skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s actually a pretty interesting example — is this some sort of stick-it-to-the-man anti-corporation performance art?

“[...] lawyers are infuriated that the dot-sucks registry was charging trademark holders $2500 for domains and everyone else $10.“

“The .sucks domain registrar has been described as "predatory, exploitive and coercive" by the Intellectual Property Constituency that advises the ICANN board. When the .sucks registry announced their pricing model, "most brand owners were upset and felt like they were being penalized by having to pay more to protect their brands." Because of the low utility of the ".sucks" domain, most fees come from "Brand Protection" customers registering their trademarks to prevent domains being registered.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN#.sucks_domain

It feels like many of the new TLDs are a shakedown on brands to force them to land-grab their trademarks. At least .SUCKS is honest about it?

EDIT: oh my, this is juicy! Some real internet counter culture. This excerpt from a letter of complaint from the .SUCKS registry to ICANN:

“[...] ICANN appears concerned that registrations on the .SUCKS registry will be used to aggregate uncomplimentary commentary about companies and products--the very purpose for the registry that Vox Populi
identified in the application it submitted to ICANN, and that ICANN approved.”

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150511_vox_populi_registry_s...

EDIT2: I am reminded of some more domain history here, regarding Diageo seizing the Guinness-Sucks.com domain names (also a nice blast from the past: who remembers the Your Rights Online section of SlashDot?)

https://m.slashdot.org/story/14513

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2000/d200...
It was a real rollercoaster reading this comment! Also now, you have to also be worried about talking back being a smartass, because now they will record YOUR voice and use it to contact another loved one...
The standard rate doesn’t include a premium for the nonstandard conditions.
I feel like laptop keyboards continue to get worse. I mean, they're usable, but there are better key designs out there.
Yikes. Attacking a fellow user like that will get you banned here. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart? Your comment would be just fine without that abusive attack.
The point a lot of people miss is that advertising doesn't just convince you buy new things. Many advertisements are designed to make you feel good about the products you already buy so you won't consider trying the alternatives.

When you grab a bottle of dish soap off the shelf, do you select the same one each time because you prefer it for reasons you can't quite articulate or do you grab whatever's cheapest because they're basically all the same?
If you're interested in the topic, I strongly recommend Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome, discussing co-evolution of urbanisation, extended trade and commerce networks, and epidemic disease.
Push notifications will be one of our main priorities in the upcoming months.

In terms of offline support, the data in the app is cached once it’s loaded, and can be viewed while offline, but updating records while offline is not supported.
I don't understand that argument. Docker really doesn't help with application packaging. A Dockerfile is rudimentary at best, and ends up mostly a bash script for most people. It also hasn't changed in years so it's obviously not a focal point for development.

What Docker did provide that other packaging tools didn't was free image hosting for anyone, no vetting, no strings attached. Of course that was a major hit with developers. Free hosting often is, especially when well integrated with development tooling.

The thing is that it sets you up for a nice acquisition. But for some reason Docker, Inc. felt they wanted to go the VMware Way instead and sell enterprise tools to enterprise customers. Those are two different strategies that will never be reconciled. It makes sense for them to shed that part and double down on Docker Hub and the Mac/Windows tooling.
There's far more to traveling than hitting up tourist hot spots and fighting your way through people to see something, though unfortunately that's what most people, especially on HN, seem to synonymize with "travel" which explains why it's so common here to poo-poo "travel" as something lame and boring.

Then again, most Americans get, what, two weeks off in the year? It makes sense to me how travel then becomes an all-inclusive resort trip instead of the more enriching slow-boil flavor of travel that provokes the best experiences and potential change in your life and perspective. Pretty hard to get that in two weeks.
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TL;DR: This lets one calculate eigenvectors directly from the eigenvalues of a matrix and its submatrices,

Element wise:

v(i,j)=√∏δ(k,i)(λi(A) − λk(A))/δ(k,n)(λi(A) − λk(Mj))

δ(x,y)(f):= ±1 if x=y else f
You can also run VS Code as a split-brain system with the UI in your OS and the extensions and the filesystem inside a Docker container, so that you can say, run VS Code extensions that rely on *nix utilities to run.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

It's pretty nifty.
The World Is Awash in Financial Capital
I used to be a public defender before I went into corporate and tax practice. Out of roughly 100,000 cases that went through the local PD office while I was there, fewer than 10 involved parallel construction.

Including the two neighboring counties, out of nearly 750,000 criminal cases during that time, only about 3 or 4 dozen involved parallel construction, and most of those were gang cases in which the parallel construction involved one of the gang members turning on his homies.

It's big news in local legal circles when the prosecution tries to use parallel construction to get evidence into the record because it happens so rarely.

