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Show HN: Guess The Movie – Discover a secret Movie everyday
I created this game where the objective is to discover the secret movie of the day. It's similar to games like Wordle, but in this case instead of words, you have to guess movies. An artificial intelligence algorithm will tell you how similar the movie you guessed is to the secret movie.

You can play it alone or in group. I'm open to feedbacks and general comments. Have fun!
The implication is that there may be significantly less dark matter in the Milky Way than previously estimated. From [0]:

“Using this newly derived rotation curve, a new mass was deduced for our Milky Way. And surprise... it is much lighter. It is now estimated to be only two hundred billion times that of the Sun (~2.06 x 10^11), so about four to five times lower than the previous estimates. The amount of ordinary matter did not change, thus, there must be a lot less dark matter in the Milky Way than previously thought. The new expectation is that the ordinary matter like stars and gas in the Milky Way now makes up about 1/3 of the Milky Way mass and the other 2/3 are accounted to dark matter.”

[0] https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_20230927
Are you contesting that it was more approachable? I didn’t say the Spectrum was more interesting - it definitely wasn’t!
Most media waits to make calls until polls close on the west coast.

But the incremental results: we have distributed elections. For the people reporting results the election is over.
It’s called the SEO industry.
Postgres has a similar feature, if you chose ‘remote_write’ for the ‘synchronous_commit’ setting.

You can also mix and match sync/ascync options within a cluster and even between individual transactions.

Recent versions of Postgres have a really flexible replication configuration to cover a whole range of requirements. See e.g. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/warm-standby.html#SY...
> It isn't even a metaphor really, it's a word game relying on particulars of the English language

It's absolutely a metaphor, just because you didn't understand it doesn't change the meaning the author conveyed. It's written in English, I'm not sure what point you think you are making by pointing that out.

> you could just as easily express the exact opposite point

So you didn't read my comment you replied to? You need new nutritive food each day, not junk or empty calories - the metaphor covers this exact scenario.

When you're eating every day do you just grab literally the first thing at hand and stuff your face until you're full? Or do you make conscious choices about what to put in your body?

If you're in the first camp you may not understand this metaphor - it's for people who consciously consume, both food and thoughts. If you mindlessly scroll and ideate, sorry you're the target of Chesterton's criticism - that doesn't make his metaphor bad, it just makes his argument valid.

> I guess you could print it on a coaster to put your "eat pray love" mug on

The irony, considering you're engaging with this quote at the same shallow level you claim to criticize.

G.K. Chesterton has an entire body of intellectual work consistent with the quote and metaphor extension I've done above - but you've decided to tilt at the windmill of a pithy quote as if it's synecdoche.
So it could also take the preferred datetime format from the locale.
It’s not really, ASL is it’s own distinct language from English, like most sign languages. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language, which still isn’t anything related to French and has its own linguistic features and independent development. Because of this translating ASL to English (or any other language) is no easier than translating to or from any other spoken language.
There’s certainly truth to that, but when you add in all the requirements for those approved sensors (supply chain, certification, utilization of American workers, etc, etc) they may be that expensive to produce.

Then your government client may cancel the deal and you’re left with a warehouse full of $200 parts that should cost $5 that no one else wants.

For the big companies that get their hooks into military and civilian leadership, they’re on the gravy train. But even then, that is on average, many of those projects will likely be big losses.
In the past 2years I’ve spent about 7k in tire related items on the MYP.

I’ve spent ~ 250 in maintenance on my truck in that time frame.

Note: I had to replace a bent wheel on the Tesla in July due to Portland roads. Then last month a different wheel cracked (also Portland roads). Rather than putting on another pos Tesla OE wheel for $900 I opted to get a nice set of forged wheels (19” vs 21”) for 2k. Gives me more sidewall to hopefully absorb the impacts and not bend the wheels.
Xe here. For what it's worth, I basically combined what Soatok does with the furry stickers and what fasterthanlime does with Cool Bear. This pseudonarrative style has a lot of promise for making things less gatekeepy in our industry and I can't see why encouraging people to fuck around with their formats in this way is a bad thing.
See also https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_20230927.
The pain only exists if you're trying not to use Tokio that has 90% "market share" of Rust runtimes.

