skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people really comment this? I've never seen anyone comment anything along the lines of "you don't need to provide a reason to downvote" on a question they are downvoting. I would probably call them out and/or flag a mod if I saw it. Is this a very recent thing?

That being said, I agree that Stack Overflow has a duplicate issue.
I don’t really know what the differences are in practice. I use bitbucket for private repos and it’s great for that.
They specifically create free content for social media.
I have the iPhone 3G somewhere in the basement. For years, it has been a paperweight, it couldn't download anything from the App Store, including apps that originally were compatible. It even lost some capabilities it originally had out of the box, for example it could not sync contacts with Google anymore.
Stack Overflow is such a mess I prefer helping people on Reddit / Discord / Slack nowadays.

SO is becoming read-only in my opinion.
No, it does not and since China banned garbage imports last year we will see soon enough if the theory that China is dumping Western plastic in the ocean is correct. If that's the case, we should see a sharp decline in ocean plastics in the coming years.
I didn't know it was that kind of a setup. Then you were right to tell him off.

Remember JavaScript.com? SO is that but for every language and with snippets of code that have been validated by names that are so well recognized for being brilliant that would I start to mention one then I would have to name everyone and they are too many. So we shouldn't frown upon people who take those snippets of code to try to make a buck. Is all I'm saying.
This really doesn't match my experience. As a tech lead / team lead over the last five years in a small East Coast market I've experienced real difficulty finding competent Software Engineers at any level. I changed jobs a year ago and got lots of interest from a wide variety of employers from a big enterprisey place to a small local startup, two smallish local fintech firms, and a SV software company's regional dev center where I landed. I'm in my mid forties.
I can't really explain the difference in your experience vs mine other that perhaps the location.
sounds like what they really need is an app with 6 choices, and subheading on when to use the choices

BUY OIL
when explosion or war constricts the supply

SELL OIL
when new resource is found increasing the supply

BUY OIL COMPANY
when new resource is found increasing the supply
AND when the company increases its ability to sell more oil at higher margins

SELL OIL COMPANY
when explosion happens on company property

BUY OIL PRICE ETF
when you want to go long oil but are too poor/risk averse for futures contract

SELL OIL PRICE ETF
when you want to go short oil but are too poor/risk averse for futures contract
Part of it is admittedly laziness and used to a certain convenience. There's no package manager for the language, and OS package managers rarely carry used-but-not-extremely-popular language bindings. But the code is out there, like this SDL2 binding: https://github.com/Lucretia/sdlada
I don’t know the facts behind either argument, but now a minimum-wage content moderator has to make this decision 1000 times a day.

Good luck, kid.
One of these costs $10/year for up to 10 users...
> so "much simpler" is probably stretching it.

What if you used AI to design the airframe itself, optimising for the simplest and least expensive way?
On tip of that you can do everything wrong and still win.
> This is nothing more than companies getting cheaper labor. Full stop.

From the opening lines of the article:

> In 1975, immigrants accounted for one in 12 inventors in America. Today it’s one in 3.5.

It seems unlikely that if this was purely cheap labour, that this would result in more inventors (assuming they're not using some alternate definition of inventor that I'm unaware of)
Have you checked out Octave? They target (bug-for-bug?) compatibility with MATLAB, so most pure MATLAB code will port over with no edits necessary. It's also a GNU project
There was a scene of very well-meaning academics and young people in Cambridge around the Free Software/Free Culture movement and the Berkman Center in the early/mid/late 00's. There was a lot of idealism and a belief that digital interconnectedness was going to change the world for good. At the time, it was really fun and inspiring to be a part of.

I realize now that the leaders/notables of the movement were, for the most part, morally bankrupt careerists who all went to work in surveillance advertising. The worst are the lawyers but lots of the hackers are just as bad. The academics and activists moved from digital rights issues to identity social justice issues when it became trendy. Nobody gives a fuck about digital rights any more, if they ever did to begin with, and the only people who are left behind are embarrassingly out of touch with the real state of affairs.

I no longer think that the internet is a force for good in the world.
A very good intro. Machine learning etc. is fantastic and what can be done with newer techniques blows me away. But I think the hype obscures the results that can be obtained much more easily with more basic methods, as a precursor to those advanced methods.
I mean, it's also not the case that labor markets are immune to supply and demand. As always, the answer is somewhere in the middle.
Or plant starches maybe?
"Garcia retired after the allegations came to light"

Nah, he retired about 6 years before the allegations came to light
Billions? You've found navigation by street number to be unreliable in 20+ % of locations?

Either way, it does work for several billion other people.
Is getting only 3 weeks of vacation self-imposed for most US workers?
anything with the statistical frequency of splaining is unlikely to be terribly difficult work
This is my main complaint I can intuitively know, using rules of thumb, if a lat lon is within 100 miles, on this hemisphere, etc.

