skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are some SQL dialects which provide pivot functions like in pandas, but they are not universal.

And you need to define the columns in advance anyway, because query planners can’t handle columns that change at runtime.
- the reaper in the background may represent the duty of PID 1, which must reap dead processes. He stands between the workshop (user space?) and the rest of the kingdom & streams (kernel space?)

- The strand from his hat appears to have initials on it: DMR (Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie), KT (Ken Thompson), BWK (Brian Wilson Kernighan)

- SCM branches appear to rise from the ting

- B has a "chip" in it

- The "diff" vessel seems to have a special purpose -- not sure if that's intentional.
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And the new development will ~~i~~ensure there be cheap apartments they can move too.
Trivially defeated with a boot disk and ResEdit.

Breaking things with ResEdit was pretty much my jr. high school hobby. It took a bit before I figured out how to restore things when I was done.

Head "tech" guy in the building eventually figured out it was me, showed me a few things and ended up just giving me an un-limited login and a few rules. Also taught me how to intelligently use ResEdit instead of the brute-force method(s) I was used to.
You might also try a monitor arm that allows you to swing your monitor away to the side. Mine is set up so that it swings behind my paper file stand and I hardly feel it's presence when I'm taking pen to paper.
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About:

Currently been teaching myself how to program for the past 10 months and now looking to get my foot into the door.

I have strong soft skills that are used to find and understand the problems at hand. Alongside a mind that is always looking for simpler, but effective solutions using the resources available.

I have a background in maintenance and repair in the automotive and manufacturing industry. And prior to that, worked as a QC technician working with CMMs in my family's now defunct machine shop.

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In my world, the Democrat/Republic divide is just a new form of professional wrestling, all for show while our money is taken and we are entertained.
Fair enough.

What I took issue with was that the article glosses over what I would suggest are significantly more problematic issues with Houston zoning.

Their only mention: "the Bayou City is not without any land use regulations"... is one that prevents sex shops next to schools.
> but better than the single-family zoning in a lot of cities causing massive sprawl and increased expenditure in roads for commuters.

I can't make sense of this, Houston has massive sprawl and all that entails. They cut costs a bit on roads by underspending on maintenance, but that hardly tips the balance.
It's of relevance only in that it shows how quickly forestation can affect climate, but North America had massive _reforestation_ in the late 1500s right before the land clearance by European settlers.

https://phys.org/news/2011-10-team-european-ice-age-due.html
It's not clear to me (or comment parent, I'd guess) that this is applicable if they set up a nonprofit or LLC to manage the property, which they likely did.
Back in 1992 I was using a neural network library in Pascal. I did not know the admins were killing long running nohup tasks, rather than the program failing, so I could not run it on the UNIX boxes in the background, hence lots of foreground and usenet reading. The neural network use was applied, 'how did number of nodes, number of layers matter?' to analysing fetal heart rate data. Backpropagation was built in. I was recovering from a nervous breakdown, so my virtual neural network having breakdowns was a little bit strange. I got a 2:1 for the project i.e. good, but a 2.2 for the whole final year, i.e. very average.
The power of Excel is underestimated by everybody, except those that use it day in and day out.
There is no doubt purses are useful on occasion and if you are carrying a purse, pockets are redundant.

But I suspect one of the big reasons women complain about pockets is because there are occasions where having to carry around a purse is a needless hassle. I totally agree that tight pants are largely cross purpose with big pockets.

All of my knowledge on the topic is second hand so I lack the foundation to disagree.
The Dhall configuration language: maintainable configuration files
YaNco 4.0 released – our cross platform SAP Connector for netcore, .NET 4.71-5.0
I am using SSH key authentication.

I use `maggit` + `forge` in Emacs for all operations
Video Transcoding Trends for 2021
I didn't actually say that. I said that if you have an apartment you'd pay less than a derelict tyre place on the same amount of land. If you live in high density residential apartments you'll pay less than lower density neighbours.

If the entire area is equally high density, then congratulations, it sounds like you live in a very desirable location in the middle of a lot of public and private infrastructure: if that's the case, you should be taxed, to encourage even higher density development and even more productive use of the land you're on.
I understand your perspective, i should have been clearer in who i was talking about.

I love science myself and love talking about it, i am not against scientists, quite the opposite.

