skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time of The Office release here (UK) it was a perfect satire. Many of us (not just in my bubble but according to lots of popular media outlets) very much had a socially-desperate David Brent for a boss, try-hard Gareth and drifter Keith as peers and we very much associated with Tim and/or Dawn who felt trapped in a world surrounded by the above metaphorically spinning our wheels in the mud of (then) modern office life with no prospects or hope in life.
Hangouts, Talk, Meet, Duo, new Meet,... probably missing a few there as well - you can clearly tell what gets people promoted at Google.
I know, it's just condescending implying that all these office fans don't get the underlying joke.
That's the example I always use for the people who say that protocol buffers are "type-safe" which they emphatically are not. Any empty buffer will successfully decode as any message that has only optional fields!
Don't need to go that far, we could put giant solar panels that would soak up sunlight 24/7 and transmit that to earth. I see it work on small scale experiments, I really think that is SpaceX's ultimate game plan. Only those with capacity to deliver payloads at scale will be capable of building these energy stations.

How they would deal with objects, meteorites and repairing is another concern but I'd imagine it won't be a giant solar panel but modular ones that are floating in cluster
We have a good old fashioned concept of "relevant market".

> A relevant product market comprises all those products and/or services which are regarded as interchangeable or substitutable by the consumer by reason of the products’ characteristics, their prices and their intended use.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...

Are we able to substitute browser engine or app store in iOS? If not, then its app store itself can make of a single relevant market. This is so obvious to the level that even Apple knows they cannot avoid, so they're trying to make an argument that app store and browser engine are technically inseparable system service, not an interchangable product. (I strongly suspect that this is one of the reasons why we cannot get standard 4~6 weeks browser updates for Safari, decoupled from OS updates) EU doesn't seem to be very happy with that argument so they passed the Digital Market Act in response. And US is preparing a bipartisan bill similar to DMA as well.

Yeah, I know the actual process for defining market is much more complicated but this is the basic idea. Antitrust investigation is a largely economical, data driven process and you cannot simply say "Even in their best market, the U.S., iPhone holds just a smidge over 50%". I won't assert they're in a monopolistic position, but many regulators (especially in EU) believe in that.
No. To be more specific, I made 750k and lost 250k (note: from a German tax perspective, you could subtract the losses instantly from the gains, unlike in the US, where losses are spread over many years).

I learned my lesson already and pulled the plug. At some point I realized that I know nothing and should get back to buy and hold.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but judging by the wibbly-wobbly walls, this is well behind the state of the art when it comes to the preservation of spatial invariants.

By comparison a lot of the more recent demos are not only capable of polyframe structure preservation, but also do a very good job at preserving invariants even of subjects that are moving and deforming (such as a speaking human).
I think the idea is that the derivative of x^2 is linear (namely 2x), which makes the training/backpropagation very fast since it can evaluate 2x much faster than dsigma(x)/dx, dGELU(x)/dx, etc, and also speeds up evaluation since x*x is faster than sigma(x) or cetera. But if so they didn't explain it well or possibly at all. And "nonlinear activation" is still nonsense.
That's only 2 months for 900 pages, like 15 pages per day, it's impossible to read it so fast. IIRC checking the proof of the last Fermat theorem took a few years (and a few modifications to fix holes).
Of course not - being an academic means working in academia. In the English-speaking world at least, in other parts it may mean other things (eg people who have an academic degree, regardless of what they do now).
Good stuff. Still it's worth to look at the the ice core data from Greenland drilling.
Not sure what you mean by "power queries", but Google Sheets support SQL queries.

Would be easier to see on an example.
When writing secure C? In most cases, absolutely.
Generally, I have found that it is not presently popular to have context-free opinions on issues of this sort -- if you believe that Alex Jones is a very bad person upholding very bad opinions, you'll probably support any bad consequences for him, however attained. If you believe that Alex Jones is a good person upholding good opinions, you'll then suddenly value the principles of law and privacy that historically would have prevented this from being permissible as evidence or the principles of journalism that would have prevented it from being widely published. (But would oppose those same principles in the case of a person that they then disliked)

(Check out https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/400/ , a fascinating study of how people observe different facts and reach different legal conclusions based on whether the acts in question are purported to be in support of causes which they support or oppose)
It's a good bet that a new phrase which would require explanation is not something you're likely to put in a play. But most of the stuff that Shakespeare scholars credit to him probably did originate with him.

The printing press was well established in Europe by his time (to preserve any prior art), and Shakespeare had an astounding gift for language.
There’s many supplements that help with this. Someone refers to it as snake juice. Various salts and minerals
We do - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/29/japan-kyot...

