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Thank you, I think I understand partially, but not fully, as I'm not very well versed in speech recognition software.

Basically, my question (and I assume many other users') is "I run <Linux/Windows/Mac OS>, what are my options and how good will my recognition be with each?". Your answer above helps, but it doesn't entirely satisfy me, as I'm not sure if a model is the recognition engine, or if the engine uses the model, or how I can use it, etc.
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> There's no way for that team to be able to do that

There is an extremely simple solution to that: Do not use the data.

There are countries in which privacy is considered important. Data being public has no influence on whether is is considered personal in the EU. Also, copyright has nothing to do with the issue.
> If the statement is not factual, what else is there to say?

What is actually occurring, as I requested. It was a hint that the reply at least wasn't up to the standard of HN.
That's right. Depending on the law and the context, if the police don't enforce it then there are fewer problems. That's pretty much what Superintendent Andy Bennett said in the video.
I am waiting for GPT-2-based models for ZSH. Something in the line of TabNine, but for the terminal.
I watched close to 100 of them last night from Greg's thread, I saw very few "minor" ones like your #2, most involve people being shot / struck by batons, cars, gang tackled and beaten by multiple people ...

I'd put the ratio at something like 85/15.

Most of them are individual or small group acts that are completely unacceptable, fire them immediately sort of things (indiscriminately pepper spraying non-protestors walking down a public street, firing a tear gas canister into a person just standing around's chest, an insane amount of gang tackling, pummeling, and neck kneeling given the context of the protests)

Some are insidious but not necessarily criminal, just groups being tear gassed, military style shows of force, etc.

A small but real minority of vidsos are what I'd call products of anti police bias, ambiguous context, or (at least imo) felt out of context.

But also "verbally harassment" of police is largely Constitutionally protected, but yes, tons of videos of people being arrested, often violently, simply for using words.

As a whole, Greg's thread is terrifying. Our police training here is piss poor.
Its kind of sad that the #1 comment right now is basically saying "the company involved here should have been charging its customers far, far more money", instead of protecting their customers and looking out for the best for them.

Insurance is NOT a financial instrument. Insurance is supposed to be a safety mechanism that protects you if something bad happens.

We can think of insurance as a call and/or put option. Financially, they behave almost identically to options. But that's not the intended use for the product.

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Where you see inefficiency, I see humanism. The company believes that its users wouldn't act like this, and for the most part... citizens do not commit large scale fraud involving 20+ fake identities.
> Like, if you're buying a toaster, one sells for $30 and the label says that will break in two years.. the other sells for $40 and the label says it will last for five years or more.

There's a proxy for that: the manufacturer warranty period.

My current laptop has a 5 year warranty with on-site repair. I chose it over a cheaper laptop from the same manufacturer with only a 3 year warranty with on-site repair. Part of the reason I chose the more expensive model is that the longer warranty means I won't have to replace it for another 5 years.
No software exists in a vacuum. It's the job of the packagers to create a platform that works as a whole. That's why distributions exist in the first place.

If the upstream releases a new version and the packagers just throw it into the distro, they've created an untested and unsupportable system.
> that there's no shortcut to doing the hard work

Yes, and current proof-of-work schemes allow shortcuts to avoid doing at least the intruction-dispatch portion of said work, by using a GPU or ASIC that shares dispatch work across multiple proofs in parallel.

> complexity

I meant the latter type ("is difficult to understand or analyse") actually. That is to say, I suspect that trying to achieve the former will necessarily result in the latter, although it would of course be nice if it didn't.
Exactly, Nadim Kobeissi's name is the last one I expected to see on a crypto audit that someone would pay for. Internet never completely forgets, but in practice a little with your head down and your past sins wash out.
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> We have moved to the new code style.

Finally.
I saw something like that one time - the new version had one rarely-used broken API endpoint; clients who hit that would silently retry until eventually hitting an old instance which worked and then they’d be on their way. It was rarely used enough that the total number of retries didn’t trigger any alarms, and failed fast so that failing 19 times before working on the 20th attempt didn’t cause any timeouts.

We now have monitoring of success-rate-per-endpoint, so even if 99.9% of requests are successful, if a single function crashes 100% of the time we should still notice :)
The work is useful only in the context of it being useful to preserve and propagate the distributed, trustless consensus. If you don't give a crap about distributed consensus, it's not useful.

>> However, with recent "printing" in the tune of trillions of dollars, and with Bitcoin providing an inviolable fix for inflation

The "printing" of money is a useful feature of national currencies, which can temporarily support an economy in peril, or be used to keep currency values approximately stable. I wouldn't want to be in a country where currency was like Bitcoin, it is deliberately less useful.

By the way, your cryptocurrency ecosystem also appears to have a money printer, in the form of Tether, which is run purely for the benefit of its owners. But sure, that's far better!

