skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So one of the best standardized tests I’ve ever taken is the Subject GRE. When I was applying for PhD programmes I and a few of my colleagues took it. It was perfect - it tested both knowledge and critical thinking skills and experimental design. It was obscure so no material was available for specific training.

In the end the scores were so accurate in predicting eventual success - a decade later, the folks who got 96% plus are all either professors or deliberately chose not to, while the rest just took industry jobs (and in my opinion because they realized that’s best for them).

Here’s the kicker - every institution explicitly said they will NOT consider these scores as part of admission process. None of the people who got in the top percentiles (4 I know) made it to a top 10 institution in the US, while a bunch of others did because they had paper authorship in their undergrad. But paper authorship in undergrad has NO correlation with your actual scientific skills! It just meant you were connected and or a hustler. It’s sad that such an awesome test is deliberately ignored by these institutions.

The irony was that these tests were also not elitist. All you needed to do was thoroughly read Lodish and Lehninger and you’re good. We did study in a semi-premium institution in India, but by no means were we privileged by any special facilities or help (at least in the context of this test). The only barrier might be the test fee itself if anything.
> It is hard to tell how to divide the blame between the service representative you spoke to — according to you, at a call center in a faraway country — or the system that trained her.

I don't understand why the NYT is getting into company-internal blame. The customer's interface seems to have been Booking.com. Shouldn't any blame -- from the perspective of customer and this NYT writer -- stop at the company?
Four of the five were excellent.

The first? Bullshit.

Heaven’s reward fallacy arises from the old boomer maxim of “if you work hard and apply yourself, you will be rewarded”. Unfortunately, while this may have been applicable at one time, it is now absolutely bogus.

In today’s employment environment, going above and beyond does absolutely nothing but get you exploited and taken advantage of. You will not see anything arise out of it other than burnout and resentment, as all your hard work signifies that you are a sucker that can be targeted to have any amount of work piled on top without having to increase your pay to compensate. That you will slave away to make the company owners stupidly wealthy without asking for anything more than what you previously got with much lower effort levels.

Wake up and touch some grass.

Stop being a rube, stop being a sucker, stop being hoodwinked by boomer lies and work to your wage -- and not a single cent more. Because you will never see any benefit from that extra effort. Never. It’s all wasted time and effort on your part, when your life can be better spent on yourself.

After all, no-one ever lay on their deathbed thinking “man, I should have worked more hours in my life instead of spending time with my family”.
The Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance is fundamentally a publicity tool for cloud vendors. Because most partners still haven't fulfilled their promises (including the founding members who joined in 2018). Their status is always something like "all bandwidth between X and Cloudflare will be free of charge in the upcoming months". Until one day some of them quit the alliance, such as DigitalOcean (IPO) and Linode (acquired by Akamai). So, just don't trust any of those alliance members.
You're being downvoted for a sarcatic remark but all these comments that simply point out obvious benefits seem less like genuine offers of advice and more like a way to keep damaging any big tech company.

"Travel agents offer a more personal touch"

No shit, who didn't know this?
What you're asking is if the token can act as a so-called supercookie.

For the first part yes, you can re-register the key multiple times for multiple accounts on the same site, and generally speaking these are not very correlatable on the basis of the token itself, as long as you have gotten a non-dodgy token (ie, one with a unique attestation cert). There may be other ways to strongly correlate the users however, and then the token may give the final (hard) proof the site was looking for. As a trivial example, linked in does a simple correlation on src IP. If you create 2 fake LI accounts and visit from the same IP, after a ramp up time LI will ask each of them if you want to connect to the other. But in this case, LI already had the info necessary to associate the 2 accounts. The token itself isn't the tip of the spear here, that makes this possible.

Cross-site collusion is prevented by restrictions on the RP ID. So as long as the browser is functioning correctly sites cannot collude to use the token as a supercookie.

> Unless I'm missing something

Well the thing you're missing is that you're simply supposing these things. But these things are prevented by, and intentional in the design of U2F/WebAuthn.

And if you don't trust the browser, or want to protect against sophisticated correlation attacks, "just" use a different token when you want to go dark. I'm not sure why you have this underlying assumption that a person can only possess one token.

One caveat: I've no idea what you're referring to with "GA".
Again, I think this just isn't accurate. Many issues really are due to unclear expectations. Maybe because a lot of people have bad managers who are scared to just give clear feedback...
I'm pleased to see cumulative layout shift (re self-hosted fonts) advertised as a feature, this is the right kind of user-centric development, indeed the small details like these go a long way in improving user experience.
You can't be cirrus.
I’ll never understand people who don’t like going to the theater. I absolutely love going to the theater, but for the most part, I go to locally owned, independent theaters. Prices are good, including for the snacks. Yes, yes, your home theater setup is awesome or whatever, but that doesn’t replicate the theater experience. All of my most enjoyable movie experiences have been at the theater. Even something as dumb as Talledega Nights was transformed by being in a packed theater. And even for more cerebral movies, the experience is just worth it. Coming back from the theater and talking about it, seeing the reactions on people’s faces, hearing others on the way out, etc. There’s also nothing else to do at the movie theater except watch.

