skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VS Code is open source; you're SUPPOSED to rip it off. I'm not sure what your expectations are.

Eclipse is also open source and has been ripped off and repackaged into dozens if not hundreds of specialized IDE's. That's what open source is about.
The (Terrifyingly Badly Designed) Cyborg of the 1960s
I jotted down some thoughts about this very thing last year. Here's the part that argues that it could work out to be fairly robust despite this apparent weakness:

> Not as trivially compromised as it sounds like it would be; could be faked with (inevitably short-lived) edits, but temporality can't be faked. If a system were rolled out tomorrow, nothing that happens after rollout [...] would alter the fact that for the last N years, Wikipedia has understood that the website for Facebook is facebook.com. Newly created, low-traffic articles and short-lived edits would fail the trust threshold. After rollout, there would be increased attention to make sure that longstanding edits getting in that misrepresent the link between domain and identity [can never reach maturity]. Would-be attackers would be discouraged to the point of not even trying.

https://www.colbyrussell.com/2019/05/15/may-integration.html...
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But then he would be “profiting off a crisis” and that makes him a horrible person.
The tradeoffs you mention are obvious right? I'm just sort of downplaying the huge bragging Scarface was doing when he mentioned he did some cloud formation and "infrastructure as code" because it's really not that impressive.

It's obvious that the logical consequence of using Turing complete languages for devops introduce a lot of complexity into infrastructure and can introduce configuration that executes continuously as well. Bugs that only existed in the application layer now creep into infrastructure. Infinite recursion can now be spinning up infinite instances.

That being said the devops thing was a side detail and that's besides the point. The point is that the role 'software architect' is useless.
Same here! I remember I found it such a pain that the embedded toolchains were mostly exclusively for Windows. I dabbled around with cloud9 IDE for a bit, but it wouldn't fit my workflow.

Nowadays the WSL basically made Windows my all-in-one development environment. My stack is WSL, docker and Jetbrains IDEs (but the latter is just a matter of personal taste). I haven't touched my Linux desktop in over a year.

Personally, for my workflow, I no longer see a benefit in running a cloud IDE. But maybe that for junior or aspiring devs a cloud IDE will make it much more easy to get started.
That extension is proprietary.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22789605
I'm not in the position to make such statements, but there is quite a number of medical professionals, who say exactly this: massive lockdowns of general population aren't necessary.

As for me, I personally believe that the medicine is worse than the disease in this case. We can be quite certain at this point that there will be lots of casualties from the economical disruption, and whether the unconstrained virus could have caused more suffering is a question to be answered.
Yup. Copying my post from reddit:

Seems like the title should really be criticisms of STT groups in the industry, work from academic groups is ignored.

The original article was kind of silly anyways, it was all engineering work, very little research. Engineering work is important, but you're not going to get an image net moment in ASR by twiddling with hyperparameters or reducing training time. Also a bizarre decision to pick deepspeech as a framework, of course your models will take forever to train and won't even be that good in the end. It's end-to-end and hasn't been SOTA for a while.

> It is hard to include the original Deep Speech paper in this list, mainly because of how many different things they tried, popularized, and pioneered.

Had to laugh at this. What exactly did they "popularize and pioneer" other than the practice of training and reporting results on very large private datasets? [This, among others, was a much more important end-to-end paper I think.](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.5778.pdf)

There are some good points about using private datasets and overfitting on a read-speech dataset, and using very large models etc. but I really wish they would have used their data to train a kaldi system. I can guess why they didn't, they have no background in speech and found it too hard to use. Still disappointing.

Anyways, I would argue the reason that a "imagenet moment" hasn't arrived for ASR is that vision is universal, but speech splits into different languages, making it much harder to build a single model that everyone else can use as a seed model. I believe multilingual models are the future.
> RPKI is just crypto nerds trying to math their way in to a human and financial problem.

This is an interesting perspective. Do you have the same opinion of certificate authorities?
They aren't being rude, just increasing the sample size and reporting back. Perhaps we're witnessing SEO for different regions, regulations, and aggregate history of the two.
That sounds exactly like what my service does!

https://kosmi.io
How to Choose the Right Metric for Evaluating Machine Learning Model
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, Sweden puts into practice what they only speculate about:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/covid-19-and-swedis...
Recommended reading - Antenna Theory Analysis and Design, by Constantine Balanis
How coronavirus is shifting consumer behavior and attitudes in China
Origins of Uranus' oddities explained by Japanese astronomers
Meme? If hearing this uttered bothers you this much, then maybe complaining about poor relevance in Google ads isn't such a good idea.

I'm sorry that I seem to have offended you.
> Although true, using it doesn't add anything to analysis of corona virus specifically.

For many layperson, this is their first experience when it really matters. My mom isn't sitting around thinking about exponential spread when she gets a cold.

