skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visual Studio Code with remote and Windows Subsystem for Linux is arguable the best mix “development / personal use” environment I’ve ever been in, and the surface pro 6 is probably the first time I’ve been excited about a computer since my 2012 MacBook.

I had originally planned to buy an XPS 13 and run Ubuntu, because I actually don’t like Windows 10. I use Office365 Essentials though and that’s just a hassle to setup on Linux, where as it integrates seamlessly into Windows 10. It was also cheaper to buy the surface. I got one of the cheaper versions with an i5, and re-selling my used MBP 2018 paid for the entire thing.

Maybe it’s just me, but I was really on the fence about going Windows, like I said, I actually don’t like it that much. It’s grown on me though. For personal use it’s really not that different than OSX. Then you get actual updated unix cli. You can even get SUSE enterprise server to run stuff in what resembles a real deployment environment. It’s all sandboxed so it doesn’t fill up your personal machine with development tools and servers unless you’re actually working on it. You get one-note and you get to take notes or draw architecture with a pen. The keyboard and trackpad are better than the MacBook and the thing weighs nothing. It even has a MagSafe charger. It really feels like something Apple should have build.
Yeah their documentation is dreadful, but they could just append loc:countryCode to the query before making the API request: e.g. ‘attractions loc:dk’.. at least that works for me despite some people mentioning this filter is no longer supported.

Not sure how DDG and other search engines that rely on Bing does it, but it’s certainly possible without sharing the users’ IP with Microsoft.
That's by design. People don't want to be "guided to better design," they want to get their math done and over with, leaving some trace (the Excel sheet) for the next time they or somebody else needs to revise that math.
In my opinion - "No Code" tools will fix this gap to build real world apps yet being as simple as excel.

While airtable is just a DB as a service, a real no code tool would have ideally all the basic building blocks:

a. DB as a service (like Airtable)
b. BPM capability -> to add workflows to the data
c. Ui Building to abstract data
d. API integration (may not advanced learning for power users)
I'm not jealous about Amsterdam at all. People use beat-up bikes to avoid theft but still they get stolen. And finding a parking spot for your bike is horrible. Of course the city is very nice to ride in, with all the bike lanes and bike-respecting traffic culture and the flatness of the city.

But I personally prefer Helsinki (where I live) after seeing Amsterdam a couple of months ago. Never had a problem with theft on an average bike properly locked; parking a bike is easy; bike lanes and paths exist but aren't usually too crowded; motorists only rarely kill cyclists; and riding in the snow makes you feel like you're greater than you are. :)
Google workers can listen to what people say to its AI home devices
Ask HN: How do you stay up2date in your field of research?
Do you check arXiv etc. on a daily basis and check for new interesting papers in your field? Do you read specific journals?

How do you keep up with the cutting-edge research in your field?
I fail to see the qualitative difference between

a) Don Vito sending goons with guns to hurt and/or kill me if I don't pay protection money and

b) "The lawful government" sending people with guns to arrest me if I don't pay taxes (and potentially kill me if I should refuse arrest).
It's completely unverifiable. For big companies I assume dishonesty until proven otherwise.

Give me the keys to read the raw stream and we can talk.
I always like these threads where programmers talk about tools like Excel and say they’re fine for small stuff but grow out of hand, as if 90% of codebases built by professional programmers aren’t exactly the same.
So, a proxy?
You bought a product with no ongoing maintenance costs. Then demanded that they give you a free additional product with ongoing maintenance costs.

The fact that you bought their product in the past does not entitle you to demand that they build and maintain a free web hosting service. If that's your attitude, then I'm sure they're happy that you're no longer their customer.
WhatsApp?
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it's where the enjoyment comes from. cheaters don't enjoy the game as much as they seeing their ELO/MMR go up or in the worst case they're psychopaths who just want to mess with other people's heads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_inductance_detector

FTFY
I see what you're saying, but this is actually a deliberate usability principle: make the basic features easy to access (visible without clicking into a menu), and put advanced features inside menus. Then basic users who don't need more advanced features can do what they need without getting lost in a super complex UI, and power users can still get to the advanced stuff.

If people want to do advanced stuff with software, they really do need to invest the time to learn where the advanced features of the software are. I think this is reasonable.
Paid user here, so I am not affected by this problem.

However (writing this complaint here since I am sure they are monitoring this 3d) I am really disappointed by the way agilebits handled this matter.

1) the release notes were shitty and they know it;
2) no one asked for a free app but if you do that, taking it away is a baaaaaad idea;
3) it took me a lot of time to convince family members to use local vaults on their phones, if the feature is removed and they will complain with me I will be extremely unhappy.
Using APIs and Bubble to Build Filtur.io
Could possibly have the opposite effect?