I’m glad my independent theaters made it through COVID. I haven’t been as much as I did prior to COVID, mainly because of COVID and moving further away, but I just really love seeing a good movie at the theater. I miss being bored on a Friday night and hopping down to the local theater to see a movie. My movie theaters have really good popcorn and ice cream as well.
Carrier board has some sort of ESP32-esque WiSoC, plus LTE daughter board is listed alongside the products. I can't find which exact SoC is being used though...
Oh yeah no question! Things can always be bad enough or the bullshit high enough to be worth leaving, and maybe that’s what GP was talking about. I also hopped around a bit between longer term jobs to find something that fit, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. But I think the perspectives of “I won’t put up with anything I don’t like,” and “I refuse to learn anything I don’t enjoy” are pretty toxic ones for a healthy workplace.

I’m currently at my favorite job I’ve ever had in my career: I have autonomy, ownership, smart coworkers, great leadership, and a product I largely built and enjoy working on. But there’s still plenty of bullshit! There’s some that predates me, there’s some that is too far outside my sphere of control for me to bother with, and there’s some that I’ve created accidentally. Living with it and trying to keep the level of bullshit tolerable is an important skill in and of itself I think. Tricky to know when it’s too much and it’s time to leave, but you’ll never know if you never try to stick it out for a bit at least once.
A student who scores highly on a Calculus exam may be generally good at Calculus, or maybe they know a couple exam-specific algorithms to succeed and got a little lucky besides.

A student who fails a Calculus exam is nearly guaranteed to be poor at Calculus.

To say exams have no predictive power is to ignore the obvious.
The current Starlink antenna is phased-array.
I've stopped booking through Kayak (used to be my favorite), other OTAs, even many budget airlines, because it's simply not worth the post booking headaches.
My local movie theater has a 70mm projector. Not gonna get that at home no matter what setup one has.
Drizly drivers don’t scan. Most liquor stores scan.
These initiatives saved the hotel industry

This a massive overstatement. There are over 1,000 hotels in Los Angeles county, 35 participated in Project Roomkey. Hotels don't want to shelter homeless for obvious reasons. That's why LA now has a ballot initiative to force hotels to give up rooms to the homeless.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-05/initiati...
This happened to me before. I booked a room in Austin at a La Quinta Inn through HotelTonight, and when I showed up the place looked abandoned. Turns out, it had been turned into a homeless shelter, and you couldn't stay there even if you wanted to. There was a big fence around the whole building, those portable chain-link type fences which are used around construction sites. And obviously there was no one working there that could give you a key to a room or anything like that. It was pretty upsetting.
Can you get people to pay to watch them?
- please talk to someone you trust
- talk to Doctor, seek professional help
- workout, jogging or hiking, etc..
- pick up a personal interests, reading, etc..
17B *two layer neutral networks.

From article:
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They then directly compared the output of the neuron to the output of a two-layer neural network: and they were the same.
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It makes me really angry hearing Harvard defend their racist admission policy, especially when you know it was designed to limit the number of Jews admitted.
> Posts and statuses were definitely a mistake.

Definitely. Posts and statuses led to the current 'we are all influencers' plague.
Something similar happened to me. I had a perfect high school GPA, 1540/1600 SAT. Applied to several schools, all of which I was above average score wise

Only got into flagship state schools that were well below my average SAT

The one thing I've learned from this (a valuable lesson): never, ever do the self identification. You'll always get fucked. Self identifying is always a mistake
You could use the restroom for the entirety of a Marvel movie and still not miss anything.
I'll take a standardized test over arbitrary grades any day. Grades are far, far easier to game in so many ways (switch to an easier major!) than the SAT. Just ask anyone gunning for med school or law school - they will opt for the easier class over the harder one if it means their GPA has less risk of dropping.
That’s not exactly the rousing endorsement that you think it is. The whole problem with Google is that they have no focus, vision or direction compared to the other BigTech companies.
Here's an example of how an existing (and maybe the oldest?) language but with "new armor" can significantly lower the carbon footprint:

Writing Green Software - Is Our Code Unfriendly to Environment - https://dev.to/velydev/writing-green-software-is-our-code-un...
It's frustrating because I think a lot of people stuck with their 2015 MBPs since it was the last one with a "good" keyboard and solid assortment of ports for quite a while.
This

I don't want to call anyone or use each hotel's site that I have to enter my details into. I'm aware of the risk but prefer efficiency
SwitchGlass 2.0
Late to the party but going to post anyways...

