skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is false. The distinction I was making is very real. The "initial models" you are talking about are small and weak, nowhere near as robust or powerful as the models trained and used by Google/Microsoft/etc on their own servers. State of the art neural networks based recognizers need serious hardware for training, orders of magnitudes more than what is available in smart phones/personal commodity hardware (unless it's massively clustered and distributed).

Secondly, the trained model itself is very big just for storage, and inference against the model is also resource intensive. This is why Android/Google maps/search/etc go out to the google's backend recognition servers for speech to text before falling back on the shitty (but relatively good) offline inline model (that may not even be using state of the art speech recognition techniques and may be using old school GMM based recognizers).

Finally, the large models trained on the backend servers using their distributed computing infrastructure are extremely more accurate than the shitty fallback model, so speaker dependent adaptations aren't necessary. If you can get very very good performance from a speaker independent model, why would you put the extra effort to make speaker dependent adaptations if the gain is very marginal? Not to mention the fact that speaker independent models are more useful in more situations and are extremely powerful. Google for instance can caption videos automatically using speech recognition, which is amazing. If the models were speaker dependent they wouldn't be able to do that. That's why the focus has been so much towards speaker independent models.
But what encryption does Slack actually ship? If it just uses SSL then that is being done by the browser not the Slack JS code.
I think ad blocking is fine. I don’t think you get to copy someone’s photo of themself and distribute it on your platform without asking them first.
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Diaspora is a great platform.
(Mastodon also replaces Twitter very well)

From what I've experienced so far the federated platforms are very, very strong.
Just write python scripts instead in the first place. Import to Jupyter if you really, really need the notebook UI.
I'm a founder too. If I did this I'd expect my employees to be mad. Bad visually. Why are they buying your personal shares and not shares from the company.
> The theory that increasing the salience of personal power makes experimental subjects less empathetic could've been tested more directly than that.

How? (not challenging, just genuinely curious)
A millimillennium.
Duh. You're right, simplest explanation.

Cheers :)
I think he's talking about this incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

Backyard nuclear devices don't end the world, but can still cause a lot of harm. Superdiseases made in a garage might one day have civilization-crippling consequences.
Someone had their coffee today.
So 85 millions died in ww2, that's not even casualties. How did you get to 850 millions?
I sometimes feel that people who comment here of the Chinese spying stories are the Chinese agents. First comment is always dismissing the story. Is anyone at HN looking where the comments originate?
US states do have sovereignty. The federal government can't force them to do anything or override their courts unless they violate federal constitutional rights. For a recent example, see FIDC v Sibelius, which concluded that the federal government doesn't have the authority to expand Medicaid.

Unless it has something to do with commerce, taxes, investment and finance, scientific research, intellectual property, the military, international law, and the Capital, the Feds can't do it. They can ask states nicely to do it (like the Medicaid expansion), and they can give monetary incentives (like tying the drinking age to highway dollars), but they can't do it themselves.
Regarding Arhur Koestler and bubbles popping ... apparently he was a rapist and narcissist.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/21/arthur-koestle...

and convinced his healthy wife to commit suicide with him.
Also, you have very little control over who services your mortgage. I got my mortgage through a regional bank, but then it was sold almost immediately to Chase, who at a minimum collects servicing fees from it.
Sorry I should have mentioned, it's part of the research paper announcing the release. It's on the right column of the first page.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.07625.pdf
There's lots of things in play, system logging, storage/file share logging, network traffic logging, authentication logs etc.
"Maybe Not" by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug

Another excellent talk by the creator of Clojure, and like the previous ones, relevant for all programmers.
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He was not blindsided by Hitler at all. Soviet Russia had its own plan to attack Hitler and were amassing troops at the border as well. Hitler decided to strike first.
Could you explain this further?
My understating is that Stalin was a key part of party finances early on but obtained money via robbery, hijacking, murder and other violent methods. The party tried hard to restrain him but loved the cash.

Why would the British want instability in Russia? That would suit Germany.
"Deep Learning to solve Challenging Problems" by Jeff Dean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzi3cvCde4

I'll watch Jeff Dean talk about pretty much anything, and his keynote "stump speeches" are more or less a greatest hits compilation of recent stuff from Google Brain.
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Is it?

I've used Scala before.

There are some cases, like compilers where I could see matching and extracting complex and nested patterns to be useful.

But in most cases monadic operations/functors plus if/else seems pretty much as good.
Mastodon is doing very well in getting adoption - mostly from tech folks, but maybe/probably they'll pull people with them.

Facebook users in general seem a lot less tech oriented, so the initial push could be less.

