skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s true in the same way that it’s true of Visual Studio, but how many people really need all that functionality in their job?

I’m sure there are some genuine Excel experts out there doing important work but I’ve got to assume most of what’s being done is formulas, charts and pivot tables.
What's That Typeclass: Functor
> But if you sell US Treasury Bonds you're effectively spiking interest rates on the cost of the government to borrow

Simple solution: given all the money is now parked at the Fed, have the Fed buy treasuries.

The whole operation is also susceptible to the interest rate market. So if the Fed doesn't want all this money it can charge for the stability service by setting the rate negative.

There's something to be said for the idea that the Fed provides an important global service called "stability", and if people want to benefit from this they should be allowed to buy in directly and pay for it directly. I've even wondered if this would be a great way to clobber the crypto stablecoin market by providing US stabledollar services to overseas non US nationals, but I suspect for other policy reasons they really don't want to do that.
HP needs to do this with VAX/VMS.
Control systems, or any form of embedded safety critical system, use monotonic clocks where calendar time is a complete non-issue.

Ordering of events, on what scale are we talking here? If it’s just within a transactional database there are multitude of ways to do it. Even distributed dbs have such features without relying on perfect time. If you are looking at a spanner style db you need a lot more guarantees than “I just used the time my cloud provider assigned to my vm”, plus being in sync only matters within your own cluster?
See? Called it.
Few days ago I found a very interesting, short blog about journaling (I've just posted it seperately [0]). It's very interesting for me as it combines themes of journaling per se and self-dialogue.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32237190
What's PHB?
Can you not use a desktop software to correct your spellings, fix your grammar and reformulate sentences? I think even something like Microsoft Word is going to be a good bargain for this. If you want a free tooling Emacs with some plugins can be great. A quick search gave me https://simpleit.rocks/lisp/emacs/writing-in-emacs-checking-... Exploring this space may give more results for free tooling that runs your desktop and sends your data to noone.
Google has lost the PR war in Europe they are now a political punching bag there. Practically Gmail is probably one of the best choices for privacy with a good track record including attempted breach by China playing a role in their exiting the country. But in principle Google as an ad company will never be acceptable to those who want privacy to be more valued
> This is basically European protectionism under the guise of privacy.

if if it's just that, it's pretty easy to solve, don't you think so?
The EU is leading on privacy, no doubt, or better: the EU is (finally, and really a bit too late) doing something while, afaik, the US is almost doing nothing (except for CA).

I hope the EU is able to slowly write down easy to implement rules other countries can just cut & paste
Your goal is to enable your business to make more money, that requires hiring enough competent people that can do the work that needs to be done, to make that money.

Sometimes that work is really not especially interesting, or challenging. Nobody is going to love it, or be passionate about it, and it really doesn't require a person to be more than average in terms of skill, because it's just not that technically difficult.

And that sometimes is the majority of all salaried work, so statistically speaking, that's probably also you and your company.

Why pretend to be a unicorn and only insist on hiring passionate self motivated people who will be a bad fit anyway, and be bored after two weeks.

The hiring process is not for stroking the egos of middle managers who want to feel special.
I like dead posts. Always interesting to see what offends people.
Writing in Emacs Checking Spelling Style and Grammar
to what end?
Its not cost effective to mine and bring it back to earth... the best bet is to mine for usage in space. I'm yet to see any RnD into technology for that sort of behavior.

Something I'm grumpy about. before we talk about placing humans on mars we should definitely have some sort mining technology expansion.
Fleur – A bloom filter implementation in C
Are you trying to say that ehtereum is a ponzi scheme? Do you think Bitcoin is also one? Don't get me wrong, there are alot of scams in the Crypto szene (like in any scene with a lot of money and not much regulation) but there are also legit, interesting projects. And to be clear; Ethereum is of course not a ponzi-scheme.
Just use LibreOffice Calc or some equivalent. The main things you want them to learn is to use formulas, charts and filters anyway. LibreOffice Calc does all of that in a pretty similar way to what Excel does.

I'm actually not even sure what I would gain by switching to actual Excel.
Does your wife belong to some kind of professional guild?

You'll find most other high qualification professions require a body to certify them, conduct examinations, disqualify them for poor outcomes, organise ongoing training and so on. And most importantly (for guild members), limit numbers and ensure the government makes it illegal to conduct activities unless you are a guild member.

Developing has none of this - it's the unwashed masses. You get the full bell curve from useless CS graduate to genius high school dropout all applying for the same job, and everything in-between.
Open source tools and standards to lookup known files
Try to install a BitTorrent client on your iphone, or a game emulator, a sexually explicit game or even a browser with a different engine.

