skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not who you're responding to, but: My assumption was that the user is the greycat, which is the well-known alias of the programmer Greg Wooledge.

Now that you call it out, I realize that it's probably a mistaken assumption, because Greg spells it "greycat" not "graycat". But it wasn't an unreasonable assumption for HN.
Your wife was indoctrinated and you should work on changing her views. There's plenty of evidence to support your case.
No.

Let's stop with this false equivalency.

One party has done everything in its power to gerrymander, discredit the electoral process, and put lobbyists in power. One party has consistently appealed to racism. One party has appealed to discrediting the value of effective government.
It has been my (unfortunately frequent) experience that funeral homes are almost universally owned by individual families.
Sure, not all Republicans, many Republicans have principles beyond the lust for more power or the desire to own the libs. But it's definitely the case for the power structure, and for a majority the rank and file random-Joe-Republican in small towns.

There's also a significant number of leftists who feel the same way about liberals, though this is a tiny chunk of them that speaks far louder than their numbers are, and who do not hold power in proportion to their loudness.
Why does excel truncate a very long number silently? That is what happens with IMEI numbers. It cuts off the last 4-6 digits. It’s destroying numbers.

Excel should know any number that is longer than it can internally support should be stored as text. Or they need to introduce a data type that can store arbitrary precision numbers.
Bill Gates is doing just that, but with fission rather than fusion. If the aim is to fight climate change, then fission is a proven technology, while fusion is a very risky bet.
I think they mean "technology" in the modern Silicon Valley sense of financial tech, commodification of services, and eventual monopoly rent seeking.
> Absolutely. That's why good restaurants invest in wine stewards, and extra table staff, and coat check facilities, etc

True, but this applies to a minority of upscale restaurants not majority of the restaurants. There is of course going to be a need for these date-night, business-lunch like restaurants that will always cost more than cooking at home.
So what are big-ag in Canada and Europe doing?
I'm only familiar with LibreOffice and not Excel myself, but: if you want to be sure a column is treated as text in a CSV file, you have LO quote text fields on save, and have it treat quoted fields as text on import. I assume Excel must have similar options.
A conversion with Gabriel Dance about the global epidemic of child sexual abuse
IMHO, code should check for floating-point overflow just like it checks for integer overflow. If your inputs are finite and your output is infinite, that's similar to your inputs being positive and your output being negative: you should check for it and emit an error instead. Then infinity (like negative numbers) can have an actual semantic meaning, rather than just being the detritus of an error condition.
HN isn’t necessarily this conservative, there is a lot of selection bias in a headline. Sowell draws out the libertarians.
My 3a XL has fallen many of times without an issue (in a case) usually on laminate flooring or something relatively bouncy, but the other day I dropped mine on carpet no less and the OLED screen under the glass cracked and killed the screen. The glass on top was totally fine, but the screen underneath just had big crack across it and some rainbow colors.

I tried looking for replacement screens and they are out of stock all over the place and relatively expensive starting at $100ish from places I would consider more reputable and maybe 10% less elsewhere. I'm not sure if the lack of screens lends credence to how easily they break, but it certainly can't be used to disprove it.
Does net neutrality make it illegal to throttle ssh/bittorrent traffic?
That's definitely something we're focusing on more now. Like qnsi mentioned, last.fm does a pretty good job of that -- I've been a fan since high school.

We, SameTunes, have an advantage when it comes to calculating a user's affinity for songs, artists and albums. Last.fm ranks your music by tracking how many times you've played (or "scrobbled") a song, songs by an artist, etc. SameTunes uses additional data Spotify publishes (like position in a created playlist, occurrences in your liked music, etc) to build a more well rounded representation of your music taste in the past and present.

There are definitely features we can, and plan to, add to help better portray this data to a user.
tl;dr: The North Carolina legislature passed a law in 2011 prohibiting municipal telecommunication services, but the city of Wilson was able to carve out an exemption, because Greenlight (owned by Wilson) was already providing such services. Then the FCC tried to intervene, but Federal courts, on appeal it found that the 1996 Telecommunications Act is not giving this specific power to the FCC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlight_(Internet_service)
Did you send money for the article you just read?

