skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really have to consider follow-on effects. It's like outsourcing all your manufacturing -- eventually you'll need something local and won't be able to get it, and everyone local who could otherwise have helped will resent you for selling out your industry.
I didn't know that Lime shut down either. I haven't been out to see but I wonder if they collected up their scooters, or if they are all just sitting with their batteries draining. If the batteries go out entirely how will they find the scooters later?
I have a hard time believing how gravity could be measured at such a small scale. Is it possible to video record the experiment? Maybe with some layman explanation.

I would like to make my own gravity experimentation. Is this something I could do at home?
It's a pretty funny question and it's worth it just for that answer programming hello world as a bitmap.
They should have a checkbox to disable AI. :)

Something as simple as Apache Lucene would beat Google's algorithm any day for relevance.

But I guess Google doesn't care for relevance, they just care to show you ads.
Don't criticize. Be solidary. Get yourself useful
I use RSS and read it with Feedbin: https://feedbin.com/

For all then”RSS is dead!” posts, nearly all blogs support it (and the few that don’t can email Feedbin instead of my real email address: https://feedbin.com/help/how-to-subscribe/).
Picture This? Some Just Can’t (2015)
Think about UX, though. I know I want to go all the way to the wall because I'm thinking ahead. I might press it four times when it just needs three moves. It adds nothing to the game for me that I'm penalized for this, it just makes the UX arbitrarily worse.

You can stick to your guns here, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that it improves the game.

What's also annoying is that I don't know if I have suboptimal moves because I accidentally hit some walls or because there's a better solution.
AFAIK Apple Newton still lives and people still write programs for it despite it being discontinued 22 years ago.
Someone bumped my rear last year and their insurance company had me take the car to a body shop.. to be re-painted. I don't know what final cost was but I heard an estimate that put it at roughly the value of a new bumper. Of course buying a new bumper and installing it would be a much quicker & simpler job than sanding and painting an old bumper (this is Honda btw, replacement bumpers come pre-painted), but it wouldn't allow the body shop to make as much profit.
Ditto. I’ve an HP touchpad that i got in that famous firesale. It works like a charm even today and i like it as a minimal reading device. The UI was so ahead of its time
500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
> Several studies have demonstrated that it is cheaper to avert climate change than to deal with the effects.

Studies based on climate models that are overpredicting warming, plus economic and sociological models that have even less predictive power.

> moving coastal cities or engineering mega-projects to combat flooding

If your coastal city has a problem with sea level rising a couple of feet, your coastal city has already had a problem for a century or more, and you ignored it. How is that all of a sudden a climate emergency?

> your problem has not gone away

I've already said climate change is something we're always going to have to deal with, just as humans have had to deal with it during all of human history. The idea that we can magically stop the climate from changing ever again is ridiculous.
http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/

Read it if you want to read something about R and simplifying things. You can also refresh the front page for some random quotes.

It's quite new and doesn't have a lot of posts yet.
Can anybody recommend a good tape drive for SOHO use?
They need to start fresh, with no sacred cow when it comes to expenses. Universities have become so bloated is not even funny.
https://commoncog.com/blog/ I write mostly about career moats.

I wrote a post about the Metagame that was on HN's front page a few weeks ago. But the context in which that post exists is actually in the context of smart thinking in one's career.

My hard rule with the blog is that I should (as much as possible) write only about things I can verify through practice. None of that 'it sounds insightful because it is novel, but actually I came up with it in the shower and I've not actually tested it in real life'.

It makes it a little difficult to write these days, as I'm doing a lot of thinking, reading, and experimenting around the recession. I should have more in a few months.
I think that's a wise choice. The zig ecosystem doesn't need people that get hung up on that.
No quick tips, but can highly recommend the book The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane. It has some great exercises that help you build habits to overcome many things, including imposter syndrome.
I ended up filling the grain with wood filler dyed black and make it pop and then layered a few coats of trans-red from a spray can so you can still see the grain. It’s not a glassy finish but that’s what I was going for and the colour is amazing! I always wanted a red strat with a black pickguard and gold hardware so I thought why not!

