skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes redistribute wealth from areas of surplus to areas of need. If one lives alone forever in a log cabin one might indeed never need anything from the government.

However, if you need the police to help you, you are already getting something back. If someone else needs the police and the police catch the criminal who would have made you their next target, you are getting a benefit.

Now scale that up to the whole country. If you take part in a society where there is generally law and order — and moreover a society where everyone can read and write and some of them can manage air traffic control, and roads exist and people have the skills to build cars and sell them to you — well now you are taking part in the benefits of a society which would not exist without public spending, paid for with taxes.
Right now I am again in Turkey after a while. Back then(like 5 years ago?), the USA was seen righteous but demanding country and if you go off-limits bad things can happen to you.

Now Turkey acquired Russian made defence system s400 that was supposed to devastate the economy through embargoes. A few years ago a wealthy Iranian businessman living in Turkey was caught laundering billions of dollars through a Turkish state bank, He was well known for his connections in the Erdogan government. This was supposed to devastate the Turkish banking sector, bringing huge huge fines like those that French or British banks paid back in the day. These and many other actions were supposed to make Uncle Sam very angry and punish Erdogan.

Nothing of significance happened.
Actually, a year ago Trump plummeted the Turkish lira with few tweets but it was about a prisoner that was kept hostage that created political trouble to Trump.

These days it's not a credible position to say "Erdogan, don't do that it may bring trouble", everyone who advocated this position is now a laughing stock.

Europe seems to be behind the curve on this, they are still afraid to trade with Iran but I think that it will happen. They just need to find a way to do it while helping with the presidents career, it worked marvellously with Erdogan. Sometimes I think Erdogan has Jedi superpowers over Trump, it was amazing how He and Trump entered Syria despite of Pentagon and the US allies.

Anyway, times are changing. I hope after the change we plateau in a nice position, I would not be thrilled to see Chinese or Russian style governments be the new de facto way of how the world works. The liberal waster world order was nice(though not perfect) when we had it, I dislike the current trends.
I first came into contact with the long s while reading (IIRC) Antoine de Lavoisier's memoirs (or papers?) on the nature of diamond. It was very unnerving to read, as I couldn't see the difference with an "f" before enquiring more about it, and reading the wikipedia article.

I couldn't find the exact reference, but the book was along the lines of that one (French): https://books.google.fr/books?id=yr3OAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA22
I would suggest following the Scandinavian model of not having a minimum wage at all.
Only when the taxes reduce their profits to zero. As long as a country only taxes domestic revenue, that's unlikely to happen.

And in my opinion, countries should be taxing (domestic revenue - domestic costs), rather than allowing companies to move their undeclared profits around to the nearest tax haven to dodge all taxes.
It's not necessarily about wrongful convictions, though they are included, but I'd recommend reading a book called 'The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken'[1] if you were interested in some of the issues in the criminal justice system in the UK. Things have got so bad recently that criminal justice practitioners have actually been on strike a few times.

[1] https://thesecretbarrister.com/
I really hope you adopt the latest models particularly streaming attention variants. I think you should validate with users the assumption that latency is more important than WER.

IMHO the WER is more important than latency improvements in the millisecond range. The most frustrating thing is having to dictate over and over and the transcription is incorrect each time.

Consider that the time to a correct transcription is the latency plus error correction. If error correction is manual it will be orders of magnitude slower, so optimize for WER.

I’m terms of competition, Siri has latency in the 5+ second range due to the network call especially in area with poor data rates. I think a client side model like yours will easily win in this category. If you’re already ahead here, why not focus on WER next?

Another great capability is to generate alternative transcriptions for words with low confidence values to allow for quick error correction. Do you offer something like this today?

Also, consider the long term view that new models are constantly being released and refined. It’d be best to have an architecture that allows quick replacement without a lot of hand tuning, or where the tuning can be automated to a greater extent.
I think you're being a little harsh.

1. Train it using the training dataset but change all word labels that aren't in your 10 word list to "OTHER_WORD" or whatever. There's probably not much point doing this. Alternatively I guess you can restrict the beam search to only look for your 10 words. Yes this is really complicated - it's a speech recognition engine - they are really complicated!

2. The API docs look pretty clear to me:

> createStream()[source]

> Create a new streaming inference state. The streaming state returned by this function can then be passed to feedAudioContent() and finishStream().

> feedAudioContent(args, kwargs)[source]

> Feed audio samples to an ongoing streaming inference.

> intermediateDecode(args, kwargs)[source]

> Compute the intermediate decoding of an ongoing streaming inference. This is an expensive process as the decoder implementation isn’t currently capable of streaming, so it always starts from the beginning of the audio.

