skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Number 1 and 2 are what I've personally experienced and believe is what the StackOverflow team means when they say they're working to make the platform more friendly. I've been helping people with all sorts of programming problems on Discord for years, and I've encountered my fair share of people who put absolutely no effort in either their problem or asking a question people can work with, but at no point I've ever felt it was justified to publicly shame them or not be kind. If people are going to go around closing / deleting obviously mediocre questions with copypastas in the comments, is it asking to much to make the copypastas at the very least welcoming?

I actually followed your advice and browsed the recent page on StackOverflow to collect some samples of what I mean. To my (pleasant) surprise, it seems to have changed significantly from when I used the platform regularly. That said, I found this one that's a good example:

> Asking homework questions without any other detail is simply unacceptable. Please put more detail, because we are volunteering our time to help you, and if you put in absolutely no effort, then we can't help you.

I wholeheartedly, but why not say "StackOverflow is not a code-writing service. Please post another question with sample of your work, so we can direct you to a solution that'll make you learn in the process"? These types of comments are what made me so anxious to ask back when I started programming, and I think is something everyone will benefit greatly from getting rid of.

As for point 3, thanks for clarifying. I agree that dumping knowledge on a proprietary product isn't exactly a good thing, but the perspective of the business people can at least be understood now that they're selling it as a Q&A engine for private teams / companies. I don't think that's necessarily a good thing, but your previous comments made me think it was some sort of conspiracy theory :)
Their pro/developers (influence) are too important to apple to do that.
The paper for this is: On Traffic Light Control of Regular Towns by Elina Mancinelli, Guy Cohen, Stéphane Gaubert, Jean-Pierre Quadrat, Edmundo Rofman

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281356849_On_Traffi... where you have nice (or almost) nice regular blocks with a constant speed. When you start deviating from this, the math all breaks down.

The ideal case would be to pulse the traffic such that given a certain amount of traffic flow and everyone following the proper speed limit that the time it takes for the traffic pulse to get to the next traffic light is green (and the pulse can continue).

This can be seen when you switch from one traffic light synchronization district to another - and hitting a traffic light.

There's a stretch on my commute where when I follow the speed limit (its 25 in this segment), I can go from one end of the traffic district to the next without ever hitting a red light (about 15 blocks).

The thing is that if the traffic isn't pulsed, then the spot where it changes from one traffic district to the next backs up significantly and causes other backups further down traffic.
They have to pay back the investments in R+D first though, no?
I'd wager at least part of it is the same reason many companies use CloudFront: Separate point of failure in case of downtime at the AWS side, some one else shouldering DDoS.
Note to DS9 fans: this is not an essay from Salome Jens.
I just looked up this company and... is the domain parked or something?
They can simply get rid of the close/minimize/maximize buttons at this point. I wonder just how many people actually ever use them.
Facebook faces advertiser revolt over failure to address hate speech
Just reading the text those quotes seems a bit broken up / strange.

It's not clear from so little text that they just suddenly decided to move to Phoenix in a matter of... weeks?
add AI on top of that which learns what/where/how to enter (or at least suggests) and you get the modern office automation wave.
Really asking for exact equal value to an exchange is in itself isn't just /a/ fallacy but an entire stack of them. It implicitly assumes a universal equal value when the utility and demand differ greatly based upon circumstances including marginal utility. One pair of boots is worth more to someone without them than someone who has eight comparable ones. Even if such exact trades could be found there is no incentive to provide them without it functioning as a loss leader of some sort.
I am curious what you think is valuable use of spending money... I am sure whatever you say, I could describe it in such a way that it sounds vacuous and wasteful.

Instead of focusing on why you think it is ridiculous, maybe try to think of why it wouldn't be. You might understand others better.
I can't account for why you think the way you do.

I had an early life typical of some of these places. My area was not as bad as the one you describe FYI. I made so many mistakes in my own early life that really set me back, some of which could potentially be attributed to the nihilistic attitude of my surroundings. As a result I'm perhaps more sympathetic to the downtrodden people of these areas than you might believe. That being said, my own success in life has made me slightly less sympathetic to these people than I used to be. I underwent a massive attitude change in my early 20s that changed my entire life. I stopped blaming other people for my problems and took responsibility for my life, it was like flicking a switch. All of a sudden everything in my life slowly began to function, I started to receive positive results from my actions. I understand that not everyone can become rich. You'll have greatly different results if instead of becoming a software engineer like I did you're just bagging groceries. That's always going to be the case though.

