skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
97% accuracy claimed when agonal breathing occurs, which is 50% of cardiac arrests.

the most common locations for an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is in a patient’s bedroom, where no one is likely around or awake to respond

The system can call emergency services.

That’s kind of huge. Fund my startup?
> Each participant in the network chooses a set of validators, servers specifically configured to participate actively in consensus, run by different parties who are expected to behave honestly most of the time.

maybe you're fine with that, i'm not and everybody who values bitcoin aren't either. it's the kind of thing that PoW solves and PoS doesn't. every PoS system i've seen just obfuscates this glaring hole instead of admitting that there's no way around it - you can't know which chain is genuine without trusting third party. in Bitcoin you can, or at least it is trivial to detect when something malicious is happening. and i'm not talking about correctness here, correctness is trivial, you don't even need to bring it up.
Can PHP or Rails do websockets or concurrency out of the box? The last Rails app I worked on required lots of glue to make this happen.
I don't agree 100% with the author, but I do wholeheartedly agree that the relevance of FSF movement definitely peaked after the ratification of GPLv3. After which, the relevance and political visibility of the movement has decreased significantly as we moved from PC/Laptops being our primary computing device to smartphones.
Good excerpt below on interplanetary travel:

FC: What do you think of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pursuing interplanetary travel and Mars and moon colonies because they don’t seem to believe that we can save our home planet?

YC: [Laughs] I think it’s pretty silly. And not just silly, but it’s really a shame. The monies that are going to space exploration should be used to save our own planet right now. We’re in a triage situation. Things are so grim. It’s World War III. I lived through World War II, and I remember what the country had to do to mobilize. You couldn’t buy sugar. You couldn’t buy meat.
Agreed, that was a total jerk comment.
This reminds me of the powerlifters who wear ridiculous elastic shirts so that they can bench press 50 pounds more. It may make some songs possible to play that weren't before, but it's the polar opposite of cool.
Not an mmwave radar guy as well, but afaik, this little chip is quite capable of counting how many people are IN a room, if they're standing or laying down, etc, but of course, without the granular control of its factory NUI [natural user interface] proximity calibration.

And here I'm not even considering if this solid state radar chip cross reference its data with Wifi radio signals or the dot projector, boosting its ML recognition capabilities to be able to "blob" (and possibly identify) moving things as far as 50m.
Painful compared to other countries which send you "this is what we have on you" and you say "yep" and that's it.
Yeah, nobody has the right to diagnose anybody with "having mental issues", and if the author knows more about Stallman personally, it isn't his place to bring that up here, IMO.

Also, "poorly socialized because nobody taught him manner" sounds subjective and I feel has no place in a piece like this.

Other than that, I think the author has mostly valid and excellent points.
Geology and cosmology don't change because you talk about how you think they work. Adam Smith wrote a book about how he thought the market worked and then mercantilism disappeared. It's not the same.
One solution i can think of it to not use the title.
Rather use the backlink text. Found it more useful and descriptive.

This is involve crawling irrelevant page or probably the whole internet.
Adding a data point with Mexico:

All invoices are digital. Every person who gets a TaxId also gets a Private/Public keypair and generating invoices means signing the document with that key. The amazing thing is that now accountants talk about the XML, which is the legal representation of the invoice.

As a result, every year if you file your taxes, you go I to the government freely provided website , get into your account and most of the data is there for the exercise, including deducted money that you can get back.

If you are a standard worker earning less than certain amount (very sensible, so the vast majority of workers fall in there) you don't even have to file your taxes.

That's one thing that is good about this country.
Yeah, people have been using things like Mint for ages, too, and it's not like professional accountants hosting Quickbooks on their ancient Windows boxen is any less terrifying from a security perspective than a ledger SaaS startup...

Personally, I'm likely to stick with Gnucash until or unless it becomes completely unsupported, but Intuit needs some real competition and it would be great to have more choice available.

gledger looks like a neat project, will check it out!
Never underestimate how much people will spend on fancy hats (See Fortnight & Dota)
Corporations that have paid over $9 billion in wage theft penalties since 2000....https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdfs/...
Just don't be too quick! They'll rate limit you if you're not using their official API.

I had a book business with someone that I met who was looking for help making his repricer better. Amazon's API only returns the 20 lowest prices. If we sell FBA and there aren't any FBA on the lowest 20 prices then it won't reprice to match 'lowest FBA'. It was pretty simple to reprice our inventory when it was less than 1000 books. When we hit 5k+ it became a nightmare.

Ahh well it all ended in flames anyway because he hasn't remit state sales taxes for 6 months now :) Great welcome home gift.
Trying to use a phone with the sensor on the back just showed me how often I'm unlocking my phone while it's laying on a surface or how I always pinch the phone out of my pocket by the chin because that's all the room I have with pants that fit. Also, I can't access it when it's mounted on my bike which is such a serious showstopper I don't know how it made it out of the brainstorming phase.

