skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vector quantisation is discussed briefly in the Russell & Norvig section on speech recognition. I'll paraphrase:

In speech recognition a sub-problem is to figure out how to encode the conditional distribution P(features|phone), where features is an n dimensional vector, say n in the hundreds, and there are about 50 possible values of phone. The simplest way to encode P(features|phone) would be as a lookup table -- but that is impractical for n > 2. The authors describe two ways to proceed:

Option A: discretise the feature space -- apply vector quantisation, to partition the feature space to e.g. 256 regions. Replace each feature vector with a region label 1...256. Then the distribution P(features|phone) can be approximated as P(label|phone) and stored as a lookup table.

Option B: Don't discretise the feature space. Instead, approximate the distribution P(features|phone) by a mixture of k n-dimensional Gaussians, at the cost of storing k(n + n^2) parameters for the mean and covariance matrix of each Gaussian in the mixture.

Russel and Norvig state "vector quantization is no longer popular in large-scale systems" (this is from my ~2003 second edition of the book, in the context of speech recognition).

Can anyone who has more familiarity with the two applications explain why vector quantisation fell out of favour in speech recognition vs mixtures of Gaussians, and why vector quantisation is used in document/image similarity search? Are there approaches to document/image similarity search using continuous distributions that are competitive with vector quantisation approaches?

Or are these two problems fundamentally quite different as the speech subproblem is trying to infer an state out of a very small state space (50 phones) while document search may be trying to infer a state out of a larger state space (millions of documents).
remove the "complete guide" language and use an expanded version as a proper, multipage guide.

I would expect a "complete guide" to take many hours to read
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Thank you, good point I had not thought of. Anyway, they might be permanently degraded by too much moisture.
They offer a clear line of sight, look "clean", and keep rodents and other pests at bay.

Personally, only about a quarter of my property is grass, and I am amazed at the acres of grass I see in the country, but I don't think I would want less than half an acre's worth around the house otherwise (barring some decorative plants).
That is not a fundamental problem with OSM. Indeed, Bing Maps uses OSM as its data source.
yeah, i guess my question was just is that actually a service travel agents offer? like, have you personally had any experience using a travel agent for that, and it's worked out for you?

Because it sounds great, and a little too good to be true.
In my (admittedly limited) experience with travel agents, that's not really what they do, nor is it something i'd trust them to do - the travel agents don't seem to have any specialized local knowledge, what they do have is a catalogue that their agency has provided them with and they can help you choose a package from the predefined ones in their catalogue. This sort of concierge travel agent is not something i'm familiar with.
Does Huffman have no say? How did they go form lisp to this?
I've used both. I don't have hard numbers since they are different filters, but I replaced a 1" filter with a 4" filter and I can run my fan at a lower speed.
Apple likes to claim that their locked down walled garden approach gives users a better experience, but it's interesting to see how poorly it fares when customers/developers are actually given an actual choice.
>The difference is purely branding.

If I make a comment in a large Discord server, and then put my phone back in my pocket and continue my day, I am very unlikely to actually see any responses to what I said.
GK Chesterton was an absolute, sparkling genius, beloved by friends and enemies alike. Petty modern writers may huff all they want, but this will not change.
Do you use Gmail?
Or multicast down, but probably couldn’t get more than a few kbps without killer expenses.

Outernet was an application of this concept:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othernet

But reality is that cellular coverage world wide gets better and better.
Maybe it's more profitable for satcomm companies to just retire their fleet in general and relicense their spectrum to terrestrial wireless telcos.
I've open-sourced and relaunched Meme Kombat, a Facebook game popular in 2012
They can put in all in vast space they freed up when they took out the headphone jack.
> there's a lot of nuisance

Nuance! :o)

You might appreciate this poem. There are a few variations online, but this one has audio: https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem....

(There are a couple of words I don't know the meaning of.)
I looked at the trailer on steam and now my eyes bleed. I guess it is a lot of fun though?
I think it slightly disingenuous to just pretend that big honkin’ antenna isn’t there and then say “it’s the size of regular cellphones”. My Motorola Startac from 25-30 years ago didn’t have an antenna that big.
> I thought you were about more than money.

Reddit's funding rounds tells you everything you need to know about the company. Ballooning costs, growth at all costs mindset.
> four units where single family homes stand

This is because the state passed legislation forcing them to, not because they wanted to do so.

