skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People setting these fires are not experts.

Let's say a lot of them are garbage and you only hear about the rare occasions it works. Let's say 10% of the time the fire is good enough to kill.

Two stair wells means only 1% of the time you get a kill.

Lighting two fires is also harder, you need more planning and stuff. So that probably equals out a bit for the better fire lighters.

If it's Mossad doing it then sure it's possibly similar.
I think it is because they, rightly IMHO, don’t actually believe that it is possible.
Likely the reason is that you really only need just mypy. It handles the type issues. Pylint is useful, but doesn't really overlap with mypy in terms of what it catches, and there's no need to use pyright or to write type-verifying unit tests, or to do runtime type validation if you have mypy.

Using mypy gives you the type safety equivalent of a compiled language. If you're using mypy, you don't need any additional validation that you wouldn't use in java or c++. I didn't downvote you, but the needless defense in depth is weird.
Thanks for that, I was going to post it but saw you posted it already.

I was on a science related blog recently and I saw someone misspelled an acronym so I emailed the author. In a huge plot twist the blog author let me know these were in there intentionally, and he'd often send the blog posts to the paper authors he was corresponding with and no one pointed it out yet! In a lot of the posts he's dealing with shady pharma shill scientists who are evading his science based questions so it is a pretty good middle finger to put these booby traps in as a way to guarantee they paid even less attention to it.

I told him about the No Brown M&Ms story and he enjoyed that as well.
Australia is a unique situation, the fines are enormous, and policing speed is a top priority for law enforcement here. Lots of automated cameras and hidden mobile cameras. My last speeding fine for < 10km over was $786. You only get to do that four times before losing your license temporarily, so you can't just pay the fines and be on your way either. Their goal is zero road fatalities.
nice! give me more please!
Owning a car (in order to drive it) is probably a bigger risk than ditching the second staircase.
May the Dark Lord remove the veil from your eyes and show you the true malevolence of the one you call God. Hail Satan!
Because everyone at the top levels of government has the security clearance to know that The Basilisk is real. This is also why Presidents age so visibly and dramatically in just 4 years
Funny, I have the reverse opinion. I think VSCode's UI is obtuse and the default theme is awful. I will agree that IntelliJ's UI is busy but I know where all the tools are. Reminds me of Photoshop in that regard. I appreciate not needing to frankenstein together a ton of plugins just to get non-trivial functionality.

Edit: Not to say that I'm right or that you're wrong. Just pointing out differing opinions exist. To each their own.
I've found that with these automated phone things, if you spam enough words with broad enough targets at them, and speak in somewhat unintelligibly, it will just error and connect you with a human.
In Australia the government has largely lost control of the population. They tried to lock down hard and faced resistance but every time they try to crack down harder or enforce the rules more, they get bigger protests.

Now they have just given up entirely and even the most minor restrictions and requests are largely ignored.
Accidentally started an honeypot for amateur assassins and assassin connoisseurs.
Probably every company with credible AGI ambitions has one or more spies planted by one or more countries.
I'm very much for radically open borders — in economic terms, it's one of those twenty-trillion dollar bills lying around on the sidewalk that no one has picked up yet.

And okay, that's a reasonable point to make — in isolation. But in context, do you honestly suggest that the New Zealand outrage described here would be remedied by opening more visas to more people, and getting them into the quarantine?
If you read Khalatnikov’s memoirs he realizes that whole country was turned into a gulag ostensibly for scientists’ sake and is remorseful of the fact
What have you learned from the book?
Soviet sailors would anchor in European ports in the years after the revolution, and people would ask if they wanted to defect to the West. Why would we want to live outside the USSR they replied.

Actually, French and German authorities feared the ideas these sailors might put into the heads of their working class and tried to stifle them. Pictures like Battleship Potemkin were banned for similar reasons.

This started changing in the 1950s. China declared during the Sino-soviet split that the USSR had played itself out and the Chinese communist party was now at the vanguard of fast-moving change, and that seems to have been correct.
I'm curious if that was the whole story. Arcades were clearly a major factor in steering customer preferences, but nowhere near a complete lock on it.

Home consoles and computers had already established a huge range of gaming experiences that are not viable in the arcades. (RPGs, strategy games, more sophisticated sports games-- anything where the mean game time is more than a couple minutes)

I wonder if Sega could have leaned into the strengths of 2D hardware by capturing lucrative, well-known franchises rather than rushing to make something 3D. In retrospect, a lot of the early 3D games were sort of forgettable, and aged poorly?

If they could have said "we wooed Square, and the next two Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy games exclusive", the Saturn would have sold several million units regardless of hardware.
I do wonder why there isn't an open source graphing calculator.

Unless there is?

