skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always Narrating: The Making and Unmaking of Umberto Eco
What is this actually for?
I was not able to find the same article online, but the Volume 72 of Make Magazine has a great overview of different non-cloud voice recognition platforms. Here is a preview: https://www.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=38377&i=...
Google has papers on device speech recognition, these are used in the keyboard & for live caption on Pixel devices.
It wasn't working on Firefox, but Google fixed it ~9 months ago. Since then, no problems. (Ubuntu 18 LTS)
Their protocol for clinical labs is a superset of the research protocol. (Clinical labs also have extensive prior experience in this kind of protocol, and many state DPH and other labs are in continuous touch with the CDC through CDC's lab network.)
I wrote my Master's thesis on cryptocurrencies, and had to do some background research on how the monetary system works. I found that Bernard Lietaer's "Money and Sustainability - The Missing Link" was easily approachable and had a lot of good stuff in it. Another of my staples was David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" which has a lot of good and interesting content, but is very very heavy to read.
> You need tools to head these off. And yes they are a pain but so is telling your boss, “we don’t know.”

That is one of the feelings I dislike the most as someone who takes pride in building quality software. It’s important to be honest when you don’t know why something is wrong, but even more important to minimize the number of times it happens. Logging is incredibly beneficial for the latter, and complements metrics + exception-tracking.
I definitely agree with that. I'm totally in support of the idea of limiting quantities, and I do think that would be a rational solution in the face of these current extenuating circumstances.
It gets terribly slow and eats up literal 10s of gigabytes of RAM. Extensions like mitogen can help, though.

https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/ansible_detailed.html
Ah, but I'm already helping them. The biggest reason they're hurting is America has spent almost an entire century using government funds to prevent other countries from becoming communist and to prevent communist countries from being successful. If I can win hearts and minds in America and make us stop doing that, then that solves the underlying problem and not just the symptom.
Apple shuts all stores around the world – except in China
No I hadn't. This was why I asked: I know there's alternatives out there but there's so much noise.

Thanks.
>Kind of odd, being an employee there, I've never heard of eleven of the twelve board members before.

This is the preferred employee experience.

A large employer is usually more comfortable having executives of other corporations being more familiar with board members compared to its own employees.
Mozilla DeepSpeech trained on the Common Voice dataset for English. You can get pretrained models too. They have a nice matrix channel where you can get help, and pretty good documentation. It is also actively developed by several engineers. http://voice.mozilla.org/en/datasets and http://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/
It may be the idea is too early!
New Android Cookie-Stealing Malware Found Hijacking Facebook Accounts
So what will this do to Uber surge pricing?
Getting Covid-19 for young people still more dangerous than BASE jumping
Thanks a lot! That like a great solution, a couple of followup questions:
- So basically an AE spins an env prior to a demo call? or is there a demo env all AEs use?
- How do you guys solve for "demo data"? e.g we want our potential customer to see how the system looks like "live".
- Are you guys happy with it? anything we can learn from past mistakes?

Thanks!
This looks good. We should replicate it!
Expertise = Omniscience
It looks like that the 960 number is predicated upon a start time from "idle", and minimal interactions. The actual slope rate of test completion looks like it's 192/hour. If that throughput can be maintained with more frequent interaction to keep the machine fed, it'd be 4.6k/day.
https://www.dialog.roche.com/content/dam/dialog/owp/apac/Med...

That is, it takes time to "stuff the pipeline".

The cited number -- 4128 -- appears to be 21.5 * 192.
Also, this article by Bank of England is a very good introduction on how money is created in practice nowadays

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
And he understands the word zoonotic, which I didn't before reading the article. Since no one ever reads the article, it means transmission of diseases from animals to humans. Non-human animals.
Thats awesome! I really like this tool, even though its pretty glitchy and buggy for now. I'll use this a lot! Great idea pulling from online isometric sources and making the assets easily composible. If I were to do something manually it would be hours of me dealing with clogged download folders trying to dig through to the right verison.
Group Testing
Unfortunately we don't have the data, only the evidence of whether their capacity is meeting demand. Right now it's not - but we will see in a week or two. If it continues to not do so, it seems rational to believe that they have reached the level of capacity where it would become more prohibitively expensive to increase supply. And at that point, the industry is going to have to face either severe short term shortages or potential long term financial trouble for short term gain.

I hope it doesn't reach that.
I read The Coming Plague in the 90s: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balan...

These aren't hard predictions.
It'd likely be good business for Costco to keep prices where they have been and limit each customer to a certain amount.