> I'd rather talk about the false hope in ventilators

I agree. Something like 80% of the people who end up on a ventilator die. Of course those other 20% are happy one was available, but by the time ventilators are being discussed it's really too late. Prevention is key.

> futility and destruction to our economy by lockdown

Depends. The economy was going to be hit hard regardless. Even if nothing was ever forced closed, the number of people sick and the number of overwhelmed hospitals would have killed the economy. For example, even before there were any official lockdowns in the US, companies I work with were already stopping all travel (late February timeframe).
> To be sure, the congressional relief package includes $350 billion in help for small businesses, but the program is complex, limited in scope and only a fraction of eligible businesses are likely to use it.

That is absolutely untrue. The payroll protection loans cover 2.5 times average monthly salaries. It is easy to apply and virtually every company under 500 employees WILL eventually apply. I applied on Friday and I know many many others who did the same.

And that isn’t even the only relief that was provided. There are also disaster loans available that go up to $200k before requiring owners to liquidate.

The normal loan requirements have been completely thrown out the window.

But there is also a perverse incentive going on right now because of the expansion of unemployment. We have already had one employee quit to take an unemployment raise. The Senators who raised concerns about this were right. Unemployment payouts should have been capped at whatever the previous income was.

And there is a perverse incentive from the business side, too. The law doesn’t require no layoffs so some businesses are laying off employees and hiring more talented people at depressed rates. They only have to have the same number of employees not the same employees.
Are you still following your normal daily schedule (eg. wake up the same time, dress up for work, pretend like go to work, etc) or you've set up a new one for this situation?
Rethinking Free Product Strategy in the Age of Pandemic
How to Get a Personal Loan Without a Job
Open-source giant Red Hat has a new CEO
> why would people laugh at someone learning C?

I suppose because of the perception that many programmers already know C. Which is true, but only some fraction know it well, which is far more important in C than in most modern languages.
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> "They have a tendency to show you ads for exactly the thing you don't need anymore because you already found it. I don't think AI is in any danger of taking over the world just yet."

There's an eschatological trait to targeted advertising, as it seems to be all about past sins. So I'm not too sure about your evaluation and AI's own claims…
I edited my first video this weekend after installing kdenlive and watching a couple of tutorials on youtube.

Learning even the simplest things in another area can be very empowering and rewarding.

https://kdenlive.org

Super slow intro to the tool itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIdOlnpRzQ

Simple but effective techniques:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_xMXzr2XY
The zlib1g name has something to do with the libc5 to libc6 transition that affected all of Debian back circa the year 2000 I think.

The libssl-dev thing is because (usually) you can only have the headers installed for a single version of a library. So you get libssl-dev. But you can have multiple binary versions installed, to support other packages that may have been compiled with older versions of the library with incompatible ABIs & that haven’t been recompiled or updated to the latest version yet.

So you have a -dev package that depends on the latest binary package.

Sometimes, you have headers that live in their own versioned directories, so you can compile against older library releases (maybe there’s an API change & not all your packages have been updated to the new API yet). Hence the libssl1.0-dev, which put headers for the old libssl version in a subdirectory in Debian stretch (I think?) so they didn’t interfere with the ones for the new version.
> Ultimately it is we, the people, who are responsible.

What a bizarre position. This distributed approach to the emergency health of nations hasn't worked out well in the current situation.

I can't see how it would suddenly start working better in the future under our current economic system either. Everything is set up under economic pressures such that inefficiencies are ruthlessly exposed and eliminated.

This maybe works out OK for creating new generations of electronic gizmos but it is catastrophically fragile for things like PPE as described in the article.

To avoid something like this in the future, the only options I can see are more government control or rethink how economic systems work.
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Apple is making million face shields per week to help health workers
Let's Doodle with Python
If you are using backlinks, why not just grep for `[civilization]]` or `[[file:civilization.org]`?

I actually have a binding in Emacs to run ripgrep on all files in the current directory, which have a link to the current file. It's very simple, and runs in a split second even with 1000s of files.
Nope. It contains AOSP code (which started the rumor mill that it was Android) but it was not. It also contains some code from FreeBSD, which similarly sparked the rumor that it was FreeBSD, but alas it isn't. I spent a good amount of time in the early Switch days picking apart the operating system.

Here's a good wiki with a ton of information on the kernel/os: https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Main_Page

EDIT: Here's some AOSP usage: https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Nvnflinger_services https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Display_services and apparently some AAC codec code.
WSL doesn't have access to USB device (well, you can make it work more or less, but it's a pain). So the remote extension is great in this case.
I Setup My Vim as Modern Text Editor
The head at Karolinska said that they used Chloroquine becuase everyone else did. They had reports of side-effects that were more severe than expected, so now they stopped using it all together.
Do you think they’ll have the stomach to continue with the plan once their hospitals are overwhelmed? I’m extremely skeptical they won’t eventually have to lock down harder than Denmark
Viruses don't have a metabolism; but some have the building blocks for one
When it comes to search engines: Yes. They are.
Ask HN: What are the best screen sharing/streaming services?
For many years I've made do with standard VNC/RDP for the odd case I need to (graphically) connect to a remote machine. Now everyone is working remotely, the lag in these connections has become unbearable (~30ms at best).

