skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Professional players are essentially actors on a stage for an audience. They are tools for teams, businesses that will be around long after any individual players are injured/retired.

Absolutely. It shocks me how many people buy up the “our” team stuff and don’t realize that a lot of the narrative around interviews and sports-talk and drama are just advertising campaigns.

This is big business.

But to the topic; You’re right, if it’s really about winning it has to be one sport and be one section inside that. It shouldn’t be about winning national championships for kids, because millions will try for the spots a couple hundred will fill, but that’s not really any of my concern I guess.
I can bundle my work in an iPython/Jupyter notebook, and if I'm feeling really frisky, I can package that in a Docker container.

I expect anybody with a computer can now replicate my work, and not pay the cost of an Microsoft Excel license.
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> the Intel x86 chip manuals or whatever you're targeting use the outrageously long proper names, so your assembly will too.

I don't see why that has to be the case; why I'd must use Intel specified mnemonics instead of my own syntax? While not as radical, the att vs intel syntax demonstrates that the vendor syntax is not the only option. As long as the syntax captures all the details of instructions to be completely unambiguous then it should be perfectly interchangeable.

I specifically do not desire higher level of abstraction because I want to maintain that 1:1 relation with the actual machine code. Heck, even Intel mnemonics do not truly have 1:1 relation to machine code, because the instruction (encoding) can depend on operand types.
I mean, I suppose my idea is basically "build a recaptcha competitor". Otoh in house recaptcha is "better" because

- Hackers haven't spent time breaking it

- It doesn't raise the same level of privacy concerns

- You control the UI (though recaptcha3 gives you that) and have greater insight into what the score means and why
I agree. It’s just a way to get more H1B devs and pressure them with deportation to get good workers. The dev/ engineer shortage is total nonsense.
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We (I run Google Patents), generated them using Wsabie (https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/37180.pdf) trained on the set of words of the full text -> Cooperative Patent Classification codes. So summed word embeddings trained for a classification task, which works well on similarity too.
> You either enforce the constraints and weaken the platform, or you give users the power to do what they want.

I disagree with that. All the pieces are already there. There's nothing to weaken by education. But nothing tells the new users about them. They see the main screen and rarely ever know about multiple sheets. I've seen people using excel at work for years without knowing that. You don't have to take anything away from them, just go: hey, did you know there's a better way?

I know it's possible because I introduced a few people to named ranges, sheets, and data tables. All were happy to apply them later. (On their own)
Everybody promotes their point of view. You are obviously biased against my point of view. My agenda is to have rational discussions. There is nothing wrong with discussing a scientific paper & discussing how it is obviously flagged despite receiving enough votes to make it to the front page two times. It's only "an agenda" because we live in an environment where people flag scientific papers due to their "agenda". Everybody has "agendas", especially many of those who downvote & those who flag posts. Why don't you crack down on their "agenda"?

You can warn me however you wish. I'm not scared of you. And I don't believe you. You obviously favor the people that you agree with. You are not this "impartial moderator" that you make yourself out to be. It's all in the words that you use. You also have an "agenda". We are humans.

And FYI, I read my email after I wrote that comment. I wrote you back a response.

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I'm "posting too fast" so I'm responding to your response here...

That is complete BS because if my views were the opposite, I would follow the cultural norms, think as I'm told by authority, & not agree with posts that got flagged. I would be doing the flagging because I would be narrow-minded & unable to read a scientific paper that goes against my views.

The flagging & downvoting is used aggressively here to promote obvious agendas & heterodoxy. It's as if a group of sports fan were allowed to talk smack about other teams & be allowed to flag & downvote another team's fans, even if the other teams' fans are otherwise civil & follow protocol.

I see a lot of sh*t talking going a certain way. While they can dogpile anybody who disagrees with them "to avoid flame wars", it's not a civil environment. That's ok, I can handle it. However, it creates a certain culture here. There's some good articles, but the conversation tends to be narrow-minded & overbearing on certain topics.
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I would guess something like transport (train network) or maybe utilities (power grid)?
But does it really debunk that effect?

The article essentially claims that the more people there are the more likely it is that _someone_ will intervene. Which isn't the same as no one feeling less inclined to help since there are other people around.
After I set up a Jupyter server and/or docker.

With Excel, chances are I either have it on my computer, it is a single click download away, or I have another program already on my computer that can open it.
I'd be over the moon to see one change to Excel. Native support for a language other than VBA. Perhaps the CLR. Perhaps Java/Typescript. Just something (optional) for programmers who want to use Excel and not want to deal with the garbage that VBA is.

Some workarounds exist, but afaik they require collaborators to also have the tool install, which is dead in the water.

