skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a different thing: The tip is usually reconciled only during payment capture time (which is a batch process and distinct from the authorization stage).

In some countries, the switch from signature to PIN has coincided with the introduction of chip cards, and given that the terminal needs to be brought to the customer anyway for those (or vice versa), it's just simpler for everyone involved to include the tip amount right there.
As opposed to other externally-caused problems like natural disasters, beating eaten by lions, etc. I would guess that a large chunk of human history was dominated by these problems.
> who you work with will usually be out of your control and respect their skills

Unless you're in a small company with a substantial ownership stake, not only should you accept the reality of this but also accept that dealing with it is part of your job. Making the best of the team and resources available is part of the job description.

If given the reins of the hiring process, a given developer could not do a better job filling out company's a roster.

The company has made decisions. Unless you were consulted on those decisions, your opinions aren't desired. Most of the time, your helping of those decisions' consequences will be inline with your responsibility for them: nil (scapegoating happens and shit rolls downhill, but I'd argue both are necessarily rare).
With money though there's still someone who needs to make it "money". It's printed, its supply is controlled, its integrity is enforced. Otherwise it's just paper with numbers on it.

With crypto all of this is taken care of by the network, and with the truly decentralized networks (not all of them are) anyone can be part of the network. No one "owns" the ledger. In my mind this has successfully created something that is more free (as in speech) than any previous form of "money" other than gold.
Agreed. People who use Excel daily knows it's limitations.

They know that it can't work with huge amount of data, but they do know they could have their internal tech team upload the data into their database and send them a snippet of the data.
The European electricity market is not affected by Brexit. This is very beneficial for other reasons, of course: increased imports/exports, increased resiliency, etc.
- Excel constantly wants to change cell contents, in the name of improving formatting. For example, paste a table with something that excel thinks are dates, it will convert it to dates, and show the data in some format. Formatting it back to text will give you the #days since epoch instead of the original text.

- Excel hates text cells containing numbers. It whines about it all the time and eagerly changes the data to what it thinks it should be.

- Excel doesnt get it if a sheet contains a data table with consistent formatting. Just recognize it and store it internally as a small Infile DB. Often, an Altertx table will blow up 100-fold when exported to Excel.
* Longest running network.

* Largest network by nodes.

* Largest network hashrate / Most energy consumed.

* Simple Satoshi Codebase.

* Most accessible - blockchain delivered via satellite!

* One can run a node on a RPi. Requires 351G storage for full chain. Eth is TB's (and growing), requires SSD, fast CPU, etc.

You are not running ETH nodes at home.

* Most decentralized

* Most reliable
Oh excellent, thank you very much, that looks like it. I don't know why I was thinking there would be a "landing circle" there. Exciting, this is probably the next most fascinating development to watch other than the orbital piece.

Everything else is exciting to watch as well, it's just that in terms of "things that are completely novel", these two things (catching the booster, starship coming back from orbital launch), are at the top of my list. I can't wait to see the first stage go off with its full complement of engines as well. That's going to be straight up incredible.
Being good at math and physics for example doesn't make you good at HCI. I learned this by being forced to take an HCI course in grad school and learning how much I didn't know about the area.

Another problem is again wrong incentives. If a product usage isn't in the hundreds of millions the management usually does the "move fast, break things, launch the new thing, get promoted, switch teams, rinse and repeat" approach which is a time tested strategy.
Their series "For all Mankind" is actually really good. Worth the subscription price on its own.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7772588/
The "normal" flour is in 5lb bags. I went and looked, and the specialty stuff I had is indeed in a 1 kg, not 1lb, bag.
> What non-spreadsheet programming languages/environments do you think work better than Python/Jupiter?

RMarkdown + RStudio + knitr
>Given this, the answers to your questions should be obvious.

If the answer seems obvious, then the question isn't fully understood, because there are trade-offs involved in CPI calculations.

There's no such thing as a "layman." Different people in different regions experience different CPI. Inflation for all goods in the Northeast might be 2.1% over the past ten years, but could be 1.6% in the South for the same basket. that might not sound like much, but that means that inflation is rising 25% faster in the Northeast.

No matter what you do, CPI at a national level won't accurately reflect any group. People in the South will claim it's way too high, and people in the NE will complain that it's way too low, etc, etc.

If you want real numbers, relevant to your situation, then the BLS provides the ability to calculate your own person CPI based on what you buy and where you live.
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>“Carl is a difficult person to work with. But I trust in you to accomplish this. You will use your feminine approach and you’ll be fine.”

What's wrong with feminine approach?

