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I love pitch, going into Google slides, my default is always ugly slides (I'm far far from any designer). Default going into Pitch are beautiful slides, which are fun to work on because it makes it easy to make them beautiful.

Easy to use and collaborate on as well.

From the outside I tend to be almost as cynical: is it that much of a difference to become a killer enterprise tool taking marketshare from Google slides ? I never saw a big difference between Zoom and Google meet, even worse, for Zoom you had to download something, but as it happens, Zoom became a behemoth, so now my mind is open to even minuscule improvements over incumbents can sort lead to a run off growth and usage cycle.

I think this as many other things are highly subjective.

One might say that something that could be considered a fairly good indicator of a "good" food-scene would be this: https://www.statista.com/chart/16308/michelin-restaurant-us/ Where SF is no 2 in the country for number of Michelin star restaurants. Again as the first sentence states; one might argue this is not the indicator of a "good" food-scene but I guess we'll have to take what we can in terms of objectivity to try to judge a city on different things, and for food this is at least for high earners, probably a somewhat good indicator.

I've used FreeCad for some time, I'm not doing anything super advanced but works well for all basic modeling task.

One big caveat, which I've experienced on several past versions is that it freezes up completely (like freeze freeze) for 3 - 15 seconds whenever you open it, saves files etc.

I have a 2017 MacBook Pro 16 GB, with MacOS 10.14, so I don't think it should be any problems, but.

I'm just attributing it to "these are quirks you accept when going full open source and not paying for it"

I fully agree. Another thing I'm somewhat surprised to see is a lot of influential people talking about the trend of urbanization being reversed.

To me there are more factors than "the work is there" (at least in more developed country) to move to a big growing metropolis. An anecdotal observation I read somewhere here on HN was something like "have you logged on to tinder in a suburb of some smaller US city?".

Another big factor is the environmental one, sure if we can reduce the commute for a majority of people that would be awesome, however people will not stop moving around (restaurants, entertainment, socializing). What alternatives do we have if people are going to leave the city? Public transportation is for the most part only viable in highly dense areas. Electric car is of course going to grow their share, but medium term expanded public transportation is an extremely important part of the equation.

I completely get the sentiment of this; you can't pick your coworkers, commuting is insanely time consuming and you can most likely do most of your work from home.

I've probably been brainwashed by "popular culture" and the "corporate narrative" that they prob wanna push on us. I'm in my early 30s and my hobby is to build things, I've always loved that, now mostly software, but also hardware electronics etc. My biggest dream is to have something like General Magic or early Apple or some other startup building something crazy with a small group of people that are brilliant and driven.

Again this is probably just because I've been brainwashed, but I really don't see that scenario playing out over a Zoom call for instance: a brainstorming session on a whiteboard where everyone is excited and trying to solve a huge challenge together, building on each others ideas etc; It's right now just not how our zoom calls usually plays out.

I'm all for anyone being able to work remotely, and picking talents from wherever they might be, but I just don't hope this is 100% of what the future will look like.

Love Roam, but I would also love for it to be more like a Wiki. Why does everything have to be a bullet point? I want to save links, I want to write tutorials for myself etc. It's way to limiting to always have to do bullet points.

Yes I guess this is a controversial opinion: I do not consider anything that has the NC truly free. Pretty much all "free" datasets are NC-licensed, but they still throw around the word free. GPL is in a similar vein.

In the AV industry, there are a bunch of big datasets, all NC. At least now we have the Udacity sets and Audi recently released a really big dataset which was a proper CC BY-SA, Finally! This is something I with good conscious would be able to label free IMHO.

One thing though; which airline will fly only american citizen back from europe? will they fill a plane with those customers only? I think my main concern is that most if not all major European airlines will cancel all flights, regardless if there are a couple of US citizen on the flights. Meaning it's probably still going to be somewhat problematic to get back (if not from London then of course)

I was looking for datasets for different AV use-cases, object detection and segmentation of drivable surfaces. However all that I could find, most of the "famous" ones, are all "non-commercial"-use and research purposes. In my world even worse than GPL. So I decided to collect some truly open datasets, some are attribute-share-alike so maybe not completely open, but close enough :).

