skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the default data type for cells is “general” and not explicitly numeric. To my thinking that should cause excel to defer to the source data characters

you think zip codes are a more common use case than numbers?
Lemon tek ;)
Oh neat! Gonna try it out! :D
From the guidelines (link in footer):

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/114th-congress...

There is no record that he attempted to use internal channels. He would have been afforded whistleblower protection had he went to Congress with his findings.
I’ve always joked that in summer I felt more “horny”. Guess I could’ve been into something.
Although 100 Free requests per month isn't gonna help much unfortunately :P
Chrome OS 104 Finally Brings Dark Theme to Chromebooks
FYI your comments are getting automatically flagged. Might want to email hn@ycombinator.com (I think) to figure out why.
Earlier, I removed my phone number from my Twitter for 2FA. This week, I got locked out, and had to verify my phone number. I immediately removed it after, and got locked out.

I really wish Twitter didn't have my phone number. I have a Yubikey and a TOTP 2FA app, I wonder why they needed it?
You are, of course, free to do what you wish with your time.

But I have to ask, why does this random paper attract you? If you had interest in rigorous physics before now, what steps have you taken towards that?

Your comment just seems far too eager to start a months-long journey to understand something you have seen on the internet. Or did I miss your sarcasm?

If you are truly serious about learning physics, I suggest you start here: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics

and see the HN discussions here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Share this site with them: https://nohello.net
This website is powered by PyBlosxom, which describes itself as

> "In PyBlosxom everything is a text file."
this is a legit antithesis of this project and, to be honest, a potentially very useful product imho
I would phrase it differently, in three statements:

1) scientists did not know of this behaviour of Excel when importing data

2) scientists did not check imported data

3) the editors, peer reviewers, and whomever else involved in the publishing of the scientific articles did not check the data

... and the culprit is Excel.
> we put the minimum amount of required thought into safety from a political but not a fundamental design aspect.

This viewpoint is not corroborated by any of the design and development summaries I've seen.
I think all files are, by default, binary files, and it’s the binary data inside them that determines their actual format.

Try opening a non-text file (e.g. an executable) in a text editor — the editor will probably try to interpret the file as Latin-1 text, but this will just look like garbage, and can’t really be said to be a sane representation of the contents of that file.
The original assertion was about fertility:

> Trans hormones don’t necessarily cause permanent sterilization. Plenty of trans people have children

I was just pointing out that the evidence provided with the 25% number doesn't really speak to fertility, but rather all the possible ways of having children.
A separate thread with sigwait() may be easier. Though I must admit, I've rarely had to do that manually, as I'm usually using a language or framework that gives an easier way to get notified about signals (e.g. Python KeyboardInterrupt or listeners in Boost ASIO or libuv). Aside from saving some boilerplate, those also emulate equivalent signals in Windows.

Threads waiting on event loops is exactly what you want on shutdown: that's what you use to notify them to exit.
Maybe I failed to express myself properly, but my point is that saying “X is bad.” (emphasis on the period) is not really saying anything. It’s much more productive if you explain why, how and in what environment X is bad, either before or after, like I did in example #2.

In my experience when someone says “X is bad”, the response is often either “haha” (which the subject then changes), or “why” (which leads to person #1 actually saying what they want to say). I’m personally not interested in someone’s remarks about some technology completely devoid of context or nuance, and would rather hear about their opinion on such technology in tangible scenarios.
Yes one of BTC's main features _and_ biggest issue is: decentralization. Reminds me of when people go full libertarian and suggest no government intervention whatsoever, and then someone suggests they move to the governmentless land of Somalia that is anything but freedom and paradise.

With great power comes great responsibility; decentralization is a loaded gun. Use at your own risk!
You can't browse Amazon, it's too in your face trying to make a quick buck.

I just tried browsing Goodreads and it slapped me in the face with a gigantic Please Login Right Now You Terrible Person modal. Not very browsing friendly either, I guess.

There is a charm to browsing a small bookstore. 2nd hand or otherwise. You dawdle in the aisles, meander between sections you'd never think to look at, catch your eye on interesting covers, try the heft of a book, see which ones are long and which are short, the design and the font give you a sense of character, tell you a little about what this book is like to read. You turn it around, read the back to learn more ... there is a spatial component to your search. When you stumble into a book that draws your attention, you're likely surrounded by similar books you might also enjoy.

The experience is distinctly inefficient. Good for when you don't know what you want. Might not even realize what you're in the mood for until you find it.

And somehow you never walk out with fewer than 3 books.
I'm going to regret asking this, but what the hell is a "security lake"? A collection of audit logs?
To go even further: I imagine if the Arab world was politically unified with Europe today, there'd be a lot of people saying that it was always a unified Mediterranean cultural entity, sharing Monotheistic Abrahamic religions, Greek intellectual foundations, and having a long-term shared history in the Roman world. It's not a point of view commonly encountered today, though, probably because Europe and the Arab world aren't politically unified.

