skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a manufacturer myself my strategy right now is go full tilt increasing batch sizes because I may have a labor shortage in the near future and I know demand is high. If customers aren’t buying my products they’re buying competitor products. It’s also a great way to get storefronts to order more from us than they would typically because our competitors are low on inventory.

Worst case scenario I made too many products and I cut back on shifts next month and run a few less productions.
While Lazarus supports multiple OSes, Gambas is pretty much Linux only.
Yes I do. And what's more, both statistics and my insurance company agree.

The simple fact that my own life is at stake, makes me much more aware of my surroundings. This is a well researched neurological fact. Also, a 450lbs projectile has a lot less impact then a 2 ton one at the same speed. It is also significantly harder to hit a child with a 3' wide vehicle then with a 7' wide one..

Car safety for occupants has increased and due to a side effect of aerodynamic design survivability of a pedestrian crash has marginally increased.
Due to gigantic A pillars and a false sense of security, the amount of accidents has significantly increased and the safety of other road users is at an all time low.
Tracing the American cemetery from the colonial age to the Gilded Age
Would be nice to see it compared with Xapian as Xapian
has been around for a long time.

https://xapian.org/
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It’s not a particularly new nor surprising narrative. It is said that the elderly are typically ignored and abused in the West, especially in the US. Contrast that to how the elderly are treated in the Orient.

It depends on your definition of cruelty. Maybe to some, living with in-laws that despise you and leech off of you might be cruel. It’s all a matter of perspective.
Saving is fine, as long as you know what your needs will be ahead of time and can wait.

But the social purpose of loans is to help people who have an urgent need, or an unexpected one.

Living beyond your means isn't inherently part of borrowing money.

If you can't get a loan to buy a house, having to save for 30 years is in some sense, making you a lot poorer. You only have so long to live, and for 30 years, you don't get to live in the house.

And if you can't get a loan when something unexpected happens, then bad things could happen, that are really unnecessary. People don't have to prepare independently for all possible disasters because we live in a society.

If you think borrowing money is bad, what about borrowing things? Should rental cars be eliminated? Is it only that borrowing things should be free? Is borrowing a cup of sugar from your neighbor ok?

Edit: I should say, urgent, unexpected, or short term.
Evidently people would rather ramp up entire supply chains of toilet paper (which include, let's remember, actual people cutting down actual trees and involve capital-intensive facilities like pulp mills that take years to build) than admit that there's a market failure and punish the handful of bad actors who are hoarding.
And commuting even a couple miles on Philadelphia roads is basically like off roading at times - and San Francisco hills are legendary in their own right. I was rattling my brain out of my skull trying to deal with rough Philly roads in the winter and a proper carbon bike with good brakes/ability to stop on a dime if a crazy driver is cutting me off (I have heard legends of these things called "protected bike Lanes" - I hope to see one someday...) was a godsend.
Yes. I think it's impossible because loading things on planes take time and putting them in boxes before that takes even more time. And driving them to the airport and from the airport takes time. And taking them out of boxes takes time.

If you did everything as quick as possible maybe you'd have a chance to lick a thing that came from china faster then three days after last Chinese person licked it.

In practice. When you have .5 mln mass manufactured items you have no chance.

Also, on cardboard the virus stays potent only fo 24 hours.
Pertinent quote from [3] regarding "more challenging":

"You must also deploy custom NLP models, as the official ones will not be compatible. Use this setup only if you absolutely need custom Thingpedia interfaces, and cannot provide these interfaces on Thingpedia."
Iran Launched an App That Claimed to Diagnose Coronavirus
My German friend with a harley tells me that loud motorcycles are very strictly controlled in his part of Europe, especially Austria, which is popular to transit through on long tours to the Alps. He says Austrian police will confiscate a motorcycle on the spot if it is deemed too loud and/or illegally modified. I wish they did that in my neighborhood, where some motorcycles are loud enough to set off car alarms right outside my window.
I'm not sure which is worse (or if they're equal): too many logs or too few logs.

