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What the above comment is referring to is a DCP (Digital Cinema Package)[0].

However, not all locations/production houses are using the traditional DCP methodology. The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition[1] has the goal of changing the distribution method to a satellite based digital download structure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package

[1] https://www.dcdcdistribution.com/about-us/
I think the theory is that Bob secretly gives an accomplice a bunch of dirty cash. That accomplice then buys art from Bob, but they get to keep some portion of the money for their trouble. There needn't be an artist involved.

Though it seems the accomplice would come under scrutiny unless they have some plausible explanation as to how they got the money to pay for the thing. I don't know if "the art market is fueled by money laundering" theory is actually supported by evidence, but it's a fun idea.
As someone said below, your anxiety or too much analysis has to be look at it in another level.

But as far as tech stack goes.. This is my opinion.

There is a lot going on, lots of new tools, technologies and resources coming along. But it is totally fine with what programming languages you are comfortable with at the moment IF you are going to do a side/hobby project.

Anyhow, you will have to iterate it a lot on the go. Honestly, some parts of it can be fun and some others wouldn't be. But you have to keep up with it in order to do the release.

So, I'd put this Addy Osmani's quote here:
"First do it, then do it right, then do it better".

All the best!
this story has my attention because .. idk .. something about privilege. In my imagination this smells like an old train-hopper moving into his chosen retirement community.. not saying he was sober when he did it but I bet hes been walking this through, in his head, for years.
Meanwhile, some package thieves in the bay can't even get themselves arrested to stay warm without getting shot in the process. This guy knows what they are doing wrong, and that's privilege.
Try bias and conflict of interest.
Wrong. Second this minute. (420 my man - fuck da US Gov in this respect - they do not have sovereignty over your body or mine)
Gerald Cotten next maybe?
The Amp Hour podcast had Chuck Peddle as a guest a few years back. Definitely worth listening to.
https://theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-ch...
Sorry, but unless you provide other data I still believe this would run afoul of the computer fraud and abuse act (CFAA - 1986).
Venezuela makes the most sense since he could simply walk over the border from Brazil. Guyana might be another possibility as well which would have the added advantage of English being the national language. John McAfee famously lived in Guyana.
There was no possible way of closing out this trilogy without some very entitled fans making a stink.

Meanwhile most moviegoers are content to enjoy a highly entertaining popcorn film and are appreciative that a big company is willing to risk hundreds of millions of dollars to tell stories about space wizards.
This reminds me of the interesting metaphysical argument that happened when Kanye released The Life of Pablo to streaming services and then tweeted “Imma fix Wolves”. To my knowledge, you have to really Google around to find the original version of the song Wolves today (it would probably be harder if Kanye had “fixed” it without announcing it first).

Basically, what is “Cats (2019)”? Is it the thing people saw last weekend? The thing people will see next weekend? The further edited thing that shows up on streaming services in a few months? Or does “Cats” just refer to the idea of a motion-captured live adaptation of the book musical “Cats” that stars a certain group of people but takes many forms depending on when it was viewed?
> General relativity doesn’t help anyone throw a basketball better, but that’s not what it’s for.

Yes, of course! And as a physicist, I don't ask basketball players to use general relativity.

But I'm responding to a post claiming the category theory really is useful, directly, for science. And just like the basketball player, I'm saying that it really isn't.
I did notice that when I was an owner of protobuf in Chromium :) Custom patches to support unknown field preservation in lite mode sure brought me some hassle when updating to version 3 of the library.
I had deleted my account and wanted to make a new one for a new business. When it asked me for a phone number, I clicked back.

It has been a year and it still takes me straight to the phone number form any time I click a link for twitter. I can't even log out or do anything else.

So now I must either provide the phone number, use Twitter incognito, or delete the cookies. My guess is that for the casual non-tech user this means they will never use Twitter again until they put in their phone number because it's not possible to back out.
This is a real hurdle to starting projects. Spend a day researching stacks. Keep it simple. Go with tech that you know.

My current stack is:

* Creat-React-App
* Node/Express Server

This keeps things super simple and basic, and I can extend it with Mongo / GraphQL / etc etc.

If you know python and want to use Vue, you could do:

* Simple Vue frontend
* Flask API

Worry about things like SSR, routing, etc, afterwards when you have something basic running. It's MUCH easier to iterate, than it is to start something. So make the starting part easy.
Just wait until enterprise Go is released.
Not really a whole lot. FPGAs work best where you have precise timing requirements or really wide signals.

