skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I agree with this. Forum discussions basically become unusable if members can randomly delete everything they ever posted years after the fact, and I've seen numerous Reddit posts that now make zero sense because a bunch of users used one of those 'comment override' scripts. It gets even worse if the user can delete the whole topic, since it also removes a bunch of posts from users who may not want them removed.

I don't see no issue with forums and similar sites not allowing contributions to be deleted.

P.S. Also, for the longest time, most forums didn't even allow account deletions. Kinda curious when the expectations changed there, since I distinctly recall the likes of vBulletin and XenForo not letting members remove accounts or content.
Not according to this: https://www.daveramsey.com/research/the-national-study-of-mi...

* 8 out of 10 millionaires invested in mutual funds through 401k

* 79% did not receive an inheritance

* top 5 careers include engineer, teacher, accountant, manager, attorney
I expect to burn a few karma points on this, and be ignored, but all evidence I have says that this is human nature at work, and that at scale it cannot be prevented.

I've seen moderators of small communities hold off the effect by setting a good example, using a deft touch, and not letting the community get too big.

My suspicion is that once the number of commenters gets much past Dunbar's number [1], the universal fall into "default jerk" happens. Once that's taken place, you're stuck in an Eternal September.

Communities in the real world don't scale well. I'm not sure why programmers expect them to on the Internet, with its well-known capacity for dehumanization.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
The turnaround time is unusual for the US government. I guess I don't see it as scary...
But let me give some random examples that annoy me:

- macOS used to follow very consistent UI guidelines. Now Apple's applications are all over the place. It gets even worse with Catalyst.

- Stagnation of the development of low-level features. Where is the equivalent of user namespaces, container facilities?

- Invention of their own graphics standards, which makes life for scientific computing hard. Apple used to be a relatively good citizen, supporting OpenGL, proposing OpenCL. Now we have Metal. Which may be great for games and uniformity with iOS. But scientific computing has settled on CUDA, OpenCL, and ROCm. Apple supports none of these technologies. (Imagine being able to hook up an eGPU and experiment with some neural networks before doing the heavy work on a server.)

- Since several versions PDFKit (such as Preview) applications have become very unreliable. E.g. you used to be able to regenerate LaTeX files with the PDF open in Preview and it would just rerender the PDF. Now it crashes a lot of times.

- macOS has introduced notification center, but there is no option to turn it off, besides changing the do not disturb time period from e.g. 9:00 to 8:59.

- Catalina introduces a read-only system volume. In principle this is ok, but they have made it so that you have to jump through hoops if you have something that installs into a top-level directory (e.g. a package manager). You have to use a new configuration mechanism that creates a folder that only exists virtually, reboot, create an APFS volume and edit fstab to mount it automatically.

- Notarization, which gives Apple even more control over what gets run on macOS. Yes, I know that you can circumvent it, but that's not what many users will do. So, before I could just sign my Qt app, now I have to run it through Apple and set up a command-line workflow to do it.

- Applications trail iOS versions. E.g. Messages only has a subset of the features of iOS Messages.

- Dropping applications that users have developed workflows around. E.g. Aperture, the original iWork (for years, the new iWork based on the iOS version did not support features such as linked text boxes).

- Breaking Safari extensions for the second time (in Catalina the Safari extension gallery is not supported anymore). No more uBlock, vimmy, etc.

Disclaimer: used OS X from 2007. I am not claiming it is all bad. But I think macOS has more and more become a consumer platform and has become significantly worse for developers, scientists, etc.
Chinese deepfake app surges in popularity, raises privacy concerns
I guess you like high rents then?
"Burst of fresh nutrients" -- there are fresh foods but just nutrients. Not super nutrients, not fresh nutrients, just nutrients.

Hey it's a good strategy. Works for you, can work for others. But the magic is not in breaking your fast with a "burst of fresh nutrients" -- it's in reducing your overall caloric intake, as well as eating a balanced diet.

Good luck and congrats again.
If you send a request to the moderators and cite the GDPR I would expect them to delete it. The GDPR doesn't require the deletion process to be automated.
Pretty sure OP meant something along the lines of it take ~3500 kcal deficit to burn one pound of fat.
> SO has some very smart people working for them

I think they don't have enough (or any?) moderators working for them. They rely too much on making profits with the free help of trolls.

