skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find a better rule that people should follow to not tell anyone if you are bad at it while your job is ‘doing excel’. Or tell you are good at it when you don’t even understand the basics. The number of excel sheets I have seen which contain hardly any formulas and errors trivially prevented with basic experts made by people who get paid big money to work with excel is cringing.

Taking many hours to do things that take minutes even if you know some basics. And then when something changes, say, hourly rate, manually redo everything. I have not seen this once or twice but at least 100x from 100 different people who are supposed to know better.

I don’t claim to be good at it but come on. I have too many anecdotes from both big and small companies that abused Excel in every way possible and every way is considered extremely bad practice.

(Off-topic maybe) The other way as well; creating documents with 100s of sheets so complex they can be seen as a small neural net almost and then, because no one really understands it anymore, just connect it up to a webservice via OLE with ASP.NET and there we go. So… many… times…
That's a variant of guarantee.
IBM sales jump shows the mainframe is not dead
Thanks! One well intentioned mistake we made at a previous residence was to plant some flowers for pollinators that were not native. They weren't invasive, but they were prolific. The issue was that they bloomed late enough that the butterflies didn't move on and froze.
FWIW economists have known since the 60's that Boomers would be retiring in large numbers around now. This makes me curious why businesses have not been proactively planning for this somehow. Is there a gap in business processes that excludes economics? Is this something taught in business school?

Boomers ruin everything.

Next in line will be Gen-X albeit a much smaller group. I can't fault any of the groups, retirement is expected behavior and something we hopefully all get to do. I believe the onus is on the business to plan accordingly. Perhaps even better would be to prioritize documentation and training to be on par with the primary function of the business. This could even be part of business continuity planning. Maybe insurance companies could add this as a line item in their audits.
Maybe as a society we shouldn't expect 18 year olds, fresh out of their parents' homes, to already know what the hell they want to do for the next twenty years of their lives. And then also to understand the market opportunities (or lack thereof) of their choice.

Many college degrees have a negative ROI or are oversaturated in the workforce or are completely unnecessary to their given career track. Our primary school system is pretty bad and we're not equipping 18 year olds, who are still emotionally and mentally immature, to make those kinds of decisions and take out a 5-figure loan, sight unseen, on dreams and naivete alone. It benefits only the lenders at the students' expense.

There are so many tweaks we could make. Encouraging real-world experience before starting college would be helpful. Putting trade schools up as an alternative would help many who struggle in the detached ivory towers of universities. Funding secondary ed, as many other countries do, would make sense as a continuation of primary school (especially in America, whose primary school systems are so quantitatively and qualitatively poor compared to the rest of the developed world). Revamping Common Core to meet more modern needs, and including extensive career & life planning for students of different backgrounds so they can see their options in the future instead of just learning from their parents and pop culture. Whatever, the possibilities abound, and many other countries do things better or worse in some way -- there are plenty of lessons to learn from.

Looking at the finances in a black box is missing the forest for the trees. It's not just about who pays. The whole system is antiquated and failing our children; in America you're basically born elite or you're doomed. There is no social mobility anymore, and that's not something that allowing student loan bankruptcies alone will solve.
It is not just about ocean plastic. Garbage is burned as fuel too in less developed countries. Stopping dumping of garbage in 2nd and 3rd world countries by developed/first world countries is going to benefit the environment in more ways than just reducing ocean plastics. We need to hold waste producers accountable. We need a systemic change, more push to reuse and recycle, better laws to limit production of single use plastics and a push towards repairability to limit production of e-waste.
You can consider also lnx that is based on tantivy and is performing quite well (https://lnx.rs/).
It's not just this article either. No matter where you read in Swedish medias, it's always speculation.

There's zero evidence between a connection between these thefts and Russia. The mere idea is ridiculous, Russia could just order Canon DSLRs online.
Actually not bad to disproportionately favour experts when making posts on particular subjects. I guess this could be explored by a startup, I always love it when the community here comments on science stuff and give extremely informed examples. Formalising that is a good thing IMO.
This 100%. My hell for a couple years was being an Excel forms "developer" as part of my job duties, and maintaining an extremely complex Excel spreadsheet (that should have been a web application) that I inherited from my predecessor. I wish I had taken screenshots but I think some of the most complex formulas in it had about a dozen levels of branching in them, and to make it worse it was used for a business critical process related to documentation requirements for consumer mortgage loans. The formula shown in the screenshot is representative, though to make it more manageable you can hide and label intermediate calculations in hidden columns and sheets. It looks like they may have done some of that based on the cell references, but they could still offload a lot more of that to different places.

