skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask yourself: Do you really need ML to solve the problems you're interested in solving?

If you're learning it for career purposes, keep in mind that many corporate ML use-cases are problematic at best. At worst, you will produce something that kills someone inadvertently, possibly more than one person.

Learn about the many pitfalls and limitations of ML. Learn about inadvertent bias in datasets. Learn about the issues with inputs not represented (or not adequately represented) in your training dataset.

Most importantly, understand that ML is not magic and without significant guardrails in place, there's a good chance something will fuck up.
You can get a sweet deal on your personal taxes by coming to Portugal, and I hear Spain has a good scheme as well.
> should be avoiding most of the plastic in the diet just by our choices in where the food comes from.

We used to put microplastics into cosmetic products. Microbeads are caught in sewage treatment plants, and the sludge is used as fertilizer which is how these microbeads end up in food.

https://echa.europa.eu/-/echa-proposes-to-restrict-intention...

> ECHA’s assessment found that intentionally added microplastics are most likely to accumulate in terrestrial environments, as the particles concentrate in sewage sludge that is frequently applied as fertiliser. A much smaller proportion of these microplastics is released directly to the aquatic environment.

Some microplastic (mostly fibres from clothing) is so fine it's blown into the sky by wind, and brought down by rain.
I haven't been able to wrap my head around why Sweden is so against it wither.
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Nonsense. It's quite possible to achieve interstellar travel without controlled fusion.
Right now, in this time and place, a news source that has admitted ties to Russia and the Syrian government, is a right wing news source in the States.

A weird outcome I agree.
I'm a progressive that believes that good governance is a good thing, but "big gov" is off-putting right out of the gate. I think the better phrasing would be: "You need a wise and uncorrupted government to pull this off".
"They don't need much time to catch up."

How would we know ? None of the german automakers are making any of their cars electric.

They are making electric cars - iMobiles and eMachines and Tron-mobiles - one-off islands of manufacturing and design that have no connection to their actual product lines.

These are characterized by model-specific very gaudy exterior design flourishes, big seas of screens on screens on screens in the interior and, worst of all, performance numbers that are cautiously restrained by the existing ICE lines they don't want to cannibalize.

We don't want your electric car. We want your car, electric.

Wake me when there is an electric 7 series or Range Rover or A8 (or Volvo v90).
Yes, the repetitive angry comments, which get snarkier and snarkier to distinguish themselves, certainly get boring. But posts like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21923259 are not any way to combat this–it just leads to second-order versions of the same thing. The only way to combat it is to post substantive, thoughtful first-order comments of your own. Or failing that, at least not to feed it by not posting.
I see no reason a tweet like that couldn't be a mutually beneficial one. Seiko gets the shout-out and in exchange apple gets a better deal and also telegraphs a little tidbit that shows thought and quality that go into Apple products.
AFAIK Snips.ai supports recognizing wake words on the pi zero w, and then have the actual speech recognition happen on some other machine.

I guess something similar should be possible with Rhasspy?

I was part way through a "smart speaker" project and planned to use Snips.ai, but I see now that they've been bought by Sonos so Rhasspy is looking pretty tempting now.

However my plan was to use pi zero's at the speaker end, with my beefier HA machine doing the speech recognition.
A recurrent discussion around security.txt is the question "would it actually solve the problem?".

In this case, we've been advised the project's maintainer is MIA. A security.txt file containing a maintainer's email address wouldn't change anything, as WinonaRyder indicates they have already tried to contact them. Given we appear to be talking about a software product, it's also not clear whether security.txt would just contain contact details for a web developer not related to the software itself. There are many projects living on Github that can't use the /.well-known/ URL after even if they wanted to.

That's assuming the author opted in to created a security.txt, which they would have to do in just the same way as any other program.
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I, as an individual, choose to use a low tax savings scheme to minimize my tax burden. I also make sure to claim every tax credit (or subsidy) that I'm entitled to. Am I a 'spike' in society?

Have you been using “Double Irish” accounting? Do you keep your money offshore and lobby the government for favourable laws that let you repatriate the money while avoiding billions in taxes?

No, probably not. You’re doing what normal people do as part of the game. You probably don’t have your own accounting department with a payroll in the millions whose entire mission is to scour the tax codes of every country in the world, looking for loopholes like this.

