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The underlying issue I see here, is the geek desire to answer a question once and for all, and have beginners just fuck off and read the damn faq and stop asking. (Everybody is a beginner in a task they don't know how to do, for all it matters, but experienced people will not stay that way as long as inexperienced people).

Whereas beginners want to chat, have someone help/mentor/guide through which bits are relevant, current, idiomatic, easy, hard, tailored to their problem. Beginners don't know what to read, and can't spot it or make sense of it when they see it. (Again, everyone is a beginner, for if the seasoned expert knew what to read to answer their question, they'd be off reading it instead of posting a question on StackOverflow).

People on realtime chat services are the kind of people who don't mind (or people in a state of mind where they don't mind) answering the same kinds of questions, and talking the same things, over and over and over.

StackOverflow mixes people who want "one answer forever" nitpicking question and answers as if they were encyclopaedia editors to make them 'perfect' to be a forever-answer, with people who want "realtime help" asking, who don't care about exactly the right wording and terms and formatting and stuff. NB. that the people who would be asking, but are on the "one and done" side of things, are the people off studying the FAQ and documentation and code, and buying books and courses where they expect to find answers already existing, so they don't so often show up on the questions side of SO.
There are so, so many atmospheric phenomenon that can produce 'ufos'. Every time someone sees a jetliner compressed by humidity and heat into a row of dots (the windows) around a cigar shape, they're convinced its the first time anyone has ever seen such a thing.

The burden of proof for a 'real' ufo is heavy, and nobody makes any real effort. Its reasonable to dismiss the entire topic as overheated descriptions of normal phenomena.
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It happens, people are a little trigger happy on the Internet, but HN is a forum utopia compared to StackOverflow or Reddit.

In my experience, on here people downvote when the answer is either off topic/spam or false with regards to the topic. Sometimes some good comments are greyed out because the profile has been (wrongly) shadowbanned, but the "vouch" feature is great for that.

EDIT: is HN so good compared to the rest because of its moderation tools/upvote system, or because it attracts only a specific niche of people? Would a Reddit/SO with HN features work better than the current sites?
I'm in the same boat. I don't stick to it extremely strictly, and the window moves around a bit but generally I follow 16/8 too and haven't noticed much of change in body fat (but I don't carry much anyway).

The reason I stuck with it was that, as someone who wasn't ever a breakfast person either, I don't have the stomach discomfort / bloating anymore which a carb-heavy breakfast would give me.

For me the nicest part about IF becoming trendy is that I don't feel that slight pang of guilt anymore which I used to feel when skipping breakfast.
Depends on what the goal is.

If the goal is maximum speed weight loss, like say preparing for a competition, lower calorie easily wins. It has to be done carefully to not get dehydrated or remove micronutrients. And it's hard to get started for most as hunger is strong early on if you don't put additional protein in.

Keto on the other hand is easier to get in with but relatively hard to maintain due to social factors. The diet is extremely different from any typical one in any country. On the other hand if you just have to limit calorie intake, things get easier to mix and match. But this one is sort of automatically playing on satiety which helps.

Health results are somewhat of a tossup.

Source: done the Kwaśniewski version of keto, and ad-lib vegan too (ineffective). Currently low calorie controlled, data driven, successfully so far at 0,75 kg/wk.
And the chickens' perspective, which matters to many people.

And the workers' perspective depending on the source of the chickens.
Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are

Edit: I'm not condoning or arguing against the CBP decision, just pointing out that their line of thinking is not novel. It has been around since the times of Socrates.
> We're talking about the ability to delete an account which HN's only option is to email and ask nicely.

This means it's not impossible as the claim states. Impossible means you can't even email anybody to delete your account.
Author here: it's totally doable. Please keep in mind that you won't be able to change settings values at runtime (e.g.: adding new rewrite rules).
I tried changing the configuration file but the changes aren't propagated to Charles if it's running.
And right below it is the answer that goes on far too long. So long that it requires headings, an introduction, an abstract, a recommendation, caveats for the recommendation, a discussion of alternatives, some performance comparisons, critiques of a few other answers (including the accepted one), a conclusion, and a table of references.

