skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or stop producing as many people might be a better option.

I mean we could all live like caged hens and keep adding to our numbers for a while longer, but eventually there are going to be some hard limits to how many people the ecosystem can actually hold.
No it doesn’t justify the valuation, but a list of things one person likes about gitlab/github over plain git isn’t supposed to justify a valuation.
lol that's a great analogy! Yes, this is a small project for roughly one person at our company of 50. It's something we felt like we could contribute so we had fun with it. We already invested all the time elsewhere to master iOS. It's one of those 30 minutes + 15 years experience things.
I'd add "When Harlie was One" by David Gerrold to that list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_HARLIE_Was_One
Op mentioned nothing about recidivism or it's usefulness to the prisoner. That's just about irrelevant if the intended desired effect is deterrence.
Well of course it can be bypassed, but it certainly doesn’t “step in” at some point either as was suggested. It blocks all unsigned binaries regardless of any damage they’ve caused.

Though this morning I realized I misunderstood the point of the grandparent here. He was saying you can have a signed binary that is still malicious. I thought they were talking about what apple does in the case of unsigned.
> It is stringly typed.

This is a big issue.

> - It leans on global state and object mutation

I dont see this as a problem, it's an implementation details. If the software works well (fast enough) and provides a nice API, I dont care much about the internals.

> - Static typing support is non-negotiable in 2019

Agreed, but I'd like to combine this point with the first.

EDIT: thanks for typing your reply. :)
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Worse a musician I followed on Instagram got hacked. There's no way to report "This account has been hacked." or any sort of custom report. I had to pick a random one which was then denied. I don't understand why they don't have sane security settings for verified accounts, otherwise what's the point. The musicians a Christian to had gone to jail and used to do drugs and speaks out against those things, the person who took it over has 666 on their name and other inappropriate things which is adding salt to the wound.

If your account can get hacked and never retrieved, what's it worth being verified?
the device you are running to write this comment hardly disagrees
So why hasn't an alternative to SO emerged where users can come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, ask and learn! Come, ask questions and get expert answers without money and without price
Aren't you ignoring your own advice by supporting the dismissal of a moderator before the policy they supposedly might break is even in effect?

It seems like SE got rid of a mod because they voiced concerns about an upcoming rule change... comparing that to assaulting someone is a cheap shot.
Volcanoes emit CO2
Don't you mean, "a she-said / stonewall-silence tale"?
> if it’s a bad question, let it die a natural death

This is... weird, IMO.

I'd much prefer as a new user "I think I know what you're trying to do, your way is gonna cause you a bunch of pain, there's a better way, and here's why" to zero answers and a dead question.
Not really considering the OP post talks about it, but for more context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113768
That’s all true, but a lot of people prefer to have this all in one place.
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If I play devils advocate here for a moment: Why is it that everybody is so interested in “lifestyle” changes, and so uninterested in things like OP or Project Vesta [1]? I sometimes get the feeling that some people just see this whole climate thing as a good opportunity to force their (pre-existing) values/virtues on others...

1. https://projectvesta.org/
I explained why: better community, more battle-tested ecosystem compared to Erlang.
Correct.

>"... each book is of four hundred and ten pages; each page, of forty lines, each line, of some eighty letters which are black in color."

>"The orthographical symbols are twenty-five in number."

25 ^ ( 410 * 40 * 80 ) = 25^1312000 ≈ 10^1834097 possible books.

There are an estimated 10^80 atoms in the known universe.
Somewhat surprisingly, my go to t-shirt has become Patagonia's Capilene Cool Trail after cycling through too many cheap brands.

Color options are pretty limited, but mine have been through a few dozen wash/dry cycles at this point and still look and fit great.
I have no idea how anybody read that as flippant. It was a sincere question. I’m about done with this community.
> Since Luma is defunct I don't mind straight up telling you.. we were paying a lot of money for positive reviews in order to make our rating match up with Eero's.

I can't help but feel that in addition to being unethical, this might also be illegal. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/03/los-a...
"I’d argue it should be zero."

So would I, but that's impossible in meat space for any industry or technology spawned in the last 200 years. I wouldn't mind technologically winding the clock back 200 years, using sail boats and letting my computer wither away (and livelihood, btw). Would you?

"This industry is one of the dirtiest, and least responsible to the world."

