skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, and Tableau Cloud are great if expensive products. With Tableau Prep, you get a visual ETL tool. Being technical, I prefer SQL, but for business folks Tableau Prep is more of a REPL so they see what their actions are going to do. They can schedule these Prep flows in Tableau Cloud which will ETL and produce daily datasets which users can then interact via the dashboards on Tableau Cloud.

IMO, Excel is on the right path with out of the box connectors to Salesforce, Azure databases, etc. What it really needs is full blown SQL with REPL output so the users can see the effects of their SQL. (The way Tableau Prep does it is that it defaults to a sampling of rows to output immediate results). There used to be a Microsoft service called Excel online but it was another thing you had to buy and was super confusing. Excel needs to let users schedule their ETL/datasets in SharePoint online and then let other users subscribe to it. They can call it Excel Super+ and charge a small fortune. I am positive there are people with their wallets open.
I failed a number of technical interviews because I can't make architecture diagrams.

I come out of the first tech interview, coding/debugging, with praises. But then comes the second, the architecture interview, and I can't for the life of me draw the architecture of anything.

I don't know how people learn to do that, I've learned to code/debug by being obsessive about it. But I don't see how that happens for system architecture.

I've never used diagrams in my day-to-day work, so when it comes up in interviews I'm always surprised.
Excel makes a total mess of many kinds of imports, assuming they are dates when they are not or assuming US vs UK formats dates etc. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

However, to my eyes, and probably most people, 20230822090811 does not look like a "date string", it's a number. It's correct to display it as scientific notation if it's too many digits to fit into the width of a cell. Please let's not encourage them to interpret more things as dates and randomly break people's workflows.

Excel should preserve all the digits you enter in the cell even if it doesn't display them, though. That has nothing to do with dates. It's a problem with things like product numbers or keys that can end up with many digits.
One use case is in the training of Diffusion Models. In the original formulation, the likelihood-maximizing objective is recast in terms of KL divergences. This is done because the KL divergence between Gaussians has a closed form, and the transition distributions in Diffusion Models are taken to be Gaussian, which makes the problem tenable.

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/diffusion-models-for-machine...
Nvidia DLSS 3.5 – New Ray Reconstruction Enhances Ray Tracing with AI [video]
I will say the process for creating a new container per website is bad.

* Create new container "target"

* Open new Target container

* Go to target.com

* Click the container menu and choose "Always open in..." and if you have a lot of containers, scroll down to "Target"

And then, you still get asked "Hey, you told us to open this in the target container, is that correct?" even though I have *explicitly* said that's exactly what I want.

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I would like a shortcut button for any site that isn't assigned to a container, where I could click the container menu and say "Create new container and assign this site to it" where it all happens at once. Boom, site isolated.
Which is exactly what investors pay Fink and the BlackRock team to do. Most people don't have time to analyze and choose things to invest in, so they offload that responsibility to BlackRock in exchange for some fees. The system is working as intended.
Families earning $100k in Toronto eligible for Habitat for Humanity
“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no [or maybe more accurately, ‘I don’t know’.]”
As you say, technology has the potential to go either way. What we see over and over is that technology is used to deepen inequality. Because those with control of the most powerful technologies benefit most from inequality. The rich have incentive to take all they can get and shape society to benefit them more, so we should consider the default reaction to new technology to be deeper inequality.

The answer is safeguards. There's no room for hope. We must build a system (of laws, most likely) that promotes equality and is robust against abuse, or we will continue to slide deeper into inequality.
Good for you for discovering it then. Never again a big tech cookie alive in your general browsing. Welcome to the flip side
This is true, but it's also explaining a joke. The real point is that patio heaters are necessarily very inefficient because they're operating in an uninsulated space that's open to the elements - almost all the heat will be immediately lost to the atmosphere. Heat lamps are better, but really patio heaters are used by people trying to cosplay an outdoor culture at a latitude or season that doesn't support it, and they should put some warmer clothes on or go inside.
It's far more than that. uBO is only counting the initial requests. Each of these would load up an entire ad ecosystem that sends follow-on requests and downloads resources. If you look at the total number of requests prevented it would doubtless be far higher.
Related: https://www.quadratichq.com
I would have laughed at that if i hadn't lived the first 14 years of my life in a communist country...
26 year old law school grads will help! Oh, I stand "corrected." LOL
Can you say more? AFAIK, fish doesn't have an interactive fuzzy cd built-in.
My favorite physical interpretation (discrete version):

How many extra bits per character your data compression algorithm would need to store text from distribution P if it (mistakenly) assumed it were drawn from Q.

That is, reserve the shortest “words” for the most common characters based on the assumption that the data will be drawn from Q. Then KL(P||Q) is how much bigger the compressed data will be (per input character) if the data is actually drawn from P.
Yes, I see this paradoxical zoom behavior all the time.