I know because I write those kinds of answers.

I wish they would unpin those answers from the top - leave the green checkmark, just let me sort by whatever has the most votes recently - say in the past year. Then we'd get more up-to-date answers more attention, and more readers would find them.
Having lost a similar amount of weight in 3 months by switching to keto (pretty much the opposite diet from OP, but similar IF schedule) I'm not surprised.

If I'm being totally honest I attribute most of the gains in weight and mental clarity to reduced drinking, particularly before bed. Also apparently the occasional basket of french fries / onion rings was really adding up.

In my case I dropped from 102 kg -> 79kg. I'm tall and naturally very slender, but I'd gained a lot of weight while working at Amazon.

I also attribute the change to quitting a high-stress job, thereby removing a lot of "stress eating / drinking" in addition to using a rigid rule (NO CARBS) to avoid most of the fried garbage I'd binge on.

I'm not that surprised - I was eating and drinking like it was my job to gain weight and keep it on, then I stopped.
Well, they weren't better per dollar once you factored in power consumption.
If you are in industry and you've some experience, highly likely you are already doing what the author claims to be his fast learning secrets. There are actually no deep secrets I find in his post, all of those things atleast I instictively do. Even my friends use same approach, so I thought it's so common that I don't have to write a blog post about it.
Soy also needs to be avoided by people with thyroid problems.
Viral whatsapp messages are common in south asia. Receiving a message doesn't mean it's from a friend.
Well the mobile keyboard does not allow you to express yourself in great detail.
it's probably slightly coupled though, avoiding cravings put your mind into a different consumption mode. When you didn't eat for that long, you won't go for a chocolate bar, you'll aim at actual proteins.
Very glad to hear your positive experience.

> Also, there is no calorie reduction

Sure there is, that's why you lost so much weight. You just did it indirectly through this lifestyle change.

> Most restaurants cater for vegans or at least have a vegetarian option...I avoid all processed carbs (no bread or pasta), I avoid all processed sugar.

This can be a hard combo. Often the lone veg option is a sandwich (often breaded) or pasta in my experience. Obviously you can prioritize your needs and glad you do, just expressing how annoying the heavily constrained problem can be (I used to eat vegetarian).
Yes, you can do both. Very carefully.
Energy in, energy out. You lost weight because your ate less than you burned, full stop. IF is just a way to curb hunger until later in the day, so you effectively take in less calories than you normally would.
Specifically its just outside of Vienna, VA, near the WMATA metro station (Vienna): https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/fairfax.aspx

It's a decent place to shop at if you need something quickly.
Stackoverflow's answer evaluation is not based on expertise, but rather on the opinion of those interested in the subject. Answer scores are targeted _public opinion polls_, nothing else.
Sure, do whatever is right for you. My research into the meat industry indicated that I was actually consuming a lot of stuff along with the meat that just isn't good for you. Sure you can go fully organic, free-range etc, but the meat we eat today is nothing like when we were hunter-gatherers. In those times we ate wild animals that lived free and healthy. As far as I can tell, it is impossible to get that level quality of meat at your local supermarket.
Climate change: Ireland plans to plant 440m trees by 2040
Imperative code is structured with ; that terminate statements. var foo = 42;

Functional code is structured with () that composes function calls. foo(bar(42))

All else equal, composition has more interesting structure, which is very helpful for reasoning e.g. flow and dependency graph
In the US, I often drive in roads with a posted limit of 80mph going ~100mph, and even then I get passed sometimes. It's not inconsiderate to other road users if I make sure to pass and yield appropriately, though it's certainly a violation of the law.

