skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They need to put more effort on UI design.

Gitea is a lot uglier than its alternative.
Very bad experience. I wonder what the reviews say (and you might actually want to read the recent reviews and check more than one website)

I always try to check places like Wikivoyage etc for the neighborhoods

As per comparing it with "offline travel agents", I've had some bad experiences with them as well.
> I've come to rely greatly on in-app ratings/reviews before booking.

Really? My last vacation we booked the first few nights and then decided where to go and booked the next night on booking.com and my take-away was that they must mostly keep the good reviews online and remove most of the bad ones.
Only to the extent that presence of mind and ethics are skills instead of something you are. People don’t clever their way out of these holes. That requires wisdom, not cleverness.
Us Americans are so obsessed with government overreach that you'd think our corporate overloads are actually treating us well and that the government is the bad guy.

When the government wants to fuck us over, think what the NSA has been doing, they won't look for precedents so there's no point in treating every decision they make as a potential sliperry slope.

Covid was/is killing people, vaccines prevent that, so vaccines must be required. Very simple.
Apple cares about their quality and brand image more than they care about advertising money. A very smart move on their part
What's the correlation between no widevine support and streaming resolution?
In my post, I specifically defined it relative to US population. But what you are implying is correct - in general, "over-represented" is subjective. Had I used only US population with SAT score above some threshold, the numbers would have differed.

In fact, it's past the time time to address your question, and start using the term consistently. Stanford themselves boast how "underrepresented minorities" are the fastest growing group [1], without defining the term. Presumably they mean relative to population, but somehow they don't count whites among that group, despite them being, at Stanford, both under-represented and a minority.

We would all greatly benefit if, instead of being so coy, they would openly state: "Yes, there are fewer non-Jewish whites than what would be expected from population numbers, but that is because they're just not smart enough."

After all, how can the conversation advance, if the participants are dishonest, hiding or ignoring data as is convenient?

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/report/2021/12/08/underrepresented...
But if it’s predetermined, wouldn’t that mean that God doesn’t play dice then?
A small hardware store in town went out of business because they were forced to close. Same for a lot of other small stores. I could understand reducing number of people in the store but closing totally while keeping others open simply didn’t make sense. I think the exceptions had more to do with successful lobbying
than with health reasons.
There’s a hack that makes stealing Hyundai and Kia cars easier
Serious question: how much do you think a full time customer service agent should be paid? (Some background: I've worked at customer service in the past.)
Only if there is a flaw in the jpeg decoder
Related: https://twitter.com/hubermanlab/status/1428029719966982146
Azure Blob media picker in Cloudy CMS
This argument is useless in the face of the COVID shots because they do not prevent transmission, an important factor in herd immunity being effective.

Being anti-vax-mandate for an ineffective vaccine is not anti-vax in any way.
This feels pointless. The world is in constant flux. There is nothing that’s ever perfect, or lasting, because the red queen keeps on running. Software should change to adapt, or it will become useless.
In most companies, it's good to let you leave, if they need 5-10 people to replace you. You take this as a point of pride, but I see folks like this as organizational bottlenecks.

When I leave an organization, my goal is for them to either directly replace me, or for them to not need to replace me at all. I do this by ensuring that I don't silo my work (by ensuring others are working with me, or under me), documenting everything I work on, and occasionally changing roles.

My specific goal is to help a company grow, not to make them depend on me.
Many people in the privacy space do not consider these requests to be legitimate because of the power of attorney granted to them is a moot. Furthermore, we are sent requests whether or not we have data on these subjects. So in both regards we are being "spammed"
I've done that.

I have a human conversation, make sure the expectations are clear and ask them if they think they can do it. Then I look at some of their work to verify and that's literally all.

No whiteboard, no takehome, no brainteaser, nothing like that.

Go google "how gates hires" or "how jobs hired" ... it's more or less the same. None of this I watch you implement a sliding window in a shared coding environment bullshit.

Let me put it this way. Say your candidates were all award winning scholars with phds and prestigious organizations to their name, then how would you go about it?

With respect but also, you'd still check to make sure it's the right fit, obviously.

Now here's the crazy go-nuts bananas idea - treat everyone with that level of respect. Totally wacky, I know. But hear me out - you can apparently build better teams with trust allocated to trustworthy people as your building block. That starts the day you interview and extends forever, well beyond your time working together.
I was in high school in the early 00s and heard the exact same thing, and that was a major reason why I chose not to major in CS! (The other is that my HS programming curriculum and teacher were inadequate, but at the time I was convinced that I just wasn't wired for programming.) In the end I took the long way around and ended up in the field as a self-taught programmer.
That makes me think, if consciousness is an illusion of the subconscious, then what's the difference in terms of outward effect on the world? We're all philosophical zombies then technically since consciousness in this scenario doesn't exist.
Why would you check-in these CV pics rather than creating a Medium article or a personal blog?
> Limited scope software simply exports functionality to a "de facto" support structure. An ecosystem as it were.

