skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks to me that Nintendo tried turning the SNES into a full blown 'computer'
I can only stand three-column layouts myself, much better quality!
> If it was this simple that a random person here could come up with how to "solve" academia, we'd have already done it decades ago.

Just because an idea is simple to come up with, doesn't mean it's also easy to implement.

Also, can you explain to me how your programming analogy works? Because I agree with a lot of it, though it seems I'm not supposed to.
This will never happen. Software developers work at companies like Facebook, Uber and Airbnb where they either help companies cause massacres, indebt their fellow citizens or cause entire real estate issues in the real world because they get paid.

Software will only be regulated by government action, not individual action.

Edit: I am not innocent of this as well. I got paid to deliver addicting software while working for Blackberry (just a radio tech), I got paid to build compliance tools for a bitcoin company, and I get paid to optimize the amount of ads and how much profit they bring to my current employer.
Some of the US states have entities that regulate corporations, such as the Virginia State Corporation Commission [1]. In Virginia it takes consumer input, but doesn't appear to take individual case action that frequently.

Years ago I was in a car accident where the other driver was from a different state. When my car went into the shop, I needed a rental car for a few weeks. I forwarded the bill for that to the other driver's insurance and they refused to pay it, stating that this particular driver didn't have rental car insurance on his policy, and there was no requirement that they pay it.

After pointless bouncing around I called the VA SCC and referred the case to them. Shortly after that I got a call from the insurance company and they quickly paid in full, having apparently been schooled by an SCC investigator. When you're insuring a driver who hits someone in Virginia, you are playing by Virginia rules.

[1] https://www.scc.virginia.gov/
This could make video games take up so much less space and have much more robust speech, especially from NPCs.

Subreddit simulator is pretty convincing conversations, putting that to high quality voices? mannnn, so many good applications.

Speaking of which, why don't people just talk about the good applications. You'll get ostracized for speculating more bad things about COVID, but talk about how doomed we potentially are with deep fakes? Give that blogger a pulitzer prize!
Maybe a contributing factor is that it is significantly easier and more acceptable to move house in America. Thinking back to where I grew up, the house we lived in was where my grand-grand-parents were born; it would be pretty much unthinkable to move (and was not even possible in previous non-capitalist regimes) so people stick around in close-knit communities. But maybe if moving was dead-easy like in the States this would naturally fall apart?

I guess it's already happening to some extent with Schengen and young talented engineers moving to job centers.
Thanks for the links! Could you say a bit more about how you use/configure fzf to work in combination with bat and delta?
> If they didn't have to prepay pensions (something no other government agency, or private company in the world is required to do, or does)

That's…not true? https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/04/14/post-office-p...
Great article, it should be required reading for all developers. It's important to remember that just because your employer asks you to do something, you are not obligated to. You can't rationalize away your part in it later, you will be directly responsible.
I trained a base model on the Linda Johnson speech (LJS) data set for several days.

I then transfer learned for each of these speakers. Some speakers have as little as 40 minutes of data, others have up to five hours. The resulting quality isn't strictly a function of the amount of training data, though more typically helps. It's also important to have high fidelity text transcriptions free of errors.

The transfer learning runs vary between six hours and thirty six hours.

I'm using 8xV100 instances to train glow-tts and 2x1080Ti to train melgan. I'm continuously training melgan in the background and simply adding more training data. The same model works for all speakers.
CMMI isn't a process, it's a process model. Or that's what they like to emphasize.

The distinction is this: You can't take the CMMI model and execute on it, it lacks sufficient detail. Superficially, if you read the model and try to execute on it you will end up with Waterfall. What you're supposed to do (and why they're making CMMI 2.0) is map your existing processes (or develop new ones) to the model. That is, if you look at the things required for verification it's not complex: you need test cases, test reports, and some other things. It doesn't have to be heavy weight, point out your test scripts and reporting system (CI/CD platforms all have these) and how you maintain them and train people to use them. Done. But if you're not careful, people will write your process per the CMMI model and it's absolutely junk (witnessed in last job, one of the reasons I left).

CMMI 2.0's problem is that it's written as if Agile (Big-A) is the one true God. But it will almost certainly suffer the same implementation issue, it's not a process but people will try to make it one. As such, the resulting processes they do make will be process theater and hinder work, or at best have no effect but to waste some corporate resources. It does lay out a case, better than the previous CMMI model, for picking and choosing parts of the model to implement and get certified on. So that may help a little bit (less all-or-none attitude).
From the article: "If a woman with only Neu5Ac sialic acids mated with a man who still expressed Neu5Gc, her immune system may have rejected that man’s sperm or the fetus that developed from it. This fertility barrier might have helped divide Homo populations into different species more than 2 million years ago, the researchers speculated."

