skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spreadsheets are the best way to represent data, but there is a very long-tail of tasks one might to perform with their data. Requiring all of them to be built into a visual UI pretty much insists you end up with Excel - what feels like 1 billion features, where each user knows <1% of them (and costs millions of programmer-hours to build).

I don't think users can/should leave spreadsheets for the tasks spreadsheets make sense for (basic data munching, pivoting, many formulas, etc). But being able to easily transition your spreadsheet to other tools in a easy/native way is a huge win - and why at least half of our users are actually just Python programmers who use Mito because it makes that transition back and forth to spreadsheet/code so easy!

I don't think anyone should abandon tools if they are working for them :-)
So what you're saying is that the current state of the academic world isn't working as it's theoretically designed to? Frankly, I'm not sure how that's supposed to boost my faith.
It’s the lack of notifications and an inbox showing new replies to your comments. I miss 90% of the replies to my comments until it’s way too late to reply in turn.
Yeah, the quality of the plastic was dreadful. I got the black one and my wife got the white one. Out of the box, I still think mine was the most beautiful machine I've ever owned. But my wife's went brown, and both cracked round the edges.
Indeed the Geekbench was much closer. And I agree, the M1 does it with much better efficiency.

I wonder that gives Cinebench an advantage of almost 24% to Intel.
You should probably change the title of the blog as most gainfully employed people interpret 'best performers' as people that are very good at performing their job and/or trained for a specific Circus Act.

Something like "We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see which companies employ the people that we feel best performed in our mock interviews" would be more authentic
I thought Baba Is You and Stephen's Sausage Roll broke my brain. I'm ready to suck at this.
I am curious how the edge functions can replace Firebase?
> Wirth a go

They should rename Oberon to Wirth.
Thanks, that makes more sense!

My components are all small structs (coordinates, states, health values, etc) so I am happy to copy them around

Component[T] is something like

{
Metadata_fields...
Data T
}
So some newborns will freeze to death, but hey at least the markets are efficient!
After 15 years, my black MacBook is in a closet. I will admit that it's still looking good compared to my spouse's 2007 white MacBook (that we still have). Running Linux on those was painful due to trackpad driver issues :(. Otherwise they would still be doing something in my household.
What is this, a display for ants
hey everyone, supabase ceo here. The team is extremely excited about this release.

This one has been a long-time coming. It's one of our most requested features. We spent a long time getting the Developer Experience right - we investigated several approaches (Containers, Isolates, WASM), and eventually landed with Deno.

Big shout-out to the Deno team. Their open source and DX-focused philosophy made it an obvious choice in the end. We've wrapped their open-source runtime to make the Supabase experience as integrated as possible, from the local CLI development, to realtime logs on the Dashboard. Edge Functions are still Experimental, so make sure you send your feedback to make the experience even better.

We'll have a few of the team in the discussion ready to answer any questions.
Update: 5 hours later, no sign of the article being delivered. It think it's safe to assume the Amazon solution doesn't work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
About which principal axis?
HTTPS://ObservableHQ.com is rows of cells where cells can be code or DOM, input widgets. Cells update themselves automatically like spreadsheets. It's is fairly insane what can done and the information content possible with these interactive notebooks that run normal JavaScript (in a non-linear fashion)

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/notebooks2021
Olin College Research Study: Data Science for Engineers
I dont think it's fair to characterize an "LGBTQ Agenda" as if there is cabal trying to bend the country to their will. I think somehow it's become mainstream to be terrified of offending anyone, while simultaneously not really understanding what we stand for. And a very small minority of trolls exploit that to see how far they can push us on ridiculous directions. You look at how much harm this does to the public perception of people who may fall under someone's umbrella LGBetc acronym, and how everyone gets riled up while also looking ridiculous. Who does it actually serve.

So don't think there is a coherent agenda, just look at it as trolling and try not to hold it against normal people who just want to live their lives.
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the only time an Apple product cost more than the same configuration in another color.

The space grey versions of the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse were more expensive.
Uh, oh. The work project I'm working on uses an OLED display that uses an I2C interface. And I happen to have a spare one sitting on my desk. And I'm no electrical engineer, so let's see how fast I smoke this thing. :-)

Should I succeed, TFA author will not have the worst HDMI display ever, as the one we're using is a two-line display looking something like this (it can do rudimentary graphics, though; we display a company logo at boot):

