skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've also seen quite a few instances where the person needed fundamental corrections for their problems before their main problem could even be addressed, and they absolutely refused to accept those basic corrections first. It makes it impossible to help them with their real problem.

In my experience, order isn't actually that critical. Sure, answering the question they asked won't solve their problem, but it will answer their question. Maybe solving their problem isn't what they want or need. Even if it is, the quickest and most painless way to navigate this social dynamic is to just answer the question they asked, and let them run into the other problems you predicted.

This is especially important on StackOverflow (but also important to forums in general), because the entire point is to publish an answer to the question so others can find it later.

By answering a person's problems instead of answering their question, you are just leaving more noise for the next person to dig through.

Of course, it's still common to stumble about and ask the wrong questions; so how do we reconcile that? I think what StackOverflow is missing is a path for users to answer a question with another question. If we could communicate with the question asker to rephrase their question, then we could have them edit it, and trim the search engine noise for everyone else.
This is kind of a cheap ad hominem attack. There is a lot of legitimate criticism of the WMF, and it has been a problem for a long time so I don’t see why the criticism should stop.

The most vituperative critics of WMF are typically active Wikipedians. When a nonprofit is consistently acting against the desires of the community they are set up to support and when you as an unpaid volunteer feel like they are putting your work in jeopardy for their own benefit then you might be upset.
Lets not forget "Music For Real Airports" [0], matches the mood of the modern air traveller by being a lot more depressing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icnjrONRCdQ&list=PLCpWLhn2tf...
Also, I suspect the association of blue as modern and green as outdated might also stem from LEDs. Early LEDs were green or red. It took many years until blue LEDs became available, and those, at first, were much more expensive.
To be clear, you are not suggesting that Cyanobacteria originated from extraterrestrial origins. But when it evolved on earth, it then wiped out all non-Cyanobacteria?
In short: no. It'd need to slow down enough to counter-act years worth of a laser specifically making it go faster. Without a laser on the other end, really no shot.
Wow, this brings back memories! My roommate in college was really into Brian Eno, and I recall many a night when we'd go to sleep to this. HN is pretty great sometimes.
Video and phone calls don't give me motion sickness, so I'll stick with those. I also happen to enjoy being able to see the room I'm sitting in while I work. If anything, AR might have some promise over VR, but I'm definitely not convinced yet.
I mean, it's basic English. "Independence" doesn't mean "just enough for server maintenance" and "thriving" doesn't mean "barely surviving".
I don't get this. HOW do you get to this conclusion?

Directly involved:

* the District Attorney

* 2 judges

* the director of ... of the Juvenile Probation Office

* the brother of the District Attorney, who ran the prison (he was convicted, NOT because he paid off corrupt judges, but because he lied about that)

* a supreme court lawyer

Indirectly involved:

* a supreme court justice personally

* the whole Pennsylvania supreme court

* the governor of Pennsylvania

* Pennsylvania's Judicial Conduct Board

* the FBI

Clearly the problem is "corporate america". Which means, Facebook and ExxonMobil, I guess? Seriously?

All were at the very least presented with evidence this was happening (most participated in it), all refused to help obviously wrongfully convicted children.

And when this was finally dealt with? What was the problem that needed fixing? What got the ball rolling you ask? Hundreds of complaints about improper sentencing? No. The district attorney realising obvious wrongdoing happening for years, quite literally right in front of them? No.

A childish squabble over who has to do what job, by court employees, resulting in judges accusing each other. One accuses the other of "conspiring" to remove her, and infighting over shared ownership of a Florida condo ... which lead to press coverage of what one judge was accusing others off ...

Needless to say, the justice system, judges, public prosecutor, the county and the state of Pennsylvania, needed to put the blame somewhere. Somehow, not a SINGLE dollar of damages has to come from them. One might add that had this in fact been private sector wrongdoing that there would be no question that the justice department, as the employer, would have been responsible for damages caused by their employees, the judges.

So: yes, clearly everything that's wrong with America is corporations and the private sector ... not at all corrupt government, who then even refuses to take responsibility for the actions of their employees, and then used parts of the damages to fund their own operations ...

Lots of other problems, such as the crime of treating the children so badly in the juvenile facility EVEN IF they would have been correctly convicted are still, shall we say "open problems". No convictions, no attempts at fixing anything. Everything from access to medical care to the temperature of the facilities is still illegal. To save the government a buck.

Clearly capitalism is what's to blame here ... that the public sector might do enormous damage due to corruption is apparently not possible, yet it's absurdly clear this is exactly what happened here on a very large scale (thousands of children). That they're still just openly violating the law in the very same place this happened, they're still mistreating juveniles (and adult convicts for that matter).

