skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the superior quality of Google searches has less to do with indexing and speech analysis and more to do with how they contextualize a user's searches against their treasure trove of data on said user - data which is harvested from the huge variety of products and services they offer across their whole business.
This would be a nice interview question, reframed as a CYOA.
Meanwhile, getting my 2Gbit fiber cable installed and connected (in Japan) took only a few days.

I’m continually surprised by these kinds of stories.

Also by nobody seeming to have any idea about the situation. How hard is it to add a note to the customer file (and read it)?
Ahh yes, the way I have to deal with my cloud provider, as well as my local fast food outlet's delivery service. Very high tech.

Thanks for the heads-up
5% WER or less isn't that unrealistic. It's just not very good. It means that there's an error every 20 words on average, which with a slow rate of speech of 2 words per second amounts to an error every ten seconds.

That humans can still communicate effectively with each other despite a higher transcription error rate is just due to the the way humans do transcriptions: listen to a section of audio, then write down what they heard. If they understood the meaning, they'll likely write down a transcription that retains this meaning, but they might drop an article or duplicate it or switch the order of two words. It's easier for an algorithm to avoid those mistakes of inattention, but harder to prevent errors that change the meaning.

So WER isn't a perfect indicator of transcription quality. It also matters which words are affected. I wouldn't be surprised if people preferred a human-written transcription that reads well despite a high WER over a machine-generated one with fewer errors, but more obvious ones.

Bonus: find the word duplication in this comment.
If you bring in most people with previous programming or systems exposure, they hear "COBOL", and make jokes about "COOL COBOL" (COBOL Object Orientated Language). This somewhat includes myself.

If you bring in someone who is smart, pragmatic, and interested in a nice indoor job with good pay, they're more interested in the specialized job training and position that comes with it.

Someone I knew made the tongue in cheek retirement joke that "where else could I learn COBOL and mainframe in university, and never learn anything else until I retired?"
This is not how it works. If you pay a company money and they earn a profit, they will have more money. But the next customer doesn’t come specifically out of your revenue. They generally won’t have waited for you at all, and they would still pay for ads and similar acquisition costs without your money, whether from their reserves or any lines of credit.

You charge your own acquisition cost against the profit from your custom, not the next guys’ cost. In the case of crime you have paid them to hack you, not others.
If you have cross zone load balancing disabled and you only have one instance per AZ, how do you ensure that when an instance is down or during a deploy, when not all AZ might have instances, that you don't have downtimes? Cross zone load balancing in NLB seems a must to me if you are constantly deploying new targets.
James Randi: Magician and sceptic dies aged 92
How do you mitigate potential customer's risk when switching from their existing methods to a new company without a clear cash flow model?

To me, $0 is only attractive if their is minimal investment of my time and resources. If I need to switch business processes, that is never the case and if I have to switch business processes, then stability of the service provider is critical.

"Every small company in the world" is not a market because there are too many unique needs...or rather it is end point not a starting point for building a company. The starting point is getting customers one by one.

Good luck.
I mean, we have it in the big ones. When I go through the Lötschberg or Gotthard I get full 4G coverage.
The alternative is newsgroups and NNTP.

They are open, technology agnostic, interoperable, and most news readers are way better at threaded discussions involving more than two people than almost every email client.
Before Chrome, all popular web browsers had a user interface for installing client side HTTPS certificates for user authentication, and a very small number of websites supported it. After Chrome became popular, those sites were forced to switch to a different form of second factor authentication, and it's fallen almost completely out of use.

Part of the reason was that the user interfaces for installing certificates were terrible, and websites needed to have guides on how to use it in each browser.
OAuth isn't solely about social networks. There are a number of corporations that use it for delegated authorization. A financial aggregator and a bank, for example. A large number of SaaS providers support G-Suite logins for enterprise customers as well.
There’s a strong argument that is currently is, just sold for $0. (Or negative money if you consider ads)
I think yes. I checked the docs and to accomplish this you can basically lock down your instance for registration only (that you need to approve) and you can make sure you only follow your own instances. That way you could even setup a 3 Node ReplicaSet of PeerTube instances, only serving your personal videos for High Availability!
I have used Decentraleyes for a long time and it has only offloaded me 55 times. That is less than I thought.

By flushing versions and integrity checks down the toilet, this new one could probably easily reduce traffic much further! What a great idea.
Towards a Solarpunk Future
Building replacement proprietary battery packs
Facebook Dating lands in Europe as singles look for love in lockdown
It is illegal to pay kidnappers. Kidnapping isn't nearly as common as it used to be because it is so hard to get money. Though when it happens it is harder to trace because those who would pay don't talk. The same goes for bribing foreign officials.

There are exceptions for Fear for your life situations. Which is why paying a mugger is legal.
On what timescale?
This is a difficult question - which is why this line is always provided as a justification for greater authoritarianism.

