skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A year ago I probably would have said that live chat is superfluous and annoying. After moving to Europe I have found them useful.

The mix of language/cultural differences and legal/social uncertainties sometimes makes it hard to know what I need to apply or register for something. Information may not available on websites, sometimes because the answer depends on your personal circumstances, sometimes because the websites are just old or incomplete.

I like sending e-mails. But e-mails are just not taken as seriously; I might wait a week for a response, only to get a curt "That is not possible", which doesn't clarify my situation or point me in the right direction.

If I call, I might have to wait a minute, or I might have to wait an hour. I don't get the freedom to wait that long for a call during work hours, and customer service might not be open late at night. In a phone-call I am also limited by my ability to speak a different language on my feet; I often cannot fully express what I want without some considerable forethought.

An in-person appointment would be good, but that might have to be booked weeks or (during Covid) months in advance. It may require travelling across the country. And I may not even know what I actually need or want from the appointment, so I don't know what supporting documentation etc. to bring.

Live chat solves all these problems. It is asynchronous, so I can stop, think about, and re-read the conversations. Where the language barrier becomes a problem, I can look up definitions. And I get a fast response, which can be followed up with additional questions if my problem is not quite solved. This is much better than waiting days or weeks only to get a non-answer because I asked the wrong question.

Intrusive live chat pop-ups are obnoxious, as are "robot menus", but I love the option to chat live with a human. It has helped me many times.
At first I thought the concept was "companies that hire more-or-less anonymous people, based on testing or skillset alone". That would be really cool!
Unfortunately stuff like this never makes it to the upstream. And i am afraid to ask why. We had pypy for years, but never got merged with python. That is why there are still minor incompatibilities between pypy and "The Python", so it's not that useful as it might have been if it got merged with cpython at some point.
If you suffer an impact in a helmet, that is now an ex-helmet. That is, you can't repair them, and the only way to check they're still sound is destructive testing. (not trying to rebut your anecdata)
Kalevi (Mythology)
> edit: Scott to scot

TIL https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/scot-free.html
I'd say it is more like a basic requirement than a killer feature at this point.
Fully agree, but this is the first time in 18 months that I am able to read a thread about tinnitus without feeling any unease.

I read every single comment, even the ones that shouldn't have been posted for their utter lack of empathy.
exactly this. When it doesn't know, it will ramble, answer an unasked question or boldly lie. Better to give up in such cases; we didn't need artificial ego.
Fp arithmetic has brought down space ships. Is floating point a billion dollar mistake?
Bernie Madoff got sentenced to >100 years. That feels like a pretty close comp to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff
This will be for kdb+.
(Nick Parsis wrote a very good book on it, Stephen Taylor is the Librarian at KX)
"Google says that no layoffs are planned after the transition, and Waze will continue to exist as a standalone app... However, Waze CEO Neha Parikh is expected to leave the role after the transition, and the move is expected to reduce overlapping work, the WSJ notes."
If your manager or boss insists on adding live chat to website, offer an alternative: facade (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/performance/thi...). Website will load faster, won't nag visitors, but chat will be readily available for visitor that actually needs this functionality.

And don't forget to measure interactions (how many visitors used live chat and on which pages). That might help to convince stakeholders that live chat is useless, especially if you are using paid version of third party live chat.
Technically your point is true, but I find these types of gotchas in bad faith. A more fair comparison to this statement would be ">90% of injured car passengers were not wearing seat belts".

