skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I hear this a lot, but that really does not make a lot of sense. I hear the same for wysiwyg builders, CMS and 'codeless/lowcode' platforms, but they are all alive and kicking despite programmers thinking that it is much more easier to whip up something with Rails/Django.

Those platforms are very far removed from 'the normal user'; you cannot just install ONE (!) installer file and then open a visual drag & drop editor and whip up what you want. In the worst case you have to install several things and some of this need to be configured; you already lost 99% of the business people there.

You forget 'little things' like; they have to know html/css/js as well, or at least know how to add and work with Bootstrap. For business use you need Bootstrap controls; you need to know how to add and integrate them (people are not going to understand what it means to just 'bind to the onclick event') while in the before mentioned packages that is jut drag & drop. Installing new controls is too.

Then, if they got as far that they run into having to securely deploy it somewhere. It is all just too hard.

The web made them less used, but not because of Rails/Django, but because they are, legacy wise, less well fit for the web, but there is still a huge market for them and there are more and more appearing that solve some of these issues for web and definitely quite a substantial group will choose them over hiring 'real coders' to make things quickly. There are plenty of web shops (with big clients) doing their db work with Filemaker (and Filemaker does support web).
This race condition happens often. In fact about every time I try to rely on it with my team. Such a shame Google Drive isn't seem as a "trusted platform" in my client environment.
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It's not "a bit less popular", but pretty much abandoned (apart from by some diehard conservatives such as Korwin-Mikke). Noone translates first names anymore, nor do we use phonetical spelling for the last names.

It's not by coincidence that "Jerzy Waszyngton" or "Izak Niuton", "Szekspir" etc. are hardly 20th century figures.

Have you ever seen "Ryszard Nikson" or "Stefan Hołking" in print? :) Like, once in your life? Exactly... So much for the "a bit less popular nowadays"...
While it’s possible to “easily” write a computer program that is hard to understand later, the gap is much wider with Excel: many more people can create stuff, and the risk of being left with an undecipherable mess seems greater.

I am also still, in 2019, risk-adverse to these complex file formats, even if they are widely used. I can open a real computer program in dozens of editors and run them on many platforms. Yet with Microsoft’s own SharePoint solution, half the time Excel files can’t be opened: my web browser just hangs and then I have to download and open the file in Excel. That’s just crap.

For me, spreadsheets are also frustrating because they can make very poor use of space (and this happens in some other user interfaces too). I shouldn’t be forced to see only 3 numbers at once on a giant display just because they happen to be in cells that are a million miles away and separated by useless empty/unused cells. This feels like what you’d see if web sites decided to just dump their raw database tables onto the screen instead of presenting the data usefully. My theory is that people are just really adaptable, to an unpleasant degree; I’m amazed when I see people squint and tolerate absurd truncation of data and other unhelpful displays.
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> 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.

If there is an obscure setting somewhere which makes something work well for you while you become a minority of users in the process, you would not use it?
What in spreadsheets is not testable? It's trivial to write a test that opens the spreadsheet in excel and tests any formula calculations via Excel Automation API.
Actually, I thought more like "cozzie osko"

There's also a beer marketed under this name in Australia.[1]

[1] https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/kosciuszko-pale-ale/116538/
Because how something is described is always exactly what it is, that's why we are always told to judge books by their covers...

That page doesn't state what security matters the update address, nor does the page it links to (directly, maybe the information is there with more digging, but if I'm given a link on the pretext that it shows something I expect it to show that thing without needing to dig).

> What are you implying,

I'm not the OP, but I think what is being implied is fairly obvious: that the patch exists purely as a way to get the telemetry stuff installed and had no real security addressing content.

I very much doubt that is the case though, it is something that would not surprise me from the MS of old but they are at very least more clever these days and would not risk the resulting furory.
I can hardly imagine what is that which is easy in Excel but hard in Python with Pandas and SqliteiteAlchemy/Pytable/whatever and matplotlib.

What really annoys me in Excel is they won't replace the fossil VBA with Python, F# or a new language designed from scratch right for this. The VBA environment feels fun to touch to have the feeling of time-travelling back to the years of your childhood but it feels quite clumsy in actual programming.

Excel's plots feature also feels fairly weird. I could never make it to produce exactly the plot I want. Perhaps that's because I haven't mastered it but this means it is harder to master than matplotlib is.
Coincidentally, I just put a used intel gb ct up for sale, along with an unrelated note to the fcc. I’ll double check the nic now to confirm authenticity. My voice is my passport. Verify me.
They're not entirely unrelated. I found the final paragraphs to describe how the research of attribution is difficult. I interpreted the headline as questioning whether attribution is even relevant or desirable.
The result is often a classic game running on a modern system without needing to jump through hoops, which is a huge win to people who enjoy playing the game in question.