Frankly I'd argue power needs to be taken away from these people JUST based on the pathetic childish accusations between the judges that brought this to light.
Everything you love you will lose. Avoiding loving things because of that seems like a painful life strategy.
I think the combination of "simple universal syntax" and "utility to human brains to write programs" is indeed probably a relatively small space.

This is in contrast to simply having a "simple universal syntax", and I don't know how many solutions that may have in the abstract sense. There are many cellular automata that from a certain point of view have "simple syntax" (at least in the sense of a limited number of symbols and super limited number of ways to put them together) and have universal computation powers, but are not useful in the slightest for human programming. (Not the most common Turing tarpit to get caught in, but this has snared a number of people over the years trying to turn cellular automata into programming languages.) Who knows what other exotic possibilities may lie out there in math space where no human mind has yet even peered. I think there's probably a lot of other things that are mathematically universal computers, but like cellular automata are just too unstable (in the mathematical sense, all small changes to program produce huge changes to output; we humans prefer languages that have that characteristic only in controlled and limited ways) for humans to program.

And dropping the other criterion of "simple universal syntax" of course reveals a rich space of possibilities, notably including every other programming language that isn't Lisp/Forth/Haskell-esque in theoretically being one of the simple universal syntaxes lifted up to being a programming language. (Haskell is one of the other ones, BTW, being "lambda calculus" reasonably translated to a programming language. It isn't purely so but generally neither is a Lisp.)
In our world women and men has equal capacity for violence. Time and time again we see researchers come to this conclusion. How we view violence is colored by our culture and views about gender roles, and thus gender and violence get mixed up. The same problem occurs with race. White and black people obviously have equal capacity for violence, but black men (and women) are more feared by white people. In the past people would use genetics and race theory to explain this, but today we know to avoid those traps in our thinking.
They stopped?
the lab I was in did explore it (not work I was directly involved in, so don't have much direct insight into it, besides knowing that we were exploring how to use it for debugging).

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/pubs/sigmetrics2010_scribe...
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/pubs/sigmetrics2011_transp...
Can you give an example of this happening?
They have an ad-free tier still - it's just more expensive.
[1] suggests otherwise, at least at launch. If you’re telling me there is NO WAY this could still happen (“zero chance”), that is absolutely a bet I’d place.

[1]: https://fossbytes.com/github-copilot-generating-functional-a...
markdown is awesome, but not convenient. I can't type "@" and immediately get access to my notes with instant search. even after I re-organize structure of my notes, links keep pointing to right note, in case of markdown I need to update them.
"These tombs [were] so frequently raided by tomb raiders that there was no guarantee that anything exciting would be down there."

From a wider angle, what are archeologists doing? Aren't they raiding tombs too? They are disturbing someone's tomb. They claim a higher goal of revealing how these ancient people lived, but they are still tomb raiders.
StackOverflow works but you need to narrow down your question tags correctly.

- Asking questions in more niche communities yields more positive response. Use tags like "timescaledb", "web3py", which are watched only by few people who understand and care about the topic

- Tagging questions with generic tags like "javascript" and "python" will attract toxic moderation, from people who do not understand the topic or generally are assholes
I got mine through the Oculus store, although you might be able to find them cheaper from a different seller.

https://www.meta.com/quest/accessories/quest-2-virtuclear-le...
> history which has led to you having a cushy, high-paying desk job doing whatever you do

So when a white person gets a high-paying job, it's because of history of slavery. If a black person gets a high-paying job, it's because they worked hard. Did I get that right?

No wonder Trump got elected when this is the agenda.

> You don't get to ignore the history that has led to the life you currently live just because Genghis Khan burned down your (great)^30th ancestor's village. It has nothing to do with that.

So Genghis Khan has nothing to do with that. But slavery has everything to do with that. Is there a threshold I'm not aware of? How far in the past we have to look at to be able to claim "event X led to event Y".

Lots of Jews ended up in US during World War 2, and now their grandkids are doing quite well. Should they be thanking Hitler because he is the "history that has led to the life they currently live"?

> Do you believe in some sort of original sin handed down by your ancestors?

Obviously I don't, but that's what this person implied.

> You're making some seriously insane judgements based on a person's ancestry.

When I speak your language, I sound insane. Good.

> Hiring from a limited pool of candidates is sub-optimal

To me "optimal" is the minimum amount of effort that leads to maximum results. E.g. if you get enough resumes by posting a job on your website you don't need to put extra effort to find more candidates. I'm curious to hear what's your definition. I suspect it requires augmenting math with morals.

Finally, here's a couple of questions for you to think about:

1. How should countries with homogenous skin color deal with history of slavery?

2. Should we exclude Nigerian Americans from DIE / affirmative action policies, because they are doing better than average American?
Solid advice but it doesn't really help in this case. "Bullied out of a job you don't love" is as bad.
> That's exactly how discrimination works.