If not maybe they need ads. So many people say they would rather pay directly but few do when given the chance.
I’m about the same sense that I’m not forced to buy electricity from the local power utility

Large parts of the country have very little housing stock, especially newer housing, that isn’t HOA-encumbered.
LibreOffice, on opening of CSV file, always pops an import dialog where you can do this. To keep the column format permanently, save as ods.
I never understood why it got popular. Dancing baby was worse though.
To be fair, one of the reasons is Apple sells their old flagships as "mid-tier" options
The paper also mentions that the research applies to new-left "liberal extremists" - not just extremists on the right.

But the hypothesis isn't really about that. It's about the relationship style of authoritarians - not their specific political tribe.

The defining features of authoritarianism are extreme in-group valorisation, extreme out-group hostility, and demands for compliance to tribal authority from everyone - even when that compliance is irrational (at best) or strategically self-harming (at worst).

This is exactly what you'd expect from collective instead of individual narcissism. There's no room for dissent, nuance, or open-minded inquiry, all of which are seen as ego weakness, and must be hidden or punished.

The in-group has to reinforce its own fragile image of superiority at all costs. Usually that means projecting all psychological and emotional weaknesses onto the out-group, where they can be disowned and attacked, sometimes with literal violence, or with verbal and intellectual violence - like brigading, or online trolling.

The tell isn't the tribal belief system, it's the extremism, aggressive token point scoring, and absolute lack of nuance and strategic awareness with which it's pursued and promoted.
I would be happy if Excel supported some way to specify the column type in the CSV itself. Ie first row headers, second row data type/hint, subsequent rows the actual data.

At the moment users need to remember every time they import the CSV to specify A data type for each incorrectly handled column. Suffice to say they don’t always remember... and with large CSVs with hundreds of columns it’s just a pain.
Thanks! And how and where does setup happens which database to use to run the query for the specific SQL file? Also if it's part of some pipeline will it have to run the whole pipeline from the very beginning?
> 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.

People have figured that out long ago [1] (I know the author of that paper lately turned somewhat controversial, but that doesn't change his findings). It's not very widely known in the general public. But if you understand some basic issues like p-hacking and publication bias and combine that with the knowledge that most scientific fields don't do anything about these issues, there can hardly be any doubt that a lot of research is rubbish.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
duplicate, please check before submitting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070457
That guy sounds pretty high energy. For some odd reason our profession has no short supply of people with social... quirks.

BTW. I've been doing some investigation of Zulip since it showed up on hacker news, and I think it is much better optimized for the style of communication you're describing that your team uses. I recommend investigating it.
The usual way to write the date Feb 1st in Germany (and I think anywhere but the US) is 01.02 or 1.2. but not 01/02
And the . is part of the num block as well.

Also, data being interpreted different based on region/language settings is a sure way to end up with bugs, so I think its a terrible thing that Excel does this.
>Blackstone is buying Ancestry.com from private equity firms Silver Lake, Spectrum Equity and Permira.

it was already owned by PE
Most conlangs aren't like Blisssymbols -- they have normal words that are made out of roots that can be understood either within the context of the language, or as in the case of languages like Esperanto and Interlingua, use roots from other languages so that word meanings can be guessed from knowledge of other languages.
Well, I believe the interpreted scope of the interstate commerce clause is a heavily debated (and shifting) topic that is perenially to at least someone's dissatisfaction, so at least know that you're not alone.
> I realize HN sperdos have a hard time with this concept sometimes

Hey please don't do that here. Crotchety contrarianism needn't be a bad thing but the HN guidelines say "don't be snarky" for a reason, and there are other guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Many of your comments are clearly based on knowledge, which we cut a lot of slack for, but if you would make our lives a little easier I'd appreciate it. This comment would be just fine if it started with the "Leadership is" sentence. "Gasbag" is name-calling but as part of a backhanded compliment, no big deal; we're not sticklers.
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Thanks for all the resources! Just one suggestion: there is a lack of material on branding. Some of the largest companies in the world have been built essentially on the uniqueness and reliability of their brand. Coke, Starbucks, fashion houses, Amazon, Facebook, the list goes on. Definitely something that startups should consider IMO.
There's a lot more going on than you think. Not everything is a guy in a tux. Lots of subtle things that are done that you aren't meant to notice, like paint color, lighting, furniture placement, menu formatting, etc...

