skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As we all know, tax preparation is intentionally complicated and hard thanks to lobbying by the tax preparation industry;

That ignores the lobbying by other industries for their favorite loopholes: mortgage interest, like kind exchanges, carried interest, R&D credits, and so on. Much of the complexity in the tax code is actually to close the loopholes that taxpayers are always finding, which has nothing to do with the tax prep industry.

> Deductions. Honestly pretty much everything should be gotten rid of for personal income other than maybe retirement saving.

This ignores the sizable impact of tax credits -- are you proposing those all eliminated also? Currently there is only a deferral of tax on qualified retirement savings, except for Roth IRA earnings (not contributions). There should also be tax free/deferred savings allowed for health care, so that it is not tied only to employment.

>We need to annually tax unrealized capital gains;

Even on someone's primary residence or other personal-use property? How do you determine fair market value? And it would only make sense if paired with annual deduction of unrealized capital losses.

>Tax trusts as we do estates;

This makes little sense. For income tax, trusts and estates are already taxed essentially the same. If you are referring to the estate/gift tax, the assets in a trust after death already go through the estate tax regime, why would you do it twice?
The first five yes. The first Touhou to be released on Windows was Touhou 6.
You're only likely to screw things up once you start digging deeper into the Nix language/stdlib. I was put off by the warning at first as well, but it's honestly awesome having functional dotfiles that work reasonably consistently across NixOS (personal)/Ubuntu (work)/MacOS (work).

> bad docs

Yeah, pretty damned awful.

> error messages

That too.

I honestly think that inventing a language was a huge mistake. Guix took a much more sensible approach, but a libre kernel is unusable for 99.9999% of people.
You: What is Arc?

Paul: Arc is a new dialect of Lisp that was created by the speaker.

You: What is Lisp?

Paul: Lisp is a programming language that is intellectually prestigious, but not considered to be particularly hip or fashionable.

You: Why should I program in Arc?

Paul: Arc is not a programming language, so it is not possible to answer this question.

You: ...

You: Why should I program in Arc instead of Lisp?

Paul: It is not possible to answer this question given the context information provided. Arc is a programming language, while Lisp is a family of programming languages. Without prior knowledge of the differences between Arc and Lisp, it is not possible to answer the question.

You: ...
I was going to say Metafilter as well. It is very different (culturally) from news.ycombinator but in a good way.
I've been all over the US, and I recently visited SF for the first time on a work trip.

Never seen such a desolate place, and I say this as someone who has been homeless before and slept in homeless shelters. Homeless shelters in Boulder, CO were about x10 less sketchy than the streets I walked around in downtown SF.

I'm not sure where we were exactly, but there was homeless shooting up in the street at least once every few blocks, plus garbage everywhere and human waste.

What the absolute fuck is going on down there
True, unless you use a reduced one.
Cynical better title: Things I wish I knew before paying other people to build my startup for me.

If you don't have the skills or co-founder(s) to get a prototype off the ground with ramen money, that should be your #1 goal. Or, if you really hate that idea and want to pay other people to develop things for you, at a minimum look at paying developers in cheaper places to do it so you can at least vet your idea for a low price before going all-in on expenses.
> But you can't just drop Tibetan Buddhism just like that.

You can if you're doing a "no true Buddhist" argument.
That attorney makes clear they are not an IP lawyer. Here's an IP lawyer, who specifically works in gaming, who says the opposite:

https://medium.com/@MyLawyerFriend/lets-take-a-minute-to-tal...
In 30 years of being around SF, this is really only accurate of Tenderloin, Civic Center, SOMA, Market and Mission St, roughly 10% of SF. Almost every time someone complains about SF, they're describing their experience in SOMA or near BART.
The implication is that rent dropped. I think that's an entirely natural function of the circumstances.
during implementation, we may need more context or rules/requirements defined in RFC so in this case we could ask questions on those parts
or may be it could generate pseudo code
or may be it could link other dependent RFCs and get some more context
Considering that you can get chatGPT to accurately play zork (the Linux terminal emulation route is one way), and considering that folks have been experimenting with getting it to provide prompts for stablediffusion, I could see this being done with a different ML stack, possibly with an awful lot less palaver. They mention scene continuity for instance - chatGPT understands this pretty well, when I’ve got it to play stuff like the witness and then quizzed it on what’s going on - literally the example they gave, using a flashlight in a dark space.
Meaningless. That's not the real reason.

