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I think you can argue the psychology and the merits of various ranking systems all day every day. I don’t think there is one correct answer and might work one moment on one population might not work for another population for even the same population at a later date.

The OP might just be getting burned out on stack overflow -maybe time to take a break, scale back, or just do something new.

I think stack overflow is a great resource and has a lot of life left in it. Long ago when I first started out there was no resource like Google, Stack Overflow, Experts Exchange, or Wikis. When I had a question I usually had to find a more knowledgeable peer, explain in excruciating detail exactly what I was doing, and then only if they agreed with me one hundred percent would they answer my question. If I deviated from the way they would do something then my question would go unanswered. Real PITA. But it was a great motivator to develop deep knowledge so that I wasn’t limited to replicating what my peers had done.

Today when I have questions it’s all too easy to get an answer without all of the overhead I mentioned. Though I’ve noticed my younger peers often lack deep knowledge and instead have various aptitudes for finding relevant information and deriving a solution from similiar circumstances.
Technically diary products are still vegetarian so the title is still inaccurate. It should be vegan to be correct.
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> They are replaced with air from outside, which is hotter than the cooled air inside.

That would actually make the response worse, not better.

Let's assume the AC is at steady state. It is pumping 30KW of heat energy out in order to maintain constant temperature. If everybody leaves and hot air comes in, the temperature rises and the AC system thinks "Temperature went up, I need to pump even more energy out."

The temperature needs to fall before the AC system starts backing off. However, by the time the temperature actually falls, the "velocity" of the temperature movement will cause the system to undershoot the target temperature.

This is a control systems problem. You can avoid over/undershoot (which a few people will complain about), but then you give up response time (which lots of people will complain about).
Downvotes are useful for quality control, but there is no real difference between -3 and -4.

This and many others comprise examples of precisely how downvotes aren't useful for much of anything.

“How do I do X?”. Often, X is quite a simple thing, like “append to a list”, or “merge two dictionaries”. I find that the longer I program with all sorts of different languages, the more I struggle remembering all that sort of stuff.

You don't know a programming language if you need Stack Overflow to recall trivial things. I'd go as far to state that you're barely a programmer if you must have an Internet connection to program.

I'm of the opinion that Stack Overflow is primarily good for those who don't know and don't want to learn. That is, I've never used it for an APL question or an Ada question and not so for Common Lisp, either; note that these are all real languages, that are standardized, have books written about them, and have real documentation. So, if you want to play with JavaScript, then Stack Overflow seems like a good place, as that's a disgusting and poorly documented language, but real languages don't need this manner of thing.

The author fails to recognize that having a stupid little voting system and stupid Internet points is precisely the cause of the issue. I'm accustomed to anonymous communications and people get along just fine, in part because the only thing you can do to voice disagreement is to write an actual reply instead of clicking a stupid little button and, since you're not vying for stupid Internet points, you only write a response if you actually want to help someone, with no expectation of receiving anything except perhaps a Thank You. out of it.

The Vi & Vim Stack Exchange is much better in my opinion (I am a moderator there, so I may be biased). We actually had one user being a condescending prick for a while, so we kicked him off. The site has been much better ever since.

That's another issue with this garbage. You get cases of Oh, you're not violating any rules, but you're being mean by my own idea and since we have accounts and lasting reputations and I've been observing you, I've decided you're banned just because.; I'm accustomed to the old-fashioned notion of having real rules that are enforced consistently; you can't moderate anonymous messages by any other means.

So, in closing, you're likely only asking a question on Stack Overflow if you don't know what you're doing. Read a book or check the standards, instead. If your language doesn't have a standard or good books, learn a real language. If your standard is a pile of garbage, as the WWW is, then this would actually be a decent use of this tribal knowledge sharing, but the better solution is to avoid the garbage standard to start with.

I could refine this message, but I'm not particularly concerned. Surely I'm not the only one here who thinks similarly.
I have yet to try ayahuasca. I'd like to some day.

I'm still a fairly novice psychonaut. I tend to err on the side of caution, I'd rather have a lesser experience that's not as intense, over jumping in head first with a large dose.
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Going to split hairs over the definition of socialism?

Also, the US is closest on the chart to Singapore and Argentina, two places with disparate purchasing power. Maybe that's not correlated? On the other hand, inequality and social mobility do seem somewhat more connected.

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.
I would have more respect for the author if they criticized these regulations in spite of the fact that they have clearly improved the appearance of these businesses. All of these buildings are better-designed and more distinctive than any McDonald's I've ever seen. Pretending that an ordinary McDonald's is anything except ugly is disingenuous.