I would ask, where is the crime here? Is it that you saw something terrible, or that something terrible occurred? Should we be focused on the prevention of immoral acts, or the representation of those immoral acts on video?

Does your not knowing about certain immoral acts make it better or worse in reality for those suffering by them? If the reality is that there are racists and pedophiles, is better to address the issue openly, or behind closed doors?

In my opinion, it is better to enshrine freedom of speech, and to address issues openly. Having things 'managed' privately may mean that it is ok, as long as no one finds out about it. Its definitely a difficult one, but I am not for hiding reality.
The paved trackway is unique and the scale is huge, especially for a pre-industrial society.

The general term for bringing a ship over land in English is "portage", but normally it's for things like canoes. Cambridge University has a set of "rollers" that are maybe 10m long and 2m high used for transferring punts between two sections of the river.

Bringing partially-dismantled ships over land led to one of history's stranger naval engagements on an entirely landlocked lake with no direct access to the sea: https://www.naval-encyclopedia.com/ww1/lake-tanganykas-naval...
Your metabolism increases when in fasted state:

https://youtu.be/tIuj-oMN-Fk (see 21:50, on mobile, can’t copy exact time)
What better way to compete with the rest of the world than to dismantle the monopolies that are stifling innovation in the US?
Open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust
Fair point. The Keycloak folks are working on porting the project over to the Quarkus framework which will allow for ahead-of-time compilation and a DRASTIC decrease in resource utilization. In my own experience porting apps over to Quarkus the result is shocking. Near-instant startup. Memory usage no worse than any other native app.
The us needs to release and update a list of criminal bitcoin accounts. Any bitcoin coming from these accounts should be poisonous and any account ever receiving coins tracked back to that account should be fined plus repay the bitcoin value (receiving stolen property).

The scammers can hide, but their bitcoin money can be tracked forever and interacting with the real world in significant sums requires giving up anonymity. It seems very easy for wallets to access a database and alert their user that they're about to purchase tainted bitcoins.
It's not landscaping, it's a fucking desk job.

The defining property of desk jobs is that they're not strongly tied to location or equipment to preclude doing them at a desk. So out of convenience we use desks.

Do you think every desk job other than software is just rote mechanical behavior that happens at desks, but only software is clever enough to need to think about what they're doing?
Software is art.

The picture is in the mind. The idea, the final view, the sheer excitement of imagining the final product, all happens in the mind.

Then you go to the tool selecrion.

Some are tried and tested. Some are new. Some are always reliable. Some may break midway.

Same is the case with canvas, paints, etc.

So also with methods and techniques.

But the process is as rewarding as the final result.
Same. Had one under light sedation a few years ago (switched to biannual stool screening for occult blood subsequently) and I'd say the discomfort was similar level to having a tooth filled under local anaesthesia. Not fun, occasional moments of mild discomfort, outweighed by the novelty/this is cool factor of getting to see the inside of my own guts.

I will note that general anaesthesia generates lots of extra billable hours (anaesthetist! extra nurse/assistant anaesthetists!), which might be why US hospitals are so keen on it and NHS hospitals are less so.
New Google Nest Hub experiment nixes the “Hey Google” voice hotword
How did it help? Ma Bell was split into regional monopolies that became USA's modern world-trailing cellular companies.
Are you talking about RFC 8705 ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8705.html )? I've researched this a bit and heard that deployment is problematic.

From a brief search, it looks like let's encrypt doesn't have great support for them ( https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/can-i-create-client-cert... ) so you are stuck setting up a private CA?

Have you set up client side certs? I'd love to hear your experience if so.

BTW, I'd defer implementing OAuth to a library or specialized piece of software (full disclosure: I work for a company providing this). There are a number of options, paid and open source out there.
A number of different clients, all corporate, a few names you heard of. The idea behind using MS Office is that someone can upload a Word document, you can find it by searching for text inside the document, and you can see a preview that looks like it does in Word.
Show HN: SixtyFPS – multi-language GUI toolkit made in Rust (alpha)
Given our vast experience across a wide range of industries on a diverse
Ransomed company pays data recovery company, data recovery company pays ransom. I believe it is actually a common thing.

The ransomed company is in the clear. They paid for a legitimate service, it is in the books, taxes paid, all that stuff. They may even really think that they got their data back without a ransom being paid.

Less so for the data recovery company, but they can probably try to justify expenses by hiring "foreign cryptography experts", or doing "security research".
How are you using the word “legendary”? It seems like Whitman has had one okay thing and three failures. EBay being okay. Though the company is pretty small now and never expanded out of its core feature. Skype ordeal cost billions and was ridiculous.

Her record breaking campaign, HPQ, and Quibi are all negatives.

