skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different approach. The whole idea of full stack developers is a corporate wet dream; they managed to reduce the developer role into something that looks more like a janitor, someone who takes care of everything that no one else wants to deal with. It's been proven over and over again that mastery is what really drives motivation and satisfaction, being really good at what you're doing; but corporate a-holes couldn't care less about humans except as means for more awesome profits.
When I was an undergrad freshman, I took a job with a research group as a data annotator. My job was to go through the Switchboard corpus (recordings of hour-long phone calls that people agreed to have recorded, in exchange for having the long-distance charges paid) and label features such as who was speaking, whether the pitch of the voice was rising or falling, whether the vowels were elongated, vocal fry, and stuff like that.

But the most time-consuming and mind-numbing part of it was just annotating the words in the sound file.

The interface for all of this was a terrible GUI hacked in on top of some Solaris sound editor, and it couldn't do things for you like find the moments that words began, or say "hey the pitch is obviously falling here" because frequency tracking is a thing computers can do, or anything.

There's still a lot more voice data to annotate in the world, and maybe having a flexible Python tool like this will make the next undergrad doing the grunt work much more effective at it.
So if universities want to push a field, how can they protect new ideas and accelerate there recognition? Force into every publication by the "field-leader" one contradicting page of the other, newer thought school?
How does one tend a lawn in the 'mid-Atlantic'?
Indeed. jemalloc uses a lock-free radix tree at its core.
If you're using large email providers, every step of the email transaction--SMTP to the outgoing server, SMTP between MX's, IMAP/POP to the mailbox server--is conducted using SSL (assuming the end user hasn't elected to avoid SSL when configuring email clients, which is actually hard these days). Yes, SMTP between MX's are routinely sent using SSL: Google reports that about 80-90% of such traffic is using SSL.
That only the executives can afford
I agree with the idea that focusing on accounting minutia is over-rated. The reasoning behind it is three-fold

1) Sometimes a small error can actually turn into a huge red flag because it exposes a pattern of fraud. But this is extremely rare. It's hard to fake more than a fraction of your cash flows.

Real risks of acquisitions aren't the cash flows, it's the former partner who sues (and wins) because of an undisclosed agreement, or the undisclosed IP lawsuit, or bad contract provisions with their key landlord/distributor/etc.

2) It's ass-covering. Acquisitions are done by teams, with consultants, etc, and no-one wants to have a finger pointed at them if it goes wrong. So they do due diligence to ridiculous levels.

3) It's billable hours. Same reason as 2), consultants are happy to ring up more hours for the dumbest of reasons if you will pay them for it.

For acquisitions I think two key skills are needed.

1) Ability to recognize what businesses have a significant moat.

2) Ability to weed out the honest/ethical owners from the bullshit artists.

These are two skills Warren seems to have in spades. But even he makes mistakes. Dexter Shoes went out of business after he paid BRK stock that would be worth $14B in todays price. You and I both can scratch our heads and ask what "moat" did he ever see there.

When you can be really confident in the moat, the ethics of the owner becomes more of a redundancy. Once you own the business and find the moat not as strong as you thought, you then sure don't want to find that the owner hid other big problems from you.

Whether a business made $1M or $950K shouldn't make a big difference in your decision. Whether that $950k-$1M is repeatable and will grow is a hundred times more important.
Firemylasers, jf_queeny, sleekery, and Decapentaplegia are the most frequent I've noticed.
In your day to day programming job you probably interact with dozens of libraries. You could pick one that you like and help polishing it.

Since you are using it already you probably have good insights on what improvements could benefit other users.
Isn't the article about real silicon appearing on the market?

"Initial limited availability starts today, for $1520"
Headphones catch fire midflight
So when you say a language is "powerful" you are talking about its level of abstraction? Because then we should probably try to call it something else so as not to confuse "power" for technical ability to deliver performance or productivity.
While the Switch supports Vulkan, it isn't the main graphics API, that role belongs to NVN.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/

So it remains to be seen which one gets the love of game developers.
Pijul 0.3 (patch-based version control in Rust), featuring nest.pijul.com
It's not like being a plumber or electrician where you learn once and can make a living all your life
I would also be interested in getting into real estate. The part really his home for me: "The ability to do a project, put in a lot of work, and at the end own something valuable in perpetuity."
I am hoping to move to Berlin someday. Hopefully housing will be affordable.
"The stigma that comes with the look of an unmowed lawn was hard to push through (no pun intended)" - Made me chuckle.
Even totally ignoring that SHA2 was a thing, anybody looking around would have noticed that MD4 was broken, MD5 was broken, and it would be unlikely that the hash of today would stand forever.
I had no idea what was the purpose of this website until I found some explanation in the comments.