I truly understand that getting through to kids from broken homes can be difficult when their parents, like mine, have created such a hostile environment for their kids that they base their entire conceptual model of society on their broken home life. Having said that, there's no one out there telling people that getting hooked on hard drugs is a good idea, yet it still happens. These kids know what living a good life looks like. They make their own bad decisions. I really do believe in offering all the support we can to help at-risk children avert ruining their lives. They're not all going to be saved, no matter what you do. I feel like those who are capable, and interested, will always seek out better things for themselves eventually.
I don’t know man. I don’t see how we’re going to go anywhere if we’re determined to only see the worst qualities in our opposition. Notably contrary to your point, lots of conservatives are Never Trumpers and are very unhappy about the populist turn things have taken. Anyway, if you’re interested in minimizing racism, “the middle” is where we should be. The poles are obsessed with their racial hierarchies. Moderates are committed to a post-racial egalitarian future, even if they don’t have all of the information or political power to push things over the line. But anyway, good luck; it feels like doubling down on polarization, division, intolerance, etc is a recipe for disaster, but I guess I hope I’m wrong since it seems like the direction we’re committing ourselves to as a country.
> Better UI than GitHub

I think that GitHub has a much better UI than GitLab. GitLab is slow and bloated compared to GitHub. Requiring Javascript for browsing the code repository is just bad design.
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned that is extremely interesting with regards to performance is if all those demos were done on a developer test kit machine, which is itself based on the Mac mini form factor... then the fact that these systems were all driving that Pro XDR 6k display is notable.

For references in no configuration of the current Mac mini can you drive an XDR without the use of an eGPU thanks to the extremely limited integrated intel graphics.
golang isn't the place to look for a well designed language. It's full of inconsistencies and subpar decisions.
> When the iPad first came out: "OMG, you can't print! How insane." Probably forgetting other things.

I very much don't recall anyone complaining about printer support. The primary jab at launch was "it's just a big iPhone". Which was in fact true—it just turned out that "a big iPhone" was pretty damn good, especially when actual iPhones had 3.5" screens.

I'd say most of these sorts of complaints are basically legitimate. When the iPhone came out, it didn't have copy and paste, and that was in fact extremely annoying!
My immigration HR told me to stop travelling when all of this nonsense started, it is a really unreasonable risk.

Despite the fact that you legally can (according to a sibling comment), it's practically unwise.
I think a lot of UI changes are for the sake of change. The arguments I've heard for the recent font changes and some of the UI changes are a critical mass of retina screens. They've also added other screen/monitor tech like night-shift and true tone and have changed font smoothing.

They're also slowing experimenting and merging macOS and iOS UI tooling, which necessitates a change on both parts.

Personally, I also wish they would slow down or stop UI changes.
I don't think it's as simple as that. The disclosure, as I recall, was along the lines of "the stock might be worthless", while not laying out any scenario where it was not, to give people a chance to estimate the probability.

It seemed to me like they were wilfully encouraging people to overestimate the value of the stock by a large amount, even while saying it was risky. If you ask for volunteers to jump out of a plane without a parachute, and disclose that it might be hazardous to your health, and some might even not survive, well, the implication that you might survive it is not technically wrong. There is historical precedent. But is it honest if people are going to interpret it as a substantial chance?
I would love to hear any more you have to say about the genetic algorithms you use to help with scheduling.
#1, who can say. #2 might be side stepped by the compatibility they with iOS apps they will gain? (making it so all those iphone/ipad developers can ship their apps to macs, too.)
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Most toolchains are cross-platform already. Even some that build to native code. Systems programmers may steer clear for a while but they probably already weren't using Macs.
Sort of yeah. We aren’t launched yet.
Sorry, I don't understand what you're referring to. Locked down in what way?
I got this confirmed by an immigration attorney. Thank you for your information.
You pretty much have to go to a pawpaw patch when they are ripe and eat them there.

Try it. You won't regret it.
Coffee: Top secret – revolution, independence
Are there typically lingering physiological effects on the brain after taking LSD? Would this counteract those, or merely the psychological aspects?
Apple TV 4K will at last play YouTube in 4K with tvOS 14 update
> The extra padding in all of the UI is the only thing that I chafe at a little bit

This, and increased font sizes. Do any of you know how to change the font size of the window title bar in macOS 11?
Not for a long time. ARM is just more competition which is good. The guys claiming that Intel is basically a has been and can't make anything new don't know what they're talking about. Intel has come back more than once. Competition is good, I'm glad it's heating up a bit more these days.
Moreover, your audience are all at the same part of the stream, not separated by seconds because of buffering.
I've been thinking about this. I can't see Apple realistically being able to produce multiple variants (phone, tablet, laptop, speaker, tv) of multiple elements (cpu, gpu, neural accelerator, wireless/network, etc) packaged up on an annual cadence.

The silicon team is going to be very busy: they've got the A-series, S-series, T-series, H-series, W-series, and U-series chips to pump out on a regular roadmap.

The A-series (CPU / GPU / Neural accelerator) is the major work. It gets an annual revision, which probably means at least two teams in parallel?

