skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hang on, everyone's been at this for years now - are we seriously saying that Facebook et-al don't have large training sets for speech transcription? Why are they still labelling this? Why do they need 100's of contractors?

I can see that a couple of folks might be engaged in carefully reviewing low confidence transcription events, but 100's?
And some of them fish that were around then are... well, still fish. Not sure I like the reference of humans in the example :)
As compared to a Battleship or A Carrier
Another business in the tech security business that has no business being in business.

See the repeated use of the word business? It’s because until companies who mess up like this (I’m looking also at you Equifax and TalkTalk) are forced out of the market then standards will remain lax.
Perhaps they've developed a lossless pizza compression algorithm.
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We do in the UK at least, although compliance is problematic: https://www.asa.org.uk/resource/influencers-guide.html for some info
Now that's paranoid.
Created your account to just post this?
A Framework for Creating Business Value with AI
This is pretty cool, and an excellent discussion of the trade offs on different transistor designs.
That's why this design is not a quadcopter, it is technically an octocopter.
No, 9.2 still broken for me. The strlen and strncpy fixes were obviously not enough.
https://github.com/perl11/cperl/commit/c0b59c82b053a3434cf3c...
Stop trying to make flying 'cars' happen.
Or being one of those "brown" Germans
if you expect reality, you have zero happiness?
Buck minster Fuller called, and he's still waiting for us to implement the future he envisioned.

See the section titled "The Global Energy Grid:" http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2009/02/buckminster-fullers-c...
Tesla owner who saw range slashed by software update filed class action lawsuit
Ringing in the Ears Treatment Options That You Can Use to Clear Your Symptom
Lawyer fights for victims of online harassment, deepfakes and revenge porn
This article teaches some useful things about the media landscape, like the main players in the "wholesale" part of the news supply chain. Not sure how deep the described service will be able to categorize and label bias in the normal sense of the word, but it can nonetheless (possibly) prove to be a highly useful tool for media meta analysis.

Will be following this.
Because that institution also seems to be heavily engaged in the area of "Intellectual Property" I would like to mention:

one big reason for the problems with plastic recycling is the fact that producing companies do want to "protect" their "intellectual property" and do not provide a list of ingredients.

This is an area where IP does have a very big impact in the global contamination process.
I am not saying ALL protest objectives are right. I have no idea why you would generalize that. In this particular event, don't you think what the HK protesters ask for are just?
However, there's a lot of micro-decoding for individual instructions and you wind up handling microprogramming, by this even raising the complexity.
It's one of my favourites. Aside from Feynman's clear and enthusiastic style, I find it's remarkable you can start from counting 1,2,3 and by a bit of reasoning come up with logs, complex numbers and:

>This, then, is the unification of algebra and geometry.

I can't help wondering if you could go further and come up with some physics.
Set Ongoing Feedback to Boost the Company
These books also have in common that they cover topics that everyone has an opinion on, and that you can get really upset and angry over while not being in a position to really do anything about the "issues" they describe. As you say it's about how "something needs to change" but it's never the reader who has to change.

> Add some fears about the before-mentioned topics and there's your new book every few months, same content, different cover.

Talkshows and other media make these books even more profitable and popular. Publishing such a book almost guarantees that you'll be able to tour talkshows for a few weeks, give interviews to newspapers etc. as free marketing for your books.
Stuff You Should Know did a podcast episode on Planned Obsolescence - https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/planned-obsolesc...
I'm going to make a "PR boilerplate as a Service"... It will just be a service that replies "Thank you for asking about $PROBLEM. Our customer's security is our number 1 priority, and we will do a thorough review of our policies to make sure $PROBLEM doesn't happen again.".
The video doesn't say that the reaction won't happen without cleaning the surface, just that it will be much slower. And the hole is just to hold the mercury in place.
So what is the consensus on Planet M.U.L.E. for those who actually remember the original game? It was my first introduction to M.U.L.E. as a game, and I thought it was a very neat little implementation back when I tried it

http://www.planetmule.com/
That’s not my point. I am not blaming anything on imperialism (without quotes). The world geopolitics are to these days structured and governed by empires. We don’t have emperors but there are still empires. If you happen to be a citizen of a country that is in the vicinity of a powerful and big state (size matters a lot too) then you are out of luck. What I said regarding Russia, America also applies to China, Europe (guess why the European Union was created) and to lesser degree Turkey and Iran.
> Battery redundancy: The scale argument again. This is an order of magnitude harder to achieve on a much larger man-carrying "drone".

Isn't it much easier because you have capacity (weight carrying ability) for many more cells, and the chances too many of them fail is much lower? If you have 3 cells, 1 of them can fail at any given time, and you're left with 66% of power, but if you have 200 cells, and 1 or 2 of them fail, you don't even notice. How do you mean that it's harder? Electric cars certainly don't seem to have any problems with this and their batteries are much more reliable than the ones available for drone usage.

