skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could say the same for Peleton, but lo and behold, people truly love it.

I think there's real difference, though.

Peleton is a true integrated solution, where the bike and screen are synchronized to the workout program.

Most people already have a tv in their living room. I just don't see that there's much difference between Mirror and that.

Sure - there's some opportunity for 2 way communication, but that's never going to be the way most interaction is going to happen. There's plenty of personal trainers all over the place for people who want that sort of thing, and most people find a true in-person experience much more fulfilling.
Early adopters are more likely to increase their usage as they're transitioning more of their fitness time to Peloton. The mainstream cohorts who rely on Peloton to increase their fitness may not have as much Peloton usage.
> Everything can be overdone... gambling, sugar, video games. Why focus on the few people who take it too far, rather than the millions who now have the same access to wealth building that rich old people do?

Robinhood did not do this. Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab have all existed for a long time now.
It appears FB & Twitter are taking down a lot of people they perceive and label as 'far right' (whatever that is supposed to mean these days) but ok with Marxists and others on the left fringes being featured and even promoted. I don't have an allegiance here, just watching as these events unfold.
+1 for gamification. I just got the Ring Fit Trainer for the Nintendo Switch and it has been pretty enjoyable.
> "that included a Nazi symbol"

I believe it was an upside down triangle... That's a common symbol and just happened to match an obscure Nazi symbol I think very few people alive today have ever seen before.

Just more propaganda repeated over and over. "Nope, it wasn't an upside down triangle, it was a Nazi symbol. Everyone using upside down triangles is hereafter deemed to be making Nazi dogwhistles!"
I've read a few articles that have suggested it's like a mobile game for the millennial. They look at it as something to play and have fun with. Perhaps this trading platform is a form of entertainment for them, like a slot machine or roulette wheel........
> Gnome is already adopting Rust

That's not accurate. There are some Gnome contributors opting for Rust. Gnome is not adopting Rust.
Spot does have that problem. Back in the 1990s, before Boston Dynamics had legged running really working, I was looking at that and running simulations. The only market that looked reasonable was toys. A $1000 toy seemed marginal. The Sony Aibo was in that space, and it was withdrawn. Sony had a follow-on humanoid, but it never shipped as a product.

I met the designer of the Furby and found out what its manufacturing cost is. Let's just say it's less than a meal at most fast food places.

Big Dog and the Legged Squad Support System were impressive, but not useful. The USMC rejected the LS3 and bought small ATVs instead. Much more practical.

(Reminds me of the U.S. Army's flying saucer, the AvroCar. That was a disk-shaped aircraft that was supposed to be a flying Jeep. It was unstable, underpowered, and couldn't get out of its own ground effect. Really cool, though. The Army had another project at the same time, the Utility Helicopter program. That resulted in the UH-1 "Huey", one of the most successful helicopters of all time, with over 16,000 made and many still in use after six decades. It's not exotic but usually will get you there and back.)
I tried using other platforms, but it is just annoying to use in one aspect or another. Not even talking about mobile apps (which are pretty important these days).

I tried placing an option trade on Fidelity web version on desktop. It took me forever to figure out how, and even if I memorized the flow, it would still be much much slower and annoying than on RH. And that's on web, I don't even want to mention how bad it is on their mobile app.

I get that Fidelity operates on "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" principle, but sorry, UX matters a lot to users. And when a vastly superior in UX alternative appears, you cannot just sit and do nothing.

Due to all of that, Fidelity has been designated to be used solely for 401k management for me (which is almost automatic anyway).
Clever. I felt like it started to lock in on my reading tastes only after I had 5 selections, but that is still a decent app.

Also, I don't mind sites that make money from Amazon's affiliate program, as long as they are delivering value, and the links they provide actually are useful to people. This fits that bill nicely, and is a great example of the right way to monetize links.
Just FYI, non-square images should work fine. Arguably that's one of the selling points of convolutional neural nets. The early big-name training sets tended to be all square though, and if your design ends with a fully-connected layer (more common back then as well) then you're pretty locked-in for aspect ratio unless you retrain.
> Air pressure difference between FL350 (traditional airliners) and FL600 (Concorde) is about 1/2. But the speed difference was about 2.5x, so overall you would expect Concorde to need to expend about 3.125 times as much energy per flight hour.

This is false. First, drag is proportional to air density, not pressure, with density at FL600 being 30% of FL350. Drag is increased by 1.728 times[1], which means thrust required is increased by 1.728 times, but energy required is not linearly proportional to thrust required. As a jet engine moves at higher speeds and through less dense air, it's efficiency increases and therefore the power required to produce a unit of thrust decreases. So even though you need 1.728 times the thrust, you need less that 1.728 times the power. Even if it were the same amount of power, at 2.44 times the speed you are only expending that power for 41% of the time, and thus the energy consumption would be 73%.

