skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comic in the article is the literal purpose of a KPI. The comic:

"John your commit frequency dropped 25%, are you quiet quitting?"
"Sorry boss, I was on sick leave. Next time I'll be more active."

If we had the next box of the comic it would say:

"You're good John, you don't have to be more active, and I'm glad you are feeling better. If you need anything let me know."

The KPI is a leading indicator of something potentially going wrong (or right!) and a signal for management to look deeper. A good manager would connect with the human-being behind the metric, get the full picture, then help.

If management is treating a KPI as a source of truth and ignoring the complex people behind them, then it's a manager problem.

KPIs are not destroying business, bad managers are.
> long-term injury insurance

It eventually runs out. The US healthcare system can eventually bankrupt you no matter how careful you are, if your health problems are serious enough.
Corporate Cultures Differ Around the World (2020)
Windows has it's own implementation of containers, and with a docker-like structure, and xlsx being a zip file, excel could simply have a dockerfile like structure "FROM excel-python:2023" "COPY xlsx:scripts/" etc. new versions of excel could keep the last few 'base' containers, or if they are in love with the cloud, the signed, verified base images could be pulled on request.
> Not being owned by us.

We’d be fine if Bytedance were European, Australian, Japanese or even Indian. This is a problem with Russia and China, belligerent autocracies with whom our chances of near-term military confrontation is elevated.
The government is auditing TikTok, not using TikTok to spy on US citizens.

The US is trying to determine to what extent TikTok is a domestic security threat.

CFIUS is an organ of the US government designed to prevent foreign intrusion that risks national security. That's the entity involved here. They don't touch ordinary US citizens.

This is not domestic spying. It's investigating the capabilities of a foreign power on US soil.
The reason hiring a consultant works, even when your employees are telling you what to do. It's because the consultant costs 10x more and is specifically being hired for direction... it's merely rationalizing "we're paying them $1000/hr for their opinion... that makes their opinion very valuable and we should listen to their advice. Johnny in the corner cubicle is paid to code, not for his opinions..."
What about the last 80 years makes you think the US has any sort of moral authority.
But we don’t solely rely on how well we hear since we have knowledge that allows us to correct for poor hearing based on what is being said rather than forging ahead with a nonsense transcription. Machine transcription is definitely faster and cheaper but the end product isn’t “better,” and anyone who has read it can attest to that.
It's your font rendering that looks weird, maybe you have a BGR monitor?
Puzzles me too. I didn’t add that.
Something I didn't find mentioning is increasing the number of parallel connections in Firefox. When I inspect the network and responses of FF, I often find connections were "blocked" (for several hundreds ms). Thus, increasing the number of persistent connections to a server will unblock those connections and allow the website to render much faster.
Go to about:config and change:

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server

from the default value of 6 to 24 or 32.

Experimental results for a website: (time until finish loading)

No of Conns Prime Cache w/o Cache

6 (default) 25 s 257 s

12 21 s 212 s

18 18 s 190 s

24 15 s 147 s
Biggest features that keep me on Firefox: decent search (whole word, match case) and proxy settings
C++ FFI from Python from Excel. Now this is podracing.
Paid vacation time is paid sick time. It's paid time off either way.
When they say "lovingly recreated", the "love" is for money, not hardware.
If you have competent accountants/payroll, this is no more complicated than anything else. There might be a learning curve to get things set up properly, but the rest is reasonably normal.
Cute, but doesn't have a touch-sensitive keyboard, which makes this a no-go for me.
Nope. The CGNAT IP range is 100.64.0.0/10, which doesn't match the 10.0.0.0/8 RFC1918 range the error message is referencing.

My ISP offers native IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity anyway; CGNAT is more common for mobile connections.
Yeah, I think it's one of those things where Discord reserves the right to ban anyone using automation on their user account, but in practice they don't take action unless you're clearly doing something malicious or annoying. At least as far as I know.
On the other side of that, "hiring an Uber" even several times a month to do a longer trip that you can't manage in any other way is much cheaper than any ownership situation for the same cars. Heck, you almost certainly save in recovered space from not owning the car.

