skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't Hollywood very well known money laundering machine?
The only explanation I can think of is no one cares because they were told it wasn’t going to happen in their lifetimes. Now it’s accelerated , people care
If your insurance policy covers that (unlikely because of this exact situation), then sure.
That seems to be satisfied by the existence of "like/dislike" modifiers (and possibly directional/proximity modifiers, if the example given is accurate to the research).
The word "engineer" origin (from Oxford Dictionary):

Middle English (denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer ): in early use from Old French engigneor, from medieval Latin ingeniator, from ingeniare ‘contrive, devise’, from Latin ingenium (see engine); in later use from French ingénieur or Italian ingegnere, also based on Latin ingenium

Would be great if we had a less war-like derived word for our profession.
Honestly the amount of complicated boilerplate that you're supposed to write from scratch every time you do something with ML (in some of the major frameworks) deterred me from touching anything ML-related for a long time.

As far as I understand, what the training loop is supposed to be doing is pretty static and you don't need to understand most of it in order to "do ML", but at the same time it's full of complicated things to get right (which would be much easier to understand when controlled through well defined parameters instead of mixing boilerplate and config).
It's not destroyed, it exists somewhere. And IMO it's just as likely it sees release in the next 1000 years as it is accidentally destroyed or lost.

Movie studio regimes change all the time, and it's possible to un-tax-write-off a work (it's just a giant pain in the ass).

Adult Swim got Sym-Bionic Titan and IGPX back from the dead, and they're owned by the same parent company (Warner Bros.)
What about LinkedIn? That substitutes resumes for a lot of people. It has photos and it's not a euro thing.
> Today the Guardian has offices in New York, Washington and Oakland, California, and further correspondents elsewhere: a team of more than a hundred editorial and commercial staff

From [1]

Oh hmm, what about it being the publication that Snowden trusted to handle his whistle-blowing properly, compared to the NYTimes that he didn't trust, because on the Bush Jr.'s White House's request, they suppressed publication of a news story about NSA wiretapping until after his reelection?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/05/guardian-200-y...
The closest I've heard of to something like this is some autist creates a low cost mesh internet connection for his neighborhood, then you could use VOIP on top of that.
What is gross about it?
Am I missing something? In the git repository [0] it says:

> needletail_benchmark folder was compiled using the command cargo build --release and ran using the following command ./target/release/<binary> <path/to/file.fq>.

Or are you talking about something else here?

[0] https://github.com/MoSafi2/MojoFastTrim
Bloop is amazing. Once you use it you stop building your own DIY codebase QA setups.
If I pay 25% marginal income tax and I make a profit of 200 million dollars, I get to keep 150 million. If instead I decide to buy the Mona Lisa for 200 million dollars, and burn it I walk away with nothing but the satisfaction of not have given one cent to the government. Please tell me how my evil mastermind plan to burn the Mona Lisa works anyway?
The idea of “Basic Agile” is not new; there’s, for instance, “Clean Agile” from 2019.
Kinda weird to bring legislation into it. Should my employer not be allowed to delete my code because it's my special little snowflake?
XML elements can contain both text and child elements. Character data didn't have to be stored in an attribute to allow outline nesting.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<node>

<node>

<![CDATA[ Hello I am text ]]>

<node> ... </node>

<node> ... </node>

</node>

</node>
I was amused by the fact that in the same week that AI generated fake nudes of Taylor Swift was hitting news headlines another AI tool which puts clothes on e-girls pics also popped up on my radar.

The internet is amazing and stupid.
This sounds like the book:
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?23392

The story is almost certainly Stephen Baxter's The Logic Pool.
> Perhaps not prohibited. But we could make it so they lose all IP rights.

I'm not sure how that would work. Suppose I make two draft comics of my original character ExampleMan. One features a dark brooding morally ambiguous anti-hero, and the other is a wholesome family character.

Are you saying if I destroy one draft and publish the other, the character comes partially or wholly into the public domain? Or that I am prohibited from claiming the time and money used to make one of the drafts as the legitimate business expense?

Would same logic also apply to a patents of a company that creates 10 different prototype engine designs, and decides to only bring one of them to market?
This exact thing is playing out in big tech now.

Capitalism doesn’t learn its lessons.
Judging from the one screenshot example, I actually like Monocraft better. It really has that nice Minecraft/retro look, and I think this could actually help get kids who are into Minecraft into coding. That being said, I actually still like Miracode better than most typical IDE monospace fonts (at least as a novelty). That's really cool, where did you learn to make such designs?
> I was asked what timeout I would set on a database connection. I was more thinking about how long an individual user could be prepared to wait for a page to render, so blurted out too high of a number.

