skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also potentially gives every paper N replication problems to solve, in addition to just the gpu time. I would have to figure out HOW to retrain all of these models on the current form of the dataset... Which is fine for an occasional explicit replication study, but terrible if everyone has to do it.

I think it's probably better to have a (say) yearly release of the dataset, with results of some benchmark models released alongside the new version.

This is similar to how Common Voice is handling the problem: it's a crowd sourced, constantly growing dataset, which is awesome if you want to train in as much as possible for production models. You can get the whole current version any time, but they also have releases with a static fileset and train/test split, which should be better for research.
Yes indeed! Feel free to check it out here https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/curbside
> They're like sudoku or crossroads, interesting and somehow intellectually stimulating but they don't help shape/change/modify the world around us.

I don't think this is accurate: sudoku and crossroads have deterministic known solutions. Solving them is a mostly mechanical feat and indeed somewhat useless beyond the joy of solving.

In contrast, the challenge of creating these sorts of programs is creative and open ended. It is very well possible that someone will come up with an even more efficient algorithm. Or a much simpler one. Or just a completely new strategy.

As to the usefulness, these little toy programs are a constant source of inspiration for solving actual real world problems. A perfect example of this is Algorithm X. One of Knuth's toys that solves Sudoku puzzles. The same algorithm is easily adapted to solve scheduling problems and actually is a major innovation.
Given that the website updates once every 24 hours, there's no need to rush to consume the media.
Not just was, is! We still hold 90k concurrent users most of the time, and a couple hundred thousand unique users over reasonable spans of time, maybe 3 months?
Yeah TDP is calculated differently for Intel and AMD, usually to make Intel look better. It makes it harder to compare because hardware components are going to be different (e.g. different mobo, different memory, etc) but they should measure wattage out the wall.
There is way more risk from the salesperson's side, especially if you're not divvying up shares.

If you're a salesperson looking at either taking a job at an established company with a proven product and a pipeline of leads, or a startup with no traction and no proven product, the only thing that could possibly incentivize you towards the startup would be equity and (potentially) an insane commission rate. With no equity, you're doing a much harder job with less upside and significantly more downside.
Good, I'm glad you're being safe. :)
Thanks! I liked nullboard pretty minimal design and that the tasks can be one line or multiline. Most of the kanaban tools look like post it notes, and I liked that the tasks were mininimal size.

All I was missing is to be able to stick one of 4-8 colors on the background of the box.

I'll have some time to look at hyperplan, thanks for the pointer
Ask HN: What is your favourite diff/merge tools?
Just wondering what kind of tools/strategies/flow do you use for resolving merge conflicts?
Yep - those who can build this stuff don't devalue yourself even in these weird times... Truth is you're going to make WAY more money in the long run by consulting your services out building these platforms vs. taking ownership in a company that may never make it. Payment up-front vs. percentage ownership in an entity that doesn't yet exist is almost always the better option.

Why? Here's the hard truth - 90% of these won't EVER see profit, and you'll likely sink a TON of time (and potentially money) into something that doesn't necessarily ever pay out vs. scratching the "I'm an entrepreneur!" itch.

Doesn't stop fools like myself from circling back to the startup arena though ever few years after refilling the coffers, but it's only healthy to look at this stuff as "gambling" or "fishing" vs. having any real expectations for success.

That all being said - risk is the only way we grow!
> - There seemed to be 3 or so quickstarts/tutorials for the same developer flow, at varying levels of detail (good), but they all had similar names and were difficult to distinguish from each other. My impression was that they were built on top of each other (i.e. one was X years old, another one X-2, etc.), but the old ones weren't removed? Unsure.

Second this. Stripe's documentation is generally great, but when looking for recipes/tutorials you run into a lot of seemingly duplicative content which makes it confusing to figure out which is right for you. I had this issue trying to create Connected Payments, specifically.
This is great initiative!
Are more people going to more remote locations, I wonder? Or are people reporting their findings more now because of the internet?
Why would borrowing something to sell only to buy it back to pay someone for borrowing it back be illegal?
Sometimes the internet is so small. I’ve had a bad time lately with my attention span, some depression, etc. I looked around and found the same theory. This has legs since I game a lot, sit at a pc a lot, and browse the web constantly.

In an effort (prayer) to help fix it, I am selling my iPhone 11 Pro for a SE. I am selling my PC and iPad for a small laptop. I am also purchase 2-3 books that look interesting and plan to try reading those.

My goal is to slow down my brains access to dopamine for a time and see where that leaves me.

Just a theory!
I think that is the ideal situation too. Closing down grocery stores and allowing no-touch curbside pickup (or delivery) only. I don't quite know what the economics of this is like though, and if it is a viable option across the board.