That is to say, if you decide that a region should be seen as unified (perhaps because of modern political boundaries), one can cherry-pick common elements to try to reach that conclusion. It's not entirely incorrect, but it's a biased way of presenting the evidence in order to justify a preconceived belief.
That's nice in theory, but in practice people do it. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
This may be only tangentially relevant, but the author is known to be a pro-meat lobbyist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Teicholz).
> Who would want to commit to maintaining multiplayer for an ancient game?

This is part of why I believe in making multi-player exceptionally cheap and stable over time. I'm building serverlesss game infrastructure which is super cheap. It's a small tragedy when a multi-player games loses critical mass because the operational and maintenance costs don't out weight the revenue.
This is really neat and I want to find a similar solution. My concern is how long it takes to set things up - does it get tiring to always set up the tripod and mount together before adding on the screen? I wonder if anything exists with just a mount that attaches directly to the monitor (like Vesa but no screws).

And how is the durability of your portable display? I got one and used it for a year but keeping it in a carryon bag in airplanes eventually messed up the display from being pressed and bumped around.
Strongly disagree, primarily because when this type of attitude infects dev teams it is usually a cultural issue, not an individual one.

The primary, inviolable value I have, and look for, in dev teams is "strong opinions, loosely held". Meaning I want to work with engineers that have the experience, motivation and intelligence to have strong opinions about how things should be done, but it's also critically important that developers are humble enough to know other developers may have other experiences that can inform why a different decision can be better.

If you've worked in a dev team that embodies this attitude, you know how great it can be and how dev team members will naturally work to strongly defend the group dynamic that it fosters. Meaning if a developer with a bit too much arrogance joins the team, they can often be trained into not having to be so judgemental, or making disagreements about real issues and not emotional arguments ("GraphQL sucks and you're stupid if you use it") If not, the existing team will quickly reject that arrogant developer because they know how dangerous they can be to a healthy group dynamic.
About TMAO: this is produced when intestinal bacteria consume choline. They release trimethylamine as a byproduct, which is then oxidized in the liver to TMAO. If the liver enzymes are mutated you wind up with "fish malodor syndrome" due to smelling like trimethylamine.

Anyway, any food high in choline will elevate TMAO.

As an undergrad I was briefly involved in an effort to develop an inhibitor of the bacterial enzymes that degrade choline.
Think online dating, for example: opening a conversation with a witty (in your eyes) comment based on the person’s profile.
Girl No. 166: A lost and found Mumbai story
It’s the type of people they attract. It’s the owners who are often very avid readers. It’s the collection of books you find, most of which have had some amount of curation, if only because of limited shelving. They are often very low margin so often they add charm in the same way artists do to a low rent neighborhood.
To all those down-voting, I'm sorry but am I to believe n=20 studies when there's a huge replication crisis or hundreds of people who took the risk, tested it on their own and reported on it? I'm not saying studies are useless but just basing your beliefs on small studies like this is crazy to me.
I think if you explicitly type in a leading zero with five digits it seems reasonable that it should infer it’s a zip code.
> They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow battery — based on a design created by two dozen U.S. scientists at a government lab. The batteries were about the size of a refrigerator, held enough energy to power a house, and could be used for decades.

Well, it’s an interesting story but there’re so many new “breakthrough battery discoveries” that I don’t think this could be dramatic, I also think that U.S. don’t sell things to China if they think this thing could be even barely useful inside the tech world.
Make an anarchist zine and distribute it at that brunch place.
Mushrooms have so much variance that giving range like you did is almost impossible.

During my youth, I had strong trips with .5g and meh one's with a few grams, sure it's not the norm but it's not an exceptional occurrence either.

My experience told me that the stem of the smallest mushrooms are a lot stronger than those of the bigger one but that an heuristic not an hard rule.

If I wanted to microdose psilocin (for which psylocibin is a prodrug), I would order 4-AcO-DMT¹ fumarate (another prodrug for psilocin) from a reputable Canadian chemical supplier. It's almost identical to mushrooms, the difference being that it is predictable and somewhat easier on the digestive system.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Acetylpsilocin https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/4-AcO-DMT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_bathing
tnx, it looked wrong but I was too lazy to look it up.
How was he a rogue? He was doing his job and he did it well, and saved a lot of lives. That doesn’t make a rogue.
> support for wsfb-based X11 servers on the Commodore Amiga

I love when projects add fun things such as this.
French nuclear power is unavailable more often due to maintenance or lack of cooling water than British wind is.

