skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misunderstood me, my points there are different.

In SO, re-askings are not allowed, but as the question becomes less and less similar at some point it will be allowed. The problem is that "canonical" question for that problem is really just the first one that came along, and there are no good tools for keeping it up to date. It doesn't matter how much karma you have, there are no tools for getting rid of highly upvoted or marked as correct answers that are now wrong / dangerous. So the trick is to find similar but different answers that approach the problem in a more modern way, but haven't been closed as being dupes.

In forums, re-askings are expected and if you ask a JS question 10 years later you will get answers relevant to the time. Posts are not expected to be evergreen, so you can look at when it was asked and have context as to the environment it was asked in, as opposed to SO where the date is sort of meaningless because it's sort of a wiki.
Hands up... yes, it’s fully intended to get you to click through. (I wrote it)

BUT: the underlying point is still valid, these are not sear results, that come from a search engine. These are answers, from an answer engine.

(But still made you click ;) )
Jack Kirby: The comic book artist finally gets the recognition he deserves
For professional reasons I am aware of the ongoing controversy regarding titanium dioxide (used in paints and so forth) where an apparently flawed rat study has triggered off major pandemonium at the heart of REACH (EU’s materials risk assessment and management system) and threatens to run my industry aground, all because of the ”precautionary mechanism” and some possibly bad science. I’m not terribly confident about how bureaucracies process this kind of information.
> this is indeed a real problem for "askers" trying to get heard in all the noise, and there's diminishing returns for the "answerer" who has less fun questions to tackle

To address this issue, I put together a "deep-cuts" algorithm that uses the API to tries to find overlooked higher quality questions that have yet to be answered.

The code is available here:

https://github.com/klenwell/stack-overflow-deep-cuts/blob/ma...

It's not perfect. But if you're looking to engage with Stack Overflow, I've found it much more useful than the rat-race to answer (or close) new questions.
that's great! but what's it to do with python ?
Serious question: does this mean I need to start being a lot more careful about lead debris generated by hobbyist soldering?
iPhone Location Services: How It Works and How to Set It Up
Let me correct myself: "[...] fall at the same speed because they have the same acceleration (9.8 m/s^2)"
It leads to a few “take the bus” answers to “my car has problem X”

In this case paexec and psexec might be drop in replacements , but the web is rife with "how do I bold text in notepad?" "Lol m$ just use Linux".

I already know I can take the bus for goodness sake! Except .. sometimes the asker does know they could try alternatives and sometimes they don't.

Psexec is probably cobbled together in a pile of scripts that are owned by another company and work fine against fifty servers but not one new one and the owning team won't change to something unproven..

But here we can both make up situations where it is and/or isn't a good answer - at the point where you're saying "decide the problem" means "guess what they want" - can't we trust people to have asked what they want?

No we can't and that leads to all the "what are you really doing?" clarifying comments.

And those comments drive people away as hostile and interrogatory.

The site just has no structure for different types of people and their levels of background knowledge of askers vs types of people answering. Is the range of skills and experiences much much bigger than easily assumed?
kind of amazing that they managed to survive being relatively close to such a large asteroid impact.
I once answered a question that was 4 years old.

Although still relevant as I ran into the same problem as the OP but as nobody else answered I had to come up with an answer myself.
"You're doing it wrong" was a pretty common meme in 2011, I wouldn't take too much from it being the title of the piece other than the author was trying to be playful.
Ask HN: Major social networks usage is slowing, where are users going now?
In the past months, there's been a lot of negativity towards the major social network platforms such as FB. Many of the HN comments show users are spending less time on these social networks. Where are all these eyeballs moving to now?

Are they switching to other social networks or shifting to other media channels? Maybe something else is happening? Any insight is welcome, thanks!
This was discussed on a recent "No Agenda" Podcast. Adam Curry is licensed to fly helicopters and claims to have flown this model. He is insistent that this explanation is wrong, that the lever pictured controls ignition retard and is easily overridden by controls on the stick the pilot uses to control the aircraft.

It makes no sense to me that there would be a fuel shutoff in reach of a passenger that could cause the aircraft to crash. (Imagine telling passengers "whatever you do,, don't pull this lever or we'll all die.")
Why don't Germany and France offer the same as Ireland?
A few things I've found:

Super Smash Bros Melee [1]

"Ultimate Calculator 2", including RGB display, backlight, touchpad, and PS/2 port [2]

Floppy music controller [3]

Intervalometer for time lapse photography [4]

[1] http://www.omnimaga.org/super-smash-bros-open/(axe)-super-sm...

[2] https://www.cemetech.net/projects/ee/ucalc2/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WePVjW98t5A

[4] http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-a-TI-Graphing-Calculato...
That is an interesting question, but I don't think so, because that repo shouldn't contain anything related to the CUDA binaries.

