skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are less and less general questions because most of them have been answered already. If I see a question like that either I give a link to the docs or mark as duplicate. There's no point in writing such long answers if the information already exists somewhere else.
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Some are. That’s where you downvote or report it (depending on what’s ‘bad’)
Yes, but IMO the Matrix team should _really_ focus on Dendrite since Synapse is extremely resource hungry and prevents a lot of people (including me) from running their own servers.
Completely disagree, and you're wrong.

Depending on the area you're looking into:

1. Many Stack Overflow answers do not exist in documentation at all.

2. Some answers are especially valuable because they touch issues in actual production (which are not foreseeable by documentation).

3. Answers (chronologically given) help ongoing document changes in APIs, which many documentation don't do or make it very difficult to do.

Take Python's Tkinter for instance - a lot of answers in in Stack Overflow supplement many things not covered by the official documentation. You'd either have to look at Tcl's documentation (but have no idea where to look, or how to read it), or figure out the source code yourself which will be confusing since the official documentation does not actually document every part of the library that it's sourced/ported from even though they exist for use.

4. SO answers often point you in the right direction, or to third party explanations and sources, and often compare between different semantic versions. (E.g. answers for D3 in JS often compare changes between APIs in the different versions 4, 5 and 6.) While official documentation sometimes chronicle their API changes, comparative usages/change in idiomatic usages are not always elucidated and it is in Stack Overflow that many of those are found.
Links to

How many stocks will Robinhood let you buy? The numbers keep shrinking

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/29/22256419/robinhood-limits...

instead of

Facebook’s Oversight Board wants your feedback on whether the company was right to ban Trump

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/29/22256821/facebook-trump-b...
It’s early here and it’s been about 20 years since my logic course in College, but I’ll give it a shot.

This is generally the domain of logic as a formal tool for argumentative analysis. In that context, one is trying to nail down whether an argument is valid or not. It’s important for us to make a distinction between what is logically sound, and what is a hypothetical that can’t be proven.

It comes down to feels not reals. Logic is reals. It is a formal system. It helps us ground our thinking. A slope may be indeed slippery, if it can be proven that A leads to Z every time. But usually a Slippery Slope is utilized as a way of scaring people into the assumption that A will lead to Z, even when there’s plenty of off ramps along the way.

It’s about certainty vs speculation.

To say that, “hey if we start doing A we might end up at Z” is not wrong because we say “might”, and it’s worthy of debating the risks and possibilities. But often people present it as a Truth. And it’s fair to point out that it’s neither a certainty, nor logically sound.
If it’s that important to daily work it sounds like there’s a fundamental issues with documentation, training, and education in the world of software development.

Federated messaging seems popular these days. Maybe federated documentation is a good idea?

Perhaps git could be leveraged to distribute docs, examples, and questions?
100% agreed.

I also just simply enjoy lurking on IRC to assist other programmers in need. I learnt so much in those channels when first starting out, and these days I have a bit more spare time, so I enjoy "paying it forward" by helping others much like I was helped back in the day.

Plus there are a bunch of really nice programmers hanging out there, so there's a social aspect to it as well.
Oh, I'm sure they will. And they'll end up losing elections as a result.
Has what info?
> just inject the normal patients with placebos, and keep more of the vaccines for your paying clients.

I LOL'd in horror at this, wouldn't surprise me if somewhere this has happened.
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Both sides will. They can't both lose.
> Should a thread be frozen for an undetermined amount of time while an antivirus does the check?

Yes, certainly it should.
I will never willingly use Windows 10 as my primary OS. Forced updates killed it for me. Don’t get me wrong, I actually prefer Windows as an OS over macOS in some ways, but the update policies do not leave you in control of your own system. The nail in the coffin was around 3 years ago when right in the middle of a recording session, Windows forced an update despite my best attempts at delaying and stopping it. The next day I backed up all my data and installed Mint and never looked back. Perhaps this was an overreaction, but I don’t regret it. I am glad I did this because I bought a macbook and discovered the word of mac-based DAWs and I am extremely thrilled, though I am fearful that one day macOS will become Windows-like in its system policies. And then life will suck.
The key offering of stack overflow these days is less the ability to ask a stupid question and get told that you’re an idiot, and more the existing wealth of answers to questions that may be found by a search engine. I don’t think irc really produces answers which are easy to find.
How does your manager explain to you that you must agree to TOS from Google to install apps necessary for your job?

In the explanation to a company I see nothing wrong. In the tendency to make employees agree to arbitrary ToSes, I see massive liability that should be dealt with using a massive class action lawsuit against some behemoth.

