skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My phone can autocaption audio from any website

How's its handling of Hebrew with intermingled programming language keywords in English and variable and procedure names that aren't going to be found in any dictionary?
Oh hey that’s perfect! I really didn’t want to set up a whole server. This looks nice thank you!
Well, it depends on how you financed. If you paid a large part of your mortgage already, or needed a small one to begin with, you can still move, bacause all houses will get cheaper.

If you sit on a large mortgage, though, you better don't move and have a long-running fixed interest rate.
Yes! I know of people that have connected to systems without any traditional shell/unix stuff. You can change the shell (or have none) used if needed using the global `_shell_executable` global arg (https://docs.pyinfra.com/en/2.x/arguments.html#shell-control...).

Most operations rely on various Linux/similar tools but the `server.shell` operation plus shell flag above should get you connecting and executing commands. Please do reach out if this doesn’t work for your setup!
There is much content that wouldn't ever be put on Youtube if you had to subtitle it (and auto-generated subtitles were not good enough to count).

There's a whole different level of effort between recording a presentation and posting it and recording it, subtitling it, and posting it.
> how did they come to be the main player?

In the 60s, venues had to pay someone to run ticketing for them. Ticketmaster came along and said "Hey, we'll do it all for you, and you don't need to pay us a cent. All we ask is you let us add a $0.25 fee to the ticket."

From the venue perspective, it was a no brainer.

Later, in the 90s/00s, Ticketmaster was lightyears ahead in building a scalable infrastructure that could handle peak onsale demand for major artists. Want to sell out the Staples center for 5 nights in 4 minutes? Most LAMP stacks of the era would just melt. Most ecommerce platforms weren't built with non-fungible inventory in mind. Meanwhile Ticketmaster, through VAX assembly & sharding, was able to handle the load.
The military threat of Starlink to China is as a way for the Taiwanese defense to communicate during an invasion. In peacetime they can prevent Starlink from operating in China simply by threatening Elon Musk with the loss of his Shanghai factory.
Ah, bundling shenanigans, just like the cable companies. Although I guess Netflix became a cable company the minute they started doing streaming: same business model as HBO, just over the Internet. But now they're no longer special in that regard.
I don't read anything here about outing or penalizing the sources of such ads, sadly.
That's not a contradiction per se. It's easier to get spurriously high test scores with smaller datasets. It does not clearly demonstrate that the models are actually getting worse.
Ai dude. Most entrepreneurs cut the cost of writing copies these days thinking marketing is an automatable job just like any other and just use the bajillion AI writing software like jasper. They even do this for blogging unless they think it's highly technical
Adding Hypothes.is Annotations Link to Posts
A crash back to where we'd be with a following-inflation rate of increase in house prices since, say, 1995, would absolutely wipe out a terrifying proportion of the working-age population's on-paper wealth.

IDK what the solution is that doesn't completely fuck a generation or three, one way or another. Of course the best answer would have been to never get into this situation in the first place, but here we are.
Yep, had a similar annoyance using my AirPods with my gaming laptop. The laptop wouldn't reconnect after going to sleep for an extended period of time. I ended up replacing the stock wireless card for an Intel AX210 based one and then it was fine.
Since we appear to have taken poor modarchive offline, here's my vote for the greatest MOD of all time via an archive.org link :

https://web.archive.org/web/20220912213826/https://modarchiv...
The price is set by the ability of other buyers. Doesn’t matter what one individual can pay if the climate points to falling prices, why would they overpay when they think prices will fall? Prices are set by willingness to lend and interest rates, not by cash buyers.
They will allege that reviews on the platform are Airbnb's copyright.
Conflating "willingness to do" with "ability to pay" is a fundamental attribution error.
Spanish civil servant skips work for years without anyone noticing (2016)
Curious that you put all of those examples in the past tense.
https://gitlab.com/yaook/operator

> Deploys OpenStack services on top of a Kubernetes cluster.

Fascinating. Although surfing around their GL org it seems they're still very early in that process
I think that treating, even naming, a one-on-one like an event is symptomatic of deeper problems that plague people playing work.

My "one-on-ones"? I used to walk with a team member in the city streets to change environments. Countless hours of conversations at any time on the balcony or inside when no one was there, while munching on something and drinking tea or a café au lait, or sharing a sandwich, a meal, galette, pizza, chips, or anything. Leftovers.

Everything goes.

We've worked to reduce information asymmetry.

What's a one-on-one, really? Two people talking. They should be doing that often enough that there's no build-up of whatever accepted quantity of work-related puss that makes a conversation into an event to be named and scheduled.

I doubt there's a need for yet another friction point to conversations that should take place more frequently, because they turn them into the ever more elaborate rituals that they already are in badly run teams and companies.
I was there in 1999 as OS X was being developed, and the beta was just about to be released. I was building another product that was released at MacWorld in 2000 (and still exists today)!

