skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This explanation never made sense to me. Say someone gives you a $1M loan. Holy cow, it's not taxed, what a loophole!

But wait, this was a loan, not a gift. So don't you eventually have to pay back the >$1M later from taxed income? So you still end up paying taxes on $1M either way? How in the world does this bypass taxes?

Edit: To people bringing back the "buy, borrow, die" story:

(a) Yes, I saw that a couple months ago too. It was very hand-wavy in some crucial places. And there were quite a few people pointing out flaws with the reasoning. [1] [2]

(b) If dying is part of the the strategy then why is it omitted so often? (My whole point with the comment here is that the aforementioned explanation is inadequate.)

(c) If having enough money to pay off your collateral-secured debts until your death is a requirement for this to work then why do so many people claim "you can do it too"? Who has that kind of money sitting around? The "Buy, Borrow, Die" post explicitly said you can't get that kind of loan until you have $300M in assets.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411737

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41410808
Nuclear plants are not a replacement for batteries. You either have enough nuclear plants to cover peak demand, in which case you don't need any renewables at all, or you need batteries (or rather, storage, batteries are not the only option). Economics seem to favor storage and renewables over 100% nuclear.
Nvidia has free Broadcast software with an eye contact feature: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/jan-2023-nvidia-br...

It's from January 2023, so I don't know if they've improved it further since then.

The video conferencing software providers have been way to slow to put whoever is speaking top-center (near where the camera typically is).
https://archive.is/cMW2Q
U so right

Let's just do nothing now and leave it for later :)
There is a lot of gas in the US.
I disagree the framing is deceptive. A big reason this is done is to avoid paying taxes altogether - borrow against your equity, and then when you die your heirs receive a step-up in basis, so the gains are never taxed. To make it worth while you need to have a crap ton of money, such that the interest on your loans is less than the estate taxes you'd pay. Only very, very rich people pay any estate taxes in the first place because a couple's estate tax exemption is currently over $27 million.
Looks really good and seems fast. My guess would be that this effect needs to be 99% or else people will notice something / although they may not be sure exactly what.
How is it not realized? When I can use it as "realized" to borrow against it? When it comes to paying taxes I go "sorry Uncle Sam, this is fictitious, I don't really have this" but then I head over to the bank and go "look at my brokerage accounts, I have ALL THIS MONEY, lemme borrow against this now all-of-sudden realized money..."
“Anything and everything” includes Datura.

In all seriousness, Salvia is horrible and fits the layperson’s perception of a bad trip much better than any psychedelic hallucinogen (aka serotonergic (Psilocybin, LSD), as opposed to glutamatergic dissociative hallucinogens - (Ketamine, PCP) - or cholinergic delirant ones (Benadryl, Datura), with Salvia uniquely acting on Kappa opioid receptors) could.

I’m lucky in that all I’ve gotten from it was strong dysphoria because the one time I attempted to try Salvia, the brand I ordered was bad and I got something that must have had a very low potency instead of a concentrated extract. I got off merely with rolling backwards and breaking my bong covering myself with bong water, then worrying about a leaf in my hair and thinking I might find myself snapping back to reality for a while.

Given the sense of dread and anxiety I felt afterwards while in the real world, being in that state through a fast paced cartoonish fever dream of a trip must be absolutely awful.
On macOS I recommend kagi AND Orion for the ultimate zero telemetry search experience.

No need to block when you are not the product

https://kagi.com

full disclosure: I am wearing my free kagi t-shirt right now
ComfyUI LTS: Portable, hackable, node based GUI for GPLv3 AI image gen & LLMs
No, what we need to do now is not "just shut off electricity lol". It's building carbon free alternatives as quickly as we can.
Is that 250k over your lifetime or 250k per sale? Can you sell your house back and forth to your spouse every year to multiply the exemption?
One could argue stocks be handled differently than homes. Or, to better capture the spirit of the proposal, one would progressively tax unrealized gains used for collateral.
Power-over-skin
Most important aspect of C is its portability. From small microcontrollers to almost any computing platform. I doubt that any new version of C will see that much adoption.

