skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised no one has questioned that this benchmark is published by the creators of Cheetah. The conflict of interest is extreme.

Is anyone enough of a STT expert to weigh in? Why should I trust this?
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If you walk, the lack of street illumination can make it difficult or impossible to navigate the area at night.
Or spacemacs.
I wonder if they actually trained Cheetah on a different or the same dataset they are benchmarking on.
You're willing to give up the personal privacy of you, your family, and any guests in exchange for turning off light switches without getting up?
Animating Doodles with Autoencoders and Synthetic Data (2018)
Ask HN: How to build a Google Sheets/Excel?
I'm looking for resources/info related to the fundamentals of building a type of spreadsheet-ing software (e.g., Excel, Google Docs). Can anyone link me to any resources? Not trying to build actual tool like that, just something a bit similar. I'm having trouble finding any resources related to getting started.
Depends on what you mean by better off. I mean how much can you “save” on paper towels by going to Costco? $10-20 at most? Not even factoring in the cost of the membership and the hassle of going to the store.
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> The people designing this are too wealthy to emphasize.

They didn't just think of the idea one afternoon and run with it. Development took years. I'm sure they had plenty of meetings about this problem.
TLDR; the encryption wasn't performant enough, so dropped encryption all together.
Makes sense...
I've launched Emacs once in the last 3 weeks (and it's still running). :)
>"would you support a project to go back and replicate electromagnetism experiments performed at the start of the century?"

Yes, of course! That is a great idea. Everyone should be doing this experiment in high school or undergrad science class by now. In fact that seems to be a thing:

https://hepweb.ucsd.edu/2dl/pasco/Millikans%20Oil%20Drop%20M...

https://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/EXP18%20millikan.pdf
If you can quantify the amount of time & expense between the two, you get your answer:

1) no rewrite but painful updates over x period of time (total)
2) painful rewrite but easy updates over x period of time (total)

If the delta is small between the two, then think about how long you intend x period of time to be - when does it make financial sense?

Also, be aware that painful update experience winds up costing you in developer turnover. This can be a HUGE cost.

Short term thinking of "it's too painful to do a rewrite" has killed more companies than I care to remember.

But you need to figure out how to glean realistic and correct numbers for these things to justify EITHER decision. Neither option is always right - and if someone is saying it is, that person needs to be jettisoned ASAP- they're poisoning your well of information.
Probably was not anywhere :) But that now that I am here, I am willing to support AMZN's competition, and Tesla's and Google's ...
> They're meant for the public to provide new, unique perspectives

Citation?
> I don't think that's true. Bezos isn't sitting there designing Alexa from his gold-plated desk.

No but the people that are working on Alexa (the engineers) are probably too wealthy to empathize as well, a poorly paid one is probably earning more than at least 80% of the population. They might have financial pressures of their own, but they're unlikely to care if the the oreos cost $2 or $3 today.

Software Developers, particularly in Silicon Valley are out of touch with most of the world.

Edit - Just to demonstrate, how much RAM would you say the average desktop has? If you said anything over 4GB you might be out of touch with most people even in a field you know: https://hardware.metrics.mozilla.com/
The reference: https://www.notboring.com/jokes/work/3.htm
> you've failed your job as a software engineer

But you've succeeded in your job in being a practical person trying to get something done.

I would love to know where you work, where "let me spend some time on optimizing this query" could be justified over "lets put a few more sticks of ram". Everywhere that I've worked, developer time is much more valuable and much more costly than a few ram sticks (assuming it's just a server or two, and not N instances).
I heard the cost of EV certs is pretty high so it's much less likely a scammer will buy an EV cert vs just a similar domain and a regular cert.
Thanks for comment. We don't train on the dataset being tested on. I am fairly certain the other engines don't as well.
If you don't mine me asking, what do you use an Alexa in every room of the house for?
> "How is this different than banning speech/actions promoting something society generally favors but historically did not. [...]"

Are you asking, how is banning someone for peddling hateful conspiracy theories different from banning someone for supporting human rights and dignity? You don't... I dunno, see a few differences between those two messages?

