skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excel is at its core a declarative programming language. Entering formulas in cells that reference other cells declares the relationship of the calculated cells to its referents.

It is not an imperative language: the user does not tell the computer which order in which to carry out computations. It is not procedural: there is no notion writing of procedures within its cells. It is not functional: while there are built-in functions users cannot write their own in the same way.
Apollo 17 Final Flight Plan (PDF, 20 MB, October 23, 1972)
I cannot update my post anymore, but I already wrote it in another reply.
The edit suggestions goes directly to the business owner. They can accept / deny the update request. I've also asked friends and colleagues to ask for the same edit and to report the listing as non existent but nothing happened.

The answer from the Google support I'm referring to in my post, is from a legal request I've sent to them.

This is the full response in Italian (this is the reason why I didn't attach it to the post):

Gentile Sig.

La ringraziamo per il suo messaggio.

Le facciamo presente che Google è un fornitore di informazioni, non un mediatore. Forniamo informazioni su luoghi, attività commerciali e altre informazioni relative ad una particolare parola di ricerca di ricerca, ma non rivendichiamo alcun diritto sulle etichette associate a tali contenuti. Per ulteriori informazioni, la invitiamo a consultare i nostri Termini di servizio all'indirizzo https://www.google.com/policies/terms/. Per questioni riguardanti il marchio, la preghiamo di rivolgersi direttamente al proprietario della scheda o del luogo in questione. Se il proprietario dei contenuti in questione decide di modificare eventuali informazioni in seguito alla tua richiesta, tale modifica si rifletterà nella scheda la prossima volta che i robot di Google eseguono la scansione del relativo materiale di origine.

Se ritiene che informazioni personali come il suo numero di telefono vengano visualizzate nei risultati di ricerca relativi a un'attività o a una località, può segnalare il problema tramite Google Maps seguendo le istruzioni riportate in questa pagina: https://support.google.com/business/answer/6163683

Cordiali saluti,
Il team di Google

Please notice that Sig. doesn't include my name in the email I've received.

This is google translate:

We would like to point out that Google is an information provider, not a broker. We provide information about places, businesses, and other information related to a particular search word, but we do not claim any rights on the labels associated with that content. For further information, please consult our Terms of Service at https://www.google.com/policies/terms/. For trademark issues, please contact the owner of the listing or location directly. If the owner of the content in question decides to change any information following your request, this change will be reflected in the tab the next time Google's robots scan its source material.

If you believe that personal information such as your phone number appears in search results for an activity or location, you can report the problem via Google Maps by following the instructions on this page:
Sometimes you get close enough to zero that for any reasonable application, the answer can be rounded to zero.
Agreed, the feature could be used for bad purposes. Does that mean we shouldn't build it? That's a tough question.
I've seen it suggested in other articles here before that mindfulness programs for employees are often a way for employers to try and get their staff to be more accepting of crappy conditions, or unpleasant, meaningless or unethical work.

It sounds to me like the same kind of thing might also apply in schools.

I'm sure the school teachers and administrators mean well. I'm sure they don't consciously realise what a nightmare their institutions have become for many of the students in their care. Even if they do realise, they didn't choose for it to be that way.

The sad fact is that modern life has become a horrible nightmare for many people, grownups and kids alike. Mindfulness has become a popular attempt to paper over the problems, but in truth, many people who are having coping problems or exhibiting "mental illness" are really having understandable reactions to the dysfunction they're sensing in the world.

To be clear: I'm in no way averse to emotional wellbeing techniques that are effective and that increase the agency of participants. I've gone very deep on this kind of work in my own life, and have benefited greatly.

But I think the outcomes, and indeed the intentions, of mainstream mindfulness programs are quite different to this, and are sadly far more focused on maintaining the status quo for institutions and modern mainstream society.
It's the exact same reason why businesses have been pushing mindfulness at work as well. They don't want to actually reduce stress or solve the problems workers are facing; they'd rather try and teach them to not break as fast while under stress.

This isn't to discount the benefits of being mindful or meditating for people. But you should be very wary when someone's trying to sell you on it because usually there's a greater reason for it.
Recently I've created https://rosselo.com, which provides useful and elegant news dashboard. Works in browser on every device.

It's under development now - freemium model will be presented soon (among other things). So don't hesitate to try it out, the current "trial" is in fact unlimited now so the whole service is currently entirely for free.

Any feedback will be appreciated!
OK so it was kind of like AB Testing but using heatmaps
I strongly agree with this.

Any mindfulness for children or adults must be just offering. You should't make it regular thing that everyone must attend. You can't motivate mindfulness from the outside.

