skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to parrot about marriage - "license and registration are for cars."

But, getting married (after 7yrs with SO) had 2 powerful effects:

1. The power of social contract as a signal to family, friends, society etc is huge. It's also really nice to celebrate with loved ones. There's not enough ceremony in our lives as it is...

2. The power of agreement with SO had an immensely positive impact on our relationship. Words have power, agreements have even more so. Just choose carefully and intentionally the agreement that you're entering with your partner.
It's bizarre that Calendar was set up to allow invitations from non-contacts in the first place.
You would not, no country is going to a allow a bank without a banking licence to set up shop.
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Core Animation wasn't integrated into the OS window server until somewhere around Mac OS X 10.7. Before then, Core Animation on Mac OS X ran in your own process, so there wasn't really an advantage to using it over just doing your compositing yourself.
The two parties weren’t antagonistic until after Sun’s death, Sun was an avid socialist even if Chiang Kai Shek wasn’t.
Micro-transaction payments are probably a long way away, for non-tech reasons. Briefly, you might have to deal with collecting and remitting sales taxes or VAT in any jurisdiction in which you have paying readers.

Until there is some sort of agreement among the relevant jurisdictions to greatly reduce the pain of this, direct micro-transactions with your site's visitors are likely to be a bureaucratic nightmare.
There are other ways of parsing text that are worthy of practice. Skimming or speed reading can be applied to all sorts of visual stimuli, including prose and code. Also reading bottom up is very handy, especially when reading say the economist.
Israel too.

Link from them doing this in 2010. I highly doubt it has slowed down or stopped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LofScCiJT4c

The question still remains, are corporations doing this actively/knowingly or is it only governments that are doing the shilling.
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The issue is that you have “shared” service limits between Dev, QA, and production. With separate accounts you can have service limits per environment. If you are worried about limiting dev resources, it’s a lot easier to do it per account using an organization.

How do you propose automating resource creation if not using either CloudFormation or an equivalent tool.

For instance, Parameter Store and Lambda have account level service limits. For lambda it’s 2000 concurrent instances. Do you really want all of your environments sharing that limit.

Parameter Store has a strict unchangeable limit per account. Do you want your dev environment affecting production?
Google didn't have to open source it. They open sourced it knowing it would encourage adoption.
Verbio offers an ASR with built-in grammars, which is what you are asking for. Deepspeech is hot garbage in my experience.
Where have I said it's for privacy? Google is actually pretty good for privacy, as seen from the inside. I'm using it for private things at work to not entangle between corp and private and at home for consistency. I also have been using Firefox way longer than Chrome.
I used to read a Financial Times article from either 2011 or 2012 (can’t remember exactly) where some Israeli military person was confirming that Israel was using what we now call shill accounts (he used a different, more pleasantly sounding term). If Israel does it I’m pretty sure Russia and China do it, too.

(I don’t have a direct link to said FT article, just a photo I took of said military person’s quote which is somewhere on one of my computers)
I remember using window functions to create complex data outputs for data transformation pipelines. I didn't even know what they were but postgres just started supporting them and it looked like the right solution at the time.

I don't find a whole of use for them now but, I believe simply being aware they exist and an idea of what they do is easy enough to research and apply to any project you are working on. This is from a analyst and dev perspective.
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Oh yikes it's not left/right symmetric!

Do you have a direct description of the algorithm? Extracting it from those forum posts seems a bit difficult.
The irony here seems to be that the Chinese government seems to have discovered (or long known and recently harnessed) the power of celebrity culture for advertising.

George Monbiot on that theme (outside China) recently:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/20/celebr...

As for the lack of sophistication: we tend to presume evil super-geniuses. What in fact makes for audacious acts (evil or otherwise) is disinhibition. The ability to act with immunity or impunity, or acting without regard or knowledge for possible consequences, is what tends to distinguish normal from both evil and heroic acts. When doing evil, the consequence is harm done to others, heroism and bravery are disregard to help others.

Ignorance, ideology, and legal shields are all forms of providing that immunity or impunity.
> "Privacy violation" is a huge, gigantic category of all kinds of things.

This discussion is about intentional, systematic, large-scale violations of privacy by large corpotations. You pointing out (essentially) that sometimes your one neighbour tells your other neighbour how they heard this rumour about you is simply an attempt to derail the conversation, not a relevant argument.

> You don't get jail time just because someone claimed offense, you have to prove harm, and fit the punishment to the crime.

That's just nonsense. Talking away people's stuff without their consent is a crime. Noone has to prove any harm for you to be punished for theft. If the theft also harmed someone, they obviously can demand that you compensate them for their loss, but that is a completely separate issue.

