skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Onboarding as I think of it is pretty late in the game for us.

Sales basically takes the initial call(s) with the customer, gets a feel for what that customer does and what their processes look like. Then they do some some rough estimates to give the customer a feel for the costs involved and ways of handling those processes.

True onboarding happens after we've gone a ways into actual implementation (contracts signed) and then they start "testing" and really using our systems.

The reason for it being so late is that the system / and our customers all involve such heavily customized processes that ... there's not much use out of the box for most customers / they wouldn't want to use it that way.

I don't know if anyone is really onboarded until the rubber hits the road ;)
The Web and the New Reality (1995)
Netflix's UX is better than any other their competitors.
Nobody Wants Much Oil
Genuinely curious how federal interest rates have any relation whatsoever to fees for service and why they're being correlated here.

An uncharitable reading might assume a spurious correlation.
Learn Two (Programming) Languages
Most theories of the good hold that you are certainly entitled to things just for being born - take your life for instance.

Your alternative conception is far outside the norm.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-years-ago-india-lacked-fast...
"A regular car like a Toyota Corolla or something isn't very expensive for the average adult. Unless they live in a dense area and have to pay for parking."

"Owning a car is a lot of hassle. It's super expensive, it takes time to maintain it, you have to park it, you may have issues with it.
Renting a shared car from a phone still sound appealing to me."

I found it very telling that these two comments were literally one after the other on my screen...
I'm disappointed that there isn't more criticism of the SQL language. The whole NoSQL buzz got me excited, then turned out to actually mean NoRelational.

It is wild that we are still using a language that looks and feels like COBOL, and any criticism is met with drive-by disapproval (downvotes and no comments) or an argument about why relational databases are important.

SQL is a deeply flawed language by standards that are pretty much universal today - we on HN discuss them daily on posts about new programming languages. For example, one of the top level comments here:

> In SQL it boils down to the fundamental syntactical requirement to put the SELECT clause before the FROM clause. So I have to build up my statement in this weird spiral pattern where I change something deeper in before I know what I can SELECT in the first place.

If this were the case for a new language post on HN, the author would get run out of town for this reason alone. And yet, the person who wrote that comment feels the need to hedge by saying they are "an SQL hater in remediation".

Relational data does require a mode of thinking that many programmers are not practiced with. Wouldn't it help to have a language for working with it that isn't outright terrible?
It's short for a "content division" being a generic reflowing container.
Since this got popular and I can't edit any more:

1) Cape Town is not the Southernmost point of Africa, but it is very far south, and does contain the Cape of Good Hope, the Southwestern-most point. There are no population centres that are further south (Port Elizabeth is about the same latitude)

2) "...the next area that needs it is Lagos" ... and other central African cities such as Kinshasa and Accra. It might make sense if the second African AWS region is located hereabouts.

3) "... to data centres in Europe" ... and Middle-East, of course.
I know it's not exactly raw-metal ARM development, but I've been using Microsoft's ARM-based (SQ1 processor) Surface Pro X for the last few months for web development and have been pleasantly surprised that the majority of my stack not only works without tweaks on an ARM-based system, but is very performant. WSL2 is really unlocking actually using these machines full time! Particularly powerful has been the new Chromium-based Edge–fully native modern web browser on ARM, very performant, battery-friendly and rock-solid, which makes me wonder why Google isn't shipping an ARM-based Chrome port yet, given it's clearly already building/in use upstream.
I don't understand why people feel the need to say stuff like this. It's dangerous and wrong.

Yes, sure, masks are ineffective if you define "effective" as "a complete barrier to infection". Congratulations, you've successfully unmasked the the grand mask conspiracy.

Except that definition is next to useless. What masks do do is reduce the amount of aerosolized particles that are emitted and inhaled. It's not meant to be a protective barrier, it's meant to be a numbers game.

Saying masks are useless is like saying you can catch Covid from your mailman, so if you accept mail packages you may as well just go to a concert.

It's all about volume and probability of contact.

I'd also be interested to hear someone with more knowledge of the science weigh in on the studies he cites. If masks are as completely useless as he claims, I would expect the (already high) infection rate among medical providers to be even higher, at 100%. What gives?
Payment processors view this as a risk/reward scenario. NSFW content historically has very high chargeback rates. When your overall processing amount is low, the risk is low. As the amount goes up and your business gets more successful, the risk increases as your new customers are more likely to be fickle.

