skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? How often is calculus ever done in stressful situations outside of tests? Seriously this seems like a bad example...

I feel like you're making my point here. I can speak french and be spoken to, order off a menu, etc. but I can't understand when two native speakers are conversing. Are you saying I don't understand french?
Hostages? I'd say Google is better than most regarding data portability, assuming that's what you're referring to, offering 'takeout' for just about everything.
As others have said, Dart is Flutter.

What they didn't say clearly, is that Flutter is in a complicated landscape of cross-platform native stacks, including chrome, react native, cordova, xamarin, unity, phonegap, et al. Because it's ground-up, it either mimics the platform components or you use the generic flutter style (or one you build yourself) - lots of work either way, to get results that don't jive with expectations around the demo table. Each stack has enough traction and community to continue, but the pace is nothing like the more standard programming models.
Or there isn't. Takes a whole new meaning to "Don't bullshit yourself".
Most "modern" resumes I see could learn a thing or two from this. Tight and to the point.
Ultorg: A User Interface for Relational Data
Dude, he is replying to a comment saying "over-represented among non-international undergraduates, relative to their US population.". I think it doesn't take a Ph.D. in linguistics to comprehend what everyone is saying here: some racial subgroup is represented at x% in total population but at y%>x% in the population under consideration.

You can disagree with it, as I do (where I don't expect every non-racial sub-population to show proportions of race corresponding to the total population) but how can you not comprehend what he's saying? Like, you don't understand it? Come on, postulate a few explanations in English for what it could possibly mean.
There are entire segments of the industry that has never touched any javax package - while no doubt widespread, I do believe that it is still a very fair price to pay, and none of these changes were even half as problematic as for example the python 2->3 migration. So I don’t know, I’m fairly sure it is impossible to keep a platform alive with even less/smaller impact breaking changes.
There is something missing from your story, but I can’t exactly figure out what it is.

Some things that may have gone wrong:

- Maybe your GPA was too low for your high school. If it put you outside of the top 10% or so of your class, then that hampers your chances substantially.

- Maybe your references did not know how to write good reference letters for elite schools. I think this limits a lot of people, since tepid reference letters from people who don’t know better can kill an application.

- Conversely, maybe you went to an elite university feeder high school. If so, maybe you didn’t compare well against other folks who did get into elite schools other than test scores.

- You applied based on academic prowess, and maybe your academic prowess was not enough for elite schools. Elite schools typically want national or international levels of success in something (especially academics, which is hyper-competitive), so maybe your state competition results combined with a relatively low GPA (for elite schools) didn’t really match up to the other 100-200 or so people at each school who got in on the back of academics.

- Maybe you didn’t have much/any significant community involvement and/or leadership experience. This may seem soft, but it makes applicants stand out, imho.

Fwiw, I don’t think your ethnicity played as much of a role as you think it did. Those killer test scores you have are basically table stakes at elite schools (i.e., you need a lot of something else to get in), but they are a meal ticket at large state schools. Many/most people think that test scores and above average grades alone should be enough for elite school admission, but this hasn’t been true for many, many decades.

For reference, “top 50 state school” is something like University of Georgia or Ohio State University, both the type of school that will not slow down someone who would have fit in at Harvard or Stanford, imho.

> But I probably could have saved years in high school exploring things that mattered rather than optimizing for a college application process that didn’t ultimately end up feeling very fair.

I guessing that you optimized incorrectly.

I’m curious about where you got your information on how to optimize for elite school admissions. Most people will say something like “have great test scores and great grades”, and they would be wrong for elite schools but very accurate for most state schools.

I don’t want to say that elite school admissions are perfect (or even good), but people who have never been able to see the processes from the inside (e.g., actual applicant pools) usually make very unreasonable criticisms of the processes.

Fwiw, every elite school tells applicants exactly what they want in their recruiting materials. It’s just that different people interpret those materials in different (usually inaccurate) ways.

All that said, I’m glad it worked out for you.
Do you know that Google basically punishes others fir not using VP9 and AV1?

https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues
>At the core, all social structure is built on the threat of violence

This is completely wrong. Our current social structure in the United States is build on the threat of violence. Sense of duty, sense of shame, fear of ostracism, respect for tradition and family are all forms of social structure that have existed since we were crafting tools from stone. Of course all of these non-violent forms of social structure require a somewhat homogeneous population that shares the same values and culture. Many native American tribes had social structures like this where there was no police force, no threat of violence to enforce social norms. However, when a hodgepodge of people with different beliefs, different cultures, different educational levels, different educational values, different religions and different histories are jammed together in overcrowded cities the result is always going to be the same. Perhaps we should write "Our diversity is our strength!" On the side of all the prisons and police cars to make people feel better.
My subconscious likes to slip in triggers to play melodies from songs related somehow to events along with the control commands sometimes.
Related:

Cloudflare CDN Partial Outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333332 - Oct 2022 (54 comments)
Gephi can cluster, but the algorithm isn't that transparent or flexible. I've increasingly found myself doing the clustering in Python and rendering in Gephi.
That’s the interesting thing, how did this verbose feeling stuck to Java while not to Go, where your code is literally littered with if errs, you have way too deeply nested for loops, etc.

