skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are great little machines. If considering acquiring on of these, be aware that the NEC PC-8201A has a somewhat different BASIC to the better known TRS-80 Model 100, for it, while sharing large portions of the ROM, being compatible to NEC's N85-BASIC.

You can read about these differences between the various siblings (NEC PC-8201A, TRS-80 Model 100, Olivetti M10, and Kyotronic 85) in this little project log here (2016): https://www.masswerk.at/rc2016/01/ (It was to be a cross-platform version of Maze War in MS BASIC, but it eventually became just a dungeon crawler.)

Jamel Tayeb has a great page on these machines on his homepage, with lots of pictures and even videos: https://jameltayeb.com/2014/12/21/field-dream-machines/
Don't know why I thought this was funny. Feel free to ignore ;)
As others have said microsoft leverages their considerable relationships and other products to pump their cloud numbers. My friend who worked for an electric generator told me that microsoft offered to switch the electricity source of their data centers to their company if they switched their cloud to azure. That's on top of the O365 deal and of course massive credits.
The point is, your unconscious mind is doing all those activities in real time, “you” the conscious mind are only reliving them as a memory, but it feels real time
If they could only fix the constant outages
Intel CPUs don't have AV1 hardware encoding support quite yet. Their latest 13th gen CPUs have AV1 hardware decoding support though. The recent performance improvements[1][2] are for software encoding.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOM-AV1-3.5

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/SVT-AV1-1.3
Was that information public anyway? How can you look up that data without google?
> Corporations raising prices to increase profits

Well, not Alphabet.
According to the University of California’s own internal study, there is a small group of students with terrible GPAs and good test scores. They tend to do well in college.

There used to be a set percentage of spots for students in that situation, but the admissions people decided that “Standardized tests are racist!” is a good twitter sound byte and eliminated the spots.

Of course, their own reports said that the “bad GPA, high test score” cohort were mostly from underprivileged areas (and disproportionately black or hispanic). That nuance didn’t make the 140 character cutoff, so that group is officially abandoned by UC now.

In other news, they’re now promoting a big push to make the student body composition match the general population.

However, there is only one over-represented ethnic group in the UC system. Guess which one?

Hint 1: Whites are under-represented.

Hint 2: They swore they’d never bring back UC’s old “asian quota”.

I honestly think the people running this state’s school system are malicious racists. Their results speak for themselves: California schools are currently ranked 43rd in the nation. They used to be top ten.
The Saturn V was the first and second stage of the system that sent humans to the moon as part of the Apollo program, that's why a huge number of people knew about it. I'm not sure what you mean by "an age thing" (are you too young? too old?), but it's in the "current" paper copy encyclopedias (most even have images) that I assume most schools still have, and encyclopedias from the 1980s and 1990s appear to as well, so it's not just a 1970s thing.
AWS's advantage among cloud enterprise marketplaces: It has the most customers
Possession is nine tenths of the law.
Let me tell two stories:

I graduated with the highest SAT scores in my school and the second highest in my city back in the early 90s. I’m not bragging, it was a relatively small town in the south with not great school systems and a total graduating class of 1500 across all of the schools.

What are the chances that happen because I was so smart or because I had a mother who was not only a high school math teacher but also spent years volunteering to teach SAT prep classes?

Second story: my step son didn’t have the ACT scores to get into the college he wanted to go to. Four months later and with the help of a private tutor who was a teacher (not in his school) that we paid $100/hour for 12 hours, he suddenly raised his scores more than enough. Did he gain aptitude in 12 weeks or did he learn test taking techniques?
And it's now sort of irrelevant with the increasing demise of landlines. And there's a ton of information that's public as a matter of public policy.
> I'm the only one struggling to understand why "Desktop & Screen Saver" is so far from "Displays" and whether what I'm looking for is in one of those or maybe "Dock & Menu Bar."

You’ll love finding out that in System Settings, the Screensaver section doesn’t let you enable/disable the Screensaver. Or adjust how long until it activates. For that you gotta go to “Lock Screen”, yay.

Here’s hoping they improve it over time, I guess.
Also quake 3. It used to (juuust) run on my home PC as a kid, and now it's available trivially in the browser. It made me really sit back and marvel.
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This is wrong in so many ways I'm not sure where to start. LAME was covered by the patents, so your whole idea is backwards and even if it weren't it's not supported by any evidence - there's just no relationship between patentability and how many encoders get implemented independently or not.
Sysdig: People are “freejacking” GitHub to mine crypto
We always sacrifice liberty for these "noble" goals, don't we? But once you do, there is never getting them back. See: PATRIOT Act. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
They state that fairly explicitly:

> Rather than perceiving the world in real time, we’re actually experiencing a memory of that perception.

