skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VRBO was around before AirBnB as well. In my opinion, one of the key things AirBnB did early to distinguish their service was handle the money.

In the days before AirBnB I rented an apartment in Paris for a week and had to wire half the money up front (in EUR, from the USA) and bring the other half in cash on arrival. The apartment was awesome, the host even better and I had no regrets. But it was a hassle, a bit risky, and certainly not something most of my friends and family would have been willing to do.

Getting in the middle of the money may not seem like much of an innovation but from my own experience it was probably one of the more complicated aspects of their platform. Dealing with currencies, escrow, risk management, settlement, chargebacks, etc. is a major undertaking. But it’s what made the model accessible to a lot more hosts and guests.
SS:

This service does not need an account because dns requests will not arrive to the service unless the domain holder sets a record to resolve to dns.live.

It is limited to handshake [1] domains only.

The main driver was that besides github and amazon which work very well with handshake names, other providers lack support for Handshake names. The DNS Live Gauntlet will let sites, who buy and claim their names on handshake, have their site be accessible via their handshake name.

There is also a redirect and frame service - and - dns.live also fully supports the txtdirect standard!

[1] https://handshake.org
For a while, I thought that Joyce's rather bland candor was a function of his not being very bright. This judgment was partly informed by the fact that Joyce didn't go to college and was only marginally involved in his high school academics (stuff I know because he told me right away) [18]. What I discovered as the tournament wore on was that I can be kind of a snob and an asshole and that Michael Joyce's affectless openness is not a sign of stupidity but of something else.
Ariane 6 only makes sense if you view launch capability as a matter of national security.
TL;DR

"Since the beginning of the year, OneWeb had been engaged in advanced negotiations regarding investment that would fully fund the Company through its deployment and commercial launch. While the Company was close to obtaining financing, the process did not progress because of the financial impact and market turbulence related to the spread of COVID-19."
I heard that front-line managers / supervisors didn't even know about this, so even the good ones didn't have a chance to get out in front of it. A top level decision-making process that made even good managers look like a-holes.
Telecoms businesses are doing quite well too.
To your point though, until some automated system escalated your case, there was no way to talk to. Assuming another user doesn't trigger this escalation, then they are stuck. I'm glad your experience was better, don't get me wrong.
Since Show Stopper was already mentioned and I didn't see this one mentioned, so I'll throw this one out there:

Fatal Defect by Ivars Peterson
https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Defect-Chasing-Killer-Computer/...

It's a few stories about the impact software bugs can have on real life. For example, the THERAC-25 bug that literally killed people.

It's been eons since I read the book, but I recall a passage about how computer scientists had been so opposed to Reagan's Star Wars program, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), not because it's a war machine, but because it was so complex that there would be no way to be sure it was bug free. I'm sure it was more nuanced than that but that's my 20+ year recollection of that part of the book.
there is an extension to provide vim bindings within cells- jupyterlab-vim
> But a 4.9% chance of getting stuck in a field triage hospital with inadequate care, struggling to breathe?

You have forgotten about serious irreversible damage to your lungs which will probably shorten your life by a few years.
There are studies out there on the use of cloth masks vs medical ones [0].

Tho it should be noted that both, cloth and surgical masks, are mostly worn to protect others from accidental discharge by the wearer.

So if you the wearer wants to protect themselves, then a respirator is actually needed. But respirators should be prioritized for at risk-groups who wouldn't survive infection or work with infected people.

The non-respirator masks are mostly to reign in the spread by people who could be infected without symptoms yet or as the "we got nothing else" option.

[0] https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
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Clickable link: https://www.1eth.me/
For the context of this app and in general, I would agree.

While I was at PyCon, I had prepped a version of my resume that had my photo on it, and during the job fair I shared them with folks and companies that interested me.

I figured, if there's any chance of someone remembering a person and wanted to recommend them, a photo would go well with the name and info. But maybe it was ineffective :) I didn't think it would hurt to include, at the very least.
Maybe when you're assessing the relative quality we should consider this context with more weight, but should that excuse industry for presenting expertise via a light-weight puff piece PR posting?
Holly macaroni!! Well, good luck with that.
You're right. It dependes quite a lot on the field. I am not a mathematician, but I have an assumption that in mathematics is not so dynamic. Biology is quite dynamic (but not as much as computer science). I think this is due to the fact that biology is an experimental science.
I think they are just appearing nowish.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-coronavirus-pan...
I agree that there seems to be deep economic rot somewhere, but I'm not sure Snap and Uber are particularly near the center.

