skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a chance. One thing I found interesting in this article was the graph of successful object identification in images. The author made much of progressing from 50% to 88% in the last ten years (I believe this uncited data comes from [0]), but the great majority of that progress happened in the first five years, and the predictable slowdown of improvement is clearly evidenced by the graph.

We should also be very clear that 88% success rate given for object detection and identification is against a relatively fixed set of static images[1]. And as far as I can tell from the paper[2], there's no indication of how long it takes to come to a conclusion on any single image, and no description of how much hardware was used to reach this rate of success, which to be honest, I'm surprised is so low.

Given all of that, it does not seem reasonable to assume that this 88% success rate has anything to do with how well object detection works in real-time using on-board computing power while the car is in motion. So, don't start planning to throw out your driver's license anytime soon.

[0] https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-imag...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageNet
[2] https://paperswithcode.com/paper/self-training-with-noisy-st...
This is a case in which the sketchier internet sites have proven their typical worst and best: they've got all the correct info hot off the presses, mixed in with the worst wrong info.

You, the viewer, decide!
I don't think I have on the relatively limited occasions I've stayed in a hostel (or a mountain hut). That said, I'd certainly heard of sleep sacks sometimes being used/required in hostels. So it can't be all that rare--or maybe it used to be more common.
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You should also consider that that was a loose, humorous description of what happened, and not something really worth analysing to the last letter.
I see what you are saying but I dont agree - the author is knowledgeable in financial terms and business, but is still parroting the CEO.

I suppose I’m just triggered on what feels like years of news-pieces being marketing pieces for established companies.

I would think if the author is well versed in financial speak, they would challenge (or omit) the positive spin the CEO is trying to push here?
Google and Microsoft actually do have dominant positions in cloud hosting, just not in the "traditional" sense of webhosting.
That press release was sent out more than a year ago and it is about as fallacious as it gets and I'm surprised the whole thing keeps getting airtime.

For the comparison to hold you need to do the following:

- discount all the hours when humans are in adverse conditions and autopilot is not normally engaged

- remove motorcycles and other vehicles from the pool

After you do that Tesla is still much less safe than your average driver. Their whole spiel of taking the easy 80% in miles of driving and claiming victory has been debunked so often now it is getting boring. It's the remaining 20% where the fatalities are and which - coincidentally - are the hard bits.
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I bet the bigger problem was that the raise went into operating costs, whereas investment in surveillance goes into capital costs. The corporation doesn't get to list any money it pays out to employees on its balance sheet, but that Orwellian surveillance system is capital and counts as an asset the corporation can leverage for a higher valuation.

It's all part of how Capitalism reduces humans to a drain on the system in favor of material.
Partisanship bias confirmed!

Obama had plenty of evidence of corruption, and that's just ONE past president.

- Benghazi

- Ordering IRS to target conservative groups

- AP Phone Records Scandal

- Obamacare / You can keep your doctor

- NSA PRISM Surveillance System

- ATF Fast and Furious

- Rosengate

- Holder committing perjury multiple times

- VP Biden forcing Ukraine to fire that prosecutor...

If you haven't heard of some or all of these, you need to bust out of your echo chamber / comfort zone and start looking at more diverse news sources.
If I invent a machine that passes out six thousand flyers per second, and allow people to feed text into it at will, then yes, it is insane to describe these as my "speech". I may provide a mechanism for the words to get onto a page, but I have zero agency in the process of thinking them up, drafting them, and enacting their distribution. I am providing a mechanism for others to say things.

However, you would probably say I start to become liable if I erect a giant wall on which all of these flyers are posted, and allow illegal content to remain hanging there even when I'm informed of it and aware it's illegal. This gray area is exactly what Section 230 is designed around.

It's totally unreasonable to expect a platform operator to act as the speaker of a post the moment it is posted. But after becoming aware of a post and the reasons it may be objectionable, they start to gain a sort of post-hoc liability.

If someone prints out child porn, glues it to a yard sign, and plants it on your front lawn, you should probably not be liable for arrest starting that instant. But if, after coming and going and seeing it over and over for a week, you make no efforts to remove it or report it, then you should probably be liable for arrest. This is exactly the logic behind Section 230.
I think people often fail to grasp why natural language works for humans. It is because we can have a conversation back and forth and supplement with other things like illustrations or drawings.

That I can explain task to a programmer in natural language and that he can implement it, is only possible because he can ask questions back and gradually build up a mental model.

These natural language solutions often lack this feedback loop mechanism.

When you don’t have feedback you are better off with a more precise and more mathematical language.
While I'm sympathetic to your point, sometimes appeals to complexity like this are asinine. There are plenty of complex problems which yield, to at least a degree, to effort.

