skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tricky thing is that there is a thin line between doing something to screw over consumers and doing it to make the product better. For example on earlier iPads and the current non pro/air/mini iPads, the screen glass can be replaced separately from the display, but on newer iPads (other than the entry line) they can’t because the screen looks noticeably better if you don’t do that. Same deal with soldered SSD’s and RAM- arguably it lets you build more compact and lighter computers than you can without soldering those components.it’s possible putting the fuel filter inside the fuel tank reduces cost, increases reliability, or makes the fuel tank take up less space or be lighter in some way.
I really love how the news is in a plaintext file. Just the content and nothing else.
Install PyWin32 module and `import win32com.client` and you can access "all the internal Excel objects and methods that VBA has access to".

C:\>python
Python 3.10.1 (tags/v3.10.1:2cd268a, Dec 6 2021, 19:10:37) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>>> xl = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
>>> xl.Visible = True
>>> wb = xl.WorkBooks.Add()
>>> sh = wb.WorkSheets[0]
>>> sh.Range("A1").Value = "Hello World"
>>>
I didn't say it directly, but thanks for the article!

My question is probably more asking exactly how/why the visual representation helps. I am very open to the idea that they do. But I'm also open to the idea that it is the active interaction with others that is the important part. That it is done with text or with drawings feels secondary. Almost distantly.

Your point about the really high level views of 1 and 2 in the levels feels notable. I also really resonate with the idea of identifying the deployable "things" that can be independently reasoned about. If you have a team that is pushing libraries between the two things, you then have to expand this discussion to the build and deploy systems as being integral to your team, not merely secondary considerations.
I like Writer and Calc, but Impress is completely unusable. You can't do basics like proper master slides. I wonder if anyone actually uses Impress.
The press in my corner of the world is going to have a field day with this, considering that over 13% of passenger cars around here are dual-fueled with petrol and LPG (so mostly propane) - they put it even in hybrids.

Hilariously enough even at this rate of adoption few underground garages allow entry for such vehicles.

I suppose it won't see adoption in cars anytime soon because looking at electricity prices it can't hope to be less expensive than fossil fuels.
How Putin turns tech companies to weapon (Yandex, VK, Gosuslugi)
As kids, I remember one time we got really desperate and disassembled a broken joystick to see if we could still play by pressing the internal 'buttons' directly. Although it technically worked, the experience was poor, to say the least.
> any sources that said they did should not be treated as reliable.

American GEOINT, MASINT, SIGINT and TECHINT are likely the best in the world. American HUMINT, OSINT and--somewhat paradoxically--FININT are atrocious. Unfortunately, we frequently ascribe confidence intervals to our clandestine services based on experience with e.g. the NRO.
Ah yes, another good example. 5G home internet and long-range rural WISPs would also be interesting.

I imagine some of the rural providers would hesitate to post any real-world numbers, but maybe someone here is a customer who won't mind sharing…
Without an outstanding company culture, most KPIs are almost useless.

While working at a big corporation we had a velocity initiative supposedly aimed to lead the company toward continuous integration.

"How long a PR stays open" was one of the KPIs in a dashboard.

I said: "Be careful with that!"

People started to close PRs and reopen new PRs with the same code.

Middle managers and sometimes the person in the division that was the point of contact for the velocity initiative were asking to do that.

The script measuring this KPI was improved to look at the branch name and the code diff. Result? People changing branch name and a change of EOL encoding in the new PR.

Learnings?
B and C players with questionable ethics screw companies quite rapidly.

In this climate KPIs and aligning them with company values is futile.
Curious which projects you had issues with? I've only had positive experiences using zig build. Maybe you ran into version issues because 0.11 changed the entire build api?
I recently experimented with nicotine tablets and noticed that they also had a similar laxative effect as caffeine at 3-4mg within the space of an hour.
I agree that the Internet Archive needs help, but I don't agree that it should get absorbed into the Library of Congress. Let's say it happens and now the LoC is running the IA. Others have already made the point that lobbyists and politicians can more easily erode its functionality much more easily and silently, and that's a good point. But what I fear the most is that it would mean the actual existence of the IA would be at the whim of congressional budget planning (which is frankly a shitshow) rather than being funded by those who actually CARE about it.

If you really want to help the Internet Archive survive, the very best thing any of us can do is donate directly to the IA so that they can afford good legal council to fight back against the music and book publishers who want to shut them down: https://archive.org/donate?origin=iawww-TopNavDonateButton
Try this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/profile-switc...
China won almost total dominance of LFP batteries, apparently because Hydro-Quebec enforced steep patent royalties everywhere else. It's no coincidence that manufacturers are starting to look elsewhere now that the patents are expiring.
That's cool, thanks for sharing. I've only ever seen things that required transpilation and had complex toolchains. I hope it catches on
That's a fun example. Here's one I posted elsewhere about filling a balloon with a gas made of 1 proton and 100 neutrons at a kids party.

https://chat.openai.com/share/71224df4-5c6c-45f7-88fd-eec316...
Has anyone ever used that DeleteMe [1] service the article mentions? It's not very cheap, and I'm wondering the value or if anyone has any first hand 2 cents on using it?