Adding offense to injury it actually shows unhelpful info if you put your cursor on the Badssl title on top of the page.

Allow to suggest a little modification here, replace the following:

<div class="title-bar" title="badssl.com - a memorable site for HTTPS misconfiguration">
badssl.com
</div>

with

<div class="title-bar">
badssl.com - manual testing of security UI in web clients
</div>
No, the NY Times reviewer faked the review and lied: https://www.slashgear.com/tesla-gets-nyt-apology-for-model-s...
I think this is indicative everywhere. Poorer regions have more challenges and get ignored, over wealthier.
I got that bit, though it's far less common to have problems out there like this. Being in the country isn't enough, of course, but it's a first step for the people most commonly afflicted with onerous (or seemingly onerous) regulations.
> If we made large student loans harder to get

That's a different discussion. The problems is that the White House is removing protections for the people that already have that big loans. Easy to get loans and harsh penalties for defaulting is the worst of the combinations.

Making student loans harder to get is a good solution to reduce the burden of debt and even to reduce prices. But at the same time it makes education to become a privilege of the wealthy. So it has an important downside.

> So why should I pay for people who want a liberal arts degree that is not as valued by society?

Is not as valued by society or is not as valued in the job market? This are two different things. I can earn more than a doctor thanks to my long experience as software engineer, but I will not jump to the conclusion that I'm more valuable to society than a doctor (or a janitor for example). I have meet too much people with high salaries that do more damage than good to companies to believe that "salary" is a measure of "been valuable".
I don't know what you're responding to in the original comment. S/he appears to agree with the article generally.
There are actually zero.

First there aren't many $500B conglomerates to start with, and not with BRK's returns.

Second, there is almost certainly not another conglomerate even a tenth the size with such a tiny executive staff. He's got only 24 people total at the corporate headquarters, and their role is mainly just doing the tax returns. He has more than a hundred businesses reporting directly to him.

It might be the least duplicatable process in the world.
Well, if SHA1 isn't for security, there's no reason to switch away from it today.
Just noticed that this is an unofficial google product, part of chromium github repository.
Well now I'm curious what chrome extensions you've sold. I didn't think you could make money from that.
Hm...I guess.

But don't you think getting a basic idea of all the different things happening on the backend (by doing them once since that seems to be the only way to really know something) would help when I focus on specific area again.

Things move so quickly that having a detailed understanding of different moving parts would seem to help. It's kind of how I grew into doing interactive stuff from just HTML/CSS too.
If you can figure out how to have two active conscious thoughts simultaneously, please share!
Your username is very apt here. Whether we agree or disagree with the sentiments expressed by the parents represented in the article, the Overton Window will inevitably be shifting or at the very least expanding.

Speaking with various stay-at-home parents, the sentiment expressed in the article is sometimes faintly or fleetingly touched upon through half-jokes or stories. The strength of the signal could be questioned, but may be perfectly normal if the actual incidence rate is extremely low.
It's not so difficult as to require a course. Literally, the Art of Memory website and forum will do you well (they even discuss more advanced techniques on there such as Gavino's Massive Memory Palace).

I can confirm that within two hours of learning the technique, I was able to memorize a list of 100 random objects with 100% recall hours later, even days later without practice. You could ask me where an object was in relation to another, you could ask me to name them backwards... you could even pick an object at random and I could work forwards and backwards from it.

The effectiveness of the method of loci shocked me to say the least. And I showed anyone that was willing to see. Everyone thought there was some sort of trick, it seems impossible to be able to memorize that many objects so easily. Truth be told, you can go to 1,000+ if you want to. It's all just a matter of what you want to remember.
>So, we ask ourselves what is the reason the smartwatch hasn't replaced the traditional watch? There is a myriad of reasons. Let's start off with price points, then battery life, and go from there?

There's also that the watch (traditional or smart) is not so traditional to wear anymore anyway. Most people just don't bother owing one.
Crate: A way to compose and build (React) components out of existing components
That's true, although significant corruption might make GDP growth too slow such that the start ups will run out of money before they can benefit from it.
The values from Libre are almost always different compared to the blood from fingertip. But using the great work from the Nightscout community one can calibrate the readings and they are very accurate.

The Libre chip stores 8 hours of measurements from every five minutes and even if the scale is wrong without the calibration the trend is right. It is absolutely useful to always see the trend and being able to react before anything bad happens. xDrip can, when correctly used, estimate how the sugar will react if I now take N units of insulin or eat M carbs.