Historically cultures have modulated themselves in a variety of ways, including censorship of objectionable speech. Even the United States has maintained, in the past, sweeping norms which controlled what kind of rhetoric entered the public sphere. No one would suggest that these norms were always well applied, coherent, good. But its equally challenging to make the case that because of that ambiguity we should simply do nothing at all.

The ability of companies like Youtube or Facebook to shift culture is probably real and thus probably demands a response, imperfect as it may be.
Panolens.js: A JavaScript Panorama Viewer
I think if a bootcamp is good enough, it will feed people directly into jobs (possibly without even a technical interview). This is my dream, I have no idea how realistic it is. My library experience (and my work experience) is one giant experience to find out.

If I find some great engineers in the library and bring them into my team directly, will they do good work? If they prove to do good engineering, would it be a sustainable model to hire directly from our volunteer program?

If this works out, we could replicate this model in other public libraries as well.

The comments above are my moonshot ideas, I'm currently experimenting to see if it can be possible.
I deleted my Instagram account on Valentine’s Day this year for this exact reason. You can’t prioritize content without deprioritizing other content.

https://sneak.berlin/20200211/instagram/
I have the same mattress. Almost never give it a second thought, which is what I really want in a mattress. Some reviews complain of a fishy smell but I didn't encounter it with mine but there are enough reviews with that complain that I wonder if there are multiple manufacturing pipelines, one of which leads to a fishy smelling mattress.
> must have already solved the problem at hand

Assuming the problem at hand is analyzing the data.

I don't know enough about what they're building to understand what use cases they have in mind. (Their blog says "developing new features or exploring insights", which is a bit vague. See https://medium.com/gretel-ai/gretel-readme-fd0c4eff8a09 .)

But if this allows people to take their production database, run a command, and generate fake data they can run integration tests against, then that's not analyzing the data. It's making it easier to run tests in an environment that is as close as possible to production, because data is part of an environment.

Aside from that, I'd argue that some kinds of analysis may even still be possible. Let's say you have an e-commerce site, with one database table for user accounts and another table for shipping addresses. And let's guess that Gretel anonymizes this data by creating a user table with different usernames and an address table with made-up shipping addresses, but the overall structure is isomorphic: for every row in real data, there is a corresponding row in fake data, just with different values in it. And the (synthetic) keys aren't private (they data you generated, not collected from the user), so they can be preserved. Then you can, on the fake data, run a query and find out what percentage of users have given a shipping address.

Of course it's just a guess that that's what they're aiming to do since so little detail is available. It's entirely possible that what I described isn't what they're planning to do. Maybe it doesn't sufficiently protect privacy.

But the point is, until we know what they're building, I don't know if we can conclude that people should run away.
This sort of forthrightness is why I choose to consume certain types of news from fivethirtyeight above the alternatives.
They're acutely aware of the power big tech holds and how politically devastating it would be if Google, Facebook, et al started to regulate their platforms in a politically biased way.

That's why the idea of regulating social media and search products as public utilities arose, and why Facebook is currently walking on eggshells to appear neutral and apolitical.
If your life is actually on the line you are better off doing some research on how to use PGP properly. Otherwise you have no good way to know if you will end up with something strong enough to use against state actors. The simplicity and strength of PGP is hard to beat. Riseup.net has an entire section mostly about OpenPGP:

* https://riseup.net/en/security/message-security
I wouldn't be so confident on getting canned... I've found this to be an extremely common practice with new consumer electronics from no-name brands on Amazon. I would say more than 50% of such items I buy on Amazon come with an offer for a partial refund if you leave a 5 star review. This is actually the lame deal, typically if you establish a relationship with one of these companies (e.g. by leaving a 5* review for one of those offers) they'll start emailing you offering a 100% refund on certain items they're trying to get the score up on. I know someone who does this kind of thing on a pretty large-scale basis for multiple items per day and then resells them... she seems to make okay returns on it considering the low effort. I imagine you could even resell them right back on Amazon although I don't think she's tried that.

It's definitely against Amazon's policies, but clearly enforcement is not exactly bulletproof.
Ah, I think you're right about the OS/2 one. (I did some researching, and it seems like it actually might have been developed by MS, which I did not know. I knew there was some collaboration, but I thought it was only for the ability to run Windows apps natively in OS/2.)

> You guys need to find an example where one company offered licensing and the other simply refused to negotiate.

Part of the trouble with this, I think, is that prior to this case, nobody thought there was a need to license this, since it wasn't covered by copyright by any sane reading of the law. (And I still think it isn't, and the appellate court erred in overturning the district court.)
Melanopsin (blue light sensing protein)
Might be the type of cost.

