skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its always an issue with domain specific utterances. for the freely available data they are oov and have to be handled somehow (fe generate pronounciation with seqitur)
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> How does that make it OK for the feds to steal the money? It’s kind of dumb to walk around with a $1000 phone and a $4000 laptop as well.

It doesn't, and this LEO apologist narrative around here is what keeps things like this in place. This belief that such actions are the result of the victim's stupidity, and not the legal practices and judicial system that enable and ultimately legalize what amounts to theft is the source of the problem.

I feel bad for the elderly man, he came from a period where inherit Trust in law enforcement was basically the norm, perhaps ignorant and naive, but it can't help but underscore the times we live in.

For those who have never had anything taken away from them from Police its hard to explain the vulnerability and exposed sense of betrayal it leaves you with, especially when you're proven innocent. It makes you take so many precautions before leaving your home, not against the most cunning and slick of thieves, but those legally sanctioned to do so.
I remember when multi-finger gestures were still patented by apple so android couldn't implement despite the hardware capable of doing so [1]. Not sure what happened but the feature eventually land on android 2.x.

[1] https://androidcommunity.com/google-axed-android-multitouch-...
Pam Reynolds case
Of the initial 41 patients, 13 were admitted to ICU and 6 died(15%). This is the data the news has been missing and shows why China is taking this so seriously.
very very interesting, didnt know this one. as soon as i am having some hours left will try to run some evaluation on this. after all, for my project only performance in german language counts
Datomic is great but their focus on the paid AWS version limits its potential.
Wild how few on here note this as an error
I meant it makes sense as a reason for why people are downvoting.

I don't think it makes sense as a way of thinking about things. And I certainly won't stop commenting because some people find it disagreeable/distracting.
I’ll venture a guess.

I suppose that if we encode the state of a cloud of gas, we need relatively fewer bits to do so than something that requires more bits like a star. A star is like white noise, to a cold cloud of gas.

At the limit, you have gas particles all with zero velocity, so you can encode the velocity of each particle with no bits (I.E. constant of zero). Compare that to a star with every particle flying around at high temperatures. You’d need a number of bits to encode the velocity (state) of each particle.

Black holes require even more bits to encode the state of massive amount of particles they contain.

Am I close?
Planned obsolescence when technological progress comes in large leaps seems more forgivable, than when the technology improvements are quite small.

Also integrating parts that have widely different reasonable life spans into inseparable, non-repairable, non-upgradeable units is not responsible waste management.

And that’s what’s turning some of us into cranky luddites.
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Not necessarily; cameras in general tend to have much worse low light performance than our eyes.

Take, for example, the night sky. You can easily see the stars with the naked eye, but try getting them to show up in a photo. You’ll almost certainly need a long exposure.
This is a database for specialized workloads and not a general purpose DB like Postgres or MariaDB. This offtopic thread could derail discussion on an interesting topic.
It's entirely possible to contribute to projects that don't have massive backers. :)
Thanks for pointing them out. And no problem, I realize I wrote a big mass of text :) I will try to respond without going a big tangent!

I also invite anyone interested in language design to come chat on Zulip [1] or send me mail. I had called for participation in the Oil language design [2]. I got a bit of feedback but am interested in more, especially from people who have used many languages.

I view shell as kind of the lowest common denominator "bridge" language. e.g. Python programmers use it, OCaml programmers, C/C++ programmers, etc. but a lot of them don't view it as a language! I view that as a big missed opportunities, for reasons I will hopefully explain in the upcoming blog posts -- e.g. the one about uftrace I mentioned in this thread. e.g. Shell Helps You Write Better Native Code

[1] https://oilshell.zulipchat.com

[2] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/10/04.html
I have a handheld one by igeress that I got on amazon. It's basically a no name chinese one, so YMMV. They also have a pretty bad pollution problem too, so probably some of the better consumer ones are from there too.
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Earlier discussion of the same article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22151564
Far more tragic is the victim blaming mentality that eschews and condones such behavior because, Well it's 2020 and no one should should be using cash let alone said cash in a container and travel with it. Get a bank account or better yet, just use credit like the rest of us...
Would be cool if this could link to not only amazon USA bUt also those in other countries.
I don't think that's the case. When talking about emulation and virtualization and such, it is easy to get terms backwards.

For example, a bug in the implementation of a virtualized device looks like a hardware bug to the client and like a software bug to the host.
Well, if you end up were you start, hills don't matter to physics.
honestly i'm not sure. the particular adjunct i have in mind teaches one large lecture style class and a smaller (but still larger than topics class size) elective class.
> It is in essence a type of culture war hiding behind a so-called diagnostic manual

Right, OP was complaining that DSM changed because of politics, and my point was... "yeah, no shit, politics is inseparable from what the DSM is trying to do".

