skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted, that is a different use case. I've seen tab hoarders fire up their browser, with the same 50 tabs open over and over again, and they usually only need one.

AFAIK, Firefox has countered this by only loading the tabs when you activate them after a cold start, so that's pretty much automated bookmarking.

I wouldn't know how to manage without bookmarks (well, yes, .url files actually, but that's another issue). I'm guessing I have a few hundred of them, and I find what I need easily, because you can organize them in folders.
It's almost like instead of outright banning all of these substances, there needs to be heavy research into them, with a goal of harm reduction.
Interesting pricing decision by AMD. Given their performance, and no other competition in x86 market besides Intel, surprised they chose to sell at such a steep discount.

Sometimes, such pricing decisions can perpetuate “you are a weaker substitute” perception.
How hard is it to get your account closed (not necessarily deleted) on those services that make it hard or impossible to delete your account?

I know it's not the same, but might be good enough for some purposes.

Perhaps if the service still doesn't close your account upon request, they may still do it due to terms-of-use violations or service abuse. (evil smirk)
Don’t Blame Economics, Blame Public Policy
In the present tense the problem of bigotry seems universal regardless of political affiliation. It is just the category of people who are discriminated against, that changes, depending on the offending party's preferences
9M730 Burevestnik, nuclear-powered cruise missile
It's an interesting idea, but wouldn't this be easy to abuse though, like Gmail could force Fastmail to do huge proofs of work before accepting their mail?
A med student on reddit was part of a research team on various strategies around WH. He said something in the lines of "cancer has a few layered tricks in its bag to stay alive even when starved, and these tricks make cancerous cells the last to die if you starve a population of healthy/sick cells"

Made me realize how odd cancer was.. how oddly efficient it is in its chaos.
update account set date_deleted = now() where account_id = 123
Create FreeBSD Current OpenStack Image on OVH Public Cloud
Why would a JSC on its own depend on the UI toolkit? Spidermonkey doesn't.
Me and my team are happy users of keycloak[0] running in a docker swarm, pretty nice so far anf very good documentation. Building your own authorization/authentication solution is really nice as you learn a lot, but there is a lot of work involved.
[0] https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak
I would argue that "slowing growth of cancer" (to a few of my friends with cancer) is a cure. As long as the trend continues until the cancer is gone. There is no cure that makes cancer disappear instantly. (surgery isn't a cure)

If you don't have anyone in your life fighting cancer, maybe you can't appreciate how "cure" and "slowing cancer" are synonymous to those in the middle of dealing with it.
That may be true, but I believe the information hackernews collects is still enough to be potentially personally identifiable. This makes we wonder if the inability to delete here might be at odds with GDPR compliance in the EU.
USSR also used the fact of racism in the US (principally racism toward black people) as a talking point on the evils of capitalism.

Simultaneously, USSR was enforcing its own brand of Russian nationalism in the outer republics. But the asymmetry in media freedom between East and West made this non-obvious as it was happening.
I applaud them for trying hard to make the operation as approachable as a lasik operation, but puncturing a hole through my skull, no matter how tiny the hole is, and sew some tiny threads to my white matter, is a no-no for me.

But then again, the thought of a laser cutting your cornea was probably incomprehensible too at its inception.
I have a small number of answers, and the most successful / least criticized ones were always on niche languages or topics. C/C++/Java? No chance. I corrected a wrong answer on a question in C++ once, which was immediately reverted with “nope, your answer is too different from the original, make a new answer”. Great, so now there’s an answer that is fundamentally wrong with 26 upvotes that apparently can’t be corrected because the correct version of the algorithm is too different from the original. I just stay away from answers in those languages now, they’re more effort than they are worth
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Zimbabwean telco is using Tesla powerwalls to keep base stations running
Not very exposed to Lisp style languages. So take this as you will.

But the actual clojure code looks weird? I get that its a different way of writing from the C like syntax, just that fro a quick glance it doesn't look very pleasant to read due to the how messy the brackets everywhere nature is.

I also feel like reasoning about CRUD problems is easier in a non functional way, but again no real experience with functional languages to say for sure.