British wind often generates less power than it can, but it very rarely drops to zero.
Not sure if you're just trolling, but that's quite a different scenario. Mrs. Lincoln had a horrible personal experience, whereas the writer here had a great time personally. Though he recognized that the atmosphere surrounding the event was messed up, his prevailing memory of Woodstock '99 is that he got to see his favorite bands and be a part of this massive, generational experience. I don't see why that'd make him cringy, it's just human and honest to me.
Meta's Conversational AI
> - Aztecs were burning incense around the conquistadors to hide their unpleasant body odor (documented)

The conquistadors spent months packed on a boat together with pigs and other livestock, then were basically camping out as they traveled. And the Triple Alliance* were extremely clean people, so this might not be the fairest comparison. I smell pretty unpleasant after a single day on a roadtrip, kids can confirm.

* I think this is a more accurate term than Aztec, based on my rereads of 1491.
Here's a good article about this type of PRNG, with other sample seeds:

https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/does-it-beat-the-minimal-st...
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-select.html

GROUP BY [ ALL | DISTINCT ] grouping_element [, ...]

grouping_element can be one of:

( )
expression
( expression [, ...] )
ROLLUP ( { expression | ( expression [, ...] ) } [, ...] )
CUBE ( { expression | ( expression [, ...] ) } [, ...] )
GROUPING SETS ( grouping_element [, ...] )

You're right about COALESCE of course.
The Atlantic seems to have really gone downhill.
Joust: Tournament Based Decision Making
Interns at Viget built this tool to make decision making fun. All credit goes to them but I wanted to share with the HN crowd since I figured folks would dig it.
Engineering Scarcity Mindset
Being tan is desirable for the upper class, because they're trying to avoid being seen as middle class "toiling away in offices", and don't particularly care about being confused for lower class.

Being pale is still desirable for the middle class themselves, though, as they're trying to avoid being seen as lower class (tradespeople, farmers, etc).

Also, thinness is actually a middle-class obsession, because it's the lower class who "don't have enough free time to go to the gym or take vacations in warm places." The upper class don't care what their bodies look like, as they all know that they and everyone else in the upper class can afford to "throw money at the problem" (plastic surgery et al), and so how healthy you look is no longer a good signal for how healthy you actually are. (Instead, they tend to judge your genetic fitness — when they care about that sort of thing — by the health of your lineage, going back several generations. Which is one reason royals/nobles make a big deal of keeping track of that.)
The entire family of Windowing Functions which are mostly ubiquitous on all modern SQL seem to be glossed over by most.
Every company I've worked for in the last 10 years had multiple apps across several platforms, each with many versions, all running in production at once. Even if you only care about the next version you are shipping and a handful in production that's a dozen variations.

In a REST paradigm you over fetch because not all of these variations need the same data, or you send less but then the clients thicker because they merge API calls and have divergent presentation logic, or you have a bajillion API versions.

There's often a lot of back and forth between the various teams for each rev of the API.

GraphQL lets the clients drive the definition of the data fetching. That's it.

95% of the criticism of GraphQL is people complaining that GraphQL doesn't solve the problem of preparing the API response for these different requests. While that's true, that's not what it's supposed to provide. Whether you have a REST API with 26 versions or a GraphQL API with 26 variations of query you're going to have to write a backend-for-frontend style service that resolves the results.

GraphQL just standardizes this process.
That's what I'm doing now, it's a pain in the ass

It means I can only get a big screen when I happen to be where my big screen is (even a different room in the house is a pain) and every time I connect Windows decides to reposition my apps differently, and 10% of the time I have to reboot because something janky happened to the screen connection
For PRNGs like this, constants are often chosen by guess and check. This algorithm (an LCG) has a bit more theory, so these might not have been chosen that way, but the author of the code probably didn't have any insight either.
I'm glad that these other venues work for you, but don't assume that everyone else values the same experiences as you. Speaking personally, I find that a physical used book store has many practical and aesthetic advantages over an online store. (An example of a practical benefit for me is discovering new writers.)

I know many people who in actuality love and prefer a physical bookstore. This is evinced by many profitable bookstores in my area (both new and used).
I like that content but I wish they would update their site so that if one has javascript disabled it either server-side redirects based on accept-language or just defaults to https://nohello.net/en/
That seems plausible, I always chalked my suspicions up to paranoia more than anything but it could still be an unsettling feeling from time to time.
The Assassination Attempt on FDR
Equifax coding error leads to inaccurate credit attributes
It surprises me to see that described as an obscure phrase.

It was/is commonly used in my upbringing in Liverpool, UK (second generation Irish catholic diaspora family). I’ve also heard the term in Texas recently.
Why daily?
I understand they time the exhaust primary lengths so that the next cylinder to open does so into low pressure, to get the most stale gas out of the cylinder possible enabling the most fresh gas possible to come back in later. However since the speed of the pressure waves is somewhat fixed and the speed of the engine cycles vary greatly the lengths chosen only work over a narrow rpm band. Where you decide to put this band during the design phase depends on what you’re optimising the engine for.
You're going to pay someone a large sum of money to lose an atomic weapon? Why?

