skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't seem to be. HackRF is 1MHz - 6GHz and it's a beast (you can go lower with upconverter like Ham It Up). I only just learned about KiwiSDR and I'd love to know for which use cases people would choose it over HackRF. If I understand correctly the setup may be easier, but other than that?
I would argue that the number of companies who have gone bankrupt sitting on this dollar volume of preorders is and will continue to be, 0. Worst case scenario, they can issue stock or sell a chunk of the company. Even easier is to dial back R&D.
What about "Tucker?"
> I don't think that makes it a science.

Hypothesis, experimentation, the ability to negate/falsify, some predictive ability ... Either these things are not true, or your bar for "being a science" is higher than most.
I used to see that a lot on Amazon. I just bought an electric toothbrush, why would I buy another? Haven't been shopping much lately so not sure if it's gotten any better. My example is from last year, and I remember mentioning this problem in an interview with Amazon 6 years ago, and I'm sure machine learning has been involved for longer than that. It's still easier to screw up a machine learning model than SQL.
One of my colleagues is currently developing a gallop simulator in Excel: https://galoppsim.racing/gb/
Actually only psuedo-socios make power grabs. True socios have power handed to them on a silver platter by MOPs and geeks alike.
Nice, first post and all I get is downvotes. Screw this place!
I guess that's why they have a way for people to contribute by checking contributions: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/listen
Possibly for weight reasons? I'm in my early to mid 30s with decent near-distance eyesight, but adding my Dell 12.5" ultrabook to other things I routinely need to carry is increasingly starting to hurt. My next laptop bag will probably be a backpack to mitigate that, but it still doesn't make weight irrelevant.

Anyway, one doesn't have to go to that extent to make the point: as per the sibling reply from d_, even on a 17 inch monitor one can have issues with 120-character lines if viewing two files side by side (or 50% browser 50% editor).
The physics of baking good pizza
Did you mean to write "Venn diagram", or this was the joke?
Hum. I am pretty sure the investigation started with the lowballing (as many investors were complaining about it) and that in the process of that investigation they uncovered the swap desk collusion (which had an impact in fractions of basis point and which wasn't really on anyone's radar).

So I'd argue the contrary. Barclays had rather a good hand on the lowballing, having reported the issue to every regulator, and in the end by lowballing themselves in a way that wouldn't affect the resulting index (by remaining one of the top contributions that get excluded by the Libor calculations). The swap trading collusion is what made their position morally indefensible when the BoE joined the two in a single report.
Also doesn't qualify due to being written by a 'journalist' but Blood, Sweat and Pixels is a great book. Has a lot of behind-the-scenes stories / vignettes about your favorite games of the past couple of years. Was a very informative read.
I have 6 kids, and I've found it's pretty simple to get kids to pay attention (or anything else). Be consistent, and willing to discipline if necessary. Here's the order I follow:

1. Polite request

2. Polite command

3. Stern command

4. Warning

5. Push-ups

6. Spanking

They know I love them and because of that love obedience is required. Situations rarely escalate past step 2, and step 6 is memorable.

ETA: for anything past the polite stages, I try to always follow-up with gentle counseling after they've had a couple minutes to think about it. "Do you know why you got into trouble? How could you have handled the situation better?". Complete amnesty is the rule during counseling, i.e., no matter what they confess, they will NOT receive punishment. I want them to learn by reflection.
It’s a salary database and it’s anonymized. How is this harming the public? A worker is still free to accept or reject any offer they want. Companies aren’t colluding, they are reporting. Nothing stopping companies from paying more or less than what other people are paying.
That's what the second pass is for, right, to screen out actually unintelligible or misrecorded entries.

The English (in)fluency is more of a feature, though, than a bug. The goal isn't to produce a speech-to-text system that can recognize a perfectly miked BBC announcer. It's to be able to recognize a wide variety of people speaking fairly naturally in imperfect conditions, using whatever accent they use for casual speech.
You think there is a 10% chance that Musk is snake-oil salesman and a sham?
Hempcrete could replace a lot of non-load bearing applications. For anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempcrete
To a compromise? How do you think it will go if we do nothing?
Did they consider to use MTurk for this?
Numbers seem to come from https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_snd_d_nus_mbblpd_a_cur.... which includes natural gas, ethanol and exports.
Is that too high or too low?
I exaggerate, but I think the intercept has a decent take on her https://theintercept.com/2018/06/30/theres-an-easy-answer-to...
>This will end at some point and that even beside the fact that electric car in reality create more pollution in vast majority of the world more than modern engines.

Is this thread being linked to by some Tesla short seller blog of what?