True. It's also, by weight and value of goods transported, one of the cleanest. It's a massive industry

Ships have the advantage of being able to dump waste in the middle of the ocean where there is little to no life (too deep, no light, no plants. There is some life). Compared to what other, land based, industries do this is comparatively benign. Here the waste gets diluted by an essentially infinite sink.

Infinite sink you scoff? Yes, depending on where and what you dump.

If you dump brine water off the coast near the Mississippi river, you're doing a lot of damage by significantly changing the salinity locally. Slowly dump the same brine in the middle of the ocean, and nothing will happen.

Similar for heavy metals. These dissolve into salt water, and were already present in solution since the dawn of time. We won't change those numbers significantly. (again, assuming you're not dumping it just off of land like the Japanese did in the 50s)

Plastic is a different ball game. Plastic doesn't dissolve and is carried, and concentrated by ocean currents. That's nasty.

Chemicals and isotopes that don't naturally exist are also nasty. Particularly if they have long half-lives.
Sometimes, photos can be paid reviews as well mostly they do it for free products.
Remember when people were saying that global warming wasn't happening because we were in the middle of a particularly cold winter? Treating this year's bad weather as proof of global warming is making the same error in the other direction. The climate can only be understood as a long-term average of the quite large annual variations in weather.
The point about Elixir is it does better in ecosystem, libraries, tooling and removes a lot of complexities you named.
> > Bear in mind that shipping is also the most energy efficient form of bulk transportation (vs land or air).

> I was under the impression that rail transport was. Is that not correct?

It may depend a lot on distance and modernity of rail tech, and also the availability of direct land routes.
Get a job in South Africa and work on increasing your points. Also, look into provincial nomination - it can boost your points alot.
I have fully shifted away from doing my own research on what to buy to going to recommendation sites. I've always thought I had an astute ability to detect fake reviews (and I was probably right for the first wave of low effort paid reviews). What made me change was the following: 1) Companies and consumers cooperating in huge, fake review rings, 2) product search at places like Amazon becoming totally undifferentiatable, and 3) the lack of trust in tools to combat them (fakespot, etc).

I now just go to a recommendation site that earns income through affiliate kickbacks. I use Wirecutter [0], Rtings [1], plus a handful of smaller forum / community sites for categories those don't cover.

I actually think this is an enormous opportunity for several huge categories:

1) Tool reviews: especially with the rate of battery innovation, there is a huge opportunity to have thorough reviews and category recommendations of both consumer and professional tools.

2) Camera / DSLR / video - There's no lack of thorough reviews in this category, but making sense of it is near impossible unless you're a professional.

3) IoT gear - This isn't hugely important to me, but similar to cameras and tools there are a variety of systems that lock users in, and getting recommendations based on which system a user already has would be relatively simple.

I have found these categories to be lacking not only in trustable reviews, but mostly in updated recommendations. Even if reviews exist, it is up to the effort of the user to read them all and build up a knowledge base of similar options to select from. Each of these categories have a high enough volume and purchase price that affiliate fees could easily support a recommendation business.

[0] - https://thewirecutter.com

[1] - https://www.rtings.com
I will leave these two links here. The parallels are striking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Red_Guards...
The first article is referring to an interview that is hardly a “debunk”. It’s just one persons opinion on how grave the issue is (e.g. should you stop having kids?).

The second piece is classical climate change denial, e.g. the “pause/hiatus” in warming
This animation shows well that it’s just an artifact of a hand picked timeframe
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leugnung_der_menschengemacht...

More info here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial
That’s understandable. Anyone downvoting a question they don’t understand is wrong. But objectively, there is a very large daily volume of very low quality questions. People can’t be arsed to, or are unable to, perform even the most rudimentary search, and just dump their questions, often in terrible English (In my niche, I’ve seen a clear correlation between bad English asking and duplicates or lazy “solve my homework” questions). I don’t think those are helping the community to grow in quality. I don’t think downvoting those is oppression, it’s a demand to do better. I’ve mostly left Stack Overflow because of these people. (No, I don’t claim oppression!)
Apple doesn't, but moltenvk supports vulkan on Mac.
I have a PhD (in mech engineering) and work in industry.

My experience was that I basically had to pick up a new physics set and tool set every year as I jumped from algorithm development, to constitutive model development, machine learning, and quantum computing. In all cases they were tackling problems in different areas: new toolset to learn, new math to learn and new physics to learn. I thoroughly enjoy working on research problems, however I felt that there was a lot working on made up problems and forcing a square pegs into round holes so we could declare success to the funding agency when really it was a probably worse way to tackle the problem than industry standard.

