skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I never claimed there was a parallel between 53 and 79. I agree the two were very different.

But regarding your other claim: if some random group had seized power during the Green movement and its massive protests, that would have been the decision of the Iranian people?

Don't get me wrong, I supported the Green movement, but I would never claim - if some random coup had happened during that time - that it was a democratic process.

That won't happen until free and fair elections.
Same in Ottawa, Ontario—only a few times a year, but when they're out, there are loads of them.
I've been pretty happy with the 5K Ultrafine.

Me too, the only issue I've had is it can be a little slow coming out of sleep although that is probably a problem with my Mac Mini rather than the monitor itself.
If you read Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, the author claims that the information was mostly used by soviets to make sure they were on the right track, rather than outright copying. If there were 10 ways to do something, the soviets picked a couple of the most promising, then used intel to make sure they what they were doing was broadly similar to what the americans were doing. This still could save a lot of time and money vs. the american way of doing all 10 at once and seeing which worked.
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“A polyfill is code that implements a feature on web browsers that do not support the feature. Most often, it refers to a JavaScript library that implements an HTML5 web standard, either an established standard on older browsers, or a proposed standard on existing browsers.”
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I work in computational materials science (where ML brings funding) and a funny paper of this kind is here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11... - they are literally trying out 100000s of possible combinations by brute force, to build a "physical model".

Then they go on conferences and brag about it, because they have to (otr they know it's bs).
Datasets are soso (you can have a look at QM9...) and for more specialized things, people generally don't bother trying to benchmark or compare their results on a common reference. It's just something new...

And with all that: even without doing fancy statistical methods without knowing too much about it, your theoretical computations might not make so much sense (at least in the sheer number which is pumped out and published)...
> The world speaks English. It's an illogical and absurdly spelled language.

Man, the extent the aviation world has to bend itself to avoid the pitfalls of English....

"to" and "two" sound alike, and so does "for" and "four".

"Turn left t(w)o four zero" or "Climb t(w)o eight thousand"

To avoid that, the lingo is:

"Turn left heading two four zero", "Climb and maintain two eight thousand" (or, "Climb flight level two eight zero").

At any rate, switching to metric would be much better (If I'm 2000 metre high, and I have a glide ratio of 1:10, I can glide 20,000 metre or 20 km. If you're 5000 feet high, and you have a glide ratio of 1:10, how many nautical miles can you glide?), but for the reasons you mentioned, it won't happen anytime soon.
I think that was actually pretty clear from your tweet; it's just the title of this post which is misleading.

Edit: For context, previous title was "Twitter web app gzip size dropped from 16.6 KB to 2.7 KB by removing polyfills"
> equiprobably

I thought you made up that word, but you didn't! Thanks for teaching me somethign new!

> e·qui·prob·a·ble

> (of two or more things) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
It was also just horribly expensive, and that's the main reason I did not upgrade yet. I'm not a big fan of Google trying to copy Apple on e.g. the notch at the top of the screen; copying the Apple pricing strategy of expensive==luxury is even worse.
updated title to clarify, ty!
I have some Jabra headphones that worked on my 2015 Macbook, but when my work upgraded my laptop to a 2019 with OSX Catalina, I couldn't get them to connect. I thought that I was doing something wrong; didn't know they weren't supported.
Removing fingerprint unlock and add face unlock and then months later facemasks are manditory, and you can't unlock your phone without pin.
> Journalists have already been called out for this

This makes it even worse. They were called out for living in an echo chamber and refused to acknowledge or fix it.

> Anyone can have multiple Twitter accounts

This is a generous assumption. Considering we're here talking about cold hard facts scraped from Twitter, a blanket assumption like this to disregard everything found is poor form. You sound like a journalist.
The bootloader development in Hackintosh scene never cease to amaze me. I remember the lead developer of Clover bootloader[1] Slice, still developing it on his old Dell with 32 bit Snowleopard when it was being used for Mountain Lion and later.

But the interest in Hackintosh seems to be slowing down[2]? , it's not like Macs have become affordable, if anything Mac Pro is prohibitively expensive and hackintosh generally made more sense to those struck with underpowered Mac Pro.

Most of all, what will happen to the Hackintosh scene due to Apple Silicon? Will the community take up the challenge and make macOS work on Raspberry Pi 10(I understand that Apple Silicon is not vanilla ARM spec) or fizzle out?

[1]https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/

[2]https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Hackinto...
Accept interfaces, return structs?
Do they mean March 1 when they import data from a text file?

It's one thing to change typed in user text in real time. That's not causing any problems. It's another to randomly mutate cells amongst tens of thousands of rows. I don't think that has ever helped anyone.
Yea they are looking at the ecosystem as a whole. But if you are a library author you have the power to control these things.
How to Maintain Office Culture When You Aren't in the Office
Storing your personal computer in a safe when not using it is probably the very definition of "almost incompatible with any kind of personal use". And at this point you just move the weak link from the device to the safe's lock. HSM-like physical security is good for making the device tamper proof and ensuring than no data can be retrieved under any circumstances other than the one accepted "regular use" way.

