skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like Kaldi gets 4.27% WER on CV:
https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/blob/master/egs/commonvoi...

But that's likely trained exclusively on CV audio and using a language model derived from the CV training data so that's also not a fair comparison unless the other engines were trained the same way.

Comparing systems trained on different datasets (with different language models) like this is like comparing apples to oranges. Mixing wildly different CPU and memory requirements into the benchmarks just makes it worse.

It should be fairly straightforward to do an unbiased comparison by training and evaluating with the standard Librispeech split and language model. It might be interesting to see how accuracy improves as the models scale up until they match the resource requirements of the other engines.

That said, the speed and memory usage are impressive and I like the focus on very low resource environments. Seems like it has a lot of potential even if it may not be SOTA.
I don't disagree with you, and in fact I believe the point of the GP to be exactly this -- these idioms' literal interpretations are a bit nonsensical. I was merely trying to point out that I think you two agree.
If you want to see the worst of the legal profession, start digging into mesothelioma cases. The bar for "proving" asbestos caused your mesothelioma is super low. There was one guy who worked in a factory with asbestos that was never actually compromised (i.e. never exposed), but won millions with the lawyers making out like bandits.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/opinion/nocera-the-asbest...
Yes. "With a reasonably priced GPU cracking infrastructure, many systems can be cracked within a few days."

That's not an "everything's on fire" state of affairs, but it's plenty for a targeted attack against a specific domestic target to be feasible, since most home setups never rotate their password (and certainly aren't rotating it on a 2-day window).
Your equation of "not ever" and "never" is off - "ever" means "always", and "never" means "always not" ("ever not"). In logic terms:

"Ever so" = for all, so

"Never so" = for all, not so

"Not ever so" = not (for all, so) = there exists, where not so.

The last is fairly clearly the intent of GP. Startup is short either way now, but there exists a time when it was not short - insert references to old slow hardware that would take 10-20 seconds to boot emacs.
>the ads are killed before they are downloaded, in stead of stripped after the download (like with uBlock).

That’s false. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Does-uBlock-block-ads...
Where do you draw the line between a nuclear weapon and so many other forms of modern warfare?
> I have asked them to write down what they are worried about and what disaster they see in 10-20 years.

Isn't this a bit of selection bias? Not all of my friends from 20 years ago are still here, and even fewer of them (maybe myself included) won't be here 20 years from now. Maybe their worst fears did come true.

The world didn't end for all of us, but it definitely ended for some of us. Sure, everything seems fine, right up until it isn't.
> Have you ever tried to 'replicate' a paper?

No, but I had spent a whole year at university trying to replicate experiments in physics lab. I was studying CS but they had too many physics teachers so we had many of the same courses :)

The equipment was abused by decades of students, you had 45 minutes to do the experiment, and the results usually weren't even the correct order of magnitude :) It was stuff like measuring speed of sound, atmospheric pressure, gravity constant, etc.

Still - at least I knew it's the problem with equipment or with me, not with some obscure details that weren't mentioned and that I can't replicate.

> My point is that there are a lot of aspects to most research that aren't easy (or even at all) to replicate

And my point is that it makes publishing everything that can be adjusted that much more important.

Another question - when there's economic and proffesional incentive to fudge the numbers, and no way to check if the numbers were fudged - how do you trust the results?

I wouldn't.
.... okay but you haven't established why "[having] a network of violent gangs sitting in prisons" causes rehabilitation programs to fail.

I'm not saying your wrong or anything, I don't know, just you don't have a an argument that's even a tiny bit convincing.

You're also getting into "chicken or egg" territory.
California Mayor Who Proposed Pension Reform Tracked and Intimidated by Police
It is definitely a marketing issue that they have basically the same name as that site.
The wikipedia one is ok, but really most of that is stuffed into my #1 and it treats the "forming and testing a hypothesis" part too superficially. What did I write that makes you think the two are in conflict?

I wrote:

"figure out what situations naturally arise or that can be devised that produce consistent, stable phenomenon."

This is the same as figuring out the "reproducible manner".
Note that the beginning of the article quickly mentions the new attack that doesn't require the 4-way handshake. Then the rest of the article describes the 4-way handshake attack.

Here is the source for information on the attack that only requires a single EAPOL frame[0].

"This attack was discovered accidentally while looking for new ways to attack the new WPA3 security standard. WPA3 will be much harder to attack because of its modern key establishment protocol called "Simultaneous Authentication of Equals" (SAE).

The main difference from existing attacks is that in this attack, capture of a full EAPOL 4-way handshake is not required. The new attack is performed on the RSN IE (Robust Security Network Information Element) of a single EAPOL frame.