I haven't looked at their 10-Ks in awhile, but aren't at least one of them cash flow positive already?
IIRC from an article that I read, there has been some personal antipathy between one of the OneWeb founders and SpaceX/Elon, that made them avoid SpaceX & go for much more expensive & less flexible "conventional" launch providers.
the runaway citadel code maybe?
Unsure why this is downvoted. Toltec empire ended around 1200 AD. Mayans... hard to define, like the Rome technically even still around. The Aztec Empire was right there when the conquistadors showed up.
By reporting, I suspect he means testing, as the actual reporting is working as expected. As for testing the United States did 120k tests yesterday and is accelerating. The CDC test failing really set things back.

In terms of ICU beds, for once this is where the us health care system is in reasonable shape. iCU beds are very profitable and we spend way more then Europe on health care, so there is a abundance of them in many regions. New York and georgi look constrained, but California, Florida and Colorado look solid from numbers I saw yesterday.

General beds are better in Europe then in the USA.

The USA also had the highest ratio of ventilators to people - in fact the number that he gives as impossible to produce in a year was in the US reserve at the start of the year - but it’s unlikely to be enough.

As for as scaling up production for ventilators.... just watch. I think you will see a similar effort to the tests scaling up. There will be a lot of press on it, but I would not be surprised to see new machines scale within this month. Probably not enough to save all lives, but more this this individual thinks is possible or conceivable will me from China and the US.

For whatever reason, Germany has historically been very bad about scaling production in emergencies, even during life and death moments (is, wars).
I also suspect reduced brain function and productivity for survivors of severe cases. Probably for months after. Maybe permanently.
No they don’t: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707365
Reinforcement Learning in Go
Doesn't work like that. Each starlink satellite has capacity of 20gig/sec. Assume that only 1 or 2 of the sats will be over a major metro area at any one time - that's 40gig/sec total capacity. That's only ~5,000 HD netflix streams at once (even less for 4K).

It will soon become totally overloaded. A city like NYC probably has home/office bandwidth use of 40gig/sec per a few city blocks, nevermind the whole metro area.

It's not going to work as a home internet replacement if you already have fibre or cable service. Furthermore, fibre and cable can be upgraded easily by putting new equipment on each side (even cable internet has went from 40mbit/sec to 10gig/sec - fibre has even more capacity).

Elon himself has admitted that it won't work in cities for this reason.
One problem with bokeh is that it disappears when you scale the image down. Perhaps this technique can help solve that (but I suppose there would be better ways to do this).

Anyway, the entire technique is also very easy to do manually with Photoshop.
Please don't downvote if you don't share my point of view. My opinion deserves to be seen and is shared by many on the front line.
With this crisis, we see that governments do not always make rational decisions.
‘this’ is not in any sense dynamically scoped. It's just a function parameter, assigned implicitly based on the context of the call.
Poor guy, that doesn’t sound like a correct way to treat someone, but I am not a doctor. This is probably where this device will shine. On site, no remote lab, and allows healthcare workers to make rapid decisions for emergency situations.
> OneWeb going bankrupt suggests that profit margins will be low at best, negative at worst

It suggests that investors didn't think that OneWeb would have sufficient profits. The example I gave suggest that investors think that Starlink and the new Iridium satellites will be profitable.

The market for Starlink are the millions of people in rural and sparce suburban areas for whom internet connections are slow and expensive.
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Sorry, I just saw this now. Misunderstanding I was. Thank you.
Have you ever gotten oN Or off a airplane on Germany? It is gage ring how un-orderly they are - much worse then any other place I have every been.
> What lots of people expect is kind of irrelevant... OneWeb going bankrupt suggests that profit margins will be low at best, negative at worst. Cheaper launch cost is not enough to change the business from to non-viable to hugely profitable.

Your comment here is pure speculation.

From everything we know, the problem for them was huge capital cost and massive required cashflow to buy launches. All that when your competition has the exact opposite situation totally vertically integrated from the rocket launch to the manufacturing of the whole satellite.

Starlink has so far always gotten tons of money when they asked for it, suggesting the exact opposite of what you stated. OneWeb was just unlikely to get there.
This wouldn’t help much unfortunately. The company could just setup a proxy server to do the work that lives under their domain. A company like segment (which routes analytics to other platforms) could then offer personalized domains and make a killing as everyone throws everything there.

But there probably is some sort of good similar solution based on guidelines. If apple were to start defining policies on data collection and opt outs and say that apps needed to follow them or be rejected it would put a lot of pressure companies like Facebook to adhere to these guidelines in their sdks.