Interesting, I would have put those in the same ballpark. Anyone who can shed light on this?
Good take. Just want to add that the problem is “how long things will take” is always a guess when formulated as a single number or date and in reality something more like a probability distribution subject to many foreseen and unforeseen forces.

That’s where the fundamental mismatch between corporate planning and Agile lies. Agile is supposed to be resilient to known and unknown unknowns, but corporate planning usually isn’t - as you mention due to very real constraints like cost and opportunity costs and so forth. It’s why you essentially can’t do “true-agile” in basically any corporate setting IMO.
The deductible losses are supposed to be incurred in pursuit of profit. Not every expense a business incurs is tax deductible. Not even trying to sell it calls into question whether it was in pursuit of profit. They’re expecting the American tax payer to make up the shortfall and that’s likely based on Hollywood’s unique accounting practices, which has a tendency to inflate the claimed expense amount.
This argument reminds me Robert Rauschenberg's, Erased de Kooning
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/98.298/
>Alzheimer's is a side effect of a sugar rich diet.

Careful with those absolutes. That linked article overall discusses obesity as a likely risk factor for it. On the sugar point, "sucrose" only appears once in the piece and the referenced study involved mice, not humans.
That would totally be my preference if business users didn't want access.

Getting them to use Github/Gitlab is an argument I've never won. Typically it goes the other way and I end up needing to maintain a Monday or Airtable instance in addition to my ticketing system.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

How you said it is specifically against HN guidelines which I bet is why you are getting downvoted.
BTW I was not joking, when said about train LLM on C64. I lot of time seen scientists, who run their tasks on desktop, waiting days or even weeks for results. But they usually have reasons for such behavior, for example, to keep secret from colleagues, on what working now and what calculations show. Or to run something so original, that tops not happy to see on special numbers crunching machine.
It's not the West as a whole, it's a specific group of MBA-types which hijacked many institutions. We know where the problem is coming from. We have enough people who want to do stuff like building planes properly. The next step is to make domain knowledge mandatory for leadership roles.
my saddest story there is "frank'n stein" a hilarious comedy movie and theatre play toying with the Frankenstein plot.

I've seen the movie and it made ma watch a local play and I loved both.

when I tried to get hold of the DVD years later I learned that the heirs to the author Ken Campbell had withdrawn all rights. this removed all prints from all libraries too. the thing is _gone_. because the heirs hated their gene provider so much.

I was amazed this is possible... "freedom of speech"? nope. intellectual property.
If $15m of taxpayer money is being paid out as a write-off for a finished movie, I feel like I as a taxpayer should have the right to see the movie. Nobody is forcing anyone to sell anything.
About a month after closing an account on one of these social networks one realises that nothing of value was lost.

Furthermore, „their data”.
What cultures do you think prioritize the truth?
Many of the people on this site are involved in technology (software and/or hardware) product development. If they work for a company that spends $10M in development salaries & related costs to build a product, and then decides not to release that product, the company certainly deducts those development costs from its revenues when it files its taxes.

This is true even if some third party had made an offer to acquire the product - there are many valid reasons why the first company may choose not to sell it.
MP is distinctly not part of Jakarta EE; it's developed by separate independent group. This presentation attempts to clear up the confusion https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wVaGJssQKPDSRcgRSE52...

Yes, its a mess.
Is he shorting the stock?

The article in my skim reads like they spin it as pure altruism. I'd be skeptical.
of course not. but if you don't follow corporate agile, then you're allowed to make estimates beyond a single sprint. are these prophetic? only in the sense of being self fulfilling. we can do is have a rough map of the work and eyeball our progress given the team we have, and try to line that up with the endpoint by working backwards.

this should give us some general feeling about risk. we have lots of ways to repond to perceived risk of failure -

- pull in a more experienced person to get a read and possibly help with that part
- shuffle the order of development to try to swallow some of the uglier pieces early
- talk with product (possibly yourselves wearing different hats), about whether we can meaningfully throw some work off the bus without hollowing out the release
- thin out some features

and actually probably several more. what corporate agile says is 'this is all too hard, screw that, lets not try to account for individual strengths, and the nature of the development process, and the sensitivity of the markets towards particular features. everybody pick something to work on for the next two weeks...and if that didn't work. well, we tried our best'
All of that is super straightforward in 2024. The problem before Immich came along was that software sucked in one way or another. Take Photoprism - the leading solution (imo) before Immich. Poor AI and search, poor mobile uploads, user management requires CLI. Immich absolutely nails all of those things and more. It’s a nearly 1:1 Google Photos replacement with total privacy, unlimited storage, and very similar user interface. Thanks to Docker Compose all of this can be brought up locally (to try out) in one minute flat, and exposed remotely in half an hour. Or don’t even expose it remotely, and do what I do - set up WireGuard such that it automatically connects when you’re not at home and you get access to your home network. That way you don’t need to worry about maintenance as much. An occasional update is all that’s needed since your audience is now “trusted”.
Yup, require an expensive cloud service that offers no data protection to do its primary advertised function.
Glad you like it, I've never seen it in a font before so I am unsure if there are any others that add it in. I've definitely appreciated the ligature as I use the font, but I did wonder if others would find it annoying
What are you trying to accomplish with that statement? Is it somehow acceptable to torch peoples stuff? Can you imagine yourself being the target of an angry mob? Is that what you want society to look like, we dont like something so we just set it on fire?
I suppose there are limits to the size and power of the motors and controllers you want to use, but those inrunners are probably not ideal either, right? I wonder if you could use an oversized hobby outrunner and achieve the same effect (probably with a large controller as well)

