skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for one the connector is better. It's quicker to plug it in if you know you aren't going to plug it in the wrong way the first time. Second, for my wireless mouse the charging is faster. Third, the cable itself is slightly smaller and you don't need to carry around an old USB-A to USB-C cable.
> That is a reasonable margin, but only when your friend is willing to earn it.

Can you please clarify what you mean by this? Are you saying that his 25% is reasonable as long as he takes on the risk of paying me, regardless of whether the client pays or not?

> Paying for value now will serve you later.

Can you please also clarify what you mean by this?
I assumed it was an exaggeration, like 48 hours with a break to sleep, because how could OP even know for sure that it was truly 48 hours without break if the guy was at home?

I'm still suspicious whether it was actually 48 hours straight with no rest because -- no matter how brilliant someone is -- I would be extremely leery of the code written toward the end of that session.
Over the last ten years, NYC has averaged $1MM PER WEEK in payouts for abuse of power/force compensation. It's mind blowing.
The latest episode of Blacklist had a dark plot based on deep-fakes.
"Show HN: Cow Robots Neural Network Smells"

Bad: 0.0267 - Good: 0.9720
The web is anything but small/lightweight and WASM requires a full blown JIT a la V8 to get good performance, so WASM being "small" (relative to what?) seems hardly a benefit.

JVMs are sandboxed and verifiable too, not sure what use a fallback to stock JS is but you can run a JVM in JS (look at TeaVM), it's way easier to emit bytecode for almost any modern language than WASM simply because JVMs do garbage collection for you and it's not really any easier to build tooling for WASM than any other VM.

In the end the main reason to do WASM over other VMs is that this way Mozilla/Chrome guys get to own it, instead of a competing firm.
Keep in mind that the majority of googlers according to a blind poll did not want him fired. Also the memo was circulated for a month internally. Damore didn't get fired until it was leaked to to media and they ran hit pieces that ranges from intellectually dishonest to outright dishonest. I put the blame for this fiasco on the highly slanted media coverage that put Google in a position where they had to fire Damore or get skewered for sexism.
>Several years ago, Bella and Lisa Freeman, director of special litigation and law reform at Legal Aid’s Juvenile Rights Practice, started to notice that some of their clients had old police contacts showing up in their rap sheets that should not have been there

The whole reason this was uncovered was that many of these kids are recidivists, maybe the law is wrong

>the NYPD also maintains a secretive and controversial “gang database,” which labels thousands of unsuspecting New Yorkers — almost all black or Latino youth — as “gang members” based on a set of broad and arbitrary criteria

What is a gang database supposed to be based on? Gangs don't keep a signed and dated registry of their membership.

>My son was fingerprinted. He’s 14. I’m scared. What does this mean for his future

Means he should wear gloves the next time he commits a crime!
Hmm, I get identical results from Chrome and Brave on my Ubuntu desktop in Panopticlick, which doesn't disprove your argument, but it looks like Chrome is fingerprintable-enough that the difference may not matter.
Has anybody tried making an AI that generates 5 seconds of arbitrary speech to feed into this AI?
That makes sense! So KittensTube, MagicTricksTube and CleanTube could all connect to each other and act as a network of federated sites based off of PeerTube?
Wouldn't they just take a look at your account before deciding on their court battle strategy?
> quality that people are willing to pay for though

You 're only talking about news sites. While they are the loudest to complain, most of the web traffic is not news sites, but sites with immense amounts of valuable information, most of which is not compensated well. The only one who gets compensated well is Google, and we should change that.

Businesses are constantly willing to give money for advertising, and they will do that even if 100% of users use adblocking. That is a 0.5 trillion industry which is a great fit for attention-grabbing media, from printed press to the internet. It's not going away. It's just broken, largely because of centralized tracking, and we have to fix that.
It sucks that a free option is gone, but companies are not in an obligation to provide free stuff for developers forever.

They never claimed that they are doing a public service. The only reason it's free is they hope you'll get used to it and pay for bigger stuff later on.

It's OK to be sad, but it's not OK to be morally outrageous.

No ethical dilemma or "ever hungry crony capitalism machine" here.
I can't speak to what I'm actually doing with FPGAs but lately I've been enthralled by systolic arrays [1] to achieve massive parallelization of certain algorithms. It can be a trick to rearrange cache, computation and communication to be local, but if your amortization game is strong, O(n) becomes O(1) and it's extremely satisfying work.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array
Scientists find a spot where no life can survive
The thing is, you are bound to come across someone who finds a feature useful even if the feature is not useful for the vast majority of the people.

Absolutely, and Apple put function keys in that category. Yeah, maybe you touch-type those keys way up there at the top, but I'd bet a paycheck that the vast majority of MacBook users will look down before hitting a function key. I've touched typed since I learned on manual typewriters, and I still can't reliably hit the one I want blindly.

