skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why in the world is excel the application of choice?

Because if it weren't for Excel, most Excel users would have to hire programmers. (And Gnumeric is very obscure, how many non-programmers have heard of it?)
Firefox gets fix for evil cursor attack
The only reason I choose GitHub over Gitlab is the network effect.

If making someone create a new account on Gitlab means they won't contribute to a project, then I'd rather publish it on GitHub instead, even if GitHub is closed-source. The network of GitHub is intrinsic to that website and Gitlab might not ever be able to replicate the size of its userbase. (Of course, if I'm proven wrong I'd migrate.)

Yes, it doesn't help Gitlab to have this mentality, but out of the dozens of OSS repositories I've used only two have come from Gitlab. Every single other one I had originally found on GitHub.
Wordpress.com launches new P2 to take on internal communication tools
You might like to check out Terry Rudolph's book, "Q is for quantum".
The big difference is that American veterans are more likely to be people deployed into combat zone for extensive length of time. Also, being American soldier affects your family situation quite a lot - they have much higher rates of divorces then general population.

The mandatory military service in Switzerland is not comparable to being American soldier.
TIL that's exactly what this does, alternatively you can add them all to an 'all' remote, to make it more explicit:

https://jigarius.com/blog/multiple-git-remote-repositories#t...

However, you can add multiple URLs to 'origin' and push to them all at once.
John Martinis Still Wants to Build Quantum Computers and Make Them More Powerful
Having Excel be the default for .csv files has caused me problems in the past as well with Excel automatically changing data when you open it. The unfortunate thing I have come across multiple times is a csv file that has some values with a lot of significant figures, i.e.

123456789876, 987654321234

After opening in Excel it will convert these to:

1.23E+11, 9.87E+11

Then resaving the file (as a csv) will store the values in scientific notation and lose all of the digits.
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This doesn't mean there is no immunity.

First of all, from the paper itself:

> Since we could not perform additional virus-neutralization tests we cannot exclude the
possibility that COVID-19 convalescent subjects produce other types of protective antibodies
besides those inhibiting RBD-ACE2 binding.

Second: they took antibodies from serum, which would exclude mucosal responses (IgA), observed by other groups.

Third: There's the whole matter of T-cell immunity which is not touched by this paper at all.

The antibody-dependent enhancement test was done in vitro, so there is no guarantee it would happen in vivo. In fact, the authors say so themselves:

> However, studies are needed to investigate if antibody-mediated increases of RBD binding to ACE2 have a clinical relevance.

I'd add that a few vaccines in trial use the full-length spike protein, rather than just the so-called "receptor binding domain" (RBD; the part that binds to the ACE2 receptor), so more data are needed to see what is observed here has implications or not.

Personally, I'm still optimistic.
Trivially easy. I haven't seen these, or the Russia Today sections in the papers lately, but you couldn't mistake them from the paper's own reporting.
Woohoo, It is amazing, Ddays was up voted 100 time
A few more items added to the kitchen sink that is JavaScript.

JavaScript's multi-paradigm approach is one of its strengths, but, in my opinion, a weakness at the same time.

It allows people to write JavaScript following whatever approach suits them, which is fine for individual developers and small teams, but expand beyond that and it becomes a big ask for every developer to be up to speed with every feature JavaScript supports.

I use and teach JavaScript/TypeScript every day, and its possible to be very productive with it, but I prefer the approaches of Go and Clojure better. Limited languages that support a single paradigm, and support it well.
Smart locks opened with nothing more than a Mac address
This happens before, and will happen again:
https://qz.com/119578/damn-you-excel-spreadsheets-jp-morgan-...
Fame, bragging rights, catching attention of potential recruiters....
The disappointment of Australia's new cybersecurity strategy
Fun fact, JSON's number type isn't floating point. It may map to it, but the limits on the numbers that are representible are defined by the encoder and decoder.
You typically have a finite set of overall results you expect to get, usually something like positive or negative. It helps to write out what you would conclude when you get either results. Think of this like a process that helps make your ideas clearer. And makes writing your final paper a lot easier.
> If someone types MARCH1, DEC1, OCT4, SEPT1 into a column, why should Excel not treat these as dates?

It should treat these as dates, unless told otherwise. But Excel goes one step further, and throws away the text you originally typed in. That means, if you type "DEC1" into a spreadsheet, see it looks stupid, and change the data type of that cell to "Text", then it's too late, and Excel will show "37226". It has destroyed the original data and replaced it with the numeric equivalent of the date.

The data type of the spreadsheet cells should be a display format only. The text you typed in (or loaded from a CSV file) should be preserved, and the data type of the cell should only dictate how that is treated and displayed, not how it is stored.
Black Hat: Hackers can remotely hijack enterprise, healthcare Temi robots
Unless you are developing libraries which will be published to the nodejs ecosystem, you really don't need to worry about this.

