skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't come across the ScriptForge library before so I just looked it up. It looks pretty cool and definitely looks like how MSFT should have worked on including Python in Excel. From my quick look, it looks like ScriptForge is primarily a BASIC which supports Python(?). So I can only imagine how much more powerful a Python specific library could be given the differences in Python and BASIC themselves.
Deep-Dive on MTLS with Redis on GCP
Aside from the fact that the title of TFA is unnecessarily crude and likely overstates the case, perhaps the mode of evaluating students can adapt to the new reality of living with LLM assisted academic work. At certain points in my academic career, oral examinations were part of the evaluative package. Perhaps making that a standard part of courses would help. Of course, subjectivity enters the equation but if the rubric is defined, some of that risk can be mitigated.
That's just trying to save face because their empty threats were called.

Treating anything Russia says as proof of their intentions is pure ignorance given their long track record of empty threats, lies and flip-flopping.
I suppose it's time to share my dream excel functionality: Turbo F2.

F2 should enable the user to trace calculations back to the original data, not only the current calculation step.

In basis spreadsheet, this would yield a jumble of steps that are undocumented and hard to parse. But that's where the python, lambdas and custome functions come in: They enable legibility of turboF2.
Socrates on the Forgetfulness That Comes with Writing
Oh you mean the disguised nvidia shield?
https://nownownow.com/

https://searchmysite.net/

https://omg.lol/

https://ooh.directory/

https://aboutideasnow.com/

https://wiby.me/

https://tildeverse.org/

You can also find pages using internet meta in my project https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

I use 'personal' tag to identify personal blogs.
What's the opposite of the slippery slope fallacy, where we convince ourselves that there isn't a slope at all? I agree that there has been doomsayers with every technological advance, but surely there can be a point where a piece of technology truly does remove the need for people to think to a problematic degree.
I tried the mouth taping thing and I seem to be breathing moderately well since I was able to go all night with it. Interesting point about meditation as I will only do 20 minutes max in the morning. Is your session near bedtime?
The main feeling I have when seeing maps like this is how incredibly small the city was compared to the present day, and how much more open natural space there must have been across the country. The UK is a very densely populated country - 277 people per km² compared to the overall European average of 72 - and I can't help hankering after a time when nature would have been much more bountiful. (That hankering is of course significantly tempered by the lack of hygiene, anaesthetics, antibiotics, cosmopolitanism, etc, etc!)
Anyone is a stretch, not everyone is so keen to take the US side in the trade war at their own expense. South American and African trade is still pretty brisk and growing as far as I know. Mostly they don't have the possibility of onshoring industries that they didn't have in the first place, as opposed to the West where it's more like attempting to re-shore previously-discarded capability. So they don't really have a horse in the race, they're going to be importing anyway.

"Anyone planning a major semiconductor fab in the 2020s", then quite probably, yes.
Chemotrophs (specifically chemolithotrophs) are bacteria that thrive near super heated deep sea vents. They can consume (oxidise) iron, sulfur, and a whole range of other elements and compounds we consider toxic or immutable. In return they produce a kind of sugar that tube worms consume. I hope that future plastic bio-mitigation research focusses on energy transformation and production like this. Instead of thinking of an impossible zero sum end result (destroy it), it's more future oriented to use plastic transformed into something new and consumable as an energy source.

Think like a tube worm to solve this problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotroph
If you use Kagi's Orion (which is Webkit, like Safari), you can install either Firefox or Chrome extensions from their respective stores
What Happens to Gifted Children
Not an expert, but I've always understood it as (LI5):

You may have heard the effect of light is like a wave, higher frequency wave-lengths have a shorter wavelength, which means it can 'reach' smaller features without impacting the rest of the surroundings. Photo-lithography is done through a mask, this effectively means you get a crisper image projected onto the wafer.

If you go too far into/past UV it becomes hard to deal with in terms of heat and optics from my understanding. Which is why we keep getting new $prefix-UV rather than something like X-rays (which are past UV).
In a way the statement is true but incomplete.

Mechanised farming makes our farmers physically "weaker". Having a mobile phone make me forget phone numbers that once were memorised.

Like with all innovations, we offload some skills to the machine, and discover new skills the human needs to operate the machine.
Yeah, I did Physics in the UK and it was the same.

