skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a significantly-incorrect, surface-level understanding of the "Sinclair Method". As another poster noted, naltrexone (or similar) prevent one from feeling much of anything from alcohol (though you'd still be physically impaired...). Without any dose (drink) --> response (pleasant-feeling) relationship, users tend to stop drinking significantly (because drinking doesn't really do anything)...

The "Sinclair Method" is, basically, to promise to take naltrexone (or similar) 30 minutes or so before you ever take a drink. That way, if/when you drink, you never feel the "drink" and your mind can return to normal.

No drug will "make you stop drinking" (though disulfiram may make you want to do so); the Sinclair Method attempts to remove your interest in drinking.
On #4, the FAA actually has multiple levels of safety. Small airplanes, including even some small jets, are certified to part 23 standards. Airliners are certified to part 25 standards, which are more stringent.

Even operationally, a part 121 operator (schedule airline) has the strictest requirements, followed by a part 135 operator (on-demand charter), followed by a part 91 (private, not for hire).
The key is that you’ll be able to find AirTags anywhere in the world. Not just near your phone. It’s a game changer. And they do this not by giving each tag WiFi or 3G, they do it by leveraging a Bluetooth mesh network of all iOS devices out there. So if anyone is near your lost AirTag with an iPhone you’ll be able to find it. Imagine the coverage of the global iPhone user base.

And it’s all done securely so that no individual phone that’s participating can know what it’s even doing.
GHB is orders of magnitude more dangerous than other sedatives, with less medical uses.
Martin Fowler talks about it quite a lot, e.g. "event-sourcing" and "CQRS": https://martinfowler.com/articles/201701-event-driven.html (there are many articles, this just came up with a quick google)
Just for kicks: what is your preferred title?
Chelsea Manning Tries to Kill Herself in Jail, Lawyers Say
When you would’ve worked with GraphQL, which I assume you didn’t given your comment, you’d know that the design stage of a schema is one of the most important ones. In this case getting friends of friends, one can easily enforce pagination on the results and force a maximum of x friends. Furthermore, it’s not like REST or any other tech is immune to this way of DOSsing the server, however with REST this is just pushed to the client to perform 1+n+n*n queries. So either way, you’ll have to fix that problem.

Now, what does GraphQL _actually_ solve? For one, it gives proper documentation and ability to know what the client(s) are consuming. In turn allows client devs to develop their side much faster and independently from the backend. Where we used to have a lot of back and forth about the design of the api we can now model our interface according to the Business model and not have to accommodate for the limitations of a flatten structure. There are more advantages to GraphQL but it goes too far to elaborate in this comment
Even if testing completely stopped, presumably an over-strained health system would be obvious and almost impossible to hide.

I can see why people are extremely resistant to believing anything the Chinese government says, but there seem to be indicators that don't rely on their statements.
It's not the case that I'm hysterical but that you're blissfully ignorant.

Fewer than 40,000 people die per year from car accidents in the US. Even optimistic estimates say Covid-19 might kill 400,000 Americans over the next year. It could kill 4,000,000 potentially, and that's not hysteria, that's what the sober math says. Some percentage, maybe 10% or more, could be young and healthy people.

It all depends on how badly hospitals are overrun, how well social distancing works, and a variety of other variables that no one has the values for.

You may be lucky to be young/healthy enough so that you only have a 0.2% chance of dying. Older people, that you will get sick by being cavalier, may have a 20% chance of dying. But if you want to kill your grandparents, or someone else's, that's on you.

If anything, I'm a freedom-extremist. There's absolutely nothing authoritarian about the justified deployment of military personnel in times of disaster. The time to object to military force is when it's being abused. This is not abuse. And it would leverage one great US advantage: the fact that the US has a very capable military force.

That's it. Stop with your dangerous ignorance.
That's doing induction its arguments, which relies on them being naturals - it's not an approach that would generalise to reals.
Naltrexone
> he only reason I ever use dict.keys() is so I can sort the keys

Hum... I use dict.keys() every time I use dictionaries to describe some unspecified data set, what happens way more frequently than any use case that requires sorting the keys. It's even incentivized by the language with that kwargs construct and a mainstream usage within libraries.

I do agree that the result of dict.keys() should have a sort method. There is no reason not to, but from there it doesn't follow that that making it an iterator is a minor gain.

That's the same situation as the GP asking for the removal of a main feature of the library just because he doesn't work with a kind of software that uses it. Congratulations, remove cursors from the library and suddenly Python is a lot less useful for data science.
I drove someone close to me to a 12 step program, and stayed with them for a session. It was a remarkably positive group of people helping each other through problems.
> In short, it was massively overblown and misunderstood

Absolutely, the hype was way above the risk. But if the hype wasn't there I'm not sure it would have been prevented, so it served a useful purpose.

