skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Practical Guide to Functional Programming, with JavaScript and Java
Their support is non-existent. There's no recourse for restaurants giving you the runaround, which is often the case when you're ordering late at night.
If you didn’t claim depreciation previously then why is it depreciated?
> The office said it could provide Malamud with a paper copy of the code’s 38 volumes, at 20 cents a page. There are 29,000 pages. If he required a digital version, the office would scan its own paper copy into a digital file for a much higher, albeit unspecified, price, payable in advance.

TBF that one requesting information would bear the costs of that request does make sense, for instance FOIA requesters may get charged the costs of searching, collecting, and copying the records they're asking for. One could debate the price of 20c a page, but if they are bound books to be copied page by page, the price is if anything low: at 10s a page it's 2 weeks, full time, for an employee.

If it's a bunch of binder and there's a copy machine which can be fed piles of loose pages then it's bullshit. Such an administration would have access to relatively large-scale copier, the CPP of which can't be above 10c, and likely is below 5c.
Current cancel culture activism is indistinguishable from 1950s McCarthyism which they like to condemn. It would seem that they have no sense of decency.
You cannot dismiss entire branches of geology like that. The evidence is not "tiny" or "infinitesimal". Sure, it takes care, effort, and specialised techniques to find it, but it is there, and we need a theory that explains it.

Much of the research into geology has been funded by the oil industry, who are enormously interested in knowing these kinds of processes, in the hopes it will help them locate it.
When I first arrived in Hong Kong, I asked some colleagues about learning Cantonese. They told me that people in Hong Kong tend to be very hard-working, and you have one or two sentences to convince them that speaking with you in Cantonese is just as efficient use of their time as speaking to you in English.

I have a friend who was born here, looks local, but spent her formative years in Canada. She has been back in Hong Kong for more than 15 years now, but still isn't happy with her Cantonese conversational skills because she speaks with a bit of a Canadian accent and people usually force her to speak English after hearing her speak a couple sentences of Cantonese.

It's fair enough; my friend isn't paying these people to be speaking partners, and is trying to extract a bit of a knowledge tax from them.

On the other hand, when I run into people whose English isn't particularly good, they are very willing to stumble through a very rough mixture of Mandarin and Cantonese with me when it's the most efficient way for us to communicate. In these cases, it's not uncommon for people to continue to speak Mandarin at my wife, after I've told them in Mandarin "She's Thai overseas Chinese; she can only speak Thai and English". My wife has learned to break eye contact to discourage them from continuing to talk at her, and to avoid giving the impression she secretly understands Mandarin. I don't think the people even realize they're speaking at my wife and getting responses from me; some people just seem to find it more awkward to speak Mandarin with a white person than to speak Mandarin at a Chinese-looking person who's clearly not paying attention.
I've had good luck buying old gaming pc parts off my friends. If they're upgrading their cpu, they normally have a mobo/ram/cpu to sell.
Examples like this are how I realized that almost everything is subjective.

Things we think are objective are usually subjective things that we decided to agree on.
We had a battle with the sysadmins, we trying to do pranks and the sysadmins trying to find us. This was around 1996 or so (I remember this because Quake had just come out).
Anyway. I remember us communicating with the sysadmins by writing small messages in files we where not supposed to be able to access.
With the development of additive synthesis techniques, technically any form of audio/sound is possible. However, replicating a single acoustic (or "organic") sound - much less an entire composition - through this technique would be strenuous and prohibitively labor intensive. Analogously, it would be like rendering a new banana by arranging some atoms.

Although we can technically "do anything" with the tools before us, there are still great strides to be made in harnessing the power to organize and control them. For this reason, I think we're still far from seeing the full potential of electronic music. We need better tools, and methods for manipulation of electronic instruments. We can barely even replicate and sequence the timbral control of something as seemingly simple as singing.
> Without a brain, these thoughtless bodies are not persons and are 100% ethical resources to use for the betterment of mankind

We haven't even reached consensus on aborting a fetus a day afer its heart tissue has differentiated...
> They were most certainly against this technology.

Absolutely not. They were absolutely willing to operate the machinery. They could have produced more cloth at the same price, or distributed more of the earnings back to the workers. It's not a boolean outcome where it's either "the machines or the Luddites". There are plenty of ways to solve the problems they raised without doing away with either.
NFTs just happen to be the token du jour, and it's a bit sad that a16z is peddling them. There's nothing of value here, and no one will care in 4 years. Remember Crypto Kitties[1]? Don't worry, no one else does either. The idea of "proof of ownership" makes no sense in a digital context, anyway, and the best way forward (if actually trying to solve this problem) isn't with some pump-and-dump token, but rather with DRM-style certificates.

