skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting Excel to interact directly with MySQL is ugly. Querying freezes up Excel because it's single threaded? I don't know how to overcome that problem.

Also I wish there was a spreadsheet software that was more closely connected with something modern like Python. I want to be able to lean on Python to perform calculation while I have a particular spreadsheet open. Maybe even insert Python code into cells. That's difficult to do with Excel. I have experimented with LibreOffice Calc, and it may be possible there.

VBA is okay for writing simple functions & macros. But I don't like using VBA for anything more complicated than that. Maybe I haven't taken enough time to learn it. But at the same time I feel like I'm creating hacks for a language which should already have the features I want. Somewhat related: you'll see people online recommending that you set your objects to Nothing in order for the garbage collection to work. I have no way of knowing if I actually have to do that and I don't like doing things for no reason.
Maybe it was caused by a bug in the debugger.
Well, you can argue if it's useful or not, but people do use dual screen setups so there is definitely demand for a dual screen laptop.
Next you’ll tell me that full-stack is a lie, and devs don’t actually know how to run a DB.
This is what I'm using, Shield => HDMI => TV => Optical => Soundbar. There are some settings on the TV to enable external speakers over optical, which format is sent (Dolby Digital, etc), and which format is accepted (bitstream) that you may need set. The Shield also has settings for which signal is sends. Works well for me after configuring it and I get Dolby Digital 5.1 (ac3 5.1) from my Shield to my LG C2 to my soundbar over optical.
> At some level everything we relate to is a social construct, once we use it to discuss things with other humans

This is exactly what I disagree with. If you do s/meaning/social\ construct/g then by that definition you're correct, but you're ironically creating two meanings of social construct: one useful one (the original), and one confusing one (that sounds like the original, but is equivalent to "meaning" or "semantics").
Ah, I didn't check for the small-memory versions as I'm only interested in the 8GB ones.
Narcissistic and dependent traits and behavior in four archetypal games
Top economists predict global growth will weaken this year
When adblock extension is disabled for youtube.com domain, the site works well
Most here seem to understand it pretty wrong. I think it's basically about the OS being built in the cloud every day, with your computer just ingesting the diffs. This is opposed to traditional distributions, where after the initial installation packages installed are all pulled & updated individually on your host system.
It comes down to preferences and priorities. The decision is personal. Here are some aids.

US:
+ once you finish education, and if you start employment in tech sector, you get to make more money(I’d even dare to say more than 2x, considering taxes, geography etc).

+ for the tech sector, US is where the hotness is. More opportunities, fuel for ambition.

+ while single and young, US can get you a lot of disposable income(read - less likely to get sick footing a huge medical bill, or avoid expensive child care, or school fees of children)

+ language. You don’t need to spend your time learning a new language that you may or may not use in the long term.

- (cons)

- politics (depends on personal views of course. Ask yourself if you can bear a society in which Trump wins the elections)

- the odd chance that you get in an accident or get sick with a weird/expensive disease, you’re screwed.

- personal opinion - food, lifestyle, and quality of life is comparatively poorer in the US on average than in EU. Read obesity, fatty, ultra-processed and sugary foods.

- Geography - farther to South Asia than Europe.

- Guns (depends on your views)

EU:

+ Safer, more consciously biased towards better quality of life. More public transport, walking cities, higher quality super markets, and produce etc.

+ politics (left leaning compared to the US on average)

+ traveling and cultural diversity - as in you can travel across the continent as even weekend trips and experience rich and diverse cultures - Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Netherlands, Scandinavia, France - so many experiences to be had.

+ in the long term, you don’t need to be anxious about falling sick, losing your job, education for your children etc. Social system has your back for all the taxes you pay.

+ Easier and probably cheaper to travel to South Asia often.

+ You get real holiday(atleast. 4 weeks or upto 6 weeks per year) to travel and live your life while young instead of bunkering to earn money.

- you definitely won’t make as much as you would have in the US.

- language. Depends on where in Europe you go, you may need to spend considerable amount of time learning the language. It could be a fun experience depending on your attitude, but it is time nevertheless.

- lowered ambition. A personal opinion. Having living equal time at both US and EU, I’ve come to conclude that EU encourages stability and playing it safe while US encourages ambitious attitudes and gets the best out of you. It depends on what you are looking for, and what you enjoy.

Hope it helped atleast a little and didn’t add more dots to your analysis paralysis.

To tip the scales, I live in the EU.
Here in South Africa we have had rolling blackouts every day for the last 18 years. Of course it has been rebranded as "loadshedding" by the government.

The power is off for 2-9 hours every day, even in densely populated areas. Everyone who can afford it, has their own battery and inverter setup to keep lights, Internet, freezers and security systems running.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis
I think slipping into student mode or teacher mode is a fantastic reason to pair: it's full time training. You quickly will all rise to the skill level of the best parts of every engineer on the team. Otherwise training is rare and slow.
Scrum practitioners/coaches always seemed to have this idea that if Scrum wasnt working then you werent doing it properly.

