skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to publication bias for news outlets and even scientific journals, just with progressively lower standards. Each party wants to publish the most interesting things they can, therefore take it as close to the line as their reputation/judgement allows.
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Once I read "this is ugly and pollutes your history graph" as a justification for any git feature, I'm immediately turned off.

What really is wrong with having a graph that actually reflects the real history of changes as they were made at the time?

Why not keep things simple and improve git-log so that anything you find ugly or that looks like pollution can be hidden while viewing the history of a repo? In this case, for example, would it not be far more ergonomic to add a "--hide-control-merges" flag to git-log?

This rerere feature described looks like a lot of the foot-guns git provides.

I know I'm in a minority here - I've given up arguing with collegues that it's possible to have a branch&merge work-flow without constant re-basing. Allowing the history graph to be manipulated and changed seems to have become part of the most popular git work-flows even though it's a recipe for serious pain in a distributed VCS.

(This isn't a criticism of the article btw - more of the git design/philosophy.)
A lot of the faces it makes remind me of Toffle from the Moomins

https://www.moomin.com/en/characters/toffle/
I thought her sentence was commuted which only reduces her sentence but it doesn't wash away her guilt.

Edit: Also she's back in prison for refusing to testify against Assange.
Do you really think it makes sense to end serious conversations of the ramifications and consequences of political allegiance to questionable political leaders because Kissinger and Abrams?

It seems like basic logic would suggest the opposite, right?

Why shouldn't we dismiss your comment as some weak Wuddaboutism?
Idealism of Ideas
They have this in the form of upvotes. If the community disagrees with the selected answer, they can use upvotes and downvotes to reflect their opinion. Then, a user who is reading the question can sort answers by vote count.
The whole article is about the problems with that and the pain of working around it.
Maybe "high traffic scale" is a problem?
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20859997
I want to say that prgmr.com used (uses?) something like this for out of band access to VMs for serial console access or reboots, etc [0]. It certainly can be a powerful tool to give someone limited access to infrastructure.

I swear I read about this in a blog post, but that was many years ago and I couldn't quickly find it.

[0] https://wiki.prgmr.com/mediawiki/index.php/Management_Consol...
I don't know what this is, but the url should be all lowercase (damn auto-correct):

https://www.eva.nmccann.net/blog/ipad-pro-exit-interview
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Between the four pilots they had nearly 90,000 hours of flight time. Haynes had 30,000, of which ~7,200 where on type. Records had 20,000, Dvorak 15,000 and Fitch had 23,000. Fitch had amazingly practiced flying in a simulator with throttles-only after hearing about JAL 123.

If any crew was going to land this plane, it was this one.
Unfortunate, given the recent reports of social media accounts being inspected by customs agents. Something you said years ago (and, hypothetically, no longer believe in) might get you in trouble and you have no way of purging that record. It ultimately will have a chilling effect on what you can say on the site.
Always safer, and should be the default IMO
Maybe the technique in this post is common, but I personally believe that putting yourself and your thoughts out there is a good thing for engineers and critical thinkers in general. It allows us to get feedback and involve others on a wider scale, even if that means writing about things that have been discussed or thought about a number of times before.
Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence by Rick Briggs
Tarring a whole country with the same brush is bordering on racist.
You could just have debug boundaries be part included in the output of the build.
Apparently "DBML is database-agnostic".
> One of the more entertaining things about Dune is that it's been relatively bad at attracting fanfic and cosplay.

well, unless you consider the "prequels" and two subsequent novels as "fanfic", which I do, and am apparently not alone since they seem to want to change canon so much.

> I think Jodorowsky's Dune would have been a real game changer for SF movies

even as far as he got was an amazing game changer for SF movies. the teams he put together, his story boards, and almost every aspect of what he created went on to define the sci-fi genre at the time. it's no coincidence that so many of those involved in Star Wars had been involved in Jodorowski's Dune adaptation.
It's still a full page refresh but with a page within a page. Making every comment a separate iframe would make the site very resource intensive on client and server.
All the amateur satellite watchers have known that this is USA-224 and that it's a Keyhole imaging satellite pretty much since it launched, along with its exact orbit and a good idea of its imaging capabilities. That's how everyone managed to figure out how this was taken so quickly. Officially this is all highly classified, but in reality it's been public knowledge for quite a while.
It may have been a perfect quote of the original maxim, my memory is imperfect and you shouldn't ascribe any meaning to my unintended paraphrasing.
> Going to split hairs over the definition of socialism?

Absolutely. Socialism equals failure born out of ignorance. Bernie Sanders is a socialist. Ocasio-Cortez is a socialist. These people are clueless about the economy, as well as the countries that they themselves refer to as socialist[1].