EDIT: To illustrate with an example:
In C# I can write LINQ using the lambda syntax for queries, however sometimes its useful to be able to break down complex queries into parts, step through with a debugger to follow the logic, don't see how the functional style of Lisp aids in doing any of that (at least not when writing it idiomatically).
In PostgreSQL, as in life, don’t wait too long to commit (2015)
Day Trading for a Living?
The non-mainstream heath community has been talking about sugar reduction for about 25 years. Interesting that the mainstream isn't being called psuedo medicine.
If only Georges Simenon had been a bit more like Maigret
there's an inherent tradeoff between comfort/luxury on the street and track performance. every luxury feature adds weight, which compromises track performance. for the track, you want a stiff suspension and you want the car to be as low as possible to the ground. when you drive on the street, you probably don't want to feel the crashing impact of every pothole and you really don't want to worry about scraping the car (or even getting stuck) on speedbumps.

> But how does that work for Bugati, Ferrari, Lamborghini (and McLaren, Pagani, Koenigsegg)? Are the street cars (more or less) the same as the ones in races? Do they even race?

it's hard to give a simple answer to this question because the manufacturers you listed make a pretty wide range of cars. they try to hit a lot of different points on the luxury vs track performance, but they're all oriented much more towards repeatable track performance than a model s.

if by "race" you mean the local track, sure, all of these cars are going to perform very well. even the most luxury focused models are going to totally outclass my hot hatch and keep going for a lot longer. if you're talking about a serious race, no you cannot just show up with your street-legal ferrari and start racing. for one thing, safety regs for these races will usually be incompatible with local laws for street cars (eg, roll cages are illegal in many jurisdictions, but required for races), and you would want to strip out a lot more weight anyway (passenger seat, floormats, etc) to be competitive. you can get really close with certain homologated models though. I believe most of the manufacturers you listed participate in GT2/GT3, but I'm not familiar with the specific cars from every brand.

> And in conclusion, how accurate is the statement that (production models of) Ferrari, Bugatti, Lamborghini are focused on race track performance?

it's true that any car from any of those manufacturers is going to be much more focused on repeatable track performance than mass market hondas, VWs, etc. the extent to which comfort and practicality is compromised varies a lot between specific models.

I hope this answers your question. I'm certainly not an authoritative source, just an enthusiast.
I avoid SO too.

However, I didn't understand this:

[...]

There is no pass by reference, so I’m not sure where you got that. You’re simply passing the value, which is a copy and not going to change the original.

...is parading that they’re stupid and wrong, while beating your chest about how much smarter you are.

[...]

It sounds neutrally worded to me. Can somebody here point out what part of it is considered hostile and how it can be improved?
Interesting, I had no idea of this
Another US visa holder was denied entry over someone else’s messages
ATT&CK Techniques and Trends in Windows Malware
Nobody is saying that it's not a good habit to form. It would be better to advise to review your column lists and remove redundant columns. Firstly because schemas change, and then because yes, you might hit an index (especially if you know it's there, as you should) and get that speed-up as well.

My issue with this advice is that it enforces the idea that "less columns in select list" = "less data accessed" _in all cases_, which as we all agree is not true. Even more so if you have a relatively well designed database, with no crazy amount of views on views (or any for that matter), UDFs, huge columns with binary data, etc, etc.

PS: "...result of UDFs - they will be getting run per value per row..." -> not always.. Inline tvfs get expanded, so you should probably be quite careful with all other user defined functions in SQL Server anyway.
I get the desire for answers to be evaluated on their own merits, but here is an argument for the system staying the same as it currently is:

1. If you're asking for help on a topic, then--by definition-- you are in an information asymmetric situation. You don't know what the right answer is. There's a decent chance that you, as the asker of the question, are not in a position to evaluate the answer on its merits.

2. Therefore you have to choose the answer based on other factors. On SO you can do something like see if the proposed answer makes sense to you, and check if the answer produces the results you want. Those are pretty okay metrics. But, obviously, they aren't perfect. Whether it makes sense to you doesn't fully track the truth of the situation, and whether it works or not doesn't address whether it's a good idea for other reasons, like being grossly inefficient, or deprecated, or unmaintainable, or whatever. So there's a decent chance that you can't evaluate the answer on its own merits, AND that sensible heuristics will fail you because you don't know what you don't know about the full context of the question, and might choose a wrong answer as a result.

3. Therefore, an additional useful signal you can track is the reputation and apparent expertise of the person who is answering. Of course, exactly as you say, it's not a perfect metric. But I think it's a meaningful signal that is generally useful to consider. Eg. If Jon Skeet answers my C# question, I just have a strong prior that it's correct in a robust way.

