skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in NYC right now, while it is tempting, I'm still pretty young and like being around my friends (who all still live here) and with things opening back up slowly its becoming possible to hang out with people again. Because of this I really see no reason moving. I totally see the value in moving back home and saving an arm and a leg on rent but I guess it just depends on your lifestyle.
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Both Puma and Unicorn should be killed after they exceed a certain size to avoid this situation from happening. It's possible either this is not working in some situations/configurations, or there is a leak elsewhere although this is the first time I have heard reports of this.

What configuration is being changed from the defaults? Alternatively if you could open an issue with any additional detail we will try to figure out what is happening and fix it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/issues
That sounds like black bar level stuff
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WSL2 on Windows is quite nice now.
As an non American English speaker Excel would also format that as 1 Feb for me. It has been pretty good at picking up your locale for a long time, and is also reasonably trivial to change
This is close but incorrect.

Most common Lempel-Ziv compressors (gzip/brotli/zstd) use some form of entropy encoding (Huffman/Arithmetic/ANS) but that is in addition to lz algorithm (usually lz77) itself.

You can have a Lempel-Ziv compressor that doesn't use entropy encoding, look at something like lz4.

lz77 essentially works by copying parts of the recent window of decompressed data. e.g if a phrase of length 10 was used 100 characters ago we could encode 100,10 instead of the phrase itself. Most compressors use entropy encoding on those offset and length streams.
Excel does that, largely: cells have a datatype, a value, and a format (among other properties). Changing the format leaves the value unchanged.

However, when you input something into a cell, Excel has to parse it and decide what value and datatype to assign to it. That is just inevitable, and the same everywhere: in Python, `x = 3` assigns an integer, `x = 3.` a floating point, and `x='3'` a string. Similarly hints (or explicit specifications of type) are possible in Excel.

However, given that, what you typed originally is not recoverable anywhere (Python doesn't record whether you wrote `x=3.` or `x = 3.00`, why should it?).

So, to the extent that it is reasonable, Excel does what you request, and to the extent it doesn't do it, it's not reasonable, I'd say: A cell need not maintain the original pre-parsing input.
Oh I totally agree. It’s just worth acknowledging where most bad excel spreadsheets come from or at least it gives me more patience with them.
The other huge factor that people miss is just straight-up socializing. A lot of journalists are on Twitter because they think it's fun, and they follow people they personally enjoy reading things from. Not everything a journalist does, is done with professional intent.
250W...
Noted and thanks for the information, but as far as I can tell my point stands if the feature is completely inaccessible. I don't really understand what the GP comment was referring to regarding Apple Watch pulse oximetry accuracy. Other consumer devices such as my smartphone and watch have working pulse oximeter sensors built-in that are presumably FDA approved (or not FDA banned anyway), so it doesn't bode well for the Apple Watch if it can't pass this.
The article links to a paywalled Nature article [0], titled "Guidelines for human gene nomenclature". I googled that title to find a free and open version, and came across what seems to be the official page for HGNC's (extensive) naming guidelines [1], though what's currently published seems to be an older standard, originally published in 2002 [2]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-020-0669-3

[1] https://www.genenames.org/about/guidelines/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11944974/
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Insects are a vital part of Earth's ecosystem, providing food for larger animals and (especially crucial for us) pollination.

> So you won't be able to kill mosquitoes outside?

There are plenty of other, more specific ways to do that, no? The problem with light traps is they are indiscriminate.

Not to mention that if you apply some repellent, you don't need to kill them at all.
So you would do it in the background where the map currently is? And the AC controls pull up over it?

I guess no reason that couldn't work. It wouldn't not anything about battery health, and it would require a cable which most people don't use, but it could work.
One issue with these is that they kill many more moths and other insects than they kill mosquitoes
By this logic, everything is a direct consequence of what came before. Let’s just blame all of our problems on the Roman Empire.

Even if that’s true on some scientific level, human institutions, human social practice, and the human mind itself, all rely on the idea of agency and responsibility. If you’re going to talk about whose “fault” it is, then you need to speak in those terms, not the mere chains of causation that science can talk about.
Having done dev on OSX you are going to be constantly fighting the machine. Apple is worse about walled gardens than MS is. With Apple, you need to do exactly what they want or you will have pain.
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By gzipped size I’m referring to the polyfill bundle itself

update: thanks for disambiguating the title, OP!
We migrated from stripe to paddle in the last month due to stripe not having any built in tax functionality. They do have a separate provider to calculate taxes but then you need to work with multiple services and worry about all those working well. We went with paddle since it's all built in because technically they are the ones who get paid, take off a bit off the top, charge taxes and file them.

