skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the UK economy is weak and it is rigged. Of course it is. It has been decades since economic prosperity was actually a part of the agenda of any of the UK's political parties.

At one time, the Conservatives valued economic growth and prosperity -- and during that era, occasionally when they gained power, they achieved it.

But the modern UK, like so much of the West, just doesn't value prosperity any longer. Everybody would rather fight over getting a bigger slice of a shrinking pie than to fight for actual prosperity and growth.

Survey the public (or read the results of surveys that have been done). People don't want the things that make prosperity. They don't want a vibrant economy, lots of growth and opportunity, new companies forming and crashing, and all the attendant consequences of a vibrant, growth-oriented society.

They want to preserve what they have, not seek new things. And preservation is all about managing the decline.
Rill wants to rethink BI dashboards with embedded database and instant UX
Nighty Night [0] is the peak of this wonderful (to me) subgenre. Top question on Google search "Is Nighty Night funny?"

Couple of great quotes from the Wikipedia page [1] "The Guardian called it "an exquisitely vile comic creation" and adding that "The Office might have popularised the comedy of embarrassment, but Nighty Night has moved it on." The Times called it "a blistering wall of superbly unredeemed cruelty that manages to trample over every social convention in a pair of cheap stilettos."

[0]https://www.google.com/search?q=%22nighty+night%22
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighty_Night#Reception
> jeopardize the likability of their platforms with the masses

You don't represent the opinions of the masses.

The fact that Apple iPhone sales continue unabated factually and objectively indicates that Headphone jacks and TouchID are not significant issues to warrant customers switching platforms.
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When I was 10 or 11, my father slipped me a book of Hodja Nasruddin. I _LOVED_ it and went around sprouting witticisms and clever jokes to my friends. Most of them landed well, with an occasional thud or kids rolling their eyes at me at the weirdness or oldness of the jokes. Some of those still come up in my day to day use. Timeless stuff!
In the first few minutes of the KGB interview he asks for an explanation of the Stasi. It was clear he didn’t know what the Stasi was. He didn’t just come across as unprepared he came across as someone who isn’t even interested.
Could you point me to an example where they did a press release about a model from the (approx) 70s which they reimplemented in PHP? I mean anything like that, not this specific example. Because that just sounds so outlandish to me.
Oh lol I guess that's true.

I think of Duo as "one of the google apps I will never open" whereas I have meetings in Meet. I guess I figured that Meet got a pandemic bump? But when you put it that was it does indeed make even less sense.
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it's a challenge that is unique to everyone's journey, to overcome loneliness.

I invested significant energy into being minimal and happy by myself. it varies with some success but it is a very personal journey.
Merely creating a DNS record that remains unused? Sure

That happens

Activating said DNS record when you have no authority to do so?

That's bad

Very bad
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347172
you could confidently predict what a given compiler would generate, for a given platform

But then you're no longer writing Standard C. You're writing compiler-flavoured C, which is another source of footguns for projects that outlive the compiler (or version) they were originally written for. Which is fine, as you say, for embedded-style projects that only target one processor model and one compiler version. But I don't think that applies to many of today's projects.
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No, this is different because in your example you can't show McDonald's has an increase in revenue due to those drug dealers selling in their parking lots.
Very similar chart to this one recording the date of Japan's cherry blossoms blooming since 600 AD.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/29/japan-kyot...
My favorite teacher in high school taught AP Calculus and learned the material one month ahead of teaching my class. I loved it. She was the best “explainer” of any teacher I’ve had. She knew which homework problems were going to be relatively hard, and which were crucial to understanding the core lessons of each chapter. She also emphasized intuitive understanding a lot, which I enjoyed. Very Feynman-ey.
I think this approach shines when your goal is to help struggling students. I’d imagine this approach would be pretty bad at helping gifted students achieve their maximum potential.
Everybody at G-corporation personally benefits from the redundancy so why fix it
I just love how a zero byte protobuf message deserialises into a valid struct. Very reassuring.
Excel runs the world. Every large company claiming to be ERP-native is telling lies. Shit gets done in Excel, and is then exported back into ERP, if at all.

Things you would consider quite irresponsible to be done in Excel, is done in Excel regardless. Indeed, that annual financial report of a Fortune 500 boils down to financialresults_v2_nowaitonemorechange_final_FINAL_withcomments_official.xlsx"

My g/f works for one of the leading ERP providers. I won't tell you which one but it starts with an S and ends with AP. They're dogfooding their own ERP but employees prefer Excel.

