skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m also wondering what went through the head of the person who saw the question at a score of -3 and just had to add their own downvote, because “fuck this question just a bit more”.

This is exactly what went through their mind. This is group think. You get people who have to follow the heard and the next thing you know programmers are getting pulled out into the streets and beat because they use JavaScript.
Online activities shouldn’t have such a huge effort imbalance:

- If I spend an hour writing and rewriting a question or answer, there shouldn’t be any “2-second torpedo” option where someone can ruin all that effort. Instead, they should have to spend some similar invested time, e.g. minimum length reasoning, peer review before posting or other hurdle.

- Exactly the same problem with other sites, even online product searches. The “1 star” people seem to have infinite power, which has always been ridiculous. All this does is discourage actually useful contributions from appearing in the future, toward lowest common denominator.
If you produce a good one, you can sell them for $3000 (probably Canadian Dollars) a pop: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/sports/olympics/curling-s...
You'll be excited to learn that acoustic impedance is a well-known concept to anyone who researches acoustics!
Luckily California has Prop 13 which could have capped their property taxes if they owned the property.
There is an epistemological truth here that is overlooked: for any non-reproducible phenomenon, physical or psychological, we can make no judgments on what happened.

The default answer is always going to be "no" for some people and "yes" for others. These are the folks who just have to have a firm answer. The actual answer is "nobody knows"

I also want to believe, so I tend to be extremely skeptical of any UFO stories. But looking throughout history, I have to admit that I am in no position to make a decision one way or another. A bunch of really respected guys made some observations of a thing with instrumental evidence that we don't understand? Cool. There's something we don't understand. Spinning up some tale of the atom bomb or aliens? That's just to sell books to the rubes. We don't know. That's okay.

If there are other intelligent lifeforms around, and if they have any developmental parallels in their society to ours, they probably think of us as nothing more than a particularly advanced form of fungus. And if they were to come here to observe, they'd either use a blind or come and go in such a way to create the kind evidential noise we currently see in the public record. So while I wish something is going to come along and settle this, it ain't going to happen.
It happens here too. I imagine some people only downvote stuff that's against the site guidelines and simply doesn't upvote stuff they disagree with. Then, there are others that do downvote those with opinions different from theirs.

On StackOverflow, I've wondered if I should upvote answers on topics where I can't really verify if the answer is correct, even if it looks really informative, well formatted, has pictures, is to the point, etc. I mean, what if it's wrong? and there I am upvoting it because it looks credible. I have seen highly upvoted answers with information I know to be wrong, too.

Part of the issue is that there are no guidelines on how to upvote or downvote in neither StackExchange or HN. The platforms just leave it to the users to determine their own criteria.
Whoa. It's a completely different class of dynamic phenomenon, unlike anything I've ever seen. Thank you for posting.
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Maybe. But it (at least) feels like HN sets some different expectations upfront (e.g. not being able to edit a post after a certain amount of time).

HN also has a pretty benign sign up process (i.e. relative to most sites, you don’t really give out any infomation, you don’t even _have_ to confirm an email).

I think people feel differently towards HN because HN treats people differently. (Just my 2 cents)
"I hate cars that have loads of torque on the low end then go down from there, it gives me the feeling that they get out of breath on the top half of the rev range."

I might argue that there is no such thing as an engine (assuming reasonably modern and N/A) that has "a lot of low end torque"; rather that kind of engine should be described as "lacking high end torque".
Being Born Rich Still Leads to Success More Than Working Hard in School (2017)
I don't know. Visual input has the greatest bandwidth and the least latency when it comes to transferring emotions, so pictograms are very effective when it comes to non-technical solutions. When it comes to technical ones, maybe a brain-to-brain interfaces capable of transferring emotions directly to one's mind could eventually challenge the visual interface humans have naturally.
If UFOs are real, it's unlikely they started to appear only recently and most likely had Earth as their playground (vacation destination/ZOO), and maybe even originating life. Who knows, maybe this is some alien university project on how to make life on a distant planet from the scratch? We can observe that cells/DNA are programmed to adapt to local changes; we have no idea how they make sudden jumps for a more efficient design; maybe somebody was doing alien PhD in a better bipedal design in carbon-based life forms and just planted results here to see how they proliferate...

If you look at religions, they all resemble optimization algorithms to build civilizations with different attributes; one could seed different "rules" to different parts of the world and observe which rules become the dominant ones and which kind of civilizations they bring. Moreover, having a conflict between different civilizations that couldn't be reconciled by any other way than a total annihilation, it could provide a needed impetus for progress as the permanent conflict it brings forces people to develop quickly and throw out inefficient ways to survive. From this point of view, globalization might be worse for our progress as species; USA vs China competition might be a needed conflict to progress in any meaningful way.
Bingo. Things like stuxnet are exceptions that prove the rule.