I understand it would be hard for them to change the power of the troll-users by now. Perhaps we simply need a new Stack Overflow, some competition.
That said, those prepackaged preflavored vape carts are all over Amazon, eBay and AliBaba and seem to be doing well. Sadly.
It's worth mentioning that these power savings come as a result of the first of several changes that are being worked on, so more improvements are yet to come.

I know it's been a huge amount of work to move from OpenGL to Core Animation, but it's already proven to be well worth it.
$1.25B worth of baggage was lost or stolen in 2018
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The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi
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When the Desire for Learning Hit Winston Churchill
I've seen this research cited a few times (perhaps even here on HN) and every time the conversation is centered on whether this is practical or the naysayers moaning how this isn't practical.

The research isn't intended for commercial, practical use. There is no point in discussing it in such terms.

The interesting thing is that this behavior was predicted by models, and the experiment confirms the model. That is it. Perhaps with increased confidence in the models it will lead to improvements in practical superconductors in time, but not now.
I'd like at least rurban's fork to succeed. The other one is less ambitious and probably more pragmatic as in Perl 5.22 LTS. It's nice but also quite mundane, which is exactly what you'd want in a production environment. Cperl /perl11 OTOH is very ambitious with innovation happening. I will benchmark it against 5.30 at least for the sake of science and validating its author's claims.
The McDonalds (and other chain retail stores) have subdued colors and design in central Kyoto. They are most frequently brown/black based.

https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20130903-a075/
Makes sense, cows are bad for the environment, no matter how far away they live from you.
Seems to me that the superpowers have already figured out how to neutralize the Internet: flood it with bullshit.

Disinformation works on the same principle as radar chaff. When something is trying to see you you blow out a bunch of shiny tinsel and nobody can tell signal from noise.

You can't keep secrets but you can definitely drown the truth. Online conspiracy nuts and other useful idiots are happy to help out by adding their own amateur BS to the noise screen.
Reminds me of some of the characters from the old Moomins cartoon.
https://www.dw.com/image/47520360_303.jpg
One of the supposed reasons for this is the relation between labour and product prices.

Before WW2, labour was far cheaper then materials, especially in Europe.
I thought dependency injection in Java was mainly a way to emulate modules (as in Python or JS), so how is .NET different here since it doesn't have modules either?
>You’re free to buy appliances like the stuff that used to exist. They are found in the commercial realm, and you’ll still be spending about $3000 for a no-frills entry level fridge.

You can certainly pay that. And they are better than residential. But they are not like old residential.

Often these "made to fail" products actually cost more to engineer than products that last longer. It's just the company makes more money by selling you two of something than one of something.
UK factory output 'falls at fastest pace for seven years'
They could start by simply making it just a little more difficult to give negative feedback. For instance: Require that every down-vote is given a written reason for it.

And perhaps make it so that DOWNVOTES CAN BE DOWNVOTED (provided a written reason is given for that as well).
The HN terms (https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/) have the very typical:

> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.

When you send someone a DMCA takedown you need to include "A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law" and "a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury". [1] So you probably don't want to send someone a DMCA request after giving them a license to use your comments!

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/text-digital-millennium-copyright...
How does this match up against other generators like Brandmark?
When you hit 0 and someone tries to downvote further, it informs you that that action is impossible

If the system knows the item is rated zero, then why even give the option of downvoting at all? Conditionally remove the control and you remove the need to display an error message.
It's not clear if it is possible to have that type of thorough regime change under mass-media-driven Democracy. Voting acts as a pressure relief valve, allowing continual small reforms to address immediate gripes, but at best only slows down the larger agenda of the pan-partisan ruling class.

The moral compromises necessary to achieve any sort of significant political (or other) power intrinsically preclude ever understanding why Wikileaks et al are a good thing for society. And barring outright societal collapse, there will never be a cataclysm causing everyone who has bought into that paradigm to flee to the hills.
R. Gordon Wasson got funded by CIA [1]

Recommended read: "The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity: A Critical Re-Evaluation of the Schism Between John M. Allegro and R. Gordon Wasson Over the Theory on the Entheogenic Origins of Christianity Presented in the Sacred Mushroom and the Cross" [2] (as well as the original by John Allegro)

Here is a rare interview of John Allegro with Van Kooten & De Bie from 1976, Dutch public broadcast TV [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Gordon_Wasson#CIA_funding

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5676801-the-holy-mushroo...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOu9tV6uy2E
> While basic security measures were implemented, in that customers were told to input card numbers using the handset, the unique audio tones generated by pressing keypad buttons would make it straightforward to recover the 16-digit number and expiry date.

