skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I tried typing a formula in a cell and it went blank.

Is there something I should be doing?
I'm in a similar position -- I only code because I enjoy it, but I also just don't have the time to actually finish the coding projects that I'd like to. Plus, I'm a pretty bad coder because I only have a few hours every couple of weeks to focus on it, outside of the occasional bigger project. I'm going to look into Copilot to see if it can help me actually do what I want.
Those are some bold predictions based on no evidence and Apple's track record of doing just what you say will now be impossible.
Yeah, as someone who doesn't pay for MS, I'm basically using a combination of Calc and Gnumeric, because G can open larger files (handled larger files than Excel in fact), but Calc has more features, and it's more similar to Excel which I was used to. ONLYOFFICE's sheets can also be handy, if MS Excel compatibility is wanted.
Uh, extremely high? It just wouldn't be Musk doing the evidence releasing, instead it would be leaks from other employees.
>Only real world power matters. Might makes right.

The latter isn't just a rephrasing of the former but an expression of assent to it, and most people probably don't mean that.
you are citing a work of fiction as if it was evidence for something
Some went to Nuvia which was later acquired by Qualcomm. Ian Cutress gave some history in this video: https://youtu.be/zhQ_ytzLUnc
> There is definitely a higher barrier to entry with Java

This is what is missing from the conversation. Most of us Java fans have been doing Java for a while. I started in '96. We know the JVM. We grew up with Java and were exposed to various aspects of this platform for over 2+ decades. Java the language is not that hard to pick up, but the platform in its total glory is formidable to those new to the language.

I myself never realized this until a few years ago when in course of quizzing a very vocal anti-Java front-end dev in a startup, he blurted "it intimidates me".

And I think this is really the issue.
I love Java.

I focused on front-end for 10 years. Starting with motools and IE6, jQuery, into React + Redux. I moved on exclusively to backend development after a few years of the latter.

You couldn't pay me enough to maintain a highly available/scalable system that wasn't written in a "verbose," strongly typed and compiled language. I'm done with that pain. If you're going to pick Node, I hope you're using TypeScript. Python, no thanks.

Refactoring and implementing new features in Java with IntelliJ feels like cheating, in comparison.

Even Go, which I actually really like, starts to lose specificity at large scale due to its intentional terseness. I deeply dislike implied interfaces, and the error handling in a large codebase is really noisy (one of Java's main complaints), without much net benefit.

There definitely was a learning curve with Java. To the untrained eye it looks very noisy and magical, but once you learn to visually parse it and understand what all the annotations do you can move very quickly with low risk.

Your mileage may vary. If you can move fast without breaking things using some other technology, go for it. But I hope you're prepared for success, when 30+ devs are contributing code to your house of cards. You'll want all the natural protections you can get from your choice of stack.
I don’t know how useful this reply is. Essentially everything it suggested is not “software that most users don’t use” (which is what was requested). It just a list of really common software, with lots of fluff text. If you knew nothing about software, this list could be helpful, but otherwise this reply is not good.

That being said, I find ChatGPT really useful for generating basic code samples. It can replace basic uses of Google and Stack overflow.
Not directly. It made me think of it, because of the premise of the movie ( utopian society based on killing off undesirable society members ).

Bill Burr's running joke is that there is too many people in the world and if he was a dictator, he would be quietly depopulating the earth by sinking cruise ships ( and help economy by building more cruise ships ), because people who use cruise ships are likely low value individuals ( paraphrasing for brevity ).

The connection is there, but it is not apparent ( and not that many people these days are familiar with Logan's Run ).
That is so typical apple, penny pinching on compensation and worker experience with things like mandatory office commutes and charging for food. I've heard they've changed their tune recently at least comp wise, is that true?
Historically, over the span of centuries war with strong neighbors is certain.

U.S. already had multiple wars where their geography kept their infrastructure and citizens safe. Other countries got obliterated and lost their superpower trait.
Accounts are a barrier to sales.
Seems like it’s an unpopular opinion, but it seems fairly reasonable to me to restrict someone who is currently, actively suing you from using your place of business.

It’s neither punitive nor petty. It’s simply practical from a legal perspective.
Has those people have any understanding of what is their computer? It is layers upon layers of abstractions, plenty in hardware and even more in software. In fact, the only tool we have to actually solve complex problems is (good) abstractions. So those haters should probably find better arguments.
Destruction of jobs and services != justice.
I used Dynobase for roughing out a DynamoDB project this year. It's the best and only real GUI for DynamoDB at this point. Many, many hours saved.
Most of the planet isn't American and does fine without one. Infrastructure in the US is designed in a specific way to prop up the auto industry and the increasing size of cars continues to do so.

