skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's my personal experience from interacting with people who are on the spectrum. I generally find it very difficult to make sense of the communication that I have with people who are autistic, especially socially, and especially if I'm close to them. To me it's as if everything is backwards, sort of. But I've come to realize that they also see it in the same way. They also perceive their own communication with non-autistic persons as being backwards. They perceive it as if there's something important that the non-autistic person "does not get". And I perceive it as if there's something important that the autistic person "does not get". The model that I've described above is the only way that I can make sense of it all.

I also note that the author of the original post describes himself as being more "holistic" in his approach to problem solving, than his non-autistic co-workers. He has the belief that he "sees the whole picture", while the other non-autistic person "sees only half of it".

What autistic people fail to recognize, in my mind, is that it does not matter if you've read 50 books about a topic. Even if you have, you still only own "half of the reality" in a meeting with another person about a topic. You still have to take his world view into account, even if you've read 50 books. You cannot "own" or "control" the reality, or the facts, of a situation, no matter how much you know about it. In a meeting with another person you always own only half of the reality.
I rarely see people tying in with a single bowline, for the reason you give. I've been using a double bowline with a stopper knot (http://www.vdiffclimbing.com/double-bowline/) for many years now (well, at least outside of the climbing gym). I've never had an issue with the knot loosening when not under load. The usual complaint I hear from people about using it to tie-in is that it is harder for your partner to visually verify. The figure-8 follow-through is very easy to visually check.

ETA: The last person I saw tie-in with a single bowline was Christian Griffith (of Verve fame) using it to tie-back in after cleaning the anchors of a warm-up in the Ruckman Cave at Rifle Mountain Park. He also didn't secure the rope whe he untied to thread the anchors, choosing instead to just step on it. Not exactly a great example of anchor safety...
It has never occurred for more than a few months in The past 50 years and has never returned to a new equilibrium below where it was.

This is also a data resolution problem. Sure we measure in months, but is that a reasonable resolution? Why not days? Years? Etc.
"Don't try" != "inaction". It means letting go of expectations.

The wind blows to and fro with incredibly amounts of energy, but there's no "try". The lion doesn't try to hunt. It simply hunts, and sometimes that results in a meal. It doesn't sit around wondering why it's such a failure as a lion. And it doesn't gather trinkets to prove how successful it is. In other words, it doesn't obsess about its own happiness.

Would you say Yoda believed in inaction? Do or do not. There is no try.

The "words of a miserable man" were his take on why he was miserable. My interpretation, in any event, is he was saying that all that effort and caring about success and worrying about what others thought... all of that made him miserable and he wished he hadn't bothered with any of that.

In other words, I didn't bring him up as an example to follow. I brought him up as a word of caution. "Try" too hard and you might become a miserable misanthrope obsessed with all your perceived failures.
Journaling with big DICA energy.
I can't speak for Chris over at Shopify, but Oracle is looking for people to join us working on TruffleRuby.
No you're not missing something. This is aimed at the tech person equivalent of Instagram bullet journalers, where the act of decorating pages and writing tasks is the goal as well as the process.

I don't get it either but I can at least see the appeal.
Specifically Tauri uses web views that are based on Chrome or Safari on systems, and only if they don't exist by default will it package it, which somehow still ends up smaller than electron. But on Mac and Windows it is tiny, and on Linux it is still surprisingly much smaller than electron, but it is a consistent environment.
From /e/'s site, de-googling (because the review didn't go in depth on this):

- To remove or disable any feature or code that is sending data to Google servers, or at least to anonymize those accesses

- To offer non-Google default online services, including for search.

- the Google default search engine is removed and replaced by other services

- Google Services are replaced by microG and alternative services

- All Google apps are removed and replaced by equivalent Open Source applications. The one exception is the Maps Application (Looks like it also uses Google's browser Chromium, though with privacy patches)

- No use of Google servers to check connectivity

- NTP servers are not Google NTP servers anymore

- DNS default servers are not Google anymore, and their settings can be enforced by the user to a specific server

- Geolocation is using Mozilla Location Services in addition to GPS

- CalDAV/CardDAV management and synchronization application (DAVDroid) is fully integrated with the user account and calendar/contact application
Nuclear weapons are too taboo to use for anything other than existential crises. Losing the war would be incredibly destabilizing, but as long as Ukraine doesn't suddenly start advancing to Moscow, they won't be used.
I’ve used PayPal to accept payments in non-Stripe countries. Even for Stripe-supported countries PayPal is probably an easier checkout experience because most customers just have to login to PayPal rather than getting their card or bank info out.
There are some teardowns on YouTube that show exactly that. AvE I believe has one or two for Makita. I really enjoy his channel. Warning he can be a little crass.
>Dealing with any company that isn’t apple is a nightmare.

