skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's the pragmatic approach, yes. I'm disappointed that the article (and so many of the comments here) are not addressing the root cause. The worst part is that not all of the people using it need to be trained - data validity enforcement ought to solve this outright.
Also... Excel is great. What exactly is "ahead" of Excel? People on here really underestimate how great of a product Excel is because of its cultural affiliations.
Build labor organization systems that resist corruption through robust transparency, governance, and accountability.

I am aware the words are easy but the work is excruciatingly hard.
That doesn't solve the analysis problem downstream when a non-expert is getting started, doesn't know about Excel's anti-features, and starts doing analysis using the only tool that the world has ever told them is acceptable for tabular data.

Ideally excel would change, but since we know it won't, and we want to work with lots of people with minimal problems, we must adapt.
Well the pie chart with possible mental illnesses had some stuff in that direction.
That's just a wrapper over the C interface. When I last looked at using Roaring Bitmaps I was going to use it in shared memory, which would mean removing explicit calls to malloc etc, and supplying allocators instead.
Interesting. I like Python but don't enjoy programming in it. I find programming with R much more to my liking. I do data analysis and modeling mostly.
How to Use Relative Sizing and Burn-Up Charts to Scope a Project
If this kind of thing amuses you, check out the book Humble Pi by Matt Parker. Its a collection of stories about maths errors. Lo and behold, most of them happen in Excel.
But the credit card and small claims court routes would be dealing with the reseller. Of course the reseller also has the responsibility to sell items meeting their advertised features, but in this case the issue is more with how the actual company's support was acting. Public shaming seems like the correct approach.
It is shortsighted to call this behavior a "useful feature". It was and is a grave and serious mistake.

Automatically converting SEPT1 to a date caused far more damage than the benefit of the fleeting convenience.

The damage that this "feature" caused and will keep causing goes far beyond the domain of bioinformatics.

Even in bioinformatics things have not been "solved", for the next decade the same gene will have two names when looking it up in previously published data.
Most seem to involve a wing or fin extending out from the hull in some way.

That seems like it would introduce drag and greatly limit speed.
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Hi HN, recently I have been interested in life evolution. I would like some resources which help in visualize and explore evolutionary process. Any games, research papers, movies, books, etc.
Recently came across https://labs.minutelabs.io/evolution-simulator/
A court decision that opines on qualified immunity, with references to Star Wars and TikTok. A long but worthy read. Just one excerpt:

> I have told this story today because of its obvious parallels with § 1983. In both situations, judges took a Reconstruction-era statute designed to protect people from the government, added in some “legalistic argle-bargle,” and turned the statute on its head to protect the government from the people. We read § 1983 against a background of robust immunity instead of the background of a robust Seventh Amendment. Then we added one judge-made barrier after another. Every hour we spend in a § 1981 case trying to parse “temporal proximity” is a distraction from the point of the statute: to determine if there was unlawful discrimination. Just as every hour we spend in a § 1983 case asking if the law was “clearly established” or “beyond debate” is one where we lose sight of why Congress enacted this law those many years ago: to hold state actors accountable for violating federally protected rights.
Reading this just makes me incredibly sad. This feels so dumb and backwards... Why do people even still use excell at all?
I may be tired from too much assembly language today, but... isn't the article saying that the Shanghai-made Teslas did best in a comparison with other cars sold in China, while the Fremont-made Teslas did worst in a comparison with other cars sold in the US?

If the two Teslas are equal in quality, or the Shanghai-made ones would score worse than the Fremont-made cars if rated by US buyers, then the implication is that ~all cars sold in China are qualitatively worse than the worst sold in the US. Which sounds implausible too me, perhaps even a case of RAA.
You're welcome. I avoid runaway loops like fire because the crashes tend to be problematic to debug. Consider the timeout thing from SO. Generally working with events in JS is easier than central run loops.
That's why I'm in favor of this change in nomenclature.
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> a novelty

not a novelty. the true bigiron vendors (not sun) had been doing this for decades.

mainframe reliability puts the upstart unix systems to shame.
Taiwan in talks to purchase sophisticated U.S. drones
Does Gab not police neo-nazi content?
I believe that since there was no support for the impeachment from the House minority, the Senate majority was justified in their action. If the roles were reversed for all parties, I would not find the outcome any less expected.
If you're blowing that kind of money on gaming I would hope you take it more seriously than "just now and then". Even so, with that kind of expenditure you can easily justify just having a dedicated gaming rig.
Wouldn't "result of a medical discussion" (as in expert opinion of no way to improve life quality of a terminal patient) vs "personal decision" (made independently by person for variety of other reasons) fit better?