[1] https://acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2019/01/17/denm...

Social democracy works. Obama is a social democrat. A welfare state can work, if there's an economy to support it. Socialism ends up destroying the economy, which ultimately destroys the welfare state as well.

The American socialists will not destroy the economy by turning the means of production over to the state, like the Soviets. They will destroy the economy with reckless spending programs that will create so much debt, it will either bankrupt the state or destroy the US dollar - the one major export good that the US has left.

> On the other hand, inequality and social mobility do seem somewhat more connected.

Yes, as I explained, if equality is low, it easier to move up or down an income strata, but it also means less in terms of wealth.

> It's also obvious that all the countries with lower inequality and higher social mobility have higher living standards than the opposite, with a few potential outliers.

Similar reason, if the standard of living is generally lower, it's relatively easier to rise up in absolute numbers. That is, if you want to go into the top percentile in Denmark, you'll need to earn maybe half a million euros (couldn't find a number), whereas in China you only need to earn less than 100,000$[2].

[2] https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/09/23/what-percent-...
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You are correct. HN is strangely disappointing when it comes to health and nutrition. Somehow science and evidence isn't as important as anecdotes and guru-talk. Here's a link backing up your claims, including how metabolism and the thyroid affects weight gain in the Related Links

https://examine.com/nutrition/low-fat-vs-low-carb-for-weight...
I keep seeing these studies on the value of fasting. Fascinating and intriguing. I haven't eaten all day.

That said, I'd be interested in knowing the role of diet. That is, how much of the benefit is from fasting, and how much is from the relief the body (and gut) gets not ingesting additives, chemical reside, etc.?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
Man who stole $50 to be freed after 36 years in US jail
I don't see how rebasing often and keeping a linear history is in any way a worse workflow than letting merge bubbles happen. To the contrary, I've changed my preferences from the latter to the former because it turned out to be more readable and to make it easier to find commits that introduced bugs or contain badly done merges.
No deal is the most probable path now. Everybody is ready for the worst, contingency plans are active, markets have already discounted this. I don’t understand why media outlets still think that Brexit can be reversed somehow — it can’t, at this point, at least not before fully internalising the consequences.
What are you trying to say here? It sounds like you're suggesting that to support investigative journalism at all, one must also support the wholesale compromise of national security secrets. But people obviously, empirically support one and not the other.
Actually that's something i don't get (but i'm not a git pro by any means). The article doesn't seem be about the pain to rebase, but rather the pain of regular merging polluting the history. Regularely rebasing the branch on master doesn't pollute anything, keep the branch in sync with master, and makes for a happy final commit.
OP here, great point civicsquid. I got that feedback a lot from people (i.e. spending too much time on the post trying to establish credentials) and that I overdid it.

The point of this post for me is start trying to write (I think I'm pretty bad at it) so I'm extremely thankful for the feedback and glad you found the content itself academic and intriguing. :)
Ask HN: How do you help coders outside of the tech org at your company succeed?
I work at a small/medium-sized company whose business is not selling software, but is heavily reliant on internally-created software for nearly every function in the business. Our software team does not have the bandwidth to solve every other team's technical needs, so there are many people with programming skills operating essentially in isolation, using SQL or python to solve their own problems in their own ways.

How can my team help these people succeed in building robust solutions, with limited learning/collaboration opportunities to the software team's SDLC?
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I think there is an information theoretic explanation for this.

The content of fake news tends to be more surprising than factual news. It is surprising because it is less likely.

Generally speaking, the more unlikely a message is, the more information it carries. Thus, fake news appears to have higher information content then factual news to people unable to detect that it's fake.
Agreed 100%. Wikipedia is similar, in that both SO and Wikipedia have clearly defined goals, and policies based on achieving those goals. But for as long as they've been around there have always been people who get worked up over those sites not being quite what they want them to be. And what they want want them to be is usually a place where anything goes, and/or a place where they can more effectively earn some form of imaginary internet points, or at least not have meanies downvote them or reject their contributions.

I'm sure both SO and Wikipedia have their own dysfunction even within the constraints of their stated policies, which I'm sure is a constant struggle to deal with. But that's inevitable, communities always have issues to deal with. Those are different issues than users wishing a site had different goals. I'm all in favor of sites like SO or Wikipedia (or Reddit, or HN) having all sorts of constraints on what types of content they want and how they operate. Maybe it's frustrating sometimes for people who are set on relying on one of those sites for everything (and therefore want them to be all things to all people), but overall I think those types of self-imposed constraints are exactly what makes them useful and interesting, and allows them to grow in ways that are unique to the mission of the site.
I think a big cause of SO's unpleasantness is the directive to eliminate duplicate questions. Judging whether two questions are duplicate has a lot of gray area, and most people seem too eager to hit the button. It's frustrating when someone marks your question as duplicate based on their own flawed understanding of what you asked.

