skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. NoiseTorch also has VAD (Voice Activity Detection). RNNoise also returns the probability of a sound sample being voice, I use that to clamp the microphone completely if its < the configured probability.

This works really well for situations like Discord or Teamspeak where you're usually not constantly talking, but doing things that can still set off "normal" voice activation. RNNoise's model often knows it's not voice, but cannot denoise it completely.
>South Korea

Wow you Sir are the blindest of the blinds...really South Korea and Japan???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_South_Korea

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190501000216

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi
Have you ever accepted a signing bonus? Did it have a requirement to be paid back if you quit before a certain date? If these bonuses have no requirement that the recipient "not quit before XYZ date", then I agree they're improper. I strongly suspect they have such a requirement.

If you interview with us for 4 hours and get a job offer with a $12K signing bonus and a requirement that it's paid back pro-rated if you leave within 12 months, are you being paid that $12K for the 4 hours of interviewing, out of the goodness of our heart, or $1K/month for each of the next 12 months of work?
If we're just talking about liquidating a company and distributing its assets to creditors, that's a pretty normal, mundane, boring job that's handled capably by your garden-variety team of lawyers and accountants, who will work for normal salaries in their fields to do that job. Overpaid executives and retention bonuses are not required in the least.
Well done - congrats on shipping! Just be aware Landr is a pretty established audio mastering platform. Not that I'm trying to convince you to 'rebrand' (although certainly easier earlier rather than later) - but picking something where you don't compete on a name will make it far easier for you to 'win' in organic searches and if you ever buy ads (I see Landr already bid on their own name).

Good luck with it all!
It's core business to every politician so you can leave Irish out.
https://isbgpsafeyet.com/

Half of the internet
> I don’t even know what they said is true.

We can reasonably assume that the postmortem is truthful. Since they’re a publicly traded company, lying about this incident would be a quick way to turn an embarrassment into a felony.
That's not a "retention package". That just paying regular people a normal salary in the mundane work of winding down a company.
I think we all know MMT is plain stupid. Some, mostly socialists, like to pretend they believe MMT could work but I am 99 percent certain they would never bet their own possessions on it. They simply want to destroy capitalism.

Something for the HN jokers who like to report about "successful" BNI trials done in various cities.

> Does MMT apply to all levels of government?

> No. MMT only applies to the national government level, because that's the level of government with the power to issue the sovereign currency.

Great. MMT fans, please spare us such news.
While at the same time this is the real headline “U.S ranked first as country most desired to immigrate to among all countries”.

Conversely:
“Highly paid tech workers in the US believe Marxism will do wonders for the average person”
Cryptocurrency
Hi,cryptocurrency is going to dissapear or must be the money of future?
How does instant.io work? I just "download" from magnet, and the app hangs in there for ages[0].

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/8hdoVEX.png
That requires an actual functional government.

This is never happening with Trump.
While on the subject of RegEx, I'll just recommend this website. It's great for practicing RegEx and interactively seeing what changes to your expression are doing and why:

https://regex101.com/
Well, I certainly can think of more worker-friendly nations. Isn't Japan known for its toxic work culture?
American Crime and the Baltimore Model. American cities making same mistakes
Why should it matter that much whether people search for "app" or "software"? There are different types of programs. There are big desktop programs. There are useful mobile device programs of all sizes and shapes. There are games that run on various devices.

The market shows that people like free stuff and cheap little programs ('exercise workout timer on your iphone') but will pay for a zillion features (AutoCAD, Lightroom, Tableau, the AWS ecosystem are examples).

Even the variants of Unix tools with a lot of features seem to have won in the marketplace of ideas.
That was a short answer, of course it could be refined :).

This part of Steve definition is for me the most fundamental: "The goal of your early business model can be revenue, OR profits, or users, OR click-throughs – whatever you and your investors have agreed upon".

When bootstrapping you cannot afford to have a business model that can generate anything else than revenue. Except if you optimize for time while having another full-time job for example.

I was not at all implying that you can't do anything meaningful if you don't raise money. But again it depends what you mean by meaningful.

If by meaningful you mean developing a product / idea that will completely disrupt an industry or the way people live (think Tesla, AirBnB, Apple & co), I'd argue that 99% of the time, people with that ambition will use the VC way.

If by meaningful you mean building a strong business, generating millions of $ and creating hundreds of jobs (think BaseCamp, MailChimp, ConvertKit), I agree that raising money is not mandatory.

But I stand by my point, if you want to change the world, you should probably aim for the VC road.
What a SCAM - - arrest this guy immediately.
> The answer to that problem was already solved then: plant a billion trees or something to that degree and there will be no excess carbon.

