skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doubt it's any different than membership cards.
Looks like an idea for a semi-supervised ensemble method for machine learning:

Prepare two equally sized ensembles of classifiers, let's call them A and B.

1. Train each classifier in ensemble A on labelled data to predict does a picture contains a cat.

2. Take some other unlabelled dataset and collect answers from classifiers from A for each picture from this dataset.

3. Train each classifier in ensemble B to predict average answer of classifiers from A for each picture from the unlabelled dataset.

Then for a picture from the test dataset it would be possible to get answers from ensemble A and from ensemble B and calculate what would be the surprisingly popular answer.
They should just adopt Bitcoin...
Yes it used to be open. Now you need a Chinese credit card. Even those who had an account before are not grandfathered in.

I'm in the US and have colleagues who go to China on business trips. It's a huge pain. It's almost impossible and no good work around.

I can't transfer money to their wechat, and they money they have, they can't send. They cant even participate in grabbing red packets. A lot of Chinesw vendors accept wechat or alipay only, and if you use cash, people get pissed off.

It's a system unfriendly to foreigners. It's a shame because I prefer it due to its ubiquity but I can't see international adoption without radical changes by the paranoid Chinese government.
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LoRa has become the tool of choice for the high altitude balloon community. At least in the UK, you're restricted to 10mW in the 434MHz band when airborne. People have been pretty successful at getting (very) slow-scan video from balloons at 30km altitude.
> Back when people posted things just because they wanted to share something they thought other people would find interesting.

That's pretty much the entire premise of twitter, instagram, facebook, reddit, 'hacker' 'news', etc today...
You're straw-manning here, Caplan makes a broad argument against public education at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels, I said I disagree with his large scale conclusion and you're asking me to defend the number of history degrees in the US.

The US public school system is in need of wide reforms at all levels, I'm not going to defend it piecemeal because there are many pieces that are not defensible. None of that makes Caplan right though.
I certainly agree with your later example (cars+planes)...but how do union types help with subtyping?
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Of course, the real question that needs to be asked is "if affordable housing isn't profitable, what do we do?" There are many things that we all want society to have that aren't profitable.
Efficiency/SEO sure but what makes this bad for accessibility? It's a standard <img> with alt text, does it matter for accessibility where the final pixel data comes from?
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Q: Is the earth flat? -> "Not controversial enough..." (nowadays, in 2019) ie. it does not fit the "surprisingly popular" definition because it isn't popular. There's just a few loudmouths who make it seem like that (combined with a bunch of jokers who joke about it). Hence you don't get many people who will argue most people will respond Yes. You could regard that as a flaw, I see it as a feature.
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Most of these are in spaces too rough or temporary for the cost of vinyl stickers.
I'm a bit confused by why you responded to me with this.

"Installing safes onsite and self monitoring" was literally the example given by the person asking for other suggestions.
There is a Python library called Newspaper that is designed to do that. I believe this is what outline.com uses.

There is also a JS library called readability which is what is used by Firefox's reader mode.

https://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://github.com/mozilla/readability
In general, you can ignore the currency that an index fund uses internally for reporting. You can buy A1JX52 using USD in the US or using EUR in the EU; the same as you can buy JPY using USD or EUR, whatever is more convenient for you.

I don't know how the situation in general with Banks in Europe. But in Germany you will find many Banks which are convenient and offer cheap access to the stock market. Yes, they will try to sell you shit, but if you select an online bank and know what you are doing, you will never have to talk to anyone and get really good products.

Taxation varies across Europe. Some countries take less than the US, some take more. But pretty much all countries of the western world have double-taxation agreements, so there is no double taxation. A German citizen, e.g., pays not more than 15% tax on the dividend of a US stock. It looks that this is even less than US citizens, but I'm not sure. That is of course and bit annoying when filling out tax forms, but if you invest in an fund, the issuer of the fund does it for you.
Good example.

Guess this technique may also detect facts that are involved in common conspiracy.
It is outrageous that the eu is effectively blocking its citizens access to products like spyder snp500 etf which is a far cheaper and more liquid etf than what is offered on the European markets.
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Have any political pollsters ever done this sort of question format?
This also shows my problem with the way the concept is presented.

The correct answer to the second question is "No". That is what most people would say. So technically, if we saw Yes:0, No:100, that would just mean everyone knows what they popular choice is.

What they want to ask is "How many people would say the answer is "No"?" Then if the answers are far afield, we can say whether or not an answer is surprisingly popular.

So in the article and with your example, the second question isn't actually a reflection of the proportions of the first. They're kind of disconnected.
Not a pocket device but let's make water warmer / room cooler .. basically a heat pump you can draw liquid from ?
> How an animal lover’s hobby of recording himself feeding stray cats exemplifies the glory of the anonymous web.

