skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nonsensical comparison. Facebook is the party that is serving these ads, using their own proprietary methodology for targeting. It's not like these consumers are printing fliers and distributing them on their own. Everything that is happening is happening 'within Facebook's house' so-to-speak.
I took it the other way around: it's easy to memorize "went" because you use it all the time. If on the other hand a much less common verb like "to satiate" had a very irregular conjugation then it would regularize pretty quickly because nobody but ultra-pedants would bother to remember the exception.

I think a decent real example of that is fiancé/fiancée, those are french borrowings and have, at least originally, kept the French grammatical gender inflection. However nowadays I often see people using either spelling in a gender-neutral way since most people don't bother to learn French grammar for this one word.
> They provide tools. And you make the billboard.

Facebook caused the advertisements to not show for protected groups. The "tools" ran on their servers, not yours, so they are responsible for the outcome.
Even if it doesn't always feel like there is as much opportunity as there was 15 years ago on the open web, these are still important and timeless principles. It's still one of the most important books on marketing ever written, and it's hard to imagine anyone who wouldn't benefit from reading it.
And YouTube Music is terrible compared to GPM.
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Well, did nobody say they were going to change it for the better.

If you know that's what you care about, though, at least that's actionable information for your future.
Yea that wasn't clear. The article made it sound like they're aggregating data from various sources that collect location data (probably from those app metric providers like Tune and others). So if someone ran an open source phone with F-Droid or just installed zero apps with metrics (and Google isn't one of their sources), they wouldn't ever show up in this data set.

I'm guessing location data comes from the Apple/Google location APIs that can map peoples aprox locations based on their proximity to Wi-Fi points (I think they register Wi-Fi points and then the first GPS signal the phone gets after; like when someone walks outside, and use a set of those to get approximate triangulation for indoor Wi-Fi APs).
Maybe you bring your own (multi use) take away container? Kind of like when you bring your own coffee mug to a coffee shop?
SO has always explicitly stated that it aims to be a repository of knowledge. And since theres no site which offers the kind of help you mention (which involves discussion, going back and forth, trying some code, discussing again, trying new code and reaching aha moment) it all goes to SO as well. Reddit will help you much better for that usecase.
The western world is responsible for 1,25 % of all ocean plastic pollution. Europe is only 0,28 %![0] There is no need to ban single-use plastics in the West. It's just virtue signaling and the so-called 'solutions' lower our comfort, will cause a rise in food poisoning deaths and are worse for the environment.[1]

When you mention this, people reply we should set an example and other countries will follow. The idea that Western countries should set an example to teach those 'dumb countries that can't think for themselves' how to do things seems very arrogant. And there are zero guarantees it will work. If it was as easy as setting an example, every country on earth would be a blossoming democracy by now...

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https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611#f1
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https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...

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An actual solution would be if the EU invested in waste management solutions in the developing world.

People mention micro-plastics as a bad thing but we don't know that yet. So far the level of evidence proving micro-plastics as harmful is on par with the evidence linking cancer to cellphones.
It's a question of motivation. Being used as a source of free labor is very demotivating. That's not why I contribute to the site.
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a-saleh mentioned that Idris and Agda have "stronger type systems." I would like to expand that Idris and Agda (and Coq/Gallina, too) are "dependently typed" programming languages, meaning that types and terms can mix. To my understanding, GHC Haskell is on the way to getting dependent types. GHC currently has the TypeInType and DataKinds extensions, which allow type-level programming. However, Haskell will not get a termination checker, so all types are inhabited by divergent terms. So, you can prove anything. Coq, Agda, and Idris have termination checkers, so you can use them to prove things.

Agda has "Cubical mode," which extends it with Cubical Type Theory, a take on Homotopy Type Theory where the Univalence Axiom is not an axiom, but rather has computational meaning.
That might be the case but that NYT opinion article didn't cite any research to back up its assertions.

It's pretty hard to imagine how more developers wouldn't lower salaries though. I say this as someone who's done a lot of hiring. It's really hard to find good people and they can command a premium (fair market wage). Being able to hire H1Bs helps hiring managers but I don't think it helps developer salaries at all.
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Yeah, I think anybody with some kind of moral compass in tech has that thought at the back of their mind. When I was 18, the thought of working somewhere like Google was the dream, but now I'm not so sure.
> This is feasible because no resource models are required, neither for execution time nor for energy consumption

Great idea! As soon as I read 'optimizing for ... energy consumption' I figured "wow you picked a super difficult problem to model." But, sure -- if you can measure it directly, that's ideal!
They're banning single use plastic only. Other plastic plates are not banned. Given how much it costs in Europe to rent square meters to store stuff I wonder if event companies won't just buy multiple-use plastic plates and just throw them away anyway as it's cheaper than to pay personal to clean them, transport them to containers and then rent the space to store them, secure them etc.
Do you have a way of going about this that isn't authoritarian? (Extending the definition of "authoritarian" to Facebook acting within its own platform). EDIT: Sorry this was really vague. By authoritarian in this case I mean that some authority has to decide what is and isn't an acceptable opinion (as opposed to, say, deciding on an impartial process that somehow weeds out bad opinions).