Java is a surprisingly expressive language even though it does have a few warts.
Same here, I wash twice a week (same as my son who had really bad eczema when he was kid, think hospitalization kind, now almost completely gone), stopped using shampoo and shower gel about maybe 2 years ago, don't really have any problems with body odor, don't smell like anything, if I get smelly it's only armpits (when hot) and despite having short hair (I usually trim it to like 3-9mm, then let it grow for at least 2 months except warm months), I don't really like oily and itchy hair after few days.

The reason I stopped were issues of my kids with eczema considering I had also a little bit of eczema (but nothing really bad, usually flared up only winter months) so after people doing this I decided to try and to my surprise I see no negative difference on my body and actually even on my hair, which became oily/itchy after few days no matter whether I used shampoo or not used it.

Though I've had test runs before when travelling around southeast asia for extended period when I took just daily shower without any soap and had no problems.

I've had really trouble through pandemic with mandatory disinfection to the point they didn't want to let me into kids kindergarten to accompany them despite having pretty bad eczema/skin issues on hands if I use anything irritating, this was resolved by wearing gloves and sprinkling stupid disinfectant on gloves or pretending to use the machine.

Disclaimer: I use shampoo (well it's actually shower gel) after trimming my hair (5-6 times a year), I use shower gel for my intimate parts at each shower (2x a week) and I wash my hands as usual with liquid soap after toilet or when dirty or prior/after cooking. My kids take shower twice a week and use fancy Bioderma shower oil though I am thinking also about giving up on using anything and see what happens with their skin.
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The Rebellion of the Psychopath
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried points to Coinbase as potential acquisition
Royalty free, agile etc. codec is aggressively pushed by Google on pain of removing support for and not allowing to run its products https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues

Also, support for HVEC in existing devices is already there and not going anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339193
I think that the confusion is with the word my. If you had said a sibling comment, it would likely have been immediately clear. Linking or quoting the sibling comment would avoid linguistic ambiguity altogether.
DuckDuckGo app (because supports privacy and allows data from non-fire proof websites to be easily removed)

https://duckduckgo.com/app
Was there a secondary adjustment step to finalize admit/deny? Your heatmap-based method would almost certainly result in an unacceptable racial composition of the class.
Yeah, working on app with >8k modules seeing >4s page loads on refresh. It's also weird how it wants to force you to not use deep imports on package deps, but then doesn't want you using index files in your own code..

I believe there are areas for improvement here that Vite can make though. They need to implement finer grain browser side module caching, dependency sub-graph invalidation(Merkel tree?), and figure out how to push manifests and sub-manifests to the browser so it can pro-actively load everything without needing to parse every module in import order making network requests as it goes..

Lots to do lol.
Same here... I'm one of those archetypical millennials that hate phone calls.

Over the year I have learned to overcome my aversion to calls when making one is beneficial, but a call to someone totally unknown, and not in my native language, is one of the cases where... yeah, I'd pay the premium too.
I wish you were wrong, but you're not. Ability to work a BS system absolutely is a marker of success in society.
Internet archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20221026003125/https://www.busin...
On each of the two machines I have immediate access to:

$ apropos search
apropos: Command not found.

Aside from the obvious, man pages just aren’t the answer most of the time.

Part of the issue is that a man page is a reference. This is a necessary kind of documentation, but sometimes I want a tutorial and sometimes I want a cookbook. References are great for some things, but discovering new tools isn’t generally one of them. Obviously, you don’t have to write man pages that way, but almost all of the ones I see in the wild are.

Another part is that man pages as a resource have really atrophied in my experience. Lots of new CLI tools don’t have them at all, and lots of systems don’t have them installed even for older/core tools. The why is harder. I suspect that it’s a mix of tooling (e.g. needing to learn groff/troff to write them), search (your man pages aren’t indexed by Google by default like your GitHub readme), and culture. But I’m not sure.
The Pandemic Uncovered Ways to Speed Up Science
I agree with many aspects of this; however, I do think learning how to grind through work is important. However, I remember being a child and a teenager trying to do the designated school and extracurriculars and then homework felt insane. I would often be doing work til 11. This does not feel like a way to inspire children or make them excited to learn. I loved school in many ways, but the homework caused so much stress when I think if I had more time to explore intellectual interests I think I would have more excited about many subjects that weren’t my favorite
I would suppose this theory should apply to the Beatles as well?
Clearly "music" is a code word.
Combine with stable diffusion and you don’t even need to bring your own image to the table. Plus there’s no public reference that exists to compare against.
Am I the only one who had a very positive experience with Booking?

