skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Rami from Cloudflare ... we actually use DAC Cables w/ SFP+ for all of our 25G nics.
to be clear, I'm talking about people with decent (but not huge) incomes who have a hard time not spending whatever's in their checking account. keeping all their excess money in bonds and tax withholding is a pretty terrible opportunity cost.
It's still surprising to see Dragon Speech Recognition as the recommended (and only) choice here.

Is anyone working on decent speech recognition for Mac/Linux or know good resources for that? The ideal output is a stream of what could have been said, as well as some alternatives, each with a confidence.

Every alternative I've tried has not been as effective as the version of Dragon I used from 2011. I think the focus on accents and training is a big thing here -- I'm happy to spend a couple hours training it for better results.
Ask HN: Cool and challenging technologies to look at when bored/unstimulated?
It’s not UBI if you means test a lot of the poor out of it, which this bill actually does. Instead, it’s just going to push them even further away from things like stable housing, as landlords jack up rents to eat it all up.
Shout out to the people that use the best tools for the job because they're good enough to optimize their setup. :)
Therac-25 [1] disagrees with your statement. Although to be fair, the programmer didn't die. The patients did.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Population growth would not surge, but demand for healthcare would. If the Veterans Administration hospitals and local community hospitals cannot adequately service the health needs of their respective communities quickly, that indicates to me more infrastructure and medical personnel have to be created. Doing this would be is a good thing. This infrastructure should be rolled out with deliberate thought rather than by the stroke of a pen.

Some people want to keep their employer insurance due to quality and service. They don't want to see their employer cancel it to save money once Medicare for all is in play.
When healthcare in Great Britain or Sweeden is mention as a solution, it looks and sounds good on paper, but the US has over 327-million people versus Great Britain's 67-million and Sweden's 11-million population.

From Wikipedia" "...The Swedish health care system is mainly government-funded, universal for all citizens and decentralized, although private health care also exists. A shortage of medical personnel is a major problem. The health care system in Sweden is financed primarily through taxes levied by county councils and municipalities." I can't imagine what the shortages of doctors and nurses in the US would be. YMMV.
Indeed, while I haven't seen anyone even theorize that COVID-19 is a terrorist attack in the darkest rumors I've seen, it's the sort of thing you need to worry about if you let a terrorist organization ever got far enough to produce one of these things, which is a completely realistic concern.

To my eyes, COVID-19 looks like a single source that is spreading like wildfire, but, imagine this was a deliberate attack. Things spread fast enough on their own; consider how fast this would be spread if there was an organization doing it on purpose. What if this basically appeared in every major US city simultaneously?
I believe that we (the UK) are the only nation to develop and test a orbit-capable launch vehicle and then scrap it?
> automatically sends $500 to my PayPal account, that’s in scope.

Nope. From the out of scope list:

> Attacks involving payment fraud, theft, or malicious merchant accounts
I actively try to switch things up, depending on if I feel something is starting to get uncomfortable. If my mouse hand starts to give signals, I'll switch to using keyboard more. Regardless I'll switch seating position and hand orientation throughout the day.

So in that respect it's unlike smoking I guess.
hey, this is Rami ... I lead HW team at Cloudflare.
Great Q! .. in our case, there was a sweet spot between the number of cores, the L3 cache per core, NUMA latencies, mem bw per core, cost & power. The 48c gave us the best req per second per $, and it likely was due to a combination of all these things.

We have two more blogs that will come out probably today, which will shed more light on why AMD worked better for us.
Ars Technica recently tested the current version of the Purism Libre: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/librem-5-phone-hands...

It seems that it's still more a prototype than a functioning phone, where even basic functionality like replying to a SMS is not implemented yet. That's not really surprising or discouraging though, it's simply a lot of software that you have to reimplement, so even attaining feature parity with current phones seems quite difficult with this approach.

I think we need a political/organizational solution to the privacy problem, fighting back with technology will not work.

Taking aside the usability issues I think these initiatives are fantastic though and while I don't think they will replace current smartphones they might find unexpected markets that can benefit from the open approach. For example, I think an affordable, fully open mobile computing device could become as successful as the Raspberry Pi and provide a great platform for many innovative, data-driven mobile applications.
>I would say such a fine to a mom and pop would be dissuasive of doing business at all

Welcome to the EU. They've pulled these stunts before. When they introduced changes to digital VAT collection the lawmakers "forgot" that VAT has exemption thresholds. This effectively barred some small and micro businesses from selling their digital services/goods to other EU countries, because the business would not have been exempt from VAT afterwards. It took the lawmakers years to implement a minimum VAT threshold.

>It’s not like they run every mom and pop site out of the country.

