skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on most counts, but you're viewing it from my position of not yet having (attempted) to see it from different angles and tackling issues (i.e. yet to do homework).

One should definitely do what you suggest and attempt to be constructive and productive (i.e. do the homework).

But if management shoots everything down and they expect you to build a house out of match-sticks and that thing falls apart at the slightest gust of wind, are you to blame or management for not giving you better building materials? (i.e. homework done, nothing left to do)

I'm advocating for a realistic view of things: Sometimes, oneself is to blame, sometimes it's something else, and sometimes it's forces out of our control, but there is always something at fault, if something goes wrong, hence there is always something to blame in failure.

But seeing oneself to be blamed at all times leads to burn-out.

EDIT: I'm aware you could also take a bunch of match-sticks, grind them to a pulp, and create some type of wood-like cement from it, and then build a house from that, and that might work. So let's say, they just give you five boxes with 20 matches each and it has to be at least 25 square-meters. Some might now argue, that you could go and start trading this until you end up with a house, there's the story of a guy who started trading a pen for something else on eBay, and ended up with a house. So management now insists this has to be done by the day-after-tomorrow. Etc. The question is: When and where do you stop telling yourself you haven't thought of the right solution and instead insist that management is absurd?
Yes and no. Many cities have not stopped growing. And New York is quaint compared to many metropolises these days.

New York stopped building infrastructure due to government and politics, not some sort of natural law.

If a city grows enough to need more infrastructure, it usually grows plenty of taxpayers to fund it.
Per Monica, a senior SO employee --Sara Chipps -- is publicly lying about Monica. Monica's claim is multiple messages went unanswered, and then...

> Sara Chipps, Director of Public Q&A, left responses on various moderators' resignation posts maligning my character. You can see an example on my Mi Yodeya post. The cut-and-pasted message included, specifically referring to me: "When a moderator violates [inclusion and respect], we will always do our best to resolve it with them privately." Both halves of that statement are false. [1]

Let's call publicly talking about an observant Jewish ex-mod on Rosh Hashana a lagniappe.

This pretty strongly seems StackOverflow saying use personal pronouns and don't question our policy, or GTFO.

Which is of course fine -- their house, their rules -- and frankly something I generally support. But given both the willingness to de-mod Monica, ghost her, and then (again, per Monica) lie about it in public, and (2) be far more responsive to a random twitter message than multiple longstanding mod requests, SO's position is quite clear.

So yes, mods saving SO millions of dollars of paid employee time per year should certainly re-evaluate their relationship with their corporate beneficiary.

[1] https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2064709.html
Wow, the extreme vagueness there, the perfect conviction in their rightness. I have no idea what the actual situation was, but that kind of writing makes me deeply suspicious I'm not getting both sides.
It doesn’t even have to be that complicated. Query parameters for HTTP requests are almost always stuffed into a hash table. You can get up to mischief a couple of packets at a time.

