skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, it is that clear cut. Some coiners tried to convince the SEC crypto-to-crypto exchanges were like kind 1031 exchanges and the SEC had none of it. If you've been under the impression it was not a taxable event, you should solicit a very competent tax attorney to get you out of whatever hole you're looking up from the bottom of.
There are a lot of comments here declaring various versions of "slippery slope!".

Looking at history, one would have to conclude that employing science-based methods to improve the natural environment by reversing problems which we have unintelligently created in the past (mosquitoes, rodents, antibiotic resistant bacteria, etc) through our own carelessness isn't necessarily directly linked by a slippery slope to something like eugenics or ecosystem collapse.

We have the potential to do good as well as evil, even capable of implementing laws and international treaties which (for example) prohibit CRISPRing embryos.

Many ideas are worthy of at least being assessed on their merits and not being discarded purely because they belong to a certain class. If there is a genuine slippery slope (which is somewhat ironically claimed with some measure of certainty in the same breath that says we're incapable of foreseeing consequences), but the idea is good, perhaps we could leverage our legal frameworks and social structures to limit that.

It seems crazy that we should be expected to accept the consequences of any negative effects which we have had on the planet to date through our carelessness because approaching them with a scientific method and anything but the crudest tools (pesticides, etc) is labelled "playing god" and totally off limits.
Speaking personally I'd like to know what those factors are.

Is it just location? Is it the type of bike or the clothes we wear?

There was this study https://helmets.org/walkerstudy.htm which has some interesting conclusions but the sample size is a bit small to be statistically valid IMHO.

Oh and I'd add, if it's not clear already, that most drivers seem to be very nice and considerate people. It's just that there are percentage of aggressive people and when they're in cars they drive aggressively.
Look at Japanese, Korean, and European birthrates. Look at the birthrates as a function of how 'developed' a country is. The trend is clear- as countries develop, they die. They stop having kids. Even the US, I'm pretty sure, is below replacement rate- without immigration, their population would be going down. If you want to stop population growth and kill off the human race, do whatever it is Japan, Europe, Korea did to themselves and people will stop having kids.
Terrible maintenance costs for ventilation, plant vehicle access, widening (e.g. temporarily for roadworks), poor kerb access for deliveries/emergency vehicle access, plus a firetrap in the case of a burning vehicle

At least that's what I've worked out from Cities: Skylines.
Doesn't need to be a terminal, touching a broken wire with sweaty hands would be enough to induce flash evaporation of fluids on your skin.
Most of their executives live in NY. Most of their largest investors live in NY. They assisted investors in creating offshore business entities. They used NY accounting firms.

They could simply arrest employees, freeze their assets, and charge them with crimes. Then freeze assets and charge banks that did business with them, similar for investors.

If it wasn't a company largely run by and for Americans living in New York it would be a different story.
https://www.nature.com/news/force-of-nature-gave-life-its-as...

Nature might be slightly biased due to the asymmetry of the weak force.
Absolutely, that was my point: the tool is extremely good but kind of hard to use, a lot of people would definitely benefit from it.
Most but only if the information that they deal with is available as data rather than Microsoft Word and Excel files.
Bearing in mind that this is the same Navy that apparently has such difficulty seeing other ships that they ram into them on a regular basis. There is such an institutional culture of sleep deprivation that it's not really surprising they have a high incident rate for this sort of thing.
Some AMD cards have an Arm build of their UEFI firmware available, which does allow video from boot:
https://developer.arm.com/architectures/system-architectures...
Ask a hundred person in the street if they've ever heard, let alone used, rsync.
Well, my day to day job is writing applications that will be managed at runtime by a JVM on a Linux distro which is in turn virualised.

I am so far away from the bits...
> the samples that were set aside during Apollo for some far-off day when new and better instruments would allow for markedly improved analysis.

However, there is no single mention about new and better instruments that are available now. Does anyone know more details here? Instead, I can imagine that there is another reason to analyze the stones just now: to generate more NASA media coverage to motivate a new lunar mission.
I am awestruck at how smart people on this forum are. Many mod points for your calculations!
Electric submarines have pretty large batteries with very low-voltage cells but where a cell is big enough to deliver huge amounts of current. Completely safe to touch with bare hands, even wet hands, but if you drop a metal tool that shorts a cell, the tool may be vaporized and the resulting metal fumes are very dangerous.
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Asyncpg is not future, it is present. We use it in production and quite happy with it.
probably not all of those things, did you check their specs page?
For a pedestrian it doesn't matter whether you have "right of way", because you can be right a hundred times over and still go to a mortician. That's all I am trying to say. If you are crossing the road, please wait for the cars to stop, or make absolutely sure there aren't any nearby. Cars are multiple-ton steel monsters, it takes a lot of energy and space to slow them down.

