skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sad to see not a single non C-like language is being considered

They are reusing the IntelliJ backend, which I don't believe has out of the box support for a language not on that list
Can you articulate the benefits of VR meetings that are comparable to those of personal computers and that motivate equating the two?
And what are the incentives of the people in the government agency? You seem to assume that absent financial incentives they will behave altruistically. I would argue that part of the reason agencies have those financial incentives is to give them a reason to perform that task at all. Government employees are not a cadre of uniformly civic minded people. Just like everyone else, they tend to seek to maximize their own benefit. Without financial incentive, it can be other motives, like the desire for power or to avoid work.

As an example, a friend of mine was engaged to a fellow who worked as a mailman in New York. His mail route took him 2 hours to complete, but officially it took him all day. After he completed his mail route, he'd go to the gym, run errands, etc, then show up at the end of the day to clock out. Apparently he was far from alone in this. The mail routes had been established long before and were passed on from carrier to carrier, none challenging the fiction that gave them so much free time. Their supervisors must have been aware of this given how long it had been going on, but apparently they had no incentive to interfere.

Another example: there was a precinct in the Bronx many years ago where the police would fulfill their parking ticket quota by going down a block and issuing tickets to every car, regardless of meter state. People who lived in the area were aware of this and regularly contested the tickets. Eventually someone noticed that the contest rate was extremely high and almost always successful and they got in trouble. They apparently felt no incentive to ensure that their ticketing raised revenue for the city or encouraged meter use. Their sole motive was meeting the quota.

I could list many other examples of where government employees, without incentives to do their job, did them poorly or not at all. High profile ones like the police are actually more accountable than many of the smaller agencies. In my experience it's not unusual to find yourself waiting for days for a person to sign a piece of paper which is sitting on their desk. Clearly that person is not being evaluated on whether your needs get attention and no other motive is at play. But this is actually one of the more successful outcomes. In many places, bribery is necessary to get people to do their job.

In short, incentives are always a problem, public or private. In order to get things done well, it is necessary that incentives are constructed properly. That takes effort and instances of failure to do it properly abound for both public and private institutions.
I'm still not sure if Capyloon is open source or privative, TFA is not very clear.
They might not be able to enforce shrinkwrap terms but they can definitely (threaten to) sue for copyright infringement. (Which could be a criminal charge too depending on how cozy your government is currently with the US)

(Up to you, just saying.)
I joined an old school forum during the pandemic and have really enjoyed it. You are able to "like" posts but if you want to express disapproval you have to jump into the discussion and air your arguments. The moderators are not perfectly consistent but they tend to err on the side of leaving a discussion open even if it's a bit of a train wreck.

I've noticed that not being able to silently disagree/disapprove results in a community where people who genuinely and fundamentally disagree with each other end up interacting a lot and often become friends.

I don't think any particular format is right, just adding my experience.
Don’t forget:

4. Enthusiastic X-Y-Problem solvers. You asked about X but the replier is an expert in Y, so he asks “what problem are you really trying to solve?” Hoping to steer you to Y so he can shine. No, sorry. I really do want to just solve X thankyouverymuch.
Mozilla has a massive trust problem.

They could still so easily regain much of their lost trust by sincerely apologising for their cock-ups (dodgy studies/data-collection, addons-fiasco, etc) and their political shilling; and yet, they do not.

The sewage they keep pumping out on their blog, and spaffing money on expensive rebrands, is turning-off the users who keep Mozilla alive.

Given how much they're doing for Google's market-share with this blatant self-sabotage, you'd be forgiven for thinking Mozilla is being run by Google.
You can claim completely true things, while also omitting other completely true things that radically change the situation. Examining whether or not someone is presenting facts in order to argue a political stance vs neutrally reporting is an important and basic media literacy skill.
When I was at Coinbase we used AWS exclusively.
Even if one sex was 10x as likely as the other to produce good research, it is still sexist bias to judge research on the basis of the author's sex. Fairness and meritocracy mean everyone gets a chance; no one should be stopped from succeeding because they belong to a low-performing group.

I think it's safe to say that this study can be treated as an anecdote because we don't know the effect size or exact methodology and it was never peer-reviewed. And I'd agree with your point if we were talking about the Nobel prize study, which evaluates people as individuals. But arguing that 'real bias' is bias that doesn't come from empirical evidence doesn't make a whole lot of sense- all bias comes from empirical evidence of varying quality.
American here, when we or our kids need to see a specialist we usually have to go to an urgent care clinic to get a referral because scheduling with our primary care can be 3-6 months out. Then it's about a 4-8 month wait to see the specialist and a whole bunch of unknowns on treatment and the cost.

