skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It permitted high dimensions, true names for rows, columns, hypercolumns, cells, and so on, and sophisticated modeling capabilities. It was, clean, required none of the ugly bug-filled hacks you see in Excel, and very easy to get your head wrapped around. Of course it's dead now.

Do named ranges in Excel not match some of what you're after here?
I'm a heavy user with Anki, and I get a lot of value out of it.

Yet I never actually recommended it to anyone, because it's basically unusable unless you're willing to tinker a lot, and put up with its very unintuitive UI.

I've had a look at your app, and it looks like a way more complicated version of Anki. I think that will put off many people from even trying it out
The headline is misleading as it suggests causation rather than correlation. The article actually states this:

>>""reverse causation” might also play a role here. A longer time being single, for example, may lead to worsening flirting skills. It might also cause people to conclude that they have poor flirting skills, which can lead to hopelessness, which in turn can lead to putting in less effort to find a partner. "
Just the other day I was in my logistics class and the professor started deviating into something that I believe was pure nonsense.

He started the lecture by analyzing how many pieces a machine could manufacture per day. Fair enough. He extended the model to measure different ratios of capacity. Makes sense.

Then he tried to extend the model to all machines, including humans. His example was: "How do you measure the capacity of a legal team?". I thought it was a trick question, so I answered (paraphrasing) "You can't answer that question the same way you answer for the machine. You can't give a single metric." He told me I was wrong and that the _right_ measure would be (total number of working hours/day).

I was tempted to try to convince him otherwise. The analogy was deeply flawed. He certainly measured the machines in (number of pieces / day) but measured the legal team in (hours/day). So, in analyzing a machine, you take into account its efficiency, but you don't do the same thing for humans.

I believe that is exactly the same thing that is going on in the post. Managers/Logistics/Economists are very susceptible to this kind of generalization pitfalls.

Edit: Given that this answer has generated some discussion I feel the need to expand on it. The legal team was not expected to sell their services "by the hour". In fact, any discussion about how their services were sold was shut down by the professor. From his point of view, the lawyers were machines and he was asking the question "how much can this machine produce?"

Yes, other students also suggested taking the number of billable hours/revenue into account, but that's not the answer the professor was looking for.

I don't criticize whether his answer is not technically right, but I feel it holds no real-world meaning. It was a purely academic question that leads nowhere instead of having a debate about how you measure the productivity of a group of human beings. And on top of that, his final answer was definitive and (from his point of view) was irrefutable.
A few years ago there was a ton of websites that did little more than copy Instagram photos and put their own ads around it. I suspect putting an end to those was the point.
They also don’t always leave the market otherwise. When they shut down Reader there was an opportunity for their competitors except that their exit told everyone that feeds were dead and you needed to jump onto Google+ (their poorly considered plan) or Facebook (anyone seeing what Google was afraid of).

Depending on the market and the company’s resources that kind of image shift can have a big effect.
Presumably GP is talking about coercive imprisonment (e.g. contempt of court). If the court has ordered you to give something up, and you don't, they can imprison you to coerce you to obey.
The expression "Bank Holiday" is actually really common in the UK - I would expect most brits to know it. We use it to refer to a public holiday in which the banks are closed, there are quite a few every year. It has very positive connotations here.
Another way of looking at it is that your dependencies are still part of your code and to minimize those as well. It can’t easily be taken literally because who really wants to consider the Linux kernel and glibc as part of their everyday app dependencies unless writing code very close to the metal, but at the same time it can be a very useful perspective to have. Especially when you consider that you might (for security) need to code review all those dependencies as they change over time.
My point is that the action-based approach you describe is extremely verbose for very little gain. Most apps don't need it, yet that's what Redux forces you to do.

Regarding DevTools, it's just as easy to make it work with "observing".

Also, I'm not saying you should write state changes and data fetching in the UI components. By all means write them under actions/services whatever. I'm complaining about the complexity around effecting that change.
I have made many many mistakes while flirting and somehow have survived unscathed by whatever you are referring to. The trick is not to treat professional networking events or contexts as a chance to meet a girlfriend!
> Firstly "accepting a law" implies - in western liberal democracies - a legislative process in which a law is proposed and accepted by some kind of parliament. This is not what happened here - in Switzerland, laws can be given to the population directly by non-parliamentary, non-governmental organisations in referenda, which then become binding.

This is more of a tangent, but I would contest the idea that "accepting a law" implies that it is passed by a parliamentary body. This was maybe true in the 1800s, but not today when plenty of western liberal democracies have some form of direct democracy with electoral referendums on important issues. Some (e.g. California) have a system roughly comparable to Switzerland, although it's obviously at the state level in the case of CA.
> None of them are actually money, like in the paper-or-gold-coin sense. They're all ledgers.

