skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's look at the basic facts:

Apple is a governing member of AOM (Alliance for Open Media).

A patent-free implementation of a hardware AV1 decoder is available right now.

Apple makes its own chips with significant revisions every year. Apple seems to like being on the forefront of mobile silicon and already stuffs its chips full of things orders of magnitude more elaborate than this.

Apple now runs their own streaming network and being able to offer AV1 encodes stretches their bandwidth further. Consider also that iPhone chips of today inevitably become the Apple TV chips of tomorrow.

But most importantly of all, there's no commercial or competitive incentive for Apple not to do it. All of its serious competitors license the patent encumbered codecs and would need to continue doing so indefinitely just like Apple.
Why are people asking this of Google and Apple and not of, you know, the major telcos who do have your location history (which you cannot opt out of) and are perfectly willing to sell it?
Personally I think such experimentation is great. I’ve many Jain friends and it really pains me that they’re excluded from when we would go out for dinner because of their dietary restrictions.

However, in most Urban restaurants in the US today there are great options for vegetarian/vegan food, which makes them a lot more accessible.

Ultimately I do hope that the demand for alternative foods will continue to change the way we think about what we eat. The current situation isn’t sustainable. As the demand for meat from developing countries grows, hopefully the meat-alternatives will be good enough to satisfy the market.
Understood. Thank you very much for your clarifications.
Meanwhile, people returning from the UK to the EU are being tested positive for Covid-19...

So, maybe the strategy (if it is one) works, but the UK is imposing it on everyone else without a care.
Tokyo Covid-19 Task Force website
Hi all! I am a big stand for quaranteam! I know it is scary but I am willing and doing it now.
The video says 1000 km of hybrid range. Is that then only 4 refuels from NYC to LA?
The benefit is that most of the time I don’t need to the Google Sheet since I can usually remember the key and it is more for passwords with weird rules or ones I don’t use often.

As for why stateless, it is much less work to get a new machine up and running. Plus, it is much friendlier at my current job since I can’t even send a word doc out to my personal email much less syncing a password vault. Much easier to have one stateless manager and separate spreadsheets for storing metadata.
And that's only quadratic growth, not exponential.
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What “numbers” were you doing back in December? The virus had not spread outside of Wuhan, or been named or sequenced, by that point.
Yeah, there are times and situations where this is appropriate; now is not one of them. In the current circumstances a 40-70% chance of contracting, and a 5% mortality rate is neither low risk or low impact for an individual.

If you estimated the risk of something as fairly low probability but with a large impact: out of "an abundance of caution" is highly warranted. I would think getting your flu shot each year would qualify saying that.
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Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574688
You need public demonstrations for civil war. Who is going to be out protesting and rioting?
The brains are different.
https://filepush.co/ZBdm/20200314_230353-maim.png

Masterpassword gives me a huge variety of different types of passwords of minimal to high strength. Hell it even let's you use a personal password or key, which is something I learned just now.

Say I only used the most powerful password type and have a very strong master password with 7+ words generated with diceware, do you think it's still fake security? Genuinely would like to know.
I was in the process of planning my multi-room voice-AI setup based on SnipsAI (to be integrated with Home Assistant) when it was announced they were bought by Sonos, which killed their open source project. Since then I have been left trying various projects that meet my needs.

Among those, I tried MyCroft, which still requires a cloud account to config various things on it, and it doesn't support a multi-room setup at this time.

I've since switched to Rhasspy, which offers a larger array of config options and engines, and also multi-room (I'm yet to config multi-room tho)

In the long-term I plan to "train" the voice-AI for various additions, including a custom wake word - No, I'm not calling it `Jarvis` ;)

I'm running each of these voice-AI's on a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB model), though I'm considering switching them to Pi 3's. I'm using the `ReSpeaker 2mic Pi-Hat` on each pi for the mic input. I'm planning to configure all the satellite nodes (voice-AI in each room) to PXE boot, that way they don't require an sd-card and I can easily update their images/configs from a central location.
You can scale ventilator support faster than you can develop a largely untried branch of medicine. Antiviral drugs barely even exist. Hoping they come along fast enough to help with what's likely to happen in the next four weeks is a pipe dream.

I think it's blue sky, too, what they're doing. But what the hell, maybe it'll help. It's not as if that Slack channel would be synthesizing remdesivir by the ton if it weren't doing this, after all.
All of the following in one website or tool/sw:

1/ Interactive tutorials and quiz format like brilliant.org

2/ A Wikipedia like comprehensive wiki embeded with course website for all kinds of reference.

3/ An online community — could be a piazza/forum.

