skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a huge need for better transcription software in radiology. Existing ones are expensive and are just not good enough to be an actual time-saver.

(A radiologist friend describes switching from a human medical transcriptionist to one of these "AI" software thingies as a cost-cutting measure by his hospital, or more accurately as a cost-offload measure. Hospital offloads salary, radiologist spends more time correcting stupid transcription mistakes for no extra pay).
I'm puzzled by the "You agree to not attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice dataset".

On some level it's a good idea to want to request this, but as the dataset is public-domain, isn't it going to get mirrored and retrieved by people who won't have to agree to anything? ...
Keep in mind that 1 kW worth of gas gives out 0.9 kW, while 1 kW of electricity entered into a heat pump gives out AT LEAST 3 kW of heat.

Also, no one uses gas for heating in Sweden. Very old houses down town use it for cooking only.
Sad.

Some time ago someone asked if they still in business and they said they had planned some things.

I liked their idea, but well.

Looking into Draftbit and FramerX right now.
When patent trolls sue competitors for copying features we 're unhappy.
When somebody copies "my idea" we 're unhappy.

What is a good solution? Copying but giving attribution?
Around 300mm for new construction (a foot in freedom units). Glass wool or styrofoam. Slightly less in older houses.
Yeah, it’s the inherent tension between wanting a client that knows they’re in a crisis, and the fact that companies in a crisis might not be able to pay you. Yes, they’re ready to make the hard decisions; no, they might not have the financial and operational latitude to actually do so.
They’re making a desktop app (that will be released as open source as they shut down the website). Maybe it would fill your needs?
This is the kind of question that is too rarely asked - "how is it used in the field?"

Im sure those technicians went through a few new-hires who just c/would not put up with not being able to see what they were inputting.

Thank you, kind sir, for fixing what actually broke.
Ada is awesome, and if compiler writers had been more timely it might have taken hold. Rust solves the same problems without a runtime, and about 3 times the performance. Granted it looks like c++ and ocaml made a particularly ugly child.
I think the goal is to let speak to your phone normally, not to continue having to speak like your phone is hard of hearing.
Use the open-source desktop app they released.
We're going to publish that soon -- it needs to be generated after the release is tagged and it took longer today. We'll edit the blog post when it's ready to go.
Transfer learning is not guaranteed to work well. Most learned features even in the first layers look usually very different if trained in a clean environment. Background noise is not just a simple stationary signal, but very different audio patterns like music or other voices.
Basically, https://www.simple.com/
I've been wanting to make a liquid lens VR headset to try to solve for vergence-accommodation conflict.
There's a giant market for these tools. It's a common misconception that "technical user" means someone who deals with code but that's just a narrow subset.

Have you seen Photoshop these days? Or illustrator, indesign, after effects, or any other graphics and layout tools? They're not exactly simple and require the same kind of technical skills as coding up some HTML. Visual products are usually best created using visual tools and the success of Squarespace, Wix and Webflow seems to show that this trend is only increasing for websites.
This is huge. Not only does it pressure publishers like Elsevier, it also legitimizes Sci-Hub in a way: if UC, one of the biggest and most reputable Universities in the world including Berkeley and UCLA, says thry won't pay for Elsevier, researchers will just use Sci-Hub to access paywalled articles. And it is much less likely now that Sci-Hub will be a problem for anyone, because the world's best researchers are all going to be using it.
Character vs. Competency
There was a lot of 2-digit year coded in the early 1990s. I wrote some of it myself. The reason was compatibility with older code/data formats, and also as mentioned the notion that "this will all be gone before 2000" or that it would be updated along with everything else if it had to be.
I cannot find it in me to give a shit about glossy origin stories and I doubt most devs care.
I can see that being possible. Cold, winter air is very dry. And frozen water doesn't tend to seep into things.
> I looked at your sample report, and it seems very much like an expanded "linkedin", where it's just about the positives.

Thanks for pointing that out! Our sample is just an example and does not show the answers to questions about developmental areas.

> Me just saying "oh yeah, they're great", or only talking about the positives doesn't really help as much as a full set of questions which also include honest downsides/weaknesses.