Alternate horror scenarios that are all too common:

Zoom only to have one picture take over the whole page, pushing text off the side (not even down, off screen to the side).

Zoom only to have the text immediately become wider than the screen, forcing you to scroll sideways for every single line.
Not asking customers to manage a local python installation is one thing, although I totally understand how excel + python power users would likely be comfortable bringing and maintaining their own python runtime.
It’s kind of annoying that this is always brought up as a gotcha. Direct air CO2 capture is not a massive contributor to the total energy usage. It’s still dominated by electrolysis itself. The numbers aren’t that hard to find, either. A kilogram of propane has a specific energy of 50MJ and emits 3kg of CO2. Assuming this electrolysis is 50% efficient, that requires 100MJ to make. CO2 direct air capture is about 4.3MJ/kgCO2, or about 13MJ/kgPropane compared to the 100MJ/kgpropane of electrolysis. So it’s still a pretty small fraction of the total energy costs.

EDIT: note that burning that propane in a cheap generator is only gonna net you 10MJ/kg of electricity, maybe 17MJ/kg in a large expensive generator. So the roundtrip efficiency is just 9-15% efficient. But it potentially saves you a LOT in storage costs if you’re only cycling this storage once or twice a year.

(Note that propane is a great way to store hydrocarbons as the pressure is low but it’s self pressurizing and thus it doesn’t get water ingress or have any of the storage difficulties of gasoline and diesel, which last only 3-6 months or 6-12 months respectively. It’s also very clean burning compared to those two.)
Yep, this is current. Last post was 5 min. ago. @dang or other mod should remove the date from the title.
Sign up to affiliate networks and get paid when someone clicks on a link and makes a purchase.

If you are running a site around baldness, you could think that men are more likely to visit, so target advertisers around this. Perhaps provide reviews to relevant products - not just around hair, but also fitness, fashion, style.

Can you build a newsletter? You’ll need to consider various rules around data storage, but companies like mail chimp will be able to help.

Or simply include some Google Adsense and make money that way.

If you are getting visits, then you will be able to make money with advertising
Thanks for repeating the same thing, I guess..
Tech moves but often in circles and not in a cumulative way. What I mean is that if you know the basic enduring time-tested principles of algorithms, data structures, tradeoffs, principles like caching, compilers, a bedrock stable programming language or two, you know the concepts of Unix as of 20 years ago, then you are well equipped to be dropped into 2023 or 2026 and get yourself into the context over a few weeks and learn the specifics on the job.

It's not like the framework churn is so important to remember. You can skip a lot of what happened between 10 and 5 years ago. So two things matter: the long term basics and the very recent specific permutations of it.
Klotho, a longevity factor, improves cognition in aging nonhuman primates
I used to climb up in the roof of my parents terraced house and walk along the steep roof towards my neighbours. The drop was 3 floors on both sides and I would do this in the middle of the night as a teenager (I was "inspired" by Daredevil comic books).

Looking back on those moments now as an adult, the hair on my skin stands up just at how incredibly stupid and dangerous it was.

I sometimes think of my parallel selves in other worlds, and wonder how many of them are dead and how my family progressed through the grief, from this action alone
We already have a Library of Congress. If they want a copy of the Internet Archive, they can just download one. (The raw WARC files from the web crawls are not publicly available, but I'm sure they could work something out.)
I think that's an overly semantic argument. I can be as certain as I am of anything that the number in my RBC chequing account corresponds exactly to the amount of money I can withdraw or spend, and if that ever stops being the case I'll likely have bigger concerns than money.
obvious to who?
I agree with point 3, but points one and two don't make any sense because games have been skipping with Python scripting for decades and this is never a problem. The python interpreter is embedded into your program as a library and it doesn't have any dependency on the whatever python version the user installed.
> It sort of makes sense to limit it to the cloud, because making Python an integral part of the Excel file format

Moving it from the cloud to local doesn't make it an integral part of the Excel file format. Whatever python service is running in the cloud could just run locally.
Do you have any photos of your filter system? I am curious about the form factor that uses two 5” filters, rather than the four filter rigs I have seen.
These are great. You can include them in GitHub-flavored markdown files and they work.

For a long time they were pretty broken, but they are looking much better supported now.

https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/c4.html

https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil...
> > We can rethink our cities and move parking to the periphery

> Just moving parking to the periphery won't make American cities better or more walkable.

It certainly can make cities better. Removing street parking allows streets to be narrower, giving us room for larger sidewalks, bikepaths, outdoor seating in restaurants.

> > Eliminating the tedious and dangerous task of driving is an enormous benefit to humanity that will save 30,000+ lives a year in the US alone

> If you're assuming that self-driving cars will be perfect and segregated, conditions will always be perfect (e.g. no pedestrians or bikes slipping), etc. etc. etc. Why would you?