Just bringing some perspective from a country with a lot of idiots (that's what they are -- idiots) needlessly risking their lives.
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Some religious people think a human fetus is a fully formed human instead of a bunch of cells that it is. From their point of view, common pro-abortion arguments are "dehumanizing".
It's been done with a single 727, though for research purposes rather than entertainment.

https://youtu.be/FlX8KsSXg4s?t=2760
> But they couldn’t fire most of them. The workers were state employees — employees for life — and therefore protected.

Excessive worker protection is what's wrong with France's economy.
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The real solution is what companies did until early 90s: you cut your company in multiple parts and let those unprofitable bust (and try to sell them before they do). Market consolidation is the worst if you're a pro-market guy.
But it is a different kind of risk aversion when your fiduciary duty is to yourself instead of someone external.

Like how I don't have to have health inspectors come investigate my kitchen to make myself lunch.
> especially on mobile where you can't just add your cert as a trusted cert easily

What do you mean? Do some Androids block it? Or iOS? I've got it easily available in settings.
Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code#Alternative_genet...

Although most (all?) of the variability is in the one place you can make it without almost-certainly killing your host organism - in repurposing the STOP codons. There are usually three (and likely UGG was a fourth before it got hijacked by Tryptophan in the before time) and all you need is one.
But it's not the Bible that is stupid, it's just a book (which might've been considered pretty advanced stuff at the time it was written). What if I have a problem specifically with some of its believers?
Let me float you a hypothetical situation:

you're in command of a few tons of steel, and your priority is to get to some arbitrary location. Your second priority, I assume, is to not murder anyone.

Here's what you know about the environment :
it is populated with (harmless fleshly) people who are also going about fulfilling goals 1 and 2.
You know with high probability that at any given moment one might quickly cross the path of your vehicle - it is normal (80-90% of people do it) to behave this way.

You can:

- reduce your speed, knowing that accidental collisions are likely. This slightly penalizes your first goal, but greatly increases the outlook for the second.

- Blame 80-90% of everyone, for not taking the cost onto themselves to ensure you can get to your goal quickly without much effort.

I guess it also boils down to your views on responsibility:

"I shouldn't be accountable when the risky situations which i knowingly entered materialize into accidents. Especially because these risks mostly apply to others."

or

"I am personally directing a large amount of kinetic energy for convenience reasons and am responsible of where it ends up. the onus of carefulness befalls me and not the other unwilling participants as they are handling much less kinetic energy and therefore by themselves orders of magnitude less likely to cause the death or injury of others."
Ooo that's a good idea, I will definitely start implementing this
not with 12V. 12V batteries are pretty safe for human skin contact. If you put your wet tongue across a 12V battery it will hurt, but not more than that (it's a good way to test 9V batteries actually)
Here is how the C64 keyboard works in great detail: http://www.c64os.com/post?p=45
That's really cool. I'm curious,I envy people like OP for their tenacity. I barely have time to follow what's happening in IT, much less get ahead of the pack in doing cools hacks like this.

http://bestbuyonlin.com/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE...
I think this is the point. Malls in cities in other countries are not as pedestrian/public transit unfriendly as they are in the US.
Note: This is for NodeJS.

Is there some good practice/frameworks to go the other way around?
Often find my self crawling data to a database.
From the content guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

—-

This is politics and should be flagged.
Haptic Touchbar also helps a bit (but I am not going to buy it) https://www.haptictouchbar.com
When I was doing my Ph. D., I also ended up teaching some software engineering related courses. One thing that struck me and that I've since fixed by becoming a software engineer was the notion that here I was teaching Software Engineering without any experience whatsoever actually engineering any software professionally. This is the big problem in academic education on this topic: the teachers typically have little or no relevant experience actually engineering software because they have been in university all their life and as such lack experience working for extended periods of time with an actual team on some actual non trivial software. Lets just say that I learned a lot about this stuff after I left the academic world.

A good practical introduction to software engineering should cover a lot of ground and most of it is going to be non technical. Learning how to program is mostly out of scope for a software engineering introduction. Assume the students have already learned some programming language and have some experience building small programs and maybe have already had some algorithm courses, etc. It doesn't really matter what language or tools they use. For the purpose of an introduction, pick something simple where the focus is mostly not going to be fighting with the tools.

