skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed experimenting with RNNoise for real-time microphone noise suppression. I liked the write-up too [1].

[1]: https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/rnnoise/

EDIT: Just realized perhaps you are asking for a Keras-based example? If so, this one's not Keras or TF based.
When he says “working code” he means “trading system”
Are entrepreneurs that are starting their business really a niche that pays well? Seems like it wouldn't be. Seems like you get either "build me the next facebook for $500" or a lot of small business with a total budget of $5000.
Read Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_, for some suggestions.

Or more succinctly . . . why bother? Be kind, and move on. Your atoms will be reclaimed and recycled by the universe soon enough.
France Seeks Crypto Regulation Debate at G20 Summit
Would this be a software consultant or a management consultant?
>As I detail in chapter 8 of the book, I’m pretty sure this is how the 2017 crypto bubble was kicked off — when people couldn’t get US dollars off Bitfinex, so they bought Bitcoin and other cryptos to withdraw, pushing the price up.

How does that make sense? If you sold some crypto for fiat, realize you can't cash out, then buy back the crypto you just sold, isn't the effect on supply/demand net 0? I guess the only consequence is inadvertent wash trading, but I doubt that has a huge effect on the markets unless you're insane and are doing it over and over again, expecting something to change.
Whataboutusm. The adults are talking about China
Too broad of a question, in my opinion, but yes, I have successfully freelanced at various times and with various skills and knowledge used over the last 25 years. Each time it was knowing the person beforehand and being asked to perform consulting. Long ago it was through my parents' networks, and more recently through professional contacts.
Have you lived in China? Your suggestion, if taken seriously by a lot of people, would just further harm ordinary Chinese people who are already being harmed by a parasitic government over which they have no control.
That is correct, I had the same issue.

My account was previously always used in Germany, and then fell into disuse once I migrated to another Google account (to change the primary email address).

Someone tried several passwords for the account from Russia, Google warned me by sending a warning to the backup email, and let the attacker in anyway.

Being in Germany, the reset flow asked me to either

(a) provide the phone number used, prove I control the backup email, and provide the exact account creation date (I was off by a few months, and it failed to allow me in),

(b) prove ownership of the backup SMS, backup email, and answer all security questions correctly (which I couldn't, because the phone number had long been reassigned).

I, desperately, called Google Nexus support (not possible to solve), and even asked people on the inside, who got the account team on it (more on that later). No can do.

In the end, I got the new owner of the phone number (ALDI Talk reassigns phone numbers after 6 months disuse) to help me by him sending me the SMS verification code, which I'd enter, to verify identity, and get the account back.

After I managed to log into the account, I obviously enabled 2FA, secured it, etc, but I also found a new message in the inbox, from Google's account recovery team, the usual 'thank you for contacting us, etc' one. They had contacted 'me', after I complained that the account was hijacked, by writing an email to the account, and talking with the attacker. Who obviously said there's no problem.
Want to see corruption in the U.S.? Take a look at your news feed.

I went to several major U.S. websites and didn't find any mention of this story at all. I can find plenty of Trump stories, but zero coverage of what in any sane world would be a major news event.

There's some really good discussion here around what to think of China. I love the Chinese. I'll let others debate what this says about their country and way of life. But this many people being killed in a public and brutal fashion in recent memory by a major world government? The country has nothing to do with it. This is a significant historical fact and it's major new information about a controversial and shocking story from just a few decades ago.

So why no coverage? My guess is that it's about money -- embarrass the Chinese and they'll hurt you in the wallet. But that's just my guess.
I know how that feels and I agree. Vendor lock-in is crazy. Too many people and businesses rely on a company, without giving a second thought about what would happen if that company suddenly changed its terms or stopped providing a service that they are using.

But running my own mail server...argh. I wouldn't want to do that ever again. My approach is, instead, using my own domain with a 3rd party mail provider. That way you are always in control of your e-mail address, and you can always switch to another provider anytime, if anything happens.
Do you think they cared that you spent 12 hours on setup?
> People like to eat white rice, because they've been doing so for thousands of years with no ill-effects

As pointed out, human society is wealthier and we're eating more white rice than ever. Since its considered 'superior' to other cereals, we eat it to the exclusion of other cereals. In Japan, for instance, eating too much white rice almost sank the Japanese navy [1]

[1] - https://medium.com/war-is-boring/eating-too-much-rice-almost...
>Where is HN from 5 years ago? :(

Here: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bitcoin%20arbitrage&sort=byPop...

