skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially in areas where a lot of subway lines get close together, subway maps often expand the area so you can be better see the stations/relationship between the lines. I tended to mostly take the subway into Boston as an undergrad and generally only walked in a fairly small area of the city. I remember once doing multiple line changes and realizing afterwards that my destination was about 3 blocks from where I started.
> They have presumably applied for a patent for it, so in 20 years when the patent expires this will become the standard thing to do with recovered CO2 I'd guess.

And how many years would it have taken if a patent wasn't an incentive?
HKG, there is a piano in the connected airport hotel.
Hallucination is all LLMs are capable of doing. Whether those hallucinations align to truth, falseness, or neither is secondary. They're trained on text but they don't recall text, they just hallucinate "beliefs" (heavy scare quotes) that aren't rooted in any notion of logic, just empirical statistical association (assuming the training was "successful" (again heavy scare quotes)).

So LLMs hallucinate because that's what their architecture demands of them for the purpose of generating outputs. It's really that simple.
It is really bad here in Canada. There is very little innovation going on here and the goal is to fleece the customers as much as possible.
The poster you're replying to means that inflation-adjusted wages are roughly at an all time high, which is true:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB

Aside from the distortion from the pandemic unemployment wave, people make more now than ever before. All of this data is publicly accessible.

No, food has not inflated 3.5x, and food is also a pretty small portion of Americans' spending.
I use it in Mac as part of my job duties. So far it mostly works in the place I need it most which is web forms on chrome. Some applications I wish it worked on do not recognize it such as notes app.
I'll have to figure it out on Mac since ahk was my go to when I had pc
This is a great book and I quote this 1998 article she wrote for Salon all the time: https://www.salon.com/1998/05/12/feature_321/

"The dumbing-down of programming"

> The computer was suddenly revealed as palimpsest. The machine that is everywhere hailed as the very incarnation of the new had revealed itself to be not so new after all, but a series of skins, layer on layer, winding around the messy, evolving idea of the computing machine. Under Windows was DOS; under DOS, BASIC; and under them both the date of its origins recorded like a birth memory. Here was the very opposite of the authoritative, all-knowing system with its pretty screenful of icons. Here was the antidote to Microsoft's many protections. The mere impulse toward Linux had led me into an act of desktop archaeology. And down under all those piles of stuff, the secret was written: We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

I repeat the last sentence to my students all the time ("We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.")

There's no way to understand why our computers work the way they do without understanding the human, social, and economic factors involved in their production. And foregrounding the human element often makes it easier to explain what's going on and why.
CompuServe was pretty awesome back in the 80's! It was essentially email and Reddit, all in one service. You had scripts that would run to send/receive mail, download thread updates and upload responses - all batch, because you were charged by the minute for connect time.

There are some aspects of that environment I like better than what we have today.
Use WIN+V instead of CTRL+V to get a clipboard history pop-up in Windows 10.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/clipboard-in-win...
Objective signifies intent, no?
Ideally it would be the case that there is some democratic control instead of just random technocratic growth. I think that could only ever be legitimized if access stays universally free. There are also decent and most importantly honest political ambitions to improve the net. But there are the other kind too.

Overall the most profound impact of politics is still content control and putting up barriers. Of course I am biased, but I am very glad that some computer nerds made manipulation and censorship as difficult as it is. If we talk about truly global efforts, the democratic legitimacy can also be disputed for that matter as there is no world government.

Again, it became a topic about control and the strategy to create technological realities is maybe not a good defense, but the best one I could imagine.
What would you do with that information? You'd need a profiler (and either a copy of your code, or a disassembler) to make it actionable…
New Chinese research examines how to get drones to target without GPS
Agreed about mixed zoning, I should've mentioned that too. It does not necessarily go hand in hand with walkability, you also want to be able to buy eg. water especially if it's hot. But I guess it usually comes together with density
None's stopping you to use MSOffice '97. I still use it from time to time and current MSOffice is happily recognizing the format and converts it on the fly. Also there is a tool that you can install and see current formats to be able to open them in MSOffice '97.

