skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my current job, I saw a lab technician work manually with Excel sheets entering sample IDs and then using a website where he'd copy/paste the sample ID into to get a bar code, and then print it out to stick on the box.

I wrote a Python script that uses openpyxl module to read His Excel docs, and report lab module to generate bar codes in a PDF document with appropriate spacers so that he can simply print it out, and stick them in boxes.

He is happy and so am I that I could save his time.
It only took me 20 mins to write this script.
Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
On the old layout there's a "parent" link under every comment.

If you're not logged in, you can just add "old." at the start of the url.
I'd say physicists are pretty constant in their coffee seeking behaviour (the dominant operation mode).
I don't really see the application for windshields. It doesn't work in all conditions, so you have to have a backup solution anyway. It increases the temperature, so you'll likely have to run the AC harder in warm weather. And defogging by turning on a light would require a pretty strong light to heat the windshield.
Previous HN discussion about seeing round corners: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902177
Perhaps the changes were listed in the chronological order of version control history, as is often the case with release notes, as opposed to any subjective notion like significance.
People seem to have some terrible difficulty ...

All / most / some people? Or just the person you responded to?
This is so true. I find that talking to my peers is mostly just talking about parties, girls and sports. I am bored after 2 seconds.

And I also used to be more like that, but I am lucky because my wife brought me into intellectual discussions, even though she often has different ideas from mine
I spent 2 minutes googling for a similar tool I knew from the TU Dresden... only to understand it _is_ the tool that used to be on the TU Dresden website.
C# is nearly twenty years old, and is still developing at a rapid pace. As more people switch towards .NET Core, I can see more people adopting the language and framework. On the same stack, I can also see PowerShell remaining for a long time, due to its scripting power on the Windows platform. As long as Windows is around, PowerShell will stay and continue to evolve.

Alongside these, I can see Rust expanding its reach, probably not to general purpose developing, but taking over more use cases from C++.
But you definitely cannot say that in general, contrary to other cases.
Something I just learned: there is an awk debugger! From the above page: “Beginning with version 4.0 in 2011, gawk provides an awk-level debugger: dgawk, which is modeled after GDB. This is a full debugger, with breakpoints, watchpoints, single statement stepping and expression evaluation capabilities.”
How many doctors do they have?
Regex bytecode interpreter: looking for needles in session haystacks
A sales negotiation is pretty zero sum. There is little advantage in paying more for the same product.

However, Giving a developer more time will often improve the quality of the output.
There turned out to be mechanical issues with their shallow trench design in Louisville's climate, and with their road conditions (ploughs, salt, grit, etc.), and once they found that out they didn't think they could improve the design sufficiently to function in Louisville while remaining solvent.

They found this out pretty early in their deployment, they were only a couple per cent into the deployment before it became a serious issue.
This is a false horizon. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_on_a_rubber_rope.

At least theoretically we should be able to receive signals from arbitrarily far away no matter the expansion of the universe. They'll be redshifted like hell though, as you say.
Are the homeless in san francisco forced to support other humans?
> To this day, I refuse to fly on a 787. I'm sure that the Dreamliners that came off the assembly line after about a year or so were fine but there's that first year of production that, as far as I'm concerned, are ticking time bombs. I talked to many engineers who had worked on that program to know just how badly they rushed that initial production.

Ouch. Anybody know where to get a list of who’s operating the planes from that first year of deliveries?

Do airlines publish the serial numbers for upcoming flights? ie is it possible to check the delivery order of the plane you’re potentially flying on?
Or in more likely scenario, die away and do a bankcrupt since nobody gives a shit about your crappy market place/online store
File an online criminal complaint at German police. We really don't like swastikas.
What I know of space VLBI is that it exists, and in the one first hand account it didn't give extra detail.

Do you think star tracking doesn't give good enough pointing solutions?
I wonder, deep down, how much people are really fooled by this and how much is entertainment value? I consider myself pretty rational, but if I crack open a fortune cookie it's still fun to read the fortune. Anyone I've known who has done astrology-adjacent things seemed to be getting value out of the escape from dry rationalism rather than taking it literally.
I wonder if the new iteration will also get an intermediate disable state, where you keep powered trim but shut out all automatic inputs. Defense in depth.
The why is typically:

1) The person(s) doing the estimate aren't qualified to do so.

2) There is a disconnect between wishful thinking and reality.

3) There is some arbitrary future milestone (i.e., "We need to ship by ____ because ____ is happening the following week.") that is independent of software development.

4) Most importantly, when the deadline is missed the estimate / estimators are not questioned, the software team is.