(Do NOT take my word for it, I have no idea about what I am talking about)
Mercer's and Koch's are the oligarchs of the US thanks to Citizen United et al. Combined with 24/7 propaganda brainwashing by Fox News, defunding of public schools, the raising inequality and gerrymandering and voter supression, democracy is just a hollow shell and you end up with a guy like Trump as president.
I don't understand the difference the entry makes between the fact that you can represent the universe in a CHE model using coordinate transformations and "hypotheses". Given that you started from a concave model of the universe and the associated physical laws, you could make reasonable hypotheses and verify them through experimentation.
Real repo: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
Only if that's what you want SO to be. But how often do you find a question on how to exclude a particular artifact from a maven configuration on Quora? or finding the cause of a particular compiler issue? Or why sending a particular date through an object mapper works while another one fails? Or trying the sequence of objects to change a class path resource (URL) to a File in Java (URL - URI - Paths - toFile).

They are different sites for different purposes and different audiences. Trying to make one site to be everything for all people doesn't work well for any of them.
Agreed, it's a simple, polite request to a business partner.

George says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usN3rpfFoGA&t=30s
It depends on your company, but creativity isn’t shunned in chinese industry, or even in Chinese PhD programs. Instead, you pay some lip service to some correct thought concepts and you are given wide freedom over the rest of your work, there is a lot of meritocracy allowed. Chinese are also actually quite clever in their subversion.

I would say Japan and Korea are much worse than China, with very restrictive corporate cultures that are actually more Confucian than China.
Some abstract thought here: the OP mentioned only 2 companies and I responded within that limitations, but in reality walmart competes with amazon. So if amazon has higher margins than Walmart because of the business model then walmart is disproportionately hit by the tax.
Ask HN: Working remotely in Portugal for an Irish company
Hi,
the Irish company I am working for offered me to work remotely.

I have heard that in Portugal it is possible to have a very good tax rate 20% with the NHR system.

I am a software engineer (Data Scientist).

How does the system work? Would I pay 20% on my gross salary?
21 साल बाद “चैत नवरात्र” पर आया ऐसा महासंयोग, 5 राशियों का खुलेगा किस्मत का
You sure about that? I always thought I never was good enough to "deserve" an SLR, but I recently took one on a vacation and was pleasantly surprised that, not only were my photos better, but I was also able to improve on the automatic settings in many cases (weird lighting, etc), albeit with some trial and error.

High quality tools tend to raise the "quality ceiling" but also tend to be unforgiving of mistakes. Sometimes all you need is a little more confidence in your own ability, and some room to make mistakes with the fancy new tool.
If they raise their prices, people buy less, so profits are less, so its value as investment goes down, so it gets disinvested. Where would that money go? to any company with higher returns, in this case, Google.
We still allow Flouride in toothpaste and we actively put it in drinking water, and I believe it’s worse than lead.
Will you be an employee or a contractor?
I often have good success finding a solution on SO although I have the feeling that most useful answers are several years old and not much new is happening. I never posted a question before but recently I have posted a few I had been struggling with for a while and I was a little surprised how unpleasant the responses were. They were all along the lines of "Why would you want to do such a thing?" or "If you don't know what you are doing, hire an expert" or stuff like that. After this experience I definitely won't ask anything there anymore.
I haven't seen this reasonably addressed in any of the discussions, or org-based-presentations thus far. GDPR compliance itself basically ensures you cannot collect enough information to even defend against this type of attack vector.
> The latter attribute, creativity, is something I have always thought was necessary to foster with freedom in thought and expression, two things I see incompatible with the authoritarian system currently in place in China.

This is such oft repeated nonsense. Creativity exists in authoritarian systems. Creativity existed during slavery. Creativity existed during the dark ages. It existed during the age of kings. It existed during religious tyranny. It always exists.

> Maybe I'm naive and romantic about the Canadian/Western style of education and China will inevitablly dominate AI through force of will.

What is canadian/western style education? It's so funny how we mock our education system as producing factory drones incapable of thinking but whenever china is mentioned, we pretend like our education system fosters creativity. People constantly regurgitating the trope about "creativity" and "china not having it" just shows how well brainwashed we are. I wonder how the chinese built their own unique civilization if they weren't creative?

> Would be very curious to hear others thoughts on this, perhaps from people further along than I (still a lowly undergrad).

It's a simple matter of wealth. If china can develop enough and get enough money to be able to spend time doing the research, then they will make progress.

It's simply a matter of wealth, people, resources and stability. China has the people obviously. They have stability so far ( I doubt anyone is going to invade them and destabilize them a la opium wars ) and they appear internally stable as far as any can tell. They have a large enough territory. So it's simply a matter of wealth. Can they get wealthy enough to build universities, companies, etc to fund research?