Too many logs makes trying to find the relevant logs when debugging near-impossible. Too few makes trying to find the root cause near-impossible. They're both terrible. But finding the happy middle ground is also near-impossible.
Yes, I can and have repaired my sleeping bags. My pocket rocket stove is very sturdy and has a sturdy plastic case, and we’ve had it for 14+ years. And I think I’d be fine in the forest without a stove, but honestly if I ran out of food I might not last long... I’m not a survivalist.

FWIW, I’d also keep using a pack I liked. But the takeaway shouldn’t be people should buy old fashioned backpacks... they mostly suck compared to modern packs.
What a crap premise. Had I a FB account, how long would it take for me to dredge up an anecdote or two like the author’s? Because that’s all the article is based on: two anecdotes, and then we’re off to the races of blame-placing and guilt. Ergo, I don’t have much of a response to the rest of the article. I mean, people can be assholes, don’t have to look far, nor across generational boundaries. No news there.

—

Not-Quite-Elderly
Yeah but Harleys' main selling point is literally "the stock exhaust is distinctively annoying".
The problem with the bike shaped Walmart thing is that it is absolutely irreparable.

Got a $200 bike shaped thing first thing when I got a job (technically Kmart but otherwise the same). Dumb mistake. The crank gear bent out of shape before too long, just from applying pedal power to climb a hill. On another bike, that’d be $20 in parts and $40 in labor maybe? On this one it was basically impossible as it was not designed to be replaceable or even serviceable and I had to throw the bike away.
Nitpick: I really don't suggest a divergence in the DB/stack-of-choice between Dev/QA/Stage/Prod. I've chased so many issues that were in the planning process dismissed as "yeah that's an edge case and most likely won't happen".

The reasons I've seen for doing so are usually penny-wise, pound-foolish. Penny-wise in saving a few dollars (conceptually) on a spreadsheet for per-env/per-cycle, while neglecting the long-tail consequence of your labor factor just growing, potentially forever, without regard for total cost of ownership.

Sorry didn't mean to rant. Hope this helps.
Not true we have a four-stage strategy that has been proven to work for years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
There are a few of these valve systems around (if i recall correctly they've been around for decades, really).

BMW started putting them in motorcycles recently.
Which is ridiculous, this disease can easily mutate and what happens to all that immunity?

Also this is basically UK saying they're fine with a million of their population dying...
Grapping the tarbell from where? To my best knowledge, tarbell export is not a part of git, but something git hosts provide.

Git is a distributed VCS, and we should support keeping it that way.
If you have further to go you’ll be even less happy with the sporting bike because it can’t carry your stuff. The solution to long distances is electric bikes, not sports bikes.
I’m going to try and lay out the case in as neutral terms as I can, although to be clear I think they are probably right. They’re going to take an awful lot of stick for it though, and indeed already are.

They believe that there are basically two mitigation strategies. One is to have a very drastic early lockdown that shuts down the virus before it spreads widely. The problem with that is, once you lift the lockdown it will simply start all over again. The problem with this is lockdowns are most effective the first time you do them, and then mostly in the first few weeks of the lockdown. Do it too early, and yes it will be very effective in the short term, but later on when cases become much more prevalent the lockdowns will be less effective.

The option they are going for is to start the lockdown a little later in the cycle. The hope is this will make the lockdown more effective at a higher point in the spread. Effectively instead of a series of booms and busts, you get one longer slower burn. They believe that in the long term this will make it easier to protect those most vulnerable to the virus, at the cost of increased prevalence among people least vulnerable to it. So they see it as a better longer term strategy.
You are continuing with pushing your hysteria. You are making up figures, even making up the population figures.

