skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been thinking a lot about the epistemology issues social media is currently having and I’m wondering if old school forums with invites will make a return. Difference being this time maybe you have to be referred by x members and are interviewed by other current members. And maybe to keep it even more exclusive there is some type of monthly fee. Kinda thinking like what the Freemasons were/are (and hopefully without those issues).
It's quite common, especially when dealing with tech support and the like, who expect that the customer has no clue what they're asking about (and, to be frank, in most cases that assumption is probably right).
This is just another psychological trick. They vastly exceed even their own revenue targets. Compare goals and results:

2020/2021 revenue goal: $108M, increased to $125M, total at end of year: $154M

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWikim...

2021/2022 revenue target: $150M, already exceeded by end of quarter 3, weeks before the start of the fundraiser in India, South Africa and South America:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AF%26A...
You'd probably need to also remove / discourage a lot of behaviours on people asking the questions.

If a lot of people ask questions where there are significant problems with the premise or the context they assume, or people doing things in a fundamentally wrong way, or people asking about something which is not really the problem they have, then you'll end up with the "answerers" assuming most questions have those problems.

In any case, sorry I can't help you find such a place.
Thank you! :) Added to my list
The Product Design Penpot has big news
> 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.

There's a flip side to that, though. I've been guilty of XY problems in the past, and the experience of having them pointed out was illuminating; I learned both why not to do something and what the better way of accomplishing the goal was. That new knowledge is often widely applicable.

It seems a bit goofy to go to a site, ask for help, and reject the assistance offered out of hand just because someone suggests you might be on the wrong track.
I have found it easiest to be objective about what you want out of a question.

In other words, don't leave much room for interpretation or bike shedding.

There's no reason to not use Stack Overflow, it's still one of the biggest forums besides GitHub to get answers to questions. Why not focus on the good parts of it such as the visibility and instantaneous feedback rather than the bad parts of it? You can just ignore those.

There is no amount of reformation that would change these forums. I know many people believe that the toxicity of Stack Overflow could be changed with different incentives or algorithm changes, but that's just a silly thought. You'd have to significantly displace users to make that happen and it's easier to just build a new platform at that rate.
Wow, a pacemaker malfunctioning due to a stray cosmic ray is incredible/alarming; I've only heard of these single upset events in the context of aerospace applications, not a medical device.
It's obviously not a 'zero covid' policy.

Bloomberg here licking the CCP's Boots:
"Shanghai Quietly Shuts Down Schools, Gyms, Bars as Covid Returns".

More accurately:
"CCP imposes lockdown upon serf population in Shanghai".
The wrist computer doesn't make sense to me. Why is every manufacturer so focused on having the same capabilities of a smartphone on a smartwatch? Shouldn't a smartwatch be a complement of the smartphone? Like, take out the cellular, microphone, maybe even WiFi and speaker (just give it a tiny one for beeping), give it a very energy efficient SoC with very limited GPU capabilities, an OLED (or AMOLED) display that is always on with white/gray on black time driven by a low power circuit, and the rest is just sensors and battery. All processing is done in the phone and they're connected via Bluetooth LE, the watch just collects health and movement data, and the battery lasts at least a week.

Why would anyone reply to a text from a watch, when their paired phone is in their pockets? Or listening to music from a watch with a 200mAh battery? Are we stupid?

And I'm not implying the screen only shows time, but it just shows the data in real time and let's you configure things, apps are limited and most things are white on black, again, battery is #1. My wristwatch lasts over a year and shows the time without having to flick or touch it.
Most VCs and most accelerators are bad. Nearly all of them are pile ons. Hope the downturn wipes a lot of them out. Randos became "VC"s in the bull market.
Haven't seen any of my clients use it in production yet.
Are there any examples of such facts being incompletely disclosed, or are we just assuming their existence without further analysis based on the writer's political affiliation?
Firefox OS was arguably bad (especially when they redesigned everything, breaking half of the features I used in the process) but it was surprisingly snappy given how underpowered the hardware was: I actually had two phones running Firefox OS, the GeeksPhone which ended up broken after a year and a 15 meters fight in a staircase, and then the Motorola one, both with very limited hardware and yet it never felt slow.

My experience with Android always felt sluggish since then (given that I never buy expensive phones).
Try applying this to any other group. Truth is no defense for "bias".
Is this the death knell for Windows Mixed Reality?
They mentioned using it for mixed reality and augmented reality but if they don’t open up the passthrough API to allow apps to use fiducial tracking or something, the value will be highly limited. Fiducial tracking is common with smart phone augmented reality apps.

When obvious & actually useful use case would be the ability to scan barcodes (including 2D matrix types like QR codes) hands-free. But again this isn’t possible if they keep the pass-through API closed.