I actually think federated protocols are a get out of jail card for employers since making your job related to owning a car is reasonable, to owning a specific brand of car is not.
Having attempted to understand postmodernism (it's been what, a good part of a century by now?), facile characterisation of postmodernism as anti-truth is itself BS.
Some jobs should be paid more. An example is shop workers who are front line during the pandemic and exposing themselves to covid-19 while higher paid people get to work from home. The problem is that it is seen as a low skill job. Same for content moderators. So should they be paid more? Arguably. Will they? Probably not.
I was relating the number who died in the U.S. versus the total population, calculated from published deaths per million per country [0]

The link you provided says that 2.2 million people globally reportedly have died of covid. Out of world's population of 7.8 billion that amounts to 1 out of 3545 people who have died, or 0.028%.

I wonder if a lot of people have misconceptions about their odds of dying from covid, given the alarmist news coverege. Especially the young and healthy, who are more at risk of dying of other things like suicide for example.

Some would say that the reaction and mitigations to covid have been more impactful than the disease itself.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
> How can pointing out a straw man permit everyone to avoid thinking?

Because pointing out fallacies is not argument, but feels a lot like it is. Pointing out fallacies allows you to defeat any other argument, but it does not allow you to take a position for anything. It is the perfect tool for allowing you to entrench yourself in your original view, by handily defeating those who would assail you in a fully general way that applies however correct you are. Merely saying "but to do so is to commit the fallacy fallacy" doesn't change the fact that it happens extremely commonly.

It's the "when used appropriately" that's the issue. A list of fallacies is probably a good thing to have access to after you've somehow had epistemic humility installed in you. But epistemic humility does not come naturally to most people, and must be taught.
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Your last point, the additional order, is crucial. And media, Spiegel being one of the most outspoken, created enough pressure tp force that order. Not that overall quantity was an issue, so. But all people saw was shortages. There were no delivery schedules published, so that played a role. But I would have expected some more investigation and research.

Then thr EU ordered more, being under fire, and that let to a temporary shutdown of the plant and even more severe shortages.

Nobody is thinking about that. Instead, the Spiegel is using this to push an agenda against von der Leyen. I'll not defend her, she should never have gotten the presidency (EDIT: become head of the Commission) but what is going on now is just cheap propaganda. And definitely not helping in any way.
So these contractors went all the way to Varadkar for minor inconveniences at their job, essentially internal disputes?

Upset about not getting the same perks as other employees?

Signing restrictive NDAs for a job with exposure to extremely sensitive company processes and customer data?

The more I read about these stories, the more I’m inclined to believe Haidt’s “Coddled Mind” and Turchin’s “Elite Overproduction” theories as the root of much of the problems we’re facing in the west today.
Yes you can do that, but it requires lots of time and dedication, and sometimes special knowledge. It’s sad that Windows comes out of the box like this.
"Move fast and break rockets over populated areas"
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Yes, it’s an incentive to encourage buying by reducing the commitment.
Those corruption cases must be verified and dealt with by the law.

The EU latency is a well known cost of the coordinating effort of multiple countries with different politics and perspectives. EU is not a country.

Make no mistake, without the EU the peripheral countries like mine would still be waiting for a vaccine.

Make no mistake, without the EU countries like France and Germany would be having similar, if not better, vaccination numbers than the UK/USA are having now.
A theory that only works for people who are lucky enough to be surrounded by supportive people.

Some people have the misfortune to know people whose usual reaction is throwing sand in other people's gears. People who crap on other people's plans.

Just as good luck can compound, so can bad luck.
People would pay, especially companies would pay, because they are legally required to. But if you make it free than you have bigger chance to dominate the market.
Go figure... I actually like that the terminal has its classic Ctrl+ characters unimpeded by the GUI layer, which has its own namespace behind Cmd+

How do you copy text out of your virtual terminal?

The Fn key placement on the other hand... I’m with you.
And you know what would happen if man playing a lot with sound, right?[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBHIc6LwH6o
> I've been running Debian Testing for 15 years now with nary a problem

I ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years, through years-long stretches of Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, Gentoo, and Ubuntu. Obviously, I was (and still am) a huge fan, but if you've managed 15 years of Linux on the desktop with "nary a problem," you have had the most unbelievable luck of any human on the planet, and should start buying lottery tickets.

After running Gentoo for several years, and switching to Ubuntu, I was amazed at how much time I was saving not dealing with portage. Fair enough. I mean, I was asking for it by using a source distro, but I had that same sigh of relief when I finally bought a Mac, and realized that I was still doing a lot of maintenance to keep Ubuntu happy, even though it was (obviously) a huge improvement over Gentoo. I just couldn't see it until it was gone.
Obviously it's bad logic. I put it in scare quotes for a reason. But having lists of fallacies available makes it a lot easier to commit this particular error of reasoning. I'm not sure I've ever witnessed an argument between normal people which was assisted by one party naming a fallacy.
It's okay to look up documentation because you forgot something. But if you have to copy swaths of code, that's not okay[0].

