skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
XLSX are zip packages. It can be "fun" to version control the contents of the XLSX rather than that binary zip.

Most of the data inside is just XML and with a good (stable) XML autoformatter you can even see some nice diffs between versions of an XLSX file.

A long time ago for interesting reasons of my own (including the fact that I was using darcs at the time and diff/patch-size especially of binary files was directly a performance issue) I wrote a tool called musdex to automate that workflow as (in git terms) pre-commit/post-checkout/post-merge hooks. I offer no warranties for anyone wild enough to use a tool like that in production Excel workflows, but it's a "fun" thing to try.
Curious, did you try reaching out to them? This goes against everything they stand for, I would expect they would go to great lengths to fix this.
I mean, they do if they're watering their lawns and that's where their water is coming from.
Agreed. And knowing that this is a regular occurrence, one should have a packed travel bag with them at all times (aka bug-out bag, go-bag, shtf-bag).
- Market yourself up as a Postman alternative

- Work for some time

- Do the same shit as Postman

- ...

- Profit? Really?

I don’t know even. Why does it have to be the same story all the time? It’s become so tiring.
This is a much better take, and elegantly expressed by that flip.

Going further: Europe is a dynamical system that is stable enough relative to human experience to have a name. The feedback loop that maintains the system that is Europe includes human behavior, which includes thoughts and speech.

Chemical elements are also dynamical systems, held together without humans in the loop. Everything we have a name for is like this. The truth and reality of helium and Europe is the same at this level of description.

A problem with this level of description is that it is kind of overpowered: if everything can be considered a dynamical system, then we aren't saying much about the differences between things. Analogously, it's true that evolution explains biology. But there's still a useful science of biology - we don't just point to living things and say 'evolution made that' and call it a day.

Hence while I'm pretty confident about the dynamical systems stance being fundamental, there's plenty of room to slice things up further with other concepts. They just need to bottom out successfully into dynamics. Evolution does this, for example. Can morality bottom out this way? Perhaps the theory of iterated games is a connection?
There are various bugbears, like an open issue with the camera only operating at a fraction of its supported resolution - https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/4714

Unfortunately I don't think the team is big enough to support the device specific software at a high level, which is fine for a community project, but less so for a commercial one.
It's obtuse to conflate biological/gene-driven purpose with human motive.
I think we may be in anecdotal territory.

Though my own observation is that enterprises will spend alot of money on low / no code solutions that are a pain to maintain at scale (the worst of it is when they churn APIs and/or integrations).

There's room for solutions like that, but expectations need to be managed better.
Can you elaborate on the poor decisions, and what/who gets to evaluate or define a "true need"?

More generally - It's rare to see a truly and honestly non-religious opposition to reproductive aids, so I'd be genuinely eager to hear more!
Related:

Consider a future device which stores books, records, and communications (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34454819 - Jan 2023 (2 comments)

Highlights from the Memoirs of Vannevar Bush - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32112040 - July 2022 (3 comments)

Vannevar Bush: A Public Sector Entrepreneur - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30738264 - March 2022 (13 comments)

As We May Think (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30687828 - March 2022 (2 comments)

As We May Think - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22431079 - Feb 2020 (1 comment)

As We May Think (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21736200 - Dec 2019 (15 comments)

The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20900693 - Sept 2019 (4 comments)

As we may think - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444620 - Feb 2018 (2 comments)

HN Classics: As We May Think (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16091725 - Jan 2018 (1 comment)

The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12139602 - July 2016 (3 comments)

As We May Think (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9787567 - June 2015 (12 comments)

1995 Vannevar Bush symposium: Closing Panel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457056 - March 2014 (45 comments)

As We May Think (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7381573 - March 2014 (1 comment)

As We May Think (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577865 - Sept 2012 (34 comments)

As We May Think by Vannevar Bush - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3287344 - Nov 2011 (1 comment)

As We May Think (1945) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565764 - Aug 2010 (20 comments)

Bonus: this is a treasure trove:

https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Vannevar+Bush+...
There is a lot of inertia to defaults but ultimately if your product is way worse people are going to seek out the better one they’re already familiar with.
I doubt there are good SD-cards for this use case. And finding a good flash drive can be really hard.

Minority group? Given the target audience I'd say we are talking about the absolute majority.
https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2092
How do we know if it's long covid or vaccine injury?
if consciousness enables suffering to occur, that is somewhat consequential.

avoidance of suffering is a low level drive toward problem solving.
This was my experience with Alteryx and Informatica vs. Scala/Python/Shell + Airflow as well.
This has been a long time coming. My company owns a Jamboard (the hardware). They were selling it hard when we bought it. We got to use it for a year before the service contract expired. All the major features stopped working, there was no way to renew online and the salespeople were no longer answering phone calls or emails.

