skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the arguments are stronger against Word than they are for Excel, but they're similar.

If you want to run some simple calculations on numbers, Excel is vastly overpowered and baroque. New version? Hope you've learned the new magic series of GUI clicks. Just like Word, Excel files are not inspectable (again, more baroque 'magic').

I can easily run calculations on plain texts tables in Emacs (along with the normal conveniences of being able to reorder by row, column; apply formulae across a range of cells etc.). And that's all displayed in plain text. And I can easily add new functions, keybindings, whatever, to suit my needs.

But the fact that you say the arguments against Word "can indeed be just as easily dismissed" makes it unlikely that this is likely to be a productive dialogue.

For Word, it's way more complicated than most people need, and again, users are at the (non-existing) mercy of the application. It's not very user-configurable - you have to learn how Word expects you to do things. Again, its data files are non-inspectable monstrosities, with minor corruption causing complete corruption, and fragility between versions.

I manipulate text for a living. For simpler things, it's much easier and productive to use something like Markdown or (for more complex things) something like Org-mode. For complex things, I need LaTeX - Word simply lacks necessary functionality.
See also: https://sciblogs.co.nz/infectious-thoughts/2020/08/01/four-p...
I have jet to see any politician voluntarily give away power.

Other presidents might not use it or abuse it as much as Trump, but you are kidding yourself If you think that genie is getting back in the bottle.

PS: I am not US citizen so just observer in this shit show that will affect us all.
No one is looking at most of these old sites. The email addresses are defunct or the authors are dead. Google is deciding to remove huge amounts of web history, again.
Great tool! I am only interested in running such a tool locally (on-prem). This avoids security/privacy issues and data transfer time/cost issues.

A good model for me would be 30 day free license to get it integrated into our worklows.
It's forcing your pupils to constrict. Decreasing the aperture size on a lens increases the field of view. So, while your eye might not be able to accommodate at the correct distance given the current convergence point, there is more room for error. It's a fairly common method in photography, in cases where one might have difficulty getting a correct focus on a subject. It's not a "fix", but a compensation.
> Even if China bans American social media apps for no reason, that's no reason for us to copy their authoritarian, speech-suppressing tactics.

There absolutely is a valid reason to be authoritarian towards authoritarians. They get what they preach and deserve. It is the same principle of morality of an action of self-defense, when a physical force is applied on those who initiated a physical force in the first place.
It is not a scientific conclusion, but a policy statement that takes into account the best science that we can get at this moment, and then defines what should be done to minimise the damage this virus will cause.

At its heart is the understanding that controlling the virus is the single most important thing right now - that this is a total war. This policy can only work, however, in societies with effective governance and a strong social fabric.
Did you see the spaceship launch from China (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/13/21256484/china-rocket-deb...)? The debris pathway fell right across two major cities and landed near a village in Africa. I still think there is a lot of areas China needs to catch up. edit:spelling + added African village
Sounds good, but I don’t know a lot of “active” Google Sites admins. Is Google going to offer a searchable cache? When I google search a hard question, many times I’m brought to Google Sits

We’re going to lose a valuable source of old data if former admins don’t show up, do the work, and rehost
TikTok’s potential $588 per user valuation in Microsoft deal
It's not about liability. It's about scaring people into thinking something is broken when it's not. If your sidewalk is in good condition you're not going to see any accidents. Being liable for zero accidents isn't the same as not being liable at all.
>. In other words, Chinese companies are "born a crime" to the US in the current climate, without the need to show what rules are violated or evidence of wrongdoing.

The problem isn't that their Chinese. It's that they have implicit and explicit support from the Chinese government that give them a leg up on non-Chinese companies.
The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth
The important bit for us w/r/t making 1Password a better cross-platform citizen is the Rust core. - Ben, 1Password
>Isn't this just reciprocity? China banned a long list of media companies: FB, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Netflix, and every traditional media.

Yes, which is bad for China, because it robs the Chinese people of choice. As Milton Friedman said when speaking on tariffs, "why do to yourself what you do to an enemy at war?"

China engages in censorship and limits the freedom of their people, so we're going to do the same to stick it to them? Excuse me if I don't see the logic
> I don’t want racists to have free reign on Facebook

And who says they should?

1. You can just argue against them, that's how free speech ideally works.

2. Being technically allowed to say anything online does not and should not imply any legal immunity. Beyond that, if they're not committing any crimes, racists are allowed to express their opinions online, whether we like it or not.

3. Facebook, so long as they admit they're not a neutral platform, are allowed to enforce their own community guidelines. If they, without government intervention decide to ban racists, that's on them. Unless the government prevents you from building an alternative service, of course.
Those tools aren’t exclusive.

I use python almost exclusively for data analysis but still open files in excel to view them for lots of reasons.

Nothing in excel is reproducible, but it’s still on all my computers.

