skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have friends who are Indian, Hispanic, white, black, Muslim, and Jewish. Some of them despise the President. One feels pretty strongly against Brexit. Another one is a staunch defender of Palestinians and believes Netanyahu is a crook who will continue annexing settlements in the West Bank to appease hardliners in order to stay in power.

What does any of this say about whether I should be allowed in the US?
4-5g (dried) is about equivalent to 40g fresh.
A lot of (young) people seem to quickly add people to their contacts or friend list after barely having spent time together. And those usually never get removed as most apps conveniently hide infrequently used contacts in the default view.
This occurs at 2 million bar (pressure).

From an engineering perspective, what does it take to contain such pressures, and would it be possible to make 'wire' consisting of a pressure-maintaining jacket surrounding the conductor?

Anyone want to do the maths? How much Kevlar are we talking...?
You're thinking about it all wrong. Don't get lost in the gamification. SO is intended to create a repository of useful answers to useful questions. If you provide a useful answer to a question which gets views, people will read your answer. Over time, many people will read your answer - and that is your "return on investment".

(Also, if many people read your answer and approve of it, then eventually you'll get some votes too.)

Having said that - there is some merit to sticking by the (nastily-enforced) standards. It does get people to improve their answers. Not saying that I approve of people's conduct on SO - it can be quite terrible.
A few months ago I spent some time looking for the Al-Cu-Fe-Cr quasicrystal frying pan. I couldn't find it so I don't think it's being sold anymore. I read somewhere that the material was reacting with acidic foods and removing the coating.
The article clearly addresses that issue. What's that weird line of reasoning anyway? Should CBP cancel all Visas for people that have relatives owning businesses in the US?

Edit: since that other thread contains similar stuff. Can we please agree to read articles on volatile topics before commenting people?
If they were eating 5,000 calories a day every day before starting the diet (without being a serious athlete), their starting BMI/weight would have been much higher.
Completely unrelated to the article, dealing with TechCrunch (Oath's) cookie privacy notes is an absolute nightmare. No (clear) way to opt out of them. Sad.
Discussion (eventually, maybe): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20860056
Sometimes 'explaining what you said was wrong' is interpreted as showing you're a smarter/better person, rather than information sharing.
I liked this blog post about it.
https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/

Yes, that comment could just be trying to be helpful / clarifying.

I think it's not much of a stretch to say the upvotes incentivise the "popularity seeking" behaviour over "information sharing" behaviour.
I feel kind of uncomfortable commenting on HN, especially after reading this answer by Jacques Mattheij [1] with regard to deleting accounts:

>If this is to ‘unsay’ stuff that you wrote in the past then that’s a good reminder to think twice before you hit that submit button lest you cause someone needless work.

It sounds like a big "screw you" to me. It would have been way nicer to say something like "sorry we don't have time/resources to add this feature".

[1] https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-unofficial-hn-faq/#deleteacc...
It's kind of baffling to me that SO hasn't made further significant attempts at improving the site's culture after identifying and documenting the problems over a year ago in their blog posts. I agree that nothing much has changed on the site since then.

The pattern I see nowadays is that someone asks a reasonable (albeit basic) question and, even if it's not downvoted, people start immediately attempting to undermine it in the comments. Many people's goal seems not to be to answer the question (whatever the question may be) but to explain why the question is invalid and shouldn't have been asked in the first place. In my experience the top reputation users are not the problem either -- they are actually more likely to answer the question as asked and not simply try to undermine the questioners.
I mean if you take a reductive tack like that then you can say the plot of Moby Dick is just that a certain sea captain chases a whale around and some poor simp is along for the ride.