Pros:
I was forced to ride a learning curve with a new skill set and new area of expertise every year. I have learning to pick up skills very quickly.

I took a lot of cross discipline classes in physics, mechanical engineering, mathematics, scientific computing, chemical engineering, and materials engineering. I have a large amount of cross discipline knowledge.

I found the work fun and I basically had no boss which was nice.

The downside:
I worked 60 hours a week for $20,000/year for 5 years. Lost wages ~ $500,000

The tools and skills I developed for my PhD only peripherally translate to the work I do in industry.

Advice:
Get a job, the PhD will be waiting for you in 2 years if you decide you want it then. Plus it sounds like you are thinking about getting a PhD because looking for a job is hard.
I agree it's a complex problem that needs to be tackled on many fronts. But the great thing about trees is we like forests, they're economical to plant, and they buy us time. If we remove 2/3 of the carbon added to the atmosphere since the industrial revolution, it buys us 20 years at current emissions. In 20 years the demand for internal combustion vehicles will be nearly dead. Coal plants are already in serious decline, but in 20 years they'll probably need subsidies just to keep running. With the pace of advancements in renewable energy and electric vehicles, 20 years is enough to go from we don't know how we'll solve this problem to the problem is solving itself through free-market forces.
feel free to use and extend it :)
The recommendation is to reforest 103 million hectares of the US. That is about 400,000 square miles in a country of about 4,000,000 square miles, i.e. 10% of the surface area. It's not clear where there is that much land suitable for forest that is not being used for ag and other purposes. Of course, we could decrease the amount of land used for agriculture, since we are continually in surplus and export a lot of foodstuffs.

Some parts, such as New England, were farmed more intensively and have been allowed to go back to forest. In other areas, such as the midwest, poor or swampy land that was used for dairy farming pastures is no longer needed, since dairying is now concentrated in fewer huge herds. However, in these cases land had been allowed to go back to forests naturally, with scrubby transition shrubs and trees that are pretty poor forests. We could get both more carbon capture and more forest products by better forest management in the US. Invasive species such as kudzu, asian bittersweet, and porcelain berry make transitioning back to mature terminal stage forest difficult and expensive.
Applying the XY transform to the question is often a good way to help the user asking the question. It's very rarely a good way to build up a bank of generally useful questions and answers, because it attaches answers to very specific problems to much more general questions.
I have a 128 GB Surface Pro 4, and I realized I had like 3 GB of free space left... mostly due to Visual Studio. It had VS2015 at one time, removing it to install VS2017 hadn't removed all of the VS2015 parts completely either. And removing VS2017 left tons of stuff behind as well.

Apparently every time I updated VS2017, it would go install the latest Windows SDK and .NET Core version, leading me to have a solid handful of each. The uninstaller seems to not be aware of all the various bits and bobs the installer adds, and doesn't even ask you if you want to remove them.
Yes, an attacker using checkm8 could do that if they had a separate exploit for persistence. That exploit would be in iOS and take over at a later point in the boot process, and it would be possible for Apple to patch it with an iOS update. Those bugs are hard to find, but there have been dozens discovered in the past.
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Yeah. Consider that the MSRP for the original legend of Zelda for the NES was $49.99 in 1986. This title took a team of ~7 people ~2 years, and several team members spent 5-7 months of that time also working on Super Mario Brothers, so it would probably have taken less time if not for that.

The typical price for the modern AAA title in 2019 is still only $59.99. These games will have 30 or so people at the absolute minimum and having well over 100 people is not at all rare. They often take 3 years or longer to make.

Even if you don't take into account inflation, such a small increase in nominal price despite enormous increases in development cost is rather remarkable. Then if you consider that inflation means that the real price of AAA games is basically half of what it was, and B list games being about half of that yet again...

Honestly I'm not surprised by DLC and microtransactions. The normal list price of AAA video games is substantially lower than it it should be. My gut tells me that in most other markets, the price would have risen to at least the $80-100 range, if not more, even taking into account the much larger sales volumes these days.
A comment section isn't the place to look for detailed content so why get frustrated about the brevity here? There are plenty of places to deep dive in the internet.
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I get that. I do. I said:

>How much more common does this have to be before people start acting?

Because it is becoming more common. Just as predicted.
Value isn't always apparent immediately. Quantum theory seemed largely useless, but now it's useful in computing.
LOL the title should just be something like, "when stupid gets even more stupid"
I agree with you on the point that money is overemphasized, but does a PhD really mean you're more likely to add great value to history and humankind?
>I know it’s frustrating for you, but asking a question _isn’t about you_.

