skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 50% of the time, it didn't matter what the caliber was. The person got hit, realized they'd been shot, thought they were supposed to fall down, and then did

Something that surprised me when watching the NZ masque terrorism shooter's first-person video was how uniformly everyone shot immediately collapsed. It looked fake like a Hollywood movie, except it was real.

I have no firsthand experience with people being shot, but based on that particular footage my impression is people tend to go down hard immediately.
"Please pay 0.1 eth for an NFT of your chat transcript"
Gun control in the 1880s Old West:

"The laws of Tombstone at the time required visitors, upon entering town to disarm, either at a hotel or a lawman's office. (Residents of many famed cattle towns, such as Dodge City, Abilene, and Deadwood, had similar restrictions.)"

"Dodge City, Kansas, formed a municipal government in 1878. According to Stephen Aron, a professor of history at UCLA, the first law passed was one prohibiting the carry of guns in town, likely by civic leaders and influential merchants who wanted people to move there, invest their time and resources, and bring their families."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-...
And then in Ireland, the bells occasionally toll eleventy billion starting at 10 to the hour.
I think you have to read through the productivity books to realize it's all just tools to your efficiency.
My favorite (and only) take home interview assignment. >> here is the problem, research as much as you want however you want, and take as long as you want... when you are done please format it as a 'xyz-ide' project on github and we'll get back to you in a day.
Author don't understand the difference between chatbot and general intelligence.
Chatbots made huge progress in the last 3-4 years helping businesses and people. But they have nothing to do with topics in the article.
> There is nothing about our reaction to the pre-conscious language these bots are displaying that doesn’t fall in line with our own normal development patterns

Well... yes and no. Deployed models typically learn in a defined pattern, if at all. Various forms of data freshness, etc. to develop. But the chatbots don't have good history recall, typically, and know that what you mentioned 50 messages ago is relevant to message one prior and not current. Things like that. We don't program pareidolia very well, which is typically seen as a negative, but its a feature for finding useful patterns (not just lowest error patterns).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Nobody cared ever. At my school every year everyone takes off their masks and wears them improperly all the time. At the beach and mall every year it's still constantly full of hundreds of people with less than 1 meter space in between. At restaurants they don't do anything different than normal except put a mask on while ordering. They could just make something at home instead of being lazy and spreading COVID.
Despite my love for the language (and Stack has mostly fixed this), I feel like Haskell's "Cabal Hell" is amongst my least-favorite headaches from my past.

Getting weird, hard to follow conflicts between different packages on Hackage and dealing with weird compiler hack flags is something that never got fun or easy.
The Surprising Anatomy of a One-Man Map Tech Stack
Where do you think the Habsburg jaw comes from, if not a combination genetic sequences - a POLYhj if you will?
Was actually a bit unsure. With all the blind crypto idealism going around, it's getting hard to tell what's sarcasm anymore.
GPT-3: Hello, who is the President of Russia?

GPT-3: Are you sure you want to know?

I mean, maybe I don't?
There was some initial fear that anosmia might be related to brain damage (since basically ruled out I believe).

One of the common long covid symptoms is "brain fog" though. Which I _think_ is probably metabolic or circulatory or something, but definitely affects the brain whatever the actual cause is.
I'm not a software engineer, but I recall that in the days before abstraction layers there was a tactic called a vectored interrupt. When some device needed attention, it tapped the CPU on the shoulder and got it. I don't understand why nowadays with 4- or more core machines, servicing an interrupt isn't easier. I'm naive enough to think that sounds like an architecture problem.
Visualping.io works pretty well as a SaaS.

They have an okay free tier (65 checks per month).

https://visualping.io/pricing

I just wish their pricing model was less check-based. I would use it a lot more if I could pay $10–20/month for unlimited checks, but that's not something they offer. Their pricing model scales up really aggressively compared to the underlying resource usage.
Career switch advice (where to focus prep)
I've dabbled in programming on the side for a while and am considering a mid/late-career switch to dev.

I am comfortable with self-study. Looking for advice from anyone who has experience hiring candidates:

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1. If optimizing for getting in the door at entry-level jobs, what should I prioritize learning and getting Github projects up for?

Have been thinking:

- React/Typescript
- NodeJS
- 1 back-end framework (RoR or Django)

2. Alternatively, if I already have years of data analyst-level SQL experience, would that give me more leg up in landing an entry-level data engineering vs. a web dev role?

And is this a decision I should make upfront to better focus what I Iearn/prep?

Feel like data eng would mean more emphasis on Python, scripting, Github projects with big data sets and ETL. Feels like a different prep path.

