skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting but problematic idea.

Firstly, I'm not certain of how the economics would play out: the "marvel or transformers nonsense" (and boy is it nonsense) tends to cost a lot of money to make, because they feature famous actors and they're end-to-end expensive CGI; arthouse films tend to be a lot cheaper because they feature less CGI, and sometimes the actors involved will work for less money because the films are more "worthy", or they like the director. More people watch the superhero drivel than the arthouse films, for sure, so perhaps it would all balance out, but it's unclear.

Secondly, while I broadly love Terrence Malick, if I'd paid £20 for "Knight of Cups" (which was dire), I would have to think very, very hard about parting with another £20 for his next film unless the notices were very good. I think you'd end up with a minuscule audience if you started marking up arthouse films in this way.

Unrelatedly, I have to admit that "Mank" sounds really boring and I'm not eager to watch it, even though I have a Netflix subscription and I've enjoyed many of Fincher's previous films (hell, I even liked "Alien 3").
> This bill tries to exempt economically active entities.

A company with 5 emplyees is not active?
Cool! Thank you for this.
There’s also a mitigating liability aspect to this. If you start providing minutiae detail, you may start revealing pretty big faults that have escaped to prod. People question the safety of your product and now you’re open to lawsuit or at least micromanaged by some unforgiving end-customers. To cope, you start to not fix certain problems so you won’t have to report the bugs or you start lying what the bugs were. I’m not so sure it’s on net a useful direction to be quite that open.
How do you handle CI to ensure portability to big-endian systems? Running in emulator or on real hardware?

Does anyone know about some reasonably priced big-endian linux hardware that could be added to build system to run CI tests on big-endian?

The only thing i found is Ubiquiti Edgerouter Pro (MIPS64 BE).
Existing VAT and sales tax regimes have not really kept up with the fact that it’s practical and easy for someone to order a single widget directly from the factory in China and have it turn up at their house. The concept of having an exporter, importer and a dealer between them and the customer is dying out and so I don’t really see other states moving away from doing this.

The store rightly says that doing what the UK expects for every country is basically impossible. A more realistic thing that I see happening is that this gets offloaded to the postal services in the same way passenger taxes are dealt with by an airline, who of course do have to deal with 195 slightly different requirements to operate there, as postal services (DHL, UPS etc) already do. The EU is advantageous because at least there is some harmonization happening and they are acting as the clearing house for when this is implemented for intra EU transactions (mid this year).
I would totally buy it if I could order it locally in Europe.

When I ordered a PinePhone from Hong Kong, it was just too much of a hassle for my liking. Waiting for an indefinite amount of time until it gets shipped and then deal with customs.

I wonder how many customers there are per country. Would it make sense to have local distributors around the world?

Or maybe at least one per continent?
His family is interesting. His father, his mother and 3 of his siblings were/are all mathematicians. Only one sibling isn't.
Yeah. But it is still Netflix controlling both end, they are just extending their supply chain to include more indie creators but at the end of the day who gets to get on the platform and how much they can earn isn't a direct function of that creator and their audience. That economy is not a directly individualistic economy like the other examples. But I would really like to see a mix of kickstarter and patreon for indie creators that can run parallel to the OTT platforms, enabling them to create more ambitious projects and enabling their audience to directly support it.
I'd consider Clojure a good iterative development of Lisp(s) — for me, this is when using Lisp became really practical for large-scale app development, both for server-side code and client-side code.

As a specific example of a huge advancement, the ability to share most of your data model code between your servers and client browsers is fantastic.
The way most people and HN audience make decisions is definitely not the same
Not to mention there scould be space enough oce serious space colonization gets going. One could actually imagine many things progress better if you don't have to train new people all the time to replace those retiring & remove the stress death causes to all involved.
it's much better with the current arrangement imo. Whenever i buy something from e.g. aliexpress, ebay etc VAT is payed and there is no suprise fees.
I would love to see the mechanism up close so that I could try and re-make it in cad.
Check out the Amazfit Bip (S) watch.

