skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had some tap water in Scotland about 20 years ago and I still remember how amazing it tasted. This was in Aberdeen area if that makes a difference. It was like the finest artesian spring water I’ve ever had.
We have had similar experiences. I discovered meditation and flow state accidentally - at first I thought it required intensity, and so I would ride my motorcycle in increasingly dangerous situations and down mountain trails in order to trigger it. This led me to take up skydiving (angle tracking, wing-suiting) and BASE jumping as I believed it was merely adrenaline that I was seeking.

I discovered I could trigger the state reliably without risk during high-level matched competitive video-game play. (Smash Bros) I had nearly 10 years of low-skilled competitive practice but with infinite online matched games I found I could reach a flow-like state on a nightly basis, so long as I played long enough. (I played for approximately 4 hours per night over a two-year period). I was also able to achieve a flow-like state with near certainty using a very simple piano tile tapping game, given long enough sessions. I had simply been using the game to train my thumbs for speed.

Eventually I left my career in software to pursue flow in Skydiving, which I now consider to be a mistake. After studying meditation and Yoga, it has become clear to me that the state is not triggered by external factors at all, and that it is itself a skill.

Admittedly far fewer of these states stand out as truly peak, quasi-religious experiences. I suspect there is a continuum and the binary classification is a judgement we place on the experience "retroactively". It comes from having enough space in your attention to notice the contrasting state of the body and the mind, the level of current performance, and then to notice the noticing itself. The rush of pleasure and excitement is not pre-existing, it is the result of a positive judgement you place on the situation. Despite its appeal this is undesirable, and tends toward interrupting flow in the precisely the same way as one loses control of a lucid dream after just having reached it. IMHO focusing on the subjective threshold for isolated study is misguided.

My current work focuses on creating an abstract framework which adapts to the athlete in order to create the external conditions which allow the athlete to most easily find the flow state. Rather than teach them how directly I hope to trigger it unexpectedly and allow for it to be sustained indefinitely during training. Of course, I'm not foolish enough to admit this to my benefactors.

Do you suppose I might be able to get a grant for this sort of work?
Hey Igor! Hate to be a bore, but I wanted to provide feedback that your comment may unintentionally come across as aggressive. OP has pretty relevant work experience that I know I’d love to hear more about, but there’s not really any room for them to respond.

I know many folks IRL who work at big tech who have no interest in posting here because the community comes off as very unwelcoming. That’s a shame, because they have insight that would be great to hear. Regardless of anyone’s opinion of their employer.

Apologies in advance if your intent was purely about the topic. I just thought I read something in your tone that might hinder discourse rather than encourage it. I wanted to point it out, in case it was unintentional.
If it's part of your job then you spend time in your regular 9-5 day keeping up with technologies correct? Otherwise it's not part of your job, it's part of your personal time.

Employers tend to want people with the right skills but they seldom allow time to develop those skills.
nerds are not as universally progressive as silicon valley would like people to believe.
And because everyone interested in this article will search for it, the Cloud Appreciation Society:

https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/
Sukhbir Singh just commented:
Thank you everyone for the comments and suggestions. I just wanted to share that we have identified the app and will update this task tomorrow. (And yes, it is a mobile app.)
I love Node for those types of situations... that said, it's sometimes useful to optimize certain portions of applications depending on the need.
I, like many other HNers, simply store the secret passphrase & QR code in a separate keypass database.

Recently Google Authenticator app added the ability to move all codes to next phone by displaying multiple sequence of QR codes, but I coded a simple no internet just local storage & javascript app to to utilize otpauth:// protocol to eadily readd the codes on new phone https://spa.bydav.in/otp.html
>This [gay males being effeminate] is a dangerous stereotype that is equally harmful to people of any sexuality

Why do you assume that gay men being effeminate is unfounded (if you do think that, which I'm basing off of you calling it a stereotype), and why do you think it's harmful? Gay men, in common with straight women, want to have sex with men. That seems effeminate to me (another comment I made with a similar argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073496).

As for the stereotype being harmful, is it? If society assumes gay men tend to be effeminate, what harm does that cause?
National Information Network
I think some people are knocking these benchmarks for the wrong reason.

I’m a .NET dev primarily. And .net has historically been a terrible performer on these benchmarks. With .net core the asp.net team and community has been working on performance.

While the raw plain text benchmark is not really realistic of a real world scenario that we would use on a day to day basis. It is an indicator of the performance baseline that .net core can achieve before you begin adding all the fluff on top.

This coupled with sites like stack overflow showing the gains they get using asp.net and moving from 1 version to the next gives me confidence that .net is not a bad choice these days.

Prior to .net core I was more or less ready to go switch full time to something else. But now I’m happy using .net.