Some people just have very bad reactions to mindfulness even if they try it voluntarily. It may be ongoing psychological issue or something else. People seem more or less similar on the outside, but they have very different experiences when they turn their mind inwards.
In hindsight you can say he suffered from imposter syndrome.
People often have trouble to accept that an easy working solution to a difficult problem is an act of genius, instead they feel that they took a shortcut and are non deserving.
Horse sense in 1779:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.33532/

Equines have not much cortex, but they do prefer their allies reliable.

(the counter argument here would be Animal Farm's Boxer. We'll all discover which model had a better fit, later this year.)
I wrote a series of blog posts covering how the intervals of git works; I posted a summary here for reference:

https://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/12/git-tip-of-week-finale.ht...

If you’re interested in how commits, trees and objects are represented then it could be interesting for you.
> My vague impression, in fact, is that jet turbines are quite a bit more difficult to manufacture than rocket engines, even if the latter are thought of as 'higher tech'.

My impression is that “real” rocket engines include a jet engine just to pump fuel. They have many other pieces as well.

Not that a modern high-bypass turbofan is simple, but don’t discount the complexity of rocket science.
> but the rules you live by are determined by your environment, how can we really call this free?

I suggest you study compatibilism to find out.
Is it possible that "functional programming" meant as in Kleene's Introduction to Metamathematics, where the work has a mathematical flavor with recursive functions, in contrast with FORTRAN or ALGOL or whatever language DR was using on physical machines at the time?
Yeah, it's tempting to use the example to show that "labour laws" of this kind are obviously wrong, but occasional stories like this are a blessing compared to some of the alternatives.
I have Authy on my phone, a laptop and a desktop. There's also a backup stored away with all my other encrypted secrets.

I'm far more likely to lose my keys or wallet than 2fa.
> Instead, aim lower: cosmetology licensing. I think we can all agree that you don’t need months of training to cut someone’s hair. This is simply a protectionist guild.

Maybe I'm just weird, but I'd rather that the person who's going to use a bunch of sharp instruments around my head to irrecoverably change my appearance for the next few months have some training on how to do that properly.

That probably goes double for the people who are going to have them using a bunch of chemicals on their hair as well (hair dyes and bleaching, permanent wave, etc).
Good idea!

Your downside is a major concern, but it would take all of 5 minutes to patch sha256sum to have a new output format, and another 3 months to have a PR approved. Ditto for most libraries, except where written into standards (and I'm not sure if that's anywhere). I'd expect Python 3.9 to not be a problem either. So it's not a big deal to address the concern.

If you want to do this well, though, the trick would be to come up with a human-friendly format. You can't use both '0' and 'O.' You can't use '1,' 'l,' and 'I.' Invest the time to do HCI work.

And, ideally, you'd have some form of internal check-summing, so you can easily flag most typos.

Performance is NOT a concern. Some folks here mentioned the some encoding formats are table lookups. In most cases, generating or verifying a cryptographically-secure hash is many orders of magnitude slower than an encode/decode of the key into any format. And if you're not generating/verifying, in most cases, it doesn't make any sense to encode/decode (just pass around the encoded key).
I think there should be a special, maybe one-time-use password paste buffer

It can use a different key combo, or automatically be chosen when pasting into secure fields
There no motive for Russia to do that.

This Russia obsession is bizarre
It's almost certainly against contract and would give the company justification for firing them.
Possibly or they could store N salted hashes, one for one of the N permutations of a mask over the password character positions. This basically splits the end user password into N passwords with smaller entropy but this can be mitigated by requiring high entropy for the original password.
Pandemic has created U.S. coin shortage
You can find a lot of good resources/ideas for this in the prepping community.
what's your vcs?
Can't argue with that in a vacuum. It's the subtleties of implementation, application, and scope that I would argue with in comparing the introduction of facial recognition with the introduction of body cams, in addition to the policies around access to, and retention of, the data captured by either.

On "beneficial": the panopticon would be beneficial in both cases. In a vacuum.
> Not necessarily. You could store $10 \choose 5 = 252$ hashes for each user.

Wouldn't this be way easier to crack if the password hashes were leaked? Once you crack one 5-letter hash, you can trivially crack the one that shares 4 characters with it, and do that repeatedly until you have all 10 characters.

You're reducing the effective search space not by a factor of 252 (8 bits of entropy, which would often be acceptable) but to its square root, losing half of the entropy.

