skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most adjuncts - heck, most people - are not capable of moving around the country chasing low-paying, often part-time jobs.

When you’re geographically locked, the universities become effective monopsonies everywhere but NY, Boston, etc
As an aside, $15/hr may be common but it's not necessarily "standard". If you look up the Davis-Bacon Act for non-skilled manual labor in the SV area, most rates are around $30/hr + $20/hr fringe (give or take, depending on the position).
Really exciting news! The future is here!
The Waifu one is so realistic that it's uncanny. It's almost like we're just a few years away from whole seasons of deep-dreamt anime and whole tankoubons of procedurally generated manga.
I'm a typical SV college dropout-turned-entrepreneur. Don't follow my example
That's not actually a bot though, is it? Reads a lot more like a person pretending to be a bot.

I'd expect a bot to be more nonsensical in stupid ways instead of funny ways.
>we know naive C++ might spend more time in memory management code than a GC language.

That's not really true anymore after the introduction of smart pointers. Basically C++ implements reference counting to manage memory as a result.
If it's in the dictionary it is English. Or do we start throwing out everything we got from Norman French too?

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/raison%20d'etre
> that means just over 50% of minimum wage earners are older than 25 (well outside the typical age where you're still living with your parents or just entering the workforce)

And making minimum wage over the age of 25 is also outside of the typical pay, so it would make sense that they might be in the atypical situation of, say, still living with their parents. Only 2.7% of ALL workers are even making minimum wage to begin with [1], so you're talking about maybe 1.4% of workers over 25. Of those, some may be retired and have other sources of income. Some may have a spouse who makes much more and the are not dependent on the minimum wage income. So the remaining workers who are actually dependent on one minimum wage job to support themselves or their families are very much an edge case, since we're talking about probably less than 1% of all workers.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2016/home.htm
"Update 19th June 2019: Since this article was published, Tamsin Winters has found out that her niece did receive a broader range of adverts than she originally believed. In addition to the 13 adverts mentioned, she also saw ads for trainers, chocolates, a drink and women's football."

So.... never mind....
> any issue one side takes up is immediately something that - if possible - is criticized and turned into a point of differentiation

This kind of "bothsame" response willfully overlooks that one party has gone to substantial lengths to offer compromises on bills, appointees, and policy goals, while the other very much hasn't.
I wouldn’t. I pay everyone at least a living wage, full stop. It’s a matter of ethics for me. If the business can’t support it, I change the business.
It's not suspiciously low for silicon valley. It's just normal. Your perception is miscalibrated due to FAANG people bragging.

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Tesla_Motors/S...

It is improper to declare that any company outside the highest paying 0.1% is somehow not up to standard.

It is also improper to ignore working conditions. If you end up working 60-hour weeks for $180,000 the pay is no better than working 40-hour weeks for $120,000.

It is also improper to ignore cost of living. House prices can differ by a factor of 20, not even counting the collapsing locations. Just the difference between San Francisco and a medium-small non-coastal southern city is that much.
I'm going to make a moderate to strong-ish claim that deepfakes will not be a substantially serious issue for Democracy or reporting. I'm not certain, but I feel reasonably confident.

- We've already had sophisticated image editing capabilities for a long time, and it hasn't substantially changed how newspapers, blogs, and social media accounts share photos. In particular, I see screencaps of Twitter threads all the time, even though they're trivial to fake. For whatever reason, people already seem to be OK with this. Maybe image editing did upset everything and I'm just too young to remember, but in either case, it doesn't look to me like the world fell apart.

- We've had (relatively) sophisticated audio editing capabilities for a somewhat lesser period of time, and that hasn't changed the landscape of how I see audio reported on. Reporters still use audio as evidence in articles, we haven't seen a wide spread of proprietary chains of trust, anything like that.

- We've seen decent evidence that deepfakes aren't required to currently fake video content to the point that you can deceive people. Deceptive cutting, slowdown, etc... seems to be enough. For people who want reasons to distrust a video, those methods also seem to be adequate. I regularly encounter people who'll look at body-cam footage and say, "well, you don't know, it doesn't show the full context." I'm skeptical deepfakes will make this situation worse -- at most I suspect they'll just further divide us into groups who research sources and groups who don't.

- Deepfakes are getting better, and I keep on getting told that they're eventually going to be perfect, but again, in practice I can't help but compare it to Photoshop. It turned out that with Photoshop, people's ability to spot fakes improved at roughly the same rate as the technology, to the point where I don't think it would be trivial for me today to make a fake photo of a politician that wouldn't get quickly identified as such on Reddit or Twitter. I've seen some really impressive AI generated content that blows me away, but right now I can still tell that it's all fake. I haven't seen anything that can consistently produce results that fool me beyond the most straightforward, boring use-cases. And I'm not an expert on this stuff, if it's good it should be able to fool me.

