skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we have enough experience with crowd-sourced websites at this point (Wikipedia, Reddit, SO) that we can make a general statement that crowd-sourced websites attract just the sort of people you've described precisely because the "average" person that just needs an answer doesn't have the time/will to hang out on those sites providing content for free. I'm not sure there is an easy (or possibly any) answer to that problem.
Upon reading news like that, I’m convinced I have made the right choice following my gut feeling and intuition to move away from the tech world. It’s absurd. This is adding yet another layer of needless complexity, just for the sake of earning yet more money. It does not solve any real issue, it benefits very few people at the expense of most. In this regard, it’s like the cryptocurrency of business applications. Late-stage capitalism in fully swing indeed.
These are local problems. Those lucky enough to relocate, can.

The issue is causing problems for everyone. We don't even have a relocation plan for the ultra-rich. Amazing that we all still have something in common.
It's not, though. The company laptop does a lot more than do Zoom calls.
> I am not trying to challenge your own priorities or push choices on you, but to add information others may be unaware of.

Not at all. I enjoy researching this topic. Thank you!
Car congestion makes public transport and other less polluting forms transport (e.g. walking, cycling) less effective / attractive.

Public transport is the most efficient way to increase bandwidth.
I assume this is for western societies. I can imagine in the middle east this is a little bit different...
I've always had this dream of taking doom and building a map like the workplace.. but still with the occasional zombie.
We all see each other, and meet up in the conference room to join a 'group zoom call' or something like that.
There would also be a 'minecraft' room that puts us all on the same server to build prototypes and brainstorm together.

I wouldn't bet the farm on VR.
I enjoyed my Nokia 2720 flip phone for half a year. It’s got a Google Maps web app that supports voice search, enough for looking up hours or a phone number. The camera is bad, but enough for photos of products or things to remember.

If you know what you’re getting into, it’s not a bad (smart) dumb phone, especially if you are looking to get away from a smartphone. I rooted mine to install a QR code reader and app for ePubs.
How frequently do you think commercial air liners have to dodge a cellphone tower at cruising altitude?
Correct. But it seems anyone with excess visceral fat alone could benefit from TRE, even if not suffering from MS, which is having 3 out of 5 symptoms:

- Abdominal obesity
- High blood pressure
- High blood sugar
- High serum triglycerides
- Low serum HLDL
People still do it - it's called self-hosting these days.
Shanghai is like the Florida of China. Most of the rest of China had fully opened up long ago without any restrictions due to a zero Covid policy that worked. Shanghai always cut corners and kept getting hit with new outbreaks the rest of the country wasn't seeing.

I'm not defending Xi's government, but preventing spread and acknowledging modern germ theory in public policy actually works.
Does elevated co2 even cause a problem for humans?
Note though that even though this sounds like a positive and "well-meaning" bias, it can be dysfunctional too. Holding someone to a higher standard also has a "reverse" psychological effect that when they deviate or stray away from the expected standards, people are harsher on them than they usually would be. This is why, when coupled with regressive societal norms, "honour killing" of women happen (the extreme worst-case example).

(Related - The problem with putting someone on a pedestal - https://pairedlife.com/etiquette/onapedestal ).
I see this often from people who don't seem to grasp that some of us make six figures but live where it takes that much to simply have any money at ALL left over when raising a family.

I live in a west coast metro and make the proverbial six figures. We save about 10% of our income, and we don't live on beans and rice, and I don't have debt servicing. That's it; it's literally just that expensive to live where I do.
"oncologists can snort blow off hookers in Vegas"

Hyperbole / slander?
> Indeed one would not solve the scalar (n = 1) system 7x = 21 by computing x = 7^-1 × 21 but rather would carry out a division x = 21 / 7

I remember learning in algebra to solve this equation exactly the way he described and said we don't use. You multiply both sides by 1 / 7 which cancels the 7 on the left side, because 1 / 7 is the inverse of 7.

Now I just implicitly divide both sides by 7, but I'm still solving the equation by using the inverse of 7...
If love Microsoft to acquire FB for other reasons as well:

1. MS doesn't need to sell my data to make their services profitable.

2. MS could merge Facebook and LinkedIn so I could have a person and professional identity in a single app and switch between my networks! I don't have a FB account at all right now).

3. What's App could tie into the existing messaging infrastructure and work for Xbox or Personal Teams messaging.

4. MS could replace the Mixed Reality platform with Oculus. I use Mr for VR and the software kind of sucks and many games don't have MR controller bindings by default, though that's less frequent nowadays.
Not everything, as I understand it - some apps (such as Google Wallet and some banking apps) rely on Google's SafetyNet API and won't work on those systems.

