skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really that insane of an accusation? This is how almost everything in the world works.

This isn’t only about greed either. People want their research published for reasons other than greed. For example, they want to move up in their career or achieve recognition.

After looking at a lot of medical studies related to COVID during the last couple years, I have seen first hand how biased and inaccurate many of them are. Some of these studies are even mentioned in major news outlet despite their obvious flaws when you actually begin to scrutinize them. Think big pharma providing research grants for studies that conclude their products are effective.

The OP never said that people falsify data as a result of receiving grants from interested parties. They often don’t have to. They can simply design the experiment in a way that doesn’t account for specific variables or behaviors then use the resulting data to reach a specific conclusion.

I remember seeing an article related to AI research on HN a little while ago that somewhat explained this problem. The grant money all goes to people researching deep neural networks which creates a reinforcing feedback loop. Since all the money goes to one branch of research, it creates very few opportunities to research competing ideas. I believe it was this one:

https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-14467/
It would be awesome if the guys who did From Nand to Tetris [0] would do something similar for operating systems. For those who have never heard of Nand to Tetris, it's an informal course that takes you from low-level gates (NAND gates) to build up a processor/memory/computer, assembler, compiler, and then be able to program and run games like Tetris on it. It's outstanding and highly recommended.

[0] https://www.nand2tetris.org
It was greater than a half-page this year for me. It should be added to adblockers at This point
I agree with you in that I don't remember anyone I know buying one lately, since the pandemic. All the coffee nerds had gotten one earlier and they all seem to be happy enough.

I completely disagree on what I see as your main point. I'm very far from being a coffee snob or even aficionado, but even to me my morning coffee (with tons of milk) and a decent espresso are so far from each other... saying that it doesn't matter is a bit like "all beers taste the same". I don't drink espresso when I get up and I wouldn't make real cappuccino anyway either, and I drink my espresso usually after lunch. They just happen to both be labeled coffee. (Also for reference, I've been using a Hario for about a year now and I buy beans from local roasters and have no intention to ever roast myself)
I would love if indiehackers could help fill this niche. Since it is aimed at people trying to launch products, pragmatism should reign, but there are things about the presentation and site policy that would seem to hold it back for this use case.

As a new user of the site, im not allowed to post, very few of the posts inspire me to comment anything (mainly because I’m not that knowledgeable about founder problems, but if there were more tech conversations then i would comment more), and there is a low throughput of new discussions as well. I feel like it could be done better.
SE users just love to call out 'XY problems', it's like declaring 'strawmen' on HN.

I asked a question recently along the lines of 'how can I do blah? Or is another way of achieving whatever it was'; response 'this sounds like an [XY problem](link like you can be on SE and not have heard of it)' - I told you both X and Y! Can we just solve my problem whether it's by the avenue I thought most likely or not?
> The problem is that Wikipedia goes to great effort to shill for the CIA-NATO propaganda machine

What exactly are you saying? Are you suggesting that thousands of Wikipedia editors have all been subborned by Western military agencies? Or are you just referring to the overpaid Wikimedia C-suite?

Of course some Wikipedia editors are shills. Most MSM journalists are shilling for someone; if you pay attention to current affairs, you'll bump into a shill within seconds. But Wikipedia is largely self-correcting; even if the mainspace articles are biased, (a) there's page history; (b) there's per-editor contribution history; and (c) there's talk pages. I don't know of any other information source that provides so many tools that a critical reader can use to judge the content of an article.
I remember seeing lots of jokes on the Internet about guys going to college "for the bandwidth"
I tend to think of forums that have a down vote mechanism (along with karma) as being like those crystal growing kits. By discussion and voting the community grows a consensus crystal and then gradually refines ways to express the consensus.

Sometimes you want that! Other times you don't.
They’re screwed if they don’t make something viable before most people get pushed back into the office.
True, and it isn't just hate for the sake of hate. I would like to have a device like that (not for meetings, god forbid, but I'd like to read without having to hold a book in by hands, or to watch a 360° 3D movie, you know), but I'm just not gonna buy it from Facebook. To clarify, I'm not gonna buy it from any company that will require me to sign-up and log-in somewhere to use the device I bought.
Which is odd because Slack was the leader in this space just a few years ago.
That's probably going to be the inevitable problem with VR solutions though, right? Maybe not in the tech bubble, but outside of that, I absolutely can see this going down as some version of "execs get the latest and greatest VR headset, average employee gets the shitty thing from 5 generations ago that induces massive motion sickness" in non-tech companies.
According to a recent SA post here - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/links-for-october-397?..., :

