skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the spirit of the document, but disagree with the goal. I'm biased, I've kind of made my career writing web applications for people reliant on Excel. While I've come to respect it's power – I had a colleague in architecture school design buildings using excel and I've seen some ridiculous formulas based on crazy pivot tables and conditionals.

I've seen more spreadsheets than I would care to admit, and what drives me crazy about each and everyone is that it is not readily apparent where the work is being done. I think you could say the same about a "programming language" except that the programming language is usually not also the product. When the interface is the code and the output, the lack of consistent implementation is something I find frustrating.

It's a nice thought experiment, but in my mind I think the world would be a better place without excel.
Today a lot of companies are moving towards Open Source. Linux Foundation and the CNCF themselves having some of the biggest open source projects like the Linux Kernel, Kubernetes and as we consume these technologies, a lot of companies build open source tools and developers having experience in contributing to such open source tools and technologies provide a lot of value. The software development space is moving towards Open Source!
Why would my ad blocker (uBlock Origin) be blocking the domain of a "open-source column-oriented database management system"?

I guess this is used heavily in advertising?
These sorts of hidden gems are why I like to read HN. This makes a lot of sense to me:

"The difference between process and data is profound. Process is abstract where data is tangible. Data is direct, where process is indirect. The difference between data and process is the difference between numbers and equations, between facts and principles, between events and forces, between knowledge and ideas."
fun fact - there were no undergraduate courses in computer science at that time

Perhaps this was regional. I was enrolled in undergraduate Computer Science courses at this time, and it was at a pretty low-end state university.
Oof, I feel this. I've made so many dumb mistakes in management gigs, which is normal and just a part of learning any skill, but it's so much more painful when your dumb mistakes are with other people and their jobs. It's not like leaving out a comma where you just feel silly for a second, recompile, and immediately triumph and move on. No, now your mistakes hurt other people's feelings, create awkwardness, diminish morale... although the upside is that if you can deal with your mistakes skillfully, you (somewhat paradoxically) end up strengthening relationships and your team. But jeez, becoming a new manager is an act of serious courage and humility. (And if it doesn't feel that way at first, it will soon whether you like it or not!)
Great customer service is the best marketing :)

Oftentimes, I would prefer using a product from a responsible sole developer, rather than from a faceless big corp.
Most of the audience here blocks ads with either uBlock or something else and they all include that domain in the blacklist.
>What needs to change is the idea that they are not programmers, so they can join us in using modern software practices.

Most of them don't want to use modern software practices, the want their formulas and their macros no matter the security risks. They don't remove unnecessary code because they don't want to read and learn what others had done before in the spreadsheet.
Excel is easy and successful because you don't need to follow any software practice in the first place and that's also the reason why it's a pain in the ass for all that have to maintain them and keep them secure.
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For some reason TTL recommendations seem to cause heated debates. In my opinion, it really depends on what sort of website you are making. A Google type website will need different TTLs (among other things) than a personal blog. The point really is to think about it and make a conscious decision instead of just accepting the defaults that your DNS provider uses. I think 1 hour is just fine.
We need a different kind of system for medical care. It has to be more like the dentist if we ever want to reduce costs on this side of the triangle. The MD should only see patients when absolutely necessary, the rest of the time a RN or CNA is completely fine. By having lower levels provide most of the care, we can change the economics and actually provide more care to people who don't get it now.

A lot of this is of our own making. Trying to get into a dermatologist for a skin condition is really hard. They are all booked up on cosmetic customers that pay more and increase profits. We want urgent cares on every corner because it is more convenient to our schedule than scheduling with our primary. All this duplication of facilities and staffing have consequences. Care from lower level staff is coming more and more rapidly, it is the only way to somewhat limit costs against the bloat on the other side. For that, we really need reference based pricing but don't forget that one person's waste is another person's salary.
Hackers are testing techniques for using Windows Subsystem for Linux to hack PCs
When I ran my own business I had a product in the thousands of dollars price range. Phone support for this product would almost always be an interesting conversation where I learned a lot about customer needs.

I also had a $25 PDF tool with a trial version. For that product a lot of the callers had no clue what the product actually did or tried to get a $5 discount or some other nonsense. I quickly stopped taking calls for that product because it was so unpleasant.

My lesson was to offer phone support only for high price, low volume items. Phone support for cheap things attracts a lot of unpleasant people.
Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a try.
Someone just reported this to me and I've removed the entry from my blocklist.

This was a very old entry - it was added on Fri, 06 Jun 2003 19:53:00. Back then it was a marketing company that served ads.

