skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with Mozilla's DeepSpeech every day. Mozilla's STT is critical to the survival of important indigenous languages throughout the world.

I sincerely hope we can help make this project continue and that Mozilla can help us do that.

Ensuring indigenous languages have digital representation is essential to their survival. Speech recognition and synthesis are a vital part of that. Indigenous communities are often ignored by Big Tech because they bring little financial value to their bottom lines, but financial bottom lines are not everything. Culture is more important. Open source tools like DeepSpeech allow communities to build the tools they need for themselves.

Māori have been working to help build tools for te reo Māori, and our project is at the forefront of using open source tools like DeepSpeech to revitalize the Māori language. The core of a good speech recognition system helps us in many practical ways, such as improved transcription, support for pronunciation, correct announcements in public transport, correct information on maps and in many other ways. We may well continue to support and use DeepSpeech if the project can continue.

But there are also many other projects in other countries in the world who may follow on - such as the Kabyle people of Algeria who are using DeepSpeech, or the Mohawk nation in North America who have been looking into it.

By the way we are working on our web presence but for now this quick one pager gives some idea of the work we are doing - https://papareo.nz.
Browser fingerprinting more prevalent on the web now than ever before – research
The above WHYY segment suggests an alternative hypothesis of children nursing less and using bottle feeding more.

This seems as credible as Mews’ hypothesis. Neither seems sufficiently validated to be the basis for clinical treatment, from what little I understand.
I think it is helpful to split the application web into 2 distinct categories:

- server-side applications: documents with the option to add/change content via forms (think hacker news)

- client-side applications: full blown applications that can do just about anything and use the web as a platform and delivery system (think video conferencing or collaborative editing)
once it exists, yup. you can migrate today though with https://ems.element.io/tools/matrix-migration tho
I've seen Olympics levels of trying to bend the truth, but pretending that reality is outdated so webdevs can continue pushing dozens of megabytes of JavaScript is a new one.
MacPorts is an implementation of BSD family ports package managers. I don't know much about modern ports, but when I was an active FreeBSD user, it did not install binaries, compiling the package with all dependencies instead - that is why it offers only open-source packages by definition.
Darwin itself a BSD family, so I guess MacPorts were the first package manager implementation. However, proprietary applications is a common thing on Mac, unlike Linux/BSD systems, that is why Homebrew offers much wider choice of packages.
Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a book, 2312, which featured an equatorial city on Mercury mounted on massive concrete rails.

The expansion of the concrete rails on the day side permanently keeps the city in the planets relatively pleasant pre-dawn zone.

The city only needed to move at walking pace to stay ahead of the sunrise.

IIRC one of the major mercurian industries was maintaining massive solar reflectors that were used to boost light going to specific asteroid greenhouses.
Yeah, but those were proxy fighters from other lands, right? They don't count, according to most US/RUS public.....
If you travel through Germany it feels like huge problem to be honest.

My girlfriend lives in northern Germany and going around in Germany by train is just a big waste of time, because most of the time you have 0 signal as soon as you are outside of a city.
For example traveling by train from Vienna to Bremen takes around 8 hours, but I basically need to stop working as soon as I cross into Germany. 0 Signal.

If you are in the Netherlands, Czech Republic or Austria and you cross into Germany it's like traveling back in time. Very often you are lucky to have some EDGE reception, while at the other side of the border you had high speed LTE.
> I mean, if you start building an auto-fixer pipeline for an auto-linted error... then is that error actually valid in the first place? Probably not.

Yeah that does sound like a waste of time for a relatively small project.

But I actually think this makes perfect sense once you factor in how massive the effective codebase of Debian is. It's also a much different beast; there are benefits and costs to moving more slowly and methodically. Making seemingly small architectural changes (like the switch from 'extra' to 'optional') is awkward just because of the structure of the project.

Anything to take tedium off the plates of devs who are committing upstream in preparation for the next release has to be a good thing, right?
> Australia's mobile data network is competitive on quality, and is amongst the fastest in the world.

Really? That hasn’t been my experience — and granted I’ve never lived in Australia or spent much time out of Sydney but I was there for 10 days in February and even though I paid for 4G Plus or whatever Optus calls LTE, speeds weren’t even comparable to what I can get in the US and were truly behind what I got in Seoul (where I was right after I was in Sydney). The only research I’ve seen that indicates Australia is amongst the fastest comes from research that is based on maximum speeds, not average speeds.

I can appreciate that Australia has robust cellular networks (assuming the user doesn’t live somewhere where they are forced to use satellite), in part because home internet speeds are so poor, but I wouldn’t put it in even the top 10 of parts of the world I’ve visited for internet speeds.
Three significant threads in the last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206216

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22842110

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21701917
I'm not sure I understand what the GP is trying to say (especially since the article focuses on mobile Internet, rather than calls).