It's a shame because it's probably only a handful of apps but it's the ones that are important to me.
Hello Chris!
I had stop drinking 8 years ago with help my special methodology. Below I am talking about it:
1. Firmly decide that you need to stop drinking. If this decision is in doubt, nothing will work.
2. Plan which day and time you will stop drinking = Trite to set the date and time. For example - April 17 at 18.30 p.m. Do not select a date close to or too far from the current one. No more than 3 months. This will give you time to mentally prepare yourself and will not reduce your motivation.
3. Every day repeat this date and time and speak" I will stop drinking on December, 13 at 14:15 p.m. Repeat this date when you drink or before will drink
4. When the date you have chosen comes, tell yourself - I'm thirsty, but I'll do it later. It is important that you repeat this every time you feel like drinking and put off drinking until a later time each time.
5. If you can stop drinking alcohol for more than six months, according to this method. It is imperative to change both your own understanding of the situation and the phrase - then you should say "I don't drink today." It is also important not to allow yourself any amount of alcohol, convincing yourself that it is better to endure = give up drinking today.
In the future, the previously chosen phrase for persuasion - "I am thirsty, but I will do it later" should turn into a persistent belief "I have a desire to drink, but I will not do it today."

Also, do not leave yourself alone and in idleness. Try to keep yourself busy, and during periods of an acute desire to drink alcohol - use high-calorie foods or drinks, cakes, soda. This is of course a little dangerous in terms of gaining weight, but will allow you to quickly remove the desire to drink anything alcoholic.
It is important that you find like-minded people and communicate with them about your problems and just about life. A.A. can be such a circle of contacts.
If you ask a question, generally, you are soliciting willingness to receive inputs. You seem to be feeling salty that you're not getting the input from others you desired, yet could not previously articulate.

Half of your pedantic nitpickers (of which I suppose I may now be counted in the number of) are at least providing you a concrete example of what the answer isn't, and what may ultimately be direction/inspiration for where an answer may lie.

I guess I'm just saying, be thankful you even get lackluster answers in lieu of the alternative.

As far as how to divorce honests attempts to solicit input from the social mediafication of the programming space, (i.e. aggressive building of mindshare in terms of dogmatic adherence to the One True Way to Parse a Lolcat), or people arbitrarily rearchitecting your problem space (Your lolcats must be partitioned, sharded, highly available, with 9 9's uptime, with no greater than 300 ms from disk to eyes, when all you needed was a Lolcat that'd get there eventually when a friend came looking in the afternoon in less than 7kb total)...

I'm not sure. It's rather annoying. The latter I find less annoying than the former, but generally speaking, just be both polite and willing to patient game of code golf til a bored grey beard has some time to kill, or you figure it out.
Switching among godbolt compilers (at optimization 0) ... gcc on less common architectures (like esp32, risc32 or msp430), icc, and msvc don't optimize out the memcpy.
BC is actually super useful when in the shell (less fuss than firing up python shell or similar). I use(d) it a lot, though didn't dig deep into what it can do, beyond setting `scale=2` (set output to two decimal places) when dealing with currencies etc.

If I'm elsewhere in GUI tho, Meta+C (shortcut I have for the calculator app) is faster than firing off terminal, starting bc, then closing it up after oneline calculation.

.. at least, it should be faster ;-)
> Microsoft’s shift to Teams as its de facto OS

Just one example, but I think this guy has lost the thread and is not worth reading.
A lot, in many Fortune 500 where software isn't the main product, you get a machine (VM based or real one) customized for your workflows, with the set of software that is white listed for software development in the company.

Anything beyond the standard development image requires opening a request to IT and procurement, with the respective OK from management.
only to find Ubuntu decided they wanted to follow suit.

The tech industry is absurdly dedicated to chasing trends. As an example, most people have forgotten the reason you probably don't have a headphone jack on your phone is because Apple wanted to shill wireless headphones and the entire industry turned on its heel in response.
This is (sort of) what Cunningham's law is about.
SO mods are uninvolved in the vast majority of closed questions; it’s a community vote mostly by non-mods. When something is closed as a dupe, another question has to be nominated as the answer, and this is shown in the close note.

In my experience, these are typically quite accurate. I’ve seen a small percentage get reopened upon clarification, but people often whine about the dupe closings because their question is “how do I calculate 2+2?” and the linked answer is “how do I calculate 3+3”.

Add in "I am getting an error" (without providing the actual error) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem posts, times a couple hundred thousand instances, and fairly strict community moderation becomes the only thing permitting a little signal in amongst the noise. SO's original intent was never to be a free-for-all Q&A with repeated similar questions; it was intended to also be a big reference of existing answered questions.

(See https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/... "Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit." That "meets wikipedia" bit is key.)
I was thinking that I wouldn’t appreciate aliens sending crazy microbes to earth just to see what happens.