4/ A github like service integrated with course site specifically for that course where students can submit their projects and be evaluated by other forum members/mentors etc.
Thee cool friends are thee ones that would stick around, browse your occult book collection, and talk about works ov ToPY members
An anonymous spinup website. For some reason, some feel the urgency to put affairs into order on when its trending. Not before that, though?

Wouldn't hospitals, WHO, UN, whoever be able to come together with their capital and just buy out a medical company?

Wouldn't this have to also get past regulations? I'm not too sure if I want a kickstarter for medical equipment. I'd love to see medicines and medical equipment made open and maintainable though!
The difference is china could have contained it with minimal disruption. The only option italy had was to shut down all borders for the next 6 months.
"For a while" is likely until we have a vaccine and produced enough of it to build up herd immunity. That probably takes a year or more.
This is so interesting. I just found a bunch of guys talking on a random frequency in Russia. Spent about 10 minutes learning controls, tweaking and adjusting and finally able to hear what they're saying clearly.
Wow. Seems like the easiest and simplest step imaginable for the CDC or some other federal department to step in and give a large minimum volume commitment immediately, and put this particular fear to rest...
This screed is based on the falsehood that a loud sound is equivalent to a “nice sound”.

One of the loudest exhausts commonly encountered is unaffectionately referred to as a “fart can”

It’s nice in the way dog shit brown is a nice color

In that technically it is opinion that that defines if it’s nice, and if you ask enough people you’ll find some who like it, but most people (including car people) do not find it nice and insult their owners.

If anything car enthusiasts trying to get a better sound go to great lengths to cut some of the loudest resonant frequencies an engine produces (referred to as drone)

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My car is not exceptionally loud and won’t wake up even a suburban neighbor (I live in a city now so it’s parked in an underground garage). If I take it to a race track and wring it by it’s neck, shifting as close to redline as possible, it’s certainly not as quiet but not many cars are in that setting...

The Koenigsegg would probably not be loud puttering around, these cars are designed for refinement. If it’s waking up a neighborhood, it’s because the driver is treating said neighborhood as a raceway, and at that point sound is very low on the consequences that can have.
I’m in the exact same boat. I want to fly home and this is the only time I’ll probably ever see super cheap tickets, but I’m young and the possibility that I could expose and infect so many people along the way makes it look as though shelter in place is the most responsible thing to do.
A bunch of people who misunderstand desperate people are down voting you. Downvoting because people are putting their head in the sand. We live in a society of "just in time" production and shipping. How much food do people have stored up?
Yea, that's the point. No one knows.
Edge cases don't make epidemics?
I wonder if hydrocarbons could be synthesized with a reasonable efficiency by using electricity and (solar) heat.

Making oil a non-fossil fuel could be the best of both worlds.
what you need is a hangout with friends on the weekends somewhere. Don't just have work in your life.

Edit: obviously, the recent events would be an exception, but i'm just saying in general.
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Population and GDP also grow exponentially, but we’ve been watching those numbers go up for decades. Most things that grow do so exponentially. Growth always comes to an end, but that often happens well before the rate of change becomes “absurdly fast.“
Exactly, you can't fix an exponential problem with a linear solution. If the caseload doubles every two days, shutting down cities two days earlier is better than doubling the number of ventilators (because even with ventilators, more infected means more deaths).

Note that Wuhan shut down when they saw 400 new cases in a day, and their hospitals were still overwhelmed. The USA is over 400 new cases daily already. That's comparing a country to a huge city, but in exponential terms that only buys you days at most.

See https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...
I have developed a collaborative learning framework to support the development of learning experiences. The 4 key phases are

1. Resource curation
2. Guided active retrieval practice (questions, tasks, self assessment and feedback)
3. Collaborative experiences (professional examples, tadks and feedback)
4. Reflection and connection. (Connecting this learning to what has happened before or is likely to happen next

I will get the chapter (With evidence) up on a preprint server shortly -likely the end of the month. If you want the model - dm me on Twitter @maher_au
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I think almond milk/ oat milk can be made to taste better with emulsifiers and such to give them a better texture and taste. The brand of Oatmilk that I currently like is “Califia Farms Barista Blend”. I use oat milk for my coffees as well.

I’m guessing that this is a competitive space and there will be better and better options in the future.

Personally I switched over because I’m mildly lactose intolerant but also, I really don’t like the aftertaste of real milk... subjective opinion, of course : )
> I can tell you that what works for one person does not work for everyone.

Did you read the article? Because that's one thing he emphasises.

Here's my tips.

1. Use mute, often

2. If it's meeting, it's a meeting. Don't have everyone looking at their screens rather than listening.

3. Get some light-weight headphones that you can wear for a long time. I have the classic Sennheiser px-200. You can't seem to buy similar headphones anymore, particularly not wireless.