And somewhat related, does this mean you have as dismal a view of humanity as it seems, that you don't want people exposed to dangerous ideas? This all seems necessarily paternalistic. EDIT I can't imagine, for instance, trusting in democracy with such a view.
Por que no los dos? The real problem is that academics aren't reading the papers, couldn't the solution here to use both the automated tools, and to pay better attention to what they're consuming? Maybe improve the UX of the plagiarism tools as well.

"Throw it all out" doesn't seem like a real solution to me, more of a flashy headline.
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Thank fucking god. Someone with a brain.
They do know that you can spoof the user agent I regularly do this to crawl sites.
> That's what a liberal arts degree is about: Exposing you to a lot of possibilities so you can choose.

Why can't this be what high school is about, like it is in 99% of developed societies?
> isn't all of this voluntary and self-imposed

> you end up getting exploited by a system that has major leverage over you
> There's a good reason to believe evolution would use something close to the most information theoretic efficient implementation.

People used to think that about genomes, until we got to know in some detail what's in them.
Does the EU ever do anything except banning things?
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Does this account for the trash that we send abroad for China to dispose of?
This. I don't get this complaining about "NATO made us do it". NATO is a voluntary alliance, and they all signed up for a reason - defense against Russian aggression. That defense doesn't look like America does everything to keep the Russians away while everyone else sits on their butts. Everyone who wants that protection needs to step up and do their part.

Doing their part does include purchasing modern aircraft that are capable of participating in missions in support of an overall strategy of air superiority.
The goal of Stack Overflow is to produce posts that are useful for others who stumble across them. There's every reason to be friendly to newbies, but not much reason to answer questions that will never be of use to anyone else.

Stack Overflow isn't a free tutoring service, it's a collaborative wiki of answers to common programming questions.

That being said, I agree that the current culture of "you're doing it wrong" is toxic, and should be replaced with a culture of "here's how to do it right".
I've never understood that. It might be because people are afraid of retaliatory downvotes in return. I have enough rep there that I don't worry about it, but even so it never seems to happen.
You are looking at it from the wrong perspective. Laws don't have to be perfect. But they have to be enforceable.
There's still Reddit and I find it helpful when debugging stuff or tryin to bounce around ideas.
The 757 flight simulator that I've flown was a full-motion flight simulator at UPS's Louisville training facility. I was helping conduct 6-month certification flights as co-pilot. I would say that if those simulators are good enough for UPS's 757 pilots' recurring training, they're good enough for this Cessna driver to understand that difference between his plane and a 757. Answer: Not that much.
Of course it has "call for price." Look at their team page. There are over 100 people listed. That is absolutely insane for a product of this simplicity. The VCs are clearly making them burn through cash as fast as possible so they can own everything.
this is way off topic but try buying Google Marketing Cloud services. you have to fill out a 'talk to sales' form, no one ever calls you back, and if you call/chat with any other type of support they have zero idea who to connect you to.

Google is not exempt from this type of behavior, unfortunately.
Yeah, you're right. In my head I was thinking of pre-law, pre-med, dental & pharm programs as the opposite of liberal arts.
If people weren’t shooting up schools and places of worship every other week... still no. It’s still callous.
Age affects everyone, so there's a larger pool of people to make posts and fewer people who would disagree with the negative effects of aging.
> Scheme (subset of Lisp)

There are people who'd fight you over that one. :)

From Wiki: http://wiki.c2.com/?IsSchemeLisp

> One of the interesting debates in Lisp circles is the question of whether or not SchemeLanguage should be considered part of the LispLanguage family. There are more than a few Lispers (and perhaps a few schemers) who think that the LispSchemeDifferences are sufficiently large that Scheme should not be considered to be a "Lisp". This topic has spread across many pages, so this page has been created to quarantine this particular HolyWar.

And one interesting reason why not:

> The philosophies of the Lisp and Scheme communities have diverged quite a bit. SchemeLanguage focuses much more on FunctionalProgramming; CommonLisp on metaprogramming and multi-paradigm programming (especially OO with CommonLispObjectSystem).
I mean, I wouldn't go so far as to assume that the word "dedicated" automatically means exploitation and extrapolate that across the spectrum of organizations that are out there. That's quite a reach.
I was a member and daily reader of HN for years before I started participating. You don't get down vote capabilities here until a much higher point threshold, and I think it helps. I think it's more likely to cause you to conform a bit to the community rather than clash with or disrupt it.