If she had at least one for sure success, that’d be one thing.
It's not paid by the worker, it's paid by the employer. There no more need to have it on the pay slip than any other per-employee expenses.
What you are talking about is OpenID Connect, not OAuth. It does use OAuth 2.0 under the hood, but they are two separate protocols.

OAuth is an authorization protocol. It can be used (for example) to give Facebook access to your Flickr photos without having to give out your Flickr username and password to Facebook or share API tokens, and have a standardized way to revoke access when you realise Facebook scraped all your private photos.
In the long run, we’re all dead.
You're pretty badly misinformed about Stallman -- he never had a faculty post at MIT (tenured or otherwise), and quit his paid staff position in 1984 to found the FSF. (After that, he had a fairly tenuous "visiting scientist" title up until very recently, but that came with no compensation, though there were some actual faculty who let him crash in their office space.)
Hello HN! SixtyFPS founders here. We're two engineers who started this project ~6 months ago because we love good APIs and good toolkits that boost overall productivity. We'll be around here to answer questions.

At this point, the product is still in a very early alpha stage, but we are eagerly looking forward to your feedback on technical features as well as on a scalable business model.

Our short term goal is to get involved in a paid project that would require a GUI frontend and where we could make use of this project. If you have any recommendations, or if you know of any such project, we would be happy to hear from you.
Problem is as soon as ONE decides not to pay up nobody else will either as they know they can't trust their payment will work out.
Google’s Foes Want Additional Enforcement Actions
Tried some sites like https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-... and User-Agent is “axios/0.19.2”.
Sounds expensive, and looks like they have monthly download limits. I've been using Zen (though I explained my issues in a sibling comment) and I've never been throttled either, nor capped, with excellent latency round the clock. Miles ahead than any Virgin offering, that's for sure.

What does AAISP do better to be so expensive compared to the competition?
I avoided learning anything having to do with front-end for a long time, and I'm just now catching up. I've been doing a course on Responsive Web Design with scrimba.com, and that starts with a really comprehensive overview of CSS basics, including margin collapse, which I'd certainly been frustrated by in the past without having a name for it.
2x is a good ball park figure that's also true for Germany. Of course it's not strictly taxes, but material, hardware, rent... if you as an employee have a gross sum of 50k, the employer should calculate with up to 100k. If it's less, even better.
You always could use OAuth in apps just fine.

OAuth 2 was a design nightmare.

But by now it kinda consolidated into a usable best practices how to do it. But gathering them from the core RFC and all the extensions is a pain.

So what would be nice would a a updated RFC including all best practice and deprecating all things which turned out bad (or had security vulnerabilities).

OAuth 2.1 somewhat goes into that direction.

But IMHO OAuth 3 looks like starting the whole OAuth 2 madness from the scratch not learning from all the problems OAuth 2 had when it was new...
Reasons to get a degree:

Immigration - degrees help a lot, if you are trying to get a work visa.

Resume filtration in big companies - many companies have policies that they will consider someone for a software development position, only if they have a degree. You probably do not want to work for such companies, at least not for long.

Learning theory - personally I find it easier to learn theory in a classroom from a teacher, with peers.

A lot depends on the school and the curriculum too. If your goal is for immigration, get any approved degree from any school and be done with it. If you truly want to learn, then it would make sense to look for tough courses from reputed universities.

Everyone's situation is unique. It is kinda hard to give a generic answer.
This is a prevalent notion in the west. I’m sure there is some truth to it. In the long run, it seems like a great way to underestimate an opponent.
How to destroy bitcoin is two easy steps.
I use VMWare Player on a Win10 host and have never had an issue.
Thanks. I’m still not clear what the authentication method is, but I don't see why we can’t have a one click browser button “give this site my public key” and another “authenticate to this site with my private key”.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/cobol-programmer-salary-S...

Doesn't look like it's in demand compared to current hotness (React/Angular/ML). It's still a dead end for anyone wanting to pursue a career in software engineering.
US approves $1.8bn weapons sale to Taiwan
Uhmm yeah this is just so wrong. Proctorio CEO Mike Olsen accused Linkletter of ...

" potentially showing students ways to circumvent the software, thus risking the safety and security of the millions of students who use our platform.”

Say what? In what way(s?) did his actions impact on the students' safety or security? The videos have been pulled but note that the CEO is talking about how showing people how to 'possibly' (his words not mine) circumvert the proctoring in any way shape or form affects the students' safety or security?

[Edit for the pedantic, CEO said 'potentially' rather than 'possibly'.]
The problem isn't that the computers can't run anything other than COBOL, the problem is that the critical software is in COBOL and needs to be maintained.
What does "HN" stand for?
AITA? How a Reddit forum posed the defining question of our age
I believe your math is correct unfortunately
Here's a report by the European rail freight industry:

https://www.railfreightforward.eu/sites/default/files/userco...