I have a lot of funny stories. Steve didn't like our data center rack mounts being silver, we had to pull them all out and spray paint them black, because silver just wasn't acceptable, in a datacenter. That was my first day at work. And no, I'm not a datacenter employee, everyone on the team did everything, there were just very few of us.

We had to work from about 10am to about 3 or 4 am every day to make the deadline, we sometimes got Sundays off. There was a lot of rage and anger at many management levels.

Steve would get a question about a two button mouse at every company meeting, he was super pissed every time about the question. We enjoyed trolling him.

Steve's attention to detail was unbelievable. I once witnessed him make a team work overnight just to move an icon 10 pixels to the left.

The guy had a vision that seems unparalleled. He was able to figure out the concept of "cloud" well before its time, and make a shift towards that.

Of course, he was an supernatural presenter. I witnessed him present through some really messed up errors in live demos and no one I asked in the audience afterwards even noticed the errors.

It was an insane work environment, never seen anything like it.
Stadiums are generally owned by the team(s) that play in them and/or the city. Live Nation doesn’t own any stadiums that I’m aware of, but they do own Ticketmaster.
In their minds they are just chasing alpha to sleep at all. They have probably been burned along the way and just passing the trauma forward. Everyone has to save themselves.
Parameter Page – A webpage generator where the content is contained in the URL
Sometimes you just need one simple informational web page: A landing page for a form confirmation, a page to direct people to with a QR code, a brief description of your event. But where should it live? You don't want to spin up a new domain and hosting instance for something so small! That's where Parameter Page comes in.

Simply add a title or description as URL parameters to this page, and the content is displayed on page load. There are also options for an image and/or button link to another page for calls to action.
It's a lot easier to dump out a pre-recorded audio stream (or even generate it with a simple modem) than it is to interface with the C64's expansion connector.
You might be interested in Walter Segal's ideas of building houses as assemblies from materials in their available dimensions so the parts are easy to reuse or modify. I find his ideas both compelling and a bit too idealistic or from another era. In the winter I have an architect friend who I talk to and hope to get his views on the pros and cons this year.
https://theprepared.org/features-feed/segal-method
The Israeli law uses WCAG's definition. I'm not kidding, the law refers to an "Israeli standard" which is just a PDF that links to WCAG and includes an errata of changes; e.g. captions are Level AA instead of Level A in the Israeli standard.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/?versions=2.0#qr-medi...

Failure F8 seems relevant to the loophole: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/failures/F8.html
Even only hiring the cheapest, outsourced, $1/minute captioning, for 20,000 videos at 50 minutes each that's at least a million dollars they'd be paying to give content away for free. I don't think that's a low bar.
I've had exactly 2 interviewers tell me they've so much as looked at my GitHub.
Yeah, I think Kinney is wrong here. Someone else found a survey paper noting the theoretical possibility of using BsaI and BsmBI in a way that leaves the sites in the final genome, but I haven't seen anyone who actually did that. So I'm leaning to a false discovery here.
Bravo. Bravo, sir. I flat-out giggled with glee during that amazing video!
The Forgotten Employee story - https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee - was posted to HN again recently and it reminded me of this story.
Can you list their IP addresses so I can firewall them... and drop the ranges from my BGP tables?
Having `height: 100%` (or `flex: 1` or grid equivalent) on every ancestor is just what you have to do for CSS (it applies to all layout modes, not just grid). My way to make this less painful is generally to remove any extraneous divs and try to keep the trees as shallow as possible.
Fair question. The model we comment on both suffer from the problem described in the article but also a more severe problem:

The developers sampled obvious cases og hypotension and nonhypotension, and trained the model to distinguish those. And also validated it on data that was similarly dichotomous. In reality the outcome is often between these two scenarios.

But worse, they also introduce a more severe problem where as range of an important predictor is only available in the hypotension outcome.
> Bluetooth is massively more complicated than WiFi. It has a whole service enumeration/discovery layer baked in that IMHO tried to cram way too much into the spec. Whats even more amazing is that some of the hardware vendors at the table during the development went "F that" and added some side channel audio stuff that bypassing most of the stack.

I seriously think you underestimate the complexity in Wi-Fi networks. The 802.11 2020 standard is 4379 pages long. And i'm not even counting the amendments ( https://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/802.11_Timelines.htm ) that are in development.
You probably understand most of it. Now, why would anyone willingly use a toddler-ized version of Linux? Beats me, but there's other distributions to pick from so I'm still happy.

Again, I'm not opposed to most of the underlying technology (particularly Bubblewrap and rpm-ostree), but it does feel like they're baking a cake before they've even mixed the ingredients properly.
ok, not willing-and-able then.
Wait, it's illegal to publish sites that offer free information if they don't comply with some accessibility rules?
It was an attack on the non-disabled public, who lost access to those videos (or who would have had to pay for subtitles via taxes to fund UC Berkeley).
You're arguing for a dichotomy that doesn't exist.

