skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And consider renouncing your citizenship to avoid taxes if you have the prospect of attaining new citizenship.

There are few countries where the taxes are lower than the US Federal ones. Thus though you will have to file a tax return, in most cases you won't owe any additional taxes.

What makes the US more expensive is all the non-tax fees that are included in those foreign countries' taxes (e.g. medical costs). So you still save.

Perspective: not a US citizen through currently living in California.
Under the hood of the Subaru Levorg: ADAS and programmable logic
I met an artist whose body of work consisted of citogenisis. He'd been at it for a decade when I met him, and had created at least a dozen fictional artists, detailed biographies, and a complete "retrospective" gallery show for each. This let him copy the styles of the great masters of different periods, yet make something new, of a sort. He never edited Wikipedia himself, but instead led gallery tours of these retrospectives and was always overjoyed when people would write about them, propagating the fiction.
Quick survey: Is there anyone else with boxes of old VHS tapes that they have totally ignored, haven’t thought about digitizing, and not really sure how to - or is it just me ?

I’ve got 11 years of the Tour de France on about 130 VHS tapes, and the thought of transferring that to digital terrifies me. I’m just curious if anybody else has this problem, and what solutions they have found
> That is an observation, not a policy thought up by politicians working at the Parliment.

Once more, the document says: "The study lays out predictions for digital services in the next one to ten years and provides recommendations for action for the European Parliament in preparation for the Digital Services Act."

> It is a study for politicians to take better decicions not policies to be implemented, for that you want to read the things like the meeting minutes not supporting analysis.

Exactly! And they really took all of this very concerning advice to their hearts with the Digital Services Act.

> I would welcome linking to more, as long as they are not just studies, although interesting reading they do not dictate the policy.

Start here: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/digital-servic...

> Well I am also welcoming more information about this as it sounds like something I want to read up on. The EU may be inefficient, and it could be a lot better, which is why I would welcome a discussion about it instead of making accusations without providing any sources to base your claims on.

Are you not watching the news? Even if not you could have easily used Google yourself, the document I linked gives more than enough keywords.

We're very lucky the EU is inefficient, otherwise there would be a totalitarian police state way worse than China or Russia sooner than tomorrow. Fortunately we got enough time to leave before the EU makes its latest moves.

No discussion is going to save this shit show, we're way past that. The DSA is going to be implemented soon and it's not going to be even a tiny bit better regardless of how much you talk about democratic values.

Sadly it can't be better. This union is not striving for freedom but the opposite.
Via Slashdot: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/12/26/0535214/america-cre...
While I think it's great you're thinking of tools to optimize your time BUT a team of 3 at early stage project/startup level should be a bit more frugal and look for clever ways to save the ~$200/month you're spending right now!

I understand you have your own SAAS and want to justify subscription and this is a good promo method.

I've written on HN before that I'm TIRED of subscription apps, specially per user subs, for no reason! I went on a mission and cut the cord on almost all them. We honestly do not miss a single one. You'd be surprised how many great FOSS (free & open source software) are out there that you can deploy on your own VM and have unlimited number of team members and OWN YOUR OWN DATA!!!
What is exactly the difference between an invasion vs a colonization?

Genuinely curious.
> We’ve always needed to trust in order to know.

That's well put. It has also been said "Trust is the necessary precursor to betrayal".

We know less thank we think we do. I think that's part of being human.
Buddhism was right all along
Opening and then closing "thank you" issues solves the annoyance problem, doesn't it? It's a NOOP for the maintainer, but it gets the message across. /$0.02
> ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.

Why "equivalent"? Why can't we just say street food?
> The Sega Dreamcast is known for running an optimised version of Windows CE (with DirectX) as an operating system.

From the page linked.
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No. If you earn more than the allowable amount for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), you claim the Foreign Tax Credit instead. Under the FTC, you essentially pay the higher of the two tax rates. Except the accounting can get tricky if you have multiple sources of income that are taxed at different rates between the US and the foreign country.

For example, if you earn 200k in a foreign country and that country charges you 75k on 190k of that, and decides that 10k doesn't count for some reason. Suppose the US rates are such that you owe 60k on 190k, then the FTC erases that 60k. But you might still owe 3k on the remaining 10k that the foreign country ignored.
VHS Archiving and Digital Transfer
Is there anyone else with boxes of old VHS tapes that they have totally ignored, haven’t thought about digitizing, and not really sure how to - or is it just me ?

I’ve got 11 years of the Tour de France on about 130 VHS tapes, and the thought of transferring that to digital terrifies me. I’m just curious if anybody else has this problem, and what solutions they have found. It does not seem that there is an easy, efficient way to do this, because the tape Has to run at a certain speed.

