skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I saw that scene and it reminded me of coffee drinkers with their $40 per pound beans, hand grinders, and Chemexes. Junkies like their rituals.

I don't know the youtube video you linked, nor will I watch it (I avoid Google as much as possible).

That said, I grind my $6.99/lb French Roast twice (once with a burr grinder and once with a blade grinder) to ensure that it's ground fine enough for my taste.

Is that a ritual? Not really. It's more to make sure that my coffee is of a taste and consistency I prefer.

In fact, I'd prefer not to have to do all of that and sometimes will use the Bunn commercial coffee grinder[0] at my supermarket, which will grind to the level I want consistently. I'd buy one, but they cost ~$1,000.00.

Is my activity a ritual or is it just making sure I get what I want?

[0] https://www.ebay.com/p/1100681870?iid=193368088995

Edit: Fixed spacing.
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Come on, this is a government department of a first world country. They have databases for all sorts of things. They're not using excel for any other NHS databases, or the terrorism watchlist. There are plenty of people capable of making a good decision here.

I think you let them off too easily by just assuming they're dumb. This a bad decision by people who definitely should have known better.
> It was created by Microsoft Research and introduced the Virtual Actor Model as a novel approach to building a new generation of distributed systems for the Cloud era.

Okay, sounds like an academic, Microsofty take on Erlang's Actors? But from docs, sounds like it's at least used in practice at MSFT:

> Since 2011, it has been used extensively in the cloud and on premises by several Microsoft product groups, most notably by game studios, such as 343 Industries and The Coalition as a platform for cloud services behind Halo 4 and 5, and Gears of War 4, as well as by a number of other companies.

> Orleans was open-sourced in January 2015, and attracted many developers that formed one of the most vibrant open source communities in the .NET ecosystem.
Have you contacted authors and asked how much they'd need, or would feel comfortable accepting?
> https://www.gwern.net/About

what the hell, its like someone vomited CSS on that page
Two words: regulatory capture
Are you forgetting that Mercedes turned up to pre-season testing with a double axis steering wheel? That's active toe adjustment, driver controlled even.
The real problem is how much power the president has to appoint them (and then let them serve for life). Judges should be elected democratically.
Lol all of them. It hasn't been fixed because people are a mix of lazy and greedy. Your either greedy and a part of the system or lazy because you tolerate it's existence and literally keep plodding along with your day while stuff like this continues.

Tbh it's a major source of depression for me. We're boned and I don't see any chance as a world of us getting better. Humans it seems just aren't nice people.
Does anyone know of a (potentially hosted) shortener that supports deleting links and using your own aliases for them? Bonus points if I can use my own domain.
https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/Error-Handling-Oper...

Lots of love for it in Rx
Its a good read. The author suggested that maybe its time for change, which makes me curious about what new model does he/she have in mind.
what a stunningly pretentious and ignorant thing to say.

It is not, and just to be absolutely clear, none of the scenarios you mentioned justifies doing it either.

Driving while tired is comparable in effect to driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs or while distracted by devices such as phones. It can easily cause sufficient delay in reaction or error in judgement to lead to a serious accident that was entirely avoidable.

Driving while tired enough to actually fall asleep is a matter of life and death. Unless you are literally doing so in order to avoid an imminent and even greater likelihood of death -- and if you are, then I humbly suggest that it is extremely unlikely that you are truly in danger of falling asleep at the wheel yourself anyway -- you are risking the lives of everyone around you, as well as your own, and you should be treated accordingly in the eyes of the law for their benefit as well as your own. In my country, that would potentially mean multiple years in jail, a driving ban and being forced to take an extended test to demonstrate your competence again before being allowed back behind the wheel. And that's if you were lucky and got pulled over before you caused an actual accident.
I wrote this a decade ago and have been using this for all of my personal and business spending: https://zetabee.com/cashflow/

It's not automated but it can help future income/expenses/balance in an Excel-like UI.
An IDE that takes advantage of depth could be kinda cool. Imagine if every level of indentation resulted in text that appeared to be further way. It would be best to discourage spaghetti code by making it physically uncomfortable
The farmers can get shepherd dogs - a solution proven by millennia - and thus get the problem solved satisfactory to all the sides.