I’m glad we agree there is a problem. Although a mere “billion” trees is well short of the scale of the solution.

Solving CO2 with carbon offsetting is part of the general model of “carbon credits“ and “carbon trading”, which can only work with a government-and-trade-agreement-mandated minimum carbon price.

That’s fine by me. Anything is, so long as it works and works “soon-ish” rather than “eventually”.

I am optimistic about the technology, I am pessimistic about the politics.

> Has IQ been going down due to that? Is that theoretical?

It is directly measurable in situations where CO2 is higher than wilderness levels. The study I’ve seen had three specific tested CO2 concentrations, which were roughly comparable to various modern-life scenarios such as city center offices or wearing full-face motorcycle helmets.

> Seems like improper breathing is a larger issue, and people in cities with worst local air have higher IQs than those in rural areas. Seems at best a non factor.

The CO2 level inside cities are indeed higher. As are the CO2 level inside sealed offices inside a city. These higher levels have a demonstrable, repeatably testable, negative impact on reasoning skills.

I have seen no prior claim of correlation between location and IQ, however I have seen a claim that city dwellers walk faster which turned out to be because cities attract young, skilled, ambitious people. Therefore, you would need to show causation not just correlation — especially as there are repeated demonstrations that CO2 impairs cognitive function, and that’s hardly the only pollutant one should expect to be more common in a city.

Note that burning all the known carbon fuel reserves would raise CO2 levels in the wilderness to higher levels than currently found in city center offices whose windows have been closed all week.

Also note that resource consumption has historically been exponential, so this is a larger problem going forward than you might expect looking backwards.
> As to why this is allowed, I think it's seen as a private transaction between well-informed and consenting parties, so there needs to be a compelling reason for legislation and regulation.

I mean, it's not allowed. Part of what we're talking about here is that companies are getting around laws against retention bonuses during bankruptcy by granting those bonuses a week before filing the bankruptcy papers. Society has clearly decided that we don't think this behavior should be legal, but it's hard to close all the loopholes.
Honestly when it comes to international cultureral sensitivity, I don't feel the hacker news crowd is exactly the most woke. I quite often see statements like these that are completely oblivious to the actual reality in other countries
The median death rate is 80: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/new-da...

At best it saved a few people who would have died in a couple of years.
ABSOLUTELY.
I get it, but anything with the phrase "new and improved" always strikes a nerve with me. In all honesty I hope other companies learn from this, and put in the effort to bolster their defenses-in-depth, especially at a CSE-level. I have witnessed many a times, how much power they are given, and how easily it could be exploited by just a bit of coercion.
> I will use this as an ugly reminder that it's better to assume that any DMs could be public at any moment.

Good start, but you need to go much further. You should consider anything on an Internet-connected device could be public at any moment. As we are reminded weekly, there is no such thing as computer security in 2020.
> Which $1 test currently in production would this be?

It's not about what's "currently in production." It's about what should be a strategic goal to produce the bigger number of tests and use them frequently.

1) The current arguments against the speed tests is that they are not "sensitive" enough. But if one's goal is to do day to day testing and isolating from some environment those that can spread, there's no necessity to detect the RNA leftovers detected by the "sensitive" tests. Rather, the goal is to detect those that are the "powerful spreaders" who in fact have way more instances of virus present in their samples at the moment they are tested. Apparently even the "less sensitive" tests are in fact sensitive enough to catch these who produce a lot of virus. Those who produce a lot of virus have many orders of magnitude more virus RNA present in their samples than those who are in the phase of infection where they aren't so dangerously infective.

Once one accepts that the "ultimate sensitivity" is not necessary, much cheaper tests than those currently used are possible.

2) Even if a single test is still e.g. 20 USD, just stating the goal of having very frequent and regular tests for the sole purpose of protecting a big group of people allows for "pooling" the tests, e.g. testing 20 people together using just one test.

Running the numbers for a university of 1000 people:

1000 / 20 = 50 means only 50 tests per day allow for testing for protection of all 1000 people. Once one batch of 20 is positive, which should not happen every day, additional 20 tests allow for recognizing the one who is the actual carrier. Again, as those that are "dangerous" have many orders of magnitude more virus in the samples, pooling of 20 samples together should be still keep the result detectable enough.

3) Moreover, the test should be less complicated as the one used now: the idea is to test the spit, not to swab the deeps inside of the head.