(I expect the goodwill would outweigh the costs and any "foregone" profit)

Not imposed by the government, not socialism, just good business.
Try to uncover more angles to the "referral". Is it illegal because they receive compensation/cut? If yes, build it around "being the hero" for people not directly affected but have huge stake or motivation to help addicts (like some in this thread) - try and reach people on the edge of communities most affected by it - for example, distribute a "qualifier questionnaire" physical leaflet which gives people free consultation and 30% off list price on treatment. Your "Withdrawal Heroes" would get a pack and they could drop some off in relevant places in their communities or give to people directly - they probably know what places to hit better than you could identify effectively. The value for them is helping others; this might be your better bet anyways compared to referral $$ incentive anyways. Next step is to use people in recovery who used your system for similar little bets and more - giving talks, spreading the word in communities as part-time employees for example (some sort of "ambassadorship" for the lack of a better word).
ps. I'm in Europe and only following opioid news from the distance, just want to add keep it up and good luck with the project, more stuff like this is needed
happy to brainstorm or invest some more time in coming up with ideas pro bono just let me know
Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City
I don't hate Sweden, I actually quite like the place. I just don't like the way the "government" handles things at the moment, including their handling - or rather lack of handling - of the oncoming epidemic. Your statement on Swedish health care being "very accessible and free" is easily countered by the fact that the waiting times are notoriously long and getting longer while the amount of provincial tax money spent per capita is more than double the amount spent by neighbouring Finland which manages to avoid some of these problems. Those long waiting times have led to a large increase in the number of people who take out private health insurance to make sure they can actually get the treatment they need instead of having to wait for half a year or more. This means those people pay twice for health care, one time through their provincial taxes, another time through their health insurance. This has been compounded by the "government" putting an extra tax on private health insurance because they deem it unfair that those who have private insurance don't have to wait as long for treatment as those who lack such insurance.

I am all for single-payer health insurance, either through the state or through a private-public system like the Netherlands uses. I just don't see how the current Swedish system can be seen as a good solution given the high costs and low productivity it is characterised by.

Those fatality rates you quote are based on the assumption that the reported case incidence is correct which is very likely not the case. Assuming that the number of SARS2-related deaths is correct this number is probably the best way to make an estimate of the actual case incidence in developed countries with a functioning (not overloaded) health care system - this does not go for e.g. Italy where they're now doing reverse triage, i.e. they decide who gets treatment based on a desire to maximize throughput instead of treating those who have the highest need first as is done in a non-overloaded situation.

By the way, I'm not a Swede. I am a Dutchman living in Sweden with a Swedish-French wife and two Dutch-Swedish-French children.
>AI engine management software for Freevalve engines like the TFG. "The system will learn over time the best ways to operate the valves, what's most frugal, what's cleanest… It will eventually start doing things we’ve never thought of," Koenigsegg says. "It'll float in and out of different ways of combusting by itself, eventually in ways not completely understandable to us."

sounds like the blue-collar jobs of the future like car engine mechanic would need a Stanford AI degree.

Camshafts definitely got to go. Like carburetors it has been a solution from pre-electronic age. The variable timing has been a workaround for the last 3 decades, it is kind of a complication on top of the camshaft approach. These days though i don't understand while mainstream car manufacturers wouldn't just go for the fully independent valve approach like that "Freevalve", i.e. each valve is driven by its own solenoid/pneumo/hydro actuator controlled by the computer - such approach looks simpler and cheaper to me (may be because i'm in software :)
Compare this to growing up as a teenager in suburbia. I could not play any sports, despite wanting to very badly. My neighborhood had few kids, spread in housing developments that stretched for miles. I loved basketball but there were no courts anywhere. My parents worked till 5, so I did not have someone to pick me up after school activities. I had zero after school activities my entire life. This was in one of the richest, "best" (that means whitest) schools in NJ. I had a hoop at home and would play with my dad and sister sometimes. That's it. There was literally nothing else. Just coming home after school and locking myself in with my sister. Luckily we had each other. I read, taught myself programming, watched tv, etc. but nothing social. Maybe once a month or even less I could get a ride or my friend could get a ride and we could spend time hanging out. Otherwise it was just loneliness outside of school. I never got the opportunity to learn how to socialize with peers outside of school. I already had social anxiety. Almost suicidal. So of course, when I had that first drink and the first weed smoke, it was heaven. I thought drugs were the only way people socialized. I had finally discovered something that made it bearable. Addiction was inevitable. Of course, it was. Now, twenty years later I still have major issues socializing, still dealing with addiction, still dealing with anxiety, still isolating. Suburban USA was hell. I'm just lucky I don't enjoy opiates like my sister. I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy.