I believe the study showed that the probability of any individual getting involved increases if there is no-one else present. i.e. they are the only one who can help.

Surveillance cameras might make people feel someone else will take responsibility.
> at least you can make named tables in excel on windows

I built a spreadsheet that loaded external data sources (filtered log files from a production system) into Excel tables. I then combined two log files into another table, and created a pivot table from this, which I then filtered (date ranges etc) and analysed.

That worked great at the start - until I came to update the external data and found the pivot table didn't update. Then when I force an update it lost my groupings, filtering etc.

Any idea where I went wrong?
> One thing I've learned about software in general is that I never want to be outside of the primary use case. If you're not using it the same way that the people building it do, it's going to be a pain to use, and your requests will be ignored.

While this might be true in general, one of the main advantages in choosing FOSS is that features used by a small subset of users are more likely to be kept than for proprietary software.

When a software package starts out, early-adopting power users build its popularity and help shape its growth ... until the package becomes so useful that it is now marketable to the masses. Then, for proprietary software at least, there's a strong incentive to streamline and remove anything the masses don't care about...which can alienate the same people who helped make their package great.

For FOSS, there's powerful motiviation to retain features that even only a handful of power users rely on -- lest that project be forked.

I can't remember the last time I've been feature-burned by a FOSS project. My feature-burn scars for proprietary software, however, are many -- and at least a few are quite deep.
Although I don't like JS, I use that too, but it's pretty half-baked tooling compared to what Excel has. I would rather like to see just being able to point out some Google Cloud Functions and use those as spreadsheet commands. That would be powerful. Now you can but you have to do plumbing and you cannot reuse libs over sheets unless you make them public (last I checked, I could be wrong on this one but I read posts from as far back as 2011 where 'they are working on it'); you have to copy/paste. Yuck.

I wish someone (MS, ...) would do something, but I work on Linux so no Excel for me. And I do like very large datasets to be in the cloud anyway and not killing my laptop.

There should be more competitors in the space. I know there are a few, but they are not really competitors, just more niche / boutique products that attack a specific case, so you need to go back to Sheets or Excel anyway.
You can send them an image payload with spyware embedded in it
Using an unpatched OS isn’t the best advice I can think of in this day and age.
Hayabusa2 lands on an asteroid and sends back pictures to prove it
Shitty Gifts – Send shitty stickers and letter to the ones who deserve it
But professional programmers (emphasis on professional) are well aware of how codebases can grow out of hand and employ entire categories of theories, strategies and tools to keep their software maintainable, even when under delivery/time pressure. Excel doesn't really have much in this category of theories and tools.
Maybe he should be a latter day Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders and give it a try?
Remind me of another venture policist and warrior : Giuseppe Garibaldi.
I think they mean there’s a 1k concurrent request limit that they hit. Though the alternative would be dedicated servers and load balancers, no?
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Not to sound like a Google apologist, but all you ask is already in there.

And Google's extensive compatibility requirements aside, webview is now directly updated from the store.

Android Q will extend this to most system components via apex.
That seems expected but somehow it doesn't happen here in Helsinki.

A set of stem, handlebar and brifters should come off with an allen key and a snip of the brake and gear cables, and would cost over $300 new even for a modest road bike. OTOH the scene for used parts is tiny around here, so a high risk of getting caught unless selling abroad.
An all-optical neural network on a single chip
It’s possible, using the isolcpus kernel command line argument, to prevent the scheduler from managing certain CPU cores.

You can then manually assign a thread to an isolated core, and it will run there without any interruptions from thread switching.

You can also map
interrupt handlers away from those isolated CPUs.

There may be architectural things that cause interruptions you can’t mitigate though (like SMIs on Intel).
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Assuming you tried going through whatsup first, report them to police or cell operator, let them deal with it: they might have access to which actual phones (IMEI) have been used for those numbers, and if those devices have also been used with non-burner numbers.

If they are indeed multiple burner phones (different IMEI numbers), then police it is: they can get IP and similar data from whatsup, etc.

Remember, you don't need to know who is harrasing her, just for them to stop!
Common Mobile Authenticator Apps Accept QR Codes for Modes They Don't Support
I'm talking about Next.js/Nuxt.js style JS front-ends replacing exactly that plus JS heavy frontends like Angular and SPA react apps which was the last decade's modus operandi.

The way SSR hooks React/Vue into these JS apps "hydrating" them after loading prerendered component based views...to make them interactive without losing any performance compared to static HTML, is unique and extremely powerful, which most people don't understand until they do it. It really is the future of frontend development.