Although the teal arches are stupid.
> It’s very hard to blow it if you’re born rich.

It's actually extremely easy to blow money on poor investments, and it happens all the time. People don't just get born with the skill to handle money well.

Over multiple generations, there is no risk-free asset that will beat inflation, and inflation will easily eat up your wealth in that timespan, even if your family lives a modest lifestyle.

Of course the matthew principle still applies, but that's besides my point here.
> non-standard

I mean, this is a laughable point. Like, seriously ? Before systemd every branch of the linux distro tree had its own way of managing stuff at startup, and distros in the same subtreee made things different enough that things like inits-cripts were not portable.

Heck, even with the same init system, some distros arranged runlevels differently. Do people even remember runlevel? Those were another complete way of mess things up.

Are you really playing the "non standard" card? Like, for real?

And seriously, what would be the standard? The Single Unix Specification? According to that spec even bash is not standard, and yet it's the de-facto standard for shell scripts across basically all the major distributions.
I'm a bit of a fan of textile [0] and first came across the redcloth version[1] years ago, especially for non technical writing. In particular, it's closely aligned to the html that gets generated without all the angles. Eg. You can easily add class and/or id to a paragraph:

> Some text

p.red Some red text

It has easy to do left, centre and right alignments.

Markdown was (slightly) influenced by textile too [2]:

> While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters — including Setext, atx, Textile, reStructuredText, Grutatext, and EtText — the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.

Too bad it's gone the way of the dodo [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language)

[1] http://redcloth.org/

[2] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

[3] https://github.blog/2016-03-01-upgrading-your-textile-posts-...
We (Cloudflare) noticed this and implemented measures to block it a couple weeks ago. The attack described in the blog post is not effective today.
There aren't any problems. If anything, it's a more honest reflection of history, whereas rebase will erase past current state and remove your ability to wind backwards to the way the world actually was.

If you view a neat ahistorical history as a primary artifact of development, then you need rebase.
Before I switched from smoking 12-ish years ago my lungs would physically hurt in the morning and I would cough when I woke up. To me, and other people who legitimately view vaping as something that was life-changing in a very positive way that comes off as a very uncaring attitude. Vaping dramatically improved my health.
Just leave the damn control merges in the history. It's what happened after all...
It's way more complicated that that. The body is not a stupid mechanical device where you make a change in one place and then the rest of the system reacts in a straightforward and predictable way. There is a brain in the middle of everything. And that brain affects motivation. Good luck doing something when you're not feeling motivated.
Have you tried cheese and beans and cooked vegetables? Look up Asian and Indian/Nepali cuisine for ideas.
Throwaway for reasons that will become obvious in this comment.

Stack Overflow could easily be exchanged with HN for some of the OP’s points.

I posted my first HN comment ever this morning after years of reading. I saw an interesting Show HN and decided to chip in my two cents. Suffice it to say that the content of the comment was on-topic and conscientious (if the tone of this post may serve as any indication).

Checking back within minutes, I had a karma of -1. Seeing as how new members start with a karma of 1, and posting gives you 1, this means I had been downvoted three times within those few minutes. This affected me much deeper than I could have imagined.

Having lurked on HN threads for a matter of years now upvoting insightful or illuminating comments, I found it jarring for my thoughts to be disqualified so quickly and thoroughly. My karma was not just rendered inert, but actively negative, draining.

This activated in me all manner of imposter syndrome and shame. Worse, though, was this total sense of helplessness, this feeling that as even a noob I have to be in on the secret handshake lest I be branded as someone who doesn’t get it.

I later combed through HN looking for general patterns in downvoting, and for every off-topic, non-contributory post was one like “depression is just the natural response to oppression” or any of the variations of “me too” that were spared a downvote. This helped me shift my thinking on this. I realized it was less about being on the outside of the exclusive club, and more about having been caught in the gears of the machinery that allows beginners to have experiences like this. It doesn’t make me feel better having reached a conclusion like this, and only makes me less likely to try again, but for the hope that the smattering of comments in this thread forming a connection between OP’s SO experience with HN starts a real conversation about this.
Could you elaborate? Without delving too deeply, that article seems to suggest the opposite:

> The KD can more effectively reduce glucose and elevate blood ketone bodies than can CR alone making the KD potentially more therapeutic against tumors than CR
I tried contributing regularly on Stack Overflow a while back, and it just wasn't fulfilling to me. These days I just post follow-up comments mostly on topics which generally have light coverage anyways.
Previous related convo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20851501
Again, i'm not recommanding anything. I'm just saying uping the dose a lot is on the table.
Stupid answer from an organic chemist with limited inorganic and material chemistry:

In theory it would compress the material to a quasi crystal structure. This compressed material would allow the electrons to freely jump from atom to atom/molecule to molecule without hindrance or loss.

