skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I've lived in a dense city, there have always been large natural areas within walking distance. The ideal is something like 1/2 of the land as lots, 1/3 as parks, and 1/6 for streets and other paved areas. "Parks" includes both developed urban parks and larger forested/coastal areas with wide walking trails. The trade-off is that there is not much space for ground-level parking, and most people commuting from outside the city must use public transport.
Yes, this is absolutely a false dichotomy. I live in Zurich, with access to varied nature (hills, lake, river) all within a 15 minutes' walk and lots of stunning scenery easily accessible by train.
For dates, having a specific date type instead of a text field is required to have proper behavior when sorting and efficient storage/data transfer.

It's also important to have date-related functions on the DB server side, so that you can use them in filtering data before it gets sent over to the user code running on the client, to avoid unnecessary data transfer and allow proper use of indexes in optimizing it.

Also, it is nice if a DB engine can perform the equivalent of `WHERE year(date)=2021` without actually running that function on every date, but rather automatically optimize it to an index lookup of `WHERE date between '2021-01-01' and '2021-12-31'`.
Here's how I do it:

xargs -I'hostname' -a hosts.txt -P128 bash -c "ssh 'hostname' find / -type f -mmin -20 | xargs -P128 -Ifilename grep -cHia error filename 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^/hostname:/' ; :" | sort -nrk3 -t':'
Ash HN: Sea levels are rising, so why is coastal real estate not falling?
There's enormous consensus around climate change and rising sea levels. However there doesn't seem to be any change in the real estate market around coastal areas, in fact waterfront houses seem to be more valuable than ever.

Why is this? Greed? Ignorance?

The tin-foil-hat part of me thinks that financial firms wouldn't buy/lend and build coastal developments unless they had evidence it would be a wise investment...
Are You Using Coding Interviews for Senior SW Devs? Use a Code Review Instead
IRS? Yes. I'm OK with abolishing the others too. Volunteer (only) fire departments can stay.
Really? Then I wonder what the ASCII character coded 0x10 is for?
Any resources you can recommend to learn more about house plants / how to choose them / how to care for them? So far I have a snake plant and an orchid but want to get more.
Yeah, I didn’t mean to frame it as a dichotomy, but it was a HN comment so I didn’t explore the full depth of nuance, and it was scoped to the US. Yes, some places are dense while still allowing some access to nature.
Did you see the examples? Even with the blocking threaded style the Java versions gave me nightmares. And they didn't even bring up a cancelation example (not 100% sure on that). Cancelation and subsequent graceful shutdown is one of the hardest concurrency problems that (a) you are very likely to need in practice and (b) conveniently often are left out of example code. Heck it isn't even great in Go (too explicit imo) but at least they solved it.
Twitter: A Blue Badge for Scientists?
Yes, I agree with you. State and local governments had a much larger impact.

My point was the CDC was also forcing people to do things against their will in addition to state and local governments, it just affected fewer people. That force negatively affected many people (mostly landlords and non-US National travelers).

The flip-flop guidance throughout the pandemic was annoying, but completely ignorable.
How so? Most people in the USA are descendants from the British Isles (including Ireland).
And on top of this: there were ample opportunities for every single state to exercise judicial review of the CDC’s order. The CDC was a politically efficient vessel for an overwhelmingly popular policy that probably kept millions of people from homelessness.
My bachelor's agrees on this. Macro is a set of theories that can explain a certain set of economic norms, but in most circumstances these theories don't have anything like the predictive power of scientific theories backed by experiment.

However, my retail investing experience suggests that what macro is good for is spotting cracks in the framework with respect to specific countries and industries. Cracks aren't prices - when a market is way out of equilibrium, prices can go along saying one thing for quite some time while the real economy does something else. But it can produce broad strokes answers of "don't touch this asset" vs "only temporary setbacks here".
I reduced aws costs by 100% by moving us off aws to azure
The more you let people build up, the more ground can be left as green space. No one is against park.

Land area/space in general is not scarce. What is scarce is land area near job centers (or more broadly, near where people want to spend their time outside the home.) The more you spread people out, the more car dependent the city, necessitating more roads and parking lots.
First-Hand: ETAK, an early vehicle navigation system (2015)
> At some point, you have to have some level of trust in society and its institutions. Or become a paranoid nutter.