Yes, the punishment has to fit the crime. And if you were the head of a multi-billion dollar corporation that made money by organizing the stealing of low-value goods from every person on the planet, that punishment presumably would be quite something in order to fit the crime.
> What does that mean.

It doesn't mean anything. This 'trpc' account is the resident Brave hater; every HN story about Brave features trpc making stuff up or just impugning Brave as a scam.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830663
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19980046
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19832464
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19615220
For speakers of Romanic languages, the definition of this word will be more obvious than the definition of the word "chew".
I don't quite see why you think transporting wafers 170 micrometers thick is unreal or in some way extreme. 170 micrometers is the same thickness as 135 gsm art paper.

edit - Also, 170 micrometers is positively beefy compared to what is coming down the line. 1 micrometer thick flexible cells have already been developed - https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/06/20/New-flexible-sol... -
It's a design decision that is gaining a lot of traction lately.
> Again, who cares if it was just your shoe size? We should not send someone to jail for leaking who your favorite pop star is. Did it, or could it, do harm?

All personal information makes fraud and blackmail easier. Even the seemingly mundane.

I won’t go into details because the relevant law already exists.

This brings me to my second point:

> Of course it's to increase profits, you think they're doing it for fun? Did we stop living in a capitalist economy and nobody told me?

Even in a capitalist society, doing illegal things for money is generally considered worse than doing illegal things without the expectation of getting paid.
Why not just get an ad blocker?
> This is the lazy and ignorant method of dismissing other people's arguments.

First, please observe the principle of charity when posting.

> Shill or not, what does it matter if what they state are facts?

Because it is entirely possible to tell large lies using small facts.

Because propaganda and disinformation are actual, real things and are very difficult to combat once unleashed in the commons.

Because the "let the marketplace of ideas figure it out" excuse to not police propaganda and disinformation attacks is hopelessly naive at best, and deliberately ineffective at worst.
>A system which showed people to each other in a totally randomized way would still drastically increases the number of people you can superficially evaluate

Is this really the ultimate goal for online dating? To expose us to a plethora of options in order to choose which one is best fit. It reminds of how Hot or Not could be seen as an early type of online dating that exposed us to randomized people, although without the option of being able to communicate with them beyond.
I have also had purely factual statement on companies downvoted in a way that defies any rational story.
I like to spend time "deciphering" the extremely carefully worded, and innuendo ridden press releases of the central government. Much of a riddle, add to that I am not a native speaker.

Internal edicts of the government leak all the time, but they also not far from official PR. Officials themselves have to decipher party's esoteric slang.
Honest question: what, in you opinion, is the state-of-the-art approach? Something like BeyondCorp?
It's absurd that you think advertisers can't generate this information:

1. Get addresses of mental care clinics and offices.

2. Geofence addresses

3. Correlate devices that visited geofence addresses (using LiveRamp data) with devices that saw your ads on Mental Health sites.

4. Bonus, look at the path on the pages to figure out what disease they were viewing when your ad was displayed if you weren't already targeting specific page content.
how much battery storage at what point in the system would have prevented this blackout?
Obviously the big cloud players offer their own APIs and SDKs (for a price), but there are a few other solutions worth looking at.

Facebook has open sourced some pre-trained models: https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter

Picovoice has some smaller, more efficient models capable of running on edge devices:
https://github.com/Picovoice

Full ASR does require quite large models and datasets, but you don't need nearly that much power or data to fine-tune a model for your own domain.
Well to paraphase, governments are people too.. most middle class folks in China are nominally CCP members themselves.. operationally CCP maps to a corporation in org chart then a democracy of course..
> HIPAA only keeps healthcare providers from sharing your information. It's not an omnibus shield for your health information.

Maybe not, but GDPR sure is.
There's a delicious mushroom I regularly pick/eat and that is very popular throughout most of the world (Amanita sec. caesarae) that requires five different significant criteria to identify. If any of those criteria are different, the mushroom you're seeing is going to make you sick or kill you. Who figured this out? It was fairly easy for me to learn in the age of the Internet, but who were these generations of people who figured that out? Seems insane.
The Big Short’s Michael Burry Explains Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs
That's interesting. On my (modern i7) laptop, I notice Firefox is much less resource intensive than chrome. Maybe it just thrashes when there's not many cores available?
> (Disclosure: been roleplaying online for over 15 years.)

Where? I’ve stopped long time ago and miss it a bit. Care to recommend any sources?
I think I don't mind lack types as much in immutable languages. Clojure and Erlang are like that. But they're also both simple languages with simple semantics.

