skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly enough, when Resolver One didn't work out in the marketplace, we pivoted to PythonAnywhere. That took off nicely, and was acquired by Anaconda last year. And now Anaconda is realising those old dreams :-)

BTW for clarity: the team working on this inside Anaconda is entirely separate from the PythonAnywhere team. It would have made a perfect Hollywood-ready story if it had been the same people...
thank you for saying more
There are more companies. I also tend to abandon ship before the company folds. I left before the 100mil loss and subsequent layoff.

Additionally, at such a large company (1500 people), my individual efforts have little to no effect on whether or not a multinational corporation goes under.
Check out if this then that (iftt)
Reminds me of "If All Stories Were Written Like Science Fiction Stories":

http://web.archive.org/web/20040929041451/http://www.shrovet...
Are you not aware of how FSD beta performs in SF?

There are several videos where Tesla FSD beats cruise and Waymo in getting to random destinations, with no interventions.
Yeah I’ve received so many broken Excel documents and it’s just constant frustration.

Half the things don’t work, customer is sure it worked in X ( now broken and invisible way ) and they really don’t remember that correctly.
They aren’t, the point is they don’t trust Byte Dance at all, and with good reason.
Cortex-M4 doesn’t have virtual memory, the only Linux you could run there would be a ucLinux fork
I searched for info on the cost overruns and it appears that management failures contributed significantly. An anti-nuke lawsuit didn't help but appeared to be $1B in impact.

We see consistently that big projects never come in on time and budget, which is why SMRs are the only economical way forward.
I can put this in an email if you want, but one good reason would be that my laptop is probably faster than the cloud compute that they are willing to give away to 365 subscribers. I can do much more inefficient things in a single cell if I know my laptop can pick up the slack :)

(Although, I'm guessing the reason they did it this way is so they could keep the execution model the same for Excel on the web? It's always running on the external service vs sometimes running locally and sometimes running externally.)
1919 cartoon depicting the use of a ‘pocket telephone’
Atari had an 8-byte string we were supposed to embed somewhere in all of our cartridges. It was just random bits to me, but I heard later it was a message in morse code, which would probably be fun to reveal in court.

I think this practice started in 1980 or so. No idea if it was ever relied upon in a legal case.
Her quote reminds me of Eternal September[1], when AOL started allowing their users to interact with Usenet. The people who were already there were not happy with this influx of the unwashed masses coming in and breaking stuff and ignoring good manners and the protocols that had been established.

In the early days of the internet, there was definitely a different crowd because the barrier to entry was pretty high and required a lot of dedication and problem-solving abilities. As the bar of entry came down, along with it came all of the things that come with football stadiums, shopping malls, and time-share condos.

A more recent, similar event was when Digg shut down and all the users from there flooded onto Reddit. That was the beginning of the end of the golden days of Reddit, imo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
If you've ever dealt with AWS Lambda you will know what a versioning and upgrading shit show this is going to be wherever you stick it, be that client or cloud.

I worked on a very early python integration used as a workflow DSL back in 1998 and they had to dump it and write their own DSL in the end.
The site does not look fancy but it delivers. Everyone complaining about someone using that page, why? I have adblock on so maybe it looks far worse for others. But I just see straight up headlines for each topic and it looks current. I did not know this page still existed either, but honestly I like the simple look.
It will never work because Python is the ecosystem. Having Python without the ability to tap the huge catalogue of existing software makes the integration worthless. The first thing someone will want to do is use Pandas on a live spreadsheet.
People still selflessly create things to celebrate their niche interests, it is just that often they find that content is better contributed to a single unified website instead of a personal website in the corners of the internet that few people would find.

For example, lots of people spend many, many unpaid hours of their lives contributing to Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, or Wikivoyage, and since that data is available for free to the world with no ads, paywalls, newsletters, etc., it shouldn’t be seen as inferior.
Oh the cloud part is going to be a huge deal breaker in so many industries. This will automatically be blocked by default at my work place for certain.
I think the indifference is a function of just how marginal the utility is.

Before self-driving cars, it's either: (1) I'm getting chauffeured around (2) I'm doing something tedious and boring until I arrive at my destination.

With self-driving cars: (1) I'm getting chauffeured around (2) I'm doing something tedious and boring or something entertaining until I arrive at my destination.

Like who cares how novel and futuristic the implementation is? The utility is nearly the same.
Compared to the US system of workers' visas, it's incredibly lax. Unless I'm misinformed. I haven't had to think about it much though, as I'm an Irish citizen and can come and go as I please.
Even technical management can succumb to this. Agreed with most of the replies to your comment.
The article says that the general public in SF can use Waymo starting this week, but is this actually true? My Waymo One app just says I'm on a waitlist and SF is invite-only.
MSX would boot to BASIC by default. It was possible to run MSX-DOS instead but not entirely necessary.
It’s how the people that bring charges would define it. What you or I understand the meaning is irrelevant in the eyes of Johnny Law
Only to discover (too late of course) that it was the LLMs that caused the collapse....

