skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I guess I meant that house prices would crater. Obviously some people benefit from that and some don't.

My intuition is that it would also precipitate an economic downturn. Many households will see a drastic deterioration of their balance sheets, which should act as a damper on consumer spending. Which would, in theory, have 2nd order effects on the real estate market...
There are far, far more constructive ways to educate the asker of such a question than to outright tell them they're stupid. Especially because, while such a question might not be the most constructive, it being there doesn't hurt anyone at all.

It doesn't cost anything to be nice and to try and make the community feel more welcoming.
Serious question: If this is the expectation, is it not possible to sue for the actual damages, which is a lifetime of income?
Posted 7 hours ago with 479 points and 258 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16932006
I'm talking about government debt, not private. Though, a chain reaction , if it is to happen, will reach pretty much all and everything including private mortgages.

If you have a fixed rate one, you may well read the fine script better. Quite a few banks put a no reservations callback clause in the loan agreement.

If an individual gets his mortgage called back, for an average Joe the only way to get through that would be to get another loan, and at a higher rate.
I read OP's point as a new user might want to hit the vote in the "thanks, this solved my problem" sense, but gets a rather surly "your vote is denied until you demonstrate that you are worthy" response. Entirely a relevant criticism given that we're discussing SO hostility here.

Edit: OP changed comment while I was writing this; leaving it anyway
You can either flag for another moderator to take a look, or (better) bring it up publicly on https://meta.stackoverflow.com. Most times you'll get an answer from the moderator in question.

(Also, that's a... very broad definition of "moderator abuse". The question is still there and no one can post an answer to compete with yours if it's closed.)
> And there is no way to report/flag/discuss a moderator actions on Stack Overflow.

Yes there is. See Meta. E.g., see https://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=why+was+my+question+...

You can also flag your own question/answer.
I don't usual respond to conspiracist posts, but maybe you're going to take Moxie Marlinspike's word for it ?

https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
The pro-skater turned nomadic filmmaker living his dream one hustle at a time
A diversified portfolio.
I can see it the other way too. Good content may lead to certain types of toxic communities. Possibly by encouraging people to police content more in an effort to "keep quality high/from falling", and putting artificially high bars on contributing.
> for me

I think it's just you, see Merriam-Webster, there are 1a, 1b, 2, 3a, 3b and 4 meanings, and yours is just "1b" as far as I see.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anticipation

Also see

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anticipate
One of the reasons I really like Python is it never had any of this crap. It's popular just because it's useful and people like it.
Julia: The Goldilocks Language
Here’s a slightly different response that is hopefully more welcoming.

“The error message says the problem is on line 49 but you haven’t shown that line in your example code. Can you please show the code referred to on line 49 and the surrounding code for context?”

I think power users on SO are frustrated by newer users not learning the rules and not helping themselves. But if you respond with kindness you’re teaching somebody (and that’s what answerers are there to do!) how to better contribute in future.
a) I'm not in a place where even if I emailed them and they did understand I would be any more likely to actually follow through the second they stopped looking over my shoulder.

b) 30 grand and benefits in
Albuquerque isn't a low wage it's god damned pinkies out upper class.

c) I am not over qualified to be a stock boy (though I am damned good at it) I am orthogonally qualified for other jobs.

d) yeah I am aware that a therapist would help but that self sabatoge came after 6 months of counseling and antidepressants... More effective therapy is either non existent or out of my price range.
Going from "I see higher inflation" to "a nationwide measure is rigged" is a big leap.
Thanks for the background, at least with this the reference to women and minorities becomes easier to understand.
Precious metal, if held in physical form, has the unique property of being no-one's obligation. Additionally, it is by definition a bearer "instrument" and easily transportable, therefore suitable for mitigating political risk. This is why it performs well in times of crisis.

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to your second and further questions. Too much depends on individual circumstances, risk appetite and time horizon.
Tim hortons has peaked. Better to find the next brand and get a great location.
(The GP comment has been edited in a way that makes some of the replies, like this one, make less sense.)
The posts that really left me disappointed are:

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/how-to-get-sig...

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

I suppose "only I can do security right" is perhaps overly harsh, but my take away was that he considered a walled garden that could be iterated on by his team preferable to allowing even forks of his team's own client to communicate with users on the OWS network.
Show HN: C++ (tiny) BigNum Multiply w/ Genaille-Lucas Rulers from 1891
I bet that will float higher in Google than the current SO since the questions will be more specific to your query and newer (since no "dupe" flags on every second or third question asked).
New Yorkers are flocking to this Midwest sanctuary
Can you expand on this?

