skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I used play soccer regularly, I'd occasionally experience being "in the zone". It's a blissful experience where my body is able to execute incredibly complex set of moves in perfect coordination as my mind enters a state of zen-like calm.

The sensation is almost like a being spectator in my own body. My brain feels like it's been relieved of the task of managing the moment-to-moment decision. Instead I start noticing moves 3, 4 steps ahead as time slows to a crawl around me. I don't know if this type of experience is related in any way to the theory of consciousness, but it feels like the unconscious mind holds a lot of secrets that I'd love to see unlocked in my lifetime.
People like government overreach when they agree with it completely forgetting that they won’t always.

Rights aren’t just for your side.
This will fail on appeal. NYC had every right to require vaccines.
Ok I will do this asap!
The current implementation of Agile in most cases is pretty much the opposite of agile as described in the agile manifesto.

In my team we have reduced the process to having a simple backlog which we work through. But I have seen other teams where you spend enormous amounts of time on planning but it’s frowned upon if you think any further than the next sprint. Just check off tasks without any thoughts about long term architecture or strategy. Basically just a sweatshop with replaceable “resources” (the company doesn’t hire “people” anymore but “resources”)
err... because Asians typically have to score higher/better on GPAs, exams, and such to get in than other ethnic groups. Yes, Asians are over-represented in US universities if comparing to the population of the US but are doing so despite the discrimination.

Also - grouping all Asian groups is racist in itself. It's implying that Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Thai, Vietnamese are the same, which is patently false.
I remember going off to college in 1986, and thinking I might major in computer science, and my dad told me, "anyone can learn to program computers, you might be better off with EE." To be fair, at the time, anyone could learn to program computers (and it's probably still true) -- my dad was doing it, and his major was chemistry -- and really, anyone that's really good at programming computers is necessarily self-taught to a great extent. You just don't become a great programmer by dint of tutoring. Anyway, I stayed in EE for a year, then switched my major to computer science with a minor in EE, and no regrets.
So to this day I have a project in the works where I recreate a device like this with a ESP32-S3 or similar as the CPU, so it can get excellent stand-by battery life while still having modern conveniences, specifically as a weird "typewriter" of sorts.

The sticking point I keep running into is finding a screen that works. Does anyone know of any wide LCD panels, ideally SPI based (QSPI would be ideal but I can make the framebuffer work with slower) in a similar form-factor to this PC? Wide, black and white would be fine but colour is also okay?
The LSBs of a typical photograph are not uniformly random. For example, here's the blue channel LSBs of the input image from the repo: https://i.imgur.com/lOVlcpU.png

If they are uniformly random, then you know something is up.
They ask you to explicitly mention in the application. You can choose not to disclose, but then they'll try to guess it themselves.
Blind adherence to a document written ~200 years ago, in a world that has vastly changed cultural and social norms is incredibly short sighted. People elect politicians based on trust, and if the politicians decide to pass a law that is the will of the people manifested.
I've always disliked this interpretation of the data. All it suggests is the real system responsible is deeper that we currently think. Not that you are an illusion or whatever
We don’t have such a service but it would be nice if a dry cleaning service will pick up once a week and drop off same day next week for another pick up.

It is something similar to what I remember from India. The laundry pressers would pick up our clean washed school uniforms Saturday mornings to Sunday afternoon. And drop them off by Sunday night. Sometimes it would be really late at night but always ready by Monday morning.

They had a specific schedule. School uniforms for the weekend. Shirts and pants on Tuesdays and other clothes for rest of the days. Linen, saris and whites went out once a month for dry cleaning/starching services.

There was a predictable schedule that worked like clockwork. It’s one of the things I miss the most. This and mobile libraries. We got home delivery of produce now here..it’s a start. So much opportunity for other services.

On a slightly diff note: I wonder if they got the shirt folding robot done yet..I heard somewhere that it’s one of the more difficult problem for the robots/automation.

ETA: Hah! Turns out they cracked this one.. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/22/1130552239/robot-folding-laun...
>The city union disagrees rather strongly with that

Do they? From what I understand these employees aren't being represented by the union. Also, the ruling acknowledges that they did bargain with the union and are therefore not finding a breach of contract.

>Having multiple separate orders that result in an unconstitutional outcome is not really different from having a single unconstitutional order. I don’t know why you keep bringing that up; it’s not very interesting.

My point is that it's not unconstitutional for the city to fire a city employee.
The system is rigged against middle class on down because the government is bought and paid for by the 0.1% so that it's trickle up economics.
What do they consider “active”?
Or alternatively, the brain-body system isn't strictly a top-down hierarchy for decision making but a complex interconnected web of impulses and feedback loops. I remember hearing, for example, that making a smile can make a person feel happier (even though the subject is aware they are just making a happy face).