Putting a regular device in a safe leaves it exposed to someone unlocking the safe and compromising the device by implanting a keylogger inside or even by putting a replacement identical device there and waiting for the user to type the boot password.

As for methods of emergency clearing sensitive data from memory while in operation, whatever method is employed will work once. The next time the attacker is ready for that particular method. For example the police might just have to completely immobilize the suspect (and their hands) and keep the laptop in the vicinity while the "dead man's switch" is bypassed.
How can someone with that level of precision tolerate the wrinkled table cloth!
> arguably has a tougher job than a 3to2 compiler would

It doesn't. Not that its job is easy, but its job is to take constructs which are brand new and translate them to an older version of the language.

Of the same language.

It doesn't have to deal with the language or the APIs literally working differently when used the same way.

The Python version of Babel would be 3to3 compiler.
You obviously need an education on the Middle East, I suggest you read this book "From Beirut to Jerusalem" by Thomas Friedman, and watch the movie "Persepolis".
The Roman Empire existed thousands of years back, the Iranian evolution happened in 78-79, and the after affects are still in play.
The basic light emitted by LEDs is generally quite cold (high color temperature). We can manufacture LEDs just in a few basic colors, where the blue ones are the most efficient. We haven't managed yet to produce something at scale like the light typically emitted by incandescent light bulbs. RGB light doesn't help here, since this is still emitting high temperature components, which are only mixed with lower energized ones. One way around this is using LEDs indirectly by energizing other light emitting materials, like phosphor, much like it is done in LED filaments, which, of course, comes at a cost. Simple filters don't help, since LEDs emit light only in a rather narrow spectrum (which is also, why they are more efficient compared to other light sources).

The problem with cold light is that it is apparently attracting insects much more than broad spectrum incandescent light sources, even more than any potential breeding partners, which in turn affects mating.
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I think the impact of light and sound pollution is vastly underestimated. Sound and light pollution not only causes hidden environmental issues but also does damage to human health.

Suffering sound and light pollution is a hidden additional burden placed on lower economic status people.

Poor people experience health inequities due to increased exposure to light and sound, but more pressingly air pollution. [0]

The status of enjoying quiet is even clear in the middle class. You can even see the emerging divide on transit in who has noise cancelling headphones and who does not.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsal...
Yes, and then compound this problem by transferring files with people that.... are somewhat technically illiterate and it turns into a nightmare.
> but it doesn’t sound that different than US presidential elections

Huh? It was a coup, not an election.
Similar:

FWIW, a colleague at Red Hat recently began this upstream project, Bichon[1], to manage Git Lab merge requests from the shell:

"Bichon provides a terminal based user interface for reviewing GitLab merge requests. As well as an efficient keyboard based interaction model, it will allow for off-line code review caching information until reconnected to the network."

- - -

The interface is loosely modeled after the `mutt` email client; but it's a ground-up implementation.

From what I learned (from a test spin; I'm a long-time `mutt` user myself), Bichon is not aiming to build a custom terminal-only workflow: it is mainly aims to provide an alternative to web UI. IOW, it's not an either/or—command-line and Web UI are supposed to play well together.

[1] https://gitlab.com/bichon-project/bichon/
I've always shuffled three times due to hearing at some point in my childhood that 3 times was the max amount of shuffles needed to completely shuffle a deck. Recently I realized that doesnt check out but it's been hard to break the habit as more than 3 shuffles seems to take forever. 7 though? Wow.
I'm a native Spanish speaker. I can understand written French, Portuguese and Italian with a little effort. Speech is a different story. Italian is the closest phonetically.
Oh yeah, I'm totally aware. My day job is designing and building software to construct/maintain exactly those pipelines.

What I'm saying (which is not news to you) is that clearly Excel is excelling along some dimension that people really care about. Even if it is lacking along other dimensions, the goal ought to be figuring out what makes Excel so good, then figuring out how to reconcile that with the needs of e.g. a high scale genomics pipeline.

But to make even an inch of progress against that, we need to get rid of this "haha Excel is for plebes" attitude that many in the software community adopt.
If your customers make up almost 100% of the population of the earth then yeah you can probably ignore anything said anywhere including twitter.

But for the sake of argument, if your customers overlap significantly with that 4% of earth's population that use twitter, then it is highly likely for those users to be influenced about your product.

Aka, how much does Twitter inform people's of choice of news website, blockbuster movie, tech blog, etc.
Drop according to whom? The people whose jobs depend on the alleged drop?

Yesterday I had 10 flies and 5 mosquitoes simultaneously in my room. What do the bats eat? They are everywhere.