I found it to be the worst place to put it.
Too obvious it may be, but it seems to be another bullshit media campaign that's worked. It keeps coming back. It's farcical to think of criticising Israel or their illegal occupation is anti-semitism.
This is like the microwave problem at work though.

My food only needs 30 seconds to microwave, but Slow Joe brought thanksgiving to work and needs to use the microwave for 4 minutes. We have 2 microwaves M1-2.

With your system this is what happens:

- Slow Joe blocks M1 with a 4 minute meal

- Several 30-60 second users cycle through M2

- Another Slow Joe blocks M2

- The queue grows until M1 is free

- The feedback loop gets worse the next iteration

Basically, you need a dedicated "express lane" for quick people to use. If there are no quick people in the queue, then a slow joe can use it. Otherwise you need to increase N such that there is always at least one unblocked lane, which might not be viable.
Whatsapp stipulates that users are responsible for ensuring that their phonebook contacts consented to having their details uploaded to facebook inc.
Doesn't work for me. The file scraper crashes with the default Firefox Selenium driver, and with the Chrome driver it immediately quits, falsely reporting that it successfully downloaded all the files.
Maybe because Google has been mostly trustworthy and Facebook as not? AFAIK Google has never shared any user data. They've taken privacy seriously since day one. They do gather lots of data but they don't share it. Facebook on the other hand has been caught multiple times sharing anything and everything.
Assuming the flaw hasn't been discovered because no one logically puts a protective cover over that button. What if you did place the same protective cover over that button and try? Could it be hijacked in that manner?
Doing this for 7 years, have yet to seen a problem throwing more servers/caching/database locks can't handle. I'm not saying those problems don't exist, I'm just saying it's not that common. Agree about the tone, was having a rough morning (plus: why does every Rails thread turn into a "you should really try Elixir!" , yeah we don't like our stack to be constantly shat on by Elixir guys)
The really relentless innovators would never work for your startup. They’d have their own.
New 0-Day Flaw Affecting Most Android Phones Being Exploited in the Wild
Another day, another revelation of a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability, this time in the world's most widely used mobile operating system, Android.
What's more? The Android zero-day vulnerability has also been found to be exploited in the wild by the Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group—infamous for selling zero-day exploits to governments—or one of its customers, to gain control of their targets' Android devices.
Discovered by Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone, the details and a proof-of-concept exploit for the high-severity security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2215, has been made public today—just seven days after reporting it to the Android security team.
Announcement email: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=157132045926047&w=2
Somehow these enterprise people have turned Kubernetes, which basically was an advanced job scheduler for compute resources, into a unnecessary complex monster (just look at the LOC of kube-api). And that's still pretty decent compared to all the other projects in the ecosystem (looking at OpenShift, Istio ...). I really don't believe a lot of people have a valid use case for these projects like OAM when you look at the complexity, failure cases and administrative tasks these systems introduce.

The one of the main design ideas behind the original Borg system (which Kubernetes is inspired by) was utilisation of resources and simplicity. Now we just stuff all the compute power we got with unnecessary proxy systems that provide minimal value. I truly believe we have lost our way.
Writing things down helps people learn, so states mandate cursive in schools
> why these should be allowed to exist

Because that's the default state, in our society at least. If you want something banned/made illegal/etc you need a compelling argument for why it shouldn't be allowed to exist.
I love my dog. But I also love to travel. And I just feel so bad leaving her with someone else or alone during the day sometimes.
> probably due to the Linux users complaining

For a while a lot of non-aligned countries were mandating the exclusive use of open-source software by government agencies, because the idea of their government being beholden to a US corporation was anathema. I suspect this was the motivation behind eliminating the Microsoft-only government service.

I haven't heard much about that open-source requirement lately. I suspect the Long Reach has been making quiet moves behind the scenes, and the ascendancy of neofascist regimes in many of those countries will do what fascist regimes always do (ie. cater to the cartel making up the fasces).
good materials. Me like.
‘I’m being jailed for four emails from 12 years ago’
I also want to brag about Tax-On-Web for Belgium.
Development started over 15 years ago, it's been steadily improving over the years, it even works for linux users, it already fills in all tax details they already know (like wages)

I love it!
The bizarre rise of fast food fused with snack foods
UK phone number transfers between networks are handled through a Yahoo Group
This guy just doesn't get it.

> That’s because Stallman’s world was and still is, stuck in the 80s: computers are physical devices that users can own and keep in their homes. For that use case, the four freedoms, the definition of source code and installation tooling introduced in GPLv3 made a lot of sense. Nothing else seemed to matter to him. The decision for the Linux kernel not to adopt GPLv3 wasn’t considered a problem and it was often downplayed by FSF leadership.

