skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some skepticism. Humans can’t process multiple audio streams simultaneously. Recognizing faces is a poor analogue to compare with, it would be more similar to photostitching several faces all superimposed on top of each other and asking a human to identify each component face, which humans are also terrible at.

But we also rarely need realtime solutions for this. Casually tracking gross features from a mixed audio source, like a big crowd, is easy, but we almost never need to be actively listening and disambiguating between several deliberate audio signals all at once. Human communication just isn’t setup that way, though I’m sure there are niche exceptions.

Note here that video conferencing is emphatically not an example of an exception. You still need to have synchronous order of speaking, not because technology lacks the ability to separate the streams for the listener, but because the listener cannot pay attention to more than one stream at a time.

To me this technology seems almost exclusively useful for surveillance and offline audio analysis or audio synthesis / mixing.

Still possibly valuable, but definitely not in any fundamental way that would significantly change or augment realtime verbal communication.
https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop/issues/8091

Proposal for removing "cop". TL;DR: Rejected by author because the name is so established as a brand it would take massive effort to change.
Show HN: Void launcer – Android homescreen replacement
> They modeled the scores because they couldn’t hold the exams this year due to the virus.

I said why make up a test score instead of just using weighted coursework.

> As for your description, that’s a gross oversimplification. What they’ve actually done is predicted people’s test scores based on their performance in coursework relative to their peers.

This is exactly what I described. taking someone's performance percentile in their school and predicting what they would score on the IB test. This appears to be exactly what they are doing

>A person in the 10th percentile in coursework is already worse than 90% of their peers and is unlikely to go to university no matter what school they attend

Sorry I was not more clear, I meant top 10th percentile.

>On the other hand, a student in the 90th percentile of a low performing school is going to be fine. Their predicted score is going to be well above their peers.

No, a student in the 90th (top 10th) percentile of coursework at a low performing school is the ones who are harmed. They will be assigned a higher IB test score than most of their school, but lower than the 90th (top 10th) percentile student in a school with a better track record on the IB test.
Ok, sorry, I misunderstood.
How much of the needed speedup is engineering and how much is research?
Funny then that libertarians love F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman who both argued some redistribution was whole compatible with liberalism.

But I'm sure you know better what they believe.
It is also a blessing for paywalled news sites.
The language itself and some of the tooling might be quaint, but I feel that sometimes it's also much simpler than the replacements from turn of the century. Not all corps are stodgy ones, but that's usually contractors that have few COBOL experts, sometimes just to check over work of other contractors. Some vendors are worse than others, some better.
not if you combine it with new tech. for example long range UAV. as a hobby it's good fun to experiment with different frequencies, antennas and other electronics. quite some innovation done last 10 years.
I assume dependency trees in the kernel would be much more shallow.
We have a ton of these connotations:

- left/sinister is negative compared to right

- low is negative compared to high (“moral highground”)

- south is negative compared to north (“things going south lately”)

Regardless of neutral usages of these words, or their factual meaning, we should acknowledge the more connotated meaning are not completely separate, and bleed on the other uses of the words.

It doesn’t mean they can’t be used with their actual meaning, but I think we should be open to the risk we’d need to stop using them in context where the connotations bleed too strong.

And I guess we reached that point for white/black/dark.
this seems plausible but I am not sure it has proven to be true recently: the volatility of TSLA in the last year has been higher than the previous one, wasn't it?
And having a code of conduct is a sign that this place is so terrible so regularly that it needs a code of conduct to get people to be civil to each other.

OR, everyone in power is a satirical HOA tyrant type character whose primary hobby is rule-making.

Either way, code of conduct is also generally code for grumpy and to be avoided, lest your time there be spent in moral lectures and petty arguments instead of on whatever the ostensible topic is.

I try to go places where people get along without a codified list of civil behaviors, because then I know I'm in the company of adults.
Ag jussie, this is the most Afrikaans thing I've read in ages :P Grew up in Pretoria, also had some computers but thanks to the Telkom monopoly I wasn't really able to use the internet until going to UCT.
DNS Management Can Resolve Today’s DevOps, SecOps and NetOps Conflicts
> Yep, there is indeed such a thing as left-libertarianism. Last time I checked, its proponents were trying pretty hard to argue that it's not an outright contradiction.

How is it a contradiction?
It was scientifically sourced and he did not spread it himself, others did that on 'his behalf' whilst also stripping out the sources.
Handbook to improve mathematical writing (xi, aleph,)
Substitute for “Give or Take”
btw, i opensourced this application.

check github.com/kuesji/void-launcher
I didn't know anything about this project. But it seemed like another creator got fed up with the online criticisms.

She made mention of a youtube comment about "why not just make an emulator, it's so much easier".