I pride myself on knowing the entries in my list very well, but I have to admit I forgot about this one, which is ironic because I use Clickhouse at my job these days.
There are different types of efficiency. I think you might be referring to power per weight, while the parent comment is talking about emissions per (unit of) power.

To dig further, you can also differentiate between peak and sustained power; MTBF, maintenance (and dollars of maintenance) per hour of operation, volume, overall environmental effect (due to lifespan and manufacturing), etc etc.
Chelyabinsk's light was probably similarly visible on Jupiter. The size of the light probably indicates the area illuminated by the explosion rather than the size of the explosion itself.
Linkers are pretty good at throwing out dead code, so if you don't reference these functions there's a decent chance they won't be linked in when linking statically.
In the concrete case, Freenet runs quite well on a Pi3. Just do not activate the Sone- and WoT-plugin (they are quite resource-hungry).
These also exist in sfh developments where mailboxes are grouped together. Usually part of larger planned communities/developments.
A few years back, I was tasked with a similar thing. A government ministry was creating a complex calculator for a (very anticipated) public project that was supposed to go on their website. We started out using pure JS but the mathematician working on the project kept giving us new Excel documents with extremely heavy changes to the algorithms.

In the end I gave him a location where he could upload the document and told him to just make sure inputs and outputs were always in the same predefined cells. Then we used Java and Apache POI to load the Excel document and run the actual calculations on the website. Best decision ever.
> In the short run, a lot of leverage makes sense, it helps you get a leg up, but if there's a Black Swan, then you're out.

Its probable to me that no steady state exists - that in between each black swan event, given sufficient spacing, the companies that most highly leverage their financials/JIT pipeline will out compete the ones that behave more "rationally" in the interstitial period. The higher coefficient on the exponent just wins (growth maximizing into an empty market) even if it kills every company that does it.
Never mind. I checked ProtonVPN's support page and there is a web page provided that shows my public IP address when I'm connected through the VPN, which is different from my IP address when I'm not connected through the VPN.

Am I correct in assuming that this means that I'm not exposed by the vulnerability described in the article?
The killer feature for me is that it also replaces embeds :)
Did...did you read the article at all?

"U.S. Private Vaults was indicted in February on charges of conspiring with unnamed customers to sell drugs, launder money and structure cash transactions to dodge government detection. No people were charged."

Meaning that the private company offering these deposit boxes was the target; and then everyone who used them is collectively facing the government seizing it for an indictment completely unrelated to them.
I think that is part of a plan by LinkedIn to try to be more of a social platform
A lot of this eventually reflects American society itself. I am generalizing here but Americans in general are pretty insensitive to anyone who is claimed to be a criminal. I have seen people argue that rights of someone like George Floyd do not matter as in past he had committed some crime. There is a huge support for taking away rights of people who are convicted of crimes irrespective of those crimes. When we talk about the bad conditions in our jails, people are quick to say "who cares how those evil folks are treated"?

The law enforcement understands this and uses it to profit from this public support.
I had thought NeXTStep was always BSD based?

Still might have paid the unix license; this was pre AT&T vs USL, but, thought nextstep was basically CMU mach (which itself was BSD+Mach) + the NextStep frameworks/ui
While working as L2/L3 support for a enterprise product, i notice that people were not that mean/angry as they sound in the email (Maybe it was a wrong interpretation of mine) when you actually call them. Even though calling customer sounds like lot of time waste but many issues were resolved quickly over the phone rather than email/ticketing system. I really enjoyed talking with various customers and understand their use case and usually used to go beyond and above to help them.
Seizures shouldn't happen without conviction in the less than ideal world we actually do live in.
Yes, many do not realize that Putin is quite intelligent or the complexities of the Russian state that could cause some unfortunate power struggles without Putin.

However, you're completely glossing over why Western countries have such problems with Putin. Do you have evidence of the West "enforcing" their ideals with the Russian state? Because here are a list of practically doubtless examples of the Russian state actually being the one enforcing their ideals onto other states:

Poisonings / assassination attempts outside their borders

Election interference in the US and Europe

Donbass

Crimea

Georgia
The business in question is not a bank
lately there have been a couple drones flying around my neighborhood and hovering in front of, and behind, houses. they instinctually feel creepy and intrusive. it seems we need to extend the legal expectation of privacy a little further.
There is already a lot of public funding for basic biomedical research. Actual drug development is another thing entirely. If this were publicly funded then funding would be allocated based on political priorities rather than realistic scientific and economic assessments. That misallocation of resources would overwhelm any savings from reducing sales and marketing expenses.

