skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I am thinking a lot about this recently. We will definitely support a scripting language, or rather several scripting languages. VBA won't be one of them, I think.
I wouldn't want to create a language just for this. Maybe use a language like Lua or perhaps Rhai[0]. By design extending and embedding IronCalc should be very easy. Work in this direction will not start in the next 9 months though.

[0]: https://github.com/rhaiscript/rhai
WindWatts
“All generalization is wrong, including this”
Once the cancer starts to freely mutate it becomes much harder to contain. It's not just cleaning up defective cells, it's full on evultionary warfare between your immune system and the cancer.
Define early. And it does not include this vehicle. I can't personally speak for Skynet 1A, but the DSCS II satellites, first launched in 1971 (so developed at roughly the same time), most definitely had an encrypted command uplink.
Guinea, Guyana, and Ghana… are hard to keep straight. 2/3 in Africa. Add French, New, and Papua combos and no wonder.
He’s not knee deep in engineering, at all. It’s ridiculous to imagine he is.

He hasn’t designed or engineered a single component. He hasn’t managed any internal project.

I have to ask, are you president of his fan club? You seem personally offended that I pointed out that he doesn’t actually contribute meaningfully to any engineering work.
I’ve seen way too many of “scientists” and “researchers” try their own cures to various problems.

Always shocks me how relatively simple solutions can be with the proper background but none of those would reach mass market due regulatory issues.

Wonder what the policy would be if someone forced experimental medicine on someone without permission. How much do you think the patient should be allowed to sue for?
I'm a bit unclear what you're trying to say re BHH or if that actually is a different reason. Totally fair point on Uber though, I didn't read that one closely enough, but I'll still argue that's unethical for a more relevant reason: surge pricing reinforces inequality by blocking less wealthy people from access to services while those who can afford it are unaffected. The distribution of who is able to use the service under heavy demand is massively skewed towards the class of people that most likely would be just fine without it while the ones most heavily impacted by a missed appointment or being late to work or whatever are the ones left out to dry.
nope, just demonstrated my point further-er-er:

neither of us had the incentive to either acknowledge our edits nor call the other out,

nor face the (perceived, social, higher-order) dissonance of being slightly unclear or "wrong" due to our own ego/self-interest (conscious, lower ordered self);

the emergent behavior then (gentleman's agreement) was to preserve our own ego's and not call out each other edits - which most people would never do, because:

our slightly varied ideas compete more fiercely for the same finite pool than other, completely niche-unrelated abstractions.

we are 4 layers deep now, but ill reduce for conciseness (for lurkers fwiw)

dont shit where you eat <- evolved trait to avoid waste-by products

dont hit a man when he's down <- highly effective altruism is still beneficial

morality is cowardice <- ties this all together from highest order (ego) to the id (fear of being replace)

we are now full circle.
If you do and want help with, don't hesitate in contacting me.

Right now you can't just `npm install ironcalc`, but hopefully that will be in place in a month from now.
However, his ideas seem to precede the tragedy
It was time of Moore law, and computers grow extremely quickly. I remember, I run 3D Max 2 on 486 with 4mb of RAM in 1996.

Models where severe limited, at most few thousands triangles per scene, but it was enough for talents to make crazy things.
Where were you when I started writing my code ;_; I have also written a spreadsheet engine in Rust from scratch, for an app built with the iced GUI library!

I'll take a deep dive through your repo and compare notes later this week. Congrats on the huge lift!!
What's meaningfully different in Rust's type inference. E.g.:

fn example() {
let p = returns_a_point_type(args);
}

Where create_point() is a function from a module (e.g. not even defined in that file) which returns the Point type automatically inferred for p? I mean sure, it's technically constructed in the called function... but is that often a useful distinction in context of trying to find all of the places new instances of types are being assigned? In any case, this is something the IDE should be more than capable of making easier for you than manually finding them anyways.
If you want to see true cleverness just go see the last devlog on the zig website.
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I think there is both “government cheese” and various pizza products made with subsidized cheese and dairy.
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From context, it looks like casting to an INT
aider: https://aider.chat/docs/install.html
Rust has quite a few problems which why I would not want to use it for my projects: High complexity, long compile times, not stable, not standard, supply chain issues, etc.
Other ongoing discussion:

Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds (medicalxpress.com) 75 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094427
What a cool project! I intend to dive in and I'm sure I'll have questions as I do. Are you active in Discord? The invite link on the bottom of ironcalc.com isn't currently valid.
For european like me: M and AO are rating for video games. Mass effect is a M-rated game, so in the US, you can't buy it unless you're like 17.
Malicious PyPI package with 37,000 downloads steals AWS keys
Creator here: you can also find rodcasts on spotify and soon on apple podcast too.
How about "flying a commercial airliner without a license" ?
I'm not sure where you got the idea my post was claiming taxis were superior in any way, I explicitly said Uber was better. Taxis weren't practical but they at least they existed. I have lived in cities that used to have taxis which were annoying and unreliable, but after Uber came and left there was literally no way at all to get from point A to point B without getting a ride from a friend.