That's great product feedback, thank you. Our questions do pull out these details, and we'll emphasize that more in the future. For example, our questions include: "What colleague would best complement this person" and "How would you help a future manager set this candidate up for success?"
That's actually a great way to address this somewhat fairly. I just hope this would be more widespread. Here the city owns large parts and rents the land out with up to 100 year contracts, but lots of the land is also just privately owned.
something like this? https://livebook.manning.com/#!/book/microservices-in-net-co...
Stark black-white divide in wages is widening further
The Plot Against George Soros
> Junkies shooting up in public, homeless people shitting on the sidewalk, etc, etc is a problem confined to a handful of cities on the west coast.

This just isn't true. At all. This is a problem in cities all over the country. Some cities hide it away, but homelessness and the other problems that come with drug addiction exist all across this country.

I live in Portland so I'm well aware of the effects from a large homeless population, but I try to travel as often as I can and I make it a point to get out of tourist areas as much as possible, usually to concerts or something. I can tell you first hand, within the last 2 years Philadelphia seems to have the same issues, DC definitely has the same problems, Boston, NY, Chicago, Austin, and Denver all have visible homeless.

What I find strange is how every city tends to believe their city is unique with homeless, like they don't realize this is a problem across the entire country. Go to any of those city's subreddits and search "homeless" and you'll see how they've all deluded themselves into believing their city is somehow unique and magically the only place in the country with a homeless problem. It's bonkers. This is a massive problem across the entire country. I suspect small towns across the rust belt probably have their own problems, especially considering how their meth and opiate addictions on a per capita level are significantly higher than even major cities.
In 1016 I worked for https://workgrades.com. This sounds pretty similar.
Slate Star Codex is such a rare site, outputting high quality content at a very high rate. I'm always happy to come across an article from it on HN.
The link to the source is right on the page? https://github.com/Pagedraw/pagedraw
Here's my version using a different "command line": chrome devtools

Object.entries(document.body.innerText.replace(/[^a-zA-Z\s]/g, '').toLowerCase().split(/\s+/).reduce((o, word) => {o[word] = (o[word] || 0) + 1; return o}, {})).sort((a,b) => b[1] - a[1]).slice(0, 10)

Plain JS is missing some niceties, but being able to crunch some data from a website using the same iterative approach as a shell command line has its place!
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We don’t think any lesson here should be taken as an “always true” type thing.
Yep, thanks for the response!

It was the FIT export that had me download it initially. Not sure it supports turn-by-turn though; haven't tried recently.
Thanks for sharing your approach. We give references on Searchlight the option to decline for this reason.
> Instead of going for complicated software solutions one could just include a physical button in the base that break the flash memory chip.

Or a sledgehammer...

We need a new internet law: Never provide a technical solution to a problem which can reasonably solved with a hammer.
Sure, for UB.

But extensions like typeof are different from UB. They have documented behavior, it is just documented by GNU instead of the C standards committee.
> A lot of young people think that the people who wrote software 30 years ago were just plain stupid and all wrote crappy code.

The generation from the 70s and 80s will forever be the best technological generation the world will ever see. We had serious constraints that would need elegant solutions. I remember as a kid looking at Z80 maunals to learn how to save a few bytes so that code would run, or the 680k Microsoft limit that caused the code to be very concise and every bit was thoughtfully used.

Now that the sky is the limit we have cookie cutter solutions built on other pieces that "work" which really are just rewritten code in some new language or framework. This is now the new norm and it will never change.
It's not interesting that it's possible. It's interesting that someone actually did it.
The Silicon Valley bashing that came into vogue around the juicero days was a healthy overcorrection I think. For like 10+ years at least the “media” was probably overly kind about the industry and its startups. Basically just taking PR press releases and doing marketing for tiny startups explaining how they were going to change the world.
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Flexbox is designed for a single axis with optional wrapping. Grid is designed for 2-axis control. If you don't need that then flexbox will usually be faster and easier.
For local officials throughout the country, the shift from old-school servers to rented cloud storage has made it tougher than ever to fund upgrades. They can budget physical equipment as capital expenses, meaning they could issue bonds to pay for them. But cloud computing is a service, as the people selling it love to say, which means officials have to pay for it with operating funds

Could a company structure access to cloud computing over a fixed period of time as a capital expense? What if there was some sort of on-site access device involved?
Mind Control by Cell Phone?
In the 1980s, for FORTRAN, coding your program on punch cards was still not that uncommon.
Glacial ice is just compacted snow so you're going to have some amount of other crap in it (hence why we use ice cores to learn about the atmosphere at the time of their formation). Glacial ice that includes whatever year some big volcano went bang is probably not going to make a very good lens.

