skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern voice applications use AI algorithms to recognize different sounds, including human voice and speech. In technical terms, most of the voice apps perform either voice recognition or speech recognition. And while there is no big difference between the architecture and AI models that perform voice/speech recognition, they actually relate to different business tasks. So first of all, let us elaborate on the difference between them.
> for real world applications you'd want to see the Wh/kg for a fully packaged product

Oh, absolutely, there's still a lot of stuff that could prohibit this technology from ever becoming an actual product. AFAICS, they also don't say anything about dependence an ambient temperature, for instance. It might be that this thing disintegrates as soon as it's freezing. Or, actually the most likely: that it's simply not possible to build this thing at scale with reasonable cost.
ECB raises rates to 2% and warns of more increases to come
I don't like the idea of someone with a bunch of money bullying a fellow hacker.
What moral obligation? Based on what framework of morality?
You can absolutely borrow money from the charity. I worked at a non-profit and high-value donors would donate without actually needing to send money. It was all paperwork. The charity only really was paid when the donor died.
Steve Jobs Introduces iPhone in 2007
"venv" (the modern version of virtualenv) is included in python3 out of the box¹ now, so creating a virtualenv is as simple as `python3 -m venv venv`. (I usually do use one to avoid polluting the global one / I let the system package manager manage the global install.)

¹but note that Debian & Debian derivatives shove several standard library modules into individual packages, so you might need to apt-get install more than just python3.
The vocals in these tracks are so interesting. They sound like vocals, with the right tone, phonemes. and structure for the different styles and languages but no meaning.

Reminds me of the soundtrack to Nier Automata which did a similar thing: https://youtu.be/8jpJM6nc6fE
Show HN: Alert and on-call management, made simple
After using PagerDuty at work for several years, we decided to build our own offering.

It's faster to use, it works without javascript, and it has a "dark mode" feature for those 3am alerts.

It's free to use. Please share your feedback. You can get started by connecting a Pingdom check or Prometheus instance, for example.

We plan to add Terraform, Slack and mobile apps next.

We're self-funded, based in the eastern US.
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> For people in the 60s and 70s, if you graduated high school, you made it. 80s 90s, college, you made it. Now you need grad school for that, but you need college for that. The bar for what it takes to make a lot of money is moving up as jobs require more.

I (and probably most others here) must be working in fields where grad school isn't needed to make it. I got a bachelor's degree in 2009, and have been living comfortably (in the fourth and fifth income quintiles) since.
> I can't wait to hear some serious AI music-making a few years from now.

I think this will be particularly useful for musical compositions in movies and film, where the producer can "instruct" the AI about what to play, when, and how to transition so that the music matches the scene progression.
> I just wish he'd get back to saving the world and setting up Mars for my kids.

That was never going to happen. It's just a way to get people to work their asses off to further his real goal, to amass as much wealth as possible. Ironically, buying Twitter may well end up undoing that.
The article links to this:

> The goal of the source code project is to provide a rich development environment containing relevant source code and sample applications under BSD 3 License. The Z-Wave source code project will enable members to contribute code to the project under the supervision of the new OS Work Group (OSWG).

Which doesn't clarify at all. Is OS "open source" or "operating system", or something?

Is the relevant source code also BSD licensed? What does it include?

My guess is that this is a teaser article for an event that happened last month, and the repo is open now (or they forgot to open it).

Anyway, I came here to figure out what Z-Wave is, and why it is better than other smart home networks. Any ideas?
> many programming tasks can be done so much faster in Python.

Same here. I came to Python because I'm lazy ;-)

I stayed because the language is elegant and the community is simply outstanding.
Except engineers won't become passengers, they will become air traffic controllers.
Web accessibility testing aims to ensure that each and any person can use a product without any obstacles. It expands the target audience of applications by making them accessible to people with disabilities — hearing loss, vision problems like a weakening of color perception, physical, cognitive, or other disabilities. However, product owners should discover and enhance web accessibility not only to be inclusive of people with disabilities but to keep the application in line with current legislation and to gain other competitive advantages. Typically, non-compliance results in incrementing web accessibility lawsuits, as in the UsableNet research indicates 319 lawsuits filed in September 2022.

So, in this article we’re going to highlight legal provisions related to web accessibility, scrutinize real life examples, explain what tools are used to test a website for web accessibility and what benefits are reaped with their help.
I'm not sure I see the big problem here. Our government has decided that if you want to dedicate your resources to an approved cause that it won't hinder that cause by taxing those contributed resources. We don't place limitations on who is allowed to run a charity, and the range of valid exempt purposes[0] leaves a lot of potential for those resources to be used.