I wonder if Putin convinced Lukashenko this was a good idea somehow (Lukashenko is a complete dummy), while at the same time knowing full well this is another step for Bielorussia away from the west and towards Russia.
Not sure, but I've not had any problem with obnoxious people recording videos in public in the past 10 years.
Or silently implied “It’ll definitely be late. Not allowed to state the
obvious so let it fail”
I also used to have one years ago, like other solutions it mapped some gestures to some functionality, but at the end it just moved the mouse cursor and simulated mouse clicks or double/right clicks.

Really, macOS doesn't really support touch points. I'm astonished how many people don't get it on this thread.
I imagine you may already be familiar with his work, but "Buddha in the Pali Canon was actually more human than we give him credit for" is a huge theme of Stephen Batchelor's recent books such as Confession of a Buddhist Atheist and After Buddhism. His focus on lived experience, pragmatism, and the four great tasks (instead of four noble truths) has really resonated with me.
The Deq Tattooist: Preserving the ink of a disappearing culture
That's a non-sequitur. Monopoly is about being powerful enough to engage in anticompetitive practices and the rest of the market not being able to just ignore you, which WotC certainly is here.
Create visual feedback for running Shortcuts
That's the SV spirit I was looking for.
I think so. I'm less familiar with TikTok but livestreamers in Germany do tend to respect it and you'll find relatively few prank or "stranger filmed in subway/gym" style German content on the internet. People will also usually turn cameras off/down when going into businesses, facing windows, etc.

Culturally it definitely still works which is arguably the function of the law to begin with.
It'll fry electrical distribution.

Motors and electronics apart from ones in orbit will not be affected.

This will be enough.
It's leads to a very low signal-to-noise ratio.

Optimally, an article is formatted like a scientific paper: the title is a one sentence summary, followed by the abstract (a one paragraph summary), followed by the nitty gritty details.

Clickbait is pretty much the inverse, a lot of text with low information content.
Who are you to stop someone else on a public street?
I feel like most people look at stablecoins and say "this is such an easy business!" and in a way they're right, but they're also wrong.

Stablecoins derive stability through a system. This system uses collateralization to present a fixed price. In its most simplistic form the system has $1 for every $1 in it. Unfortunately, in such a system, there is no point in the virtualization, which is called hypothecation in finance.

Hypothecated assets exist to allow asymmetric risk. Think of it this way:

* Alice runs a bank and has dollars in it.

* Bob runs a stablecoin and wants it to be backed by dollars.

* Alice says "you can mint $1 of hnUSD for every dollar I have in my bank."

* Bob mints 1 hnUSD.

* Alice invests the dollar in their bank into US treasuries to earn a yield backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

* Bob is free to use his hnUSD for whatever he wants to do in his ecosystem and Alice will be able to redeem it when he brings it back to Alice's bank when she sells her US treasury.

The problem in all of these systems is actually hauntingly simple: Liquidity is king.

In the event that Bob needs dollars quickly, Alice may not be able to sell treasuries quickly. This is called a liquidity crisis.

Before we start pointing fingers at cryptocurrency, take a second and think about how banks work. All of banking is built on hypothecation and risk management. The businesses that stand the test of time in finance are the ones that manage risk most effectively. There is a time to be bullish, and a time to be bearish. Having the wisdom to know the difference is often won only with battle scars.

I am thankful for the public-private partnership that facilitates humanity's collective dream through finance. I am hopeful that we can learn the lessons of the past to not repeat history's mistakes.

