skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> would use so much data

You shouldn't assume that and actually do the math. GSM-HR (an early 90s codec that is fast to encode and designed to be low-power) combined with a trial noise gate will only require[1] uploading <100 kB/hr.

> Only a plugged in laptop/desktop

Audio compression existed before MP3/AAC. GSM-HR only uses 5.6 kbit/s, and was designed to be encoded on early (GSM) cellphone embedded CPUs/DSPs. Modern devices have several orders of magnitude more CPU/power/bandwidth available.

> all the time

It's only necessary to record when voice is actually present. A trivial noise-gate[2] will cut the recording time down to only a few percent of the time at most. Obviously a better filter should be possible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16346416

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_gate
Thank you.. didn’t question the fact as their packages come from an outsourced fulfillment center.

To take it a step further, the formulas were likely done in a lab not their own, potentially using third party bookkeeping and what’s left? Customer service and marketing which both can be outsourced as well.
I think numbering system is a recent introduction to European languages - adopted from India in 10th century or so.. but some other words have similarity like maatha- mother, pithaa- father etc!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system
DuckDuckGo’s extension maybe? https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/
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I have been looking at learning graph database architecture recently and your blog posts keep coming. Great stuff! Keep it coming
Investor confidence? Better visibility?
> If it's about making it easy for uninitiated collaborators to add new source files, then the listed build description format is pretty self-explanatory to use.

This misses the point IMHO. In practice, whatever complex the build system is, it's generally easy to add a new source file: simply grep for an existing source file name, find the build files that refers to it, and insert a similar line for your new file.

> And the build script just needs to be run. It takes no arguments, so I don't think there is a problem with that.

What about: cross compilation? ccache injection? verbose builds? parallelism control? installation prefix?
Try being a package maintainer for a GNU/Linux distribution, where all of the above needs to be kept under control.
You will despise custom build systems.

Established build systems (like GNU Autoconf (e.g gcc), and, to some extent, custom Autoconf (ffmpeg, libvpx)) handle all these cases pretty well, and provide fixed commande-line options (--prefix, --host) to control them. This means the project author doesn't get to decide how the option will be named and how it will work.

This make a huge difference if you're trying to packages for your distrib dozens of projects from dozens of various authors.

With a custom build system, the best case scenario is you have to re-learn all these options for each project.
The worst case scenario is: one project doesn't support some use case (e.g cross-compiling), so you have to maintain a patch that hacks into the build files to add the behavior your need.
Wait, the clock will be in the top left? That spot is for temporary items like notifications, not something permanent like the clock!
The histogram could just be stretched differently for both photos. By changing the gain and offset of the picture, you could possibly get more closely matched photos.
I got a secret salmon recipe from my aunt only to see it on the salmon wrapper.
> Would you rather less ads which are useful or those which are completely disconnected from what you want?

You're making the common mistake of assuming "targeted advertising" means targeted to what you want. The point is to allow marketing to target specific groups. Any overlap with your interests is just a coincidence.
Take a look at the "Digital signature lifecycle table" here: https://www.sysadmins.lv/blog-en/digital-signatures.aspx
> But there's no replacement for damaged oocytes.

That was the old thinking, but now there's evidence that women can probably generate 'new' eggs:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/07/evidence-sug...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120726180259.h...
Have you considered it might the best possible way to spend their time because they have hardships finding another job?
So, what's the difference between this and Webflow?
Then you're subject to sample bias.
I grew up in Kansas — never had any idea there were psychos like this shooter. Part of me feels like he's such an outlier that he could exist in any state.

There is certainly more "whiteness" though in the Midwest and less exposure to "brown skin" so maybe the likelihood of these racists is higher.
It could be that the magnitude of successes tends to result from the multiplication of several factors, talent being one of them. Luck and location are two other candidates.

If the factors are roughly independent and normally distributed, the output could be approximated fairly well with Log-Normal Distribution which often appears very similar to Power Law Distribution given certain assumptions.
Although there are differences in post-processing, you can see significant differences in quality in the zoomed-in crop:

https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2018/03/Compare_with_ci...

This is not surprising considering we're comparing a 60D that was released in Aug 2010 and a 5D4 released 6 years later.
Unfortunately, there's no way to do it currently. How do you like using your homePod ? What are somethings that you like / dislike about it ?
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Not nearly as improbable, but one time I was reading the New York Times and happened upon the top picture in this article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/insider/freezing-temperat...

Not only did I find that I was (barely) in the picture, but I had a picture of the photographer either before or after he took that picture (not at the same time, obviously, since I was turned the other way at the time of his picture):

http://kicp.uchicago.edu/~cozzyd/coincidence.jpg
Really cool write-up, so I figure it's worth airing my ignorance.

