skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is false. You can prototype a network on an M1 [1] and teacher-student models are a de facto standard for scaling down.

You can trivially run transfer-learning on an M1 to prototype and see if a particular backbone fits well to a small dataset, then kickoff training on some cloud instance with the larger dataset for a few days.

[1] https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/11/accelerating-tensorflow-...
Ask HN: Anyone prefer to use nocode platforms instead of coding?
What tools do you use and what do you like or dislike about them? I’m a coder but haven’t been able to find a no-code tool that’s simple, yet allows you to customize/write code when possible.

I’d love to do the majority of building using drag & drop UI components but also write code when needed — whether it’s a custom React component I can build and connect to rest of my app, or a custom backend service consumed by the UI. Also not talking about simple landing page builders, instead fullstack mobile/web app builders.

I find most no code platforms too confusing, and also built for people who can’t code at all or understand the process.

What do you think?
I'm not quite sure why they opted for such a round about way of including bindings instead of using cargos "features" section.

I'm guessing it has to do with using local files to create the bindings.
It's not clear that yelling 'buy crypto, crypto is great' while buying crypto is illegal.

It's not even clear that yelling 'buy crypto, crypto is great' while selling crypto is. Bitcoin isn't really a security, and the rules for commodities and currencies are different from those for securities.
OK but attributes like the mohawk are 'playful' in this setting. It distinguishes its bearer by making him look aggressive while still being a good, collaborative member.

On the opposite, ML could indicate that in spite of one's hippy looks he really is a potential ruthless monster.
Legislating that property owners not use anti-human systems doesn't take much effort, is easy to knock out. Using a zero-sum mentality, that good legislation in one place is incompatible with doing work elsewhere, is harmful. Especially when the work you talk about requires not just legislation, but significant resources invested. Here, we only mandate that companies do the right thing, at their own cost. This seems like an easy win, something worth knocking out early. Blocking easy at-hand work on all the backlog of big important hard to do work seems illogical.
Why do you need to blow leaves in the first place? Use a broom or rake.
See

https://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Viz-Method-Visualization-Ideas/...

learn to maximize what you can do with Powerpoint

take art classes at a local school

artists i know, and even some of the greatest anime artists in the world frequently start with paper and pencil, scan it in and clean it up with raster tools.
My take on this is a little different. (Disc: I'm a cofounder of Clerk which is also in the space)

I think Okta will try to build "Okta for Customer ID"

When people think of Okta, they think of it as a tool to help employees securely access third-party SaaS vendors.

That same problem exists for Customer Identity, but it looks a little different. Instead of setting up SSO for SaaS, developers are writing code to pass their customer data into tools like Stripe, Intercom, Salesforce, Segment, Mailchimp, etc, etc.

This is redundant work that a centralized Customer identity provider has the potential to alleviate.

I don't really think Auth0 is well-positioned to pull this off, and that's part of why we started Clerk. But considering Okta has that playbook in it's DNA, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they're attempting.
I wish this SPARC better luck than the CPUs.
That doesn’t fit any electric blower I’ve ever heard. The overall volume is notably lower and the frequency isn’t too different - slightly higher but even a hair drier with a smaller diameter isn’t a “high-pitched scream”.
Simplistically, let’s take the above statistic “A randomly chosen black individual in the united states has a 72% chance of leaning democrat” at face value. So, a coin flip would be lower than 50-50 because someone of that race in that country does not have a 50 50 chance. So you would adjust the chance to 72-28 and compare that to the Facial recognition results. If you find that the results are the same, then you know that the Facial Recognition not picking up on anything beyond race. If the results are different, you know the FR is picking up on something in addition to race.

Really it is more complex than that, but fundamentally you try to say “how accurate can we be using just age, gender, and ethnicity” and use that as your controlled benchmark.
Not shrooms, but the first e-commerce happened 50 years ago when the ARPANET was used to arrange a pot sale between students at the Stanford AI Lab and the MIT. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said
I mean, we still have it with AfD, no? I think it's a given that some portion of the population will support fascist parties. IMHO, how much total support they achieve has little to do with the books people can read, but much to do with socioeconomic balances (global and national).
I wonder if this was NASA's Super Guppy: https://www.kwch.com/2021/03/05/nasas-super-guppy-spotted-ov...
I've been revisiting The Lord of The Rings lately, and something that sticks out to me is that I'm especially enjoying digging into the background lore. The reason being it all fundamentally revolves around "one theme to rule them all": the nature of good and evil.

To me, this thematic cohesion is what makes LotR a good story. By the same token, when we look at stories of famous historical figures (both those we consider ethical and those we don't), the stories tend to distill some sort of theme from a person's life.

By all means, it's good to be altruistic. But I think this is a further distillation of what a good story is, and how it pertains to the stories we tell about our history.
Do you live somewhere with respectable residential power?