Also, even if most hobby motors do not specify Nm/A, they usually give KV, which is actually the same value but shown in a different form :).
I personally can appreciate multiplying an attackers standard dictionary with a transformation. I find the decoded passphrase is already high entropy so it just adds a little bit of trouble. I might consider bcrypt, thanks for the idea.
Same in finance!
Remember that goals etc. for 787 were set when Phil Condit, a Boeing lifer, was still in charge.
A company buys a balloon making machine for $100k. They use the machine and depreciate it over the years to $20k, getting $80k of deductions over the years. They decide to stop making these balloons. Someone offers them $1k but they decline. They destroy the machine, and have a $20k loss on their taxes.

This is all above board, totally normal behavior. There are reasons to be against destroying these movies, but tax fraud really isn’t one of them. They actually did take the loss of whatever was the remaining value of that asset.
We don't need to draw any line. Larger corporate entities should get progressively smaller caps on deductions. Hard cutoffs breed adverse incentives.
My comment was not intended to let swatters of the hook. My point was that the harassment should be called “attempted harassment”, because it should never have been effective, although still punishable.
To me, the weird thing is that the tax write-off doesn't even seem to make sense.

Let's say you spend $80M making a film and you write it off for a $30M benefit. You're still in the hole $50M. Let's say that you sell the film for $20M and write off the remaining $60M loss for a $23M benefit. In the latter case, you're only in the hole $37M instead of $50M. That's a lot better.

Is there some weird accounting rule where you're allowed to write off full losses, but not partial losses? I understand writing off losses: if you make $100M on one project and lose $50M on another project, you pay taxes on the $50M you've made - but you're only getting a fraction of the money back. It's better to get 100% of $20M plus a fraction of $60M than getting a fraction of $80M.

No one seems to be explaining how this is working in Warner Bros Discovery's favor. Sure, I get canceling popular shows where the actors might be looking for more expensive contracts. I might think it's short sighted given that you need popular shows to keep your subscribers, but I get what they're trying to do. I understand licensing content to a competitor for a quick pay day. Again, it seems short sighted, but I get what they're trying to do. What I don't get is why it's better for them to completely scrap content than to let it flop upon release. The only possible explanation I can see is that they'd be able to claim the tax relief earlier. If they released it in late 2023, they'd have to wait to claim any losses since they'd be making money off it into 2024. If they cancel it in 2023, they can take the write off for 2023. It must be something else, right?
Criminal fraud issues aside, I would think that all of the artists had a reasonable expectation that the work they were doing would be released, and would then become part of their resume.

Since it didn't get released, they collectively and/or individually might very well bring a civil suit against the company for lost compensation (where compensation is defined as some combination of cash and reputational gains, and this latter part became zero).
> It's insane that corporations failing at ventures is so incentivised that they'll fail on purpose, and we shouldn't be offering tax breaks for behavior that serves no public good

I believe the argument is that businesses would take less risks without the security provided by those tax write-offs. Presumably the increased tax revenue from businesses taking risks and having success outweighs the tax losses from risks taken, failed, then written off.
> Given that it is apparently not possible to prove that they deleted the movie, it seems like the IRS should assume that they still have the movie.

Even if they didn't delete the movie, the fact that they claimed to have deleted the movie and used it as a tax credit basically makes the value $0, because in the unlikely event they have a copy around, they wouldn't be able to sell it without having all of the profits seized from them.
I'm of the opposite opinion... now what?
> I dispute that assumption and figure any time outside of that initial hour makes a hiring mistake that much more expensive.

Okay, sure - dispute it if you want. It doesn't change the fact that the industry seemingly collectively decided that 1 hour isn't a sufficient amount of time to gauge fit/effectiveness/etc.

My point to you is that given the above, you have to make a choice. Spending the extra few hours gives you some hopeful assurance of what you're getting.

I once again will note it's not a good system, but there is to date seemingly no widely agreed upon good system.
It's not the same because the tax code is, even more than the rest of the law, really just made up.

