skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"e.g.Elon Musk appreciation society" looooool
I hope you're not assuming Midsomer Murders bears much resemblance to real life. :)

(Source: until a couple of years ago, we lived in one of the Oxfordshire locations where it frequently films.)
Historical Log Analysis and SIEM Limitations
Steve Case bankrolled the fictional accounts in Hillbilly Elegy so that he would have a sympathetic figure head for his Rise of the Rest movement. Is J. D. Vance even his real name?!!
Intel continued to use the IOMMU feature for product segmentation on mainstream desktop and laptop processors launched as late as 2015, and they've continued to launch Atom-based processors lacking an IOMMU as recently as one year ago. Most systems new enough and powerful enough to support Thunderbolt should at least be free of Intel's arbitrary restrictions on IOMMU capability, but that doesn't mean the firmware and OS actually set it up to provide real security.
I wonder how it can be reckoned, the loss of such a man to his country.
I was going to ask this (whether it involves actual programming).

Maybe it would be useful to teach more inaccessible parts of actual programming. Assembly is a good example of something useful which I would assume a lower % of programmers have time to practise.

Another example is reading source code. Again, a smaller % of progammers do this as a hobby.

There was an example of the algorithm that turns the screen red in Doom. If I recall, this led to an interesting HN rabbit hole.
Not exactly, the reality will sound even more annoying to you: banks don't need even need to get a central bank loan for most dollars they loan to customers. Only a fraction needs to be covered by central bank money.
Historically, middle management was the dumping ground for people who had enough tenure that you had to promote them somewhere, but weren’t trusted to actually run the company. They also serve a strategic “bad cop” function at times, letting upper management remain likable and respected.
https://i.imgur.com/mlpUy4g.png

The usage of text color on this image caption is brilliant.
It never occurred to me that you can do this technique to explain a diagram. Definitely love it. Will steal this technique for my own purpose.
It is interesting how the web has become about portraying oneself rather than new ideas. In a way it has become a massive propaganda machine in how wonderful the world is.
Wow. Finally, someone commented on it! :) Glad you caught it!
No it doesn't help - are you aware of why the unorganized sector is not in the organized sector?

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No disagreement, but this is not the path, and it really cant be sped up.

The same way its going to take X amount of time for someone to climb rank in an online game, its going to take time for compliance and ability to comply to catch up.

The same way you cant feed jet fuel to a fiat, you cant expect to push the economy beyond its adjustable rate.

Wishes arent horses.
Any benchmark on LibrisSpeech or TED dataset?
Hi Navs. Thanks. Do let me know if you need any help! :)
What are the issues you are facing while buying an apartment?

Keep note that any builder where software engineers buy, the big builder types, do not take cash money. In fact the payment schedule and mechanism is all in cheque or RTGS transactions. So that is barely a problem with or without any government action. Even in the worst case you still have to submit your PAN, so the government can easily audit your case even in case of cash transactions.

If you are complaining about the bribe you have to pay during property registration. Make note you will be made to pay that even you do not do undervalue registration and pay the full amount. They charge you bribe even if all your papers are right.

That sort of corruption can already be dealt with. But no one really tries hard enough because you have to burn down the whole system to do that. Every table in the registration office takes a cut to pass a paper to the next table.

If your whole system is corrupt top down, you have little hope to fight these things apart from long term social reforms.
Yes, but like the hard drive market, as soon as a replacement technology comes over the horizon, all investment in improvements to the existing tech pretty much stops.
You could limit upload to be inside the network. P2p is not horrendous to have inside your network, it can save you a lot of download-link if people inside the network share files with each other.

Torrents are the most effective, reliable and convenient way to distribute large files, its adoption shouldn't be blocked by bad configuration and policies.
I think the problem with it (as with a lot of science) is that control is very difficult. The more you want a controlled experiment, the more abstract and unrealistic you have to be. Eg. (completely made-up illustration) eggs might be good for you if you eat a lot of tomatoes, bad for you if you don't eat a lot of tomatoes, better if you eat tomatoes a couple of hours before the eggs rather than afterwards. Maybe if you have curly hair the rules are reversed... but not if it's red curly hair.