As for why the rest of the world why would do that or not, is their choice, no?
Objective as in objective function.
The place I'm consulting for at the moment shut down offices for years due to the pandemic. Some people moved out of state and continued to work because there was no signal of ever returning to the office. Then last week they said everyone had to return to the office 3 days per week or be fired with no exceptions. We're losing an MVP on our team due to this. He now lives over 500 miles from the closest office.
Previously, you had a random 4 digit discriminator assigned to you when you made your account.
With nitro, you could choose the discriminator for as long as your subscription was active, which users picked to have a vanity one like `User#0001`

This made it easier to send your id to friends, not having to remember the 4 random numbers but didn't provide any value otherwise.
When you do this repair just make sure that the float arm can move freely and won’t get stuck on anything (will cause your fuel gauge readout to be inaccurate).
I consider the idea of naming a whole field “artificial intelligence” unfortunate. Many people think, because of the name, that artificial neurons are not just inspired by real ones, but are a perfect digital model of them. We don’t need to add more confusion by misappropriating terms from other sciences (to be honest, “hallucinate” is also not great by this rule).
The title of the blog post (which is different from the title of the HN submission) is the book title (I found out after googling the reviewed author).
Looking at what they're doing with Outlook I'd bet money that they intend to replace the desktop version of Excel with the web version sooner or later.
> There's a litany of open source projects that I have used that have been completely abandoned.

Yes, but being able to continue using, and even fixing bugs in the abandoned project is way, way better than having a useless pile of bits because the license server was taken offline. If may not be a great situation and you may well want to migrate to something else, but it is a far more graceful exit than closed-source software usually is.

> Trust comes from building a healthy ecosystem of users, which ultimately comes from building a good product.

This isn't enough. Great products with many users are often acquired and shut down or just change their licensing strategy to be unsuitable (either too expensive or too restrictive).
This sounds like it provides a way for Excel to hand a bunch of data to Python code for processing and get back results, and vice versa.

That's probably extremely valuable to many people, but it does not seem to be what I hope for whenever I see something about bringing Python to Excel.

What I hope for is something that is like VBA but without the VB. I.e., a Python (or JavaScript) interpreter/JIT/compiler built into Excel exposing all the internal Excel objects and methods that VBA has access to. By "Python" I just mean the language and whatever subset of the standard library makes sense in Excel.
Researchers convert CO2 to butyric acid and its upgrade to butanol
At the time of the writing there was actually a lot of planning going on before you started writing code.
This is the overlooked part, a spare lets you actually continue the journey
I like calling it "bullshitting", because the art of bullshitting isn't about lying, it's about not caring whether or not things are true if they can make a good story.

(But seriously, "confabulate" is much better. The thing I don't like about "hallucinate" is that it gets the agency wrong. Hallucinations are something that happens TO people, that they recover from.)
Meh, as an advanced user on a trading floor we don't need Python for Excel to run on the cloud, we need it to run locally so we can tap into our in-house C++ library and KDB databases. Third-party solutions have so much overhead.
Have you tried using the performance counters? They've been useful in my experience, although I don't touch them often. Instruments is definitely not geared towards this since most application developers rarely need to do profiling at this level, but it has some level of this built in when you need it.
He’s castled with the Stockholm Royal Palace so there’s a bishop and knight defending him, at least.
>Having said that, Blackstone/rock has grown far too much. People need to stop sending their money to their index funds.

Where else do you send it to? Vanguard, with 7.7T AUM? For reference, Blackrock's AUM is 9.4T.
Its nothing earth shaking. I just type edit foo.m, select the lines from the history that worked and copy them to the new file, perhaps doing a quick namechange or two. It isn't anything a plugin could provide, and doctor doc strings tries to, but it is pretty clumsy, the name change refactoring thing isn't there, and more importantly, the idiomatic way to create a reusable module in julia is a lot heavier. I also run into issues of collisions between the new module and the lines I copied. I'm sure it is all resolvable, it just feels clunky out of the box after using it lightly for a year or so. I can use numpy the same way as matlab mostly, its just really slow. I haven't found a prototyping language other than matlab that I don't find myself thinking "might as well write it in rust as long as this is taking", as I know I'll end up doing that anyway.
The atom bomb was theoretically possible till it was practical. So was powered flight. And orbital rockets. And solar power.
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It is literally impossible to support sharding better than /dev/null does.
No both the absolute and rate of of cancers has increased. Even if you ignore environmental factors older people get more cancer and we have more older people today. Age adjusted cancer rates for some kinds of cancers have dropped because fewer people smoke etc, but it’s not universal across all cancers.