The author was trying to stress the importance of wearing a life jacket, I don't think they need to get into statistical robustness in their summary paragraph for something that is so _obviously_ correct. The only reason you would want to argue this point is if you think they are being intentionally misleading, which I highly doubt you do.
Interesting article. We would see more contributios from him had he taken the offer of James Franck. Even probably a different view on the matters.
Just out of curiousity – what other languages do you know and use?
Do people not know about numba which unlike this project is FOSS and integrates with numpy???
There is nothing about consoles that make them incapable of installing any type of software. They support keyboards and mice.
Pattern Matching looks good too !

https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/accepted/f...
Starbucks opens blockchain-based loyalty program and NFT community to testers
Would attaching some temporary adhesive weights to the trainer flywheel during the calibration test be an effective way to cheat?
My Tacx Neo 2T doesn't even have a calibration process, but maybe that could work on other models. Of course that won't affect the separate data stream sent from the power meter on the bike.
Don't think he'll appreciate his content being scraped and duplicated, regardless of UX
Yep. "Don't screw over important investors" seems to be the key rule that Madoff, Holmes and now SBF have broken.
> Just because X implies Y does not mean ~Y implies ~X.

As others have mentioned, X implies Y does in fact require ~Y implies ~X. I think your example is confusing because "the government is corrupt" means many different things, but you're using it in a rather specific way ("the government is protecting SBF"). The equivalence of `X implies Y` and `~Y implies ~X` is more manifest through the following example

"The government is protecting SBF, so SBF won't go to jail"

and

"SBF went to jail, so the government wasn't protecting him."
The parent comment is talking about human interaction, not human interdependency. You can acknowledge and hold the belief that working in an office causes constant human interaction AND not treat everyone there as family or become ingrained in that lifestyle.
> Correct but this means all content if iCloud is enabled

That's a pretty big distinction between all content and all content on it's way to iCloud.

> (There's no technical reason for the reported content being CSAM only, can be anything)

Now we're back to all sorts of assumptions. There's also no technical reason Apple can't scan phones right now.

Apple did say at the time the hash db would be checked against different sources to prevent random content checks. And now with E2E, Apple's proposed method was more secure than what happens in the various clouds today where LEO could show up and ask them to search for anything.

Obviously the most secure is not to check at all, but the law may force the issue at some point.
"close to none" is not the same as "zero". But yes, converting Dart code to null safety is not very difficult.
I've just tried out a few of the flan-t5s and they're surprisingly coherent. It likes dogs and pine trees, thinks Makerbot is the best 3D printer lol. Can even generate some code, though it's usually wrong. And it can't seem to decide if a flower pot is orange or red.

Any idea if it's possible to chain feed a conversation into this one? I've tried a few various Q and A formats but none seem to really grab the old context.
I'd love to see Dart break out of just being the language for Flutter. I built an app in Flutter and Dart was quite fun to learn and work with. Will it ever break out of its shell?
I've already written plenty of malware with it. I work with IT security testing, so only for non-malicious purposes. It works quite well.
At 100k per year, 1B is a mere 10,000 man-years or with 4.4M devs in the US, that's less than one work day per currently-working dev across their entire career.

I'm sure that I've spent weeks worth of time doing this in one form or another and I doubt that I'm alone here. By that metric, it's more like the 100B mistake.
Pooping while squatting is healthier, so maybe that qualifies as saner too.
Tesla on self-driving claims: failure to realize aspirational goal is not fraud
Is this believable? Has a crack team of Lawyers really told him "definitely run your mouth on every podcast you can on the off chance that this will cause hung juries or mistrials in your future criminal cases" instead of "shut your damn mouth now"??
https://archive.ph/gJFxs
So you are telling me that someone managed to HN frontpage by making a website with:
1. content from another website
2. a look/template from a another website

and without giving attribution for it? (ok, attribution to paul graham is not hidden but it’s not clear that this is not an official website and there’s no link to the original content).

I understand that this is an attempt to get remarked by Paul Graham but it doesn’t show any skill and show a lack of understanding of certain fundamentals.
While the statement seems technically correct, it smells a bit disingenuous to me.

Most sophisticated structures are engineered using load factors in combination rather than traditional strength design methods because it leads to more efficient use of materials and hence lower cost.

Yes, strength design might require a 4x safety factor. That’s why engineering practice employs statistical methods and combined loads.

