skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that reasoning a "philosophical error" in itself though? If you make embodied experience be a prerequisite, then things which can't embody stuff can't meet that prerequisite. That doesn't seem a very interesting insight.

An AI literally cannot embody pain - it has no nervous system and no pain receptors. So AI is excluded from understanding it in that way by definition. It has no sensory perception of any kind so cannot have the kind of embodied experience. Heck it doesn't even have a body with which to embody anything. This is obviously unsatisfactory because it seems just a logical/rhetorical trick.

It's also no different from the concept of a person with no visual apparatus (mentioned in another comment thread) and whether they have thought about light and colour and so on. The fact that they are physically unable to have the same kind of experience of these things as someone else doesn't preclude them from having thoughts and experiences that are within the domain of their perception.

An LLM is even more limited than an AI generally because it is literally a model of language. I don't personally think that any LLM could conceivably have a theory of mind, but arguing that it cannot have a theory of mind simply because of things that are exogenous to language by definition seems arbitrary.
Yes it is science. No scientist will look an individual anecdote and make any sort of claim from it. That's high school science and statistics.

Your personal attack is again HN rules. And I'm not sure where you're coming from - I've been vaccinated.

This "vaccines can do no wrong" bandwagon is as damaging to science as the "vaccines are all bad" group.
How Mina Kimes, football nerd, is shaping the future of NFL coverage
They target specific niches now like finance, sports etc and certain geographical locations.

Yahoo Japan for example is a large part of their traffic.
But the maximum benefit of a wash sale is only $3000 in deductions, which he is entitled to, but does not really effect his financial situation in any way.
"This item is not compatible with the Framework Laptop"

Bit weird that they'd be selling it themselves. But I suppose if it helps pay the bills and gives the engineers something to do for a bit

I am quite thrilled with my Framework laptop. Though the speakers are a bit weak and the battery life is very "eh, not great". I've been eyeing off a replacement 12th gen motherboard upgrade as soon as I can figure out what I want to do with the "old" 11th gen one
Provide an actual quote in context.

What I remember is Fauci saying that to be fully effective, protective needs to be fitted and fit-tested and that due to limited supplies, PPE supplies with high levels of protection (i.e. N95 and above) should be reserved for medical staff in order to keep hospitals functioning. There were also numerous experimental studies testing how much reuse of N95 masks was viable.

As supplies became more available, he moderated this position and recommended protective equipment for anybody likely to be exposed.
I've thought a lot about free will and have determined that because what we choose is still what becomes real, even if all choices are pre-determined, a simple 1 out of 3 choice scenario allows for a fair degree of free will, albeit within a framework.

It's like a game - all choices will almost always lead to the end of a story in a game, some games this feels very straightforward, others like we can do anything - none allow actual free will at all.

Reality allows us a lot of free will - as allowed by the rules of course. Choice is significant. We are Watcher Chooser at least - even if it's illusion, it's an evolving illusion dependent on choices we make. Out of all the possible " illusions" we determine what becomes the "real" illusion that is reality. What I didn't do is less real than what I did do .

Free will doesn't actually exist inside of Skyrim and yet there are things within Skyrim only 1% of Players do - reality is much greater than Skyrim.

to;dr: We don't have free will - not really, it's not likely possible but what we have might as well be free will. It's got to be treated that way, we are not just along for a ride, as our ilusory choices create our illusion of reality.
Working at a pretty famous institution with a 6+ billion endowment...in June 2020 the president basically said "we're performing layoffs, stopping all retirement contributions, hiring freeze, and no raises for anyone."

Then gave some additional reasons as to why they couldn't dip into the endowment to save jobs/help those laid off.