Plus in one term there was some miscommunication between the professors and they set us one experiment every week instead of every two weeks, I remember literally working like 12 hour days on the weekends to get all the data analysis and reports done.
I swear the “plastic straw” argument is the absolute literal straw man argument.

The EU didn’t outlaw “plastic straws”, it outlawed a range of things, one of which is the plastic straw. But then why do plastic straws always come up? Because this is also in response to a video of a turtle in pain with a plastic straw up its nose (so yes it did end up in the ocean).

And creating less single use products is a step of waste management by the way. Now I’m not particularly in favour of paper straws, but bamboo straws have taken off as a replacement and that’s a rather good thing I would say.

But again this is only about straws because you made it about straws. The same applies to many other single use plastics.
Turning away from smartphones: 'We need to go places and touch things'
I'd love to ask them why they made so much of it, and why we are making the same mistake.
Think it'll be hard to find solid evidence at this point, tbh.

There's a huge difference between having quick access to your local canon, vs the entirety of human output. Writing probably had a -5 effect on social bonding in your local community, whereas AI may comparatively be a -100 on having to think or solve problems at all.

We've seen how social media has created cults and hive minds, AI is probably going to set us on a path where every single thing we do is standardised and optimised. Why spend 1000x time developing a solution when the entirety of human thought has contributed to achieving it in x time.

It's a reality though, and we have to deal with it. We need a huge refactoring of the education system which takes into account the realities of the modern world, as opposed to grinding people out to work as bureaucrats in bigcorp.

Using AI as a tool to 'get to the next level' should be a big focus of this. Collectively asking as humanity, what can humans actually do which current AI can't, and how can we leverage new tech to move forward. Once we've answered this, we should then plan courses around this.

Ideally this'd end up with doing more work with our hands, getting outside and dirty, doing work on-site, taking part in mock events, massive role playing games, building shit with tight deadlines and requirements, etc.

Bookwork and exercises are done - old hat. They're all solved. The Ghost in the Shell series was hugely influential for me, and it's quite incredible how accurate it's turning out to be. Maybe such topics would benefit from debating matters in future/dystopian worlds from fiction, so we can make sense of what's in store.
Ok - if the N elements you want to add would cause more than 1 reallocation by constant size factor, yes I can see that. (also I just saw that resize() has the same allocation behaviour as reserve() has, so scratch my suggestion above).

Never had a problem myself with that though, my main use case for std::vector is with reserve() right at the beginning and never provoking a reallocation (so I often end up coding up my own container to assert reallocation can't happen accidentally).

Sometimes (infrequently) I use the script-style push_back()-only pattern. But I feel very uneasy about uncontrolled reallocations in larger systems, and anyway they constrain the implementation space because of pointer and iterator invaliation.
As a student (in the academic sense when younger, and in a philosophical sense throughout life), I've been taught by teachers, and recently I've explored subjects by asking questions to large language models

The latter has been a much more pleasant experience. Infinite patience, infinite availability, seemingly infinite personalization. I'm also able to ask analogous questions to concepts from other fields.

I would be hesitant to see AI adopted during the early years of education, however.
IDK but AI seems to be the lesser problem for me, social media is focking the generation badly, AI? they could care less
If you improve parsed/scanned speed of html in Chromium by say 1%, that doesn't sound impressive.

Then you consider 3 billion people use chrome (or Chromium derived browsers) multiply that out by how much html gets parsed/scanned a day by those users and then consider the energy costs - it quite quickly gets to a massive number (and that's just actual users, Chromium is also the core of Electron and a alot of other tooling)

Simply put at Google's scale, tiny incremental gains compound to a massive species wide saving.

At scale everything matters :).
Ah, yes. You pointed out immutability in that post, which also makes a significant difference!
AFAIK modern capitalism doesn't incentivise behaviours that cause broad economic growth over a long period without any short-term profit. That's what governments are needed for.
Yes, I think this is a much better implementation of the idea.
I don’t see contact info on your HN profile or GitHub profile. Please contact me, I am working on a similar project to the Internet Places Database and would like to collaborate.
I agree libertarianism is a tad silly, but really are those "benefits" you list not paid for by inflation rather than taxes.
NVIDIA are not selling shovels, they are selling shovel-making machines to the shovel-sellers (the companies making foundation models).

When the market is saturated with shovel-making machines, what then?
> Systemic changes need to originate somewhere, right?

Yes, but that does not need to be morals, values, ethics or ideology.