There are plenty of very valid concerns with regards to the concorde and supersonic transport in general. For starters, you can't simply slap a modern turbofan on there and call it a day, you'd have to sacrifice decades of lessons learned to make high bypass turbofans of the necessary size, so they're still going to be inferior to more refined engines on subsonic aircraft. But the belief that the laws of physics force SSTs to be ridiculous gas guzzlers and no amount of technological refinement can overcome it is misguided at best.

[1] This is actually an oversimplification. Drag does not scale perfectly with qV^2 through the transonic and low supersonic regimes. Wave drag dramatically increases drag close to Mach 1 (which as an aside is the source of the term sound barrier). Wave drag becomes less significant past Mach 1.4 though and by the time you get to supercruise qV^2 is once again a good approximation.
That's basically what an AppImage is, except that an AppImage goes one step further and slaps that tarball onto an executable that opens its embedded tarball and runs whatever's inside.
I wonder, how in the world non-hydraulic assisted airliners flew?
Pixels Fighting
The best thing for fitness, particularly for those getting started, is to find a class with a regular schedule and that you must pay to take.

Paying for something, and having an expected time to show up and participate is _powerful_.

Some people have the drive and motivation to actually make themselves stick with an exercise plan. For the rest of us, having peers involved, and paying money is the equivalent motivation as a grade on an assignment in school... you do the assignment because of the grade, not because you just wanted to.

Find a local FleetFeet or favorite exercise store and sign up for a summer run class for 4 weeks, and see your improvement and motivation increase.
I like Google Domains. I would create a separate Google account only for your domains you’re worried about something happening.
Core (think Fortnite and ROBLOX) paying cash to users who make popular games
Sure it can.

For algorithms that fit a particular form, you could always automatically derive an optimal solution (think of dynamic programming). The actual question is: When is a neural net a good idea? Personally, I think it will always be great when the output goes to a human. So speech synthesis is a really great example. The same holds for game AIs.

But things that go into a "software 1.0" system (anything that needs to be understood by humans)? It will be difficult. Imagine recognition for self-driving cars sounds great until you have the first deadly accident that you simply cannot explain. Your system might even be really, really good, but that won't reduce the liability in that one case where it doesn't work.
I imagine that for some people it's about the added features and not about what pop culture thinks is in right now.
The difference is that in a casino you loose on average.

In stock market, you win on average.

Not to mention that stock market is much more a game of skill than game of chance (as is most of casino games).

I did very well in stock market and I don't feel like I'm gambling. I recognize there is risk and I lost money on some investments but I can usually pin point the reason I lost. It's not random.
Stock investing (i.e., owning stock for a long time, ideally with diversification, hoping to profit from new economic value created by the companies you own) is positive-sum, and I agree that it's beneficial to encourage that. Stock trading (i.e., buying and selling stocks over short periods, hoping to profit from short-term changes in price) is a zero-sum game of skill played against full-time professionals, with predictable results for an uninformed amateur.

Do you really think that 22-year-old is going to buy $100 worth of SPY and watch excitedly for their quarterly fifty-cent dividend? Or will they make a bunch of emotional trades, each one transferring some fraction of their hard-earned money (not every time, but in an expected value sense) to a professional's algorithm? Robinhood's marketing and user interface are designed to encourage the latter, and I believe that's net harmful to their clients. I'd rather know nothing about the stock market than believe falsely that uninformed trading of single stocks was a good idea.

Of course nothing stops you from using Robinhood to buy and hold an index fund; but to the extent their app is designed to encourage you not to, anyone who tries to use it that way is stealing cheese from mousetraps. New investors would be far better off going to Vanguard or similar, even if they have to save up a bit longer to meet the minimums.
But wasn't the alternative in the past just less data and fewer people with power to create preserved data?
This is an almost comical example given the current US government's relationship with alternative facts. Meanwhile, one EU member state has recently completed its transition to autocracy. The EU with its boxes of expensively-verified documents did nothing.

