skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a GoPro several years back as well, after using it on one of my camping trips and a trip to a water park with the kids, I realized I don't really have the kind of adventurous, outdoorsy life I was aspiring to. The GoPro sits in a drawer.

Hey, I have that adventurous, outdoorsy life life! Wanna send that GoPro over? I'll make sure it's properly utilized ;)
> Create an account on the Deepomatic platform with the voucher code “SPOT ERRORS” to visualize the detected errors.

Nice ad.
Why Are So Many Languages Spoken in Some Places and So Few in Others?
Does anyone know what happened to the Facebook https://opencompute.org project? Does anyone actually use that? Seemed interesting at the time but haven't heard much recently.
Verizon to Acquire BlueJeans Network
This is at larger volumes right? Base level of both seems to be 2.9% + 30 cents
Elon Musk's Tweet Wasn't Merely 'Aspirational,' Judge Rules He Must Face Lawsuit
It's funny how when you want to essentially get a job doing something it involves actual work!
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You should really look into GitLab. It's free to self-host the whole thing if you want, and there's a full CI/CD pipeline (you can plug whatever you want in there).

It's miles and leaps beyond what GitHub offers (different target I suppose).

You'd still have to code the linking to a wallet part, but that's definitely doable.
Interesting — did you just extend the round at the same price and identical terms?
Do they all need to be late (2016+) models, though?
It seems like most of them are.
I’m in Merthyr
Is Private Equity Having Its Minsky Moment?
And back into the 1980s at least, to my personal knowledge. I’ve had a grape vine growing on the side of my shed here in South London for the last 7 years.
Hah. They could still improve it by only accepting a single algorithm, rather than a list.

edit: though there could be some internal use cases where you want a list, but it's a tradeoff between flexibility and making it easy for people to shoot themselves in the foot.
One place it's used is to avoid central "registration" for multiple "things". For example, consider a program with many fairly separate "subcommands". Using this mechanism allows adding a new subcommand simply by linking in a new source file (without changing a shared source file to list the new command).
Most service establishments operate on razor thin margins that sustain only on regular business activity, so being forced to pay the same amount of rent while doing only half of one’s normal business is not typically feasible.

I’m not really sure what is subjective about that.
Small-Business Aid Funds Run Dry as Program Fails to Reach Hardest Hit
I bought a projector just to make my fitness videos life size on the wall. It sounds lame but it has helped my mental health.

Adding the video conference element is a really great idea. Now I just have to find the best place to mount a webcam.
It's probably wishful thinking, but times like these would be super valuable and helpful if Stripe showed their daily processing volume and perhaps general aggregate statistics and graphs (per country). I know it's probably intellectual property and secret sauce, but imagine:

"Since US Covid shutdown (as of March 13th) Stripe US processing volume is up X% or $Y billion."

This general information would provide great context to the health of the US economy and e-commerce. I know other companies such as payroll processing (ADP) release numbers and the stock market uses those as an input to the health of the economy.
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You may want to add -z noexecstack or linking the object will give your program an executable stack.

e.g:
ld -r -b binary -z noexecstack input.bin -o output.o
Since the smoking ban a lot of pubs have had to reinvent themselves and many went “gastro”
I'm considering them, but it's not obvious from their sales copy if the service they're providing is simple (upload files; start server from bash), or if they've got some complicated tooling that I'd need to use before anything actually works. They don't have a free trial account to just spin it up and see, so I wanted to be sure.

Would you recommend them?
If apple ever switches CPU supplier for their macbooks, it'll probably be for their own.
A quick google search of "live poll for class" shows several results. The top results are:

https://www.polleverywhere.com: Poll Everywhere is the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue… conferences, concerts, classrooms, and company off-sites — anywhere with internet.

https://directpoll.com: DirectPoll lets you create live polls in an instant.

And then some results for "top free polling tools" and the like.
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It's not just for-profit hospitals, non-profits are very focused on elective surgery as well. Why? Because elective surgery is the money maker for the business. Healthcare systems typically have profit margins between 1-4% with 4% being on the high side. For comparison SAAS businesses typically have profit margins of 70-95% [1].
1 - https://www.lightercapital.com/blog/calculating-gross-margin...
If Sun will blow and destroy whole Earth, it still will be the safest form of energy generation per TWh, so solar energy wins again.
>What are you actually arguing about? Because in your original post you seem to be arguing that Amazon here in Europe is heads and shoulders above the competition while still being inferior to the US, implying that the e-commerce landscape here is dire.

I'm arguing exactly about this. Yes, Amazon's doing great in the UK, but Europe does not stop at the border of the UK, France, and Germany. There are other countries there. I live in one. I explained that it's not rosy across Europe.