Cheap, sleek, waterproof, gorilla glass always-on display, battery lasts a month, does GPS tracking without smartphone connection and you can sync it via Gadgetbridge to keep all your data private without any account/cloud services.
The way I see it, before, he had two choices: Run a single money laundering operation where he recruit people, have an office, etc... and have a sizable amount going through it. Or create 1.000 shell company. Having a single shell company with no presence and employees move dozens of millions of dollars will raise eyebrows from the bank. But a 1.000 shell that move dozens don't.

After this, he has only one choice: Run the fake business.
I wonder how far you tried robotics yourself, as in what is your frame of reference.

Here’s my framing: Setting aside sheer knowledge, building anything will require power, motors and parts.

Power is doable up to some point, buying batteries and plugin them is a low barrier with low risks (still need to care about them not burning though)

Motors are a matter of costs and learning what’s available and how to use them.

Then come the parts. Will you machine them ? That would be a CNC machine and it’s a rabbit hole needing space, money, time, material, learning and safety measures. The mild version is a 3D printer, but it’s still a significant cost, a learning curve, a dedicated place available for long hours with effective ventilation.

We’re pretty far away from a simple hobby anyone could try, compared to fishing or papercraft, or guitare, or even wood working. Basically that seems miles away from anything you would start out of boredom.
I found it quite interesting that your "what's the point" section only has one point in it: avoid conflicting dependencies.

I found it interesting because I am generally in the distro-package camp vs venvs, and I do not see any other point myself. And for conflicting dependencies, I strive to solve that with barebone VMs to run individual "services" (or containers if security is not a concern).
I checked, it seems to be a student of Seoul National University, South Korea. https://github.com/donghyunlee00/CVE
>Honestly, the original predictions are written badly.

Predictions are vague by their very nature and this is a hell of a lot clearer than Nostradamus & co.

>AI gunfire detection system seem to exist solely in a certain country

Don't think you need AI for that. Some cities have had these for a decade plus
ShenScript – An Implementation of the Shen Language for JavaScript
Worldsheet: Wrapping the World in a 3D Sheet, View Synthesis from a Single Image
I remember sleeping naked was so much talked about on reddit it became a funny meme...
If you can't use online hosted tools (e.g. using it for work) there is a VSCode extension that embeds this which is pretty great. The latest version is actually broken but you can just install the previous one.
The conclusions in this article are dubious. All of the mentioned studies are about sleeping at lower temperatures and getting better rest, not sleeping naked. The "builds confidence" point doesn't include any evidence linking sleeping naked to an increase in confidence.
You're stepping closer to the concept of a company town.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
>and more generally predictable ones

Can you really say that without the benefit of hindsight colouring that assessment?
Unfortunately they no longer make them. Or at least I could not find any to be bought.
The worst of these is the "Google" app. For over a year, every single new version has the exact same four-entry changelog, which translating from Portuguese is something like: "enhanced search page appearance; new doodles designed for app experience; off-line voice actions, available only in the USA; web pages opened directly within the app". I have the slight suspicion that most of the almost weekly updates to the "Google" app do not have these four changes... for that app, "bugfixes and performance improvements" would actually be a better (more correct) changelog.
A company with 5 employees is very unlikely to have a complicated ownership structure and so wouldn't be hamstrung by the act.

You are penalized if you are small, complicated, and anonymous. You aren't penalized _just_ for being small, or complicated, or anonymous.
extremely unlikely , the wealthy in cities who hold the wealth enjoy all the benefits. any youtube search term about china will show you the reality
Who says immortal people would behave like we see old people today ? With many of the biological clock and "not catching the train" stresses removed I would imagine mental health and general happiness would improve. And if you are living for hundreds of years, things will change around you and you will have to adapt anyway.
2020 Domestic Box Office Fell 80 Percent to $2.3B Behind China's $2.7B
It’s always kind of weird to see other people make a mistake I did for years, like charting the trend in life expectancy increases and project it to the future.