The plot isn't the sum of these works, it is the scaffolding provided so that the author can explore various themes and theses.
Back in the day emoticons/emojis/whatever were just bright yellow cartoons. No race, no gender. It was fine. Combined with ASCII text it was pure communication unfettered by any prejudice. Then like everything else on the internet it all became weirdly political almost overnight :-/
Crossing any border with pictures of dead children on your phone is plain stupid regardless of the recent idiotic U.S. visa policy.
It wasn't because of the message, it was because he was called Ismail Ajjawi and presumably had different skin pigmentation than caucasian Americans.
Why do people act like they should be freely allowed into a country? Anyways the title is misleading. He was denied because his “intent to engage in unauthorized employment during his entry.”
That's over one million atmospheres of pressure we are talking about here. Are there any predictions of how this is going to affect modern-day electronics that will be unable to undergo such massive pressure?
Firefox + uBlock Origin will do the trick.
I enjoyed Sandworms.

At some point, I was so sucked into the Dune universe that any continuation would have intrigued me.
I agree. I want to know the answer to the same question. Pseudo-intellectual sophism seems to be abundant here.
Did you read the text of the article? He vehemently denies that he was going to work at his relative's gas station.

One line of questioning focused on an officer’s accusation that Dakhil was planning to work at a gas station owned by his cousin — which Dakhil denied.

“They totally changed this scenario,” he said, rebutting several remarks and descriptions reported by the officers. “They only disclosed what they wanted to disclose,” he said. “They want to justify their decision, so they mentioned working in a gas station by themselves,” he claimed.
I can’t read the article, it’s behind a paywall.

It depends a lot on what the work is. If I’m talking to people in different departments about various issues, I find I can still pull a full day. Even coding, I can still be productive if it’s a lot of boilerplate or checking off possible causes for a bug. It’s when it gets to deeply complex technical tasks that I find it becomes worse than useless to put in that time.

That being said, I’ve found that around 70 hours in a week of coding, my mind just shuts down.

This all assumes I’m engaged in what I’m determined - if I have doubts that the time I’m spending is in my self-interest as well as my employers, it’s a lot harder for me to stay motivated past what I have to do.
This is a pretty good advice [https://fs.blog/reading/]
"sending the response to the token endpoint"
Which response?

"makes the system unusable due to the frequency of network transmission errors that would result in having to contact the resource owner"
What kind of network transmission errors are you getting? And at what quantity? This shouldn't be too difficult to do

I disagree and think refresh_token expirations do add to security and believe it is the client's job to handle any difficulties that can come with the expiration period
An Irish friend told me the same thing about rural Ireland.
It's almost an alien concept in modern day isn't it.
I'm curious if it's possible to make the switch from Lightroom to Darktable (which uses libgphoto2 underneath I believe). The last time I tried was years ago and it was not a success.
> show

This word is great for headlines, but bad science. We're uncovering tiny fragments of a vast history and extrapolating the full story as best we can from those few clues we have. We can't ever be sure we're right, only that we're maybe a little more right than before. Next week, someone will find a new piece of evidence that could rewrite the entire story all over again (wow, the Beringians had dogsleds and could cover fifty miles per day over snow?[0]).

And this matters in science writing because the general public see words like "show" and "proves" and take it as truth, unbreakable. And next week when we find that new piece of evidence, that article will use the same strong terminology and the reader who isn't science literate will lose trust in science- last week they said X was true, now they say Y is true? Are they lying or making this all up?

Nothing is certain. We're just trying to be less wrong over time.

[0]I made that fact up, so that we're all clear here- dogs weren't even domesticated that far back. But hey, what if, right?
"Robert Jamison, a retired USAF nuclear missile targeting officer, told of several occasions having to go out and 're-start' [nuclear] missiles that had been deactivated, after UFOs were sighted nearby.
Similar sightings at nuclear sites in the former Soviet Union and in Britain were related.
...
The incidents were never officially explained."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-air-force-personnel-ufos-dea...
The conclusion of the modern era will be to avoid modern era ideas.
I found the first answer insightful: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/252340/1862046

Roughly, it seems downvotes are used by people to indicate not enough effort has gone into the question (easily researched, duplicate question, confusing/poor english, etc).