120 volts at 10 amps is kind of tepid, when compared against a combustion engine, and typical for the US
Compare like for like. Commercial grade blowers blow roughly the same (600+cfm).

If you're comparing a commercial backpack to a consumer-grade handheld, sure, big difference. But, that's apples and oranges.
My 16 tine rake has 45 spm (strokes per minute) with a 300 gr flying capacity, or a 25 kg capacity when rolling a pile. I decided to upgrade this year to the nylon fibre collection bag, which has sweet dual handles.

I use animal skin gloves for that authentic feel, though I've tried synthetic and bareback, and that's fine too.

I've found my emissions are lower with this setup, unless I ate lentils for lunch.
That might not actually be as bad. Generators are four-stroke.
> Self storytelling is so essential for people that one of the most effective techniques for treating depression and anxiety boils down to "tell yourself better stories."

This sounds a lot like what Jordan Peterson calls "Self Authoring" https://www.selfauthoring.com/
This is amazing chutzpah, and I hope that it ends up a minor plot point in the next Neal Stephenson novel.
Humans might try, but the same study says they're not good at it with only 55 percent accuracy.
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If you have a couple unobstructed squares to mow it's great. If you have stuff to go around the cord becomes more of a pain than the ICE equivalent.
> it contains Dangerous Ideas from which the American mind must be protected.

Have you actually seen the imagery? This is not a good-faith characterization of what is happening. The images are just rude racist imagery (saying a chinese person has "slanted eyes" for example) that the IP owners were embarrassed by.
Maybe the ideas is that advertisers would see a horrible conversation rate on google and stop advertising to you?
How is the existence of a book, "... the right to force others to repeat your speech"?

People want the book removed because it exists, someplace - not because someone has a metaphorical megaphone. Let's stop with the metaphors, by the way. This isn't literary critique, or English Literature 301. It's a discussion of censorship. Stopping someone-who-isn't-you from reading a work that has nothing to do with you, is censorship.
I don't know about the 10% figure, but regardless of whether you pick numbers from the high or low end of the range of estimates, the impact of lawn equipment is still staggering. 4 cycle engines make a huge difference, as do things like catalytic converters and scrubbers. 2-stroke engines, on the other hand, are both a horribly inefficient design to begin with, and also typically come fitted with absolutely no pollution controls.

Also, it's not just leaf blowers. It's also lawn mowers and other gas powered lawn equipment.
We're using Ory Hydra and a modified version of Ory Oathkeeper in production, but our usecase might be a bit different (we already had a user database and auth system). Compared to implementing them from scratch, setup was simple and the end product is fantastic.

We're looking at migrating to Ory Kratos eventually. It seems to offer the things we would've wanted from Auth0, but selfhosted. Granted, you're right - I'm sure it's much more complex to selfhost Kratos than to pay for Auth0.
When making the point that protocols are more resilient than services, consider including an example of a protocol that has at least .0001 as many users as Reddit does.
Plug in to a generator? :)
Largely going by FTEs at this point... 50-500 employees
I think the biggest thing that is "light years ahead" is that numpy is built right in and insanely extensible. Libraries can be very lightweight / maintainable because they don't need to roll their own numpy like tensorflow pytorch etc. do (which makes them depend on bigcorps to improve and maintain). In julia somehow everything is compatible and composable. On the other hand counting from 1 is is quite a big issue for me and leads to constant errors when I switch between python and julia. Also the startup time it takes is a huge bummer. They should have an interpreted mode for debugging (as long as the debugger is unusable for e.g. breakpoints)
I think a reasonable option for people that do this for a living would be a back-park worn battery pack that has an inverter to drive leaf blowers that typically use a 110VAC input, since the backpack could house the equivalent of maybe 10 of the normal small batteries that are used in the battery powered leaf blowers.. only problem is that they are pretty spendy.. likely the cost will come down once these are more mainstream.. but yea the noise of these things is horrible.. for example, lets say you live in a neighborhood where 8 of your neighbors all have lawn services that use them.. easily that means you could have one or two per day.. bwahhh bwahhhhh everyday.. super obnoxious.. Here is one backpack electric leaf blower:
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Not only that, but the dudes with gas leaf blowers outside my apartment seem to always make 3 or 4 passes by my apartment if I'm in the middle of a conference call.

They seem to only make a single pass if I'm not having a call.
For anyone interested in small fusion reactors there is another startup called Tokamak Energy with great Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCuSlFJbBUIj1zfJLRnGXSow
Offer HN: I'll help you understand your startup offer
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I can help look at your job offer and help you model and think about how much money your equity might be worth.

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I have been working for startups for > 10 years now in various engineering roles. I help my friends, especially ones who work in larger companies answer the question, `Is this offer good?`

I am constantly surprised by how less engineers understand startup equity and how to think about their offers.

