skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a bit of feedback, as someone who hasn't used Gitter before, I just clicked that link and was invited to join by logging in with GitLab, GitHub or Twitter.

I don't use my GitHub account for logging in to other sites without a decent amount of consideration (I didn't sign up to GitHub to use it as an SSO system and generally don't like using it for that purpose). And I have neither of the other two accounts.

So I would agree with the parent that removing some of the friction and offering people an email form to drop their email into might get you a higher uptake?

I am however interested in these efforts. For reference, my email is in my profile if that helps.
One example: everybody pays taxes that fund schools, which only families with kids use, so in an indidrect way we do.
Thank you! I'm thrilled people are finding it useful!
> ...no one wanted to run other peoples code.

This obviously didn't stay true; the browser is everything the JVM wanted to be today. A JIT for a universal programming language and multiple layers of sandboxing.

I don't think people care about running other people's code. Java just wasn't seamless enough. Or they lost some key political battles (few major OSes shipped with it).
Yep, all of this is unfortunately true. The whole thing is a sad joke, both the militia and the professional army.
Anyone who has "the most guns" will have "maximum freedom" anywhere. Somalia, USA, England, anywhere. The difference is it's easier to be the person with the most guns in Somalia than in US. However we are talking about freedom of ordinary citizens, not about being the most powerful individual in your country.
It looks like the gps week number rollover is not handled correctly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover

"Software that is not coded to anticipate the rollover to zero may stop working or could be moved back in time by 20 or 40 years"
So what are they using instead?
Yet triaging questions is often made simpler by provinding another type of UI, like simple buttons in a funnel for example. That's what makes chatbots gimmicky in my opinion.
Activity Streams / Activity Pub has been referred to as "RSS on steroids". It's where the web is going. It'd probably be a good idea to target for it in your promotion plans (being W3C recommendations and all).

https://indieweb.org/ActivityStreams

https://indieweb.org/ActivityPub
I accidentally discovered a cheat code a few years ago, interacting with one of those IVR voice systems, as I was getting frustrated with it and eventually exclaimed "fuck!" -- its response was brilliant: "Alright.. ok.. it looks like you're having troubles. Please hold while I transfer you to a human operator."
> I will say that I haven't seen any postings that exclude Colorado, even from companies that originally did (DigitalOcean for one), leading me to believe it was more of a temporary measure to immediately comply than a permanent change.

Colorado passed a law/clarified the law that writing "we exclude people from Colorado" wasn't sufficient to avoid the salary postings. They can probably only enforce it for companies that have any presence in Colorado, but a single employee is sufficient. It would be worrisome that companies would terminate all Colorado operations (if relocatable), but the addition of NYC makes that unlikely.

But that's probably why they stopped using it. It means as much as "NOT MY COPYRIGHT, USED WITH LOVE" in the description on YouTube.

Meanwhile, they should definitely fix the law so that bonuses/RSUs are included (RSUs have a known market price that could be listed)
You can do the reverse, it's not uncommon for an eBay seller to refuse to complete a sale if a buyer has a poor rating.
This is a very naive statement! You are implying that the benefits of businesses and states are somehow exclusive to each other, but I believe there is plenty of historical precedent of situations where the "benefits" to a business prompt (in)action by states! The "benefits" to a state are so nebulous of a concept that I would argue that it is impossible to pin down any meaningful definition which we would be able to quantitatively use as a predictor for (in)action, except a cynical case where we define the "state" as "the groups/individuals in charge of governing a state," at which point it becomes trivial to reason out what the "benefits" to that "state" would be.
Most bad hires can be rooted out in a few months, yes... but a not insignificant number of them can take years as well. Also many, if not most people, simply stop learning and allow their skills to stagnate and that can become a liability after a couple of years.
Whilst I don't typically talk about myself in the third person. I do occasionally refer to my past and future self in the third person.

Basically, Future Ben is a top bloke. When I'm too busy, I just leave the housework for him. On the other hand, Past Ben is an enormous jerk. He's always leaving me shit to do.
Hi José, not Nx related but would you consider adding a RSS feed to the Dashbit blog?
I don't know if there's some misunderstanding here - they weren't (I presume) using these apps for tactical comms. They're used for basic office and social messaging. Things like 'are you in tomorrow?' that you might send by clear phone call or civilian email anyway. The Swiss army of course have a full suite of encrypted tactical and operational UHF, VHF, HF, TacSat, etc.
> They will have rebelled against long hours; the chances are that in 2022 few people will work more than seven hours a day, if as much

Bertrand Russell also famously predicted this. I believe I’ve read that in the 1800’s people were predicting industrialization would do away with labor. People are still predicting this today, with the advent of Machine Learning that’s good enough to automate things like driving.