I put in a comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243276 on this approach, probably not novel even then, and ideas are pretty much nothing. However it's awesome to see something actually get built kinda validating it!

What made me fall in love with PyTorch was also that the "neural network training process" is defined almost as it is in theory, in code in PyTorch

- loop through epochs

- loop through each batch

- run a forward pass for the batch ( model(batch) )

- calculate the loss for the batch ( criteria(y, yprim)

- compute the gradients/backprop ( loss.backward() )

- update the weights (optimizer.step())

This really enforced everything I learned and I think breaks down the problem. All this of course in addition to everything else already mentioned, and super convenient module/network building and definition.

Even as a member this article is paywalled. Nowadays regardless of the authors intention of keeping the article available or not, the default is paywalled and many people miss it.

Whenever I have challenges that are difficult to Google (architectural, lots of different views/opinions etc all of highly technical nature) I feel that I don't ask, because as others mentioned here; asking for time face to face is so much easier and better than setting up a Zoom call. I feel the same for all interactions, whenever I'm alone at the office I always tend to save interactions to whenever people get in because Slack/email/hangouts always incur a cost to communication. This said, ppl should def be able to do remote, however getting people in to the office sometimes still has a lot of value.

Not sure if my comment here is relevant, but the past 5 - 8 days or something Medium (logged in) changed for me significantly. I can now only see the main header stories and some top lists to the right:

https://imgur.com/a/bfdHb

The mobile just says "You've made it through your stories for now". Has anyone else experienced this the past days ? Have they expanded their subscription model to include even articles that are not "paywalled" ?

Thanks for both your answers. Though I was also thinking perhaps you could just suspend the particles in mid-air, and use the movable prism in a laser projector to actually "render" the projection (thus not needing to move them at at a high frame rate or at all). However I guess, you probably do need to move the particles as well to be able to make it a 3D volumetric shape in space (seen from all angles etc).

Would it be possible to suspend these kinds of particles using a standing wave of ultrasound ? Perhaps something similar to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265401333_Cell_and_... and then project the laser on them.

There are a range of different methods that can be used, but your guess is probably correct regardless of which method you use: "breaking the image into smaller 'patches' and looping through those to look for chunks of a barcode". I would probably train a classifier (SVM or similar) using some rotation invariant feature, such as DAISY or ORB (BRIEF). I tried something similar for CRF image segmentation. This is mighty impressive in JS whatever method they use, the CV libraries in JS are kind of limited.

Usually Javascript (Node), but also Java. However I'm most productive in Python, for all and everything, from whipping up a small Flask REST service to doing some data crunching using Pandas. Unfortunately for me, where I work Node is the language of choice.

Looks great, no pricing though? Also what would be interesting is what the different datasources that I can/need to plugin.

So everyone should be able to consume resources on this earth but not be forced to give anything back? I fail to see how this will give us a viable future when some people will be able to "opt out" of society?

I've been using 99designs.com for landing page design and further used bootstrap and css to make it run. :)

Though still think it's quite unfair to call Tesla and SpaceX "interesting sample runs".

Love this service/idea, because i think (at least here in sweden) employee benefits lacks precisely this, cheap but qualitative benefits (which are not only discounts), like a great cup of coffee or a month of Spotify. Great job!

Great article! I think i will try this approach on labeled EMG signals.

When i went to 8th grade (in Sweden) we did an experiment in chemistry class where we would put a tiny bit of Sodium into a bowl of water to see it fizzle about (reacting with the water), all students where allowed to carry out this on our own. However a group of student (unaware of the possible consequences) took a chunk of sodium and put it in the water, violent reaction of course which left mark in the ceiling and glass everywhere. Nothing came out of this other than quite a long talk about dangers in chemistry and so on.

Exactly what i was thinking as soon as i saw this one. Isn't urlbox free?

That would be amazing, even though the boosted boards remote seems kind of awesome on it's own.

Just preordered one, if it's as good as it looks on the video the possibility to build amazing things are endless. As stated in the the NewScientist article, this combined with glass and some home control equip. Oh the future is now ! :)