I see this as a false dichotomy. It is possible to simply assume that everyone is doing their best, and that is "not necessarily great" due to poor system design and various other reasons, or it may be even worse due to some bad actors - but necessarily becoming a paranoid nutter is a false belief, and the commonality of such beliefs makes me suspicious that they are not entirely organic.
When I was talking about nature, I wasn’t thinking about city parks, but rather proper forests and mountains. City parks don’t do it for me—I need to get away from the cars and crowds. But to your point, yes, there are lots of cities with great city parks for those who are content with that sort of thing.
The Steve Jobs guide to manipulating people and getting what you want
Yes - so better comparison would be “think of it like leeches- best applied regularly to reduce your circulating blood volume”
In typical wiki and also typical German fashion, the article is very technical, focuses on things like technical requirements rather than the story, descriptions or definitions.
> Funny you use chihuahua as a counter example, because their reputation is for aggression. A chihuahua is less dangerous because it is smaller not because it is inherently less aggressive.

I believe that was the argument made: presupposing a lack of correlation between breed and behavior, a tiny dog is less dangerous than a large one.
I beta tested SWG -- it had so much potential.
Nothing in GPLv2 requires giving changes back, only giving changes forward to the downstream users is required, not back upstream to the original developers. Giving code to users is pretty pointless if they can't install and run it, which is why both GPLv2 and GPLv3 require this. It is the culture of working upstream that leads to code flowing back to the original developers (obviously this is a very important thing to do, but it isn't required by the license). So I think Linus might need to write a new license to achieve what he actually wants from GPLv2. Note that any such license would discriminate against some classes of people who can't or mustn't communicate externally (those on a desert island, those in a totalitarian regime etc), so probably wouldn't be classed as "open source".

I expect that Stallman simply did not know the details of what Tivo was doing, or was worried about what they might do in the future. Their actions didn't include preventing you from running modified GPLed software (although that is a scary thing that is definitely possible and currently likely present in modern devices). They only prevented you from running their proprietary software on top of modified GPLed software. Stallman wanted to prevent that scenario with GPLv3, but the wording that finally made it into GPLv3 still allows what Tivo was doing.

https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
This guy beat me to that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHtffYrXww
Ah, I’m an Australian lawyer and used a term of art which you might not in the states.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_negligence (apparently it’s a similar concept you have in comparative negligence)
How is this different than Kotlin coroutines? They seem to already support this feature.
If anyone in the Bay Area wants to sell me a Pi…I gave away all of mine before things got crazy not realizing they were impossible to find!
I love these guys. DHH’s innovations are probably the most consequential to my career making web apps simple as he did.

I feel like they’re bored and moving away from their “getting real” ethos. Not that that’s bad. My instincts tell me they’ve stood by watching shopify, GitHub, and AirBNB and now they’re ready to go for their own billions with an IPO

And if I’m right, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. I just wonder if that’s the next logical step once you reached that level of self-made success. You try to recapture the magic, you do (hey.com), then what?
People Keep Pulling Guns and Bombs Out of Canals
Yeah, it’s def early days and it’s still in beta

But the team has been moving extremely fast on things like performance, tutorials and onboarding classes and so on

Btw: you can absolutely also just graphically layout your sim…that’s a common misunderstanding I think
React 18 even will have batching built into all state.
Increasing urban density also increases the amount of nature because you aren't building suburbs on top of it.

eg Silicon Valley would be one of the world's most productive fruit farming regions if we hadn't covered it in single family houses in 1950.

Note there is a kind of "towers in the park" urbanism seen in China that actually is a bad balance between the two and kind of unpleasant to live in.
Why does insurance as a business feel like legalized gambling? “I’ll give you 1000:1 odds that you won’t crash your car” “I think that person will win that bet and I’ll give you 100:1 odds”.
> Bash saves them but truncates them to 500 entries

That behavior can be modified with the HISTSIZE environment variable.

> The maximum number of commands to remember on the history list. If the value is 0, commands are not saved in the history list. Numeric values less than zero result in every command being saved on the history list (there is no limit). The shell sets the default value to 500 after reading any startup files.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Vari...
Arguably, the suburbs make this worse, since you now need to drive through even more urban sprawl to get to true nature.
Neither are immigrants, but hey.
Nowadays there are many solutions that aren't AWS. Render, Porter, Fly.io to name a few.
Sure. But is purchasing Moreno actually blocked anywhere with a kyc compliant on ramp?
Wouldn't the debugger break on exception? So any exceptions used in "nonexceptional" situations have a potential to "pollute" the debugging experience?

Admittedly, I haven't tried debugging React 18 yet, so I don't know if that actually happens in practice.
Slight correction:

* Internet, 1995-2010

* Mobile, 2010-present
How are they not competitive?
Yeah I don't really understand the downside to a format like parquet here. "Less ubiquitous" seems to be the only one in the parent comment's list?
I don’t have any problems with people building up, but I’m very skeptical that the space between tall buildings will be made into parks, and anyway a city park is not what I would consider “nature”. For folks who want density and can content themselves with urban green spaces, I wish you well on your quest to build taller and denser, just please don’t impose that on everyone! :)
> If you want to enjoy short regular walks, perhaps it would help to go out for a very long and hard walk from time to time.

