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The moral orthodoxy has shifted:

> During those decades of social change, the problem of Left-wing “moral relativism” was often a complaint of conservative commentators, but look today at the young protesters demanding that “Rhodes must fall” or “black trans lives matters”. They certainly aren’t moral relativists.

> Relativism is a position you employ when you’re weak, to be abandoned when you win. On a wide range of issues, including race and gender, the Right has been more relativist for some time.
These reasons are valid of course. But Excel is installed on most of machines, R or Python isn’t. We all know how people like a “binary” that just runs everywhere…

Overall, for serious data analysis work, I’d use R or Python, but Excel is popular enough to have its place, just need to know the risks.
https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/...
> I can load .apk files directly onto my device, without using Google Play Store, which is optional.

For several years now, you’ve been able to sideload apps on an iPhone using a free developer account. Yes there are caveats, but those caveats have 3rd party MacOS apps to smooth them over.

> is the only mobile browser I know which has a "View Source" command in the menu

There’s iPhone apps which add an extension to MobileSafari so it becomes essentially a menu item.

> I can even get a command prompt with a GNU/POSIX environment and bash. And I can sort-of kind-of access the file system with a whole array of different tools

This exists too on iOS. The app is called iSH and is available on the AppStore. It’s not full filesystem access, but neither is your solution from the sound of it.
I use R for work a lot, maybe to give some reasons to use R:

1. The language itself isn’t great, but the tidyverse packages are amazing. There’s really not a reason to use R if you’re not going to use tidyverse.

2. It’s integration to make quick webapps, books, Markdown reports, blogs. Is amazing. In a team where we process a lot in Excel, it’s so convenient I can just make a quick webapp that does that task a lot quicker for everyone to use.
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One important aspect is the numerical precision. For those in need of correctness, avoid Excel and other spreadsheets. There are several papers discussing the lack of precision of excel and the likes in the literature [1].

[1] https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v034i04
All plants are carbon neutral. What we need to do is to stop adding new fossil carbon into the biosphere.
If some ideas never dissapear they must be grounded in human nature. They are viral, adapting and evolving.
I think anyone who can answer that is working 100 hour weeks to accomplish it, not surfing HN comments.
I can't read the article, so I'm just replying to the concept.

I don't see a problem with this at all. Overpopulation may be the most important issue of our lifetime. I'm not a fan of excessive government control, but incentivizing low birthrates is our only hope of saving the environment.
You can just upload them on Library Genesis
Intent is not a binary choice, it's an infinite gradation.

This isn't about just text-to-voice AI but about how we build AI systems in general.

The AI we have now is good for

a) problems with an unambiguously correct answer that AIs can perform better than humans (like camera tracking a scene).

b) problems where the deficiencies of AI performance are made up for by other characteristics (like machine translation which is often bad but at least its instant)

Where we have no real advances in AI are problems in which there are multiple valid answers and how to coach and give feedback to an AI to improve their answer more in accordance to your preferences. People who make pollyannaish predictions about AI takeover fail to understand this distinction.

eg: It's relatively easy to make an AI that can spit out a bunch of brand new recipes. But we don't know how to right now take an 85% good recipe that an AI generates, make it, taste it and then give AI feedback that would allow it to improve that recipe. Like, we don't even know the UI for that. About the best UI we have for it right now is to have the AI show you two versions side by side and you pick the better one until it gradient descents into what you want but that's unbelievably clunky for most tasks.

Where humans excel is at the interface and the interface makes up a surprisingly large part of many tasks, especially ones that white collar workers mistakenly regard as "menial".
Have you tried playing Minecraft on a Pi ?
"Great Minds Discuss Ideas. Average Minds Discuss Events. Small Minds Discuss People."

Not to accuse anybody here of being small minded, but I think the point is relevant. Instagram transitioning from a photo sharing social network to a marketing catalog pretending to be organic content is an event, but it's only a single social network. The larger trend of the internet transitioning from individual home pages to walled garden social networks that then push hidden marketing over actual substance is a much larger concern that is going on, and the posters point about the irony of using Medium to complain about the issue is spot on and I'd argue relevant to the real conversation, which is how interesting, quality, quirky self-published content of the internet has been replaced by walled gardens showing you want their algorithm wants you to see.
I play Minecraft with my kids. Small(ish) screens, but we're still "together" building stuff.
You need to check yourself. Being part Syrian, I have a lot of Muslim family and I find great offense to your support of genocide. A small number of Muslims are radical, no different than the radical Christians here in the US. Are all Christians deserving of being round up, put in camps, and all free will taken away?
This is an interesting structure. It’s important to note that it’s an immutable structure so it’s more comparable to xor filters rather than bloom in that aspect.

