skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went back and played a little while ago. Dungeon Finder was near instant, and would stick me in a dungeon I had zero context for. Magically transported there. Nobody was from my server. No conversation/chat. The encounters/dungeons themselves were utterly without context (I never had a clue where they were) and felt like clicking through to get loot with no sense of storyline.

For me, that's a huge negative. I remember that the dungeons on the shattered plains (i think) specifically revolved around the shattered hand orcs or whatever. They synced with the area and the quests I'd been doing locally. It felt like a cohesive world I was involved in.

I cannot argue that the new system isn't efficient. It got me playing and it got me loot. But I never learned anything about anyone. I never engaged with the story. I'm just old I guess xD
How does Europe have it worse when the debt to GDP ratio of the combined Eurozone federal governments for example is lower than the US fed? Further, most eurozone countries, like Italy don’t have sub national debt(its regions and cities can’t legally have debt), where as states like California are massively in debt, but that sub national debt in the US is never calculated in debt ratios. Further, the last time I checked, debt held by private households in the US is also much higher on average.
Article covers a great point, just does not provide a framework to make decisions regarding when to use spreadsheets.

I am a CFO that has used spreadsheets my entire career (30+years). They can definitely have a vital role in any company and can also cause incredible problems.

A few thoughts that were not mentioned in the article:

1) in many companies the users of spreadsheets are not allowed to use anything more powerful than spreadsheets (or maybe MS Access which causes more problems). To get a SQL/Python (or other programming language) solution requires submitting a request to IT and then waiting two years to work up the priority queue. This is not a complaint against IT and the priority process. The reality is most spreadsheets do not start out as important enough to warrant high priority.
2) Spreadsheets are great containers. Not only can they hold a model, but also the raw data, and even emails regarding the model/inputs/etc. This makes them very handy for keeping everything in one file regarding an analysis.
3) IME, most significant spreadsheets get rewritten as they evolve, especially when they change hands. This is both good and bad. While the rewrite allows correction of built up badness, it is rarely done with the discipline one sees with refactoring in more traditional code. Moreover, when a hand off happens, the rewrite is generally done because the recipient does not fully understand how the existing model works.
4) Large spreadsheets cannot be effectively audited outside of locking/password protecting non-input cells. Very rarely is this actually done. As a result, you get the scenario the author describes of hard-coded values in cells that once contained formulas. These are almost impossible to find in worksheets with large numbers of tabs and thousands of formulas.
5) Spreadsheets generally do not use true version control. For most of my career, one simply used "File Save As" to create a new version. In the early days it was due to a fear Windows would crash and you would lose your work. Later, it became a way to step through changes and determine the impact of the change. While this method provides some ability to go back to a prior state, people really do not track properly what each version contains and what are the true differences (would love to find a way to use Git effectively on spreadsheets).
6) Most spreadsheets do not have test cases. They certainly do not increase the test case universe as modifications are made. As a result, cannot tell if things break when changes are made.

Given all of these things, I recommend using spreadsheets for ad hoc analyses and to pilot analytics that will become part of a routine process. The latter point is the point the author is making (and the point of his title). I would add that the analysts need a plan and methodology to determine when they need to convert from the anything-goes freedom of spreadsheets to a more disciplined, maintainable, controlled program.
Because stock grants are sized based on price at the time of grant. With 1-year you get a max of 12months of upside on the valuation. With 4-year you get 48 months. When you hear about FAANG engineers making 7-figures this is why, their total comp offer may only have been $400k, but with stock appreciation and stacked refreshers there is huge upside.

Of course management at these companies claims they will give you "more" in the new hire grant and yearly refresher, which may be technically true in terms of the dollar value they are granting, but what they fail to mention is that if the stock doubles one year, the next year your refresher is half the size (because it's based on valuation at the time of grant).

It's especially disgusting for a VC to pitch this as the majority of young workers don't even know to think about this. Just another example of how being close to the money lets the investor class pull the wool over the eyes of the rest of us rubes.
Thanks for this, its good to hear the other side of the story and you wrote it well.
>I took it with the best of my knowledge and abilities.

You would be really surprised at how much of one's knowledge sits on assumptions and believes that are not well founded. It is like how grownups are sometimes stumped by the questions of a curious kid, which make it clear that somethings they thought they knew, wasn't so.

This was my experience, and like most people, I used to trust authorities and scientists, and "studies". This is the position where we all start, and diverge from it as we become more aware about the politics involved and how the incentives are aligned, how powerful media, how research is funded and can be flawed, how peer review "appear to work" when in-fact it does not in practice etc, all of which are further confirmed by historical observations.
From privacy switch to privacy knob
The same could apply to CPU usage, which is what this whole article is about.
> He's normally entitled to $0 from uber, which means he's getting paid $1000 for the NDA.