Just to clarify: only the caller pays for outbound calls in Israel. The receiver never pays for receiving a call. This is also true to all EU countries as far as I'm aware.
> Someone even wrote a nodejs tool for this functionality

Coming from a more low level background but doing front end development from time to time, I am always amazed by the sheer amount of seemingly useless javascript reimplementations of what would be bash one liners.

For your question, how about
"find <dir> -type f - maxdepth 1" ?

You can put that in an alias or script in your path
Though a lot of these errors are in the package metadata, Debian doesn't make it easy for itself as the build system and packaging format is very complex. There are lots of different build system variants, relying on weird poorly-documented helper scripts which have strange interactions. In my opinion, there's just too much magic in the debhelper system to understand how to fix problems. You also have the long, complex and constantly changing list of rules which need to be applied for each update. They are very strict about noting down the copyright of all the files, for example (which I can understand to some extent).

I think the biggest issue is the social problem of the long and arduous process to become a trusted Debian Developer. Although there's now an easier Debian Maintainer option for restricted access, it's still not easy to become one. Other people have to go through a developer to update or add packages. If you can't find a responsive developer, then package changes can sit for months or years in a broken state before they are applied (as I have found out). The whole packaging process is a frustrating exercise in bureaucracy compared to other non-Debian distributions (e.g. Fedora), which is no fun to be involved in for most people.
Those people can also stop paying you and just wait until you recycle their email address. No password recovery needed when it's up for anyone to grab.
Lyft was pretty clear in their announcement that this is the plan.
These kinds of metrics give the environmental movement a bad name. It’s complete bullshit.

Edited to add: you probably have an intuitive idea of what “overshooting” our “environmental footprint” means, but I guarantee that your intuition does not tally with the details of how this number is derived. The huge number involved principally relies on the area of forest required to offset human carbon emissions, which is a bizarre choice of land use.

File this one away with the “happiest/sadness/most flatulent” day of the year formulas. It’s a bunch of numbers multiplied together designed to generate headlines, not a serious instrument we can use to guide policy decisions.

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Mobile apps can track users much more easily. Especially on Android. Web apps are inside the browser, on small screens.

Desktop apps are a bit too much sometimes. Users don't install apps easily. You have to download from some random store or Github, install the exe, configure it, etc.

Just make a website. Runs on every browser on every OS.
Some incredible foreshadowing at 2:00
I’m currently travelling through Italy and I can have full strength 4G but almost no data connectivity. I don’t know how anyone manages to use their data allowance here.
If I could talk to cell(s), morphogenesis would be my topic of discussion.
This is incorrect.

PPP is absolutely useful (and often used) to compare prices of goods outside the PPP basket.

For example [1] uses PPP to compare things like rent and grocery costs so they can say things like "Rent prices in London are 19% higher than Sydney".

[1] https://www.budgetdirect.com.au/interactives/costofliving/co...
Those two are used by the far right, while this one is used by the (far) left. Much like folks on imgur will unironically call for lynchings of right wing idiots who did some heinous stuff but will be outraged if some right wing forum calls for the same of left wing idiots who did some heinous stuff. Controlling slurs (and even more so: pretending that a slur that you use as a slur isn't a slur) is a tactical maneuver on the rhetorical battle field.

A common argument is "but this is given based on behavior". It's a bad argument, because the same is true for most usages of any slur.
Both. I think it lends just enough plausible deniability if they did get stopped by police, but provides a certain amount of cover by creating some hesitation to identify it as either a private vehicle or a cop car (i.e., creating uncertainty) and prevent stoppage and other slowdowns. A friend of mine used to drive a Ford Crown Vic with a whip antenna on the rear that was actually an unmarked ex-cop car. When he would get in the passing lane, he'd never get blocked—US drivers recognize white or dark blue Ford Crown Vics and Taurus models as common police vehicles and usually change to the right (non-passing) lane immediately.
We've come a long way from $20,000 per GB (the rate on Telstra prepaid circa 2011, as I discovered when I put my SIM into my first smartphone).
I mean, it's a fair point. My stance on the Alien Butt Stuff? Fetishes. Alien butt fetishes. We have bigger butts than they do, and they want to have fun on their spare time.

