skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is fine. But no one cares to humor the notion of a link between the lack of accountability for individuals within companies, when wrongdoing is apparent, with the way we scrub individuals from company interaction with the public? I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that the way we talk about companies influences how we regard and treat them.
School is not just education, it's also daycare. Most parents can't simply stay at home with their kids all day.
The goal here is to find a criteria under which you can require that manufacturers open up general purpose systems. And the proposal is that a system that is Turing complete is also general purpose.

The relational model is hugely expressive, and yet it is not Turing complete. So you have something that is plainly general purpose, but would be exempt from such a law.

That you can modify the relational model to make it Turing complete is irrelevant, it's already hugely expressive.

And that you'd typically run it on a machine that is Turing complete doesn't save you. If a manufacturer wanted to bypass that restriction, they'd design a system that is entirely dedicated to it.
Arch fiends in Paradise: What happens when lexicographers fight
You "missing" something is different than being able to keep a business running and making revenue. We are talking about work here. Now, some people's jobs may depend on their ability to socialize because their position is based solely on social circumstances. Those types of jobs where you can't work from home because you'll lose your job if you don't get enough face time with execs should never have existed in the first place.
Yup - if you grab columns from multiple different connected tables (or schemas) the join will happen automatically for you and can be adjusted to different paths. This is actually a really hard problem, especially since 70% of datasources these days don't have foreign key information and we have to detect that automatically.

We also have the ability to with our visual language join data from multiple different queries/datasources. You can see how that happens here https://chartio.com/docs/visual-sql/merge-queries/
Rosetta@home is the BOINC project you're looking for: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

There's also the non-BOINC project Folding@home: https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-th... (HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22491910)
I've been working remote since October.

- focus on what you need to get done for the day, and don't feel bad if you finish early

- assess if your bandwidth at home is sufficient for big uploads, video conferencing, etc.

- get a good router that can handle the load of multiple clients during times your family comes home (e.g. my wifi upload speed went from 20Mbps to 200Mbps when I ditched the cheapest router for a good gaming router)

- schedule out of the house activities, even if it's just going for a short walk

- if you have big downloads to do, kick then off at night so they'll be ready for you in the morning

- check in with your boss to see what core office hours should be online
Or, alternatively, everyone's freaking out over something that just isn't as big a deal as everyone's making it out to be.
Rust is not equal to C++, not even language wise and certainly not from a tool / pipeline / libraries / knowledge side.

When you have legacy code, with millions line of code you just don't swap for something else for the sake of it might be better.

Adding a new language in a medium / large company is not an easy task.

I think Rust is a good contender for C++ "replacement" on the long term but it's a really difficult task and you need proper planning.
The statement from the hospital management boggles my mind: "In addition, there are different parts to a patient bill. One part is what the hospital charges the insurance company, one part is what the insurance company eventually pays [...]"

I can't think of any other business transaction where someone just puts a giant number on a bill and then is happy if someone pays ~25% of it. Such companies would be shunned by their customers and they'd go bankrupt. Is there any economic theory which explains how such odd of an system can emerge/survive?
Sadly they get away with it a lot.
Chinese Researchers Use CNNs to Classify 3000-Year-Old Oracle Bone Scripts
You're getting into 1a territory at those numbers. Is the government going to shut down churches?
Probably best to shut them down too early or not at all. Grandparents tend to be relied upon as babysitters in time of need, so if you wait until transmission among school children is widespread your actions just delivered the virus to some of the most vulnerable populations.
This seems enormously complicated. How can the government reliably assess lost revenue? What about businesses whose expenditures were always unrealistic and a temporary closure pushed them over the edge, should they be covered too?

Note that I’m not criticizing the solution, just remarking on how hard the problem looks.
IMHO it’s not so much that they prefer the existing system as it is that they fear the unknown. No matter how bad their existing coverage is, they worry that some replacement would be even worse. It’s a downstream consequence of the collapse of faith in our institutions - as bad as things are, nobody trusts Congress to be able to design anything better. So they cling fearfully to whatever they’ve got.

The Devil you know, etc.
In my previous job, I worked from home for about 5 years. It was nice.

- If you are allowed to use your own hardware, do so - having a really large monitor and a computer that goes several times faster than an old company notebook reduces frustrating compile times & test runs a lot. Not an issue so much with modern hardware, but still. (Trying to run VMs with EMC Documentum on an overheating Dell notebook with just 4GB RAM was a nightmare.)