As you can see, there wasn't much discussion. The noise has certainly increased, but at least there is a discussion going on now.
True its just one metric of many but there are cases where it is important, such as certain diseases like diverticulitis where fiber matters a lot.
They worked on Chrome hardware. Google is heavily involved in the development of the boards that end up in manufacturers' Chromebooks and Chromeboxes.
I did not realize we fully understood the physics of the universe in a grand unified theory, and furthermore are capable of understanding ALL configuration of physical phenomena that are capable of interacting with solid natural matter.

That is awesome; I did not realize we were so perfect, so smart, to have it all figured out, and that science is done learning more.
If the ban had been such a great idea, why did they roll it back? Banning coal before the alternative (gas heating) was ready is just a classic example of ruling top-down without concern for side-effects.

Democracies are not immune to that, of course, but the effects are exacerbated when nobody dares to point out obvious flaws like that to avoid embarrassing the leadership.
I used it once when it first came out just to kick the tires.

What a remarkably convenient API it had. NoSQL/"Document store" stuff was relatively new (to me, at least). Did the convenient API contribute to whatever design problems they had? No idea.

But if they had problems with durability then it really is all for naught. I didn't get beyond prototyping so I never saw whatever issues caused them to get so much ire.
> but you've got to wonder what goes through the head of business owners who would rather pay high consultant fees than invest in extra staff and training for their in-house team, which is frequently better for the long term health of a company

For large companies, division managers are more concerned about short term goals, because that's usually what metrics are in place, but also potentially competitive landscape, etc.

Bringing in someone today who can get something done in, say, 4 months, vs going through a hiring process, or fighting to reprioritize existing projects/staff... that's a big headache. Throw a bit more money - often from a different budget than "payroll" - and 'solve' the problem.

I get your point, and am largely sympathetic to it. However, often, the people with the required skills don't want to work 24/7 for one singular employer. You lose a lot of freedom/flexibility, for starters. Often a pay cut vs 'consulting' rates. I've been out of traditional employment for so long, I'd probably not make a good employee anymore, and would have a hard time getting hired.

As an external consultant/expert on some things, you're also being paid for explicitly not being part of the 'problem'. You can ignore some of the politics that may have led to the situation you're trying to fix. The person cutting the check may be able to cut through some of the red tape and get stuff done quickly.

I've been an employee at places where it's taken a couple days just to get myself on a network and credentialed up. That's a pretty significant waste, but... amortized over the total employee cost, it doesn't seem to be seen as that big a deal.
You think being a consultant is as rare as becoming an actor?
All I have to say is this: Only idiots willingly let their life revolve around a single point of failure controlled by an erratic entity. No pity from me.
In particular "prices should converge" is hiding a pretty big precondition in very few words. You don't only need prices to converge, but you need them to converge within a reasonable time span, which is obviously not guaranteed. (because if the market was efficient already then the prices would have converged already and it would not be feasible to run arbitrages like this)
I think there is substantial, non-trivial overlap between (a) China's views about dissent in 1989 and (b) China's views about the same subject in 2017, to the point that they're nearly the same in all respects pertinent to Tiananmen. It was carried out by (a), while criticism of it is censored by (b).

The views of the same party on a narrow subject in the same country are more similar to each other than can be captured by analogy to the full spectrum of ideology of a western first world democracy.
Agree. Same with the first article. I'm surprised he doesn't discuss some of the real problems (scaling) instead.
Doesn't matter. Both are respected by management types, that's why they can command high wages.
Oddly, I find much more community engagement in rural areas. While cities often feel more isolating,even with more people. In a city, people are always there, a nusiance or a boon. But in rural areas, human contact has a higher value, and is often treated as such. Just my observations from living all over the US.
Laziness ftw! -> [link redacted]

Really not trying to self-promote, but genuinely interested in laziness as a quality of great developers. I talked about it at a javascript meetup [link redacted] (Ignore the David Foster Wallace hair, the math error. Security folks don't worry that address is not valid).

I bought up lzy.io and wanted to make a lazy manifesto, but I don't think we need any more manifestos, So I just collected some examples of programmers taking laziness to new levels good and bad!
FWIW, many of my friends cash out from Coinbase and GDAX regularly. I have heard of occassional delays but nothing like "you can't cash out."

(Looks like about 3 days processing time from usual 1 day now for wires due to sudden spike of users: https://status.coinbase.com/)
It might be to force the market to become more effective.
Pretty much all processors start off that way. The clock speed needs to drop to compensate, though.

Unless you actually put some thought into your hardware designs because you're making phones that have a life expectancy of greater than a mere 12 months that will be used around the world for years to come... in which case you can easily reference an electrical engineering textbook and design a circuit that can buffer enough power and supply sufficient voltage/current to meet your expected max sustained power draw with some very simple and cheap components.

