skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in healthcare and by far the biggest production issues we've ever run into are people who run Excel spreadsheets through our file processing where the leading zero's have been removed from patient identifiers because that's Excel's default behavior and you CANNOT TURN IT OFF!

EDIT: I have no idea who downvoted my post because what I said is 100% true. We have to tell customers to stop opening CSVs in Excel and then uploading them to us because what they upload could be missing critical data. Excel interprets a number and then formats it as a number, but in healthcare, 10 digit numbers are really strings. Unless your IT team has created an Excel extension and had it preloaded onto your local copy, Excel will remove leading zeros and there isn't a way to get them back if you save/overwrite.
>>However it's very much not at the jubilant level that's being spouted about by you among others

Which goes back to my earlier point, that the cause for jubilance is not in the current state of poverty, but in the rate at which it has improved, which is excellent by the only objective measure we have, which is in reference to other periods in history.

>>Why should we accept that the only way to lift people out of poverty is by exploiting their cheap labour for a century for our own benefit when the resources are already available, just locally scarce?

It's not that we have to only accept this method. It's that it's the method that Economic scholarship has found works best.

And no, the resources are not available. If all wealth had been evenly divided in 1960, everyone would live on $451 a year, meaning everyone would be in extreme poverty.

Global per capita GDP has risen to $11,428, which while not evenly distributed, allows for a much higher proportion of the world population to not be in poverty.

source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD

You're assuming that economists are lying when they say that the most effective means of raising per capita GDP and reducing poverty is to encourage profit-motivated investmemt, and that the most effective way to do that is to protect the right to own private property and freely contract with it, and you are not examining the evidence they are providing to that effect.

>>No, it doesn't! That's just listing a number of countries, not the amount of people in each country.

One more time!!

>>In all, more than 60 developing countries around the world have seen a decline in the number of extreme poor, despite continued population growth.

A decline in the number of people in extreme poverty with growing population means the proportion of the population that is in extreme poverty has declined.

I shouldn't have to spoonfeed this to you. Your treatment of what I'm presenting is being done in bad faith.

>>This is both incredibly naive and unsurprisingly dogmatic.

No different than what anti-vaxxers say about those who trust Medicine and the findings and conclusions of medical experts.
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oh yeah? Mine tells the time.
John McAfee arrested after DOJ indicts crypto millionaire for tax evasion
So wait they have this capability and they still don’t disengage their “autopilot” when they identify a distracted driver?
My point has not about McAfee, of course tax evasion is illegal pretty much anywhere. I’m just saying extradition looks pretty different when its for violence or murder vs a powerful state enforcing its laws on non citizens or political refugees.
SK Hynix Launches World's First DDR5 DRAM
To an extent. Ultimately, the US problem is insecure employment, bullshit jobs, income inequality, and multiple generations of compounding wealth inequality. People without opportunity turn to destructive behaviors, including glorifying gangsters because they are the only people they see in their neighborhoods who have any kind of wealth or self-determination.

Poor communities didn't turn into the kind of places you describe until after the jobs went away. I do not see this as a racial issue, however.

Poor communities in the US have broadly similar attitudes, and social problems, regardless of their ethnic identity. That problem hit urban African American communities many decades ago and is hitting rural white communities now.

People need money and personally meaningful work. Unless they have it, things go wrong. When people don't have it for generations, ghettos and violence are what you get.
Excel removes leading zeros from numeric fields no matter what you do and you cannot turn it off. This is a huge problem in healthcare where many patient identifiers have leading zeros
Yeah this thing is one accident away from a Darwin award. :(
Perhaps there is a market for antivirus software that literally does nothing.

- Enterprise ready - runs on premise

- Vastly faster than the competition

- Huge profit margins due to minimized developer costs
The original statement never suggested the odds were poor because of technical reasons.

The project has been ongoing in some form from the 60s and 70s.
Sure it does but it doesn't give a f*k - once you open it in excel, it does its' own formatting and will save that incorrect formatting even if you save the CSV as a CSV
Drilling into wood doesn't make much noise. Cutting wood with a hand saw doesn't make much noise. Using a hammer can be noisy, but a project like this wouldn't use many (or any) nails.
It makes sense if they don't want to cannibalize their own profits for expanding a category of their own products.

I don't really have a horse in this race because I don't care what accessories Apple sells or doesn't, don't buy retail, and rarely buy electronics or durable goods new. I still have a 3 year old pair of QC35 (I) that has had ~10 ear pads, the top band, and battery replaced by me.
Yeah I think working with CSS is like working with Databases. There are a lot of ways in databases to get the job done. At first glance it seems to work the way you want and even survives early testing or even deployment. It doesnt fall apart until much later when you are trying to build upon it, scale it, etc.. This causes many people to learn the wrong way to do something because they might not stick around until it falls apart. The next time they have to do something they remember the way they got it to work last time and do it again, never realizing they are leaving a trail of tears for future developers to clean up the mess with.

