skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ship speech recognition to users for full computer control (mixed commands and dictation) with a very tight feedback loop. I get a lot of direct feedback about any common issues.

One time I beta tested a new speech model I trained that scored very well on WER. Something like 1/2 to 1/3 as many errors as the previous model.

This new model frustrated so many users, because the _nature_ of errors was much worse than before, despite fewer overall errors. The worst characteristic of this new model was word deletions. They occurred far more often. This makes me think we should consider reporting insertion/replacement/deletion as separate % metrics (which I found some older whitepapers did!)

We have CER (Character Error Rate), which is more granular and helps give a sense of whether entire words are wrong (CER = WER) or mostly just single letters (CER much lower than WER).

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I'd welcome some ideas for new metrics, even if they only make sense for evaluating my own models against each other.

GPT2 perplexity?

Phoneme aware WER that penalizes errors more if they don't sound "alike" to the ground truth? (Because humans can in some cases read a transcription where every word is wrong, 100% WER, and still figure out by the sound of each incorrect word what the "right" words would have been)

"edge" error rate, that is, the likelihood that errors occur at the beginning / end of an utterance rather than the middle?

Some kind of word histogram, to demonstrate which specific words tend to result in errors / which words tend to be recognized well? One of the tasks I've found hardest is predicting single words in isolation. I'd love a good/standard (demographically distributed) dataset around this, e.g. 100,000 English words spoken in isolation by speakers with good accent/dialect distribution. I built a small version of this myself and I've seen WER >50% on it for many publicly available models.

More focus on accent/dialect aware evaluation datasets?

+ From one of my other comments here: some ways to detect error clustering? I think ideally you want errors to be randomly distributed rather than clustered on adjacent words or focused on specific parts of an utterance (e.g. tend to mess up the last word in the utterance)
Understanding Unix/Linux Programming by Bruce Molay.
Not cpp though
‘Be careful how to express yourself’ is needlessly conspicuous. Never in my life have I seen anyone hold back to criticize politicians or people in power, most certainly not in some cab.

As I wrote somewhere else, if you think the first amendment gives you the possibility to say what you want to whom you want, without any consequences, go to the nearest policeman, start insulting him and his family. I am sure there will not be a problem, and he’ll sit through it for hours, if you just make clear you’re exercising your first amendment rights.
One thing I am wondering is whether the protobuf folks have a better development environment overall, or a worse one. Is the schema-to-self-validating-serialization-code approach going to win just as JSON won over XML?
I would like to buy a smart scale because I think the data it provides would be really useful to me.

So in my case the smart gimmick really is the feature I want.

Unfortunately I price my weight data very differently than they do, so unless they pay me multiple tens of thousands of dollars I would not agree for it to send the data it collect.

Unfortunately there is no such smart scale.

So I would add to your list a 5) paying with actual money for smart appliances that don't snitch
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The average lifespan for the period you are describing (say, 1492-ish since we're talking about sailing) was their mid-thirties (and probably lower for the people that actually got on those boats). So I think I like our strategy better. And it's not even about "but at least they truly lived!", their lives were miserable. It's a lot easier to "face the unknown" when the "known" is itself often religious persecution, famine, or worse. I might have gotten on those boats too if where I currently was kept switching between Protestantism and Catholicism depending on who rose to the crown.

Consider that perhaps the best way to honor those "fearless" risks is to not waste the world they made possible for us by unnecessarily cutting our own lives short. I certainly hope my descendants have even longer lives than I do! But perhaps that's just my selfish genes talking.
In the abscence of copyright, copying some company's work would not be a crime either.
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Are you talking about social media platforms, or the governments that now get to revoke their free speech rights when they get too popular?
if qualifying companies don't mandate the vaccine, enterprising lawyers will sue the deepest pockets involved in not making sure employees get vaccinated

yep, turns out lawyers will find stuff to sue folks for, no matter what

so, companies might as well do the right thing and be protected by the federal government than do the wrong thing and have to fight those lawyers all on their own
But the Cylons are human... oh wait
Downvoted because you assert a simplistic and erroneous equivalence between damage caused by sugar consumption and that caused by a communicable disease.

If you eat sugar, you don't endanger others' health. If you don't get vaccinated, you put others at risk. See the difference?
Another strong feature is the great upgrade path from existing jpeg files, which can be losslessly recompressed into jpeg xl with an additional ~20% compression.

