skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mixed feelings on this one.On one side, if you want to become really good at something,I think those 10k hours are quite accurate.The problem is, our society runs on the basis that there's 0.1-1% of people that are extremely good at something and the rest are just average. I'm 34 and I did some crazy variety of jobs: construction, plumbing, advertising, translation, project management, operations management, development.Did I become really good at any of it? No,but I was good enough to be able to do those jobs. I'm getting better at programming, however it'd take another 5 years or so before I could say I'm really great at it. Such a variety of jobs and industries gave me a very interesting perspective to business which I would have never had if I only had one job,no matter which one.
Agreed, I worded that badly - what I meant is that non-car owners could still save more by not driving than the delta on the goods, potentially, as they are paying only the fractional cost that they are actually consuming, if everything else was "correctly" redistributed.

This is all complicated though by the way we actually pay for all of this, so it's not as simple as car owners subsidizing. It's not like the gas tax covers this.
At NASA the standard seem to be SI units for anything in space and Freedom (English) units for anything inside the atmosphere. It is bizarre.

The funny thing is looking back at Apollo documents from the 60s is that many of those were in SI, but for Shuttle they appeared to have switched the launch and land portion fully to English.
That's not true. A lot of people's stress is internal. And what's the difference anyways? The human condition is to suffer, get old, and die. Sounds to me like drugs are probably the most rational and logical thing you can do, besides suicide. I'm being a little bit of a downer, I know, but the reality of life is pretty terrible. Fortunately, me and most others can just ignore what life is about (most of the time) and carry on like anything we do makes a difference.

Moreover, if politicians wanted to act upon it, they would just legalize all drugs and call it a day.
"Recent research found that the sensitivity of CT for COVID-19 infection was 98% compared to RT-PCR sensitivity of 71%."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226151951.h...

And this comment from a prior thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22571588
> "Stop it. This is bigger than Brexit."

Well, Brexit won't kill anybody (hopefully).

But on the other hand, a year from now, the pandemic will be largely forgotten. Brexit will still be going on.
I was going to say that I took this class, but things were quite different 30 years ago; I taught myself some elementary back-propagation. It was a new thing that some professors at UCSD had developed. SVMs happened soon afterwards.

I smile and pour one out for Professor Lofti Zadeh.
When you’re sufficiently poor and live in a society that insists that you work to qualify for benefits, you absolutely do not have time to cook healthy meals. Prepared, junky food is a staple.
> only those who have symptoms [...]

Where 'symptoms' includes 'a cough'; not just definitely-COVID-19 symptoms.

> [...] themselves are being told to self isolate, and not members of their households.

That's not true.
Yes, for a number of European and some Asian languages we can do this; it's mainly the question of business opportunity.
I'm not a cryptographer, much less from the cryptography community, but I think what you're looking for is known as Fully Homomorphic Encryption. Check it out at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

What is SMP?
Reduced spending on leisure, tourism, travel, etc, less decisions made because no meetings, etc., will MASSIVELY outweigh any opportunities.

Even putting aside the sick leave, which will happen either way.
50%×2% = 1%. 1%×67.5 million = 675,000.
I don't think computers have ever really been cool, except to a niche demographic.

Prior to the ascendancy of the web, computers were the exclusive domain of nerds (who, as far as the mainstream was concerned, were very much uncool) and business people (eternally uncool.)

After the web, the web was what was cool, but computers (and their use) just became mainstream.
Defense in depth is a thing. Your strategy is only as strong as the weakest link. Only one person between you and someone vulnerable.
Thank you! Those are good insights and feedback for the healthcare use case. We'll look into it!
Who labeled a differing opinion as a misconception?
Or everyone in your household is ill and can’t go shopping, which is more likely in this particular catastrophe.
> Healthy food is typically less expensive than junk food.

This isn't true, at least in the US. Or maybe we have a very different idea about what "healthy" food is.

Rice, beans and starchy vegetables are problematic for various (different) reasons and non-starchy vegetables generally aren't very nutritious from a macro perspective, which makes them relatively expensive.
I will consider it when QtCreator, Visual Studio, Eclipse CDT, Clion give the same support as they offer currently for CMake based projects.
Isn’t that the whole point of a lockdown? After ~6-8 weeks you get the new infection rates down low enough that you basically reset the clock and have a second chance at responding like Hong Kong and keeping it in the containment phase. Then you have to keep that up for hopefully 9 months until a vaccine is available.

It’s certainly not easy, but it seems possible and it’s not clear this would be much worse on the economy in the long run. Plus it saves half a million lives, so it seems like a moral imperative to at least try.
According to Peston: "elderly to be quarantined at home or in care homes for four months, in "wartime-style" mobilisation to combat Coronavirus."

