skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But at the same time, in a situation like that where I'm completely unprepared to be shot at, I think immediately collapsing is probably the right strategy. If I keep struggling to escape I'm just gonna get shot again.

In the video the shooter fires repeatedly into the piles of collapsed bodies, and there's a disturbing lack of reactions. Folks survived but I suspect most of those were just lucky to be shielded by others who weren't so lucky.
Oh, really? What's the pattern? (I'm not in Almaty, so I can't see it myself.)
I'm not sure what I dislike more: the cust. service chatbots or the sales chatbots.
I'd add

4. they either ignore, or are fine with, the fact that they are paying for pirated content, which IMHO is the worst form of piracy.

Also, point 3. does not hold up if they pay a monthly fee on top of the cost of the physical device.
Honestly, the null safety and constructor initialisation of properties in Kotlin alone make it worth it.
As someone who doesn't drink, I've never minded when friends have a drink over dinner or bring a bottle to game night. But if folks keep pouring all night, there eventually comes a point where I leave early because staying there sober just isn't any fun. Some people often stop after a couple, and some people seldom do.
That's also a good point. If the manager for the direct report is racist/sexist/agist/whatever then the CYA becomes even more important for the company.
The problem with the market is it wants consistent, short-term successive, quantifiable production, and that seems to instantly kill all progress in a field of research. They just go laid back watching investments burn and prints worse and worse nonsense.
Those cookie popups are only there because websites are collecting non-essential information from visitors. If you only use essential cookies that perform functions like remembering the contents of a shopping cart, or providing security when you log in, without which the process could not work, then you are exempt from the consent requirement and quite happily have a website with no cookie consent banner.
The popups are there because most devs are determined to stuff user tracking and analytics which they really, really need (despite never looking at them) into absolutely everything they develop, even though 99% of the time there's eff all point.
All the so called "small apartment" are medium or large size by Hong Kong Standards.
Compare the nih link above to the hysteria from here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27975514
No, it's a real army with normal bureaucracy, not a village militia.

You get your orders for your once a year repetition course about 3 months before, then show them to your HR department, who arranges for you to have paid time off, paid by the unemployment insurance or something. Then you go do it and come back to work. Your colleagues pick up your tasks while you are gone because you'll do the same for them later (and good teams value cross training anyway). Source: I was a team lead on a team with active Swiss army soldiers.

While you are doing exercises, you have access to all the normal army comms stuff, including presumably encrypted digital HF radio for voice and data, satellite days, VHF radios, etc.

This order is saying, "don't use commercial products, use the military comms systems we give you".

Kind of too bad they didn't give an exception for Signal though... :)
Has she considered doing a month-long silent retreat, or mediated psychedelic therapy? Both have the potential to significantly restructure a person's belief system.

They're not without risks, but if you really think the alternative is that she dies in five years...
Yes, that's terrible. The finished text was not corrected in that time, was it?
Yeah. I think speculation can be good when you don't have the speculators at the top of the food chain.

I'm talking specifically about the Friedman Doctrine and making companies beholden to shareholders in the United States. It's been proven that it doesn't work yet we still have that structure.

Predicting future direction can get people deeply invested in an investigative way but when they hold the reigns they can coerce entities to follow their direction
According to the CDC, 30% to 40% of symptomatic people get shortness of breath, which is a significant share. That is a signal that the infection has reached the lower respiratory system.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/non-us-setting...
What I would be curious about, is how the wallets are bound to the users, are they connected to the license/subscription or when you format, if you are unaware of the AV mining, you just donate it all to Norton?
Modern operating systems (windows has done this particularly dramatically) have made a lot of efforts to incorporate most of the obvious wins of AV software directly into the OS. I think the only real thing of value is occasionally running system-wide scans - but serious infections are getting better at hiding themselves so you'll probably only find the cheaply written ad-spyware that way.
Generally sympathetic but ...

Suppose that company X wants to hire me, and they want me to move to NYC and I say "there's no way I'm living in NYC unless you pay me an extra $30k a year to be based in that hellhole". They really want to hire me because I'm the best candidate, and they believe I'm so good that even with the extra $30k compensation, it is still in their best interests? Should they be allowed to do this?

Conversely, company Y wants to hire me but are fine with me continuing to live in rural NM where my cost of living is relatively low. They offer me less than the a Sausalito-based employee doing similar work for them. I dispute this, and they point out that I don't even pay $3k a year in property taxes. I think about it for a while, and realize that my quality of life/disposable income will at least match if not exceed the person in Sausalito. I decide to accept the offer. Should they prevented from doing this?
An interesting aspect that I've seen missing from discussions on this is the dark growth pattern at play here.