I get that it is sometimes needed (if you use GTK or browser JS as your async runtime, or write your own executor).

But for majority users there is only one runtime and there's no compatibility problem. Tokio won, and network effects killed everything else. Think of it like Golang's choice of runtimes (there isn't one).
as in easy to handle tens of thousands requests a second with a few DB calls on a smallish server? do you want a PHD thesus on what performant means?
The leaders of hospitals almost always have MBA's, not MDs. Every medical department answers to the business analysts.
Sure, but machines are actually pretty good at spoken and written translation these days, so I would expect that once the image recognition is solved they could handle ASL readily as well.
No. If I use services of a foreign company, I am the one who should follow the foreign law. I am the one who went out and used a foreign service, they didn't come to me.
One part is probably because they are so secretive externally and internally, so there have been no business books on apples culture, playbook etc. No TED talks from ex Apple leaders.

I think Tesla is the closest to trying to follow their model, in a much scrappier way of course.
> it's super reliable on high quality reliable hardware.

Okay
I don't think this is feasible if its only a EU-wide regulation.

It is hard to prevent me or any regular user from downloading and running software. Are they going to block Git forges and repositories?

They won't be able to see what my communications are, nor confirm what I am using if I tunnel all traffic through Tor or a VPN.

Will they block VPNs like authoritarian states?
That's really unfortunate. Best of luck!
why would be using a "fancy tool" a bad thing? Headers are to be maintained manually, which is lost productivity and invite errors. The "fancy tools" can provide specialized search, formatting of the documentation, internal links, formatted and tested code examples, and of course the interface for free. In modern languages they're even part of the included tools.

I'm having a hard time seeing the downside of the "fancy tools".
uBlock origin makes it a nice text document.
I am of the opinion that a community-backed, portable library of encoders/decoders for a single L2CAP stream or notified characteristic would be far more useful than numerous "standardized" services. I often find the implementation lacking and have to implement something custom, which is nearly always easier over a single characteristic. Something in C++ or Rust would be ubiquitous enough that it could have one counterpart in firmware and another in Android/iOS/WASM. Many GATT characteristics do not handle compression or time-series data well, and there is no shim without going custom over your own characteristics.
When I need something optimal, I am probably not using a standard BLE service.
Hello mojomark,
My name is Alex Becker, and I am the author of the "Kalman Filter from the Ground Up book."
First, I would like to thank you for your feedback. As an author, it is important for me to receive feedback from the readers. In the book's second edition, I made many changes based on the feedback from the book readers. I've elaborated explanations of the topics some readers failed to understand and added several appendixes.
You are right, book authors don't get paid to respond. However, the KalmanFilter.Net is a project, not just a book. I've worked on the project for 6 years, and you will see more in the future. The goal of this project is to help people to understand and implement the Kalman Filter. The website includes a contact page: https://www.kalmanfilter.net/contact.aspx, and the book purchasers receive my email. I do my best to answer emails and help my readers if they fail to understand specific points.
Regarding the issues that you and other responders raised.
Scientists use terminology that looks weird to non-scientists. But I can't write an engineering book without addressing scientific terms. I agree that "Random Variable" sounds unintuitive, but this is the term. Almost any physical quantity is a random variable. For example, the temperature of your body is a random variable. You can measure the temperature using a thermometer, but it doesn't mean that its reading is your actual temperature. Your temperature is a random variable that can be described by two parameters – the thermometer reading and the thermometer precision. Understanding the "Random Variables" concept is essential for understanding the Kalman Filter.
If you make multiple measurements, the temperature is described by mean and variance. You can read again the https://www.kalmanfilter.net/background.html page, where this concept is explained. Mathematicians call the mean and the variance – statistical moments. "Moments" also sounds weird. I mention this term in the introduction, but I don't use it again in the book. If the term "moments" causes confusion, I can consider removing it from the introduction.
Regarding the Linear Algebra. You don't need any prior Linear Algebra knowledge to understand the concept of the Kalman Filter and implement the Kalman Filter in one dimension. However, if you want to tackle the multi-dimensional Kalman Filter, you need some basic Linear Algebra knowledge, at least matrix multiplication.
Thanks again for your post,
Alex Becker.
Hey kids, put on your x-ray specs and see these great comic book ads from yesteryear:

https://comicbook.com/news/the-charles-atlas-hall-of-fame-10...
This is the nature of reality that increases with the more dots you connect over the years or more complexity you adopt within your neural networks. Take care to weed out cognitive dissonance from good heuristics. Your life may have been mostly dedicated to observing existential meaning in all things. You may notice every step forward is accompanied by these synchonocities. You may realize everything was just a different expression of the one thing afterall.
... Blackout Curtains??
Right but all you need is a joystick/app to steer it not a whole seat. Having a seat seems like an admission the robotic part doesn't work very well.
What is different about this versus navigating to the next page? It's this like a down vote?
Saying that media outlets are in the hands of "the global Left" borders on the delirious.

Especially when one of the chief complaints about the democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary is precisely the encroachment on freedom of press (together with the erosion of the separation of powers).
Brexit killed England as a financial center. That also impacted travel to the usa
The only mainstream browser that supports Web Bluetooth is Chrome. Maybe Apple told Google "no, don't implement that." There are good reasons for that. Web Bluetooth's usefulness is dubious, and the potential for exploits is massive.
That’s the tricky part about an internet company. Where are they located? If a US company ships you a physical product they need to follow local laws otherwise you can’t import it. But you think in the case of a digital product then the logic is reversed?
Title could be: Polish government fails to enforce moratorium regarding day-before-election poll result publications, on thinly-veiled violations on twitter.
Allright. The big problem with this approach is you've fully gotten rid of the invisible hand of the market, you're in a top-down economy, and inefficiencies are bound to explode..
Making it an emotional issue is much too convenient. Many people are trying to actively ban science on geoengineering, that’s the context.

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/call-for-non-use-agreement-solar-g...
> Google wants users to make clicks and track them, i.e., collect behavioural data. Thus it makes sense that a user would be forced to "open" a video to see its actual upload date.

You don't need malice to explain that --- just A/B testing. Making information, that a user wants or needs, less accessible increases engagement, since the user is clearly clicking more.
See also blogs where double hyphens in shell script examples have been automatically converted to em-dashes, and source code rendered in a monospaced font with monospaced ligatures like “ﬂ”. The latter not only fails copy/paste, it’s a typographical tragedy. Even Communications of the ACM does it, in a printed magazine with supposedly professional designers!
No, they don't need to follow the local law. I can buy whatever I want from anywhere in the world and the company doesn't need to follow anything other than the law of their home.

These are very significantly different cases:

1) a foreign customer buying

2) a foreign company selling

In the first case, the company follows their home law only. On the second case they would have to follow the local law of the customer's country too
This comment is meant to get an interesting conversation instead of "mastercard bad" or whatever.

Would the EFF feel any differently if the data were pseudo-anonymous and open to everyone?

You can go to SteamDB.info and learn a lot about millions of people based on what games they buy. It's a psuedo-anonymous per-user purchase history. Here's mine: https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197975362423/?cc=us . You can look up basically anyone on Steam, and even do advanced math on all of it. It's been going on for at least a decade.

Have there been consequences or harms? I mean maybe in some isolated case I can imagine it. But there's also lots of value in the data being open.
Now it's a lengthy css instead. It seems to me we are going backwards...
Click the reader mode button, makes it far more palatable :)
Oh absolutely, I agree. I just wanted to make certain it was clear that it isn’t as simple as classifying images as words.
Yeah I've been bombarded with this through and alternative Youtube frontend on my TV, because I follow Diem25.
TlDr clouds are the new land owners and have replaced capitalism.