Is it really a surprise that caring about children, giving them a chance to learn and enjoy activities together makes them not want to get high? That's what I'm doing now with my life, but it's hard to break old habits. I wish I could have played sports in my teens. I wish I could have done many things and learned to socialize and deal with feelings. I will never raise children in such a horrific environment as the US. I'd rather be childless.
Capitalism is the best we've got. It has no responsibility in this unless you consider authoritarianism a better outcome. This hysteria and panic is way overblown. We know this is a possible effect of travel and it's still worth it.
Are you searching for a complete solution including NLP and an engine to perform actions? Some of these are already posted, like Home Assistant, and Mycroft.

Sphinx is just for the automatic speech recognition (ASR) part. But there are better solutions for that:

Kaldi (https://kaldi-asr.org/) is probably the most comprehensive ASR solution, which yields very competitive state-of-the-art results.

RASR (https://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/rwth-asr/) is for non-commercial use only but otherwise similar as Kaldi.

If you want to use a simpler ASR system, nowadays end-to-end models perform quite well. There are quite a huge number of projects which support these:

RETURNN (https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn) is non-commercial TF-based. (Disclaimer: I'm one of the main authors.)

Lingvo (https://github.com/tensorflow/lingvo), from Google, TF-based.

ESPnet (https://github.com/espnet/espnet), PyTorch/Chainer.

...
their machine is fascinating but something I learned about with all the talk about tests is this one that scans for 21 illnesses in one test, they had been using it to eliminate most everything else and imply covid19

https://www.biofiredx.com/products/the-filmarray-panels/film...

while covid19 test is critical, and would have had more time to come to market if the president had just accepted WHO kits instead of refusing them for US profit, just a reminder if you have flu-like symptoms and fever regardless of virus strain you should not being going out in public anywhere anyway (but pointless to say, people coughing up lungs in stores, at schools and around my apartment complex)
As someone who isn't hoarding TP, I would much rather be able to buy one package of toilet paper for 50 dollars versus being able to buy zero for 5 dollars. If people don't have access to toilet paper they will become hysterical. Raising prices is the obvious way to fix this. Less people will be willing to buy excess tp rolls if it costs 50 dollars a roll.
Does anybody have a pointer to a schema / animation how this works? Is this a radial motor?
>The idea that the correct solution to this is that supermarkets should be charging the same as the profiteering hoarders

Where did I say they would charge the same as the hoarders? I simply said the prices should respond faster to the supply and demand. Yes that will make prices go up accordingly, and it will also decrease the incentive to hoard and resell.

Prices of goods are already set largely by this model. For you to think that the prices responding faster to supply/demand is insane is to also suggest that all prices set by supply/demand is insane.
How come it has taken many decades for Freevalve to come along? Genuinely curious as it doesn't seem impossible that someone else had thought of it.
If your goal is to prevent hoarding and ensure there's enough for everyone, it's simpler just to limit the number of rolls each customer gets. Fewer corner cases.
Italy wonders where Europe’s solidarity is as coronavirus strains show
Also known as workspace views in P4.

It's interesting to see the wheel reinvented. We used to run a 500gb art sync/200gb code sync with ~2tb back end repo back when I was in gamedev. P4 also has proper locking, it is really the is right tool if you've got large assets that need to be coordinated and versioned.

Only downside of course is that it isn't free.
EngineeringExpalined has a great video[0] on the overall mechanics of the system.

Sadly, I don't expect to see this in regular Ford or Toyotas any time soon. The cost benefit combined design upgrade and tooling change is just not practical.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJXgKY2O4po
I met skepticism on HN when I said that mega-doses of vitamin C were helping with my hay fever symptoms and was literally insulted on YouTube when I advised to keep water in your mouth while cutting onions to avoid crying.

Why would I care that these 2 things are not peer reviewed by some high level scientists ?

I know it won't be a popular opinion here but there's too much emphasis placed on science nowadays. While science is perfect, scientists aren't, they can make mistakes, they can be bought, and more importantly there's not enough budget to prove everything.

So I'm a pragmatist : if the thing makes sense to me and isn't costly or dangerous to try, I try it.

In fact I whish the placebo effect was much more prevalent. Imagine if you could cure everything with a few drops of fresh squeezed lemon juice in warm water ?
Amazon’s full response is at the top of the article, starts with this sentence:

> This is a longstanding Whole Foods Market program from prior to the acquisition.
Absolutely. And i think this pandemic is revealing the extent to which political optimality bis deviating from epidemiologic optimality, and the devastating consequences of that given that our politicians are constrained by politics. This has absolutely revealed a need for structural reform to make what's politically optimal and epidemiologically optimal line up, and considering how complex a challenge that is, that's a conversation to start sooner rather than later.
How that code example a style violation? I am not even sure how it's bad code. In JavaScript that would just return a value without the first index. What code style rule would solve for that in a meaningful way that you are willing to enforce uniformly on all concerns?
Since this was downvoted, I'm sure because it didn't add to the conversation, I'll add some more.