The US has been largely alone in dealing with China and the Middle East. We’ve been alone fighting the worlds autocratic regimes lately. Where we have support we’ve had to push for it.
For starters, because shipping CO2 emissions are rising fast [0], and CO2 is by far not the only concern. Ships burn unrefined "bunker oil," emitting proportionally huge amounts of particulate pollution, sulphur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides, which harm people and other organisms [1, 2]. For example, back in 2009, the 15 biggest ships emitted as much SO2 and NOx as all the cars on earth: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi...

[1] http://www.npi.gov.au/resource/oxides-nitrogen-0

[2] http://www.npi.gov.au/resource/sulfur-dioxide
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>Remember that neither Gen Z nor Millenials have ever witnessed significant economic change that was brought on by direct action of normal people.

Did you forget about the Great Recession and it’s economic impact? Do you believe it didnt bring significant economic change or is it that it wasn’t brought on by normal people? What exactly defines normal people in this context or better yet, how is that relevant?

It’s confusing to me that despite the soaring costs of housing, the hyper competitive job market ( kids compete not just against other Americans but also students from other countries like India and China, where many of those immigrant kids didn’t have the crushing college debt), the shrinking middle class, and general deregulation that has shifted power to the wealthy - despite all these issues, your view point of what affects these kids is based around social media or more specifically, what standard these kids are held to on social media.
I’ve had the same thought, but dismantling a microwave radiation emitter doesn’t seem like a bright idea unless you know what you’re doing.
Fair, but handwritten letters were much longer (because that's what made sense when the round trip time was measured in days/weeks). With multiple paragraphs you can build up a rich emotional context for whatever you're saying.
Well, we have a theocracy in Iran because 'a liberal democracy' did not like the democratic government that was developing in Iran. That nascent democratic government wanted to spend the natural resources of its country in a way that benefited their own, rather then corporations of the other democracy.
When there's thousands of genes then it applies.
I believe these experiments are run in a diamond anvil (basically two diamonds pushed together onto a point). I'm skeptical that you could make a wire at this pressure with anything else -- even all the Kevlar in the world.
> tyrannical theocratic authoritarian regimes.

Yes, the authoritarian regime that bans women from having equal rights and access to basic medical services or control over reproductive rights. The authoritarian regime that continues to enslave, murder and in general treats part of the population as subhuman based on their skin color. The authoritarian regime that has a track record of financing terrorism, of enabling corporations to create banana republics, of creating false flag attacks, invading other countries willy nilly, of dropping atomic bombs on other nations, of testing nuclear weapons on tribal populations. I hope we can have regime change in that tyrannical place.
Damn, he really sounds like a person worth getting a beer with.
This is a risky comment and probably too snarky. But this is a fundamental pattern in English and I wish at least native speakers would get it right.

NOUN:
burnout
shutdown
failover

VERB:
burn out
shut down
fail over

Just about any verb+adverb pair follows this pattern in English.
Wish some health magazine or something re-write this article for the non-technical people so that I could share with others.
Agreed on no downvotes for questions.

For answers, I would also do away with the downvote button, and offer multiple options instead, like: "does not answer the question", "misleading information", "off topic", "outdated", "i don't like the solution", ... .

That would still give SO the capability to sort answers based on some quality ranking algorithm and hopefully reduce the unwarranted downvoting.

PS, this line from the article perfectly captures how I perceive much of Stackoverflow over the past few years:

> “look how stupid that guy is, and look how clever I am pointing that out with my downvote!”
Where are the Instagram photos?
Bob does not, but the AuthorizedKeysCommand runs as:

AuthorizedKeysCommandUser root

I'm pretty sure that is enough permissions to cause trouble.
True, but I'd argue the non-clickbait version of the story is out of bounds for the site. "Some guy says CBP lied about why they denied him" doesn't exactly lead to deep discussion.
Does this explain why my votes on mobile often don't go through on the first click?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/

WSL is now a VM. So its really hypervisor that runs the linux syscalls on its virtual processor
Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.8.0 Released – Database for Internet of Things
Yes but non animal products typically last much longer.
AuthorizedKeysCommand, see above
How to Negotiate an Acquisition
Seeing unknown/strange things in the sky above a secret military test facility or air force base really doesn't seem that baffling or strange to me.
I often find the third or lower rank answers more insightful.

SO seems to reward "technically correct" fast on the submit / answers compared to more thoughtful answers.

This also is reflected in what gets answered and what does't. If it requires nuance or thought it doesn't get answered.

I asked something like "How would you render a bazillion things in react under X conditions and manage performance?"

The responses were all "show me your code" or "here is how you render them" Like guies no, I know how to just render them... I'm asking about keeping the DOM from going bonkers.