>So when I'm talking about getting relatively cheap next day delivery here, I'm talking about with any merchant, not just Amazon.

Great. Now what about the other few dozen European countries?
I got about 90% of the way to having a working ruby single-file executable builder which used objcopy to embed a sqlite database of the source files into an MRI build. Then YARV happened and the ruby build chain changed just enough that I needed to throw it out and start again.

Every now and again I ponder having another go with mruby...
Pentagon barred from discussing Trump in Jedi contract probe
Quickly see headlines of today's news in a stories-like format. If you're on a desktop, you can use the arrow keys/esc to navigate through, while clicking on the headline to read the actual story.
"The way HCQ is by accumulating in cells."

The original study that set off this flap ran for a period of 6 days. I don't know that 6 days is long enough for significant accumulation. Beyond that, unless someone has published something significant that I haven't seen, any hypothesis on the drug's effect on coronavirus is pure speculation.
A a previous comment called it - chicken and egg situation. But at least we have the chicken, so the eggs will come.

Though for nothing built in to use or avail in any way this tech, sure does seem a bit surprising, though now the HW is there, they will certainly have the software eventually.

The cynic in me says that Apple will wait for some wonder app and then buy or copy it. I say cynic as there have been a few instances of that transpiring previously with Apple - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8565673/Apple-a...
Sounds awesome!

(One little thing, the https://everest.engineering/ site doesn't work with JS disabled. You just see a "spinner" animation (not an actual spinner though, the graphic is three animated vertical bars.))
I think they still do... It's called "Amiga Forever": https://amigaforever.com/
This looks really awesome and the pricing is quite reasonable.

I always wanted to do a train tour but somehow the Transsib did not interest me so much. India is a much more intriguing country for me.

I've put it on my list! Thank you :)
Use JavaScript and HTML5 to Code a Fractal Tree
I'd love to see a graph of that income over those 20 years! Also, do you get any license payments from Harrison Consoles? And if yes, are those included in the 100k per year?
Coronavirus Forces Silicon Valley to Reset Its Moral Compass
I've done some programming in Fortran in school doing computational physics. From what I can tell it isn't necessarily that the languages are super fast, compared to any other compiled language. You can get similar speed out of Fortran as C or C++ by doing the normal performance conscious practices of not allocating a lot of memory during calculations, optimizing loops, etc. Fortran has a lot of scientific packages that have been optimized very heavily, and those are linkable from other language, that is whay Scipy in Python is essentially. The Cobol I have touched isn't really that optimized I think, mostly just business code. But its fast due to no abstractions and being compiled.

I don't think you would get gains from Cobol per se, and it might not be worth it compared to just writing C or C++ in a high performance manner.
Yeah, if you buy a new TV and sit close to it you can tell the difference. But I think for most people 1080p at a distance was acceptable where a fullscreen VHS picture would have been illegible, and the convenience became the next biggest factor. The leap from VHS to DVD was a lot larger than the leap from DVD to Blu-ray, in terms of the perceived quality IMO.
> Popularity contests are not simple.

I did not, in fact, say they were.

> My claim is that having the most mindshare/resources is the simplest way to keep having the most mindshare/resources.

That's largely true. Of course, having "enough" mindshare/resources is plenty, generally; one needn't necessarily have "the most". I don't see Ruby or Rails going away any time soon, even if your local area's angel.co listings show a 40% higher rate of job postings that explicitly mention Django in the headline. Development is still quite active both on, and with, the language and the framework.

> 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.

If your choice is Smalltalk, that might be true. If it's actually a very active community around a language and framework that provide extremely good productivity support and a lot of advanced tooling constantly attracting more innovation and heavily used in some sectors, like Ruby and Rails, it's not so true. There's pretty much guaranteed (absent government-granted monopolies) to be quite a bit of diversity in "popular enough" languages and tools for any high-traffic development sector, and "startups" definitely qualifies as such a sector of development as a field of professional work. The "winner" approach you seem to want to champion would have room for basically two options, and both of them have "Java" in the names of their most popular implementations, so arguing about the relative popularity of a Python framework in one corner of the world is irrelevant at best given your evidently intended thesis.

> Example: Bitcoin is the among biggest cryptocoins mostly because it was the biggest at some point.

This is a good point, but does not address the fact that this doesn't mean discounting Decred or Monero as a terrible choice for any useful timescale is the obvious best option.