OP can't point to "real science" justifying either the original definition or the changed definition, because both are inherently outside the domain of science.
How has this not been turned into an underground bunker city?

https://youtu.be/ybSzoLCCX-Y
How is flutter's open source widget community?
for me it was exactly that, yes. we had powerful hardware and budget available so there was no reason to stick to statistical models. the available benchmarks showed that kaldi easily outperforms cmusphinx - when starting from scratch you typically select the leader i would say
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You are yourself jumping to damning conclusions about the OP, a person you don't know anything about except for what is written in his or her question. It is entirely possible that the OP is right and that the tech lead is an idiot. That is a valid reason for wanting to switch jobs.
Defying company policy, Amazon employees publicly object to corporate decisions
>You can scrape the non-stick coatings off of all your pans and eat it, and there will be no detectable fluorinated chemicals in your blood. PTFE is widely used for medical implants, and has been for over 50 years. Its track record is well established.

You fail to mention it's track record for straight up killing birds if you overheat it. Which, to be clear, we're talking about cookware. The odds of it getting left too long on the heat once in a while are very high.

It will kill your pet bird in seconds. Damage to humans? Unclear.
Technically Finland is not a part of Scandinavia, but neither is Iceland nor Greenland. However Finland is very much a part of the Nordic Countries (and so is Iceland and Greenland, et al.). And people sort of use the terms “Scandinavia” and “The Nordic Countries” interchangeably, as the distinction isn’t that important[1]. So for for all intents and purposes (barring being pedantic) Finland is a part of Scandinavia.

[1]: I’m not an expert on this, but I doubt there are many inter-Scandinavian cooperation happening any more that excludes the other Nordic Countries.
datasette looks cool. I am going to try it out for a tool that I am building (store all my metadata in a SQLite database).
Advent speakers were built in an era when society valued well-built products that lasted a long time. Then Moore's law made it cheap to add software to every product. This was seen as good because it meant you could customize, upgrade, and differentiate products simply by changing software. Where things went off the rails was when MBA types realized that software (together with the Internet) could also be used to force the customer to accept a rental model rather than a purchase model for hardware, thus extracting a recurring revenue stream from him/her.

The solution is of course for customers to fight back against this bullshit. But that requires competitors who don't play this game, and that requires VCs who will tolerate a healthy, slowly-growing business rather than one that grows exponentially and flames out. I hope we can return to that world someday.
I'll never forget the day I saw someone write, "If they have green bubbles they're not even worth talking to."
+1 particularly upsetting for apps like YouTube.
> Interestingly, the article makes no mention of the followup experiment where it seems a hospital invited a repetition and then claimed to have found 40 or so fake patients during the agreed period.

The reason is simple. This article is pure propaganda along the lines of the book "The great pretender" by Susannah Cahalan.

The experiment might have flaws, but this second part is conclusive and no critics ever address it.

This is just another brick on the long propaganda road to a destination that is very worrisome.
Isn't "brain structure [characteristic of a] sex" basically pseudoscience? We're rocking different hormone mixtures and maybe slightly different average skull sizes, but I'm under the impression that the later at least doesn't manifest in any measurable innate cognitive differences between males and females. That stuff went out the window with phrenology I think.
It's in so damn many skin products.
Okay, so you run a country that’s useful to more than one side of the conflict in terms of geography and resources. You want to maintain neutrality, sovereignty and trade. Do you

a) let everyone know where your production happens, your military strength, your points of defense, where your most critical infrastructure is and how it works, your general opinion of the combatants, what trade is important to you etc. or

b) urge anyone with strategically useful information to keep quiet about it to keep any interested party ignorant and wary?

No one answered the question as you thought they would because they frankly assumed a more favorable interpretation. Neutrality is not a state of indefinite peace. It has to be maintained actively.
> If you remove Edge from this list, the difference isn't that much between the browser engines. Notably WebKit (Safari) has some catching up to do

Chrome ships 7106 APIs. Firefox, 6376. Safari, 6130. So yes, the difference is that much.

> In no way does this point to Chrome shipping nearly a thousand more Web API's.

This is a dashboard for, wait for it, web APIs. And each tab talks about, wait for it, web APIs that developers can expect (or not expect) to be shipping in browsers.
Is there urbex down there? Seems pretty tempting.
They really should make the IoT part a module thats easily upgradable. I2S + 5V power is all thats technically needed. Maybe i2c ontop, to make the speaker model autodiscoverable and volume adjustable. But again offering such upgrade modules will open Sonos tech for 3rd party and enable eg. highend manufacturers to cater to Sonos customers or hobbyists to cheaply build Sonos speakers.
To follow on this, I've had more "wow" moments with Flutter than from any of the tech stacks I've ever worked with.