So yeah, the "perception" is a memory, and the processing happens in near real-time.

This also seems to tie well with the research on visual perception that states that much of what we "see" is a projection of the brain based on things we have seen in the past (like how you see a face when you look at a power outlet.)

I am not at all even a hobbyist on this topic though.
I'm currently on a holiday in Greece that we booked ourselves after talking to a travel agent. Her main contribution was suggesting an island to stay on, but all her other suggestions ended up being worse than the options we found for ourselves. For example, we wanted a quick cheap stay in Athens so we could see the sights, so she found us some hotels that were somewhat outside the city centre - I'm sure they were okay, but what we actually wanted (and ended up booking ourselves) was a holiday flat in the city centre with a perfect view of the Acropolis, the flexibility we needed to sort ourselves out for breakfast and lunch, and a much cheaper price point.

Likewise, we wanted to stay in a resort for a few days afterwards and relax, so she sent us some ideas, but they were so lacklustre that we almost gave up on the idea of that part of our holiday altogether. Then we found something ourselves that was much nicer, and have been enjoying lovely beaches and incredible food for the last few days.

Even her flights were weird choices that involved a lot of waiting around at airports and would have brought us back a day earlier - booking them ourselves got us cheaper and more convenient options.

I always assumed that a travel agent would be more convenient than looking for something yourself, but I was amazed at how poor our experience was using one. Less choice and flexibility, and as you say, less self-service, and for us self-service gave us exactly what we wanted.
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Is there a list somewhere of games available to play in the browser?

(they seem googlable but a list would aid discoverability).
iMessages are encrypted via TLS in transit. Room 641A-style cable taps do not allow them to be read.

The backdoor in their end to end encryption preserved intentionally by Apple to enable surveillance is what allows them to be read - by Apple.
> When I'm reading, my eyes movement scanning the page must be in sync with my perception and reading or the words.

Consciousness is the experience of your eyes being in sync with the reading.

> my hands movement are certainly in real-time sync with what is happening at that very moment in the real world, otherwise I'd have few remaining fingers after cutting a few vegetables.

That is what happened. It just happened in the past relative to when you're experiencing it.

How do you talk to people then? I think all those things happened when they did. But the thing inside your brain that plays back the sound and the sensations of making decisions, those emotional things, is delayed.
same way chrome on android does not support extensions, they are entirely different underneath.

firefox on android allows extensions but firefox on ios doesnt.
Not really what the article is saying though. The big implication that I got from it is that none of our actions is actually conscious. We are literally made up of atoms, which react automatically to the world in very complex ways, then a memory of these actions is seen by the conscious mind, and fools it into thinking they were conscious actions
You jump from the UC to primary/secondary schools. They are not run by the same people.

Most of the decline is due to underfunding due to prop 13
So if I want to punish someone I can publish their personal details attached to something embarrassing?
That arguably makes vote splitting worse. Do you cast your vote for the least bad corrupt candidate so the other candidate that wants to [legalize killing babies/control women's bodies] doesn't win, or do you vote for the "against all" option so that both corrupt candidates get disqualified?
I just posted a comment about my step son who had stellar test scores after we spent $1200+ on a private tutor. Did he get more qualified for college than the kids who had parents who couldn’t afford private tutors?
I get that hotels are safer but I have rented with booking.com (careful to book only apartments that have 9/10 ratings) with much success for my large-ish family. Traveling with more than two people is a huge pain and buying two hotel rooms is not only expensive but also never guarantees the two rooms are next to each other, making family travel inconvenient and expensive.

My experiences with booking (in Europe mostly) have been very positive and I find them way more transparent about fees, etc than Airbnb.
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This. Statistics is a very young field. The entire idea it rests on[1] is highly unintuitive, so it's no wonder it takes time.

----

[1]: Exchangeability, the fact that you can make useful progress in analysing a case by ignoring most of the information about that specific case and instead lumping it into a reference class of "similar" cases, where similar ultimately rests on subjective judgment, other than in a few special cases.
I’ve met some of these people and its less that it’s transformative and more that it’s reaffirming their world view. It’s a circle high-5 that they know more than us sheeple.
From my experience, I see institutional knowledge as a double edged sword - it can save you from some mistakes but, very often, it's also the thing standing in the way of progress.

I don't think I can count how many times I've seen a really poorly designed solution causing real pain, and everyone even knows it's bad, but it will never change until X leaves the org, which they have no intent of doing until they're rolling out on a stretcher. Usually X has been there a long time and knows everyone - often they've created enough messes that only they understand to avoid getting laid off. Heck, if the messes are big enough, they can even look like an above average performer to people who aren't overly familiar - generally never top of the stack though, as that might get them asked to take on more work.
It's not that hard. And you get the benefit that they actually book the hotel room.