Going down the path, though, as someone that has extensively used public transit in every US city I've lived in for my adult life, I'm curious how you envision "more like public transit" looking? I get that you wanted better use of "car time", but I also have to confess I don't really know what that means. Even public transit is mostly a place for you to maybe read a book. If you are super hyper and have a long commute, you can consider some programming/drawing/writing. Most anything else, though, will be pretty difficult to pull off in a highly confined space.
@dang, I was pretty surprised to see my reply turn into such a huge subthread.

When you say you detached this subthread, isn’t this essentially removing it from the discussion entirely?

It wasn’t my intent to derail the discussion, but I’m also trying to make sure I understand what just happened here and what you mean by detached.
This is why I think that we should resolve the climate change crisis by reducing excess atmospheric carbon by seeding the oceans with iron. Oceanic iron seeding results in plankton blooms that consume atmospheric carbon. When the plankton dies, it accumulates on the seafloor. Over geologic time scales, the accumulated plankton will turn into hydrocarbons, renewing the supply of cheap fuels for a post-human civilization millions of years in the future.
The “agreement would let agencies examine TikTok’s US facilities, records, and servers.” That’s broad enough to warrant abuse of search privileges.
KPIs are indicators, not measurements.
> There is that tell-tale green circuit board inside. But how does one turn it on and use it? What does it do?

They'll probably think it's some sort of coming-of-age fertility totem, and our datacenters will be structures built to pay homage to the gods.
> long term disability plans

It eventually runs out. Medical bankruptcy is pretty widespread in the US.
Part of the reason I still like Excel over Google Sheets is that I can use it completely offline.
Show HN: Cosmic Media – Search millions of stock photos and videos
Hello HN,

I’m Tony, the CEO of Cosmic (https://www.cosmicjs.com), we provide a headless CMS and API toolkit to create and deliver content to websites and apps. Today, we are releasing Cosmic Media which enables you to search millions of high-quality, royalty-free, stock photos, videos, and vectors from popular online media services: Unsplash, Pexels, Giphy, and Pixabay from one convenient interface. It also includes AI-generated images from OpenAI. Check it out here: https://cosmicmedia.vercel.app

We built it to solve our own need to consolidate our existing media extensions, which were individual media extensions using the Unsplash API and Pexels Video API, and we thought, "why not combine them into one"? Rather than search from different stock media websites, seems like it would be nice to aggregate it into one interface. Then we sort of thought about what else might someone want for adding media to their content, so we added DALL-E AI image generation. We've been using it internally and find that it's saved us some time when searching for media to add to our blog posts.

We are offering it as both a stand-alone open source tool and as a Cosmic extension which can be added to your projects for easy access during content creation from the Cosmic dashboard. Check out the code and feel free to customize and extend it to suit your needs: https://github.com/cosmicjs/cosmic-media-extension

Let me know what you think in the comments.

- Tony
> long-term disability insurance policy

It eventually runs out. Medical bankruptcy is pretty widespread in the US.
> I feel this article almost do more harm than good. It paints a picture that you need to "sacrifice" something to use Fx and lists various "problems".

Your comment is roughly of the form “that detailed article lists poor solutions to the problems you’ll likely encounter when switching to Firefox, so please instead follow my detailed instructions about alternate ways to fix the problems you’ll likely encounter when switching to Firefox.” It hardly makes anything feel simpler or more enticing!
Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states
On point #1: These large companies are publicly traded on the stock market and you are welcome to profit alongside them as they grow. I earned more from amazon stock than I've spent on amazon. I earned more from Tesla stock than it costs to buy a new Tesla.
The way you fix this is using the text import tool or better yet power query and specifying the column type to be text. With power query you can repeat this for as many files as you need to import.
If Burger King gave him no gift at all, he'd be $400K poorer.
I haven't used a non-cloud spreadsheet in probably 7 years. 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.
Yes, the amount of heat added to the atmosphere by human activities is negligible compared to what we receive every day from the sun.