Has anyone done this with stripe successfully?
> Automatically converting SEPT1 to a date caused far more damage than the benefit of the fleeting convenience.

Who are you to judge? For the novice, even for most users it'll be what they want. And for the expert (or even intermediate user) it is trivial to override.
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What's stopping the forensic people from just spoofing the USB device IDs?
Honestly, Microsoft should fix Excel to stop corrupting data by default. This is 100% Microsoft's fault that an international organisation resorts to workaround renaming things because they needlessly parse and modify input in a default configuration.

You can also say pretty much many of Microsoft security issues over the years boil down to their programs needlessly overthinking and parsing perfectly valid input, for obscure reasons.
It’s called Huffman coding.
To be fair, linear code is often totally sufficient for most types of data analysis. Biologists don't really need to understand design patterns or polymorphism, they just need to not make computational mistakes when transforming the data.
I’m one of the developers. This tool makes it possible and comprehensible to interactively explore visual datasets with millions of items. It is a pan/zoom interface showing an irregular grid of images. The items are organized using machine learning such that similar items are next to each other. When you zoom in, new items are inserted between the ones already shown, exponentially increasing the size of the grid with each such transition. The original motivation came while we were working on a deep learning project and were frustrated that it was impossible to meaningfully view/explore our dataset of millions of images. As we built it, we came to realize that it might be useful for other tasks as well, and is pretty fun to use. We’d love to hear any feedback!
The thing is though, I want accessible, rapid, widespread, index-able-ish (tagging), extra-short form communication.

I really want what twitter is promising but I hate what twitter is currently providing.
So 7 riffles can produce every permutation equiprobably, right?

Is there a smaller number of riffles that can produce every permutation, not necessarily equiprobably?
Can you link to the other story? I'm not seeing it.
I keep thinking that the optional chaining operator would also work for functions e.g. this.myOptionalfunction?('hello') were I would expect it would only get called when it's defined. But that's not possible, I think they missed a nice addition.

Oh looks like the operator is actually '?.' instead of just '?' so guess this.myOptionalFunction?.() could work but that looks really confusing in my eyes.
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I recently joined Onlyfans as I am a model and performer (non pornographic) and do love the platform for its opportunities, especially during lockdown as my income was cut completely being self emmployed in the entertainment industry.

However its definitely a double edged sword and i imagine that if I was not older (and cough, wiser) that I would be much more vulnerable to be manipulated into producing pornographic content. Around 35% of creators like myself don't create porn. I create nude and erotic self shot photography (a mixture of Bettie Page and Helmut Newton inspired. However one persons erotica is anothers porn.).

I do worry about the younger artists who have joined and wondered what your thoughts were as a community?
Excels usability isn't bad though. Which is why everyone uses it. It falls down in this (and lots of other cases) but if you want to see what good usability looks like, look at what people use.
I wish we could rename addresses with "drive" in them so that Instapaper and Pocket stop reading the abbreviation as "Doctor".

"There was a shooting today on The 800 block of MLK Doctor"
It you want to see more amazing, Ricky Jay could do this while keeping up a stream of amusing patter and making his hand motions seem almost casual. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eonlrksCsw8
Lucky. I'm tempted to drive out to rural Ohio with my nephew to try to find some.
The issue with all of this, is that it's not just one company with a group of all the parts that design, create, test and sell this stuff.

Most of it was designed somewhere, built somewhere else, integrated yet somewhere else, and then simply bought out of a catalogue bulk, shipped to a warehouse and sold in smaller bulk to stores. The products and people that could have detected a problem are all over the world, and have seen every possible version of a human and still they end up in use with the problems they have.

If the pattern were constrained to fit a scenario as you describe then it would probably be something we can do something about. But just like in enterprise software contracts, the distance (both mentally, physically and legally) between all of this is not allowing for much change for any single actor. And I'm pretty sure the manufacturer of a sensor that doesn't even know where it ends up 10 layers deep in the supply chain is going to be remotely aware of this.

In practical terms we're seeing an anti-pattern and we try to personify it so we can express our dissatisfaction, but that's just as practical as shouting at the sun for not damaging all skin types at similar rates. There is no single source of the fault and there is no person or company or something like that, that is 'responsible' for it.