The future of finance is on-chain governance/on-chain proof of reserves/on-chain liquidation.
In the law, perpetual and irrevocable are different. See here:

https://medium.com/@MyLawyerFriend/lets-take-a-minute-to-tal...
Whenever I hear stories like this that involve doctors and specialists dismissing patient concerns and evidence I always wonder if there is follow up with them later.

Not for punishment or anything but as a way to review and improve their practice. If not, then just think how many other people they have given poor treatment to who didn't have the personal determination and education to persevere.
This post got me wondering, and I hope somebody in here can inform me. Wasn't Zen one of the only schools that wasn't wiped out in Japan because they didn't place so much emphasis on the warrior priest? I seem to recall some shogun or another felt threatened and purged almost all of the Buddhist monasteries at the time.

Seems like the Zen school wouldn't be such a threat if they just sat inside all day working on their posture.
What frequences we're talking about?
I would specifically recommend "Game Wizards" by Jon Peterson. Gygax comes across as a pretty huge jerk, though Arneson isn't entirely sympathetic either.
I don’t disagree at all. I was mindful to say that I definitely don’t have a utopian solution. I just meant that if the world really needed to do something we had the capability to do, but not the money or be wiped out, I would like to think we did it instead of just saying bye to the planet because we don’t have enough overdraft :’)
I use something similar but call it cfg: https://gist.github.com/radupotop/c1d2b77c24ddfcfae93d840f51...

Each local user has its own branch so this works: cfg push -u origin $USER

It's limited to the $HOME config files only, /etc has a separate git repo.
Sublime merge is fantastic. Does everything I need. Fast and cross platform.
The Deglobalization We Need
Python is by far the world most popular language, and is used a lot for command-line scripts.
> I'm just not optimistic about the future at all.

Couldn't you have made this comment in any generation though? I could imagine someone making it while listening to a news story about Woodstock on the radio.
Not all videos in the "man on the street" format. The typical TikTok trend ones.
> everyone in the space knows that Tether is a scam

For those interested, Coffeezilla did a piece on Tether:

https://youtu.be/-whuXHSL1Pg

And yes, it’s a scam.

Hodlers seem to tolerate it because crashing Tether would impact their net value. It’s sad.
Emacs' auth-source.el can work directly with the macOS keychain, which if you're on a Mac is pretty useful.
I am sorry you had this experience. No approach, closed or open, will ever substitute better leaders that aren’t taking advantage of you. Your experience is likely and sadly very common.
Kids these days, amirite?

Every generation has had their asshole exhibitionists. Technology has just been pushing said assholes towards making TikTube content lately.

Boomers did the radio shock-jockey routine, X did deeply weird television and lately podcasts, Y did 1st gen/text+photo social media, and Z is doing 2nd gen/video+photo social media.

This isn't Gen Y/Z being somehow inferior, "we" (the readers of this community) did this.
For the purposes of this discussion, lets say “the same frequencies the radio operates on”
What is abusive in their state system?
Which PI? And for how much traffic?

If you want, please DM me and I can give you a license to try UXWizz on your Raspberry Pi.
The real danger in a Carrington event is that the grid isn't shut down in time and the transformers all have a large dc bias through them and sufficient power to cause saturation, followed by rapid heating and self-destruction.[2]

Covid taught me that rational plans don't work if leadership gets twitchy. Making the decision to turn off the grid is likely to induce that level of twitchiness.

So, we'd get an extra hour or two of the grid, before losing it completely, in an otherwise preventable disaster. Any unplanned shutdown (because of protective relays) is likely to trigger a black start event[1] in any case.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSnQM1Zu4w
What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid? / Practical Engineering

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLO9WxVO9s8
The Grid vs. The Next Big Solar Storm / Real Engineering
>That sucks for beginners, but once you get over the hump, git is like a chef's knife

When do you get over the hump? I've been using git for nearly a decade, I understand the internals of its data structures, I can talk about the difference between a rebase and a merge, and I still need to reference a cheat sheet for anything more complex than creating a branch, pulling from head, and committing.
> The idea that you have to buy that is nonsense.