If it was a single mutation with such a drastic effect on breed ability, how could the mutation have had a chance to spread?
Critically, mail in ballots are generally not accepted late. USPS will get everything where it's going eventually - but if the Trump appointee announces an impromtu postal holiday the week before the election then

1. Probably nothing technically illegal has happened

2. Nobody's mail-in-vote will arrive in time to be counted

This coupled with the fact that those rabid Trump fans will be showing up at the polls in person might[1] be enough to tip it in his favor.

1. It still might not be enough though, he is doing hilariously abysmally in polls.
Have you tried Blazor? I wouldn’t invest time in it personally because I don’t see a market for it, but if I were just doing a side project for the project itself and not to learn a new marketable skill, I would give it a go.
"Here is the project get it done and its done."

"...just value nothing every breaking..."

This is a huge deal and changes so much about how you work and communicate.

Having a no-nonsense view of stability and delivery of the product changes everything.

- use stable tools, don't chase the shiny

- clearly documented architecture and deployment

- frank communication about everything at all times

- less ego, more product focus
Also: Prioriority Support for the Pro plan
http://archive.is/OMFSY
Critics blast US study finding Alaskan mine poses little environmental risk
Google and publishers are connected in a feedback loop. Google subsidizes content -> content makes google useful. Google has always had the upper hand in this relationship and set the price tag for content makers. Ad prices have gone down the drain the past 10 years so naturally you 'll only get SEO spam because there is no motive for quality content. If google wants that to change , they have to start subsidizing publishers again. They don't seem interested in that so perhaps they're betting on AI that will de-SEO the content.
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> There's a lot of celebrating about working from home and the convenience that brings, but there is no free lunch. A social trade off: now it is (the people who WFH) your responsibility to separate your work/family/life boundaries. I cant speak from experience (introvert, no family), but I think I understand people enough that many will be lulled by the convenience/comfort and not put enough effort into keeping those boundaries up. Expanding: your routine before the shutdown (gym, night classes, public talks, etc). Each of those now require two trips to participate (to and from), instead of hitting them up after (or during) work -> more effort to keep boundaries up.

I'm also an introvert and live alone, so I guess I don't have much to offer on this topic. all I can say is that setting these sorts of boundaries is something we already expect from college students, who conduct pretty much their entire life (work, sleep, socializing) on a fairly small patch of earth. in college, it's very tempting to let social time bleed into "work time" or (for some) to let work strangle their social life out of existence. but to graduate college at all proves that you have at least some ability to manage work/life balance without the aid of strong physical boundaries.

as far as third places go, I would expect WFH to be a major boon if it weren't happening in the midst of social distancing. I feel like I have much more energy to go out and do stuff after a day of working from home than I normally would after my thirty minute commute.
USPS sent tens of thousands of ePacket (international air mail) packages by boat recently—supposedly the first time in history they've done that. Instead of shipments arriving in 1-2 weeks, they took 6-12 weeks.

Completely screwed people over. Our organization has now dropped USPS entirely for international shipments, and we spend a few million annually on shipping.

There was also a massive rate increase recently, particularly to the UK, that has made USPS far less competitive compared to other shippers.
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I'd love to have an option for Majel Barrett
You may be right about that. I should note, however, that I am not out there looking for a new gig. I have kids, am getting a master's degree part time, and have a small side business. Yet I still have time to read books at night. Find me another job where I can do all that :)
> We laughed that guy out of the room, thankfully.

If the customer can be made happy and the company can make money by just making an increase to a version number with no additional changes, why not just do it?
I'm a potential user and had no clue. Not everyone keeps up with trends.

In fact, if my coworkers (educators) are any indication, few people do.

Even 2 sentences on this page would've helped a lot.
They should just spin off the USPS as a purely private enterprise—no more monopoly on letter delivery or bureaucratic micromanagement regarding prices—and instead periodically solicit bids from all the carriers (including the former USPS) for the core services. Whoever wins the bid would commit to flat-rate nationwide delivery of first-class letters and receive a negotiated subsidy for each delivery depending on the route.
The word "possible" is doing a lot of work in that quote. Notably, if enough people go back to the office because they prefer to do so--especially if they're managers or others who can influence things like good reviews and higher raises--there will certainly be a tipping point where more people see themselves as "needing" to return to the office in order to further their careers and money.