- The company's time keeping system was essentially a CRUD app where I would enter the time spent on each project / day, down to 15 minute intervals. I kept a really close eye on those slices of time and differentiated my work/leisure time strictly: "9:00 - 9:15: working on $foo", "14:00-14:30: talking a walk, not working". Keeping exact time meant I had a good feeling that neither my life nor my boss would loose out on the WFH agreement.

- take breaks - the freedom to go for a run or a walk in the forest or just a prolonged siesta is great, even though it means you will have to make up for the time spend on non-works during the day.

- it's good to manage expected online time - no one will be glued to the keyboard in a WFH environment all the time. One colleague liked to sleep long and work late, so I did not expect him to answer mails before lunch. And when the online indicator of Skype (before it sucked) was "away/busy", we would usually not call / interrupt each other.
Procedural SQL definitely does, but see my response to myself.
It's been a boon to my cooking by making me get creative with foods I make infrequently, ingredients I don't often use, and stores I visit rarely. Bread will go stale but you can stock up on flour and yeast! Store running out of rice? How about cornmeal? That too? Buy masa at the bodega. Whole Foods running out of beans? The Indian grocery store is still chock full of daal and gigantic containers of shelf-stable ghee to boot.
Set up a legal trust, transfer (if transferable) your accounts to family members. If you know this is not supported, put your login info and MFA devices in a lock-box for them to inherit. Prepay your accounts, as your CC will get suspended. Those with full power of attorney should be able to legally access your accounts. Executors and primary beneficiaries named to have your accounts. Double check with an attorney in your location as some places have silly laws. I am not a lawyer, thankfully.

I have cron jobs set up on pre-paid servers so that should something happen to me, my friends will get emails from me as I don't entirely trust the trusties to do what they are obligated to do.
> That's just the system putting the right values in the right place.

Not in Java, but again, it's irrelevant for the question of copyright.

> Addition, normally, though operators can be overridden

This line could be one of three or more different algorithms in Java. Both it and the declaring code together define the operation. But this, too, is hardly relevant.

> Also, it obscures the fact that this resulting JVM bytecode could, in fact, be very different for Google & Oracle's implementation

This has nothing to do with copyright. The law doesn't say that as long as you don't copy everything it's OK to copy anything. It does, however, take into consideration the amount of material copied when it comes to fair use. For example, it's possible that it's OK to copy a small, simple API, or that it's even OK to copy a large API for the sake of compatibility, as neither of these is the case being discussed here, and the size of the copied code, and the fact that it's not compatible are crucial elements of the case, and a focus of the court.

> 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.

True, and if you'd read the court documents you'll know that this is not at all the case here. The corresponding code in the, say, Swift or C# standard libraries is drastically different, yet it was this particular very large chunk of code that's been copied; not from C#, not from Swift. They copied hundreds of pages of unique code.

> The fact is that making APIs copyrightable would cause a lot of legal destruction

Maybe, but that this is about "copyrighting APIs" is just some an opinion and one possible interpretation of the case. Would punishing a company for copying hundreds of pages of code, for commercial gain, and not for compatibility cause a lot of legal destruction? Are you familiar with many other cases of people doing that?
To all the folk talking ‘quarantine the states’ here - that’s the definition of a band-aid, not a solution. Especially since COVID is already in the states.

IMHO we will be exposed to this virus no matter what.
A minimum order of 2 is hardly wholesale. But fine, here's the ebay version instead, for $2.90: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Women-Wool-Knitted-Jumper-Cashmare-...

Again, the factor of 10 thing.
A virologist mentioned that kids up until 19 basically don't get sick from this virus, something like 0.2%, and even if they do its not as hard on them as on adult in their 40ies or older. So indeed very counter productive
Thanks!

> a moduli space into which arbitrary data models can be mapped

Very interesting. Somehow reminds me of using latices for deterministic concurrency. Is this a topic that is discussed in public literature or an innovation of yours? Love to learn more about this.
> If you're used to exceptions it takes a while to get a feel for the variety of idioms that replace them, particularly the chains of and_then().unwrap_or().map().filter().ok().filter_map() that are more familiar for folks coming from pure functional languages.

Coming from JS, this felt familiar to me too: It's virtually identical to how handling errors in Promise chains works.
> It'd be a coup for the open source security researchers.

How so?
https://cryptopanic.com/ is a nice concept, definitely could use some more activity though.
Yes we are! No plans to go on-prem yet but security is obviously a giant focus and necessity

https://chartio.com/product/security/
All of these shutdowns, especially the large ones recently announced, raise the question: how long?

How long do we continue and what criteria will be used to begin opening things back up?

How long before other parts of the economy begin to fail?
Humans aren't robots. Most require social interaction to survive. Sort of like health care. US businesses provide it because the government doesn't, but health care is vital to a functioning business.

