skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is (part of) why I upvote anything even remotely helpful, explaining that some command switch does (or doesn't do) X, or syntax clarification, or even having the best formatted and/or written answer, asking a question I didn't know I had, and so on. I'm not a power SO'er, but I have some privileges and I do try to help the site be good.

It's kind of like Craigslist for me in that random people like me are also the source of poor-quality and low-effort participation, one-sentence or obviously-homework questions. However, I do realize the structure of the site and the Ponzi-like nature of voting there makes the n00b experience difficult if you want points and privileges. But at the end of the day, question choice and moderation are the comb and brush of informative crowd-driven sites.

That said, I assume there is plenty of action to be had if you're participating in cutting edge, new version, or new technology topics. Unfortunately that conflicts with the low-effort/homework population who I assume are constrained by their curriculum and so they have only C++ questions to ask. By that token I wonder how many questions even remain to be asked of common and popular topics like Java. It could just be that SO is "full" in certain topics.

The way to grow an economy is to participate in the economy, but this acquistion is no doubt going to change things for me.

I also speculate that there's a certain mindset that sees unmonetized ratings (or even points) as a market failure, which is what generated acquisition interest.
A 10 min introduction to the SAM, State Action Model, an alternative to MVC
not to us old farts, who get a great feeling of nostalgia when we read about those win32 APIesque topics.
> Why are people so in love with the QR payment systems vs what Apple Pay has done?

QR code payment systems don't require me to buy into the entire integrated Apple hardware/software ecosystem just to make payments.

If you mean “NFC payments in general”, that’s a different question.
I wish someone would do to the energy industry what SpaceX did to the space industry. Prove to the world what is now possible instead of excuse after excuse of defending the status quo.
No, Duolingo is not for all ages, the Duolingo Kids app is the product designed for kids.

It's similar to Youtube in that regard. An "Everyone" rating on play store doesn't mean an app meets regulations related to user age, you need to read the EULA to understand where an app stands legally. For example: letting the user upload a photo avatar runs afoul of COPPA.

As for why you're seeing that ad, it has to do with browsing history tracking by ad networks... (I started to get contextual ads after looking at a specific niche elsewhere myself)

(Disclaimer: my brother works at Duolingo)
Nice cynical, cruel take. It says more about you that you believe people who speak about their trauma are only doing it to play victim.

You ever wonder how trauma is passed through generations? Because of the premise you are saying: people in denial about a trauma they experienced. They assume the shitty experiences they had are normal and then repeat the same acts that were visited upon them.

In my reading about cptsd during my counseling (uh oh, am I playing a victim?) one of the most common thoughts identified in childhood trauma is downplaying the severity and assuming it is common. That leads to people not seeking treatment.

Try showing some compassion and assume good faith.
I don't think they meant hiring managers, but rather division or project managers, ones who decide that this division or project needs to hire more people (possibly with attrition goal at mind).
This kind of reminds me of Yahoo! News a long time ago, which (if I remember right) would append "Yahoo!" to the start of all news headlines. So one might get, "Yahoo! Tornado kills 5 in Kansas"
Most of these are very successful businesses, just not as fashionable as the SV ones you know. If this is their complete list of investments their hit rate is insane.
Yes, this happens. But the trick is that you have to have the employee on the development list before the termination is keyed in the HR system. The good news, is that the manager is usually responsible for entering the termination (voluntary or involuntary).

In happy cases like this, and in cases where you actually have significant performance problems, URA isn't so bad. The more degenerate situations happen in circumstances like:

* The employee wants to internal transfer. Bad Manager X immediately adds Employee Y to the development list and says "Oh ho ho, you're not able to transfer because of your performance problems." For Bad Manager X, the apparent incentive is high - either the employee stays and you keep the resource or they leave and you get URA credit. Obviously this leads to pretty awful situations, but I saw it happen multiple times. This can also happen when the manager is trying to protect the employee - e.g. add them to DL but not actually fire them. This usually backfires.

* Senior management pushes down URA targets. Hey, you've got a 15 person group? That means you need to pick one person to let go. Satisfied with all of their performance and understaffed to begin with? I don't care. Don't you want to have another great performer like employee Z? You need to make room, so tell me who is the least impressive person on your team. This leads to really sociopathic management behaviors.

All of this would be OK to me, if it was done transparently and more objectively. But Amazon has thrown out all the paper trail and messaged to employees that they aren't being stack ranked, which is complete bullshit.

