend spec" misses the forest for the trees: amongst the vast, complex ecosystem of audio-visual ports, 1/8" audio stands out: we actually managed to converge on a connector format that is universal, omni-present, excellent quality, DRM-free, and which boasts an intuitive "no-code" UI affordance that Just Works.

I love my AirPods. But the instant I have to start digging through screens to do a pairing dance with some third-party speakers, car stereo, etc, I pine for the simpler times when you could just plug in the AUX, and I mourn for what has been lost.
Looking forward to the next generation of programmers who can only program if they have Copilot, and will complain in interviews when they are asked to code without Copilot.
okay, yes, that was the question. Right, we know they also can't be critical as almost any questioning would be seen as criticism and violate that part of the constitution. But to do a complete 180 is different than merely being annoyed that the society doesn't support the slightest criticism.
If I wanted to make my own clock, what's the best low power method of reading the time data? Are there some sort of ultra low power chips that can run on just w little solar panel?
They had named it density before renaming it parrot
My understanding is that the attenuation at distance is a function of geometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
see also, the original in WWVB receiving wristwatches:

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

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=casio+w...

the older models of waveceptor, if you've had one in a box or stored for a long time, need to be left by a window overnight until they successfully synchronize.
few have at the relevant magnitude
I doubt SpaceX or Tesla would exist if they were controlled by a committee. Doing great things usually requires control by a single person who is able to say "screw it, we're going for X".
Good lord, are you me?
You accidentally conflated "conference" and "paper" which is true in computer science and also relevant to other fields. The crux of the problem is that almost no one reads papers. People get exposed to ideas at conferences, and conference organizers invite the people that wrote the seminal papers many years ago to be the keynote speakers. Even if a paper is cited, it is usually because they saw the author speaking at a conference.
What we're actually missing is any party that hasn't been completely pwnt by corporations. If you take a look at this proposed law, it explicitly excepts hedge funds and the like. Yet again the authoritarian ratchet will click for individuals while corporations escape regulation, leaving them even more powerful. The hypocrisy is blinding when you really dig into the mechanics of tax law - individuals have to pay taxes on their expenses of shelter, transportation, food, whereas if the same situation were interpreted as a business those would all be deductible as expenses necessary to earn income.

What if instead we flipped the paradigm such that if you want a government granted charter to create a liability limiting entity, that is what gets heavily taxed while individuals would get left alone for the most part. Require bookkeeping only from the entities that live on it, rather than forcing the yoke onto human beings. Applying this to income-distributing trusts as well would go a long way towards fixing dynastic wealth, without even touching the estate tax.

And tangentially the right thing to do about the massive paper gains of the stonk market over the past nineteen months months is to call in all those loans made by the Fed by raising interest rates back to a reasonable level. But that would stop the fake riches gravy train and hamper trickle-up wealth redistribution, so corporatist policy will continue to carry the day while individuals get squeezed by the resulting increased financialization.
Can “sponge cities” save our cities from the threat of rising oceans?
I listen to music in the same way as comedy. It's often not clear whether it's criticizing an idea, reinforcing it, mocking it, glorifying it, or something else, or a combination.

Good lyrics or jokes make you think. They don't tell you what to think.

Surely, a lot of rap music would fall afoul of a moral filter pretty quickly if taken sincerely. Not sure why we'd apply a different standard to rock music written back when rock was more radical.
I guess the question is what does that have to do with it? Why not just work asynchronusly with requests that hit the server with a library like lparallel with their futures? Isn't it about the response to the request?
Almost as many, then, as want to watch bridge.

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What distro are you running?
I'm curious how new tax schemes like the proposal Sweeney is criticizing get vetted. It's probably impossible to determine actual economic effects of radical tax reform in advance. Further, from a rational perspective there's no incentive for the best minds to advocate loophole closure in tax schemes as there's more value in exploiting them.

I wonder if this is the kind of thing CNNs might be good at simulating some day.
Or just buy a shortwave radio! They are still made, and a high quality shortwave antenna for receiving purposes is simply a length of wire, as long as possible, and as high as possible.

The shortwave band (also known as “HF” radio) is a fascinating introduction to the subject, and while it is no longer full of long-range commercial radio stations, the propagation characteristics of the band mean it is still useful for things like WWV and amateur radio communication.

If you live on the west coast, you can enjoy the pleasure of receiving both WWV (broadcast from Colorado) and WWVH (broadcast from Hawaii) at the same time, on the same frequency. Their voice announcements are intentionally offset so that they never overlap.
>This decade is the time frame where almost everybody settles

I think this gets to the heart of it. Nobody wants to "settle", meaning there is a mismatch between expectations between two parties.

To extend your original phrasing (which I disagree with), a desirable man would not be single in his 30s or 40s. But by the same logic, neither would a desirable female. The latter point being underscored by the stereotypical premium put on youth and biological pressure due to age.

So that analogy (which I disagree with) leaves you with a less desirable single female expecting to land a highly desirable male. Of course, this will lead to frustration and they will be, as you say (which I disagree with), forced to settle. I would argue they will be forced to make sure their expectations match reality. If your hypothesis holds, they wouldn't be single if they were truly highly desirable. I don't agree with that but I don't see why that same logic doesn't apply to both sexes, outside of market inefficiencies (which technology has heavily eroded).