If I want to live on cutting edge I would rather use C++2x or Rust rather than C.

Am I missing something? What benefit this supposedly modern C offers?
From a development standpoint, this is cool.

But the resultant video has a tad bit of uncanny valley going on.

I'd rather learn from the guy on the right.
For the majority of the monuments that I worked on, they were ritually destroyed, buried, and built on top of -- with the Rosalila temple being the main exception. The tombs typically have some type of arch and the temple area and staircases are kind of built around or on top of them.
I'm fairly certain you can't create a "mesh" with PCIe between multiple hosts. It's more like USB instead of Ethernet.
This makes me feel a lot better. I needed to log into my apple dev account today for my once every 6 month check in, and absolutely nothing worked. I thought it was my account, my browser, my device, etc. But changing each of those, it still didn't work. But it appeared like it was going to load ......but still didn't. It was very bizarre. I just thought, surely Apple isn't having an outage the one time I actually need to do something.
This is exactly what the billionaires have been able to convince the masses :) It would be "very hard, impossible" to implement a system in which you cannot for the purposes of paying taxes claim you do not have some sht while turning around and heading over to the bank to get a boatload of money borrowing against that same sht - need a genius to figure that out...
Lol everyone is thinking she's CEO when she's COO:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41807408

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41230320 also confuses the name/gender, Glenn vs. Gwynne

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39614912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38863528
Likewise. The vast majority of what I've seen so far on this debacle amounts to mob mentality. A lot of people are adding their commentary about Mullenweg, but it strikes me as very surface level and unthoughtful: just saying something to say something because they know what WordPress is.

I don't think the drama will kill Automattic or any of the other involved orgs either. The post-WordPress thing for me, I think, is going to be something that successfully ejects the Gutenberg editor and builds around it. Probably something that borrows from what Drupal has done with Gutenberg and what Corcel has done with WordPress models.
A Julia package for reading and writing LAS data
That's a transparently gross oversimplification, and I find it very hard to believe that you're not aware of that fact.
Apple Intelligence more like Apple Idiotic as ...

- Today the summary it gave to an iMessage was "Going to sleep, talk to you tomorrow." The girl and I scheduled a video chat date and she said nothing of the sort rather, "Getting ready for tomorrow (along with some other stuff), talk to you soon."

- Siri is still stupid especially compared to ChatGPT on the same iPhone. I use ChatGPT.. speak to it to count my calories throughout the day at the various places i eat at (Chipolte, Cava, Panera, etc) which it knows calories for everything, calculates and keeps track so i add later add my dinner calorie count .. it even knows how many calories i had on Saturday (still recalls it and speaks it upon me asking). Siri via Apple Intelligence is still the old stupid Siri one pony trick which you still can only speak to it once vs. ChatGPT have a conversation with.

What was this Apple Intelligence supposed to do and how was it supposed to be better? I want a ChatGPT phone and by Microsoft sure their Windows Phone was nice!
This focus on hours and badging of what one contributes is so gross, but I can't point at anything specific
Yes, these scans also work in WebXR using Matterport's default VR viewer -- I have a basic page setup at https://mused.com/vr/ -- but I'll get the Copan tours added there.
Friendly reminder that if you are syncing your clock from marslight instead then remember that Mars, unlike Sol, isn’t always the same distance from us. Those light minute errors could mean you’ll miss the bus home!

I’m joking but this is also a real thing. For an example, see this code in the astrolib port used by SensorWatch’s “movement” project:

https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch/blob/e8f31beb70...
Biosci Twitter used to be amazing. Great resource to find cool new articles if you followed the right people.

Now it is absolutely useless for that purpose. Such a shame. Death of a golden age.
> What about--I've done this--showing your brokerage statements to American Express to get a better rate? Of course not

You say "there is nothing complex about this" after conceding this loophole the size of a planet.

