skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I missed an important point in my original comment, my situation wasn't an open-office setup. It was private offices + conference rooms. If it was in an open office where everyone is constantly subjected to that, that would absolutely be an annoying situation.

And fully agreed with your point about that feature on Apple Watch being all-around better due to only notifying you and not bothering anyone else around.
This is an excellent pattern. The anymap crate provides a good implementation: https://docs.rs/anymap/latest/anymap/
Yeah. The sheer amount of button presses to write a 1k line script? That'd be roughly 10,000 words let's say, so 500 wpm would bang that out in a mere 20 minutes. Meanwhile the thoughts to compose 1k lines of code? That could take weeks of reasoning to deduce the proper logic.
No, the reasoning here is broken. Even with a secure naming scheme, you'd still need certificates, because you have to verify the authenticity of the secure channel you bring up (usually TLS), not just the security of the name. Any way you slice it, you end up with a third party vouching for your TLS certificate.
Feel like when I am speaking somewhat conversationally (e.g. IM or even HN), I can think much faster than I can when doing something like Typeracer. It could be a result of me growing up with AIM and MSN Messenger, or maybe just a result of the fact that I tend to talk really fast regardless, but I almost can view typing as an extension of my brain, and as a result I do actually feel like my inability to type faster is a limiting factor.
I came to post the same. SBAITSO was obviously pretty simple but it had enough tricks to convince you, superficially, that there was some intelligence there, and you could spend hours talking to it.
People always over-estimate the complexity of stuff they don't understand.

If I had a nickle for every time an internet commenter attributed intentional design to a feature that's simply the designer copying established default practice...
Just a friendly remainder that donations to the Foundation don't pay for Firefox development. Google's money pays for Corporation stuff (Firefox), donations pay for other things they do around the world [1].

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/
What percentage of users that find RSS useful are not computer nerds? Whose grandmother actually wants RSS?

It seems ridiculous to be obsessed with a protocol or file format. If you need to solve a problem, then solve the problem. It doesn't matter what technical means you use to solve it. If you're just trying to implement some specific technical thing because you're in love with the idea of it, that's never gonna go anywhere.
>>As a manager, how do you tell someone to "stop standing near people and/or looking at people"

"Hey, I've gotten some complaints about people feeling uncomfortable around you. Specifically that you have a tendency to stand too close, and stare too long at people's screens."

There are two ways I can see this going right off the bat. The Sten is either confused about the nature of the problem (maybe does not recall a time that sounds like this, or does not understand that it is a problem) OR the Sten understands that the behavior is problematic but sees it as not his problem (starts to justify it or otherwise excuse it). The first case is easier, presuming the Sten does not wish to make others uncomfortable. You can explain some etiquette or tips to address the situation (its polite to verbally introduce yourself when getting into some ones personal space, its polite to express curiosity and ask to read or know more about another's work), you can simply ask them to be conscious of the feedback. The second case is more difficult but still involves telling the Sten what the social expectations are.
> IMO the public backlash against anyone accepting cryptocurrency donations speaks to the fact that people today - despite VC insistence that “Gen Z gets Web3” and it’s only Baby Boomers that don’t - views climate change as a more significant issue than centralized financial institutions.

That seems...consistent with VC insistence that “Gen Z gets Web3”.

It's not consistent with what Web3-invested VCs want people to take from that, though.
> has a steep learning curve

just to make the pedantic point, learning curves show skill improvement plotted against time spent/experience, and therefore a steep learning curve means you learn quickly. A shallow learning curve is the difficult one. /pedantry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve
Scientists go by evidence, not anecdote. If people could think themselves to death, suicide would be a lot easier to accomplish.

Just take the first case, girl goes to a doctor because she is out of breath and chest pains, tells him a tale about witchcraft, dies. What reason is there to believe that the fear of witchcraft made that happen and not all the other symptoms that point to an undiagnosed medical condition? Or maybe we should just believe witchcraft is real and can make car accidents and gun shots happen?

There is no shortage of people who want to die. And no shortage of people that do die. Every day. If this would be a real thing, it should be possible to come up with some better example than stuff that happened many decades or even centuries ago.
> And if the device on which you're running your ssh client is already compromised, it doesn't matter whether you use a key or password, its the same thing.

Whoa there sunshine.

Put your SSH keys on a USB HSM (Yubikey or Nitrokey) and nobody is ever going to be able to extract the private key.

Added bonus, put it on a USB HSM with touch auth (e.g. Yubikey) and nobody will ever be able to use the key without you knowing it (because you have to physically touch it).
An event held by LINK - https://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/

They are a nonprofit that helps people escape from North Korea
Anything to avoid working on the browser itself. Very sad to see the decline of Mozilla and Firefox.