Entitled or not, that would still leave him getting barely even after the entire experience. That does not provide one with a happy person.

> No, because he's working as a independent contractor and therefore is expected to be on his when it comes to costs/losses

A contractor who can't run a good risk analysis on his job because the company that hired him has a habit of handing out NDAs to anyone who ever ran into trouble while working for them. Now I am not a lawyer, but could that be spun into dropping at least some of the blame at Uber?
You’re basically describing suburbs (not exurbs). Despite having everything you wish for suburbs are apparently the greatest threat to civilization since the trinity test.
It's standard practice in many large companies.
We've seen an immense growth of productivity since the 1970s in the US, with stagnant wages. Perhaps it's time some of that goes into the issues you mentioned instead of wealthy pockets?
You're right on the facts, but this problem is still pervasive. People are gonna people, everywhere they go.
If the aliens can travel across space and kidnap people, surely they can figure out how to disable a smartphone for a few seconds.
Yeah, i'm telling you based on what the statutes say (the FCBA covers credit cards, the EFTA covers debit)

A short version of it is here: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0213-lost-or-stolen-cr...
Japan is also in a very interesting situation where their public debt is 266% of GDP with no end in sight of the debt-financed spending. And yet, there is still no inflation. Can they spend forever? Can the central bank just write off the debt without anyone taking notice? It will likely be prophetic for the West either way.
They can reduce that risk by having very long tubes that can be re-positioned from the surface using ships to take water from different locations while the currents replenish the other locations. Or just have several tubes to draw from. Like rotating a pasture. No doubt they will need to actually monitor and plan for this or they will likely create a disaster.
Most likely.

If I go to the local produce market here in central NJ, when it's apple season they sell the local apples (in fact this particular market has it's own apple orchard).

If you hold a Red Delicious from Washington State and one from Jew Jersey, they are obviously different in shape. The Washington apple tends to be the boxy, tapered apple we're familiar with. The NJ Red Delicious is a globe, looking more like a Honeycrisp or Winesap in shape with the coloring of a Red Delicious. The NJ has a sweeter (although not significanty so) taste unlike the bland Washington (and others).
Sometimes they don't get a choice. Specially in a corporate environment.
Germany tax burden on consumption is over 18% against less then 7% in America: https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/chicago-fed-letter/2...

A first deficit meaning Germany spend ordinarily all that and then also more. This is showing Germany spend significantely more for economy size.

Evidence is in need for supporting an idea that only spending above and beyond usual have an effect on markets.
Analyzing the impact of Musk’s and Saylor’s tweets in relation to crypto prices
Project Loom: Modern Scalable Concurrency for the Java Platform
Sorry, I don't quite see how this would protect against supply chain attacks. If an upstream dependency is back-doored, they just have to silently add their code in an otherwise reasonable sounding release, and now you will happily download that version, add it to your internal mirrors, and pin its version forever. Unless you actually read the diff on every update, which I think is impractical (although you're welcome to correct me), I don't see how this is buying you much.
Actually I do.

I edited my comment though to reflect that, yes they are oppressive as they do shadowy things with the police and kill people. There is probably a mix of maybe-unregrettable (killing dangerous religious extremists political opponents) and regrettable (killing anti-islam feminists) events.

Nigeria is an extremely violent society. Think Mexico.

So police violence, if regrettable, is pretty much a corollary.

Sorry but it does not seem weird to you, that among all the dictatorships on Earth, only the scammers' paradise Nigeria has adopted cryptocurrencies at a large scale? Why not Cuba?

About feminist activism: okay but then what about in other muslim countries, where the problem is similar? Why is it in Nigeria that the adoption is so big?

My point is that these citizen organizations could have just used VPN+PayPal very easily for their activism, but it's because BTC was already mainstream among the omnipresent scam businesses, that they had the idea to try.
Maybe we need spreadsheets where each cell can embed python or something.
NY Gov. Cuomo Sexually Harassed Multiple Women, Retaliated Against Ex-Employee
Why would he do this?
Nice one !

Consider also reading about the Fermi Paradox : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

It really makes me dizzy every time I take some time to wonder about it...
Are they supposed to loudly set it? It's ridiculous what blatant propagandists these wire services are.

But good for them. Hopefully they'll continue. They should target companies like reuters next. Why is Apple and Microsoft given preferential treatment in china?

Buy american in america. Buy chinese in china. I think we can all live with that.
It's actually quite cold, if you're thinking of water blocks on the chips.
It does fit if you're thinking of air-to-water heat exchangers to cool the hot exhaust of a google rack before recirculating.

Something closer to 30C or even 40-45C (the latter if you're in a hot and humid location like Florida and want to get by without refrigeration technology and just increasing the flow rate/heat exchangers) is more realistic for datacenter-scale component-level water cooling.

