skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a paper from a german university, where they tried to adopt DeepSpeech to german:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336532830_German_En...

The results are, that adopting works good, but as of writing of the paper somemonths ago, the results were not very good yet. So it takes better trained models for other languages. English seems to be quite good.

What surprised me, is that it works offline very fast even on a rasperry pi!

https://www.hackster.io/dmitrywat/offline-speech-recognition...
Except we have clear evidence with all the countries listed above, SK, HK, Singapore, Taiwan that wearing a mask is effective. Even in many cases without social distancing. There are little working from Home in majority of the business in those cities, They have a much higher population density that has a higher chance of being infected with coronavirus.

The mask also protects you from bad actors who are not doing any standard hygiene procedures such as washing your hands.
I don't want to buy new clothes either. Where can I find clothes that will last 10 years. The article didn't help with any specifics.
Their reasoning is that if the only things you can do are China-style lockdown or nothing, then the disease will just resume exponentially growing the second lockdown ends, so it's pointless to do it at all.

No, that is almost entirely wrong.

You can certainly disagree with their position but you should at least present it accurately. Their position is that this is a pandemic (i.e. spread too widely to eradicate this year), we have moved from the contain phase to the delay phase, and their plan is to gradually introduce measures up to full quarantine rather than jumping to lockdowns straight away. For example here are the measures planned in coming weeks:

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-14/elderly-to-be-quarantine...

If they manage to flatten the curve by timing measures, and if there is a second outbreak this winter, it may well save lives. The Chief Scientific Adviser and other experts are not horrified, they came up with the plan and are defending it, so no, ‘experts’ are not horrified, though some disagree (which is fine).

I’d be more worried living in the US right now given the mixture of denial and bluster which has been the response so far.
> all milk in France is shelf-stable until opened

As someone currently in France I thought this was funny: the first thing I show visitors is the "distributeur de lait frais" down the street, which will dispense 1L of raw milk for 1 euro. It tastes amazing.
Yes, obviously.

That doesn’t alter the fact that /this/ Q is worse than all the others to date.
I've wanted a protocol reference site for years, listing different network protocol dumps and examples. In fact, I bought pdumps.com and set up a wiki for it, but then the site got hammered with spam so I shut it down.

I have been thinking about setting up a static site instead, having pull requests as a gating procedure to fight off spam.

If more people here are interested, I'm willing to set it up again. Help doing the basic static webpage setup and reviewing PRs would be appreciated. Please reply in thread if you're interested.
Could you talk more on how learning that not having the tube in would kill you made you understand why all of the medical professionals were offering to remove it?
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I quite enjoy meat of many forms, and am largely indifferent to how that gets to me unless it's unsanitary. That said, I'm all for treating the animals as humanely as possible and optimizing the yield of various animal products until such a time comes that there are better options. I won't pay for it until I have to, but others will, and that's great. Temple Grandin has built a career on designing slaughterhouses for reducing the distress a cow is caused while it's being killed, and anything farmers can do to treat their animals well and produce better tasting beef seems pretty reasonable. Seems to me a lot like the automotive industry, in that electric cars are kind of viable sometimes, but not better or not suitable in a lot of areas just yet.
Working from home is a chance to experience unbridled flow, as a home worker since 96' I would say just do 3 or 4 hours a day for the first 2 weeks and resolve all those personal and home things that are on your mind, clear the runway for some real productivity :) For now the only other tip applies only if you get irritated by distractions learn to be more gracious, I found it was the irritation I brought to the party that broke the flow, not the interruption itself.
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You could have a 2 minute chat remotely
Not OP, but I remember reading about this. The summary was it's too early to establish long term damage. The scarring is present, but its bound to be on patient who recovered a mere few weeks ago.
I want something like this for Facebook!
Not that, no. But usually Microsoft/Windows limits some arbitrary stuff when configuring something else. The report reads a lot like (for at least the Azure section) „if you configure option A, option B will be enabled because option C will be unavailable. Therefore we provide 10 different options of each A, B and C you can combine however you want“.
Most people will not go to the hospital, they'll stay at home and they wont die unless they dont drink water and eat food with poor nutritional value.

That's why I dont understand the crisis communication on the subject. I understand exponential growth, I dont under and the panic about getting sick with a flu like virus.

If it was something causing skin lesions I'd be in panic mode because the victims would be at a higher risk of co-infectious diseases. This is not that. But hey, fuck my civil liberties some more, for that matter fuck my freedom and that of my countrymen. I dont give a fuck anymore.
For me it was obvious what will happen since i came across this article http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/ a few days later. Not exactly how intense and when exactly, but that it WILL spread globally and potentially cause all sorts of disruptions. Now i'm sitting here, trying not to be smug, sipping my greek mountain tea, reading that Spiegelshit and thinking to myself: Oh, really? Just now you are saying that? Good job!

