skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's free to download and try (well... it's in my 'toolbox').

Comment I made to a friend earlier... Loads relatively quick. On par with or slightly faster than vscode on my M1. Very 'project unaware' up front, which may be OK for some uses. Might be a step up from vim for one-off changes. Collab seems easier/faster. No plugins(?). No UI to connect to other machines so far.
That raises a good point. We've had virtual worlds for ages now, but how often do companies do Minecraft meetings? Or Gary's Mod meetings? Or hell, even VR chat, that doesn't require VR. Is there really that much gained by adding a heavy headset and some hand tracking?
What evidence of this sexist culture do you have?

There seem to be a few classic stories that have been spun:

- that a gender imbalance in students or employees automatically implies sexism

- that being casual about sex is automatically sexist

- that not favoring a feminine, talkative, consensus-first working style is sexist

- that women deciding to leave tech means they are being "chased out"

I don't find any of these arguments particularly convincing. It seems like misogyny usually just means "something a woman hates" as opposed to actual overt discrimination and mistreatment.

What you may be referring to from the early 2010s is that a few activists of the Adria Richards type found that all they had to do was cry sexism, and a bunch of naive geeks stood ready to self flaggelate about how sexist all the other men were, but not them, no no no.

Which of course means that tech is not particularly sexist at all, certainly not compared to media or finance.

If there is one thing that is unabashedly sexist, it's western feminism, which has had 50 years to show its homework, and has revealed itself to not be interested in gender equality, but only in advancing female interests and positing women's rights, preferences and working styles as superior to those of men.

Strangely, despite this long track record, feminists still haven't realized that they are the status quo and they do everything they can to maintain a monopoly on gender discussions and issues. The use of words like "reactionary" is meant to emphasize this: that anyone who does not agree with them is trying to go backwards. But this is a lie, because despite their "gender studies" we understand men and women worse than ever before. Many of these same activists now even refuse to define what a woman actually is, but they are all sure that women have it worse. Funny that.
In what way does this 'fix' air pollution?

FYI:
Our politicians do not use public transport, nor do they suffer the congested roads (they prefer blue-light escorts in armoured cars).

London is exceptional in the UK in its public transport links. (The UK has had anti-railway gov.ts since WW2; what you may know as the 'Beeching Scandal' is just a front for the corruption committed by Ernest Marples and co.).

If they really wanted to fix the issue, they'd make cycling safe and punish bicycle thieves. London is congested and polluted because:
People don't want to be injured/killed by drivers, who will face no punishment.
People don't want to have their bicycle stolen by career-criminals who will face no punishment.

The 'Ultra Low Emissions Zone' ought to be barred under the trade descriptions act. Go and breathe from the exhaust of a Euro6 Diesel then come back and tell me how 'low emissions' London is.
If their approach is Enterprise and work environments, how does a VR headset deal with ADA (American Disabilities Act) and accessibility? Employers cannot discriminate against those with hearing/vision or other impairments and I don't know how a technology like VR can compensate for that.

Assuming the headset doesn't help at all in those areas then it can't be something an employer mandates people to use. This type of device might uncover even more physical impairments people are unaware of, like those warnings in video games about flashing lights - photosensitive seizures and epilepsy.

Are the benefits of a meeting technology going to far out-weigh potential employment lawsuits?
That's why comments and discussions are second class citizens and comments get collapsed.

A well written answer doesn't have any of "the conversation that follows" in it.

One of the challenges with users unfamiliar to the Q&A format is that they treat SO like a forum and try to force in doing replies and back and forth into questions and answers (collectively posts) when the site's design is actively and intentionally hostile to such.
> 1. Nitpickers who interpreted something in your question as incorrect. They will focus on this minor point that they think you said.

This is the most aggravating one for me. A minor ambiguity will completely derail the conversation.

Often, it’s simple enough to say: ”it’s not clear whether you meant X or Y. If you meant X, the answer is Such and such. If you meant Y, the answer is blah blah blah.”
Show HN: A web tool for calculating centroid of triangle
Next step of evolution: This VR-meeting should have been an email
> worry that my kids won’t be diverse enough to be able to get into a decent school or get a good job like I was able to when they’re older

That is wildly optimistic.

Next they will come for your already taxed wealth and money if you aren’t “diverse” enough.

People in the US need to be more aware of similar trajectories in other countries in the past.
Downvote is tricky.

It is useful when used correctly but as can be seen on Reddit (and somewhat on HN but it typically balances out) it is used as "I disagree" / "I don't like this" vs being used more like a moderation tool "this has nothing to do with the conversation".

