skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that sometimes poeple just want 'X by Y'. To get a question answered, you shouldn't have to list every constraint and design descision that led you to that point.

Comes up all the time when people ask how to do things in bash/sh. I know there are better tools for the job, but this is the one I have.
The interesting part is that it occurred to no one to just reboot and see if that fixes it. Apparently systems were a lot stabler.
Corporate propaganda
For sure, but I take issue with the advice of

" Go to community college for 2-3 years, then matriculate from the university. Way cheaper, better teacher/instructors, more time to mature, start early in 12th grade, and the diploma is from the university.

What do you lose? 2-3 years of goofing off at a country club.

What do you gain? time and money. "

This really isn't one-size fits all - it's great for the typical college kid who has no idea what they want to do and isn't all that mature or academically inclined. But it's terrible advice for those who are academically ambitious (aside from taking CC classes while still in HS). You can quickly tap out CC curricula if you're advanced, and there are still lots of merit scholarships available in many state and private schools that will have you end up paying even less at a 4y college than a 2y.

Also, regarding instructional staff, it kind of depends. The failure modes are different. At a CC you're a lot more likely to get someone who wants to help but is just incompetent or has a lower bound on their knowledge (for math - can they prove something like the Intermediate Value Theorem and really understand it?). At a university you'll get professors who are terrible teachers, and don't want to teach, but usually aren't ignorant. If you're testing out or skipping massive oversubscribed intro/weeder classes you may not run into that much at a 4y. If you are taking those kinds of classes you'd be better off at a CC though.
I created a reader[0] that was received positively[1].

[0]: https://hzn.jero.zone/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36335469
There was a system that a bunch of students administered (I was one of the students at the time). We would occasionally prank each other. On this DEC station where memory was scarce, one guy ran emacs.

Another guy wrote a program that forked 1000 copies of itself, nice itself to 19, did a sleep(0) and then exit. As soon as it got any cpu time, it would exit, but it never would as long as emacs was running. Meanwhile, the load (as displayed by xload) became a solid black box.

So the emacs guy would run 'ps -ef | grep procname | xargs kill' as root.

This meant that it had to get some cpu time to handle the kill, which took longer than a sleep(0) and was largely ineffective.

The second time this prank was done, the process was named 'ema'... which promptly also killed all instances of emacs too.

The third time this prank was done, the process was named 'et'. This happened to have also matched /etc/initd and the machine rebooted rather suddenly.
It was too pretty and fancy for me. I wasted hours customising it instead of getting things done.

Pen and paper works best for me. At most, I use Google Docs.
I really don't get this sort of take : the world's most valuable company and a startup backed with $100m+ shouldn't have to pay for the IP that they use? Will Esperanto be giving their IP away for free and letting other firms do what they want with it?

Sure RISC-V is great in many, many ways but having the 64-bit Arm ISA ready for Apple to use in (checks notes) 2013 has been fundamental to them building their multi-trillion dollar business. Getting that ISA ready cost real money.
Honestly the first time I saw it (I saw it in the app before it was announced) my reaction was "I don't use Python... what is this??"
They're talking about the XY problem-problem. The problem when other programmers mistakenly think you have an XY problem and ignore your words.

Sometimes, the original poster is not mistaken. Especially when an expert asks a question, there's a reason for it. Assuming the expert to be a beginner who hasn't tried easier solutions is degrading, and forces experts off the site.

Actively insulting your userbase, especially your expert-level userbase, is a bad idea. It leads to StackOverflow falling and collapsing over the years.
A group of economists couldn't coordinate splitting a bill at Applebee's.
Is it too late to open a bug with the xroach developers?
If a quiche is not a pizza, is french bread pizza a pie?

Indeed, this submission was inspired by the Antarctic Panini Press.
> But I suspect what will happen is people will continue to call it Twitter and the X name will not stick.

Me too, the problem is that you cannot convert X to a verb. "They x'ed this and that" sounds much dumber than "They tweeted this and that".
Yeah, what's up with that?

Do I have to pay them a beer now or something now that I found the marker word hidden in their paper they thought no one would read?
Mozilla gets hate because they say they're fighting for the user and then fail to live up to that standard. People expect Google to try and screw over users, so when it happens nobody is disappointed. I do agree that this results in oddly skewed reactions, but the emotional side makes sense.
Just so people don’t get the bad idea, message passing is still prone to the general category of race conditions, just not data races (without shared memory).

Though there are runtime tools to detect live/dead locks.
> What is happening in that clown country

Apparently a Trump-appointed judge in Miami is what is happening. Out of our hands unfortunately.
You know what's at least as common on SO? "I don't understand the thing you're asking, so I'll pretend it's the XY problem and tell you about something I do understand"
In this case the entire logo previously exists though.