I've been at this a long time - too long? - and the narrative that IT is __always__ at fault is a myth that needs to be buried.
Ok well technically front-running is a term used in the industry to specify a type of trading, it's not illegal in itself. However, you can front-run in an illegal way. Like driving a car isn't illegal but you can do it in an illegal manner. The act of front-running becomes illegal when you do it based on insider information, much like the driving becomes illegal when you speed.

I hope this clears things up.
Hypersonic cruise missiles are an "interesting" development to the equation as well. Much harder to shoot down but also more sneaky so harder to have the mutually assured part.
Sometimes, online flight trackers estimate the registration prior to the flight and they usually have the serial number as well (otherwise you can look it up on airfleets, plane spotters etc). For some flights it's easy to estimate the registration yourself (if the only plane available is a current inbound flight).

But generally, you won't get that info more than a day in advance. Airlines won't even know it more than a week in advance, they only know that it'll be one of a pool of planes of the same type.
Bouman worked on image reconstruction from the reduced data, not the combination of the antennae data streams into the raw visibilities.
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Announcement: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1118005126457888768
Don't Tesla sell co2 emission credits to other companies ? I would be surprised if the company doesn't owe its continued existence to these credits.
Chinese use human DNA to create super-monkey
Jack Ma again endorses extreme overtime as online furor rages on
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All companies are media companies
None of that explains why MCAS would point the nose down when the nose is already down and the plane is flying into the ground at 500 knots.
Just to explain a bit more: It uses the main pilot side AOA sensor, and pilots switch seats every flight.
I check everything on Reviewmeta.com because of this. Wish they a bit better search/categorization though. Awesome site nonetheless, filtering out suspicious reviews to provide a "true rating".
We Don’t Need More Unicorns, We Need More Unicorn IPOs
Why not something like this?

position = C * state + D * input

Reasoning: k is the only subscript, so it can be dropped. Meaning of C and D are implicitly defined through their function wrt to state and input, so its OK not to name them. It also keeps the structure visible similar to that of the math.
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The Roman Empire with it's hundreds of self proclaimed emperors fighting each other for the throne.
True, but you take some very strong signals to classify a review as (most likely) fake de facto. Such signals could be "reviewed without purchase", "user has over 1,000 reviews", etc.
Someone made a joke that documentation is like sex, bad documentation is better than none at all. Not sure if my memory is correct.

Apparently this triggered some people and the guy had to go on an apology tour.
The many problems with Amazon reviews are hardly news to most of us on HN, I'm sure. What is noteworthy, though, is to see such a report make the front page of the BBC News site. I think we easily forget just how little public awareness there is of issues that are obvious to us as "insiders" in the tech world. Anything that helps to raise awareness, even just a little, is welcome.
It’s pretty clear the author is Orthodox, so this is within her community. That said, many forms of Orthodox Judaism aren’t far off from what we would call “radical Islam” when it comes to their views on women (they don’t wear an abaya, but many wear wigs and full-body covering).
The problem is that if a company gives customers (both b2b and b2c) the choice between a cheaper product with minimal guarantees vs. a product that is indeed better and can last longer, not enough customers will choose the better (more expensive) product to justify development cost (there are exceptions obviously).

Partly, companies are even forced if the lowest bidder for pre-defined specification gets the contract.

I believe there are more than enough engineers and companies that would like to build better and more durable products but demand just isn't there.
It's not just pointing (2D) but also getting the baseline between telescopes. This is also being investigated for the LISA system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_A...
First step is explaining that Mastodon is like e-mail, not like Facebook. People know that to get an e-mail address, you don't go to to e-mail.com - you sign up to any e-mail provider to get an address you can use to talk with all other e-mail users. It's the same with Mastodon.
There will never be a truly unique, open identification service, and that's what keybase is trying to do. Not necessarily by saying "this is who I am on keybase and will be my unique identity" but by saying "I am someone, known as X on github and Y on mastodon". The advantage of keybase is that

- Any identity on any service can (now) be linked

- There is only one protocol to do it and it is all done on the client side

Why would Mastodon (or, really, ActivityPub) be The One service when there are other, working services worth using ?
I got hit by this a while ago. Was driving down an empty freeway at night and there must have been road works off the side of the road during the day but I didn't see it until the second sign but the speed camera was after the first sign and I got hit with an $800 fine :/
I find you have to do this, but it can damage professional relationships.

Recently I've flat out said no, as gently as I could, to doing some work - porting a software stack to run on Windows.