This is a few years out of date but when I investigated what it would take to legally accept credit cards for NSFW content, the processors all wanted a very large bond to hold as protection against chargebacks. I imagine once your daily transaction volume grossly exceeds reasonable bond levels, the processors get pretty flighty.
"It's basically free money shoveled into banks, a massive boon." A wall street bailout disguised as a main street bailout.
You can already do this in C though, If EVER SO SLIGHTLY wasteful in non-practical terms.

If you need a 23bit object you just structure it to be that. It’s a couple of AND or SHIFT ops when accessing, but so what? Even for 100Gbit networking you aren’t going to max out even a slightly appropriate CPU.
> Humorously, the error message that appears (“This message has no content”) is a common bug anyways so users have been trained to ignore it.

Source? I've been using MobileMail for more than a decade and never seen this bug.
The thing about large restaurant chains is that they can easily borrow money, their scale is such that their banks will lend them money regardless of the pandemic (even if that's simply because they've previously borrowed).

Ruth's Chris isn't in nearly as much danger of going out of business as, say, a 1000 or so single-location restaurants that didn't get the time of day from JP Morgan when they called.
Cholula FTW! Oldest still inhabited city in the Americas and best hot sauce.
Even if it's small, this will hurt hiring at the margin. I make job/offer selection choices based on considerations like these especially if the pay is comparable, although I have some tolerance for behavior I don't agree with. I'm sure at least some others are the same.
How is that exploiting anything, they encourage it.
That's fascinating, and makes sense. I didn't think of it until you brought it up, but the risk/reward of investing in automation vs. maintaining current margins certainly flips when current margins plummet.
Actually this is normal and good.
> Why do we even need always visible scroll bars? They just take screen space and billions of people do fine without them on Macs and mobile OSes.

Don't get me started.

Pros of a proper always-present scrollbar with appropriately-styled thumb:

- It indicates that the thing you're viewing even is scrollable.
- You can see at once where you are in a document, and how large it is relative to your viewport.
- It offers a convenient UI to scroll in both small or large amounts, or scroll to the very top or bottom. For lots of uses the scroll wheel on your mouse is a substitute, but certainly not for everything.

Cons:

- It takes a tiny bit of screen real estate
- It offends some people's esthetics taste, I guess
I'd like to hear some reasoning behind that. Maybe more adjectives?

IMHO Complexity, in general, is good. Nature conserves it when its adaptive.
Really? You mean, even an existing (approved) bank can't just one day decide to stop lending and revert to narrow functions?
If they're charging interest, their fees would be a lot higher than 2%.
> Correlation doesn't guarantee causation

This is a vacuous statement in this context and adds nothing to the discussion, because you can never prove causation via a study/experiment, only reject the null hypothesis.
True - artistic (but not mathematical or scientific). But AP classes are really good at what they are meant to achieve indeed.
> the government sector is usually less efficient than private sector

Statements like this require proof.
I disagree. While what you say is technically true, but I'm not so cynical to think the Democrats would have backed off on a permanent paid sick leave benefit in this situation if they'd been in a more powerful position. I think it's a policy they actually want, and the pandemic makes the need clear enough to neutralize most conservative-inspired unease with it in the minds of centrists and swing voters.
I've thought about this too. A lot of businesses will come back to the US from China. They'll likely be building new state of the art plants. Automation tech has become quite abundant in the recent years. I mean, hobbyists are making industrial-ish robot arms with arduino/rpi's for under $2k. The programming is becoming much simpler as well using encoders and physically moving the robot and having it record the moves instead of coding it all from scratch. Here's one I've been looking at building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfJn7T4D-6k
Interesting...what are your sources here?
The first linked study, the one from Japan, had 32 participants that finished the study and there were only 2 colds observed, one in each group. To me, a layperson, that feels like such a small sample size to be totally useless. Am I wrong about this?

It's also stated, "The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked". Why when I look at a CDC article on masks does it say N95 is effective on this particle size? Unless the author is using "blocked" to mean "100% prevented from moving through the filter", which would be a higher standard than N95 masks claim to have.

https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2009/10/14/n95/
This.

IMHO eventually people won't think about storage at all.
A framework for parsing heritable information
You probably could get the compiler to shout at you for a few more mistakes with explicit types?
> Doing well at your subjects in Russia put you in the cool group. Doing well at your subjects in AU got you labelled as a nerd.

Seems a bit exaggerated to me. At my high school (in the US) the cool kids were just the more socially outgoing kids. Some of them had great grades and others not so much. It was the same in the 'nerds' group.

From my experience academic achievement didn't really have any bearing at all on the social group you fell into.