Outsourced = expense
Salary increase = fixed cost can only write-off %.

It's probably the other managers who don't have the issue not wanting to increase their wages. Or explaining why the worst employees were paid more etc.
I recall a similar reaction, in early January, when I heard about the likely protracted latent transmissible phase.

I'm looking forward to reading, ten years from now, about how this virus and the rise of Xi Jinping's dictatorship coincided and erased China's imminent global hegemony, and nobody at all was aware while it was happening...

The Chinese regime has no clothes. This is the Great Leap Forward for a new cohort. Deng Xiaoping attempted to prevent the rise of another idiotic Mao, but he would have had to reconstitute the state from scratch with a strong democratic tradition. So it happened, anyway.

Xi Jinping is a singularly insecure leader doomed to create a brutally inefficient cult of personality. The only purpose of the Chinese state is slowly becoming the protection of Xi's crippled ego, which can never be made whole, all because Mao didn't like Xi's father and treated him and his family badly. To Xi, the only success is shitting on others. It is a tragedy. What should have been a leading nation is regressing and diminishing so fast that consensus media will take at least a decade to begin to comprehend it.
Logistics is obviously a solved problem by this point, but I'm guessing the underlying cause here may have to do with a talent drain during the preceding overall contraction of the music industry. I'd figure physical distribution is a lagging industry and will hopefully catch up to the changes we've been seeing elsewhere in music.

An article I read a few years ago (wish I could locate a link) covered how independent record pressing companies are emerging to meet the growing vinyl trend. I think demand for physical music will stick around and therefore the opportunity to get decent logistics in order for their distribution.
It's interesting that this article doesn't mention Y Combinator at all. With both LTSE and I imagine some of the companies considering it being YC companies this could be an example of YC moving beyond the "kickstart" phase and into reshaping the institutions where the companies it supports operate.

For context, YC's letter to the SEC in support: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-iex-2018-06/iex201806-349607...
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Trying to explain to my mother what to click in a user interface over the phone is next to impossible. So much for the superiority of natural language.

What you need is the ability to point and talk.
Diagnosing and Treating Shiny Object Syndrome
Am I Letting My Happiness Be Defined by [Someone] Else?
OK. I just set up a LearnDash site trying to focus on content and not the engineering for an MVP. Thinking maybe Moodle when it's time to migrate.
Which is why Jef Raskin in his system and interface designs tried to avoid having the concept of separate applications at all (instead of installing different applications, you'd install commands, which could be used from anywhere in the system): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy#Commands
Putting the application in a container doesn't make it easier to make safe, controlled changes to the internal workings of the application. It doesn't help any developers understand the theory (if any) underlying the application code, that might help them understand how to code with the grain when making changes.

Stuffing it into a container to deploy it is orthogonal. It doesn't solve many problems
I was referring to both "it may have some drop in utility today... " and "in future it may well perform better than ..."

My issue is not that people just miss the imperatives, but that they also misapply effort because of it. Accept there is a cost and try and quantify the impact. Make intelligent risk management decisions based on that. Sometimes that decision is "this is unlikely to work, what else can we do".
One simple option is to immediately insert the mattress into a bed bug cover upon pickup.
It's also impossible to comparison shop because most people buy them once a decade, you don't really break them in for weeks, and sleeping is so subjective it's impossible to take anyone's word for it.

I bought a queen for around $600. It's fine. Improving sleep has been more about exercising more often, decreasing screen time, and reading/meditating before bed.
I was thinking more about it and the Juul/EA comparisons aren't quite right. A better comparison would be saying in 2006, "of course Glass-Steagall should have been repealed, because how else would these huge banks be possible?" That's another case where the business model was truly enabled by a legislation change like Google's and Facebook's models were enabled by the CDA.
Note that date-fns right now doesn't have great support for duration calculations: https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns/issues/284

I wound up switching to Luxon because of this. Which is too bad, because date-fns is a fine library otherwise.
I bought a foam mattress off amazon canada.

Decided to return it.

Surprisingly amazon.ca doesnt offer large item pickup like USA, and expected to return a king size expanded 10" thick foam mattress to the local post office.

I called them asking wtf, how am I supposed to return it.

They gave a me refund, and told me donate destroy it myself or even just keep it.

I decided to keep it
> What does Vultr have that they don't?

According to multiple HN users, a more unreliable (internal) network.
Is it too much to expect our government to not play political games?
Tesla Model 3 makes Consumer Reports ‘Top Picks’ list for 2020
I don't see how this is a scripting language and runtime; so, maybe I'm totally missing the boat and everything below is nonsense...