You see it here occasionally, where someone is getting down voted and they don't know why, and someone will explain its most likely because they aren't acting within community norms (here it's back up factual assertions with sources, keep it civil, if you make a joke keep it topical or follow it up with something useful, don't just post memes, etc. Basically keep the signal to noise high).

Limiting new users for a while when their initial mode of interaction may not fit will with the site is a sane choice, IMO, and if those new users never make the effort to go past that initial hurdle, it may be that their contributions are high enough risk that it's not worth it (or the hurdle could be too high).
In China the infant gets shipped to the grandparents while the parents continue working.
I just don't believe that you neutrally believe "there's a white race" without also believing in its superiority over other races - whatever reasons you euphemize it in, like culture, or IQ, or something.

And this idea of "preserving itself"... what exactly does that mean? Does that mean getting to kick other people out of their homes? Threaten their livelihood? Threaten their social safety nets? What exactly happens in this supposedly benign process of "preserving culture"?
Even setting aside the inconvenience factor, that would become a hygiene problem very quickly. Disposability is extremely useful when cleaning isn't an immediate option.
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There are many, many programs, scholarships, mentorship opportunities, recruitment drives, meetups, support groups, hr policies... that are designed to help women and non-white people.

Can you think of a single program or system designed to help older workers? I can't.
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Wow I love this with my full heart. Is this C# only or do you have plans for other languages (like Typescript? Please?)

I bet this idea blows up - ORMs are such a PITA, and I love tools like Dapper that just wrap the contrapositive of this behavior - this seems even better to me.
I'm bowing out of this, as I wasn't trying to have a discussion. SO was not helpful to me. I hate it and the coding community so much I left the industry as I was starting out. My story is not unique, and other people have also been driven out by this culture. This is my personal story. That's all it was.

Ya'll have fun.
yes. It is incredibly upsetting and scary for me. I'm so glad there are other sane people out here. I hope we get through this.
Enclaves are interesting, and I also look forward to all of the new things they allow. But all of that has nothing to do with open sourcing the server being important for security if given the ability to audit the client, and the client is not designed to require a cooperating server.

I'm tired of trying to get you to understand this point and have you respond with red-herrings and FUD. Please be intellectually honest when asking keybase to open source their server in the future, and don't claim that it's relevant to the security of the system.
Calling bullshit.

Probably a alcoholic or something.
I mean, there's got to be a minimum bar, right?

It's more like going to a library and asking the librarian for help and then when pointed to a book admitting you don't really know how to read and then asking the librarian for help learning how to read. I'm sure you could find a kindly librarian willing to help you learn to read. But the librarian might also be wondering why you never learned to read in school and might get frustrated if the library is busy and other patrons need help.

Just curious, why did you choose to use SO to learn programming instead of taking a formal course with a real teacher?
Is this supposed to be some sort of "aha-gotcha" insightful remark? News at 11, people are concerned with issues that affect them over ones that don't.
Of course people smoke where it doesn't make much sense.

I mean, think about it for a second.
I don't doubt that microplastics are not good for the environment and organisms that consume them, but can you provide a citation for the toxin concentration claim so I can learn more about it?
> Stack currently feels like an attempt to be the worst parts of both Wikipedia and Ask.com.

Seriously? I can understand the Wikipedia aspect of it (though I'm not sure I totally agree), but ask.com? Isn't ask.com full of trolls asking intentionally silly questions, and writing ridiculous answers? I fail to see how StackOverflow falls into that category.
Human society has been great at and thrived on exploiting people for a very long time now. We'd probably have to go all the way back to hunter and gatherer tribes before we find a point in time where that wasn't a normal fact of life. Capitalism is just the most efficient form of exploitation that we've found. It's not really controversial though.
If my local river is full of garbage does it help that some other country has even more garbage? I see this laws helping also with the local plastic problem.
Ha! You don't have to look to China to see that.

American companies have been playing that game for 40 years now.
It's important to read this article w/out a political agenda as I don't the researchers have one. Aging in a young industry is a topic worthy of even more coverage.
With demand, (*some) offices will install fridges and sinks to accommodate new behavior, no?
The store featured in the video has a website that can found at: http://www.polvereditempo.it/ .
Is it unfair to voluntarily give another party leverage over you? Or is that a fair choice?
Sorry but Facebook is not a social necessity, period.

