skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Labeling new datasets as a bootstrapped startup
Hi all. Im trying to validate and PoC an idea for a tool/product that centers around the complexities of local city traffic signage. The central idea is to simplify parking in cities by highlighting things on a map like "Street Cleaning Schedules", "Tow Zones with variable parking times", "Parking unavailable due to long-term construction" etc. This product will require some form of Data analysis and ML. The initial dataset I was planning to use was Google street views for larger cities and their satellite towns.

My question is, as a lean bootstrapped idea, what services are available to me in order to help label data that won't break the bank? This is not proprietary or overly complicated data but it can require several forms of labeling. Im thinking just the basics to start such as "Has street sign (yes/no)", "Street Cleaning sign (yes/no)" (if has a street sign is Yes), etc. Eventually I'll need to feed that labeled data into image processing pipelines that can extract what the signs actually enforce.

I know there are various companies out there like AWS Turk and others that employ teams to do this but Im not sure I want to sign an AWS contract before I've even validated the idea. Has anyone used these services before? If not, what are the alternatives?

All help is so much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
They already have been, X accounts for single digit desktop market size.

ChromeOS is a Web based OS with more market share than GNU/Linux, thus just by measuring its usage across US school system, it is higher than X.

Then we can add all remaining desktop and mobile OSes into the mix.

Finally, SaaS Web applications are in many cases the only way some applications ever reach FOSS UNIX clones.
> They don't want to track everything or build a complete profile about everyone

Citation needed
Please be aware that this is totally unsubstantiated and for fun purposes only (if you can call calculating your chances to die “fun”). I’ve taken way too many liberties with the data that exists online and I seriously have no idea what I’m doing.
Switched 6 months ago on all devices, I actually prefer the experience, I have discovered a bunch of really interesting small independent websites and blogs through it too (wasn't that the original idea of the internet!?).

Once or twice a week I need !g to search for a programming specific query. There's still some improvement needed when searching for all the weird characters we use in software.
I'm not Swedish -- how is this being accomplished? By way of legislation? Here in NYC, Metrocard data can be obtained by LE or the DA. A new fare payment system currently being implemented is presumably even easier to track people.
The standard way to use Emacs is as an IDE; you use M-x compile to run the compiler in a window under Emacs and M-x gdb to run the debugger in a window under Emacs, in both cases with hypertext capabilities. These are standard packages included in a default Emacs install, although you may want to bind them to more convenient keys. (I bind [f5] to recompile.) You do not need to run Emacs in a terminal, and copy and paste to and from Emacs (not to mention things like viewing SVGs you're editing) works better if you run it in a window on its own. You do not need to "put the work in and build [an IDE] yourself" if you are using Emacs.

(Of course if you're writing programs in Elisp, Emacs is a more tightly integrated IDE, but the success of Emacs, org-mode, Magit, and Amazon notwithstanding, Elisp is not a very good programming language. Also, if you run Emacs in a terminal, you can quite reasonably use it over a low-bandwidth, high-latency ssh -C connection, and it becomes good for remote pair programming, which is not true of running Emacs in VNC. I haven't tried running it in Xpra.)

Historically Emacs started up far too slowly and used far too much RAM to be convenient to use it in the way you're describing, as a text editor invoked by a larger IDE; I remember waiting over a minute for a new Emacs process to start up in the mid-90s. Nowadays it might be reasonable, but it still takes almost 4 seconds on this laptop, which I find to be a painfully long wait for opening a file. Also, Emacs's language-agnostic autocomplete M-/ works a lot better if you have a lot of files open in the same Emacs session.

Although there are packages that configure Vim to work the same way, it is more common to use Vim in the way you describe, as a component of the IDE rather than an IDE in its own right. And Vim has the great advantage that it starts up instantly, and the advantage or disadvantage that its equivalent of M-/ (^P and ^N) is buffer-scoped, so it doesn't matter if you have more files open.
> A gas station has to be one of the riskiest place to catch the virus

When talking about travelling options, the alternatives are trains and buses. In a train or bus station, the volume of people is several orders of magnitude larger, and you have to be in a confined space with many people for a long amount of time.

There is no risk zero option if you need to travel, but I agree with the original comment that travelling by car looks like the safest one.
Some insurers may build risk models around that. But remember that insurers deal with the public at large, and the "average punter" is a blithering idiot.
What's a crime in my country is not necessarily a crime in yours. And international law without extradition backing it is at best a suggestion.
No, they didn't.

"Pay more" is meaningless when most of what you want is provided for you. What are you going to use that money for?

For some godawful reason people think near to full automation is going to look exactly like today, but without driving or something.