Keep in mind that the safety factors are never supposed to be the difference between stability and failure. If the structure relies on safety factors there’s a problem.
But the whole point here is to have teeny tiny futexes.
The whole point of the post is that there are ways to express value other than dollars.

That’s why the author lets go of the dollars and gives the story away for free at the end.

Maybe the game would have made the same money. But it’s also true that Markus asked for an ending story, selected this one and put it in, and kept it there.
In that case I'd certainly hope for more than 10 years. My 10 years number came from Elizabeth Holmes' sentence.
> It seems like with the recent AWS announcement of CodeCatalyst

I took Code Catalyst for a spin the other day and it is terrible.

https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/15997732931288637...

> It seems like maybe the best position for Gitpod is an acquisition (possibly by Atlassian)

I agree. I used to work there and think they need to slash circa 40 employees to shrink down to more sustainable burn rate numbers - https://ghuntley.com/tea

> but the odds are stacked against them

In more ways then one https://ghuntley.com/fracture documents Microsoft's strategy with Visual Studio Code which means 6 out of 10 top programming languages integrations only work on GitHub Codepaces. If you want .NET, C++, C, Python or Jupyter then the LSP integrations cannot be legally used on Gitpod.

GitHub Codespaces got one thing right - they chose IaaS as the brick of compute meaning they can do GPUs and run Kubernetes clusters. On Gitpod, you can't because Gitpod chose Kubernetes as the compute abstraction. Gitpod needs to ditch Kubernetes...

https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/4889 and https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/10650
How Henry Kissinger's stock has fallen it seems...
The rules of Bitcoin are fixed in place, and no one party can adjust them in future. ETH has core developers who can make any changes they wish whenever they wish.
It's not arguing about the difference between web2 and web3. It's arguing two main things

1. Web3 data is different from what most classic databases are optimised for, because of how it's accessed and the (mostly) immutable guarantees.

2. This service is better than other web3 api providers.

FWIW I'm consulting in this space currently, specifically dealing with blockchain data itself and it makes perfect sense to me.

If it helps, you can remove web3 entirely from the problem to understand it. The only thing relevant here is that blockchain data is almost exclusively append-only and so you can build something neater because you've got guarantees that many other problems don't have. The other main thing is that there is a standard API that people provide (read: sell) access to, which can be slow and/or expensive if you've got to pull a lot of data from it.
Considering it just started to get any traction by being the language of Flutter, it'll probably take some time. Remember Dart originally came out around the same time as Go. And people are just starting to actually use it for things in production.
> Say "I don't know."

That's a good answer, thank you. A similar answer might be: "Admit it's wrong". Technology really has gone in a strange direction if we end up measuring the performance of software systems in terms of which personality flaws they have.
site-local addresses are deprecated since RFC 3879. Link-local addresses are indeed another standard, but have the very same length problem. You have these horribly long ipv6 addresses... those can't reasonably be parsed by humans...
There is no 192.168.* equivalent in ipv6. Why don't we have something like fd00::1 being the router and fd00::2, fd00::3, etc being the devices in the local network, assigned by DHCP. You can absolutely configure your router that way but it is violating a MUST requirement of RFC 4193. That's my point. There is no non-routed netblock where you can just use it for local purposes, outside of the one for SLAAC and the one for ULA, both creating these horribly long monsters of addresses. All the others have purposes attached that are not meant to be used for local networks.
Though cute, this is a vacuous reply. The fact is, the US justice system is quite good at prosecuting white collar crimes where:

1. A lot of money was lost, especially rich people's money.

2. The fraud is particularly egregious, that is where it wasn't just a one time thing, but where the whole enterprise was a house of cards.

3. Where there is a clear smoking gun.

1 and 2 are obviously true in the FTX case, and I think given what has been reported so far that #3 will also be fairly apparent (e.g. there are tweets SBF made at the end of September that were lies that deliberately tried to hide the token movement between Alameda and FTX).