It's an empirical question whether removing that signal would somehow improve the overall outcome (eg. removing that signal forces people use only use the heuristics that are based on the question itself instead of short circuiting that process in favor of an easier social signal).

But I would bet that the empirical test would show that including the reputation signal improves outcomes, on the general prior that more information is better than less information.

Edit: One thing that would change my bet: one feature of really high quality answers is that they are often long and made of parts, like they explain what to do, and what to avoid, and have details about why that is. You could track the length and detail of an answer as one of your heuristics for choosing a correct answer. If it turned out that people who have the correct answer were more likely to write answers with that sort of detail if their identity was hidden, AND it turned out that people use that sort of detail to decide if an answer were correct or not, then I could imagine better answers existing on the site overall, and those answers being more consistently upvoted.
Interesting, having ingested mushrooms some 30 or 40 times (at least, but whose counting) I've rarely experienced the vivid hallucinations the author describes. Even when having ingested up to five grams. I wonder if being in darkness, as the author was, aids in this. Perhaps with no other visual stimuli, the mind and the mushrooms can really take hold.

I'll have to try this sometime.
Juniper Networks gives SEC $12m for bribery charges but says everything's fine
As another sample of the same size, my mom's house has a Miele dishwasher we've installed in 1997 or so. I occasionally take spray arms off and clean them, and it hasn't had any problems ever. Same for a Miele vacuum of the same age.

Maybe they did go downhill since then, but a Miele dishwasher I had installed in one of the apartments I lived at in 2008 or so also still going strong, as far as I know.
You lost 22kg in exactly 2 months doing this?
> It's weird that repairability (either right to repair, or simply technical feasibility) has been a huge topic for at least 10 years in cars, mobile phones, home appliances, etc. And yet i haven't seen any end-user product really advertising it.

99% of people don’t want to repair their appliances. They either “don’t want it to break”, or want it to be repaired by someone else.

A product labeled “commercial grade! 10 year warranty!” will always massively outsell a product labeled “user serviceable! Schematics included!”
I think we have to figure out the appropriate punishment for countries that enslave, torture, and murder people before we can figure out that. If we can’t even stop North Korea, what hope do we have of forcing other countries to have due process at border crossings?

Why do you ask?
Although it's advertisement for Twistlock, the problem is real and admittedly something I have ignored so far and will have to take into consideration in the future.
I remember posting an answer to a CGI question with some grody, idiomatic solution, and getting scolded/downvoted by a high-rep dev (who montiored the subject tags) who responded with... a solution that didin't work! When the original asker responded, they directed them to file a bug.

That contempt and disregard for the actual day-to-day tediousness of writing commercial code is an attitude I can do without.

Also: https://imgur.com/C22vPFV
You and the reply below have BOTH deleted questions from SO because of social overhead. That's a surprising outcome that's never occurred to me. I can imagine that many interesting questions have disappeared this way.
>And the obsolescence, things are moving so fast in JavaScript, Android, even in QT, Clojure etc, many answers including accepted ones are obsolete, and misleading.

This is the absolute worst aspect of the site to me. Some answers are version specific, some stop working overnight one day, some used to be good practice in 2011 and still work but really aren't any more and there is no sane mechanism for stack overflow to handle any of these things.

This is quite apart from the multitude of answers which are voted to the top which are wrong, only partially right or bad answers.
Same here, I’ve been a reader for 10 years or however long, but their rules were too difficult for me to follow in order to vote. I had to visit every day and do menial, non-useful things just to be able to vote or answer. This didn’t work for me because SO wasn’t something I typically visited every day. So I just couldn’t get into the habit of being enough of a user to browse and vote so it was a vicious cycle of apathy.

I appreciate SO and use it many times a year. I remember the world before SO (experts exchange was very bad), so I’m happy it exists. And it’s obviously getting along without my comments and moderation.

I always wished it would pair well with something like HN so the reputation effect from a daily activity would carry over to an infrequent activity.

I also really respected Joel Spoelsky so didn’t really have a constructive criticism as the site worked pretty well.
Agreed. However, that's not a just martini glass, that's a martini. Maybe they are teaching kids about olives? :)
> Read God Emperor of Dune. This one stands alone. Lots of people hate it. Whether you like it or not, don't stop.

Here is the plot of God Emperor of Dune: <SPOILER> sits on their butt all day and discusses politics. Oh, there's a sort of assassination plot happening on the side, but let's not let that distract us from hearing political ruminations!