Humans definitely aren't perfect, that's why there are so many collisions, deaths and injuries. Many of those occur in "ideal" conditions due to distracted driving. In exceptional conditions (where people, bikes, animals run into the road), humans have a pretty poor response too. You'd have to run the numbers (like insurance companies) to determine when they are generally better than humans.

There's also no reason you couldn't delegate parts of the road system as autonomous only, we already have areas that are pickup/dropoff or taxi only. Just expand them.

> > Eliminating the tedious and dangerous task of driving is an enormous benefit to humanity

> The vast majority of driving can be replaced by already existing, proven and drastically more efficient tech - public transit.

Why not both? Put in your destination in an app and if there are enough people on the way, an autonomous bus can pick you up. If not, an autonomous car does.
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Naming these people after the technocracy movement is sad to me, given how non technical these folks are. Zuck & Andreessen have legit background, but it's so old now. Musk & Thiel aspire to power & control with technology, but the idea was to have technologists driving, and I think it was more for the betterment of society rather than dominion & control.

It seems like such a strong contradiction to me, oligarchy vs science. The technocracy movement was about opening paths for people, about bettering society. The oligarchs imposition of their will seems like such a radically different vibe, like it's maybe yes sometimes using technology for it's means, but it's not necessarily well informed or enlightened, it's not trying to open or better the world.

I'm also a bit shocked to hear Musk's grandpa Joshua Haldeman was a big technocracy person! Whoa. He's mentioned briefly in the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
The article touches on this somewhat. If you tie any sort of monetary benefit to KPI results, you've created an incentive to either game the system or lie. If you lose the context of the work by trying to simplify metrics and then base people's worth on those metrics, people aren't going to care as much about the quality of their work.
Perforce in a nutshell
If it's really compatible with 2600 carts, SD card carts already exist and work great!

Personally I've found 2600 carts to be pretty durable. Almost all of the carts I bought new still work, and I still use them frequently!
> I haven't used a non-cloud spreadsheet in probably 7 years.

Last time I use a cloud spreasheet was a month ago, to download the content into Excel

> I also wouldn't use excel for anything that has a combination of high importance and long lifetime though. It's mostly for some brainstorming or thrown in a presentation as a screenshot.

It's funny but that's exactly how I see online spreadsheet: for unimportant things that may not work at any point in the future if the account is closed. However, the collaborative features make them nice for brainstorming.
It’s more complex than just that, there’s also tax implications for both investor and company. The liquidation preferences also apply in case of successful exit. If you have 2x preferences on this 1.2B note, if the company is acquired for less than 2.4B, the investor takes everything and the founder gets a gift basket, if the investor has a thoughtful secretary. If the investor has a board seat, they may even be able to force the sale over the founder’s objections.

Don’t ever give your investors board seats. They are not your friends or advisors.
Most of them do have location constrain
One of the areas I would like to see addressed in guidance for drafting both architecture diagrams and specifications is in the documentation of the basis for design decisions. Which risks catalyzed a particular design or approach on a particular feature and to what degree?

In my own work, when I need to revisit a spec months afterwards, I often have trouble because I've forgotten parts of the context that I had at the time the spec was drafted. The situation is a bit like the Chesterton's Fence where the original person that set the fence in the middle of the road has also partially forgotten why it needs to be there. It was so obvious at the time...

Do others supplement their architecture diagrams and specifications with a cross-refenced list of risks, alternatives, and probabilities?
Yet requesting the removal of a content only to satisfy one's emotional immaturity is an attempt to limit this freedom.
I know websites (and some of my clients) who are actually actively REMOVING copies of their website from the Internet Archive.

There's a specific process for getting all of the content removed, and asking them to not archive the website.

For some ecommerce websites, they're removing copies from Internet Archive because there's pricing data that's getting archived.

I've also had clients remove copies because they've had a big problem with scrapers who are scraping the copies of the site in Internet Archive. They've been able to (mostly) stop scrapers on the site, but having archived copies of the site allows scrapers to scrape the Internet Archive.
The name has been owned and used by what had previously been Infogrames since 2003, twenty years ago. They’re legit, still pump out mainstream games and aren’t fly by night at all.
FYI while this will display the various channels, if your account does not have access to the channel, you cannot export its logs. For channels you can collect, you get the author, datetime, message content, links to any attachments, and reaction counts (but not whom made the reactions).

I've been using DCE to do some analysis on student interactions. This was a hurdle we ran into while exporting logs for various class channels.
Crypto is, largely, scammer flimflammery in a tech costume. While I think it’s reasonable to be sceptical of tech’s social affects, blaming it for crypto is a bit like blaming the existence of postal services for pyramid scheme chain letters.
Most cities have a coastline or a river that you can walk a great distance along.
In my prior experience (inside and outside of software, anything having to do with a process) I think there is another situation where diagrams are enablers that they missed. Finding consensus on how the thing currently works.

