skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, You've misunderstood my comment.

Some people, like the person I was responding to, are looking at Situation 1 in the ruling as saying that when a fork happens and there are two cryptocurrencies and you didn't receive any additional "new" cryptocurrency (just two, now independently spendable, copies of cryptocurrency you already had) that taxes aren't owed.

They adopt this reading in part because the only other interpretation of Situation 1 is that it's talking about an irrelevant and uninteresting case.

They imagine that you only owe taxes if in addition to the coins copied by the fork you also receive additional "air drop" units, Situation 2's 'owned 50, airdropped 25' contributes to that interpretation.

They think in situation 1 you have 50 coins of M and 50 coins of N and owe no taxes, and in situation 2 you have 50 coins of R and 75 coins of S and owe taxes on 25 S.

I think this interpretation doesn't work well, both because it's totally silent on the cost basis of the copied coins and because of the text at the top of page 5.

As a separate problem with this ruling, if you do adopt the view that when a fork comes into existence you "received" coins, there is usually no fair market value at that time because the coins were not tradable in any way until later. In some cases seen so far one side of the fork or another doesn't become effectively tradable for months, we may eventually see examples where a market doesn't form for years.

[In a few cases there is potentially a FMV at fork time, e.g. when there were liquid futures markets ahead of the fork (has only happened even arguably once, AFAIK), or when many market participants decided to give the new asset the old asset's ticker.]
There is a factor. The energy it takes to melt metal is hard to get around. The US manufactures more than we are given credit for, and there have been improvements in efficiency, but it is still energy intensive and hard to get around it. Thus services are a factor in that they need less energy.

Other factors:

Things last longer. (when there isn't planned obsolesce) We have learned to make things higher quality, so even when we make something the energy cost to replace it latter is deferred a little.

The miles people drive isn't increasing. Something as somehow got people to drive more and more each year. Services is probably a factor in that: why drive to X when you can stay home... (walking - or even driving someplace closer count as staying home)

It is really hard to know which factors are important though.
They are compound words similar to what you can do in German and other Germanic languages with the exception of English.

"Lokomotivmannsforbund" = "train engineers union" :)

We also commonly make up compound words on the fly making it very hard to use things like swiftkey without typing the two words and then removing the space as they are in no word list.
It's not. Donating to help lawyers and humanitarian orgs clean up the mess your company is enabling this agency to create isn't the same as refusing to cooperate with them in the first place.
> It's easy to get people to take your side of made up stories.

These are not made up stories. Chinese population remembers about having finally electricity everywhere and moving from working farm fields to maybe getting a job in a factory and not using outhouses. There are over a billion of them.

HK population remembers being a special people with British institutions. There are 7.4 million of them.
I like that the argument is traveling to a new continent is more exciting than traveling to a new planet. Some of the first people to Australia and the colonies were criminals. The first settlers also dealt with disease and untimely death on a regular basis. You've glamorised it quite a bit when in fact it was miserable.

You are absolutely correct about one thing though. There were many people traveling for a new life. Just like the travels from East to West in the US during the gold rush people went there for wealth, opportunity, and land but not for easy living. I suspect the push for exo planets will be the same.

If we are able to unlock FTL and the time and finacial investment to get there is low or comparable enough to a human lifetime then I see people, assuming we aren't just digital intelligence by then, moving there to start a new life and get away from whatever society is going through. There is always a disenfranchised portion of the population willing to give up their life for a new one somewhere else. Even if the journey and new life is relatively harder to what the rest of society is living in.
I think the issue here is that you rapidly get into some sort of absurd state in which you have no idea what to optimize for, or even if you do, you end up "evolving" another species entirely.

Imagine that we could do all of that on Earth. Imagine an individual that has no need for natural light, no need to green space. Go further - perhaps they don't need to socialize, they don't need a diet any more varied than a few pills, they don't need entertainment of any kind.

Combine those mental changes with physical ones (for example, who needs limbs that can support weight if you're in zero-g).

You easily get to the state in which what you're making is no longer a human being but some sort of 'creation'.

It's possible in the sense of "this is not against the laws of physics", it's just hard to really fathom what it means, it becomes a Theseus' ship of "is that thing really still human", I think.
After reading your description I took a moment to analyze my thoughts and feelings toward booking and I think that first and easily distinguishable emotion that came to my mind was mild anxiety.

