skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If one searches around youtube there is quite a lot of films reels people have uploaded show the devices in action.

e.g. This is a fire control mechanism for ships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4

Very clever stuff indeed.
I question that you need full attention in the acoustic model. The pronunciation of a word in the middle of phrase does not have much dependence on the beginning.

You do need attention in the language model part of the pipeline
Just to add that most Chinese businesses accept payments through AliPay along with WeChat.
> No it doesn't, it has a long, long list of wrong answers, and a short list of answers that haven't yet been proven wrong, which makes up our current best approximation of 'the truth'.

"So you're saying that science doesn't know anything, and therefore quantum vibrations homeopathy Reiki is just as real as General Relativity." Or something. My point is, the anti-science crowd will use anything it can, including lies, to "prove" that it's right and you're wrong.

The people who are so emotionally damaged they can't stand the idea that the universe might require effort on their part to understand will always find ways to misunderstand things. Trying to communicate with them is futile.
CUDA is unfortunately very, very far ahead of Vulkan. "Graphics Compute" is quite different from CUDA at the advanced levels if you've never used it.
Turbo Pascal was pivotal for me growing up. I often think back on the complete joy of creating, when I was first learning to program as a kid. I have been trying to arrange my life in a way so that I can get back to that feeling. You can see some stuff I did long ago here: https://github.com/ca98am79/my-first-programs
More of a paradigm shift kind of thing.
After the movie Hidden Figures, I'm not sure where the "obscura" comes in.
Why focus on vaccines if your fear is government conspiracy?

Couldn't these same nefarious people be putting 'substances' into the water you drink, the food you eat, the air you breathe, the pills you take, the clothes you wear, the surfaces you touch, etc?

By your logic, I don't see why an anti-vaxxer would ever go to the doctor at all. Why would you trust the pills, the surgery, the diagnostic imaging, the blood draws etc but then draw the line at the vaccine injection?
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program”
– Milton Friedman
I would love to see the math of geothermal greenhouses powered by renewables versus the carbon footprint of air freight of food. As renewables drive down the cost of electricity, the economics continually shift towards local production versus import.

Outside of Alberta, most of Canada's electrical generation is very low carbon (nuclear and hydro) per electricitymap.org.
It's not about the default configuration. This use a set of premade components for tailwind (https://tailwindui.com/).
>But please clearly explain to me why you think the Constitution is in your words, a "suicide pact".

That's not what I said, and clearly not a reasonable conclusion one could reach from having read my comment with an awareness of the context in which it occurred. Which is odd, because I literally quoted the necessary context from your comment to make the meaning obvious.

I was referring to your mention of "a future constitution explicitly support(ing) the right to be medicated/vaccinated if one wishes to be, while conversely supporting the right NOT to be medicated/vaccinated, if one does not."

That Constitution would be a suicide pact, because it would render the purpose of the entire science of epidemiology and any efforts to maintain herd immunity and control the spread of pandemics through mandatory vaccination moot. The Constitution we currently have is not a suicide pact, at least in that regard (I have my doubts about it in regards to the Second Amendment but that's a whole other conversation) because it does not contain such a clause.

I hope that I have explained my position sufficiently.
Normally yes, but in this case there actually isn't a link!

The OP resubmitted with the correct link, which also got a suspicious amount of upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899816
A super super short version is about the question "how do you know X?" Its generally (although not universally) agreed that there are two types of knowledge, a priori and a posteriori. Roughly, in the first case, all you can deduce is implications from assumptions. For example, "if X and Y are true then Z is true." Such things don't require experience. The second case requires evidence gained from experience. Mathematical knowledge is of the first type, scientific knowledge is of the second type. The school of rationalism prioritizes the first type and the school of empericism emphasizes the second. That the universe was created by an omnipotent omniscient and benevolent god is not an emperical fact but requires some kind of a priori supports. Thats why you see so called proofs of god rather than scientific theories of god. There are other options of couree like mysticism, the claim that knowledge can be gained outside of these methods, or an emphasis on faith, that we don't take these things to be justifiable.

I probably butchered this but it gives you some starting points to research and hopefully shows a model of the debate. Huge topic. Check out https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/ as a hardcore crashcourse or check "crash course philosophy" on youtube for the relavent sections at a more HS level. SEP has entries on god, faith and mysticism as well as rationalism and empericism too.
Here is the pattern:

1) Establish a false dichotomy ("All vaccines are good, all vaccines are bad")

2) Come up with a pithy slur for the other side ("Antivaxx")

3) Emphasize the looniest people on the other side, ignore and hide the reasonable people on the other side.

4) Use this slur to browbeat moderates, the skeptical, the unsure and the open minded into silence.

