skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here: I shouldn't have added the word 'etc' to the list of things it classified, but have changed the readme to show a full list of objects that the demo works with. My intent was not to make a classifier for any and all objects, to serve as a demonstration of what someone could use the app for.
Cool! If you need more resources for cli/python, I've some links collated:

https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast...

https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast...
I bought $300 worth of silver last night, and I plan to buy more while I can. The government is injecting a massively gigantic amount of cash into the economy to counter the decreased velocity of money, but within a year and a half or so, the velocity of money will sharply increase, possibly higher than before. That will cause such a high rate of inflation that I'm afraid of what could happen. I bought physical coins because I don't know if the financial institutions will waver, crumple, or at very least become inaccessible for a while. I've stashed some cash too in case there's a run on the banks, but I don't know if they will be worth as much.

Basically I'm preparing for a global depression. This sudden shock to the economy is unprecedented in any modern time, and we have no idea what could happen.
Chinese testing kit exports soar as Covid-19 spreads
They seriously need to add a tab rename feature. Right click and rename. I am using it for development (along WSL2) and have 4, 5 tabs opened most of the time - a server, webpack, some ssh stuff, another server, something else.

All tabs have the same generic title name. There is a github issue, but it does not look like they take this feature seriously:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1079

Edit: I am happy with it - they've been improving it constantly (for the last 4 months at least).
You can build an enclosure with tapped holes to accept locking USB cables. Very common for camera systems.

Also providing a USB header on a high-speed expansion header is standard in the 96 Boards spec I think. https://www.96boards.org/specifications/
People who use a terminal know how to edit a json file. That approach has good tradition by now with Sublime etc, see the poster above. And I'm pretty sure VS doesn't auto-associate itself with json files. They handled this in the best way possible imo.
Perhaps Ctrl+Shift+V, which is also used in a lot of Unix terminals since Ctrl+V usually would insert some control character that no one needs, but the hotkey cannot take that away.
That link breaks the back button, which looks like the URL shortness fault :/
So what, people want to see pretty people, what's the problem with it? When I go to a lecture I want to see a smart person, when i watch sport i want to see athletic people and when i look at stupid tiktok videos i want them to be at least pretty because usually there is not much else there.
Am I too late to learn Python?
I always wondered about this. Gold is now valuable only as a shared fiction. In hard times I’d much rather have useful things (food, meds, water, fire) than a pile of stuff that is valuable only because others think it is... which could and does change over time.

Clearly I’m missing something...?
> the answer is that it isn't ok that the nightclubs do it either

Tell me how it could work any other way? nightclubs are "popular" because of this selection, if anybody could come and go, what would make a place popular?

I don't go to nightclubs and I don't enjoy it, but I can understand why it works that way, it may be unfair but if you break that, the whole concept falls apart. It is valid with any type of community, they simply value different things.
Textbooks get the causation backwards on that, the order of events is actually "economic collapse, hyperinflation, failed state"
It's not true that US or any other developed country have lost their manufacturing base. The rest of the economy has grown faster than manufacturing.

Developed countries have moved into high-tech, high productivity, more capital intensive manufacturing with complex supply chains. If you want to bring back low productivity products into your country, you must accept wage decline, slower growth and lowering quality of life.

You can prepare for emergencies using other means and using relatively small adjustments. Post-industrial societies have higher productivity than industrial societies. Turning the clock back is not a good idea.
There is no proof that such markets are the link. Bats life close to humans almost everywhere on earth, and any contamination could have been the link.

This scenario of someone eating an infected, exotic animal is just blatant racism.
And now the US is run by people who know how to bully and hustle.
Here we see another example of guilt by association, together with confirmation bias/ideologicalized connect the dots and you have a perfect example of how the Far-left crowd is operating.

Outdated and bad tech = Pale moon/The community = Cryptofascist
Show HN: Cryptocurrencies Prices and News API
Hello, I made these two API's for my friends and though it would be nice to share them here as well.

First one is about crypto currencies prices (over 100 coins), with options to get monthly, daily, hourly and minute data (5 minutes though) - https://api.srchle.com/

Second one is about same crypto's latest news (10 latest from Google News) - https://news.srchle.com/

Here is also proof-of-concept web extension utilizing this data so you can check it out https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/crypto-stats/fbaljaifnljnpoppjfehljmephpghaip
I just watched a documentary about how Super Mario 64, a game for Nintendo consoles, was reverse engineered in a way that will also generate byte-identical objects when being compiled. I found this nothing short of amazing. This is the link to the part of the video that mentions this: https://youtu.be/NKlbE2eROC0?t=206
Meanwhile my corporation just bought new HP ZBook 14 which don't have Insert key. Instead it has dumb phone keys and something with a monitor painted on, 3 useless buttons instead of proper keys. No sysrq, no pause/break either. And this modes is supposedly for "work", not for gaming or media (from marketing point of view).

