skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't downvote, but my mental reaction isn't positive. You don't think anybody in Redwood City would want to go to a place like that? If you want to ban strip clubs and casinos, then ban strip clubs and casinos, but from your description it sounds like trying to block a Hooters from opening, after they have already agreed to limit themselves out of regard for what some might call Puritan concerns. You're arguing against something using an example that most of your audience doesn't agree is valid.
I think that's all it's intended to be right? A cool demo. And it looks pretty amazing for what it is really.

We're not going to see The Running Man style/quality fake videos any time soon, and the media kinda runs with this an exaggerates; making people wonder if camera footage may one day no longer be considered evidence.

We're far from that. At the most, the quality of the transfers here is about the same as what you'd see with Deep Fakes (celebrities imposed on top of pornographic models using computer vision and AI algorithms).
20 minutes to respond is pretty good, even if it was a simple error.
Mozilla’s DeepSpeech is available as an offline pre-trained system for English.

The quality is far below Google’s speech API as the model is somewhat out of date and more importantly the training data set is much smaller and less general.

The best pretrained speech to text model I’ve seen is from Baidu’s DeepSpeech 2 repository. They provide pretrained models for English and Chinese based on their internal data. The quality is astonishingly good!

Edit: both of these models can be comfortably run in real-time on a desktop. At Arm I recently worked on a project to run <5% word error rate models in real-time on a mobile phone.
They are popular amongst those who ride, not all people who use the sidewalk and street, which is a larger segment of the population. Might as well ask why we need smoking areas in buildings.
On a scale from 1 - 10 it gonna suck 15 when the tech you rely on is being bought by Oracle.
Because it's a problem with oversupply. And sure, eventually they'll go under, but there's no reason why everyone should have to kick their way through VC funded lithium trash, just to walk down the street until they do.

Oh yeah, and when they do go under, you're still going to be left with all this detritus, because when the company ceases to exist, it won't be picking them up. Here, you can force the dumpers to still clean up their mess.
The irony is that you probably use Windows - the world's most insecure, malware, virus and ransomware ridden OS in the world.
> IMO There are more than enough nerds out there (myself included) who will fork out $400/500 for a FFOS phone with how much of a difference it was from other OSes.

Very good point.

But you really need to nail the marketing on such a thing:

- you really want people to buy it to support mozilla and FFOS

- but you don't want to look desperate

- you want people to talk about it

- but there are a number of reviews and articles you don't want to be written. ('FFOS phone arrives and is already outdated', 'Too late, too little from Mozilla')

- etc

It is still early on the morning and I'm in a hurry so I cannot name any but I have a strong hunch that this has happened to comparable initiatives in the past few years.
You're right–people often conflate "selling" with "using internally to sell ads." There's a difference, and it's meaningful, but the point is that Google's business model is based on gathering and exploiting as much data about you as possible
Google finally cracks the affiliate nut :-) This was pretty killer for me:

Google paid Mastercard millions of dollars for the data, according to two people who worked on the deal, and the companies discussed sharing a portion of the ad revenue, according to one of the people.

That is not an unusual arrangement for people with search indexes, party A provides a search query, party B provides 10 links to appropriate content and some advertisements, if the eyeball making the search clicks on an ad the revenue is split between in the index provider (party B) and the traffic provider (party A).
You can escalate it by contacting the political leadership of the department directly.

If they failed to adhere to the law you should do so, but I’d urge you not to request access in the future unless it’s really important. Because making a request of access is one of the most expensive things you can do.

We get a few requests each year, every department does, and every time we have to dig through a number of different systems and thousands of documents to prepare stuff that’s relevant. Then we have to read through every single document to make sure there isn’t any sensitive information and manually redact it if there is, while filing a report on why we redacted to internal review.

We do this, while expected to perform our normal functions by the way. I don’t know about the Dutch, but we take every request very serious, but for me personally it’s a little disheartening to know that we could hire 10-15 extra teachers/nurses/care takers if we didn’t have to deal with requests of access done solely by private citizens who feel like they “fight the good fight”.

I mean, who are you fighting? Your own society? The press is usually ahead of you too, but they actually have the resources to process the information they request.
Unequal enforcement of the law is certainly a major problem, but I have no objections to excluding from governance oversight those people who refuse to comply with that governance.
Its a bungee jump into uncanny valley: exciting, but how many times would you pay, and who has more fun? you, or your friends watching?
And you probably don’t want to work for a company that does that anyway
I totally noticed this same thing a couple of days ago! Damn!
That is disingenuous FUD. Cities are totally willing to work with companies if they provide a net benefit. Do you think a politician is going to deny access to a company if it costs them nothing and makes their constituents happy?

