skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Librivox is commonly used as a training corpus however it's main weakness is that reading speech differs quite a lot from conversational speech.
Is there actual money involved? I have 60 BAT in my Brave account, and I didn't pay a dime to anybody. Yet, looks like I can donate them. Not sure I understand how the system works - am I supposed to eventually buy BAT tokens if I want to donate them?
Yeah, we find each new hire pretty valuable in the first few months because they provide a perspective on pain points that we may have internalized and disregarded.
>FUD

I came into this thread looking for the acronym. Thanks for not letting me down.

I mean, there are plenty of controversial topics being discussed on the internet, but I only see the F-word being used ad libtum when the topic is either cryptocurrency or Star Citizen. Perhaps these two have more in common than it looks?
Above $200k is what I would expect in Silicon Valley starting out of school. Can't imagine how one could survive more so thrive with anything under $200k in the valley.

I'm guessing Lyft isn't offering stock and other nice perks like FB and the other big tech companies who pay a lot less then Lyft?
For me an important selling point of 1Password was that their software looks like native Windows software and native iOS software while Bitwarden is just Chrome wrapper or something like that for desktop and C# for mobile and I don't want to support that kind of cross-platform software.
Can be, as many people don't even want to subsidize things that they consider good (I'm often in that camp). But I think the surprise for many people is that good and bad are not the same for others as they are for themselves, especially wrt public funding.
Always excited to see more speech recognition releases. Way too many solutions are "just point your microphone's feed at our cloud service", and a lot of those that aren't have somewhat lagged behind.
Banks and other corporations are not jobs programs or welfare programs for their local communities. The fact that they create local jobs is nice side benefit, but that's not why they exist. They exist for the benefit of their shareholders and their customers, not their employees.

The fact that banks take taxpayer bailout money should not change this -- demanding that a bank prefer local employees over less expensive foreign employees will make it less efficient and therefore less competitive at a time when it is already weak, which is counter to the bailout's central purpose of saving the bank.
> makes it sound like they understand YouTube accounts and nothing else

The text on the page - as I see it now - says "Do you run a web site or are you a YouTube creator". I think that doesn't say "YouTube accounts and nothing else", since it explicitly mentions "web site" before Youtube.
It's been a while since I started using Brave but I felt they were pretty up front with how the payments worked.

I do understand the frustration though of those who don't see this. Brave could warn visitors donating when the content owner hasn't set up Brave Payments. Brave could refund said money back to the visitor if it goes unclaimed after a while. Just random ideas from someone who actually likes their attempt.
From the perspective of voters, this is a terrible system. If a district votes one way and gets their result flipped because of this system, then they're unambiguously not being represented by someone they want.
Some hair weaving involve first relaxing the hair with chemicals that can cause severe burns if done incorrectly in order to ensure the weave and the natural hair blends properly. Some weaves are attached with adhesives that can also cause damage if used incorrectly. In both cases there is a potential for hair loss and disfigurement.

I think that's a good example of a field where lack of knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. I'd have thought like you until having seen first hand what some such hair products can do.

I'm sure there are unnecessary licensing. But I'm equally sure a lot of the licensing that seems pointless actually has reasonable justifications that are just not obvious if you don't know the field.
It’s hard to see if any of these self-hosted or decentralized solution would ever take off. For a social app, you need to get your friends and also public figures to use the same thing for it to be worth using at all. If it is more complicated to use than Facebook or similar, it will probably never be adopted by general public. And if the general public actually got into the same app, it would then become a new target for attacks.
"Will be", as in, "are not".
Wow, fascinating article. I'm a little surprised that the bullet has left the barrel before the rifle recoils, but I guess that makes sense with the differences in mass.

It really does mean that my poor accuracy with a large caliber handgun is from flinching. I sort of thought it was from being unable to control the recoil but it sounds like that has no bearing on where the bullet is heading, and so I guess I'm just flinching in anticipation.

Btw, where do you live that you have a 300yd range? I'm jealous. Here near Chicago (well, NW Indiana) I mostly make do with small indoor ranges and a .22 rifle which is typically allowed, but would love to get into shooting larger calibers longer distances.
> a huge pain to set up.

This project doesn't look like it's particularly easy to build: https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter/blob/master/d...
This is great, I always love the xkcd "What if" explanations. I even have the book sitting on my desk next to me.
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The magic of Baldur's Gate 2 comes from way more than the DnD combat though. The character conflicts, plot, side stories, dark humor, etc. come together in a similar way in DOS2, but in a new world different from the Forgotten Realms.
In the US legal system there are both criminal and civil forms of fraud. A plaintiff can sue for fraud in civil court, seeking damages or specific performance.
I figure with the numbers they are quoting, they are offering private stock with a certain valuation (409A), and including that in the number. I hear they are going public in 2019 too, so that might go up or down depending on how the IPO goes.
Is it better than openEars? I want something that will work onboard without sending to a server.
> Can't imagine how one could survive more so thrive with anything under $200k in the valley.

