skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not just VBA. LO Calc is still missing Excel Tables functionality, which is a biggie. It was added to Excel 15 years ago! It also doesn't have equivalent of PowerQuery/PowerPivot/PowerMap equivalent, which appeared in Excel in 2010-2013 timeframe.

So LO Calc is OK for basic spreadsheets, but any power user will gravitate to Excel due to functionalities.
Cough Starlink. It changes everything…
Running ultra-marathons is what comes to my mind also, because this is a rare kind of activities where age is at your side. No 14-years-old can run 100km a day without requiring a medical help, because of kinda another structure of muscles.

To tell the truth, if you have not picked some skill which you are going to be a world level of, in your 10s, then there is no hope you will do it in 30s. Your question is awesome to see how little of people (even such brilliant ones as HN crowd) can see this obvious thing.

Reading comments is so funny, everybody has their confirmation bias. For example, from my PoV the easiest stuff you can do is metal cutting/wood turning. Just buy a lathe, solve that safety issues for your eyes and fingers (this is the hardest part, no jokes), read few tens of books on metals, than work few years with a more and more competitive master - volia, you are a world-class metal cutter... Then I remembered, that not every child use to have the skills I have.

If you have not hammered a few thousand nails in your childhood than you need to hammer tens of thousand in adult age just to achieve my level of hammering. Obviously to hammer a thousand nails in childhood is in extreme way simpler than to hammer ten thousand nails in 30s. Another example of sad trend of being older is just a reading books. If you don't use to read books in your childhood, there is no way you will start it in your 30s, having such issues as: bad eyes, hard work, big house to take care of, demanding spouse, growing kids, and of course - lost ability to enjoy reading.

OK, while writing this comment, I realized what is the best answer to your question. This is aging. Any 30-yo (who has not done too danger things for longevity like drinking too much of alcohol or having a contact with too danger chemicals) can pretend to compete at a world level about who will have a longer life. I am really convinced that a significant amount of today's 30-years-olds from HN crowd will live to 100 yo, which is a world-level competition from all points of view.
Took me way too long to realize that you can't die in stoicist snake.
They haven't specifally addressed App Store + iCloud bundling...

Because they have been specifically targeting iPhone + App Store bundling: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22996248/apple-sideloadin...
How is the C memory modelled? One big Java array, or are there multiple data-structures?

For instance, what happens when you call a function-pointer?
"Like texts and icons and buttons and options"

Oh the horror... :)
I hope Intel get their act together and start manufacturing ARM chips designed by Apple for Apple. Competition will push TSMC even harder to innovative faster to stay ahead.
You can get the same look&feel with FAR Manager: https://www.farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en
The whole "fog of war" thing has a long time to play out. But, perhaps naively, I truly believe Putin thought he had a 3 day walk in the park, and did not expect a 165 day robust defence.

There's no sane military doctrine which uses your worst equipment first in a lighting strike, or 5 months later. This says to me that the truly horrendously awful state of their equipment and supply logistics is not some cunning plan. They can still win, but it's not the war he wanted. The longer it goes on, the more Russia digs itself into an economic hole, and attrition will tell on voters.
Flatpak does not require repositories; you can install flatpak app from an archive, exactly like deb/apt or rpm/dnf. Repositories are a convenience.
>It's painful to think of how much they own these days, weird they haven't faced Meta level anti-trust yet despite being way more of a monopoly imo.

Because Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on Gaming.

Nintendo and Sony hold huge shares. Steam owns a large percentage of games sales on PCs.

And iOS and Android gaming combined are bigger than PC and console gaming.

Other businesses besides gaming, I don't know. I know Microsoft does not have a monopoly on gaming.

However, I do think that them buying up large game studios will ultimately be bad for consumers. They're swinging money left and right to try to become a monopoly.
i've always wondered where the money is going in those kinds of trials.

It's supposed to be a compensation for damages to the consumers, but are the consumers ever getting any money from the fine ?
You can instead enjoy the horror of creating a situation in which despite not losing, there is no valid direction of motion, so your immortal snake is forever trapped in a prison of its own making.
Historical European Martial Arts.

At least for rapier and sabre, many people start late in the 30s and can compete pretty well internationally (see https://hemaratings.com/)

Same with sword and buckler,
Though I believe longsword and armored fighting needs more athleticism than other arts.

Feel free to see if you have a club nearby.
I thought this would let you would hire 10X programmers...
I was one of the authors of a widely used library, one that I expect thousands of people looked over, maybe tens of thousands. Noone noticed the easter egg I added, as far as I could tell, and I didn't even try very hard to obfuscate it.