4) Expensive and slow tests are simply not giving us the possibility to do these "detect early and often" strategies. The really sensitive PCR tests are indeed expensive and aren't as fast as the less expensive can be.

How can the cheap test be made? For example, by designing them to be used the same way the diabetics test their blood sugar levels:

https://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/blood-glucose-monitorin...

Or even the way the pregnancy tests work:

https://www.123rf.com/photo_107386863_positive-pregnancy-tes...

In short, just new test strips.

Moreover, there are already companies that did some development of such kinds of tests.

It could be done, but it depends on the goals being set.

China successfully used pooling to test the population of 11 million:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-29/how-china...
Yeah, I can understand why they wouldn't want to say much as something like your DMs were accessed will lead to a lot of bad press; but they can't really keep hiding behind that. The less they say, the more the people who are privacy/security conscious will doubt their product.

I don't know how people use DMs on Twitter but if they are anywhere close to the general usage of Signal/WhatsApp/iMessage/Messenger etc. It is incredibly bad for them and something which can kill the platform unless they rethink that completely considering they don't even have E2E.
Microsoft does that too. It's infuriating.
They didn’t “build” new proteins, they swapped them between viruses. And their published research doesn’t imply that these things could be done, it is transparent evidence that they did it already.
So in other words, you choose to disregard all of this evidence.
Clearly the original poster was being sarcastic, in reference to those places being ranked as better for workers' rights in spite of being terrible places to work by most accounts.
I have seen HN comments saying madison seating refurbish using cheap non-genuine parts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22553667

What's the verdict?
That is a good point.

I looked at GitHub: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/2

And that matches with survey. How that can be reconciled? What are the biases here?
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Here's an interesting presentation on Overwatch's ECS system, though he doesn't go into great detail in terms of multithreading, he points out how the design makes it easy to identify what parts of the system can be safely run in parallel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aieHjyNvw
Well perhaps but I tend to focus on the local
https://int10h.org/blog/2018/05/flexi-ibm-vga-scalable-truet... ? :)
(Edit: not a bitmap font, but to make it scalable to arbitrary sizes it pretty much has to be an outlined .ttf).
>> U.S ranked first as country most desired to immigrate to among all countries”

This is because US has very good marketing and most of the numbers are deceptive. I think if you ask typical US immigrants how the reality corresponds with their prior expectations, I think the theme will be disappointment.

Huge US salaries sound very attractive to people from other countries, but I think that when they actually arrive on the ground and they realize how high the costs of living are (especially rents), and they realize that they have almost 0 negotiating power due to visa requirements, the salaries don't look so good anymore.

The same can be said about big cities in any developed country. People leave small towns in droves to live in big cities with big salaries but it's only when they arrive there physically that they understand how terrible a deal it actually is. A person who lives in a small or medium-sized town is able to buy multiple houses with land on a small salary and even rent them out to others for profit. In big cities, a typical highly paid worker can barely afford a single shoebox-sized apartment for themselves.

I've worked as a software developer all over the world (Australia, Russia, The Netherlands, UK, Germany) and I worked remotely for a US company for 1 year and have spoken with hundreds of people about this so I should have a pretty good idea of how it works.
I wonder if its the algorithm degrading his voice or if the input sound is already degraded. Is it possible a leaf blower or a hammer would cause enough "noise" to make it so our ears couldnt hear his voice clearly as well? Then when you subtract out the portion of the sound attributed to the leafblower, youre hearing the parts of his voice that werent being jumbled by the leaf blower?
The article referenced in your article about that is from 1983. [1] I don't think fibre optics technology was that established at the time. Helmut Kohl's chancellorship was from 1982-1998. During that time, after the German reunion there were large scale investments into an upgrade of the Eastern German infrastructure including fibre glass deployment in the new German Länder. Therefore for a long time this area had some of the most modern telecommunication infrastructure world-wide - and for that matter probably also highway infrastructure.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14018341.html
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He was clearly joking, but Japan’s suicide rates have dropped. Meanwhile countless Americans are dropping out of life, overdosing on drugs, and their deaths are counted as a separate statistic. There were about 46,000 suicides in America in 2016 and 70,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017.[1] Looking at rates of unemployment, depression, and other problems, I doubt the overwhelming majority of those are completely accidental. If someone were to close their eyes and slam the gas pedal and accept whatever happens, we’d rule that a suicide, but we try saying drug overdoses are just accidents. It’s time to take it seriously and recognize that something in life is driving people to accept the risks of dangerous drugs. Including them in the statistic would be enough to push the American suicide rate to about double Japan’s.