I know MS has considered it, I'm still pretty surprised they've haven't followed through.
Reactive programs don't have to be declarative. You can express a reactive program imperatively.

The defining feature of a reactive program is that relationships between inputs and outputs are automatically tracked, and changing an input will automatically update the dependent outputs.

Facebook had a whole experimental language (now abandoned) for writing reactive programs with imperative code: http://skiplang.com/
The personal slight isn't necessary.

Things are indeed working as designed, designed by the people who it benefits through regulatory capture, lobbying, and campaign finance, that part shouldn't be hard to understand.

If it were "working as designed" there wouldn't be a trend of global cooperation in closing these tax loopholes and you wouldn't be reading an article about France working to close one.

>If they bring the money back in to pay back the loans they'll pay taxes on it.

While profiting from the capital which should have been paid in taxes for decades, and more importantly out competing their smaller rivals out of the market because they didn't have the resources, scope, or moral infortitude to engage in similar behaviors.

Would that it were we all could avoid our financial obligations and paying our fair share long as we did so eventually while being called heroic.
Sorry, can I ask what a UDP app is?
> and transmit not only the results of those calculations, but the actual environment itself, to anyone in the world, and expect that if they have a computer, they can replicate your results.

I think this is the real secret. It's really the only kind of "model" where the environment travels with it. Everyone has the same Excel setup. If it works for you it will work for them.
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I certainly don't have Excel installed on my computer. It's not even free. And it's far harder for me to install it compared to free software, like Docker or Python (for which I can just type `brew install ...`).

If you own a Mac, it's already got Python installed on it.
what about something like this (holoportation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d59O6cfaM0
There are no ethical reasons why a game like poker must exist. In fact, poker gives a false sense of hope to the thousands of gambling addicts that enter casinos. It is a fun game, but there are an unlimited potential number of fun games..
If the bystander effect did exist, even the ambient possibility that you might be under surveillance at any given moment (as might be felt increasingly around the world, in 2019, regardless of who you are, time or place) seems like it would make dramatically less likely that the effect would actually occur.
I’m having ptsd right now of hidden ranges or random formatting from the end of the sheet becoming variables.
Sounds like a good outcome to me. Cheaper software is a good thing.
It helped digitize books... for Google. AFAIK they didn't release it to anyone else?

Also, for a while they used it to determine street numbers for Google Maps.
This uses hardware SPI module running at 3MHz.
Those modules are buffered, and as long as there are no underruns, there will no glitches at all.

And the userspace sends entire buffer in one syscall, so those underruns will have to be caused by kernel stall, which usually only happens when buggy device drivers are present.
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Just don't try to use dates before January 1, 1900 (or 1904 on Mac). You can work with dates in Excel 1,000 years in the future, but if you try to do that for dates from the 1800s it will completely screw them up. I don't understand why this problem still exists today. If you work in a museum, or anywhere else where you deal with old dates, you have to constantly be on the lookout for this "gotcha."
> Are you a competitor?

justforpurism and learnfromstory, 2 brand new accounts just created to shit on purism, it certainly seems like someone has a bone to pick.
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To be honest, a lot of coding is fairly trivial.
Spreadsheets are the best -- specifically Google Sheets. The addition of QUERY really allows Sheets to be superior to Excel, at least for the things I use it for.

Combine that with an IMPORTJSON script, and you can create really clean, structured data sets for nearly anything you can dream up. I've been tracking movies and TV shows, for instance. Combining a few of the APIs out there to get the best possible results really makes the set shine.

I don't code beyond modifying basic things, but I rarely find something I cannot do with a spreadsheet.

[1] https://github.com/bradjasper/ImportJSON/blob/master/ImportJ...
Everyone who is passionate on a topic thinks the mods are biased against their view.
This is a mechanical perception that reflects the passion of the perceiver. For sports fans, it always feels like the refs are against their team too.

I don't want to scare you, just persuade you to use HN as intended. This site doesn't exist for flamewars. The moderation would be just the same if your view were the opposite.
Waste.
Several russian sports sites scan your local network for several UDP and TCP ports, which I block via my firewall. Chrome should be blocked to access 192.168.. for all TCP and UDP ports. localhost of course also.
This is very cool. But please add (1962) and fix the typo in the title. ;)
This is true. Reminds me of a somewhat popular youtuber who makes videos about "side hustles." One of his "main" side hustle is operating vending machines. He basically makes videos about how to operate your own vending machine business and so on. The irony to it of course is that 98% of his "profit" comes from youtube partner advertising. So he makes a few hundred bucks from the vending business but pulls 10k-15k profit per month from youtbe ads. So the real moral of the story here is don't waste your time doing a vending machine biz, focus on making entertaining youtube videos.
The Venn diagram of people who can spin up docker containers + Jupyter notebooks vs. people who prefer to use Excel for similar scenarios has very little overlap...
Or simply that in this case, the bystander effect didn’t occur.