It’s weird that NASA is funding the DEEP-IN part of the project but not the microbe part. IMO you cannot separate the two.
All they need is their Steve Ballmer "developers developers developers" moment. Nobody wants this garbage. Nobody wants to "work in the metaverse". They don't even want to visit.

People do not even like turning on their webcams for meetings with people they talk to every single day. Do you think they are going to want to don a goofy headset to do the same?

The moment my employer tells me I need to wear a VR headset for some meeting is they day I put in my notice.
Yeah, I'm also gay and disabled (MS). So that's fun. Being female is less of an issue now that I'm old enough that men don't harass me as often, but tech spaces between the ages of 11 and ~25 SUCKED. The thing that stuck out to me was that there was no way to 'win' and the boys (because it was mostly adolescents and males in their 20s) projected their dating issues onto me HARD. And I know for a fact that I never 'led anyone on' since I've been out since I was 12 and very open about it. The gatekeeping was ridiculous (I'm a 2nd generation programmer and my grandfather was playing with electronics in the 1920s), and I also put up with rape threats and rampant homophobia (nothing quite like worrying about corrective rape if you want to go to a LAN party!)

The cultural homophobia and misogyny is one of the two major reasons I didn't opt for a CS degree (the other being I had too much pride to take intro classes to prove myself when I'd been coding since I was 5 because 17 year old me was arrogant as hell). This WAS 10-20 years ago, but experiences like mine do have impacts on the candidate pipeline for midlevel and senior positions.

And on the other hand, taking my tech skills into non-tech spaces is very well received. Libraries are always happy to have tech-literate people, and even in my current job, I've had 2 freelance dev projects dropped into my lap in the space of a month simply because I'm easier to work with and very familiar with the very feminine subject domain.

I'm very skeptical of DEI, ironically, because I've seen too much of it turn into grifts for upper-class and upper-middle class POC and gay people while ignoring non-visible differences or differences that might actually require behavior changes (disability and class, mostly). But there's definitely a cultural problem. And I say this as a woman who greatly prefers 'male' communication styles and was raised by a warehouse worker. I'm not pearl clutching - I've lived in a couple of the most dangerous cities in the US, I'm no shrinking violet.
That's what the parent is saying. The aforementioned black woman may have more in common with the white men on the team than other white men. If you were striving for true diversity, it is quite possible that yet another white man with a different background would provide the greatest diversity, but if you are only optimizing for optical diversity then those considerations go out the window.
Rhel9 is great and free for up to 16 instances..yes for production too..and no prob for the workstation with the epel and rpmfusion repos added.

SElinux is mostly why i use rhel based system's. But debian, fedora, nix and arch are great too...like all originals.
I agree. rmt-flush and rmt-list would be great options.
I certainly agree. AA makes sense and there is a ton of wisdom in the BB. I will still lurk a zoom meeting from time to time. The biggest negate for me was that my local meeting that I liked was at the same time as jiu-jitsu - which as the poster above you mentions, I felt would do me more harm than good. If it were more of my demographic I'd probably find time to attend more tbh. I know that all sounds pretty selfish.
I think I saw that movie.
In isolation, no. But this + someone explicitly saying Musk told them he spoke to Putin is more convincing.

This is all a bit of a side show, though, for all the reasons you outlined.
Do you get such pushback over the need for MFA, or more generally for the use of roles, or something else?

MFA seems like an essential defense-in-depth measure to ensure that a compromise of the locally held IAM key is not enough on its own to compromise your AWS account.
Well at least they're taking their own advice, if the worry about it so little that they don't even know where the ads they aren't worried about are showing.
I think the three groups you list match the motivations why someone would systematically (not just a one-off) put in their time to answer large quantities of technical questions without getting paid for it - it's because you really want to evangelize something, or you want to push a dogma you care about, or you're the type of person who gets off on arguing intricate details.
> Which they never do anyway

In terms of this being a loss of trust, it's not uncommon for managers to say "we're already paying you as much as we can afford" or "your compensation is already the highest that our rules allow for". If they are willing to go beyond that in a counteroffer, it pretty much reveals that they were previously being dishonest with you in order to get away with paying less.

This is either a loss of trust, or else trust never existed in the first place.
Don't forget that LinkedIn and Instagram will tag along for that ride.
I have yet to see any proof that the glasses style of VR is anywhere near being feasible. I have been an adopter of VR since 2014 when I bought the rift DK2 and the form factor is still practically the same, despite the costs being a lot higher for these new models.

I don't think your analogies work at all. I think VR is great for games, which is what occulus originally marketed it for, it's only since Facebook bought them that the direction has totally changed.
You wouldn’t have to be stuck there if coding in VR was feasible.

…but actually, the fact that people can and do just check out of online meetings while pretending to still be present is kind of a drawback of online meeting Vs in-person meetings. Lack of focus is a killer for productivity.