Also with big size/capacity you can easily include additional systems like temperature control which increase reliability because they don't weigh as much in relationship to the whole vechicle.
> You seem to believe that the oil industry consists of vicious subhumans or something that need to be forced to do the right thing even when the right thing co-incides with their economic self-interest.

Their economic short term interest, yes. Gas burned off wastefully is not available in the future and we have this small global warming problem.
Looks to have been supported by NESTA:

https://www.nesta.org.uk/report/dynamic-demand-challenge-pri...
The only thing this article lacks is a concrete way for those of us impressed with what these women are doing to help them continue their important work.
'Troubles tourism': should Derry be celebrating its political murals?
> isn't always fair to criticize that comedy since it is important to always judge art in the context in which it was originally created.

I strongly disagree. I very much remember how my dad (an immigrant to the US) felt about it when he saw the Simpsons in the 90s; I remember how obvious the racism was when he pointed it out. Just because you were oblivious to how it made people feel doesn't mean it didn't make people feel horrible.

This historical relativism crap is really just a cheap copout for not taking the time to ask: "is what I'm doing going to hurt or demean someone?" If the answer is yes, dont do it, it doesn't matter how many people are accepting of it at the time. If the answer is "I don't know", ask the person it might hurt.

The reality is, people largely didn't care how others were impacted by the things they did and giving them a lazy and thoughtless copout is nearly just as demeaning as the original actions.

(Think about it, all those guys getting negatively swept up in the metoo movement claiming that they didn't know any better with regard to sexual harassment sounds absolutely absurd; putting "historical context" on racist things is equally as absurd)

(People who are not minorities usually dont come close to understanding how racism feels; I look and sound "white" and it was always troubling to see how my dad who doesn't look or sound "white" was treated relative to me; it's painful to see all the microaggressions that my friends deal with on a daily basis (in a place as liberal as socal) and to see comments like this trying to invalidate the damage done because of copouts like historical context is incredibly disheartening because it makes me realize how far away we are from the point where we no longer treat people like second class citizens because of their grouping)
I don't agree with the GP's point but I do agree with the defence against your counterargument. The GP clearly stated "owning land" - you might consider other forms of ownership a logical extension but that wasn't the context of the GP's point and thus you're being a little disingenuous to argue it in that way (one could even say you presented a "straw man argument").
Here are the five (5) reasons to set ongoing feedback to improve your team performance and engagement to boost a company's growth:

. Increase retention
. Improve performance
. Motivate employee
. Continuous learning
. Increase engagement

65% of employees said they wanted more feedback. But unfortunately, only 58% of managers think they give enough feedback.
PIC10F200 in 8 pin DIP is about 41 pence (~50 cents) in 1-off here in the UK; great for quick hacks (e.g. I just used one as a 60KHz clock generator). The IDE is free, works on Windows/Linux/Mac and there's an online version too.
Oops, my calculation was way off (missed a kilo-prefix somewhere), we'd need to cut and store about the entire rainforest per year. So, this is obviously not possible as an all-around solution but might help with some Gigatonnes..
we need to introduce her to slip and 300 baud modems
I just compared the two lists, and there aren't many differences: only one of Amazon's top 10 didn't make it onto the SPIEGEL list ("Homo Deus").

The lists are at https://www.amazon.de/charts/2019-08-11/mostread/nonfiction?... https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/bestseller-buecher-belletristi...

It's all German, obviously. And note that Spiegel has at least two different lists, for hardcover and paperback (plus a few more, less relevant).

FWIW I'm surprised by the claim that Spiegel has too much "light-reading" in its bestsellers. The usual charge is that they exclude certain lowbrow titles/categories.
Lyft Faces Sexual Assault Lawsuits That Could Tarnish Image
The world has plenty of organic stupidity, we don't need more.
we need to introduce her to morse code slip and 300 baud modems
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It forever complicates your life as many official correspondences will ask if you've ever been known by a different name, and require you to provide documentation that the change was official and what your previous name was.

It's only a small hassle, and not many people do it as a percentage, but the option is there.
> Isn't it much easier because you have place for many more cells

Don't think space (not the biggest issue here as you say), think weight, power and the ratio.
Anyone familiar the pricing structure of Planet? I couldn't find that on their website.
Dozens of open jobs at VMware for professional / career Open Source positions: https://careers.vmware.com/search-jobs/Open%20Source%20Engin...