Edit: typo
Adyen:

$25b market cap, with 2019 full year net revenue being $538m, up 43% year-on-year.

https://www.adyen.com/investor-relations/news/h2-2019-financ...

Stripe:

Significantly less than Adyen, as many have reported.

----

Same business model, with Adyen having a higher operating margin.

This should be interesting to see how this plays out. Either Adyen will skyrocket in value, or Stripe will decrease in value.
Taleb: The only man who has a clue
Posts without URLs get penalized, so you'd be better off posting this with a link, then adding your text as a first comment in the new thread.

You should also put Show HN in the title. Follow the tips at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638.
First of all, you're not too young for IRC, it's still out there! Lots of people! Lots of channels! Depending on your interests your usage could resemble a live-action Reddit.

Second, I don't think this is necessarily a big deal, though I could imagine that channel users liked the convenience of having their channel logged for them. There may even have been an ersatz Slack use-case there that people could easily get used to.

However, channel logging has historically been the responsibility of channel users themselves, so there's a loss of convenience that could easily be taken up by a channel user setting up their own facility: a tiny AWS instance running a bot logging to S3, with a web interface and maybe a search engine. But that takes time and money and maintenance and interest.

However, all of this functionality is out there on the web and internet, and has been used for a long time in various incarnations. I'm sure there are EFNet logs out there that go back well into the 90s.
One of my favorite parts of Feynman's brilliant talk about the limits of minaturizing mechanical devices, "There's plenty of room at the bottom":

"""If, for instance, having made a small lathe with a pantograph, we find its lead screw irregular – more irregular than the large-scale one – we could lap the lead screw against breakable nuts that you can reverse in the usual way back and forth until this lead screw is, at its scale, as accurate as our original lead screws, at our scale.

We can make flats by rubbing unflat surfaces in triplicates together – in three pairs – and the flats then become flatter than the thing you started with. Thus, it is not impossible to improve precision on a small scale by the correct operations. So, when we build this stuff, it is necessary at each step to improve the accuracy of the equipment by working for awhile down there, making accurate lead screws, Johansen blocks, and all the other materials which we use in accurate machine work at the higher level. We have to stop at each level and manufacture all the stuff to go to the next level – a very long and very difficult program. Perhaps you can figure a better way than that to get down to small scale more rapidly."""

Many ideas contributed to the modern process of 5nm lithography, but having flat surface plates whose precision is determined by the correct application of operations rather than an external standard has turned out to be one of the most profound.

Now, of course, you can buy a granite surface place with accuracy exceeding almost anything available 100 years ago, for $30. And there are youtube videos of flat surface aficinados who scrape their own.
One thing I've been able to tell friends is to just replace their default SMS app with Signal, since they're not particularly attached to that app anyway. Then, at least their messages to me will then be encrypted, and every additional person I get to install Signal will have an additional contact being able to use it/join a group.
Free online conference about AI
You've missed the best IRC bouncer-client there is - Quassel.
For anyone confused about the debit card comment: A German debit card isn’t the same as any other. It doesn’t have Visa or MasterCard co-branding like other countries’ debit card, nor a 16 digit number, so it can’t be used online. I would rather have translated Girokarte to bank card, because there are actual debit cards with Visa/MC co-branding which are available in Germany, but less common than other kinds
I wish they'd give us the option (on the iPhone and iPad as well) to arbitrarily set the maximum charge level. Just like on my Tesla, I'd like to be able to tell my phone not to charge above 80%.
Gateway 2000 -1998 name change-> Gateway -2007 acquisition-> Acer

eMachines -2004 acquisition-> Gateway

Wikipedia is wrong: not Gateway in 2000, but 1997 saw several sub-$1k computers, and possibly the first was the Compaq Presario powered by the Cyrix MediaGX. I recall taking some community college computer course in sophomore(10)/junior(11) year of high school about 1994 and the lecturer predicting the sub-$1k computer.

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-secret-history-of-the-sub-1000...
Does premiere pro have its own encoders or do they just shell out to ffmpeg or something?
Yah it is by no means wasteful for AlphaGo to throw away all their training data and then re-train itself!

That kind of ruthless experimentation is how AlphaGo was able to exceed even itself. The willingness to say - all these human games we've fed the computer? All these terabytes of data? It's all meaningless! We're going to throw it all away! We will have AlphaGo determine what is good by playing games against itself!

And I bet you that for the next iteration of AlphaGo, the creators of this system will again, delete their own data and retrain when they have a better approach.

If you don't "waste" your existing datasets (once you reallze the flaws in your data sets), you are being held back by the sunk cost principle. You only have yourself to blame when someone does train for the exact same purposes, but with cleaner data.

The person who has the cleanest source of training data will win in deep learning.

You're sabotaging yourself in my opinion. 30k is nothing when you're just sabotaging the training with faulty data.
Maybe they heard about how Sennheiser was able to sell the same headphones $150 apart by removing a piece of foam.

http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mo...