Scrum had some serious problems, too, but nobody wanted to admit to them.
ASCII Smuggler: Crafting and Decoding Invisible Text Using Unicode Tags
To be fair, regardless of the status and what have you I've seen a lot of people in my time complain that they're making unoptimized garbage with half broken tooling and they weren't shy about saying it.

For now AI in this context is often just another piece of such tooling and people using it may experience for example github copilot or the like spit out faulty blocks of code most of the time when it's not doing something cookiecutter.
When you then know full well it needs to improve till it's almost correct 100% of the time and do a whole lot more then yeah people are going to be dismissive for a good while longer.
I've heard that Yamamoto believed Japan could not win, but felt duty bound to serve anyway after it became clear the fight would happen with or without him. He seemed to also understand Pearl harbor would incite and not crush fighting spirit. First I've heard that leadership in general could have believed they would lose the fight they were starting. But politicians are weird, and I guess many of them would rather lose (elections, wars) rather than lose control (of parties, or countries). This has it's own kind of perverted logic but political thinking isn't military thinking
Apple offers rare iPhone discount in China as demand fears rise
I respect people’s right to use as lockers on their machines, but it bears mentioning that YouTube is one of the last driving treasures of the internet. Paying for premium would go a long way to improving the situation for everybody, and I think it’s one area where if you can afford it, it’s not only right but also good.
A lot of people have trees growing over, or very close to, power lines; during storms, high winds or ice accumulation cause many branches to break. Around here, utility crews periodically prune trees back from the wires, but a significant storm will still see hundreds of thousands without power. After a day or two they get it down to tens of thousands; fixing all of those can take many days. One downed power line can be repaired in an hour, but 1000s take a while. Some of the tail-end of repairs are more complicated, too.

Hurricanes, long-track tornadoes, and earthquakes are even worse.

It's not that technology is lacking, it's that the cost of making infrastructure resilient to very bad weather (worse than Australia sees) is too high. Most people who want to do something about it buy a generator, which solves most of their problem even though in aggregate it's terribly inefficient.
Alls hands meeting called to brainstorm ways to recoupe the $0 in revenue they’re losing.
I wonder if a "tree" would be a better visualization methods for visualization methods
Not sure if coincidental, but YT has been slower for the last few days. But I do have Premium + uBlock Origin running in Firefox (I don’t want ads + all the other crap YT has on their page).
Stalin and Mao were wealthy. That's why many people argue we never implemented communism, since our attempts ended up as oligarchies.

Just because you don't have a paper stating you own something doesn't mean you don't control it.
That kind of reporting has clear privacy implications. I'd avoid any client that reported those metrics.
Ask HN: Microsoft has made it impossible to unsubscribe from Office 365
I spoke to my father and he mentioned how he's been trying to unsubscribe from Office 365 for months unsuccessfully. He went so far as to replace his bank card and he's still being billed.

I was of the view that it might be a user issue, so I asked for his password and tried myself.

1. He somehow ended up on the business plan with his regular Outlook email, and you cannot log into the business portal with a non-work or non-school email.

2. No subscriptions show up on his account

3. I looked to find the original subscription emails in case he was using a different account somehow and, no, it's the same email

4. Microsoft has an "advocate" process[0] where you can request someone to help you cancel... but it's broken and raises errors

5. I spoke to Microsoft and they said they're from the consumer side and can't access billing for business subscriptions, and sent me in a direction that gets stuck on the same issue as #1

6. I mentioned this to them and they said they'll have management call back within the hour. That was a week ago.

Through to today, my father is still being billed and caught in this quagmire: it's a business plan but he cannot access the business portal to administer it. I believe he's been paying for about two years now and doesn't use the service.

Does anyone have any avenues to have this resolved?

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cancel-a-microsoft-365-subscription-46e2634c-c64b-4c65-94b9-2cc9c960e91b
Nice!

Nitpick: $5 for 2TB is better than $10 for 3TB.
Humans are a product of evolution, not a design to calculate similarities in vector spaces.

There aren't any similarities in the way animal species and LLMs develop.
2023-10-03: "HMD Global Oy is the exclusive licensee of the Nokia brand for phones & tablets."

https://web.archive.org/web/20231003100506/https://www.hmdgl...

2023-10-05: "HMD Global Oy is a licensee of the Nokia brand for phones & tablets."

https://web.archive.org/web/20231005080707/https://www.hmdgl...
once you've paid for win10, you as a user is no longer a revenue but a cost. And you can obviously guess what happens to costs.
But if we put it on The Blockchain, you can mint PodCoins by listening to podcasts! Of course, to ensure you're really listening, you'll also need a secure cryptographic module installed in your auditory cortex. Depending on how well that surgery goes, maybe it finally can put the killer in killer app.
AI's Influence on the Excess of Unnecessary AI Gadgets – CES 2024
A Coin-Sized Nuclear Battery Could Fly Drones "Continuously"
> You can't sell your product if there's nobody that can buy it.