I'm pretty sure that this hostile UI brings them money and that's why they are doing it but on the other hand I'm wondering if in the long run customers negative feelings/connotations toward service will eventually matter.
This article from 2013 shows some impressive password-generating techniques that cracked secure-looking passwords like momof3g8kids. It doesn't specifically give an example like MyDogRules###########!, but it seems reasonable they could get it by similar methods of concatenating multiple password fragments.

[0]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/how-c... (OK, the passwords were hashed only with MD5)
I'm personally against transhumanism; I think our human nature is the only thing that gives life any meaning. But I understand there may be people here who don't agree with that perspective.

But even just on a practical level, I think it's still a taller order than figuring out high-speed space travel and some sort of cryogenic system.
The guidance does have a defintion of ownership: "Under § 61, all gains or undeniable accessions to wealth, clearly realized, over which a taxpayer has complete dominion, are included in gross income."

If you are the sole possessor of a private key which grants control of a cryptocurrency address then you have complete dominion over the crypto at that address. Under situation 2 of the guidance: "B has dominion and control of Crypto S at the time of the airdrop, when it is recorded on the distributed ledger, because B immediately has the ability to dispose of Crypto S."

Taken in the most taxpayer hostile interpretation that means that if the ledger is duplicated you have income because you have the ability to dispose of the forked coin with your private key even if you have no desire to touch it in any way.
I guess what I am learning about myself lately is that I have the power to lie to people and convince them to do things they don't want to do or don't know better.

People know this about me. They know it almost instantly. I sense it in them.

I sense the same about other people. They have that power over me.

However, I make an effort not to. Or, when I do, I work especially hard to steer them in the direction of their goals or somewhere that will benefit them. Even if it's at my own expense sometimes and that can be sad or disappointing.

And so, through that, I have come to resent people who don't think that way. Who think, "People won't look at the number of ounces in the can, they'll just see it's the same size and think they're getting the same amount."

It's a lie. Deception. It's wrong.

But yet, we allow it in society.

It's destroying us. It's all around us. Fake news. The US President. Marketing. Stack Overflow.

So, why put up with it? It's not that you even know you're putting up with it. Some of us do. Most don't. Scammers proliferate.

It's more like, How do we protect the innocent people? Why as a species, do we allow some of us to prey on others?

It doesn't seem good to me.
https://sourcesort.com/contribute is an interesting list. How is it generated?

I'd love to hear a bit about the backend code too: how the search works, what stack powers the site, any libraries/tools you find indispensable, etc. I like the minimalist design.
> The idea that fundamental differences in approaches to incarceration drove the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union strikes an odd chord from our current vantage point. Today 2.3 million people are locked up in the United States, and an additional 4.5 million are on parole or probation, for a total of around 2 percent of the population under state control.

If you're looking for the "fundamental differences in incarceration" that separate Gulag from prison, maybe it would be wise to also consider how executions and severity of forced labor come into play. This statistic generated by adding number of people on parole to people locked up strikes me as meaningless BS.

I'm not happy that the US seems to be developing police state tendencies and a lot of the rest of this article rang true, but based on how disingenuous the intro seems I can't help but assume the whole thing is trash.
>protesters should ask more nicely?

The protesters have never asked nicely. The history of HK protests post handover has been couched in nativism bigotry against mainland China, the very audience they should be trying to win over. If their problem was the Chinese government, they wouldn't be targeting mainland people and their businesses. Whatever little effort they made to reach out was framed in "support us because you're brainwashed" language. They would be burning CPC government flag instead of the Chinese national one. They wouldn't be waving western flags, which may as well be tiki torches, or appealing to western authorities.

Ever considered why no one ever had the idea of waving the Chinese flag and petitioning the Chinese for change? They should try it. It's easy for the CPC to look the other way and watch the city burn, it's much harder for the CPC to ignore 2 million HKers who wave the Chinese flag for a better future. Of course that doesn't play well with the west, but maybe they shouldn't be focusing on them in the first place. The cost of their strategy is that on mainland China, whose sentiment their future depends upon, HK protestors are viewed as the equivalent of alt-right agitators instead of patriots: disenfranchised, social media savvy, economically anxious youth who see their culture being displaced and their privileged being eroded by immigrant mainlanders. Rich ones come in to buy all the property, poor ones use up all the social services. These are common complaints to the mainland locust narrative - when the mainland sends their people, they're not sending their best.
If you've got a mix of applications that can run on linux (for example .Net Core) and some that can't (.Net Framework) it lets you keep a similar pipeline for managing environments and deployments.

I'm not using it in production yet, but I've been watching it for a couple of years as it becomes more stable.

