skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That challenge seems to be more about speech command recognition (isolated words). They supply 1 second long recordings of 30 short words.

> There are only 12 possible labels for the Test set: yes, no, up, down, left, right, on, off, stop, go, silence, unknown.

This won’t work for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, which is what you want if you want to transcribe podcasts, phone calls, or generally human-to-human, spoken interactions.
"It's just nostalgia" is an easy cop out.

It presupposes either a linear progression towards better things, or a constant quality.

The reality is that periods have ups and downs, the middle ages were not as good in many things as the Ancient Greek and Roman times, the period after the Renaissance wasn't as good as it, the WWI and WWII era weren't as great as the periods that followed, etc.

This can happen across every industry, art, field, including politics and science.

There are always regressions, ups and downs, stagnation periods, local maxima we waste time on, etc.

It's good to recognise them, as opposed to knee jerking "it's just nostalgia speaking".
Where do you use spring physics? Is it just for translations, or do you actually deform objects using mass-spring networks?
Not working on iOS safari 11.1.2
I've made a few toy films for work - an internal movie festival, nothing professional - and I'm glad that their timelines look kind of close to what mine look like, with things overlapping all over the place instead of something neat and orderly.
UK cyber agency targets Kaspersky in warning on Russian software
Could an AI generate the first line of a novel?
Improving Function Coverage: Hybrid Fuzzing and Directed Symbolic Execution
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You don't have to mute the channels - just set the default notification to nothing, and you need to do that anyway, as you can't mute slackbot.
Also, any content that people could take issue with. Any hobbies I might have that I wouldn't share on facebook.

This is why I lie in my whois data, to the horror of the goody two-shoes on HN I'm sure.

The whois data is a great place to start a social engineering hack. The address or any past address is often used for identity.
I like this approach, especially for getting estimates out of trades that don't like doing estimates before they tear apart your clutch.

"Is this a hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars problem" can work wonders.
Even if this question was interesting (it is not) there is no reason to think the experience of motherhood would give someone particular insight into the answer.
Well, yes, a high school drop-out single mom may be able to do a fine job of homeschooling. Or may not. And that will depend on a lot of factors beyond their formal education.

I am not comfortable with the suggestion here that a parent needs advanced education to successfully homeschool. There are support systems for homeschoolers. I was involved with that at one time.

If you homeschool gifted kids, even if you have a lot of formal education, you can find yourself really challenged. You can find yourself dealing with a child who knows more about a subject than you do, even though you have had college classes in the subject.

One way to handle that is to become a resource person for the child. Instead of instructing them, you participate on email lists and what not, learn what books and other materials have a good reputation and make sure the child has access to such materials. There is no reason a high school drop-out cannot take a similar approach.

A bigger problem in my mind is that when women go to college and have difficulty with a subject, they are often actively steered towards early childhood education. One outcome of this fact is that a high percentage of elementary school teachers are not only bad at math, they are math phobic. They pass this math phobia on to impressionable young children and may not be really qualified to teach math.

My oldest son likely has dyscalculia. By the time I pulled him out of school, he feared and loathed math. When he asked questions in school, his teachers often read him the explanation in the book. He read well above grade level. If the book explanation were going to help, he didn't need the teacher for that. It never helped him.

Fortunately, I had more college level math by the time I graduated high school than most people with non STEM bachelor's degrees have. I also have a background tutoring it and I can find novel ways to explain it. I was eventually able to get my son over his fear of math and give him a solid grounding in the subject.

When men struggle with subjects like math in college, they are not encouraged to give up and "go do something easier, like teach small kids." My ex is not good at math. I tutored him when he took college math classes. No one suggested he give up. They expected him to man up and do what it took to meet the standard to complete his goals.

This is very much a gendered difference in student outcomes and it has all kinds of negative consequences for not only both genders -- because men don't get support for making other choices if they genuinely can't do something -- but for the entire fabric of society.
>A reminder that, as article points out, a healthy web needs multiple independent client implementations

I don't think it does. It could just do (and do better) with a single client implementation, as long as it wasn't controlled by a single company.
Yes, I agree.