And yeah, I think the law is stupid. I believe that we should eliminate speeding tickets and have police only enforce "reckless driving". Going the speed limit could be much more dangerous than exceeding it given traffic and road conditions. Going 2x the speed limit with no other cars in sight should be penalized much less than failing to signal when changing lanes while in traffic; the former only puts the driver and passengers at risk, while the latter risks all cars within a half mile or so if they cause a pileup.

Police seem to enforce the former far more than the latter because it's easier, not because it has the biggest impact.
I certainly don't mean it to be personal. (sorry, not my intentions)

Cancer doesn't stop growing until it first slows down. I think this is simple logic.

Slowing the growth of cancer with only a change in eating habits (not even the food contents) is almost magically/ridiculously simple. And it's sad that it's not main stream method for helping cancer patients. (I know it's not a cure, but if it helps even a little, it's useful)
Counter-Strike was super fun during the time it took form (the beta versions from 0.5 to 5.2 ish). They tried a lot or different things, like dual wielding machine guns. The community was awesome also.
Think so? I didn't get that feel, but it can be tough to tell sometimes.
Emoji are just the evolution of that idea. They're more pleasing to look at, as well.
Borderline obese is not that high a bar. At 6'3" an "obese" BMI is 240 lbs.

Just for fun, let's use that popular "3,500 calories in a pound" estimate. You'd have to run a 2,750 calorie deficit per day to lose 5.5 pounds consistently, every week for two months. That would be a 24/7 fast, not 16/8. Remember, they said there was no exercise involved either so this is purely calorie deficit. Maybe they forgot to mention a limb amputation.
On the tags with less question (<5 per days), it has never happened to me, I even managed to be among the top poster for one of them. And the few times I got corrections from more experienced posters, they were pretty cool about it. But then it's really tag-dependent.
Thanks for sharing. I just recently deactivated Instagram for ~3 weeks, logged back in to download my photos, and then tried to deactivate again.

At first, it failed and threw an error message about enabling cookies which made no sense. Then I got a pathetic error message stating "Sorry, you can only disable your account once a week. Try again in a few days." Pretty pathetic.

https://imgur.com/a/5yHJM1Y
Slashdot’s moderation with reasons / meta moderation worked pretty well for me. Despite it coping pretty well with the fully spectrum of posts that site solicited it doesn’t seem to have ever been copied - I’m not sure why.
16/8 IF basically means 'skip breakfast, no nighttime snacking' in practice for most folks. For many people, nighttime snacking is a big chunk of their intake.
That is NOT AMD's problem, that is the fault of motherboard manufacturers, and always has been.
It wouldn't be the first time that western or US companies were comfortable with internationally ethically dubious nation-states, quite a bit of businesses did trade with the Nazi up into the american entrance into the war.
The responses are the reason I stopped using the site in 2013. The ego on these schnooks lol
Tell me what subreddits you subscribe to and I'll tell you who you are.
Disagreement doesn't mean they're right about the proposal though.
So I got in touch with the owner of https://downfor.io and he was super helpful in order to get me to discover an issue with my SSL setup in Chrome < 71 (I'm currently on 77). I got it working now, hopefully for everyone!

@ScottFree please reach out to me, I'd love to pay you back somehow for making me discover this problem!
I think there's probably something to the UFO phenomenon. However I'm convinced Bob Lazar is a fraud. It's a tricky case because certain parts of his story are verifiable, like that he worked at Los Alamos and that his friends did see a moving light in the sky. The best explanation I've seen is here:

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange...

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange...

The explanation is he worked on particle accelerators as a mechanic (not a physicist), and they were shooting particle beams into the sky. However since this is all likely classified he would be forced to stick to his UFO story.
Stack Overflow have some infamous example of "snarky" answers getting highly upvoted - despite being outright wrong. I wrote a bit about such a case here: https://www.cargocultcode.com/solving-the-zalgo-regex/

In short, the question here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open... is complete legitimately and answerable, but nevertheless have dozens of answers ridiculing the question for trying to do something "impossible".