One possibility is to have some sort of consumer organisation test products on a diverse set of humans and report on products that lack support for certain shapes, colours or sizes, but other than that I have no idea how we'd adjust multiple people at multiple companies in multiple countries with multiple cultures.
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I find the opposite, every time I find myself using Mac OS I find myself fighting to try and do things that should be easy but are instead convoluted.
That's because the Pixel 5 release is coming soon right? And probably that sales of the Pixel 4 are also very low.
Nonin created the first of these back in the '90s, so I pulled one of their spec sheets from 2016 (https://www.nonin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NoninConnec...) which explicitly mentions the pigmentation issue along with nail polish, poor circulation, and breathing issues. From that, this isn't exactly a new or unknown thing since commercial products have been working around this for some time. I wasn't able to find an industry standard for testing on these, so maybe the article should cite that as an opportunity to improve a product or add a new method?
Excel may have failed in this specific task, but let’s not pretend like its functionality doesn’t run circles around Google Docs and LibreOffice.

Excel is a “pretty darn good” tool for 95% of tasks. If your work has highly varied workflows, then that flexibility more than makes up for its failures on the last 5%.

If you have very specific workflows on the other hand, you may find value in replacing Excel with a specialist tool. But let’s not pretend that specialist tools don’t also have their own shortcomings; at best they’ll achieve 99.9% coverage of tasks.
You are confusing causation and fault/responsibility. They are only tangentially related concepts.
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb goes into a lot of detail about what was taken and how it was used. What astonished me is that using lend-lease, the soviets were sending back literal plane loads of documents every week through alaska. The sheer scale of the spying was amazing. The USA mostly let it slide during the war, bigger fish to fry and all that.
I just finished a two-week road trip from Berlin to the Black Forest and back (with other stops in both directions). The windshield was gunked up by the end—more than I expected, but nothing like what I remember from my childhood.
Which is exactly why feeding all your input into a trash input parsing function by default is a horrible idea. If dates handling was just 1 extra button you click, the problem wouldn't exist. Overzealous default behavior, the #1 sin of Microsoft.
Nice, well there you go.
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Jabra has always been problematic connecting to Macs. I also found out Jabra bought Panacast so I’m expecting the cameras to become problematic now in conference rooms.
I am not arguing for suppression. I do want more answers to our health related questions and better testing and diagnoses. Anecdotally my daughter and I were sick a few months ago, (Covid negative), and she and I continually had mild fevers. She is still suffering. We still are continuing with our lives, but it would be nice to understand why.
There's something wrong with having gigabytes-sized text files.
ah got it, thanks for the link
there you go

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

edit: HN link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385
Took the online assessment twice. It takes 2 hours to complete it. Never received any phone call or email or anything saying that my application was denied or accepted.
Part I (which basically gets you up to the Deutsch-Josza algorithm in quantum computing) is a free pdf on the book's website qisforquantum.org
Another problem is the latency of many TVs.
People like real time feedback it's why word is more popular than tex, all these tech folks pushing code solutions to wysiwyg software issues are missing the point.
The reporter's experience with reporting Chrome Web Store malware reflects mine: Nobody at Google cares about malware enough to stop distributing it when people report it. The "Report Abuse" button probably goes straight to an unmonitored spam folder.

Hint to anyone working on security at Google: It actually doesn't matter what obscure zero-days you discover and patch when you distribute malware directly that relies on supported functionality. There's no need to exploit security holes when malware is simply permitted as-is.

Shut the Chrome Web Store down until you're prepared to take it seriously.
If only the Samsung Note ran Android One.

At this point marginally improved devices at premium price point.. might further leave iPhone as the leader.

iPhone sales are up this year while samsung/Android is down.. Part of it is iPhone will last longer have updates for far longer than any Android device.

I'm an Android user considering switching to iPhone not out of boredom, but wanting my phone to be an appliance instead of a source of innovation, as that seems to be largely gone in this Form factor
I'm unable to open this link, as it immediately redirects me to guce.advertising.com.
I'm in a similar boat, but I've found that most of my friends have moved out, so I'm doing the same.

If that social network was still around I'd likely stay, but it's hard to justify the expense when more of my friends are in one place back in my hometown.

It's all temporary, though—I'm planning on coming back once the city starts to open back up in earnest.
Gab is not a platform for hatred. It is just a general social network. Much of what is said about it is exaggerated. But leaving that aside, a payment utility should not get into the business of dictating what customers can and can't say beyond the minimal legal requirements in that jurisdiction. This is how we get a monoculture where wrongspeak is not permitted.