Once I had booked a hotel in Hong Kong for a week, pretty expensive, and I finally couldn't go. But this was in an especially hectic moment (personally and professionally) so I missed the full refund deadline for cancellation. It was obviously my fault, as the deadline had been clear from the beginning, so I just cancelled without refund (or maybe with partial refund, I don't remember) and moved on.

The next day, and without having asked, I got an email from Booking saying that they would negotiate with the hotel to see if they could give me a full refund anyway. A day after that, I got the refund. It was a substantial amount of money so I'm quite grateful to whomever did that at Booking.

On the other hand, I hate their pricing practices, e.g. presumably because I am a relatively frequent customer, the website often offers me worse prices than my wife who almost never used it. Also different prices on mobile and PC, etc.
Trillian and Pidgin!

If you could talk to people, Trillian and/or Pidgin supported it.

On that note, I miss Google Talk and Google Voice via Talk.

I absolutely hate how siloed and protectionist chat platforms have become.
I'm in UK (so until not that long ago, EU :) ). Don't need credit cards for the "credit" part, but I'm exclusively using them for online (or any) shopping, purely for the safety reasons mentioned. As far as I can see, there's no downsides as long as you're paying it all off every month.
This is very much in line with Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler#Partici...
I noticed several months ago a sharp decrease the quality of the results for technical questions and product reviews.

For the technical questions, Google went from returning stack overflow, Reddit posts or the occasional blog post to return websites that manifestly just parse stack overflow.

For product reviews, it was already difficult to find reviews made by real persons and not companies, but it seems now that almost all webpages returned by Google are computer generated
And here I was boping it got rejected because of it's horrible user interface.
Perhaps it's worth sampling the population and seeing whether outcomes match. I'll go first. I didn't do this. My parents intentionally did my cursive writing homework for me so I could read and go out and explore the countryside.

I now run eng at a prop trading firm that you'll occasionally see in the FT.
Sad.

I used to say that San Francisco was dangerously close to "Detroitfication". The politicians took tech companies and the strong city economy for granted.

Covid most certainly accelerated this.

San Francisco was much better when Ed Lee was mayor.
TFA actually calls out that very high test score can be a a signal someone won't graduate.
Love the aesthetic of the letter.
different box
Anti-vaxxers will be remembered with disgust and incomprehension.
For what it's worth, I regularly interact with high school seniors and this topic has come up a few times. When I was in school, there was one teacher that was known to be sexist against boys. If you were regularly an A student, you'd be getting Cs. I was one of them. She taught English, which is probably the best subject to teach if you want to be subjective with your grades. Hell, there was another guy in class that kept getting the same percentage grade down to the second decimal point.

Anyways, I graduated from high school in 2006. At the same school now, there are apparently multiple/many teachers that are fully accepted by both the guys and girls as being sexist against boys. I doubt this trend is limited to my school and it's concerning as hell.
Way too emotionally invested in cosmetic details of… an operating system? I can’t imagine caring even half as much as the author does about MacOS. And I’ve used Macs since 1984. This comes off as entitled more than insightful: Do what I think you should or I’ll stop buying your computers.

I upgraded to Ventura and iPadOS 16 yesterday. All of the things I care about still work. The sun still came up this morning and I didn’t get enraged over system preference settings or Stage Manager. Get a grip.
It was arbitrary because small hardware stores had to close, while big ones could stay open. Also, because in most states someone in the governor’s office just went down a random list of professions or business types and decided on the spot whether to shut them down or not. That’s the very definition of arbitrary and capricious. It also fails the rational basis test, since the government hadn’t even come up with a rationale for why certain businesses have to close while others can stay open. Or why a Walmart could have a 500 people in it, while churches were limited to 10 people at a time (regardless of the size of the church’s building, even), etc.
This reminds me of an article that talks about how sensory consciousness comes too late for conscious responses and how that might be 'rescued' by some yet to be proven quantum effects.

I've linked it below, but here's a snippet from it that talks about the ms delay:

Neural correlates of conscious perception occur 150–500 ms after impingement on our sense organs, apparently too late for causal efficacy in seemingly conscious perceptions and willful actions, often initiated or completed within 100 ms after sensory impingement. Velmans (1991, 2000) listed a number of examples: analysis of sensory inputs and their emotional content, phonological, and semantic analysis of heard speech and preparation of one's own spoken words and sentences, learning and formation of memories, and choice, planning and execution of voluntary acts. Consequently, the subjective feeling of conscious control of these behaviors is deemed illusory (Dennett, 1991; Wegner, 2002).