I like how HN restricts the downvote for a while but I think with Reddit being so popular there should be an opt-in where you have to acknowledge the statement "The downvote is a moderation tool and isn't used to express disagreement" (I feel like that near exact verbage is somewhere like in the guidelines but I am meaning making it required acknowledgement).
True. There will be some tradeoff between experts having to answer bad questions and deal with bad questioners, and unfairly treating good questioners as bad ones.

I think people get to a point in their life or their expertise where they lose sight of the fact that there are always new people. Literally people who didn't even exist when they were first learning their craft. Children can only learn by making mistakes. You have to be generous and sacrifice for them. These kind of forums do a bad job of handling the "children" of the subject matter who would be willing to learn. And I don't necessarily mean the forums have to change, just that they may be bad places for channeling that kind of generosity and sacrifice.
Is that a serious argument? PCs offered tremendous utility over phones and letters. What utility does VR provide over a regular PC? Oh that’s right, virtually none.
r/learnprogramming has been good enough for me, but if you're asking this, you're probably looking for more mature pastures.
Is this a bad thing if it's accurate? Women are more well-behaved on average, no?
That was awesome! You almost had me until I saw the /s. Good job!
> 99% of computers now have no keyboard.

And I miss them, every time I use those computers. The Keyboard (and mouse, even if the Vi people will probably want to lynch me for that) is still the most efficient input device. That might eventually change through some UI revolution, but all we have so far are UIs with fewer features in exchange for making touch usage slightly easier.
It's because you're only looking at top 1% questions/answers. Once you get to the less popular ones, that aren't viewed by tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people then you get what OP described.
>I'm not aware of anything that's had to be walked back, unlike claims made by actual religions like "Native Americans are a tribe of Israelites who were punished for their sins by God, by giving them a different skin colour",

Phrenology? How about all those lobotomies? I guess you can't call it walking back when they're incapacitated.
Found the pedant.

I mean, honestly. You can't relate to having a specific and narrow technical question, where overhauling some/all of the entire approach just simply isn't on the table for whatever reason?
And when your company starts doing that to developers it is time to dust off your resume and start looking for something better. I get it that these companies have real issues and their managers are multiple times smarter than me but I refuse to be put into a position where I cannot use the tools that I need to be productive.
> 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?".

Sometimes that conversation nets out as "you will kill someone if you press the blue button in certain circumstances", and that's an important clarifier to have access to.
> whoever crudely tagged the boxes did not make them

Which crude tagging are you referring to here?
> So when an oil company writes a report on the viability of solar power then that doesn't affect how we should view the report?

But why do you think it does affect how you view the report? Because the company is likely to lie, right? So you should perhaps examine the report more carefully. But that has nothing to do with the report's factuality. It may affect how likely it is to be true, but once you've determined it to be one or the other, who reported it is completely irrelevant.

Likewise, if Wikipedia is in fact dishonest when it asks for donations, and you first heard that completely true fact from a Nazi, are you going to conclude that actually it was false all along? In other words, is your reality determined by the opposite of what your political adversaries say?
Weird, I haven't seen any recent banners frame it in terms of demise of Wikipedia. The urgent banners I've seen are about the time to complete the fund drive. Along the lines of: If X% of users paid $Y then the goal would be reached in Z minutes.

If you assume the fund drive exists to help keep the lights on then I think it is natural to treat it as an existential issue for Wikipedia, but that doesn't seem to match the specific language used.
Nobody is preferring Indians in this diversity game.

Will you defend “diversity" that would rather hire a rich inner-city American kid versus a poor brahmin in need of a leg-up?
You're asking that question in a place that's equally as guilty.
No pharaohs, and perhaps no unexploded WWII ordnance, but here and there WWI ordnance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Leach#Environmental_impac....
Debian is great for desktop, I've been using 'stable' for about 3 years (Buster and currently Bullseye) with nothing but good experiences. It's basically all the good things about Linux without any of the nonsense unless you specifically opt in.

You usually get "older" versions of packages on Stable (less so on Testing/Unstable), but you can also use Flatpak (or Appimage or even Snapd) to get 'current' versions of things.

The only difficult thing with Debian is hardware support, but they're working to improve that. Future point-releases of Bullseye and the next Bookworm release will include non-free firmware by default, with the choice to opt out. You can also use non-free drivers and software by opting into the "contrib" and "non-free" repositories.
I agree, which is why I think we should normalize leaving meetings.
I'm of the same mind, but I worry that the total failure of the VR Meta-whatever is wishful thinking on my part -- because even if it succeeds, I want no part of it. If that means I end up living in a hut in the woods while everyone goggles into the Zuckerverse, then so be it.