It's probably harder to lose something than steal it because stealing implies there's another party to remove it from the location it was lost at.
I also refuse to use GraphQL (after seeing it fail utterly and spectacularly in a high-profile project that chose GraphQL because it was the "new shiny"). But I'm sure it has some niche that it works for. After all, people are still using it in 2022.
> That's not what Ctrl+C is meant for or used for. It's used to terminate the running application, not the running task within that application.

If that's not how it should behave, how come any REPL I have handy handles Ctrl-C the exact same way? i.e. it doesn't exit the interpreter, it gets me back to the REPL. You can try yourself by getting stuck in a while loop and pressing Ctrl-C

Python (3) does it;

jshell does it;

guile does it;

csi (chicken scheme) does it;

sbcl does it;

bash does it
I agree the human dimension of global change is ignored in these encyclopedic data collections. Indeed scientific criticism exists for these collections: just putting together data, without new enlightening algorithms or scientific advances, does little or nothing for scientific progress.

(Edit: here the source of the mentioned criticism: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-00986-y?utm )
Text files map to character encodings that represent human language - they're meant to be written and read directly by human beings. While all text files are binary, not all binary files are text.

A database file can contain text, but it isn't a text file in and of itself.
The old-fashioned answer to that is "allow multiplayer without your central servers".
A world where the front end can access any database field it wants sounds like a security / privacy nightmare to me.

Of course there are ways to prevent data from being returned but that’s fragile.
Scale. How much, relative to the whole is (a) Thiel's contribution to this fund (b) the portion of the fund's investments which live up to above ideals.

Also.. IDK that even the best are examples of investments living up to the ideals Thiel projects.

Oculus is/was interesting, sure. It's hardware, but still pretty far from factories ports and "atoms". It also flipped to FB and is now a foundation stone for the Meta project.

Besides, "friends with Elon" there's not much there there.

I'm not saying he's a bad investor or that these are bad companies, but it's all pretty standard fare. Potential for fire "moat" in emerging industry, and minimal need for hard capital investment by the primary growth phase. He's trying to get a piece of the next Zuck. That's all.
> I wonder why they needed it?

"Growth & engagement"

Every time a tech company asks you for a phone number it's never for security purposes, it's for data mining & ad-tracking purposes instead.
It shifts the complexity to the server side. The additional logic you are describing currently lives on the client, where it's harder to update and likely duplicative across platforms.
Michael Palin in Monty Python's Life of Brian, "Do you find it... risible?"

https://youtu.be/kx_G2a2hL6U?t=177

(I don't have anything constructive to add to the conversation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
I’ve been seeing more and more evidence that we may not be getting enough UV exposure in general in the US. Vitamin D production is big, but what fewer people know about is nitric oxide which is also sythesized from UV exposure. It is a muscle relaxer that lowers blood pressure. It would undoubtedly have a positive effect on your mood.
You need to give an introductory class in yourself to others, over and over again, at the risk of boring yourself to tears, in order not to be judged by low-context people for your high-context comments. Which is a lot less fun than being clever. But probably more fun than being ostracized.

So it's basically impossible to perform yourself in a high-context way on an open social media platform like Twitter, because people reading you for the first time will always misread you, and rarely want to spend the time to understand the context. And as a result we have the usual fireworks of misunderstanding.
Oh you're right. it just considers them all multiplications, sometimes powers.

Only other difference I can see then is >1 contiguous letters in the UUIDS that didn't trigger it, maybe variables have to be single letter.
I'm truly saddened to hear that this has been your experience throughout your career so far. It is not a universal experience. I hope you find a better managed shop soon that recognizes that it's easier to teach folks a tech stack than to teach someone to be a decent (or honest) person.

Too many tech shops sabotage their culture and dozens of potentially great contributors in order to keep a few (or one) toxic contributors that the powers that be erroneously believe are irreplaceable.

Anyone can be a 10x developer when you sabotage the well-being and productivity of those around you.
Unless you really like the sound of square waves I guess.
Why Pakistan in particular? I would think a country like North Korea is the most likely candidate
Did you read how these were lost? So in your world an entire B-47 crew disappeared in 1956 just so Eisenhower could “launder” a pair of nuke cores (not entire bombs) to <waves hands> somebody.

Nobody from the B-47 crew has ever been heard from again, and nobody, anywhere saw the plane ever again.

And in your world this is more likely than a plane crashing in the Med?
That's very impressive. I hope he writes it up. I'd like to see the bibliography.