In general I do like SO quite a lot and find it very useful. But this is one example where SO spread wrong and misleading information. But when I wrote a post on meta.stackoverflow to point out this particular problem, it was quickly downvoted to -25 before getting deleted.
I think you are mixing up right to be forgotten, and GDPR here a bit.

Excuse me, but what information are you referring to?
user: 0xfffafaCrash
created: October 6, 2014
karma: 203

This information? That was all I, as a fellow user, could see. Rest of the information is not public.

GDPR is about personal data and extra data (metadata) that is used for non-essential business needs like marketing, so user can ask to remove that extra data. But if the data is required for the entity to do business and by law you can't expect it to be deleted. Like you can't demand some e-commerce site to delete all your order information and associated delivery addresses, phones, contacts, you can however ask them to remove the account, so you lose access to orders and they in theory can't associate it with you anymore, or at least use to build profile on what your buying habits are.

So you can't demand (under GDPR) from HN to remove your data, maybe remove account but handle is not personal data so it is a stretch.
That's exactly how emoticon placeholders worked in the days of internet forums. Things like :grin:, at least in my mind, get associated with images though; the emoticons have likely already corrupted my brain enough for that to happen.
I've seen that work out the opposite way, where “Yes, but” gets the part after “but” listened to, and “No, because” with a reason that isn't really a can’t be done reason but a cost to consider gets you not only ignored on the specific point but also frozen out of being involved in business and upper management contact because you are seen as projecting an air of laziness/inflexibility.
Paul Graham on Twitter: “I had forgotten about this interview I did in 2009
Exactly right. If I were planning to study in or visit another nation, I wouldn't be associating with people who want to destroy that nation.

The first example, Ismail Ajjawi, was of a Lebanese man who has ties to Hezbollah.

I don't visit Lebanon for a reason and I have turned down business there. That would be the respectable thing for him to have done in the United States.

He's already slippery. He's a Lebanese national who mis-characterizes his identity. He was coming to work on a visa that didn't permit it. That should raise one eyebrow. The other was raised by who he associates with.
Similar story on Linode [0].

[0] https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-d...
The document states he claimed he was going to work at his relative's gas station, which seems plausible. This is a visa violation, and would get you denied from basically every country in the world.
Agreed!

My pet peeve: open source packages that have no separation of the actual IP from the embodiment in an app or environment. Is it so hard to create a library? And put the real feature in there, instead of wrapped up in some run-on main module?

Kudos to this writer for doing it well.
Context over control: the future of remote working
I'm not condoning or arguing against the CBP decision, just pointing out that their line of thinking is not novel. It has been around since the times of Socrates.
Seconding this recommendation. Pollan talks about this exact article in the book, and how Eva Mendez came to sorely regret ever letting Wasson and Richardson partake in the ceremony and publish accounts of the experience.

Most incredible to me is that Pollan, late 50s with a dim view of drugs and especially psychedelics, experiments with various different drugs in order to explore and describe their effects for the audience. Great author who does his research and great book.
likewise I also don't contribute questions either. I always say its a great place to find answers, terrible divisive place to ask questions.
At this stage SO is a reference work. The kind of things it's useful for are things like "what's the syntax for [algo] in [language]". There's specific answers people are looking for, and they stay that way.

It also means everything(tm) is there. It's been ages since I've needed to ask anything at all there. Someone has had the problem before, and gotten the answer.

Individual reputation might not matter much in this context. If the answer to your question has 100 upvotes, why does it matter who they fell to? If someone answers a question, does it matter how many other upvotes they got? Does it make them more authoritative?

You'll find loads of simple answers with loads of upvotes, and deep dives with just a few.