It’s also why today when something goes wrong, people are told to look directly at specific people and say “call the cops”/ “hold their head” and so on,
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I would use instead the analogy of a car and a bike. And indeed society does cater toward the bike, in many places.

But rather than any analogy, think about how many times more powerful a modern computer is than a computer from 2000. Now think about how many times more "things" you can do on that computer simultaneously. The latter is much smaller than the former.
"Normal database engines (MySQL, MongoDB, Postgresql, etc) did not provide the level of performance I was looking for." ... "After indexing just 358 of the 1395 files available the index was already a whopping 607MB"

I don't understand why those systems couldn't handle fewer than 2000 text documents. Or Sqlite3 + FTS3 or FTS4 for that matter.

Nor why actual full-text search engines like Lucene/Solr weren't considered. The project page suggests that the point is simplicity, but I thought Solr was simple even to get started with.
For a long while, my dad's job was as a consultant, and his job was to convert Lotus spreadsheets to Excel spreadsheets (and sometimes small databases). That was it. The spreadsheets he worked on were responsible for moving millions and millions of dollars around.

One of his jobs was for a major movie studio updating their sheets that calculated royalty payments. Every actor that ever worked on a show distributed by that studio relied on the accuracy of that single spreadsheet for their "money mailers".
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There was a web page over at Microsoft part of the Edge developer tools that in association with BrowserStack provided screenshots of a web page on a variety of operating systems and browsers for quick testing anytime, anywhere.

One could get those screenshots in a matter of seconds to see diferences in rendering, between iPhones and Androids, between Firefox and Safari, on OS X or Windows 7, etc. Extremely useful and fast.

They recently removed that page, more or less around the time Edge moved to implement a Blink engine.

Going directy to BrowserStack just now I found a free account is required to use the service, and after creating one with a throwaway mail, I'm presented with a flash 'emulator' page ( ! Needless to say, don't have it installed, and won't. ) to get this test done now.

Any alternatives to this service now basically dead / unusable ?
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Definitely guilty of this. The real irony of it is that the cheating on the exam was actually far more of a challenge and had an adrenaline rush to it. That's why I did it at least.

I remember one method I would use is to simply memorize thousands of multiple choice questions from the test bank. That way when you took the exam, you would already be familiar with the question on the exam and how to solve it.
I've been a paying subscriber to 1Password for over two years now and had the standalone version for years before that, and the way they responded in that thread really rubbed me the wrong way. Enough that maybe I'm going to start looking for other options. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood?

The OP just wanted to know if the feature was gone, and if so when did it get removed (maybe to find an archived version of the app?), and lastly why it wasn't clearly communicated, but you can just smell the smug in the responses. It's hard for me to read their little "cute" emoji as anything but sarcastic, which is reinforced by one of the developers chiming in about how they must be asking to "make their mobile apps free" and the other guy talking about how with so many users anything they do will of course be found out.
> people mover

So I used Mayor "Coleman's Train" a few times. The construction went fairly well, but thugs would wait for the doors to close and mug passengers. So passengers started to think twice before boarding. :)

The coolest thing about the People Mover was that it cut thru the corner of some buildings - quite an experience!

Ultimately building the RenCen isolated the original outside downtown from the new "RenCen downtown", destroying the original downtown as a destination.

And of course the RenCen elevators were as dangerous as Coleman's Train. Women couldn't use them alone.

The one good thing I can say about violence in Detroit is that AK-47's were never commonly used, unlike LA. You were more likely to get clubbed than shot.

Interesting Wikipedia link below. So the original projection was for 67,700 riders per day, which is laughable, as the popular Caltrain is slightly less than that even today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_People_Mover
I have a signed Burrito Tunnel poster on my wall from kickerstarting idleword's trip to Antarctica. It's awesome. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-wor...
Yes, that's why the statement "Reactive programming is useful" is interesting to me, and "You should model your problems in Excel" is not. The article makes both points, and I disagree with the second.

This specifically is nonsense in the article:

> From there, you can calculate literally anything, and transmit not only the results of those calculations, but the actual environment itself, to anyone in the world, and expect that if they have a computer, they can replicate your results.

I certainly can not expect that people I'm interested in have Excel. I don't even have Excel.
There is LibreOffice Calc, which allows you to program it with Python[1]. Best of the both worlds. I recently created a suggestion [2] to support also Julia language in it. Hopefully they will consider it.