If you’ve been watching, there have been a series of articles over the last five or so years as each language upgrades their hash table implementation to thwart this class of attack.
Certificated is definitely a valid word, though perhaps not in "layperson English". In (Commonwealth) legalese, share holdings are referred to as either uncertificated or certificated.
The quote is a truism but what is the source? Google brings up a very limited, maybe filtered, list of results. Orwell, Voltaire, a white supremacist? I don't really care which. Just curious about the historical origin.
Just as a heads up, this statement is often used as an anti-Semitic canard. You obviously didn’t mean it in that context, but you may want to use that quotation with caution.
Sure, fair enough. Sorry to make you have to contort so much to provide a correct-seeming response.
Open floor plans have been a big trend for the past few decades. Personally I hate it but most people seem to want their kitchen and living room to flow together mostly seamlessly. I hate the sound of the refrigerator compressor. I hate cooking smells. I hate seeing unwashed dishes or unclean surfaces. These things are actually all fine during the cooking and eating process but if I want to relax in the living room, I don't want the sights, sounds, and scents of the kitchen constantly intruding.
Better ventilation can help somewhat but that's additional noise and can't compete very well with an actual wall between rooms.
I feel like I have bits of my memory and perception that are good and bits that are bad. I struggle with the idea of being asked to help with a 'photo-fit', to describe the person's face and reconstruct the features like you would when describing a suspect to a police officer or sketch artist, I simply cannot recall anyone's face. I can describe build, height, hair and colour, but the face itself is blocked in my mind.
I cannot recall the majority of events in my life and most that I do recall are very recent or in some way traumatic or unpleasant, even then I only remember a freeze-frame of the scenario and note the whole event. Being able to remember a sequence of events or a long period of time within the same day is limited to a very small number of memories. I cannot remember most of my childhood or anything beyond a few years ago, just tiny snippets here and there. However...
I remember nearly everywhere I've ever been, like a version of map software in my brain is keeping a record. I've re-visited places I've only been to once before many years earlier and been able to navigate the entire area without fault. I can remember the configuration of the shopping malls I've been to and I can even recall where nearly all products in the local grocery store or super markets are.... I can picture these things in my mind with real clarity. This ability also means I have fantastic dreams, often in the same places which only exist in my mind. I often remember dreams by where I was or what I was doing at the time based on which location I was in. I dream in first-person while also aware of what the third person sensation/ experience would be like. I can occasionally lucid dream so I know these dreams involve colour.
I cannot remember what anything smells, sounds, or tastes like. If someone asked, ‘what does your favourite food taste like?’ I honestly could not describe it, but I can recall the texture of it perfectly. Yet even though my few memories do not include these details, if I smell something during the day I can easily remember what that is…the same applies to hearing a tune or sound or seeing someone’s face in a TV show. The memories are there but the act of actually trying to recall something simply for the purposes of attempting to remember will result in a blank….passively try and remember something by association of some other stimuli then the memory will come back easy.
I worry that now my child is turning 3 years old I can only recall a handful of memories from his life so far, will this get worse? If he ever asks me what life was like when he was just a baby….what will I say?
When would a mod use pronouns anyway? It seems like an edge case of an edge case, in terms of gross count of incidents.
"dropping taxes for the biggest companies and lowering spending on infrastructure and public works" = repulsive

"green tech investment and high tech public transport systems" = actually helps the people

Start by fixing misinformation about what is the PRC and the "democractic" US.
Stack exchange works a lot better for me than mailing lists did. Its greatest contribution is the near elimination of duplicate questions.
On a mod and employee chat group, they were discussing a new future code of conduct. One element said "You must use people's preferred pronouns if given". A mod (volunteer) (Monica) said "Is it OK if I never use any 3rd person singular pronouns?" She got no answer for a while and was then fired as a mod on Friday at 6pm less than 1 hour before before Shabbat and Rosh Hashana (she is Jewish and a mod of the Jewish Stack Exchange). Stack exchange published a note saying she broke the code of conduct. 73 other mods then either resigned or went inactive.
There is another class called: CDL. Commercial Drivers License and it is required for vehicles over a certain tonnage or with air brakes.

Why not just reduce the tonnage to 4,000lbs for example? Easy. You want to drive a Humvee, go get a CDL first.
I'm in the same place as you are, but in relation to wikipedia rather than stack overflow.

I remember adding a [citation needed] tag to an inaccurate claim, and then discovering that my change has been reverted. The reason the moderator gave was that [citation needed] didn't look good on the page. How do you argue with people like that. I'm not going to spend hours reading on wikipedia's policies just make it better.

SE is bad, but at least I get something out of it. That and the fact that SE's meta game is easier to play than wikipedia's. You just need to make sure you word your question in a way that it can only be answered definitively (no opinion), and preempt duplicate-heads with a list of similar questions and why they don't answer your question.

I've yet to have a question of mine closed as a duplicate, though mods have treated me passive-aggressively for taking away their sticks :^)
Huh? A collaboration product for a job would involve working together on your job, not playing games.
Looks cool. Congrats. Really like the name. Enyo did something like it but this has state and is inspired by recent innovations like hooks as you mention. I was wondering what this would be good for but now I have a good idea. Get's down to the bare necessities and works directly on the DOM which I like. Don't over engineer instead work on explaining what this could be good for and the docs in general.
Along the same lines, why spend all that time on this game when you are a programmer in real life! I look at games as a change of pace / relaxing not more programming. ;-)
New York Airways used to have a helicopter service from JFK to Manhattan, it was cheap and frequent.

Wikipedia: 'New York Airways flew Vertol 107 helicopters from the rooftop helipad to Pan Am's terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport from December 21, 1965, to February 18, 1968, when the service ceased due to inadequate passenger loads. For a short part of that time, they also offered service to Teterboro Airport.