Your emotional posturing and worthier-than-thou attitude is grating, I'm caring for my father that has cardiovascular issues, he is the most at risk one could be. He seems relaxed.
Hi, I'm the dev behind https://talonvoice.com

I've been working with Facebook's wav2letter project and the results (speed on CPU, command accuracy) are extremely good in my experience. They also hold the "state of the art" for librispeech (a common benchmark) on wer_are_we [1]. Granted, that's with a 2GB model that doesn't run very well on CPU, but I think most of the fully "state of the art" models are computationally expensive and expected to run on GPU. Wav2letter has other models that are very fast on CPU and still extremely accurate.

You can run their "Streaming ConvNets" model on CPU to transcribe multiple live audio streams in parallel, see their wav2letter@anywhere post for more info [2]

I am getting very good accuracy on the in-progress model I am training for command recognition (3.7% word error rate on librispeech clean, about 8% WER on librispeech other, 20% WER on common voice, 3% WER on "speech commands"). I plan to release it alongside my other models here [5] once I'm done working on it.

There's a simple WER comparison between some of the command engines here [3] Between this and wer_are_we [1] it should give you a general idea of what to expect when talking about Word Error Rate (WER). (Note the wav2letter-talonweb entry in [3] is a rather old model I trained, known to have worse accuracy, it's not even the same NN architecture).

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As far as constraining the vocabulary, you can try train a kenlm language model for kaldi, deepspeech, and wav2letter by grabbing KenLM and piping normalized (probably lowercase it and remove everything but ascii and quotes) text into lmplz:

cat corpus.txt | kenlm/build/bin/lmplz -o 4 > model.arpa

And you can turn it into a compressed binary model for wav2letter like this:

kenlm/build/bin/build_binary -a 22 -q 8 -b 8 trie model.arpa model.bin

There are other options, like using a "strict command grammar", but I don't have enough context as to how you want to program this to guide you there.

I also have tooling I wrote around wav2letter, such as wav2train [4] which builds wav2letter training and runtime data files for you.

I'm generally happy to talk more and answer any questions.

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[1] https://github.com/syhw/wer_are_we

[2] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/online-speech-recognition-with-...

[3] https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar/blob/master/d...

[4] https://github.com/talonvoice/wav2train

[5] https://talonvoice.com/research/
I think millenials/gen z would love to have sympathy for the elderly or others in general, but they are caught up trying to have any future at all in today's world. It seems cruel, but nihilism and dark humor are great coping methods to avoid being overburdened by all the bad things we can do nothing about. Yes, the elderly may die a little sooner than they would've liked after living long and fulfilled lives. But the young people making these jokes are probably struggling with the idea that they may not even live half as long as "those boomers".
it's difficult for speculators to create artificial scarcity for products that are being actively produced. producers will always be able to undercut them making the whole matter pointless.
Everyone is saying your thinking doesn't apply because scandinavian countries are small and homogeneous and the policies wouldn't work in the US Some of this is just BS. It's like if the US had no public education and people just shrugged "Free basic education for all doesn't work and Scandinavia doesn't count, they're too small and homogeneous."
Have we found his underwater lair yet? He's trying very hard to be a comic-book mega-industrialist. But his kind of character seems far more like a Bond villain. Dr. Not Yet?
Yeah, so the first course of action would be...don't visit them this weekend. Or the nursing home.
The health services will be overwhelmed if all we do is tell people to wash their hands. You are content with ~1,000,000 dead Americans, I am not.
But there's a third strategy that works better than either: don't lockdown, but do effective testing, case tracking, and treatment, well enough so that exponential growth can't happen in the first place. That's the policy of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, who are doing great.
Even better: the reuse of gold and silver coinage for legal tender.
Even if we don't find life on these exoplanets, we're sure to discover some pretty incredible geological wonders. 99% of our geological knowledge is based around events that happen on Earth, and what happens on Earth is just a tiny fraction of what's possible in the universe. Imagine how many Grand Canyons or Mount Everests or Sahara Deserts are just waiting to be discovered
No Hello: http://www.nohello.com/

Previously discussed on HN:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19648415

