skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fully determined, given the densities of the various constituents I listed above.

There are separate constraints on almost all of those densities, from different observations. For example, big bang nucleosynthesis puts constraints on the density of baryonic matter, dark matter and radiation, while the CMB essentially tells us the density of radiation.

Cosmology is based on a web of different observations, tied together by well understood physics. It's very difficult to fudge things to match one observation without messing up the results for other observations.
... and Monaco. Choose one of the roads higher up on the cliffs
I am using Acceλerate for MS 365, which brings Visual Scheme for Applications (VSATM) to the MS 365 suite [1]. It can be used in the other MS 365 apps as well and ties in nicely to .NET. That and I unashamedly love Lisp over python even though I know python has the data science corner. I was very disappointed when MIT replaced Scheme with Python as their CS intro language, but such is life. For kicks, I am a big APL fan and found April (Array Programming Re-Imagined in Lisp) which has APL and Lisp united into a super PL! [2]. Maybe an APL for Excel?

[1] https://code-magazine.com/Article/2207071/The-Excellent-Sche...

[2] https://github.com/phantomics/april
from the V1 docs,

To avoid [infinite loops] add the $ prefix to the hotkey definition (e.g. $^c::) so that the hotkey cannot be triggered by the Send command.

or a very restrictive #MaxHotkeysPerInterval
Some newer battery cell chemistries are using very very little rare earth elements
Sandboxing python enough that millions of users could safely pass around excel workbooks is a super hard problem, especially when you allow third party libraries.

Forcing it to run in an isolated environment they control simplifies the problem greatly.
This captures such truth to me.

And it also defined the moral imperative for software to be malleable, for it to be soft and reshapeable. Needs change, and it's not just a brand new thing we slap on top, but something later to & extending the past. Whether we can do that, whether users have software that can be adapted to their contemporary needs, is a core liberty. https://malleable.systems
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I think the creative and craft element is some of this (maybe most), but it's also often the case that software engineers are producing code for business domains that they are also not experts in. Most code is for business, and most programmers are not trained or experts in those business domains.
I think this is it - the first time riding in an airplane is vastly different than anything you've ever experienced in your life. You're watching the first the ground, and then the clouds, recede below you.

Driving in a robotaxi is (if done well) exactly the same as riding in an Uber, just without the person sitting in front. The crazy part is the how, not the what, and we're pretty good at ignoring the magic that powers many of our otherwise mundane experiences.
Ha. All the purists will now yell at you because you enjoy progressive "newgrass".
no, even American's look at this with horror. Only media and executives see this with anything else
My proposition here is not that space exploration is zero-sum but rather that space travel is wildly inefficient for solving problems here on earth. The trouble with your suggestion (and, prior, mine) is that we don't really know what could have been done with the same resources had there been a moonshot to, say, solving the climate crisis.

As a huge lover of space travel, I have shared that very letter from Ernst Stuhlinger. What it really only proves is that if you throw enough money at something, you will get some returns. The rest of the arugment is borderline religious in nature; that through some mysterious process if we just get into space we'll suddenly realize oh, we should fix that planet, simply because we can see ourselves as one small planet.

Peak space travel was arguably right when this letter was written. If it were at all true, we would not in the position we're in now. Instead, the opposite has happened, and it's not because we're not travelling in space - it's because we continue to ignore the problems we alone are causing.

Running away from those problems into space will not somehow, magically, solve them.
Yeah strangely if you turn the ribbon off it doesn't look much different and doesn't work much differently!
As one of them I would guess less than 10% of users
The problem is ambiguous, due to under specification. That means that neither #1 nor #2 is "actually equivalent" to "at least one child is a boy," and more information is needed to construct a probability space.

#1 is "When both genders are known, and boys are preferred in the description, at least one is a boy." The preference is what makes the answer 1/3, and assuming it adds information to the problem.

#2 can be "When only one gender is known, and how we know it is uncorrelated with either possibility, at least one is a boy." But it can also be "When both genders are known, and the description reflects the probability of that gender being chosen at random from the two, at least one is a boy." In both cases, the answer is 1/2.

But being under-specified does not mean the question can't be answered, it just requires applying a reasonable assumption instead of an unreasonable one. #1 is very unreasonable since it adds information, #2 is close, but #3 is best.

And the proof is Bertrand's Box Paradox. That name does not properly refer to a probability problem, it applies to how to make this reasonable assumption.

"Mr. Jones has exactly two children. I have written the gender, of at least one, inside this sealed envelope. What is the probability that both children have that gender?"

If you were to open the envelope, and see the word "boy," the problem becomes the same as the one under discussion. If it can be answered, that answer is correct here as well. But it is an equivalent problem if you see the word "girl," and again the answer must be the same. If 1/3 is an acceptable answer, it means that 1/3 of all two-child families have two of the same gender, and 2/3 have mixed genders.

