skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remind me again which European countries large numbers of Muslims have immigrated to the UK from?
Urban Train Track Doubles as Shopping Alley in Thailand
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thank you! Straight from the source, awesome!
Apparently, they tried to use the raw audio waveform with the original setup from the WaveNet paper but couldn't get it to train on their TitanX, so they used MFCCs instead. It's not exactly clear why this is the case.

"Second, the Paper added a mean-pooling layer after the dilated convolution layer for down-sampling. We extracted MFCC from wav files and removed the final mean-pooling layer because the original setting was impossible to run on our TitanX GPU." [1]

[1] https://github.com/buriburisuri/speech-to-text-wavenet#speec...
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They're trying to develop a rationale for the managed decline. They desperately want this to make sense because stopping everything is a necessary condition of addressing the anxieties they dwell on; primarily their worries about the environment.

Meanwhile, actual citizens have moved on; right or wrong they've empowered people that they think can make more "jerbs," so the ladder removal operation is on hold for the time being.
I can think of all the bullshit jobs people do and then come to the conclusion that it'd be better for me to do what I can to contribute to society through research, participation in free software projects, volunteering, etc.

Doing that I could be useful to thousands, maybe even millions of people. As opposed to, say, wasting the time of hundreds of people trying to sell them stupid magazines they don't need or want while leeching money off of the poor grandma who doesn't know how to say no.

Alternatively, I could spend the time to build something that somewhere down the line could become a useful product to share with the world, or a profitable business that could pay back all the tax money I used up (and more).

Doing a bullshit job 8 hours a day leaves me too exhausted to do anything particularly useful with the little free time I have.
Who cares? It would still advance DNA research by identifying the prevalence of false positives.

Incidentally I'm really sick of comments like yours dismissing other people on the sole basis that they're especially interesting to themselves. For all you know that might be indicative of some subtle mental illness. If you can't comment without denigrating other people then maybe you're the one with the problem.
After more than 10 years of serious and progressing anxiety disorder I discovered this plant wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypericum (Hypericum Perforatum or Millepertuis in french). In less than 3 weeks I was a different man. Ironically it has one noticeable "side effect": it has aphrodisiac properties (I didn't know it but it became quite obvious after several weeks. It's confirmed by other sources too). Also raises your Photosensitivity. One year later I still take one filmed capsule of plant extract every other evening and I don't stop taking it for more than a week or else I start to feel the unforgettable signs of anxiety creeping back.
This is a very interesting and well-written article. The subject of particular importance to me for a couple reasons.

One is professional. I ran an obesity treatment clinic for several years but it's a clinically important area of practice that fascinated me as far back as undergraduate years. The article correctly states that treatment for obesity is largely unsuccessful, the tools and methods have barely made a dent in terms of solutions.

Surgical procedures for obesity are crude measures to be sure, very frequently associated with severe nutritional deficiencies that are hard to manage. IMO at best surgery is a desperate "last straw" means to stave off fatal outcome, worthy in that sense, but hardly a prescription for the 99% of the population who are not in that condition.

Fact is there's no medical problem more complex than obesity. Hundreds of genetic factors are connected to the many metabolic, endocrine, and immune system alterations from normal found in the obese. There are profound correlations with behavioral disorders and metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity.

An issue in the research that I'll need to learn more about is whether obese patients actually have excess aprosin. The woman who is the subject of the article is deficient, but that doesn't necessarily mean that blocking the hormone will have a favorable effect in obesity. Also, it's apparent the hormone has multiple effects, antagonizing the hormone effect could well cause undesirable outcomes.

I can easily empathize with the woman's plight. While I'm not suffering anything like the devastating condition portrayed, I've always been on the underweight end of the scale. Even as I go forward into my "mature" years, this characteristic hasn't changed. Tall and very thin body build isn't optimal for health and social reasons, then again people say I look good for my age, so it's not the same set of problems as the article describes.