Or in this particular case, perhaps the feeling of "deciding to press the button" is in fact the brain confirming that the muscles in the fingers have responded appropriately to the impulse provided, and sending out the appropriate messages?
I used graphviz to process the output of clang format, to visualize function calls between functions.

The output was quite messy.

I don't really know for to give clues to it, I tried several options.
Ask HN: Which technicals books one should first read early in their career?
The criteria I'm thinking of is:
- Fundemental (Not architecture, clean code, etc)
- Somewhat short
Softice hacking environment backed by a hardware button: On the C64 there was an extension cartridge "module" called "Action Replay MK5" which would put the whole system into a REPL debug mode similar to gdb.

You could inspect any memory and disassembly and write plus patch any machine code while the system was paused. There also was a diff mechanism to see which memory changed (e.g. if you lost a life).
They deliberately chose V2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61_TqeITE3I (see about 5:30 in the video)

Not sure the point you are making: it wasn't V2, just a number equal to V2? What?
Side note: Proud to see more and more South African techies and their work becoming regularly visible on HN (other recent notable example includes Fynbos).

Keep it up Herman!
Their definition states which groups they consider under-represented, but not the criterion for under-representation. That this criterion is total US population (and not e.g. population with SAT score worthy of Stanford) is implied, not explicit.

The implication may be clear to you and I, but the post I replied to was literally asking what over-represented means (what, not who). Presumably they would ask the same of that Stanford article.
number one reason why i never EVER recommend booking hotels or cars through aggregators. you'll save very little money but deal with a lot of pain if something goes wrong.
That would just indicate the term 'DAO' doesn't mean anything at all.

I'm unable to find an actual example of anything calling itself a DAO which doesn't also play with cryptocurrency tokens, so I'm pretty sure the term isn't used outside of that fanbase.
Funilly enough if you looked at the rolls that were presented in the press conference of which battles the ship was a part of it is spelled "Eplet" there. We didn't have a consistent way of spelling things in Sweden until the 1800s.
The etymology of vaccine comes from vacca, which is Latin for cow. Vaccines were originally discovered after finding that milkmaids seemed somehow immune to smallpox, which otherwise not only made people gravely ill but had a mortality rate upwards of 30%. The reason, it was discovered, is that they were regularly exposed to cowpox which sufficiently strengthened their immune systems to provide effective immunity to smallpox. And thus the field was born.

Herd immunity does not make vaccines work better, but is a tertiary effect whereby unvaccinated individuals can receive effective protection simply by living in an area with a high vaccination rate. In extreme cases (such as with smallpox) diseases can even be completely eliminated, but this requires extremely effective vaccines that prevent infection and spread, vaccines that are robust against mutations, and diseases that are unlikely to be able to exist without humans. None of these factors apply to COVID or the vaccines developed for it.
> carbon tax

And going by the definition of greediness, that tax will be passed almost entirely to the non-greedy "proletariat". Which is why I find this "fight" against climate change fought by the West to be so harmful, it's enough to look at the incomes of those who are in its front lines to know whose material interests will be protected first and foremost.
At this point, Vite is mature and production ready. Turbopack is still just in alpha. Doesn't even have plugins yet.
Generally speaking, no. While theoretically a JPEG could be used to STORE a virus, the chances of that code actually running on your computer is almost nil. (Provided you don't do silly things such as clicking on a file named "img.jpeg.exe" or what have you.) Of course from time to time in the past there have been bugs. Some of the early Windows versions for example. AFAIK most (if not all) JPEG decoders in common use today have already ironed out those issues.
I think PRs are open :)
There are several clipboard apps that let you clean format and keep just the text by pasting with a hotkey like CTRL+SHIFT+V.
When the deadline for your papers are approaching, when your competitors are closing in and about to scoop you, when you're using calculus in order to make financial trading decisions, etcetera.

Everything is time constrained.
> Anyway, all of that to say ... my SAT score would have said "admit him" but my GPA was a more accurate assessment of my grit. I think both scores are useful, but don't give up on GPA.

Do we care to measure grit? If someone can do the courses and pass the final exams, does it matter whether they did "sufficient grit" during the process?
Apple could probably build an iPhone/iPad with an M1 CPU and allow you to 'do it all' on the single device.