SSR combined with async loaded chunked bundles of components is far more than prerendering some server side Web apps templating library with full HTTP requests in between. All the power of a full fledged SPA but with none of the performance or SEO downsides with automatic offline + service worker caching. It's great for the webs future.

https://ssr.vuejs.org/
I noticed the difference in daily kilometers between the Prius (up to 48km with 860W of solar) and the Sono Sion (up to 34km with 1200W).
I think Toyota gives you the theoretical maximum range increase that you get when you use the generated power directly without storing it in the battery first.
New York City just finished replacing the Kosciuszko Bridge, a critical segment of the BQE (I278). Most people in New York say "the koss-key-oss-ko bridge", though my understanding is that the pronunciation is more like "Ko-shuz-kuh"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosciuszko_Bridge
A role for optics in AI hardware
SPEED – SPectral Elements in Elastodynamics with Discontinuous Galerkin
Went to the police, twice. they did nothing.
how do I go through whatsup ?
This is a good take.

I once build a Rails app that translated a giant Google Sheets document into a web application.

What I found really fascinating was that:

95% of my development time was spent building CRUD, access control, UI that was already more-or-less provided for free in Sheets

5% of my development time was spent writing unit tests and services that implemented the actual logic and formulae in the spreadsheet. Even though this was the tricky, business critical "thinking carefully" part, it was also the least time consuming.

It just goes to show, even compared with Rails, applications like Excel and Sheets give you a LOT for free, out of the box, accessible to everyone.
There has been similar things done in the past, for example for Dune Legacy (Dune II) or REminiscence (Flashback)

Mario 64 is more recent so might be a magnitude more complex.

There are also other approaches, like a total re-implementation, not a decompile/re-source. ScummVM engine for Blade Runner, the adventure game from 90's is a recent very impressive example of that
My Moto phone hasn't had a security update in a year, and sale of the model was stopped 2 years ago, so that's 1 year support. Luckily it was cheap. I'll be ditching Android I think
It seems their software quality in general have been going downhill recently. Lots of changes just for the sake of changing. The new extension doesn't work about 40% of the time or require multiple keystrokes to get it to pop up. The windows version is just, ugh.
I'm pretty interested in this. Signed up to the mail list. Good luck!
It might be off-topic.
I see there's racket in techempower framework benchmarks [1] but I can't find racket from round 18 results [2], is it too slow?

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast...
[2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18
Yep. sorry.
Has anyone here attempted to develop software for librem?

Mind share your experience with us?
Emmm sorry to doubt Aussies, but type in Kościuszko in google translate and hit play. Their TTS is really good at pronounciation.

It's hard to do it correctly if your native tongue is not slavic. I'd like to be wrong though.

They should know the name, though. Yup.

If anyone's inclined towards random wiki trip I suggest reading about Strzelecki, who named the moutain. He was an explorer.
Even worse, the token used to separate arguments is localized. So you may have to use semicolons instead of commas. But in some places you need to pass a string representation of a formula and there Excel will only understand the non-localized commas. Fun all around!
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Having to relearn the whole stack. Networking, virtualisation, UI of the OS, web servers, database, scripting, programming language and IDE compatible with the OS, and for that programming language desktop framework, web framework, finding and understanding 3rd party libraries.

None of this is my day job, it is knowledge and muscle memory I accumulated over 20 years being invested in and toying with the microsoft ecosystem (.net, visual studio, sql server, iis, hyper-v, etc). Changing OS means pretty much restarting from scratch. It is tempting (I am deeply uncomfortable with the new Microsoft) but I just can’t afford to invest that much time and energy.
Sorry for the delay—only saw this now. The problem isn't the profanity, it's that the comment didn't contain any information. Also, we're trying to avoid pure indignation here—it tends to lead to more of the same and that makes for low quality discussion.
On the first point, I believe the study used surveillance footage so it's likely the majority of people would've been unaware they were being filmed.
I've built plugins with VSTO (for Outlook) when I was at MS, but my memory is that it’s dependent on a plugin being distributed and not available for native use embedded into the excel workbooks.

You have to install Visual Studio, compile a plugin, register the plugin, and then from VBA you can call out to that COM interface if you'd like. Even if Excel users could overcome those hurdles, you still break the collaboration flow (i.e. just sharing an excel file).

Looking a little deeper, it looks like they're starting to support Javascript for the newer cross-platform add-in system (and also VSTO), but it looks like you still have to distribute your JS add-in via a web-service as opposed to being fully integrated into Excel and XLSM files.