Though these days i'd bet that the modern farmers (which are mostly corporations and thus arent able to handle real dogs) would be more probable to get cloud wired Boston Dynamics style platform based systems as-a-Service with wolf/cow discriminating AI and armed with something like "Area Denial".
Author here, you made me laugh so hard, of course it is correlated
I'm surprised that no is mentioning the cost to power a soda machine (refrigeration). Do places just eat the bill for your giant refrigerator?
Doom's staying power might be the most remarkable thing about this. I can't find it, sadly, but I still vaguely remember a PC Magazine article around 1994 about a Doom mod that would run on Unix and delete files in a similar manner.
> Yocto goes to a large amount of effort to make for repeatable builds, something which docker is actually quite bad at

Is this something that yocto itself helps with or just something accomplished by a thousand people hacking at .bb scripts? Last I checked features like the sstate cache came with big caveats.

Dockerfile layer caching seems much more effective at shrinking build times.
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You could open a DB as a table view in OO.org, so presumably you can in LibreOffice. I'm surprised Excel doesn't integrate with Sqlite DBs.

My naive view would expect tables <-> sheets; rows <-> tuples to be easy to do (for MS) and just don't touch the relational aspects??
I just tried to reproduce it and got a big warning message that says that data will be lost.

You can disable this message (per file basis), if for some reason you dont want to see it.

As far as I remember this message existed since Excel 2007 (which introduced .xlsx format), so the guy is simply lying.
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Couldn't you achieve exactly what was needed here with Airtable? Or, easier yet, Google Sheets and a Google Form?
No it won't do that directly. Even if it is longer then a blink. And the reason for that is false positives. It is _very_ hard to see the difference between a person looking down and when the person is closing the eye.

The system usally have an EXTENDED_EYE_CLOSURE signal that is triggered after a certain time (together with a quality value of this signal). So not directly, but yes, close too.

But it is still tricky. What happens if you start blinking and then the camera get covered. Should it warn? It can not always warn if it loses tracking.

How should it warn? Disturbing the driver can actually cause accidents.
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If you're trying to figure out why the spreadsheets had different results, I'd start here:

> I started over using a different equation
If a dictatorship of the proletariat has no electoral systems, then the proletariat aren't actually consulted, and it's just a dictatorship.
True - I'm lucky not to have to consider versions of IE prior to 11 on most projects I work on, and I can usually get things working there, although there's a flexbox thing that I always forget with IE11 that catches me out.

I stand by my comment if you don't have to do IE < 11 though.
There are other variations for functional programming languages. Lisp [1]. Scheme [2]. Lisp Interpreter written in Python.

[1] http://buildyourownlisp.com/

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Write_Yo...

[3] https://norvig.com/lispy.html
Correct. And to add to this: apparently the lost data was due to the data that exceeded the 16k rows XLS supports, so the amount of data per file was apparently not huge to begin with. So even a shitty XML parser should do just fine here.
I want a service that takes my "read later" folder and reads it to me in my sleep

(I wouldn't have time to read it otherwise.)
I bring this up occasionally:

If you use Pocket (built into Firefox and low-friction plugin for other browsers incl mobile) the Kobo e-reader is awesome. You can import Pocket articles to read offline and they are essentially displayed as epub e-books. They're also displayed in print-optimized format (no ads). E-ink ends up being a great way to read these long-form articles.
Frankly I think you're being optimistic/pessimistic (depending on your point of view). A person can be a "decent coder" by very reasonable definitions of the term and still not realize that Excel can't handle this particular volume of data.
No. The red-zone is in the unused area beyond the current stack pointer that the stack will grow into. It moves with the current stack pointer. The author of the article is incorrect.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38042188/where-exactly-i...
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This is Excel. There is no "builds".
I wonder if this is why slack for iOS (not sure about Android) will load the notification badge from the server before loading the actual messages, so when those get out of sync the UI is essentially saying "Someone is trying to contact you but that's all I can tell you".
I'm not trying to tell you what to do. But if YOU make your browser wider than YOU can comfortably read, why do you expect ME the developer to do something with CSS to deal with it?

That is the way your preferences affect me.
A few years ago I founded a company that did something very similar. The idea of Memeoirs[1] was that, back in the 2000s, some of your most thoughtful and interesting conversations happened via email. You could trace the story of your life collecting some of your most important emails with our webapp, which worked with Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook, and then have a printed version mailed to you.

It all started in a similar way, around 2010, with a lot of free time in my hands and with the help of some fantastic friends who became co-founders. At the beginning it was more of an artsy thing (look at our manifesto [2]), definitely fueled by a love for books and a desire to slow down the merciless wheel of tech. The commercial vein only attracted us later. Fast forward to 2014 and we had a working product, we passed through the Startup zoo (2 incubators and various shows) and managed to raise about $500k.

But sales never took off. As we tried to expand the scope of the product by integrating WhatsApp and other messaging systems, it finally dawned to us just how small the market was. By the time we decided to pivot to a more visual product (ie: Photo-books), money were running out. When we finally closed the company in 2016, I think we had produced a few thousand books, but <10k.