This has been happening for multiple years with Amazon seemingly doing little about it. I've faced it from both sides, selling and buying.

Selling: Counterfeiters were selling our item. We knew this because we were the manufacturer and only seller of the item. If we weren't selling it, it was counterfeit. In order to prove this, Amazon made us buy the counterfeit item from the other seller, and send in images to prove it. So when we did this, the counterfeit sellers caught on at some point and started simply shipping us random crap instead of the fake product. Then we had NO evidence they were selling a counterfeit item - we didn't have the photos to prove it.

Buying: Recently in the market for a bike air pump, I search Amazon and see no less than 50 listings, all having 4.5-5 star reviews, all the same bike pump, all off-brand sounding names, but all identical. It made it impossible to find what I need/want and also made it impossible to know whether or not these bike pumps were really worth anything at all. I didn't buy anything from Amazon, and that experience has made me question all my purchases from Amazon since. So, as mentioned above, I had meant to cancel my Prime membership - this post reminded me to do so.
Pence says European travel ban will extend to U.K. and Ireland
Not the GP, but some proprietary software requires license activation and you only get a certain (small) number of activates/deactivates.
Project Open Air
US Government has audited Microsoft's infrastructure.
This is how I feel, precisely. There are real, human consequences to these price increasing theories. It will be felt by people who are, by a large margin, not the target audience of Hacker News. It'll be felt by people who have to choose between having basic healthcare supplies and paying rent, or eating.

Indeed, at that point I think rationing - either by the companies selling the product, or by the government (as we have done in times of crisis in the past) is in order. Would people be yelling about free markets like this if World War 2 happened today, and there was the kind of rationing we saw in those times? What would have happened to our country if people were so selfish back then?
Sustainable grazing can lead to carbon sequestration — so it’s a better alternative to factory farming — but what really needs to happen is a mass conversion of pasture back to natural forests.

The argument that meat is somehow a better use of land is incorrect however. Most calories are currently grown to feed animals. Typically in mono crops. These are usually drenched in petrochemicals.

Vegan food is currently more of an “edge” product of a food system geared towards animal agriculture. So no, it’s not very sustainable either. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Regenerative farming practices and agroforestry can produce sufficient vegetable crops, including perennial staple crops, to feed the world. It just requires an attitude change.

People get angry when you talk about reducing meat consumption. I get it — I went through a difficult few weeks when I stopped 5 years ago. It was like giving up cigarettes, alcohol, or sugar.

But during WWII when all the good meat was going to the front lines, the government ran a massive campaign to get people to eat liver. People didn’t like liver. But they successfully changed people’s habits. If we were able to do that, I believe we can convince people to eat less meat.

Sources: “The Carbon Farming Solution”, “The Power of Habit.”
Accidentary math symbols. Sometimes there is semantic difference between 𝒎, 𝐦, 𝕞, m which will be lost in plaintext rendition of a formula. Yeah, you'd better be off with TeX for this specific purpose, but that's a valid point for having those font variations.

And it's not a generic modifier because those code points predate the expanse of emoji and all surrounding normalization of modifiers. Language tags are considered a bad idea, for example, so it's not all clear that it's necessary for Unicode to convey semantics as well.
Things are not as simple as one or the other.

The uneven spread of heavy industry creates pockets where cancer rates are higher becausw of environmental factors.

Random variance is responsible at a micro-level but at a macro level the trend still holds true.
As per this reference [1] (that also has a lot of other useful info and links)

> If you think you’ll fret a lot about whether you need to go the hospital, get a pulse oximeter ($20 on Amazon). Readings consistently below 90-94% are pretty bad and mean you should seek immediate treatment.

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-links-spec...
So, imagine how things are going to work out when you have to explain to a VP that you have absolutely no idea why the site was down for 4 hours, but you have now added logging such that when it happens again you might be able to debug the problem...

Log as if your life depended on being able to debug a single occurrence. If this causes a lot of output, you probably need to add more assertions to the code.
So the State is your mom now? Have as much toilet paper as you want, we can make more. Have fun paying stupid prices.
Minecraft’ lets people access the work of censored journalists from anywhere
I was about to respond to you with the same response I made below - but it turns out we're basically having the same conversation twice. I'll refer to our other conversation below instead of repeating myself.
I would think the same if it were the US or Russian government. Why do you think the US invested so much into feeding East Germany? It was to save lives, to regrow an economy, and for PR against the Soviets.

I'm a massive conspiracy theory skeptic and spend an inordinate amount of time trying to debunk them, but this is just how geopolitics work, have always worked, and will likely still work for centuries or millennia to come. Many actions have multiple motives.

Also, I'm just saying it's a possibility. It's just hard to know since it's so hard to separate government and private activities in such a place.