But that is a contradiction. We know that the split is 1/2:1/2. So the assumption, that 1/3 is a reasonable answer, is disproven. Now, that does not mean that the information came to us via #2 or #3, it just means we can't assume that it was #1.

Most often, the same logic is used for the Monty Hall Problem, it is just applied backwards.
But what does it mean?

Are there kilofactories and megafactories? The rarely seen obscure myriafactories?
Track AWS IAM Changes in Git with CloudTrail Attribution
I wanted to share a recent blog post we've put together on creating an IAM Audit Trail with IAMbic (www.github.com/noqdev/iambic) with support for Cloudtrail logging and attribution. If you've ever found IAM changes in AWS challenging to track, this is for you. In IAMbic, all changes get their own Git commit, regardless if they were made using Terraform/Cloudformation/Console Clicking/etc. The new CloudTrail logging integration which provides an even deeper insight into every modification all within Git.

Give it a read, and please give us feedback!
This is a fairly good concept but it is not efficient, especially if you're using 1" filters. The operating cost is high because the fan uses a lot of electricity compared to better designed units. See this analysis:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ina.13163

Even with fairly reasonable electricity numbers you should look into building a more complicated box. And if your time is of import the dedicated purifiers start winning again after you amortize the startup cost (also they typically are better engineered for noise concerns).
From my experience, cold-turkey forced exposure simply works.
So basically this is another Joe Nacchio situation?
I fell in love with LibreOffice when I started using Opale [0].

[0] Opale (Free Software) https://download.scenari.software/Opale@4.0.5/
The technology is pretty amazing, but does anyone else feel like we (the public) got duped?

What I wanted was for my own car to drive itself so I could relax and make better use of car time. I also wanted some new novel ways of interacting with cars to make them feel more like public transit that would be enabled by driverless technology.

What we got was ... SciFi Uber. We are not going to be allowed to own the cars, and hiring them for trips will not be any cheaper or easier than Uber. And most will be owned by big companies with motives besides transportation.

The driverless future was so exciting in 2013. Now it's just ... there.
In NN training, minimizing cross entropy is equivalent to minimizing KL divergence. This is because cross entropy is equal to (entropy of the true distribution) + (KL divergence from the true distribution to the model). Obviously by changing the model you can't change the first term, only the second. So when you minimize cross entropy, you are minimizing KL divergence.

Minimizing mean-squared-error loss is equivalent to minimizing KL divergence (and thus cross entropy) under the assumption that your model produces a vector that parameterizes the mean of a multivariate Gaussian distribution which is then used to predict your data. This is the most natural way to set up a model that predicts continuous data.
>What other similar books would you recommend?

Similar era at least:
Po Bronson - The Nudist on the Late Shift ... and other tales of Silicon Valley (1999)
Powershell is underrated and I actually prefer it over bash but indeed the syntax can be a slog sometimes. I used it a lot but I never felt I was “fluent” and found myself usually often needing the docs for even basic syntax (for loop, function params, etc.) Also in my experience I found some of the limitations surprising, having to call .NET methods was not uncommon for me. Regardless I’m happy to never write a batch script for the rest of my life, powershell is definitely an upgrade.
The scientific notation ("2.02308E+13") is just how Excel displays a large enough numeric value like your example; it's not doing any conversion, as you can see if you paste that number into Excel, confirm that it's showing the scientific notation, and then click into the cell to confirm that the formula bar still shows the original number (20230822090811).

If you paste your date string in a more standard date format like 2023-08-220 9:08:11, then Excel will correctly infer that it is a date. However, you seem to be saying that Excel should handle ANY numerical strings that way if they are long enough to express a date or datetime, which, while it might make your particular workflow easier (or it might not), it would really mess with people's ability to use Excel with large numerical values...
You are right. Thanks for letting me know!
> You never side by side your browser and another application like a terminal or text editor?

Never. I cmd+tab between windows. What I _have_ seen is developers have those on different monitors, but even there the browser is always fullscreen.

> And even barring that the taskbar of your OS along with window decorations means that your browser is seldom 100% of the screen

I did mention this ;)
Hey Siri, what does a scammer look like? Siri -->
"Can only think the feds regret not banning it long before anyone had heard of it"

But if no one has heard of it, then no one would be using it. Why would you ban something that no one is using...
You are 100% correct, but I'm not surprised in the least to hear about this.
(I'm replying to the original version of your comment.)

How can you have different bookmarks, extensions, and maybe even a different theme (so you know you're using the right window) with containers?

The answer is: you can't. Because containers and profiles are different things.

That's the "sacrifice" you're asking users to make. To change the way they use browsers, to adapt to something that is useful, but not a complete replacement for the features they want. You're asking them to mix stuff and to be careful not to type personal stuff on a work container (or something like that).