As a society we need the right amount of panic at the right time, but for this pandemic it feels like too much and too late.
As someone who used to work on ETL systems, from a distance, this looks basically like Tableau to me. (My first thought was actually "oh, neat, someone made an open-source Tableau clone!", but it's not open-source, is it?) You should describe how it's different.

If I'm going to pay money for a hosted application for serious work, I'm going to tend to prefer an established service that I'm confident will be around for a while. I'm sure you've got something good here but I'm not sure what it is.
You're comparing lifetime risks with an annual risk. And your third paragraph is so full of misinformation, I almost believe you're intentionally trolling.

And Bruce isn't discussing a failure to assess the risk of COVID-19 (the article is from 2013). He's criticizing the fetish of expect technology to solve social problems. I've interviewed Bruce and I think he'd be appalled to think his essay was being misconstrued in this manner.
One could argue that pumping huge amounts of data with psycopg2 is slow in any case due to the blocking nature of the network calls.

I recently copied some big tables (100M+ rows) into a different system, when I switched the simple script to asyncpg I gained 5x over psycopg2. Experimenting with the amount of rows cursor.fetchmany returns changed absolutely nothing.

I wonder how much gain there is from using a cursor, for CRUD applications you most likely need the full result set before being able to do anything with it. Having a cursor could be made optional for when you actually want to iterate over the resultset.

The cursor interface could also be hidden, I just want to iterate over the resultset - I don't care what happens in the background.
Italy seems to me the only western country to have taken decisive action. For once I am actually rather proud of my country. What are the other European countries waiting for?
- Working on this. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/50

- Re: link colors. I think this is already the case for post titles. What platform did you try it on?

- Re: reordering tabs. I've put this in the queue. Thank you.

- Re: changing tabs. Part of this: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/70

- Re: empty home tab. Good point. If home isn't wanted, maybe I make it go away... Hmm need to think about this.

- Re: graphs. I've added a tooltip in the next release and cleared up the logic. More improvements will come with the upcoming design.

- Re: keyboard shortcuts. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/68

Thank you for the very thorough review! I hope these will improve over the next month.
Yes we do require a work email to signup as our target audiences are businesses. We've discussed launching a public version which I'd love to have sometime soon.
When I was ten years old, I used to bicycle from my grandfather’s house to his farm property eight miles away. I’d sling my .22 rifle on the back of the bike so I could go hunt rabbits and as I pedaled down the highway in the hot California sun, I’d pray that I’d run into a cop because they’d always pull over, throw my bike and my rifle in the trunk of their squad car and give me a ride up the road to the property.

Good times.
COVID19-Expert Judgmental Forecast-Survey4-20200310.pdf (2020)
How difficult was the problem? I also always thought it's a switch from 2 to 4 and be done with it for the next 8000 years.
> China has had an order of magnitude more deaths and instances than any other country

So far.
A fantastic book and complete alternative to the AA approach is Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol. It focuses on the reasons TO drink which is unusual. And it does a good job of dismantling them.
Results from Survey 4 (administered March 9-10, 2020)

1. Experts predict a four-fold rise in reported cases in the US over the next week. They predict 1819 total cases (80% uncertainty interval: 823-6204 cases) of COVID-19 will be reported by the CDC on
Monday March 16th, more than 4 times the CDC reported number of cases as of Monday, March 9th.

2. The majority of experts (20/21, 95%) expect COVID-19 will reach community-level spread in the US

3. Experts expect that community-level spread will occur in the US within 3 weeks (80% uncertainty
interval: 0-10 weeks).

4. Experts anticipate 44 US states will report cases of COVID-19 within one week (80% uncertainty
interval: 39-48 states).

5. Experts believe that only 13% (80% uncertainty interval: 4-30%) of all COVID-19 infections
(symptomatic and asymptomatic) in the US were reported to the CDC as of Monday, March 9th. This
implies that as of the beginning of this week there were between 1410 and 10575 undiagnosed infections
with COVID-19 in the US.

6. Experts believe that nationwide hospitalizations for COVID-19 will peak in May.

7. The above results include answers from 21 experts. Experts who have participated in the survey twice
are listed in the table below. The names of those who participated this week are in bold
If my application is retrieving millions of rows, it may be because I need to pass a window function over millions of rows. Or it may be that I need to copy millions of rows from one place to another. Or I may need to compare them with other millions of rows from another source somewhere else. Or I may need to transform those millions of rows on my application because I can scale it better than the database...

Just because you didn't think of some valid usage for a feature, it doesn't mean that there isn't any.
Ok - thank you. I'll sort this out!
> Don't expect people to write little command-line tools and one-off scripts in C or Java.

