skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of open source projects in this space. DeepSpeech is actually one of the outsiders (they are not represented well in the academic community), and also not quite competitive to other software (at least last time I checked).

E.g. some very active projects are:

* Kaldi (https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/) obviously, probably the most famous one, and most mature one. For standard hybrid NN-HMM models and also all their more recent lattice-free MMI (LF-MMI) models / training procedure. This is also heavily used in industry (not just research).

* ESPnet (https://github.com/espnet/espnet), for all kind of end-to-end models, like CTC, attention-based encoder-decoder (including Transformer), and transducer models.

* Espresso (https://github.com/freewym/espresso).

* Google Lingvo (https://github.com/tensorflow/lingvo). This is the open source release of Googles internal ASR system, and used by Google in production (their internal version of it, which is not too much different).

* NVIDIA OpenSeq2Seq (https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenSeq2Seq).

* Facebook Fairseq (https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq). Attention-based encoder-decoder models mostly.

* Facebook wav2letter (https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter). ASG model/training.

* (RETURNN (https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn) and RASR (https://github.com/rwth-i6/rasr), our own, although this is currently free for academic use only. It is used in production as well. Supports hybrid NN-HMM, CTC, end-to-end attention-based encoder-decoder, transducer, etc.)

And there are much more.

You will also find lots of ready-to-use trained models.
The same guy has published the idea of the solar sail in a paper (or preprint?). Solar sails are his research topic.

The calculations that a solar sail can survive an interstellar travel are probably ok.

The evidence that the solar sail is the most likely explanation is very weak.
Only 30% of young adults meet the requirements for military service.

Most previous mass mobilizations focused on young men.

I still can’t imagine what sort of work my neighbors and I would be doing.

Not building roads, that’s for sure. Lots of bad backs.
DS is by far the easiest to use/most promising ASR library/kit/thing I’ve used; really hoping it keeps going
Monoliths vs. Microservices for Junior Engineers
Framework was pretty great! My partner and I were working on some similar ideas at the time, and we got together with the Framework team to compare notes and brainstorm.

The thing that stuck in my mind when Robert Carr took us on a tour of their office was the printer lab.

It was a full size conference room with floor-to-ceiling shelves on every wall stacked with printers.

Because back in those days, if you wanted to sell a DOS application that could print anything more than plain text, you had to write your own drivers for every printer you wanted to support. Ouch!

I've sometimes thought that the real innovation in Windows 1.0 was having systemwide printer drivers so every app didn't have to provide their own.
Thanks for the reply. For point 2, the source states that from 2001 to 2019 1.3% of the tree cover was lost [0]. However in the twitter feed the loss is 2% per 10 days.

[0] https://gfw.global/3gm1aRN
Not necessarily, you can have cars communicate locally to compute better strategies, and to provide suggestions to drivers for this strategies.

Same for map apps
There are many cloud-less Alexas already, a good one is rhasspy https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, it is not based on deepspeech though.
Inspiration for http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/ ?
Pretty meta, but I thought it was relevant here. We are familiar with Brandolini's law:

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

This can be illustrated with math or logic statements. To refute the program "1 + 1 = 3" you need to, at minimum, state "1 + 1 != 3", and such a program is always lengthier. A fuller refutation could be "1 + 1 != 3, 1 + 1 = 2", more than twice as long as the bullshit statement.

What's happening here is sort of an inverse Brandolini's law: 35 world-class computer scientists use a massive amount of programming and compute to come up with a new language model trained on massive amounts of data. The trained weights don't even fit into memory. Impressive NLP progress.

Then Gary Marcus comes around and states "Not AGI!". Not one of the computer scientists stated that they delivered AGI. But some tech journalists did. So OpenAI is guilty by association. Even though Altman came out to temper the hype and expectations. That's like proving the Poincaré conjecture, and someone dissing your research, because "1 + 1 != 3".
There are organisations that go to some length to assess which charities give you the most "bang for your buck". GiveWell is the one that I am most familiar with, which reccomends the AMF, amongst other organisations. Donations there can save many lives for little money, so if you're worried about, eg UNICEF spend, I suggest you check it out as an alternative!

https://www.givewell.org/
Mamba Rules: Defining (and Living by) Kobe Bryant’s 10 Guidelines for Greatness
I thought MS was giving them Azure GPU instances for free?
> after it didn't prove very successful

It doesn't seem like it proved anything. It seems like barely anyone had an idea it existed.
I have an 8 year old workstation as a gaming PC, with a 3GB GTX 1060, and a 2.5" HDD as a data drive, and it works fine for me on medium graphics at 1080p.
The old debate about syntax and semantics. I would say syntax, when embodied in the world gains meaning. Meaning comes from the context of the agent and its goals.
It really bothers me that the college administrators are so misaligned with their students. Their core focus should be on safely providing value to the students.