Of course they won't, because people want to do business. There will always be more businesses that get started. The question is whether there will be fewer businesses started because of the regulation. So far analysis after GDPR points to yes.
Rob Pike – Simplicity is Complicated [video]
there is a graph here. don't know how accurate that is though (sample sizes and the fact that the way it is counted has been revised a couple of times already):

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
If the WHO is scared to be aggressive in their recommendations because of blowback six years ago then they are even more incompetent than I thought.

It’s not as if outbreaks like this happen often. It would be difficult for the WHO to be labeled as overreacting when they only get an opportunity to react once or twice a decade.

The fact that it’s hard to know how dangerous a disease will be is a reason to be extra careful, not the other way around. Not knowing how dangerous something is doesn’t mean we should blunder forward and hope for the best.
Lots like Ireland was hit hardest but that resulted in a lot of emigration. Looks like the Dutch were hit pretty hard at least in yield percentage drop.
just read the article and not the book

Are there states that are not in a housing crisis? What are they doing differently?

What would California land prices and rent look like in non-housing crisis?

Anyone seen analysis like this: Show a house on Zillow and instead of it being worth $x figure out it should be $y
The Vue bubble is a real thing.
$1k MRR: Harder than I anticipated
Tools matter. First ascent of Eiger’s north face took few days and team of 4. Last I heard Ueli Steck did it few years ago solo in less than 2 hours.

Maybe he was better but not by that much. His tools were unquestionably better.
> It very clearly is and it's out of the box, they can't stop it now. The US should be shutting down all travel into and out of the country, full quarantine from the rest of the world. We'd have a chance at stopping it from doing to the US what it has done to China, if we acted immediately, before it's across Europe and more of Asia and then imported in stealth mode by travelers from those regions that are unaware they're infected.

If we had a government that wasn't starved, it might also be preparing sufficient resources for if/when the virus does reach epidemic proportions here.

Also, Americans have been trained to avoid the medical system and tough it out for cost-saving reasons, that training is going to be counterproductive here.
When should one use the Constant Q transform over a Mel or Bark spaced STFT?
How about the counterargument that 10 heads are better than 1?
> I don't think your credentials give you any real authority ...

It wasn't intended to, it was to provide a context for my opinion.

So let me state my opinion as clearly as I can, and then I'll leave it.

* Math is a "contact sport" ... you have to engage with it;

* Reading books is not, of itself, engaging with the math;

* Watching math videos is not, of itself, engaging with the math;

* Well designed exercises are a valuable resource;

* If you can easily do an exercise, skip ahead;

* If you can't do an exercise, persist (for a time);

* Ignoring the exercises is ignoring a resource;

* For the vast majority of people, doing the exercises is an efficient way to engage with the material;

* To say "ignore the exercises" is, for the vast majority of people, an invitation to not bother engaging with the subject;

* Doing all the exercises is probably a waste. Doing none of them is an invitation to end up with a superficial overview of the subject, and no real understanding.
Some of the voice coding videos I’ve found are a little contrived, or seem practiced (Even some of mine were just copying code from one window to another or demoing one small feature). In this playlist, I do a lot of code from scratch, by competing in Advent of Code 2018 for the first week:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2wTcyeSmhsZuHqbSlLAx...

As I start each day exactly when the problem is revealed, without any prior knowledge of the task, everything about these videos including debugging broken code is completely real.
I think the issue is usually the money isn't enough to be meaningfully helpful and the cost of running the program is too high to be sustainable.

However, I think another real world test to join the others is fine. You don't know the result until you do the experiment.
Threema is not safe either and its audit is years old.

The BÜPF law in Switzerland requires any company that has more than 100 request per year to retain data. Threema reached this in 2019.

"Der Dienst ÜPF erklärt eine Anbieterin abgeleiteter Kommunikationsdienste als eine mit weitergehenden Auskunftspflichten (Art. 22 Abs. 4 BÜPF), wenn sie eine der nachstehenden Grössen erreicht hat:

a. 100 Auskunftsgesuche in den letzten 12 Monaten (Stichtag: 30. Juni);

b. Jahresumsatz in der Schweiz von 100 Millionen Franken in zwei aufeinander folgenden Geschäftsjahren, wobei ein grosser Teil ihrer Geschäftstätigkeit im Anbieten abgeleiteter Kommunikationsdienste besteht, und 5000 Teilnehmende, die die Dienste der Anbieterin in Anspruch nehmen." [1]

[1] https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/20172173/...
But since we're talking about small sites and small businesses, how many of these will actually be able to afford to go to court to argue this? In every system mistakes are made and corruption exists. Why word it in a way that seems to increase the likelihood of both?
Don't you think there's a danger that letting incorrect (especially wildly wrong) statements stand unchallenged on the internet encourages those ideas to spread further ?
> Conspiracy theories and the anti-science thinking behind them

I don't think you understand what's behind the mindset of people who theorize conspiracies. There's no sense of being unscientific; in fact, such folks often use the scientific method rigorously. The difference is one of trust - who do you trust unquestioningly to give you good information? The scientific community? Conspiracy theorists question sources of information. That's the 'conspiracy theory' part. When they question sufficiently fundamental or universal sources, they tend to diverge rather greatly from mainstream consensus.

