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751.
by wrs 2y ago
Despite the name, a gift tax return isn’t to pay any tax, it’s just to deduct the gift from a future (several million dollar) estate tax exemption. There’s no reason to avoid filing one.
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by wrs 2y ago
That sounds like it might be the staff just being uninformed because nobody has ever wanted to do that before. But a likely practical problem with that plan is that the cash price is unrelated to the price the insurance company has negoti
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by wrs 2y ago
It might. As I say, it’s up for debate. A judge might look at the 1kB of hyperparameters versus the 1TB of training data, and the 10 person-years of human effort versus 100,000 GPU-years of computer effort, and conclude differently. Does Go
754.
by wrs 2y ago
(For completeness I should point out it’s the tax court that has the final authority.)
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by wrs 2y ago
If the IRS disagrees with how you prepared your taxes, they don’t just say “oh well, we’re not the preparer, we’ll have take your word for it”. They write you a letter and you have to convince them they’re wrong. The fact they don’t have en
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by wrs 2y ago
AFAIK it’s still an open question whether there is any copyright in model weights, for various reasons including the lack of human authorship. Which would mean that if you didn’t separately and explicitly agree to the license by clicking th
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by wrs 2y ago
To someone building a long term dataset, I’m not sure what assurances would help. Certainly a personal assurance doesn’t (though you’re kind to offer), and even a corporate statement doesn’t (new owners or C-suite could walk that back anyti
758.
by wrs 2y ago
Insider trading is all about information held by "insiders", not about who owns what. So it would depend on whether you know something material and nonpublic when you liquidate your position (e.g., you know the acquisition is goin
759.
by wrs 2y ago
Well, right up until they get suddenly laid off.
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by wrs 2y ago
Right, but it seems like that would just generate three PRs I don’t want to review, given the likelihood the agent went into the weeds without someone supervising it.
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by wrs 2y ago
There are plenty of valid scenarios where the company sells for a lot, but less than it raised. And 1x preferences are no longer standard post-ZIRP, afaik. People are often not aware that the value of common is nonlinear, so the value of 0.
762.
by wrs 2y ago
I’ve been using Cursor and Code regularly for a few months now and the idea of letting three of them run free on the codebase seems insane. The reason for the chat interface is that the agent goes off the rails on a regular basis. At least
763.
by wrs 2y ago
The point of the PB&J thing is exactly to demonstrate that your native tongue isn’t precise enough to program a computer with. There’s a reason those interfaces are rigid, and it’s not “gatekeeping”. (The cryptic part is just to increas
764.
by wrs 2y ago
This is sort of like saying it's easy to crash an airplane so you shouldn't be surprised when somebody flies one into the ground. Everyone involved with aircraft knows crashes are bad and there are multiple layers of design and tr
765.
by wrs 2y ago
Putting a third party analytics tool on a page containing PHI is an incredibly dangerous thing to do. It’s really surprising the developers could get that through a security review.
766.
by wrs 2y ago
Offering only 5-to-1 odds that the United States will have a presidential election just shows what an insane place we're in right now.
767.
by wrs 2y ago
Well, yes it does, but it doesn’t do any good if two of the branches decide not to exercise their power.
768.
by wrs 2y ago
When I got the opportunity to build out an office for my own startup, I had it designed with different environments: an open office in the front, a big conference room, a few medium size rooms (for solo focus, meetings, or temporary workgro
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by wrs 2y ago
The equalization thing may be theoretically true, but in a cumulative 25 years of managing at big companies, I’ve never seen anyone get equalized down , just get slower raises. You’re definitely better off getting overpaid at the beginning
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by wrs 2y ago
What? No. If my team has gone to the effort of a full interview loop with you, and we think you’re a good candidate, we’re not going to start over to save $10k. This isn’t one of those periods when companies are having trouble hitting their
771.
by wrs 2y ago
ML folks tend to invent fanciful metaphorical terms for things. Another example is “attention”. I’m expecting to see a paper “consciousness is all you need” where “consciousness” turns out to just be a Laplace transform or something.
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by wrs 2y ago
The joke is not about who denies facts, it’s about the absurdity of calling someone “biased” when they take the side of an argument that is better supported by reality, and about who tends to do that more often.
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by wrs 2y ago
Let me explain the joke for you: liberals are less likely to believe that verifiable facts and theories are merely contingent political preferences.
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by wrs 2y ago
Maybe, but all of those are context-dependent and can operate at high levels of abstraction. The beholder needs to be able to recognize them to appreciate them. A Rothko or Pollock has those things, but that doesn’t make them automatically
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by wrs 2y ago
I had a similar problem where builds were timing out. When I looked at the build log, there was a calendar in it (?!). I eventually figured out a script was calling `date`, and something I had `go install`ed (I think) had a test binary call
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by wrs 2y ago
I didn't get that impression. I think she just wants the readers to not have a misconception of how much she's getting paid for the book they're (hopefully) enjoying. I hear a lot of similar sentiments from musicians whose fa
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by wrs 2y ago
The survivor bias section at the end is summed up by a favorite response to premature scaling work at a startup: “We would be very fortunate to have that problem.”
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by wrs 2y ago
The key word here (and this is something I fight personally) is consuming . You don’t learn anything by consuming it; you only learn by doing it. So being able to watch the lecture at 2X is only helping if it makes more time to do the exer
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by wrs 2y ago
In order: no, of course not; neither side is angelic but only one is corrupt and incompetent at a historic level; and yes, the fatal vulnerability in the system is that a demagogue can win a valid election, allowing them to ignore the safeg
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by wrs 2y ago
What we’re experiencing is a group exploiting the biggest vulnerability in the American system, one that was known to the founding fathers. If you can get enough people to vote for you and your friends, then all of the checks and balances w

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