skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you should be able to tell it whether a certain column is a date or not,

Not only is this possible, but the tool to do it is located in best location (large menu, center of the screen on the first ribbon tab). It take literally 2 clicks to do it once your cells or columns are selected. The only problem with this tool is that you have to use before copying your data and it can be frustrating if you forget to do it. If you want to import a file instead of copy-pasting the data, it's only like 1 or 2 extra clicks to set the data type for a column during the import.

And btw, the CSV format was intentionally designed to NOT have type information imbedded in the file itself. The application that is reading the CSV file must know the datatype for each column. For a versatile tool like excel, they is no perfect way to implement it and there will always be a fraction of users of have to override the choices made by by the software. For advanced users who use it everyday, you learn very quickly if the type of data you are normally working with will require you to force it or if excel will understand it correctly.

It looks to me like almost all of the anti-Excel comments on HN (including yours) are made by people who never or extremely rarely uses it and don't know what it can or can't do. It's typical that most if not all of the "missing features" listed by people on NH have been part of excel for at least a decades.
This is like taking ten COVID tests, one after another, and declaring they must be broken when they all come back positive.
Russian forces may 'burn people to the bone' with phosphorous bombs in Ukraine
This firefox extension does a good job most of the time:

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/single-file/

This is for personal/offline backup in the first place.
Do you need the possibility to share the archive?
Land transport yes, but the operational cost of long distance trains is quite a bit higher per passenger-mile than planes
Thank you. This is the only correct answer in this entire thread.

If you spend $100T, only have $1T, and print the rest using make believe dollar bills, what do you expect to happen?

There's literally not enough capital in America to pay for what the congress is signing checks for.
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It's a really interesting time to be working at the intersection of law, tech, and finance, if you're following the cryptocurrency space at all.

Even if you don't like or have an interest in cryptocurrency (I think there are legitimate and compelling arguments to dislike it), the questions it raises about decentralized ownership and decision-making, and cybersecurity ethics/law in open systems where participants have agreed to the code as contract are just so cutting-edge. To my knowledge there hasn't been a successful prosecution of someone who's exploited a bug in an open-source smart contract yet, though it looks like this will be tested soon with the Indexed Finance hacker.
Psychedelics are weird: some people will speak very positively about them. Other people get fucked up for life. It's like rolling a dice. Imho that's not a risk any person with sound judgement would take.

But I'm also sure they've helped many people as is evidenced by the replies here.

The older I get (and the more I hear about people ODing in the news and from friends), the more I think that drugs as a whole are bad and alcohol is only borderline acceptable because of inertia
Caltrain in the Bay Area, the capital of world technology, is still a....diesel train. I can't help but chuckle whenever I see one.
I live in Italy and can attest that the high-speed rail running along the backbone of the Italian peninsula is really nice: it's clean, faster than a regional flight (no need for security, etc.), quiet, and it's fun to watch the hills roll by out the window.
"Frederick Terence Baker. Baker was the man accused of the parking lot murder of photographer Larry Provart. On Halloween, in a series of incredible 'clerical errors,' Baker was released from jail and walked out scot-free – the most colossal legal blunder of the year. As of this writing, he has not been found."

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1980/janua...
> other options include increasing minimum wage, which is a third-rail for neoliberal capitalism it seems, or works projects, which were torpedoed some time ago by apparently just a single senator.

Neither of those fix it.

Most people don't make minimum wage; the 25th percentile wage is already $15/hour and all of those people are paying higher prices. Which increase even more if you raise the minimum wage and require that cost increase to be priced into goods and services.

Works projects reduce unemployment. Unemployment is already very low. That's not the problem so that's not the solution.

> The real solution, 3-5% interest, is suicide as it would blow up the already shaky corporate credit bubble which is over-leveraged in empty office buildings post-covid.

The real solution is a little weird.

There are two real problems. a) People can't afford consumer goods (short term). b) Asset bubble inflated by low interest rates (long term).

It's actually the second one that contributes to the first. High housing prices etc. relative to wages increase real cost of living. But what do you want to do, pop the bubble by raising rates?

What we need is for nominal asset prices to stay where they are but for interest rates to go up. So how do you keep the bubble from popping while raising interest rates? Put money into it from somewhere else.

Send people checks.

That will cause inflation to counteract the effect of higher interest rates on nominal asset prices, but this time the beneficiaries of the policy are the people who get the checks (i.e. everybody) instead of the holders of speculative assets.