People use this kind of wording especially when it comes to design

- e.g room, or outfit, generally those things that are considered as a areas where women are way better, so?

>That social networks can involve as much technology as any video game and that actually Facebook was one of the most influential tech companies of the last ten years?

How's that relevant?

People don't learn coding during Facebooking, unlike games where it's way more probable.
The clipboard being cleared when you do some not-paste action is pretty annoying. I assume it is this way though because if you alter the sheet in some way which intersects with the cells being copied paste might not know what to do. Like if you insert rows, or change a value, the thing you copied might have changed. It might not have but it would be more confusing I think to have Excel make than analysis that it changed in some meaningful way then clear the clipboard sometimes than to just always clear the clipboard.
I think it's a pretty good deal to get back 100% of the time you spend maintaining something while keeping 20% of the revenue.
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One thing is certain: thanks to vaccines, travel will eventually become a lot easier in 2021 than in 2020.

But where and when can we travel? That is still very much unclear as border closures, quarantines, and other measures are likely to stay with us for some time to come. (Tip: use the IATA COVID-19 travel regulations map to stay informed when the world gradually reopens.)

I’ve kept up this list of cheap countries to travel for 8 years now, but this time I don’t actually know which countries will be open for tourism, or when it will be appropriate to travel. So, think of it more as a wishlist.

Hopefully, 2021 will give us a few more opportunities to travel, to heal, and to come together again.

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Well, technically you only need the threat of violence. Potential-but-unrealized violence is arguably much better for humanity than proof-of-ever-escalating wasted energy.
> The thing about money is that I can hand it to someone. Possession of the money is possession of the money and third parties don't need to get involved in every transaction. I can hand someone dollars and take a sandwich and walk away, transaction done.

Fiat is also moving in this direction. Credit cards, are just exchanging bits, and in Asia, with Alipay and WeChat pay you are just scanning QR codes. At least with (good) crypto currencies is you can remove the third-party from the equation.

There still remains the problem of having your transaction broadcast to the entire network, but I think that is also a solvable problem.
Excel is basically a 4GL at this point replacing Foxpro and other. The only thing I've seen Access is used for is ODBC connections to databases.
Yes it is good entertainment, but wouldnt then the kids read those anyways?
Lately HN has been like this. Some posts/comments are flagged and downvoted for slightly controversial opinions, despite the neutral or even positive or curious tone. (What HN guideline suggest to do)

The policy, and maybe even mechanism for downvote and flag to be adjusted so that a number alone does not trample arguments.

Maybe "downvote/flag" comments, which if voted, will add downvote/flag count for parent arguments? I don't know.
In 2019, the US economy consumed 100 quadrillion BTUs[0], which works out to about 29,000 TWh. Bitcoin currently uses ~78 TWh[1]. Bitcoin isn't the problem.

[0]https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/flow-graphs/total-energ...

[1]https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
They are having to mandate cash acceptance at stores now as many would prefer to do away with it.

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/06/803003343/some-businesses-are...
So let's see, at $1M/BTC, three halvings, 6 blocks per hour, that's 9.3BTC/hr in rewards, call it at least $10M/hr because transaction fees. Electricity at 5 cents/kWh means that buys 200GW, but say miner cost is half hardware. So we'd be consuming about 100GW of energy to send seven transactions per second.
> best way to build intuition for a dataset

Could you elaborate on this please ? I work with a lot of datasets, and have found python + libraries (plt/pd/np/scipy/regex) to be far more useful. But, that might just be my inexperience with excel.

Can you give a few examples of analyses that work better in excel than python ?
That’s totally fair. I feel the same way. I also suspect it’s a widespread practice.

Perhaps if IG as an organization weren’t so opaque we would have better rules for using it as a customer engagement platform. Personally, I share personal information with companies and organizations once I feel like I can trust them enough to care for that information correctly. It would be neat if IG enabled that in an organized way.

Out of curiosity (real and legitimate curiosity because you brought up the privacy concerns) if you found yourself in the situation I mentioned above — your only platform with successful engagement is Instagram and you want to expand off of the platform — how would you approach it? For example, I would probably try to speak plainly and openly with my IG audience about my problem and how it affects a service that they enjoy and request feedback.
I love Excel and it's one program that's always open on my computer. But the thing that still kills me after all these years is that every open Excel process shares the same undo stack.

Say you have have Excel Process A and Process B, and you make an edit in A, then an edit in B, then an edit in A again. If you try to undo the edit in B, it will instead undo the edit you did in A. Infuriating.
In the 90s, There was a majority of Israelis willing to give the Palestinians a state and recognition for peace and recognition.
This was met with packed buses being blown away in major cities by palestinian extrimists during negotiations.