IMO rather than reacting with condemnation and threats, Syracuse should have reacted by facilitating the development of safe social norms, placing tables in X patterns outside and telling students that they are free to gather but have to remain on opposite sides of the tables. People often do this naturally anyway and it would be sufficient to enforce safe distancing.
Not only more efficient but easily repeatable and tweakable too ;)
RideAustin did not work unless you had a US-registered credit card which cut off a huge group of people from being able to use it (not to mention they only published it in US app stores). I rented cars instead.
interesting project! thanks for referencing it. how long have you been running it and what’s the experience been like?
Experience of investing in the stock market causes rightward policy/value shift
We designed a large field experiment to evaluate the impact of financial markets, which have grown dramatically in recent decades. Participants from a national sample in England received substantial sums they could invest over a 6‐week period. We assigned them into several treatments designed to distinguish between different theoretical channels of influence. Results show that investment in stocks led to a more right‐leaning outlook on issues such as merit and deservingness, personal responsibility, and equality. Subjects also shifted to the right on policy questions. These results appear to be driven by growing familiarity with, and decreasing distrust of markets. The spread of financial markets thus has important and underappreciated political ramifications.
That's a difficult question to answer but I would have to say "no".

When I had my wisdom teeth out, it was under "deep sedation". They use local anaesthetics, and an additional cocktail which produces sedation, but also, prevents the formation of memories.

I have one memory that got through, of a molar being ripped out: but for the most part, my sense of that experience is that I wasn't conscious.

The thing is, if you ask someone under deep sedation to raise their right hand, they'll do it. It's like asking if you were conscious during a dream which you've completely forgotten: ...kinda? not in the usual sense in which we mean the word though.
Toughest ones for me would be Search, Android, YouTube. The rest should be easy enough.
Project Pluto's nuclear ramjet bomber/missile sounds like it came from the imagination of a science fiction novelist or a screenwriter:

a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto’s designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto’s nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by.

Not as efficient at killing as ICBMs, I guess, but a much more terrifying concept.
So, if you restrict yourself to looking just at the API and not the implementation, it seems to me that if your library operates entirely on non-pointer C++ types (e.g., it takes in a std::string and returns an std::string), a program could automatically determine that and call the binding "safe". Would that be enough?

I agree that the program should not automatically generate "safe" bindings that take pointers, because in Rust, creating and passing around raw pointers is safe but actually using them is safe. But if, let's say, you have an API that consists entirely of integers, bools, std::strings, and structs and classes thereof, what additional things would you need to check to be confident calling the binding safe?

(Sure, there are weird cases here like "this function takes a long, casts it to a pointer, and dereferences it," but I assume those are uncommon enough that you'll see if you're about to create or use auto-generated bindings to such a function. I suppose there could be "this function takes an std::string and an index, and the index must be less than the length or it's UB" - are those common enough that they make this endeavor questionable?)
Author here if anyone wants to discuss the internals of the 8086.
Ask HN: Are companies averse to hiring remote developers from the Bay Area?
I was laid off from my job recently but immediately started applying to new jobs. I'm expanding the job search to include remote positions at companies that might be located outside of California. Unfortunately I haven't heard back from any of them. I wonder if it has to do with the current job market being so competitive, or if my resume is weak, or if those companies think my salary expectation would be too high and they won't be able to match it, so they're not going to bother considering me as a candidate. I know when my previous company was hiring, we stopped reviewing most resumes from local Bay Area developers because it knew it couldn't match their salary expectations.

On a side note: I have about 5 years of experience as a backend developer. I'd be happy to share my resume/LinkedIn over email if anyone is aware of any opportunities!
so, after the past few years incel has shifted from "involuntarily celibate" , to "young men who congregate online and who explain their lack of romantic success through a toxic and misogynistic ideology." , NYTimes definition mid-article, not mine.

Pretty shitty, given that the title 'incel' is rarely self-appointed in comparison to the amount that its' bandied about by those who seek to insult by mockery or phrase.

This points to an over-simplifying of the language.

People who have poor romantic luck and charisma ARE NOT ALWAYS THE SAME as people who gather around social outlets online in order to share 'toxic and misogynistic' opinions -- but public opinion and media are referring to both parties as 'incels'.

This means that the simply unlucky and uncharismatic folks are being pigeon-holed by society and the media to get out of the 'incel' title simply to stave off comparison between themselves and the bad incels.