You genuinely believe anyone is going to care about some hashes in distributed ledgers somewhere? Nobody can be fucked to digitally sign an email.
You are not wrong in your assessment. It is clearly bias at play. This will change the social media landscape where you will have platforms delineated by political ideologies. It is sad that it is happening but it is true that voices are being suppressed. Suppression/Censorship of speech has never lead to a free society. The opposite in fact!
DOA until someone opens up this platform for PORN.
On the sandboxing front, it works great with Firejail: https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/appimage-supp...
Private Pocket using Django admin
Quick tutorial on how to use django admin
I use TesseractOCR for general screenshot text extraction. Granted they're not receipts but Tesseract works well enough. What packages did you survey? Do you still have the data and code?
It's totally possible, but so is any other change in behavior that we want to speculate about :-) For example, the pandemic may make people more likely to cancel a $39/month payment… or it may make people more reliant on Peloton because other exercise methods are now riskier. We're all guessing at this point.
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first thought: how did I not think of this? second thought: people have way too much money. check out the $20 mini bottle of glass cleaner you can buy on the accessories page https://www.mirror.co/accessories
EA’s STL had more to do with custom allocators and the fact that a lot of the platforms we were developing for 10 years ago didn’t have mmap or paged memory management (or at least nothing that they wanted to expose to us lowly user-mode gamedevs).
Most people do not.
Future historians are going to be glad the data exists. You know how many things in history we base off of some very questionable data?

We barely know about the Persian empire for example. It's mostly been preserved by plays written by a greek dude.
Is there something happening in the font world I don't know about? I just spent the past day struggling with fixing my fonts on Arch Linux. I finally just deleted all xorg packages that give bitmap fonts becuase I couldn't get any of them to load right in Firefox. This was after a font package totally broke my installation a week ago.
Pure gut reaction based off my own "fitness journey", and my family's: these things will all make really lovely racks for drying that rug that you don't really want to put through the dryer because it would stress the motor.

I kid…I don't kid. The mute treadmill. The silent exercise bike. All that unused exercise equipment, sitting in basements, forlorn. Everybody buys this stuff, assuming they are going to really get into it hard. And they won't. Most likely. Will a few people? Sure. Will the majority? Nah.

I straight up don't kid: going to the gym is (was) somewhat akin to going to church for me. (Still not open in Toronto yet.) You can worship or work out at home, but there's something I just can't quantify or articulate about having a space to go to that is NOT your home where you push yourself physically, and are not distracted by trying to find something on Netflix, or the dog getting in the way of kettlebell swings.

So I'm skeptical. If I were a shorting man, I'd short these companies, because eventually these gadgets will go the way of all those Bowflex past: extremely expensive dust magnets.

(Or perhaps I'm a freak; I have worked remotely for 5 years, and am highly highly productive. Perhaps this is all a quirk of my psychology.)
From what I've seen, Peloton and other high end fitness businesses very much understand this (Soul Cycle being the most clear example).
Assault rifles have selective fire (i.e. they can fire multiple bullets with each pull of the trigger). An AR15 is semi-automatic, which means only one bullet for each pull of the trigger.
The kinds of people this luxury fitness equipment is targeting are the same folks that will go to luxury gyms, which generally are around that price point. The big one I'm aware of is https://www.equinox.com

Sometimes you can justify the prices to people who would pay $30 per spin class and go to 10+ spin classes a month. They also tend to be located down town right next to big work hubs so they're easy to get to. Finally, they usually don't participate in the shady budget-gym "you can never cancel" dark patterns.
People panicked at first about the GL Apocalypse when Apple decided to use Metal instead of Vulcan.

But here's the way I look at it: OpenGL was created to abstract over graphics hardware and operating systems both at once, and yet was intended to be high-level enough that it could be called out to directly by application developers (including game developers).

It was what people needed at the time, but I think it was trying to do too many things in a single layer of abstraction, and these days it isn't doing a great job at any of them. It's known for being slow. Most people don't write it directly anymore; they use a game engine or library and only write shaders directly. It performs inconsistently between OSes.

Whereas Vulcan, and even more so Metal, are decidedly lower-level. They abstract over the hardware and that's about it. This enables the higher-level libraries and engines that people were already using to be more fine-tuned and performant while still allowing graphics hardware to remain a commodity.

In this context WebGL is interesting because it's also an abstraction over Vulcan/Metal/DirectX, while remaining lower-level than most of those other libraries and engines. It's really very much like we've split the OpenGL layer in two and ended up with one layer focused on performance within a given OS, and another layer focused on providing a modern, ergonomic API across all systems.

All in all, I think this is a pretty good way for things to have progressed.
Limit orders are not guaranteed execution.
This article is written like grown-ass adult investors are babies who aren't responsible for their actions and need to be protected from themselves...

>“They make it so easy for people that don’t know anything about stocks,” he said. “Then you go there and you start to lose money.”

What a ridiculous appeal to emotion. "They" don't do anything. The guy made a bunch of shitty trades and lost some money. It's no ones fault but his own. I also think Robinhood tends to cop a disproportionate amount of crap for their down time. Maintaining 100% uptime is very difficult to provide. Even with the amazing code-as-infrastructure we have now its just not realistic to assume there will never be downtime.

