skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of all the hypothesis outlined, "Management location dictates office location" seems most accurate to me. The highest programming salaries are at big tech companies in SF/NYC because those companies make so much money per employee that they don't blink an eye at $500k/yr comp packages.

Meanwhile no bootstrapped founder in their right mind would try to hire in SF to build an MVP unless they've got VC investors with deep pockets adamant on it. The smarter move would be to hire remotely, vastly opening up the talent pool and getting significantly more bang for your buck.

If you're a U.S. citizen, you can always move to SF/NYC and make those high salaries. You just might choose not to because you don't want to move there. If you're Swiss, there are plenty of high paying jobs, not just in IT but other fields.

If you're a Ukrainian citizen, you don't have the option to make $500k+/yr at <insert big tech company> (unless you're willing and able to go through the immigration process into the U.S., which is difficult). Naturally that leads to less bargaining power.

Ultimately wages are just a negotiation.
> the article does not provide any further information that the Surgisphere study was the source of the WHO decision

Genuine question: What else is it assumed WHO may have made the decision based on?
I had a Kinesis Advantage some ten years ago at my first job, as well as a vertical mouse; they didn't work for me in the end. Good keyboard, but it didn't fix my RSI issues.

What did help a lot was a Mac wireless keyboard (flat profile) and weight lifting, especially deadlifts that at first I couldn't do much of because of grip strength. Couldn't do pushups either due to wrist pain. But my grip strength quickly improved (I could do without the grip straps after just four or five sessions) and the wrist pain went away.

It's making a comeback now though, I've been working on a regular keyboard for a while due to working from home and haven't been in a gym for months now.
Does anyone know of research into chatbot memory? I found this one: https://deepai.org/publication/a-proposal-for-intelligent-ag...

GPT-2 was a solution to a certain kind of problem: is it possible to throw out the idea of representing language while still having good performance on a variety of language tasks? But there doesn't seem to be anything like that for "memory," which seems separate and distinct from "tasks."

In concrete terms, I'm interested in models that have memory in the sense of "When you inference from the model, you leave a lasting impact on the model." Inferencing from the model should cause a change in the model parameters. Yet most models currently seem to assume that model parameters can be frozen without losing something essential to the end goal.

We're very task-oriented. But none of these chat bots can remember my name, or anything about me, and it's always bugged me. GPT-2 (and now GPT-3) punts the problem to a sufficiently clever programmer: just figure out how to encode all the "memory" into the context window, and then out pops the results you want. But that feels rather like arguing "Just come up with a technique that works, and it will work." Perhaps it's true, but not too helpful.

If you hear the same name a few times, you'll remember it a long time, and start associating it with someone's face. It seems like language models could do something similar. I don't know precisely what; maybe someone here does.

You could designate part of the model as long-term memory, short-term, etc. Inferencing from the model could cause larger effects in the short-term area than the long-term area (equivalent to a higher learning rate).
They transform housing from one form to another. Some people find renting more convenient and flexible than buying.
Tech companies absolutely do not try hard enough to hire disadvantaged people color enough to offset the issue that comes with getting past interview processes staff with people with inherent prejudices.

Regardless if they get in the pipeline an issue a disadvantaged minority will have will be getting railroaded by say, an engineer who doesn't like said minority regardless of his competence level.

I think that your making assumption based on a lifestyle you don't live. You in the response a being flippant in saying well its not that bad. The fact is I doubt you have any idea. The fact is no is plenty of evidence that say with the same financial/education level a minority is disadvantaged and even with a greater financial/education level they are more disadvantaged.

I think your living in a reality of how you think the world should be instead of the one that exists.
> Also, most common problems were caused by placement of special keys (shift, ctrl, backspace, enter) and that's not something colemak, dvorak or their friends seem to be addressing.

You're still mostly right, but Colemak does actually move Backspace to the Caps Lock key, which is a change I'd recommend to every single person who types on a computer keyboard.
Could you explain that more, I didn't understand your response
True, but its unlikely to find outstanding bootcamp graduates. A lot of what we are looking for isn't ability hackerrank type challenges, but a more mature person capable of other aspects of the product lifestyle as well as just coding. But as you say it is a quick and easy filter for assumed ability. It didn't stop many people applying, though looking at their resumes in more detail did.

