skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Avoid OFFSET and other volatile[0] functions in Excel. Use things like INDEX instead.

[0] Volatile functions are those whose value can be affected by a large number of other cells, and Excel doesn't know which cells until it evaluates the function. So whenever any cell's value changes, all volatile functions must be recomputed. This can cause a ripple effect, too, making your spreadsheet grind to a halt or take hours to become responsive.
Chinese leaders were the ones that let COVID leak out of the lab and censored the doctors that tried to warn the population.
I don't follow. Tapped out is free to play, and for years was one of the top money earners. I'm pretty sure the developers were eating quite well.
If someone releases their game for free, it is their prerogative. Either they want to give it away for free, it they've figured out another way to monetize it.
Does anyone have the original version in Latin?

I want to check if it's funny. (The only Latin that ever made me laugh - cry, in fact - was 'Romani eunt domus' in Monty Python's "Life of Brian"...)
Don't you get the majority of the benefit of specific test prep by running through a couple of sample tests from a guidebook, which you can get from a public library? (I'd say most of the benefit, in my case, but probably shouldn't generalize that far.)

I can imagine a longer test prep class that was really more like general math tutoring could make a bigger difference, a la Bloom's 2-sigma problem.
Quagga was my top scoring word in words with friends back in the day. Played it against a friend who couldn't believe I wasn't cheating. It's an extinct Half-Striped Zebra.

I was cheating.
Not working without JS, so I'm not even trying.
Why is this evidence?
> Given that, whatever RGB the devkit might've been spitting out isn't "definitive" in the sense of how the artist intended anyone to see it.

Sure, but that's not what I meant.

Back when images were being bit-banged into computers, you didn't really care what the results looked like on the screen of your workstation, if your workstation wasn't the target system. You designed on paper — usually grid paper — and then iterated from there by flashing an EEPROM and checking the results on the machine.

When I say "the design colors", I mean the marker-pen colors used to color the grid paper. You might also call these the "pre-color-grading" palette.

Certainly, the artist would get a different idea about what they wanted a thing to look like, once the image had been passed through the "color grading" of the NES palette; and so would then iterate toward a design that most-closely lined up the vision in their head with what the NES could actually produce.

But the artist's original intent wasn't to achieve that iteratatively-color-graded final result image; it was to achieve the original colors they had put down on the grid paper. That original intent was just stymied by the system; and so they had to settle for the colors the system could do.

(I realize that modern designers working with retro art styles often design from scratch under palette constraints; but video games were much newer then, and so most of the professional art-and-design people working in the industry had never done digital art before, and had been trained / previously worked only in traditional art. The closest their designers would have got to the kind of constraints imposed by the NES would be in designing neon signs.)
Somewhat to your point, European explorers had a thing for exploring the rivers wherever they went…
I switched to macOS last year. My software inventory is overwhelmingly free software, and I currently have Emacs, TeX, Audacity, Inkscape, the Gimp, and a dozen or so Scheme and Lisp systems all running just fine [1]. In fact, I have a pretty good reproduction of the Ubuntu system I was running before. I have no complaints.

As for tweaking, the two major tweaks I depend upon are remapping Caps Lock as Compose (Karabiner lets me do that, along with some stuff I found that lets me use an X11 style XCompose file), and turning off GateKeeper completely (that's one thing I would never tell a naïve user how to do, or even that it is possible).

No claims that macOS is great for everybody, but I'm an experienced Unix user (my first Unix system was V7 on a PDP-11/45), and it works great for me.

[1] The one hack I needed was that you need a workaround to install MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon.
Ask HN: Does anyone else lie on the internet?
Over the years I've found writing on HackerNews, Reddit and other online sites has given me an outlet to get creative and engage with folks in a way that will shift discourse towards something I'm more interested in.

I regularly lie and pretend I know about topics and areas I have zero experience in. I began noticing I received more upvotes and engagement when I pandered to views or opinions that are either the direct opposite of what the original content suggests (through cherry-picked exceptions), or I'll find a tangentially related view that's either current and popular, or supports a topic or viewpoint I'd like to know more about - often pandered with some popular topic.

Often this results in a thread about stuff that I actually want to read about, or someone actually knowledgeable on the subject will correct me - and call me out, but will receive far less approval (and often be flamed for criticizing me). On the plus side, I get to learn from someone really knowledgeable about how something works! (EDIT: Later I'll often go back and reply to the person saying they are correct, I was wrong - and thank them for their reply.)