The lesson I take from the article and real-world observations is the incredibly vast range of individual variability among humans, not that we'd have any doubt about it based on even casual observation. But it's a reality we have to constantly remind ourselves about. Our preference of putting things into categories blinds us to the limits of categorizing. Truth is on close examination humans will inevitably fall between the cracks wherever we put the categorical boundaries.
Marc Andreessen on Flying Cars
As astaloli said, the DSM is not valid.

If changes in diagnoses are changing yearly...the NIMH seems completely correct in rejecting the book.
I'll leave that problem to my great-great-grandchildren. For now, I'm more concerned with pulling off the fossil-to-solar transition without breaking down in the process.
Free money for everybody! Cool now to go buy some groceries... hey where's the food? Oh I guess the farmer realized they didn't have to work any more either... it's almost like money isn't some magical thing that automatically has value, but merely serves as a medium of exchanging value, something this author completely misses.
>I believe I can deliver it. Especially when I use C.

No, you can't. It's been shown constantly. Buffer overflows. UB. Stack overflow. Dangling pointers. Memory leaks. It will happen.

>it is literally impossible to write secure code in C (you'd have to prove it)

Nobody can prove that. But I can show that it's significantly more error prone. Most other languages have some protections against stack overflow or invalid memory access. Not to mention UB.

>my web application should be the least of anyone's worries.

Not true. Of all the parts of the stack, your webapp is likely the least tested, least used, and thus the most likely to have the most serious bugs. Not to mention that, unlike most of the software you describe, your webapp is likely handling direct user input, the most dangerous location for a bug. And let's not even get into what happens if you're storing sensitive user data.

>And the hypothetical alternative language would likely be implemented in C or C++. And it would be translated to assembly or machine code, a horribly unsafe language. If bugs are inevitable, then no language is safe.

Any backend that generates C can generate near-perfect C code. As for runtimes and compilers written in C, they'll have bugs. All programs have bugs. That's why C sucks. But for the most part, you only have to worry about three issues in the compiler: 1) a built-in function has a bug in it, and doesn't work right. This can happen in any language, including C. 2) the runtime has an error in it that allows user input to cause some kind of memory corruption bug, and exploit it. This is bad, but those codebases are heavily scrutinized, and thus are less likely to contain bugs than the hand-rolled versions that you'd write. 3) there was some kind of GC error. This is probably what you're thinking of.

Two men are walking in the woods. They come across a bear, which starts moving towards them to attack. The first man starts tying his shoes, getting ready to run. The second man asks him, "What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear." And the first man says, "I don't need to outrun the bear. I just need to outrun you."

The same is true of the GC. The GC doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than you. And statistically, you suck at what the GC does.

>If bugs are inevitable, then no language is safe.

Of course no language is safe. But some are safer than others.
Seems to me that everyone basically agrees about a subset of the beneficial ways that surplus could be spent. The problem is how society would need to be reorganized to make that happen. There is some concentrated power out there that is very opposed to this kind of change.
That wasn't the point. The point is that the "laws" of economics are the same rigorous laws of physics.

Markets aren't forces of nature. That's propaganda.
Between the Wires with Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks and CodePen
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower;—when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.

- John Ruskin
But not harder to have exist in the first place.
Technical progress has brought about any of the perceived benefits you mention; the economic system has only caused those benefits to be disproportionately applied. While the median quality of life has improved, the extremes continue to widen making that metric less and less relevant. The "average person" you talk about has become a tiny minority.

Your comparison of wealth concentration to the 1930s is also disingenuous: wealth concentration spiked massively toward the end of the 1920s, it was far lower than now before and after that. That particular point in history isn't a particularly ambitious bar to set.

Though if you're linking heritage.org while keeping a straight face, I fear this may fall on deaf ears...
> Android is a known insecure platform

And so is iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, etc. if by insecure you mean "has has historically had security holes and can be used in an insecure manner".

If you mean that Android is just "insecure" as a general statement, though, I'd have to disagree. The operating system itself can be used in a moderately secure way is relation to other popular mobile OS's like iOS.
Geomagnetism also keeps your genetic change (via irradiation) from exceeding your tolerance. Relevant within single and generational lifespans.

I.e. Breathing is of limited utility, if the solar weather still gives you cancer.
Are you basing this on secondary sources from independent contemporaries?

