skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking more that one would use mechanical turk to annotate each soundfile with these tags for the set of all podcasts. Then use that as training data to a ML algorithm that gets used to render the output for each tag.

So I'd use my archiveaudio tag from the example and the algo would output the band-limited frequencies of what sounds vaguely like a cop with speech patterns signaling defensiveness and irritation.

It would all sound perfectly like a podcast if you were listening to it in a sleep state. Then if you concentrated on it you'd realize there's no coherent plot or even any actual natural language being spoken in the entire recording.
The uncertain history of DNA-based paternity science
Landmark Children’s Series ’Molly of Denali’ Premieres in Fairbanks
> I won't answer any further questions about whether I am certain about something until you show that there is anything anyone could possibly be certain about.

So apparently you are uncertain that you've just stated "I won't answer any further questions about whether I am certain about something until you show that there is anything anyone could possibly be certain about"... lol, wow.

Haha, are you certain you won't answer any further questions about whether you are certain about something until I show that there is anything anyone could possibly be certain about? If not, are you certain that you are not certain? If so, well then now you know there is something you can possibly be certain about. If not, are you certain?

> Demanding a burden of proof that you don't apply to anything else is simply destructive behaviour, not something that could possibly lead to any insight.

Smh, tsk tsk. I do apply it to other things. At the moment, however, we are dealing with your "uncertain" claims, a burden which is evermore appearing to be too much for you, especially now, given that you have now revealed that you've not intended to say anything with certainty. Perhaps, for all future claims you make, it would serve us well if you included wording that indicates your uncertainty.

> Just remove "certainly".

If you're going to remove certainty from all of your claims, then we have reached the end of our discussion. I'm content with you not being certain of the claim "Religion is incompatible with science". You may feel that one can't be certain of anything, but it is certain that you can't be certain of that.

> The point is: I haven't seen any, I doubt you have seen any, I doubt anyone has seen any.

Well according to you, you are not certain that you doubt it. In addition, by your own expectations of uncertainty, you are not certain that (you are not certain that you doubt it), and, to continue, you are not certain that (you are not certain that (you are not certain that you doubt it)), and you are not certain that (you are not certain that (you are not certain that (you are not certain that you doubt it))), and so on...

Oh, and if you want to replace all certainty with likelihood, as in stating that "It is likely that religion is incompatible with science" to highlight your uncertainty of the claim "Religion is compatible with science", then the claim "It is likely that religion is incompatible with science" would also be uncertain. This would result in the same infinite hierarchically regressive death spiral as above. So... have fun with that.
For me, having no physical branches has been ace. When I was with barclays, I could call them up, spend 45 minutes on the phone to someone, only to be told I have to go to a branch to get a statement (or something stupid like that). I'd then walk to a branch, stand in line for 20 minutes, to be told they can't do that at that branch and I'd have to ring up some other number. That sort of thing happened regularly enough (probably twice in my last year) to make me lose trust in the competance of the people I was speaking to.

Monzo having 1 point of contact means they can't push you off onto someone else/a branch/a different phone number etc. And every time I've used the help chat on there I've had me issues resolved rapidly.

When I was in mexico, a restaurants card machine said a payment didn't go through, but my monzo app said it did. So i kept the receipt and did the transaction again. This time their card machine said it worked. I kept the receipt for a week in case the £60 showed back up in my account but it didn't. Within 2 minutes on the chat with monzo, £60 was just put back into my account. No fuss. I guarantee you couldn't pick up a phone/go to a branch with a standard bank and get the money back that quickly
> It lost about £15million in 2017

If a company was losing money for the first 11 months out of 12, that's an expected result.
So, I love the role that Electron fits, but boy do I hate how much we discuss Electron itself.

What we should be discussing is providing the functionality of Electron without the cost. A protocol that behaves like React native. Ideally a spec, which any language can implement and provide a native UX to the end user.

Some projects try (ProtonNative, for example), but I've not seen one go quite far enough. I don't want to be forced to write a JS app to get benefits here. After all, with ReactNative, it's basically a process RPC to a bunch of widgets. `process <-> UI`. So why be forced to write JS? An open spec would do wonders here.

I've not invested cycles on solving this problem, of course. Yet I can't help but wonder why so many people are focused on solving UI issues with very narrow solutions like Electron, ReactNative, ProtonNative and so forth. They're great projects, but a slightly wider vision would make them amazing projects.

Thoughts? Am I missing something obvious?
> Booking.com claiming so and so is selling out quickly! What is quickly defined as?