A “Spike” is someone who will stop at nothing to win. They bring in the most obscure rules and take maximum advantage of every possibility, convenience be damned. You just sound like a sensible person who makes the best of the laws as they were designed for people like you.
Possibly. On this topic (machine learning, differentiable programming, GPU and parallel computing) I'd recommend the following videos:

https://youtu.be/FGfx8CQHdQA

https://youtu.be/OcUXjk7DFvU

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07587

https://youtu.be/7Yq1UyncDNc

https://youtu.be/_E2zEzNEy-8

https://youtu.be/6ntJ_al4oXA

https://youtu.be/HfiRnfKxI64
You could go cheaper with double edge razors, too. I have one of the more basic models from Merkur, and spent $20 on it. You can get a 1-2 year supply (assuming you don't require a fresh blade on every shave and/or don't shave daily) of basic Astra blades for about $10. The soap might end up being the most expensive part.

The price goes up quickly if you go for the luxury brands. I've never tried them, because I'm cheap, so I couldn't really speak to whether they're worth the extra cost. But I assume that anyone who's in the Barbasol-and-disposables is also cheap, so they wouldn't be likely to consider the higher-end kit, either.
My eye doctor doesn't have great interpersonal skills. He made me feel like I was wasting his time when I asked a question. He always answered them, though, and he did cataract surgery really well. I wasn't paying him for his interpersonal skills.
What’s your market?
No, it's not still true, and rtkit is just a convenience item that has nothing to do with core kernel policy.

The use of nice to try to adjust scheduling of audio apps (the entire application or specific threads) is completely off-base. If you use SCHED_OTHER, you're making a declaration that timing is not important. You can bump the nice value of a SCHED_OTHER thread, and that will change its behavior among the pool of the other SCHED_OTHER threads, but that's almost never useful in an audio app.

Now, ionice is another (and more complex) story ...
Keep in mind that many pieces of software are not intended to be resistant to DoS vulnerabilities. For example, any C++ compiler can be made to use exponentially large amounts of memory and CPU time by feeding it a specially crafted program; this is not normally considered a DoS vulnerability because you aren't supposed to feed untrusted input to your compiler.
It indeed does not add up, it's an absurd statement.
How much of this is trade policy, ie politics, and how much is the changing tech economy? The US has the strongest corporate IP protections. How much of this shift is because the planet is spending less on physical items and more on IP? Software instead of hardware? Downloadable movie licenses rather than physical DVDs? That would mean Americans importing fewer physical goods and, conversely, non-Americans sending more money into the US in exchange for IP licenses?

Such changes look good at scale, but mean less to people on the ground. I'd rather see someone in the US get a job building something than iTunes sell more music overseas. The sale of IP doesn't trickle down to the shop floor as quickly as the sale of physical objects. It's an economic reality we have yet to properly address but one that can hide in such statistics.
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You can be sure the next air traffic controller in similar situation (gear in service, lone shift) will voice his concerns and deny work instead of putting people in danger.
Agreed, lots of no-name Chinese mp3 players out there at good prices; buy a box of 10 of the super simple $5 USB/SDHC models and you’ll be set for years to come.
Completely agree. Tax preparation is actually work the government should pre-fill. Australia does this. You can do your taxes online free and/or get an accountant or an army of accountants if your affairs are that complex. Frankly, the government should do the initial assessment for you generated automatically from the many, many existing surveillance systems already in place. They are watching all financial transactions and you might as well assume they are.

To even imply otherwise, and I've seen other comments say they shouldn't / don't have this already in place... even when social media companies are slurping data every way they can... seems absurd.

All that said, you should go through each item and correct their mistakes. Those matching systems aren't perfect.
I have no idea what "Mint Press" is and it is not what I'm referring to when I talk about the right-wing blogosphere ("blogosphere" is the wrong word; whatever the word that captures "online community" is what I'm looking for; Michelle Malkin, who was just booted from YAF(!) for vouching for white supremacist Nick Fuentes, took a picture with Justina Pelletier, and Mike Huckabee wrote an article about it.)

I'm neither making up nor projecting the fact that Justine Pelletier is a cause celebré among right-wingers.

Incidentally: I'm not casting aspersions (in this instance). Like I said downthread, nobody in this story (except Justina herself) comes out looking good. Justina's parents? Just awful. BCH? Not much better. Of course, nobody looks worse than Martin Gottesfeld.
Mutex and Spinlocks are abstractions / programming language constructs used to solve the following class of problems:

Problem

1. We have a process with multiple threads of execution (e.g. A and B).

2. A and B will at some point act on the same data or object state.

3. Both A and B can't operate on the same data at the same time.

Mutexes function more or less as locks. They lock up your data to prevent unwanted race conditions. In multithreaded environments, a thread of execution has to acquire a mutex prior to accessing the data. Once it's done operating on the data, it releases the mutex so that another thread of execution can acquire it.