There were days I spent several hours clicking "Evaluate Formula" button close to 100 times in a row to debug things like this. The syntax colorization definitely helps, but I would have killed for just the ability to pretty print a formula or set a breakpoint. I'm always shocked it doesn't have features like this that programmers depend on, but I wonder if part of that is because the people that would write something this complex in Excel have never experienced all the tools you get with "real" programming languages.

At home I was getting deeper into Linux and bash/python, and that made me resent Excel even more. I finally moved into the IT department and got really into PowerShell and training myself as a sysadmin, but I would still get requests about that damn spreadsheet for at least a year or two until they finally stopped asking. I used to enjoy problem solving challenges with Excel for a while, but in the end it became a parasitic relationship because of the time needed to fix issues and the complete lack of ownership and knowledge within the department that supposedly owned the form and process.

Critical decisions are made based on Excel formulas like these, (people getting fired, financial decisions, etc.), maintained by people that barely understand programming. Yes, it's nice that it's helped democratize automation and coding for non-technical people, but Excel just wasn't designed for things this complex. When your Excel formulas and macros start to look like this, you need better tools to manage the complexity and trust the maintenance to tech people instead of business people that don't fully grasp the monsters they're creating when they just keep using the only tool they know.
I stopped using Windows because I was tired of Windows doing updates / telemetrics without my control when I was playing games or waiting for code to run over night. I was tired of other technically minded people telling me that I was being unreasonable when I wouldn't have those issues on Ubuntu...

Sometimes I have to switch to my windows partition to use some software and it will sometimes update, completely messing up my bootloader until I get off my behind and load grub from a USB stick.
There is a modern successor to APL often used in finance called Q from kx. A lot of analysts swear by it, but personally I prefer Julia as, like APL, it's a bit write only.
A follow-up on our analysis of the anomalous restriction map of SARS-CoV-2
This is also the first rule of front end / mobile development (if you're a full-stack dev)
What applications do you want to use a stylus with? iPads are really good at what they do, and Apple makes integration with their laptops straightforward. You can easily share files back and forth.

In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if you could use an iPad as an external display with the Apple Pencil, but I haven’t researched that.
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955910
Also being able to care and then act brings the assumption that you have the free time to spool up a mini research project on each and every consumer good you buy.
Read a Paper: PromptSource – An IDE for Prompt Engineering
This is pretty cool! Transferring files from Android -> Mac is definitely a pain point for me and I'm sure many others. Nice work!
Imagorvideo – video thumbnail server using RMSE in Go and FFmpeg C bindings
You also have people that sign themselves up for a bunch of debt for their kids college that they themselves can't afford with the expectation that their kids will be better off for it. Not everyone is smart enough to realize this is a terrible idea.

Case in point - Parent making $13/hr decided it was a good idea to take out $40K in loans...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stuck-until-die-parents-buried-11...
Texas is attracting companies that can't recruit in the Bay Area and/or whose execs don't want to pay income taxes.
>Idk how they're teaching the quadratic formula nowadays, but when it was taught to me it was taught as a fact to be used later on.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could actually say that and believe it. In what scenario would a person that is not actively working in a STEM field (and frankly even then) ever need to solve a quadratic equation by hand? When most kids can barely handle using the formula on it's own I don't think deriving it is going to add any value to anyone other than already advanced students.
> this is part of the reason behind the push to ban nitrogen fertilizer

Sure, that might be true, but it is definitely blatant misinformation that Dutch farmers are being blamed for climate change. It is not part of the discussion that's currently ongoing in The Netherlands and that is purposefully being misrepresented in (mostly American) right-wing media. This needs to be clear, because the violent protests by framers in The Netherlands are being abused by foreign interest groups who frame them as protests against those farmers being blamed for climate change.