A customer is asking for an estimate to do it, because a project manager who wouldn't be developing or supporting (or even using) the system likes Windows. The sales manager isn't thrilled with me over it.

So he's asked the team as a whole to estimate it because I wouldn't. The rest of the guys are frontend devs. I don't have a clue, they're in a worse position but for some reason they're all up for putting a number to it so I look like a bit of a !

I'm a contractor, so I can and would just turn down the work, but it's difficult politically.
Hah! You just described the start of one of our products so accurately it’s scary! And then we built out the parts that were starting to fail as the product scaled. You can get surprisingly far this way!
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Exactly. When I saw her, I saw the gleefulness that my children have when they achieve a goal. And to have their goal be pushed to the side because of their genitals seems completely unfair. Ironically, that's what the genital-police appear to be fighting against!
resetting the idfa doesnt realy help anyways because apps usually

a.) generate a uuid that is stored in the keychain upon first launch

b.) send the users iphone name to thier tracking servers

c.) other uniquing information such as screen size, device make, os version etc

so you can bet that idfa doesnt matter one iota and is totally besides the point...
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Depends on what you're trying to achieve, I suppose. Most Western European countries don't know any intergenerational poverty similar to US-levels (housing and basic needs are always taken care of by the state, education + health care is free), but still ended up with parallel societies for some immigrant groups.
You might also know this as PERT (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_and_review_...)

I used it in the past and I think it is a good framework to discover uncertainty and make it more visible, because it makes you talk about optimistic and pessimistic cases.

The estimates are also good enough to come up with a draft schedule.
$5k is a lot of money

That's kinda the point of fines, isn't it?
Oh, and the keyword stuffing is horribly obvious and Amazon's antispam team should get in touch with Google's. These product pages should be flagged for keyword stuffing, suspended until fixed and permanently banned for repeat offenders.

It's horrible and extremely user-unfriendly.
Yes, there is a whole glut of companies in this space working in close collaboration with various hospitals. I've looked at several of these and the general quality of the products is high.
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Also on the roads. So many people drive round a blind corner at high speed because they do the journey every day and the road is always empty. Until one day it isn't.
More DoH
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Unaware he had measles, a man traveled from NY to Michigan, infecting 39 people
Because they can't take negative time.
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You say the phrase "exact strictures of the religion", as if there aren't an untold number of different ways to interpret a set of religious texts that are in many places explicitly and intentionally ambiguous.
Lowering the max speed limit also had a massive effect on stopping the stopped waves.
Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind
https://www.europeanrailtimetable.eu/rail-map-of-europe-flat...

Shows only current passenger railways (excluding suburban networks), not freight.
This! In many ways shared reviews for SKUs of the same product make absolute sense (if the blue bag is made well, so should the red one). But there seems to be huge abuse in defining the base product as you've highlighted. I presume sellers have complete autonomy to set them up, and Amazon might argue that it's "infeasible" for them to administer this, but from the perspective of the consumer I completely agree that it erodes confidence in "reviews".

Over the years I've noticed a shift in the products I most readily find on Amazon from well established brands to utterly unknown Chinese manufacturers. I've been burnt enough times by buying such products that I've reverted to mostly looking for products which satisfy 1) from reputable company, and 2) positive reviews.
I worked at a consulting/product agency where the requirement was always to work at the same place as the client, and to have a client stakeholder embedded within directly within the team. The projects that felt the most successful were the ones where we got these requirements really right.
I once worked for CEO as a Director of Engineering who was convinced that any product feature could be implemented in 2 days - and this was a non-trivial engineering area.

That was an entertaining job.
That's a good strategy. Well, used to be.

The problem is that now when I google something and land on a Quora page, I am 90% of the time reading an answer written for marketing purposes.

It goes without saying that I click less and less on Quora when I search for anything. That marketing spam is becoming a real problem for the platform and I hope it will be solved soon. I used to love Quora.
AWS: How to query the available CPU credits for t2/t3 instances
Classical Mechanics with Mathematica: https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Mathematica%C2%AE-Simulatio...
Last year I walked into a McDonald's at 8am and a bunch of old white guys seemed to be using the place as just such a venue.
That is definitely one bottle-neck, creating the labelled data-sets is very expensive, besides that there are a large number of privacy sensitive issues that need to be taken care of around the whole labeling process to ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained. Large datasets exist but in general are not available for research for that reason, only a few hospitals have made datasets available without restriction.
I've been doing this (not quite on the 5 year scale) in both UK and Australia.
Perhaps because they are less privacy focused then you think.