You pick one of these when you first create your app which is typically based on whatever framework or template you are starting from, and you just always stick with that.
That's why I wrote "If" and " influence your bottom line ".

It's practically just turning it upside down: instead of assuming twitter needs to be paid attention to because it's twitter, it is far more practical to say: "things that have a significant influence on us/our bottom line/our brand need to be paid attention to". If there is a case where that's a twitter mob, then that is a case. If not, then you ignore them.
Startups Should Be Built on Secrets
Yes it's 8 perfect riffles. What the article doesn't seem to stress is that there are two different riffles—an in shuffle (top card moves to second) and an out shuffle (top card stays on top). It's only 8 with an out shuffle I think, but 52 with an in shuffle. So presumably their figure of 7 is referring to the in shuffle (as being 1 shuffle away from the original order doesn't sound too shuffled to me).

The in shuffle is n shuffles in general to get back to the start but the out shuffle isn't such a simple pattern.

If you want to make a shuffle that will take _even longer_ to get back to it's starting point, the best you can do is the Landau function which as you can see can get very big: https://oeis.org/A000793/list (I have a calculation of g(52) but not on me right now)
New Windows 10 Dev Channel test build adds DNS settings tweaks
web clearly made fast pace a semi conscious desire

also I believe people mistake lots of quick verified fact with information
US offers $10M reward for hackers meddling in US elections
There must be a net benefit to using this software, right? Otherwise somebody in charge would make the decision to use something else, right? It’s not like they are forced to use MS excel, right?
I can't comment on the actual subject at hand (I haven't read the article yet nor really done any research on this), but you absolutely have to factor in your time.

I like to cook. If my home situation was a little bit different, I'd probably cook full proper meals every night, no questions asked. It would take me at minimum an hour each night, and often more when you include prep and cleaning (which you should, they're integral parts of cooking a meal).

Combine that with long hours at work and the fact that I like to at least get some leisure time in my day along with sleep, and those hours add up. I've actually taken to eating mostly frozen food (stuff that still requires a little prep, not TV dinners, mind you), because it's a little faster and the cleanup is easier(stick some frozen chicken on foil in the oven and the cleanup is "throw the foil away"). When I don't do that, I'm meal-prepping on sunday afternoons, which takes four or more hours out of my precious weekend (with the exchange of being able to just microwave whatever I'm eating for lunch and dinner that week, again saving time).

Yes, where I live, groceries cost far less than anything you can get at a restaurant. And I'm hesitant to say that this will go anywhere, because it really seems like a long shot. But if it does get somewhere...the dollar cost of groceries is not the only thing to focus on. Time spent making meals absolutely matters.
But haven’t you seen the least sophisticated users trying to type in the same sequence until it sticks?
Black Hat: When penetration testing earns you a felony arrest record
Very interesting! I will give it a go.
I used to work at a small-ish (but very profitable) European company whose "crown jewel", in terms of in-house developed technology, was a distributed in-memory search/database engine, written in hand-crafted, multi-threaded C by a true coding wizard and industry veteran. It used Judy arrays at its heart for the very first filtering/processing stage of queries, and did so to amazing effect. It's quite spectacular what you could and can do with libjudy if you use it wisely :)

I always wondered if relatively recent changes in x86 CPU µarchs broke some of the assumptions that made libjudy perform this great even on Pentium-class hardware, and if the de facto only complete implementation (that I happen to be aware of) could be improved as a consequence, if those changes (i.e., hugely increased cache sizes, etc.) were considered.
I can believe this because automatic doors seem more prone to having a hard time opening when I wear black clothes. It's not a big deal or anything, but I occasionally have to step back and then forth again to get it to open. Is this a common experience of black people, or am I crazy?
> For example, HECA used to have the gene name ‘headcase homolog (Drosophila),’ named after the equivalent gene in fruit fly, but we changed it to ‘hdc homolog, cell cycle regulator’ to avoid potential offense.”

Ugh... everything is politics now.
For much of European history, Latin acted as a common written language, and Italian, Spanish, French were vulgar Latin with different influences (this is probably a simplification)
Many “real-world” applications deal with massive json files.
Depends on what you are measuring as well; if you want to know if there is a significant change you can do that. If you want absolute numbers you are probably doing it wrong anyway. (there is no single true template for numbers universally describing what a certain human should be like)
The explosion in size is terriying. I'm guessing the JSON mostly contained numerics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070913
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This is a good idea. Unfortunately other social media sites have started to force logging in to see content (Instagram, for example) so I worry that Twitter will do something similar soon.
Ride-hail drivers face tough choices as U.S. aid expires
I have a strong feeling that, if people really put an effort into reading and replicating more papers, we would find that a lot of what's being published is simply meaningless.