Diaspora seems like a very well built-out alternative to Facebook in terms of features and speed (speed&cleanliness are much better).
However the network effect is of course a thing.
Maybe when Diaspora gets connected to the Fediverse via ActivityPub the Fediverse enthusiasts will tell their parents and grandparents to move over.
REST is one of the most blogged about, argued over bike sheds in tech. Once you stop agonizing over status codes, media types, routes being nouns, resources, etc. it becomes surprisingly easy to be productive with HTTP. There are just a few simple rules to follow. GETs shouldn't make changes. PUTs should make idempotent changes. 2xx status codes are for success. 4xx and 5xx are for failure.
Think it's related to the nukes?
the GDPR data takeout option (maybe only for european users) contains a lot of creepy shit (essentially every click and mouse movement), but no audio data
I suspect trying to combine pattern matching with java’s container classes would be an exercise in frustration. What struck me about scala was how much nicer its standard library is, even when using only things java has equivalents for.
I completely agree with you that it's much better than Sphinx/Pocketsphinx. It's even much better than Microsoft's built in speech recognizer that's been around since XP. But it is still very bad compared to the recognition available via Google's voice API and that was the point. Also, I was trying to explain that given the types of models used today for recognition, inherently models trained and hosted somewhere are going to be bigger and more accurate than ones deployed on the field.
On wall street they are the most respected bank for making money, but as for whether the other banks trust them...
How did your dogs figure out that a button gets your attention? Did you have to train them in some way?

Also, I am wondering how dogs know when to expect you back. Is their sense of time that accurate and they can easily realize that 9-ish hours passed?
But, that's so much more complicated then just having a private variable.
Enterprise sales into a heavily regulated industry are really, really hard. On top of that, the primary purpose of an EMR in the US is to provide accurate billing information. So the usability of the system really only matters to the degree that it affects the efficacy of billing.
Yes.

My non-professional opinion is that oxygenation is the key.
> I'm bothered by the modifer "much". If you are indeed talking about a physical principle, shouldn't this be an absolute limit rather than a suggestion?

It's an absolute limit on the amount of incoming irradiance you can create to your object. The actual equilibrium temperature it reaches will depend on additional factors like how well your object loses heat (eg. by conduction) compared to a moon rock.

In this case, the temperature of moon rocks is probably a reasonable upper bound of the achievable temperature of an object on the earth:

- Moon rocks are in vacuum, while something on earth is in contact with air and dissipating heat by convection.

- Moon rocks are in contact with the surface of the moon (~100°C), whereas an earth object is in contact with the ground, or your hand, or whatever (~37°C, assuming your hand). So heat loss by conduction will be greater on the ground.

If you rigged up something to suspend your object in vacuum without touching anything so that conductive heat losses ~0, maybe you could get something slightly hotter than the average surface temperature of the moon. But not hotter than a well placed moon rock that already happens to be making near 0 contact with the moon's surface (due to standing on a point or something).

> If I were to change the moon to be an ultra-thin and highly heat conductive hemispherical shell rather than a solid sphere, I'd assume the surface temperature would drop.

In that case much more heat would escape around to the unlit side, and the moon's surface temperature would reach somewhere between the "day" (~100°C) and "night" (~-200°C) temperatures. Say around -50°C. In that case the surface temperature will be less representative of that achievable for an object on earth. A moon rock touching the ground would be in contact with -50°C, which is colder than the 37°C for an object held in your hand.
"How to Win" by Daniel Gross[1]

It's an approach to living your life in a way that lets you be effective at accomplishing whatever you're after. Starting on something similar to a Mazlow's heirarchy(in that you must establish each level before going to the next one), you eventually find a way of not only living better and more effectively yourself, but finding how to expand that to your team and those around you. I didn't expect it to be good, but I liken it to Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People"- it gets to the core of the problem in the best way possible.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1bewTg-P4
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> This guy was a true hero.

Absolutely. Nor did he stop. Having left Auschwitz he volunteered to fight in the Warsaw uprising. He hid his rank so fought as a private but later took command of a unit. At war's end he tried to rebuild his network to seek evidence of Soviet atrocities in Poland. That eventually resulted in his capture, show trial and execution.