Still waiting on the next update (Windows 10 19H2) that lets you run windows containers build using older base versions on newer host OSes. Currently if the host and container image aren't the exact same version it will run in Hyper-V instead of as a light weight container.
The topic thread was in response to the assertion that the "West" engages in suppressing dissent by censoring political speech in a manner that parallels what is happening with China.

The example given does not come close to that, but is an example of someone being censored.

In the US at least, censorship is typically brought on by pressure from sponsors and advertisers in response to public outcry.

In the US, The Freedom of Speech is heavily protected against government interference.
Even if I accept that life extension tech and destructive brain scanning is more than 50 years out, why would that mean humanity will never reach the stars?

50 years or 5000, as a species it just needs to happen eventually.
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> China learned nothing from the USSR

On the contrary, they learned that USSR's self imposed isolation was fundamentally flawed and largely stagnated the Soviet economy. It also put them behind the Western world in terms of R&D. China is attempting to put those lessons to use and attempting to have an "Western opened" totalitarian regime. So far, it seems to be working. Accepting Western capital and tech, stealing everything they can find, and suppressing anything that's a threat to their system while requesting their system become normalized. Whereas we used to shut out the Soviet Union, we welcome China.

+1 on taking the side, it's hard to see China as anything less than hostile to Western democracy.
> This app helps answer questions like "will I get shot with a bean bag round if I come out of this MTR station..."

Helpful and sassy comment.
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The Hong Kong protestors don't care about what happens to China. They are only protesting about what happens in Hong Kong.
Is there anyone (in discussions about this topic) advocating not maintaining and not respecting what we currently have? I've seen comments similar to yours made in every single discussion about colonizing off Earth, and I've never seen a useful discussion as a result.
Luckily I don’t have a landline so it’s all mobile :)
Synonyms and context clues exist, you know.
The issue here is Octopus is like a CI server - customers can run arbitrary code in the instance (not a problem most SaaS apps have). So a VM per customer was almost the bare minimum.

Cloud CI platforms typically solve this by timesharing build agents, but that takes engineering effort, which is a waste of effort if there's not a lot of demand in the first place. That's why we started with the MVP.
With all the climate change denying I see going on left and right (just open any mainstream news website and read the comment section under an article related to climate change) I started to feel like we truly deserve to go exctinct. What do my contributions matter if the masses around me are all screaming that climate change is bullshit and that people trying to fight it are [insert insultive noun]s.
I'm not sure I understand your opinion at all here. The protesters don't want to impact Mainland Chinese citizens lives whatsoever.

The demands are pretty clear and not at all an attempt to become the US/UK or fundamentally change Chinese culture. HK already views itself as culturally, economically, and politically separate from China. There is an agreement between HK and Mainland China to allow them to function independently for 50 years and that is not being upheld, or at least that is what is perceived by people in HK.

The rest of the stuff you are saying is moot once you recognize those key factors. They don't want anything for China, they want HK to be allowed to do what it's supposed to be allowed to do; govern itself without interference, which was agreed to by both parties.
Coding the Google Search homepage in HTML and CSS in 40 minutes (x5 speed)
If I was a Chinese strategist, I would announce a root and branch re-certification of the 737-MAX (in Chinese of course) as a completely new type.

Especially have just buttered up Airbus with 300 A320 orders in March. And even more so if I was convinced the C919 will certify in 2021.

There also aren't many places to sell aircraft by the hundreds.
>nuclear warheads gave us nuclear power and brought a long peace in the world. They were very beneficial.

And tomorrow they could wipe out the whole planet (besides the 250,000 people they've already wiped out). What would the verdict be at that case? Probably there wont be one, as there would be noone to make it (or noone who cares to make it).

>"Societal advancement" is a totally relative term.

My sentiments exactly. So one can't throw it willy nilly when they merely mean technological advancement. Nazi Germany was more technologically advanced than the Weimar republic that preceded it, for example, but few would consider it a "more advanced" society towards more social harmony in general...

>Advancement towards what? Individual Freedom? Collectivism? OOps ... politics*

Yeah, so? You can have technological progress without getting into politics on whether it's progress, but you can't have "progress" in abstract without defining towards what.

"Freer markets" for example, or "more democracy" is already talking politics...

>Technology is monotonically advancing towards more advanced (complex) effective tools, always.

That's also false. Civilizations have lost technology and regressed backwards at a few points (the "dark ages" after the Roman empire was one of them).