Because you really can't trust anything originating from a single source.
Which country and using what precedent?

The only country that could feasibly nationalize Facebook is the US (because of it's location), and the word "nationalization" in the US is associated with the drivers for a 35 year cold war. So, how would this work?
Facebook didn't make or launch a satellite. Spacecom owned the satellite, Israeli Aerospace Industries made it. Facebook leased capacity on it. Just fyi.
I've paid for Sublime Text 2, and I got pretty annoyed when v3 came out with only extremely minor or patch-level changes only a couple of months after I bought the previous version, and I was required to pay for the license again (I didn't and used it only for a short while after this happened). I've recently moved to Atom and enjoy it a lot.

Yes, it's not as fast/light as Sublime, and it can't handle very big files, but that's rarely been a problem in my case.
I was able to get through a lot of my childhood tics this way - compulsive blinking, hand flapping, and a skin-folding movement of my thumb that left a open wound at the edge of my hand. Not all of them though. I've still got a bunch of large muscle movements that won't go away. Maybe I should try meditating again.
The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model
Doesn't for me. i5 and 24 gigs of RAM.
You can show top/bottom or side-by-side stereo on a 3D TV as well.
Fascinating. I found a bug in Stripe's python client a while back. They acknowledged and fixed it in less than a week. From a technical perspective Stripe 'just works' in a way that all SaaS vendors could learn from.
They are lots of IBM people. But surely not?!
I notice my local Target regularly prices in-store items higher than their own online price, as much as 25% more. I've gotten them to price match without much hassle, but I'd rather shop at Walmart than have to deal with it.
Because the people with a lot of power are actively opposed to any fix?

A huge number of people want this mismatch to be fixed, but are wise enough to know they have zero ability to do anything about it.

We're in the midst of discovering just how useless "consciousness raising" slacktivist campaigns are, and that was basically the last hope for being able to contribute to a solution for a lot of people.
> Your mailman can read your mail and steal your packages. Your bank can steal your money. Your waiter can poison you. Your car mechanic can overcharge you.

And then they could end up prosecuted and/or loose their jobs, will any of it happen to Reddits CEO?
I've used dial up via a cheap modem to a Cisco 2500 as recently as a few years ago for OOB console access. It's not gold plated but still works fine

More recently though it's all been on ethernet handoff either via the DC or a local provider
Wisconsin Agrees to Presidential Vote Recount at Third-Party Candidates' Request
While having strong self control is of course important, there are differences between individuals that you're not considering. Many of the people who give this self-control argument have never had theirs tested - it is hard to not eat a lot when you are acutely hungry and eating doesn't stop that, for example.

Also note that your statement doesn't really work in the general case. I have friends who are extremely skinny (to the point that it distresses them) who are trying to get bigger. It doesn't matter how many thousands of calories they eat, how excellent their nutrition is, they struggle to gain anything - and that is someone who naturally only wants to eat ~1500 calories per day. Is it lack of self-control that they don't spend every waking moment stuffing in high-calorie food despite not being hungry?
People should leave slavery out of their intellectual arguments.

Its callous.

Human trafficking is still organized, global, and wildly profitable. There are people in slavery near you, no matter where you are. It's real.
This thread has given me a big lack of confidence in Amazon as a retail outlet.

I see a lot of "you're problem is solved by doing X", and maybe that's fine for me if I care to remember the advice but I'm not the big spender in my family, and I certainly don't care to put in the effort to keep up-to-date on how not to get screwed by shopping at a particular website.

From what I can tell, there's are issues with fake reviews, fake vendors, and counterfeit products being commingled with genuine products. Why would I put myself in a situation where I know any of these are potential problems?

Add to that when I have had problems with Amazon, the support channels have historically been unclear and they have an extraordinarily poor reputation for how they treat their employees.

What is the logical path that would make me want to spend my money with this particular vendor?
This are the idea I have been struggling with:

1) how do you get people to accept the existence of basic income without perceiving the beneficiaries as moochers.

2) what do people on basic do?

Right now your example of people visiting the elderly is in some place paid work but can also be performed by volunteer. However volunteers should be vetted.