> When you enter a new peer group of 20+ people you can't just tell them to completely mix up their habits because you happen to not like what they're doing.

You're constructing an image of reality that isn't correct in order to support your position. If you encounter a gathering of your peers and someone says, "hey, you on Facebook?" and you say "no, I don't really use Facebook" in reality, the conversation just moves forward with a discussion of a different communication medium like SMS or snapchat or twitter or e-mail or whatever. The suggestion that lacking a Facebook is social suicide is obviously wrong.

Perhaps in your particular friend group people only communicate through Facebook, but that is definitely not typical and it still doesn't mean you need Facebook, it means that you find the Facebook network convenient for communicating with a particular group of people. Participating in a group-chat is not a necessity. What if your entire friend group communicates on Discord, does that mean you need discord? Obviously you don't need it, you just find it convenient. If you refuse to use Facebook and none of your friends care to adjust their habits to communicate with you that really has nothing to do with Facebook and certainly doesn't imply that Facebook is now a social need.

> The thesis you're defending is wrong.

My thesis is just common sense. The idea that Facebook is a necessity is laughably absurd.
There are some non-obvious customs when editing answers, that's unlikely to go well as a very new user. But editing questions mostly for formatting and language is certainly doable without any reputation.

I'm assuming the edits are reasonable itself, there are some odd patterns that you see regularly like people using code formatting (monospace font) for emphasis. That kind of edit will get stopped.

Another option to get the basic SO privileges is to ask or answer on any other SE sites. There are many of them, and almost all are much, much easier to participate in.
Can an extension like tampermonkey block/highjack events from a page?
Well, while I can agree with this, it doesn't deny the fact that the US can use NATO for its defense industry interests. And they will. Which I mean, is okay, that's life and geopolitics.

I'm not saying it's the primary purpose of it. But I think one should not be overly naive towards NATO.
Without unions employers will be lobbying relentlessly to weaken current laws. You can argue about what unions should be doing or not or how they should operate but they are absolutely needed to give workers a voice.
At the same time, SQL injection was heavily leveraged for initial read/writes, and that's a problem which was solved decades ago. That it still exists in places today is almost mind-boggling.
Why wouldn't they just switch to paper plates instead?
Webassembly came from asm.js, which came from Emscripten. These 3 are a lineage of the same c compilation model targeting a JS Uint8Array as the c heap. Emscripten was published a long time ago, probably 10 years? So, JVM has byte arrays too...
I like the unique keyboard and DIY aspect. But 150 for something I might mess up in the process of building just can't be justified... for now.
The "NYT opinion article" is written by a Nobel prize winner, and he's describing the opinion that most economists hold towards the lump of labor fallacy.

If you're curious to learn more, there's plenty that come up in a simple Google search.

> It's pretty hard to imagine how more developers wouldn't lower salaries though

This is the textbook definition of the lump of labor fallacy.
A related effect is that almost all H-1B's count as "diverse" in HR statistics. If so, then currently there would be intense pressure to hire the H-1B candidate over a citizen, even if the former required a higher salary.

I have some skin in this game. I was rejected at Google for mysterious reasons after passing the all-day and hiring committee. No way to know, but I am indeed pale, male, and stale (and a citizen). If you look at Google's own diversity reports, their fraction of people like me has falling like a stone for several years now.
> Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
> can limit themselves to obvious humor

I don't want April fools pranks, but if you do insist on it, then an obvious fooling is somewhat oxymoronic and misunderstanding the point of it. If it's obvious then nobody will be fooled.
> There's also a negative effect on global developer skillset when developers don't have to dig deeper into things

I consider “being able to resourcefully look up the answer to your question” a critical developer skill, regardless of whether that answer comes from an online forum or page 254 of the official spec or finding the right academic paper. Having a nice searchable online resource contributes positively to this developer skill!
> He compares himself to a construction worker, who can earn good money due to high work intensity but can easily be replaced by younger, cheaper labour.

The only solution I can think of (if you want to keep on programming and not make a career change), is to acquire skills in such a way that you cannot be easily replaced by younger cheaper labour.

Easier said than done, but one way to do this IMO is to not go after the fads, but instead to pick less sexy but still useful and important technologies and to become an expert in those.

Also, what's been a useful heuristic for me, is what Nassim Taleb calls the "Lindy" effect. The longer something has been in use, the longer you can expect it to be used. This applies especially to technology.
50 rep requirement for commenting is too high. Very often I have follow up question to ask the answerer but I can't and SO discourage private chat. That leaves me the only option of asking the question again. And of course it gets marked "duplicated" even though I emphasize a specific aspect of the question. At that point I just take a deep breath, close the SO tab, ask that question on Reddit.