skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right, the author might just be cargo culting here
Re: alternatives -- see this comment chain a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33103321

Re: jank -- per the official microG wiki [1], most of the functionality is only partially implemented and/or has bugs. I don't see how it's shallow to consider that as janky.

[1] https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status
> the presentation, though, was cringe

Using "cringe" as an adjective immediately makes my mind imagine the author as a typical Fortnite-playing, Youtube-watching, Discord-using, skinny 12 year old boy with glasses.
better is subjective so I'd rather not go into that too deeply haha.

Its all about the tradeoffs you're going after. If you absolutely need to cut down errors to a minimum and are willing to sacrifice developer speed/productivity, Haskell with IHP is certainly a compelling offer. (yes I know an experienced haskell dev will probably be jsut as productive as a experienced elixir dev but it will take much longer to train someone from another language to haskell than to elixir.)

conversely, if you want speed at all costs, rust is certainly nice.

now if we're talking Pareto efficient intersection of performance, developer productivity and maintainability, yea elixir hits that sweet spot well. I haven't encountered a language that does that better yet. Python comes close if you're willing to take a drastic hit on performance. The tooling is descent, the day to day ergonomics let me focus on solving our startup's problems rather than wrestling with the platform. It's not perfect (lord knows I wish there were more libraries).
Sure:

- You're able to visibly instruct and teach physical objects without being physically on-site.

Now apply that to professions like cooking, teaching, repairs, art, entertainment, music, industrial etc.
Doesn't sound like the probe would be landing on a planet. At a fifth of the speed of light, there's no slowing down enough to do anything more than a flyby.
Agreed this is a positive thing
I'm getting there, myself. All tech is converging on the single goal of making the rich richer by serving ads and influencing elections. I'm tired of it.

I hear the local public transit company is hiring bus maintainers, training included.
this is extremely interesting, the fact that at the end of the day, the plastics exporters still do a remarkable job of processing whatever plastic waste they keep, way better than the best job that plastic importers do with the plastic waste they pay for.

So comparative advantage works once again, to our detriment.

it seems we need to reverse the flow of plastics so that the countries good at reprocessing plastics reprocess more plastic around the world, even the ones produced by less developed countries. unfortunately a lot of waste processing industries in these countries are built on lies and corruption, so the economic cost and benefit is warped, leading to flow that is not optimal to humanity. poor countries are not being dumped on to the extent that they are paying to be dumped on. when the issue is legal and economic structures of individual countries, where do we even begin to fix the problem?
Agreed. With screen sharing, video, and audio, there's nothing more that is really needed for distributed people meeting together. Meeting in a 3d world seems like it would only benefit if you're discussing something that is 3d (some architecture design, car design, 3-d assets, etc.). Plus, it seems almost less personal in some ways since you're using an avatar instead of your actual face.
So your main issue with VR meetings is you can't sit there and ignore the meeting?

You can say "Hey, it sounds like i'm no longer needed here, do you mind if I leave?".
You and me and nobody else. In the pedant-free zone.
I made $200k last year ghostwriting tweets for superstar VCs
Look how many flights are from east coast city to east coast city. Just eliminating these would be massive.

But our rail system is outdated, our government won't allow realistic trains to be built. We don't need a million stops. We need metro to metro.
I think there's a kind of CAP theorem for that kind of forum. It's hard to combine:

- open and free

- well-known

- respected

- has knowledgeable people

- willing to understand and discuss the unique context of every post in good faith

- also able to identify when you truly DO have an XY problem (because they do exist)

- scalable
The irony of his outrage being documented on his Wikipedia page
They did? They have both better avatars [1] and life like ones too [2].

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hvfV-iGwYX8&feature=share&si=EMS...

[2]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hvfV-iGwYX8&feature=share&si=EMS...
They are. 4 years ago in Jakarta malls cashiers put simple light items in double bags. Last year there were no plastic bags, only heavy reusable bags.

But there is a lot of intertia.
It is beautifully written. The capacity of the authors to effectively use parody within the brief to defend parody while keeping the serious parts of the brief serious shows the quality of the Onions.
Interesting idea, but I don't think the sail would be nearly enough to counteract the gravitational acceleration caused by getting near the target system, let alone losing enough speed to enter an orbit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33150272
The next time Andrew Orlowski writes an article about Wikipedia, ignore it.

I'm being flippant to some degree, but he's not someone you can trust to have an balanced opinion on Wikipedia and anything he says on that topic should be taken with a large dose of salt.
At times I wonder whether this stuff is a sort of “I’ve been bullied by this tactic in the past so I’m going to bully with this tactic now” psychological pathology.

Society’s suffering from a lot of whataboutism, gaslighting, and authoritarianism. The internets made it so there aren’t many real islands of information isolation. Iran comes to mind. (Granted, North Korea kind of doesn’t.) The propaganda is clearly crossing national borders more easily than ever before now.

