skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was, as far as I can tell, little evidence at the time that the general public wearing them was effective at stopping transmission, and there were worries that poorly fitted masks and poor mask discipline could actually make things worse.

There are logical ways in which it can be true that they are useful for health workers but not for the public.

We know they aren't correct now, of course, as there is now evidence.
Yes not only bus or metro, but almost everything. Taiwan put a considerable amount of effort to have a 1 card to rule them all. And it makes life so much easier[1]

[1] https://erickhun.com/posts/taiwan-youbike-bike-sharing/
It is dereferencing. It changes `&self` to `self`. The `..` operator wants a value, not a reference.
Many states have borders in the middle of a river. Just pretend the lakes are wide rivers, topologically.
I know little about how payment processors function... but surely they are a far better positioned target for this type of legislation? they are fewer, larger, and in a position to completely automate collection of VAT.
Regarding a getting used up, the Rust compiler enforces a single-ownership principle where all values must have a single owner. If you move ownership of a to b, you cannot use a anymore as it no longer has ownership of the value.

The only exception to the above is if a type "is Copy". This means that values of this type can be copied very cheaply, and in this case the compiler will allow you to use it multiple times, which is implemented by it being duplicated on each use.

As for macros, they are nothing like C macros.
PDF/A is the true PDF! Strips all the bloat away.
“You” is ambiguous in English.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/you:

1. the one or ones being addressed
2. ONE sense 2a (which is “being one in particular”)

So, pro tip: in chat-like discussions with strangers such as hacker news, one should prefer saying “one” when using sense 2, even if it sounds a bit archaic (at least to me. Is it?)

Also, when reading a “you” that could be interpreted both ways, do not assume it is used in sense 1.
The changelog on that page is inaccurate, the last release was in 2018 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cscope/files/cscope/v15.9/)
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Can't they use the experience and the setup to collect the 20% themselves then instead of whatever this is?
The last release was in 2018, the changelog is inaccurate (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cscope/files/cscope/v15.9/)
The goal is not to educate you; it's to extract as many ad views out of you as possible, and mostly from kids who experience the internet exclusively on phones, with the least effort. The video has preroll ads and, for me, 3 midroll breaks. I'm sure it also has inline advertising.
Ok so what you are saying is that non-compliant packages are intercepted and the vat is charged at customs.

Then I ask again, what is the point of this legislation and why would an overseas seller be motivated to bother with it?

It's the customer who has to deal with the hassle in the end anyway.
Yep, code is a lot of "words" which throws off the estimate. I need to address this, but I don't think completely ignoring code blocks is really the solution there.
"gross negligence, face-saving, cover up and delay resulting in over a million more deaths than necessary"
So the Chinese government is acting like any other government?
> ...but it can also have values in it which are not 'static.

I don't think that's right. It can only have references which live at least as long as 'static does (or longer, but 'static is the longest so...)
CHI gives 1% of submitted papers a Best Paper Award and the top 5% get Honorable Mention. It is a very large conference though.
Isn't that exactly the job of customs office?
Difference Between Clock_realtime and Clock_monotonic?
Stores will probably charge an additional transaction fee for that. Hiding it in prices, since there are no protections against that from EU now.
The missing information here is that lifetimes don't apply at all to types that don't contain any borrowed references (such as `i32`, or self-contained `String`).

So `T: 'static` doesn't require types to live for the entire duration of the program. It requires borrows if there are any to be valid for that long. If there are no borrows involved, then 'static is ignored.

In practice `T: 'static` should be understood as "all temporary references are forbidden here".
The checks and balances against the tyranny of the majority, I guess.
what will stop people from shifting to holding the llcs with anonymous trusts?
A Canadian ‘Buy Local’ Effort Fights Amazon on Its Own Turf
There was a time when a socialite at a party, knowing their audience well, could bring a story of news having just the right delivery to engage most of the others while elevating their own status within the group.

Nothing wrong with it, really, and modern times aren't so different.
Sarcasm aside, the Rust compiler has gotten a lot faster (and parallelizes better) over the last year thanks to Nicolas Nethercote and others.

Another thing few people realize is that the "incremental" compilation mode that's the default for debug builds can also be enabled for release builds!

In CI, something like sccache can help a lot (using the GCS or S3 backend). It makes GitHub Actions' two-core limit almost bearable. Almost.
> Larger companies that employ more than 20 people, have revenues above $5 million and a physical presence in the US, are exempt from the act. Churches, charities and other non-profits are also exempt.

So it seems that the cost of money laundering has gone from a few thousands dollars for a Delaware C-Corp to running a fake business that employs 20 people and has an office. The minimum to launder under this scheme is $5m per year.

