skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some issues to consider:

1. StackOverflow's original goal was to be an open-sourced archive of technical information, as I understand it, not a free tutoring service for anyone with a question. This accounts for closing duplicate questions.

2. There's a reason remote IT help is a big online business - they hire people who are paid to be polite and helpful, clarify questions, and solve them efficiently while helping you implement them. It's unreasonable to expect members of any free open forum to behave in this manner, ever.

3. On SO, a major goal of many participants is to up their SO score, by providing popular answers or popular questions. This often conflicts with the archival repository goal (see 1) of the site. For example, I'd say 95% of the time I have a question that seems appropriate for SO, a diligent (time-consuming) SO search usually turns up an already existing answer, thereby depriving me of the opportunity to up my points by asking questions. Throwing out a question without doing any research is considered poor behavior (but see 2, time is money) although the actual motivation may be more about upping that SO score.

Finally, there's another reason people try to answer questions that has nothing to do with any of the OP's 1-3 points, and that's that there is really no better way to learn a subject, and to test your own understanding of a subject, than to try to explain it to someone else. However, this is not really 'altruistic motivation' - it's a way of rapidly grasping the fundamentals and issues and common edge cases in say, learning a new programming language. Also, a poor response to a question will bring out the correctors, a useful tactic other comments allude to, i.e.:

https://xkcd.com/386/

Thus, don't expect any member of a public forum to ever behave like a paid employee of an IT help company - which means, practically, the ability to ignore the nitpickers, evangelists, dogmatists, preeners, dismissive jerks and so on is a necessary skill.
Sure, there are paid editors performing PR services on Wikipedia (both above-board, declared, and flying under the radar, undeclared).

What the WMF does do at times is fund community "organizers" trying to get unpaid volunteer editors to work on its content. See e.g.:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/09/22/join-the-organizer-lab...

Direct editing paid for by the Foundation was tried once, with bad results:

https://thewikipedian.net/2014/04/02/bats-in-the-belfer-a-be...
Use your "block" button early and often. At least that's what I do on Reddit at the slightest sign of pedantry or personal attacks. Those people really are beneath you, they live in a bubble of their own reality, and it's best to not respond, just block.
Because I don’t want to wear a giant computer on my head.
>Ambivalent sexism is a theoretical framework which posits that sexism has two sub-components: "hostile sexism" (HS)[1] and "benevolent sexism" (BS). Hostile sexism reflects overtly negative evaluations and stereotypes about a gender (e.g., the ideas that women are incompetent and inferior to men). Benevolent sexism represents evaluations of gender that may appear subjectively positive (subjective to the person who is evaluating), but are actually damaging to people and gender equality more broadly (e.g., the ideas that women need to be protected by men).

To me 'benevolent sexism' seems just a misleading name. Something like 'positive eugenics'. According to its definition it makes sense to call it that, but you need some context to properly understand what the name actually means.
Funny how shkreli fits into the story – he's led the criticized cost plus drugs for being a more expensive version of goodRx with inflated discounts [0]/

[0]https://martinshkreli.substack.com/p/mark-cubans-pharmacy-no...
> who thought they knew better and refused to reboot the device when asked

That one is so annoying because it's equally likely that step was put in as a generic "why not", or as a crucial step. Half the software installers will tell you to restart when they're finished even though it's not necessary anymore. Many first level support people will tell you to restart your device when you're reporting their page returning 5XX. It's an issue with the industry conditioning people with BS rather than with customers expecting BS.
Especially thinking of personal notes, I expect to need to refer back to them after notion.com has disappeared. So I keep everything I can in a synchronised directory of markdown files.
The metaverse is a flying car.

What I mean by that is: every once in a while we are promised that soon, we will all go to work in flying cars. But they never arrive. Powered flight has been a reality for more than a century- what gives?

Well, of course, the problem is that when you put wings on a car what you get is not a flying car, but an airplane. If you run out of gas in your car, you stop. If you run out of gas in your airplane, you die. So that means triple checking fuel levels and filing flight plans. Cars drive on a road, in a predictable way, so they can be packed close together. Airplanes are just traveling every which way in the sky, so you have to have air traffic controllers. There are a myriad of ways in which the concept of a "flying car" is just a misunderstanding of the constraints involved.

Same with the metaverse. The concept is reality, but virtual. And the thing is: when you take reality and put it in a computer what you get is not the same real world, just virtual. What you get is a totally different thing that has different uses. Segway made this same mistake. That's why the metaverse will fail. It's a concept based on applying the usage patterns of one system to a different system where they don't work anymore.

Sometimes the opposite thing happens: everyone else is trying to make a flying car, and someone comes along and figures out that those are really airplanes. This happened with the iphone. Everyone else was manufacturing regular cell phones, but computerized. Steve Jobs realized that when you put a touch screen and a powerful computer in a phone, what you have is a new and different thing that has new and different uses. It goes both ways.
That's the part that cracks me up.