CSS is very much the same way. I can't tell you how many times I have seen CSS files that are a house of cards. One wrong element gets added into a markup and the whole thing crumbles. Unnecessary use of !important, wildcards, overly specific, not specific enough, inconsistent media queries, desktop-first layouts (as opposed to mobile-first, or often times a mixture of the two depending on the element), and so on. At first glance, the stakes for bad CSS also seem pretty low (which is not the case with databases or backend code). This further causes developers to just hack at it until it works or is "close enough". It instills bad habits that last years or even entire careers.
Second known case of ‘Alaskapox’ diagnosed in Fairbanks
When that happens, I usually stick in a comment about it. Generally anything worth committing gets merged anyways so you still get the "Revert X" commit in there too.
Commits by multiple people should rarely, if ever, be squashed.
Homepod are not trash! They sound amazing! I love them..
Pretty much. Internal search at Google actually used these appliances for a long time. Fortunately it's still been evolved and was externalised as a Google Cloud product a few years back.
iirc a rectangle of complete devastation about 3/4 to 1 mile wide by maybe 20 or so miles long is about right. Some major tornadoes last longer others do not.

one thing about tornadoes that's different than fire is sheltering in place is always your best bet except for the most extreme (EF5 guidance is be underground or attempt to get out of the way)
What is a data processing unit, and why you should care?
I actually occasionally make those kinds of pull requests and would recommend that over the alternative.
:) It does seem physical scale can serve as skeleton and scaffold to support learning and integrating knowledge of the physical world. I don't know of any attempts to really push on that.

> for VR

An unfinished lockdown project was a RL version of that hands-apart-to-zoom cartoon, with an atomic-bonding interactive, with realistic electron density, as content. Educational XR might eventually be so much fun.

> maybe additional ones too

Maybe Ashby diagrams in XR?! Someday.

I'd love an "measure explorer" - a densely fleshed out space of order-of-magnitude overviews. Length; velocity; accel; jerk; length/dollar; length/dollar^2; length/mass; etc, etc.

Years ago I prototyped an interactive where oom diagrams were tied with other content. So as you slide mass, you get different animals, and as metabolic rate scales with animal mass, you get heart beat. Life expectancy, etc. Heart to Hz, keyboard, and sound ripples spreading in space. Or explore equations: select ideal hand crank for torque, with a meter arm, a bacteria for mass, and a second later, hey, relativistic E. coli. :)

I've found the bottleneck on creating such to be finding usable media. Hopefully google will eventually do semantic scene indexing of youtube videos, and of images. If anti-trust doesn't break them. And sci-hub still exists. Finding "a bit of video with an X doing Y" is still prohibitively hard. And licensed for reuse? Perhaps structure the effort to survive being sued for aggressive use of Fair Use, or some country's similar exception, because copyright is a nightmare.
The article states, "Research has shown that the ideal line length is about 65 characters." but it links to a pdf. I skimmed several pages and found one statement that said what the average length was but I found mention of research on the ideal line length. The Smashing Magazine article linked says 65 is just a general rule derived from 2.5 times the Roman Alphabet.

Is there any actual research on this number?
What effort and cost? They're so cheap and easy to take care of.

Maybe I'm being too generous since I am using dogs as a reference point.
YouTuber Creates DYI Aluminum Hand Prosthetic
I’d imagine that disables a lot of things, not to mention is “suspicious”
Must have been up there for the weekend swell? Stuck to Dev's myself, the persistent fog seemed to chase off the crowd that was there Saturday :)
I wonder if inducing small injuries can cause repair pathways to turn on, promoting overall healing if the initial damage was little. Like how mild exercise causes DNA damage which stimulates overall repair, and you can come out ahead as long as the damage isn't too great (don't exercise too much at once).

Influence of Acute Exercise on DNA Repair and PARP
Activity before and after Irradiation in Lymphocytes
from Trained and Untrained Individuals
https://sci-hub.st/10.3390/ijms20122999
A browser engine that's primarily used on platforms where it's mandatory, and cannot be uninstalled or replaced, is "very essential for keeping the web open"?
That's just systematic brain washing. Others do acknowledge their Queen/King or other leader.

I'm not saying this is a bad thing. More polietly you could call it indoctrination or just expression of pride. Whatever it's a process to normalise acknowledgement of the superiority and authority of your country or leadership.

I dont know that it has any impact on the positive reception of the subsequent education.
The most important patents, like this one :
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4455675A/en

Have expired for a long while. It just took some time for serious competition, like the Sony MDR-1000X and its descendants, to come out.