Why not in Java?
But Singapore also backs up its "voluntary cooperation" with a big stick that they're not afraid to use: quarantine order violations including giving false/incomplete information for contact tracing can result in $10,000 fines and 6 months in jail for a first offence, plus cancelling work visas/residency permits for non-citizens:

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/100-a-day-for-...

Apparently -- and this is unconfirmed scuttlebutt -- somebody already landed in hot water for neglecting to tell the authorities about their visits to a red light district. (Which, this being Singapore, are both legal and closely regulated.)
Not that crazy when you consider that every novel disease (or maybe even life itself) started with just one or a few individuals.
All of that is very much just your opinion, and very much not an opinion shared by the courts or the legislature. It’s also a criticism that applies equally to all products or services that expose any interface that a 3rd party can develop integrations for.
...I want you...? I don't want anybody else...
Rust from Go's Perspective
It doesn’t and shouldn’t have a sort method because python prefers functions that act on objects rather than methods attached to objects.

That’s why you use “len(obj)” rather than “obj.len()”, and why you use “sorted(dict_keys)” rather than adding a “sort” method to random iterables.
My friends who work on web services have to send out tens of requests to other services to get anything done. So their request handlers aren’t pure functions.

People think about compilers as being systems code but it’s the opposite. It’s the web and business code that’s a nest of state and dependencies on systems.

Compilers are just numbers in numbers out.
Another noteworthy aspect that is somewhat specific to the US is that AA is often the only available treatment that doesn’t add a significant financial burden on the patient. I can imagine that while one is dealing with substance abuse issues, adding the stress of figuring out how one will finance treatment might prove detrimental to the treatment.

Note that I haven’t read this study (can’t access) so it might have to control for the effects of the cost of treatment.
Ibduilast, which is a drug that has been on the market in Japan and safely used for 30 years, has also been used to treat alcohol and opioid addiction.[1][2]

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/npp201710?draft\\u003dcollec...
[2]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/adb.12261
Whoa! Blast from the past! These were the exciting days of social media. I sometimes wish reddit, Twitter, etc. never became popular in the mainstream.
well done aaron

https://kparc.io/kc
> If you are in the US, you are either evangelical or you at least understand evangelicalism because that's what your friends and colleagues profess.

That's very much not true. Evangelicals (even if one also includes Fundamentalists in that category which is wrong) are about half of US Protestants, which are in turn between just over a third and just under half of the population, depending on the specific study.
How would you feel if I identified some quality that you have and decided you were not worth protecting because of the result it has on society?
which might be possible if the article in question didn't come from a paywalled source...
"The flying taxi market may be ready for takeoff" just like how Level 5 autonomous cars were "just around the corner" 4 years ago.

The moment it causes a death, the dates will be pushed ahead by a few years, and VC money will dry down meanwhile.
I ordered a pack of the amazon bran hand sanitizer on Feb 26, and was wondering if this will happen. Luckily I didn't the order arrived 2 days later. During that week time amazon algo had already increased the price from $12 to $20 per pack and next week when I checked everything was sold out.
A calm primer on Covid-2019
I think your reply is exactly the sort of high-value reply dang was hoping to see.
Large brick and mortar stores get a bad knock because they provide cheap junk options. They also provide a lot of well researched reliable products for just a touch more. Say what you will about Walmart but they don't haphazardly choose what they throw in their stores--there's only so much physical space and they have to make chooses their local market will continue to return and buy more/other products.
It's a common pattern in software engineering to stop failures jumping from one area of a system to another. I don't get why you're mad about that. It functions analogous to the very thing it's named after.
A series of staged quarantines, combined with mass testing, should be able to keep it contained until a vaccine is (hopefully) ready in 18 months.

There's really no great alternative to attempting to contain it. We will most likely trade lives for money and then lose the money anyway. Better to just lose the money by paying a big price early on with a radical containment strategy.
What do these cron jobs check for?
I think a disproportionately large percentage of us did, you're in good company.
I am not sure there is much time left to be satisfied.

Coming 10-14 days will display how the most of the rest of the Europe will actually handle the critical situation.

Only country that appears to be doing something right is Germany. They should tell others what is their trick to keep most of the people alive. Of course they have highest number of intensive care places in EU https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-012-2627-8#... so perhaps just brute force is how they do it but I have heard (but was not able to confirm) that they are also isolating their elderly such that they will just receive food and other goods behind their doors. I do not know how right this is but this would make sense.
What's the most popular modern APL?
No. Fedora Spin AFAICT is just a different window manager selection. I'm talking about very deep customization - which SW is installed (doesn't have to be through your package manager - e.g. Photoshop provided you can supply a license file), which shortcuts do what, etc etc. Selecting a different window manager may be part of it but it's deeper than that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22551172

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Code search is a great tool! It really helps with productivity! But sometimes it is very easy to go down the rabbit hole.