This allowed Israeli extremists to take the reigns, and after three decades of hegemony managed to convince most of the Israeli population that peace is a dangerous pipe dream and any sort of compromise will be met with violence. And to establish facts on the ground which would make a palestinian state practically impossible without rooting out masses of Israelis from their home by force.

The Israeli left kept warning of this scenario, because the end game is either a non democratic jewish state, or a civil war torn single state. This cost the traditional Israeli left (the labor party) to be almost electorally eliminated during these 3 decades.
Now the hegemony opinion is that no peace is possible, and the Palestinians are to be basically ignored.
> Usually, if housing prices rise, so do rents, pretty much in accord

While this would theoretically make sense, it's not actually very true in the United States. There's a significant speculative aspect to housing in some markets that results in price increases far higher than rents would sustain (this effect is actually more prominent in other markets, e.g. Canada).

Here: https://smartasset.com/mortgage/price-to-rent-ratio-in-us-ci... you can see that San Francisco prices are 50x rent, while Plano TX, which also has a high per capita income and low eviction rate, sits at 20x rent.
ETH wasn't designed to be a store of value, there is no max supply and the emission rate is higher than even Vitalik predicted/expected... storing your money in ETH is generally a bad idea.
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Bloomberg is an expensive paywall. Unhelpful.
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Yes, and the selective bail outs and inflation which favor the rich are just the opposite!
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I don't disagree, but you didn't really engage with what I said - it is not in Google's interest to pivot their institutional position to being boring. Their entire brand to employees, investors, and data subjects is that they do cool new things. That brand keeps interest in and softens the reality of their core surveillance business. It's akin to how I've heard VFX houses operate - the side of the business doing commercials makes the profit, while the movies side of the business loses money but brings the notoriety.
If you're using whataboutism to justify something you already lost. Two wrongs don't make a right.

By the same conflation one could argue that nepotism is a prefectly valid employment tactic due to quota-filling also being.
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For me the cost of gaming on PC is just whatever I need to add on top of a standard workstation, which is mostly just a bumped up graphics card. Only late last year did I finally upgrade the bones of a PC I've been running since 2009, which is a hell of a cycle.

If you're chasing top performance and regular upgrade cycles I agree, it can be a pit of (up to) infinity monies.

The current situation with GPU prices and coin mining etc does make things especially tricky right now if you're not already set up with a gaming rig from the past ~5 years.
IMHO where Excel falls short is in interoperability. Try processing .xlsx files in anything other than Excel and it can be painful. Let's see the new more open Microsoft really embrace competing on an even playing field that doesn't rely on ossified proprietary file formats.
We need to go deeper. Game of life Mona Lisa on the block chain. Could end up rivaling the value of the actual Mona Lisa.
There can’t be a universal best solution to state management. Sometimes your requirements are so simple that using a library is overkill and basic JS is fine. Sometimes your requirements are so complicated that well-known libraries like Redux and MobX aren’t enough, and if you’re going to implement something more comprehensive anyway then the extra dependency might not be helpful. In between, there is a scale where different strategies might work best. A site that helps less experienced developers to figure out where their needs fall on the spectrum and which strategies might work well for them seems like a helpful idea.
Wanted: a curated list of quality journalists, with Patreon accounts or similar, looking for independent backing so that they can spend the time to write news articles of real quality, at a reasonable pace.

That sentence was probably too long, but perhaps you understand what I mean anyway. If this already exists, please inform me where.
Israel actively planned to grow its non-native population and encouraged immigration from neighboring countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Plan

Yes, I think Israel is attempting a genocide against the Palestinians. The ICC is currently investigating war crimes:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-palestinian-terr...
Does the fact of being able to do something should justify the fact of doing it?
Nothing stops an individual from having a scrapbook of observations they made of people. But is it compatible with these people's right to privacy?
Someone should build a company i contact when something goes wrong! Like someone i call when one of the faang companies is blocking me who has many of friends at these companies who can get things done, like the monthly topic on hn when someone got blocked and only unblocked because they have a large fanbase.
Actually it doesn't depend on behavior. It depends on destroying an attacker's ability to keep attacking.
So are humans. And MS Windows.
“Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind, and so it’s not a great climate thing,” is all Bill Gates seemingly said. Even I think, less energy consumption would probably be better, and I am pro Bitcoin at this point in time.
> This is the power of the big guys.