Any advice is much appreciated. You all are great and I've learned much from lurking on HN!
> sample size of 1

The only unvaccinated person you know who has had it, has had it three times?
Not sure if this is a rhetorical question- I've worked with people who have similar quirks, and power-posturing (possibly subconsciously) was only way I could rationalize their behavior.

If I create a bespoke mess, and you need to figure it out, then I have power over you.
I think a problem is the tighter cycle between academic discoveries and business people trying to monetize them. Large language models were developed, objectively a great achievement, and immediately someone nontechnical wants to apply their own interpretation and imagine that we can build a chatbot that you won't have to pay, and before you know it, people are selling and even deploying them. Anyone who questions or points out that the technology doesn't do what the business people think it does just gets dismissed as not understanding.
https://archive.is/VtFZp
It is as if Hollywood producers are absolute amateurs when it comes to political theory / political science. (IE: the study of groups, identity, and how to make decisions despite everyone having conflicts of interest).
Kind of a weird tangent but I had a very interesting experience with one of these customer support chatbots recently. My ISP apparently now requires that all customers communicate with their chatbot as the only point of contact. So, naturally, I was pseudo-outraged because I know chatbots are just a money-saving gimmick that reduces workload by driving away 80% of support requests regardless of whether they actually solve someone's problem. And, being technical, my problem was obviously not going to be in the bank of stock answers or even understood by the bot. (I really wish I could remember the actual question)

Long story short, I proposed the question to the chatbot in all its complexity, assuming it would be handed over to a human agent to read the transcript. The chatbot immediately understood the question and provided the exact response I needed.

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. And I haven't kept up with their technical advancement to be throwing around judgements on their abilities.

To be clear: I'm not arguing in favour of chatbots; just sharing a story.
Yet the unvaccinated are still overwhelmingly more likely to wind up requiring hospital care than the vaccinated.
My current job? sure, mostly due to the fact that I am at a company that doesn't do leet code style interviews.

Many years ago however, I got into a FAANG via a "side channel", working as a a support engineer for ~1 year before I managed to impress a manager in the proper product engineer org (whom I and my team worked with closely), and didn't have to suffer through a traditional FAANG style interview as a result. Best opportunity of my life on accident, turns out. Pretty sure that on my resume opened more doors for me than anything else.

I'd never pass that interview process, yet proof is in the pudding that I did well, I rose the ranks over 5 years before leaving due to not wanting to relocate for a bigger promotion.
Solr is the one exception I have personal experience with. The rest of it basically comes down to the culture of complexity: HotSpot is no match for the average enterprise architect.
One can migrate to any of the G20 countries at least in a very straight forward manner. Next best option seems using the internet to target customers from that area and or getting a remote job.

Imagine being born in a “meh” 3rd world country 50 years ago with no internet to make all this possible.
Actually, the opposite. Always cold.

Edit: Oops, sorry, that's not true. 2002 was network. Everything since has been cold.
We want it to be true, so we squint and connect dots and it's true.

I've had numerous people look at the actions of software I wrote over the last 30 years make comments like, "Ohhhhhh it probably did that because it knew x". The software had no such functionality. Seems to be a natural thing for people to be overly optimistic about software's capabilities.
I think the take home exercises are a good middle ground.

I'd still prefer the whiteboard interviews, over what are sometimes knowledge-based questions that are a search away. Not the common stuff that you should anyways, but something obscure that if you spent 5-10 mins on its man page, you will get it.
There were many stats, showing most of people with omicron being vaccinated (above the vaccination rate). I never found the methodology behind it, because if they only tested travellers to eg. africa for omicron, then sure, probably all of them were vaccinated, if they did randomized testings, they you'd expect at worst (vaccines don't work) the same percentage un/vaccinated as in the general population, or at best, vastly more unvaccinated infected.

> hopefully without being lynched for asking the question

Somehow this is a sad reality of social media and the current 'situation'... asking anything is seen as "provocative", and there are many things happening that would require more rigid questioning and better answers.
Is this a job, side gig, or hobby? What kind of help do you want or need? Obscure, esoteric shit is the best.
A family can be one person, it doesn't benefit you to prevent someone you had a bad experience with from earning an income.

The vibe I get from this article, is the author was personally upset with Sten, and that's why he went out of his way to make Sten's life harder.

Not something to brag about.
How often do you go do things where drinking isn't the focus? Do you think someone is lame or unsocial if they don't want to go to a bar?

If you think it is uncool to not go to events where alcohol is a huge part of it, then of course you're not going to meet any nondrinkers you think are cool.