Flutter is a breath of fresh air after building and maintaining the same app over and over again for several platforms.
> It's really not that hard to autorotate, you do it at hour 8 in training.

Few students do full down autorotations, and no one does engine-off autorotations. Instructors also don't just roll the power off when students are not expecting it, as that would be far too dangerous. Successful autorotation in a real emergency means the pilot has to execute a difficult maneuver in conditions they've never before experienced.
You have many countries with racial stats. I also referred to the gender "issue" - not only race.
My guess would be that the people you are trying to reach are not reading reddit nor Hacker News.

In my experience, typical business folks are too busy running their business to look beyond their everyday problems. I have lost count the number of times I have come across people using a spreadsheet program as a form of database, e.g. for keeping track of customers and email as a hierarchical filing systems, etc.

Perhaps you should read: "eMyth". The basic message is that most people are working "in" their business and not "on" their business. Which in turn means that only a tiny percentage of business owners would be even thinking about looking for some form of improvement.

Lest I sound too negative. My advice is to get up from the computer and go and talk to small business people, e.g. networking events, chambers of commerce, etc.
Novel Coronavirus May Not Have Originated in Wuhan Seafood Market
Not enough.

This article is nothing but propaganda.

These experts never explained why homosexuality was considered a mental illness and later that decision was reverted.
Neither of those changes was ever justified.

It's almost like those decisions are made with no objective criteria.
From the original 1996 proposal "A Standard Default Color Space for the Internet - sRGB" (https://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB):

> The effect of the above equations is to closely fit a straightforward gamma 2.2 curve with an slight offset to allow for invertability in integer math. Therefore, we are maintaining consistency with the gamma 2.2 legacy images and the video industry as described previously.
I've avoided Sphinx after trying to use it, because:

1. Compiling it is hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There is no official package in any Linux distribution, so packaging anything with it is incredibly painful. There's no easy way to cross-compile your project, so you'll end up working around the build process.

2. The documentation is woeful.

> Recent CMUSphinx code has noise cancellation featur. In sphinxbase/pocketsphinx/sphinxtrain it’s ‘remove_noise’ option. In sphinx4 it’s Denoise frontend component. So if you are using latest version you should be robust to noise in some degree already. Most modern models are trained with noise cancellation already, if you have your own model you need to retrain it.

> The algorithm impelmented is spectral subtraction in on mel filterbank. There are more advanced algorithms for sure, if needed you can extend the current implementation.

Inconsistent methods across the codebases prevents you knowing where to look, and if it is documented, it may involve spelling errors which you have to guess around (like above). Also plenty of vague references to other documents that may or may not even exist.
I switched a year ago and the only thing that is truly, fundamentally, worse about the experience is notifications. Somehow iOS notifications (swiping away, interacting, everything) are just incredibly clunky compared to Android. Throw in the baffling decision to separate the state of the "Notification Center" from what appears on the lock screen and it makes for a terrible experience.

I don't regret the decision, it's just frustrating that this one thing is so far behind everything else.
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There are plenty. The Pulitzer prize winners and finalists last year seems a good place to start.

https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2019
I like the way he puts it on the baffling share icon: “ I'm still pretty confused with what that arrow out of a box even means.”

To me that sums up the era when Jony Ive and the anti-skeuomorphic crowd took over the asylum. There are so many UX flaws since iOS 6. Luckily for Apple, Google and the Android crowd came out with Material Design that is a bad imitation of what went wrong with Apple instead of copying what went right during Steve Jobs era.

Skeuomorphic design is a great enabler for Human Computer Interaction and allows the layman to quickly grasp things.

And why is Airdrop and the toggle for the Hotspot hidden in the control center of the lock screen when you can fit umpteen icons onto the real estate? I have had to show that feature to multiple friends who have always been iOS users. Function has to come before “prettiness.”

And the notch is not pretty by any measure. I prefer fingerprint on the screen or behind the phone like Google did with the Nexuses.
If so I applaud them, it’s non-obvious and perfect. Taking del.icio.us back to the very beginning
> "we own everything you do" -- is not the same as "every other company" .. flatly false

This is not a commonly held position, but maybe we can use a third party to mediate the dispute. Joel Spolsky has written on the subject not that long ago[1]:

> So before you hire this developer, you agree, “hey listen, I know that inventing happens all the time, and it’s impossible to prove whether you invented something while you were sitting in the chair I supplied in the cubicle I supplied or not. I don’t just want to buy your 9:00-5:00 inventions. I want them all, and I’m going to pay you a nice salary to get them all,” and she agrees to that, so now you want to sign something that says that all her inventions belong to the company for as long as she is employed by the company.