Life expectancy increases are mostly a statistical fluke of reducing child mortality. Once you factor that out, our upwards trend is way less impressive.
Me too. It says "All-week 180 mAh battery" which I'm not sure what it means but I doubt a 180 mAh lasts an entire week.
That's not a GNU/Linux issue, BSD's have KDE too.

Also, back in the day you could compile and run KDE perfectly on Solaris and Irix.

>or even Windows based systems, to develop software for GNU/Linux based cloud environments.

I/O is still crappy and limited.
Regarding American Graffiti, it was a huge hit, before anyone heard of Star Wars. It was the number 3 grossing film of 1973 after The Sting and The Exorcist. It made AFI's list of the top 100 movies.
So this bill is the beneficial ownership paper for the US? Am I the only one who think this requirement is as stupid as it gets. If you are a money launderer are you going to make an accurate disclosure? How does the US/Authorities check the validity of these disclosures?

As someone who went through the BO pain, I think it only added more paperwork load to small business/guys like me.
you can't just fork and maintain the community or recognition though which is way more important for DevOps, or packaging tools in general. It's more valuable for us all to use the same/similar tools. The world doesn't need 50 digital Ocean adapters.
This is mostly an artifact of how eastern states states are smaller because most states on accession to the union were within an order of magnitude vs peers population wise and the east was much more densely populated.

I do wonder though if the west coast wouldn't be better managed if the states were split up a bit more population wise like in the east.
Ah, I was not aware of that distinction
After using a pebble time round since it came on the market, I really value the 4 physical buttons (back) on the left vs (up/select/down) on the right. I have never used a watch with a touch screen function, but I read oppinions of the watches made by fitbit after they aquired pebble, that it was a mix of touch screen and buttons.
letting this have both technologies while being open source leaves a lot of room for developers I would imagine. But leaning onto what I read about those 3button fitbit watches I hope there will be a future version with 4 buttons.
> Either fix everything at once, or don't. There's zero point in making small incremental changes that do not benefit everyone

?! That’s an interesting perspective, especially on a software development forum :)
Nobody disputes olive oil's caloric content. It does seem like a stretch though to imply it has anything to do with the obesity crisis in the western world. Olive oil is not a recent introduction to our diets. Perhaps people are using much, much more - but that seems somewhat implausible, it doesn't actually taste that good by itself and I'd like to see something showing that the amount use to sauté the average unit of food has increased significantly in the past few decades. Either way, having tried/trying to gain weight I can confirm that olive oil is not particularly useful in that respect, it's easy to get ~80 calories with it but difficult to go beyond that. In a lot of cases you will not consume all the oil you used for frying or whatever anyway - so it is also misleading to imply that the volume used in cooking equals calories ingested, and unless you're cooking for yourself only, the amount needed to sauté e.g. onions is basically constant for 1-5 people, so you'd likely be consuming only a fraction.
> even gifts with low value (change in EU after 2020).

What change is that? AFAICS there have been no changes and no proposals to change the directive 2006/79/EC which covers the 45 EUR gift exception:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A...

For commercial packages the changes wil apply on 2021-07-01. However, note that there will be several improvements to the system:

- The seller/marketplace can pay for VAT for under-150 EUR packages so the recipient does not need to pay (IOSS system) - similar to the UK system in OP, but optional to seller.

- The carriers can use a simplified customs process to declare under-150 EUR packages in bulk, lowering their costs.

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/modernisi...
See additional context in this issue in docker-library/memcached: https://github.com/docker-library/memcached/issues/63#issuec...

And this issue in my docker-adminer: https://github.com/TimWolla/docker-adminer/issues/89
I can recommend two strong stories that came out earlier in 2020:

"Piranesi" by Susanna Clarke was great. Minimalist and eerie, with a satisfying science-fantasy plot. Very different in size, scope and theme from Clarke's previous novel, "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell".

