skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spreadsheets are irreplaceable because they're the only no-code software development tool that's ever succeeded.

Nothing will ever replace spreadsheets, because the tech industry no longer believes in making products for power users. In modern thinking, any form of user training is an indication your product is too complicated, and any feature only used by 5% of users should be removed.

The idea of a product where users have to type in incantations like =VLOOKUP(A1,C2:D16,2,False) which they're just supposed to somehow know? A product that's essentially unusable on mobile? A product with features like 'Pivot Table' that only 1% of users ever use, and yet it's a vital core feature?

It's absurd. Only in 1970 could someone have conceived of such a thing.
Is the source code available? I cannot find any mentions of the source code repository…
The Best Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be Atoms
Thanks for sharing. Good work. It seems you've done a good amount of work on this, with the multiple backends.

From your other comments here it seems your emphasising "understandability by one person", which Oberon as you mentioned was designed to be understandable.

It reminds me of Taylor Troesh's wigwams

https://taylor.town/pardon-2023#wigwams

I need to document my JIT compiler's design which is really straightforward.

I've been loosely reading qbe's sourcecode but I need to go through the bibliography to understand the code more. At the moment it's all unfamiliar and not understandable.
I'd agree with the Wikipedia article, that it sounds like MIMO, in that it requires the beam to have a spatial extent.

From the Wikipedia article:

> can thus access a potentially unbounded set of states

That's what people originally thought about MIMO. MIMO's not unbounded. The limit to the number of states is related to the surface area of the volume enclosing the antenna, with the unit of distance being the wavelength. A result radio astronomers already knew when the comms people derived it. With absolutely no evidence to back it up, I'd guess that the same limit applies to OAM multiplexing.

As an aside, when one expresses physics in terms of information theory my understanding is that the maximum the number of bits that can be stored in a volume of space (also the number of bits requited to completely describe that volume of space) is related to the surface area of the volume with the linear unit being Plank lengths. Is MIMO capacity in some way a fundamental limit in communications?

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/497475/can-anyon...
Show HN: Turn Your Photos into Art Gallery Masterpieces Using GPT4 Vision
With an image the site will generate a title, artist, medium and description is generated as if the picture was exhibited at a fancy art gallery.

Please post your image a descriptions here
Does making directly derivative works —in a way that wouldn't be allowed by fair use— really progress the useful arts or sciences?

I'm against these stupid-long copyrights but because I believe all human endeavours are a result of human society. Fair remuneration but not forever.

Yeah, I'm answering my own question. If society can't access work, they can't use it fairly or otherwise.
It's sad news, and hard to believe that someone who started drawing the stories before WW2 was still alive.

But he didn't create Babar. His father did. Laurent took it over from his father, who died young.

This is a thing in successful cartoon series.

When Roger Hargreaves, creator of the Mr Men series, died at just 53 in 1988, his son Adam Hargreaves took over writing and drawing the series.

When Dik Browne, creator of Hagar the Horrible, died at 71 in 1989, his son Chris Browne took over writing and drawing the strip until his own death last year at 70.
Crippling your website on mobile to push your app is a scumbag move and guarantees I'll never create any persistent account on your system. Definitely won't be installing the app, because if you're already scum, you probably have no limits and I'm not installing what you're pushing.
Is it a "great" purchasing model because it's cheap for you, or why?
That’s the point of using a NN. If it detects people, dim it (losing contrast). If it detect bright vector graphics, invert it (not losing contrast).
It was somebody on their phone, not signed in, and all they did was change "is" to "was" in two places, leaving the single word edit summary "was". But thank you for imagining Wikipedians are so professional.
You are saying that you are worried about botched conclusions based on superficial observations, and then you do exactly that.

There were a lot of mistakes in the way Germany exited nuclear. Concluding from that "not exiting nuclear is a silver bullet" is as stupid as saying "renewable is the silver bullet". There are plenty of ways of exiting nuclear, the way used by Germany was bad and we are learning for their mistakes. Concluding that all way of exiting nuclear is bad based on that is not true and demonstrated incorrect by plenty of examples where renewables are doing their job very well.

