skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what's going on here is that the context of the sonic character of an individual's voice is crucial to the brain's processing of the phonetic content of utterances.

I spend my whole life listening critically to things. I was 100% YANNY on two sets of headphones and signal amplification paths. When I moved the slider bar about 1.5 notches to the left, LAUREL sort of "came into focus", and I felt like I grasped the human voice behind this severely distorted recording. Then, when I moved the slider back to the neutral position, I could not hear YANNY at all anymore. Only by taking a brief pause could I 'reset' my brain to hearing YANNY.

There's another processing step going on that helps us deal with distorted or band-limited voices. We're reconstructing in our heads the ideal sonic image of the human voice we're supposed to be hearing.

I hypothesize that if the sample in question came at the end of a few words by the speaker, not related semantically, e.g. "right, seven, purple, elephant, laurel", so the listener could reconstruct a more complete "imprint" of the speaker's voice in their mind, the YANNY outcome would drop to <1%.
If you want Excedrin without the caffeine you can just take a 500mg of acetaminophen and 500 mg of aspirin.
You'll chat with a recruiter then get scheduled for a phone screen, which may lead to an in person interview. Pretty standard stuff.
I think C++ classes and templates are incredible for data structures.

In the java world, people try to make their entire program out of data structures, even complex data transformations, and unfortunately it ends up being a disastrous case of square peg in round hole.
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I am surprised that it took so long after the invention of the Internet. In the pre-Internet era, these journals used to play a significant role in distributing research papers in physical paper form. It made sense then. There was no way to copy a 10 page research paper from Germany to China with a few finger taps at low cost. But with the advent of the Internet and its pervasiveness, it no longer makes sense to rely on a costly media based on physical printing, distribution, and centralized organizations milking money out of it.

I remember Timothy Gowers calling for a boycott of Elsevier back in 2012. It's 6 years since then and Elsevier is still alive. Influential researchers still submit their work to Elsevier! It took less time (a few weeks?) for everyone to boycott Digg!

It's surprising how the Internet has been used to distribute cat videos, advertisements, time-draining, and attention-draining content to a sickening degree but it is still underutilized to distribute good content like research papers such that the Internet becomes the primary and de facto media for such content.
I am hoping Facebook to fund PyPy given that Instagram runs on Python.

It seems Google and Dropbox are not interested. Google is working on Grumpy, Dropbox worked on Pyston.
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Hey man I am way out of my depth here, but the study really speaks for itself:

> Our analysis population was 8819 adults in the 1999–2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) with reliable data on diet and headache history.

Compare that to Aimovig:

> The 12-week trial, presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, involved 246 patients suffering four to 14 migraine headaches a month who had tried two to four preventive treatments that either did not work for them or had intolerable side effects. [0]

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amgen-migraines-aimovig/a...
IPs can be PII under certain circumstances, but not the ones I laid out.

> Purpose of security doesn't change if its PII or not.

Security is the legitimate interest, an important part of collection under GDPR.
^ Low-value humblebrag that adds nothing to the conversation.
Wow, so I listened to a clip the other night, and it was very distinctly laurel sound to me. This tool sounded like yanny, even with the slider all the way towards laurel, which I thought was confusing. Then I realized that I'm listening to this on my phone, and maybe the speaker not facing me and the sound rebounding off surrounding surfaces affected it. As I rotated the bottom of the phone, and thus the speaker towards my face, it started to sound much more like laurel to me. Cool.
Generally our mental model of things and sounds is that they have one objective truth, the dress is either blue or gold, the voice is saying either laurel or yanny.

We often don't mind things that have a subjective element such as :- do you like tofu or not. We are prepared to tolerate the differences between people

Our biggest mistake is often to mistake ourselves as the golden sample of what the truth is, so normally, if this wasn't a viral thing exposing that people hear it differently, if we hear yanny, then it must be yanny, and how did these other people hear the wrong thing?

So it's good when we get gentle reminders that we need to question the truth of our perceptions and that it can be tricky to establish what the truth is.
I did indeed enjoy Inspector Lewis. Endeavor is also worth a watch. I thought I would dislike Endeavor because it's a prequel, but it's really well done.

I look forward to Babylon Berlin, for exactly the reasons you mention.
Still, would have been nice to find a real effect. And by nice, I mean it would have changed the future of space travel.
Wow. Adult supervision. That’s pretty insulting.

Is that from an article or a book? I’m curious to have a look myself.
This is a very interesting team. In an interview, one of the co-founders explained that they do not intend to develop their own products, but want to cultivate deep relationships with companies in a variety of verticals and develop expertise that way.