What they say "wtf, no?" to is companies treating public good and spaces like sidewalks as something they can just offload all of their costs onto, without ever asking permission.

Look at the Boston area with Bird right now. Bird just started dumping their scooters on sidewalks, got asked to stop by the towns, got told to stop by the towns, and then finally stopped only because the towns were confiscating all of the litter Bird left around and the number of locals who started destroying the scooters because they were abandoned property and none of them took lightly to companies dumping their shit on public grounds.

There is an argument to be made about how their is corruption in governments and they will push back on startups even though they are better for society, or how regulations strangle change and smaller firms. That argument doesn't apply to companies worth billions like Uber or Bird. They are just trying to break the law and offload costs to society, and then trying to claim it's disruption so they can tap into that feeling of doing good and changing the world that SV used to have 15 years ago
Is triple glazing common, standard, or required in any part of the US?

Is double glazing?
TLDR: jump to def to death.
Buy prepaid cards if you really need to have some privacy online.
Having worked at Microsoft and being now at another big tech company, that hasn't been my experience at all. Those companies seem to be trying to mimic startup culture internally, so they promote the "entrepreneurial employee" idea and try to organize groups internally as small startups.

I wish I could do the 9-5 thing at those companies (given the great pay and benefits, adding a predictable and sane work schedule would be perfect).

You may last a couple years being the odd one out doing strictly 40h a week, but performance review is going to catch up with you at some point.

These days I bite the bullet and stay till 8 or 9pm at the office regularly.
Because ripgrep is the reason I discovered Rust (along with xsv for CSV manipulation) and because Andrew asked:

% grep "die()" *
[...results with functions named die()...]

% rg "die()"
Error parsing regex

I reach for grep when I need to do non-regex searching. Can't remember how to do an fgrep fixed-pattern style ripgrep.

great tools andrew: I use them every day and install them first thing on a new box. know that your code really helps
If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
It looks impressive, I just don't understand why computer games don't use these techniques to feature realistic human bodies/faces.
Right. If you stick with the herd, it's easy to find other people who are in your situation and share the burden of upkeep. Sticking on a platform past its prime means taking on a far larger share of the support burden yourself.
The Debian popularity-contest package can give you an approximate lower bound, though since it's purely opt-in it's very much an underestimate.
I am the developer of canSnippet, a macOS (https://www.cansnippet.com/) and web-based (https://www.cansnippet.org/) snippet management tool. canSnippet allows the user to easily save and reuse pieces of useful code/text.

In addition to the code itself, canSnippet also support tags and a description for your snippet.
But there in lies the difference. With Krypton, the company doesn't own your keys, you so. It's like Fiat vs Bitcoin.. only there's literally no difference in experience.

That's why Krypton is better. It works everywhere U2F (an open spec) is supported, while the proprietary company solution is supported where the company has partnered
Not to pick a fight but even with all the recent improvements I am of the opinion that it has a long way to go. There’s no explicit Abstract Base Classes, there are base objects you can’t transparently inherit from (Thinkging of promises here in particular. Why can’t I transparently override built in promises for customization? I know you can inherit from it but you can’t modify a parents constructor) and it lacks lazy class invocation (looking at you `new` keyword)

Honestly I wish the ECMAScript board would have just went he other way and doubled down in making JS a function language instead of trying to push more OOP approaches would have been a lot better. It’s always been a little wonky as a Prototype based OO language anyway.
Oh I'm not saying I don't think anyone in RWC would want to go there (though the discussions on NextDoor have been mostly one-sided). I'm just pointing out that there are gaps in zoning laws, since we can't anticipate every possible thing. That's what leads people to want to have zoning rules that err on the side of conservatism, so that they don't end up with something like this. Thanks for explaining your reaction.