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Vishay-Dale/O020O002ALP...
I wonder where is the x86_64/elf bootstrap rust optimizing compiler written in rust (user space "profile" for now).
I guess that's fine so long as you're covered by the standard library and/or are willing to reimplement a lot of stuff yourself, but that's a significant trade-off you're asking.
I'm assuming this post is sarcasm
Can You Get Starlink?
In the Shadow of the Star Wars Kid
Also - to preempt any statements about USDT having a higher backing rate than most banks... US banks have something USDT doesn't - FDIC account insurance. When it comes to banks the buck doesn't stop with the bank - it stops with the US government.
OTOH, I had the original white MacBook and ended up getting the topcase changed for free like 3 or 4 times though the first few years I had that machine (while the AppleCare was in effect). It was annoying that it was necessary, but pretty spiffy to periodically get a brand new keyboard and trackpad.
Surname is correlated with descent (which is distinct from race, as people understand that word), while in all likelihood the races that were written down for the patients corresponded to the color of their skin, as well as possibly other features. That would suggest three things:

First, as you found, there was no correlation between deaths and descent. Presumably there weren't statistically anomalously fewer Gomezes than Smiths.

This doesn't eliminate the fact that people wrote down fewer dead as Hispanic than as white. So:

Second, there actually were fewer dead Hispanics than dead whites, understanding "Hispanic" as "a person who looks Hispanic" and "white" as "a person who looks white".

Third, or alternatively there is no statistical difference between dead Hispanics and dead whites, but somehow fewer dead Hispanics ended up at the morgues to be written down as dead.
In the US, I believe these labs are prohibited by law from telling you how pure the compound is. They can only tell you what it is, not its purity.

This is allegedly because the government doesn't want to help illegal drug manufacturers to refine their products. Which, if true, is horrible because it doesn't lead to improved safety but to more dangerous illegal drugs.
Even though current VR/AR interfaces are completely useless for Excel or other data-management tasks (no keyboard support, unreliable controls, lack of development interest), I think in the future there are more embodied / spatial treatments of data access that could feel like an improvement on '2D' Excel.

As the author mentions, the original moniker for Excel was VisiCalc - a visual calculator. There's no inherent reason why 3D spatial representation would be a worse medium for a calculator.
I meant "isn't this a problem that requires software development?"

There are always complaints that Excel is a terrible solution to some very specific set of repeated tasks. Every few months, there's a posting about how all we need is a "Better Excel" that would perfectly solve everyone's totally unique 12-step problem.

Such a tool is never going to exist. Thankfully we can build tools specifically for those problems when generic tools aren't good enough. Not every problem is worth a programming solution; there's only so much time and money and paying a bunch of people to cut and paste might just be the better option.
I don't get people like you - you are seriously contemplating what Putin's PR team announce on given day as some seriously meant opinion that's worth anything. When its exactly opposite, just empty words, full of lies, deceit and lack of anything meaningful. Spending any amount of energy on them is waste of time, next day will next round of demands.

You do realize that even if his demands would be met for some reason, there would be another and another round of demands till you have nothing and he has everything. Just random things I recall were mentioned by him/PR in last month - complete demilitarization of Ukraine (so you can defeat whole country with 2 tanks), demilitarization of whole Europe (hinting at his long-term ambitions).

Everybody in politics recognizes this and realizes that peace talks are sham, yet another set of lies. War will end exactly and only when he decides it, not a second earlier regardless of whats happening in Ukraine and rest of the world.
Biden Poised to Use Cold-War Powers to Boost Battery Metals
Since this comes up a lot:

Carbon neutral is the carbon coming from sources already in the biosphere. Energy density problems for portable energy storage being what they are, even if we completely stop fossil fuel extraction (far and away the primary source of increasing atmospheric and biosphere carbon) there will still likely be significant combustion engine and thermal combustion usage. The hopeful goal being that their fuel will be created from non-carbon power (solar, nuclear, etc) processes that take existing biosphere sources and produce ethanol, methane, bio-diesel or in this case a heavier kerosene relative.

Such processes run off excess nuclear or off-peak wind/solar generation could even potentially be used to re-inject biosphere carbon back into the ground in relatively stable forms.
I suppose Douglas Hofstadter is en route to punch you right now
They offer an awesome development experience and have other complimentary products that all work well together. Especially if your service is multi platform (web, ios, android).
I think it's an issue of monetization. The things that underpin Docker are all open source kernel features of Linux that were being worked on separately anyways.

Docker's value here is in wrapping that up into a nice useable package and offering a centralized repository. How much value does that actually add and more importantly, how do they monetize that?

A lot of this kind of tech work winds up this way.
If scraping Instagram was allowed or easy, there are a tonne of use cases. One example: detection of products and sentiment for marketing (e.g. a post: I love my new Apple Watch!)
SSD1306 can definitely do better than 6-10fps, which is close to the "software mode" driven by GPIOs, not an actual I2C interface.

