skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reached a point where I realized I needed help to quit drinking. I looked into AA and a coworker whom I knew had gone through the program gave me a little red book. It felt very dogmatic and turned me off to the program. I never attended a meeting.

Instead I read a different book that could be summarized as "There are lots of good reasons to stop drinking and lets go over them." I also used r/stopdrinking as a support group for daily check-ins.

I can't say whether Alcoholics Anonymous would have helped me had I gone to the meetings but the literature was really unattractive. My understanding of SMART is they don't let you refer to yourself as an "alcoholic" or "addict". I feel that framing was much better for me than what I read in the Alcoholics Anonymous pamphlet.
Hey, I enrolled in your previous Udemy course about garbage collection last year and while I did not yet finish watching all of the videos I did watch quite a few of them.

So first of all, thank you for creating that course about garbage collection. The videos that I've watched from it so far were interesting and informative to me. (I've completed 71% according to Udemy but I must admit that I sometimes watched videos as I was going to bed and may not have been fully attentive at all times.)

Secondly, a small suggestion for improvement based on the first course: Since each piece is relatively short, it quickly becomes quite tiring that each and every video begins with a ~15 second long intro animation, most of which is just repeating the title of the course. I would skip that all together and make the transition 2 seconds long at most. Just enough to read what the topic of the current video is.
Maybe you refer to ANVIL. It was demonstrated to not be completely effective
I don't think it'll get that bad in Italy. It wouldn't make sense to allow that to happen, as the cure would be worse than the disease. China has managed somehow.
You see temptation, I see “a reminder”. Speaking as someone who has beaten an addiction of my own and did something similar.

4 years. Nary a single relapse to speak of.

It’s not for everyone, no. But that’s okay. Few things are.
Do we know that for a fact? Maybe they actually block 99.9% of counterfeits, but the volume is tremendous.
12th amendment

On 6 Jan 2021, the votes of the electoral college will be counted in a joint session of Congress. Disputes about the votes will be addressed, if they exist (and if no general election is held, I'd imagine there would be plenty!).

Once that ends, if nobody has an absolute majority of votes, the Nancy Pelosi-led House of Representatives immediately goes into session and votes for President (the Senate votes for Vice President).

President Trump needs to win a fair election to continue being President.
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Disclaimer up front: I work for GM. These are my opinions only and do not reflect my employer etc.. I don't work in corporate planning, but I have some familiarity with vehicle platforms and programs.

I see a lot of people commenting on specific OEMs and getting caught up on details. That's not what this is about.

This is about the fact that GM has a ~1.5 liter turbo 4 cylinder and so does Ford and so does FCA and so does Volkswagen and so does ... ... ...

The specific 4 banger in a vehicle will never be a differentiator for a customer (except in VERY specific cases), so anything you spend on R+D for that engine will not help you get ahead, only to keep up.

It's about the fact that developing a engine that no one will ever get excited about still costs a great deal of money, and pretty much every OEM is spending that money.

That cost is dragging the whole industry down, and that's why EBIT and Return on Invested Capital is low across the industry (but it may be lower for some OEMs).

It's about the fact that ~50% of components may be like that engine that the customer will never get excited about.

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It also talks about how companies are trying to mitigate that by platform sharing, with pictures of a couple from Volkswagen and Toyota. Shared platforms are great for a lot of products, but they don't work so well for specialized products like sports cars or luxury cars.

Here's a great video covering GM's plans for their electric car platform (shameless plug): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-25fGfjHP5Y

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It also talks about how hard this is to do. I know of several instances where this has been done or been tried and it's always been harder and lower payoff than expected. For example, Ford and GM cooperated on the development of a 9 speed (Ford) and a 10 speed (GM). Each company developed their own transmission and then at the end they shared them.
> Claiming the Apple primary role in this is ridiculous.

It's apple that didn't want SPIRV and insisted on something else, preferably text based. Doesn't matter who is doing that something else now, it's done because of Apple...
Which I'm not entirely a fan of because I don't think apple's history in WebGL, OpenGL and graphics makes them deserve the leverage they're getting.
Wordpress is famous for its easy guided setup.

Firefox is pretty decent.

Django has a strong intro in tutorial form.
Is there really a point towards economic production when a massive number (2~4%) of people would die?

I can see how the Wall Street would respond, it's understandable, but whoever says that somehow makes it a bad governmental response has already missed the point about what's really the end goal for the development of our society.
Right, but those people did enjoy freedom. Now? All bets are off. Since the 1960s or so, we've been through a long process of gradually filing away all the sharp edges. It will continue until we've all locked ourselves into padded cells.
This is an awesome tip! Thanks for sharing.
Spot on. As a consumer of a newer generation: I do not care about 90% of the stuff that's in a modern car. I could not care less about the manufacturer. If it drives and is relatively safe and clean, cool. Best case: I do not even need to own a car.