Same result.
I think that's the answer to the question TFA poses: because your cat's enormous ancestors also had efficient, fast brains. In order to not get got, we needed to be similarly equipped, reaction-wise, and optimized for fuzzy analysis of high-speed, blurry objects.

This, of course, shunts the question one level of abstraction away, but the standard evolutionary arms-race handwaving suffices here. So long as one side does it, by random chance or a side effect of sexual selection or whatever, the other side eventually does, too.
Web-rings [0] were a good way to do that discovery of allied sites back in the day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
I think laptops need another decade to catchup with the thin/quiet/coolness of the M1.
People in the United States strongly associate vegetarianism with whiteness
They can transmit thoughts directly into your head... via a computer monitor.

They call it a "a brain-to-brain interface", doesn't that imply one brain is wired directly to another electrically?

It opens with "The ability to send thoughts directly to another person’s brain is the stuff of science fiction. At least, it used to be." ... again, via a computer monitor.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/09/29/139965/the-first...

I remember when they billed kids fucking around with shape memory alloy as something really grandiose, I'll see if I can find that and come back and edit this post to include it if I do.
I would take issue with extremely. It is not tracking you all over the internet, it's just passing a token with a given ad click.
He is first author on a NIPS paper coauthored with two other people at MIT. That's a sign of legitimacy/accomplishment to me.
In the mid 2000s, the wireless network infrastructure at my university authenticated your device based on SSH'ing into a server. But the specific SSH server used at that time did not support password-less logins via keys, so it required typing in a password every time you connected (and WiFi was flakey in that environment in those days, so dropped connections weren't uncommon). I asked the IT support folks about this, and they told me that I should try adding it to the software. I figured out what it would take and wrote some patches, but then they said they couldn't run something customized like that. Years on their reasoning makes sense, but at the time it was really disappointing and I dropped the effort after that.
Like many here, I have mixed feelings regarding Lex.

Last time I heard him, he started the podcast saying that he “fears nothing and no one”, which of course means he's either extremely immature or a psychopath. I'm betting in the former.

For whatever reason, he manages to get great guests, so I keep listening. I wouldn't say I tolerate him because he mostly doesn't get in the way of the interview much. Which is good, but the bare minimum for a good host.

I used to listen to Rogan a few years ago, but it has become unbearable to me and the Spotify exclusivity deal was the push that I needed to stop completely.

With Lex, I keep coming back, reluctantly, so I guess he's got something going with his show.

Edit: oh, and Carmack is a legend, I'll listen to him with almost any interviewer.
>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.

I think your perceptions of Lex will mislead you to assume he's asking out of personal ignorance instead of asking simple questions he already knows the answer to for the sake of the audience.

As a result, you happened to pick a bad example as Lex already knew what the German Stasi was before that interview because he discussed it over a year ago with Michael Malice back in December 2020 (deep link to "Stasi" conversation):
https://youtu.be/uykM3NhJbso?t=56m39s

Lex does not tire out listeners with constant disclaimers in every interview by saying, "I already know about <X> but for the sake of my audience, what does <X> mean?"

Thankfully, he just shortens all that to : "What does <X> mean?"

... but then that makes him look unprepared. But if he puts in that disclaimer every time, we'd complain he tries too hard to let us know he's smart about the topic. Either way, it seems you can't please everybody.
A couple lessons I've learned:

"A king is but a foolish labourer / Who wastes his blood to be another’s dream" (Yeats)

"As a capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital." (Marx)
Lambdas are awesome but the ui and their management could use some work.

It would be great to have a “script” view to manage defined names instead of hacking them one by one.

Single line entry isn’t efficient and the default assumption that cursor keys navigate a sheet instead of the formula box, is annoying. I find myself copying formulas out of excel, modifying them in a text editor, and pasting them back.
But protobuf isn't grate, especially proto v3 is tuned exactly for googles needs, tools and approaches. But googles needs, tools and approaches are not fitting for most smaller companies.

And gRPC adds a bunch of additional complexity and failure modes, sure it's worth considering especially for larger projects. But a lot of projects get away just fine with a surprising small number of endpoints.
It's not around the corner, it's here and has been for years.
Oh I don't disagree that we should allow as many humans as possible to do self-actualize. It is clearly the right thing to do just from a moral standpoint. I just think that most of the people who fully "self-actualize to their full potential" as, say, a lobbyist or a conspiracy theorist podcaster would not be of as much benefit to the world as some of the enlightenment era scientists.