[1]
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Design_Gui...
[2] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728
is this the signs of beginning of end of 'Made in China' era ?
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1. Why didn't they compare it with contemporary 5000+ FPS camera[s]?

2. What's the size difference as opposed to contemporary 5000+ FPS camera[s]?

With good Dynamic Ranging and affordability, it's good for independent film-makers?
The fact people can take tickets and you have to fight and have an argument about it really shows that there's a discourse inevitable in systems like Agile.

Who gets the 'tickets', why are 'tickets' always ruling people, when will 'tickets' be more like working for your own company?

The fact is the tickets themselves are acting like a virtual currency of which only one person gets, exclusively.

If more than one person could work on a ticket this would solve the problem, but the fact that people are locked out and it's exclusive makes them an argumentative point and causes greed/habits to form.

Fix the tickets, not the people.
All the credit and satisfaction comes from this one point.
I'm curious how old those folks were. I was I would guess the only person without a degree in my department at my last job (definitely the only dev without one) and never felt this.
The "Order" link goes to a 404 outside of the United States/for languages other an en-us
totally un-scientific but i just feel like things like "identitism", "communitism", nationalism, etc. have been on the rise in the past decade for some reason. and by protecting the group they belong to, people also end up protecting individual making up these groups.
You're blowing my mind here a little bit. I don't use MySQL but do use Excel and the R/Python data science stacks quite a bit. I regularly open data with tens or even hundreds of thousands of columns in the latter by using lazy computations. Is this not the case with database approaches? What kind of hardware are we talking? Presumably Excel has to load everything into memory at once since it's immediately viewable, right?
The comment you are replying to gives the reason of disliking the abuse, to weaken the point on the dislike of Javascript, not to fortify it.
Genesis is but one example of an oral folklore. All cultures had them (before writing ... which invented forgetting, ref Socrates). i would not at all be surprised if their cladogram is pushed back in time to when we shared the earth with other Homo species

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_mythology
> The challenge many programmers face is thinking that every business problem is best solved with code, when in reality the majority are solved faster, more efficiently, and more maintainably with a spreadsheet.

It's not like you can't do both. Excel supported VBA macros for a long time. Now it supports JavaScript.
That statistic comes from social media marketers who like to overstate the value of social media. In reality, most of the people doing that retweeting are simply using fake twitter accounts to do the retweet. I do the same thing. No one reads my retweets lol

These social media marketers make it sound like kylie jenner is going to retweet your crappy contest. Never happens.
>It's entirely possible for a Chinese company to have a subsidiary in India that's supplying components to Apple

IIRC : isn't it Foxconn making the phones in India too ?
Actually the one nice thing about this architecture is that if each pixel had its own oscillator you could dump them all on to the same bus until you reach the bandwidth of your ADC.
I would love to know what they classify as a daily active user. My expectation would be someone who sends or receives a message, but I would never have expected the numbers to be so high. Maybe they're counting everyone who signs into their O365 account who has a Teams subscription.
You're both right. From experience, some people are happy to learn new things. Others, as sheetsjs pointed out, are not interested.
That’s not an accurate representation of what happened.

When Apple/Steve Jobs went into negotiations with Verizon and AT&T (then known as Cingular), it didn’t have any leverage. In fact, Verizon wouldn’t sign the deal in part because of the control Steve Jobs wanted over the devices. AT&T agreed to get the exclusive.

BlackBerry was King when the iPhone launched and BlackBerry bent over backwards to do whatever the carrier wanted (the book Losing the Signal has great details on this).

Google could have depended on similar provisions with Verizon when the Droid launched in 2009 or with T-Mobile when the G1 launched in 2008. Both carriers wanted an iPhone killer.

But Google didn’t do that. It did force Verizon not to put Bing as the default search engine on some of Verizon’s Android phones (like the Droid series), despite an early 2009 agreement Verizon made to make Bing its default search engine — and it also negotiated to NOT force consumers to pay for Android apps using the carrier stores (something many carriers had required for previous non-Apple App Stores), once paid apps launched.

But it didn’t negotiate the update bit, even though the company had the leverage to do it.

I can only speculate the reasons why, but based on the number of books I’ve read, people I’ve talked to, and and other information, it strikes me that Google decided it was more advantageous to let any phone maker or carrier adopt its OS to gain marketshare, rather than worrying about device fragmentation or security update issues.

And that strategy worked beautifully and Android took over the world. The problem is getting carriers or device makers to update, especially when many have spent lots of time customizing Android as a way of differentiating themselves.

But it’s unfair to claim Google didn’t have the opportunity to make the deal Apple did. Google just didn’t want to do that and wasn’t willing to walk away from a partnership to have that level of control.