I’ve been looking for a simple but more efficient than bloom structure but many of the alternatives are quite complex (so hard to reimplement/port) or less performant. Still quite interesting. Will need to read this more closely.
A while ago, there was a job offer in my area to automate Excel tasks using Python. The thing was posted time after time by several recruitment agencies, for almost a year. Just thinking how expensive that process must have been answers the question.
They'll be in for a surprise if they ever try punching trees though.
I am wondering how can they enforce it in just one state.
I can just cross state lines to have a 3rd child.
I think it was in a book by Nassim Taleb where I read that at his first day as a trader, he wrote his resignation letter and put it in his desk to have it ready any time.

Ultimately, you want to ensure to always have a BATNA - an alternative to what you are doing now that will make it easier for you to walk away any time (https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/batna/translate-your-batna...).

It sounds like you're not particularly happy at work. The right and ideal thing to do would be to talk to you manager and utter your dissatisfaction; demand that the org does better than this, and make it clear that you will walk away if the situation persists. Think of it as a reverse PIP.

Of course, that only works if you have a decent BATNA.
> Why is there not a code view for an excel spreadsheet?

Isn't that VBA?
Interesting. I had no idea! That is very good to know actually in case it ever happens again in a year I do have corn.
Nuclear would need to get cheaper than current nuclear methods.

How to get rid of excess complexity in regulations while still retaining good safety... I have some ideas.
Fair - I was using "Excel" when to your point I meant "a spreadsheet".
The article specifically notes that preschool age children have difficulty learning about 3D from a 2D screen.
You don't need a competent developer for that. You can go to one of the website builders like SquareSpace and do it for free, or hire some student to do that for you.

There's zero reason to write any code by hand for a brochure website.
One of the last tweets was the most interesting - "Just looking at Stanford's 2011 vs 2020 data, you can see charges going up more than 300% in some cases"

That is absolutely insane to me. I really don't understand how that's possible at all - I know no one really pays sticker price on any medical bills but still.
Nothing about your first quote shows Egypt in any kind of mess. Your second quote ends over a century before the British protectorate, and at best pushes the blame onto Portugal or the Ottomans.

You seem to be condensing centuries of history into only the worst parts. Yes, bad things happened before colonialism. Colonialism was still horrible.
It was a bad idea to go in. Having gone in, made a generations long commitment to people and started the work, it was a mistake to come out. But both mistakes were (are) wildly popular with the US electorate.
That doesn't take into account time-value-money nor inflation nor time & maintenance & cost-of-complexity.

These ROI calculations are always way way too generous.
Close, but as detailed in your link, Glooper is closer to MONIAC - links by dang in sibling to your comment.
Visualizing divergent search results across geopolitical borders
You might want to try out Power Query (get & transform).

Step-by-step repeatable transformations where the UI records steps and writes code in the background.

Almost exactly what you're talking about, and comes out-of-the-box in the last few versions.
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See also Wired article about this:

A New Tool Shows How Google Results Vary Around the World

https://www.wired.com/story/tool-shows-google-results-vary-w...
Don’t relate someone’s action to previous actions without sources and especially when they are from entirely different domains. It comes across as a shallow attack. I’m saying this as it irked me - and I don’t even know who this Roger guy is.
piracy is the only answer when you get bullshit like this:

https://watannetwork.com/tools/blocked/#url=oRqjVPljSGQ
> nor his nonprofit that gives less than 1 percent back to the country that allowed him to flourish.

Do I understand you correctly, that your objection to the Gates foundation is, that they don‘t spend on projects in the US?
In terms of practical examples, modding communities are definitely taking advantage already: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44184
For non-programmers who do any kind of data processing, spreadsheet applications (Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets) are the closest thing to programming they have, and have a lot less overhead - just throw in the data, write a formula, you get results, no compilation or fidgeting with input and output and so on.

The steps of an algorithm are reflected by cells that reference cells that reference cells.

I've always thought that every highschooler should be taught how to use Excel properly, it really is a superpower in many contexts.
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The post doesn't contribute to our curiosity, it just triggers our tribal monkey brain and doesn't add anything productive in the process.
I was a C++ developer, and I love R for data analysis. I wouldn't write a compiler in it, but it's just incredibly easy to do data analysis in it. So it's not a question of skills -- it's just well-designed for the task it was designed to do.
There is no reason to use R when Excel can do the jobs. It is when Excel can’t handle the task at hand, R shines.

I am well familiar with R, but for simple data manipulation, quick chart, pivot table, usually resort to a spreadsheet program. I maintain my Options Trading Journal in spreadsheet where I record all the Options trade I made, positions I hold, P&L, etc. I just can’t imagine doing that in R.

R starts with CSV, Excel ends with CSV.
R isn't interactive or visual like Excel. Excel's learning curve is a lot less daunting. Also, Excel is ingrained in the accounting culture and well supported by peers. Plus Excel is everyone's default database and form software.