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1238917834111156231
You are welcome to try Vosk

https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api

Advantages are:

1) Supports 7 languages - English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian

2) Works offline even on lightweight devices - Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS

3) Install it with simple `pip install vosk`

4) Model size per language is just 50Mb

5) Provides streaming API for the best user experience (unlike popular speech-recognition python package)

6) There are APIs for different languages too - java/csharp etc.

7) Allows quick reconfiguration of vocabulary for best accuracy.

8) Supports speaker identification beside simple speech recognition
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The UK government is neither genius nor insane. What the UK government is, is pragmatic.
totally agree with the lack of experience with keyboards. The shift thing reminded me of a student last semester who I saw working and put the caps lock on to type a short acronym like APCA or something.
Could the adversary still just send cannon equipped fighters to the general that would locate the stealth bomber visually and shoot it to pieces ?

Sure, could be rather hard to do in the night but once a stealth bomber is sighted visually, it is toast - B2 simply has no self defence weapons available at all.

A stealth fighter could be better off if it can defend itself while still avoiding others getting a weapon lock, effectively forcing them to use visually sighted cannon while it can use sensor guided gun and missiles normally.
There are no reliable estimates of overall fatality of the virus. Only the estimates of how many people _who required treatment_ have died, which the press deliberately misinterprets as the overall fatality rates most of the time, because higher numbers drive more clicks. Watch epidemiologists speak about this: they will go out of their way to point out that we don't know these percentages, and we won't know them for quite some time. Your "numbers" are bogus. You can easily see this if you look at the _initial_ estimates of H1N1, SARS and MERS. While COVID19 does appear to be deadlier, _nobody_ knows what the fatality rates will look like population-wide. Anyone who claims otherwise is full of shit. What we do know is that the numbers we currently have are the very uppermost bound of what's possible.
Yes. Restocks will happen as quickly as possible, purchase limits will be put in place, and availability will be restored. Also, the privations created were entirely the results of these folks' poor behavior in terms of weighing the risks inherent to the logistics of their price gouging, and whether or not their sales platform would facilitate that behavior. Mayhaps they'd be well served returning their stock to the locations that actually have a local need for it seeing as otherwise, they'll have nuked the Market in their localities via a glut of supply. Their sacrifice in financially eating the cost of the extra relocation will undoubtedly weigh in on whether or not State's Attorneys General pursue prosecution, and to what degree.

As a bonus, we all have a series of examples of what not to be that have soared into the limelight to remind us all that even if we are stuck in a pandemic, at least we weren't horrible enough to have to figure out what to do with more stock than we can feasibly sell or distribute for more than it cost to consolidate it into a single location because we were intending to pull one over on everyone else.

Win/win. Supply goes home. Everyone reminded not to be a dick, and a few people have learned a very valuable lesson about logistics, society, the economy, and what not to do during an international fucking pandemic. Maybe no one else has to deal with the damage caused by asshole speculators.
Not sure you want to tie yourself to a buggy inconsistent IDE and force that upon all developers.

Why wouldn't you do it with CMakes internal logic? Isn't that the point, especially since it is cross-platform.
Does everyone do this, or is it a particularly American conceit to look for simple solutions to complex problems?

'Recipe' is a misleading metaphor that invites trouble. Preparation and perseverance are great ingredients.

You can't make an instruction book for success. Heck, we have all succeeded in spite of ourselves at some point, so there isn't even a sure-fire instruction set for failure either.

You do things to improve your odds, or mitigate possible disasters, and you hope. But if you didn't even try, then what are you complaining about?
If true that would apply much more to the US data, where I understand the amount of testing has been extremely low.

In any case the data is surely of confirmed cases, so these have got past the testing, no? And I'm not sure if that would produce a flatter-than-exponential curve, which seems to be what it is.
Right, but as I personally am not exposing myself to anyone over the age of 31, and I am not sick, I don't see the harm, or myself as contributing.
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Sound great, thanks
The reverse tends to also be true. After being a Type 1 diabetic for a good while, it's not uncommon to also start showing signs of insulin resistance (type 2).
The Great Unpatterning continues. Make sure you take advantage of it
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Jesus. Yeah, it's sick. There's another story along the same lines, to the tune of $70k in disaster profiteering:

https://abc14news.com/2020/03/14/canadian-couple-make-more-t...
Secured by what? Magic beans that live in your computer? That's strictly less powerful than the contract law an unsecured loan is based on today. It's also totally verifiable: the person lending you the money has every interest in retaining an audit trail for themselves. They're the only ones that need to verify this. Who on earth else needs to know you have a loan?
Just seen this, which supports your point of view:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51892402

Edit: Ah. The list of signatories is worth reviewing.
A more cynical question: can a PM win the next elections or politically survive the next weeks if a lot of people die and he just shrugged his shoulders, when the rest of the world did their best to keep people alive, successfully or not? I bet he'll have to change course pretty soon.
I find one argument supports the delaying tactic is that lockdown won't work especially troubling: because you are eventually going to lift it, it won't work. Here's thing, it's always a matter of when, not never.

