skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that Microsoft embraced Python, what are the odds it will go all the way to extend and extinguish it (or at least CPython as reference implementation)? There are much more excel users than programmers. If excel runs Python, it has the potential to become the "de facto" standard interpreter, used by most people worldwide, displacing CPython.
We use Excel for a bunch of "critical" tasks as defined by the financial regulator, which means any of their dependencies also have to be assessed to ensure they meet the required level of stability.

What this means is we'd need to go from just requiring a laptop and a copy of the spreadsheet to requiring redundant internet connections and validating Microsoft's backend meet the regulator's requirements. I'm pretty sure that would unfortunately rule out using it.
It seems like it'd be way more sensible and efficient to just make an exception for that particular employee (and maybe some other important ones). Though, in my opinion, the best option is to just let anyone work remotely as much as they want. Especially if you go years without ever indicating you intend to return people to the office.

I think I'm luckily grandfathered in due to working fully remotely for years before the pandemic, but if that happened to me I would absolutely start looking for a new job.
Megawars and cursing the bill that just arrived.
I guess you mean "word processors".
It's funny to me how as Hacker News commentors, we tend to approach coding in a mostly pragmatic, efficient way. As engineers. Yet when it comes to space, we fall for the romance. I love that idea, but the problem is that it's not realistic.

There is very little that happens in space with regards to scarce resources that could not also be solved here on earth, for cheaper.

I am not suggesting humanity should be banned from space. But to borrow a line from another great scifi show - what has humanity done to earn our place in the stars? How have we treated what we have already been given? What have we done with this? Is there any - and I ask, any, - indication here on this planet that says we will treat what we find out there with any more or less respect than how we treat this planet?

This isn't about fixing earth. It's about fixing ourselves. The problem isn't the earth. And if the problem is us, then our problems go with us wherever we go. We have to fix the way we treat the universe around us first.
Almost Half of Americans See Automation Replacing Their Jobs
It would be interesting to see performance figures for Firefox + uBlock Origin vs Chrome and all the advertising/tracking junk it has to drag down to render some well known sites.

I'd bet the cost of all those network calls outweighs anything else in the rendering pipeline.
This is Facebook's choice.

Yes, just like it was government's choice to pass the Online News Act, Bill C-18.

Now that each has freely made their choice, what's all the whining about?

I say this as no real fan/user of either Meta or Google.
> He made out much better than the employees, I’ll tell you that much

They always do.
Yeah. Autocorrect fucks up.
Why the big panda at the top, i dont get it.
In actual tests it is beyond human level. Humans actually mishear about 1 in 20 words during transcription tests; whisper does better.
As a 15+ years Firefox user: What is "very much off" about Firefox' font rendering? For me it's the opposite, Chrome's rendering looks completely off to me - thin and it looks like the ClearType effect is set to 11. On the other hand, Firefox' font rendering in that screenshot looks like native Windows font rendering to me.
Yeah this. Only I'd like to clarify that I'm mostly a Mac user myself ;)
And the rule that Tik Tok is clearly breaking is what? Being Chinese?
Different bookmarks, extensions, settings, themes, and ability to sync all those to other machines.

We just have to look at what profiles and containers do to understand that while useful, containers can't replace profiles.
People applied the scientific method in trying to discover/create alchemy. Including Isaac Newton. In fact his investigations of alchemy is what lead him to discover the prismatic nature of light and invent color theory.

Science is a process, not a result.
That can be more expensive than it appears at first, especially if it's in a different state due to taxes.

I've asked before if I can work remotely for a few weeks at a time and have been told yes, as long as I don't leave the state. In some places, just moving to a different county or city can trigger different tax requirements.
I feel like this is such a HackerNews take.

Headline: Self-driving cars are actually a thing!

"Yeah so here's why that's not very exciting and actually bad."
I don’t know that I agree with the producer of values analogy, but this is really the crux of my problem. I have trouble defining or describing abstract algebraic structures as anything other than what they are and the continual usage in programming discussions just perplexes me.

I absolutely agree with the seeming consensus that Categorical constructions can be used to find and then abstract over common patterns in programming languages and implementations. However, it’s conversations like this one that lead me to believe people have confused the implementation of a specific example of some structure with what that structure is. I doubt the co-opting of Categorical vocabulary is that big of a deal, it’s just early and I haven’t had coffee yet.
While there's some truth to this, the myriad externalized costs of a car-based city may dwarf the apparent "savings". Once you consider the dollar and social costs of car pollution, parking, accidents, etc. it isn't so simple.
The Firefox documentation says to Enable Containers through General Settings -> Tabs [1] but there is no such checkbox [2]. Going into about:config and changing privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true [3] enables the checkbox in the settings page [4]. This is Firefox Version 116.0.3 under Ubuntu.

