skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not just ”a person” when you are a parent. You are a person with a very special role and you spend a lot of time acting in that role. As I see it, the border is fuzzy and the overlap large, but the role and the person are not the same.
Nearly no one in software development, particularly VR, seems to care about the morality of supporting Facebook. Are we too mesmerized by their latest shiny toys, Quest 2, et. al.? Doing a search for anything concerning the ethics of feeding the Meta beast led me to this scant result.
That depends. You can't just look at the area, but also your job type. There are tons of factors. I know that many pharma people in my area make more than me. I know high school teachers that make about the same as me. There are tons of people that make more than I do. This argument about median is really a tangent, but the point was that $110k per year is not excessive.

The conversation was that software development is "too lucrative" to incentivize people to work on side projects. In my experience, that's simply not true.
I type ~80WPM with 90%+ accuracy, but I don't find that typing speed is my blocker, rather the speed of a coherent thought

I’m on typeracer.com with an average typing speed of 154 WPM with 99% accuracy. I don’t find my thoughts to be limiting for typing purposes.
I guess Enginnerd has a point.. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29827582 and remarks at the end
I recently wrote a microbenchmark where I convinced myself that doing operations to a [64]bool was equally fast as doing the same (bitwise) operations on an int64.
I think that bit was meant as a joke
I hope you'll like it!
I don't think this is necessarily true. We have had similarly disputed election results in the past, like the corrupt bargain of 1824, or the compromise of 1876. It's more of an annoyed grumble about the "stolen election" rather than a hysterical battle cry.

And while I'm at it, let's not pretend like it's just the right that does this stuff. I seem to recall 4 shrill years of people freaking out about how Russia hacked the election (which turned out to be a big nothing burger). Wasn't this just as damaging to democracy?

I think at the end of the day idiots will be idiots, and I'm not too concerned about a bunch of idiots complaining about the election they lost.
This doesn’t work like that. It moves on to the next word the moment you type a space. Also, https://monkeytype.com/about says:

stats

wpm - total amount of characters in the correctly typed words (including spaces), divided by 5 and normalised to 60 seconds.

raw wpm - calculated just like wpm, but also includes incorrect words.

acc - percentage of correctly pressed keys.

char - correct characters / incorrect characters. Calculated after the test has ended.

consistency - based on the variance of your raw wpm. Closer to 100% is better. Calculated using the coefficient of variation of raw wpm and mapped onto a scale from 0 to 100.

So, they assume the average word has 5 characters. Makes sense for computing wpm in random text.
Twilio could fairly easily verify that the phone number owner consents: when setting up the recipient number, allow for double opt in - send a verification code that must be entered somewhere.
> If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less efficiently.

This is actually why I still use a French press for my coffee every morning. I don't need to be hyper efficient all the time. That 15-20 minutes of my morning is relaxing, leisurely.
I had to drill a hole for cables with a hole saw in my wife's IKEA desk. Imagine my surprise when it was basically laminate on top of corrugated cardboard strips arranged vertically with actual empty space between them!

It might even be this exact one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNRY6natiY
Wasn't it "eradicate"? or am I misremembering?
According to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59895598, over 500,000 people in the UK are still suffering health issues a year after catching Covid, and nearly 900,000 are still suffering after 12 weeks. The UK population is around 70 million, so that's around 1% of the entire population. If you take into the fact that many people in the UK have managed to not catch it at all yet, or exclude children who suffer far less (if at all), then the percentage would be higher.

I don't think 1% is "a small minority".
New York City: 8,804,190 people, GDP of $884 billion.

Colorado: 5,773,714 people, GDP of $318.6 billion.

I mean, yeah, sure, they can do that, but it's dumb and their competitors will profit from that.
Nobody seems to know if it's satire or for real. I was convinced it was a joke until the last part where the developers start talking about it like a real thing
When I used to work in Crypto we had git hooks set up to prevent this from happening. It takes a bit more time to set up than just adding something to .gitignore but is a more robust solution of you design your hook well.
I remember chatbots in 2000 using hidden markov models (and sometimes even neural nets), so from that standpoint, they aren't exactly new.

The models are just larger now.
Why is adaptation more important than life itself? The responses in this thread are so callous. Would you tell a loved one that they need to die so humanity can "adapt?"

If confronted with a society of people that live forever, but are relatively stagnant, would you propose to them that they all kill themselves every 80 years or so, so they "adapt?"