I see engineers joining startups for extremely low value equity and also see engineers reject amazing startup offers because they value equity wrong( Recently, someone thought their equity is too low because, they just did number_of_shares*409A valuation)

I am doing this just to help some engineers. I don't need payment etc. Just play it forward :)
Yes. But there are a couple advantages:

1 - the goal is so google doesn't know which ads are interesting for you, so it helps you with that.

2 - in the short term, you are making google earn more, but if more people do it, ads are going to start being way less effective, as the companies pay google per click, but they don't actually get any signups (or whatever their goal is). Maybe that could make google ads less relevant
>McAfee is really who is suspected by the local community, because they had frequent disagreements about property boundaries

I have recently watched a documentary on him, and it goes even beyond that. One of the people in his entourage was a known local gang member (just like majority of people in McAfee's entourage), and he was seen leaving the residence of the murdered person on the night of the murder occurring at the time after the murder has already happened iirc. They had interviews with that person too, and he pretty much said as much as one can say to admit they did it without actually admitting it.
I concur with your suspicion. A quick google of smart fridge startups yields this post as its 5th result.I'll list what my search returned.

1)Ovie.life, which doesn't seem to have launched yet.
2)Karma.life, which came up in an article about it, rather than the website proper, though the .life tld seems like an interesting trend.
3)Whisk.com, which appears to be the most alive, so far, of the companies I found in this space.
4)Brezzl.com, which makes a fridge cam to turn your dumb fridge smart. Because people want smart fridges without spending smart fridge money, ostensibly.
5)ByteFoods.co, which looks a reinvented version of those random food item vending machines. I can't tell if employees pay per item or the client firm pays to keep it stocked, but seems like an interesting perk to have if the latter.

And that's it for the first page of results.

Observations:

1)It seems like every major fridge manufacturer now has a smart fridge offering that already does much of what a pure smart fridge startup would do.
2)Most of the results returned by this query were smart fridge startup adjacent, if I had to rigorously categorize them.
3)Whisk is the only one I think I've heard of, but I'm not sure what it does.
4)I have a wife that does the shopping. Aside from Covid concerns this past year, I wouldn't want to be the one to tell her I've solved the "problem" of her having a recurring task to do that gets her out of the house a few times a week and brings real value to our family, and all with a single click for the low cost $9.99 per month, no less. She might like the extra free time, but I doubt it would be in our combined best interest to have that bit of control and impact taken away from her "for her convenience". Call me crazy, but I'd go as far to say she likes it. She's a homemaker, so I'm assuming a more directly income generating career oriented person would feel differently, especially if the food shopping we're "their task" in a given relationship, unless their partner handled all the home maintenance and yardwork such that nutrient acquisition being left to the subject in question seemed fair, though in our case, Granddad does those things (enjoying his retirement, he says), making the 90 hours a week I spend running my businesses darn enjoyable, I have to say. I'm curious to hear from others if they, or their partners (whether directly queried or as matter of perception) enjoy, or seem to enjoy stopping/going out for groceries (let's assume in the pre-covid times, for argument's sake).

I think my final observation above is what makes smart fridge startups DOA. They're messing with the bread and butter of a demographic that still, despite rapidly a-changing times, make up the vast majority of the bread-spenders, when it comes to nutrients, at least. That might be ill-advised. I who knows. It's not my wheelhouse.

I think I'll wait for a replicator, a la star trek, to hit the local distribution center before I start that conversation with Mrs. Mobley, anyway. I choose life.
If it's been a couple years since you tried electric, I would try again. The state of the art in cordless electric landscape tools really has improved a lot over a fairly recent period. If you stay within one brand the batteries are all interchangeable too, so if you just have two and keep one on the charger you can pretty much eliminate battery charging headache. Some vendors offer a backpack-type electric blower that uses multiple batteries for better runtime.

I used to begrudgingly use expensive four-stroke tools because they were less irritating than two-stroke and electrics weren't up to snuff, but more recently I've replaced everything but a leaf mulcher with cordless electric and I'm really happy with them. I'll probably replace the mulcher eventually as well, I don't doubt that the cordless equipment can deliver, it's just that it still works and where I use it trailing an extension cord is fine.
You really need to get the wired ones if you want decent performance, in my experience. Having that power extension cable is a pain, but the battery powered ones barely do anything by comparison
Can you provide data on motorcycle engines? I do believe this to be true for 2-strokes and older motorcycles, but for modern Euro-4/5 regulated street motorcycles I very much doubt it.
> fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes

Is there any other kind?
Not today, but we think there's a potential for a marketplace/catalogue type approach in the long-term as we build out both the customer and vendor sides.
Coach or Mentor: What Is the Difference and How to Choose?
There are high-performing battery electric mowers and trimmers now, that use the standard battery packs from power tool manufacturers, so they are really easy to find and easy to charge. No need to risk running over an extension cord.
The electric ones are not just weaker in performance, but have other significant problems.