At this point I don't really see a reason for AVIF, hardware accelerated decoding could be a benefit, but AFAIK there's no device supporting it.
The secret is in tuning of GPU and CPU TDP to a lower level to ensure the thermals are much better. In a gaming laptop they come configured much higher while in regular laptop its much lower. So to make this work, the laptop will have to be run a lower TDP mode (which will still beat normal laptops on thermals and power) and switch to integrated graphics. Most manufacturers provide software to do just that. The battery life also increases once the thermals become better. On top of that, manufacturers like Asus provide software to extend battery lifespan by capping the max battery charge to 60%. This helps a lot because most of the time battery life goes down when laptops end up being on adapter all time (like gaming laptops tend to be).
The typical move I've seen is C-level execs permanently booking one of the conference rooms. I've seen one who had no problem doing his work in a 20-person conference room all day.
Like I said, your ancestors had 99% more courage and confidence in the face of danger you can’t even begin to imagine. But, we are a terrified people and so we continue to build a safety space cocoon around ourselves.
Research ethics are a very important consideration, but in this case this research is identifying a real risk posed by people's widespread deployment of Wi-Fi. We need to know the risks it creates so we can make our choices appropriately - otherwise the only people who know are criminals and nation states.
Someone on your account likely chose it from the options for a previous item, it remembers those choices.
On that line, open door policies are worthless.

The people who believe in it are extroverts. They are never in the office, they are walking around looking for people to talk to. The only time they are in their office is when they are have a conversation that truly does need to be private.

The introverts in the mean time need time away from people to recharge. They don't want you interrupting if it isn't an emergency.
KrebsOnSecurity hit by same IoT botnet that hit a record DDoS on Cloudflare
People line up at 4AM to get a garbage TV from Walmart on Black Friday. It’s a commodity and people only care about price.

It’s a crowded marketplace, and the only way to eke out margin is better quality and/or features. For TVs, people in general give no shits about panel quality/color/etc, and volume shipment of better stuff is costly. But people love features, and bolting on software enhances margins at no or low cost.

Cooking gear is the same.
Agreed. When people talk about the scariest horror films, I always think that nothing comes remotely close to Threads. It left me feeling quite disturbed for a full week.
Except the vaccine doesn't just protect you, it's also a layer of protection for anyone you might come in contact with. This is the whole concept of herd immunity. There are some people where the vaccine will not work, and others where it works but for whatever reason they are very susceptible to the virus. When you skip the vaccine you are now putting others at risk.
Here's a pretty impressive demo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUCcjHTmGY

I think they said it handles something like 37% of requests.

Btw, don't watch it if your worried at losing your job to a computer.
Are graphene-coated face masks a Covid-19 miracle – or another health risk?
And as other others have pointed it out, you're much less likely to pass it along, get sick, be hospitalized if you have had the vaccination.

And you're comparing a very small risk for the youth (getting a vaccine) versus a very large risk for the elderly.

They're your grandparents though, so I guess that's your decision.
Yes. Based on my traumatized friends that work in ERs in a few different states and the people I know who have died, I would say that it is much more reasonable to believe that those numbers are close to accurate than to suspect a large scale conspiracy, but I guess the world is less interesting and more depressing when you consider the likely reality over shadowy intrigue.
This is extremely insightful. I wonder how many uninsured/underinsured people are afraid of getting hit with an unexpected medical bill? I'll be honest, having insurance I often times don't think of these things.
Really, really nice. Preview displays rating, duration, thumbnail, etc. for playlist and you can change individual setting for items of a playlist.
The advantage is that the monitor provides the sort of usage data the company can sell to others. To be clear, it's not an advantage to you.
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The offices I've worked in gave private offices to roles that need to discuss confidential concerns. Which means all people managers, which in turns means all executives. I also have had a private office as an individual tech contributor, but most places just gave us cubes.

I agree that open offices suck, btw. I'd much more readily go back to an office if I got my own space.
Penalizing the unvaccinated is currently proposed to happen through their employer, with loss of employment (loss of being able to provide for one’s family) being the main incentive.

I am proposing a more direct penalty, which is only put into effect if:

1) you don’t get vaccinated

2) you get COVID

3) you get treatment at the hospital for COVID

The current penalty proposal (getting fired) happens at step 1. I do not agree with that.

In a socialized healthcare system, my penalty would be the same. Instead of your insurance company doling out the penalty (withholding payment), it would be your government, but the effect is the same.

I do not want to force people to do something they don’t want to do to their bodies, and I do not want others to suffer for the unvaccinated’s choices. Therefore, if you decide not to get vaccinated, you pay for your own healthcare if you go to the hospital for COVID treatment.