A number of San Francisco VCs flatly rejected them because of this strategy, but they seem to be doing well.

https://www.disruptingjapan.com/startup-just-built-japans-mo...

Link is a podcast interview with transcript.
Extreme hyperbole like this rarely helps your case. Please try to elevate your discussion. Elsevier is a significant drain on public benefit relative to free/open journals but that doesn't make them criminal.
The story of Mel, the real programmer, explained
That years later the website he started would be a monetized shill and bot cesspool? ;)
You are iterating to nowhere
try different speakers.....when I first heard it I was wearing headphones, so I unplugged to play on speakers, and it suddenly swapped. So it's not just about your ears
I’ve had migraines, both ocular and the “real” kind, so I know how bad they can be. I wouldn’t say they were anywhere near frequent enough to take a preventative drug for it. I’ve also worked with multiple people who’ve had chronic attendance problems, and migraines were one of their many go-to excuses. I know that sounds bad, but at least two of the people I’ve worked with would frequently use migraines as their excuse for coming in late, yet they never once got one while at work. Stolen cars, sick pets, the bus never showed up, etc. It was constantly something, more than once a week. If they were real, and I’m just being judgmental and seeing patterns that aren’t there, then I’m glad they’ll get relief. If not, it’s one less excuse.
This may come off as rude ... but tptacek there is a fine line between being enthusiastic and aggressively dickish. All over this thread you have been PUSHING hard... way harder than you should have to if your product is as good as you are touting. It's one thing to promote, but what I've read all over this post (not just this thread) is someone whose personality REFUSES to allow them to even give a small inch in a debate -- feels a drive to be right no matter the cost. That makes me question how likely you are to take input from people who can / want to help ...

Friendly advice -- roll yourself back down to an 8 or 9.
Systems of water sanitation, unless you want to count cholera and dysentery as losers.
It actually is unfair. The Fed's means of control over the economy is interest rates. This affects construction more than most other industries. So construction workers get thrown out of work so the rest of us can have a smooth ride.
Thank you for perfectly describing the frustrations I have experienced with GDPR. As the owner of a small SaaS business in the US I don't have the time to follow various EU regulations that closely.

I only found out about GDPR earlier this year from a random HN comment. I can't understand the attitude from some HN commenters that everyone should have known about this for years. Where/how should every small business that could be impacted by this regulation be notified?

As you noted, the regulation is readable, but verbose and frustratingly vague. I ended up reading most of it along with countless articles from various third parties debating what it means and how to comply - and I'm still not 100% certain if the steps I've taken mean I'm actually "GDPR compliant."

I too got stuck having to comply since around 30% of my customers are in the EU. However, I gladly would have foregone all of that revenue and focused on non-EU customers only if I had known what was coming back then...
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Is there an objective measure of how well DL generates text (as in the article)?

No. But there is one for how accurately it predicts test text, not in its training corpus.
I work in film and television. We have pensions.
PyPy doesn't speed up all workloads, sometimes the JIT overhead is just too large to still get a speedup in the end. E.g. the Oil shell runs slower under PyPy: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/03/04.html#toc_13
I won't question the fact that they are very good at it and indeed, a lot of elected officials forget their promises immediately after that.

And yes, voters cold-calling senators is an incredibly unreliable way to know who cares about what. I am astounded that it is still that efficient. I guess many candidates haven't figured yet that a lot of people can lie.

Personally I wouldn't say "I will vote for you if you do X or Y". Given the current political climate, I would present myself as a republican voter who has doubts "and really, this net neutrality things really makes it hard for me. I don't really see why I should go vote for either side now."

They wont believe someone who pretends they can switch on a single issue but their current fear is that their base won't come on election day.
With a dentistry discussion you get the double bonus of hearing from both self-appointed health experts AND self-appointed nutrition experts.
So this is an auditory analogue of, for example, the young/old woman illusion,[0] right?

0) http://mathworld.wolfram.com/YoungGirl-OldWomanIllusion.html
I'm reminded of what you would get (aside from a ruined needle) when you played some records backwards.

One example I remember: if you play the opening line of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" ("life is a mystery") it was supposed to sound like, "he will save us, Satan."

It's like pareidolia, but with sound. Once primed, you can hear whichever version you were primed with.
The BART is damaging thousands of people's hearing every day and nobody seems to care.

>long or repeated exposure to sounds at or above 85 decibels can cause hearing loss. The louder the sound, the shorter the amount of time it takes for NIHL to happen.

https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/noise-induced-hearing-loss

We were convinced for months before my friends and I got our hands on a decent decibel reader (didn't trust the phone apps) and it strays well past 85 up to 95 even, for up to 20-30 seconds between stops.