Bingo. Adaptation can do wonders for our perception of an activity. How do you adapt? By pushing the limits a little bit at a time; getting in the zone of discomfort for a short while, and stopping before pain/injury.

Lately, I've been trying to enjoy discomfort by thinking of it as an indication that my limits are now shifting in the right direction.
Can Sustainable Suburbs Save Southern California?
If you are talking about office environment then it's done by HVAC system and CO2 is often being monitored.

Re blood, I said every day. Losing blood can have some benefits. Just like taking multivitamin can if you have high deficiency of something it contains, although you likely need higher dosage of that thing then. But you don't want to be doing it every day. I mean, I admit I'm less confident about that statement regarding losing blood that I am regarding multivitamins, but draining blood used to be popular for.. pretty much everything and modern medicine somehow got rid of that.
Archived: https://archive.ph/ISWHK
The real advantage of Kitty over iTerm2 is that it's cross platform (Windows too), so your config files and workflow are consistent across different machines. Also, I'm starting to actually prefer using config files instead of GUI.
> While it looks really nice, hard to imagine it's quicker to hand draw this than reverse it out of your existing schema

They have an option to take your SQL dump text and convert it back to DBML which is the DSL they use to render.
Microsoft doesn't always get it right, but they do try very hard to be backwards compatible for a very very long time.
The original “Bambi”
Isn’t Apache Arrow an in memory format that the various DataFrame libraries can standardise on to interact with each other? inter-process communication (IPC)?

My understanding is your raw data on disk is still a format such as Parquet, but when you load that Parquet in to your application it’s stored as Arrow in-memory for processing?
Yes, that’s normally how taxes and uniform policies work. I suppose you could be opposed to either or both of those things in the abstract, but expressing your ire at vaccines specifically strikes me as special pleading.
That is what I considered too, actually.
Hey it’s r/pitbulls trying to convince you that your kid’s face getting bitten off is totally your fault. Should have supervised better.

Chihuahua: face still attached.

Pitbull: lack of face.
> An important point that’s missed is that working in an office is dramatically worse now than it was when I started my career in the late 90’s.

Yeah. I think this is significantly being understated.

There is a VAST difference between "in person" meaning "You have your own office" and "in person" meaning "Open office plan with no dividers at all".

For the first, I wouldn't have much of an issue coming in. For the second, I'd probably take up pitchforks to avoid it.
I am sure cities would be more affordable if we got rid of some of the residential buildings there...
Is unreal engine the modern day equivalent of this? Is there something else that is more approachable?
My disagreement is that there is such a thing as a realistic or unrealistic quality one could use for images in the first place as if there is some very limited SSIM range one isn't supposed to want to use image codecs outside of that would result in irrelevant benchmark data.

The blame being attributed to this actually belongs to extrapolating from a single test case and assuming it implies something about all the test cases as opposed to having run an invalid test case. Particularly when referring to the cases of people assuming how a codec performs at lowest quality implies something about the higher quality comparisons. The issue here was never about the lowest quality options being unrealistic it's about assuming results from one test were directly correlated to what another would show

If I were to replace the section with where my thoughts on it are it'd probably be titled something along the lines of "compare across a full spectrum of quality" and detail why you want to avoid extrapolation from a small range of test scenarios instead of avoiding some range completely.
Related: https://github.com/foone/BRender-v1.3.2

Context: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1521583448795672576
Ask HN: What are the best eyedrops to help pass my psych aptitude interview?
> That's true, and it is arguable that Lisp could be improved by making macro invocations have a distinguished syntax.

Agreed.
The three options are to build densely, or to sprawl over into nature spaces, or to have fewer children.
Steve Jobs on Consulting (1992)
> The code does not build with today's engineering tools, and is released as-is.

Unfortunate given Microsoft's track record of maintaining backwards compatibility
Did anyone ever decrypt that portion of Gauss, circa 2012?

That's the most effectively hidden malware code I know of.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/the-w...
And put that under source control.
Holy shit! I think I was at that exact one. I stayed too late and the buddhist chick puked in my shoe.
It wasn't built for astronomy anyway, lol.
And? A collection of individuals isn’t an individual. That’s why we don’t say that collectivist societies are all about the individual. They aren’t. It’s the opposite.
I wonder how much of it is just relief from the constant psychological attack of advertising?
Nowhere close to it. The early migrants were from Britain but they were vastly outnumbered by later migrants in the 19th century who came in their millions.