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?
Why is freedom defined differently if you exclude slavery and women's rights?
Speaking from experience of the British Army, these are used mainly for admin stuff within sub units in barracks. eg. A Sergeant wants his soldiers to parade at 08:00 tomorrow

Whereas these would never (usually) be used 'in the field'
Most people only see the AI/ML aspects or the ability to respond like human. But what's adding value is the chatbot's interface. Working for a chatbot company that hit $1M revenue I can say the chatbot interface solves a good problem.

There's a good chunk of people who are stressed in having to be comfortable with vide variety of website interfaces. For my dad who's over 60 years struggles with the government's interface to avail the pension scheme.

Chatbot or conversational interfaces have a repeating pattern. People are used to conversational interfaces because of SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp, FB, etc etc. Providing an experience through a chatbot interface reduces the learning curve for the end-user. You are presenting tiny chunk of information and even collecting one thing at a time. It's drastically less overwhelming.

It's not just for 60 years, I have friends who are around my age late 20s who finds it difficult to navigate through websites that have many offerings (Banks, Govt Services, etc)
> the WHO recommends to do way more to export vaccines to countries that need it.

My understanding is that in many of those countries, the vaccine is readily available, but people don't want to take it for various reasons.
Not a bad theory but the very first thing I did was enter "look" and it did say there was a longsword on the ground and a bow on the table.

Here is the entire unedited transcript:

"Good luck, my friend!" the man says.

You inventory.

You have a short sword, a longsword, a shield, and a crossbow with bolts.

You look.

You look around and see a longsword lying on the ground and a bow on a table.

A large dragon looms in the background, breathing fire.

What will you do?

You get longsword from the ground.

You get your longsword from the ground. You hold it in your hands and examine it for a moment. It's a very sturdy weapon.

The knight then grabs his longsword and bows.

You inventory.

You have a crossbow.

What will you do?

You don't have enough experience to know what a good shot is.

You get longsword and bow.

You grab the bow and the longsword. You examine the crossbow. It's a bolt-action weapon.

You inventory.

You have a crossbow, a short sword, a longsword, a lantern, a flint and steel, and a quiver of bolts.

What will you do?

You load the crossbow.

You shoot dragon with crossbow.

You grab the crossbow and aim at the dragon's eye.

The knight releases a string and a bolt flies into the dragon's eye.

The dragon roars loudly and swipes a massive claw at the knight.

You health.

You are hit in the chest and knocked back. The knight rolls to the side and looks at you. The knight is laughing.

The dragon swipes a claw at you and you are sent spinning to the ground.

You stab dragon with longsword.

You stab at the dragon's leg and the sword goes right through.

The dragon roars and swipes a claw at you.

You roll to the side and dodge the claw.
> I haven't seen any postings that exclude Colorado

Take a look here. [1]

1: https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/
I've been struggling in finding the right way to track my habits from apps to notepad. Thank you for this seems like it will definitely help me focus!
Honestly, I think more companies will do this as long as the law allows them and as long as they incentivize their customers by sharing the profits. It's sad that the massive computing power of billions of idle PCs/Macs will be used to mine something (e.g., Bitcoin) with no intrinsic value.
Why shouldn't they relax if they can? It's bizarre to me that we need to regiment the entire population in order to... make sure people don't have fun?
> In epidemiology, an infection is said to be endemic in a population when that infection is constantly maintained at a baseline level in a geographic area without external inputs.

> A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected individuals is not a pandemic.

The cold and flu are "stable" albeit seasonal. While we might expect that outcome for variations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we're not there yet. A rapidly exploding number of infections is not a stable number of infected individuals.

At any rate, some people getting vaccinated and choosing to live as if the infections do not exist does not "end the pandemic."
Isn't defining words a major goal of legislation? Every code of laws I have read has a glossary with definitions of words written by the legislature to give clarity.

How dare the government define what '3rd degree theft' means! My liberty to define that myself has being stolen!
You can add Connecticut to that list. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...
Zoom's not going anywhere near my personal devices. Nor is MS Teams, or any other communicator with work credentials.

We (big employer in the UK) can order paid-for devices on the corporate purchasing system. It works out best for everyone: they can control the device, I can turn it off at the end of the day, and nobody has to see my reaction when they say "oh yeah, now we can remote-brick your personal phone."
There are organizations that try to collect this data, I know my company currently uses one of them to determine what a competitive wage would be for hiring. I forget what they are called though, and their data does seem to be in favor of paying less (maybe outdated data, maybe trying to side with the employer, who is their customer, that they don't need to increase pay, idk).
Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
I'm pretty sure Feedly does this (about as well as it can be done).
There are a number of ways to accomplish this today. All have trade-offs, but generally, the main illusion-breaker is when they are user space programs that run on top of Linux, mostly on account of random console spew (which can be remedied) and boot-to-prompt time (which can be made to generally about <10 seconds, at best — DietPi and TinyCoreLinux are both useful here).