Time === money.

If you're doing it, or someone else is doing it. You're paying.
The Feeling of Idea Scarcity
Dylan rocks! Thanks for giving me something I didn’t know I needed in my life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait seems a decent summary.

> Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading.

I don't know people who like being mislead or deceived (outside of, say, a magic show).
The truth includes both the other comments to this reply: modern science has given us more insight into our long standing problems (and some solutions too), but also technology that can be detrimental to our mental health.
Yes it's true that both a poison and its antidote can be drunk from a cup. But people might be aversive to the cup they drank the poison from, even if it now contains the antidote. And to think the cup is the only way to administer the antidote may exclude a lot of people who might other benefit from the service
Would you say the same about the Linux repositories?
Northamptonshire: Rusty Knife Falls from Peppa Pig Christmas Gift
Aave as a token might collapse but Aave is a protocol, and it will continue working as designed. When Ethereum collapsed to sub 900$ we could all see how robust these decentralized protocols are. The price of the token has nothing to do with how Aave works.
That's... not close to enough in your prompt. I suggest you go browse the v4-showcase channel and look at the prompts other people are using (users will sometimes share). Alternatively go to a site like prompthero.com and look up some examples. At a minimum, you need to use the --v 4 trigger to get it to use the new (better) model. You also generally need to tell it what style you want with some more description.

Fwiw, I've found stable diffusion outputs to be mostly crap in comparison to DALL-E and Midjourney. DALL-E seems to output results closest to what you ask for with low-specificity prompts, and Midjourney tends to give the most "stylistic" results like what you would see on a digital art site.
> "[The OGL 1.1] takes a strong stance against bigoted content, explicitly stating the company may terminate the agreement if third-party creators publish material that is “blatantly racist, sexist, homophobic, trans-phobic, bigoted or otherwise discriminatory.”

I'd just like to point out that such a license, if applied to software, would violate the zeroth essential freedom of free software, "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" And for good reason. That clause essentially gives WoTC the right to revoke your license at any time for essentially arbitrary reasons if they subjectively decide your content is one of those bad things.

Where is the line between a game depicting discrimination and the game material being discriminatory? When Morrowind depicted racist slavemaster Dunmer who shout "N'wah" at you, and allowed the player to align themselves with such factions, was that a depiction of racism, or was the game material itself discriminatory? I think you could make good faith arguments in either direction. Normally finding the line between the two is up to everyone to decide for themselves, but in this new license, WotC gets to decide the line is wherever they want, whenever they decide to snuff you out. Even if the other terms of the new license were agreeable, this term makes the license a trap for any business that would compete with WoTC.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en
The comment you linked is talking about how much they value finding community through TikTok, not how much they value ubiquitous surveillance. Transporting that comment to a different context to misconstrue it & then sneer at that person behind their back is terrible faith. Please don't do that on HN or anywhere.
Most non tech fields will not have the flexibility of WFH etc. Pay will most likely be less unless you are a big shot Doctor/Lawyer (requires decades of accreditations so thats ruled out) or Investment Banker/Private equity associate/managers (extremely high barrier to entry and requires elite schools/experience already which you don't have).

So the "other fields" that you dream of will most likely be paid much less on an average with much less work life balance. For example, if you work on cars, you will most likely have to commute to an office or even a factory with terrible working conditions for the most part. Reality of how it works.
I laughed out loud at this and I don't laugh much:

Discouraged by her encounter with the neurologist, Jill figured it would be a dead end to show up at a hospital and ask that her blood be drawn so she could ship it to Italy. So she convinced a nurse friend to smuggle needles and test tubes to her house. They filled them with her family’s blood. At the post office, when Jill declared that her packages contained blood, an employee had to retrieve a big binder that listed what can be shipped to various countries. Fortunately, Italy took blood in the mail.