So, recent R&D into sleep tech has come along ways in the past 20 years. Basically research has shown that during nap/sleep cycles our brain moves around memories (from short-term to long-term and prioitization) and connections between memories. Also, this process optimizes information in the brain to make the access faster and more efficient thus providing opportunity for neuralogical advanced thought sessions given the datasets after a nap/sleep session.

Some basic take aways include +20% memory capacity per 8-hour sleep cycle and longer un-interrupted access to memory collections. It's also been shown that it's possible to tag the day's memories and then prioritize them during the next nap/sleep session. Significant results have shown that groups that take 30-minutes nap have stronger memory capacity versus groups with no naps.

The face of the R&D seems to be Matt Walker - PhD Brit with intense accent - you've been warned!

TL:DR - The brains basically recharges AND rewires during nap/sleep sessions.

Here's the links:

podcast: The Matt Walker Podcast

book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...
Can you suggest any reading material on that subject? I'm interesting in building high quality, converting landing pages.
I always recommend the Vasa museum to people visiting Stockholm as a tourist.

My wife and I visited it once when we spent a weekend trip sightseeing in Stockholm. It was one of the best museums I've been to.
> Unfortunately, most companies have fallen into the trap where if someone has a title of X they can only make up to Y, regardless of how good they are at their job or how long they've done it.

I don't agree that this is a trap. sure, leveling systems aren't perfect. but they're based on a key insight: there is usually a limit to the impact an engineer can have for a given scope. if I own a single service/component in a larger ecosystem, there comes a point where it doesn't make sense to keep paying me more money to make it even better if my clients/dependencies aren't keeping up. the only way I can continue increasing my contribution to organizational goals is to broaden my scope and start influencing the design of other services/components I interact with. it's not by coincidence that is a major part of how leveling guidelines are written at most tech companies.
Agree. Also, aside from medical conditions, it it really that hard to use the restroom before the movie?

And to me, it’s part of the experience to find the right timing if you really need to go.
It was not operating as a hotel, according to the article.
Should small companies be held to the same accountability
Imaging with Your Wi-Fi Hotspot : https://physics.aps.org/articles/v10/50

Imaging Radar : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging_radar

'WiFi radar/imaging' : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='WiFi radar/imaging'>
> This seems exaggerated a bit. She booked a sketchy hotel and it turned out to be sketchy

I read the article and it said the hotel wasn't operating as a hotel anymore.

From the article: "A pregnant traveler arrived late at night at lodging she’d reserved through Booking.com, only to find it was no longer operating"

That's not "sketchy". That's not a hotel
An IEEE service that would be actually useful.
Does the same hold true of medical professionals? ie MCAT scores correlate with med school and/or practice performance?
You forgot the inevitable data breach six months down the road, causing your inbox to be haunted with spam forever.
In English, "Ä" is an "A" with a diaresis modifier: ¨, and is treated as an A for all purposes.

In German, "Ä" is the umlaut of "A", and it's not quite a letter of the German alphabet, but also not quite a regular A.

In Swedish, "Ä" is a unique letter of the alphabet which makes the "applet" jokes completely nonsensical. If the ship had been named "Epplet", would you have made an applet joke? You're only making the connection because you literally can't see the ¨.
By next month, every current gen discrete GPU will hardware encode AV1, be it Intel Arc, Nvidia 4XXX or AMD 7XXX.
Yikes. This reads like a gish-gallop of anti-vax talking points. I don’t even necessarily disagree with the decision to reinstate the employees, but this legal reasoning is embarrassing.

Edit: I’m happy to learn that the New York Supreme Court is not the highest court in New York, this entire thread is misleading (I think people are assuming New York’s highest court slapped down vaccine mandates). I don’t know why New York has to name their courts in such weird ways…
No, webpack became popular because it was the only bundler that supported commonjs and handled code splitting reasonably well, so we picked it for React.

It's critical to run type checking outside of webpack. You should be able to execute code that does not type check correctly. It maximizes iteration speed and is one of TypeScript's key superpowers.
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At least at my company, it’s normal to have technical writers, project managers, etc. have GitHub accounts as well. I could easily see them getting to 90M active users, regardless of how many programmers there are.
> So for example, you will ask them to write documentation and they might technically write documentation, but maybe they write it unclear and don't even recognize it as such. Now, do you want to teach someone the concept of "clarity" like an English teacher?

Yep, if you're that person's manager, what you do is you tell them, unambiguously, that the documentation they wrote was not clear, and you tell them why, and you direct them to examples of clear documentation and other resources that can help improve their ability to write documentation. That's the job! If you don't want to do the job of a good manager, that's fine, but you're doing a disservice to the people who work for you. And, weirdly, you seem to be patting yourself on the back for it. But make no mistake: being unwilling to mentor and teach is actually just bad management.

