skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>When the textile industry reaches a particular area, peasant farmers move into factories. This is better paying and easier work than life in the rice paddy. And therefore is a rise in the median wealth. But the economic wins from those running the textile factories are far larger than their employees, and so also comes with a rise in inequity.

I don't know how you can state this as a definitive argument because it relies on assigning an arbitrary monetary value to something that is impossible to measure. For example, how can we say that life as a subsistence farmer on some aristocrats land is inherently a worse life than working 12 hours a day in sweatshop and going home to a slum and a room shared with dozens of other random people? Yes, the subsistence farmer might technically own nothing and the factory worker has a wage, that doesn't mean the factory worker has a better life.

Also the PG argument is flawed as it seems to suggest that a company's value is all new value. The economy is more complicated than that. There are some zero-sum interactions in the economy. PG's Airbnb wealth didn't just come from people renting out their spare bedroom. It came at the expense of hotels. It came at the expense of housekeeping workers at those hotels who were no longer needed due to reduced demand. It can at the expense of people who were priced out of their neighborhood because people were buying real estate to rent on Airbnb. It is easy to miss the consolidation of wealth if you think that any new fortune is from entirely new value.
How about an actual API that lets you drive Excel from Python rather than the other way around?

With that API, it won't matter whether you want Python, Ruby, Lua, whatever, for your scripting language.

This is nice, but it welds a specific version of Python inside Excel and makes it a gigantic PITA to use your normal development tools on your Python code.
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I tried LibreOffice for the first time in many years recently to help me generate some nice templates for ODT documents I wanted to export using Emacs' Org-Mode. Overall I was really quite impressed with how far it has come.

I also found that ODT documents also import nicely from Google Drive into Google Docs, which is a great way to get feedback on documents I author in Org-Mode with my teammates.
Why not starlark?
I describe Excel as the browser for data apps. Now Python would be the scripting engine for Excel, the “data browser”.
That makes sense. Given the impossibility of enforcing though, I can't see why any state would bother to make it illegal.
Subpar was accurate. What you can theoretically do with an SWF file given a new from-scratch runtime and what you could actually do with the extant Flash player at the time are different topics.
With the knowledge that Apple actually tried to get Flash on iOS and didn't half-ass the attempt, I'm inclined to believe Jobs that it was technical decision. Flash was everywhere and Apple had to says something to 1.) explain why iOS didn't have Flash, and 2.) convince developers to drop Flash so iOS web browsers wouldn't be a second class citizen.

Looking at all the effort poured into Ruffle, I think the death of Flash was inevitable.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/27/apple-tried-to-help-adobe-bri...
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“Canvas, CIS, Peoplesoft, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), Network Availability, VPN, UMail, University of Utah Home Page, Voice Systems”
One reason that I used to print out code for review was so that I could take a bunch of code somewhere else away from my desk, such as to a coffee shop or to a more comfortable chair. With lightweight, high-resolution laptops and tablets, this is much less of an issue than it used to be.

Though sometimes I do prefer to read offline altogether, but it's probably been something like 5+ years since I last printed out code to review away from my desk.

Was it more useful for spotting bugs? Maybe some kinds of bugs. If all you have to look at is the printout in front of you, you might be inclined to read and think about it more deeply than you might have otherwise, with the full capabilities of your computer at the ready. On the computer, I might more easily focus on, Does it compile? Does it run? Does the output look right on the screen? But when all you have is the code, my thoughts might tend more toward, Does this theoretically make sense?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Oxford_d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Apostles
That is overly sentimental and romantic and doesn't match reality. The effort to sustain life on Mars is more than we know, and it is much, much, much, much more effort to sustain life on Mars (even if we knew how to do it) than it is to address our problems here on Earth. And say we go to Mars, which we can basically simulate here on Earth anyway. How does that get us closer "to the stars"?

If we can't survive here on Earth, literally the most perfect habitat for us, then what in the world is the point of "going to the stars", whatever that means in the first place? What are we going to do there? Destroy whatever secondary Earth we find? What physics is there to say that we can even get to another solar system before we destroy the habitability of the Earth?

We can "go to the stars" without sending man out first. I still see no current reason to send humans to Mars other than to waste resources.

> Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out.

Yea, and that's a minimum of 400-500 million years out, and it's going to get a lot hotter before it goes cold. And umpteen million other things on Earth, such as the geological structure, will have drastically changed by then. You shouldn't act like humanity actually has the ability to effectively worry about such a date when we can't even do most stuff today with any longer than a year or two horizon. The likelihood of disaster, such as asteroid or meteor impact or a Venus-type situation or other ecosystem collapse scenarios, before the Sun exhausts itself is basically 99.<however many 9s you want>%. Going to Mars doesn't give us anymore data on how to escape the Sun's evolution.