So nominal asset prices stay the same and nominal non-asset prices (consumer goods and wages) go up. But people have the checks to cover that in the short term and long term we finally get out of low interest rates and high housing costs relative to wages.
No one sues the car, the dog or the children, but the owner, responsible, parent, etc.
I can hop in a train at Zürich main station in Switzerland and be in Paris in 4 hours or I can get in another one and be in Milan in 3 and half hours. On my trip I can use the internet, go to the restaurant or relax in the quiet carriage. No turbolance, no weather delays and the ride is very quiet.

How much work can you really get done going via airplane? How much time do you waste going through security and how well can you work crammed into a tiny seat?

Sometimes taking it a bit slower is also good for your health.
The problem with building a new city from scratch
Will check it out thanks!
I'm just impressed they're blaming it on Putin and not the previous administration.
It's not that simple from any point of view. First you cannot just replace a single SLS with 100 Electrons.
I use trains here in Poland and although there have been big improvements, a lot of them are only a facade.

Long distance PKP trains are still late everyday. The regional trains in my city tend to be over-packed, and from a technical pov they’re more like larger diesel buses than trains.

However, in response to the earlier comment and this one as well, I would have to say that investment doesn’t always mean immediate visible effects. The biggest investment to make in rail is in the infrastructure. You don’t feel as a passenger which parts of the track are old and which are new, and they are pretty expensive to build and maintain.

I also would wonder how much freight rail is in that investment, because that we don’t see or feel at all.
I've also heard that the cloud service is slow; you can easily check if it's your machine or the server by watching devtools -> network tab and seeing how many requests are `(waiting)`, because chances are it's Atlassian's server speed.
Saw Jeff Hawkins talk at Streangeloop years ago, and I thought his book was brilliant. What has this company ever accomplished in machine learning/ai? I have seen a few videos on YouTube teaching about HMT theory but it’s not clear that this theory even results in anything that is even marginally useful. What am I missing?
I agree, but I dunno maybe this is more new school than I realize. I'm willing to accept the possibility that other people have been exposed to conventions I haven't. On my personal projects I stick to this convention though, it just feels like the right thing to do.
How does a control group work here? It's (presumably?) pretty clear to the people who got the mushrooms

the study compares effects both reported and measured.

double blind is important to not introduce "outside" influences, but it's not intended that the subject not experience what they take, quite the opposite, that's what is being measured.

If the people who took it report dizziness (aha!), but the people who took the placebo also report dizziness (doh), then that's not evidence that the drug produces dizziness.
If you filter who can complain, you do not have to deal with those that you do not care about.

SAAS with free tier does it this way:

* To contact support via non-app method you need a PIN. PIN is displayed when you login into your paid account. Don't have a PIN? Can't connect to support.

* To contact support via app method your profile needs to be associated with a paid account. Don't have a paid account? Can't contact support via inapp
You clearly don't live in a country bordering Russia. This is not an issue you will solve with de-escalation, it's a fundamental issue that stems from the fact that Russia has shown that nothing they say can be trusted. Try telling the people of Finland that Putin promises to not invade the country, and try not to get laughed out of the room.
And yet somehow it is fine for Russia to develop its own hypersonic missiles (well at least try to) and deploy them to kalingrad where they are just as close most Central European capitals as such weapons in Finland would be to Petersburg. Also Estonia is already part of nato and the distance from its borders to Petersburg is pretty much the same so the first strike nuclear risk does not really change at all if Finland joins nato.

For some weird reason Russia is the only country in Europe that must have buffer states protecting its lands and be allowed to use force the enforce this.

It would be helpful if everyone stopped this lying and just said it how it is. Russia wants weak buffer states around its borders that it can abuse however it wants. There really is no actual military reason for any of this as nato is a defense alliance by definition and thus it will not attack first and the current situation in Ukraine has proven this to be true.
Mozilla is absolutely thinking in terms of the nightly version of the spec. I agree that public messaging sometimes talks about annual editions, but this is mostly because it's a convenient way to talk about when features were added to the language, not because it reflects any underlying reality.

Anyway, that's not really the relevant thing. What I'm addressing is:

> deno has done is removed native support for older js specs and instead makes you transpile to an earlier spec. And by removing support for the earlier specs, they are able to drop support for deprecated features.