That said i start out by linking to a highly relevant doc, that i think should make it clear what kind of business i am talking about. But i agree that there is a problem in generalising.
LVT should be quite high to make that not work: you should have to sell your land to someone that will develop it to cash in, otherwise your cashing in isn't worth it to society.
Probably by the time you've opened two you're reminded about the purpose of the bags in the first place which might serve as an autopilot interrupt
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Sort of. Cryptics, which are the international style, might have a clue like "insect in pants" -> "ant", which is pants without the first and last letters.

And more complicated variants, like anagrams, mashing words together, etc.
> Nobody should work that hard.

> Some people feel a need to work work work obsessively. IMO that should be viewed as a mental illness and needing treatment.

This is a massive value judgement - for those of us who are lucky to legitimately enjoy their career, why should we slow down?

Why exactly should someone be coerced to stop what they enjoy because others are are unwilling or unable to perform the same?

I'm an amature runner and am never going to be as fast as Usain Bolt - should he not be allowed to practice so that I don't feel bad?
Interesting! Good to know, thanks. I never mix && and || in the same line, but didn't know exactly why that is!

The problem is that "In this case, if A is true but B is false, C will run."

I guess with B as "say", B will never be false, but generally it's really not the same as if-then-else.
Having 20% of a gazillion dollar business is still zillions of dollars.

I bought some Yahoo stock thinking Meyers was going to turn it around, but nope.
That's crazy. Makes my complaint pale in comparison.
My local paper regularly rails against an imaginary phalanx of anti-car jihadists. Any dollar not spent in support of automobiles is sufficient evidence of a nefarious anti-car agenda. Meanwhile, pre-apocalypse, mass transit is chronically under funded and over capacity.

Apparently commuters choosing to not drive is an unforgivable affront to Freedom Markets™.

Cite: The Power Broker, Robert Caro
a) Its too late at that point. Denver is a good example of a suburban car-based city that is pouring billions into pubic transportation that can never compete with cars. pick two random spots and compare the driving directions with public transportation. The city would need to be rebuilt as high-density.

b) You have cause and effect backwards here. Apartments are built in those areas because real-estate is already expensive. The real-estate is not expensive because they built an apartment building in the middle of nowhere. Things have to be high-density from the beginning for it to work, and everyone building housing since the automobile has chosen to go low-density whenever possible.

Building a high-density city today would require preventing people from building low-density just outside city limits and driving into town, zooming past all the suckers who bought a cramped apartment waiting at the bus stop.
> In the same time frame, I worked at Boeing doing design work on the 757.

After I graduated I worked at Boeing in a test group, and wrote control software for test rigs, mainly to test Fuel Quantity Indicating Systems on the 57 and 67, 47-400, and 77.

That was in Les Carpenter's group, and they still had some test rigs lying around built with relays mounted on wooden boards.
Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
For what it's worth, I maintain a library called siuba that lets you generate SQL code from pandas methods.

It's crazy to me how people use SELECT * -> pandas, but also how people in SQL type a ton of code over and over.

https://github.com/machow/siuba
Less people have died from Autopilot than eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli over a decade. Everyone still eats lettuce.

OTOH, more people have dried as a result of Autopilot/FSD failures than the entire rest of the self-driving vehicle industry combined.

And the worst part is, Tesla doesn't even know what caused the failures, since at least one of those deaths were caused by regressions to Autopilot (for example, the Bay Area incident where the car swerved into the divider).
We used to allow lawsuits against vaccine makers, then strangely enough, nobody wanted to make vaccines. To encourage vaccine production, we provide them civil immunity in cases of non-negligence with a government administered fund that pays out money to people harmed by vaccines.

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/data/index.html
Async Rust: history strikes back
I was very confused reading this title - I thought Bill and Melinda Gates had been killed, or there was some spam campaign about them being killed..
The name of the program was "At Ease". It had two big folders with icons that looked very much like a precursor to iOS's springboard we know today.

The two folders were labeled "Applications" and "Documents": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease

You could also trigger the NMI via Apple key + power button and I remember the magic code to set the memory to zero and crash finder being: SM<space>0<space>A964<return>G<space>O<return>
Two cents as an MD-(CS)PhD student studying what I've heard referred to as "the last mile problem."

My stack trace of investigation:

- The model is good, we just need to get the doctors to trust the model.

- The model is good, we need to figure out how to build an informed trust in the model (so as to avoid automation bias).

- The model is good, we need informed trust, but we can't tackle the trust issue without first figuring out a realistic deployment scenario.

