skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MS SqlServer has a hierarchyid data type that's interesting: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/6048/sql-server-hiera...
You’re comparing incredibly arbitrary things. Is a photo comparable to a tweet, sentence, paragraph or novel? Is a video equatable to an essay?

You’ve convinced me that it’s all incredibly relative and complex, very much impossible to set up an equation with which to even compare it, and there’s no clear cut answer - and further, I don’t see why one side even needs to win, or why anyone cares beyond some personal attachment or game or identity pride or maybe just a childhood love of Wittgenstein.

Are symbols text? All of math could be represented as symbol. Are spoken words text? What about animal calls? The intro to Wall-E conveys so much, did I need text to understand that? I’m persuaded by a seeing a video of beautiful village in its natural state, or nature. Li Ziqi is maybe the most compelling video on all of YouTube, and it has no audio or text whatsoever.
https://example.com/img.png?x=1
https://example.com/img.png?x=2
https://example.com/img.png?x=3
https://example.com/img.png?x=...
https://example.com/img.png?x=1999
https://example.com/img.png?x=2000

You need but one image, to craft an arbitrary number of unique urls using a querystring.

In theory one could also use all permutations of uppercase/lowercase letters in the path to the image. Most webservers are case insensitive so all will yield the same result but I believe the http standard considers the path to be case sensitive so all those urls would be unique.
Oh well, I guess we can all get ready for a future of every car constantly capturing all of our actions and shipping the data off to be immortalized in a Big G datacenter. Having some semblance of anonymity in public was fun while it lasted; I'm glad I got to enjoy some of the last years before it is gone entirely.
And SCOTUS has planned to look at the cases in two days:

> The United States Supreme Court will be looking into election fraud lawsuits during its Feb. 19 conference. These lawsuits include two cases filed by the Trump campaign and one case, each filed by Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Republican Representative Mike Kelly.

https://visiontimes.com/2021/02/17/the-supreme-court-will-lo...
Forth is sort of live image like Smalltalk, and great for designing languages/DSLs in like Lisp which is also homoiconic.
Or another, safer, vaccine could have been used instead.
I disagree, I think the usage and meaning of 'alt' is in fact complicated. I've asked many other people this same question and they've all given different answers.

The core underlying theme is that 'alt' gets used as a pejorative towards your outgroup. Your descriptions of the right here are quite uncharitable, which is a strong signal of your biased thinking.

You also conveniently didn't answer my question about % of the right you'd classify as 'alt-right' and the % of the left that you'd classify as 'alt-left'. I suspect the reason you chose not to is because of that same bias. It would make clear that you use 'alt' as a pejorative selectively towards your outgroup.
Completely uninformed here, but shouldn't "UTMS" be "UMTS", or am I missing something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS
The billions of dollars paid out does not disprove that at all. There are many articles, often posted right here on HN, of apps getting pulled from the app store for random reasons. Lots of articles about apps that push an update and then get removed from the store because they found something else objectionable that was previously approved.
Uber and Lyft are two data points that ride hailing is economical, by market definition.
I have to assume it is about general safety on the streets. Traffic-wise I've never felt unsafe there, but the article's claim about safety is ambiguously worded. It says "Worryingly, nearly a quarter didn't feel safe on San Francisco’s roads at all." But if you look at the question they asked in their infographic, I think people would have answered with general safety in mind more so than just road safety.

As for feeling safe - I used to also feel that most of the neighborhoods are 'fine' (although they seem to increasingly have trash and tents). But then I was physically attacked by a drug addict unexpectedly in broad daylight. And then had friends held up at gunpoint. And now if I ever have to visit SF, I am on high alert and can't turn off being on guard. I feel sad because I used to love SF but now I try to avoid it, both for personal and business tasks.
This is about as needlessly hyperbolic as claiming that everyone on the left wants to see the US turn to socialism complete with "reeducation" camps for anyone right of center.

You lack perspective.
It's always hilarious and absurd to me how people use Trump's rally size -- in 2020, during a pandemic -- as some sort of proxy objective measurement for popularity. I mean, Trump held rallies to the shock and horror of local and national and international government health departments because he's an entertainer and he knew it would be good for business, and in many cases even shamed people for wearing masks so as to attract _more_ people to his rallies. ("Everything's perfectly fine here you beautiful people!") Biden followed protocol to a T, because it was necessary to protect public health.
> We’re integrating the Android, iOS, and macOS capabilities that are part of Xamarin into .NET 6. [...] When you install the .NET SDK, you can start building apps for mobile platforms. That means that you’ll be able type dotnet new android and then dotnet run and expect an Android emulator to start running a .NET app. The same is true for iOS apps.