Granted, the unchanging nature of a TI calc is part of the appeal.
Oh, plenty of old folks fondly remember the Soviet past. Especially those people who liked the idea of communism and benefitted from being active communists, like my grandmother (and I don't mean that evil communist stereotype about sending everyone to Gulag, I mean being active in unions, organizing work etc.). Many people were simply indifferent. Soviet people desiring nothing but freedoms and American merchandise is a very one-sided narrative.
I think many times, what effect on people it will have, if those grey facades will be painted in bright positive colors (tastefully chosen).

Of course it is only painting over the problems, but it could give people energy to care about the surroundings, encourage change. Perhaps there are more effective city planning initiatives, but paint is relatively cheap.

Not related to Bucharest, I heard a story where during WWII liberation, an officer has packed lipsticks as an aid for concentration camp survivors. Restoring human dignity seem to have had a greater effect, than just to receive the necessities (food and clothes).

I see in Africa and India people are throwing garbage onto streets, they do not care about immediate surroundings. How helpful it would be generally for the health of a nation, if people would clean up just a little bit around themselves?

How difficult is it in fact to implement the "No Broken Windows" policy?
Man, does that ever resonate. I had years of just beating myself up over not being good enough before I caved and went back on my meds, and since then I have come to believe that the combination of the kinds of lateral thinking and hyperfocus that are endemic to add, with the crutch of adderall, actually grant me significant advantages that neurotypical types lack. My .emacs is my pride and joy and it does most of my work for me.

If being on adderall is a little new to you, and you're on such a low dose, might I recommend supplementing with chelated magnesium and agmatine sulfate. These are vitamins that (somehow - I knew for a little while how when I was researching them but tbh that knowledge has flown the coop since) will suppress the development of a tolerance, if taken daily alongside the adderall. One of the pitfalls of being medicated with this stuff is that you're kind of on a steady uphill slope that eventually, if you get to where I am (15mg x 3 / day) means that when you need to take a break, you become more or less an obnoxious vegetable. Don't freak out - it's a looong slope (and probably not as dire an outcome as I may have made it sound), but you can make it longer with these to help mitigate, and you'll be thanking yourself for avoiding hard crashes.
Since it's an email isn't every image from an external url? Do you just mean blocking all images?
As a New Zealander, I am super supportive of easier pathways for wealthy people to bring themselves, their expertise, their connections, and their money here.

Do you support denying re-entry to people who are already citizens as a means of doing that?
`sudo vim /etc/hosts` often not far up the history...
I am not convinced. Influenza has a pretty wide range, typically 12-52K a year (in the US). Doubling that top number would put it about 20% of the covid deaths we are seeing in 2021. Both diseases disproportionately punish people who are the least productive members of society (based on age alone); I don't think businesses are going to be volunteering to enforce mask mandates themselves. And the government is already showing considerably less enthusiasm than a year ago. Citizens are tiring of the masks, as evidenced by the waning compliance rate.

Vaccines, on the other hand, seem promising. Though the effective mutation rate seems quite a lot lower than influenza and there are good reasons to believe that the covid boosters will be considerably more durable than the original shots. If it really did come down to getting a booster every year, though, I think a lot of people would be okay with that if it meant no more attempts at lockdowns and mask mandates.
Damn. I like learning languages, skeet-shooting AND Ska. Is there a bumper-sticker or tee-shirt for me?
The closest jargon would be incentive salience in which activation of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area which is necessary but probably not sufficient. If you're interested in the neurological substrates of wanting (desire) and liking (pleasure) than check out the review papers over at Berridge Lab, https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/research/...

In mice they have a stain for the expression of a particular type of "early" expression gene which coincides (most of the time) with neural activity. But this kind of staining is only useful for animal models you can sacrifice. I suppose if you wanted to explore this in humans you'd have to use PET with some neuronal population specific ligand or some fMRI modality(s).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_salience - this wikipedia article is helpful, but they mistakenly (as was tradition) cite the neurological substrates of liking (the shell of the nucleus accumbens) as the source. And that isn't correct even if the ventral tegmental area (wanting) projects heavily to it.
You can get yubikey and use their software. It was great until I lost my keys with the yubikey attached. Can even write a script to read a code and put it in your clipboard. That said, I'm back to using my phone now.
My children developed their own tastes in music well before they could read which I credit to voice tech.
It's not so useful to me personally but I feel it has enriched the family experience.
My suggestions are literally in rank order of the people I most frequently spend time with.

I take part in a few hobby based meetups and run events based around those things. Some of the people I have met through these are pretty tight now, we had a Christmas dinner a couple of weeks ago.

The last time I moved home I threw a house warming and invited the neighbours around. Knocked on the door with a bottle of wine. The ones that came along I still know and some are now close friends.