I wish people would stop being so ignorant about so-called conspiracy theorists, and I wish people were less predjudiced against them. Don't forget that Monsanto successfully faked and suppressed scientific evidence for years ('the scientific community never lies', eh?), and the biggest tinfoil hat conspiracy theory of the 2000s was that the US government was spying on its citizens.

BTW, I'm not a flat earther.
The desire to be noncomformant or know secrets is a desire for a small social in group that is relatable vs belonging to the alienating mass. This is basically why cults exist. The motive is fundamentally social. Search for Dunbar's number, the maximum "social horizon" size for most humans.
Love to get downvoted for something factually true that answers the explicit question above it
Fad-chasing yuppies get kicked out. Yawn.

Also failing to see how this is "hacker" "news".
It mostly happens to "Deutschland", actually: Germany (English), Allemagne (French), Tyskland (Danish), Německo (Czech). Only in the Netherlands (and Flanders) is the name used that they chose for themselves (Duitsland).

This apparently confused the English so much that they called the inhabitants of the Netherlands "Dutch".
This. These people vote. If the people they want to elect share even a few of their anti-science, essentially anti-reality views, that affects us all negatively. Political party doesn't even come into it, since any politician not operating based on reality is a horrible outcome. Politics has enough theories and things reasonable people can disagree on without having to debate science from hundreds of years ago.
Which is only a couple percent more than existing sales tax
It would be the same thing if promotions weren’t so ludicrous. If you are an enlisted and want to get a promotion your best bet is to max your PT scores. It really has nothing to do with your ability to do a job at all.
Haha yeah, I remember y’all going on and on about it. That’s when I realized how many syndromes there are in Stockholm
uhhh.... i'm pretty sure we're going to find several orders of magnitude difference between 'extreme sports' (except maybe base jumping) and 'homemade rocketry'

this infographic isn't exactly authoritative... but it's sort of fun to look at:
https://www.tetongravity.com/story/news/your-chances-of-dyin...
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Even in CA this has no chance of passing, right? I mean they couldn't even pass the mass transit zoning changes. CA may be relatively liberal but I don't think it has the appetite for this level of increased taxation and spending.
appalling lack of public support for educational institutions. I hope the chase for lucre was worth it.
Yes and no? The point of UBI is to replace all of that social spending (and its resultant nasty discontinuities), so that’s keeping with the spirit, kind of. Though even better (under the logic of UBI) would be to give it to everyone and get rid of those programs.
It kills 2-3% of the people it infects (within days, not years) and it's very contagious. If it spreads throughout the US, that's 6-9 million deaths in the US alone.
I was under the impression that the way C# did generics meant that there was no need to box values.
(Unlike Java, which treats all values as objects, even value types.)
The best alternative right now for voice coding is https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar. wav2letter is also under use by some, although requires more effort to setup
I had my second surgery just a few months ago. I can type again, but each time I had to use my left hand for months. Initially, it feels like your brain doesn't function properly anymore (not mentioning the psychological effort you have to make in order to be focused on work when you feel your hands are falling apart). Keyboard speed is directly related to how fast you can move your hands to support your thought flow. I tried Kinesis and even a split vertical keyboard (KeyboardIo) but none avoided the pain and numbness that came with typing. The other problem with thumb-cluster keyboards is that your IDE productivity goes to zero. I was faster with just my left hand on a regular keyboard than with both. I think this would be fixable with a good amount of time remapping shortcuts, etc. Now that my hand works again, I think I should start spending time getting used to my KeyboardIO and at least try to buy some time.

The "voice coding" space is maybe not a mess, but far from great or even acceptable. However, there seem to be more recent efforts to make better tools. I would definitely check https://serenade.ai/ out.

The main problem, I think is that "voice coding" is too much focused on editor typing which they can't do right as, when combined with code syntax, it becomes too complex. Instead, they should focus on higher level actions (which btw, Serenade does) along with a different approach to typing. I think Vim is a good example of where editing should be. IntelliJ refactoring is where voice coding should start. With all the AI buzz, it's unbelievable how bad voice recognition is. I'm not talking about "Siri set an alarm", but instead separating context from tone, not having to say things 2-3 times having good response latency, etc.

Lastly, I wish there was simple voice assistance for code navigation - like go to definition, find usages, etc. This is much simpler to "parse" than code structure. Unfortunately, this is not even tackled by any tool as far as I've seen.
The store I'm suggesting would contain commercial, non FOSS apps as well. There are some apps I use that will probably never be open source and there's no website version either.