My own account is just as odd. The most upvoted answer by far is a one-liner that says "untick this box". That time I found an actual error in a Swift lib, I spent ages detailing it, and got barely any votes.
Reading through these comments is scary. And I'm lucky. I've never put on weight in my life but always been active. 50 now and still snowboard, scuba dive and martial arts three times a week. Only ever ate two meals a day (lunch and dinner) and have never paid attention to sugar. Drink fewer sodas than I used to but still average about one a day. I eat a lot of meat but also a lot of vegetables and bananas. Maybe 50/50 meat/veg. Guessing metabolism has a lot to do with it. Nobody in my family ever got obese either.

The upshot is that what works for Peter may not work for Paul. And somehow I fell into a healthy lifestyle...
And you can even get a reputation bonus on that specific site, so you already start with some privileges.
Imagine the modern PC as being just another substrate of this great battlefield where big corporations duke it out with each other and the individual owners are becoming less and less relevant to the security story. It's unpleasant. It seems to get raunchier each year. I've even seen household names retool things like graphics drivers to inject data harvesting code into command-line programs at runtime. Then the big companies who don't play dirty like that, usually react by demanding greater authoritarianism in tools, until the rest of us devs find ourselves smothered with -fpic aslr retpoline code-signed bubblewrapping, which isn't so much keeping us safe, but rather keeping big company A safe from big company B. Everything that the guy you linked said is correct. But locks aren't that relevant anymore, once the wolves have been invited in to live.
That's a short list

/r/palm
I think a lot of Y Combinator companies get preferential treatment for posts (especially job listings). So in that sense HN does have ads.
It's a smart decision in the era of public clouds, for sure. On-prem shops will be more hesitant because with things like VMware you can't hot move VMs between differing CPU architectures. In order to win these customers over you have to have longevity (that you'll still be the price/performance in 5 years when you lifecycle your hardware).
Even if we just had reliable FOSS voice recognition without the rest, I think hackers could create powerful user experiences. But alas, even that seems to be asking too much. There are some FOSS efforts to implement state of the art solutions with lots of training data, Mozilla has been working on this from what I understand, but last I checked nothing was really ready yet and the stuff Mozilla is working on needs really beefy server hardware to run, which I think unfortunately disqualifies it as a viable competitor to the commercial offerings (which also use expensive hardware, but don't require end users to know anything about it.)
There was incredible amount of stuff you could do in text, like ･゜ﾟ･:.｡..｡.:･'(ﾟ▽ﾟ)'･:.｡. .｡.:･゜ﾟ･. or ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(;￣◇￣)┘

And people started to have auto pasted ascii art.

That’s the point where emoji is a more concise, explicit and less cumbersome system.

We should see emoji as standardization and putting a business tie on chaotic expressions to pass them down the line in a limited amount of bytes.
So if someone responds to your comment with something objectionable, you'll be ok with people using that to restrict your rights and privileges?
Why We Need to Get Back to Venus
I actually find the progress in nutrition surprising. The benefits of fasting have been known for a very long time.

But I perceive because fasting can't be sold that the current medical industry has not valued sharing it's true benefits. My personal experience with friends/family in the medical field is that is quackery if it's not taught at in medical school.
Back when liberal democracies were still united against tyrannical theocratic authoritarian regimes. Seems like it's been forever ago.
Assuming that UFO's are being controlled by an alien species and that they are in fact more frequent since the event of nuclear explosions on earth, then I think the safest assumption we can make is that the nuclear event sent a strong enough signal to notify them of our existence.

If that's the case, I don't think we should speculate too quickly on how they would interpret the signal.

However it does seem like there has actually been action taken by an alleged UFO. Look at the following link:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-air-force-personnel-ufos-dea...

There's a youtube video with testimony given by a commander that I can't find at the moment, but it's pretty insane.
Respectfully you are coming from a certain frame. There is always the possibility that other frames exist that may be a more accurate representation of reality. If you are open, check out The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung.
Did people write pictograms in handwritten letters? We had a much easier capability for emoji-like pictograms in the past, but I don't recall people using it.