To get any consistency in results you have to control things to a point of being unrealistic, and then the results aren't very useful because nobody's real diet and genetic makeup fits with the fake abstract setting of the experiment.

Then results get simplified and abstracted even more to make easily understandable conclusions... like maybe for 78% of people cacao is good, but for 0.3% of people it doubles the risk of stroke (although this bit doesn't get studied because it wasn't in the initial hypothesis). Results are reduced to "cacao is good for you"... but you might not part of the 78%. Maybe you're in the 0.3%.

I'm not trying to say that science is useless, just that applying it isn't as simple as people like to make out (and a lot of people don't want to accept that life may not be as methodical and predictable as they want it to be). Nuance is too hard.
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In Australia, I'm pretty sure mineral maps are what's funding Geoscience Australia, which is pretty much the reason we have digital maps at all.

As for data being "locked away" in formats, well, no one's really come up with the One True Geospatial format, so you've got TAB and SHP. I prefer TAB, because I hate column name limitations. Use QGIS [1] or GDAL [2] to get the data into a format you want, or for really heavy lifting, apply for a home use licence for FME Desktop [3] (which uses GDAL among other things).

TL;DR: Mineral maps are worth cash money, and that's why you can't get at them.

1: https://qgis.org/en/site/ - can a benevolent billionaire please throw a couple of million dollars at this thing?

2: https://www.gdal.org/ - GDAL makes the world go round (or ellipsoid, depending on projection)

3: https://www.safe.com/free-fme-licenses/home-use/
> Its impossible to register a property in Karnataka, without a PAN card/number. So in short for high value transaction its already possible to have tax accountability. Same with jewelry. The question is that of enforcement. You don't need to demonetize anything for these things.

How do you explain the actual change that has occured in the real estate market then?

> What is going to be a bigger surprise to you is discovering a few years down the lane that a full scale parallel unregulated economy is in motion.

Of course. Nobody says that this will kill all illegal activity for all time in this country of 1.25 billion people. But there was a big positive effect due to demonetisation. Even if it dents the black economy for 5 years, that's good enough. We'll take more such actions when needed.

> Middle class these days is like people who make a good 30-40K a month. These people see a lot of high value notes.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/TvcFydQcN6KEFkvdW7BprM/Indi...

From the article: vast majority of middle class in india earns less than $4 per day. A ₹2000 note is 10 days wages. Yeah, I don't think those guys will ever save that much while still surviving.

> The rich don't exactly keep their money beneath their mattress these days.

Yup, they were forced to move it from there in 2016. Some moved it to bitcoin, as described in TFA.

> Before you implement all these pie in the sky electronic transaction ideas. Please ensure people get electricity.

Bullshit. Electrification and economic reforms can happen simultaneously in the world's seventh largest economy. For example, 2018 was the first year when all villages satisfied the criteria for being electrified. Long way from 24x7 electricity, but hey, it's a start.
Insane timeline indeed! I wish I had a work ethic like that. It's interesting how he tells that as a child, he was encouraged by his parents to "always finish his project, no matter how much you disliked it".

I wonder what the reliability of this beast is like, but I guess only time will tell.

If anyone is interested in this kind of stuff (fiberglassing fuselages, building cockpits...), Peter Sripol, a model plane enthusiast, made his own DIY plane that can carry a human with hobby grade brushless motors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNSN6qet1kE
RedisGraph: first queryable graph database to use linear algebra to query graphs
You can often treat the T register as a general purpose register. One trick when it comes to loops is that TJMP is true if T holds any value other than 0.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsioIw4bvzI This is a more recent (2009) version of his spiel, I remember him equivocating less about this in an earlier speech which I have trouble finding. Here he equivocates that "some of the models suggest to Mr. Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years".