- The model is good, we need informed trust, we need a realistic deployment scenario, but there are some infrastructural issues that make deployment incredibly difficult.

After painstaking work with real-life EHR system, sanity-check model inference against realistic deployment scenario.

- Holy crap, the model is bad and not at all suitable for deployment. 0.95 AUC, subject of a previous publication, and fails on really obvious cases.

My summary so far of "why?": assumptions going into model training are wildly out of sync with the assumptions of deployment. It's "Hidden Tech Debt in ML" [1] on steroids.

[1] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2015/file/86df7dcfd896fcaf2674f...
boot -s was boot in single user mode, and boots -s is just a boot.
Oh, I always used: explorer.exe . I didn't know open was aliased to that.
I would recommend reading the works of Matthew Crawford, "Shop Class as Soul Craft" and "The World Outside Your Head". They are really, really good reads on the whole industry of stealing your attention. After reading those I stopped basically ever looking at feeds because I was so nauseated by the business side of it. I mean, do this in addition to all the other good suggestions you're going to get. But for me, understanding how it's nothing different than the casino slot machine makers who have figured out how to make little old ladies piss their pants to keep playing, really helped make it easier to be disciplined about to whom I will give my valuable attention.

tldr; life changing books, read 'em.

And in case no one here mentions cognitive behavioural therapy, look that up too. CBT is really the same techniques used by elite athletes and performers to learn to control their minds, absolutely worth learning.
The author seems to be trying to say something, but it’s muddled. As though “being better at rationality” means “free from bias”.

What we all need to better at is quantifying where we are. It might be productive to find a metric for rationality and another for political bent.

The article seems to take the position that irrational and political are synonymous. Competitive forces mean that being biased and political are fairly rational, just operating on different variables from the apolitical. Don’t forget why “science proceeds one funeral at a time”.

His choice of Alex Jones as irrational seems odd. Jones may be, but he’s irrational like a fox- if you’re accomplishing your goals via the actions you plan out, I think that’s a good working definition of rational. Maybe just not great at including all the best variables in your equation.

The flames I’ll get from writing this will show that I’m less rational than Alex.
It's not a vicious cycle, everyone on the planet who drives started with a lack of experience. Heck, you would have a lack of experience in riding a bike on the road for the first time.

Everyone on the road has a different level of attentiveness and experience on the road, regardless of their years of driving. We know that as a society people make mistakes but we hope that the majority don't, which is why we have insurance. You need to start by driving predictable easy routes, then slowly branch out if it has been some time since you have been driving.

However, if you feel that you would put other people in danger when driving, then I applaud your self awareness in taking other steps which are probably better for your own health and the planet :) I do think we can do better when it comes to frequent recurring travel such as driving to work as opposed to weekend travelling or holiday travelling.
Or right clicking on, and "Inspect" on the specific element that you're trying to work with.
About 5 years ago I personally knew an SRE at AWS who did snoop around customer files (and Amazon corporate’s internal HR database...) for his own amusement - he proudly showed-off his phone’s browser to me which displayed some HR data for a mutual of ours. He doesn’t work at Amazon anymore and now has a criminal record (both for entirely unrelated reasons), I guess Amazon either never found-out or they didn’t care.

So yeah, I believe you.

(Amazon does have internal controls that do limit most users’ access, but he said was an SRE with “global” access, apparently - I’ve never worked for Bezos so I don’t know what Amazon’s access-security is really like).
It was AtEase. In the earlier macs, those with a button to trigger a debugger in firmware, you could completely exit AtEase by entering the debugger and typing “G H”

I know it worked on System 7, and I think there was a variation that worked in System 8 as well.
> also observe that the purpose of the tax is not strictly to raise revenue, but to address what would otherwise be an externalized cost and make the housing market more efficient.

In a time and place where we can deficit spend well, and more demand unlocks more growth, this should be the primary purpose of most taxation.
Loaded != untrue
This is a hard one. mRNA vaccines are a fundamental new technology. The technology will open up many new future uses so by giving away the know-how we are giving away many future benefits the technology will bring. I think it's like saying 60 years ago lets give away the tech used in integrated circuits. I suspect information technology as we know it now would be very different.

Even if the technology was shared it would take a lot of time to bring up enough production to be helpful. Also, it's very easy to contaminate the production and put out a bad product that might hurt many people and taint the reputation of mRNA vaccines for many years. Making it that much harder to produce new products.