I can't speak for everyone of course, but I'd say that generally when you are sober it's not that fun to be around crowds of drunk people.
But then people go from the memorable “Ebola” cluster to asynccompletionloggernodeweb where even with names that supposedly explain the function all the name parts are utterly generic and related to implementation not purpose. Not that people should keep Ebola. It should name services with a little skill and based on purpose not implementation. “Log4JarScanner” not “goAsyncFilerTreeScanner”. Tho the repo name is go-tree-jar cause I suck at names. Another cost of rushing is names it becomes hard to refactor out. At least we have hierarchical dns and longer names now, so it can have he data center/as and not be 8 chars. God bless the people that have name rules like Us1aesas02 - ProcessPostEventNodeDaemonServ-0322.Dallas.internal.example.com is more legible.
I can't believe you're 14. That's so impressive. Does your programming ability translate over to other subjects in school? Are you ahead of your peers in those areas as well?
American investors who swing liberal try very hard to deal with the cognitive dissonance of "I'm a good person who cares about homeless people" and "I want my portfolio to really excel".

The two are not compatible, though.

This is very much reflected in American investor owned media (all media, pretty much).

This is, realistically, why Americans perceive the cause and effect of homelessness and poor mental health to be reversed.

The reality is seen in Finland where homelessness was completely solved just by adopting a "house people first" policy.

This policy is at the same time going to keep a lid on house prices, rental income and REITS in your portfolio. Hence why it's politically impossible in America and why we strangely keep hearing from Very Smart Talking Heads on TV that 200% rent increases actually have very little to do with those homeless camps.
> Aren't anecdotes fun?

Anecdotes was precisely the reason why I posted it. See whom I'm replying to.
For someone who can't even get an interview, but loves working on oss, this is highly discouraging...

I already have to be so focused with what little time I have in my life, and sacrifice a lot, to just make the things I want to make, I just can't imagine finding all the time to do this meta work/training.

Every day I grow more comfortable with the idea that my love of software dev and oss will forever be avocational. Perhaps though, financial instability aside, I'll be happier this way anyway
Wait, is that true? I know WebObjects was designed around ObjC, but a quick ten seconds on Wikipedia doesn't indicate that J2EE was designed around ObjC initially.

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Unnecessary opinion: I don't like either, but WebObjects sucks about 1/10th as much as J2EE.
Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
Yes, information is accessible. I don't really call that exploration unless they are doing something with it for real. You can watch all the YouTube videos or read Wikipedia articles, but that's lacking if there's no real world experience/implementation. Watch a video with a science experiment? Great, now try it.

It also can't teach how to be independent, interact with friends, or what to do if you get lost (without having your cell phone solve it for you).

My friends and I would ride our bikes around the neighborhood and on trails, go fishing, build lean-tos or whatever in the woods, shoot model rockets, play sports, etc. Sure, some TV and video games too. We even had dial-up later on. But we were out in the world, being active, and thinking for ourselves. Those experiences are much more formative than consuming content created by someone else.
Agreed. The world is moving past static text content as a medium, which is what RSS/IRC are built for. I want more rich video/media oriented content like what the New York Times is producing, which takes advantage of user interactivity and new Javascript APIs. RSS isn't going to make that happen for me.
I’m not in tech, and I couldn’t pass the original tests I needed to in order to get started.

I bet the same is true of lots of engineers, too (that’s not my field, either.)

Just for point of reference.
I'd be keen to be able to employ people without the government intervening in negotiations (minimum wage, various employment laws, etc.). I don't think the government has any place deciding what I can and can't offer. I also would like to be able to use my own judgement when hiring people, without having to worry about proving (the negative) that I'm not being discriminatory.

Workers have always had the freedom to strike. And employers should have the freedom to terminate striking employees. I don't see the need for regulation here. The "freedom" to attend college has created a mountain of student debt and an overeducated workforce. I fail to see the benefit.

All in all, directly, I'd like to live in a society where people are entitled to only what they can negotiate for, not more. And one that does not strive to protect people from the consequences of their own misfortune or inadequacy.
...You don't have fun without alcohol...?
Standard for American schools.
True, there is no point in accumulating feeds. News sites are the worst when it comes to this, personal blogs don't grow that fast.
I made a list of things to do if someone is bored. To see it, you go to my site where I write things I am interested in (in profile, very tech-simple, nothing for sale), click "fun & relaxation" (near end of the first list), then "if someone is bored" (2nd from last). (It seems that a direct link gets my comment shadow-banned.)

To which I would now add, card, yard or other games (many, see wikipedia, but we like skipbo, five crowns, fictionary, maybe games with rook cards, croquet, etc).
It's low-ish for Western Europe.

The US has Special Circumstances; antivaxism has become associated with political identity (or, with a mainstream political identity; this has happened to some extent in other countries but generally with far more niche political movements).
That’s why the regulatory environment of the 20th century is important… Monetary policy that includes full employment provides benefits to the broader population.