Discrimination means treating things differently because they're different. You seem to be assuming that all discrimination is bad; but the "bad discrimination" is discriminating based on irrelevant differences.

> Stereotypes reinforce themselves through the ways we treat people.

Whatever; I don't understand the sentence. Perhaps I should have studied sociology! But a "stereotype" is like a cardboard cutout; it's a super-simplified (ands therefore false) representation of a difference. I don't know what stereotypes have to do with discrimination, unless somehow we're suddenly talking about racial discrimination, or gender discrimination, or some other unjustified discrimination.
With IPv6 the user still has to understand firewalls, and IPv6...
This. I don't think anyone expected high availability from their living room web servers; if they did, they either discovered that was not feasible, or moved their web server somewhere else. And that was FINE. Sometimes, a server with a forum or a website you really liked would go down. Then there'd be an update with a quickly-written note in HTML announcing that the server had some failure and restoration was in process. Then it'd come back when the owner had the time and cash to get it back up and running, maybe along with a story about what happened.
What else would "We ask you, humbly, to help...We're a non-profit that depends on donations to stay online" mean if not to raise the possibility to go down is present?
Ask HN: What Is Modern Philosophy?
Based on the fact that philosophy means "love of wisdom", I would consider that all modern-day domains of science could be placed under philosophy.

The quantum studies have strong philosophical underlying to them, in my opinion. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge (which could cover a large part of advanced math) seems to be also philosophical.

Nonetheless, if I'm looking into articles/books/content about modern philosophy, I don't really find the current scientific ideas there.

So my question is: What is modern philosophy, if it's not science?
I'm wondering if this is going to be the start of a lower cost tier, or perhaps raising the price to watch without ads? I don't think Apple could get away with normal ads on Apple TV without an option to get rid of them, even if it's a light touch.
While I’m unsure if this is satire, I am all in! A pre-sentient language model would do a great job attending meetings on my behalf. It could also probably do a better job chatting about sports than I can and could send me a daily summary each evening.
You can actually “switch off” the website by using alternate sources.

Vote with your dollars and attention.

I’m sick of people trying to cancel the things that they do not like and does not affect their lives.
Play ball-drop game on my Twitter banner
‘They are stealing Russia’: Adam Curtis on how hyper-capitalism wrecked a nation
Or it's interesting to discuss the fact that Apple deliberately makes SMS message UX and UI worse than iMessage.
Will the pricing be same for all users or do users with existing licences (e.g. Ultimate) get a discount on Fleet licence?
Whenever I see this iMessage/SMS, blue/green topic come up I descend into an internal debate that, as I get older, I am becoming increasingly familiar with.

The debate is that one where I am forced to reconcile whether I am too far removed from popular culture to see how this is a real issue versus accepting that the issue is entirely contrived.
I could ignore the bad comments if someone actually answered the question.

But questions like "What are the most restrictive permissions I can put on /var/lib/foobar without breaking foobar" are not actually answered by saying "Don't use foobar. bobaz is better".

And questions like "I am using foobar v10, and I am wondering if there are performance issues with the bleep function, or problems upgrading to v11 or later" shouldn't be answered with "The bleep function violates the sacred separation between model-view-controller. Do not use it."

None of these are answer the questions in any way.

It's not a matter of "different people have different discussion styles". It's as if they see the mention of certain keywords and want to post a dogmatic criticism.
Ask HN: What are some good competitive coding platforms for company hackatons?
I'd like to organize an event for our developers where they work on challenging coding problems as individuals or in small teams.

I'm looking for online platform recommendations, or "clone and go" projects or even executable arenas where participants could get a fun "battle" of solutions. Single round or multiple rounds.

I'm aware of LeanPoker (and I even participated in one such event) but I hope to learn about alternatives.

Thanks in advance!

(this is my first ever HN submission)
How about when a wild fire (emphasis on wild) breaks out, we quickly extinguish it and note the location to come back in a few months and do a controlled burn in the same area without the risk to human life that letting a fire run free creates.
The same effect can be accomplished on StackOverflow by more narrowly tagging questions to specific technology niches, so that it does not show up on the watch lists of generic moderators.
I installed jetbrains clion via snap, not realising the implications. I spent a long long time trying to work out why it couldn’t find dev libraries installed via apt. It wasn’t until I attacked the process with truss/strace that I realised the package manager had installed a snap version, and it was horrifically sandboxed.