Is this serious or sarcasm? The bay area is expensive, but as long as you're okay living in an apartment, it's not that crazy expensive. Even 100k would be fine.

According to this, the median household income in SF is ~97k: https://www.businessinsider.de/weath-maps-cities-san-francis...
Could be used for indexing videos for search
Probably just a end of year push to get things out
I'm still amazed and saddened that the original Contributor didn't work out.

It was such a great concept that would work all the way from first introduction to a hypothetical future where everyone uses this and nobody sees ads.
This image is digitally generated from topographical maps collected by satellite. There are no probes on Mars that are located in a place where they could actually take a picture like this. EDIT: My first sentence was wrong. As finnh points out, it's actually based on a real satellite photo that was then stretched to give the illusion of a perspective from low altitude.
Waste most of their donations on scandalous compensation of leadership to solicit high-end donations to continue said cycle.
The numbers are listed as compensation, not base salary. I assume these are "all up" numbers including stock and bonus. 400k base seems steep, even for an L5 at Google or Netflix.
EDIT: I'm not sure about this anymore.
The discrepancy of salary based on geography continues to widen. Top of the market salary for any kind of position where I live is around $150k unless you’re a C-level. Thankfully housing also reflects this gap as you can buy for $100-150/sq ft here. This is in Jacksonville, FL.
CIG's own legal argument is that they have already shipped the game in the form of 3.0 alpha, thus the ToS was amended to forbid any refund beyond the basic cooling off period following purchase. Challeges has so far not been successful.
Andromeda uses all of the same limitations though as the original Mass Effect trilogy, for the most part. While the ship "appears on the actual planet", it is in a fixed position. This means they know exactly what will be displayed out the windows, for instance, and it can likely be pre-rendered or otherwise heavily optimized. You cannot move on and off the ship without a "cut", because you are moving from one map to the other. There is also no real movement of the ship with respect to a planet, as transitions such as landing are done via cutscene.

Andromeda moves Mass Effect forward here and there, but it's still more or less limited in the same ways, and I think my comment still mostly applies. I didn't intend to specifically refer to "Mass Effect 1", but the franchise as a whole.
Very nice. In my work, as much as I love working with RNNs, convolutional models are faster to train and use. Years ago, FB blew away text modeling speed with fasttext and it is good see these projects made publicly available also.

As much as I sometimes criticize FB and Google over privacy issues, they also do a lot of good by realeasing open source systems. Most of my work involves using TensorFlow and Keras, and a little over two years ago I replaced a convolutional text classification model with fasttext, with good results.
hi from hacker.
Apple reveals uptick in demands for user data in revamped transparency report
It worked for him. He just then got kicked out.
> entity-scale is the main variable [...] Which makes sense if you think about it

While it may arguably be the main variable, and definitely the main variable within a sector, it shouldn't be used to discount the importance of goals/motivations/incentives. Although there are plenty of examples to the contrary in either direction, I think most also with experience would agree there is more waste and less accountability on one side compared to the other.
My manager pointed out this to me shortly after the video blew up. As soon as he saw the video he suspected something was up but it took him less than half an hour after work that day to track down a shocking amount of information about the people involved and conclude it was a fake. He's absolutely sure it was fake top to bottom because Mark Rober would have to have seen and edit out evidence of fakery in the original video.
Witcher 3 is fantastic. Incredible story, enormous amount of high-quality content, and wonderful, hand-crafted world.
Absolutely. I'm using keepass on Windows, Linux and Android in parallel with Google drive sync. Just fantastic!
Its not a composite photo either. It's a fully artificial visualization based on real topographical and composition data. EDIT: nope, I was wrong, it's actually based on a real satellite photo that was then stretched to give the illusion of a perspective from low altitude: https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/12/Plan_view_o...
To automatically create subtitles for translation is another use case I have seen
From https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06864 "On Librispeech, we report state-of-the-art performance among end-to-end models, including Deep Speech 2 trained with 12 times more acoustic data and significantly more linguistic data."

Specifically they claim word error rates that are 1 to 2 percentage points lower, 3.44% on "clean" and 11.24% on "other".
This seems weird, if we're talking about the same definition of efficiency, which I would say is the resources, denominated in money, needed to produce a given result.