I'm kind of mystified how Booking.com was able to say they booked a room at this hotel, when they apparently never even contacted the hotel to reserve the room. Clearly if they had contacted them, they would have learned that it was turned into a homeless shelter and not available.
In this particular case, I imagine that person would have left and found another job. They were certainly talented enough to do so. If so, there would've been no hard feelings on my end given that they're just going for what they deserve. If the reason was only because we wanted to but couldn't afford to, then I hope there wouldn't have been any hard feelings on their end either since we had a positive relationship and I would've made it clear to him that we wanted to retain him but simply didn't have the funds to.
Imagine that you were given a strange job where you rode along with the sensory experiences of a mute person, writing their dialog for them. They can hear the dialog you give, including inaudible asides left only for them. You saw and felt all that they see and feel but you can't control their behavior. The job requires you to never admit the situation to anyone, you have to always pretend to be the person under penalty of death, even when talking to them. They're 20 years old now and you've been doing this job your entire life.

How could someone distinguish this setup from how we normally perceive our minds as working?
I am trying to head around this.

what are the limitations of this? ok, for example can you deploy postgres on the browser with this? can you have a full OS container running on the browser with this, say ubuntu shell frontend with some javascript and an ubuntu container running on the browser?

The first impression from 'Docker + WASM' surely sounds like that is what it is, but after about 30 mins, I am not so sure that is actually the case.
Why was she trying to do this?
The examples you provide all sound like examples of "muscle memory." The brain develops a specialized, unconscious "pathway" for activities you often repeat, such that you can perform those actions without careful thought.

Have you ever used a password or PIN for so long that you consciously forget it? You can only remember it with your hands?

Likewise, have you ever driven home accidentally, lost in thought, when you intended to travel somewhere else?
An authentication system is different from public information.
Glad it worked out for you. Asian college applicants have it rough these days.

This is the President of Stanford speaking out of both sides of his mouth:

2022-10-12: "Stanford apologizes for admissions limits on Jewish students in the 1950s and pledges action on steps to enhance Jewish life on campus". Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne apologized on behalf of the university and pledged action on recommendations in a task force report confirming Stanford limited the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s.

https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/10/12/task-force-repor...

2022-08-02: Amicus brief filed in support of Harvard and University of North Carolina “A diverse student body enriches the academic experience for all Stanford students,” said Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne. “Considering race as one part of holistic review helps us foster a diverse campus community, one in which all students have the opportunity to learn from each other’s experiences and to think critically about their own views and preconceptions. It also means that Stanford graduates from all backgrounds can go on to bring their unique insights to leadership roles in the government, business, and nonprofit sectors.”

https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/08/02/amicus-brief-fil...

Guess which race/ethnicity Stanford is limiting now?
< And they were fanatic about battery life, security and reliability and customisability of Symbian OS. They use to go an extra mile to see to it that the development of the OS does not affect these basic requirements

To clarify, what we the right about? “Going the extra mile”?
Luckily to the extrem good typesystem and focus on functional programming, a lot of issues with significant whitespace are only annoying but not dangerous in Scala.

For instance, in my code base a syntax like

if (x > 0)
foo(x)
bar(x)

is always a bug and will essentially never compile. Because if-expressions always return and their result is used.

val result = if (x > 0)
foo(x)
bar(x)

This will overall just result in a compile error.

Still, it can be annoying especially when using c&p or dealing with legacy code / java code where everything is a string. Therefore I also don't think it's really worth it.
>The mandate was legal.

says who? Another commenter has quoted a part of the decision

>This Court aggress that the Commissioner cannot enact a term of employment on City employees and has exceeded his scope of authority
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This used to be the case, and most people think this without ever actually confirming this while traveling. The hotels have been working hard to incentivize away from this mentality with very tangible perks for directly booking with them which makes them, as you put it “literally cheaper”.

All the major hotel chains IHG, Hilton, Marriott, and Wyndham, which collectively account for over 98% of hotel properties across their various brands, now offer best price guarantees. In order to do this, hotels are strictly enforcing that travel aggregators can not advertise below certain prices.

Now admittedly, there are still deals out there cheaper than the direct hotels such as Hotwire and Priceline’s “name your price” programs. But the trick here is that they aren’t advertising specific prices for hotels. They are hiding the exact location or price unless you go through an extended process, which usually means committing with your credit card number before revealing the location or hotel chain. However, even these have caveats as they often lack perks that hotels offer direct customers. Often they don’t even guarantee a room type.

