skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here's another from 2010 with a similar result under similar conditions: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/files/11410334/cecotti_tnsre.pd...

Within the abstract:

> The average accuracy and information transfer rate are 92.25% and 37.62 bits per minute, which is translated in the speller with an average speed of 5.51 letters per minute.

5.51 letters per minute, not words. The work you cited is not comparable to the UCSF work at all.

It seems you are measuring performance in terms of bit-rate (i.e. based on how many symbols per minute), which makes sense when you are using a cursor-based speller.

This approach is not a correct measurement of bitrate with this speech-motor decoder, however, as words are being decoded based on the syllables contained within it. The decoding model is trained to recognize 50 specific combinations of syllables, and the total number of unique single syllable phonemes is about 44.
If someone had said it to me in real life, I would have laughed.

On the internet? Well, those are the people who eat Tide Pods...

Ironically, phrasing was a pure product of pre-coffee morning + living in a part of the US where anti-vax comments are a daily occurrence, but it delights me I was responsible for a few smiles. (Including my own, re-reading it)

And truth be told, "hot" emerged from morning fugue, after rejecting infected, live, and potentially hazardous as less accurate.

Sadly, "tainted" did not occur to me first.
Parent comment belongs in the hall of fame right next to the classic "Dropbox is trivial—it’s just an FTP server under version control":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Moneyball is one of my favorite movies!
I have to disagree, in todays internet-connected world cyber attacks are not insignificant. It is not inconceivable for an large-scale attack to e.g. turn off an entire countries' electricity distribution, and that's more than most traditional weapons ever could do.
German books have the orientation of the writing on the spine flipped. I don't like storing books upside down, so it makes a mess in my mixed English and German bookshelf.
... are you a summary bot?
It uses Google firebase on device ML OCR (appears to be rebranded as ML Kit).

https://github.com/mozilla-tw/ScreenshotGo
Tesla's Cheap 94-Mile Model 3 Has Cost Canadian Taxpayers $115m
In other words, there is nothing relevant that you can substantiate by citing a credible source. Got it.
> worst case, not the average

Yup, I can't remember which book but I'm pretty sure I remember reading some stuff from Michael Abrash about how some of the algorithms in quake were changed for worse average performance but better worst case performance. It's fairly intuitive when you think about the context... and that is the critical point - abstract problems are interesting, but it's important to evaluate them in their full context.
It may be they were mimicking the shape of knuckle bones.
Adding more details: To download the minimal version: https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.2/

The installer is 1/5 of the full version. I'm too lazy to install both side by side to see the amount of disk after installation.

Also, once the minimal version is installed, it's possible to add some of the packages to get a custom intermediate version, or even just add all the packages and get the full version.
If lying is the more profitable course then you can trust that it's a lie.

Is that capitalism? Is that what we're looking at here?
I enjoyed the way this article was written - it sounds like the synopsis of a new TV show on Showtime or Netflix or something (of course based in a stylized post-war Europe or similar with muted colors).

It's also inspiring the way it's written, as opposed to a more academic style.
Matlab, the SAS of academia and certain engineering fields.
That's subobtimal as well. The site could come out with a new robots.txt file which is just
<code>User-agent: * Disallow: /</code>
and everything already indexed by the Internet Archive is now inaccessible to you.
One thing that gets me about GANs is that whatever approach is used to generate the outputs always results in GAN-look; these images always look “fuzzy” and objects have “hairy” boundaries which I suspect is the result of some common gradient function technique blending the output in ways that are identifiably artificial.

Plenty of photographs have crisp object definitions in the real world. These do not. Trees blend into humans standing on the beach.
Is it OK to disable it on a domain where no printing happens?
It is interesting this article is citing a single paper as the substantial foundation of all evidence.

It seems this is an overstatement of the source of evidence.
https://odysee.com/@DarkHorsePodcastClips:b/ivermectin-meta-...
Electronic Frontier Foundation is one such privacy-helping nonprofit one can trust.
Another way to look at it is voting is not the same as choice.

If you wanted a mcburger but 51% voted for mcnuggets, you got mcnuggets.

If you knew in advance that 75% were going to vote for mcnuggets, you likely wouldn't even bother to vote. You knew you had no choice at all.
Wow, I always though this was unfeasible due to how limited the ESP32 MMU is.
Thanks for sharing! I think much of it has to do with the version you're stuck on. (ie startup and compile times are way way better with 1.6)

Python having a broader ecosystem is a very good point, but I've found pycall to be very helpful
Summary of what Arcan is, from https://arcan-fe.com/2018/05/31/revisiting-the-arcan-project...