At this time, we do not know for which vendors or for how many routers this technique will work, but we think it will work against all 802.11i/p/q/r networks with roaming functions enabled (most modern routers).

The main advantages of this attack are as follow:
No more regular users required - because the attacker directly communicates with the AP (aka "client-less" attack)
No more waiting for a complete 4-way handshake between the regular user and the AP
No more eventual retransmissions of EAPOL frames (which can lead to uncrackable results)
No more eventual invalid passwords sent by the regular user
No more lost EAPOL frames when the regular user or the AP is too far away from the attacker
No more fixing of nonce and replaycounter values required (resulting in slightly higher speeds)" [0]

[0] - https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html
> Are you here on some kind of political mission?

No, I'm just annoyed that people seem to treat a statement of fact, that asbestos in your floor tiles or walls is a grave risk to people who don't work around it all day is so controversial.

> Why pretend that we can't click on the same wikipedia link as you and read the paragraphs surrounding the quoted and impressively vague "However, in general..." sentence.

Did you click on it though? Because you would've seen this immediately after:

> A paper published in 1998, in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, concurs, and comments that asbestosis has been reported primarily in asbestos workers, and appears to require long-term exposure, high concentration for the development of the clinical disease.

Which again, supports my original statement.
I got laid off in '08 when the market crashed. I looked everywhere in SV for jobs and had a solid resume, experience and education but hiring was frozen. To pay the bills I was forced to start my own business which ended up being very successful.

I know my experience was a vast outlier from the norm and how seriously the downturn affected mass amounts of people. But the downturn left me no choice but the option I had been too scared to pick before: being an entrepreneur.

In a successful economy I would have happily sat in my 5-figure job for years. The downturn helped motivate me like I never had been before. When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
An API for finding car parts and service instructions, something like a Chilton manual service where you could provide vehicle information and it would return a list of parts based on filter criteria along with text or a link about how to perform certain services or repairs for those parts.

It could include things like torque specs, volumes for fluids, etc.
Electrolysis membranes.
For me- it's finding a real physical hobby that I'm passionate about and finding like-minded people. I'm not sure what it is about the physicality of it that makes a difference- but I have found that I've formed the most lasting friendships over things that you are actually doing. Shooting, martial arts, motorcycles
Flutter is going to make/break Dart. If flutter takes off, Dart is saved. Otherwise, looks bleak.
Why do you want major updates and improvements? Are you a customer of Instapaper's, or an investor hoping your dollars today pay off in a much better product later? A thing I like about the service I use is that it doesn't add major new things regularly; it just does the thing I ask it to do and gets out of the way.
>> against unpatched Windows 7 systems

>> Since data integrity and confidential information haven’t been compromised, the company believes the attack wasn’t the work of a hacker

>> According to CEO C.C. Wei, the attack is purely due to the company’s own negligence. Wei also said that he doesn’t think there is any hacking behavior involved.

Those three lines sum up the article.

From a different article, the virus got onto their network when they installed some type of new software/tool. They didn't check it before they deployed it, turns out it had wannacry on it. Since the networks this virus infected weren't internet connected, it didn't hit the kill-switch domain. So it was left to run wild until they contained it.

https://www.databreachtoday.com/wannacry-outbreak-hits-chipm...
Are you using something like noscript or a referrer blocking addon?
Disclaimer: I work for Fitbit, but don't speak for Fitbit.

Thank you for bringing attention to this very important point. From the tweet:

"FWIW this feature was led by women (product manager, head of product, engineering manager). I am not defending the design & I understand that it fails to meet your expectations. Fitbit isn't that big and the people there care a lot about helping people."

A later reply by a current employee: "Also, the algorithm development was led by a woman."

This is just another software flaw, not a demonstration of rampant sexism. I'd ask commenters here (in general, not replying to the parent comment) to curb their outrage. And if things like this really bother you, apply to one of our many open positions.
These are somewhat amusing, but I'd have to say that if you asked a bike tech or anyone that spent any amount of time being their own bike mechanic, even with a very limited amount of artistic talent, there's virtually nothing to drawing a bike that would function adequately in the real world.
The part that made me ask my question is many systems. What are the characteristics of the systems that cannot be cracked in a matter of days?
I'm not sure where you're going with this; the same small number of people have been complaining about poor vote security of these machines for years. It just got drowned in all the other noise of the election.
You are correct.

So the plan seems that they are hoping up to $350 in revenue per Premium user over that ten year span will cover it. Which seems …low.
Well, if someone else can’t reproduce the research, what’s the value of it? Any knowledge worth finding can be found many times.
This will happen. It's actually already happening in developing countries.