It was a fun ride. Wish you the best of luck!

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160131132208/https://memeoirs....
[2] https://www.jamez.it/project/memeoirs/
> "foobar".removeprefix("foo")

I can't say how much of a nice improve removeprefix() and removesuffix() is. lstrip and rstrip prefix and suffix trimming bugs crop up in people's code constantly. This seems like a nice change, especially since the alternatives are so ugly.
This isn't actually the issue with required fields (some languages, like java and (usually) python, use a construct-once style).

Imagine you have an innocent `required` field. You have a producer and a consumer of that field that communicate over the wire. (or instead of the wire, imagine a database).

You send or store an instance of that protobuf. Now let's say that you want to make the field optional (or remove it). With an already-optional field, this is easy. You stop setting it, and maybe eventually you clean it up.

With a required field, however, you can't do that. If any of your clients don't have the newest schema version, you can't unset the field (so imagine that you support mobile clients who may never update). Or if there's middleware you don't know about that introspects your proto. Even if you do the dance right and update your server and client before not setting the new field, you could crash outdated middleware that you didn't know about. Whoops!

Or with the database, you now need to dual write or something complex because if you need to roll-back to an older version, you'd be unable to read the protos that don't include the required field.

Required doesn't do well over time. It has nothing to do with setting the values.
A small taste of what it's like to browse US-only links from the rest of the world, perhaps? The clever reader will not find their defences impenetrable.
I found css grid to be both practical, efficient and fun. I don't know what flaws it has but it's one of the lowest friction css layout bit I've ever toyed with.
This is precisely why I went with YNAB [0], started budgeting better and saved quite a bit of money.

Everyone who sees me paying for an app (I'm from India) ask me - "why can't you just use excel and do the same thing for free?". Excel sure is powerful, but in real life, your mileage may vary.

[0] - https://www.youneedabudget.com/
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I'm not going to mention the IDE I use because no one else uses it but it supports SFTP. So I can use that to edit files remotely. 99% of my use was editing and running python on a embedded linux board. If your preferred editor supports SFTP or similar that's a good option.
Especially in the case of a python virtual environment, "conda" solves everything ultra cleanly (regardless of whether it's debian, fedore, arch or Windows and probably macOS too though I didn't try).

It provides any version of Python, regardless of what your base system has (or lacks). It also provides an isolated gcc and many other packages; and you can still "pip install" inside it if the package you need is not conda-native, and conda will track it just as well.

Conda is really underappreciated.
I had no idea federal judges weren't randomly assigned cases. What could the justification possibly be, as I was under the impression that this is common practice in just about every other jurisdiction? Maybe an attorney can chime in.
Slack has been a nightmare since the start of August - my assumption is they just can’t handle the increased level of data going through their servers with the increase in video they will now be handling
I'm sorry to hear about that, but it is a really funny product idea looking back on it. Glad you see the value in our product!
How does overpaying for an acquisition preclude Facebook from forming a monopoly? If anything, Facebook has more incentives to overpay because of the monopolistic powers it would have.
fwiw, threads _are_ being worked on, but it will be a while still
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Extremely low performance. Obscure "sharing" workflow instead of obvious "mail a file". Cloud dependency that needs to be vetted for security (EDIT: and data privacy, as 'sjansen pointed out), and policies regarding cloud accounts on government e-mails. And in case of Airtable, also for budget.

I'd be surprised if either of the above could handle 65k rows in a single table without becoming near-unusable.
Your privilege is showing. You are the boot, today.
I wish you were right. But for a reasonably simple (in my mind) weather UI, constructing the native Widgets on a cold start takes long enough that you get warnings for too much activity on the UI thread. But you can't build Widgets off the UI thread to get parallelism like you would do for other things that are slow, because Widgets have to be built on the UI thread if you want to show them.

A similar HTML layout shows up a ton faster in Chrome or a webview.
The solution to such problems is a better standard for the handling of numbers, not dropping support for numbers altogether.
Fun fact: Toshiba has software that generates entire CRUD app skeletons driven 100% by excel spreadsheets. You fill out object definitions in excel spreadsheets with property names and data types etc. It's like an extremely uncool long lost cousin of rails -g

Source: Got one of their engineers to show me after I heard about it and had to know if it was real.