Those patents are really old actually. Noise cancelling was unknown to the general public prior to the first quietcomfort headphones from Bose but it had been in use for decades before in Bose aviation headsets.
So.. I can't get to the about page because when I scroll down to see the links in the footer, it loads more content :)
The citation to the previous sentence (see https://www.dekennisvannu.nl/site/artikel/Rekenkracht-is-mac...) discusses the use of supercomputers, but from Google's Dutch to English translation it's not clear if supercomputer is in contradistinction to the BOS system that controls the barrier, or if BOS was just a lesser type of supercomputer-class controller.

Here's more information on BOS: https://park.org/Netherlands/pavilions/techno/svk/engels/wer... https://park.org/Netherlands/pavilions/techno/svk/engels/wer...

Here's a page describing BOS from the company that built it, though emphasizing it's reliability, not computational power: https://www.cgi-group.co.uk/en/media/case-study/intelligent-...
My can't moves the distributed scat and bodies of a dozen mice into a centralized sandbox over the course of its life. Worth it for me.
You could probably adjust the knobs a bit and control quality. Check out the YouTube video linked by another comment. The bandwidth savings are incredible
Could be worse. Could be a one line Perl script.
Way easier: buy a projector, use your ceiling as the screen, lie in your bed.
There is a ton of expertise with this kind of things, in particular the Netherlands. There's a lot of science done to back all of that engineering up. Yes, it is an accomplishment in its own right, but no, its not miraculous, but down to decades of diligent research.

The primitive methods used in New Orleans have always been a mystery in Dutch professional circles.
Ah yes, I should see to that. Maybe move it to the header, or have a manual "load more posts" button instead. Thanks. :)
Quotes from Judge Albright himself:

“I didn’t come to this job to retire,” Albright said. “I came to this job and I took this job in Waco because I thought it was the perfect place to try and establish a serious venue for sophisticated patent litigation, and it has proven to be just that." [0]

“There is nothing I enjoy more than working on patent cases. I think, by and large, the lawyers are exceptional and the issues before me are always intellectually challenging. I couldn’t imagine a better docket than what I’ve got. I feel unbelievably lucky.” [1]

“When people file here, I think they can feel comfortable with my 20 years in patent experience and [law clerk Josh Yi's] 10 years as a lawyer and his technical background that they will get a fair process with someone who knows what he is doing,” Albright said. [2]

A quote about Judge Albright from David Henry, who teaches patent law and litigation at Baylor University Law School and knows Judge Albright:

“Judge Albright is a person who is very, very principle-driven,” he said. “He takes the position and the social responsibility very, very seriously. It’s something he thinks about all the time. I’ve heard him say on numerous occasions, ‘I want to get this right.’ [3]

“And one aspect of getting it right for him is giving patent litigants another option for taking or defending their patent cases in a forum with someone who truly is an expert in that field.” [4]

[0] https://wacotrib.com/news/local/waco-becoming-hotbed-for-int...

[1] Id.

[2] Id.

[3] Id.

[4] Id.
That example is overblown as the system is supposed to be restarted more frequently than that for maintenance. A better example is cars have been frequently rebooting various internal computers while your driving for decades, that seems bad but it’s similarly irrelevant.
Who says drug users don't work hard? ;-)
Nice. Never tried it though.
User name checks out!
From what i recall, the 65-75 char count for web comes from
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Building the Halo 4 Services with Orleans (2014)
I seem to recall this being covered in Wired #1 way back.
Taskord v0.0.4-alpha is out now
Type hints don't help performance either because the interpreter discards them. The hints are not enforced by CPython, so you now need a build tool instead of just running the script. The whole point of PEP 484 seems to be to enable autocomplete in Visual Studio Code.
This may be today's "Most HN" reply...
Fred Brooks said [1] that there are two types of complexity, accidental and essential. While accidental complexity can be reduced the theory is that the essential complexity cannot.

"Accidental complexity relates to problems which engineers create and can fix; for example, the details of writing and optimizing assembly code or the delays caused by batch processing. Essential complexity is caused by the problem to be solved, and nothing can remove it; if users want a program to do 30 different things, then those 30 things are essential and the program must do those 30 different things."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
In my opinion it's better to know that not strictly hard sci-fi.

Let me explain, since I think this is an aspect of writing that's not widely appreciated. The beginning of a book essentially sets up "promises" for what the rest of the book is going to be like. In the case of Leviathan Wakes, I think it's entirely reasonable to see the book as making a promise that it's hard sci-fi, given that it's trying so hard to be. All of the little details, like you say, are made very obvious in the beginning.

And then, you get a good ways into the book, and suddenly you realize that it's not really hard sci-fi after all. It can be a serious let-down since the book was leading you on to believe it was fully hard sci-fi.