> Arcan is a curious blend of a streaming multimedia processor, game engine and display server with a novel design that lends itself well for both complex and simple realtime interactive graphics projects alike, and goes well with anything from Sci-Fi UIs for some homegrown embedded project to full blown desktops. It is highly modular, low on dependencies, yet comes with all necessary batteries included.
I suspect you are right. I’m definitely not an email ‘power user’, not getting a huge volume of emails. So the issues aren’t as obvious to me.
Their pricing page seems to be a little confusing, but [1] does state that wildcard certs issued via ACME are free of charge. The SSL.com [2] pricing model, OTOH...

> By using ZeroSSL's ACME feature, you will be able to generate an unlimited amount of 90-day SSL certificates at no charge, also supporting multi-domain certificates and wildcards. Each certificate you create will be stored in your ZeroSSL account.

[1] https://zerossl.com/documentation/acme/

[2] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/is-ssl-coms-acme-really-...
Nope - a real person. Just a person who reads a lot on Hacker News and wanted to provide highlights for those need a TLDR
The lab team did an AMA on r/AskScience today. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/onbs7v/askscien...
Ask HN: How do you manage communication with your userbase?
Hi all,

Our mobile app has surpassed 250k MAU (monthly active users) and our home grown communications service designed when we had approx 10k MAU is lagging behind.

Our communications service is responsible for sending transactional in-app and e-mail notifications.

We are evaluating two alternatives:

1) Redesign our communications service

2) Integrate with a CRM product (offloading some development)

So, how are you managing communications with your userbase? Can you share your learnings in using one or the other approach, specially with regards to usability, development flexibility and cost?

Thanks in advance!
Yes, it will show up in the CT logs, but so what? This assumes everyone is watching the CT logs and is able to distinguish expected from unexpected entries. And until the entry is discovered, they can still MITM traffic.

But with CT logs, why do we need CAs at all? After all, an ACME-capable CA cannot verify anything else than that I control the site's DNS record at that particular point in time (from the PoV of wherever the CA's servers are located)

But that kind of validation could just as well be performed by the CT log directly.

It seems to me, the real SPOF are DNS registrars. The authoritarian government (or some disgruntled employee of the registrar) could just force the registrar to hand over control of my DNS record to them, point it to their own server and ask LE to hand them a brand new certificate.
Does this processor support privilege levels? And threads?
> (Problem #2 requires kopecks to be divisible.)

Does it? Did I fail at problem 2? I got:

Bottle + cork = 10

Bottle = 9cork

bottle/9 = cork

9(bottle + bottle/9) = 9(10)

9 bottle + bottle = 90

10 bottle = 90

bottle = 9

9 = 9cork

1 = cork
(Anonymous throwaway account because I'm still employed and usually comment from an account from which my identity can be derived)

I'm a habitual user with a hereditary predisposition towards addictive behavior. Moving to the Bay Area for work 7 years ago was the best move for my banking account(s) and the worst move for my life overall. The few years in between the move and the ability for me to walk into a store and walk out with a gram of THC across various products - all obtained above the board - were some of the most productive and socially rewarding years of my life. I was clean and not within hundreds or thousands miles of anyone who could serve me my biggest lifelong vice. I'm too weak. It took a few months after the change for me to cave in. I've missed weddings. I've lost friends because I've had season-long depressive episodes where I just can't bring myself to respond to any messages - all I have the energy and drive to do is crank out JIRA tickets and then go alter reality. I'm actually just past the tail end of one now and I still have a four-figure notification backlog.

Deep in my heart I know that it is a personal problem and it is entirely up to me to defeat my own demons. But I'm the uncaught NullPointerException that surfaced when my community removed the societal defensive programming around marijuana. I wish it were still illegal.

EDIT: and to preempt a "you weren't really addicted if you never went to get a farcical medical card" - believe me, the itch was there. But it was that extra level of indirection that kept me honest and on the straight and narrow. Every time I came close, the non-immediate reward was enough of a deterrence that I could make the rational choice.
Oh I see I jumped the gun. The first result seemed close to the headline of the paper but its actually a bit different. The actual headline is from further down.

I'd still ignore it though. You see how the first 3 are under "pre registered analyses" and the significant finding is under "exploratory analyses"? That's another way of saying their experiment failed to find anything interesting so they combed the rest of the dataset to try and find something they could publish. Basically just classic p-hacking. Probably not malicious or intentionally deceiving, but p-hacking nonetheless.