Incidentally, the RISC OS Pico[1] mentioned is out of date and won’t run on the Pi 400 or other newer Pi’s.

Aside from the excellent PC-BASIC[2] and BBC BASIC[3] mentioned, another in that vein is MatrixBrandy[4], a fork of Brandy BASIC[5]. PC-BASIC is excellent if, like me, you grew up on an IBM PCjr, since that is a very specific brand of GW-BASIC with better graphics & polyphonic sound. But, being Python, it’s relatively slow when doing things like POKEing the emulated graphics buffer and the like. MatrixBrandy is C-based and very fast, but has a number of BBC Micro-era quirks in the spirit of emulating those old systems.

Another fun route is emulators that have been ported to a Pi bare metal mode, such as a fork of the C64 emu VICE[6] called BMC64[7].

Lastly, there are some fun from-scratch fantasy consoles like PICO-8[8], TIC-80[9], and LIKO-12[10], all of which are based on SDL under the hood. To my knowledge, the only one with a bare metal version is TIC-80’s[11]. There is also Pixel Vision 8[12]. Generally, you code in Lua in these.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181109020010/https://www.risco...

[2] http://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/

[3] https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html

[4] https://github.com/stardot/matrixbrandy

[5] https://sourceforge.net/projects/brandy/

[6] https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io

[7] https://accentual.com/bmc64/

[8] https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

[9] https://tic80.com

[10] https://liko-12.github.io/

[11] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/master/build/baremetal...

[12] https://pixelvision8.github.io/Website/
At least Threema doesn't require your phone number. Such a requirement is absolutely ridiculous as a sign in option.

I also heard all three of these messengers WhatsApp [0], Signal [1] and Telegram [2] have a cryptocurrency projects too for their users. So now they are automatically involved in promoting ponzi scam-coins as well, which Threema has none of that.

Great choice for the Swiss Army to use Threema then.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/9/22825766/whatsapp-novi-di...

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-cryptocurrency...

[2] https://cointelegraph.com/news/telegram-verified-payments-bo...
Touch Bars are terrible.
Wont you hit a git repository size limit?

How would you prune data, say older than 1yr from the repo in-order to limit repo size?
Depends on the procedure i guess ..
When I was writing my comment, it felt like my idea was too obvious for no-one to have already written it up as a formal specification.
Wasn't this Gab dissenter? Like other comments point out this ideia comes up now and then, still I think it is worth exploring

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
I'm wondering what could really prevent this for someone thinking they will surely die at some time. Someone close to me (who doesn't have a physiological illness) literally/obsessively thinks that she'll die at the age 40 (5 years to go) and I have trouble convincing her that she won't. After reading this, I'm more concerned. Any recommendations?
Depends on hospitals. If the health care system starts getting overwhelmed, expect restrictions. If not, then probably not.
> Temporarily, I will re-program the system so that it does not forward text message content to my employees phone numbers.

I might be reading this wrong, but it sounds like you take inbound text messages to one number and then send outbound messages with the same content to employee phone numbers. Is that right? If so, that sounds like you're SENDING the spam messages in addition to receiving them. Regardless, it sounds like customer service needs to be improved, though.
Serious question. If Omicron was the initial variant of Covid 19, would we have seen shut downs and the level of global response we did? Is the thought it's only this level of mildness because of vaccination rates?

My gut is that the answer would be yes because this variant targets children more effectively.
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I had to Google ⁂ as I've never seen that character before. Fascinating! It makes a nice Christmas snowflake stand-in.

I wonder what HN's rules are with sanitizing Unicode, as they won't allow emojis?
I'm not in your field, just a vanilla programmer.

The "want it" resonates. Seems like the difference is in receiving an answer that is relatively agreeable or sensical vs something that's actually substantive.

And to be fair when it comes to the Turing test, there's people that will be overly agreeable for the sake of politeness, but ultimately when it comes to knowledge seeking we're after something more substantive.
Yep that's my point. The only person hurt Jan. 6th was one of the "insurgents". So, why is mainstream media pushing this narrative so hard?
What do we call functional specs for legal forms?
Venus – OO Standard Library for Perl 5
Pretty sure Shopify uses it for some apps.
Omicron and masks: What you need to know to stay safe
>That was the day I realized I have a deep-seated prejudice against chatbots that blinded me to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, they actually can help sometimes.

Nice try, Skynet, but we're on to you.
For years people around here have been clamoring for more remote work flexibility, along with near-universal objection to a now-forgotten annoyance that previously plagued this industry: the tyranny of the open office.

Sure there may be people who don't want to go back because of the disease, but many in tech likely don't want to go back simply because they've now realized two of their long-ignored objectives.
They are separate things.