"Maintaining its current modal share of 18% will pose a challenge for the rail freight sector due to three main factors: an expected change of goods structure, general logistic trends and the high intensity of road innovation."

Railways are poor at moving freight in Europe due to:

a) Sharing tracks with high speed passenger trains, which makes scheduling complicated

b) Lack of agility compared to trucks which can go anywhere, change their routes at the drop of a hat, can turn up and leave at any time you wish.

c) Being government subsidised, often nationalised, there's no innovation anywhere, nobody cares, all the usual problems of socialised infrastructure. Trucking is entirely privatised with many small firms instead of a tiny number of government run firms, so is more customer focused.
I see your point, but I don't think saying that "any translation is better than none" invalidates criticism of any specific translation. It's still possible for a translation to be better or worse than other translations.
Corporations are not hiding their money from taxes out of sight. They are hiding it in plain site - the exceptions in the tax laws. Hiding out of site is basically impossible for any large company: somebody internally is sure to get disgruntled at some time and tell the police (often for a significant reward).
The simple answer to the final questions of the post is "no". Google does not have your interest next to its cold heart and if it does not have to follow standards, it will screw us in whatever ways it will find profitable because money. Get it finally, please.
My point was that you don't necessarily use them 'alone', but they are commonly used when the context is clear.

'Stereo' is in very common use.
I've seen 'Poly' used by Polynesians and the polyamorous community, for example - when the context is clear.
It would bankrupt either Firefox or DDG
I strongly disagree - it is my data and I should be able to do whatever I, not you, want with it - even if it's something extremely stupid like publish my SSN to the internet. I would never use that right, but I will still fight for it.

(needless to say, I completely approve of the idea of government controls on what other companies can do with my data without my consent)
The following link lists about 25, not sure if they all offer degrees. Some are affiliated with existing private schools, and others with universities (Both Texas Tech Uni K-12 and UTHS teach the standard curriculum for the State of Texas.)

https://www.bestcollegereviews.org/top/online-high-schools/

There is also a range of how much classroom interaction they require (some have a lot, others none) so picking one depends on what the student prefers for their learning environment.
I was excited about OpenID around 2010. I wasn't aware it was still possible to use; most of the services I've looked at either support OIDC (built on top of OAuth) or SAML.

How could the specification support letting the end-user pick their authorization provider? Should the RC suggest the AS instead of the RS doing so?
There's other problems. Even if you contain your heat or vent it from a different side, you still need to produce hot exhaust to accelerate. If you don't, your position can be inferred from your last known position/acceleration.

This and other points are discussed here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/StealthInSpa...
One of the vast number of reasons to prefer a nonsocialized Healthcare market: choice.
They regularly use Propofol which is not the same as general anesthesia. I've waken up (in pain) on Propofol. Pretty much impossible with a GA fluorinated gas. General Anesthesia is a very monitored situation as it's potentially very dangerous (you have to be put on a ventilator).
That is hard to do when the criminal is hiding in a different country. Russia is often accused of helping these criminals.
It must genuinely be extremely hard to provide good customer service.

You must get a huge number of people phoning up with unfathomable problems related to their computer set ups that waste your time and aren't actually something that is your fault.
Me too! I just checked and I still have the headers in my html. Should probably remove them :)
If Google had competition they would have to lower their prices and provide better quality ads and ad tracking.

Click fraud is pretty real and I’ve had contacts say it’s 30-50% of actual ad revenue. Currently, this is just “factored in” but how neat would it be if this could be prevented. Google has no incentive to fix this as click fraud is profitable for them.

For ad auditing, Google frequently shows ads to people outside my geolocation and doesn’t audit how they do this. Would be nice to fix this as it’s a decent number of botched customer interactions.

Finally, pricing could be so much lower. I’ve advertised for low frequency terms where the minimum bid is $1 even though there’s only 1 or zero current advertisers. So the “auction” is against a floor set by google, not the market.

If no one else is buying a keyword, the minimum should be very low and climb as multiple ad buyers drive the price up. This is probably the most annoying as it would save businesses so much money.
The tablet and smartphone incorrectly have hover functionality.
The logic here is if there's a big risk to victims from paying they won't pay, and if 99% of victims won't pay, attackers won't attack.

It seems to me that logic only works when attacks are expensive. With something like kidnapping, you couldn't possibly kidnap 1000 people in the hopes of getting a single $10,000 ransom payment.

But with malware, where launching an attack costs almost nothing? Attacks could still be profitable even if only 1 in 1000 victim pay up.
For me, it’s mostly because if you have a significant install, there is no clear substitute.

I don’t want to migrate 70.000 programs to a new language that will become a fad in 5 years. You cannot rewrite some systems (banking, aerospace, defence, energy,...) from zero every 5-10 years.