I really hope one day my phone can also be my day-to-day computer. That would be so cool!
2pac, is that you man?
I've been running OmniOS on my home NAS since 2015. In theory you should be able to compile and install any open source software on OmniOS/Illumos, but let’s be honest, the world assumes you’re running linux. Devs already have enough issues supporting different linux distros, sometimes you’ll see specific BSD support which can help but good luck if your issue is Illumos distro specific. Sometimes fixing these issues can be interesting and offer teaching in fundamental differences in unix.
BF Skinner would have said: There is only behavior. Behavior is shaped by the environment. Thinking, speaking, and explaining are nothing but a special kind of behavior. Thus it is perfectly possible to be proficient at walking down stairs without being able to explain how exactly it is that you are doing it. In the same way, someone might be very proficient at explaining how to play tennis, without actually being able to hit a ball. these are just two very different kinds of behavior.
No one here is saying animals aren’t conscious. An interesting question is when does it start? Is a worm conscious, an insect, a single cell, an atom? There’s no obvious dividing line which is what makes it so mysterious. What is the building block that enables more complex conscious beings?
That's how religious leaders are born.
Back when it was free, I used to use LiveCode[1] for smaller projects. It's heavily inspired by HyperCard. You could run the same source code on many platforms including iOS and Android. Not sure about the state of development now, as the Community Edition has been discontinued and it seems they only offer paid plans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode
You’d be shocked how many areas outside major metro areas don’t have any broadband options. When we were buying a home recently, we had to carefully search Comcast and Wave’s websites to make sure the home had broadband service. Lots of homes only had satellite internet.

If you add RVs, boats, and planes, there’s an even bigger potential market for Starlink.
> 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.

And yet:

$465/nt through IHG - https://i.imgur.com/nTdZTnM.png

$342/nt through Priceline - https://i.imgur.com/3jabBss.png

> 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.

The claimed Best Price Guarantees are all junk.
Feedback Needed on a Mobile App Idea
I’m thinking about an idea for a mobile application and I wanted your advice. Here’s what it does:

According to research, 20 to 50 percent high school students go to college with no knowledge of what they should study. 75 percent of these students change their major more than once. I want to develop an app where college and high school students can get the guidance and assistance to help determine where their interests lie. The app will offer subscriptions and access to career/educational counselors from various backgrounds and professions, who will help these students decipher their abilities (through a detailed set of questions) and match them with majors best suited for them.

What do you think? Is it feasible?
Did I understand correctly that "sr-only attribute" means "Screen Reader-only attribute", as in html attributes for deaf?
Ok maybe it was not clear but I was looking for pointers to the research

Edit:
https://study.com/academy/lesson/organizational-design-theor... is a surprisingly good coverage of the major parts that I remember from way back when. I have to admit that the research then and what I know now is a) reportage like rather than predictive (ie describing org design as opposed to having good predictive power and b) lacking some meaty meta theory - why is this design bad
You can't see more then mi iscule part of museums in small city in one day, much less in Paris. I mean, if you are u interested in them sure, but why would you go into them then in the first place.
also at least in the case of hilton and marriott, they have friends and family codes that unlock those rates sometimes
I think the biggest reason I disagree with that is from the experience of extensive music training. I can play instruments almost automatically, and think about other stuff while playing now. But it took years and years of careful, conscious work to train my subconscious and muscles and hands to be able to do that...

While you can develop actions and skills to the point where you can do them without needing almost any conscious input, it just seems ridiculous to say there's no control from the conscious part of the mind and it's just an illusion...
I'm not a psych expert, but I thought this was long established. I mean we've known about the delays in processing for quite some time and thus the system can't be "real time". I mean everyone has experienced things where they are doing something, walk by, then turn around to check what they just saw because the process delay (not everything is put on the fast track).

Or am I misunderstanding the novelty of the research here? Hoping someone can help me understand better.
Compressing multidimensional weather and climate data into neural networks
You should book directly with an airline who will book all the connections so long as they're all with partner airlines (i.e usually in the same alliance). Often you can even book with an airline in that alliance that you won't even be flying to possibly get cheaper tickets.

Some OTAs will book connections on airlines that aren't partnered as separate tickets so if you're incoming flight is delayed and you miss a connection, tough luck.
Adjusting GPA between schools is one approach to deal with grade inflation between schools. SAT is just another approach with its own tradeoffs. I've simply listed why I prefer the former over the latter approach.

Canada's population is smaller but we also have many obscure rural schools. Non-prestigious universities don't have much data but they also don't have much choice in top applicants so it doesn't really matter. Over time, they can build up decently accurate profiles of high schools for majority of applicants.
Reminds me of the soccer player Platini. A journalist asked him how come he was so good while not being so strong physically, he replied that he saw what was going to happen a few seconds before others.
Your lack of understanding how vaccines work belies your argument. No vaccine prevents transmission. That makes no sense. In order to prevent transmission, your immune system must prevent any infection, regardless of how minor. No vaccine guarantees absolute prevention from infection. Depending on mode of transmission, any infection can be transmissible. Thus any vaccine may not prevent transmission, for anything.