We already got lots of very poor candidates. I doubt removing the filters that we did have would have improved things.
Perhaps it didn't make sense in the beginning, when outbreaks are sparse, but now that it's spread everywhere and it's a matter of suppressing it, that changes things, doesn't it?

If you start with 10 cases and immediately take action like Taiwan, you have 7 dead. If you start with 10 cases and do nothing like Sweden, you have 4500 dead.
> It's "unproven" as a treatment for COVID but pascal's wager would say that there is no harm in taking it.

That's nonsense, plenty of approved medicines have pretty crazy side effects, and can do more harm than good if taken when they aren't needed.

Pascal's wager, about the existence of god, is also incorrect FYI. It posits that you should believe in god because you have nothing to lose. Amongst other criticisms it fails to take account of the negatives of adhering to a belief system, and it fails to take account of the possibility of choosing the wrong god(s).
That's cheating because improving AI is working on both sides - it's making better classifiers but also better spam generators :)

In the future with general AI classifying spam will be a hard problem even for people.

Imagine you get a message looking like it's from your facebook friend with his catchphrases telling you about his last trip and saying how great that travel agency was :) Spam or not?
> The way it forms questions is not like Enlgish (I don't know of any language that it's similar to).

The "x ala x" pattern is directly modeled on the Chinese "x不x" (and "有没有") pattern, including the answer ("x" / "x ala" in toki pona, "x" / "不x" in Chinese). I think Sonja has mentioned this explicitly somewhere.

For example, in Chinese I think you can ask "你可不可" 'you can not can?' with the possible answers "可" 'can' and "不可" 'cannot'. This corresponds directly to toki pona's "sina ken ala ken?" 'you can not can?' with the answers "ken" 'can' and "ken ala" 'cannot'.

There's also the "anu seme?" pattern which is similar to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_question phenomenon in a number of languages; the one that I find it most similar to is German, with the "oder?" tags.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oder#Particle

I understand the "oder?" to have a connotation of 'or what?' (like "are you coming or what?"), in which case "kommst du, oder?" should correspond literally to toki pona's "sina kama anu seme?" 'you come or what?'.
Why do you think its only about language ability and coding?
I did it in VB6
You don’t necessarily need fusion or nuclear power to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. At least theoretically, you get more energy from burning hydrocarbons than is necessary to capture the released CO2 from the atmosphere. So you can (in theory) burn hydrocarbons while capturing the emissions and still producing energy.
All I can do is share experience.

I worked on watch.ly for about five months. Cool product, no customers. Didn't do any significant marketing.

FastComments - couple months in had a handful of customers. I think almost six months in now. There were Sundays where I would wake up and just do marketing stuff all day, crash from the coffee, and then work the next day.

What you're trying to do is not easy. After you have something that even mildly works you should start spending most of your time trying to talk to potential customers.

As a famous salesman once said - "Major time is for major things".

Think and visualize your end goals here, then plot a path to them. You might realize you are way off.

Good luck!
Those numbers seem awfully high. I've just ran a speedtest between Germany and California and got 170ms total latency. Back when rabb.it [0] was alive I could even get reaction scores of 450ms compared to 230ms when running the test on my computer. This is quite impressive when you consider that this means video encoding and decoding must happen in less than 50ms. Conventional video encoding is usually slower than real time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabb.it (Californian startup)
[1] https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime
Yes, that's marketing. For people looking at something up close you need at least 300 dpi. They'll look ok-ish as long as people are distant enough to see the whole image.
You are correct. This is in a former soviet state.
Ehm, going back to that time to compare what is happening today? You do realize that this is Hitler times right? How was black people treated in USA at this time? Can we please stay out of this type of discussion and instead keep to civilized matters?

For example the argument that the high death in Sweden would not have been any different had we shut down completely because most deaths happened at old age care where the same people travel around the whole city thanks to state trying to cut down on costs. Tegnell did say that they expected the old age care to take steps to limit this travel when they set up the guidelines but this never happened in Stockholm apparently. I know that in my home-town they compartmentalized the care a lot after the outbreak, every person only sees the same two to three faces and the personell groups don't meet any more. And the death rate is no different to last years average in our state.

We do not experiment on people without asking for permission in Sweden. We do expect people to treat us with some respect.
DO IT!