There are very few of his mould.
ah. good point. thank you. that list contains lots and lots of established companies which definitely aren't going away. i stand corrected.

not sure how long "Phantom AI" will be around though ...
China's better angle is to capitalize on their collectivist social attitudes, allowing them to discard as many babies as necessary to win the race to superhuman-ness.
> Charles Stress

A pretty apt typo given what feeling many of his blog posts induce in readers :).
The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late? by Alan Kay
https://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?Live=28442&bhcp=1
maybe, but eventually it was added for PC. I played StarControl2 about a decade too late, and it had spoken dialogue.
I'm not allowed to have coffee, on account of I fell into the cauldron as a child. kicks rocks
You mean like how if you google for Tom Scott[1] Google will pull the public profile info for a number of platforms ( twitter, youtube, instagram, wikipedia, and his own website ) and post it right there for you to read ? That is how the internet works, Google does this while displaying ads and tracking not only what you search, but what links you visit and then selling that information to advertisers via their ad-sense platform. Tom will never see any of that revenue. When I go visit Tom's content I get to say if he would like he can take some of the money I have set aside to pay for content I like and he can have it. If he doesn't want it then he doesn't need to claim it.

Every time the status quo has shifted in advertising people have claimed its illegal and a violation of copyright, but the courts have been much more nuanced. Thankfully in this kind of case you can't separate ad blocking and content discovery from what brave is doing, so if someone is going to pick a fight they will be picking the fight with Google, Microsoft and every other tech company out there not just with Brave

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Tom%20Scott
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> I’m not sure what you mean. Are you suggesting that Python use UTF-8 encoded strings internally instead of decoded Unicode codepoints like it does currently?

Correct. Because the current approach completely fell apart when people started using emojis. The internal encoding in too many cases is now always UCS4 which is very wasteful.

> All string operations suddenly must be aware of details of UTF encoding, which complicates even simple things immensely.

Go, Rust and Swift all show that using UTF-8 internally is not hard. Not sure why you think its hard. I have written a lot of code in those languages now and I feel much happier with their unicode support than Python's.
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Samurai were meant to be literally all about work with as little emotional tie to familly so that they are ready to die on command.

So you know, familly and kiss not being priority might not be shocking outcome of such culture.

That being said, why is grown man watching anime about girls something bad? Men were consuming entertainment with girls in it in many cultures ... heterosexual men don't naturally mind watching opposite sex, especially when framed cute or sexy.
Omega Tau is a German science and engineering interview-style podcast with English language episodes, biased towards aviation but with a very wide range of topics. The last five episodes have included interviews on processor design, gravity energy storage, piloting the Apache attack helicopter, the BepiColombo mission to mercury, and CRISPR gene editing.

It strikes a great balance of technical detail and interesting conversation. It is far more in-depth than any other general science podcasts I've come across, and doesn't spend too much time explaining the basics to the audience.
Most times Google has issues like that, it's for a free service, rather than something affecting paid customers, yeah?
I wouldn't talk about the evidently poor quality of this article. What I truly don't understand is how repulsive and intellectually poor topics like Stalin get to be #1 on the front-page. Surely people wouldn't have upvoted this if the name happened to be Hitler. Surely we have plenty of Western literature on negotiation that doesn't involve a turd and pagan mass murder like Stalin whose negotiation skills are at best a result of accidents and lucky coincidences. Why is Stalin less repulsive for the HN crowd? What exactly makes Stalin intellectually interesting?

Are Americans so poorly knowledgeable of Western literature they find this well versed but empty writing interesting?
> The way I see it, advancing in one's career is about gaining more and more skills and experience to merit a higher paycheck, which is a proxy for the value one provides to their employers and the market in general. The proxy is definitely not perfect, but it's the best one we have.

Under the view of the grandparent, the metric/proxy of salary has become so utterly meaningless because of modern day business behavior that it is no longer a meaningful thing to pursue (or never was).

I personally also have some problems with your view. According to you a corporated lawyer earning $500/hour by drafting contracts is 50x as valuable to society as someone earning $10/hour caring for disabled people, which I think is very untrue. What "the market" values and what we as people should value only has a partial correlation.

Another example, a lot of people value their family and children above all else, while having children leads to almost zero reward from "the market".
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> irrelevant

And so is Malaysia
First, I would realize that you are probably the poorly informed one. The elders have been around much longer. They probably know most of what you know, they simply have a different opinion about it.

Second, perhaps maybe it's not your responsibility to change them? Perhaps your role is to learn from them and change yourself based on those lessons?
@kim0, See my comment about intercooler js. Not quite as powerful but it is a similar concept that is back end language agnostic.
n00b question: are the GPS signals used by drones and commercial airliners the same? I know the military have their own special class of GPS.
Charles Lindbergh's views that the US should stay out of the war, allow Germany and Russia to fight each other to exhaustion, then show up to mop up the weak remainder of the military, seem rather prescient...
Explanation: A Mersenne prime is (2^n)-1 so in binary that's n 1s.
Perfect example of how regulations designed to serve one purpose can in fact create just as many problems as it solves.