Either the DDC is running at very low speed, or... the I2C in HDMI in this laptop is actually a software thing?
Roaches to the rescue: robotized insects may search rubble for survivors
Ah, you're right. The graphs don't actually show the data they describe their methodology as collecting. That fills me with confidence.
Instagram is one service that is very particular about enforcing their API usage. Anyone attempting to monetize Instagram data obtained outside of the developer program will get a C&D very quickly.

The most kosher way to get Instagram data is to get it through CrowdTangle which is owned by Meta but has its own caveats.
Almost my entire career has been spent in companies competing against excel, made a good buck too. Not sure how I feel about that.
No idea. Perhaps grabbing at straws.
We can have EVs without AI, and we do.
> The fallacy to these findings and conclusions is that you're measuring processes of your own brand and flavor

> Look at the failings of the IQ test for example.

You are mis-interpreting the point of all of this. This website does practice interviews. It doesn't measure how good of an engineer someone is, or how smart they are, and they don't claim to do so.

Instead, it measures how good they are at tech interviews. And for that purpose, the study works well enough.
Not sure how you can use an asset whose price is fluctuating so wildly (and is correlated/anti-correlated to indicators and trends having little to do with your local government) as an effective hedge against incompetent/corrupt government.

I can certainly see its value for overcoming transaction barriers, whether they exist due to incompetence/corruption/backwardness of the financial system involved, or due to rule of law and anti-fraud legislation.

When it comes to storing wealth, it seems to me that it's either speculative or illicit, and not much else. Illicit users find it attractive because its anonymity and "transaction smoothness" benefits outweigh the potential losses, much like losing 30% when laundering money is just cost of doing business.
I love this. What is it about pointless technical projects that are sometimes so alluring? I wonder if it's the removal of secondhand stress since there is no 'meaningful' success criteria.
New York isn't getting rid of their policy because it is medically defensible:

- COVID-19 is known to harm people with certain chronic illnesses (e.g. diabetes) far worse than the general population

- There are subsets of the population which are far more likely to not treat or even detect these illnesses

- For various socioeconomic reasons that subset happens to correlate very well with race

- Ergo, we can assume race as a risk factor for those diseases, and thus a risk factor for COVID-19

Almost all of the opposition I've seen to this policy has been on political grounds, not scientific ones. i.e. people who aren't aware of the racial disparity in COVID-19[0] arguing that this policy constitutes "reverse racism"[1], rather than arguing that the scientific basis for the policy is wrong. My assumption is that most of the outrage is from people who aren't paying attention and want to air grievances about whatever left-wing cultural thing they don't understand.

Knowing most of the facts (or at least, what I can reasonably presume to be facts), I can say that this policy is "tolerable" iff it actually works to effectively ration care based on need. This is the sort of thing that needs careful, periodic review and revision, not knee-jerk reactions that just make everyone involved circle their political wagons.

[0] Or have selectively forgotten about it, through the same mechanism as the purported Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

[1] More generally: most complaints of "reverse racism" do not attempt to actually argue against a particular policy choice (e.g. affirmative action, progressive stack, antiracism etc), but make moral arguments about how racially-aware policies are facially immoral in any set of circumstances.
It's not the results I find repugnant, it's the assumption that the results have any real world validity. The _something_ they're measuring is as likely to be demographic biases as it is technical or communication skills.
For people who need to hear these kinds of words, these messages, I'm sure this content is valuable, but for folks who don't need to hear, "Confidence is earned" it tends to come across as trite and uninspiring.

I have no idea where HN lands on that spectrum, but for me it evokes substantial eye rolling. "Yes, yes -- take risks, start small, do experiments, be the eternal student. Got it."

Not that I'm acing any of those tests, but I'm probably at a point where hearing it a thousandth time isn't realistically likely to change my perspective on those topics. Not everyone is where I'm at! But if you are, I don't imagine these kinds of words/messages are going to excite you.
> Have you not ever been stuck behind someone struggling to count out exact change?

For a few seconds? I just don't see it. The whole notion is bizarre, a non-problem. Why is it so important to people to exaggerate it?
High fees In 2017 during an explicit attack on the network with spam, such that the spammer doesn’t have much BTC anymore. I haven’t paid over 1sat/vB for years. It’s the cheapest it can be onchain. Negligible. Ethereum on the other hand is broken with it’s gas calculation model with the unit of account being worth so much. Don’t touch ethereum these days, it’s bad.
The comment you were responding to was summarizing/editorializing its parent, not presenting new information.
Physiological signals could be the key to 'emotionally intelligent' AI
Supabase offers a lot more than edge functions (db, auth, etc). Take a look at their website
The politicians look correct or virtue signal some low effort things and people vote for them by default.
You need to go in the Search Indexing setting to remove the directory for indexing. And only tick the directory that you want to index.