So let's say that the government produces one driver's license per $100, and I'm angry that it costs that much. Your proposal is that I will be happy if I instead spend $120 per license?
DeepSpeech – A TensorFlow Implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech Architecture
It'd be interesting to see the top-paying tech companies outside of the Bay Area, not on the west coast, and not in the US.

comp.fyi may have the underlying data but it's not sortable by location. One would need to download the Google spreadsheet and run it through a geo database, since location is given as "City, State" (and no country).
If fire drills are the norm rather than the exception, you should find another job because you are working at a poorly run company.

There is always a tension between delivering features and delivering quality, but that's no excuse for constant fire drills and notifications. It's possible to handle the tradeoff better than that.
It's good only for those who didn't see anything better.
Not at lawyer, but using a third party's persona to collect money (for whatever purpose) sounds like a blatant breach of personality rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
Do you return the donations to the donor if they are not accepted by the recipient in some period of time? Like, after a year or something?
Yup. If your priority is a big house, cheaper areas are definitely better. More expensive areas have their own advantages, though: better for paying off loans, saving for retirement (assuming you're okay eventually moving), or for non-CoL affected goods like travel or electronics or media.
Firefox absolutely sucks on Android. It's fine on Mac OS, but it is so much slower than Brave (Chromium based) and Chrome itself, that it becomes irritating to use. That being said, it does support extensions like Ublock Origin and Ghostery.

Mobile Chrome means zero extensions and ad hell, so Brave it is. Same Chrome engine and UI (swipeable tabs is something I miss in Firefox Android) and adblocking.
That depends what benefits you get from it. Efficiency is a fraction: cost over benefit. You can't just whine about cost and use the word "efficiency". That's cost, not efficiency, and you're completely ignoring the entire point of money in the first place: to be spent to achieve benefit.
Slime molds (by name) do have first-mover advantage, back to 2010 for the Tokyo subway system: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121141051.h...

... the slime mold connected itself to scattered food sources in a design that was nearly identical to Tokyo's rail system.
Well, hold on now.

I think the language and machinery of topology, even when just reconstructing the language of sets in a discrete setting, highlights interesting facets of numbers.

eg, if you look at the inverse image of various mappings, and particularly in cases where you can iterate this via a function from a set into itself, you can start building up meaningful comments on certain classes of number theory problems.

But I am curious what you mean by "prime ideals of integers localized at some prime", since I know what (prime) ideals are, but am not sure I follow what you mean by localized
Don't forget free healthcare, education, work/privacy laws that put most countries to shame, decent homless shelters.

They live longer.

They are happier on every metric compare to Americans.

I never berate France, once I realized just how terrible we do things here.

(Up, or down vote me; I think I'm shadowbanned? And yes--to lazy to check myself.)
iOS App Remakes Massive Attack's Mezzanine into Mixed Reality Experience
That's a very subjective question, and answers to it will obviously vary based on who you ask. I have fun with it every time I play it, now that it's more or less stable and gameplay sessions don't end with "it crashed and I don't want to spend five minutes loading in again". (This was my 2.x or so experience with Star Citizen.)

3.x builds are a ton of fun and there's a lot of places to see and stuff to do. I've heard about all sorts of features and landmarks I've not yet trekked out to see or tried to do, and this is on a game which "barely has any content" according to some people.

The biggest issue right now is that there's no solid incentive to put a lot of time into it. Since it's still in "we reset everything each major patch", I don't want to put time into running missions and accumulating crud that might not be there next time I sit down to play. I personally hesitate to play most MMOs on beta servers for this reason, I feel like I'd rather accomplish things when it "matters".

Note that that's just the persistent universe portion, and there's effectively three "competitive modes" in the game as well, with which the leaderboards are shared in the newsletters each week: Arena Commander has both dogfighting and racing game modes and Star Marine has a first person shooter which has some fairly neat mechanics.
you're forgetting about Facebook Watch, which allows pages to monetize their videos through an ads program just like youtube
I see. I hadn't considered that might be a weakness because to be honest the creation of forced alignments between LibriVox and the source texts was my objective (it's a feature that exists on some Kindle's when pairing ebooks with audible audio books. I believe the feature makes literature more accessible, a noble enough cause. Although I can understand why more effort is being spent on recognizing conversational speech.)
It might well be similar. I'm at Google in Munich, and they seem to have a decent-sized compensation advantage over 'regular' local companies here.
As a current LastPass user, what prompted you to switch?
I touched on geography in another comment, but another idea to show this data would be to normalize it somehow for region. E.g., divide salary by metro area median income.
More common:

1. Recognize "government is inefficient"

2. Use as an excuse to give the inefficient more with which to be inefficient

3. Goto step 1

Recognizing people are bad at some things doesn't mean it's a money problem nor does it mean that comparing different environments is apt.
That's a very interesting idea. If it could handle the rigours of the road and the heat of a stage + lights, I think it would become an extremely common sight at live shows.