>> I think it might just be worth the effort - at least for anybody sensible who wants to save money for the future.

If you have enough money that a small amount of inflation is going to affect you, you don't keep it in cash, you invest. That's not what money is for.
My first AI teacher (even before '89) compared solving AI with neural nets to teaching pigs to fly by throwing them from a tower. Improvements come from building higher towers.

There's a recent NLP model that was trained on a trillion words. It would take us 10,000 years to read or listen (no breaks, no sleep) to that many words. Problems like attention, and the relation between memory and sequential thinking haven't been cleared up at all. Even semantics, i.e. basic understanding of a utterance or a scene, is in its infancy.

Large neural nets can help with interesting problems, but it's not going to mimic our style of thinking any time soon.
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>This clearly spells the beginning of the end for transistor scaling. If every node makes the reliability worse, eventually the lifetime gets too short and you're through.

Transistor scaling (dennard scaling) already ended over a decade ago. Even up to that point there have been a variety of reliability challenges at each shrink, some revisited again and again requiring different techniques at each level.

We haven't been making significant progress over the last decade in terms of process size, instead we're just shuffling towards the edge of a cliff (single atoms), the closer we get the more extreme the challenges will get with less return.

We don't have a long road ahead with gradually decreasing reliability, we are already at the end of the road, we aren't going to get much closer to the crumbly bits if it's not worth it.
You're right, I missed that part of their rules. Looks like they did probably break them.

"A. If any part of the submission documentation depicts, identifies, or includes any person that is not an individual participant or Team member, you must have all permissions and rights from the individual depicted, identified, or included and you agree to provide Competition Sponsor and PAI with written confirmation of those permissions and rights upon request."
> For those interested, Martin Keary (aka Tantacrul on YouTube) creates these very impressive YouTube videos of reviews of music notation software.

They're also quite entertaining. Worth a watch even if you have just a passing interest in UI/UX design and no clue about music engraving.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm9VVia9DFSUVK24lR9mS...

(This playlist contains some other stuff as well, but the interface design ones are clearly labeled in the titles.)
> The hidden assumption you make is discussed as the Preference Satisfaction Thesis in the philosophy of welfare economics, it's the idea that people (subjectively) prefer what is best for them.

The hidden assumption in that framing is that there's an objective measure of "what is best for them" which somehow isn't based on what people subjectively prefer.
Great work. This is easily among the most elegant Python plotting APIs for exploratory data analysis. Seaborn is a fantastic tool but I sympathise with the author's frustrations with it.

Excellent documentation, but as others have said docs are everything with charting, so expanding that and adding a gallery are probably the best ways to get people onboard. Looking forward to giving this a try.
You can have filters that look at parent or child elements of the randomized element or other patterns.
That's not how this works. Old content is marked with its year, irrespective of its relevance.
Ah, interesting, I wasn't aware that this syntax was also in use with SunOS...
He actually didnt lose 700k it was a UI problem.
> It's going to be a different story attempting to regulate something which can be hidden trivially with encryption

Regulate on/off ramps. Watch it wither on the vine. Job done.
All places seem to be similarly bad today. Where did you go?
He didnt actually lose 700k it was a UI problem.
That's actually something ML is incredibly useful at, when it comes to machines with sensors - failure prediction / anomaly detection, etc.

In the industry, (preventive) maintenance takes up a pretty huge chunk of resources. It's something techs need to do often, and it's often a laborious task, but it's obviously done to reduce downtime.

So the business insight, as they like to call it, is to reduce costs tied up to repairs and maintenance.

All critical applications have multiple levels of redundancy, so that a complete breakdown is very unlikely, but it's still a very expensive process if you're dealing with contractors. If you can get techs to swap out parts before the whole unit goes to sh!t, then that's often going to be a much cheaper alternative.

But, in the end, it comes down to the quality of data, and the models being built. A lot of industrial businesses hire ML / AI engineers for this task alone, but expect some magic black-box that will warn x days / hours / minutes ahead that a machine/part is about to break down, and it's time to get it fixed. And they unfortunately expect a near-perfect accuracy, because someone in sales assured them that this is the future, and the future is now.
Agreed. Insurance will always look somewhat like gambling, by its very definition, but its role is very different. Someone did a better job of estimating odds than an insurance company did. They then defrauded the insurance company, using fake identities, and were discovered and arrested. This doesn't delegitimise the idea of insurance in the slightest.

If the person hadn't used false identities, but had still been arrested, that would be a more interesting case (more analogous to legal professional gambling). When false identities are used, it's clearly not above board.