I suspect that lab ice made with the express intention of being clean would be far cleaner.
I mean, I could do that, but that's kind of missing the point. In fact, I don't particularly disagree with the ideas. I think it would be pretty hard to find people who do! That's what makes the piece so banal - it's saying things that everyone will agree with in a very fluffy, very unexamined way.

>It's critiquing an overpriced, socially bankrupt culture and area, and the toll that can take on mental health and happiness.

This is what the piece _thinks_ it's critiquing. That's what it wants us to think too. But I'm arguing that it's very obvious where the author is coming from. You can tell from the examples she picks that she's just basically a new Google hire who's not really fitting in, and feeling disillusioned with her cohort. "Everybody goes to Lake Tahoe for the weekend"? Tell me that's not coming directly from somebody who's feeling bored and unfulfilled and surrounded by people she hasn't bonded with. And so my point is that this is something that a lot of people go through, and it doesn't have much to do with the monotony of Silicon Valley or the moral decay of our society (which, as a reminder, I don't really deny as real phenomena!). This is basically a diary entry of someone walking through a tough time in their life, but it's trying to bring the weight of society's problems along with it to make you feel like it's a deep insight. But it ain't. And we, as adults, should be able to understand what's going on there, and call it like it is.
To be even more clear, I had to give my old computer back to Mozilla, and had not yet set up all of the necessary stuff on my new computer yet. For Reasons(tm), the contributor list is a full webapp backed by postgres, and so I have to get all that set up locally. Oops!

I really need to re-write it to make it more simple this time.

UPDATE: list is live at https://thanks.rust-lang.org/rust/1.33.0, blog post has been amended to include the link. Should show up in a few minutes. Thanks for your patience, everyone.
Chicago has much better culture; it feels like a diverse city that is actually alive, not just a cookie cutter promenade trying to sell you things. That being said, the politics are pretty messed up and the weather is atrociously bad.
This blog post is certainly a glass-half-full perspective.
Register renaming doesn't mean changing the name of registers you already have (which isn't really possible), it just adds new "virtual"/concurrent registers that conserve the semantics of operations. So what you say doesn't sound right to me: register renaming is actually a way of (re)labelling the results of small ALU jobs to be distributed for concurrent execution. It's not in any way about switching references around on live data as you suggest. Not 100% sure about this but the flavour of what I've read doesn't involve that kind of fancy footwork.
Right, but since the article is talking about the SV elite (both in terms of educational and economic attainment, and one follows the other), it seems pertinent.
YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
US bans lithium batteries from cargo holds on passenger flights
You can get endorsed for murder. It's supposed to be for lawyers who specialize in murder cases, but the tag just says "murder". I currently have three endorsements for murder.
> This made us think - why are we ignoring the the perspectives of people who actually know what it's like to work with a candidate?

Because saying negative things about a past employee can cause you to become liable for libel or slander.
What's the timeline for some screenshots & code examples?
The disappointment you describe is either because your achievements don't actually contribute to your core values or the benefits are short lived.

I recommend taking some time to figure out what your core values are.

Why did you want to start a successful startup? What were you really chasing after? Some superficial answers might be financial security or social status, but you should keep asking why these things are important until you arrive at something that is important just because you feel it is. These are your core values.

Once you figure out your core values, you'll find that:

1) The event that resulted in disappointment either didn't contribute to one of your core values

2) The core value that you've identified is partially out of your control, and so, your achievement made you feel good, but it was only temporary.

To me, values are the measuring sticks by which people quantify success in life. Whether or not we realize it, we constantly measure our actions against our values, and how we 'measure up' determines our self-worth.

Once we actually know what we value, we can either change those values (bc they are too extrinsic), or design our life to optimally fulfill them.
No, I was really curious. My bad if it looked like I was trying to lecture. I do not think that I have the necessary knowledge in this topic to do that. :)

> a borrow checker

What exactly do you mean? How does it differ from any other language's type system?