Finally.
I agree, let's get rid of the electoral college, and we'll never have to deal with incompetent republicans in the WH again.
Patents are not on ideas. They are on ideas reduced to practice. If you can find another method for the same outcome, it's not covered by the patent. If you improve on the method , you can patent the improvement and charge the original holder to license it.

The biggest thing wrong with patents are the logistics (lengthy, expensive filings and 20y monopolies are ridiculous today) and the lack of oversight in identitying prior art or vague, overreaching scopes.
> Is there any practical use for color ePaper yet though?

CI and monitoring dashboards. These tend to have large relatively static areas for long periods. Every regular LCD I've seen gets horrific burn-in after a month or three and then burns a lot of wasted electricity for bonus points.
The pig thing is absolutely ridiculous.

> A/B testing propaganda, so perhaps you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Dominic Cummings boasted about doing this for Brexit: it was where the "£350m for the NHS" slogan came from.
As a human with a driver's license, I'd say the job of driving a car demands ~1% of my mental system features.

Here's a few skills of my brain not needed for driving,

- compose poetry and alternate lyrics to "baby shark"

- recognize emotions on faces

- form opinions about music, movies, video games, etc.

- have a conversation

- remember that time I embarrassed myself in sixth grade

- contemplate my own existence

- divide other people into friend/enemy groups

- etc...
Meta comment: one thing I find particularly interesting here is the 4th point on their infographic - 23% of people don't feel safe getting around SF.

What amazes me is how SF responds to the endemic issues that are slowly destroying the city. Not be fixing the core issue, but by making it a startup opportunity. Cars getting broken into and muggings happening when you're on foot? Lower the barrier of entry to car transport without ownership, advertise the safety aspect of it. It's mildly surreal.
Moderna began Phase I on March 16, Phase 2 in late May and Phase 3 on July 27. So counting from the design of the vaccine, it took 2 months to start the initial trial, 4 months to start the second phase, 6 months to start the third phase, and 10 or 11 months to get to a preliminary result in the phase 3 trial.

I count 4 months of phase 1/2 and 5 months of phase 3 (also note that there is some degree of confidence in the safety from the initial results of the phase 2 study).

I would think any challenge trial would be an additional study, not a replacement, a study that overlapped with phase 2 and 3 in information gathering (enrolling a smaller number of people but gathering more efficacy data per enrollee).

1 and 2: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/experimental-c...

3: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
Parking is not really a problem for self driving cars. Most people will use them as services.

If you want to own one, then its a problem. But by the time individual can buy one I would bet they can just drive themselves around or to a distant location and wait for recall.
What utter nonsense. Shapiro is just a conservative pundit the only thing that sets him apart is that he is very smart and, relatively speaking, intellectually honest. His greatest crime is not kowtowing to the left orthodoxy that is so dominant in tech/academia/media. And that makes his voice particularly valuable.
As do I. I wonder in particular if there's a possibility that the (I presume) ML behind these things can start to distinguish human from machine drivers, how quickly that determination might be made, and react accordingly.
How do you handle the case where a shopper picked up an item at a certain price but by the time they got to the cash register it had changed?
How would that work if you're typing on the keyboard?
Does "Mafia" here refer to the Cosa Nostra, or other organized crime syndicates?
an old coworker of mine used to see conflict as a good thing because it means people are invested in whatever is being discussed.
I tend to agree with him.
If the book is really good, I'd say the villain should be applauded. I would applaud Hitler and recommend Mein Kampf to everyone if it was good (it is not).

It doesn't excuse the murder, but I think talent should be rewarded, doubly so if the person is a villain. The problem with most criminals is that we can't think of them as other than criminals, and it is a vicious circle because it drags people deeper in the world of crime.

We should give a message such as: you have been sentenced to 10 years, if you have a talent, use that time to develop it, and you can use it to have a good life after you get out. Just look at the other guy who won the literary contest while serving a life sentence, just because you did bad things doesn't make you can't get recognized for all the good thing you can do.

I've seen work mentioned as the magic bullet for rehabilitating criminals. Not as a punishment but actually useful work. And if the criminal in question has a particular talent, that should be taken advantage of.
Yes, I've said the same, earlier, here. Smokeless powder created trenches.
As someone who came into software dev without a degree and started in QA, this is correct. Some shops are setup with QA as a separate function on separate teams. If development tickles your fancy, starting on one of those QA teams may limit you.

Sharing from my anecdotal experience, if you’d prefer an environment where you can grow beyond manual testing (QA Engineer) and automated testing (SDET), look for positive cues: “QA as a role” or cross-functional teams or embedded QA within development teams. Ask for stories (examples) about a team member who made a lateral move, how leadership looks for this potential and supports the transition.
> And I want everyone to be 'set for life'. It's absolutely possible.

Who is going to provide this lifestyle?
Nearly a year later: What collaborative s/w is working for you?
What collaborative software or service is working for you now?

What did you think was going to be necessary but turned out not to be?

