skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that a machine learning model can solve a seemingly hard task A does not automatically translate to solving a lesser hard task B. Conversational AI that understand the intent remains a really hard problem even if speech recognition for English is basically solved.
The template nonsense is what makes it fun!
> Than TOTP?

Yes, absolutely. Recovering lost TOTP keys in a secure way is a difficult problem, and this happens all the time when people get new phones. With SMS the code is tied to your account, not the device.

> Than email?

Probably not much better than email for most users, but I guarantee for a large subset of users the SMS experience is better. With email you need to go to a separate app/page on the same device, with SMS you get a notification on a separate device or a notification popup on the same device (that usually lets you easily copy the code). Again, I totally agree that SMS has issues, but people arguing against it should spend some time in a usability lab with non-tech people - the kind of issues they hit will blow your mind.

> The problem with SMS is that it adds additional vulnerabilities through sim jacking.

Then fix the SIM-jacking problem. Which, I'll note, phone companies have made a lot of improvements in making this harder, and in the US government has gotten involved in making this harder.

Most importantly, note that SIM-jacking is really just a "how do we verify someone who lost a device" problem. That exact same problem exists with TOTP and hardware keys. All we really need are uniform guidelines for proving identity when a device is lost so you're not at the mercy of some low-paid, outsourced service rep to keep your account secure in the face of a persuasive bad guy.
In the UK you can set up a direct debit with just the bank account details (not quite the same as withdrawing money, but still enough to scam someone). The rest of your comment is quite correct though.
> It seems unfair to those doing the work in such a system.

It's the only thing that makes sense in the 21st century. Copyright is unenforceable in the age of ubiquitous networked computers.

In order to enforce copyright, every computer will have to be locked down so that they only execute "compliant" software. Surely everyone browsing this site can appreciate the unfairness of that outcome. I for one do not want such a future under any circumstances. If the copyright business model is killed, so be it.

> At least a creator has control over the use of their work.

An illusion. They have no control. Their copyrights are infringed every single day. Most of the time people don't even realize they are infringing someone's copyright.
>> I am sorry, but you sound like you know for a fact that functional programming is better

I can see the room for misunderstanding. My only argument is that FP is worthy of more playtime than it currently enjoys in undergraduate academia. I'd wager that the current percentage of FP/Imperative playtime is 95/5.
Although the pound has recently crashed, the general rule for comparing UK salaries to US ones is to 1.5x it to dollars. A £150k salary in London is equiv to a ~$200-250k salary in the US. Not bad, I'd say.
Steve Jobs clapping from his tomb
We do pay for most of the useful things online (Editor/GitHub/Aws/Apps/ etc). Ad-supported platforms, in my opinion, don't get to have a say. As someone pointed out I don't lose personally if frivolous apps start asking for money. And again this may be just me but ig, Twitter, FB etc don't add any value to work either way.
npm only supports security keys and TOTP, not SMS.

https://docs.npmjs.com/configuring-two-factor-authentication
That's the problem with the C++ ecosystem, it is actually many vastly different ecosystems mashed together. It's impossible to find a "C++ developer" because there is no agreed upon "one C++ style". It seems what you're looking for is a "C++ developer who likes to write the same C++ style as myself" ;)
I think it's fair to hate on both. The government should not be incentivizing irresponsible decisions in either case.
You miss the point that video games are not a top priority for meta, they are betting on work and casual users that will hang out all day long in their metaverse VR world with their goggles on, much like people use their phones nowadays, and then consume their ads.

If Zuck was smart, he could have a partnership with Sony and push out a launch title for this.
I don’t think anybody knows, because there aren’t any reviews of the PSVR2 yet, but generally reviews of the Quest 2 are that it’s a high quality device at a very good price point
> In my 20-plus years of working with data, I have multiple steps and I don't care about the intermediate steps.

Oh boy, do i care about every single intermediate step though!

Especially in pandas, where we play "where's the NaN" all the damn time.
Apple maps finally good? ;)

To be fair, it has become much better and AFAIK it uses TomTom data.

This announcement is a master class of marketing blurp with nuggets like "accelerated innovation" and low on actual content.

Seems like they are on early access with important-enough customers.
>Banks (as many companies) are often very concerned about their reputation.

Haha. Banks are only concerned about their relative reputation. If all their peers are screwing the consumer, they don't care at all.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/zelle-fraud-is-o...
I know it's a joke yet it's interesting for it to mention:

"Luckily for the New Jersey court system, altitudes above about 12 miles are generally considered "high seas." According to the American Bar Association's Winter 2012 issue of the Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee Newsletter, this means that deaths above these altitudes—even deaths in space—are arguably covered by the 1920 Death on the High Seas Act, or DOHSA."

The boundary to space pretty well accepted as the Karman line at 100 km, deaths above this altitude shouldn't be registered to any particular country, except for apparently the U.S.
> people who have figured out that something is obviously beneficial?