Instead I prefer Kant´s idea of the categorical imperative whereby the question only is if a society following specific rules would satisfy its members long term. It is more pragmatic as it shifts the question from should/shouldn't to does it work out.
Not always, specially when Steve Jobs was away.
Hi all, I am Felix, the author of the post. I just wanted to reiterate that this post was mainly meant as a summary of my GitHub issues I opened with them. So it should really be seen as a feedback to help them improve the product. Python in Excel currently covers a completely different use-case than xlwings, but Python in Excel inspired me to finally look into WASM and PyScript, which is an awesome product.
If technology has truly removed a need to think in a certain capacity, then surely it has just expanded our skills enough that we don't need to be so personally skilled in that capacity. We still teach kids basic math, although I do nearly every daily arithmetic with a calculator these days. The dream of technology is that we will be able to let go of skills that we used to see as essential. That's success, not failure.
The argument/discussion about taxes has to start by discussing what functions and services we want to be handled by the state.

There are taxes that are there to nudge people and encourage certain things, but all in all the point is to finance the state.

In most developed countries the state, in one form or another, has taken on many functions and services and that implies that taxation has to be significant. So before discussing cutting tax we need to think about what the state should offload (if anything) first.
> it was indirectly more profitable.

Exactly: Child labor laws are more profitable for society; child labor is more profitable for a small set of individuals. Lobbying by interest groups is often pushing away from the former and towards the latter.

ETA: In line with this sub-thread, I'd say: There are and always will be private interest groups lobbying against the former and towards the latter; and so there will always need to be public interest groups lobbying against the latter and towards the former. That applies to LVT as much as environmental and labor protections.
That's apparently Apple's term for LoRA[1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685
there's a middle ground: LVT could be progressive, like income taxes. In that way owning a small/not valuable piece of land would generate little or no taxes, while wealthy landowners, with large very valuable assets, would be required to contribute back much more.
Yeah, sometimes. But it can also do this, for example (NSFW!): https://files.catbox.moe/le4v1y.jpg
> What's the opposite of the slippery slope fallacy, where we convince ourselves that there isn't a slope at all?

Sounds like healthy skepticism to me. Assume nothing has changed until proven otherwise.
Here's a small compilation of clips, some are actually pretty good but a lot are strange: https://youtu.be/q_s3gKFLkEc
> Already I've heard from Android friends who are intrigued by the recent AI announcements that they think it would be really cool to have that in their phones.

Most of it has been there for Samsung already and some of them like the emoji generator look suspiciously similar.

On Android, usually some large manufacturer (here Samsung) push the platform further and then some of it is integrated in stock later.
I looked at the clients package and had a bit trouble understanding where it sits in the Python-excel landscape. Is it a competitor to openpyxl?

The pro version has quite a price tag, so I’m assuming they have a big value add.
This could be a good starting point for self-studying. I would not totally rely on it being correct, though.
Cycling and metros?
https://electrek.co/2021/05/04/citroen-ami-small-electric-ca...

> Citroën’s Ami, a small $6,000 electric “car,” is apparently coming to the US as part of new electric car subscription service.

No thank you.
I think I agree that AI will be a net benefit, but in world where it is difficult to have a meaningful conversation with a human because that human is so used to talking to a chatbot or someone doesn't have the skills to research a problem they're facing because they've always had a chatbot to ask ... I would argue that something of value has been lost.
Of course it's the politicians fault, but voters are to blame too if they fall for campaigns to get rid of those politicians who really want to serve the public interest.

One example is the treatment of Robert Habeck, despite the other errors he made he handled the russian gas crises pretty well. He explained in detail what he wants to do, what the consequences are and why he did it the way he did.

He still gets attacked by right wing media, voters and the industry just because he had to fix what the prebious government botched on behalf of the german industry because they wanted cheap gas. That was a refreshing amount of clear communication from a politician. The result: h is made fun of because he has also written children's books.

Seems like people prefer politicians like Merkel, who said and did next to nothing.

Better fail while you try than do nothing.
> This is a man included into a team that toke millions of Euro from public money and divested it to fund riots, alter public order and in his own lucrative benefit

The best definition of democracy. /s

Do you think other politicians don't do this ? Why single him out ?
Crazy stuff. Why would anyone use headless browsers to scrape though, when you can just do requests directly to the endpoint.
Anecdotally, no one on my computer science course is doing the work. You could say AI is a learning tool generously, and it does help some people, but it seems to have replaced a lot of their actual abilities to write stuff. Have you really learned something if they only way you can go about it is passing questions to ChatGPT? At that point the AI is doing the work and you are just a data entry person. I should add that this approach doesn't scale well. For instance, there are apps that let you take a picture of an equation and get a worked solution. In the short term, their ability to solve equations seems to have improved, but I don't think they'll learn as much doing it that way.