(Not saying anything about baseball bats and how they should be applied, no no no, wouldn't ever do that)
The common hepatitis virus stays in the body forever and may be responsible for countless things we have typically classified as auto immune disorders.

So to say the solution is to get most least at risk people infected without even knowing if those 60000 recovered Chinese are all going to die in 6 months, that's just stupid.
In Python 3, file I/O is is implemented using POSIX read(), write() etc., rather than C stdio.
I mean, isn’t a large part of veganism an ethical stance against killing sentient creatures? It’s hard to see how that wouldn’t involve judging others to some degree.
This doesn't actually hide the information in edge cases.
I've been using Anki for more than a decade, and while SuperMemo-based spaced repetition definitely works for me, I've been frustrated by the implementation itself - UX is far from being good and tons of possible use cases across differrent platforms just aren't possible.

For example, as I'm using Anki mostly for learning words in foreign languages I read in articles/books, I want to remove a friction of adding a word to the deck, ideally making it a single click action. As the very least, I want Anki to add an entry into contextual menu in my iOS/MacOS system, and that's not currently possible.

Another thing – I'm willing to write a better cross-platform UI (using Flutter, for example), without reimplementing the whole codebase. Actually, I tried this once in 2010 while making Anki version for Nokia N900 (Maemo/Linux, using PyQT), and the code was quite a mess and quite hard to port.

Not to mention that I love to recommend apps that work for me, and Anki for iOS costs almost prohibitively high price of ~25$ (for whatever beliefs Anki author has about iOS users), which makes it a no-go for recommendations.

I wish there was a standardised set of protocols/formats for decks/cards and spaced repetition apps.
Check out the Wiley CFA Book suite, they are broad and explain concepts ranging from debt to economics ; https://www.wiley.com/learn/cfashowcase/
Hadn't heard of most of these.

The peoples' names were more recognizable.
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The other interesting factor is how it will impact Gerontocracy which is the norm for most eastern and western governments alike. We see this playing out in in Iran.
My answer is very general and I only have experience taking a lot of online courses via sites like udemy but the key factor that makes any course stand out is practical real life examples. It makes everything super interesting and you learn a lot more quickly.

Also I've seen that a bit of humor does wonders for learning. Recently did an online course called
StatQuest with Josh Starmer(1). I never knew stats / ml could be made this interesting.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/user/joshstarmer
What's the blockchain for? It serves no purpose here.
That's only a hypothesis it seems.
A far better profile in New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/arts/art/profiles/58864/
I grew up in a New England school house that was over 200 years old when I was there 40 years ago. Wood buildings last for generations with basic maintenance. I'd much rather live in one than a concrete slab.
Read the Greeks.
Most people who are labeled lactose intolerant can still drink up to 100ml of milk per day without major problems. People who really cannot drink any amount of milk are allergic to it, but are extremely rare.
The deforestation happens for beef for expensive steaks for Americans and Chinese. Not much to do with eating chicken for example.
One of the guys I know who works for customs. Once we were sitting in family setting a guy started saying well you guys can afford these lavish parties because of bribe income in customs job and his wife was like "those rich men make too much money, if we take a part of it, it doesn't affect much".

But little did she know that big guys in export import business can afford to pay bribes but it over the time results in small guys finding it hard to compete.

The guys who paid bribes usually got the value of goods lowered so ended up effectively paying less import duties compared to the guy who were not asked any bribe because they were too small.
Britain reminds me of the drunk guy who falls down a flight of stairs and then rolls back onto their feet unharmed.
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They didnt say that the most least at risk people should get infected. I interpreted their guidence to be more in line with what you just said "Avoid infection, because we do not yet know if this virus induces long-term immunity, as many other similar viruses do not."
Can we go back in time and kill UNIX?
Bummed I didn't see this so obviously before my 401k lost 25% :(
I imagine the idea is that, by emphasizing how easy it is to change your mind after the tube is inserted, you can more easily persuade the patient to allow you to put the tube in in the first place.
The Vindlausloftet in southern norway is a wooden cabin built in 1170 — granted, this is a massive wood construction and not a wood frame construction.

My feeling when I went to the US was that many houses felt incredibly "flimsy" as if you could just punch your fist through the wall.
That's ignoring intent they expressed to implement very long isolation measures for the elderly. Thier approach might be flawed, but let's debate it based on what has actually been stated.
And even IF the number of infections didn't change and we spread the infections over 2x time rather than 1x, it will literally save lives. Once you have that outcome available with a relatively small effort... why wouldn't you do it?
This isn't exactly the stated goal of the UK, so much as something our government has concluded is the inevitable outcome no matter what they do. The goal is the one you suggest - to limit the load on the healthcare system and the number of people who die as a result.
Assuming your master key/password is strong this system is still secure if one the sites you use leak the generated password. However, if you somehow leak your master key then all your accounts are exposed.