For starters: loan with a covenant that governs further borrowing and requires you to instruct the lender if your marketable assets fall below a certain value. Not technically secured. But not relevant if you're lending tens of millions to a billionaire--plenty of firms will provide this. Next up: loan to heirs. Next up: unsecured loans at preferential rates if you store your securities with the lender. (This is already a thing.)

> want to use it for ANYTHING, you pay taxes on it

Swapping "use" for "usage" doesn't address the fundamental issue.
You just delay selling the stocks until death.

At that point your stocks (and other assets like houses) have their cost-basis adjusted to the current price. So the capital gains tax on your assets are $0 as their cost basis is the same as the price so the appreciate is $0. If _you_ sold the stocks before your death then likely there would be a large gap between the cost-basis (price you bought the stock) and the current price resulting in a large capital gains tax.

So, when your estate sells the stocks to pay back the loan they pay the applicable taxes on the $0 and then uses the remaining proceeds to pay back the loan.
How is that different from Linux with all virtio drivers? (You can just not compile real hardware drivers)
> The digital coin WLFI will be a Regulation D token offering, following a provision that makes it possible to raise capital without first registering a security with the SEC. Certain conditions must be met, such as limiting the size of the sale and restricting it to accredited investors, defined in part as having a net worth of more than $1 million.

I'm sure every token buyer is an accredited investor /s
It'd have to be a hybrid, with more of the expensive parts rewritten in a more well suited language.
Yea, you do if you make over 250k in profit but you can roll that over with 1031. Still cannot see how home equity can be compared to borrowing against securities - there are a TON of taxes that we pay for owning a home and none for owning a security...
I don't disagree that there is a lot that Australia does right and the US would be better off with an Australian style system complete with a universal healthcare. Australia could have gone the NHS route but did pivot to the mixed system under Howard. Additionally it does appear to me that the National Disability Insurance Scheme is absolutely rife with fraud - I'm not even sure who'd you'd blame for that as it seems intentionally set up for such an outcome to undermine the very idea. So I'm not sure how well the Australian system will last even if it has lasted well up until now. Of course being Australia they'd combine NDIS with Robo-Debt and mistakenly hound a bunch of poor people to death.

I'm assuming the rational behind drawing the distinction between the US and Aus systems is to somehow inform what the US should do, I don't think giving an already corrupted government system more power will help. It's very hard to uncorrupt things and because of that reason I think the US would benefit from a more laissez-faire system.

Additionally Australia has many advantages that the US does not and the US could not emulate Australia even if they wanted to. I don't know how long that'll last either - mathematically I would assume a country could not get rich and stay rich repeatedly selling houses to each other but it does seem to have lasted a very long time. I assume at some point the Aus government will run out of ways to prop up the housing market. The combination of negative gearing and all sorts of first home buyer grants is just insane.
"Write an acquisition blog post that makes it look like we admire the company that bought us, and we're not in it for the money and that it was a hard choice."
"Citation needed."
How open can Stripe be?
>The point of a Dan Brown book is to chart the stupidest possible path through history and pop science, and he's uniquely capable of this.

Clive Cussler begs to differ.
Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment
> Poland imports slightly more from Germany than it exports to it

Why do they import/export the same product between each other?

Honest question. In general, not just about Poland and Germany.
Home equity loans also taxed as realized gains?
Well, I think he made a bit of a stronger accusation too then just "AC".

In that, if your property had awnings the implication was it didn't have AC (I guess people can't read/trust a listing) so you needed to remove the awnings to advertise that you had AC.
If AGI gets its way, there will inevitably a bug in the system that makes him only serve 23,464 years.
Buy, Borrow, Die FTW - https://equifund.com/blog/buy-borrow-die
This is amazing. I love Inskcapke but I think this tool is too good.

It makes me very excited to see tools that are built as web apps because more gravity on web means more capabilities for the web platform which is more open and accessible.

Rust is great - amazing. I presume it is compiled to Web Assembly.

I'm just wondering how and why these three passionate gifted individuals didn't go Round A, Round B Investor funding, post valuation SAFE, Press briefing route?

