skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if the cost basis is allowed to rise without paying any taxes (?!)

It's a common misconception that the step-up in basis means the heirs don't pay taxes, and therefore the billionaires are giving us the biggest shaft.

The heirs pay estate tax, and once they pay the tax, the basis resets. It would be very unfair if it didn't. However, the tax exemption for the estate tax is quite large (about $13MM for federal for 2023, but going to $7MM in 2026).

For billionaires though, the estate tax exemption is negligible. The heirs end up paying estate tax for everything they inherit minus $13MM, which is nothing for them.

So, again, if this benefits anyone, it's the less rich people.
They could save the effort and just link to an "about:blank".
I contracted for a company once and know another guy who does a lot of freelancing. I was W2 for the contracting company but the company did a lot of work with contractors.

GET AN LLC. Companies are a lot more willing to work Corp to Corp. An S-corp along with the LLC will allow you to pay yourself a salary. Even these middlemen are a lot happier working Corp to Corp, and should give you more wiggle room. Nobody likes a 1098-T worker. If you're concerned about anonymity, getting a corporation in New Mexico allows you to create a corporation relatively anonymously.
The kernel is the one and only piece of Android that the forks of aren't proprietary!
My windows box can only collect data related to Steam and the games I play on it. I also keep it isolated from the rest of my network.

Windows has been relegated to a status of "toy OS" to me as I do all my real work and non-gaming play on Mac and Linux. Great job MS!
Nobody needs so much money they never have to work again. Great, you won the start-up lottery! You've got a nice nest egg, now go back to work.

Or, go and move to mid-west and retire. US tax payers don't need to subsidize your lifestyle so you can live in NYC or SF.
Happy Friday! I built Doc Search with the generous help and advice of my wife. During a long car ride, we got to talking about the increasing difficulty of finding in-depth information on many topics using consumer-focused search engines. She lamented the disappearance of the option to show only PDFs in the search results as well as the shift toward "helpfully" ignoring some of the terms or directives she would try to add to a query to refine it.

I think I understand (at least some of) the constraints and incentives that push consumer search engines to work the way they do and I suspect the current state of the art strikes a good balance in accommodating them. After all, there are a lot of really smart people working on the problem.

By scoping the problem differently, I suspect that smaller operators can build tools shaped by different constraints and incentives and provide better service to their respective niches. Doc Search is my contribution to this effort. We've been using it for the past eighteen months or so as I've worked to grow the index. It's getting to the point where it usually gets us useful results, so I thought it would be a good time to share it and solicit broader feedback.

I hope you find it useful! Please let me know what you think. I'm also happy to answer any questions you may have.
Pretty sure I can freely download Windows 11 too, and if my father passed me down his old laptop I could reinstall Windows on it.

I get what you're saying, but MacOS isn't cost free. It's only sold bundled with Apple hardware, and you must buy both.
> My dad could hand me down his old Mac and I would be able to lawfully download and use it without spending a dime.

You would be able to lawfully download it, but you would only be able to lawfully use it on an Apple-branded computer (which, by definition legally speaking, requires a computer that was legally manufactured by Apple).

Look up Apple Inc. v. Psystar Corp., a company that tried to get around Apple's EULA for this exact clause using every gymnastic of law imaginable. They lost multiple appeals, were charged millions in damages, and went bankrupt.
Your singular experience is an outlier, not an example of totally normal circumstances.

There is no conspiracy to push broken technology on to the masses. Heat pump technology has come a long way and modern heat pumps are very good at what they do.

If someone installed a heat pump that doesn’t work in the temperature range of your location, they really screwed up. Modern heat pumps can be selected to work down to very low temperatures, and they’re installed with auxiliary heat when necessary. The design parameters aren’t a mystery.
If you already have a central AC system, a heat pump is more or less a drop in replacement. The heat pump becomes both your heat and AC unit.

Heat pumps are now the most premium option on units offered by the well known names in HVAC- Trane, Carrier, etc.

In terms of suitability for your climate, they should work just fine for most people- they start to struggle if you are in an area when temps get down to about 10 degrees Farenheit, though they improve in this area each year. Even if you live in an area that cold, there are options to mitigate this- leaving your current furnace hooked up to be turned on during those cold periods, etc. What it comes down to is it just gets more expensive if you live in these colder areas, but over time the energy savings should give you a return on your investment in less than ten years.

My Air conditioner blew this fall, so I am actively in the process of getting bids for heat pumps.
What is with the modern C++ community treating "C/C++" as a shibboleth to gatekeep over? I'm a seasoned C++ dev (using it before C++98 was available, kept up with trends) and I've never seen this before until the last year or so. I've never had a problem with it as I see my C++ skills being tranferrable to C.
many ephemeral identities, treated like cattle
Milan has its own:

> In 1210, when an adjacent cemetery ran out of space, a room was built to hold bones. A church was attached in 1269. Renovated in 1679, it was destroyed by a fire in 1712. A new bigger church was then attached to the older one and dedicated to Saint Bernardino of Siena.

