skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's better to start with something that doesn't lock you in a certain platform or set of applications. Python with Pydantic is educational and extremely useful, much more than Swift.
(Sigh) The suggestion for improvement is always the same. Get a college degree. Even though college is a largely broken institution with ever increasing questions of return value. At least this article goes a step further by suggesting the government needs to step in and help lower costs, although I hardly see making college more accessible as a reasonable solution to the multitude of problems currently facing academic institutions.
When hardware design can be software emulated then iteration can be more agile. There's a story how NVIDIA was the first one to do this for GPUs- this was done out of desperation because they were out of money and had to ship quickly. They didn't have time and money to do any revisions so they just shipped what they had done in software emulation even though some of the features were defective.
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993...
Despite all appearances, Spec Ops is a masterpiece and a really unique game, there's nothing else like it. I wish that some preservation effort managed to make a version without expiration date.
How is the tax system abused?
How should Starlink know if Russians or Ukrainians use it in the war zone?
How applicable is Armstrong for folks in the USA? The amazon reviews suggest it's specific to UK laws and regulations.
Should probably have asked you to clarify your intent...

"I want to take areal photos/videos": Cinematic Drone - Go with DJI stuff, Mavic probably

"I want to pilot a spaceship": FPV Drone - Get a TinyWhoop or simmilar

I've been describing the latter. If you go that route, unfortunately I'd recommend skipping the kit. I don't like the box goggles that will come with it because their FOV is aweful. The EACHINE EV200D is what I'd consider entry level, but it'll set you back about $300. Fatshark has some good stuff too.

https://www.fpvknowitall.com/fpv-shopping-list-goggles-video...

DJI does have a full FPV kit too and it's very nice and very expensive. Only reason I didn't mention it is it isn't what I'd consider a Whoop. It's in the "can give you stitches" class of drones and is not usable indoors. Still, really nice drone.

DJI's FPV googles and Air Unit digital VTX are worth a mention on their own because they're awesome and one of the few DJI products you can occasionally use with non-DJI systems. It's heavy though, so not likely to fit in a Whoop.
Someone knowledgeable enough about movies can read a script and know of it's good or not without needing to see it actually produced.

Here, it's possible to read the code and know what the program does sufficient to critique it for what it is.
Which one is the truth? That is what matters.
At claiming a tax break.

A tax write off is intended to help you when you suffer a loss. In this case, a company does not suffer a loss but inflicts it on itself by destroying its asset without even trying to liqudate it properly.
You think that some costs shouldn’t be tax deductible? So companies should pay taxes not only on profit, but revenue independent of profit?

I don’t think that would have a positive effect as you imagine.
Warner Brothers reportedly lost Nolan for pissing him off with their dumb straight to streaming strategy. And then he made Oppenheimer for another studio. And they still did this.
Started looking late November and started tracking my applications in January.

I have applied to a total of 46 positions within a month. This has led to six interviews, several of which I received no response, 13 formal rejections, and one job offer which I declined (The decline was due to the position being advertised as a developer role, yet the recruiter mentioned that about 50% of the duties would involve support tasks)

Seeing this thread gives me some relief. At least it's not just me but a broader trend across the whole industry
.NET 9 will be putting BinaryFormatter out to pasture
I’m with you. People see this as some kind of scam, but this is a basic business loss as far as I read it. Just like making a dumb IoT juice squeezer and losing money on it. Every single company on the planet does this.
Thanks, I had come across that post already but I find the structure of OCI images to be the easy part to understand. The tougher part is to get runc to run everything without root. :)

Anyway, fortunately I seem to have found a solution for now (running runc with an overlay rootfs without root), see the link in the other sibling/nephew comment I posted.
The reason:

>several partnership licenses related to the game are expiring (says the publisher, 2K)

>The licenses referenced likely have to do with the game’s music. During the The Line’s menu screen, Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” can be heard while the game’s soundtrack includes Martha and The Vandellas’ “Nowhere to Run.”
There is no law that specifically prevents it, just as there is no law the specifically prevents you from deducting, say, money that you pay to buy groceries. What there is is a very long list of things you can deduct, and grocery money, and losses that you suffer from willful destruction of your own property, are not on that list.
It does happen all the time but I think the explaining the reasons are important because this can happen for different reasons. A game listed on that link is Hitman 2. Hitman 2 is not available for purchase because it was superseded with Hitman: World of Assassination which is Hitman 2 combined with Hitman 3
If you re-read my prior comment, you'd see my complaint is that it's not "fraud" by any reasonable definition because deception is not involved, not that it should or should not be allowed.

