skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Things are not as straightforwardly popularity-contest-driven as you seem to suggest.

Popularity contests are not simple.

Programming is an huge field comprising many unsyncronized industries and fields. Each of them can have its own winner (or winners) and they interact in complex ways. How is beyond the point.

My claim is that having the most mindshare/resources is the simplest way to keep having the most mindshare/resources. Few technologies rely only o this to stay alive, but a relevant factor is that differently than many other (often technical) advantages this one has a positive feedback loop.

Coming back to the original topic, this might mean that even if you invest a lot in the "best" tool to solve your problems it is possible that the lack of ecosystem around it (due to other people choosing "worse" tools for the same problems) makes it a losing investment.

Of course things are not linear and even the best interpolations have only intervals of validity, yet general long-term trends and cycles exist.

If you want you can add a rate of decay to the weight of nodes in the model, but the point remain: resource distribution is typically not fair in any a priori sense; often it simply scale with the already available resources.

Example: Bitcoin is the among biggest cryptocoins mostly because it was the biggest at some point.
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Good feedback -- thank you. We'll take a look.
There's currently an experimental project to host the .NET runtime on wasm. So you could run VB.NET on top of that.
The problem I ran into wasn't a lack of things to do with my drone, but a lack of places in which to do them. It's really hard to find places that are worth shooting that also allow drones. that said you can get away with doing it anyway, since most rules are based around not being a dick so if you don't bother people nobody will say anything, but it still sucks you're technically breaking rules/laws.
Because high skilled workers have seen both their productivity and income rise substantially. The median and other lower skilled workers have not. This will lead to an increasing average but a stagnant median, but it doesn’t mean that the idea people are mostly paid based on productivity is wrong.
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted, because kdb+/q would be a perfect candidate. Too bad kOS is no longer still a thing (or maybe it never was).
Even ‘small’ phones are big now
I'd buy one to do Mapillary streetview "films" because the ones I did with my phone are not really good and the area I live in is not very covered.

But it's too expansive for such a hobby and I'd feel stupid with it on my ski helmet ;)
Yeah, absolutely. Now, the high end is fantastic, but the average meal was _not good_.
I'm not trying to be a wet blanket, I'm just refraining from pretending I can predict the future. That seems like a useful skill now more than ever. The virus could mutate and become less potent. Populations could gain herd immunity relatively quickly. We could have a vaccine in a record-breaking time, defying all projections. Or none of that could happen, and we are forced to adapt our healthcare systems to handle COVID-19 the same way we handle so many other illnesses, and accept the associated fatalities.

There's plenty of possible outcomes and I see no reason to assume any given one is more likely than any other at this point.
Lidar is a time of flight sensor. “Time of flight” is the name for the method in which they time
The pulses yo sense depth. In practice, when someone says “time of flight camera”, they’re referring to a broader class of devices that use similar methods. Lidar usually refers to a specific class of time of flight sensors.
EventReduce is an algorithm and not a database-wrapper. It will not care about your writes or if your database layer is a cluster and so also not affect them.
For me, the aspiration to own a GoPro was to capture footage in wet / water conditions. With an iP68 rating for the iPhone to makes sense for light use-cases, an iPhone is sufficient for me.

1. I think the underlying problem has been the lack of innovation from GoPro. I find that while the number of cameras in our daily life has increased, the use-case for something like a GoPro is marginal at best. Apple and other vendors have done an excellent job of improving camera technology on the iphone11 that today, I no longer carry a GoPro or even an SLR camera on holidays.

2. Another amazing shenanigan from GoPro was their accessories business. When I got my only go-pro in 2014, it required me to spend another $200-300 on some really basic accessories like an LCD screen. It just felt like the company added barriers that stopped you from actually using the product.

2a. Minor nitpick - Their packaging in 2015 was a piece of work. It took me forever to get it unpacked and even get hold of the device.

3. Mgmt focus - I live in San Mateo and the stink of constant GoPro layoffs made it an undesirable company to even consider working for. The people I knew that worked there all quickly bailed and went to work for Google or Apple. It also didn't help that I only remembered about my GoPro when I saw Mr Woodman show-up on Shark-Tank. I just felt he didn't focus on a struggling company and wanted to find other things to do.
If the goal is gaming, GeForce Now and Moonlight are amazing. You can also get a remote desktop via GeForce Now but probably better just to use remote desktop.
Hasn't this been around for a very LONG time?
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Does it also have the option to blacklist algorithms? Because if so, people are going to use that option.
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He discuses that in his blog. There are 2 types of such vaccines.