Most game engines are about throughput and I don't think you'd see a lot of use for them, heck we had a hard enough time using the PS3 back when I was in the industry and that wasn't nearly as wide as a FPGA can be.
Identifying the most economic energy technologies across Africa
As a Chinese person, I've often felt that since about 3-4 years ago, NYT's coverage of almost everything China has become increasingly biased, and is increasingly targeted not at the government but at making ordinary Chinese people's lives difficult. However, very few Western people care about this, since the reports fit in with the narrative that people are already antecedently inclined to accept. When it's something one likes to hear, truth can take a back seat (especially when the domain is not one in which it pays to know the truth - there's not a hard reality you can run into). Therefore I'm very pessimistic that reports like this could make any difference. Yes, every once in a while we read sth in our own domain of expertise, and we wonder how we could justify being so trustful of everything else we read. But eventually we will all go back to our old ways, especially when (i) what we read is what we like to read, and (ii) it's not a subject on which there's any 'hard reality' to bump into.
It's silly of them to dump more money into this trainwreck. It's been savaged by every reviewer, and while some criticism has been directed at the "uncanny valley" CGI, most of the criticism has been about the story and characterizations.
I love the Darktable user interface and feature set, but for my camera, the default import profile for RAW images is way off, resulting in bland, flat images lacking colour depth and needing extensive tweaking to look presentable.

The same images look great after importing into Lightroom and require very little post-processing.

I would love to drop my $expensive Adobe subscription, but this is the one issue that prevents me from doing so.
The most impressive engineers that I've worked with were great at focusing on the task at hand and finishing them without getting distracted by other issues that they came across in the process. They didn't optimize things prematurely or try to come up with new abstractions for things that might come up in the future. They didn't get into stupid arguments over minor details and were focused on completing and shipping features.
Wow I did both, started young and failed, got employed by fortune 500s, started up again with lots of spare cash.

I haaaate working for anyone else after tasting success, but my FAANG salary and 401k and stock options simply can’t match the 100 cold calls a day startup life
Although I can't tell you why, it's been my experience that firing a simple method via reflection in both .NET and the JVM is roughly 2x the time of direct calls (or of calls via the 'dynamic' keyword in C#).
> Tangentially, QQ lets you customize the font

I always love it when I can change the font to suit my tastes.

> in which your messages are displayed to other people.

No.
Hypothetically, if people just got off their devices, wouldn't this entire digital arms race disappear? No phones. Not even computers except the bare necessity use.
My understanding is that Duck Duck Go is more or less a non personalized Bing search with paid upranking for Amazon products. As it is Bing is pretty solid, though the privacy boost DDG provides is not worth the drop in quality.
what kind of book that teaches programming could possibly have no code in it? that's not just "friendly" that's completely completely lacking substance.
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Assuming we will never find a way to safely dispose of spent fuel is quiet pessimistic imo. And regardless of how nuclear will be bad in the future, fossil fuels are bad now and alternative energies like wind and solar simply aren't ready to take over.

As far as I'm concerned, nuclear is clean comparatively.
You can file bankruptcy on failed loans. 2-3 years out the game and then you jump right back in

Don’t act like bankruptcy is bad, it’s a valid pathway and you should by all means use it instead of sitting in a hole for 5 years or more. But learn from it, don’t be that person filing chapter 7s every 7 years
"I don't think that's OK" is not equal to "they are robbing us blind". You have entirely lost the plot. Trillions of dollars of tax revenue are being lost because capital gains doesn't count as income. Furthermore, you just said yourself that less than 1 in 1000 working Americans is engaged in this scheme. Comparing this to the graft engaged in at the upper echelons of wealth in this society is extremely dishonest.
Strong incentives against SOV employees can be a subtle form of discrimination. For example, age discrimination: a person raising their family in the suburbs (where Single Occupancy Vehicle may be the only option) is likely to be older than your average new hire. Also, unfortunately, not all categories of persons feel equally safe on public transportation. In many parts of the country, saying that your company is concerned about commuting behavior is like saying "unmarried white males are a great fit here."
Sounds like this could be a potential avenue for innovation.
Retail as a business is fine.

Amazon's retail may be slowly dying, overcome with fakes, razor-thin margins, dwindling faith of buyers, and a looming anti-trust investigation. The retail department is at some risk of downsizing back to mostly books.

It would be wise for them to concentrate on stuff that goes well: AWS, Alexa.
One guy Eugenio Moggi saw that the category theoretical "monad" could formalize "imperative programming" in pure functional languages by carrying a "world" parameter that represents the state being modified. Since then people have been trying hard to jam the rest of category theory into programming hoping to uncover similarly striking results, to no avail.
This would be a cynical baseless insult, if not for the fact that Amazon has engaged in exactly such underhanded whitewashing behavior:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20711695
Thanks for the reference, that is interesting. I think that's what I was looking for in a theory of why things will be bad: it's not the temperature change itself (a few degrees is fine), or the atmospheric CO2 levels (still far less than 1%), or even the water levels (we can move, if painful economically), but the release of H2S, which kicks off a chain reaction of extinction, which may impact food supply etc.