Been thinking a lot about it lately when I see tons of AI wrappers, open weight fine tuned packaged models and everything in between.

Probably passion can't be priced? Happiness is not valuation?
Don't give the SVR any ideas, man.

The problem that multi generational projects like this always have is tech debt. Any library/dependency chosen by the previous generation might be unmaintained for decades until it falls through the cracks and someone notices it.

Heretrix, for example, was written in a very old "Java way" to do it. They have also lots of services that were built in the PHP4 age, with globals by default and stuff like that.

Always keep in mind that whatever you choose, it's a bet, essentially. Over time you'll realize that different language ecosystems have different aligned or misaligned goals to your project. Don't choose libraries because of hype, choose them because of maintainability.
Yep! That’s an unfortunately (or fortunately, for the hacker unconcerned with garage theft) the vast bulk of installed garage doors.
The title immediately brings to mind the Osterhout classic, "Always Measure One Level Deeper", [1], and I imagine was probably inspired by it. Also worth revisiting.

[1]: https://cacm.acm.org/research/always-measure-one-level-deepe...
It’s worth noting that most of these dining cars in speech are detachable, and as such the operator decides which train service it should be added to. For example in Poland, not all intercity services have dining cars. This allows to strategically increase the profitability of services where dining car is expected to be popular.

I’d imagine that high-speed services operating the integral trainsets do not offer this flexibility, so they’d naturally opt for maxing-out seat capacity.

Also worth noting that just recently the European Sleeper, a new contender on the EU rail map, introduced a dining car with an interesting fix-prix approach to menu. I suppose they estimated they could make it profitable, but notably, they too only offer it on some of the services only. The reviews on YouTube seem to praise the quality and overall experience. I personally think that night trains in particular will see the dining cars a necessity.
Introduction to UX/RT (2022) [pdf] [video]
Testosterone Peaks at Series B
We tested 139 founders for 17 biomarkers at the YC founders reunion last year and built a dashboard with some cool (very much anonymized) stats

1. Here’s a teaser of the data (Testosterone vs. Company Stage plot): https://x.com/MikeDubrovsky/status/1842392957057663365

2. Dataset specs:

a. We were mobbed for quite a while and didn’t get to everyone but we did manage to collect 139 samples which is a decent-sized dataset. (not bad considering the average clinical trial is 20-300 participants depending on whether it's Phase I or II according to ChatGPT).

b. We measured 17 biomarkers for each participant:

ApoB, ApoA1, ApoB:ApoA1 ratio, Total Cholesterol, HbA1c, Cortisol, DHEA-S, Estradiol (female), FSH (female), Ferritin, HDL-C, LDL-C, Total Cholesterol:HDL-C ratio, Triglycerides:HDL-C ratio, TSH, Testosterone (male), Testosterone:Cortisol ratio (male), Triglycerides, Vitamin D, hsCRP, Homocysteine, Fasting Insulin

3. We'd love to run some sort of distributed version of this via folks just getting the test kit in the mail. Comment here if you want to participate. Feedback or ideas welcome too.

4. Check out the dashboard and play with the data yourself here: http://yc-stats.siphoxhealth.com/ (note it’s kind of painfully slow, we will optimize this eventually since we use this internal dashboard app for other stuff. Try reloading if it doesn’t come up in 30 seconds)

5. If you are a founder (or just curious) and have taken a recent blood test you can submit your PDF here to contribute data (just message support and let them know you uploaded and your company stage so we can add that to the metadata): https://siphoxhealth.com/upload-results
Well, if you are worth billions and only spending millions, then you can borrow for a very, very long time before the interest payments get hard to pay. If you do end up in that position, you can always borrow more to pay the interest(the US govt does this).

It's nothing magic here, you even get to deduct the interest you end up paying on your taxes usually.