> Where's the citation of the Statue of Liberty being underwater?

The Statue of Liberty thing I actually don't remember the source of. I remember it as a clip in a climate documentary where the statue of liberty is visualized as being about a quarter submerged (note I said "semi-submerged", not "underwater", funny how the broken telephone works even when you can presumably see everything on screen at once).
I have successfully used rink [1] as an IRC bot. To me it was "good enough", but YMMV.

[1] https://github.com/tiffany352/rink-rs/
> If a big company opens a factory in an area, then the hire a bunch of people at that factory, people obviously want to move closer to where work is.

I'd be very very very hesitant to move to such a town for work. Granted, when you are unemployed you may not have a choice, but I'd definitely settle for a much worse job/worse pay in a non-mono-industry town.
>>OK, doesn't mean we shouldn't try to help speed it up.

Who is 'we'? Why does this 'we' think they are entitled to decide for other the terms of economic participation?
MENACE, MENACE is the only world that can be used to describe the post-demonetization days. A guy who people of the largest democracy in the world chose to be their leader, effed up their lives and pretty much sure many made billions out if it. It was pretty much a scam that was pulled under the umbrella of "It will bring back all the un-taxed currency under scrutiny", but was really just another day when financially lower and financially middle-class citizens got effed by the turds sitting in the govt. and the lobby they suck up to. People were crying and begging for their own money outside of banks. BAnk employees were working 18hrs 7 times a week. There were many meters long queues outside of every ATM, and trust me there are a hell lot of ATMs in India(clearly because of the population). If you ever want to pull off a con act of duping someone of their own hard earned money, people of Modi REGIME are the con-artists you have to meet with.
I'm assuming those globe icons means there's a web seed (HTTP server) involved? If so, I'd prioritise the ones that don't have that backing.
You spelt "google" wrong on your sign up form https://www.hellobox.co/a/hello/home#/register
I dont think this made a difference - If bank of Indore has given out bad loans under pressure to politically connected people, deposits to HDFC do not fix the liability imbalance.

And then after all of this - we gave out massive loan waivers to farmers yet again.

So back to square one I suppose?
This is Dylan from AssemblyAI. We're really surprised to see ourselves on HN tonight!

We had a big launch planned for 4-6 weeks from now, and have been working towards getting things ready for that. As a result, we're missing a lot of things we know we need like benchmarks comparing ourselves to other services. Please bear with us!

If you do end up trying the API, we'd love your feedback. We're trying to build a really simple speech-to-text API for developers, that you can get up and running with in just a few minutes, and that doesn't require you to implement <insert big tech co here> into more of your stack.

There's a lot more we offer too, like:

- customization via transfer learning for higher accuracy (language models now, acoustic models soon)

- supporting lossy audio like low bitrate mp3 files from phone calls

- transcribe any audio file without having to specify it's metadata like sampling rate or encoding

We're also constantly improving our models for higher accuracy. Every few weeks we ship accuracy improvements based on improvements to our DNN architectures, better data, better data augmentation, etc.

In terms of our STT stack, we're using CTC based models combined with RNN-LMs -- all built in TensorFlow and PyTorch -- for decoding. Happy to provide more info around our stack if you're interested!

For any questions off HN -- you can reach me at dylan at assemblyai dot com

Thank you!!
A city doesn't have to be big to be diverse. It just has to be "not a mining town" or "not dominated by a single industry".
Offtopic: Have you looked at PAR2? I seem to recall it being really good but having some critical bug.
I'm not under the impression that you moved the goalpost. Instead I think that storgendibal softened russelbeattie's post a bit by saying that not all business tactics are morally wrong, just like it would be wrong to say engineering is evil because one can build nukes.
It's not really a secret that a lot of engineers (programmers) don't like business as a subject of study so this website will be very biased against MBAs, but I am quite confident that those engineers also don't run businesses. The engineers that do run businesses show more respect for the kind of businessman that understands and respects the product and its development process as well as the engineers involved.
Reading this spiked my interest in graphs especially considering I never learned anything more than the basics taught in algorithms and data structures courses in college.