So I guess it wasn't for tough times after all?
You are among the very few who broke free. But you cannot help those who don't want to be helped, they belong to the system.
You don't buy back the same stocks, you buy back similar stocks or ETFs.
They got it as part of rescuing SolarCity, which made little sense as a business move from Tesla, but was owned by Musk's cousins so he decided to gift them 2B$, let it go a bit, then abandoned the project.
I don’t see what the problem is. It’s not mandatory, you can literally just tip 0 for everything.
HN: How does every company have so many people?

Twitter / Google / Microsoft / Amazon layoffs occur

HN: The feudal lords have decided the serfs are no longer needed. Google shrinking is a travesty and proves they are a dying company! Time for revolution!
I welcome efforts to try and improve it. Frankly, between the Thunderbird search being bad and the inability to configure server-side Gmail filters in the client, I find myself using it less and less despite being a loyal user for I don't know how many years now.
Yeah, no kidding. First job I had, worked there 2007-2010, we had an office in India where a huge amount of our engineering staff was based (most of the time I was there, fully half of our entire headcount were in the India office, and the India office only had engineering people while the US had every department).

In 2016-2021, I worked at another company that had an office in the Philippines where most of our junior employees worked. In fact, at one point before covid, they started rapidly hiring Tier 1 NOC staff in the Philippines and announced they would no longer hire Tier 1 positions elsewhere and would phase out the US-based Tier 1 staff via attrition... and then a few months later (still before covid) all the remaining US-based Tier 1 staff got unceremoniously laid off out of nowhere.

Mass outsourcing has been happening since long before covid and remote work took off.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...

The cia and other agencies are deeply tangled with Amazon and Microsoft and Google.

You are unaware we are in capitalism. You have to understand what capitalism Is.

A successful virus in evolution is one that permanently inserts its dna into human dna. So it doesn’t even need to reproduce anymore. That’s why we have so much junk dna.

A successful corporation becomes the government. Microsoft is well past this stage. Microsoft IS the government.
> why should we respect maintainers who don't respect users?

Saying that using dotfiles instead of ~/.config means they "don't respect users" is a little dramatic, don't you think? Like it or not, unix has historically treated dotfiles as "hidden" and nobody expects you to get upset that they created a hidden file in your home directory without your consent. It's not really about respect, it's just convention you apparently don't like.

I currently have 60 dotfiles in my home directory and probably deliberately created less than 10 of those. The fact that anyone would be upset by this is news to me and most likely is news to a lot of the developers that created these things: cargo, dbus, docker, gem, gnome, gnupg, gphoto, java, kde, maven, mozilla, osquery, rpm, rustup, ssh, vagrant, vim, vscode, wget, yarn, zoom. Not that "this bad behavior is widespread" is a good excuse, but the point is that I don't think the world is at all in agreement that this is "bad behavior."
If the average person starts tipping less or nothing, the workers will all go to the businesses with higher base prices and wages. It won’t matter if the other store has lower printed prices because they won’t have anyone working the business.
I just wish it was copyleft like the real coreutils instead of being pushover-licensed. Now the corporations are all going to start making proprietary forks of this.
They do pay capital gains, even if a loan differs it. If the individual dies before repaying the loan, their estate pays a tax rate much higher than capital gains as it cashes out assets to settle its debts.

I'm not sure how, but the "margin debt is an infinite free money hack" somehow caught on and won't go away. It's not a free money hack, it's debt that must be repaid with income. Which is always taxable.
The less people do it, the more effective it is.
In case anyone else was wondering, to make it a Dragon’s Lair arcade for ants, it would need to be 1/2000 scale.

https://www.quora.com/If-humans-where-the-size-of-an-ant-how...
The government reached nearly half of USA GDP recently.

Assertion: False

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...
I’m missing the key part of this, how would things get paid for?
I love trunk based development, but hardly ever get to do it because other developers don’t like it.
It sounds like they're rebuilding the whole thing practically, so the UI isn't all they're changing.
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Ask HN: Anyone else's Aliexpress email-unsubscribe page lacking button labels?
It confirmed my unsubscribe after using the link in their email, but then "Manage Subscriptions" takes me to a page of toggle switches with no labels.