Note: This is pure guessing!
No. Windows and .NET :(
Well, even if CO2 footprint of animal agriculture is the lowest out of all human activities, there are externalities like fecal waste, water pollution, deforestation and many more without any CO2 added when calculating the footprint.

Your best example could have been China. Not the western first world. For China, CO2 footprint of food raising activities is not even in the top 10. The manufacturing industry there is brutal, combined with heating and cooling.
So why are they generalizing their claims when they have left out whole category of foods? And they consider dairy as not vegetarian that’s not accurate either.
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> Accountability is very relative in a time where the fabric of the real itself is beeingcalles into question by deep fakes and exteemely potent tools to synhesize images and voices.

All the more reason we need accountability on what wikileaks did release now. How else can we trust our government at all?
Stack Overflow did a competent job at a community Q&A site, and marketed it well. I think the downside of it was that it was developed in the age of 'gamification', so it has a ton of badges and incentives for participating, but it incentivizes the wrong things.

It's still miles better than expertsexchange.com (the hyphen site), but is very biased towards first answers for doing kids homework.

The majority of questions I've asked there are when I seriously can't get to the bottom of a bug, and generally the answers aren't helpful like "you need to restructure your application".

Its value is really in simple, dumb answers, which as the author points out, is very useful when you have to jump between languages and don't quite remember the right idiom for pushing something onto an "array" in PHP vs using a stack elsewhere.

Like a lot of other web2.0 sites from the era, the incentive with reputation and badges is very effective at creating a community of people who want those points, but also offers a perverse incentive of racing to answer the easiest questions quickly.

Unless that question has been determined by the community to be low quality (in the case of the infinite loop homework question referenced in the article).

Like a lot of community sites where engagement gives you more privileges, there ends up being a meta-community of people with power dictating the tone and direction of the site, even if that is orthogonal to the actual goal of the site.

The other issue is that for a software dev Q&A site, it can be very hard to find / suss out current info. If I'm looking for an issue migrating to Hibernate 5, and the most popular answers are something using the XML configs and migrating to hibernate 3 from 2012, that's not really helpful, and I don't think the tagging/search combo from 2008 can filter for that.

I will say this, it seems to have avoided the tech forum pitfall of:

"I'm getting this error, can anyone help?

Edit: nm, figured it out."
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Testing, can I delete this after I post a response that I then immediately delete?

Edit: apparently you can delete a comment if the child comment is deleted.
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Forums require lots of downvotes to keep out the riff raff making them that precious would be a mistake.
I think there's something to this. Not sure if it's Dunbar's Number specifically, but something. It seems like there's a pattern where a community is nice and small, with people joining at a trickle. Things change when a jerk joins and starts doing jerk stuff. This tends to drive away the nice and helpful people, attract more jerks, and pushes people still there to be more jerk-ish themselves. Sometimes deft management can prevent it with some well-timed bannings, but I think this gets increasingly difficult as the community gets larger, and may be effectively impossible in internet-scale communities.
yup, sudo apachectl start. But...

how do you make sure it's done at boot? what if the machines boots up unattended, maybe after a power loss? and where do you put the apachectl binary? And what would happen if for any reason apache crashes? will it stay crashed? will something restart it? if so, what thing will? and what if you need to run it in a restricted environment (let's say something easy, let's say a chroot) ? and what if you want to have upper limits to the resources that it's supposed to use? how do you check if it's running, and how much resources is it consuming ?

Systemd units make all of those things trivial, or at least not that hard.
The biggest takeaway I get from the article is that the average annual food-sourced CO2 emissions is equivalent to driving 6000km. Average car owners in North America do quite a bit more than that annually (and likely in a vehicle that produces much more CO2 per km than the europe-based study would use)
There is a difference between installing some sketchy third-party app from an apk provider and installing an app that simply doesn't meet Apple/Google's community guidelines.
More complex question would be if I vape my dessert flavor with or without nicotine is that better for me than eating said dessert? I have had so many people tell me how they 'cant resist' sweets, and I'd rather vape my cake.
You can use the IDN punycode representation xn-5ca, as Hacker News has done above.
"randomize" should be off by default. otherwise it simply looks like it's glitching when you touch any slider
Here's the link to the video:

