skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are using ODM for generating orthomosaic photos and it produced better results than the commercial offerings we have seen (In some cases MUCH better). Note this did require us to tweak the settings some but overall it was pretty easy process.

Things of Note:
1) ODM didn't quite scale as well to very large number of photos. (I think this may have been fixed now).
2) Our use case was pretty brutal. ~1 cm resolution photos of a mostly uniform row crop fields. Some of the other tools were really bad at not rotating the rows 90 deg in parts of the field.
3) I was in on the POC and selection process but not the production runs so I'm not sure how things have changed over the last year.
4) Some of the comparisons where with different photos (Looking at a custom full path)
5) We didn't look at 3d much at all, but it was pretty cool to be able to see 3d tractor tire marks across and freshly planted field. The 3d quality would really fall off at the edges when there was less overlap. I think it was only good in relative hight as well but our tests were very flat.
Avicii’s Fam Launches Mental-Illness&Suicide-Prevention Foundation in His Memory
Typically exercising options gets taxed as regular income on the difference between option strike price & fair market value.

If OP had something like $300k of options, that'd be about a $100k tax bill assuming the strike price was appropriately low. Not a very big payout on a 9-figure exit, but also not pocket change for the taxes.
Many thanks, I very much appreciate the effort you put into your reply, and your followup.
Until satellites solve the weather transmission interference problems, that's a long way off.
Places to Promote Your Blog for Actual Traffic
AMP for email in GMail can be turned off and is off-by-default if image-loading is turned off.
Google has monopoly in search, and near-monopoly in desktop email.

People are forced to use it, whether they like it or not.
> "Russian citizens are also wildly enthusiastic about Vladimir Putin."

As far as I'm aware, that's a bit out of date. It also, I believe, comes from a misconception concerning human nature, namely that popularity is uni-dimensional. Which is to say, Russians who believe Putin is a superb leader in foreign affairs, great at making Russia seem big and scary to the rest of the world, may also think Putin is an ineffectual corrupt thug when it comes to domestic affairs.

When high popularity ratings are attributed to Putin, the surveys ask a wide variety of questions:

> How do you feel about how Putin is handling foreign conflicts?

> How do you feel about how Putin is handling the economy?

> How do you feel about how Putin is handling the drug epidemic?

> How do you feel about how Putin is handling corruption and law enforcement?

Approval for Putin varies GREATLY between questions like that. When it comes time to make a headline, whichever measure is chosen depends on which bolsters the story. If the story is that Putin is highly effective at manipulating his population, then the dimension across which he's the most popular is chosen for the headline. If the story is that Putin's power in Russia is faltering, then a different dimension is picked for the headline.

It's not lying per se, but it's very similar to a form of p-hacking. Picking which result to report and ignoring the others is a trick used often in the media and academia.

Here is an article that supports what I'm asserting: https://www.pewglobal.org/2017/06/20/president-putin-russian...

See the nice little table at the bottom that breaks out Putin's approval rating on different issues. In 2015, 83% approved of the way he was handling Ukraine. This dropped to 63% by the spring of 2017. And by the spring of 2017, approval for how Putin is handling corruption is already below 49%. From this we can see there are Russians who approve of Putin's treatment of Ukraine who still think Putin is corrupt.

(That link is page two of the article, which I think is generally interesting and worth giving a read: https://www.pewglobal.org/2017/06/20/russians-remain-confide... )
> A couple news sources (usually technical ones) thankfully put a link to the non-AMP version somewhere on the page, but IMHO this should be automatically done for every AMP link opened.

That is available in the standard markup, so it should maybe just be added to the UI (in the ellipsis menu probably).
Make it fail. I'm going to flag as SPAM any mail that comes with AMP in it.
Here's an idea I've been playing around with for a while now: A citizens lobbying service.

It could be an independent non-profit allied to other non-profits like EFF. When one of these non-profits wants to run a campaign against a bad law being enacted they can run a "campaign". They can explain why it is bad, just as they currently do, but as well as asking people to write to their local government representative they can also ask for donations to the campaign. These donations would then be used by professional lobbyists to lobby in the same way large organisations do.

It's probably a stupid idea, but I feel like it has the germ of something useful.
All of this stuff is related - from open source - stoic, to google - do no evil to Apple - we won't compromise privacy even for murderers because hey rights.

I do feel like the walls are starting to fall. The friendly attitude is dropping and we're starting to see through the fake promises and platitudes.

We have startups that claim they are housing the poor or cleaning drinking water for people in Africa, and time and again someone investigates the truth and things fall apart. In the end we find out those were all sales tactics. Maybe even believed by the people selling them, but in the end it HAS to somewhat fit into some exact money making puzzle. It doesn't matter if the REST of the corporation they are building is robotizing jobs and getting rid of employees (hey they are freeing the burdens of people - who cares if they can't afford the house anymore).