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868294
On rough roads I’ve never been happier than on my longtail Xtracycle Edgerunner. With the seat post far removed from the axle, and a flexible steel frame, and Big Apple tires, it is ultra-comfortable.
The bridges most likely have no causal relation here, they are simply a measurement artifact. They're a bottleneck so a preferred spot for measurements.
We have this in NYC: https://reportedly.weebly.com/

But it only really does anything for Taxi & Licensing Commission-plated vehicles (taxis, rideshares, black car services, that kind of thing). For every other vehicle, it doesn't do shit, and the cops don't care. They largely don't even live in NYC and most of them commute to work in cars. There's a big culture of police not enforcing parking regulations on themselves, so you see rampant placard abuse and personal vehicles parked illegally all over sidewalks and such near police stations. The cops mostly have a windshield view of the city (they almost never patrol outside of a vehicle, and they don't live here), so they see themselves as drivers and the inhabitants of the city themselves, especially cyclists, are othered.

So it's a horrible combination all around and practically what it means is that cops rarely do shit about vehicle infractions but go after cyclists with a vengeance. And the mayor is too chickenshit to do anything about it; he's afraid of upsetting the police union, and the police union is terrible (it almost always sides with cops even when they are guilty of absolutely egregious abuses of power).
Yes, unlike price-gougers supermarkets plan to still be in business after this crisis passes, and would prefer not to be known as "that company that screwed us all on basic goods during COVID-19". The money they could make today from profiteering is peanuts compared to torching their image and brand.
This is true. The real problem is trucking, and the way roads are paid for it amounts to a massive public subsidy to that industry, with lots of market distortion around that (see also, state of US rail systems).
Pancake axial flux is a really compact and powerful combination. If they ever get them weighing so little that they could be unsprung weight there will be a revolution in drive trains.
Regium spent a total of $2,000 on ads with Chess.com before it was discovered. We have earmarked that money for later this year to be given away to a charity of choice by the winner of the “Best Swindle” prize. More details coming later this year. But again, it wasn’t that much money, and we aren’t keeping it. :)
- Chess.com
Shows what I know! Good luck, and I hope your company does fine next month too in the slow period.
I'm more interested in whether we address supply-chain and infrastructure fragility. Not for economic reasons, but for overall survival and quality of life issues.

Imagine this sort of thing going on contemporaneously with people fleeing coastal cities due to flooding.
There's been a lot of work done on alternate biochemistries. Most of the alternate chemistries that look practical are at low temperatures, not high ones, because high temperatures inherently break down complex molecules.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi..., or look up Cronin's work on metal-based self-replicating structures.
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Spanish flu was most likey originated in northern China.

https://www.history.com/news/why-was-the-1918-influenza-pand...
Disagree on Taleb. He has been a major influence in how I see the world. Here are a few things he brings up often

- Value of grandmother's wisdom

- lindy effect - Most new tech will replace the tech that came before it and rarely centuries-old tech.

- Being skeptical of what we read in newspapers

- Recognize that domain experts could be idiots in other domains
worthless in that it won't be worth more than they bought it for.
"Gambas" means prawns in Spanish
OT, but kind of related: Would it be possible build an air-cooled engine that runs on alcohol, and uses water/methanol spray in the intake air such that the temperature of the engine is controlled by the amount of water/meth?
Ask HN: What is the most expensive thing you buy on the internet?
I don't think that's true. People can get a lot better at it in a relatively short period of time. I have.
They were used in a little 0.7 liter Daihatsu Copen engine as well if I remember correctly.
It sets Err. Which is essentially how SH, C and Go work too.

(With the obvious exceptions of longjmp and panic/defer, global vs local var, and Go forcing to assign the error.)

On Error Resume Next isn't great, but calling it much worse than On Error Goto, or much worse than other languages, is a stretch.

