skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is correct only in the instance that a biometric is stored on the host.

In TouchID, the biometric is stored only in the secure enclave, and is used to generate a private key signature, which serves as the password.

Additionally, it's always possible to reset TouchID to an unauthenticated state, where it will refuse a fingerprint read until the password is typed in.

There's no sense cargo-culting this bit of conventional wisdom without understanding where it comes from, and what sort of attacks it is meant to prevent.
What are the current choices for "CD quality" speech compression (lossy but indiscernible) at the moment? Just had a discussion with a friend of keeping an always-on speech recorder on and wondered about disk space consumption.
If some service suddenly tries to charge 17K it's almost certainly an error on their part.

With autopay that error can propagate into draining your account and then all your other autopay accounts that come later get rejected and you'll get penalties and late charges on those.

The first provider, the one who made a mistake, can be talked into correcting it (hopefully anyway). But all the other penalties you'll be responsible for since your account was indeed empty.

So there are real risks to autopay. Maybe not too frequent, but good to be aware.
You should have had at least one more cult in there.
I know I should be paying attention to the meat of the matter, but I was stuck on the fact that this man's life story was literally "I started in the mail room in the '70s" and I'm flabbergasted that there are people in the modern world who got jobs at the most prestigious newspaper in the world that way.

It's like hearing "oh yeah I used to take the trolley to work for a nickel and we'd go see a talky after work" from a modern working-age human.
I'm over here preferring g711/ulaw because I prefer the hard roll off at 4kc.
Is it possible to backfill a materialized view? I'm maybe confused, but does this potentially replace a traditional data lake or is it specifically for streaming applications?
This is a fantastic question. I agree with you that we're slowing boiling the frog (and the frog is ourselves) in accepting more and more latency in our real-time communications.

I think the answer for Lyra is that latency is a concern, but maybe at this stage not as much of a concern as it could be. I'm only guessing, though based on this [0]:

> The basic architecture of the Lyra codec is quite simple. Features, or distinctive speech attributes, are extracted from speech every 40ms and are then compressed for transmission.

That sounds like the minimum frame size for Lyra is 40ms. For Opus (the audio codec used for most WebRTC applications), the default frame size is 20ms [1], and most implementations support frame sizes of 10ms [2].

Of course, your favorite web browser might not default to 20ms frames for Opus. And by "most implementations" I meant Google Chrome. :-)

[0] https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/02/lyra-new-very-low-bitrate-...

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7587#section-6.1

[2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/webrtc/+/HEAD/mod...
> Take no guilt from this article - It’s informational, not a call to arms.

Why isn’t it a call to arms? Why should anybody have to live like that? I’ve done it. I was busting my arse to get by. Got out basically because of luck. Nobody should live in poverty.

I also find the “has your water been cut off” interesting. Due to the safety/health implications, cutting off water is illegal where I live. You can be restricted for a few specific reasons, but they can’t just turn your water off. Jesus. Absolutely atrocious that that happens to people. Australia is FAR from perfect but at least medical bills don’t bankrupt people and depriving people of utilities generally isn’t allowed.

...Why isn’t this post a call to arms, again?
Personal attacks will get you banned here. We've had to warn you about this more than once before. Please don't do it again.

(Edit: I got this part wrong - sorry wayneftw! It's particularly bad that you bullied another user into removing what was probably an interesting story. That makes the thread strictly worse, whether or not you felt like it answered your specific question.)

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? The intention is curious conversation—not bashing other people or their positions, even if you feel like they have wrong positions.
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Tesla vehicles are simply too big. Family sizes, people, cars, roads, parking spots, houses, garages are all smaller here.

Performance is basically pointless if you're driving in a European city where you'll rarely exceed 60km/h.
In a recent conversation regarding colors, my three year old explained to me that clear:color as silent:sound. I thought this showed a pretty good grasp of meaning between these concepts. I have no idea if he came up with this "meaning" himself or if he learned it from some input corpus(likely the netflix kids show corpus).

Later he related that because noises become quieter when they are far away, colors become more transparent when they are far away. This one I am pretty sure he came up with himself, as it is conflating "small angular size" with "transparent".

My point is it not so easy to tell when humans are behaving as stochastic parrots, or when they produce language based on meaning. Indeed, this may be a distinction without a difference.
Since a browser can't play lyra I think they took the lyra output and put it inside something lossless like a 44kHz stereo wav so that people can listen to it.
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Anti-consumer? By the capitalist businesses? Of course. It's just like buying crap from Amazon. If you use it you support it.
That page is a triumph of design over usability. My 55 year old eyes couldn't get past the colour scheme and font. Ugh.
I do not believe this was an accident. Or am I accidentally misreading..? :p
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this "girl" on reddit started following me

i checked her account and saw this url..

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clicked on it as you know EZ socialengineering :D

it send me to a "ad like pop up" trying doing view-source i get error then tried to check through "url scan" in google nothing is working now im here...

is it a try to hack peoples pcs? or just click bait ad for revenue ?

note : i dont know anything about hacking now a days i know that in the late 90s people used to do it by merging a trojan with jpg and using ''icq'' to send it :D
It is a problem of grammar and language! As others here have said, no one is claiming that the notion of math itself is racist, but that math education can be. The 'agenda' seems to be to make sure that marginalized groups are better able to learn math. Do you disagree?