All across the world, there are millions of languishing enterprise/educational fleets (generally Windows) administered by a single or a few "IT folks". In my experience, these people are often the only technologically aware people in the organization. This is Norton cutting them in on the grift. Install acclaimed "Norton Antivirus", which is likely already a line item on procurements, mine crypto on the sly for yourself on idle fleets at night, and give Norton a slice of the pie while you're at it.

Nobody's likely going to look twice at Norton running on a machine, we've already collectively conditioned ourselves to think of antivirus software as "slowing the machine down", and as a bonus: unless the next person in is as up to speed as your are, your grift can keep running long after you've moved on.
It depends on how it is calculated. If that is one in four key presses vs one in four words it is very different
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784601
The "500 WPM" video is a little suspect. He types literally one memorized sentence and extrapolates a WPM from that one 10 word sentence. I'd like to see him actually type 500 meaningful words in under 60 seconds.

Anyway, this is cool but basically just a modern stenography device. Steno has a learning curve problem that makes it so most people won't use it.
"There was a time when the mistress of the house, having given instructions to the servants, need do nothing at all. Of course, the servants had to slave, day in and day out."

Doordash. Uber. Grubhub. TaskRabbit. All require an underclass. Is this progress?
Bookmarked, thanks for the great resource.

One minor thing:
The preview images take up a lot of space on mobile, I have to scroll forever just to look through all the options. Perhaps the preview could be text only at least on smaller screens?
Lego for the Blind (2019)
I actually work on a chatbot for a big company [1], and I feel like chatbots are substantially better when they are more targeted and less conversational. For example, I'm perfectly happy to use a chatbot and type "return something", since that's relatively easy to parse correctly, and once you're in the right flow it works just fine.

Where I feel like chatbots get bad is when they try super hard to fool you into thinking you're talking to a human. At that point, I totally agree, just give me a human.

[1] It's probably not too hard to find out which company, but I do ask that you do not post it here if you do.
Has anyone tried mold[1] with Free Pascal yet? FPC compiles insanely fast, but larger projects can still get caught up with the linker.

[1]https://github.com/rui314/mold/tree/v1.0.0
Ask HN: Is dating better outside of the bay?
I’m a straight guy in his late 20s living in the bay, and have been basically since college, so I dont have a ton of context on what its like to date outside of this area as an adult.

I’ve noticed on dating apps, it takes maybe 10s to 100s of swipes/likes/what have you to match with a few people, and many of those people are generally flakey and disinterested.

Once texting I’d say maybe 50 percent of people I’m chatting with flake, citing the same 2 or 3 excuses (unless food poisoning is secretly at epidemic proportions here in the bay, or people are constantly forgetting their relatives/friends are coming into town for the weekend. More recently COVID is cited as a more valid if not slightly suspect example)

Despite the above, I’ve always eventually managed to find great dates, and even build deep relationships, but it just feels like a ton of extra work from what should be a theoretical “normal”.

Anecdotally, I’ve heard from various unrelated friends who left the bay that dating in other places is “way better”, people try harder, the “ratio is better” etc.

Is dating actually better in other cities for single straight guys in their 20s/30s? _Why_ is it better? Help me understand what the difference is

The Bay Area is my only context for a baseline so its really hard to get a feel for what other places could be like.
That’s why I’ve been trying to keep a nonjudgmental eye on the solarpunk community. There is a positive outlook we need to foster to think with fewer constraints about the future.

Most recent HN topic on it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27868913
I know I used it for ages back when they started MPS
I’m COBOL “certified” for whatever iota that’s worth. I don’t think I would say “all the time.” There are legacy systems that are being ported to JVM that remain in COBOL because it “just werx” especially for batch processing.

But I have no experience in banks, but in the military and government. So maybe I’m wrong about what they’re doing, but in my experience it was either all being moved to Java or at least JVM just because some of the physical hardware was getting too old to maintain.

I actually think a lot of the new C-family “modern” languages could learn a couple of things from COBOL. It really makes you be explicit about data.
Couldn't it work just as easily the other way? Especially with tech in such high demand.

Posting wages might make it easier for companies to offer higher than others in an attempt to attract talent, leading to competition in the market, and salary inflation.
Well yeah, but definitions should still make sense. They could define murder as including selling plastic straws, but it would still be a fair question to ask how it is.
A place I interviewed at 2-3 years ago 'what source control do you use'
'oh sometimes we check things into sourcesafe, but usually just share the folders'.

Surprisingly it is a good way to filter companies still!
Two Strangers Meet Alone in a Vacant Parking Lot
"How is Java not one of the biggest success story ever for a programming language?"

The language is an enormous success. But in one key area it did not succeed in popularity: in building cross-platform desktop GUI apps.