All this has already happened since 2008 when the app store came out.
All dependencies should be injected (and possibly wrapped with custom interfaces, if they're libraries).

All globals should be configurable (most codebases I've seen have a ton of hidden globals).

All side effects should be isolated.

"Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
As far as I know there are no scripts that are capable of disabling all of the telemetry and nothing that can't be undone the instant the computer has an internet connection and connects to windows update.
They all need to be connected into a single network. No hanging connections, no loops, no disjoint parts.
What about "retirement" makes you think it's the better state? All the "free time to do whatever you want?" A lot of retirees I've known ended up getting bored and going back to work, even if only part-time.
Either way shouldn't matter, any industrial robot (which this is by the size of the motor joints) should be working inside a cage or only interacting with humans if you have a massive amount of 'virtual fixtures' and torque safeguards in place.

Doesn't matter whichever way we paint this, either the organizers or the designers were reckless. In the end it was fortunate that only a finger was broken.
Having seen some of his non-Trek work, Shatner was always a ham, but that's not always a bad thing.
I've heard about Savannah, but didn't know it had a version for non-GNU projects.
It's harder to build a grid of straight railways. You need more bridging or crossing at the very least. You are right about 2D being more efficient in terms of the length between two random points, but there could be scenarios where the simplicity still outweighs that benefit, especially given all the other factors in this project, like sunlight.

The length is also much less of a concern than in traditional transport systems because of less friction and less need to brake, so most of the energy is for accelerating and decelerating at the stops.

Of course it would blow up if you wanted to build a fully connected city that is twice that length or even longer, but that's not proposed.
All the more reason to leave the goog and go work in the biomed or space industries. You're not pressured by money, so why build ad platforms for tech monopolies?
This is changing especially among the young.

If you can't afford a relaxed housing, it matters very little that your manager is a 8 whereas the other one is a 6.

If you've got basic meets met, the other things matter far more.

Aside from compounding factors, that's really what's happening here. People are fighting decades of lackadaisical attitude slowly making what was the status quo unreachable, despite efficiency increasing tremendously and doubling the working population. For no good reason but "the economy says so".

Even software devs across the world aren't immune.
> I realized I have all the technical chops needed to build my business

I don't know much about business, but I think you need business chops to build a business.
No, you only need Facebook and TikTok in very few office jobs (and there probably other interfaces than users typically use). Excel is present in pretty much all office jobs. Maybe not all programmer jobs, but apart from some backend coders I haven't seen many people who never had to work with Word or Excel.
The land area required for most forms of storage is inconsequential.
Do you have any reason to say this other than “big corporation bad”?

I would argue it is far more helpful for 80%+ of kids to learn excel than to learn advanced maths.
Canada has a very dark history of violence against natives. The reputation of "being nice" is a recent media myth.
It's so true, but I'm trying to imagine a normie's reaction to reading this, and all I'm coming up with is, "This guy is a paranoid schizo, back to TikTok for me...", and so unfortunately, I don't see us steering away from this fate anytime soon.

These people won't respect you until you start taking their money. Become one of their techno-corporate overloads. Demonstrate how you're controlling/profiting off them, why it's bad. Maybe then they'll start listening. Or not. At least you'll have made a nice profit.
its not an inflation hedge. there is nothing stopping anyone from lending BTC but there are reasons it probably hasn't become a big thing
It is an open secret if you talk to any Google employee that Gmail data is heavily used to enrich other Google services, including ad placement, even if indirectly. They also can and will give it to authorities thanks to bulk keyword sharing agreements with or without individual warrants.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/googl...

US citizens should take careful note of the fact their data is only usefully constitutionally protected if it is hosted at home.
Mailbox has been awesome to me
Switching to something else puts them out of sync with everybody else who didn't. Same for anybody else. There is no possibility of "switching". Suggesting otherwise only proves you don't understand what this is even about.
Ask HN: How do experienced programmers learn new languages and judge them?
Programmers (academic and/or industrial) who have programmed in quite a few languages and paradigms, how do you learn or pickup a new programming languages (maybe against your choice but the domain you are working in requires that language)?

How much time does it take?

How do you judge the merits and demerits of the language?

Do people who know some PL theory judge it in a different way than those who don't? Like do they have a mathematical framework in mind and map the language docs to that framework to see what is bad or what is good?

For example:

Suppose I am to learn Python. I go to the official website and go to the docs page: https://docs.python.org/3/. I see a Tutorial section and a Language Reference section. I go through the tutorial. It is just a sneak peak. Then the Language reference?

Or do I read the Python source code?