So maybe we can’t have nice forums because the internet is a reflection of the world.
> I suspect that if the voting/karma behaviour of these forums could be changed, there would be less of this.

And less people answering your questions.

Frankly, few people are so selfless that they spend time answering other people's questions simply to help them. Many of them do so precisely because they can judge other people and feel superior. You take that away, and you'd have to pay people to waste their time doing your work instead of theirs.
All of these are essentially forms of bike shedding, and it's become a massive problem here on HN too. I don't know if they do this because of the classic bike shed where they don't have any actual insight but feel like they need to say something for some reason, or something else. I don't know of any place that isn't so dominated by that anymore.
Agreed. I bought a VR headset a few years ago with the idea of using iRacing to practice for actual track days. It was a plausible use case with a lot of significant practical advantages.

But in reality, it was just unpleasant to use. I just didn't like having something strapped to my face. Ultimately, 3 monitors provided an adequately immersive experience for learning without the hassle/discomfort of having a headset on. Honestly, it was kind of better anyway.

I suspect that what people will quickly find is that although a VR meeting might in certain respects have theoretical advantages, its just not better enough (or maybe even better at all) to overcome the hassle. I don't want to go into a meeting room and strap on a headset, especially not the headset everyone else has been strapping on for the last month. Comparing zoom to a headset, I'd take zoom.
There's nothing stopping me from checking out in real world meetings too. But in a remote meeting, when I check out, I can at least be productive.
I'm not sure you're going to find anything better. These websites are already pretty incredible at getting fairly competent people to write technical content for free. If you want something even better, still for free, that's a big ask.

Are you asking this question because you want to contribute hundreds of answers for free to this better forum?
While I fully agree with the sentiment here, paying or donating doesn't necessarily prevent ads. Some software and entertainment providers just jam ads into everything, even for paying customers.

But yes, I do agree that paying for FOSS should be the norm, where possible. And hopefully this will indeed prevent ads in many cases.

It's a shame that advertising has become so normalised that is reflexively added to so many fledgling projects. Most startups fail, but there are always others being born in their place, churning out more ads into the gap.

Another niggle, which is admittedly at a tangent from what I took as your main point. Not everyone in the "HN crowd" is in a position to donate. Recently I read a comment here from someone who said they're homeless, for example. But for those HNers who are employed, yes, donation to FOSS should be far more common.
Show HN: A Rust content editing tool for the GPT-3 Completions API
I have been experimenting with using the GPT-3 Completions API to co-write blog articles. I wrote this Rust binary to speed up the content generation process.

I use two text files. One for prompt text, the second for suffix text. I edit both files in a regular text editor and then just run the executable whenever I want GPT-3 to fill in some content.

This isn't commercial-- and you have to have your own OpenAI API key to use it. I'm learning Rust so any tips / organizational corrections are greatly appreciated.
Mostly agree. But on "input devices" I don't think the keyboard will as we know it will make the transition. Anyway, it's a very unnatural input device which only a small percentage of humanity has mastered. Steve Jobs famously told his designers in the 80s that he didn't want the Mac to have a physical keyboard. They said, rightly at the time, that a computer needs one. But in the end Jobs was correct - 99% of computers now have no keyboard.

I have not followed research in this area, but I'm sure that some very smart people are trying to figure out the ideal virtual keyboard for VR.
For the love of Wikipedia. Just like the hundreds of thousands of people who edit articles for no pay at all. It makes no sense believing that building an online encyclopaedia can be done for free but that managing it would require top dollar salaries.

The implication of your comment is that Wikipedia wouldn't function it if didn't generously compensate its executives because it would fail to attract competent staff. That view has been vindicated by, for example, European left-wing parties who cap their politicians' and administrators' salaries at the national median. No evidence suggests that left-wing parties therefore attract less qualified candidates than right-wing parties.
The same kind of monopoly microsoft was accused it was when providing free media player and free browser apps. This is just the same type of market abuse except its leveraging people’s free work and not pre installing it inside its own os’. Perhaps you should learn law indeed.
The fed’s plan is to “lower demand” which is just another way of saying it will make things more unaffordable on net, not less. So this makes sense.
> none of the stereotypical figures associated to demons like stars, 666 numbers, or inverted crosses are seen in the photos

Those are modern, pop culture stereotypes. The inverted cross and the pentagram are centuries old catholic symbols (not associated with demons).
Would you look at that, Treasury in first place on that top list at near 50%

No, I won’t finish the sentence. Go read the article if you haven’t.
I can’t possibly see myself wanting to share or discuss company secrets or details on a Facebook/Meta owned platform. They have such a horrible track record when it comes to privacy, and basic honesty and integrity, that there’s no way it makes sense to use as a corporate platform.
You could automatically scale it into the cloud in case of being hugged by HN, for example.
I think it's unfortunately something which has been reinforced by the majority of poor questions. You may legitimately want to solve X, but nearly all of the questions active users see are just poorly researched questions about Y. Attempting to take your X question literally means giving that same latitude to every other question, which increases the volunteer's workload by orders of magnitude.