I suspect a number of Garmin watches at different price points using the same chips, yet each price point has a different range of features enabled. Some are clearly artificial differences. Like my wife's watch can't "resume a run later" if she pauses it in the middle, but mine can. She either has to save the run, or listen to reminder beeps every five minutes until she starts again.
Do you really think it's the same?

There's a difference between the some rare sneaker drop and buying groceries as a high-risk person in a global pandemic.
Add Bitlbee to the list and you can do magic.
The point of these lawsuits is not only for the given civil case, but also for future situations like it. There's a reason for punitive damages.
I hear this a lot, but isn't evolution trial/error? Just because we can say it's not in an organism's evolutionary interest to evolve a certain way, doesn't mean it won't "try" it - at any stage in it's evolution. Also I don't think an organism has any active role in deciding what mutations occur, regardless of it's interest.
Upstart competitor challenges Google's anti-bot tool
Google to Pull Back on Hiring
That is a function of the very poor treatment of employee shares in the USA - maybe that is what the unionisation efforts in FANGS should target
>> The majority of the positive cases so far are among sailors who are asymptomatic, officials say.

I don't know much about this kind of thing, but isn't the most important word in that sentence "sailors"? I would think people living on an aircraft carrier are, on average, way different in many major ways than the average American. So it seems like making any kinds of assumptions based on this wouldn't be super reliable.
Also, AWS and GCP
I have experience using Wordpress; in sixth grade I tried out the Wordpress editor and felt writing HTML was easier. I admit it's popular with less-savvy users and with companies with money to burn, but it seems unprofessional to use Wordpress for anything you can write by hand. I don't think anyone would be using blogging software if they didn't have their own domain.
I searched "criticism movie outbreak' but found nothing.
Would you feel like sharing more about why you dislike it? assuming you have some key/potent and useful examples from scenes.
> If you want to talk about socialism specifically, the biggest drawback of socialism is that if you do it too well, you attract the attention of the US military industrial complex.

The US is hardly the only place where socialism has been tried. Last I checked, over 10,000 communes have been formed in the US since its inception. They all failed. None were put out of business by government intervention.

The Pilgrims tried a commune the first year (they starved). The Jamestown colony also attempted to work as a commune (they starved). The San Francisco Summer of Love commune lasted maybe 3 months.

Remember the Jonestown commune?

Israel has their kibbutzes, but they'd starve if they didn't receive generous taxpayer support from the Israeli government.

The great thing about the US is there are no laws against communes. You are free to go set one up with your like-minded friends. Nobody is going to try to stop you. People do it all the time.

But they never work. They never have, and never will, because of human nature.
> What should happen is grocery stores should be closed except for employees and your groceries should be delivered to you, or you pick them up curb side.

Of course that would be ideal, but scaling up a delivery service from scratch is a bit harder than keeping a store running and offering both services which distributes the load a bit.
Sailors are very young. You can't assume that the proportion of people who are asymptomatic to be the same for every age group.

The 60% asymptomatic percentage is also a lot lower than some of the assumptions flowing around the internet (~90%).
I think LIDAR in the iPad/iPhone is going to be as useful as the touchbar on Mac laptops.
Already exists - https://www.nahimic.com/gamers/

Utility is limited, since you can just .. hear the sound in the correct direction anyway.
I haven't used the teacher side, but https://edpuzzle.com does video lectures with graded questions alongside. I'm not sure if it supports pooling or revising answers though.
And even more in the primary source, open access journal article: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.2
(linked from the National Geographic article but not the Scientific American one that I could find).
Bad food prep will get you blood-borne disease. So if they chopped bats and reused the surface area, all bets are kinda off.
Can you recommend a NUC-like computer?

Something easy to carry around, to LAN, ideally with PCIe slots or an NVIDIA GPU
This feels more PlentyofFish rather than Tinder.

Is there more of a tinder version? Just dump two people into a shared video chat and pair programming session to just start building something with someone?

Not code-roulette, but paired like founders list here. Just less reading and more connecting.

Or a shared repl, Jupyter notebook, or Google doc/sheet/slides for collab.

Anything closer to something like that exist?
The story could still be made up, but the source for the quote is this book:

Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

by David Bayes and Ted Orland

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaki...
Best wishes to Stripe. They deserve to succeed. I speculate that the biggest competition for Stripe is going to be Amazon which will use AWS to rollout payments API.
The longer Apple goes without releasing their AR headset the weirder adding AR to the iPads and iPhones as some sort of developer platform test bed becomes.

It's fine for developers but for end users these handheld AR experiences are so frustratingly poor, frustrating in the sense that the tracking and occlusion tech is getting really good but poor that you're experiencing the whole thing through this silly handheld porthole to the world.