Learn about spaced repetition, fast/slow brain, interleaving, etc. (Learning)

Learn about how to make things obvious, attractive, easier, and satisfying. (Habits)

It may be confusing since they have overlap themselves.
The currency seems irrelevant, but it's not. Imagine my government in Tyrannia only accepted taxes in a currency which was impossible to obtain except by stealing it (also illegal). The government would then hold every citizen in a catch-22, allowing it to arbitrarily decide whom to imprison for not paying taxes and who to imprison for stealing the currency required to pay them.
I don't think it's that simple. Letting people work remotely benefits business, yet some businesses are still hesitant on letting people work remotely. I think same applies with disclosing salaries. Lots of companies still have an old-fashioned view that it will not benefit them. And they still stick with it, even when there's evidence it will benefit them
By what metric is NYC demising and what data backs up that that "demise" is accelerating?

Your brief post just seems like repetition of a partisan talking point about a place you don't like.
"So your position is a company should pay the same $ for the same job, no matter where the person lives?"

Yes, no one should get paid less for the same work just cause they live in a cheaper area. Not to mention living in SF, NYC gives you way more opportunities than living in a low col, people don't seem to ever think of that point.
If you just autosell it, why would you prefer straight salary? Is it concerns over stock fluctuations?

I too always sell immediately as I prefer to be diversified (but I also don’t work at an extreme high growth company)
I'm surprised anyone on this website would care about this information, the swiss army is quite meaningless and mostly driven by politics.
> nocebo

Nocebo has measurable negative effects: it is the opposite of the placebo effect. Nocebo is health problems or a worsening of symptoms, solely due to the conscious or subconscious expectation of harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

Highly relevant to Covid vaccinations because subconsciously a lot of people fear side effects, so perhaps many anecdotal side effects are purely psychosomatic. I think psychosomatic symptoms are still truely harmful: few people can just decide to think themselves better.
How long before one has to worry about electric car mechanics surreptitiously installing crypto mining hardware on cars?
But for a fee. You paid for software that is letting you mine to benefit Norton, because most people's computers are not going to break even on electic cost.

If it were all that altruistic then they shouldn't need to collect 15%, give them the miner they could download for free.
This already happens, for a while jobs on LinkedIn for Nordstrom (Denver) said exactly that.
>Financial elite finances all candidates, some of them win

Your entire point rests on this premise and once we accept this premise we acknowledge the entire government is already compromised. Once that happens why does the central bank matter when everything that follows could be accomplished some other way through that already compromised government? That is my fundamental point. It isn't that the central banks don't have power. It is that a central bank's power pails in comparison to the overall government. Therefore conspiracies theories about taking over the government to gain control of the central bank don't make much sense.
Not if you need to implement some setter logic though, or want to reserve the option to do so in the future. And not if you want those instance variables to be available as JavaBean properties.

I haven't developed in Java in a long time, but public instance variables were a no-no when I did for these reasons.
Quibble, A/Vs can hook file accesses and executions so most of the time it is not continuously scanning.
My point is the other way around. If I knew for certain that you and I were perfectly deterministic, it wouldn't change anything about how I viewed you (especially since some days I'm pretty sure we're all deterministically-driven), but it would suggest to me that our best efforts at AGI are probably at somewhere in the .00000000000001% range as complex as they need to be to even begin to approximate our human levels of intelligence or understanding. Or worse.
This was a project I worked on over the Christmas break. It may not come through in the video but this is serving the webite straight from your computer, not backdoor uploading files.

Here's a video showing it in action: https://youtu.be/DaK4d4Belwk

It's really just a fun project I wrote to see if it was possible.
Correct. I know several people who are vaccinated yet caught Covid twice. The principle thing to keep in mind,

- vaccination is a risk reducer on severity of infection. Nobody said immunity; nobody said prevention.

- and on that point not getting into the hospital is important. From a management standpoint, we've got to insure demand for hospital resources does not dwarf those same resources. That's the key management function here.
I think the bigger question is: do we still need AV software on Windows machines? Isn't windows defender good enough?
My family and I watched this. It was different, but very good. They did a good job building suspense until the final moments, and the twist at the end was interesting. It felt like they could have done, or will do, a sequel.
This is what our NLP teams are indeed working on. Sales prefers to describe it in more colorful ways, but practically, they are developing a more natural interface to an initial decision tree - you don't press 5 for a connectivity issue, you type "My fritzbox doesn't internet anymore" into a chatbox and it recognizes that as a connectivity issue.

This goes on for 3-4 questions, until it either generates a case a human will look at, or until it can provide an FAQ entry fitting your problem. From a customers perspective, avoiding 5 - 10% support calls makes monetary sense, and from a (test-) user perspective, it's suprisingly decent if the knowledge base behind it is solid. And yes, "Fritzbox doesn't internet properly anymore" actually had helpful results.
So when can I mitigate the effects of these chemicals and run naked in the early summer taiga like in my dreams?
What feedback tool are you using for your website