Any resources (i.e. textbooks) recommended for learning more about graph theory as well as currency arbitrage?
Hardly a definitive answer, but it might be worth noting that the C++ proposal was by Paul E. McKenney, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com in the PDF there.
Sometimes, I like to read the funny side of things. (Even though I many not agree with it.) Thanks for sharing. Hope it lives up.
I think cockroachDB has the automatic node registration/balancing? I guess you’d have to deal with the shard or data you would choose to host

There’s one feature of Faunadb that stood out, the ability to create a seemingly unlimited number of nested databases, where the db assigned to you appeared to be the root/full database, with full query/write privileges.

Imagine a public dataset that you could query but also update with your own findings and metadata, and choose to have it shared upstream or keep private. The engine could diff your work to avoid duplicating a copy of the data. You could sync it locally for speed if needed
> "always finish his project, no matter how much you disliked it".

Yeah, I wish my parents would have taught me this when I was young.
Colobot, released in 2001, was a game like this. You used a C++-like language to program robots as an astronaut on a planet somewhere.
Lunch and Learn with Robert Heaton (Software Engineer at Stripe)
Sure, right now it doesn't affect you. It's not snotty or short sighted though.

Eventually we can recognise the pattern, and see it's the raison d'être of globalisation. Separate commerce from state, community and people. One day you'll have seen this happen so many times, to so many people, that you decide the cost is probably too high. Perhaps by then you've done so OK that you still don't care.

The next town over that never recovered from losing it's steel mill, mine or shipyard, and the fifty and sixty year olds that can't have a comfortable retirement or pay the last 25% of the mortgage. Sure, they may retrain - if the courses are available. No chance of even 25% of their former highly skilled wage, maybe end up in an unskilled role in a store or call centre. No way to make another degree pay at that stage of life. A life of no opportunity and possibly anti-depressants. The damage to everyone who lives in the same town even if they worked elsewhere.

It's a constant. One day it'll be your industry or skill that relocated or ceased to be. Or of those you care for. Just for another dollar for the shareholder. But hey, someone's life is better.

With all that GDP real-terms growth we should be able to find a variation on the theme that ruins fewer lives.
Having a fixed-size monetary base currency.
This is said so often and yet for me personally gym helps only very temporarily - just after workout I feel great, but the next day anxiety might kick-in again.
I just want to attest how true this is.

Exercise is amazing, once you have done it.

I try to get myself to exercise (run or gym) at least 4 days a week, but some days are harder than others.
> AArch64 uses adrp in almost exactly the same way that RISC-V uses auipc to access literal pools.

I meant that you could forego the constant pool (ARM calls them literal pools?) for branch targets in some use cases due to the added range of RISC-V U immediates, and in more cases than you can with ARMv8 (which only now offers 16-bit immediates in some cases, AFAIK [ARM's infocenter timed out, and I couldn't find it in the manual with search, so I'm basing this on some forum post by some dude]). With auipc you can compute an address 1GiB two ways from the pc, to the byte, and with no base register to be set in your JIT entry frames and allocated around.

In the V8 "arm64" port, it seems they manage 128MB as a practical matter:

https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/master/src/arm64/constants-arm...
Bluetooth Low Energy Swiss-Army Knife
Servers, I explicitly wrote “19” rack mountable servers”!

Where can they be bought? Link please!!!
Post ICO Podcast: Vinny Lingham Talks about Civic ICO and Its Fast Traction
I agree about the western world and truth part. But saying there isn't much difference between them is quite a leap.
Careful! Collections (databases) of fact can often be copyrighted.
Why do I think String.hashCode() is poor
I don't know. Considering it's like 8 years newer I'd say this doesn't look as good as Flower did in 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUC2tpY5gb4

Granted, the animated grass rendering was the main feature of that game, so it probably had a lot more time budget than a game like Fifa can allot to it.
Just a heads up: when I create a new community, I reach the step "Let's set up your new community". There I have some action buttons, and also I can upload a logo. When I upload the logo, a thumbnail is shown and the buttons are pushed down, and so the buttons are hidden. Also the scroll is disabled. FF 61.0.2, Win10

Otherwise, it looks really nice. Congrats!
Dylan from AssemblyAI. We're working on this! We didn't plan to launch on HN tonight which is why the benchmarks aren't ready, but we know we definitely need these for the community.