That was what I was getting at in my previous post: having everyone at peak potential is great when everyone is aligned. If there is internal strife, peak potential just means bigger conflicts. Taken to the extreme, that means bigger wars and billions of dead people. Until we can figure out the coordination problem, human limitations are not the biggest problem IMO.
Lol anom phone round 2?
Mainly Geometry and Logic
Mainly geometry and logic but end with mathematical physics. Must define and deduce some things first but hardcore science begins pg 24. Please read. Trinity logo, tenant table, definitions, Energy minimum and maximum. Please read.
Hi! Thanks for the feedback on Plasmic.

Re: "super heavy" output: A blank component should result in one corresponding div. Maybe you're weighing the API client library? You can codegen pure React modules if you don't want the loader library itself.

If you have any specific feedback on the UI, would love to listen. Thank you!
I've been working on this project for a while, trying to get at this problem — https://mmm.page

Feel free to look at some of the pages that people have created: https://showcase.mmm.page
I grew up upper middle class and earn a mid-low six figure salary. I used to be quite frugal. Now I'm just apathetic to it. I don't care at all about money. I have no particular financial goals. I save a lot without trying. But savings scale linearly in non risky comp scenarios. And that's kind of boring because there's nothing that I could imagine wanting that doesn't require orders of magnitude more money than I have now. Aside from the vague "retire early" thing.

Not a complaint.

> There’s something that people with money say that doesn’t make sense: that regardless of how much money you have, you run out of it just as soon.

This is just a weird thing to me. I didn't feel this was true on a five digit salary much less what I have now.
The long-term plan makes sense, but it's absurd that they'll have 2 different apps with the same name at the same time. At first I thought this was an Onion article.

I hope this is just some misunderstanding. If not, this will be a great example of how to confuse everyone.
One definition of many.

First, it's hard to rigorously reason about and convert to a quantitative metric.

Second, it would seem to imply that many geniuses in the math and sciences are not very intelligent.

Figuring out what we really mean is really hard.
I can open a 20 year old excel file on a random pc and it will run perfectly.

I will be able to reproduce results and inspect the exact equations generating these.

Try that with 20yo code (python,c++ whatever)

As a fresh grad I used to hate excel, but now I can totally see why it will never die.
> No, the most reasonable solution is for everyone to be responsible for their own pollution.

I think you are incorrect. 2 issues with this make it less reasonable than other alternatives.

1. Traditionally, costs are externalized to lower economic tiers (corporate socialism), in capitalistic countries. The wealthy charter isn't responsible for the Carbon, because they aren't producing it. It's not their plane. The cost might be shared across the staff (possibly + passengers) or the organization funding it, etc. There are a multitude of easily accessible avoidance tactics.

2. Politically, this is a non-starter for the masses during economic downturns and a 50/50 during economic upswings. The tyranny of the masses would rather a percentage of higher economic tier members take on costs than themselves.

These forces are a large part of why the movement for carbon neutrality has only been promoted (mostly voluntarily!) by big corporate PR announcements. Granted, mostly these are accounting tricks rather than true carbon sequestering, which is needed.
Many platforms, such as Google, make A/B testing attribution (ie. incrementality measurements) really easy to perform.
Yeah I think it's a serious trap to only look for mainstream appeal. The long tail has been severely neglected the last 10 or so years, and I think this is an opportunity to be part in creating something new. Like who cares if it doesn't become the next Facebook. Maybe that's a good thing.
Those dates are on record, and if we use them as proxy data to predict the summer average temperature, it does a remarkably good job, explaining 60% of the variance of the temperature data:
I don't think the media matters much. They are fighting over the definition of recession while half the businesses on the avg main street block shut down.

The quality of life for the average non tech Americans is dropping, that usually ends up with a candidate who represents rage.

Someone is coming who will punish the elites and experts for failing to live up to their promises.
I don't agree with that article. I previously wrote about my disagreement on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29141107

To summarize, a PhD often (maybe even typically) does not bring someone to the edge of human knowledge. Often a PhD gets people near it, but given the shear amount of scientific literature out there, it's difficult to know where the edge is.
I think this is a common misunderstanding about UB. It's not that anything can happen, just that the standard doesn't specify what happens, meaning whatever happens is compiler/architecture/OS dependent. So you can't depend on UB in portable code. But something definite will happen, given the current state of the system. After all, if it didn't, these things wouldn't be exploitable either.
> this isn't necessarily something they want to optimize for

Exactly. Maybe they want to optimize for character. Or happiness. "Starting a successful company" is not most parents' top priority for their children.
I've thought about hosting a podcast with a similar format to Lex's and yet I don't listen to podcasts much so I don't know what's missing from the scene.