Did an analysis a few years ago of the programs run At my organization by job series and scientists run a lot of excel.
Probably because that's the entire point of Rust and has already been blogged to death. There's nothing new to say about the borrow checker or boxing heap-allocated objects.
> This is pretty much exactly how reciprocity works in other areas like travel and immigration. We treat their nationals as they treat ours.

What? Which part of our immigration system is reciprocal?
REBOL 3 has been open sourced, at least to some extent: http://github.com/carls/R3A110

As usual with this kind of conversion there were things they couldn't open source or otherwise include.

The biggest problem (for me) with R3 is that they decided to redo REBOL 2's incredible compositing GUI environment, but ran out of runway before they could finish. It needed a rework -- people expect more from modern apps. But R2's GUI stuff is just so good, simple and orthoganal. It has completely spoiled me for any other GUI platform. I even wound up implementing a chunk of their GUI SDL in Python so I could bear to work with Wx.

However, it's still a pretty small language and has some really nice capabilities. It's very different from a lot of other languages, but it's also one of the faster ones to develop in. Using R2, I was able to provide and support rich GUI apps for a department at my company that I wouldn't otherwise have been able to help. These weren't typical line-of-business electronic forms either, but graphical editing tools with fullscreen interfaces, database connectivity and heavy parsing.

I really miss using REBOL...
Could that be harmful to the eye?
Bring up Finder: ⌘␣ "finder" ⏎
Bring up Activity Monitor: ⌘␣ "am" ⏎

Hardly difficult, especially for the pros who tend to be touch typists.

There's also ⌥⌘esc if you just want to quickly kill an app.

Also for Finder, you can enable the "Show Finder search window" Spotlight shortcut and set it to whattever pleases you.
The US generals seem to the left of, or at least nonplussed by, the Trump faction. The removal of the captain of the Theodore Roosevelt didn't help his support either.

It's the patchwork of law enforcement who are more willing to cause street-level trouble. We've already seen one protest which involved people bringing guns to a state legislature. What if there was another one, in response to an "abolish the police" candidate winning locally, and the police backed the occupiers over the legitimate state government?
Ridiculous argument. You know what I meant.
Wrapcheck: A new Go error wrapping linter
Reminds me of Don't look into laser with remaining eye.
Nice casuistry you got there.

The fact is that you don’t have any evidence that the vaccine doesn’t have side effects four years out and that’s precisely the point the OP is trying to make.
Not all shortcuts but a good few. Ctrl-A/E to go to the beginning/end of a line, for example.

You can even rebind these shortcuts and they’ll work in any text field. There’s even a hack to enable Vi-like shortcuts.
Which explains why Africa was colonized so much more successfully than (checks notes) ... Australia?
> JS is a great language for it's intended purposes

Which part of JS, as a programming language, do you see as great or even adequate when compared with contemporary programming languages?

> Adding types post-hoc has never improved a codebase that I've seen but it has caused a lot more bad patterns to show up.

That assertion makes no sense. I mean, all TypeScript does is impose arbitrary sanity checks on a programming language which is plagued for not having any. Where do you interpret the addition of sanity checks as a source of problems?
Turning off a server on its own isn’t removing web history. Even google cannot be forced to host websites for free indefinitely.
Most recent data I’ve found, dating from last fall, indicates the vast majority fall into that category. Makes sense, the days of exponential growth are over.

https://deviceatlas.com/blog/most-popular-iphones
The NSA's been working on something similar for years, cell-level security. Gotta have some way to compartmentalize the data I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo
Actually, I was thinking of my own country, Canada. There's still occasional small outbreaks, but aside from some limits on large gatherings and some requirements to self-isolate when traveling between certain provinces, things are starting to open back up.

>Long term pain solved for government officials not for it's citizens.

Only financial pain. But that was inevitable as soon as the pandemic hit. Given a choice between financial pain for a few decades, and financial pain for a few decades combined with a potential literal decimation of the population, I'm perfectly fine with the solo financial pain.
This is not a new problem. You should see my home folder. I hardly ever look at it, I moved into ~/Downloads since at least I can keep that tidy myself.
Boom - very cool aircraft hadn't seen their products yet but had seen the Virgin news. edit: spelling their.
HMAC and Mac – How They Make JWTs Work
nice - thanks for the comment!
But on Unix and Linux pressing Ctrl-C in a terminal will send SIGINT (unless special measures are taken by your terminal emulator).

I think this another benefit of the Mac using Command-C for copy: when the UNIX-based Mac OS X was introduced you could copy from termainl windows without accidentally stopping the running program!
Vue is much easier in that sense. You can just import the library using <script src"<<vue cdn addr>>"></script> and you can start using vue right there.
Not OP but I moved to Germany as a single language speaker (well, some French from school that I was never much good at) in my mid 20s. Language classes for a few months and immersion made me pretty fluent over a year or two. Adults can learn languages just fine with motivation and immersion, I think.