Regardless I will admit I misread the issue stated in the article a bit and addressed that more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42097052
RISC-V Vector Extension overview
It would be interesting to compare this technique with native text rendering. How many FPS can you get when rendering a full screen of text?
It is the same problem in C and more manageable. I just doubt the "dramatically". And C problems also become more manageable with better tools and more focus on safety in the language evolution.
Any IDE worth its salt will let you search a type by name and get all the places where it's referenced, regardless of type inference.
I found Modula-2 to be annoying to use, not for any deep reason, but because of its use of block capitals for keywords, and a confusing nomenclature for casting. It does actually matter that a language is comfortable to write.
Did you...did you read the technical details? This is almost all they talk about, this method was created to get around.

Take a look, it's good stuff! Basically a LoRA to reconstruct outliers lost by quantization, helping keep the performance of the original model.
With AI, the future of augmented reality is in your ears
Sandwiches of History
Biology is just too vast of the Gap (difficulty) for our own exellence/smart people to be incentived to jump.

Every "discovery" is merely reduced to a classification, which can reduce one's accomplishments - when every question's answer just is a name of a new branch of questions.

Biology is life, life is just an arbitrary nested magnitude of complexity.

https://xkcd.com/435/

The real meta-joke to this xkcd is that the horizontal scale is logarithmic.
I believe that if most foo's users should just call it with [], the Pythonic way is to make the argument optional.
Correct. If it was possible for me to not do business with TicketMaster, I would, but it's just not possible. Pretty much any concert or sporting event I'm interested in requires me to use TicketMaster.
However, in Python, if you routinely call foo([]), you'd specify that (or rather an empty tuple since it's immutable) as the default value for that argument.
There are different ways of using jOOQ, some of them being more like an ORM (but still more low-level than Hibernate) and others less so. You can use the API in such a way that it just returns a general tuple object holding the result from your query (called Record1<T>, Record2<T1, T2>, etc.). This is especially useful when fetching from multiple tables. You can also use codegen to auto-create POJOs and mapping code, but this is not required.
> ...so you can argue with T-Mobile about your phone bill?

a) If it's worth the cost of hiring a lawyer and paying court fees, then yes, I'll absolutely pull in more than a dozen registered voters to do what they signed up to do when they registered to vote.

b) It's my understanding that access to Small Claims court is also often barred by these binding arbitration agreements... so even if it's small enough to not require a lawyer (let alone a jury), you may be prevented from seeking redress in open court.
> They live and breathe biology, and their penultimate goal in life is to have some sort of fundamental impact on the field at large.

But what's their ultimate goal??

"Penultimate" means second-to-most-important. It's not some kind of modifier that means "extra ultimate".
While your chances of winning are lower without a lawyer, they’re nowhere near what you’d see on an episode of Suits. It’s more akin to what you’d see on Judge Judy without the cameras and irritating preaching from a judge.
Equivalent for the Budapest metro: https://metro.skornel02.hu/
>Sometimes I feel guilty that I’m not as directly passionate about the product itself as I should be, and am more passionate about the people and company and the journey it’s on.

That's because you are a human, that built a company. You are not that company, even if you must embody it - literally and figuratively.
I am not exactly certain if I want my headphones interrupting my train of thought as I walk down the street. But I would actually like asking a question and getting an answer. An AI that understood my preferences and my current location.
>What I want to see is comparisons to NON-quantized models

isnt that the first image in the diagram / the 22GB model that took 111 seconds?
GP is talking about how easy it is to find places where the type is instantiated. Seems to me that create_point() will have one such site. And then it’s trivial to find callsites of create_point() with the LSP/IDE. What’s the issue?
I do not think newer languages are the solution for two reasons:

First, all those new languages also have various downsides, and trade-offs, which may make them a less than ideal choice for many applications.
Second, there are an incredible amount of existing C code. We will not get rid of C in the next at least 50 years even if we wanted to (not that I want to). Incrementally improving that code is far more useful than adding other languages into the mix.
Poorly. I lost a ML/OR project with an <major industry company> back in August, usually I can pick up DS projects fairly easily. I haven't had one since.

Last week I had an interview with some startup founders where I *swear* I was their entertainment.

It's a weird time. I'm pretty desperate to finish a contract before Christmas, or everyone is getting coal.
I expressed myself unclearly.