"Wikimedia Foundation gets $100 million + dollars per year and only needs a single-digit million to keep Wikipedia up. All those ads begging you to donate to “protect their independence” actually give them a huge surplus, some of which gets redirected to leftie culture warrior causes. For example, they gave $250,000 to a group promoting an “intersectional scientific method” that argues that objectivity is “colonialist”, and another $250,000 to a group promoting police abolition. Is this claim true? The very small amount of research I’ve done suggests that it’s true that Wikimedia spends a lot of its budget on things other than hosting (estimates of how much maintaining their websites costs range from 8% to 43%, I haven’t looked deep enough to know who’s right), that some of the remainder goes to grants (this isn’t a specific line on their budget, but seems to be some part of the 32% going to “direct support to [Wikipedia-related] communities”), and that some of these grants do go to “racial justice” type charities, including the two above. Wikimedia says this is about increasing minority representation in Wikipedia/academia/knowledge/whatever, but the charities do also fund controversial work like opposing scientific objectivity or trying to defund the police. I don’t know if any Wikimedia money ends up at those causes. How would people be thinking about this if it went to right-wing culture war causes instead?"
You have to resort to science fiction references to obscure the fact that middle-class and wealthy black people exist in this country.
I wouldn't hold my breath. 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.

That said, I'd try to join smaller groups where people are more into friendly-bunch-playing mode..

ps: Since it's free, you have to pay by bowing to whoever you're talking to because they don't enjoy talking, they want something else, a quest for perfect information, precise protocol converging toward a solution. They're not wrong but it often goes wild (just two days ago someone ended up shouting at me for not giving server details regarding a tiny unicode issue, it went up to "I am the one with the most answers here so obey me" full with caps lock as bonus)
I thought we call it software because it breaks when I touch it
Yeah, I didn't mean original or scientific research, more working on missing citations, integrating information from newly discovered original sources, or maybe even attempting to discover such original sources. I guess Wikipedians prefer to call this editing!

With the foundation's resources and clout, someone working on their behalf may be able to get better access to many source materials.

And if there were full-time paid editors, I'd stop editing immediately

So, I'm guessing you know a lot about Wikipedia.. but aren't there already full-time paid editors, just not from the foundation? I struggle to believe there are not well funded interests out there investing money into improving Wikipedia (whether such improvements are objective or subjective) in the same way that some tech companies fund, say, programming language core teams.
This is joked about often regarding SO, but my experience is, that most of the time the users actually have issue Y, and were helped, and it’s only me who landed there via search engine and has issue X that is (wrongly) in the title, who is now not helped :/
Let's move beyond quantum circuits
> Now I am forced to.

You should think about legal recourse here. If this isn't stomped out it can result in real racism pretty quickly. It has to, because people aren't treated fairly and it creates adversary between people of different skin color.

This is bad management that needs to be replaced.
Yeah that's a really great comparison! Video calls are great for transatlantic calls with family and friends I haven't seen in ages, and a good VR version of that might be even better, but I likely wouldn't use it more than a few times a month.
That sort of thing needs to be democratically decided. Currently it isn’t, most countries have a few rich people dominating media and politics.

Most poverty isn’t energy poverty at all, it’s a lack of control over the means of production in general. Energy is merely one aspect.

Some energy usage is clearly frivolous, like several ton cars with single occupants or vastly oversized armies. Alternatives that achieve the same goals with vastly lower energy usage already exist and in some places are even widespread. Life can be different without being worse.
I work in medical simulation and there is incredible potential for remote training with this sort of tech.
One of the things o really liked about slashdot was seeing two comments marked “insightful” that argued opposite sides of an issue.
Layoffs at MX (200 Employees)
Sure; hire an expert, or get a support contract in the tool you're working with.
I stopped using Stack Overflow years ago. For me, it was when I asked about a UPS, it got moved to another SO site, and that new SO site then closed it as not relevant to the SO Site. Which is true, it wasn't, that's why I didn't post it there in the first place.

But yes, I also found that most of the time people would nit about the way you asked a question rather than just answering it.

The people who enjoy SO are just not the people you really want answering questions.
(Speaking only to the "liked more than average" and "disliked more than average", not the general opposition of preferred vs dis-preferred.)

Imagine if there are 200 people, 100 of category A and 100 of category B. It's possible for members of category A to be simultaneously "liked more than average" and "disliked more than average". If 20 A's are liked and 20 A's are disliked, while only 10 B's are liked and 10 B's are disliked, then A's are liked 33% more than average and disliked 33% more than average.
also xkcd 'someone is wrong on the internet'
They don't really have responses because they have no obligation to explain themselves. In my experience, the explainations I do get on other topics are often lies anyways.

In one case, they wanted me to take a 13% increase in hours in order to get the promotion with a 7% raise.