But in general the traditional drug development approach of finding small molecule drugs to treat specific diseases is running out of steam. Most of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked.
Time to REST with Encore v0.17
It is if you are actually talking to the real server. But with plain HTTP it could also be a JS advertising laden hell hole, depending on your ISP and other middle boxes.
France is now close to its daily subpeak (https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/electricity-consumptio...) and exports (https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/FR) 11.5GW while importing 1GW, i.e. a surplus of >10GW, with over 50GW to spare in hydro and nuclear alone. The worst peak being at around 80GW during the winter, they should do good should they be independent at some point for whatever reason.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595996
>People are the same around the globe

This is a well meaning but totally naive misunderstanding of the degree to which culture influences individual and collective behavior. Brought to you by some 60 years of "one race human race" propaganda.
That’s what it means for a country to be richer: you can buy more things with your salary
Here's an unfortunate lesson learned from a company that was in the untenable position of providing phone/tech support for debt collection software: the only way to get the people calling in to be less hostile was to include a clause in the contract that stipulated their license could be revoked if they repeatedly abused the support engineers.
I wonder how this will play out with https://altinity.com who have been doing enterprise support for quite some time..
Yes. Taxpayers, voters, citizens. Theirs is the government money, and if the government does something bad, they need to compensate. Don’t like it? Put your rights in motion until these things don’t happen.
Yes. Because the objective is no more keeping your community safe but objective is to flood the jails and convince voters that "we are tough on crime".
Great! That makes much more sense.

Thank you for maintaining such lists. You and a few others like you save me much time and aggravation.
Servers no longer support the old TLS versions, though. Or if they do, they get minus points on checks like this.
Not sure if parent is being sarcastic or what, but their Politifact link says that _warrantless_ search and seizure is not allowed - which is correct - but the article here clearly states that warrants were obtained before the search/seizure was conducted (although the agents apparently exceeded the parameters of those warrants, which is a different issue).
I made one of these for when I was a repair technician at a computer shop. They used WinPE, which is the same sort-of-Windows environment that installers run.

UBCD4Win was the toolkit I used. It had all my virus scanners, data recovery apps, pretty much everything I could ever need on there. Like a Linux live CD but with Windows. Shit was brilliant!

Windows still does WinPE, but I think that is limited to OEMs and other fancy Microsoft-licensed corpos.
What is the difference of this and doing an object paramater, similar to JS?

createPizza({bacon: true, artichoke: true});

This has the same benefit you describe of being able to add parameters without altering any old call sites

createPizza({prosiuto: true, tomatoSauce: true});
"Unfairly demonized"

Multiple poisonings / assassination attempts, even in the UK

Election interference in the US and Europe

Donbass

Crimea

Georgia
You are attacking the problem on the wrong side. They should have never been able to profit from that.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.”

—Frank Wilhoit (the composer, not the political scientist)

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...
sure, but the occult appears to take e.g. the existence of certain spirits/deities as granted, despite having no experimental confirmation.

How would a ritual dependant on such lore be objective?
Clickable link

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You have to understand that the state of Linux in the early 90s wasn't what it is today. Partitioning/reading/fixing a FAT16/FAT32 disk from Linux was perilous, if even possible....
Thanks! This worked instantly just now as I purged cache and updated all lists in uBlock Origin.

I don't look forward to when Chrome enforces Manifest v3 when I'll probably have to wait for a whole extension to be updated instead of just a list file.
> Even at sea level the exhaled air is about 16% oxygen (down from 21%). Giving the body access to more oxygen per breath won't make the air supply last longer[*].

-Incidentally, in the survival suits we wear when helicommuting in the North Sea contain a rebreather device - which is simply a small bag in the suit's lining with a mouthpiece and a valve.

The idea is that when getting underwater is imminent, you take a few deep breaths. When you exhale into the bag, you can then draw the spent air back in for another gulp or two of air.

The idea being that in a couple of breaths you'll either be in the clear or dead - so a couple of extra breaths is all you realistically need. (Ever the cynic, I suspect part of the reasoning behind it is to keep you busy and un-panicked in your last few seconds alive, but anyway...)
Generally speaking the payouts I’ve seen amount to about 3-4 months of salary, so the timeline to break even is fairy obvious (less the cost of benefits, which shortens the timeline).

Ditto with layoffs. 2-3 months salary to get rid of employees you can’t afford at the moment is a short payoff compared to salaries, and worth it to salvage some reputation for future hiring.
Nuclear “Load following“ doesn’t reduce the number of workers needed, capital investment etc. It’s like turning off wind turbines you don’t really save money, it’s just useful to help balance the grid. In effect every time you do this with Nuclear, Wind, or Solar you end up increasing the cost per kWh produced.