I nuked Ubuntu and installed Arch.
Waiting for everyone to be on the bandwagon before you begin means you'll be waiting forever. If just one of the major countries did it, or a large amount of the smaller ones, it would be highly influential and get the bandwagon moving.
Rigor and Strang are not two words I'd put in the same sentence. Neil Strickland's notes https://neilstrickland.github.io/linear_maths/ (for the matrix point of view) or Jim Hefferon's book https://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/index.html (for a vector-spacey treatment) are what comes to my mind when I think "rigor" (along with all sorts of older textbooks like Hoffman/Kunze); Jean Gallier's long set of notes https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/math-deep.pdf goes even further in that direction.
Well seeing that every one of the authors images don’t jibe with reality - ie his images aren’t what are actually on iPhones in terms of saturation - it kind of makes his entire thesis moot
There are no full time paid editors and that would severely distort the character and incentives of the encyclopedia.
Fleet Below Deck, Part III – State Management
Sure. And if you accept those images or not is your thing. Their banners are super annoying at only 2% conversion rate. What will it be without those banners?
I was experiencing similar performance problems on linux. Multiple cores pegged and multiple gb used while idling.
Bold prediction: if ads on paid streaming services become the norm, there will be a renaissance of piracy because it will once again offer the superior user experience.
Absolutely. Or to put it another way, loving your job is great, but being jealously, madly in love should be avoided.

I've sometimes wondered if there should be term limits on most jobs? E.g. no more than 8 years in any one company, and maybe no more than 3 years in any one position. Something like that.
He could have cut to the chase sooner than the header to paragraph 2?
The grandparent post literally linked to a write up about a Harvard study showing that a two parent family is the biggest predictor for economic mobility. Other studies have shown that time spent studying (not race, not household wealth) is the biggest predictor of SAT scores and thereby university admission.
... that you do not own.
A comparison between blue and green bubbles on your phone would be more relevant. Color space handling makes direct comparisons between screen grabs (from different devices) tricky.
It's not the color or contrast of the bubbles that make me think negatively, it's the fact that once I see a green bubble in a group text, I know it's going to be a bad experience.

Any photo, video, or reaction gif that people send will be compressed down a couple of pixels and replies will often be out of chronological order.
Yeah dude, harmful stereotypes.
No, you go and fix the social inequalities and trickle that up. You can't trickle down equality by introducing more "positive" inequality
A new series immerses us in Russia’s 90s trauma and the human cost
noscript can block most ads without much memory overhead
Stealing research is not a problem specific to double-blinded reviewing, but it is a problem.

Two examples from last year:
* https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
* https://www.universitetsavisa.no/etikk-forskningsetikk-forsk...
yeah, the problem with infloor is that the floor is already laid down so i would have to redo the flooring for all rooms.

my use case is winter nov-feb which occasionally has snow, some year there is 0 snow, some year there is 12 inches, usually inbetween.

electricity from the grid is often down during this time period but when it does come, we could use the heat pump to heat up the "storage". 300L water heater in this case means 300L/day of water heater (yeah, rooftop solar water)

the storage can be anything, 500L, 1000L, 2000L, that is cost dependent only. if we feel more storage is needed, we just add another tank

heat pump is like 200L/hour so yeah
Aristotle wrote quite a bit on this subject. Check out Nicomachean Ethics for a nice dry read.

I think Aristotle would say that since a job is ultimately not in your control and you can be fired for reasons out of your control, you must compartmentalize your attachment, or detach altogether, if you wish to avoid pain.

It’s also an insight from Buddhism that expectation and attachment are core causes for suffering.
Install Oculus Virtual Desktop - gives you access to your computer, on compatible keyboards is able to bring it virtually onto your desktop in front of you, and mute your mic.
> You can't have local solutions to global problems

No, but you can start locally and watch the dominoes fall. Take GDPR for example: EU mandates it so companies fall in line, and now California has their own version (and hopefully we'll see other states & countries follow suit). Forcing a company over a hump can certainly start a movement in the right direction. If the US were to outright ban single-use plastic bottles (which I think they should), these companies would have to make a huge shift in the way they source and manufacture materials and this would lessen the resistance to other countries doing the same.
Does a week go by without some kind of scam, fraud, or theft of crypto in the millions? I have no idea why anyone puts money into this for compared to other business, it seems so sketchy. It must be a combination of greed, rose-colored glasses, and nativity.
A dumping ground is a place where it is appropriate to dump waste. To say that poor countries are not a dumping ground for the rich means that it is not appropriate for the rich to dump waste there. The word itself is normative, and therefore so is the sentence.
I also think vscode is really good enough for development and has a healthy plugin interface. I only miss my vim navigation when working in it, nothing beats vscode remote mode and it's free.
It looks like the term "privilege" was used in the 1200s, and even earlier in Latin, so restricting its use to male white privilege in the 2000s seems silly to me.
>is still the most efficient input device

And has only existed for last 70 years of human history. I doubt it'll stick with us.
Insect-slapping flower stamens help maximize pollination
If it doesn't pass an accessibility suite, that's fine. Point it out, mock, and so on. Perhaps a shame into action. But that word choice ...

Low contrast is now "gross." Yikes!