Now I'm not actually a huge fan of hard sci-fi per se, but this did irritate me that I didn't bother to pick up any of the sequels. Maybe I'll get back to it some day, since I do think some of the almost-hard details are nice, and now that I know to set the right expectations.
Even if that is the case, my point stands. It is not normal to go from being a little tired to being so tired that you can actually fall asleep at the wheel just like that. I've done my share of long drives, including overnights across most of my country on occasion. If you're going to do something like that, you need to plan the journey sensibly, take plenty of breaks, make sure you got extra rest before you leave. Don't they teach this sort of stuff in basic driver training where you are?
For a short period they actually looked like they were rebranding as Intel security. All their material stopped actually saying "McAfee". Intel selling them off again put a stop to that.

The other branding issue is no-one seems capable of spelling McAfee. In the last thread on John, multiple people referred to "mcaffee", something I regularly see from their own sales people.
Nobody is saying you can’t disagree. My point was just that you should focus on the topic rather than attacking someone you aren’t familiar with. Doing so was a distraction which didn’t make your argument stronger.
This seems to apply only to accounts from certain countries (the link goes to the Australian account changes; the Singapore changes are here [1]) that withdraw USD to a US bank account.

[1] https://www.paypal.com/sg/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-f...
It works as an Airplay target, a HomeKit hub, and for Siri.
This seems to be of concern only to Australian PayPal users who have linked a US $ account and wish to withdraw to it.
I find my self working more and more sitting on the floor with my legs crossed on a floor pillow and the laptop on top of a shin high living room table. My legs can only take this for about half an hour before I start feeling the lack of blood flow, so I’m forced to change positions, stand up and rest for a little, or move to a desk or to the sofa. Even in the sofa I work sitting with my legs crossed up in the sofa for the same reason. I find this forces me to change my position quite frequently and never work for too long at a time without moving at least a little.
That was my understanding as well. em was used for width and ex used for height.
Nvidia Maxine: AI-powered features in video conferencing
My hometown in Shanxi China had this practice as well. It's often to see children with star shaped red mark on their forehead, hands; when they experienced mild fever or headache. It's quite painful when pinched at the beginning. I am not sure if they are actually helpful to relieve the symptoms.
My old office had a dart board in the lounge. I think it was quite ingenious in that it forced the workers to focus their eyes differently from their screen time whenever they took a dart break.
Stare decisis means almost nothing at the trial court level. His decisions aren’t binding on any other court.
What contribution?
Not strictly related, but I've been wanting a 3D debugger for ML models for damn near a year now.

It seems like a slam-dunk idea. Stack images like https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/visualizations/2020-09-16-117m... in 3D space, like a cube. Put them in order of layers. Ditto for activations.

The spatial structure is important. Right now there's nothing, not even tensorboard, that preserves spatial structure. For example, look at these two images:

https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/visualizations/2020-09-16-117m...

https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/visualizations/2020-09-16-117m...

You're looking at weights, followed by bias. You can see visually that the bias lines up with the weights. If you tried visualizing that with tensorboard, it'd shrink the images to squares with padding. Which would be fine if you could rearrange squares so that one is above the other, but you can't. Meaning you lose the ability to correlate visually what's going on.

Someone please make an ML doom blaster so that I can at least reset layers of my ML model by shooting them.
But it solves your problem of getting any car with one. The only thing you might potentially lose out on is autopilot or whatever other manufactures call it, but it's probably going to be required by regulation anyways.
> There is a numbers.Number for that

That won't help if I want to square a matrix, or a polynomial.

> typing_extensions.Protocol helps support the general duck typing "any object that has method x"

Even if there's a `powerable` protocol that could be used to annotate `square` and `cube`, how would you annotate a slightly more complex function like `poly`?

def square(x): return x**2

def cube(x): return x**3

def poly(x): return 3 * x**2 + 2 * x
In US, the price equates to:

$300 in material,
$10,000 in medical bills and physical therapy.
> The residents will defy any pretence that clocks change between one city block and the next, it would never stick.

Going from the example of "Europe/Lisbon", Valença and Tui have 1h of difference, but are located on the same longitude, <3km from one another...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valen%C3%A7a,_Portugal
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tui,_Pontevedra
Haven't read the books, but enjoyed the series... one of the first series set in space where g-forces and the physiological effects of zero-g play prominent roles in the story
Better buy a bike then. I’m glad that a small minority of luddites can’t hold everybody else back from making progress.
Bombshell on Bribe Claims Threatens States’ Google Probe
I applied to YCombinator with a very similar project back in 2015
I appreciate peace and quiet too, which is why I mentioned soundproofing. IIUC the standards for condos in my area are considerably stricter in this regard than those for apartments. I'd support raising the apartment standards to match.
James Gosling explains his motivations for creating programming language Java