Why is adaptation more important than a life? A life is incredibly precious. Evolutionary adaptation barely works anymore and the cost in blood is immeasurable. Otherwise, adaptation can be achieved easily with technology, without costing so many people their hopes, dreams, and existence.
Understood, my mistake.
I started my career (way back when the C-64 was still popular...) working for several start-ups and maybe that's colored my thinking on monetizing side projects. I do side projects to pursue my own interests and I've never once thought about trying to monetize it because I know the work involved and frankly most of the work isn't work I enjoy doing. I figure I'm leaving a few bucks on the table but I'm having a lot more fun!
I don't have to do anything, I get a single form (1099? Don't remember) per source with gains and that's it. Don't even have to send in those forms with the return anymore. Is there some number where you have to fill out stock sales?
It says he competed at 267wpm in the article. The monkeytype site totally bans 300+ so I think that's still very impressive.
Hasn't NYC been failing since the late 70s?

(I'm kidding)
People in China do not have social credit points.

The real "social credit system" bears almost no resemblance to the online meme.

Most people in China aren't even familiar with the system, because it's mostly used to regulate businesses.[0]

There's a funny video in which someone in Shanghai went out and asked random people on the street about their "social credit score." Most of them thought they were being asked about their financial credit scores.[1]

0. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-sys...

1. https://youtu.be/nGhOssPumUU
Old normal will not return until our hospitals are also back to normal
"Stop all economic growth"

I disagree with doing that even in the most developed countries, I've no idea how you imagine selling that to the least developed countries. Or by force?

However, I agree we aren't really able to do enough - that there's a lot of virtue signalling so we feel a little better about ourselves - and a technological solution is what's required.
I've found them useful for locating a page or process that I couldn't find in a poorly designed website's labyrinth.
Does it matter? Either way, their choice of not taking a vaccine has a higher chance of them denying a hospital bed from somebody who needs it
"Will this prediction ever come true, or is there some kind of human nature that is going to keep us grinding away no matter what we invent?"

Seems abundantly clear to me that there indeed is something in our nature that keeps us grinding. I do hope that we at least continue to increase the freedom to choose what and when we grind
>"Both MS and Uber have benefited from new leadership that lowered the temperature and refocused the company."

This is the same Uber that has given up on any future tech leadership and sold its autonomous driving group away right?
Based on that video, it's more of a macro keyboard. Assign each of the ~10 words to a button, click buttons in order, claim 500WPM
> Google aren't adding packages to the java.* namespace, and the language is 100% compatible with Oracle's compiler.

It just shows how little experience you have porting anything beyond Java 7 into Android Java.

> Only the bytecode format and runtime are different, but that's no worse than how J2ME was, with SonyEricsson/Samsung/$OEM having their own custom packages (which Sun/Oracle approved of.)

Yet that is the whole sales pitch of Android that it isn't as fragmented as J2ME was.

Also you missed the part of SavaJe OS being on the path for making SE available on mobile and Java 8 introduced Embedded Compact Profiles, whose APIs aren't fully available on Android to this day.

They lie to the public that they use OpenJDK, when the truth mirrored on Gerrit code reviews is that they cherry pick features, tracking down which Android version supports what from Standard Java is a painful detective work.

To add to it, the fellowship of Kotlin cleverly misuses their broken Android Java to sell Kotlin features, instead of comparing it with the real deal.
Sure, it could; I was just describing one way that posted wages could lead to stagnation.

I suspect that different things will happen in different markets. It seems (to me) that software development may be unaffected, administrative workers might benefit, and unskilled workers may suffer.
Because that self same freeholder should be ready and willing to negotiate with others to provide whatever goods and services he needs. He shouldn't need a third party to intervene on his behalf, and, knowing that depriving anyone of freedom deprives him as well, should be loathe to apply force to compel the other free party he is negotiating with to meet his terms.
Chatbots are simply another mechanism for pushing costs on to your customers. When something I pay for forces me to waste my time, I tend to switch to a vendor who treat customers like people.

Because shoving a shitty robot that saves you some money at the cost of annoying people who are paying you is disrespectful, and I've learned to avoid people who act that way.

As but one example, I finally got annoyed enough with Capital One's aggressively annoying automated bullshit to switch that card to a credit union that's actually made of humans. I don't really use the much lower interest rate, but that was a nice bonus.
> Very few places did lockdowns at any point

This is some grade-a gaslighting, plenty of countries had long brutal lockdowns where no-one was allowed outside unless it was "essential".

> butthe ones which did were successful in breaking spread.

No. Many of those places had worse outcomes than places that didn't do any sort of lockdown.

(When I say lockdown I mean stay-at-home orders. Do you have a different definition?)
Interesting. I guess you speak Korean?
XMPP seems to be quite popular with military organizations:
https://www.isode.com/whitepapers/military-forms-using-xmpp....
Food for thought, RSS is dead because it does not provide an incentive for the author. If you do not collect a mailing list/email list you do not have a known audience. If you dont have a known audience there is no way to measure growth and monetize it. You also would struggle to monitor popular articles over time without your own web real estate and analytics.