Live ones, that are exactly like you said, low infectious strain, and dead ones, where they kill the virus and it sometimes still produces correct antibodies.

there are several of such types of vaccines in development
I don't think anyone claims that nuclear is safer than solar, but of course solar can't really power everything because half the time it's dark. Also you'd need a solar farm about the size of Spain just to satisfy demand, to say nothing of transmission losses getting energy to high latitudes or mountainous/cloudy regions where the sun doesn't shine all day long.

Imagine trying to power Seattle or Vancouver with solar. It might work until 3 or 4 pm in the summer, but at all other times you'd need to bring power across the Rockies, taking massive transmission losses all the way due to resistivity of wire, and then of course when it's the rainy season in the Pacific North West, it's snowing in the Prairies so now you need to have a means of scraping snow and ice from your Spain-sized solar farm.

Then scale that difficulty up by an order of magnitude, adding in the cost of maintaining multi-terawatt transoceanic power cables to import energy from another continent if you want to run your electrical applicances after the sun goes down.

It's just not feasible.
my guess would be using some sort of active learning. In other words:
1) building a model using the data set
2) making predictions using the training data
3) finding the cases where the model is the most confused (difference in probability between classes is low)
4) raising those cases to humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_learning_(machine_learn...
Does it support snapshotting a machine after you configure it and install all your custom software then create a new machine from the snapshot?
It's funny that they say it's "not suitable" when it's really just pure laziness. It takes two seconds to create a secret key and use the HS256 algorithm to generate and verify a signature.
Octobat helps with that
> related to a thread about bots speaking like dead people made from analyzing all digital content

Could you please send me the link to this? It sounds like that Black Mirror episode ("Be right back"), but I never liked how they treated the subject and was thinking of giving it a go myself
Wish you could disintermediate credit card fees. I'm sort of hopeful that credit card surcharging might grow (https://www.cardx.com/) and start competition on those costs.
I think the MBAs are just the tool/symptom of the problem. The problem is Wall St, why do we need it? Why are companies so bothered about stock prices? Why do companies have to put a show for them? Let them learn the trade and understand the value that is offered by a business.

Short-terms gains at the expense of long-term losses is a fact that has to controlled by the board of directors and the ridiculous salaries of CEOs has to be stopped. A rule must be put in place that the shares they gain cannot be used during their tenure and only used 2-5 yrs after leaving the post.

Founders bring in an MBA to run the company is like parents bringing in a Consultant to raise the children. You can never expect anyone else to care of the kids as much as their own parents.

I think that Google lost its way due to Eric Schmidt. Considering that [Page was forced out in 2001](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page#Changes_in_manageme...), he was away too long and Eric did his MBA-shit and screwed up the company. Page should have returned as CEO in 5 years instead of 10 yrs, it was too late by then. Now Google is Evil.

I feel that if someone like Page was leading Google and all the tech giants where lead by nerds like Satya Nadella & Sundar Pichai. PRISM & attack on encryption would not have been too strong. We need more founders like Elon Musk & Jack Dorsey. I hope someone like Sergey Brin advices the WhiteHouse on tech-business while Steve Woz or Richard Stallman advices on tech-ethics.

Mark Zuckerberg is a disaster, so is Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison & all Steve-Jobs-like creatures.

Video: "McDonnell Douglas had used Boeing's money to buy Boeing" - https://youtu.be/EESYomdoeCs?t=468
I think there's some confusion here.

NPM is both a massive repository as well as a package manager.

Deno will (soon?) have a package manager, but it won't be tied to one central repository run by a private company, now part of a massive corporation (Microsoft.)

So let's not lump package manager and repository: you can have a package manager that pulls in all the exact or latest dependencies at build time, but it does not have to be tied to one central repository owned and administered by one company.

Centralize-able yet decentralized.
Can you elaborate like I'm 5? Just very high level for those of us who only know "they charge a flat fee and a percent which makes microtransactions hard".

What are the strategies/thoughts in the industry? Holding and batching payments on a per-user basis? Trying to get agreements so you can batch payments on a per-processor or per-network agreement? Hourly? Daily? Weekly?
Yep, that is exactly my analysis of the situation: an actual compiler vendor would never (could never) pull any of these stunts, or they'd simply go out of business in a jiffy. Alas, we all got suckered into "free", and now the compiler writers no longer listen to their users, because they are not their customers.

Their customers are they PhD advisers and Google, Apple and maybe a few more "whales" as Stonebraker described them, lamenting a similar situation in databases. Their needs are almost completely different from the rest of us!

For Google, a 0.1% performance improvement in one of their key applications is worth quite a bit of extra pain for their own developers, and pretty much an infinite amount of pain for other developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFKl_5JTnA
I think the futurists had more in common with ideological purists mainly. Nationalism however often evokes the past and history which often conflicts with the purist. Communism is probably closer to modernism in that way.
>As a professional musician, you have to make sure your 70%-version is good enough that people gladly pay for seeing it.