I use Chrome and Firefox interchangeably so I don't have a dog in this fight. Containers aka Personalities needs to be made a first class feature in Firefox and not require the above steps to make it useful to the less tech savy end user.

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-firefox-contain...
2. https://imgur.com/a/mX1P25J
3. https://imgur.com/a/fNyRnLk
4. https://imgur.com/a/GjxJwIP
Napoleon's soldiers marched 120km in 2 days! With weapons and gear, in enemy country, without wibrams, gel pads, walking poles or socks.
I've been writing powershell for 5 years and I'd rather slice my balls up with glass and dive into the red sea. How much longer before it becomes fun?
I think op is saying that he is gaming the stupid system, to be a bit less stupid and unfair. Not that he wants to cheat or not fix issues.
Classifications of issues is indeed important, but if management is not playing a fair game, then neither am I, while still doing my job, tracking and fixing bugs efficiently
I'm sure the time of a person posting on HN all the time is infinitely valuable.
Kids are no more deserving of abuse than grownups.
Or even worse than before - and the sad part is that no-one intended that to happen. All bespoke software is effectively an experiment that may fail. I've become a lot more wary of the "failure is good" mantra that SV is famous for - it's not good in a zero-sum game where labor is spent on stuff that gives no value, and refactoring for DX is definitely expensive but only possibly valuable.
There is a treasure trove, it's just mixed in with a lot of trash. Like panning for gold, you need to know where the good lodes are and recognise it when you see it.
The problem with Libreoffice was that the python support was purely documented.
I'm positive they've at least toyed with the idea of running a Python interpreter in a WebAssembly module, which should work in both environments _and_ provide some isolation. The telemetry settings, I guess, wouldn't need to be changed to call home about performance/errors.

I can't attest to the performance of such technique for now, though, or guess why they could have deemed it not worth pursuing at the time being.
I mean.. sure. He did try other solutions too like deporting them all. Just that no country would take them. But that's another story.
Biocontrols had notoriously harmful effects in Australia.

Introducing a predator has the effect of wiping out entire species.

These systems are too complex. It is impossible to predict the long term effects. The thinking here really blils down to the sentiment that Japanese pine beetle is killing the trees, how could things get any worse?
Interestingly, individual firms behave more as centrally-planned economies, and market activity is mostly absent inside of them. This is a long-studied curiosity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
I eventually gave up on it because of the locals vs cloud differences. The documentation for the whole thing was terrible as well. I think they’re in transition (assuming cloud only). In my case, I just went and used Calc from LibreOffice.
The copper is mostly already in the ground. At least in the Netherlands it is.

Apparently decades ago some absolute madman genius decided that we should put down 5 copper cables to every house and building for 3-phase power, even though they only needed one phase for the coming decades.

You know. just in case.
On desktop, there is actually a link named 'Main Site' to the right of the GitHub link.
It’s not actually here yet so economies haven’t actually been employed. It’s still a tech beta, though I’m not sure our Teslas will ever really do the thing.
Humanity uses around 25 000 TWh of electric energy yearly.

With batteries storing that is technically possible but it would take the whole world decades to build the required infrastructure.

With propane or other similar hydrocarbons it's around 2 million tonnes. 4 million if you account for 50% efficiency of turbines (we have better ones BTW).

4 million tonnes of gas seems like a lot, but currently USA has about 5850 bcf (1.6*10^14 liters) of underground gas storage ready, at 1.8 kg per m3 you could store about 300 million tonnes of propane. Enough to power the electricity grid of the whole world for 75 years.

So it's a choice between spending billions and turning our whole industrial output to it for years - or just using a fraction of what's already there in a slightly different way :)

Another point is - once you have one kind of hydrocarbons - you can burn them in adapted ICEs or transform into other hydrocarbons to be able to use existing cars. Suddenly you can continue to use the whole infrastructure we built in the last 100 years as if nothing happened with net 0 carbon footprint.

It's the only thing that makes sense, really.
Top senator calls for a new GI Bill for AI
The biggest PHP conference in northeast Brazil
p for picture ;-)
The paper actually briefly touches on a similar view (page 16, Box 2, 'Illusionism') .

I think Consciousness and Free Will are orthogonal concepts, fortunately.
> "I think they just wanted to show my employer and other CEOs that people deserve to be congratulated, rewarded, even just acknowledged for their hard work and dedication," he said.

Even if his employer or other CEOs saw the crowdfunding (what are the odds they even browse those kinds of sites?), surely this would just reinforce their belief that it's okay to underpay and undervalue their employees because someone else will just pick up the tab?
They're looking on in horror because "you have all this money and and things are still like this?"

The rest of the world was raised on the Hollywood portrayal of a rich country of bounty where the only people suffering were either drug addicts or in some other country
> Villains are heroes of their own story.