Ok but now everyone who doesn't need that new better experience doesn't get their code broken anymore right? So it isn't a wash, we've gained a benefit.
Ok I have more vaccines then the law requires because I went places where it made sense to get more shots for more disease.

I have not touched the COVID shot because I did not trust it for these reasons:

- vaccines take years to test not months
- there were new untested biotech involved
- in short order I was being told that it does not work for this flavor of COVID.

And now it is acknowledged to not protect you or prevent the spread of COVID.

How can you claim any social good here? it has bad side effects and does not work.
I thought an interesting point of the article was that the customer wasn’t entirely blameless and the article said as much. Read her situation a couple more times over.

This person arrived to check in at 11:30 PM and intended to catch a 6 AM flight the next day. So their original plan involved only sleeping from around 11:45PM to 4:30AM assuming they were right next to the airport.

This is a complaint about missing out on less than 5 hours of sleep in the first place.

Here’s the real issue: her itinerary wasn’t realistic to begin with, and she was never going to be properly rested regardless of her possession of a hotel room.

You can’t catch a friend’s wedding on Saturday night and then expect to make your husband’s family reunion in a whole different state on Sunday without some major fatiguing circumstances.

Arguably, Booking upheld their end of the bargain by refunding the hotel. This is all they’re obligated to do. No other type of business gives you any more than that.

Sure, Booking had crappy ineffective customer service. What else is new with the corporate world? Even if they had a perfect concierge level process they physically couldn’t accommodate the customer’s needs because they can’t materialize vacant rooms.

Every minute wasted in this situation defeats the purpose of a hotel room in the first place (I.e., she could have gotten a room further from the airport but that would have eaten up travel time that would have netted her 2 hours of sleep instead of 4, because of her own bad itinerary. If she could check in at an earlier hour this wouldn’t be a problem).

When your flight gets canceled, you aren’t owed another flight at the same date/time. I’m not sure what kind of emergency service anyone would expect to receive from a business like this. At no point was she in tangible danger, and this entire experience was a piece of inconvenience that was essentially self-inflicted.
Oh so the Chinese market had the "special package" I guess?!

Regardless, I'd try to chargeback this from the credit card
Oh! I'd mis-parsed the heading sizes, didn't realise the "data fetching" heading was underneath the "app/ directory (beta)" heading, and thus that they were both in beta. Thanks!
The ads lately have been painfully excessive. I installed Brave on iOS just a few weeks ago to avoid the spam. I used the Youtube app for years and didn't have an issue giving them their ad revenue. Now I am gone forever.
https://archive.ph/glw1K
If I Emailed My Parents Like Democrats Email Me
Oh sorry yes, must have skipped over Rails in the long list of tools. Yeah, you'd commonly pair Next.js with a more "traditional" back-end I think, with the frontend calling out to the Next.js back-end, the Next.js back-end calling out to your regular back-end, and your regular back-end calling out to your database.
I continue to be amazed at the notion that anyone could walk the grounds of an elite university and conclude they discriminate against Asians. Why not focus on institutions where Asians are actually under-represented? Government, executive suites, Hollywood, sports, music, arts?
I can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find this comment! People are just assuming that positively correlating testing with further testing somehow implies that the way we test is indicative of future work performance or even your quality as a human (whatever that means). They may be correlated, but a person's ability to sit exams moves the needle much more significantly. More so for universities — I've taught many students who graduate with great scores that I would never ever hire.

Using the same methods to measure wildly diverse people is a tragedy that causes individuals who could otherwise contribute to society in very meaningful ways to have fewer doors open to them.
I was working on something related for work many years ago... commercial gps receivers aren't sufficient. We kept time with GPS disciplined rubidium clocks, but that was only good enough for about 10 seconds of coherent operation before the phase wandered off too far @1GHz. (Not HF exactly, but...)

It would be cool to try again with caesium or hydrogen maser ...
“I used to wonder how on earth nazis and communists and the like were able to seize power and control of a population, and now I've seen it”

That’s how the US has worked for a long time. See the war on drugs and mass incarceration, laws against black people and extreme political polarization. There was always a group of “others” that people wanted to get punished.

I bet if Trump had been a little smarter he would have got away with a lot more while people cheering him on. But it seems a lot of political institutions are eroding so maybe the next strongman will be able to go way further.
It’s always quite ironic to me that the same people that want to burn SystemD at the stake for ‘trying to do everything, Linux programs should be small and modular’ also lambast Wayland for ‘not just implementing everything and the kitchen sink, like good old X used to do’.
If b is a symbol, which one is it? Is it interned, or uninterned?