This is the same when people's net worth is discussed though. To the average individual that hears a net worth it almost feels like they think it's cash money. But it's on paper, as in sell all the shares of businesses and assets to cash it in.

Perception is the mother of all great products and marketing.
Libor Is Going Away for Real
I found parts of this amusing, but it does feel like bad form of me to post an article with a paragraph trashing Paul Graham on a site PG started. Apologies to him if he's browsing HN today :)

Edit: I reread the post and noticed the author also has a go at Sam Altman, so apologies there, too.
That is correct, but Jewish in this context is an ethnic group, not a religion. Much of the original Zionist movement was comprised of secular Jews.
I had the chance to briefly meet Patrick in Estonia some years ago when he came to our offices at e-Residency. He immediately struck me as an incredibly intelligent person that had a crazy mix of intellect, curiosity, and eq. This interview definitely solidified for me that he is probably one of the best, and underrated, entrepreneurs out there right now.
Didn't I cover that in my comment? I feel that that is bad. But I also feel that the whataboutism argument is overused when it comes to Israel. We should minimize our incidental support of repressive regimes wherever they are found. Especially when we are explicitly called on to do so (see BDS) by those oppressed by such repressive regimes.
There is nothing stopping you from signing a crypto transaction by hand using your private key from memory and handing someone an envelope.
Vim Is Turing-Complete
To a point. Some things are complex enough that relying on a well tested and supported third-party makes way more sense than re-inventing the wheel.
I'm a 5-year frontender currently working transitioning to Backend. It's pretty chill, and the challenges are new, and on average the pay is higher.
Has anyone with plenty of contacts at FAANG companies ever thought to leverage those contacts into a business? As in... Can't get a response from Google/Facebook, etc? Tell us (the helpful folks at WeHaveSomeCloutWithFBAndGoog.com) about your problem, and we'll get in touch with someone who can (hopefully) provide a remedy!
That sucks. As others have said, depending on a third party channel for sales is like putting most of your eggs on one basket.

What is not clear for me is, doesn't Instagram have a customer support tier for accounts that big? I'm just a personal user but I would imagine that an account with 1000s of followers can speak with a person if something goes wrong?

Scary
That's an old device. Notice I said now(as of 2017). Google announced 3 year OS updates a year after the Pixel was released(which they specifically stated at launch would get 2 years of updates)
The Pixel 2 got updates for 3 years. I know because I have one sitting next me right now.
I track my progress on the novel I'm writing by word count. I've had more than a few days of negative word count writing days which have invariably been some of my more productive days.
Sometimes I wish I kept a better count of my deletions, because the 'best' I ever recorded was just under 600 lines and I honestly feel a little regret that other people are managing much bigger deletions.

I think the real reason is that as I moved to refactoring (as part of that 600 LOC experience), my deletions per year went up but my deletions per story regressed toward the mean.
He never managed the Excel team and he didn't write code for the product. He was a PM and wrote the spec for VBA. An accomplishment to be sure but not much different than all the other great individual contributors Excel has had over the years.
>>this area is most likely to value efficiency

Agreed. The general style values simple sentences which helps reading speed and comprehension, especially for audiences that don't share your native language. And it reduces fluff. Adverbs, for example, generally don't help make a point in business writing - data does.

See the example in that last sentence? I snuck a premise instead of stating it as a hypothesis or providing data to support it. At best that causes confusion for the reader and at worst it can mislead people that aren't carefully watching out for pitfalls like that.
That’s not a given, unfortunately. I believe that the intended long term strategy is to give kids a glimpse of something that is outwardly interesting, in order to increase their internal motivation to seek out other good reading material. Not necessarily to get it “right” the first time.
Also once Wall Street turns it into a structured product or an ETF, then stay far away.
a bunch of languages (incl. Julia) has been influenced by CLOS' multiple dispatch (Fortress, Perl 6 (aka Raku), R, C#, ...). Many languages have extensions for multiple dispatch incl. C, Factor, Java, Python, Scheme, Ruby, ...)...
Apple is a weird outlier here. Do people consider working at Apple the same as working at a FANG? From my experience and talking with people in the field, it's not really the same league, neither in work-life balance, pay, benefits, etc.
> ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist 100 years ago

They absolutely did, from about the 1870's onward. Read about Harvey Washington Wiley. Modern food isn't a paragon of health, but for most non-rural people in the US, it was quite a bit worse from the 1870's to the 1910's.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley

[2]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/poison-...