I've recently seen colleagues using Rainway[0]/Parsec[1] to stream their regular workstations. Originally designed for game streaming, they handle 1080p@60hz or better.

What other alternatives are out there? Looking for something that makes scrolling text a non-jittery mess and (ideally) has support for local LAN as well for later on.

[0] https://rainway.com/
[1] https://parsecgaming.com/
This Electron-bashing is getting rather old - it's possible to write crappy code on any platform.

Yes, some Electron apps are resource hogs, but many are not. VS Code is a perfect example of how Electron can enable development of a performant, cross-platform IDE.
I love the idea and have tried to use their service a number of times over the years. I've never been terribly happy with the results.
I'm outside the USA, and read it fine. I'm guessing uBlock Origin just hid all that from me entirely.
I own two strings of those lights because of you and that article. Thanks for the inspiration and entertainment!
Yeah I think the article was off-base there - "withered" isn't a mistranslation at all. I'd probably have gone with "dried-up", but to translate it as "weathered" changes the meaning considerably.
I have and I absolutely do not! It might be worth it if it inspires you to cut back on screen time for a bit, but the book is mostly fluff, anecdotes and ridiculous predictions about the future.
Indeed, at my company I've been working with GraphQL for a while now (about a year and then something) as a frontend developer, and our main way of communication with the backend was writing out a GraphQL file as a draft of how we imagine the API should turn out.

It's nice!
Show HN: Dhole – PHP/JS Cryptography for Humans (and Furries)
> – Det började komma rapporter om misstänkta svårare biverkningar än vi först trodde. Vi kan inte utesluta svåra biverkningar, framförallt från hjärtat, och det är ett svårdoserat läkemedel. Dessutom har vi inga starka bevis på att klorokin har effekt vid covid-19.

"There started coming reports about suspicious serious side-effects than we first thought. We can't conclude it doesn't have strong side-effects, particularly from the heart, and the drug is hard to dosage correct. Also, we don't have any strong evidence that Chloroquine has an effect with [SIC] covid-19"

Reporter asks: "Har ni haft fall med svåra biverkningar?" "Have you had cases with strong side-effects?"

Answer: "– Inte som jag känner till i Göteborg, men det finns rapporterat misstänkta fall från andra kliniker." "Not as far as I know in Gothenburg, but there is reports of suspicious cases from other clinics".

> Alla sjukhus i Västra Götalandsregionen följer Sahlgrenskas exempel. Men de är än så länge ganska ensamma. På de stora sjukhusen i Stockholm ges fortfarande klorokin.

"All hospitals in swedish region follows Sahlgrensk's example. But they are currently pretty alone. They still give patients Chloroquine in the big hospitals in Stockholm"

Let me know with a reply if you want other parts translated, bit busy but can at least provide this for now.
I'll reluctantly repeat the below from another post of mine on this thread:

There are two vulnerabilities in particular that can grant access to videos to anyone. One is that Zoom video chat IDs are short enough and low enough entropy to be guessable so it's possible to crash meetings. Also saved videos have a standard naming scheme that makes their file names guessable and therefore accessible publicly, as anyone who knows the file name can access any saved video.

Both of these are deliberate choices. They made meeting IDs short and memorable, which makes them guessable. They also wanted saved videos to have meaningful names derived from meeting and user metadata, but again that means they are guessable, and easy to access without annoying security controls.
Gig Workers Struggle to Get Financial Help During Pandemic
... which is only part of the tale. Some of the rest involves the fact that "rxvt-unicode-256color" is too many characters for the termcap/terminfo databases on some operating systems.
What a surprise.... a crackpot theory by a less than reputable MD, tested on less than 100 people overall with no control and no double blind... I really wonder how other hospitals could have fallen for it. It’s the epitome of bad science. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22727359 for all the drama around Dr Raoult.
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They do, but the whole-sentence fraction is probably in the majority. Which leads to degraded search results and optimisation in the wrong direction.
State Shutdowns Have Taken at Least a Quarter of U.S. Economy Offline
Most languages deal with that problem by simply taking names as they are, sometimes transliterating to fit the alphabet available. It doesn't matter if I'm speaking dutch or english, my name is unchanged.