It's the heat that is retained that is the problem.
LMGTFY: Google Summer of Code
> they don't see the connections in what I say

Just wanted to say, thank-you (and syndicatedjelly) for helping me relate. It's the first time I heard it that way--with the same results: sometimes right, sometimes wrong.

As a programmer, it helps to have the compiler keep me grounded in logic, so to speak.
Breakthrough creates stem cells without any “memories”
LibreOffice Writer is still keeping the old meme about image formatting in word document alive. I wonder, why is it impossible to define area, where I would like to place an image, and then fit the image there? Now images usually are inserted in original size, making a mess of everything else, and if there are more than one image on page - oh boy, you are going to have a bad time.

All in all this is probably due to my stubbornness and all problems would be solved by reading a simple tutorial, am I right?
US labor force, disposable income and housing starts data on Snowflake Mktplace
> Crewed space exploration is a fun stunt, but serves no practical purpose. Leave it to billionaires. Instruments like JWST are much more interesting.

In reality, the JWST serves as much practical purpose as crewed space exploitation. Maybe even less.
1. Both Alice and Bob are together in the world. Neither is external to the world itself. My argument is that whatever knowledge we have of the brain, it is almost certainly incomplete, as we only know what we can observe empirically. Ergo, we can't have a complete picture of the brain and therefore can't copy it.

2. Evolution has taken us down certain perceptual pathways. We don't know what other pathways exist. They are "unknown unknowns." Ergo, again, we can't have a complete picture of the brain, so we can't have a perfect copy of it.

3. That's not really a good counterexample to the point I'm making, which is that the act of embodiment is intertwined with the concept of the Self. The idea that the Self developed independently of the body is false. So again, if we were to copy the brain and put it in a digital environment, it would not be a copy of the person, nor would it remain the same, as it no longer has a body. Patterns of thought would change, concepts of Self would change.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/

All of these are just various ways of saying that you could not make a 100% digital copy of a flesh-and-blood human being. It would not be the same person.
I wish people would stop mentioning benchmarks, even when Firefox is wins one.

It is like evaluating bicycles based on their towing capacity. Any website that requires a high performance JavaScript implementation is already doing so much wrong that you should just leave.
And also scuba ("underwater"), laser ("amplification"), etc
> No, the main reason geofencing exists on modern autonomous cars is to assure connectivity. A ton of work is offloaded.

Which means that they're not autonomous. Autonomous means being able to operate on its own.
Excel only maintains 15 digits of precision for numbers. Everything else gets truncated. This truncation is done at import so it is unrecoverable.