Thank You.
> favour of individual accountability and a focus on results

What results? Sure, making money is the final result we want to measure, but how do you determine how much each person contributes to the bottom line?

So we need to set objectives so we can measure results, then we need some way to measure results, some way to compare results across different objectives, some way to evaluate if our objectives and measures are working....

And suddenly you have management and 'culture'

I don't understand people who say we just need to 'focus on results'.... that is even more useless as saying "we just need to focus on making money"

We all know the end result we want (making money), but the hard part is figuring out how.

Take the example of a basketball team, where at least the objectives and measurement technique is well known... you have to score more points than the opponent. Even then, putting together a team is not simple. Which combination of players will produce the best outcome? Which players are good but on bad teams? What strategy should the team employ?

Your concept of work being a series of contractual outsourcing arrangements already IS how our economy works. The issue is that most things we create can't be made by one person, so the contract to make something is subcontracted out to many people who sign contracts with the one main contractor... and suddenly you have a company.
Anything trained by gradient descent is in some sense a weighted combination lookup table (see domingos’s recent paper on everything being kernel machines, I’m on my phone so won’t try to find it). The crucial bit is finding an appropriate weighting. If you look up the nearest training data point and just use it to predict, you assume a notion of “nearest.” Getting that right is the trick.

So even if it all is mathematically equivalent to approximate lookup and approximate memorization, that doesn’t mean it’s “just” that.
No, but I don't think anyone thinks they are practically capped out in terms of economies of scale and engineering refinement. Certainly not with the promise of perovskites.

I'd guess 8% MINIMUM for another five years. Really is quite the blocker for any new nuclear / hydrogen / biofuel / natural gas planning aside from load levelling.

Is BYD any cheaper / better than LFP?
Technology has made it easier for anyone to become a scammer, but the law hasn't scaled to be able to deal with it.

In the past, being a scammer required certain resources and hard work to lure people into your scam, and the few (well compared to today) scammers that succeeded eventually got dealt with by the law.

Nowadays anyone can be a scammer by just posting on social media (or buying ads), law enforcement can't scale to deal with them all and the platforms that empower these scammers aren't forced to prevent this activity.

Also, back in the day, scamming actually required some smarts where as nowadays a lot of people are scammers without even realizing it, like by peddling these stupid pyramid schemes. In fact, they don't intend to scam per-se, but are deluded in their idea that this is a legitimate business and is beneficial not only to them but to their victim (and those that lose money just didn't try hard enough).
Here's the command I use:

curl -s -w 'Testing Website Response Time for :%{url_effective}\n\nLookup Time:\t\t%{time_namelookup}\nConnect Time:\t\t%{time_connect}\nAppCon Time:\t\t%{time_appconnect}\nRedirect Time:\t\t%{time_redirect}\nPre-transfer Time:\t%{time_pretransfer}\nStart-transfer Time:\t%{time_starttransfer}\n\nTotal Time:\t\t%{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null https://google.com

Here's the explanation of each timestamp: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-question-of-timing/
Oh, there's more than one? I only know the one that ends up with https://chocolatemakers.eu/eu/de/19-schokofahrt getting distributed from the Netherlands across neighboring countries by cargo bike. Surely won't scale for anything other than awareness luxury gifts, but that cannot be seen as a reason to look the other way when you happen to buy luxury gifts.
Does anyone have more information about where sel4 is used in production?
> Funds for sure seem to have stay put in London, some moved but this is definitely a minority.

I’ve seen it reported that £1 trillion of assets were being moved out. Was that report incorrect, or was it a misleading number that is somehow vastly less relevant than it appears at first glance?

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/20/business/brexit-economy-b...
I will find a copy of the book to see what I can learn from it. Until now I've learnt that one cannot attain happiness as a state. It's fleeting. I stumble across it in moments, and it's gone again. And so I try to be content, which is much more persistent.
Java specfic: Checked exceptions.

http://literatejava.com/exceptions/checked-exceptions-javas-...
Quanta’s Year in Math and Computer Science
The Yudkowsky Ambition Scale
Then stop sending our money to foreign countries!
I do the same thing! I just have a wall I leave bare since I don't really like cluttering all my walls with framed things and art.
The benchmark should really compare Oracle to PostgreSQL with however much extra RAM the cost of an Oracle license would buy.
What I usually do is append something like "thank you for the effort" (and sometimes explain how good this project is for my use case) when I open a new issue or comment on an existing one.
There's a whole lot of ad hominem in this argument. Are you scared that the CoC crowd is going to take all the funny away? That seems unlikely to me.
In theory, I like your idea, but in practice, I think corporations large enough to run experiments like that are not able to objectively evaluate anything they do, at least not officially. It's too political.
I've been in dozens of interviews as an interviewer and worked with at least a dozen people after seeing how they performed in interviews, so that's what I go on.
No Atlassian products!
A Statistical Estimate of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy
Vowpal Wabbit is used but many build something in-house into existing rule-based or supervised ml systems

In green fields deployments, Azure personalizer may be a nice place to start looking.