Our current model is capitalists get rich selling piles of cheap stuff to the labor class.

I think the future might be petite bourgeoisie selling high-end, long-lasting products to each other. Picture the guy who has his own AI company selling AI to the guy who has a robot company, who sells robots to the guy who owns a coachbuilder such as [1] or [2], who sells cars to the AI guy and the robot guy. Then the car guy buys a watch from a watchsmith in Switzerland. Watch guy doesn't have any robots but maybe he uses AI to help him design new watches, which he builds by hand himself. Then all four of these guys eat by buying meat from a guy who uses robotic cattlehands to coral his herd of free-range grass-fed bison or something. Each of these five people work at the companies they own. They have no laborers underneath them that aren't AI or robots. They are just exchanging a small amount of high-value goods and services between each other.

The HUMAN labor class is gonna die or be subsidized just enough to keep from revolting.

[1] https://singervehicledesign.com/

[2]https://www.fj.co/
I have no problems with AdBlock plus on FF currently, but using private browsing on Utube since they started detecting ad-blockers. I also generally use Utube less as well, so not so bothered.
> Looks so logical (...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_merge-tree
That is because a podcast is just an rss feed of audio files… to get that sort of information (from all your listeners) you have to add to rss and break compatibility.
The Gell-Mann effect overrates having an academic degree and doesn't count the fact that people might become experts in something they haven't done formal studies for.

How can you tell whether I am as trustworthy as a guy on the bus on matters of software engineering? I am a high school dropout. Likewise, I'm no medical doctor, but knowledge is a spectrum, and I believe I know more than the average Joe on matters of nutrition because it is something that fascinates me and I've read and researched a lot about.

Given that I've read and heard about Taubes for 15 years, it is simplistic to say the least that he doesn't know anything because he's got a physics background.

tl;dr: the Gell-Mann effect only makes sense in a vacuum and if you really want to believe that having a degree automatically makes you an expert with worthwhile ideas.
I'll say though, I grew up in rural West Wales, and I don't think we ever had a power cut lasting longer than an hour or two, and even that only happened a few times a decade. It's not an area known for nasty weather though.
My mode is either driving and listening to advice or watching and trying to spot things the driver missed.

Occasionally I do side-work if Im not driving - e.g. look something up, message devops, a very small PR etc. so the driver can maintain focus.

I find it to be much more effective that working alone simply because so much stuff that would take me 20 minutes to to go down a rabbit hole ends up being caught by an extra pair of eyes in 4 seconds.
The "LLMs will attain intelligence/consciousness if we just throw enough neurons at the problem" crowd really seems to be engaging in cargo cult thinking to me. Not that I think it would be impossible to make a conscious or intelligent mind using simulated neural networks — I don't think that there's some kind of "special mystical property" about humans like a soul or something — it's just that the structure and training of LLMs is fundamentally wrong for producing intelligence, that's all. It's an easy, simple route that gives you startling results for the first 30% but it's a dead end in the long run for achieving what they want, yet they're insisting that if they just keep pantomiming hard enough real intelligence will come.
Ask HN: Facebook embedding their app in smartphones, what's in it for them?
I'm curious if anyone has insight into this question.

A number of years ago I bought a Samsung Android, and it turned out that Samsung had a relationship with Facebook where the Facebook application couldn't actually be uninstalled from my phone.

I can disable and reenable the app, but I can't remove it.

Beyond the obvious benefit of Facebook removing friction in the re-instatement of the app on a person's phone, is there any other benefit for them in doing this? Would a disabled Facebook app be able to do anything on the phone?
Pretty Sure Netflix has this, though only used internally.
Yup! I started quite a long time ago (2013 or so), and then Simon Inns in ~2018-2019 built the duplicator and did a great job disseminating things.

oyvindln then worked on VHS decoding as well independantly, and there are quite a few other people helping out too that I can't remember to credit right now.

So my thought is if you're going to get sucked into a big hobby project, it's better to make it something other people can build and get into as well!
To remind ourselves that this is the case
Is there a market for private "local" power plants, like maybe a small out of town solar farm?
The importance of "bumblers" and "pointers" in science (2023)
It makes more sense to not end up with Bezos wealth in the first place. Part with it as it reaches above your threshold, not after amassing some unspecified large multiplier.

