skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m reading the book right now.

I see people here are having the same misconception about his message that I did before starting it. It’s not “don’t specialize in your career.” It’s more like “don’t specialize in your life.” Good generalists will still specialize, they just do it later after they’ve explored other things.

The “generalists” he’s talking about are people who can think creatively and apply their learnings to different subjects. They can adapt to changes quickly, or even come up with innovations themselves.

“Specialists” are perhaps those that just memorize the formula or are able to identify the same patterns. When outside of the contexts they’re familiar with, they’re not able to do very well. Thus, innovation and changes, even in their field, can be very difficult to cope with.

Essentially what I think he’s advocating for is a liberal arts education instead of a highly focused and specialized. The current state of liberal arts education could still use some updating too, but a highly specialized education that may pay off well in the short term doesn’t seem to help people thrive throughout life.
Are you saying I could breathe in some, conveying a small amount of the virus, and not get infected? That seems to be the opposite of what highly contagious means.
Precise [1], Snowboy [2], and Porcupine [3] are all designed to work offline.

[1] https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-precise

[2] https://github.com/kitt-ai/snowboy

[3] https://github.com/Picovoice/porcupine
It's combat debut was during the Kosovo War, which was clearly _not_ people who are literally living in caves, during which the F-117 suffered its only combat loss, shot down by anti-aircraft missiles, successfully tracked by the radar.
"that's why it's working"

It's only 'working' while the country is on lockdown, and FYI the country spirals towards economic meltdown.

If they come out of 'lockdown', then 'it stops working'.

See the paradox here?

I really have no clue: maybe we'll develop therapies, a better understanding, maybe a vaccine, but possibly this 'herd immunity' idea at least on some scale. I really don't know.

But coronavirus is not going to disappear in a few weeks, we know that.
That looks like a really cool tool. Thanks for mentioning it!
we have developed a very efficient supply chain, where stores generally keep on shelf what they expect to sell, and everything else stays in some warehouse somewhere.

stores restock every day; every week. there will not be supply shortages, just things out of stock until they get restocked the next day. For all we know, stores may start having things that are selling out quickly shipped to them in larger quantities.

This isn’t like the potato famine or similar where the actual production was disrupted, or a war or natural disaster where supply chains are disrupted, leading to real shortages. Just people buying in larger quantities than stores have stocked for.

If you can’t get what you need today, it’ll be there tomorrow, etc. While the stock market has crashed, retail stores are seeing their biggest profits in years. They have every incentive to keep restocking and even to respond by stocking in larger quantities during this time.
Who wrote that article? It reads like Chinese that was put through a bad version of google translate.

I mean really who uses 'cum' in an official article (even though it's not in an NSFW context and technically used correctly). It's a word that has fallen into disuse because its 'other' use has taken over its association entirely :) You won't find this in a serious publication.

And this "Distance reconnaissance: 400 km with 20 m wrong; Number of goals can stick to 200 targets simultaneously."

Whatever it is, this ain't English.
Great time to launch it

Any chance synced mp4 playback is on the shortlist?
The tools available means you only need to provide a list of normal sentences, and they should include the words you'd like it to know about.

For my case I just wanted to train it on like 30 different sentences, that took less than a second. But for a general assistant ala Google Home you'll want a large number of sentences and I hear it can take a while (hour or few?).

Due to using probabilities it will match words in other sentences than what you give it, but from my understanding it will be partial to the ones you feed it if DeepSpeech mis-classifies a character or two.
While I can't commit to helping out with code or resources at the moment, this sounds like a promising idea.

To get something up and running, it could be worth searching the web for services and code that solve similar problems and starting with a proof-of-concept or draft version.

The solution sounds similar to a 'store locator' (like USPS / large retail chains provide); using that in some searches yielded the following:

- https://www.mapcustomizer.com - this looks basic but allows plotting locations on a map and provides bulk entry, which could be performed and managed from a Google Sheet by a team

- https://batchgeo.com/features/store-locator/ - these folks specifically offer a service for building a store locator and they also provide geocoding (translating addresses -> latitude and longitude). It's not free but looks inexpensive -- at least for a small number of user accounts.

- [more advanced, would require self-hosting] Google have a tutorial on creating your own store locator using PHP and MySQL with Google Maps here: https://developers.google.com/maps/solutions/store-locator/c...

- [most advanced, caveats apply] if building something from scratch, Solr geospatial[0] and leaflet.js could be starting points, along with something like uszipcode[1] to determine the user's origin long/lat to search-by-distance. Ultimately an approach like this risks sinking time into developing scripts and data processing that replicate what others already provide online as a service. It would provide more control over the experience and functionality however.