Then comes in Basic Income. And there is no effort from Google or Facebook to foot the bill either - they're merely doing the cheap thing - lobbying - to have our taxes pay for it. These are all showmanship efforts to justify the rest.

What is worse is that each of these companies is like a magnet with Good [ --- ] Bad poles. ALL of the Bad on the right is justified by some platitude connected to the Good. The goal is to simply hide the bad.

So if stoicism is part of all of it, I think that's just another self-lie. I do think that people are good, in general, but in modern society we have made justification part of the mental process. The first step in creating your company is to convince yourself that you're doing good. Then you can turn on the steam roller.

I guess see also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492813
Yes, but I am left hanging on the specific details. He factors to yield

(x + y)(x^2 - xy + x^2) = 42 - z^3

He brute force searches over values d and finds a value z
such that d divides 42 - z^3 (evidently these are rare and easy to find)
and then solves the following two equations for x and y (which is easy):

d = x + y
x^2 - xy + x^2 = (42 - z^3)/d

The part I don't get is how to find the z's given d. Does anyone know where
to find these details?
Prime Minister Announces £20M Institute of Coding(2018)
I recently discovered a co-worker of mine who did not attend university for programming is paid nearly the same wage as myself, with $40,000 in debt due to higher education.

He went to a several month long intensive coding bootcamp, with tuition fees for the entire course is between $10-15k

For comparison, I am paid $58/hr with benefits, my co worker is paid $50.

Higher education is vastly overcharged and overrated.
The author implied "without costing taxpayers a dime" to mean "without directly receiving tax dollars" which is true. Taking "without costing taxpayers a dime" to mean "ensuring their employee's received no government benefits" is quite a stretch.

> they specifically structured their compensation plan for their employees to extract a maximum value from the social welfare system

While the outcome of Walmart's actions might have been this, I think it much closer to Walmart's goal to say that they worked to minimize the total cost of labor. The two are very different ideas of what Walmart's obligations are.

>Even if Walmart employed more people than the smaller stores they replaced, if even 1 employee of Walmart would have otherwise had a job that provided healthcare, then "not a dime" is overstating things.

This is a really tricky standard. By this standard. Imagine if Walmart employed 50 people, 40 at minimum wage, 10 with full benefits, and drove out of two smaller stores that provided 25 full benefit jobs. There is a net loss of 15 full benefit jobs, you say this is really bad. But, 25 more people have jobs. This very well could net decrease government welfare to the area.

The details get really tricky and the truth could be one way or another. I personally have no data to inform an opinion one way or another.
> Dragonfly was this outrageous

So Apple allowing China what is essentially unrestricted access to iCloud data is not[0,1]? For honesty's sake, let's not cherry-pick.

That high-horse you're on only works when applied evenly and without prejudice.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/04/apple-...

[1] https://qz.com/1176376/apples-icloud-service-in-china-will-b...
We actually use both. Discord is great for "pinging" fleets, i.e. sending out a bat-signal to all members that a fleet needs to form for whatever reason. It's also good for general text chat (talking about market/industry/memes). If the corporation you joined was small and not a member of a larger alliance, then they may not have needed Mumble.

However, if you join a large alliance/coalition, fleets can easily get to 100+ player counts, and a single discord voice chat room becomes unusable. It is extremely important that you follow the fleet commander's instructions during a fleet. That is where Mumble shines with the fleet commander residing in a top level voice channel, with other members in lower-level voice channels that he cannot hear. It also allows for lower-level members to join voice channels designated as "quiet", so you don't have to listen to the chatter of 100 drunk Eve players during a Friday night fleet.
>And so, circa 2002, we start to see the emergence of a pattern: 1) Amazon had encountered a bottleneck to growth, 2) it had determined that some internal process or resource was the bottleneck, 3) it had realized that it could not possibly develop and deploy enough resources internally to remove that bottleneck, so 4) it instead removed the bottleneck by building an interface to allow the broader market to solve it en masse. This exact pattern was repeated with vendor selection (Amazon Marketplace), technology infrastructure (Amazon Web Services, or AWS), and merchandising (Amazon’s Catalog API).

This is exactly what The Theory of Constraints by Goldratt states.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_%28novel%29
They got you and a lot of other people to click on it, no?

After reading a lot of mainstream media article like this I'm starting to wonder whether stuff like this is entirely intentional. There is no intent to stimulate intellectual disclosure, just to evoke a reaction and get more clicks.
8% return on average is abnormally high.

But, on the other hand - the chance of retaining even 1% of a startup that exits for >50M is very small. By the time of an exit, almost no engineers will have anywhere near that equity.
That already exists: `List-Unsubscribe` since 1998,RFC 2369.
It seems like your line of reasoning implies that threats are a necessary part of being an adult in the working world. And that's just not the case. That should never be the case.