We do also detect more cancers early, but that also makes cancer treatment look better. Aka 5 year survival rates look better when you start the clock sooner.
Extend a C/C++ Project with Zig (2021)
HCSL: Hand coded stringy lisp
I wrote a lisp
I would have found it much more intuitive to understand had the breadboard been in the vertical orientation.
Hackers can use credit bureaus to dox nearly anyone in America
Diary of a Mediocre Samurai [video]
I believe you can use ahk to monitor colour changes?
Hey! Author here. Hope this tutorial helps some people -- it helped me to write it! True experts may find it overly simplistic in a few places, but my hope is that the potential harm from oversimplification is more than made up for by the benefit of allowing many people to feel more comfortable with their understanding of Transformer models so they can pursue further study & development work. I'd be happy to make edits as per comments that may appear below.
The actual key being that they get paid somewhere around half that. Other industries don't calculate the overtime potential or benefits in the total compensation figure but of course this gets clicks and misinformation spreads like wildfire.
Do people use P/E as a metric for company success? I find the Nvidia one of 223 or so just a gross perversion, no real success there. It’s more about how irrational the average investor is now and how top heavy the SP500 is.
Except that BASIC is not underneath MSDOS...
RIP, Kris.
I’m from Bhubaneswar, and proud of what they’ve achieved in spite of all the limitations.
I'm a principal engineer in a faang-adjacent ecomm domain. I've been doing this for 11 years and I'm absolutely sick of it. there are no novel problems, just quarterly goals that compete with and dominate engineering timelines.

how did you get started, and what would you recommend for pivoting into this space?
That quote also stood out to me, but probably in a different way. It's missing a crucial piece of information: What is the correct way to use the internet? And computers, for that matter?

A generous interpretation is that users are expected to take the knowledge and do greater things with it, instead of sitting and clicking, but that obviously doesn't make sense after a few seconds' thought. I'm stumped.
I would add a root cause to this:

KPIs are fine when treated as health indicators. You can deliver a feature, and then watch over a good period of time whether the health improves. This "good period of time" can be months, or for something that's intuitive – e.g. you're launching a feature to be on parity or enter a new market or catch up with a competitor – this can take YEARS for your customers to understand and move closer to your product.

What backfires is, using KPIs as quarterly goals. Imagine this, you launch a feature and expect within the quarter that this feature is going to grab X% of your competitor market share (beautifully expressed as "increases X business by Y%"). This is where it starts to fall apart. Things that are human intuitive for the product (common sense market features, foundational work, new market launches) – will never get prioritized because they won't move a number in that quarter.

Using KPIs as development cycle goals are destroying businesses. KPIs are fine as health indicators.

The problem is, using KPIs as health indicators – works only with the kind of environment where: Teams after healthy discussions can trust and commit to delivering features – and somebody takes accountability for the KPIs asynchronously behind the scenes. Where a shepherd steps up and says, "I approved the features last year, I take responsibility if they all didn't change our trajectory, some did, some didn't". Today's adoption of KPIs is an "empowerment" trend, where managers figured out – teams are delivering features and I'm answering KPIs, why do this roundabout, let me just pass on the entire KPIs to the team, problem solved! "I forwarded the KPIs to my team and they committed to doing these features, I did my job, the team is not performing". The path to hell is paved with good intentions, but there are also nefarious habits.
Not offended that Excel can do more, but potentially still inconvenienced by Libreoffice not having the thing they are familiar with or are forced to work with?
I think you mean accurate, not precise.
I may be missing something, but where is the PowerShell part? Mostly it is .c code and executables and only few .ps1 scripts.
Then they should embed the supported version of python in Excel and manage it automatically for them. This can be validated with Excel before release.
But they still won’t sell you parts or allow anyone else to make them.
"A gentleman is a man who can play the public piano, but doesn't."

(With apologies to accordion players.)
Well if the answer is they’re not sure here’s my guess-

Since caffeine puts our body on high alert, it wants to dump excess weight we are carrying in case we need to taunt in some cases or lose aggro in other cases.

Probably why we get dehydrated and poop off the weight, so we can make our final stand.

But these days it’s just so we can deal with stupid ass meetings and annoying managers.
“Python code used by Excel runs on the Microsoft Cloud …”

Bummer. Was hoping it would be local instead.
I think the idea that the brain can be copied entirely is a false belief based on a positivistic worldview. In other words, there is a lot that we cannot know about the brain and in all likelihood are "locked out of" knowing permanently by virtue of being in the world. If this weren't the case, it would imply that we, humans, are somehow external to reality, which doesn't seem like a good argument to me.

The effects of millions of years of evolution on perception are a good example. We can't perceive the "roads not taken" in terms of development, nor can we know if there is "something we're missing" in terms of understanding the brain. So, at best, the brain simulation will just be a mediocre imitation, not a true copy.

Beyond that, though, I think I just reject the notion that the brain is equivalent to identity. This idea is very traceable to European culture circa the Enlightenment, which to me indicates that it's not an accurate understanding of the human Self. This means that the Self includes the body, which implies that merely copying the brain, no matter how perfectly, is not an accurate copy.

Side note: I'm not really sure how you're connecting this to my original comment, which was not normative in nature. I wasn't suggesting that "doing away with consciousness" was a good or correct thing, just that it will pragmatically happen. Fact-value distinction and all that.
Apologies for flippant tone, i was continuing the argument as if I was the top level comment author.