It's like gravity, just stop resisting.
Keep in mind that loneliness is different from being alone. Loneliness is a state of mind linked to wanting human contact but feeling alone. People can be alone and not feel lonely, or they can have contact with people and still experience feelings of isolation.[1]

I believe that loneliness stems from one's inability to be friends with oneself, to enjoy one's company. This quote by Osho[2] comes to mind:

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”

[1] Loneliness: Causes and Health Consequences — https://www.verywellmind.com/loneliness-causes-effects-and-t...

[2] The Capacity To Be Alone — http://www.arrowpsychotherapy.com/blog/capacitytobealone
I glanced over [2] ( https://vidhilegalpolicy.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/JPC-P... ) => right at the start it mentions this:

The Committee observes that it is impossible to distinguish personal and non-personal data. Therefore...

That sounds to me like a crazy statement for a new law that was in the process of being created since years?
Those farms will spend the energy anyway. It's a question of what they spend the energy on.
I once build an interpreter for x86_64 to see what my machine code was doing line by line. Then I read the GDB manual.
This kind of argument is a fundamental disagreement between "censorship can be ok" people vs not. Whose responsibility is it that the public is not tricked? Policy makers? Each individual person? etc
Android being "just around the corner" of getting better on patches if you just pick the right manufacturer has been the story for what.. the last 5.. 10 years?
Presumably any new product they are building is to increase revenue somewhere, even if it's in another product. They might expect that getting X usage in a chat app will translate to Y additional ads income; due to better tracking data, more chances to show ads, etc. In that case some of the ads revenue could be attributed to the new chat app, based on usage. Some assumptions would need to be made, but the allocations could be tracked, measured, and analyzed pretty well.

Of course an approach like this would require some amount of direction and purpose, which is not at all a part of Google's core competencies.
It cuts both ways, doesn't it? Excel is no replacement for a dedicated ERP system, as soon as you need one of those get one. Excel can replace a lot of analytics and KPI software packages, and fill in gaps in any ERP system. It is cheaper to, cautiously, fill those gaps with an Excel solution (if well documented) than developing a customized ERP solution.

I currebtly see people using Palantir as the default for anything and everything, only to export stuff from Palantir to Excel anyways.
So, when they say "free of nonlinear activations", what they mean is "uses nonlinear activations other than the ones most commonly used"?

Reminds me of when Salesforce replaced on-prem software with cloud software and declared it "the end of software".
This matches exactly how we saw the market before we built Superblocks - which is why we never refer to Superblocks as low-code/no-code solution, but rather a programmable developer tool.

When we speak to customers, the thing that resonates most is the speed of higher-order primitives, with the flexibility of code. The best of both worlds. This has guided our product philosophy entirely and even custom components are in beta which you can sign up for here:

https://docs.superblocks.com/components/custom-components
(Disclaimer: I’m an engineer at Superblocks)

Interesting point. Personal opinion here - I do not think that drag and drop is only for non-developers. A great example of this is the gaming industry in Unity/Unreal engine. These tools are effectively low-code but also incorporate drag and drop to allow developers to build whatever they can imagine but faster. Drag and drop should be an extension to the developer’s arsenal, not be the only way a developer can interact with the system.
Quite the contrary.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wZH_N7cAAAAJ
The video linked in the article has been set to private, anyone know of a public version? Or a brief summary of the contents?
>an Excel-with-SQL-querying product

This is basically what Powerquery is, and it's been built into Excel for years. And it does other things too.
I’m not a yard company but I’ve talked to the team that does my yard and they said (two of them) that they do 12-16 houses a day and each house takes about 30 minutes. Usually one is blowing the whole time while one mows and weedwhacks and then the second puts on a backpack. They have a long day from like 7am to 6pm.

So my example certainly isn’t contrived. But it’s just one example and the only one I know.
*1 month, not one week, sorry. My edits aren’t going through atm.
“Cringe” is the best word to explain what I feel when watching or listening to his videos. It’s like Curb about Enthusiasm but without the humor.
my pressure washer is 20hp, residential electric services can’t power that large of an electric motor.
I envision the skill of giving good AI prompts to be as short lived as the skill of T9 texting. Probably even shorter.
I did the same recently, my few regrets is missing decent pdf/djvu reader as STDU and bad Bluetooth support.
I remember how intensely funny such non-sequitur jokes were to us at the same age. And they were quite similar to the one you quoted, absolute nonsense.

I vividly remember sitting in the back of my mothers car with a friend and just losing it for laughter. It was uncontrollable and my mother was rather annoyed.

It's almost sad that it doesn't work at all anymore.
As far as this thread relates to lisp, I have written OpenCascade bindings for CL:

https://github.com/awolven/oc

A truly new geometric kernel would be great, and it's been a dream of mine, but I have too many other things that need to be finished before I start writing one.
dieselgate, thanks for sharing this perspective. I totally agree with you; sometimes the psychologytoday articles miss their mark yet are still worth reading and evaluating even when I don't end up with a useful new tool or concept. I feel it helps me solidify and self-actualize what I am about and believe in.
Hey, I work on Excel at Microsoft and wanted to say: if anyone here has any feature requests they want escalated - write them here and I will bring them up.