Developers require low-wage workers to prevent developers from doing the wrong thing. It's stupid.

I'm ok with you revoking Bob's admin privileges if Bob keeps installing malware, but don't revoke my ability to install Python because of it.
I agree. I have wrote a small post[1] one year ago, because Ubuntu20 was hard to configure in safe manner.
I started switching to Debian all my servers from that day, and for the meantime it pays my bills.

But I miss a bit Ubuntu...

[1] https://gioorgi.com/2021/ubuntu-20-failed-me/
Std: The Nix Flakes framework for perfectionists with deadlines
If you maintain any sort of ethnic distinction, the consequence of that is going to be a divergence of cultural values and practices that leads to different outcomes. In the 1940’s, the United States deliberately assembled the greatest collection of scientific minds available to them to invent the first atomic bombs; for some reason, the most overrepresented ethnic group in that project were Hungarian Jews. This was not a time of great philo-Semitic or pro-Hungarian sentiment among American elites; it just worked out that way. In fact, the America of that time was so threatened by Jewish overperformance that universities adopted de facto anti-Semitic quotas in their admissions process; East Asians experience similar discrimination do today.

You aren’t wrong to think black Americans are the victims of systemic racism; the problem is that most the “systemic racism” that operates today is an unintended consequence of well-meaning liberal policies, as Sowell has discussed for decades now.
Canonical have been consistent on backing the wrong horse so many times.

Mir, Snap, Unity, Amazon integration, Whatever the fuck Ubuntu One was, Ubuntu Software Centre, Upstart, Bazaar.

But the worst thing they do, is keep changing where the desktop configuration lives. Every damn release I need to update my script that unfucks their default config to something sane, because they've discovered yet more readline shortcuts to shadow with something irrelevant.

Canonical, Fuck you.
A bit OT but if any JetBrains employees read this: please, please could you change the icon for webstorm? It is so ugly that it hurts my eyes. I will pay you to change the icon. Thanks.
Do you have something that you can show us? Unfortunately, I won't be able to help you with a jobsearch, but I'm interested in what you have achieved in 2 years.

Did you focus on it full-time or besides work?
No float/double number support, sadly. Yes, I know "starting Forth" has clues to
live with that: https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/5-fixed-point-arithmeti...
but I would like at least how to print two ints to make a double.

I tried to implement D+, D-, M+ and such by hand, but they failed.
Because if your tooling is closed source (and if it's paid it almost certainly is) then your ability to maintain a project is dependent on some corporation's willingness to continue to support the tooling etc.
Yes, I'm speaking from experience.
Most of the good and niche communities are unfortunately burried in Slack and Discord nowadays, and Discouse being an overengineered platform isn't helping either.

Reddit is a mix of all of the ones you mentioned, but there are some amazing subreddits out there. At the same time, answer.microsoft.com is in the worst end, and have made me angry hundreds of times.
For non-tech, Facebook groups (yeah yeah I know) can be pretty amazing, and often the only resource.

- I recently busted my laptop from a BIOS upgrade, and there was a very frequent thread on r/LenovoLegiin that one-shot fixed it.

- I'm having some driver issues that prevent me from updating Windows 11. Literally hundreds of search results on answer.microsoft.com are canned responses by the same guy named Sumit, and with hundreds of web sites that simply scrape that Microsoft site, fixing a Windows bug is quite painful.

- For non-tech, I prefer Facebook groups. I'm setting up my first DIY solar setup at the moment, and a few very active Facebook groups were the only resource to source certain stuff, and very elaborate guides especially on making LiFePo4 battery packs. Building a battery pack isn't as easy or straight forward, and having a bunch of people often in the same geographic location helps to borrow tools, pick some brains, and even to trade.

For expats, especially in Asia, Facebook groups are the mainstream. Everything from pub crawls to apartment rentals happen on Facebook group.
Depends on your average. If you take mean then male averages are always skewed by outliers. The mean number of people murdered is going to be higher for men than for women. But the median and mode for both will be 0. Also note that such statistics have a lower limit (0) but no upper limit. It might be that there are men who are overwhelmingly "good" and prevent many murders, but this won't count as a negative contribution to male murder statistics.
Radix sorting with no key comparisons:

https://bugfix-66.com/834f0677c85b23c0bf1047d3654ab7c27ff054...
> may be able to get better access to many source materials.

As an established Wikipedia editor, you can sign-up for free access to a variety of source materials that "civilians" would have to pay for. You don't have to be employed by Wikimedia.

> but aren't there already full-time paid editors, just not from the foundation?