I've heard excuses my entire life why accessibility laws are impossible and costly to apply. Meanwhile most infractions I see are egregious, easy to fix, and not punished.

With Covid we changed our entire lifestyle, we modified facilities with plastic screens, markers on the floors, instituted work from home, all of this practically overnight. Meanwhile all over the western world you've got decades-long ongoing lawsuits to make the most basic of accessibility accommodations available.

In addition to that every public space, physical or digital, is made and thought through according to very specific accessibility requirements: the normal range of human abilities. In the majority of cases it's not anymore complicated to make a website accessible for the people who sit slightly out of that range.

Open your website, put a blindfold on, install a screenreader and go through it. Next put on earplugs and do the same thing, next tie your arm behind your back and do the same thing. It sounds silly but it'll take two hours max and the issues will be self-evident.

Don't tell me the guy who has been at it for 15 years didn't have time to do this, and don't tell me he gives a crap if he didn't. He didn't give a crap then and he doesn't give a crap now. I'm sure he put plenty of thought into making his website responsive so it's accessible to mobile users but you don't see him complaining about that.
Maybe?

> The main purpose of scan is to update/confirm the
available WiFi SSID list around the user’s device. There are
two types of scan: active scan and passive scan [3]. The
active scan is triggered periodically: the mobile device first
broadcasts the probe requests, and surrounding APs after
hearing the probe requests will reply probe response packets,
containing information such as the supporting physical rate.
The mobile device will add the SSID of the AP into the
candidate list, if it finds that the AP is compatible. In the
passive scan, the list of available SSIDs can be updated by
beacon packets broadcasted by APs periodically, e.g., every
100ms [4].

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.02528v1.pdf

In any case, a good protocol would have random wait times that are still (in expectation) of order the rate at which bits are communicated, not some human timescale.

Relatedly: When I turn off a network by pulling the plug on a router, it takes many seconds for this to be reflected in the list of available networks on my Macbook. I don't think there's a good reason for it to be like this.
You are all the "copies", and, under certain conditions, can experience all their observations. Think of yourself more as an aspect of a multifaceted being experiencing the universe through you.
Autogeneration for non-English languages often is relatively bad or simply doesn't exist at all.

Imagine having to record your post in American sign language before being allowed to post it on Hacker News. At some point it becomes silly.
Apple starts selling front door lock that can be unlocked by tapping an iPhone
Can you ‘feel’ the music? You’re probably an empathetic person
Accurate subtitles are expensive. He's willing to spend some effort to help some people but not some more effort and a lot of money to help some more people.
if government wants to encourage buying, it must make take private equity and wallstreet out of property speculation. They leave swaths of properties empty just for the purpose of land banking.

Secondary step would be to make landlord-ing less attractive by giving tenants a lot of rights, naking them hard to evict, thank kind of thing.

This would make houses less atractive as an investment asset.

Lastly you could increase property taxes, again driving down atteactivenes of hiuses to investment.

Beinging down price of houses is easy. The question is what do you do with all the people who bought a house for 500k and now its worth 250k and they are stuck
Maybe removing a human from the equation would lead to more honest outcome? E.g. people google all sorts of issues more earnestly than they would describe it to the doctors. The bottleneck would be properly understanding what the user intends, which might be out of reach.
Starlink seems to be protected by the fact that it could launch satalites cheaper than the adversary. That advantage will hold until the opponent gains the ability to launch small satalites at a low cost. Eg. Opponents launches and pre-positions mini suicide satalites 100 at a time in orbit, leading to a weaponization of space.

Or it might be easier to just pressure Musk's other business interests.
In that article, they claim that the American drone was already using inertial navigation.

> American aeronautical engineers dispute this, pointing out that as is the case with the MQ-1 Predator, the MQ-9 Reaper, and the Tomahawk, "GPS is not the primary navigation sensor for the RQ-170... The vehicle gets its flight path orders from an inertial navigation system".
The problem is not that she is right or wrong, the problem is that people can't disagree peacefully any more because a lot of people are pushing hateful narrative everywhere (from every sides of the political spectrum). And telling that some authoritarian state are pushing this tendencies to undermine democratic countries can sadly make your comment flagged here.
> companies doing that

Doing which, making services unavailable to disabled people or suing those that do?

I mean if my health insurer, for example, couldn't accommodate a disability of mine, especially something as common as low vision or hearing, I'd certainly feel like getting revenge but doesn't everyone feel that way about every health insurer every year or two?

If you meant the other way around, like if someone sued me because I was the one essentially locking people with a disability out from using my service I'd probably just take a really logical approach to handling it (for instance, making the accommodation they request). From what I've read the most common outcome in these cases is that the defendant is ordered to make the accommodation.