This is an assumption about the internal motivations of villains that we don't have any access to. In general, making assumptions about the internal workings of the minds of historical people is a game of guessing.

A much better method is to assume that these people meant to do exactly what they actually did. In this case, the best assumption about Hitler is to assume that he wanted to kill as many Jewish people (and also Romani people, Armenians, gays and others) as he could, and to conquer vast swaths of Europe. Why he may have done so is mere speculation. That he wrote some manifestos claiming there was some higher purpose to all this can easily be ignored: we have no way of knowing whether he was lying in those manifestos, or even in personal diaries.

This holds true for how we should evaluate every action of anyone we have no hope of knowing personally: judging by the outcomes (at least the ones that we know for sure they were aware about), not by proclaimed internal motivations. If the policeman in your example shot someone lunging with a knife, then it's fair to say that they meant to stop a knife attack. If a policeman shot someone holding a knife to cut a tomato, then it's fair to say that they meant to harm that person in particular, even if the policeman claims that they thought the knife-holder was about to threaten someone else.

Note: I am not talking about how jurors in a court of law should approach such a question. I am talking about how this question should be approached in the context of history.
Neat article.

Near death, or death in this case, supposedly gives a person who survives a time is precious appreciation.

The writing seems to emphasize that this person still enjoys playing hockey and has a very comfortable appreciation for their loved ones.
Have you tried Latex? I believe there are many good Latex templates for CV.
If you buy equity in a highly risky company, there's a very large chance that equity ends up worth nothing before you can sell it to someone else.

If you do a convertible note, you have liquidation preferences and will get most of your money back in the high probability event that the company fails.
1. There is so much space in the bottom. Why its scrollable despite not having that much content?

2. After submitting the form, the network tab shows I made whopping 87 requests!

3. You could give some love to the social icons too. I would probably add hover effect similar to what you have in "Join Waitlist" button but shows respective color.

4. No padding around your content for mobile viewport.

Otherwise looks good. Can't wait to try this out :D
I feel like that's where most people probably start, and then get some response like "we can't change the KPI's because blah blah" or get the runaround. Once you have established that you have no agency to change the system is when you are sort of incentivized to let it fail in hopes that a better system replaces it one day. You also don't wanna piss too many people off that may be invested in the current system because you want those references for your next job.
Sounds like you're doing something too sophisticated for Excel.
VisionScript goes beyond OpenCV in terms of utilities, providing models for use out of the box.

That's great, but I have to agree with chpatrick that this seems like a cool library but it is unlikely to get used as a stand alone language.

New languages cut off a huge amount of utility. Decades of IO, libraries, tools, built in features, gc refinement etc. go out of the window. I'm not sure what the advantage is. If it is a simple standalone library that has advantages over other things out there it stands a lot more chance of being used.
But your alerts are on AWS. You take away context from place where it's needed the most.
Maybe not a full answer to your question, but reviews from Will Prowse are great. Check his youtube/website.
That's got to be the death-knell for Excel. It might be better in every conceivable way but going web-only only makes Sheets look more attractive to the people doing the buying. And you can run JS in your Sheets right now.
Very cool!

My current setup is:

* Buy book on Audible

* Remove DRM with OpenAudible [0] (paid software)

* Add them to my AudioBooks Plex library

* Use Prologue [1] to listen to the books on my phone (it connects to Plex)

I like my podcast app (Overcast) a lot but it's not made for audiobooks whereas Prologue is. Also Prologue is a very well done app that has fully replaced the official Audible app for me. The only downside is no WhisperSync but I don't use that a ton.

[0] https://openaudible.org/

[1] https://prologue.audio/
Do you _really_ think I've spent the past 10 years getting files like this and I still don't understand the reason. I didn't ask for an explanation. I asked for a fix. What are you doing here??

I can provide instructions on how to do this until the cows come home. I will still get files with these issues. Is that not obvious?

Do you really think I want to examine _tens of thousands of rows_ in documents that are 100 cells wide looking for a single exponent value!?!?!?! Is that really what you're suggesting as a fix here?
I don’t get it, is there any good reason people are against Nuclear power?
> Forbes reports that the draft agreement, dated Summer 2022, would have given the US government agencies like the Department of Justice and Department of Defense far more access to TikTok’s operations than that of any other social media company. The agreement would let agencies examine TikTok’s US facilities, records, and servers with minimal prior notice and veto the hiring of any executive involved with leading TikTok US data security organization. It would also let US agencies block changes to the app’s terms of service in the US and order the company to subject itself to various audits, all on TikTok’s dime, per Forbes. In extreme cases, the agreement would allow government organizations to demand TikTok temporarily shut off functioning in the US.

Can you share evidence that US regulators are holding US-based social media companies to all of these same requirements?
As the saying goes: if everyone around you is an asshole, you're the asshole.