Just because someone is a billionaire or not shouldn't determine whether their charitable contributions are self-serving or not. Millions of people donate to their churches on a weekly basis and directly benefit from those contributions as well.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
Do you guys think AI creative tools will completely subsume the possibility space of human made music? Or does it open up a new dimension of possibilities orthogonally to it? Hard for me to imagine how AI would be able to create something as unique and human as D'Angelo's Voodoo (esp. before he existed) but maybe it could (eventually).

If I understand these AI algorithms at a high level, they're essentially finding patterns in things that already exist and replicate it w some variation quite well. But a good song is perfect/precise in each moment in time. Maybe we'll only be ever be able to get asymptotically closer but never _quite_ there to something as perfectly crafted a human could make? Maybe there will always be a frontier space only humans can explore?
Well, sort of. I can use it to buy a Hawaiian compound and retreat that my nonprofit will use, and it might have living space and my taste in art on the walls, and the people invited for conferences might be my friends.

At that point it comes down to regulators’ appetite and ability to enforce, and of course the worst cast is some fines. As long as the EV of fines for inappropriate spending that is caught is less than the tax savings from both caught and uncaught abuses, I’m still ahead.

But really I don’t think the abuses are that overt anyway; Elon can buy his own Hawaii property. These things are usually more funds to hire friends and family and engage in political/social spending at lower effective costs.
Esri, garmin and mapbox as well
"recycling should not be a major problem", well, this is where more details would be more than welcome.
Made up coup?

There was clear signs of both CIA/Mossad involvement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
For browser windows and terminals I have special Launcher buttons on the panel. For the rest, sometimes from the menu, often straight from the command line in a terminal.
Snowden and WikiLeaks were about data that is much more highly classified and is in a different league. My reading of the Twitter Files is that they are process oriented (this is how those decisions were made, these are the decisions that were made and may not have been obvious to the casual observer). The thing with the Twitter Files is they are so obviously PR-driven. Snowden and Wikileaks were doing political releases because those people/orgs believed the underlying data showed prevarication by people like General Hadley at the NSA and potential crimes within the US armed forces that needed public scrutiny.

No, there really is very little comparison there.
If you wonder what the girl was doing: rug tufting, using a tufting gun. I had to look it up :)
SQLite is what they switched to, and still use.
Over here in Germany we had a 9 Euro per month all you can eat ticket four local public transport during Covid.
This now indefinitely extended at 49 Euro per month.
100%, even at the very least they should release some docs on how one might re-implement a backend. I get it might not be possible to release the server code especially if there's other services involved but that could be up to the community preserving the game if they want to re-implement everything.
Agree with everything, the only thing I’d swap the word “habit” for “discipline”.

I have issues building habits where people say do it for 21 days and then you’ll start loving and “will do it for the rest of your life”.

No you won’t.

Sometimes you won’t feel like doing it, even if it’s your habit.

What keeps you going is discipline.

Regardless of the external circumstances, whether it’s cold, raining, you didn’t sleep enough or you feel sad, you still do it.

That’s the basis behind the 75 Hard too. I say it’s not a fitness program, it’s a mental toughness program, you do what you agreed to do.
>>id software managed to pull it off. They used to open source their games a few years after they were released.

Well yes, because it was John Carmack's personal belief that this is the right thing to do and he kept pushing for it every time. According to "Masters of Doom" it's something his legal team was always massively against, but being the company owner he could do it anyway. I don't think such strong belief in open source exists at the top of our company, so any such request has to be started from the bottom then be approved by 20 different layers of organisation - which makes it very difficult to actually happen.

>> Personally I'd make a case that id's openness in everything (how their games can be modded and it being open sourced) had a really big impact on their success both for gaining diehard fans and profits.

I agree, and such arguments have been made internally.
Agree, I'd prefer that as well. If not that, at least make it possible to pay with your phone or smartwatch like NYC has done. That really seems to have done a lot to reduce the time to board there.
A spyware platform company denounces spyware on its platforms. Pretty good PR.
What a master.
> I think you'll find more pedophiles in the public school system than the home. Biological fathers have very low incidence rates of child molestation and households have limited numbers of people in them.

At least in Germany, evidence proves otherwise - almost half the cases in Germany are made by fathers, ten percent mothers, and of the rest a lot of different other degrees of relatives [1].

Preventing sexual abuse must focus on families, because that is where most shit happens.

As for pedophiles in schools, church and sports clubs: yes, these do exist, but are rare in numbers, and the same logic from my first point above applies: When children don't know that what they experience is not normal and that they can report this behavior, they won't.