My children who were born here later on already speak better German than I do. Of course, I work in English and they go to German school, so it’s not exactly like-for-like. But their English accent is better than my German one and they’ve a LOT less experience there than I do in German.
> ...sets the unfortunate precedent that a country could leverage its monopolistic position in tech to stifle competition.

Isn't that exactly what the Chinese laws do? Everything I've read seems to say that they prevent foreign companies from being able to fairly compete against local Chinese. companies.
I see this pattern of comparisons to the USSR again and again. The USSR collapsed a long time ago, and China saw it happen. Why would they go the same way?

I'd say it's Americans, moreso than anyone else, who took the wrong lesson from that collapse. History isn't on anyone's 'side' and destiny doesn't exist. We take too much for granted.
In my case, the messages from Gmail's MX suggest the problem was reverse DNS for the EHLO name returning the IPv4, for a connection from the IPv6.

I decided I'd need to configure Exim4 to issue a different EHLO name depending on whether it's connecting over IPv4 or IPv6, and then triple check (with tests) that reverse DNS unambiguously matched in each case.

But as deliverability was the priority, disabling IPv6 seemed lower risk than fiddling with config, seeing it work, then finding out a few weeks later that it introduced another "Google mystery factor". Reviewing that is on the todo list somewhere, very low priority.
I'm not sure if they were going off a taste-based or a diet-based taxonomy on [1].

As to [2], back when the austrian alps were underwater, they were home to the today little-known (apart from the occasional frightful skeleton) Krampus Whale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piemont-Liguria_Ocean

[4] Makes a fair taxonomic proposal, however. Could you provide a machine-readable (to make sure it can't be beat) supporting argument, suitable for import into a formal proof management system?
It's cool you linked a first hand source! But what are you trying to point out specifically? A quick look seems the list is rather reasonable and not very long. It's some "cultural heritage" stuff like tea, ceramics, etc... some military related things and a very limited subset of resource extraction and chemical/biomedical production (things that aren't cutting edge from what I can tell)

Am I looking at the wrong part?
I used to be on this train that tariffs are always bad, but when other countries have them I think there is a benefit to the US having them. It allows the US to capture some of the benefits that this other country is taking. Yes everyone is worse off than without tariffs, but the US is slightly better off from the world where only other countries have them. There is also the additional caveat of industries moving to other countries because of cheap export back to the US - there is a benefit to keeping people employed especially when other countries don’t have ethical labor laws. This results in more expensive goods, but prices in externalities like workers not working in sweatshops.
Physicist Estimates the Energy of the Beirut Explosion
That is very nice. Still doesn't fill the US coffers when gas is being bought there.
You’re talking about killing millions because of a disagreement in management styles
With that sliding keyboard it reminds me of Nokia N900. I still have one of those .. might dust it off so !!
Don't use a light source without some filter that ensures the spectrum is restricted if you really plan to expose your eyes. I would still recommend not doing that without medical oversight. Spectroscopes are expensive, so you probably don't have one lying around, but it is the only way to make sure you don't have peaks in non-visible light that can damage your eyes.

edit: I don't know any light source that peaks at that wavelength, so you would probably use a broad spectrum alternative and a filter to achieve what you want.
How public and private keys are generated, updated and stored between two contacts for a particular Signal chat session is captured in the document below. You should be able to find most of your answers here

https://signal.org/docs/specifications/sesame/

>> Are receivers and senders the only entities able to access privately sent messages/pictures/videos? Do the Signal servers not store any of this data?

The text messages are stored in the database (postgres) of signal server. They are encrypted, so even if you had read access to database, you wouldn't be able to decrypt it. Read the document mentioned above as to how keys are managed.

Pictures/Videos/any multimedia is stored in a separate storage server ( e.g. S3 ). This is also in encrypted form.

>> If it is not stored on the server, are all the media and content sent and received then stored on the user's device? In other words, will my usage be capped by my device's available storage?

Most definitely your device should have enough space for the all the content being sent on your way.

>> If Signal servers are hacked, are the security guarantees thrown out? Or, do the hackers only see encrypted data at all times, with no way to decrypt it themselves?

Yes, even if servers are hacked, they may be able to get the contact details of users registered( this may not be true for the latest signal server ), but they shouldn't be able to decrypt any stored messages.

>> Is Signal the most reliable mobile app in the secure communication domain? Are there better alternatives?

I think Signal is the most reliable app right now.

Edit: Formatting
Ask HN: What DB should I use for a web service which will serve around 5B rows?
What DB should I use for a web service serving 5B rows of data? The data is queried using UUIDs.

The data keeps on growing at around 500k per week and is receiving around 800 queries per second.