So either all unflagged questions is valid and should be nurtured into clear, well-written queries or pointed to existing questions, or questions are to be judged* "good-faith" or "lazy" by users and the latter receive downvotes.

*This judgement is fixed in time; the question is not necessarily re-judged if improvements are made.
All it took was one idiot. It's interesting how positive effect on society rarely emanates from single individuals but negative effect examples we have aplenty.

There is something fundamental at work here: destruction and creation are not symmetrical in the amount of effort and knowledge they require.
Most of my subscriptions are ones I accidentally clicked while scrolling through r/all
>I am now back to a healthy BMI, but I no longer use BMI as a measure, I use the Relative Fat Mass Index (RFM) because my research indicates that this is a more accurate measure for tall people (I'm 6'3").

This uses waist circumference, which is an excellent measure. I wish it were emphasized more: it's easy to do, and is a great complement to weight. Abdominal size is a great indicator of fat + correlated to many health problems.

One question: what scale does RFM use? I found the formula, and got a number, but I don't know what it means. Is it body fat percent?

----------

I've been tracking waist and weight circumference each morning. I wrote a Shortcut that uses those measures to calculate body fat percentage and lean mass using the US navy formula, and log everything to apple health.

It's really sped up my fitness improvement, as I'm focussing on keeping lean mass UP, and waist circumferencn DOWN.
Over a year ago? It's been this way for at least 5 years and probably more. And it was a well-known fact.

However! Remember that the primary goal of SO is not to answer your individual question, but to curate a collection of publicly-useful Q&A. That's why it's reasonable to "undermine" many newbie question. The trick is to do it in a way that's positive, friendly, and condusive to the asker getting an answer to what they want to know.
crown flashes and ball lightning have to be some of the strangest

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CPk0mKVnnCs
> for downvoting within the rules of the site

Doesn't make it good for the site or it's users. It's a very poor excuse.

> rant calling people unwelcoming snarky abrasive asses, is amusingly hatey.

Are you a high-rank SO user? Also, what I stated is not a "rant" it's an empirical observation.
I recognise James May's delivery of those numbers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0PgyPWE3o
The Bismuth Cryptocurrency Governance Shift, Part 1
Molecules generated by deep learning model validated in mice
I may try to dig but it was a few years ago and I have no precise recollection of which sub nor which user answered me.

Unless you know a quick tool to fetch my comment history so I can grep it.
> their rules were too difficult for me to follow in order to vote. I had to visit every day and do menial, non-useful things just to be able to vote or answer

Has it changed a few years ago? When I started 3 years ago, I could answer right from the start and I got the ability to vote quickly enough, after a pair of vote on an answer, without having to do menial tasks every day. Reputation can also be gained with edits, is that what you are talking about?
I calculated a similar deficit in another comment, although the "x calories in a kg/lb" number is just a guideline.

Any explanation involving water weight, digestive tract contents etc. would be nullified by the time period. It's not a week or two, it's two months.
In retrospect anything is inevitable.
Without Apple trying to sell phones in Japan on Softbank’s network on an OS built to play mp3s it seems unlikely that people would have hacked the Unicode spec to draw smiley faces.
That said rich text is the future - hence html.
What’s the alternative to that? Not ever getting to know anyone?

The social advice older people tend give younger people in the US is often extremely self destructive and isolating.
Can you explain in more detail what you saw / what happened?
Which idiot would that be? (So many to choose from). I'm guessing Trump? It feels like all the idiots involved (Trump, Bolsenaro, Duterte, Johnson) are symptoms of a larger (and sadder) global trend.
Honest feedback. Say when it isn't good enough. Point it out.