Well, if StackOveflow/StackExchange is still following Jeff Atwood's philosophy, asking a question isn't necessarily about the questioner either. The question & the answer is for the community more than questioner.[0]

Understandably, most question askers see Stack Overflow as a "Siri/Alexa" type of resource to ask a question. E.g. If I ask Siri voice AI, "where's the nearest Starbucks?", she doesn't talk back about any X/Y problem such as "Is your actual problem that you're not getting enough sleep and therefore you're really asking how to cure insomnia instead of a caffeine fix?" No, Siri just responds with the address of the closest Starbucks. Why can't Stack Overflow be just like that?!?

The above "Siri" type perspective is a huge misunderstanding because the messaging from founders Atwood/Spolsky about Stack Overflow's editorial purpose is very nuanced and difficult to grasp. It's been 11 years since 2008 and that "wiki" intention is still drowned out by the frustrated by users who simply want any of their questions answered: they don't care if it's a duplicate; they don't want pushback on X/Y; they don't want their question downvoted/closed/deleted.

In contrast, the moderators (a.k.a. the high rep fellow users) of Stack Overflow are definitely not in the mode of mimicking Siri/Alexa. They're humans and they definitely will "talk back" to you and ask, "what exactly are you trying to accomplish?" Heck, the famous blog by Microsoft's Raymond Chen (The Old New Thing) is basically a collection of essays about various "X/Y Problem" submitted by customers.

(To downvoters... I don't mind the downvotes but please help with quality of this discussion: If there's a public statement from Stack Overflow explaining its true intended purpose that contradicts my cite, please reply with a reference to it for the benefit of readers of this thread.)

[0] https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/991082088689381376?r...
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Russian Oligarchs – Who Is Real, Who Is Not – Valdimir Zemtsov
We are producing a documentary series on Russian Wealth in the U.K. and will pay for information on Valdimir Zemtsov, a Russian-born businessman with Belgian citizenship.
Beyond this, there's also a question of who are you really selecting for when you, by negation, prefer people who'll consciously weigh their every interaction with other humans, being keenly aware of hierarchy of relations at the same time, and careful that any deviation from that would be undocumented? Who would be interested in making social structure adhere to these types of personalities? Who would throw anger tantrums if denied all this, and be willing to bring hellfire on others based on, effectively, nothing?

I'm not completely sure about the answer, but that description sits well on a spectrum of anti-social and is the only lens through which all this makes sense to me.
Not sure if you're asking, but I'm not repeating someone else's rumor. I started the set-up I work with using hot loading (after all that is one of the things that attracts to Erlang) where I mean just reloading modules on the VM. Unfortunately I would get module order wrong from time to time or I would forget dependencies, and I've seen many badfun errors as well (I admit I used too many anonymous functions). With only 1 node doing the work (I haven't used Erlang on large clusters) that's a bit more risk and those problems have gone away completely since I switched to a strategy where the whole system just stops and starts.
"the movie quote" = Fight Club, since yes, there's people who have not seen that movie, but we don't talk about that.
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> (of course you shouldn't write a post about how "X company is crap" if you work for X and not expect to get fired")

I'll use this as my example for why I think it's absurd. Why do you think you shouldn't write that post? It's just an opinion, right?

If I understand you correctly then you're saying that there are some opinions that you could expect to be fired for expressing, even if they are completely legal to express. I agree with that.

Our definitions of what you can expect to have consequences however seems very different. And that's fine.
> So I'm genuinly curious: Why do so many people still buy despite an avalanche of complaints?

Because, despite their many problems, their customer service is still better than most (maybe all) of their direct competitors.
"Humanity" has not treated problems collectively until a few hundred years ago. Some might argue it still doesn't, really.

Also, and more importantly - it's easy to categorize problems retroactively based on how they were eventually resolved; not so easy to apply this categorization with foresight.

Finally - some problems have both societal and technological aspects, and so do their solutions.
17 years is a long time to think about what you've done, so it's very possible that he is no longer a threat to society. And if there's no evidence that he has committed crimes while living in the cave, how likely is he to commit crimes going forward?

I think it should be brought in, evaluated, and released if he no longer poses a threat.
Disease was as much a social problem requiring changes to the norms of "cleanliness" as a technological problem.