Restaurants are a science. There are entire companies devoted to using subtle cues to get dine-in people to stay for dessert.
Whenever people ask me about getting into the field and if they should learn Python or R or Scala or whatever else, I always respond with you need to get really good with excel/Google Sheets and SQL. Then worry about everything else. I can't tell you how many times I've done an analysis I'm really proud of in something like R Markdown only to have the end user say that's great now can I get it in an excel? I just deliver everything in excel as a default now.
Other vendors are far worse. After using iphone 5s for 4+ years, My kid now watches youtube or play game etc on that phone. Android phones after 2-3 years basically turn to crap. It could be OS/ battery/plastic shell/screen that fail for sure.
> Why spend $25 on delivery, if I'm not going to do anything for the next hour anyways and raw materials cost $5?

I think the idea is the overall costs will be similar enough that a lot of people would consider delivery from cloud kitchens. This does not apply if it costs 25 for delivery.

For people who have ample time, retired people, people who take care of their kids home, the time factor doesn't apply. But nothing really applies to 100% of the population.

If the costs are similar, people would rather spend an extra hour with their loved ones, playing video games or whatever makes them happy than cook.
The original iPhone had 3 years support, same as the Pixel 4 :)
Thank you for your reply.

I have used Talend in great detail 3 years ago but I didn't have the usecase of schema diff at the time. But for data diff you can easily define workflow. And have to admit these workflows are crazy powerful and even can help the data fix with any transformation required (nocode or code)

However, Im seeing the usecase for a light weight tool with visual aspect. I like this. But will this problem be big enough for VC investment is the question ? I see schema diff can be just a plugin in one of the existing database tools. And if you are getting into data diff - you got to see what those tools do too.
I feel that maps of existing least competitive markets are low in competition.
I have attempted suicide once and been hospitalized on a suicide watch twice. My adult sons, now in their thirties, are abundantly familiar with the medical and other issues that fuel my suicidal tendencies and were raised with excellent rubrics for how to handle it.

Some things I've said before that bear repeating:

If you know someone who is suicidal, help them deal with their actual problems instead of dismissing their suicidal tendencies as "they just have a mental health issue." Suicidal ideation is often rooted in serious, intractable personal problems. Acting like they are merely crazy actively pushes people over the edge. (It's basically a form of gaslighting.)

There are generally two elements to any mental health issue, like suicidal ideation or depression. One is physical and the other is social or situational.

When you have reason to believe someone is under physical duress, you may be able to mitigate their current crisis by feeding them, making sure they are adequately warm or cool, making sure they are hydrated and helping them get some sleep. If you tend to their physical needs, they may wake up tomorrow feeling more stable.

If someone is clearly irrational, do not argue with them about whatever they are saying. Do not engage with their crazy talk. It only puts out the fire with gasoline. There is no good reply to something like that because agreeing helps push them over the edge and disagreeing will typically not convince them of anything but will help make them feel disrespected, unheard and like no one cares.

Instead, try to help them find distraction or otherwise engage in care-taking. Resist the temptation to focus on the lurid detail that they are suicidal and talking about negative things.

Don't try to shut them down. If they want to talk, let them talk, just don't reply to it in a way that adds fuel to the fire. It shouldn't be forbidden for them to talk about feeling suicidal.

If you have no idea how to reply, it's okay to say that. It's generally vastly better to say something like "I feel out of my depth here and I don't know what a good response is." than to ignore it or pretend you do know what you are doing.
This seems very ambitious:

"It will soon be just as cheap to have your food prepared and delivered as going to the grocery store and making it yourself."

It depends on how many variables you bake into the equation. Such as the total time cost spent shopping/storing/cooking/cleaning vs ordering. The amount of food waste in a home kitchen vs commercial. Economies of scale implied in commercial food preparation vs home etc...

It's certainly conceivable to have the overall costs be similar. Or at least close enough that it becomes an irrelevant change to improve convenience. In the same way that we could all grow our own potatoes for less than the store cost, but we don't.
Nah, this is considerably minor scaling problem for Google.

Youtube bandwidth is there. Google meet is just a rounding error.
Of course (most likely) there will be dedicated planning going forward, but these type of traffic ramping up is daily operation at Google.

At Google, application developers rarely pay much attention to scalability, that's how the TI org tries to achieve, and they are probably the best AFAIK.
Exactly what the OP article is about, but yes, that would be perfect for this type of application.

Cloud kitchens, with dozens of restaurants, delivering food to a single drop point, serving dozens of residents at once, would enormously drive down delivery costs. Likely to well under a dollar per order.

I think the biggest stumbling block with this idea is that enormous amount of customers that would be needed to make this operation efficient. You’d need to convince hundreds of people within a neighbourhood or apartment block to give up cooking, and rely on the delivery service
That is a dangerously naive viewpoint - trusting that the only instances are the ones they proudly brag about? When they have been caught not even allocating all of the funds for Child Pornography prevention they have been allocated while using "the children" as an excuse to undermine cryptography?