That would be one possibility
It sounds like this isn't an emulator but rather the actual retail server software. This group has been sitting on it for 6-7 years while dishonestly encouraging emulator development publicly.

This whole thing reads like a crazy conspiracy theory that actually turned out to be true. The insidious part is that is has apparently been kept under wraps by banning leakers (and everyone associated with them) followed by gas lighting them since a lot of the top people in the community were in on it. Totally nuts.
https://mastodon.technology/@temporal
Why is this downvoted? Seems pretty much on the spot.
Apple seems to have a vested interest in privacy. I hope that this petition falls on the right ears.
Alas no Trinity - the greatest IF game of all time.
I think that modern religions and the way they learn to part with certain medieval ways is critical.

The Jewish religion has been arguably successful with this, producing exceedingly prestigious scientists and mathematicians.

The risk is always the "fundamental" factions.
[CGP Grey did a video on this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE). Your goal, as a driver, should be to try to maintain equivalent distance between your car and cars in front of you and behind you.
Having been part of a relatively popular game shut down, we agonised over this.

There were several reasons given, from “we might use it again in the future” and “we’ll need to be really careful about the database” I suspect there was also a case of some embarrassment, as some of the code was far worse than an outsider might imagine :-)

Ultimately we just deemed it too much effort to release it as even if you explicitly state it’s totally unsupported, people will go to really strange stalker-esque lengths to try and contact the original devs for any level of support, and we just didn’t want, nor have time to deal with that burden.

Note, my memory is a little hazy around all of the details, so I can’t quite remember all of the finer points.

I do remember that the topic would repeat in passing as an “ah, I wish we could...” for a very long time after the call was made.
This is a real thing that happens, but its frequency varies from organisation to organisation.
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The reason my team uses Fibonacci is that it cuts down on the “is this a 3, 4, 5, or 6 point ticket?” discussion. Each larger value should have more uncertainty, so there isn’t any point in getting more precise. Not being able to argue over 1 point differences but having to choose between 5, 8, and 13 has a clarifying effect on the process.
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If you're looking from an engineering PoV that's absurd.

If you're looking from a regulatory compliance PoV towards optimising sales - that's actually desired behaviour - if it's overly complex to diagnose it's less likely that somebody understands and point fingers back at us. You know, basically what happened after the Lion Air crash - Boeing being all over "it's not us, it's them"
I don't even get why Apple supplies this functionality anyway.

Instead of rotating they should just do away with it; it's not like this functionality is to their users benefit.
Is Tesla evil for discriminating against the poor?
Any similarities with an electron microscope?
What private religious groups do in their own publications is one thing, what's more concerning, and evident from this story, is the way some parts of Wikipedia are mostly run by fringe groups and operate under their own rules.

I have seen other examples of this in the past. Pages about Hasidic rabbis will mention miracles they performed as undisputed fact, and will not mention facts about them that may be unflattering.
Are they harvesting my personal information? If so they should be dealing with it properly
> Once we set up an array of space telescopes throughout cislunar space (the volume inside the Moon’s orbit) we’ll get pictures of the SMBs in the cores of every nearby galaxy and that’s when the science really gets started.

This gave me goosebumps. That's the kind of stuff that justifies a permanently inhabited moon-base.
There are no details there. Just “it’s needed” claim.

Brian Kernighan is also cited there, and also not convinced.

I’m in a good company, at least.
As someone who grew up Hasidic (and spoke only Yiddish until 17) I am also not sure what the article is attempting to do here.

Is she trying to bring attention to the sexist attitudes of the Hasidic community?
They wanted something, she wanted something else, they paid as per the new conditions. End of story.
Previous (lively!) discussion from _this morning_: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19670024
Windows just asks user if they want an advertising ID during "out of the box experience". Why not petition Apple to do the same?
I guess he was estimating the effort (billable time).

But was not estimating the actual total time until completion which must include all the lead time, waits and dependencies.
I think it may be that brilliant engineers still exist somewhere, but I suspect they're less likely to go into aerospace than in the 50s, 60s or 70s. Heck or even the 40s.

Immediately after the war aerospace was red hot - there were countless countries and companies putting out new jet designs - both commercial and military. The competition and pace was intense and there was quite some cachet and public interest in aviation.

Since roughly, I guess, the 90s aerospace is rather settled and a very mature market. There's only a few major players left, and very very few new products; many of those are variations on the previous. Not nearly as much place or appeal for the brightest stars.
There is no existing compiler for all this programming language any more. Maybe someone will give it a try and create an interpreter.