How is that a "basic security measure"? It seems a lot more trivial for a machine to sweep the audio for the keypad tones and looks for 16 digits where the appropriate check digit check out, than to try to parse human speech.
Make downvotes require a comment. Let other users vote on the reasoning. If it's a BS reason like "Duplicate! Duplicate!" that's wrong, let others erase that vandalism from the site. One of the stupidest things on the internet is when someone comments that it's a duplicate question and then posts something that makes it obvious they read neither the question nor the supposed duplicate. Most downvotes are never explained. After too much vandalism, suspend the user.
> The countries with the most social mobility as well as the most equality have fairly 'socialist' political and economic systems.

Which countries are you talking about? There are almost no countries left that actually have socialist economic systems, because they just don't work. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands or Norway that are often misleadingly described as "socialist" (positive or negative) all have free-market capitalist economic systems. In some cases more free than in the US. The difference is usually in that they have socialized both health care and pensions, as well as somewhat more comprehensive social security programs.

Furthermore, it is unsurprising that low inequality often leads to higher social mobility[1], because income strata are closer together. It tells you nothing about how much of an improvement moving upwards is in real terms, nor does it say anything about the real level of wealth.

Case in point, income in the US is more unequal, but income and purchasing power is generally higher[2].

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

[2] https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2015/10/the-truth-poor...
If you use the formula for thick walled cylindrical pressure vessel, you hit practical limit with outside diameter being twice the inside diameter. When this happens and you also take into account fatigue, usually about half of the yield strength of the material is usable.

Your best bet is using thin shells of maranging steel wrapped around each other with thin layer of pressurized non-compressible fluid in between. The pressure control of the fluid is then absolutely critical. Alternate with 0,5mm thick fluid and 1mm thick steel sections. Rinse and repeat. The total thickness would not be all that crazy, but the pressure control would be incredibly expensive.

EDIT: Did some calculations. Using roughly that system I described earlier you would only hit 10 GPa with roughly 50 meters thick piping system, that would have 75 alternating layers of pressurized oil. And each layer would have different pressure from all the other 74 layers of pressurized oil. So not possible.

If you try using single thick wall in your cylinder, increasing the wall thickness means that your max stress gets closer to the internal pressure reading. So you would need material that can deal with 200 GPa of stress.
Injustices are subjective. Nazis would consider it a great injustice that we don't allow them to go around killing other minorities, or that we made Nazi parties illegal in the western world.

What I'm getting at is that the OP statement can be bent to fit whatever ideology you want, and with that be able to get widespread support to "repress" minorities.

It's not only "evil" people the ones repressing others.
You can usually turn off the beeps.
This article is just repeating the old arguments in favor of Intelligent Design Creationism.

This is dangerous pseudoscience that should never be taken seriously.
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I can see the appeal of the idea but I don't think it would be a source of good information in practice. Most people won't say "I don't agree" when they can say a comment is wrong or bad instead. My instinct is that it would just lead to even more bickering about downvoting, the exact opposite of what we want.
FWIW, I've done this before ("I downvoted you because...") and the question asker, instead of trying to improve their question, got combative/defensive which is not necessarily desirable either.

It's lose/lose. Don't tell them why and they get frustrated, tell them why and they get defensive. It takes a rare user to take the feedback and use it to improve their question.
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> Make sure you have a close friend or family member, that you fully trust, when you try psilocybin or LSD.

Yes, a so-called "babysitter". Even more so with Ayahuasca. It is DMT with a MAOI. If you consumed MAO, it can be ranging from unpleasant to life threatening.
> high-karma SO users like John Skeet, etc use the downvote button as a feedback mechanism for bad questions

And it's very effective to provide "feedback" in the form of a drive-by downvote, isn't it?
> pressure is a factor to further investigate when experimenting with other candidate materials

There are crystals which retain their internal strain after release. This is valuable research.
Look at the parliaments of European countries, actual socialists are generally in the small minority.