This style of communication isn't angled at 'normalizing' anything. It's meant to give you a framework to identify what the real problem is, to communicate it clearly and efficiently, and to work with the other person to move past the problem. If you don't say exactly what you're trying to say, and someone later 'found out what you "really meant to tell them' - you 100% did it wrong.

It's not a way to get out of having a difficult conversation. It's a framework to help you remove your personal beliefs, remove values judgments, and instead rely on the facts of the situation.

Your whole post comes across as you believe, genuinely believe, that being awful to other people via threats is a natural human state of being.

It isn't.

If my boss ever told me "don't do 'x' or else", it would be the last day I ever worked for that a-hole.
Why would you expect a k.c? This is b. There's a b.c.
Can you remind us again how AMP for email came to be?

I remember you talking about how transparent the process is, but, alas, you never described it. And to quote another member of the discussions back then, anyone raising concerns:

> were closed or locked, and the head of AMP blocked us.

You being the head of AMP, of course.
Not to mention that supernodes, though fewer in number, could still help reduce latency for those on mobile.
The advertisers don't want their ads connected to spam or propaganda posts AT ALL

Then they will need to get used to disappointment, just like the rest of us. What they're asking for -- and what Twitter is promising -- is not reasonably achievable without fundamentally changing the nature of the service.

Today they are in that situation several hundred times per week.

TWTR has a $25 billion market cap, which they achieved with their current terms of service. I'm sure I have a violin small enough to play for them around here somewhere, but my scanning electron microscope is in the shop.
After that story happened, I actually moved to a less-afluent neighborhood in NYC (for other reasons), and I've (very) recently started tutoring people in math at the local library for people to get their GEDs, which has also helped me somewhat.

A soup kitchen isn't a bad idea though. I will look into that.
Oh, no. I'm referring to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488417, which is where the change was attempted and which is marked "wontfix".
Since YouTube itself can be sued now, they will lean towards a stricter false positive filter. If you think Content ID is bad, then this will be way worse. Because letting through copyrighted material can be more costly than disallowing new content.

But hey, if you are outside of the EU, no problem. So guess what streamers will do.

This is not rocket science you know. This is just simple cause and consequence.

Stricter filters for EU citizens. And hey, maybe if we are lucky, YouTube decides EU isn't worth the effort anymore and decide to use the block filter.
Good advice. Always Be Interviewing. The business is going to be constantly interviewing new talent, you do a disservice to yourself to not be doing the same of other companies.
It is also quite interesting to observe how the public almost universally despises their ISP, Cable TV and Mobile Phone companies.

What other companies get such hate? (excluding: Tobacco, Big Pharma, and Oracle)
Is there a plan for an iOS app anytime soon?
This.

I do hardware (sch/pcb) design in spain, I’m in a lead position in a small company.

When I look at what I’ve built, I have experience with technologies that most of my college mates are still mystified with (e.g. DDR4 or x64 architecture).

Most electronics in europe are industrial/power electronics, and most engineers spend their days doing what amounts to paperwork. In contrast I’ve had to ship new designs on a biweekly basis to keep things afloat, I’ve had to set up databases to keep track of our parts (something most hardware engineers don’t even understand), I’ve had to write reliable python scripts since our build process depended on it... the list goes on.

From my experience interacting with US engineers, you don’t even realize how little some “Engineers” in the old continent actually know.
What happens when gmail blocks forwarding to non-Amp providers?
My first job in publishing was for S&T. In those days the pay was a little better than Overbye got; Charlie Federer had retired and the staff were running it for themselves. We were still working out of what had been Charlie's house. My office was the kitchen.
I think you mean 4-5 km/h. 5 miles is a 2 hour leisurely walk, and a very fast march in one hour.
In this case art imitates life, not the other way around.
I heard of Paul Stamets through Michael Pollen's book "how to change your mind" - Paul gave Michael his first psilocybin trip.
> "We understand that we need you to be the man of the family, and appreciate that you have stepped up to be strong for all of us. We would like to support you in doing so and feel that our greatest assistance would be in helping to facilitate communications for you. Is this something you're able to allow?"

That's corpo-marketing style. The angle is to coerce the other in a corner and he'll see it coming from a thousand mile and react badly to it.

> "We understand that we need you to be the man of the family,

That's exactly the problem and what OP don't want/need. They want to communicate with the medical and legal staff. They don't need him to be the man of the family, they need him to approach this as a family. They need him to let them be family and they need him to be family.
My bad. Apparently WOW bills itself as the "sixth largest cable provider" as of Dec. 31, 2018, which presumably means not including fiber and DSL and the like: https://ir.wowway.com/investor-relations/overview/default.as...
Firstly, in my experience with the medical system, which is sadly a great deal more than I hoped for my life, it's hard having multiple people communicating with medical experts. Information gets lost, doesn't get recorded, gets misinterpreted, misfiled, forgotten. Having multiple people asking questions at different times means someone never has the full picture of what's going on or is getting relayed or potentially misinterpreted information. It is absolutely better if one person is always present for conversations with doctors and nurses, even if his sister or you are also present. This way someone is guaranteed to have all the information and nothing gets lost or forgotten. You can all make decisions together, but only if you all understand all of the information at hand.