I hardly know enough to comment on whether that is likely. But I think it's a much better argument about why the Earth will be uninhabitable for us specifically.

(That said, it doesn't really matter if the earth eventually becomes uninhabitable or not, we want to avoid the cost of having to move everyone for even minor sea level rises.)
First, rediscover how to build for fun. Highly recommend playing as a beginner with JavaScript in 30 days and p5.js.

If you like a vue, take a paid vue course that costs $20 or so per month. The material will be vetted, you won’t have to piece as much together.. and can ask lots of questions.
This is a pro-level troll!

For context, see slides 5 and 6 about the history of Hyperscan and Sensory Networks Inc.: https://openisf.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/oisf-keynote-201...
DFS, poker, basketball, Starcraft and strong opinions, weakly held
Part of the problem seems to be logistical. English natural language training sets are probably just way more common than other languages. About the only language that has more training data is Chinese, and they seem to be doing fine in the NLP department.

Aren't modern transformer networks able to deal with multiple languages? Seems like models powerful enough to do that should be fairly language-agnostic, assuming you can pull together enough training data for that language.
How do you beat Amazon.com?

How do you beat AWS?

How do you survive if Jeff Bezos has his eyes on your market?

Could an antitrust case break them up?
The peak weirdness is probably this part:

https://twitter.com/data_bayes/status/1209340322767081472
Local bank offered $250k on a 3.8% APR. SBA offered $110k on 8% APR. bank loans aren’t that bad in a low interest rate environment.. SBA has a much more flexible repayment plan tho

Plus once you’re in profit, your loan frees up capital for growth.
> The backstopping function is that stealing from the IRS is a really bad idea because you'll probably be interacting with them the rest of your life

Unless you are a foreign criminal stealing a US citizen's identity, in which case you don't care a hoot about their future relationship with the IRS.
Thanks for all the replies guys! It's going to take me a while to read through all of them and process them. I guess this is the benefit of having eyes looking at your post on Christmas Eve, people feel like helping :).

Happy Holidays Everyone~

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The comments in this thread are ironic considering the content of the post.

Brave exposes controls for all of its privacy and crypto features and you can easily opt in or out of anything that concerns you, making it a great choice for privacy.

It really smacks of hypocrisy that everyone is all for multitude of open source solutions, except when it comes to browsers. Mozilla has made many misteps regarding privacy and I've never seen attacks like this. To say that browser wars are political is an understatement.

Even assuming the worst, that being that Brave is trying to track you and build an ad network rivaling Google, that still seems in sum total a good thing. Google has gone down a dark path completely unchecked with their unimaginable omniscience and ad revenue, and I welcome an attack on their monopoly.
A modern EV sedan can do 250 miles, but how far can that tech drive a semi truck? I'm guessing it's quite a lot less.
It's weird to see someone refer to a zynq as a FPGA.

Every time I've been involved with one, it's been basically a CPU with various accelerators for specific functions done in the fabric, with the design being CPU-forward. I've never seen anyone approach them from a FPGA-forward angle. Interesting!
There are a lot of tiny travel routers that run Linux. Mostly little MIPS boards inside.
Merry Christmas from Huntsville, Alabama
This will, maybe, drive some people into the theatres to see the original.
> The point of a journalist is not to write your perspective as a member of a group, it is to write as one outside a group. This person was expecting the article/comment/tweet to be written as if from that group, and that is not journalism, that's more like a documentary.

There's actually a middle ground here. An obituary should really be a kind of capsule biography that explains someone how they're seen inside and outside their group. The NYT didn't to that, but rather they dwelled too much on a few controversies and almost entirely glossed over why and how he rose to the position he had. There's room for improvement in how they handled this.
Are you RLDS/CofChrist members, by chance?
Wrong. Doubly wrong, in fact. Wrong in your first post, and wrong now. I did not say you were right, no matter how you try to spin it.
It's hard to find the console stuff unless you know it's there.

I suppose you could send an e-mail to the moderators (hn@ycombinator.com) and explain why you think the domain should be un-banned.
Art projects & games are fun ways to learn.

