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I bought a new chair as my old one was starting to kill my back. I have a beautiful wooden table and chair set that works well as a writing desk for short periods of time, but was not conducive to sitting for a couple of hours. It remains to be seen if the chair is truly "comfy" but I have found my posture to have been improved a ton which is the important thing to me.

On an impulse I bought the DJI Mavic Mini and I love that thing so much. It's brought me so much joy.

As for worst purchase, I bought a new fridge out of an abundance of precaution thinking that I could store a lot of food but it sits 90% empty unless I fill it up with a ton of water bottles in my garage. Probably was an unnecessary purchase and I should've gone for a deep freezer if I was serious about trying to store food for long periods of time.

Specifically with reference to my dad's background and why people in the US at large, including the native population, let him be in charge.

Thank you for this. I must have missed it.

I've sadly heard stories about forced deference, though not seemingly as overt as in Cisco, at other tech companies.

The most shocking experience is actually a personal anecdote. Someone from India from a client once asked my father, who also works in tech in a senior position, why people listen to him given his background. Kind of jarring given that the discrimination in the US tends to be much more structural and sinisterly subtle as opposed to some Indian or South African style outright "one drop rule" thing.

I looked at Cisco's salaries here:

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Cisco/salaries/Software-Engin...

For Cisco's Principal Engineer position, which seems super high up relative to other titles at other tech firms, the pay is actually quite low for what that position's requirements seem to be.

I wonder how this dynamic played out. Disgusting anyway you look at it but the nuance of corporate structure here is worth thinking about.

They just asked for people to volunteer. The filtering was done based upon a small recorded video of you answering 2 small coding challenges and teaching the solution.

Sorry, I was talking about the ratios used to govern how much each state gets in the House of Representatives. IE the formula for 1 state shouldn't be X people per 1 representative and another shouldn't be Y people per representative. They should both be the same. The Census can be used to readjust that every 10 years.

I got to help teach one!

This answer doesn't answer the question that was prompted, but I volunteered for Stanford's Code in Place (introductory CS) and it was kind of amazing getting to be on the other side of the MOOC experience as a TA. I lead 5 assigned class sessions with a small group of people (never more than 10) and held 5 other office hour style sessions as well.

It was a really rewarding experience and I think a lot of people who can volunteer for it should consider doing so if Code in Place continues.

This is really cool. I like how flexible this is compared to other calculators I've seen before. Info like this is now table stakes at any recruiting process or discussions if available. Anecdotally know that Levels has helped me, and people like me out a lot.

Appreciate it. Will take all the resources you got.

Everytime I read the words "but why?", I hear them in his voice over here.

There's something so absurd about tiny flapping, waddling penguins as an animal, and yet they seem relatable too as they go about their day everyday, including the insane penguins in question.

PET with Tractographies has been used in a couple of research papers and the real world to map out the extent of brain material related to clinical observations. This is done with TBI's in particular.

Appreciate it.

Appreciate it. You're quite right about thinking outside of the box. I guess I need a better baseline of understanding to be able to do that better in this case.

The entry point of the attack vector is interesting though. I wouldn't have considered a third-party service "innocuously" causing the problem as I was trying to think of a sexier direct exploit into the website's system.

Especially since most fMRI studies of note tend to be ones studying specific inputs. It makes total sense to see what parts of the brain light up with a given stimuli in a given set of conditions. Of course you wouldn't extrapolate that to the entire brain, as brain research is as much about what does light up as it is what doesn't.

My single favorite scene from any Herzog related film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWH_9VRWn8Y

Herzog inquires and videos insane penguins in Antarctica as they march on towards their doom.

I'm not sure about others, but to me this is quite fascinating and clever. I'm a decent engineer who can build and maintain codebases, but I've never been well versed in the depths of knowledge needed to do things like this.

In a hypothetical scenario, what would I need to learn to be able to pull something like this off, from conceiving of it to actually executing it?

From my experience, reproducibility is the single biggest challenge with any fMRI study. I was a part of a reproduction study done by a group which did the original study in question, and the results were 100% indicative of "random chance" instead of any meaningful pattern in the data. That seems particularly problematic when the same techniques and data set is used by the same group of people.

But it should be realized equally in the House as well.

Do you think it is possible that cellphone cameras are coming closer to APS-C and thus its those that end up losing out? Full frame seems to be a significant value add relative to APS-C for a prosumer, just as how medium format is a significant jump up.

Thank you. Appreciate this. Will study this.

As someone with a huge photography itch and a gear nerd who actually isn't a practitioner, can someone with domain expertise in photography and cameras give some insights or predictions in to what they see as the future of photography?

I have a sophomoric understanding of the shift from SLR --> DSLR --> Sony led Mirrorless cameras.

Where do we go from here?

How do things like Hasselblad's X1D II entry level medium format shape up the market? Do more companies go down market? Do the Sonys of the world go upmarket?

What's beautiful about the 11 Foot 8 bridge is that quietly it's been a constant in my life. I distinctly remember watching the videos over a decade ago on this YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/yovo68

There's an element of schadenfreude that's so compelling in watching ordinary situations go terribly wrong.

Muji makes a fantastic, beginner friendly Fountain Pen. I use mine daily, and I bought it for a lot of my friends who expressed interest in it. It's only $15.

Image:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1SvaitlOH40/maxresdefault.jpg

Link to Product:

https://www.muji.us/store/aluminum-round-fountain-pen.html

It's so funny to see this at the top of HN when right below it I saw this thread:

"Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837

White Pattern? vs. Dark Pattern

I wish the links were made bigger but thanks for the visualizations!

I can describe one inefficiency from sports gambling. There is a famous NBA Gambler named Haralabos Voulgaris. He realized that the points total prediction for a game, let's say 100 points scored for Team A, was merely sliced in half to represent the half-time score. However, the pace of the first half is markedly different from the pace of the second half, thus points are scored at an uneven clip. He exploited that inefficiency for a while to great success.

Like sports gambling, a lot of the financial products we trade are obviously built by humans using rules, and arbitraging the intrinsic rules and regulations around said products. Think about Forex trading where you convert currency into currency. One of the key strategies is to find and identify brief negative cycles, for example, in the hope that converting US Dollars to Euros to Yen back to US Dollars leaves you with more dollars than you started out with.

Disney did some absolutely fascinating research here a few years ago. I suggest anyone interested in Deep Learning and Soccer checks out the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI-WL2cj0CA

"Data-Driven Ghosting using Deep Imitation Learning"

Appreciate the response. Any good readings on that? And where do I go from there?

Hello. My CS experience is quite elementary, and I'm a decent enough Web Dev and Scientific Programmer. If I wanted to be the type of hacker capable of taking down a Satellite, what would be everything that I would need to learn? I assume that this is super complex (Duh) but am curious as to the actual extent of knowledge required to pull this off.