Look, be whoever you want, but own it, don't hide behind equivocation. No one else is buying (haha) any of this. The only person you're working to convince here is yourself.
But this is placing a giant burden on the consumer to do legal level language analysis of a sales pitch. That's not going to happen, so that kind of language is taking advantage of the average person since they aren't going to do that. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's not shady and dirty. Your bartering example is a bit out of context, that's not as obvious as a dark pattern or blatantly misleading via pricing and sales.
DNS filtering can only do so much. For apps that hardcode addresses you'd have to set up your own firewall. And then to protect yourself when you are "in the wild" you'd have to use an always on VPN to your own network.

There might be commercial products that do this for you. Setting this up is definitely outside of the comfort zone for the overwhelming majority of phone users.
Is it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgLaMc9IVA
This is true, although UBECs are also packaged with some filtering caps, and are in a nice heatshrinked package usually -- so I look at it the other way around; packaged UBECs are so cheap, if you can make do with them, it's too easy to just grab them off the shelf and move on with life rather than DIYing it from components.

All depends how many of whatever you're building, I suppose.
How about an actual estimate? If it's 100 billion years that would be an even cooler number to throw around. 7 times the age of the universe!

A more useful number would be MTBF or a decay rate.
Ask HN: What to do when your banks have negative interest rates?
The country where I live in has its own currency, and has introduced a negative interest rate policy. Negative interest rates mean that the banks charge you money in order to deposit your money at the bank. A friend of mine told me that if I would be able to create a solution for the problem the depositors are facing, he would invest in the idea, and pitch it to his network. Any ideas coming to mind?
I didn't call the Silvia expensive. I said the people interested in buying them from us had too much money.
Its not the prettiest, but here's a flight sim with (more than) a handful of planes that lets you fly everywhere in the world without dollar signs appearing anywhere (it's FOSS).

https://www.flightgear.org/
> We really need some kind of highly compressible alternative format for podcasts.

WebVTT, reproduced at the listener side by TTS? At some point, there's a quality chasm that can only be leaped by using a format other than sampled audio.

My question for you is: Why do we need that?
Currently epsilon is a Linux kernel with musl and tcc. Since tcc can be used for scripting, I believe that with a non-trivial amount of work (including patching musl), musl could be built by tcc. Therefore epsilon would become just Linux and a static build of tcc.

To further reduce epsilon (or, in somewhat standard terminology, the "binary seed") I am also writing asmc (https://gitlab.com/giomasce/asmc), which is a minimal operating system with a minimal compiler, totalling less than 6 KiB binary seed. This compiler is not for C, but for G, which is a C-inspired language that I invented for this purpose (see the project README and links for more details). The target for asmc is to be able to build and boot Linux and a static copy of tcc (the latter is more or less already there; Linux is, of course, the hard part), at which point it can bootstrap nbs. I'm not there yet, though.

Also, to be fair, although asmc's seed is 6 KiB, you still need an x86 CPU (I'm not aware of free implementations), a loader and a BIOS to have a functional environment. This is not little thing, but I guess it is a reasonable target so far.
If you'd be okay with low-level development on platforms other than typical desktop computers, there's a lot to do in aerospace-related fields. In my observation, you would probably be expected to have a bachelor's degree in some related subject (CS, math, physics, electrical engineering, etc.), but for an entry-level job they wouldn't expect actual low-level experience. Good knowledge of C or C++ in general would help.
The cheats that got you an Apache gunship were awesome.
Yes, not buying a home espresso machine.
Why would you need a "food grade" grease? You're not eating the grease; it's supposed to be contained inside the mechanism. If it's leaking out into the food, that sounds like a pretty horrible design and a product you shouldn't use under any circumstances. Maybe I'm just not understanding this product at all.

Is it golden brown, or an off-white?
Some of the big states should just use preferred sourcing laws to bootstrap manufacturers or contracts to just make things like insulin and shut these companies out of Medicaid.

The casual disregard for humanity and their largest customers should result in severe consequences for the companies and the investors in them. In short, they should be ground down and driven out of business.
Compared to 0.7 through 1.4l petrol cars, the diesel numbers are less than impressive and still bigger. And the 1.4 can easily can have horsepower and acceleration exceeding a 2.1l diesel.
Whatever it ends up being it has to be web-based. I'm definitely not going to rewrite the app.

However, if something were to come along that uses the user's local webview instead and provided a way to bundle a node server with it, I could absolutely switch to it.

In fact, I've played with the idea of providing an app that only sits in your menubar and runs the server, and opening the app just opens a tab in your browser. But most users don't care as much about all this as we think and would find that odd.

You're right though - if something is working well enough it probably will end up sticking. Slack just goes to show that it's probably Good Enough despite what we feel about it.
Yes, the hard truth: it might be you.