Some of my conservative friends have voiced that we need to radically change our healthcare but some still insist on their "freedoms".
I agree that the additional value add over a video call might not be there, though the author did seem to speak of Workroom being somewhat compelling.

But remember that a single Telepresence room can cost $60k - $600k, plus an ongoing subscription for networking + management, without the capacity or flexibility of a virtual room. Every meeting room in my office has one.

This is touched on in the article, but remember theres a difference between how individuals and corporations spend money, especially if it can lead to [percieved?] gains in productivity/team cohesion.

https://www.nojitter.com/telepresence-beautiful-and-expensiv...
My #1 wish for price comparison in general is to include (estimated) cost of shipping. It's no good to find the cheapest, then figure out it's $20 shipping and need to go to the next cheapest, etc.
I think this question is fundamentally misguided by being about pedants. If you look at the definition of pedant [0], it mentions people who are concerned with minor details but nitpicking [1], which you refer to in your first example, is more specifically about finding faults, so in reality you are looking for a forum _with_ pedants (who have enough knowledge about the minor details to answer your question), but _without_ the nitpickers, who focus too much on finding fault.

Hope that helps :)

/s, but like others said I think it does get to the heart of the problem where only people who get a kick out of pointing out flaws in small details in their free time hang around on technical forums.

[0] a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

[1] fussy or pedantic fault-finding.
We also need to remember that 75%+ of the plastic in the great big garbage patch in the pacific is from fishing.

But we also need to be clear that this is ALL our faults. We may say we dutifully collect our plastic bottles and separate them but do no further research to learn that most of it goes right to a landfill. We don't demand product packaging that is known to be easily recyclable, we want cheap and convenient. We don't demand clean water for other countries around the world anymore than we demand clean working conditions and humane treatment. Everything is out of sight, out of mind. We are so privileged that we forget ourselves.

Humans are a very selfish species and we keep losing sight of the fact that this planet can't support this many selfish humans. The planet is just now starting to fight back. We have been f'ing around and are now starting to find out and it won't be pretty. Until we get serious about sustainability writ large, we will continue to receive our comeuppance.
Fwiw, it's included in the output of `apt-get dist-upgrade`, so using `apt-get` is not going to immunise you from unnecessarily patching scripts that break.
Sure. It's the same situation of a solution in search of a problem as video in phone calls before that capability existed. "In the future, we'll be able to see people instead of just talk to them on the phone!"

It turns out that that's not always/often so desirable.
> I was wondering why the US is so obsessed with diversity alone the line of race and gender instead of social-economical status, education background, career background, and etc?

because its way easier to do that than fix the real socio-economic/education problems and distracts people from the real root issues that you are eluding to: class
Well it would have been weird to still not have legs when they enable…

You know what? I won’t spoil it. All I will say is Mark hasn’t put down the headset since they got it working internally.
It's strange to me that people would build a budget phone OS on top of web technologies - after all, web-based desktop software can grind full-fat tower PC to a halt.

I can't imagine it working out for low-end mobile hardware.
The aliens could just send back blueprints for a black hole weapon and wait for us to do the wrong thing.
Problem is all the pragmatic people you want answering your questions are too pragmatic to spend time reading and leaving comments on the internet

Never say never but I don't think it's very easy to build a broad and helpful community where the factors you listed aren't at play in people's motivations.

I find better help going into very specific communities for the technologies I'm having issues with. Discord servers are a great example
Jokes on you, I check out in meetings in-person as well. Just hacking away on my laptop in a corner without a care in the world.
It is never even hinted how any information could ever be communicated back to Earth.

It makes me think the whole project is not serious, like launching Voyager with no Deep Space Network to listen.

Are they hoping that over the 40 years it takes to get there, a solar-system-sized radio telescope would be built to listen? Even with that it is implausible.
Not IWETHEY or Kuro5hin I found out the hard way they turn into troll boards.

I heard Soylant News is good.
A significant amount of their donations came in during 2021 and 2022.

That episode of the Daily Show was around April 2021. So, their funds were much smaller then.

From the article: “In 2021, the appeals raised a total of $162 million, a 50% year-on-year increase.”
It depends. There's a practical and mechanical difference between one group being more liked than average, and one group being more disliked than average. Even though the situations can be equivalent in a purely logical sense, the nature of the difference changes
Yes, the VR equivalent of mouse nudging that maintains a green 'active' dot in corporate collaborative environments.
Eventually all forums go through Eternal September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
In part this is a cumulative effect. People are invited to set up a recurring donation, or include the Wikimedia Foundation in their will, so naturally there is a growing base level of steady income each year, with first-time donors on top of that.