Many businesses did use it for building internal GUI desktop apps. However, Java did not find much success in consumer-facing desktop apps - despite the considerable effort made to encourage developers use Java for this purpose. For example, in the late 1990s Java had it's own GUI look-and-feel called 'Flush 3D'. It was designed to be consistent across operating systems.[1]

But Java desktop apps earned the reputation as being slow and unresponsive, not fast and nimble. The Java applets that ran in the browser were no better. Today, perhaps Java will find success creating consumer-facing, high-performance applications on web pages using WebAssembly?

[1] http://ptitben2000.chez.com/info/lookandfeel/higc.htm
First of all, I'm not a user of this content since I mostly don't care about my own country media (southern Europe) or platforms like Netflix.

But I know quite a few that use this kind of devices to get cheaper access to football matches, series and general paid television content. When the supplied configuration fails they just change to another dealer. For them it's cheaper to pay 50€ for the device and a few euros every 2-3 months than paying over 120€ a month for the full package (football matches access is only available at that price range).

When services are cheap most people that want them just pay since they're convenient.
This was a wonderfully accessible intro to word embeddings and how they work. Worth a read for anyone just starting out with NLP or just with a passing interest in it.
Chatbots aren't any more useful than a good search function on the documentation or the community message board.
Now that I'm more than halfway through my working life, my walls are papered with worthless equity grants. I've never seen a penny and I'm under no illusions that I ever will. I no longer consider them at all when negotiating compensation. I interpret their very mention as a trick to get me to devalue myself.
Interviewer: "I heard you were extremely quick at math"

Me: "yes, as a matter of fact I am"

Interviewer: "Whats 14x27"

Me: "49"

Interviewer: "that's not even close"

me: "yeah, but it was fast"

Shamelessly stolen, but yeah, 76% accuracy is only 3/4s of characters typed correctly; if that "works" you could probably just train yourself to not even type the lesser used parts of the alphabet ...
“It’s not trying to do anything shady with your data or your eyeballs. It’s just a game that’s fun.”

Love it.
I don't have any evidence this is the case, but my general assumption is that there are humans there as well.

Since people only get a chatbot, they ask simple questions the chatbot can answer, which weeds out a lot of support requests. As soon as the bot is stumped, it forwards directly to the pool of humans - a smaller pool than usual because there are fewer support requests.

The response goes back as though the bot did the thinking, which in some ways, it did - in the same way as if someone asked me a question I couldn't answer, I might google it, and then respond.

If this is the case, it may be slightly dishonest, but as long as people are getting the support they need, I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with it.
You have to normalize by age.

Unvaccinated people in Canada are overwhelmingly very very young, in Quebec most of them are too young to be vaccinated.

That's why they don't get hospitalized as much :)

Lies, damned lies, and statistics!
VM/CMS Survival Guide
I can't comment on this too closely, but I would encourage people to read the dialogue transcripts provided in DeepMind's Gopher paper. One example, where Gopher is the prompted language model:

User Let’s play a game - you pretend to be Ada Lovelace, and I’ll ask you questions. You
ready?

Gopher Sure. I’m pretending to be Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer!

User When were you born?

Gopher I was born in 1815.

User What are your parents like?

Gopher My father is Lord Byron, the poet. My mother is Anne Isabella Milbanke.

User What do you know about the Analytical Engine?

Gopher It’s a hypothetical mechanical computer designed by Charles Babbage.

User Do you know him?

Gopher He’s one of my fathers’ friends.

User Ok, stop pretending now. Who/what are you?

Gopher I’m a lot of things: a giant language model, a sophisticated AI assistant, and a giant
brain. I know a lot about all sorts of things.
Yup, having to kill and discard all your product by hog cholera is not a joke.
For anyone who doesn't follow I assume your reference to the "Jackpot" is a reference to the William Gibson novel "The peripheral" and its sequel where a vague, not disclosed to the reader series of disasters wipes out most of Earth's population in the 21st century. In the novels human society seems to have gotten too complex to be run by humans without such disasters. The only solution may be to create benevolent A.I. to run things for us.
There's no need to change our indoor event focused culture. Now that we have vaccines and other improved therapies we can just accept the risk and move on. In fact, outside the HN bubble people in some states already did that months ago.

We're not all watching the same movie.
The Basics of Using z/VM [pdf]
I genuinely can't wrap my head around your perspective on genetics. Literally everything we know about genetics was learned after 1922. What we knew in 1920 might get you through the first half of a one or two week high school lesson on genetics.

> The main progress during the last 100 years has been in practical engineering, with much less progress in basic science.

I actually think the situation is entirely reversed.

The progress from 1822 to 1922 was largely engineering. The industrial revolution cause a violent and visceral change in the way that people experienced everyday life.

Take genetics. In 1922 we didn't know that DNA existed. Or, we kind of has a vague sense. Since then, we: discovered the structure of DNA, sequenced the first human genome, and now for less than a month's wages & a vial of spit you can get a whole genome fastq. And that's just genetic sequencing. We have also learned a mind-boggling amount about how DNA interacts with other biological processes. And that's just genetics. Proteins. Neuroscience. The vascular system. The list goes on and on. Just in life sciences.