Although it seems like security theatre, the PIN solution actually sounds more useful. The typical attack on a system protected by PINs, like bank cards, is not cracking hashes offline - it's that the attacker tries the PINs on the live system and gets locked out after a small number of failures. Assuming the bad actor can't just initiate another call and ask for the other two digits.
xserve used to do all kinds of server stuff, like calendars and contacts, and it did this decades ago.

nextcloud does a fair bit of what icloud does as well. But apple locks out non-apple apis for most of that stuff.
I hope they don’t, but if they did I would either accept it, circumvent it (jailbreak) or stop using Macs. It’s their choice and I’m entirely informed.
Research into mindfulness emphasises the benefits, but tends to minimise the harm. Some research fails to mention any risk at all. This makes it hard to devise a mindfulness program that doesn't cause harm.

Mindfulness in schools is applied to the entire school population.

Mindfulness in schools is usually delivered by teachers, and not trained therapists or psychologists.

The combination of taking the entire population, including children at higher risk of harm, and not understanding how that harm can be caused, and using people with minimal training to provide the programme, means that some people get harmed.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01410768166441...

https://www.brown.edu/research/labs/britton/sites/britton-la...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027273581...

> Mindfulness just means being aware and non-reactive

Mary is a 10 year old girl. She is raped once a week by her step-father. You can see how being "aware" and "non-reactive" might cause extra harm.
Oh yes indeed.
> Competition can lower the industry rates for food & personal travel, though I suspect there is price fixing at play right now.

Considering (food & human) delivery is already a notoriously unprofitable industry, I think the more likely answer is that competition already occurred and these are somewhat fair prices we are left with.

Apple on the other hand, can host an app download on the app store without paying a human to use a depreciating asset (that burns fossil fuels) to travel several miles in meatspace.
> While I don't think physical fitness will "cure" people with clinical depression and anxiety I believe it's an important tool in the toolkit.

I completely agree. Physical fitness, when taught without a focus on competition, is extremely valuable.

I'm sure that a big reason for my non-competitive stance, is because I learned, quite early on, that I would never be able to do particularly well in any physically competitive arena, and it wasn't even worth trying.

I am also of Irish/Scottish/English heritage. Pretty much the Platonic Ideal of "white."

I live in NY, with a significant percentage of folks of Mediterranean descent.

I don't tan. I stroke.

I get sick of people telling "You can tan, just take sun in fifteen minute increments."

For me, it is:

Fifteen minutes -Ghost white

Fifteen minutes -Ghost white

Fifteen minutes -Ghost white

Fifteen minutes -Bright red, peeling, and screaming

No in-between.

The same goes for my friends (and not-friends) that have normal coordination. I took six years of tennis lessons, and never got beyond "suck." I took a year of Kung-Fu, and never got beyond white belt.

"Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win, and never quit are idiots." -From a Despair, Inc. Demotivator

https://despair.com/collections/retired/products/stupidity (That's me, at tennis)
America gets compensation for buying German cars.

Every time I think to myself "Well, at least I'm not a libertarian," I read a sentence like that and after first getting confused (What does that even mean?) I then feel sad because I'm pretty sure if I parsed through the logic it would turn out that I after all more of libertarian than most of the people I know.
I spend almost 30€ per month via Tipeee (an equivalent of Patreon in France). Creators whose work I value are getting more from me than from the ads that would otherwise track, profile, and brainwash me. Also, many content creators are getting paid more from partnership and product placement than from the shitty ads that YouTube and advertisers allow them to place on their videos except when they decide not to because well, that 20 minutes original content video is using a 1.5 seconds excerpt of some random movie which is the "intellectual property" of Big Corp for a joke, for example.
Well, I'm not sure who will be interested to see the code for it.
The UK has recently ended its coal-free streak for power generation; up until a few days ago we had been coal free for 67 days, the longest time since the start of the industrial revolution.

https://twitter.com/alblue/status/1274290853817827328

The plan is for the national grid to close coal plants by 2024 leaving just natural gas (the gas, not the American car fuel) as a high carbon source in our power grid.
ArcEm – The Acorn Archimedes Emulator
Female genetic superiority: two X chromosomes beat an X and a Y
Yep, but data drives because we knew that the testimonial section has low engagement.
So CPS energy and it’s grid are disconnected from the rest of the national grid and have no reliance upon external sources to ensure dispatchability? Cool. Would love to hear more about how they managed that trick.
Archive.today and archive.is redirecting to GitHub for Brave users
archive.today and archive.is redirecting to Github for Brave users

Anyone know why?

Redirect is to:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10219

"[Desktop] Tranferring domain between accounts does not work #10219"
Is TravelMap an app? Yes, it's a web app
If it never helps in any scenarios, bin it.

If it helps in some scenarios then what else can be done in addition to this?

I see a gaping flaw in the “this doesn’t work in these cases therefore tear it all down” logic.