Management wants to put it all to AWS. I need help. Any recommendations? I'd really appreicate it. Thanks in advance.
How the Church can Re-invent herself in the Shutdown Crisis
Oh wow, I wasn't aware of that. Sorry about that.
> But having the president order arbitrary punishment without proof of guilt (what happened to presumption of innocence?) looks like a dictatorship to me

Extremely naive view. China is a totalitarian state that can compel its companies to hand over all private data if asked. In your rosy "presumption of innocence" scenario, by the time they're proven guilty it's too late.

This is preemptive measure that is a prelude to greater 'decoupling' from China. If a hot war breaks out, you don't want the country dubbed the number one strategic threat having access to 25% of citizens phones.
It’s still serious. For example, consider the potential for industrial espionage. Want to steal some trade secrets? Grab a cantenna and set up shop next door.
There is a hack that allowed me to use the Nvidia web drivers on Mojave on my 2012 15" rMBP. Not sure if it works on Catalina. You have to reapply it every OS update. I don't think there is a hack to get CUDA working, which was last supported on High Sierra.

Not sure if the same hack could be used on a Hackintosh (with an old enough card). But for now I would just use High Sierra if you have an Nvidia card, unless you really needed something in a later OS and the hack made it possible. I downgraded that 2012 to High Sierra, and keep other older machines on it as well (didn't have a choice with my 2019 16"). It runs very smoothly and currently has enough software support (e.g. latest Office 365 still supports it).
Twenty-four participants of varying ages that found an effect on older people? This study reeks of p-hacking.
I vaguely remember way back when I was a Masters engineering grad student, one of the undergrads had a senior project that involved dipping razors in alcohol and it significantly increased their lifespan because of reduced corrosion. And that does seem to be a thing according to the Internet: https://macgyverisms.wonderhowto.com/how-to/extend-life-your....

Doesn't mean you can't still chip thin edges of a (presumably) fairly brittler steel blade with something relatively soft of course.
Not only that but MD5 still doesn't have an effective preimage attack, so it is still good enough for things like hashing passwords or to check is someone else didn't tamper with your files.

Still, when it comes to security:

- MD5 is actually too fast for hashing passwords, but there is still no better way than bruteforce if you want to crack md5-hashed-salted passwords.

- Even if there is no effective preimage attack now, it is still not a good idea to use an algorithm with known weaknesses, especially if something better is available.

What MD5 is useless for is digital signature. Anyone can produce two different documents with the same MD5.
Dynamo.
Zero Lines with Raku and Perl – Weekly Challenge
>Bring up Finder: ⌘␣ "finder" ⏎

That's 9 keys (including "return" key) pressed vs just 2 for Winkey+E.

>Hardly difficult,

Well, we're on HN so I don't claim things are "difficult" for any of us techies. I say it's "inconvenient" -- especially relative to other operating systems since this thread is making comparisons.

>Also for Finder, you can enable [...]

Sure, there are often workarounds for various inconveniences. The Superuser links I cited mentioned some too.
Poetry – Python dependency management and packaging
Ken Thompson wrote a paper about trust that was published in ACM in '84 entitled "Reflections on Trusting Trust". He makes the case for a trojan that could be built in such a way that it would infect a compiler, self-replicate into new versions of the compiler, and inject itself into specific binaries; all without appearing in the source code of the new versions of the compiler or the target binary.

Arguably, the probability of such an attack is extremely low--slim to none might be an overstatement--but it's an interesting thought exercise.
The Viral Loads of Asymptomatic Coronavirus Carriers Are Surprisingly High
Milton Friedman really didn't seem to understand that tarriffs are used to develop comparative advantage. This could be because viewed comparative advantage as static and immutable.

George Washington, for instance, signed the Hamilton tariff of 1789 to help develop infant industries which England was preventing from getting off the ground with tarriff-less trade.

Milton Friedman's proscriptions made sense for America at the time he made them. America was in the dominant industrial position England was in in 1789, it wanted every other country to tear down THEIR tariffs too, just as England wanted America to tear down theirs. Better if everybody buys American rather than home growing industry, right?

Now that America's industrial might is waning MiltonFriedman's influence is becoming weaker and his ideas look more and more dated.
Maybe in batched HE schemes. In https://github.com/tfhe/tfhe the ratio is much smaller, 2.5kB per plaintext bit.
Why not user-fuse?
In a parallel thread someone mentioned that Maven allows you to obtain a "com.github.username" namespace based on your Github account, which is already a requirement to publish on crates.io anyway.
U.S. jobs rise by 1.763M in July
wow, i was not aware of this! this also works to trigger menu items that don't have assigned keyboard shortcuts. I use Macs since Mac OS 9 and somehow I never discovered this.

on Big Sur this also hovers an arrow next to the menu item, this is what it looks like:

https://twitter.com/__tosh/status/1291712410437459968