I'm not sure similar cases exist but it's similar as using an old public domain logo as your own. Would that be enforceable?
beautiful. congratulations on this, it's really wonderful.
So far I haven't encountered ans issues with banking apps using MicroG in Germany. Could be our banking apps are even more backward though. Also given PSD2 there is always the option of someone developing 3rd party banking apps.
NASA Reveals a List of the Best Air-Cleaning Plants for Your Home
Some chromebook models can (apparently) have Linux put on them.

The article doesn't seem to really touch on that though.
It seems like most of us all have the same issue with SO. However, is there a viable alternative?
Boeing 767 heavily damaged by hail storm
As an average developer who works on high level interface, I don't really see the benefit of AVX-512. I've heard that some math calculating software MAY gains some benefit from AVX instructions (like BLAS), but I've never use it personally. Can you guys please explain?
Lazard's LCOE metric is absolute nonsense. Besides ignoring intermittency and the variability of renewable generation it uses an incredibly unrealistic cost of capital comparison that favors capital intensive renewables. Rooftop solar would look better if the cost of building a massive utility scale solar farm had to funded at realistic corporate discount rates.
Who will verify your verification as valuable?
> No other platform, not even post-Elon Twitter or Facebook does this.

Doesn't hacker news also do this?
Sort of a meta question: this is a well trodden path. Code verification is very popular with government types. Have you considered trying to figure out what they're using and what they're paying?

I see this as the same problem starting a CA is. To get trust you need to build trust. It's a catch 22. Formal verification is not necessary for 99% of code. Of that small 1% of code bases you're talking about aerospace, government contract work, and medical technology. I wouldn't even know how to guess at a price because if you can beat them at their own game you can probably attach as many zeroes as you want to it. What do you do if your verification fails though? Any company worth their salt will sue you into the ground. Especially if it results in a shuttle turning into a lawn dart.

One last thing: are you verifying code or compiler? Especially with compiled languages verifications would have to be pegged to a compiler version, distributor, and standard. There's a reason aerospace is about 20 years behind modern compilers and it's not bureaucracy.
I once had to troubleshoot the math department director’s PC misbehaving. It turned out that he let prime95 have every spare cycle on a core 2 duo for a decade and the machine would only boot if it had cooled to room temperature.
I entered the article ready to be critical, but I saw they quoted Dan Carlin's hardcore history on the first page. Satisfied. I can go to bed, nobody is wrong on the internet today.
As I've said in previous comments, this seems easily testable by any ChatGPT user. I am curious if this is real, or an example of mass hysteria/delusion.

> Do you use the web app?

> If so, could you please go back in your history and make a new chat with an old prompt which had an excellent response?

> I am curious if you could see the degradation and share the example.

>> u/derwiki

>> To your point, that we haven’t seen widespread examples of prompts that used to work but now don’t, seems telling about the accuracy of claims.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798176
It's not "X", it's "𝕏" (U+1D54F)

Maybe he should trademark this unicode character instead of letter "X".
I tried and it didn't work nearly as well. Probably depends on the topic.
The "we don't care about your privacy"-popup is the main reason why I also have stopped using SO
The average person wants a secure device that just works. It’s very easy to maintain an iPhone that doesn’t have malware that can steal your banking auth token. It’s borderline impossible to do this on Windows. Since basically anything you run has full permission to read anything.

You can run a game on iOS and know for sure your other apps are safe. Do the same on windows and it installs a kernel module to monitor everything to make sure you aren’t cheating.
My commentary

> What a momentous weekend.

Nah it was pretty normal

> As I said yesterday, it’s extremely rare, whether it’s in life or in business, that you have the opportunity to make another big impression.

Agreed. This isn't one of those, though.

> That’s what we’re experiencing together, in real time.

Real time embarrassment and ridicule

> With X we will go even further to transform the global town square — and impress the world all over again.

No it won't

> Our company uniquely has the drive to make this possible.

No, you fired most of them

> Many companies say they want to move fast — but we enjoy moving at the speed of light, and when we do, that’s X. At our core, we have an inventor mindset -- constantly learning, testing out new approaches, changing to get it right and ultimately succeeding.

Lol is this satire?

> With X, we serve our entire community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.

"Limitless interactivity" capped at seeing 600 xeets or something

> The best news is we’re well underway.

Underway to underwater obviously
You are in good company: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
It's a totally under rated platform imo - there are a lot of high quality creators!