It's not enough to know that the system correctly categorized the two test images. It could just be luck, since it's such a tiny input set.

One way to gain confidence that the correct rule was learned would be to use the correct answer to generate another dozen (or hundred) test images for both sides. Then the question would be whether all the test images are correctly categorized based on training over the initial dozen (or ten) images.

Does this suggestion sound reasonable to someone with ML experience?
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A photographer makes a lot of decisions before collecting the data (ie. shooting) and a lot more in post-processing.

Framing and timing the shot are some of the most important ones, and here they were almost exactly the same. But even at the time of shooting, given the same equipment, you'd have the choice of aperture, shutter speed, sensitivity (ISO). Also things like whether your lens is in the sun or the shade may affect the result tremendously. If you made these choices well, you have unspoiled data with a good dynamic range, and that allows all kinds of post-processing. And of course post-processing is an art in itself.

What I'm trying to say is, photography is more about skill than equipment. In the given situation there was a lot of light so even a relatively bad camera equipment would have sufficed.
As mentioned above, the anecdote Native received funding I was also unaware of. However, you could continue to scale and be just as appealing for M&A. What’s your DNVB angle? Proctor and Gamble isn’t quite “inner valley”
> I can pick the more accessible open source chat solution.

I'd love to hear more about this (the good/Bad/ugly). My guess would be irc is head and shoulders above anything else, due to established standard + myriad of solid clients.

But what have you found so far?
All enterprise desktop software is trash. Everyone has to put up with terrible AV, terrible VPN clients, terrible VOIP/video conferencing, etc. There's no incentive to make good software for your users when your users don't have a choice.
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Plain old SQL92 is not turing complete. It's just a DSL for working with structured data. Via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/900055/is-sql-or-even-ts...

SQL could work here but I think GraphQL is better for client apps anyway because it's based on very easily serialized graph structures instead of a string of english words that must be parsed. The client and the server can both work with it much more easily.

I think if you wanted to, you could map SQL onto GraphQL. Someone might have already done that. The opposite is also very likely already done (GraphQL mapped to SQL).
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Because when you edit code basically every character you type have the potential to become a big red button. It’s not that developer add them for fun.
And each time you develop a new functionality you have to figure out how to build a very solid glass box around the reds buttons you just created. The default being none.

Alternatively you could propose no user configurable functionalities whatsoever and rarely and carefully upgrade any dependencies (including the os) and you will create a very robust program.

But then don’t expect to end up with a wireless VR headset with an online game catalog and multiplayer capability. No but you can up with a very nice banking application developed in COBOL for sure.
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Sorry I don't get you. I am specifically talking about allowing FB to target you based on your interests - so that you see more relevant ads.
It wouldn't be quick, and it would be ugly, as explained in...

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090403-gamm...

and

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how-deadly-would-a-nearby...

BUT, such events are (apparently) every billion years or so...
Sounds good but then when that small tank ran out of hot water, I guess there would be a period of cold coming through until the main tank backed it up?

Unless the small tank was big enough for most conceivable uses - in which case, e.g. in the bathroom, it would become a large tank.

A continuous flow unit at least can do what you said in your earlier post, e.g. instantaneously heat up the cold until it starts coming through hot. That's why I was thinking the supercaps, they might provide just enough juice for those 45 seconds or whatever, and also hopefully be reliable enough for decades of use, like you would expect from a hot water appliance.
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In that case, you should follow the author's steps. I personally love the ads which FB and Google show - they are well targeted and look nice and some of them are very influential which I think is a good thing. Otherwise, I will still see ads but they aren't that helpful and just take up space.
I find this reasoning ("footgun", Microsoft's fault) interesting when compared to the prevalent HN opinions when it comes to, for example, (unsecured) redis and memcached servers being used in DDoS attacks, or even AWS S3 buckets (with confidential or even highly classified files) being -- inadvertantly -- left wide open to the public.

In those cases, "we" (as a "community", in general) often blame the people responsible for running those services instead of the developers (or Amazon) being blamed for choosing convenience/ease-of-use over security. That is, we're often quick to say that the people running those wide open memcached servers are at fault for not properly configuring and/or securing them -- and not blaming the developers for creating "a giant footgun".

"You shouldn't be running servers on the Internet if you don't know how to properly configure them" (paraphrasing) is often stated. Yet, in this case, we're not blaming Oculus for their screwup and instead blaming Microsoft -- even though there's zero evidence (AFAIK) that Oculus even used any Microsoft tools to sign their application. (N.B.: I don't know the first thing about code signing on Windows so it may well be that using a Microsoft utility is required and, thus, just assumed by those of you who are familiar with the process. If that's the case, sorry.)