Really really sad that SO many people think that their comments just go into the void and don't affect people :(
Just store your 2fa totp key or qr code or backup somewhere that is either protected by 2fa (password manager, online storage) , or is available offline (file cabinet).

Some online storage services have secure areas requiring 2fa to open which would be suitable.
APUNet: Revitalizing GPU as Packet Processing Accelerator
> Ah, the revenge flag from the throwaway account of a throwaway account

Playing the victim eh? No, I'm a different guy.

I flagged you for insults. Your account is no more or less throwaway than mine.

> You're implying I have the answer, the "key".

If you have no answers, you have nothing to contribute but FUD. You were happy to answer other questions but not that one. But that is by-the-bye, I flagged you for insulting language.

> Asking for "the answer" is a typical method of bogging down any conversation

Odd. I find asking for an answer works quite well to resolve issues, if one is prepared to listen. But you blow insults instead.

> I think saying that you are unprepared for it is simply an objective confirmation of your admission that (in your words) I have the key and you do not.

So you claim to have an answer. But won't give it. And instead, insult.
Deaths from Covid-19 related hunger can exceed number of fatalities from virus
So is Java, and my last stint with Python definitely feels drudge-like too. Offer enough real money and appropriately structured career path (especially one that doesn't lead someone down path of "one language programmer") and you might find a team fast.
European countries are democracies. Change is incredibly slow and often incredibly resisted. You act as if European countries were lead by some philosopher kinds in search of the perfect system.

Look at how hard it was for German to reform its social system in 90/00s for example. And German was one of the countries that actually achieved significant reforms while many others didn't.
Sometimes I wish I didn't live in the middle of a large city. Light pollution blocks most celestial objects.
Yes. Why we don't use total equity instead of what one investor thinks is a good price of their share, I don't understand.
I briefly somewhat followed this project until it became obvious it was going a direction I wasn't interested in. Originally they were going to use a 65816 but then switched to the 6502. I believe it had to do with the increased complexity of implemention caused by the 65816 sharing data and address lines which requires the lines to be multiplexed.
let's say he believes that. even then his belief would be as understandable & justifiable as yours. Wagging a finger and saying history of science suggest this and that is just that, belief. Just because something happened before you think it'll happen again and again. I do sympathize with your pov and even agree with it, but let's not beat around the bush as you say and let's just call this what our povs are: faith in science yet to come. Ours is no more righteous than the other.

EDIT: some grammar
The UK labeling laws require alcohol is listed in "Units" which are equivilent to 10ml of pure ethanol.
Elon is billionaire because he has potential to sell his shares. That the share price fluctuate a lot doesn't change it.
Do you have pictures to share? Sounds cool.
Libertarianism started out as a left-wing ideology akin to anarchism. It is only later that the term was highjacked to refer to free market fundamentalists on the right.
I’m not sure where that number comes from, but I know in my fairly high wealth state the maximum amount a teacher’s salary can be is about 45k. Benefits are about the average for that level of employment, nothing I’d call “better” than anything else. My ex is a teacher, and I make well over three times her salary. We both have Master’s degrees - that’s also required to be a teacher.
Ask HN: What do with if your experience is 1 year 8 times
Hello HN friends. I stayed in a company for 8 years and feel severily bad-skilled (I know it was the worst mistake in my life). The point is that I feel like I have 1 year of experience repeated 8 times. Last years I worked in a startup (defunct) and in a medium-sized company with success (project with multinational company as client), and from I know this project is now the most important one in the company and is only in maintenance mode (I keep contact with CEO and other guys there).

However, I recently started in a new place and I feel that am struggling to keep at pace and all my peers are younger than me.

So, fellow HNers, I need your wisdom and I wanted to ask you this questions:

- Have you been in a similar situation? What would you do to increase your skills?

- Is it imposter syndrome amplified to the 10x?

- Could I make up for the lost time?

- Is it possible to change my mindset and don't feel like I wasted my time?

- Could it be that making a Masters programme or some kind of education to feel more adequate?

- Is this a subjective "ego thing" and should to man-up and shut up?
"Corporatist" a curse word? It's literally what this social arrangement is known as. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
What Happens When Developers Leave Their Open Source Projects?
A derivative can also be obtained for the abs function interpreted as a distribution / generalized function. However I don’t think it is helpful for calculus because of the dirac measure that pop-up
You know there is this device thats much faster, powerefficient and has 5G - a phone or a tablet! You could write write an app for Surface X or similar.

Anyway, i am just fighting the Pi-obsession, there are much more capable devices out there.
There are more ticket inspectors on the Helsinki metro than you'd think. Anyone trying to freeload is bound to get caught within a few days, the fine is large, and it goes on your credit report so it can really affect your life.

