skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're just consumers of the land cover data for our Green Mountain Ski Map series. The details of how they generated the data are in this report: https://vcgi.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/portal-pages/VT-Lan...

I've been banging my head against the wall trying to similarly classify other states and haven't had much luck yet. I was initially trying to do it just using orthoimagery, but I'm thinking pairing it with the LAS files will be helpful.

Got any resources you like for downsampling or other techniques?
But it really doesn't. You'll meet with an investor if they want to meet with you in person. You'll meet with an investor virtually if they want to meet with you virtually. What one investor does vs. another doesn't matter. So the advice given here is meaningful for... who? I guess it's for other VCs that give the OP a hard time about not meeting in person. But really, it doesn't matter because they'll all do a relatively crappy job of giving returns to their investors anyways.

The only time it really matters is when you're meeting with the VCs that are actually making big returns. For them, take the meeting any way they want to have it. In person or not.
Right, this makes a good point and is worth studying more closely. We have to distinguish these concepts. But from my experience this isn’t done in practice. And by that I mean libraries, frameworks, idiomatic use, culture and so on, which the post at least partially acknowledges (or hints).

This is also a reminder that type systems are not all equal at all. The range of expression matters especially in these kind of discussions.
I'm arguing that antifa isn't even a decentralized movement. Wildly different parts of the left, both in ideology and preferred tactics, ascribe to the antifa label.

I think a better analogy than ISIS would be "groups that say they uphold the ideals of Islam."
How closer one is to the end of the runway.
It's fair to argue that what people associate with "antifa" does not accurately describe all the groups or people who use it to describe themselves. But that doesn't really change the connotation of the term.
In theory patents, in practice nothing.
one reason why your headline is a turnoff
Can attest to being able to store keys, phone, comb etc. in blazer without it looking bulgy.

Books do affect the drape though, at least for the cut of blazer I prefer (cut close to the body).
When you have +100,000 LOC written over many years by people with varying degrees of experience and familiarity with the language, Ruby/Rails becomes unmanageably difficult a lot faster than other languages. It isn't the only one though.

Not that you can't have a great, large Rails codebase but the "guardrails" are a lot less present than in some languages and it can be harder to try to clean up the mess once it's happened.
> Your response was that nuclear proliferation creates instability. You also I think unfairly characterised OP's position as being pro-nuclear proliferation. You assumed OP was talking about nukes but I believe they were making a broader point.

My question to OP had been whether they are pro-proliferation. You're free to take the question as "characterizing their position as pro-proliferation" all you want, but I think it's a fair question.
showed this to my 8 year old, he's taking it very seriously haha
If you can host it on your own systems for free and edit the source code it’s more open than an open source software encumbered by patents.

Really I think we just need a new terms like unencumbered software (do anything), open license software (give credit and include source code), trapped software (beware patent minefield or infections nature), etc. Because frankly people toss around incompatible definitions of open source all the time.
Mathematica is free on Raspberry Pi, so someone could put together an amazing physical calculator:

- https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/

- https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/07/11/mathematica-12-available...
You wanted to know where the story goes. Meanwhile I was just thinking I need to get myself on of these email programs.
You seem to live in a different world than mine. In mine, social media would be much less of a problem if people tended to shy away from online confrontation. The online/social media problem is in large part one of people defending their own opinions too aggressively.
I think I've lost count how many times I've ran into a Windows powered kiosk / info screen that was stuck in the middle of a forced update.
> Even if there were 1,000 police brutality related deaths a year

Actually it hovers around 1,000 a year, but even that's up for debate because reporting and data collection are questionable. For example, police departments may have been obligated to report shooting-related deaths, but not choking-related (like George Floyd). But even with the tracking we have today, it's beyond clear that at a minimum ~1,000 American's are killed every year by police.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends

> defund police and have less cops protecting us?

There is no reason our civilian police force should be armed like our federal military. It's absurd how many police departments have MRAPs, string-rays, and drones. None of this equipment is necessary for effective civilian policing.

In the U.S., police kill around 46.6 citizens per 10 million every year. Iraq is 45.1, and Iran is 36.6. Compare this to Japan (0.2), Germany (1.3), UK (0.5), France (3.8), Canada (9.7), Poland (0.5), or Australia (1.7).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
Makes sense that business incentives inform decision making, but how do you explain the difference in Twitter's content policy? They also, presumably, measure their business via MAU & DAU.

