skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The input is a 48x48 image. For handwriting recognition, many systems use stroke information (online) to augment the purely image based (offline) data. This significantly reduces error rates.

For the smaller ICDAR 2013 Chinese Handwriting Recognition Competition (~8,000 characters), CR(1) accuracy went from 94.77% (offline) to 97.39% (online). Human recognition rates were 95.19% (offline) and 96.13% (online).
I've seen steady reporting about Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria but it's been exactly that -- "about Puerto Rico" rather than "from Puerto Rico". Everybody seems to think it's bad, but it's really hard to say how bad. I think the major contributing factor to how the situation is being reported is that most of the cell towers (90%?) are out of action, and presumably land lines have also been seriously affected.
Southwest kicks woman off flight because of dog allergy
Not the ones that want devs' business, at least this dev. I need to stay ahead of the game.
I think it was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but the Echo Show was not implementing YouTube features such as subscriptions, next video recommendations, autoplay, etc.
Bluetooth is probably the best option now since the bandwidth is high enough now to allow fast transfer of images and videos. Some cameras use WiFi, but that tends to be worse because then you have to drop your smartphone's WiFi connection and connect specifically to the camera's access point. USB cables are too fragile and awkward.
Yes but there are plenty of more likely events that emit those. The merger of two BHs is special for the gravity waves it generates. Rays can also be blocked given enough mass, gravity waves no.
I personally consider 1 year to be the minimum amount of support I should get out of a product I purchase before I either A) have to purchase a new version or B) have to renew a S&M agreement. If you aren't even going to guarantee a product I purchase will be supported for AT LEAST a year why do you deserve my money?
A 40-foot Tesla Tower for Lightning Research
I dunno, it's just a title game. I would guess it's because programmers in the 90s simultaneously had massive hubris and insecurity issues and wanted to be just as respected in the community as actual engineers, but who knows.

Engineer invokes a sense of design, but so does programmer. When I started, there was no job where you just coded straight pseudocode specs. Business described the problem the way business does, and you had to convert that into a computer solution. Within that solution, different developers would own various parts of it.

I would say the entire process of having coders who design systems and coders that just write code is inherently broken. Businesses want to think of development as prod-ops, but it's more like book publishing. I'm of the mind that if a coder who designs a system in enough detail to write pseudocode, he should just write the application.

The better approach is have an architect/lead model subsystems and a general skeleton of the application, then have different teams implement the subsystems. Clearly defined interfaces on all inter-subsystem communications.
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> irrational regardless of the supposed interest.

What does this mean?
I agree this is SHOCKINGLY not consumer ready. Considering all the shaming I see every hack about 2fa I expected it to be pretty streamlined.
Moving is harder to do when you're not making enough money to save for it. You can say, "yeah, life is hard, save anyway" but that doesn't really fix anything.
This article is silly in a lot of ways. The real problem of software engineering is not "how do you prove this code follows algorithm X exactly?" It's "how do you know what algorithm X needs to be in sufficient detail to implement it?" It's "when you realize you were wrong about algorithm X, how do you change your existing, working code to implement the new algorithm X-prime, without interruption?" It's "what do we do when we realize algorithm X-prime was completely the wrong thing, and now we need to transition to algorithm Y, and also fix all the data that algorithm X-prime messed up?"

No matter what awesome tool you come up with to translate requirements into CPU bytecode, you still have to translate human requirements into that requirements language, whether that language is assembly, C, Java, Rust, Haskell, or TLA+.

When you have the money and time and patience to fully examine the problem space and work out exactly what the requirements are, that's great. In the far more common scenario, you have impatient investors, or you're inventing something entirely new, or your software will deal with the real world which is not as predictable as an imaginary algorithm. Government regulations, flaky hardware, network latency, human error, financial limits, competition, malicious actors, gamma rays, other people's software, power outages, terrorists, dependencies, operating system upgrades, corrupt data, hurricanes, all are conspiring against your software. Can you plan for all of that?
I was talking about China as an example of how average wage increases, in China, are linked to changes in the prices of goods and services. So just as these things are different in China between then and now, so we can see that these factors can affect prices in India versus the USA or other western countries (I live in the UK).
- More secure (Face ID uses more data points)

- Less user-interaction to authenticate (though as you point out this is also a negative)

- Allows for other UX improvements, e.g., maintaining screen lighting while phone is being observed but not manipulated

- My speculation: capacity to add additional faces will be added with SW (or next HW) update

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I don't understand your point #3. How do you think someone would unlock your phone with Face ID?
Yes we are all aware they have choosen performance over Customization and privacy.

they have choosen to make a Chrome Clone instead of Supporting the users that stuck with them for decades largely because FF was customizable

I could care less about performance, If my PC needs more RAM, I add more RAM, it is Cheap

I care about productivity and Customization.
Tesla would have gone precisely nowhere with a mass market luxury gas burner. Established brands had that market pretty much locked up and beating them on quality when starting from scratch is basically impossible.