From that last one, they talk about a lot of honey simply being flavored corn syrup. There was swill milk. They put all sorts of weird conservatives into food before Wiley's Poison Squad determined what was safe.
The only test turning red for me was the "DNS Prefetch - Anchor" one.
Looking for a slack enterprise grid pricing project management system?
Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
He's right. Longest thriving tulip market in history. I wonder how much energy in total BTC has already consumed?
This is incorrect. "All of Ireland's energy interconnections with Europe run through Britain. And since the U.K. is no longer part of the EU’s internal energy market (IEM), both islands have been suffering from increased supply volatility." [0]

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/irelands-energy...

A second source if needed:
https://www.mondaq.com/ireland/renewables/1023934/brexit-the...
Julia only hit v1.0 in 2018. It's doing pretty well for being so young in my opinion.

All the arguments against Julia are basically that python has a lot of momentum and it takes time and effort to switch to a new language. I think Julia should really seek to displace MATLAB as a near term goal .
I find the office caricatures interesting - the balding, tubby old guy at the end isn’t nodding knowingly at the young guy confirming the effectiveness of the hand motion trick by the sleazy manager, he’s nodding like he’s been taken in by it. This seems to deliberately communicate a lot in kind of distopic way.
I understand them staying anonymous, but turning around and explicitly naming the service they used did raise an eyebrow.
Mobile order pick-up if you dare.

ETA: dare to go inside a place you can mobile order from.
I read the writeup where someone applied a genetic algorithm to this problem and I guess what I found disappointing was that it wasn't a general solution that could learn any general cases or rules, it was just very specific for each example provided. It's not like you could train it on a set of examples and then give it a new example and it would be able to do it any quicker or more accurately.
Both the Black-Scholes formula and the Neutron Transport Equation are instances of the heat equation, which describes a wide variety of different phenomena.
I'm a USian and I could imagine folks here showing up for that and never bothering with the spa
Thanks for the insight. Gives a whole new meaning to the "Bitcoin farming uses more energy than Argentina" catchphrase

I'm not arguing pro or against Bitcoin, just stating reality is nuanced.
Whatever is in your XLSX can be converted to a static CSV file. Charts, pivot tables and formulas won't be transferred over, but then again I wouldn't expect them to.

The value Excel provides far outweighs the drawbacks of a vendor-specific solution.
Was it?

I know a couple books[1] that suggest life prior to the agricultural revolution wasn't nearly as famine-stricken as we tend to think it was. These books claim hunter gatherers were quite proficient at finding enough sustenance.

Obviously starvation was still possible and likely, but was it the primary cause of death? Is there some more evidence that humans were suffering from starvation before agriculture? Wouldn't populations thin out and stabilize accordingly if starvation was such a problem?

[1] - _Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind_ and _Sex at Dawn_
Let me reprharse this.

You have a piece of paper that represents the deed for a vehicle, but the law doesn't recognize the "paper" as the deed for the vehicle...(this during the time of clay tablets)

Was that clear? or do you still have that bridge for sale?
The jury’s out on whether this one was our own fault too.

Maybe we made it in a lab, or even if we didn’t, maybe we should have been much smarter about preventing or containing it.

It’s not like an alien virus we never predicted and can’t understand. Experts had been warning about this exact thing for years.
Can’t read the study because paywall but is there anything about factors/questions beyond not knowing how to flirt and being choosy? I get that people who are single might feel like they can’t flirt but that doesn’t mean people in relationships are actually any better (or better enough for it to be the “main reason”). It could be people in relationships overestimate their skills in comparison to single people. I feel like this headline is bullshit. Main reason for single people is they can’t flirt - idk if I believe it. There are way too many factors with modern dating for me to really believe it. Instead, this reads like - “of the very limited set of questions we asked, flirting was the reason” but that’s not the headline.
Ok, my bad for “I think” - I should have said: in my 30 year experience I’ve yet had to come across a system were good tests were a hindrance to performance. I’ve had many a time where complex investigations into performance problems were uncovered by systematic and automated tests.

If performance is a main goal, then surely TDD with performance in mind will give you a better advantage
What does the respectful way of flirting look like? I want to educate myself.
Or monitoring for it.

That's about right, for those who are playing the game.
You're conceptually right, but the current right wing in Israel is very much centered around the concept of a united Israel rooted in Biblical reasoning.

Zionism might not be religious, but the political forces that would prevent relinquishing territories in modern day Israel very much are.
That's a great practically oriented crash course on modern statistics!
Any large codebase should be using multiple contexts - which not only alleviates some of the performance pains but also helps in keeping the code structured (compared to one big state object that Redux recommends - unless that's changed).