Personal choice comes with personal responsibility. But personal choice should still be allowed.
>Lots of folks afraid to take a shot that's been well-studied and given to millions and is, in all probability, quite safe. ;)

That's one way to describe it.

Another less charitable way to describe it: a novel gene therapy being deployed by organizations with a long history of experimenting on the people they were meant to protect.

Pfizer and J&J got the two biggest fines ever handed out by the US government, and moderna and biontech have never had a drug approved before. The US government's history of performing medical experiments on it's own (and foreign) populations speaks for itself.

It is interesting how you characterize the lack of trust in these organizations as selfishness.

Edit:
Apparently I've been posting too fast despite my last post being over an ago, so I can't reply. This post has also been flagged, probably due to the gene therapy comment.

Both Modern and the FDA consider it to be a gene therapy.

"Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA."[1]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000168285220...
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Much as I value JSON Schema, building a composite schema, to use and reuse parts, can easily hit a brick wall. I often end up building each schema programmatically and exporting to JSON. Could do better.
What's been working for me is a series of exercises and stretches. I think what's working is the actual exercise rather than the stretch.
I'll use bands while performing leg lateral raises and also lifting my knee to my chest (with bands as well). This way I'm actually forced to use my hip flexor muscles. Funny enough from my experience tight hip flexors are usually weak hip flexors that caused other parts of your body to compensate, which then causes you pain.
Stretch wise, I do the standard pigeon pose, piriformis stretch, and butterfly stretch.
That wasn’t the average lifespan of people who reached adulthood. Infant mortality was simply higher.
One has to assume this is it. I think a lot of management types do a lot of gut-level decision making, even the ones who claim it's all about the data. Which is stupid and arrogant, but they're convinced that because they are successful in life, they must be making good decisions. So when their gut says "I need to see everyone, they all need to be together in a space," they don't have the followup thought, "well, that's really just what I want." Instead they go, "yeah, thank you gut. Very wise. I'll do that."
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Not sure if this is sarcasm, but yes, I don't think you need to look too deep to see that.
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100 references is a big round number for sure. I’m guessing these address treatments that do not prevent infection or transmission.
Are you pro-motorcycle helmet as well? I don't ride but my understanding is there is disagreement about the relative protection of a helmet vs compromised visibility, yet most states in the US mandate helmets. Maybe some motorcyclists could clarify.
Where are these magic passports then? You keep talking about these high tech passports but my vaccination card is basically a piece of toilet paper with 2 stickers on it (that you can easily buy off Ebay by the way) and the nurse telling me "don't lose that!"
I hate Courier ...

font-family: Melno, Consolas, monospace;

Usually works well enough. Covers windows and macos I believe.
Conspiracy implies organization. There is no need for a conspiracy, simply the collective sum of individual selfish choices.
Maybe some kind of alignment metric, to measure how far off on timing notes tend to be?

I can also imagine a generalized "local error rate" which measures how far away errors tend to be from each other. If errors tend to be clustered, I would guess that's showing inability to follow some musical pattern. I think you'd want errors to appear randomly distributed rather than clustered. (This metric might make sense for speech too)
Yes but I've only received it in writing usually only after verbally accepting the offer, not before to play off of each other.
This, and also people simply don't know. Your average consumer buying a TV has no idea what metrics the device is capturing and sharing, or that by connecting it to the Internet, they're not just receiving information, they're sending it. Even cynical/paranoid tech-savvy people are caught off guard when real-time personalized ads start showing up in the on-screen menus of their Internet-connected devices, and would be annoyed to know that their usage patterns are monitored even when they aren't explicitly using an Internet service like Netflix.
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You don't meet this guy when you visit the park. The park is an artistic endeavour to let kids and families learn about some french history in a fun way; the same history that you find in school textbooks. No politics involved.
I've been on projects of 100 developers all on the same floor. However the only way to sanely manage such a thing it break things into smaller parts. You then have a a bunch of small teams (around 10 people) that need to work together. When one person on your team says/asks something you should pay attention because it will affect you, but if someone on a different team says something ignore it.
They did, actually, I suggest you think about the comment a bit more.
Just had a conversation about the J&J vaccine with someone who works at that company in another area and their throwaway comment was, "well, it's not really for our market because the single dose was aimed at non-western countries with weaker governments where the governments couldn't really get after people to do multiple doses."