Getting sued or even just threatened with a lawsuit is pretty scary though, if anyone here is facing threat of lawsuit I'd suggest you consult with several attorneys right away but also find a YouTube attorney to set your expectations of the process. It's super easy to get fleeced by your own attorney unless you direct them pretty intentionally.
To me, the knowledge about the qualia of some color is just knowledge about (some distilled form of) how you process the perception of that color internally, which may be slightly different for different people, and which is not directly observable (with today’s technology). There’s nothing particularly surprising about it, nor does it contradict a naturalist/physicalist view.

Those who claim that functional knowledge is identical to experiential knowledge probably classify the internal processing of the brain as functional, and therefore classify knowledge derived from it as, fundamentally, functional knowledge.
Not in Hebrew there aren't.
I pay a property manager, 10% rent plus VAT, plus whatever costs are involved in actually fixing stuff that needs fixing.

I do so for a few reasons: first, I have no idea what my obligations are as a landlord and they do; second, they have a list of local tradespeople whereas I live in a different country; and thirdly, the property is an apartment and the common areas and exterior were already being managed by them.
Canada is similar - usually you can prepay up to 15%/year, but any more than that and you need to pay a penalty (which seems to be calculated based on the interest they would lose). Also the yearly prepay amount is use it or lose it.
Couldn't you feed the English auto-generated subtitles through Google Translate?
Why vintage furniture is getting more expensive and harder to find
Do you speak Hebrew?
Would they be doing their jobs NOT looking in to this in some capacity, lack of precedent notwithstanding? Seems routine to me.
Just a fun tidbit that I only realized today:

Israel did not invent its own accessibility standard. The law simply enforces "Israeli Standard 5568", which is a PDF that links to WCAG 2.0 with a short figure that changes certain compliance levels (e.g. captions are classified as Level AA instead of Level A).
How to Make $3k a Month Citi Biking – Lyft’s “Bike Angel” Program
My experience of chatting with an internet chat-bot when trying to get some help with a product gives me little confidence we are close here.

Edit: wording
I don’t object to a state government setting restrictions on their cities’ zoning rules.

I do oppose states “[forcing] cities [to] have a certain minimum amount of high-density development every year” because it’s not at all obvious how to implement forcing development that is not supported or requested by developers.

I have no significant objections to the current level of state restrictions in my state of MA, in which no developers are forced to develop property against their wishes.
https://archive.ph/t7MWO
> we're all inbred, so what does the word mean

Genealogically, it means a family tree which is not a binary tree [1]. The measure is meaningful over a certain number of generations. Everyone is inbred over infinite generations, assuming a universal common ancestor. That doesn't sap the term of meaning.

Medically, we look at the coefficient of coancestry [2].

Practically, I think we trace back 3 to 4 generations, my source being grandparents (2) is a common word, great grandparents (3) less so but widely understood, and great great grandparents (4) being something few people keep track of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_tree

[2]https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4...
It's basically the same frequencies too
> Similarly, instead of requiring every website to comply with X, Y, or Zed, require it of the "commercial players" and provide assistance services to those who cannot access the rest of the web.

That's already the case. The ADA doesn't apply to your house or personal non-commercial websites.
One possible explanation is that people often just move on between techie online communities after awhile. I've done it several times.

Or, a lot of HN activity seems to be by people in hustle mode. Maybe a lot of them finally made their fortunes, and are now spending their time with their kids, or windsurfing.

Then there's wasting time while stuck in-office all day. Less a problem with WFH, when you can go do dishes while you're waiting for that build or someone to respond. And WFH means less of a need to kill time at your desk before it's socially acceptable to go home (or get a train/shuttle), even if you put in a solid day and you're at a good stopping point before a busy day tomorrow.
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I hate it generally when booking something doesn't make the final bottom line price obvious until you're ready to pay. Rental cars are another bad offender with all the taxes and fees.
I don't know if this is what's actually happening; it is my supposition. I probably got this from reading something along these lines somewhere but I don't recall if that was other supposition or fact, or whether I'm extrapolating.
>IIRC WiFi is also a much simpler protocol, it’s just a data channel (its aim being to replace LAN cables).

I'm not sure what do you mean, but Wi-Fi covers the PHY layer and the MAC layers. It's not « only » a data channel. Modern Wi-Fi uses OFDMA, which is arguably more complex than what bluetooth uses (without even talking about the MAC).
Captioning in English may be a solved problem (and admittedly the auto-captioning by YouTube is moderately decent).

Requiring captioning for all content obviously puts more of a burden on someone. Have you close-captioned all videos you've uploaded to various platforms?
Do you feel the same about requiring healthcare workers to wear gloves during surgery, to accommodate my need to not get an infection?