Yeah, a high-power-density Nvidia chip may need colder water in the 20-30C range, but CPUs and such aren't efficient at the clocks that cause power densities where you need <<40C water.

My 5950X is running at ~30C (return from the radiator) water and 4.5 GHz (maybe even a bit more? I don't recall, the heat wave around here is over) on a torture test with Prime95 where it produces almost double the nominal TDP (thermally limited, due to a few hot-running cores and around 80-85C average core temperature on the others).
The base clock is at just 3.4 GHz.

I see phase-change cooling with nucleate boiling as well as very tightly integrated (liquid) water channels in the future, with the latter thinning out the die to weld or solder a better thermal conductor closer to the actual transistor junctions, with minimal distance to the coolant.
Yes, and: Still too early to be doing the post mortem. The Economists' blathering at this stage is very irresponsible.

I'm keenly interested in comparative analysis of "natural experiments". Like maybe Norway vs Sweden, South Korea vs Singapore. Twins where the only, at least major, difference was their policy.

But that kind of analysis takes time.

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I'm a germaphobe (transplant, immune compromised). I'm anxious every flu season. I was on alert about coronavirus in Dec 2019 and self-isolating, masking by Feb 2020. I share this TMI to explicitly state that I'm not the right person to weigh in on these public health policy questions. I will always be over cautious.

A few of my relatives obsess over every hiccup, misstep. Like inaccurate count of deaths attributed to COVID-19. Infuriating. They too are not objective commentators.

I keep telling them "It's too early. People will write books about this for years to come. Then we can figure out what happened." But they're more interested in the fight.
on the other hand, if you don't keep your packages up to date, you can get so behind that it is nearly impossible to upgrade.

especially bad if the older version you are on turns out to have vulns.

Josh Bloch says to update your packages frequently and I agree.
CEO is Kotick. Not Brack.
Yeah once one realizes that yields are directly influenced by supply and demand, then that is the right conclusion. Political irrationality and specific interests are what’s holding us down. It is said that one day, if the CCP has to choose between relaxing power or scarifying economic growth, they would sacrifice economic growth without blinking. The same can be said about the 1% in western countries.
No, but if the problem is "we don't have enough carers to care for our elderly people" then importing carers via immigration is a quick fix.
I'm a huge fan of being able to use my phone for everything whenever possible -- no wallet, no keys, no cards.

So this is awesome on the part of Apple, but what about Android? Are student ID's on Android already a thing? Are they being developed?

Or are there unique aspects of Apple controlling the hardware that inherently make cards like these more secure on Apple, that Android can't match (but maybe Pixel can)?
Occam's razor. If they are already opening the ballot box, why not simplify things and just tamper with the votes? Then they don't even need to care about which employees because the vote fails.
Adhocratie – self-hosted, open source alternative to Microsoft Teams
Predictions on what companies are about to do, after cancelling return to office
Hopefully an npm alternative will come out, because npm and the entire node_modules & package.json resolution strategy is a joke.
We are upfront about it in interviews. We definitely don’t want unhappy developers, but we also don’t want insecure code. We do upgrade libraries but we do so only after analysing risk and impact. None of our developers have spent months training to develop our code.
Works well with an iPhone 11 Pro. Can’t wait to try it with an Oculus Quest 2
I don't know many languages, do decorators show up in any others? I _love_ them in Python.
If I understand your suggestion correctly, that would consume an extra 6 characters in the title, which is 8% of the 80-char limit. That would make it much harder to give each startup a place in the title, and I don't like the idea of leaving any of them out.
This situation can lead to even more negative impacts on the employee down the line as a company can use your employment verification step to confidentially say anything they want about you.
Employers have entirely too much power over your reputation and career even when you are long gone.
Someone should go tell the German government this, over loadspeakers, outside their homes at all hours until they actually get on with it and do it.
Talk about unintended consequences of 9/11.
I still don't understand why Vine went away. It seemed to be doing so well.
Yeah. I notice this when I tried to read it the last time. I was expecting something more like Code Complete. I don't know, maybe it is the subject: code is way more interesting than estimation :)
> What in the US economy isn't inflated?

wages in many circumstance, though growth in low-skill labor wages from supply shortage we are seeing the same as other supply shock from corona.
The idea that alien lifeforms we could recognize are visiting us and traveling in space is utterly ludicrous. On the cosmic scale, we are the same thing and same size as an ant. No cosmically connected society would even think of talking to us.

That's because, I believe, cosmically connected societies are, essentially, floating planet sized brains. Their living beings are basically the cells of this organism, and networks of roads, data lines and such are the connective tissue linking the neurons that exist as beings of that planet.