The solution is to ramp up production, and we can do it, to produce enough vaccine for all of the world. We don't need to give away the know-how.
But that just removes the problem into making a fpp / hepa filter
That's what make the title more exciting for humans. People still seeing life as a set of interesting stories, it's more attractive to write otherwise boring trivia as such.

It's like a financial newspaper writing about bulls struggling to beat the bears, while obviously no one wants to pay higher prices or selling at lower prices: nobody is winning or losing, it's just people buying or selling along demand and offer lines, quite chaotically. But, seeing the market as a permanent war between bulls (who would want to buy at higher prices for some reason) and bears (who would want to sell low) makes for an amusing entertainment in an otherwise bland day.
Collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and performance
How many ways are there to sort GUIDs? How much time do you have? (2019)
Something that helped me was using a ‘time blocking’ system on my calendar to schedule out my day down to 15 minute increments.

I then purposely ‘time block’ in time for when I am allowed to go wild browsing HN, Reddit, etc without feeling any guilt or anxiety whatsoever.

This process can be done digitally or with a printed calendar. I’d suggest the latter given your circumstances.

Lots of good resources out there for how to do time blocking effectively. Cal Newport and Nir Eyal being two that come to mind right away.
Real orbit of alien planets making music
Unless the new development is writing premiums as well, I suspect you mean to say that the new development would ensure that there are cheap apartments to move to.
well the problem is, that most of the time you want:

1. show that you start a http call, by showing a loading spinner and blocking a button
2. do the http call
3. show the result to the user (even errors)
4. unblock the button and hide the spinner

thus most often http requests are somehow required to be dependant on your ui. libraries like redux-saga help with that.
Orthodox neoclassic economics does tend to overly focus on supply constraints, and if you like suburbs for misguided reasons well....we're no where close to actually running out of land!
I don't think you're permanently stuck. There are courses specifically for learning how to drive more safely, that presumably let you practice things in such a way you are unlikely to injure anyone.
> Which is to say they have a monopoly...

Sure, but by that definition every commercial product constructed from multiple parts has a monopoly over all their components. Starbucks has a “monopoly” over what coffee is sold within Starbucks cups. Sorry, but I just can’t take that kind of argument seriously.

> current anti trust rules probably don't consider the monopoly Apple has from copyright and patents on hardware to be of the right category (to cover an entire market)... but that could easily change.

Copyright and patents are the very definition of a legal monopoly. I don't think you're being serious.
IIRC, the census data showed Houston in the top-five fastest growing cities, but it may have been number five, notably well behind Austin. San Antone and DFW weren't far behind. Houston's the only one with Houston's policies.
Agreed. It also implies that the original "state" thinks it is illegitimate. Like immigrating between countries is fine. Becoming a diplomat, moving countries, and permanently leaving the embassy is more of a defection.
Sibling comments have provided responses to other aspects, which all also seem right to me.

The proposed land tax in my state has land tax for seniors accrue against the property and is paid upon sale or death.

The objection to this is that it's a "death duty", to which the response is that you did absolutely nothing to help increase that land value. In fact, you worked against increasing efficiency by holding on when the land could be used for more productive purposes.

That's why the Georgist land tax is such a good idea; it taxes you based on the gains that the rest of society generated for you. Whereas a property tax also taxes you for your own investments.
> No but we can infer that the level of pollution is at an acceptable level for them to prefer that city.

You're joking right. Like you think people actually weigh this in their choice? If history has taught us anything it's that people will let themselves be poisoned to make a buck without much thought for the long term consequences. The costs of that poor choice are often externalized onto others.

The whims of capitalism are one way to approach a housing crisis but I see no evidence to suggest they are the only or best way. And you'll have to forgive me if I appreciate that the people in my city government consider more factors than the immediate ability to cram more people in a the lowest possible cost when making planning decisions.

Nimbyism is a scourge no doubt but our choice isn't only between nimbyism and capitalism run amok. I live in a town with identifiable neighborhoods and a community centered downtown. I moved here for those things. A little density certainly wouldn't hurt but there's no need to let my neighbor open a motel or a nightclub next door.
The article says he "left Google to protest the company's firings of its own AI ethics researchers" but there's no evidence of that -- for example, his farewell email did not mention that at all, and AFAIK he hasn't made any public statement indicating that that was the reason he left.