Here's one of the worst examples (which I regret) because it perpetuates a view about a place I've never been, I've never stepped foot in the continent of Africa - it's one of the few times I wish I could go back and "correct the record": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9309170

I know nothing about IP law - >200+ upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27035901

I know nothing about, and have never been through Australia's ACCC courts - almost 200 upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26787289

I've never hosted any copyrighted media, ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=16955522

I know nothing about tax havens, I've never even submitted my own taxes: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=16809428

Does anyone else do this?
It improved, the model improved. Because sometimes, when you do work on the model, it improves.
Now that rust-analyzer has "expand macro recursively", you actually can see what a macro expands into fairly easily, so I don't think the unreadability of macros is much of a concern anymore these days. A bigger problem is the error messages you get when you write invalid code inside one.
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-155

You absolutely can get charged for trading in a similar company.
Sending a message in a public channel is psychologically akin to walking into a room full of people and just loudly proclaiming/demanding help. I don't think people are simply 'scared' to do it -- they just (rightly) intuit that it's somewhat strange and counterintuitive that it would be the preferred method over talking to an individual and building a rapport / friendship.
Congrats on the launch! Aside from you.com and kagi, you're one of the most promising new search engines (even if still pretty early-stage).

Many people are adding "Reddit" to their search queries to surface authentic discussions. Any plans for integrating results from forums like Reddit?
Exactly.

Though to be fair I see 3 escalating levels of reaction when you come across content you don't like:

- Level 1: Navigate/ignore away from the content.

- Level 2: Block the person/content on the platform so you never come across it again.

- Level 3: Have the person/content banned from the platform so no one ever comes across it again.

At least up to level 2 (which this is) you can't stop someone else from consuming that content.
I thoroughly enjoyed this post! I also didn't perceive the title as any kind of attempt at "clickbait." Thanks for sharing. I would like interested in seeing more installments of developing this Elasticsearch style API too :)
Another tech illiterate chinstroker stoking conspiracy, he'll get a pulitzer soon enough.
I'm pretty sure the article is actually protesting GPT-3's lack of gender bias in the fashionable direction.

Of course, biased is newspeak for unbiased.
Sure -- or people don't want to clog up channels with what they perceive to be minutiae or very context-specific questions requiring some back-and-forth.
How about Netscape Navigator running inside Windows 3.11 running inside Firefox? This was 2017: https://twitter.com/mozhacks/status/936752824150577153
Residential water use is about 10-15% of total water use in the state. Agriculture and industry uses about 85%. The two biggest line-items are cows (and alfalfa) and almonds. 50% of the water in the Colorado River Basin is ised for cows in some way (drinking, raising alfalfa). If we could just buy out the almond industry that would be a big chunk right there. If we as a society could eat less beef and drink less milk we'd have a lot more water to use.
What about other countries? America might be leading the way, but a lot of European countries brag about "only" having a 1 in 4 obesity rate, which is still incredible.
> "Jewish heritage" is unclear to me

All of his grandparents were Jewish. I don't know if my father called himself Jewish at this point in his life, but he never had a bar mitzvah, never went to temple, and neither he nor his parents believe in god. But Steve would have considered him Jewish.

> If your father was Jewish and had turned on the TV Steve would not be permitted to watch it.

Well, I guess Steve didn't know that? Steve told my father years later he was trying to get him to turn on the TV.

Keep in mind that of course I was told this story second-hand.
Not op, I agree that open coils are trash, IR are usable, induction is nice, but I can't say it is better than gas. A gas stove designed for wok use is amazing. I bought a house with electric and had the gas line extended into the kitchen for a new stove.

The stove I bought has great dynamic range, which is helped by a safety feature that monitors conductivity through the plasma between the igniter and the frame, and re-lights the gas if it blows out.
I share the same feelings. The thing is that these foreign companies won't ask the US for permission. And if it's profitable, they will (eventually) do it.

Yes, such ships will likely have to stay away from the US territorial waters, but there's plenty of routes where this won't be a problem.

As for tight margins: fuel costs represent 50%-60% of overall costs ([1]) and if these expenses are replaced with CapEx (hopefully, benefiting from economy of scale), then the tight operational margins suddenly become amazing, and there's a room for quality.

1. https://www.morethanshipping.com/fuel-costs-ocean-shipping/
The Network Effect, except, in reverse. Pretty soon, six degrees of kevin bacon means you'll see nothing.
'Infinitely large' isn't a prerequisite to the paradox. Rather, it's an infinite number of stars.

Or, more precisely, an infinite number of stars spread out rather uniformly.
What heat pump did you get? I think it's so great they have ones that can work in such cold weather!
This made me curious and I wondered how it might work...

The simplest approach would be to start from user id 1 and increment up blocking each one but then you'd block millions of inactive, dead, or suspended accounts which would probably get you suspended.