Ruby on Rails is more popular in some areas than Django. Ruby on Rails gets a lot of time and money investment. Ruby on Rails is likely to be a good, stable choice for years to come. That example illustrates the fact that always choosing "the winner" doesn't make sense if "the winner" involves choosing the second-worst tool for your specific job out of a field of a dozen or more available tools.
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The Rise of Continuous Resilience
Great feedback... thank you. In case it's useful, some context on them:

On (1), we started an FX team this year. (There are a lot of legal complexities here around how the funds move, who has title to what at which moment, and so on.) But we're investing significantly in improving it and it should get better soon. On (2), the core issue is card network pricing rules -- by design, they discriminate on the basis of where the business is located. We happily extend EU fees to all EU legal entities, however, and would be happy to work with you to set that up. On (3), refunds aren't free for Stripe, and we were previously in a position where businesses with a lot of refunds were being subsidized by those who didn't. We want to give this margin away more sensibly.

Still, all the issues you bring up are real and I'd like us to find better solutions.
Might be worth recompressing the PNGs too if you haven't already. In particular, using 8-bit PNG can size a lot on filesize if you don't need loads of colours.
I read the post. It seems to be mainly applicable to statically-typed languages. Apparently, the core problem with validation is "shotgun parsing":

> Shotgun parsing is a programming antipattern whereby parsing and input-validating code is mixed with and spread across processing code—throwing a cloud of checks at the input [...]

> The problem is that validation-based approaches make it extremely difficult or impossible to determine if everything was actually validated up front [...]

Err, what? So validating against a well-defined schema won't necessarily cause this. But okay, again, I can buy the benefits for statically typed languages. There's more though:

> Don’t be afraid to parse data in multiple passes. Avoiding shotgun parsing just means you shouldn’t act on the input data before it’s fully parsed [...]

> Use abstract datatypes to make validators “look like” parsers. Sometimes, making an illegal state truly unrepresentable is just plain impractical given the tools Haskell provides, such as ensuring an integer is in a particular range.

I've experienced this in Java/Jackson (which btw, proves this is not exactly new, sexy, or rare in the statically typed world).

What is the suggestion for a dynamic language? In e.g. Javascript, classes will only get you so far, and seems needlessly heavyweight if you aren't going to get other benefits of type-safety. I really don't see how this is helpful, even after putting in the time to investigate this.
I recommend the video "Real-Time Databases Explained: Why Meteor, RethinkDB, Parse & Firebase Don't Scale" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiQgQ88AdYo
Can't you use VirtualBox or something like that?
the measure app has special features in regards to the Lidar sensor. It will tell you how tall someone is if you point at them, and it will also resolve to a ruler when you get close to a measurement.
Btw, I count only two reasons there.
Yeah. For repurposing, one-trip containers are almost always your best bet. It's much easier to know what was in them, and they're in great condition - I see people trying to do conversions on a wind&watertight grade container they bought not realizing that grade is still a rusty, dented mess.
This company needs serious competition. They have not reduced prices in a very long time. That is Oracle tier behavior and does not bode well for their developer-friendliness in the future.
I hear that, after it left beta, the number of games that you can play on GeForce NOW is greatly reduced. I have read that you can no longer play arbitrary games from your Steam library (like you could in beta), and furthermore, a few major publishers have pulled their games from the service.

So the advantage of Paperspace would be that you can play many more games than you can on GeForce NOW.
Are you using some metric other than "per-capita" for tests? I could understand something like "per-positive case", but it's unclear from your comments.

I ask because the data I have shows the US solidly in the middle for the big EU countries over the past month (Germany and France don't show up on the daily graphs)

- Italy started earliest, but the daily per-capita tests have been higher every day except Apr 4: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-...

- Austria, Czechia, and Portugal have been higher than the US more often than not: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-...

- Belgium is on par; the UK & the Netherlands are definitely worse: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-daily-covid-19-...
I'm curious to see what the reaction of the French will be to this. I'd certainly be pretty unhappy if Amazon were turned off in my country.
That's the most-pleasant .rc file I've ever read.
Can you expand on changing the nature of online commerce? I don't see that they are in any position to do so. P2P payments is dominated by Venmo/Paypal, mobile is going to be Apple Pay/Google Pay. Their best chance was partnering with Shopify which is the second largest e-commerce site/platform by GMV. With that position, they could go after affirm/after pay on the consumer lending side of things. I assume Shopify will do this soon since they already offer merchant lending.

They can go after the PaymentTechs and Worldpays of the world but that is just a race to the bottom on processing fees. Another problem with going after those companies, they can easily drop the processing fees to near zero since PaymentTech is owned by Chase and Worldpay by Vantiv/FIS. Adyen is going to dominate the omnichannel retailers since their solution is best.
Controversial for google.com, unquestionable for YouTube.
Yup, flash lidar has some ways to go before it can become usable, in my opinion. I don't think there's much hope. I shouldn't say more!