[1] https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/sexueller-missbrauch...
Very interesting. I was going to make the same suggestion. Specifically bouldering since I think it's generally easier for folks to plug into their daily routines with the proliferation of gyms and not needing a significant amount of equipment. But three times per week bouldering has radically changed my body and hands for the better. I no longer have elbow or forearm/wrist pain that I used to experience quite frequently after typing for a long period.
All the other billionaires doing this are also looked on with cynicism.
Once we can generate the world quickly, how far are we from generating things to do in that world?
Actually, mere mortals pay tax eventually when they cash out their investments to pay for the things they want. The wealthy get to take low-interest loans against their investments to pay for the things that they want, without ever having to cash out. They never have to pay those taxes, and their inheritors don't either due to the truly insane cost basis step-up benefit you get when assets are transferred to next of kin upon death.
I've used XFCE (since Mar 9th, 2008 until Apr 7th, 2021) now using "i3-wm v4.21" as my main window manager on all computers. But I still use a lot of XFCE software like Thunar been most notable. Thunar has received much needed love, thank you to all developers making it better. Thunar now has "Split View" (dual pane mode) this is one of the reasons why I used more "PCManFM" or "ranger", but unlike Thunar "PCManFM" never had an option to hide "menu" in GTK only in QT. And now Thunar's menu/toolbar is more customizable. File Highlight is a nice addition, I've been using custom "LS_COLORS" for terminal for a while now. Now all the Thunar needs is embeded file info dialog similar to side pane and maybe ability to have toolbar vertical (on left or right) ;-)

EDIT: One of the best choices XFCE team made is to not use/enable CSD [1] by default. This would of killed XFCE project for those of us who love classic XFCE look. Please never force users to use CSD, make it an option(al). Thank you!

[1] Window Header Bars - All header bars of Xfce Windows/Dialogs by default will be drawn by the window manager now (Xfwm4). Some dialogs optionally support 'GtkHeaderBar' (CSD) which can be enabled via a xfconf setting.
In general: discipline ("I am going to do this") trumps motivation ("I want to do this"), because the latter is fleeting.

Either you can make yourself do what's necessary or you can't. What you can reasonably focus on is:

- making sure that you are motivated more often and don't need to rely just on discipline all the time
- looking for ways that you are more disciplined and can rely upon it when necessary
- if you find that you lack motivation altogether or have no discipline, look into whatever the cause for that might be

If you're sleeping badly, eating badly, or are dealing with any number of life challenges, either might be diminished and you should address those causes first. If that's not possible, just acknowledge that some things won't get done and don't constantly guilt trip yourself for it.

Something like coffee, exercise (if not a habit) or a divide and conquer approach, or the pomodoro technique can all be temporary bandaids, but if there are underlying problems you might eventually still feel too bad to get things done.

For example, I have enough motivation to do the things at work that are actually nice to deal with: writing my own code that's testable, well commented and reasonably simple, using new technologies and improving development processes in general.

I have enough discipline to force myself to deal with the other aspects: particular mindsets held by certain individuals that can sometimes be an impediment to getting things done, dealing with code that isn't commented or user friendly, legacy codebases and so on.

I acknowledge that some things will get done later: a growing list of ideas for personal projects, that I can't fit in my current life circumstances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjPgdhRsGIQ
ChatGPT can actually do that sometimes. I've been using it as a rubber duck to help me debug code and it tells me what is wrong with what I wrote and how to fix it.
You'll care about panel gaps when there's snow in your trunk or blowing around in your cabin. You also might care that your car looks like it was in an accident and repaired by an amateur.

In a way though you're right - no one cared about panel gaps until Tesla came along because until then even the cheapest of the cheap manufacturers were able to get that right.
> Endless Winter felt a little "mechanics soup" to me, but it's solid. Unlike Arnak, it also felt like it wasn't very well balanced across the various things you could focus on.

Endless Winter was super popular at Spiel, with endless lines of people waiting for the tables to play it, but I was a bit disappointed by it. "Mechanics soup" is a good description. I felt Ruins of Arnak was a lot more cohesive.
I doubt it, much less a problem than with desalination, volume wise.
I've worked janitorial jobs and building maintenance and I can assure you there are people whose actions bely their appreciation of these amenities.
Not useful without the cell voltage. Need both to figure out the energy storage. Anyone?
It's true. For almost all of my career I've worked in the software equivalent of a lab building a diamond making robot. I did a stint at a consulting firm -- that was more like coal mining than manufacturing gemstones. By this I mean never ending surface area, and very little incentive to ever go back and refactor anything.
I bet a cool riff on this would be to simply sample an ambient microphone in the workplace and use that the generate and slowly introduce matching background music that fits the current tenor of the environment. Done slowly and subtly enough I'd bet the listener may not even be entirely aware its happening.

If we could measure certain kinds of productivity it might even be useful as a way to "extend" certain highly productive ambient environments a la "music for coding".
Does Wayland support network transparent applications yet?
Your supervillain equivalent is a housemate who does things as big jobs, and think you never do anything.