It's very effective.
Tutorial: Using PoseNet to Create a Snapchat-Like Eye Filter for Android
Too bad we can't know anything about the product without creating an account.
> But I just can't get over the sheer volume of typing he does, because he hasn't wrapped his most common commands into short aliases and abbreviations[0].

Interestingly I go the other way: I type fast, so I don't need to abbreviate. Instead I make my aliases and abbreviations memorable. EG for git instead of aliasing `checkout -b` to `cb` or something I alias it to `newbranch`. More typing than the two-character alias, but also more memorable than the default.

I find if a command isn't memorable I'll forget to use it, so I never build the habit needed to make it useful. Single-letter commands are especially bad for this. I've had z for years, and remembered to use it when I needed it maybe once.

Also +1 to fish and fzf, both are great.
This retire engineer in Nebraska has nice setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O3ifR-3zvs
Yes, technically you can try to be more careful in distinguishing between different positions, such as people who are against vaccines and those who are for "delayed" vaccines.

It doesn't really change the fact that both have no real evidence to provide for their claims and are promoting practices that, if not well-supported, are clearly dangerous.

But more importantly, Bob Sears's opinion on e.g. measles doesn't even matter because we're talking about covid19 right now and there is no vaccine yet, so there is no way to "slow down". By contrast, what he does offer in the context of this new disease are recommendations such as "boosting your immune system" which are patently laughable, see: https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthy-eating/what-can-you-d...

edit: I'll have to correct myself, Bob Sears didn't say that (at least not in this context), his cohost did. I do assume we'd know if he disagreed though.
the one positive thing about table based design, is you could code a module, and just echo it out anywhere you wanted it with say, php or coldfusion, and it would mostly just work. transplanting a chunk of semantic html to a site with a different stylesheet though, if you wanted it to look the same, requires some forward planning. that is, it needs to be designed as a component, its css js and html all moved together in lockstep. and if you’re trying to be a good pure citizen, they’re in three different files and you wcho them out into the head, foot and body in turn, being careful that the js appears after anything it depends on. it would be easier to just inline the css and js and echo it all out at once, hut that will make hixie sad. and so it seems sometimes you want self contained components with all their batteries included. sometimes you want to control certain aspects of appearance in some central location so it’s easy to keep everything looking consistent. it’s not always obvious how to find the balance.
If I click a button that says "try" it should let me try the thing.
And since we live in a modern world with integration of social services only going up I strongly believe this should be taught in school, same way base computer usability is being taught in middle school. In there a simple chapter should exists to deal with this and make kids aware that cybersecurity is a must nowadays.

Then, and only then, your phrase will be false.
Thanks dang. I'm pretty sure this person is a troll I know IRL.

For the humor deprived, I'll spell it out.

1) I'm pretty sure Alex Jones would be mad if I called him that. That's one of the many things that makes it funny.

2) Alex Jones is a completely harmless kook, and it's shameful how he is demonized by powerful elements in our society with the acquiescence of people who should know better.

3) For example: this is a literal smear done by a UN propaganda agency done against ... Alex Jones, who, by the facts listed in their own accounts, had nothing to do with the problems of their creepy NGO. I'm pretty sure the UN is more powerful than Alex Jones. It's not a good look a literal UN propaganda agency flinging poo at some weirdo in Texas who ultimately hawks water filters for a living.

4) That NGO probably "means well" but is super creepy!

5) Bill Gates is also well meaning (I was once a subcontractor for his foundation), but is acting like a grade-A creep. He has arguably done some fairly evil things both in the past and in the present day. It is terribly ironic that the man who brought us Microsoft Windows is lecturing us about viruses. The reaction against him may be unfair and is probably ill informed, but he should really think about the figure he cuts in the world. Maybe touting a spooky vaccine global-ID regime isn't a good use of his time. Just a suggestion!

Oligarchs like Gates are powerful and involved in some incredibly shady stuff. They should expect no deference from ordinary people, and should work hard for the approval of the masses. The insane insular arrogance of people like this, and their hangers on, well, perhaps they should consider why people trust kooks like Alex Jones more than themselves.
Not so sure that “last declaration wins” would be great — a very specific example: jupyter notebooks (used to?) add custom.css before the original stylesheet. It’d be impossible if that were the case, I guess?
"additive inverses (negative numbers) are a very real part of addition"

Inverses are just an abstraction that helps you rearrange operations.

You'd think something like accounting would need negative numbers, but nope, it gets along just fine without them.
Show HN: RSS as RESTful API
What camera are they shooting at 409,600 ISO at?
I disagree with the claims about effectiveness, but this is otherwise correct.

Bitcoin emerged from the Cypherpunks crowd; while nobody has positively IDed the 'real' author of the paper, the ideological motivations are rooted in anarcho-capitalist thought. The operative theory is really not that different than Grover Norquist's; attack the tax base and the state withers. Grover is just less ambitious.