At some point in our future, we'll all be a unified race of people working towards not only the betterment of the planet, but towards the ability for this giant floating spherical brain to reach out to other giant floating spherical brains using methods of communication that can only exist at the planetary scale.

By that time, humanity will be unrecognizable for us. People would be as different from normal folks now as those on the autistic spectrum are. We're evolving, the planet is evolving, and on the cosmic scale, it's the only logical explanation for why the universe seems empty: it's not that there aren't other civilizations, it's that they're essentially so different in scale from us when they reach the galactic phase of growth that we will not be able to tell the difference from a planet-sized brain and a regular planet.

Additionally, the size of the cosmos hammers home the idea that ant-sized being such as ourselves hoping to navigate the universe is simply silly and we shouldn't be much concerned beyond our solar system for a good million years or so.

We can pick this UFO thing back up when we're all one unified peoples across the globe with a single purpose. I will additionally bet that there's about a 99% chance that such a society would be ruled by computer overlords. I'd be OK with that, actually, as we've REALLY fucked things up using people as leaders, recently. I cannot imagine saying that 20 years ago, but here we are.

This will all probably start to happen in earnest (these changes to humanity, I mean) sometime after we install dictators to deal with the climate change problems which we allowed to get utterly out of control to a point where the only solution will be utter dictatorships and violence and instant death for anyone who damages the planet. It'll REALLY suck, but we will hopefully come out the other side with fewer opportunities for greedy people to direct entire civilizations to memorialize their greatness in blood.
I understand they're attempting to emulate rust-embedded. Perhaps launch this when you have a repo with code to share? People care about rust-embedded because of the quality of the projects under the umbrella. Would anyone care if rust-embedded had only a vague wiki page and nothing else to offer?
My point was that prison labor was uncontroversial and they weren't trying to screw with it whereas they were willing to go to war over slavery.
Total fertility for Japan as a whole is 1.4; in Tokyo it's 1.09. There is very limited immigration.

That's not stable.
I see lots of comments like this floating around the internet, and while there's nothing wrong with learning, it's a bit silly to ask a question like this.

You don't know anything about the bond market, so what is an article entirely about bonds going to do for you? A better starting point would be to find out what a bond is in the first place. I'm sure there's plenty of literature available.

It gives me the same vibe as asking 'How do I build X in C++? I don't know how to program' instead of 'How do I learn to program C++?'
What about leap milliseconds? There are plenty of applications that need millisecond accuracy.
That's been changing very rapidly in SK. Almost everyone in their 40s and 50s today have been putting money into public pension plans as well as a multitude of private options. When they retire, they won't be economically dependent on their children. Nor can they expect to, because their children's generation is by all means poorer than their own.

Whether those public funds and private options will be enough, of course, is a different question.
6s was the wrong choice for max length.
When contemplating shifting end users to something other than spreadsheets, one needs to keep in mind how many spreadsheet users there are and what there motivations to change.
It is well past time for a few brave Italian-Americans to go full Khashoggi on DeBlasio, Cuomo and their nazi sympathizers.
Exercism 3.0 looks cool – especially for new or aspiring programmers
thanks for shouting that out - will fix that and got your notes on our pause menu!

My Calendly subscription ran out :)
Here is our updated link: https://calendly.com/ben-792/userinterview
Korea is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Joseon but the thing is koreans carry the spirit of Hell Joseon wherever they go and work with other koreans.

We (my wife is a korean) live in Europe and the same things that stressed my wife (and our korean friends) exist whenever you have to work with other koreans and their companies.It's not as bad as in Korea but it's still something that I can easily notice.
You're looking at it the wrong way.

If population has gone up, so food needs have gone up, and total land under agriculture has gone down, and the planet has greened... that means that farming efficiency has increased by so more than enough to feed the planet's people that it's not profitable to keep so much land under agriculture, and most of the land that is no longer under agriculture didn't get paved over -- it's forest now.
> Thus, drivers are employees of a bigger company who manages every other part of the economic relationship.

That's totally incorrect. The vast majority of taxi drivers are also independent contractors. They lease the vehicle+medallion from a taxi corporation.

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/d... - an informative breakdown from 2007.
If it is possible to sell in-game items for out of game money (either using in game processes or an external system like a 3rd party site), then would this mean they are "value". If so, does that mean each player that sells items needs to report every transaction? Or that the game system needs to report every in game transaction (transfer of items from one character to another). And that reporting needs to include real life information about the players involved?
Probably because it is a bad sentence and English isn't my native tongue.

With "isle" I meant the general political opposition to Trump/Brexit, although this is a severe and in many cases wrong simplification of a political position.

Both have in common that they are supported by people that feel disenfranchised by political parties. I believe the commonalities end there. But for the sake of argument, you can see them as equivalent.