skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! That's it.
That is a really amazing look at a part of auto development I've never seen before. I'm wondering if some private equity firm went with it and rolled up 3 or 4 OEMs into a single more cost productive OEM.
I'll tell you what I do really need: one pack of toilet paper, because I just happened to be running out of my last Costco pack right now. Trying to make whats left last.

Maybe now is the time to buy a bidet add-on seat.
I did just that. I couldn't concentrate on work in a big office. I'm canceling meetings (or changing them to video conferences). I think I can get away with it for a week or two. And in two weeks I expect my employer to order home office for everybody anyway.
That is what I have been wondering. My family all had what we thought was the flu a few weeks ago despite having gotten the flu vaccine.

I realize the flu vaccine is not always effective, but it seems possible to me that we and many others have contracted it and already recovered.

Since testing is very rare, there would be no way of knowing until someone gets a severe enough case to go to the hospital and then qualify for testing.
With So Many Streaming Services, What Sets Them Apart?
The constitution doesn't actually decide what we do. Elections could be postponed, probably not all of them but enough that you wouldn't have real results. States would sue, it would make its way to the supreme court. The supreme court might find in the administration's favor, because they vote how they like; they aren't required to follow the constitution. They may rule against trump and trump ignores them; if the military is on his side, does he need anything else?

I'm not saying any of that will happen, but you talk as if our social constructs and institutions are barriers that limit where we can go, when in actuality they're breadcrumbs that we choose to follow.

Societies have flipped out before.
I browsed Reddit for 30 minutes a day and concluded the same thing. Don't congratulate yourself too much, it was blindingly obvious.

For all the things that Reddit gets wrong, early-January r/cornavirus was pretty much spot on the money.
What coders can do to save lives during a coronavirus outbreak
The world may be on the heels of a coronavirus outbreak. If so, large numbers of people will need to be hospitalized. These people will need to be intubated and put into ICU. If the number of sick people exceeds the capacity of the hospital system, the mortality rate will rise when people cannot get these services.

So what can you do as a coder? Stop trying to teach yourself genetics and biochemistry to analyze the virus. You won’t make a difference in time by doing this. Rather, what we need is more real-time information about each hospital including the number of beds and ICUs available on our smartphones. Only with this information, can we make informed decisions about which hospital to go to during the midst of an outbreak. I, for one, would download an app that would tell me about the status of my local hospitals.

I suspect there will need to be a degree of crowdsourcing to get insider information about each hospital. Medical staff will be too busy to provide this information. Perhaps data can be scrapped from social media to determine when a hospital has reached its maximum capacity, allowing to be directed to nearby hospitals
There's nothing wrong with that language and it has little to do with corporate personhood.

The merits of the issue may be another story altogether.

I'd be interested in hearing someone with more knowledge of the situation.
Young people capitalize on cheap coronavirus flights: 'If I die, I die'
In fact, a lot of sane and balanced economists are saying that, while the corona virus certainly incited the latest market downturn, that downturn is going to continue since the market has been highly over-valued recently. So yea, I am concerned and not putting anything into the market right now.
"In many cases, the prices aren't really that different."

I beg to differ.

To be precise, for trade/production companies, even a 30% difference in price would be huge. But if you only buy souvenirs or gift wrappings etc, those might not matter that much, as they might just be less tha 1% in the final price of whatever you're selling. but for some companies or industries, it means 30% cheaper in terms of all their material and products, which would be insane increase for their profits.
> This is not true (declarations in Java are evaluated at runtime and compiled to real machine instructions

Yeah, so what? That's just the system putting the right values in the right place. Also, it obscures the fact that this resulting JVM bytecode could, in fact, be very different for Google & Oracle's implementation, though some parts of it will likely be similar just because programmers choose the simplest/most efficient ways to do things and those are necessarily similar.

> what algorithm or logic does the following "implementation" Java code describe `return a + b;` ?)

Addition, normally, though operators can be overridden so it might be string concatenation or whatnot depending on the types.

> That is a fair use question, and it is certainly possible that copyrighted code can be copied for compatibility as a fair use.

More to the point, Google won as to fair use before the jury before a judge overturned their verdict...

Anyhow, yes, changing all the names means that you have to do trivial and stupid rewrites of lots of code to replace names. Whether someone named something to return the maximum of several elements max() or maximum() or what have you is not the sort of 'creativity' that Congress ever had in mind to protect.

Copyright was designed in an age when written works were creative rather than functional and several of the doctrines need to be adapted to make any sort of reasonable purpose out of this.

The fact is that making APIs copyrightable would cause a lot of legal destruction--senseless lawsuits that enrich only lawyers and impoverish the public--while destroying a lot of innovation and open source that the public already has for the sole benefit of IP law firms.