Surely this kind of misinformation isn’t organic to HN.
Software Engineer Salaries in 2018, Tech Levels, and Lifestyle
Well, Bentley is making ~9000 cars per year with ~3000 employees. Tesla is making ~100k cars per year with ~37k employees (not counting all the subcontractors). That's exactly the same ratio, and it's bloody awful compared to large-scale car manufacturers. E.g. Toyota has 10x the number of employees as Tesla but makes 100x as many cars. Even if next year Tesla production is 5000 cars per week all year, they will still have >4x as many employees per car built compared to Toyota.

Also, Bentley is fully owned by Volkswagen. If they wanted to "scale up" to a downmarket Model 3 equivalent, they'd take the VW MQB platform, use most of the non-platform components from the Mk7 VW Jetta (probably offering the 250hp and 300hp engines with AWD), spend 2-3 years developing sufficiently distinct styling parts, and then be able to churn out 100k cars per year.
Yes, you're correct. And in fact I had a bet with a friend ten years ago that Tesla would in fact still be around today. He didn't think they would. I just won that bet in January. :)

The shame is that the parts that are innovative, like the engineering of an electric car, the design, the interface, and the battery technology, are all going so well, all things considered.

Whereas the parts that don't necessarily require innovation on a major scale, such as management of people, the operation of a manufacturing line at scale, systemic quality control, and safety and health—are being done (by all accounts) not so well. These are the things that are far more difficult than the technology and innovation precisely because they are so much more complex, and require a different mindset. For the same reason Musk is so good at engineering, it is not totally surprising he is not so spectacular at leading the human systems required for this new pursuit. Again, by all accounts.

And the sad part: these are the parts that have been done before, in similar situations, at similar scales, with similarly new technologies, without drastically different requirements or problems. Having that experience available to you and not using it is not exactly wise.

All that said, I think he'll learn what he needs to learn, get it done anyway, and will not fail. Making this point of efficiency at this stage pretty moot. I realize that.
Oh my god, come on. I'm a Tesla bear, and I don't really see a massive different between a rate of 4,850 cars and 5,000 cars....
There's a pattern from Elon of overpromising, and then pulling through, but way later. I wouldn't be surprised if they're easily staying at a 5000/week production baseline in the next three months.
That also neglects the quality of those 5 years of experience as it relates to the actual position. 5 years of designing financial services systems is more valuable to a financial services company than 5 years of building web applications for a dating company.

That is the problem I have with collective bargaining in higher skilled fields — it assumes people are interchangeable based on worthless “years of experience” metrics. Some sysadmin with 20 year experience might not know the first thing about DevOps, while a fresh college graduate might be an expert. Yet the 20 year guy would get paid more despite knowing less.
This is a nicely designed interface. Well done, Mozilla. Validating sentences is quite fun, listening to different accents from around the world. Try it out if you haven't already: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/listen

It's awesome that the dataset is offered with a CC-0 license: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/data, does anyone know if it includes the answers from the survey? I have a limited bandwidth internet, so I haven't checked it out yet. In particular, I'm wondering if there's user data on whether they picked yes or no, to implement "troll detection" - people who click one option all the time.

Trolling of crowdsourced data isn't unheard of. (NSFW language: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cygfx/4chan_is_using_...)
Ask HN: Any service available to translate 60 lines of Algol60 code into Ruby?
Big blue birds?
It costs a very small amount compared to the actual value that they create.

Adding more houses in a place nobody wants to live is worth very little.

Adding more apartments to a place EVERYONE wants to live is VERY valuable.

I want developers to be doing the thing that everyone wants.
I have a few reasons why I still think 80 characters is a great limit.

Readability. It's difficult enough to read through long lines of normal text on a badly formatted website.

Naming. I could go on about this one. Namespacing was created for a reason, don't write any long names. This most often will make your code considerably shorter.

Formatting. If you have short names and you're still ending up will the long lines, you need to understand how to format your code properly.
Confusing title. Perhaps better to say "successor to Network Time Protocol", which, like IRIG or PTP, is a pretty common timekeeping protocol.
"Also, no, small traders don't lose. Retail traders et al get much tighter spreads, cheaper execution by routing to internalizers, etc."

There's liquidity until there isn't. It was easier to get an order filled during a run to the exit pre-HFT. When everyone runs to the exit in an HFT world, retail investors are the last to get their orders filled, if they're lucky.
Reporting isn’t manipulating.
Did you ever wonder why magazines and newspapers use multiple columns? Because it's easier to read. When lines get too wide, it becomes harder to scan from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. There's solid science behind that, based on both physiology and observation of effects. For text, the recommendation is generally as low as 50 characters or as high as 75. Yes, reading code is a bit different, but not so much different that the same principles don't apply.