I should also note that this is somewhat closer to a strip club than a Hooters, since the attire is lingerie, not tight shirts. Basically, they're falling somewhere between two things that were known to exist (strip clubs and Hooters) when the rules were presumably made. In the future, I'm sure towns around here will make rules that are more restrictive, citing this as an example of what happens when you leave more room.
Because that's what most people want. Total freedom is anarchy.
If you continue to post ideological rants to HN, we are going to ban you. It's not what this site is for, and we've asked you already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Overcoming entering into a new market" is categorically different from "Overcoming a mandatory 6 month freeze on your ability to compete while your competitor gets first dibs."
We would have come earlier but your husband wasn't dead yet.
Overall the point I was trying to get at “if they follow the rules, then I don’t care if they’re next to my house”. Ideally there would be rules protecting me from annoyance such as noise pollution. Zoning rules would allow those that require more lenient regulations their own place to stay (note: this isn’t a NIMBY argument. It’s a “follow the rules” thing, which ideally should be constructed in a way to make it possible to build these while still not making it horrible for everyone else living there, and not putting any other restrictions just because I don’t want it next to my house).
I think of bureaucracies similarly to software. I've seen many legacy code bases that started out simple but as they add features and identify more and more edge cases programmers start adding abstractions and config files and processes and it becomes increasingly complex and difficult to modify and nobody fully comprehends the whole system or how to fix it. I imagine it's the same thing with organizational processes.
I was excited to see such a fresh UI from the UNESCO site when the page first loaded, then as I started reading I realized the right half of every sentence is cut off in Safari on iPhone 6/7/8.
Do they usually go in detail about what happened after they figure things out?
I couldn’t agree more. Maybe we all just got Rick Rolled in long form.
I work in kotlin, I update the language several times a year, with each new stable release.
People such as myself and everyone who's written a scholarly article or magazine essays about when and how Asians have/will become "white"? Because, like I said, this isn't my idea.
No indeed but they are clearly phasing out Java as the default language in the future, I don't see much plan to fully adopt Java 8 (only partial support for now) and Java 9 (no support) for Android. Since they are using their custom ART Runtime, it's not even impossible they would add VM instructions specific to Kotlin in the future (I don't have any knowledge of that yet but that would not surprise me).
I'm happy to be wrong about that; I was under the impression that DeepSpeech was available as a data set for training, but not as a trained system in and of itself.

My impression is that a lot of the hardware costs from modern AI comes from training and updating the model.

So (speaking as a non-expert) it doesn't seem like there's any technological problem with running a model locally on a private network -- you just need access to the model and you need someone else to generate it. And that's exactly what Google isn't providing. It's like they found a way to turn modern AI into even more of a black box.

At the point where I'm OK consuming someone else's model and not being able to control how it gets updated, then I'm probably also OK with using a compressed, static model and needing to occasionally download and deploy new versions.
> Also, which other approach are you talking about?

Other approaches to furthering their mission: if getting their own phone to market is to expensive, regroup behind the main product(s) and use them to launch new approaches like we are seeing in the linked article.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you're confusing U2F (the open standard) with a second factor of authentication (the thing)

U2F has traditionally been distributed in the form of physical tokens. It's an open standard compared to Duo's.

(The rest is just copied off another comment I made down this thread)

But there in lies the difference. With Krypton, the company doesn't own your keys, you do. It's like Fiat vs Bitcoin.. only there's literally no difference in experience.

That's why Krypton is better. It works everywhere U2F (an open spec) is supported, while the proprietary company solution is supported where the company has partnered
Well, there's JS, AppleScript and VB4

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshop/scripting.html
And the federal government issues effectively binding guidelines for the cap design of baby food. The upside? Windows don’t fall out into people and babies don’t choke on the caps.
Why was he removed and not Daniel Stockman?

https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1035209432349663232

The two of them planned this together. I think Stockman realizes it was a mistake, but why was Kyle removed for something they did together? Neither are trustworthy from here forward.
A good analogy is that expertise is like an area of a rectangle: Both innate factors and practice contribute to it.

Which contributes more? It depends on the variance on each dimension. We see from Fig 3 (page 9) in the paper that the unexplained variance is highest for elite athletes at 99%. Why? Because almost all of them practice as much as it is useful to do so. In other words, the heights of their rectangles are about the same, almost all of their area differences depend on other factors [1]. For other groups, the variation in practice time explains more about their performance differences.

[1] These may include innate talent, techniques, psychological factors, etc. With more than two dimensions, we may need to change the analogy which I do not have the time to get into now. Also, as with most analogies, it is not perfect. Practice time is likely not independent of talent.
It was a slow transition even before Satya - remember the Ms-PL license, and ASP.NET MVC being open sourced under that with great fanfare? Or IronPython and IronRuby? The difference before and after was that before, it felt like carefully controlled and contained experiments, that were still treated as decidedly different and unusual on the inside, and on which the plug could be pulled at any moment.