But their responses "work" and so that's all I got.
Except if you have a similar question (and you're better trained to select an answer) your question is marked as a dupe. Which is in conflict with the system as described by you and GP.
Interesting, but why reveal now?
I think hope is that structures formed at such high pressures would be quasi-stable at atmospheric pressure. Such behavior is no unheard of.

Such pressures is not something our materials can handle on macro scopes. Yet.
But they are naturally occurring outside diamond anvils, like deep I gas giants, etc.

It’s facing that such super high pressure chemistry may be more common than our low pressure one, because of the abandonment of raw materials in big planets.
Personally I believe that they are better than emoji precisely due to their crudeness.

I can use ":-)" to punctuate a joke, lower the tension in a critical message, or react to a cute picture. In each of these contexts, the smiley gets translated to different reactions which are still the property of me and the person I'm communicating with, particularly if we know each other in person. By using the plain ":-)" I am expressing my own sense of humour, my own way of being tactful, or my own way of smiling at a cute cat precisely because the smiley is so abstract. Alternatively, when I see one of my friends using ":-)", I will picture their own expressions, their own faces.

However, now with emojis, we are subject to the preferences of arbitrary designers and UX teams working for Apple, Facebook, Google, etc. and the latest trends in the small circle of trendsetters who have any influence. Each reaction has its own emoji or limited range of emojis, and the way of expressing playfulness, empathy, or reaction to cuteness has become commodified and standardised in sets of childish faces which have also become saturated by their overuse in marketing. I am expected to no longer express shock with ":-o", but with an overreacting Munch-scream-lookalike. Laughing now comes in pre-ordained grades, with anything less than "sideways with tears" seen as understated.

In summary, I feel that by being expected to chose between a pre-ordained set of designed smileys we are oursourcing our emotional range.
>If a question just straight up doesn't interest you or you don't want to answer it, then ignoring it rather than voting it down seems like the reasonable response.

Just remember that if you don't give users a built-in and formal downvote button, they will rebel against that UI and invent an informal downvote mechanism to express their disapproval. E.g. a bunch of stackoverflow users would type "-1 downvote" in the comments. If you think a downvote button is bad, a UI that encourages a pollution of "-1" meta comments may be even worse.

(Similar examples of users bypassing web UI limitations would be Github users typing "+1" into issues threads because there's no upvote button.)

Let's say you have 3 rough categories when judging a question such as :

(1) agree / approve --> upvote

(2) apathy / don't know answer --> no vote, do nothing

(3) disagree / disapprove of low-effort question --> downvote

If you architect the web UI to collapse categories (2) and (3) into "no vote" to minimize "hurt feelings" and thus give voters no outlet to express a "downvote", don't be surprised if users rebel and invent adhoc ways to do it anyway.

If you read through the meta thread mentioned in the sibling comment by vasili111, you'll see the well-respected high-karma SO users like John Skeet, etc use the downvote button as a feedback mechanism for bad questions.

### EDIT reply to those (galaxyLogic, randcraw, etc) suggesting forcing downvotes into the comments area:

On the surface, it sounds logical and reasonable to force explanation of downvotes but that doesn't work for high-traffic sites like StackOverflow. (In 2011, Jeff Atwood tried to explain this.[1][2][3][4])

The issue is the asymmetry of work between bad questions and good questions. It's easy to ask bad questions. It's harder to ask well-researched and high-effort questions. This asymmetry inevitably results in the SO site being flooded with bad questions.

Therefore, forcing a "downvote explanation" just adds friction to the goal of filtering out the massive volume of bad questions. This was the rationale why downvotes on questions don't cost any karma. I.e. forcing downvote-commentary works better for low-traffic sites and small communities but not for high-traffic sites.

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-...

[2] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56817/can-we-preven...

[3] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135/encouraging-peo...

[4] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250177/require-a-co...
You can, we do this to reduce instance creation time. Though doing this by hand is tedious, that's nothing a good CI pipeline couldn't help with
The same people opposing US imperialism now were already denouncing Stuxnet for what it is back then.

Trump has changed only one thing: he's saying aloud (and proudly) what previous presidents did behind the people's backs.

Let the US government destroy their nukes, dismantle their army. Then they can start giving lessons about peace. Iran is much less of a danger to the world than the USA are.
Did you by accident remove the entire article from the front page instead of just this sub-discussion? It's a very interesting and relevant article. I'd prefer this sub-discussion to be nuked instead of the entire submission
> Linux is pretty much the only operating system that considers the actual system call ABI to be stable.