The bit of just being able to share the XLSM file and users using Excel with no other installs or special network access, is really the make or break for me and non-professional programmer user scenarios I've seen.
Trump Tweets about Bitcoin
For anyone trying to spot counterfeit products in general, a good place to look is at the FCC logo. On the counterfeit card in the article the FCC logo is wrong. The real logo ends with two concentric circles with a pie-slice out of them forming the "cc" while the counterfeit logo clearly has a different shape.
I would hate spreadsheets a lot less if they were testable.

Or didn’t “help” by silent type conversions that skew analyses (which you’ll never notice because, uh, no tests) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-pa...
When they built New York's skyscrapers, they hired predominantly people from the Mohawk tribe to do riveting a three hundred feet above ground because they lacked fear of heights.

At what point does a correlation become useful as a statistical tool?
I agree, but also keep in mind that bad code is often still better than no code. There are still many many low hanging fruits for automation left that are not worthwhile to tackle while programmers cost $100+ per hour and the humans that currently run those tasks make mistakes too.
View-Centric Performance Optimization For Database-Backed Web Apps [pdf]
I remember seeing The V Motion Project [0] when it first came out. It'd be good to see other people approach this too!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YERtJ-5wlhM
Spreadsheets are great!

But some times it is necessary to extract the logic, processes, and behaviors from a spreadsheet into an application that can add necessary stability, traceability and redundancy that an expert concurrent enterprise tool requires from a legal, compliance and technical point of view.

I once was tasked with the unforgiving job to do exactly that.
Yeah, the wikipedia article addresses this somewhat;

The name of the mountain was previously spelt "Mount Kosciusko", an Anglicisation, but the spelling "Mount Kosciuszko" was officially adopted in 1997 by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. The traditional English pronunciation of Kosciuszko is /kɒziːˈʌskoʊ/, but the pronunciation /kɒˈʃʊʃkoʊ/ is now sometimes used, which is substantially closer to the Polish pronunciation [kɔɕˈt͡ɕuʂkɔ]
Relatedly, if you ever need to delegate something like a 911 call, you're supposed to single out a person and tell them, specifically "you, go dial 911" rather than shouting "someone call 911!"

Apparently this makes it far more likely to actually happen.
Puławski była kobietą... :-)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/science/casimir-pulaski-i...
Nvidia Jetson Nano and Lego Minifigures
You're absolutely correct, I was trying to think of some examples of this happening in Polish before writing my comment, but I couldn't think of any, but you're obviously correct. There's a few famous foreign characters which are usually Polish-icized(?), Szekspir is another as someone else commented.
Hahahaha. Hot damn. Oh that would really get my goat.
Microsoft says its Teams app is bigger than Slack and growing faster
> In particular techno-stuff (IPhone etc.) marketplaces are usually scams.

Usually? Always. There are a plenty of legitimate services that'll fence such items for you, but they'll just sell them very near retail on amazon/ebay/whatever.
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure Excel doesn't store numbers or dates in localized format.
You walk into a store, grab a beer, pay the clerk, and walk home. The moment you finish drinking it you get a knock at the door--it's the store owner demanding his beer back.

Version 2: a knock at the door--it's the original brewer demanding his beer back.

The abstract notion of "contracting" your rights away isn't bad on its face. In situations as with the crash victims, the real issue here is informational asymmetry, and specifically that the insurers are abusing this asymmetry in a particularly reprehensible manner. The asymmetry is that the families know very little about how much compensation the insurer is capable of paying while the defendant probably knows rather well the economic circumstances of the family. And the families might be incapable--i.e. time limited, because they lost their head of household--of expending the resources to discover this information. By contrast, the beer example is unobjectionable because these factors didn't exist, at least not to the same extent.

Various legal systems have mechanisms for dealing with these issues. Categorically banning the relinquishment of rights, however, means there would never be any finality to the exchange of goods and services, or to legal disputes.
The "processes" defined here remind me of Minsky's "agents" (which came later), and the "hierarchy" of his Society of Mind -- which also happens to be hierarchycally organized, like most (all?) human societies so far. All of these systems are involved in the realization of tasks requiring intelligence.

Within this framework, one of the interesting approaches to me here is: once you define which processes/agents are involved in a human activity, how can one augment/externalize it? Software that effectively does this is useful by definition. We might be missing lots of utility here due to lack (or just inherent difficulty) of introspection.
You can actually unit test your Spreadsheets surprisingly easily with Python: https://www.slideshare.net/xlwings/automated-testing-of-exce...
I am clearly posting waaay too many Bloomberg notes but this one - this one is beautiful

If after reading this you don't want to throw out the whole stock clearing system and migrate to some basic ledger then you did not read it right
Huh, I thought it was getting better across the board, and significantly faster. 1P is actually investing in proper cross-platform support, rather than only macOS, so perhaps it's just less attention to detail? The Windows client has become fantastic.