The flaw in the bitcoin thesis is that the internet is powerful tool of centralized control and reinforces authoritarians, not the opposite.
The key is to fine-tune on your data. Take publicly available pretrained model, fine-tune on your data and you can often get results better than google’s service or azure cognitive on your use-case (google and azure asr are great general services, but they cannot do better than custom, say, health-center specific model)
My cover is blown! How could I be so careless? I made the classic mistake of characterizing Elon as anything other than a stupid, egotistical tyrant! Everyone knows there is no such thing as shades of grey and popular figures like him can only ever be thought of as pure good or pure evil!

You may have unmasked me, but we'll see who's laughing 10-20 years from now when I'll be rescuing children from caves on mars... and driving electric cars through hyper tubes... and... something about flame throwers!

Seriously, though. Here's my real thoughts on Elon Musk. Keep in mind that I don't pay much attention to him, so this is probably not a great assessment. It's just my real impression of the guy.

I think he is a billionaire stuck in his teens. He throws money at things just because they sound cool and that has played a huge part in making him famous. He's reckless, but his celebrity status ensures he will always stay a billionaire. It also ensures he will have plenty of clueless fans and plenty of angry anti-fans. Most people do not fall into one of those camps, but those who do are often quick to let you know it.

I think he's irresponsible, he has a big ego, and his celebrity/billionaire/CEO status means there is serious potential for him to cause a lot of damage. He has done a lot of stupid things, but so far the collateral has been pretty small. I don't think it's fair to say everything he's done is bad, but you could spend an eternity debating how much good he's directly responsible for.

He doesn't strike me as an idiot, but he also doesn't seem especially smart. I imagine he thinks of himself as pretty smart, but that seems to be a common trait among billionaires. I'd guess very little of his companies' success can be directly attributed to him. He comes across more as a rich investor and figurehead than a manager.

Speaking of his companies, they also get a lot of media attention. Electric vehicles, autonomous cars, and space exploration are interesting subjects, but Tesla and SpaceX aren't the only names in those markets. Their brand popularity is just so huge that many people struggle to disassociate those companies from the technologies they work on.

From what I've heard, the work conditions at Tesla and SpaceX are bad (long hours, high stress, poor job security) so I have no desire to work for either. From a customer perspective, I hear Tesla vehicles are very costly to maintain so I'll be cautious about Tesla if I every find myself looking to buy an EV. I don't currently trust self-driving car technology, so that's not even a consideration for me right now.

Like I said, I don't pay much attention to Elon or his companies. I only commented on this one because I thought it was a good example of how dumb the stock market is. It encourages short-sighted behavior from publicly traded companies, it's painfully easy to manipulate, and I think it's dangerous how far some are willing to go to try and make it safe for investors.
I'll try to get a video up soon.
The bin from fdroid comes without tracking
I would be interested in a we hat replacement, but as soon as I read ethereum I thought: nah. Cryptocurrencies are just not compatible with mainstream consumption. Why? Because I get paid in euros. And you might get paid in dollars. And a wechat user gets paid in Yuan. But nobody gets paid in ethereum.
It's not that config is impossible, but it tries very hard to make the defaults work for the largest subset of users possible. And then provides a much easier config experience than most shells, since if things are broken for you they should damn well be easy to fix!
'Frozen' companies are not calling Berkshire Hathaway for rescue investments, C
"Their" is defined as a "his or her" singular pronoun in most modern dictionaries, perhaps in part "to be PC" but probably much more because "his or her" is an incredibly clunky phrase to say.

Consider:

They asked their teacher if their homework was due on Friday.

vs.

He or she asked his or her teacher if his or her homework was due on Friday.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/their

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/their

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They#Singular
As a photographer, the comparison to "raw" results without color balance or noise removal seems somewhat deceptive. The effects visible in the video seem easy to quickly replicate with existing techniques, such as the "surface blur" filter that averages out pixel values in areas with similar color.

This happens at the expense of detail in low-contrast areas, producing a plastic-like appearance of human skin and hair, and making low-contrast text unintelligible, which is why it's generally not done by default.
Duh. Haven't had my coffee yet. Thanks.
It's a huge amount of code, hidden behind the tensorflow import statements. It's common to credit GPUs for the rapid spread of deep learning, but good GPUs were available for quite a few years before deep learning really took off. As someone who wrote * a lot* of OpenCL code, including my own python wrappers, I'm fairly certain this code would be thousands of lines without a computation graph framework library. These frameworks are really amazing pieces of software engineering and deserve some non-trivial fraction of the credit for the rise of deep learning.