If you ever see a group of nerds with earplugs in our ears shouting at each other on BART, that's my friends and I, we carry extra individually packed earplugs, feel free to ask us for a pair.
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A lot of these would be good submissions to the Ministry of Silly Walks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8
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It's a different world and company in 2018. I mean, could you imagine the diversity initiatives in 2000? A very large part of our economy is embracing a position of collaboration, choice, empowerment, user experience, etc. The mentality that "a rising tide lifts all boats" is no longer limited to Nintendo(I realize the irony when we look into indie support from previous generations).

I agree entirely though that I hope this is a long lasting change. Teams within Microsoft have been doing amazing work for a LONG time, and now more people are being exposed to that. I also hope the new Microsoft is here to stay.

I few things I find impressive:

* Event Tracing for Windows

* Azure engineering(their document store is built on their block store and is all exposed to developers; it's an impressive system from an API standpoint IMHO)

* Language services across TypeScript, C#, and F#. World class tooling that's nearly unparalleled

* Research and implementations for highly performant static analysis including flow control

* Tango white paper

* SeaDragon

* Holo Lens

* TypeScript

* VSCode

* Roslyn

* Dotnet

* Entity Framework

* Powershell; this thing is an impressive novelty whether you get along with it or not

* Etc and so on
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17085232
T-Mobile and other carriers sell customers a service that uses this information to track other phones ON THE SAME ACCOUNT. The actual service is provided by a third party that, I assume, is privy to all customers tower contacts and thus the location. By the way, the service is usually accurate within 50 feet although I have found some bloopers where it was off by 500 feet.Each result even tells you how accurate it likely is.
Because as techies we fail to recognize that some things are the way they are not for lack of a better alternative, but because of entrenched interests.

I am still amazed that the record industry managed to shut down what was likely to be the next iteration of internet: P2P exchanges. Now we have a centralized youtube solving in a bad way what eDonkey+VLC could have solved for two decades already.
it covers it ... except when it doesn't. Which is open to 'interpretation'

Where is the scale balanced on this ... will it be the same in each of the different countries implemeting it?

>as long as it do not conflict with the interest of the data subject in regard to their need for data protection

Article 6.1.f

>processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

So ... I can retain IP records in my logs , as long as they aren't a child?
Might be a better phone. But is a phone useful?
“communicator” makes a bit more sense.
I watched the debate between the party leaders recently and the level of conversation really struck me. That's not to say that there aren't problems - the Sweden Democrats have basically succeeded in wedging immigration into every single conversation. But there seems to still be an appreciation for serious policy and statesmanship.
Plus Danny Archer
Speaking of old, cheap medicines that help migraines, much more so imo than many newer expensive medicines, it's definitely worth trying metoclopramide (reglan) or prochlorperazine (compazine).

A lot of docs don't think about using them, because they are cheap, generic and therefore not advertised :)

They shouldn't be taken regularly, they can have nasty side effects if taken regularly, but they are a great drug to use even up to once every week or two weeks to treat an acute severe migraine attack I.e. "rescue medication". Btw, if the migraines are this regular, you should also see a specialist to consider some preventive medication)

My own migraines are pretty mild, but I work as an ER doc, regularly treating patients with migraines that didn't respond to other meds at home.
How will Elsevier be gone if it controls so much of the content used in citations?
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Well you needed a robust hypermedia platform that permits low friction collaboration. Sharing DVIs via email, FTP, or Gopher doesn't cut it.
No, the filing is not behind a paywall. You can read it for yourself: http://aureliusvalue.com/content/uploads/2018/05/AVAV-whistl...

No one said this case was criminal. And yes, it is related to smuggling explosive materials onto a plane. And no, you can't "file anything in court" without risking a countersuit.
You make it sound as if he is the exception that proves the rule.
> Given that reactionless thrust is even less plausible on a theoretical basis than superluminal neutrinos, I really hope this doesn't come as much of a surprise to anyone.

You can achieve what looks like reactionless thrust by swimming in spacetime, according to GR:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/299/5614/1865.full

So I think your statement is only true in the strictest sense using the words literally, but the spirit of the claim is actually false: theory actually predicts the existence of reactionless motion.
Yes I have considered that. It didn't exist in 2010 so it's worth taking a look. It already does some of what we want, but the devil is in the details.