There are more bats, foxes, rats and insects in big cities than ever before.
But we didn't accept them as they are. We looked at two options, change excel or change gene names, and picked the one most likely to solve the problem. Gene names mean nothing anyway. We're going from random letters that mean nothing to humans and computers to still random letters that mean nothing but at least don't get confused for dates.
I prefer knives, because phones suck for preparing meals and shelter.
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Samsung Dex was a stellar success.
Exactly. Excel offers the same "simple" solution.
This jumps out to me as the same thing as database contention except you have to distribute changes to every consumer. If everybody is only allowed to append I'm sure it scales to infinity like an event store. Handling updates just gets messy.
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Don’t think I get how React hooks are comedy. Can you elaborate?
That’s not “ever increasing”. I expected to get a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
Show HN: I Made a Clothing Database
As someone who loves fashion and clothing, I wanted a place (that wasn't a marketplace for once) where I could look at clothes and keep track of stuff that I wanted and owned. The big dream is to have any piece of clothing that exists in the database. Feel free to submit items!
With FindTheMasks, we found that tooling written around Sheets may also confront the 5 million cell limit.

As you tack on extra tabs and handle more fields, it isn't too hard to approach that limit.

If we do trip that threshold, we will be forced to degrade some functionality.

As a bonus, I don't believe that Sheets allows anyone to see exactly how many cells are in use, so one lives with a probabilistic risk of lockup.

If we were continuing to handle large volumes of intake, a switch to Airtable would be in the works. Fortunately, the PPE situation is at least somewhat better than it was in March, so we are simply keeping the lights on and wheels turning.
It's also past peak firefly season, which is mid May to early June in North America.

Georgia has lots of them. Or at least we did last year. I haven't gotten out much in the COVID-19 world.

A year without fireflies.
Enjoying the Python code deconstruction in GodBolt as well, feels like it could help understand how things work in general (even though it's less of an issue, than actual compiled languages).
Lots of fireflies in Central Park as well.
Google Reader ... Google Play Music and now this.
There is a pattern.
They are just cached in an encrypted token in your browser, not sent to any server. You can have a look in the source code if you are interested: https://github.com/GabrielePicco/hacker-news-rich
Google has done significant innovation in cameras recently, though. The astrophotography mode is wonderful.
Do you have any information on how they achieved this?
you aren't wearing a mask 24/7. You'll still be able to use the face unlock feature when at home
I saw a bunch last month here in Kansas City. I might get a lot more because I have a walking trail behind me, so there's no lights in my back yard.
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Yeah, I get it was tongue-in-cheek (eg, "pinetree"). I was just explaining who they were referring to in their tongue-in-cheek manner. And there definitely are traditional Catholic leftists, and there definitely are ecofascists.

And ecofascists are not left-wing.
Here a very simple explanation of the architecture: https://medium.com/@PiccoGabriele/creating-and-hosting-an-ha...
for fun it's also on godbo.lt
Fingerprint was far better imo
Hi,
sorry I missed this is earlier! We're in many ways complementary to weak labelling techniques (like Snorkel) and are actually working to include them in the tool. We think weak labelling is a great way to overcome cold starts and active learning then helps you improve rapidly.

The big difference between us and Snorkel is our emphasis on active learning and HITL deployment. We think the existing paradigm of ML deployment is very waterfall and slow.

Would love to hear about the annotation interface your building. Agree there should be one place with all those features! (We're hoping it will be Humanloop ;) ).
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I saw more than I've seen in many years the other night. Seems to just depend on the area.
Same here, but with part numbers in electronics manufacturing. Excel also removes leading zeros from package names such as 0402.
After my horrible Pixel Buds 2, I am done with Google hardware.
MDY separated by dots? The link you gave does not seem to support that.
Due to some bs. I can't read the article.

Is it saying that Google will just no longer sell the phone just nine month after release? (which IMHO would be ok) or that they also will stop giving it Os/security updates? (which IMHO is a total no-go for any company, especially Google).
This is an amazing level of privilege to the point that it almost seems like Silicon Valley parody. I completely agree with the aim (animal welfare, fair wages), but just want to note that 99.9999% of the population don't have the means (money, time, local availability, etc.) to live this way.
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Does lz4 really have low enough overhead that it can compress a single integer better than having a predetermined compression scheme for small numbers? Sure, most protos are not a single integer, but i'd doubt it if the average proto message was more than 1 kb.
way too confusing so won’t work if there’s a different fee depending on the specific card you choose to work

maybe just allowing a discount for cash and pin debit
On strategic bombing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572030
It was pretty cool though. I wish they open the tech for others.
A lot of people are attacking excel in this thread, just remember to give a fair share of the blame to people naming genes as well. These are meaningless names and changing them is frankly easier than changing a feature in excel (that the finance folk probably don't want changed). And its a good excuse to clear up some of the egregiously silly disease related names as well so we don't tell parents their kid is suffering from a debilitating mutation in luke-Skywalker-like upside-down cantaloupe 12b or whatever.
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> I am currently thinking about the LG 38WN95C-W. Really expensive, but if you use it 8 hours a day for 5 years, I think I calculated it to be like 50 cent a day. :)