I think DSLs like this turn into one thing: maintenance nightmares.

I love the idea of them, I've just _never_ seen one be useful for more than a demo. Especially, for something as complex as interacting with the browser... Why not just use a visual tool and record the session with something like selenium? At this point, the idea of a "DSL" for non-programmers is pretty much a fantastic myth. I think DSLs should really only be used when they enforce quality, not to have a nicer looking statement. Same rule applies with macros, and lmao, if they aren't responsible for most DSLs.

I haven't even begun touch on the problems with errors, debugging, warnings, deprecating, updates, etc. which also come with a DSL.

The SDK setup looks an awful lot like I'm just using selenium with node and this is on-top of that entire debugging nightmare, is there more to it than that and the DSL?

As well I'm curious, how do you reliably use the web without selectors? I see it referenced, but I don't see "how," and that quite honestly seems like the coolest thing on the readme.

Again, I love the idea, it looks slick. Just based on my experiences, it seems like how nightmares, not dreams, start...
Hi, I am the partner at YC who funded PostHog, though originally for a different idea.

I think this can be a great business, we have funded startups following similar models like Gitlab, Mattermost, etc. Excited to keep funding more :)
Wouldn't this apply to any bedding, or even clothing?
You misunderstand. As a strong supporter of private property rights I have no objection to Y Combinator or Twitter banning users or removing content from their services. But if they're going to exercise that degree of control then for regulation and legal liability purposes they should expect to be treated more like publishers than like common carriers.
I have some personal stuff hosted on DO. I really like their options, service, their branding, UX/UI, etc...but they are kind of in a weird spot. Halfway between being good for cheap personal projets, and being good for enterprise.

If I want a simple VPS there are cheaper options.

If I am an enterprise spending millions/year on cloud infra I am probably only looking at AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.

How does DO get out of this spot? I want them to succeed and I will continue to support them as the big guys need the competition, but I fail to see how they compete against the likes of Amazon without undercutting significantly...and that won't bring profits. I think the margins on cloud infra is already pretty thin.
This is the best point I've seen in this thread so far. Companies should just stick to their business interests and leave politics and social engineering to others.
Well, your data is used for that model, and without the data, your credit can't be computed anymore.

This has already happened with GDPR... remember the credit unions are private companies, not government outfits.
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>He is a fine athlete but golf is not one of his sports.

Isn't this orthogonal? Golf has absolutely nothing to do with athleticism.
Yes! Great episode!
I'm not sure about FF internals, but if you want to stop the tracker bits from being sent, doing in the URL bar might be after the link gets sent to the server, in which case they still get the tracking info.

So you need to rewrite it before it gets clicked.
Writing in English
> a decentralized system would be preferable. ... a public utility rather than being controlled by private companies ... Would have been nicer with some form of robust international system for money transfer and exchange where middle men could not nickel and dime you

Well, in fact, the system you are describing has existed for 11 years and inspired the Swedish system being discussed here; presumably the attributes you are wishing for are precisely the ones that they want to eliminate by creating their own private system instead of just using Bitcoin.
Thank goodness Obama was scandal free, and good thing we keep catching Trump trying to expose all those crimes committed by Obama administrators (Clinton emails & Russia, Biden & Ukraine, Obama & Iran, Loretta Lynch and Clinton Tarmac meeting, Comey & FISA, etc...).
Fair. I have multiple times run into that attitude seriously, otoh.
Except that ... Benghazi was an error, no corruption ; the IRS did not target conservative groups, Obamacare did not mandate you change doctors in any way ..

Normally I assume it is stupidity rather than malice, but now ...
> This is a low cost of capital line of credit, is it not (due to their infrastructure and broad customer base)?

How low cost? What interest rate, what fees, etc.?
That’s hilarious. Any idea what else was in them? I’d presume they were basically tasty cocktails so as not to taste like alcohol. But perhaps they were made to taste awful?
If you can figure out any resources for good handgun safes... I would appreciate them as would probably many others. Even the name-brands seem to produce pretty poor quality products and it's hard to figure out what's decent without consuming hours of YouTube reviews (many of them from LPL!), reading forums, etc.

I'd start collating this stuff but I guess I don't want to be that one nut with four hundred gun safes and a website about them.
One whose stated goal is not the destruction of democratic institutions?
any ideas how this would impact on SEO/Pagespeed? if you are doubling the amount of pictures being loaded, albeit a tiny placeholder for a thumbnail - not from a size perspective, but from a network perspective surely this would double the amount of image fetches
Fur Affinity is currently under attack by a DDoS
Probably of interest here given the tech/furry overlap.