For the other case, they just don't care. The only feedback I got was that they wanted work done faster. Basically, I was split between a primary role and secondary role. They considered the secondary role an "extracurricular" even though per company policy it should be 10-20% of my normal time. So they wanted me doing my regular hours for the primary role and doing the secondary role during extra hours.

The big takeaway is that my company measures engagement by the number of hours you work, and have backroom policies that conflict with the written ones.
What would be the fun in that.
> 8. Not taking advantage of matrix structure (symmetric, sparse, banded, Toeplitz, ...)

This is the sin no 5 of the article: "5. Not Exploiting Structure in the Matrix"
>It's leaps and bounds ahead of VSCode

It's also paid vs free. For some reason, some people are very reluctant to pay for tools, even though they use them every day in their job.
I think online communities grow out of the culture that starts, so the best bet would be to gather a lot of technical people who aren't insufferable pedants on a new platform and give them tools to moderate.
apparently no Scala as well??!
Oh I’ve never seen one like that, might have to treat myself
It seems like this explains, or perhaps is explained by "male expendability".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_expendability
Free plastic grocery bags have been banned for years in the EU and it couldn't be better. It makes me all the more so annoyed at food packaging (since it's the only thing you see stuck in roadside bushes nowadays).
>> Each spacecraft would be the size of a DVD disc

Not much room for a light sail large enough to fully offset the power of the launch lasers.
I think the entire player population of VRChat would like to disagree with you.
Donate to archive.org instead. Wikipedia doesn’t need your money; they’ll get it from pestering people. If they’re ever under-supported one year, they’ll let you know that too
The language is probably Haskell.
Meta makes the world a worse place. It always has. The flagship product, FB, was built to creep on women. The sooner Meta dies, the better for our planet.
It's unlikely anything would address the objections. The objections are made after the stuff is written, so it's not like you can form a cogent argument against an unknown attack. Especially considering the asymmetrical power dynamic.
Forgive me, I meant to say hella fucking creepy. Everything their employees do is public. It invites stalkers, harassment and phishing attempts. Terrible opsec.

I dunno bra, I write code because I like being the guy behind the guy, not the face on the window. You do you boo, whatever, but I've got my opinions and I'll express them whenever I want, however I want, and wherever I want.

I'll also add to this that they've got an incredibly incompetent recruitment department. The recruiter I dealt with really, really, really likes to use big words to show off her English lit degree.

I posted about it on twitter, 5 people responded with "Did she use the word perspicuous at least 3 times in every e-mail? Did she ghost you for 2 months, then send you angry messages that you haven't been more proactive in chasing her down? When you turned her down, did she say "I'm very disappointed, I saw something special in you?"
> Lack of focus is a killer for productivity.

Killer new feature: virtual monitors are anchored to your head. You cannot look away!
One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33116603
and in python/numpy, transpose is a O(1) operation: it doesn't actually move any data, just changes the strides used to access data points in the underlying buffer.
This is maybe just my own take but they're usually not dominated by pedants, it's just that you focus on that one reply from a pedant.

Choose to not focus on replies that don't contribute and you'll have a better time online.

The anonymity of the internet brings out the worst in people so after 25 years on the internet I've just honed my own internal filter to not let them upset me. I think that's the real solution because we won't change humanity, so start with yourself.
> or upper class

Not sure what you mean by "upper class". The kind of people that term refers to for me, is a group of people that would never lower themselves to donating labour for nothing, and on the whole aren't sufficiently well-educated to even read a Wikipedia article.

I agree the comparison to Marxism is unhinged!
People don't know better (yes, they really don't)

Or maybe VS Code is just really good? I was skeptical for a long time as well. I am a longtime Emacs and JetBrains IDE user (starting with IntelliJ in 2013). A while back I gave VS Code a try again. I primarily used CLion for Rust and PyCharm. And I found that the Rust/Python is at least as good as in CLion/PyCharm (with the exception of Cython). And thanks to VS Code's rich plugin ecosystem, I have a Magit implementation that is almost as good as Emacs Magit, the same with VSpaceCode to get Spacemacs/Doom-like spacebar-driven workflows.

My JetBrains All Products Pack is up for renewal later this month, but I am seriously considering to let it lapse...
I installed this 30 min ago.

1. My M1 temp went from 28c to 60c

2. CPU utilization to 103%?

3. It's using 3.29Gb of RAM

And it hasn't changed.

With a single python project with 3k lines of code.

VSCode sits at 280Mb and CPU temp around 28c.