The gas cerified person gets repercussions because someone found leaks in the pipe fittings this certified person made. The leak is a smoking gun.

OTOH The software dev, certified or not, will not get repercussions because of their racey constructs, since it is much harder to point out they did not follow some certified procedure other than some (non airtight) tests and reviews before release. There's no smoking gun pointing to uncertified way-of-work. There's only this one in a million happenstance of a race condition making the system fail. That's where the common sense comes in, only that will prevent/solve possible race condition. There simply is no certified way about it like in pipe fitting.
My assumption is that some data broker had a list of age / ethnicity / phone numbers for targeted advertising.

Facebook signups -> "trusted 3rd party for serving you relevant ads" -> Jimbo's Totally Legit Web Marketing Service -> mass racist texts

It is entirely possible it was coordinated directly with bad actors / Elons at the social media companies.
thank you, will try and let you know
Thanks for the suggestions everyone!
Constant repeating of "Enemy Within" isn't Dark Lord vibes? Agree to vehemently disagree.
If the west is serious about its "universal values", that would the approach to take. Unfortunately, that's not the case.

Yes, China banned Facebook, X etc for national security reasons, too. The Chinese government wants Chinese data to stay in China, and all of these social media platform would have to comply with Chinese law, including some requirements regarding censorship. Now it becomes more and more obvious that the west is not that different from China, the country it keeps bitching about on a daily basis. Censorship has been there for a long time, and now you have outright banning of a social network because it has roots in China.

You can accept one of these two things but not both:

A. National security is above freedom of speech
B. Freedom of speech is a fundamental value of an open society and should in no scenario be given up

If you accept A, you have to be honest and admit that the banning of Facebook etc in China is completely justified.
If you accept B, you have to just let TikTok operate normally as any other social network.
I believe they are talking about 2 or 5 year rate locks, not 2 or 5 year mortgage terms.

Most UK mortgages are 25 or 30 years, but they switch from a fixed rate to a variable rate after the first few years.
>What does that even mean? What would a middle/center party do, exactly?

Forget the wording 'centrist', parent is trying to describe the need for a party that seeks allies from all angles rather than trying to produce outrage towards specific groups of people in a lazy effort to foment in-party support and credit.

In recent years, I guess due to success of certain parties, everyone has decided that it is in fashion to have a group to demonize - to hate. This (necessarily) creates a group of disenfranchised people that have an axe to grind.

It used to be that political parties demonized far entities that were as far outside the voting American public as was feasible; now it's fashionable to attack people that constitute American voters. Now we have hordes of people that were demonized by one side or the other, and a lot of them want to vote one way or the other out of pure spite rather than political interest.
Not if this means horrible long compilation times. I agree it should be catched before a release. But this is a question of procedures and not of programming language.
I would love to have diagrams like this for Chicago’s CTA but I haven’t found any.
Looks cool! What sort of different solutions do you imagine devs building on top of the engine?
Not even deepseek coder 2.5?
You should check out Supernote. While still a bit closed, it's interop is far superior to Remarkable.
#P
A simple malfunction is not considered in the article. Is that so unlikely, e.g. a sticky relais or some-such?
If you are curious, I just made the analytics public:

https://plausible.io/ironcalc.com

I think more than one folk in HN might be interested. All traffic is because of this post. I had no visitors as of today. This was work in progress :)
Of course. To get a good reading you have to clean both surfaces. I mean if you want to wring blocks together it won't work without clean surfaces either.
>> Everything went downhill with the series of acquisitions.

Story old as time, seldom (though not never) ending well.
Do you see this as an alternative to OnlyOffice? I’m wondering if you’ve tried it and how you think this compares
North American Corporate Chess League / Team Standings
How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe
The early stuff was spy satellites, weather satellites, and communication satellites.

The earliest active communication satellites — e.g. Telstar 1 — was done with "take signal in from vaguely the right direction, amplify with pure circuitry, rebroadcast in vaguely the right direction", no encryption possible on the satellite itself, and the thing itself was so primitive it was spin-stabilised rather than having an actively maintained orientation.

Weather satellites won't have mattered too much. Spy satellites I'm not sure about (what with this stuff being somewhat secretive and all), but they're obviously a thing where security matters.
> That's a bluff (or more mundanely hot air) considering that

I'm not so sure: That rests on the assumption that the person making the statement is smart and doesn't believe their own propaganda.
Not parent-poster, but as an American, I have no problem saying "NATO is a tool of American influence"... and a tool for EU influence, and a tool for UK influence, and an overall force-for-good.

The statement isn't some shameful secret, to be reluctantly dragged into the light by a wily interrogator, but an obvious and normal feature of an alliance which is neither one-sided nor zero-sum.