It does happen more frequently at the federal level, but they also have significantly more resources to conduct investigations along parallel paths.
As an experiment downvoting is disabled on some smaller reddit subs. The effect in the gaming /hobbiest communities is they get overrun with memes and content designed to get a reaction. Theres an overwhelming number of readers who never participate in discussions but will upvote the most mindless stuff. You can see consensus in a forum that few enjoy the content, yet it gets strongly upvoted if unchecked.
> I'd say a comment "this is wrong because" first, then something other than down voting.

I guess its just as much a signal to people looking for an answer as it is for the person who wrote the answer. At least with a downvoted answer, its easy to see "ok, maybe not this one" and you can check the comments to see why. Not that I'm a fan of downvoting, I think a flagging system would achieve the same thing while being more helpful to all involved than an opaque downvote.
I'll echo this and the related/parent comments -- super common experience for me too. I WANT to use iOS Safari and frequently do -- I just wish their mobile web version was given more love/functionality versus being a stripped down version.
> I'm reasonably sure USD (or EUR) will still exist, have some reasonably similar value, and be usable in five years. There are quite a lot of crypto tokens I do not have anywhere near that level of confidence in.

Nothing stop you from exchanging it as soon as you can.

If the website would be offering USD instead of BAT, you would still not be able to retrieve it until it reach a amount big enough to take out (Google Ads is at 100$, 25$ for international user on Patreon). Until it's actual USD in your bank account, it's not better than BAT and depends on the existence of the service. The difference is that BAT, you can still use it if you decide to, right now.
Yes: the claims James Damore makes are cold, hard facts based on the many, many studies and statistics available on, for example, women's assertiveness (which is genetically and biologically quantifiable), that he carefully reviewed and contrasted in order to form an opinion. As such, they are facts, which do not fit the definition of discriminatory.

In order to be discriminatory, they would have to be broad, ignorant statements based on personal anecdote and prejudice that he pulled out of his ass right before adding 'on average' at the end of the phrase; since they are not that in any way, but carefully researched, unbiased observations, they do not fit the definition of discriminatory.

Now that you've explained to me what facts are, I finally understand James' logic, so please consider this argument won.

What happened to James, who simply circulated a fact-based memo telling half of his coworkers that they need special rules to make things fair since they're at least partly genetically inferior when it comes to the job, was yet another gratuitous act of SJW, PC, fact-censoring repression against one of society's most silenced and powerless collectives: top-salaried, Ivy League educated young white males working at the top companies of male-dominated high growth industries in the largest economy on the planet, like so many others we sadly see so often here on HN.

It's time we finally took a stand on these issues.
Was it 18k voices or samples? Also, is it finding the closest voice, or is it a continuous parameter space formed from the voices?
A simple solution is to count downvotes but truncate the UI to 0. That way you don't get the ego sting of a negative score.
Because they believe it will increase their chances of getting funding. The way ML is dragged in by the hairs in some propositions really is just painful. The funny thing is the few start-ups that I've seen that actually needed and used ML properly did so quietly because it gave them a huge edge over their competition who had not yet clued in to that fact.
Yes, I can only imagine!
There was an old Piece on Headline News 20 years ago where someone had done this with Whoopi Goldberg's voice. Never heard about it since. Presumably it went black.
I spent significant time on binary text classification, specifically with HN titles. You can actually get up to 65-70% post popularity accuracy just by looking at the post title.

I am currently creating a filter that filters HN news and similar sources using a similar classfier. It learns on the fly and the accuracy of guessing my 'taste' is about 75%-80%. Better accuracy for this is explainable by the fact that my interests are more focused and the classifier has easier time predicting posts I would be interested in.
I'm sorry about your mom. That's incredibly difficult.

Please don't react to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. I was reading this, appreciating how substantively you were reacting to a really unfair attack, until I crashed into that last sentence. Your comment would be much better, not to mention more dignified, without it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's the common saying, yes. For an introvert like me, that always seemed like a cruel generalization. I don't have a lot of friends, so I don't get to drink?
It is, except that people are discovering that the programs faithfully learn from their training material, even including traits and biases present that are not consciously included by the person that selected the training data.

It seems a lot of people don't realize that there's likely a large disconnect between what people think they're training an AI to do and what they're actually training it to do.

If they're lucky, the two are close enough that the learning program will be useful for what was hoped, and if they're unlucky it will look like it's useful and correct but will include behavior learned from the training data that was not predicted and which taints the result.

IE, if you train an AI with what you think is unbiased data but which includes a subtle bias, then the results you get from it may be biased... and the bias may be so subtle it's undetectable except by another AI, which is a problem if you assume that since your training data was unbiased, your AI must be unbiased.