After, it was like a flood with the gates opened. We went from spending a year to get approval to use Boost (and failing!), to a streamlined approval system for pretty much any piece of OSS out there. It's very visible in Visual Studio if you look closely at the files installed - compare, say, VS 2012 to VS 2015, and note how many more OSS bits are in the full install of the latter.

The same goes for releasing under OSS. You might notice that a lot more developer tools are OSS these days - even many new bits written for closed-source products like VS. Hell, I shipped some Microsoft code under GPLv2 a couple years ago - and it was easier to do than getting Boost approved under the old regime!

So I think it's fair to say that Satya and his cadre of execs did drastically re-imagine the company in that regard, rather than just finalizing an existing process.
The ADA, for one. Scooters left haphazardly in the middle of sidewalks are a menace to blind people.
I doubt it. Almost nobody learns to dance without a coach. It's because what you think you see is not what the movement actually is. Much of dance is playing with your perception of the movement (the moonwalk is the most obvious example, and very, very few moonwalkers can pull off the illusion).
Linux kernel 4.18: Better security, leaner code
Isn’t the answer that we are moving towards decentralised / self sovereign platforms with more creative ways to transfer value that naturally evolve the right economics?

The irony is that bitcoin, the pioneer, confirms your hypothesis because it relies on a form of intentional waste (POW) to disincentivise bad behaviour. PoW is the new bureaucracy.

I do think we will find better ways, and decentralisation is the natural outcome.
How and When to Use ROC Curves and Precision-Recall Curves for Classification
That's a bit dangerous. There's good in both functional approach and type systems but I'd rather see them where they are - in TypeScript and lodash and have vanilla be as vanilla as possible. Time will tell, there's already been a case where things from framework were pulled into ES (coffeescript).
Well maybe those companies shouldn’t have been huge assholes the way that Uber was. The city is once bitten and twice shy with Uber.
- ranger (and the ranger-cd script) are pretty useful to explore folders in the terminal. https://github.com/ranger/ranger

- percol and ripgrep as alternatives to grep

- tig as TUI for git

- kakoune as alternative to vim
Advance TLDR; See previous post from a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17335887) or continue below...

> It's bizarre how many comments here are focusing on traditional white vs. black issues when this is entirely about a non-white group...

Actually, it's not bizarre at all. In fact, the long unsettled distraction of "black" vs. "white" is entirely what this whole dust-up is about. And while the particular case being litigated involves "Asian" students, the people/group funding the suit are non-Asian, IIRC. In fact, I believe they(the funders) actually did something of a casting call to find their plantiff(s), which isn't altogether uncommon. This case, ties into the previous anti-affirmative action cases that did not deliver the desired death blow. I don't have time (or interest really) to dig up old articles and such, but you shouldn't have any difficulty validating what I'm saying here if you are interested in doing so.

Also, there isn't much concern about Asian students who perform well on the requisite tests outnumbering other groups. The concern is about their outnumbering one group. W/all due respect, this should be pretty clear to anyone who understands the historical mission(s)-- which aren't all that different from those of current-- of such elite institutions. It's even clearer if one reads a little history (of the schools or broader society, your choice).

With respect to your question(s) about institutional racism, I'm not sure if you ask in earnest or are being rhetorical, so I beg forgiveness in advance. The simple fact of the matter is that the whole issue consists of many moving parts and circumstances. You say "Asian", but who are we even really talking about? That's a pretty diverse population. And it doesn't consist solely, or even mostly, of superior performers. All of the dysfunctions that many like to label as being exclusively 'Black' or (maybe) 'Hispanic' can easily be found among "Asians", too. And we still haven't even gotten to talking about which "Asians" from "Asia" are here and how they got here, or why.

> What are these Asian applicants supposed to do...

1) Question whether their understanding of admissions criteria is correct;

If they believe that their understanding of the admissions criteria is correct (I don't believe that it is based on personal experience/inside knowledge and research), and they believe that they meet the criteria for admission, then...

2) Start asking some very tough questions about why the bar is lower for everyone else; or

3) Opt out and do their own thing instead of seeking validation from, and validating, a system that for whatever reason(s) doesn't seem to value them appropriately.

Again, the entire issue is pretty complex, far more so than I've ever seen anyone here make it out to be. Which is why I hope you'll actually check out the video in the linked post.
Yeah, I understand that zoning is often used as a way to discourage building things that people don’t want built. But my idea was that hopefully there’s a way to make zoning “work”. I have no inherent issues with a nightclub; I just think it would be better from a noise perspective to put it downtown where it’s not going to bother other people.
Why do you assume that? That's probably what the Kapton tape is for.