When I saw this subhed, I thought immediately of Robin Seplut, a Youtuber I had never heard about until a month or so ago when Youtube put a 5-year-old video of him into my recs for some reason [0] (I like cat videos, and have clicked on them for years, but this was the first time I've seen one in my recs).

In any case, Seplut has 900K subscribers and dozens of videos of him feeding the 5,000 feral cats in his city. And the videos are a hoot – his most popular video has 46 million views [1].

The guy at the subject of this article seems to have videos with the same kind of appeal. I wonder how much of his obscurity has to do with his videos just not being labeled well?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTZUTvv_1Onm-f-533Hyurw

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIqLAyNLY8
Just look at the titles of his videos, this is #1 reason why he hasn't received a viral hit. Then there is editing, no captions etc...
Agree, this is a gem and I wish more talks like this made it to the front page. As a long-time HN lurker, this post finally got me to create an account and start commenting.

I really appreciate the practical perspective of the talk and focus on what's happening in industry. I've seen a lot of data science/ML posts on the latest research and how this can lead to automating X in Y years. While it's great the research is advancing, there's not as much focus on how the industry is evolving to capture the value of that research.

I love the range of topics Paco covers in his talk, from explaining how we got to today's data science environment to what's differentiating big players from the aspirers to making predictions on future M&A activity. The deck is also full of useful links and resources - I especially enjoyed Cassie Kozyrkov's talk on "The Missing Piece".

Great talk, and thanks for sharing.
> I didn't know Pennsylvania wasn't the capital of Philadelphia

Yes you did. :)
I don't know about you, but I only go to safe gas stations.

I don't have to have my car tied to my house with a short leash, and don't have to have a 220 line run to my garage. Speaking of which, what if you don't have a place to charge at night?

My 500 mile range is not a best case range. It's the expected range. The ranges advertised by the EVs are for ideal conditions (new batteries, good temperature, etc). I don't live such an ideal life.
I thought there are no sane people left that want to install WeChat voluntarily...
I love reading the views people have about digital advertising on HN, and as someone who works in the space I often agree that they are not providing a great experience and the tracking is too much, but what is the alternative for monetisation of content on the web?
Kanji come in many forms, just as the Latin script has serif, sans-serif, slab serif, and various handwritten forms. Stroke order and direction are accentuated the most when Kanji is written with a brush on paper, which many computer fonts try to mimic. But the strokes can be made much less prominent when the letters are carved into stone or wood. You can even use a brush to flow all the strokes from several letters together into a long, virtually illegible squiggle [1]. Modern instruments like fountain pens produce different results, and pencils are still more different. There are different customs and standards of penmanship for each writing instrument.

The duct-tape typeface looks rather similar to seal script [2], an ancient style that is still commonly mimicked when, obviously, people carve seals (inkan).

[1] For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xu

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script
Yes exactly, among others such as Miso.
> Doesn’t sound much different than using EC2.

I don't understand when people see "server less" and start thinking it is without realizing that all what lambda is still using EC2 instances running on your behalf, it just hides that away from you. You should only use lambdas when your use case would reduce the cost (lambdas charge per invocation) which means it is for services with low number of requests. Otherwise it will end up being more expensive.
You can only go so far without doing/understanding the mathematics.

It is possible to learn the math through self study.
Getting noticed. Maybe being briefly remembered.

Most people don't use social media (or further back, blogs) to get paid or gain utility, they want to be noticed for something.
> The kicker is it automatically rolls over into a paid subscription

This is how I wound up an Audible subscriber for two years without knowing. I only found out when the card I had on file with Audible (& Amazon) expired and they charged my sister's card that she had used once on my Amazon Prime account and had since been deleted as a payment method.

I happened to be in the middle of a year-long backpacking trip at the time otherwise I'm sure I would have needed to update my card info with Amazon for one reason or another and then I wonder if I ever would have noticed the Audible charges at all.
On the one hand, obviously the bank was incompetent. But shame on the guy in the article for not having his items insured. This is a pretty standard rider in most home owner’s insurance policies (or an easy separate policy). Typically the policy is incredibly cheap if the items are stored in a safe deposit box, and if you take them out you call the insurance company and tell them that, the items remain insured but at a higher daily rate, and you call the insurance company and tell them when the items go back in the box, and the rate goes back to the low rate.
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The world is moving towards remote working, but how does one build cutting edge tech without having the core team whiteboard solutions daily?
>In 2019 alone companies including Toyota, Canva, First American, Facebook, Westpac (the list goes on) have reported data breaches. It’s not hard to conceive that a single consumer could be affected by multiples of these company data breaches. It’s alarming how powerless an individual becomes, given their complete reliance on these organization, entrusted with such sensitive data.