For wider adoption, I think this would be necessary. Otherwise these phones will always remain a niche product.
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https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-alternatives-to-Str...
Most look at infection rates among Wuhan evacuees. Since almost all evacuees were tested, it's a good proxy to estimate the city-wide infection rate. See the 4-5 papers linked in my blog post's last section: https://blog.zorinaq.com/case-fatality-ratio-ncov/#updates--...
The idea with UBI is that it replaces other forms of government assistance. Since this is a test and obviously California doesn't want to end it's unemployment insurance in case the test goes badly, it's exempting those people using the other programs from this one.

Basically, no double dipping.
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YOLO Creator Joseph Redmon Stopped CV Research Due to Ethical Concerns
My suspicion is with the low hanging fruits gone, investors will soon turn their eyes away from growth-at-all-cost unicorn potentials to profitable companies that target tiny specific niches.
I suppose my main issue is that I just don't think the passage of time since the mid 19th century is long enough to give a natural selection answer for humans. Perhaps it might be more believable if Holland had suffered great loss of male life in WW1/WW2 and smaller men were disproportionately affected leaving tall men to breed widely. But Holland wasn't in WW1 and its loss of life in WW2 was relatively light.
From what I understand, there just aren't that many artificial respirators/ventilators.

Worse, a lot of medical equipment (though not sure about artificial respirators/ventilator) is made in China, whose manufacturing capacity has been drastically affected by this epidemic.
NY Times would do well to let people read at least this article for free.

It potentially concerns the health of every person on the planet, so sticking it behind a paywall/accountwall seems like particularly...poor taste?
Well, be careful. I love trackballs, and have used them exclusively for 25+ years. But... “trackball thumb” is a thing. I had a physical therapist show me how to work out issues when I get them, but ultimately the healthiest thing for me to do is to switch between 3 different trackballs to change up the motions.
wouldn't that be only a local effect though, e.g. Southern vs Northern Hemispheres?
I’ll through out the daily who situation reports:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture Everywhere
Microsoft’s CodeBERT ingests public GitHub repositories to help you find code
Yes, it is binned. 8 chiplets with 6 cores (out of 8) enabled on each. 64-core part is 8 x 8
Rapid Reboot makes compression (peristaltic?) massaging boots and the like for athletes. Maybe something similar but heated, massaging sleeves, can be developed to help with keyboard RSI?

https://rapidreboot.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImbn228fq5wIVjMVkC...
this is a repost from less than 3 months ago. sorry i don’t have the url.

and sorry, but if you don’t have accountability you aren’t a leader.
CSI Kafka – disaster recovery of Kafka clusters on Kubernetes with CSI
I have seen studies that suggest engaging with incorrect beliefs does nothing to prevent their spread and might even encourage them. Denying prominent supporters of a belief a platform ("cancelling" them) has plainly been effective in a few cases. However, I think that hammer should be reserved for seriously harmful and dangerous beliefs. I think flat Earth is quite harmless and also sufficiently unpopular that there's not really much that needs to be done.
No, the quality of work (and quantity) is staggering, unconditionally.
Digital Hygiene: a must for smart people
I have one with the ball at the top (logitech marble) so no problems there.
I don't know exactly, but IMHO this weekend it has raised itself up to the point that the tech industry really needs to start paying attention to it on a number of levels. The company I work for has a number of significant international offices, and I think the odds of at least one of them being significantly impacted at some point in the next 2-3 months has to be at least 25%. It isn't just the virus itself, or even necessarily primarily the virus, but also the measures the local government enforces. A lot of us engineers have a relatively easy "work from home" option, but not everyone is a programmer.

You also have localized concerns, like, at what point are all the people ordering from Amazon going to stop because they're afraid of getting the virus shipped to them? What is Amazon doing about their worker's health, especially in light of the rather persistent rumors this can spread while asymptomatic? On the one hand, I see people claiming that the virus can't survive being shipped very well and on the other hand we have Amazon striving to ship faster and faster, to say nothing of the actual delivery person.

Whether we like it or not, this is rapidly becoming "tech industry" news too. Unless we are very lucky, by the end of this week, I suspect that's going to be obvious to everyone.

As I've said a few times about prep, even if you don't get the virus or your area never has to be locked down, you ought to be doing prep work anyhow. If it isn't COVID-19, it'll be a quake, or a really bad normal flu season, or any number of other things. You make society more resilient and better able to deal with "true" emergencies when you've prepped enough to take care of yourself and not drain vital social resources at the worst time. You don't usually get lucky and have this kind of warning about oncoming issues. Prepping for a pandemic isn't identical to all the other things you may actually experience, but there's a lot of overlap.
My two last reports were closed as duplicate. I got some rep for one, and zero rep for the other. Both were real vulnerabilities. It is strange the reputation reward is not consistent.
I understand SQL, and I kind of understand LLVM, but I don't understand why SQL on LLVM?
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