Or is it the future bit that you're worried about—you think that maybe in the future society will generally favor the idea that the parents whose children were murdered should get death threats? And us rubes who banned something like that will think "oh man, this is great, if we had only known!"
The futility of trying to equivocate truth was illustrated by the Clinton trial, or taking any community college philosophy class.
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This is a bit of surprise to me as well. That being said. The dataset is a tough one. I am ESL, but some of the accented examples I have a hard time understanding. Also the recordings are not near field and there is sometime some background noise.
"Expiation" might be the word you're looking for.
May I add http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou... to your list (was posted multiple times on HN)
Doesn't that only encrypt half the trip?
I'm sorry for the miscommunication but I thought we were comparing exploitation and porn. Tarantino was able to make very obviously, almost "cringely" exploitive movies like Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds and somehow gained the title of one of the most influential directors ever. I understand that this is N=1 data -- and certainly Tarantino is an artistic genius -- but the fact that this single data is so worthwhile and that there is no porn director who even remotely came close to Tarantino, it seems to me exploitation films are not less regarded than porn.
You might want to read the DNS specification to find out what "query for TXT records" means :-)
Ask HN: Would a full time tea/coffee waiter make you more productive?
If there was a full time tea/coffee waiter permanently available to get you a coffee at the push of a button, would this make you much more productive?
It doesn't matter what the topic is, anything James Mickens has to say on it will be entertaining.

They are as scrutable as Solomonic proverbs, and just as bloodthirsty, but at the end of the day I feel like I read something that maybe made me a better programmer.
What is your favorite?
There’s a reason their site is Stripe-like: they hired Stripe’s creative director:) https://dribbble.com/luddep
iTerm2 !!
The government shouldn’t though, equality of outcome is evil, forcing someone to keep Alex Jones is similar to forcing a company to hire 50/50 male/women staff.

If you violate a TOS you get banned. Alex Jones is a vile troll, he broke the rules and reaped the consequences. The government shouldn’t prevent this just because he has vile listeners.
Given that P <= 0.05 is the usual standard, I would hazard that if it can't be reproduced at least 95% of the time then you miscalculated P.
H1B data
https://lcr-pjr.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.ds...
> The part where insulin pumps are electronic equipment.

That's not a part of the article.

The article and memo clearly focus on geolocation data. Not a feature I can find in insulin pumps after a cursory search.
The History of Kobo and how they changed the e-reader market
I agree with your point. That is why we open sourced the benchmark so you can verify it yourself. You just need an Ubuntu machine with python 3.6. I appreciate the question.
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Very cool and I love the idea! I agree with sago that feedback on wrong answers would be super helpful. I'd like a brief description of the genre I guessed and the one it actually was.

Also, maybe links to youtube when you post the song title so I can save it for later if I liked it!

Also also, maybe a "beginner" option that restricts it to the (say) 20 most common genres. As someone who isn't super into EDM, the fine distinctions are lost on me.
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It was solved, Alex Jones broke the rules and reaped the consequences. If you posted the same sort of content you would have been banned a lot sooner, and rightly so, being popular shouldn’t give you the right to be evil.

I mean, by all rights, Trump should have been banned from twitter as well, but I guess you can become popular enough that rules don’t apply.

But that is frankly wrong.
You know x does the same as wq?
No need to complain vi made it too long :)
Steve Jobs told customers they were holding their phones wrong, so, to me, not really.
Peer review is pretty ineffective at catching errors. In one study of peer review, reviewers caught ~ 30% of deliberately inserted errors that were specifically chosen to be detectable in review [0]. Fraud is noticed by the broader research community (assuming it's noticed at all) when it continues for years over multiple manuscripts.

You make a good point about colleagues in the same lab noticing unethical behavior. A shared research culture that values integrity and transparency is a good defense against malpractice and fraud. Building up and maintaining that culture—and the methodological skills to back it up—is a continual challenge.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2586872/
Show HN: Serlina – A progressive React serverside-rendering framework
Business writers, please stop comparing market value to GDP
We could still roll out billions of dollars of LED light but conservatively choose LEDs with a warm spectrum. Yellow LEDs exist.
As a Red/Green color blind person I LOVE blue leds. They have mostly replaced the stupid Red/Green off/on indicator that I can't tell the difference between.

Now if only stop lights changed to "blue means go" we would live in a sane world. Picking two colors to mean opposite things (in life and death situations) that 5% of men can't tell the difference between is just a bit silly.
Many products took years of development time, only to come out as ill-thought out and dud. Development time period is not really a scale for the quality of a product.

Some poorly thought out products that come into mind, Windows Vista, 8, IE, Android (earlier versions) - just to name a few.
Didn't the King get a bunch of federal subsidies to build out his infrastructure or something like that? Does that ring a bell?
that Costco pizza though... that in itself is the membership.
$10-20 saved across dozens of product categories times 53 weeks in a year... Man, I grew up dirt poor, so my mind automatically calculates these angles, knowing that this is how I'll pay for my next vacation. However, I can see that not everyone thinks this way.
> For example, telcos did not build the entire internet infrastructure out of their pocket, they received significant amount of government funding.