Just starting to get stranger and stranger that every year for around 5 years now we've had to have Apple showing off these features and we nod along knowing we'll never ever use them but understand they're only there for developers, like this lidar sensor.
I haven't asked him but I don't think his book earnings are significant compared to his salary and pension.
Hmm. Do you mean that tab-bar-mode lets me have a full-screen Emacs (no UI elements whatsoever, as one does) and switch between window configs like if they were workspaces (which is what eyebrowse does)?

If so, I might want to try it.
As much as I loved my Nexus 4, there's no denying its camera and battery were quite poor. I wouldn't call it the best phone ever made, even at its time
First, that is a pretty nice web site. The notion of this sort of virtual computer goes back a ways, the one thing I keep expecting to see but haven't yet is a fully encrypted experience where the "cloud" bits don't work unless the user's local display has a security token attached.

My first experience with type of architecture was in the 80's with something called an "X terminal". All the same elements, a machine with a display / keyboard /mouse that had a network protocol to talk to some hardware acting on my behalf in a machine room. I could sit down at any station and open up my desktop, just as I had left it. It is a pretty decent experience even with only a 10mbit Ethernet network.

The second time I got to experience this architecture was in the Citrix days (late 90's early 2000's) Now the OS was always Windows and the network protocol was proprietary, but you could bring up an entire enterprise without all that pesky installing/rebooting that was the life of an early Window's system administrator. Also gave you control over employees trying to put bogus software on the computer. No Netscape Communicator for you! Work work work. :-)

Somewhere after Citrix imploded with all the problems that come with a walled garden with razor wire on the walls, we started seeing deployments using virtual machines and VNC. That gave you the "what you see is what is happening" feel of Citrix but now you had a different choice of operating systems and better vendor flexibility. VNC over a SSH SOCKS proxy replaced X11 over SSH as a more "universal" way of implementing this architectural design pattern.

Of course Google gave us "the browser is the computer" with ChromeOS and now the machine as a browser target where the browser is something more standard.

I like the architecture but in the previous iterations there was always some big problem it was addressing, X terminals addressed mobility, Citrix addressed enterprise configuration management, VNC/VM addressed multiple OSes other than Windows while retaining enterprise configuration management, and ChromeOS went for a better security model, mode-less configuration, and minimal cost of entry.

What problem does Workstream address either better or differently than what the above solutions address/addressed?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22887561.
Young people in the best shapes of their lives tolerate C19 well. I thought it was common knowledge.
So people who are fit enough to pass active duty basic training tend not to have symptoms. Solution: put everyone through basic training?
The Internet has been ubiquitous for a couple decades, and most of Norway is "remote location" where trekking been always popular. So, no.
I've been sitting on the floor, resting my laptop on the coffee table. When I get tired, I put the coffee table on the dining room table and stand. I used to fatigue quite quickly and go back to regular desk, but after 3 weeks of this, that's how i spend the majority of the working day. You can't use your chair's back support when you're on the floor or standing so you're forced to engage your core muscles.
Lockdowns don’t seem to have any noticeable effect on the spread of Covid-19
This is mixed news. While this indicates the death rate may be lower and the infection rate higher among the general population, the demographic of individuals in the US military are going to be of significantly higher health than the general population.

So, it doesn't necessarily ease the risk for demographics already identified as 'at-risk'. If anything, their risk might be understated given the higher infection rate.
$20 million for someone with a 11 figure fortune is a speeding ticket. We have to remember that he harmed people with hundreds of millions at stake on the price of the company by faking the largest corporate buyout in the history of the stock market. This kind of blatant fraud needs to be assessed extremely punitively.
Excellent point. Thank you.
You realize that you're commenting on a story that either is or was on the front page of Hacker News, right? Are we no one?
Or even "zip -e", for people who don't have gpg installed. I use this all the time. It takes care of 90% of my needs, and even non-technical people understand how to deal with it.
Solarpunk
Imagine you're the CEO of a hardware company that refreshes their products every year. Last year, you overestimated the demand for your premium product and end up with thousands of extra units.

Now, you're planning to launch this year's line of products. You have a brand new premium product that's slightly better than last year's, and it's priced $50 higher. What do you do with all your extra stock of last year's premium offering? You can't sell them side-by-side, otherwise everyone will just buy last year's stuff and you'll have the same problem next year. You can't throw them away because you can't afford the losses (GoPro was trading at $8 in 2017).

So you take last year's premium product, and install some software to turn it into this year's entry-level product. You have to sell it for way less, but hey — you might break even. Consumers are content because they're getting what they expect: entry-level features at a reasonable price.

It's not necessarily evil. Perhaps it was mismanagement. Ultimately, GoPro found out that the market for action cameras isn't as big as they hoped.