But these people are smart; they must know that the U.S. will look more like Brazil than Norway in the next decades. How can they sleep at night? Part of my thinks there's a cynical dystopic nervousness in the back of their minds: get in, get profit fast, and get out. This very sentiment I see in startup world in tech, personally observing the effect of VC money and board pressure on startups in my last two gigs. There's just something short-term-minded about investors and politicians these days. The days of FDR-minded folks seems long-gone.
It’s a matter of mental gymnastics and “containers”: accessing anything through the browser requires first switching to the browser, and then getting to a page (or tab, or whatever) inside the browser, which is two hops — it’s a nested operation. Switching to a dedicated app is one hop, and is cognitively more proximate as it is a flat hierarchy with no nesting.
Not sure why you're downvoted, this is a good plan of attack.
I had an interesting experience with these guys. About 3 years ago I registered the domain "getmoneymakemoney.com" and got a free StartSLL cert from them. Three days later they revoked it because they said the domain sounded like a scam site. I called them and tried arguing to no avail. I said it was just an adaptation of line from a rap song and hosted my personal blog (which it did!) but they didn't care. Go figure. Never understood why they cared so much about my site but then accrued all the negative publicity they did.
I think that last description is more on point. People can usually describe why they want something, if asked, instead what they want. It's not too difficult to come up with a reasonable scope if either the dev or the manager knows how to start and scope a project.

Usually they both suck. The manager will send an unclear email. The developer will start developing right away. None have any idea what they are supposed to do, why or when.
Yes but it really depends on what you need.
If you only need coders for standard applications there likely won’t be much difference.

If you need them to work on more complex things say computer vision it might be more tricky unless they only consume existing libraries.
It’s much easier to learn RoR than it is the lean the math needed to say understand what a Fourier Transform is.

It really depends on what the programmers actually do; implement a known solution or come up with one.
Tory MP defends sharing logins, passwords with all her staff including interns
Funnily enough, the website the parent linked actually calls them " Transparent with razor sharp edges" so I guess they are pretty sharp.
Yes.

Normally you would need a prototype, throw it away after you saw the reactions to it and build something new.

But often there is no money for this :/
I pay $1550 for a small studio in SF. My neighbor pays less than $300 for his apartment, which is the same size as mine. I've lived there since 2016, he has lived there since 1985-ish.
I’ve tried it, yes. It does indeed rank towards the top in terms of non-suckiness, but it fails one of my criterions on account of not having a native iPad version.
Right, because if you get sick without insurance and the hospital has to repair you, that comes out of the public tax system anyway.

The Republican agenda has often been around socializing risk (as in the example above) under the guise of individual freedom.
I don't know if I'd go that far. I think it's less malicious, and has a better analogy with the way people would rather take from someone else than work to improve both their lots. We see that all the time in American politics: poor people railing against government job benefits because "why should they have it so good?" instead of asking themselves why their employers, who are generally much wealthier than the government, can't provide similar benefits. Same thing here.

I don't see why we have to diminish our living space to the standard of Europe (for example). We have more land, first of all. Second of all, restricted land area isn't the only reason for Europe's relatively smaller dwelling sizes: they have their own class problems and NIMBY problems.
Uhm… am I missing something blindingly obvious or is this an app for Android, not iOS?
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I don't recall the comment I responded to saying anything about credit score, I thought they said their friends couldn't wait to get into credit cards just so they had access to more debt, which to me implied they were going to pay credit card interest rates.

I apologize though if I read it incorrectly the first time.
It almost makes me want to write some C++. Still an interesting observation that people want to add new stuff to an already humongous language like C++
Damn, this channel had under 30 videos, but I'm grateful to Tony (and apparently Taylor; bad on me for not bothering to read the credits) for helping me appreciate movies technically. It's been dead in all but name (no videos for a year), but I read all of this classy post-mortem in Tony's voice.
I don’t want to go through a browser. That’s a fundamental desire.
Some areas of open source like kubernetes for example definitely function at least partially as on ramps.

But on the whole that's a small minority of projects.
Proof of stake also has this problem; just instead of who has the most ASICS its who has the most money which in all fairness just cuts out the middleman.
Can you post comments as yourself through Reeder?
Unfortunately, they only made 30 videos (and now I understand why). So more like a 10k than a marathon :)

I'm going to marathon today too (but I had no work to do).
The joke is for hours/days/weeks estimates, not months, years or decades. Hopefully nobody is asking an individual contributor for estimates they expect to be in years.

My engineering manager at a games company I worked for told me that "three weeks" was the estimate that really meant they had no idea how long it would take, because the task was too hard to estimate. Anything longer than three weeks could, and did in fact, sometimes take six months.
A software project that takes a year will costs a fortune (salaries are expensive). It will probably have to be maintained and running for the next decades to give enough returns to be worthwhile.

So, 1 year is the time the first interns team will work on it, 10 year is the duration before the project is retired. Looks like both estimates were right.
Unfortunately, this isn't compatible with a bunch of popular wireless cards, mostly from Realtek.
Correct me if I am wrong.

Isn't he an "unlawful enemy combatant" (does not wear an uniform and carry arms openly, so Geneva does not apply) and not a "traitor"?