Mutexes are again, simply locks. But not all locks are the same. Locks come in different shapes and sizes and work in different ways. Same with mutexes, they can have different semantics.

Spinlocks are a kind of mutex that cause threads trying to acquire them to spin or loop around while waiting for the resource to be available.
Meh. Show me credible data on actual overdoses. The addictive potential is definitely there but is present elsewhere and otherwise accepted.

And for when it is in an addictive context, is it merely replacing an unhealthier habit with a more benign one?
Yes, I think the library still isn't ready for non HPC experts to use without tinkering. I don't have that level of expertise. I'm a data person who can handle working tools.
yeah...

I dislike the term 'bleeding heart liberal', but I think it applies here. There's a difference between 'love thy fellow man' and 'worry about the health of an intruder in your home at 3am'.
The EC considers the scheme illegal (though it's still being appealed in court).
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Exactly!

One cannot do ML without some basic theoretical knowledge of Statistics and Probability. This gives you the What and the Why behind everything. GI-GO is more true of ML than other disciplines. The techniques used are so opaque that if you don't know what you are doing, you can never trust the results.
That creates a pre-filled two dimensional array as a one-liner.
For a stupid man like me, I think the "head first" series from Oreilly is the ultimate answer, you will be just able to understand all the things in the books, even stupid like me.
Or you could try to find data structures that influence execution flow, or get the JIT compiler to write the bytes for you.
They believe that it is a bad thing that bad people do. And that because they're bad people they deserve bad things to happen. Because drugs are bad, m'kay?

Seriously, I can only guess because none of it makes sense to begin with.
Amen! Yes, just more one-sided views from the right/left paradigm. Clearly, not a news source intellectuals such as you and I would follow. Foxnews isn't even funded by the government like NYT and NPR, so how exactly can they claim to be trustworthly or unbiased?

I'm living with my parents currently. Their Alexa recommended the following news site, which is quite informative. I'm on the go a lot, looking for a job. Fortunately, my hybrid has a Bluetooth connection to my iPhone which enables me to listen while driving. I'm able to catch the latest headlines each day. It's one of the best-unbiased sources out there. I encourage you to check it out. Best wishes!

https://www.libtards.news/
Or maybe you could siphon just a teeny little bit from your military-industrial complex.
In following order:

1. Michael Nielson's book: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

2. Stanford CS231n course: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/

3. DRL hands on book: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Hands-Q-n...

After this churn through research papers or medium articles on conv net architecture surveys, batchnorm, LSTM, RNN, transformers, bert. Write lots of code, try things out.
The docs mention open hardware and software voice solutions at Mycroft:

https://mycroft.ai/shop/
I would be careful grouping everything related to human communication with office politics.

Things like effectively communicating ideas, getting people aligned on a project, improving team morale etc. are very important soft skills that deserve to be rewarded.

Wasteful politics like sucking up to the right people, claiming credit for others work by giving the higher ups an inaccurate view of your contributions, putting others down etc. are what gets people promoted more often from what I've noticed, and should not be confused with good communication skills.
What does this trick do?
That was supposed to be GHB.
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Pivot tables in Excel.

Manager came to me and showed me this spreadsheet he spent 2 weeks making. ( he was very proud ).

I asked why he didn’t use a pivot table. He’d never heard of them.

60 seconds later I had recreated his report from scratch.

I’m a programmer and I still use them to try out ideas before going to code.
> This is the single largest and most destructive fire season in Australian history.

This is just not true.

173 human beings died in bush fires in recent history in 2009, Black Saturday as it's known.

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

But I guess this is to be political about the PM perhaps.

I guess the whole article is a lie

> Bushfires in Australia so big they generate pyrocumulonimbus starting more fires

Since it's clearly going out to sea from the picture. And it wouldn't be hard to overlay lighting data if it was causing lightning.

But god forbid we'd talk about pyro-cumulonimbus, and instead we'd talk about the far less talked about topics we are discussing.
What a great way to put it.

What's great is that learning assembly is like taking the first step to understanding the bridge between software and hardware.

I remember a taking class that started out as confusing as hell. The first few exercises seemed really mystical and just so brittle. You'd have to be a wizard to ever get this, one thinks. But by the end of the class, we made an asteroids-like game, complete with RNG based on input timing (the time between game execution and when the user clicked start). That was really an enlightening moment.
> Only rarely do you write emails were the message is complex enough that writing will force you to think it through carefully, which is the (very real) benefit the author is referring to.

Actually, I used to, and occasionally still do. The problem is that no one reads them. People's attention span is quite short, and they get too many emails. When they see an email with 3+ paragraphs, and they also see they have 20 more emails in the inbox to go through, they just mark the email to read for later, and later never happens.
TL;DR if you give people a RW primitive out of the gate you’re going to have a bad time.
"So the only question is, how long can they be papered over?"