The concerns other commenters raise about false positives are valid - but it's likely that if such a service does become successful enough to produce noticeable test center foot traffic, the development team could communicate with those health services to update the messaging as-needed (or pause the service).

I'd encourage posting any data you collect and geocode to an open source repository in GitHub or elsewhere so that others could build related tools and/or contribute improvements and corrections back.

As an example of that approach: Johns Hopkins have been great at sharing the C19 global case data they're gathering[2] and at the time of writing there are 3.2k forks created from that dataset which is a good initial indicator of interest.

Good luck!

[0] - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/SpatialSear...

[1] - https://pypi.org/project/uszipcode/

[2] - https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
I was friends with someone who had a couple of kids who were obsessed with video games. For me as a kid, that naturally led to some sort of hacking. If something didn't work, I would try to investigate or fix it.

For them, it was playing games while constantly talking to their friends, and if not that, watching videos on YouTube of other kids playing games.

One of them, a 13-year old boy, was upset that his laptop screen didn't work. He had been complaining to his mother for months about it. I pointed out to him that his laptop had an external monitor port and that he could plug it in to something else and it worked fine. He had never investigated this possibility. I also took the laptop and cleaned it out viruses and spyware... Something like 42 different packages were removed.

Basically if something didn't work, they would just give up and say that it was "broken".
Old people need groceries and medicine, which in many cases they will have to go out for. (Not everyone has delivery available, or can afford delivery). On those trips they are likely to encounter younger people, including the workers at the grocery stores and pharmacies.

Young people also need groceries and medicine, and through the grocery store and pharmacy they are then one step from people who are one step from older people.

It only takes a handful of steps for your "nobody with exposure to the vulnerable" to be close to an empty set.
COVID-19 is rapidly becoming the centre of attention for the entire global medical community and every government on the planet. It threatens the wealth of billionaires and the power of the powerful. I have a remarkable amount of faith that progress on treatments and medical practices will be swift and impressive.

Delaying the pain by a month or two could well be an extremely good move.
Only the EU economy has been doing pretty well - much better than the UK has been.

I think that their strategy is more smoke and mirrors - they're looking for the massive uproar so that the public understands that what we're facing is the real deal and will accept the harsh restrictions to freedom better once they have to be made.

The damage caused by an extra day or two of waiting will be small in comparison to the benefits of good compliance.

Plus don't forget that it's the weekend. No schools. The schools won't be open on Monday.

Dominic Cummings and his team are sharp and extremely good at manipulating the exact group of unthinking idiots who would otherwise ignore curfews and restrictions..

I should also add: all of the other Western countries are doing the same thing, UK included. Do whatever is possible to keep the health system working until. Eventually you get herd immunity either via people getting it or a vaccination.
Sure, but I would argue it's a poor system that is setup to require serial editing to a non diffable file.

Again, I'm not saying locking is an invalid solution. It is. But to me, it's often (but not always), a crutch for a deeper issue.

That binary file should be set up to be modular if it is intended to have areas that multiple users can touch without directly affecting each other.
We can't let perfect be the enemy of good, though.

If moving from gasoline to ethanol ultimately reduces pollution, it's going to be faster to achieve. We don't have to swap out everything at the consumer level, especially since many cars can run on E85 already.

Continuing to push electric cars is great, but it'll take a lot longer and require a high infrastructure investment to make it truly practical.
If it has fighters escorting it then it is not invisible.... whole point of B2s is to be invisible to long range radars (due to plane geometry). F22 and F35 don’t have this capability.
I don't think killing a larger portion of Britons than of Continental Europeans is going to be good for the British economy.
Apologies for the offense, but I was being serious for the reason you mentioned.
The Finder exposes the filesystem hierarchy much like any other desktop file browser.
Yes absolutely, but you can just make the range wide enough to wash out the difference (like -2000 to 2000, summing to zero)

Then you would probably get more information from looking at the person thank you could from hearing a weight number that could be +/-2000 pounds
Clearly there are limitations for standard color photography, but lasers provide abundant and cheap monochromatic light. If the scene doesn't depend on natural lighting the exposure problems could be overcome.
Oh my sweet summer child, you have no idea ;)
Sigh... just yesterday I found code in a project I inherited where an Observable was returning Futures to the observer. It probably seemed like a good idea to whoever at the time but damn does it make it hard to follow what’s going on.
I was just reading about On-nomi (オン飲み) - drinking online. Was a Boing Boing post at https://boingboing.net/2020/03/13/on-nomi.html Perhaps this needs to be added for us mandatory-work-from-home people can have a beer later with co-workers.
> The UK government is criminally insane to the point that they should be locked up and shot.

This plan may end up with a coup once the body count starts racking up and people get angry.

BTW. this new plan reminds me of the plot of "V for Vendetta" movie.