Instead of using the time to determine the distance as typical lidar does, it uses the phase difference, and requires a precise phase measurement. This unfortunately is not nearly as accurate, especially with such a low-powered laser.
Sweden “heading for catastrophe” and could be WORSE in Europe for Coronavirus
I misspoke before; there's no new spark. I was thinking about the mavic mini at the same price point (which you mentioned). it weighs about 250g. any lighter than this and you're probably looking at toys that can't fly any appreciable distance.
We need more people like you in this world.

Please breed if you can ;-) Hum, I mean, transmit who you are to other, infect them with greatness, however you can (books is a great idea, teaching and mentoring as well).

FWIW I think there's an ethical way to profit, but we have to be willing to wait for the value we created to actually materialize in the real world. A not-so-rare case, I think, is people donating large amounts to their mentors, once they "get there", once they're established and earning enough (likely 2-5 years after the mentorship or transmission took place; sometimes way more).

You certainly can't live from those returns. Some of them might be fabulous though, if what you transmitted was really life-changing. I guess. Never been on that side of things (gave, did not receive) but I'm thinking putting out the value is the mission, and anything else is a secondary concern (just keep that day job to pay the bills).

Have a great one.
Why aren't these data sets editable instead of static? Treat them like a collaborative wiki or something (OpenStreetMap being the closest fit) and allow everyone to submit improvements so that all may benefit.

I hope the people in this article had a way to contribute back their improvements, and did so.
>Are you saying that Amazon is the best that is possible in Europe? Even if that were the case, there's no reason an equally bad competitor couldn't fill the vacuum.

No, I'm not saying that a competitor can't appear, I'm saying that it's unlikely, because it hasn't happened for such a long time. Of course there are other ecommerce stores but they aren't on Amazon's level.

I also agree that people wouldn't care much about it if Amazon pulled out. It would just be another way where Europe accepts worse service though. France still uses cheques to pay for some utilities (or at least they did only a few years ago).
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In Rust: `let foo = include_bytes!("path/to/file")`. And people wonder why I think C is difficult.
First of all, it looks great, good job! My question is that why do you limit yourself with only fitness? For example, study sessions are a great example that can benefit from your product.
I can say without a doubt that I’ve tried a lot more software since Docker came on the scene. I don’t use node or php, and so installing anything that uses one of those was guaranteed to be hours of debugging something’s install when I just want to try it out. The only software I’ll try that isn’t packaged in a container is Go binaries. They’re the only thing that comes close to that (but only if there are no other dependencies).
Internet of Things – Digital Twins Explained
Yep. That happens a lot, in practice.
Understandable; there's `let` for run time and `const` for compile time evaluation.
Right up to when your account gets frozen PayPal looks fantastic.
As Covid-19 pummels global economy, 8 new companies join the $100M ARR club
Did you try to recover the money through the state? Most states have a site through comptroller/treasury/etc. where you can start a claim process.

(Assuming that paypal reported the uncollected money correctly.)
To answer your first question, we had both bounding boxes added and removed, and depending on the dataset, the main type of error was different (I'd say it was overall more objectifs that were forgotten, especially small objects).

It would indeed be very interesting to see the impact of those improved datasets on driving, which is ultimately the task that is automated for cars.
We've been working on many projects at Deepomatic not only related to autonomous cars, and we did see some concrete impact of cleaning the datasets beyond performance metrics.
Margaret Atwood on the Covid-19 lockdown: “Not a dystopia”
Like predictions mean anything right now.

We have 4 months of real-world experience with the threat but we're supposed to project what 1 year of it looks like. We're not even done with the very first phase.

Color me skeptical.

Such hubris is vain at best and dangerous at worst in times like these.
Kind of, though the main draw for me was all the stories of hubris and ineptitude, and it was largely just the money of the rich being burned up in the process.
Trustworthy Technology in the Time of a Pandemic: A Discussion
I had the same doubt. It's been listed on PRISM-break for long.
Go Time 126: The monolith vs. microservices debate
Before I transitioned, I used to carry my stuff around in a camera bag. It was really roomy and didn't carry any of the social stigma messenger bags had at the time.

(and not having to deal with that social stigma anymore was a nice benefit of transitioning...)
ok that's better. Have you also considered tapping into a national sex offender DB as part of your pre-screening?

Also I noticed the limited library of kids books.
It says i can find more online via NYLibrary.. but when i went there it was UX hell. i simply want you to seed the library and allow me to filter them by tags and show which ones i've already read.

thanks!
Finding Covid-19 infection rates via wastewater epidemiology
In C, accessing data outside the bounds of an object is undefined (like, you can’t legally “go past the end” of an array and end up in some other object). The “start” and “end” pointers, as far as the compiler is concerned, are totally different objects, so it may optimize a loop from one pointer to the other out since it’s impossible to increment an address so it’ll go from pounding at one thing to another.