Small players in this market have to go to the ultra-niche extremes where you sell like 20 cars a year for millions of dollars per and usually still lose money.

The electric drive was the killer feature on the Tesla. Without it the car has no reason to exist.

Also, by luxury car standards the interior of a Tesla is absolutely subpar. They were competing against cars with handcrafted mahogany dashboards and precision stitched leather seats where people will spend hours and days fine tuning the static and moving resistance on the heater control knob to get it just perfect.
No, we need to use logic and set theory and provide tools for visualizing the implications of our rules and checking correctness of desired properties. There's a strong history and lots of good people working on these things but it's tough to get our message out to working programmers. This article helps but based on the comments we've got a lot of perception work to do :)
I wonder if, in the mid term future, you could see e2e encryption over slack and other offerings if you added slack as a team member—granted, they’d be storing the messages plain text on the slack side, but it’d ease and encourage transition onto keybase teams rather than eg SAML.
Google Authenticator is really just TOTP. My preferred approach is to use 1Password, which handles TOTP codes just fine.
Focused on gaming included. Arguably, gaming is now the main driver of desktop Linux usage growth.
That's not a campaign against BSD-style licenses. It's a campaign against the advertising clause that was present in the "old" 4-clause BSD license. (And the page you link to couldn't really be clearer.)

It's also worth pointing out that the "campaign" originated 20 years ago and was more or less successful—Berkeley themselves agreed with the campaign and dropped the advertising clause. FreeBSD stripped the license down further to 2 clauses. Nowadays, the 2- and 3-clause BSD licenses are the most popularly adopted versions for anyone choosing BSD—if you hear anyone talking about the BSD license, they're almost definitely referring to one of these two—and this campaign is the reason why.

So, no, that's not a link to an historical campaign against BSD. If anything, it was a campaign that strengthened BSD by making it a more attractive license choice.

EDIT:

I just reread your comment, and it makes me sad and wonder how people get away with convincing themselves it's okay to outright lie about things or pretend to know more about something than they do.

> Basically, anything that is not 100% copyleft is considered non-Free by GNU and FSF.

This is unequivocally false. Not only is this not the FSF's position (e.g., that you might be able to infer based on what they don't say and trying to read between the lines), but there's a wealth of information that the FSF and GNU have published that directly contradicts this. I get the terrible feeling that you've never actually read any of FSF or GNU's firsthand opinion pieces; that you instead respond to the distorted phantom arguments that appear in message board conversations after RMS and Co's position has been filtered through n retellings in the comments. Worse still, you're helping to propagate this to other people.

Please don't contribute to the problem. Please stop doing this.
If I am allowed to go a bit side-ways, I am curious to ask what is other HN members' opinion on the writing style of the article.

I find it particularly difficult to follow, jumping from "history" to "anecdata" then to "data", back to "particular history", then a note or two about the actual request, then again some "law history", then something about the actual response obtained, etc., and again back to "history", mixing in all of this some "opinions", and back to "anecdata", some attempt to "humour", back to "history".

Is it just me, or is it objectively "confusing"?
> That's not really the use case for Shelf. You'd publish final versions of deliverables on Shelf, not necessarily your whole work-in-progress.

Hint: It's not just work-in-progress.

Hint 2: Everything changes

> Think of a marketing team that wants to publish and share presentations to be used by sales reps. Or a team of researchers that wants to curate different types of information (docs, links, videos) for later perusal. Enrich each of those with meta data.

Yeah. Perhaps.

Still there are plenty documents which are not "work-in-progress". Onboarding instructions. Delivery checklists. Descriptions of system and organization components. Policies. Roadmaps. Guidelines. Manuals. etc. etc. etc.

I see great value in a "manage all your things in various accounts" tool. I wouldn't go as far as call it "manage knowledge of your distributed teams". You need to be able to also create knowledge inside the tool.

Because if you need to drop out of your management tool all the time to create anything, you will end up using Google Drive if all your docs are in Google Drive, etc.