Chrome's Inspector confirms the labels aren't in the page source.

This means you can't tell what you might be unsubscribed / unsubscribing from or subscribing to. Is this happening to anyone else?
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Well, if you are going to be as insulting as "the trust the science morons", could you be a bit more specific about exactly who you are insulting.

Your description fit my own actions pretty accurately.

Or, maybe, you could just be less insulting as opposed to going for the highly nuanced position of being less indiscriminately insulting.
Isn't Thunderbird still using XUL stuff that has been retired from Firefox? It doesn't seem that wise to keep working on that to be honest.
You are right that it defers, but does not eliminate, taxes; however:

1. You can use losses to offset $3k of ordinary income per year.

2. Tax deferral is still advantageous. For example, you can defer until retirement when your tax bracket is lower, and also allow that amount to compound in the meantime.

3. If you die, your heirs get a step up in basis, so the tax is in fact ultimately avoided.
hey bingchat, can you get me the firefox download link?

you know, i wasn't going to tell you, but firefox actually kind of fucking sucks, why not keep using Microsoft Edge™, it has advanced AI technology

just get me the link

fuck you, get the link yourself, idiot
I use yahoo finance regularly, I do not know anything better.
$100 million tax bill -> move $100 million into Donor Advised Fund -> open family foundation and hire yourself / kids / friends at ~$500k per year leadership roles -> DAF moves $100 million into the family foundation -> money back to self, host galas / high society events, enjoy life
I'm also getting the same issue with being redirected to random scam pages whenever I open the link. I see the right page for a couple of seconds then I'm redirected to "you're the 1000th visitor, also this is Google now and put your credentials in here please" and "activate notifications now to win" type pages. I'm on my phone, so there's no corporate stuff to get in the way here, it just looks like someone managed to inject some malicious script onto the page.
I have been talking of a Net Worth tax for some time now.

Start at a value that is truly eye-watering for your average citizen, one which the lower-99% will never reach in their lifetimes. Say, for argument, $10M.

Implement an algorithm that plots out a Sigmoid Curve - 0% taxation at $10M, and increasing slowly at the beginning. Once it gets close to the inflection point, it rises rapidly to over 80% taxation, at which point it then slows down again, reaching 100% taxation for everything above the maximum value.

Which would be set at something truly ridiculously high - say, $100M.

That way, we have a smooth curve that cannot be “gamed” anywhere as easily as abrupt taxation levels. And we use simpler, market-valued assets from anywhere in the world that focus on how the hyper-wealthy sock away their wealth.

As such, any sort of classic investment is most definitely on the table, especially if it is ever valued by an open market. Housing, land, gold, stocks, bonds, business partnerships, you name it. All on board for taxation.

The nice thing about Sigmoid curves in a taxation role is that they start off incredibly gentle - you will likely not may much tax at all until you hit $25M of net worth, because it’s paid progressively on any amount above $10M. But at the same time, you pay 100% taxation on any net worth above $100M.

It is truly a progressive tax, leaving plenty of room for the ambitious, but is punishingly draconian on the vampiristically greedy.
Early mornings and early evenings when the sun is low you can see straight through the sky rises observe all of the empty floors with no people or furniture. I don’t know if it’s landlords holding space off the market, businesses that went remote but are holding on to the space until their leases expire, or foreign investors who bought real estate and never occupied it, but a lot of NYC is obviously empty so it doesn’t make that rents are at an all time high. As soon as my kid graduates I’m out of here and when I’m gone I’ll never be able to come back because market rate for apartments is twice what I’m paying now.
> Five years later and more than $187 million in government investment later, however, it still hasn’t been widely rolled out.

I know anything like this is going to be more complicated than it seems. Integration of lots of legacy systems, of which the federla government is probably about as complicated as it gets, with the most security-sensitive application possible.

