skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately many leased items are rarely able to produce an income or realise a "sale price" if the original purpose is gone.

Thus more often than not, its asset value is almost impossible to reliably be assertained by the business let alone by an external party.

For example if all these aeroplanes i have have an income producing capability of producing n $millions but my business can't use them at a profit because of competition, how are the aeroplanes "asset" value ever going to be realised? they are effectively worthless.

So the balance sheet should show them at a high figure when business is good, and when business goes down the toilet they should be written off as they can't even be sold.
You probably already know about it, but if not check out Metrix. It’s a little non-profit that offers electronics/maker workshops. Might be something for you to get involved in.
> We have given government too much power. They ought not be our mommies.

Does this government represent you? I assume it does not. So neither did you elect this government nor does it represent you, you did not lend it any power - this makes both "we" and "They ought not be our" rather interesting choices of words.
Funny you should mention it...but.... Funny you bring it up, it's been well over a decade since I graduated, but RIT alumni here!

The RIT DC hub was the shit back in the day....

Back in the day there was nothing underground about it, at least for CS students. :) Connecting to the DC hub was a right of passage. So I am speaking from experience. :)
you look back and see if you will need a second swap and set your "need another pass" boolean that you named "swapped" accordingly.
> Why aren't we p-zombies one might ask? Because we are agents in the world and not being good agents means death, so we have to feel to exist.

> P-zombies don't fear death. Even if one existed, it would not have the drive to protect itself and it would be damaged or destroyed soon enough.

You missed the point, like many others who think they can 'explain away' consciousness in a 4-paragraph post on an internet forum.

What you described is a difference in external behavior (eating, death avoidance, reproduction, etc). That is not what the problem of consciousness is about, and it's a dead giveaway that you don't understand the issue you're pontificating on.
S3X DRIVE could be a cheeky pun along the lines of The Boring Company.
Lots more details here [1] if you're interested.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE
SpaceX's rockets are all-liquid fueled. SRB = solid rocket booster.
Not strictly US only, but very limited availability, yes. There were some rumors it'd launch in parts of Europe this year, but that hasn't happened.
Those are more dimensions than buckets, and not very orthogonal ones at that. In particular there is strong overlap between declarative and functional language features (you could argue functional is just a special case), and less strong overlap between imperative and OO languages, and OO and functional. OCaml fits pretty comfortably in all four of those categories, when you want it to.

If I wanted to jam languages into 4 categories, it would probably be the Algol, Lisp, and ML families, plus All Those Other Languages. :)
We are working on a similar project to democratize original film making. If interested, please see an introduction at https://www.lights.tech.
It goes way deeper than that though, honestly. It's really just a matter of small failures blowing up bigger and faster. They're 'closer to the metal', in a sense.

I've worked with plenty of tech people who just don't grok things as simple as network transmission times or that you can't 'just run a long enough wire (and through any conditions)'. Physics always gets its way. (Side rant: please do your best not to try to send me 20MB of data bounced off of a tin can spinning around the planet, down through dense, negatively-charged clouds to a mixed-elevation terrain through feet of steel and concrete surrounded by 1000 other phones like mine just to view your website/500-word article, plox. kthx)

We're very lucky that our systems are resilient (as in fault-tolerant, not inherently-stable) enough that most of us can work at very high level of abstraction and never dig deeper.

Phone people have to get this or their systems don't work right away. Same with power transmission. We think of these things like they're separate systems and domains from ours, but we're just very far removed from that layer. Everything we build is a client of these networks. There will be bugs or better designs that elude you if you don't understand this.

Just to drive the point home, there's this classic: http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
at least 1 i hope
It’s like a more bland wonder bread. Truly awful stuff.
Or wind instruments for that matter.
I just don't let JavaScript run by default. In Chrome I just went into preferences and flipped the switch. Now I have to turn it on site by site, which is a little annoying. But once it's on for a domain, it's on forever, unless I turn it off again.

JavaScript not only runs things, it's what most sites use to bulk themselves up. That is to say, if a site chooses to embed advertising, it doesn't embed all the CSS, JavaScript, images, videos, iframes, and so on. Instead it just adds a script tag or two. Then that script tag, once it runs, goes out and fetches more JavaScript, stylesheets, images and videos.

In other words, turning off JavaScript not only squashes pop-ups and autoplaying videos, it reduces the size of the page by 90%.
Personally, I plan to retire, or at least be financially independent by age 40 or 45. Tech pays well enough that this isn't infeasible, especially if you retire somewhere cheap.
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> Wasn't that my point?

My understanding of your point wasn't just that there's no room for third place, but that Apple was currently in third place.