But no one's really trying to solve the problem of digital ownership, provenance, chain of custody, or original verifiability, they're just trying to get rich.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoKitties/
Because you don't want to go to jail for tax evasion? You don't pay tax on the profit, you pay tax on the sale.

My state also requires that you report everything you bought online from out of state so they can charge sales tax on it. Luckily Amazon has a distribution center in my state that charges sales tax so this is a much shorter list than it used to be.
Water is life or death. So they might have to try it.

Go block oil extraction in the Arab world and USA will be all over you...national interest.
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This might seem surprising, but I think this makes sense. The IRS is out there to collect money, and should be neutral regarding the legality of the source of the money. It's up to the prosecutor to decide if the tax payer did something wrong and prove that.

Take drugs for example. Marijuana is legal is some states and illegal in other states. The IRS is federal and should not care about the legality of weed on a particular state. It's up to the tax payer to figure out if what he is doing is legal.
> Asana IPO'd last year and still wasn't profitable

This is interesting to hear. From my research last year, it’s more expensive compared to Jira. I had to use Asana at work for high-level planning and it was, in my experience working as an engineer, an inferior product compared to Jira. The only upside I could see is the reporting/project overview and search. But these features are only useful to the manager. For me, it’s just a cumbersome tool. I’ve tried to get used to it, but I wasn’t sold.

Some things that made it difficult to use Asana:
- No markdown support for the longest time.
- No code block formatting.
- Old comments collapsed by default, which hides the full context. This caused people to miss information and ask questions that were already answered.

I do realize Jira and Asana are not trying to address the same problem space. But to manage a team of engineers I would pick Jira every time.
Well, clearly you don't subscribe to the same epistemology as the critical rationalists, etc. So naturally you bristle.

There are few facts, only conjectures that your sensorium fails to reject to various degrees. We then overload 'fact' to mean more things than logical truisms constructed from axioms and to extend to conjectures that we have collectively failed to reject despite strong attempts.

The asteroid extinction hypothesis is fact in this (mainstream) terminology.
I strongly suspect it will.
I haven't thought at all about bloggers, that's a really good tip!

Unfortunately I'm one of those people without a fb account, so that's out of the question for me. Twitter is similar, I have no wish to make this all about me, but rather about the product itself.

With regards to reddit: I've been following those subreddits for a while now, but it's hard to justify to myself to spend that much time there to market my app, compared to using that time to improve it.
That's something I'll have to find a balance for I guess.

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.
There are also lots of places to build nuclear power plants without NIMBYs.

Point being, NIMBYs often have a rather inflated idea of what counts as "in my back yard".
Feature request - Loop(repeat).
Looping would be great during coding session.
Just a side note: reading fast doesn't make you learn fast. Be sure to take notes, to apply the knowledge in practical problems (project or small script), and make sure to revisit the topics, because you will forget things of you only do them once.

These are some of the principles of meta-learning that have been helping me greatly for the last year.
SKAO Publishes Construction Proposal and Delivery Plan for the SKA Telescopes
Unless you are selling a boat or a car at a garage sale you probably can't calculate depreciation. Typically only capital items can depreciate.
The IRS says that the item depreciates whether you claim it or not. It is in your best interest to claim it, because when you sell the item, they assume the depreciated value.

This comes up when you own rental houses. If you sell the house later, they reduce the base price by the assumed depreciation of the structure, whether you took the deduction or not.
Genuinely curious: What other ways would your audience have found you?

I’ve given thought to how a new web site or business quickly grows an audience without social. With search engines, the site still needs to be “seen” by the engine and compete with more established sites.
not any more (vis USA and Arab world) - is the fifth fleet still there in persian gulf ?
There are almost $30 trillion growing in retirement funds.

https://www.napa-net.org/news-info/daily-news/retirement-ass...
I upvoted because a lot of people feel the way you do and those of us with pro-nuclear views should practice making our case constructively.

And because I don't like my contrarian views to be silenced, either.
> In theory you could take thread priority into account by observing and resetting the dirty/accessed bits every context switch, but this would be unlikely to be worth it.

That would be most likely terrible (as you suggest). You might have better luck giving each thread a copy of the process page table, and keeping that in sync somehow (which also sounds terrible, but might be more workable)
> All of these things put together will put severe strains on unstable parts of the world first, but if the trends are not abated and we end up in 'Hothouse Earth' territory, modern civilization will not be sustainable.