It is so frustrating to press extra keys just to have ctrl+ins and shift+ins.
Good question! Like I mentioned in the readme, I'm hoping to add a flask server soon; however, render is recommended on the fast.ai website and is the simplest way to get a model running (https://course.fast.ai/deployment_render.html), so I thought connecting my app to render would be the most helpful way for fast.ai practitioners to get started.
Last time I’m gonna say this: configuring fonts, colors, etc. is possible with a text file, doesn’t mean it’s any good.
> Sometimes I get really confused why signed shows up in places it doesn’t belong.

Because in the absence of convenient sum types, you end up using a simple type with sentinel/special values so often that anything where the main value is logically non-negative (or strictly positive) but you don't have a clear reason to never need special values is done with a signed type where negative (and possibly zero) values are reserved or assigned to special uses.
Yeah sorry I'm in the IT field, which is probably an "easy" one, but it is hard in my mind and with internet to think it cannot (or shouldn't) be possible with any field
The problem is not the specs and firmware code with these machines, it is the precision and tuning it to get good quality output. In the physical world, working with sub-micron polymer products is not something you solve with software. They wrote in the article about some challenges, none is trivial and none is due to hiding the specs or writing bad code.
I agree on your first point, but not the etymology. Germany has a long federal history. The word "state" has been a little ambiguous for a long time.
> If the a company never pays dividends or does buybacks its value will plummet.

AAPL went public in December 1980. It paid dividends from 1987 to 1995. It then restarted in 2012. Steve Jobs returns to Apple in 1997. Somehow I see AAPL rising in value during its non-dividend paying years.

AMZN when public in May 1997, and has never paid a dividend. AMZN has done some share buybacks in its history, but has not since 2012. Somehow I see AMZN rising in value.

See also the history MSFT: somehow it has had a good total return despite not doing buybacks or dividends for most of its existence.

There is no explanatory power in dividends or buybacks when it comes to stock returns:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_investing

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/the-irrelevance-of-dividends-stil...
I dont think the comment you're replying to was saying the US isnincaphle of feeding itself, but trying to make a comparison to past empires which had outsourced parts of their economies to foreign powers
South Korea is a good model to follow but they were well-prepared, so it's not simple to copy.

How they could test so early: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1237058531410489345.html

How they can test so many: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1238890311272796160.html
It shouldn't be seen as an investment, but as a hedge against inflation IMO. Silver and gold has fixed supplies, unlike fiat currencies.
170.

But you quickly sequed from "hasn't" to "well, they do but it did't kill enough to count."
It's the highest it's been since the 1940s. Sensationalist headline.
I feel like I'm reading a video of "All Gas No Brakes" haha
That will cause such a high rate of inflation

Hey I remember this prediction in 2008/9. Still waiting for that one to happen...
You can add the following in your settings:

"keybindings": [
{
"command": "copy",
"keys": [
"ctrl+c"
]
},
{
"command": "paste",
"keys": [
"ctrl+v"
]
}
]

Please raise your opinions in this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/968
Hi! I can see where you're coming from; however, since this product is initially intended to tightly work in conjunction with Render, which uses the fast.ai name in it's repo (https://github.com/render-examples/fastai-v3) and the fact that this model (to my limited knowledge) only works with models produced by fast.ai, making a clear naming distinction was crucial so that someone creating models using another library would realize they couldn't use this. If you have a suggestion for how to make that distinction in a clear and concise manner without coming across as an official product I would definitely be willing to hear you out!
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China’s Glowing Coronavirus-Response Coverage Triggers Anger at State Media
You can die in a pandemic still singing the song about the "comparative advantage". Not to mention that there is no comparative advantage when you ignore the buzzwords and actually do the comparison seriously.
What a poetic (and a little depressing-in-a-good-way) comment. I remember various times of my career being a glorified bug tracker. It's a bad mode to get trapped in with no forward progress.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740626
And if given to the at risk elderly it's like 20% of that. So it seems like a good deal.
Essential Tools for Community Management
Impossible Foods closes bumper $500m funding round dominated by Asian investors
You can already build automatically in GitHub Actions and Git saves your previous versions as well.
No need for Netlify.
This Moz-Nazi shit-party is so non-surprising!