This is a real issue, because this is starting to become an actual discussion point for those who are supporting the farmers. They are, for example, asking why farmers are now targeted and airports are not, while farmers cause 88x more nitrogen emissions than flights in the Netherlands. Also, those emissions are less focused on the problem areas.

Misinformation is incredibly harmful in this discussion and therefore it's incredibly important to keep the facts straight. Otherwise all discussions and arguments will mix and there will never actually be anything done.
> Accessibility is effort, not money.

I've been paid to implement accessibility. I made a lot of money.
Yes, one could argue, that the state of Delaware should be the world's 4th economy, since most of the Bay Area companies are registered there (alongside many others).
Unless you have wild mammals visiting your garden regularly it's quite unlikely there will be a single tick in it.
It would have a blink sensor that turns it off when a blink is detected or it points at your nose or something, right?
So if hold a job and are painter in your spare time does the corp owns your paintings as well? This is hilariously abusive
Time flies. Seems like just yesterday the clock hit 1,000,000,000 (Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001)
I don't really get that impression reading the comments. Hacker news seems to be anarchist co-ops all the way down....
Isn’t that slightly helped by the USD being worth 20% more than the EUR than it was 12 months ago?
> Windows is the legacy proprietary system people only support because it gets them paid.

Windows is the system everyone actually uses - even developers!. I write software because I care about people using it.

> Why should the developers be shamed for not going of their way to support Windows conventions for Unix software?

Because it's wrong on Unix, and even wrong on Linux, and once you are doing the right thing on Linux it is no longer out of your way.
And with products that offer connectors for Excel, like Celigo, you can run every business process imaginable in Excel. Perfect for the accountant/controller who wants to micromanage the entire company.
Excel is the king of financial models - nothing else compares and that is going to be exceptionally difficult to mount a competitive product against it.

For everything else -- and for next level of data manipulations (ie some technical ability) go straight to python (pandas specifically) - or i guess one of those excel + database companies.
Yes, so the conclusion is that political agitation is necessary if the goal is to change those working conditions
It surely would balance the overly priced items for nearly everything.
Agreed. It’s not necessarily 80/20, it’s just that power laws show up a LOT. 90/10, 99/1, etc.
If you don't think you can quarantine old people and people with actual immune system issues, why do you think you can quarantine healthy children?

I honestly don't think either could have really been achieved. But it's illogical to recognize that it's impossible for one group to justify pulling out all the stops to quarantine children.
What does “entire internet’s traffic” really mean? There isn’t one single measurement point through which all traffic flows, so what set of connections are they measuring? Maybe traffic between BGP peers?
> but there's almost certainly a clause about how the service comes with no warranty and you're storing your data at your own risk

You can disclaim liability all you want, but there comes a point where you are selling data storage, and not delivering what you sold. Also, believe it or not, contract can contain terms and exclusions that are illegal and will be set aside in a lawsuit.

> So they're not obligated to do anything really.

This is what everyone sued for fraud or breach of contract thinks before an expensive, long, slow education takes place.
Do you have anything online about your VR exhibit design app? This sounds really cool!

Our team wasn't involved in the Smithsonian API portion—we really focus on the bulk access pattern, mostly via object storage (e.g. S3). That is, we see object storage / "just give me all the data" as the base of the pyramid for data access.

Purpose built APIs that add value can be consumers of data via more general access patterns. Specialized APIs can add heaps of value for a given use case, but they can also limit the breadth of applications for other use cases.
The trouble with anti-ballistic missiles at any scale is that the footprint that can be protected by a missile base is small. You can defend Washington, DC, Moscow, or an ICBM field, but it is not so practical to populate a large area such as "east coast cities".

The US has a relatively good answer for this in that it has roughly 100 ships with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Combat_System

which can be maneuvered to have a fairly large footprint, but in the case of Ukraine there is a lot of interest in deploying anti-cruise missile defenses but very little in anti-ballistic missile defenses. That's because a cheap system like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASAMS

has a fairly good footprint against cruise missiles but something expensive like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot

would struggle to protect all of Kiev, never mind the rest of the country.
The highway blockades have lead to accidents too, in one case a fatal one: https://www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/3443753/twee-aanhoudingen-n...
> lets-knuth-this-thing

As a related aside, Don Knuth once composed a work for the pipe organ based on the book of Revelation:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html
You got plenty of water mass up in your cranium too!