As for the 'highly valued' bit; one could argue that mathematics built for problem solving creative issues (including in computer programming) is now valued more than it was then. That could lead to different curriculum than before.
No, same tax applies for liquor across all venues in NZ.
I completely agree. I try to position 'not taking a decision' as a decision option itself. Often it clarifies how poor that choice is or whether you are micro-optimizing alternatives.

And sometimes it is the better decision to postpone the decision to a moment later in time you have more information.
On one hand I worry about this power being abused, but it's hard for me to side with the people being cancelled because they're so repugnant.

It is hard to stand up for the rights of the bigots, the white supremacists, the science deniers, the propagandists, and the misogynists. People who spent decades denying other people access and are now finding the shoe on the other foot.

Can we find some good examples of people who were "cancelled" who were not peddling conspiracy theories or pontificating about why the white race is the natural rulers of humanity?

In some ways this may be seen as a return to the media culture in the Fairness Doctrine era. It used to be that media companies had to seriously consider the viewpoints expressed and wouldn't give crackpots a voice very often. The Internet changed that, allowing everybody a voice regardless of how crazy they might be. Now we're turning back to a more metered experience as it seems that unlimited amplifying the wingnuts is actually damaging to the country.

Nobody likes the censor, but they're a necessary evil. Without them trolls will always take over the conversation once the number of participants exceeds a fairly low threshold. Trolls can drive out honest participants, but honest participants can't drive out trolls. Moderation is necessary. It doesn't have to be third party moderation, upvote/downvote systems can do the job although they're tricky to get right and can be gamed.
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Did it though. How many people actually changed their shopping habits?

Closest thing I've done to "canceling" anyone is switching from Autozone to the O'Reily 500yd down the street because the former donated to something I really don't like and the latter had better people working at that particular location anyway.
I appreciate a lot of what you say here, especially the bit about "real" programmers.

>(although I have worked with people that misunderstand that vacation time means that you don't work, and that checking email is working)
I may be misunderstanding you here. Seems like checking your email (presumably for emergency situations needing attention) is work. It should not be a requirement while on vacation (like a multi-day type, not one day/half day off). And if the person taking vacation is so vital that they need to check email that should be an explicit conversation with team/leadership. It's not something we all implicitly expect a person to do.
In-band fax will certainly not work over a lossy voice codec, unless your fax modem is able to mimic human speech patterns.
It does serve a purpose. It announces to everyone in their vicinity that this fragile human is deficient and should only be interacted with via great caution.

edit: I don't understand the downvotes here. Is it considered poor manners to point out that people don't get to control how people perceive them?
The biggest challenge with evaluating all of these, is that once you've listened to a comprehensible version of one of these samples, they all sound more intelligible. I had problems with the example too. After hearing the original it's now easy. It makes it really hard to properly assess the intelligibility for developers without decent sized panels of people to help evaluating them.
Always has been, In fact the government at large always has been for any firm that's in the B2B space or a space with large R&D.
I am a white teacher. It seems wholly innocuous to me, but I've only skimmed it.
This is a good example of the mechanism I was describing whereby someone is upset by someone else portraying a technically defensible point of view on an opinion they find harshly disagreeable. This user probably thinks I'm being annoying. Which is a good reason why I would try not to talk to them like this in a professional context, or really just at all on this issue if I felt it was going to exacerbate the issue.
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He also compares himself to a confederate statue.
I think latency is noticeable at even lower values. As a basic example, try to sing a song with someone over a voice call. Consider using Airpods or similar bluetooth headphones to make it more apparent.
Still, Aziz Ansari has a hilarious bit about that ("Umm, you could have just said cheap or stingy.")

I mean, perhaps it was used in the past in a straightforward manner, but using that word today almost sounds a bit like the equivalent of "Look I'm not saying the N-word but haha it sounds exactly like the N-word so I can get away with it wink wink." It's like the "I'm not touching you!" game that 7 year old siblings play.
The effect of the Gulf Stream on European climate isn't as large as often made out to be. The simple fact that Europe is on the western side of a continental landmass accounts for a huge portion of its climate - air travelling west to east over the ocean absorbs warm moisture and heats up, as the wind travels east across land it sheds that moisture via rain and becomes dryer and colder.

It's one of the reasons why Vancouver and London have similar climates, and both never get as cold as either of New York or Vladivostok, both of which are to the south of them.
It’s like arguing against the Patriot Act. You’re not a traitor, are you?

Intertwine X with a perceived virtue Y. Then deflect any rebuttal of X by claiming you’re an enemy of Y.
When they converted back to wav from Lyra, they used a 32 bit 16 Khz wav instead of 16 bit 16 Khz wav like the source. The size of the Lyra file is almost exactly 2x as big as the reference.