Exactly the same monitor I'm planning to get to my home office/games computer combo. In fact, despite the price, this seems to be the most awaited monitor of all year -- finally something that combines great performance, adult design without garish gaming elements, and office style needs (looking at TB3/USB-C with PD&DP).
Angular, if you are interested in the architecture: https://medium.com/@PiccoGabriele/creating-and-hosting-an-ha...
There's a language dropdown on any editor window at the top right. You'll see we support quite a number of languages!

We also have a REST API:

$ curl -s https://godbolt.org/api/languages
Id | Name
go | Go
c | C
fortran | Fortran
c++ | C++
cppx | Cppx
assembly | Assembly
cuda | CUDA
python | Python
llvm | LLVM IR
d | D
ispc | ispc
analysis | Analysis
nim | Nim
rust | Rust
clean | Clean
pascal | Pascal
haskell | Haskell
ada | Ada
ocaml | OCaml
swift | Swift
zig | Zig⏎
Sophomore year of HS, my math teacher introduced us to the word equidistant. For at least an entire quarter, I thought he had a speech impediment and was trying to say "equally distant".
I couldn't help but laugh at this :)
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The main problem with Google Sheets for that use case IIUC is that it's designed to be prepared for any of the users to edit arbitrary cells which can cause recomputations of other arbitrary cells, and it wants to give real-time feedback to all the other users about every edit (and cursor movement). That makes it harder to scale up to many simultaneous editors without compromises in the backend (due to the graph of recalculations) and UI (clutter, contention to claim the first blank line).

A custom web app for this purpose can scale better by being designed with the knowledge each user only edits their own row and nothing else needs to be recalculated. And of course it can have a tailored UI.

Unfortunately I don't know of any way for a non-developer to match that. There's no fundamental reason IMHO that there couldn't be a nice rapid, code-optional CRUD app generator, like Microsoft Access for the 21st century. Maybe this is what Microsoft Lists will do? AirTable is a general-purpose web-based RDBMS frontend, but I don't know if it scales well to many simultaneous editors either, I don't think you can tailor the UI as much as I'd like, and I hear folks complaining about database size limits.

You can get Google Sheets to scale better, but it's a bit awkward:

* Give folks a Google Forms link to edit their own information. This atomically claims and populates the row.

* Give folks a publish link (see File | Publish To the Web) to view everyone else's information. This link scales well because it doesn't let them update anything and (more annoyingly) it doesn't show changes until they hit refresh.
Take this conversation to clubhouse.
I'm in Chicago (in a neighborhood close to downtown) and in previous years I'd hardly ever seen any fireflies. This year, they're everywhere -- in parks and even in trees on neighborhood streets.

I understand fireflies are sensitive to light pollution. I can't imagine Chicago's any different from other major cities. COVID has people staying home a lot more but that has nothing to do with street lighting. I wonder what's going on.

I do think that living organisms are extraordinarily adaptable if the changes are gradual and bounded. Most of us have this idea that an ecosystem is this delicate and fragile thing, but nature actually has a lot of robustness and redundancies built-in (which are inefficient but increase chances of group survival).
There is a Python wrapper for simdjson: https://github.com/TkTech/pysimdjson

It looks like pysimdjson's biggest performance gain compared to e.g. orjson is when you can cherry-pick single values out of the JSON and avoid deserializing the whole document.
That's such a niche thing, though. How many people will use that feature more than once? 0.001%?
For me it's red wasps. Growing up in Texas there used to be so many, you could see them flying low searching for spiders in the grass. Last Sunday, in the heart of summer, I couldn't find a single red wasp where there used to be hundreds.
Actually, some people are recomended to wear at home.
PIR doesn't have a "beam", it detects temperature changes (i.e. you, a warm object, moving around). Clothes could play a role, not sure if the color though.
Fran gave a talk when I interned at TJ Watson one summer. Her stories of the early days of compilers were beyond fascinating and made it clear how much we all now were just building on ideas they established decades ago.

Later, my wife was the first to receive the IBM PhD fellowship established in Fran's honor. Fran awarded it to her at a conference (Grace Hopper I think) and of course was gracious, offering to help as your career moved forward. Thankful for that investment in our future.
> excel changes your input

That's a feature though.
Coincidentally it only happens when you paste the data or if you messed up the generation of the file (didn't escape the column you want to leave untouched).

To me it seems like a case of you're holding it wrong. (which I don't wholeheartedly support)