> As for Siri being on phones, I was talking about the home assistant market.

This seems to be the crux of our disagreement. I don't see a home assistant market separate from the mobile assistant market. I see an assistant market, broadly, and think people will want the one on their phone to be the same as the one at home. They won't want to use Alexa at home and Google on their phone, for instance. I could be wrong about that, we'll see.
> If your selected charity does not register to participate, becomes ineligible, or requests to be removed from the program, you will have a chance to select a different charity to receive the accrued donations that have not yet been disbursed to your charity. If you do not select a different charity, the accrued donations will be distributed to other organizations receiving donations.

This seems fair.
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian married Serena Williams
Is he wrong?
> Go the safe route and become an expert in a more general field like, for example, mobile.

I don't think this is all that safe, really. What we consider "mobile" development has really only been around for about a decade with the releases of iOS and Android. (Sure, there were mobile platforms before that, but most people didn't really care about them, and specializing in them would likely limit your options, not expand them.) In that time, mobile development has gotten nothing if not easier. So, over time, being a "mobile dev" will become less and less of an important specialization. More people will do it, and the frameworks around it (both those released by Apple/Google, and third-party things on top of it), will make it easier and easier. By that point you might be an "elite" mobile developer who can do certain things on mobile that most others cannot, but the market for that level of specialization will likely also be small.
Every ICO I hear about just sounds like a scam. Maybe I don't understand it, but I have yet to see a case where as an investor I thought "that sounds like a good investment!".

Can someone describe a scenario where an ICO is a win for the investor?

For example, at least with stocks, I get a share of ownership in return for my money. So as the value of the company goes up, the value of my share goes it. It's based on tangible ownership of a real thing. But with a crypto coin, what is the value tied to? Is it really just the perceived value of the underlying asset? And what happens when the company shuts down? They sell all the assets, the real shareholders take all the money, but what happens to all the coin holders?
I hope not (current age = 53). Fortunately, Betteridge's law of headlines will probably keep me employed for quite some time.
In general, there are a lot of contract terms that affect your flexibility as a business, and they are often major negotiating points for large deals. Almost any of them could be considered a call/put option.

But I don't think the goal of accounting is to expose all of those contract terms to casual investors.
Review of “Inadequate Equilibria,” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
I use a Chrome plugin called "HTML5 Content Blocker" which allows me to selectively block JS, CSS, Images, Objects, or Media.

I generally run with only the "Media" switch on, and I haven't seen autoplayed videos in an age. They annoy me mightily.
Agreed to some extent. You still need some expertise as a general software developer in order to write performant, stable apps, but it's certainly a lot easier to go from zero iOS knowledge to a fully working app than it was 5 years ago.
Implementing interfaces in JavaScript with Implement.js
a straightforward solution would be for YT to have some sort of revenue share bundled in for this feature. "Use our service, we take 5% for hosting/discovery". Basically what Patreon does.
Isn't it due to price fluctuations?
Hm, DBmon benchmarks show that Polymer 1.x with polyfills is a lot faster than Angular 1.x which has thousands of production sites and was acceptable not that long ago. So I'm not sure that non-polyfill execution will really fix the performance for you.

Maybe chrome is better at rendering your application structure?
This thread itself is a great example of how this conversation was _not_ pointless. Intellectually interesting points made on both sides about the point of debating.
> But punitive action against people you disagree with is simply unacceptable!

Where your argument falls down is in just reducing this to "people you disagree with." Nazis (even lately) have been responsible for more than just polite disagreements.

For instance Jason Kessler one of the neo-Nazis/white-supremacists was involved in the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville which devolved into violence and one death.

Free speech absolutism [1] is good, but I draw the line at speech leading to violence.

[1] Sidepoint, but framing this as a free speech question is IMO disingenuous because nobody's speech is being taken away here. Just verification from twitter.
Funny to see you people discussing petty caviar-allowance inequality so fervently within your own arbitrary Western borders yet never giving much mindshare to the rampant "developing" country exploitation that is the very source of your general prosperity.

I'm a citizen of third-world country that is being sucked dry by the West for its resources and getting its people shackled to the ground by direct support for the ruling dictatorial regime.

I don't even know why I'm writing this..
> It's already well known that the richest of the 1% did not get there purely through a high wage/salary.

This talks about the 1%, not the few super rich, which is less than 1 out of 100.

It's confusing because often when people say "the 1%" they actually mean multi-millionaires; which is less than 1%.

Most 1%'ers are elite professionals. And this articles argues they make more money because of regulation that creates barriers to competition.

