skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I compare this to two global software teams, 1 in country x the other in country y, who both have the identical charter to massage bits and bytes into a certain shape. Team 1 believes in "The Best Function" approach, and team 2 believes in "The Goodest Function Ever" approach. They've reached an impasse, and the company ends up paying for both.

The paper reads as a recommendation that Team 1 and 2 "should just compromise". Great idea, but difficult in practice.
I think it depends on who your "target market" is. Non-viral licenses make sense if you want companies to use it.

I've never released my work under MIT or BSD. I release about half of my work into the public domain, about a quarter of it under a GPL variant, and a quarter of it remains under a more conventional commercial license.
When you offer support for C++, we'll talk. More challenging to parse and analyze, of course.
Thanks. Sometimes I suck. I'll do better.
My anecdotal data: having looked at quite a number of job ads on LinkedIn, I'd say that any reasonable remote job attracts hundreds of applications,whereas a very similar,non remote position would only get 10, sometimes even less. However,the absolute majority of the jobs are for people who know their shit and not for those who are about to figure it out.
Isn't this why parents exist?

It's also why Linux exists.

As tech companies continue the hard turn from value proposition to value extraction, it's getting easier to say "no thanks" and switch to open systems shared among the public.
If the alerting story is amazing, then this thing would be very compelling.

Nowadays people use an amalgamation of random tools: Grafana, Redash, Superset, Tableau, etc. But they all have rudimentary alerting or none at all.

Self hosting is another feature that is important. Enterprise customers simply won't buy if it's SaaS only.
Many Web applications will just ship WGSL. This includes everything going through Three.js, Babylon.js, and hand-written web apps.

It's not even clear if Chrome or Firefox will accept SPIR-V binary as an extension at this point.

Anyway, conversion to and from SPIR-V is supposed to be straightforward and light. Our (speaking for gfx-rs community) Rust-based shader infrastructure will handle that , and the converter should be easily compilable to wasm (when it's ready).

Anyway x2, most of the time in the whole picture of creating pipelines will be spent in the driver, so whatever parsing performance difference WGSL brings to the table, be it 5% or 10%, doesn't matter, you aren't going to see that in benchmarks because of that other stuff that's going on when you are creating a pipeline.
Sure, I know why everyone has to show them legally. But if noone reads them really, and mindlessly clicks through, then it serves 0% of the intended purpose. Protection measure what does not do anything really useful (just avoiding regulatory fine) is worse as it is just a big waste and false sense of being informed?
When the platform owner can kill your product with a flick of a switch, your negotiating position is weak
I don't know if it's racism but I also am sure that if it had started in London we wouldn't be hearing about "the British virus" and so on.
> The amount of hassle it takes in most companies to licence software from a third party vendor is so immense

Yes, for very large corporations. But smaller companies don't have such a large problem with this (and most companies are on the smaller side).
Yep, and Telepathy (based on Pidgin aka GAIM). In a way, Pidgin and its predecessors of multi IM clients also did this.
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You can both be right.

Maybe we live in a time of unprecedented access to education and affordable materials, which is also a time of extreme inequality and selective enforcement that grinds most people into the dust.
> Other than that I am quite satisfied, in Europe at least.

Not in Italy. Our government changed emergency plans at least three times since Sunday and as far as I can tell is not aggressive enough in finding contacts and isolating them. The current trend is just to lock most of the people up and hoping the curve flattens.
Because humans are more than their immune systems - I'd argue the Salk made society far stronger than a society requiring polio immunity as a precondition to live
Also, we don't know how many people have been infected. I'm guessing for the flu we have better estimates, as it has been tracked for decades. Besides, "flu" has been a diagnosis commonly used by doctors whenever the symptoms fit. I was told I had a flu by a doctor more than once without any blood tests. So we might have another order of magnitude correction once more data is available.

Yes, it's better be safe than sorry, I get that. However we probably shouldn't use mortality rates as the main reason to panic (or not panic). I shouldn't have done that in my previous comments.
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Number of deaths is a lagging indicator while number of PUI (patients under investigation) would be a leading indicator. But since number of deaths is the number that can be easily aggregated let's hope in a few weeks we will find out that the curve has already started to bend.
The Chief Medical Officer for Wales has been making press releases about new cases. I see them reported on the Guardian live blog and they also here:

https://gov.wales/announcements/search?field_policy_areas%5B...
Number of critical care beds (ICU) in EU countries and UK
You've been using HN repeatedly for nationalistic flamewar, which is not a legit use of the site. We've had to ask you more than once to stop doing this since long before Covid-19. Please stop now.