Most commonly hotels are removing the perk of free breakfast from travel aggregator deals, but still reserving it for direct customers. Also, with only a few exceptions, most hotels now only offer points and loyalty programs to direct purchase customers. You miss out on these by using aggregators, which usually equates to a roughly 5-10% value. This trickles down to other perks like the likelihood of getting a room upgrade, which is generally nil when booking through a travel aggregator. Some travelers like me that have even modest loyalty can get guaranteed room upgrades when available if booking directly. Even with status you miss out on these by booking through aggregators.

So no, it doesn’t pay to use a travel aggregator. It’s great for discovery or maybe a quick last minute purchase, but generally it’s better to book directly with the hotel.

None of this mentions non-tangible benefits like the fact that if you have a problem with your room and you booked directly you are going to find the problem getting corrected much quicker, easier, and better because the hotel can resolve the problem themselves. Disputes when you book through the travel aggregators requires you to call the aggregator. Which then, like the woman in this story, requires them to make you wait while they call the hotel and play phone tag back and forth, rarely yielding positive results.
"But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest,

The beast is laid down in his lair;

Even here is a season of rest,

And I to my cabin repair.

There's mercy in every place;

And mercy—encouraging thought!

—Gives even affliction a grace,

And reconciles man to his lot.
".

Strange that the article does not seem to mention William Cowper's famous poem.
I am not cloud provider but in Subscriptions based carpooling. And similar situations we were in.

Point is if existing happy early customers - no point in hiking price due to mistake at our side (Be It our, or our tech vendor or tech integration partner!) provided you are making money and ramen profitable from those early users. :)
Wow! East Asian here who didn’t do anywhere near as well as you with test scores (2200 SAT, no competition wins) but still transferred into a top 20 school. Can I ask when you applied for college? I’m class of 2012.
Ah yes, that's true - many people here in the states do smoke from blunts. I've never been a fan so I didn't even make the connection that it's like a joint wrapped in tobacco. Personally I'm a fan of slow, controlled burns and as little smell (excess smoke) as possible.
> If Google is the creme de la creme of software engineering companies, full of absolute geniuses, why can't they think of a product

This question seems to answer itself? Engineering skills are not product skills, and Google kinda sucks at product
It's a strategy to game the rankings.

Factors for college rankings often include acceptance rate (lower is better), and average SAT/ACT scores. By not requiring SAT/ACT scores, you do two things at once:

1. you allow more people to apply, especially those who did not take the test or received a poor score, who you can simply reject to bring down your acceptance rate

2. by making it optional, only the applicants who think their score would be an advantage (i.e. those with high scores) would send them, which brings up your "average test scores".
Here is me working on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLlEsYO5YoU&t=420s

Here is the code: https://github.com/kuberlog/holon/blob/master/lisp/algorithm...

Here is the test run: https://youtu.be/suO0qxOSIdI
Against Thee Wickedly (E4M6 from Doom 1) was my all-time fav doom level for this reason. Boy, it was difficult with pistol start, but so, so, so much fun. Huge replay value. Incidentally, pistol starts in the duke nukem games (I was on N64 version) were also incredibly fun and challenging.
Did you read the ruling? It’s not actually very long (terrible pdf though):

“Finally, states of emergency are meant to be _temporary_. The question presented is whether the Health Commissioner has the authority to enact a permanent condition of employment during a state of emergency. This Court finds that the Commissioner does not have that authority and has acted beyond the scope of his authority under the Public Health Law and in violation of separation of powers. The Petitioners herein should not have been terminated for their failure to comply with the Commissioner’s Order during a _temporary_ state of emergency.”

and then later in the conclusion:

“It is clear that the Health Commissioner has the authority to issue public health mandates. No one is refuting that authority. However, the Health Commissioner cannot create a new condition of employment for City employees. The Health Commissioner cannot prohibit an employee from reporting to work. The Health Commissioner cannot terminate employees. The Mayor cannot except certain employees from these orders.”

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
I’m wrong. You need to give the entire set of keys upfront during construction for some of these filters.
Actually, I'd argue that images generated by SD have much more flaws than texts produced by GPT-3. GPT-3 (at least, the full model) is quite capable of writing stuff that "make sense", but most eye candy results generated by SD are cherry picked, the others are simply crap.
I agree. It never seems to go right. The third party either has the wrong room availability, wrong room type, wrong price, etc. And I actually side with the hotels because it’s exactly as if someone else bought the room for you and messed up, which the hotel can’t really deal with but they usually try. And for the most part, hotels seem like one of the last places you can still get actual customer service with.