Big companies have an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) where community / OSS skills and licensing knowledge mean you can help the company both consume OSS and contribute back to it.
Azerbaïdjan and Afghanistan are two very different countries on a lot of levels.
Fight for your right to tweet and freedom of speech. #FreeDorothy ;-)
The history of disruptive innovations shows that dominant new software platforms tend to emerge around new hardware form factors. So there's probably no room in the market for a new OS for smartphones or laptops. But once AR goggles or quantum computers or something become technically feasible then someone will create a new OS that disrupts the market for Windows / Unix / Android / iOS.
Are you talking from experience?

On the u-bahn everybody is checked. As for anti-social behaviour, it's usually the ones with certain clothing, possibly depicting some symbols or personal appearance that are often targeted.
Yes, crash landing into people, building, trees, and other traffic is a concern. But automation is not enough, we also need standardization and synchronization, because I am not looking forward to a future where the whole sky above a city is filled with random flying objects everywhere. That would be a mess, particularly around/over low-rise buildings, such as in villages, suburbs, and similar neighborhoods. Flying everywhere you want to go might make sense in either densely populated high-rise cities where you could fly and park your car at height, freeing the ground floors for pedestrians, cyclists, nature, recreation, and so on, or for sparse populated areas where there is no-one to be bothered anyway.
The article generalizes and remains superficial in what it asserts.

"AI that fails" currently will improve in the future and is currently being mitigated in use.

Then there's the toothless "dumbed down" section:

"Some artificial intelligence machines and programs are deliberately ‘dumbed-down’. This marks an entirely different take on the term artificial stupidity. By putting spelling errors in typed messages, not adhering to strict grammar and so on, AI seems less intelligent. These (fully intentional) errors are coded into the system with the goal of creating AI that appears human."

The writer than asserts this is actually a good thing because it provides more human-likeness in customer interaction for instance.
Attributing "incapability" to AI because it has the technology has no moral compass is also a platitude. Technology can always be used for bad.

Fact remains, the current AI paradigm provides tremendous economic value and is merely an extension of the economic striving for automation. Harping on AI has become a bit of a trend and the author calls for cynicism but ends up with a pretty toothless analysis.
For simplicity you could have people select categories of items they have (bomber jacket, trench-coat, t-shirt, sweater) and qualifiers for each (warm, waterproof), that way you can create outfits based on the qualifiers and the item type.
I know affected people they got emails from Apple about the recall.
Except this is a made up quote.
I did the same in 8th or 9th grade, but on purpose and I sent a crap ton. The admin stormed in and yanked the laptop out of my hands and revoked my PC privileges for ~3 months. Fun.
That’s not really the key. When ENIAC was first run, several tubes would fail each day—and yes, it was turned on all the time. They addressed these problems by adjusting heater currents. In general, there’s a tradeoff here because you don’t want to strip the cathode (which can wear out a tube quickly) and you want good performance from the tube. The on-off cycle effect on filaments is also largely due to surge currents with a cold tube, at least for typical designs, and there are various techniques to limit the surge currents which will extend tube life.
At many airports you can see the x-ray images of the bags and devices as they are scanned/checked.

In my experience there is always a detailed image of the inside of laptops. Color-coded according to material type/density and clearly showing the location of batteries, etc.
1 Mega = 1000 Kilo

So a price of $9000 per MWh is $9 per KWh.
the trend is for corporations to keep large cash reserves, essentially they are "extreme hoarders" in the financial sense. it comes with all the negatives that physical hoarding comes with
If it falls off that axle is only dropping 20cm though, instead of however high this thing flies. Plus, wheels are a lot more solid than props.
> ... people being racist or homophobic without ever meeting people of the "other group".

In my limited experience, this is the norm, not an exception.
Fuck me: iOS’ Notes app censors handwritten swears
An extension of an application of mine would be perfect to do this.

Thought about it for a long time, bit I'm have other priorities
Why exactly?

Everyone knows they will have noise issues and thus cannot be used in tightly populated areas, but there are miriads of other places and usage cases for them.
I wonder if periodic jubilee style debt forgiveness as in ancient societies could help clear the stagnation of money flow implied by this article
Yes, of course. I was using "space" as a more general term, as in "capacity". Should have been more clear.
You're better off sticking with the long established names of your culture. My parents picked really boring names (as I thought) for our family. We were named after our grandparents. We used to regularly chastise them for this when we were young. Now I'm glad of it. I could have been called Calvyn.
Already thought about it, there is money to be earned with it.

Monthly subscription for the connector = automisation
Judging by this thread, this seems like the norm. (Social) media makes it seem like it isn't.
Many people experienced a personal economic crash. Otherwise there wouldn't be so much talk about gentrification.

It's easy to say "the crash never comes or never came". Everything seems to be fine.

79 years ago, there was a huge war in Europe killing Millions people. Yet here today everything is fine, without history lesson you wouldn't even necessarily know it ever happened.