Officially we will never get anything this nice, but if you're smart, just start building your own system. It takes time and depending where you live lots of money. But if I can understand my body better and I don't need to be afraid that I die at night, it is definitely worth it
while we're in this topic, does anyone know any ad(?) network that provides "pay per errands" (install app, watch video, fill out survey, anything that can be done on mobile)? i want to give my 30k users a way to earn a bit of extra money.
C-to-Rust converter is written ... in Haskell https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode
I think you're protesting against the human condition here. Nobody knows what they're getting into, nor is one's emotional response entirely under one's control. Don't take it out on the kids, to be sure, but parenthood is a huge and complicated experience.
I saw it as giving some reasons that people like maintained yards. Not sure that warrants a downvote. Maybe he exaggerated a bit about the rat size.

Are you arguing that obeying laws is conforming, and conforming is bad? Or that the law is so obviously flawed that nobody should conform to it?
Hmm, not sure where there disagreement is, that's exactly what I'm saying. Obviously it wasn't done from the beginning, but the code is now changing from the char[20]s everywhere to the typedef precisely to be able support multiple hash functions.
If I may ask you a question: I'm considering setting up an LLC for commercial operation of a few small projects I've been working on. How did you go about setting yours up, and what have been your experiences with this? Are Registered Agent fees expensive? I'm not expecting to make much money, but I want the liability shield.
No direct answer when reaching support.

It was some kind of penalization for some general terms like "video chat app". Before the app was in the first 10 or so and after it disappeared completely from results. But searching for the app by full name works. Also it disappeared completely from the "social" category listing.

They tols us that "search algorithm is secret and complex" but we had a previous experience like this one with an app that had unallowed content in Google Play (unreviewed images from users showing erotic content) This one was penalized with some months of disappearing from general terms search results and listing.

But now no explanation. At least they should give you an answer if there is some kind of infraction of content policy.
Berkshire Hathaway of Internet
Because you can't define talent doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Berkshire debunks organizational theory because it's organization structure has been fabulously successful and no one else has been able to copy it.
The earlier post is correct -- as time passes Microsoft changes the advertising configuration within Windows. For example, the presence of advertising within File Explorer is a new development. Earlier, harangues about Edge being a superior browser when one launches any other browser (or tries to change the default system browser) suddenly made its appearance and is now a fact of life.

It was once possible to disable advertising about OneDrive, but Microsoft has reconfigured things so that's no longer possible without deep hacking (no user-level configuration options). There's an "Uninstall" option attached to the OneDrive client's listing in the Start menu, but if you choose the option, instead of uninstalling the OneDrive client, the system opens the Control Panel Programs & Features applet, where OneDrive is nowhere listed.

As time passes the advertising is becoming more aggressive and less controllable. On February 14th a commercial announcement related to Valentine's Day appeared, but I wasn't able to track it to its source. Just one example -- Microsoft is jealous of Google and they're becoming an imitation.

The deep issue here is that corporations have to decide how to most efficiently grow their companies. Do they pay attention to customers, or stockholders? At some point in the past (I think it was during the Reagan years) corporations turned their backs on customers and made stockholders the focus of their attention. And from a corporate perspective, it was a good choice, because customers are fickle and unpredictable, but stockholders only care about quarterly earnings reports -- no earnings and they walk.
One of the things I like about this choice is one does not need an IDE, at least not with the 2.0. One can do non-graphical (systems) programming on an underpowered computer with no graphics.

I statically compile the loader. On BSD at least, no 3rd party libs are needed. Then all I need is avr-gcc. I can do everything from the command line. No closed source tools. No requisite graphics layer (e.g., Windows OS). No large interpreters (Python, etc.).

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaulStoffregen/teensy_load...

Can anyone recommend other boards where everything can be done like this, i.e., without needing closed sorce tools, graphics layer, or installation of interpreters and scripting libraries?

e.g.:
http://home.hccnet.nl/anij/nof/noforth.html
As much as I like my Citizens Echo, I think the smartphone killed the watch for many. To introduce a watch after many abandoned them is odd. Until the screen is about as big as half a smartphone with twice the battery, I don't see the devices going mainstream.
The reclusive hedge fund tycoon behind Trump's presidency
The Apple watch is probably the worst example of a company trying to create a 'smart watch' without understanding what people use watches for. None of the smart bezel or anything like that make it more useful than just taking your phone out of your pocket.

On the other hand, sports watches that track GPS and heart rate etc, do something that you don't want to use your phone for. (I have a Garmin that is fantastic.)

Smart watches will take off when people nail the use case, and don't forget that we already have phones, so the watch doesn't need to do everything.
Sorry :( this uses Yelp's API.

What do you use in Sydney?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13905777
I got opiods after a surgery, still have 1 left that I am saving for a rainy day :)

I wasn't even close to become addicted. But it is a nice painkiller.
Unless your app is a viral, monetization can't just be a strategy - it is the primary design criteria.