> This is where we are by default. This is the standard employment contract for developers, inventors, and researchers.

So let's meet in the middle: it is an uphill battle to get an employer to assign IP created 'off the clock' to you. Even when I was working for a public university, for a department dedicated to supporting open source, they had me sign an IP agreement. I don't have the text of the contract to quote you, but as I recall it was the same 24/7/365 overreach.

Amusingly, this leads to a substantial conflict; I hear tales of people circumventing the policy by using a personal email account to land things upstream.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
>you mean construct the periodic extension?

Yes. A more common language felt appropriate given the broad background of the audience, and I also didn't handle any boundaries or edge cases in the functions whose existence I invoked -- if you'd like to poke holes.

>don't know what about the fourier series is forced...?

Does it not feel at least a little unnatural to require infinitely many coefficients to describe a process that can otherwise be understood with a small, finite number of elementary operations? Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder, and I can't fault you if that's your viewpoint, but I do not agree.

>can you give an example? when comparing piece-wise definitions and fourier series definitions i think the fourier series is the more natural.

Another comment mentioned the sawtooth function. It seems your viewpoint is that the fourier series is the more natural description of periodic phenomena, perhaps because of its ability to represent many (but definitely not all) periodic functions. One can, however, capture _all_ periodic functions with a piecewise description, and depending on the function (e.g. the sawtooth) this alternative approach might be considerably simpler to write out and explain. That doesn't necessarily make it more elegant in your eyes (and IMO theorems which are too general purpose can lose sight of what made them worthwhile in the first place), but if not then I'm not sure that either of us have enough material to convince the other of their chosen view.
The https address surprisingly isn't
https://del.icio.us/
> It costs zero if you're a student living with parents who feed you and provide for you.

False. Hence me mentioning those other markets where the economic climate is must worse than the US - yet you have people making it work. Kenya/Nigeria fantastic examples.
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> anything that lets you into my phone when I'm dead or otherwise incapacitated is generally off limits.

I don't know if the gaze detection can be fooled by a corpse with its eyes open, but supposedly Face ID checks for body temperature as well.
Thanks. I’ve been looking for a good Polish buffet ever since Bobak’s closed.
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This whole thing is a fascinating social experiment, rolling out in real time and online. This is unprecedented, and has never been done before in the modern world, with planes and high speed trains connecting everything.

You must at least give credit to the actions of the central China government, for implementing such a strict lockdown.

I suspect that this thing will blow over in a month. The infected will be quarantined, and allowed to recover. The mortality rate now stands at 3%.

For comparison, the Spanish Flu of 1918 killed 20%.

In the United States, last year’s bird flu killed 8%.

The greatest fear about this virus, is the unknown. But this time, science came to the rescue. The Chinese scientists were able to sequence the genome in 3 weeks. That’s an astonishing feat in itself.

The genome signature was quickly shared with the world, and everyone took up safety precautions.

Thus, the human race will survive this virus too. Individually, you may not be as lucky, if you’re old and have other complications.

But more people know about it, and those that feel sick, will self-isolate (hopefully).

Maybe the best thing to come out of this, is that the central government will finally clamp down on wild life trade, and to force their society to adopt a more sterile and cleaner food procurement system. They now have the reason to mandate such a change to their society.

Normally, progress in society moves one slow step at a time. But sometimes, with an incident like this, you can give it the jolt it needs to change directions, and to take a new path.
I don’t think it should have the www in the url. This url looks different than the submitted one: https://del.icio.us/
I went down to these mines on a school field trip as a child 30+ years ago. I can almost remember it like it was yesterday, even the smell, and the surprising warmth despite it being the dead of winter outside. I kept a chunk of salt I brought back under my bed for years after that.
It would be more accurate so say that they've resisted looking for one. And even that's a bit unfair, since doing proper experiments (with basic features like a control group, never mind replication or blinding) in sociology, economics, or political 'science' is somewhere between crushingly expensive and outright impossible.
It's a one page summary with pictures rather than a research paper or such like. There's quite likely some article with sources elsewhere.
One of the things I used to love the most about HN was that comments weren't downvoted simply due to disagreement, unlike Reddit where any opinion against the hivemind gets downvoted to oblivian.

Making it acceptable to downvote based merely on differences in opinion lowers the quality of discussion, promotes groupthink, and makes people not want to waste time putting any actual effort into writing comments.
It is true that naked eyes can't do long exposures. It is not true that you can't do a long exposure of something that is also visible to the naked eye.
Interestingly, in real life there are no salt mines in Upper Michigan, where the main Enrichment Center is located. There are plenty of other mines, though.

Maybe all of those old test chambers were vitrified in salt instead of just concrete, come to think of it...