Putting it another way... garbage in, garbage out.
The narrative is what I have observed and experienced working in the SF Bay area, and it's what the overwhelming majority of my colleagues report as well. You can also see it playing out in this thread, where people are not-so-subtly suggesting that people who point out disparities between rates of crime between groups are white supremacists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527985
This 100%. It's not about impersonating someone, it's about providing natural sounding text-to-speech for games, film, robots etc.

We're currently working on using voice AI to create real products over at https://replicastudios.com
Everything is fair in business. Your friend has a right to ask you for whatever cut he thinks is reasonable. You have the right to negotiate that. It is simple. But make sure you don't undercut/undermine your friend. I would just say "Hey 25% is a bit high and I would like to give you x% instead".

You may now think that your friend is not really adding a lot of value by a simple introduction but if he had not introduced you to the client who probably are going with you due to the referral, you would make $0. That is how business works. Referral and Networks is the key and try not to burn bridges with anyone.
No, it just made something that existed 18 years ago become more popular.

It's just a rootfs compressed tarball. Running on top of Linux technology.

Docker was always a brittle tool with lots of limitations and huge compromisses.

Want to ${FOO_PORT:-1234}? Forget about it.
Running random stuff as root? Why not?

It also made very easy to consume and produce junk/snowflakes.

Every docker image place its files/configuration/data in a special place. FHS? Who need that?

People have been running, packaging and distributing software more efficiently and more secure way before docker even existed.

Another tool that made existing technology more popular is Kubernetes.

But it did a better job in this "container" space.
> Type-A has completely disappeared from my life and that of my family's.

I'm honestly surprised by this. I have eight different type A devices plugged into my PC right now[1] and I don't own a single type C device (and it's not that I've intentionally avoided it).

As for the rest of my family, I don't think any of them have computers that'd even have a Type C port. Mine has just one, and it's brand new.

[1] Keyboard, mouse, external audio interface, printer, scanner, iLok dongle, external HDD, flash drive.

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Edit: Valid point made in the replies that 50% of these could have their cables replaced to do USB-C at one end.

Cable could be replaced: External audio interface, printer, scanner, External HDD.

Cable not replaceable: Keyboard, mouse, iLok dongle, flash drive.
If people and especially doctors were serious about improving healthcare, they should strive to build reliable data collection means. That's the prerequisite to efficient 'AI', and would be a far better use of funding than all the present half-baked 'improvements' and star-system research. We could really do science, then. A man can dream...
> Apple's own iPhone and iPad don't plug directly into Macbooks without a dongle?

The newest gen of iPhones come with C to Lightning rather than A to Lightning now. Because that's also the requirement for USB-PD fast charging for the iPhone and Macbook. They've also sold the cables separately for the last two years for the USB-PD fast charging.
A fast data loader for training deep learning models in Tensorflow 2.0
SO is a crowd-sourced FAQ, not a conversation forum.
Is it me or this laptop is eye-wateringly expensive? I'm no Mac noob but it's getting a little hard to justify the expense to stay in the ecosystem.
> Ok, but the difference with waiting to accumulate dollars vs waiting to accumulate crypto currency is that with crypto you are subject to massive currency fluctuations while you wait to cash out.

Most exchange won't let you cash out over small amounts, but you can still exchange it. You aren't subject to fluctuation if it's already exchanged.

It's so weird the amount of misinformation here... I know that people here may hate cryptocurrencies, but it's the same thing as having it stored somewhere in a DB. The only difference is that you can actually do something with it.
Using Machine Learning to Extract Nuremberg Trials Transcript Document Citations
Thinkpads are nice, but that device has a much worse screen, worse processor (significantly older, but... Intel), lower max ram, lower max storage, and (for most people) worse trackpad.
I do pay several patreon, have automatic transfer set up for two projects, and a long standing subscription to a website I'm a fan of.

But people don't need to realize anything for ads to die. All they need to realize is that they should all be using ad blockers and never ever turning it off again.

Being able to make people look in your direction long enough to show them something else they might spend money on is not valuable. It doesn't need to exist.
FSI has never had package management. Are you referring to something else?
If you are trusting a camera to upload to a blockchain, the same can be simulated on a computer, given enough time.
Nun new. Supercomputing has been used in Oil & Gas exploration for decades.
>> 1. Don't capture more information than is absolutely necessary for the transaction.

>> 2. Don't force the user to sign up or join anything if they just want to buy something.

>> 3. Don't automatically add the user to your newsletter and send their details to your ad network. Be very explicit that you won't do this.