P.S: For PL theory people what book/course do you recommend for that mental framework?
License is "interesting":

The base operating system is IBM's VM/370 Release 6 operating system, the last unlicensed version of VM/370.

Wikipedia has a bit more history about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)#History

I'm guessing because they didn't have attached copyright notices as required in US law at the time they fell into public domain, like happened to It's a Wonderful Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life#Owners...).
The information in a DICOM file is a huge huge superset of the information you'd typically find in a PNG, because the amount of metadata you want to tie to a medical image is enormous (e.g. what day, what scanner, which scan, which part of which scan, which radiology tech, which doctor, which patient, with which contrast agent, in what orientation). Even if you did contrive a way to pack that metadata into a PNG file (which is possible), you'd still need a way to unambiguously interpret all that metadata, and know that everything else in the healthcare world is going to interpret it the same way. That's one of the things that the DICOM standard covers.
Electricians are a service job which usually have references and reviews and a government body which is indirectly required to monitor their performance by collecting complaints.

Doctors are also a service job with references but they also have a surgical record for various surgeries and a board they answer to which can revoke their ability to practice medicine.

Many mechanical engineers will have something they can show from a previous employer because for ME the field is about improving processes/machines, not the machines that are produced. Others also have CAD that they do on their free time. With 3d printers becoming more accessible I have seen some ME students/grads do some cool stuff on the side.

Chemists, that is the only one I don't know anyone in the field and a field which is not very regulated.
They're not used for commuting, a simple hatchback would do that trick; they're used for status/signaling!
> Should we teach kids to use TikTo

The mostly pro TikTok comments here when news of it being banned indicates YES.
I've always thought U+01F97A FACE WITH PLEADING EYES does an okay job of representing loneliness. If you were to tint U+01F616 CONFOUNDED FACE green, it would be good for jealousy, perhaps.
> Bad news is that most people are not good developers and they don't even know about it

How do I know if I'm good? Like, before applying, so that I don't have to waste anybody's time.
Taler (https://taler.net/) claims to be a taxable but anonymous payment system.
I've just provided the easiest example of bypassing any boomer security nonmeasures.
give a dedicated and competent attacker 15 minutes alone with your highly secure machine and highly sensitive documents, and if your entire security model depends on DRM rather than actually effective methods, they will figure out how to exfiltrate it all.
Hmm, I fail to see how this is even remotely comparable to Russian propaganda/related to the topic at hand, but I’ll give you that the “West” has also behaved atrociously in the past. Though please be aware, that arguments like the one you are trying to make, has a distinct feeling of whataboutism.
Is this the part where they extinguish Linux (except for where they've embraced it with WSL)?
You might be confusing privacy with security here
> If you find your work engaging and rewarding? Why would you optimize to exit?

To mitigate the risk of losing the ability to earn income. You can always choose not to work or work a lower paying job after you attain financial security.

I feel like the risks are especially high of losing ability to earn sufficient income between ages 50 to 65 such that you are able to afford healthcare expenses to carry you until you qualify for Medicare (at age 65). So my goal is to earn everything I need to before then.
DICOM is a lot older than PNG, you can embed multiple images in a DICOM file using different formats - losless and lossy, formats like jpg, tiff and so on. It also includes a bunch of tags that describe the image, patient information, scanner it came from and so on.
Probably, but doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is a big improvement on doing the wrong thing.
Is this referring to BLM, or the truckers? Seems to apply to both.
Indeed, the irony that they call it OpenVMS now when you can only get an evaluation for comercial use and they explicitly bar hobbiests is a shame.
> It is IMO very much not the first program someone would write for this.

True.

> Bringing in 'hashbrown' and futzing with the hash table lookup/insert is definitely a perf tweak that you probably wouldn't want to do unless you had to, because it makes the code more complex. The 'Box<[u8]>' cements it as an 'optimized' variant.

I would say, both these items, I added much later, and contribute substantially less to the bottom line performance than you might think. Bulk of the performance is elsewhere.
Thank you for trying to troubleshoot this. I perform about 15 customer interviews per week and yes, people would pay for the product.

I think the main culprit is that Twitter specifically is an extremely saturated space and that content discovery is really hard for pretty much everyone who is not in the top 1%.
Surprised there are so few.

Conditions for buying one for $30 are here:

https://store.somethingawful.com/products/smilie.php
What does Excel do that something like LibreOffice Calc does not? I'm genuinely curious because I've not run into any issues with the latter that the former would've solved so far.
"In February 2015, Roscosmos announced that it would remain a part of the ISS programme until 2024."[1]

Move along, nothing to see here.

"As of 2022, the space station has been in orbit for an impressive 21 years. As NASA and its partners originally planned to decommission after 15 years, the space station is long past its original due date. Even with mounting safety concerns, NASA has decided to extend the lifespan of the space station until 2031." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#En...