https://www.facebook.com/UAVMe/videos/2157974847663933/
It's been known since around the mid-90s that the "ice-free gap" opened up too late to allow for humans to arrive before Clovis, and that Clovis-first was an untenable theory. However, it takes a long time for scientific consensus to work its way into textbooks and popular imagination. When I was learning about this stuff in school around 2005-ish, the textbooks still suggested the ice-free migration route, although coastal migration was suggested as a plausible alternative. Even as late as 2017, there's still a popularly cited anthropology writer (but not an anthropologist) who believes in Clovis-first and vociferously argues against pre-Clovis migration.
Gravity does seem to start processes that end up producing entropy though. I think entropy might increase as a result of information production? It's a thought I've been playing with for a while. Like we definitely have maxwells demon adding information to decrease entropy of a system. But I bet if the demon were 'real' it'd be generating more entropy than the information it's producing in its little gas separation experiment.
As Roger Murtaugh would say, "I'm getting too old for this shit."
This is the mentality that promotes organized eating competitions rather than a healthy diet. The entire notion of a 'consumer' economy is based on exploiting the residual instinct for binging and addiction.
I suspect the author hit the Indian downvote brigades as well. The big issue I currently have with the Stack Overflow is that it seems like it has become some form of "scoring metric" for Indian programmers--presumably the consulting companies like Wipro. As such, if you don't immediately give a positive vote/response to even garbage answers, you get a downvote brigade burying the question. I suspect disallowing Indian IP's would improve Stack Overflow immensely, at this point.

The structural problem I have with Stack Overflow is that there is no way to wipe out outdated answers. There are lots of heavily upvoted answers that were correct but are now wrong, and there is no way to mark that.
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> A tangential irony is adults engaging sex for money is illegal in most of America, while if it involves a camera, then it's porn and legal.

From a legal perspective, the distinction is considerably more detailed than just camera or not. This is a brief article: https://vistacriminallaw.com/pornography-vs-prostitution-in-...

I knew a longer article, but I can't find it.

Morally speaking, it all boils down to protecting the form of expression. Probably, when the laws were written, there was the idea the sex for money is abhorrent, but freedom of speech needed to be respected. In fact, the core difference of prostitution and porn is that in the former, clients definitely don't want to be filmed, so it kinda makes (I'm not implying that I agree or not).
If you think electrical work or plumbing are still going to be a high-skill job in fifty years then you don't have a good understanding of labor markets. Automation doesn't replace twenty low-skill workers with a robot, it replaces one high-skill worker with two low-skill workers collectively paid half as much.
gives me similar chills as to spacex boosters landing - what an achievement!

dual walled exhaust is peculiar - is there an air feed into the gap?
I lost 43lbs so obviously it was nearly all fat that I lost. How many people losing drastic amounts of weight on a low carb diet, while consuming more calories than before, would it take to convince you that counting calories is seriously flawed?
What about it? If there's ever a mass exodus to Freeport ME, the people trying to service that need will follow the rules while serving the need. Or they'll get out of that market and someone else will do it. In the "worst" case the local property owners get higher prices which is a win, and the aesthetic rules maintain the (presumed) attractiveness of the town, which is a win. Shrug emoji? The locals hold all the cards, and I'm not even sure that's a bad thing.
I'd expect that for a pipe under high pressure but small pressure differential compressive strength would matter much more than tensile strength.
You probably aren't using vegetarian foods with enough fat or protein. Veggie based meat substitutes often have ridiculously low fat contents so I have to add oil to get some umame flavor out of them. Like tofu grind that you might use as a substitute for ground beef is like 5% fat whereas hamburger is 10-20%. Adding some olive oil makes a huge difference.

Legumes like lentils and chickpeas are also very filling, and you can easily make them into amazing curries with very little effort by slightly overcooking the lentils, pan toasting the chickpeas, mixing them together with some coconut milk and whatever spices go with your palate. I like to use curry leaves, garlic, cumin, thai green chiles, salt, and onion as a base. The fat from the coconut milk will nicely improve the texture of the lentils (which have too much protein and fiber relative to fat to have the right texture) and as it cooks down you'll get something akin to a coconut milk korma or a close enough approximation that you can take it from there and just have it with rice or blanched spinach.
Ask HN: Why does Keybase.io require karma 1?
Just created my hackernews account and went to prove my identity with Keybase.io and received this message:

> ATTENTION: HackerNews only publishes users to their API who have karma > 1.

Does anyone know why this is the case? I'm curious to how they see this proving into identity... Or is it purely an abuse mechanism?
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There's also a section of the website with additional materials that we've found help people learn reference capabilities:

https://www.ponylang.io/learn/#reference-capabilities

And John Mumm recently did an excellent intro talk on them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ponylang/comments/ckagfw/john_mumm_...
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