> Quality of life

Surely rampant drug addiction and homelessness fueled by high rent prices is a much worse quality of life than _having more traffic_.
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Or highspeed cameras being used to discern the minute colour and luminance changes on a window or a material in the target room which occur due to vibrations in the glass or many other materials due to sound in the target room. This allows reproducing sound that occurs in the room without having access to any microphones.

Or using appropiate lenses to "look through" blinds or other materials that have tiny lensing gaps which the typical person regards as not see-through.
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I don't think there is any conspiracy here. Lawn/Gardens have been popular for hundreds of years, at least, for the wealthy. For example, the Gardens of Versailles in France. [1] The United States has more space to person ratio than Europe too. Suburbia is just people spreading out, wanting more privacy, and being able to indulge in those garden like experiences, on a smaller scale.

So I guess my point is, gardens aren't new, and many US residents have the space and the disposable income.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_of_Versailles
i don't discuss the number of hospitalizations or deaths - that is currently established fact that the current vaccines decrease that (at least as the 1st order effect and leaving aside the possible 2nd order that infected vaccinated being undercounted and asymptomatic with higher chances may be walking around spreading) and there is not much point to discuss there. I discuss infection spread at which those vaccines fail, and thus various vaccine mandates policies and societal push for it are completely unfounded and based in hysteria and ideology.
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You need to explicitly mount (in your ChromeOS settings) any USB devices to the Linux system. Other than that I'm not aware of any specific mitigations.
In Denmark we mostly use local debit card, which also duals as VISA debit card when going international.

But using a credit card like MasterCard or VISA in Denmark usually incurs a fee with most merchants.

As for protection, I think you still have months to report fraud. Although you should always report it as soon as discovered.
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For most uses of a lock its job is to keep honest people out.

I have had doors kicked in, so these days I want the lock to be the weakest, not strongest, part of the door. So when it is kicked in it is a cheap lock that is destroyed not an expensive hardwood door (I like hardwood doors...)
Discord will alert you to their existence, highlight them for you, navigate you straight to them, and jump you back to your original comment so you can read forward from there. That last option doesn't even require your responses to be marked as responses to you.

If you don't see the responses, that's because you didn't want to.
I thought the Dark Web already exists?
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Stop trying to make this a thing.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...

> We’ll say it plainly here: there is no legal significance to labeling an online service a “platform” as opposed to a “publisher.” Yes. That’s right. There is no legal significance to labeling an online service a “platform.” Nor does the law treat online services differently based on their ideological “neutrality” or lack thereof.
This is very impressive!

The creator—Austin Appleby—also created MurmurHash, which is very useful for data structures like Bloom filters. The canonical MurmurHash implementation was released with a handy non-cryptographic hashing test suite.

https://github.com/aappleby/smhasher

Thanks for your work, Austin!
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It gets even weirder sometimes based on how properties are leveraged. It's sometimes why you see places stay vacant for long stretches at high prices rather than rented or leased at lower prices just to generate some revenue.

If an owner/developer has their properties as backing collateral, and they recognize revenue on the books at significantly less than the projections/models of the property value that's been collateralized, then a whole weird cascade of things can kick in. Like statutory insolvency, etc. So, in certain circumstances and certain markets there's a very, VERY strong local incentive not to adjust prices down in the short term.
Or maybe Apple is planning literally nothing, it just comes bundled as one of the plethora of functions that the Qualcomm chip can do because it's cheaper to make 1 design to do everything than to tape out more designs.
Fair point. I'll take that with me.
By this argument HN shouldn't be allowed to remove spam that doesn't break any laws, or else it would get sued for defamation. I don't see it surviving that? Even just tamping down the flamewars and tone is incredibly useful to the community.
> In 2007, RIM [...] held multiple meetings after the iPhone was launched and accused Apple of lying about the capabilities of the new device. The claims focused on how it was impossible that a device with such a larger touch display could have any usable battery life. [0]

> [...] it couldn’t do what they were demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life, etc. Imagine their surprise when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it. It was ridiculous, it was brilliant. [1]

I agree with you regarding the next iPhone not having satellite internet. But I don't think it represents "the sorry state of tech journalism" or lack of common sense. I can understand why some people would believe Apple is capable of doing the impossible: because they have seen Apple doing the "impossible" before.

[0] https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/rim-thought-the-2007-ipho...