“Hard money”, gold, Bitcoin, land, etc focused policy only benefits the return on assets for the people with those assets.

What we have now is the worst of both worlds.
I really want to get this to work well, but haven't been able to. I have a small use case of customizing the image it presents and letting users be able to navigate/change/fix things on it. I've tried using containers and even VMs, but those are too heavy for what I need to do and I don't want to deal with snapshots to revert the image. Basically reloading the web page should do it.

Wish I could get jslinux to work for what I want with this!
Hey there, We at ID.me really liked your resume, we will be in touch :)
Chatbots are about as useful as phone trees. They can help solve the top 5 easy/common problems, but they are useless passed that. Anyone who has worked in a call center knows that more than half the calls are about the same couple of issues: reset password, finding common help docs, etc. Since help desks are cost centers, it makes sense to half a robot handle as many of these as possible.

I think most of the hate directed to chatbots are because they are really intrusive. You scroll through a page, and 15 seconds in your focus is disrupted as a fake chat window opens up. This is the digital equivalent to the annoying sales rep who asks you if you need help when you are clearly just browsing. The difference is a good sales rep has the intelligence to turn that conversation into a sale. A chatbot usually has to hand off the conversation to a real person to do this. So it has all of the annoyance without the benefit of a potential conversion.

Chat bots as frontends for help desks make sense, but they are poor sales people. If companies learned the difference, I bet their perceived usefulness would change.
There will be no real herd immunity effect to protect those who lack immunity. Instead virtually everyone is just going to get infected, and most survivors will retain cellular immunity which gives them significant protection against severe symptoms during later reinfections.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

Fortunately the current vaccines and other therapies are pretty effective at preventing deaths.
WTF can anyone just make their own country and sue every company for millions?
Motivated anecdotes aren't prudent or useful. We know from the 2ish years of this we've had so far that the dynamics are tricky to pick apart. For example when young low-risk people are out at bars (very high exposure) and older or higher risk people stay home what happens is the hospitalizations lag because it takes some time for the first group to get sick, infect the second, and then some of those people to go on to the hospital. On the other hand older people are much more vaccinated so the relative risk between the groups will likely be different from previous waves.

That aside, hospitalizations are going up faster than they have at any point prior so not sure where your "barely nudging" comes from.
I'm under 50 and read the GoF book ;)

I'm one of the rare people who was writing vb and then c# during the terrible Java j2ee days. Then I got a job in a startup using Java which avoid the 'enterprise' idioms. So my experiences with Java over the last decade or so have been mostly good (except for a foray into Hibernate, never again - jOOQ for life). No crazy class models, no xml configuration, etc...
The self driving people talk about time domain occlusions, which seems closely related to conversation context.

Say you're driving along and you see a pedestrian about to cross but something blocks your view for a moment. Your mental model will remember that person, continue to speculate on their motion and intention, consider if their vector might intersect yours, and also know when it's okay to flush them from attention.
People literally do buy art this way, it's in storage and bought and remains in the same storage. Of course buying it comes with the expectation of paying rent. But in this case of NFTs this is actually a hidden implementation detail rather than something addressed up front.
It’s terrible to feel terrible, but getting over the worst part of Covid in 3 days is an enormous improvement from how unvaccinated people fared in the initial waves. Even for people not hospitalized, they dealt with pneumonia and shortness of breath for weeks. I think we can celebrate the progress we are making in reducing the average severity of this disease and there are more tools coming soon with Pfizer’s new pill and newer multivalent vaccines.
we named our prototype chips after British nuclear test codenames and all machines used to be terminator characters :).
i wonder what countries like China and New Zealand who are taking a zero COVID approach are going to do. COVID is endemic in the rest of the world except for those places where it doesn't exist at all? I don't see that working.
I mean, LEGO employs some professionals who no doubt devote their career to understanding many things about LEGO. The part numbers, if assumed to also include things like brick stockpiles and production runs, planning of new bricks, set design requirements, etc. could easily be a major part of their job.
Companies can’t avoid this if this law existed in all 50 states or if it was federally mandated. We all need to write our reps and get this to happen.
Why would that be your take away?
It's in use by the BJP, which is the right wing party in question. You say it's not mentioned again, but the article has 14 other mentions of the BJP, so your statement is incorrect.
Thanks for the note, but I'm afraid not. At this point, it's taking a lot of time for the data entry each year, plus conferences are now almost all awarding 3-6 best papers rather than 1, so the annual work has expanded considerably. Also it's a lot harder now to find the older awardees as various websites have disappeared, and former PC chairs often have forgotten the outcome.