I'll add my voice to the chorus: The article is horrible advice.
Obviously there is no bug when its doing while(true) dropCoreImage(); print(stacktrace)
i had to pause for a second, your comment sounds weirdly like a spam...maybe reward it
I've not known, Explorer to open instantly, or what I would call instantly, even on a fresh install, for some time IIRC. Heck, the amount of times I hit win+R to kick something off and that takes so long to open that the first couple of characters are missed and go to whatever window I had in focus at the time, is irritating. It certainly gets a lot worse when Explorer has been running a while (presumably this is why it has its own special case in Task Manager – pick Explorer and “end task” becomes “restart”) and its memory use has grown significantly (this is likely at least in part due to shell extension though the only one with any complexity I have installed here is MS's own TFS integration, and I have nothing like that running at home ATM).

Other things similarly take a while, like registering an update made elsewhere. These can be quite arbitrary, sometimes pretty instant, sometimes taking many seconds, and sometimes not updating at all until I explicitly refresh. I've even copied a small file to the same directory and waited several seconds before it showed up.

> Did you try to reinstall Windows?

For no sane desktop/similar operating system should “completely reinstall” be an off-hand answer for any but a massively significant error…
> It's not what people truly wanted in the first place.

The transition towards "a nonstop amusement drip" has been gradual and effective but it doesn't mean that the current situation was what people always wanted from the start. This has been the evolutionary journey of companies in search of maximum profitability. It has never been exclusively about what people want, it's also about what maintains profitable engagement and eyeballs for advertisers.

There's a general sentiment that people don't like the addictive nature of social media (see other comments in this thread). Social media users have become boiled frogs as the heat has been turned up on monetizing attention. I think it's fair to say that we've not landed on the optimal solutions for social networking just yet.

IMHO the current social networking market has reached an evolutionary dead-end. The platforms are all converging on a "content stream" model or group chat. I think that there are plenty more opportunities for digital social networking that get closer to what people really want but these opportunities are hard to see. Functional fixedness[0] is the biggest barrier to imagining what comes next but more possibilities exist than these.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness
Most of the major Linux distros I have tried are bloated. Full of Gnome or KDE programs I will never use. Most come with libreoffice installed which I will never use.
FWIW there's nothing about "vanilla JavaScript" that means IE9 will be supported. It's avoiding certain language features and DOM APIs that does it.

Just adding this because it can lead to the implication that not supporting IE9 means you're trying to do something frivolous as opposed to "vanilla JavaScript".
I understand exactly what OP means and I've been looking for something like this too.

When it comes to sports I think it needs to be something with lower physical bar such as table tennis, archery, shooting. Unlikely you can compete on world level but at least locally.

For other things I think certain computer games might do but you will be competing with kids that play 12 hours every day so again you can only compete on small scale and in my experience online competitive games attract the most toxic people. You can try Geoguessr which I think is your best option.

Then you have the more arty skills such as stand-up comedy, music production, cooking all can be competitive if you are into any of these and your age shouldn't matter much in fact it might help.
Also New Zealand. I heard they have more goats and sheep than human. Just not sure you need to rent one.
That's just the start. Soon the business people will become overwhelmed and pass ALSO this task to the developers.
Olfaction ? I can make your stomach gargle instantly. And blind people are said to have heightened senses.
I guess a really brute force way would be to have a huge dictionary mapping from "memory address" (really just an arbitrary number) to JVM object. malloc() would add to the dictionary and free() would remove an entry. Pointer dereference would look up in it but would need to be able to find the nearest lower entry (for when you have an array and dereference an entry in it, or use a pointer to a field in a struct).

I would hope that there's a much more efficient way to do it, this idea is just evidence that it could be done in principle. But I don't see what that more efficient way would be. You certainly need to keep a secret reference to each JVM object somehow because C doesn't require you to keep any pointer to an object e.g.

intptr_t x = (intptr_t)malloc(sizeof(int));
*(int*)x = 99;
bool did_subtract_50 = false;
if (x > 50) {
did_subtract_50 = true;
x -= 50;
}
// Now there is no pointer or even integer that contains the address

// ... later ...
// Retrieve the address and use and free it
int* y = (int*)(x + 50 * did_subtract_50);
printf("value: %d\n", *y);
free(y);
Only because their prey has a nervous system
So "just make it less vulnerable to SEO". My goodness. That Google/Bing/whatever didn't think of this.
> Unity has signed a lucrative contract with enterprise technology firm CACI that will see it become the "preferred real-time 3D platform" for future systems design and simulation programs across the U.S. government.

I know that some might dislike this on ethical grounds, but then again, I guess I couldn't really be opposed to something like Blender being used for 3D modelling for all sorts of domains, so my views of Unity shouldn't be that different, either. From a business perspective, that's just securing a lucrative deal for a high profile client.