Really I found the experience quite the opposite. It was incredibly insulting to have them take the defective iphone i just spend $1200 on and try to make a show of giving me a refurbished unit to replace it. They bring one out in some weird non retail box and make a point that you see them unwrap the cellophane. I asked them WTF this is I want a new phone from a retail box on the shelf over there (so to speak) they made a huff about it but finally conceded to give me an actual new retail phone. Apple is scum. People falling for their dumb little customer service pony show are what keep them in such high profit margins. If any other company did that you would be having a fit that they should give you a discount for getting a used unit.

I shouldn't have to get aggressive with them to force them to give me what I paid full price for. They are at least as bad as any other company and also actively trying to hide it.
This is why I am so fascinated with closed loops systems such as aquaponiocs. If we can create a closed loop sustainable system in the small scale, we can then decentralize it to avoid the inevitable cause of the first likely long term international 21st century food crisis: monocultural devastation.

It also has space exploration implications.
Looks like a simple concept, what's in the other 170 pages in the book?
Did you give them a whole orange without cutting the top off, for example, you just put a whole unpeeled orange in the cage and they chewed off part of the peel, but not too much, so they could crawl inside the shell? Any pictures?
+1. Would really like to emphasize this point by @cube2222. I'm currently on the market for a height adjustable desk, and have eliminated some options based on the fact that they don't go down to 25-26". It's the first filter I use in my search. And I will mention...I'm willing to pay more to ensure that I get that.

It's a cool idea, but huge swaths of the population won't find this ergonomic as it is currently.
Do you mean the inflation rate?
I don't believe I am. Unless you're saying two particles placed some distance apart in otherwise empty space could exert a force on each other and somehow still not move?
Check out https://github.com/PostHog/hedgehog.vc

What do you have to lose? :-)
Correct. It’s usually like 30.

You have to open the file, find the email you were going to respond to, double check with whoever that the answer is “yes”, look up the other attorney’s phone number, double check your calendar to make sure the date works, call you spouse to make sure they can pick up the kids that day, and then call the other attorney.

If you think Biglaw clients, with in house counsel that used to be at biglaw, blindly pay padded bills at $800/hr, you are mistaken.
You can display this on the integrated screens:

"if you can read this you are bending your neck too much"
I would not expect the best software engineers to be at nist or nasa as evidenced by their lack of amazing open source projects.

Maybe there are some super great private projects but I expect those amazing capabilities would still be evident in the stuff that is put out.

Note, there’s some good stuff out of NIST and NASA (check out open.nasa.gov) but I don’t see things being handed off to Apache and stuff.
Ok, I'll bite.

disclaimer: this is a nice framework, will happily try it.

Imho:
The underlying patterns are quite clear, and there are various approaches to build stable pipelines.

I have used automation with basic containers + gitlab actions / custom runners, clearml, earthly pipelines, kubeflow,.. for this.

All of those can give reproducibility (experiment tracking, code & dependencies, etc.) without much effort.

The last mile (model deployment) is often very specific, so let's keep that out of scope.

But: The basic problem is cultural, not technical.

One stated goal of this project hits close to the root cause: "Facilitating the transition from Jupyter Notebook prototype code to steady production-grade pipelines".

As ML developers, we have to stop regarding notebooks as anything that produces acceptable output (apart from initial exploration). Work has to happen in structured, tracked, and versioned codebases (~production code).

Anything that happened locally/in a notebook might as well not exist from my point of view.
> I don't this it's fair to argue that difficulty understanding other perspectives/lack of empathy is something you should accept the same way you do a disability.

Just because something is not visible does not make it less real. This is one of the largest hurdles for experiencing acceptance for many people who have a mental disability. Your perspective is also perfectly typical, expected, and human. Neurodiversity gets almost no attention, and it easily follow that innocent ignorance is rampant.

And it's not that we don't try, and shouldn't try, it's that we get put into several buckets (as-per the scare quotes in the title) when we inevitably fail. We will never master social skills like a neurotypical person can.

Many of us also don't categorize it as a strict disability (depending on the nature and severity of our particular case), there are immense upsides to the condition (depending, again, on the individual). That certainly doesn't mean that we should be expected to (anagolously) grow appendages that we weren't born with.
Are there any price estimates? Even an order-of-magnitude estimate would be nice. https://www.hackerbci.com/shop and https://www.crowdsupply.com/hackerbci/pieeg don't tell me if the target is $100 or $10,000
And eat microplastics? No thanks.
Automatic failover within 60 seconds.
I get the point you're making, but to the facts, that is quite literally how many subdivisions work, and least in the western US.
and when you do see them at the crag, they're a good gumby detector

Huh, really? Most of the people I know who tie-in with the figure-8 use the standard overhand safety knot (or they pull the tail back through the bottom loop of the eight). Most of us have been climbing for decades. I guess old habits die hard?
Aren't both sides being intolerant? One side is "I hate gays" the other is 'thats violence and I'll lock you up'

Half the problem with today's 'progressive' politics is that it's intolerance dressed up as tolerance. And Im not a right winger by any stretch.
In my experience, you can get away with a lot up to 10-25MHz. Mostly just proper board stackup (the bare minimum ensurance that all signal traces are on a layer that's next to a solid ground plane layer, with no slots or cutouts under the traces).