There are two kinds of paid editor: people who are employed by WMF, and also edit (but they're not actually paid to edit, at least in theory); and lobbyists, reputation-managers, marketing consultants and so on, who are allowed to edit within limits. Personally I would like those pluggers removed with extreme prejudice, but WP is very relaxed about these things.
Those kind of trends don't matter very much if you e.g. only look at the least significant bits of the detection count.
My first draft response is: basically like I feel like folks from Western Nations are essentially pretty good migrants to anywhere in the world in the sense that we don't have too much of a strong culture ourselves where we will migrate to a place and then form little Anglo communities where we only mix among ourselves (so we do that to some extent, Discovery Bay in HK and compounds in Saudi Arabia, eg--but that's not our only option) but we will also kind of migrate to a place you know independently as individuals or small groups and then sort of set up shop and basically like adopt the local culture and try to integrate ourselves and you know transact and trade and stuff.

It's essentially kind of similar to how the southern Chinese ("world best migrants"are) are very migratory and they kind of migrate anywhere in the world with the difference being that the Chinese will often set up a sort of like a local monoculture so that Chinatown kind of place and still kind of maintain a strong culture where as in the west we have sort of a looser idea or own culture and I think we're more flexible.

But I don't see the Japanese having a correlate in either of these activities: they don't really seem so migratory and when they do migrate they don't really seem to do the same sort of integration or mercantile sort of transaction that the westerners or the Chinese do.

Also we can take a look at their country--JP--and while Western Nations commonly include (not all) but commonly include folks from all over the world (and there's certainly still plenty of racism from the dominant anglo cultures but there's still inclusion of folks from all over the world) and immigration policies that are more open. whereas in Japan I think there's obviously stricter and more xenophobic immigration policies but also there's less of this sense of groups from all over the world to the same extent coming in and forming sort of a community there.

It's much more of an exotic thing I think for non Japanese people to move to Japan (while it certainly existent and occurs to some extent), the degree is much less I think than the type of air quotes multiculturalism you'll see in you know a western nation.

And other nations as well it's not exclusively Western but I think Japan stands out for having a sort of xenophobic monoculture that's quite insular and so that's sort of what I'm talking to.

But this is just a first draft kind of elaboration I could probably say a lot more so I'll see you know where that sticks with you and lands on anything and where you take that.
Stating from the get-go that the choice of X is beyond your control would help though, assuming that you’re already aware that you wouldn’t have the problem if you’d use Y instead of X.
Here are my three latest questions:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72366267/matching-ip-add...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71374202/why-mov-instruc...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70738756/proper-way-to-u...

I got what I'd call high-quality answers and I'm completely satisfied by that experience. Those questions are not top 1%.
Or the alternative even. I work in consulting. What would it be like if my team was geared up in VR and the client was not? What would it be like if the client was geared up and we were not?

I would imagine... really distracting.
I really wish IRC was still the defecto choice for open source projects. Now days all I see is gitter/slack/discord/matrix which I find all have a significantly worse experience than IRC.
For actual sunlight, where only 45% of the light is in the photosynthetically active wavelength range, the theoretical maximum efficiency of solar energy conversion is approximately 11%. In actuality, however, plants do not absorb all incoming sunlight (due to reflection, respiration requirements of photosynthesis and the need for optimal solar radiation levels) and do not convert all harvested energy into biomass, which results in a maximum overall photosynthetic efficiency of 3 to 6% of total solar radiation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency
London Renting Crisis
Solana: Mango Markets exploited for $100M post price data manipulation
You can just turn off the service and uninstall snapd. It is annoying to have to do it, but it is pretty straightforward. But yes, you will need to then add PPAs for thing that were only in snap, or use appimage or flathub.
If these are VOIP then, sadly, these already won't work with a huge number of services.
Democrats are not a left party. They are squarely center, maybe even center right.

As someone who is a communist, the Dems have nothing to do with Marx, and they are about as capitalist as they come.
For the most part I consider komorebi to be pretty feature-complete as a tiling window manager.

That being said, I use it extensively every day myself so I'm constantly fixing any bugs that I come across myself in daily use, and similarly I'm always playing with new ideas and coming up with features that I have not seen present in other twms.
It doesn't but you can create your own filter list in github. Then link to the raw copy as a custom filter.

You'll then just need the URL to your filter and paste that it into your different instances of Firefox.
I don't know what this is supposed to prove, it just shows that the generator is lazy while the list isn't. It seems unrelated to scoping issues or leaking variables.
It’s so slow to startup. On a laptop with 11th gen i5, 16GB ram and a fairly fast NVMe SSD running Windows 11 and I see ~10s startup time. I really hope it succeeds but for a lightweight editor it’s just too slow to start.
An obscure cellphone tracking tool provides ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
As far as I know, the counts per minute for background radiation you get with cheap compact captors (say the stuff you find on Geiger counters) is pretty low, a dozen to a hundred counts per minute. That's not a lot of entropy. You could much more precise captors, but then you couldn't just plug it into a PCIe slot. At this scale, you probably get more entropy from just jitter on the electrical circuit. And it's pointless to have one huge centralized RNG, at least from a security standpoint.
I have over 500 hours on kerbal space program and have been playing with the KSPIE mod that enables beamed power and sails. They definitely work.
> Is this a bad thing if it's accurate?