In theory, deepfakes are concerning, and I get why people are concerned about them. The technology will get better, it will be easier and easier for anyone to make a video saying anything they want. In theory, I agree with all of that. I just don't see a lot of practical evidence that it's going to be any better or worse than what we have right now.

If I hadn't grown up in an era where people were making what to me sounded like similar claims about Photoshop, I would be more worried.
I think this is also a symptom of the US’ shocking attitude to worker’s rights.

The article says staff were constantly reminded of how easily replaced they were, which is a euphemism for “you’re lucky we gave you a job.”

Facebook and Cognizant are majorly dropping the ball but US government and legislation strongly enables that. As do individual states.

From a European perspective this is a sad article to read about work conditions in “the greatest nation in the world.”
There are tons of video editors, all the way back to Adobe Premiere. OpenShot, which is free and open source, isn't bad. What do these people have that they don't?

(Yes, it's "in the cloud". So?)
here's a very readable survey paper

http://jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-468/17-468.pdf
I was unable to parse it too. I'm Italian (that says it all) my English is not stellar, but usually I find my way around with English. Not this time though. :)
working on it... sorry!
The other red-flag was seeing all the framed photos on the CEO’s desk, of his family.

All the pictures were facing away from him, so it seemed like he was advertising his family to anybody sitting in front of his desk.

Maybe he didn’t like looking at them?

Very bizarre.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c2gt4g/cm...

Quite coherent indeed. The comments too, even has the concept of replies.
Unfortunately, the people who need to see this most, likely never will.
Abstract link: Sandberg, Drexler, and Ord - Dissolving the Fermi paradox (https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404).
This may be of interest to you: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/cloud-hosted-mac-agent...
Mostly, but sometimes 'financially sophisticated' is interpreted as 'does not know / cannot derive the formulas involved.'
Interesting link, thanks for sharing.

I'm more inclined to think that streaming revenue will plateau around ~$10-13B. It makes sense that demand for streaming is a bit more than demand for CDs, because it allows cheaper monetization of the long tail and recurring revenue. However, I'd be surprised if the industry ever pushes over that $21.5B inflation-adjusted peak again though.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-sales/

Rent-seeking music labels have done a good job determining the maximum amount that consumers are willing to pay for music. Now we as consumers should make an effort to ensure the maximum percentage of revenue reaches artist. UMG siphoning 85% of revenue is abhorrent.
Researchers make a robotic fish with a battery for blood
Turns out totalitarian states are not very popular amongst a wider global audience. Not much positive gets written about Venezuela or North Korea either.
Sure. The more things the programmer needs to worry about and explicitly state, then there more pathways there are for error.

Using assembly language vs a higher level language illustrates this. There are certain classes of errors that are eliminated by the language / compiler / runtime. Examples could be garbage collection preventing you from have page segmentation faults, or accidentally modifying the stack pointer and destroying the return address.

Rich types like Maybe / Either offload the exception handling and allow you to write your code for just the happy path while still having the program fully support the unhappy path.

Compilers with pattern matching can give you errors when you have not handled all possible inputs to a function (total function). If you just have the "if err != nil" or null-check style code then it's easy to miss them.

By tedious, if you constantly have to type the same thing over and over ("if err != nil") then it takes away time and mental energy from focusing on the core problem domain.

Being able to express guard conditions to a function allow your functions to be simpler and easier to understand.

It basically allow comes down to abstraction and letting the compiler / language do things that it is good at and freeing the programmer from having to worry about every single permutation. It's just not feasible for the human mind to see every possible branch of a program.
Man I wish I had this when learning English.
I want it for German
> You don't make a building accessible by putting a sign on the front saying "wheelchairs not welcome"

That's a bad analogy. The linked website is equally usable for everyone.
Ubuntu says i386 to be 86'd with Eoan 19.10 release
I hope that some YouTube publishers start using this. It's always jarring when some tech vlogger puts up a video with blatant mispronunciations.

Sometimes it can be attributed to regionalisms (8-Bit Guy uses Texas-isms in addition to his usual set of mispronunciations). Sometimes it's just not paying attention, like one video game blogger who mispronounced "Imagic," showed an old Imagic TV commercial where the name was pronounced correctly, and then mispronounced "Imagic" immediately after. But some simply aren't bothering to look up the correct pronunciation of things.

/Former broadcaster, trained in pronunciation, and in correcting the pronunciation of TV news anchors.
I may be misremembering but I actually remember GDocs telling me to reload once, so presumably they have some way of forcing reloading if they need it (I think it let me keep working locally until I reloaded, then all my stuff would be saved and synced like normal).
You sure it wasn't Liu Cixin's own statements that were working to achieve that effect? The journalist just asked questions and wrote down his response.
Right this is totally legal provided you report any income obtained through such a scheme on your tax return in fair market US dollar terms. It's no different than bartering (which is also legal).