The key thing to learn as a software engineer is working with multiple people and the project dynamics that are associated with that. So:

- project management and different roles in software projects, different ways of structuring teams, etc.

- overview of different process methodologies common in the industry and where they came from: scrum, kanban, watefall (don't do this), etc.

- different types of testing and their importance for continuous integration and deployment

- different strategies for estimating cost, complexity, duration, etc. and their flaws and pitfalls.
The interesting thing is that you can't bias a real coin (unless it's allowed to bounce around after falling). As long as you catch the coin after flipping, you're going to get 50/50 chances, no matter how the coin is weighted. https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~nolan/Papers/dice.pdf
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Try measuring your resistance with a multimeter. You'll find that it is way more than 10 Ohm, which is why 12V is not dangerous to humans.
> improvising rush-it-for-profit "science" that still e.g. can't eradicate the common cold and misses tons of basics (until recently they thought "junk dna" was useless) but is confident to play the sorcerer's apprentice

Do you seriously believe that? Do you completely ignore all the things the 'rush-it-for-profit "science"' done right in the past centuries, and the benefits you personally derive from that?

It's like saying that progress is bullshit because we still don't have hoverboards[0]. It turns out that some of the things we can easily conceptualize are hard, whereas some not immediately obvious things are easy, both in engineering and science.

--

[0] - the real kind, not the name-appropriating Li-Ion fire starters on two wheels.
Speaking as a Dutchman, I experience much more flexibility and freedom riding a bike than my car.

That's probably a consequence of both the overcrowding of our roads, and the density of our infrastructure -- I rarely have to drive more than 15 minutes to reach any kind of shop, and by bike I can take shortcuts that my car can't follow, especially in inner cities.

Ultimately, my car has been relegated to recreational purposes only -- everything else in my life (work, shopping, friends) I can do by bike or public transport. For me, it doesn't really feel like a conscious personal choice -- it feels more like the pragmatic consequence of our infrastructure design.
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I remember watching the twin towers collapse on 9/11, and the part of me that wasn't thinking "Oh God!" was thinking "Wow, that looks just like a special effect".
You misunderstand.

I'm not advocating running a local web-server. That's bad.

What I'm saying is that none of the big actors are using custom protocols anymore even though lots of them used to, because browser security policies have rendered them useless for regular end-user interaction.

They have all found other approaches instead. (Some bad, like here. Others better, like the solutions I chose instead).
That would totally fit in to Burning Man.
Not sure if you've heard of NGrok, but this tunnels your server and can be accessed outside of your network with or without https.

https://ngrok.com/
He's walking from Ethiopia to the Southern tip of America and is currently in Eastern India. It's pretty interesting but he still has a long way ahead of him
I'm trying to view your comment in perspective. Aren't there a lot of Chinese folks with similar skills, nowadays? I mean, there are a lot of cheap devices on the Chinese market, with an overall complexity greater than Apple ][. Yes, these systems are mostly glued together from SoC devices, but the Apple ][ was also built around a (then) sophisticated building block, 6502.
What do you mean by APR?
When I first stumbled upon reports from 9/11 when channel surfing (I think it was before the second plane hit), I thought I'm seeing some weird thriller movie, and continued switching channels. Only later that day I learned it was all real.
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Hey HN,

currently I work a lot with C++ and would like to improve my coding skills. Where can I learn about idioms and patterns and when to use them (and when not to!)?
Are there any blogs, articles, talks or books you can recommend?
I have a copy of Modern Effective C++, but that does not really go inter wider patterns or design choices.
Currently I'M reading "Clean Code", and will probably read "Clean Architecture" next.
Right now, I have no possibility to perform regular code reviews, but are the any "self-regulating" tricks I could use to improve code quality?
My comment is a critique of the content of his article, not an "opinion of what he supposedly thinks" in need of his recognition.

If "thinking that" are trigger words now, replace it with "acting as if" to same effect.
Sure, as long as we are focussed on the issue and are mentally prepared to change our ways a little bit, if needed.
At this point it's nearly becoming unethical not to use a gene drive.

Warming climate is spreading more and more diseases via insects. West nile, malaria, zika, chagas, lyme are all very much alive and kicking with no quick effective cure or management method in sight.