Well, those problems are gonna get worse and worse in the next few years that's for sure.

But to be honest We are the one to blame.

We keep using FB even after their data breach and Cambridge Analytica scandal

I guess our memory is just too short
But it’s the citizens that are attached to cash. Not the government nor the businesses.
Using external sound system that runs via USB into Pi, works well. Looking at additional processing and with that the rPi4 would be choice, though heat issues may need addressing by all accounts and this looks like it will cut the mustard.

Sure the processing I'm doing, I could batch, but real-time makes like so much better in the instance I'm using it for.
Not in the States. Our notaries glance at your ID before they countersign a document.
> I sense that the concentration of populations in huge cities is only further compounding the challenges we face (climate change, economic inequality, the overall health of a population)

On the contrary, dense populations allow for the efficient distribution of goods and services. There may be an aesthetic argument in favor of small town living but there isn’t an environmental one.
There also websites that use CDN like CloudFront and sometimes their subdomains are changing quite often.
> Hundreds of people across the country die from heatstrokes every month in the summer, and wearing less clothing won't keep you alive.

Drinking water will though...

(said as someone who's spent plenty of time outside in summer desert heat without AC and hasn't died yet)
I'm an EU citizen and I can buy, e.g, the iShares Core S&P 500 UCITS ETF (ISIN IE0031442068) which gives me access to the S&P 500 and is as cheap as it can get.
I've heard life on the internet called an acid trip..

https://www.google.com/search?q=brown+acid

..and if you run into a Himalayan guy with a funny focus on first letters, and vaguely a discreetly stored "Pinkadellic" something or another, who eyes a specific divot, hand-to-hand, say whatsup.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ymmv

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You know what I meant :(
My last job was with a large fortune 50 company and my current job is with, not quite as large but as recognized a company. I’ve tried to hack the meta work as well but try as I might I can’t trick myself into believing the loads of waste are necessary nor am I willing to expend any more energy than is required on the meta work.

The good part is that the experiences have helped me realize I would gladly be compensated less if it meant being able to focus more on the actual work that directly translated to positive ROIs for the business.
Can confirm. From my colleagues, they said it's painful to have WeChat or AliPay working in China. Yet every citizen is intensively using them every day.

For example, it's July and I haven't yet used cash once for this year, and for last year it's kind of like twice.

This leads to some shops to reject the cash, making tourist and foreigners who live here more inconvenient.
I'm in charge of cloud infrastructure at my company, and I've found that sticking with CloudFormation on AWS is more powerful and versatile than TerraForm, since TF isn't always a perfect mapping, where CFN is, with the caveat that it's sometimes months behind what their API can do.

To that end, over the years, I've come across a couple of tools which help write CFN templates and manage rollout keeping cross-stack dependencies in mind. If anyone does a lot of CFN, I highly recommend Troposphere (python abstraction for cloudformation) [1] and Stacker (manager stack rollout via dependency DAG) [2]

1: https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere
2: https://github.com/cloudtools/stacker
ah, I missed that. Cool
> to create secure and memorable passwords?

Step 1: Stop worrying about "memorable" passwords and focus only on secure. Anyone today with even a tiny internet presence will have a larger number of passwords than can be memorized by that person (without many of them being reused).

Step 2: Pick a password manager (preferably one with a built in "generate random password" feature). Which manager is less important than looking for specific features that you will need/want to make use of the manager. But the "generate random password" feature should be tops in your list. All managers /should/ have this feature, but if by chance you find one that does not, remove it from your selection list.

Step 3: After you select a manager, then always use the "generate random password" feature for generating secure, unique, passwords for all websites you visit that need passwords. Note the word 'all' above, it is important. Once you go this route, you should never reuse the same password anywhere, and you should never 'make up' a password manually, no matter how throwaway you consider an account. Always use the password manager to generate a secure password. If you later decide to throw the account away, you can delete the password entry from your manager. But if the account becomes non-throwaway later, which does happen, you will already be using a secure unique password.
Yes, aware of the aftermarket aspect fully. Yes a larger fan would achieve that and may be a solution, though a slower spinning fan would equally be good, maybe both. Looking at this cooler, I don't see why for my use can't use it without the fan.

Equally I'm ok with some noise, as long as it is not within the range I'm recording and as such, easily filtered out. So whilst a small fan may make a higher noise, it also makes a higher frequency noise, larger fan == lower frequency noise and that may be an issue in the my use case.

But early days, be lots of alternatives and choice out there, though looks very promising.