These batteries really will not age well in both common scenarios. The professional landscaper that uses this thing every day, possibly for a extended period of time will kill the battery very fast. The casual home owner that may use this thing once a weak or so will kill the battery with inactivity as it sits around in the garage 99% of the time.

The entry-level models don't even have exchangeable batteries. Basically throwing a perfectly good device away because battery is dead, producing huge amounts of e-waste.
> But considering Okta has that playbook in it's DNA, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they're attempting.

I'm sorry; Okta has which playbook in its DNA?
> "the traveling faster than light means information about an event can be received before the event happens from the perspective of the observer"

Why is that a problem? So let's say I'm on the moon and you're on Earth, and you're watching me through a telescope. I use an FTL cell phone to text you "Hi". Your phone buzzes, you read the message, then visually observe me through the telescope typing the message before you've received it. I guess I just don't understand why that really matters or violates causality. You're just seeing outdated information. There's no way you can interact with my "past" self that you can see through the telescope, it's just a visual artifact.
Done. Appreciate the feedback.
> Dr. Seuss is racist, was racist, has always been racist.

This is a true statement. His behavior always showed this regardless of what obama said. Unlike your orwellian quote, we're not rewriting history, just changing our tolerances.
Marvellous; I'd never seen this.

The format and humour remind me very strongly of the Bird & Fortune (aka The Long Johns) skits here in the UK:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bird+%26+fortun...
Doing crazy things with CSS, including animations, has never been easier or more consistent between browsers, and yet creativity in web design has gone down practically to zero these days. I blame mobile, where nobody can seem to escape from the "responsive column of blandly styled content" paradigm.
Couldn't you accomplish that with a browser extension?
Twitter's 'Super Follow' subscription takes shots at Substack and Patreon
Corded electrics are not powerful enough. A 15A, 120VAC circuit at 80% load can supply 1440 Watts of power or just under 2 HP, assuming all the power went to mechanical energy and none was lost to heat.

Commercial leaf blowers are over 3 HP. 1-2 horsepower doesn't seem like a big difference, but it's literally 50-100% more power.

My (small) push mower is 5.1 HP, over 250% of the max power I could get from a corded unit. It can still bog down in heavy, damp grass, especially while mulching. Take away 60% of its power and it's not going to get better.

Battery trimmers are awesome; I'll give you that one.
How is it superflous? It improves air quality a lot, and it's free to implement. Also, it's not an exclusive policy, it can be done in addition to the things you propose.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/women-affected-by-mis...

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/4/9/21204425/targeted-ads...
The Wink home automation system had smart egg trays.
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/quirky-egg-minder-review/
but they aren't? Fruit and veggies are first for our (Germany) two largest chains, bread isn't second for either. Aldi has neither at the beginning.
Also with the hilarious headline

'Floating ship' appears over Folkestone harbour
according to a neighbor who looked into it, you can just report them, but the inspector has to see it happening to issue a citation, so you'd have to get them to come at the right time.

i'm personally not sympathetic to the noise argument, since we accept the constant noise of much more plentiful and sometimes-quieter-but-sometimes-louder 2-ton vehicles all over the place. blowers/trimmers are also usually used during business hours where it has to be acceptable to make some noise for work purposes.

in contrast, the pollution argument is quite salient, as @porb121 details[0], and reason enough for the ban. the exhaust pollutants can be smelled surprisingly far away (dozens of feet) and can enter homes through windows and linger. and with blowers at least, raking and sweeping are likely as efficient in most cases and doesn't really save labor/exertion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360215
Has anyone else noticed the trend of ever-increasing laws and ever-decreasing enforcement?

It’s not a good mix. We end up with a system that punishes people following the rules and doesn’t do anything about the many people breaking the rules. It also creates the sense of unfairness and general lawlessness — that laws are recommendations that can mostly be ignored.
You've never seen landscape crews making their rounds?

New theft target when each one has to carry $8k worth of batteries in the truck/trailer to have enough juice to perform their normal task, which could have been performed by two 10 gallon jugs of gasoline.
How do you feel about Chabuddy G as a character?
Targeted advertising (in the way people object to it usually) comes with tracking and data collection. Data collection leads to databases with details about people that can be hacked or sold - not just to private parties, it is known that law enforcement and military buy such databases. And the military generally does not collect data about people to do nice things to them.

Targeted ads are used to target people at their weakpoints: pushing people into addiction, spending money on questionable health remedies, ... - and from what I hear from people in publishing industry, basically nobody is effective at policing this kind of thing, but rather takes a "oh to bad, if you tell us the exact example we'll ban them maybe".

Data collection also creates additional resource usage which makes user experience worse.