...

> Folks closest to the FSF community were so myopic about completing GNU for Stallman’s laptop that nobody did anything about the big picture. I never heard anyone at the FSF ask what it means for a digital society that Facebook has been legally using free software to develop algorithms that modify human behavior. Quite the opposite, the problem was javascript in the browser for apps like Gmail.

The copyleft movement/FSF was always consistently focused on working within the legal framework of copyright. That's important, because the Supreme Court decided in the 1960s and 1970s that turning over custody of information to a third party essentially abrogates your rights/expectations to privacy. (See: Third party doctrine)

Does that make sense? Not to most modern technology practitioners. But there is nothing that you can do (outside of contract and market forces) to ensure control of information that you place in custody of a third party. Those "1980s" principles matter because that is the only thing that the law recognizes. When the law evolves and figures out how to deal with "virtual" custody of information, those same principles will be applied.
having mental issues is not an accusation tho... why would it be? let's not reiterate the stigma. we should be more aware and tolerant of mental issues (or neurodiversity, if you prefer the sjw world).
That only works until your first outage :)

K8s isnt bulletproof and requires significant care. Not to mention constant upgrades
How did office hours between the two batches go? That was left out of the blog post.

Similar to when you're in the lunch round during a job interview are told "oh don't worry, lunch is not an interview, just relax", I imagine attending office hours after you got rejected last time is in the same boat - it's another hidden interview. It's possible that there were indicators during that time period that indicated how the next batch might go for you guys :/.

Best of luck regardless
I have many general English speech recognition models for wav2letter trained on ~3000 hours of non-switchboard audio including 1k from Common Voice, and on several datasets I have collected or found myself.

Common Voice has optional fields for age and accent in the dataset, but I don't use them. I just toss everything into a single bin.

I've had users with many accents (including e.g. thick UK, India, Germany), report that my 3k hour model including Common Voice performed significantly better for their accent than a librispeech-only model, and also much better than the older macOS speech recognition English models. (And how a model feels for a user in the real world is something you can't really get by just testing against switchboard)

I can't afford switchboard, so I'm very glad that datasets like Common Voice, librispeech, and TED-LIUM exist. I hope at some point I can get the model running in a website, it really does feel pretty good to use.

For Talon we developed a custom speech collection site, that has a lot of prompts we control: https://speech.talonvoice.com - I tried it out with the TIMIT prompt list initially, but right now I'm recording dense command-like speech, which I've found some of my more experienced users are able to say naturally/quickly, not like they're reading from a prompt.

I don't have a separate verification process, because I've had a lot of success with a process that automatically prunes inputs that "obviously make the model much worse". The site is basically designed to record as fast as possible, with keyboard shortcuts to go to the next item and start/stop recording so you can almost record nonstop, which ends up being slightly less forced than just reading one sentence.

The site is pretty reusable, I previously used it at noise.talonvoice.com to record "noise recognition" samples. Here's the source of the current speech site, if someone wants to spin up a common-voice-lite for a specific domain it's pretty easy (just need to run a python app somewhere): https://github.com/talonvoice/noise/tree/speech-dataset
Well yes of course they do. Any modern web dev stack does concurrency out of the box. In Rails you use a web server like Unicorn if multi process is good enough or puma if you want mutli threads as well. PHP has apache modules that do the same thing.
OpenBSD 6.6 release, Oct 17, 2019
> All around him, not a single voice could argue strongly enough about the Google issue that later would become the *-as-a-service loophole and cloud issue.

Not an expert in the matter, but isn't this loophole exactly what the AGPL [1] is about ?

Maybe we can argue that to be effective it should be the default instead of regular GPL, but I have never seen people being too fond of it, though things may change now that developers have become more sensitive to the matter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_Lice...
Having read the short article it's pretty clear that he was simply saying that if you have an indoor nest camera it would be proper etiquette to tell your guests that they are being recorded on your device. From how I read it, he wasn't saying to let your guests know that Nest/Google might be listening.

Personally I'd never have one of these devices in my house but I would appreciate it if my friends gave me a heads up if I was in their house with one.
Not studying enough to get tuition or to short the duration of college. Now I have a substantial debt because it took me too long to finish.
I sort of agree with the pain guys. I'm currently self employed (US) and have to separately pay estimated taxes quarterly. Since I've been doing this, I'm a lot more sensitive to politicians who want to raise my taxes.