But simple frequency scaling based off of _dynamically detected_ available power. There's no need to slow down a CPU based off the age of the battery so you can "guess" what the max speed you can safely run at without inducing a brownout is (and even less of a reason to do so in discrete steps instead of linearly scaling the performance, except if you're trying to do it discreetly) - all you have to do is monitor available power and scale the CPU clock rate accordingly in realtime. But if your circuit is poorly designed with no forethought as to what you'd do if the maximum rated power of the battery wasn't available, I suppose that's not so easy to retrofit.
The Peril of Taxing Elite Higher Education
Beyond what taway20171214 said, don't discount the value of "language which management can understand". As I've moved up the ladder I've learned how extremely valuable this skill is and how woefully bad I am at it.
Genius Cards: A fun way to solve the world's problems
Batteries degrade with cycles and heat. Maybe your battery has few of both? Or a new battery?
Xijingping this year heavily emphasized the communist ideals in the country, to a point where the civil servants have to pass tests on the ccp ideals

Also China is still the censoring, authoritarian regime it was before. Look at their citizen scores, monitoring, threatening South Korea, Taiwan, us, Australia, etc
Average Joe wouldn't know it was a battery issue making their phone shutdown. Oh, and batteries ARE replaceable.
I agree completely.

And what's sad is that, for many millennials, they're stuck in a financial tar pit in large part by following the advice of their elders.

As an older millennial, my generation had two pieces of advice drilled into our skulls by boomers:

* What degree you get in college isn't that important, a B.A. will let an employer know your teachable

* Student loan debt is the best debt you can have: better than mortgage debt even

* (post dot-com crash) Don't bother trying to come a professional software developer -- it's the new textile industry: it's going overseas.

This created a generation that didn't factor in their professional or economic trajectory when choosing schools, deciding loans, etc. I had peers that walked away from free rides to college to go to their school of choice because student loans were "no big deal" -- and their parents encouraged this!

Boomers should have looked at their own jobs and paid attention how their own companies were hiring in the new economy: that new junior analyst? Makes less than the median income, despite an econ degree from top-tier school. Why did they think their kids, with a middling academics, could land the same job with a degree in english lit? The writing was on the wall even in the 90s that this wasn't a good idea: The world was more globalized and competitive. Labor's power was greatly diminished.
Its not reasonable, and certainly not humane what happened on Tienanmen. But it is understandable. Those government cadres feared the return of the red brigade- they had seen what happened with 'elite' that fall from grace during the rule of the mob by Mao. If a democratic uprising would show the same behavior tendencies as the red brigades, a - its either us or them - mindset would have governed most decisions.

How did the students talk and negotiate with the CCP on Tienanmen?
This is why I switched to proton mail. Never looked back.
You could provide a smaller throttle to get the same effect over longer periods of time. Leveling the throttle over the average lifespan of the phone would provide a consistent performance experience. That’s how I read the argument at least.
Yes, if the company isn't already really distributed. In my case, I was an on-site developer for years, transitioned into management, then moved remote. As time passed, my management got more and more annoying as clearly they'd have preferred I be local. It's particularly tough for things like hiring. As a manager, you typically want to meet the candidate, so you do the intro and exit portions. That's hard to do remote, and somewhat less effective when trying to hire to a local office.

Unfortunately, the old saying "out of sight, out of mind" comes into play. And the more out of sight, the more out of mind.
> As somebody who is a skilled backend developer the value I provide is not as measurable

Learn to do something which is more measurable, or figure out ways to measure some particular aspect of value you can bring. In back-end software, it will most likely be around performance or security. Doing a security audit then proposing remediation... if the company has already been hacked, they (should) understand the value rather quickly. If not... it would be a harder sell.

Performance? Would be hard, I think, without being a brand and people seeking you out. Speeding up an ecommerce site can definitely have measurable impact on bottom line but... if a company is big enough where that would have meaningful impact, they probably already have a team of people to navigate through to convince them of your value/skill/ability.
Assuming you are the author, how is it that your title is
"Why you can't cash out", yet you write "Lots of people can cash out"?

Can you clarify who is being referred to by "you"? At first it would seem to be "everyone", but that is clearly not what you mean.
It's not whataboutism to point out that every great power, for thousands of years, has done that same thing.

Why's it worse in this case?
China takes Democracy (民主) very seriously. You'll see it on propaganda banners everywhere. You see, the leadership is democratically appointed by the will of the people. The 100% majority of the CCP is completely justified by its benevolent rule.