The other caveat is that if someone owes you a debt you can't require them to pay in your own "funny money" currency. You have to accept US dollars if offered, otherwise the debt won't be legally enforceable.
I agree there's an issue; "mispronounced" should be one of the feedback options. The third video for "especially" pronounces the word as "ekspecially".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=478&v=Td2hfdXQ5x...

Love the site, though! Great work.
I did see that. This is a common pattern in many functional languages, and (for example) Scala has the same issue with Either. It's a common enough complaint that there are numerous right-biased utility versions in the wild that make it more ergonomic.

Having a type that is right biased doesn't mean it can't also implement the more generic interface. If your needs change you can always go back to using the less opinionated version with little breakage.

Rust's is notable in that they have both Either and Result. I think there's value in that, even if it is mainly for ergonomics and communication.

Also, aliases are fine, I could just see them being duplicated a lot. Probably not my first choice.
A somewhat ironic example given the subject at hand

https://www.propertyguru.com.sg/property-management-news/201...

"House prices in Singapore are considered “seriously unaffordable”, with a median multiple of 4.6, which means that the median house price is 4.6 times the city-state’s median household income, according to an annual survey."
very cool!

next features: 1) Find the videos that most agree with eachother and 2) Add other languages
I was plenty aware before. I was sharing my personal experiences. Someone who is a 37year old retail worker is free to share theirs as well. It appears like you are a bad actor and will dismiss anything that violates your 'reality'.
Which code bounty platform is best for your development needs
Tons of examples of no traction/fast moving teams out-performing, ie Brex pivoted and had no growth or traction at demo day and it worked out pretty well for them :) https://twitter.com/daltonc/status/1138952277404790784?s=21

Doing YC at their early state was perfect because it was the perfect environment to come up with an idea like Brex.
Can't do Big-Data, no libraries.
Overtourism could threaten these cities next
It looks a lot like SwiftUI, although I know they work fundamentally differently. I wonder if Qt could adopt that approach somehow, maybe with new C++ features, or maybe by adopting Swift...
Is there room to grow at your company? New role, new position, etc?
That’s essentially the same but with the type parameter appearing before the type name.
> Music piracy is not theft. It deprives the owner of nothing.

The right to determine the terms by which their product is distributed.

When you want something, and you don’t want to pay for it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs
Can you restate this please? It doesn't make sense; how are 2.3% of wage earners actually 58% of workers actually 78% of the adult population actually 1% of adult population?

From [1]: 1.8 million workers made the federal minimum wage or less. But that does not say how many people made less than $15 an hour, which is considered a living wage. According to the NELP in 2016, 42% of US workers make less than $15 per hour. Nearly half of US workers. [2]

So raising the minimum wage would support nearly half the US workforce to be able to, you know, live. I think setting economic policy with this in mind makes more sense than only considering what teenagers need.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm [2] https://raisetheminimumwage.com/fight-for-15/
I don't think that's true? You can enable keyless driving with just a Tesla account credentials.
I have a friend who was working on #1 specifically. They got out of it after they realized it was just playing whack-a-mole.

This is honestly one of the very few use cases of cryptography signing a video or picture that I can see. But that would mean amateur journalists or the common person might be excluded from being a trusted source with video evidence.
> But "nobody died" isn't a valid excuse for mistakes on filing for taxes or legal contracts.

I have had a lot of mistakes filing my taxes (Spain) when I was working as a contractor. You pay a small fine (100€ for a yearly report) and move on.

You will be prosecuted if you lied in your taxes. But, mistakes happen all the time and its not big deal.
"If kiddie porn, gore and animal cruelty flooded the network, it would cease to be a destination visited by people that advertisers will pay to reach."

I bet this can be done with ML and IA instead human power. Yet, FB uses their human cattle to censor conservative voices.
I’m pretty sure prison rape rates are more around 15% in the us
Riffing on your thoughts:

Killer blockchain app: Couldn't we just use blockchain to protect against video deepfakes? Hash every frame as the video is recording, then create an immutable ledger of frames. All "official" videos must be able to be verified with said ledger, and the ledger itself can only be verified with vendor-specific key licensed by a central authority. Perhaps two -- say, Apple has one for iPhone and they must verify as well.

This could certainly be the billion dollar opportunity blockchain fanatics have been looking for.
They recently open sourced it. It was previewed in lectures from Christopher Bishop more than 10 years ago.

1) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/infernet/
2) http://videolectures.net/mlss09uk_bishop_ibi/
Trains don't really swim though, at least not very well.
I recommend forvo.com (like another commenter mentioned), as GT doesn't work that great for certain languages (ex. Catalan is just a robotic voice).
http://wiki.c2.com/?DanWeinreb Dan Weinreb was the MIT guy; Bill Joy was the Unix partisan. Before he passed away, Dan's blog had his side of this story; unfortunately, I can't find it now. Fortunately WikiWikiWeb knows a little!