[0] In the "company X is paying me 6 figures / year to code" sense. If you're a hobby coder, do whatever makes you happy.
> You didn't use mac during the notarization system outage?

This has happened literally once in the history of macOS.

> And don't get me started on the completly stupid difference between ctrl+c and cmd+c.

Ctrl-C and Cmd-C are completely different actions. What is weird is that some OSes use the same keyboard combination for them.
Nothing stops anyone from using a Linux desktop as their workhorse and gaming in a VM with GPU passthrough.

With tools like Looking Glass (https://looking-glass.io/) you don't even have to leave the Ubuntu Desktop environment.
This seems very usefull but only when you have gigabytes of compliant ascii text of floating point numbers. I do wonder how well this performs on non-compliant text and wether there are systems out there that are limited by the 130MB transfer speeds of standard libraries.

Now that I think about it, Excel spreadsheets, Json, XML,textfiles are all mayor contributors to sometimes very flawed ascii-based workloads that should have a complementary binary backing.
Jobs are paid according to supply and demand. Jobs that anybody can do will always be paid poorly.
> "I’ve been following finance for decades."

But apparently not HN community. Your user was created 1d ago. :P
> But why? Matrix is tiny and no threat to Google services.

There is an absolutely unprecedented shift going on as we speak, one of those groundswell events that have the potential to shift usage habits of hundreds of millions of people.

We got a taste just recently with the shift away from WhatsApp based on a TOS update. Imagine arguing last year that ten million users would jump ship based on a TOS change?

Matrix, and services of its ilk, are absolutely an existential threat to Google in the next 20 years.

Don’t forget that Google has all the threat intel you could possibly imagine from their existing analytics platforms. They will see the shift coming before anyone.

I can absolutely see them acting now to try to disrupt the initial rumblings of a seismic event that has the potential to go totally viral and popular sentiment shifts against megacorps.

Killing them gets exponentially harder over the next 6 months if there were a successful campaign across the internet to switch to these services, and 2021 is very close to seeing a very significant grassroots campaign like that truly take off. Certainly the time has never been better and the populace never been more primed to make the move out of the walled gardens.
The equivalent API on Linux (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/fanotify.7.html), AFAIK, does block for an undetermined amount of time, and doesn't make the open() system call return EINTR.
http://cht.sh it does exactly that, also from command line.
That maybe a reason to lie, but that's still fucking lying.
Only if you believe apps like McAfee are benign.

I'd say excepting source directories is less about engineers believing those are safe directories and more about engineers wanting to except their entire machine and source directories being the compromise management went for.
University of North Dakota used Modula-2 as its language for CompSci starting in Summer 88 (not sure when they switched away from it). I get the feeling some of the decision was because they had a version running on the IBM 370 under CMS. XEDIT was an interesting editor.

I liked it but remember the I/O commands were frustrating as heck. It would be interesting to C-syntax it and see what the reaction is.
> For many Germans she's the definition of what's wrong with German politics because she didn't get where she is out of her own abilities, but rather as a consequence of her family having had that kind of influence in Germany for generations

Lucky her, now we think of Scheuer instead. Her fuckups are pretty tame compared to that guy... and he's still not canceled.

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10652-bahnmining_-_punktlichkeit...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Scheuer

Quite sadly, the english wiki article is... well pretty misleading about this guy:

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

PKW-Maut isn't even mentioned..
By using streamlined logistics services and marketing direct to consumer on Amazon, and also responsive tech support. There's no reason that Shenzhen clone houses should offer better service than the genuine product.
> In my experience, consumers feel differently about these categories.

So the ends justify the means if people are okay with it?
Not "light brightness," whatever that's supposed to mean, but UV light.
I wrote something similar for a college software engineering class project - we were supposed to implement image filtering (blur, zoom and the like) and I wanted to be able to display the before/after pictures in the terminal.
Source: https://github.com/donfreiday/graffiti
Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit
The lack of commercially supported software with restrictive licensing is certainly NOT A negative!!!
> bash, python and even SSH being regularly broken

Broken how? That's surprising - in my experience, the versions of these utilities on macos are often missing features relative to linux, but the differences are known and documented...
I think you’re right, but you may be missing why companies do this and which companies do it. It’s a public relations effort and a legal security. They are protecting themselves from media scandals and lawsuits, and nothing more. I am not being cynical. These are corporate firms managed by a board of investors.