Sometimes I think its as simple as humans making decisions. And Zuckerberg is making a spineless decision (by way of inertia).
It is very apparent that Facebook is wanting to avoid appearing to be an "editor" of content in almost any shape or form in an effort to reduce their chances of being regulated by the government.
The stimulus response mechanisms are far from hard wired. The brain is plastic at all levels.
YES! Read "Jaws" by Kahn [1] to find out why. If you're are familiar at all with Jared Diamond's books (Guns, Germs, and Steel) or have read Sapiens, it should be a piece of cake to understand. I bought this book for 4 people with sleep apnea or unresolved dental problems.

This book was published in 2018, and it's not yet common knowledge. Doctors I have been to don't get it, I have doctors in my family that don't get it.

It's historical and scientific, but it has a lot of practical implications for raising children too. A child's facial structure is surprisingly malleable (by lifestyle), and it determines how they breathe, which in turns affects everything else. Just like food, breath is at the base of your physiology, and affects all aspects of your health (dental health, mental health, and more!)

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Summary:

Agriculture and diet are fundamental reasons behind recent and huge changes in our jaw and airway development. They change us faster than our genes do. (epigenetics)

Another profound change that is faster than evolution is the development of speech.

In other words, apes and dogs don't have sleep apnea because they don't have agriculture, and they can't vocalize like we do. It's a crazy problem that requires an explanation -- your throat and neck tissue literally strangles you while you're sleeping, giving you heart attacks and many other problems.

There are a lot of practical implications, like breathing through the nose rather than the mouth (another article about this was recently on the front page of HN), and what foods you and your children eat.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Jaws-Hidden-Epidemic-Sandra-Kahn/dp/1...

There are a bunch of other books that touch on the related subjects, like "The Dental Diet", "Sleep Interrupted", etc.
I actually used Pioneer earlier in the year for another project I was working on, it's great!
Google doesn't seem to be popping up lots of competing businesses in all kinds of verticals like Amazon does (or Microsoft has for a long time).

Maybe I'm not seeing it right, but IMO Google seems less predatory than they could be... they aren't anywhere near Amazon level.
Sadly you can’t block them in google search results.
It is the actual recording mode that generates the heat. Transcoding, putting stuff in the buffer, saving to storage, etc. With the HDMI-out, you are just sharing the viewfinder and offloading all those tasks to your computer, so heat is not really an issue unless your room is extremely hot to begin with.

The sony a5100 is really popular with twitch streamers right now because it will run all day in this mode and you can turn off all of the UI elements to get a 'clean' output. You don't get all the cool cinema features but you do get a camera that is better than just about any webcam.
I guess you should be a little selective about what the thing is. I've got friends into vintage sports cars and cartooning who are cool. Anything along the lines of extreme politics I'd avoid.
Operation Warp Speed for Vaccine Development Needs to Go to Warp 10
> Wasn't it the AG that ordered the protesters to be moved?

(A) Barr denies it.

(B) The buck stops at the President's desk.
Don't use sayings, cute phrases, or non-industry jargon. Plain, simple business text works better and you don't run into a possible offensive phrase. Unless you know every phrase that might be offensive, then don't risk it. If you cannot be a compelling writer with just basic language then get help. That's how you learn.

On that note, some organizations (e.g. The US Government) have cycles where words go from good, clued in meanings to bad, evil, outsider meanings. I realize this sounds like some high school clique stuff, but its so damn true. Its actually worse because there are many, many departments, and I'm sure many organizations have their own things. I had an aunt who was a grant writer and kept up with these things by volunteering to be a reader every so often. It kept her in touch with the trends. Now, you can follow other companies / governments social media accounts, request for proposals, and press releases for the phrasing you should use when presenting to them.

These days, unless it is organization photos, I really try to not have any people in my slides. I just don't think its worth it because you will offend someone. It might seem paranoid, but I really believe social media makes a lot of people from all sides overanalyze everything.
Thanks, glad you like them and I appreciate that very much!
It's not just about outsourcing compute. There's lots of interesting things you can build on top of an FHE primitive. The linked blog post has the private information retrieval example (the database owner doesn't want to send you the whole database, you don't want the database owner to know what you're looking for). I have a worked example for machine learning here: https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2019/11/22/encrypted-machine... (The model owner doesn't want to share the model, you don't want to share the image you're asking them to process).
Did the Winklevoss twins ever talk about that in interviews? I think they wrote most of the source code for ConnectU, which Zuckerberg was at the very least aware of. I don’t recall if he or Facebook was ever found guilty of misusing ConnectU code in Facebook. In fact, the settlement that was reached between the relevant parties has had many court cases of its own since the settlement was reached, regarding lost value of agreed-upon stock value which had lessened relative to the value suggested by Facebook at settlement. The court cases may even be continuing to this day, but I couldn’t really tell from reading a few wiki pages and sources.