This seems like the government stumping on small money launderers while giving the big guys a tax: employ some people, and rent some real-estate.
Useful for heating things up and drying things out.
I like this a lot.

I assume you are using machine translation on the backend?
Also, laws and rules you have to follow, and generally other people. I'm pretty sure if I started clearing snow in my neighbourhood with a DIY snowplow, I'd get in trouble with the housing cooperative, as they're already paying someone else to do that (however shitty job they do). Police may eventually get involved too, as I'm pretty sure that operating a car-sized robot on a road is illegal in more than one way.

Now if I really cared about doing this, I could probably follow some legal procedures to get my snowplow registered, and I could probably convince the neighbours/co-op to let me play with it. But it would all fare better if I formed a company around it and enter the discussion as a legal entity. At which point I may as well start a real snowplow business - which is way beyond my hobby interests.

And this applies to a lot of meatspace innovation - unless you own (and not rent) a home with a large backyard, and confine the scope of your experiments to just your backyard, pretty much all interesting ideas I can come up with require enough red tape that it's not even worth it, unless you're doing it for money.
I agree with your assessment of MOSTLY WRONG but I think that you are overly pessimistic about the timelines:

> But medically speaking, smartwatches are probably decades away from independently diagnosing anything, let along recommending an intervention

Continuous PPG in its current form can diagnose acute and chronic changes in our health condition but the vendors are reluctant to do so. As examples, the newer PPG devices with SpO2 can detect acute and chronic changes in oxygen saturation (critical with COVID-19), Heart Rate Variability (HRV) can indicate infection associated stress, HRV should be used as a proxy for breathing rate, and the Machine Learning derived sleep cycles can indicate sleep disorders.

The data is useful now but the off-device analysis necessary seems to missing in action.
> I've had experiences in war torn countries and seen those that are drastically less fortunate than the author.

Author is literally from a war-torn country and would have had to go back if they were fired. This situation was explicitly part-and-parcel of their bullying.
That would unfortunately be about as useful as the cookie notices - practically every website intentionally or unintentionally includes or references javascript in some way, so the browser would always give the notice.
They already do charge more. Like €11 within EU, €35 within UK for a pair of gloves.
Hypocritical much? A Dutch company shipping to Germany must charge and collect the VAT on behalf of the German tax office. If they ship to France they must collect VAT on behalf of the French tax office. And so on.

Edit: it's the extra fee causing the problem.
we've been doing this a while with streamalert. nice to see it generalized though.
It used to be the case that Arm could not handle unaligned loads, but that functionality was added in v6 of the architecture (many years ago now) and so is present in most Arm cores around today including all the 64-bit ones.

(Some instructions insist on aligned data, like atomic read-modify-write operations and some types of SIMD insn, but x86 has a few needs-alignment special cases too. Basic "just load/store data" insns that the compiler will emit are fine.)
> 'static is not the "lifetime of the entire application" when it is used in the context of T: 'static.

Yes it is.

T: 'static means T can live up to the end of the "lifetime of the entire application".

> ...but it can also have values in it which are not 'static.

I don't follow. Values are indeed bound by 'static. If they weren't we wouldn't be able to pass values to other threads (which can potentially last as long as our application's main thread).

> 'static is not the "lifetime of the entire application" when it is used in the context of T: 'static.

It is. Any owned instance without non-'static references inside can live up to the "lifetime of the entire application". You might drop them earlier if you wanted to, but you don't have to since it can live up to the "lifetime of the entire application" and therefore can be passed for example into a thread that can hold the value up to the end of the "lifetime of the entire application".

Any owned value can be held indefinitely as long as the program is running.

I'm taking a guess here: you mean that values' lifetimes can be constrained (I guess you mean by dropping the actual value). But it's the owner the one that ended it earlier, not the caller (where 'static applied). You will never be able to have an owned value with a lifetime shorter than 'static without dropping it and, if you drop it, you cannot pass it anywhere. Hence why any owned type that is passed is, by definition, bound by 'static.

> ...but my take on it is:

> - IF you take "x is 'static" as meaning the "X is valid for entire lifetime of the application"

> then if:

> - x: &'static 'is static' and must be valid for the entire lifetime of the application.

> I would expect:

> - x: T + 'static 'is static' and must be valid for the entire lifetime of the application.

Your expectations are correct and that's what it is. Just replace "must be valid" with "can live up to".