I would assume that in such a case, the insurance company could refer to their terms-and-conditions, and then contest their obligation to pay out. I don't imagine it would be a criminal matter though. (Needless to say I'm not a lawyer.)
Progress in speech recognition has been slow and incremental, not fast and impressive. Hidden Markov Models did a decent job in the 90s. Now we have more data and more computing power.
The point is that I absolutely don't trust one of them, but I guess the reference was too obscure for most.
You may want to think that statement through a bit more.

Secure boot, as the name suggests, secures initial loading of the most central/core parts of an operating system: (indeed) the kernel and kernel modules.

While APTs can be installed on different levels, anywhere from kernel up to user space, a good (hard to detect) place for those is inside the kernel itself or in a kernel module.

Secure boot is definitely intended to prevent APTs, even if its only a part of the the full equation. You still need additional tools on top of a kernel, e.g. SELinux or AppArmor, that monitor, audit and (hopefully) prevent the introduction of APTs. However, without a trusted kernel (and kernel modules), all of those tools can be compromised/circumvented, making it ultimately an impossible task to secure the system as a whole.
It's clear evidence that the insurance industry is based on risk assessment and probabilities. Of course it is the same as gambling, except that the "game" is not necessarily biased in either direction.

Actuaries spend their careers making these bets. That's why no insurance company will take a policy on a "sure thing".

If she had taken on a similar bet in a market where insurance policies were bundled and sold, instead of a "credit default swap" you'd have a "on-time default swap" and it would be completely legal.

But there isn't such a market, so she effectively made one for herself by using false identities and the arbitrage of being able to pick and choose when she would take her side of the swap.
Why did the murder of two trans women barely receive any coverage?
> Us, those not yet in your choir, I presume.

Glad you purport to speak on everyone's behalf. The misuse of the pronoun "we" is so prevalent that it affects the way people understand the world. "We" is a collective pronoun, but the collective it refers to must have a boundary. In this case, the boundary must be, at maximum, the people reading this thread. At minimum, you are using the plural pronoun when you should be using the singular, because "We" just means "I".

> Whatever your ideology surely you can agree on the basic fact that most active use of BTC is still of a rather transient nature. In and out. This means participants generally (outside of passive saving-speculating) have little inherent need for high prices and the astronomical energy use that goes along.

Saving isn't transient. It's a long term goal. The speculating that goes along with it is just a natural market phenomenon. People want to earn by betting on short term future demand.

> Coiners of course want practically useful solutions, just not quite as much as they want to get richer.

I'm not all that fussed about getting richer. I'd rather not get poorer though, which is the effect which will be achieved by storing my earnings in dollars, because there is a deliberate and permanent policy of dollar devaluation outside of my control.

Saving is a practical solution, and the only one that Bitcoin needs. People will develop other practical solutions for spending and trading bitcoin because they themselves want to increase their bitcoin holdings, and they want to incentivize others to spend their Bitcoin so that they have the opportunity to obtain more.
Nice story. COBOL programmers started making some serious money with Y2K. At least, the contractors started billing advanced hourly rates. And were making more than they ever did.

And from what I’ve been seeing, COBOL just isn’t going anywhere. Those mainframes really are built to last. So he should probably have a job for the rest of his life. I hope he’s got a nice pension.
Thank you, but I was looking for a cross-platform app since my parents have Android phones.
Where I live, the police costs half my cities budget. And that’s not even including contributions to the pension, to my knowledge.

It does not appear that this is money well spent.
> 1984 has a much higher cultural impact and awareness than ATLA

My anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise, but I’d love some real data - how are you measuring that?
This actually represents a major and fundamental philosophical shift in the sense that it takes Musescore from being a tool of representation to a tool of creation. I may be overinterpreting this of course, but I am reading a lot into how this might be following (or bucking) a general trend in internet/tech/wider culture that could be characterised as favouring mediums and platforms of consumption over ones of curation… yet alone creation.
Honestly last time I tried to get into machine learning the huge limitations made me lose interest. The idea that we can just pretend that these limitations don't exist is absurd. ML lets us do a lot of very interesting things but it's just a stepping stone. It's something we are stuck with rather than something that we want to keep.
The day I had to top up my computers water.. I went back to air.
I apologise ... you've caught me at a time when I'd love to help, but I personally don't have the specific knowledge you want. As a result the only way I can potentially help is to tease out from you your specific requirements s that others with more technical knowledge might be able to provide more in-depth information.

My point is that people will be frustrated if they suggest something only then for you to say you've already tried it and rejected it for reasons you haven't yet mentioned. That's why I'm trying to get you to be more complete about your particular context and circumstances.

I hope you don't mind, but I've re-written and submitted your question here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23526263

Maybe that will get a response.

Meanwhile, let me explain more ... this will sound brusque, but when I'm in "technical" mode I tend to deal with what's in front of me, and not wrap it in "soft language". Being in "Manager Mode" is possible for me, but an effort, and incompatible with the technical work I'm buried in at the moment.