He's not wrong but not right either. I'd wager he's about 70% on the right side.

You still and always have the option to not use cloud, even if there ever were no data centers available, you can still pay to be connected to whatever local data exchange for a comparable price to renting a rack, if you didn't know.

But the world is not just computers.
You don't need to use cloud services.
Example Germany, offline water delivery is still done via phone calls, and the people running those shops don't want it any other way, because they have too many customers and not enough people willing to work for base hourly payments doing physically hard work.

I'm sure more examples can be found.

When it comes to jobs, I'm having a very hard time finding one which doesn't require knowledge about AWS, usually their preferred cloud operator, then comes Azure and lastly GCP, in Germany. GCP usually only if they're completely Google powered.

But he doesn't mean just clouds but also the connected services. The whole deal.

He's not a developer and doesn't know that everything you can do with cloud, you can do without cloud.
You don't need serverless, k8s etc.
But people get indoctrinated.
I was too, 2013 when k8s started being popular, when docker was the great new thing, when Google+ propaganda showcased k8s, I was on board.
Then I saw, hey wait a minute. Too complicated for every day use, too expensive for the little guy (me), too time intensive to maintain.
That's why it got hyped.
To drive business to their cloud.

Yannis and others make the same mistake, they don't value their own but believe someone else can do better than they can, because they actually lack knowledge.

Gaming anecdote, Battlefield 2142. Many servers had the "No fighting commander" rule, because apparently, according to them, "A commander can't fight and command".
Well maybe they couldn't, but I could. And I did great and had a lot of fun.

Cloud is similar. There are people who are able and stand on their own and there are people who aren't and need to pay, expensively, for the work of others.

If you can cook you might go to a restaurant occasionally, but most of the time you'll cook yourself. And the meal costs 5€ and not 25€.
Of course if you've got it all figured out you might have a lot of money and wouldn't mind inviting a friend and pay 80€ for the meal. Who cares, you make 700€ a day. And that friend will give make you another 200€ per day.

But if you're poor 5€ is a good meal.

Hey it's Sunday so don't take it all too seriously.
The EU is an authoritarian state. Nowadays it is only nominally democratic, with a bigger and bigger wedge between the ruling elite and the population.

What makes you think they won't filter out means of private communication?
It's just an electronic box from china.
Not quite: Rust futures also have immediate cancellation and easy timeouts that can be imposed externally on any future.

In threads that perform blocking I/O you don't get that, and need to support timeouts and cancellation explicitly in every blocking call.
Yes, the newer "pivot_wider" and "pivot_longer" are just much cleaner and nicer than the 25 different half-broken way you can use in pandas. Luckily I don't have to do a lot of data engineering anymore, because R is just not fun for large projects while pandas is very unergonomic
Good match for async/await, too: I wrote a wrapper in Swift for it. [1]

[1] https://github.com/PADL/IORingSwift
You can use lightguns on LCDs sometimes
Yeah maybe an issue on 32-bit, but on 64-bit virtual address space is basically unlimited.
> Finally MySQL gets performance in these large setups by turning off features like foreign keys, acid guarantees etc.

Large MySQL users are generally not turning off acid guarantees. That is nonsense. What settings are you even specifically referring to with this?

On the durability side, large MySQL shops only mess with innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit if there's a safe distributed durability mechanism in use (e.g. synchronous or semi-synchronous replication). Or perhaps if the data is ephemeral/recomputable, but that's a similar use-case to running Postgres on a ramdisk.