A better approach may be to choose a "recent" tweet id, block the author, count up from there, checking if each author is blocked and blocking if they're not. The best part is that you don't even need to know the author when you make a request. For example, tweet id 1508540042817376256 is Elon's and it resolves to him whether you use https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1508540042817376256 or https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1508540042817376256

This is no longer blocking "every single Twitter account" but blocking "every single active Twitter account" but may still be able to trigger whatever limits.
I mean, why not try to go the pure consumer route and raise some VC money? Get the doctors on board, add them to your pitch deck, put the site up, drive some paid traffic towards it, and raise a seed?
None of this is surprising. The PPP was horribly, horribly mismanaged. There were heaps of small businesses that couldn't get funded because their owners didn't know how to fill out the forms or they didn't fill them out in time with the right bank, despite money seemingly shooting out of a cannon.
I've seen vaporware like this since I was a kid in the 90s. Talk is cheap, slick renderings are cheap. Is there _any_ mostly-wind-powered vessel in active, revenue-generating, trans-oceanic cargo service? Container or otherwise? Maybe something like the Maltese Falcon / Black Pearl?

Yes, there are also cargo ship kites, but those only work as a small adjunct to a big diesel engine.
I had a similar reaction. When you combine this concept with some of the fringe open science silliness, you are essentially telling scholars (what and how) they must share, AND (what and how) they are prohibited from sharing, leaving what is essentially a forced path:

"PDFs are prohibited, especially shared in private. All data, hypotheses, references, tables, code, must be presented in formats that are conducive to steali ^H^H^H^H replication and fostering a global science ethos of sharing."

"Authors who obey will have a beautiful platinum star printed next to their author nameplate. Extra star opportunities will exist for authors who announce their papers on Twitter with required levels of irony, hipness and verve!"
Most "artsy" games are less than three hours.
Even just reading the profiles of the characters in this game leaves me with a disgusted pit at the bottom of my stomach.
Despite being used in Europe since the '50s, Metformin wasn't introduced in the US until 1995.
CodeWarrior was such a cool name. I wish Apple kept it over Xcode :)
This is the social graph vs interest graph problem. With an interest graph you should only see content on topics you’re interested in. With Twitter’s social graph however, which is only a poor approximation of an interest graph, once you follow someone you also get all of their political hot takes, sports and other shit you don’t care about.
It is entirely possible to provide analysis without crossing the line into giving advice: Eg. "Drug A works for more patients in your demographic¹, Drug B has fewer and milder side effects²."
I agree that the old way of doing things won't work.

How about hundreds of cargo drones capable of lifting containers to transfer them from one ship to another? Something like this: https://www.cognitiveseeds.com/395-2/

Don't forget - a nuclear-powered ship that's not moving has a lot of free electricity: enough to charge all the drones (likely, bearing supercapacitors, as their flight from one ship to another will be very short)
You can value a broad perspective of the world, and follow high-quality feeds of many perspectives.

But when you find a low-quality feed, blocking the author and their entire ecosystem of promoters and sycophants is an effective method to increase your signal-to-noise ratio.
Is it the literal act of reading or being exposed to language?
What if kids watch shows on TV and it exposes them as much to stories, communications, language?
He's suggesting that Augustus is his father? Or have the same father.

And his non-biological father is the one that regularly went out to the city ( not to cheat)

Correct?

So more like a brainteaser than a joke, i guess.
This is going to be a continuing issue for companies unless they agree on some proper tech branding. (I don't get why they haven't yet) There's a ridiculous difference in various types of electric stoves and people with good/bad experience with them rarely say which one it is beyond "electric". But with the available options it feels like "I had a yellow car, and really liked / didn't like it".

Modern induction stoves really are a massive leap from things you could get a decade ago. You can even get ones that work with woks. A trip through a few newer airbnbs on an island with very few gas lines was a serious revelation for me. From the article:

> except with electric heating coils instead of burners. Better for indoor air quality, doesn’t do that click-click-click thing, but less responsive

Which basically ignores modern induction stoves which also don't heat up and are more responsive for thick-bottom pans! Which is the essence of the article - going further than "we'll make the job hot but with electricity".
Have you ever thought that you might be making the internet a worse place and negatively impacting the people interact with? Do you care?
That must be the Spin̈al Tap version.

For others, nine was enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_familial_exterminations
When helping your kid with math, train them to work 1 concept ahead
You are everything wrong with today’s internet.
Which is why you have a block-chain browser extension do it recursively.
The people who named it no doubt put much more thought into the name than we are, and I am confident they knew the implications of the word 'uber'; also, emember that it was founded by Travis Kalanick whose public actions seem to fit some of those implications.

Also compare the word 'uber', however you interpret it, with words like 'google', 'yahoo', 'GNU', 'quark', 'charmed', 'C', 'C++', etc. Those have wit, humor, and disarm ego. (In fairess, maybe there are similarly witty names now that I'm not thinking of?)
That's an interesting comment. I loved Starcraft as a kid. Played many hours every day. I'm now 33 and never got into Starcraft 2. Nowadays the idea is utterly unappealing. I just play the occasional Call of Duty Warzone (similar to Fortnite) and it's fun.
It isn't a choice.