Anyone who's ever worked with or in Japan knows just how far they are willing to torture Excel spreadsheets to get them to do anything and everything.
I hope it's error mode is not a mini Tsunami...
Excel is just fine for doing one-off computations and visualizations. There's nothing out there that's as ubiquitous, capable, and easy to use.
When I was 10, I imagined the internet was like a first person 3D game and the police would have to hunt hackers by running after them in the virtual world.
I once pointed out to a guy that coffee is like religion. There's a lot of ritual around brewing and prep. There are many sects drinking different brews etc... he looked at me and said "and then there are the false prophets that try to get you to drink tea."

Yep.
I mean, yeah, but pretend Excel is, idk, sword arms. You get a lot of work done by whirling around the office, spinning your swords, cutting off a variety of limbs and heads in the process. You get to the end, meet the few survivors, staring dismayed at the trail of blood and dismemberment behind you, and you yell, "BUT I GOT THE JOB DONE!"

You're not wrong, but...

I wish there were some alternative where we instead fixed our ossified, byzantine processes gradually over time, so that we didn't need to break out the sword arm tornado in the name of getting work done and then, in hindsight, say, "well, shame about the negative externalities, but there really just was no other way. Ah well, let's move on, everyone who isn't a pile of flesh and blood and bits on the floor tidy up. Gotta get everything clean for the next sword arm tornado."
No they don't. An optional field can be deprecated and replaced with a different field. This can be done to change the type (also some types can be changed, although you probably shouldn't).

Required usually cannot be deprecated.
Yes, you get a warning that explicitly says "Data beyond 256 (IV) columns by 65,536 rows will not be saved."
It's very interesting to see a solution that tackles the problem of identity and state while continuing to embrace OOP. This is in contrast to the philosophy of many functional programming languages, like Clojure, that avoid[0] this by design.

[0] - https://clojure.org/about/state#actors
> Judges should be elected democratically.

This doesn't feel like the right answer. Judges should feel free to make an unpopular judgement if it's what the law dictates.
>Like who, Umkhonto we Sizwe? Patrice Lumumba? The MPLA?

We're talking ground-floor interactions from what I've seen that obviously do not speak to any kind of unanimity but a surprising extent nonetheless. One such video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkKi1vC_IEA

> Is this new? The South Africans had Buthelezi to go around the world criticizing the anti-apartheid movement, and there were ones before that.

The writers in question weren't criticizing the modern anti-racism movement in America, however, but the form of its response and its presumptions. Perhaps a minute difference but one nonetheless.
should be fixed in 0.7.9
https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/issues/2139
I agree, although the salt, lemon and mouthwash is really necessary to drink what it sold as tequila. High quality tequila should be drunk in small sips.
This isn't really true. The people making the decisions will have more or less zero insight into the data format being used to store data, they'll just know that data is stored.

IMO, a much more likely scenario: a brittle, haphazard system was set up with extremely short notice at the start of everything. One administrative snafu led to another, ran into "well, it's working so let's not touch it", and we got to where we are today.
> Or, alternatively, does it show how Honda's (and Nissan's) parent companies are out of touch with the American buyer?

I would assume that's why Honda/Nissan groups continue to hedge their bets and leave profitable American divisions doing profitable (but I'd say dumb long term) American things. I admitted that I think as much that that's why those anchors are still allowed to "weigh them down"; they are still profitable for the moment. (I also think Ghosn's attempt to jettison Nissan America was a small part of his overall weird ouster; it's actually the easiest part of the whole craziness to understand. Investors rarely want long term plans "sabotaging" currently [short term] profitable sub-units, and scrutiny of that plan lead to scrutiny of other plans and personal matters.)

> Most of the tech that Nissan and Honda of Japan developed for energy efficiency wasn't engineered for powering the types of vehicles that Americans want to buy.

The Nissan Leaf is basically the same size category as Toyota's hybrids. It's lack of success in America seems largely a marketing failure of Nissan America than anything. Especially when you compare Tesla in the same time periods.

The argument is that good marketing tells consumers what they want to buy, rarely vice-versa. The inability to sell sedans/compacts/sub-compacts in today's America may be as much a failure of imagination, and marketing than one of Americans being such a unique exception to world car trends. The marketing of trucks, SUVs, cross-overs, and other very heavy vehicles as the "one true American way" has been extraordinarily persuasive, but it's not the only possible narrative, and it is easy to accuse Honda of America and Nissan America of being marketing trend followers with no spine to push new trends. Which I do; but I also recognize its hard to blame them because those trends they've been following have been successful (or at least profitable).
This is fascinating and new to me. I thought it was designed by say the DNA or the rna to behave in that coordinated manner and to seek specific molecules. But if it's just a random walk and somehow this success at this scale and speed, it is even more simple yet incredible to think.