What is the harm in having multiple similar questions on the site? As the passive reader, it's no big deal to look through two or three similar pages. A massive academic field, Information Retrieval, gives us many sophisticated tools to rank similar chunks of information by relevance.

As the number of duplicates increases, all possible ways of asking the question will be covered. When someone new comes to ask the same question, they'll see at least one duplicate in the real time results for "possible duplicates" as they type. So I don't think we need to worry about hundreds of duplicates.
>And it's very effective to provide "feedback" in the form of a drive-by downvote, isn't it?

I understand your confusion and frustration but folks like Jon Skeet are also providing feedback to their fellow answerers who don't want to see bad questions.

For some people, this signaling mechanism to reduce wasted effort for peers is even higher priority than feedback to the person asking the question.
The Warren Commission would like a word, not to mention the literal JFK Records Act...
A Brief History of Everything
Ahh, this reminds me of BT Cellnet storing those first pay-as-you-go credit ledgers locally on the Philips C12 / Diga handsets, and just hoping nobody would notice.
Unfortunate, given the recent reports of social media accounts being inspected by customs agents.

And bosses. And landlords. And insurance companies. And credit reporting agencies. And police departments. And schools. And...
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As long as physicists disagree on the explanation of anomalous physics, it is quite accurate to say that the physics community is in a state of doubt or confusion about the anomaly.

Note that this person explicitly asks for the dataset, and the computation of the expected curve, but hardly ever does anyone help such a person in such a direction, it is always taken as a suspected insult on the mental state of one camp of interpretation.

I too would love some kind of central register or portal for the most widely accepted anomalies (anomalous.physics/dark-matter/...), where people can get and inspect observation datasets, and competing models to fit the datasets.

Imagine Brahe & Kepler's, data & interpretation to be widely popular, but whenever someone asked for data or computations to compare circular orbits with elliptical ones, nobody would point them where to find such data and computations?
I've been using this for probably 10 years, couldn't live without it (though I'm sure there are alternatives)

It hadn't been updated for 10 years until yesterday!
So I shouldn’t thank or say nice things to my team, because they might see it as disingenuous? Seems better than the alternative, no?

The article got close to touching on a successful method of motivating, which is making sure individuals’ contributions are communicated throughout the organization in a clear and ideally public manner.
>Germany contributed technical specifications and knowledge about the industrial control systems made by the German firm Siemens that were used in the Iranian plant to control the spinning centrifuges

may be it is all just a smoke screen and parallel construction, and the virus was just included in the next patch update :) Wouldn't be the first time. The parallel construction is obviously needed to make Iranians and the likes to continue hunting for moles (sucks to be executed as a mole for an USB drive that you have no idea about found in your house), tightening security and wasting their money/resources in all the other ways while still continuing to buy Siemens/etc.
Well, we did, but we exported it. In the case of the UK it was Northern Ireland; thereafter for both it was Afghanistan and Iraq. Admittedly there we took over from a different reign of terror, but the whole situation remained lawless.

The US built a special law-free zone so it could apply indefinite unaccountable punishment to a few dozen people. A police microstate.
I backpacked around South East Asia circa 2006-2008, I really didn't see much if any beg-packing going on back then, back then SEA was considerably cheaper than it is now as well.

I have no knowledge of whether he did or didn't, but it really seems like a much more recent phenomena (and I think those doing it are contemptible frankly).
I fear the same. It is a pity. UK economy will take a big blow, we will just waste 20 years taking a dive and then recovering, just to get back to where we were in 2016. While EU will be thriving, UK will be suffering.

I disagree with the referendum result but the people voted and the people's wish must be respected. We also cannot have another vote again and again until we get the result that (e.g.) "I" like.

Good night and good luck. And it will be a looooooong night.
> "Why does the medical community work so hard to throw up as many road blocks as possible to experimental treatments that are low risk?"

Well, at least in the fasting, it's a complete break with tradition. No scripts. No Big Pharma outfit marketing it. Etc.

My feelimg is, many doctors are wired to want to take action. The idea of something as simple as "I want you to fast every other" is completely foreign to them.
Ok, what was the last language you learned? Can you say you learned only 10% of it since the first day?
I'm open to better solutions, but whatever solution you propose has to withstand gaming the system since their job probably depends upon it.

One thing that seems to be coming out of these discussions is that a "downvote" doesn't hurt enough.
>Maybe "high traffic scale" is a problem?

I honestly can't tell if your comment is snark or some type of realistic actionable advice.