This would also allow reliable, seamless integration of digital and real things. QR codes as fiducials can allow precision measurements, useful for all kinds of trades.

Another is scanning documents or pieces of paper. There’s no reason you couldn’t just draw on an ordinary piece of paper using ordinary pencil or pen or marker or crayon or whathaveyou instead of having to use whatever weird input device is in vogue. The headset could continuously scan the document, filling in places your hand is blocking over time, and updating a shared or presented document in real-time. Collaborator edits could be overlayed on top of your physical copy in real-time as well.

Lots of these things are pretty obvious but don’t work if pass-through API is blocked off like it currently is for Quest 2.
This will be a good story with Zuckenberg having the last word after everyone is laughing in a 10 year span.
From reading the comments I would have expected something far worse, like that image with the Eiffel tower.

Actually doesn't look too bad (I guess my expectations are very low), but what's the missing leg thing? That's just "alpha of a game" level weird.
>all you need is for the EU bloc and the US to implement such measures and plastic pollution in the world would fall an order of magnitude.

Yeah, that's exactly what we need but the politicians in the US and EU are too well greased and too vested in the valuation of these mega corporations because the ugly truth is these companies provide a lot of money and jobs in their home countries and regulating the amount of waste and environmental damage they can do globally (in poorer less regulated countries) would reduce the money and jobs they bring in their home countries.
My opinion on this is that such an hypothetic forum need to display credentials (what makes you an expert) and ban people that lecture people full-time, with no credentials to back it up whatsoever. The most critical people on Internet forums are also the most anonymous and often there haven't achieved very much, if at all. They poison the water for pragmatic people, who leave first.
EDIT: also, it seems to me forums that skew higher-class will prefer posturing and talk rather than work credentials.
Tech is the only sector that is actually even borderline competent these days.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blame-lockdowns-on-silicon-vall...

"Without technology to keep the economy from imploding, they(lockdowns) wouldn’t have lasted."

I say a prayer to Bezos every time Amazon delivers something perfectly, come rain, shine, war or pestilence.
The AWS article and docs on IDMSv2 really bury the lede and people may take away “protects against SSRF” when AWS should really say “protects against SSRF for GET/POST methods only”. It’s fine as an additional layer but they kind of oversell it.
This is funny.

YOU are not wrong. But this answer is the wrong answer. I believe you fall in OPs category no 2.

He’s asking for specific forums.. so, you know any? :)
Canadian tech companies created $54M ArriveCan app clones over a weekend
Surely in cases like that you don't want to be having the "why?" conversation: the answerer should put that information in big bold letters at the top of their answer, whether or not it turns out that the person who happened to ask the question is in those certain circumstances.
I’ve observed simulations in VR that were compelling–I still remember parts of them well even now. However, these simulations were pre-recorded or preset and my range of inputs were limited to a set of menus from which I could select different options to simulate.

When I played various games with a wider range of input options, there was a noticeable latency, and the virtual environment did not fully capture my real or intended motions very well.

I think there are possibilities for VR in certain fields, but when it comes to arts and sciences like cooking and music, there are some aspects of the physical world that, to be captured in a compelling and useful way, will require significant progress or significant modification to extant VR hardware and software.

In cooking, there is a tangible, tactile difference in using a cleaver versus a pairing knife, and there is a tangible, tactile difference between cutting a head of kale, versus a large tuna. Likewise, there is a tangible, tactile component to interacting with instruments, and a large part of learning an instrument is developing not just the muscle memory of interacting with it, but developing the fine muscles involved as well.

In both cases, the learning requires the use of the specific instrument, and there is a genuine limitation in practical learning when the medium of instruction and the instrument of instruction is generalized to a set of what are essentially game controllers.

It seems to me the virtualization of physical interactions, without proper and necessary modifications to hardware and software, will leave VR bereft of the instructive capability it is relying on in order to be useful in this business/enterprise context in which it would like to be considered.
Actually, the fact that people can check out of online meetings has improved productivity vs in-person meetings.
You are optimistic. Even countries that had problems with this exact same issue are currently repeating the error by the letter. Case in point Germany. We now have sex quotas, won't take long for racial quotas be established. Shitty and dumb country, didn't learn a lot. And like any totalitarian movement before there is no reasoning possible and will at some point probably derail.
NASA Sets Date for Next Launch Attempt for Artemis I Moon Mission
Qwik does use a virtual dom: https://github.com/BuilderIO/qwik/blob/3ac5665141208ccfac04f...
I see there is a lot on Github but I'm a bit unsure how much is actually Open Source. I like the idea of a managed cloud but I'd be concerned to use one in production. Not saying this would happen here but too many companies have gone out of business and bricked IoT devices in the process. A cloud provider has the unique ability to brick many devices from different vendors.