I have been a part of several group project, and by this point almost all I've seen anyone else do is use ChatGPT. If we need to do some work and write a report on it, the work won't get done and Mr. GPT takes care of the report. I feel crazy for not using it. I'm not sure how accurate this is, but I remember hearing that their usage metrics drop by something like half over the summer holidays. The scale of this is so great.

I think the worst part is that it's isolating. Perhaps before you would have asked a tutor or a lecturer or a friend to help you with something, but not its just GPT. There are lab sessions occasionally where a professor will show up and give guidance on the content, and I remember a good few sessions where it would be me and one other guy there out of 100+ people. I would guess everyone else just asks the machine.
AI hasnt been around long enough to have this effect.

Something else is making them 'dumb as fuck'...

Could it be parents and teachers responsible??
> same way as PC's. Plug and play the parts you want

That’s no longer true for the most consumer laptops.
Show HN: ESP32S3 ZXSpectrum
I've been playing around with ESP32 MCUs and displays for a while and finally got around to getting a ZX Spectrum emulator working. I then saw that you can now do full color silk screen printing on PCBs and got the thinking - the ESP32 has capacitive touch capabilities - I could make a full ZX Spectrum keyboard on a PCB along with all the electronics for running the emulator. And it actually works!

There's a full video here: https://youtu.be/foP81O48WAI

And you can sign up here for updates as I move towards getting it ready for a production run: https://esp32zx.substack.com/p/announcing-the-esp32-zx-spect...

It's looks amazing, takes me back to my childhood.
Interesting, here in Europe we don’t have pledge 5 and not remembering can’t not be used against you.

Can be many reasons not to remember things. Injuries, age anything.

It’s a common politician practice to not remember.
Ok, won't start at all then...
why do you think the process will be any different. esim only have the plastic cost for the issuer.

try to buy an africel (usaid sponsored telecom in Africa) without showing up in person for a face scan.

you're all to sheltered and will have no idea what hit you in the near future
The OP is a teacher seeing their student's abilities in formulating their reasoning less well than before.

It's reasonable to think that getting an assignment done for you and simply reviewing it, is less likely to educate, than actually forcing them to do the work.

Basically, the hypothesis is that assignments are a Chinese box assuming the ability to produce (and validate) a good response imply knowledge and ability. That's an interesting take.
Interesting, how children are a convenient excuse for so many evil things.
In 2022, you argue that a stochastic parrot is a better metaphor. I don’t know that this helps. Do you still believe that?

Practically, thinking of LLM as having (limited) intelligence is useful in so far as it helps users to treat LLMs like people: sometimes they understand and sometimes they don’t.

My interest in the magic metaphor stems from my interest in the historical use of magic in Neoplatonism, renaissance magic and specifically “natural magic.” This is a deep rabbit hole, but fascinating. (I spend a lot of time at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, which has one of the world’s largest collections of books about magic)

I advocate treating AI as magic as a practical mindset for designers because it gives us humility about our rational comprehension of hidden forces. The fact is, users of AI don’t deeply understand the mechanisms behind the functioning of LLMs. Thinking that we rationally understand LLMs by saying “they are just predicting the next token” doesn’t actually lead to good usage, IMO. It leads to a kind of smugness about the limited capabilities of the models. Instead, I find it more helpful, as a designer, to use more of my intuitive “right brain” to play with models. It’s why I encourage designers not to think (only) in terms of prompt engineering but rather prompt vibing. Blending the rational and the intuitive leads to the best results in almost any design practice.

I know this isn’t a common opinion, but you might find it interesting to consider.
Well, presumably under the circumstances where you'd prefer that.
> Some foreigners were caught participating on riots, triggering chaos, burning streets, teaching terrorist techniques to minors and directing the attacks as true professionals of warfare.

Yet no convictions for those people, or at least kept under the rug.
the most pressing to google at the time was telecom abusing monopoly of mistyped urls to dictate search engine of their choice. but that too.
So Fleet Street crosses what was the Fleet river, which ran North-South along the boundary of the City