Is "angry ape alligator" right next door or in Europe? No idea. Which fire station do we relay a call to? I don't know, let's ask w3w servers (during an emergency ... )

To the precision that I want to get someone to help me when I'm trapped in a car, you really only need a few significant digits of lat/lon (.YYYY/.ZZZZ) will get you to within 1 km most of the time. The left-of-decimal numbers are not needed if you are calling local 911, as an increment there shifts by a hundred km.
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This is not at all my experience, neither with my own code or code other people produce. Unless the problem is extremely trivial the solution is very unlikely to work without a few test runs. The bigger point in all of this is that statically typed languages at least have some kind of check mark they can put on your code to say "Yeah, at least the types make sense".

They also encourage designing with types in order to enforce business logic, which is something you don't get in any of the dynamic languages.
Has anyone else tried to look up a location, find the emoji(s) for it and then put the text for it back into the search bar? It seems to not do reverse lookup, making it completely useless as far as I can tell. You can find the emoji(s) for a place, but not a place that corresponds to the emojis.
It's called Leadership.
TL;DR: Someone wrote an app called KBFIX in the 70s to fix the Trash 80's tendency to keybounce (or kkeybounnce), and the new Apple Mac keyboards are so prone to keybounce of their own that someone recently wrote an application called Unshaky that operates on the same basic principles.
Stellarium is fantastic, I use it for the little night photography I do and love it.
A whistleblower wouldn't change anything. The reasoning behind the choices is obvious, and it isn't illegal.
And wooden single-use cutlery is pretty common already today.
I agree and it's not just the nitty-gritty stuff either. With the amount of context-switching programmers need to do these days, it's very helpful as a memory-jog resource.
It's unfortunate that we can't come to a world agreement to work 32 hours a week or something reasonable like that. There can still be a healthy competition without all of us working ourselves to death.
Stack Overflow is about creating a wiki of knowledge for future visitors. If you have a question that is only relevant to your specific implementation, and that will never help anyone else in the future, then it doesn't add value to Stack Overflow.
I didn't realize that Kong is far more than just a load balancer now. Given that are they basically an alternative to Istio then?
To add, often it’s these parents (potential grandparents to be) who pressure their children to have children to continue the line. It goes beyond what people are used to in the US, ie “when are you guys gonna have kids?” No, it’s more, “hey, hurry up, you owe me grandkids now, that’s why I helped you with mortgage, now get to work and deliver!”
It's unreasonable to not require a private company to adhere to the law. If you sell hammers, they must meet the laws about hammers, tools, and general goods. If the hammer is unfit for purpose -- say, because the heads are not firmly attached and a user might unwittingly hurt themselves -- that's the company's fault.

If the ad selection tools are unfit for purpose -- say because it allows a user to target/untarget recipients in a blatantly illegal manner -- that's the company's fault.
W3W feels a lot like Swatch .beats [1]. It's not exactly solving a problem the doesn't exist, but I think solution is at least as bad as the problem we started with.

At least .beats had the excuse of being a marketing gimmick, or so I assume. No one really thought millidays-since-midnight-GMT was a reasonable alternative to time-zones or just UTC time, right?

What is the problem that W3W is intended to solve? The idea is that I'll describe a location via W3W coordinates rather than by address (or lat/lon)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
False dichotomy. It's not like you can only tell the poster one thing. There are questions on SO where someone says "this is how you fix your problem. This is how I figured that out. Here are some good docs/articles/etc. on this topic."

Both pointing out the problem with the code/methodology/etc. and helping them see something from a different perspective so they do better next time are valuable educational goals, and I don't understand why so many people think SO should address only one of them. It's almost as if people think coding problems are OK, but helping people with more amorphous skills is either beyond or beneath them.

Troubleshooting is a skill that can be taught— having someone more experienced giving you advice is an invaluable asset when you're trying to learn how to do it. Refusing to help people because they don't already know how to do it themselves helps nobody.
Why not:

Fast food: metal cutlery at the restaurant that gets washed and reused.

Take away: your own cutlery at home.
Oh nice. I was a premium subscriber for years but never bothered using the premium podcast URLs. The ads can be pretty funny.
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As most articles about discrimination in tech indicate, tech industry is dominated by white male workers.

It seems plausible that this website is too.
Why no plastic bottles as well? The vast majority of plastic I use is from bottles.
> Phytoplankton are responsible for producing at least half of the world's oxygen (50-85% depending on who you ask) and at the moment they are under constant threat, as they tend to consume plastic microparticles

Phytoplankton gain energy by photosynthesis, so how would they consume plastic microparticles (most of which are probably larger than the plankton)?
It may be too difficult to build one of these directly, but it might be possible to build a machine that then builds a Gödel Machine.
I think it's less about fairness and more about the harsh facts of reality. In a perfect world, the workers would be able to come to fair agreements with employers and get exploited less.
The last compatible download feature doesn’t work on my 1st gen iPod touch running iOS 3, but it does work on my iPad running iOS 5. I’m not sure about iOS 4.
Honestly, I haven't really seen much toxicity lately. Could you link to some questions asked recently that have toxicity? I mainly hang out in python/c/c++ but even badly written newbie questions still tend to get answers from friendly users, despite the downvotes.