So now we have an expensive, heavy albatross on our hands. Really makes you want to avoid depending on Google for anything again.
This touches on a fundamental problem with the current electronic-whiteboard market: poor cross-vendor compatibility.

It adds seriously risk to a widespread deployment in any organization.
He is attacking extreme relativists who claim all morals are based on culture and culture alone

The fact that all human cultures have notions that can be described as morals, that are biological in nature and connected to physical sensations (disgust, anger, etc) presupposes a universal system.

That universal system can’t be completely siloed from affecting the morals themselves. By virtue of having the same biological underlining there should be some connecting thread between all human morals
consolidated economic activity has been growing massively, while Main Street continues to fail. how is this "us" or "we" .. investors here tell one side of a story.. look at the cities where people live.
> The nurse called formula poison.
An absolutely gross and ridiculous position.
Actually I'd like to use octal. 0777 for example.

But fuck this particular type conversion semantic.
Oh goddamnit - I really liked Jamboard and used it tons for myself and my team. Guess we have to actually Google for alternatives.
If that's the case, why is Google paying so much to stay the default search provider?
> I’m guessing according to some interpretation of some religious text?

Alternatively, an interpretation of Aristotelianism and Platonism. There's this weird presumption that religious people mainly use texts, despite the fact that the largest denomination of the largest religion in the world, Catholicism, often ignores texts when even considering many modern moral qualms. There seems to be a real desire to reduce modern religions to some kind of magic cult, despite the fact that a lot of modern religions give great weight to secular philosophy.

In particular, the Catholic objection to IVF is rooted chiefly in Aristotle's concept of the telos, which is pretty secular. Any text in the Bible that goes along with that is just icing on the cake, not really the main objection.
> Sex isn't recreational

It is, if done well. Otherwise I suppose it's just a chore or a duty?
No code devs surely won't take that much time to deliver something as code devs.

No code devs surely don't need that much expertise (it's no code), so surely they are not as expensive as code devs.

Earlier this week Jack from backoffice asked me if there are any positions in my eng team. I wonder if he can learn no code in a week, since it surely won't be that complex...
I check this every week. It's a good non-biased overview of world events and things the MSM is typically ignoring and propagandizing other topics:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Company I went with was Tron Solar.
Thanks! It's definitely cool to be able to use my Raspberry Pi (running Kodi with the Moonshine addon) as a "dumb terminal" to stream from my gaming rig from the other side of the house onto my big ass living room TV :).
Why do they even make new products at this point
Why don’t they outbid Google if that’s all that’s holding back Bing? They have the money.
Let's take nanohub.org as an example. It's funded by an NSF grant and everyone can access it for free. A university doesn't need to make any expenditures for their students to benefit from it.

Researchers choose to publish in Elsevier's journals, not for lack of a university press.
It's not unheard of but it's probably been a decade since I've been to one personally. Some have free WiFi just for guests (probably good since the bandwidth is so saturated already).
it's arxiv chill
Not a laughing matter, of course. The commodification of human beings is a huge problem, and one we already suffer from, a part of our cultural malaise.
When you take off, you're going up at a rate of 500 fpm to 2000 fpm. Even if you go from +1000 fpm to -1000 fpm over the course of several seconds, you aren't going to feel much.

At cruise altitude, you're moving along at 500 mph, which is 777 feet per second. So going from +30 feet to -30 feet in a minute is just an adjustment of only about 5 degrees. You'd barely feel it, even walking down the isle. An acceleration of 33 ft/sec per sec is 1 g.

You experience greater changes in vertical motion on any flight you go on.

*edit: units
Motty was the only proven hybrid between an Asian and an African elephant
It depends on the reasons why people do not have kids. This technique would allow gay couples to have kids for example which currently they cannot without adoption in the male case.

I wonder as well how many people do not have kids because they simply cannot find a suitable partner. Maybe this will cause a further drop in the rate of marriages and partnerships.

Of course the above solutions will only create a marginal increase but an increase none the same.

I also think that if things get bad enough the government will intervene and create institutions where these kids would get born and educated. A very brave new world scenario but if the technology allows it, i would not put it past governments to solve their problems.
For a complex and sensitive topic it makes sense to listen to others and potentially change tack.
Maybe this could help all those Meta employees who are apparently too unproductive to work at home...
Even if you admit the hypothesis, that there is a finite set of _expressible_ moral statements. That does not impose a universality to a particular selection.

Just like there is not one-true-programming language, regardless of there being a finite number of them, there is not one-true-moral truth.

You could say "well just combine _all_ the programming languages!" and you will have almost everyone hating it (except perhaps you yourself), just like with moral codes.
Typical Google.
I've been enjoying Excalidraw a lot[^1]. It lets you share diagrams without accounts and you can even collaborate in real-time.