It will take a long time to undo, but there are billions of people living in communities that don't require any car, let alone some 3-4 ton monstrosity (~80% of the world owns no car at all).

Previous to the race to drive the biggest car on the road, even in the US cars were not as large. The common refrain is that safety features inflated the size, which is partially true, but wildly overstated considering there are plenty of smaller cars available today.

There's nothing special about the US that makes cars a requirement by nature.
It is with bitterness and misery people learn that sometimes violence is neccessary.
Scale is also an issue. So many things are either owned by a megacorp or run via a centralised platform. Getting banned by a store pales in comparison to being banned by Uber, Google, Visa, etc.
> (especially in the urban areas and states like California)

It's by no means isolated to such places. The rural area I grew up in out east has seen increasing problems with theft in general, packages included. It was very unlikely there as a kid in the 90s — people left their doors unlocked all the time — but these days you not only need to keep your doors locked but make sure it never looks like your house is unoccupied for longer than a couple of days.
People were talking about a recession in mid 2021 as I remember it. Still waiting….
Gaming was super solidly entrenched on the Windows side. Valve put some muscle behind Wine and proton and that is no longer the case. I mean Apple even made Rosetta 2 for this silicon migration. If they really wanted it, it's totally within reach.
> The false positive rate on quality facial recognition is actually very low.

It depends on the purpose. For identity verification purposes, when you already have independent reason to suspect that someone is specifically Person X, then a "very low" false positive rate is likely sufficient.

For filtering, however, "very low" isn't enough. Suppose your facial recognition system has a 0.001% false positive rate (one per 100k), but you have a list of 1000 banned faces and your venue sees 10,000 visitors per night. You're making ten million comparisons, and that "very low" false positive rate will still result in 100 false matches.

That could still be okay, if a match just involves (here) pulling the patron aside for an ID verification. Asking 100 people for ID is much more benign than turning 100 people away at the turnstile. MSG here did appear to follow the match with a secondary verification (per the article), but I shudder to think of all the venues that will hear "very low false positive rate" and not really think through the consequences.
What language(s) do you do most of your work in?
You can also add a comment for searchability, as in:

> big hairy command with --lots --of arguments # foobar

Then you can search for 'foobar' via fzf or whatnot.
SBF was donating his customers’ deposits. Bill Gates is donating his own wealth.

SBF made his money from a Ponzi scheme. Gates made his money selling software.

SBF’s wealth existed only in fantasy land. Gates’ wealth exists on the real stock market.

I could go on. At no point am I claiming that Gates is an angel or that every action taken by Microsoft over the last 40 years is faultless. No, they’re both far from perfect.

But SBF is a con man. And Gates is not.
I have 4 of these Knipex adjustable pliers. I do like them but find that getting them set just right for the task at hand is a bit fiddly. Seems like I am always setting it one setting too loose or too tight.

The Knipex product that I love is their automatic wire stripper.
I'm more worried about their 70 million customers than the relatively paltry 300k employees
I mean, there are lots of other bars, so it's not really meaningful statement.
Again, from personal experience I have yet to ever get rid of a tool because it failed on me. The only reason I have ever lost a tool was through theft, the battery/charger/replaceable component was no longer supported, or the tool was too unsafe to use.

If I was a professional or ran a tool rental business I would 100% agree. But I wouldn't buy a pickup track no matter how durable if all I need it to do is grab groceries. It's better to get a tool engineered for the level of work expected.
I’m dumbfounded that anyone would believe that C# is not attractive for cloud development - Microsoft’s platform or otherwise. C# is a fantastic language and dotnet is a great, modern platform. IMO c# is a tad more beginner friendly than Java.
What's the formula you typed? Currently only supports these https://github.com/fatih-erikli/table/blob/main/src/lib/eval...

If the page went blank, unfortunately you will need to delete the localstorage
> Have a look at the first vsync interrupt of “The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past” on the original Game Boy:

I think this should be "Links Awakening".

Side note, something like this could _almost_ be used to implement multiplayer gaming for things like multi-world randomizers (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJ21rQ4L2U for an example on SNES).
This is mentioned in other responses, but keep in mind that frequently, it's urban sprawl which endangered these animals in the first place.

We're not going to start closing up our cities to let animals come back. But we can take steps to make the environments around them more hospitable: bridges under highways, reserved areas for wildlife. Once these are in place, some reintroductions to kick-start the process makes more sense.