Doesn't matter anyway, as soon as I Cmd-Tab to annother app, the key functions all change anyway. But those handy "Fx" labels stay exactly the same despite the function change. But since it's always been this way, it is therefore a superior design and should not be changed.
I thought it was quite funny that they snuck in that line in the middle of a serious news article.
This reminds me of the popular idea of "love languages". I was always baffled by the idea that some people considered "gifts" to be the most important way to express love. But diamond rings seem to fit this paradigm perfectly.
I'm not necessarily talking about developers.

The biggest group that I've seen move away from the MBP range aren't developers, but are creatives - either in design or in sound/music. I know a few DJ's in my local area that have largely switched to Windows laptops because they feel tools like Ableton work better, and because they feel that for the price they're paying they're not getting value for money from the MBP range.
I'll grant you that. I don't think it changes the argument at all. The government should not treat any right specially compared to any other, and it's the long standing practice of the government to regulate and place limits on rights.
I think it is to be expected by Apple to remove 2 of those 4 in the next generation, or one afterwards. It's a logical (to them) step towards cable-free computing, which is great and all, but is the only way towards it forcing it through the customers?
Flooding and other symptoms of climate change are externalities that countries & corporations are not acknowledging let alone paying for. Who's responsible for compensating the businesses of Venice who are effected? Is it the government of Venice? Italy? If history has taught us anything, these entities are on their own.
Why is the touchbar still a thing. I hit the speaker button inadvertently at least once a day. "Pop!"
I wrote one during my early years, in fact [1]!

1: https://jeremyaboyd.micro.blog/2016/11/20/that-time-i.html
Perhaps the bug was showing the camera image?
Even though I dislike their now standard 16:9 ratio, Thinkpads are top tier. I've been using them since the late 90s. I think the 770ED was my first one. I still have a W500 that's in use from time to time.
Wouldn't they feel more cheated if they find out that the price given to them is, with no justification, more costly than the price given to friends and family in other locations?
Did not know that... now i understand bitcoin.
This is very close in dimensions to the 2015 15" rMBP. The thermals should be much improved.
Yes, I think there are almost no legitimate uses for the Farnsworth Device. https://theinfosphere.org/A_Device_That_Makes_Anyone_Sound_L...

My personal hell: My mother has dementia and a land line telephone.

Scammers call all the time. All day long. (Although the last few days have been pretty good, I assume somebody somewhere is doing their jobs. The scammers will adapt.) One thing they do is spoof their number to have the same area code and prefix as the one they're calling, so it's like "Oh, is this a neighbor?" or something, but of course it's not. It's an automated machine abusing the telephone network to try to steal money from a little old lady with dementia.

Evil men with robots are attacking my mom. Another one called while I was writing this post!

This is a goddamned sci-fi dystopia.

And now the robo-thieving bastards can imitate my voice!?

I'm going to have to get her one of those satellite-linked walkie-talkies or something. Thank God she doesn't use the internet.
I guess the question is how well to we expect AI/ML systems to be able to generalize on a biased subset data. If you are trying to use one of these systems to make hiring decisions but you train it on data from the hires you made, should we really be surprised if biases in the original hiring(education level, gender, race, income, personality) are reflected in the AI's decisions?
New Intel CPU Bug with Performance Implications on Skylake Through Cascade Lake
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I heard a rumor that robot calls were harnessing your voice prints. Not necessarily true currently but an interesting concern
Users willingly installed toolbars too.
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing. It's good to point out the positive potential uses as well as the negative.
I've looked, out of curiosity, at the prices you pay for refurbished ones around here (Germany), and most offers for the refurbished 2015 now exceed what I paid for a new one back in 2015 (same configuration, of course).

It would seem, there is demand.
Sorry for your loss, thank you for providing an optimistic example.
No to create an Ai for that. Just like with any neural network random noise can be fed into the detector networks, fedback to its self then used to create novel maps. Like deepdream.
So....I'm going to paste the abstract here because the headline is incredibly misleading and should be changed.