I hear this a lot from people online. But how realistic is this really? Say we enter 4 degrees of warming. I assume that we will experience food losses in both agriculture and fishing. The expectation seems to be that we will make no adjustments to our supply chains, no adaptations, no restrictions on food waste (currently over 50% in the developed world) or any other attempt to mitigate these factors.

Heatwaves/wet bulb stuff is worrying, and so are hurricanes. I don't want to diminish the problem. But it seems that this argument really rests on an understanding that we don't understand feedback loops, and that they are much worse than we anticipate, and that they lock us in to a Hothouse Earth scenario that pushes us into much higher levels of warming that we anticipate, and etc.

Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. But I haven't seen any evidence for it, despite how often people parrot it from other Reddit comments or whatever.
Why no mention of third parties that kneecap important infrastructure to serve their own profit margin?
Software development is already highly automated relative to what it once was. That's what high-level languages are. I expect we will continue to develop even higher-level languages in the future. Some people are only capable of programming in high-level languages because of a lack of understanding of the rest of the stack (and this goes both down into the hardware and up into DevOps that even CS grads are largely unequipped to work with).

I think textile manufacturing is distinct from software engineering, though, because unlike textile demand which is fairly limited (people only need so much fabric), the demand for new software will always exceed supply because the space of useful applications of general-purpose computation is effectively infinite. I don't think we've even seen the tip of the iceberg yet.
Hah :) That moment of ... did I just do something extraordinary cool... or did I just mess up big time? Or... wait a minute... I JUST DID BOTH!
I think Ruby can have some nice parts to reading it. e.g.

10.times do
puts “Hello”
end

or

send_email if user.unconfirmed?

Compared to ES6 as an example:

Array.from(Array(10)).forEach((_, _i) => {
console.log(“Hello”);
});

Ooph, not the strongest showing by comparison. There isn’t a huge issue with it, but it is having to use a lot more indirection to express the main idea. Languages like Python get closer to that expressiveness as well, but I think Ruby goes even farther in the direction of expressive choice.

I don’t write Ruby anymore. But there were some nice things that I miss sometimes when using other languages. Sometimes I want to express a very simple idea that, while still readable, gets wrapped in brackets, parens, variable declarations, and type declarations to a point where it looks more intimidating and unapproachable than it actually is.
Hi, does remote means Europe too?
Wouldn’t your friends then end up in jail? Or is that the type of crime that is not prosecuted unless “charges are pressed”?
The invention of credit scores and their use to screen people for renting apartments and getting jobs brought in a coercive system of similar magnitude to debtors' prisons. Credit scores should be only used for evaluating potential loans, not for anything else.
Your rewrite was extremely well done.

It’s too bad CEOs don’t write their PR like you have done. Like when they drive companies into the ground, lay everyone off, and then they exit with millions.
Talk about cherrypicking the results. Yes, slightly more 30-44 year olds are willing to pay more for renewable energy than 18-29 year olds. But both of those groups are much bigger than the two groups 45-59 and 60+. So the reasonable conclusion is the opposite of what you suggest.
The effect that some people's work eventually has on everyone's life can be just amazing.

In this case it enabled LED lighting for everyone. Transistors (Bardeen, Shockley), lasers or artificial fertilizer (Haber, Bosch) also come into mind.
Because it doesn’t exist yet?
Back when Capone was operating there weren't even KYC laws to catch him in. This could have worked.

Or it would have just pressed the feds to go for a real conviction instead. I always thought the tax stuff was a cop out.
It's nice but I don't think it should be part of the JDK, there are enough tools who can provide it.
So is that where we're at then? People aren't allowed to have opinions on situations they haven't directly experienced themselves?

I understand it's cathartic telling off white males for having opinions, but truly I don't think the case you're making here holds any water.
This dating method basically dates the last time the sediments were directly exposed to ionizing radiation (i.e. sunlight). The key here is that it sets a minimum age. Things can be older and have their "clocks reset", but the decay constant is fixed, so we can always determine the last time the object or sediment was exposed. There are a couple minor issues with it, but it's better (and sometimes cheaper!) than radioisotope dating. You can be pretty confident in OSL/TL dates more than a couple thousand years old.
It's not terrifying at all once you grasp how astronomically challenging it is to pulverize or divert an asteroid of such scale:

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/7/18251559/ast...
So... you weren't hospitalized, and also weren't readmitted to the hospital? What's the purpose of this anecdote?
It makes sense; loading that README performs almost 1700 requests for GitHub resources. That's probably way off the regular GitHub usage and definitely enough to trigger a regular user's rate limit.