I've never tried this, but as an idea: can you redirect their questions to a full team chat and get their own team members to solve them? Saying "ABC asked XYZ" might put the onus on them to up-skill their team and it might also show you who's able to answer their questions on their side. After a while they might just ask their questions directly in that.
Personal note: when a family member was recently diagnosed with cancer, the ketogenic diet was the one promising idea I found to supplement her standard treatment. It's... depressing... how my suggestion just to talk to her doctor about it probably wasn't followed even that far. Can anyone suggest a source to point to for non-nerds, such as a talk by a prestigious doctor? Considering the fate of my suggestion above, a paper or a book are not going to fly.
As for now at least, all operations on reputation are addition-based and therefore commutative: their order doesn't matter, and undoing an operation returns your reputation to the previous state.

With this 1% rule, however, it breaks down. For example, if you downvote someone when you have 1000 reputation points, and then undo the downvote and downvote him again when you have 10,000, it means that you'll lose 9 points for nothing.
You make a good point about "considering the way you are now as normal and that those products were making you sick." That is exactly how I think now, but if you grow up where it is the norm to eat a high-sugar, processed food, meat-based diet, you think this is the norm.

As for your question about refined products worth it... no, I don't think they are. I only go off script for say a birthday party or a social situation where it is impossible to stay within my self imposed dietary constraints.
It depends on the tag, for some languages/framework that aren't moving that fast, you'd find a lot of older answer that are still valid
Thank God for Stack Overflow.

Whenever I Google up some difficult question (which is often), SO has a good answer almost right away. Ah, the kindness of strangers!

As for the downvoting, IMHO Hacker News suffers from this. It seem good comments are regularly downvoted if they don't adhere to other's social views. I think we should operate at a level higher than that.
Wow! That screenshot is unbelievable. I’ve never seen his book before, but I went and looked it up so that I can be sure to never buy it and to recommend against it, due to the author, if it comes up in conversation.
/r/programmingcirclejerk
/r/aww
/r/popping
/r/hamradio
/r/foolus
/r/retrobattlestations
/r/windows
The Zalgo response drives me slightly crazy.

Most of the time I've actually seen people asking about regex's and HTML are asking for a very small subset of both, they generally just want to parse a bunch of pages generated by a small number of tools, and yet they get told it's impossible to use Regex to do it.

The second answer is spot on, actually answers the question, yet the first one is the one that gets treated as gospel.
Read the report of the officers, Techcrunch intentionally put it at the end of the article to bury it, but there are two sides to this story and the report is quite plausible:

"[] stated that he was not sure how much he would get paid or how many hours per day he will work. [] stated that by working at one of the gas stations, this would free [] of the responsibility and allow [] to work at a different gas station."

There's a lot of detail in that statement that lends credibility over what Dakhil says.
(i think) you could use virt-sparsify instead of qemu-img to make final image even smaller
Peter F Hamilton, in "Pandora's Star", introduces his enemy alien race all in one go, from the beginnings of their civilization to meeting humans. It is AWESOME. By the time you get back to the humans you might have to make an effort to recall why you care about them.
So.. at this point nobody should try coming into the U.S. with a non-clean-wiped phone, eh?
This also makes sense as high-rank users usually have a constant stream of rep coming from their answers/questions.

So, not only do high-rank users have lots of rep, they also gain rep at an accelerated pace (on average).
You sound like a candidate for a drone strike /s.
Who was that idiot exactly, Truman? Taylor? Monroe?

The USA has a long history of supporting repressive, violent dictatorships around the world. Maybe it's better excluded from the list of liberal democracies, I don't know.
A few too many question marks here. A message with a dead child from an acquaintance he met at Hajj? A 3 month visa to travel with his wife and child who weren't with him yet? But he was visiting his relative who owned a business...