It's not. It's going to look radically different. It will be unprecedented. It's very naive to believe the current methods of incentives will work for a society that doesn't need them.
Boredom and midnight oil.
Those teams will ultimately walk away from this with proof that WFH “doesn’t work.” Distributed teams can work, it just takes a different set of organizational structures that keep people engaged and visible, structures that aren’t in place due the sudden nature of the virus.
Holding up the queue, eh?

I use € coins for tips or cereal bar purchases. In my country you'd get odd looks if you did that, because we have a bill that's roughly equivalent to 1€. But in Germany or Austria you'll get smiles and herzlichen grüßen because sparing-inclined citizens of the aforementioned countries only tip small change like 10 or 20 cents. Doing it often enough at a Greek tavern gets you freebies.
I would like to take any chance I can to avoid Google products, but I dont agree with this.

DuckDuckGo is using the infamous "More Results", essentially infinite scroll. Until that changes Im not using DuckDuckGo.
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Anecdotally, I was recently cramming a lot of "Leetcode medium" questions to prepare for job interviews, and after a couple of weeks, I was drinking Starbuck's coffee and solving those problems like a machine... seriously, like a machine.

I found I did get better (or at least much faster) at recognizing subproblems and quickly composing an overall solution, even if none of the steps was particularly creative.

After about 3 weeks I had to ditch the coffee, I was getting too addled.

(Not a controlled experiment, of course, just conveying my impression of the experience).
I’ve been using DDG exclusively for years. People talk about how hard it is to switch, but I’ve never had any trouble getting exactly the results I’m searching for. I sometimes wonder what makes google search results so amazing, but not enough to risk it.
It's not true in the US or the Eurozone. The "legal tender" requirement is for debts, not for purchases. A store can simply refuse to sell you the thing if you insist on paying cash.

There are movements in both places to require merchants to accept cash, but I don't know of any countries that have adopted them yet. (Some cities in the US have.)
How does that help? Now if the Synology doesn't boot what do you do? Is the hope/assertion that the Synology is sufficiently less buggy that you don't mind being less able to fix it yourself?
I think diet doctor makes it trivially simple, but of course, to someone who never cooks, it might still seem though.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/get-started
This is a great talk about giving a great research talk, by Simon Peyton-Jones. (He has another great talk about writing great papers) I'm sure you'll get a lot from it if you haven't seen it. So much wisdom, and common sense that seems obvious but you mightn't think of or remember half of it. Good luck!

How to Give a Great Research Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT_-owjKIbA

About talking about yourself - I really like when people show a slide about themselves and talk briefly, for maybe 10-20 seconds, about what they've been involved in previously. So you can hear where they're coming from, and where their expertise lies. Especially if not many people there are likely to know anything about them.
Pressure of any kind is my best motivator as well. A serious deadline to hit with significant consequences (the consequences don't even have to be mine necessarily) often gets the best work out of me.
Also in the UK. It's noticeable that for many search terms, DDG's top autocomplete suggestion is the term you just typed, with "uk" tacked on the end of it. That suggests that many users in the UK are finding DDG's search results to be too US-centric.
To people who use DuckDuckGo: how do you deal with its inability to answer simple queries with factual answers? Things like “distance from Los Angeles to New York”, “Joe Biden age”, “knives out cast”, “capital of South Africa”, etc. The time it takes to click a result on DuckDuckGo and navigate to the answer is so much longer than just getting the answer at the top of the results page, as google (and even bing) provide. This is the main reason I can’t use DuckDuckGo, as much as I’d like to
I switched after Google's redesign too, this time it's good enough for good.
This is my only gripe with DDG.

For daily use, it's fine, but it's awful for local results or anything that requires a map or directions.
At least Open Banking (PSD2) will allow for third party alternatives to Swish and banking apps. Maybe even open-source applications will become possible, but getting a PSD2 license as an open-source developer may be tricky.
#751577 IDOR allow access to payments data of any user
Unfortunately this is the same for Romania as well, no local results are returned even though the country was set correctly.
I wonder how much they paid the consultants that came up with this thing that looks like my kid did it after school.
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Ditto. This was the one part of the article that stood out as to me, I would certainly like to receive constructive feedback before four months.
Switched to DDG 3 years back! Only to check if Google lists anything different, checked it rarely. DDG is very GOOD imho. Since, you see organic results mostly based on the ranking rather than preference to mobile sites, AMP & advertisers, it feels refreshing and good.
If you're lucky to even get PTO! :|
Ending up with useless coins is also super prevalent in the states because tax isn't included in list price and everyone prices things as $X.99 so you always end up with useless change. Super annoying and I wish they would change the law to force list prices to be the final price all things included (no hidden fees either).
I think I've figured out what is happening when people tell me that DuckDuckGo's results "aren't good enough".

What's really happening is that they've been trained to search a certain way to using Google and because DDG doesn't have all the historical data of your searches on their platform they can't fill in the gaps as well.