I keep hearing this constantly. They received significant amount of government funding, yes, but how much of their (current) success and assets due to government funding? How much of it is really due to the continued regulation of radio waves and the land where cables are dug?
Can your family give you a hug just as you enter the gate to board your plane? Because that's how it was before 9/11 in the States.
Nope—-one came from me, and I’m a systems neuro/CS staff scientist.

Social science is incredibly important. Psychology departments have contributed so much to our understanding of perception and attention, which in turn has paved the way for safe and effective user interfaces, better compression algorithms, and prosthetics. Sociology can tell you how to optimize anything involving groups of people, whether it’s effectively provisioning government services or running an aircraft crew. Linguistics has obvious applications to speech and text processing, education, and even medicine. All this and more, plus you get to learn about what it means to be human! And it’s cheap to boot! Saving one airplane funds a hell of a lot of cockpit management studies.

Sure, there is some crappy social science, but there are also crappy programmmers. The blatant dismissal of whole fields is the worst kind of pseudointellectual snobbery. By all means, call out work that’s subpar, but if you can’t see how social science is both interesting and useful, it’s only because you’re not trying.
You're getting downvoted because truth hurts.
From the article:

> ...Emacs could cost hundreds of dollars (this was before GNU Emacs)

Emacs clones (of various levels of compatibility) for unix and other systems could be purchased back around the time this sentence is set, but to be fair, the original Emacs (or EMACS -- the ITS filesystem only had upper case) evolved by RMS et al from Gene Ciccarelli's TECO init file was naturally free. And Bernie Greenbergs Emacs clone for Multics (called emacs because Multics was case sensitive) was also free (and the first one, as far as I remember, to be written in Lisp).
Payback time on domestic LED bulbs is actually surprisingly quick. We have "100W" LED bulbs that draw around 11W of power, and cost ~$5 each, compared with say $1 for a 100W incandescent light bulb. At 20c/kWh that's 20kWh of electricity, or ~225 hours of run time at 89W of saved power. Even if we only ran a bulb for 3 hours a night, it would pay for itself in two and a half months.

I imagine the case for street lighting is even stronger, especially when you start to factor labour costs for bulb replacement as well. And traffic lights would be stronger again, because they're cycling instead of being constantly on, which shortens the filament life significantly.
All the while we're still looking down on GANs. AI has surpassed average human level in this domain.
> One successful deep-learning approach involves modeling behavioral tasks. Researchers build an ANN and optimize it to solve a task analogous to the one studied in animals. They then compare the internals of the trained ANN with the biological neural recordings, typically smoothed spike trains of a population of neurons. If there are quantitative similarities, researchers can then attempt to reverse-engineer the ANN in order to develop a mechanistic explanation for how the ANN solves the task. The insights found in the ANN can lead to testable hypotheses for how the biological network implements the behavior.

So, IIUC, the approach involves (motivated) guesswork over the space of practically implementable artificial neural network architectures (which is a strongly biased subset of the set of all actual neural networks), to mimic behavior that is presumably fully captured by biological neural networks.

While it is tremendously exciting to try something new and find surprises, why would I expect this to be a fruitful systematic approach to neuroscience? I.E. choose a particular behavior, find an artificial network solving it, and then "understand" why it works biologically.

Basically comes down to two noob questions:

1. Why should we expect the search over architectures of artificial network architectures to be efficient/fruitful?

2. How do we know that the brain might not use a completely different architecture since computationally implementable NNs have many artificial limitations.

I would appreciate any insights and expert comments. Thanks!
They may not use the content of the message but all its metadata which may even be more valuable, alone because it's easier to process automatically.
For a research organization openai sure seems to be putting a lot of effort into PR. Beating players using a subset of the game is impressive but there is no mention whatsoever of the fact that only a subset of the game is allowed. The research is cool by itself, why do they feel the need to promote so heavily that the AI is beating human players "in the first 17 minutes of" rather than giving a realistic picture of their progress. This is how you create an AI winter.
I have Google Home, and Alexa. To my girlfriend's great dismay I like to talk to my devices and tell them inane things. I once told them both that "I love my dog".

Google Responded:
We love dogs too woof woof!

Amazon Responded:
Would you like to buy dog food?
And designed to use only printable ASCII characters so the file would not get mangled as it was moved around.

Intel hex was one of the original file formats I targeted for gnu bfd (after a.out and coff of course)
What is the WER of your model on Librispeech?
You're not using Azure Disks because they are attached to your VM as a block device and have no knowledge of the file system. PVs in AKS using Azure Disks can only be attached to a single node, as clearly stated in the documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-disks-dynam...

>> An Azure disk can only be mounted with Access mode type ReadWriteOnce, which makes it available to only a single AKS node. If needing to share a persistent volume across multiple nodes, consider using Azure Files.