Pro tip if you're working at Amazon: if you get a PCS with no additional grant and no base increase, you're on the development list. Find another job, or do something amazing.
I get LSD and psilocybin, but why ketamine? In either case, I feel like this shouldn't have tried to include ketamine since the perception of it might jeopardize the bill.
Will it pass further voting required to enact it?
Anecdata incoming: a few years ago when I was doing stuff with c# it seemed like everything I needed was already on SO answered by some dude with like a million kudos or whatever.

Recently I need some python + mariadb answers and most of the top ones are out-of-date enough that I can't even use them (deprecated packages). I was a bit surprised TBH.

Also TIL GitHub Discussions is a thing.
I read through a lot of these UAV articles on thedrive.com and they all appear to really drum up the paranoia angle.

I do see the threat for sure but the over the top hand waving interwoven with available solutions makes me wonder if this is a anti-UAV munitions marketing campaign.

However, we do indeed have a problem. I can see a single drone hovering around a nuclear facility or military base as harmless bit of curiosity. But multiple UAVs hovering for an hour are certainly suspicious.

The wonders of technology.
When I bought my french press it told me to stir immediately. The results are striking, both in looking at the thing and in taste. Stirring immediately, and the grounds fall into solution and are able to swirl, then you wait 5 minutes before plunging to allow all the grounds to evenly brew. If you let it sit, the grounds clump at the top and don't evenly brew like they would if they were all in solution.
The guy's channel is all technical videos on HarmonyOS on phones and iot-devices:

https://space.bilibili.com/455592866

Unfortunately, the video I linked to appears to be the only one in English.
Passed the CA Senate... then it goes on to the CA Assembly for vote.

Anyone know the probability that this will make it all the way to becoming law?
Bad Breakdowns, Useful Seams, and Face Slapping: Analysis of VR Fails on YouTube
I agree with your recommendation of Dava Sobel's book. I recommend it to many of my (science) students, as either (a) a present for a family member who has an interest in science, navigation, history, etc. or (b) a hint that students can give to family members who want to give them a gift.

Many of these students have told me how much they enjoyed the book, and none have told me the reverse.

Undergrads can be a tough audience, so this reception is a very good recommendation for this book. And this is not the only engaging book Sobel has written ... I would recommend any of them.
Just for your information, thermal pad means more (on youtube test +10 degrees celsius) hot chassis and more hot battery. Just be aware:) Good luck
I think we would largely agree on the meat and potatoes - we just have a small disagreement of opinion, no biggie :)

>I just don't feel it's correct to say that the contributions actually had no monetary value, they definitely did, it's just that we handed it to Stack Overflow for free in exchange for participating in the platform.

How did you know the answer had value when you typed it up? The value is not solely determined by you or me - It's by the large number of visitors/viewers actually benefiting from the answer. And you need both, the platform attracting tons of readers, and the high-quality answer.

Certainly, there is lots that can be said here to expand on that and add more nuance, but not in a comment box.
The impeccable track record of index funds suggests that "Even just one of the top funds has an infinitesimally small chance of existing randomly" is not actually correct.
"The quality of music. Modern music is like junk food. Produced and processed industrially. Pushed to consumers through aggressive marketing To gorge on classical music results almost impossible as it is while eating for example meat or fish."
Except that the very point of a general purpose computer is that, to use your analogy, your car can spontaneously sprout parts and reform the chassis as needed. Aluminium frame with a pair of wings and four jet engines one week for that overseas trip, a heavy duty frame with a winch for the construction job on Friday, a napalm launcher for fighting kudzu in your front yard (a stretched analogy, but you can see where I'm going with this).

All of this is enabled by software, which costs nothing at all to replicate unless it's restricted via copyright law. This is very much unlike every other hobby, where specialised tools cost money to duplicate.
A very significant result for drug policy modernization efforts everywhere. California is larger than many countries. Policymakers and politicians will be looking at the results of this change with great interest as they contemplate the risks and benefits of such a move in their own jurisdictions. If things goes broadly without incident (as I bet they will), then Prohibitionists will have less ammunition against policy modernization.
What you describe is essentially a hostile takeover transforming the business into a partial co-op. I don't think anyone has the capital to do that.

It's better to start an economically-sustainable co-op (REI) than attempt to turn a commercial megaplatform into a still for-profit partial co-op.
Well, they aren't the first to say "always free" despite having features that can be paid for, and once you get used to this little piece of marketing speak, it's easy to understand.