[1]: https://joindeleteme.com/
I think the contentious point is not that "Fed Chair Powell Has Upwards of $11.6 Million Invested with BlackRock", it's that concurrently "the Firm that Will Manage a $750 Billion Corporate Bond Bailout Program for the Fed". At most one of those two things should be true for there to be no conflict of interest.
I would rather use TC because health plans and pensions vary from company to company. So the number I'd go with is around $150,000.

Right of you to call out the rounding up though. The article was exaggerating with $170k, and to remember that number I had mentally noted almost $200k. I looked for the article later to refresh my memory. You're right that any discussion on this deserves more accuracy than I started with.

The important thing to me is for us workers to recognize how to get a fairer share of the increased productivity. Unions have delivered throughout history.
I agree completely that discussing the size of KPIs without considering the company's strategy and its Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is meaningless. KPIs cannot be isolated metrics; they must be directly related to overall goals and strategic directions of the company. Without understanding what specific aspects of the business and tasks these indicators reflect, discussing their size becomes a futile activity.

Balanced Scorecards provide a holistic view of how different aspects of a company's activities relate to each other and to the overall strategy. They help identify causal relationships between different indicators and goals. It's important for leaders not only to define KPIs but also to clearly explain the logic behind their formation to KPI owners, and to demonstrate how these metrics fit into the context of the strategy and the BSC.

Unfortunately, a lack of information and understanding of this logic can lead to misinterpreting KPIs and, consequently, to misaligned behavior or a focus on irrelevant metrics. Therefore, it's crucial for leadership to actively educate KPI owners and help them see the bigger picture — how their work contributes to the achievement of the company's overall objectives.
K if I can transpile C/C++, Rust or TypeScript to that and have full access to memory, threads, system APIs, network sockets, etc, then that would work for the use cases I have in mind. Running MIMD processes on SIMD hardware is something I'm definitely interested in.

If there's no straightforward way to do that, then I'm afraid that hardware represents a huge investment in the wrong direction.

Because a GPU can be built from the general-purpose multicore CPU I'm talking about. But a CPU can't be built from a GPU.

What I'm getting at is that if I have to "drop down" to an orthodox way of solving problems, rather than being able to solve them in the freeform way that my instincts leads me, then I will always be stifled.
Also from what I've noted is that when you sign into a secondary account on the main profile's account, Chrome is prompting you if you don't want it to create a new profile for you.

Then again, they have the problem that they think that it's appropriate to open the last used profile if you start Chrome again, which can lock out inexperienced users out of the other profile since they don't know how to get that one started.

For me the normal solution of creating separate profiles in Firefox is to use Firefox Portable and have each profile live in their own directory / installation.
How do you break them up? Most of the big tech companies have a large, singular business that makes most of the money. We could split Amazon into AWS, content, and store, and the store would still be a problem. Same with Google and search and ads, Meta with Facebook, Apple with iPhone.

This isn’t to say that splitting them isn’t worth doing, but it won’t do anything to help monopoly problems. The main result would be the death or price increase for smaller services.
I recall getting hooked on some turn-based war simulator and played for days resulting in some crazy high bill that my parents had to pay.

Anyone remember that game?
With the caveat that I don't own one, how about a microKORG? Apparently the most popular synthesizer ever.
This seems oxymoronic. There shouldn't be backlash against deletionism because deletionism will cease once there's enough backlash against it.
I built my first app on PythonAnywhere! I've had stuff running on there for almost a decade now. I loved being able to make small tweaks to the app directly in the PythonAnywhere web app. Such a great product. Really missed stuff like that when I started using GCP/AWS.
Great work, thanks!

As the example app has been DoS'd, I decided to try and deploy my own on streamlit (having never used it before). The deployment process isn't documented in your project, but it was super easy to do using the upstream docs!

Welcome to try mine: https://wfcmzortl5n8cqhdowr6dm.streamlit.app/
Umm... Libreoffice has shipped with Python scripting since almost forever.

Not many people care because the most popular use case of any office suite is to interoperate with Microsoft file formats.
As a user, what does this mean? Are there games that still target opengl?
On average, 4+ hours of screen time has a negative effect on babies. That’s what the article is claiming and nothing you’ve said invalidates it.