At least with cryptocurrency, I could kind of admire the anarchist techno-optimism of it (who doesn't hate banks?), so I felt like I wasn't emotionally invested in it failing when I realized it wasn't going to work.
> There is plenty of evidence[...] that whatever they're doing now works better than what they were doing in the past.

You just moved the goalposts. (In this case, moved them such that your "argument" is just restating the substance of the complaint.) Wikimedia is bringing in a lot more money doing this sort of thing. That's well understood—by all, i.e., those on both sides of the issue.

Your job is not to defend the position that the aggressive ads bring in more donations, but that if they weren't using them then "they wouldn't make _any_ money". Please leave dishonest sleights of hand at the door.
It's funny how the "I see the value in crypto" and "I see the value in a metaverse" have turned into exactly the same group. There seems to be this bisection of groups, 1 group of people who seem just fine with technology as it is today. And another group that wants to launch into the next phase of digitalization.

Although both seem okay with using AI.
BT did a pair of ambient albums in 2019 that I really enjoy:

Everything You’re Searching For Is
Between Here and You

I also appreciate Brain FM [0]. It makes it easy to dial in background music that matches my mood and activity.

[0] https://www.brain.fm
What luck! I have just recently been listening to all of Eno's Ambient albums. Thank you!
Show HN: UI Experiment for Sifting Through Thousands of Stories at Record Speed
This is not for 'deep' or 'slow' reading with intention and focus. The idea is that you have a large pool of incoming stories and you aren't interested in 'reading' all of them, but you want to reduce the chance of missing a single story. You want to 'screen' all stories.

This UI explores a 'mark-and-clear' idiom; you mark a group of stories as 'read' and then you clear that group, purging the stories from your view completely.
An editor or author can, in a biased way, choose to disclose things that are all true, but incomplete, thereby giving a false impression of a larger picture. I think it is absolutely in the consumer's (of any given text) interest to understand the potential biases of the content producer, even if all of the content itself is "facts".
> Are you and the parent really arguing white men are even better than black women at diversity?

People with different backgrounds are "better" at diversity than people with the same background who look dissimilar, for sure. The wealthy black woman who went to school at Stanford alongside all the other white men on your team does not bring any meaningful difference in viewpoint. The tribesman from Kenya, on the other hand, comes with a very different outlook.

Of course, something akin to "Must be a US Citizen" is attached to most jobs because we don't actually care about diversity, just optics.
Ok - the next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, I'll give it twice as much. Noted.

This take is so incredibly bad. It's good that they're not struggling financially - and people stopping to donate is a great way to change that. They aren't struggling, until they are. I don't want to live in a world where the foundation behind Wikipedia struggles with financing, so continuing to donate is the only sane way forward.
Atlantic Ocean Currents Weakening, Near Verge of Collapse
If anyone has a good komorebi.ahk that sets up a sensible bunch of defaults then they should try to enhance the komorebi.sample.ahk that's in the repo. I found it had very few keys set up and some of the gists I found had errors in. This adds quite a bit of friction to starting with what looks like a pretty good workaround for the poor windows management in W10.
Nvidia promises big DirectX 12 performance gains in latest drivers
Agree, I nevertheless bought one of their (AlgenAir) home devices, despite the fact that at present levels of efficiency I would need 100 of them to make a material difference in CO2 levels in a normal room. My thinking is that even given the incredible degree of efficiency of photosynthesis itself, there must be opportunities for other bioengineering-type improvements and 100x is not an unreasonable target over a 10-20 year timeframe. My dollars are an economic signal in support of investment in a machine to turn electricity into captured CO2.

That said, having had the device for a few months, it brings plenty of present value. It's pretty, a literal living lava lamp, and it makes a lovely water bubbly sound. Watching the algae population grow in concentration and change the color of the water is very satisfying.
You are taking getting free technical answers for granted. The basic alternative to what you have here is no forum and no answers.

If someone is competent and straight to the point, what would they be doing answering someone else's question on a forum for free?

Cunningham's law is your greatest ally, rather than trying to find what can't exist by definition (except in small and specific communities that pop up here and there)
> very high standards

Maybe in the pure STEM subsections but anything to do with humanities is highly subjective and biased.

Even in the hard sciences I find that Wikipedia is a just good starting point: scan the references for the real material. It helps if you have access to real libraries, both physical and digital.

Personally I stopped donating to them when I discovered how difficult it was to correct errors in literally my own family's history; there's always some "editor" sitting there to roll it back in seconds.
I have a different experience and believe that tech fields are extremely egalitarian. This might not apply to the specific regions like SV where tech and status often intermingles, don't know much about the situation there. There is probably also a difference between countries.