If you intended actionable, what exactly do you propose SO to do to not be "high-traffic"? One of the meta threads say they got ~12k questions a day. (Most of them bad.) Should SO set a limit of 500 questions and after that, each person gets an error on the webform saying "Sorry, we've reached our max question limit today. We want to stay a low-traffic site so hope you'll understand!"

To recap some SO history from Atwood's posts...

2008 - StackOverflow is opened

2010 - Atwood and others notice they're getting inundated with too many bad questions. At this time downvoting questions cost karma.

2011 - To counteract the high volume of low-quality questions, they made downvoting questions free to remove friction.[1] Atwood noticed that users were too restrained in downvoting the questions and didn't exercise that power enough to clean up the site. Therefore, forcing the downvotes to have comments (add friction) is the opposite of what they were trying to solve in 2010 which was quickly suppressing the bad questions. SO has more traffic now in 2019 than back in 2011.

Perhaps some that are suggesting the idea of forced downvote explanations (I admit that it sounds like a wonderful feedback mechanism) -- don't know of SO's scale and the problems they had in 2010? I dunno.

[1] Jeff Atwood announced change of policy -- "Downvotes on questions no longer cost the casting user 1 reputation, so they are effectively “free”. [...] So, it’s imperative the question list have a high signal-to-noise ratio, and removing the penalty for those users who do take the time to read a question and later find it to be useless so they can down-vote is conducive to that." -- excerpt from : https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-...
These are great suggestions. It reminds me of the inversion technique that James Clear wrote so well about: https://jamesclear.com/inversion

My question is, what should I do when I'm on the not-receiving-recognition end? I've tried to think of ways of maybe giving myself positive feedback, etc. but haven't really fleshed it out yet. I'm basically in a situation where I don't want to give up the fight to succeed in my role, but it feels like all that is ever visible are my and my team's failures...
Okay, I read the meta page about the question the author says is responsible for them being very disappointed in SO here: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/318482/is-there-a-b...

And if you look at the 3rd answers, it mentions a bounty fraud ring. Woa! Is that a thing? If it is, this is a hard problem to tackle. Relax the rules, increase fraud, strengthen the rules, impact normal users. Good luck SO
"The first example from the article sounds reasonable at first, but are they asking for a shell command or some Go code or what?"

This kind of commentary exposes why SO becomes so hostile. The exact question was: "Is there a way to list all standard Go packages? I have a list of packages and I want to figure out if this is a standard package."

From this, it's rather obvious what they're trying to do and why they want to get a list of packages. So yes, the question is perfectly reasonable, and you're jumping on the least likely interpretation in order to have something negative to say. And you're not alone; this is a very common behavior on SO.

"There's 1001 Github pages of common interview questions and answers that are more interesting and better written. Who could this be useful for other than the rest of that particular CS class? Why do I want to help someone I've never met cheat at a class I don't know about for free?"

More needless negativity. Once again, it's easier to attack, and makes one feel important to do so.

We're unfortunately dealing with human nature, and people really do seem blind to their own abuse. Without proper guidance and moderation, we see the worst come to light on public forums.
Do you maybe have a link to original russian sources?
What do you have? If you don't mind me asking.
Does anyone know of good articles about parallelism in modern game engines? All I've been able to find is a couple of slides in a deck about Doom 2016.
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Like in this 2001 video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSGcnRanYMM
Just a good explanation (the second ceiling mount makes the force distance trade off surprisingly clear)
The article heavily implies that the Dutch mole was executed years ago.
Another vote for God Emperor. For me, it was a bit overwhelming on first read, but I love that I can keep going back to it. The ones I reread the most (and probably consider the most mind-expanding) are Dune, God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapterhouse.
She was never pardoned. Obama commuted most of her remaining sentence. There is a big difference between pardoned and commuted.
Tim O'Reilly: Frank Herbert (online version)
https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/

"I wrote Frank Herbert over a period of about two years, and it was published in 1981. In the course of writing it, I read all of Herbert’s novels, stories, and essays, as well as a lot of his newspaper writing (which, by coincidence, included a stint at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the local paper for the region in which I now live.) I interviewed him several times, and, in a small way, we became friends. His ideas came to influence me deeply. I had always loved Dune and Dune Messiah, and especially the idea that predicting the future too closely can lead to a kind of paralysis. But the deeper I went, the more substance I found. Ecology, mysticism, and a kind of hard-headed insistence on the relativity of human perception and the limits of knowledge combine into a richer mix than is found in a lot of science-fiction. There’s some really cool stuff here!"

(Yeah, that's Tim O'Reilly from O'Reilly Publishing...)

It is a must-read for all Dune fans.
Sorry for the bug.

I think you logged-in before "trying out". I have fixed the bug now.
Wouldn't we just assume "fake news" is optimized for virality, being a contrivance in the first place.