The best counterexample for the R&D spree of western automotive can be found in Russia. The Lada Niva is car that is extremely useful and mostly unchanged in structure since inception. People can repair them with their own hands. I wish we had robust clean cars like the Niva in the west as well.
The problem is too many "national champions." Korea alone has two auto companies (Hyundai and Kia). France (Peugeot, Citroeb, Renault) and Italy (Fiat) have their own car companies, even though neither country is known as manufacturing powerhouse. Until those national champions are shut down or consolidated (politically difficult), there will continue to be overcapacity.
Can you elaborate how factory farming was contributing to this outbreak? From all I've read, the virus evolved in wild animals (presumably bats).
What is image optimization and important SEO?
Not intentionally trolling, but the lack of formatting on this page immediately brought doubt to anything being said (despite how valid it actually is)
Patents provide one way of stopping this kind of predation, but everybody hates patents so we have to pretend otherwise.
Funnily enough, the second in charge of the Spanish far-rightwing party Vox who accused immigrants of bringing diseases like HIV (sic), has just been diagnosed positive after the party gathering on 8th March (intentionally on Women's day). Honestly, everything looks like a fun/scary/dystopic meme these days.
They were only omitted because their two year growth is much slower than the rest of the companies on the list. Cool company though!
Amazon Linux and CentOS are general-purpose distributions and need more features built into the base packages than we do for Bottlerocket. We’re able to simplify the spec files and produce smaller RPMs with only the content and dependencies necessary for our more narrow goals.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21149215

There are approximately 20 full-service ventilators per 100k population in the united states. Let's say 1% of cases require hospitalization and ventilation. That means we can sustain a sick population of 200 per 100k, or 0.2% at any given time.

You underestimate just how unprepared we are for this situation. It is not possible to "bend the curve" enough to keep everyone safe (infected below 2% of the population). Full stop, that little chart from bendthecurve.com with the nice flat blue curve that goes under "medical system capacity" will not happen. That's fantasy.

By all means we should do everything we can, the more we can slow the disease the fewer people will die, but the happy fantasy scenarios about everybody washes their hands and doesn't go to the sportsball game and we bend the curve enough that our medical system's capacity will be sufficient is just a fantasy.

Further, the lower we reduce the reproduction rate, the longer this crisis will last. This is a crass observation, but if you let it burn through the population it'll be done in a few months. If you really "bend that curve" and substantially decrease reproduction rate, then it'll take correspondingly longer to exhaust its susceptible population. That means sustaining quarantine measures for a longer period of time.

Researchers point to Coronavirus peaking around June or July. That means it will remain a serious problem through at least August or September ("peak" doesn't mean it's done, it just means it's slowing down). Interventions will extend that further. We need to consider the possibility that quarantine will be required for an extended period. How will this work if we need to turn our economy off for 6 months? Nine months? A year?

Grandparent is probably correct that if China loosens its quarantine measures that it's going to bounce back. And in fact that is a problem that everyone has to consider.

https://www.ketv.com/article/unmc-models-suggest-covid-19-ca...

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-03/coronavirus-government-w...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022566v...
Feedbro is better with more social media integration support. https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
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Everything that isn't held by patents is a proving ground for everyone else who has time and resources, including other corporations, startups and individuals.

It's why you need a moat, or you don't really have anything stable for the long term.

Just because you had first idea & implementation that worked in the market doesn't mean you have the best implementation (of the features that actually matter)
One of them is reported to be possible to catch multiple times.
I've tried Tile, it'll tell you if it's within 15-20 feet and then has an audible noise. Kinda OK, but not great.
Whatever they're doing it's not working. Nearly every "Amazon's Choice" that I see in search results is some counterfeit Chinese garbage.
If we're being pedantic, pure uranium is literally perfectly refined uranium ore. Possession of weaponizable isotopes of pure elemental uranium is absolutely regulated.

Pretty sure the same is true for some of the other particularly WMD-able elements, but I'm not about to google them.
>This article seems like clickbait.

Because it is. The headline gives no real information, and clicking the link doesn't either, because the content is blocked by a popup.
Smallest dinosaur found 'trapped in amber'
Seems like a possible future use-case for systemd's homed. Maybe there will be a utility in the future to help setup configuration. 1 internet point for the person whom implements it first.
So you're saying MessagePack with no compression is way smaller than JSON. Which means with no load for compression it has a 40% bandwidth savings. With compression it's negligibly worse than compressed JSON. Seems like a back foot argument for MessagePack over JSON. That's to say nothing of the encode/decode efficiency differences.