I wonder if someone could fork it and take all the people from Mozilla who are actually contributing to the technical mission (a small group these days!). Brendan Eich would've been perfect for this, but he's got his own browser now and wisely chose to use chromium as the base.
There isn't a standard for these apis though
Mind sharing the data you're looking at from Ontario?
I have always had a strong almost visceral dislike of people attempting to predict the future with even a hint of confidence, so I really appreciate this author starting off by saying "don't worry guys, this is just for fun".
Reading it literally no I don't think it implies that. GP may just be suggesting (sarcastically) that people will be so appreciative that they will donate twice as much in appreciation.
>Aren't there billions of Java smartcards that people carry in their pocket/wallet and use on a daily basis?

No.
The fellowship of Kotlin at Mountain View will ensure that Android Java stays as it is, any further improvement might happen only if the community is very vocal about any Java library on Maven Central that fails to target Android.

However they will most likely assign an intern to port it to Kotlin than improve Java's support on Android.
Just Chinese and learning Russian now :)

Some of them speak English, others we had a translator.
I have literally told a HR person "I'm not answering this question" and when told to do or cancel, I cancelled that application with zero regrets.

Remember: Whenever someone in HR tells you "this is a standard question", immediately assume that means "we can get away with asking this, and it's strictly to our advantage, so we always do".
As mentioned in a previous comment, I'm saying "Imagine a government without broad power over general welfare". This was the US government until 1936 with United States v. Butler. I don't think it would be a catastrophe to reverse this decision again. It seems that in spite of best efforts, the US has failed to preserve the very meaning of liberty, as it was initially envisioned, from total deterioration even in its very definition.
In addition to the other reply, if they did that the test would be so far from real world typing to be meaningless and nothing but an inconsequential curiosity.

Only in tests is there an option to check against what is expected. In the real world you could at most apply some dictionary and grammar checks, and we know those can go either way. Those tools don't know what you actually wanted to write after all, and still suggest without comprehension.
Nice work. What I would love to see out of any of these wordle clones is to place a letter in the guessing row out of order. That way you can place your good letters in the next row and visualize options.

Also, do you consider it a bug if the answer is "MONEY" but "MANNA" shows a "correctly" placed N and a "misplaced" N rather than a "correct" N and a "incorrect" N ?
I was obsessed with chat bots as a teenager and used to make them on a website called The Personality Forge. It was all hard coded responses with some very minor scripting involved to do things like fill in the speaker's name, or skew the bot's emotions in relation to the speaker, and have them choose different words based on their emotional state.

I loved reading through my bot's transcripts. They were all recorded, and sometimes people stumbled across him and didn't even realize he was a bot. This happened extremely rarely...most of the time, his responses were perfect examples of dumbness as shown in this article. He would have flashes of greatness in an ocean of bot stupidity.

Years later, I was excited to notice that a single line from my one of my bot's Chatterbox Challenge transcripts was included in a book[1] (which was seemingly a collection of papers). He was mentioned in a paper called "Chatterbox Challenge as a Test-Bed for Synthetic Emotions", a tiny mark left on the world by my little bot. He may be dumb, but I was still proud. I even thought about buying a copy of the book, but it cost $200 and I decided I wasn't that committed.

[1] "Creating Synthetic Emotions through Technological and Robotic Advancements"
I feel like I recall at least one worm that somebody released that would infect servers, patch the vulnerability that it used to get in, infect other vulnerable servers, then delete itself.
Wait, I still don't know:

"Is it safe to walk downstairs backwards if I close my eyes?"

Granted, I'm more biased here than most, I suppose. I emergently received 10 screws and 2 plates to repair my broken ankle, after falling down my home stairs last year. I wasn't walking backwards, nor were my eyes closed.
Clinton conceded. Where is trump’s concession? That is how democracy functions, losers have to concede or you end up in the situation we are in right now.

The russia investigation’s conclusions was that there was interference.

An annoyed grumble? yeah right. it’s not a bunch of idiots complaining, it is the entire reasoning of the republican party right now, and anyone who dares to question it and dear leader is swiftly canceled/primaried.
You're spot on. One optimization is that once you are above the highest pixel of the map, you can assume you won't hit anything else. Another is calculating if the Earth's curvature will move pixels out of your way before you hit them.
I like this article, and there is a ton of nuance in the image and how you should choose the appropriate one. I also like how they cover only copying the files you actually need, particularly with things like vendor or node_modules, you might be better off just doing a volume mount instead of copying it over to the entire image.