Noise also did not exist in 2010. The cryptographic world is so much richer today than it was even 8 years ago. When I think back to the crypto dark ages I shudder.
I found three different "points" where my perception changes. The first is, when moving left to right one notch at a time, I hear it on change on the 9th notch (1-based numbering starting with LAUREL notch as 1). If I start from right to left, I hear it switch on the middle notch. And finally, if I leave it on the 8th notch, I can hear both ways at the same time and also 'force' myself to hear one or the other. Additionally, I can make it sound like "larry", "gary", "yally" and a bunch of other things on various notches without much effort, like all those 'ghost hunting' shows and their EVPs that sound like whatever the plot needs...
How is disallowing a racial group from going to school without being screamed at and harassed fall under 'shitty people are no longer able to say shitty things without being called out on it'?
WireGuard isn't "my" project. I have no formal relationship with the developer, other than that we like his work so much we've contributed a bit to its development (less than others).

You're not being rude. But I have no plans to give an inch on this discussion. If that's problematic for you, you're welcome to use the HN votey-buttons as you see fit.
Why are so many commenters on HN presuming that companies that struggle to comply with the regulation are doing something shady with user data?

You are aware that there is a time and monetary cost to comply for those with legitimate data collection purposes, right?
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The worst part is that someone assumed something then removed the code that did the escaping without even doing the most basic of tests, like even in the browser just doing a quick foo.html('<script>alert("oh snap this is bad")</script>')
That wasn't criticism, just curiosity. I'd like to have such an example to refer to and thought you might have one.
>I’ve had migraines, both ocular and the “real” kind, so I know how bad they can be. I wouldn’t say they were anywhere near frequent enough to take a preventative drug for it.

These two sentences contradict each other. If you never had to consider taking a preventative for your migraines, then no, you do not know how bad they can be. Migraines are much more than just "ow my head hurts today, I should take the day easy". For some, they are debilitating to the point of sometimes making it impossible to do basic tasks like washing the dishes, reading, or sometimes even watching TV. Sometimes during a migraine you literally cannot do anything other than sit in darkness and wallow in misery, hoping that maybe it will ease up for long enough for you to fall asleep. Any kind of professional work is out of the question during a migraine.

Not getting a migraine while at work isn't uncommon, as sometimes having something to focus on (like work) can help stave off whatever triggers the migraines. Migraines also aren't something that just suddenly happens; people who suffer from chronic migraines often get warning signs that one is coming on 12-24 hours in advance, and they can take just as long to develop as well. If someone was already at work, it's unlikely that a migraine would progress to the point of being debilitating before the workday was over. This is probably why your coworkers usually call in sick, but never leave in the middle of the workday. They typically will know before the workday even begins if it will be a migraine-filled day or not.

Chronic migraines can lead to depression, which can cause a downward spiral of deteriorating health/diet, which can in turn cause more migraines, and more depression. Often time migraines can lead to thoughts of suicide because of how badly it hurts, and how badly it impacts life as a whole.

I understand it's frustrating if your coworkers bail often, and shame on them if they are faking their "migraines" and just using it as an excuse. But as someone who has an SO who suffers from severe migraines 15-20 days per month, and still forces herself to go to work most days even through severe, debilitating pain and depression precisely because she has coworkers with judgmental attitudes like yours, I find your analysis insulting.
you can read the novella Drive online: http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse/drive/prequel.php where it appears to be some sort of issue that occurs to his failing fusion drive, so definitely a more efficient fusion drive.
Hi Justin, good explainer article. Would recommend diving into the value prop and process of what Atrium Scale offers (and gets in turn). Transparency wins.

Also, most founders raising Series A have been around the block at least once. This article seems more targeted towards first-timers.
Could we get a less clickbait title please?
EDIT: Thanks!
Still do not get how you leverage these billions of devices as workers for a distributed workload; it is by all metrics suboptimal or mediocre compared with any other programming platform to distribute workloads. As customer end-point we would be speaking in a different context.

Please do not label other’s different of interpretation as interpretation mistakes: I believe your opinion is factually wrong.
Over time I believe more content will be published in open access journals. In Machine Learning this is already quite common and it's amazing.
Operating a network service is now illegal by default. Yes, the exceptions are large enough to accommodate most legitimate businesses. Yes, the likelihood of enforcement action against a small player is low. But the normal course of websites has so far been miles and miles away from the nearest illegal act. Now they are right up against the letter of the law merely for calling listen(). The only other law to come that close to the normal operation pure-internet entities is copyright, and it’s drawn similar ire. While it’s true that websites have always been prohibited from committing murder, the possibility of committing murder with a website is so remote as to be absurd.