My guess is that when everybody is on basic, you can earn "social credits" for volunteering. But should that grant you access to more resources, or should that be like "Achievements" in video games? And how do you avoid turning that into the Black Mirror episode "15 millions Merits".

But even "social credit" cannot prevent the paid workers to look down on the moochers on basic.

How do we get to the star trek society utopia...?
What about my comments? I am not from that sub, but what if spez decides to do something to my 5 year old reddit comments just because he doesn't like that I am criticizing him?

Have you every commented on Reddit? If so, now it could be a threat on the life of a head of state and the investigation could greatly complicate your life just because you ticked off spez.
Ordering from a black/gay vendor is not as unrelated as ordering from a different country, with different consumer laws and regulations.

> rational separation of anecdote and data and needing to justify your statements

No statement was made though. An anecdote simply provided additional data, and you objected on the basis of what people might assume.

> but don't have data to back that up

You might also assume that from no data being provided, and indeed, no claim being made.

> we have a statement that only adds to the comment when combined with your own preconceptions

or allows another thread on the topic to emerge, in this case if it's relevant that China was involved, causing someone with knowledge on the topic to comment.
A Tutorial on Bayesian Optimization [pdf]
I don't think it does. For one, people have an intuitive understanding of basic arithmetic regardless of whether they're educated or not and this can be improved through practice.

On the other hand, it supposes that humans are somewhat innately helpless and just stood by while mathematics was being developed, without making practical use of it. But humans, as animals in general, are rather restless and will try until they succeed. Is is how, for example, people eventually discovered how to make boats despite having very little knowledge of how they actually worked.

Furthermore, tracking expenses isn't that new. Accounting is much older than the Renaissance [1]. What the Italians did invent was double-entry bookeeping [2], and this IMO had less to do with household management than with the development of finance in 14th and 15th century Italy. I say this because, on one hand, double-entry bookeeping makes it much easier to track who owes what to whom; on the other, Italian city-states were the first to issue public debt, to have moden banks [3] (after the banca) and had money-lenders weaseling themselves into power (the Medicis).

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_accounting#Early_de...

[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_accounting#Double-e...

[3] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank
This would be less of a problem if the Amazon search weren't so terrible. You should just be able to choose "sold by Amazon" and all those problems go away. "Prime shipping" gets you closer but nowadays a lot of junk is prime shipped too.

At the root, the problem is that Amazon's stock is not discoverable. Their search engine is terrible, I've had situations where I knew the exact listing I wanted and wanted to see if anyone else was listing it cheaper, I searched a few keywords and had the listing I knew about plus a sea of other listings, then I added more words from the listing's title and suddenly the listing no longer appeared in the search results. What in the actual fuck is going on there?

To be honest nowadays I just google search "[item] amazon" because the Amazon search is such utter trash. If it doesn't pop up in the best sellers list and you can't manage to filter down by "prime" and "ratings" it might as well not be there according to Amazon's search, it's just lost in a sea of junk listings. The terrible search is one of the major reasons why nobody buys low-rating items, and that's why people bought ratings in the first place, so really it all comes back to the terrible search.

For starters the results need to be weighted by number of items sold though that listing. The brand new listing from a brand new seller yesterday gets the same weight as the item that's been a #1 bestseller for years. But other stuff, like items going away when you try to narrow down to them... I don't even know what's going on there.
It's definitely coming but may stop short of complete automation. I've worked with a great many family farms in my past career. Automation lets a family sized unit farm more land more efficiently and that's why.

But the Case autonomous tractor without a cab is crazy. You need a cab to move it down the road to the farm. The tech required to make it be autonomous in the field and road ready at the same time is huge and unnecessarily raises the cost. These tractors are heavily used just a few months a year unlike an automobile where the cost can be amortized over an entire year of use.
But are the mail services comparable? Specific companies versus "China"..
Regarding sneezing: next time you feel your nose itching squeeze the top portion of your right ring finger real hard. I have no clue why it works but in most cases (say 90%) it works for me.

Then again I sneeze when ever I look up at a clear blue sky so it might just be my wiring. :)
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