If it's so beneficial then those people can prove it by building something exceptional. I worked with Haskell and Scala for almost a decade and libraries were full of bugs and performance problems. A lot of bugs just hadn't been reported because so few people were using them. FP certainly has its strengths but so far there's very little evidence that it produces better software in the long term.
Has Stripe gotten complex enough that there is again room in the market for a simple "one line of code" product to accept credit cards on your website?
I had a similar situation. I didn't get to a breaking point like you did - I quit my job as I was approaching it. I took 6 months off, focused on myself and therapy. I went down the ADHD route because I had the symptoms and tried medication but it didn't help much on a day to day basis (I still have some leftover and I take it maybe once every other month when I really don't feel like working to kind of reset me - they are stimulants after all). I'm still not really sold that ADHD is a real disease as much as a conglomeration of various deficiencies that people have that we try to group together in order to provide treatment, but I encourage you to try treating it anyway as much as you can because there's no cure, everyone is different, and many people have positive outcomes. Either way, the medicine needs to be combined with therapy for it to be effective and from my experience, the psychiatrists who I've talked to that prescribe medicine have not been good therapists

What really got me out of the funk was a routine and a good therapist (I think he was a social worker) that didn't try to diagnose me but instead worked with me on tangible things like my mindset and my outlook on life and challenges I face. A morning routine gave me some much needed mental stability (highly recommend the book Atomic Habits), and working on breaking some habitual negative thought patterns got me away from procastinating / task avoidance (to some degree). I was also lucky to have a supporting wife
so you have java and python and c, and then you decide to add c++ to the mix? not sensible, imho.

and nobody is forcing you to use lambdas - you can do everything with other language features
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> I am done with the whole "If not happy, move"

That's literally the point of capitalism. Organisations are free to offer any service they like and customers can choose which one best meets their needs. If enough people move to the one offering better 2FA then the others will follow.

Having the government force companies to behave in a certain way sounds dangerously close to socialism to me.
> There's little reason to code a greenfield project in C++ unless it involves leveraging some niche libraries,

Wanting a GUI is not a "niche" concern.
I use malloc more often than I use new and delete!!!
The Oculus Quest 2 with Air Link kills most other headsets dead, being both cheap, high-resolution and wireless.
Unfortunately not everyone is like the folks who work on No Man's Sky. They have released a boatload of fixes, new content, engine updates, VR support, you name it, they keep delivering.

Their support of that game has been very impressive over the years. Launch was rocky, sure, but they recovered and kept pushing ahead.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but now that everything is run in a docker container anyway, doesn't most of Java's appeal of "write once, run anywhere" from the turn of the millennium go away? At this point all it has is garbage collection and a network effect.
This is nothing to do with low or high income countries. Europe exists. I've lived (and had local phones) in Ireland, Germany and the UK. I've never had a spam call. I've had less than 10 spam texts ever. The US (from an outsider perspective) just doesn't seem to enforce consumer protections in general.
As Housing Prices Surge, Rent Control Is Back on the Ballot
Reading this comment section make me SMH to how many smart people are actually into twitter
Normally we have no calls. Then you came along. Our on call is getting dressed, just a few minutes.
Y42 launches the first Modern DataOps Cloud
Can’t you just run something yourself like www.the helm.com
I wish this all was based on some kind of science.
It's not complete horseshit.
The old controllers have more buttons on them and the new controllers have thumbsticks, so the controls for PSVR games won't map to PSVR2 hardware.
>Where are all the C++ programmers?

I'm still here, but I switched from C and C++ to C# and .NET and from desktop and games and mobile apps to backend.

I feel more productive, the wage is better and there are more jobs.
wow sounds rough buddy
Once upon a time I knew the c++ standard like the back of my hand. I was excited about the first few standard revisions, and read proposals as they came out.

Now I think it's a dead end and would sooner start a new project in C than C++ (but would prefer neither). The language that exists now is spending all its efforts fighting yesterday's battles, and it's rapidly losing relevance.

It used to be my bread and butter, but the only way I'd take a job that was for c++ programmers now is if it was to help migrate it to a language that lives in 2022 instead of endlessly relitigating the PL battles of 2008.
Instead of following the notorious "do what you love and money will follow" advice, the author suggests instead to:

> And so, the advice I would give to young people is this: structure your life so that you have the time and money to do what you love. That’s not easy to do by any means, but it is a much more realistic goal.

I often tell people that when I first entered the tech industry many moons ago, I wasn't chasing the money. I simply loved working with computers. And it just so happens that working in tech is lucrative. But I do wonder, fast forward 15 years later, if I would've stuck around if the field wasn't as booming.