It shouldn't be surprising that only those who hope to profit by trolling the people who actually make useful stuff are excited by this.
The images at the second link are so nice! curiously enough, I wasn't seeing them because they were being blocked by Pi-hole (with default block lists)...
now's not really the time for libertarian pontification about the merits of federalism

Nor are you are not legally in the right here to claim that as a solely state power. The CDC has well-established authority and duty to prevent the spread of communicable disease. This has been litigated to SCOTUS numerous times.

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...
meant for [2] to be https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insigh....
Despite knowing that I will be voted down massively by the Chinese bots, I suggest the following.

1) I would like an international independent investigation to look into the evolution of Covid-19, especially the months before the general alarm was given. It has been shown that the delay from November to December in alerting about the virus has caused unprecedented devastation.

2) I want China as a nation and its leaders to be trialed for ineptitude and crimes against humanity in the court of The Hague. As China is a strong country it will refuse to provide any information or will simply provide scapegoats among the doctors and health personnel who warned of the event. Chinese politician's incompetence can't get away from this.

3) China is not co-operating with external institutions and researchers, a large part of the information flow is non-existent. The research flow is from outside institutions to China. And we need to collaborate to find a solution. I am especially pessimistic and I don't think China will collaborate with anyone.

4) How is China going to restore the economic damage that it is going to cause to billions of people around the planet and hundreds of thousands of businesses that are going to have to close because of this pandemic? For much lesser reasons we have imposed embargoes on Cuba or Iran.

5) Many Chinese citizens fill their mouths with words like solidarity and joint effort, cooperation and world happiness. When the great majority is looking to do business and profit from the situation, whether it be with the sale of masks or necessities, multiplying their price by 1000x. There is no such solidarity among Chinese citizens with the rest of the world.

6) Propaganda and censorship are the order of the day. We cannot know what is happening, nor its impact, nor its origin. I hope that the Chinese citizens will be aware of this and impose themselves on their government by demanding 改革 and 革命 .
I think I recall early Windows phone OS doing that as well.
> Poorly run companies or those paying below-market salaries

I've been interviewing for remote senior engineering positions for the past 6 months and all of them pay significantly below market (market in my case is third-tier 100-person startup in NYC). These were all well funded, well known "remote ok" companies.

Now, it could be I'm overvalued, but afaict nobody is paying SV salaries, certainly not FANG salaries, probably not east coast startup salaries, and in some cases they're not even competitive with boring local companies in small midwestern cities.
Yes, many small business owners are freaking out about how much time they have before they go under. There are, however, ways of addressing those problems that elected officials are considering -- for just a singular example, loans.
That doesn't make sense: AA is not very effective at all.

"Based on these data, he put AA’s actual success rate somewhere between 5 and 8 percent."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irr...
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done that quite a bit, and we're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's gamed but not by the mods. Not even sure in a bad way.

User posts story to blog and includes hn link in an email blast. Followers upvote quickly then the article slowly losses interest.

But catchy title gives more attention. Podcast during a workday means more bookmarking for the ride home.
Or, ya know, they coulda just prevented wildlife trade via regulation in the first place.
Elastic is not remote-only and they are not VC funded anymore (they IPO'd)
Ask HN: Did you experience any positive side-effects of the pandemics?
The current pandemics gives a pause to many social activities. By necessity, many gatherings and classes were canceled; furthermore, remote work was introduced in many workplaces.

I would like to ask which things you found useful thanks to remote works, remote learning, or canceling other plans?

Did you discover new approaches, tools, or other things that you would like to share with others?

I mean both practical (e.g. "it turned out that meetings were not useful", "doing classes online makes it much easier to create re-usable materials") and other impressions & reflections (e.g. "it turned out that reading a book in my own place was more relaxing than skying in Italy", or "it became socially acceptable to say to no parties").
There is absolutely no proof that this originated with someone eating bats. Bats often life close to humans—in attics for instance—and aren’t eaten raw. That makes it far more likely initial transmission was due to someone accidentally touching bat shit than anyone eating bats.

That this theory is widely being accepted as proven fact is itself evidence of the accusation of racism you’re trying to defend against.
If someone starts a Algolia or a Stripe competitor today, they have to have good user experience to even compete, isn't it? Because Stripe and Algolia have already shown what is possible.
Smoking cigarettes is legal in California, as is splitting lanes on a motorcycle. There is risk inherent in living life.
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That PNAS paper has some interesting analysis on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fco...
U.S. hospitals confront the challenges of large-scale coronavirus testing
All of my other SQL tools are running right on my machine. I hope there will at least a self-host version of this (or something just like it) available.