What are you still looking for?

What's almost right but not quite?
Scientists Develop Tech to Transform Mars’ Salty Water into Fuel and Oxygen
Does one really refer to people living in SF as San Franciscans?
Same thing happens with cheerleaders of famous teams too.. (at least I remember an article where they were being forced to attend parties wearing little black dresses, with creepy old dudes in attendance).
The difference between regulating the price of water and the price of an app is the innovation curve. You can regulate the price of water because the creation, distribution and consumption of H20 hasn't changed in a long time. Meanwhile, every June Apple shows up with new APIs that developers can use to tap into the billions of hardware R&D they've invested for that year. Regulating price here is stifling innovation.
Convince me the customer? Why would I care how they do it as long as it works?
I love einsum so much! I've never been able to figure out how tensordot works, but I find einsum easy to understand. I've long wanted to write a jupyter notebook explaining how einsum can be used in different contexts, but as I move away from technical work it's unlikely I'll ever get around to this.
Parent comment ask about the OS descendant from VAX/VMS, that is being ported to x86. The subject of this thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS
One would need to know how this compared to other cities. As someone who used to visit SF a lot (though rarely drove much in the city),I'm not sure how it's notably bad. Sure there are the hills. But with an automatic transmission, that doesn't really make a big difference. And it's mostly grid-ish. It's not a particularly easy city to drive in but compared to NYC, Boston, DC, Seattle, etc., I'm not sure how it's especially awful.
I can't help but feel this may be a net positive. Forcing people to search for their own news outlets rather than being force-feed the most controversial content Facebook can find to drive engagement may reduce the massive divide most countries are now starting to see.
But surely all you could expect is that they consider the ethics of the situation. Not that they always choose the the most ethically correct outcome. After all a writer might just need a shopping list, not a sonnet.
I'm not thinking of a mechanical valve - a burst disc essentially is an engineered weak point, designed to fail first. It would have enough clearance for the ice to be forced out through it, and be in a location with sufficient drainage that water damage would be minimised when the ice melts.

It sounds like the answer is that to be effective, you'd have to put too many of them along the length of the pipework.
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
What are the implications for you and your dog being scanned/captured by self-driving cars during these tests? Is biometric data usually discarded from these datasets before further processing and storage? Do you have any right to control your data or restrict its usage?
A very interesting article. But the real punchline is the very last sentence:

> I wonder why there is even a returned status at all if you cannot rely on it.

With a normal untimed condition variable, we are taught to check for spurious wakeups. So not:

// Bad
Mutex.lock();
if (!itemReady) {
Cond.wait();
}
DoStuff();

But instead:

// Good
Mutex.lock();
while (!itemReady) {
Cond.wait();
}
DoStuff();

And so it goes with a timed condition variable. The return value is irrelevant. Instead, manually inspect the situation:

* Is the condition you're waiting for satisfied e.g. with queue non-empty? If so, great, use it! (There's a tiny chance of race condition here, where the timer expired after the item was issued on the queue but before the condition variable was signalled. But that absolutely doesn't matter.)

* Otherwise, recheck the time since you started waiting. Is the time now greater than the deadline? If so, you've timed out.

* Otherwise, it was a spurious wakeup. Go back to sleep with the same deadline (i.e. shorter wait period) as before.

If you do that in your code then the race described in the article won't affect you.
I think I disagree. When someone breaks a key moral principle — let’s say they are a murderer – we don’t spend time discussing how they are also good to animals or make a mean chilli. That doesn’t offset their transgression, so it becomes essentially irrelevant.

A key moral principle for a democratic government is to maintain public trust in democracy and its institutions. By pilfering public funds to enrich themselves and their friends, this government (and Johnson himself) has broken that principle, and until that has been remedied with resignation or impeachment, and ideally jail, it’s reasonable to talk of nothing else.

Except of course in this case we might also want to discuss this government’s appalling record elsewhere: allowing more of its citizens to die than almost anywhere else, per capita, by prioritising “the economy” and ignoring its own scientists; or destroying tens to hundreds of billions of pounds in wealth and tens to hundreds of thousands of livelihoods through their extraordinary scorched-earth Brexit.
Among the vaccinated students 30% showed antibodies but were pcr negative. Hence they had fought off an infection but had no trace of replication.

You would not expect to see seropositive but pcr negative students if unvaccinated.
The crux is you have to have experience to get experience.

I took the first job I could get as a programmer in 2010 at the first place that would accept me... making 21k right after getting my 2 year degree. I now work for a major bank as a Senior Programmer with 10+ years of experience.

If you can afford getting paid under market (minimum wage job you're taking? sounds like thats a yes)? Getting that first job can be worth it in the long run.