It's quite practical to do both.
Add someone “in the know”, GPT-3 is more than a dictionary. I understand how language models mechanically work and have built and trained them, but the zero-shot capabilities of these large models were really unexpected.

Interact with one. There it’s clearly an understanding of language there, and of much more. Compared to everything else we have made, large language models are clearly a step closer to general AI.
I think the concern was that some organizations were considering big low-altitude constellations. Once you go below 400km or so the drag increases quite a bit so the idea would be to use near-constant thrust similar to GOCE or SLATS.

And there was at least one vendor (Apollo Fusion) proposing a mercury thruster, although I think they have backed off on that. It would have had about 3x the impulse per volume and 2x the impulse per mass of xenon.

I think banning it now is wise, if any small operators had started using it it would have been hard to block it for a megaconstellation and it was very clear that anything release in VLEO would be coming back into the atmosphere. Right now there are no users so you aren't really penalizing anyone.
Ah yes, to create the mother of all bubbles.

I get blocking authors, but likes seems overkill
https://github.com/sveltejs/sites/issues/319

https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git.github.io/i...

Please, tell me what else I am "virtue signalling on HN" about.
The article doesn't mention it, but another example of the "electric makes things better" mentality is trains. Trains are in some respects easier to electrify than even trucks, let alone ships, by virtue of them being on fixed tracks (no need for batteries on electrified tracks except as a backup in case of power outages) and by virtue of train cars being readily swappable (so even on not-yet-electrified networks, trains could swap their depleted battery cars for fresh ones at the station). Plus, freight trains support intermodal containers just like container ships do, so they can share the same sorts of battery-in-a-container idea.
Definitely not, especially since many of the people who received ill-gotten PPP funds haven't been caught and a lot of people were unknowingly taken for a ride during the GFC.

The ones that got caught were supremely dumb with the money. One dude in Dallas got busted because he used his PPP loans to buy two houses in cash. Another got busted after buying a Model X _and posting it on social media_. If you're going to rob a bank, don't go on Instagram and put out a Story about how you just bought $FANCY_THING that you obvs couldn't afford just a few days prior
I am not yet feeling like I'm ready to change my search engine habits right now, but after trying Andi, here is some feedback

- I was puzzled by the chat interface, but found out that I could click on the previous answers and get the results visible again. This is pretty handy to go back and forth on results trying a few different queries. Would be even better if the scrollview was repositionned where it was.

- The displayed snippet is definitely something you will need to work a lot on, because right now it is not easy to read and I think this is the major problem to solve for any search engine (ie. readability of the results).

Put the AI stuff aside for now and work on the UX.
Dawn is an interplanetary probe, though, and requires orders of magnitude more fuel than satellite constellations. For a more realistic figure, the Starlink satellites are fueled with about 5 kg of krypton.
My only quibble is that electric lawn mowers today are rather better than "same, but electric". Battery electric mowers can run forever with a single spare battery because the batteries charge faster than they're drained. And my Ego push mower will also fold up to store vertically, which is great with limited garage space. Plus it starts every time at the push of a button, no trips to the gas station, maintenance, tough starts, etc.
> And if I called all my tiny projects or websites I built startups, I'd be the startup king of America.

Serial entrepreneurs are so yesterday. You're a parallel entrepreneur!
There is no dedicated bookmark button. The Bookmark functionality is hidden under the share button.

The Like-button maybe is one of the most misused features of twitter. People don't always use software the way some developers think it should be.
You can run win2000 with jslinux and it got old Firefox inside. You can actually browse some modern websites.
Rabbit-Hole-Athon
Fine I’ll link the damn Wikipedia page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic

Things can be in conflict without being in combat. Acknowledging that one thing conflicts with another doesn’t mean one must extinguish the other. My whole point was to identify how the two could be reconciled for the purpose of the endeavor, even while still being in conflict. Please tell me where you still don’t understand why I’m not arguing with a strawman argument you keep trying to assign to me.
There was an interesting point in a different post [1] in this topic.

Essentially Twitter not only has a largely biased sample in terms of who uses it, but there's also an extreme bias in terms of who actually posts on it. About 22% of Americans (2019) use Twitter and, of that 22%, 10% are generating 80% of the posts. So Twitter is primarily driven by a bubble of 2.2% of Americans who skew younger and more liberal than the average. I would hypothesize (though it was not stated by the sources given) that the 2.2% who are posting like crazy also likely skew more radical than average as well.

It's quite dangerous because sites like Twitter can give people the imaginary perspective that they're interacting with hundreds of millions of people, when in reality they're generally communicating with an extremely unrepresentative and small sample of the world, or even of the "Western world". And now factor in the growth of tools, such as this, that add wide-range and spider-style ban/censor/muting of anybody who expresses a view you really dislike.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838517
> I fundamentally disagree with this premise.

What did you think the premise was?