In the case where your data can't be cached but CloudFlare proxies and compresses for you, MessagePack wins because your uncompressed connection to CF is 40% more bandwidth efficient so egress out of your app server for any traffic is reduced. In the case where CF can cache responses you get the same back end bandwidth win for a negligible (if any actual) amount of extra egress out of CF.

Use what you want but if you need a schemaless serialization format, MessagePack works well and is compact for "free".
Please post your CMS as a Show HN when it's ready. Email hn@ycombinator.com for some tips about how best to do that. (Same offer goes for anyone.)

Edit: oh wait, I posted them here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638
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Thanks for the request, maybe I'll add this on the next edition! Would be a fair amount of work to go back and add that now.

If you click on the jobs link for each company then it will take you straight to their job listings (will show you locations).
That's a fine success rate for any addiction for any treatment.

You can go down multiple paths multiple times before things start to stick. You also have harm minimisation to think about.

How many celebs who go to 'rehab' with the best money can buy then relapse? You don't just write off their rehab, you get them to go again or they might try something different.
I'm pretty sure when those officials decided to silence the whistleblowers, they are thinking exactly what some of the US officials are thinking right now: "Just another flu."
Datomic is immutable in the sense that what you had for lunch today doesn't change what you had for lunch yesterday, where "lunch" is any arbitrary fact stored in the database.

I.e., you can ask to look at the entire database as it was yesterday, and run arbitrary queries against it.

You can also do speculative updates to it, in the sense of "show me the entire database as it would be if I were to have pizza for lunch".

It models this as a strictly linear succession of assertions and retractions of facts. Yesterday, `A` was true, today `A` is no longer true. While this new fact is recorded, it doesn't change the fact that yesterday, `A` was true.
How is this even legal if the coverence is not allowed to happen?
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My point is, if you're sat in say, Liverpool, and you see the elective surgery you want is six to nine months out but that seems forever, you don't go "Oh, let's fly to San Francisco and get it done privately there, we can spend the kids inheritance" you start looking at private providers in Liverpool (there are several) or maybe Switzerland. You are attracted by a good price in say, India, or a friend recommends somewhere in Eastern Europe.

The US is very expensive compared to other private options is my point.
What would you consider a typical East Coast startup salary? IIRC from the last Who's Hiring, tiledb.io is all remote and paid in that range.
We don't actually know the mortality rate. Or rather we don't know it defined in the way people care about ("what is the likelihood that I might die"). The closest data seems to be South Korea where they're doing mass testing, but even then, are they really doing scientifically valid random testing or are people still self selecting?

I've sort of swung back and forth on my concern levels about this, so I guess I understand the OP's concern but also the lack of concern in the people he talks to. I think it's a mix of things:

1. People learn about this via the media but a lot of people (more than half) deeply distrust the media. They think journalists lie all the time. Trust in media polls have been in decline for a long time, so when reporters turn up with "omg panic" type stories, people don't take it seriously anymore.

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trust-in-media-down.php

2. People have been receiving very mixed messages. It's a killer plague but it's also kinda like having a bad cold. The death rate is way higher than normal but it's 0.5% in the only country doing mass testing, which doesn't sound high. It's incredibly dangerous but it's also harmless to children and healthy adults. Thousands are dying but most of them were about to die of old age anyway. It's going to crash the economy but that's because the government is shutting everything down, not because people are actually unable to work. It's so infectious a single touch can give it to you, but it also requires standing around someone infected for 20 minutes to get it. It will infect the entire world but China's cases have already peaked. Etc etc.

It's pretty hard for people to know what to make of all this. I'm not saying the information people are getting is wrong, but it sounds contradictory and confusing.

3. If you believe it's really so infectious then there isn't much you can do. Nobody can self-isolate forever, and many can't self-isolate at all.
I do hope this is an impetus for Amazon to finally address the huge counterfeiting problem on their platform.
Not sure if you read this:
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/can-learn-epic-failure-google-...
There's pros and cons to the electoral college. At the moment the states can award electors however they want, including deciding on their own to commit them to the winner of the popular vote, as some have done. The states legislatures can also choose electors - there's nothing in the 12th amendment saying it's a people's vote.

I think the bigger point that should be talked about is why everyone has invested so much power in the presidency, and argues that their candidate should have won by a 1% majority and is now entitled to implement their national agenda. That is not the way this country was meant to work. You eventually end up with a dictator.