I'd easily bet that SBF will, when all is said and done, spend at least a decade in jail.
Due process and speech are among our rights so that’s literally what this is

If NSA has a way to break into a device without violating any parties’ rights, they would do so.

Even if NSA wrote the code you might argue the [Apple just has to sign it] step violates Apple’s rights.
Edge-compatible Serverless Driver for Postgres
You say entitlement like it's a bad thing. When I do work, I am entitled to compensation. So yeah, entitlement is the perfect feeling one should have in this situation. Not at all like a kid in a photograph, but more like the photographer and album cover designer. A smaller part of a much greater work of art.
I think part of it is people not following his latest interviews. I was one of those thinking he wouldn't spend a day in jail, however he then proceeded to open his mouth and, in public interviews (Twitter spaces in particular) on the record admitted to a whole host of crimes. Coffeezilla in particular has done excellent work (NYTimes, WaPo, a youtuber with no budget is doing better investigative journalism than you): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o_jPzBZSIo

It would be like if Epstein just came out on a public interview and said "yeah I hosted a pedophile ring for global elites as part of a CIA operation to get dirt on foreign nationals, in particular these ones: <insert list of names> but I didn't know what I was doing!"

I don't see how SBF can walk back all of his very public admissions to date. "Oh I was lying in all of those just to troll the internet", but then he can't make any statement in his own defense. He must really be one of those liars who believes his own bullshit, that's the only explanation for his behavior. He's totally going to jail at this point
One step at a time. They don't want a Python 2/3 situation.
And that is virtual memory, one is free to basically use 280 terabytes per process, or whatever they choose as a context boundary.
> You have endless entertainment for free on youtube, but it's all data collection and an algorithm dedicated to amplification of the worst aspects of your psyche. It'll entertain, and recommend you toward extremism.

My spouse and I never use the YT homepage, where these recommendations are made. We have two use cases: search for something specific 5% of the time, view videos from subscribed channels 95% of the time. The subscriptions feed shows a nice, clean timeline of all videos ordered by upload date. So we get none of the “recommendation rabbit hole effect”. I do wish that one could have multiple named lists of subscriptions so that we could separate things out by interest.

FWIW, this is the YT app on AppleTV.
Some claim null is a mistake. I will counter and say that null not being exportable within the type system was the real big mistake.

Languages where you can express if something can be null or not are a joy to work with and remove a whole class of errors.

That being said, I still don’t really understand the value proposition for Dart. Through different versions it’s morphed in the classic solution-looking-for-a-problem way (eg the optional typing). Did we really need this when Java, JavaScript, Python and Go existed?
We failed (sono motors, the ‘solar car company’, asks for cash)
I think what's really meant here is different pixel densities -- e.g. a high-dpi laptop screen and a low-resolution external monitor. I'm not sure exactly how Wayland handles this, but X doesn't do a very good job.
It's distrust in the elite who, frankly, have earned it.

The 2008 bank bailouts were the last straw for many.

Epstein was the last straw for many.

Covid mismanagement was the last straw for many.
This is one of the reasons that pushes me towards create a document first with HTML, then style it with CSS. If needs be – interactivity —, add a bit of JS. Space can look good when you're designing on a 27" screen, but on the iPad or the MBA, it is wasteful. Butterick's Practical Typography[0] and Beautiful Racket[1] are currently my standard for websites and a delight to browse.

[0]: https://practicaltypography.com/

[1]: https://beautifulracket.com/
My favourite kind (now) are the Leight Laser Lites - got introduced to them whilst working at a place with a datacentre and was soon borrowing* several pairs every time I went down to the basement.

Cheap in bulk, which is handy because I need them to sleep.
Put "-Dynasty" after all of them, and the only one that fits and has common use is "Clinton Dynasty"
Both ears for about, uh, 25 years (I went to a lot of un-earplugged gigs at university in small venues.)