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

Edit: turns out you've been using HN pretty much exclusively for that. That is a bannable offense as the site guidelines make clear. I'm not going to ban you now, but if you don't stop then we will.
It helped consumers though. It would be terrible if every binary in my system was a separately licensed purchase.
Would you use a kinda social network that let you put different media types like articles, books, movies, etc in any List you like like standard(READiNGG or WATCHINGG, etc?) or custom ones you can setup. like a trello board kinda
Uber is a transportation logistics company's and a regulatory arbitrage company, not a "mobile app" company or a "gadget" company.
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Even setting aside the questionable association of beakers and evolution, you can take the same logic both ways: "next thing you know, asbestos is in every home and large swaths of the population take mass shootings for granted as an unpreventable phenomenon."
Looks good!

Worth noting, the idea of "visual SQL" appeared long, long ago, it was called "Query by Example" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_by_Example.

Congratulation on the launch and thank you for having PostgreSQL support. (Side-question: any reasons why you have mirrored Postgres logo?)
Algolia sadly cannot yet do things like "show me the items around/about $200", i don't care if the are +/- a few dollars
Do not underestimate the Great Firewall. But anyways, from a manufacturing and distribution of basic essential health supplies, and more, China is probably best positioned to help save the world.
New economic realities are upon us.

I don't see anything about tesla that wasn't reasonably perceivable 10 years ago, or anything like a new economic reality. People have been saying for decades that electric cars will work well if and when we can get the battery cost down a bit.

We haven't seen the kind of reduction above poster is positing in electric cars yet, and that's beyond the 10 year window (and we aren't going to, as drive train isn't enough of the cost).
I’ve always thought that if your business can be made redundant simply by another product implementing a new feature, then you have a really obvious business risk and should make decisions accordingly.
Vue.js and the surrounding ecosystem vue-cli, vuex, etc... is killer.
> We do not know that his heart failed during the journey. (It might.)

Sure. We also do not know his heart didn't fail, though you seem sure it didn't. However, the clues throughout the movie make it fairly obvious that he doesn't make it.

> We know that, reasonably, management would want the margin of error on the right side for a high investment journey.

Sure. And we also know that he has heart problems and is living on borrowed time. We also know that running on the treadmill nearly leaves him breathless and clutching at his chest in terrible coughing fits. There must be a reason why that scene was in the movie. Don't you think?

The ending certainly leaves it open to interpretation. That's what's great about the movie. It didn't spoonfeed the audience. But it did provide hints/clues/etc.

Put it this way, there are tons of clues that he dies. There are no clues that he lives. If he lived, the movie would have some mentioned what he planned to do once on titan. Or any clue that he intended to survive the trip. Like maybe, Vincent telling Jerome, "Hey, I need a few samples to live on Titan" or "Hey, I got a nice apartment on Titan" or "Man, my new job on Titan is great" or anything indicating a life on Titan. Ever notice he never mentions his life on Titan? The only thing he is concerned about is getting on that spaceship.

If you were watching a kamikaze movie and at the end, the pilot flies off with enough fuel to reach the aircraft carrier group but not enough to make it back. Would you argue that he makes it back alive since we never actually see him carry out the attack? Sure, anything is possible, but highly unlikely.

Is it possible Vincent made it to titan? Sure, if they want to do a sequel perhaps. Is it likely? I don't think so. But it's art. Your interpretation is just as valid is mine.
> Instead of thinking of this as "sherlocking" or "threatening",

Well the consumer has a clear loss here if they don’t extend the functionality to all apps, eg give them control over which links open which apps and ability to remove built in apps like safari, mail, the absolutely useless news app, etc.
And that is a very fair point.This morning I got to work just to find an email from a colleague,who is in a very important position, asking to review an email he is about to send out to a supplier. One page email was literally bleeding with track changes in word after I reviewed it. I can't see in no shape or form that person maintain any reasonable job in the next company he'd join. With remote, I'd absolutely give writing tests to every single candidate to make sure I wouldn't end up with people who can't write emails.
It's recovering. In my hometown (Shandong province), no more restrictions on manufacturing and transportation since yesterday, aside from body temp checkpoints.

It is basically contained in China outside Wuhan already. Wuhan will join in a few weeks.
I started using this earlier last week and I love it. Thanks for making it
What are you complaining about? He's taken some available data, made some points and illustrated them using graphs.

You might not find it edifying enough (PS I like the bro-science phrase!), however, it might spur an actual medical science specialist to do some real figures.

PPS. I put up coronavirus posters up at work a week ago last Monday and brought some hand-sanitiser in. Everyone laughed and poked-fun, some even baulked when I demanded they hand-sanitise at my desk. No jokes any more, people are even washing their hands.
I agree that Goods still have to be produced. I didn't say UBI is a substitute for economic activity. I didn't say UBI was all that you need. You are attacking a straw man here.