Note that this isn't cheating in any way, the source is the source, so it's just a quirk from their conversion process. Probably the tooling around Lyra is pretty rudimentary and the decoder could only output a 32 bit file.
If you have a knee jerk reaction because you think math/science is pure, remember that it is always interpreted in a teaching context.

Example from my life: We mentor a black girl in high school physics. The Physics teacher misinterpreted her age assuming she was a 3rd or 4th year (which is a common culturual/racial gap, not intentional but structural!) when she is a freshman. The teacher in consequence also misintepreted where she 'should' be at in her ability to manage school life, homework, comprehension etc.

After he learned his mistake he reframed his perception of the students efforts at learning, and was able to teach her. She successfully passed that class trying again after narrowly failing the first time.
>I cannot understand why there are no reasonably priced 5K or 6K monitors of around 30-35 inch

Because it's a niche market and unless they become more popular they won't be produced at enough scale to bring the retail price down.
In my experience, Sharepoint is stupidly slow, and it feels like it's trying to be everything.

Like...I don't need it to notify me that I have new e-mail. I already have either Outlook or an Outlook tab running.

Sharepoint is a shining example of feature creep run wild.
6096 pins. Whoa.

Two key numbers that I didn't see: Price, and the availability date.
Nothing we can share publicly at the moment yet, but if you reach out and chat, we're more than happy to give you some numbers that I think will address what you're looking for!
And I don't disagree. I can imagine a charitable way to handle that conversation and point of view, almost verbatim. My point is that reading his other words, I don't get the sense that he does so at all. His way of self-describing, especially the comment on being seen as an aspie, is very familiar.

But hey I don't know this person.
Maybe is not fact. Maybe is a guess
I disagree with these numbers, in general. Though of course "noticeable" is subjective and varies by use case as well as by person.

For many people, end-to-end audio latency in a 1:1 conversation becomes noticeable/annoying at 200ms. And in a multi-participant conversation, talking over each other becomes noticeably more common even at 100ms compared to 50ms.
Yeah, the system integrators are getting their supply, so retail BYOPC buyers aren't seeing as much stock as they would if supply was higher. Ryzens are still easier to find than GPUs though. I've seen the 3xxx series chips in stock at a few places.

Consoles see a crunch for a month or two and then are usually available: this means some of those early buyers might have paid more than MSRP, while most other people won't. People can find alternatives or wait a bit in this case.
> other 5,000 colleges where hyper leftist values predominate

Show me a single college with a policy that explicitly discriminates against Christians.
Oh, yeah definitely. I just dislike getting into those weeds specifically because it gets people weighing wrong on scales instead of actually calling out both wrongs individually.
Biometrics is by no means perfect and it's definitely not safe for online services. It can be an extra layer of security, at best.

How to hack someone relying only on biometrics:

- Craft malicious app that looks entertaining and record whatever biometrics you're recording

- Hand your phone to victim

- Congrats, you have valid biometrics data (2d, depth information, fingerprint) you can use to login as a victim! Even better, they can't change their face or fingerprints

You can invalidate old entries and detect variations but you still have a unsafer model. I can see a use for it if it's massively convenient (Eg. Detecting users in a physical location from CCTV) but if the user needs to take a selfie to login on a website, that could become annoying fast.
So...sounds like you are railing against Cancel Culture and thinks it's bad?
The double buffered smooth scrolling and 4-channel sequencing sound of my Amiga A1200 will always hold a place in my heart. I'm glad that people have started preserving this community, and over the years I did wonder when or if people would do this. I imagined other teenagers, dotted across the Netherlands, France and Scandinavia, a little too obsessed with female anatomy and crude jokes, and I just thought they were the coolest. Would love to see some interviews of them now and the reality behind the floppy-disk passing community persona.
Electricity production in the U.S. is only about 2% of GDP, but basically every economic activity relies on electricity to function. Having very much of the electric supply be truly intermittent would create enormous costs elsewhere in the economy. If you're going to power the U.S. on renewables, you're going to need a lot of storage to get the needed reliability, so if you're comparing costs, you need to compare an equivalent end product.
The JSON fragments looks useful, it could be a good way to get a team set up with some consistency between them.
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Yeah, the real poster-child for C++ performance should be something like Eigen
This fact was confusing for me back in my school’s chorus. I don’t know if it was confusing to anyone else, but it was to me.

How does a person match the pitch of the piano? I could hear a few different pitches when one note was played (in a confused way, I would zero in on different parts of the sound), any of which might have been the target pitch to be matched.

And was I supposed to make my voice sound more like the piano? Was that part of “matching the note?”

Complicating things was the fact that my own voice had different pitches in it. Which part of my voice was supposed to match the note?

What a time. Now I know I was noticing the fundamental of the piano note at times and overtones at some others. Also, changing the timbre of your voice can mirror the overtones of the piano better, but that isn’t normally the goal of a singer.
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It's how the fiat money system works as well.
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Trying to share this code Hu3 shared with me a while back.

See it in action:
https://i.imgur.com/8XLKE4o.jpg

Code in comment below to be more clean