And that's just not a thing. That has no relationship to the ES specification works. The __proto__ accessor was never mandatory; it was added in browsers a long time before it was specified, and then specified as optional (Annex B) when it was first added to the specification, and has been optional since then. This is true whether or not you think of there being a single specification or annual editions.

So, with that said, to address the specific topic of annual editions:

> "OK, ESlint understands new features A, B and D, but babel only implements B, C, and D, but library X doesn't support feature D yet, so since we want to use that we have to use bluebird instead of the native feature D for now" and on an on.

That's exactly how it works. eslint implements proposals at stage 4. Babel implements proposals as they come out and people contribute, but only adds them to preset-env at stage 3. The output for present-env is based on what's actually supported in the browsers you're using. They both take a variable amount of time to land features once they hit the appropriate stage. Neither of them gates anything on annual editions. Neither do browsers. And browsers will frequently not have implemented features from multiple editions ago; for example, regex lookbehind was added in ES2018 and is still not implemented in Safari.
If you can possibly precompute it. Precompute it.
Take on debt.
I bet this keeps a lot of national airlines afloat and they're already barely afloat, if they start taxing kerosene they'll require even more subsidies from their governments.
If anyone is curious, I wrote a guide on Chip-8 emulation in Rust, and the final step was building the emulator to work in a browser via WASM. I do use a Cargo package to assist with targets and compilation, but other than that it allows you to build and load a wasm module into any old website.

https://github.com/aquova/chip8-book/blob/master/src/wasm.md
In my market there is an absolute glut of condo and apartment new housing, with more coming on the market because the lead time is so long. It's single family residential in the burbs that has seen the huge increase and commercial conversions don't address this.
They were pretty influential in refining the microservices architecture
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This should be the nail in the coffin for UBI. The consumer demand created by the last round of stimulus is nothing compared to what UBI would create, and that stimulus is clearly a contributor to the inflation we have been seeing since last year.

Larry Summers was right about the stimulus and the Fed, and quite a lot of the economists who missed this are guilty of wishful thinking. They let their political preferences blind them to the consequences of the stimulus package. Larry Summers is right about UBI too.
>I dont think anyone has ever yet explained how this is meant to function as a currency.

It's a store of value. Worked fucking great for people who were fleeing shitty places on earth but most people on this board wouldn't know a god damn thing about that.

>Most holders of coin-wealth didn't earn it..

You're an idiot. You don't know how investments work and how it has nothing to do with "earning it".
"Forced error"?
This is now my approach. Communicate. Ask for more info. Customization options. A photo of their shop. ask where is there shop.
What about minors and stay-at-home parents?
You joke, but they do this in cars.

https://motorandwheels.com/cars-with-active-sound-design/
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In Germany 100% of the ICE and IC trains are run on renewable energy.

https://www.bahn.de/service/ueber-uns/umwelt

You can even buy green energy from the Deutsche Bahn

https://www.dbstrom.de/
> allowing NATO rockets in Ukraine is suicidal for Russia, therefore there is no choice: it is a fight for survival

This is the ridiculous Russian twist of facts that makes absolutely no sense. I can't even bother debunking it now. Just as credible as the de-nazification.

It's just Russia losing its sphere of influence and Putin can't take it in his delirious dreams of imagined Russian supremacy. In truth there's no threat except of losing some influence as all Russia's neighbors naturally want to get as far away them as possible.
You seem to be implying that there is only one alternative to the current situation: that if you don't want to be a ruthless mercenary the only alternative is to become a sycophant, a simp for the corporation which pays your bills. How unimaginative.

Unions are necessary but insufficient. Why is there no discussion about further alternatives in your replies? Cooperative ownership structures are prevalent and successful by multiple metrics. Do you wish to limit the conversation to only those defensible by your preconceptions?
This is pretty much what both Netflix and Spotify do. I would argue that there isn't a canonical recommendations stack that FAANG is converging towards, and that's a direct corollary of differing business requirements and organizational structure.
How do you not emit CO2 when producing cement? The only way to be carbon neutral is to "offset" it by having some carbon capture industry to somehow remove the equivalent of CO2 from the atmosphere.
WeWork could rebrand to WeHome.
But there's another sharp corner to avoid: online product ad services (Google Ads, Facebook ads etc), tend to penalize merchants who list different prices depending on where the customer is located[1]:

> Don’t change the price of your product on your landing page based on a user’s location. Ensure that users can purchase the product online for the price that you submit, regardless of their location.