Just wasn't aware the RPi4 could be overclocked, so that's kinda a bonus.
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> By using informal writing to convey the regular dramas of human life, they also started reshaping informal writing into something that could deeply convey the full range of human emotions,” writes McCulloch. When we need a method of expression, language—or perhaps Lockwood’s abyssal portal—figures it out.

Exactly. Text doesn't quite have enough bandwidth for the emotional subcarrier, unless you're a superlative writer. So people need to hang some neon signposts on it.

Not to mention the role of in-jokes as group bonding. In my circle of friends one of the choice GIFs for frustration, especially with anything musical, is https://tenor.com/view/eric-morecambe-frustrated-gif-4687881 ; not just referencing Eric Morcambe's expressive comic acting, but the entire "Grieg's piano concherto by Grieg with him and him" sketch. We've gradually accumulated more of these from TV shows watched together and kibitzed over the Internet, so the reference is not just to the show but the time we watched it and reacted to it together.

Shaka, when the walls fell indeed.

(Referencing Patricia Lockwood is a positive to this essay, you might enjoy reading her work too, in the role of interlocutor between the literary world and the Extremely Online world.)
Disclaimer: I am Brazilian and a raving anti-Bolsonaro protester.

If we follow that line of thought, we will always end up at the following conundrum: the planet cannot support the "affluent Western" lifestyle -- think typical Bay Area HN-er -- for all 7 billion humans (as far as I remember, I don't have the sources for that).

Who is going to draw the golden ticket?

I agree that Bolsonaro is an opportunist (like many politicians), and he spews a lot of abominable statements. Unfortunately, his views align with a large section of Brazilian society. A society that was, from the beginning, built on layers upon layers of opportunism, manorialism and slavery. A society that cannot condemn its slave trade past, nor its many dictatorships.

Bottom line -- yes, I think you are in position to judge us.
I downvoted you and wanted to tell you why.

In this story someone just shared an experience of being in deep pain, psychologically and physically. While you may not intend to be mean, your response boils down to "you didn't feel enough pain to qualify for burnout." Even if you didn't intend it, this response has an aspect of shaming the author.

I think that it's really important for people to be able to talk about mental health constructively. Specifically, it's important to de-stigmatize the fact that people are susceptible to burnout / anxiety / depression / etc. These aren't necessarily conditions that "can be fixed with a lazy holiday, safe in the knowledge that all those Slack shares are vesting." Instead, they're often conditions that require tailored effort and outside help.

For someone who's going through a mental health issue, it's often really hard to go through the steps needed to improve the situation for themselves. Having others around them understand that it's a struggle, and not something they can "snap out of" is really important.

Again, I doubt you were intending to be belittling here, but I want to point out how important empathy is in this situation.
I think you are wrong here, what you said is mostly about how it is in big cities versus the rural areas, same thing is in Europe. You will not find a lot of mass transit in European countryside, sure there are buses and trains probably more abundant than in USA but be prepared to walk a few kilometers to the nearest station.

Your point would make sense if USA had high-speed trains linking big cities but it doesn't, and the train routes that do exist experience all sorts of delays which makes people choose planes even for shorter distances under 500 km which would take ~2 hr on high speed train.
Paid subscriptions. Literally way more than 99% of "free" content is so bad that world would be better without that.
Interesting comments so let's have some answers:

1. 128 M ram total memory, 20-30 M free at best. CPU was slow and we were running off a SD card. Not exactly an enterprise monster.

2. Of course I was parsing it line by line. But running OOM triggered the garbage collector so many times that it took like 3-4 minutes to finish. I didn't mean that the system actually stopped because of running out of ram.

3. Why didn't you do it with the NDK/some other solution? Because the PM just gave up on the feature when it wasn't done in a day. It was just real time search completion whith we didn't really need there, it was just "nice to have".
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Hey HN,

This weekend I built an excel spreadsheet so that you can come up with your next (scalable) service idea.

If you are a consultant / agency and are looking to move from to build a scalable business / valuable asset, this is for you!

WHY I built this:

- Many people want to start their business but can't find an idea
- Many people build stuff / services that nobody want
- Ideas are great but execution is what matters: See what others have done successfully, get inspired, and do your own thing!

The framework is called the Productized Service Matrix.
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It features in total:

- 75 companies (making as low as a few thousand USD $/month to $50m/year)
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The list is here: http://www.productizematrix.co

I also run a productized service (see in my profile) and have been really interested in this space for the last months.
How is this rhetoric?
Not really, I've seen mentions of this channel during this week so it's all been gathered over time.
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I think this goes to show that banks really don’t care about customers, and they don’t care if something goes wrong. They only care when they get caught and they have to pay for it.