After a couple days using DDG I found the right vocabulary to get good local results and which bangs to use to get results from the sites that I want. It's a more effective tool if you learn how to use it.
Vigorous exercise, in particular sustained cardio, is the surest way to burn through your glycogen stores. Combined with intermittent fasting and a near-zero carb diet, it’s the fastest way to resume ketosis.
Maybe we got lucky with the configuration but we use the approach documented for the keycloak-saml-adapter with Jetty as the app server.

There is still a lot work done to ensure keys are generated in the proper locations and that necessary product id values (corresponds to SAML SP entityID) are generated.

In short, it is not a simple plug-n-play, lots of hacking to get the result we needed but the adapter itself does what it needs to do.
I absolutely agree that memorizing facts help you understand the world. Famously, students find memorizing dates in history tedious and useless, but it's important. Any new event you hear of can be compared with many concurrent events. I don't know all that much about Shostakovich, but hearing that he composed a symphony in 1937 triggers a sequence of questions. What was his relationship to Stalinist purges in the 1930s? Did he have contacts with the Russian post-revolution emigre artists across Europe and America. What did he think of Stravinsky or Ravel? I'm listening to his fifth symphony now and I can't help but imagine the ominousness of the first movement having to do with all this.
I hope not. It's how I get most of my news and follow sites. Feedly is my friend.
Lots of US companies founded and operated by former military. Ren was a technical researcher for that didn't hold military rank. He wasn't even eligible for CPC membership due to parental ties to KMT.

Also lots of devices with bad security and spaghetti code. Huawei is probably the most scrutinized vendor in the last decade, national and private investigators from a host of countries found nothing to suggest links to Chinese espionage. Hundreds of mobile operators with years of experience found nothing. NSA with access to Huawei internal networks found nothing. GCHQ with Huawei code to audit found nothing. The only people who claim to have evidence but steadfastly refuse to release any until recently is current US administration with Mike Pompeo leading the charge. Which turned out to be non specific claims about legally mandated lawful interception function, aka Vodaphone SSH tier of vapidness. Unsurprisingly, this has convinced no new countries, and the countries have firm banned Huawei all have exeptional dependence on US security and intelligence sharing. With all that as the starting point, why would you ever trust allegations?

Even straight from this article:

>So one other - there was another Swiss company at the time - Gretag is what it was called - that was trying to become a rival to Crypto. And the CIA and U.S. intelligence helped to sort of orchestrate smear campaigns around the world to spread disinformation that Gretag's devices couldn't be trusted; there were vulnerabilities in them.

The playbook hasn't changed. Neither have the interests. There's nothing wrong with US intelligence pursing self interest based purely on the fact that Chinese are security competitors despite complete lack of evidence. But the only useful idiots are people who believe the US smear campaign around Huawei blindly.
You can turn that off in the settings: https://duckduckgo.com/settings
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The word “number” is ambiguous. A social security number “isn't strictly speaking a number,” but everyone still calls it a number. In other words, “number” can mean different things in different contexts. That’s what caused the <input type=number> issue in the first place.

I think it would be better if the HTML standard did not use terms that are ambiguous. I take back type=quantity; that’s not accurate either. Maybe type=float?
A recent 80,000 Hours podcast had a pretty good explanation of the topic. See #11

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/cassidy-nelson-12-wa...
The USDA food pyramid favored grains because that is what the US farming could produce in greatest quantity at the time it was developed, thanks to machine-assisted farming tasks. Grains had enormous combine harvesters that could be operated by one person and harvest the whole field within a day. Produce like tomatoes were limited by the number of Mexicans and Central Americans that could be admitted by the guest worker program and could carry filled harvest bags to the collection point, for a few weeks at the right time of year.

Now machine harvesting and factory-style farming has expanded to some fruits and vegetables, using things like hydroponic lettuce tracks, horizontal trunk-shakers, vertical limb-shakers, and flexible-fingered robot arms. Or even when hand-harvested, the human pickers can follow behind a processing rig that trims, washes, sorts, and packs right there while rolling over the field, and transports the product out via portable conveyor belt.

Cauliflower, muskmelons, lettuces, culinary herbs, cabbages, and tree nuts have all benefited from harvest mechanization. Farms can even, at minimum, use a fleet of golf-cart-like vehicles, so that human harvesters can gather the crop from a seated position, rather than, standing, stooped, or crouched, and allow the vehicle carry the weight of the produce, thus making each human harvester more productive, even when the harvest still requires hands, eyes, and blades.

The machines, of course, represent a hefty barrier to entry from the capital investment, and favor mega-agribusinesses. Farms that can't hire enough cheap transient laborers or buy the specialized machinery are priced out of the industry.