My point is only that people complain about it in VB disproportionally often compared to other languages. (Does that mitigate the issue to some extent, if every VB dev is super aware of it?)
I didn't say they were doing it well, but that does seem to be the strategy.
Almost anyone on this website could answer better than me for this, was always weak in math, but I believe they differ by a constant factor for a sine, but for a more complex waveform they will not (well, the amount they vary by would be different for each waveform).
It is sad, because (optimistically) COVID-19 is comparable in impact to, e.g. measles. We ran a massive worldwide campaign to eliminate measles in the 20th century, and largely succeeded.

Now, I've heard older people optimistically say, "COVID-19 isn't such a big deal, it's just like measles coming back, like when I was a kid". But to me, this is a sad signal of societal decline. We can't go to the moon anymore, we can't build big infrastructure anymore, and now apparently we can't even hold on to the public health gains we made 40 years ago.
Right. I'm pretty sure they were mass market in Europe well before that camry though.
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The UK is starting from the assumption that the majority of the population will get infected, no matter what precautions are taken, so it's better to manage how we get there starting now rather than delaying the inevitable (quarantines will have to end at some point, after which re-infection of the population seems likely anyway).
I guess I should have expanded more.

DVCS is in direct opposition of workflows that include binary files(yes I'm aware that git lfs has locking, it's also centrally orchestrated) because you can't merge almost every binary format.

We were using P4 ~15 years ago for these workflows and rather than understanding what made them work people are just rediscovering the same problems that have already been solved.

My guess is that we'll next see a solution that dynamically caches most downloaded files in a geographic friendly way, heck we may even call it "P4Proxy".

I've seen so much FUD around how git is the "one true workflow" because other solutions "don't scale" when they don't understand the constraints that certain workflows impose. Git/DVCS is great for a lot of things but sometimes you should use the right tool for the job rather than hack something together.

[Edit]
These reasons are exactly why you see Unreal supporting P4/SVN out of the box[1] and no mention of git.

[1] https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/UI/SourceControl/...
The engine does not run as a 2 stroke below 3k, the article says it theoretically could but they haven’t tested that.

Also, 8,500 RPM isn’t ‘especially high revs’ these days...

And finally, it still produces 500HP on pump gas - even that is outrageously more than any other 3cyl engine available.
That's for a different situation, though. The smoke particulates are very small and are omnipresent, so a mask definitely helps. Coronavirus, by contrast, is only airborne for a short while, so unless you're close to someone who's infected you're not going to be breathing it in anyway. That's why they're saying the masks have limited effectiveness outside.
apparently, some other parts of the world are quite interested in USA COVID-19 outbreak, too

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E5%86%A0%E7%8A%B6%E7%97%8...

(note the link to a Facebook page at the top)
I think part of this is normal coping humor.

A young person can feel conflicted between feelings of (a) relief that they are not in an endangered demographic, and (b) anxiety for people who are endangered and remaining self concern as they do not truly feel safe.

Oversimplifying the situation with humor (only older people need to worry, I am not old) temporarily releases some anxiety.

Dark humor does not necessarily reflect dark motives or values.

Taken too far it can become callous denial, also likely as a anxiety numbing strategy.

But most people just need a break from worry in a way that doesn’t harm anyone.
> No, you're being intellectually dishonest.

Asking for evidence that supports a hefty claim was never, at any point in time or space, dishonesty. It's in fact the basis for the scientific method, and the basis for laws against libel and slander.

Throwing personal attacks like yours, however, particularly while intentionally turning a blind eye to the lack of substance or support of a few claims based on a conspiracy theory, speaks volumes about you.
Yes, but (especially when Cu and Al are pricy) being able to use a thinner gauge can be a big benefit.
I wish you luck with this, and more importantly, hope that it inspires many people to start building similar projects.

I know virtually nothing about voice recognition, but my spidey sense tells me that it should be possible with the hardware you specify.

A Commodore 64 with a Covox VoiceMaster could recognize voice commands and trigger X-10 switches around a house. (Usually. My setup had about a 70% success rate, but pretty good for the time!) Surely a 16 core, 128GB RAM machine should be able to do far more.