4. The "watercooler" always-on vidcon idea is a good one.
Your assumption is that the master password is uncrackable - but do you have a reasonable source that suggests that most people's password fall into that category?

Compare a stateless system with a stateful one - one where the actual passwords are random and stored somewhere. In the stateful system, figuring out the password for one site provides no knowledge about the passwords for any other site. Yes, a stateful system does have a single point of failure - if you can guess the master password, you can get all of the other ones by logging into whatever site is storing the password database - but that is no different than in the stateless system. What is different is that that cracking the master password is probably subject to a rate limit by the site that stores the password database making a brute force attack infeasible. You could, of course, in theory, steal the entire password database and attack it offline to defeat the rate limit - but that requires breaching the system that store the password database. While that is doable, at least you are limiting your trust to a single entity (whoever stores the password database) to prevent breaches. In the stateless system, however, you are hoping that your master password is uncrackable (it probably isn't) and that every single website you have a password for is also unbreachable (which they definitely are not).
All the activity is on slack, so pay no attention to what’s on the site. :)

As to whether people are serious, here’s a document from one of the channels. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDihfZIOEYs60kPEIVDe7gms...
Until we have a vaccine or enough people have been infected to build up natural herd immunity. At least a year is my guess.
China was Italy before Italy was Italy. 400M people locked down. But they showed it works.
reason works best when people argue with each other rather than reason alone, and that we evaluate arguments more objectively than we make them -> mind blown
They should hand out a free roll of toilet paper with a meal.
Because there is?
This was exactly what happened with Spanish flu. Erupted in early Spring of 1918, spread widely until summer, and then a mutated form caused a bigger and deadlier second wave in the Fall. A third wave occurred the following Spring with an equally high mortality rate, but the death toll was lower, likely due to the decrease in troop movements after the war.

Luckily for us, a coronavirus is generally less likely to mutate into more a lethal form than is an influenza virus.
Too late to edit, but I should probably have noted that KaldiAG also would make it easy to define "contexts" when (groups of) commands are active for recognition. For example, if the TV is on, you could have commands for adjusting the volume/etc. But if it is off, those commands are disabled, so they can't be recognized, and further, the engine knows this and can therefore better recognize the other commands that remain active.
The reason for targeted testing is that everybody has limited testing capability. If we could wave a magic wand and instantly test tens of thousands of people, I’m sure we would.

Health care strategists know the testing has limitations and have pretty sophisticated models to extrapolate population level statistics from known test results. For example in the UK they reckon the prevalence in the population is from 10x to 20x the number of positive test results.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the reasoning behind Apple and the likes preventing any new apps with the corona theme into the app store unless they come grin reputable sources like WHO.
My understanding is that what a ventilator does is basically:

- supply pressurized air to patient
- turn off the pressure, open exhalation valve and let patient exhale

Given that every hospital I've seen has compressed air outlets, wouldn't it be possible to get acceptable results with a pressure regulator and a timed set of valves? Or is the pressure required to fill a patient's lungs so high that the volume must be controlled?
Show someone an animation of the lily pads doubling every day and ask the same question and you’ll realise that they understand exponential growth intuitively, they’re just not good at word problems.
Moscow deploys facial recognition technology for coronavirus quarantine
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let's see if it lasts. their product is great, i tried it out, but the value it brought me was not worth the money i spent + my email being on their servers
I actually found it easy to give up milk but meat is hard to give up. There are so many foods that have meat as the core substance and I like the texture.

I don’t think I can really reconcile my concern about animal rights, environment with the desire for meat. It’s a part of me that I like to not think about. Occasionally the pull manifests itself into a nudge to try the non-meat options when they are available.
This is an ad for a startup Ohanian is invested in.
Was a Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal involved?

Raise that with a "We apologise for the inconvenience".
Vale Genesis P-Orridge. I first became acquainted with their work watching the excellent electronic music documentary _Modulations: Cinema for the Ear_
Restaurants had 50%+ drop in traffic in NY state on Friday (opentable data).
Yes. Learn Morse Code (as I did) and decode it in your head. That's what people did for 100 years and it works great.
Agreed. This seems like an institutional failure to me.
The Paradox of Libertarianism (2007)
I've commented elsewhere on this, but in the Bay Area I saw evidence of people panic buying as far back as March 2nd.
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> LessPass even stole the "one password to rule them all" ...

That phrase is a reference to Lord of the Rings, and an obvious one at that. Doubt passwordmaker was the first or last time someone comes up with that line.
You can test someone, find they are clear, and the next day they get infected. You’d have to re-test people on a daily basis.
'Who cares about the marginal impact of an individual's actions?'

Someone who is trying to understand their motivation (what they're trying to do).