The reason the story is coming up now is that the Wikimedia Foundation is currently "testing" the fundraising banners, in time for the big annual fundraising campaign in December. So at present, a certain percentage of Wikipedia readers in major English-speaking countries are shown the fundraising banners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#W...
Usually the most practical programmers are too busy focusing on coding than internet arguments. They _occasionally_ appear and drop nuggets of gold.
I remember getting flamed for making some comment about C on FidoNet at 2400 baud. It's an old problem.

There are things that would have to be done to produce a solution:

- understand the behavior: what drives people to post answers in the first place?

- define moderation rules that would shape the desired behavior

- build a community that focuses on this

- reward the best answers by the new metric

Community building is hard. We should remember to thank dang for doing a tremendous job of it here.
Every forum, no matter how its reputation/karma/power system works, is dominated by those who are willing and able to invest the most time into participating in the forum.

As you and many others have noticed, it appears that the type of people who can and do spend dozens of hours every month answering questions or writing instructions tends to overlap with "insufferable pedants" to a very large extent.

Thus I don't believe a forum that works the way you want can exist. The pattern you're observing is simply a reflection of the people that use the Internet today. By discouraging pedantry and by reducing opportunities to show off perceived intellectual superiority, you are effectively excluding the exact group of people who make tech forums work in the first place.
I dont think you can. And the reason is your problems all come from common human biases.

1) Observer expectancy bias, when they expect you to be wrong they work from there to prove their expectation

2) Anchoring bias, or prefering the solution you already know. Dogmatists will always exist, the upvote/downvote system helps them gain prominience and egg each other on.

3) Pro-innovation bias. People being exited by new shiny toys is another basic bias that is hard/impossible to overcome. same if the opposite of status quo bias and some people being terrified of changing anything.

I think the issues you find are made worse by the upvote downvote system. But the reality is that forums without that system still exist but have other problems. Such as discoevrability. Secondly by having no input from lurkers into the best solution, you will have to shift through the same haystack of domatics, evangelists and nitpickers (and hopefully those actively trying to help) without external validation.

You are arguing that the external validation (the unhelpful replies in stack overflow) is currently misaligned with helping your problems, and I agree. I have sometimes found the same problems in those websites. But they have some clever solutions, like the discussion below proposed solutions allows for a back and forth related to a specific proposed solution.

So if you ask about a performance issue and 3 guys mention MVC stuff and 1 guy brings up moving it to Electron and finally someone mentions a particular way to multithread your problem, you can comment below that guys comment and start a discussion there completely side stepping the ones you don't care for.

I think perhaps the person who asked could have a bigger sway on which answers rise to the top instead of people outside upvoting. But I believe there is a way to pin a reply as having worked so thats another way to dissuade the nitpickers and evangelists from showing up
Dev.to is pretty good at promoting a constructive community, but you still have trolls who will double down that their opinion must become your opinion
A major factor when meeting virtually is there is a threshold of "good enough" and I think we are there. Engineers tend to not turn on video as it is and they still get our work done. Technology is not going to solve people problems (teams disagreeing, internal politics, etc.) What is the expected outcome/benefit?
It's estimated by SteamSpy and such: https://www.vg247.com/steam-4-3-bilion-revenue-2017

Of Valve's 8~ billion revenue they gross only 15-30% of that while Epic has far higher margins on their ~6 billion revenue.
Re: Dyson Swarm not needing new tech

1. How do you keep the swarm from hitting each other and staying in the same place and not crashing into the sun as you capture the near-full output of the star?

2. How do you get the power transmitted to our planet?
Federal Officials Trade Stock in Companies Their Agencies Oversee
Moreover, surely many companies dropped $1k per employee for better equipping their workforce to work remotely during the pandemic. Yearly IT costs per seat surely exceed $1k in many if not most companies, so this is not really expensive.
What monopoly, time to learn law?
It was literally the best phone OS in 2011. Not the best in terms of apps of course.

What really pisses me off is that they literally didn't even sell the N9 in major markets. Like wtf are you doing. This was a high margin phone, ready for production. It should even have been out much earlier.

The follow up phone was getting close to release. They also had the N950 almost ready for release. And in theory they also had a lower prices phone with MeGoo that was supposed to be out, but it was killed because of their internal competition.

Nokia just really stuck around far to long on SynbianOS and that group had way to much power inside of Nokia.

I really wanted the N900 and I was just waiting and ready to buy some N1000 that I was sure would soon come out. But it never came. By the time the N9 came out it was already pretty late and they had already killed the platform.
Paywall removed:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/government-officials-invest-in-...
Sounds like an even worse nightmare!

Every developer has their own way of being productive which involves different tools & software. Forcing everyone to use one standardized environment sounds horrible.
So you know your mind. You don’t know the minds of all not-whites.

I’m pretty sure all parents worry about how the world will treat their kids.