Since you mentioned Python, Django is a good option to get started & build on a reliable foundation.
Because digital is easier and more productive. Why code in assembly when you can code in C? Why code in C when you can code in Rust? Sure for edge cases analogue is still important. But the market for that is small. The true experts are hired and paid well by big corporations who don't go on FAANG type hiring-sprees for senior stuff every 6 months, new entrants need years of experience to reach their level versus just going with digital and working with some IoT startup for similar or better compensation (these days EEs often skip that entirely and just go straight into software engineering). How many RF experts (the epitome of an analogue specialist) do you think a company like Anki need versus generic EEs to build and iterate fast (akin to your usual startup code monkeys). The economy cares not for what's "elegant" or what's "efficient and beautiful". The invisible hands pushes towards what's productive and cheap. Mastering analogue requires a good intuition for physics and math and a ton of other interrelated subjects that doesn't pay well either like nanotechnology & material science. Digital is easy, just look at what people have built in Minecraft.

Ever wondered why so many people would learn React rather than build GUIs in C for embedded? Because the money is in the web. It's like Electron vs Native UIs. You can rant and rave about Electron's inefficiencies but that still doesn't change the fact a flashy UI like Material Design or yet another Stripe theme can be built faster and easier in web technologies than Gtk.

Look at the 3 editions of Art of Electronics. You can see a clear trend towards digital if you look at the technologies that gets removed and added in later editions.
"A bit of regulation" will still get you thrown in jail, exactly as egdod says.
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Opened a CC last year for my 8 month old business, got $40k line of credit on $100k gross revenue. The limit may have gone up since then (my personal cards have)

It feels a lot like 2005 all over again, easy credit that will wash up at the first hint of economic downturn (I had cards reduce their limits in 07 just because)
Google’s homepage has changed but very slightly. For instance voice input options, removing ‘I’m feeling lucky’ and the addition of profiles/account info. But it’s a pretty minimalist page, and big redesign is usually a bad idea since they are liable to piss off your most loyal and dedicated customers/users/subscribers.
Considering how bad Amazon is at screening fake reviews, I actually would be surprised.
"Broken" is one-dimensional-black-and-white-thinking-speak for "works for most, most of the time, but has some behavior I don't like so it's 100% useless."

So you can't perfectly compare an item that is cross-listed in multiple categories. Is that "broken", or not ideal?

Even ratings, the worst thing about amazon, are "useful" in that you can instantly look at the distribution. All 5's and 1's? Product sucks.
Why is this so weird? Maybe I watch too many weird films...
I'd encourage you to take a closer look at the article, which by no means is as negative as your post and others have indicated[1].

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/thomas-monson-...
Bilibili, YouTube of China, will be available on all Tesla cars from Q1
It gets worse. There was Python, elisp, Lilypond . . . it was a whole thing. But what I describe above is just what it would take to make changes now.
"Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not" [1]
I've had countless hours of discussion with a few friends on this. Seems to sum up quite well how I see it.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/talent-is-everywhere-opportunity-...
People don't have this kind of philosophical meltdown when shows are changed from one performance to the next on Broadway.
Don't get me wrong, I like and use pandoc. But it's not the sort of tool anybody should expect the average author to be aware of. Maybe if it had a GUI it'd be more reasonable to expect the general public to use it.
I used brave for awhile and don't see these notifications. Are they opt-in?
What is your goal with the project?
The modern day ship of Theseus.
This is great advice. Stop making "learning the framework(s)" part of the goal. Pick something that is in the rough genre of what you want to do, and bulldoze through it to Do The Cool Thing. Accept that you will be working inefficiently and painfully at times. That's how you gain experience, and through that experience you will grow an understanding of how the frameworks differ from each other and which are most suitable for certain kinds of tasks.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why do you find that rejection normal?
If you have to use an academic, LaTeX monstrosity as an example to even somewhat limit the number of books you can store for a few dollars, surely we can just agree that the cost of storage is inconsequential compared to what an author will produce over their career output?
You can say the same about Google search, yet their organic results are still quite relevant. Isn’t Amazon supposed to be focusing on the customer?
I don't really see that here though. He's over-generalizing, but you can't claim that some (many?) journalists don't do exactly what he mentioned. People expect what journalists write to be trustworthy, but too often what they write is not. Think back on the Covington kids saga. They were dragged through the mud and many journalists participated in it. If they get something like that so wrong, despite there being video evidence of the event online, then how are people supposed to trust what they write? Obviously not all organizations are as guilty of it. When I read something by Reuters I'm fairly confident of what I'm reading, but it's much less so with many others.
Editing already-released media isn't that novel a concept. Books have been getting updated in reprints since forever. Video games are constantly patched. Movies have always put out "re-cut" or other editions in later releases and on home video. The big change now is really the frequency of it, as everything continues to go digital.

The way things are going, soon it'll be common to say "I'm going to watch the movie a few weeks after release once they have worked out all the bugs".
This paradigm of apps demanding access to your entire contacts list must end. I should be able to choose individual contacts to add to any given app.