OpenTTD, OpenRCT2, and OpenMW all come to mind, not to mention the many ports of Id games.
> It should be up to the user to decide whether to take on updates, regardless of what you think because that's their computer and not yours and you each deserve control over the computers you own.

Which is why the user can CHOOSE to have automatic updates. Or not to. The default when buying a new Mac is that automatic updates are enabled, because that’s the product Apple wants to sell and that they believe most of their users want to buy. It’s secure, it’s practical, it’s fun.

If you want to be your own IT department you simply deactivate all or some automatic updates. If you want a secure computer and trust Apple you leave it on.

I don’t see how this is a big moral question at all. Let people organize their computing needs in a way that’s safe and practical for them, not in the way that’s safe and practical for you.
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Bitwarden costs only what is it 10 or 12 USD a year. LastPass costs 24 USD, and 1Password 36 USD. If you need 2FA. If you don't need 2FA then it doesn't cost as much, but I think you still have a device limit.

Bitwarden's clients are FOSS. There's a 3rd party FOSS server for it available written in Ruby. So you could even self-host.

[EDIT: there's one written in Rust as well! [1] [2]]

[1] https://github.com/jcs/rubywarden

[2] https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs
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The "that includes a free gift or trial" modifier might be a critical limitation.
I have specifically had this explained to me as being due to the bystander effect. "Someone call 999/911" - chances are no one will do it, due to the bystander effect; "You (points) call 999/911" - they probably will.
Most Amercans would be suprised to hear but US presidential election system had been influenced by Polish royal election rules.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_elections_in_Poland

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-president-how-and...
You clearly didn’t read the additional links they posted. They mentioned why they chose 10k (AIVAT), and it goes far beyond any of the variables you mentioned.

For any number of hands, my money is on the bot.
Winning the War on Phishing Scams. Wait, I didn’t realize I was in a war?
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Yes, GUI assisted reactive programming.

And that's why when you start to use use VBA or js in Excel, it's a fail.

Excel power users (I am not one of them) know how to solve almost every problem they are presented to, using only Excel. Like SQL with relational data. With orders of magnitude better performance.

Main issue yet is scalability, when the dataset gets too big.
Coupled with some client JS running in your browser that will act as the backend for the proxy, yes.

It's cute. Basically transient sharing of content from any device with a browser that supports websockets without needing a separate client.
That's a really excellent example -- crossing the regionality information of genomics with an otherwise-basic parallelization problem definitely makes it nontrivial. Thank you :D
Of course, but the radiation caused by artificial reactors (and their leftovers) is magnitudes higher than anything in the wild.
+1000. This is ridiculous. Couldn't they at least make this optional so you'd be able to switch this off somewhere in the configuration dialog, registry or command line? I hate localized apps altogether (who even needs localized Visual Studio srsly? I can't believe anybody can be competent in a .Net programming language and relevant frameworks and practices without being able to read English) but localizning some apps makes some sense for some people, nevertheless localizing functions feels beyond reason. I feel thankful they didn't localize C# and command line commands :-)
As hard as this might be to hear in a time of grief, at some point you need to stop blaming "big law" and take a
hard look in the mirror. Only then will you be able to start assigning much of the blame where it really belongs, namely on "big ego" and "big greed." Maybe criminal defense lawyers should not be putting in 16 hours days trying to get their (almost always guilty as hell) clients off on their charges by whatever means possible. After all, poor people who have committed crimes have to make due with court-appointed lawyers who are usually willing do no more than the law requires. And as someone who has personally been a victim of greedy and viciously unscrupulous attorneys on the civil side of the law, I just want to add here that for some of us, a dead attorney is the only real "good attorney."
Does the radio have DMA?
> That it does what it's supposed to?

and that is doesn't do what is not supposed to do.

As for your second point, if you could provide some background reading for that, I would appreciate it. I know of Knuth jokingly stating "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it", but if he or someone else wrote a more serious paper on the occurrence of software errors in proved software, I would appreciate a link. A proof should prove against all software errors--if it doesn't I'm eager to learn more.

As for your third point: software errors are a solved problem, but as you noted, it's a hard (expensive) solution. The solutions also currently may limit functionality, so it's unfortunately not applicable everywhere, but some classes of software should warrant it.