Also note: the only reason I know that you manage content from various sources is that someone mentioned an intro video and I managed to find it by going to the footer of the page and clicking on tutorials.
I'm right there worried about things. I've got a tablet I keep active in the Windows Insider program and reading release notes it's very disconcerting these days to see the 15,000 build numbers on mobile versus the 16,000 build numbers everywhere else. I want to see excitement in the Feedback Hub about mobile and wish it were easier to run Insider builds on mobile without worrying about accidentally toasting your emergency needs device and/or 2FA device.

I'd like to still hope that the Windows team knows what they are doing this time and the results will work out, but yes, things look pretty bleak today.
Amazon: Everything you wanted to know about its algorithm and innovation
Probably for the sum, or weighted average of happiness of all conscious entities on the planet. This may include ants, dogs, humans, and non-biological consciousness/beings.
I was talking about India, Mongolia, Vietnam, and other Asian countries where you can literally drive home from China.

I wonder would it be restricted to sell to China citizens only - it wouldn't help though.
Article by the speaker on the same topic:
https://pudding.cool/2017/07/comics/
If you turn a detector on - and, as soon as you do that, you detect some event, chances are those events are happening, like, all the freaking time.

There's got to be some interesting implications here for cosmology.
> If they're talking about the new frame-rate and HDR, that's not resolution, is it?

AFAIK, yes and no (respectively), strictly speaking. More fully:

Frame rate is temporal resolution.

HDR is increased range in luminosity, but does not (AFAIK) imply greater resolution in that dimension.
Big Brother is always listening.

Listening in on what you're doing is so valuable they can offer free phone calls and free music.
Which would basically be giving the middle finger to people who bought Amazon’s own products.

Remember, Chromecast used to work on Kindle apps until Google banned that.
What about an IR transparent burqa?
Framework to Reason About Web API Authentication Schemes
What is e2ee; everyone to everyone else?

What does that mean, if so..
Gruber:

> Apple made this decision well over a year ago. Perhaps the fundamental goal of iPhone X was to get as close as they could to an edge-to-edge display. No chin whatsoever. There were, of course, early attempts to embed a Touch ID sensor under the display as a Plan B. But Apple became convinced that Face ID was the way to go over a year ago. I heard this yesterday from multiple people at Apple, including engineers who’ve been working on the iPhone X project for a very long time. They stopped pursuing Touch ID under the display not because they couldn’t do it, but because they decided they didn’t need it. I do believe it’s true that they never got Touch ID working, but that’s because they abandoned it in favor of Face ID early.

> I don’t know why recent supply chain rumors suggest Apple was scrambling to get Touch ID working on iPhone X as late as this summer, and no one at Apple seems to know either. Disinformation campaign from competitors?
It is a good comparison to make with TRS connectors, which got hit in the crossfire. It's been a standard for decades and decades. As you say, it works perfectly for listening. And for those of us that don't want remote controls or microphones on our headphones, the connector is an unfortunate casualty of "progress".
You can turn it off.

Or you can apply a threat model and determine whether the people for whom TouchID/FaceID is keeping your phone secure against would have the resources to mount such an attack.
There's a part of me (I'm 57) that wants to wear a wire while pitching to a SV VC and catch one of these sumbitches on tape.
> That would completely change the market. But we can only dream.

No, it really wouldn't. Look at the heavyweights right now, they all either have a ton of expertise in optics or in sensors. That market cares more about glass selection, sensors and taking pictures than bells and whistles like iOS would provide.
> The situation on Android might be different; at one point I certainly could cast from Netflix to Chromecast on my Kindle Fire (even though no Google Play Services existed) although from looking around on Google a bit that appears to no longer be the case.

Correct. Google removed that ability, and Amazon won’t support Chromecast until Google adds it back.
TM is a pretty terrible organization.

They used to officially believe all sorts of crazy things, like that their meditation could make you fly, or make you invisible, or that if the square root of 1% of a city meditated, then it would dramatically lower violent crime.

They charge huge amounts of money for very little value - a course to learn TM is something like $500, even though the whole technique could be described in 30 seconds.

They claim that you get a unique mantra based on your personality, and that the mantra is a powerful magical vibration energy word (or some such junk). In actuality, the mantra is chosen based on only your age (and sometimes gender).

The TM centers also sell snake oil - they have tons of teas, powders, supplements, etc, for cleansing your toxic energy.

Of course they have studies done by practitioners of TM that claim it is amazing, but there aren't really any unbiased studies about it.

The current leader of the movement, a former physicist, received the Ignobel Prize (like the Nobel prize but for stupidity) for his beliefs in the crazy parts of TM.