And I highly question any claim that humanity even has the ability to be an interstellar species, which is a separate question from capability.
I wonder why Adobe didn't port it to MobileSafari. They were able to port it to Android in a heartbeat.
What do you personally use?
I cannot remember the last time I had some long number and thought to myself, "You know what will be helpful, convert this number into scientific notation!"...

It's asinine Excel has this behavior with any large number. Try to work with a list of EAN/UPC codes... it'll wreck every single one every single time, unless you take significant care to guard against it via formatting, special characters that trick it into using a string, etc. Try working with a spreadsheet full of database id's... same thing. It's asinine.

By the very nature of Excel, large numbers belong as-is... ie. you're studying something and need the values. Approximations (what scientific notation gives you in the best case) are an exception to what people need nearly every time.
Having the rule gives complaints legitimacy and avoid that you feel like you're the problem, when apparently people generally agree (or it wouldn't/shouldn't pass parliament) that the problem is <insert noise threshold>. Having the rule probably solves 90%+ of the problem

The remaining <10% is obnoxious people who are going to be obnoxious anyhow. I dunno, they'll probably use strobe lights to draw everyone's attention instead of using sound because that gets around the law. Wait, crap, that exists already (I love people sitting opposite me in the bus and 'flashing' me every 12 seconds)
I wrote a guest blog post on the 2 generals problem that goes into a bit about sagas, which this paper touches on briefly in the compensation section.

One of these days I’m going to write a follow up blog post called “You (probably) don’t need sagas.” About how at my current company I was able to remove almost all of the sagas we were using because it turns out they were never needed in the first place.

https://haydenjames.io/the-two-generals-problem/
Why would you do that when you can send a Git link which can be commented, tracked, given proposed edits, etc..
It came out years later that Apple hired Adobe to help, if Adobe couldn't do it, I don't blame Apple for abandoning it. Looking at how difficult it is to build an open implementation of Flash via Ruffle, I don't think subpar is a stretch.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/27/apple-tried-to-help-adobe-bri...
"Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system."

And the big issue is, it's not OUR closed system!
What you're describing is more accurately termed majoritarianism (or anti-majoritarianism). Populism refers to something else: specifically, when one party goes, "we have decided that this policy is the Will of the People, and that is not up for debate or discussion. Because this policy is the Will of the People, anyone opposing it is ipso facto an Enemy of the People and must be destroyed."
I worked on a web site about 20 years ago where the form sent a PGP encrypted email. The credit card was then processed by hand. I'm guessing this isn't PCI compliant. ;)

In the 90's, we had something similar at another company. Except there, the email wasn't even encrypted. (Don't worry, the site used SSL.)
Don't know, just happens.

Especially since I'm over 30.

I lift something in the worst possible position, because I'm distracted, and suddenly I pulled my back, or whatever.

Grabbing something, turning around, remembering I need something else, just rotating my upper body and grabbing it, done.

Lifting a big mirror, without bracing myself.

Etc.
Semver in applications tells you important things such as how different a release is and how much incompatibility to expect. "Public API" doesn't really enter into it, but it's certainly useful to know at a glance how different the release is from the prior release.

Calendar-based versioning gives you no hint of any of that. It's important to know because if it's a minor release, I'll want upgrade to it right away. If it's a
bugfix release, I'll want to upgrade urgently. If there are major changes, I'll want to put it off until I have time to handle the disruption. If I have to look up how large the changes are, I'll just assume every release represents a major change and will put off upgrading until I have time to deal with it.

True, semver doesn't literally tell you how old a release is, but how often is that important? What you really want to know is whether a release is newer than the one you have, and semver does tell you that.
Hi, article author here, the reason this post has no diagrams is because it isn't about how to draw C4 diagrams but rather about some of the benefits I've found being able to refer to them in different circumstances. Given the traction this post has received I'm thinking of doing a follow up and try to explain the process I've gone through to build the ones my team uses. Would that be useful for you?
That term was already coined as a synonym. I wonder which form of fraud does not involve some kind of misrepresentation though. What makes it notable that a person who actually exists is being used as the conman's fictitious identity if we aren't interested in somehow offloading the risk to that person? Presumably this happened before the 1960s when it began to be called "identity theft" (and if you look at an ngram the term really only comes to be widely used in the mid-to-late 90s).
It’s like defamation. If someone goes and spreads a bunch of terrible lies about you by pretending to be you… then you are their victim.