Yes, changing from Chrome to Firefox (and vice-versa) means that you need to make some sacrifices. I moved to Firefox and lost good profile support, have a higher battery drain, and have to deal with Firefox's inconsistencies (UI, ctrl+click behaving differently on links vs bookmarks, etc). I'm okay with the trade-off, but PR talk and positive outlooks don't make these annoyances and downsides go away.
For the record, it's also available without AutoHotKey, using Powertoys [1] or PureText [2]. Very useful.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

[2] https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
Oh that's quite slick, I don't use a Mac currently but plan to switch over in the nearish future, I'll check out automations.

Semi-relatedly I really like the CD collection portion of your website! Makes me want to implement something similar. With that said, I'm a little concerned that your Aphex Twin selection doesn't include Drukqs or SAW85-92, and that your Paul Oakenfold selection doesn't include Bunkka....
TBH I'd rather have Excel sheets in Jupyter than have Python in Excel.
How correlated are you?
Copy image from one place to another. Copy entire powerpoint slide between presentation. Copy table from web to word.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html

Nothing will beat the Jargon File.
I have also seen refactor, refactor, refactor, oh actually it's now no better than before. Whoops!

It's like imaginary tech debt.
Looks very similar to my tool, tere: https://github.com/mgunyho/tere. The main difference seems to be that I don't do any file manipulation, while walk has the option to delete files/folders. In my implementation, you don't need to type '/' for fuzzy search, just typing searches and jumps by default.

I also have a list of similar projects at the end of the README, I'll add this as well! edit: Oh I already had it in my list, the project has just been renamed from llama to walk.
This sounds amazing. Do you have a reference to the materials and possibly plans? Sounds like a great design to open source.
I agree with OP that the tone is needlessly negative, but while some people are super into TST, most of us don't care about it at all. I wouldn't say that any given article on Firefox "should" mention TST, because odds are the author won't be in the group that cares.
The title should be changed to the Feds asked a company in China to spy on American citizens
Yes, it was an overreach; we won't get 24x in utilization, but we could pretty easily get a few times. And the cars don't need to then park where people live.
I would really like to read a novel about future archeologists who rediscover brute force password lists and rainbow tables as they investigate a ruin. Oh, maybe they could be specifically looking for LLM models, LLMs being no longer possible to train due to energy costs.
> couple of reasons why I considered the switch from Chrome to Firefox ... their rejection of JPEG XL and

Is Firefox embracing JXL?
My impression of German Pünktlichkeit certainly took a big hit.

In the past, my trips to Germany rarely went further than Oberhausen or Essen, so that was never a big challenge to my belief in the German railway system. After this trip, my brother and dad (who have a lot more international train experience) were not surprised at all by our delays in Germany. Apparently confusion and delay are the normal state of things there.
I always hear people say this, but they never give examples.
The article has an inflammatory headline, obviously, because that’s how the internet works.

If you read the article though the actual content does not suggest they were asking for anything other than the ability to ensure TikTok/Byte Dance weren’t doing anything nefarious… and anyway it fell apart when it became obvious how hopeless that was because of how shady they (Byte Dance) are.
That is exactly my point. So how are you disagreeing?
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i dont think its called core anymore
its just called powershell 7 now

and dotnet core, is just dotnet

i think they dropped the core part from the name as of dotnet 5
Banning TikTok in India was one of the best decisions of the Indian government
Even if the detail was something like, "if this wasn't fixed, we were at the risk of losing half our customers" ?
Yeah. I feel the same. But I also feel the same about mode collapse! It’s often useful for debugging issues that might otherwise go undetected.
Had to write a CV for a friend (wink wink) the other day and word professors failed spectacularly.

I write a line, something else has spacing issues. There is title on each section that gets around.

Markdown gave me the same text and I did not have to worry about output.
I have to see some red flags here. The very nature and power of Excel comes from the fact that workbooks can stand alone. This means that the process is eternally tied to the cloud now. So when you, 3 years down the line, have to open a workbook from your deceased colleague, you are at the whim of the vendor supporting the existence of this integration.

Step one of any workload will always be "work out how to make the software work again" and that's terrible.

I know this because I have been in that situation several times in the last couple of decades with random Excel, outlook and word add-ins. And those don't even do the processing remotely!
Funnily enough, the best managers I've had are all in the late 40s - mid 50s that all did 20 years in the "trenches" and decided that management was the new path forward for them as they started to prefer people work to technical work.

I think its work experience that matters most with management. You need folks who are people oriented but understand the job that the folks they manage are doing, and the challenges that come with it, both obvious and non obvious, and can communicate the importance of such work to the broader organization
This is why Tesla was valued beyond the top 10 car companies combined - the idea was to kill the idea of people just buying their cars and make it an overpriced subscription
Most successful systems are 1st & foremost practical. They do a job, and do that well enough to be carried forward.

