skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Can you talk me through this document you sent me'.

I might have limited my career progression briefly when I asked if they had read the document, then called them out on the lie - 'was the 2 paragraph summary at the start not clear'.

I now put the summary in the email body as well, apparently it is easy to miss the heading Summary.
I agree, this is my experience as well. At the extreme ends, some people absolutely require synchronous communication / social interaction to be productive, while others' performance (and sometimes happiness) depends on the absence thereof (often perceived as inefficient or even a waste of time). They are inherently at odds with each other.

Personally I fall into the latter category and I do believe it's a better fit for a software engineering role in terms of getting things done, but I've also come to the realiziation that in our world, you'll eventually have to meet the others half-way. Hiring a team that shares the same communication style is often just too difficult (exacerbated by the fact many candidates aren't even self-aware enough to know which preferences they really have, or don't want to admit them).
Rome/Constantinople and China definitely knew about each other through trade relations, and I'd guess it's quite likely that some individuals made the whole trip along the silk road long before Marco Polo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations
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> Insurance and dispute resolution are separate jobs from the job of the money itself.

But if you layer those on top of the money does not the whole stack loose the purported benefits of crypto-currency? What I mean is if you have intermediaries to handle Insurance and dispute resolution (which are needed since people want that) do you still get any anonymization or irreversibility benefits from crypto-currency?

What's the point of crypto-currency if we need to add layers on top of it that remove all the benefits?
Building a following doesn't make sense. Unless
Is it perhaps a luxury afforded in part from prior investments (in the form of hard work to launch and nurture these past businesses)?
Cisco osi model levels/layers 1 to 7: physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, application.

Port numbering is a transport layer feature, so it's technically a transport level / layer 4 vulnerability, not network.
It reminds me of Amundsen. He wanted to be the first man at the north pole and raised funds to mount an expedition. However while he was planning his expedition other explorers beat him there. Without telling anyone but his crew, on the day of departure he headed south and was the first man to reach the south-pole, using funds raised for arctic exploration.
I have bought a few things by clicking on Instagram ads and enjoyed it. I choose to allow all apps to track me because I really dislike irrelevant ads. Ads will get smarter in the future, and I think this can be a good thing for the consumer. I’d really like to understand what the issue everyone on HN seems to have with this is - to me, this seems more of a personal preference (being privacy-conscious), rather than some sort of a fundamental issue that is bad for users (it’s not).
You're absolutely right. That's why many companies will have weekly team calls and then someone will write down a transcript and email it to everyone. It's the best of both worlds, because you can react to emotional nuances, yet you still have an email that you can search for and re-read as a reference later.
I honestly don't understand how this makes (macro-) economic sense.

The article talks about a situation where there is more supply than demand. We can turn this around and say there is a scarcity of "demand slots", where a demand slots is the willingness of a consumer to make a single purchase.

Demand slots are limited, but at least they are "sustainable": If you have a middle class with stable jobs and disposable income, you'll have a fresh supply of demand slots each month for businesses to consume.

Subscriptions are not sustainable: There is only a limited number of subscriptions a household with constant income can take. The number of "subscription slots" has a hard limit given by the number of people employed and overall wage levels. They don't renew unless there is significant wage growth.

So if businesses want to switch from one-time purchases to subscription models to keep up growth, this new growth will hit limits even sooner.

For consumers, it will be a situation where you can either choose to be financially irresponsible - or to subject yourself to a barrage of nag-screens and intentionally worsened service each day, as every company and product you interact will try to upsell you. Also prepare to renounce and abstain from things a lot more consciously as you do today, as you'll constantly have to evaluate which functions of daily life you currently need an which you can tolerate giving up for the moment.

"Personal responsibility" is all well and good, but the term rings hollow when half of the economy depends on you making irresponsible decisions.
Radio waves can easily hit miles of coverage. The alignment of highly directional radio antennas can be very difficult. When it rains (or even just windy) performance can vary dramatically.

Lasers are even more directional, which is good for reducing noisy neighbors. But the farther the range the more difficult it is to hit a target. At a mile away it would be extremely difficult. In rural areas, we are often talking miles between farmers, let alone to internet POC.
"focus, flow, blocks of uninterrupted time for deep work" is always going to be relative and a function of the company/work itself, rather than communication method.

I like a video call because I can block out that time and get the communication over, rather than struggling to discuss something over a longer period of time over async text chat.