There’s pros and cons to everything. If you’re in the US or Europe, you’re in a very privileged position compared to others in less privileged countries.

To imagine that someone who is not-white will know how all not-white parents think is silly. Even within a small demographic sliver, it seems weird to generalize my thoughts to all people who have my race or culture (eg, it’s lack of critical thinking to think “I’m Vietnamese and my kids are Vietnamese so I know the mind of all Vietnamese parents”)

There is a lot of racism toward black and brown kids and it’s the worst for poor black and brown kids. Hopefully, since you’re reading on HN you have a tech job and make some money. Historically, and presently, poor kids don’t get treated well.
At least on macOS you can enable a setting to always show the scroll bar. And on Android Firefox it displays the scroll bar while actively scrolling so you know your relative position in the page.

Adding a progress bar seems redundant to me.
Are these people really trying to be disingenuous or does the question missing context? Often asking for the really problem reveals more information and allows the answerer to be more helpful
I think that was Windows Mobile which is different than Windows Phone.
What did you move towards?
'benevolent sexism'??? It sounds like newspeak to me.

Surely this should just be called 'female privilege'.
They are leftists. The woke ideology has a clear geneaology to Marx. Of course, they are not economic class focused leftists by any stretch of the imagination - bourgeoisie champagne socialists who've re-engineered the Marxian thinking style to focus on social identities, which makes it really easy to purport to care for the oppressed. It's very high quality champagne socialism.

But it's still leftist in origin and in ideology. Saying the modern wokified U.S. Left isn't leftist is just a No True Scotsman argument. Leftism and rightism are not narrow, specific things, they're more like inchoate moral intuitions that are given more concrete form by ideology and realpolitik. Individual leftist or rightist ideologies are often contradictory with each other. But the underlying sentiment is usually still recognizable as one or the other.
That's a very odd thing to believe and it doesn't match my experience.
> This is why, when coupled with regressive societal norms, "honour killing" of women happen (the extreme worst-case example).

Sounds a bit like the gender-swapped version of "deserters get shot"
Microsoft makes their products difficult to repair:
Microsoft calls this a 'security measure'.

Microsoft has a bigoted hiring policy which cares more for your skin tone & nipple size than your skillset:
Microsoft calls this 'diversity and inclusion'.
By default, Firefox doesn't have the permissions necessary sometimes. I had that issue. Not hard to work around, but quite annoying to have to look up.

Personally, I've switched to a plain old .tar.gz extracted in a folder to fix Canonical's snap obsession because Snap'd Firefox doesn't play nice with some debuggers I was using. Same with Chromium; quite a pain.
Has anyone had success at seating on a narrowly confined Forth an Isabelle Higher Order Logic for spec. to code proofing a model?
> a 2TB HDD was sold for about 160 dollars

As far as I can see, the text of Wikipedia is about 10GB. I don't know how much space the images occupy, but if we assume they take up roughly the same space, then a single 2TB disk would accomodate 1,000 Wikipedias.

This isn't about the cost of disk storage.
> If I'm on a Zoom call with 8 other people and the conversation shifts to something that doesn't concern me, I can bring up a code editor and continue hacking away at something without advertising that to my colleagues. But if I started in VR, I'm basically stuck there.

This is simultaneously a criticism and a big selling point
Congratulations. You just identified one of the reasons so many dread working at such organisations and why software engineering is becoming assembly line work. Indeed what does an it person know about tooling and why do engineers need to ask for “permission” from managers by opening a “ticket”? Neither an it person nor a manger have a clue about what an engineer needs.
If you do a lot of typing they are definitely worth it. I have bought two with quite clicky blue switches and I love them. They are quite noisy but I don't share an office so it doesn't really matter. One is Cherry brand but I can't remember the other one. They are both Windows layouts but I believe that at least one company is now doing Mac layouts.
Most modern websites like Reddit or Facebook don't actually delete your content.
Yeah I even see this in volunteer groups offline where organisers often are abrasive and pedantic and very difficult people, who basically lure people into this trap of a free event, and then use the situation to constantly try to assert themselves and jerk people around.
It very much depends on your meeting culture. I suppose in the ideal world, everyone should be intently paying attention because the meeting was relevant and focused. In my world, meetings go on for hours, everyone invites the kitchen sink, and long egotistical monologues are the norm. Trapping me in VR for all that would be unpleasant to say the least.
It's like product/service reviews, which are dominated by unhappy customers since few happy customers feel sufficiently motivated to take the time to review. The people most likely to answer technical questions are insufferable pedants, who relish the opportunity to demonstrate their vast technical knowledge.

That being said, it's worth looking around on Reddit's more focused subreddits for what you're asking about. No guarantees, though.
There has been no hint of any answer to this question. Did they think no one would notice?