And, magical thinking and wishing aside, there's no guarantee from the universe that it can't happen again, even in a much more severe state. Either caused by man (e.g. after a nuclear war or similar) or by forces of nature (e.g. a meteor or similar).
Note that treating cryptocurrency as a "foreign" currency would not be magic; you still have to pay capital gains on any transaction over $200 AFAIK. But the IRS decided it's property so you still have to calculate capital gains on pizza and alpaca socks.
Downloaded the new MacOS And now every single one of my apps or programs on my Mac crashes and will not open
He didn't say it was impossible. He said it was impractical. "will not" vs "can not"
Generally it's the PR department that figures out how to spin things
Got it, and likewise I could have not made assumptions and jumped to the conclusion that I understood your comment. I got lost between theory and practice. I think I agree with all of what you said when we're talking about theoretical limits and theoretical near 100% efficient regeneration. It's just that in practice, regenerative braking on a Tesla is not that efficient, and it isn't something that recovers most of your energy spent accelerating, it only recovers a minority share normally, and often only a very small minority.
No, there's really no sane way to interpret that statement as being insulting. The entire statement was about swine flu, pork production and other very obviously pig-related things. Only a terribly incompetent mistranslation could have yielded an insult out of it, and such a mistranslation would surely have been detected immediately.

There's just no sensible explanation for why anyone would get upset by that statement.
GitHub workers demand company cut ties with ICE
How?

A lot of Chinese people have iPhones. Are you just going to hack all of them or replace all of them over night?
I don't even think it will come to this. The Earth has already starting fighting back. I think it is much more likely that we have massive loss of human life long before the planet becomes unlivable. Empty aquifers, food monoculture, and antibiotics overuse are going to come home to roost and we'll quickly learn what a sustainable population is.
Samsung has just closed its last phone manufacturing plant in China and has no such production left in the country:

The shutdown of Samsung’s last China phone factory comes after it cut production at the plant in the southern city of Huizhou in June and suspended another factory late last year, underscoring stiff competition in the country.

The South Korean tech giant’s ceased phone production in China follows other manufacturers shifting production from China due to rising labor costs and the economic slowdown.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21143405
Or buy them from Brazil. Like they are now since the tariffs happened.

It's not a question of switching to Brazil. China was already buying from Brazil. But Brazil doesn't have the capacity to make up for a cut-off of American supplies.

Further, soybeans are seasonal. The reason that China buys from both the U.S. and Brazil is because they have harvests at opposite times of the year. Even if Brazil managed to magically ramp up to fill 100% of China's need in each Brazilian growing season, what is it going to do the other six months of the year?
A common albeit reductive meme around the entire controversy is that Blizzard games were already declining in popularity (especially Starcraft and HotS) so it's easy to boycott them.

Path of Exile is an interesting case as I know a lot of Diablo players went there since Diablo III is effectively on life support (including myself), but the resurfacing of the Tencent ownership news is causing ethical complications: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/df5zx7/anyone_...
I don't believe the message is "don't even try", it's more "this isn't anywhere near as realistic as you think it is and if you're relying on it for our continued survival you're a fool".
This is the second video I've done like this. Let me know if you like the style of video and if you would like to see me code another UI. I think I'm going to do the super smash bros character selection screen for my next one!
Totally worth the money :)

https://youtu.be/c3Cq0sy4TBs
MPEG layer 3 (MP3) differs from layers 1 and 2 in the fact that the frame data for a given audio frame can be spread out over several consecutive MP3 frames, that makes the stream effectively VBR (variable bitrate) even if the total bitrate is fixed at e.g. 128kbit/s. due to that you cannot simply cut at MP3 frame boundaries.

I wrote code to on-the-fly and in-memory convert a fixed bitrate MP3 stream into a variable bitrate one with differing frame length for each frame, adding padding data if needed to adhere to the allowed standard frame sizes. Once I had that I could drop or repeat MP3 frames, thus making the music play faster or slower. Since the reconstruction filters in MP3 decoder where already working across frame boundaries, they would also help to smooth over the artificial transitions introduced by this.

This works nicely up to a speed change of +/- 10%, going much slower would e.g. noticeably double snare drum hits or other percussive sounds.

of course you can also reassemble the frames in reverse order, I have a prototype MP3 "DJ" player where you can use a jog wheel to scrub forwards and backwards through an MP3 file without decoding it.

there, my secret is out :)
It's also a trade-off between a functional computer and a brick.

(I upgraded someone's MBP to Lion(?) and the graphic accelerated GUI elements of that version caused it to crash hard, often.

Turns out it had a desoldered GPU for which a recall was issued, but Apple still refused to fix it.)