[^1]: https://excalidraw.com/
Minor quibble: because of their increased mass for an equivalent-sized vehicle, factors such as tire-wear and impact effects are greater for EVs.

That's a fairly minor point relative to the emissions picture, which is most significant. But nonzero.
I read a lot of Jeff's blog, but his vlogs put me to sleep. He isn't charismatic and makes the worst jokes. People forget that a visual medium is visual. He channel is an example of great information that is ruined by the visual medium.
If the project could benefit from such a configuration, why not? It's not a super heavy dependency and most distros include it by default. Obviously doesn't make sense for every project, but something like a CI system or desktop window manager, sure.
Doesn't it depend on where it finds life? It would in fact be bad news to find life on Mars (as Nick Bostrom is fond of explaining), but would finding life 120 light years away drastically alter the Drake equation?
You want to limit access to reproductive medical technology only to those who meet your arbitrary moral criteria?

Are you certain you're an atheist?
I see the claim of saving everything on the filesystem and collaboration via git.

- Is there a way to handle secrets outside of this flow?
- Can we set/reference variables between collections? collection A sets a variable, collection B uses it.

also, a small bit of feedback from someone that briefly played with Bruno this morning.

- moving requests in a collection via drag/drop isn't obvious and it's actually a pain if you're trying to replace the top item.
- if I duplicate a request I want the new request highlighted and I would personally prefer if the same tab was opened
Coming at this another way:

The blog says the destination was Oakland. The Oakland International Airport is at 37°43′17″N 122°13′15″W. The data packet also contains the current lat and long of the flight as 40.201 and -100.755 respectively. Plugging that in to a distance calculator [2] gives 1163 miles, 1010.6 nautical miles, or 1871.6km. So the distance value of 1167 appears to be miles.

At 487mph covering 1163 miles would take 2.3963039014 hours or ~2h23m. If the speed is knots then it would be 2.08233112598 hours or ~2h5m at 560.4296mph. So mph makes the most sense given an estimated time of arrival of 2h25m.

So I think you are right, the distance appears to be miles and the speed MPH. This makes sense for an in-flight infotainment system on a US domestic flight.

The difference between 1167 and 1163 can probably be explained by the fact that the plane is 6.5 miles in the air traveling at 8 miles per minute and we don't know update interval or if the distance is in the air or on the ground.

[1]: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Oakland_I...

[2]: https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/latitude-longitude-dist...
Secure Chip Decap Suggestions?
Looking to curate a collection of chips that are security focused, especially those with hardware security features (ex: tamper mesh). If you have suggestions for chips that are missing from this list that I can get my hands on please let me know! Send me a link where I can purchase them or happy to take (anonymous?) donations. Hope you enjoy!
No business was closed? Many businesses were closed. The majority of businesses that were open at some point were eventually closed.

I expect you are trying to say something else. What might it be?
To be fair, the paper towel guy has me shaking my hands 12 times every time I wash them, so, it is possible.
Thats just the board, I think
Twilio SMS Incident
Looks like there is a currently a major Twilio SMS issue ongoing: https://status.twilio.com/
I should think it's pretty obvious why cats like boxes.

Cats evolved into a niche where they are both predator and prey. So consider the benefits of a lair-with-a-view.

For the role of predator, they have a view plus concealment. Ambush! For the role of prey, they have both concealment and protection.

I think the only real question is, what's with cats sitting in rectangles painted on the floor ? Is it just the usual cat thing of going to wherever humans' attention is going ?

Or does a rectangle activate some pattern recognition circuit ? If so, does it still work if the cat has grown up in an environment without objects with right angles, such as / including boxes ?
I have tried out Bing some times earlier and I think I can confirm that until the last few years another reason why Google won was because they were better.

The last few years I feel Google has become so hilariously bad at search that I didn't care and just used DDH since it promised less tracking. But still DDG and Bing weren't better IMO Google had just sunk to a level so close above them that I didn't think I missed out on anything.
TLDraw is really nice: http://tldraw.com

As is Excalidraw
We have these scattered around my offices (a large pharma/biotech). They go mostly unused. The idea is good. But it was outside of google's wheelhouse (they have been traditionally weak in consumer hardware except for phones).
Wha?! Because, religion! They are abominations!

Not really, but in history children born out of wedlock were freely discriminated against, assumed to be subhuman and criminal, and killed without repercussion.