That said, Unity still is one of the better options for 3D gamedev beginners: good workflows for assets and level design, lots of plugins and assets that are available, great platform support, good scripting with C# (performant enough AND reasonably easy to use), one of the best amounts of tutorials and guides available. Of course, the downsides are the instability of... pretty much everything in the last few years: the editor getting slower with each release and especially for large projects, VCS support with Git/LFS can be sub-optimal, URP/HDRP/legacy render pipeline split and problems with assets, DOTS being incomplete, multiple UI/input systems, new package management functionality and problems opening/upgrading 2-4 year old example projects, networking being deprecated and even the organization itself being a bit controversial.

If I wanted to make a game to sell without being skilled enough to grok Unreal, I'd probably still go for Unity. But personal projects? Godot. The open source nature allows me to dodge all of the above, even if something as basic as terrain support must come in the form of a 3rd party plugin in Godot and I probably wouldn't ship anything good anyways (at least until Godot 4 is stable with better 3D support and 5-10 years pass and there are enough assets to use as a crutch). Regardless, it seems to have reached enough of a critical mass to remain a viable option even in the future and get more love than something like Xenko/Stride (which I've mentioned before), or jMonkeyEngine (although that is lower level) and avoid situations like happened with Machinery altogether.

Back to Unity, though, I hope they stop implementing half baked functionality and spend 2-5 years fixing everything and working on consistency and stability instead. Which probably won't happen, much like in enterprise software rarely you get months/years to address all of the technical debt, but rather mostly keep implementing new features for direct business value.
I've been considering Alpine for my laptop. Minimal=good.
I'm in no way going to say win10 is a bastion of security but I don't know anyone who has had a virus with 10 compared to ENDLESS battles from back in the day helping fix friends/families infected PCs.

Not sure if people have just gotten smarter, or some of the default stuff is better, or both - but it is a markedly different time than before.
A New Theory in Physics Claims to Solve the Mystery of Consciousness
Most of it probably. And the more tokens you have the easier is to put majority of them in the stake, also any fees are irrelevant on the large scale operations, unlike the small transfers. So The biggest holders of tokens become the biggest stakers, and thus become the biggest earners. Since the rate of token accumulation will only increase because the of compounding of the tokens in the stake (new profits will be staked too).
It looks like he wants to self-host all his infrastructure. That's possible with Sourcehut, but last time I looked, it seemed pretty complicated to set up and operate.
That's what I'm hearing since 20 years.
Plenty wrong with this statement but the units are fine. If you ask somebody “how much energy does that lightbulb use?” the most normal and correct answer would be something like “40 watts”. An answer like “you mean ‘how much power’ not energy because the first law of thermodynamics dictates that energy is never created nor destroyed so it can’t really be ‘used’ now can it?” would be obnoxiously pedantic and totally useless.
Most cars do exactly the same thing, while programs there are not two the same.
That's a very reductionist view on the topic. I work in a fintech startup which automates detecting online fraud (our customers are mostly various online stores). I'd say it provides concrete value for society. There are thousands of startups like that, which generally increase efficiency in some existing business processes, or in manufacturing, shipping etc.
This is unbelievably cool. Bookmarked.
What's the protocol part you are referring to? The proper bytecode?
Also New Zealand but not their world. I heard they have more goats and sheep than human. Just not sure you need to rent one.
Why I hate support being done on Slack and Discord. You can't do a Google search for problems and solutions.

That said, I think Slack and Discord have an opportunity to create search engine indexable HTML pages for problems and solutions discussed in channels.

For example, they could have some sort of Github Issue like system inside Slack but still enable live chat. Then they could push each issue into a URL indexable by a search engine.
You can't even uninstall the chess game in macOS without disabling system integrity protection. Even then if you do an update it will return.
More discussion on the article in Science here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32435019

Top commenter there seems to find the reporting problematic. I’d love to see more discussion in that thread from anyone who is knowledgable.
They're not reducing their waste to zero, so that's not a full solution to the waste problem.
Construction dump trucks are used for transporting loose materials and bulk materials, such as gravel, sand, soil and rocks. They are also used for loading and unloading of heavy construction equipment components. The construction dump truck is designed to operate on rough terrains like farms or construction sites with uneven surfaces.
Yeah, take some breaks. Also don't refuse to take vacations.
The core product is constantly being improved, but they only have 3 major releases per year. The business decisions just are more popular on HackerNews.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-2022-2-beta-feature-hi...
Dot files are much better than hidden files on Windows (and before DOS). There you need additional attributes to hide files.

And hidden files seem to be an important thing. Some things you need to hide from the end user.
So Boron 11 + neutron = Boron 12, or Carbon 12???

No it produces three alpha particles, isn’t this fission?

I like the idea of this, but I’m still trying to understand how it can be called fusion.

I’m not being pedantic, I’m assuming there’s a really good reason for this, I might have missed it when I was in nuclear physics lectures.