What about MS-DOS? :P
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People wouldn't follow such criteria anyway.
Every time I read a Paris Review article linked from here, I'm glad I did. They've published a lot of great stuff that you can easily read in a short sitting.
I have no skin in this game, but I am tempted to side with you on this one, especially because the replies with attempted justification are actually just showing how weak of a defense there really is. It’s a forum, you post things. It’s not that different from other forums.

Personally I don’t think I will ever want to delete my HN account because I’m just some random dude, but I think it should be possible to at least delete your profile and leave your comments/submissions orphaned. Reddit does it.

I do hope people eventually come to the conclusion that everyone says regrettable things on occasion so they can stop digging through endless archives of comments and posts looking for dirt. I feel this is a huge component of why people want deletion.
Did this include dietary change?
> That may be true, but I believe the information hackernews collects is still enough to be potentially personally identifiable.

Imho there's still a massive difference between "potentially personally identifiable" and running a whole business on identifying people and selling that information as Facebook or Google does.

Reddit is a weird middle-ground: Afaik they don't make a business out of selling ad targeting profiles as Facebook or Google do. But due to Reddit's nature with subreddits for even the weirdest of interests, they do have massive potential for it.

In the big picture, subreddits are not that different to Facebook groups surfacing preferences on all kinds of topics, thus analyzing a Reddit users post history [0] and subreddit preferences (u/leansbot) can also give quite a good profile about somebody.

HN couldn't even compete with that if it tried, HN is pretty much just one big main forum where certain topics simply don't get discussed, as such users don't even have the opportunity to surface personal preferences about them, compromising their own privacy.

[0] https://atomiks.github.io/reddit-user-analyser/
Java Executor Service and Futures
The most useful useful idiots aren’t idiots.
The Cost of Next-Day Delivery
What do you mean limited funding? Seems like there's a TON of funding for cancer research right now, given the moonshot campaign (extra $1.8B over 7 years).

It's hard to study something like this, because you have to find a large enough population for the statistics to work out, but also keep the study going long enough without massive attrition (would have to do intent-to-treat) to have results worth publishing.
fast for 24-60 hours when i get cancer, got it
> There are so, so many atmospheric phenomenon that can produce 'ufos'.

Neil Degrasse Tyson commented on this by saying that the difference between a layperson seeing a UFO and an astronomer (or whatever) is that the latter knows what strange natural phenomenon they're looking at (or at least can conceive that its natural based on other similar things that they do know) while the layperson doesn't and therefore jumps to conclusions that someone who spends a lot of time looking at the sky wouldn't.
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I'd love to see RFCs return back to one goal, one RFC. These days we have RFC ivory towers where they make a base spec, and 7-8 implementation option specs. All separate RFCs. Very horrible. (edit a goal being a complete thing: oauth2)
>you _have_ to keep Chrome around for some things.

You don't though!

I agree; YouTube (and most everything else) is WAY faster on Chrome than on Firefox. But, on Firefox, I can block JS and soundly defeat YouTube ads. Trading that for whatever interval of page load time would feel gross to me.
Our BigCo catalog contains only few high-core 1x/2x Xeons. Our huge C++ project linearly benefits from hardware performance, yet there is no way one can get anything outside of the catalog. The product is also certified to run only on Intel, so our customers are running only Intel.
Even worse is when the accepted solution is either deprecated or no longer works in future versions of the language/framework used. This is where Stack Overflow's "archival" nature seems to stop working, and where answers based on upvotes would work better.
If he were asking for asylum because his life was in danger--that's when we're the "shining city on a hill". And of course we should carefully evaluate those sorts of claims and try to do the correct and just things.

But that's not the case here, is it?
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Show HN: App that lets you easily animate anything
Hi! I've made this app that lets you make animated videos out of your artwork, crafts, toys, or anything you want.
It's called PuppetMaster. Very popular with schools, and I thought you parents out there could try it. I think it's a nice way to let kids use iPads without us feeling guilty that they're just watching content like zombies, because they're being creative. I've also had older users start using it to make fun stuff.
Please let me know what you think!!

Download: https://itunes.apple.com/app/puppetmaster/id438080891
More info and videos: www.puppetmaster.com

Also a particularly fun example from awhile back where I animated Mark Cuban, and he actually retweeted it and wrote "LOL", was so exciting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jNYtjG9Whg
Just to give you an idea of fun things that can be done with it even if you're not a little kid.

Thanks again!
Indeed a wonderful series! One of my all time favourite alien descriptions.
> as long as they mostly play ball with our commercial and political priorities.

our?
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Hell no.
> man, I really don’t want to be one of those people who’s seen a UFO

You just reminded me of the Saturday Night Live sketch Close Encounter. It's one of the funniest things they've done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPdYYsEfAE
It's never been confirmed this was a "U.S. - Israeli" attack, if there was any attack in the first place.
A kind of generalized Asian version of 'big in Japan'.