/s

There is no need to abandon old principles when you can just use doublethink to make them mean whatever you want them to mean.
I charge between $2-3K a day. But i have 20 years experience and worked for large clients and at big companies.

My best advice is the find an industry which have a lot of consultants working (so you know clients have the money) and then offer yourself as a consultant with a design, tecnical, financial etc approach. I.e be a niche player in a large industry and never grow bigger than 10 people and instead start charging for things that are scaleable and which clients can use even after they move on.
Criminalizing alcohol is a bad way for society to recover the cost associated with it. Social factors mean that enforcement becomes poor and very selective, you lose tax revenues so there is less money in the short term to use for enforcement, and as you said the evidence is clear.

Instead there seems to be two effective strategies, both used for alcohol and tobacco, which is taxation and state monopolies. Taking Sweden as an example, the taxation is made per liter of sold alcohol. The stronger (and assuming bigger effect on society), the more society demand in compensation. Depending on the drink and original price, the tax can actually become several times higher.

Here the money is ear marked for things such as reducing traffic accidents and domestic violence. If the cost are increased you simply increase the tax. Police has a strong incentive to catch this form of tax evasion as part of the money goes to them, and social norms are rather accepting since only poor people are disproportional effected by the price increase.

Similar for state monopoly, the state has a direct incentive to punish would-be completion. From a social perspective, my guess is that people are rather used to monopolies. Each year there is more and more merges leaving fewer companies that actually compete, and naturally prices goes up. Regardless if it is an icecream, a fridge, gass, a phone, a moive, or a news paper, you can best that most products is made by just a handful global companies, or a single one.

And as for the effect, there seems to be a fair correlation to heavy taxation and decrease use. The tax has never been as high in Sweden as now and the use has never been so low.
I think this is why some people love hoodies so much.
If their concerns are economic, then it makes even less sense to attack the tech industry. That's the one place where you can still achieve a middle to upper middle class lifestyle based on hard work.

Going back to my comment about baby boomers, it seems to me that the 20th century idealized lifestyle was very much backed by the technology available at the time. Mainly mass media. Bandwidth was great enough to broadcast media to a massive amount of people, but not so great as to individualize content delivery. This limited "shelf space" for content lead to a market for high end content creators.

The internet exponentially increased bandwidth and democratized (and devalued) content creation. It also created channels for publishing new types of content that require tech skills (apps, web...).

You would think that millennials would embrace the 21st century technology driven reality, but instead it seems way too many people ended up chasing high value content roles via expensive liberal arts degrees. Or at least that anti-technology combative mindset that was foreshadowed in this piece.
I came across this Mac specific guide on GitHub which looks intense - https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

Though doesn't anyone else find it sad that we need guides for the expectation of some privacy on supposedly "our own" computers?
Whatever it is, it doesn’t have “developer” in the title.
Does something like that exist for software consulting?
It's not worse. It's just bad and it'd be better if they'd stop. The US too.
Oh, my bad. Sorry for chinasplaining :)
Computer Vision by Andrew Ng – Lessons Learned
> Something like abolitionism has been justified by history as mere common sense, and an absolutely necessary component of a humane society.

If taxation by a non-representative government isn't as much common sense as abolitionism, it's only because of a huge amount of propaganda. It is not even much fundamentally different from slavery.
A swappable battery requires physical containment on both the battery and the socket that adds weight and eats up volume that could otherwise be used for more battery.
My original use-case for my cameras was to see what my cats are up to when I'm not home. I've since found many other uses for these cameras:

- Monitoring how much food and which food each cat consumes.

- Seeing who's at the front door when the doorbell rings.

- Peace of mind when I'm on vacation.
> > There's nothing more exhausting as a guy than to write messages and basically get very few if any replies.

> As a really quick point, dating sites are quite explicitly not built for men. They acquire men at a far higher rate than women, and men ~tend~ to be the ones approaching women, and so pretty much every feature should (from an objective point of view) be designed to filter out men that women aren't interested in, so women receive fewer attempts at interaction from them.

Your dismissal of the importance of not wasting the time of men doesn't work if higher quality men have more of their time wasted. That is, if the men who write detailed messages get worse results than the men who write a thousand identical one-liners (or who swipe right on everything, etc.), then the former type of men will leave the site and women will be left with the latter type.

More generally, I've talked to many women who decline to actively seek out good men in real life, and who explicitly justify this based on their observations that there is a deluge of men trying to get their attention. So they decide they'll just passively filter the seemingly-unlimited supply of men who approach them. The key flaw is the assumption that the pool of men is unchanged compared to an active strategy.
In the app, just hit a button at bottom while it loads to bypass for now.