Can I run the server on my own cloud?
I think the best way is to follow the German solution: When you buy a bottle/can, you place a collateral there for each bottle, like 50 cent per bottle. You only get the deposit back when you return the bottles to some supermarket.

I really like this model, and it works over here.

Of course, you still need a working recycling chain, but at least it incentives individual people to properly bring their rubbish to the recycling places.
Everyone should do a rotation in Tech Support.
Needs merging with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33175373
That's only 1.84 COTGPs*, no biggie.

* Critique of the Gotha Programme, 25 pages
It still a beta, so I think it can be acceptable BUT it is not tiny.

What I like about VSCode is that is slick and lean without plugins, and with remote support it is still "light"...
And I was a huge Emacs, Emacs-org fan, so if I use VSCode because it gets the work done at the end of the day (TM)
> Or maybe VS Code is just really good?

It's okay. And its ecosystem is also anywhere from okay to abysmal.

For languages (like Rust) that never really had any tools to begin with it seems like an amazing IDE/editor. In comparison to what IDEA offers for more established languages (anything from language support to framework support) it's ... just okay :)
Sure but WebStorm is targeted solely/mainly at JavaScript development.

What if my employer has N repos and several other languages, and JavaScript is just one of those.

VSCode allows me to stay with the same interface across multiple different repos.

Yes, if I’m doing Ruby or Java or C# I might choose a _different_ IDE for certain tasks in that language. But with a few plugins you can get a reasonably good generalist tool in VSCode, and even a pretty full featured one for certain languages
I probably have that many LoC between all the open files in VScode on an M1 and also love the performance. Only issue I've had so far is the Terraform Language Server running 18 threads at all times and grabbing too much CPU once or twice a month.
I love my Oculus, at least for my use case, exercise, and I highly recommend it. I think exercise is the killer feature of VR, personally.

For context: I'm not much of a gamer. But I was looking for some way to do cardio exercise in my small-ish apartment. I heard from a few people about exercising in VR. so I got the Oculus.

And it's been great! There are lots of games that are purely exercise-focused, which I liked a bit. Then there are lots of games which are just games, but that you also can get a workout doing, which I absolutely love. There are enough of them that I think I can keep playing for a while before ever getting bored.

I love table tennis, but don't regularly go play anymore cause kids/family/etc, lack of time. But I can put on the headset and be playing an almost completely realistic game of ping pong with an AI or a random important anytime I want, for a quick 5 minute break or for something more.

Then there are the other games - games that are actual games. I'm most surprised by this - since I'm not a gamer, I wouldn't have thought I would be drawn to these. But apparently games in VR are just much more fun, or at least much more novel to me - and I've actually found myself using VR to play games without an exercise focus more and more.

So to summarize - if you want a way to do some cardio at home, in a relatively small space, without feeling like you're working out - a VR is a great way to do that. And let's face it, most people need to do more cardio.

(I'm also very excited for using VR as a workspace, but way more skeptical of this really being a thing.)

Edit: Oh, and this is way more out there - but if there is ever a good, affordable omni-directional treadmill thing ala Ready Player One - it will instantly make VR 100x more valuable for exercise, and I think it will be completely transformative.
The thing with those sorts of requests is that a lot of the push for diversity is literally skin deep - they want people who look different, but think the same. They're not trying to say "hey, we'd like more electrical engineers, nurses, priests, political conservatives, etc." to contribute.

People with actually different experiences and backgrounds, somewhat the way how the ideal model of science is set up - individual humans are fallible and partisan, get your work checked by someone who disagrees because they're the ones who most want it to not be true.

They want (woke) social liberals who look different, and at least in America wokeness is just about the most white woman thing you can do.

If you write about, say, the controversies around the Latin Mass in the Catholic Church, getting a liberal woman to check a liberal man's work is useless - they're both likely to either have a dim view of the conservative sects that prefer the Latin Mass, to be just utterly unable to understand the religious conservatives' POV and worldview, or both. I know I did until I actually befriended some, it was something you could liken to moral colorblindness - the modern secular liberal is aggressively morally colorblind and lacking in understanding of others - again, speaking from experience.
Sounds like you want someone to handpick exactly what you want, there is no internet forum in existence like that where you will have a safe space from pedants and what I call "akchually trolls". You just have to live with it because everyone one has a different definition of what "akchually is". Hackernews has been one of the best I've found. Reddit is a useful dumpster fire where you can pluck out a kernel every now and then. Stackoverflow left a bad taste in my mouth a long time ago. Sometimes discord groups are a good place to go. I find the rust ones really good.
Ask companies how they feel about those expensive conference room setups that are rarely used, and when they are used the experience is buggy as hell.