All of that being said, as a technique, it's not bad for meditation. It's just run by a shady organization that believes in magic and will charge you tons of money.
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I'm guessing "end to end encrypted".
So what? Transpeople are rather low as a percentage of the population, yet we extend or argue to extend massive courtesies to them. If you are going to make a policy, expect to include a small population.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/health/transgender-popula...
Plastics.
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Hats off to RMS.

Whom I love and respect deeply.

Thank you for all have you done for free software.

P.S. I am from small third world country. Right now I am applying and starting PhD in one of universities in USA and my field is basically OS and File systems. I have said this, to mention one thing created the interest in me to study and persue CS when I was teenager. And it was GNU.

I remember first days when I installed GNU operating system when at 2002 when I was 11. The idea and openness of Free software literally changed my life.
Well I never: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
We just roll the default

https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-linux/

So no real dockerfile
Could those be related? If somebody's used to making X, they really might not be very happy making less than 75% of X. I've seen plenty of people who thought they would be, then within six months they'd gone to join a friend or start their own company. That can really sting when it's someone you'd hoped to have in a key role leading a team or technology, maybe turning around a bad situation, and you had gone through a longer hiring cycle to match. It's not like losing a "just grab the next one" kid fresh out of college. It can be fatal for a startup.

I'm sure a lot of hiring managers who have been burned that way a couple of times get pretty wary of taking people at their word about willingness to take a pay cut. I'm sure many overcompensate and lose out on some great hires, but I'm not sure I can really blame them. "Once bitten twice shy" is a pretty natural human kind of thing.
Amazon introduces the Echo Spot, an alarm clock with a 2.5-inch screen
There are actually very few controls that you need to fiddle with while you're taking the picture. Take white balance for example - you only need to set it when lighting conditions change, it's very unlikely that you need to change it on every shot. A touchscreen for that would be better than having to scroll through the choices with a control wheel or buttons.

The modern trend of replacing descriptive text with icons needs to die.
> Dolby Atmos integration

Anyone try this new Dolby tech out yet in practice? Is it a meaningful improvement?
Because if we were to migrate off legacy systems we'd go with postgres.
Visual Basic was fantastic for kicking out a UI. If you needed anything larger, all you had to do was build DLLs and reference them. So easy front end and easy back end. The best of both worlds.
I don’t know, but even then the machine has to be transported, installed and maintained in the US by US labour all of which cost more. Then there’s regulatory compliance and inspections.

So sure you can’t just do a streghtforward multiple and you’re done, that’s why I said ‘pretty much’. Some of the costs might be similar, others might be 20x or more. China probably doesn’t have medical practitioner insurance or regulatory compliance inspections at all, so those costs won’t even exist.
No sorry, you are right. There are also wages in this chart, I didnt't see that. Sorry for that...

But IMHO the difference between median and average isn't that big in Germany, even smaller than in Austria which doesn't have Hartz IV and Euro-Jobs. What would you consider acceptable? Also consider that these numbers may contain salaries for part-time jobs too. And those numbers are from 2010.
Moving is expensive and disruptive, not just financially. Having to start your professional and personal life over is daunting as fuck.
One issue is building up the savings to do the move, including the proper research, finding an apartment, etc. There's also the soft cost in losing in-person access to your entire friends network.
What does "engg" stand for? A particular field of engineering?
I suspect they would use unicode - nvarchar(280).
Yes, a whole lot of people have thought of that.
If you know the length of the initial list (and that's obviously possible in O(N)), it's all easy.
Data is data, and a stored proc should behave the same across OSes. Otherwise Microsoft is doing a shitty job developing mssql. Here's a hint, they aren't.
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I think it is fair to say that the users don't really care as long as the implementation is done well, but if information about me is worth storing in a cookie (login information, perhaps), it is probably worth sending on all requests, even outside of the browser. If I've already logged in via the web browser, I don't want to have to login again to use your API (and vice versa). It seems like a sensible default. The server can always ignore the cookies if they are not needed.
5. Greed

The healthcare industry in the US operates on the principle maximizing profits. They excel at it at the expense of patients who have limited choices to comparison shop and/or choose their healthcare providers.

Case in point. My daughter ripped up her lip pretty bad several years ago. It required immediate stitching to repair. At the recommendation of our family doctor we went to an ER known for doing good work. The stitching took 20 minutes. The bill came up at $11,000 USD. Or $30K / hr.

That's nothing but greed. There is no reasonable explanation for that bill.