P.S we actually do read all the feedback people leave in the feedback box - it goes mostly straight to the devs.
Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition
Because the people who plotted the coup bought ink by the barrel
Indeed - the 'cadence of English' prompt reminds me of Latin, or some other foreign-litany that's nonetheless repeated to an audience that's not following every word. And ~IIAOPSW has used real word-roots, hinting at meanings! (The FastText algorithm does a passable job at synthesizing word-vectors for unknown words using such fragments.) So rendering that as a religious scene isn't too surprising.

That morse code gives nothing useful probably just indicates some combination of – (a) few morse transcripts in training set; (b) punctuation-handling in training or prompting – makes it more opaque. It's opaque to me, other than recognizing it's morse code.
The complexity in this situation comes from the fact that Visa rejected Pornhub as a merchant in 2020 due to the same issue, and after Pornhub removed millions of unverified videos, Visa resumed working with the advertising arm of them. Although never officially said, it is clear what the reasoning was for removing the content.
> follows up with questions that go deeper into the specifics, rather than just returning to a script of pre-planned questions.

Maybe I just saw the wrong interviews, but I got the exact opposite impression from those I've seen. He was literally reading off a script of questions and not following through on interesting things the interviewee says or asking them to develop ideas or explain themselves. Can you point to any particularly good episodes that I can use to give him another chance?
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Kind of related: https://twitter.com/KidsWriteJokes

It's a collection of jokes (apparently) written by children. They aren't funny, in the sense that they make no damn sense. Yet, lots of them are funny in the sense that they are completely ridiculous but you can see what the child was trying to do, i.e. deliver a joke in the same style as they have heard before, e.g.

Knock, knock
Who's there?
A ladybug.
Ladybug who?
A LADYBUG. I just SAID that.
I use Excel every day. I just wish it had native support for Python or similar when it comes to scripting. VBA is OK - but it would be nice to get a more programming/script-driven Excel with support of languages you use for other things too.

Right now the way we go about this, is kinda hacky. But I have non-tech collogues that often request some methods or similar that I've developed, and that usually involves importing / manipulating / exporting excel files in Python. Would be much easier if they could just run the code within Excel, and get the desired results.
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Google does not allow anything that shows tits even if covered. And google gatekeeps advertising. But i remember decades ago, late night shows on TV which were almost soft porn had lots of ads, especially alcohol/cigarettes. We live in neovictorian times.
And this is after Hangouts was used as a replacement for Google Voice for years, and then they kicked out Google Voice from Hangouts forcing people to use the Google Voice app again, for Google Voice
> Are these people actually all buying Excel to run it on their Mac? Or are Mac users not spreadsheet users!?

I was able to avoid actual Excel for years until I became responsible for my divisions budget. Accounting people are all Excel that I can see.

Until then I used Google Sheets and Numbers just fine on my mac. And when I was only viewing the budget, Numbers did fine converting or I could use Excel in read only mode.
If you had the organizational expertise to hire such a person, and the leadership to prioritize it enough to happen - you already would probably not need them that much.
Sony has been strongly against it for some time. They have previously demanded that game studios like XSEED censor their games to allow a western playstation release (e.g. senran kagura's "intimacy mode") as part of an effort to clean up. A cursory search reveals this had happened to a number of titles. I've seen many examples of Nintendo doing the same.

Apparently they're also targeting extreme violence too, which I hadn't heard about.
https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/playstation-censorship...

It's disappointing that Sony et al feel that they have a right to control the user in this way, albeit unsurprising. Fundamentally, consoles aren't open platforms, and principled user rights advocates shouldn't support them.
It's actually pretty technically awesome too. When I was studying for an MSc in CS I focused on program synthesis and one of the key papers of applied program synthesis is Flashfill in Excel (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...). It might seem boring but there's a lot of really cool stuff in the backend of it!
So his crime is exploring other topics and expanding his podcast?

You don't have to listen to podcasts you don't like.
Their server is not 100% open source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29072031

Also, for a period of about a year, the code that was open sourced differed from the code actually running on the servers, adding "mobilecoin" features in secret. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715223
No idea why this got downvoted - most people's writing is so full of basic grammatical errors and bad habits they don't even realise they have. Finding such examples in your own writing is a great way to improve in my experience (whatever automated tools you choose).
Lex has a special skill of making me roll my eyes every time he speaks. I hate that I always return to his episodes, though (he has amazing guests). The way I approach it is to jump the parts he speaks.
It took less time for me calculate the hash (~2 seconds) than to do a stupid puzzle game.