/my 2c
Help help! I’m being repressed! https://youtu.be/ZtYU87QNjPw
The relevant wiki page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...
Fish tanks require copper to maintain proper levels of nitrifying bacteria, the first two nitrifying stages require copper to convert stuff to the "safe" nitrogen that requires flushing to remove (unless you have real plants in the aquarium, then you rarely need water changes) - furthermore, copper is used to cure several fish diseases[0], so it it's impossible to be as bad as you claim.

[0]https://smile.amazon.com/Seachem-67105650-Cupramine-Copper-1... for example
So now banning people incorrectly is a revenue generator?

The answer is to force google to be open and more transparent through regulations and have to scale up to deal with it and eat into their profits.

The assumption up front should not be that we need to care about protecting their profits.
Sorry, no more authentication until we can get you on a quick call to talk about your needs.
I built LibHunt recently, and it could help you (potentially) with discovering relevant lisp projects.

i.e. I'm tracking all links posted on Hacker News and Reddit. With that data in place, you can find out the projects people are linking to and their alternatives https://www.libhunt.com/l/common-lisp
Not to disappoint you but it already has a name, "PGC2374574"

(I'm totally faking knowing the tool though that's what comes up when I klick it with show galaxies active)
Here's a fun little "cluster" I just found: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=330.8784&dec=12.6412&lay...

I'm not 100% certain but it seems like this may be an example of severe gravitational lensing, causing the same galaxy to appear as multiple images in different periods of time

EDIT: Update link
Reddit is better and better as a source of obscure information (like a more complete and less restricted Stack Overflow), but the only way to use it effectively is by external search.

Reddit is worse and worse as a community or a place to find things organically, for all the reasons everyone lists, and I, too, find myself going there less and less, when it used to be a default destination for idle moments.
>>Thank you everyone for the comments and suggestions. I just wanted to share that we have identified the app and will update this task tomorrow. (And yes, it is a mobile app.)

Looks like we will know soon.
Dirty bits at scale
What does the author mean by "degrade gracefully through time" ?
Based on this, I just reversed both Android apps and am not seeing strings related to wikimedia nor asternovi. This doesn't mean it's not obfuscated somehow though. The only app I've found the strings in so far is the "ravn" app proposed by @taviso. As mentioned in the twitter thread though it doesn't seem to have the install base to cause this traffic--
Here's the way you answer your question. Ask yourself, is this the answer I would have said in middle school? Or maybe, maybe high school. If you think the answer is worth more than that. Well... May god save your soul.
Clear videographic, use of a PIN that only the accused had access to, etc
It does apply due to NYT having EU customers. See here: https://termly.io/resources/articles/gdpr-in-the-us/
That's why I wrote "available and usable". What Mathworks called unit-testing back then was laughable. It only got interesting in the past two-three years. Same with OOP and the features added in the past years (e.g. type hinting etc.) You can see that Mathworks themselves preferred not to use OOP in their own toolboxes. Parts of the Financial toolbox use it (e.g. the SDE stuff) or the datafeed toolbox, but much stuff is still written the old way.
Another example would be Appdesigner as the new preferred way of writing GUIs with OOP. It is still much slower than the old GUIDE functions.
I know large screens can have touch. I'm asking why they are sending the instructions for rendering a page requiring touch controls to devices that don't have touch interfaces. (Seems like a waste of bandwidth, but maybe it ends up being insignificant overall.)
It's still online.

The creator went on to found several startups.

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alex-tew
If I understand how this works, that should be this:

http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=PGC46727

I clicked the bright objects on the right and then Siena Galaxy Atlas.
https://www.thechecker.net/stories/blog/review-the-checklist...

I wouldn’t allow oneself to get too hung up on the choice of terminology in “checklist” here, but instead seeing the forest through the trees of deliberate and intentional planning of sequential action and testing of said actions.

Great book. I think it can help.
Oakland and SF are especially bad right now. I fear for many of my friends and their families.
The speed of science
That particular crab also happens to be the language's (unofficial) mascot character, Ferris.
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Have you had the discussion with your manager that you want to get into management as a long term goal? Your manager should help you plan out a track to a management promotion. If your manager is not helping you develop along your intended career path find a new manager. If they do when one becomes available you should be prepared to interview for that role.
> Trump and numerous other members of his White House staff embraced racist and xenophobic anti-Asian rhetoric language early on in the pandemic, repeatedly referring to COVID-19 as the “China virus” and the “Wuhan virus.”

So why are WHO representatives in Wuhan now? Are they xenophobic too? Is everybody?

The really ugly thing is that most evidence points at corona escaping from the Wuhan lab, which explains the CCP coverup.
According to the comments, it's probably an Indian TikTok clone that checks internet connection by downloading the picture.
You can believe that homosexuality is at least partly environmental while also believing that people should have the freedom to be as gay as they want to be.