But I guess experiences will vary....there are pretty huge differences in public school quality across the US and even within one local school district.
They could, but would see a reduction in income by doing so, therefore an unlikely occurrence. I don’t see many banks willingly walk away from low risk income.
> [Image of Kenyan woman picking roses in a Kenyan greenhouse]

> The work is grueling, with long shifts in steamy greenhouses, and laborers earn as little as $70 a month, but it’s a steady paycheck in a country where those can be hard to come by.

By comparison, that monthly wage of $70 is less than a day of minimum wage in the US. That's why it's more efficient to make a global energy-intensive cold chain logistics and air-freight network.

(That and the price of carbon pollution isn't priced into the supply chain)

That's the scale of globalization.
HN is all in on foolish consistency wrt title capitalization.
Reading through the comments I see people from all over the world offering insights about various places. Then I realised all the comments here are in English. There must be an equivalent for languages continuously spoken over time.
Side Note: NPR's journalism of late has been refreshingly non-political.

Every article on CNN right now for me is a click bait headline with some weird mention of Trump like it's some sort of requirement to get it to go to press.
Robots are mass-produced. Fanuc press material says they're doing 7000 robots arms per month (that's two of their locations, they have more doing other industrial automation).
It pains me that my initial thought was "that's not expensive in the slightest compared to $50k/year". America sucks sometimes.
I do not feel the 'business as usual' a valid argument here!
But going too far the other way is how you end up with performance 100-1000x worse than it should be. Which is an actual thing that happens quite often in the wild. Also often ends up heavily dependent on some ORM or framework, making rewrites or multi-client DB access dangerous and painful.
Oh yeah, I had it in writing.

I also had $500 to my name and a car that was falling apart. And it was against Walmart.

I talked to 2 attorneys. They said effectively that even though I had a very good case, they were too big for a probono small attorney to deal with.

It's only illegal if you can enforce it. And that costs money. Which I didn't have.
Just returns true now... problem solved!
"existing customer" due diligence seems like fair profit...
Where: Belgorod-Dnestrovsky (ex Ancient Greek colony) on the Black Sea coast.
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The banks considered that risk and said they wouldn't participate unless it was eliminated.[0] I can't find any follow-up article covering if or how that resolved but I notice most banks seem to have participated in the end.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-stimul...
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> Many times it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than vice versa.

Yes, this is seldom considered. For example, if you plan to graduate with a BS in physics, would you rather be in the top quartile at Cal Poly, or the bottom quartile at Cal Tech?
More long-winded than patio11.
> The narrative I've seen in all the press is that's it's a failure because it all went to Shake Shack and others who didn't deserve it

Where have you seen that narrative?

I think you have created your own easily-defeated strawman for the sake of argument.
If you know of a better way to spread 600 billion amongst 5-10 million small businesses without going through the local banks these businesses use please share with the class?
An optical illusion remarkable for often lasting up to three months
Don't forget parking. My university realized they could charge upwards of $400/semester for a spot in one of the few garages. With all the housing being built now I imagine in a few years it'll be $600+.
Bandwidth and latency.

In my world view of computing there are the two atomic elements of data and computation. In general people don't care much about computation as its hidden behind many layers. Mostly people care about data. Getting it quickly and getting a lot of it.
How does your theory of fiat value explain the value of the Argentinian peso or the Venezuelan bolívar, and their changes?
No such thing as a maternity test? Isn’t it kind of obvious?
I want one of these machines so bad. Would be an epic workstation, but the price tag is high. OpenBSD would mostly just work on these, as it already runs on the server boards. It even already has AMD graphics drivers ported to arm64, and a chromium browser port!
Again, since the loans are guaranteed by the government, what risk are the banks taking, exactly?
Almost everyone in the US in areas that aren't densely populated has a car. 90% of households in Dallas have a car. The ~only people thinking about a car will be ones in places where they have to pay for parking.
GUI also makes it easy to cross-reference between branches, automatically pull submodules, see/do all sorts of things without keeping crufty cli args in your head. I mean, the latter is huge.

I felt a certain bravado in uni for always using the cli that I see among other HNers. As I get older, I couldn't give less of a damn. Scrolling manpages to find an re-remember the unintuitive cli arg I need vs just clicking a button that does it? I prefer the latter. The former is always available if I need it.

The few times I have to drop into cli git are the things I always have to look up anyways, like git-reflog.
"Any thoughts on where this energy should go?"

Good question. What are you working on? Can you channel your negativity into a positive starting today - however small?