As for (some of) the Dune books whose position in canon is of some dispute:

... I can't recall anything that happened in Dune 7. Surprisingly forgettable. Then again, I don't remember a lot of Heretics or Chapterhouse in the first place.

The pre-prequels are set during the events of the Butlerian Jihad and suffer horribly from the sin of feeling the need to explain the genesis of every single important piece of lore in the series. Be amazed as every important event in the universe happened within a hundred years of each other, no matter how unrelated they are to one another.
This isn't a lifestyle brand like whiskey or hand bags, CPU performance, power consumption and system price are all fairly easy to quantify.
I wouldn't call LSD a "hard psychedelic". Potent, maybe, but not "hard".

If anything, a more dissociative substance such as salvia would be more along what I'd call a "hard" one. Or perhaps 5-MeO-DMT.
The way forward isn't a global website like SO, it's niche forums from people you get to know in a weekly basis.

For elixir we have a public forum specific to Elixir.

For crystal, there's a crystal forum as well.

For react, I'm still looking for one that's good.
Usually this is done by sending an nonce that must be sent back with the request to delete the account. The attacking site won't have the nonce, so it cannot delete the account.

Currently, you can also get a similar protection by requiring headers such as "Content-Type: application/json", since other sites will not be able to make that request.

Referer does work in some cases, but it is fairly common for users to disable the Referer, so relying on it for site functionality is not ideal.
Ask HN: AWS Problems Anyone?
N. Virginia doesn't seem to be in the best of shape today...
https://lobste.rs has downvote explanations[1]: when you want to vote a post/comment down, you're required to state why (pick from a list). Since the user can see why they're downvoted, misuse hardly an issue.

I think such a system could work for stackoverflow too: provide reasons like [off-topic, hostile, spam, ...], but don't provide others ([stupid-question, too-easy, ...]).

[1]: https://lobste.rs/about#downvotes
It's fascinating to see a white or black person make it big in an Asian country; in the startup sense, does this mean their ethnic and skin color became their USP and advantage? The same thing I've seen happen when a black or white person show up in talk shows in S. Korea, Japan, and China. Oh, let's not forget Jonny Olsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm7k2PUGzI =)

The saying goes, you're only limited by your thinking 〰️ think big!
That's apparently the intended design; SO bills itself as "questions and correct answers", but they've made it clear in the Meta site or in blog posts, I don't remember where, that the accepted answer and upvotes are not "this is correct" but "people found this helpful", and people can find "wrong" answers helpful, so they stay.

The intended outcome here is that you post your own answer, and leave a comment on the most upvoted one summarising your concern with it.

And that readers don't just pick the most upvoted one, (even though it's obviously the site's design that they should be able to do that).
Not that I know much about fasting, but by fasting you mean you skip breakfast, eat healthy and that's it? That sounds like a lot lower hanging fruit than I thought it'd be, thanks!
Yes, 100%! No word of a lie.
I'm building an AI that reads privacy policies for you
lol what neurologist is taking shifts in the ER. last hospital visit I had I was extremely grateful to get a consult from a plastic surgeon (who was not a cosmetic surgeon)
Food, sex, and drugs are very ancient human commodities. Money is often thrown in the mix to simplify things.
It's a feature up to a point, but it also introduces the problem of "compound reputation", where comments by those who have previously been heavily upvoted tend to attract upvotes regardless of merit. In particular, they tend to attract upvotes more than other comments by people who haven't yet established the same level of reputation on that forum, even if the latter comments are actually more helpful in that particular discussion.

I'm not aware of any discussion forum that has yet come up with an effective way to balance those competing effects. I suspect it would need a more complicated moderation/voting system that grades a comment on multiple scales independently, with credibility/correctness being one of them. But then you have a new problem of how to keep the system manageable so that users can still operate it with negligible effort and without the scoring system becoming confusing and more trouble than it's worth.
I find the described phenomena not only apply to SO but also to other internet forums, sometimes even to real life (e.g. work place) situations

There is no “quality control” in downvoting a question to double-digits. The simple truth is that you’re just being a gigantic twat if you keep piling on votes like that.

Not sure if there's an official name for this phenomenon in psychology but whenever it becomes "safe" to bash on someone or someone's opinion you can bet that more people are going to do it, even though the "marginal utiliy" diminishes very quickly.

I think it's a variation of deriving some kind of satisfaction by "pushing yourself up by pushing others down". Personally, when I see people do this I know it's someone I definitely do not want to hang out or be friends with.