So the extent of such efforts is dependent on the companies’ priorities. If a company is not turning a sufficient surplus in the first place, profit will be higher on their priority list. Otherwise, security will be higher, relatively speaking.
As a middle-aged man with no real workout plan up to a couple of years ago who's now going through a blood pressure scare, this idea of scaring your kid away from physical activity, even in jest, feels like the first half of a horror story.
>> Section 5.4 which you quote from specifies that "this section only shall include the United Kingdom". As written, this section does not relate to the distribution of the initial doses in Section 5.1, but instead is about where AstraZeneca _could_ choose to manufacture the vaccine. That is why it explains the process by which they might get prior written notice for non-EU manufacturing sites, and discusses how they could be contracted with if they are unable to deliver doses.

I'm not sure. You might be right. However section 5.4 also says:

If AstraZeneca is unable to deliver on its intention to manufacture the Initial Europe Doses and/or Optional Doses under this Agreement in the EU, the Commission or the Participating Member States may present to AstraZeneca, CMOs within the EU capable of manufacturing the Vaccine Doses, and AstraZeneca shall use its Best Reasonable Efforts to contract with such proposed CMOs to increase the available manufacturing capacity within the EU.

"Within the EU" in this particular paragraph encompasses the UK, so my reading of this is that if AstraZeneca can't deliver the Initial Europe Doses as it plans, the Commission can propose alternative manufacturing sites that include UK sites. Which seems to cover the Comission's current request that AstraZeneca use UK-made doses to honour its commitment to deliver the Initial Europe Doses (to its best reasonable efforts etc).

Again, IANAL, so I don't know how to interpret this document correctly. I'm reading it as a lay person who does not understand the technicalities of legal terminology.
Is there a difference in meaning between:

sound argument

logically sound

I'm not aware of these phrases being the same. I took mathematical logic in graduate school many years ago and I've used logically sound to be something different than sound argument.

I'm not disagreeing that valid would have been a better word choice. I did clarify my meaning in a subsequent post. I rewrote my point without using either sound or valid in an effort to be more precise.
I think that I agree with your overall point but this

> If a company start optimizing on diversity metrics instead of on ability, then they’ll be crushed by market forces from companies who optimize on ability.

isn't necessarily true. A company's success is only very loosely related to the ability of its employees.
While we're on the subject - has anyone connected a 5K monitor to the Macbook Air M1 using a DisplayPort 1.4 port yet?

In particular the Viewsonic XB2779QQS-S1... (
> I assume the pure math department is not doing much.

Please see my earlier comment. They once had a Fields medalist on their staff. And it was not a one-off coincidence. Leicester has a really good tradition of pure math.
Indeed! But the site emphatically does not lead with the lesson that the proper use of fallacy-knowledge is to give you the tools to examine your own thoughts. I hold a weak belief that bare lists of fallacies do more harm than good because they don't install the necessary prerequisite of epistemic uncertainty.
Due to the much younger population, most of Africa, India, and Pakistan has had MMR, and it's been found that the mumps vaccine provides significant immunity. In the west most over 35 had measles only, or MR combination without mumps.

DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02628-20

For some reason this hasn't been well covered in the media. I got an MMR booster in June based on preliminary findings, my GP thought I was insane.
That, not more than a GB part is very wrong

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Did it increase total profit? I won't pick up the phone unless I have no other option, and I won't call someone just to get a quote. Besides, those sales rep cost money too.
It worked for me when I tried it but it was so slow that unless you are running from an SSD it's not worth it (I had it on an external disk). Don't download everything, only get what you really need, the phone app was (maybe still is) a bit buggy.
I don't know how I should feel, but I definitely know how I do feel about having owned 12 BTC that I bought for $300 about 10 years ago and then just traded until I lost it all, instead of just putting it on a usb key and forgetting about it for a while like I should have. Sigh. I did learn a thing or two about trading, so there is that. I learned enough to stop. (Along with the slightly tarnished feeling of having lost about half of it to the mtgox scandal.. also a good lesson, I guess.)
For those who are German or otherwise and learning English, the following two phrases are not the same (they have opposite meanings):

1. Let's ensure wise men don't stop to share their wisdom

2. Let's ensure wise men don't stop sharing their wisdom

If you say, "don't stop to do X," that means (roughly), "don't do X." In other words, #1 means the same thing as, "Let's ensure wise men don't share their wisdom." #2 is the one you want. If the amount of multiple negatives is confusing, omit them completely and say, "Let's ensure wise men keep sharing their wisdom."
The data is on archive.org and also on big query if you need it.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
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