(spoiler below)

In it, a fascist government took over by causing an epidemic that killed a hundred thousand people, used that to get itself into power, and promptly buried the evidence.
> But "flattening the curve" means allowing exponential growth and waiting for most people to become infected.

I really have no idea where and how you've created that definition, because it has absolutely no relation to the real meaning of flattening the curve and even completely ignores the problem.

Just to be clear, flattening the curve refers to limit the spread of the epidemic so that the amount of new cases are not an exponential spike but a smooth curve throughout time. Thus, the curve is flattened. That's it.

How do you do that? Well, by containing how the disease spreads by enforcing containment and self-isolate and avoid contact with everyone.

Washing your hands is great and makes up for a good scapegoat, but the reason why people are being sent to work from home, stock up on supplies, and not sey foot outside unless they really need to, is to contain how the disease spreads.
> The argument that meat is somehow a better use of land is incorrect however.

Actually it's a fact.

> Most calories are currently grown to feed animals. Typically in mono crops.

Yes calories that we can't otherwise access is fed to animals who can use it and in turn we eat the animals. Magic. Also, those "mono crops" are grown on poor quality land and in harsh environments where we can't grow avocados, oranges, almonds, etc. You get the idea? If we went vegan, we'd have to level many times more land with richer and warmer climates to grow enough to barely, inefficiently and poorly feed the population.

> These are usually drenched in petrochemicals.

Petrochemicals are fertilizer, so yes, they are "drenched in it" like all farmed products. Of course if we turned to veganism, we'd had to use many times more petrochemicals, pesticides, etc. Really great for the environment. /s

> I get it — I went through a difficult few weeks when I stopped 5 years ago.

Me too. Sounds about right, around the time of the social media propaganda led vegan craze. I got caught up in that nonsense too and even went around with others downvote brigading and spewing lies and misinformation and all sorts of vegan propaganda online. Hopefully you wake up before you do lasting damage to your health.

> It was like giving up cigarettes, alcohol, or sugar.

You mean it was like taking up smoking, drinking, etc. Your health, energy, mental ability, etc all decline.

> But during WWII when all the good meat was going to the front lines, the government ran a massive campaign to get people to eat liver.

Great. Liver is a great nutritious piece of meat and everyone should eat it. I don't know why we primarily go for muscle meats and disregard liver. A bit of butter and onions with liver can be as tasty as a ribeye steak.

> But they successfully changed people’s habits.

Considering how cheap liver is, no they didn't.

> If we were able to do that, I believe we can convince people to eat less meat.

Actually we should convince people to eat more meat ( or more kinds of meat ). It's sad that we mostly go for steak/roast and ignore offal, tail, tongue, etc.

> Sources: “The Carbon Farming Solution”, “The Power of Habit.”

Seems familiar. Sounds about right. I hope one day you wake and realize how silly it all is and how you wasted so much of your life on nonsense.

If you care about the environment and people's health, then veganism is your enemy. If you want globalism, virtue signaling and feeling superior then veganism is the right cult for you. Veganism is like a virus. Once you've been infected, you either die or develop an immunity to it. That's why I encourage more people to try veganism and learn about farming and your food. Most sane people will come to abhor veganism like the cultish virus it is. The remaining few will either die from poor diet or cheat like the "healthy vegans" who eat meat on the side.
In the video he talks about taking temperatures every time someone enters a building.

Anyone with a fever is screened for the infection using a portable CT scanner (they don't do a full image, they take a couple slices).

People with suspect CT results are tested and held in quarantine until the test result comes in.

The virus simply will not spread as fast in those conditions as it did when local officials were covering up, and people can start moving around more without backing off those conditions.
There is a cost for everything.

You have to weigh it against the benefits to judge it.

A simple truth, yet so very often ignored.
Looking at the other videos it's clearly satire https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zXbTQEujMO-5CzyywlVDQ/vid... The video about "success with dick-pics" isn't a guide serious guide on how to send dick pics either.
They are buying treasury and selling a treasury future, which nets them some premium. They then fulfill overnight capitalization requirements with the very same treasuries. Future premiums are higher than overnight lending rate.
Sounds interesting :) send me an email, it's on the page!
China may have prevented 95% of virus cases if whistleblower not silenced
Really timely question with so many school systems being closed down.
The flip side of this is Europeans discrediting America because it doesn’t perform as well as Nordic countries. This kind of chauvinist attitude is really common on this site and it’s super obnoxious, because Nordic countries really aren’t comparable to the US as a whole, on basically any measure that you choose.