> Minimum wage jobs for example make it a crime to have no skill.
At a certain level of abstraction, intelligent and sociable people who can get things done have the capacity to rise to the top in any occupation they choose to enter.

Without debating the specific skill sets needed in each (of course they vary based on field of choice, this is obvious), all of the “blue collar” multimillionaire business owners I know have the three traits I listed above. Ditto for the “white collar” multimillionaires.

It’s also interesting that they have similar problems (again in abstraction) — hiring, training, and retention. The nitty gritty details differ, but the problems sound awfully similar to me.

There are probably a few more characteristics and problems that I could list, but these were the ones that came off the top of my head.
So it’s a protection racket then?

Some highly visible CEO of a developer community improvement startup pointed out some mean SO comments towards anonymous newcomers, then said those anonymous newcomers are actually women, so therefore SO is in fact sexist to its very core.

But if SO works with her company, she can help them not get called online by people like her. It’s literally a mob-style protection scam.
you're making the case that Facebook was negligent and Yahoo wasn't. I don't think that's true because Yahoo kept the hack a secret from auditors and users for 3 years.
Also I feel like SO discourages any kind of personality showing, which in turn makes the place feel like it is occupied by a legion of "Zuckerbots". Not exactly an inclusive place for people who are proud of their identity and that identity strongly differs from "young cis hetero white male".
Looks awfully like design by committee, lowest common denominator taste. There is zero distinctiveness and character.

Even java kept coffee cup and duke.
Good grief--flagged and downvoted. No one can take a joke anymore.
FWIW, it's possible both for hostility to be universal and for it to be harder on some subgroup if either (a) that subgroup tends to be socialized in such a way that they're less equipped to deal with/push back on hostility or (b) that subgroup tends to be more agreeable or threatened by hostility by natural temperament.

But overall... it doesn't matter much to me. Reducing universal hostility seems like a positive goal no matter what. Even reducing localized hostility that I'm not subject to means that the potential pool of contributors who might be able to help me or others with problems on SO is larger.
I wonder if there's a bit of "5 Whys" going on here.

Most of the times I end up on Stack Overflow, I arrive via Google. I usually have to check for around 5 answers before I find one that hasn't been locked as "not constructive" or for some other arbitrary reason.

Is it any wonder that people find it easier to ask their own questions? The name "help vampire" is so telling of how SO mods see themselves (as arbiters and gatekeepers of all that is good against the raging unwashed hordes) and a symptom of the problem.

Don't aspire malice / incompetence to something that may well have a root cause within SO itself.
Debt becomes more expensive. If interest rates go very high, that can be crippling. That's probably unlikely.

There will likely be less money pursuing assets (real estate may be affected), and business ventures (start-ups). Given trends of the past decade, both are likely healthy changes, though SV types may be impacted.
A lot of people are not getting the diversity angle, so I want to call attention to a comment in this thread explaining it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935683
> "Sneering comments from neckbeards"

Condescension, like any other dismissal, can be rough and is definitely detrimental to communication. That said, I encourage you to be the change you want to see. Name calling as you've done here, and snark, as you've done elsewhere in this thread, similarly degrade conversation and communication.
I assure you it is a standard practice, but why would recruiters discard resumes without exact dates 'by default'? Because the assumption is that those people are 'old'?

That may answer the question for you, but ageism is a legal concern and disqualifying candidates because they didn't tell you when they graduated isn't dissimilar to asking someone how old they are in a job interview and refusing to hire them if they don't.
Agreed. I imagine many people who left tech (regardless of age) are not frequenting HN
Just set up uxterm - and I don't know if this is placebo, but it feels noticably snappier than urxvt.
Or worse, they're implying that minorities and women are all insecure and thin skinned which is the very behavior and thinking they're ostensibly trying to prevent.
We don't need to stop at group-level insecurities, we can just be kinder and more welcoming to everyone, thereby addressing _all_ insecurities. This has the added bonus of dodging the entirely unnecessary, divisive, and toxic political fights about which groups are the most victimized.
EU Asks Whether the Internet Is ‘Essential.’ the Answer Could Hurt Google
That would be defining it as a time span and using the time since start as index.

Which to me is one step away from using the timepoint as the index iteself (zero as start), verus (1 year from zero).

How would you index the time before the first birthday?
> Seems like it's obsolete.

Then you can write your own Deferred implementation. I didn't even know it was implemented in browsers.

const run = async () => { ... }

How to read this? run is a constant that equals the result of calling function async() thas maps to something in curly brackets? This is confusing.

> If you want to write async code, use async / await.