Also to completely disable it, you needs to disable the service and remove the entry from schedule tasks. It keep coming back because of the service and scheduled tasks are not disabled. This is how Google Chrome keep starting up their updater and bypassing my disabled startup entries for Chrome. Because of scheduled tasks is not removed, Chrome uses that to reactivate their updater and recreate a startup entry. Managed to completely neutered Chrome updater through Sysinternals AutoRuns.
I tried chromebook for quite a while and I could just never quite get it to match my workflow.

One thing that always messed with me was how much work it was to set up. If you step off the yellow brick road, the work arounds get to be really funky and hard to automate. So I had android apps that I'd download and then log into. For a lot of years my password safe didn't work well with it. Signal was an issue for a long time until they got the linux containers or whatever working, though for that you'd have to reset to dev mode and get a bunch of stuff installed.

I really like the idea. I run a linux machine, (usually whatever flavor $work is willing to provide), and at the end of the day, I run a bunch of terminals with tmux, a web browser, and signal. So in theory that seems like it should work. And, it seems like that was getting better last I tried. But you really have to be bought in on the google way to make it go.

I haven't messed with it for a couple years so maybe I should fire up my pixel book and give it another shot.
A parent started a used bookstore when I was kid in the 70s. I have no idea where the initial bunch of books came from, but we'd buy books and magazines, too.

I spent the summer with a ton of MAD, Cracked, Cartoons, and when nobody was looking Playboy magazines, a lot from the 50s and 60s. A lot of WWII stuff was around as well, Sad Sack stuff.
Yea, and most forums would eventually attract a bunch of die-hard but absolutely insufferable users with all the time in the world. Occasionally these folks would be in cahoots with the admin staff and would get to have their transgressions ignored while banning people who dared to disagree with them.

I've seen a handful of these people wreak havoc on huge online communities.
I've tried Parallels and VMware Fusion on an M1 chip with the former being a more polished and fluid experience. It's been around six months since I tried Fusion, but would be interested to know from others what kinds of progress has been made since then.
> I just shoot you in the head and spend however long it takes to rummage through you house to find where you stashed it

I'm not going to point to them. But there are numerous videos where, at the end of a coup, the deposed executive is held at gunpoint while the incoming regime demands account numbers at the America, Swiss, et cetera banks where the money is held.

Swapping that to a crypto wallet just makes the extortion instantly verifiable and irrevocable. It's decreasing the cost of violent seizure.
I would frame the question more in terms of economy than performance. In theory, I could write a database engine in Rust that is as performant as C++, but it would not make sense to.

Making Rust perform the same as C++ in database engines requires marking large portions of the code base as "unsafe", while requiring substantially more lines of code due to being less expressive. Note that this doesn't imply that the code is actually unsafe, just that the Rust compiler cannot reason about the safety of correct and idiomatic code in database engines.

And this is why state-of-the-art database engines are still written in C++. There is not much point in using Rust if doing so requires disabling the safety features and writing a lot more code to achieve the same result.
> In most (all?) places 19 year olds are viewed as adults.

Well, you are correct one sense. But the guy is quite young, and the article itself refers to him as a teenager.
Real state agencies in my town post newly available properties on insta. I'm looking for a place to rent so I'd like to scrape it so that I don't have to be checking my phone constantly.
The field in question was filled out by the families of the deceased. You're making some really wild conclusions here.
> One of my favorite stories in the Bible...I won't spoil the ending - but I think the setup makes a lot of sense.

> I have the same opinion of academics - show me what you can light on fire.

I don't know if you're going to be welcome in a lot of liberal art colleges, since this is the ending(SPOILERS!):

> And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.
>Adding minerals like lithium, nickel, graphite, cobalt and manganese to the list could help mining companies access $750 million under the Defense Production Act’s Title III fund, the people said. The move also could aid recycling of battery materials, one of the people said.

>Instead of loans or direct purchases for minerals, the directive would fund production at current operations, productivity and safety upgrades, and feasibility studies, the person said. In addition to EV batteries, the directive also would apply to large-capacity batteries.

>While DPA would provide easier funding access to elevate battery metal projects, it does not speed up the permitting process to get mines approved.
For everyone.

The one doing the mining is being compensated with wealth.

And society in general is being compensated with a more effective allocation of resources.
I just had the battery replaced in my iPhone 7 after nearly five years. Total cost was £50 from Apple. That's good enough for me.
This is great. I do think I'd get sea sick from playing it for an hour though.
It feels the CDN edge functions are the new Jamstack. It's fast but comes at a high cost and the excitement shifted from static pages to literally data distributed near the user.
I scrape the data that public officials post (thought not on instagram yet) -- that has lots of utility in determining their positions on issues, where in their jurisdiction they visit most, who they're meeting with, etc.