Or you just do electronic music, so that's not an issue!
India says video conference app Zoom is ‘not safe’
It will certainly be interesting to see how long it takes landlords to realize that there's about to be a ton of retail space on the market and that trying to absorb a couple months of not collecting rent from their businesses may make them more money in the long run than forcing a business to close and enduring 8/12/24 months of having an empty storefront.
I'm an asshole with bi-polar disorder. Despite 25 years of therapy, drugs, and everything else you can imagine, I've never been able to get control of my emotions.

Earlier this year I was fired from my 20th job in 22 years, and said enough was enough. I sold my meager 401k, deleted all of my social media accounts, said some goodbyes, and left.

The work sucked anyways. When you're crazy, you cannot really learn or improve, the best you can do is find an angle. My angle was to find start-ups which weren't going out of business, but had failed to launch. I could usually talk my way into being hired and keep my temper under control for 8-12 months before the stress / depression got the better of me and I got fired.

When Garry Tan said "Don't hire assholes", he might have actually been speaking about me directly, I pissed him off once or twice.

Now I'm quarantined at a Hostel in Croatia where I work in exchanger for room and board. This is what I'll do until I die in a few years.
Thank you so much. Makes totally sense now.
I'm not sure how they started. Was it because of people feeling their 'honest' self info was being used to identify then control them via highjacking their personal accounts in honor of some ex employer?
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's Annual Shareholder Letter [pdf]
Perhaps, though in this case I'd put that burden as relatively weak. That is, we know that in principle it could have been made, even if we don't (publicly) know how that would have been done in 2019.

An additional important point is that there's a middle scenario where a natural virus being studies could have been accidentally mutated and accidentally released. This might be all but impossible to distinguish between origin in the wild.

I'd guess intentional manufacture as very unlikely, but sloppy lab practices as not likely but much more likely than that.
Intel's 'hot' qubits could lead to more advanced quantum computers
To add to this, even if you enjoy adventure sports, filming them can be a pain. A friend of mine was working on getting sponsored as a rock climber and did a lot of filming with his GoPro. Getting decent shots takes a lot of time and effort, which really cuts down on the actual climbing you get to do each day.
You can use the CLI to create/destroy instances, so what you could do is write a script that has Chocolatey (or boxstarter, which is a bit more for this purpose) install Steam, run it when you login, and then have another script destroy the instance using the cli command.

A bit fiddly, but it'd work.
Biggest cosmic mystery “step closer” to solution
privatize the gains, socialize the losses?
Can you elaborate on that? I can't find anything else about this.
I think LIDAR could be very cool but as the article alludes it definitely has the "Chicken & Egg" problem is that you need the hardware so developers can develop, and you need the software to justify having the hardware. Sounds like even the API isn't on-tap quite yet.

It would definitely be cool if you could e.g. walk around a room and scan it into a home re-modelling app. I know the stated aim is more AR, and that's fine, but I can see apps using LIDAR far beyond that for example a clothing app scanning your body to determine perfect size.

Usage though depends a lot of level of detail, particularly using it to scan people instead of surfaces.
Google Contributor was their ad-free subscription option.

It was always a curious product, never really seemed to have management buy-in, and was pretty much a one-man product, which a 'subscription to get rid of ads across the whole web' shouldn't have been.
Mdjs – Write interactive demos using Markdown and JavaScript
I think I've tried to use Stripe stores with ApplePay and discounts, and it never works. A couple local breweries, a coffee roaster, and another place I ordered car parts from. As soon as you enter a coupon code, the ApplePay option goes away. I am trying to remember why, I want to say, the ApplePay option shows up BEFORE the checkout page where you enter coupon codes, then once you enter a code you can no longer ApplePay.
Anyone else notice this?
I'm a Product Manager at Deepomatic and I have been leading the study in question here. To detect the errors, we trained a model (with a different neural network architecture than the 6 listed in the post), and we then have a matching algorithm that highlights all bounding boxes that were either annotated but not predicted (False Negative), or predicted but not annotated (False Positive). Those potential errors are also sorted based on an error score to get first the most obvious errors. Happy to answer any other question you may have!
I personally thought the PS4 controller was near perfect. They made them slightly bigger, and got rid of the mushroom top of the sticks, and switched to a style where your thumb can sit comfortably and in control. This looks like they're trying to jump ahead 100 years in time.