Things like trace length, reflections, power dips when the bus is all 1's, electro and/or magnetic crosstalk, etc. become an issue at around 50MHz, although I've never gone that high in a hobbyist design...
Sub3Suite is an advance information gathering suite of tools for cyber security researchers, hackers and bug bounty hunters.
we get it, you're a fun sponge
The goal was 100% of the country, not 20%. They've been stalled with little progress over the past month.
"Delivering 200 watts of power to the surface, Lumina Desk powers any wireless charging-enabled device you place on it." --- including you!
That's specifically the Bay Area though, and inflation is a national average. Most other cities have not had that kind of housing price growth. I like to occasionally look at the sale prices of the houses I grew up in (partly because the listing photos are interesting to see how the new owners have redone the insides), and they've gone up about 2x since 2000, or annualized 3-4%.

Two examples: 3bd house in the Chicago suburbs, sold for $190,000 in 1999, and $420,000 in 2021. 5bd house in the Houston suburbs, sold for $290,000 in 2003, and $480,000 in 2022. If there were 5x price growth, these houses should be selling for $1m-$1.5m.
> Are you saying that Apple doesn't send MMS? because from my experience, it totally can.

I'm saying you should currently use another app if you want to send images or movies, because MMS compresses media beyond recognition.

I don't understand why Apple users are against a simple fix that would let them send these things from inside iMessesage instead?

Why do you think this would let Google have more of your chat history?
Myths of Open Source Software Risk and the One Nobody Is Discussing
I briefly went over what the founders actually thought of people like non land owners and democracy. Spoiler: they didn’t care for democracy as much as their own class and kind having a lot of power.

It’s unfortunate how much people pay attention to civics classes and never learn what the status quo has no interest in teaching them.
But then if the user forgets their password, there's no way to reset it.
> 4 different vans to my house within a single day

We had this issue in our area when they first started rolling out their delivery, but they've since gotten much better about grouping packages to the same address, no matter who it's addressed to.

(Single family home, in the city.)

Perhaps, like everything else, dependent upon the facility that's used?
That is indeed fascinating. Not sure what to take from that at the moment, but it does seem like a finding with potentially big implications.
I agree. Intelligence and wisdom are two very different things. Many intelligent people I know are unwise, and act terrible to those they disagree with. It is best to have a healthy dose of intelligence with the wisdom to be able to handle it.
I've not used postgres-on-k8s in any real production workload so my opinion on the matter isn't worth glozing about. I'd rather recommend the blog posts and docs fly.io did on it[1]. They themselves rely on Stolon[2].

AFAIK the secret sauce is postgres' ability for streaming replication[3], ie. pass data across instances as it's ingressed. Add some glue and you've got a cluster.

As far as storage goes, k8s supports topology awareness[4] and enables collocating pods and PVs. There are CSI drivers for most file systems you'd encounter in the enterprise[5][6].

> How do you get over the network latency?

Ultimately there are incompressible limits you'll hit (CAP theorem and all that). So you do what everybody does in computing : you cheat by exploiting human perception and treating your reads and writes differently[7].

I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but I hope I've answered some of your questions.

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[1]: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/

[2]: https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon

[3]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication

[4]: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/10/11/topology-aware-volume-...

[5]: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/01/15/container-storage-inte...

[6]: https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/drivers.html

[7]: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/
True, but hate should be used sparingly, it is an emotional kudzu that can burn and choke you from within if left to grow unchecked.

And there is an oversupply of hatemongers on the net.
> It seems that you're largely restating what the comment you replied to was saying

The comment I responded to said government can cause inflation by destroying money by increasing taxes.

That's backwards, destroying money is deflationary.
Best answer. Should have been on Stackoverflow!
Slack would be interesting. I have two displays now, one for work, one for monitoring/slack/logs etc. Though I often use the second display for a web browser to read one thing while working on another. The second monitor always felt like overkill, but it is very functional. The only problem with this is the ergonomics. Would the keyboard get in the way? Do I have to stand up or like lift myself to read it? It seems like it would have to tilt up to be functional.
People also thought it would be a new age of transparency in media. It took the typical propagandists and spin doctors about five years to figure out how to completely subvert online discourse. The "firehose of falsehood" technique was also discovered as a way to herd people back to traditional media by DOSing the digital public square.
I feel this has more to do with unrealistic expectations and improper management of engineers at these firms.