I don’t have an answer, sorry. But hopefully someone else can correct me and fill in the gaps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU
Thanks for documenting that; 'twas a real joy to go through.
Love the website, it looks absolutely fantastic. I thought it communicated the main points excellently, and I was glad to get to see some screenshots of the app in action too. I definitely want to sign up now. Always available rooms are a very cool idea, something a lot of teams will love! Congrats on launching!
"Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993 to July 31, 1994. It played a significant role in inciting the April–July 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi."
...
"it is widely regarded by many Rwandan citizens (a view also shared and expressed by the UN war crimes tribunal) as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere of charged racial hostility that allowed the genocide to occur."

Real, verifiable proof that any publisher of information or platform that hosts information has a responsibility to ensure that they are not making society worse. This radio station fanned the flames of hatred and is responsible in part for the murder of hundreds of thousands of people.
Can you give me a list of few legitimate sources out of mainstream media?
Facebook has _always_ moderated content. Fairly substantially, much more than Twitter, say. For instance, if you want to post a picture of yourself with no clothes on on Twitter, Twitter is basically okay with that; Facebook certainly isn’t. The current controversy is over whether public figures should be treated as entirely special, or just mostly special.

Look, Facebook is within its rights to ban the average person for whatever it feels like, while still letting important small-handed personages lie about elections. That’s perfectly legal. But people are certainly entitled to question their ethics over it.

Of course, even the arch-censors over at Twitter allow important small-handed lying; they just reserve the right to point out that it IS a lie, and very occasionally do so. I’m kind of amazed that people are so upset about them doing the bare decent minimum.

By the way, I’m not defending twitter in this; it would be better if they just applied their rules equally and deleted the accounts of important people, whatever their hand measurements, on the same basis that they delete normal accounts. But at least attaching disclaimers to lies and abominable speech is progress of a sort, I suppose.
Most people are not rejecting snaps as a concept but the way ubuntu decided to implement it (e.g. forced updates, closed back-end, stealth snapd/snap reinstalls, etc).
Free speech under an unverifiavle and easily forged obline pseudonym is worth the cost of the speech. If reading my $0 speech incites you to do something stupid or illegal, bad on me, but good luck enforcing that; in the meantime you did something stupid or illegal and will have to live with the consequences.

If people continue to act on information without regard to its source or veracity, and we need to rely on the platforms to sort it out, we're in some deep shit. The telephone company never comes on the line and says 'Hey harikb, your friend is full of it, what your friend said is totally untrue' but somehow we expect that of today's communications platforms. If the telephone company was monitoring the content of your calls, you'd be rightfully pissed.

Of course, maybe these platforms could stop showing me random garbage from random people that aren't on my list, and weren't meaningfully interacted with by my list. (What gets shown on FB because someone I know liked a corporate page 5 years ago is like huh???)

Disclosure: I used to work at WhatsApp, including while it was part of Facebook; my opinions are my own.
I would be interested - I’ve been thinking of turning google docs into a solid cms backend for static site generation.
Luckily, none of the people you listed have to decide whether or not to beat or murder me. You may make the same argument against other unions, but I do not think that you may imply that the consequences are equivalent.
This is a perfectly fine and useful tutorial by my standards.

For the naysayers out there, a better title would be "Writing a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines of C using FFmpeg and SDL"
The desktop was pretty terrible for me (on Linux) for until a few months ago, but now it works perfectly. The only thing missing is sms from the desktop but from what I understand Signal won't ever add that because sms isn't secure
This is an accurate representation of the situation.
Not mine! But yes it's pretty great.
Remember when Facebook made a few blog posts about how they were going to investigate ways to reduce fake news?
There are also devices on eBay which record to a usb device and handle HDCP. Works great for archiving content from streaming services using a Roku. Not quite as cheap as this though, I think I paid $40 from a US seller.
Fyne: Build beautiful apps for mobile and desktop
A JS integer is actually an instance of the "Number" object, you can to a small degree alter fundamental behavior even with primitive types
That's nothing. From 1992 to 1996 you stepped from 320x200 based games and VGA ones to MPEG videos in your computer and games from Doom/Quake to Broken Sword.

From a simple buzzer to Audio CD quality.