OT. There's a famous Vietnam photo of a South Vietnamese executing a man in civilian clothes who is actually a North Vietnamese spy. IIRC that was completely legal.
Nothing works on android 7, latest Chrome.
The software engineer who wants you to scale before you’ve reached 500 users
It is a lot easier (several orders of magnitudes) to change software than to chance people (especially for programmers) - so the focus should be on changing software.
infoworld has such a short memory
I'm sorry, but who says the web platforms of today are "progress?" it's the same re-heated cross-platform "write-once-run-anywhere" pies-in-the-sky as 20-30 years ago. It's just these days it's wearing half-shaved heads and horn rimmed glasses, skinny pants and plaid shirts instead of pony tails and threadbare t-shirts and jeans/shorts with sandals or sneakers.
Often the manager also expects the dev to start right away.

For managers the value of a developer is the solutions they build divided by the amount of time and information they need to build it.

You have always the choice between delaying further or delivering something they like as soon as possible, risking they don't like it.
Some say "extreme witchhunts", some say "persistent offenders who have relied on their privilege for years are finding their Get Out Of Jail Free card doesn't work any more".
Less demand and more supply, possible due to weather, local political/social views, lack of airport, lack of sufficient # of young people, etc.
None that I have seen allow one to easily see and track one’s comment history. That would seem to be a pretty desirable feature, but it is not implemented by anybody, which is bizarre.
MiniHack. Tried a bunch of free apps then paid for it after some googling. Supports login and comments. Has a dark interface theme.
Commenting like this will get you banned here. If you want to keep commenting on HN, please don't vandalize it, even when
other comments are wrong and annoying.
Couple reasons why direct democracy is terrible and your concept of people being able to care for themselves to the point they should influence society as a whole is also terrible.

“Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“Men are so simple, and governed so absolutely by their present needs, that he who wishes to deceive will never fail in finding willing dupes.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Practical ATS
This is a great short explanation! I think I'll pull it out next time I need to explain this.
I wonder how much of this movement towards work/life integration depends on the exuberance around startups that has existed for the past several years.

In other words, is a big part of what made the whole thing attractive in the first place the promise that you were going to be rich one day because of you equity? If you take that away, and people are facing the prospect of merely working their entire life for a salary, will they still want to spend their life at work?
Someone was telling me (I haven't verified it) that the costs of access is charged to students per semester. A trivial (or non trivial for someone cheap like me) of $40 a semester. Now, I asked about a dozen people how often they access this resource at the library and none of them had used it. One lecturer enlightened me that some class encourages students to use it but students prefer to not read dense research paper and would rather read articles about the topic and cite the paper.

I don't know if colleges SHOULD pay high yearly subscription is the usage is low. But then, people who DO use it are left high and dry. Multiple colleges share books, too bad they can't do the same with these.

I don't have the numbers but I wonder what a college is charged and how many full ride scholarships a college would be able to give out with that fee?
Even if the test would have succeeded, this is a bad idea.

With a magnetic swipe card that you demagnetize so it is no longer read successfully, you may well be able to recover the information using a better reader.

Depending on drive age the same may be possible using a hard drive.

The best option for modern drives is still to use software to wipe the drive and if reuse is not required destroy the reading mechanism and platters.
>I was under the impression the cathedral was eg describing GNU projects and the bazaar was describing eg the Linux kernel.

Yes, that was Eric S Raymond's[1] particular examples. However, phkamp extended it with phkamp's particular examples (Bell Labs UNIX (cathedral), Apple iOS (bazaar), Firefox (bazaar), Microsoft (neither bazaar nor cathedral?), etc).

I should emphasize that it doesn't matter whether phkamp's classifications are "correct". (Indeed, the previous thread showed many disagreed with his taxonomy and 2 ex-Apple programmers contradict each other on iOS.)

Whatever idiosyncratic definition phkamp wants to use for "cathedral/bazaar", the point is readers have to be aware of it to understand his acmqueue essay. (As I said previously, the freestanding article does not make his thesis clear so it lead to subsequent discussions that misunderstood what he wrote.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar#....
Still wrong.

https://www.hiresuccess.com/blog/is-employment-testing-legal

>I think that supports my point

I didn't say it invalidated your point. I'm trying to draw your attention to a specific area in your statement that is wrong. You can simply say,

>Higher education is used as a proxy for intelligence by companies

That's enough. Nobody will argue with you about that.
> "that's no problem, we estimate it will take an additional X hours or dollars to implement that. Would you like us to update the proposal?

What happens in practice is they didn't realize they were asking for additional features -- they thought they were asking for D, E, F (etc) all along in the initial request. They just assumed "Email signup link" also meant spam handling, re-sending, prevention of double sending, etc. Good product managers account for these obvious things, and leave padding for the unexpected. But good product managers are rare. Most software developers I know have never even met one. So instead you have a political dance where you try to plan for the things they aren't telling you, along with all the _expected unexpected's_ that come up in normal software development, and set your deadline's appropriately. Definitely the worst part of software development.
> In our new data study, we analyzed the anonymized data spanning three years from tens of thousands of verified loan applicants from Priceonomics customer Earnest to see how much people actually pay in rent across America.