On the academic side, this paper provides an overview https://content.iospress.com/articles/data-science/ds200028
You're sure not likely to see this in celebration of heroin.
Those you might expect on a modern Linux system when bash is there (coreutils will be there 99% of the time as well). Not all distros ship curl by default
It's not whataboutism since they're not defending facebook.
default subs haven't been a thing since 2017 though (https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/65x4a7/testing_a...)
As a US citizen in Israel, I do owe some money to the US every year even though I pay more to Israel overall than I would if I only paid the US. This is because the FTC is applied to each dollar of income separately, so in the few places where Israeli taxes are lower than the US I get to pay the US. In a sense you get the worst of both tax regimes.
That's not the whole list. We spend around $500/month if we include everything.

We used to host our own stuff to spend less, like having our own Mailtrain instance instead of paying for an email marketing solution.

But if you do too much of that, you'll find yourself spending a lot of your time doing sys admin stuff, instead of working on your product. This can kill you, especially at an early stage.

As we scale our[1] revenues (currently at $5k MRR), that $500/m cost will become a lower and lower percentage and be almost negligible.

[1]: https://mailbrew.com
Arq does this really good, I know exactly what you mean. It's more or less fire and forget. And unfortunately it looks like you're not getting an answer.
We're talking about interrupting a stranger to listen to us here. How often do you do that IRL? Do you just do it any old time, or do you look for certain signals that it is OK?

I do think there is a generational "thing" where older people tend to see online interactions as superficial and unreal, while younger people see them as a natural extension of the IRL social sphere. As a younger person, I find it easy to point out that interactions with strangers present similar difficulties whether online or IRL.
This was a fun little weekend project I made by smooshing together a few libraries. I was surprised by how fast and accurate the pose estimation library [0] was, especially running real-time in the browser!

This project requires some extensive setup and special hardware like a projector, so I expect most people won't be able to try it on their own -- which is a bummer, because it's really fun to play! But there are videos linked in the readme, and I'll link them again here [1][2]

[0] https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/posene...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-GrpBywY18 demo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVGCd5r4ihw calibration sequence
> I don’t think people express these things nearly as often as they feel them, and I expect that many of the positive things that do end up communicated have another motive behind them.

I have the displeasure of working with a team member who does the exact opposite: at every chance he gets, he expressed his displeasure regarding other team members to management. Once I confronted him about that behavior and he stated that those who fix problems get promoted while those who create them get passed over, and he believed that by pointing other people's flaws he would improve his chances of moving upward.

I firmly believe that's the main reason most people don't praise anyone else. If they do, they are calling out their competitor's positive contributions, while no one reciprocates in kind.
Thank you for the information on the VAT directive changing in 2022. Is that the definitive VAT system? I've not really been following EU legislation for the last few years.

The thing that concerns me with the biofuels directive is it's requirement for 5% of petrol to be made up of biofuel. As the cheapest source of this is palm oil, we then end up contributing to the destruction of habitats in Indonesia in order to grow palm oil to burn in our cars. The EU does recognise this and I'm sure I read that come 2030, that will be disallowed, but then they will likely need to use Soy or some other oil that will cause even more destruction.

I don't have any sources for this to hand and I may well have some of this information incorrect. It's been about five years since I researched much of this.
Per corollary to Sturgeon's Law, there's a handful of talented, effective product and project managers.

So it's possible that Darren “oracle of remote work” Murph is useful. He's certainly mastered the self-promotion consultant schtick.

Slapping a "scrum master" sticker onto someone doesn't make them useful. And if I was pondering delegating some much needed remotefulness stuff, I'd probably eschew a lifestyle media celebrity.
I think there are also going to be new difficult problems arising training on copyrighted data. Can I do a DMCA if your model contains/regurgitates too much of my book verbatim in a way that doesn’t meet fair use?
I found it in the Internet Archive's collection if anyone wants to try borrowing a digital copy for free: https://archive.org/details/howtowantwhatyou00mill
Quitting my job at Amazon, only second to going on the record and explaining to my boss that the reason I quit was "oranges" - I did this because I knew my boss would be reprimanded and asked by HR / mgmt "why did your employee quit because of this reason here?" and have to explain why I quit because of "oranges". I should add, that almost all of the other lead engineers moved to other teams or also left.