I'm not sure how to best get around this, other than making your X question extremely clear, and describe why Y is not what you're looking for.
Looks and feels nice

Sadly no plugin support yet, and no VIM keybdings, that's a bummer.

I loaded up a JS project, but no support for prettier, LSP or eslint formatting means the Format Code feature doesn't match with the rest of the projects style, so I can't use it.

I'll keep it installed and revisit now and then (similar to Nova). Excited to see what they have planned
This line of thinking is how we get dystopia.
In linear algebra finding a general inverse of a matrix is harder than solving a specific equation.
2010: Fuck the banks

Occupy gets sunk.

201x: Rainbow floats sponsored by J.P. Morgan, Angela Davis talks sponsored by Shell Corp.
Ok. In that case falling prices would be good.
I think the 'downvote' is neither useful nor healthy, indeed. Very often it is also implemented in conjunction with other UI features which make downvoted comments disappear, which ends up creating an echo-chamber and dissuades dissenting comments.
I know this may come across as saying "who would want to carry a telephone in their pocket?", but the idea that we would all be required to sit with googles on all day, in a virtual 'office' environment, in order to do our work, is beyond all dystopian imagining, in my view.

Today I'm coding by my window, with the sun shining outside - some birdsong audible from the trees in the yard. One of my kids just came home from school, and we chatted for a couple minutes. I had a few (too many) meetings today, but they were all video-calls and for some of the time I could carry on with a current task.

I think the receptiveness of the HN crowd overestimates the utility of this technology. It would probably be used to enslave underlings into being 'present' at the virtual office without pee-breaks for 10-hours every day.

PS: I see everyone else in this thread questioning the idea that we should sit in a virtual-reality world with goggles strapped to our faces all day is getting downvoted. I think people outside the tech-nerd bubble would probably disagree.
noticeably missing from the list of supported languages in the blog link... Ruby
but debian iirc has only one partition by default, no?
Better. It's like a VS.Code that you can turn into a Visual Studio (if needed) within the same application.
Re: the first sin, I was told to not invert matrices but never given a satisfying reason. So I wrote a blog post about it:

http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2020/12/09/matrix-inversion...
Find small communities.

In my experience, everything you said is 100% true -- once groups get big enough. But each of those points is, equally, 100% false for small groups.

For example, the Raku community is fairly small, so the r/rakulang subreddit is friendly. For that matter, even the [raku] StackOverflow tag is friendly! Last I checked, the same was true of the corresponding Rust tags, though I know they've grown a lot since I was a regular there.
Welcome to old age, grampa :) Here's your rocking chair, there's the lawn, time to start yelling.
The planet does not need the power; it gets all it needs. It is used in space.

They don't crash into each other for the same reason our satellites (mostly) don't: they are in selected orbits.

But if we have not worked out aneutronic fusion by the time we would be able to build something like this, you might as well write off humanity.

By then all the action will be out in the Kuiper Belt, where the truly valuable resource is: cold.
I can hire Ukrainians already if I want to. The biggest benefit here is being able to open a Ukrainian bank account. I don't' see any foreigners wanting to do that anytime soon.

I mean, if I was going to apply for an eresidency, its hard to beat Estonia's offering at the moment.

hopefully things wil change soon. before the war, I would have definitely considered getting a ukrainian eresidency
>3) In what way are they strayed far away from it?

By introducing political bias into the selection and presentation of information.

If I check pages on feminism or even radical feminism, I wouldn't see any information on how some prominent early feminist figures advocated mass genocide of men. Most of the pages are generally shown benign.

If I check a few pages on prominent manosphere subcultures, I don't have to scroll far before the word 'misogynist' pops up, despite the fact both cultures are fairly similar (both contain a small extremist population and a large population of idealists), and feminism having far, far more text written, both per page and across Wikipedia as a whole.

Personally, I'm fairly certain spreading a few more words on the bloodlust of early feminists would shine a fairly different light on the movement without changing the ideology of the majority. It's not just information hidden away from high traffic pages, it practically doesn't exist if you don't know exactly what to look for. Yet any kind of filth is practically at the front for anything related to the countercultures. That reeks of tone setting.
But that last reason makes the behaviours described in the question even worse.

If I land on a page with the question "What does the blue button on the back of a Mark 3 defrobulator do?" at the top in large friendly letters, I am likely to be interested in that question, and I'm unlikely to be interested in any of the conversation that follows on from "Why do you think you want to press the blue button?".
> A single person cannot be diverse or not diverse.