It would be amazing to have something like this embedded in Azure Data Studio.
Awesome app. I'm keen to give this a go. I'm currently running my data visualisations using python and plotly. Flexible but tedious sometimes.
Even constitutional rights have limits. Free speech is limited by laws around slander/libel, and you can't incite to immediate violence. Freedom of religion doesn't mean you get an 'out' for laws that contradict your teachings (usually).
A lot of companies (Adobe, Ross, AJA, Nikon, among others) had already pulled out of NAB before this announcement, the writing was on the wall.
Over the years, we’ve found that even power users who know they’ll eventually go into SQL mode prefer to start in the visual mode, as the grouping, date formatting, and joins are all done automatically.

This is huge, right here. I can use and understand SQL well enough, but the syntax annoys me constantly. Avoiding that would be a huge boon.
Thats what this does - it ysed that, but pulls the daily cdc for comparison. So far, its pretty accurate.
Sweden did the same except more than 500 people. Wonder if that includes things like going to work, my office holds 700 or so people.
>Complex supply chains are the only way to achieve any meaningful economic growth.

I call BS. Complex supply chains are one of the ways to achieve questionably meaningful _GDP_ growth. Hopefully one of the outcomes of this crisis is that we start to question the "number go up" ethos of most conventional economists. It's true that Ireland can't make "everything" from scratch. But do they need to? Though, this becomes an almost circular philosophical discussion very quickly.
Where Kraft Heinz went wrong
I usually, don't talk about these situations, was only replying to the guy directly above me, that DID asked for that.

In my country the population is mostly followers of african religions, although they don't know that (they all claim to be catholics, but don't go to mass, but often go to african-based holidays, festivals, etc... and often believe in african supersticions), atheists are a tiny minority, but they are important, "elite" places, like Academia, politics, mainstream media and so on, have lots of them, and many are blatantly militant, although I cited some anecdotes, during cold war we had atheist guerrilas and violence that needed to be handled by the army (that in turn commited their own atrocities).

I wish people believed more in certain freedoms, for example atheists I know often interpret separation of church and state to mean "freedom from religion", instead of "freedom of religion", but "freedom of religion" should also mean freedom to not believe in anything at all.

Also I wish people would stop conflating some things, for example many atheists I know are biologists (there is a important state-backed biology course in my metro area, often students are sent to MIT, Harvard, etc... in exchange programs), and many believe that biologists that have a religion are evil people that believe in fantasies... meanwhile had leadership in some churches I visited insist that science is evil because evolution and whatnot is not in the bible.

I believe this is part of why we ended in the situation we are discussing on this thread: many atheists intentionally want to dismantle all forms of belief on higher powers, no matter what kind of powers they are, because they conflate being religious with evil.
I wonder if maybe the externalization of will helps to ...reset? the perception of ones self. I'm not sure if I'm wording that the best way.

Example: Sometimes I'll tell people "I'll have this done by X time" in order to externalize the goal. Now, it's not on my own willpower to finish this, it's now an externalized obligation that I need to do or <insert negative consequences here>. That externalization makes me push harder to complete things.

Interesting thought
Against Flatten the Curve: GetToZero [video]
Sounds like you would be interested in this paper on TabulaROSA: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.05308.pdf
Ok, but do they with frequency drop clients due to moral incompatibility?
Sounds like the only visual analogy is the branching of a broccoli head, or something equally dense and fractal.
The DNC doesn't want bernie to have the nomination. The want status quo Biden.
I love this already. It's been one of my biggest gripes of social media that I can't just follow people and catch what they're up to on my terms, sans "the platform" nudging me to interact this way, like this, star that, react to that over there because someone three degrees of separation did it, watch a video someone uploaded of their dinner. I want to passively observe and interact if I want to.

This is what I've wanted. It's like a living notepad file full of links

Great work, excited to put this to work
Unless they are a Greek Catholic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Catholic_Church
A different name is literally a different database.
I can't really believe there are less people than that in the encampments along the riverbanks in Sacramento
People often get hung up on the contemporary Western conception of a higher power, not realizing that the personal, anthropomorphic God is but one flavor of the concept. Scientific laws or forces are in some sense, a "higher power" - clearly we all surrender to the power of gravity every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_god
Keep normal working hours and if you live with somebody make it very clear that during working hours you are working and not available for doing other stuff.
If anything, the excerpt that the tweet shares from the blog post ("Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain") underplays how aggressive the post is. Alone, the tweet's image looks at first like a footnote disclosing funding sources, but the full context does indeed seem like systematic criticism of the briefs and everyone around them.