> would also catch all data races at compile time

In Ada/SPARK, you can formally verify tasks, too. Please take a look at https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/source/co... if you have some time!

> prevent memory mistakes.

Which mistakes are you referring to specifically? I need to know so I can have a meaningful response to it, but all I can say right now is that Ada/SPARK does the same.
The reason they didn't use redux was explained in the medium post.[1]

> We just used global mutable state instead of the whole immutable Reduxy patterns people liked to enforce. It was simple and it worked great.

[1] https://medium.com/@gabriel_20625/technical-lessons-from-bui...
Heat recovery + well sealed house with some humans inside can potentially mean no heating at all!
I wish there was some tool that could, given a one liner, expand it out into a series of steps to better understand it.

(Or maybe someone wrote a 1 liner for that too?)

Personally I prefer to write small bash scripts over one liners so future colleagues can understand the program's logic.
Ask HN: What Are You Learning Right Now?
"Nobody likes you when you're 23" ~Blink-182
Quickly Build a Wiki with Angular and Firebase
Bandai tried introducing a new format in 2004 oddly enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW7XLBrBByA
> Performance is never a justification for anything if you haven’t measured it

A "justification" implies that there is a compromise being made in the name of performance. It's very reasonable to choose, in the first iteration of a program, to choose to disregard performance concerns in favor of readability, which is exactly the context of how they framed it.

When you make the big initial decisions based on readability, that informs all the rest of your choices in working on that piece of code. If you skip a few steps ahead because e.g. "we're making some extra database calls here, so we should grab all the data we need the first time instead", you'll find it much more difficult to optimize your way back to the most readable code possible.

Is it the only way to write software? Of course not. And it may make more sense for the systems and frameworks they use than for yours. But I for one admire their willingness to have a point of view and a principle when it comes to writing code. I don't think it's madness. And I don't think you're wrong either. I just don't think you would have been a good fit for their team. By putting their philosophy out there, they help make that clear. And likewise! I don't begrudge your philosophy, and I think it's often correct. But please don't accuse others of drama and clickbait for describing strong opinions.
I would never give negative feedback about a former employee to anyone ever. I have no guarantee that that information is private, and they could sue me for defamation or a whole host of other things if they found out, especially if it ended up causing them not to get a job. That's real damages.
To be fair, Go is uniquely designed to be easy to learn and become productive with quickly. It was practically a design goal of the language.
Oh yeah, my home was built strictly to keep the frozen death out, I have to throw a big furnace at it to be livable while it exhausts everything through its impossible to insulate roof.
Stirling engine?
Which is entirely inconsistent with the statement "Performance is never a justification for anything if you haven’t measured it".
I know this was tongue in cheek, but the truth is that all healthcare is rationed. It's just that in a capitalism-obsessed culture the mainstream belief is that rationing on economic lives is somehow better than doing so based on efficacy.
This almost seems like its a problem with the tax system. Depending on the potential upside, it might be better to exercise the options without the means to pay the taxes and then take out a loan to settle your debt with the IRS possibly at a discounted amount.
We're looking into solar for our home. Payback is around a decade (in Michigan), while the components are warrantied between 12 years (invertor) and 24 years (panels). They should last much longer than that: the invertors typically fail like most electronic components (either in the first six months or so, or not for a very long time), while the panels are still above 90% of initial output after 50 years (again, with any catastrophic failures usually occurring early).

The 30% tax credit in the U.S. is scheduled to start winding down next year, so anyone interested in doing it should make sure their installation commences before the end of 2019.
Or contact your local ice sculpture company. They have special ice freezers for making large, clear blocks of ice.

But I’d much rather make an ice lens on an arctic beach from an iceberg than walk a couple blocks and get an off cut from the ice sculptors.
With experience, you will learn to suss out when success is possible (for both you and the client).
I am IT support for an organization that does long-term disaster recovery work. I directly support coworkers that coordinate some form of mass-care (clothing, food, and alternate housing). And I live near San Francisco.
A non technical manager of mine once posted a job calling for a "COBALT developer".