In grad school I had a subletting roommate for a while who was writing code to match some experimental data with a model. He showed me his model. It was quite literally making random combinations of various trigonometric functions, absolute value, logarithms, polynomials, exponents, etc. into equations that were like a whole page long and just wiggling them around. He was convinced that he was on a path to a revolution in understanding the functional form of his (biological) data, and I believe his research PI was onboard.

I guess "overfitted" never made it into the curriculum.
It's not usually computational biologists who are using Excel.

What if you want to share data with a wetlab biologist who want to explore their favorite list of genes on their own?
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Programmers love to complain about Excel, but we happily use YAML, which has essentially the same footgun: certain strings (like 'on') need quoting if you don't want it to interpret them as something else.
Well, they toppled the democratically elected leader and installed the last Shah who was more open to let western powers access their oil. The revolutionary forces 25 years later directly stated they felt justified to get rid of the Shah because of foreign intervention.

Would you easily forgive a country that installed a Shah by toppling the democratically elected leader to get access to oil? Would you forget if you live day by day under a government directly installed by foreign actors? I don't think so, so I think it is a very safe bet in this case.
Depends a lot. Debugging is awesome when you have source maps and good devtools in a modern browser but the code itself is not editable. That said it's possible to open a plain html file from disk with devtools and save changes done in it to disk making devtools essentially a development environment.

I wonder how much value there is to this particular use case because it lives somewhere between devtools and an online IDE. Also arguably testing out a library in a codepen is more comfortable than an inline which you potentially can't save.
My brain read the title as "France Had Aliens" which I was really curious to read. Thanks brain.
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It's the bbc - accuracy is the very least of their concerns. They're much more focused on harassing pensioners for their state sponsored extortion racket money.
If the gravity metaphor doesn't reach you, maybe this will:

The world speaks English. It's an illogical and absurdly spelled language. Esperanto is miles ahead on all logical measures. Yet we will never switch, both because the cost of switching is enormous, and because there is no way to coordinate/organize such a move.
Awesome find, thanks!
My mind is blown that Excel's usability is so bad that the representation of the human genome itself has to adapt around it's undesired behaviour.

As in, the history of genetics research is now irreversibly linked with the shortcomings of this one software product, which just happens to be incapable of describing the genetics of the organisms that created it.
Love this analogy. Yes, Excel is error-prone at its core. It's also the most widely-used and accessible IDE yet created. Those statements are correlated.
Two kinds of nuke classes:

1. Strategic -- The world is going to die nukes. These are big nukes on ICBMs. If the opponent launches a strategic nuke, you launch all of yours and kill them too.

2. Tactical -- Small nukes that you shoot at the opponent's army before sending in your troops.

You're thinking of strategic nukes. But strategic nukes are far weaker if you have a dirty explosion: its probably better to have a more complete bomb. Tactical nukes absolutely must be clean, because your own troops are in the area.
This site is basically affiliate marketing nonsense blog spam and should be banned.
Facebook launches Reels on Instagram in move to replace TikTok
JS is a great language for it's intended purposes but I still can't get onboard the TS train. Adding types post-hoc has never improved a codebase that I've seen but it has caused a lot more bad patterns to show up.

Simplicity is a virtue (at least sometimes).
This is still the case for many of the stripe press books I would like to purchase. Not available in Canada so looking at very expensive shipping and import duties.
Can you explain where? I just booted up a relatively clean copy of Excel 2019 and can't find it after a couple minutes.

I see a few autoformatting options, but nothing corresponding to dates. The only options I see are similar to this:

https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2016/dec/how-to-...
Lots of thermometers on Amazon aren’t even FDA cleared so I wouldn’t be surprised if the pulse oximeters aren’t FDA cleared either.
Your argument is based on the premise that employees in office are 100% efficient.
In NYC at least there is certainly a subset of ambitious professional types who derive some kind of pride at being incompetent at everything other than their job. I think it's humblebrag type thing where they show off a) how overworked they are all the time, which is a perverse status symbol here b) how they can afford to pay someone to do everything in their lives for them.
China is home to a tremendous amount of racial diversity, from the majority Han to Tibetans to the oppressed Uighur. Our western idea that "Asian" is a race is rather flawed. I don't think you can come up with any "typical" Chinese skin color.

FWIW, my wife (Han, who grew up in Shanghai) generally has whiter skin than do I (a generic American of mostly northern European descent).
I think the quibble may not be with the headline, which just says bias, but with the repeated use of "racial bias" in the article content. That is a somewhat loaded term in these times we are living in. A more neutral write-up might just have observed that the devices seem to have poor quality control and may not be particularly accurate for all skin colors. Caveat emptor and all that, but it is a $25 medical device.
For those that haven't been following this, CloudKitchens[0] is a still somewhat stealth "startup". It was started by Travis Kalanick (of Uber fame) and he has been doing a fairly good job keeping it hidden[1].