That is a good idea, but it has nothing to do with arrow functions.

> It also allows you to do scope binding in a different manor

`this` binding in JS in classic functions is broken by design, so yes, that is the advantage of arrow functions.
Thank you!

I agree... that was when DHTML and VBScript were a thing. Not even JQuery was created. "AJAX" was just JS loading content in hidden frames... good times though.
Human Brain Gain: Computer Models Hint at Why We Bested Neandertals
Imagine this was done quickly:

1: everyone who's got a borderline repayable mortgage to get anything in the overheated market and hasn't increased earnings by some 20-30% since then goes bust. This creates a wave of increased supply.

2: everyone's willing to buy gets way less loan amount for same repayments. This severely reduces demand at current prices.

3: 1+2 force prices down, meaning some people end up owning banks more than their house is worth. In the US the banks are in trouble, as people start walking away from their mortgages. In the EU such people are stuck with negative equity.

Such a scenario is outright disastrous, so no sane government will try it. So, the only way out of low rates is to increase this gradually enough to not create visible waves. Which means all 3 happen, but at a magnitude where most people do not notice.
Gotta love how the easiest solution boiled down to a WarGames WOPR style:
"Don't do anything, let the AI kill you and peace will be declared in about 20 turns." aka "The only winning move is not to play."
This phenomenon (hostility for newcomers and down voting good and polite comments) also happens here on Hacker News.

We (the human being) that must be fixed.
Can't resist a good design critique so here goes. My take echoes many of the gut first impressions expressed by others.

Presumably the Go design team added the speed lines at the left to connote speed, performance, and and the future progress and adoption of the language. But the way the lines are conceived is generic. The variation of lengths, meant to evoke the chaotic air turbulence behind a rapidly accelerating race car, is tired. Nothing we haven't seen millions of times before. And not particularly well thought out. In direct contradiction to the expressive power and beauty of the language itself.

The best thing about the design is of course the hidden encapsulation of the mathematical symbol for "infinity". Although, again I find myself at a loss to understand the exact nature of the relation. A possible reference to the ability to spawn millions of goroutines?

The execution of the infinity symbol itself is muddled by the sharp corners of the G's aperture. Shouldn't it be more rounded? It's menacing resemblance to a PC-era on/off power symbol rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise is distracting.

And lastly, the most troubling of all. Whither the beloved Gopher? A clear nod to the linux penguin. And a secret totem to those who have been initiated. A hieroglyph for the high priests. No text necessary.

Make no doubt about what this rebranding portends. Enterprise Go, Team Edition coming soon ;)
"If I say "The sky is blue" and you say "That's offensive to people who aren't blue", you're just wrong. End of story."

That's not even close to the situation at hand.

"People are practically competing to see who can be the most offended."

Aren't you, just now, being offended that people are, not even really being offended at things, but really at trying to listen to people saying that they don't feel welcome, and trying to address that? Why is trying to make a more welcoming and open community such a sin?
Crypto V Stocks: Which Should You Buy BigMacCoin or McDonald’s Stock?
Sometimes being part of a rising startup can offer you career paths that are not available in a large firm.
I don’t believe SO has a field for race, so unless you put it in your profile or username I doubt anyone is even aware what colour you are or country you’re from.
AFAIK, this is mostly intended as a secure messenger _for_ the government. Which makes sense - what are they supposed to use? WhatsApp? Twitter DM? Skype for Governments?

But even if you’re not in the target demographic, you might benefit: The government will run a large installation and hopefully some code will find its way back to the OS version.
This will be the downfall of Stack Overflow eventually. The rules for question and answers try to be objective and specific, but they end up being too strict and are making the site less useful over time.

What they should do is allow broad, general, subjective questions. That would allow for answers with general guidance instead of directly answering a broad question. It would also allow a clueless person to get some direction. When you're working with an unfamiliar technology, you frequently don't even know what to ask.

BTW: You can ask a question about it on meta, but based on your question I think the "too broad" closure is technically correct based upon the rules and how they're enforced.
liberalization: How liberals seems to interpret adoption of western systems as cure to all problems. In this very case latinization.
You are right. What it seems like a lot of people in these comments are saying is that the question perhaps should not stop at "Do you feel welcome?" because that only explores feelings of one side, which is highly subjective. If you invite someone into your house, they come in with muddy shoes and make a mess even though you had a sign at the door asking them to please wipe their feet, they might feel unwelcome when you ask them to go back, read the sign, and take off their shoes. The invitee might be offended, but the homeowner is justified and their feelings and the entire situation need to be considered. It is not "End of Discussion" once someone is offended.
I've done roofing and it is really hard on your body regardless of the good condition it puts you in. Sure you can lift 200lbs of shingles up a ladder on your shoulders but your ankles ache 100% of the time and your knees start to click. I only did it for a couple of years at 18 and I regret it to this day. I didn't go and work on big projects it was mostly housing but it wasn't safe at all. Also it isn't anywhere similar to going out for a 30 min run in the park. If it is -10 and you have to get a job done because it is technically not raining or snowing you go out and do it for 8 hours. If it is 140 on the roof of a house and you have to walk up and down it with a pick ripping the roof off you do it for 8 hours. Those conditions happened all the time.
>difference just because the mechanics of the game are different?