It's weakness mainly is if the machine you use is compromised so are your passwords. However, the same applies to a password manager. Unless you use an offline system to generate these sub-keys.
Because if it wasn't trivial to get rid of that would be a big disincentive to start with it in the first place?
The point is not much about strength (and measured strength according to norms) but rather about durability and strength over time.

With "modern" cement (Portland) it is relatively easy to get high strength at 4 weeks/28 days, while (good ol') pozzolanic cement the reaction/hardening is much slower but over time (and with adequate humidity) it can reach and beat the "better" portland cement.

Almost nothing we build today will be there in 2000 years, but not because of the concrete itself, but because of the reinforcing steel we use (and because of the different use of concrete in much slimmer structures).

Anecdata: in the '80's/'90's I was working in a large tunnel project and we used in tunnels pozzolanic cement (not reinforced) for the lower part of the lining, and it was not easy to get the "right" (according to norms) 28 days strength (250 Kg/cm^2 at the time), but, once the tunnel was finished (roughly 3-5 years laters) and we did further testing of the structures, we found that it reached strength of the order of magnitude of 500-600 Kg/cm^2 whilst the corresponding Portland based concrete, targeted at the same 250 Kg/cm^2, reached "only" 300-350 Kg/cm^2.
Given the ambiguous use of pronouns, it seems you may be talking past one another. GP seems to be criticizing the UK government's approach whereas parent seems to be summarizing TFA's guidance.
I think GP was referring to the government's plan, not the suggestions in the letter.
If you work in the networking industry, pcaps are used to troubleshoot networks. I see guys walking around with t-shirts with "pcaps or it didn't happen". The behavior of protocols or the data in their fields can point exactly to what is failing, and a pcap captures this.

If you want to search for protocols in packet captures, I created tshark.dev/search/pcaptable/ for this exact purpose. Search 1000+ protocols from 6000+ packet captures.

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Per capinfos, the author merged a bunch of pcap files with `mergecap` from Wireshark's sample captures. It has 38 interfaces, which is the highest I've ever seen!

$ tshark -r ultimate.pcapng -T fields -e frame.protocols | sed -e 's/:/\n/g' | sort | uniq | wc -l
69

Looks like it's actually 69 protocols, which makes it quite novel as a packet capture.
Do you realise there are other building materials beside concrete and wood?
It is an improvement, for sure. And probably good enough for the average user.

On the other hand, if convenience is important, then I see no obvious difference between an online password manager and the OP's solution. In both cases, the security of your password vault depends directly on the security of your master password.
Such a good sketch program. I love everything Mitchell and Webb do. I thought of this video immediately. Glad to see it was already posted. :)
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Yes I was thanks for the clarification.
ICU ventilators are surprisingly complicated machines, we've just brought some HAMILTON-C6 machines at work if you want an idea of the top of the line

I would consider the following a bare-minimum feature set for a COVID patient ventilator, any less and it would do more harm than good:

- cycle between an inspiratory and expiratory phase

- during the inspiratory phase, deliver an adjustable volume of gas (in the region of 6 ml per kg of patient's body weight) using as little pressure as possible, with an adjustable upper limit of pressure (in the region of 30 cmH2O)

- during the expiratory phase provide an adjustable pressure against exhalation (in the region of 0-30 cmH2O)

- allow blending of air and oxygen to deliver an adjustable inspired oxygen fraction

- allow the timing of the inspiratory and expiratory phases to be independently varied, thereby allowing the respiratory rate and the ratio of inspiration to expiration time to be controlled. Permit respiratory rates in the range of 8-60 breaths per minute

- measure and display the pressures and volumes within the respiratory system

- allow adjustable alarm-limits for pressures and volumes, and provide clear audible and visual alarms if these values are exceeded

For added patient safety and benefit, the following would be helpful

- measure inspired and expired oxygen and carbon dioxide content, and display both on a continuous waveform graph

- allow the patient to initiate the inspiratory phase by sensing patient inspiratory effort and providing pressure support for inhalation; ie sense when the patient inhales and deliver 10-15 cmH2O pressure for 0.5 seconds to augment inhalation
We'll need to wait 10 days to see if it was effective in Italy too, but other countries should start implementing it ASAP.