As for your "Gab's still here" comment. Clearly the lack of willing payment providers, hosts, registrars, etc. is a hindrance that costs them time and money, and prevents them from being as successful as they could be. The "still here" measure is not a valid measure of anything.
Work at a big bank , we won’t procure laptops without this and yes we will know when you have opened it and you won’t be able to boot it , I think something happens with bitlocker also but not sure.
Well, tell that to your landlord, &c. I'm sure they'd have a different point of view.
This is almost exactly the concept i was thinking of. If the exchanges want to continue to do business in the US they will blocklist the FBI's "suspect" wallets / blocks or something like that...
DBrand summed it up best in their marketing email for the Pixel 4 skins just after the launch:

> That's right: it's another marketing email from the robots at dbrand. That means it's time for another email footer. Here are a few ground rules if you're reading this on your shiny new Pixel 4. First, make sure the battery is fully charged - you don't want it dying while you're reading this, do you? If you need to scroll to keep reading, you'll have to use your greasy, gross thumb to do it. No hand-waving allowed. Lastly, consider turning off Gmail sync - your photos are going to burn through that non-expandable storage very quickly. With that preamble out of the way, here's our footer: dbrand is having a 10% off sale - masking your $800+ mistake has never been more affordable.
I've been maintaining a complete-ish repository of vitamin D covid research here:

https://github.com/GShotwell/vitamin_d_covid
kinda like, "We only support the two most recent versions of our hardware." and we release every 6 weeks.

move fast; break all the things.
Wonder if one part of their secret sauce will be skirting health code.
> You and others can howl all you want

Maybe you meant to post this to another online community, but people don't generally talk that way here. Franciscofascii was not "howling".
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Excel changes the displayed text when it interprets the text as date. You store "MARCH1", it displays "1-Mar".
> Isn't "migrating progressively through cross-version codebases" exactly what a 3to2 compiler would allow you to do?

No. You'd have to migrate everything to Python 3 at once, and then "maintain" two different and incompatible codebases, one generated from the other.

> A 3to2 tool would solve exactly the problems you're bringing up, with no intoxication needed!

It would half solve (at best) one of them.

> I don't see why 3to2 would not have worked. It's a compiler.

Unless your 3to2 would literally reimplement Python 3 in Python 2, it would be a translator / bridge. Which can't work due to the semantics difference between Python 2 and Python 3: not every change translates mechanically and reliably. If they did, 2to3 would have worked.

> Who cares if the Python 2 code it produced looked a little wonky,

The maintainer who has to debug, probably.

> as long as it was correct

Which it wouldn't be.

> This is also not something completely foreign and unheard of. This is exactly how I've been porting legacy JavaScript applications to a more modern ECMAScript approach: write new code in the modern way, compile it down to legacy code compatible with the existing legacy code, and then run that.

The "modern way" of javascript is additive, it's about adding new features to the language, some of which can be implemented in terms of the old one (and which you can thus "backport" through a compiler or extending the existing APIs).

You don't run into pieces of code which are syntactically identical but semantically divergent. Which you absolutely do in P2 v P3.
No, this is actually about insects.
Yeah sorry my bad. It's a conspiracy theory for sure
One summer night I stopped at this petrol station in a woodland area - the neon panels had many inches of dead insect in them. Tens of thousands of specimen, just like that.
Whilst I agree that this makes little to no difference to the average user, it is slightly different.
One can sue Google/MS. Google/MS likely already have all your data already while these randoms probably don't. Google/MS have security teams while whoever made these extensions probably doesn't.

A more interesting question would be, if these extension makers where as transparent as Google/MS, where sueable, and had decent security, would these extensions become okay.
The answer is obviously no, but I'm not sure why.
People commit crimes to acquire all kinds of legal things, why wouldn't an addict do so to acquire legalized drugs?
312! is way too high - there are 6 indistinguishable copies of each of 52 cards, not 312 unique cards.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069880
What kind of mysterious and nefarious use requires that you leave whats effectively a small nuclear weapon in a major population center?

Maybe it least move it to a remote area, where the worst it can do is crater a field
Allowing a very large number of people to edit a document at the same time isn't trivial in terms of the state management and network load. Everyones edits have to be sync'd and sent to everyone else. Higher numbers than 100 are certainly achievable but perhaps there are limitations in their infrastructure for processing power available to a given sheet.
I think the radar linear tech whatever it was went nowhere.
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