People mistake socialism with social democracy, which is more or less the same as what moderate democrats in the US are espousing.
> question is no longer in pending status

But practically forcing users to select an answer as "good" should probably not be the only way to do this.
But they can still say “no”. Then what?
The McDonald's stores in the States seem to be heading in that direction as well. Here's a random example from Google Images:

https://westernnews.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photo...
That's because of a separate issue, which is that the article is not in English. That's not out of disrespect for the Dutch or the Dutch language (quite the opposite) but it is the convention of the site.
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Thanks for sharing your personal experience and best of luck with your continued recovery. Hopefully I didn't come across as being critical of the doctors in my comment - clearly there are reasons to cram calories as your personal experience attests - I just find it an interesting juxtaposition.
Iran Air Flight 655
I call bullshit. Where in the American Southwest was it treed grasslands until it was overgrazed? I've been through the whole region from west Texas to Arizona, NM, Colorado and the Oklahoma panhandle. There was certainly problems in some of those regions during the Dust Bowl, but your general statement reeks of fiction. Phoenix was never the Serengeti in any times where humans were grazing animals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiodic_tiling#Cut-and-pro...
Brick tax (how a tax changed buildings)
The purpose of the harsh sentence in three strikes laws isn't to deter crime, it's to lock people up who are apparently undeterrable.
Check out the Pony tutorial for a good introduction to reference capabilities

https://tutorial.ponylang.io/reference-capabilities.html

They can be tricky to wrap your head around at first, but the idea (combined with object capabilities) is very powerful IMO.
It's not that the dark matter distribution is isotropic (it's not, as you note). Think of it like this: locally for a given object in the universe, we can work out the amount of dark matter necessary to describe one of its anomalous properties under the DM model. That same amount will work to explain the other anomalous properties locally for that object. You can do this at any point in the observable universe, including the unusual cases like the DM-deficient galaxies, and the model still holds up. MOND and related theories struggle in this regard, which is why DM is viewed as a more likely explanation (whatever the underlying nature of DM might be).
That kind of behaviour is what's most annoying about their site, their conventions sometimes overrule common sense or intelligent queries/dialogue.

Last I contributed anything on there I was being told by a single poster that my question was 'wrong', and descending into an argument - and started throwing SO convention at me. I just deleted the question. There's a sociopathic nature about those looking for ratings and authority that's totally at odds with simple sharing of knowledge and learning.
The issue is not the information (482 km/h) but the swipe ('modern units'). The breaks the site guidelines by being flamebait. In fact it's a classic flamewar topic, one of the pettiest and most repetitive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On a more serious note: Are regular people/journalists not aware of how pressing buttons on a phone works anymore?

Given that a lot of people now think of a phone as being a handheld rectangular device with a touchscreen, I'd say yes.

Even in the days of pulse dialing and the early DTMF (with things like 2600), I think people didn't really know either.
This seems like a very useful feature, and I don't want any more new git commands/workflows to have to remember.
But a chicken or fish near you is far more environmentally friendly than vegetarian food from father places. So the title is a bit misleading.
The 'dump response headers only' section made me chuckle. I thought I had been doing things the hard way instinctively, but nope. It's a good old 'curl -D - -o /dev/null http://example.com'
Though the author uses -s, which I don't because if I'm just dumping the headers I'm probably looking for errors.

Also the '-d <param> -G' combo to do query strings surprised me. I've always just submitted the full url, maybe with a quick grumble when I forget to single quote it all. I actually don't see much of an advantage here, since you still need to quote the parameters, and it keeps the same format.
So how about fixing it? https://github.com/justdeleteme/justdelete.me
"The rich keep getting richer." Same phenomenon happens everywhere.
Reduction in portion sizes, but no major change in items consumed. Biggest staple of my diet is pasta. High carb, high fat, lots of walking keeps me at normal BMI.
If I remember correctly in early Stack Overflow down-voting did cost your own reputation points, so every down-vote reduced your own reputation. I liked this and I claim it socialized me in a way that I rarely down-vote even today and even on other platforms like HN. I like to imagine that every down-vote lowers my own reputation even if that isn't expressed in points and even if no one knows. Every down-vote is a trade-off where I feel the benefit of expressing my own negative opinion outweighs my own reputation loss.

Obviously the system didn't work for Stack Overflow, otherwise they wouldn't have abandoned it, I don't remember why.

EDIT:

Seems the system is still in place. Down-voting an answer costs one reputation point, down-voting a question is free.[1] For reasons for the asymmetry see [2].

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7237/how-does-reput...

[2] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251610/why-does-dow...
I can't imagine a worse place to be than a site that encourages the tedious (and most times irrelevant) nitpicking engineers are already usually guilty of.

I asked a question a couple times on SO and quickly determined I don't need that kind of toxicity in my life.