The only thing they didn't seem to cover is consider your target. My general policy is dev images are almost always going to be whatever lets me do one of the following:

- Easily install the tool I need

- All things being equal, if multiple image base OS's satisfy the above, I go with alpine, cause its smallest

One thing I've noticed is simple purpose built images are faster, even when there are a lot of them (big docker-compose user myself for this reason) rather than stuffing a lot of services inside of a single container or even "fewer" containers

EDIT: spelling, nuisance -> nuance
I think I would use BigInteger for that. You can create them from and convert them to arrays of bytes, count bits, shift them left and right, and add them, resizing storage where needed.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/BigInteg...
A significant difference between a conventional keyboard and steno is that a conventional keyboard is capable of producing all the of the text we normally type, and a steno machine is not. A necessary part of stenotype is a combination of pre-work (dictionary development for e.g. proper names) and post-work (editing the steno transcript to produce a "real English" document instead of one that may only have the generally correct sounds). Modern steno software helps a lot by partially automating these steps but steno is still inherently not capable of producing correct spelling without manual assistance - the basic architecture of steno is that you type the phonemes and (in modern usage) software guesses the correct spelling based on a dictionary. Much of the speed advantage of steno comes from the basic fact that it is a "lossy" process in the information-theoretic sense, that is, the "text" that you enter does not contain spelling information, only pronunciation... and even pronunciation is sometimes a simplified or substitute form as the American steno machine can't represent all of the phonemes that see use in English (mostly due to borrow words).

In the end, steno itself is probably not a lot harder to learn than QWERTY (although I think more frustrating because the "hunt and peck" option for steno is less intuitive and often slower). But it requires sort of a "supporting ecosystem" of skills and tools that is more complex and not amenable to use cases other than natural language. That makes it much less attractive for general use.
I can't tell if this is satire. Poe's Law in action here.
No it’s not, there’s another video explaining, the keys are “2d joysticks” type switches, so typing doesn’t involve removing the fingers at all.

I would think it takes a lot of time to get used, but seems like a smart approach for speed.
> That seems...consistent with VC insistence that “Gen Z gets Web3”.

In an ironic sense, definitely. It shows that they have better sense of the real value of web3 than the people pushing it
Thankfully there are three or four dozen websites that have taken it’s place.
Do you really think NASA software is bug free?
Now try a TruffleBel
I'm more curious what the ergonomics are like on this device and how it compares to keyboards like the Kinesis Advantage for preventing injuries.
It's unclear who you're holding responsible here for the victim blaming - the parent you're responding to, or the GP? In the subthread OP's story, some people came forward to say they felt uneasy with him standing behind them while they worked - and he was let go the next day. In your own comment, you said that most reasonable adults try to adjust their behavior when given feedback. At no point in the story was the offending person ever given feedback of any kind in the intervening weeks. In this particular case, he was let go the very next day after the reports, and OP's not sure if they even gave him any feedback about this. How does this make sense? Does his behavior rise to the level of creating a hostile work environment for most reasonable people? Was an investigation conducted to understand what the exact behavior was? Perhaps he used to silently watch all his coworkers, male and female, and only the women complained? Its definitely unsettling and annoying, but does rise to a fireable offense the very next day after being reported?
He posted an earlier video on his TikTok account showcasing the device's coding capabilities. I don't know if the videos he posts are entirely reliable (eg. as another commenter mentioned, he claimed a 500 wpm typing speed by typing one memorized sentence). I do know that it needs autocorrect (built-in) to work at high WPM which doesn't seem great for coding which might use nontraditional words and spellings. Personally it seems like it would be too great a learning curve for not enough benefit, given that no software is designed for devices like these. Maybe if this somehow takes off in the future.
I've met and worked with an organization that sort of comes from the other side of the equation. They are involved in helping North Koreans flee from the country, as well as helping those that have already managed to get across the border on their own *. The end goal is to get them into South Korea.

This sometimes involves providing the bribes that you speak of.

* Often times for women, there is a second level of escape. "Brokers" help them cross the border into China, where they are then forced into prostitution, sexual slavery, or "sold" as brides. This organization also bribes the various peoples/groups (often times gangsters, pimps, etc.) holding these North Koreans in bondage in China into letting them go.
I use kodi for this very purpose i have streaming accounts aswell but the greed and fragmentaion is bringing me back its just easier..
Here's what's happening, as I see it (corrections welcome):

1) Spammer sends spam to customer's Twilio number.
2) Customer has this number set up to forward incoming texts to employees.
3) Customer has no available API to detect whether texts are spam.
4) Twilio apparently can detect that this message is spam, but rather than simply dropping it at step 1, they're blaming the customer.

Sorry, there is no scenario under which this is the customer's fault.
Back in the manual typewriter days, every typo subtracted 10 WPM from your score. (Source: my junior-high typing class.) It seems to me that 76% accuracy would put you into negative WPM by that reckoning.
Gen Z hates crypto and web3[1]. They are also partaking in the backlash.