I am an RSS noob.. so maybe some of the above IS possible with RSS but consider the case of Medium.

Medium thought to incentivize content creators with cross-pollination of readers. Person A is an author and writes on medium because medium will promote content to its network of readers which is larger than the auidence that Person A has today. Person A inevitably also brings an audience with them albiet likely humble.

Medium MAY have failed for a few different reasons but I suspect retention being low for the larger majority of its visitors and also being unable to monetize in a meaningful way - I know this team is actively working on this and more and I am rooting for them!!

Substack is the new platform.. it focuses on the ease of capturing an audience and monetizing it. Today that is what most writers want for their efforts.

If you could somehow bake the ability to capture and monetize an audience into the RSS subs then perhaps we'd have something.. the reality is whatever RSS becomes it needs to provide a 10x better incentive to the content creator than the traditional means.. and if its just "another" channel.. likely it will be ignored for the more lucrative channels (ie build my own list.. or even sites like medium)

Its also worth mentioning Master Class .. but I dont know enough about them to make any real conjecture.. just that they seem to have cracked the nut on reputation and content creation. Who doesn't wanna learn how to shoot threes from Steph Curry?
It could be agency... but it's just a circus. Do you do the same negotiation for a burger? maybe haggle with wendy's over the number of fries in your order?
All my news consumption is either RSS or Twitter.

The biggest push RSS could get for me is if there was an Twitter-to-RSS bridge where I can get an RSS feed for a list of Twitter accounts.
Yeah, I don't buy this. Russia now has several pretty good Netflix-like competitors with good TV apps.
I'd argue it's a different kind of learning though.

QWERTY is more 'what you see is what you get' - you push a key and you get that letter. Sure the layout is weird and learning to type takes some effort, but there's very little additional cognitive load. It's like a WYSIWYG editor.

Steno is like Vim, you have to have all of the phrases in your head tracking a lookup table cognitively. Over time sure that becomes muscle memory and lowers the load but I think it's less gradual. You have to frontload a lot of the commands first. IME most people will never do that so it'll always remain niche.
Coming late to this but: I have learned some things about this (your first paragraph at least) for myself -- it is good, not what you describe. At my simple site (in profile; no sales).
You know what they call a quarter pounder in France?
True, but QWERTY is labeled and obvious how to use. Hence the great number of woodpecking that occurs out there.
Is the Rails performance something to do with the amount of meta programming going on - I can imagine that being hard to optimise!
Not everyone thinks while typing. I do all my thinking ahead of time, then I just need to record it on the screen after I'm done.

I'm usually thinking of other things at that time, since I just need to transcribe the words in my head, not think about them.
Yeah, I switched to Dvorak a few years back, it was the worst experience in the world. Granted I had to fight against my qwerty reflexes
The ending is the relevant bit:

> As I have said many times, the real danger today is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us and consequently trust them to make important decisions they should not be trusted to make.
I feel tossing together some basic meal is so simple I can't bother to go pick anything from outside even though I live in the middle of great restaurant concentration. A bit of frozen veggies heated on pan, with pasta or couscous on the side. Takes literally ten minutes and costs less than one euro.

Or a large casserole that takes an hour to cook but gives eight portions. Quick heat-up for lunch during the week saves time too, and you stay in control of the salt intake unlike with ready meals. So cheaper, healthier, faster. Downside is that those meals are pretty basic and repetitive, but then again eating out feels a bit more special if you don't do it every day.

I do cook "real" recipes too with more steps and more flavor, but only with my partner as I don't care to do it just for myself for weekday meals.
You're making me feel a little inadequate about my current record of 97WPM with 99% accuracy.
You are the gatekeeper on feeling sick, now?
> I don't need tech support, I just need someone to call, explain the situation to, and have them click a button.

What you are describing is tech support.
So if everyone gets Omicron, we will have a ton of pre-existing immunity?
So that's a "no" for the "but did you read the article?" question?
> to what extent does recovering from Omicron prevent Delta?'

If Omicron is reaching 100% prevalence in so many locations, I wonder if Delta will not be as much of a threat anymore? It seems like there haven't been any infections with older variants for a long time now.
Yup, having to type unseen text makes a lot of difference.

Here's what I personally use to test my keyboard setups: monkeytype.com.