This burned me frequently when I was generating tax audit reports for accounting. The billing system IDs were all BIGINTs but had over 20 digits.
The prompt is interesting, but are there any examples? The site linked in the repo (papersnap.net) seems to be down.
Using a RNN for 2D Tile Map Synthesis
before http (ncsa mosaic is march 1993), I was using gopher, newsgroups and xarchie. When you saw a reference to a program in a newsgroup, it was often easy with xarchie to find a public ftp mirror where you could download it. I remember reading CERT advisories on gopher and having noticed that at my school, the vulnerable command xloadmodule was present (sunOS 4.3). I warned the admin and after 15 days of no reaction and no answer, I became root of all the servers. Good old days ;-)
Norton Commander[0] is the original and predates Midnight Commander by eight years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
They aren't lying, the screenshots are clearly different, but it's strange to describe it as a problem with Firefox. It's a completely subjective difference, to me that Chrome screenshot looks blurry and faint compared to the Firefox one. It's also confusing that they say "fonts are smaller on Firefox" - in those two screenshots the Chrome font is clearly smaller.
Doesn't Guido work for Microsoft now?
I feel like I see them by security or food courts, not gates
Bold prediction: this will have a greater economic impact than LLMs over the next 10 years.
There's not a single thing the Fed chairman could invest in that wouldn't be a conflict of interest -- whether the world's largest asset manager (blackrock), broadbased ETFs, or even USD since his monetary policy effects the dollar's purchasing power.
E.g. "Foobar page for lists larger than 1000 now load in under 3 seconds, down from 10 earlier", "You no longer have to log out and login again when we update config Y", "Now when you report money mismatches, you no longer have to send screen shots (we have added logs)" etc.
If you like macOS keyboard shortcuts, I recommend you checkout Kinto go Windows and Linux. On Windows, Kinto used AHK
https://kinto.sh
However, at least when I set it up Kinto did not provide switching windows in this fashion. Here is the script I use. This includes some related functionality to make the handling of windows more Mac-like

```

; BRING FORWARD ALL WINDOWS OF THE CURRENT APPLICATION
; This is a generalized version of
; https://superuser.com/questions/113162/bring-to-front-all-wi...

^!`::
WinGetClass, class, A
WinGet, id, list, ahk_class %class%
Loop, %id%
{
this_id := id%A_Index%
WinActivate, ahk_id %this_id%
; MsgBox, The active window's this_id is "%this_id%".
}
return

; MINIMIZE ALL WINDOWS OF THE CURRENT APPLICATION
^!m::
WinGetClass, class, A
WinGet, id, list, ahk_class %class%
Loop, %id%
{
this_id := id%A_Index%
WinMinimize, ahk_id %this_id%
}
return

; CYCLE ALL WINDOWS OF CURRENT APPLICATION
; Pull bottom window to the top, and force it to display
^`::
; need Process and Class to restrict to current application
; most apps have unquie window classes, but Chromium based apps
; share their primary window class. Thus Google Chrome, VS Code and
; Electron based apps all looked the same using only `class`
WinGet, Active_ID, ID, A
WinGet, Active_Process, ProcessName, ahk_id %Active_ID%
WinGetClass, class, A
WinGet, id, list, ahk_class %class% ahk_exe %Active_Process%
lastItem := id%id0%
lastItemId := id%lastItem%
WinActivate, ahk_id %lastItemId%
WinSet, Top,, ahk_id %lastItemId%
Winset, AlwaysOnTop, On
Winset, AlwaysOnTop, Off
return

; CLOSE CURRENT WINDOW AND ACTIVATE NEXT WINDOW OF CURRENT APP
; similar to the CYLCE ALL WINDOWS OF CURRENT APP, but closes the
; current window.
;
; Because some Apps have Tabs that are closed via the same `^w` shortcut,
; we only switch to the next active window if the current window no longer
; exists after sending `^w`
;
; RATIONAL: This makes the Application Context a little more like macOS
; where closing windows leaves you in the current application, and not
; a random window that is the next in the stack.
$^w::
; need Process and Class to restrict to current application
; most apps have unquie window classes, but Chromium based apps
; share their primary window class. Thus Google Chrome, VS Code and
; Electron based apps all looked the same using only `class`
WinGet, Active_ID, ID, A
WinGet, Active_Process, ProcessName, ahk_id %Active_ID%
WinGetClass, class, A
WinGet, id, list, ahk_class %class% ahk_exe %Active_Process%
lastItem := id%id0%
lastItemId := id%lastItem%
Send ^w
Sleep 50
WinGet, Current_ID, ID, A
If (Current_ID != Active_ID) {
WinActivate, ahk_id %lastItemId%
WinSet, Top,, ahk_id %lastItemId%
Winset, AlwaysOnTop, On
Winset, AlwaysOnTop, Off
}
return

```
The imbalance of lots of renewable generation happening in the further reaches of the State often far away from the major population centers is definitely a challenge. That real estate is the cheapest to build on and is some of the most prime wind and solar generation areas. The boom of construction of these alternative energy sources has definitely been lagged by the transmission utility corporations, which don't move as fast as their deregulated counterparts. There's definitely plans to expand and improve those lines, but those changes often move slower due to the entrenched utility interests.

Here's an article from 2022 talking about these challenges. Many of these challenges still exist today, and can be seen with some of these price spikes. The prices of electricity in the West Hub will often be less than the rest of the state, in fact the Houston hub can sometimes be way more expensive than West because of difficulties delivering power from West to Houston.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/02/texas-high-plains-wi...

Its harder to find a lot of details of projects to expand transmission lines, but it is happening.