Just generally, the reason why people left Britain in the 17th century was of excess labour/crushing poverty. The English Civil War increased mortality so that by the end of the 17th century, few were willing to leave (which led to a change in labour supply for the US of some significance). Migration increased, again, in the early 19th century due to some fairly harsh recessions in textiles employment...but people fled Italy, Ireland, and Germany in far larger numbers because the economic issues there were more severe: crushing poverty, massive overpopulation, no economic opportunity or way to sustain life.

Just quantitatively though, I suppose Mexico is probably close to the biggest actual migrant flow...although that largely reflects the fact that the population is bigger than it was in 1850.
Those actually still are (rarely) used in modern medicine because they inject pretty efficient anti-clotting substance.
Vienna even has a national park in the city. (Lobau Nationalpark)
I cannot tell you how many hours I spent playing with 3DMM… once I figured out that you could make a gun by using a 3D “L” shape, my cartoons got violent and weird and I absolutely loved it, and I kept playing with it well into my teenage years.

I should see if I still have my CDs for it somewhere so I can run it in a VM.
The important idea here, IMO, is that users are not effectively restricted to choosing from amongst a small handful of clients issued by the same companies that sell online advertising services or otherwise profit from user data mining, online ads and tracking. IMO, it is this effective control over the client that is the root cause for so many of the complaints HN commenters have about the www today and the direction it is heading, namely because such control over the client itself has become a necessary in the user-hostile strategies of these corporations. They are now relying on that control.
There is indeed an enormous difference, but I find this reasoning funny: when a government issues an order by fiat, there is no ambiguity with regards to your consent. You can either be on board or not; either way, there is a clear line between your opinion (and therefore what you will) and what is dictated to you.

This can’t be said for nudges: the entire point of an effective nudge is that you can’t be certain that you aren't acting of your own volition. That strikes me as a much worse state of affairs: not only are you controlled, but you don’t even know it!

TL;DR: two years after this entire fracas, it’s apparent that the government’s ability to force you to do anything w/r/t public health is mostly hollow. Meanwhile, the continence of our actions online seems to be increasingly shaky.
As someone who is fluent in Spark, pandas, and several SQL "dialects", at the end of the day I have to say I think all the query paradigms suck, SQL is just the best we have.

I find it's "limitations" generally enforce structure that makes rewriting and distilling bad queries easier. Well written and formatted queries can be extremely readable and easy to navigate/grep in a way that I have never found the others to be.

The flexibility of dropping in and out of a full fledged programming language and a query api, I find it tends to grow unnecessarily complex in the hands of many practitioners.

Although my preference is a SQL cursor or equivalent interface in my chosen language. For some reason I find the strict separation between SQL (the declarative expression of business logic and relations) and the language (imperative or functional control) very helpful.

SQL also has the benefits of portability. Almost every query computation engine supports SQL these days. While, obviously you will need to rewrite the parts that rely on unique extensions, the migration path is greatly simplified.

The one thing I think pandas has going for it that I desperately wish was picked up as a new standard in SQL are aggregations for seemlessy moving between different time series frequencies. Pandas as problematic as it is, I have yet to find anything else that makes time frequency conversions as convenient and predictable.
Is there a way to do it as 1 sprite with 200k SVG filters applied to it at 1fps?
Source Filmmaker and Unity are pretty approachable too
An important step here that is missing here is evaluating if your fix is going to cause other, potentially worse problems. I suspect that in this case, it's fairly unlikely that increasing the maximum POST body size to 60 MB is going to cause problems - eyeballing that Sendgrid chart, it looks like we are not dealing with very high throughput here. But it's not hard to imagine a situation where tripling the max POST body size would result in a large increase in server memory usage, which could result in things like OOM kills, which could result in a lot of people not getting their reply emails or whatever.

So don't just rush a fix out. Think about what the effects of a configuration change like this might be, and whether you are just making more problems for yourself down the line trying to fix something quickly.
Exactly, just like Tokyo, one of the most expensive cities in the world
Analogous: Zoo animals are much happier and healthier when released into the wild.
I filled out the form to get access, and I got it about a day later. It's free, and it didn't ask me about anything else.

As far as I can tell it's above beta quality, so definitely not vaporware.
We are buying a vacation home in Florida while we travel the country for a few years and stay in AirBnb’s while I work remotely. The rest of the time it will be a rented out for short term rentals. It’s going to be our official home and where we stay in the winter.

It’s strictly because it’s a tax free state and warm.

When we decide to settle down, we may move back to our current home - which will also be rented out - or sell and move to Florida permanently.
Can you elaborate more?

All of the parts that throw `InterruptedException` are handling the thread interrupt cancelation mechanism.

There is also the example with the atomic boolean quit flag.

I'm not convinced that Go has any unique mechanisms here. Just like Java you can't forcefully kill a thread without that thread's cooperation.