Is there a particular reason why your original comment focused only on men? If anything, the reduced pressure to settle down due to a lower threshold of biological constraints seems to provide a basis for it to be less applicable to men, not more.
Still not that uncommon in few parts of the world.
Bad idea to tax unrealized capital gains. Proposal; How about we gut our entire tax code and replace it with a single tax that taxes when money moves from one entity to another. Let's call it a Transaction Tax. It would replace Sales Tax, Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, etc and introduce tax on debt creation (when the bank gives you the money). This would close all loop holes and put the entire tax industry out of business. Given it would be taking a slice of every transaction, the rate could probably be super low. 1-2% would be my guess. What can you see wrong with this proposal?
Manchin is making me so sad & the ongoing urbanization of the world blowing the power balance ever more out of whack, ever more in favor of the smaller-places, is a miserable political death spiral.
Large study finds a cheap antidepressant lowers risk of Covid hospitalization
I think the primary issue is not precisely 'wealth inequality' but rather a lack of accountability and responsibility from people with large amounts of wealth. If one has assets whose value is representative of the life's work of several thousand people, it's one thing to have someone who is demonstrably capable and responsible manage it, and another thing entirely to have someone /own/ it. If I had to guess (and I clearly am) a larger proportion of people are upset with the latter than the former.

Nothing is stopping someone from employing their wealth to build a yacht, fifteen McMansions, and a thirty-foot solid-gold Mothman statue just after getting off of a six-month prison stint for a billion dollars of ecological damage (all purely hypothetical but I would assert entirely plausible); that people exist with the right to exchange a colossal amount of wealth to be allowed to waste an equally colossal amount of actual effort and resources is the problem.

I won't say nobody has an issue with individual people being allowed to direct huge amounts of funding, but I would assert that more people recognize that extravagant waste for the purpose of status should not be scaled to the extant degree of wealth disparity.
> That looks like you are taking the world individual income distribution and the US household poverty line for single member households. That's...not really sensible.

It's quite accurate. But let's dot our i's and cross our t's as the procedural criticism is a fair one. U.S. poverty for a single household with 1 member is $12,880. Plug that into our handy WAPO calculator here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/global...

And you are better off than 80% of the world (if the calculator is to be believed). Try it yourself!
First off, blacks are only 14.2%[0] of the population. If they represented 18% of this group, they would be nearly a third overrepresented.

Second, this is an incredibly arbitrary group. $1.2 to $20 million? Why the fuck would you choose $1.2? It seem glaringly obvious that the author chose an overly-specific range so that their numbers would conveniently match their agenda.

Finally, valid statistical analysis is not "casual dismissal".
There's such a thing as falling into the pit of success.

A successful REST implementation using hand-rolled JSON protocols is in the middle of a vast field with hidden man traps full of sharpened bamboo spikes.
As someone else eloquently put it, "With people management, the ceiling is low, but the floor is lava."
Nice short description of the US legislative branch governance model!
Read more older books. There's nothing, at the root, that we're dealing with that hasn't been wrestled with over two thousand years ago. Those guys wrote it down.

There are things we know as cliches, all those motivational quotes you don't want to hear anymore. But all those cliches are deeply related to hard fought wisdom. Learn to make that translation.
Delta rolling out facial recognition technology in terminals at Atlanta airport
The folks driving up property prices are the speculators/flippers/airbnb buyers. Nothing wrong with moving into a space if you're going to live there full time.
Some types of fraud do particularly target minority women, because they're less likely to be believed when they report the problem, which improves the odds of success, particularly if there's a "clawback" period and the crooks want the timer to expire before the complaint is believed.

Not so much executives though. Usually elderly widows.
For many uses, renewable energy needs to be stored and/or transmitted. If you use wind energy to heat your house, you need a way to transmit that energy from where it is windy to your house, and you need a back up plan for when it isn't windy. Many times that back up plan is energy that produces CO2.

Carbon capture could be done where the renewable energy is, and it doesn't need to be done on a set schedule. If you are using wind to power carbon capture and it isn't windy, you say OK I'm not capturing any carbon today and you wait until the wind picks up. You can do it anytime and anywhere land and energy is cheap.

Another thing is the cost of converting existing infrastructure. You're not going to scrap every internal combustion engine overnight, and you're not going to remake the food chain overnight, you're not going to stop people from clearing forests overnight, and you're not going to stop producing cement overnight. Or in the next quarter of a century.
This comment is insulting and has no basis in fact.

There is no evidence that rich people work harder than poor people. In fact the opposite is far more likely to be true given the unique stresses of manual labour.

And there is no evidence that the driver of success is providing for their offspring. There are a whole range of factors at play.
You say they wouldn’t be behemoths like that’s a bad thing. There’s weekly threads on HN about Amazon, Google and FB abusing their position on the market.
Except there’s a 40% estate tax still levied at each generation. Plus unlike European aristocracy, American plutocrats rarely intermarry. Even if you’re only reproducing at replacement, your wealth gets diluted by 50% each generation. Stack the two and you’re getting slashed by 80% every generation.

Don’t take my word for it. How many fourth generational heirs do we see among America’s wealthiest billionaires? Essentially zero.