The A-series X and Z variants seem to be kicked out roughly every second A-series generation, and power the iPads. The S-series seems to get a roughly annual revision, but it's a much smaller change than the main A-series.

I could see the Mac chips on a 2-year cycle, perhaps alternating with the iPad, or perhaps even trailing the iPads by 6 months?
>with skepticism that’s usually fed by anonymously sourced information

Most of the time, or the vast majority, when I see skepticism directed at start up it is:

"Where is the profit going to come from?"

And just by the nature of start ups, they're not wrong...
What it takes for a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project to be promoted
The CNCF promotes the SPIFFE and SPIRE open source projects from sandbox to incubation-level hosted projects
Also, downvoted for not wanting to accidentally create radioactive fallout? Do the cost benefit analysis when there's plenty of other technologies for moving mass around off planet and to other planets.
Very cool! From the link in your bio, it looks more like a B2B Product than a consumer one though. Are you looking at a consumer product as well? The same underlying platform would probably be useful.
It is certainly an emotion alright and not a rational one.

A lot of it is - expecting a pony with their can of coke while not considering such arrangements now mean thousands of dollars per can and a massive reserve of ponies outside every vendor.
Tech giants blast Trump executive order suspending H-1B visas
People seem to be saying "just use Risperidone" in the comments, so if there is a new drug that counters LSD, maybe it would be useful as an alternative to Risperidone, which has a variety of side effects when taken long term.
Probably, but mostly because a lot of people think that good graphics equals a good game. The people who "convert" will learn the hard way.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Command/Ctrl + F for: "align different subsets of toolbar items"

The pictures above the paragraph that phrase appears in exemplify the problem perfectly. One certainly looks nicer, being all uniform and monochrome, but the other provides visual feedback that is far quicker to parse than text or hieroglyphics.

I have to explain to my 70 year old aunt why I won't be updating her Macbook to Big Sur, because she'll never be able to cope with this change. Yeah, she's 70 and not that great at all this, but that's exactly who this interface should be for. We can bitch and moan but we'll deal, because we have to. At 70 years old you just want your fucking email to work and you want to know what buttons to click on.

Apple decided to add depth to the glyphs on the Dock, but no where else apparently. I'm so fucking tired of this flat monochrome bullshit.
Was planning on getting a new Mac laptop this year to replace my old 2013 Macbook Pro. Would it be better to get one of the last Intel Macs or wait a bit and get in early on the upcoming ARM Macs?
Thanks for your feedback, we're always improving our search algorithm. Sometimes if you enter too many terms and we don't have a relevant result you may get an irrelevant result instead, but it's definitely something we're working on.
Docker works on arm, using arm images.

Current hypervisor.framework is a very thin wrapper over Intel's virtualization extensions, so t'll have to change pretty heavily to accommodate ARM.
Simple use a DNS that blocks them. It will break many things but nobody said it was free.
What a beautiful way to map out the terrain - I immediately feel inspired to use this as a starting point for hobby-research projects. Only problem is now i'm inclined to check the alternatives to "ego graphs" as a starting point for research!

I have a sneaking suspicion that SEO/keyword mapping with all the resources devoted to that space may have some tools that elaborate on this idea - though im no expert. If anyone knows of useful tools to replicate this in browser I am all ears.
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Sure, to you. There's a whole lot of not you out there for whom the distinction is worth the price differential. That's true in both hamburgers and hardware. Needs, goals, and use cases differ significantly among people.

I'd argue that the functional difference between a Honda Fit and a Tesla is less than the difference between the best McDonald's hamburger and an $18 hamburger. That's why I drive a Honda Fit. In the face of Tesla's increasing sales it would be pretty strange to assert that my taste was somehow universal.
What kind of dev?

Web dev or embedded dev? Shouldn't make any difference at all whether you go with Intel Mac, ARM Mac, Windows, or Linux, except for your personal preferences regarding which OS, tools, and (maybe) the platform you will deploy to. So yes, it's still worth it today iff it was worth it (to you) last year.

Native Mac or iOS app dev? Yes, it's not only worth it, but it will be your only option for a while and then an equally good option for a few years thereafter.
We grow skills. That's one reason they are so valuable. And we cross train. Everyone is able to take over for another employee at any time. But now is not the time. I just can't stomach losing our H1B members or any dev right now.

We are in the health IT sector and you may not know this (because it surprises most everyone) but there is an absolute revolution happening in healthcare. We're approaching version 5 of FHIR. And I'd guess 99% of the devs on HN are like "what the heck is FHIR". It's a core standard for exchanging healthcare data. And it's literally the tip of an iceberg. And that's my personal dilemma as a lead developer.