The disruption of food supplies has been causing annual riots all over the world. The US has remained insulated from these effects by virtue of being relatively rich and relying on over-priced, highly processed foods that have enough margin to buffer against price shocks. But this is clearly an untenable situation.

Shit goes south really fast when people can't afford to eat. And the difference between Mexican or Middle Eastern food riots and American ones is that Americans will come with lots of guns.
Quoth Facebook, from the article:

“We don’t expose this information via our API and we don’t allow accessing or collecting data from Facebook using automated means"

Oh man what a world we live in. Facebook is free to leech your phone of every last bit of personal data... but heavens forbid an end user or journalist tries to learn something about Facebook.
"The only way to change peoples minds is to realize that you can’t. You can only make it safe for them to change their own minds."

I'm curious where you heard that, it's an interesting perspective I have not considered before.
Let me guess: his previous "G Suite Horror Story" post blew up on twitter, which made him eligible for the Google Support Grand Prize Jackpot: the attention of a real human being empowered to fix the issue.

Second prize is a an email to an inbox no one ever reads.
Thats how escalators are often designed, isn't it?
Well, reproduced research is inherently more valuable than novel but unsupported research. Otherwise why fund research at all? Just hire alchemists or poets, at least you’ll be entertained.
In Spain people used to the Mediterranean sea often get down a beach in the North, tides come and they can not get out as they did not planned for it.

What happens is that in the Mediterranean Sea tides are very small.

As a diver I have experience getting into bigger than 10kms/hr currents and thinking for myself: Wow if I had not the Cylinders I would probably instantly experience panic here.
"Several days" is orders of magnitude less than the interval between most password changes. The vast majority of users never change their WiFi password unless they get a new router.
Georgia did delete it's election data right after it was sued for being hacked:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/1...
I guess he made his point
These theories never make much sense, because while it's easy to see after the fact that a few key counties could be flipped to change the election, it's completely impossible to predict which ones in advance.
...and on the very first question this site makes the classic mistake of calling 2010's brostep scene (in this case, Pendulum) "dubstep".

Dubstep is a 00s dark and slow genre, unlistenable without frequencies below 150 Hz, from classic labels like Deep Medi Musik, Hyperdub, Tectonic, Tempa and others. Skrillex, Pendulum (which, btw, are more drum and bass influenced), Knife Party and other, mostly american, loud EDM artists have evolved from original dubstep, but have a very different sound.

I'm not trying to be elitist, and I don't think that one kind of music can be objectively better than other (only in my own personal view, which is of no consequence to other people). But calling two very different things with one word is just bad for communication.
Im seeing a lot of comments on brakes containing asbestos.

As an automotive engine mechanic, I started my trade changing out brake pads. As far as im aware, the last generation of asbestos containing brake pads in the US were Ferodo Brake Pads ending around 1994. The pads were phased out for a number of reasons

- health, of course. as a mechanic, mesothelioma was your biggest risk changing brakes all day. most shops douse the pad assembly in a mix of dawn dish liquid or a basic degreaser liquid we called just called sauce, and send it through a quick carwash after the job. It was also an easy way to please customers and it kept friable dust to a minimum.

- performance. compared to euro/japanese brakes arriving in the states in the early nineties, companies like raybestos were at a serious risk of going bankrupt if they didnt change. My first set of ceramic/ceramide pads was a revelation. I recommended them to all my customers.

- health scares. Your consumer risk of driving a car with brakes impregnated with asbestos was minimal, but the CNN/60 minutes documentaries really did a number on the industry. It got so bad that at one point, Raybestos included big labels reading "CONTAINS NO ASBESTOS."

- quality. As manufacturing for ceramic or exotic carbon pads got better, they got cheaper. the only companies still cranking out asbestos had legacy factories in Mexico or Indonesia that could not re-tool. They were just cranking out cheap pads for fleet customers too lazy to change brands.

*update: checking with a buddy in the shop today It seems im wrong. Older Pierce brand firetrucks (pierce saber models she says) shipped with asbestos front and rear pads if they were not intended for airport duty.
It might be true that libre software can break that rule. AOSP isn't libre, and the libre forks are so hobbled by limited access to Apps and the Play Store that there IS a cost to using them: the cost of losing very useful features that are only available in AOSP.
They should probably also mention that all of the United States asbestos imports comes from Brazil.

>All asbestos used in this country is imported. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the only form of asbestos currently imported into the United States is chrysotile, all of which originated from Brazil in 2017(USGS, 2018). USGS reports that in 2017, the United States imported approximately 300 metric tons of raw asbestos, the total of which they state is used in the chlor-alkali industry (USGS, 2018). In 2016, the United States imported approximately 702 metric tons of raw asbestos (USGS, 2018)

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4495888/Problem-F...
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No. They use Hashcat to generate a large table of keys based on a dictionary + permutations. So "L4vend3rB1ue" is likely crackable in few days, whereas "kGsunI68$@4g" is not.