I don’t know if apple has the appetite for this as it would cause a whole lot of rewriting of a whole lot of code but they are in a great position to do this.
Yes. This hints at a more interesting application of DL: modify a selfie such that it doesn't look like a selfie anymore.
The hypothetical C++2.0 would have less to do with C++ than C++ would have to do with C, and no one disputes they are entirely separate languages.
In fact, Europeans did - eventually - catch up with the Australian FNP's innate knowledge of healing. They had a form of resilient Hippocratic oath for literally thousands of years before us, for example. An understanding of antiseptics in a European age of miasma theory. And so on ..
Spatial Interfaces are highly underrated and misunderstood. In the field where I operate (UI/UX design) there are 2 loud camps: Pro skeuomorphism and Pro flat. IMHO, both miss the point. Spatial interfaces are under explored, even though it's how our brains operate. I'm currently studying the topic of spatial interfaces regarding how our brains work. Or at least, the little bit we know about how memories and thoughts are formed. Space is a centre piece in how our minds operate. If you haven't already, read about the memory palace and how spatial interfaces help our brains remember things better.
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If you use Google services for business activities you‘d presumably pay for a support tier. For the consumer side I suspect, with over 2 billion users, it‘s pretty much impossible to offer human support at scale. That‘s not even taking into account malicious actors that would use the support as an attack vector. I might be mistaken. Is there an example of a company with that big a user base which offers human support for everyone?
Oldest continually running mining operation of mankind. Longest running school. A Hippocratic oath before Europeans genocided them. Forms of agriculture which literally guaranteed a well-fed populace. An understanding of antiseptic materials, and even micro-biology, in an age of European miasma theory and blood-letting.

There is much to learn about oneself once you drop the prejudice.

I'm not suggesting we haven't "advanced" beyond them now, but I am suggesting that we may have overlooked something in our race to the moon, and their 40,000 year old tradition of unbroken oral tradition ..
Essays of Francis Bacon or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Well cubic is at least much better than exponential.
Still hitting problems. I enter some details, pick what I think is the third theme, choose a shade of orange, then in the accent colour field press backspace, and it dies.

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I'm not surprised at all. I followed PC-BSD since from time to time since its inception. With only one developer and hundreds of users and no sponsorship it was to be expected.

Maybe it would be a good idea for FreeBSD team to release an official GUI installer since some folks want to run it on the desktop.
Wrong. There is no explanation why a cubic function should be correct and better fitting than an exponential function to another basis, therefore I must assume this is incorrect.
perhaps I’m misunderstanding you, but humans are believed to have hunted many, many animals to extinction on the American content millennia before the Europeans got here.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010608081621.h...
While it is true that testing in the US is lacking - that is true of many countries - particularly in more rural areas.

I've seen estimates everywhere between 90 to 99.9% of cases going untested.
The Hacker's Way of Learning
You won't know if it's crap or not until you read it.
There are many, especially in other countries. There are even some that one can purchase in the US, but it's not clear when (or if!) the FDA will approve these. See their Emergency Use Authorization FAQ page [1], where they list dozens of tests that are presumed to be available in the US.

There's some discussion in NY State about NYC hospitals having developed a test that's currently in use.

1. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-med... ; look for "What serology tests are being offered under the policy outlined in Section IV.D of the Policy for Diagnostic Tests for Coronavirus Disease-2019?"
I don't know. It worked for me but not for the person I tried to connect to. It may have been something trivial, it may have been something difficult. But Zoom worked right away for her so we use that.
I can't tell if your comment is intentionally funny, but I got a good laugh out of it.
A technology needs more than technical superiority in order to thrive.
Yes, they're only reporting on cases they know about. They're not reporting on cases they don't know about. Thank you Captain Obvious, once again you save the day!
Recently did that code as presented using pygame, but I haven't uploaded it anywhere yet, that might be a good idea, though.
Given that most nations in Europe are happy to launch on US rockets (as the Germans did), that really basically means the national security of France.

Seems to me its more of a jobs program that claims 'national security' as a reason.
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Robust testing is pretty likely to be an important component of whatever it is that comes after this initial wave. In a few weeks. So getting a 15 minute test like this one proved out and production scaled up is a big deal right now.
Yes, and honestly, testing makes it easier to constrain (at first) and see something much closer to the true CFR.
It’s likely some type of segmentation network like Mask RCNN or SegNet. Look up Mask RCNN for some state of the art segmentation results. This stuff has been able to run on mobile phones in real time for years now.
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This is one of my favorite books of all time out of all books, not just tech. No other book has had a more profound impact on how I look at and relate to those (previously) mysterious chunks of metal and plastic that we all spend so much time in front of now.
The M9 isn't a mirrorless, it's a range finder camera (where the view finder sees through a separate optical light path than the main lens). A mirrorless is a DSLR (i.e. what you see through the view finder is exactly what you see through the lens) where the mirrored optical light path for the viewfinder has been replaced by a digital screen, hence mirrorless. Range finder cameras have existed for many decades and have never had mirrors, so they can't be converted to mirrorless in the way that term is now used. The defining characteristic of a mirrorless camera is its digital view finder that sees through the main lens. Without that it can be a range finder camera, a point-and-shoot, hell, even a smartphone, but not a mirrorless.
A couple of decades ago there was a demo tutorial called "Asphyxia demo trainer"; it explained many effects and even basic 3D, both in assembler and, in a revised version, in C.