That's why you need to pass T: 'static to threads, because a separate thread needs something to hold up to the end of the application since a thread can potentially never end.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.spawn.html
I was quite sure that they did mean that that was what happened, but looking at the number of other replies I'm starting to think that I'm the one that misunderstood.
It does look very different and thus inspires curiosity. But it wouldn't exactly inspire trust in me.
There are schools as bad as prison, read about Elan
In an "app store" context, the apps don't serve you; you just generate content/engagement for them. The apps you're looking at don't WANT you to be informed because you might choose not to use them. These notes are just a formality standing in for forced automatic updates. Spotify on Google Play is particularly insulting. They basically tell/shame you that you should just always update without caring about the changes.
I don't know how far back your view on web development goes, but the approach from 20 years ago really was documents being thrown around and lots of forms with a little bit of JS. That was hacking documents into apps.

Today's approach for building web apps is basically code up a fat client application which downloads to the browser, runs, and talks to some remote web API (i.e. REST) using JSON. This is much closer to native apps and very far from the document approach. The app and the pure content are cleanly split between the initial app bundle and the web APIs.
> the lack of support for the count parameter for modules. Made me rage.

Supported as of Terraform 0.13.

It was on the roadmap for a really long time, but because of early design decisions took a while to get there.
I think he means owned values (notice he didn't say "other references") But actually... owned values are bound by 'static!
Reasons Sleeping Naked Makes You Healthier and Wealthier
The big issue I see with this is that the new rules do not mandate any kind of identification on packages that have the VAT already paid, so they can't identify VAT-unpaid packages.

And as the seller is now responsible for VAT for B2C consignments under £135, I'm unsure if they can extract the 20% from the recipient anyway.

I'm guessing that at least for now this means everything valued under £135 is going to go straight through, and they'll implement something sane later...
Wah big tech gave it to me dry in the arse and I willingly stayed and endured it. Either sack up and leave or bend over and take it, yee serf. Nothing new in any of this for anyone who’s been in tech and isn’t naive
Lifelogging: How (and Why) I Create a Quantified Self Using Apple Shortcuts
IMHO it's sort of a schizophrenic field. You could start by dissecting the parts lists from factory automation supplier catalogs, but then you'd likely miss custom mechanical component design, be stuck with fat form factors and have no idea about custom control systems. You could go oldschool machinist like timepiece design and repair stuff, but then you'd miss modern mechatronics entirely. You could go kit/hobby projects but then you'd likely miss industrial standard pneumatics, while you'd gain enough electronics insights for custom mechatronic control. Each area's boundaries have their commercial and historical reasons but there's no clear map of the whole landscape that I've seen, and I'm not an authority.
This looks like a poor attempt to compensate for leaving the VAT MOSS scheme.

As I understand it, vendors in the EU have to charge tax rates based on the customers location and transfer those taxes to the customers country. For example, a shop in Germany that sells to a customer in Italy has to collect Italian VAT and send that VAT to the Italian tax service.

VAT MOSS simplifies this by allowing vendors to send those taxes to their local tax service which handles the international transfers so while vendors still have to charge multiple tax rates they only have to register and pay taxes in a single country.

Apparently the UK wants to continue collecting VAT from EU vendors but since they have left the EU they must invent their own scheme to do so.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/taxation/vat/vat-digit...
Bit a weird claim. From the article, it doesn't really look like this is going to put a dent in Tesla. BMW was best positioned to do this, but failed. VW should have done this a long time ago, but has a board that still drinks oil.
If I understand correctly then this forces the shell companies to report their "secret" benefactors. So it keeps the small players from hiding behind a shell because the cost of running a fake company with 20 full time employees would be prohibitive to them. The bigger ones can probably run a few of the exempt shells in parallel without loosing too much of their overall profit.
The “Uncanny Valley” and How Artists Have Explored It
Why pop music is obsessed with this one note (2020)
What is described above is a close to 100% productive personnel, direct or indirect. Imagine on top of that you have 10% that "work" on wellness programs (on paper, no tangible output ever, maybe a link to a Youtube yoga channel), 25% doing marketing for an institution that is unique with no competitors and no need for publicity (imagine publishing adds for Europol, the European police force; what are they selling?), another 10% doing diversity programs (when skilled engineers are already scarce, you force quotas on various categories) and another 10% are hired just on paper and never appear to work.
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Pleistocene Park (2017)
Those have a minimum thresholds. The Dutch company only has to charge destination country tax if their sales to Germany exceed 100000 EUR per year or 35000 EUR per year to France. And non-EU companies are not required to charge anything.