I wonder if I tricked myself into believing that working in tech is really my passion ...
Not sure why this is being downvoted... perhaps it is documented somewhere they are not selling this at a loss but ordinarily both Sony and Microsoft sell consoles at a loss indeed.

I think ordinarily peripherals are not sold at a loss, but it would make sense that a pricy VR headset would be the exception.
zsh history command doesn’t show all history entries by default
> Why would a scammer focus on targeting low-disposable-income countries, if they, on average, can extract as much money from one US person as they would have to from 10-15 people in Phillipines.

I don't think anyone disputes this, but apart from Canada (which has a largely similar telco structure) no other developed country has this plague of undesirable robocalls. You could probably net a similar payout in the UK or Germany but as far as I'm aware there isn't a robocall problem in Europe (and the only problem that is remotely telephone-related is those scare scams where a malicious ad displays a number to be called, not the other way around).
Probably the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative https://chanzuckerberg.com/

They have a stated goal of eradication all diseases by 2100
So weird, but it's very funny. Do you have plans to expand on this? Maybe collect sound from other thinkers and have them debate?

Your robot sounds very scary by the way. Perfect for the Halloween-ish season.
Lmao “read from a monitor” as instead of from whatever fancy ARVR dev environments we’ll be on in 15 years?
Some of the ones I’m interested in so far:

Horizon: Call of the Mountain,
Firewall Ultra,
Resident Evil: Village.

I’d love if they add VR support to Gran Turismo 7 but they haven’t announced anything related to this one.
> It’s crazy that anyone can force a full-screen interrupt on my personal device with no context

Is this 2018? C'mon - phone calls don't actually do full screen takeovers on your device anymore, do they?
He's talking about Programming Language Theory, which includes various type theories and such. It's where math and logic meet programming languages. In other words, the math of analyzing programing languages, not using programing languages to implement applied math.
Yes... it’s the lingua franca of graphics and scientific computation (including low level ML)
Do as the others said here.

Sometimes one can find specific local communities here, too: https://openstreetmap.community/
But why?

Why not be an proficient Python developer and make the same compensation[0] with better docs, better libraries, better codebases, no compilation annoyances[1], easier to read code, and fewer not-defined-by-the-spec weirdness?

C++ would have to pay 4x what Python pays for me to even consider doing it again. It literally makes me sad when I write software in it. Especially the libraries.

[0] Mid-six digits as an IC is very doable in North America.

[1] If you want to count the occasional Cython thing, fine. Almost no compilation annoyances.
lmao. Didn't even look at the generated conversation, but I can only imagine..
> I called them and with a procedure that took some 3 days and numerous phone calls, id photos, etc. But I finally got the access to my account back

One could argue that your accounts were never secured to begin with.
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Affordability is one of the major issues of the metaverse. Most people can’t afford a VR ready PC as is and you’re lamenting that the Index doesn’t use more expensive components. I feel that Valve made the right choice with cheaper components since their goal is increased adoption of XR.
Sadly this sounds like a lot of crappy software shops generally, embedded or not.
So hyped for this, day one purchase for me.
Eh, the last budget surplus we had was in 2001 (a hair over 100bln). And while it'll be impossible to sustain that without politicians carving out what they want out of it, the 90s were a period where we sustained or crept our total debt load down ever so slightly, at least before 9/11.
Needs more sniff
I assume you are using android or some ancient version of iOS.

Currently on iOS, #1 is not done by any app including the phone, and #2-#4 are in fact allowed by App Store apps.
> we don't have 100 years before we start seeing major changes

I think perhaps (please correct me if you think I'm wrong) you're overestimating short term changes. Environmentalists tend to blame every disaster, flood or hurricane on climate change. This is like a mirror image to how the climate change deniers use every cold winter (or summer) as proof that climate change is a hoax.

If you look at the data, the current effects of climate change is somewhere in the middle. At present, one could argue that the net effects of climate change are actually slightly positive. Deaths due to heat is going up slightly, but deaths due to cold is going down faster than the deaths due to heat is going up.

By 2050, the adverse effects of the warming is probably greater than the positive ones, depending on scenario. Still, provided there is some technological and economic growth over the next 100 years, people living in 2122 will most likely be wealther (and more food secure), healthier and safer than people that live today, even if the improvement will be less than over 1922-2022.

> so the short-term impact should be a part of the conversation.

But by then, the impact of methane released today is already much LESS than the 25x quoted. More like 10x, and falling rapidly from there.

Also, there is the fact that changing policies takes time. One might even argue that there is an advantage to having a component to the warming where we will actually get a somewhat "quick" effect from cutting. Methane will contribute quite a bit to warming in the very short term, but as soon as we are able to stop releases, the effects will be gone within a generation, give or take (while CO2 hangs around for centuries).
Discussion currently underway on frontpage story:

PlayStation VR2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33436157

(39 points, 37 comments)
Both were picking the pockets of the majority of the public to enrich a few, and yes, for most people $10k is being enriched.
I know this is off topic, but right out of the gate, this really irks me...