Procedure vs independent act?
Malplezure, vi pravas :( Sed la espero neniam mortas plene.
This comment has been flagged for some reason, but I've also noticed the same thing anecdotally.
>For now. We have no idea what kind of long term damage this is going to cause yet.

Has there ever been an influenza/coronavirus-like infection with less than 0.1% fatality rate in working-age people (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/singapore/) that caused lasting disability in a significant proportion of the population? Given how the immune system works it doesn't make sense that someone's body is good enough at fighting the virus that it only displays mild cold-like symptoms yet weak enough that it somehow lets the virus cause serious long-term damage.
This issue is somewhat close to my heart.

My grandmother committed suicide. My mother has tried to commit suicide on several occasions, and I have suffered from depression for most of my life.

I'm happy to say that ketamine infusion therapy was a breakthrough for me, after decades of making no progress with anti-depressants, I am now virtually depression-free and have been so for years. I highly recommend it to anyone who suffers from treatment-resistant depression. That said...

> Every suicide is a tragedy.

Statements like that on suicide prevention websites have always bothered me because I find them disingenuous, and for me personally have always been counter-productive. I think it's obvious that not all suicides are tragedies. I think that as uncomfortable as it makes us, for many people suicide is the most responsible decision a person can make.

Not everybody has loved ones, and not everybody is a great person. My best friend's father was incredibly abusive and incredibly miserable, despite spending his whole life in various forms of treatment. His death marked a significant improvement in my friend's wellness. I suppose this man could have just left his family but...I wouldn't say his suicide is a tragedy. He's no longer suffering.

A lot of the arguments I see against suicide is that it hurts the people around you. Which is true, and this effect is difficult to understate. I'm still affected by the suicide of my grandmother, whom I never even met.

But that's not a reason to live, that's just a reason not to die.

I'm guessing that access to quality healthcare is one of the best ways to prevent suicide. (Luckily I could afford my ketamine injections and subsequent prescriptions.) I think that's obvious to everyone though. Strange in my country how access is still such an issue...
I'm a student EMT and our instructor told us not to rely on a pulse ox reading if our patient has dark skin, or if they were in a fire, or are a lifelong smoker, or if they have any nail polish or dirt/grease on their fingertips. We just look for the 94-100% range and would only take action if we get a reading around 87% or lower, or see a sudden drop during treatment.

There are a few alternatives designs that aim to mitigate this particular issue by either preventing crosstalk [1] or by using multiple LED wavelengths and angles - the second one is something a med device engineer told me about a few months ago, but I'm having trouble finding any papers or information on it.

[1] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jhe/2018/3521738/
This always struck me as being dumber than streaming the whole file through lz4 or something similar.

At least by separating the compression from the encoding you have a choice of when decompression vs decoding will happen.
> Havent read the article

Please do. The article has a paragraph that addresses this.
> You can see how well the approach has worked with changing Trump's behavior, even though there are huge armies of people pointing out and documenting his issues day and night seemingly without any awareness that all that work has not changed outcomes.

Trump is arguably the exception, in that he either doesn't care about re-election or (more likely) at some level misunderstands exactly why he won on the first place. Public opinion often does have a significant impact on government policy, though, especially in parliamentary democracies (where it's easier to u-turn without showing that much weakness by simply sacrificing a minister).
> (it's all esm)

Always has been.
> I also fail to understand why Windows isn't better

It's simple: Microsoft doesn't prioritize making it better. They prioritize funneling people into more Microsoft products like One Drive. They are following the general trend of IT: Fuck users.
This probably will bomb on HN, not much marketable about a test suite for a vaugley defined specification.

But, an open call for all developers interested in WebAssembly, please help me out with this test suite, we don't have one.
This optimization problem is very similar to that of minimizing the diagonal bandwidth of a matrix, a common problem in large numerical computations [1].
It is also related to cluster finding in graphs and graph layouts by considering the adjacency matrix.

The difference is that in both those cases the values are boolean, but in this post the cost function is weighted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthill%E2%80%93McKee_algorith...
There is a very interesting interview with the author on the A16Z podcast, I listened to it today and felt like I learned a few things:

https://a16z.com/2020/08/01/working-in-public-communities-op...
>It's honestly amazing that Excel hasn't fixed this issue.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a dotfile option added yet
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MicroBlocks is based on the GP language: http://gpblocks.org/

You might want to read Mark Guzdial's blog for more on that:

> What makes GP remarkable is that it aims to be a general purpose language. John’s vision for GP is to be the language that students might move to after Scratch, with the highest possible ceilings. Think about GP as Python or Smalltalk in blocks — and even more the latter than the former. From the virtual machine (VM) on which it runs to the class browser, GP feels like a blocks-based form of Smalltalk. Because GP is VM-based, it’s portable — there are versions for Mac, Windows, iOS, and even a JavaScript implementation of the VM so that GP runs in the browser.