VR has applications, but mainstream consumer use is not one of them.

I suspect and predict the killer app is simply greater bandwidth and bigger screens for ordinary video calls. Some marketer will find the right angle and moment to proclaim "telepresence is here!" and the mainstream ambitions of VR will evaporate. All interest will go to "half rooms" where the "other half" of the room is someone else's telepresence half room. On demand, of course.

Gaming will always have some type of VR hardware - that's too compelling not to try. However, beyond gaming the ordinary person does not really need 360 degree immersion for anything unless they are learning something complex and VR is used in the profession they are learning about.
So your view is that Ubuntu has ads because Canonical is the least funded, most desperate maker of Linux distributions.
I like your analysis. I don't think the socioeconomic policies need to mean cultural insularity but they might do. Still I think Japan's insular monoculture is independent of its (albeit admirable? I guess) economic policy in a causative sense.
While I do think GP is correct at many places, my team literally hired a black woman from Georgia and turned down a white dude from Boston, lol. I am not a fan of the overbearing top down policies like Microsoft is talking about, but I have become friendly with aforementioned hire, and some of the stories of discrimination and just people being really rude to her in the professional world are mind blowing to me. I can definitely believe that a lot of workplaces do actively discriminate against various minority groups.
so, yeah, omegalulz at those clowns but how is this offhand twitter comment worthy of a thread on HN?
We already have somewhat standardized glass bottles for easier local returns in Germany. I think it's a good system to avoid plastic trash.
I'm sure we all agree that Wikipedia has a ton of biases in all sorts of directions, but I'm not following that Wikimedia has anything to do with. They rarely make any editorial choices, usually only following legal decisions.
I don't think you are looking for a forum with real humans with thoughts and feelings who react as such. You are looking for an AI.

Try Github Copilot
I accept all these complaints about Cuban. Twitter closed my account for criticizing his China ties.

But what have you and I done even close to as significant as bringing down the price of subscription drugs?
Nice argument. Except it's incredibly wrong.

Once recommended exercise thresholds are met, a durable bicycle is better than walking. Faired LEVs and light ebikes are better than bicycles. And full capacity mid speed (<200km/h) trains are better still. High speed rail is somewhere between walking and bicycles.

Maximise flourishing within a resource and energy budget. And if you invent a better plane or a lower impact energy source, add it to the menu. Do not blow the budget by an order of magnitude (or three) and then demand that technology fix the problem after the fact.
Other comment stated:
> Internet gathers people that don't want human communication but technical and "optimized" (according to whomever biases that fits) which leads to what you describe.

I wonder what makes the HN community such a pleasure to interact with? Is it really only the fact that a few down votes make your comment more transparent? How did we all come to the agreement to have in fact civil discussion? Most communities have similar rules but the HN community seems to really strive for a healthy environment.
The proposed IceCube Gen2 is mostly a superset and only slightly disjoint with IceCube (for example, I am not an IceCube collaborator but I am on Gen2...). But the point is that for experiments that are larger than a few PI's, anonymity of authors is basically impossible (since all papers have everyone on them).
You know you can set your status to stay active without mouse nudging, right?
I'm sorry for being "that person", but I will push back on your assumptions. It seems to me that your issue arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of Stack Overflow's purpose as a platform. As I understand it, Stack Overflow (both the management and the community) generally don't care that much (nor should they) about an individual person asking a question, but rather they care about building a high-quality Q&A resource with questions and answers that should serve many thousands of people who would come to view that page in the future.

As such, answering a poor question (unclear explanation, bad code, unusual use of an idiom, etc.) as it is written, while helping the person who asked it, would likely confuse future readers and eventually cause more harm than good. The pedants/nitpickers are thus serving a crucial purpose in caring more about the long-term value of the Q&A resource than the individual question-asker; a question asker who is unwilling to implement feedback and improve the question (within the bounds of reason) is not a valuable community member, and their questions might be deleted for the benefit of others.
> for whatever Zuck is trying here…

Zuck read too much cyberpunk as a kid. The Metaverse is lifted straight out of Snow Crash, they didn't even change the name [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
I suspect it's accurate but tells us less than one might think. In that sense it may be a "bad thing" if the conclusions are taken at face value and applied out of context without being interrogated.

i.e.: saying "this shows people are predisposed to favour women, ergo the narrative of gender discrimination against women is disproven."

In actuality, this shows favourable sentiment toward women in quite narrow, specific ways: words quoted from the article are "good, happy, and sunshine" & not things like "competent, reliable, trustworthy, and cool". There's a hint of infantilisation within the words used. Yes they're positive, but it's worth looking at how those specific sentiments might exhibit in real world situations.