It was the era for multimedia PC's. The changes were huge, really huge.
I assume you're talking about the quantum resistance of the underlying schemes in use? My understanding is that all the current schemes of practical interest rely on the hardness of (variants of) LWE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_with_errors), which is believed to be hard even if you have a quantum computer.
Doctors are not typically unionized per se, although they do have medical associations. For airline pilots, safety-wise, their interests are strongly aligned with the passengers.
I just opened my Signal desktop app that I had synced previously. It asked me to resync again with my mobile device, which needs camera permissions to take a picture of a QR code. I had previously removed Signal from my mobile device. Low and behold, my account no longer existed and I had to sign back up with a phone number. I then clicked sync and most of my messages on my desktop are gone. I don't see how this is easy by any standard.
That's not what I'm talking about: when a software is late there is a 'panic phase' by the managers where they forbid the creation of 'high severity' bug tickets.
So if there is no more bug tickets what will happen when the managers are in 'panic mode'?
Something to think about before removing bug tickets.
I really hope this improves, I had to reset my laptop's Signal Desktop just last week because all the messages were "couldn't decrypt" and I was missing messages on my desktop just today.
Lasers, Discs and Dragons: Remembering Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair
Signal should at least make itself available on F-Droid.
In real life there’s a loophole to get around this kind of scrutiny: religion. It doesn’t matter which one really. But if it’s religious and you don’t discriminate against people in obvious ways, you have much wider latitude to say eyebrow-raising things in public.

Seems like that works online too, now that I mention it.
It's not useless if it makes it much more readable :)
Alexis is awesome! It’s commendable how grounded and humble he is after all the wealth and fame.
Take some time off to learn yourself and your privilege
> how could their opinion on protest drive them?

Some people believe in first and fourth amendment rights.

Moxie, one of the original developers of the Signal protocol:

Tracking everyone is no longer inconceivable, and is in fact happening all the time. We know that Sprint alone responded to 8 million law enforcement requests for real time customer location just in 2008. They got so many requests that they built an automated system to handle them.

Combined with ballooning law enforcement budgets, this trend towards automation, which includes things like license plate scanners and domestically deployed drones, represents a significant shift in the way that law enforcement operates.

Police already abuse the immense power they have, but if everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective. Those in power will essentially have what they need to punish anyone they’d like, whenever they choose, as if there were no rules at all.

Even ignoring this obvious potential for new abuse, it’s also substantially closer to that dystopian reality of a world where law enforcement is 100% effective, eliminating the possibility to experience alternative ideas that might better suit us.

https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to...

ACLU: For more than a decade now, Americans have repeatedly encountered illegal and unnecessary spying by local, state, and federal law enforcement on lawful and peaceful protesters.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/rights-protesters/sp...

EFF: Theft, damage, confiscation, or forced deletion of media can disrupt your ability to publish your experiences.

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protest

EFF: Here is a review of surveillance technology that police may be deploying against ongoing protests against racism and police brutality.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/how-identify-visible-a...

> feeds the meme that privacy is for rioters

Ok, I get it. You’re upset about the “rioters”. Choose your new app and carry on.
If you include traders and creators in the various ecosystems and not just "customer" in the retail sense, examples aren't hard to find.

Google and Facebook. The two biggest ad auction oligopolies own virtually all of ad-space between them. Is there real competition? No, there isn't.

Apple. More and more locked down, less and less reliable, more and more expensive. Want to move? Want to repair something out of warranty? That's going to be... difficult.

Ebay + PayPal. If one doesn't screw on fees, the other will screw you on fees. Ideally both will screw you on fees. Now with added Etsy, because also.

Amazon. The giant changes its mind because something something ToS violation and leaves you with n figures of dead inventory and a locked pay out. What are you going to do?

Spotify. You pay us for the music, we don't pay the artists. [1]

YouTube. The record companies get income even if they don't have the rights to it, for the bargain price of a robo copyright claim. Because recognition algos are so very complicated and they make such terrible mistakes, so much of the time.

These aren't just monopolies, they're massive market distortions where money is so dense it warps the Internet into stagnant pools of pseudo-inevitability, with a chilling effect on real innovation and creativity.

And that's not even getting into issues of privacy, political influence, and the market value of personal data.

[1] Not technically true, but considering the pitiful pay outs it might as well be.
Sorry, I can't agree about scrapping "Beginners guide".

Ubuntu gave me simple install. Once I've started tinkering it become broken. Following Installation guide and Beginners guide I got stable system with internet connection without Gnome toolbar widget. I could build on top of it.

These days I stick with Arch because of fresh packages, rolling release, makepkg and AUR. Just looking at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_interface is enough to stick with wifi-menu / wpa_supplicant.
True, but remember that Signal (the app developer) is an LLC. The 990s may eventually be posted on the Signal Foundation website if they ever finish it: https://signalfoundation.org/
There is a difference between "assembly and collective action" and a union. You can get the former from a PAC.

The latter, for example, requires everyone to join as a condition of employment. That's not a freedom, it's a coercion -- which can drive out good officers (or teachers) when the union is protecting bad ones.

A union is also negotiating with ostensibly public representatives who owe their election to its members. A PAC has only the leverage it gets through the votes or donations of its members. A public sector union that gets a candidate elected and then negotiates with them for its contract is self-dealing at the expense of the public.