The only wide exception to this tends to be country names which mostly seem to get a global and a local name. There's no real reason to do this when using toki-pona.

you could go for constructs like "ma pi suno tewi sewi" which'd translate to "land of the rising sun" or more literally "land of the sun going up" but I fail to see the point. Any toki pona ''native'' would be able to read and pronounce "japan" since all the letters are available in the toki pona alphabet, the pronunciation even matches well enough. If someone doesn't know japan they won't know what "land of the rising sun" refers to and you'd need to reach for more descriptive language in any case.

Disclaimer: my grasp of toki pona grammar is tenuous at best, I'm sure there's better translations for "land of the rising sun".
What do you consider as premium? The switch is a toy for children. So it should be robust, reliable and cheap enough. The switch does serve this very well IMHO.

Additionally, Apple is bigger, selling significant more units of their devices, which are also more expensive, while having a better standing in the industry. Nintendo on the other side was taking a gamble on whether the switch would even sell good enough to survive. So price-calculation for both companies is quite different, with apple having more money to invest in premium than nintendo.

Maybe the rumored switch pro some day will up nintendos premium-game?
I was saying that this is yet another virus strain that causes flu-like illness, i.e. cold with fever, etc. Leave your pedantry for someone else.
I really like the design and the UI of this poker service.

Btw I found a way how to abuse the system when playing against AI in the practice mode. Every round I go "All-In" but after some time AI still can not figure out that I am bluffing. I farmed like 10 000 of free cash in 5 minutes; 200 of cash per round.

Also you can think about adding stats and maybe further developing this to become real cloud poker service.
Protect journalists against the Covid-19 pandemic
Not in order to give credibility to the idea, but I do think it would be easier for a group of conspirators based in the US to pull off secret demolition charges than for them to plant weapons in a foreign country unnoticed.
Chloroquine is an anti-malaria and it's side effects are so severe and common that many people would prefer to run the risk of malaria than take it. Adding these side effects to a Covid-19 patient seems like an extreme measure, given there's little evidence so far that it's beneficial, let alone enough to outweigh these side effects.
It's always about benefits. Incompetence doesn't cost government benefits, so nobody cares. However, if there are benefits to be had by organizing a conspiracy against whomever, you can bet your money that this will be done. Nobody cares for "the greater good" or whatever. It's always about personal benefits.
> The head at Karolinska said that they used Chloroquine becuase everyone else did.

Really troubling if that’s the only metric they go by to decide whether to administer a particular treatment or not!
When the compliance we are talking about is whether or not to communicate clearly to others who you are, and whether or not to respect their directions, are you so sure they are not correlated?
To call the Oxford study "utter rubbish" is foolish.

Your "example" of bad data is the only quoted data in that article and it doesn't even mean anything since the implicit assumption of the Gupta model is that we do not know how many asymptomatic cases of COVID exist (even WIRED concede this point). Testing in Italy is insufficient to tell us this. 1 in 1000 infections requiring hospitalisation could be a realistic number if a high percentage of infections are asymptomatic.

> we just won’t know the true proportion of people who have contracted the disease without showing any symptoms, but it is likely a much lower number than the Oxford study assumes.

Epidemiology is not done by "it is likely much lower than the study assumes" since that is pure guess work without the tests.

What the Oxford study offers is a strong argument that antibody testing is vitally important and nobody is doing it.

As I say this is a very long way from utter rubbish.
>the epidemic doesn't look that dangerous if you're in general good health

I'm not so confident yet. What is still worrying me, is that it is not clear about the importance of the initial dose with respect to the severity of the outcome.

The disease having a quite slow progression, may mean that if you let it spread wildly, suddenly there is a large percentage of the population exposed, and this mean that when people gets contaminated they receive a high inoculum which may bring down even healthy individuals.
There are no decent alternatives to YouTube.
I freely admit that it's somewhat irrational, but I really hate Google, and I really don't like the YouTube ecosystem. But I've been persuaded to embark on a "short math videos" project, and there's no way my own website can host more than the first 10 or 20.

I've been investigating other options, but they're all ... sub-optimal. Vimeo? PeerTube? Nothing has the features that YouTube offers.

If you made a video and wanted to avoid YouTube ... what would you use?
> the total death toll, given the current dynamics, is already going way way worse than the flu

Fully aware of the types that will come out of the woodwork for simply saying this, however: no, it's currently still not on track for even a mild flu year yet alone a bad one.

A bad year for influenza is about 650,000 deaths worldwide, pneumonia deaths are often an aftereffect of the flu and it kills 2.5 million on average each year.

SARS-COV-2 has killed 60,000 in 5 months despite having no vaccine or known medicinal treatment, mainly due to locally overstretched medical resources more than anything else.

It's not even close to being equivalent to a bad flu year yet, and that's ignoring the secondary deaths.
I'm only ignoring the fact that you're more obsessed with Fox News' well-known snarkiness and presentation than with the fact that at the time, considering Coronavirus relatively harmless was not a lie or even uncommon opinion among most media, all along the spectrum.