A lot of the animals being reintroduced were key parts of the ecosystem before they were eliminated in areas, and their absence can lead to unexpected imbalances. Reintroductions makes sense in this context. Or at least, introducing another animal which fills a similar niche.
> it seems fairly reasonable to me to restrict someone who is currently, actively suing you from using your place of business.

This isn’t someone who is actively suing them.
Yup. I asked for an OG intel cheese-grater at an old job.

The boss blinked and said something along the lines of "we're not spending that kind of money for your system" and I pointed out that with 16gb of ram but otherwise base config, it was about the same price and a much better deal performance-wise than a Macbook Pro. Xeons versus an intel mobile i5, and the widest/fastest memory bus around at the time? No contest.

The water-cooled ones were an absolute shitshow...Apple was pushing the edge too hard on that. AIO coolers are still kinda hit-or-miss (the good, well-made ones are fine.)
Havent used multi-platform. We use it for Android and Server, seems ok
It's always the policy that should be modified, and not the tech that should be stopped.

Because bad policies can do only damage.

And tech can do both good and bad.
It’s because we aren’t governed by a democracy, we’re governed by a massive administrative state. Some middle manager vying for a promotion decides adding cameras will benefit him in some way, privacy be damned. For example, TSA recently started doing facial recognition in airports and most passengers were just happily going along with it last time I went through security. The public is expected to submit and comply, there’s no democracy anywhere in that process.
It's not that simple. Scale and ease of use matters. That is why when the government attempted to cross-reference the various administrative (mostly paper) files in a single database, around a single social security number, using a computer, it caused a huge scandal, the project was abandoned, and an independent regulatory agency was created in order to prevent something like this from happening again (and also deal with other data privacy issues).
100% agree and if I was a little ahead in the money game instead of rather behind (for reasons I can't blame on living in the US) I'd accept a 40% salary cut to live where I lived as a kid in Germany - 45m outside of a city, with rock-solid bus + train access and a thriving Jugendverein.
I've moved on my Sonoffs from Tasmota to ESPurna and finally to ESPhome which I find excellent.
I did a thought experiment. If FDIC and NCUA deposit insurance didn't exist, would I trust a bank of a credit union more with my deposits? I landed with credit unions due to the overt malfeasance of banks.

The FDIC exists to keep banks afloat, because they're untrustworthy on their own.
Deploy and Develop Kubernetes App
Obsidian is based in Canada. Obsidian Sync is E2E encrypted so the company has no way of accessing your files. The privacy policy is here https://obsidian.md/privacy

You also do not need to trust Obsidian with any of your data. The files are local to your device so you can sync them however you want. If you don't want to use Obsidian Sync you can use Git, Dropbox, Syncthing, etc.
From the USGS Earthquake web site:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=39.1471,...

A few prior submissions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> You have to trust

You may want to look into the etymology of "trust." That's one of several indicators that you're actually relying on the concept of truth in your comments here -- there's really no getting around that if you're going to make assertions about how things are. Even if they border on addled word salad.

Want to argue that assertions of truth can be tied up with power? OK. I get that and have argued it myself. Want to argue that grasping the truth is complicated and can be very difficult? Sure. Want to argue for an epistemology where "truth" is nothing more than an imaginary construct? So are 0 and i and yet at the same time they're clearly reflections of graspable aspects of reality.

Want to argue that truth is nothing more than a power grab? This can itself be a move related to power, and probably is. Furthermore, it's just not sustainable. To make an assertion is to make a statement of truth.
honestly i find the chain of suspicion to be the most problematic axiom for Dark Forest Theory. for example the turn of events with Bronze Age and Quantum, and eventually Gravity to be very unlikely, if enjoyable storytelling.
You should learn R and dplyr ;)
True. I guess my point is that those who fear for a loss of truth are generally mistaking malicious pretext for ignorance.
Is it really a blizzard thing?
Anyone able to comment on what fees they’re charging and onboarding process?

So far for the onboarding process I have:

- signup by giving email and password; does not appear to be an email confirmation

- Thank you for registering, [insert-signup-email]. Next, we will have you register with our payment processor, Stripe, to collect payments for your link. (Link to “Continue to Stripe”)

- No idea.

__________

Edit: In searching for their pricing found a competitor that’s charging 0.5-1% of the transaction:

https://help.paid.link/knowledgebase.php?article=22
110% agreement on Excel

The ability create a relational database in Excel with vlookups and hlookups, then capture it all into a macro is amazing.

I've really enjoyed using Excel as a Postgres frontend, with a real Postgres DB instance handling data, and then using the report functionality to dump to Word.