Unless you are considering the downvotes themselves "toxic"
"How do I quit vim?" should be the most asked question, and the most answered. There should be hundreds of these threads every day.

Learning and teaching are continuous processes and one that should be entered into in good faith by all. If you're tired of answering the same exact question hundreds of times a day, then you shouldn't really try answering the questions; maybe teaching isn't 'your thing'. My SO was a HS STEM teacher, it wasn't really my SO's thing, so my SO got a new job. It's not a big deal to not like teaching and it's better for everyone if you realize this quickly and leave it to those that do like teaching.

Pointing noobs towards already answered threads is not a good idea. That's basically saying RTFM. StackOverflow is literally the exact opposite of RTFM. It's explicitly a place to ask questions.

At it's core, StackOverflow is where teaching happens; you RTFM together.
Fine, it's not their job to police the law. However, every time they break the law by publishing one of these ads, HUD fines them if they're caught. It's illegal to publish the ad, not just create it. They can't host illegal ads on their site.

Can we agree to this compromise?
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I try to use paper whenever possible for environmental reasons, and it's really only usable for dry foods. Some paper has a waxy coating that helps, but it's quite a bit more expensive and if you are doing any sort of cutting/poking the food, you still don't get a lot of time before you break through.

So tl;dr: paper is a worse user experience. Worth it IMHO but many people will certainly not agree.
I guess I believe in this "right to repair" movement, but only so far as to ensure that if you're capable of taking your device apart and putting it back together without breaking anything that you don't automatically void some warranty.

I don't believe manufacturers should have to build things to be easy to take apart, to be replaceable or upgradeable, or anything else along those lines.

I'd rather see legislation that ensures when a piece of tech reaches the end of its useful lifetime it can be submitted back to the manufacturer and properly recycled at no cost to the user.
There is an edge case that is actually problematic: the one person that does not wash their multiple-use take-away container can be a source of contamination that hurts many more. This is something that buffet restaurants and school/university cafeterias actually have to deal with today. It is a minor problem (solvable with some discipline and maybe minor regulation), but it is still a problem.
It’s impractical in a setting like Iraq or Afghanistan, sure. On the other hand, if the Marines were to land on one of the Spratly Islands or on the coast of Norway, they could construct an airfield and have the Navy supply it from the sea, freeing one of the carriers or amphibious carriers to be redeployed elsewhere (or perhaps just adding to the local airfield capacity). Being able to base and operate STOVL aircraft days or weeks before heavier aircraft can be deployed there provides a significant advantage.
Only if another country doesn't start doing it for us instead, or we do it ourselves. Though I think your general point holds, and hope the Chinese ban works to our advantage, forcing research into better ways of recycling and maybe even true single stream recycling, not the scam it often is.
career suicide for anyone who tried it.

I think that's what the parent poster meant by "a true whistleblower program with WITSEC level provisions for protection and monetary support would help cut this down."

A lot of people in a lot of industries might come forward if they didn't have to commit career suicide to do it.
The FCC has fined robocallers $208M and collected $7k
I'm currently reading Statistics for Dummies, and these kind of techniques used i.e. wrong scale, incorrect starting point, etc is explained very well. Highly recommended.
I'm more surprised they didn't mention the rubber ducks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
And in 2019, Freedom of speech is not freedom to be listed by someone else through force. Reality is not the internet, cable tv, radio, or the printing press.
Use positive-diopter ("reading" glasses). If your eyesight is normal, you might need to get an optometrist to cut you a mild positive prescription, as the lenses sold over-the-counter in US drugstores are generally stronger than a young person would use in this context... But you can try one of the milder ones and see how it fits your working distance.

Such lenses will "push out" the focal distance of your screen, so it is optically closer to infinity. If you already wear negative-diopter glasses, for nearsightedness, you can get a milder negative prescription for close work or check out the new "computer" lenses that are multi-focal and give you different zones for nearer, farther, and in-between.

Your eyes "work" to focus more closely-in, via contraction of the relevant muscles to thicken the lens. So prolonged close-work, such as with a computer, will cause fatigue and eye strain. There is also decent evidence, though it is debated, that prolonged exposure results in a trophic response and acquisition of myopia (nearsightedness). I've seen this empirically multiple times.

Wearing glasses for nearsightedness while you're doing close work is a double-whammy. They make things look even closer. At the minimum, don't wear these glasses if you don't need them at the computer.