Now if we're talking very high frequency updates, you'd probably keep the state in the component. That'd be faster then either approach - and such components are likely few in number.
The amount of energy required to rescue a single princess does not increase exponentially over time. In fact it pretty much stays constant. Furthermore, gaming energy expenditures are probably minor compared to the amount spent on Bitcoin these days (last I heard it had an energy footprint equivalent to the Netherlands.)
There are also other cryptocurrencies that don't have the same problem as Bitcoin with being increasingly energy intensive to produce over time.
It's not the same. Voter ID laws in the US specifically (but not explicitly) target black and low-income demographics, who are far more likely to not have such ID documents. If having such documents was a long-standing requirement to function in society like it is in much of Europe (as far as I've heard), then it wouldn't be as big a deal.
Was it? I wasn’t aware of that? Is this also the case of non-human omnivores? If not, at which point in our evolution did this start to be the case, e.g. during Australopithecus or Homo Erectus? And is it also the case for humans that don’t live in agricultural or industrial societies today (such as tribes deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea)?
I've been studying this area on the acting side for about ten years.

We've tested people in tens of thousands of live performance coaching sessions and discovered that most people can be approximately divided into four body language groups based on which parts of their body "want" to move.

If you try to think about moving body parts that don't "want" to move, you will sound distracted when speaking, and other parts will mostly hold still.

If you think about parts that DO want to move, you will sound expressive, and other parts of your anatomy will join in naturally. E.g. if you are wired for Head, neck and shoulders—what we call zone 1, and think about making faces when speaking, your hands will begin to gesture. But if you think about using your hands, your gestures will be stiff and you will sound distracted.

Actors who perform voice over know that energetic body language is required. Our interactions with and tests of aspiring and experienced actors have been through 78 voice acting events where we record as many at 350 live performance coaching sessions in a day, and through the several group classes we do every week through our business the School of Acting and Voiceover.

In all, my wife Sarah and I have done around 30,000 live coaching sessions.

Our advice to actors is to determine which of the four "zones" you are most wired for, and consciously expand your use of movement in that zone to sound both more expressive, and more authentic.

It's as if you need to tell your subconscious "these are the allowable and expected motions during the upcoming activity" or you will be more tight, anxious and unnatural. The four zones are:

1) Head, neck and shoulders. Common tip: Tilt your head slightly and reposition some part of your face (raised eyebrow, parted lips, etc) before speaking

2) Hands, arms and shoulders. Common tip: Keep your wrists above your elbows at all times to allow natural gestures to occur, as hands are psychologically difficult to lift when they drop below elbows.

3) Body posture. Common tip: Dance a bit before speaking, or, while keeping your feet planted and your head facing forwards, rotate your shoulders 90° left then 90° right.

4) Whole body (everything moves). Common tip: Plan the posture and movements you will use as you begin speaking to consciously set a more expressive starting point.

Most of our training programs are not available publicly. Though we have advertised in the past, most of our students have come through referrals over the last 15 years, partly because we have hired people at all levels of our industry to come be coaches, and they know we base much of our training on how they themselves work with people in the industry.

We currently only train remotely (e.g. via Zoom), though we maintain an in-person training center (currently used mostly for storage). Although SchoolofVoiceover.com has some public learning content, most of our content (about 1,000 articles) is only available through a private, invitation-only forum.
You're spot on. The ETH fans love to wax poetic about PoS and how it's always around the corner and coming soon. It's been that way for ages.

Lightning Network is similar. It's been perpetually 6 months away for years.

Frankly, I'll be impressed if the current power structure within PoW cryptos doesn't find any way to hamstring PoS, mostly because they have a vested interest in keeping everything the way it is now.
My guess is that they have some kind of scoring system and having a phone number increases your "trust" score. When you removed it your trust score went below some threshold.
Not mentioned in the article, but IME this is true even on Tinder and similar apps. It's very easy to put someone off with an off-sounding message.
I'll give it a try, but I'm by no means an expert in cryptography.

Proof-of-work works (very broadly) by computers solving harder and harder math problems to create value. Eventually, these get so hard that solving one requires either joining a pool or a huge investment in electricity and mining rigs - which is where we're at now. This isn't good for the environment.

Proof-of-stake works by individuals "staking" some of their own coins to be more likely to be randomly chosen to "validate" a transaction (which earns them a reward, similar to hashing). Validating a transaction is trivial and uses very little electricity, but the rest of the network also checking the transaction keeps the validator honest.

While proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are both a kind of "the rich get richer" game, to get more coins in proof-of-stake all that's required is a greater investment into the network, as opposed to the mining rigs and large amounts of electricity that are required by proof-of-work.

I found this video to be helpful in visualizing the networking parts of proof-of-stake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3EFi_POhps
*slightly more than
What Was Privacy?
In my experience, there is a class of small company that has roughly 3-7 employees, at least half of which are 45-65 years old, where the business is slow and quiet, with little sign of any growth, typically selling a niche product or technology for which there is not much competition. One or more may have big ideas but really they just are happy having a job and working with others.

There’s nothing wrong with this.