Edit:

Vim + SpaceVim sitting at 17Mb :)
But it's not generally accepted to have such a one track mind, to apply the requirements of some part of your work, to every human interaction. There are many professions that require absolute attention to detail in many situations, and lawyers and chemists and microbiologists, even other STEM fields are perfectly capable of not being insufferable pedants in human interaction, and can choose an appropriate level of detail depending on the situation.
In manufacturing training too. Basically any training that involves physical handling.
If you use wikipedia and you think they would be reliable if they were poor service, you are living a lie.
Technology specific IRCs are still great resources as well!
90% of of professional/work 'VR' usage will be through a standard interface I think until terminals/IDEs get proper usable/silo'd support. We had one work VR event and i spent half of it launching rockets at coworkers before my kid walked in and i went AFK.
Would really love to switch. But Firefoxs extension management is unusable in my opinion. Can't quickly turn on/off extensions.
Hong Kong should be a hub for many things, but not espionage
To be fair, the actual latest stuff does look much better [1], it looks like Carmack is using an older build.

I think one of the things that's being overlooked here is scale. I've made VR Maps which pushed fidelity and the problem you have is the size absolutely explodes. Meta is intent on having automagically generated unique avatars for each user, the size of which at the scales of Meta would become astronomical.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hvfV-iGwYX8&feature=share&si=EMS...
We seem to be talking about different things.

Anybody could walk up and ask me a question, and I'd both see and hear them. In fact, that is one of the main points of today's announcement. The new "mixed reality" feature means exactly that.

(You could always hear people around you in VR (if you wished), but seeing your surroundings didn't work well at all, unless you used developer mode hacks, and even then the cameras were bad.)

With Meta's previous headset, I wouldn't contemplate using it in a starbucks.

Not because I prioritize people walking over and interrupting me, or them being able to see every inch of my face, but because I want to be able to see them.

Sitting in public without being able to hear and see what is going on around me does seem like a very weird thing to me. But that's not what's being talked about here.
Obviously, those phone numbers will very soon be blacklisted and not accepted by businesses.
>just for the sake of earning yet more money.

>It does not solve any real issue,

Contradiction detected. Who will buy this tech then?
Lot's of good points in here. I disagree with generic CBVs though. I find FBVs or vanilla CBVs easier to maintain. I like Luke Plant's article https://spookylukey.github.io/django-views-the-right-way/
> Just about every single person I've ever talked to in this industry wants to build devices to bring human beings together across space + time.

This is admirable, but unless they also have some ideas about how to keep such a service running the funding model is going to default to advertising. And advertising has a corrosive impact on free-expression (can't allow anything untoward to happen next to an ad) and community (is this person being genuine or are they selling something?).

With internet revenue models being what they are, I don't see VR social experiences going in a good direction at the moment. Maybe if we had a good p2p technology for hosting/joining VR worlds so these things could be community-run there would be hope. But every popular VR application I know of is hopelessly centralized and subject to the same market forces that made social media such a mess.
> For some reason, some people are very reluctant to pay for tools, even though they use them every day in their job.

This also really baffles me. You can see it a lot in various discussions even here on HN.
Actor System with JBang, JDK 19, records, pattern matching and virtual threads
> Nothing beats that in terms of performance and small size

Native controls do. For example, Steve Gibson wrote a DNS benchmarking utility[1] and the executable is 159k. No matter what you do, an HTML & CSS is still being rendered by a slow interpreter.

BTW, when I clicked on that link for HTML GMail, Google made me click through a warning trying to scare me off. I'm not sure why they would care if I use the HTML version.

In the end, I don't think the speed of CSS + HTML controls matters much. It's limiting and not a great choice for an operating system UI toolkit.

[1]: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
1. If I comment to correct a minor detail in someone's question, and they don't bother either to respond or to fix it, then I know it's not going to be worth going to the effort of giving a full answer.
Chat-style environments are the only place I’ve seen this sort of “occur naturally”.

It requires a defined culture, a bit of shared value, and active enforcement, so it is more the domain of paid services or private niche communities.

Ancient anecdote: it was specifically this difference in responses to questions on the mailing lists that lead me to use MySQL over PostgreSQL.

It is a problem everywhere, particularly where the barrier to entry has been lowered or removed, and it’s mostly a signal:noise issue in the absence of a fitness (quality) function.
You could almost say [citation needed] /s
> The spend on fundraising does go towards the mission

But which mission?
Imagine how dumb you're going to feel if you're the only person in VR in a teams meeting.
Yes. Even things like the average speed of an advancing column of tanks, or the largest vehicle that can cross a particular bridge, are going to be fairly obvious to any army that has its own armoured vehicles.
> Or maybe it was just a mental health episode oddly confined to a particular time, place, and role in the man's life with no known side effects. That could happen, I guess.

My first impression was that Gotaas suffered symptoms of pareidolia[1] caused by ergotism.[2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism

[3] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.94...