Don't use other people's toothbrushes. Don't fly; even if you sometimes do, don't base your life choices around airport terminals or ATMs. Do your computer first aid with a keyboard that has your layout built in so there's no need to change it. Qwerty is actually bad.
Don't compare countries, compare cities/regions. The Stockholm area is hard hit but e.g. the Malmö area fared much better. This isn't because of a difference in strategt but because the initial outbreak was smaller and later, so they had time to take action sooner. When Stockholm realized the problems in elderly homes, many of them already had the disease.

> I'd say it's safe to assume that at least 80% of Swedish deaths could have been avoided with a conventional approach.

What do you build that assumption on? Comparison to other countries, thinking "they have 1/4 the deaths and strategy X so if Sweden had strategy X they would have 1/4 the deaths"?

Half of the deaths were in elderly homes, and they could perhaps have been avoided with a different approach. That's the big failure. Old people who don't have care in their homes or live in elderly homes (e.g. retired healthy people) have been in full "lockdown" just like in most other countries.
Have you ever lived in a country that has a well functioning, nonviolent Police? E.g. somewhere in Europe?

Have you ever lived in a country where people don’t have weapons? It is like night and day really - I never heard of a shooting in my neighborhood, and when Police shoots someone unarmed by accident, it is nationwide news (in a nation of 40M, I remember one situation happening a few years back).

edit: I found some stats for my country. Every year, for 40M population Poland: 125 uses of guns by Police (warning shots etc), around 25 times shot towards a person, 1-2 people killed.
I think epidemiologists shoot themselves in the foot as a profession when they started talking about herd immunity, which is the one situation we are trying to to avoid in infections, and really the entire reason their profession exists. We could reach herd immunities without them but the toll is dramatic and untenable. Politicians mistook the term to mean some kind of solution and made it a buzzword, but it really is the worst solution.

Swedens situation is not the worst in the world, but they really did not win much with their "strategy" either. Talk of "reaching herd immunity in a few months" was irresponsible and heavily fatalistic. As a country with a big public sector they could easily have followed a slightly more conservative approach. An "initial freeze, then plan accordingly" would be a more rational way to go. It was also irrational to assume that their economy can "rebound faster" when most of the rest world is shut down.

Epidemiology did not wear its best suit in this pandemic, and will lose a lot of respect in the eyes of many[1]. Scientists have a duty to inform people when their results are being misused or misinterpreted

1. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/04/wh...
This is a great idea, considering the recent talk around HN about the blogging. Congratulations!

I have a question: for example, yesterday I posted a link to my blog, but was not on yesterday's post. Do you have some rules on what makes it to the list and what doesn't?
Hello! I am looking for a programmer for my startup - tourism and work. The site is informational, nothing complicated. Interested in Google promotion and site optimization.
Hello! I am looking for a programmer for my startup - tourism and work. The site https://www.singapore-visa.net/ is informational, nothing complicated. Interested in Google promotion and site optimization.
When the time is over you should let people exchange contact info if they want - and if both say yes then they see it or something like that.
Interesting. I was considering a more budget end laptop but was worried about the build quality.

When I try most laptops in shops they feel terrible to be honest.

My first laptop was an Asus. To be fair it was as well speced as laptops 2 years later but the screen bowed in the middle.

How's the keyboard on those Asus laptops?
I think it's difficult to develop complex artificial intelligence without a body. But that doesn't mean that, once some basic blocks are developed, the knowledge can't be applied to a "less alive" system.
I totally agree, Colemak didn't help me there, my rate of mistakes for special characters is still way too high.

There are keyboards that move special characters to their own layer, basically using a meta key for all of them. I'm tempted to try something like that, but stealing meta-combinations is always painful (probably the best candidate would be CapsLock, which I tend to remap to Cmd/Ctrl but never actually got in the habit of using as such) and as far as I know there isn't anything remotely standard, which would make it awkward in the long run.
Also, even into the early 2000s the majority of programmers were self-taught to varying degrees. University training, boot camps, ubiquitous internet access to reference materials etc. have vastly increased the amount of information available to a budding programmer. Back in the 90s you just hacked on something until it worked.
The whole point of peer-reviewed journals is to be a noise filter.