I’m personally a fan of leaving the wood visible but the best thing is you can do whatever you want and it’ll be awesome because you made it.
Augmented Reality Am Smartphone – Wilde Tiere Im Wohnzimmer
That is unlikely to happen. Crystal has no corporate backing, it has no distinguishing features (in comparison to other, more popular languages), and most of all, it has no Rails.
I work at a University in Australia and have been on both sides of academic and professional. This unravelling was on the horizon for everybody, maybe not so soon, but definitely in the viewport. In an effort to drive up income streams there has been a slow erosion of Australian education (more at some universities than others) to cater for the international (Chinese and Indian predominantly) market. There are all sort of perverse incentives built in to erode educational benefits, hand hold students, make university 'fun', something that used to be part of the student body's remit, but having crushed that movement it is now where a lot of money is being spent at many universities. Not on academics, not on labs, but on comfort, edtech, busy work and asinine initiatives underpinned by endless erroneous reporting by consultants to make execs feel like they are 'doing good'. I know - it is hard not to sound bitter, but it is a tragedy of short sightedness. The recruitment of students is predatory and eventually the saturation of subpar graduates from these university degrees would have eventually resulted in the fading of both cultural and brand name prestige of sending your kids to Australia for study. This is also tied to cheap international student labour, housing that pockets the inner cities that nobody who isn't a trapped rich international would live in and a segregation of the university student community that is unhelpful.
I feel I myself come from a similar background to the author. We both think heavily from time to time on the theory of work in philosophical, management theory, mechanistic and (computer) scientific frames. We see correlations. However, I always fear I'm falling into some trap of reductive reasoning or worse, finding I'm really an Anti-realist at heart.

The author would do well to look into management theory, initially Harold Leavitt's Diamond in “Applied Organization Change in Industry” now more commonly distilled down to golden triangle of "People, Process and Technology".

I don't know the answer, not can I offer any overarching counter-argument but I feel a deeper understanding of lessons learned in management theory and operating models for the author might help in their next iteration.
Casually throwing around the term "lol" in an overly optimistic baseless projection of how long this pandemic is going to last IS extremism.

Are you literally "laughing out loud" about how quickly and painlessly you predict this is all going to be over? Or are you laughing at people who are taking it more seriously than you do? Really, what's so funny?

If you're going to be extreme, then at least be extremely CAREFUL instead of extremely FLIPPANT.
Does anyone know what can be done with a Chumby? I got one free from a startup that went belly up.
I have heard of two patients in london who were immuno compromised and recovered quicker than a "normal" person.

The real damage occurs when the immune system ramps up to attack the virus, but ends up attacking the cells they are living in as well. Now, most of the time this is fine an normal, but it can also trigger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome which is a nasty feedback loop.

There are experiments to give immuno-suppressants at key times to try and limit the damage. But its tricky and dangerous.
That’s normally a sound strategy but in this case, the individual authors matter a lot more than the entity. Scott Gottlieb, the first author, is the ex-commissioner of the FDA and widely trusted by all parties.

The doc is as close as the country has to a plan and has been covered (or recycled) by many mainstream newspapers. Here’s Boston Globe’s coverage: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/nation/new-roadmap-la...
My Hewlett Packard calculator from the 80s (HP28s)
If there is, it will cost 5x as much. They really don’t like special handling.
https://adr.org/ClassArbitration
If only all the attention and love for Golang goes for Crystal. I will keep dreaming... :)
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If the final price of repairing the bumper was the same (or nearly same) as buying and installing a new bumper, why do you say the former has a higher profit margin? Surely it's more profitable to spend fewer hours and earn the same revenue - as they would do by installing a new bumper?
How can you have funding if there's literally no expectation of future revenues? What you're describing is a high-variance expectation, not the absence of one. High variance distributions are still capable of having their mean lowered.
https://blog.drake-brockman.id.au/

I very occasionally write things about studying medicine or my musings about computers.
> The (now historical) observations are riding the lower end of the predicted range from 1990

No, they're lower than the low end of the predicted range. Plus, the low end of the predicted range was based on assumed CO2 emissions that were significantly lower than what has actually occurred since then. So we have more CO2 than predicted and less warming than predicted even from the lower than actual CO2.

> even the low estimates still predict a 3C temperature rise by the end of the century

That's not 3C rise from where we are now. It's not even 3C rise from where we were in 1990. It's 3C rise from the "pre-industrial" temperature, i.e., the mid to late 1700s, i.e., in the middle of the Little Ice Age. Temperatures have already risen (largely due simply to coming out of the Little Ice Age) by about 1.6C since then, so that low estimate is about 1.4C rise from now to 2100. And, as noted, actual temperature rise is running below the low end estimate. We're looking at roughly a degree C rise in a century. The idea that humans cannot adapt to that so we have to spend trillions of dollars to stop emitting CO2 right now is laughable.

> Just because some of the 6 or 7C predictions (high end of range) don't appear to be coming true we should just ignore the rest of the models?

We should not be using the models to drive public policy decisions with multi-trillion dollar costs. They're simply not good enough for that.
It seems like every mundane service these days either has added binding arbitration, or requires it on sign up. Anyone from Pornhub/various adult sites to Blue Apron all want you to waive away your rights.