Given the Jevko syntax [b b], is that a repetition of the same object, or is that two different symbols that have the same name?

Is it like (b b) or (#:b #:b)? Why or why not; based on what documentation?

In symbol manipulation, symbols are atoms. Each symbol represents an identity. An identity cannot be fractured into sub-identities. The textual name of a symbol just provides a written notation; all semantics of symbol manipulation concerns itself only with whether two symbols are the same one or a different symbol. For instance the idea that the symbol foo is a prefix of the symbol foobar is invalid. We may only ask whether foo and foobar are the same entity or different.

A basic operation in symbol manipulation is semantics-preserving substitution. If Jevko is based on symbols then [a b b] can be replaced by [a c c] without loss of semantics. In fact, all we are doing is changing the name of the b symbol; its identity remains the same.

Suppose there is some application built on Jevko in which [a=b b] cannot be replaced by [a=b c] without destroying the semantics; suppose it has to be that in that application, if b is replaced by c, then [a=b b] must turn into [a=c c], in order to preserve a relationship that holds between a=b and b. That application has then destroyed the concept of a Jevko symbol, because a=b isn't functioning like an atom any more. It's functioning like two symbols a= b or possibly three symbols a = b.

Thus if a=b is really one symbol, and not a string of three characters, then no legitimate, Jevko-respecting application of Jevko can do anything like this, namely treat a=b as being syntax which codes for two or three atoms.

But that's a lie, because Jevko is intended for doing that sort of thing like it's going out of style.

For instance, in this code:

https://github.com/jevko/jevkodom.js/blob/master/jevkoToHtml...

can you explain what

mid.endsWith('=')? "attr": "tag"

is doing? It sure looks to me like it's asking whether a symbol (i.e. indivisible atom) ends with an equal sign, which is semantic gibberish.
Not really, they were watching out for the health of other employees who had to work with employees that refused to do the most basic acts to prevent the spread of a deadly virus.
For ethical reasons regarding climate change, I don't travel very much.

Anything bought and paid online should not be trusted.

Hotels are a luxury, in my view, so unless you pay a real price, expect to have problems.
The headline could also be “Google is deprecating older Widevine CDM versions”, which is a regular process.

Whether or not the playback error rate of your product significantly spikes depends on the number of older non-Chrome browsers that are using Widevine. Probably mostly Firefox installations that don’t receive regular updates by their users. Chrome itself is doing pretty well with pushing updates for plugins such as the mentioned CDM.

Analytics tools will certainly help to determine how many users will be affected after December 6. Perhaps something for Bitmovin to provide a smart metric for exactly this.
Is it possible to summarize this world view? I'm afraid I am (like many others here) a bit too much of a cynic to appreciate these sort of mantras. It feels a bit like learning about a new (sub-)culture.
I guess this gives me some insight that some people over the course of my life will want me to read non-verbal cues instead of using words to communicate.
Can’t imagine the latency of playing phone tag with X hotels trying to find the lowest price at a particular date/# of nights/# of people
The conscious mind is just as much of a conditioned phenomena as the subconscious mind. I don’t see what this has to do with no-self.

I didn’t get the impression that the insight of no-self is that consciousness is “just X”. Consciousness is there, clearly (you’re not unconscious). Just like any other conditioned thing.
Remove a few layers and we get to the realm of dream yoga and mad feats of the monks [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_body
nailed it, IMO.

google was a godsend for finding information...20 years ago. PageRank has been gamed to death, and now most content on Google is 50% ad roll, 25% SEO drivel, and 25% actually useful information.

I use Google to search reddit or stackoverflow to find what I need most of the time. When not doing that, I'm breaking out query operators to really dive in.

the kids are ALL ABOUT video, and all about authenticity. they're consuming and producing it all of the time. google wasn't built for that world.
One have to understand the social factors as well. It was womens job in the beginning, the stigma of being seen as a female computers was most probably what made it unattractive and tediuos to many men at the time. Many highly placed engineering bosses in programming were women for a long time because those where the people who had experience. See Margret Hamilton of Apollo, and also some of the pioneers in cellphone "software".
I have been to New York and I have also seen Paris during a strike of garbage collectors. It gets ugly very quickly once collection stops.

The number one thing I have noticed in New York was they seem to make trash collection as loud as possible ideally at 3 in the morning :)
We're just more sensitive to these things, if the decline continues more people will notice.
>There’s no verification and just your assertion that you own the copyright is enough to nuke any page from a search listing.

This is by design, and Google is complicit in that design
There's literally a definition of under-represented groups in that article. What are they hiding? The whole point is that raw intelligence on some absolute scale (however measured) is not the only factor in admissions.
What happens when a virus comes along that kills at a higher rate, say 35%? You're saying people should be willing to work alongside others when there is a 35% chance of a pandemic level virus killing you because a peer thinks science is dumb?
Why isn't zig more popular? Same reason. It does the same thing as c++. Dart does the same thing as c#, typescript, swift, etc.