(See: AFUtD).
Like most corporations Discord doesn't care to make decent software. Instead it just maintains a team of lawyers to fix "problems" with it's implementations.
Or you could keep the metrics secret before evaluation. Except secrets are hard to keep and non-transparent.

One also has to consider whether the people who define the KPIs are themselves properly incentivized. How are they evaluated? Could there be some perverse incentive to set gameable KPIs that get hit easier? Maybe the KPI setter is in some sense in on the game and complicit? Very complicated stuff. What if the business gets destroyed in the process? Who does that hurt in reality and how much?
Looks like a stray index.html was able to slip in there somehow.

It pulls a background image from https://new.action247.ag/assets/images/login-background.jpg

Roughly Google-translated from Indonesian, it's a shady gambling scam. It sends your form data to a WhatsApp number, 855717520276.

Possibly a hole in Inkscape's CMS (Django)? There's also a fair amount of python code in their website repo, so maybe that, I dunno. From the bottom of their homepage:

<a id="dev-stamp" href="https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-web"><img src="https://media.inkscape.org/static/images/django.svg" title="This site is running:
Python 3.6.8
Django 2.2
App: CMS [Home]
InkscapeWeb 1.6, as of Mon Aug 21 19:06:31 2023 (5420e21)" alt="PY"/></a>

Django 2.2 was last updated over a year ago and has had a number of security patches.

An issue should probably be filed on their GitLab: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-web/-/issues/
Hitler lied including with "regard to his inner beliefs". He told lies he knew full well were lies. He also contradicted himself quite a lot, directly, which just one more data point towards "he knew he was lying". He gave instructions to people under him that amounted to "lie about this thing, because it is strategical".

> After all every politician lies.

There are massive differences in how much politicians lies. Some of them lie more, others less. There are massive differences in topics politicians lie about. Lying about liking a musical piece for example is not the same as lying about planned policies.
Commander is the OG afaik
HN submission title says (2022) but the discussion seems to be a day old?
Right. In terms of overall end user experience, it wouldn't, and shouldn't, feel different from just getting an ordinary Uber. The real self-driving revolution people have wanted is most/all consumer cars on the roads being self-driving so that you can (in theory) dedicate time to other things and be less likely to get in a collision, but that's far away.
Mass culture destroys organic culture
I installed Firefox recently but I had to turn off "smooth scrolling" because it was jarring.
You're not making any sense. Solar without sufficient grid-scale storage to provide for the base load has little value. Who is going to build that storage? It's certainly not going to be cheap. You guys need to look beyond ideology and actually do the math.
The owner of the restaurant is the one who would make that decision. And that would be them deciding not to make money, so fat chance.

But even ignoring the owner, not opening means that everybody else who works in the restaurant also doesn't get paid. If prep for the shift has started before the person called out, what do you do with perishable product?

On top of that, closing for a night means unexpectedly having to cancel reservations which comes with a reputation hit. Sorry to cancel your anniversary plans with 45 minutes notice!
What we are learning from this thread is that OKR completion percentage is a very bad surrogate metric for OKR difficulty. That's not surprising; it's very hard for managers to evaluate the ambitiousness of individual OKRs unless they are technical experts, whereas completion percentage is an easy surrogate that should correlate with effort and achievement difficulty. Completion percentage is easily and directly measurable, so of course the CEO rewards that instead. Except that it correlates positively with effort and negatively with difficulty, so it cannot simultaneously incentivize working hard on difficult tasks, resulting in terrible counter-incentives and gaming.
> However, the web experience doesn’t let you do everything that you can in the mobile app. According to Pai, that means you can’t do things like edit your profile

That sounds like a showstopper to me?

For me the threads.net website is still just a QR code that says "get the app". I don't want to use the mobile app, though, I just want to sign up in a desktop web browser. I'm getting the impression that even now, the site is still just a supplement rather than a replacement for the mobile app.
> While dystopian, Exman’s tactics are smart in their own way. It is, as she put it, a “defensible process”. If the powers-that-be later find a contraband book in the library, school administrators can simply blame ChatGPT.

Seems an excellent idea!
Interface looks simple and elegant. I hope they maintain the visual appeal while adding new features over time.
very smart move!

clearly aimed at big business/enterprise customers, python's ecosystem of scientific & statistical libraries is massive

not so long ago they introduced Office Scripts and Power Automate, in essence coding macros in TypeScript (rather than VBA), again only for business/enterprise license users though.
> Everyone should want the company to succeed

The company has no interest in my success, why should I care if the company succeeds? It has no effect on me if it does.