[0] https://www.cloudkitchens.com/

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/769409f1-fb0b-4761-b2aa-e75b9792c...
"Sales" jobs where your performance is individually attributable are easy to get. If you, the thing you are selling, and your personal network all work together you will be very well paid. If not you will find that kind of job is easy to lose.
> For example time spent cooking, grocery shopping

The time most people would spend cooking or grocery shopping isn't financially valuable time: it isn't time I would've worked another hour, and if I did, I'm salaried so the wage is the same.

For some, it will still feel comparably expensive. Why spend $25 on delivery, if I'm not going to do anything for the next hour anyways and raw materials cost $5? I'm paying rent on a dwelling that has a stove regardless of the decision.

It comes to having the disposable income and being price insensitive.
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Mr. X is living the dream. He has two guys trying to build his idea, does not pay anything for it, and still has 40% equity.

I have a couple of interesting ideas which could lead to a successful startup, hit me up, I'm always looking for good developers working for free.
Educated guesswork: this isn't one particular use case, but a whole bunch of use cases with one thing in common: gene names are put in a table. Excel is the familiar, ubiquitous tool for tabular data.
Sssh! We are not supposed to count the dead when it comes to evaluating the Wests' effectiveness in meddling in the affairs of other countries.
The ScienceDaily post is more informative:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200804111516.h...

tl;dr: a specially designed pot creates convection, so it heats evenly (rather than superheats, a problem when you microwave water in a cup, and potentially dangerous).
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It's kind of like saying "at least people aren't dying in childbirth" lol. Still bad!
This is the exact sort of thing that indicates market-power being concentrated to a point requiring severe, acute regulatory action.
As the sentence before the one you quoted explains, this is not done for politics. It is done because clinicians have to be taken seriously by the parents of the child having a mutation in that gene. Saying "your child has a headcase mutation" ends up causing defensive reactions instead of discussing treatment. Maybe that is an irrational reaction on the parents' part, but not everyone is super rational the first moment they learn their child has an illness.
We programmers also complain a lot about YAML, though maybe not enough and not as much as about Excel. But some YAML footguns like the country code for Norway being interpreted as a boolean are reasonably famous, and I think widely regarded as a bad idea.
The problem is it isn't just dates. If you load a list of genomic variants (read: mutations) into Excel, then the standard way to describe whether a person has the variant or not is to use "0/0" for no, "0/1" for yes heterozygous, and "1/1" for yes homozygous. Guess what gets auto-converted into the first of January.
History's finest: The Legacy of Marcus Aurelius https://theversatilegent.com/historys-finest-the-legacy-of-m...

periodically I do see posts from people here on HN who rate Aurelius high.

He is listed in the 100 most influential philosophers of all time http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/36958/1/12.pd...

Probably nobody, except Douglas Hofstadter, says "Zeno, Einstein, and Newton" but there I can give one example of a notable thinker who might say that, so probably there are some other people in our very populous planet that say "Aurelius, Einstein, and Newton"
Racism(defined as discrimination due to race) is not reasonable. The post above was racist, so warranted a rebuke in my opinion.

By 2048, whites will be the minority in the US. If our culture allows anti-white discrimination between now and then, then there will be major conflicts within the country. I think it would be good to try to avoid that.
> their findings that gun ownership is associated with suicide in the US seem rather robust.

Robust is a strong word for that finding. I haven't read the paper extremely closely but page 13 suggests they have a 16 variable linear factor regression for 150 observations. With that sort of model a small but statistically detectable correlation isn't the sort of result that ends arguments.

Realistically it should be discarded out of hand as a evidence for any sort of action; the effect is too small and there are too many ways that result could be misleading for both practical and statistical reasons.
It's hard to think well about the role VCs play
Why? Did anything change? Did the US hunger for oil and ‘exporting democracy’ mitigate in any sense?

Of course it is all a consequence of these actions but we pretend we don’t see it.
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Yeah excel produces hairballs so easily. From a coder perspective I've only seen excel workbooks that are bad or terrifying.

On the other hand a ton of people that don't write software for a living and have no interest in code manage to produce things that help them do their job and automate a ton of tedious stuff.
My favorite is still that Excel can't handle dates before 1900
I'm in the same boat as you. I was primarily Windows for many years, but reluctantly made the switch to MacOS for my daily driver a few years ago and I'm glad I did.

Still have a Windows 10 machine, and although I do have some love for a few Windows-only applications, it just feels like an uphill battle whenever something isn't working.
The Apple Watch doesn't have a pulse oximeter (EDIT: it does have one that is not approved and therefore is disabled), so it would be difficult for it to have this issue. You might be thinking of optical HR measurement, for which sensors have also been shown to have skin color biases in some cases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7010823/
Version the API and switch to Java-time everywhere. Or forward everything to another class.