In Chrome you can view the source here: "view-source:https[DELETE]://github.com/olikraus/u8g2/wiki/fntlistall" (added the [DELETE] after the protocol to prevent people from accidentally loading the actual website rather than source)
You seem to view legislators as mustache-twirling villains while regulators are valiantly trying to save the little guy. They're often the exact same people.
I thought this as well but didn't want to get sidetracked on a specific. Perl was one of my first languages and regexes were one of the big tools I started using, while I was processing text files. Once parsing lines of ASCII stopped being my major task, regexes stopped being a frequent tool.
The IRS has a publication for that! https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p946.pdf

You can pretty much depreciate any physical object that wears out over time.
> building the plant and materials for it, mining and processing of the fuel, processing and storage of spend fuel, disassembly of the plant

All of these things are currently far more severe with photovoltaic panels and wind turbines. Per unit of energy, nuclear is far kinder to the Earth on all of these fronts.

> Anyway, keep downvoting my opinion.

If you insist.
Got it, so in general, they are _actually_ fronting you the asset (although you can't take it out of their control until you've paid up), as opposed to an IOU.
What do they use to control it? The state of California is not permitted to hold copyright (in general).
I went back and forth a few times with my opinion on nuclear over the years and some points I've gathered, good and bad are:

-Nuclear is indeed a low-carbon energy source.

-It's also what you would want as baseload.

-The costs of storing waste properly have been underestimated - a few years ago nuclear operators reached a deal with the German government through which they paid 23bln Euros to make the waste the government's problem. The overall sentiment is that they were let off the hook easily and the total cost will be much higher.

-Both nuclear plants and waste storage facilities are easy targets for terrorism - fortunately that didn't happen yet, but things like Stuxnet proved that it's entirely in the realm of possibility. My pet conspiracy theory is that this, not Fukushima was the reason Germany eventually accelerated its plans to phase out nuclear.

-You can reprocess spent nuclear fuel which helps both with fuel accessibility and waste management.

-It's trivially easy to use the reprocessing infrastructure to create weapons-grade plutonium.

-Nuclear is generally safe.

-That being said its mode of failure makes a large area inhospitable essentially forever. Topsoil radiation measurements usually don't give the full picture of the problem.

-Every nuclear disaster resulted in increased safety by uncovering design flaws which were a result of cutting corners, so especially in the decade after Fukushima costs went up around 24% making nuclear the single low-carbon source to become more, not less expensive.

-As it stands even China cannot deploy nuclear fast enough to compete with renewables on delivered MWh. Since 2012 wind consistently delivered more energy in China than nuclear and the gap has been widening ever since. With the cost of storage plummeting we're heading towards a future where centralised power generation may become antiquated.

----

Overall nuclear has some advantages but there aren't enough of them to break the trend of using renewables + gas and storage, which on average replace coal faster and cheaper.

It's basically a textbook example of "worse is better".
It's an interesting question, a standard is factual - the owner can retain the rights to the rendering, but the content is not covered by copyright anyway. If it's technical, it's not covered by copyright. Copyright is for artistic works, according to international treaty, the standard owners get to keep the artistic aspects of their rendering; anything factual -- such as technical details of a standard -- is fair game ... of course you have to convince the court of that purposive construction rather than the more popular [with some] financial construction of copyright law.

> reference a song text by a US artist //

Somewhat aside: the artist probably doesn't own the copyright and in any case a text of the lyrics is not the song. It's very likely that different people own the lyrics and the performance by an artist (and probably not the artist if it's a mass-media released track/song). So the artist would still get their copyright in the performance and could still collect on that; the songwriter might be aggrieved though ... it seems super unlikely to ever be an issue.

There are already USC that allow reporting on court cases, presumably if a copyright work is played in court then that rendering can be duplicated without infringement. New Zealand courts played Eminem's "Lose Yourself" (https://scroll.in/video/836700/watch-what-happens-or-doesnt-... linked from this story, direct link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPcB5IlIILc).
> What's important is that what the IRS learns this way should not be shared with other agencies.

I'm not sure if it does; but regardless, it's not admissible in a court of law. So if you did hid your steps well, or it was foreign income (which the police/FBI is less enthusiastic to resolve), then you might get off free :)
Arena took place in all of Tamriel. Cities were procedurally generated from a seed if I recall correctly, so they could have buildings in same locations across games, but cities were huge and filled with random people (like over a hundred buildibgs, some probably had specific structures). You could walk for hours between cities, because the land was also procedurally generated, but mostly flat. This was doable because the game looks like minecraft with a bigger block size.

It feels like a cross between a few features of a modern TES game and a rogue-like.