– https://computinged.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/introducing-gp-...
Interesting to see the distribution of psychiatric diagnoses; people don't often think of mental illness aside depression in this context.

Schizophrenia is less common than depression so less absolute burden, but it's deadlier.
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it would be nice if everyone was expert at everything, but they cant be. it would be nice if they hired experts but money doesn’t grow on trees. we often insist on a degree of excellence we refuse to pay for
Infuriatingly,

the paper announcing the new guidelines of renaming genes, a work of fundamental importance to all scientists in the world, cannot be read without an expensive subscription to the journal.

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

Thanks science (sarcasm!)
You sent shit to your dad from the wrong machine/partition.
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> If you run something with instructions your processor doesn't have it will crash.

I would be very surprised if the processor itself crashed. I haven't encountered it in actuality so far, but as far as I'm aware, illegal instructions raise an interrupt that the OS can catch. On Unix, this should result in the corresponding user space process receiving SIGILL.

It appears that SIGILL is actually preemptible. Could this be used as a poor man's CPU feature detection mechanism?
Having grown up with 8bit home computers everything about the web seems insanely inefficient. But text formats do have undeniable upside. Best would be more portable efficient formats like protobuf.
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It's one thing if it were typed in, but this is not typically from typing, it's from opening a CSV file that has a field that's OCT4. (And honestly, if I want a date, I'll hit the date formatting button, Excel.)

It is super hard to figure out a way to import data into excel without triggering auto-conversions. I knew a way a few years ago when I was dealing with lots more biologists, but I have forgotten now. If I had to do it now, I would write XLSX directly then manually check the file in Excel, because Excel is fundamentally untrustworthy.
One of the goofiest things about JavaScript is how some of its most important and basic features and properties—say, prototypal inheritance and functions-are-objects—fall in the "you should probably never use these in any way that actually leverages their notable capabilities in JS, and if you think you need to, think again, and please... don't" category.

The result is that practically no-one wants to write in whatever a "JS native" paradigm might look like. Everyone wants to write it like C, or like Java, or like OCaml, or whatever. Mind, I don't think it's a bad thing people avoid writing "JS native" style, because I certainly don't want to be handed a codebase in which anyone's done anything remotely interesting with prototypal inheritance—it's just something I find interesting about the community of such a popular language.
It isn't. You implied 2 things:

> It seems like a "butterfly effect" argument

The butterfly effect describes how a minor change in the current state of a system might lead to a huge change in a future state. But here we're talking about huge changes to begin with. Why do you expect that changes with such massive impact would have anything but visible and long lasting effects on every aspect of that system, including future choices?

> The Shah was ousted by Iranians and the new regime was put into place by Iranians. The revolution was expressly anti-American

This is how manipulation works. Someone appears to make a choice because they're manipulated into making it but they do it without understanding the full consequences and implications of their choice, that they were manipulated into making it, or by whom. And when you're dealing with such outside interference all bets are off. Even if the decision was taken by the individual citizens, they are in general ill-equipped to deal with such planned large scale manipulation. And it's exactly what the manipulators are counting on. Look at the Russian interference in US elections.

If a witness provides false testimony and evidence against you to a jury, who subsequently finds you guilty, who is to blame? The jury? The witness? You? And if your imprisonment has visible and long lasting effects on your life would you consider that point a pivotal one that forever influenced your future and future choices, or one that needlessly blurs the definition of "causality"?
isn’t the saying, 80% of everything is garbage?
Well, it's funny to know that even the people doing the most cutting edge stuff are also getting fucked in the rear by that piece of shit software Excel.

Seriously, I hardly trust the program anymore. I always need to get the truth from Python and Pandas.
This was fixed in YAML 1.2, which was released in 2009. Don't blame the spec, blame the applications that use ancient libraries.
The Faro shuffle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faro_shuffle?wprov=sfla1).
...and get better sleep.
And darker coloured textiles are less visible on people with darker skin. Grass is green and bananas tend to be curved.

I get that it is interesting to research optically measuring systems to 'search for bias' and I'm sure there are going to be biases in varying degrees, but that doesn't mean it's always for the same reason or with the same result.

There are very real problems of course, take the example with the photographic film development from the article: that is a problem because a picture that is supposed to reflect the subject you photographed no longer does what it was suppsoed to do. And someone here posted the example of the soap dispenser that couldn't "see" people that didn't have light skin. Also a problem, because now you can't get soap. Both of those are mostly examples of errors made during engineering (apply Hanlon's razor when in doubt - it's not always malice like people often assume), and might be preventable if there were more different samples and interactions available during development.