I have a 5 ⭐️ app, 7 Second Meditation, that has fantastic retention numbers, but I didn't design it around monetization from day 1, so the LTV is too low to do paid user acquisition.

So the app is doomed to putter along on organic installs.

An app must nail both retention and monetization to succeed.

(shameless plug: I did boost the LTV by 45% using https://improve.ai)
Article involves machine learning, data science, programming, etc...
> those shills on Reddit tend to be pretty obvious

The ones you notice are obvious, by definition. It's the once that aren't obvious that concern me.
That's a great call out, though I see this in most languages, Haskell and go equally have implicit non local behaviours, but I find the functional paradigm tend to have less, because of side effect free functions.
> Might also be possible to look at the spectrum at any time to possibly identify areas of the file to skip.

I would say yes and no.

Currently you can add a switch that makes aeneas ignore the audio intervals that are detected as "non speech" by the built-in Voice Activity Detector (VAD), which is a very rough energy-based VAD. For sure this is a part that can use some improvement.

However, AFAIK e.g. music/singing separation is a really difficult open problem, with people in academia doing PhDs on it. So, I am not sure how far one can push this line, while staying relatively fast on a regular machine. (Which is one of the goals of aeneas.)

> And speaking about spectrum, just wondering, are you doing any pre-processing in terms of EQ (narrow band-pass on spoken frequencies), compression to not deal with volume, etc. to help with this also?

Besides converting the input audio file to mono 16 kHz 16 bit WAVE, I do not perform any other operation on the audio data before passing it to the MFCC extractor (which by default runs with "standard" settings, but the user can change them).

Unfortunately, I have had no time to perform an exhaustive search of the parameter space, nor to try other pre-processing techniques.

But for sure if you have means to "pre-clean" the audio file before feeding it into aeneas, that is probably going to improve the quality of the output alignment.

(I did play with amplitude normalization and it did not seem to improve the results. The non-speech masking mentioned above seems beneficial if you do word-level alignment.)
"The correlations between expressed views about caring for the environment and environmentally friendly actions were surprising, however, as actions did not necessarily align with beliefs."
At previous employer, we built a system using Druid as the primary store of reporting data. The setup worked amazingly well with the size/cardinality of the data we had, but was constantly bottlenecked at paging segments in and out of RAM. Economically, we just couldn't justify a system with RAM big enough to hold the primary dataset. As the result, we had to prioritize data aggressively, focusing on the more recent transactions and locating them on the few servers with very high RAM that we did have. Historic data segments had to go through a lot of paging in/out of RAM. User experience on YTD (year-to-date) or YOY (year-over-year) reports really suffered as the result.

I don't have access to the original planning calculations anymore, but 375GB at $1520 would definitely have been a game changer in terms of performance/$, and I suspect be good enough to make the end user feel like the entire dataset was in memory.
Why not spend some time volunteering for a local charity you believe in?
If a political party is not entirely for the end of the drug war... they get tossed in the trash. They're lucky they get to hang out with the garbage IMO.
Google now hosts web pages on Google Drive you can't even read without a Google account. Please don't use or link to those.
The best way is to start out contributing to a project that you use and learn whatever language it uses.
Yay! Nice to see these things becoming more real. The choice of U.2 is interesting, it might force wider adoption of that form factor.

This is definitely going to change the way you build your computational fabric. Putting that much data that close to the CPU (closeness here measured in nS) makes for some really interesting database and distributed data applications. For example, a common limitation in MMO infrastructure is managing everyone getting loot and changing state (appearance, stats, etc). The faster you can do those updates consistently the more people you can have in a (virtual) room at the same time.
Get a second buyer on the hook. Then they both will pray you don't alter the deal any further.
My rent in rural Wisconsin was $200 a month plus utilities. One of my roommates struggled to keep up with even that.
I feel like you are arguing against Java, not against Haskell.
"Why IOPS Suck and Everything You Know About Them is Probably Wrong!" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEb270L5Q1Y
Word Embedding: word2vec in golang (GloVe in the future)
My point is that the general public doesn't care what's possible, and it doesn't matter how good we are at showing them. It isn't that they're incapable of understanding, just that they (we) have a finite budget for attention and learning about things and the "what's possible" in software is generally much lower in priority for that.
I think Go has made a lot of people re-think their assumptions about what makes a language a good language.

I have yet to figure out precisely what it is that makes me more productive in Go (which I have relatively little experience with) than Java (which I've programmed since the first beta).
I imagine the key insight is convincing the VC firms to have you on retainer for a fixed amount to be deployed at a startup they are funding at their choosing (this could obviously pay them back ten fold), not so much in getting startups themselves to do it.

Then again, VC/startup business culture is not unilateral or one way. Like all business relationships, both sides can be blind to the needs or wills of the other.