And if even more people return, the habits like remembering to make meetings accessible to people who aren't physically present will fade. Not that meetings were particularly accessible, even in many tech industry companies, before. Conference room audio equipment is quite bad in a lot of places.

Possible seems to me to mean if almost all people in a company, group, or department are working remotely, if working remotely isn't seen as a career impediment (or working in the office isn't viewed as more of a boost than working remotely would take away from), and if people can still participate in groups, then perhaps.

What I figure we will see is a hybrid, where people are in the office a day or two per week and at home the rest of the time. That still means you have to be within commuting distance of an office and still have to make child care and other appointment arrangements.
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Hey guys, just wanted to share a resource that I created a while back but recently redesigned and relaunched. I collected 500+ data science interview questions for SQL and python coding questions. I kept many of the questions as is and re-wrote others while still testing the same concepts they would test for in interviews. The platform has a fully executable IDE with datasets. Many of the questions are free. I'd love it if you guys could share your thoughts on it! Does this hit the mark as an educational resource to prep for interviews? What can be improved?
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Everything in [AtOmXpLuS](https://www.atomxplus.com)
People do think that about women, but it usually goes “Is this the kind of family-centered woman that will be on perpetual maternity leave and not pull her weight?” It’s very hard to do anything about it even if we acknowledge that it happens.
The end of the Cold War definitely changed things. We even have an ISS, now.
There are half a dozen startups in this space that provide the tech. They use embedded style tokens or sliders to change the emotion, pitch, timbre, etc. I don't have links off hand, but they're not too difficult to find.

These companies tend to focus on off-the-shelf turnkey solutions, so they'll have a suite of a few voice actors to choose from for different character archetypes.
Extend and pretend!
Welp, I'm an out-of-country voter personally. I can't really walk 3000 miles.
I work in the public sector, part of what we do is to automate tasks. No one gets fired by this directly, but over time positions disappear. When people retire, no one gets rehired and stuff like that.

Sometimes it makes sense, some tasks shouldn’t be done manually. But sometimes you automate something that was better for both the employees and citizens/patients the inefficient way, because it’s cheaper. After a long time doing this, the thing that gets me the most is how I used to buy all the corporate bullshit about how things like citizen/patient comfort, corporation, employee happiness mattered more than money, because it never did when it came down to it.

Still there are perks to the job, you get to genuinely improve people’s lives, sometimes even build things that save lives, but the automation thing, meh.
Really nice, I have a csv of something similar for Java oriented questions but I really enjoy the work you've done here as I'm increasingly asked questions about everything since going full stack
I also often look at these tools and don't see clearly how they are meant to scale beyond small, isolated projects. The simple examples where you let the tool take your small project and start serving requests from AWS doesn't show me how I would use it in the real world.
Ask HN: Did Garmin pay the $10m ransom?
As Garmin is starting to come back online from the ransomware attack, news outlets are reporting the attackers were demanding a $10m ransom. Security folks out there: How likely is it that Garmin paid up to regain access to their devices?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources

Seems to have plenty of iron and titanium and aluminum, but we have spent almost no time there so we don't really know. Well when I say 'we' haven't spent much time there I don't mean to speak for you. You may in fact have been born there for all I know. But the rest of us need to do more research I think before reaching any such conclusion. Or maybe we could just ask you.
GPT-3 is the first AI system that has obvious, immediate, transformative economic value.

I think the jury is still out on this one. It certainly seems powerful, it's doing interesting things, and it's better in many ways than any system that has come before. But there's a different between exciting demos and transformative economic value.

It's too soon to be sure, but to me, the most interesting question is whether any valuable startups will be built on top of GPT-3. Some leading indicators before that are whether useful products are built on GPT-3, and whether early-stage startups built on GPT-3 get seed investment. I'm not aware of any of these yet but maybe latitude.io counts as one.
Tomorrow's news: Privacy Lightbulbs that vibrate pre-recorded messages to throw these pesky spies off their trail is invented.
The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with
30 miles is what we get on a charge with our plugin hybrid minivan before it switches to gas. The last time we bought gas was 28 Feb. It tends to prefer gas in the winter which is a big part of why we bought gas then (looking back over the records, we normally buy a tank of gas once a month in the winter and maybe one more sometime in the summer unless we take a road trip).
Because the customer already paid for those features and you're accepting that you'll dick them over for a few pennies.
A sense of measure of things
Ir is just that you are working with a more general definition of recursion than the actual one: as I said, recursion isn't merely "a function which calls itself", it implies a certain problem solving strategy.

Recursion is "a method of solving a problem where the solution depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem". If it isn't being broken down into smaller instances towards some base case--an instance small enough to solve on its own--it isn't recursion.