Service to JFK resumed in early 1977 using Sikorsky S-61s. On May 16, 1977, about one minute after an S-61L landed and its 20 passengers disembarked, the right front landing gear collapsed, causing the aircraft to topple onto its side with the rotors still turning. One of the five 20-foot (6.1 m) blades broke off and flew into a crowd of passengers waiting to board. Three men were killed instantly and another died later in a hospital. The blade sailed over the side of the building and killed a female pedestrian on the corner of Madison Avenue and 43rd Street. Two other people were seriously injured. Helicopter service was quickly suspended, and never resumed'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetLife_Building#Helicopter_se...
> ... a quaternion that can print itself as either 4 numbers (raw) or 3 numbers (euler angles).

Then at last you presumably have overloads that are descriptive, such as .ToRawString() and .ToEulerString(), correct? If you did a cout<<q, which one are you going to get?

Having a non-abstract base .ToString() defined in Object (and that requires no format parameters) causes the issues.

Of course you could define an enum and take it as a format, like .ToString(Format.Euler), but even if you define well-named overloads, the other .ToString() is still hanging there and probably doesn't do anything useful.

So, for most cases in most current language, my statement was probably a bit strong and should be weakened to "the framework should not assume there is one best/default way to render any Object to a string regardless of context and purpose and offer a default implementation at the top of the hierarchy".

Ultimately, however, I think the stronger argument does hold, but is not easily addressed in most languages, or at least is not addressed in any consistent to concise way across many languages.
My guess: those who have a vested interest in "aiding" the blind would be damaged by something that frees the blind in any way. Most extreme case: suppose you created a "cure" for blindness. It would render all services for the blind obsolete. Don't you think the "industries for the blind" would do all they could to stop you?

It's the same reason there are maintenance drugs for such ailments as diabetes, HIV and herpes but no cures: the vested interests stand to make far, far more money with maintenance programs than with cures.
Retirees as a group cannot save their way out of the pension crisis - an extra TV made in 1998 does not materially impact the ability of society to provide health care to a retiree in 2018. You'd have to physically store goods for later consumption for this to work at all. All you get out of extra saving today is higher asset prices, allowing current retirees to consume the extra goods that current workers neglect to consume via saving.
Its is not that it is not an issue. People in the US just do not vote. Compare the participation rates in your country vs the US. Majority of the people who vote are also uninformed I would say.
If only SE could somehow get a bunch of people to work as moderators without paying them. Except that is exactly what happened; but recently SE managed to piss off a large number of its volunteer moderators, who have (among other things) written the linked complaint.
Poe's law – parody and extreme views
I'd be interested to see some data on the entire trip duration including the uber X rides on both ends. Does Uber copter only make sense if you aren't stuck in traffic on th way to the helipad?
Some of them rise up to community managers and are then compensated. The person who recently got steamrolled was getting very close to that position.

I think some sympathy is due for the working-for-free workers on stack exchange, at least from us, Hacker News' unpaid content authors.
They contribute to the community that is owned by the company that then profits from the community.

In return they get points.

Points allow for showing how important they are to the community.

Points that have zero cash value.

Disgruntled volunteers are not going to be easy to replace.
Maybe create an ICO for these points?
Great idea, let’s go back to the Stone Age.
Oops engineers might have to work again!
China's economic tactic is to convert their manipulated currency into dollars. China is desperate for dollars. No one trades in or trusts RMB.
I don't understand many people's view of the Chinese. This is not the state of China ordering the NBA around, this is an action by their people.

And though it is likely that China helped make the people aware of this event, nationist individuals using blatant propaganda to attack people on Twitter is not a problem unique to China.
1 was fired. 73 then left in support of her.
Indeed, at what time and place do we decide to draw a line? I feel that time and place is nearly here.
Or how people talk about boycotting stuff from China due to their political issues. Even before the trade war tariffs, there were American consumers that made it a habit to not buy Chinese because of their political stances.
I keep seeing this notion that the singular they is offensive. I thought its whole purpose was to be more inclusive. At what point did it become offensive and why is it considered to be offensive?
What you call "inventing", I call "having been unfortunately aware of his boil-on-the-public-discourse's-rear-end existence for most of his career." And to be very clear, he's not a crypto-Nazi. He carries water for crypto-Nazis because they pay his checks. Being Jewish is immaterial; this was the argument used about the gay, Jewish Milo Yiannpoulos not possibly being a literal fascist. Play that one back, too, and see where you get.