I could go through the other examples but really I guess it just comes down to whether you think I'm full of shit or not. :)
> However, you do need to understand a lot of Python internals to grok x = attr.ib().

No more than with namedtuples (in fact, both use essentially the same magic: code generation and `eval`).
Seriously? We are talking about fire here. Set it and forget it, doesn't require constant attention ...
I work for a Fortune 500 company. We absolutely use ffmpeg. Why would we not use the best software out there?
You mean comparing school buses without something and cars with something isn't fair? Just like comparing buildings in the US with something vs buildings in Europe without something isn't fair?
It would be great if people could start by defining AGI before engaging in a discussion about it. What is AGI? If I asked what fusion power is someone could do that, down to the mathematical level. At best if asked what AGI is you’ll get a vague cobbled together anthropomorphic analogies.

It was Locke who said that all arguments come from a disagreement about the meaning of words. That’s exactly what’s happening with the word “AGI”. It’s pointless even talking about it if everyone can’t agree on what it means.
This isn't directed at you. Why are we still using phrases like "I think" when we talk about climate change?
Even small skirmishes have downstream impact indirectly. In India’s case, they often decide the poll results as tensions run high.

Similar to how small-terrorist attacks (with small number of deaths) can result in huge policy changes that change countries forever.
Or you could say, be doing your average of 7 to 15 searches a day, as an office worker. So you've waited some on 5 to 10 of them. No big deal.

But then the guy next to you is a coding intern. He averages 150 to 400 searches a day. Maybe one every couple of minutes, or every five minutes.

That guy would be pissed. All the time.
Double the normal flu rate would be just 20% of what we're seeing this year from covid.
Bash for Fun
Jack Dorsey's Opinion of Rust
Wow, great to see this site on there. When I was a teenager the Language Construction Toolkit is what got me into Linguistics and completing a degree in it: https://www.zompist.com/lckbook.html

When I say I have a degree in linguistics inevitably I'm asked "How many languages do you speak?" which is a question that I think most people with linguistic degrees roll their eyes at. Linguistics is very, very different than learning a language and even applied linguistics is just a subcategory of it.

What I typically say is that I'm awful at learning languages. I believe very strongly from both the research that I've seen and anecdotally that someone's aptitude for learning a language has a hell of a lot more to do with someone being an extrovert who likes new experiences and doesn't have anxiety. I am bad at learning languages because I am awkward and asocial. My favorite language to learn was Sanskrit because it felt like "decoding" something versus the social/anxiety producing "production" aspect of languages.

With the skills I do have though, depending on how much work I put into it, I can probably get better at comprehension in reading more quickly than most people because I like the "decoding" aspect.
It probably is, but if you have it under control then it's not really disabling, is it? Good job getting there. You're just old enough that you likely had to manage without the social resources to assist, and that's no small thing.
This is the "build it, they will come" argument. It doesn't work.

The idea is that if you put a bunch of great engineers in a room they'll make a brilliant product. Except they never do. They make something very clever, that does something brilliantly, but it's almost always the wrong thing. Engineers don't like talki g to customers, or discovering requirements, or running user focus groups. They want to build what they believe people need, which is very often not what people actually need. And they take far too long to do it because they're focused on perfecting the tech things instead of shipping.

Engineering teams need product managers, a QA team, technical writers, customer success people etc. Some engineering teams also need project managers too if they're no good at self-organising.
Joyeuse fêtes! From Montreal :)
Very grateful this community exists.
The Huberman Lab Podcast is amazing:
https://youtube.com/channel/UC2D2CMWXMOVWx7giW1n3LIg
Besides the incident, was it a value add to use Alexa instead of the buttons on the appliance? Our more of a novelty?
This is going to blow up in their face when engineers start to actually fix problems drivers deal with at the expense of the company's bottom line.

The things that suck about being a door dash driver probably have more to do with the business model and revenue based decisions and less to do with where the buttons on the app are placed.
Ask HN: What are your favorite dark mode web pages?
I'm designing a bunch of website themes but I am weirdly unable to get a good feel for dark themes. Would you mind recommending any blogs/static site themes/general website pages that you think have a compelling dark mode?
second this. Time without other people's stuff in your stuff is invaluable.

I would add that pomodoros can be really good for tracking how much you've gotten done, and then being able to walk away after a certain amount of time has been spent being productive.

You may be getting more done than you realize - one of the factors of add is that once a task is complete, it flies the cognitive coop. I have this problem in spades.

Also, it may be helpful to realize that if you're working on code, some of the work is finding the solution. Even if you don't have a scrap of working code to show for it, having done some work to find out what doesn't work or just reading documentation is productive work.