Re >> "Software companies have a problem. There’s not enough candidates that can code C++. "

Should be written "There're not enough candidates who can code C++."
Pydantic merged pydantic-core, validation logic written in Rust
That's exactly what I came here to say. Buying PSVR2, a PS5 and a single game will easily run you over $1,000 - that's crazy. It doesn't even make sense why it would exist in the market; the $400 Quest 2 probably has a larger game library and better overall experience than the PSVR2. Premium customers have the Valve Index available at the $500-$600 price point, and further down the road it's expected to see Apple compete in the standalone premium headset market. This product makes zero sense in 2022, I sorta wish Sony spent some more time figuring it out.
And from anecdote, so should mothers. Early morning (~8AM) you get the A staff at their prime and are often the first case so it is usually timely.

The worst time is 6:30AM (or whenever half an hour before changeover is). You either get C staff and/or people who have been awake for 24 hours. The surgeon probably called that time so they could book night rates.
We've had 40+ years to develop spam blocking techniques for email, hopefully it won't take that long for Mastodon.
Nobody says that seriously.

It tells a lot how people go for common jokes to complain about a community. It's easy to fall for that if you never actually interacted with the people.
Wasn't that the purpose of Fedora? An up to date distro where new technologies can tested, community and partner feedback, etc.

In any case, I get the justification for CentOS stream, but changing CentOS 8's EoL from 2029, to Jan 1st 2020 ... after it shipped is definitely a good way to alienate your customers and community.
I got a Pixel phone and spam calls have almost disappeared (1 a month). They seem to be doing something around extra screening that's pretty good and useful.
Apple is the worst thing that could happen to VR.

Facebook may be 'toxic' but the Meta is cheap, amazing, supports Air Link for PC, even has cross-play (buy a Quest game, play it on PC at better graphics). Privacy options, they -removed- Facebook login, you can sideload apps. Tacit support for modding games like Beat Saber.

Apple would turn their headset into a walled garden with no ability to run custom apps and definitely no Air Link. Try to mod a game and get banned.
Not to say that chasing paper is bad, but doing what you enjoy makes sayings like "I don't feel like I've worked a day in my life" a cool foundation for wellbeing.

The culture in your country doesn't sound like "job jumping" is the norm (saving the expense of training/onboarding), but fresh air is always obvious in a work environment.

Work/life balance is also more than a buzzword. If both are unwell..... I'm sure its complicated.

I always get 8 hours of quality sleep and would recommend that. Sometimes its from a good days work... Other times, it provides the energy for an amazing day.
I think doing what you love (for work) is overrated. It's more important to do something that you think is meaningful.
Finding something you love is only momentary. Even if you find something you “love” to do it will have moments where it gets rough, boring, frustrating or cumbersome.

We need both work and rest, and typically burnout comes from pushing yourself in situations that are a net negative; either because you are over working in an environment that is compromising something valueable to you or because you don’t actually know how to rest.

We need work to make a living, make incremental and long-term growth and to stretch our capacity at a healthy rate.

We need proper rest (not Netflix, not social media, not mind numbing hobbies), active intentional rest to appreciate our work and the things we have. We need time to value things other than work because work alone is not enough to sustain us.

There are many good books on this I suggest the OP look into reading one in the time they have off if they chose. Fixing the underlying issues and habits is the way forward not just switching jobs.
What time zone?
Older ML techniques are explainable in nice ways. With something like logistic regression you get a very nice "this feature contributed this much to the final classification" breakdown. It just turns out that logistic regression is considerably less effective than RNNs, which have all these synthetic features within the inner layers that aren't easily meaningful to humans.
Skynet… and so it begins.
https://github.com/machow/siuba for one
Ask HN: What advice would you give your younger self?
What advice would you give your younger self?
I wouldn't consider whispering German scientists away to the United States as copying, it seems more like theft.
Also related and shown in the diagrams in the linked article, why are so many babies born on Friday, and less on Saturday? Doctors/nurses want their weekends too, so inducements / c-sections also go up on Fridays.

Says the dad of the child born at 4pm on a Friday...
I think being CEO for X number of places is more of a directions setting and "visionary" thinking if you have a strong execution layer beneath you.

Twitter just seems to be getting some attention as a recent project and will be hands-on till the actual doers are in the right places.

If you are not tasked with raising capital and hiring people, I am guessing you can be CEO in many more places. :)
I worked on Google Assistant for ~four years. The NLP is important, but it's still just a slice of making the thing work. And while there's some cutting edge stuff going on there, it's not so general or mysterious that it can't be understood or controlled, and I don't think it's making things worse.

Educated guess: your music issues can be blamed on a ranking subroutine owned by a "media" or "music" team, not on "black box AI".
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