I would add that your company has other resources. You can reach out to HR, and you can take advantage of the interpersonal training that is likely available. Don't pressure yourself into believing that is all should have come naturally. If there is one thing we don't realize is how much accommodation we're afforded by the good people around us.

BTW, the way to approach HR or other managers about your management problem is to ask how you can better deal with the situation.
Moore's law is dead, but I don't think the story ends there. Now the incentives exist to explore alternatives to Silicon, which could yield many more years of big process improvements. While Silicon was scaling so rapidly there was little point in investing in alternatives. The free lunch is over, but the stage is set for the next act of the microprocessor revolution.
Gov Lawyers: “No Fundamental Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate System”
Don’t you get hit by international fees when using your credit card abroad?

No. There are fees for withdrawing cash over £200, but not using the card abroad.
Wouldn't one have to encase this in a diamond shell or something to avoid scraping it?
Valuing Walkability
Etcher is okay to me because you won't run it in background, you are gonna close it right away after flashing anyway.

BTW comparing an GUI app with a CLI-only program sounds unfair.
The author is definitely a "spiritual person", he's a Buddhist monk and the french translator for the Dalai Lama. But he is also very scientifically minded. He has a PHD in cellular genetics from the institute pasteur[1].

One of the central themes of the book, and motivators for the author to write, is to address the contrast between other oriented (altruistic) and self oriented (selfish) societies. The author asserts that in the western fields of psychology, theories of evolution, and economics, it's often taken for granted that an individual's deeds, words, and thoughts are motivated by selfishness. To the extent that this assumption has nearly become dogma. The 868 page book, including a massive 160+ pages of notes, and bibliographies systematically lay out the scientific arguments against "the hypothesis of human selfishness".

You can read the sections of the book that specifically address "the selfish gene" with the following google search [2].

[1]: https://www.pasteur.fr/en/education/programs-and-courses/doc...

[2]: https://books.google.com/books?id=1k_2AwAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...
> Jetson Nano is A57 and Pi4 is A72 which is maybe twice as fast

A57 and A72 are very close in performance, as the A72 is an evolution of the A57. ARM's numbers have the A72 around 20-30% faster than the A57. The main advantage of the A72 was it fixed the horrific power problems the A57 had so in a phone usage you could actually use the CPU for longer than 10 seconds. But in raw performance it wasn't that much of a jump. A53 to A72 is around 2-3x as fast, though. A53 was the power efficient one. A57 was the performance one.

Both the Jetson Nano & Pi4 are clocked at around 1.5ghz, so the Pi4 should still eek out a bit of a CPU performance gap over the Nano. But if you're purely comparing factory vs. factory then the Nano would probably win over longer stretches as the Pi4's lack of heatsink results in it throttling down to around 1ghz after a few minutes. The Nano looks like it has a beefy enough heatsink to keep the A57's churning for a lot longer at their 1.43ghz spec.
Thanks for the post.

> I want something more lightweight eventually

Check out https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
Something is making it slow.
Usage of multi-armed bandits for low-level optimizations looks fairly unusual, I cannot remember any other examples in open-source codebases.
How do people without a scientific background and without the access to clinical testing data (since we're deregulating here companies won't even have to do them before going to market legally) have a hope of evaluating what new drugs are safe and which companies are reliable?
running software is inherently unsafe -- beyond legit security threats where an app is getting information you haven't granted it, their use of sensitive information you have permitted needs to be more carefully audited

of course they're sometimes violating their privacy policy -- no real history of punishment / legal consequences here except (1) at the highest size scale (FB / G), and even they get away with minor fines in the US. And (2) sometimes terms get read by courts in other matters, i.e. zappos.

Plus product probably doesn't know the policy at some small companies; lawyers don't get involved enough.

the solution here is much stronger OS-level permissions models that can track the provenance of sensitive information. very big difference between my location getting uploaded as part of a 'search nearby' (i.e. a click) vs in the background. sensitive information should audit every read and should be required to dump communication messages to an audit DB visible to the user.

this is an area where open source can lead because it's easier for us to both run a policy checker / privacy linter and prove that it's running.
The article was very light on details, so I'd appreciate if could you elaborate on the technical capabilities of the app. I get suspicious when I see comments like:

> One reason that led Y Combinator to invest, Hariharan said, “was the traction with which they hit 2 million users in the U.K., with engagement metrics that almost look like a social network.”

It's a bank app. I can't speak for most people, but I don't open my bank app more than a couple of times a month; it's to pay my CC bill, and to make the occasional bank to bank transfer. If I'm spending a lot of time in the app, I'm probably encountering a problem of some kind.