There are lots of books you can read to improve your management skills!
JavaScript is a dynamically-typed language. Parallelizing the type checking with bundling gives you the best of both worlds: the speed when writing in a dynamic language and the type safety that comes with a static-typed language. For me, I like to write my code and not too concern myself with types until I’m close to committing; that’s when I fix type errors.
This is one of the best posts I've ever read here, thanks.
Cool! If I'm reading your code correctly, you store service worker state in the cache?
Building software to last forever
"Most commonly hotels are removing the perk of free breakfast from travel aggregator deals, but still reserving it for direct customers."

I'll be honest, this is a perk I've seen advertised alot but never really understood. Maybe I just don't stay at good hotels or something but the breakfast I've always seen is a open bar with like coffee, milk, orange juice, cereals, toast/bagel, breakfast sausage, some fruit and a waffle iron. Is that really worth more than like 5$? Is it even worth factoring into the price of a 100$+ a night stay? Almost feels petty on the part of hotels to say no you can't have this bowl of offbrand cheerios and milk
So. much. this. Of course it will end as soon as the tax base collapses as more large businesses leave this year.
> 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.

This was me, fwiw. I’m so lucky that the engineering school I got into was enamored with my math score.
https://archive.ph/58Xr7
Who before Apple invented an ARM processor that blows away its x86 competition in nearly every way?
Yeah, I hear this, but in 1995 I just bought an SAT prep book for $12 and spent a couple months of Saturdays practicing and did very well. My family lived well below the poverty line. SAT prep is not confined to the privileged.
Not knowing anything about the new /app directory support, I'm able to migrate my static landing page in about two hours. The resulting page is definitely smaller and load faster than the previous version. Now I'm consistently getting 100 on page speed insight (mobile) while previously it's hovering around 98-99.

The documentation for the new /app directory support is not complete though. API routes seems to be not documented yet (or is it not implemented yet?) so I haven't ported mine and leave it on the /pages/api directory for now.
https://archive.ph/KW7Jv
From what I read, Musk doesn't want your money for SpaceX/Starlink precisely because he doesn't want the funds of the company to be chained to a public perception war that distracts him from running the company, like happened with Tesla during the doubtful years when half of the market was betting against him. Why take public funding when you can reap all the revenue directly?
“Read everything” is not really a game plan for anything. Most of the suggested topic lists to anemic to be useful. And I have looked at the suggested books before and find them uninspiring. For example, there are ton of special relativity and general relativity books missing from the relevant lists that I’d recommend. (I know because I’ve collected them in hopes of finally learning the material well. I like differential geometry, and it’s a life goal to fully understand general relativity.)
Gosh, this is a very bad sign of arguing wiht potentail customers who simply give good advice on telling a little about who is behind the company (like address, etc). Why do you want to hide such info?
> Haha no you don't. Hotels "forgetting" bookings that you made directly on their website absolutely happens.

If this happens at any major brand (Hyatt/Hilton/Marriott/IHG/Choice/etc), you will get sent a check for the expenses you incurred that night if you call the 800 number.

If those hotels are unable to accommodate your reservation for whatever reason, they are supposed to “walk” you to an equivalent hotel at their expense, including travel to and from the other and pay for your stay at the other hotel for 1 night and not charge you at all of course.
exactly. vp9 isn't actually that good. It's clearly worse than hevc. AV1 is better, but there's limited hardware encoding/decoding support. The result is exactly as expected.
> Even what came after that, e.g. in C / C++ was considerably tedious compared to what we do today. Folks sometimes had to do objdumps of compiled binaries to debug what was going on.

They used to do objdumps. They still do, but they used to too.
That simply means, by their definition, the subconscious is playing the role of what we think of as the conscious. As someone said earlier - splitting hairs.
I haven't tracked OpenSolaris/illumos in a while, but it seems kind of bizarre that different "distros" of illumos would have different kernel ABIs. To me that's the definition of a different OS, in the way OpenBSD was a divergent fork of NetBSD. Reminds me (in a negative way, if I'm totally honest) of stories of old proprietary unixes/BSDs from the 80s/90s, with really minor but incompatible changes to a shared BSD/SysV source.

Anyway, I guess there's a lot of practical problems in defining either a new ABI or ABI version in the ELF headers, so the different distros just sort of pretend to all be "Solaris". If I remember, Solaris (de facto?) disallows static linking, and uses dynamic linking with libc to solve the ABI compatibility problem. Wouldn't help stuff like kernel modules/FUSE, I reckon.

The biggest question to me is why Helios is using the FUSE kernel module from OmniOS. If the kernels were strictly identical, this makes sense, but if they're not, it seems weird. Since Helios is a secret Oxide thing (?), guess it's a mystery.