Iceland has roughly the population of Glendale, California, which is one of a couple dozen satellite cities which, along with Los Angeles proper, make up the Greater Los Angeles area, which is one of two major metro areas in California, which is one of 50 states of the US. You can find plenty of ~300k metro areas in the US that are a good match for Iceland, and plenty that aren’t. If you want to understand American over and underperformance on various metrics, you have to look at why, say, Sweden does so well on various metrics and, say, Greece does not. Because the scale of the US is similar to Europe as a whole.
synced mp4 playback is already possible using the CoWatch app. You can sync a URL from either an htttps server or a Google Drive file.
> Hundreds of hours of audio data from your own voice?

I should clarify this. As I mentioned, training the neural net part requires tons of audio and the corresponding text (and people should totally contribute[1], the resulting data sets are released to the public). The neural net in DeepSpeech is then used on an audio stream and outputs a stream of characters.

Turning that stream of characters into sentences is what the language model is for.

Training the neural net is very data and compute intensive, but fortunately Mozilla provides pre-trained models.

Generating the language model is relatively cheap. And if your target language shares sounds with English, you may get away with using the English-trained neural net but with a non-English language model.

[1]: https://voice.mozilla.org/
You don’t think professional epidemiologists have not thought of these? There are many papers in the literature that discuss this.
Supercars Are Doing Away with Windshields
...yep, I mean the gravity model of trade is just a regression. It is very unlike pretty much everything else in macro because its validity is statistical rather than theoretical (and more models that are justified by theory often perform worse...although this is kind of complex).

The Philips curve changes over time. It is, however, quite easily testable so it either applies or doesn't. If you are looking for some hard rule that applies every time then you should take an interest in something else (indeed, this was my initial point...the issue is that economists believe that the economy are a set of equations to be solved...in reality, the nature of the economy is changing constantly).

I don't think that is the case. Economists are confronted with the difficulty of tests everywhere (the issue is that they often don't handle this well), it is why econometrics is distinct from statistics. As an example, interest rates and growth are positively correlated (i.e. higher rates appear to cause higher growth)...we know this isn't the "true" relationship (interest rates are a function of expected growth) but there has been a ton of work done to separate these effects (this isn't only in macro, controlling for confounders/ommitted variables is really what econometrics is about). Econometrics is really the best part of economics.
Contact the support channel from the lobby.
It's all fun and games until one ends up inverted.

I guess this is like a convertible in that sense.
The landing page is effectively empty. You tell us what the tool will do, but you don’t tell us (or show us) how it will do those things.

Can you give us a comparison and contrast versus Buffer?

Can you share with us your long term vision for where you want to go?
thanks for the clarification, still a pretty small number considering. all i am saying is these numbers might explain the logic behind going against all scientific advice.
> The health services will be overwhelmed if all we do is tell people to wash their hands.

Again, that's not what "flatten the curve means". It never was. It's governments declaring state of emergency or alarm or whatever, and require citizens to stay at home for a couple of weeks and avoid social contact.
I spend most of my free time on this. New features are added multiple times a week :)
I suppose if having account takeovers is worth the convenience-- sure, it's a tradeoff each company will have to make individually.
They did extensive testing and containment but that won’t matter eventually. It will break out into unchecked community spread eventually unless they implement a similar quarantine.
I'm planning to add the ability to skip the need to request to join public rooms soon!
It seems the UK bureaucracy, 2019, is very capable of that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal
Does anyone have a link to an actual policy document explicitly stating the UK's herd immunity policy? The link is a tweet from a random guy.

Herd immunity is the default, and it's also being pursued by the US, despite statements to the contrary. So I'm not sure there would actually be a document, but maybe it does exist.
They'll restock tomorrow and a large proportion of people who saw the empty shelves today will buy more than they would normally to make sure that they don't go without, leading to empty shelves, goto 10.

Supply chains are intact but they can't deal with this level of demand immediately and so there's going to be a period in which there are shortages. How long those shortages last depend not only demand but on other factors, e.g. how many people in the supply chain are directly or indirectly affected by the virus.
> but I'm still not seeing it

Still?

> and since you got downvoted, evidently a few others felt the same.

This has got to be the saddest thing I've ever seen on a forum.

> Next time you'd probably better write it out explicitly.

Okay I'll give it another shot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22563157

Let me know if that cleared things up for you.
In addition to the SATA port multipliers, they'd need actual SATA PCIe cards. Basically nobody makes a motherboard with onboard SATA that supports port multipliers.
Wide-Band WebSDR – Shortwave Radio on the Internet
The thing is, what the UK is doing is truely experimental compared to what China, SK, and Italy have already done. And we won't know for sure what the full effects are until the end of the current pandemic. If the UK copied the lockdown and trace playbook already implemented, once this pandemic is over we'll have no data point for the quarantine old people only strategy to plan for the next pandemic with. How can you observe whether the UK strategy will work when nobody's done it before?