When these issues are takled about in words, through code, through hand waving whatever - I have experienced that the details often mask ensuring that everyone is on the same basic page. Often when there has been confusion it has taken someone pulling the group back and noting that 'Bob things A is connected to B and then connected to D but Alice thinks A connects to C before connecting to D"

Just putting a architecture diagram of a process up helps find shared understanding.
Yep, there is a flash cartridge called the Harmony Cartridge. It’s great for playing Atari home brew games which in many cases are better than anything available on the original VCS. Pac-man 4k is a great example.
https://harmony.atariage.com/Site/Harmony.html
Pissed at the corporation enough to subsidize them by 400k? Who do you think benefits when workers are paid wages by crowdfunding?
Intuitively, it measures the difference between two probability distributions. It's not symmetric, so it's not quite that, but in my opinion, it's good intuition.

As motivation, say you're an internet provider, providing internet service to a business. You naturally want to save money, so you perhaps want to compress packets before they go over the wire. Let's say the business you're providing service to also compresses their data, but they've made a mistake and do it inefficiently.

Let's say the business has, incorrectly, determined the probability distribution for their data to be $q(x)$. That is, they assign probability of seeing symbol $x$ to be $q(x)$. Let's say you've determined the "true" distribution to be $p(x)$. The entropy, or number of bits, they expect to transmit per packet/symbol will be $-\sum p(x) lg(q(x))$. Meaning, they'll compress their stream under the assumption that the distribution is $q(x)$ but the actually probability of seeing a packet, $x$, is $p(x)$, which is why the term $p(x) lg(q(x))$ shows up.

The number of bits you're transmitting is just $-\sum p(x) lg(p(x))$. Now we ask, how many bits, per packet, is the savings of your method over the businesses? This is $-\sum p(x) lg(q(x)/p(x))$, which is exactly the Kullback-Leibler divergence (maybe up to a sign difference).

In other words, given a "guess" at a distribution and the "true" distribution, how bad is it between them? This is the Kullback-Leibler distribution and why it shows up (I believe) in machine learning and fitness functions.

As a more concrete example, I just ran across a paper talking [0] about using WFC [1] to asses how well it, and other algorithms, do when trying to create generative "super mario brothers" like levels. Take a 2x2 or 3x3 grid, make a library of tiles, use that to generate a random level, then use the K-L divergence to determine how well your generative algorithm has done compared to the observed distribution from an example image.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.05077.pdf

[1] https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
Not at the moment, keeping it simple for now. That being said, I'm very interested in IPFS and the capabilities that can be attained from implementing it. I am very open to ideas, though - feel free to suggest anything you think would be helpful or handy to have!
I honestly think you should try reduce your cost (is the GPU so expensive?) And just keep it as it is.

Everything besides hair transplantation is snake oil and even promoting hair transplantation means supporting the notion that this is something someone needs to fix.

You really want to underline this notion by providing target ads?

But yes referral link to such doctors might be perfect.
> Microsoft says Python in Excel will be included in a Microsoft 365 subscription during the preview, but “some functionality will be restricted without a paid license”

Microsoft 365 subscriptions are paid licenses. This sentence is nonsense.
> I wish it wasn't solely powered only by Microsoft Cloud and could support python running locally

Have a look at xlwings, which runs on any cloud and also locally.
That seems rather shortsighted to just assume offices won't reopen instead of actually negotiating a transition to fully remote.
In an article talking about the pros and cons of Chrome and FF, it would make sense to mention cult favorites like TST. I'm not sure where you get the notion that "most of us don't care about it at all" — perhaps you have more inside info than the rest of us?

Regardless, I don't care about profiles or any of this other stuff, but I don't begrudge the author for mentioning things that aren't up my alley. In my mind, when I read a list-based article, I don't expect everything to be relevant to me.
IIRC when your phone requests the attestation cert from Google it uploads its DICE chain. Then Google verifies the chain and gives you a 30 day cert (with a chain starting from a Google root, then an intermediary, then your leaf).

You might be able to see some custom Google extensions on the X.509 cert which will have some extra info. But that might get stripped when the cert is shown to an app.

I don’t remember all of the details. I worked on the infrastructure for the key acquisition but most of it was already set up when I joined and I was only on the team for a few months.
The reason AHK is so popular is because the ugliness that most “real” programming languages won’t tolerate is what makes it so approachable in the beginning.
DIY:

-> excel cell: rest api call

-> send request to your own python web app: run python function. send back the output.
It running in Microsoft Cloud is precisely what I think will actually allow this to be useful functionality for my company in ways that macros aren't, because macros are seen here to present a vector for running malware on client machines, whose utility doesn't justify the risk.