Also note that the Helsinki metro model is very similar to that in Vienna, so not a distinctly Nordic high-trust thing.
> "It begs an interesting question: does defense spending have a positive ROI?"

It's analogous to the question: Does homeowner's fire insurance have a positive ROI? The answer is no only if the homeowner's house doesn't burn down and it's enlightening to look up how many house fires occur daily.

If that's not compelling then perhaps contemplate what would people have said the ROI for national readiness for a pandemic was a decade ago and what they would say today.
What percentage of current investment is speculation for share price growth vs for dividends?
It is easier to trick the user into starting a remote session Than it is to convince them to unlock their vault.

It's somewhat like getting someone to invite you into their home VS convincing them to open their fire safe in front of you. One of those sets off alarm bells.
Idolize is a bit over the top, but I admire people who get big things done. Even if it is with a lot of help from a big hard-working team. The net worth part of it is indeed interesting too, for about two seconds, but getting shit done more so.
No one really cares who Grover Norquist is. He has no influence on anything.
Common Problems When Reproducing a Machine Learning Paper
Sadly this only works if you have a Post Office, which we in the US may not have in November.
Requiring certain classes of drivers, for example, to be written in Rust could be great for maintainers.

The person who submits the code has to do more work up front to satisfy the Rust compiler that there are no ownership issues, data races, etc. Maintainers have less work to do because, assuming the code compiles and does not use unsafe blocks, they can be confident the invariants promised by Rust hold. You have moved work from maintainers to submitters. (But you have also given submitters a way to get quicker, automated feedback on their work.)
Even no_std Rust has a lot of nice built-ins, for what it is worth.
I never resell stuff, I upgrade my phone, pc and laptop once every 6 years and keep the previous as a backup. And the one before that i disassemble to parts and only keep those if they're still useable (and useful e.g. if i repair a family members pc) or throw them away.
They have to decide who is serious about running and who is pretending to run to get that money...
this is actually a serious problem in my class. Should give this to my students.
They're probably not rescued by those renaming branches though. Those people have more important things to do.

I can see the upside though: after the former slaves have been rescued from their "decades of abuse" which they lost an immense chunk of their life to and almost certainly left them mentally and physically scarred for the rest of their life, they'll take solace in the fact that some people somewhere on Earth have renamed their virtual thingamabobs. Then they will finally know peace.
Porting MoinMoin 1.x to Python 3.x would be a major hurdle especially since MoinMoin is very complex and has lots of advanced features (from supporting multiple syntaxes to API and even master-master replication). (On the bright side, by default it doesn't seem to have many dependencies, thus at least in that regard it would be easier.)

Therefore if I were to invest development time into a wiki engine, I would definitively go with a simpler Rust / Go based implementation from scratch.

In fact this is another reason why I'm looking for alternatives, namely I want a "simpler" wiki.
Not really. I'm using Amazon.co.jp in English and I can't enter my address in katakana. Full-width ASCII is also out. Only A-Z here.

It's kinda strange since Amazon.co.jp is really easy and handy for international shopping since you can even use it in English. They even precollect the Finnish VAT and DHL ships stuff from there super fast (package leaves Japan on a Friday, is at my door on Monday).
Wow that's so cool! How did it work? What projects did you work on?
Last week I published this article on Amnesty International's blog, co-authored with Amnesty's human rights researchers.

This is an example of AI helping to protect Human Rights. We discuss new results on satellite imagery of the highest resolution available commercially (Maxar) to help Amnesty track the extent of the Darfur genocide.

A lot of this work is credited to Julien Cornebise, Daniel Worrall, Micah Farfur, Milena Marin who started Decode-Darfur-1 (DD1) in 2017. (see paper published in NeurIPS 2018 AI for Social Good Workshop: https://aiforsocialgood.github.io/2018/pdfs/track1/80_aisg_n...). To Laure Delisle, ZL, Alex Kuefler who continued the project (DD2) in 2019. Buffy Price and I helped bring DD2 to the finish line.

We have no code yet publicly available, not a dataset to reproduce this study - main reasons being that training Maxar imagery come with permission for publicity only. That said, the backbone approach is based on a ResNet50 (pre-trained on ImageNet), so data licensing is the main blocker.

Happy to answer any questions.
> Not only is this not possible in C ...