It's weird that a pro-sex movement finally won over the hearts of the public by demonizing and chastising those unfortunate enough to not have found a sexual partner.

I wish people (and the media at large) would make a larger effort to mention that someone can be involuntarily celibate and mentally stable and balanced.

The momentum lately to paint all involuntarily celibate people as mentally unstable and angry is a trend that will force a lot of people into life-changing mistakes more promptly than they would have been before the social pressure that equated routine sex with a partner as an indicator of mental stability and trustworthiness.
Meaning comes from the game, not from the brain. It's the relation between agent and environment that creates meaning.
I hope for that as well, it is quite hard to watch for everybody with a heart. In fact this empathy/pain might be the only reason I'd even bother to formulate my response..
Your first comment was “Why should I care?” and you keep repeating that. Obviously this for people who do care, and many do.
I would love Blender to have an editing pane for text-based CSG definitions.

Text-based CSG definitions are faster, clearer and easier than all these GUI tools. They are also diffable, scriptable and regexable.
What a wonderful perspective to look at this. We take so many things for granted. The knowledge we have is beautifully compartmented by artificial boundaries we take for granted. All the faculties we have: we rarely question the architecture of this building of knowledge we grow up with.
Restaurants are so wasteful. Huge amounts of food is thrown away both in the kitchen and in the form of uneaten plates. Just going from restaurants to home probably saves a decent amount of food.
thanks for the list but we've seen such things from time to time and yet no one to my knowledge ever tried to measure their effectiveness.
Nice job Op. Thank you.
http://archive.is/pZXTZ
New Milestones in Embodied AI
DDG has been absolutely awful for me. Google has 15+ years of my search history at this point and the improvement that makes on my search results is incredible.
Bluetooth is bad enough that videos have to be delayed so that audio can catch up. Completely worthless for games unless you use proprietary codecs like aptX.
You could also argue that global warming probably won't affect you in your lifetime. It's a very egocentric way of looking at things.
Dentistry is a bit on the arcane side as it is. The Lund lawsuit. The sudden realization a few years ago that no one could actually point to proof that flossing does anything. When they quote an orthodontist (let's face it, they make a killing selling binding for mostly aesthetic reasons - at least in the US) as saying one of these Mews is an idiot... it stinks of the pot calling the kettle quack.
Accepting this is setting a precedent that you're happy for companies with a lot of power to have efficient systemic influence. This has already (it's barely been 10/20 years) started to influence the outcome of elections. Literally the cornerstone of a functioning democracy. And you're saying you don't care.
Is this not an aspect of Ivan Illich's "Tools for Conviviality"?
You are totally right. Medallion owners wouldn't try to lobby local governments to restrict the supply of medallions. Just like the AMA doesn't lobby at all to set an artificially low number of residency spots for aspiring doctors.
thanks for the list but we've seen such things from time totime yet no one ever tried to measure their effectiveness
They are mostly just producing office tools. Imagine that 50 years ago people said they couldn't stop using staplers and typewriters. Would a ban on these products really have doomed these people's lives and businesses?
> I tried leaving Macbook, but whenever I have tried the alternatives(even Thinkpad with Ubuntu)

Perhaps the change was made more difficult by the fact that you changed two variables at once: the OS (macOS -> Ubuntu) and the hardware (Macbook -> ThinkPad). Something to consider.
That sounds right - tnx!
> it is a million times easier to adapt your process to the tool than the other way around

In the short term, perhaps, but at what cost in the long-run? We end up with channels of accepted behavior dictated, undemocratically, by software teams.
It’s very annoying that this site drops a big banner forcing you to create an account to read it. Who do they think they are that their written content is supposed to be so can’t-miss that I’m going to slap together yet another data breach liability-waiting-to-happen user account, let alone letting them track my personal data, just to read this.

The arrogance and user hostility is severe.

Of course they are allowed to try this, they don’t owe me anything at all, and they (rightly) are wanting to monetize the publication of content they spent time and money to produce.

All that is irrelevant. They (and many other sites doing this) need a serious wake up call to be more self-aware that random long tail content on the internet is worth approximately zilch, and the cost of registering and giving you my data is way too high for something like this.
“A verifiable, immutable, distributable, durable, performant data store“

Anything digital with checksums is verifiable.

Nothing digital is immutable, but checksums can be used to verify that what you have know is the same as what you had before.

Anything digital is distributable and, if you make enough copies, durable.

FTA: “sometimes a transaction takes nine minutes, sometimes nine days!”. If that’s true, I wouldn’t use “performant” to describe this technology, if used as a ledger.