Of course, from their perspective, you're the supervillain.
No, if your reach is being artificially limited, that's not shadow banning. Shadow banning has a precise definition and that was my point above.
Here is what I currently think are the essentials of any homegrown business analytics strategy. The article is broken into three sections: Data, Analytics, and Infrastructure Strategies.
Yeah I wish Raku would pick up some steam. It’s the only newish language I’ve looked at that’s made me say wow and it cleans up some of the thorny Perl5 sigil issues.
How does the e-residency help? You would have to live in Estonia, otherwise an Estonian company will get you just additional bureaucracy. Your one-man company will be taxed based on where you as the company owner reside, not where the company is registered.

Assuming you're somewhere else in the EU, that is. I don't really know how the rest of the world would see this setup.
Show HN: I made a Slack bot that qualifies your sign-ups using GPT-3
OP here, this was super fun to build. It all started from playing around with Nat Friedman's GPT browser

https://twitter.com/0xferruccio/status/1599014988693180417

Then after having this running for our product for a couple of days or so we decided to give 10 customers access and they loved it! So expanding access now feels great :)
yes, but nah.

Yes, wayland is the future, is cool, is better and everything.

And yet, I don't really care about it. I'll stay on Xorg as long as XFCE stays on Xorg. I'll move to wayland as soon as XFCE moves to wayland.

And I know that the Xfce people already have plans for wayland support.
Some people enjoy looking at images more than creating them.
Same here, servers are overloaded probably. Shame, I was really looking forward to a Wu Tang Clan and Jamiroquai collab
From the author of the extremely well received Meme Wars, Joan Donovan.

Very nice contrast versus Facebook Files. Much appreciate this, as a good tocuhstone article for the times & happenings.
I don’t understand how we know that a whole lot of money is spent on it. A lot of volunteer (unpaid) time is spent on it, but not much money. And I’m also unaware of the “proven” downside.

But you might ask yourself, why do so many scientists waste so much of their time doing peer review. Perhaps they are ignorant, or easily duped, or perhaps they believe that peer review is a valuable use of their time.
And since you don't know if they matter, you should not presume that they don't.
Authors here: Fun to wake up to this surprise! We are rushing to add GPUs so you can all experience the app in real-time. Will update asap
I do enjoy that video, but also, despite my deep cynicism about copyright, I can't help but think this is not in any risk of happening. If you trace the economics it makes no sense. Why would a creator make a thing, then sell you the experience of that thing, then be upset that you have memories of the experience of that thing? If they do try to claw it back in an era where memory editation is possible, why would anybody shell out any money to have an experience if they won't be allowed to remember it tomorrow? Why would I use copyright law to prevent word-of-mouth marketing, the most powerful form of marketing there is?

The point of copyright in general is to protect the economic value for the producer. Being so grabby about "IP rights" that they literally claw back the experience of consuming it means that the economic value of the IP drops to zero. It only has value in the context of being consumed, remembered, etc., and where the person purchasing the experience has confidence that such a thing will be allowed.

I suppose hypothetical future simulated humans could be shaped and molded until they give up some real value for an "experience" they won't be allowed to remember tomorrow, but by then they have passed so far beyond what is "human" that I have no further guesses what they may act like. (That's the true meaning of the "singularity" term, not any particular future, but the point at which our predictions are meaningless.)
Adding an anecdatum here to match a sibling -- Google maps has become a bit of a joke in my family. It consistently does everything it can to avoid putting us on major highways despite not having that option checked. It has taken us on crazy back-country roads constant going 25mph in deer season in pitch black to save us 1 minute rather than putting us on the highway. If we get back on the highway, it just tries to route us back onto the country road as soon as physically possible.

Apple Maps may have less data and thus not always be up to date, but in the 6 months we've been using it since I got a new iPhone, it has never once steered us on a path we didn't expect. Every time we get in the car we can choose to use my phone or my wife's and we always pick mine for that reason.
I'm not aware of any evidence of this, actually. Can you point to some?
Ah, the daily liberals are mad at Elon post.
Valve will refund games past the 2h window if you have a reasonable reason. I had to the other day when I just couldn't get a game running despite following all of the community suggestions. Ended up going over the 2h window without realizing it and they approved the refund without issue.
Run of the mill devs are not decision makers for the most part on any of this.
I find the concept of "esports" without dedicated servers to be a farce. The "sport" dies as soon as the profit incentive dies.
You're making it seem like AI will replace coders. Do you think Dall-E will replace artists, or just make an artist's job different?

IMO it's more like a coder using AI to make their job easier. It's still up to a human to come up with the individual problem the function solves, architect a solution from multiple functions/objects/etc, come up with a data model, and so on and so on. The AI just generates the code itself. And at least as of now, the code needs to be double-checked.