But to focus on the actual topic, most of the problem in Japan is social pressure. Workers have actual legal rights. Employers are required to offer vacation time and workers can’t be fired without good reason. It’s actually incredibly difficult to fire someone.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/prescription-drug-overdo...
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The comment you're replying to was being snarky about Japan and South Korea.
>I think if you ask typical US immigrants how the reality corresponds with their prior expectations, I think the theme will be disappointment.

Do you have any numbers on what percentage return home?
This was to make it easy. Does email login work for you?
it seems more likely the original bribe/shady business failed, and now they've hired him for his internal connections to help with future shady deals
> Conversely: “Highly paid tech workers in the US believe Marxism will do wonders for the average person”

People equating things like workers rights or even modest social safety nets with Marxism is incidentally probably doing more to "promote" Marxism than anything else.
Reminder, the "tech advantage" that Anthony Levandowski wanted was a complete lack of restraints and safety protocols, an attitude that would later get a pedestrian killed through Uber's self-driving project.

> The car went onto a freeway, where it travelled past an on-ramp. According to people with knowledge of events that day, the Prius accidentally boxed in another vehicle, a Camry. A human driver could easily have handled the situation by slowing down and letting the Camry merge into traffic, but Google’s software wasn’t prepared for this scenario. The cars continued speeding down the freeway side by side. The Camry’s driver jerked his car onto the right shoulder. Then, apparently trying to avoid a guardrail, he veered to the left; the Camry pinwheeled across the freeway and into the median. Levandowski, who was acting as the safety driver, swerved hard to avoid colliding with the Camry, causing Taylor to injure his spine so severely that he eventually required multiple surgeries.

> The Prius regained control and turned a corner on the freeway, leaving the Camry behind. Levandowski and Taylor didn’t know how badly damaged the Camry was. They didn’t go back to check on the other driver or to see if anyone else had been hurt. Neither they nor other Google executives made inquiries with the authorities. The police were not informed that a self-driving algorithm had contributed to the accident.

> Levandowski, rather than being cowed by the incident, later defended it as an invaluable source of data, an opportunity to learn how to avoid similar mistakes. He sent colleagues an e-mail with video of the near-collision. ... He remained in his leadership role and continued taking cars on non-official routes.

From https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...
> Because nobody can be in the same place at the same time (strictly speaking)

I don't know that we can say this. We each look at the world through a particular perspective, but there's no necessity forcing us to say that we're the only one looking at the world through that perspective. I don't even think there's a necessity forcing us to identify with whoever was looking at the world from that perspective a moment ago, because memory is part of the body. We could be an infinite number of consciousnesses superimposed upon each other, blinking in and out in an instant. Consciousness could be a quality of every point in existence, but it only sees itself as a consciousness during the instant that stationary point is being passed through by a moving human body.

A current point-of-view doesn't require a lot of things you'd expect out of individuality. Not that I necessarily think that this must be how everything works, but if it isn't required in order to explain the subjective experience of self, why not use Occam's Razor?
I wasn’t referring to tech workers. I’m referring to the bottom half of the world.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I will comeback to pricing if there is enough traction. My current goal is to reach as many website users as possible and make performance monitoring available for everyone.
Not joking - I've seen this happening in different companies:

A team is poorly managed and becomes unproductive.

Some scrum taskmaster is dropped to "improve efficiency" and wastes everybody's time micromanaging every engineer.

It adds a good 20% overhead on the whole team while also "focusing" the team on urgent work and dropping any experiment, exploration and learning.

Good engineers leave.
Unfortunately, peer review is roughly as good as a die roll these days. I've submitted many scientific publications. I think only one was seriously read by reviewers. Others -- both accepted and rejected -- had comments which demonstrated the reviewers hadn't read it. One paper -- accepted -- it was clear reviewers didn't even give a cursory skim (ACM venue too).

NIPS found peer review to be no better than chance, and my experience is the same.
Interestingly it's also ranked one of the highest for average wages: https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/average-wages.htm .
I owe no loyalties to any company.

I actually liked the company I just left. I liked the people and thought that the people in management up to and including management were all good people. I am usually far more cynical.

Post Covid, they decided to give everyone a pay cut instead of laying off people. This was morally the right thing to do in my opinion. It is a small company and I didn’t feel we had any dead weight.

I knew that in my position, the company would struggle a little bit. But what was I suppose to do? Stay out of loyalty or accept an offer that was a 60% increase in total comp at a more stable company?
This might be useful to use along side with DeepSpeech (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech), which doesn't work very well in noisy environments.
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h/t George Church https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1284462164217077760