If you create a system which is abused by 100% of employees, that's on you. Everyone who works at a company does so for their own personal benefit. You can moralize about it if you want, but I doubt you would work for a company if it didn't provide an incentive structure of some kind.

> why not go back with ideas to improve it

I was a junior developer working for a 1500 person company. What should I do, demand an audience with the CEO, who lived in a different country?
I guess I just disagree in word choice. I think we can still use words like "evil" and "villain" and still hold the belief that people who do evil don't consider themselves evil.
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> Why would your first instinct be to lie about what's happening with the business? To what end?

If your compensation or continued employment is tied to metrics, especially metrics that aren't inherently valuable, then there's much more incentive to game/fudge them than to do the work to actually resolve them.
A bunch of very reasonable conclusions that would have been more obvious in the first place if we would just stop calling these tools "Artificial Intelligence" instead of what they are.
> it's free and easy (USA,UK)!

So, Europe is not supported?
Not being owned by us.

I wish this was merely a facetious response as opposed to the literal version of what the rule actually is.
There are many animals (including many mammals) that don't recognize themselves in mirrors, and are therefore usually assumed not to have self awareness.

It'd be weird to me if they didn't have qualitative experiences though.
It's determined by parameters of the model. The model doesn't care about what we can or cannot detect.

Besides, we can measure these densities just fine.
And the depth maxes out at 100, for some reason. This is my problem with most PS data things, they work well on the surface but when you really get your hands dirty they run like dogs or have weird limitations.
Ask HN: How does an anonymous Wikipedia contributor unblock theirselves?
So, I noticed a trivial spelling mistake on Wikipedia. Since, after all, this is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", I tried to, you know, like, edit the offending article. This, however, was not appreciated:

The IP address or range 10.80.1.7 has been blocked (disabled) for the following reason(s):

There are multiple blocks against your account and/or IP address

Well, the block is certainly not against my account, since I'm not logged in, and not against my IP address either, since that's definitely not in the RFC1918 range, and I try not to use any legacy protocols anyway, thank you very much.

So, what now? I tried the various links from Wikipedia "support", but these all seem to require I leave a comment on my account's "talk" page, which I don't have nor want.
Safari is a fine browser, and it’s the best experience on macOS, imo.
Could you elaborate? In my view the current empirical consciousness research is built on top of neuroscience and cognitive science. I don't see any connection between them and the works of Hume, Descartes and Spinoza.
Francisco Partners to Acquire the Weather Company Assets from IBM
Agree on all points except the comparison with banks. The banks do technically own the money you put in it - and what you get in return is an IOU. So a bank is a very different sort of thing.
I’d love to have my short compuserve.com email back. I’d even be prepared to pay a modest amount for it.

Nothing embarrassing about it, if you wanted to be online (particularly on the road internationally) that was the way. Compuserve had dial-up modems everywhere :-)
Honestly, I've been waiting for something like this. I feel like the Internet wants to divide itself into two tiers: an anything-goes tier where identity is fluid, and a tier where you're identified back to a real-world person. The latter is used for anything having to do with money, and is also used for reputation.

(Actually, I think there can be multiple tiers, but let's not complicate things.)

That second tier is inherently not private, but I think it's nonetheless where most people want to spend most of their time. Without it, you're easily overwhelmed by whatever wants to shout loudest: trolls, spammers, AI, scams, etc.

It's one of those situations that benefits from putting all of your eggs in one basket, and then ensuring that it's a really good basket. Not that X has shown itself capable of building really good baskets, but I do think they're on to something.
Why Does Everyone Feel So Insecure All the Time?
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Crypto botnet on X is powered by ChatGPT
Evolution working its course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9bT73BM2Ic#t=28s
I would argue that the author was not, in fact, dead and the medical notes saying the author was dead were in error. Something is wrong with the definition of death if one can become dead and shortly thereafter become not dead again.

There’s a reason that Granny Weatherwax’s sign said “I aten’t dead” and not “I’m dead, but I’ll be back in a jiffy”.
Someone decided that websites need "hero images" and all the default themes now have it, and if you're asked to load an image, you load an image (many people don't bother changing default themes).
I hate Conventional Commits (2021)
I dread this day greatly, but it's definitely coming.
https://archive.ph/uZ0Is
We have about:profiles now, a convenient way to manage and launch profiles. No need for firefox -P anymore :-)

(Though I still use it out of muscle memory. alt+F2 firefox -P is so quick to type.)
So 5GWh of storage capacity would be about 0.6% of average daily usage. We're going to need a lot more than that to make renewables viable for base load. How much will that cost, how long will it take to build, and where will we mine the raw materials?
My 5G still breaks down at every large event I go to, or even sometimes at a busy train station.

I'm assuming it's more to do with how it's deployed than the technology itself, but purely as an end-consumer, it feels like a dud.