> "fraud" doesn't mean "losing money in a manner I don't like", so I ask again: where's the deception here?
Exactly. Look at the net flows in and out of each location!
Businesses are allowed to destroy inventory and then write that off. In this case I guess the movie is the inventory.
This is quite applicable to many situations I‘ve witnessed. I‘ve also witnessed the exact opposite. I.e. managers blame themselves to avoid making hard decisions with employees. It would be great to have this article and another article which addresses „hard decisions“ in order to help managers navigate ambiguous situations.
>>Perhaps no political promise is more potent or universal than the vow to restore a golden age. From Caesar Augustus to the Medicis and Adolf Hitler, from President Xi Jinping of China and President “Bongbong” Marcos of the Philippines to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” and Joe Biden’s “America Is Back,” leaders have gained power by vowing a return to the good old days.

>>What these political myths have in common is an understanding that the golden age is definitely not right now.

That was the opening few sentences. Is the author suggesting that moral authority during Adolph Hitler's reign (and others of similar ilk in his list) wasn't really all that bad? If not, what exactly is he saying by using that list in his opening?
System Identification is a fairly common strategy for developing a controller. Essentially, you learn the dynamics model from recorded data, and then use that as a simulator to iteratively improve the controller. The devil is in the details though, as you can run into issues with simulation fidelity (due to missing data), which can produce something that doesn't translate to real life performance.
> If someone buys the Mona Lisa and burns it for the tax credit

This is not how taxes work.

If I buy the Mona Lisa for $100 and burn it for the tax credit. That would only yield me a $100 deduction so a savings of $46 in taxes (and I live in the most tax heavy portion of the US for purposes of my example).

So I would lose $54 in your example. Why would anyone do this?
The fact that the job they finally took is at a crypto company suddenly had me reevaluate everything they wrote. :)
Flatland was highly recommended in homeschooling circles I ran in back in the day.

A book that notably does not belong on this list but I read it because I thought it would be mathy has the title The Man Who Counts which I completely misinterpreted and continued to be befuddled by even after I finished reading it, having spent the entire book waiting for the math part of the story that never came.
> Could you give explanation, or even speculations, how this is possible

Nope. But i'm so desperate to give you a hint right now, it is almost impossible to hold myself... Stop looking into horizontal scalability. The vertical one is not exhausted yet. Btw that was not the hint.
The cultures that focus on performance. Just like the West did in the past. Now, with DEI/woke agendas, the focus is definitely on something else, especially in academia.
Thank you for your comment!
We're actively working on releasing an Android app soon - we definitely didn't want to neglect Android and are aiming to ship a great experiences on the Play Store soon.
We actually do have a preliminary web app that I'd be happy to share with you - it's not as polished as the iOS app, so kindly bear that in mind (we're expecting to ship an improved browser app shortly)

I appreciate you valuing submitting things via the site : give this a try! https://www.oration.app/accounts/signup/

> why do I even need on app?
This is a valid question - we prioritized building out a nice experience on an iOS app first and will release a solid web counterpart in the near future.

Definitely would love to hear your feedback and stay in touch
There’s a lot to unpack here.

First, I’m an ML researcher. I don’t go around saying so because appeal to authority is bogus, but since every one of your comments seems to do this, it’s unavoidable.

You say the code is for ML researchers, then flat out say that it’s not a working production example, nor is it a faithful reproduction of a paper. So what is it?

Whether you want it to be or not, your audience is the hobbyist ML community, because without benchmarks to back up your code examples, no one from the research community will trust your examples without actual proof that they work. That’s the hard part of research, and it’s most of the effort.

My advice is, write something that can train useful models. Implement a production grade workflow, and show some reasons why it works. If you’re trying to get the wider ML research community to buy in to this, there’s not much other way to do it. No one will want to take easy code that does the wrong thing, and most of your examples show the wrong thing to do, like the 90/10 split.

You’re also a bit defensive about accepting feedback. Trust me that it’s better to accept that your code sucks and does the wrong thing, and then try to make it suck less and do the right thing. That’s how the majority of good software is written, unless you’re cperciva. But he’d also publish a paper explaining why his code is correct.

Anyway, the whole point of posting this to HN is to get feedback on it. (If you were hoping that a bunch of people would suddenly use it, then you need to appeal to the hobbyist community. They’ve told you a bunch of things that you’ve straight up said is out of scope.) And it sounds like you were hoping for feedback from ML researchers. Maybe others will chime in, but for now, that’s the best I’ve got.
Love to hear it. Interviewing sucks from all perspectives, so as an interviewer I try to give leeway for the stress and time pressure the interviewee is under. But the key thing is they must express their reasoning for their approach, and "I don't have time to dig into this" will get you a long way, at least under me.