* https://www.oracle.com/corporate/blog/pay-no-attention-to-th...
Flu vaccine this year is pretty good: 50% effectiveness.
I’ve never had an issue with their MacOS app, what do you mean by “only.. legitimately support windows”?
it's not so hard when you know how. so when a person looks at you and you feel insecure the normal reaction would be to look away. now just don't look away being conscious of this feeling that makes you want to look away. the key to overcome social phobia is body language. change your body language and the feeling will follow and slowly the phobia will get less and less. then after enough practice you become more and more open and inviting. people will start to like you because you seem to be an easy going guy always ready to talk, share and laugh. then being in company will not be a burden anymore but something to enjoy. it is so different now. I was so miserable because of this and couldn't enjoy fellowship for more than 20 years.
I actually feel more productive working from home, much of the time. Fewer distractions.

Consider techniques like pomodoro, both to get you focused and to make sure you're taking necessary breaks. Have a way to exercise and walk around. Keep healthy food at home.
Trans-oceanic shipping is actually incredibly cheap that companies will do things like this if they are able to save a bit of money

see: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534286/12000-mile-t...
Right, the flu will "never" be gone, but human society has been able to go about its business. That's why I wanted to know what the parent commenter means by "never". It seems like they were implying that society would be in a state of emergency forever because of coronavirus.
didn't even work on my machine but upvoted for FAQ
I see a lot of people using their jacket sleeve to open doors or to cover a cough, etc. But how often do you wash your jacket versus washing your hands? I’d rather open a door with my hands then wash my hands (or use sanitizer if a sink isn’t around) because I can wash my hands several times a day. I can’t wash my jacket more than once a day.
> Side note: I propose that vegan meatballs be called peatballs! (Peat is made out of plants, correct? I'm not super knowledgable about that stuff.)

Yeah, but peat isn't something you'd want to eat. Its amazing to smoke whisky in, though.

But, if you want to 'veganize' those meatballs, mushroom is a common savoury alternative, I'm told a lot of the impossible burger type ventures are opting on PEA protein: so may just name them PEAballs?

I worked at a Vegan/vegetarian place for 1/2 year just to get more rounded before I went off to Michelin star stuff, and its rather labour intensive to make this stuff just taste 1/4 as good as meat.

So my question was always: why not just serve better quality, locally sourced, organic/grass fed beef? And just eat less of it; a 50/50 mixture of beef to mushroom yields an amazing juicy, umami filled burger.
the point was that once the production is destroyed you can't catch up, retooling is very expensive,
Rsillience can not be the primary objective of capitalism. It's not possible. Ironically, socialism is based on the idea of being most resiliant. Think hard why China turned that ship to a different direction.
You’d want to block 445 outbound as well, in case your computer tries to connect to an external server (eg. social engineering and/or UNC paths)
How many whistle-blowers trying to alert the public to this disease did the US government throw in prison?
To all those responding that "if they didn't want 999, they should have set a lower number:"

Whenever you make rules, you define some region of acceptability that's recommended and then if people go too far from that region, you say that's against the rules. The boundary is set some distance from what's recommended. You don't set the number at exactly recommended because people working in good faith still sometimes have honest reasons they need to go past that. But then you get bad faith actors going to the limit too.

If you don't have a good reason not to play it safe during a pandemic, then play it safe. Otherwise, screw you. Just because the law lets you be a dick, doesn't mean it's okay.
1980 floppies were single sided with a smaller number of sectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk

"With version 1.0 of PC DOS (1981), only single-sided 160 KB floppies were supported. "
Why? Mental illnesses are not a choice, so its not others will start getting mental illnesses if its celebrated.

But if you're successful despite a mental illness (by any measure of success), its worth celebrating that so others with that condition can see it can be overcome. And it'll help reduce stigma.
Sadly something like that will be no longer possible in Europe when the new copyright directive becomes law. But on the other hand it probably never was :(
Teach yourself to not touch your face
Yeah - changing date formats, double typing things you're grouping and ordering by, remembering the oddities of each dialect, typing out full join paths - it's a nice experience to have that done automatically.

Right now the SQL we write is very proper - with quotes around all of the column names and table names listed before each column name. It's not what a human would write. I'd love to one day make it a little more human so that the switching into SQL mode will feel even better. It'll be a fun project.
But China is making rather good progress so far so maybe something is able to stop the spread?
They created this crisis by silencing whistleblowers and hiding case numbers. Don't forget they banned wildlife markets during SARS, but allowed them again a year after. This is going to happen again.
Are you saying that Samba would use the same compression library as the Windows file sharing implementation, and so hit the same flaw?