'it's both ridiculous and irrelevant to quibble over whether the profiteers are "trying to drive" the artificial scarcity to which they're contributing'

It's not irrelevant. I responded directly to a claim in the comment to which I replied. No tangent.

'I honestly don't even know what you're arguing about.'

I'm really interested to know why some folks (not you) are so insistent that the hoarders/profiteers are trying to create a situation (rig the game) rather than just being players in it. I thought the logic of my original point was pretty obvious and, as you say, it's not even that interesting compared with the wider point about the collective effects of the individual actions. So why are people so interested in this small point?
"Open source ventilators" are a really really bad idea.

Patients on ventilators need to be intubated first, which involves using a specialized tool to insert a tube down past the vocal cords and inflating a balloon that seals the airway. You can kill a person before you've even turned on your nifty machine.

Once you have a patient tubed, you have full control of their respiration. If your calculations are wrong you either over inflate the lung and they literally burst, or you under oxygenate and the patient dies of oxygen deprivation.

I know engineers look at something like a ventilator and go "you don't have enough machines? I can make machines!" This is very admirable and I appreciate the desire to help, but I can't stress enough how dangerous this is.

Edit to add: This study showed that trained paramedics were only successful in tracheal intubation 52% of the time. You have a 0% chance of doing this at home. https://www.jwatch.org/na47414/2018/09/07/maybe-paramedics-s...
The WHO has verified China's numbers.

Source?

China plainly lied about the outcomes of the SARS epidemic and reported about half the fatality rate of nearly every other country. Hell, no Chinese person I've talked with recently believes the official numbers.
This post is exactly the essence of why I don't like politics.

It's super easy to retrospectively say "they should've done something else". You might think that even you would do the right choice, but you are wrong.

Such decision is hard for any authority. You may vote for any person in the whole world and the result would probably be similar. Lockdown delivered too early could send whole country into chaos.

Also China managed this so well that it actually could work counterproductive for other countries.

What I'm trying to say is: Don't judge others. You have little idea of the situation they are in, and saying retrospectively "you should've known better" is just childish. Just learn from their mistakes.

With your attitude, you can choose any party and will always be unhappy about the choice.
> But there is something cold, clinical and unemotional about the UK's strategy to tackle this pandemic.

You say that as though that’s a good thing. The coldest, most rational view is that the virus will eliminate the weak and elderly, and therefore be of benefit to society.

Given that the current U.K. government have enthusiastically spoken about eugenics, this is essentially the mindset you’re supporting.

So. Would you really still say that cold, clinical, and unemotional is the best way for us to act?
What they don't talk about is the internal projects happening to try to remove humans, mostly pickers, as fast as possible.

Those in this space know it is only going to get worse and are pushing tons of R&D into automation.

Disclaimer: Don't have source or we'd all be talking about it
Apologies, I thought you were genuinely curious.
Yeah, it is for cancer. From what I gather they need to go in through a vein in my leg and go up into my liver to inject some chemo and a oil to try and kill/starve the tumor. This all seems like witchcraft. I have been dealing with this sorcery for years. I google nothing. I just do what I am told. It is much easier that way. The radiologist and oncologist have agreed that this is the best option. I trust them.

And I will call Monday morning to see if they expect there to be a problem.
What’s wrong with a normal API?
Transgressive Sexuality and the Selling of the Movieland Dream (2008)
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What I wouldn't give to transgress my sexuality right now <3 let's get down to business
Universities in the United States are doing the same thing. Stanford, for instance, is evicting its dorm population.
Can't tell right now, but in Bulgaria is what we get almost all day - either for breakfast, just like this, or for kids might add sugar (but no need to). Mix it with water - 50/50 or some other ratio - and you get yogurt drink - "airian", seeing here (in the US) that stores (mostly iranian) have such but salted, or carbonated.

Found also the best representative (to me at least) yogurt at Whole Foods - yes, it's marked "Bulgarian", and it's pretty good :)

I'm also following low-carb/keto diet, so while I like it, I have to be careful with it, though it's much better (cheat) than other things... (like ... pastry)
John Hopkins states:

"COVID-19 is the disease, SARS-2-CoV is the virus." [1]

1. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX...
Don't worry about it; if you want to go home now, you should go home. If you're not symptomatic, and if you take even minimal precautions, you're highly unlikely to spread anything.

To me, the far more important consideration is if there's benefit in you and your family/friends being together now. That's what would make my decision.
My almost* stateless password manager:

https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/passgen (generates passwords)

https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/passenter (generates and types them in with a 3 second delay to switch windows)

It uses PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 on a master password concatenated with the domain of the service you need a password for.

*It only requires storing information about per-domain idiotic password requirements (min length, max length, require symbol, etc.) and the Nth password you use on the site.