According to the plain old-fashioned definition, this is true. According to the modern political definition, “diverse” is approximately a synonym for “non-white”.
> Because you do it only once

Not really though.
Extensions are frequently deprecated or outdated, need to switch to new alternative, don't play nice together, etc.

Anyway, there's no need to advocate for vscode, it's not an underdog. I imagine everyone here has already formed their opinion and tried JB IDEs, vscode, and other tools, and probably make use of all of them somewhere in their workflow.
I think asking questions is hard; it's rare to combine:

- knows the domain well enough to ask a well formed question about what they want done, with precise terminology.

- doesn't know the domain well enough to be able to find an answer.

That, combined with the flipside: if you're responding to questions, and most questions aren't very good, your default is to assume that the question isn't a very good question.
> But by far the biggest moat that Jetbrains is going to have to cross to get into VSCode territory is the plugin ecosystem. Personally I work on React projects so my first thought was: "is there a Prettier[1] plugin?".

This just reinforces my feeling that a major driver behind VSCode's popularity is that people just don't know better [1]

1. Download WebStorm (or IDEA) and write some React in it. And Typescript. Refactor. Move code around. Use suggestions. It's leaps and bounds ahead of VSCode

2. Open settings, navigate to plugins, type in Prettier. Oh look, there's the plugin. An official plugin from JetBrains

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=33176123
SpaceX announces a second private flight to the Moon aboard Starship
As someone who has personally experienced the difference presence makes in VR, yeah I think it's worth it. You'll have far more productive meetings (and frankly, smaller meetings.... one of the downside of zoom meetings I've noticed is because it's so easy to invite everyone.... people invite everyone. You end up with meetings with 10 people on and only 3 people partcipating).

But I'll concede that you'll looking at an uphill battle. It's not intuitive to a lot of people what the benefits are until you've experienced it.
I had similar issues with TMobile. Bought the phone for backcountry use outside of the States, and I sold it on eBay after I got back because it was useless here in the US.
Very often they choice (“this project will be using X”) is beyond your control and anything related to Y usually does not help very much.

Most people don’t seem to understand this.
Still not found it, if you do, please link! I'd love to watch it :)...
Mozilla was a highly effective organization when Mozilla Corporation had in the range of 150–200 people (or even less) on payroll. The increase in (paid) headcount has been mainly correlated with:

- the removal of features in the name of smaller surface area (while at the same time adding telemetry and analytics[1])

- other lame fixtures of soulless corporations like cringy/dishonest PR babble

There's also stuff like breaking incoming links to content on mozilla.org; making it steadily harder to contribute; keeping things closed source (whereas before everything was licensed under MPL or some other FOSS license); being willing to cut deals with partners that come with strings attached and NDAs; wasting probably a billion dollars on obviously doomed things like Firefox OS and calling it a "moonshot"; etc.

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30178875>
A YouTube video on the subject : Veritasium - The Universe is Hostile to Computers https://youtu.be/AaZ_RSt0KP8

Some of the same examples are in the article and the video.
Not GP but the officially published flatpak is one option

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w...
Do you believe any kind of addiction exists?
Problem is, nit-picking is the bread and butter of mid-level software engineers, and it becomes engrained in their psyche. If your 50,000 line code base has one wrong negative sign, or one missing brace, it might not work. So, the focus is on detailed perfection until the bugs are gone. Being pedantic about problem solving is a good thing!

Then they take this mentality to human interaction/conversation and turn into the insufferable nit-pickers that OP is complaining about. You write a 3 paragraph comment in a web forum like HN, and someone inevitably swoops in, ignoring your main point to argue: "Aha! On paragraph 2, line 5, you said 'all' but probably meant 'many' because I can clearly find counter-example A, B, and C. Therefore your entire comment is incorrect!"
Meh.

A good encyclopedia would present information from myriad perspectives, not just whatever happened to be "dominant." I want my article about Christoper Colombus to talk about how 19th century immigrants to America, especially Italians, found him inspirational, but also about how he was brutal, greedy, and ineffectual.

(The current Wikipedia article is actually not bad on that front).
I humbly suggest that if you are a person whose interests would push you toward donating to Wikipedia, your interests would be better served by donating to the Internet Archive instead.
> aforementioned black woman may have more in common with the white men on the team than other white men.

Diverse viewpoints are more likely to arise from introducing 3 black women to a group of 3 white men than if you introduced 3 more white men.

> it is quite possible that yet another white man with a different background would provide the greatest diversity,

Are you and the parent really arguing white men are even better than black women at diversity?
VR is not compelling. I have tried it and it is tedious. This is the reaction of by far most people I know who have tried VR.

VR is one of those things where the concept and possibilities are way more exciting than the reality of the thing. Like flying cars. The difference is Mark Zuckerberg made way too big of a bet on VR so they won't let it go.