It's already ruined outdoor camping for example, I would not want my family members to be at risk of an infected tick bite, and the problem is getting worse every year.
Lyme disease would mean a lifetime of medication and discomfort.
By not using a gene drive and just arguing on the hypothetical dangers of it, we are letting more and more people suffer and inevitably use much harsher chemical methods to manage the problem.
There's a tiny bit of variation across the tree-of-life, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code#Alternative_genet...

But the variation is in the one place you could possibly have it - by changing the interpretation of one or two of the three available STOP codons.
Is there any scope for legislation mandating that cameras have a hardware button to turn off?
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> simon w's datasette

That's awesome. Thanks for the tip!
Perhaps, yet when you are there you are there the lifestyle seems rather attractive. You win some and lose some.
Thats odd since Chromecast streams directly from WiFi - you don’t send the video to it from your phone, it simply picks up where you left by sending a resource URL.
You need automute, buddy https://apps.apple.com/us/app/automute-preventing-awkward-si...
> "Except it's actually still a crime to do that"

So is smoking dope in California. Nobody is getting arrested for threatening ISIS.
No incentive to use public transport is exaggeration. More than half of India is reliant on public transportation in some form or another. If the Delhi Metro or the Mumbai Local shuts down, there’ll be riots within an hour. Just a couple of weeks ago a 1km stretch of Delhi metro on the yellow line shut down and the whole south of the city was gridlocked in 30 mins in the afternoon (when it usually isn’t). Even in rural areas, a vast majority of people are still dependent on public transit in the form of government buses, private buses, taxis, tempos, autorickshaws etc.

Public transportation is the backbone of India. I can only agree to the point is that it’s uncomfortable and overcrowded to use.
If you're writing a hooking library / a hook you should be keeping track of where they are. It's a big hook, that is true but it's also one that doesn't spoil a register and is pretty straightforward to add. It's a tradeoff.
I read the excellent A Time Of Gifts, in which the author as a young man walked across 1930s Europe. While he relied on money sent from home in the form of postal orders in advance to European capitals, which would not be available to Stewart, this occasionally ran out. So he also relied a lot on being a guest of people he met, often with letters of introduction from a previous host. Or staying for free in Orthodox Greek monasteries. Where that failed he had to come up with moneymaking schemes such as being a portrait sketch artist in Vienna, or just foraging and wild camping.

Think about it. Late 1700s in the Middle East, predating the telegraph, train, postal, radio, or television era. All entertainment is local, all news is oral. Someone from England, a place so far away and storied that it might as well be Mars, turns up in the town. Is it really possible that nobody invites him to dinner? In a culture where hospitality is a supreme virtue?

You can still find that attitude in some places, but like a lot of natural resources it's been eroded by the very tourists that came to see it.

(Edit: I would strongly encourage anyone who is the least bit romantic about travel to read A Time Of Gifts, although you will need to keep diving out to wikipedia every five minutes to keep up with the author's historical and literary references. What's remarkable is the number of times he just turns up somewhere and lands on his feet - several times he simply comes to the end of the day, knocks on the door of the first house he comes to, joins the family for their meal, sleeps on their floor, and if he risks making an offer of payment it is sternly refused. This works with Bavarian woodcutters, nomadic herders in Bulgaria, but also German aristocracy. In return he offers his immense personal charm. It helps that he has a classical education; the peak of this is later, during the war, when on a peak of Cyprus he exchanges Horace quotes with the German general he has just captured.)
Of course. Here I was talking about HEU/Pu.
I see no point in wasting words seeing how differing viewpoints are received here. Somebody has even bothered to go over my comment history and downvote everything.

I think you'd see it in a very different light if you were living here. I am honestly very worried for my friends and relatives who drive, most of whom do it very, very carefully, and still they have yearly encounters with adults who behave like feeble-minded children.

BTW, didn't I say I don't have a driver's license?
Your comment is a critique of a lot of content you read into his article without the formality of it actually being there.
Well, moving a working locomotive is relatively easy compared to a non-working one ;-)
That's clever, I beat my head against the wall a few times trying to force direct mappings to other functions.
Even the most primitive current life forms are highly optimized and adapted. I don't think the evolution and adaptability of primitive earliest life forms was similar as it is today. Earliest cells were very unstable shaky chemical assemblies and would be eaten by any organism that exists today.

> You can find less efficient photosynthetic pathways dominating their environment (see c4 rice project).

It's not absolute advantage. c4 has advantage in warm and low CO2, low water conditions. In colder climates and with more CO2 and water c3 plants gain more carbon.