If there were another one like Lex's, how would you want it to be? What would you want to be the same, what different?
Wow so much unprovoked hate. Sounds like the issue is more with you than anything to do with Lex.
Like the watermelon
https://images.app.goo.gl/8miHX48hfcHZ3rGQ7

Or the chicken

https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/2/6875031/chickens-breedi...
> TikTok doesn't even require searching for and connecting with friends before you get your dopamin kicks

It is a shame this is how it went. Despite the many ills of social media when I was coming of age, the connecting with friends and sharing random comments was what made it worth the time. It was just another medium of interaction in my friendships. If I went back on to facebook, I'd still find long threads from those formative days.

Now, the human touch is even further buried amid the endlessly funnelled consumption.

I want to be an optimist and say this will strike a peak and we'll go rolling back down the hill to user-centred websites again.
PowerQuery. It's a tool built into Excel. It's a GUI that wraps an almost purely-functional DSL designed for ETL and data munging, called the M language. You can either use the GUI or write the code directly. It has first class functions and closures and normies are programming in it. It's great. More people should know about it.

Btw it's kind of funny seeing so many HN users, many of whom must be working on software that competes with Excel either directly or indirectly, who are so unknowing of the full capabilities of Excel, capabilities that are the bread and butter of any e.g. financial analyst, or logistics manager, or any smart non-programmer white collar worker. Maybe this "hacker repulsion field" is the secret of its dominance -- you can't compete with it if you never learn what it can do.
"To get to the other side" has a double meaning (to die, perhaps by being hit by a car).

So the chicken joke is not necessarily an anti-joke.
“This inn
on the road to Iwanoue
is a cold place to sleep…

Oh monk,
would you please lend me your robes?

The monk’s reply:

Those who have given up the world
wear only a single layer
of moss-rough cloth,

yet not to offer it would be heartless.

Let us sleep together, then.”

A poem/joke by Ono no Komachi from c. 825 — c. 900
The reddit quote (image, sigh) is right: in Rust `unsafe` has its place. The language has been designed with the escape hatch from the start, so the "safe" subset of Rust is not a complete language. Rust wouldn't get far as a systems programming language if it always had to face limits of the borrow checking model and require the mythical Sufficiently Smart Compiler to magically fix every performance overhead.

Rust still helps ensuring that the "hold my beer" blocks are correct by reducing their scope to a few clearly marked places. This helps focus code reviews and fuzzing. Rust also encourages wrapping of high-risk code in foolproof abstractions, and has universal rules for how tight and robust such abstraction has to be. In a way, Python or Java are also safe abstractions on top of "unsafe" CPython or HotSpot. In Rust this division is just more granular, with the same syntax on both sides.

It's worth remembering that in Rust "safe" refers to Rust's specific guarantees around memory safety and thread safety, but the field of software security is much larger than that. There are lots of possible logic bugs and security issues beyond that, and Rust won't stop you from running `remove_dir_all("/")`.
I didn’t see a mention of Chris Farley. He says it in 2 of his movies from the 90s I believe.
For those griping about using JSON manually with their APIs ... This tool is a big help for working with GRPC (at least from cli)

https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl
This surprises me. I visited a major tool manufacturer a couple of years ago and even their midrange electric drills now use a microprocessor (specifically an ARM Cortex of some variety) and a sensor to synthesize the waveform that drives the brushless motor. They were talking to me because it had so much extra computing power for so little cost they were trying to find IoT applications for the thing.

I would expect commercial-grade electric chainsaws to use similar technology, and that they could be programmed to cut power in the event of a sudden speed reduction, mimicking the safety of a gas engine. But what do I know.
Wait really?

Well if thats the case, making VLookups be able to use any column as an input or output, rather than being limited to having the input on the left and the output on the right.

Ideally I'd be able to have 2 additional parameters, one that would indicate the column where the input value is to be found, and another that would indicated the column from which the output value would come from.

I know there are some work arounds, but this would really simplify my life!
Well, it has, because since you drove all the way to McDonald's to buy your drugs you might eat there as well.
It is a smart decision and a point where many companies fail.

Excel works perfectly as it is, it is a product that sells well, there is no reason to change it. They modernize it from time to time, but they follow what may be the most important thing in production: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Internet Explorer? It was already broken to begin with. Edge? No one wants it. .Net? Made to compete against Java, now facing competition from browser engines. These products have room for improvement, they need to be worked on. Excel just needs to keep being Excel.
I've personally thought it's a side effect of bringing the masses to the internet.
Joe has this whole meat-head misunderstanding the world thing, it's actually a very useful prompting mechanism for insights from his guests.
Same basic idea as a well. When you extract water from underground it gets to your borehole through lot’s of tiny cracks greatly increasing the surface area.

In some places you can tap into an underground very hot aquifer. In others with sufficient permeability need only need to supply your own cold water. Worst case you also need to crack the rock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_geothermal_system