This is a particularly good analogy:

To appreciate the scale of what happened to Jill, imagine enough letters to fill 13 complete sets of Encyclopaedia Britannica with a single-letter typo that changes the meaning of a crucial entry.

Re the Olympic athlete getting her test results:

‘You’re only allowed to have salad. You’re on track for a [pancreatitis] attack.’

And it goes on to say her blood lipid levels were way too high. Makes perfect sense to me. If your body isn't putting the fat where it normally goes, it's likely to be somewhere else if you are eating "normally" and haven't specifically changed your diet to accommodate your metabolic quirk.

Lastly, and not surprisingly, Jill is still scouring scientific journals. “Just in the past couple weeks I've stumbled onto a report linking the drug rapamycin to reversal of cardiac and skeletal muscle weakness in a mouse model of EDMD,” she says. “I have a 2-year-old nephew (though asymptomatic), who has genetically tested positive for this condition, and I would do absolutely anything to find a medication that could prevent cardiac and/or skeletal muscle damage in the case of EDMD.”

She should be looking at magnesium deficiency or misprocessing. It's linked to long QT syndrome, which is a heart rhythm issue, and critical to the body's ability to properly incorporate calcium.
Artsy absolutely borrowed its cultural elements from the USSR, товарищ Стаханов! :)
Yes, that's the correct link. For those not following closely, it used to be piet-gpu, but we changed the name since it's not based on the Piet API any more, and the new WGSL shaders are basically a rewrite.
> As Alan Watts used to say, Buddhism is essentially Hinduism “stripped for export”

Except a fundamental pronouncement of Buddhism is "anatta" or "anatman", which is aggravatingly translated as "no-self". There are many layers to this "no-self" but one of them is that it is direct stated opposition to the Hindu Atman, the highest Self, which can be experienced as a kind of unitive state. The Buddha was effectively saying "Hinduism practice, yes, and Atman is along the path, but don't stop there, beyond this Big Self is No-Self".
But they don't have a good point, so they're just wrong and also agreeing with a core pillar of white supremacist rhetoric.

What a hill to publicly die on.
David Sacks: the tech reset has only just begun
I remember the first time I used Spring and I had to debug a traceback that included not a single line of code I had written. It was hell. I almost gave up being a programmer.

Even today I work with half baked frameworks that have the same problem and I hate it.

The difference is that when something like, say, a web framework does this it is buying me something valuable in exchange for the frustrating occasions when the magic fucks up requiring deep dive debugging.

DI frameworks that do this buy you nothing of value except the paternalistic approval of people who dont have the imagination to think beyond unit tests.
Don't go into gaming, especially if you really want to. Your enthusiasm will be used against you. Long hours, mobbing, low pay, harassment, just naming few. And if you complain, the only answer you will get is "There are ten people on your place that will be happy to be in same situation as you, so don't be so ungrateful or we hire on of them on your place"
A slight tangent, but it's funny how everyday people are on the hook for legal consequences, even when legal professionals can't agree which laws apply, or even what they mean.
I also recommend other commenters' suggestions of lesswrong.com , bogleheads.org/forum , and metafilter.com

Another that hasn't been mentioned is datasecretslox.com , similar to lesswrong.com and themotte.org in it's rationalist / SlateStarCodex / AstralCodexTen / Scott Alexander background.
I am not sure. Sometimes I think that politicians who allow their cities to degrade into crime and filth do it because they understand that such changes drive away those who are most likely to vote against them.

As in, chosing to have an electorate strangle hold over a shitty city vs being competitive in a thriving one.

I have no evidence of this being a conscious choice other than not being able to find an alternative explanation.
Is copy/paste from laptop really worth paying 3x a normal Moto G? Couldn't that just be done by an Android app?
Is the problem addressed in some way? or people have concluded that there were no solutions?
I tend to watch a lot of MIT open courseware, most of the times not really paying that much attention. But this professor (Andrew Lo) is the best one by far. Makes the syllabus really engaging and easy to understand