I wonder if they can open source code search itself.
We do compete very directly with Tableau and are often used along side it as well. In the article I explain a lot of what's different about it from other BI products like Tableau. The main things are - it's way more flexible as a visual language, and through a lot of prototypes and user tests has shown 80% of business users can write significant queries on their first try.

As for an established service - Chartio's been around for almost 10 years, we're profitable, and are the main data interface behind some really great companies and brands https://chartio.com/customers/
I've been thinking about this myself. I have no complete answers but I think that defining a way for good leadership to continue thru time is probably the first part.

I look at IBM as an example. Their one constant has been their ability to pick a leader that carries them forward. They are not as successful now as they have been in the past but they continue as a profitable business.

I also look at what makes a successful country and can get some ideas from that.

The U.S. has been around for a few hundred years. I think the primary reason has been the founding father's ability to define the country and its values via the U.S. constitution. Every time there's a dispute we go back to it to remind us what the country is all about. So this means that if you define something similar to a constitution it is extremely important to the company's long term success for it to be well defined. What should be in it? That's the 100-year question. I have ideas but I don't really know.

I really don't think that it matters what the service or product is as long as it fills a need. Leadership and fidelity to core values are problably the key to staying around.
"Not labeled for individual sale" has any legality?
I really agree with this.
When I was like, 7 or 8, my copy of Pokémon Crystal somehow got corrupted. I ended up with some random item named, 'Teru-sama' in my inventory, that messed up my game. Just a word that has stuck in my memory ever since.

And like, https://terusama.com was available.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Teru-sama
(Not American either)

My initial reading was that he meant the severity of the virus is a hoax (which goes along with his "the flu kills more people" narrative).

Your reading sort of makes sense if "hoax" was a synonym for "attack". It's not, but Trump seems to use it as one, so yes I could see that could be what he meant.

It's interesting, because we end up in situations like this where you can try to read into it what he meant but that really requires guessing!
My current sponsor’s higher power was once an imaginary vagina.

It spoke to him and everything.

Try and fit that in the Christianity column.
Ask HN: How to Manage Omnichannel Communication?
How do you manage omnichannel communication across customers & internal teams?

I have been interviewing 10+ Customer Success people these days. And I found that the combination of omni-channels and different teams' responsibilities can create a fragmented customer experience. For example, a customer sometimes email Support team about a feature that Customer Success may identify as upsell opportunity. A customer can also text Customer Success/ Account Managers for more responsive troubleshooting. Then CS has to direct to Support team and be the middle person to communicate the progress and chasing dev team for fixing. In the meanwhile, CS needs to call/ email/ message customer side for update. Sometime, it may involve more than one stakeholder from customer's company side say senior management and junior user if issue is serious.

To me, it sounds like the collaboration and communication across omni-channels between customers and different internal teams are very fragmented. Back in Hong Kong, my previous POS startup creates Whatsapp group for each customer account including users, sales, support to deliver responsive answers and skip the message directing process. But I feel like that's not an organized way to do.

I wonder how's your experience in your company? And how do you manage it?
Guide to Local Production: WHO-Recommended Handrub Formulations [pdf]
To “deselect” is how you make something “unselected”
Homemade viral RNA isolation protocol using silica columns:comp of 4 protocols
> What's the most popular modern APL?

Probably q simply due to its connection to kdb
Thanks! That's a fabulous comment. By "heavy duty new research" I was just referring to this from the article:

In the last decade or so, researchers have published a number of very high-quality randomized trials and quasi-experiments. Of the 27 studies in the new review, 21 have randomized designs. Together, these flip the conclusion.

That sounds impressive. If it turns out not to be so impressive, that's definitely on topic.
Misread as "Google Open Sources Code Search" :'(

cs.opensource.google is amazing
I was the eng blog lead at Lyft until recently, and ran it for years. We have a really lightweight process: just needs to be approved by your director, and copy-edited by someone on the blog team. Process usually only takes a week or two. You should probably check out the other posts on the blog.

We aim our posts towards a number of audiences. Our posts related to our interview process are to let candidates know what to expect when they're coming in for specific interview types. We actually get very high traffic to those posts, and we've gotten strongly positive feedback from candidates about those posts, so we've written them for a number of positions.

We also have posts oriented towards working with non-engineering teams, mentoring, engineering processes (like writing tech specs), and other things that aren't only technical deep-dives, because we believe in diversity of content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengla_virus (2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombali_ebolavirus (2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klosneuvirus (2017)
Brazilian Marseillevirus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26978387 (2016)
Port-Miou virus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661300/ (2015)
The first U.S. layoffs from the coronavirus are here