Same with France: the way they have deployed nuclear is very bad, they sold electricity way too cheap and don't have accumulated enough money to pay for renewing or dismantling the plants. You were saying that some idiots are just thinking "the prototype works, it will work at scale", and you are behaving exactly the same way by looking very superficially at France.

The peope who reacted to are demonstrating less naivety and botched conclusions than you. They don't really say "renewable is the silver bullet", they just say something that is true "renewables is way more promising than nuclear", which is just a conclusion that experts are reaching, not because there are prototypes, but because they've studied the simulation from beginning to end, with renewables and nuclear, and it is what the math is telling them.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/149163581
See also Ridiculously fast unicode (UTF-8) validation [1] from three years ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839113
It works and is easier to read, but there's an important catch: it is not obvious when the compiler falls back to an inefficient scalar implementation that might even be less efficient than not using SIMD at all. Example: https://godbolt.org/z/McKfxjbaj
The C3000 is great. Unfortunately, they only sell it for the US homeschooling market, it is no longer available in Europe.
Henry Heffernan
Interesting, how do you acquire new business?
Vastly depends on the game played and the settings. In a plane (so airplane mode, with Bluetooth headset) I played Hitman Absolution for 3 hours and still had 50%+ of the battery left. It was on minimal brightness because it was dark and didn't need more, but still.
Some of my friends who work in similar situations call this "job security".
I may not be understanding what part of the operation you are talking about. but radiated power? no transmitter had megawatts of radiated power. 50Kw for a fm broadcast antenna is a common number passed around. The huge "voice of america" shortwave station was 300Kw.

I have heard of military radars having megawatts of radiated power. but even then it was in the low megawatts.
> Using genetics to explain the fairness of capitalism

No one was doing this. I was pointing out the unfairness of capitalism. The idea that some people are genetically or developmentally less predisposed to skills that will give them a comfortable income is an argument for the unfairness of capitalism, because I haven't heard a convincing argument that this predisposition makes them less deserving of a comfortable life.

If anything the flip-side of this (arguing that humans are pretty close in ability and variations in earning are more about circumstance) is really more aligned with the pro-capitalist narrative that everyone has opportunity, and lack of success is usually due to not seizing it.
> Inkscape is passable but aspects like filters are obtuse to use and that's largely because it's trying to be a good compliant SVG editor and not necessarily a good vector graphics editor.

It is actually possible to build an intuitive UI for filters while staying compliant with SVG. You just have to abstract away the low level SVG primitives ("feColorMatrix", "feComponentTransfer", etc.) with user-friendly presets such as "Sepia" or "Drop shadow". I actually created a mockup for such UI in Inkscape long time ago [1] and I eventually implemented it in Boxy SVG [2].

Advanced filter editing could be improved by switching from tree-based to node-based UI, in similar fashion to e.g. Jasc WebDraw [3].

[1] https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/SpecSimpleFiltersUi

[2] https://boxy-svg.com/blog/19

[3] https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/webdraw02.png
"If it is still standing after 1000 years, I would say yes" but what if they included far more material in areas where it wasn't needed, skimped on other areas and it fell down tomorrow? It's almost a philosophical question, and it's true that the bridge builders happened across a solid design by accident.