To expand a bit more, UBI might help service workers and others other hourly wage workers to take care of themselves. The service workers are the people who interact with other people the most, so an infected service worker who doesn't have an option but to work will end up spreading the disease. UBI might be the answer to temporarily keep them alive.

All of us have to live on reserves if there's a shutdown. Just like China did. It is not going to be great. But the alternative is much worse. And I am not claiming this is a permanent solution.
Just like a PhD thesis, it’s best to be done last minute.
Worth pointing out that MS has made extensive investments into making their C++ code bases safe and secure in the last ~twenty years, yet they still regularly have these problems. If Microsoft cannot handle the problem, few organizations would have the resources to.

Also see the recent slew of security issues on OpenBSD, which is developed by what many consider some of the most skilled and careful C programmers.
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Partly, but it's quite a weak effect. The UK had been testing much more aggressively than a lot of European countries, but our number of positives has been pretty much what you'd expect considering our distance from Italy.
Here in the UK our government thinks washing our hands will save us.
If the intent is to protect people from phosphorus, I'd just like to point out that you can buy large amounts of gasoline without any paperwork, without even raising any eyebrows. If somebody wants to commit arson, bullshit regulations on phosphorus won't stop them. Nor does it require any knowledge a gradeschooler doesn't possess.

This isn't even academic, a maniac killed 36 people like this in Japan last year.

If the point is being missed, then what is the point being missed? What does regulating small amounts of phosphorus actually accomplish in a society where gasoline is available in every neighborhood?
This is interesting, but I have a serious question to ask;

Does it work on black people's faces? I can have a hand on my face but it would still predict otherwise, it seems like I have to go out of my way to obstruct my face for it to pick it up, and even that with a lot of false negatives.
I dunno about elegant... seems like pandas is missing a reverse parameter in expanding. Surely this would be preferable:

df[col].expanding(reverse=True).mean()
Another way to look at this is how far back you go trying to prevent crime by punishing "pre-crime" activities. For instance, certain kinds of meetings might lead to a criminal plot; or hiding certain kinds of things; or publishing information that might be used by criminals.
No one was alleging that him keeping the explosives at home was putting anyone but himself at risk, which makes it crucially different from speeding. The idea behind these explosives laws is to catch people intending to cause harm while they are plotting.
Amazon themselves as the seller can also no longer be trusted. They grey-market source some items and because they are so generous with returns, what you buy may not be what is in the box if it is inspected poorly (this has happened to me three times now).
Complaints on social media are never really "the problem".
This article is really good at predicting those "dark" cases: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...

If we assume that the growth chart is similar everywhere, then with our 1,000 confirmed cases in the US, we probably have around 30,000 unconfirmed dark cases.

Also a really crazy fact is that South Korea did a good job of containing 30 out of 31 of their initial cases in the early days. But then the 31st was responsible for thousands of infections.
There is also a book called Zero Trust Networks: https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Trust-Networks-Building-Untruste...
Triplebyte lets you jump through all the hurdles, for the exciting opportunity to jump through the exact same hurdles as a cold-calling applicant would. Easy to see their value to the employer side (good stream of pre-vetted candidates), but they bring very little value to the employee.
But then, if the prospective oustee is a long-standing member of the already-existing community — and it's hard to argue that the co-founder is anything but that — then shouldn't it be the Johnny-come-lately constable of the tone police that should be the one to fork the tree and start their own community around that?
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I think this was used in Skype as well during the mid 00s
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Yes, and then there's the advertising get-out-of-jail-free card of "puffery". You can lie all you want in your marketing materials as long as your lawyers can convince a judge that no reasonable person would actually believe what you said.

It's this kind of of nonsense that led me to consider all marketing messages and claims to be lies by default.
If it embeds itself into the population substantially enough, it becomes 'endemic'. Like influenza.
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I did not know jitsi existed
I have a startup, we have a nice new product -- and obviously, there are some product specifics ,so we have our own support team, that we train to learn the product, and be able to answer customer questions, and so on.

If I hire Assembled to help with support, what can they provide?

Obviously, they will have zero knowledge of the product. What can Assembled help with here?

Is this about fending the first-line questions, like "please reboot your computer"?

BTW there is like thousands of companies that do that. Not clear what is special here.
Very interesting what you wrote in your article. Most interesting is how you seem to realize while designing your product that the spreadsheet surface is the most intuitive to users. They like also the baked results you present quickly. So you can see really the problem of your customer then.

What is really good is to assemble a library of visual queries for the customer. This is a good idea for the reason that many users have the same fundamental types of queries on their data. When finally you have enough of the basic queries that the user can do useful work without programming then you can find a way to customize this yes.