[1] https://macdailynews.com/2010/12/27/rim_microsoft_were_in_de...
Some kind of dark-horse platform will emerge and catch on like wildfire. I do not think a mere reddit clone will pull anyone away. There would have to be something new about it's UX.
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My name is Igor Ozerov, and I'm a founder of Swiftle, a service for selecting developers and designers. I would like to tell you about how we implement low-code projects, and how we turned from an ordinary studio into a service platform.

How we’re building an Uber for the low-code world
Our platform provides the basis for initial interactions with potential clients: filling out a project brief and discussing its conditions with developers, paying for services and receiving documents.

Here’s how it works: after checking out our website and going through the ultra-simple registration process, a potential customer can fill out a description of their project and quickly receive a development offer in their personal account (which is just part of the platform). There’s also an interactive constructor for creating technical specifications which makes it even easier: the client can choose what type of project they want (website, mobile app, automation), their preferred tool (if they have an idea of how they want to implement the project), describe the desired functionality and requirements in user story format, and share their vision (e.g., "I want to make an Airbnb for digital nomads on Mars") and design concept. After that, a call is scheduled where the customer meets the contractor and discusses the project and terms in more detail. After agreeing on all the details, the client selects one of the service plans, makes a payment, and we begin development. After that, the project is discussed on the platform. Plus, we integrate the platform with Telegram so people can choose where it is more convenient to communicate.

https://app.swiftle.io/

So far it’s an internal tool, but we see great prospects for scaling it and turning it into a kind of service that connects customers and developers from all over the world. Our goal for next year is to improve the interface for external developers and entire teams so they will be able to search for orders on the platform. It’ll be like an Uber service for the world of low-code development.
Currently, contractors are selected from our team based on experience, but soon the platform will become open (in the next 3-6 months) and we will introduce a rating system for developers based on portfolio, completed projects, and scope of competencies. Customers will be able to choose contractors themselves, and the system will make recommendations.

All our current clients submit their projects through our platform. We can say that it’s a great tool for introverts who don’t like long calls and negotiations, but still know exactly what they need and are looking for a reliable contractor, which can be found in the Swiftle team.
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>"Toronto (Canada) used to have..."

Toronto used to have life where one could work and buy house and enjoy various things. Now for most young people you have to pay fortune for a rathole, become a slave and have nothing else left to live normal life. Welcome to a new American dream.
I’m not a Elon Musk fan at all, but I thought it’s well known to pretty much add a factor of 10x to whatever his timelines or estimates are?

Though I would disagree with his personality built on being right - it’s built on being a futuristic visionary problem solver. Whether he’s actually solving problems, and whether they even need to be solved, that’s up for debate.
It's pretty easy and cheap to bring your car from Helsinki or Turku to Stockholm via ferry. It's just a one-day trip.
Slightly off-topic, but I always wondered if Starlink could setup terrestrial links with the same equipment to create/augment suburban/urban capacity.

Just mount Dishy and it’ll point to that big tower/building downtown.

Could you do it cheaper with existing wifi gear? In theory, but then you need someone to mount and aim it. This would be grab and go almost.
Really impressive and intriguing work, thanks for sharing!

I'd be specifically curious about applying PQ to transformers. It's quite depressing to me that the ultra-large-scale model training is inaccessible to the average poor person like me. The dream would be to figure out some method of compressing the parameter count significantly (or rather make models more efficient) such that it is possible to train and/or run 100 billion/1/10/100trillion+ parameter models on Colab say, as 'crazy' as that sounds to most probably.
> the most oppressive cultures have highest number of women in tech

Like the US in the 1950s.

It's not a matter of interest, it's that it has actually been the case that women are locked out of many high paying prestigious jobs, and software is/was the best available, where it isn't so prestigious.

There was a time when women simply could not get an engineering degree. And so, someone might study math, and end up as a programmer whose job title was "engineering assistant" to a male engineer.
Doesn’t seem to be a fair comparison. Docker Desktop has access to your whole filesystem and can be used transparently in Terminal.app. This is were the bad performance results from.
I, um, can think of more efficient ways to spend money on healthcare than sending four people into space.
but it’s not like a conversation is going to trump terrible technical performance…

When I do phone screens, first they must be able to code and then they have to communicate how/why they did what they did. i’m mostly quiet during the technical portions.

clarification questions are weak signal imo
This is true in general, but probably not for the Roadster. This is a low-volume, likely money-losing Halo product. They only ever made ~2500 of the original roadsters, and at quarter mil a pop, probably won't have a substantially larger run for these.