It is doubly foolish to believe that the police are the only users of forensic software when there is credit card theft and multmillion dollar ransomware rings out there. Robbing a bank by force or by heist is foregone jail but snatching a laptop from a banker? Far more petty in risk and disguised as mere property theft as opposed to the data theft.
> What specifically is the concern with, say, the US or Britain using DNA testing?

Nobody can say, because the conditions that would lead to abuse would manifest themselves in the future. The only thing we do know for sure is that there is no form of government that is immune to potential abuses of power. They have all had abuses in the past, and we can be confident that abuses of power will happen again.
We study rats because they're an inexpensive and ethical replacement for humans, with the assumption that some of the research will carry over to other mammals. It's harder for that work to translate over if we keep them in abnormal environments that affect their behavior or physiology.
Think it depends on your living situation.

I have been living alone for a long time, but was used to having lunch in cafeterias / restaurants and only cook on weekends mostly. Over the last months of working from home, deciding to cook for myself ~90% of the time, it took me quite a while to figure out a good balance between being cost/time effective, having little waste as well as being reasonably diverse and fresh. E.g. what I have seen some times, that people food prep on Sunday 5x the same lunch to eat during the week, absolutely does not work for me.

It is cheaper than having food delivered, but only if I don't count my own time. If I didn't actually like cooking or weren't reasonably good at it, I would order food most of the days.
So if someone stopped at the byline, they would have thought it was 'excel dumb' issue:

> Sometimes it’s easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel

rather than y'know, scientists cant properly use a tool they're using.

bad journalist.

edit: it even seems some of the commenters here stopped at the byline. quelle surprise
Can it blur/cover backgrounds?
Every web-based video chat I’ve used (including Google Meet and Slack) makes the fans on my decently-specced 2018 MacBook Pro spin up like it’s about to take off. I’ve tried Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Zoom (via the native Mac app) doesn’t do this. Does anyone know why browser-based video is so resource intensive?
A similar play in Tennessee: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/tennessee-kills-...

Attempts to expand broadband service run by municipalities forcefully opposed by AT&T and Comcast.
Agreed. So the order in which these things should happen is you start with good governance even if pegged to the Euro. Then once the market has gained confidence with you, you can print your own money. That's the theory in my head anyway. I suppose there all sorts of nuances I don't understand.
20GB Intel IP Data Breach Floods the Internet, Mentions Backdoors
Short term? No, definitely not. Short-term economic pain was going to happen regardless of policy. Stay open and let the virus spread like wildfire, or shut down and ship helicopter money to people to prevent social unrest - either one brings short-term pain.

But there's absolutely a way to avoid long-term pain: the aforementioned lockdown/helicopter-money plan. Shut down, have everyone not absolutely essential stay isolated as much as humanly possible, provide direct cash payments to individuals or huge wage subsidies tied to mandatory guarantees not to lay anyone off, provide free health care to everyone affected, and enforce internal travel restrictions to keep outbreaks contained. Countries that have gone down this route are now starting to open back up with minimal death tolls and stabilizing economies.

The US, to put it mildly, did not do this. Practically every level of government of all political stripes completely bungled it. Counties screwed up, cities screwed up, states screwed up, legislative and executive federal branches screwed up. It was a hodgepodge of counterproductive idiocy by politicians and officials of all political parties and ideological stripes. And Wall Street & friends aided and abetted this insanity by whining about how a full shutdown early on would "harm the economy".
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What is even worse are the people in deserts and desert-like areas who insist on Kentucky bluegrass and other non-native plants. The water waste is repulsive.

My neighbors recently installed AstroTurf in their backyard because of this.
Is the geometry from each of the examples available in some format? It would be fun to look more closely. Apologies if I missed a link somewhere!
Thanks! Unless I’m missing something this study doesn’t differentiate between left and right political content.

However, it’s interesting how 75% said they have friends who post political content, but only 35% said they post it themselves
The competitors scaled by similar factors from similar baselines. Here’s a comment I wrote in April, collecting the then-current info from the three big ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23029151
Microsoft reportedly wants to buy TikTok's global operations
How does this compare to photogrammetry?
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Did you consider using movies as a source too?
This perspective is understandable, but requires a lot more reading before you stick to it. There's a lot of bad bad history based on this viewpoint.