I have zero doubt there are many of us who have no desire to own that much money to the detriment of our fellow human beings, but the point is there are also many people who do not think like that and want it all. They phantasise about being able to snub other people in an undetermined (and unlikely) future when they’re rich, even as they dislike being shunned now. That’s why (to the point of the original comment) there’s polarisation of opinion even thought rationally most people should be on the same side.
The ports aren't backed by switching hardware, so would have to get bridged in hardware. If you don't want to use it as a router towards the internet, just get a 2.5G switch would likely be more performant and future proof given this only has two RJ45 ports.
Almost all brands of electric cars (BEV, HEV, PHEV) use regenerative braking when you press the brake pedal when possible (i.e. they switch to the physical brake pads when the speed gets too low for effective regenerative braking, or when the battery is already full, or in case something's wrong with the electrical system).

Big exception is Tesla: Tesla's braking pedal uses only the physical brake pads. In a Tesla the only way to regenerate brake energy is by lifting the accelerator.

Source: https://onefiniteplanet.org/wp/one-pedal-driving-and-regen-b...
The Steam Deck OLED Gets Restocked in Japan and Sells Out Again
Kusion is a stack to build an IDP, not a resource provisioning tool. If you're already using Terraform internally, Kusion can integrate with it and provide a more efficient and flexible workflow.
Synthetic data training is a thing (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-2-the-surp...), new architectures are a thing (MoE), open models are becoming stronger, all models are becoming more optimized and efficient.
The trainspotter in their anorak, notebook or camera in hand, is a staple UK trope. Or it was when I was growing up.
McDonald’s methodology. Optimise for volume not flavour and quality with a veneer of marketing bullshit smeared on it.
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime" - Honore de Balzac.
> The real issue is that most of the net worth is equity. These unrealized gains are not taxed. In some cases, a lot of the value is driven by speculation and not actually tied to the current profits of the company. This is why wealth taxes are brought up, or at least changes to capital gains taxes.

Of course, equity is still useful. One can borrow money using the assets as collateral, and rather than paying taxes on the (borrowed) money, one instead pays a comparatively small interest to the bank. Moreover, those unrealized gains never need be taxed so long as they are never converted to cash. The capital gains on the assets are then reset when the owner dies (the so-called "buy, borrow, die" strategy [1]).

I would venture that this is a massive loophole in the tax system that ought to be patched-out.

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[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
> which is close enough to your 521MWh that I'm pretty happy.

Nice! And Dinorwig runs around 72% round-trip efficiency, which is higher than I expect to see here simply on account of scale, but also in the ballpark.

> generate power while filling the locks as the water falls down...

Now that's an interesting one.

There are already lock systems where there's two parallel chains, and the ascending and descending locks operate in lock-step, with the two locks first equalizing water with each other, before the ascending takes water from above and the descending releases water to below. So that doubles the amount of traffic that can be handled by the same amount of water.

Presumably building twice the infrastructure would be cost-prohibitive or they would've done it over the preceding decade, but storing the water's energy could be quite a bit cheaper and smaller.

Edit: Much simpler, takes more space, saves almost as much water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_project...

It ends up being a lot like linking the shafts of all the pumps, with extra steps for control, eh?

Edit: Oh. Yeah. Okay, at each lock, you've got three pumps on a common shaft, with clutches:

(fill turbine)--[clutch]--(lift pump)--[clutch]--(drain turbine)

Whether you're filling or draining, you clutch that turbine to the lift pump, and lift some water upward as the working water flows downward. No electricity needed.

Hmm. Alright, who wants to go pitch a project?
That is true. But Vienna is the economic powerhouse and hugely important piece of that, especially given that region is ~25% of population.
Use figma and export to svg. The UX is better than anything else I've tried.
My win10 kept giving me “bug check” reboot treatment and I had to go win11 reluctantly. Oh well, there goes my vertical taskbar.
You think he does Linux builds on a Mac?
Exit code 139. Hm.
Then you should practice. The chances you never experience it are low, and better learn when you don't have to.

Besides, it will give you a better appreciation of human achivements once you don't take hot water for granted.
The substance in HTML is literally an annotated rooted tree (a subset of the complexity afforded by a graph).
I learned to code thanks to Excel.

One day I discovered "Record Macro". That was handy to automate some simple tasks.
Then I discovered I could make a clickable button, that would activate one of my macros. That was great.
Then I discovered I could double-click (iirc) the button and there, in front of my eyes, was the code. A whole world opened up to me.

I made gigantic programs. Thousands of lines of code. Horrific code. I didn't understand variables or arrays but I had cells and columns! Imagine that.

I became the automation guru at my job. God I hope those Excel files no longer exist. I would die of embarrassment. I built automation tools in my own time. In Excel, of course. Before long I was making enough to quit my day job. Thanks, Excel.
> If the evaluation period expires, the desktop background will turn black, you will see a persistent desktop notification indicating that the system is not genuine, and the PC will shut down every hour.

Otherwise you have an approx 1 month trial period. Which is pretty short - 2 months would be better.