(Obviously there are nuances, but there is not enough space in this comment to elaborate)
Most likely, a CV file upload is a required field in their HR system.
Yes, once. It was a heavily infested room in a hotel in West Virginia, I could see multiple juvenile bedbugs along a seam in the box spring.
Tons of goods of all types are getting into Russia via "neutral" countries. It's hard to stop without causing collateral damage.
If they irretrievably destroy it, its value becomes zero. That's the essence of being able to claim the tax loss (to "finally determine the value").

It's no different from having a stock position in a company that's in limbo. You can't claim the tax loss and keep the position. You have to get the clearinghouse to take the position for $0 in order to claim the loss.

The studio's position is that they've already incurred the loss; now they're taking the action necessary to recognize the loss on their taxes.
> I didn't get along well with this manager,The resulting conflict lead to a "performance enablement plan"

Respectfully, in your post you literally say you got a new manager who PIPed you for being hard to work with. The whole tone of the article feels like rehashing old disagreements.
Oh, they're not imaginary.
Ask HN: Best references to learn about quant finance?
Hi

I would like to learn more about quantitative finance and I'm looking for good resources to learn (books, papers, courses, videos, code repos, etc.). I've studied physics and I'm currently working with ML, so I'm not afraid of "hard" math.

Which are the best resources for a noob that wants to learn and get a good understanding of this topic?
I think so... Does that sound weird?

Is it possible my idea of "panel" is different from everyone else's? I'm counting the individual units which I purchased and which were installed on my rooftop. I suppose it's possible these units are made up of multiple actual panels, each with the aforementioned 400-500 W capacity. Not sure.
Thank you kindly for your feedback! We're looking forward to putting some solid work in and make some good progress over the next couple of years.
If you happen to have any feedback or feature wishes, we're definitely all ears!
When flights get cancelled, if you really need to get back, you can book your own flight and hope for reimbursement. Getting rebooked through an airline is usually a horrible process in my experience.
> How so? They aren’t selling it. So its value is $0.

If its value is $0, I should be able to buy it for that price.
not every joy needs to be commercialized. less so is the joy that remains
Why on earth is the standard notice 3 months but the company can let you go instantly?

How did Sweden get like that?
Also my experience at both employers and anecdotally.

A lot of this is the pervasive management trend that there is too much management, like how Instagram just eliminated the entire role of Technical Program Manager.

So at Job 1, the layoffs were about 50% “management.” My team no longer has a product manager and we have been told not to bother fussing over design except for big things. Both roles were essentially folded into team lead. He has to make mockups and product decisions now.

At Job 2, the layoffs were 70% management. My team had a manager who went from leading one team of 5 to four teams totaling 25. We also lost our designer and a product owner (we had several), and those decisions are now on the other product owners or the technical team lead (not management at this role).
This joke is used at the start of Abrash’s Graphics Programming Black Book, followed by “If you laughed, you’re a graphics nerd.” :D
SmugMug's Cloud Adventure with Andrew Shieh [audio]
> What there is is a very long list of things you can deduct, and grocery money, and losses that you suffer from willful destruction of your own property, are not on that list.

Actually if you read the sibling comment[1], such list of "things you can't deduct" does exist, albeit it's seemingly for personal taxes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39339672
This example doesn’t work. You’d only be able to deduct your cost to buy them, not their potential value.

It only works if you pay $1M now and then years later burn them to offset a different $1M in income. But that would still be stupid as you’re better off selling them for $1M than burning.

I don’t think you’re thinking the math through properly.

Studios aren’t writing these off because they are stupid or scheming. They are writing them off because they can’t sell them.
> To some extent this is probably to be expected; Putin has designs on EU states, particularly Poland, as a next step

Poland is a way too hard nut to crack. Attacking it is not necessary in order to advance his goals.

Baltics is just a way easier avenue to destroy NATO and EU to a smaller degree. It has a small population, unfavorable geographics and very small militaries. Even after Russian military was exposed to be far from its pre-war image, conquering Baltics is still within its capabilities. NATO has mostly just tripwire forces deployed there, but it's very far from certain whether they could really trip the wire if Russia managed to present a fait accompli. We'd see many discussions about "should our men die for these tiny faraway lands" or "we shouldn't start a nuclear war for this", but OTOH NATO failing to fulfill its primary role would very possibly mean its end.
I thought that was a good article, but it dances around the core of the issue by not declaring what motivation is and how managers should think about it at the start.

Intrinsic motivation is a function of autonomy, mastery, and purpose. A managers purpose is to promote intrinsic motivation.

When you identify a weak performer without understanding which pillar of motivation is weak, it generally results in a direct and total assault on intrinsic motivation.

Interventional supervision is decreased autonomy.

Interventional supervision is a powerful indirect invalidation of mastery. Being overruled is a powerful invalidation of mastery. Being told what to do or how to do something rather than being told a goal to achieve is an invalidation of mastery. Being ignored when you bring up an issue or not having your issue be treated with seriousness is incredibly invalidating. Being told, directly or indirectly, that you are wrong without having it explained to you is a complete invalidation of mastery.