>Abstract: We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently trained components: (1) a speaker encoder network, trained on a speaker verification task using an independent dataset of noisy speech from thousands of speakers without transcripts, to generate a fixed-dimensional embedding vector from seconds of reference speech from a target speaker; (2) a sequence-to-sequence synthesis network based on Tacotron 2, which generates a mel spectrogram from text, conditioned on the speaker embedding; (3) an auto-regressive WaveNet-based vocoder that converts the mel spectrogram into a sequence of time domain waveform samples. We demonstrate that the proposed model is able to transfer the knowledge of speaker variability learned by the discriminatively-trained speaker encoder to the new task, and is able to synthesize natural speech from speakers that were not seen during training. We quantify the importance of training the speaker encoder on a large and diverse speaker set in order to obtain the best generalization performance. Finally, we show that randomly sampled speaker embeddings can be used to synthesize speech in the voice of novel speakers dissimilar from those used in training, indicating that the model has learned a high quality speaker representation.
the desktop experience and the docker hub apparently
a.k.a : the good bits imo.
Why does it seem wrong? Internet ads use your internet connection and time. Why should I watch them for free?
Startups: Be Loved, Be Hated, Never Be Ignored
Test administrator pleads guilty
I switched to iCloud as my primary email account and use Mail on macOS and iOS. Good enough for how I use email.

GMail is an awful experience these days and would consistently bury important messages (to me anyways) in the tabs/buckets (or whatever they're called) no matter how many times I would drag them back to Inbox/Primary.
>the more recent films

Was there ever a film where they didn't succeed at the end?
> To your next point, what you're describing about going direct to the client is not only likely a breach of contract, but also generally a dick move.

We haven't signed anything yet. I wouldn't go direct to the client immediately, but rather let him have his cut on the initial engagement. After that point, I feel like I would have more of a relationship with them than he does.

> Also, no, recruiters often don't charge a one-time fee anymore - they will often get an initial fee plus a percentage of the employee's salary if they stay for a full year.

Just to clarify: this isn't a full time engagement, but a short term hourly contract, with potential to extend to long term if things work out.

> If you want to get 100% of billable with no sales/subcontracting commission, find your own client.

This is what I'm struggling with. What does it mean to find a client? Is it the case that as soon as there is someone performing an introduction of any sort, they are entitled to an ongoing fee?
The Helm team did a great job addressing community concerns. I love to see this type of engagement and commitment to users.
GitHub Universe Keynote
The tide was higher 50 years ago, before the effects of climate change started? But the mayor says its climate change. Is the mayor an authority on climate science?
I'm the opposite so I guess our desires cancel each other out. I will never buy a laptop or any device that has USB-A on it. None of my devices use USB-A and it's a legacy port that is ugly and wastes space. Same with micro-usb, mini-usb, lightning, etc. I'm living a 1 port lifestyle and it's phenomenal for traveling, minimalism, and just not having to worry about having the right cable in the right place.
I think it's time we officially declare we're going the dystopia route, and really commit to it. The sooner we hit the great filter, the less suffering there will be.
Both me and my fiance (now wife) are millennials as well. I hate the ring culture and all the wedding rituals (spending so much money to please others) surrounding it. In fact, I don't even believe in marriage in traditional sense (like going to courtroom to sign on a government issued certificate, which only applies to legal realms)

My fiance, whom I believe is fairly reasonable and frugal in all aspects considered, also learned (thanks to the movie, Blood Diamond) that diamonds are not worth the price and unethical. But she still wanted me to spend some amount on rings. So I had to buy decently priced wedding bands (cost about $1700 each). Otherwise, I am sure my fiance wouldn't be too happy (thinking that I married her for cheap). I really was surprised when I first heard my fiance complaining about me not planning to buy rings for our wedding. The marketing and brainwashing of women about rings and wedding culture really work.
Pardon my ignorance but I have a few questions...

1) This seems like it would only work for varying the values passed to variables in a function. Can you differential a function other than just changing some values -- like using a genetic algorithm. Seems like this is just finding the right values to pass to a function not finding a different function itself.

2) Is this limited to only continuous / ordered values? How can you differentiate logic, branching, and what other functions to call? Seems like to do so would require mapping a function to some kind of n-dimensional euclidian space / manifold.

3) Why does this need to be an extension to a language? Can't ordinary interfaces in the OOP sense or monads in the FP sense be used to wrap functions and give them this functionality for free?
or some post on social media...
Showing ads is something users have to opt-in to see (using Brave Rewards). Users can turn off ad-blocking globally if they missed the ads, but blocking them (ads/trackers) is one of the main draws to downloading Brave, IMO
Music production is usually Mac at this point, and that requires wired headphones/speakers. Not sure it’s big enough of a market that Apple wouldn’t drop it anyway, but Bluetooth latencies are too high to be a substitute there.
How do user-mode network drivers work? Do they rely on polling, or do they still have the kernel handle interrupts?
This is the most annoying part of their keyboards.

Didn't copy or didn't paste. Or both.
Maybe don't build a city on 118 small islands and expect the water levels to never ever change? Seems more like a failure to plan for the future.
It appears this can go a long way for building training to teach new employees/etc how to interact with internal tooling.
Do you want to elaborate on how the title is misleading? From reading the abstract it seems accurate to me.
The true believers are using perl. Neither rperl nor cperl is compatible with perl at this time, and the authors of both didn't so much burn their bridges as dynamite them on the way out of the mainstream community.