The Neuromodulator from mynoise[1] sometimes alleviates it for a period of time, especially mixed with some coloured noises.

Other than that, there's apparently research indicating that notched audio (music with your tinnitus frequency removed) may help train your brain, e.g. [2].

Annoyingly mine seems to be a broad spectrum and/or my ability to recognise pitch is abysmal which means I've not been able to test this myself - but there's apps to do it for you.

[1] https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenera...

[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04661995
DX9 is twenty years old; any game before that can be fully emulated. It is just easier to port any worth playing to DX9
I might get a ton of hate here. But just use jenkins [if you cannot use modern tools like GHA]. Put it on a port 8085 for example, go to your cloud providers security rules, block all requests to port 8085 that are not using a VPN. Sleep like a baby at night. The end.
They will probably start lower down the organization, getting evidence that wrongful behavior was sanctioned by management. Ignorance of the law is not a defence. He will go to jail.
What exactly is the point of this article? People here are saying it's an "emotional journey" or something. What a load of shit

> Early next year, Markus earned a three-million-dollar dividend on his shares in Mojang. But, as the actual value of his company, which he mostly owned, had gone up by many tens of millions, he figured he didn’t really need another three million on top. So he divided it between the twenty-five staff at Mojang, as a late Christmas bonus. That’s $120,000 each. Five or six times what I got for writing the actual ending.

> Which was a lovely thing to do, but as I wasn’t staff at Mojang, and therefore got nothing… well, I was a bit hurt that I didn’t get even a token acknowledgement from Markus that I was one of the five people who had helped create this strangest of games.

Notice how it's never about the author's own negotiation. It's always about what he "feels he's owed". Any sort of contractual agreement or unambiguous statement of what is owed is illegitimate in his eyes. Just some vague sense of entitlement and a couple of donation links
He invented it for algol, a language with sufficient complexity that it was basically impossible to implement. The process of creating c involved stripping off everything but the most necessary features. Null references made it, nullable types likely wouldn't have.
Archie, the first Internet search engine[2021]
SBF has claimed to have donated as much (without proof), but he's also claimed to have not committed any crimes.
The US has multiple options:

https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/100-percent-clean-electricity-...

> An NREL study shows there are multiple pathways to 100% clean electricity by 2035 that would produce significant benefits exceeding the additional power system costs.

What does this guy know that NREL doesn't?
> If every Apple app and device showed ads constantly it still wouldn’t come close to the views that fb and web pages get to display ads used by Google and Facebook.

I can’t begin to imagine how irritated Tim Cooke is by the revenue Google and Facebook make from adverts on iOS and he clearly wants in on it.

Given that both those ad companies make revenue off iOS, it’s not unreasonable to aim for a similar level on the platform.
> Nobody is saying the FTX saga will be concluded in 1-2 years

As per the original comment:

> how SBF won't go to jail because of American corruption--I'll see you back here in a year or two.

Going to jail implies he will be found guilty and it will be concluded. If SBF is only indicted, he is still innocent until proven guilty.

> That's an apples to oranges comparison.

Would like to know more about this. I am not saying he won’t go to jail, but why would prosecutors be faster in indicting SBF?

Lastly, I am caught off guard by how emotional you seem about wanting to demonstrate how efficient the US legal system is. I am not saying it isn’t, but 1-2 years to conclude (again per original comment) seems quick for any legal system.
Also, there is considerable career risk involved for the prosecutor. This is a high-profile case and the prosecutors can say goodbye to whatever ambitions they have if they botch this.
Ask HN: What are Americans seen as on the world stage?
Did anyone died from ignoring idiotic covid restrictions?
I second this. On occasion I'll be inclined to share one of his essays with someone else, so having multiple pages to scroll through is suboptimal because I won't remember exactly what the essay title is. Being able to see them in one place makes it much much easier to figure out which one.