The rates probably not that much lower, the lenders still have to make money and they really don't like to get stuck holding the bag. They have risk departments who (hopefully) carefully analyze how much borrowing they are doing and making sure they are the ones holding all the cards if it ever comes crashing down.
echosmellcation
Machu Picchu is like this. If you take the 3 day hike up the mountain to get there, you see some pretty awesome ruins. I did this in the early 90's and I'm sure the routes / ability has changed by now, but it was really cool back then.

Angkor Wat is the main attraction but it also has interesting nearby ruins as well. Rent a motorbike and get lost on the farming backroads, google maps works pretty well.
> Apple is more about luxury branding than premium offering. I don't think OpenAI is trying to position its services as projecting wealth or style.

What do you think OpenAI hired Jony Ive to do? ;)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/21/24250867/jony-ive-confirm...

Regardless, I meant premium as in better or dominant in the market. It's hard to overcome first mover advantage with a "me too" product, but "commoditizing your complement" seems to be a pretty effective disrupter. I think Meta is worried about Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and anyone else with gen AI models. It seems to be related to where they're going.
Batteries and hydro are not the only storage options.
Not weird at all. They know the distinction between source available and open source. Just like the code, they hold the copyright on the assets, but are under no obligation to license them in a similar manner to the code.
With new bullets, the Army wants to turn Apaches and Bradleys into drone killers
Alibaba, Baidu Invest in Chinese Smart-Driving Tech Company's Near $700M IPO
You could have just said you are xenophobic.

Save everyone some time.
google gives different results to different people based on tracking and their metrics, if you found a better source, please share the article itself
>It's exactly because of licencing that the situation with RISC-V is a world of proprietary SoCs with no consistency, as opposed to the open system that is an x86 PC. (That the ISA is or isn't open is trifling and matters to neither user nor kernel developer.) Essentially every single board requires its very own custom port of your preferred OS.

Can you cite any sources for this? What makes you say this? Can you cite one (1) example?

I ask because it is entirely inconsistent with my experience with the available SoCs and their boards. They all implement the specs that were available at the time of design. Sometimes drafts out of necessity. And all of them use OpenSBI as their machine mode firmware.

This is false to the point it reads like FUD to me; It couldn't be further detached from reality.
I'm still awaiting the punchline.
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/09/07/eli5-op...

That's exactly what they id with their server design.

I'm saying come up with an open standard for tensor processing chips, with open drivers and core compute libraries, then let hardware vendors innovate and compete to drive down the price.

Meta spent like 10% of their revenue on ML hardware, it's not a drop in a bucket and with model scaling and large scale deployment these costs are not going down. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-to-operate-6...
Keep in mind that the bench mark rate is almost always something akin to bills so is a very short time horizon. That may be great or not so great compared to what rate you might get on say a 5/10/15 yr collaterlized loan.

ref: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/margin-rates.p...
Hey, this worked great. Really nice design. Gave me some good ideas. I could see myself coming back and using a lot of these neat little tools. 2 thumbs up. Thank you!

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.loom.com/embed/39ac6fb72b9...
Amazing to realize that our Army didn't see this coming a decade ago.
I would love to do this.. if only there were Uber/Lyft options on the watch
TinyBase looks very promising! Is there a doc or reference you can guide me to, for using TinyBase with Preact.js instead of React?
Hah! As if they need ideas. But that's not the point, how possible is it?

Re your comprehensive edit, I totally am on board with that tech choice idea. It's a bet, avoid the fads, pick stuff that's robust (or at least a fit for your possible futures)
Show HN: Native Gemini Client for Haiku, Written in Python with Haiku-PyAPI
10 cents per minute of video... Pass.
these features will eventually trickle down into the mainstream, kind of like C11 is doing at the moment

also, unless you're targeting embedded or a very wide set of architectures, there's no reason why you couldn't start using C23 today
What is the consequence for security breaches? Usually some negative press everyone forgets in a week. Maybe a lost sale or two, but that's hard to measure. If you're exceedingly unlucky, an inconsequential fine. At worst paying for two years of credit monitoring for your users.

What's the risk? The stock price will be back up by next week.