Yes. That's exactly how discrimination works. Stereotypes reinforce themselves through the ways we treat people.
Both fantastic applications that make sense, but not mainstream. It almost makes sense the strategy is to create any type of consumer VR industry to reduce the extremely high expense VR would have if only training and simulation were it's main applications.
Interesting! I stand corrected
If I'm in a meeting where someone suggests using opaque technical language to deliberately reduce reach... I'm voting that down :)

Use simple language that everyone understands. You might gain some converts.
> It's not them making the waste - it's the people-consumers who are not throwing the bottles away for recycling

I can't tell if this is ignorant or ill-intended. The 'recycled' material from these markets is getting shipped to Southeast Asia and dumped in landfills as per the original link in this submission.

Ask yourself if what you say is real, then there would be no need for new plastic from crude oil since our market would be interely circular with recycled plastic.

Plastic recycling pelets have a very limited use and there are only a handful of countries were consumers care about it where manufacturers mix in some recycled pelets and claim the plastic is from (partially) recicled plastic.

Recycled plastic is greyish in coloration (you can't make it transparent) and far more brittle than 'new' plastic. Recycling plastic was a con all along to allow corporations to make a fortune on packaging cost savings.
The actually makes a very basic factual error.

> Indeed, in the 2012/13 year the Foundation budgeted for $1.9m to provide all its free information on tap.

$1.9m is was the capital expenditure budget for 2012/3 (ie cost of servers etc).

But I'm sure that his motivations had nothing to do with the fact that he found a conveniently small expense figure to mislead with.
And which of these announcements really required manual intervention on a VPS running a webserver? A webserver clearly doesn't use a GUI library like wxwidgets, probably won't run keycloak, and the GRUB change depends on your environment, with good chances that it will still work without re-writing the bootloader.

In any case, just subscribe to the arch announcements mailing list and you'll get an email notification in these cases. Not sure if I would put pacman -Syu into cron though.
The banner shown in the article has a subtle tone of demise: if you don't donate, Wikipedia itself stops being independent, could not thrive, could not give reliable or independent info. And then the money is primarily spent in things other than Wikipedia. They never state or at least insinuate where the money go.
> People will send you hormones and breast binders even if they know you are underage and it is expressly against your parents' wishes.

sending hormones to children without medical professionals involved is illegal. do you know of teachers doing this? call the police. problem solved.

> Teachers and counsellors often hook children up

you're being very sloppy with your wording. "hook children up" means "giving drugs to children". not happening, if it is happening, call the police.

> LibsOfTikTok has videos of people admitting to this

then those people would be arrested

> Legal advocacy groups are telling teachers unions that they need to help keep this a secret from parents lest the child be forced to kill themselves.

you are confusing "giving drugs to kids" with the practice of teachers keeping confidential when a student verbally expresses to a teacher that they might want to identify of a different gender. Certainly, the latter point is still something that can make people upset, but that's all it is - the child says words to a teacher about how they feel emotionally about something, and the teacher /school is then given leeway to determine that they might not inform the parents if it is feared that the parents will retaliate towards the children. Be mad about that if you want but this is not "transitioning" anyone or "hooking up" anyone with drugs.

> "In modern use" means "as we redefined it to win arguments".

if you are "not a racist", but then you thought it was funny to go to a halloween party wearing blackface, you just did a racist thing. It doesnt matter what you thought in your mind. This is not controversial. if you showed up to a party like that, you practiced racism. nobody cares or need be concerned what you actually think in your mind. If a Nazi throws you in an oven, are you concerned if they are actually anti-Semitic or not?
Ultimately you need strong moderation to ensure quality answers.
Also

> these are too niche for whatever Gates is trying here… for his billion dollar bet to succeed nearly everyone would have to be using his PC product.

I don’t think Microsoft / Gates had a “billion dollar bet” that’s comparable to what Zuckerberg is doing with VR and the metaverse.

Meta sells ads on a social network and is using money from that business to subsidize the development of VR applications on the theory that someday meta might make lots of money from VR.

Microsoft sold software for personal computers, made a lot of money doing it, and used that money to fund the development of more software for personal computers. At no point in this early history was there a billion dollar bet.
> post-talent businesses.

He, this seems to be quite accurate. I wonder how companies come up with that blindness. Internal politics?

I don't believe you have to be the best hacker to start a successful business at all, but some companies try to go out of their way to make working there unattractive.
> Some software and entertainment providers just jam ads into everything, even for paying customers.

Sorry, but who are you referring to?
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