Lockdowns are to buy time for vaccination. That will be the optimal solution. Unfortunately, the time when the vaccination will arrive is unclear, at the earliest time expected is 6 months, but it will more likely to take more than a year. New treatment method are also being tested, like make use of blood from those who have recovered (Apparently I do not mean to drink those like vampires do). The UK government may think it will take much longer fo find effective treatment or vaccination.
I think that's a really nice concept, and quite possibly a good time to bring this to our notice whenever most of us are home bound. Do you plan on adding more features in the features?
This is very wrong. While you yourself may not have contact with old people, you can still act as a vector and spread it to someone who does.
You should post your problem in the F@H forum. Back when I last did any serious folding stuff 10 years ago, people on the forum (some of whom still seem to be pretty active today) were immensely helpful with these kinds of problems. https://foldingforum.org/
Contemporary passive radar arrays are phase sensitive so it ain't that simple either.
Yes, exactly: there's a definite distinction between hoarding from fear and hoarding for a desire to profit/exploit disasters. The latter just make the former worse in a disturbing feedback loop that has led to empty shelves.
The problem is they might reap much more than intended. I'd really like to see estimates of how many economically productive members of society will get caught out by the fact that sadly they can't have life-saving treatment after an accident (or will get a nasty covid infection post-op) because the health system shut down for weeks/months or gets permanently gimped (if it kills off or traumatizes enough doctors and nurses).

Also, what are the chances nearly all of the recovered infected are in near mint condition post-recovery? If it turns out non-trivial numbers now have permanently reduced lung capacity or pregnant women produce a lot of wonky babies, what then?
Indeed, which is why it's on them not to go out. So long as nobody who has contact with old folks goes out, we're basically doing the UK plan ad-hoc. The rule shouldn't be "nobody go out" the rule should be "nobody with exposure to the vulnerable should go out" -- and if they do, they're being totally irresponsible.

I, however, am not, and I'm supporting the local economy.
Let’s add our media model in here as well, although it’s also a subset of our economic model.
Well let's say you need an app to program IP addy info into a IOT device on the LAN. Multi-platform done in 1 hour. You can also write web apps, drag and drop, we're really excited for the web 2.0 coming this year.
30 years later and my index fingers are still spontaneously repulsed by "NSN 4020-01-208-7645: TAPE, LACING AND TYING". Tough stuff, much tougher than the skin of a person's knuckle joints. Military aircraft are mostly made out of wire.
Hi, person from Iceland here. Drug use has actually been going up since these numbers were reported. It's true that alcohol use went down compared to the decades before but you must understand teenage drinking was so common. It's the only thing teenagers used to do for years and years. For us to get these numbers down is groundbreaking yes but drinking is still a huge problem for Iceland and drugs kind of just took over from alcohol.

It's true though that the increased focus in activity such as sports etc does actually work. As soon as the city allowed people to use a sort of point system were they get x amounts of points per year which can be used for sports and such things got much better. This means poor families can also send their kids to activities which is really positive.

Drugs in general are really popular now. The drug market in Iceland in general has been growing extremely fast over the past years and it's become really professional in terms of quality and delivery. We have a relatively small police force right now and the size of the drug market is way beyond their control.

I just find it kind of misleading everytime I see these articles. It's true we got drinking down but in general Iceland deals with a lot of depression, a lot of suicides and a lot of narcotic related issues every year. We have a very high suicide rate per capita, especially for men.

What I mean is that these articles express this like we got rid of the problem, we totally did not. The fact that the state gives credits for sport activities etc each year is an extremely positive thing though.
As a case study:

https://abc14news.com/2020/03/14/canadian-couple-make-more-t...
since UK has literally a thought police with "hate incident" database, i'd say they are insane.
Opinions vary. Dr. Amesh Adalja is an infectious disease specialist, who thinks it's more likely that this isn't the case, and that it was just the impression given by false-negatives from the tests. (That is, if you test someone 3 times over 3 weeks, and see Infected, Uninfected, Infected, it could either be a false negative, or a reinfection.)

I'm afraid I don't have a written source, I heard it in this interview podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/191-early-thoughts-pandemic/
Growing up with the social implications of the internet isn't the same as growing up with PCs. Smartphones are now what people know how to use and you don't interact with them the same way you interact with a desktop PC. Files? What are files.