This is the consequence of building a busines son someone else's property. This is the cost of not having a diverse source of new customers. IG could definitely responded better, but the outcome isn't their fault.
Wasn't one of the criticisms of TV+ that Apple is too conservative when it comes to taking creative risks and targeting more niche, adult audiences? For example, do you think Apple would have green lit IASIP as an orginal show?
Yes. I'm so sick of Gates being the feature of endless articles. What an incredible sign that we lack respected, informed figures in this world, that we keep having to go to Mr Gates to get an opinion worth putting in print.

I'm not sure whether to think it's just lack of options, or whether this a programme by the rich to build & establish one of their own as someone to listen to. Nicely in the category of "owns a world-spanning super-empire" but generally pretty benign & non-aggressive for over a decade. Has taken some licks & no longer feels like a juggernaut.
I can't speak for other countries, but at least in India it has been a huge success. At this point I think it is even bigger then PayTM.

When it was first released it was very smooth compared to all the competition and the cashback was also pretty good.

But just a few months ago they released a new update (GPay) and I don't know what they did but it is now unbearably slow. Checking bank balance only works in 2 or 3 tries and transactions can fail multiple times. Instead of focusing on that they decided to make an UI update that made the interface incredibly slow. Unbelievable.

I have moved on to PayTM for now (it is much better), but I will continue to keep an eye on it. Maybe it will get better.
Better just to stick to military force that is useful for many other problems.
What's a critical mass? You sell subscriptions and hire journalists in proportion to how many people subscribe.

The "critical mass" to hire the first journalist is like 1000 people.

Huge publications like that only exist because of the historical capital cost of a printing press. Using traditional numbers, e.g. a city of 500k people 10% of whom subscribe to the local outlet, you can fund ~50 full-time local journalists. Which is the same whether they all work for one publication or they all work for themselves.

"Publications" will probably become subscription aggregators. So instead of 50,000 people each paying $10/month to one of 50 independent journalists such that they each have 1000 subscribers, all 50,000 people pay $10/month to the aggregator and then get access to the work of all 50 journalists.
> This sounds like enough grid scale storage/dispatch to do 100% renewables.

I might cover short-term variability but not seasonal differences. In Germany PV generation varies by 5x between summer and winter and in the Nordics it's obviously even more extreme. Unlike some other locations peak consumption also doesn't coincide with peak production since more energy is needed for heating during winter than for ACs during summer.
I’ve always thought that hitting soft targets was a sign of weakness and desperation. So your point doesn’t seem to contradict mine.
K-9 Mail had some difficulty getting IMAP IDLE to work with Android's Doze. Does FairEmail fare better?
> Many economists, mind you, believe CPI doesn't correct quite enough, and suspect that it overstates the inflation it hopes to measure by around 1%. This is because it tracks the actual prices of a certain "market basket" of goods with specific products in it, and that basket gets out of date, as people substitute products.

Please provide a source to back up this claim, everything I've seen says inflation is /under/-stated, not over. CPI absolutely takes into account substitute products and CPI is not simply tracking a basket of items over time.
>Possession of the money is possession of the money and third parties don't need to get involved in every transaction.

That's only true if you discount the US government as the third party (at least for USD$) who are involved in every transaction, by virtue of them needing to exist for the $ to have any value or for the seller to accept the $ in the first place i.e for them to know it will still be worth something in 3 weeks when they want to spend it.
millennia? more like since 1964 [1] ;)

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) [...] is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle, with much of its violence aimed at Israeli civilians.

Before that it was vanilla antisemitism, pogroms and massacres organized by the local Muslims, no different than how it was done in other places in the Middle East (or other places in the world). Some even were Nazi sympathizers/collaborators, like the Mufti of Jerusalem [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini
What's your business? Maybe someone at Facebook will show pity and clear up the situation for your business if you post the account name and link.
I have extensive experience with both and the main benefit Excel has over Google Sheets (in my opinion) is the amount of rows you can handle all at once. With Excel you can manipulate 200k rows easily. The same can not be said with Google sheets due to the fact that it remains a cloud based tool.
I found Google sheet to be enough though in 90% of my cases (may change depending on what you usually work on). The scripting ecosystem google sheets has is amazing (apps scripts and various python libraries) and is much stronger compared to Excel.
"You get a choice between bitcoin mining and military force"

That was literally a quote from the post being responded to.
Very cool, great visual explanations of how raymarching works.

PSA, Germans writing in English: upside down quotes look as out of place as Spanish question marks! They read like two strange misplaced commas to the rest of us.
This looks really interesting and applicable for my team. Thanks for sharing!