80 wasn't chosen, or kept so long, arbitrarily. To overcome the issues with both readability and ability to support side-by-side diffs or multiple files on smaller monitors or for those with poorer eyesight, there'd have to be a supportable positive reason to go higher. So far all I've seen is personal preference and occasionally support of bad habits (e.g. "trying to do too much in a single line" as another commenter put it). I just don't find that very convincing.
I do think he'll learn, and I trust that he's a pretty decent person all things considered. Hope it goes well for them!
From [0]:

> In this paper, we present HUYGENS, a software clock synchronization system that uses a synchronization network and leverages three key ideas. First, coded probes identify and reject impure probe data—data captured by probes which suffer queuing delays, random jitter, and NIC timestamp noise. Next, HUYGENS processes the purified data with Support Vector Machines, a widely-used and powerful classifier, to accurately estimate one-way propagation times and achieve clock synchronization to within 100 nanoseconds. Finally, HUYGENS exploits a natural network effect—the idea that a group of pair-wise synchronized clocks must be transitively synchronized— to detect and correct synchronization errors even further.

Not an expert, but this seems quite a complex system. Since HF traders have huge incentive to game the system, my fear is that the next headline about Huygens will be about a new exploit found in the wild.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/geng
OpenRW — Open source GTA III engine reimplementation
I didn't comment on the fee diversion because the text in the bill is a series of line edits to the appropriate section of the US Code, which means I'd have to go dig around the whole law to figure out what it was actually doing.

As for the rest of it, I summarized the actual content of the bill itself. (It's only 26 pages, it's not that long). The bill explicitly refers to repealing the 2011 patent reform. It also explicitly refers to displeasure with the Alice and Lexmark rulings, and the entire bit about private property rights is clearly an attempt to overturn the recent Oil States ruling, even if not mentioned by name. There can be no doubt that the bill is trying to roll back patent reform.
An animated film, "Mind Game", now finally available in an edition that won't cost an arm and a leg, is a high-ranking favorite of mine by any measure.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452039/

The idea's simple: a young man hooks up with a girlfriend he lost touch with, and then dies because he doesn't have the nerve to act when the moment demands it. But God decides to toss him back into the world a few moments before his death to give it another shot, and ... and then things truly go off the chain. (Pay VERY close attention to the montages at the beginning and end of the movie; they make it worth a second viewing, since they snap a great many things into focus.)

It's not just thought-provoking, since it tackles all kinds of issues about free will and the meaning of one's life, but it's also animated with wild abandon and gleeful energy.

I can't recommend this movie highly enough in general, but this is as good an excuse to talk about it as any.

(edited to add IMDB link)
Somebody should make a dramatized documentary about the making of diablo. It's discussed like every 2 weeks on here, somebody should make a documentary.
Pre-orders are overstated. Check Twitter - people who were quoted November delivery for AWD Performance are now being told they can take delivery in July.

They'll burn through supposed 450K before the end of Q3, and then the order book is dry/cash crunch time for Tesla.
Why should Tesla be worth 600B if they produce 2 million cars a year? Toyota makes 10M cars per year and has a market cap of less than 300B.

Future growth is already baked into Tesla's current valuation of 60B. They're not making any money today (in fact they're losing billions) but they have a high market cap because they might become profitable years from now. Once (if) they become a mature car manufacturer their valuation multiple will go way down. They'll be judged on their profit margin and FCF like any other car manufacturer.

Your best case scenario of Tesla growing their market cap by 550B in the next 2 years is completely unrealistic. Even Facebook didn't grow that quickly, and their profit margin is second to none.
That is why I said "domestic sales". They want to hit 200k US sales at the beginning of a quarter and when they have a high production rate. That would be this quarter starting July 1, as they are already very near the 200k limit. It's not reasonable to think they could export the whole next quarter's production of S, X and 3 production without many serious repercussions. One being pissing off hundreds of thousands of US model 3 reservation holders.
Of course the retail guy gets hurt. Who do you think buys the mutual funds that pay a higher price.

Seriously, I hear this all the time, but it’s only one step removed. Why does everybody keep repeating this lie?
Obedience is not the same as paying attention. My son can make coffee and an omelette not because I told him but because he thinks it’s fun.
Even without screens, if you asked me as a kid it would be to play with toys, draw or maybe go play baseball with my friends. Conversely, my daughter has unfettered screen time on multiple devices with an A+ selection of games and videos, but she proactively started folding laundry this morning for no reason and then asked to practice coding with me. Why? Same reason as the Mayan kids. Genetics.

And, just to be pedantic because I hate the term, the Yucatan is in the Western World.
Can you quote the text here? For the life of me I can’t find the section you’re referencing. I’ve heard the “timing production to match tax credit” thing before and it doesn’t make sense to me, hence why I’m trying to track down the primary source.
> "The goal isn't to produce a speech-to-text system that can recognize a perfectly miked BBC announcer."

Wait what? The headline is about text-to-speech aka speech synthesis, not speech recognition (speech-to-text.) Are they trying to do both? It seems to me that you'd train both using different sorts of datasets. If you wanted TTS to be intelligible to the most number of people, training to to speak like a 'perfectly miked BBC announcer' is probably exactly what you'd want to do.