Sincerely,

A user of a 8 year old smartphone.
A JS runtime is a lot more than the core engine, or else nodejs is just a thin wrapper over V8 as well, which is obviously absurd. So without a count of the source lines for each language's portion of the implementation (very rough but acceptable first approximation of how much is implemented in each), you can't claim C++ is doing most of the heavy lifting and be taken seriously.

PS. the worst C++ code is still a hell of a lot more safe than the best C code. This is easy to convince yourself of by noting that C++ mostly supersets C and only deviates to add more safety and static checking, not less. So it's a strict improvment over C, not by a lot, but an improvment nonetheless.

Here are other examples for VMs not written in any of those 2 braindead languages though:

[1] Bun : JS runtime in Zig. https://bun.sh/

[2] Squeak : Smalltalk VM written in Smalltalk. http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf

[3] PyPy : Not actually a single VM but an entire framework\toolchain to write VMs, most famous of which is one for Python. The language used to write VMs for the framework is a subset of python called Rpython. https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/

[4] Maxine Virtual Machine : a JVM written entirely in Java. It's not the only one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Virtual_Machine ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15733645

Modern VM research is far beyond the 50 year old assembler that thinks itself a programming language. The future is here, just not very evenly distributed.
From experience, most Excel solutions are due to people refusing to use whatever solution their ERP system is offering. Often with disasterous results, results that nobody really sees because it is just the status quo. Nothing wrong to use Excel for reporting and number crunching, ERP systems are not designed to do that.

I hate it when people take short cuts and corners because they refuse to accept that an ERP is there for a reason. I also hate it when the people setting uo an ERP ignore business needs. UX so is, rightly so, taking a back seat in all of these discusions.
I know what you mean, but it isn't quite the same I think. The anecdote I told in a sibling comment about a friend and me sitting in the back of my mom's car is an example. We were two very good friends, so there was no "in-crowd" dynamic at all, and we were absolutely loosing over it, it was genuinely funny to us. Roughly the same age as what OP stated, so there just seems to be something inherently funny about those non-sequiturs to young folks... maybe that's when you start to "deconstruct" concepts like humor.
Initially I put about €65k into put options. The crash came so fast that it turned into a lot more very quickly. If your bet turns green instantly, you don’t see the risk. I couldn’t do the same thing again. I was very naive, but it helped me to hold with conviction.
Funny enough, this actually cuts to the core of why strict serializability is so important.

“Technically speaking, every read-only transaction could return the empty-set (which was the initial state of the database) and not be in violation of the serializability guarantee --- this is legal since the system can bring read-only transactions “back in time” and get a slot in the serial order before any transactions that write to the database.”

https://fauna.com/blog/serializability-vs-strict-serializabi...
Yeah, his interview with Pfizer CEO was essentially an advertisement. He also advertises cryptocurrencies a lot, like they are the next money system in the world. Largely downgrading all their harm and inabilities. The man just making his own fortune.

On the other hand, the freedom that guests have is worthwhile.
Loneliness can have multiple sources. I’m a relatively social person who also enjoys his own company. I often feel lonely around people I don’t feel a connection with. It reminds me of growing up being the only “creative” in a family who saw art of any kind as a frivolous pursuit.
What might happen is a return of the original Anime market and (hopefully) more steady pay for animators.

The Japanese domestic market is dominated mostly by Manga, Light Novels, Visual Novel, (and now Gacha games) anyways, with Anime mostly being a cherry on-top for those things. Occasionally there will be a good adaptation or a good original Anime product but the industry’s been suffering a little bit. This new cash infusion might be healthy and allow for enough animators to be paid a livable wage that lets them go off and do crazy adventurous things as they advance in their careers.
we don't necessarily need to "copy" the existing brain. I guess by communicating with a "brain extension" it will gradually learn everything i know , enough to be a fascimile of my person. I don't need to know how it did it, just like i dont need to know all the weights of an artificial neural network.
that's a wonderful quote. thanks for sharing.
The biggest advantage LaTeX has is that the page width stays the same between various versions of your document, so you can improve it on the fly when you notice issues.

The web tries to support every possible page width so some won't look great.
How does it deal with people who have multiple passports? Or renew their passports when they expire? I have two valid passports right now, with different numbers, issued by the same country.

Stripe Identity seems to very explicitly not be intended to guarantee any form of uniqueness.
That's not really a fair comparison though. Recursion is strictly necessary to implement several algorithms. Even if "banned" from the language, you would have to simulate it using a heap allocated stack or something to do certain things.

None of this applies to VLA arguments.
Monopolies and industry consolidation should be illegal.
If only Congress would do its job.