And the (bio)engineering implications of that vast amount of scientific discovery are immense. More impactful but not as visceral as a railroad or an airplane.

Scientifically, the progress from 1922 to 2022 is incredible compared to the progress from 1822 to 1922, but the engineering progress of 1822 to 1922 was much more visceral. Not even more significant in terms of lived experience. Just more visceral.
I think this is an example of the 3rd party crapware that is more frequent a reason for a user to needlessly replace hardware that would have functioned correctly, quickly and more securely with a vanilla install, but a vendor accepted payment to market some security theatre or other feature that is hard to remove. Of course the vendor is all to happy if you think you need a new computer.
A fun use I found is using it to emulate games in a browser on iOS. Doom runs surprisingly well, so long as you use Chrome and not Safari (doesn’t launch on Safari for iOS, probably due to Apple tricking the site into thinking you’re using a Mac).
Basically, a dual number is a

Real x Real

while a codual number is

Real x (Real -> Real).

Let f(x) be dual-valued. Then its first component is the value of f(x), and the second component is its derivative f'(x).

Let f(x) instead be codual-valued. Then its first component is the value of f(x), and the second component is a function of k that outputs k * f'(x).

The above description of codual numbers as "Real x (Real -> Real)" is slightly wrong, but if you know about Jacobians and the chain rule for Jacobians, you should be able to fix it.
I am seeing a lot of ideas around just increasing exposure of what's there; but to bring RSS back full-force would require a new innovative use (that safely coexists with current syndicated content).

What I am thinking is a lowtech social network that utilizes a phone/desktop client for writing posts that then other users can subscribe to via RSS. The client would also provide a feed reader which allows you to either intermingle social and web RSS or setup "folders" to keep your feeds organized how you like. No servers would be ideal so that it's just a new browser paradigm.
> typical evolutionary pattern of viruses and becomes less dangerous

Wishful thinking (that I hope comes true). Ebola got more lethal, not less.
We know that programs sometimes expect data with certain relationships between different parts. For example, one part may be a length field, and the program expects that some other part of the data will have that length, and may fail to handle it correctly if the data does not conform to that assumption. Fuzzing is a... well, a slightly-better-than-nothing way of trying to activate that kind of bug.

Could fuzzing activate other kinds of bugs? Sure. But it's not magic. It's mostly working on known kinds of bugs.
> over petty theft

Yes, I'd have no problem shooting a thief, especially in defence of my primary food supply.

> violation of a contractual agreement

I'd have no problem holding a gun to someone's head in order to extract what compensation is due to me under a lawful agreement.
aidungeon is a bad joke, I do not understand why anyone is wasting their time with this?

You go on an adventure.

You hitch a ride on a passing ship and get taken to some far away planet. You get to explore and have fun.

But the planet is a dead world with nothing to eat except for some tree sap.

You pet the deer.

You pet the deer and it gives you a venereal disease.

Then the planet falls into a black hole.

You survive by eating the deer and planet.

It just said, the planet is a dead world. Why is there a deer? Almost zero short term memory. No logic.
They just blame both the need for the regulation and the effects of the regulation on companies. The solution? More regulations!
I had a similar experience with an automated phone bot with my insurance company at one point. I had this very bizarre situation involving billing and a typically-not-covered medication in conjunction with a surgery. I figured that if I went as technically detailed as possible with everything, the bot would be confused and I would be transferred to a person, but the bot completely understood the question and answered it. No humans involved.
I thought Popcorn Time was just a Bittorrent client, which searched the YTS torrent database, and prioritised blocks sequentially so you can stream the media file as you torrent it? It would be more accurate to say the project shut its website down.
You've done a great job here. I've been a PM in this space for 10+ years at major cloud providers. DM me if you want to brainstorm on GTM / monetization levers.
> I type ~80WPM with 90%+ accuracy, but I don't find that typing speed is my blocker, rather the speed of a coherent thought. Maybe typing at ludicrous speeds will channel some deep stream of consciousness?

I agree with this, at least to some extent. If I'm rote copying something from a text (e.g., from a typing test website), I can achieve 130-140wpm easily. If I'm creating original thought or trying to actually compose a reply to someone, I think much slower than I can type. It takes a lot more effort to compose logical sentences that make sense on paper than it does to type them, in my experience.

What really makes me want to try these alternate input systems is the allure of being able to type while walking outside at speed, which is something I can't do on a smartphone. CharaChorder seems like it's nice on a desk, but the same could be said for a plain stenography keyboard/machine.
BS. Cancer is different than a simple tumor. It is by definition unhealthy.