Lot of EU countries / USA are already late with respect to our timeline, aka they may have it worst if they don't act fast.
Whaaaat? U.K. government health officials are asking strong healthy people to get infected?
My experience with UK trees is that Victorian housing does not have foundation, so their roots can and do make the walls moving, crack up floors, etc. Cracks on the walls means bad insulation (apart unstable structure to live in), hence I am not sure the assessment in the article is thorough enough.

I am not sure what would be the solution to this, apart from demolishing the old buildings and build new ones up that satisfy modern standards.
The UK has tested 37,746 times so far. [1]

Italy is 80k +

The testing incidence is going to change the infection confirmation number. The testing protocol will change the confirmation number. The type of testing will change the number (I believe that there are several types of test with a different confusion matrix).

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information...
Yes sorry I didn't make it clear I was bashing the govt response, essentially agreeing with this open letter.
I go to thrift stores and look at the "made in" labels. Anything from the US, Europe, or Japan tends to be a safe bet.
Quite a lot of things will last a decade. Probably half of my wardrobe is at least that old and I don't spend a lot of time searching out the best stuff. However, you've got to be realistic about it. T-shirts will stretch all out of shape and the collar will fray, because they are essentially disposable clothes. I go through trousers fairly quickly (like I need to buy a pair every 3-4 years), but until recently I only had 2 pairs of trousers. I'm up to 5 now because I found these amazing winter trousers at Uniqlo that are ridiculously well made and also very warm (they are 3 layers).

Although I say I only had 2 pairs of trousers, I actually have a wardrobe for winter, summer, and spring/fall. In the summer, I often wear a jinbei which are... kind of like pajamas. But they are loose and cool and don't really wear out. In the winter it is trousers and shirts, but with a high quality undershirt. Generally I go for "outdoors" wear because it is usually of much better quality and also performs dramatically better (warmer, breathable, lighter). I wear exactly 1 fleece jacket (although I keep getting more as gifts... not sure what to do with them) and I don't dare to even imagine when I first got it -- probably over 20 years ago.
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At which point, I guess, the key has to be either short enough that you can remember it, or stored on a portable device.
Not to mention, the high R0 of this virus means the threshold for herd immunity is unrealistically high. Plus, countries that are trying to delay transmission will also eventually get herd immunity , most probably with the help of a vaccine.
Double glazing would already go a long distance in London. I would not blame the trees when a lot of houses have windows with cracks you can see outside through. Let alone the single glazing everywhere.
What MOOC did you take where you had to write an interpreter?
The comparison between social distancing and quarantine has 0 sense. In Italy, we tried distancing, but without strict measures, people won't listen and the virus kept spreading. You can't enforce something like that without police action
"Arbitrage."
This idea that the primary aim of the UK Government is herd immunity is plain wrong. The primary aim is to flatten the curve with specially timed interventions and any herd immunity is a by product of that. The aim is to flatten the curve so that the systems are able to cope better.

Herd immunity will be a by product in almost every western countries actions today. Ask them and if they are honest they will say the same that it's a long term effect but not the primary driver or the main aim.

The difficult non sound bite criticism is about the flattening of the curve based on their models which basically means they need to get both the timings and the interventions spot on for it to work correctly.
I don’t find anything praiseworthy in his actions re this crisis, he has and will continue to handle it really badly IMO.
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If you choose a strong master key this should still be secure even if a site leaks a generated sub-key/password. All you need to do is change the sub-key for that site. Both this and password managers though still can be hosed if the machine your using is compromised. Otherwise it should be secure as your master key.

Leaked passwords can be changed for this they have what looks like a version input. If the master key can be reversed from a cryptographic hash function either the hash function has been broken or you chose a really bad master key.

Although storing PINs and all the other random things some sites may use is a valid point. I am not sure I would call this less secure than a traditional password manager though.
China did handle the situation poorly in the beginning, trying to suppress the numbers maybe. But the thing is, other countries are doing the same mistake, while not being prepared to do what China did next.

Trump said there is nothing to worry about. He even compared the numbers to flu numbers. This is similar to what the CCP did in the beginning.

Wuhan was locked down at 100 new cases a day. This is much faster response than countries who had seen Wuhan and even had better data.

The CCP did screw things up in the beginning, but made up for that by a very effective response. Countries are matching CCP on the initial response, but not ready to match the final response.
Rather, accepting that people will get infected and proposing that if it's limited to healthy people, the community will develop a "herd immunity" due to the healthy people's new immunity.
One of the real problems with tree planting is that humans don’t comprehend the lifetime of a tree intuitively - hence chopping down a heritage tree and replacing with 10 saplings. It takes a couple of centuries for a tree to reach full maturity. At 100 years they’re adolescent. Combine this with our lack of appreciation for the “network effects” of forests and we are exceptionally neglectful of these incredible life forms.

Highly, highly recommend the book The Hidden Life of Trees