My best is ~95 WPM and 100% accuracy.
I would like to see a new web with a reduced feature set. Something like web 1.0 pages but with only semantic tags like RSS. Remove the ability to create user interfaces and forms. Could we build a spec for this new WWW and create a way for it to crawl and search RSS at the same time? It's time to go backwards. We lost the good Internet along the way to getting the crap we have today. Let's build Web -1.0
800,000 dead americans in less than two years sounds pretty deadly to me
Proposal/Marketing Manager, but she often does things outside of her official job description as well.
There was an article a few days ago about bloodthinners like aspirin or heparin taking away the longer lasting effects. I hope more effort will go in figuring that out; aka even if we can live normal without hospital overloads, these lingering effects are scary as hell.
One of the interesting aspects of human neurophysiology is that our sensory organs and limbic system are intermediated by malleable neurons. This is not true of all organisms... Most animals have far more direct, mechanical neuron connections between their senses and their biological hormonal triggers for things like aggression or fear.

This fact is a two-sided coin. On the one side... Brilliant! We can change our minds! There is nothing, physically, preventing us from becoming our most fearless selves and adapting mentally to any circumstance the universe can throw at us.

... And by the same token, we can become physiologically terrified (a fear response with actual hormonal fight or flight triggers) over things like open spaces or empty chairs because an inconvenient coincidence in the past caused our brains to burn a path from sensory input to survival instinct that (once established) can be incredibly hard to reset.

The downside to a general purpose computer is you can crash it.
Fuzz testing requires a test oracle to tell you whether the output is good or bad. Otherwise, all you're checking for is crashes which is unlikely to yield much.
Thank you for proving my point!
Why is scientific progress more important than life itself?

Would you tell a society of immortals living in an idyllic and peaceful village that they need to die "for science?"

Societal issues can be solved without science. Once you tackle scarcity and long+healthy lives, science becomes much less important.

Anyways, the pace of scientific progress is irrelevant if you live forever. You would experience infinitely more net progress if you were immortal.
I agree with this. What happens when I got to my bank with this extension? I would rather have either what another commenter suggested (a bookmark) or be able to see the source. I assume they use the "activeTab" permission to give temporary access to the current tab?

From a quick look, it seems to just request access to all pages? I am not sure if chrome really has a elegant way to handle per-website requests (as compared to per-tab).

https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fchrome.google....
What you described was the industrialization - what lacked in 1922, and would make at least a similar, inexplainable change for people of 1922 today is information revolution.

Information still traveled at human recognizable size in 1922, largely the same in 1822 (just got a bit faster over telegraph). Whereas today the first website you visit probably contained more information (bloat) sent to your phone than a person in 1922 would have came across in an entire year.

In other word, the largest transformation is not on the front end, but that doesn't make it less significant. Everyone can make a Google landing page - but it's the stuff behind it that makes it Google.
typing speed is rarely the limiting factor on productivity. HN can be though. get back to work.
You are right. Thank you for being kind and constructive even though I was snarky and did not fully get that you in fact did not exclude these cases.
Too late.

(Ducks - and runs for cover...)
A program like Habitat For Humanity[1], which does exactly that, would have to scale up enormously to house everyone on the street, but could at least serve as a model. I have volunteered on single-family builds, but for big multi-unit buildings they tend to not use volunteers as they require more actual experience in the building trades (and being bonded and insured I think).

1: https://www.habitat.org/about/faq#homeownership
My grandmother was getting that way toward the end of her life. She lived to be 104. More precisely, she thought she lived to 104. She died a week short of her birthday, but she thought it was her birthday. We were told she cried in the morning because her family had forgotten her birthday -- we lived in the area and would have come over. Then she didn't make it to the end of the day. This story has me wondering whether mistaking the date contributed to her death.
The specific cases of people experiencing dementia has not only been noted during the covid-19 era, but also evidence shows that dementia patients have experienced a huge number of excess deaths. I'm personally sure my grandfather was one; he'd had it for years, and it pretty much sat at a steady state for years, while family was interacting with him enough to periodically jumpstart his mind back into lucidity. The decline after lockdown was precipitous.

That disease doesn't somehow make in-person interactions with family and friends unavoidable, though, when people don't have the disease. The fact that people with dementia requiring stimulation to stave off decline are also members of families doesn't magically make all interactions with family members medically necessary.

I generally agree with your conclusions about the change in circumstances, but I personally limit in-person social activities to a small circle of people who are also limiting in-person social activities precisely because I want to continue visiting my grandmother without killing her.
So glad my '22 Subaru has a tune and volume knob for it's stereo, along with a manual transmission and physical climate control knobs.
The larger conceit is simply that we are intuitively all kind of Cartesian, despite ourselves. It is structurally difficult not to be. I think its reasonable for even scientists in this field to not fully escape its psychological and cultural grasp.
Then why are our hospitals overloaded with covid patients?
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