We've found most public benchmarks, especially Libri, are not that representative of real world data we see in production. Most real world data we see is a lot noisier, and has worse recording quality like low bitrates and compression from mp3 encoding.

We do worse than state of the art benchmarks on Libri Clean today, for example (I think we are around 7% WER last time I checked), but are much more accurate on real world data than models reporting 3-5% WER on Libri. This is why we want to make sure we are thorough when we report our benchmarks on popular datasets like Libri.
Holy shit, I think we work in the same office.
annecdata:

I grew up with two CF children who are nearly as close as sisters to me.

They are both alive, and "healthy", at least five years past what we had expected to be the years of their demise, and they show no signs of passing soon - and this is not just limited to them; their CF classes (which do still dwindle in size) are much larger than had been expected.

There are many different kinds of CF, but across the board the treatment has improved massively. It's a testament to the advancing field, the strategy of the NHS, and the persistence of the parents and children, that the lifespans predicted (on solid evidence) for these children keep being invalidated and extended.
Which materials withstand temperatures of 3500 deg?
> Of course Zachtronics is also indirectly responsible for Minecraft, so there's that too :P

For those who don't know the story, Zachtronics had this game called Infiniminer[0], from which Notch apparently took the idea for block-based game[1]. From the words of Notch himself[2]:

"But then I found Infiniminer. My god, I realized that that was the game I wanted to do. I played it in multiplayer for a while and had a blast, but found it flawed. Building was fun, but there wasn’t enough variation, and the big red/blue blocks were pretty horrible. I thought a fantasy game in that style would work really really well, so I tried to implement a simple first person engine in that style(...)".

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[0] - http://www.zachtronics.com/infiniminer/

[1] - https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Infiniminer

[2] - https://notch.tumblr.com/post/227922045/the-origins-of-minec...
In concept, but not execution. More scientific and the platform doing a lot of work for you. You upload tons of specific raw data. Think lidar, drone footage, data from core samples, raw precision gps data, material analysis, etc.

The platform understands a lot of things already and is able to organize/chart/map/visualize automatically, and extensible where not.
She most certaily does not, since she is dead. And she helped Babbage construct the first mechanical computer so I most certaily disagree with your implication, since it is wrong.
Did they launch tho? Or someone else just posted the link on HN because they randomly found it?

"We didn’t plan to launch on Hacker News for another few weeks"
Finding a flat in Paris is a hassle, even when you're French. There is this great startup (disclaimer: they're friends) who can act as you guarantor should you need one: https://www.garantme.fr/en
They have a discount for the HN community that you can redeem using the coupon YC2018
I sometimes wonder about the hell my grandfather must have went through when his only child joined the Army Air Corps in WW2. (The airmen at the time had a terribly high death rate.)
If your path variable is set to 0, [], False then it's best to fail early anyways.
http://sharkstationery.de/ with also a good one
I have the opposite feeling - solving "puzzles" for real-life work is tedious and boring (and the end result is just money), while Zachtronics games let me exercise the same mental muscles with much less frustration.

EDIT: Urm, sorry. Zachtronics games let me actually exercise my brain, just like side projects. Real on-the-job programming these days is mostly gluing, which has nothing to do with technology, and is essentially navigating bureaucracy created by other people. You have state A, you know state B you want to be in, you have to discover the appropriate forms to fill in and stamps to collect on the way, and often perform kafkaesque dance around public keys and OAuth flows and related concepts. It's getting about as fun as tax forms.
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