In particular I'm following UX (@designertom), CX and design channels as I'm still transitioning from backend to full stack development. Tech news, Producthunt-like content (especially in bleed edge areas like AI), art stuff, technical gardening (@transformativeadventures), science stuff (@hankgreen) and health/workout (@dr_idz).

The initial problem with tiktok is that you need quite a bit of time to train the algorithm to actually give you the stuff you want as the search and other discovery areas are really bad on purpose.

Also worth noting that Tiktok now supports long form content so some video can get pretty long. The player also has 2x video speed and good seeker so it's easy to roll through a lot of information very efficently!
I had the opposite problem; I'm actually quite skilled in areas but never had enough "karma" to answer any questions so I've never ever been able to.
> the trial for Premium (i.e. personal use) but accidentally started checkout for the Pro version

It doesn't seem very clear on the pricing page that Pro is for professionals; this is mentioned in the copy, but deemphasized there (smaller, low contrast type between black-on-white title and feature bullets). Until I read the passage I quoted I did not realize there was such a distinction, and it wasn't till I went back and looked hard that I spotted the copy that clarified it.

You already have a "For Advisors" page on the site. If Paddle makes it straightforward, perhaps consider listing the Pro plan there and just Basic and Premium on the main plan page, or something like that, and have some sort of secondary CTA (eg "Looking for personal/advisor plans?") on both, to help redirect folks who end up in the wrong place.

Or something like that, anyway - I think the root cause here is that you're addressing two separate markets that have separate sets of concerns and cost expectations, but aren't always being intentional and specific about which of those markets you're addressing at any one time. Due to this you're inadvertently violating one market's expectations with another market's offer, in a way that isn't deliberately shady but shares enough commonality with a pattern that is shady that it takes care to distinguish what's actually going on.

edit: You might also and more simply consider renaming the "Pro" plan; that word doesn't mean very much these days. If it was called something like "Advisor", I doubt anyone would've turned a hair at the price; a name like that does much more to help me as a potential customer understand whether or not this plan is meant for me.
Isn’t the typical solution here to pin each VM to certain CPUs / cores?
This hasn't been true for a long time. Stable rust can do bare metal armv7m or risc-v development without any C code; just a bit of (inline) assembly to call into a rust main() function using the C ABI.
Calling IT is the right move here. Could have been an intruder or a remote user doing something important.

It's a different relationship. The department workstations were much closer to the refrigerator or copy machine. If it's broken you don't touch it and just call somebody.

In modern money these machines were between $7,000-$10,000 each depending on configuration.

To put it in context, pretend you work somewhere where they provide you with a half height rack and a Precision 7960 https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/workstations-isv-certified/p...

And it starts acting up. What do you do?

(As an aside, I've always wondered how many maxed out configuration orders they get - you know, when you kick that price up to $100k - what's the threshold where they ask if they could put someone on a plane to visit you? 10 of them?)
You're wrong. Look at Zuckerberg. He spends months of quality time with his family in Hawaii.
this is just how trademark works, and it's mostly okay. it also sounds dumb that park tool can trademark the color blue, or kubota can trademark the color orange.

but park tool's trademark is only in the context of bicycle repair tools, and kubota's is only for tractors. the law just isn't that dumb, it's interpreted by courts and real people, who are capable of saying "no, that's dumb" if something is dumb. kubota can keep their trademark, and everybody else can keep making orange things as long as those things aren't tractors or tractor-like things that are going to get confused with kubota products.

similarly, any somewhat reasonable person will be able to see that twitter's rebrand to "X" isn't really going to confuse anybody into thinking they're using a microsoft product, so depite it being a very bad name it's probably not actually going to run afoul of anybody's trademarks.
This is completely silly and nonsensical.
More like a walkable city in a world that is quickly devolving into noisy, polluted, car-dependent cities.
You may find that over a decade or a few hundred years negative externalities of a technical decision outweigh the benefits. When AVX dies a painful death in the next decade, projects like OpenBSD won't feel as much pain from it.

Having such lousy implementation bugs show that at least AMD doesn't care about it anymore, I'd wager there is something better coming round in the near future.
The announcement says that you can't use extensions that use node. I thought they might use WebContainers from StackBlitz to run node in webassembly with this?

https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/webcontainer-api-is-here/

Or could use one for the tiny linux VMs running in WebAssembly, that could run anything...
What makes you think voting would be non-anonymous? Of course it could be anonymous.