On the isolation side, MySQL supports READ UNCOMMITTED (unlike Postgres) but it is very rarely used. Only useful for some specific situations. fwiw MS SQL Server supports it too, it's not a MySQL specific thing.
"Everybody sucks and is stupid! Why do I not have any friend?"
That’s a really flimsy defence.
This is not my koolaid flavor. It appears you’re pretty sold on those paths as most ideal from your post history, but it is disingenuous to ask people to do what you’re asking simply to have better working arrangements or conditions and better pay.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601695
Hopefully this will wake more people up to the inherent evil of the EU, causing more countries to leave.
> As explained in the patch fixing the kernel crash on receiver USB disconnect, there are four time-of-check vs. time-of-use races that needed to be addressed.

That and it crashes the whole kernel.

“Separation of concerns” comes to mind, and QA strategy.

Who’s gonna say “Rust” first?
Here is a summary of the key points from the podcast transcription:

* Janis Varoufakis argues that capitalism has been replaced by a new system he calls "techno-feudalism." This is a result of the rise of "cloud capital" owned by big tech companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc.

* He believes cloud capital has enabled a new form of economic rent extraction, allowing tech lords like Jeff Bezos to collect huge rents from digital platforms that increasingly replace market transactions. This parallels feudal lords extracting rents from their land.

* The massive money printing by central banks after the 2008 crisis provided the funding for this rapid expansion of cloud capital, further entrenching the power of techno-feudal lords.

* Varoufakis sees the rise of figures like Donald Trump as a backlash against this new techno-feudalism from "petit bourgeois" capitalists and workers left behind by deindustrialization.

* However, Europe is now irrelevant compared to the techno-feudal spheres of influence in the US and China, as it has no cloud capital of its own.

(yt-dlp | ffmpeg | whisper-cpp | claude.ai)
* The euro has locked countries like Italy and Greece into permanent austerity and decline. Leaving would be painful but may be necessary.

* Covid provided an opportunity for more debt and money distribution to elites. Liberal individualism is dying as big tech shapes desires.

* In summary, Varoufakis argues contemporary capitalism has been replaced by a neo-feudal system ruled by tech oligarchs extracting rents via cloud platforms.
@dang The link should be pointing to the actual PayPal article https://medium.com/paypal-tech/unlocking-the-power-of-junodb....

Here is the archive link https://archive.ph/etRgW
> then rely on private enterprise to provide a suitable commercial alternative.

Read: To provide exorbitant profits to private defense/aerospace corporations, as if all of the war profiteering on Afghanistan and now Ukraine, and the enormous payday they got during covid, wasn't enough.
We should have a payment system that isn't held hostage by two providers anyway.

At least here in Europe MasterCard and visa are the only options. Amex and Discovery are really unusable here.

Besides selling our data this also means we get American morals pushed on us, eg they won't provide payments for some websites they don't like.

But how do you break up such a duopoly?
That is definitely not how the world works. Import/Export laws do exist for a reason.

Your edit makes even less sense.

1) a foreign customer buying
2) a foreign company selling

Those two happen at the same time. If I’m in Australia and I’m buying something from the US I am a foreign customer (relative to the company) and the company is also a foreign company (relative to the customer)

If you want to export anything you have to follow the laws of the country you’re exporting to.
Good point. The sticky point is privacy protection. Would you be ok with every single transaction you make being public? Even if so, many would not be.

Selling/sharing depersonalized data is hard to find fault with.
At the lowest level Rust's async is a syntax for generators (yield).

I've (ab)used them that way, without any async runtime, just to easily write stateful iterators.
The implementations have no agreement here. Clang "likes" `.cppm` while MSVC "likes" `.ixx`. I don't think there's any hope for agreement on extensions.
I believe PassKeys are fixing that.
Yes, definitely need ad-blocking here.

This reads as if it was written with a large number of buzzwords that did not translate well.

Also, there's another article on the same site, "End to the great era of layoffs: big technology companies reactivate hiring but with conditions". Which came first? There's no date.
Some of us have quite low car ownership costs by buying old junkers (for cash--no monthly payments) and only liability insurance coverage.
Did you read to the end of the post?