One issue I have with Clojure is when I have to work with nested datatypes to perform transformations. It's just too hard to keep the shape of that data in your head. Types help with that.

Another important thing is modelling business domains with types. By this I really just mean record and variant types and not some advanced type-fu. It really helps seeing what kind of data your application manages.
"undisciplined sharing of the photo"...How do you know this was the case? Let's think about this for a second...This wasn't a picture of a picture. This was the image in the brief. This image would have needed to be shared onto a different network that has access to Twitter or a phone with twitter access. That image would have needed to be removed from the brief, shared onto that system and then tweeted. You think this wasn't planned? The President isn't going to go through so many steps just to tweet a photo himself. This was done with staff who knows the classification.
Amen.

And congratulations.

But you are not a useless worm and this is not a piece of dust.
What? Private banks and finance companies, for-profit companies. They benefited from not-private, taxpayer-funded government bailouts.
This sounds like a naive dream.

Connection with the universe does not change political structures.
Depends on your ISP. There are cables from Europe and the Americas to China but they are very expensive and congested. HK is also congested but there is much more bandwidth and it's a lot cheaper.
I use Firefox on my non-Android devices, but sadly I have found that Android Firefox is so slow and clunky that even without ads it's less usable than Chrome with ads. Mozilla knows this, too: they have a total rewrite in beta right now, and it's great, but it doesn't support plugins yet.
I wish there was somewhere I could explicitly opt-in/sign-up for ads targeted at my mental health problems...or my problems in general.

As someone who hates shopping, I've been really disappointed with the quality of ad targeting for the past decade.

The ability to select categories of ads has improved things. But I wish I could just write some rule-based criteria and then take 3 hours, look through a bunch of ads, and give them ratings in order to train personalized machine learning models.
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Thanks to the feedback provided by HN and the Startup School community I iterated ShipIT.

So, both communities get a Product Cycle review for Free!

This review is often based on your GitHub repository or profile, but if you want; I can review other cycles (not automated yet).

Feel free to request a review or connect ShiptIT with your github repo.
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Marriage should be encouraged and taxes are a good way to do that. Children born out of wedlock and/or raised by single parents are generally much more disadvantaged and less well-adjusted than their peers being raised by functional nuclear families
One reason is it offers legal protections so a disadvantaged mate isn't left with nothing. Especially in the case of a couple where one isn't working, perhaps to care for children.
The American Revolution produced a slave state. There might have been voting among landed gentry but it was not anything I'd call democracy in 2019
The /s was supposed to mean sarcasm, however that is probably the direction that companies will try to take the mental health profession.
A close friend of mine had her mom and step dad married for easily 25 years and they both hated each other. He hated her kids (that lived with them) she hated his kids that were weed dealers (tbf so were her kids thats how I knew them lol). She gambled online all night or went to bingo, while he powered through a 30 pack on a Tuesday chillin on the couch.

They had to stay together because they couldn't afford to live without the other. They were already in a small ass apartment, they didn't have assets to liquidate. They were slaves to each other because they needed the money.

Unfortunately some of my close friends are stuck in a similar situation. Luckily they like each other more than the case above and have pretty much always struggled financially. But it's clear they need each others income to survive, and they just had a kid. Hoping they can maintain the love.
Why would anyone want to do that?

It seems to me like humans have a basic desire/need to see their own creativity come to life and to truly take ownership over that creation without other people meddling. This human need largely goes unserved in our economic system which, in my mind, explains why someone would opt to work on open source software on a weekend writing more code, after having spent a 40-hour-workweek having written code, or to write a book about marketing, after having spent a 40-hour-workweek having worked in marketing, etc.

So, if you are going to go to the trouble of writing a novel, how on earth would it occur to you to not avail yourself of the opportunity to satisfy that need?
You can run for office. Of course, you need to convince enough other people to agree with you.
People ate cheese before they drank milk. I can't look up the source right now, but the gist of it was that cheese and yogurt are older than lactose tolerance in humans.
This.

The article quotes DeepSpeech, wavenets, LSTMs of all sorts; essentially, all the neural networks that scale terribly. DeepSpeech for example is pretty heavy and requires a decent GPU to get anywhere near a realtime factor of 1.

Meanwhile ASR through HMM's consistently hits realtime factors sub-1 and can run on small CPUs. e.g. the default models Kaldi ships with outperform DeepSpeech on a lot of modern examples, and are exponentially faster.

Moreover, training these HMM's is something that is feasible for a normal developer. Training newer models requires data of scale and quality (iirc Mozilla's models are trained on Common Speech which is an enormous crowd sourced dataset, and Google's wavenet models use an internal dataset of very high quality and quantity).