Even more troubling is binding-arbitration and class-action waivers for employment. They suppress cases of systematic mistreatment and allow issues to be swept under the rug, even more so than they are already.
Still got my HP TouchPad, still works, mail app is quite superior. Screen is starting to go and casing is getting a little cracked in places but I just love the UI
https://danielonsecurity.com/ - I am a penetration tester and write about security obviously. In order to encourage IPv6 usage, I disabled IPv4 for the main domain, but since many have complained they cannot reach my blog, I decided to create an ugly subdomain for IPv4: https://myinternetprovidersuckssoihavetouseipv4.danielonsecu...
Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate
Well at least Polish police has released numbers recently saying that in the last 2 weeks the number of accidents fell down, but the number of killed on the roads has stayed the same. Fewer people drive on the roads, but those that do drive more aggressively.
Ask HN: Keeping track of random stack traces
Every so often in a piece of software we're testing, you get a random crash. If you're unlucky it's a nice race condition, hasn't happened 50 times in a row, then boom, it happens again.

In terms of tracking it for the future, what suggestions do people have? I can backlog it as a bug, but it's not going to be easily searchable. A dev could pick it up, but without a method to reproduce, it's not easily fixed in a sprint either.

And it's also hard to know if it gets fixed in the future either!

But it's also a crash, and I personally hate not documenting them, no matter how rare. But I'd like a better way to manage it.
Why do the policyholders pay for so much TV advertising to get new policyholders? Increase in volume lowers overheads and spreads the risk pool, but surely not to the extent of the TV spending.
> increasing investment in studying the problem.

That would be nice, yes.

> except for the people who think the correct response is to ignore any prediction that isn't perfectly specific?

If a prediction isn't giving you any useful, actionable information, you can't act on it.

That doesn't necessarily mean you do nothing. If our public policy decision is "well, we don't really know how often epidemics like this will occur, but just to ballpark, let's plan on one every 10 years and see what we would need to do to prepare", that's fine. Just don't say we need to do that because the experts made a prediction. It's just a best judgment call based on very incomplete information.
losing money since day one, overvalued, on life support from investors...so Covid is killing those that would have died anyway, just in a week's time.
The art of the hermit
Here is the link with pictures
https://www.okpunktstrich.de/

Not too exciting. They also have chocolate and strawberry drinks :-)
I had the same attitude as you, but many of the wealthy, Chinese-raised students at my local (prestigious, private) university can't speak basic English.

The school then has to choose to either fail the student or ignore their cheating. With a $250k incentive to choose the former, that's what they choose.
no that's ok. that's something I can consider on the next update. a lot of friends are asking me to add a swipe to move on mobile devices, we argued about that a lot, and I'll may do it also.
8chan.co
The branding reminds me instantly of OBEY [0], which was really big for a while in the 2010s.

[0] https://obeyclothing.com/
FWIW, Hasura seems to be having some rough edges with their permissions and performance https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/4307
I always double check battery replacements before buying items for this reason. It is hard to predict what sizes will stick around, but I am also not against busting a device open and fitting a near-enough sized cell with the right output.
A data driven travel blog: https://travelstatsman.com/

If you've ever asked yourself questions like; "how many planes are in the sky at one time?", this blog is for you.
"Six weeks on and we are all holy men and women."
I don't have a blog and you should not read any, go out and enjoy the sun and people instead of reading unimportant stuff on the internet!
Hi, my name is Alexander, I one of authors of both Gradient pieces, Open STT and silero.ai.

We are planning on adding 2-3 new languages soon (English, German, maybe Spanish), so if you would like us to fully open source everything - please support us here - https://opencollective.com/open_stt

A lot of feedback here, very nice!

As with the Russian Speech community for some reason people are willing to share their feedback on third-party forums, but do not bother to write to the author directly.

If you have something to say - please email me - aveysov@gmail.com or telegram me (@snakers4 or @snakers41) if you would a faster reply.

Also it seemed to me that some of the readers missed that there were actually 2 parts of the article - https://thegradient.pub/towards-an-imagenet-moment-for-speec....

With this all addressed, to answer some common criticisms / points raised below:

> Kaldi cool, NNs not cool

Though it is true that production solutions CAN be built with Kaldi (and I have even spoken with people who built them, as well as vosk author), we purposely omitted Kaldi because we believe that it is a technological dead-end. Also it depends a lot on antiquated technology, is very difficult for new-comers etc etc

Another problem is that ... it requires a lot of specific knowledge to add languages. Whereas our approach is just plug-and-play - just add more data!

For example - our best model in production is just 300-500 lines of code in PyTorch.

With so much resources poured in tools like PyTorch, it just makes sense to use tools that are simple / robust / offer a lot of future-proofing and cool features etc etc Also you can ofc switch DL frameworks if you wish =)

Also you can do CV, NLP, etc with PyTorch unlike Kaldi.