The super rich multi-millionaires and billionaires is a different story.
Your comment reveals that you don't know what you're talking about. Very fast cars are rare so their rate of acceleration looks strange to someone that's not used to it.
We wish...it 'only works once' if the linked article prevents anyone from submitting bugs again.
It's a feature, not of capitalism, but of human interactions in general. (It should not have escaped our attention that any time an "alternative to capitalism" is tried it inevitably winds up with wealth and power even more heavily concentrated, this time in the hands of the people whose job it was to ensure that wealth and power were shared fairly.)

And, to a large extent, of animals. I suppose there are some animal species where all members are more or less equal, but they're probably mostly solitary animals which rarely interact with each other. In social species, massive inequalities, particularly between males, are the norm.
Criminal negligence is, indeed, rare in the courts. However, in civil cases there's still regular old negligence, gross negligence, and in some states, "active negligence," not to mention all the other causes of action which can put punitive damages on the table.
Would be interesting if they only offered this on the (growing number of) demonetized / unmonetizeable YouTube videos.
No, the "add funds" page still says 51,000. Hell, 52,000 now.
Eh, if you're just pulling text-based e-mails through a desktop client, maybe, but these days e-mails can be pretty fat and if you want to use a browser based mail client like say, gmail.com, you're going to have to switch to the "simple HTML" interface.

FYI if you want to get a feel for what browsing at different connection speeds is like there's a setting on the Network tab in the Chrome dev tools that will allow you to do that.
sun built it, oracle bought it, freebsd popularized it, linux has it.
in the case of unattributed information, i would think some edge cases risk lawsuits (libel or other things) or pr problems if the information is wrong.

imdb was sued for revealing a person's age; and while imdb won the case, a law in california was passed that dealt with the matter. what happens if google displays information about you that you feel is private (or some legal jurisdiction asserts is so)?

i noticed that "what should i do if bitten by a snake" does have attribution. however, it seems to me that the information is presented in a "this is the answer" way, ie as trustworthy and actionable... what happens if following whatever google suggests results in harm or death?

either way, i'm surprised google hasn't bothered to add couching language or some notional caveats. (even a "here's what we found:" seems reasonable distancing.)
They also get lots of sunlight, exercise, and have a tight knit community (one of the largest predictors of longevity).
What is "speech leading to violence"? What's the statute of limitations on said such?
Are there any automated trading firms that are specifically focused on exploiting the unintended combined behavior of multiple systems operating in an environment where they modify both their own and each others environment (the stock market being that environment)? While it might be tractable for an organization to construct their system such that it can project its own consequences to its own sphere of interest, once you mix in other systems operating in the same area all bets are off. And once you have the majority of trades being performed by automated or rules-based systems, you ought to detect their parameters through assuming reasonable things about those systems (processors which are limited to a certain number of operations, bounding the latency on their response to change, limitations on the complexity of the systems or rules being used due to needing to be comprehensible to human analysis in its source form, etc) and looking for predictable patterns created primarily by the interactions between those automated systems. Everything I have read about automated trading systems (which of course is always very light on details due to everything being extremely valuable and proprietary) seems to indicate that most automated systems are designed as if they are operating in an environment where the other traders are primarily humans. If anyone has come across indication that they are treating the movements of the market as the output of deterministic software systems rather than 'natural' trading, I'd be appreciative of a link!
You've already lost most users at "rooted" though. It also requires that someone has done the legwork to root a specific model, and it's always a moving target with new phone models which try new ways to prevent you rooting (or voiding your warranty). The majority of manufacturers are unhelpful when it comes to giving you more control over your phone.

All the more reason that things should be free software with anti-tivoization, so that the stock ROM on phones can be replaced easily. Most of android is free, but because it allows non-free parts (drivers, etc), it's a complete mess for people to tinker with devices because the method is different for every model.

You shouldn't really need root to selectively enable permissions for some apps either. The "all or nothing" approach to permissions is a poor design choice.
No, he didn't. Not to me.
I'm not quite 40 yet (36), but part of what I've done is the specialization mentioned in other posts here (in my case, distributed systems with a focus on communications tech), and I've also cultivated my "product sense" to the point where (as an individual contributor) I'll often define and design a product and how customers will use it, in addition to doing the actual implementation. In that sense I have a little bit of breadth; I'm not "just" an engineer, I can also address the customer needs that lead to building a product, and then later refining it.

Understanding customer needs and translating that into product definitions is something that will likely never go out of demand, and is needed in industries outside tech. And if demand for distsys goes out of style I'll just learn something else. I've already kind of done that, having cut my teeth on embedded systems, followed by a short stint in mobile before getting to where I am now.