I appreciate them using something commonly understood.
I've heard it has a lot of promise in treating depression, decriminalization would allow for official medical studies.
My anecdotal experience corroborates your quote: when I was 13-14 I occasionally did truck unloading/stage construction for an entertainment company. When another below-legal-age friend of mine got injured while unloading a truck, the managers begged him to make up some story in the hospital. I stopped taking stage construction gigs after another kid was killed when a ton of sound equipment crushed him.

From what Amazon warehouse workers I know tell me, the safety measures are on a different level to anything I was used to when I did blue collar work.

edit: I looked up one of the events we did[1] to make sure I got the age right and I was 15 when it took place.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjHEMzyakrY
Some people have very positive experiences with it, however I believe it's also dangerously addictive, which does make it stand out compared to the others.

Though, I'm sure the risk of ketamine is still better controlled in a legalized environment, hence it's inclusion.
Okay, I respect your dedication as an admin. I don't think it's flamewars but I agree hacker news should not become 4chan. I'll stick to the guide lines better.
I just found it funny that your provided link starts with a sentence containing "has not made Americans more willing to pay extra for U.S.-made goods."
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I guess I need to rephrase. It's the mentality of an immature child to elect not to do what they believe they should do, or want to do because of fear of punishment.
"trying things and measuring results"

do you mean plain jane A/B testing?
That is a really interesting distinction. I have had a couple hobbies that ended up being “buy all the things as if you were going to do this hobby” more than actually enjoying the hobby, and they were spectacularly unfulfilling in the end. More like chasing some consumerist ideal than anything else, for sure.
How is that related to "the field"?

Are Jews being harassed by colleagues at work, when working (not engaging in political debates)?
OpenPGP library RNP updates after Thunderbird decrypt-no-recrypt bug squashed
This is not “hate”, only the report comes from the CCDH ‘Center for Countering Digital Hate’ which as its mission in “Strengthening communities and democracy by disrupting identity-based hate and dangerous misinformation in digital spaces”

They only monitoring online weird guys/groups and I think the anti-vaxxx can ben surely put inside those groups.
Who is the “audience” of this email(?) and what is the context? And is this a legitimate email? The “from” email address at the top does not match the signature email address at the bottom.
Why is complicity in abuse of populations suddenly a problem? The US imprisons more than China does, forces citizens to work through a yet-unresolved pandemic that disproportionately impacts already marginalized and abused segments of the population, and furnishes private companies with prison labor for $1 an hour when the prisoners are not being made to fight forest fires or being abused (or killed) by law enforcement or each other.

I think the companies have the stomach for more and that it’s mainly a marketing and public relations issue.

https://fair.org/home/us-media-cant-think-how-to-fight-fires...
There are many laws like this that attempt to prevent an uncommon Bad Thing™ from happening at the expense of individual freedom. Some are created as a response to some event. Some are the result of some group pushing their moral values in law. I think we have seen that in most cases these types of laws that conflate correlation and causation are harmful and often abused to the detriment of specific groups.
Metrics are quotas at Amazon. There is a literally a training during your onboarding about Amazon's "metrics culture", and how the only reason you track a metric is if you have a corresponding target for that metric, as well as someone responsible for ensuring that the metric reaches that target. Amazon doesn't just track random metrics for the hell of it. Those metrics and targets are used either for or against you during annual performance reviews, and URA/RA targets are one of the most important metrics for manager-track employees. If that isn't a 'quota', then I don't know what would be.
I would be less kind. Scott Aaronson said it well in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FwiPfF8Woe5JrzqEu/philosophy...

One final note: none of the positive or hopeful things that I said about philosophy apply to the postmodern or Continental kinds. As far as I can tell, the latter aren’t really “philosophy” at all, but more like pretentious brands of performance art that fancy themselves politically subversive, even as they cultivate deliberate obscurity and draw mostly on the insights of Hitler and Stalin apologists. I suspect I won’t ruffle too many feathers here at MIRI by saying this.

I have less experience of them than Scott Aaronson does. But what I've seen has not suggested that he is in any way mistaken.
There are a heck of a lot of anecdotes with the same hire to fire claim and I have heard them as well from former Amazon employees. Plenty of them on Blind as well, which verifies company employment.