The scientific community purportedly polices itself.
> I wonder if the defaults of vi are somehow optimized for QWERTY.

Only hjkl for movement. Everything else is fine.

I still wouldn't make the switch again. You'd get more millage from spending the ~2 weeks doing a bunch of speed typing practice with qwerty.
Yet no mention of NEO in the article?
Wood is a fantastic construction material.
> Yesterday, Sweden had 74 deaths.

That's a pretty noisy value since sunday reported zero. Because there is no weekend reporting, a 7 day average is better. That average is around 45.
Within your rights, sure. Giving access to a webcam and microphone is different from being being recorded in a public setting.
Nonsense.

Don't forget, things were more than livable a hundred years ago.

We don't need multinationals to feed us. It's a sham. We're just not making proper use of our available space/resources as individuals.
Yeah, the real problem is the conflation of CPU clock cycles with wall clock time and the busy-waiting.
How about profit as a well-defined metric?
List of Memory Biases
The original title was carefully chosen, extracted from the pages themselves, to ensure that HN readers would have an idea of what it was supposed to be about, and not just a pair of random words. As such, I thought it did comply, and was helpful.

Clearly the mods disagreed.
> Why not? We have our own currency and have no qualms manipulating it to manipulate the stock market. We can communicate with other countries.

People are starting to go crazy. Personally I couldn't be happier with lockdown, I love staying inside. I'd be happy to do this for the rest of my life, but almost everyone else I know is losing it. And that's not even to speak of all the people who've lost their jobs and can't make money.

It seems like you are proposing that to fix the income issue we just print money indefinitely until a cure comes out, and then restart the economy. Doing something like that is not really comparable to the kind of QE that's being done in the stock market. It'd have to be done on an incredible scale, and nobody really knows what the effects of that would be on the economy.

> By opening up our economy we’re pointing a gun at the world.

Many countries are already open. Sweden, China, Japan, Korea. Reopening isn't pointing a gun at others, it's pointing a gun at ourselves.

My point isn't that the gun isn't there. It's that we're getting shot no matter what, the only choice we have is whether we also want to lose a few million more jobs and a few trillion more dollars of GDP.

> This just strikes me as a very naïve and dogmatic worldview. Where are you getting this from?

I'm just looking at the outcome potentials as I see them. A cure, optimistically, is 9-12 months away. Every month we keep the economy closed, more businesses blow up, because they aren't generating revenue to meet their fixed obligations. They are firing employees, and then those employees can't make rent, and then the landlords can't make their mortgage payments, and on and on. This stuff will cascade throughout the economy and destroy it, and it gets worse the longer we wait. You can fix some of this with cash transfers, but not all of it, and the long and medium term effects of large scale cash transfers of the kind that would be necessary are not well understood.

Originally the purpose of lockdown was supposed to be "flattening the curve" so as not to overwhelm the medical system with peak demand. That is and was a good goal, that we have more or less achieved. The goal of lockdown was never to just wait out the entire virus, because that's just not realistic.
>This is so obvious. Defund the police, and regulate their roles.

>deprioritize protests/drugs/etc

Yeah, already done that. And it's miserable. My parents came to visit (from the midwest and right before the pandemic) and were absolutely appalled at seeing needles on the street when we went out to dinner. I don't blame them, really. I blame the people who pretend that shrugging at enforcing drug laws is some sort of "justice". It's not, it's political nihilism. And we've run this test 1000 times at this point across the country. Some will say that "it's not that bad", and to them I say "yeah ... I've been in worse places around the world too". Which is a snide way of saying that I'm really annoyed that people are okay with third world standards of living in the USA because they have this inverted sense of "justice".
I think the broadness is the problem. If it wasn't broad, you could hard code answers to all the questions. Examples of some basic questions that have no chance of working today: "Do you remember that discussion we were having last time?", "I've scanned the document you want, can I paste it straight into the chat window?", "Is PDF format OK?", "Can you look at page 2 in the PDF?".
You ever eat a pine tree?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGp7OzTaoe4
+1

I'm a dvorak user who wouldn't do it again if I had the chance.
It's not about being faster, but to not suffer from RSI. QWERTY forces your hands to stay in abnormal position which can cause wrist pain. Ergonomic layouts (and column-staggered or ortholinear keyboards) are designed with that in mind.