Have you data on how many similar queries customers use? Then you should know how to create the basic set of important operations.
My brother told me today was looking for a way to move his classes online, to keep his income while coronavirus is hurting his art centre. I found jitsi.
Got curious so opened the link, waited to load, and pushed back. It worked without issue This is with Firefox on Android, and the uBlock add-on.

I tried again, this time with uBlock disabled. It took like 30 full seconds to load, but still the back action worked fine... so it must be an issue specific to Safari.
That's a common negotiation strategy. They just drag it along and hope you're tired enough to accept whatever you get. Most companies don't do this (because their time is worth something too), but FAANG gets so many applicants they wouldn't really care.

I'm glad there are sites like this to make it salaries more transparent.
This argument seems more relevant to intellectual property laws. The complaint was about Apple stealing ideas from their app developer community.
Can you explain? The second paragraph of the majority decision quotes the Louisiana law which it upholds:

"In case that any parish, town, or city, or any portion thereof, shall become infected with any contagious or infectious disease, to such an extent as to threaten the spread of such disease to the other portions of the state, the state board of health shall issue its proclamation declaring the facts and ordering it in quarantine, and shall order the local boards of health in other parishes, towns, and cities to quarantine against said locality"

That sure sounds like it's talking about local quarantines to me.
On the flip side I run our docsearch for stream on Algolia for $35 a month. https://getstream.io/chat/docs/

Search is fast, relevancy is awesome, it's hosted and I have analytics. So for that use case it's a clear and major win against installing, configuring and adding search analytics to Elastic.
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I'd agree with the recruiter,who responded to your comment earlier: every single designer out there has a portfolio that just blows your head away,because it's that good. Good looking shit is easy. What's not easy is the story how you got from point A,aka I need a corporate branding done,to point B,aka 'wow, who did this stuff for you?Can I get the number?' Focus on cases studies, client 'teaching' and etc.That will probably add another 27 seconds.
Yeah, electric cars are all about battery cost which is coming down rapidly due to economies of scale. Tesla was great in taking the initial cost and that together with $7500 tax rebate made them feasible in the beginner.

It looks like they are here to stay, but I would warn they still make a lot less cars at a lower profitability than most major car makers.
I hope they battle it harder than they “battle” counterfeits in general. It seems like they generally like the money they make off of counterfeits and just pay lip service to preventing it so they don’t get yelled at too much for it
Which I don't disagree.

However, such virus already exists in the wild, though the chances are there, it can jump to human anytime in the future regardless of national boundaries.
There is some truth to this, API pricing is difficult. Hard to make it work for every use case.
Hey Y'all, I wrote something similar yesterday using Tensorflow.js https://face-palm.netlify.com/
Or Nix (via Home Manager [1])

[1] https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Home_Manager
> It's obviously legal when companies in the industry do it.

I'm not familiar with specific laws in UK, but it's possible that the industry has to seek a license before they start experimenting with explosives.
People need to stop talking about this as a binary yes or no fact. It is almost guaranteed that it is possible to infect someone else while not showing symptoms and this probably has actually happened. The question is how common it is. Most credible sources I've seen seem to say that it is unlikely/uncommon.

It seems likely that if we fully controlled most of the cases that had visible symptoms, the spread would stop, even if we failed to control the cases which did not show symptoms.

The same is true for spread via surfaces: while I'm sure it's possible and happens, it seems like the primary mechanism of infection is breathing infected respiratory droplets from someone else.

Sources: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission...
I got extremely sick with the flu (confirmed influenza type A by test) at the end of January/early February this year in San Francisco despite being vaccinated. I've had the flu once or twice before but I don't remember it being this bad.

It lasted about 5-7 days and came with a high fever, full body pain and soreness to the extent that any type of movement was difficult, delirium and confusion, difficulty eating, and vomiting for 1-2 days (which isn't typical of the flu as I understand it).

I'm 24 and generally in very good health and felt that without modern medicine and sanitation I could have easily died from this. I lost about 5% of my body weight and a lot of muscle.

The reaction to COVID-19 makes me wish we, as a society, took preventative health more seriously in general as the common diseases can be extremely nasty too.

In fact from everything I've heard about COVID-19, it sounds like it wouldn't have been nearly as bad for someone my age as the flu was for me this year.
Isn't there a famous quotation along those lines, maybe from Steve Jobs, about "it's a feature, not a product?"
I use a Wacom Intous tablet that was sub $100 that works just fine on Linux (I use it with Krita)
The counter-argument is that Apple's implementations aren't "playing fairly", because iOS's restrictions mean Apple can give its own features special integration into the OS that third-parties don't have access to. Of course, some degree of this is inevitable with any platform. So there isn't a clear line where it becomes anti-competitive.