Still, and I'm really not an expert here, but I am astonished that $187 million could possibly not be enough to get this done. If it can't be done for $187 million, it seems likely it will never be done.

But, intended with real humility and not sarcasm, I would love to hear more from someone who has more context. $187 million just seems astonishing.

Or maybe the quote is wrong that it "hasn't been widely rolled out"?
It's funny you mention that because the experience of trying to connect to Exchange with it is bad enough to cow me into using Outlook after all (of course it doesn't help that calendar support is also shunted off to an extension that never worked that well for me).
This technique is available for everyone.
I like yahoo finance. Also when it seems like slack is having whatever issue and won’t load I open up yahoo to see if it’s my internet that’s the problem.

Muscle memory from my childhood days when I’d type in yahoo and edit my avatar lol.
We may indeed have souls or be eternal; although I call myself atheist, I don't agree with subscribing with 100% certainty to any idea. As CosmicSkeptic points out everyone holds bad ideas without knowing it, and unless you're open to questioning them you'll never find out.

With that said, there is quite literally zero evidence for the existence of a soul, despite it being posited for thousands of years, and increasing evidence that consciousness is simply a product of a sufficiently connected system. I'll draw an analogy to temperature, which isn't "created", but is a simple consequence of two points in space having different energy levels. I'm sure there's a better analogy that could be made, but I think you get the idea.
Ah yes, here it is. I was looking for the "but leaded gas is going to kill us all!" comment in this thread.

First, the GA fleet worldwide uses 500 tons of lead per year. Compared to 5,000,000 tons when leaded car gas was in use. That's a 99% reduction in lead pollution, so let's not be so dramatic.

Second, unleaded avgas is here so even that 99% reduction is about to be 100%. G100UL is fully approved for the GA fleet and is in the process of being rolled out this year with more widespread adoption to be seen next year. If you're going to spout unfounded fears at least be up to the date on the facts.

https://gami.com/g100ul/g100ul.php
Both issuance of eth and fees are forms of revenue to validators. You're saying that revenue is predominantly in the form of transaction fees. This is just one part of the equation. The other part is costs, and this doesn't tell us anything about the costs incurred by the validators. Therefore no conclusions about the profitability of the network can be inferred from this data.
Not on capital gains, no:

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/investments-and-taxes/g...

When used to offset other kinds of income, the $3k limit applies.

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/investments-and-taxes/c...
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Dragon's Lair: The fantasy adventure where you become a valiant knight, on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon. You control the actions of a daring adventurer, finding his way through the castle of a dark wizard, who has enchanted it with treacherous monsters and obstacles. In the mysterious caverns below the castle, your odyssey continues against the awesome forces that oppose your efforts to reach the Dragon's Lair. Lead on, adventurer. Your quest awaits!
There's a lot of stuff that Google doesn't index too, btw, that Bing do. I think what we all need to agree is that... different search index will inevitable have different results anyway.
Sports, News, and Finance. Those verticals are all MASSIVE. Remember, just because you don't use them, that doesn't mean no one does.

My opinion, news is pretty clickbaity but Sports (particularly the season-long fantasy games) and Finance are both still best-in-class. It's borderline amazing how resilient they've been.
That doesn't invalidate the point that at some point they thought "man, 6400 employees really enough to run Yahoo, we really need another 1600" so clearly they thought they felt had work for at least 6400 employees. So what was it?
The "random google doc" was prepared by Dr. Janelle Wong of the Asian American Studies Program from the University of Maryland.
They can be a solution though. Low taxes can incentivize business to overlook the other problems that may take longer to solve.
The intent of disallowing wash sales is to stop people from gaming the system to strategically realize "fake" losses in one security to offset gains. If we allowed wash sales you could make 100 dollars in profit from your sale of stock A and then wash sale 10 shares of stock B at 10 dollars, down from 20 and say you made no money this year, when, effectively you made 100 dollars and you still have the same number of shares of stock B.