So was there a "big crash" 79 years ago? After all, things are fine now.
Yeah. If the thing is not at least in an X8 configuration (2 independent motors and props for each edge) with enough thrust to safely land you in X4, it should never have passengers on board.

The car shown in OP is one motor/esc/prop failure away from killing whoever is inside it.
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It wasn't about anything new about the show, though, nor about anything meant to shock.
For a literature review of Artificial Stupidity: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03644
Thomson Reuters Prize Offers $250k and Partnership to Reg and LegalTech Startups
So why is said oil and gas industry not investing in solar power themselves? I mean they will be left behind at some point if they don't catch up now.

And whatever happened to the free market? If an investor wants to plop down a solar collector farm somewhere in Texas' vast lands, what's stopping him? The government?
I mean, of course, anything near cars is unsafe. People, bikes, animals, anything. Cars kill 3 people every single day in Australia.
https://www.facebook.com/612Fund/

This fund is the most popular among locals.
> but it's never the reader who has to change.

Well to be fair the top book was about how to eat correctly. Isn't that about how the reader has to change?
Artificial intelligence is certainly no match for natural stupidity..
I wish this was available in English :(
To even it out across space already exists. Temperature differences generate a force that vastly outnumbers our own energy production capabilities (including nukes). It's called wind.
Obviously, it's missing in the title is the point, not the unit used.
You may be mistaking "kontrolliert werden" for "being controlled" when it actually means "being checked".

Reminds me of when American friends were SHOCKED by a political poster that quipped "Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser" - they thought it meant "Trust is good, control is better", but it actually means "Trust is good, but checking things is better"
Tunnel of Eupalinos
I live at the base of a fairly hefty hill near a Dominos... they're ebikes! The hills are no challenge :) I see them every day.
> Naming things is hard. Naming people is harder. Many (most?) expecting parents spend hours researching names online or in "1000 baby name ideas"-books. My parents love my name. I hate it.

Did your parents not give you multiple names?

My parents gave me multiple names, and I've done the same with my child. We gave our child a relatively short, practical name, with the other 2 names being longer and more "luxury". Same as I have. I also grew up with a mother who used her second name. The main annoyance I have is that my first name is common (therefore chance there's another person with same name around), and native variation in my country yet not easily pronounceable in English. I just use a different variation or shorten it.

As for the last name, I find the old Nordic way interesting. Iceland apparently still uses it, see [1] for details.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name
But we detect things with particles other than just light.
There are services that sell upvotes - such as [1]. Presumably while also maintaining a large enough set of plausible-looking profiles, IP addresses, browser fingerprints etc to bypass upvote ring detection.

So you don't have to pay high-profile influencers, who might be expensive or give away that it's a paid campaign.

A marketing company comes up with an adequate post, posts it on one site and gets it upvoted, and with a bit of luck there you have it, it gets reposted onto other sites and maybe even ends up in conventional media.

I strongly suspect the "we get it, you vape" meme was brought-and-paid-for by the cigarette industry by these means.

You can hire ad agencies to make fake terrorist videos and promote racial division [2] so it's not like advertisers are too ethical to do this type of stuff.

[1] https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bell_Pottinger&ol...
Why do you think Blazing Saddles couldn't be made today, when Django was successful?
agreed. you have to be very careful taking out your hook.
This reminds me of a story an older colleague told me. In ye olden days (60s or 70s) they used to have locks to fit over dial telephones, and this colleagues dad fitted a lock as punishment for running up large phone bills. You don't need to use the dial on dial telephones though, you can just use the hang up button to create the right pulse lengths, so that's what she did.

Teenagers it seems don't really change that much.
I can confirm that it applies to other countries of the region. I think it's a result of this wild fascination with America that came after the fall of Soviet Union. People westernised quickly and without much reflection upon the process and are giving idiotic names to their kids. "Brajan" (phonetic for Brian) and "Dżesika" (Jessica) are already memes in Poland.
There is less of a relation between heat and solar intensity (and therefore solar cell output) than one might think.

A cloud-less summer day in Texas offers the same potential solar energy no matter the temperature. And as you go higher latitudes, temperature drops far faster than irradiance. Which is why solar power in southern states is only moderately more productive than in New England or, for example, Germany.
Flaring gas normalizes the pressure inside a mixed well, allowing oil to be pumped at atmospheric pressure. That's a much cheaper way of getting to the oil than any of the alternatives (which basically require working with a high pressure right at the wellhead, a very dangerous practice). As for why the companies don't just harvest the gas first then get the oil, gas is harder to transport. The places I worked with flare stacks were well off the beaten path, oil was stored in 400 barrel tanks and brought out with trucks. There's no such system for gas, hence why it's considered a nuisance by a lot of drillers.
> the tweet source confirms it was sent from the device

I seem to recall that the source can be easily spoofed.