I also can't link "app engagement" with revenue. Banks make money on mortgages, lines of credit and other financial products. I suppose daily logins allow them to advertise this heavily (my bank does it too, and I hate it), but to draw a line from A to B is a bit of a stretch.
> Seperately, you’re not going to fool anyone by calling a server something else.

If we had the logs I'd bet money that someone Googled "home cloud" to see if that would somehow get around hosting a server behind residential.

I'd also bet that even more people nodded "knowingly" while reading my sentence about blockchain.
Very interesting technique: the firewall is remote.

> The Guardian Firewall app has been designed to simply act as a client for remotely hosted VPN servers running custom fully-featured firewall software...

(From https://guardianapp.com/blog/2019/06/introducing-guardian-fi...)

I wondered at first why the VPN was free but you had to pay for the firewall.
In flight speak height is measured in 100s of feet and distance in nautical miles. For example a 747 will reach cruising altitude at FL370 (37000ft) but another plane may be FL360 (36000ft).
Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud
It's doubly tragic because (T2) diabetes is preventable, and even reversible in some cases. And I've read that T1 is also much better controlled on a low carb/ketogenic diet.
What are machine learning model governance and model operations
No - the whole point of pooling would surely be that you don't pay for your own misfortune (or profit from good fortune.)

It really just becomes a poorly implemented version of general taxation though. Funding health and social care from taxation is of course not a new idea...
the progress is NOT given, we must very proactively seek it. isn’t that obvious?!
Electron lowers the barrier-to-entry for frontend app development. Or, more cynically: Electron allows you to hire cheaper, less-experienced frontend engineers.

A background worker in an Electron process, however, can be thought of (depending on what it’s used for) as more of a “local ambassador of the server”, and thus isn’t really “frontend” at all. It lands on the client, sure, but it’s no more frontend than the client-side half of the Firebase library is frontend. It’s plumbing, and so it’d be the responsibility of a backend or infrastructure engineer to write and maintain.

If you take this perspective, you still receive the main practical advantage that the system’s product manager was probably seeking by choosing Electron in the first place: the ability to hire inexperienced engineers to do UX tweaks, freeing up the senior engineers’ time to handle the hard stuff.

UX tweaks won’t generally bubble down to the level of needing to modify the background worker (again, depending on how you’ve written the thing), so your [junior] frontend engineers won’t need to touch the background worker, so it can be written in a language more on the “good engineering” side of the spectrum than the “low barrier to entry” side—like Rust—without that causing you any headaches of the “everybody who knows how to fix it is busy” variety.
Why not?

US domestic policy in the 1950s was explicitly based on white supremacy. Jim Crow laws were actively enforced. Yet the US supported the creation of the State of Israel.

"Golda Meir describes Nixon in her autobiography as the best friend Israel ever had in the presidency and does so in life and death terms." says http://www.jewishmag.com/167mag/kissinger-nixon-war-watergat... which goes on to say "But… Nixon, like many anti-Semites, had a deep admiration for Israel and Israelis".

Nixon's "Southern strategy", infamously, was designed to appeal to racism against African Americans.

So there's no inherent contradiction here.
I'm running 64 GB ECC with a Ryzen system. As it turns out, memory in general was just exorbitantly expensive in the recent past, so the ECC premium wasn't all that much. On the flip side, I don't do PC gaming so having faster memory didn't really matter much; current ECC was already faster than the 5 year old system I was upgrading from.

For me, the reason to go ECC was just to prevent silent file corruption. With 64 GB, the math is in favor of me seeing bit flips. Moreover, I tend to put my machine to sleep, rather than shut it off, which also increases the likelihood of memory errors. I wouldn't say I have a highly specialized workload outside of the occasional VM, consisting of large files, for development. A lot of it is I just didn't want to deal with silent corruption of family photos & videos, even if the underlying file formats are pretty resilient.

Personally, I think the situation should be flipped. Everyone should run with ECC these days and only run without for specialized environments like gaming where you want to squeeze out every FPS you can. Faster memory isn't going to matter for most situations.
doing a little market research for a side project i'm working on -- https://spaceshipearth.org -- if you thought that taking individual action actually does advance the environmental cause, would you take the action?

in our project, we hope to get you to take individual action with a group of your friends, so your collective impact is amplified. we're also hoping to show you the quantitative impact of your contribution.

would this help to change your mind at all? or do you a-priori think individual action has no benefit?
At the time, you would not have found a Silvia for that price, even used. And we did not sell used Silvias in any case.
I have been trying to build an Rpi+eink screen laptop, using https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY But haven't touched the project in months now.