But hey, I'm judging it on one camera angle. Maybe I'll bust a nut as soon as I hold it in my hands for the first time.
I'm happy to talk tech with people all day, and if it's over Slack it's great. I just don't like meetings and superficial interactions.
Idk, haven't been on freeways, but stopped by Home Depot today for some plumbing parts (curbside pickup) and I've never seen it so busy in my entire life.
> Just very high level for those of us who only know "they charge a flat fee and a percent which makes microtransactions hard".

That's pretty much the story :-). And so the questions are then whether we subsidize the transactions, batch them (as you say, though that makes refunds and statement descriptors tricky), get card networks to change their policies, or somehow shift how the payments are made (e.g. encouraging cheaper payment methods).
> Conversely if you don't want any of this what's wrong with:

As I suggested, adding a(n optional) constraint such that "buf" can be limited by "len" in such a struct is a possible approach to offering safer arrays. Such a change seems like it kinda requires a change to the language.
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> Then there's the whole professional sports media market.

GoPro have made some efforts in that area - including employees working on special products for the professional broadcast market, "a partnership to enable GoPro HERO4 cameras with a professional grade, live, HD wireless broadcast solution" [1] and a partnership with the NHL [2] with the players wearing helmet cams.

They laid off the people working on it internally and it's gone from their product pages (although you can still buy a kit... for $7,500 [3]) so I'm guessing they didn't find the market as lucrative as they'd hoped.

[1] https://gopro.com/en/us/news/gopro-partners-with-vislink-for...
[2] https://gopro.com/en/lu/news/gopro-and-nhl-new-partnership-w...
[3] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1198311-REG/vislink_9...
There was a spike in non-influenza related pneumonia cases prior to the outbreak, particularly in Australia where it's not flu season. My wife caught it in early March and developed mild bacterial pneumonia but tested negative for flu and Covid-19.

Part of the argument for natural evolution is that there are mutations that most likely occured in a human host as they indicated adaption to an immune response.

My personal theory is that an individual infected with this unknown virus that was going around came into contact with the bat originated coronavirus in Wuhan (which may or may not have originated in the lab). RNA was exchanged and a novel variation emerged that was now both highly contagious and deadly. But I am not an epidemiologist.
I am putting my money on timecube for now.
I just got one of these and it's very strange to me Apple did not include any apps on the iPad itself that demonstrates the Lidar hardware. They go to all of the trouble of putting it in there, and then when you turn it on and it's as if it doesn't even exist. Why not just include an app that allows me to play with the data stream?
I would most certainly not peg Android as the promised land for users.

It's indeed "devolving" slightly as of late, after a peak UX around 7-8 imho (still not perfect but it was smoother back then I feel, less clutter).

Note that my screen brightness control, manual (slider) or auto (toggle), is right there in the notification menu.

Android seems to be the least of two evils for me, as I've just found out in these comments, insofar as I have more access (filesystem etc) to do 'enterprise-y stuff' like data sync to personal infrastructure, remote flow management, etc. But it's evil, like iOS :)

Oh let's define "evil", because this is not r/conspiracy. I mean:

- not user-centric but vendor-centric (this is true of all commercial OS, which is why I use Linux whenever I can, or FreeBSD when it applies)

- feels less like your "home" (as a desktop does) and more like some project housing or hotel room (all identical, like appliances in dev terms). Think not "wallpaper" but "GPOs", what a sysadmin can do (or should be able to).

- tons of hidden 'features' and otherwise magic triggers that are poor in the way of discoverability, let alone transparency if we're gonna get there. Obfuscated, silent, opt-out, the whole dark side of tech is concentrated in mobile platforms.

Lol, I am so jaded with UX these days. Why can't we have nice things. I mean, user-centric UX paradigms. How hard can it be to make money by selling great(er) products?
Yes there are those who suffer through no consequence of their own. But they are in the minority. I'm guessing that the majority of people with these compromises have been smoking, drinking and made poor lifestyle choices. I didn't feel I needed to write a complete essay covering every possible case. Yes there are innocent victims. But again, the majority are probably from lifestyle choices.

I was not arguing to be allowed to wonder the streets. I was arguing that there are consequences to every direction we turn and that we need to consider what kind of future we want in the following decades. This will eventually end. What do we want life to look like when it ends?

Just for your info, I live a fairly isolated life on a working ranch. My wife and I can go as long as a month without seeing another human being. My lifestyle has not changed all that much other than the fact that at the base level of the food supply, I can see that shortages are coming. Most living Americans have not lived through food shortages. The big political question of the coming years may not be how do we distribute the wealth, but how do we ease the hunger!
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I actually live in NYC, I'm just in DC for a few weeks (have already been here a while). When I left NYC it was very quiet, not at all like it is here. I left before things got really crazy.