If it was simply what you thought it was, I'd be in favour. Instead, it's a cynical attempt to capitalise on the raku rename and draw off support from actual perl users to their weird-ass not-exactly-perl projects :(
Docker's New Direction
> Imagine thinking that you can literally publish and circulate several revisions of an internal company memo telling 50% of your coworkers that they should be paid less because they're genetically inferior to you in regards to the job

This is an outright fabrication. Nowhere did Damore write that women should be paid less, or that they were genetically inferior at tech. He said that gender differences can explain, in part, difference in preferences between men and women.

Is it sexist to say "hey, maybe 95% of kindergarten teachers are women not because men are discriminated against, but because men don't prefer to work with young kids at the same rate as women due to innate biological reasons."
Anonymity. You can use the system without ever having to type your mail address or credit card.
Seeking Work

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Location: Asia. Internet. Planning to relocate to Canada soon.

Remote: Yes.

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Willing to relocate: No

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Con/Pro, depending on perspective: people will have to give up the illusion that they ever really could definitively tell truth from fiction.
Thicker, Escape Key, larger battery, better keyboard... it's almost as if Jonny Ive has left Apple!
Your original post is making it sound like FPGAs are switching from LUTs to DSP slices in the general case, which is blatantly not true. Yeah, it uses less resources to use a DSP slice instead of synthesizing a multiplier, bit that's because a DSP slice is just an 18x18 MAC. It's not replacing LUTs for general logic.
Sorry I've tried to give Brave a shot for a couple of months and the 3-6x faster browsing is nonsense. It's really slow compared to Chrome or Firefox. Just do a quick comparison yourself, you can probably count seconds on a couple of sites you visit regularly whereas Chrome loads instantly.
They can acquire the team that's primarily building it. If they stay on board and they keep focused on docker CLI, then that's effectively the acquisition of an open source project
The State of the Octoverse 2019
In the US it isn't lack of demand it is lack of supply. Yes it will cost, but most cities won't allow you to build such thing, so you can't get 5+ bedrooms at any price.
"Siri suggested websites" (the thing I mentioned in my first post) are not from other search engines, they're from Apple's.

Same goes for the "Siri suggested website" when you type some terms into Safari. The top website on the autocomplete list is selected by Apple's search engine.
I've been using Brave for a few months, and I'm basically using it as an un-Googled Chrome. Not using the ad rewards system.

It's pretty good, though I sometimes miss Safari with its amazing location bar autocompletion and ease of syncing with the iOS version. (Brave supports syncs, but it's not great, and the iOS app is nowhere as good as Safari on iOS.)

Brave does have some bugs. Since July or so, several sites (including my bank) don't work because Brave incorrectly [1] blocks their cookies, even with the "shield" turned off.

[1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/6099 and several others.
Do the gaming boards support ECC memory however? That's usually the one major difference between a high performance gaming board and a basic workstation board. Sometimes they'll even have a chipset that has ECC support, but the BIOS will disable it because they hate you.
Strategy is how you deal with idempotency and consistency in a distributed environment.

Your manifest is idempotent but isn't applied instantly.

You can apply a manifest, and get into some broken state, how do you recover? What if you try to roll back and things get worse?
"Whimsical" You can't even try without providing your email. Any app/website asking me to do the hard work of providing my email when i have to do the favor of trying it out, my response has been no thanks, i am not gonna try.
Very insightful. David marcus should read this.
It rarely even worked in Star Trek.
But how can it be in free-tier if it requires credit card billing?
I used to work in the ad industry, and I'm glad to see somebody trying to share and explain the terminology.

But they left out one term: inventory. That's you.
And utterly predictable - and nice to see - there is also https://pythonforgood.org/
Same here, I still own many generations I now use a P50, almost went for the p52 with 128GB.
I'm deeply sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing your story.
This is common practice among US government employees as well

Sure, but they are protecting themselves from the Russian hackers that are in all the US government networks. Zuck is protecting himself from Facebook itself.
Go.dev: a new hub for Go developers
I tried both Vivaldi and Brave and ended up with Brave because it is open source.
I'm already living this future. I've replaced my usb-a, micro-usb, mini-usb, and lightning products. It's wonderful for travel, decluttering, and not having to worry about dongles.
On a related note, I can definitely foresee a lot of voice actors having their voices cloned for uses they wouldn't really intend. Seems like a big legal grey area as many countries have personality rights.
I imagine this was said in jest. But it's worth mentioning that Venice has sunk almost 10 inches in the last century. Even if water levels hadn't changed -- and of course they have -- Venice would still be facing serious problems.
Swiftkey does.