All I know is my headlamp gets mighty hot when it is running at peak intensity. Like hard to touch levels of hotness.
> Either it can transmit all of the internet traffic, so it has sufficient bandwidth to theoretically mirror the whole internet traffic, or it can't. A time unit doesn't make sense here.

It’s not a time unit. It’s a rate. The rate is twice the rate of traffic on the internet. Therefore it can transmit all the traffic on the internet.

Ideas like traffic only make sense in the context of per-unit-time, because they’re fundamentally about a flow.
Non-voting shareholders can and will sue, and in the US they will probably win. This pretty much forces companies to please shareholders as much as possible at the expense of everything else.
How does it demonstrate the fluctuation from the last 100k years? (per article)
Happy All Hallows Eve!
Even though AWS makes tags optional. You shouldn’t.
Install LibRedirect extension and it will convert most user hostile links like TikTok to their open source community proxy alternatives.
>We also present a theoretical analysis that indicates that a single, chip-scale light source should be able to support 100 Pbit s–1 in massively parallel space-and-wavelength multiplexed data transmission systems.
You can have a look at Quickwit (https://quickwit.io), it's a search engine made for logs :). It's still pretty young and... there are way less features than in ES.

(disclaimer: I'm one of the cofounder)
Microsoft excels in encouraging their users to be dumb and dumber. Just out of the kindness of their hearts.
I see what you mean, I guess the best and only way to do that would be to write integration like tests with something like Cypress, as you could with any web-app.

If you want to verify that it works how you want vs how it's setup to work, then you would be better leaning on existing tools that can do that.

My point about not needing to test it was about the implicit trust you would put in a platform like this, just like you would trust that a library you import behaves how it describes. It's not expected that you should write unit tests and integration tests to verify the behaviour of an external library
"web3"
Being titanium means it acts as a heat spreader and a buffer that can absorb and dissipate the small bursts of heat you might expect from brief flashlight use. Rather than the LED touching one spot in your eye socket (which would probably be a noticeable amount of heat even if not uncomfortable), the heat is spread over the entire titanium body.
We're actually lucky that the current global political & economic system allows governments to enforce this. Companies can weasel out of paying taxes to the country in which they operate, but they generally can't escape the local country's regulation with regards to how they render their services.

All we need is political momentum to enact the regulation - and that's easier said than done.
GDP growth and general well-being are not aligned. The more $50,000 emergency room bills we print and the more $2M toilets we construct, the better GDP looks.
Can you explain why do you find the above explanation amusing? I honestly don't see the absurdity of it, although, my livelihood may depend on me not seeing it :)
Have you tried r/science and r/askscience? It's still reddit, but more scienc-y than most of the web, at least. Also if there are specific subfields of science you're interested in, the smaller subs tend to be higher quality too.
CA prefers to lead on insane housing prices, inequality and number of billionaires. They have played a pretty good role in environmental protections though.

Not sure how I should think about homelessness in CA. I think the problem is that the climate attracts homeless people.
When you say "the science community on twitter", are you referring to a group of actual scientists, or the group of "science communicators" and misc academic hangers-on, plus non-scientists who interact with them?
So undefined behaviour only applies to compiled languages? that seems strange.

I thought the behaviour was simply whatever cpython does but it seems it is documented (so not undefined, indeed as you say). Copy pasted below with source.

Note

There is a subtlety when the sequence is being modified by the loop (this can only occur for mutable sequences, e.g. lists). An internal counter is used to keep track of which item is used next, and this is incremented on each iteration. When this counter has reached the length of the sequence the loop terminates. This means that if the suite deletes the current (or a previous) item from the sequence, the next item will be skipped (since it gets the index of the current item which has already been treated). Likewise, if the suite inserts an item in the sequence before the current item, the current item will be treated again the next time through the loop. This can lead to nasty bugs that can be avoided by making a temporary copy using a slice of the whole sequence, e.g.,

https://docs.python.org/3.7/reference/compound_stmts.html#th...
It would be nice to see some boomers retire from politics. The U.S. sometimes looks like a Soviet-style gerontocracy and China seems to be going the same way now that Xi gave himself a third term.