Your people need to be healthy to do work. That includes mental health.
+1 to most of this.

When working from home, my first impulse 10 years ago was to make it "more comfy": working naked, no fixed time table, available for a chat if needed, etc.

It was a mistake.

You do need a schedule. That doesn't mean you can't break it if you need to, that's the perk, but it should be exceptional.

You do need to shower, dress up and be on time. Yeah you can have a few productive days without it. But you'll notice that after a while, the days you get back to the social conventions, you have more focus.

You do need to keep up your habitual defenses against distractions (for me, disabling all notifications and putting a lock on the door as my SO cannot integrate the concept of WFH).

Because humans are creatures of habit. Anything that is an habit is easy to keep up. Everything that is not is an effort. Everything that goes against an habit is a fight.

So working from home means less commute. A more cozy environment. The possibility of going off schedule from time to time.

But that's it.

Work should still look like work.

At least for me if I want to get things done.
Please stop doing flamewar on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Congrats on the official announcement! Here's to your success!
I shared this with my team earlier today. A few suggestions for WFH for a month (lessons learned from working remote 100% in my previous job):

* Avoid working a 12 hour day. This will happen with having no more commute. 9-5 will turn into 7-7. Suggestion: Get an early start to your day but take a few hour long breaks in the middle of your day.

* Also set a hard stop to when you will stop working. Brain chemistry = your productivity spikes a bit around 4pm after the 2pm snooze; making you work longer into the evenings. Set a hard stop for when you are done and don’t look back. My plan is to stop working after walking my dog in the evening.

* Put your shoes on. Working barefoot at home is awesome but the act of putting your shoes on will subconsciously make you more likely to be active and less lethargic during the course of the day.

* Take a shower everyday despite us not being able to smell you on Hangouts ;-) No need to do it in the morning but might be a good way to use your first long break of the day.

* Make some Hangouts/Zoom/WebEx friends - try to do 1:1 sync with someone else on the team (not just your manager) once or twice a week. It’s basically the coffee break conversation with zero risk of virus spreading.

* Make dinner plans (also a good way to force yourself to stop working end of day).

* Ask yourself at the end of each day “when was the last time I went outside” - sounds silly but there was this one time when I had stayed at home for 4 days straight just working and crashing at the end of the day

* Lastly, set aside 1 or 2 spots at home for you to work out of. When you are done with the day, leave those spots. Do NOT work on your couch or bed if that’s where you will be after you’re done working; Will help you disconnect/re-connect in the evenings/mornings,
Not sure we yet know at what cost though.
Is there a self hosting solution an engineer can test for free?
I love Metabase, but this solutions seems worth a try.
The comparison with AWS/Google Cloud on being SaaS is not viable because there is almost always (?) an engineer testing out the software at the workplace, that’s why it have to be free to test and OnPrem.
It makes sense to take a lot of these numbers with a healthy amount of skepticism.

That second 'A' means something. AA has no membership, no census, no graduation. Additionally, I doubt the people who stay involved are a random sample, so identifiable 12-steppers are going to be a skewed distribution.

I'm sure at least some of that can be controlled, but claims about their efficacy have been all over the map, I think, because of this.
if all the God and higher power stuff bothers you can always go to a secular meeting. the best thing about aa is that there is a group that fits you :)

https://secularaa.org/
And how do you account for the fact the US have been known this virus for a month since the Chinese outbreak, and still does very little to prepare for basic things like testing?
At this point the number of cases is slightly less important than the rate. Denmark's numbers are increasing at a rate that's unprecedented amongst all current COVID-19 outbreaks (amongst the data that is available). The past 2 days the numbers in Denmark have tripled twice (and are on track to triple another time today).

You could expect Denmarks numbers to overtake Norway's before the end of today or whenever the new measurements come in.
I am unsure how you cultivate courage and compassion at scale, but we have never needed it more as a society. Somehow we must get from "I've got mine, f___ you" to "I've got mine, how can I help you?" Otherwise, ruin awaits us.
Source : https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw
Schools will be open for children with parents who have critical jobs. So it’s not really an issue.
It's always a tug of war between "power-user features" and "simplified-interfaces for common users". It seems like Chartio is using visual interfaces to bridge this very gap and it seems like a very polished outcome.

I think the elephant in the room though is that this is a technical solution to a non-technical problem. You can't teach all users to be highly proficient in your app through a perfect interface - because the perfect interface does not exist. You teach them through traditional training methods and continuous training investments and infrastructure.

Going through their landing pages it seems like Chartio is offering support and training packages, so there's definitely nothing wrong with them supplementing that with better visualization tools.