As someone noted, does not really matter what you are using, if it suits your compute.
Fully e2e approaches still are GAFA scale only, and I just realized why Google even bothers with them - please see my post here https://t.me/snakers4/2445

> ML APIs changing w/o backwards compatibility

TF does that, and it is a joke. Paid marketing says that TF is cool, but real practicioners (that I know personally) use PyTorch.
It is a holywar, but I believe TF just has a lot of captive audience ...

PyTorch core API on the other hand has been mostly stable since 0.4 (now it is on 1.4)! (!!!) No one speaks about this for some reason.

> Deep Speech is a bad starting point

Yes and no. Vanilla huge LSTMs are really GAFA scale only.
But out networks is at least an order of magnitude faster.
Please see this - https://thegradient.pub/towards-an-imagenet-moment-for-speec...

> cool open source datasets

Check out Open STT!
We have not been able to OSS everything, because Russian corporations would use it w/o even crediting us.
But you can support us and change it. Also other languages.

caito.de is really cool, albeit very small
common voice - is very call, but on the smaller side
libri-light - you have to align it yourself, so no difference really - easier to make it from scratch

Also I do not understand why people use flac, when opus exists?
Hearts and Stomachs: Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”
Think about configuring a multi az sync replication dB yourself. Then back it up regularly. Then make it scaleable. Patch management. It pays for itself!
Do you mind sharing what niche the Newton lives in?
But...if you take it off the policy, there's still risk of having it stolen or it burning down, that then obviously isn't covered.

And...few hundred bucks from June to August?? How expensive are your policies? I'm paying £400(~$500) per year for a fully comprehensive policy on a brand new Volvo XC60, dropping the policy for a month or two would save me so little money it's almost not worth the hassle.
Totally agree. We've also realized that when it comes to (digital) art everyone has their own specific workflows and favorite apps. So it is definitely something we are thinking about adding!
The Audio-Technica ATH A500 headphones I bought in 2008 are still going strong. The adhesive for the sodt ear muff degraded but that was easy enough to fix. I thought the novel headband design would cause issues but it has lasted just fine.
The other ones were moving it, changing that income and changing that profit, including the stock market.

In practice, we've never discovered an effective way money can't be spent. I could have set out a way to do an accounting experiment that gives us the best of outcomes. The fact that we are spending so much means if we look for a number of reasons, it could be a good one for us.

If the money is being invested, we also don't just invest that money, we need a new metric.
I'm increasingly prone to "none of your f------ business", though usually only at the 2nd or subsequent query repeat.

Prying is socially hostile and should be responded to as such.

In certain cases of ongoing, and contentious, relationships, sooner.
After reading the title and before clicking the link I instantly thought of my Pebble Time steel that I got from Kickstarter.
https://uglyduck.ca - mostly web design focused with random demos and experiments.

Nothing special by any means, just a place for me to rant or rave about design in general.
My LaserJet 4 Plus is still going strong with no special software.
The private and public lives of Albert Einstein
https://archive.md/zGJ7z
No, that's not the argument.

Again, my root question is "why have there been so many prominent predictions of climate disaster that have failed to materialize?"

The sources for these predictions have largely been the media, but the sources are generally respected institutions or individuals, and the articles have claimed the backing of scientific authority. To what extent have these failed predictions stemmed from the media, and to what extent have they stemmed from the scientific authorities themselves?

A good part of the blame certainly rests with media. The media is motivated by what is advertiser friendly, and fear sells. However, I do not think the scientific establishment is without fault here.

No doubt part of the problem is the sheer complexity of the system they are studying, and perhaps premature confidence in the methodology of using computer models in the study of complex systems. But it also seems that a bias towards certain policy measures has led some scientists to overstate the confidence, severity, or urgency of predictions.

I do not mean to imply some sort of conspiracy theory here. I simply think that, psychologically, scientists tend to be a of a sort more attuned to "far problems". This tendency allows scientists to sometimes correctly anticipate threats, such as those from a global pandemic, but can also lead to a false equivalence between future uncertain costs and present certain ones.

I am not ignoring experts, nor am I claiming that they are completely wrong about global warming. I would more consider myself in the company of folks such as economist David Friedman or climatologist Judith Curry (neither of whom are in the employ of Big Oil) who both express doubts about the degree of consensus[0] and the severity and certainty of the warming and the value of drastic action in the present[1].

[0]https://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-climate-falseh...
[1]https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/curry-testimony-...
Tired of Manually Prep Data?
https://jesperreiche.com/blog/

Some technical writing, some philosophizing over work and life in general.

Also doing some good old photo-blogging every once in a while as I find Instagram and the like too shallow. And always loved the original photo-blogs with beautiful pictures and a bit of text to get the context across.

I have two health care start-ups under my belt and currently work as independent freelance Tech Lead. Hopefully my writing can in some cases spawn reflection and plant seeds for further examination.
RB queue?