I'm having trouble trying to reconcile these two seemingly opposing viewpoints. Why is Microsoft's utility "a giant footgun" but a (OOTB) completely insecure by default, wide open by default memcached server (for example) isn't?
The Amazon button probably has higher build quality than anything you can replicate or buy for $5+1. That's probably overkill for most applications aimed at adult users, but it's worth it here.

Is that cheap Chinese alternative toddler-survivable? Will the enclosure break and will delicious shiny metal sharps fall out? Is it reasonable water resistant? Is it coated in cheap lead paint that will come off when (not if) your toddler chews on it it?
The css standard for "dynamically loaded, on demand" is Unicode Range.
The paper does not say, however I did find a source speculating why:

The reason doctors administered yeast is simple – it was his only source of protein, and without it, the body starts eating its own muscle tissue. Without any form of protein at all, the man would not be able to "direct" his body to consume his vast amounts of body fat as fuel, and would die within weeks.

Just two tablespoons of nutritional yeast[1] provides a person with 60 calories, 5 grams of carbohydrates and 9 grams of protein – including all nine amino acids, which the human body cannot produce on its own.

Seems like nutritional yeast is a convenient source for essential amino acids.

[0] https://coach.nine.com.au/2016/04/06/17/01/the-mystery-behin...

[1] http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/custom/1323565/2
You are right. My answer was lazy and not representative of real-world scenarios. For that I apologize.

The article OP mentioned[0] is from 2011 and antiquated unless you're writing for IE8 or below (which, of course, could still be a requirement).

I was merely trying to point out a better solution to OP's face-value problem and suggest a new CSS pattern that I personally have grown to love.

@iambateman - feel free to email me if you want some help learning some of these CSS techniques. I'll gladly walk you through them and answer any questions that I can.

@lynghk - cheers, thanks for your comment.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/
Is it too late to become what she would have wanted? I don't mean to be glib, but you were a young kid then and (presumably) you're not anymore. Could you recreate her in your mind and allow her to influence you to become the person you would have been?

I'm a father, and I used to worry about what might happen to my young kids if I died. It would be a great comfort to me to imagine them, after they got older, making an effort to interview people who knew me, asking about what I was interested in, what mattered to me, what I used to talk about, how I talked, how serious/happy/neurotic/patient/stingy/grouchy/etc. I was. With this model, they could imagine conversations with me, discuss things with me, try not to disappoint me, etc.

Fortunately--for me, anyway--my kids are old enough now that they will never get my voice out of their heads, even if I get hit by a bus tomorrow (and even if they are driving the bus!) It's too late for them.

How about you? If you seriously think she might have made you a better person, why not help her by giving her a second chance?
If you look at the waves in the water you can tell they are different.
Wow, that's amazing. But on the other hand, using a chemotherapy drug to ovulate seems a little iffy.
The waves look very different, especially on the left side
My first at all substantial graphics program (a ray traced 3d pong game with reflections, refraction, etc) was in Vulkan, not OpenGL. I don't have the most experience in this area, but I probably have a fairly unique viewpoint on this.

Vulkan is lowering the barrier for entry to graphics programming. It's doing this by not having hidden state. I don't have to remember what is stored where when I'm programming, I can follow the very fine spec as a pretty much step by step guide and get a working program. Practically every operation is simple, and only really cares about the arguments you pass it not some global state. This is very friendly to someone learning how it works.

It is raising the bar for implementing the "get a triangle onto the screen" part of the program, but that's not the hard part and never will be. It's also only raising that bar for crazy people like me who use Vulkan directly. In the future by the time Vulkan really takes over I expect it will lower the bar for that, since there will be nice libraries on top of it which deal with the "allocate everything" step for you (and maybe now, I don't know of any but I haven't searched... AMD has something I think).
The written numerals are relatively recent, but the words for numbers are much older and still very similar across languages.
The creator of Pepe the Frog is suing Infowars
What company out there doesn't do PDFs? Genuinely curious. I'd hesitate to say that switching to non-PDF data would raise investor confidence all that much.
Well you could trigger pictures from the same clock and wait until something interesting happened...
Thanks, yes (you and xumingmingv) are correct.

Hey, I noticed your nice resources in your profile - particularly Haidt. For my wife's PhD, she worked with Baumeister, a colleague of Haidt. Would love to hear more about your interest in civil discourse and other such things! Shoot me an email?
The www.glyphsapp.com and www.fontlab.com font editor apps have "smart components" which do this. Sadly the OpenType format is developed very conservatively by Microsoft so these aren't part of the only widely supported font format today, despite recent additions to the format of run time interpolation technology.
Yes, I think this is just too dystopian for rational people to be allowing to occur. We've actually made intrusive, spying devices which laugh at their users. (Note, they're not owners, but just users of a service owned by a mega-corp.)

