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Data Smart, by John Foreman. Out of print, but you can get it from Abe Books: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/data-smart-using-...

Why it is cool?

Because instead of R, Gadoop, Spark, Python, whatever... it started explaining data science with excel.

The best part for me was optimization.


I loved that book!

That's more important than it seems. Easier to forget, too.


A lot of people might say "latency" or "security": both are valid points but...

What about the Data? on a native app I usually can SAVE data wherever I want on my device.

I can even save it or load it from external storage like... a usb thumbdrive.

And if my connection goes down I sill can use it (unless I have a license/activation software that needs to be connected to the internet).


I have the same feeling, but after reading this report I believe big hyperscalers will survive the bubble when it pops.

Now I've got the feeling they don't have huge amounts of GPUs sitting in their DCs, but rented for Opex. In case the bubble pops they might get it at discount as CapEx (like Amazon did with dark fiber after the dotcom bubble).


Several european countries will be governed by fascist parties, fueled by social media. There will be no EUexit because they will discover how to use the EU to approve legislation that won't be popular.

Tourism in Mediterranean zone will plummet: it will be just too hot for tourist to enjoy during summer.

Food prices will soar everywhere because climate change will make harder and more expensive to produce vegetables.


Be careful about the culture. Higher management had a massive panic because "AI stopped working" in a product we make. They started an all-hands meeting. Everything worked except the AI responses. Turns out we just ran out of credits. The bad part is we told everybody we would run out of credits in less that 3 days. Nobody cared until we had production outage. Now procurement is complaining about token usage.


Before reading the article I was surprised to find them similar to old german Sout backpacks. They are really sturdy and durable: your kid needs just one of them for all primary school (grundschule). They are explensive (not so much considering 3-6 years of continuous abuse by kids), but when the kid gets tired of it, some people put them on sale. I have one that I know was resold at least 2 times and it still in perfect shape... Great for airport travel, btw.


Is this a typo? I cannot find them, but these days Google is unusable.


Right now it is impossible to order cost-optimized servers in Falkstein, Nuremberg, or Helsinki. No matter if it is x86 or ARM.

Looks like they had to buy _a lot_ of new servers and it was very expensive.


It was a great opportunity to name a unix tool "mcfly" or just "Marty" for time manipulation. Better luck next time, I guess.


docbrown would be more appropriate, as the character who's actually doing the time manipulation.


That's... not terrible. Biff isn't exactly popular (yet?), so a name change isn't out of the question. Both of those names (and `biff`) are already taken on crates.io. Which is maybe not a huge problem. IDK. Naming is hard.


https://crates.io/search?q=bttf

// backronym bttf stands for biff time to format


You win the naming contest. The project has been renamed: https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf/pull/14


@dang - Could you update the post title please to say "bttf" instead of "Biff"? Thank you!


I don't think @ tags have any effect on HN, you'll want to email the mods directly: hn@ycombinator.com


I like this


This is the fastest rebranding after a Show HN I think I’ve seen haha


also: back to the future


Intersting to notice that the name has been changed now when reading the post 12h late :-D


Burntsushi to the future


Naming is hard, sure, but doing some due diligence up front to see what's already being used isn't very difficult. Very neat tool.


I did. I always do. I just missed this one. Or if I saw it, it didn't register for me and felt like it was just an old archaic tool. Which... is probably still true, but I under-estimated its mindshare. Just an honest unknown unknown.


Reminder: always travel with a spare phone with a broken screen just in case.


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