The sample may be fairly large but it is almost certainly not representative. These figures only represent the subset of the population who would use an online financial services company AND actually did use it.

I would expect data from sources such as the Census Bureau to be much more representative of reality. Here is one visualization of such data I found [0]. These figures are much, much closer to the actual conditions I have personally observed in multiple states.

My guess is that the reported figures from Earnest miss large categories such as low-income and elderly people. The numbers are way too high for many states.

[0]: http://overflow.solutions/demographic-data/national-data/sta...
I mostly think nature designed sex to feel good as a way of tricking people into getting pregnant. Most pregnancies are not planned. Two people were just trying to have a good time. You have to actively work at not getting pregnant if you want a sex life, but don't want children.

The question of longing for a baby is mostly a first world problem. In most parts of the world, they still have more traditional issues, like shot gun weddings for out-of-wedlock pregnancies.

It is sort of like saying "we crave oxygen." You only are aware of that in its absence. Otherwise, you breathe because that's what you do, not because you sit around writing odes to the wonderfulness of oxygen, oh, how I long for thee.

This is part of why people are weirded out. The default state is that women are trying like hell to not get pregnant most of the time. Then you have some weird edge case where they can't just get pregnant, you discover this matters enough to them to be willing to go to rather drastic lengths to achieve it and it flies in the face of our expectations.
Then randomizing that address gives you a new hour every time.
Big fan of Every Frame a Painting. Loved the indepth breakdowns the channel did and really affected the may I look as film as a medium. Sad to hear that it winded down.

For others interested in similar channels, here's my list:

NerdWriter: https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1

Lessons from the Screenplay: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCErSSa3CaP_GJxmFpdjG9Jw

The Film Theorists: https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmTheorists

Beyond The Frame: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ7g7HfH1gWmhgxW47IcW7Q

Wisecrack: https://www.youtube.com/user/thugnotes/videos

Movies I Love (and so can you): https://www.youtube.com/user/MarcusHalberstram88/featured
This is a great write up. The diagrams to visualize the flow as really helpful. Well done.
As a follow up here check the solvency of the FDIC... .250k per account and the highest number of accounts it insured that it can cover was 1.5% according to what I can find

The other 98.5% are out of luck... great guarantee
Ernest question: If it supports the platform you're targeting and you're not missing any critical libraries, what other reasons are there not to use Rust over C++ for new projects? Assuming of course you're not already proficient in C++.
Many moons ago when I was doing a combination of engineering and project management, I had to come up with a schedule for a shipyard project. Which I dutifully did. It was probably two months or something like that.

Ran it up the flagpole. It got cut in half. Fortunately I didn't need to change the schedule I had drawn up. I just said each box is now half a day. (This was before we used computers for this sort of thing.) As I recall, the job came in very close to my initial estimate.
I hear ya. I think it might be nice to be able to create psuedo-apps that function as Safari/Chrome bookmarks.
pr open https://github.com/diit/overtime-cli/pull/4
"That won't do nothing but make Cadillac the number-one dealership in the country" Cedric the Entertainer, Barbershop (2002).

I'd also point out the effects of allowing casinos for Native American tribes, too. Money doesn't always help.
Just thinking about the example... Let's say... just use excepions! This code

std::optional<image_view> get_cute_cat (image_view img) {
auto cropped = find_cat(img);
if (!cropped) {
return std::nullopt;
}

auto with_tie = add_bow_tie(*cropped);
if (!with_tie) {
return std::nullopt;
}

auto with_sparkles = make_eyes_sparkle(*with_tie);
if (!with_sparkles) {
return std::nullopt;
}

return add_rainbow(make_smaller(*with_sparkles));
}

Becomes

image_view get_cute_cat (image_view img) {
auto cropped = find_cat(img);
auto with_tie = add_bow_tie(*cropped);
auto with_sparkles = make_eyes_sparkle(*with_tie);

return add_rainbow(make_smaller(*with_sparkles));
}

And it could throw a no_cat_found, a cannot_see_neck, or a cat_has_eyes_shut excepion
Almost impossible to hit upvote on iPhone SE.

Comment compose box is tiny.
As I wrote in the post, MiniHack is the one I have currently settled on.

My only concern is that it appears only very lightly maintained, hasn’t had an update for the iPhone X’s screen, and has no support for notifications.
Hard disks are surprisingly hard to destroy on-demand. There was a DEF CON 23 talk [1] exploring ways to quickly wipe your servers in situ using physical methods.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y