The new function you have described is just different, because you have added the bounding into the code, and so now the function itself is solving a different problem: it includes the definition of take inside of it.
Becasue selling something that they already own to someone as a new feature is unethical at best and illegal at worst?

Don't you think the client would be happier with a refund and an explination?
In fairness, pension pre-funding should be an expectation of all government agencies and private companies with pensions. But the way it was introduced was absurd, IIRC USPS had 10 years in which to pre-fund 50 years of pensions.
This is a fascinating discussion -- I'm curious what people thing is the next step with AI? The post and several commenters here talk about how the tech in GPT-3 is "dumb" in that it's a big network but the network architecture is a fairly standard approach.

I'm curious what people think are the next stages of AI research that companies are working on... Is it Probabilistic Graphical Models? Is it Probabilistic Programming? Is it knowledge graph extraction from text? Is it something else? Curious what people think...
Both indeed, but what separates us from animals is not being slave to our instincts.
Yes, there is a bracelet that does both heating and cooling effects:

https://embrlabs.com/

Maybe it's a placebo but I wash my hands with cold water in the summer and I believe it makes a small, but noticeable, difference in cooling me.
You are absolutely right! I did read TFA, but it is knowledgeable and well considered so I can't address it specifically. It is still fun to challenge one of its assumptions, namely that Google is now playing catch-up. It's standard devil's advocate stuff, but seemed a fine vein to mine. Yes, Google is probably now behind in language generation vs OpenAI, but what if they weren't and how far might that go?
>[...] the problematic behaviours you describe are encouraged at the institutional level

Yes, which is why I wrote,

>[...] and somehow try to reduce it systematically, at an institutional level.
Ah, Canada does a lot of things right - post isn't one of them. Even pre-COVID the two post systems operated on quite different levels.
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Because it's morally wrong to charge someone for a product they already have, and then to cover up what you've done.

It's likely also criminal, as fraud is illegal, but even if not the deceit should be something that makes your conscience bristle.
>> There were two big problems. One is that you feel disconnected from society. This is hard to explain but being outside of normal social structures you lose a sense of context and meaning to your actions. Second is that when you don't have any social or financial pressures it's hard to avoid the path of least resistance. It's very easy to fall into bad habits, just watching youtube, reading reddit, bad diet, etc.
This strikes me as an extraordinary failure of imagination. There are other communities that have nothing to do with money, and other activities that have nothing to do with work, or sitting at home on the internet.

> I'm living in my van currently and once I finish pay off my debts, I'll have few expenses. I spend my time rock climbing and volunteering, and both these have communities around them that I'm deeply connected with. My goals these days are around rock climbing, guitar, and helping underprivileged people in my community gain more agency over their lives. I'm in better shape and eat better than most of my friends who work more than I do.

> Sure, doing nothing isn't very enjoyable. So maybe when you quit your job, don't do nothing.

If you're up for it, I'd very much like to hear more about the concrete steps you took to get where you are. Or some blog posts (haven't checked the link on your profile yet, so maybe they're already there?).

But what I can say is that your suggestion is just really fucking difficult to put into practice. For me, at least. While I've got a bunch of issues going on that legitimately do make all of this difficult, a more general problem is that I've found it so much easier to go and live in a van than I've found it to shed the behaviors that have defined me for almost a decade. There's progress: I'm at least noticing how much of what I do day to day just doesn't make sense anymore, but actually changing my behavior as a result of these observations has proven much more difficult than I expected.
Except in areas that use more polling stations than they have county election offices.
You're missing an important detail: forests don't capture CO2 just once (in the form of organic matter, e.g. wood); they also capture it continuously... Slowly turning CO2 into coal/oil over millions of years, which is not included in the count for CO2 in forests.

It's instead like a slow by-product of it; as if we had "fossil forests" underneath live ones, which several gigatons of additional sequestered carbon.

Doubling the size of forests on Earth would provide benefits that go beyond the simple, one-time CO2 capture you refer to.
On the flip side, more experienced developers (nevermind age) might have used that experience to become set in their ways. Younger developers might be more moldable
I maintain that the only reasonable way to validate an email address is to send it a message and hope for a reply. Every other method I've ever tried has failed in some silly way, as described in the article.
Me too. It seriously lowers my quality of life. Have you found any other hacks that make things better?
Quite right. It wasn't really touted as anything. It just showed up in OS X 10.7 in 2010.
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Why does Greenland disappear for some of the projections?
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It also abstracts away optimizations for doing operations. For example tolowercase on a large number of elements.