If you throw your hands up and decide to check what's interesting on a 14x14 correlation matrix, you've just tested around 100 hypotheses without realizing it. If your significance threshold is 0.05, you should expect to have 5 false positives in there already.
There are companies such as proportunity that will co-invest your downpayment as well
Blackmail or taking the law in your own hands is not ok, we have the legal system for that.
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In UK you have a chance to end up with a "hate crime" if you don't follow the official line of (no)thinking(with a low change of being arrested). Pretty crazy stuff going on lately(past few years).
Technologies You Need to Be Aware of (2020)
text/javascript or application/javascript?

And so, text/python or application/python?
Show HN: Secrypt – A Zero-Knowledge Cloud Storage Platform
2007 was a popular time for people trying to cram "MVC" vocabulary into the web world it made no sense. Ruby community was a contributor.
> but governments are at minimum accountable to voters.

Governments are at a minimum accountable to the people willing to use force against the government if they are sufficiently displeased. They may also be accountable to voters qua voters, depending on whether they have voting at all, and, if they do, what options are presented to voters and how fairly voted are counted, all of which are axes on which governments vary considerably, with many falling into ranges resulting in little or now accountability to voters.
I’m commenting here as a user reading a PDF. The fact that someone else could have laid it out differently doesn’t change the fixed layout of the PDF that I’m trying to read.

There’s a reason responsive design has been a big deal for the last 10+ years and I don’t think the benefits of PDF are worth throwing it out.
I read the second statement ("the bottle itself is 9 kopecks
more expensive than the cork.") as:

Bottle = 9 + Cork

Your statement (Bottle = 9 * Cork) would be "the bottle is 9 times as expensive as the cork".

I solve it to:

Bottle = 9.5 Kopecks.

Cork = 0.5 Kopecks.
Local channels can be had for free with a decent antenna usually. And you can get TV tuners that record to external HDDs for about $30. Live content for free!

Netflix also now has a "play something" mode that's basically shuffle but takes into account what you've already been watching/watched.
9- Correlations in R Programming
Thankyou for the tip. I'Ll look into it tomorrow.
Yes, but in my experience, it helps to thoroughly understand (down to first principles if you want to), and then memorize anyway.

I quickly figured out that even if I've deeply spent time with a subject, understanding every step and derivation of some equation, if I can just quickly pop up equations (and other facts) in my head to "look" at them, it not only helps with application, but also with further understanding.

Being able to quickly recite the Taylor Series or an Inverse Fourier Transform in my head to apply in a problem beats stuff like "oh I remember understanding how it was derived, but I'd need to look it up", because all the details I otherwise once understood but did not bother memorizing might be important.
Feels like the gun lobby pushing blame to computer games.

Everyone knows explicit fraud has nothing to do with it.

It exists because academia is broken and can't self correct.
Show HN: I made a video on recursive thinking
We could have taught people such things, but there’s no profit in that. We want to maximize the number of people using our devices and our software, so that we get richer, even if it means putting some fraction of these users in grave danger. That’s simply negligence. That it’s distributed across an entire industry doesn’t change the ethics. Selling people tools that put them at risk is much different than sharing foss.
Many practicing statisticians do actually care about easily using GPUs and doing distributed computations on distributed data sets with the same code they use for a local data set, which is what those Julia capabilities give you.
Tomes of Pushkin have a natural order ascending from left to right. It may be a cultural thing, but it would be obvious for any Russian child 5 years old or older. No tricks here.

But, yeah, even knowing about the natural order of Pushkin on the shelf, I also gave it a thought. I was wrong and just wasted my time. It is an easy problem, without any tricks.
Basically don't acknowledge a mob and wait for the next person to make a minor faux pas for them get distracted.

Tada, you've successfully beat the zealous Twitter mob that is only mad because they have nothing else to do with their life.
> Generally I would assume that multiplication and addition are constant time for big-O analysis, until given a reason otherwise.

I think this assumption can still be taken for the exponentiation version - I'm more nitpicking about the fact that there is a simple way to rephrase the problem (see below) to arrive at a different meaning of "linear" vs "sublinear" and it's better to be very explicit in cases where things may be misunderstood.

Rephrasing: fib(x) takes an x which is an array of bits of length m, which are the binary representation of number n. Return nth Fibonacci number.
The US and its allies accuse China of hacking Microsoft
You can expose a C ABI, and so it’s a drop-in replacement for things that used to talk to C code. Which is virtually everything.
>I’ve seen a cult-like behavior in Julia community that is borderline toxic. Sorry, it’s the truth and needs to be said. Speed isn’t everything and people are magnetized by the benchmarks on the Julia website, especially non-software engineers.