Which means that (if you don't want your Google ads account deactivated) you can't bake in a variable shipping cost into the product cost; you can only select one amortized shipping cost.

So sellers who want to offer free shipping are really between a rock and a hard place a lot of the time in terms of not losing money on shipping vs not overcharging buyers.

[1] https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324371?hl=en&re...
Every few weeks articles like this one on the topic of depression and psychedelics keep coming. They repeat themselves.

I wonder whether someone wants to promote the topic or just get upvotes for later lobbying some other posts on HN.
And then all of it is thrown away and they show ads instead. :)
> But it's a decent approximation for dependencies that are low ROI but potentially high impact if they break, like a UI widget that gets used everywhere in your app.

Not really, it's not decent at all. What is a great approximation, however, is the heuristic presented by the grandparent poster: projects that are easy to audit, easy to fork (if necessary) and don't have outrageously large dependency trees. Everything else is a liability.
> they do creative things like "outsource" IT or HR to a separate company (with the executives as ovepaid board members)

Source?

I am seeing 10-K reports showing UHC, Anthem, CVS, Cigna, Humana, Molina, Centene, etc all with profit margins ~5% or less.

Is the claim that executives at one or more of these companies is attempting to bypass ACA regulations (and violating fiduciary duties to their own employer) by overpaying for services to outside entities that the aforementioned executives control?

Seems like a grand conspiracy theory.
Batteries are still too heavy and take too long to recharge for most commercial travel by plane. If we had better batteries, planes would become electric.

Hydrogen has an infrastructure problem. Planes aren't designed for holding hydrogen and they would need to be redesigned entirely to accommodate for using it as a fuel. Hydrogen is hard to store and transfer as it tends to embrittle a wide variety of metals. There are also no hydrogen refueling stations near airports, you would have to build all of that infrastructure as well. You might be able to generate hydrogen on demand via a chemical reaction with something like NaOH and Silicon or Aluminum, but I haven't run the numbers to see if that would be technically possible, economically feasible, or safe for passenger travel. Theoretically you could use hydrogen, but it would cost trillions of dollars to get everything up and running without some sort of breakthrough.
Similar numbers if you use revenue. You're free to suggest alternative measures.

Now, I'm not saying that Tesla is not on their way, but they are not yet there
Bathroom privacy device startup: https://Loodio.com
> What am I missing?

Not much!
I wish there was a service like this for Germany. There's lots of research grant money, especially for digitalization, AI, and wind energy, but almost no small or medium-sized company knows how to apply for it.
> "Many people say" this because they aren't the ones with the power.

You're literally saying that here that everyone who makes the argument that bitcoin creates a positive transformation of power---which is at least tens of thousands of people---is only pretending to believe that because they want to transfer power to themselves. You are calling them all hypocrites. And I know that's wrong, because I know lots of people who actually believe this, including myself. Your argument here is not even an argument; it's not even remotely, distantly believable.

Now, I suspect you don't understand your comment the way I do, which is why I'm taking the time to respond to you. But I think that's what is implied by what you have written.

I'm radically dismissive of dishonest arguments, or arguments that are blatantly and obviously wrong. I don't think it's correct to respond to them as if they are real arguments. The most effective thing is just to dismiss them. Honest readers understand what you are doing. That's the most effective response.

For example, if someone says "I think you missed the point," followed with a total non-sequitur, which creates a false appearance that I missed the point, when I did not miss the point, I'm going to just dismiss it out of hand, and I'm not going to discuss it.

I think that's totally appropriate. You don't give people an honest, serious response when they are playing games.

The 6 year old cousin analogy is apt. If someone acts like a six year old, I respond appropriately for that age. If someone acts like an adult, I respond appropriately for an adult.

By the way, I'm not rude. I'm never rude. Saying "I didn't miss the point" is the most polite thing you can say to the kind of blatantly wrong comment I got in that instance. All it really signals is that I disagree with what was said and don't want to discuss it further. That is fair.
That right there. Sanctions like this are meant to make prosecuting a war more expensive, so make ending the war more appealing, but also to make it harder to recover from e.g. battlefield losses of equipment, and to otherwise make further military buildup slower and more difficult, if the war keeps going for any length of time. In a case like this, they're not just "to stop the war", at least not immediately, even if that would be considered a great outcome. They haven't necessarily failed if they don't bring a swift end to the war, even if that'd be considered ideal.