>> 4. Tell the user up front how much postage will most likely cost and expected delivery time before you capture all their details. You can guess their general location from their IP address of have them select a city.

Yeah, alright, because marketing and the higher-ups will be totally a-ok with all of those missed opportunities...not?

>> Don't force the user to sign up or join anything if they just want to buy something

Especially isn't going to happen. The marketing team is honestly stupid if they don't do this. If a customer has purchased something, companies do everything they can to encourage a repeat purchase. Part of that is offering newsletters on updates for new products or sales.
Almost. We have to be careful about the data generating process and how we describe the output of AI. If there systematic bias in data collection, it flows through.
They could switch them. It's unlikely that you need thunderbolt at 4 ports at the same time. On the other hand, 4 universally usable ports are already a lot. They might not cater for the long tail. Less than 4, and it's not only the tail you are cutting off.
You do have to be Mirandized if the prosecution expects to use that confession--or any evidence derived from that confession (under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine)-in court.

For the record--I am former public defender. And I successfully used the failure to properly Mirandize a client successfully many times to block the prosecution from introducing evidence.
> the cloud/compute providers

And Nvidia
I can't sum it up in any other way than to say it's a user-hostile decision.

They should at a minumum have included a few choice dongles with the system. (usb-c to usb-a, and maybe usb-c to HDMI)

Additionally, they should have completed the ecosystem too. a mac-to-mac upgrade requires a dizzying variety of dongles, where one firewire cable was all that was required in previous systems.
The best resource for this is the Amazon sellers forums. There are horror stories of sellers getting 100's of negative feedbacks due to co-mingled counterfeit products, even when they've opted out.
You can't autoindent python, regardless of how good a programmer you are.
Right? The solution is 'make the fuckin keyboard work'. These are workarounds.

I have twenty... seven, Jesus. Twenty seven years of muscle memory with VI. The only keyboard I can't 'vote with my feet' on is the built-in one on my laptop. As a result I'm hardly ever using my laptop untethered now. I don't think I've ever owned a keyboard I've typed less on than the touchbar macbook. Which means I'm barely using them as laptops, which is a little depressing.
Brainf*ck is great but coding in ArnoldC makes you feel really manly.
Chrome Dev Summit 2019 - Keynote [video]
No. You don't understand. It's not enough for me not to see ads anymore. I want the advertising industry to die. The entire thing. Its existence is harmful to society.
In my experience, that reaction is very rare. Thankfully.
What is "physics" as a job? The problem with physics is that there are few applied physics jobs compared to CS and applied CS (software developer) jobs. Similar things can be said about CS, there aren't very many CS jobs and I'd say it's comparable in difficulty to physics.
What does IPU stand for in this context? The only use I know of is Image Processing Unit — silicon that is custom developed for cameras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_processor

This is clearly not that.

Edit: Intelligence Processing Unit. https://www.graphcore.ai/products/

I assume that the Bionic neural engine in Apple's A11 and later is an example of this?
Please keep personal swipes out of your comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are a lot of security features that are being put in place to help us all understand what is real and fake. Of course there is still a lot of work to be done and the technology is very new, but at https://replicastudios.com/ work in watermarking audio, as well as authentication of Replica voices and detection of fake, non-authorised replicas is already in progress.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and the likes, will then be able to let users know what is using real (actual real voices, or the authenticated Replica voice) or fake voices.
Are the premiums as artificially low in non-costal areas? I’ve been under the impression that most of our increasing flood risks over recent decades are in hurricane areas, but I do know we had pretty bad flooding in the Midwest this year too. Is that the new normal?
> I can understand that there are biological differences between females and males, but I absolutely and vehemently choose to believe that there is no inherent difference in ability - females are 100% as capable as males when it comes to programming.

Why stop at gender? Why not believe there is no inherent difference in ability between any two persons? After all, if a difference in ability is un-just, it doesn't matter if it originates from gender, race, or pure genetic chance.
“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success.”

—Oppenheimer
So this. The data problem is being controlled, fought, and negotiated at the level of nation-states and indeed whole meta-national cultures.
One reason to go to McDonald's while traveling is so you can discover the differences in each country's McDonald's. As a Philadelphian I have my own version of this, living in California -- I'll always order a cheesesteak if it's on the menu, the first time I'm at a restaurant. Just to see how good/bad it is.
If people were paid by the value they end up contributing to organizations, we would see large numbers of people being charged money.
This podcast explores how similar tech is used to give voice back to people who have lost it due to voice impairment. Basically allowing all the people using machines that sound like the classic Hawking computer voice to have their own voice instead.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741827437/finding-your-voice-...
Apple does not have his shit together yet on PWA.

https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-...