I’m not sure why you keep bringing up older kids here or citing your own anecdotes (which again aren’t research no matter how hard you dress it up). But I seriously doubt the kids you cited are under 2, and even if they are there’s no way of knowing the other detrimental effects- how good is their socialization? Their eyesight? How do we know they wouldn’t learn how to read anyway with dedicated parents and books? Those questions are what makes something research and not anecdotes.

And again, 1-2 is very different than under 12 months. Can you give any examples of ‘high-quality’ screen time in babies? I know “Ms. Rachel” is popular but I don’t know of any research backing that up. What outcomes are you measuring?
This article feels like it was written directly as a reply to you:

https://www.freepress.net/blog/net-neutrality-violations-bri...
I wonder how hackable it will be? It might be useful as a home server when isn't playing games (and maybe when it is as well). When you total up the cost of a Pi 4 (if you can get one) plus case, PSU, SD card... this isn't badly priced.
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Right here. It's also not about 100% compatible VBA, it's about learning an entirely new API in order to write VBA-backed Excel spreadsheets that won't run in Excel. If Libreoffice VBA were compatible with Office VBA, I'd have no reason to always keep an outdated Windows system in the closet somewhere.

The reason we're doing this is to make money, and nobody wants to buy Excel spreadsheets that don't run in Excel.
> 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.

I don’t believe you’ve been doing it that long and haven't found the fix.

Apply appropriate formatting if you have long strings of numeric digits [as long as they can’t have leading zeroes] that you want stored as numbers but displayed without scientific notation. (Not the best choice for what is semantically a date, in your case, but...that’s a whole bigger issue and, well, babysteps.) You don't have to look at anything, just do it for the ranges where that is the kind of data:

https://help.godatafeed.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049916591-H...
I documented the architecture of my previous project using C4. It worked well, especially because they had templates available for draw.io which is my preferred tool for diagrams.

And I agree that having way more C4 examples of real-world projects would be very useful!
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Fixes a CJK bug[1] that's been around since 2011. The bug was originally tested on Windows XP SP2.

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43671
Sort of a meta answer: learning how to learn. It feels like the velocity of change is pretty high. So being able to pick up new skills quickly is important.

I also agree with others that soft skills are incredibly important.

As for fields of expertise, I am looking into many diverse topics such as urban planning, sociology, civil engineering, aerospace engineering, electricity production. I feel like at least in my environment there are a lot of problems that I could help solve if I had knowledge in some of these areas. Besides that I am doing a PhD and recently there has been a lot of emphasis on interdisciplinary research.
As much as WFH is a thing forever, whenever I do high stakes things, they require me to come in + show my drivers license.

Seems like there are basically no exceptions when it comes to banking.
It was fun to watch the livestreams showing the development of these drivers. Amazing work.
For what it’s worth M2 Ultra is the newest chip in the Apple silicon lineup. It was only introduced last June.
> Are there use cases where we must burn propane because we can’t replace that process with electricity?

"Must", no. But hundreds millions of cars and trucks on the road right now can be converted to propane. It's relatively easy and well understood and you keep your same motor and drivetrain.

Converting existing cars and trucks to electric is so intensive it's almost unthinkable ... cost, energy input, waste, etc.
If you're this concerned about your blogging service changing ownership and having a lighter TOS your research is NGMI anyway.
Android Dev account terminated after 12 years for violating “Stalkerware policy”
Are you willing to provide your address and phone number in this thread, then? My guess is "no", but why not? Might other people not want their home address and phone number made public?
Great idea. Or a state library in another country that has the same status.
The British Library, or hell, even the Lenin Library or whatever it's called these days.
Every address you've lived at... frequently this plus a SSN is all you need to completely take over someone's identity.
Http4k, a http library for Kotlin, has an, in my opinion, great way of generating documentation for you [0]. They explain it in more detail in their talk [1] and also have an example repository [2], if you favor to look at code.

[0] https://www.http4k.org/blog/http4k_v5/#tracerbullet_a_brand_...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrslqbMbaD8

[2] https://github.com/http4k/exploring-the-testing-hyperpyramid
During my tenure as a product manager at Rakuten, I consistently grounded the initiation and culmination of all product endeavors in data. This approach dictated that prior to embarking on any project modifications, the presence of data was imperative to validate (or refute) the underlying hypotheses. This mean that if we just have an hypothesis and no data, we first add hooks to understand the situation throught data (ex. GA events, etc.).

For instance, when executives contested the efficacy of our registration form for X reasons, it became incumbent upon us to ascertain its current standing. This involved computing the ratio of registrations to site visits and conducting an in-depth analysis of the errors that users encountered while interacting with the form. We achieved this by integrating Google Analytics events with error messages, among other techniques. We provided first a picture, then we proceeded to make the changes.