Also, they say "with a reasonably priced GPU cracking infrastructure, many systems can be cracked within a few days."

I take this to mean they're using something of the order of magnitude of a couple K80 instances on Google Cloud, which will cost $25 per day. By no means prohibitive if you want to try and crack one specific WiFi, but too expensive for wardriving etc.
False on all accounts. Handling asbestos and lead is a well defined scope of work in the construction industry, large projects or small. The fact that you weren't carrying a budget for hot materials doesn't mean its a big conspiracy. There are very clear rules. Its a pain in the rear, but its also a budget line item just like mechanical, electrical, carpentry. Asbestos and Lead is a large piece of Environmental Engineering. Granted, you don't know what you have until you uncover it, but if your structure was built before a certain date, go ahead and assume you will be removing or encapsulating some hot materials.
I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life
It does taste kind of funny,
but it keeps them on the knife.

– Anon., possibly Ogden Nash
Show HN: Glider – A Better Music Player for iOS
A happy ending would have been calling their support number and getting it fixed through a normal process. Needing to get to the front page of HN first is just ridiculous.
Increased password complexity?
There seems to be group think present even here on HN. I don't downvote comments if that at least attempt to make a coherent argument with supporting facts.

But, when I got rid of asbestos insulation around some water pipes I followed every precaution. But many people seem to think chlorine isn't toxic because it's so common.

Note: There is _no_ known antidote to chlorine poisoning. (an example of how there is a toxin around us everyday, in our drinking water, in our pools, on our clothes, cleaning products, etc...) Why is there no outrage over this?

https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/chlorine/basics/facts.asp

More on asbestos many people may not know that I got from the same wikipedia entry.

"Portions of El Dorado County, California are known to contain natural amphibole asbestos formations at the surface. The USGS studied amphiboles in rock and soil in the area in response to an EPA sampling study and subsequent criticism of the EPA study. The EPA study was refuted by its own peer reviewers and never completed or published."

"Globally, samples collected from Antarctic ice indicate chrysotile asbestos has been a ubiquitous contaminant of the environment for at least 10,000 years."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_impact_of_asbestos#Envi...
IMHO Graphviz is not too visually appealing (to put it mildly), as opposed to this Luna vis. When drawing graphs I care for their looks, vide http://p.migdal.pl/tagoverflow/
In SCIFs all non-approved transmitting devices are banned except for medical devices.

So when you consider new ones use wirelessly communicate with continuous glucose monitors (mine uses 802.15.4) which it then uses to adjust delivery of insulin. This feedback loop has been shown to give measurably better outcomes so it not something I would want to disable. Toss in that they connect via USB for reporting upload they become a potentially attractive platform for data exfil.
I remember when the DMCA was being written, back then the EFF was all against it. A few years ago they were trying to save it!
This is exciting. Dart is vastly underrated due to some bad press garnered around its announcement. I'm somewhat disappointed that they've reoriented to focus aggressively on front-end and dropped their custom runtime, but I understand this was mostly dictated by market realities. After they re-establish a foothold, I look forward to the return of a fully-fledged Dart environment and ecosystem.
For me the most important difference is Lisp-1 vs Lisp-2. I had tried my hand at Common Lisp a couple of times before trying Scheme. The latter immediately felt "cleaner" than CL.

My favourite implementation is Gambit Scheme and I have currently stumbled upon Gerbil (cons.io), a dialect built on top of Gambit. It's just fun to work with.
It's the one of reason why dumbphones so popular on HN.
IDK. There were plenty of competitors to x86, both old and new, well into the late 90s. Lisp machines died off well before that. Moore's law was an inevitable churn, but it was predictable (that was the point). You knew what gate count you could get at what cost in the future, so you could plan ahead still.

IMO, what killed them off were caches.

First because more than half their shtick was that they ran their VM interpreter in microcode in order to avoid the bus contention between the interpreter and the code it was trying to run. When the inner loop of an interpreter can fit into icache, that gain is moot. (This is the same reason why those silly memcpy and strcpy single instructions you see in just about every cisc exist. They weren't that silly at the time, about half your bandwdith would be ifetch otherwise).

And less importantly at the time, in a caching architecture their naive implementation with lots of pointer chasing is about worse case from a data flow perspective.
It's just doing the standard low effort scarestory stats trick. Here are some really big numbers picked entirely for visual impact, not because relevant.