Of course this just goes back to the grandparent's point - its all subjective and depends on how the individuals and teams work. There is no One True Solution with how to communicate as a team.
Personally, I like having chat's with my mates, over vids. I can chat with them async too.
I don't need to see them to hear their voice in text.
Some of the Amazon's voices sound amazing to me, I've actually tested few on them and people couldn't tell they're synthetic. Watson's voices are nice too.
(AFAIK Amazon bought Polish company IVONA for their Polly TTS system, which was long regarded to be one of the best)
Do you take a possibility
you can be both right and
wrong? The feat might not
be as difficult as author
seems it is. I personally
can think of many ways to
achieve it. Come to think
of it, it may actually be
even easier because lines
in that guide afford more
ways to be broken because
they are longer. And I am
not even native speaker.

To match lengths you only
need to make one or maybe
two choices per line only
to adjust a word by maybe
one or two chars. This is
nothing very difficult as
any crossword solver will
attest.
It's a great point and intersects interestingly with winner-take-all markets (like social networking).

If there is likely to be only one social network (broadly speaking), then does that opine on whether that network can choose to be ad+tracking funded and free, or paid? And is it in the best interest of the public to force it to be the other, too?
Ask around for a real estate attorney recommendation. You can pay a flat hourly fee which should in total be $500-$1500 for their services.

It sounds expensive, but remember you are paying realtors 3-6% of the sale price, it is actually a bargain! If you are not using a buying agent you may be able to knock off a few % on your offer by saying there is no buying agent fee.
I agree. Every time something important starts getting discussed, people want to jump in a video call so every history is erased afterwards.
How far away are we from a debian package that will work with speechd?
If birds do do that, it's a strong indication that people may have actually believed it happened, rather than the believe being just a myth.
Sadly I'm not in UK but thanks anyways
Totally understand your mixed feelings. We are trying to do as many standard data preprocessing steps as we can (cleaning, normalizing, one-hot encoding etc.) and are now switching over to an AutoML engine. We basically see the outputs of Magicsheets as great baseline models, Data Scientists could definitely do better (especially with domain knowledge) but we should at least be able to give some useful predictions back for most problems :).
How to get some decent sounding English voices into Firefox, to use in reader view and with Speech API? By default on Fedora 34 Firefox offers hundreds variations (?) of the same sounding robotic voice.
I somewhat disagree there. IMO you can structure a large application just as well in python as in Java, but it requires more architecture guidance as your degree of freedom is higher. Regarding testing, mypy and later python versions have been a big help there, I don't think it's much of a difference anymore and I'd take it over Node.js for that reason because the core language IMO is more consistent and strict and requires way way less outside dependencies. In fact the standard lib for me is the main reason to choose python today.

So for me it's really performance being the main thing to think about with python. If one anticipates tighter latency or throughput requirements I'd go for something else.
I stopped doing that because people take it the wrong way. Initially, I was just trying to be helpful with the notes (so people wouldn't forget what was discussed, people who could participate could catch up, etc). But I started noticing some people were looking at the meeting notes as if I was holding a gun at their heads for what they said during the meetings.
“Behandla” means “to treat”
but the commenting serves it purpose, one does hope

even more so does what some assume to be 'voting' [like/dislike]

not sure how to measure tho how many shooting massacres it prevents.

former mentor of our at Lond Inst of Psychiatry certainly would have designed a field study of it, if he'd been introduced to the nets, social nets in particular
Phone calls are better, as no one can see the group on the other end looking at each other in bemusement (if in a meeting room) or in a group IM chat (if not all in the same place) asking each other what the hell the speaker is talking about (was talking about, as the speaker's often moved on). That's assuming anyone not interested has not taken a bathroom break.

Sarcasm I hope detected.

Speaking in an international environment is a skill. It's not just about (I think the term is) paralinquistics (speed, accent, volume, etc), it's about thinking about who else is in the conversation.
depending on the source the number of foreigners imprisoned in China over the last ten years seems to be about a few dozen to 200. About two million Europeans travel to China per year so very low. I'm German and have spent several months at a time in China over the last ten years. If you're just a random guy it's completely fine. Contrary to the other reply, posting on social media or teaching English doesn't land you in prison, and China isn't like Nazi Germany.
A real Debian package is unlikely, to start with Debian doesn't have a GPU farm for retraining the model from the source data, then probably the training requires proprietary GPU drivers, and probably a subset of the source data is proprietary.

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy

Stuffing an existing model into a .deb is of course fairly easy.
In Germany, we have the children's bed "Gutvik" which, if you pronounce it the German way, sounds like "gut fick" which literally means good fuck.

Or the "Poäng" chair, which sounds like "Po eng" meaning tight on the butt.
>However, the proposal actually says it would use other unpublished sequences for development.

Could you give the page # for this?
The author needs to make up his mind: in one place he says that there is no "parent leaf, or child leaf", and then two sentences later says "The ID on each leaf refers to it position on a branch of a tree." He's just playing word games. Either you're proposing a hierarchical system, or you're not.