Mozilla-new has turned into a fully anti-customization/choice and anti-politically-moderates and conservatives hating "progressive/leftist developer” – as that would (at least also theoretically) appeal to the majority of Google Chrome users - which have because of their ideology and believe much less tolerance and understanding for everything which provides choice - and everything which is more conservative aligned. Mozilla-new has fully turned into a sell-out company which just betrayed their own creation and origin user-base as it was not compatible with “leftist/progressive visions/ideas” and their more limited/restricting/intolerant world-view!

Mozilla is supporting a clear discriminating concept - which is while nicely wrapped as "inclusive and socially correct" fully excluding a minority who also has rights - the group of users who are sitting in the already mentioned middle-ground/moderate-conservative-ground and do not like that everything gets intentionally dumbed-down or removed to put everything out of the way for a clear intolerant and aggressive/dismissive user group - which Mozilla wants on board.

And that is in the end the ultimate dirty reason why people and software which are sticking out from the crowd do get so much despised and demonized - or even receiving threats (Classic add-on archive) or monitored and even the smallest mistake is recorded and used in time to blacklist the projects or people which refuse to play the established and discriminating
game of today.
Could we use ML to detect Covid-19 infection?
One of machine learning's best tricks is in classification. We use it for everything from image search to automated driving. This makes it a classic fit for infection detection as there's only 2 options: infected or not.

What I'm thinking is that we could train a model against the hundreds of thousands of testing kits now in circulation with known results, wire that model into a web API, and then patch a device like this one:

https://www.owlstonemedical.com/products/reciva/

into said API. You send a breath/spit sample to the server, and the server would respond with a yes/no based on the model.

We could use this to test more people, more often, effectively for $0 24h/day. Doctors can be tested throughout their shifts, attendees for events could be tested before allowing entry, people could be easily vetted for exiting quarantine too.

I'm a web developer, and am confident that the web API part would be easy and anonymous, and from what I know about ML, training a model like this probably isn't difficult... if you have the data.

What I don't know much about is how easy it is to convert biology to data: getting testing kit information into a model, and converting breath/spit into data. I don't know how easy this is, but if it's doable, we may have something seriously helpful.

Can someone with domain knowledge in this area chime in with their point of view?
Looks like a once in a life time opportunity!
That's up to opinion. I just wanted to join in to voice another opinion since some people in MS have recently been on a "even a single opinion is enough to act" policy (see VS Santa hat debacle), which I'm trying to prevent.
> When a company buys back stock the market takes it as a "signal" that the shares are undervalued for reasons that are unknown to the public.

Does not the company have to pre-announced its plan to run a buyback program (both in the amount and time frame)? Does not pre-broadcasting that achieve the result of making sure everyone has the same information?

Executives also have to file ahead of time paperwork to say that they're buying (selling) stock in the company that they run IIRC.

Is that not sufficient to allow the trading public to make decisions on?
I place my bet on my vegetable garden.
I love his content so much.
Surviving the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak
Many Germans say that the fact that manufacturing it still rather strong in Germany is only a carryover from the decaying momentum of a much more glorious past (Wirtschaftswunder (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wirtschaftswunder...).
I stand corrected; this was in fact discussed before, right here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17087469 -- very nice read.
The term "console" isn't strictly defined. It's a catch-all term for CLIs an TUIs.
Example usage outside your restricted view: computer games use consoles for interacting with the game engine (e.g. Half Life, Fallout 4, and countless others).

A terminal is this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100#/media/File:DEC_VT100_te...

And programs that implement terminals are virtual versions of the hardware. PuTTY and Hyper are SSH clients that pretend to be such terminal.

xterm is also a terminal emulator, e.g. it emulates the hardware mentioned above. A console doesn't need to do this - in the context of software it's just a TUI/CLI window with no implied standards (screen size, input- and output sequences, etc.) behind it.
Am I Prepared for This?
I agree with you that most people can, and should, make some cuts, however, some of your listed cuts aren't feasible in the short term.

Rent: From my experience (n=1) most lease agreements force the remainder of the terms rent due within 30 days of early cancellations, making it infeasible to drastically reduce in the short term.

Health Insurance - If you are getting it through your employer most follow open enrollment periods and cannot be reduced/eliminated in the short term

Groceries: Fairly accurate for a single person, but in the context of the nCov situation many of the more affordable options are out of stock leaving more expensive alternatives.

Cell: Simple expense to cut in the short term, I would add non-essential subscriptions (streaming, etc.)

In order to live a fiscally responsible life, you cannot have such high expenses you are forced to live paycheck to paycheck. Hopefully this will be a catalyst for people to live within their means, but I don't think it is reasonable to expect extremely drastic cuts in the short-term (though I am not saying it was a prudent idea to put oneself in this financial position in the first place).
There’s that really really old social media platform called television that does something pretty similar.
Hans Rosling Style Analytics on Covid19 Pandemic in India
I made a 'Hans Rosling' styled analytics on the Covid19 pandemic in India.