There was a time before technical literacy and now we're in a time after it. It was fun while it lasted.
I believe the current UK Gov’s huge majority and long remaining term allow them to make decisions that many other countries would not be able to make at this time. I think they’re right, not that this makes things any easier, both my parents are in their mid 70’s and have health problems.
From the Guardian on Thurs, quoting Boris Johnson:

“At some point in the next few weeks we are likely to go further, and if someone in a household has those symptoms then we will be asking everyone in that household to stay at home. I want to signal now that this is coming down the track.”

— https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/uk-moves-to-de...

Which would suggest that's not the advice currently. Would be interested to see anything counter to that though if you've links.
If you want to argue about Trump, please find someone else to do it with (or somewhere else to do it).

My comment was not about Trump's response, and I regret even including mention of him, since that one offhand comment has generated uninteresting political arguments, without anybody engaging with what I was actually writing about.
There are some good charts at http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/ which show a change in growth rate in Italy near the start of March, possibly due to the lockdown in Lombardy a week earlier
We also at the time had a severe shortage of tests. If you have enough tests, sure test everyone. If you only have a couple, then your hands are basically tied. What do you do when you use all your available test kits on people that come back negative and then a real case shows up?
> That's not true.

How so? Everything I've seen from them, including the Gov't site only say to self-isolate. They said that in the near future they may tell households to isolate, but right now only the person with symptoms.

> "people with confirmed or possible coronavirus (COVID-19) infection"

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-...
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It didn't. Maybe poster was thinking of the Crimean war 60 years earlier where bayonet charges where tried on well defended russian positions.
Not true. These estimates are of overall fatality based on number of people diagnoised. Not based on those who required intensive treatment. That means we have crude estimate on death rate for people showing some symptoms. Crude in a way not everyone in the pool is recovered, or dead for that matter, so it's not possible to be that accurate yet, but it will only be higher not lower.
i'm probably the biggest car fan i know in my personal circle, but a certain 370Z Nismo right outside my apartment does get annoying, after hearing that massively loud idle drone morning by morning.

can imagine non car people getting at least as mad, at louder cars.
> Here are the single characters which can be normalised down to a valid TLD

only TLDs or anywhere in the name? i suspect this is special treatment for TLDs
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Which is "like a million".

Both the 50% and the 2% are very conservative.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

edit: Sorry, didn't realize that link was subsequently truncated, here is the .pdf:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...
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This sounds like NICE bus in Nassau County, Long Island, NY. Nassau county bus system was subcontracted to MTA about 8 years ago. NICE is a for-profit company [1] and they are constantly tweaking the schedules. Bus frequency here was 30 minutes during peak and 60 minutes off-pead, 5 days a week with reduced Saturday and more reduced Sunday schedules.

Now, in addition to eliminating routes which predated their contract, they have dead times in the middle of the day, gaps after "peak" times (which in my case put a 2 hour hole between 1800h and 2000h on my line). And they've canceled service on Sunday and on some lines both Saturday and Sunday.

In the latter case I'm sure NICE would say the LIRR is an alternative, but on the weekend that runs every 2 hours and costs $9 one way versus $2.75

And if you're fortunate enough to make some use of the system, there is no expectation it will still work for you later, because of the contraction cycle the parent described--Every 6-12 months schedules change.

I can't help thinking of companies like Walmart who move into areas, drive out small businesses, and then decide to pull out of town. Of course, it's a free market and they can do that, but in the case of public transit in the hands of private for profit companies it's a terrible burden on anyone who doesn't have a car.

And Nassau County has some of the highest taxes in the nation. Go figure.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdev
Buying a year worth of toilet paper instead of food is panic buying in my book.

And it is the kind of thing happening right now, at least here in Europe. Hell, my house mates witnessed it just today while stocking up on the regular weekly groceries. Cart after cart filled with toilet paper.
I've seen so many examples,where people,who spent decades in their fields become so cynical and 'know it all' type. This is almost universal across all fields.Fresh minds are always a good idea.
I used to work in the speech reco space for many years. Fighting this battle was lost long long long ago. Virtually no one outside of the space really cares, and people use speech and voice recognition interchangeably. It’s really more the case that voice recognition is just an ambiguous term.

It’s pretty hard to blame lay people when speech reco products like Dragon are widely marketed as “voice recognition”.

If you want to be clear and not just pedantic just call it speaker recognition.
Ask HN: How can I make a side income?
Anyone have any advice on how to find ways to get side projects going that might generate a little bit of revenue? I've got the skills to do it I think, I just seem to have no viable ideas. Thanks.