If you want to know what the next hot thing in software engineering will be, just pay attention to whatever Jeff Dean is doing.
I believe this should have a (2018) tag.
EPICA core samples show fluctuations of 16 degrees over 100ky, but there is no evidence of ancient rainforests burning. I'm not denying anthropogenic climate change but it's difficult to take such predictions seriously.

And yes, I use throwaway accounts because the HN hivemind slaughters anyone that goes against the mainstream opinion. If you don't want to respond to me because of this, then don't. If moderators want to remove this comment, then by all means please do. But I don't know who it helps.
Uhh, google "opioid epidemic".

Or, perhaps "cancer-causing agents in prescription drugs" (caused by not testing their processes for unwanted by-products making their way into the medicines).

Or, that airbag manufacturer or the car manufacturers who don't provide a safety feature because the bean counters declare that so long as there are less than ten successful lawsuits, the profit will be more if they leave it out, no matter how many people die in the process. Google "Goodyear RV tires".

Or the disaster in Bhopal India.

What about these piles of mercury-laden coal ash piled next to our river because of the coal-burning plant next to it?

And you think the pesticide producers are not cherry-picking their researchers to goal-seek?

Now, do your research.
This all seems like semantic masturbation.
The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here’s why
Are you ok?
The issue there is desalinating the water in an environmentally responsible way. It's hugely energy intensive.
Even more sophisticated:

Theories have:

- an expected domain of applicability

and might have:

- applications (either in the sense of experimental physics, or even applications in the sense of theoretical physics)

So a more important question is, do we have evidence against a theory in its domain of applicability in a magnitude that invalidates some use cases?

It's perfectly ok if you find evidence against a theory outside of its domain of applicability (i.e. I don't care if it's wrong in situations I didn't expect it to be right) or if that evidence causes errors so small as to make no difference for my applications.
I’ve recently started working on documenting (still very, very early) on “measuring” user feedback at https://datadriventeam.org after having 50+ conversations about it with various startup founders/leaders. It is backed by an open source GitHub repo and I hope people would contribute once I’ve gotten the initial version ironed out.
At least those 16 people actually got through to the article in the end ...
> If I think about it for too long it makes me angry because I think these groups are doing more harm than good

I'm don't think you're being fair here since both movements you mention achieved some measurable success last year and caused a surge in local and political conversation with the UK Government ultimately declaring climate emergency and setting a net zero emissions goal. I think the rest of your comment is more or less attempting to paint anyone involved with environmental activism as a preachy, contradictory hippy trope which isn't very realistic nowdays given how mainstream these issues are becoming.
There are no points to be scored here. I'm just explaining, since you asked, that what you call "ulterior motives" are what environmentalists believe to be root problems.

Unfortunately, once you identify that human activity is harming the environmental, everything thereafter becomes politicized. Even science becomes subservient to the negotiation. We humans will continue to squabble whilst the world burns.
Not that[1] G1.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream
Since 2012 I'm using a userscript I wrote to inject a button to each github code comment to open my editor at the file-and-line.

It feels strange this is not something more people want, but I haven't seen any other project that addresses the same, so I'm still kinda maintaining it:

https://github.com/kidd/org-protocol-github-lines/
GitHub phising site is ranking in Google
Course: Use JavaScript to rewrite Python code
No. We didn't even have a plan for a pandemic, much less our extinction. There may have been some think tanks that have put some thought into it but I seriously doubt any plan was ever put into place.
> Can't we come up with a simple, good technical solution to identify hosts?

You mean like DNS?

What we need is a simple, good technical solution that identifies hosts but removes money from the equation.
I think a video would help a lot. Seems like a cool idea, but without a sandbox or even a video I have no way of knowing.

Edit: without signing up* and who wants to sign up to the unknown!?
you dont need to learn fish syntax for interactive use. basics are almost same.

when you met some sh code on random internet,

- sh(bash) -c "..."
- type bash enter then paste it
- save to file + shebang
I'm looking at targeting it from Julia, and the lower-level (Level Zero) API seems rather nice, resembling the CUDA driver API but building on SPIR-V. It's also nice how the API is decoupled from the implementation, so let's hope more vendors implement it (apparently Codeplay is working on a CUDA-based implementation).
http://libgen.li/item/index.php?md5=3C1CA115683EED376688B78C...

depends on where you happen to be at the time ...
This could actually be shortened, maybe simplified, significantly. For example there is a lot of redundancy in the layers and that could be pulled out into a function per block. This is what I often do with deep networks as it helps avoid errors in code and shortens everything significantly, at the potential expense of being able to grok it initially as quickly.

But, many DNN concepts (and ML concepts themselves) can be described with a few lines of pseudocode. CNNs, RNNs, etc. can all be described in a few lines.

It's really quite amazing, most of the work goes into first creating the net work from theory, then training and tuning it until you get good results.