Or, we could construct an alternate theory based on the Alien movie and facehuggers. Butthuggers?
It's really hard to reconcile the fact that we need to build a lot more housing in California with the fact that we can't keep building in places where that housing is going to burn down in the near future. I don't know how long it's going to be until we realize that in certain areas, single family homes are non-viable for the middle and lower class, since we need medium to high density housing in the valleys below hills where fire risk is at its highest and insurance rates should be obscene.
All I can think is that you saw "less informed" and read "idiot", but that's not what I wrote. Not everyone makes it a hobby to optimize their finances down to the last detail - in fact most people don't.

I'm probably leaving money on the table with my retirement savings - perhaps there are lower cost funds or tax-loss harvesting I could be doing if I spent hours each week reading personal finance blogs. That doesn't mean I'm an idiot, and it's the same with drivers who don't necessarily calculate wear and depreciation for every last mile.
Yeah, sorry, 175mph on the freeway is not something I'm okay with. For other cars on the road going 65mph that's a relative speed of 110mph. I'd like to see them in jail.
There used to be a pretty big business in US of reselling expensive software licenses (think AutoCad etc). I remember Autodesk trying to stop it and not being able to which brings us to the current day.

Of course now that everything is under pay as you go SaaS model, that's out of window.

Still in Europe it is legal (http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=124...) and people do resell mundane licenses such as Windows.
Nah, you have a valid point. :)

Sometimes companies just don't invest to expand into the market, or they aren't there yet -- it's not always just ignorance of the culture.

But I've seen the latter a lot, and particularly with SF people, that move here because they "love Japanese culture", and then complain endlessly about how Japan isn't SF. They don't last more than a few years, typically.
this seems like the non-cynical answer. thanks. don't know why i'm being downvoted for a reasonable question, but there you go.
I'm waiting for a long-running job while reading this and noticed that it says "228 countries". Supposedly there are about ~200 countries. https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-a... says there are 195. Anyway, these are the ones if anyone is curious about this like me. The few I looked up on Wikipedia showed that they are indeed not a country (not that it matters for this survey..):

American Samoa

Anguilla

Aruba

Bermuda

British Indian Ocean Territory

Cape Verde

Caribbean Netherlands

Cayman Islands

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Curaçao

Falkland Islands

Faroe Islands

French Guiana

French Polynesia

Gibraltar

Greenland

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guernsey

Hong Kong

Isle of Man

Jersey

Macau

Macedonia

Martinique

Mayotte

Montserrat

New Caledonia

Palestine, State of

Réunion

Saint Barthélemy (St. Barts)

Saint Helena

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint-Martin (France)

Sint Maarten

Svalbard and Jan Mayen

São Tomé and Príncipe

Taiwan

Tokelau

Turks and Caicos Islands

Virgin Islands (British)

Virgin Islands (U.S.)

Western Sahara

Åland Islands
That was an unexpected good read.
This is basically the "security through obscurity" argument that has been so heavily criticised and largely shown to be false. If they (and apple etc.) Open sourced their approval algorithm and allowed pull requests people with an interest in having a high quality app store could try and poke holes in it and make it more robust. I know there are humans in the mix making judgements, but those judgements are largely of the "does the app meet this tick box criteria" type.
Not OP, but in my company we do develop locally, however, merged feature branches are deployed to a AWS environment for testing. The environment is identical to production, but with smaller instances. Betas are deployed to yet another identical environment for QA to approve the changes. All three environments are managed by the same Terraform configuration to ensure they are identical.
I wonder if the records set now during the reduced traffic COVID era will be able to be beaten once regular (or accelerated traffic begins due to reduced public transit use) resumes.

If we defund the police completely then maybe new records will be set (I'm being facetious of course).

Alex Roy has a very interesting talk he gave at Google 12 years ago (Wow!) on the subject of Cannonball runs. I highly recommend it: https://youtu.be/IQpg0tvap4A
That's an interesting point. They forced the end of every manufacturer using unique charging cabled for their phones, forcing a universal app API would be a great step. The phone would literally just become a platform and you could have a healthy competition about who builds the best platform.
great job you guys done.
Apart from that we're no longer recycling email addresses as fast as we used to (except for trials that never paid, they only get prescribed for a short time) that doesn't work so well for getting access to your existing email!
Did someone forget that you can buy a totally functional used car for like $2000, just about anywhere?
Prvrng claims to be the world's first Universal TRNG/randomness extractor
PRVHASH can be also used as a very efficient general-purpose PRNG with an external entropy source injections (like how the /dev/urandom works on Unix): the 64-bit hash value can be used as a pseudo-random number, spliced into 8 output bytes each round: this was tested, and works well when 8-bit true entropy injections are done inbetween 8 to 2048 generated random bytes (delay is also obtained via entropy source). An example generator is implemented in the prvrng.h file: simply call the prvrng_test64() function. The prvrng_test32() implements the same technique, but with 32-bit hashes, for comparison purposes.

prvrng_gen64()-based generator passes PractRand 8 TB threshold, without or with only a few "unusual" evaluations. Which suggests it's the first working universal TRNG in the world. This claim requires a lot more evaluations from independent researchers.
Some thoughts

The design proposal doesn't say one way or the other, but I guess/hope this would be plumbing through to the underlying OS IP stack, otherwise your browser would need to obtain its own IP address. The source repo for this is called raw-sockets but nothing implies that's what they would actually use/require; raw sockets usually require root.