It would be reasonable, extrapolating from (recent) history, to assume artificial humans would instantly be put in that category.
Ah, I heard about Wander before but when I looked into it I wasn't sure you could really see all the pictures from anywhere on Google Street View. Thanks!
Google doing what Google does. Anyone have a good rec for an alternative to Nest doorbell with 24/7 coverage and no monthly subscription? May as well get ahead of that end-of-life notification.
The sticker price is almost never what you pay, since tax is almost never included. Not sure how or when that norm diverged from the Euro one.
If they don't make new products, what are they going to shut down?
There is something wrong with being forced to live any kind of life you don't want. If you don't want to be a housewife then being forced to be one if you have a child is objectively awful. Japanese women have spoken, they'd rather work than have children if it means being chained to a home. Honestly even Japanese men are spoken. The gender expectations around having children aren't pleasing for them either. No one likes being forced into a life they don't want. If all it takes to avoid that is not having kids it appears many in Japan can overcome biological drives and do that.
Hmm. The medium is the message.
Except they're not mixing two parents genes randomly. Moreover, we know for a fact that not receiving male genes or not receiving female genes is problematic (see Angelman and Prader-Willi syndrome... genes must be received from one man and one woman, and women cannot produce male haploid genes and vice versa). In general, the only thing humans have tried is randomly mixing a man and a woman's genes, not two random people.
You should do some research on Matthew Prince, his background is very interesting. He's pretty much the only tech CEO who I could say "yeah, I trust him".

I'm not saying your concern isn't valid, it's a great point. Only that if anyone was going to run a company like Cloudflare, we're lucky it's Matthew, he's not a dumbass.
Hey, that's not fair. Google spent about ten years being a net positive for the internet. They used to have a program where they'd pay for pizza delivery for anyone who was up late coding. They've been churning out good FOSS for most of their existence. Given they've been more harm than good for several years now, but let's not rob them of their bright beginnings.
> Urban environments make me very uncomfortable. (...)

You could have (just a theory, I am not a therapist) weaker boundaries. From what I read it is not necessarily emotional. It is said that really invasive surgeries for example can weaken this internal sense of boundary for some people, which is added stress into the system that really never goes away unless the person can somehow brings back a good sense of safety.

> I have a pet theory (no pun intended) that the homeless suffer the same plight

Oh yeah. Absolutely... it must be awful. To live on the street means there is a level of stress in their body that just never quiets down. Unless they are in a group perhaps with safe people, or perhaps in an area of town where they won't be bothered. Can't even begin to imagine what it's like.

I always remember one night I missed the last train, and I walked around in town, I was looking for one of those shop entrances where there is a small hallway and I was so tired, I figured if I get in a corner there outside of the main street lights, I could just try to sleep. But oh no, as soon as I walked in those spaces, lights would turn on automatically. It was awful... I never realized how unfriendly and so totally unsafe being out on the street at night is like. There was literally nowdhere I could hide in the dark and crawl into a corner. And obviously lying down on a bench at night in the park wasn't a sensible option.

But yeah it's really about having a sense of personal space.

Violence, invasive surgeries, or even sometimes natural disasters can severely affect someone's sense of safety.

I remember one streamer on Twitch he said one night a tree crashed through the roof and that he never slept quite the same since! Hopefully for people who otherwise have good support and a safe environments these things can heal over time.

> rather than reshaping her environment like I do, she reshapes her own perception of it.

I use noise cancelling headphones for years now. It does provide relief, especially with noise from unruly neighbours. When I put the headphones on, I am also in my space in a sense.

I think ultimately it has to do with the amygdala, and a "internalized" sense of safety, from past experience and relationships.
For fuck's sake. Have so many of these in the office.

Never buying a Google product again. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.
I figure BYD is going to reveal the feature in an actual production car soon and blow everybody away.
On his twitter Coleman says that his youtube views were what he was expecting, it's the view directly from the TED Talk website that seemed surprisingly low.
Was there 96-2000 and agree completely. It was a paradisical time and I knew it, because this was nowhere near my first job. Best work situation I ever had. People were great, and bureaucracy was big enough to be useful but small enough to be intrusive.
When considering "better value for the customer", remember that sellers are a customer of the marketplace too (arguably the primary customer!).

imo the problem is specifically generics branded and marketed by the marketplace. That's where a conflict of interest between the marketplace and sellers arises, which ultimately harms end-customers.

Amazon Private Brands (APB) typically buys from the same companies that make the random generics like "XOFUNBO" no-name brands. The issue is Amazon can use it's insider data to buy, brand, and market generics in-house, without paying the fees charged to sellers - achieving costs that 3p sellers fundamentally cannot compete with. Amazon's own corporate training highlights that sharing sales data with 3p sellers is illegal and anti-competitive, I don't know why APB should be seen as any different.

This is not even considering how sellers need to earn end-customer trust while Amazon can muscle coasting on their trust as the marketplace.

Marketplaces must be neutral ground for sellers, full stop. No seller can be given privileged access. Otherwise the market distorts to favor a seller and that ultimately harms the end-customers in the long-term by suppressing competition.