None of the article's reasons matter to non-IT people and no IT department has the juice to override the CFO and accountants. Unlike, every other interactive tool that displeases programmers, Excel survives.

If you want R to replace Excel you need to build an interactive front end that can do everything Excel can as easily as Excel. Sitting in a class is not and option.
But we can't have the alternative that's worked everywhere that's tried it: educating Women. If that happened the pervasive corruption might be questioned.

Instead we'll just kill the extra children.
India's fertility rate has already fell to about 2.2 children per woman (in 2021). That's already replacement rate.

India is one of the few countries with a favorable demographic future right now. The United States and France are also doing ok too (with immigration).

But most of Europe and Asia (especially China, Singapore, South Korea and Japan) are facing huge problems: a halving of the population from its peak. And more importantly than the total number of people is the demographic pyramid structure is lost and is difficult to rebuild without a big baby boom (unlikely to happen in those countries).

For India to become a superpower in 2100 (no guarantees it will be) it shouldn't ruin its demographic outlook (like China famously did).
Which is why essentially every country in Europe relies on Russia for gas supplies?

I suspect most of Northern Europe would be happier importing energy from Southern Europe or even North Africa than relying on Russia as they currently do.
Best 'ah ha' moment for why R (or python, matlab, or whatever) might be useful is to have someone do tedious work making a bunch of charts and formatting them in Excel. Oh, and histograms. Oh, or confidence intervals on your linear regression.

Pivotcharts (and tables) help quite a bit for removing some of the tedium, but now suddenly it's interactive. Sometimes you want a format where BAM, everything is there laid out. There's nothing to misclick, all the tables and charts are there, you can just tell whoever, "look at the 3rd figure from the top on the 2nd tab".

The other things that people usually laugh at excel about (aside from silently changing values... that's just baaaaad) is the gong-show of naming files and versioning. R and friends + CSVs by themselves don't fix that problem. They just make it somewhat easier to solve (as in they play with git better).
How about other solutions e.g. deno+typescript?
"Well, that's one way to lose these orbit blues
Diamonds at the cores of our hues..."

Eh, nah, doesn't scan.
Well, I'm not a VBA / excel expert -- but my neophyte view is that VBA is used to add code to excel, which is great -- but it's not the same as every single spread sheet is automatically creating a "this VBA is the equivalent of your spread sheet."

Again, not an expert. I'd expect I've never written one line of VBA. (Yay for me!)
Presumably if you ever came back to the original state where 2+ are banned, they'd eventually figure out that you have a third child, no?
Maybe try blocking some JS, it loaded fine for me and I don't pay for it (I block third party JS by default and didn't need to whitelist anything).

The incentives/disincentives don't seem nice to me, rewarding 'voluntary sterilisation'...

I suppose I agree in general the concept of such policies is.. ok... But I don't think any rewards or penalties should be based on anything permanent. Even as proposed it's only running until 2030, but people will make irreversible life altering decisions based on it, I don't know, just doesn't seem nice to me.
Cool! Next time I'm opening up excel, I'll give it a look.
https://archive.is/p4usK
I spent a big part of my early career automating Excel, initially via VBA, then Interop (.net), then later via the OpenXML libraries.

I actually really enjoyed it, there's something a bit magical about taking a task that takes somebody hours to do, and putting it under a single button press, or even running it overnight and having everything ready for them when they start work the next day.
The trade off is continuous low grade toil to maintain the multiple accounts. When you’ve hit the 6-person family limit on Apple ID family sharing, (as the author notes) toil has high cost.
Use the following uBO rules:

medium.com##div[data-test-id="post-sidebar"]

medium.com##.branch-journeys-top:upward(2)

medium.com##div[id^="lo-highlight-meter"]

medium.com##+js(aeld, scroll)

medium.com##+js(aeld, touchstart)
The ambiguity of natural language, an hypothetical natural language future compiler (grammar checker) could get all these, Grammarly can't.
Hard disagree. Birth rates are at their lowest throughout the developed world. In some cases, it’s below the replacement level. The developing world’s birth rate is also dropping as those regions become more developed (China for example, which recently switched to incentivizing additional children).
So they’ll forever regret going to college?
This week I got a bit more familiar with R while adding it as a scripting language for a data IDE I'm working on (it already supported other languages).

It is a very hard language and community to get into! The documentation is very sparse. Library documentation is published as PDF (I guess?) and also very sparse. The default `print` behavior is pretty hard to understand. It's 1-indexed and it took me a while to realize every time I think `array[1]` I should write `array[[1]]`. I can't tell the difference between `<-` and `=`.

My guess is that it was probably a great language at some point but is way behind other numeric scripting languages like Julia or Matlab in terms of community attention and language ergonomics.