I don't really like these appeals to motive; this is quite an interesting empirical question that's disconnected from discrimination. Even if it would turn out that homosexuality is a choice (I don't think it is, but let's assume it would be) then this wouldn't change my position one iota. People choose whether to smoke weed or not, and I also think people should have the freedom to choose to do so.

I'm not so sure what the evidence says on this, but it appears it's less of clear-cut "it's 100% genetic" than it seems to be. These things are notoriously hard to study.

The real problem seems to be that people are afraid that the "God hates fags" people will run with these kind of things, but these people will do their thing anyway no matter what the science says on account of being homophobic twats.
Because Hacker News is ultimately a private business with a vested interest in keeping the status quo.
I think GP post has a point. I've noticed people use Google really differently from how I do. E.g. I would go search for "figure concave" while my brother would search a longer phrase.

Also, speaking of people behaviour, it would not make sense to search everyday for "cute animals", but the volume of searches done for new things people discover as they get older would make more sense. I mean just look at search trends for things like "hydroxychloroquine" for example (and that's not to mention people who get it wrong, i.e. other factors for differing search queries too)

Also, other languages can change the queries depending on how you phrase the sentence too. Add to that the people using other ways to search instead of just visiting google.com and I think you can get pretty close to 10%.

If fingerprinting is the reason, 15% would be a figure too low I surmise. Would that be the case I think that would make probably 20-25% of searches rather than 15%.

It could very well be that they do classify fingerprinted search differently only in some countries and not others? That would/might explain the 15% figure.

I might be wrong and under-estimated fingerprinting techniques for Google. If they have really good fingerprinting techniques, that would reduce the estimate I have in mind to a better number (close to 15, maybe?)
Most of the attacks are from blacks but you'd never know it from reading that article, which mentions a white attacker in 1982 and Donald Trump.
However 18 year olds are able to sign any legal document, and also join the military.
He has also suggested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-yllion
> Many blame the Trump administration for inciting this violence; Trump and numerous other members of his White House staff embraced racist and xenophobic anti-Asian rhetoric...

> NYPD date showed that there has been a 1,900 percent increase anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City in the past year... An 84-year-old Thai American man, Vicha Ratanapakdee, was killed in an unprovoked attack in San Francisco; a 64-year-old Vietnamese American woman was assaulted in broad daylight in San Jose... caught on camera shoving a 91-year-old man in Oakland’s Chinatown

Trump only won 20% of the votes in New York City. Only 13% of the votes in San Francisco. Only 25% of the votes in San Jose. And 16% of the votes in Oakland. All of the examples cited occurred in some of the least Trump-supportive areas of the country.
The probability of this post being [flagged] (due to it being terrible for the narrative) is approximately 1.

EDIT: Like clockwork.
Indian-American here. One thing I often find irritating about the phrase "Asian-American" is that it's usually used to refer to people with East Asian heritage (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, etc). Somehow people with South Asian heritage, like myself, often aren't included in that category, to the point that my girlfriend was surprised to hear that Indian-Americans count as Asian-American.
I think the issue is all of C's undefined behavior
Interesting how no mainstream media is reporting this. They sure were quick to label BLM rioters burning down Asian businesses as "peaceful protestors".
Normally Sharp, He Was Chronically Confused. What Was Going On?
I tried this a few years ago with a jar-of-coins problem on Twitter. I think it was Orange in the UK, the winner won the value of a tube full of pennies?

You were allowed X guesses per day, per account (so I roped a few friends in). Since the guesses were public, it seemed like a good opportunity to try the theory out. The closest guess would win. The strategy was pretty simple: use your guesses to bracket other people's answers. So if someone guesssed £100, you would guess £99.99 and £100.01. Of course someone might guess exactly, but I don't think that happened (or maybe it did?).

I wrote a script (I think in PHP of all things) to poll the hashtag and put all the entries into a database, with some code to figure out what ranges we needed to cover each day. There may also have been some heuristics to account for the fact that you couldn't possibly cover everyone's guesses, but you could try to maximise the range of values that you would win for. I think we also tried to weight the suggested guesses around the median value.

In the end it didn't win, but it was a fun exercise. I think the winning answer was very close to the median.
I'm afraid so. There is this weird double standard when it comes to diversity. It's almost always exclusive of non-dark skin minorities.

ex) Ivy League admissions, quotas in professional schools, etc.

Now the above is real systematic racism. Speaking the truth is dangerous these days.
> Computers are stupidly cheap slave workers and are easy to spin up compared to dev time. Does it actually matter in almost any profitable business?