In my experience with grieving people, which is also extensive, don't try and take over, often people try to manage their grief by managing the situation. Taking that away from him takes away his coping mechanism. I don't know your family and I can't speak for your situation, but if it were me, I wouldn't try and inject myself. I would keep this absolutely as simple as possible:

"Hey, we're here for you. Thank you for stepping up and managing all this, I know it's almost impossible to keep track of what's going on with doctors coming and going constantly. What can we do to help?"
Given the vanilla error handling is my favorite of the lot, I don't really consider it a bad thing that people are moving away from it.

There are some downsides, like the lack of stack traces, but it's a nice pattern. Does it have to be 'one size fits all'?
>gets more multimedia and more performant

More performant then text? What are you comparing it to smoke signals FFS?
And let me see if I understand you correctly, you _WANT_ multimedia in your emails?

What is the point? To send miniature versions of web-pages?!?
no, not really.
Unfortunately sometimes software or APIs don't give codified error messages or exceptions and the _only way_ to detect the cause of the error programmatically is to scrape the error message, as horrible as it is.
Is 4-5mph really considered leisurely? I thought the average was around 3mph, I know I feel like I've done proper exercise if I keep 3.5-4mph up for over 30 minutes.
https://www.cointracker.io.
A Visual Journey Inside the Miniatures of ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’
So... A website clearly intended to be a parody due to its name, but still taken seriously by people that didn't get it?
> I haven't looked at the algorithm

You can see it here: https://youtu.be/ASoz_NuIvP0?t=393

Rewind a couple of minutes if you want the explanation.
Some HTML in email is fine, I would say the subset that can be expressed by markdown. Making text bold, italic etc should be possible. The real problem I have is how limited email HTML/CSS and email clients are compared to the web, so that every "rich" email will use table layouts that render terribly on mobile.
VOMO – The Value of Missing Out
Discord is generally used for day to day chat in corps, then you'll be told to get on Mumble for fleet ops. Some corps continue to use Discord for small fleet ops but as soon as you're doing ops with Alliances or blue corps you'll nearly always end up on Mumble.
"keep it alive"

Google's record is one of infect and close.

It might seem unrelated, but disabling JS is the real fix.
Neuromancer, 1984, William Gibson.
If you depend on the square root existing, why not have a (very short) positive_sqrt function?

> A, B, C and D are Optionals, but at most two of them are nil.

That sounds like something that's quite fragile and should either be wrapped up in its own type or not depended on.
Instant messaging and email serve different use cases. Synchronous and ephemeral vs asynchronous and permanent.
That's really inaccurate. 3 mph is fairly brisk (20 minute miles). 5 mph is a 12 minute mile, which is, for many people, a running pace. Were you thinking of kph?
I walk two miles each way every day and it takes me around 45 minutes to an hour to walk the two miles depending on how fast I'm walking. For the round trip it comes to be a bit less than 2 hours.
FWIW, ODM was slightly better quality than Photoscan in our tests. We only tested orthomosaics but ODM had less error to our ground control points (note we didn't feed the givens into these tests) and less aberrations.
See it here: https://youtu.be/ASoz_NuIvP0?t=393 rewind a bit if you want more explanation.
Sure buddy, whatever you say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_broadband_providers_in...
You may be certain that you understand the list (this one http://zxgk.court.gov.cn/shixin/), but you are mistaken. You probably read an article about the "social credit system" that got the details wrong.

Getting put on the list is a punishment that can be ordered by a court for various infractions, but not buying video games, because (unlike the other three) it is merely frowned upon, but not illegal. Discouraging video games was part of one companies' private implementation of a "social credit system". The list is another "social credit system". Various local governments within China are also running their own pilots.

Those systems are not connected yet. It is expected that eventually the Chinese government will decide on one implementation by selecting parts of the pilot projects, but it isn't clear which parts. Until that happens, buying too many video games isn't going to ban you from taking high-speed rail.
Moving to the Bay Area, I was surprised to find such limited ISPs given that the Bay is home to SV and its neighbors. I don't know what I expected, but I certainly didn't expect it to be as limited as it is here.
> The family (not my wife) asked me to talk to my brother-in-law about this because nobody else could get through to him.

I am a stranger on the net but your first priority is your wife and your relationship with her. Be very cautious with demands from the family even if well meaning. Protect yourself and your relationship with your wife.