[2] https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-kill-iss
Russia to opt out of International Space Station
Yes, in Anchorage, which has something like 40% of the state's population and Fairbanks, which has about another 15%. Alaska's population is quite concentrated.
Mexico's President Luis Álvarez: A legacy of human rights abuse and ties to CIA
Also a popular expression in English; there is no translation issue. More of a synonym for “et al” than “et cetera”.
> multifaceted approach is important here

Valve is pretty good at this, and they don't even use kernel level anti-tampering as a facet. Trust factor, VACnet (machine learning) and overwatch (community demo review) add up to a system that's pretty decent at not matching you with cheaters if you aren't one.
I use and am very happy with Protonmail (Switzerland, so not quite the EU)

And for documents, LibreOffice is quite good these days.
Wish the background color or transparency was controllable.
> Bad news is that most people are not good developers and they don't even know about it because really good developers are so few and concentrated in relatively few places. In effect, most developers will never have a chance to work with one.

Yeah and having an outstanding skill or performance is not important in an average company/organisation, and will most likely give you only trouble. Larger organisations are risk averse, optimised for stability and longevity. Not short term performance. It's not a sports team.
My employer counteroffered 15% higher or so. I was kinda unhappy there, but they also promised that I would be in a position to change things, and that has so far (2 years later) been true.

I don’t know, I don’t necessarily think my employer is perfect, but they’re certainly good to me.
Imagine a future where everyone requires an online account to use a computer, where every computer can only run software approved by the few large corporations that issue those accounts, and where a government or governments have those corporations on speed dial, to periodically "suggest" to them which software and which users should be allowed to transact and communicate online.

If you can imagine that, then imagine that every human is given a number which is equivalent to (or even more significant than) their name, and that name/number appears in certificates which are signed by the name/number of a certificate authority's key. By accepting the signature, you have to accept an EULA that takes an hour to read, so no one does, and it changes every month anyway, with future changes automatically binding you.

Does that sound like a world where people are free?
math skills are transferable and universal. Teaching excel specific functions is like teaching to drive by using one single car model. And cars have almost identical interfaces. So one should tech concepts not functions.
RPA vs Cognitive Automation: Which Technology Will Drive IT Spends for CIOs?
What are some other questions others have failed to answer properly? (In addition to the password one)
Part of why the best tools take so long is that they are trying really hard, but an amateur approach can do a decent job in far less time by trying less hard. (No fuzzy matching, only exact matching on shortish chunks)

Additionally, we're talking about nanopore data, which is much longer reads, and so is going to be computationally a bit easier.
Clear winner is energy companies who sell electricity to miners :(
China Targeted Fed to Build Informant Network, Access Data, a Probe Says
For context, a significant number of ministers in the UK government are bent on taking us down a similar path as the US: https://bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/conservative-mps-abortion...

This is in contrast to the general population, who overwhelmingly support women's right to abortion access and generally support keeping the time limit as-is: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/should-the-leg...
That's why Submarine hatches are conical and open out, and airplane hatches open in. The pressure differential keeps them closed.

Yes, the plane door eventually pivots out of the hole and hands on the outside but it first had to move inside the cabin a little bit
> I was scratching my head at how so many people in the thread could possibly believe this, until I realized that they’re probably not actually cooking, but rather buying prepackaged meals and heating them up.

I don't think that's the case.

When a person can have an entire dinner meal at Taco Bell for less than $5, or jumbo hot dog + drink at Costco for $1.25 ... cooking at home is definitely more expensive.

https://www.tacobell.com/food
>You don’t think tax evasion is morally wrong?

You can easily make the argument that tax evasion is morally right, since much of our tax money goes to a military that destabilizes "unfriendly" governments around the world and spills as much blood as needed to maintain our globalist economy.
Honestly, it’s probably a lot more healthy than yours if we really dug into it.
Going to take that first part with a grain of salt since I feel like any "open secrets" at Google end up with many whistleblowers and feature articles
Again, I don’t think we are going to end up agreeing as I believe that a significant portion of the Russian people are aware, that they are being lied to, but are to scared to do anything about this.

Please also note, that I don’t believe this applied to all Russians. The few I’ve interacted with more closely have been nice (the opposite of “shitty”)
This really wouldn't move the needle in that direction, it's a complete waste of resources. The only thing we'll learn from this thing is what a bad idea it is.
If you’re asking that question, you’re way above average already.
The decision was made in 2015.

"In February 2015, Roscosmos announced that it would remain a part of the ISS programme until 2024."[1]

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#En...