In speech, evoked potentials (EPs) indicating conscious word recognition occur about 400 ms after auditory input, however semantic meaning is appreciated (and response initiated) after only 200 ms. As Velmans points out, only two phonemes are heard by 200 ms, and an average of 87 words share their first two phonemes. Even when contextual effects are considered, semantic processing and initiation of response occur before conscious recognition (Van Petten et al., 1999).

Gray (2004) observes that in tennis “The speed of the ball after a serve is so great, and the distance over which it has to travel so short, that the player who receives the serve must strike it back before he has had time consciously to see the ball leave the server's racket. Conscious awareness comes too late to affect his stroke.” McCrone (1999): “[for] tennis players … facing a fast serve … even if awareness were actually instant, it would still not be fast enough ….” Nonetheless tennis players claim to see the ball consciously before they attempt to return it.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2012.0009...
My first thought is that maybe they didn't like your college essays. The funny part is that college essays are the most obviously biased towards the privileged. Poor people can't afford touring colleges, so their "why this college" essays can't be as specific. Meanwhile, the rich can pay someone to ghost-write their essays.
> Whatever savings you might get is not worth it and a lot of times hotels appreciate direct bookings and they're cheaper anyway.

Come again? You lose out on saving using hotel instead of third-party booking service, but at least the hotel is cheaper?
This was my "laptop" for a month when I was in Malaysia. Still have it, still works.
> Perhaps consciousness has the ability to affect how wavefunction collapse occurs, perhaps it even has the ability to influence the observed outcome.

This is a major part of “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch. Great book.
I always wondered how many of the images on eBay were actually clandestine underworld spy messages. The equivalent of the crossword puzzles during WW2. Ok probably not many but you never know. :)
> Same for many other jobs like garbage collection.

Spoken like someone who hasn't been to New York. I love the city, its a fun and vibrant place. But they have some unusual trash policies (primarily they don't have alleys so trash has to be dumped on the main sidewalk) and wherever you go its not uncommon for the sidewalks to be lined with trash waiting for pickup.
> Because athletes and performers are irreplaceable and bring in tourist revenue which the city wants. Firefighters are more easily replaceable and have no effect on tourism.

I believe this is the most cynical thing I've read yet today.

> I don't see what doesn't make sense here

If the Athletes and Performers are so irreplaceable, then wouldn't you demand they be the most protected by the vaccine, and thus require them to have it before you would require the firefighters? They are so replaceable, afterall...

> so they came up with this policy.

They wanted to force compliance, but then realized there are some people who see themselves as above compliance, so they carved out their own policy in a telling way to kowtow to them.

Dollars are replaceable. People aren't. You can't actually be happy to wrap this cynicism around this, can you?
> Don't get me started on the tracking & surveillance crap built into Windows 10+.

Doesn't MacOS have the same amount of telemetry? I guess it is rather hard to quantify, but MacOS still does collects a lot of data
Computers are older than you think.

Computers based on integrated circuits were more recent. But the foundations were much older.

For example take the punchcard. Punchcards as a way to work with automatic computing devices go back to Hollerith machines and the 1890 census. That was how IBM got started. The phrase "Super Computing machine" dates back to 1931, and referred to a tabulating machine built for Columbia University. Raytheon was producing and selling analog computers starting in the late 1920s. Much of the calculations for the Manhattan project were done by machines - Feynman talks about this in Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman.

And to give a sense of how much history there is, one of my favorite essays in the 1945 essay, As We May Think, which you can find at https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m.... It provided the inspiration for both hypertext and the science citation index. The recombining of those ideas in the PageRank patent was the foundation of Google. But how could someone in 1945 understand computing that well? It is simple! Its author was the man who designed those computers Raytheon sold in the 1920s, and among other things was in charge of the development of mechanical computers for the Manhattan Project. (OK, he did a lot more than that...)
This is an unfortunate feature loss in my favorite PDF viewer. Even though I’ve migrated to Windows and FreeBSD for my daily driver at home, I still use a Mac at work, and I have to admit that I miss Preview.app whenever I’m using my home computer. As a computer science researcher I still regularly encounter research papers, particularly those written before the late 1990s, that are in PostScript format instead of PDF. I also semi-regularly work with EPS figures when writing documents in LaTeX. Yes, I’m aware of tools like ps2pdf and other command-line conversion tools, but it was nice being able to open up PostScript files without having to manually convert them.

I wonder if it’s possible to run Big Sur Preview.app in Ventura?