P.S.: Even among the Americans who disagree, it's usually because they consider it ineffectual, rather than nefarious. Heck, they'd probably like it more if you told them it was a swaggering tool of US hegemony.
Leunig cartoon on your "inner book"

https://scontent.fmel18-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/461606...
Nevermind that being downloaded a million times doesn't mean by a million people, as scammers download their own app to boost numbers -- a million is what, 1 in a few thousand smartphone users?

I'd love it to be zero but the amount of vigilance warranted has gotta be a lot less than it was in the past unless there's some argument that magnitude of harm has gone up by a massive amount while probability has gone down by the same amount. Which, idunno, maybe that argument can be made actually.

Also I guess 2001 felt unsafe to visit trusted websites, so the advice upthread was already a bit lessened.
I got in via https://discord.gg/zZYWfh3RHJ from the github repo
Idk but if I was guessing, I would guess that that process would be likely to create intruder dimensions in those layers… but hard to say how impactful that would be. Intuitively I would think it would tend to channel a lot of irrelevant outputs towards the semantic space of the new training data, but idk I how well that intuition would hold up to reality.
Having a compass is one thing, but that only gives you the overall direction, not the specific path to follow.
The blog post should more accurately be titled “You too can write a textbook”
As I recall, it was something like:

INT x;
x := IF y < 1 THEN 1 ELSE 2 FI;

Possibly one could also place various statements inside the THEN and ELSE sections, as long as they ended with an expression. I've a vague impression about that, but can't properly recall.

There was also a short form available, but we were never actually told that, although some folks found it themselves from reference books.
Just when I was thinking: do we need more compilers or do they all exist already?

Thank you for working on this! I think it’s a great idea.
I read the article and it seems they build and store new cars and trucks there. Doesn't seem particularly cost effective.
I agree. I DID write a book! https://howtoopensource.dev/

My biggest tip is this: Don’t skip getting beta readers. High quality feedback is really hard to come by. I changed my tool chain to add a google form at the end of each chapter and got strong buy in from a handful of people with the finished first draft in a beta state. In the end some bailed but one left amazing feedback resulting in massive structural changes.

The process of writing a book is two things (to me). The most obvious is sharing information. The second, often overlooked, but biggest benefit IMHO is how you will grow and learn the source material even better than you already do. Even if you don’t ever publish it, it’s still worthwhile to putting in the effort to write a book. GLHF.
> overrule individuals’ rights to seek treatments for their fatal diagnoses.

That was an objectively good things about Trump’s first term, pushing for and signing Right To Try.
If they refactor, I probably can't tell. Sometimes they refactor a little. I once saw someone refactor it a lot but there was still a tell-tale sign - I ended up inviting the candidate for the interview as they put in a bit more effort rather than blindly pasting in the answer ChatGPT gave them.

I can't be 100% but in any given time, ChatGPT seem to produce very similar code for the same prompt. It names the function in one particular way. It adds way too many trivial comments.

There are minor variations in the wording and sometimes variables, but in general if I see certain things it's a strong signal that they used AI.

I added some additional things (see my original comment) and it correlates perfectly with my observations.
The linked post seems to spend all its time advocating for one position without taking even a moment, much less equal time, to even explain the other position.
> The same pattern in Rust would just use variadic templates/generics.

Are you sure Rust has variadic generics? Last I checked, the extent of progress was a draft RFC. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/376
Thanks for taking the time to answer.

It sounds like you already had 20+ years of human made tooling already built and you use the llm to orchestration and onboarding.(?)

I’m glad you found a solution that works for you.

I could see that use case.

When I did consulting work the initial onboarding of new clients to my tooling was a lot drudge work, but I definitely felt my job was more about the work after that phase of satisfying requests for additional features, and updating out of date methods and technologies.

I wonder what your plans are for when your tools fall out of date or fail to satisfy some new normal?

Hire ”seasonal” programmers again? Or have an llm try to build analogues to what your developers built those precious 20+ years?

(‘precious’ was a typo of ‘previous’ but I left it in because I thought it was funny)
> what they would gain from fucking with satellites remains unexplained

You don’t see what America might have gained if it could de-orbit the USSR’s early-warning satellites at will?
J as in Jacques, 'script' like 'esprit'. Zhavascree, stress on final syllable.
Catastrophic forgetting or “psychosis” seems to happen when I overtrain. It’s easy to make it happen to models that have been extensively tuned already, but the base models hold up much better. I’m pretty sure there is a point in the n-dimensional space where x discrete vectors with n dimensions stops encoding usefully distinct patterns.
Ah! Makes sense now, thanks for sharing.

I've had good success with Cloudflare's free-tier features for rate limiting. If you haven't tried it, it only takes a couple minutes to enable and should be pretty set-and-forget for your API.
UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol (2022)