Your understanding of cryptography as it related to decentralized systems seems to be limited, and you're reaching wildly misinformed conclusions. You have a strong opinion about decentralized systems being bad and haven't bothered to actually learn the area before making statements like this. Monero is an example of an anonymous decentralized system. There are plenty of anonymous decentralized systems and nothing precludes a system with proof of personhood also being anonymous.
I'm just rewriting the needed parts with FoxReplace. Works.
This is much nicer on mobile than the other one recently posted [0] but it’s a bit to easy to trigger. I keep triggering it accidentally when performing gestures like scrolling and pinch-zooming.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855278
Everything went downhill once people had real incentive (like actual money, not just internet cred) to game the system for reputation points. The mods had to come up with ever-evolving layers of rules on top of rules that lowered the answer quality and put up huge barriers for an average user to contribute.
> Generally atheists claim to be skeptical of all religion and mysticism regardless of whether it claims a "creator god".

Is it true, though, that that's what atheism means? As an atheist myself, I'm not sure it is. Certainly doesn't seem true - seems like someone who is atheist is simply more likely to also be areligious and aspiritual, possibly as a result of rationality. But if you want to be pedantic, you can try making a case to redefine the term.

In fact, I've found that self-described "theists" and "atheists" are both smart enough to know that theism involves a god, not just any religion or spiritualism or mysticism or belief. Indeed, ask any layperson on the street what it means for someone to be atheist, and most answers will say that it means "they don't believe in god".

> My point is that almost all people hold unexamined beliefs

Maybe, but certainly not all as irrational as theism. Your post tried to conflate concepts like humanism (essentially, "be excellent to each other", hardly an "unexamined belief"), which don't require magic, to the belief of theism, which does - this conflation didn't work for the reasons described above: both may involve principles of one form or another, but only the latter is magical and supernatural, and thus less rational to believe true.

If we're both on the same page there, we can move onto other topics, like:

> I think the rule you are describing is not well defined at all.
My car payment alone is almost that much. Then my insurance is also almost that much.

Oh, and about $5,000/yr in gas.
I wonder if it's just finally reached a tipping point of frustration with the moderation. I know I stopped going there years ago. At some point as all the good contributors leave you'd expect to get a snowball / downward spiral, even if the site coasted for years before that.
Not GP, but here's 3 questions I managed to recover:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57064879/finding-coordin...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57323981/realtime-video-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65025858/how-to-fetch-th...
That's rubbish, passive voice has a number of detrimental effects, it increases text length without adding information, it makes subject (acting entity) and object (entity acted upon) easier to confuse and it confuses the reader about who actually did things (what some people often confuse with objectivity).

That said the assertion that most scientific articles are written in passive voice is outdated för quite some time. Most journal style guides advise to use active voice, e.g. https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/for-authors/write
Yes I showed him the exact page that talked about my issue and he never responded. Still a silly response. He could have answered it in 30 seconds and saved me 10 hours.

I think ChatGPT is amazing foe this because you will rarely have to deal with anyone who has this type of attitude when you need help in the future
I'll take performance over safety any day of the week.
I think the point is to just spread knowledge, in principle at least.
If you loosen up your definition of of LLM the moderators and posters are really just LLMs that have been jailbroken to insult you and close your post.

Stack Overflow is the programmer's internet bloodsport.
Also answers becoming obsolete because newer versions of the technology came out.

E.g. Python 2 answers aren't relevant anymore, but still there.
I mean, if people from the same families are actually consistently more qualified than the commoners over long spans of time, then sure, let’s have an aristocracy, why not? The root problem with aristocracy isn’t that it is forbidden for some sacred moral reason, it’s that it functionally doesn’t work well.

Differentiation based on traits is not stable across many generations, and the commoners will always eventually generate individuals who are better along whatever dimensions than the aristocracy does.

I don’t think we have to worry about this problem, so long as we prevent the actual corruption. If we are really looking at merit, the families will cycle out after a few generations (again, we do have to prevent the actual corruption).
Attention spans are an uber representation of something that is far more granular - complexity of task, context length, prior knowhow (affects complexity at a personal level), environmental noise.

If our cognition is impacted by information, then by the very fact that attention span is a function of the information in our environment. I quite subscribe to the fact noisier environments lead to decline in attention spans.
Lately, it’s right up there with the mags at the grocery store that tell me that I just won’t believe what X did.
Applebee's... Does not compute.
Yeah -- the fact that chili peppers only came to Asia a few hundred years ago isn't widely recognized for what a change it must have been to the cuisine. Just as the fact that Europe had no tomatoes or potatoes until around the same time a few hundred years ago.
Alternatively, people might have to use X and Y to accomplish Q because of their organization or team. If it's technically doable, there should be a solution and explanation for that X and Y problem somewhere.