"The invisible life of Addie La Rue" by V.E. Schwab. A good character and a good story, but with a couple of tropey elements here and there. I had fun with it, but since I can't remember its end just a couple of months after reading it, suggests that it (the end) might be a little underwhelming.
> the only interesting part of this whole debacle... security [...] is only as secure as its weakest link

I agree that it is a staggering debacle; I disagree that the weakest link is the only point of interest.

SolarWinds did not vet its build process and outputs; no antivirus, no government entity, no so-called intelligence agency, no mighty software corporation caught the compromise... for more than six months.

The set of characteristics of this compromise is notable and there are many sobering conclusions.

Also mentioned in this other, brief HN discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580673
It isn't. It always swaps. Most times you're dealing with endianness, you want to convert to or from native CPU to or from big or little endian. Code that always swaps regardless of native endianness will silently do the wrong thing if compiled on a machine of different endianness.

You're telling me that what the linux kernel guys do is "weird endian conversion macros?" I don't believe you.
Exactly - if someone says immortal they usually mean "forever young" or equivalent.

Deterioration is not really compatible with forever anyway.
What you say makes sense... but I struggle to reconcile it with reality.

If "the left part of this bound can live up to the end of the application" then why is &a not 'a where 'a: 'static? a can live up to the end of the application. &a can live up to the end of the application.

Why is the result "argument requires that `a` is borrowed for `'static`"

fn foo<'a: 'static>(a: &'a str) { println!("{}", a) }
pub fn main() {
let a = "hello world".to_string();
foo(&a);
}

So I guess I'm going to have to just agree to disagree on this one and bow out of this conversation thread I'm afraid.

[1] -- https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Maybe you could estimate the reading time of a code snippet by taking the square root of the number of lines of code? I imagine that the larger the code snippet, the more irrelevant boilerplate it contains, so the square root might be a good way to model this
Unethical subscription renewal – am I out of luck?
Has anyone thought about the potential of using these in embedded projects? It already has a powerful processor, and some outputs/inputs should be possible to reach by having a breakout board, and it comes with a screen so it would be useful for on-site configuration and diagnostics.
You can definitely find it on the usual China gadgets marketplaces: aliexpress, banggood, gearbest, ...
Variables can be varied... you can increment, decrement, do whatever you want with them. They keep track of things.

Pointers are used reference things allocated from the heap, and never anything else, unless you're insane. Pointers get
directly handled in linked lists, trees, etc.

If at all possible, pointers should be avoided otherwise.

Values passed to a procedure can be done by value (the default in Pascal), or by reference (VAR parameters).

I don't see why anyone wouldn't copy values by default... it is the only sane way to do things.
The problem is that lists the director, not the owner. So you just have a secretary in a law firm listed as the director of 200 shell companies
I do a lot of running, currently 40 minutes every 2 days. It's true that it took me A LOT of time to adapt to barefoot walking. And the pain was obvious and went away within weeks. Much more time was needed for my soles to regain flexibility, and to learn how to land without that harder impact.

I use minimalist shoes, not true barefoot running. For pragmatic reasons. Broken glass, dog shit, rusty nails. Also, even nudists put a towel under them when they sit at a cafe because they care about basic hygiene. I don't want to leave my skin and sweat on floor. You need a very thin, flexible and uniformly flat sole. Isolation is not important for running because your feet are mostly in the air and exercise warms up the muscles. You may want to put on an extra pair of socks for walking in winter. Rain and mud are a bigger problem and I keep a backup pair of standard shoes for that. Cycling also doesn't benefit from barefoot so I use normal shoes.

A common argument I hear is that barefoot might work on dirt and soil. This is not true actually. It takes me less effort to run on pavement and sidewalk, because I quickly adapt to the steady surface and focus on other aspects. On a trail I need to constantly adapt to changes in slope.