Hope this helps!

BTW if you don't entirely trust ergonomic advice from a random dude on the internet, your local optometrist can help. There is a type called (in the US) a "behavioral optometrist"; these folks generally are more focused on optimizing for occupational needs like this, vision therapy etc.

PS. Hey, just realized this is a physics audience! You guys can figure this all out yourselves with the thin lens equation... :)
And also in America’s Silicon Valley.
TL;DR: Pay off the debt.

It seems like there is always a tug of war between these questions every decade or so, and I'm not really sure why. I guess in the US we make access to credit so dad blame easy that people can practically fall off a log into a credit card? Or perhaps its due to lack of useful financial education in elementary/middle/high school/college(!?) to inform new generations that saving money is a Good Thing.
This excerpt says a lot:

"Employers should be more cautious about pursuing strategies that discount the contributions of older workers. In recent years, some companies realized too late — after older employees had departed — that longtime employees possessed critical knowledge and experience. Moreover, whatever cost reductions companies achieve can be ephemeral if young hires move on to other opportunities."
> I don't see how removing their podcasts from one of the most popular platforms helps with what the BBC claims to be important.

They're not. Apple Podcasts is the most popular podcast client, followed by... Spotify I believe, then 'other'.
Everyone who is against restrictions on single use loves to cite that article to rail against them, but never seems to actually have read or understood the study:

1. While many indicators suggest a dominant contribution of plastics from Asian countries, there is very little data to document these assumptions and thoroughly verify the validity of our model. [0]

2. The study was not talking about all sources of plastic in the ocean, it is referring to plastic concentration in major rivers.

3. A good chunk of "western" waste and recycling is exported to Asia for processing. Yes, it may be mishandled there but it doesn't originate from there. Reducing generation will also reduce contamination.

4. Plastic ends up in more places than just rivers feeding ocean. Plastics accumulate and degrade into microplastics, and end up in lakes, fields, forests, parks - yes, within Europe as well.

I'm also not sure why you even think Europe is a leader here. Many African and Asian countries have been taxing or banning single use plastic for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_plast...

Your reading of "virtue signaling" and colonialism seems to be your own construction. I would bet most of people lobbying for this are lobbying because they want to see less plastic ending up in the environment, locally and globally, not because they care what you think.
Isn't that Google's intent that the NDK be hard to use? They still act like they may pull the rug at any time and switch kernels or hardware architectures on a whim, so it always seems like Google acts as though any NDK usage is a "bug" to them.
Stellarium is awesome, but the devs should probably accept that their software has been quite mature for a long time now and either release a 1.0.0 or change their numbering scheme.

Edit: Whence the downvotes? It’s a 20 year old program. I know many OS devs have a certain aversion of making the jump to 1.0, but semver is a useful concept, and versioning that looks like semver, but in practice is not, is not the best way to communicate the maturity of your software to potential users.
Keep this up and the 2nd Brexit vote might never happen.
Is this supposed to be some kind of rebuttal?

"Yes, we are as selfish and naval-gazing as we appear!"
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There have been a few, but it looks like none of them really sparked a lot of discussion:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Slow%20Winter&sort=byPopularit...

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I've submitted it again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19514259
I think you and I are totally different then. When I find a new community, online or offline, my first thought isn't "what are the rules here?". I'll pick up social cues subconsciously and rarely if ever think about it. I think that's one reason I love HN and hate SO. I don't mean to say my way is better, I just think we can't relate our experiences at all.
I think this analysis is incomplete. It's important to separate out longevity from cause of death. "The China Study"'s central premiss is that a vegan diet reduces the likelihood of dying of the "Western" diseases such as heart disease and cancer. A simple correlation between a vegan diet and longevity doesn't address this and also wouldn't take into account the high correlation between not being able to afford animal products and a lack of access to medical care. If you actually read the book the author goes into all this detail.
Here's a link to a Wiki page, in the repo for Open Location Code (prior name for Plus Codes), where they compare it against numerous location encoding systems including W3W.

https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...

For W3W, they say:

- The codes may be pseudo-randomly generated and so nearby places may have completely different codes.

- It may be possible for multiple people to apply for codes for the same location and for different codes to be generated.

- Making a mistake with a code may simply display somewhere else - for example, on What3Words, "banana rabbit monkey" is a location in Argentina, "banana monkey rabbit" is in Russia.

- [It charges] money either for granting a code, for resolving codes or for allowing users to select their own short code.

- [It does] not work offline and [has] a single provider.

Plus Codes has respective advantages for each of these points, i.e., it's not proprietary; can be encoded/decoded offline; nearby places have similar codes; codes can be made longer for more accuracy; excludes easily confused characters; etc. Overall I found the article makes a convincing case for Plus Codes.