Absolutely replace it if something better comes along but the answer can’t be go back to square one because its not perfect.
protobuf still requires a schema to distinguish between 1 and true.
Show HN: Miary – a beautiful and minimal diary with mood and activity tracking
Thanks for the information! Could you share how much does it cost to create "one of the popular quickly and cheaply grown accounts to slide into the DMs of local women"? E.g., let's say I wanna create another meme account with 5k followers, how much shall I pay for other meme accounts for a promotion on average? And I was always thinking that the engagement ratio is low for meme accounts, any information about it?
Software Justice Warriors

More seriously, I’m not convinced any of this is going to help.

Perhaps we can have sanity prejudice through.
Hi developer here,

I wanted to build a journaling app that had its first focus on writing so I built Miary, I would love if you could check out the app and provide me some feedback. :)

Some features of the app are:

- Clean, beautiful and distraction-free interface.

- 100+ beautiful color themes / gradients and 50+ fonts.

- Soothing sounds to help you focus while you write your diary.

- Insights that help you know how different activities affect your mood.

- Daily gratitude prompts and inspirational thoughts.

- Complete private and secure multi device sync with iCloud.

I have also tried to make Miary accessible for everyone with support for accessibility features like VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, etc.
The issue is that you can have that with nearly every term that has some meaning. Leader/follower? But I've once met a terrible Leader and they had many followers that made my life hell.

If the argument is "but that's only true for very few people": what percentage of the population (or the subset of the population that is programming) does need to be affected before it needs to be changed? Orphans aren't that common either, neither is losing a child.
> I thought Warren backed away from full Universal for all Health insurance.

Her exact proposal was to phase-in full universal by starting with a subsidized public option and then spending more time building out a full universal plan, i believe.

You can argue this is a cop-out but i'd say it's more of a technocratic play - offering full universal would be a massive undertaking and not something that can just pop up overnight, but offering a subsidized insurance plan in the existing system is comparatively easier and could be implemented easily in a president's first year in office (with a cooperative congress, anyways)

Regardless, that's all aside the point
Emirates Weighs Cancelling A380 Orders as Airbus Continues Production
>>> This made me think... why are we using long, unwieldy base-16 hex strings at all?

Surprised you got ten answers to this comment and nobody was able to explain.

Hexadecimal encoding is widely used because computers work with bytes (8 bits). An hexadecimal character is 4 bits, so every byte is two hex characters.

It's trivial to encode (even by hand), it has no issue of padding. It can truly transit through anything that accepts alphanumeric characters. It's awesome.

edit: The most common alternative is base64 that encodes blocks of 3 bytes to 4 characters. Base64 has a bazillion issues due to padding and special characters +/=. If I had a dollar for every system I've seen using broken base64, I could buy a car. Saving a bit of space (200% in hex VS 134% size in base64) is almost never worth an order of magnitude more complexity. Do not invent your own encoding algorithm.
The most famous loop: the Carnot Cycle
Controller Mistakenly Clears a KLM 737 to Line-Up Ahead of a Departing Embraer
Bringing Payments to WhatsApp for People and Small Businesses in Brazil
>mindfulness programs for employees are often a way for employers to try and get their staff to be more accepting of crappy conditions

^This. I don't need mindfulness, gyms, free junky snacks, team building events, parking spaces as perks, I need work conditions that don't grind my mind and body so much for me to require therapy afterwards (realistic deadlines, no open office, no rush hour commutes, remote work, comfy monitors, chairs and desks, time off to spend with my family).

Unfortunately due to ever increasing wealth inequality, most of the workforce, even in the west, is stuck in a meatgrinder where the only escape being dangled in front of you is climbing the ladder high enough until you become the one one to turn the handle.
I’m not sure about this. I don’t think relationship between branches are considered slaves to their master branch (at least I never thought of it that way).

If anything, they’re students that may eventually exceed the capabilities of their master. Much like the apprentice Luke Skywalker and master Yoda.

If it does offend then by all means, make it happen, I’m just not entirely convinced.
Hey guys, I'm the founder of TravelMap.net. I built it as a PWA but if it's not in the Play/App Store, I feel like people don't value it the same way. What's your take on this?
Author of SQLite and Fossil here - I have not forgotten
monotone! Indeed, Fossil itself is inspired by monotone
documentation (though not the implementation). This is
credited at https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/history.md
The Darian calendar – a complete timekeeping system for Mars
Judge to OK $58B plan to end PG&E bankruptcy after wildfires
I switched from android to iphone because of privacy reasons
I don’t agree that I’m a customer of the service I’m using if i use it on Apple product
I trust Apple to do a review where it checks if service is harming my privacy and I’m paying Apple for that

I think apple is fair here.
Would three be even better?
You can add in more stuff if you want. Mergers and spin-offs, player-to-player loans with various interest rates, bill payment schedules, etc. :)