And if people are doing that, they should be allowed to leave the meeting anyway.
The www did things better than anything that already existed. Many things it offered were both massively useful and simply not exist before.

What exactly does "Metaverse" improve? What does it offer to the business world that cannot already be done?

And are these improvements worth a 1799$ Price-Point per employee, plus all the work & expenses imposed by integrating this into existing structures, and making sure its compliant to regulations and company rules?

And are these improvements worth enough to the employees themselves so they will be willing to wear a headset for 8h a day (Especially in labour markets that already face a supply problem)?
For some if my super early morning meetings, I’m in bed with headphones on listening. Don’t want this to go away :)
Ubuntu 18 LTS (pre-snap) until next April then on to debian for me.
It took my mother 3 months to get into see a cardiologist for a moderately serious issue. My sister has MS and is currently seeing the only neurologist in the area who specializes in MS, but they are retiring soon. She also spent a year being jerked around by insurance when they rejected the medication her neurologist prescribed, her disease progressing the whole time (there's no "getting better with MS, just slowing progress).

People in the US often criticize the wait times in the UK or Canada like it's better here, but it's often really, really not.
Not sure this is the case in this hack but many of these hacks are related to human error.
Yes, you're right in that casting an arbitrary void * to double and dereferencing would be unsafe, but in this case, the void pointers point to doubles by construction, so they must be aligned
Surprise surprise microsoft is using useful idiots to promote its brand via a free product and in the process threatening smaller business. IntelliJ should sue microsoft in european courts for monopoly. Do you understand the issue here? Or do you imagine all developers should build crud apps while all other tooling should be free?
There's a big difference between providing the gear to make the video conference work well and providing VR gear to make the video conference... slightly different?
I suppose part of the concern is finding people who actually want to use your tech stack too, though.

I interviewed a company a while back that was using elixir which I thought was cool, but I ended up not taking the job. Part of what worried me was realizing just how much they struggled to find interested candidates, and it seemed like they were willing to compromise to hire as a result. Perhaps I was a compromise, haha.

The CTO and other devs on the team painted a bleak picture of building the team, and elixir seemed to be the main obstacle.

The other issue they faced, though I doubt it was as much of an obstacle, was that they were working on pet insurance. That was a major deterrent for me. The compensation and working conditions were excellent though, so I suspect many people wouldn’t care and would gladly take the compensation and flexible work life – were it not for elixir.

I found it surprising but I’ve seen people work on worse things for less money using more popular languages. Perhaps more people are afraid to learn something new than it seems.
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And of course the glue sticks are tied to your account, you can not exchange them with other users. And they expire if unused.

Exchanging glue sticks will be implemented in the future using NFTs.
Every not white parent I’ve met is concerned with their kid’s future- what job, what education, what marriage, etc.

I’ve met a lot of people from different backgrounds and one thing I notice is how much we have in common. I worked with people who make less than a few dollars a day in developing nations and it was interesting how the parent stories are almost the same. Pictures of kids and grandkids. Stories about successful kids. Plans for kids to have education and jobs. The scale varies but the concerns are very similar.
It looks very good!

Once the Kindle version will be available I will buy it!
Oh it is. Either Valve is severely undervaluing their company at less than 10 billion dollars while Epic is worth 20-30 billion... or it's true.
Honestly, you’ve never hacked during a real life meeting ? I used to bring my laptop into the board room all the time.
> I'm basically stuck there

Right. So the first extension to this platform will be avatar automation - to make it look like your are "engaged" while you in fact are doing something else.
The point in contention appears to be whether or not Wikipedia funnels donations to left-wing causes.

The truth of that claim has no causal relationship with his opinions. I mean, obviously someone who disagrees with funneling donations to left-wing causes would be more likely to complain about it, or even possibly make something up. But that in itself has no bearing on whether the claim is actually true.

Does Wikipedia funnel donations to left-wing causes or not?

You have presented no evidence one way or the other. Instead, you have attacked his "motivations" and "track record". That is a textbook ad hominem.
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Slack just released video chat and they've had screen sharing for some time. Teams should start feeling a bit nervous.
Fair point! But here's a question (and it really is a question, not a statement) -- should things be so complex in the first place that everybody is bringing their own equipment? In my mind, this is where the problem starts.

When you start fresh, you can do so with a very much standardized set-up so a lot of things can be abstracted away. Are you familiar with the paradox of choice? Actually things may get way easier if options are fewer. Also, customization shouldn't generally take you so far as to force you to look into infrastructure. There are services for which this is not applicable, of course, but if we were able to abstract away the infrastructure problem for many use cases, many developers and companies would benefit.

I guess my point is that DevOps, as we know it, should not be necessary unless you really, really need a complex infrastructure. But in this case, this calls for a real role (more like a sysadmin) rather than for devops in terms of a philosophy / mindset / hat a developer also has to wear. Makes sense?