In general however I just wish more companies would invest in the training layer earlier and not try to bail themselves out with the perfect redesign - cough reddit cough.
Who is supposed to watch the children, if all the schools are closed but the parents still have to work?

There's probably better child care options in Denmark; if they did that in the US, it would be a catastrophe.
They still carry it. And can in turn infect their parents
Do you mean that they do not catch the virus or that they do not have any severe symptoms but can still transmit?
So I was on Youtube when WHO was holding the conference giving the promotion and I caught about 10 minutes off it. In there, the spokesperson said exactly concerning 1) that we SHOULD still enact containment measures, and that those containment measures could help nip it in the bud.
More than that. Governments are going to collapse over this, capitalism as we know it is done. After the financial crisis we [in the US] put far more effort into share buybacks and the like than into infrastructure, housing, economic stability etc. There was a partial attempt to reform the appallingly bad healthcare system but it failed, partly from a lack of vision and partly from sabotage by economic rent-seekers. This is the hangover.
This looks great, but it's also focused on people—what happens when more and more support is done via AI?
Auto play videos make me instantly hit the back button
US Soccer claims being a male player requires more skill
None of that is well-established. It might be right, but there hasn't been time to do the science. Certainly facial contact is a known vector for many viruses, including other coronavirus genera.

This is a crisis. We have to work things via defense in depth and hope that it is enough. So we wash our hands, isolate, wear masks where available, and we don't touch our face.

Please don't try to finesse a pandemic just to seem smart on the internet. No one knows whether you're right or not.

Seriously, just don't touch your face.
The prime minister said schools and daycares would stay open to serve those. Also that the school itself is not the problem, only the amount of people.
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I'm not saying I want this to happen. This would be my parents too, mate. But it's just the morbid reality of the situation. OP was talking about the "bright side", well after the dust settles this is an upside.
I think that's close to accurate, but a better description would be "A pack of wolves fighting over who is going to eat the sheep".

The different market players here, PBMs, Payors, Manufacturers, Providers, Special Interest Groups, Advisory Boards and others - all are trying to bankrupt one another much harder than they're trying to bankrupt customers because customers have nearly no money to take - most of the inflow into this market isn't coming from the consumers but from the employers of the consumers (that are paying truly staggering amounts of money) and a lot of the damage you see to customers ends up being, essentially, collateral damage from one market player trying to stick it to another market player.
I get tripped up by the Pandas API no matter how often I use it, and when I haven't used it in a while I practically have to re-learn all the basics. But whenever it does exactly what I need in a readable one-liner, I forgive it for all its transgressions. It's an abusive relationship.
Kids are much worse vectors for the spread of the disease, so this is absolutely NOT a good argument.
They’re the official government source. Whatever you are using is pulling data directly from them.
Is there any reasoning/science behind 100 people? Why 100 but not 1000 or 50?
Is there anyone doing work on analyzing current legislation and providing alternate wording to fix the issue?
Ask HN: How do you work at home with at-home children?
As a side-effect of the current coronavirus precautions, I was recently faced with a one week stretch of working from home while taking care alone of a young child who found themself unexpectedly on holiday/homeschooled.

This is a situation in which no grandparent or nanny could intervene and getting out of the house is severely limited by the current situationn. Needless to say, my productivity was suboptimal and the week was quite stressful for both parent (trying to work) and child (parent is here, but won't play).

Does anyone have experience that could help? I'd very much like to avoid putting my kid in front of the TV or a game console for one entire week.
>> Another headline today report automotive industry is still in shock of Tesla's success

I'm still in shock at Tesla's success. Not that they managed to get where they are, but that they didn't go under. I can't help thinking there are larger forces at work behind the scenes.

The other car makers have refused to compete head-to-head with them. EVs seem like something they want to have eventually, but they don't seem to have the will to make it happen.
Is there a non-Medium link to this? I can't read it :(
Not to mention that China was pretty slow to properly react (nearly 2 months between the start of the outbreak and the start of Wuhan's quarantine, by which point it had already spread to South Korea and Thailand, and likely to Italy), and even outright suppressed the doctors/whistleblowers who originally publicly raised concern about the virus (which the Supreme People's Court even admitted was a bad idea; you know the PRC government done goofed when they're actually willing to admit they made a mistake).

The US should be looking at China as a case study on how not to handle the early stages of a pandemic. Instead it seems like we're making the same mistakes (though thankfully at least some areas are being proactive about e.g. shutting down schools).
This is actually a great opportunity for a natural experiment. AFAIK Norws and Swedes have similar cultures re: touching and kissing; probably very similar genetics too.

Curiosity aside: hope you live long and lucky.