Finally, git is as verifiable, immutable, distributable and durable as you can get in the digital space, and, used as a ledger, more performant than blockchain (and highly likely not the only example of software that has those properties)
I use a combination of Mailo, Mailbox.org, and Runbox with my domains. They have their varying quirks but I am happy with my choice esp. wrt. their host countries.
Vaccine protects upper and lower respiratory tracts against SARS-CoV-2
It makes no sense that people responding to anonymous online surveys would have such reservations.
Unsafe != unsound
Full-grown adults have proven unable to follow safe guidelines. How are you expecting a bunch of 18-year-olds to do it?
I agree that spamdexing is a huge problem, but could the rise of rel="nofollow" contribute just as much? The vast majority of user-generated content is marked as nofollow, but this is largely the same type of content that made early Google good. I often get better results doing a reddit search than using a search engine. It seems that by ignoring user-created links, search engines are ignoring 90-99% of the signal. The rest of the signal is mostly from commercial and promotional sites, so it's not surprising that these make up nearly all of the top search results.

I often do want results from commercial sites such as nginx.com, but I want results that real people have found valuable and not results that some paid blog post linked to.
The Russian Espionage Case: Exposing the Mole in the U.S. Special Forces
What new laws in Australia are you referring to? I did a quick search and I saw a lot about anti-spam laws (which is great), but how does that affect switching your own domain to fastmail?
How can a person infect someone with HIV when it has been eliminated from his body?
Seven comments from accounts that are either new, or have never commented before except in praise of this product (complete with replies from the poster) - this all seems rather shady, like a voting ring.
You can also try SyncThing, which works in a similar manner, but it's FOSS and you can host your own tracker.
That's not what I mean.

Commercial agriculture is heavily dependent on, and influenced by, companies that zealously guard what they see as their intellectual property.

When I say "open agriculture," I'm referring to protecting free experimentation and open seed culture.
For now the only real applications have been coins (like a distributed bank, but without fraud protection, unless you are the owner), and some automated gambling (did that get traction anyway?).

There where some projects to store messages in he blockchain, but it never got traction (and people really like the idea to erase(hide) their tweets).

What are the other applications?
I agree that some commentary has an unfortunate undercurrent of virgin-shaming, but "incel" was never in common use as a neutral descriptor. Most people familiar with the term today have only ever seen it used as a reference to that particular subculture; the more general uses from the early 2000s are virtually unheard of, to the point that most people I've talked to about it think the /r/incels subreddit invented the term.
I use duckduckgo for search, I have the DuckDuckGo privacy extensions installed in Chrome, along with EFF Privacy Badger. I'm not that worried about Google.

I did de-facebook myself. IMHO Facebook is far more invasive, far more harmful than Google.
You can !g google in DDG when you need to. I often have to do, and hopefully DDG picks this up and improves their search.
Global warming affects every person on Earth, I don't think Google's data collection negatively affects a single digit percent of their customers, much less the majority. I don't get the comparison.
Isn’t it 180 from that. The term incel is one developed online by toxic young men dealing with their lack of romantic success through misogynistic ideology. And it’s not really something that changed in recent years but is many years old.

There are plenty of people who can deal with finding sex and romantic relationships hard who are not incels.
Are there other foundations like mozilla we can donate to? For initiatives that are in the interest of the public? The Apache foundation is all I can think of but they focus on corporate use projects.
I'm going to echo your assumption that most remote employers will just not bother reviewing CVs from bay area devs.

I guess looking at it from a different angle, as a bay area dev are you going to accept a long term position that comes with an 80k compensation package?

If in your cover letter you were to indicate that you would entertain a long term commitment at a rate typical with that of the remote company's on premise employees. Perhaps you would get more interest. Just a thought.

Best of luck on your job search. For good measure you might post your core skills here. You never know who is going to read this...
Yeah, I'd only seen a spec list from a guy playing max setting on 4K.

But he was on a brand new stupid level hardware PC.
Speculating about the motives of a species that may or may not be biologically similar to us and which, even if they are similar, may well be millions of years more advanced than us is very hazardous. I think these kinds of speculations lead many people to hold all sorts of strongly held but unfounded beliefs about what ET's may or may not do here.

Maybe after another million years of development a species' main motivation would be simple curiosity, in other words they are basically scientists. Scientists may want to avoid interfering with a species they are studying and therefore remain hidden. But then the same scientists conducting a different experiment may want to selectively perturb the specimen's environment to probe their psychological reactions and degree of intellectual development.
Being well off doesn't make you a successful investor. You could simply be have inherited your wealth, or worked in a profitable industry.

Lots of people on HN could quality as accredited investors just from having being a part of a double income couple, getting paid tech worker salaries.