I think all languages have this dynamic...I've seen it with python and R. To some extent it's fed by what we perceive as criticisms from people defending their favorite incumbent language with arguments that aren't at all informed- such as a focus on speed and how numba achieves parity there.

In the same vein, I and many Julia users are enthusiastic precisely because of thing other than speed, such as the type system, abstractions, differentiability and other things that make programming more joyful, fluid and productive.

Agree though, that we could always improve on acceptance of criticism.
Threats usually happen when one doesn't have any legal arguments left.

Someone who threatens like that wouldn't hesitate to report him either... only if they could.
There are 100,000 commercial flights a day.

What’s going on is the “hypocrisy engine in action“.

“Well they can’t believe in climate change if they …”

Simply watch Fox News for a few hours. It’s pure formula
Luxury car makers still should fraudulently sell incomplete products.
I doubt knowledge of non-Euclidian geometry expected in standardized tests like SAT or ACT, where supposedly this problem came from.
Not really cherry picked. Data.table is designed for large data sets with many groups + complex joins.
Perhaps it's the sound they make when they're eaten?

Bouba sounds like something that doesn't require a lot of chewing.
While I’m not sure how old these ones, older bitcoin ASICS are indeed only profitable on stolen power. If it produces 1c worth of magical internet money per kWh, then it has only illegal uses.
Yes indeed. While Julia does generally eschew the "model.fit(X,Y); model.predict(new_data)" style, it's not because it's functional, it's because it's dispatch-oriented, which is arguably a superset of class-based OO, and even perhaps arguably closer to Alan Kay's claimed original vision for OO than modern class-based OO is.
My Sony Bravia tv has started the same, and I've found no way to disable it. I don't really want a large Disney Plus ad, and I thought that I was buying a premium product.
Fair points. This is going to be especially unfair to people who do not speak English or have familiarity with US laws.
So, no liberalism, no marxism, no capitalism, no Keynsian economics (probably no economics), no psychotherapy, no rock music ... the list is long for the things we can't reach consensus about.

What's left tends to be not so much "common sense" as "the stuff that supports the status quo, whatever it is", because human psychology tends to have a strong pro-status quo bias.
There is one quote which perfectly encapsulates my experience working with XSLT:

"XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain. There’s no job for which XSLT is the right tool. If you think you found a job for which XSLT is a good tool, chances are the job itself is fucked up"
– masklinn
There's also opportunity cost in spending time maintaining, indexing, annotating your own archive of documents.
Edward Gorey's Toys
Caddy does OCSP stapling + caching reliably (and has for years).

It will even auto-renew your certificate if it gets an OCSP response of "Revoked".
And if a company repeatedly and systematically flauts this behavior?
Caddy has had a robust stapling implementation for years.
>This is what we’d call a “solved problem.”

Natural gas run directly to the home is a solved problem. Yet we're having this discussion.
Yes! I just came here to say this too.

For academics: is this tone counter productive? For us lay folk: is this tone helpful?
I know, right? If my corporation overlords told me "You have twelve months to make a decision. PSYKE you only have 30 days because we took the liberty of deciding for you." I'd be slobbering with delight and gratitude at their thoughtfulness. Only a Karen would be annoyed by that.
Looks interesting! Kudos on the well documented source, benchmark and website.

Are Caldom instances itself always synced with the DOM? e.g. If I create a Caldom instance for all ‘button’ and add an event handler for ‘click’. Now another piece of JavaScript adds a button to the page, will the event handler also trigger for that button or just the buttons when I first instantiated Caldom?
So you would prefer people be locked in cells for what they do to their own bodies? How far would you like to take this line of thinking, for the "progress of humanity"?
I see your "classic HN" and counter with a "I'm one of today's lucky 10000!".

I was taught the 7 years rule as a kid and only learned as an adult that it's an average, not true for all dog breeds.
If you value time, this work from home flexibility has been about a 10-20% raise for many knowledge workers, especially those with CA commutes.

It is fascinating see companies try to wrestle with this fact.

If it wasn’t so clear that most of the productivity gains by bringing everyone back to the office would be distributed to the 0.1%, maybe more workers could be convinced to go back (with a 20% raise?).

Also, the environment benefits the fewer miles people travel…
Maybe this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876165
> MVT – forensic tool to look for infections on smartphones (github.com/mvt-project)
I would like to point out that this kind of tech isn't only used by state sponsored operations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50166147

Lone wolf creepers or quasi legal harassment companies have access to similar tools.

https://www.nefariousjobsmain.com/the-works

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ppmpe8/a-revenge-for-hire-bu...

Although of course the state sponsored aspect of this is very real too, and the greatest threat.
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