It just tells you when you have to pay and when you don't have to pay. If they didn't explicitly write in that you're not allowed to burn a movie, then burning a movie gets you a tax break. End of.
For me, even when filtering by 24 hours almost the entire page is filled with promoted ads, most of which were “reposted” in the past 24 hrs
How is this not a sanctions violation?
I am a huge proponent of open source software, but there's something to be said for building a sustainable lean business that can employ a handful of talented folks to work on continuously improving the product full time. It's hard to compete with that.
Hardly. The author establishes that reading is a challenge and then attributes it to a multitude of challenges including smartphones, COVID and “broader cultural trends over which educators have little control” and balanced literacy approaches.

I submit its common core primarily that is causing the damage.

I don’t think your criticism is on point. I may not be writing well, but I think what I’m saying is largely different and certainly more single problem oriented.

Academics LOVE to sprinkle in a little of this, and a little of that to explain the problem. But the truth is not as complicated: common core is causing a decline in educational outcomes. It’s a crap way to teach kids and it should be tossed in the bin and power given back to teachers to teach and trust put back into professionals being able to teach better than centrally budgeted bureaucracy.

I could be narrow. I could be wrong. But I don’t think I’m missing the point I’m trying to make.
> You may even need to exaggerate your experience. [...] meaning you need to just get really good at faking it and not be afraid to back it up later after some late-night study sessions.

Please don't do this, and don't normalize other people doing it.

Dishonesty isn't something I want to have to be understanding about in colleagues. Like, maybe they just see it as a little while lie, and some job-hunting Web pages told them is ordinary to do, and you'd be at a disadvantage if you didn't do it, and you're even to be commended for your scrappy can-do resourcefulness in fudging. I'm ready to be understanding about many situations, but I want dishonesty to be something we can summarily nuke from orbit.

Also, when I'm in an interview to possibly join a company, I don't want there to be more rationalization for crappy interview process. ("I see from your resume that you have decades of experience, including sole author of open source packages, but you could be lying about all of that, you dirtbag, so let's derail this meeting by focusing all our energy on some BS test that's been gamed to heck.")
That sucks, Spec Ops The Line is a hidden gem disguised as a generic shooter.
I'm in Boston, it's not loud. I took a quick skim through their methodology and each tactic seems sensible, but taken together they miss the mark.

I don't doubt that they're measuring something real. Maybe it's frequency of siren's (be they hospital or police cars), but to jump to "world's loudest cities" is a claim that the research doesn't hold up. All along the emerald necklace[0] are quiet spots. The city is old so tons of streets have relatively slow traffic.

Makes me doubt everything else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Necklace
>But we could make it so they lose all IP rights.

If they're actually destroying all copies as claimed, then IP rights is irrelevant.
What would a profound dismissal of ligatures in fonts look like? Maybe I should ask ChatGPT to write some three-paragraph bullshit that says the same thing that "word + emoticon".
I'm not sure how you can evaluate 30 people you don't interact with closely.

NIMS, the National Incident Management System, talks of ICs having between 3-7 direct reports, when there is a need to be connected to what they are doing, because beyond that, you can't reconcile things easily.
Even a startup cannot do manifesto-agile most of the time IMO, at least not if they have a strong desire to succeed, because they are constrained by the possibility of running out of money in the near-future.

I am dabbling with bootstrapping now that I've hit my financial-independence targets and I think this, along with profitable+small+private+engineering-led software businesses and FOSS, are some of the only environments in which you can engage in true Agile. That assertion stems from the fact that they are not subject to real constraints in budget and resilient to business meddling in things like TTM and MVP.
If you're on GCP because you want v6 support you're probably in the wrong place :^)
Atsugiri Jason
Yeah, I made it to level 150 in 3 minutes, and I can still keep going. If I play the legitimate way, the game becomes impossible at level 20.
Hah! This is me. I bought an Arduino and a ton of components and I pretty much stalled out at blinking LED. I also watched all of Ben Eater's YouTube videos on building an 8-bit computer from simple ICs and then bought all the parts to do it and never put it together. I realized that I'd already learned how it worked from the videos, and putting it together would just be rote work that I already knew the outcome of. I tried to think of some practical reason to do it, or some modifications I might make, but then I moved and never unpacked the stuff.
> I find the bit about employees being permitted to use their own computers almost astounding. However small an organization is, it should be insisting on providing a company-owned machine and having all company business be conducted on that machine.

I've worked with small and startup healthcare/healthcare-tech companies who not only permit it, but have formal BYOD policies... when they are dealing with PHI.
To preemptively prevent speculation:

"Players who have purchased the game can still download and play the game uninterrupted."

It's been removed from the store because licenses for the in-game music have expired.