Lastly, assigning lower risk work, work that doesn't matter as much, is a direct assault on purpose.

When intrinsic motivation is assaulted, it is no surprise that the employee becomes less motivated, and therefore less capable, independent, and thoughtful, and therefore a much less appealing person to give work that matters creating a viscous cycle of being managed out at the cost of everyone's mental health.

So a managers purpose is to promote intrinsic motivation, but the standard actions taken are a direct assault on it. The manager adopts an "organization vs employee" approach rather than an "us vs the problem" approach and the consequences are always exactly as you would expect.

The proposed solution in this article (practice active listening, which means listen with the expectation of and desire to change your mind), is a core weakness I've seen from managers promoted from engineering, and especially managers from more hierarchical cultures.

I agree with the final assessment of the article. A mastery problem cannot be solved by a manager, so if the employee is truly not technically capable, they need to be let go. The entire purpose of a technical interview is to ensure there is a bar that is cleared for mastery. Autonomy and purpose problems are generally a problem with a manager failing to manage upwards, set expectations, or a managers inappropriate application of dominance (often manifested by a lack of active listening), rather than a failure to "manage" an employee.
Not exactly sure what you mean, but most startups operate at losses for a long time before becoming profitable. I explicitly noted that bootstrapped startups with passive income and profitable small engineering-led companies are not constrained by this problem, because their financials support operating indefinitely - but perhaps I misunderstand your point
Clearly we must now start referring to it as ‘Carmack’s sign error joke’ ;)
It’s kind of sad that the only way to get control over our devices is to buy one with such limited functionalities. Personally I don’t have the budget for an iPad and a remarkable so I prefer cutting off all socials and wasted time on websites and enjoy the iPad with all its potential
Sure. Qualified business expenses are deductible. Personal expenses are not deductible, and neither are losses suffered because you willfully destroyed your own property. That is true for businesses as well as individuals.
They don’t spent the $90M intending to write it off.

This is a failure mitigation strategy where they failed and want to recoup as much value as possible.

Studios still lose $60M when they write off $90M they are effectively only saving the $30M they would pay in taxes. It’s still not profitable and they want to avoid this as much as possible.
I willingly avoid 4k media and 4k tvs. 1080p is fine, if the movie suck the additional pixels won’t make it any better anyway.

And 1080p os faster at everything: downloading, playing, streaming…
This topic has always interested me. For people looking for a free alternative (free for Apple users), I recommend looking into iOS and MacOS spoken content under Accessibility [0]

It's a bit finicky at times but the pros are

1. Free

2. It works on anything on your iPhone, iPad or Mac screen

3. Apple's Siri voices are actually really good! (Better than Speechify voices)

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-ph/guide/iphone/iph96b214f0/ios
As I've said, I cannot excuse the swatters or police for this behavior. It's clearly unacceptable. I'm merely trying to explain why someone would be targeted like this to begin with - because they provide a consistent source of entertainment for the swatters. It's not solely because of a random comment on Twitter.
This is a very big deal if you spend time around small aircraft (hangar floors in particular sometimes have terrifyingly high lead levels.) But if you’re not spending time close to aircraft, the amount of lead you’ll be exposed to is negligible - at least compared to auto emissions, which were ubiquitous and extremely concentrated in residential neighborhoods. Unfortunately the lead remains in the soil, so there’s still exposure to it today.
> Fuzzed, proven correct libraries clearly aren't the problem here.

They aren't. I'm steelmanning your position. "What if there exists a set of well audited libraries". And "what if we have package managers everyone uses". The logical answer is that everyone reuses them, leading to deeply nested transitive dependencies. Hence a contradiction. Deeply nested libraries aren't a problem.

> caused global problems: heartbeat extensions from OpenSSL and LDAP/JDNI from Log4J.

Already covered that. How do you disambiguate what is a crucial feature and what is overhead? On surface it seems simple, but constraints, call for features and backwards compatibility guarantees makes that something that only seems obvious in hindsight.
Sweden is not like that, there's no at-will employment.

There's a probationary period, usually a really long one (like 6mo), but after that period is over it's basically impossible to fire people.

3mo is the standard notice period for you to give your employer when leaving, if you are made redundant then severance depends on tenure but it begins at 3 months and goes up to 1yr of salary (that I've seen.)
It’s not specific for movies. All businesses only pay taxes on profit. And the expenses spent to produce things are a “tax break” to offset revenue.

This is done because it’s hard to pay taxes if you don’t make a profit as your money is already spent on other stuff like resources, people, etc.
Sorry, the ATF burned most of them to death.

But you still didn't answer my question...

Where is the evidence that the Davidians started the fire?
The were colloquially called luggables if you were around at the time.