I think anyone who thinks that this is okay, didn't have their prescribed dosage of Max Headroom re-runs.

It is just too dystopian to be real. We can't seriously be running as fast as we can off this cliff, really people?
After working in DevOps and getting nightly calls from a paging service about down servers, turning my toddler into another down server seems worse than the current situation ;-) That said, this is a great, fun project for an Amazon button.
sorry, but i don't agree. this is a classic EEE i.e. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish maneuver. which is what, afaik, the gp was trying to say.

edit-001: fmt changes.
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I saw Cindy just a few weeks ago. She was wonderful and kind as usual, and she was a positive presence, the kind of which we can never have enough of. This is heartbreaking.
I was thinking more along the lines of "the power brick for my old monitor died again", but that dual-channel programmable PSU looks amazing. I wish I had a use for it so I had an excuse to build it! Thanks for the link.
I don't doubt its real. I question the fact that we've ended up in this situation: spying devices laughing at their users.

And we got here by way of technological apathy towards the ethics issues. And .. We are still here. Everyone thinks its okay, because "entrepreneurial triumph", and so on..

We need to step back from this abyss and take a good hard look at what we're making.
Wow, what was working in Antarctica like?
I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. I love email and I'm sure I'll be using it in the retirement home. But it is not very popular among the youth:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/email-is-dying-among-mobil...

And there's good reason for that. Email is basically the electronic equivalent of postal mail, a first pass at digital communication that aped the old medium. But the first email RFC was 35 years ago. MIME is more than 20 years old, and that's the last major capability improvement.

From the point of view of a teen who grew up on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter, email is weird, old, and feature-deficient. They think of email in the way that I think of paper mail (mainly for formal and commercial use, not really for friends, somewhat quaint), or possibly how I think of a fax machine (quirky, obsolete, use only when forced).
I uninstalled FB from my phone because it cut the battery life in one third, even if not used at all. One can imagine how busy it was behind the curtain to need all these joules...
You're right, but then later she says that she'd love a 'modern' Amiga, too. I just could see someone giving her a Mac running an emulator and be like.. here you go!
> I’m not sure about Singapore but in Taiwan other Chinese languages were forcefully suppressed.

Singapore was much more successful in suppressing Hokkien than Taiwan was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_Mandarin_Campaign
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"From my short experience with Enterprise Java years ago, such deep callstacks are usually symptomatic of code that does far more indirection than actual work --- hundreds of tiny methods that have maybe a statement or two and then call another one. "

This isn't just a Java thing. I've seen plenty of TDD code written with other languages where there is basically the same thing (so the code can be "testable"), but also with heaps of redundant tests that just add dependencies and maintenance overhead without providing much value.
A very lean bodybuilder could still have a high BMI.

I don't have a reference offhand, but the US Army has a lot of data on military-service-aged men and their cardiovascular health risks. They found BMI isn't a great predictor of cardiovascular health. Some formula involving height and the circumference of the belly was a much better predictor of cardiovascular risks.

A thin but tall westerner colleague in Japan told me that doctors in Japan are required to counsel anyone with a waist circumference over a certain limit about weight loss. There's no correction for height (or race), only sex. His doctor realized that my colleague isn't overweight, but still had to lecture him. BMI at least accounts for height, but can be similarly misleading.
No way to edit a message I've already sent.

I'll stick with Slack.
Women are smaller...
Terrible news, but at the start of the text it seemed it was an even worse situation, with three people passing away at the same time. Glad (well, glad if not the best word) it was just a colorful description
Corrections have never worked.

30y ago news was on the frontpage, corrections on page 4 in small print at the bottom.
Hi Jacob,
That should be fixed now - I've emailed you directly to discuss :-)
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Imagine all power lines of a large part or entire country suddenly dropping away. The network outside of that country would suddenly experience a large decrease in load and its frequency would go up, while inside the country the load would have a large increse, reducing the frequency in that country. If the change is so large that the frequency goes above 52.5Hz or below 47.5Hz, then the automatic circuit breakers trigger to prevent damage to the entire network (basically adjusting the load of the network). If it can't adjust enough, more circuit breakers will trip, causing larger outages.

If the problem is that the frequency is too high, i.e. power load is too low in that coubtry, why would tripping a break help? Wouldn't that very suddenly aggravate the problem and create even higher frequencies?