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/r... column "Threshold for application of the special
scheme for distance selling"

The UK import VAT has no minimum threshold, and unlike EU VAT the requirement applies to all countries.
I loved how you just kept working on building the home-on-wheel project to make your dream real. Do you have any other routes want to visit during/after COVID?
I also find some of the syntax peciliarities and their combinations difficult to look up. In addition to & and *, there's question marks, dots, double dots, square/round/triangle brackets, empty parentheses and apostrophes all over the place and it makes it really difficult to deconstruct what's happening in a block of code.
> Holidays are planned ahead. Don't hire at the same time. Easy.

This is not realistic and quite frankly bad suggestion.

"Yeah, we would hire you next week, but since manager is on vacation we can hire you only in three weeks." Said no-one ever.

And what's the problem in taking those first two weeks to just slowly get to know the code and get to know your workmates? If I had a situation like that I would be thankful that I don't get shoved into work immediately and can take my time.
To give some meat to my post, some landlords of low income housing abuse Delaware's unusual business regulations to obscure their identities and operate illegal roach motels in other states; these same people make excuses about how they're at risk of being harassed by the same tenants they underserve and evict, and therefore feel justified in hiding their identities.

Edit for clarity: the tenants can't sue, being low income. My original post about suing anonymous shell companies was facetious.
Why people have this perception seems pretty clear to me. Just comparing Europe to the US:

The US has both the major desktop/laptop CPU designers, as well as both desktop/laptop GPU designers. Of the three major desktop/laptop OSes, two are American, and the last doesn't belong to any particular country, but the primary creator moved from Europe to the US permanently.

The two major smartphone OSes are made by American companies. Two biggest browsers, again, Americans. Maybe three, if you count Mozilla (though Samsung is probably around there as well).

Huge internet/software tech companies that consumers interact with? Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple are all American. Europe has no equivalent to these, all they can boast is a few smaller ones like Spotify, or business facing giants like SAP (equivalent to that in the US would probably be like Oracle or IBM).

While obviously Europe doesn't have a complete dearth of local software, in terms of major consumer hits, especially the kind that get play outside of the region they originated in -- not much of that going on.

Also, I work at Google Munich, and it's pretty telling how rare it is for people here to get 'poached' by other local tech companies. It happened to a few people I knew...to go to Lyft's Munich office. Other than that, I can't think of any. When it comes to enticing engineers, there just aren't any German tech companies that play in the same league as Google.
Code to generate DSL to call APIs? This is somewhat outdated now, although I wouldn’t have even used it five years ago TBH. Abstraction pile-up.
The cloud patterns of the gas giant hint at it's rotation. We never found a ring on a highly inclined orbit like the one on the first illustration.
The day Macromedia was bought and butchered by Adobe was a sad one for me.
>We actually have tried several times to build programming languages that break out of the textual programming style that we use. Visual programming languages exist, and there's a massive list of them on Wikipedia. However, they don't appear to actually be superior to regular old textual programming languages.

A lot of the time I spent doing the Advent of Code last month was wishing I could just highlight a chunk of text and tell the computer "this is an X"... instead of typing out all the syntactic sugar.

Now, there is nothing that this approach could do that you can't do typing things out... except for the impedance mismatch between all that text, and my brain wanting to get something done. If you look at it terms of expressiveness, there is nothing to gain... but if you consider speed, ease of use, and avoiding errors, there might be an order of magnitude improvement in productivity.

Yet... in the end, it could always translate the visual markup back to syntactic sugar.
The idea of programming with pictures goes way back. I mean, to the 1950s. It's one of the classic mistakes, like fighting a land war in Asia or going in against a particular ethnic group when death is on the line.
I don't know about the HMRC, but fundamentally this sounds like when you ordered from the US to Germany, though with less burdons for the seller. The seller would have to declare any package sent to Germany. Customs would intercept all packages and check their declaration. Packages which appeared to have no commercial goods were just passed on, those which were subjected to taxation would be sent to local customs offices, where one would have to drive to and pay the duties and pick up the package. That was a major pain in the ass for ordering abroad. This got moderately better by big delivery companies like FedEX and DHL collecting the taxes on delivery, saving a trip to the customs office.
Sometimes packages escaped the attention of the customs, one shop in the US I had ordered from had declared it a $20 valued "gift". Also often packages would be controlled for illegal content.
Sounds like this is another disastrous consequence of brexit.
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I also insist on poetry for any python modules or applications. If it's going to support multiple versions of python then throw pyenv in for development and cicd.

If your new to poetry and pyenv I can't recommend https://cjolowicz.github.io/posts/hypermodern-python-01-setu... enough. Even with 10 years python experience it changed how I work with it for the better.
My vote for ZX Spectrum