But I think the true definition of engineering has to encompass a level of efficiency through design, calculation and rationalization. In other words, echoing what the original commenter said, including only what is barely necessary.
The size is correlated to the number of engineers working on it.
Were you not quoted a significant price increase for your Terraform Cloud bill? Our firm (and many others) ran into this.
Looking at this I'm thinking we need a new hit sitcom like friends. Friends is hopelessly outdated.
> There's nothing in here that would technically preclude one from building a nice UI around this and make this have a nice UX

If it were so easy, we would see it already - there’s sufficient demand for this kind of solution. Engineers and STEM graduates in general often fail to understand that technology isn’t always the main constraint. There are harder problems in the world to solve, that actually define the experience. It’s people, it’s regulations and liabilities, it’s financial planning and outcomes etc etc. There exists a technology for many wonderful things, yet we don’t see them and it is not corporations to blame.
I think this is low key the biggest flex in the history of echo chess dailies.
I was given a kit when I was about 10 (60's). It consisted of a piece of hardware pegboard, a bunch of thin card templates marked-up with circuit symbols, and springs and components (anda manual). You chose the right card for your project, pressed the springs through the card into the pegboard, and then clipped the components into the springs.

You could make things like a radio receiver, a monophonic keyboard, a baby monitor. With my radio receiver I first discovered Radio Luxembourg, which my father disapproved of; I listened to it under the bedcover. I also discovered Captain Beefheart and Jethro Tull on the John Peel show.
Ah great. More fucking enshittification. What a disaster.
Not sure I ever saw the point of learning "provider-flavored" Terraform, i.e. needing to write 100% different modules for GCP and AWS. But I guess the shared model of state, provider configs, apply/plan is still valuable.
Thank you chedoku, I appreciate all the support. A lof of love has gone into making this game. Which one was your favorite puzzle?
In the case of Uber, the service they provide is highly dependent on where you are.
Man i would love to live in your perfect world where you never have to interact with 3rd party data.
Check if your GitHub repos are used to train LLMs
Their primer article [1] is also really nice.

> Today, I’d like to close this gap with a couple of crisp definitions that stay clear of flawed hydraulic analogies, but also don’t get bogged down by differential equations or complex number algebra.

Related: many, many years ago, when Facebook didn't exist yet, Google still passed as a "good" company, and hobbyist electronic geeks had almost only PICs to choose from, I found online a very long and complete electronic course that went from 0 to basic R/C concepts, to transistors, up to pretty advanced topics like magnets/transformers and IIRC radio too.

It was made of pretty raw HTML pages and images, and what was most peculiar about it was that it managed to explain a lot of concepts up to an applicable level (as in, actually designing analog circuits) without (any?) calculus at all.

Some of those may be false memories, but if I remember correctly:

* Its HTML style had a yellowy background
* It was taken from an old-ish (US?) navy electric engineer-focused applied electronics course for training naval engineers.
* It was more focused on analog circuits

I remember I downloaded it all but after all those years who knows where it could be. Maybe in some 1GB disk of my first Pentium PC, so it's basically lost.

Does anyone in HN knows what I'm talking about? I was never able to find it again.

[1] https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/primer-core-concepts-in-elect...
The Web That Never Was – Dylan Beattie (2018) [video]
All these sanctions are a splinter in the foot of Russia for a few years before they switch to Chinese or homegrown tech and we will never get this market back. It's like we're making sure to burn every bridges... I wonder how much of the western (especially US) dominance it will erode in the long run, especially with the whole "Use frozen Russian assets to finance the Ukrainian war effort" shenanigans, this will make a lot of foreigners from shady countries think twice before investing/moving/buying here. It's far too complex to grasp so I guess we'll have to wait for history books of the 2100s
But we were talking planes..
I think you misunderstood the parent post. No one is denying the complexity of a full-featured media server. The question is why there is no one providing a solution to manage that complexity for you (ideally by providing a pre-configured device) even if that couldn't legally include the ripping part of the workflow and you had to provide it with your own ripped media files.
These are examples of dangling modifiers [1]. They’re related to garden-path sentences [2] because they trick you into parsing one way and then get you to backtrack. One of my favourite grammatical constructions!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
Actually, we do. The WISPr standard (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISPr) has since evolved into ETSI recommendations, and the new ones are automatable. But cheapskate hotel Wi-Fi systems are only upgraded when the building is torn down.
It's strange to me that people complain about some variety in CSV files while acting as if parquet was one specific file format that's set in stone.
They can't even decide which features are core, and the file format has many massive backwards-incompatible changes already. If you give me a parquet file I cannot guarantee that I can read it, and if I produce one I cannot guarantee that you can.