You’re not the victim of people who merely believe the lies and start to avoid you.
Probably because most users of excel don't have any experience installing and running Python which is even a pain in the ass for people that know Python lol.

You also have people using Excel on iOS, and Android devices. This allows them to use and read Python in their spreadsheets.
Wow ya learn something new everyday. I had no idea but it did seem odd there were two options from our internal software portal to download ides with similar names but the same exact logo.
> It's entirely plausible for remote autonomous systems to be discharged deeply during a rainy period of several days.

And how often is that going to be, pray tell?

Lead-Acid has hundreds of deep-discharges available. And these deep-discharges in the use case suggested (ie: 12V 20Ah Lead-Acid backing up a 3W Rasp. Pi) take 80-hours to happen with zero-sunlight at all.

So... how many multi-day periods per year do you expect to happen where you deeply-discharge such a battery over 80-hours? Even at 100-times per year (aka: every 3 days you have a full deep-discharge), with a 500-deep discharge lifespan battery, we're looking at 5+ years of durability. Worst-case scenario.
In the US South for multiple months it can be too hot to bike or e-bike due to heatstroke regardless of how much effort it put in. You'd need a lot of water and end up drenched in sweat if you try.
This is context sensitive. As in spoken conversation, if your buddy comes up and shares a cool story with you, silently responding with a thumbs up would be rude. If you're coordinating with a team, a thumbs up is a respectful and commonly understood gesture to indicate that you approve/understand.
Don't Make Me Think!
Which NYT article? What earlier contemporary reporting?
> Apple was part of the patent pool for FireWire

Apple is listed first as the designer, then second the IEEE1394 working group. Indeed, there's some indication that Apple's development started in the 80's and it wasn't until later it was presented as a standard.[1] Funnily enough, they wanted it to replace SCSI, another technology you noted as a counter to Apple not liking standards they don't control.

> is also part of the patent pool for USB C

Being part of a patent pool doesn't really mean anything to me, given how companies use patents strategically and trade them. Do you have details on what patents may be shared? (I ask because I looked and it wasn't obvious from some light googling on my part).

> and was early to be onboard with Thunderbolt along with Intel.

They weren't early to onboard, they developed it with Intel (even if Intel held most of the patents and may have done the lion's share of the work, I'm not sure on that point).[2]

> Apple went all in on USB with the iMac in 1997 well before PCs were completely onboard.

Being able to control the hardware completely allows they to make shifts like that, because there was no one "PC" to be completely onboard. That said, they make moves away from it where they could for protocols they had some level of control and or steering of (FireWire, Thunderbolt, etc).

> Apple’s QuickTime container is part of the standard

Apple's QTFF was donated to be the container for MP4, but for a decade or more prior to that it was proprietary (but may have been open to implementation by third parties, I'm not sure). The main problem was that Apple licensed and defaulted to using Sorenson video codecs in their Quicktime framework and shipped it along with their video players, locking down the playing of the format to people willing to purchase the Sorenson codec individually or to those that used their player.

I admit this one is less about using a standard of their own and more just an early example of the platform control and lock-in they're known for now.

> And Apple is in the patent pool for H.264

Again, being in a patent pool for a large company doesn't by itself signal anything to me, given how strategically large orgs use patents. I would need some more info to view this one way or another.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
At what point does wealth created through human labor become someone else's right?

I'm not asking this as a rhetorical question. It is extremely practical. We want the poor to receive houses, food, healthcare treatments, broadband, access to computers, transportation, and so on. All of these are created through human labor. Many were invented fairly recently. Some within my lifetime.

At what point does it go from new invention to a human right? And how do we as a society make that happen, and incentivize the continued creation of new inventions? And how do we continue to incentivize the continued labor needed to provide these things?

We currently do an admittedly crappy job of it. For example we should be building a ton of housing, and we don't. But what we do have, we mostly do through money. We get people to invent things. To build things. And then we tax some of it, and give to those who have not, and provide some at the bottom.

But it seems you want to get rid of wealth at the top. Take away from billionaires, who are far more generous with their money than most of us. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge for example.

And you want to provide far, far more to the bottom. Enough that I'd be happy not to work again. As well as countless others.

Many variations on your scheme were tried in the 20th century. They feature problems like mass famine, and totalitarian rule by the bureaucrats in charge.