This systematic approach enabled us to gain a comprehensive understanding of the situation, facilitating the implementation of purposeful changes. Subsequently, we gauged the impact of these alterations using key performance indicators (KPIs) such as the registration-to-visits ratio, and the previous events tracking changes too to understand if we really made a difference.
Home sales drop again in July, as supply drops to near quarter-century low
> since his monetary policy effects the dollar's purchasing power

Kind of wild that one man* has the ability to change the dollar's purchasing power, which affects literally billions of people, isn't it?

*: Actually twelve members of the Federal Open Market Committee.
Thank you for sharing. The fact that Nigella Lawson is his stepdaughter also somehow tickled me.
i think he's a big investor?

also, moldbug built monarchism into the system. the entire universe/planet/ship etc design is a hierarchy that resembles land ownership / lords and peasants. imo it's designed perfectly for somebody who wants to start a network state like balaji describes.

which is unfortunate, bc it's a neat place on the internet.
This doesn't matter much because the restaurant industry in the U.S. has a very strong culture of not taking leave of _any_ kind since it messes up everyone else's schedule. It is usually the employees themselves who enforce this unwritten rule on each other by intense peer pressure.
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TIL disposable cameras are still available, and apparently quite popular for weddings.
At the extreme, watch Jeopardy. People spitting out their knowledge. Unfortunately, 99 out of 100 times, they have very little *understanding* of the answers they offer.

Knowing the dots doesn't mean you can connect them. And thus, "Understanding Is Power."
The Human Ecology of Overshoot: A Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable
One might expect that an intelligent social species would devise cultural overrides to rein in potentially dangerous expansionist tendencies on a finite planet. Rather remarkably, the opposite is the case. One of the most important roots of overshoot is MTI society’s belief in human exceptionalism, the idea that H. sapiens is fundamentally different from other species. Exceptionalists posit that human individual and social behaviours are culturally rather than genetically determined; that human ingenuity can overcome resource scarcities; that we are not otherwise bound by the laws and limits of nature. The corresponding economic paradigm, neoliberal economics—which currently underpins global ‘development’—implicitly assumes that the economy and the ‘environment’ are separate systems, so that the former, propelled by continuous technological advances, can grow indefinitely, unconstrained by the latter. Hubristic nurture unabashedly reinforces expansionist nature.
I recently switched over and am quite happy with Firefox all in all.

My only gripe is the loss of Tab Groups (I'm a tab hoarder) and I haven't been able to find a decent replacement.
Running background checks to dox people is a tale as old as time.
The morbid, but critically true, reality is that there are different humans. There are Takers, Givers, Neutral.

We are ruled by Takers.

(service to self, as opposed to service of others)

Which is a core tenant of meditation (service to others)

We as a Humanity will not heal until we can kill the Takers Archetype in the psyche.

Thus why meditation helps.

But literally - the Takers who are the "they" or "TPTB" are so fn broken, that changing that psychological worm is extremely difficult - and its a self-defending psychosis that spans generations and is hard to qwell.

-

EDIT because of the 'posting too fast rule (lame)' ;;

--

Mayan word ;; "In Lak'ech"

'I am another Yourself'
> in 20 years when the patent expires...

Well, only if the patent-holder makes no effort to maximize the return on its investment in those 20 years. But if the technology is really that effective and the patent-holder is even a little bit economically rational, then presumably the patent holder will be the one pushing hardest to make this the standard thing to do with recovered CO2 well before the patent expires.

Not that patents are all roses and puppy dogs. But this is too big a part of the picture to just ignore.
To me, the bigger issue is whether BlackRock just gets paid a fee to manage the portfolio composition, or whether they can also exercise voting rights on shares in their ETF.
> keep it in cash under their mattress

Even that would be a conflict! They are Federal Reserve Notes under that mattress, after all.
My podcasts try to sell me stuff 5 times an hour, radio even more. Being nagged to pay for a service you use once a month is basically silence.
going downhill does not stop
There's no need to be so terribly offended at just a suggestion with a reasonable foundation. You know that if BK gave 50% of whatever they saved from no sick days then we'd have an npr article about how exploitative it is to incentivize these people to come into work and you'd be here severely disturbed in any event.
I'll just ask a simple question, if you are an American citizen which governments uniformed thugs have the ability to kidnap or kill you: the American or Chinese government? Which of these does not even need to send secret agents or beat your country in a war and has free legal permission to kidnap and kill you?

If you computed the results of this problem, the next question I ask is whom are you at more risk from?
> It’s one of the most infuriating and dangerous behaviors I have ever encountered. Excel silently truncates data.

That's a problem, sure, but not the one sixothree is complaining about.

> The problem isn’t assuming a display format for data

Your problem might not be, but that’s exactly the problem sixothree is complaining about that the post you are responding to addresses, so while your post references a valid complaint, it is a complete non-sequitur as a response.