I treat formats such as parquet as I generally do: I try to allow various different inputs, and produce standard outputs. Parquet is something I allow purely as an optimization. CSV is the common default all of my tools have (UTF-8 without BOM, international locale, comma separator, quoting at the start of the value optional, standards-compliant date format or unix timestamps). Users generally don't have any issue with adapting their files to that format if there's any difference.
> I find this an interesting development, to be honest. People were outraged over Redis going "free unless you're a business",

A central reason was that the SSPL (license) is not an open source license (as defined by the OSI: https://opensource.org/osd ). See https://opensource.org/blog/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-l... for details.

This means that Redis switched away from being open source.
it's how microsoft does it's business. They have to lead by example.

What message would it send if they can develop this with 5 devs, but the customers they sell their advice and licenses to needs a 1000?

So they have to dogfood, leading to all of these bullshit bloated apps
No what you're saying is "Doc I want to only live on bread", to which a reasonable response is "it sounds like you're in jail and have bigger problems."

I'm not ignoring you; I just don't think your use case of "I want to capture the Python from Xcode in my dev env so it's resilient to changes and upgrades" is something anyone wants (or should want) to do. Do you really want to ship on that version? Are you asking your users to install Xcode?

> That’s not a practical solution. Sometimes you don’t have a choice, as demonstrated above. By that logic one could say “don’t change anything about your system and you don’t even need virtual environments”. Which is somewhat true, but also profoundly unhelpful.

In other words: when are you forced to use Xcode's Python for development, and why would that be a good idea? I'm earnestly asking; there may be reasons; I'm just not aware of any.
> Maybe in theory, but in practice they are one and the same. The CPM on ads where you don't know the audience is so low that you might as well skip the ads entirely.

Your case only valid with "zero consent" case. This is proved with Apple's tracking protection for apps already; given that you have some x% of users consenting to tracking, CPM value for non-tracking users are within 85-95% range.
Sharp – fast image conversion in Node.js
List of Unavailable .nyc Domains
In telegram instead of using real mobile phone number you can buy pseudo-number on blockchain https://fragment.com/numbers. If you use tor and ton-wallet, that's not linked to your identity, this number will be fully anonymous

I guess they are not letting to use email because they will instantly be overrun by bots
You’re definitely not the only one. It’s going to be a matter of time before subscriptions come.
Tim Hunkin has posted a remastered version of his "The Secret Life of the Radio" TV program (from 1987) which recreates some of Hertz and Marconi's experiments with spark gaps and coherers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxate9gegg
The article has now been edited to note that Excel now offers a toggle to turn this feature off.

How long did the entire genetics community struggle with this problem before deciding to rename a bunch of genes, making their own data harder to search, without just...asking Microsoft to add a new toggle for their use case?
Canva wants to be the next Adobe

Acquire figma next.
Also see:

https://www.ownit.nyc/restricted-reserved
People love bridges which look sleek, thin and like air. They are also cheaper (less materials). But this means there is no redundancy left.
I wonder if the diagrams were done in Figma? Diagrams are probably the #1 thing missing from most docs, and they are hard / time-consuming to make

They do look very nice

The author of esbuild was also the CTO/main author of Figma, as far as I understand
In my experience, this is only a problem when you are using Excel. It's ridiculous how bad Excel is at handling CSVs, I really cannot comprehend it. If you use LibreOffice all your problems magically disappear.
Merely passing by to note an entire compiler, editor, IDE and OS implemented in under half that many LOC.

http://www.projectoberon.net/
Would be funny, if this is as useless as the Windows volume mixer itself, because as a person with OK hearing, you need to regulate volume between 0 and 5 out of 100, while on GNU/Linux distros you could use it just fine. Imagine that in a scene:

A: Hey, somehow it is super loud when I use this to regulate volume. How come yours is set so high?