While a pro reporting engine and cutting out MS Office altogether would be a better longterm solution, it is hard to beat for quick & dirty results.
My most time saving programs didn't change in several years:

Slickrun, floating command line for Windows
https://bayden.com/slickrun/

Autohotkey - shortcuts, text expander and scripting for everything
https://www.autohotkey.com/

Total Commander, still the best file manager on Windows
https://www.ghisler.com/

CyberChef - The "Cyber Swiss Army Knife" - single file web app for all kinds of conversions, encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis
https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

Adminer - lighweigt database manager
https://www.adminer.org/
> Oh and it's cost me money in fines from taking me the wrong way down streets I was not allowed to drive on.

It is your responsibility to drive legally. Even if Google Maps is suggesting a route that's illegal, you made the action to drive the wrong way.
This game is all about financial exploitation; spend real money on nothing. The great irony is they don’t want to follow AppStore rules and take an even bigger cut.
Petals is creating a free, distributed network for running text-generating AI
See technical details in the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01188
> and can hire for cheaply

Unless you're writing things in C or brainfuck, you shouldn't "hire for" language experience.
Canada actually now has a land border with Denmark! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island
So many here complaining it's not simple enough, and that they prefer markdown... My brain hurts
At staff+ levels, Apple pays aggressively IIUC.
Why did your father say that to you?
Covid moved much of the trade to internet; its easier to use littlebiggy than to find an actual live vendor on a street.
01960 was in some sense the height of the cold war, and also only 15 years after the end of world war ii (in europe and japan, anyway; in china and some other places war continued longer)

the cold war ended in 01991, and since then the us has been pretty much free to invade and conquer and colonize wherever it wanted without any real opposition

it's been 77 years since the end of world war ii, so this is probably an atypically peaceful moment in history

probably a few years into world war iii military spending will be a much larger fraction of gdp
Allen fasteners are bad, and the people who designed them should feel bad. Even relatively high quality allen wrenches are prone to stripping fasteners. The best option on the market is the MAC RBRT series[1]

1 - https://www.mactools.com/products/sbdb77rbrt
I don't think much of this is true. While corporate credit unions did participate in TARP[0], for example, that's not the common perception. Not only were they primarily corporate credit unions rather than consumer credit unions, far fewer of them participated in the program than banks: around 20% as many.

For people, credit union accounts are federally insured just like bank accounts are, but credit unions are typically much more resilient than banks given the additional restrictions on how much leverage they can engage in. They close less often than banks, and also seem to be more likely to merge than close[1], contrary to your claim.

You're welcome to keep banking elsewhere, but it's all credit unions for me and my extended family.

0. https://thefinancialbrand.com/news/bank-culture/tarp-on-cred...

1. https://www.bankrate.com/banking/credit-unions/list-of-faile...
I find that a combination is the most useful: planning the route beforehand, maybe with an online map / routing service, and then use the turn-by-turn for convenience. I don't use Google Maps myself, I go with MAPS.ME / Organic Maps these days, maybe OsmAnd+.
Co-routines .. that's a useful pattern Go did out of the box.
Fast startup .. important for containers and auto-scaling

Co-routines have been in Kotlin for a while, got added to Java (Project loom) recently. Same for startup time. Native image support in Project Leyden
Doesn't really answer any of the questions of what docker actually does to help here, other than make everything slower and more complex.
Hey, cool, thanks for pointing out they're working on task management. I currently use the Tasks plugin and it works ok, but it took some fiddling with queries to get the right display, it's a little flaky (doesn't update results all the time), and there's no concept of subtasks. I still haven't found my perfect task management system... really interested to see how Obsidian folks tackle this as a core plugin.
Ironically people make the same mistake about both due to hearing about the worst examples more. In reality it's only a small minority of cocaine (crack or not) users that end up in rehab or overdose, it's just that those are the ones you see in movies or news reports so you think they are the majority.
I second the recommendation for Bahco. I bought one of their adjustable wrenches on the basis that it would last, and I have no regrets: it's an incredibly well made tool.

For other options, there is a youtube video comparing different adjustable wrenches for strength (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOd05PUix4). The Bahco did indeed do well, although it was not the very best the tested.
I don't take issue to that. I think using facial recognition paired with a database of naughty / nice individuals is going to pose a plethora of societal issues down the road. It is evocative of China's social credit system somewhat.
What a stange comment. Could you at least provide some context?
Visual Studio recently augmented tab completion with an AI based system to suggest small parts of code.

Although it's impressive, the suggestions are so frequently wrong that I doubt AI will be able to write code as good as a human during either of our careers.

Instead, AI will merely become another tool in our toolbelt that helps us in our day-to-day jobs.
How to build more family-sized apartments