Huh well that's a flaw the neglected to mention! I guess you can't really do what you want yet.
Shitty systemd breaking your computer again...
I mean, if Wittgenstein and Gödel haven't already hollowed out the possibility that language could have some innate non-information-theoretic meaning...

For those who aren't really aware of what's going on, right now the bedrock of science is mathematics, and the hardest science is physics, and both are fully information-theoretic. "it from bit" theories are not just common, but fully compatible with our ways of looking at the world.

In order to transcend information theory, one would have to abandon mathematics, and probably abandon logic as well. This more or less closes the door to a lot of the gibbering low-quality metaphysical pandering that is common in philosophical foundations. Another way of putting it is that, just like with empiricism and science, we have realized in mathematics a way to move forward, and that movement forward is creating pseudologic, in the same way that empiricism highlights pseudoscience. Mathematics is logic is metaphysics is mathematics, and deities really cannot be omnipotent.

As a final note, who are we to deny that life is informational? We're made of DNA and RNA, of proteins and cellular messages, of neuronal configurations and connectomes, and your entire reply is that it's uncomfortable to imagine.
I think a country should have the absolute best tools at their disposal to be able to handle processing and serving the millions of immigrants and billions of dollars of goods which cross their borders.

If an influx of unaccompanied minors cross a border, a country needs to have the systems, processes, facilities, and supply lines setup and ready to activate to support that population.

Whether it is trying to confirm identification of someone crossing at a border station or illegally, locating and vetting relatives (or someone claiming to be a relative) in country, or finding a foster family or allocating space at a shelter, there is a very significant amount of work that DHS and ICE needs to be doing to both protect this vulnerable population as well as identify criminals who may be trying to cross the border for nefarious purposes.

We need a best-in-world multi-layered system which includes everything from search and rescue, drug interdiction, temporary shelters, family housing, background checks and asylum claims processing, work permitting, and on and on.

Border crossings on the southern border are actually at a historical low, but the demographics of the people who are crossing has changed dramatically. Instead of predominantly single males, we have had a massive increase in unaccompanied minors and families. Instead of Mexicans, there has been a large flow from Central America coming through Mexico and into the US. These new demographics present extreme challenges to the existing facilities on the border which were not built to accommodate that type of population.

IMO what we need to be doing is properly funding border enforcement and processing, hiring a large number of new immigration judges to process claims in days not months, and build facilities that can keep illegal entrants reasonably comfortable for the few days it should take to process their arrival, whether that means admittance into the interior with a future court date or refusal of entry and deportation.

I wonder, for example, what tools and services the USDS may be building for ICE and DHS, and if the engineers on those products feel like they are positively contributing to the safety and welfare of, for example, families with qualified asylum claims, or helping identify children being trafficked across the border.
Thank you for sharing this, some of these are pure gold.

This one is just fun

- "Sorkin is going to have a custom GIF library curated by @jposhaughnessy."

These sound like fodder for an insider trading prosecution:

- "Saved a man going into an interview with that. One of my favorite funds rn."

- "Amazing company. I was thinking more in terms of deploying, deleting, etc."

- "Canceling sneaky charges is one of the most predictable but consequential developments of the 2020s."

- "YC partners know, because they get around advertising, because a lot of material on this."

- "Could agree more. Have looked at a bunch of #rockstarninjas but ended up with a bigger bag of money they will leave you to secure the bag."
Ransomeware attack hits major US data center provider
This isn't specifically about tech, but The Culture Map by Erin Meyer is really worth reading.

I'm not 100% sold on it being correct, but it does give you a framework to think within when you're working with other people, no matter which culture you're from.

Forbes have a decent write-up:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rawnshah/2014/10/06/the-culture...
Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths

is pretty good on this topic.
It's how the system is intentionally designed. It's how people want it. They want high conviction rates and a 'tough on crime' attitude and don't really care much about truth or justice at all, especially if the accused is poor and doubly especially if they're also black.
I recommend reading beyond headlines to understand the world.
Think Andy Rubin was also at General Magic for a while.

Amazing how all the pieces fit together.
Results apparently vary. I tried this and the result was, shall we say, less than interesting.
The Amazon Is Completely Lawless: The Rainforest After Bolsonaro’s First Year
Right, and by that same logic, the author was just exploited by the buyers of Juicer, who thought they could make more money off his IP than they paid him for it.

There is no such thing as “true value”. Value is only what other people are willing to pay for something. Brad Pitt can make more money squinting into a camera holding a pair of sunglasses for 5 minutes, than a laborer might make in his whole life. But that’s because Brad Pitt makes the sunglass company more money by doing so.