There are lots of object systems in C that have polymorphism via function pointers.
Yeah, I can't stand it. I'm conservative on some issues and progressive on others. I think some industries benefit from free markets while others are better run by the state. I think the current "left" is leaning towards totalitarianism which was just a few years ago called "right". It's ridiculous.
Tesla’s stock price is based on autonomy not EV
More likely the uncivil behaviours go unnoticed by you.
Khan Academy’s Transition to React Native
I never said there should be no regulations at all, just that some regulations are not needed or excessive. For example, needing a training course, pass exams and have a professional license to sell flowers is stupid, while doing the same to drive a car is totally fine.
Yes they deserve to lose money! Especially the big noisy ones who are actively trying to bring down parts of the green economy.
You’ve done nothing here but what you accuse OP of doing, except bullying OP by comparing their post to a preschool argument.
China had a strong and very long tradition of educating the members of its administration, which I guess counted. There was of course Mao’s Cultural Revolution that tried to wipe all that tradition off, but it failed miserably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radian

> the SI unit for measuring angles

> defined in the SI as being a dimensionless value
I've heard that kind of argument before and the usual recommendation is a setup that costs hundreds of dollars.

Basically, it's gatekeeping.
Password managers.
Auto fill forms.

Can’t think of anything else
> a Manhattan Project to build a fast Rust compiler

Or work on getting what Rust gives you in a different language that isn't Rust (maybe entirely new, maybe not[1]).

One underdiscussed thing about Rust is that it's so clearly a byproduct of the C++ world. And the most disappointing thing about Rust is that it probably won't ever be seen as a prototype that should be thrown away.

1. http://mbeddr.com/
The weather forecast for the next week is rain every day, so I might also be out of luck...
Remote, unprivileged access is not game over and its ridiculous to make that claim in the world of cloud tenants.
For most of my career I worked with a small group (20 to 30) group of highly educated and mostly brilliant people. I barely graduated high school. As the years passed and we all began to age, I realized that the amount of knowledge we all had obtained during our tenure was an irreplaceable resource for the company. In order to help the younger incoming people bypass this learning curve I set up a wiki where group members could publish articles that they thought may help others not to have to re-invent the wheel. What I discovered was that most of these brilliant people would not share a lot of their knowledge. I often wondered if even these brilliant people suffered imposter syndrome and that they didn't share this knowledge for fear they would be found out.

What I did learn from the most brilliant members of the group was to never be afraid to ask a question, even if it sounded ignorant. Never be afraid to expose a gap in your knowledge. If you don't, your missing an opportunity to increase your learning.
It would be a market where if you were unemployed,
but qualified, you could approach a company and
offer to do a job a bit cheaper than an existing
employee, and expect that the employer would sack
that employee and take you on instead.

I agree with the main thrust of what you're saying -- that truly free markets don't exist -- but this example is not realistic.

Depending on the job, there will be potentially-large costs with swapping out employees like you say.

- Even if 100% qualified for the position in general, the new hire is likely to be lacking in knowledge specific to that company/role. It will take them a while to learn how things work at that particular company. On something like a large software codebase, it might be quite a few months before their productivity matches that of the engineer they replaced.

- There is a "morale cost" there. When companies visibly treat their employees in this way (like instantly replaceable cogs) surely it has a negative effect on effort and loyalty among the remaining employees, who have been indirectly told that they are instantly replaceable cogs as well. There are any number of hidden costs here: reduced effort/productivity, the cost of replacing them if they leave due to reduced loyalty, etc. I don't have figures to back this up, but I think the burden of proof would fall upon anybody claiming otherwise...

Further, why do the most unpleasant, and not necessarily easy, jobs
often pay the worst wages?

This is often but not always true. A lot of maintenance jobs pay pretty well, often thanks to unions. Trash haulers can make very decent livings.

In general though, it's a function of how many people can do the job. Working retail is NOT easy, and is soul-crushing, but probably 98% of the workforce is capable of doing it, and the cost of replacing employees is small, so there's unfortunately little incentive to treat or pay those workers well.
Sadly Facebook Marketplace seems to be the most active.

I say sadly because the overall level of intelligence, diligence and responsibility is much lower than Craigslist, eBay or forums. This of course is my anecdotal opinion.

eBay has a bias towards the buyer during disputes and many people are taking advantage of that.

Craigslist was basically sidelined here in Canada due to eBay's heavy advertising of their competitor called Kijiji.ca

A further problem here in Canada is that shipping is pretty expensive so local pickup works best.
Dammit. I was really looking forward to this thing shipping. That depressing as hell.
I wrote about that here:

https://austingwalters.com/on-committing-suicide/

I think in part that’s why we have polarization. We have two extremes pulling each party apart, social media (as this article suggests) is pushing the left. The right is largely getting disenfranchised so they are getting more fanatical.

It’s a recipe for an eventual civil war or at the very least the road to dictatorship. To be honest, both sides are leaning towards some sort of fascism. I explain in my post above, I don’t see a way out of it unless some republicans and democrats decide to team up and get this country back together.