There is a strain of thought among the terminally gray-fallacious that somebody has to say "I am a trans-hating asshat" (which is different from being a Nazi, crypto- or otherwise) to be understood as a trans-hating asshat. He does it intentionally, he does it with malice, he does it to appease his similarly trans-hating-asshat bosses and customers, and we have the receipts. Res ipsa loquitur.
> Wouldn’t the inheritors want more privacy

For themselves - not necessarily for others. And when privacy is invaded, only the powerful get access to the resulting information.

There's also the matter of who needs privacy - the loss of it hurts those without power to defend themselves more. E.g. Hong Kong protesters are rightly worried of being identified.
There are more forms of wealth than just cash. Some people find it rewarding to help others, and SE is set up to make it so that people could create the canonical answer to a particular question. This is a force multiplier so that helpful answers can reach a maximum audience.

This probably won't continue to feel satisfying if SE doesn't show respect for its volunteers. The force multiplier only exists because the moderators keep the site clean and well-organized. It sounds like SE both explicitly and implicitly showed gratitude for this effort, but now they are failing to do so.
There are elements of this. Two examples:

1. Younger generations develop colloquial terms that the older generations don't understand. This allows the younger generation to communicate more freely.

2. Highly specialised positions develop "jargon" which, although arguably allows more accurate and concise communication, also allows elements of protectionism and in-group gatekeeping.

Both of these examples are more complex than just "To conceal ideas and thoughts from the enemy", but it's definitely a motivating factor in language evolution.
repl.it, a YC company, is tee ball for deploying software.
Monica wanted to write in a way such that she would never use the words "he", "she", or singular "they". Stack Exchange said it's not OK to write in a restricted way like that, the words must be used.
Running a hackintosh on 10.14.6 (18G103), works fine:

$ ifconfig en1 ether
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

It maybe related to wifi drivers.

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38 0 0xffffff7f83b30000 0x5000 0x5000 org.vanilla.driver.CPUFriend (1.1.6) FFAD6CD3-E28F-3741-BE12-E44720F45CA6 <37 12 8 6 5 3 2 1>
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50 0 0xffffff7f83cd2000 0x5000 0x5000 as.vit9696.SMCProcessor (1.0.2) BB591E66-6993-39BB-88D9-D0936B92E036 <42 37 12 8 6 5 3 2 1>
67 2 0xffffff7f83cd7000 0xb000 0xb000 org.rehabman.voodoo.driver.PS2Controller (1.9.2) 53E0B467-6CA6-3CD1-A450-6A39D767DA8C <12 8 6 5 3 1>
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indeed, the price of a cheap TV is becoming to high
I think the real question is "Are the politics dysfunctional"? I would argue they are working exactly as intended. The people who already own property and who have influence are getting the exact results they desire. Good or bad depends on whether you are an owner or a renter. A very large portion of political outcomes can be traced to money and those who can apply it to get their desired outcomes. This is politics as normal for a large portion of the uS and the world.
I disagree. This is exactly what the Chinese government wants. They're able to have this outsized influence on American companies because they've heavily invested in them. Going against the Chinese government means risking a significant piece of your business for many companies - it isn't about the "social media mob" at all.
No, I think the original statement is wrong, the Great Lakes coastline that Chicago is on is the longest contiguous coastline in the 48 contiguous states, not the whole US.
Sure it is. One represents free speech in response to market participants making decisions.

The other is an authoritarian government shutting down business ties based on one employee opinion.

How do people not see the difference in this? On twitter, people are to speak whatever they want and can choose to buy whatever they want.

In China. Not so much.
Isn't that up to the people of HK?
This is such an interesting mentality, one I just can't understand. The instant I got a real job, I rented a house. Just for me. Five bedrooms, three bathrooms, front/back yard(s), garage, driveway, the works. I kept telling myself it was "practice" for understanding what it's like to be a homeowner (common pitfalls, responsibilities, required upkeep, etc) while with training wheels because the landlord was still technically on the hook, but honestly it was because I was tired of living in apartments all through college. I guess we all just like what we like, eh?
Not if the Bay Area cost of living (housing, gas, traffic, food) comes with it
>apologize for the lack of process, privacy

But not for what they did to her.
This is obviously true, but irrelevant at the timescale that the article considers, ie, about a century beginning in 1945. Have we evolved significantly since WW2? Is the internet going to exert selection pressure on humanity? Maybe, but we won't notice in 3 generations.