Sure, fire has not been found, but there is a ton of smoke on this.
How Facebook deals with PCIe faults to keep its data centers running reliably
Aeropress rivals anything I can get at Starbucks or anywhere else. I use the expresso base to make any coffee drink I want (without any milk frothing).

It cleans up quick, pop out the compressed spent coffee grind puck into the trash and rinse under water then you are done!
Doom Emacs isn't Emacs. My handmade init.el was much lighter than Doom Emacs or Spacemacs ever where. Not really fair comparing a full blown setup with plugin with a barebones VIM one.
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Except in rare edge cases, very few companies are going to burn money in excess labor to water down their injury rates like this. Workers comp insurance is not so expensive that it would make sense to double your labor force to do the same output.
That's how I feel too. During the peak of the US and European lockdowns, back in April of last year, daily emissions fell by like only 10-20%.[1] Tells quite a story about how much our personal actions matter.

[1] You can just google it.
It seems as though, at Amazon, managers are optimizing their own quantitative performance reviews.
Major Releases are supported for at least 3 years, but are officially supported until a successor is released. Minor releases are supported for 18 months. So that is a downside, it is not quite the support level of CentOS, albeit having a dedicated minor release support schedule is nice (For RHEL at least you are expected to update to the newest minor release unless you pay extra).
I can't downvote yet, but your comment doesn't add much to the discussion and is very hard to understand. And your edit is likely to attract even more downvotes since it just completely detracts from anything you were trying to get across.
After all these years, I still remember exact locations I walked while listening to that. Funny thing, memory.
Disposable filters are my biggest conundrum. For years I would either use Aeropress with a metal filter, or French Press (metal carafe + press), or pour-over with something like the Bodum (metal filter). But I wasn't satisfied with my coffee. I went back to paper and it was like a breath of fresh air. I enjoy it so much more. I tried to tell myself I preferred the oils, etc. but in the end I greatly prefer the smoothness of filtered coffee.

So that's where I'm at now, buying big packs of paper filters for my Aeropress and V60. I'm not sure how to move past it. I guess I just tell myself it's infinitely better than Keurig for less waste and massively better flavor.
I am glad you bring this up. If I am wrong, people can downvote me and my voice will lose visibility (quite literally - the comment will get grayed out and will drop to the bottom of the page). What happens if the reporter is wrong? Assuming they don't spread their lies knowingly, legally they will be in safe territory. And they will still cash in on all the controversy they create with their fake reporting. So my view on this specific topic may or may not be right, but my claim that the journalism landscape is out of balance should stand regardless.
Much like FATCA?
Always liked Joel as a writer. I do not foresee this being a good thing though, except perhaps for owners/shareholders. I’m expecting revenue extraction, product stagnation (or worse), communities declining. Some of this seems like it has begun already, I would say I don’t use SO as a resource as often as earlier in its lifetime. Seems like these days the answer is as likely to come from a GitHub issue.

Anyway, congrats to the owners and shareholders I suppose.
I dunno. Reddit seems like an example of a successful acquisition. Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it.

But I agree with you overall. I'm a bit nervous too. Stack Overflow is so good, and its fate is now entirely in the hands of the purchaser.

EDIT: In the other announcement post (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announ...):

Today we’re pleased to announce that Stack Overflow is joining Prosus. Prosus is an investment and holding company, which means that the most important part of this announcement is that Stack Overflow will continue to operate independently, with the exact same team in place that has been operating it, according to the exact same plan and the exact same business practices. Don’t expect to see major changes or awkward “synergies”. The business of Stack Overflow will continue to focus on Reach and Relevance, and Stack Overflow for Teams. The entire company is staying in place: we just have different owners now.

I wonder how true this will be over time.
Takealot Group (subdivided into Takealot, Superbalist, and MrD) is basically a trinity of Amazon, [insert fashion e-tailer here], and UberEats, for South Africa.
I had completely forgotten about AIM's file transfers! an absolute godsend when making music and Flash videos with friends in middle school
> But all have 1 year cliffs.

Google and Facebook don't anymore. You start vesting right away.
This may be an unpopular opinion and sound ad-hominem, but in my experience with people, this overdone “modern music bad, classical music good” shtick is a signal of intellectual posturing.
Okay, if I send you a study from buygold.net predicting the imminent collapse of the US dollar, wouldn't you be a little skeptical ?
Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by measly readership
He didn't demonstrate it because there was nothing to show. Harmony is Android.
how much BPA can leech from constant usage of aeropress? are we talking about miniscule amounts here?