Ask yourself what the efficacy would need to be for you to be pro-vax-mandate. I suspect I already know the answer.
5 hours of sleep is much much better then 3 which is much much better then 0.
Pretty much all stoners I meet had to fight with some form of mental issues when they became stoners like parental neglect, PTSD, or anxiety.

Most people I meet which didn't had problems and still often took marijuana due to group dynamics also pretty much only took it in that group dynamics and stopped frequent consumption after a year or two at most. But this kind of frequent consumers where in my experience very very rare.
> a decade later, the folks who got 96% plus are all either professors or deliberately chose not to,

> All you needed to do was thoroughly read Lodish and Lehninger and you’re good.

How can these be true at the same time? If you can just read a book and get a good score, why don't everyone just get the good score?
I'll consider AV1 a real codec when TV and movie torrents are encoded with it.
The App ecosystem is harmful. We had the web browsers for decades. How did we regressed to this unfortunate state?
Is that a typo or did you actually have an 8.7 gpa? I don’t understand how that’d be possible
I think it's much more likely that we're measuring the wrong thing than it is that quantum effects allow us to react faster than our neutral circuitry.
My guess would be that this is highly dependent on personality type. It is certainly true for types, such as the INTJ, who holds sensory information at a distance, and instead orients himself using a constantly updated inner map of the world. but that doesn’t mean that they are not people out there for whom “being in the here and now“ isn’t their baseline experience.
Nothing has fundamentally changed, you can still upload images containing file archives to most social media services, if you pay attention to the relevant file format specs.
I had the same experience when I was competing in eSports. I played a very fast paced and unique first person shooter that required complex and perfectly timed button sequences to dodge and attack at the same time. The game sent packets p2p so you had to predict where your opponent was about to be based on your ping to them, the shot was a hit based on where the character was when the packet was received. I played at the highest level and while I was normally not as good as my opponents, I would go into a zen state like what you described where time seemed to slow, I could predict my opponents movement easily and land shot after shot. I would either be the mvp of my team if I could get into the zone or be a non factor if I couldn’t. I never could figure out how that worked but I do feel like “flow” when coding is similar.
Bear is so far the best blogging platform I’ve come across. Thank you Herman.
MacOS costs me $0 also. But of course the open model is better for the consumer, that was never in doubt.
Interesting detective-work story connecting Blackbeard's sunken ship and another author who told Selkirk's story in 1712, Edward Cooke. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/discovery-shows-pi...]
I just want the best codec, and I am willing to a pay a dollar for it.

For Video, H.266 / VVC is just technically superior in every single way. For Images, JPEG Xl is the best for 95%+ of use cases. For audio, we have a AAC-LC, literally as ubiquitous as MP3, true patent free, and at 128+kbps, 95% of cases as good as the state of the audio codec.

And yet we end up in a world where the only accepted choice is AV1 for video, AVIF for images and Opus for Audio.
Interesting, those looking for similar ideas may look into memetic theory. "The meme machine" by Blackmore and not exactly related but a great book that invented the word meme is "The selfish gene" by Dawkins
this is the kind of thinking that results in app ideas like "new app that uses AI to predict the least offensive time to take a pee break during a work meeting"...
and this is precisely the kind of thing that blunts us into being automatons.
Let’s be real, the vast majority of motorcycles are loud nuisances and it’s the most dangerous mode of transportation, statistically less safe than plain cycling despite how often cyclists are endangered by cars.

“Many are not so loud” is kind of like saying “Not all mac and cheese is unhealthy.”

If the issue with risk management being that everyone has their own perspective on it…well, that was my perspective on it.

I think life would be better for most people if motorcycles were banned.

I don’t think the same thing about scuba diving or rock climbing because those activities don’t affect the rest of the general public in the same way that transportation infrastructure and common ambient noise does.
Not if you want to apply it to the real world, e.g. softice for mac
Of course all depends on the skills required, but yes, those rates are doable.
If you feel entitled to be negative; please demonstrate that you are perfect and never make a mistake.

Be a human: mistakes and problems happen, that's a fact of life. What matters is how you act upon them.
You can find Columns at: https://archive.org/details/sonyclieorg-game-collection
Would love to learn more about why a tracing function mutates the request (clears headers). That seems like foot gun that would be impossible for anyone not intimately familiar with the function's implementation to avoid.
And Pycharm and django-stubs can't work together for some reason.
I'm your outlier!

My ACT was 34 and I can't recall my SAT score but it was also 99th percentile. My GPA on the other hand was abysmal. I can't recall, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was well below 2.5.

Once I actually made it to college I was a pretty good student, though. Graduated with honors in 3.5 years.
Good point. Alas I sometimes find highly upvoted posts not that interesting, like this one. Almost as if there was some kind of bot, or if people upvote uninteresting stuff sometimes. Whichever best fits Occam's razor