Until the models get more practically achievable, ASR for average people will probably continue to be dominated by Kaldi, Sphinx etc
Ask HN: Would we benefit from a more opinionated JavaScript?
Too much opinion or the lack of it, causes developers to love or hate javascript. What are the pros and cons of a more opinionated javascript?

Rust and Golang are more opinionated languages and makes working in them a more intuitive for someone new to the language though with a steeper learning curve. The 10 ways to do something in javascript is sometimes more annoying than useful.
I’ve seen many comments here on HN pining for an update/successor to the SE. Hopefully this phone will satisfy that demand.
Investors will give Okta a pass on profits as long as revenue speeds ahead
205F is the ideal brewing temperature, and is just a snip under boiling (212F). Serving temperature is entirely a function of waiting time from brewing, and is commonly between 165-185 everywhere. For take out shops it tends to be higher as there is the expectation that users have a delay before they drink it, and that many add cream or milk.

Again, if you buy a coffee at McDonalds today, or at Starbucks, or virtually anywhere else, you'll get a coffee that can be as hot or hotter. It's a hot beverage.
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Ive even created an account to answer this. It's true that most of these companies have cultural values trainings and a bunch of policies, but it's naive to assume that the hired top 1% will follow these policies or even take them seriously. They are smart enough to not get caught (as if anybody cares to catch them), but that's about it.

The today's employment model is a no strings attached contract: the employment can be terminated for no reason at any moment without a notice. This is a double edged sword: not only it gives the company flexibility to fire anyone they don't like, it makes employees mostly indifferent about the company as long as it cuts the paycheck. A typical software engineer does a 4 year gig and when the stock vesting plan ends, he moves on to another gig. There is no reason to take seriously policies of a company he worked at 10 years ago. And regarding evaluating promotions thru the cultural values lens. Yawn. There's no money in promotions.

For a cult to be successfull, its members need to be bound by something more serious than a company values training they watch once a year.
A broken promise was still a promise at one point.
I think that boat sailed a long time ago :D
Ask HN: Do You Use Boilerplates?
I've been doing preparation research for a new SaaS product, and as a solo founder/designer/developer, I'm always looking for ways to save time and effort.

There are, of course, thousands of different boilerplates for parts of stacks, and some for full stacks, but hardly any for a complete functioning SaaS, including billing pages and functionality (think invoice receipts), account & team management, email notifications, etc. etc.—all the stuff you probably don't need to build yourself. I'm having an especially hard time finding something like that for a serverless React application (database as a service & lambdas instead of a traditional backend).

Do you use boilerplates for new products? Have you ever paid for one?
Your spouse also gets to collect half of your social security benefit (with no impact to you) if that is higher than their benefit if you were married at least 10 years.
That's what I was thinking too. Extra diff changes in a merge commit is often hard to notice
There's plenty of people here who have done some fantastic math that throws red flags at this "I'm going to save the world" project. And each of you are beautiful people.

What gets to me, these overly complicated dehumidifiers keep popping up every 6 months and make a big buzz. And each time, "Look at this brand new thing that no one has ever thought to do!" That's the part driving me crazy. It's the same investment sham, over and over. Slightly different method, but the same idea "We tested a dehumidifier in a place with high humidity. We collected water. Throw money at us." I give it props for at least being done in Arizona. But Arizona has higher humidity than a lot of the other water problem areas in the world.

But I'm the asshole because I don't say "I'm curious how they're going to overcome the humidity problem."

No, they're not going to solve it. They're going to disappear. Why? Because they took the money and ran. Like the hundreds of other assholes who keep coming up with these middle school "I know how to save the world" ideas.
I translate 'marriage' to 'mature monogamous partnership' and I think scientific research shows that people who have a happy long-term partnership live longer than lonely single individuals. Perhaps especially true if children are part of that partnership.

I don't think simply being married equates to happiness though. The institution is probably irrelevant when held up to the quality of the actual relationship.
^ this is just not true.
C'mon, everyone knows AJ is controlled opposition.
I am so glad that this violation is being exposed. Well done Brave!

I invite any developer / blogger to check out https://CodeFund.io. We are a non-tracking 100% open source ethical ad platform that focuses on funding open source.
That was an utter and complete failure in every sense of the word. And in any case the reasons behind it had nothing to do with a desire for democracy
If so, that seems to reveal a pent-up desire for divorce that was suppressed by making it legally difficult. Having the government force people to stay together when they don’t want it seems like a bad thing.
Modulo taxes, how is a DINK couple worse off than two individuals each living in their own place? There's significant economies of scale.