"That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired"

- Office Space
Back in 2005, some friends and I started a company called Resolver Systems to build a Python-enabled spreadsheet, which we called Resolver One. Sadly, it never took off in the marketplace, and we had to pivot; we would up creating PythonAnywhere, an online coding and hosting environment, which worked out pretty well and was acquired by Anaconda last year. And now, the circle is closed :-)

(Just for clarity: the team working on this inside Anaconda is entirely separate from the PythonAnywhere team. It would have made a perfect Hollywood-ready story if it had been the same people...)
I am the sole Python developer in a company where everyone uses spreadsheets. With this project, will my coworkers be able to run my Python functions? Or only functions that are built into Python and packages like pandas and NumPy?
So, carrying smaller payloads besides the main mission payload.

For a moment I imagined the rocket would have like a little side vent for dumping off smaller space vehicles different altitudes before it reached it's desired I guess apogee. But the violence of a rocket launch would probably rip those things to pieces.
Ransomware on the Move: Exploitation Techniques and the Pursuit of Zero-Days
"Ransomware on the Move: Evolving Exploitation Techniques and the Active Pursuit of Zero-Days"
TLDR; the idea he has:

> My thinking is that frequent partner The Library of Congress can put a stop to this by buying the Internet Archive. Make it a government body and protect all that digital content.
I don't feel like the tech is there yet to start selling the cars to consumers. Waymo only recently got permission to start doing rides for money right? And in the early stages, scifi Uber makes way more sense than trying to sell the cars directly.

> hiring them for trips will not be any cheaper or easier than Uber

Why wouldn't they be? When the price of a business's inputs goes down, the profit-maximizing thing for them do is lower the price of their outputs.
If that were so, people would be far more accepting of the idea that life, the one thing we do know that ends for everyone, just... ends, and that there is nothing for the dead after that.

But people struggle with it, the concept of simply stopping to exist is terrifying for some.
God I wish I could run MacOS 8.1, Windows 95 OSR 2.1 or Windows 2000 SP4 on modern hardware. Especially with some tweaking that removes artificial animation delays that stuff should be flying so ungodly fast.
I agree that it's a conflict of interest, but I'm not sure how the chair of the fed could keep their money without a conflict of interest somewhere, given that their role necessarily has interests in all US financial institutions.

For the chair to not have a conflict of interest, they'd need to forfeit all their money, or keep it in cash under their mattress.
wait how can they not mention this guys name? he wrote the book on it. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=balaji+...

they need to hire me to write for them.

edit: oh this is an excerpt from the book. i'm really curious to know if they covered balaji, he seems like he should be included in that topic imo. would be a mistake if they didn't at least touch on that — network state, urbit, etc.
The Ottomans were also not originally from Anatolia ...
Storing propane is much easier than storing hydrogen. It liquifes at reasonable pressure so it can be stored as a liquid in uninsulated, relatively lightweight tanks (the tank under your BBQ grill is an example).

Hydrogen leaks out of almost everything, embrittles steel, is hard to store as a liquid and needs very high pressures to store a meaningful amount as a gas.
KPIs aren't the issue; it's how businesses use them. Think of it like flying a plane without gauges—it's risky and uncertain. The risk of stalling or getting lost increases. Good KPIs are like helpful plane instruments. Some may seem unnecessary, but the focus should be on the essential ones. KPIs are just measurements. The problem is businesses not being explicit in their direction and selecting the right measurements to reach those goals. You rely on measurements every day, don't stop now.
> What other similar books would you recommend?

"Close to the Machine" by Ellen Ullman and "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland occupy roughly the same space in my memory.
Domestic rabbits are the most attitude-y animals I've kept, with such surprisingly variable personalities.

I had a rabbit that we'd let out in the garden, and if the neighbour's cat came in the garden, the rabbit would chase it out, and even attack it if it wouldn't leave.
And they do lead to unemployment. What are the people thinking? There is unemployment, and technology causes it more than it relieves it, especially software technology.
I was using this article for my source [1] which says:

"By the end of the new contract, full-time UPS delivery drivers will make an average of $49 per hour, which works out to nearly $102,000 per year, assuming a 40-hour workweek, 52 weeks a year. Those employees are guaranteed an eight-hour workday, a UPS spokesperson told CBS MoneyWatch.

Drivers also receive $50,000 in benefits that include health, welfare and pension contributions, the spokesperson said."

I think a base salary of $100k is a decent living for non-skilled labor. And the pension contributions, whatever they are, are reasonable to include. I'm also noting that the end of the new contract is in 5 years, so maybe it won't be as good of a living as I'm thinking, depending on inflation.