Their track record might not be perfect but if you compare it to the average crypto exchange they are practically exemplary...
> How would you like to get updates for something like this? Visit the website yourself occasionally to check for updates? Have the application notify you a new version is available? Have an integrated updater so the binary can update itself?

I've seen all three approaches with AppImage'd software.

There are also package managers specifically for AppImage'd software, though it doesn't look like any of 'em are particularly mature.
> Canonical is making it very easy for application developers to publish their apps for Linux users via the Snap Store, the app store for Linux.

Ugh. No, Canonical, no matter how much you'd like it to be, the Snap Store is not, and will never be, "the app store for Linux". The last thing the Linux community wants or needs is a closed-source[0], walled-garden approach to distributing applications.

[0] For the pedants out there: yes, you can create Snaps with open tools, but the only Snap server implementation is closed.
Thinkorswim (TD Ameritrade's trading platform) and Interactive Broker.
Silver Linings
Where did you rent dedicated servers?
The Complexity of Simply Searching for Medical Advice (2018)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000292970...
Most of the US, including the most heavily armed parts, have the homicide rate of Switzerland.
No, you had letters and other primary source material.

The garbage on Twitter is literally garbage and propaganda. The bleating of various mouthpieces are only useful in coordination with events and real documents.
Kubeadm is the "official" and certified tool, not Kubespray. It is easily scripted as well. If you're used to graphical installers though and don't like automation then by all means continue to use Rancher.
Is the whole video a deep fake? or just Linus' face and voice?
I see this come up a lot and it seems silly, let's summarize:

• The ad was about a political stance they disagree with (Antifa)

• The upside-down red triangle was specifically used to mark groups of prisoners who participated in anti-nazi political speech

So what's the alternative? That the Trump campaign chose an upside-down red triangle in an ad at random because... it's uh... a shape?

Do they also have ads with blue circles? pink rectangles? hmm, no.

Have they also "accidentally" used gold 6-pointed stars? yes.
They are lumped together because society has done so already. They are outside of the norms and are sexual minorities that challenge the old assumptions and frameworks like men always marry women and the only men without testicles are eunuchs. It is true that LGB are orienation while T is gender identity but they face the same issues. In a societal context where they were all essentially "equally normal as cis-straight" there wouldn't be much of an association just separate categories.
Politics Influences the Science of Covid-19 – Josh Mitteldorf
I see this opinion all the time about taking down statues, but how does that make any sense? Is there a movement that is burning books and taking down Wikipedia pages to go along with the statues? Because when I want to learn about history, I don’t check my local city hall..

Statues are often used to glorify or celebrate famous historical figures. I think Confederate statues would work well in a museum with context explaining the horrors of slavery, but to display them in public places is more glory than they deserve.

Many Confederates no doubt showed courage and other commendable qualities, but I do not agree with celebrating people who betrayed their country to fight for slavery.
Anti-Semitic Posts from NFL Player Desean Jackson
Also it's ridiculously annoying debugging issues with them, or finding out what source code compiled into a particular snap.

Even with docker hub I can find the sourcecode easily linked 99% of the time.
Grain: A Modern Language for the Web
GUADEC Rust meetings and the GStreamer improvements show another picture.
I think FB has a rule that people in prison are not allowed to be on Facebook.
I am not irate. I am pointing out a lack of seriousness in demanding evidence for a proposition that is obvious on its face. If you don’t see that black people, in America, have deliberately, systematically, and consistently faced discrimination and destruction of their wealth and ability to accumulate wealth it is willful ignorance not thoughtful insistence on fact based reasoning.
You are correct. Reddit tried to change all the moderators on the Donald Trump subreddit a few months back and in response the moderators built thedonald.win. After the recent ban wave of subs several others moved to the '.win network'.
Well since Mint is also a Debian distro you can basically run anything that you can run on Ubuntu. I've used it for 3 years and still haven't come across any situation where this isn't the case.
Yeah - see “Dunbar’s Number”

Beyond Dunbar’s Number, it’s not clear that you can employ mutual-aid theories like tit-for-tat to restrain free-riding and cheating.
That was one of the most unexpectedly crazy Wikipedia articles I've ever read. The level of intrigue seems completely out of proportion with what the project is. Steve Bannon (yes, that Steve Bannon) makes an appearance, a hostile takeover occurs, Federal Marshals and local police are called in on 2 separate occasions, former employees sabotage the site, experiments go awry, accusations of research fraud are constantly thrown around. It sounds like the plot of a TV show about a research project.

The drama starts in the Group dynamics section of the article amd continues to the end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2#Group_dynamics:_ps...
What's the algorithm for this? Is it just Conway's game of life?
Roger Stone is not in prison. He's expected to report to prison next week pending an appeal.