Why is Rust popular? Rust does something no other programming language offers.

To win in the market, you need to find your niche. You can't just be a 3% better alternative that forces everyone to chuck their existing tools out the window
Pirates also work directly with video files. Each file has one bitrate and one codec, and needs to work as universally as possible. There are sometimes two or more versions of the same video available that use different bitrates or codecs, but each added version has a cost in clutter (they typically show up as separate entries in the UI), disk space (relatively expensive when it’s people’s personal disks) and P2P swarm availability (critical if using P2P), so you won’t see too many. In contrast, just about any streaming service will have several different encodes for each video, automatically selecting one based on bandwidth and codec availability. That makes it relatively easy to adopt new codecs, since users who can’t decide them can just get a different encode.

However, pirates do care about file size and quality, as demonstrated by the adoption of 10-bit H.265. So AV1 should be coming, eventually.
I guess GDPR and similar laws will inevitably cause profit losses for ad companies.

It was a good ride until governments caught on.
Comparing polio and Covid is ridiculous
You have had some very interesting experiences at JFK. I'm honestly always amazed at how fast I can move through security there.

I just flew out recently and it took... maybe a half hour to check my bag and get through TSA security with an opt out request (for the scanners, so they pat you down instead).

Maybe I'm lucky, but I've flown through JFK and LaGuardia a fair amount and never really had any staggering wait times.

I do wish they could have just made the Air Tram part of the subway system cause taking a taxi during rush hour was certainly a mistake but Q ->... hmm I guess the A or J or whatever train would get me to the Air Tram -> Air Tram is a bit of a pain.

Although, I will say, if you stand at the front of the air tram at night so you can look out the front window as you zoom down the track, that's pretty neat and beautiful.
Man I adored my Sony Clie. Even into the mid 2000s I was still rocking mine. I would've loved Columns and that accessory on it, but by the time I would've wanted it I'd moved to the Sony Ericsson M600i and then the P1i -- the weird keyboard (two letters per key, but the key was a shallow "U" shape so you tapped the left edge for Q and the right edge for W) actually made it excellent for Sega Megadrive emulation (as they ran Symbian with the UIQ3 interface): I regularly played Sonic 2 (with frameskip, these weren't powerful devices) in my free period at high-school on it.

This is super cool to see! I wonder if my Clie is still around and kicking, might be fun to try and load them up on it.
A management role at a startup can be:

R&R of Manager
Expected to perform as full time IC

and pay of an junior
Finishing Bach’s organ music, with help from 118 composers (2022)
Today AV1 can be supported in hardware and is supported in all recent or upcoming SOCs and GPUs. So Apple have no excuse not to do it when they are even pouring tons of money into making and refreshing their own chips.
It takes about 20s wire up your git repo and have your site running.

Preview builds on push to any branch with a status update in the Github PR and prod deployment on push to main. Easy to roll back to an older version too.

It does other things too, like act as a remote cache for Turborepo, handles env files, and can do more and more analytics. But it’s the seamless preview and deployment integration that does it for me.

Pricy though.
The term DAO as it's used now is orthogonal to blockchain and crypto.

It's mostly a term to describe codified governance/community systems. There may be point systems implemented via crypto tokens, but in the vast majority of cases those would be better implemented on centralized ledgers since there's someone with centralized control over either the token issuance, the communication channels, or other essential resources.

If they were developed now, Stack Overflow and Wikipedia would be considered DAOs.
Kind of a fun barely-related historical script kiddie note, but due to the way the jpeg and zip file formats work, you can store both in the same file, then just change the file extension from one to the other and it will work correctly.

The "Dangerous Kitten" pack of hacking tools was famously shared this way on early image boards: https://web.archive.org/web/20110902044711/http://partyvan.i...

Nowadays must image parsing is done via libraries that will strip out extraneous info to prevent this, but back in the day when most people would roll their own code for this (or copy paste poorly thought out implementations) this was commonly, if unintentionally, supported.
I don't think it was booking but after hurricane Ian swept through the Ft Myers, Florida region this year my parents got a full refund before they even reached out.

I don't know what service it was but they were very proactive about it.

I haven't had much issue with Booking.com but I haven't had any times where I needed to refund either.
> It's likely that most technical authors are excellent at the subject they write about, but not good at writing in general.

Could be that, or it could be that they're keeping things deliberately complex so they have a moat around their own area of specialization.
When it was still easy to buy caffeine powder people regularly ended up in the hospital.
Which part?

Speaking as a lawyer, reading this, it feels like it will be overturned almost immediately, and possibly reassigned to a different judge.

There is very little legal analysis, and a large amount of unnecessary, biased, diatribe.

Appeals courts rarely look kindly on that.