It would have been chilling a year ago, now? Meh.
Full stack dev here, I work with c++ and other langs often and do work with web tech for clients, dcc scripts and plugins etc. This took me a few hours with electron because it's just js and I don't want a crummy cli, tui or generic gui look, I want something with batteries included that's easy to style, quick to add new functionality if needed (npm) and looks GOOD besides this isn't for anyone but me.
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There's the Writing an Interpreter/Compiler in Go books: https://interpreterbook.com/ (Compiler book link is on that page too).
I'm living that reality, too. Which framework are you working with?
I agree that this is both invasive and a huge violation.

My wife had pretty severe sleep apnea in the third trimester of her pregnancy, two experiences that make me think this practice needs to be nuked from orbit.

1. We properly read the manual for the device and adjusted the pressure so that it didn't cause problems with burping/ingesting air during sleep. Tissue gets softer in women as they near birth and the body releases a whole host of different hormones - one that gets softer is the pharynx which keeps air out of the stomach as you breathe.

After three days - They had the gall to call and inform us that they had noted the change and reset our settings. We had been tracking sleep events on the device ourselves and they hadn't changed (still ~1 per hour while using, the same as the original pressure setting) so there was zero reason for them to do this.

2. After she gave birth, her sleep apnea essentially disappeared (at it's worst it was ~40 events an hour, 3 weeks after birth it was essentially just light snoring again). Did not matter at all - They insisted she use the machine still. Called repeatedly and harassed us.

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It took written revocation of their rights to treat us, and then the threat of a lawsuit before the calls stopped.

This needs to be illegal - NOW.
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Also, those are old bridges/columns/whatever. The French are not erecting any new structure bearing his name or symbol.
Why not use a bank in El Salvador?
Unlikely but could be possible by using license plate and owner information in some countries where it is (or was) public information.
These days? Few.

In the 1990s, more.

Except in the highest speed crashes frontal airbags are mostly redundant for belted in passengers (the first S in SRS is there for a reason), especially in this age of seatbelt pre-tensioners.

Side curtain airbags are far more helpful these days.
Arguably this is probably more of a maneuver to distract from the epic fail withdrawal from Afghanistan.

They'll be fighting this out in the courts for years.
Even if you had it, the real problem is time. Lifting eats up a huge, huge part of the day.

6 - leave work
6 - 6:15 Get dressed and drive to (very nearby) gym
6:15 - 6:30: Warm up
6:30 - 7:30: Lift
7:30 - 8 Mobility work
8:00 - 8:30 Shower, change, etc

More food needed, more meal prep, more sleep. Staying fit seriously cuts into "real life" - I could be passing an extra cloud / K8S / ML exam every 3 months if I studied instead.

Of course, lt health benefits, getting out of chair, etc all make it "worth it", but there is a huge cost.
Impressive! Their technique reminds me of Dual Photography[1], except using the target object's motion over time instead of multi-dimensional lights ("projector") and/or sensors ("camera").

I wonder if these techniques could be merged? Perhaps using this type of 1D sensor over time instead of Dual Photography's 2D camera?

[1] https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/
Just haven't tried it, didn't mean to imply they were false.
>>insurance companies are now following suit because they got hammered with life insurance payouts for 2020 and first half of 2021.

Do you have a source for this comment? One thing is certain, more people are purchasing life insurance so if anything Covid has been a windfall for the carriers, for various reasons not just increased sales.
Thanks. Now I know another term.

I'm a bit confused by the term "infection" here.

Let me split some hairs:

Vaccines work by teaching the immune system how to fight an intruding virus, so it doesn't have to spend days or weeks figuring it out while the virus destroys your body.

That means vaccinated people get viruses as often as unvaccinated, but defeat it much faster, usually before you notice any symptoms.

My confusion is that I would call the time my immune system spends fighting a virus in my body an "infection", but apparently that is not the established use.
I think op meant covering a man page for a command into a gui for the command, not into a gui for the man page.
Hypothetical: current social media dominants become restricted by governments from expelling people based on their views, no matter how radical. Consequently their platforms become full of hateful propaganda by the kinds of groups that love freedom of speech for all the wrong reasons. As a response, I start up a new social media site that promises to keep people like that out, which I can do because I'm small enough to avoid the regulation. Within a year my social media site attains billions of users sick of dealing with Big Corp's platforms and their hate mobs. Unfortunately, now I'm big enough to be subject to the same regulation.

Is this actually what we want?
I'm arguing that you can't compare the two.
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