In 1998 the Atomic Energy Act established the maximum insurance liability of nuclear insurer at about €2.5 billion; for damages above that cap the Federal Government is liable according to § 34 of the Atomic Energy Act. That’s a German nuclear subsidy, they have a few.
There are good reasons to be a renter, it’s hard enough getting an apartment in the time between accepting a job offer and your start date, I couldn’t imagine hunting for a house/condo in that time.
Court sanctions for speculative and insubstantial arguments would be a good start. Blame rests on the judge(s) who apparently is/are tolerating the FBI's evidence-lite dragnet.
Any chance you have more details on this? I set up wpa_supplicant on my router to do the 802.11x auth to the ONT and short of a single "your modem/router is not phoning home"-type email, it's been working great the past year. Hoping this does not break in the future.
It's gonna lead to bad times when men start seeing education as effeminate.
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"It's almost like there's something cultural happening in America that's making everyone assume the worst when interacting with people they don't know..."

The US is a low trust society. You can feel it in all aspects of life. Companies are very controlling and feel the need to constantly monitor their employees, people assume the worst from strangers and are afraid to go to places they don't know.

I myself am getting more and more worried when I talk to a doctor because I have seen it now several times how people got screwed over by doctors, hospitals and health insurance.
You may have missed the implicit "/s" from the parent's post.
As a manager you are never allowed to forget that:

- different cultures have different meanings for the same things, so you will be misinterpreted lots of times

- most people have no sense of humor, so joking with them is a waste of time

- anything you way will eventually be used against you

It is a very sad world.
Maybe because most tech companies (especially those in SF) provide little value for society? We need oil and food in order to survive. Do we need Facebook, Google, Netflix, etc to survive?
No, thanks, I'm good and done.
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I really appreciate you saying this, truly. Thank you.
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It gives latitude and longitude numbers, bit how do they work? Latitude makes sense but longitude on earth is in relation to an arbitrary line that goes through roughly where I'm sitting.

But I don't have a house on Jupiter, so what's it relative to?
A few important things to realize:

- There's a difference between consumer grid prices and the prices on the energy market. The former are stable and also include a lot of taxes. In most countries it is actually mostly taxes. The latter go up and down depending on who is able to supply. Consumer prices are of course affected but it's less dramatic when 25% of your rate becomes 40% more expensive.

- There are no blackouts worth mentioning. It's not so much that there is a shortage as that there is price pressure on the existing supply because of raised cost. Mostly this boils down to gas cost going up recently for various geopolitical reasons. So, this is not like the situation in Texas earlier this year. Not at all. Nobody is sitting in the dark or freezing.

- Europe has an interconnected grid; so prices are affected everywhere. Places with cheap over production are exporting to places with under production. Probably at a nice profit. Ironically, this raises prices locally as well. So e.g. Norway, which has an almost 100% renewable grid, sees a lot of lucrative demand for energy exports. So, prices go up locally as well. That's the energy market working.

- Europe has peaker plants that burn gas or coal that are switched on when demand is high. That raises cost for producers, which gets reflected in energy pricing. These are plants that are normally not in operation because they are too expensive to operate at this point.

- Gas is used for heating as well and winter is coming. Northern Europe is a bit cooler than usual so lots of places are probably already firing up their gas powered heating systems. That would increase demand and as mentioned, gas prices are high right now.

- Solar is a substantial portion of the market at this point and the amount of light in September is going down. Also August was relatively cloudy. Solar being less effective in the dark seasons is neither unexpected nor unusual. The more solar we have, the bigger the price differences will be. Because when it is there, it is cheap. It's part of the reason lots of legacy plants are now peaker plants. We still need them but not all the time.

So, the system is working. People suggesting that we need more coal, gas, or nuclear need to understand that those are the expensive options in the market right now. They are part of the problem, not the solution. They are the reason prices are high and unstable right now.

Renewable energy on the other hand does not see raised cost; only increased profits. The issue is we don't have enough of it just yet. So, that's a nice incentive right there to get more of it. Particularly offshore wind seems like a nice option lately. The more we can rely on that, the more stable the prices are going to be because we'll no longer need the expensive alternatives. More offshore wind will help. More people with batteries in their house will help. More grid storage will help. Smarter pricing and metering will help.
If you mock, are you even testing?
Very true, but the role exists by long standing convention, which in the UK is almost as good ;)

Whereas the role of deputy PM is much more nebulous.

I guess I really wanted to contrast this against the US VP, which while that also hasn't always existed, does mean something, e.g. the next in line of succession and senate tie breaker.