Some pictures here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bernardino_alle_Ossa
Sometimes, hitting those roadblocks leads to a better solution.

Maybe the new model is slower, and somebody looks into it, and realizes if they add a caching layer between the "REPL" module and the kernel ioctl, or service orwhatever, it will speed things up.

I run find and grep lot. And I'm sure the kernel caches a lot of the FS stuff, but there are higher-level things that could be cached and shared with other "REPL" modules. Like predictive URL middleware in browsers. Pluggable middleware that can be enabled or disabled.

Available now on the OS module store:

Larry's Grep Count Document Prefetch Module. Certified Safe by BlahCorp.

This isn't a new idea, and I'm sure others have had it before me.
Funnily enough where I live those gated communities have actually ended up being specifically targeted, because funnily enough people assume that if you can afford to live there you probably have stuff worth taking.
Which one of you is going to make a real time AI rap battle website? I want to see AI Mark Grist slay some more teenagers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4wEewrQdU
Scheduled Messages in Microsoft Teams
It looks like the feature was released in September last year but has not been well publicized.
You're spot on - I am subscribed to both so I confused them without opening any links. Technology Connections is fascinating in its own right as well.
It seems you have abandoned your original argument.

How long do you believe KYC has existed? How long do believe believe banks have existed?

When Mansa Musa decimated the global gold market for atleast a century by distributing large sums of money to millions of people on his Hajj (possibly the single largest event of anonymous value transfer in human history), what regulation or law did he violate?

This was a relatively recent event where human history is concerned.
While I've not worked fully remotely for my actual job, I've had a "remote" side-project for about a decade now.

Some of the people I've worked with on it, I've made friends with—ranging from "friendly working relationship" to "would totally hang out with IRL if that were an option."

I'm also a member of a small online community that's about the same age, that includes a bunch of people who have never met physically, and probably never will, but who are very close friends, help each other through some pretty rough times, and are generally very supportive of each other.

"Remote" doesn't have to mean "never interact outside of pure work". You can 100% make friends remotely. Granted, it's not exactly the same type of social interaction as hanging out with someone in a physical space, but it's certainly social interaction—and for many people (me included), it's often better, because it doesn't have the same kinds of demands and pressures as physical interaction. As an introvert, it's much less draining for me to interact virtually.

If that's not true of you—if you're both someone who craves genuine physical interaction, and someone for whom the workplace is the primary place you want to get that—no one (or, well, nearly no one) is saying you shouldn't have access to that. We're just saying your experience is not universal, and we want to make sure there are a healthy variety of options for people with different needs and desires.
This hasn't been my experience. I can get an AC unit and gas furnace installed for something like 7k. But a heat pump unit that heats and cools is something like 13k installed. I obviously went with the former.
> how many successive good, responsible governments can we expect before one of them goes bad?

Any system of government that relies on a successive chain of responsible people in power is doomed to fail more quickly than anyone thinks. This is why the American idea of "ambition must be made to counteract ambition" is so powerful.
It would be nice if Reddit had an easy to find way to turn on 2FA.
The truth of renting in London shines through: it is nothing but enslavement
Absolutely, that’s why we need opinionated tooling.
No, you can use ES6 modules. They've been natively supported by all browsers for years.
Ok I'm not here to defend Jira, I suffer with the rest of you.

But something that got me off my high horse ... someone said Jira is a mirror and you are a corporation. When you look into it, and you think it's ugly, you're looking at your own red tape reflecting back at you.

It doesn't forgive all of it. It just makes me pause a second.
I wonder why this is just a photo caption and not a bigger part of the story.
Location : Karachi,Pakistan

Remote:Yes, From anywhere around the globe.Willing to work on company's timezone.

Willing to relocate:Yes

Technologies:React-Native,NodeJs,ReactJs,MongoDb,Firebase,Javascript

Résumé/CV:https://www.dropbox.com/s/0o35acfpehckpt1/SarmadCv%20%282%29...

Email:sarmadshakeel20@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarmad-shakeel-01aa49194/

I have 3 years of experience as software engineer mainly working on React Native and NodeJs.Last company i was hired as senior mobile app developer. Now I am open to further challenge my skills and learn new things too.I am eager to continue my professional growth and fill my hunger for learning new technologies
I guess companies that run mirrors, for example distro repos, would fall under that definition too.
What about donations and not-for-profit orgs?
Thanks, that makes a lot more sense now. Then we go back to my initial question - where exactly is the loophole here? The tax is being deferred, not avoided entirely. Yet the article makes it seem like they somehow avoid it?
The seeds produced are often plantable. For many seeds, especially GMO seeds, the grower needs to acquire a license to the seeds and agrees not to save seeds from planted crops (as you suspect, to ensure income for the seed producer).