I know that one. Nov 4th 2020... Once they get re-elected, they don't care what happens... especially since Impeachment won't matter anymore and the 40% that love him don't care what he does.

I hope everyone on here who can vote, does.
Came here to make both of these suggestions!
Did you create indices on the columns you wanted to join?
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You should probably create an index on the tables first and save the result into a temporary table.
> any C++ compiler can be made to use exponentially large amounts of memory and CPU time by feeding it a specially crafted program

Doesn’t even need to be specially crafted, I wrote a <100 line C++ program to solve a Project Euler problem just yesterday that runs in 0.5s with ~2.5GB of RAM but takes clang++ 50GB of RAM to compile. I could easily tweak a param to make it use any multiple of that to exhaust the RAM on any workstation. Surprised me a bit honestly.
You can sterilize them, but you still risk contamination during surgery. Presumably, a smoother surface from a new device is a slightly lower risk.
But you got ahold of it despite its legality. Ironic, no?

These drugs should be treated as seriously as any other (know your drug!). Some will fail to do that, but that is how it goes.

The moment I hear "drug X caused this bad thing to happen" I think of how much suffering alcohol consumption does globally on a daily basis. That tempers all associated concerns.
This is extremely right. If you see it as notation, or an actual language, instead of the paper tape-emulating languages we have around now, it's actually one of the only sane ways to do it.
Great start! Reminds me a bit of https://nanagram.co/, the creator of which I believe posts here.
This is great! Did you generate this, or did you do it by hand?
sed patching
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I don't buy lottery tickets for myself, but I do participate in the office pool. When you think of it as insurance against being left out, it suddenly seems much more plausible than winning on your own, to a pessimist.
And when the shareholders want to maintain their after-tax income, they can certainly pass the buck to the customers or the employees, to a certain extent.
It doesn't help that we (the US) continued to improve our weapons systems - both offensive and defensive - as if the Cold War were still going on.
I'll take this time to say that every open source project should have a contributing file with a way to report security bugs properly. It's as simple as providing an email address for security bugs.

In this case, yes. Dig up any info to try to contact the author privately.
XSV is extremely fast. I have a high frequency trading data api that powers my analytics. The data coming in as json which I write to a RAMDISK. Then I transform json to csv using jq and use xsv to get the data segments and strats I need.

Despite pretty basic code, the performance is very good.
The very act of printing too much currency would cause the dollar to become less and less safe.

A low levels of quantitative easing, it won’t matter much, but there is definitely an inflection point.
Sometimes its ok to be recreational :-)

The most profound thing about DMT was learning that what I saw decades ago is a shared experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine

For actual learning, LSD/Psilocybin is a much gentler teacher.
oh boy, if you're worried about the spit. You should throw away all the shoes you've worn in SF.

There's poop on it.
This is very interesting. How does this compare with CameraX for which Google has built an entire building with hundreds of cameras as a testlab ?

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/301298-camerax-googles...

https://developer.android.com/training/camerax
I'd be interested for someone to start or point out a list of IP thefts in some timeline table in Wikipedia much like the list of soviet defectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Eastern_Blo...
I'd file a motion for summary judgement immediately on the basis that there has been no prosecution of the "victim" and similar for their identical behaviour.
Excerpt:

"So I had this hypothesis that if instead of making a simple portfolio site, if we actually made a blog and just shared dope art we love with the world, it might give people a reason to come back.

See, as artsy friends, we used to email each other all the coolest artists we found surfing the internet and would “ooh” and “aah” together. We were honestly quite snobby! We thought we had extremely good taste, lol. So I proposed instead of keeping it internal, we would share what we find in one place, a blog.

The rules were simple, we could share any kind of visual art in any medium, as long as there were no politics, the only rule was that the art had to be “dope.”

And so Empty Kingdom was born. (website now defunct)

I still remember to this day, the night of our “launch.”

We were sitting around with some beers asking each other how many visitors would it be nice to have by the end of the year. We thought a few thousand would be incredible.

We had no intention of “marketing” it, we would just create it and see what happened.

And within 11 months we got 1.8 million unique visitors that crashed our site multiple times (broke college students that didn’t have a penny for hosting). At our peak, I think we were reaching 5 million visitors a year.

The crazy part was this was with zero marketing. It was pure organic reach before organic reach was a term. We literally didn’t even bother announcing it to our friends and family. The internet found us, loved us, and shared with us. Our number one source of traffic was Stumbleupon."