Bigger picture/longer term: can you re-calibrate your time, energy, and emotions into a 'be the change' model?

It can be done deliberately!
SQL and functional programming constructs are actually quite similar:

SELECT -> map

FROM -> stream

JOIN -> flatMap

WHERE -> filter

GROUP BY -> collect

ORDER BY -> sorted

https://blog.jooq.org/2015/08/13/common-sql-clauses-and-thei...
> It has failed to help enough small businesses.

... in large part because publicly-traded businesses have scooped up the funding.
Zero-Day on iOS: It's Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Emails
My First Mistake as an Entrepreneur
To be fair, this is not a lie. The teachers were unknowingly giving you a Type-Theoretic answer. The answer to your questions change dependent on the Number Type you are calculating with. :)
TFA isn't even about SQL the language at all though, it's about the scalability and reliability characteristics of databases, especially in a distributed environment.
Yes. Mostly North American, but also UK ones. Older cities definitely have more history to explore (our town had medieval fortress and original Ancient Greek colony ruins).

But quality of life matters more. This is the defining charasteristic of the city for me to live in.
If the neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 does take a part in the development of respiratory failure in COVID-19 patients, the precaution with masks will absolutely be the most effective measure to protect against the possible entry of the virus into the CNS.

Can be found in the document under "Supporting Information" at the following address:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25728
SQL can do a lot more though.

Triggers, functions, procedures, access control.....
Any chance someone could fix the title? (Add a "!" or ":" after "Mail", as is in the original; fix the capitalization on MobileMail and maild)
I hope they will start some ad campaign soon with pretty words about how sensitive they are for the troubles of the society and how much they support all the efforts in these troubled times!
Not controversial making profit on emergency measures, not at all! :/
We are really excited about this release! I also wanted the screencast to be a single take, so I'm happy to answer questions if there are gaps to fill in for things I could have explained more clearly.
I have a very similar background. My degrees are in Business Computer Systems and we had SQL hammered into us. We learned how to program with Java and .NET, but all from a very high level. It wasn't until a couple years into my career after school that I started learning DS+A fundamentals on my own. It blew my mind. I agree that there should be more of a mid-point available.
He tries to do that not by elevating people, but by dragging people down. I'm not OK with this.
I just want my databases to be normalised, and my queries optimised.

Stuff like Django CMS is terribly architected, so code is ping-ponging between DB and code.

This would have been a non-issue if all the APIs were built with batching in mind, and the data was normalised in the first place.
What I want to know is, what about large corporations that do franchising?

For example, many if not most restaurant chains are franchises. The Potbelly location near you isn't owned by the Potbelly corporation; it's a small business that has a franchise agreement with Potbelly corporation.

If Potbelly corporation, as a large corporation, got one of these loans, and then used the money to help their franchises, who have a much better chance of getting the help through their large corporate partner than as individual small businesses applying for these loans, I would not have a problem with that. And for all we know from this article (or, for that matter, from any other reporting on this issue that I have seen), that could be happening with the money the large corporations are getting.

Or, OTOH, if all these large corporations that do franchising are getting these loans, and then are not using the money to help their franchises, I would have even more of a problem with that than I would with large corporations that don't do franchising taking the money.

But from all the reporting I've seen on this issue, I don't know which it is--there could be no problem at all, or an even worse problem than the reporters are alleging. But the news organizations are all so stuck on pushing a "big corporations bad" narrative (which, given that they are themselves big corporations, takes a lot of chutzpah to begin with) that they can't even be bothered to ask the obvious follow-up questions that would help to figure out whether there actually is a problem, and if so, how bad it is.

And news organizations wonder why the public doesn't listen to them any more.
My sense of the literature is that it's accurate in the limited sense that masks often don't have statistically significant effects in studies. It's maybe also accurate in the sense that the effects of masks are really being overrated, even many n95 masks.

However, in many studies there's a consistent trend toward masks doing something, in the sense that measures of dispersion are attenuated with masks vs not.

This paper is pretty poor in that it commits the classic statistical blunder of equating multiple nonsignificant results with overall effect size. It's very hastily put together.

One of the meta-analyses cited is an example of some of these issues (Offeddu, V. et al. 2017). You can see there's few studies and the ones included result in a nonsignificant effect, but it's almost significant and in the intuitively expected direction (PPE having an effect). But then there's issue of publication biases etc.

My general impression is that the truth is somewhere in between, maybe closer to what this essay is arguing in the sense that masks are much less effective than people think, but probably not actually technically correct in that masks probably have some effect.