The key change I noticed is that I no longer get ankle or foot pain after a long walk. I now need literally a couple of hours of walking for my knees to get sore.
TD Digest #161 – Operation Sunlight
Ask HN: What problems do you face in your machine learning work?
Hi,

Assuming you do it professionally, how do you go about your machine learning projects? What is your workflow? What tools do you use and why? What tools don't you use and why not?

How is your team organized if you have a team? How do you collaborate and hand-off each piece of the puzzle? How do you handle data, develop your models, track experiments, deploy and manage your models, etc.

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Disclosure: we're building a platform[0] for our own needs for now, but I'm interested in how other people do it. Right now, we have real time collaborative notebooks, no-setup huge images with the most popular libraries, long-running notebook scheduling with output that survives closed tabs and network disruptions, automatic experiment tracking [we automatically detect parameters, models, and metrics and save them], AppBook publishing (one click parametrized notebooks), model deployment, and packaging models in Docker containers you can push to a registry.

Thank you,

- [0]: https://iko.ai
It's called the Adobe Flash Projector IIRC
SCSI also generally uses big endian whenever there are multibyte numbers in the protocol.
Here is another similar resource for learning new programming language's on the fly

https://learnxinyminutes.com/
I guess I'm focusing on the ones at the top of the food chain, and the what I think is the predominant relationship in app stores, not necessarily the social ones. Eg the Microsoft ones in the article
Are you sure that is correct?
According to results from googling you get 60 days to find a new job if you got laid off from H1B job.
https://www.stilt.com/blog/2020/05/steps-after-an-h1b-layoff....
Ps: to someone who downvoted, what don't you agree with?
Open-source is still maturing in the "smart" area. The phones are getting a lot better all the time and I think we'll see more watches in the next couple of years

There's still a long way to go before it's viable for the average tech-geek to go for a fully open-source setup (phone, watch, tablet, etc), so if your question is if it's good now, then no

If you're asking if this will turn into something good over time, then yes... A million times yes

The open-source space will most likely always come with its own set of problems and I don't think we'll ever get an environment that has the same level of seamlessness as android or iOS.

I'm hoping the next 2-3 years will get us to a point where open source can get a user 80% of the way out-of-the-box, at which point I'm definitely ready to ditch android and move everything to an environment, that's built to respect my privacy
down sides beginning you need to keep the mirrors cleaner than you do solar panels. Bird's that fly though the focused beam die. the sun has to be tracked, though I don't know if that's any different from a normal panel farm tracking the sun.
I bought and tested 17 pairs of boxer briefs to find the best one
I am trying a pomodore method for myself and my son. Although I am not sure 25 minutes is ideal. I find the logic of, 'I can do almost anything for 25 minutes' appealing, because you know you wont have to do it again, today.

I recently picked up a nice friendly clock for this:
https://www.amazon.com/KeeQii-Minute-Visual-Silence-Countdow...

I liked this as it was easy to see how much time there was. I avoided the red one as I found the blue to be more peaceful. So I have one at home, will buy another one for work.
Too crashy (I use v4.0), and slower on rendering than Dillo, by far.

Also, I can't set the User Agent to anything else, in order to fix rendering errors. For example, the PSP one, still supported on tons of sites. Or the first Opera Mini releases, pre v5.
If you are a fan of Citizen Kane and the whole mythos around this movie, you might enjoy Mank. If not, you will probably find it quite boring and pointless.

Fincher is certainly no art house director. He makes big-budget movies with stars like Brad Pitt or Ben Affleck. He is kind of like Steven Spielberg - a director so talented in the craft he elevates rater middlebrow material to be uniquely enjoyable. Fincher just gets a bit more respect because he is "dark". But dark does not mean deep. For example Seven is really quite silly and contrived, but his excellence at directing makes us forget that.
I think Kickstarter itself is a pretty popular way to get projects running https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/kickstarter-film-projects/