But it does bring cheaper lower-carbohydrate foods to the consumer in greater quantity.
There's an obvious reason for the change: Apple plans to push their new subscription services heavily via the OSes.
90% of the time I use !g, google doesn't have anything in the first few pages either.
Like... it is. "Company" has roots in the latin word Pan or Pain, as in bread. Con Pan, literally who you break bread with, as in "we had company for the weekend".

Assuming 8 hours a day you're spending 1/3 of your work week with these people. It doesn't have to be a social bonanza every day but if you dislike making smalltalk with these people, or are actively disdainful of their chatting and web surfing then maybe you should change jobs. Cuz it sounds like you're spending a lot of time around people you straight up don't like.
If i don't have a profile on Facebook or on any social network at all, how much does it help?
March 5th, 2020 – Development Update
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth – Cory Doctorow
Keep a bottle of hand sanitizer in your car. Possibly disinfectant wipes to sanitize your car’s surfaces frequently. Break the habit of flipping through your phone out in public, or start washing your phone frequently. When you touch public objects and then use your phone, your putting germs onto a glass surface where they can last for hours and studies show that phone screens get quite dirty.

Remember: the goal for the majority of people is to help slow the spread of this to protect the vulnerable. Good hygiene goes a long way.
This also depends on eating frequency. If someone has a very low eating frequency, like a single meal every 72 hours, even a meal of lean meat may not knock a person out of ketosis, at least for very long. I've fasted that long and eaten a huge meal of lean meat, multiple times, and my keto testing strips always remain dark purple.

As much as I think keto and carnivore are lightyears past the average American's diet, I've found them difficult to maintain because they're very restrictive and I lack the energy to be effective when working out, which is common. Fasting in combination with a low carb diet, even one that incorporates things like berries, has been much more effective and easy to maintain in my experience. Combining macronutrition with eating frequency reduces the penalty of eating carbs or lots of protein by making it much easier to get back into ketosis. When you force your body to burn through its glycogen stores, and you give it no choice but to use your fat store, ketosis will come back in no time.

So you are definitely correct that fatty cuts are better, most of the time, but with fasting the protein to fat ratio almost becomes a non-issue.
Like the author, I switched over when the google ad thing happened, and for the same reason. But instead of DDG, I decided to try out ecosia ( https://www.ecosia.org ) which is a wrapper over Bing. But they'll take all the ad revenue and use it to plant trees. So I get decent search results (bing isn't quite as good as google, but it's pretty decent for what I need) and also get to save the earth a little bit.
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I expect that just like people should have some cash at home to handle emergencies, people will start to have an extra card at a different bank to be able to better resist outages like this (as well as blocked cards).
Private depository insurance is possible, but what makes the FDIC insurance feel secure is that it's a promise from the government to pay, and the government has 'unlimited' dollars to pay with. Additionally FDIC membership is basically compulsory for US banks, and the FDIC has the authority to shut down a bank in case it's unsound.

I don't see how a private insurer would inspire the same confidence. The amount of reserves would have to be huge, and verified. Somehow, the insurer would need to be able to quickly wrest control over a troubled bank. And that's assuming the bank doesn't stop paying the insurance and 'forget' to update its website.
Oh, but you still need to make a deb, rpm, nix, whatnot then compose with the os tooling, conventions and expectations. And use those to provide your conf/update/failure, menu integration, permission system, logging, init system, notifications, etc.

Or provide an app image and ignore most integration.

This is my point exactly: to get stability, you remove diversity.

Static linking, one packaging system, and you don't have to care about how diverse the universe it.

But it also means you don't benefit from what make those differences add: security updates, dependancy graph, automation, signing, jails, user documentation and training, os integration, native window theming, etc.
Yeah it's amazing, that guy typed out the whole comment and hit submit and apparently never once thought, "Wait, really? Is this what I do? Am I... scum?"
This is a side effect of how many people eating keto diets go all in on meat and cheeses. Vegan keto is possible: https://www.reddit.com/r/veganketo/
Strange, my top three DDG results for 'fish shell' are for the friendly interactive shell. Maybe you just have really good seafood around your area?
That means I should try DDG. I NEVER EVER want local results, and Google always gives me local results. If I'd want local results I would put my country or my city in the search query.
Cribbed from the Reddit thread but the tldr is that two drugs are needed to stop infection, but only one is necessary to prevent spread, and it's a drug we already have.

The other interesting take is that ACE2, the pathway the virus is using is both inhibited by nicotine and expressed up to five times more in Asians which could explain why smokers are under represented in the Chinese cases and why there are so many infected in Asia.
A lot of transactions that happen in India (especially UPI transactions) have very small value and are not able to make a bank profitable by itself. Lending is a major driver of success for banks in India currently.

As it happens Yes Bank they have given out a lot of bad loans which did not get repaid. That is the primary reason Yes bank is not doing great. Apart from this there are allegations of corruption against the top level executives of the bank. But mainly its the concern about the bank's balance sheet that has prompted RBI to act.