Main problem here is that the new Plaid has made this kinda irrelevant. The marketting pages for both the Model S and the Roadster list the same 0-60 times. They pretty much have to do that whiz-bang cold thruster magic they've talked about if they want this car to make any sense at all.

I suspect, most of all, that they don't have the capacity to make this many models in parallel - Plaid X, structural battery 3 and Y, cybertruck, semi. They're just not that large of a company. Sucks for car fans, but probably better for their bottom line if they just concentrate on their current offerings.
I get your point. As I'm solving many issues with the same solution, I thought it would work well to split problems and solutions into two separate sections. I can understand where you're coming from though. Thanks for the feedback!
Makes sense, thanks for that tidbit of information! These are my favorite for doing colour shading by taking the ones that are all color no wood and shaving the color off with a utility knife for rubbing the shaved color into paper. Looks really nice, almost like watercolor.
Apple has streamlined very significant improvements before

(and nobody cares if an obscure android device had it five years beforehand, Apple has wowed and brought many things into commonplace)

I would agree that there would typically be something obvious in the supply chain or a proof of concept before the iphone randomly has a significant improvement though
I yearn for a curated search engine that only looks at a small section of the internet and completely omits notorious SEO abusing sites. Most of the time, I am not trying to search through the corpus of human knowledge (google's old goal), but rather, to perform a very specific kind of search in a specific problem domain.
> yesterday’s magic is today’s background noise.

Yesterday's magic is today's Ikea product. I have a few of their 5 Euro Livboj Qi charging pads for charging my phone and Airpods and they work just fine.
I actually enjoy a well kept lawn. I feel it helps the house appears tidy from the outside. It strokes my pride of home vibe. But, I pay for it all and it probably averages me $400/month all said (water, seasonal stuff, mowing, etc). It's stupid, sure. But I've never installed a lawn. I've bought houses with lawns. I couldn't justify ripping it out for some zeroscaping style landscape that is aesthetically worse (to me), has less functionality (kids+pets like grass), and comes with a price tag of $30k or more AND it still grows weeds. Most zeroscaping I've seen in my area appears to get zero attention and is completely overgrown in year 2. Also, tree care won't go away so best case I reduce my monthly spend by 50%. I don't really know what is best. I think if I were building a new home, I'd look into artificial turf. So, while interesting, what is the actionable now that we all have these horrible money pit lawns? Is there an alternative?
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There an actually risk it gets actually worse, despite the transfer.

We're at a non-zero risk of at least one global currency value crash (the dollar).
The Faustian bargain of venture capital. You get access to easy money early on, at the price of your (company's) soul.
An article from the bad old days of IE6 :)
I'd love to see them do a small, striped down, cheap car for AutoX and track nights. I guess battery costs are the real issue.
Predictions a year out are a crap shoot, I think all bets are off when we get to a thousand!
The Garmin Inreach Mini is physically possible. It’s considerably smaller than a cell phone.

https://www.switchbacktravel.com/best-satellite-messengers
Regarding 2, it makes sense to me. The FAA's purview is vast. They handle matters pertaining to all airspace in the USA. That includes commercial and private flights, drones, local government, and (of course) space flight. (And maybe even military flights, too, IDK). Is there such a thing as an "FAA detective" that preemptively goes on-sight to verify the reports they receive? Like most agencies, they function primarily on a self-reporting basis, relying heavily on the fear of retributive sanctions to ensure that they aren't being lied to in those reports. Can you imagine the cost of investigating everyone and everything the FAA is supposed to regulate?!

My sense is that, unusually among government regulators, the FAA is generally competent and cares about the real consequences of their in/action - both because the subject is life-and-death table stakes, but also because when there's a disaster the FAA itself is, by default, one of the "usual suspects". And rightly so.

Personally I see this as a very optimistic story about a regulator that actually does its job.
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The default state of a Discord is hidden. You need an invite link to join a "server." It is set up in a way that your meeting point is outside of Discord, usually real life, at least per their marketing material (irl groups are probably the most value in terms of ad revenue).

So, yeah, reddit is the searchability.
I've done the same type of math over buying Apple gear and working for income vs buying Apple stock and just hanging out in Thailand or Chile teaching English on the weekends.

Predicting the future is hard. Tesla almost went bankrupt multiple times. It's ok to have a car instead of a retirement.
I suspect we'll see the same thing happen in 4-5 years with COVID vaccine manufacturers

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