Beware that imposter syndrome, it's a real doozie.
I work at a company acquired by Motorola Solutions and we use gstreamer, but I don't know about MSI overall, just our division. We also use ffmpeg for some things, lol.
Isn't this how log4j happened? No one cared enough about checking dependencies. Anyway interesting post aligns up with what I have been exposed as well, it sucks that people don't take cybersecurity more seriously earlier in the project phase.
It will be fine. They have immigration lawyers.
Everything is a trade off. The other extreme is having many libraries with overlapping concerns where the same security holes show up again and again.

I think the real answer is to decide on a strategy and then put healthy process in place to mitigate the downsides. In the case of sharing code across the company, make sure there are 2+ maintainers. This sort of succession planning is common. It is not foolproof, but it does mitigate the issue you raised.
Persistence, façades and Roslyn’s red-green trees
I propose this exact scale, in the interest of productive discussion:

15-75 ms GOOD: (no thoughts had in that time)

75-150ms OK: oh, there it is

150- 250 NOT OKAY: wait, did I…

250- 500 VERY NOT OKAY: could I have typed something better?

>500+ ms ABSOLUTELY DEPLORABLE: is this thing on, is it working still?
Maybe I’m crazy, but to me, having a heating element that can burn my house down, directly able to be controlled from the internet seems like the first issue.

I get the Internet of Things dreams (I understand, not agree), but who would want this? You still need to be there to load and consume the food. It’s not like the HVAC that can be of use to me while I’m not there yet.
…or that a person (anonymous unique id) traveled to 123 somewhere road. And stayed there from 8pm through 10am.

And the tax records also show a man by the name of Joe who put the same address as their primary residence.

Viola! De-anonymization.
i owe so much to fabrice, the ffmpeg community, and the upstream encoders and decoders and their respective communities. this post was a good reminder to donate.
I’ll probably regret replying tired, because this isn’t me at my best but… this is what I experience, what people I know with ADHD experience, and what a lot of literature describes. I have a hard time even reading it as a potentially different experience.
Typejuice: Docs generator for .d.ts files inspired by godoc
Many people put answers to assignments and exams in the course material and very few people get it.
Show HN: Compressor-Encryptor-Archiver
yes, we would all post 3 lines in stand up channel by 1pm. It was much easier to easy to scan and see what's everyone is upto. Morning is the worst time to have dozen people talk about their irrelevant problems that you have no idea, interest or skills in. If there is an issue that requires team input we would just setup 4pm meeting for selected team members/experts to join and give their thoughts. Mgmt would never understand this, but fewer meetings and more productivity.
I don't think anyone knows. You might simulate the chemistry and then realize you need quantum mechanical effects. And then add those and realize something is still missing. I don't think anyone knows how deep the rabbit hole is.
Recently I was at a budget/hertz (my first mistake) with a reservation and found they had no cars for my reservation and no timeline by which they would.

I was told by the person manning the desk they could not help me, only the representative on the phone could and no, they did not have a direct line.

After 30min on hold person on the phone said they could not tell me what hertz/budget would have a car for my reservation though they were the reservation desk. They transferred me to customer service where I waited for 90 min to no avail.

Even worse, I was in a total loop at booking.com. Enter reservation number pls: easy. Enter pin: there isn't one. Immediate disconnect. No representative, no series of numbers, no alternate phone number available.
Can you elaborate how having more legroom and less doors makes a aircraft go faster?
No, but we'll all become incrementally better by understanding the difference between necessary (what the article said) and sufficient (what you said it said).
The seemingly costly part of JWST - The Gold Mirrors are cheaper than one might guess, for eg. it’s a 0.1 micron coating that only used 45g of gold.
You said what I wanted to say, but better. Agreed completely.
Yikes, who hurt you? scrum master and scrum in general is the biggest bullshit jobs out there. More useless than a person holding doors and the door is automatic.
When the topic is "Why doesn't the US do stairwells like other countries?" and the answer is almost entirely "Fire codes prohibit it for the following list of mass-casualty fire deaths due to stairwell behaviors in fire," the rest of those things seem rather off topic.
When voice works, it's nice. For example I do enjoy asking my fire tv to play music or find a show. It's not perfect but it's easier than typing one character at a time on the TV remote, or doom scrolling.
I was thinking.Erin Hunter but tomato tomato.
Or it turns out, the simulated neuron brain is not smarter than a regular human.
My first failed project was Iddhis.com, an anti-social network where you can connect with only your close friends. Some media coverage here - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/iddhis-ai...

My second failed project was RingAd.net - an android app which gave you coupons for listening to advertisement jingles as your mobile ringtone. Some media coverage - http://www.sunday-guardian.com/investigation/download-a-free...

My third failed project was a Board/Card game, it also failed to pick up after initial buzz. https://yourstory.com/2014/06/geekybuddha/amp