By all means let’s clean up systemic issues that encourage an uneven playing field, but by “being exploited” we’ve increased the size of the pie for (almost) everyone in a way never before seen in history.
I'm somewhat sure you could make a similarly complicated looking chart that would entail:

- using ping

- sshing into a box

- using ssh port forwarding

- using ps aux

- understanding system load

- understanding oom killer messages

- is this systemd? use systemctl, otherwise figure it out

- is this systemd? use journalctl, otherwise figure out where an app is logging

- is nginx running? what box is it running on?

- is the nginx config okay?

- what about haproxy? are health checks going through?

Plus dealing with whatever configuration management system you're using, credential store you're using, etc.

Kubernetes, while complex, does take over a huge chunk of responsibilities from existing deployments. As such, a large part of any debugging will be done via kubectl and on a much different level of abstraction than if you were dealing with individual machines and services deployed on them via Ansible.

Yes, there's new things to learn. But for many cases (not even just scale!) it's quite worth it.
There are for sure a few concepts you need to learn with k8s, however I wonder if it would be much shorter if you did a guide like this for manually done / bash script powered / ansible deployments
Americans (and Europeans) are very used to the idea that no matter your race or creed you can be just as American as anyone else. We many times forget that not every country in the world acts this way. China being one of them.
More effort than batch reading physical books and tablets in old languages?

You can reuse interfaces easier on data, and current ML could probably pull some of the weight of interpreting old data right now, not to mention what we have 50 years from now.
I'd sure hate to be the guy who lost $460M lol
"Knight Capital Group realized a $460 million loss in 45-minutes."
The United States is likely the main cause of this immigration flow. We regularly meddle in the elections and politics of South American countries. [1]

Many of the immigrants coming to the US currently are fleeing Honduras, where we seemed to have supported a coup in 2011. [2]

Besides coups, our drug war has been exported to the area and has had a negative effect as well.

So yeah, the same people criticizing the US for meddling in other countries are criticizing it's immigration policy because the immigration problem is caused by the meddling. They think the United States should take responsibility for the problem it created.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

[2]
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-us-role-in-the-honduras-c...
Hopefully these kind of practices will be regulated in the future. Humanity needs to reduce energy and resource consumption as much as possible.

What happened to Google's modular phone?
IMO the corporate tax rate should be zero, and then everyone would be on the same playing field. Right now the only companies that pay taxes are small ones without the resources and staff to get around it. With 0% corporate tax, all of these games and shenanigans would end.

Also, corporate profits are double-taxed anyway, as taxes are paid once on profits then again as dividends / capital gains by the shareholders. This is one reason stock buybacks are so popular - way to benefit shareholders without the ridiculous double taxes.
In fact rumor has it that a major reason for the Brexit campaign was that there was a threat of very costly corporate tax loopholes being closed in new EU wide legislation.
Thoughts on developer sales in the public cloud age
So essentially it has, and is predicted to rise strongly due to effectively becoming relatively cheaper for lots of people.

So if it became relatively more expensive for lots of people, the trend might well go the other way....
I admit that some of what you say regarding wars and consideration of rights outside of US Soil are in decay of late, but please also inspect the extent to which the United States continues to protect the freedom and liberty of which you speak, generally, and some of the history involved in the current state of things.

Our current president is not the United States, despite his tendency to speak as if he is. I would argue he does not represent the main stream of American foreign policy and has continually fought against the majority opinion to protect institutions that preserve these freedoms and liberty (NATO / OTAN) and oppose actions that threaten said freedoms (annexation of crimea, etc).

September 11th had a huge impact on the country's view of civil liberties (rightly or wrongly is another discussion entirely) especially looking outward. While that might undermine the argument about America being a protector of liberties, I think it would be a mistake to believe that there is no belief held at all, or that America does not continue to fight for these beliefs. History is not something to rest on, but it does leave an indication of a country's intentions, I think.
But Google earns it's money from selling ads. If they are selling those ads to business in EU, the mechanics (and taxation) seem to be the same as (for example) a US graphic design company selling logo design services to businesses in EU.

What exactly is new here? Is it just the size (and wealth) of Google and similar companies that has encouraged the governments to try to take a larger slice of pie?
Downvote as quickly as possible
We are building a marketplace for finding remote jobs
> Nice! Can you share a link to the streaming attention code?

It uses our TensorFlow framework Returnn (https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn). We currently only have some configs/code online for hard attention variants, or segmental models. They can be found here: https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn-experiments/tree/master/2...