It's taken me more than a year to un-learn and cleanse my head of all the stupid games I had to play at that bullshit company.

Finally, quitting drinking. I never really drank that much, but at this point I don't really crave alcohol at all.
Exactly. And even in places like South Africa where solar should play well it's still a significant investment for middle class relative to their earning power.

Worse government sitting on a pile of old coal plants has a financial incentive to not lose their well off customers. It's the only part of their customer base that _can_ pay.
Nuro Becomes First Driverless Car Delivery Service in California
One could look, at it as a form of dogfooding, in the broader sense of the indie SaaS ecosystem they're helping build.
If you dont understand it already, you likely never will. I don't understand either why people are so interested in this kind of privacy, but some people are. Your data gets collected by free services like fb, cnn, gmail or perhaps hacker news(?). It gets sold on to ad services like google ads, who use it to create ads for you. advertisers pay ad services to run their advertisements for them. You either think this is fine or you don't.
PC port from DC games happened for some titles but I’d imagine the other way around would have been difficult.
The guy is just making stuff up from intuition and experience, there is no formal science here. He is much closer to an "artist" then he is to a "mathematician", physicist" or "scientist" and should not command the same respect as the latter titles.

Perhaps some artists should command greater respect among scientists than they do, and perhaps science and engineering are closer to art than they want to admit.

I too used to believe that knowledge was only real if it was formalized, and that intuition is fake and inferior. Now, while formalized knowledge is easier to record and convey, I realize that it is intuition that does the vast majority of the work in most settings. The ability to convey and gradually formalize intuition is indeed a mark of intelligence, but it is not necessary, sufficient or even desirable to wait until all intuition is converted to formalism before acting.

I think you are missing the facts that everything we do is implemented by humans, and that we are working with enough complexity and emergent behavior that we have to rely on intuitive pattern matching. All the formalism in the world means nothing if it doesn't change the way humans implement something, or if the problem has completely changed by the time a formal solution has been created. In my own professional work, as acknowledged by coursework I have had in the past, the bulk of real value has not come from, say, learning the math governing circuits, or learning new programming languages, but from building and applying intuition about systems of interconnected parts.

So if using semi-intuitive, semi-amorphous pattern matching to describe things helps humans deal with complexity sooner and faster than waiting for absolute mathematical formalism, then that is incredibly valuable to society and to the people who develop and apply improved intuitions.
Culture is an overused and overrated term that means nothing without detailed context.

When people say “culture” they usually mean...

- My company treats developers like rockstars; everyone else minus executives is treated like shit. “Ninjas & unicorns!”

- My company doesn’t have HR or need it. “Who needs HR? It’s only for women, losers and SJWs.”

- My company doesn’t have security and risk processes for handling user data or anything else. “Everybody’s root!!!”

- My company has cool perks like a game room, free beer, no vacation limits and a chef on staff; but everyone is underpaid compared to market. “I know they pay me 85k to be a senior dev but at least I got beer!”
Seconding this recommendation, under the dressing of a rom-com it thoroughly explores the _what-if_ aspect we are discussing here.
Free Space Optical Communication(FSOC) enables projects like Taara[0] from the Alphabet's X. This communication enables great internet infrastructure around Africa, especially coupled with already existing Telecommunication companies Fiber Optics(Project Equiano).
[0] https://x.company/projects/taara/
I still miss the controller design, to be honest. The trigger buttons were just right and the layout worked for all sizes of hands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=43&v=lC5lsemxaJo&feature=you...
A lot of people on HN believe this too.
I doubt the guardian needs to shard though.
Apparently a vaccine can still make your immunity better. That said, having antibodies, I'm not sure I'll bother unless there's some vaccination certificate type benefit.

By the way in the UK at any rate if you donate blood they check it for covid antibodies for free.
What have we lost [video]
Ask HN: What hobbies do you pursue in your free time
I’m planning onto learn more about golf and learn how to play

What hobbies do you guys pursue
~$200/month for a 3 person startup might seem high. now calculate the cost of a server to host that FOSS stuff and the time and energy to maintain it, backups, etc.

TBH i would rather put that time and energy in my startup instead of maintaining a FOSS stack for my company.
Hide and seek champions of 2020?
Very nice article. I always struggled with design, not because I didn’t know how to, but the feeling of uneasiness that comes up when we don’t have the details or imagination to see the repercussions of our designs. I’m stuck as a senior engineer, even though I have designed and implemented systems, because I think the veneer of design knowledge when talking to others is pretty thin, and as someone who reasons by causality and simulation, it’s hard to hide it. I always wonder how people get around this. What books did you read, general ones, not the ones you use for interviews that crow “here’s how to design twitter”