Other seeds are patented varieties. Typically these are 'hybrids' which are a cross of two varieties of the same plant for whatever specific features they select. These seeds won't 'breed true' so the offspring will likely not be identical to the parents.

From what I understand, GMO crops won't have a very stable lineage. Nature tends to select against the genetic modifications, but I do believe most GMOs are replantable today.

This is not the case for GMO salmon, which they are trying to sterilize.
Historically, browser vendors maintain per site settings of some sort. Whether that be Opera's Site Specific Patching or Brave.

Basically have to keep giant lists of what js actually enhances the people experience vs just being useful to the publisher.
I assure you, considerably more people have heard of Yahoo than have heard of GitHub. The software engineering bubble isn't as big as you think.
That website is still up.
> they don't want the risk of having you reclassified as an employee after they have been paying you as a contractor - you can thank the IRS (in the USA) for that one.

Can you or anyone who knows provide more context about this? I had no idea this was a thing, how recently did this become a thing?
> There are settings you can place in .gdbinit to avoid stepping in to internals of anything you don’t want to step into, be it std library classes/functions or your own code.

This is exactly what I need. For both, C++ and Rust smart pointers.

Can you share any more info on how to set this up?
You can create a new Google account tied to your domain and use that to collaborate with others. You can elect to stop using Gmail and your old nickname, unless I’ve missed something.
Exactly. Out of the box Jira is pretty usable, but if you go wild with defining crazy workflows and screen, the experience can become awful.
Always good to have control group in that case, even. Not a very apt analogy.
Go with Linux and don't look back. Preferably mint, which is quite similar to the Windows look. The only issue I've faced is MS Office, but that's what I have my Mac for.
They literally are more efficient than burning gas, a good heat pump can do over 300% efficiency (KWs of heat in your house vs KWs of electricity used) while a furnace can only hope to get 100%. Even if the heat pump is fed from gas power plants (which burn gas with about 50-60% efficiency, more if the waste heat is reused), they are still using less gas for the same amount of heat than directly burning it.
The main risk I see is that every web host using Apache or Nginx will be required to handle certification on their own.

Businesses like Litesspeed can sell their product as a certified one and sell that as a feature.
They also believe in a three person god. Not sure in which lesson this comes up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church#Nature_of_God
Right, what I'm trying to say is that it is normal for it to be on 100% of the time when it is cold out. If you are used to gas heat which can turn on for 15 minutes, overshoot the set point, and then be off for the next 45 minutes, a heat pump will seem strange.

Mine is a variable speed unit, but that's not the function that I'm talking about.
Oh -- so when David Guetta does it on stage it's interesting now? :P

https://reticulated.net/dailyai/gpt3-uberduck-linux-gangster...
I blame the Oxygen catastrophe myself.
It's not a lie unless you word your statement very poorly.

You have the exact same access as other consulting firms to 3rd party websites to find freelancers, if needed.

Do you know what these firms often do? They take any paid jobs they can get even without having the staff in place to do a project. If they need extra help, they scramble to find people at the last minute.
Beautiful place. The crypt includes a quote that really resonates with you - translated to English - "you are what we were; you will be what we are"
I was on a 1.5 year project related to SAP / ERP systems, entirely related to automated invoicing to LATAM and Eastern Europe countries.

We spent a lot of time -- like A LOT of time -- on tiny things like how some countries use single or double quotations (e.g. guillemets « », or bottom quotes like „hello"), or how some countries use . and , differently for writing numbers ($1,999.99 vs 1.999,99).

Seems dead-simple, but multiply that out across many different countries, regulations, taxes, and systems and we ended up with a core team of roughly 15 hammering away at this; factor in different stakeholders, managers, contractors, vendors, etc. and maybe 150 people worked to fix these otherwise simplistic issues.
From the internal forums at Google, from what I see online and have seen offline.

Modern progressive anti-meritocracy people might be loud, but they are a small minority, even at Google at the height of progressivism there you would see pro-meritocracy views winning out strongly among developers. You also see it here, I feel most here on HN are pro meritocracy. There are some progressives around who go into every thread about the topic and post a lot, but meritocracy views and topics tend to get upvoted.
Also remember that air-to-air heat pumps are overall less efficient and powerful than air-to-water or geothermal-to-water type heat pumps.

Firstly the later typically have a higher power rating.