What he seems to be advocating is a taxonomy where each card can link to another card by ID, whilst taking a long time saying it.

I tried out zkn a few weeks ago for my programming notes. It was kinda OK, but it didn't preserve line breaks when I pasted in code, not even between the zettels.

So I decided to see if I could just use plain text files. The files are numbered sequentially. The first file is 01-index.md. The second one is 02-spi-irq.md. I can see straight away that the file beginning 02 tells me how to do SPI transfers using interrupts.

The index file is for, well, indexing. It only has 1 entry at the moment:
duty cycle, 4

So I know that stuff relating to duty cycles in in card 4.

It seems a reasonable system.

I also keep a written notebook. I'll keep entries in them, which are typically 1 page long, but could be longer. Each entry has a title, which I list at the back of the book as a table of contents. The big disadvantage of a TOC is that the contents are in no particular order, and scanning through them is a pain. Inevitably one's eyes glaze over and the TOC becomes a mist.

The solution? Indexing! The index is now my first port of call. I can cross-reference however I please. A tip I would add is to not just write page numbers, but add in additional descriptions. Here is my section on Pinouts:

Pinouts
stm32 208
pico 224
pi 196
stm8 206
mcp4921 320

So I can find pinout diagrams for my microcontrollers easily. Otherwise they're just mystery numbers, and not much help.

The disadvantage with this system is that one must guess how much space a letter of the alphabet will take. Things won't be in strict alphabetical order, either, as you don't know in advance what the entries would be.

I guess one could always keep a computer file for an index. Or perhaps forego an index and keep a TOC which one can grep.

The index. That much overlooked invention.
We absolutely were like this 10 years ago.

10 years isn't that long ago. All those sites were around then, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Hacker News...

Even the topics changed only a little bit. GamerGate was 7 years ago. 4chan and 8chan were reviled before that. The major political debates are as old as time. The division between American and European morality is about as old as those world-views.
but the chap's in Christopher Morris' 'Four Lions' [2010] could teach u how to prevent a valid 'paramentric recognition' ..
Nim isn’t unique in its performance, but it “feels” a lot like Python making it a nice gateway drug for Python users to start wasting less electricity.
> many Chinese-speaking transplants use the terms 老外 or 外國人 to refer to white Americans. I always correct them when they do--pointing out that they are the foreigners.

Consistent with this, do you also insist that they refer to the USA as "中國"?
Ah, sorry, I was thinking far too much of the mechanical keyboard nerds when you wrote "ergo". My ErgoDash is a few steps weirder than the Logitech Ergo K860. I find those low-travel keyboards extremely uncomfortable for typing; being unable to replace a much older full-travel ergonomic Logitech keyboard is what drove me to a mechanical alternative. I did find it uncomfortable at first, until I realized I did not need to press the keys anywhere near as hard as I was used to.

There are some low-profile MX mount mechanical switches [1], but I have no experience. I did make the gallery [2], but it only has mechanical keyboards – I think other sites cover rubber-dome keyboards adequately.

[1] https://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX_Low_Profile

[2] https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/
"Shape stability would be an example of being less complex than insects."

Not if the shape is stable, because the underlying cells are too complex to merge into something different. Cells were known already. And that insects transform is known, but birds were closely known and there was not observation of them changing drastically. So that Aristoteles had this thinking is understandable given the time, but after enlightenment, I would not expect that from the early scientists.
Good article, but given the title, it's surprising that Facebook is only mentioned in the very last sentence:

> We all hate Facebook, and Facebook (the corporation) is, admittedly, terrible. But to a large extent, we hate Facebook because Facebook is other people.

That said, I think there is something to this, and some parts of this article put some ideas into words that I think I'd previously subconsciously noticed, but had never quite fully grasped and crystallised into concrete thoughts.

The description of his older relative who is just starting to get online was particularly poignant. It's easy to forget how hard this must be for so many people who didn't have the luxury of growing up with this technology like I and many others here did.

This bit particularly hit home:

> If he gets online, he is at serious financial risk; never very financially savvy, he will be defenseless against the legions of outright scammers, identity thieves and ransomware extortionists.

And this rings true too:

> And his presence as a consumer of online news will have negative consequences, both for himself and for the wider information environment. He is an embittered, lonely man, the perfect target for information fraudsters who will claim to explain that the source of his pain is some despised group (immigrants, the deep state).