> I think the opposite is true because those machines were built around assembly programming.

This isn't true. It was extremely simple to get something work based on that tutorial, and to move to something more complex.

Doing that on an 80s 65xx-based machine would have been significantly more difficult, because that generations had significant limits in the coprocessors (AFAIK, the C64 could play music in games, but it was a workaround; it wasn't designed to do so).

Surely Amiga is easier, as the coprocessors were significantly more capable, but the parent based the discussion on C64 development.
What winter? We had a sproll, a combination of spring and fall and folks, at this pace our kids will not believe us we used to have feet of snow by Christmas.
> I also don't understand how do freelancers stay calm, don't they basically have to be in a job, client-seeking mode all the time?

It becomes the new normal so it's no longer anxiety inducing. You also get better at it, like any other thing you repeatedly do. That said, not everyone succeeds, just like every other activity. Ultimately it's just a lifestyle choice.
This is a link contained within the paper I posted yesterday.
I guess your point is that fixing this one transgression is the equivalent of one store implementing that rule, and if we fix more of them eventually it’s a law, making it but the first step on the journey to sustainable privacy?

It isn’t. This is recycling one bottle. It doesn’t have any sustainable long lasting effect.

To stretch the metaphor, the equivalent of one store asking for deposits would be e.g. Apple requiring full disclosure of all such tracking SDKs on the App Store page, as suggested by someone else in this thread. That’s sustainable, scalable, and that’s what might eventually even lead to legislation, as you pointed out.
Not a book, but Oxide Computing's podcast, "On the Metal" interviews a lot of interesting people in computing: https://oxide.computer/podcast/

I found it both entertaining and informative and if you're looking for something to kill time while you exercise, this is a good option.
To make the Gaussian blur look better, it needs to be applied to linear lightness, not to gamma-encoded colors, as it is done here. In reality, the blur is induced by the lens, on linear lightness, and only gamma-encoded afterwards.

The effect being that blurred colors mix wrongly, as you can see where the red from the flower mixes with the green. The transition looks wrong, and not how a lens would render it.
On the wrong side of reusable rockets. It’s as simple as that. All the other major players are backed by immense private wealth and reusable rockets, or government support, or they likewise would be going out of business (and some soon will).
Outcome: Track All Your Team's Decisions
It used to be the expected norm, but nowadays a lot of the larger companies actively say they don't want pics, and depending on job sector, more and more people tend to not include them regardless.
I've enjoyed "The Analogue Alternative: The Electronic Analogue Computer in Britain and USA, 1930-1970", By James S. Small. Really got me thinking about the possibility of forgotten ideas from that space.
It’s worth noting that when the started, there was not reusable rockets, and Tesla was not in the satellite business.
>> we were made aware on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, that the Facebook SDK was collecting device information unnecessary

So Zoom is basically lying here

Come on, the developers who takes the responsibility to use the SDK were aware of it, ok maybe the CEO of Zoom or the market guy was not but the tech team is. They are not stupid.

You should have just apologise and assume your fault, that would be the courageous position, not denying it.

Tbh I am ok with Zoom sending my data to FB (I mean, in my case I've insta/messenger anyway) but not ok for Zoom taking everyone as naïve people with this lying statement.
This doesn't surprise me at all. In the Netherlands, we barely had any nights where the temperature was sub-zero (Celcius). We actually had several mosquitoes in our living room when we left the door open. It is just like the sketch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where fall directly skipped winter and directly went to spring.

Given we had very much trouble with the oak processionary[1] last year, causing itching and even being dangerous to one's eyes, I fear what will happen this year. Will it be dangerous to let our children play outside?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_processionary
I would just liscense it out for a certain amount of time. Fees can be paid for by the government. But I understand that Dräger might be concerned. No idea if that's the case so.

Bureaucracy can be a bitch.
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Their only real competition is out of the way and they will dominate that market for many years, seems to me that would the opposite effect.