In any case the important point is that UPS cut earnings forecasts because of this which means that workers did capture more of the profits that would have gone to owners. I consider it a win. Could it have been a bigger win? If most other workers were organized, I think so. With so many workers negotiating as individuals in the US, companies still have the upper hand as a whole. Workers continue to underestimate their value to the economy both in terms of labor and as consumers. The rich need labor, the rich need consumers. We should be getting a bigger piece of the huge profit pie that productivity increases result in.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ups-drivers-170000-pay-benefits...
Well, the interesting thing about the post is that it is specifically about VOCs. Airflow based air purification through Carbon filters and HEPA/MERV filters barely do anything to reduce VOCs (keep in mind that VOCs themselves are of many subtypes).
Do managers actually like dashboards and KPIs? Not all managers report directly into the CEO, so suffer from the problems as much as their underlings.

Management want indicators of certainty and progress with the least effort possible. Superficially, dashboards composed of KPIs give them what they want. Good CEOs are unlikely to rely on these, but instead think of them as an alignment and investigative tool.

Each layer of the organisation aligns itself around some KPIs with lower levels often feeding upwards through the hierarchy. As you further down the hierarchy things get messier as they are further from the executives, may have less experience/skill with using tools like KPIs in the way the CEO wants, and there many more teams to align across with problems like duplication, etc.

The majority of engineers are at the bottom of the pyramid. Their management is coming from their own ranks with little support, so it's not a surprise there is misunderstanding and misuse. In programming, when the career ladder often involves stopping dev work and becoming a manager, it only makes things worse. When I see peers promoted into management, I always hope it's the ones that have capacity for leadership versus experience because they are going to be the ones that adapt KPIs to match the internal and external needs of the company.
Crewed space exploration is a fun stunt, but serves no practical purpose. Leave it to billionaires. Instruments like JWST are much more interesting.
I think this is MVP that will evolve over time. By the way, if you're just seeing QR code then you probably don't have access to web yet. They said it's rolling out slowly.
This is a nightmare. Python devs are going to be asked to support the half-baked python macros of business users.
I just see them as pale skinned people with black hair. It's a characteristic look you see.
ST’s MCUs used to be somewhat price competitive, but since the chip shortage you’re a fool if you’re designing anything new with them. Might as well burn your money.
I'll throw this advice in as well, about Firefox' disk cache. Not related to Chrome but mainly as a generic way to make Firefox a bit snappier and less grindy/bloated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35168625
The Empire’s New Clothes (and Everyone Else’s Too)
My my, why so angry? You're expecting something that Excel doesn't support for good reason. The string you used as an example might be a date string to YOU, but to Excel and many of its users it's just a large integer. Lots of regular use cases would break if Excel would interpret that string as a datwle

If you want Excel to interpret strings as dates, use a more common date representation such as iso8601
Been using Firefox for a long time, absolutely did not know this was a thing :/
> [containers are a] better solution to the problem profiles solve

If this problem is persona/identity/account isolation, then yes.

If you want multiple parallel settings and add-on combinations, then no. I use profiles in firefox for this specific reason.

I've no idea about chrome because I don't use it, but I haven't found any problem with firefox profiles for this purpose anyhow - I just configure the desktop to start firefox with -new-instance -ProfileManager and choose the profile at startup.

If I want multiple profiles simultaneously, I just start them up on different virtual desktops.
FP-Go: A Game-Changer or a Misstep in Golang's Functional Programming?
Here is how it renders with all JS blocked: https://0x0.st/HLFl.png
wow you can color outside the white space
Physicists use a 350-year-old theorem to reveal new properties of light waves
Not OP but I would never want to use this if I was running a security minded business. Why would it be okay to send out my entire dataset to the Microsoft cloud to run a few simple queries. How long is the data stored on your servers? Since it’s operating on the data directly, it’s not possible to anonymize or redact the contents of the data.
"When I watch the users try the Internet, it slowly becomes clear to me that the Net represents the ultimate dumbing-down of the computer."

I think this is an asinine quote, to be honest. It comes across as elitist: "these idiots don't use computers how they should be using them, according to -me-".

The internet, the ability to communicate and access data instantly across the globe, has been one of humanity's greatest achievements to date. But because some people look at junk or don't use it efficiently, it's "the ultimate dumbing-down of the computer"? Really? People like this complain about "the unwashed masses", but fail to recognize that the internet would not nearly have been as useful if it were limited to an insular group of similar people until now.
Right, I imagine they wouldn't be seeking out the little grey squares. Humans are curious however and the Wonderer is no different. They might only collect them as they come across them and ponder their meaning and reason for existence in those rare hours they have a little leisure time.