Wicked job!
Velodyne Lidar Announces Collaboration with Nikon in Tech. Development and Mfg
I am looking to hire for this role but i saw bay area, i don't think i can match your expectation. Maybe if u moved somewhere else in low COL, i can help u get remote jobs. As long as features are being implemented, no one cares about the interviews.
Belarus, Costa Rica, small as they are, contrast significantly with Germany and Singapore.
Colorizing Pakistan
The lesson of the "Chinese system" is that the average guy will happily support an arguably "oppressive, brutal, antidemocratic, and ... corrupt" government if it's the one option that keeps delivering continued economic growth and development-- there's very little use for being properly "democratic" when you lack the other prerequisites of strong growth. (To be sure, these do include things like a robust civil society, but 'civil society' can take many forms - and Chinese society isn't exactly known for its lack of guanxi!) Authoritarian governments are a dime a dozen outside the developed West (and this is with many of them being outwardly democratic), so there's no way that this is the 'key issue' that so many fans of 'Western values' want it to be. Like it or not, the Chinese leadership is definitely doing something right.
isn't Portal supposed to have it's own voice assistant, Aloha or whatnot?
If people are burning out and stressed, then 4 vs 5 days is not issue, but rather total number of hours and overall conditions.
None of what you wrote says EU can't be seen as an equivavalent for Europe. Original poster was just arguing since many countries are part of EU, it's okay to do so - which is not unreasonable.

To comment on your statements, the EU certainly united Europe more then anything in the past has achieved. At the same time it offers a scapegoat that nationalists can use to further their agenda- and some fall for that.
Exact opposite experience. I use Brave as my default Android browser specifically beacuse it's fast like Chrome, but without the ads. At work, I don't mind using a non-adblocked PC, but mobile ads are a special kind of hell.
In case anyone wondered if this is related to Pieter Levels (like I did). The name levels is explained in the meta description:

"Levels.fyi makes it easy to compare and contrast different career levels across different companies."
> being able to say "I'm willing to sacrifice convenience, in the name of principle", is a privileged position - you know how to navigate software when it gets difficult - other people don't.

In the same breath though, saying, "I'm not willing to sacrifice convenience in the name of principle" is also a privileged position, because Iranians who live in the US/Canada are currently being banned. Convenience is something we can address in the future, but bans aren't.

The concerns people raise about Slack -- that until very recently it wasn't blind-friendly, that it takes away control of user data, that it can arbitrarily ban companies and users for any reason; none of those are theoretical deontological postering. They are entirely practical in the sense of, "there are people who are affected by this who can't join your community because you're not using a tool that's accessible to them."

I think that it's easier and preferable to teach my friends and family members to use open tools than it is to use something that blocks people of Iranian descent from participating in my community. Yes, that means my communities will be less accessible to tech-unsavy people. But that's a problem I can try to address in the future. I'm OK making their life harder for right now if it means not permanently banning people based on a random company's whims.

That is selling people out, in the sense that it's making a calculated decision about which people are most important to support right now. But if the Go community is using Slack, they're making the same exact same decisions to prioritize accessibility for some people. They're just choosing different people.
The home cell method of productivity
I remember a time when people complaining about "open core" licensing were considered OSS zealots. That includes me.

Now, in light of even more restrictive licensing options being adopted by prominent companies, "open core" seems awesome!

It feels like we take one step forward and two back. I'll just say, I wish these companies went full proprietary and stopped capitalizing on community participation while disdaining it at the same time.
they're not decentralised in the sense that you seem to be implying. They're all federated, meaning that your data is situated on your own or a server of your choice, while the posts and users are still visible globally. You are not limited to only interact with people on your own instance, this is very much the point.

Diaspora allows for quite easy interaction with the mainstream social media apps as well. Also I haven't used diaspora much so I can't speak from experience there, but creating a mastodon account is no more complicated than signing up for twitter.
I haven’t done any significant projects using neural networks for sequence modeling or analysis, but when I do, I plan to start with a temporal convolutional network, based on [0]. They argue that RNNs being standard is likely an artefact of the history of the field, while they get superior performance from TCNs.

[0] https://github.com/locuslab/TCN
It was interesting reading this person's viewpoints but I think they misunderstand the point of copyleft licenses.

> They’re forcing a world view that everything should be free and shared like some sort of make-believe Star Trek future where money doesn’t exist.

Is a world where you are allowed to repair and modify your own house or car a "make-believe Star Trek future"? Asking to have insight and control over the software which plays an increasingly important role in our lives is not a fantasy to be dismissed.

> Ultimately, in my philosophy, copyleft represents real open source, despite what the OSI says. Copyleft is a restriction.

A typo? A restriction for you the creator perhaps, but for your users it represents the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute the software they use.