The complexities mentioned generally fall on the developers and sysadmins who have to be aware of them and work around them, those people are definitely not cheap slave workers. Screw ups handling these complexities can bring the whole system down.
>Manjusha Kulkarni, executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council said: “Our data and evidence of the real-life stories confirm that Asian Americans are facing increasing racist and xenophobic attacks, catalyzed by rhetoric from the president and other government leadership.”

Wow I hope Biden does something about this.
Same with LA riots. We all know who were behind it but we can't even say it because of intimidation and political "incorrectness".

Roof Koreans remember exactly who they were shooting at.

edit: I guess you win the bet. You were flagged within 12 minutes. For the awful amount of whining HN does when it comes to big tech censorship, it's guilty of the very same thing. The irony.

I predict my comments will soon be flagged and censored too for dare speaking the truth.
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I did a quick check and only found them under the JSON serialization test. So they are missing from most tests.
netscape used to display a spinning compass when you put about:jwz in the title bar

other good ones were about:1994 and about:mozilla

hey, about:mozilla still works in firefox
I actually feel almost the opposite. Umbrellas are a good thing, but if you have the resources to go your own way, that makes more sense. So if your vision is that in five years nobody cares about Rust, these corporations have lost interest, the few dozen people still working on it need somebody to do paperwork and finances, then yeah, an umbrella is great. If your vision is that in five years Rust is ubiquitous and we are arguing about someone having too much control over the foundation an umbrella is exactly not what you want.

An example of a project I think would be less healthy under an umbrella would be LibreOffice. An example of a project I think would be more healthy under an umbrella would be the Haiku Operating System.

You largely cannot fight those big cheques, if you say "We don't want any corporate influence, go away", you lose, Amazon, Google and Microsoft do go away and build I dunno, "Titanium", a language eerily similar to Rust and with lots of manpower and money behind it.

You can put some structures in place to reduce the worst influences of money, you obviously don't want a situation where one day everybody senior at the Rust Foundation wouldn't know an IEEE float from a UTF-16 code unit and the language is allowed to decay and fail while executives fill their pockets from the dwindling coffers. But there are practical limits, at some point you must trust in the basic goodness of your fellow humans.

Our industry hasn't really been around long enough for the worst rot to set in, but there's a Vox story (I think?) years back about the problem of zombie foundations, with a set mission that ceased to make sense in the modern world. There's plenty of money but the intended charitable purpose no longer makes sense. A free primary school for the "disadvantaged" children in a long-since gentrified inner city region where the average child today is a millionaire is the sort of problem that arises.
How much longer can we blame trump for everything before realising America has problems deeper than one person.
The Fourth Amendment is worthless.

All the information is held by private companies and the gov’t gets the info from them voluntarily.

Ditto for the First Amendment. Worthless. Instead of the govt prohibiting speech, the govt just has private companies do it for them.

How many times a week on HackerNews do you see this kind of exchange:

A: Facebook censored this or that and thus infringes on free speech.

B: It’s a private company; it can do what it wants.

A: But, but, there’s something wrong with that!

B: Don’t like it, make your own Facebook. Hur dur...

Etc.
Ad nauseum.

Clearly, both (A) and (B) above are trying to reason through something within an outdated and outmoded framework; it’s why both sides sound silly.

Anyway, this is the same thing... but with the 4th amendment.

Same problem.

A private company that holds your data can do with it what it wishes. And, like the first amendment, if the govt makes it clear to these private companies that they ought ‘voluntarily’ cooperate with the govt “if they know what’s good for them,” then then Bill of Rights is worthless.

The 1st and 4th were meant to protect us from a tyrannical govt; not a tyrannical corporation.

Scrap the entire ball of wax and start over.

The Constitution — at this point — is an utter joke.
Do you have hard data demonstrating that your method actually has greater predictive power for job performance than other methods?
Thanks batch12. In my edit, it could also be related to a check-in app used at public spaces in India - as it increases from the 8th of June which matches when the India-wide lockdown began to lift. Perhaps a reverse of qr code scan checkin apps in India could be useful?
I interpreted that statement as asking a question on Stack Overflow (as opposed to just searching for existing content on SO) is openly hostile to new users. Some may consider "Hostile" an extreme take, but I'd be shocked if anyone on Hacker News felt that Stack Overflow was in anyway welcoming to new users.
I suppose it is different for you because you are all in private repositories but... have you seen github repos for very popular open source projects? Angular (the framework) alone has nearly 20k issues, the cli repo another 10k. React another 10k, golang 41k (35k closed, 6k open!)

I have to imagine that you're not exactly a small fish, but also not making them sweat too much either.
Why do you find it irritating?
Maybe more flag it then if the opinion be sufficiently controversial.

It was upvoted, however, but it's probably because it's a polarizing opinion that some very much agree with, and others very much dislike.
Say what you will about the JavaScript ecosystem, but this is something it executes really well on