So you must be using a file share across multiple nodes using Azure Files, which is a SMB file share service that may have compatibility issues with the Samba protocol as described in the (arguably hard to find) docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/na...

>> Directory and file names are case-preserving and case-insensitive.

>> The following file names are not allowed: LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, PRN, AUX, NUL, CON, CLOCK$, dot character (.), and two dot characters (..).
I think punishment can reduce honest opportunities when you go from zero jail to some jail, but once you're in prison for a year, my guess is the additional effect of having a record and disrupting your career is lower, with basic ways you'd expect like being out of contact with people you know, or being behind on technical training.

Likewise, I think networking also doesn't account for much when your prison sentence is five or ten years instead of three. There's a big jump from zero to one, and a much smaller jump after. (Regardless, that's one reason why I explicitly excluded organized crime.)

These are a few reasons why I think corporal punishment might be a good idea.
I use to agree, but I would except most devices to account for this. I'd except a virtual bezel or software controlled dead space around the edge of the phone.

You'd basically push buttons and the status bar into the bezel, then use the sides much like the Galaxy Edge does.
The peer review process is halfway between "accept on good faith" and "reproduce the results". And it's not a flawless compromise. As a peer reviewer, I check that an incoming paper is sane, says something new, and doesn't have obvious holes. But I don't reproduce the original experiment unless it's very quick. Peer review is entirely unpaid and uncredited, so I can't justify taking time from my own research.

Ideally, every research team would have a remote collaborator that checks their results and gets credit for doing so (even if the answer is no!). But right now there is nothing to incentivize that kind of rigor.
Oh, let's not confuse the product icons with the in-app icons. I can't believe they're taking color away. It's just stupid.
Why not integrate a "bubble car" into building lift/elevator systems? The capsule brings you 20 km from home, switches to the rails within the lift well and zips up, depositing you directly on your floor.

Thirty years ago lots of people were talking about mass transit systems with small individual capsules. According to one of my engineering lecturers at the time, a limitation was that there simply isn't enough room on the ground to have all those capsules loading and unloading people in a CBD with lots of skyscrapers.
I still fondly remember lynx it was like the vi version of the web browser. There is an O’Reilly book called “spidering hacks” which goes into some of the advanced stuff. Lynx was the Swiss Army knife which could host, execute, parse, and script web pages in a single command (lynxcgi). It was also decentralized and could run through telnet or raw sockets inside a VMS system. Vi keys and Emac keys were options either of them could be set as the html editor making it seamless.
Fred Fish was a great programmer I was quite delighted to work with. We happened to stop by his house on our honeymoon, (although that was because our car broke down in Phoenix, but my wife liked him too). I was sorry when he passed away.
I agree, I found myself googling most of the answers to get an idea of what the terms even meant.
A lesson the political and billionaire class have not learned is that when inequality gets as bad as what we have today the mob gets actual pitchforks and assassins start throwing bombs in your carriages and shooting at your motorcade.

Repression follows, more assassinations happen, and then before you know it Serbian meddling in the Austro-Hungarian succession starts WWI.

This is not limited to the countries ending in -ia in Central/Eastern Europe [0] [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_b...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing
Perhaps the idea of a decentralized marketplace is a bad idea?

Clearly not for the people using it right now.

What benefit does this actually give me in my everyday life where I don’t need to buy toilet paper anonymously?

Are you asking why someone would want to transact anonymously?
I can see value in adding things to your shopping cart for later review.
You can try to do it, but good luck guaranteeing that your APK doesn't crash and burn across Android OEMs and people want to still give you money.

These are the only APIs devs are officially allowed to touch.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

Anything else is "works on my phone" kind of thing.
I like hearing the other side of the story. I wish I got the other side more often.
an illusion.
Closure Compiler vs. Uglify code size
> Are you asking, how is banning someone for peddling hateful conspiracy theories different from banning someone for supporting human rights and dignity?

No, I'm saying "what rules do we create that would apply to prevent horrible speech now that wouldn't also prevent speech of people doing good but upsetting things?" In the past people in favor of desegragation or womens suffrage or interracial marriage or other "good" things were regarded as trying to overturn the public good. How do we find rules that permit us to say "no!" in the name of good and not have those rules turned against good disturbances of the status quo?

I think there is an answer, or at least an improvement over nothing, but I dont think it is an easy answer, and I dont know what that answer is...yet. meanwhile I try to consider how rules can backfire when such things come up. I shed no tears for Jones, but I'm also glad the issue wasn't easy.

Silencing should not be easy, even though speech empowers jerks and bullies, because speech also empowers so much that has improved the world.
No. It's always good to get up , stretch your legs and recollect your thoughts on what you need to do.