In my view medical devices that can directly interact with a patient's physiology is one of them.
A relevant, classic bystander-effect experiment (Darley and Latane 1968) put several participants, all subjects of the experiment, in a waiting room. Smoke began to come into the room through a vent. In most groups, no one acted for a very long time, even after the smoke led to breathing problems for participants. By contrast, when only one person was in the room, not a group, that person would almost always leave the room or call for assistance.

Differences from the OPs (very interesting) study:
1. In the smoke room, participants know they are in an experimental setting, though they do not know that the waiting room is part of the experiment.
2. The entire group is visible in the waiting room. (In a crowd outside, you don’t know who else might be acting or watching. In the waiting room you can see that no one else is doing anything.)
3. The threat is to you personally as well as to the others in the group - an injury or a fight involving others is less personally affecting than smoke that is making you cough in an enclosed room.
4. D & L experimented with small groups including a single person and saw dramatically different results in the latter case. I’d be interested in seeing what happens late at night when there are just one or two people around - what do the camera show then?

Of these I suspect 2) has the greatest effect. If I see that literally no one in the room is doing anything, I may figure that the situation is probably under control or isn’t a big deal. In a big crowd outdoors I can’t draw that conclusion as clearly.
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That's what I've understood, they'll have to provide bandwidth, and they'll have to use as much upload as download (though that's rarely a problem).. But still, scaling it would be interesting, but as a proof of concept it's still interesting, as they're not providing storage or processing.
Look at it this way - Dole foods has people who think they own more 10,000,000 shares than exist. And this is not because of shenanigans about Dole specifically but the "usual" operations of finance (shorting, being lax about what ownership and beneficial ownership
means, in ways that would have knife fights in any real world situation)

but imagine, just quickly, that all the shares in all the world had to be registered - let's say some awesome tax avoidance measure. And when all the people who think they own stuff find out that they cannot own stuff because there was not enough shares to go round.

Does this mean the global wealth just drops? Does this mean that we just assign them some monetary value (effectively they "borrowed" that much stock value)

Or what?

Basically there is no double entry bookkeeping for shares - there is for share transactions ... but the DTC "chill" is an example of foul up.

No imagine we create a global online ledger - suddenly these problems become manifest. Fun times
Also, if possible, touch that person while telling them to call 911 - helps them get moving if they are petrified.
What makes the 1Password UI better than LastPass' or Bitwarden's?
Finally, thank you!

Tests, destribution and versioning are my main concerns.
I like where the people at stensila are going: https://stenci.la/blog/humane-sheets/
While I haven't encountered localized names, localized formats make Excel an absolute pain for me.

My language uses the "European" number format of a comma for decimals and periods for thousands separators. Excel tries to adjust to that by using semicolons for argument separators (i.e. ADD(1.5, 3.5) -> ADD(1,5; 3,5)).

The problem is that their locale detection is wildly inconsistent and there isn't a good way to override it without changing system settings. When moving a file between computers, this is an utter disaster.
I have also been told in training for these kind of events to also tell that person to come back and tell you once they've done it. Apparently people have a tendency to wander off once they've done their task, leaving you not knowing if it's been completed & when help's arriving.
Enpass did the same thing, removing wifi syncing. They claim it will be added back in the next version, but many versions have passed and it was not. I finally gave up and synced to the cloud. Let the NSA have a crack at it if they want to. I only wish I knew Bitwarden before I started with Enpass. Moving between password managers is a horrific experience.
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so a pc port could happen?
I just try to help untill I see someone more qualified take over to avoid the issue. Don't know if it's because I'm aware of this effect or just maturing but I know when I was younger I just avoided situations like this and I had a few recently where I did actually try to help.
This was a good read. I like to consider myself fairly rational, but even so a small handful went against my intuitions.

Admittedly, the article defines itself as a list of things which have been labelled as pseudoscience at one point or another, and obviously the lines aren't always clear as some things make the list because of quacks' overenthusiasm and/or twisting of what is a small localised benefit into much more than it is.

Regardless, for fun here are a couple which went against my current intuitions:

Fasting: while not in vogue to cure diseases per se (although some people point to diabetes), variants of fasting seem to be in vogue at the moment.

Graphology: To me (someone with pretty lazy handwriting), I feel like comparing mine with someone's which is significantly more neat would say something about our respective personalities.
It could be he works for US government and protects himself from say EU border guards. Who are far less intrusive. But better save than sorry.
> decrease of probability that a particular individual will act, with decrease in group size

I believe the study did show that. I heard an interview with one of the authors on the radio (so my memory may be faulty).

So I don't think it really debunked the bystander effect, rather he made a point along the lines of, 'it doesn't really matter, the more people present means it's the more likely that one of them intervenes'.
This is absolutely false. I'm a student in Poland so I'm fresh on this and - politics aside - he is a very big figure in Polish history books, and everybody knows about him.