They meant to give consumers insight into their own data. Instead they created a process for getting previously locked up private data out of the company, which is prone to human error and / or intentional abuse. Nice.
Thanks. In the PRB post that I cited, it's noted that recoil force can be "in excess of 1,000 pounds", but that "the recoil event is very short, lasting only about 10 milliseconds". So yes, I suspect that the gun is absorbing most of that elastically, and then relaxing on a longer timescale.

0) http://precisionrifleblog.com/2015/07/01/muzzle-brakes-recoi...
We should never avoid discovering something out of the fear that it could be misused. We have an imperative to learn all that is learnable and then use the findings to ensure safety and develop countermeasures. Otherwise, someone else will discover it and we will be unprepared.

Top scientists would struggle to create a super disease today. Worrying that a kid will do it when the technology is commoditized is putting the cart well before the horse.
What to do with idle infrastructure?
What would you do with some infrastructure that is sitting idle that could be justifiable to your employer?

Aside from the 'mine coins' jokes, any interesting ideas on what you would do with 3000+ CPU cores, 10+ TB of ram? (and a ton of disk space)

Static analyzers? Dynamic? Profiling? Load testing?
>> Roosevelt was probably sicker and had to travel all the way to Ukraine.

Ukraine? I'll just leave this map link: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g7011f.ct004274/?r=0.032,0.683,...

P.S. I know, I know, but please, don't confuse history with momentary politics
"Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way" by Michael Bryzek [1]

Really good discussion on event-collaborative microservice systems that scale well for performance and maintenance as well as a good argument and use case for server and client code generation.

Definitely my favorite so far.

[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-arch-infra...
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I like the idea that dark mode is the default before load so that there isn't a white-screen flash. Stealing it!
I believe in spiral nebulae, can see them in a telescope and express their distance in figures; but they have a lower degree of reality for me than the inkpot on my table. Distance in space and time degrades intensity of awareness. So does magnitude. Seventeen is a figure which I know intimately like a friend; fifty billions is just a sound. A dog run over by a car upsets our emotional balance and digestion; three million Jews killed in Poland cause but a moderate uneasiness. Statistics don't bleed; it is the detail which counts. We are unable to embrace the total process with our awareness; we can only focus on little lumps of reality.
Serious question: who is paying me as a freelancer or small business owner to work on mobile accessibility? It's not the client.

The amount of work and hours put into developing and maintaining (nevermind learning from scratch) is hugely exceeded by the 10-15% potential increase in revenue, which I'm dubious about to begin with. Is the 200 hours/year it would take to maintain at $100/hr worth $20,000 in incremental revenue? I just don't seethat happening.

I don't disagree with most of the article, but the expectation that "you should do this without considering opportunity cost" makes the entire argument moot.
Windows has some of this. But if you want crazy levels of granularity there are plenty of software vendors to choose from.

My company knows every file every person accesses, where it came from, and where it went. They lock down computers down to the individual USB port. If you put a thumb drive in the wrong port Windows machine, a guy from IT Security shows up within 30 minutes.

That was the day I found out that if I try to charge my hotspot at work, it shows up as a USB drive.
The AQIs reported by purple air are US EPA PM NowCast[0] AQIs for PM 2.5. NowCast, uses weighted averages over the past 12 hours of observations, rather than a simple arithmetic mean over the past 24 hour like the regular EPA AQI standard. NowCast was developed to be more sensitive to current conditions in order to help people make better immediate descisions about their health. The normal AQI standard was developed for long term air quality monitoring.

The other thing that can effect the numbers is that AQIs are defined across a range of pollutants (usually PM 2.5, PM 10, CO, NO2, O3, and SO2) PurpleAir sensors only measure PM 2.5 and PM 10, but I think the numbers they show are only PM 2.5.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NowCast_(air_quality_index)
This article has been posted and re-posted 4 times on ycombinator starting a year ago:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=alternative%20to%20REST%20and%...

REST works great without an "introspected REST". The repeated reposting of "Introspected REST" here reminds me of the Far Side's Little Bang cartoon:

https://dakiniland.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/little-bang-t...
What do you mean by “shape optimization”?
2018 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: C. Schafmeister “Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM
> 10 times greater than WWII casualties

Any actual data on that? As far as I know it was exaggerated a lot, and real numbers show different view: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/01/27/hitler-vs-stalin-wh...
Looks like you've been shadowbanned since this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18519412

No one can see what you post unless another account vouches for it.
Why Germany cannot and should not pay to save the Eurozone, by Yanis Varoufakis
(Video in English)

http://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/events/seminars/Muench...
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