> the industry will spend $3.4 billion this year on building 470 miles of new transmission lines and upgrading 808 existing miles, according to data from ERCOT. About $11.6 billion worth of transmission projects are in the planning stages or under construction.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10072023/texas-power-grid...

Ultimately though its still usually easier standing up a few wind turbines or wiring up a field with solar panels than massively upgrading a lot of the transmission infrastructure without causing interruption to existing service.

People paint the Texas grid with a lot of doom and gloom, and its definitely facing a lot of challenges. But ultimately its expanding renewables faster than pretty much any other state and faces challenges most other states don't have. Pretty much no other state has expanded its energy needs as much as Texas has in the last decade or so. A lot of these challenges Texas is facing are growing pains from massive industrial and residential growth, coupled with climate change and a push to radically redesign our energy mix. People see articles like this with "6k%" price increases and think that's what people are actually paying. But in reality I'm paying for 100% renewable energy at $0.10/kWh including delivery costs, taxes, and fees while being ultimately pretty reliable. Outside of places with massive hydro available, that's pretty cheap and pretty rare for a 100% renewable mix.
I have this vague memory that Carl Sagan did similar in _Cosmos_, with motorcycles.
> Otherwise it would "force" employees to not call sick days to get the big reward

they are already forced to not call in sick by the fact they don't get paid sick leave

i can't believe you're sincerely making this argument i'm actually disturbed you exist. i hope you are trolling
Implementing Type Systems as Macros
Nvidia Debuts AI-Enhanced Real-Time Ray Tracing with DLSS 3.5
What did the US foreign policy establishment know about Afghanistan and Iraq than you or I do? Last I heard from reliable sources, Iraq had WMD's and were a clear and present danger? Why not just preempt China's nuclear capability too by nuking them?
I wish there were more commercial air filters that accepted standard furnace filters. They're super inexpensive compared to the proprietary filters designed for specific air purifiers, have tons of surface area (allowing for good airflow), and there are plenty available with MERV 13 ratings.

There's an argument to be made that MERV 13 isn't a good substitute for the higher rated carbon/HEPA filters that most dedicated air filters are designed to use, but I've read some things that make me question that assumption. Specifically, it sounds like, at least to a point, lower efficiency filters can be compensated for by increasing airflow, resulting in air passing through the filter multiple times?[1] I never got a satisfying answer to that question.

[1]: https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/
I too would love this, but I can tel you, even in a sandbox python would be very easy to abuse from a security perspective. Consider how much havoc on humanity (no exaggeration!) VBA Macros have caused.
use containers,install vimium, treestyletab, darkreader and hack the UX to customize everything
If you spend more than a few hours looking for a bug, you should start writing code to go around the bug completely. Even if it results in technical debt, if the company can go under if the bug isn’t fixed, you’d be stupid NOT to charge that TD card.

That’s why devs who understand that survive layoffs and the ones who spend three weeks “hunting for an extinction level bug” don’t.
r/notlikeothergirls
No, 100% a musing brought on by parent and your reply :)
If you don't think it's working, why not go back with ideas to improve it, rather than doing less work?

Doesn't sound like "less work", it sounds like they did the amount of work management wanted them to do. Just like working 40 hours a week is "less work" than 60 hours a week, but I'm not going to work 60 hour weeks just because of some sentimentality around the company being successful.
yeah, but there is going to be plenty of situations it can't handle. So you really can't relax, you need to be vigilant to take over. So not clear what the point of it is then
> The Soyuz is a workhouse but it's also basically a 1960s design

If you want to say something is obsolete, you need to be more specific. I'm sure a lot of "1960s design[s]" are state of the art.
Vehicles can all synchronize speed independently based on a well-tuned control law while observing only the distance to the vehicle in front of them. So looking out the window is sufficient for that, if the drivers are not terrible.

If driving at the speed limit on a winding road is unsafe, the speed limit is probably too high for that road. But in practice, it's complex, winding roads that cause people to drive at reasonable speeds, rather than numbers posted on signs.
That's a firefox.