That doesn't mean it's the only type of problem we have with devices for humans, or that keeping a color palette of people around is always going to fix it.

Take the soap dispenser example: you could have made one that uses radar or ultrasonic detection, solves multiple problems because you now don't have to consider lighting conditions which always vary due to differences in bathrooms (light fixtures, positioning, positioning of the dispenser itself etc). That doesn't relate to skin color, but can just as easily be a similar problem that could have been prevented all the same by doing proper engineering. But it's likely that in cases like this (soap dispensers) the detection system was just a module that some other third party company imports and sells, and they bought it from a module integrator somewhere else and they bought the parts as generic motion detectors from a company 4 layers down the chain that specializes in measuring daytime movements of rabbits or something silly like that.

On the other hand: if you have a government that requires certain controls to be in place and applied for medical equipment to be used in a medical setting you would expect some of the requirements to be drawn up in a way that reflects the use cases. It appears that either the devices are not scoped within those controls, or the controls failed. Or it's all good and the difference in measurement is not significant enough to matter for the use case and thus the devices are used as-is and this research doesn't relate to the real world as well as people think.
You might enjoy his autobiography, Strange Things Happen, which mostly skirts around The Police. Very enjoyable.
I hate to sound like a salty old IT guy, but here we go. It is not the fault of Excel that people are using it wrong. They have the ability to import the data as text but they skip that step all together. If the user does not say up front what the column is, Excel has to guess. If Excel didn't try to guess, someone would be making a comment on how bad usability is when an obvious date field was getting interpreted as text.
"...SIMD is underutilized in general purpose workloads... Daniel Lemire and I built simdjson to show the power of SIMD in a non-traditional domain..."

To your point, the recently front-paged simdjson writeup made me regret ignoring SIMD. I had dabbled in 3D graphics and matrix math stuff in the 90s and somehow continued to associate those extensions with that kind of work.

My bad.

Thank you for daylighting this stuff.
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Exactly.

Until preparation and delivery become roboticized, it is absolutely not true.

I live in New York City, eat meat, and it's easy to spend only ~$300/mo. on groceries for the month if you're paying attention to prices and cooking yourself.

That's $3.25 per meal. Please show me how exactly I can get nutritious full prepared meals at this price, let alone delivered...
I think it is stupid to ever believe people would act as one. I get the feeling that you're one of those libtards that don't have a clue on how the world really works
Nobody uses OOP in JavaScript imo (because otherwise, just use TypeScript) except when making games.
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Docker on MacOS is notoriously slow though - I use it myself sometimes, and it's never a good experience.
There was a nice Radiolab podcast about this:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/25719...

And also another podcast from NPR:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/notetoself/articles/cha...

I found the Radiolab one entertaining.
> The Apple Watch doesn't have a pulse oximeter

Yes, it does. The FDA blocked its use.

https://www.city-journal.org/fda-blocks-apple-watch-blood-ox...

https://www.cultofmac.com/320322/apple-watch-sensors-are-cap...
I saw a recent writeup by journalists on suicide among black people in Chicago. So far we're halfway through the year and already have matched 2019.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/7/25/21336409/sui...
Ugh. Why is "MARCH1" interpreted as a date at all? Does anybody use that as shorthand for March 1?
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Please try to avoid insults like "if it's an honest question".

Obviously the video isn't "fake". That's crying wolf. The video is real, you just don't like what those doctors have to say.

The video puts people in danger by telling them to not wear masks and instead take zinc.

Yeah, or maybe it's the opposite. That's a medical discussion. Snopes and Google should have nothing to do with it. And calling it fake is just manipulation.
I think you've failed to grasp the issue, it's way more than just things I type sadly. It prevents the use csv files for many purposes. That stops excel users interacting with the wider ecosystem of file\data processing systems...
Suicide prevention focuses on a package of measures. These include kinder fairer societies as a long term measure. I don't know anyone working in suicide prevention in England who isn't deeply aware of the wider determinants of mental ill health. (And I know a lot of people working in suicide prevention).

But the package of measures also includes "preventing access to means and methods". This is because we know it makes a difference. We have some natural experiments to show this: changing the domestic supply of gas from coal gas to natural gas caused a substantial decline in deaths: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC478945/

Changing cars to have catalytic convertors also caused a decline in deaths.

People get caught up on this. They say "merely making it harder to buy paracetamol isn't addressing the root causes, you need to do that". They're right, but they're missing the point that this is supposed to be a package of measures that also looks at why people attempt suicide.
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