All of these major companies hired like crazy to meet the demand on their products as the pandemic hit.

Most large companies will have a manager that understands an entry-level and mid-level contributor will take six to twelve months to ramp up and actually be productive on a team.

Coupled the above with improper time management skills on remote teams, and you get a distributed work force that sometimes just doesn't produce as well as when they were forced to do the grind in the office.
I must be in a magical spot since I have Spectrum and Grande for cable and ATT and Google (seems to be part of this push) for fiber.
Certainly. But the rear screen is vastly worse on my camera, so I just wait until I'm at a computer to do any fine sorting. Obviously I can delete grossly out-of-focus shots on the camera.
Recent? Kitchenaid started reducing the price point of their entry level 40 years ago. Meanwhile their top end models have brushless DC motors and are as well designed as ever, and adjusted for inflation are cheaper than in the past.

Having dismantled many, the entry level kitchenaid design hasn’t changed much in the past two decades.

It turns out, and kitchenaid realized, there was a lot of money to be made by casual box cake mixers that want the appearance of a KA.
I don't think this is accurate as Windows 10 and Windows 11 have edge built in, as WebView2, which is used for some internal Microsoft programs now as well, and older windows systems are not supported in any way by Microsoft themselves anymore, so it seems safe to ignore them now. I've had no issues with Tauri on Windows however, and I even compile it from Linux.
I'm curious if you've looked into https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/index.html . I've used it for relatively large batch processing jobs on AWS ECS. When I was maintaining this system I had between 100-200 EC2 instances all running 1 celery worker per core (IIRC). It was relatively simple to maintain and scaled very well.

Celery is great for scaling out jobs horizontally, but I don't know if that's the actual problem you were facing with your current system. If your problem is with an individual job not processing/completing fast enough, then yeah maybe python isn't the right choice for you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
I don't think this is the same thing. There are technologies now within crypto that are outside of the ability of the US government to nuke from orbit, like the Bitcoin blockchain. The frontiers of DeFi and DAOs however still have not hit the same level of 'escape velocity' to survive this kind of direct hit. If the US Treasury sanctioned Bitcoin, yes, it would be a significant event, but I don't think it's feasible to think such a thing would destroy Bitcoin at this point. The question really boils down to how extendible this dynamic is to other downstream applications of blockchains and subsequent technologies adjacent to blockchains.
Yep good point. Are there bypasses for the hsm-backed signed attestation?
First of all thank you for your nice research! It is really inspiring.

> Also in Table 6, you see that Facebook's wav2vec 2.0 XLS-R went from 12.06% without LM to 4.38% with 5-gram LM.

It is probably Jonatas Grosman's model, not Facebook. Bias is a common sin for common voice trainers. Partially because they integrate Guttenberg texts into LM, partially because for some languages CV sentences intersect between train and test.

For comparison you can check Nemo model

https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/teams/nemo/models...

The improvement from LM is from 6.68 to 6.03 as expected.

> Zimmermeister 2022 wav2vec2 XLS-R was equally over-trained

Yes

> Or are you suggesting that all wav2vec2 -derived AI models are strongly overtrained for CommonVoice? Because they seem to do very well on LibriSpeech and GigaSpeech, too.

Not all the models are overtrained, I mainly complain about German ones. For example Spanish is reasonable:

https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-...

> Could you explain what you mean by "perplexity" here? Can you recommend a paper about it? I haven't read about that in any of the ASR papers I studied, so this sounds like an exciting new technique for me to learn :)

Perplexity is a measure of LM quality. See here:

EVALUATION METRICS FOR LANGUAGE MODELS
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~roni/papers/eval-metrics-bntuw-9802....

Also for a recent perplexities of transformers see somethinglike

Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1285.pdf

> BTW, regardless of the metrics, this is the model that "works for me" in production.

Sure, but it could work even better if you take more generic model.

>BTW, BTW, it would be really helpful for research if Vosk could also publish a paper. As you can see, PapersWithCode.com currently doesn't list any Vosk WERs for CommonVoice German, despite the website reporting 11.99% for vosk-model-de-0.21.

Great idea, we'll get there, thank you!
You have it right, “perq” is non-standard:

https://grammarist.com/usage/perk-vs-perq/
No, but it guarantees we're insured up to $250,000. It won't disappear, we just won't be able to withdraw it immediately. That's admittedly not ideal, but it's better than losing it entirely. In the case of most/all crypto exchanges, no such protections exist. If they go under, you lose your holdings with no recourse for having them returned. This is all US-specific, of course.
Sure. I could do that too as a software engineer.

How much you bill and how much you work aren't necessarily the same. Why would you think they are?
But steam really doesn't want you to get the key, I soft-failed when I tried. Fuck custom authentication apps, totp is good enough for me thanks