Note that the configs are maybe not so cleaned up, as this is very much research. This is for a paper we submitted to ICASSP. We did not publish the paper yet elsewhere, but I can send you a copy by mail (just contact me: albzey@gmail.com).

Also, as this is research focused, the encoder here is also a BLSTM, because we wanted to compare this work to other global soft attention models, and have the comparison mostly focused on the streaming attention modeling aspect. And also there is some lookahead, which is currently unlimited. So it would need a few modifications to really be used for online streaming. I'm also not sure whether this is the best model, or whether some of the many other variants (MoChA, RNN-T, etc) are maybe better.

Edit: I forgot, we also have some local windowed attention variants, which can also be applied for streaming: https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn-experiments/tree/master/2...
The FinnAPL Idiom list is absolutely invaluable as an exposition of how APL can be used to implement new abstractions. A little blue book published by the Finnish APL Association, it contains about 600 hand polished APL idioms. http://www.finnapl.fi/idilib.htm

APL is heady stuff for the right kind of mind. I remember Larry Breed demonstrating how the APL language notation often automatically extends two dimensional processing to three or more dimensions.
Everything by Simon Sinek, but most important for me is "Leaders Eat Last" [0]. I haven't read the last one (The Infinite Game), but I've heard it's pretty good as well.

Also Extreme Ownership [1] and Dichotomy of Leadership [2] by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.

All of these books had tremendous impact on me as a leader and I highly recommend them.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Leaders-Eat-Last-Together-Others/dp/B...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs-eboo...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Dichotomy-Leadership-Balancing-Challe...
>9front ships with two web browsers, both written as jokes and abandoned by their authors in prior decades. Neither of them support Javascript, CSS, or anything beyond a meager subset of HTML.

The dealbreaker for the vast majority of users still remains then. If I recall correctly though when I tested it some time ago there was a software making possible to run Linux binaries and it could be used to run Opera. Isn't this possible anymore?
Didn’t Danger get bought by Microsoft, who then released the Kin phone? And was only on the market for about a week.

Amazing anyone thought that was a good idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Kin
Not everybody uses Emacs?
Recently I was doing some research on the 5G roll-out. I found an interesting stat regarding LTE in the US: LTE performance in the US is lower than most places, but LTE coverage (supposedly) is generally good. I wonder if fudging the coverage numbers accounts for this oddity.

This could have an influence on 5G roll-out since US carriers are heavily indebted. If that's inhibiting capex and if the US network is already behind other nations' carriers' LTE networks because it was starved of capex, US carriers might be extra cautious about spending on 5G, which is supposed to raise opex, too.
Is "tax a company who is making vast amounts of money by operating in our country the same rates that we other businesses doing the same" really a controversial policy position?
My alltime fav:

Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca [Systems | Linux | Networking | Core CS]

Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ [Software | Product | Hiring | CEO of Stackoverflow]
The city of Portland did a study once where they removed trash cans in some parking garages and the amount of litter went down. The theory was that if there's trash on the ground (as there often is around trash cans, especially when they are full) people will throw more trash onto the pile. Get rid of the trash can and people will carry their trash out.
the way the impossibility is resolved is that the language itself isn't responsible for doing io, but rather it is responsible for (purely) constructing a value which represents an io computation to be performed. this value is constructed by using the bind operator to combine simpler io computation values together. that computation is then actually executed by the runtime system, which is conceptually external to the language itself. The language knows about evaluation of pure expressions, the runtime knows about execution of effectful actions.
2019 on Spotify
Help us out, champ.
Cross-Functional Development Teams – A Thought Experiment
Not sure what you mean...GraphQL is just the API endpoint. Using GQL or REST wouldn't make a difference on how suspense works.

You'd still query and display your data in the same way. Suspense will just be a wrapper around the component displaying the data.
> The USA behaves like Russia and China, they spy on foreigners, influence their elections, start unjustified wars for oil and generally have a very low regard for freedom and liberty outside of their soil.

That perfectly summarises the sentiment I get as a European in Europe, the UK and elsewhere in the world. The US is not different to any other bad actor. In fact the US looks increasingly worse to the rest of the world, which not only means that lots of other countries (and their leaders) lose respect for the US, but it also fuels a bigger sentiment that the Western values represented by the US are doomed to fail, because the US is visibly more plagued by social and criminal issues which you don't find elsewhere.
The Great CEO Within (great for non-CEO leaders too). Free here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw...!
Managing the Unmanageable, a second vote for Peopleware, The Mythical Man-Month, and The Conviction to Lead

https://b3n.org/programming-management-leadership-books/
This is "rolling coal":

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDxjge5hmY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/07/rolling-coal-con...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/business/energy-environme...