Train it to recognize many regional accents, but train it to speak with the most prevalent and universally understood accent you can find. So either BBC English or Californian/Hollywood English.

Although traditionally TTS engines have shipped with numerous voices, such that you can select either a British or an America accent for the English voice. It may be worthwhile to have other English accents too, maybe one for India (125 million speakers.) But if you trained a TTS engine to have a computer amalgamation of all possible English accents I really doubt the result will be considered high quality by anybody.
> Nobody actually cares about any of this... It’s just shifting power centers and really all comes down to corporate profits.

Europe has made this mistake before. Appeasing a totalitarian, expansionist dictator works well, abruptly to the point at which it doesn't.

To be clear, this is an attack on the sovereignty of a fully democratic nation with a population the size of Australia's.

Some things are more precious than "corporate profits".
That in particular is, and hasn't been something that happened. But you know, if either of us want something the other isn't so willing to do, we both understand. Not such a big deal for us - though I do understand where it would be a line for other folks. And that's OK, the main point is to be open about this sort of thing and be able to discuss it without fear of the other being angry. Yes, this has been discussed in my household, more in the theoretical sense because we both have some hesitations about the other person not wanting to be involved or worse, forced by a third, unknown party... even where it is legal. My own main reasoning for wanting such a thing is because I'm bisexual, and there are lots more men available for me than women. Folks have urges and get stuff stuck in their head, after all. Being able to share these thoughts is pretty great.

The rest of it is pretty normal stuff (watching porn, being physically attracted to others), though it is stuff folks tend to not discuss openly.
OK, sure, but call it 4850 of 5000 when everyone says there wasn't a prayer of making it is pretty remarkable. Call it 97% of the way. The fact that they built out a tent and hustled 24/7 to hit the goal is impressive to me.

Overall it's pretty classic Tesla/Musk. Predict the absolutely impossible, get 97% of the way there, and regardless of how you slice it the only thing that's not impressive is the facxt that they didn't meet the arbitrary guideline. They still crushed everything that anyone else thought was possible, so IMO it's a victory just a hollow one.

Will they be able to repeat this sustainably? Probably not unless they figure some other things out, but the point is that it's within striking distance. The company has a shot at profitability in the near future, and I see Teslas everywhere now.

In the past they missed it drastically; the number is important because if they can figure out a way to get to that level of production they have the chance to become cashflow positive relatively quickly.
Behind paywall: https://archive.is/uLiop
Thank you for pointing out the wider context for this debate, you beat me to it. The level of hypocrisy on view in Brazil regarding this issue is breathtaking: implicit acceptance of what amounts to genocide on the one hand, while prosecuting its victims on the other. Given the attitude that Brazil has had historically toward its indigenous population, one would think they would be _encouraging_ infanticide -- it saves mining and lumber companies the cost of ammunition to shoot folks, after all.

The best option here would be to employ applied anthropologists in partnership with anthropologically-aware medical practitioners and demonstrate that disabled children can be cared for, in ways that are culturally compatible with local belief systems. However, this would need to be part of a multi-pronged campaign to recognize the equality and autonomy of native peoples, things which so-called "civilized" populations seem incapable of grasping.

This isn't an either/or issue; "culture" should not be misunderstood as some sort of monolithic edifice that you either accept or reject. There's room for debate and compromise on everything, and the dissent reported within tribes regarding infanticide is emblematic of this. As long as medical practices are presented in ways that respect local communities, it is surprising how well partnerships can be forged between "Western" and indigenous customs. These cultures don't have to "stop," and its clear from the text that not every member of these communities agrees with the practice of infanticide. Approach people with respect, provide information in a manner that fits into their perspective of the world rather than imposing one's own, and work together to find a compromise position that doesn't require killing children. Change is a basic ingredient in all cultural systems. Easy? Of course not, but it can be done.

And to those explicitly or implicitly stating that Amazonia peoples are cruel, barbaric, inhumane, and don't deserve to exist because of the way disabled children are treated, as an American I can point to the way in which my own culture allows children to suffer and die of malnutrition or poor health. Heck, look at how much Michigan's state government cared about children in its territory drinking leaded tapwater. At least the tribespeople described in the article give "inconvenient" children a relatively quick death, rather than letting them linger with life-long brain damage and other maladies as we do here [1].

[1] Hyperbolic Swiftian analogy. Author does not endorse killing people in general, let alone killing children, okay?
If those jobs are "needed" then wages will rise, and the market will solve the problem.

If wages don't rise for those jobs, then they weren't needed.
Am sorry to hear that, TaylorAlexander. This was not like that. We cleared the street beforehand, and the kids enjoyed the brief show. Admittedly, even despite the precautions, it felt unsafe. And I will certainly endeavor to keep it on regulation race tracks in the future :)