A lot of food for thought.
But you can do that in text too.
I mean if it's wall of text dump, no; but if people keep their chat blocks short, then it's a two way convo. (or more)
In case Cloudflare monitors the keyword "Cloudflare" in HN comments, I'll mention it here – Cloudflare.
Here it is with stick figures.

https://i.imgur.com/MbrCthN.png

We can do the "head examination" here too, but it's actually irrelevant and "wrong-headed" because that situation is a consequence of what I did, rather than the basis.

We can ask, where did the extra head come from for the new stick figure on the far right? And here it is actually plain to see: the previous four figures have different slices of their head removed, which precisely add up to a complete head. There is nothing special about the head; the same holds for all the entire figure.

Sam Loyd's bicycle wheel drawing conceals the principle by having the boy figures in different positions, and around a wheel rather than a linear slider.
It's not perfect, but I find Beyond Compare pretty essential (on Windows).
I keep wondering what it is that makes C programmers especially antisocial and obnoxious. Is it like in that joke:

Father calls his small son to him, pours a shot of vodka and tells him to drink it. The son drinks, then makes a face and says in repulse: “Eurgh, it's disgusting!”

The man replies: “Yeah, you probably thought your dad drinks honey, did you?”
In fact (as I'm sure you know), one of the most beloved speech synthesizers among English-speaking blind users is a closed-source product called ETI-Eloquence that has been basically dead for nearly 20 years. (It was ported to Android several years ago, but that port was discontinued because they couldn't update it for 64-bit.) No recent speech synthesizer has quite matched its consistent intelligibility, particularly at high speeds. espeak-ng comes close, but it has a bad reputation (mostly, I think, leftover from earlier versions of espeak that really weren't very good).

Edit: Sample of ETI-Eloquence at my preferred speed: https://mwcampbell.us/audio/eloquence-sample-2021-09-25.mp3 (yes, it mispronounces "espeak")

Edit 2: To elaborate on what I mean by "mostly dead": In 2009 I was tasked with adding support for ETI-Eloquence to a Windows screen reader I developed. At that time, Nuance was still selling Eloquence to companies like the one I worked for back then. When I got the SDK, the timestamps on the files, particularly the main DLLs, were from 2002. As far as I know, an updated SDK for Windows was never released. I'm thankful for Windows's legendary emphasis on backward compatibility, particularly compared to Apple platforms and even Android.

Finally, a sample of espeak-ng (in the NVDA screen reader) at my preferred speed: https://mwcampbell.us/audio/espeak-ng-sample-2021-09-25.mp3 I use the default British pronunciation even though I'm American, because the American pronunciation is noticeably off.
This article would be better if they provided some speech examples. Demonstrate to the reader what they will get before they go through all the trouble of installing the software.
Ad hominem and straw man aside, my point is that exhibiting entitlement while publicly giving the middle finger to deep pockets is a poor fundraising strategy, one that will likely chill donation interest from more than the intended target. Idiomatically, instead of biting a hand that may feed you, ask and you shall receive.
Previously this post was named in such way, but post get flagged... So I removed its mentioning and replaced with ASN
Anyone can confirm the challenge of poverty even in the 1st world, with minimum curiosity, exactly the way RFK did in 1967[1] and John Edwards did in the aughts [2]. We live in a world of plenty but surrounded by vast communities of need.

[1] https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/01/...

[2] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=119247...
I think we should nuance that a bit. Personally I'm an introvert, and naturally fall into the latter category like you. But at work, especially for management and direction, I find synchronous and social interactions way more efficient, allowing higher level discussions and vision and necessary to really move things between teams company wide. Written asynchronous communication seems more fit for intra team work, i.e. solidifying processes when the direction is clear.
I disable url bar autocompletion for history, so it's only for bookmarks and open tabs, and use my bookmarks as a way to choose which sites are easy to get to.
Thanks. This might be the one thing I've been looking for.
Replace "equity and fairness" with "consistency" then it makes much more sense. I think Paul Eggert keeps using those words mainly because the patch was originally triggered by external complaints, but "consistency" better explains the gist of the situation.

There are two ways to make the tzdb more consistent: either merging time zones that are alike since 1970, or splitting time zones as much as possible. The latter was the pre-2014 approach and much harder to maintain (after all, should we split time zones just for newly discovered pre-1970 time zone differences?), so the tzdb has gradually switched to the former for a decade. This patch is just a continuation of this ongoing switch.

Alternatively, it might be possible to keep the latter approach but limit the scope so that the maintenance remains doable. For example the tzdb can forgo textual time zone identifiers and declare that downstream projects are responsible for the mapping to the external world (and thus politics). However that would make the tzdb much less useful. The current policy does seem to maximize the value of the database without much trouble (that is, limited to a minor drama) and any change to the policy requires a serious consideration about that. In comparison the forking proposal by Colebourne is at best naive.