Put out a hundred applications and expect 2 interviews. Success is consistency and expectations that you'll have to work that much harder to get that first job.
> He has more money than he will ever need

Sure, he also probably takes a salary for his role at the companies as well. Still, there's a reason he continues to work I'd assume? It might be he truly wants to get electric car on the road, or it could be he wants more money. In both cases you could ask: "Can Tesla survive his inevitable exit?"

So ignoring Elon's motivations here, as maybe he just has fun running Tesla, who knows, still the question is relevant to other investors into the Tesla stock, and for Tesla's employees.
And will anyone recognize all the absurd amount of hoops you must jump through to get small binaries with Rust?

Some of which, as you said, remove features that are needed like debugging symbols.
> Meta comment: one thing I find particularly interesting here is the 4th point on their infographic - 23% of people don't feel safe getting around SF.

Be very careful when considering 'facts' like these. It's very easy to shape the response of a survey by asking particular questions in a certain order. Don't assume anything like this is actually true.
Because there was no one approved to give them to. Companies could have gone some out if govts had ordered delivery earlier for the age groups in question.

It would have sped up subsequent production too.
“For a million dollars, anything is your passion”

Joel on Software used to explain that rich entrepreneurs always sound passionate, but it is useless to try to emulate passion, because a big success can make someone passionate for anything. (...and I confirm – since we make 70k€ a month per cofounder, I became more passionate).
This outage is undoubtably causing 10's of billions of dollars of property damage as we speak (the internet is being flooded with pictures of burst pipes, not to mention rather stark conditions for everyday people that will almost certain result in many deaths in outlier populations).

If the utility company had a disclaimer on their bills, or a billing option to pay more or less depending on if you wanted to run this type of risk - maybe it would be a tradeoff people could make?

Instead this seems to be a complete failure of the regulated utility and it's governing political apparatus resulting in an entirely preventable 'major hurricane' level crisis.
Is there a possibility to scale Blitz.js based applications? It seems as if there is some stateful behaviour to achieve the deep integration of logic between back- and frontend. Would scaling be possible with sticky sessions?
Making that argument without acknowledging that Trump lost the popular vote is very disingenuous.
As a self taught graduate in an unrelated major, in a rural area, I was fortunate to get an entry level job and then a fully remote job this past year. If you can do any contract work or part time work in the field to start with, that would help. Welfare helps. Then I would try to make sure not to target FAANG types of jobs or any markets where every job posting gets 300 bootcamp applicants. Some concrete advice below:

I learned javascript + basic web development stuff like everyone else, because that's where the most beginner resources are. But the job offers I actually got were due to my learning Java (with some Java enterprise edition mixed in) and having some book knowledge about it. There are vast swaths of industries that will help you enter the middle class, and then some, by working on their old Java or C# applications. A ton of career advice out there is targeted towards the 1% who are shooting for Silicon Valley. We don't need that.

Also try to get proficient at Leetcode and come off as intelligent. A lot of your competition is computer science majors.

Lastly, and this might involve some conscious or unconscious deception: Make it sound like you intend to move to wherever the job location is, post-COVID. This works better if you are already in that state. Once you land the first job, maybe they'll offer the remote option eventually; otherwise keep applying to a couple jobs per day; this job search will be slightly easier and you will actually have the leverage to ask for a remote option when it comes up.
Well, without any data it's impossible to say. ;)
Is your ultimate goal to break into the tech industry? If so, I'd spend a bit more time getting some actual working pieces of code on your GitHub. Editing documentation is a noble deed, but as an interviewer it wouldn't do much for me in assessing your skills.

I know it takes a lot of effort as well as luck in landing that first entry-level job so all I can say is to keep knocking, but also be prepared to show something tangible. Anyone can talk all day about their awesome work ethics but it's another thing to be able to prove it by presenting a polished (for a junior) software.
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That could be something for the future - but would require a lot besides money. I don't want to go too deeply in the matter, but relocation (at the moment) is not an option. I need a stable income first, and would need to arrange for them to be okay with the move as well.
22 or so years ago I moved up from second to third line. I had just got a new home email address and for some reason forwarded home to work and work to home. At the time that was done as two separate and blissfully ignorant decisions.

The work 512Kb Kilostream line passed away peacefully sometime overnight. My home modem nearly melted but I'd exceeded my 10Mb? quota anyway (probably less.)

Apparently I was the first to do that there. GroupWise sprouted loop detection fairly soon after that event anyway and single instance storage helped keep the POAs up when reply all storms became popular.
If they're presented as "I'm a code contributor" but it's solely non-code changes, then yes, it seems disingenuous at best.

But if they're accepted by the repo owner, they're probably not nonsense. And projects need better documentation. If the OP was applying for a junior 'tech' role of some sort, and demonstrated that experience of revising documentation to be up to date and improved... it's a step up from some people I've seen over the years (who leave behind bad/broken docs, for example).
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