(The Kościuszko Insurrection is one of the more important dates, that each student is supposed to remember)

So no, he's not forgotten at all nor omitted.
With a few tricks, you can actually use a professional version control system like Git with Excel, see the slides of my recent webinar: https://www.slideshare.net/xlwings/git-for-excel-files-webin...
They may have finally fixed it in the later versions. I remember it being a pain in an office that had multiple locales on various PCs.
How much ongoing maintenance have you paid for with that $150? Is it really zero? What if the app stops working the day after you purchase it?

I mean the apps seemed overpriced in the first place, and due to their decision to change their business model they decided not to provide ongoing support in a way that one might have expected they would based on what the product seemed to be and how their business seemed to operate when you purchased the product. They don't technically or legally owe you anything but nonetheless I would not want to buy anything from them after that.

The idea that they should be happy to lose a happy paying customer is absurd, is that how to build a successful business?
This is almost all of the software we use, I guess :) (that isn't strictly for entertainment)

The most notable productivity boosts/cognition boosts found so far have got to be Google [search engines] and Stack Overflow. Yes you could use books but the speed is incomparable. I can accomplish something extremely complicated that would require lots of thinking with just a few queries, reading solutions and glueing them together. I can get expert advice on anything instantaneously. Interestingly this augmentation is mostly 'oracular', just giving you the right answers on demand. Though sometimes the rationale behind an answer is well explained and you can somewhat incorporate the general solution model.

Should we value more augmentation devices that are less oracular? E.g. maybe a high level programming language is a non-oracular augmentation device; you still have to correctly encode all logic, only now you can glance over some details (in sacrifice of some performance).

Do we risk of atrophy from this practice of getting everything almost ready? The productivity increase would indicate you can just use your time to accomplish more; but we all know sometimes "wasting" time is needed to learn or maintain useful skills (e.g. you could always use a calculator, but we chose to learn arithmetic; you could use wolfram to solve integrals instead of learning calculus; we spend time exercising).

It does sometimes feel like I'm almost a god at the computer, and a naked mortal away from it.
TIL. But I was trying to stick to base...
Neither :). It’s a pretty hard word for people outside Poland. I would say it’s pronounced more like “Kosh-choosh-kuh”. It still won’t be perfect, but close enough.
It uses low latency WASAPI APIs to transfer the audio samples.
We just tried it, very slow at the moment.
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Everyone nowadays knows that "we're being watched".
Did you actually try using the CLI tool, or did you only read the documentation? The documentation isn't super clear, but in actual usage your password (nor your email) doesn't get entered into shell history or otherwise.

You can pass your email and password as arguments to the "bw login [email] [password]" command, which will put them into your history, but the default way of typing "bw login" will then prompt you for them both, masking your password just like any other CLI tool does.
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You are right. There are many Tier 1 networks so Internet can’t be destroyed easily. Even If internet dies there’s radio communication and other stuff. Like SATCOM.
Regardless that this is one way to operate it (just like many CLI commands can also prompt for password) you're aware you can tell your shell to not save commands to its history?
I doubt they had the ability to speculate about the future of their (or any) species.
I'm more curious as to the legal implications of what people might share when using the service, even if (s)he's not the one hosting, (s)he's providing bandwidth and enabling access.
That might be why when he worked at the Mint he tool the task of finding and prosecuting "coiners" so seriously - even working undercover himself to gather information and running the prosecutions himself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Later_life

World's greatest scientist turned undercover crime fighting superhero!
Also worth noting here is pannenkoek2012: https://www.youtube.com/user/pannenkoek2012
https://www.youtube.com/user/pannenkeok2012

His explanations are mind-blowing as well and fun to watch :)
Sure, Michael Phelps is extremely talented and physically fit. But do you think he could be an excellent marathonist as well? Or that he could become an excellent sprinter without training for sprinting every single day and (re-) dedicating his life to this?

The GP post indicated was mentioning not that raw talent is unimportant, but that it is assumed at the top level. All of Phelps' competitors are extremely talented swimmers. Training and diet and dedication in general are also extremely important, and the final difference may well end up being there (assuming you have enough raw talent).

Of course, it is also important to remember the incredible amount of medical technology thrown at these competitors, and the difference that things like clothing can make even for swimming.
> Pretty sure this is old tech now?

It seems they're claiming higher bitrates than existing techniques.
This article uses a sun spot figure which is misleading. The article contain scientific statements without any references. For more sun spot info see http://www.sidc.be/silso/ssngraphics or just Google 'sun spot count'