Similarly, there is a group in the US whose main goal is to change the law so that employers can't pay your taxes on your behalf. Instead, you would get your full salary, and then have to write a check to pay your taxes. The group believes this would raise tax awareness.
It's always been an incomprehensible blob of every possible opinion at once. Most of the things that are said are not even real opinions people hold. Things are said just to see what kinds of responses it gets. I don't believe it makes sense to try and classify the site as of any political side.
Trustless currency means exactly the opposite of what you think. It means you don't need to trust anyone, because everything can be proven and verified mathematically without any authoritative figure that you'd have to trust. That's why you can trust the system itself.

And I'm sorry, I won't address your other points.
I think what he means is that you leave your fingerprint everywhere without even realizing it so it's the biometric equivalent of asking for your email; a random attacker won't know it but any one with a wee bit of motivation can get it.
y, I agree it's not just Google.

I think allowing any company or government having an open mic/'smart' speaker, essentially bugging your own home/business is just a bad idea.

"I actually am less worried about those (since I turn them off)" - are you sure they are off, had to ask.

I'm not as worried about Netflix/Amazon knowing every movie I watch, product I order or am interested in.

I'm more worried about private conversations and communications being monitored as it applies to freedom of ideas, diverse political movements, freedom to vote and even freedom of religion.
Well, yes, but so is Denmark and Firefox desktop marketshare in that country is down to 4.55%.
Arguably, if you knew that A: there was code in Lisp and B: only one person knew how to support it, they should have either rewritten it while the one who understood it was still there, or had more people learn Lisp, or hired more people who knew Lisp. It shouldn't have been allowed to reach the point where someone quit without anyone else having a clue.
The title 'Fake doctor' makes this piece sound very negative from the get-go. I assumed I was going to be reading about people abusing the medical field. Instead it was about a man trying to help save babies.
I kind of like how Path of Exile[0] handles that entire issue:

* PoE is a Free-to-Play game. On paper, it's totally possible to play without giving them one cent.

* PoE offers 2 pay-only features: account modifiers (such as stash tabs to hold items that drop while playing, and your personal premium hideout if you want one); and character skins + vanity portraits + in-game pets that don't help you + ....

Only the skins are in lootboxes, and you may also get the one skin you want at a fixed price (a $3 lootbox can hold any items that are $3+ combined). Not sure about the odds though - I havent seen them published anywhere.

As a gamer, I enjoy playing a game where I'm not a cash cow: my items in-game have the same drop rate as that of my neighbor; and I don't mind paying for nice-to-have "optional" features (the game is quite fun BTW).

[0] https://pathofexile.com
I too have been programming professionally for nearly two decades. Much longer if you consider the time I spent making door games, MUDs, and terrible games in the 90s.

I think functional programming gives you powerful tools to reason about the construction of programs. Even down to the machine level it's amazing how amortized functional data structures change the way you think about algorithmic complexity. I think laziness was the game changer here. And if you go all in with functional programming it's surprising how much baseline performance you can get with such little effort and how easy it is to scale to multiple cores and multiple hosts.

There are some things like vectorization that most functional languages I know of are hard pressed to take advantage of so we still reach out to C for those things.

However I think we're starting to learn enough about functional programming languages and how to make efficient compilers for them these days. Some interesting research that may be landing soon that has me excited would enable a completely pure program to do register and memory mutations under the hood, so to speak, in order to boost baseline performance. I don't think we're far off from seeing a dependently typed, pure, lazy functional language that can have bounded performance guarantees... and possibly be able to compile programs that don't even need run time support from a GC.

I grew up on an Amiga, and later IBM PCs, and that instinct to think about programs in terms of a program counter, registers, and memory is baked into me. It was hard to learn a completely different paradigm 18 or so years into my professional career. And to me, I think, that's the great accident that prevented FP from being the norm: several generations were simply not exposed to it early on on our personal computers. We had no idea it was out there until some of us went to university or the Internet came along. And even then... to really understand the breakthroughs FP has made requires quite a bit of learning and learning is hard. People don't like learning. I didn't. It's painful. But it's useful and worth it and I'm convinced that FP will come to be the norm if some project can manage to overcome the network effects and incumbents.
The under-screen ones are ultrasonic as far as I’m aware.
September 2019 tied as hottest on record for planet
If those are your adversaries, they are going to use rubber hose decryption.
Good stuff, thnx for posting ;)

Have heard JuliaLang is gaining mainstream acceptance in mathematical finance across academia as well as the Fed, GS, Blackrock and other enterprises
Richard Stallman rocks.
"Greenwashing" means they're creating the appearance of being green, without actually being green. Do you have any evidence for this? It's quite the accusation.

It wouldn't surprise me--even the best-intentioned companies sometimes keep making compromises to stay profitable until they don't resemble their values any more. Money ruins everything. I just haven't heard anything indicating that money has ruined Patagonia yet.
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