If I'm active in a community and suddenly stop showing up, I may make an announcement too.
Maybe this is not so much about bringing Python to Excel, more about bringing Excel to Python. But only if you do it the way Microsoft wants you to.

As with BASIC morphing into VisualBasic and VBA you lure (beginning) python programmers into Excel. Ultimately those developers will understand and appreciate less and less of vanilla python REPL, jupyter, scripts, etc. And... Welcome to Microsoft's world.
I don't think anything happens after we die. But as human beings is just too hard for us to comprehend things without a beginning or an end. Because it Just doesn't fit the model of our world.
That’s just it. Nix has been growing significantly. A third of its new users were gotten in 2022, the year after I FINALLY joined the club (after scoffing at it for... at least a decade? I was one of you, basically...).

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983

Have you worked at a startup? Do you know what a “hockey stick” growth curve looks like? Because Nix may be on the cusp of one.

Its package repo (check out search.nixos.org) has more packages that are ready to download and run than any other Linux distro, while having fewer maintainers than most distros. If nothing else, this alone speaks to the power of deterministic builds and runs. When something doesn’t randomly break, turns out that it needs much lower maintenance and thus fewer people…

The funny thing about NixOS (and I heard about this before I experienced it, which I found intriguing at the time and which I can now say is very real) is that the second you "grok" it... you will want it on ALL of your machines

So when I dove in, I said "I'm going to figure out how this works and then simplify it." Unfortunately, the closest I've come to that so far (and this is partially due to... having a 2 year old and working at a startup) is this commandline wrapper that makes most of what I need Nix to do, easy: https://github.com/pmarreck/ixnay

I still don't understand the entirety of the Nix language, but this is an excellent, excellent interactive tour: https://nixcloud.io/tour/
> Front end devs, I implore you. Stop acting like you think you know what the user wants in regards to scrolling behavior. Smooth scrolling already exists natively in every browser. There's no need to try to re-implement it in JavaScript. Your implementation will not work in every browser, and will only cause strange stuttering, bouncing, or even end up somehow completely disabling scrolling altogether. Do not try to get fancy and implement "momentum" into scrolling. You're changing a well-understood behavior into something that is unexpected and jarring, and likely it won't work anyways.

Smooth scrolling can cause motion sickness because it doesn't perfectly match up with the action. Javascript versions make it even worse because the ratio is pretty much guaranteed to be off from the user's normal scroll amount, particularly with a mouse or touchpad.

It's not that bad for me, but I do disable it wherever possible because I find it disorienting. Can't do that with javascript implementations.
>The CEO directly created the perverse incentive: actually hitting your goals only meant more work.

You say this as if employees are absolved of any responsibility to the performance of the company. You're not clever for saying, "Oh, 100% means we weren't ambitious? Then we'll work 80% as hard." In fact, I think you'd have to be pretty dense to not understand the intention of the KPI: set lofty goals and try to get there.

If you don't think it's working, why not go back with ideas to improve it, rather than doing less work? I mean, this company literally failed (from the sounds of it) and people here are blaming the CEOs KPIs versus the employees who intentionally work less to game the system. Strange.
Conway's law. Unless those people have devs or data engineers embedded in their group, they're going to keep on with less than ideal solutions. Management will accept those inefficient solutions because they don't come with dev pricetags.
I like the story where it backfired because an actual town grew in a trap spot and took on the trap name legally without knowing the name was a planted fake.
Yeah those videos kept a lot of us sane. My jam was Martijn Doolaard's series of him restoring a rustic country house in the Italian Alps.

I still put that on on days where city and modern living is too much and I need to remember what being in nature feels like.

I strongly recommend it to anyone.
Some places--whatever the continent--are certainly more amenable to not having a car than others. But, generally speaking, people also just generally adapt. If you're in a lot of cities without a car, you just mostly avoid taking trips outside the city very often because it's a pain to do. You tend to orient your activities around low friction most of the time.
Have fun with that. There is an army of teenagers who would be more than glad to pick up the empty positions.
The russian media strategy is what Timothy Snyder calls "applied postmodernism".

Basically you don't want to persuade anybody. You just want people to stop believing in anything and to accept their fate. So you spread as much contradictory bullshit as you can and people just say "whatever, who knows, everybody lie anyway, I don't need to care about this".

It's enough for dictator if everybody decides it's not their problem.
What's the best portable piano keyboard for traveling (self-contained, so not just a MIDI keyboard)?
You touch upon it in your comment and giving it zero weight for some reason: you can’t develop most types of cancer if you die at 30 (extreme example).
Nice script.

It's... uhhh... not shellcheck-clean.

https://shellcheck.net/