I know it's highly used but other than legacy reasons I'm not sure why you'd want to learn it over Julia.

I'm also curious to investigate how the aspects I'm critical of differ in Octave.

Edit: totally fair, 1-indexing shouldn't have been a "critique". Lots of languages do that.
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Or maybe satirizing murder and movements for human rights makes you a jerk. It has never been very socially acceptable to mock those kinds of things.

I do agree that people are broadly more sensitive today than they were in the 90s. Styles change. Dark, edgy, and irreverent is out, at least in popular culture.

I have this hypothesis that it tends to run counter to real life. In the 90s we were in the post Cold War peace and reality was optimistic, so people had an appetite for dark edgy art. Now reality is dark and edgy enough all on its own.

Back when those things were in conservatives were having a fit about them too. Now they are having a fit that they are out?

Anything to find a wedge issue I guess. Politicians need those wedge issues or they might have to earn their votes by actually fixing problems, and that’s hard.
The dis/incentives are based on welfare and local goverment pensions within that state.

They're not proposing 'enforcing' it at all, 'just' disincentivising it; which will equally affect people moving into that state regardless of whether they were before they had a third child or not.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...

In men, high levels of endogenous testosterone (T) seem to encourage behavior intended to dominate – to enhance one's status over – other people. Sometimes dominant behavior is aggressive, its apparent intent being to inflict harm on another person, but often dominance is expressed nonaggressively. Sometimes dominant behavior takes the form of antisocial behavior, including rebellion against authority and law breaking. Measurement of T at a single point in time, presumably indicative of a man's basal T level, predicts many of these dominant or antisocial behaviors. T not only affects behavior but also responds to it. The act of competing for dominant status affects male T levels in two ways. First, T rises in the face of a challenge, as if it were an anticipatory response to impending competition. Second, after the competition, T rises in winners and declines in losers.
If they decompose they are carbon neutral. I've seen some schemes calling for the burying/sinking of organic matter so that would be a carbon negative process (assuming the act of burying/sinking doesn't release too much carbon)

If you plant a new forest it would take some carbon out of the atmosphere because old dying trees would be replaced by new tree. Sure eventually the carbon inputs and outputs would be equal, but the built up forest would hold some carbon.
This is generally what Twitter social media is all about.

People, none of whom I respect nor care about, throwing insults at one another, yet doing nothing of substance.

...and it's why I seldom log into those platforms anymore.

People use these platforms to get their daily dose of dopamine. It's a worthless addiction.
i favor the works ostensibly written as parodies that wind up accidentally defining the genre.
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>Why is there not a code view for an excel spreadsheet?

The MS Excel grid with code underneath each cell is declarative (not iterative loop) formulas so what would the ideal "code view" be?

Because of the architecture based on formulas, Excel does already have "Show Formulas" option (keyboard shortcut Ctrl+`) and "Trace Precedents" and "Trace Dependents".

For Excel iterative code like VBA Macros, it does have a typical "code view" (keyboard shortcut Alt+F11).
I read that as the British left a mess by allocating 70% of Ethiopia's water to Egypt even though the British had no legitimate claim or control over Ethiopia.

Though even if the British had been in control of Ethiopia, I would argue it was still problematic to allocate 70% of their water to Egypt. It was just a fundamentally bad arrangement. So fundamentally bad that I can only assume the British, at the time, had no idea how the Nile actually worked. Maybe the field of hydrology was not quite so well developed, and the Nile was not quite so well studied? I try not to attribute to malice what can reasonably be explained by ineptitude.
Wow, I also assumed this was just something everyone had but never talked about. Visual snow, floaters and strong afterimages as long as I remember. Later migraines with aura since 20s.
One case is where you have fairly ragged entities that may have several of many attributes but result in very sparse rows.

Another case is when users are effectively designing their own schemas but you want to keep them, for example I have a database for a CMS where users can define nested hierarchies of keys with translations that would be impossible to fit into a schema. You could just toss this data into a JSON column, but its an example of nonrelational data.
I do. It makes sense. Sell rights regionally so you get the highest price available in each location. The US will pay billions more for the olympics than Malta but they both watch the same events.

That allows Netflix India to sell netflix for a dollar and charge 15 for Americans.
> Lots of cynical takes on HN whenever there's a post on Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin.

Probably the Musketeers are waiting for SpaceX to write a blogpost about how they use X language in their software stack to literally blast Dogecoin to the moon.

I don't care if it is Virgin Galactic, SpaceX or Blue Origin. I'll watch either of them going to space.

> Definitely beats reading a blog post on microservice best practices or JS frameworks or what have you.

Indeed. Add Rust to that list as well. A change for once.

Downvoters: So this is not true? [0]

[0] https://www.space.com/spacex-dogecoin-moon-mission
How do you factor climate change into this long term outlook?