My best guess at the reason why we do this: tribalism and mass media. Human nature. Gotta have a chief, one person to look to for answers.
Original author here. I started the project in my early 20s when I had lots of free time. Slack didn't really exist back then and the other web based chat offerings weren't great (our company used Campfire).

I gradually stopped working on it as I got busier in both work and life. Part of me regrets not spinning it off as a company, especially after seeing RocketChat take off over the last couple years (we inspired them!).
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Thus far. Most of the younger critical patients are not out of the woods yet. Also, many of those are left to die without treatment or assessment because there aren't enough ventilators for them.
Probably Bluetooth 5.1 with AoA/AoD extensions for direction finding, now that it's standardized. You can expect similar functionality in the next Android version, as soon as the API is defined by Google...

https://www.silabs.com/products/wireless/learning-center/blu...

Note: ultra-wideband U1 chip is not suitable for general tag finding, as it requires practically uninterrupted line-of-sight because of the very high frequencies.
I was also wondering about that. I had a pretty bad cold the second week of February after going to a party where some of my friends, who travel abroad extensively, were sick. It was different than the usual colds I get -- normally I just have a really bad sore throat and muscle pain for a week and a half, this time it was a dry cough and fever, but I honestly didn't feel all that bad. Obviously this matches the symptoms of Coronavirus, but also matches the symptoms of 99 billion other types of cold and flu.

I would like to think that I already got it, but in the end it probably doesn't matter. It is pretty unlikely that I am going to die from it, but it is pretty likely that we go into a recession and people pay less for my labor, stocks will be worth less, and food will be in short supply... so I think in the end, getting sick is just an annoyance (to me personally, I know people are dying) and the real problems come from everyone else getting sick. So either way, I'm sure it doesn't matter.
The claim is true.

Source: helped write it
That's a lot higher than regular flu though.

The real issue with these numbers isn't whether it's larger or a lot larger than regular flu but to what extent any of these numbers are meaningful at all. The same virus supposedly causes death rates of between 0.5% and 5%, an order of magnitude difference. Seems more likely that nobody really knows.
In my albeit limited exposure (PCB manufacture), production in some areas seems to have recovered about a week ago.
Conference insurance is roughly 15 percent of the cost - quite a steep fee to begin with. Wonder how much more it will go up?
My direct source is Italian newspapers and personal conversation with ER doctors.

You can use google translate to read this local newspaper from Bergamo that quotes the Lombardy ministry of health about how this Monday they closed day hospitals (clinics? not sure how it translates) and scheduled surgeries are reduced to a minimum:

https://www.ecodibergamo.it/stories/bergamo-citta/gallera-st...

Don't get me wrong - the situation is bad, and it will get much worse. We can probably help Bergamo by shifting people around, if we reverse the trend and the rest of the country stays in a better situation, but if left unmanaged the epidemic would definitely bring the healthcare system to its knees. But we're not there yet and hopefully we'll be able to avoid it.

And again, because this is very important: COVID patients do not go through ER. Please tell everyone around you that if they suspect COVID they must NOT GO TO THE ER. In the beginning of the epidemic, before this information was understood by people, infections in the ER have been a major factor of the virus spread.
The word didn't exist in Webster's time, so it's unclear which dictionary you're referring to, but in any case the definition is so incomplete as to be wrong.

Etymonline says, "pertaining to or characteristic of a (high) class," from 1891. https://www.etymonline.com/word/classy GCIDE says, "having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress," and "exhibiting refinement and high character. Opposite of low-class." WordNet says, "Elegant and fashionable." What brings all these definitions together is that something is good in the particular way that the upper class values.

It's true that many people who admire the manners of the upper class consider their behavior standards to be "high standards", and they certainly are demanding standards. But "classy" is not used to describe conformance to any demanding standards of personal behavior, such as a soldier's enthusiastic yelling and physical fitness, Clarence Darrow's unyielding advocacy of the welfare of the world's poorest, Feynman's profound mathematical learning and epistemic humility, or the brutal, unvarnished honesty demanded by Dutch society. As you know if you are a native speaker of English, none of these are considered "classy", however demanding they may be, because they do not belong to the [English and North American] upper class, which demands very high standards of etiquette, euphemism, diplomacy, fashion, and stoicism. Those virtues are "classy"; the other virtues I described above are not only not "classy" but in many cases positively opposed to "classiness".
Is this unreliability being driven by newer DRAM being faster, or by newer DRAM being denser?
And now they can export medical supply to the rest of the world. Just imagine if they had not been able to halt the spread.