There are some very opinionated engineers, but they are an exception and quite rare. They might bark a little from time to time but it doesn't have any real repercussions.

Sure, if you are one of the few women in tech, you might face some difficulties getting into established groups, but that isn't due to sexism for the most part. Far more often it is some misplaced courtesy or something else in my experience.

Compared to medicine for example, tech is pretty harmless. Medicine has a lot of women, but that doesn't mean much. Surgeons for example are know to have their elitist clubs and it often is exclusively men. I have yet to hear similar "locker room talk" or what you call it in any tech circle. Probably exists but it has to be quite rare.

To my knowledge the diagnosis for tech was pretty much that there are far more men here. But that isn't indicative of sexism. So I don't understand what you mean by "extremely sexist" at all.
That was never my experience with SO. May be I'm pedant in some sense as well and I'm making sure that my questions are correct (which sometimes solves my question without even asking it, LoL).

Right now my go-to resource for answers is SO and my go-to resource for opinions are reddit and HN.

Also recently I tried to embrace telegram chats. I think that it could be the feature of communication, so you might want to check it out. That said, so far they were of very little use for me.
>useless pedantic criticism

I don't see that on either Reddit or SO. I get accurate and thoughtful responses and answers to a range of technical topics on both platforms. My life is much improved as a result. Granted, I engage in very niche groups and ask very specific questions.
Can we stop calling for notoriously fickle Elon Musk to lead space innovation?

SpaceX is great, but it's starting to feel more and more like a cult of personality, and not that great of a personality either. Any time there's a post about space on social media (HN included), there's always some starry eyed commenters saying "Musk could maybe do it".

It's not like he needs more publicity.
Okay, so let's talk about those facts that are being omitted, not about the political affiliation of the people omitting those facts.
> Try the HTML version of Gmail in your browser https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/. Just HTML and CSS. It’s the fastest email client in the world.

I use Fastmail on a regular basis and it's snappier than the HTML version of Gmail.
These goggles have pass through color video, some may enjoy to work in an immersive environment.

Also, some may enjoy to work from beach in Bali or Swiss mountains.
There would be no wars, only a bunch of countries not talking to each other (a joke I just found)
> Today I'm coding by my window, with the sun shining outside - some birdsong audible from the trees in the yard.

I’m coding by the windows with the blinds down, sometimes birds, or worse, church bells (actually, mostly the damn bells) annoy me. I guess it’s nice when my wife pops in, but I could still interrupt my VR session for that.

Not saying I’m in any way into VR, I don’t really see the point yet, but I wanted to give a different POV ;)
Kids, stop doing drugs or else you risk growing up and thinking teams is a great idea, or worse, thinking teams and meta are good for you.
Delhi: India 11-year-old alleges rape in school toilet by seniors
Is there any paid solution to this?
If I buy now, will I be able to download for kindle later without having to repurchase?
What specific facts in the reporting do you take issue with? Are you just arguing for the sake of arguing?
> Your comment is the definition of an ad hominem argument: the author is a Bad Person so we should disregard anything he says.

"In some cases, a successful argument against the person can render an arguer's impartiality, sincerity, or trustworthiness open to question. This may be a weak form of argument, but it may be enough to alter the burden of proof on a controversial issue. And therefor it can be a reasonable criticism" -- Informal Logic, A Pragmatic Approach, Douglas Walton

> Why don't you respond to the actual claims?

Because I have zero obligation to take seriously any claims from heavily biased sources. Also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle. "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

People should feel free to research the author's past and decide for themselves if any article he writes on Wikipedia will be a fair assessment that includes both positives and negatives or more likely to be a heavily biased hit piece.
Rust support seems good and it's already integrated if you press the lightning button in the top right. Sadly no vim support so it's not really usable yet (at least for me).
Or mods that will reword your questions, making it sound way different than you intended it to be.

I guess it’s a strategy to increase their counters/stats or something?

Anyway, that really unacceptable.
What kind of regulation of these corporations do you envision? It's not them making the waste - it's the people-consumers who are not throwing the bottles away for recycling, or their countries not recycling locally and instead just throwing away the waste somewhere else. What about that is changed by regulating Coca Cola?
It's done a few different ways, I don't think the perfect solution has been found yet. DJs or bands have performed as avatars by using full body tracking. More commonly, the performer will have a camera on them and the video is displayed on a screen in the VR event. They can also see what's happening in the event so it's possible for them to interact with the crowd. As headsets become lighter and more comfortable and FBT gets easier with inside out camera tracking or better trackers; performing as an avatar will become more common. The events are usually in environments that look like clubs or concert halls.
Yes, it was. Your weak google skills notwithstanding.