What are your proposals to make sure we don't get those bad outcomes again?
I strongly recommend appmap.io .. literally just go see for yourself.
The punchline is that the pip package is apparently malware.
Also the publication year of the pdf is 2007, which is also missing
Apple never had the ability to develop custom x86 chips in house and were constantly at the mercy of Intel's timelines and product development priorities, as well as their extended issues shrinking their lithography below 14nm. ARM presents none of those issues for Apple - now they handle the design of their CPUs, prioritize whatever they want, and fab however many they need directly from whoever using newer processes that Intel still hasn't matched yet.
It might generate even cheaper credit if the banks were allowed to randomly seize your assets whenever they felt like it with no justification whatever, so long as you weren't one of the unlucky targets.
Of course they need money. They have operating costs, salaries, rents, contracts to pay. You're the liar if you say that an organization doesn't need money to keep operating.

Anyone who visits WMF's servers and uses their websites without donating or volunteering is a freeloader, and you are a net drain on WMF's resources. That's why the most donation dialogs appear to people who visit frequently.

They don't "need" your five-dollar donation, because they have other donors. If 100% of their donors decided WMF didn't "need" any money and they all withdrew their donations, WMF would quickly implode. Perhaps you could convince everyone to do so!
>Zealous advocacy
is centrist handwaving that ignores material realities on the ground. Acting as if noting one side is reasonable with faults and the other are lunatics not fit to old office is empirical, here's some proof.
Side A are passing a 4% tax on millionaire's and passing universal school meals for kids. [0]
B are forcing 12 year olds to carry their rapists' child to term. [1]
You're mistaking empirical pragmatism with "zealous advocacy" because you've probably bought a little too much horseshoe theory nonsense or some other centrist silliness.
[0]https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194424563/free-school-lunch-...
[1] https://theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/mississippi-aborti...
Please, tell me what extremism is there from the left outside of twitter??? Because I can list dozens of articles like [1] that the right are doing on the ground, right. now. Please, privileged debate away.
I used it recently for a simple presentation. It did well for what I needed it. The result was nice and pleasing presentation. In a professional setting I always use PowerPoint thought.
Tut-tut, my good sir, condescension is the raison d'être of The New Yorker.
> Argentina, an addict to populism, seems to be shifting its affections from the left-wing Peronists to a right-wing libertarian, who promises to cure inflation by, among other actions, adopting the US dollar (again!).

I knew it.

Just one more ignorant poor sod who will talk about Argentinian politics without actually understanding the context at all.

Stop trying to fit your left-right Anglo worldview to everyone else.

It's pathetic and incredibly tiring. Go throw temper tantrums about your Tories and your republicans like you love to and leave the south American country politics to people who actually know them in depth or live their realities.

Edit: pointing out Milei as populism while implying the "so called left peronism" isn't is laughable to the extreme. The quip about "adopting the dollar (again!) Shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the maneuver by Carlos Menem to force a constant parity between the ARS and the USD.
> like many in our generation

That's kind of what I was getting at. Doesn't nearly everyone have the same policy already? This custom-agreement-with-wife is what I would call the default.

> I've even seen some scammers and robodialers call twice in a row.

Wow, how dare they?! That's illegal! ... More seriously, unless those are in your phone book then that should be easy enough to filter out and shouldn't bar letting your contacts call you when they think it's appropriate.
It was a huge onramp to UX Engineering that still hasn't been replicated.

Unity seems like it's a similar model, but I don't see the same abundance of "high schoolers and low-tech artists building cool shit for fun."

Being able to draw until it got tedious and you learned to program was a huge fucking deal.
I read it as a kid and it was transformative.

This is one of the rare "meta" books which really help when you are not exposed to meta concepts that much yet.
I think forking TF would kill the ecosystem and lead to the demise of the cottage industry companies that are profiting from it.
> Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit

Not anymore!
My favorite from folklore.org: -2000 lines of code.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
My old high school friends put noisy exhaust systems on because the unrestricted systems promised to increase the hp of their 100hp honda civics by 5-10hp. BMW actually used to play fake engine noises through the speakers bc they were afraid the cars had become to quiet. Harley Davidsons whole reason for existence is to be noisy. Wankers everywhere.
Saw comment late, but thanks. Will check those.
>More specifically, the discrediting was caused by a combination of the deliberately dishonest or at best wildly inaccurate intel, the sense that pro-war elites in government and media were manufacturing consent for the war, and wrong predictions about how the war would go.

IMO, this is what people tell themselves now because they don't want to admit that they genuinely supported to the war to begin with. The Iraq War and the War on Terror were very much populist wars motivated by American's wanting to get revenge on brown people. That's why Bush's approval skyrocketed after 9/11 and the capture of Saddam. Yes, a nonzero amount of elites supported or benefited from these wars, but you can say that about anything. You're not going to convince the government to spend trillions of dollars without a few experts on your side and others who profit off of it.