Surely he can see why this looks bad.
Sure. But they're bungling the heuristic. It's equivalent of seeing viagra ads in an email
spam folder and accusing someone of intent to smuggle drugs.
Yeah, but now we have to think about it. "Hey, do we have a test for when someone types in an emoji into their credit card number?". Punks.
> it enforces the idea that "less columns in select list" = "less data accessed" _in all cases_

I for one try to avoid absolutes like that. "less columns in select list = potentially less data accessed & processed" is a better wording. Along with "and there are no cases, unless there is a QP bug around the matter than I'm unaware of, where it changes things for the worse" if I'm feeling more wordy.

The problem with that though is the some (I've worked with some difficult people!) see the "potentially" as a reason to just drop in the * "for now" - their reasoning being it is a premature optimisation. Why type the extra if it won't definitely improve performance, despite the warnings that while it might not affect performance now it may in future, possibly due to changes elsewhere making this a trickier fix point to find, and even ignoring the performance issue it is good practise for other reasons.

> more so if you have a relatively well designed database

Oh, how I long for such nirvana!

> Inline tvfs get expanded

But scalar functions do not, well not until you are using 2019 which is due for release soon, and even then only some can be. And even if your SVF doesn't result in any reads, so inlining in this sense doesn't matter, there is extra CPU work going on.

(assuming SQL Server of course, details will of course differ elsewhere)
Here's a suggestion:

Whenever you encounter a question that has been unfairly downvoted, you, in turn, should have an option to "downvote the downvoters" .

By clicking on a button, Stack Overflow will flag all the downvoters as "persona non grata" to yourself. When you view other questions, these people's downvotes will be subtracted or eliminated from your view of the question.

Complicated? Yes, but SO's long-term viability may be at stake.
For people wondering why, it has mainly to with the fact that mouse polling rates are tied to FPS meaning that you still have heavy incentive to go above the FPS your monitor could handle.
What are you talking about? You might be associated with individuals who posted content that may appear questionable. You may have a connection of a connection on social media who wrote something questionable altogether. Where does the association end?

FYI software at the border to inspect phone content simply parse the file system and copies over all files for further analysis. It also transfers all emails and more text analysis. Anything flagged by filters get shown to the operator who may be surprised to see so much crap on a visitor device.
To be fair, in 200 years most of the developed world went from bickering nobles and rioting peasants to a bunch of powers capable of waging megadeath war. Industrialization is like that. Honestly, the transition of the Soviet Union was even more impressive, going from an agrarian backwood to a hydrogen-bomb-wielding superpower in less than fifty years, albeit cutting some corners in the process.
Right, and that's contradicted by the document, which says he told CBP a detailed story about how and why he was going to work there. Maybe CBP is lying, but I don't think it's fair to just assume they are.
> The officers asked Dakhil if he wanted to claim for asylum, which he declined.

Interesting. They are denying him a tourism entry but also asking him if he wants to stay indefinitely.
> At this stage SO is a reference work.

That's absolutely not the case:

* Not for the most upvoted questions.
* Not for which questions get upvoted nowadays.
* Not for what influential/highly-active users expect.

> Individual reputation might not matter much in this context.

It shouldn't matter all that much anyway. People tend to assign to much merit to these gamifications.

> My own account is just as odd. The most upvoted answer by far is a one-liner that says "untick this box".

Yes, that's one of the anomalies. The most interesting and imaginative questions, and their answers, rarely get upvoted much because people don't look for them or find them.
I flagged this article, and I am happy for someone to explain if that isn’t the correct action.

I flagged it for the reason that the headline purports to know something tech crunch can’t possibly know: the reason the individual was denied entry.

It’s clear that the CBP says whatever they are saying, and it’s clear the individual has a different version of events.

That’s all that’s clear from this as far as I can tell, yet tec crunch is asserting this is a particular pattern they have somehow discovered.

This feels beyond biased in to deliberately misleading.
No one truly does it alone
To somewhat paraphrase my other comment in the thread: Most people on the Internet aren't writing personal letters, and most writing on the Internet isn't deeply personal writing from someone you know and have ane motional bond with. Deeply personal writing isn't something easily comparable to emoji, either.