Imho the "Keep It Simple, Stupid" (KISS) principle very much applies here.
> Allocating capital takes a lot of work, and a lot of courage.

I don't think it does. Sitting on this kind of capital is easy, sprinkle it in enough places during good times and you'll get good results. Add some contacts to that (like private phone calls with the FED) and it's even easier. Having capital is a shortcut to making things happen. What's difficult and takes work is bootstrapping without capital.
I did differentiate here ;) and even mentioned that I "sometimes even [see] the entire screen (in fullscreen mode on MacOS) [being used]"
Nice catch, fixing it.
> It's an easy trap to fall into, but a dangerous one.

So is patronising people on the internet, it seems.

I'm going to leave it there.
Solar “sailing” is increasingly practical; there are companies selling luxurious solar ocean cruisers [1] already. As a sailor, the idea has a definite appeal for long ocean crossings. Sunshine is very reliable in the open ocean whereas wind can die for days at a time. The idea of cruising around the world without having to worry about the wind - other than to avoid storms - is very attractive.

[1] https://youtu.be/FnYL3C9pWO4?si=gjBXcRac6SOOkdDT
Also Raspberry Pi (the Coke to Arduino's Pepsi). More expensive (especially since hoarders have been bulk ordering them and jacking up the price), but IMO more flexible and powerful.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/

There are several others, but Arduino and Raspberry Pi seem to be the ones with the widest variety of "it just works" add-on components and programming tutorials.
23 years or so of lost knowledge can be regained in the grand scheme of things. But yes, the lack of easy access to coal and oil would be a problem. Maybe the next civilization will be more careful.

That's why I think we should all be trying to help keep society going. I try to do my bit. I just wish the preppers, survivalists, deniers would get involved in their community and try to save it too.
I think the suggestion is that it's a battery with low long term storage costs, not that it's 100% efficient round trip.
Investors sound alarm over Arm’s exposure to China
and moving from Racket to Clojure is an easier step than straight to clojure.
Relevant to this discussion on how most of the worst atrocities in history were committed by people who believed themselves to be morally justified: The fact that it wasn't just morally wrong but strategically a mistake does suggest that Hitler genuinely believed the rhetoric, as if he just wanted to make up some lie to scapegoat a people, he could have made up a slightly different lie that wasn't quite as self-destructive.
£50 pound note, william churchill is the one on the £5 note.

This is burned into my brain. because I heard a joke when the redesign came out about him going from not being accepted by his country to not being accepted in Lidl. (£50 notes are often refused in the UK for fear of counterfeit.)
By your logic I can:

Make a terrible analogy and then pretend it undermines your argument by way of false equivalence.
Because we follow a Rules Based Order and our Rules apply fairly to all market participants.
How are profile-specific Chrome extensions a problem in a Firefox install?
I agree but expect that Excel will be the very last app of the suite that they make web-only. Excel heads like my wife absolutely hate the web version.
Firefox users don't use profiles because switching between them is a pain in the rear (at least on some platforms).

Containers are nice, but you can't have different bookmarks, extensions, settings, etc. It's not a replacement for profiles.
Elites are getting dragged along by the public.

Lawmakers who were targeted and traumatized by the Jan 6 rebellion sometimes failed to take a stand against it because they feared losing their primary elections.

In the global north and south there are frequently violent riots when fuel prices increase.

Joe Biden is saying many of the right things about climate change but he's balancing a huge number of priorities: right now right-wing voters deny there is a problem and chafe at the bit of paying any cost, but left-wing voters who think "the rent is too high" might well find the cost of mitigating climate change something they can't bear.
If you dive over the seat in a Lyft to grab the wheel and yank it on the freeway, it's going to get pretty interesting, too.

It's an already-extent but not frequent threat. The main difference is a change in the amount of social pressure to not do this. That change probably makes it worth exploring a little.

If Waymo chooses, those steering actuators have enough oomph to always win.
While I can see the advantages of Python over VBA, I feel like running the code in the cloud instead of locally will be a big no from a lot of people, especially enterprises running offline Office installations.
I assume tech moves on so fast that you have to rewrite the course every year. But you do have some certifications which go some of the way, for example the sun certifications for Java.. At least you know the holder will have an idea how it fits together under the hood...
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There is a person doing gsoc on that exact thing. Maybe it will land in the next update
Powell and Blackrock have something to do with each other. It's reasonable to assume a conflict of interest.

"Fed Chair Powell Has Upwards of $11.6 Million Invested with BlackRock, the Firm that Will Manage a $750 Billion Corporate Bond Bailout Program for the Fed
" [0]

[0] https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/05/fed-chair-powell-has-...
Did something change in the last decade where teenagers suddenly stopped liking having money?