Creativity, research, etc has nothing to do with the political system. The authoritarian soviets were able to send people to space. Nazi germany was able to advance research on everything. So did imperial japan. The authoritarian and tyrannical european colonial powers ravaging most of the world made great contributions to science/knowledge. So did we while we were busy exterminating the natives and enslaving blacks.

The system doesn't matter. People are just as creative in china as they are here. The system doesn't matter. It's a matter of wealth/funding and stability.
Ah, true, I didn't pick up on that. Maybe I did take the tone too seriously.
The DARPA Grand Challenge. NOVA has a special on it.
It might be on YouTube too.’

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/
While your point stands, Cow Clicker itself was unlikely to be doing something nefarious. It was created specifically as a criticism of similar game mechanics, and got viral mostly by accident.

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

Hence why the researcher who created it decided to kill it.
what I mean is, their high karma score comes from the community voting up their contributions a lot. If they have high karma that's supposed to communicate that they will be good answerers, and of course you want good answerers, so you'd think that's whom you should want.

it doesn't communicate that, they're not who you want - as you say in this comment.

That's what I was commenting on. The disconnect between what that karma should say vs. what it does say
And chlorine in salt!/s
Digital cameras have definitely helped out substantially. Nice film is and always has been expensive. For pro level film you could be spending up to several bucks per shot if you're shooting the larger format stuff, then add on a lot more money and time to develop it.

With a digital camera, though, a medium quality camera body is good for at least 50-100K shutter activations, and the marginal cost of taking each shot is essentially free. Paint, paintbrushes, canvases, notebooks, etc. all very noticeably get used up, but the same is not true for digital cameras. I also tend to buy all my equipment used, and don't treat it poorly, and can typically sell it back for what I paid for it (minus eBay fees) unless I sit on it so long that it becomes out of date, which is more of a problem for the camera than the lenses.
I perceive this in myself to an extent. I have always thought it was about wanting to save the best materials for some sort of magnum opus, rather than waste them on everyday work. I don't think that's entirely irrational.

I do it with non-creative things too. I have some bottles of really nice whisky, but i don't drink them. I'm saving them for when a whisky-appreciating friend comes round, and we can enjoy them together. I drink the crappiest stuff i have when i'm on my own.
Spotifyd: open source Spotify client running as a Unix daemon
the Broadway backend is an amazing but of technology
Consumers have no point in burying the tv. But they cant easily trade a broken thing for money.

You can go to craigslist and see people auctioning off perfectly fine stuff for peanutes. I.e. I bought a working printer at 25 with ink: its new value is about 100.

But I had to look for it online, find the opportunity, pay in cash, go fetch it, bring it back, and I was also subject to the risk of it being broken, etc.
Fortunately, science doesn't depend on believing.
"Hello monster/ghost person." Yes, that's me?
Warren Hatch: An Appreciation
Obviously im thinking of this type of legal issue. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/intel_sends_arm_a_s... . Emulation is simply an implementation of API.
This looks really useful. I'm surprised SO doesn't already have that feature.
It's the easiest thing in the world for the giver, but to the receiver it feels like a kick in the gut. It definitely contributes to the feeling of hostility.

I have several well recived answers there but I have never downvoted anyone because leaving it as is feels right than downvoting for the reasons you mentioned. I never asked a question there and tried figuring out the answers based on existing resources and on my own and it helped me learning a lot. This might not be the right way but being hostile and downvoting feels more than disagreement to me.
This is the reason why I avoid being there.
Yet we Chinese have less top masters that revolutionize the fields they are in. I, too, believe we have more than enough number of brains to have the leaping happen. It's just the mind and behaviour of combination at individual level being dramatically reduced. And for the a few still hold them, the incentive to keep doing with combination mind and behaviour is simply negative. Hence, at the group level, there are less organically grown mature groups of individuals to provide foundation/platform for those capable and willing to do that. A metaphor I can think of are the soil and the seeds. How people perceive the soil leads to what people's expectations on the issue.
Did you email the appropriate contact info on their site? I had no problem facilitating several public radio streamers to get their traffic zero rated.
The idea of neural networks go back a lot further than CMU.

http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/ai/a-brief-history-of-...
There is already a VAT! This will come on top of it.
> my feeling is that you're talking about questions that do seem clear to you and I'm talking about questions that don't seem clear to me.

Totally.

> Are you really talking about spelling nitpicks?

Sometimes. I'm trying to be vague because I don't want to pick on specific examples, but what I really mean is nitpicks that are irrelevant to the core question.