Check out the project at
http://randomwalk.in/covid19India/
If I build a home, I do it because I want a place to live, not profit, don't be foolish.
The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
It doesnt need a virus to kill wework, its doing a great job by itself.
Key is that zero development effort need be poured into making a native version of the github website, because it already works. The web is good enough on desktop. You want notifications, it could do them! You want to jump to an editor, no reason why the web couldn't do that (although you might have to switch branches!). Slack is different because when you're chatting, you don't really need tabs, but on GH I will usually have 10-15 open from a few different repos that stay mixed in with other pages for context. You're throwing away all the good things about browsers if you make it all native. And then you remember that every social feature comes at the cost of executing a git client really well. I'm personally very happy with GitUp.app not being clogged up with GitHub API calls to fetch comments, and showing alerts that when clicked will pull me away from the commit diff I was viewing. It works exactly as Git does offline.

If you address all those things, congrats, you've still barely reached par, and what do you have to show for it? Maybe a cool new look? This is why it's a waste, and an ongoing cost as GitHub.com evolves.
Michael Crichton's Airframe. No reason other than it was lying around.
Bullshit Patents
Tools to Access the Linux File System from Windows
It just shows that different people have different triggers that makes acceptable for them to restrict basic rigths and liberties. For some it is terrorism or child pornography, for others it is pandemic.

We do not really need to find agreement, it would suffice if mobile operators implement opt-in that could be easily enabled in web portals. Then society can just advertise this opt-in.
> Practice practice practice.

> ...

> Honestly best advice is just get a keyboard you're comfortable with.

Exactly that. My typing improved extremely by typing a lot, although I'm not sure if it's necessary to know every single keyboard character by heart. And of course the keyboard must be comfortable. I think everybody has different preferences though. Personally I used to like ergonomic keyboards but at the moment I'm really comfortable with the Apple butterfly keyboard ;-)
Can't you give it back to the corporation? Else, this is only the beginning of your frustrations. The next upgrade would almost certainly be worse.
Exactly. The Fed and government have been trying for over a decade to generate some inflation and decrease the value of the dollar. It's proven nigh impossible, because the American economy is, relatively, too strong, and the demand for USD too great.

What is going to change that? The US may be printing money, but so is every other country on the planet.
You didn’t read the article well enough - it blew through that record, but in 1940 it held the record for a year (we’ve only done it for a short period so far).
The murder rate isn't growing at 30% day-on-day.
Are the regular masks (not N95) efficient at all for smog and smoke? I think they are just paper masks stopping only large particles.
Which as you prompted me to discover, is Option+clicking on the notifications panel icon in the menu bar to toggle DND for anyone wondering. Of course some apps annoyingly ignore the DND setting (I'm looking at you MS Teams).
Smart Addressing Platform UNL Secures $2m in Early Stage Funding
The network that you train in that tutorial is quite small. Your networks have to get quite large before the overhead of transferring the network onto the GPU is negligible to the cost of training it. You'll see the benefit of the GPU with larger models.
There are a few nifty things you can do, but I don't see why a simply link to a GitHub.com page wouldn't do the job. Like the :Gbrowse command in fugitive.vim. Opening a URL sounds a lot cheaper to build than investing in a long term native apps team.
I'm just not sure how you can sleep at night knowing aws can throw a $3000 bill at you any time essentially.
Performance Testing with Generated Data Using K6 and Faker
Linux was first released to the world from here 17.9.1991
> Instead of each shell having its own console implementation, you have one, Windows Terminal.

Well, previously you had the Windows Console Host. It's not that that window was in any way the responsibility of the console application.
25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths
>Basically I'm preparing for a global depression

There's certainly nothing wrong with being prepared.

However, the idea that our institutions crumple but your hard currency coins are safe is naive at best. In such a scenario, if the metal has any value, either the government will confiscate it or your neighbour with the gun will take it.

>The government is injecting a massively gigantic amount of cash into the economy

What is "massive"? Right now they are talking about $2 trillion, which is about 10% of GDP. Spending 10% of 1 year of income on "maintenance" isn't scary to me.
You would still have position data based on triangulation from signal level / latency for different BTSes.
It also shows that starting trade wars is not a great idea, if you may need the other country's resources in unforeseen future emergencies.
Public transport users are probably more likely to buy a second hand car. They can sell it in 3/6/9 months for much closer to what they're likely to pay for it.

Alternatively, maybe they could borrow a car from a neighbour who is currently working from home.