Speaking of skill growth, devs attended FHIR Dev Days last week, CCDA Implementation-athon a few weeks before that, and the FHIR Connectathon a week before that.

None of us are in the office and since we have formed personal relationships over the last few years we know how to "get stuff done". AFAIK we treat every employee well enough they have few reasons to leave. Now is not the time for us to lose a dev. Any dev.

I just ask the government to stop being jerks and let us ride out this covid year without too much more upset...
Caffeine.tv offer similar latency. (Full disclosure, I used to work there)
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Water districts are incapable of anti-growth decisions
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...
Not every tech company needs to be some obnoxious, loud weirdo pretending to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Some people just want to make money.
I think H1B visas should be obliterated. One of the justifications is that they bring in international talent to fill in "shortages" in America. However, according this article by the Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2017/05/the-h-1b-visa-debate-explained

- There is mixed evidence that there are actually shortages in STEM

- People are graduating from STEM fields at a rather high rate than in the past, but only half of them end up utilizing their degree; in sectors such as IT, one reason being why graduates aren't entering the field is due to a lack of job openings

- Despite all the clamor about "shortages," some STEM fields pay embarrassingly low, and in fact pay STEM workers less than they have in the past

- There is no requirement that entities show proof of workforce shortage before hiring workers on H-1B visas

- Some workplaces have already had American workers train in their H1-B visa replacements and then were out of a job

Not in the article, but some of my own experiences having been in the STEM field

- Many internationals seeking to get hired in the US STEM force don't actually have the "everyday technology" that the US uses, such as in molecular biology labs; this means quite a lot goes into training H1-B visa holders. Couple that with poor English-speaking skills. I found myself having to explain to an H1-B visa holder what a "pen" was, or a "shelf." Granted, some H1-B visa holders underwent formal education in the US, obtaining PhDs and whatnot, so you'd imagine their English would be better, however...

- Many countries look down on the US. I have worked for many foreign employers in STEM, and have been insulted just for being an American, and their views of America are largely stereotyped (Americans love guns, they eat hamburgers and pizza and are fat, etc.)

- It changes the workplace culture; I've worked in a variety of STEM environments that had a lot of internationals, and more than once I was out-grouped for being an American. I have had opportunities closed off to me simply because my group's sense of belonging was rooted in being "non-American." This was detrimental to my aspirations in entering the STEM field as an American.

I don't believe there is a shortage in STEM, and that corporations are touting an unproved "shortage" to cut costs to the detriment of Americans. The fact that it's hard to even get a well-paying job in STEM, especially tenure positions in STEM, and that once you do land a STEM position you can face discrimination for being an American in AMERICA, H1B visas should be obsolete.

Get rid of the internationals. Focus on your American workforce and create incentives to enter STEM. Create a better system for learning math, and inspiring aspirations in science Create environments that will nurture American students instead of block their opportunities. Give Americans a chance to contribute to their economy instead of shoveling money down the pockets of people who don't even like America or Americans and would go back home if they could.

This one stance supported by Trump is compelling me to vote for him in the next election, unless Biden can do better...
The problem is, no one will pay $500 to "hang out and enjoy you play."

I pay for several musicians on Patreon and even $5/month seems excessive to me, all the while I think this is just not a living for the musician when I see their subscriber count. And I'm probably one of the few that pays for this. It's a bad model even though I wish it wasn't.

But, there are a few people who will pay $500 to that musician for a personalized message.

The math is better with the latter. You just need a few people to do that to make a living. There is just not a way, despite Kevin Kelly's great article about 1000 fans, to make it work.

I bet most artists would argue that money in their bank account is worth much more than "respecting agency." Musicians have to be feeling a lot of pain right now with live venues shuttered indefinitely.
My 2015 mbp can finally stop notifying me of software updates.
Live streaming wasn't the issue, it was live gaming streaming. Everyone was blocking it because it ate up tons of bandwidth (and there were copyright concerns). Justin.tv was small, well connected, and knew the numbers well enough to know how to capitalize on it.
Ask HN: How to get started with mechatronics?
I’m a software dev, and I recently came across videos of this coffee robot (https://www.wsj.com/articles/robot-baristas-serve-up-the-future-of-coffee-at-cafe-x-1485781201). I’m really interested in building a small scale hobby project inspired by the coffee robot, but I’m not even sure what to search for. Can anyone suggest some resources or even tell me what search strings to Google? (“Mechatronics”? “Automation engineering”? “Robot arm control”?) I’m fascinated but at a loss.
Can you describe what I should be seeing here?
I'm a homebody but great fruit I will travel for. The absolute best fruit is ripened on the plant to the point of being so soft that it would be destroyed if handled. I drive hours to various wild blackberry bushes around Northern California and eat them right off the bush -- just the act of separating them from the bush basically splits them in half so they could never be sold commercially.