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> Well, I asked a simple question on Matrix and Tox and you asked me to compare all the other chat applications under the roof.

No, you didn't ask about Matrix and Tox, you said:

> Which platform should I use to communicate with family back home?

You then said that Matrix isn't very friendly for non-tech people, and that you couldn't get voice or video chat working. Fair enough, that's why Matrix is no good for you.

Then you asked if anyone had used Tox. Fair enough, you've suggested something else. But your initial question remains:

> Which platform should I use to communicate with family back home?

So my training is to understand where someone's question is coming from before trying to answer it. I was asking about the limitations, the requirements, and then asking about what you've tried so people could get a sense of your experiences so far, and in what way they don't meet your needs. I could have just said: Why not use Facebook?

So now you've said:

> My requirements are simple: Lightweight client for both desktop and mobile; audio, video and screensharing; P2P; privacy focused and not controlled by single entity, does not limit features and does not force other communities onto the users by default.

Those are not simple requirements, and my bet is that nothing currently meets them.

I get the sense that you feel I'm being unreasonable in my replies, so I'll just finish by answering your original post "as is":

> Which platform should I use to communicate with family back home?

I don't know, it depends.

> Anyone used Tox?

I've never used Tox ... sorry.
Note that it's "reasonably deduces" at the time of buying the insurance contract.

So it's not like the insurance company can say "you should have cancelled the night before because everyone could see the storm coming".
Surfroam is 10x times cheaper for data! Is 0.01/MB https://surfroam.com/pages/rates No fancy online platform. But is a LOT cheaper. The card is 15€ but has 15€ of data!
Schools in Nigeria lack the curriculum to expose children to digital skills
Anyone else catch this gem:

But if you are creating a chip that other people will create software for...then you don’t really know.

This is in the context of assessing usage duty cycles of circuits for aging purposes.

I can imagine an era of exploits that rely on "aging out" paths that were assumed to be rarely used. Like rowhammer, but persistent -- fire up a process on a random cloud instance, run a tight loop of code to wear out an exploitable path in e.g. SGX, rinse lather repeat until you have the coverage you need...
If there ever was a case of "don't comment unless you've RTFA" this it: people extrapolating their viewpoint on a list of 700 things from watching 1, 2, 3 ...

At a minimum, watch 100 videos. I did last night, only took about an hour, it's easy to find some to nitpick, some which are ambiguous ... and plenty that are totally horrifying.

If you can watch 100 videos in a row from Greg Doucette's list and say, "the militarization and use of force tactics of US law enforcement are not a problem" then I'd like to hear why you think so given this evidence.

Otherwise you're not speaking from an honest grappling with what these videos contain.
> To me, she deserves every dollar she made for making the insurance market more efficient.

And to others, she was committing obvious fraud. Notably, to her, this was fraud, because she used fake identities to buy the policies.

The "I'm just an agent of libertarian market efficiency" excuse goes out the window once you start trying to hide your tracks.
>but anything called 'jaws' is probably not benign

Not always, only for the record, JAWS is actually the name of a common program to read the screen for people visually impaired:

https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/

Of course this has nothing to do with your case.
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Audible Reviews Are Loaded With Fakes
I'm brushing up on some of the lesser-used parts of Azure (well, lesser-used for me!) and I decided to check out Audible to see if there are any audio books related to Azure.

I found a handful but the reviews for them are a total scam!

Take a look at this one [0]. Every review is on the same day. They are all 5 stars. Even John Wick has reviewed it!

Here's another from the same page [1].

To dig deeper...

I looked at the other books from the two authors listed, Joseph K. Brown and Yughi Chan, and every one of their books that has reviews are pretty much entirely fake: all reviews on the same day, same format etc.

They are a total scam.

So can anyone from Amazon tell me if this is a known issue? Are you doing anything about it or is it being ignored since it's generating sales so who cares?

These ones are easy to spot but how may others are fake?

Edit: I just went on and found more... didn't take long!

[0] - https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Azure-Audiobook/B082ST2VP7?qid=1592219866&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=X2H0BQ31HZ4NZB282NNB

[1] - https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/DevOps-Audiobook/B0851GCM75?plink=2a3d7e32-8945-44&ref=a_pd_Azure-_c5_adblp13npbxx_1_3&pf_rd_p=cdd68838-37ce-47e6-b5cb-c61b95dce7e1&pf_rd_r=W9KDZ02DW1ZHZRWBNSPB
It's subjective.

I made the point that you can focus on many things "google does bad" or "google removes".
But the root of the problem is that google is not a perfect and unbiased representation of the web.

While it's not so bad when it's about movies availability, it can get dangerous if people have an incorrect view of reality .