[1]: From my experience a lot of the crypto “community” online is Gen Z, but most of Gen Z is not pro-crypto. All thumbs are fingers sort of logic.
Impressive performance, I remember trying this technique a while back a the number of steps required made the frame rate drop. Is the code public?

By the way, you might like https://felixpalmer.github.io/volcanoes-of-japan/
That's exactly what people are doing almost everytime they order something online from a company not in their country of residence. And the system used to do most of these transactions (credit cards) works so well, it handles about 1,000,000,000 transactions per day without breaking a sweat.

(source: https://www.cardrates.com/advice/number-of-credit-card-trans...)

How many transactions are handled per day by major blorkchain currencies again?
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking
yes, you can trip them up quite easily... and yes, they're not "thinking."

but, i have been really impressed by how far the google assistant has come. it's still a dumb machine, but a dumb machine that can find precise and factual answers for specific questions via a voice interface. it's, dare i say, useful!
From the text:

> One thing that UNIX does not need is more features. It is successful in part because it has a small number of good ideas that work well together. Merely adding features does not make it easier for users to do things – it just makes the manual thicker. The right solution in the right place is always more effective than haphazard hacking.
Light-matter interactions simulated on the world’s fastest supercomputer
> They boast a salary range of $69,000 to $125,000

Isn't it adorable that they think a backend software engineer is maxing out at $125K?
Transcribers would probably appreciate it. But then again, there are other regular stenographic keyboards out there.
You have to do an apple-to-apples comparison though. If you're comparing a single colo'd machine vs a 3000-EC2 instance fleet with a load balancer, api nodes, database nodes (and requisite db admin team), and Kafka and DynamoDBs somewhere in there, then the cloud is going to be more expensive to manage.

Barring in-depth research (which I'd love to read if someone has any links), it's not clear on a 1:1 basis what's cheaper. Paying for someone's time to research hardware and talk to vendors, run POs for them, figure out where/how to install them (Equinix is expensive), and RMA hard drives as that comes up; versus not paying for that and instead paying a cloud vendor for that privilege. Throw on top a changing hiring landscape (how much 'sysadmins' cost vs 'devops') and it really depends on the size of this hypothetical fleet that we're trying to manage, and how complicated the backend of the site is. If there's no real backend to speak of, Cloudflare's CDN for static assets is going to be way cheaper, and available now, vs anything you could possibly build from scratch, that would maybe be ready in a couple months.
I think that would be 'cattle' for these purposes, and you sort of glossed over the 'pet' example.
In my case, I inferred due to the speed of the response. (It was even formatted fancy). So while it's conceivable that a human could have intervened, they would have had to be reading the conversation in real-time and ready to click a one-button response immediately which seems like it would defeat the purpose.

Perhaps the real question is: if a chatbot is powered by a human instead of AI, but I can't tell because the interface is consistent, is it not a chatbot?
Have you read anything about Denver's housing-first program? I haven't taken the time to read up on it, but the popular narrative around here is that it's been successful enough to be worth expanding.
> Advertise lower salaries than you're able to otherwise negotiate

So if you are overqualified and confident in yourself, apply and negotiate.

> because companies advertising a job with high salary will have to wait longer

I think you have this backwards

> now they're able to openly collude

That's not a very stable equilibrium. I think they would instead openly compete
In my personal opinion it is worth it to have liberty, even if so many people are fine with giving it up to others at the drop of a hat. It's too important not to have. I just wish individual independence wasn't so derided these days.
Wow, I didn't know that. This is perverse in several ways:

Funding for Firefox development comes from Google, which is pushing Chrome in such a way that is destroying the web.

Funding for Mozilla's non-Firefox projects probably comes mostly from Firefox users.

I want to donate to Mozilla exclusively for Firefox development - yet the only thing that my money will not be used for is Firefox, and I strongly disapprove of many of their other projects that my money would actually go to.

This is just a mess.
Greg, it would be very useful if you could recommend a setup which would allow forwarding sms to employee numbers without the risk of account suspension.

Many of us use twilio and an account suspension is an undesirable scenario.

“Forward unless spam/problematic” would be very nice.
Those joysticks do have switches at the ends (that click) though…

I don’t know, it’s a very philosophical question
In deed - that's some interesting rabbit hole to descend down into ... "biophotons" and "ultra-weak photon emission" - wtf
I was lucky to never have properly learned to touch type on QWERTY in the first place, I had key positions memorized but I always used my index fingers - it actually hindered me from touch typing as the bad habit would always creep back up. Thus I forced myself to learn from square one with Dvorak, not having the keycaps on my keyboard to fall back on - it was painful, but I'm glad I did it.

Now 15 years later I really enjoy the flow of the layout, a majority of the time when typing you alternate between sides of the keyboard when typing and it just feels good.