Edit: found it! https://web.archive.org/web/20121107034606/http://danweinreb...
I would be very surprised if they didn't already have something like this internally for hosting iCloud and various other services. I agree it would be great for them to make it more widely available as a product.
There are several reasons the contract would be unenforceable. The main reason is that typos and obvious mistakes in a contract just result in the corrected contract applying.

Even if it were totally clear that both parties really intended 30% interest, which would not be the case, most US states have usury laws, 30% is way above the maximum allowed by any state. So the contract is automatically void in most states.

http://www.lendingkarma.com/content/state-usury-laws-legal-i...

Even in states without usury laws, a mortgage at several times the prevailing rate would certainly be considered "unconscionable", making the contract unenforceable.
You couldn't have made a better list of recent issues that have been in the news about U.S. prisons if you had tried.

Little and low quality food so that sheriffs could take the money
https://www.al.com/opinion/2018/03/49_alabama_sheriffs_flout...

Widespread prison rape
https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/12/15/us-federal-statistics-sh...

Prisons under staffed and over crowded
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2017-07-26/...

Widespread use of solitary confinement
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/04/20/solitary-co...

Chemical Castration in at least 8 states
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alabama-passes-bill-requiri...
I wrote "more realistic" deliberately.

C++ is coded quite differently today than when Gecko was written -- at least, in places where the official Coding Standard does not forbid it. Mozilla and Google's do.

After the more-realistic assessment, claims about Rust's inherent safety will need to be walked back some. It will still be an enormous improvement on C.
One of the smartest, easier things you can do early on during the development of a function is to treat the "core" of the function body as interface-agnostic. Write a function that just takes an object and returns an object, then write an Adapter function which accepts, say, a lambda event, calls your core handler, and returns whatever your lambda function needs (API Gateway response, etc).

This enables you to, with a little more effort, swap out the Interface Adapter part with, say, a CLI. Or, if you ever want to get off lambda, its a bit easier as well.

Mocking out dependencies, like S3 buckets, isn't worth it during a prototype/MVP. As time goes on, sure, go for it. But early on, just use AWS. Don't use localstack or any of the other various tools that try to replicate AWS. They're all going to get it wrong, hopefully in obvious ways, but usually in subtle ways that'll crash production, and you're just creating more work for yourself. Just use AWS. Just use AWS. Just use AWS.
Engineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces
People at 30k are not "dependent" on government subsidies in any socially meaningful sense. They're likely paying more taxes than receiving subsidies - and even if they aren't, there's arbitrariness in that "zero" line in this accounting. E.g. you might call public transit subsidies in cities a subsidy, but... it's a social good, so who exactly is that subsidizing? These kind of workers have next to no leverage, so they're payed the minimum they (as a group) need. If you "subsidize" fixed costs, pay is likely to drop. Many of those subsidies might equally be called investments, or plain old payment. This isn't in this sense equivalent to charity, where people really can't take care of themselves.

I don't think you're wrong or anything - as individuals they're obviously relying on those subsidies, it's just the perspective is weird. These people are clearly adding value to society (of the monetary kind, I don't want to get sidetracked by the moral aspect here) - they're just not in a position to claim it for themselves. Being unable to make long term plans is destabilizing: yep! The fact that the government happens to "pay" you, largely from your own tax bill: why is that destabilizing? That must be due to stigma or something, because there doesn't seem to be any underlying mechanic that makes sense.

Am I missing something?
I see that the posts aren't generated in real time. Were they curated? Even if these are just the top 5%, they're still extremely impressive.
I kind of suspect that fake videos will not be much more of an issue than photoshopped images. I don't recall with certainty but I believe there was some fear surrounding the ease at which photographs could be manipulated in the digital age. Some combination of a general growing awareness of the ease at which photos could be altered along with continued advancements in the ability to determine the authenticity of photographs has rendered faking of photographs relatively harmless. In fact, I think the feedback loop has resulted in not being a huge market for faking images at least for political gain. I am not referring to photoshopping images of models and things to just make them look more attractive. Also, although it is very easy to doctor an image, in general people have still managed to keep a level of intuition which allows them to not suspect every image they see as being fake.
cool video editing tool!
most everyone already doesnt consider anything they dont already believe. everyone will just shout fakenews at everything real unless they want to believe.

any trust left in institutions will erode. we cant even believe our eyes or ears.
I can't stop playing with this. Plugging in foreign words and locations is pretty fun, like Nouakchott, N'Djamena, Lviv, Hagia Sophia, Ibiza, Louvre, etc. Just getting the variety of organic, candid pronunciations is fascinating.