For me the core pain felt like:

- Askers working out how much context to bring to a question

- Answerers not presuming there is more context to the question

- The ensuing fight spread over answers, re-edits and comments, leaving a gross complicated passive aggressive mess at the end of it

So you don't want to explain your entire life story, and when you encounter problems you usually aren't working on something that easily compresses into 20 lines of code. So there is expected and undestandable challenge in compressing your example. Not bringing too much context is also important, because you're trying to ask one specific question, not the hundreds of potential questions in your codebase.

But often times I feel answerers will take your example, presume it's literally that, even with `foo` and `bar` as classnames or whatever, and take it completely as face value and then point out why it's obviously stupid, even when those stupid things are ancillary to the main point, and there only because it's compressed example code.

Extra context to my opinions here: I haven't seriously contributed to SO in at least 5 years. I probably ask 1-2 questions a year now, and do so with great trepidation. Grain of salt and all that,
I do not know. We have not defined the formal contract yet. I guess we can decide how to do that. At the moment I am an employee.

What would be the difference?
Interesting how when Obama used big data and targeted marketing to win, he was applauded and given accolades [1], but when Trump used big data and targeted marketing to win, he is painted as sinister and manipulative and evil.

Almost like there is an anti trump propaganda narrative being pushed. Almost.

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/2613587/big-data/the-real-...
I know the Counter-Strike: Global Offence community always goes for extremely high FPS. I found this without much effort [1] where they discuss how to raise the fps cap from only 300. It's a game from 2012.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/15464478762...
He’s concerned with page faults because his workload involves disk access. The admonitions about cache locality matter more when your workload fits in RAM.

Also, he’s not using swap as such, he’s using memory-mapped IO. If you have to hit the disk, you have to hit the disk, might as well try to do it in an OS-aware fashion.
They would be just begging for the limit to be removed then though.

Like the current 'tax optimization' schemes have given rise to this proposal.
>Otherwise, people won’t get the help they need, and dumbasses will continue to revert to their tropes of “laziness”, “lack of willpower”, “bad parenting”, and “just need to put in more effort”.

This hit me pretty hard. This has been me for the past 4 years. Diagnosed in college and convinced myself ADHD wasn't real, or if it was, I didn't have it. I was just inherently lazy and unfocused and needed to just "man up" and figure it out.

Still haven't gone back to attempt to get diagnosed again. I guess I'm a little scared. Even though I've struggled with inattention (not hyperactivity, though) my whole life there's an entire half of my being that is just screaming saying "it's not a real problem, other people have real problems, this is just something you need to get past already."
To be clear, Rust is easily 10x better than JS in that regard, it was just an obvious example for me to use where <1.0 code is now weird and wrong :-)

I have nearly given up looking for JS answers in SO because they are such garbage these days. I am learning Rust right now and still find answers on there useful.
Many fingerprint systems have this for access. A "Duress" Finger. If you use that finger, the system can be set up for a silent alarm, full on alarm, lockdown or whatever configuration you need.
Indeed. It's very hard. Besides Qt, what other toolkits are available that go beyond basic UI and offer complex widgets like grids and stuff?
There are also small details that you will learn the first time doing it wrong.

For example, when contacting with someone outside of the company, you would NEVER refer to anyone in the same company as you with -san honorific (Mr./Ms.) via email even in maximum formality mode, e.g. "I'll forward this to Tanaka-san, head of sales" may be considered rude. Instead, you will have to skip -san, as in "I'll forward this to Tanaka, head of sales."

These small details are so subtle and there's a lot of them. Many people don't really mind if you use it wrong, but some do, so you have to always be cautious with.
I've found that, in broad strokes, communication doesn't happen as often as it should, even when all developers are collocated in the same office. It's easier to keep plugging away at something than ask for help, and many would rather develop their own ideas solo than solicit input early on and give up that control.

It's been my experience across three different jobs and many more teams that these problems all get much worse when developers are no longer collocated.

And I know there's always someone like yourself popping up in the comments saying that it can work well, but I've never personally experienced this.
Meta: Can we please not link to AMP versions of pages on HN? Yes, it's easy enough to remove the amp/ suffix from the URL [1], but linking to AMP version directly is even more annoying than linking to mobile versions directly.

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> I do not know what the point of the European Single Market was. In fact, I'd be interested to hear someone with the know-how tell me. Was it to create a trading zone where the same rules applied to everyone? Or was it just supposed to ease trade across borders by creating some kind of customs framework and abolishing tariffs, etc.?

Not that I have "the know-how" :), but my understanding is that the point was to ease trading. This is both done by abolishing tariffs as well as unifying regulations. If you can sell a product in your own country, there's a high chance that you can sell it anywhere in the EU – this promotes trade.
And its almost as though you're being as disingenuous as possible while trying to mock others for being dishonest. Why not just debate in reality versus saying "well, if I'm intentionally obtuse, I can find a way to make others look like hypocrites"? Who are you hoping will be convinced by BS like that?
I'll give you that last one, definitely.
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