The proposed API is just to open sockets. Does this mean all these non-HTTP protocols are going to be implemented separately? Will they ship with Chromium, or are we looking at web sites sending down a bunch of wasm-compiled protocol implementations? Honestly, the developer thread was really enthusiastic but didn't seem to account for the vast gulf between "can open a tcp socket" and "functional mail client".

It's interesting that in the security mitigations section of the explainer doc, the author is explicit that listening for incoming connections is not part of the proposal _yet_. The developer thread is full of ideas that would require incoming connections (DHT specifically) though. Also, the idea that this unlocks communication with legacy systems seems counter to the idea that hostnames resolving private addresses won't work. I guess you get around this by making your app have connection profiles (common with RDP, Chrome OS SSH app does this, etc.).

I think this makes the most sense if you consider a web browser to actually be a rich UI toolkit that happens to speak HTTP. Should these developers get to write other network clients with CSS/JS frontends, or not?
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I don't think that's the problem.

People, especially as they get older, tend to want more space. Being close to nature -- and California, in those rare moments when it isn't on fire, has beautiful nature -- is also a big draw.

The people living in those homes aren't, broadly speaking, lower-class. They live out there precisely because they aren't interested in medium- or high-density housing, for a variety of reasons.

I would say the primary cause is overzealous environmental legislation, brought to you by the same people that have fought tooth-and-nail against nuclear power -- and thus for burning lots of coal -- for the past seventy years.

Clean air is great. I like strong emissions standards on cars and factories. But controlled burns have been absolutely hobbled for years by regulators and environmental groups.

One of my nephews is a firefighter, currently in California. He'll rant your ear off about this.
We're already dependent on an industrial society. Without, for example, mass produced fertilizer we could not sustain current population. Same thing with digging holes.
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Ah, the CEO of Fastmail is responding ;) Let me tell you this: It‘s a beautiful product with a very intuitive UI: Every setting is there where I expect it. Also the support is very responsive and very helpful. Thank you!

Keep up the good work.
> 175mph on the freeway

That's also 175mph driven by a person who as a professional wouldn't legally be allowed to drive that long in many places (even if they're swapping, that's 12.7h of driving each). It's not a good state to be driving even at normal speeds.

> I'd like to see them in jail.

Given the drivers publish their names and various proofs... why aren't more of them arrested?
The problem with de-googleifying is, to me, best summed up by Google+. When it was released, we were all extremely eager to leave Facebook’s abusive policies and needless redesigns for anything better. It was only one we discovered that Google+ really didn’t solve any issues at all that we moved back to Facebook.

Sure, Google steals your data. However, we have no guarantees that these new companies won’t steal just as much once they get a big userbase too.
Ask HN: First 90 days for new CTO
I’m about to start a new role with a scale up as their CTO.

It’s a team of 45 people with half of them engineers.

What tips or suggestions have you found to form part of a first 90 days of a CTO role?

What are the expectations? What outcomes? What activities?
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Yep, I'm a hacker news tragic too :p

Thanks for the kind words!
He never said the video was supposed to be about learning. The entire channel seems to be based around technology crafts. It's not my cup of tea but that doesn't mean no one else shouldn't enjoy it.
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> The Humboldt event united unlikely allies: Trump-supporting ranchers worked side-by-side with retired hippies and back-to-the landers

Maybe unlikely if you just look at the D and the R, but non-politicized, local issues like this will still get widespread interest across party lines.
This is just crazy talk. On the one hand, Merkel gets constant praise for being a scientist, on the other hand she's a conservative (questionable by any standards) that is technophobic. Please.

Additionally, Merkel never ruled alone, it's been either a coalition with the SPD or the FDP, neither are conservatives.

Please don't spread misinformation and if you actually believe "Conservatives are a plague", go see a mental health professional, because you're dangerously radicalized.
Also, there were plenty of contradictions with capitalist principles of profit-oriented production. There were lots of examples when factories or whole industries worked not only suffering constant financial losses, but without common sense at all, like empty trucks roundtrips to meet the plan of "distance per month", assigned from above.