yes, because the mechanism of gambling is addictive. (this too applies to subsets of video games as well, but at least most of them don't allow open-ended money spending)

Obviously it depends on everybody's definition of liberty, but most people seem to be happy to, as a society, put limits on the consumption of goods that foster unhealthy, addictive behaviour in individuals and cause financial or personal damage.

I for example don't have a problem with video games that foster creativity, problem solving and leave children with genuinely satisfying experiences. I am concerned about social media and games that only implement stick and carrot mechanisms to maximize the time children spend in front of them.
Yes there definitely seems to be a very bizarre criteria for questions that I have never been able to parse. I often see questions closed as duplicates of another, when they are definitely not. As you said, I have come across exact questions that I have had, but they were closed three years ago as being too specific. Questions will be marked closed as being “too opinion based” when it’s a question like “why are singletons considered something that should be avoided? Can someone provide me an example of a situation in which using one would be bad?”

I feel like the main goal of SO is to close questions without answering them unless someone sneaks in a good answer before it’s closed.
Thankfully, since 2004, the law for trust in the digital economy[0] (LCEN) mostly liberalized the use of cryptography[1].

[0]: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFT...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography_law#France
The problem is that there has been a long ongoing systematic suppression of wages and professional salaries. I make less today as a senior engineer than my first job out of school with no experience after adjusting for inflation and COL. Remember, $65,000 today was only $45,000 in Y2K dollars which was middling to low-ball for entry level engineering work at the time. Would that be considered high paying for a doctor or lawyer?
You really have the right attitude and stick with it please.

It's not about corporates or start-ups it is as you say about sustainability.

It's rough that their is a perception that cutting edge work has to happen either in corporate or start-up or the games industry.

I suppose to some extent that is actually true, but there is a middle ground.

You can define that for yourself and it sounds like you are doing.

You already have it figured out :-)
How does that work if the usernames are anonymous? Saying you feel targeted does not mean you are being targeted.
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Which is my point -- people, by nature, are selfish, and don't mind using up scarce resources and continue to kick the environmental disaster tin can down the road. E85 in this country is a farmer subsidy, it's not a more environmentally friendly choice.

If you were taxed by engine displacement and/or were paying $6/gallon for gas, you might make a different choice. And when most of the cars on the road were smaller, more fuel efficient cars, you wouldn't feel like you need to buy a big car for defense against the other large cars on the roads.
Conceptually they are worlds apart. Supervision trees are even impossible in idiomatic Go.
This is epic. In theory now from V1 onwards it should be easier to convince people at big serious corps to use Flask as it cuts down a lot of Django bloat especially for smaller applications, microservices and other nimble backends.
Functionally pure
> Great place for finding answers to older common questions, really awful place for asking new ones.

It might just be me, but I've found it substantially harder to find good Q/As on SO for newer topics and frameworks. You ask about a technology which existed in 2014 and there are high quality detailed posts all about it, with different viewpoints, upsides/downsides, etc. But you do the same with a technology popularized in 2017 (and I'm talking highly popular stuff) and yet slim pickings from SO.
Color Gradients Can Help You Read Better, Faster
Websites that build knowledge-based status hierarchies naturally end up being dominated by insecure know-it-alls.
Doctor pay doesn't tend to grow all that much over the course of one's career. Their specialty is the #1 determining factor of pay, hands down.

https://blog.doximity.com/articles/doximity-2018-physician-c...
This! I have had several instances where some petty tyrant decided my question was a duplicate without providing proof. I questioned it and was given some snarky answer with a question number that was obviously dug up after my response. Looking at that question, it was clear that it was nothing like mine. On other occasions, when a link was provided, if you squinted, you might see the relationship but, for the life of me, I could not come up with a query based on my post that would cause the referenced link to come up. All this leads me to believe there are moderators out the, waiting for new questions that they can respond to first, whether or not they offer worthwhile advice.