The intent of performing the wash sale isn't to reduce your liability from proceeds of the future sale of whatever security you're trying to "wash", it's to use the wash to offset this year's gains from the sale of other securities.
For the most part you don't really need to understand linear algebra for most things -- engineers past have done a great job on abstracting interesting math problems away in everything.

If you're not constantly working with linear algebra, you're going to get rusty fast. Mind you, he seems like he writes a matrix multiplication with goto based loops every time, so he can make sure that he keeps knowing linear algebra, and to prevent the business he's working at from getting anything done because he doesn't like their ethics
I'm not sure how it works in the US , but there are plenty other jurisdictions were the estate is not required to settle debt but may just transfer it to the heir.

There is also jurisdictions were there is no inheritance tax, which would otherwise require to sell at least some of the estate.
> pushover-licensed

Huh, never heard the polite form of that term.
Tax capital gains the same as income. Tax on unrealised gains (minus losses). Tax quarterly. Then this problem goes away.

But the rich wont vote for that!
Yeah BEV / Teslamania obscures the fact that what automotive REALLY should have done was hybrids from year 2005+ for virtually every vehicle as the first step. Instead, they are doing the great leap to full electric.

In my vision a compact rotary (that inside-out rotary patent a few years ago looked even more promising) would recharge the battery subsystem. Or maybe a fuel cell.

The same would probably work for GA. Really, hybrids will work regardless of the battery tech for the next couple decades.
Never underestimate the power of a properly placed lookup table.
I think they defer as much as they can until they die and their heirs get to inherit with a stepped up cost basis and they never pay tax. Borrow, buy, die.

If they’re really crafty, the heirs will overvalue assets when stepping up the cost basis so they can actually claim losses in the future.

From Wikipedia:

“The tax code of the United States holds that when a person (the beneficiary) receives an asset from a giver (the benefactor) after the benefactor dies, the asset receives a stepped-up basis, which is its market value at the time the benefactor dies (Internal Revenue Code § 1014(a)).”
Right, but what I am saying is that all the money laundering from oligarchs and drug lords is only a tiny fraction of the US economy. Enacting draconian controls on crypto or cash or any other harder-to-trace transaction, for the stated purpose of curtailing dark money, ends up being another form of taxation on the middle and lower classes. The ultra wealthy criminals will always find another way to launder their gains. Unpredictable side effects of removing cash include enormous housing bubbles caused by laundering through real estate, and stock bubbles... and these just serve as another transfer of wealth to the rich.
It just doesn't match when I look up my own faang management change.

Near certainly a ymmv situation
You can also just buy and hold a token like rETH too. This token gives you rewards from a decentralized staking network automatically.

Holding a token on a hardware wallet is very easy to do these days.
It's showing for me.
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Completely agreed. Just a very basic understanding of regex has saved me a very significant amount of time throughout my entire ~8 year career. I’d say it’s one of the fundamental skillsets that I’ve leaned on consistently. This post just gives me “it looks scary therefore it’s awful” vibes.
Totes. I can’t remember a single remote colleague from pre Covid days. Either they were slackers so I didn’t associate with them, or they were usually given the work nobody wanted to do and wasnt high priority (but still needed). And they usually preferred to solo content / play single player, then be part of a raiding party trying to clear challenging content. So it was a different attitude. I’m sure there are excellent remote colleagues but I personally didn’t have that experience.

I personally enjoy working from the office. It was a better work environment and there was a clear boundary between work and personal life. The large amount of remote lovers representation on HN are outliers in the real world.
But even with staking you are getting poorer in today's market.
Just want to thank you for your work. The fact that the project is still going strong and with only a few other viable OSS alternatives shows how valuable it is. Every other project in this space lacks something.
Not sure if changed something, if a MSFT employee saw... but Codeium is the top #1 on my bing search.
If your junk cannot not even last 1.5 years then it’s better to not waste our resources on it