But fusion is energy positive up to iron, wouldn’t fission be energy negative up to iron too?
> Paying down a mortgage builds equity in the home. It's because homes are relatively illiquid and most people choose to own instead of rent that housing works rather well as a de facto retirement account. I see no issue with that personally.

Irrelevant. Mere equity in a home with a flat value is essentially unaffected by lowered property values overall: you'll not be forced to 'save' as much, but the point of saving was to not have a mortgage payment anymore. If you don't need to 'save' as much to reach the same outcome, if anything that's a net good.

The only real downside here is if you were counting on moving to somewhere not affected by lower property values, AND you didn't invest the money elsewhere that would've gone into more expensive housing. But for most people, it's a good thing.

> Also, average home appreciation in the US roughly tracks inflation (which makes sense).

Your data is out of date. It used to hover around 200k current dollars on average, but now it's far higher. The increasingly terrible zoning and other building regulations finally caught up to us: https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

And note that it tends to be particularly bad anywhere the economy is good. Of course, some of that is expected, but the effect is just more drastic than it should be.

> No it was just an investment whose return variance is principally explained by randomness.

No, it's just luck compounded by regulations that favor handing out wealth to the elderly over the keeping costs reasonable for younger people.
I wonder if that would also make your brain extra tasty for zombies.
Relatively, right? It's like adding tons of variation and cycles in training (i.e. periodization). Done correctly, you can keep improving season after season.
Because if they put on the car window:

Car: €19999

Tires: €999

Just so they could have a main price tag under €20,000 while charging €21000, then they would also get complaints
The problem of "who pays for this?" still remains.

If it's free to the user, it has to be ad-supported (or I guess donation-driven; the Wikipedia/Guardian model, but I don't see that working so well for social media). If it's ad-supported that means the advertiser becomes the customer and the point of the thing gets subverted to maximise ad revenue.

If it's not free to the user, then we have to educate everyone that they need to pay for their social media. Not an easy task.
Maybe it's a joke about the (anomalous) detection of faster-than-light neutrinos?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...
A “multimillion” defense contract is about the bottom of the barrel for small defense contracts. Like maybe one or two programs with a few dozen people working on them for a year or two.
I'm not convinced the title rules on HN are having a major impact on which stories get upvotes on a frequent basis, but that's just my intuition and you may be massively right.

In which case I urge you to, when you see an example where you think the policy has indeed had a negative effect (which I'd also suggest isn't quite as basic as "did it lower the expected number of upvotes" but also "and not because it removed clickbait from the title"), either comment mentioning dang's name and saying why you feel that, or send him an email to the same effect (hn@ycombinator.com)

Not only have I often seen him engage in discussion and be open to changes for a submission when people felt a title shouldn't exactly fit HN's usual rules, but I'd also expect him to be open to changing the rules themselves if your feedback leads to his agreeing that there's a trend of submissions having the meaning of their title unfairly changed due to the generally good rules.

All that said, it's not really an example of a "HN bubble", nor of an "idea" that isn't allowed on HN.
How we approach virus scanning uploaded files
> have the power to dictate who wins elections

I hope you're kidding. That power has belonged exclusively to Facebook, Google, et. al. for at least the past 8 years.
Believe me, you simply do not remember how fast XP was. Install it in a VM and see for yourself.
That's a feature. If people wanted those discussions to be public/indexable they would post on stackexchange or similar.
Often people are asked to post their issue on stackexchange or github anyways.
Mastodon is anything but high-latency. If you missed a post in the stream of other posts it is gone forever, unless you were glued to the screen in hopes of not missing anything. I don't think it is better than Tiktok really, same basic principle of keeping people in the app.

Forums and blogs with comment sections are the only high-latency mediums, and I guess we will keep reinventing them every five years.
Copyright infringement in AI art
From my quick reading, it's a penalty, so it's not necessarily supposed to be a compensation, but a deterrent. So I guess the answer is that the money goes to "everyone", which is fine in my book (otherwise you have all the overhead of registering who gets what, which leads to a large chunk going to law firms).
at least she didn't eat the chicks.
My 30s were great. People stopped expecting me to grow up¹ and begrudgingly accepted that this is how things are going to be!

----

[1] Or grow up again… I grew up too much in late teens / very early 20s and have been working my way down since.
While I find myself agreeing with them occasionally, unixsheikh has an unfortunate habit of taking the extremum position in discussions like this, and not SUFFICIENTLY justifying it.

Reading code you use is a good habit. Reading it CAN improve its trustability, if you're familiar with both the language and the specific application space that the code operates in. Otherwise it's simply false that reading the code will help. In cases like that, it is better to use different heuristics for trust.

This 'overshooting the mark' behaviour is sadly very typical of a certain pocket of the Unix community, that have far too strong a conviction to their beliefs. I believe it severely damages the credibility of otherwise knowledgeable sources.