B: Ha, that's because you are regulating volume on Windows, where it maps 1 to 1 to the software volume mixer!

A: frustrated stare at their screen showing a Windows desktop

B: Having fun with volume regulation going wuuuuiii
There's a slight benefit that a road crew will be dressed for nighttime outside weather, with reflective clothing, are all adults, and probably have some level of physical fitness.
I think as long as they don't discriminate, they can get away with it. But will they choose to go this way is another question.
AGI changes Helmer's book "7 Powers"
I wrote a simplistic blog about the subject. While limited, it treats a topic I have not seen around yet
Clip here, beginning at 1m23s, shows a (sped-up) edit of the ship approaching the bridge, with lights going out, on, and out again immediately prior to impact:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Cs6PrRiIHEw&t=1m23s>
This is my true story how I created Industrial 3d Printer Skybot
You can buy it and keep using it, no strings attached. No monthly payments or artificial restrictions.
We have very different minds ;). I see why you like it, it's interesting in a desert clean kind of way. But it's not a loving livable place.

I have a hard time believing most people will express the same kind of feeling of inspiration they have walking on the old cobblestone streets of for instance France or Italy.

Or take a random Amsterdam outskirt, not famous at all, but lovely: https://www.ehr.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/71011393_5.jpg
it's a really creative solution to sms delivery issues and high costs, but I think it's pretty clear that the issues here outweigh the benefits

glad it's opt-in, at least
Has anyone ever had any luck asking a large organisation, such as Microsoft, for anything good or meaningful changes? Without a huge controversy or media outcry?
How much of that is just learned helplessness though? IME ordinary people can manage to surpass most technical hurdles if they have the motivation to do so.
A description of the algorithm is here [1] and it is indeed SWAR.

[1] https://github.com/sugawarayuuta/charcoal/blob/main/docs/ind...
"and it's true that the bridge builders happened across a solid design by accident"

Or by experience and learning from other sucessful bridges? Stone bridges were not new in the year 1000.

There is a roman bridge that was allmost completely surviving all this time, till it was blown up in WW2:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Pietra_(Verona)

If they wanted a cheap solution, they would have used wood. But wood does not last a 1000 years.

Personally I salute anyone, who can build something that lasts that long.

"including only what is barely necessary."

And "barely necessary" in solid engineering includes lots of safety margins. Not barely standing.

And yes, that includes not using more than you need, because the more material you use, the heavier your bridge is -> the greater are the forces on the structure itself even with no one passing over it.

There are some fun games out there on various plattforms, google "bridge builder"

Not a scientific simulation of course, but they do show the concept.
The Scientific Virtues
It's from August 2020 with the latest update almost 6 months ago. Wondering how it got so many upvotes on HN now.
The Potomac River is pretty shallow where the Key Bridge crosses between the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, and Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia. The largest facilities upstream of it are boathouses, where one may put in a canoe or perhaps a racing shell.
Thank you for making this point.

A lot of the comments here read like a hobbyist programmer saying “C++ is dead, I haven’t written any C++ in my projects for years and since I’ve switched to Rust, I’ve never looked back”.

Yes, I stand by this analogy because inkjet is that important. The market is doing great and technology is improving at an impressive rate.

To build on your example of continuous IJ presses: more and more applications have lately been switching to drop-on-demand, as those printheads continue to get better (especially piezo IJ) and cheaper (especially thermal IJ).
He does explain the rationale though. They’re both things I didn’t know about canva generated files. Makes sense for them to do that I guess, it means you won’t be able to reuse any of their stuff outside of their platform.
Clever E-Ink Driver Does 32 Levels of Grey, Avoids Update Flicker, and More
Jsonnet introduces another (flawed) language?
which provider are you using, out of curiosity?