Secondly, if you can lead water around the house and heat via radiators or floor heating you get a much better efficiency.
There are at least two reasonably popular frameworks that offer reactivity without virtual DOM: Svelte and Solid. And both of them are way more ergonomic than what is presented here.

I believe VDOM-based approaches have one decisive advantage — the VDOM structure can be created by any means convenient to the programmer. To me at least, this offers more flexibility and modularity when organising code: you can create as many functions as you need to structure and reuse VDOM construction. This is something I run into with Svelte, which forces me to make a new component for every bit of code I try to isolate. Solid is a bit better — and I really like their idea of "vanishing components" — but you have to follow it's fairly strict rules (e.g. no props destructuring) or things will get weird.
Someone is just doing a cheap market research.
> the abstract concept behind XML is just to provide a metalanguage for the representation of hierarchical data

No it isn't, for the umpteenth time. It is a language for marking up text. Markup language deal with grammars - data serialization not data models, and if anything, having regular content models is a more characteristic property for markup languages compared to hierarchy.
Wow, people seem so ready to be aggro about Guetta or ai or w/e. Disappointing that people can't get past their high school opinions and have some fun.

Check out his sets from Dubai and so on over the pandemic, Ultra, etc.. Dude brings good vibes, relax
SpaceX completes a hot fire test of its Super Heavy rocket [Updated]
Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code
Glad someone still remembers the e-drama of yore. I wasn't obsessed with Boxxy, but that's a name that reminds me of the glory days of the internet.
I am moderately successful in life, and I do believe in free will, but I also attribute much of my success to luck, and only smaller part to making the right choices.
Cool and all, but there's not a single mention of "hybrid" on the entire page, which means that this is not targeted at the majority of, say, US agriculture.

The general public does not understand agriculture well, and I've noticed that this misunderstanding is stronger among those that have huge huge concerns about seeds and GMOs. Hybridization is a huge benefit, one of the primary reasons to use seeds from somebody else; you get a better crop and somebody else has done the work of hybridization. It doesn't matter if your seeds are patented or not if you are using hybrids, the seeds from hybrids do not perform as well as the hybrid seeds.

While it is fantastic to have the source seeds for hybrids, those that have concerns about our agribusiness would do well to learn more about the great skill it takes. Specialization and different roles is helping improve productivity immensely, which means less land is used by farming, and more land can be maintained, or returned from ag use for ecological restoration.

And even outside of the seed business, specialized knowledge and skill is incredibly for boosting productivity. For example, almond farmers in California are far far more productive than pecan farmers in the South in part because of contractors who specialize in the planting and bed preparation for a new orchard. If we could transfer this skill set from California, perhaps California could stop using so much scarce water for nuts, and pecans could replace almonds for many applications.

Deep knowledge, deep tech, and high specialization are good things for advanced economies. Open source seeds definitely advance that advanced knowledge, immensely. But we must also abandon pastoral aspirations of converting farming back into a hugely labor intensive activity as it was, say, 150 years ago. Except for the few that want to do it as a hobby, our backs will thank us.
If it were possible to go back in time, I'd advise testing that the "get started" button works before posting this.

Given that it's already posted to HN, fixing that button so it shows a page containing something other than the words "jobs" and "home", and/or so the links under those words do something other that point back to the same page, should probably be top priority.
> It is unbelievable what they did to it, I can’t fathom a reason.

Was it one of those "We NEED to update the UI for $CURRENT_YEAR fashions!," that drops half the features for "simplicity"?
Academia is pretty ruthless these days too -- publish or perish.
Any reasons not to consider Linux laptops? I have exactly the same predicament as you and feel like I'm finally ready to hop into the light side (Linux is by far the best desktop os these days).
The video reference the common ChatGPT "in the style of" prompt. Is there a list of what "styles" ChatGPT's model has been trained on ? Or is this information not disclosed since it would be an admission that ChatGPT has been trained on copyrighted lyrics, etc. by which is produces these derivative results ?
"You will become what I am." (https://death-to-the-world.myshopify.com/products/you-will-b...)
There are no plants engineered to not produce plantable seeds. There's a long-standing moratorium on terminator genes that is generally observed.

The reason why you have to rebuy your seeds from the companies is because of hybrid vigor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis

It's still not 100% understand how this actually happens (heaps models and results exist), but when you cross two reasonably distantly related parents, the offspring F1 will outperform both. However, if you then backcross the offspring again, you'll lose that hybrid vigor, and your F2 behaves like crap again (often the F2 is also all over the shop in the phenotype, which makes harvesting annoying with different flowering times, different sizes etc.)

That's the whole business model of the seed companies: keep on remaking F1s, sell them. There's nothing nefarious or GM about this, it goes back to the 50s and 60s with Norman Borlaug making hybrid F1s in wheat triggering the green revolution.