Judging by what I see around me, I don't see the strategy being any less effective in 10 or more years.
> People invest in ICOs based on a white paper. Risk is a relative term.

Sure. I'm not saying no one would participate in this scheme in the short term, I'm saying if implemented it would quickly collapse in a storm of abuse.

> I can't think of any other way to invest and trade ownership online in properties you (the lender) curate.

Yes, but the reasons no system for that exists don't have anything to do with anything that smart contracts solve (again, unless they are legally replacing title registers.)
Respectfully, I'm going to default back to what I said.

The "notify in good faith" really just fosters a culture of "scratch my back, i'll scratch yours". Frankly, as a white-hat researcher you can be as much of a bad actor as any company and this is a sort of moral hazard that fosters a culture of unfairness and insecurity. If you really care about the overall security of the industry or consumers, you will publish immediately and leave the moral hazard of "perks/special treatment" off the table.

The companies that are reasonable in the way that you describe would not be materially harmed by such a disclosure and do not (okay, rarely) have the most egregious kinds of bugs. It raises the bar for everyone to do this.

Basically, it's not about you; don't make it about you; just publish. Every day that you do not publish, some client could be catastrophically affected by the bug and the company could be seriously dragging-ass on the fix. You have no visibility into this.

(Side note: I'm a developer and I build all of my infrastructure. Getting caught with my pants down by a vulnerability disclosure would totally fucking suck and be 100% my fault. It's my neck on the line. So yes, it will suck, and I might hate you a little, but then I'll realize it's my screw-up and that I need better processes to proactively solve these.)
As I understand it California for example would claim you have a nexus once any stock at all has been moved into an Amazon warehouse in their state. In that case all you would need to see is that Amazon has moved some of your stock into CA and then you would have a nexus and owe sales tax on any sales to customers in CA that your business does, regardless of where that stock comes from.

To clear yourself of this nexus requirement for CA you would need to have had no stock stored there for a 6 month period.

Obviously whether Amazon internally transporting one unit of your stock to CA for a few days constitutes a "substantial presence" is an untested legal question.
That’s already happening. Remember they usually talk household income — the 90th percentile couple is two professionals.

We have this massive underclass that is growing faster. The US is going to be like Brazil in 15-20 years. I’m sorry for my son’s generation.
Intention behind the comment is as stated that I want to try understand the context and intended message behind a quote. Normally this allow for a more nuanced view, and also detect when context dictate the meaning of a quote. By documenting and writing about it maybe someone can point to something I missed, but also give insight to people who don't want to investigate the text themselves.
"what is tom cruise's age" didn't reference a source when i checked.
Conventional wisdom is that with basic (lz4) file system compression, the speed up you get in I/O r/w is substantial enough to be many tens-of-percentages performance improvement.
In which case, there is a credible argument that a PhD is integral to income maximization.
Sounds overly complicated and obscure.
I keep asking in the US when we are going to have had enough of this entire health-care fiasco.

Nobody is happy with it, the people who are victimized by companies like Sutter aren't happy and I guess most folks that work at the Sutters of the country aren't happy either. They are just going through the motions in quite desperation because house payments but it sucks and what they are doing sucks and they know it.

It's kind of like the Soviet Union right before the fall. People knew there were deep structural problems, the plebs, the party officials, they had to have known. But for the time being they just kept going through the motions until one day the the farce just got too onerous to pretend anymore.

That day is about here I think. Or rather hope. The entire setup between government, insurance and corps like Sutter is very truly nuts and isn't serving the needs it was designed for. I don't think that's a fringe belief either but a growing understanding.
Except consumers want the ability to control/check their IoT devices when they are not at home. Most homes in the US do not have a static IP address. Yes, you could set up OpenVPN on a router and use DDNS, but you would still be reliant on a 3rd-party DDNS provider that could always go out of business. Also most home routers supplied by broadband providers do not support OpenVPN.

An admittedly expensive solution would be to use the Ethereum main network to communicate with the IoT device.
Why do you need more than one supermarket?
That's true, though I like that it presents "self-made" as a scale rather than something binary. It allows acknowledging differences that would have been glossed over on a binary scale.

There are big differences between how Laurene Jobs (1), Charles Koch (5), Bill Gates (8) and Oprah Winfrey (10) became as wealthy as they are, and it reflects that.
Well, it turns out languages written for PL and compiler research make writing programming languages and compilers easier...
Agreed. See my dad. An expert on systems running AIX and HPUX. There are not a ton of those around anymore. In the 80's and 90's he told me he would get multiple offers all the time. People fighting over him. Today, he has to fight to find jobs. Luckily he just needs to get by a few more years until retirement.
Or nearly all wind instruments....
That's the spread.