skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would probably benefit everyone to take some psychedelics a couple times a year if this is true. Reboot some of your assumptions.

I’ll bet there is also some natural variation in how strong the two networks are too- I have always felt that I’m rather more open to new ideas than most people. That’s just an impression though. I feel as though people are frustratingly reluctant to see the world clearly instead of imposing their worldview on it, which was probably acquired before they turned ten years old. So when you talk to people about their religion or their ideological beliefs, you often get the impression that you are suddenly talking to a child.

Anyway, there are probably advantages and disadvantages to both having weak priors and strong priors- weak priors make your thinking very flexible and clever, but slow you down a lot since you are constantly thinking about the new information available. You can’t make quick judgments because you’re always questioning things. Strong priors make you able to make very fast decisions, but over time your beliefs get more and more out of sync with reality.

If I had to guess that also potentially maps onto left wing/right wing. But I would say that in absolute terms even the most open minded of us are probably very biased in the direction of strong priors.
Exactly. Atwood's post says "Unfortunately, we don't have a good designated place for deleted "too fun" questions to live, but all Stack Exchange content is licensed under Creative Commons in perpetuity. Which means, with proper attribution, we can give it a permanent home on our own blogs.

And he does link each term to the StackOverflow user who posted it.
True, but the principle is the same. Avoid apriori votes based on reflexes.
This has been my experience recently as well, specially with fast-moving JS frameworks and libraries.
> Millions of whites visit Malaysia as tourists but they don't become celebrities.

You've misunderstood the point. Here's a simple proof. A Western black person speaking Malay fluently would not get the attention or celebrity that Mat gets. That proves that it is about worshipping white skin.
It's about what Space Guild uses melange for.
Fasting doesn't make you hungry all the time. After a short while the hunger just kind of goes away.
I shop at the other DC area MicroCenter, in Rockville, and have had similar positive experiences. It's the closest thing I know of to the Fry's shopping experiences I had in the late 90s when I lived in the SF Bay Area. The biggest difference between the Rockville MicroCenter and the Fairfax one is that Rockville has more stuff locked up for theft control.
With respect, who actually feels at home with SQL?

It's about the most alien and obtuse language I've ever had the misfortune of encountering, and in that category I rate it worse than COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembly, C, Prolog, Sendmail re-write rules, BASH, and every other language I've ever encountered and had to use, but which I cannot recall at the moment.
Race cars don’t launch at idle. If you’re racing cars that are idling when the light turns green, then you aren’t racing their engines. You’re racing the driver’s disinterested reaction time.

The Veyron might weight 20x as much as you and your bike, but has over 300x the power output of the best sprinters in the world.

Given equal reaction time and equal interest in racing, I am doubtful your cycling advantage would last for more than inches against a high end sports car.
There is no such thing as "just not connect with them". Once it gets an address, LI will hound you and them, trying to convince them to signup and connect (they even lost a lawsuit over this), and then they'll leak the contacts for every other criminal to abuse them.

Yeah, I'll manually add a few people to avoid imposing that on myself and others.
The progress in nutrition is very encouraging.

30 years ago, when I brought up concerns about nutrition, my doctors dismissed such questions out of hand. Like I was advocating homeopathy or something. Much has changed since then. FHCRC (& SCCA) now includes diet and nutrition as part of their LTFU care plans.

Calorie restriction and eliminating HFCS seem now seem like slam dunks to me, even if we don't yet have the science to substantiate these strategies. Even if fructose isn't linked to cancer, I feel better without it. (Sadly, anything touching on diet still triggers some people.)

My latest self experimentation is soluble fiber. (Beans, lentils, wild rices, oatmeal, seeds. It all goes into the Instapot.)

Definitely has improved my gut (which has been touchy since the chemo). We'll see in a few months if it helps lower my high LDL.

Edit: Oops. Pre coffee. Changed glucose (good) to fructose (bad). Also, witness insta downvote. Someone out there is personally offended by my rejection of HFCS.
On StackOverflow, a decent amount of site reputation is required before one can down-vote.
I found the answer by reading all the way to page 2 of the article: 24-60 hours.
Spending money to make things break isn’t free either.
As per this meta question [0], the one you've linked to doesn't appear worthy of downvotes. However, when I was active on the site, it appeared that (some) users active in a tag tend to downvote questions when they didn't have an answer to it.

That said, the reputation model also encourages low quality answers [1].

Overall, I found the site to be somewhat toxic and stopped visiting it several years back.

[0] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252677/when-is-it-j...

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in...
To continue your analogy. Your mate from the pub can also be a trained surgeon. Just because they are in a pub, drinking cheap beer, and don’t have a surgeon badge/uniform with them doesn’t mean that their answer is less valid.
Not even super new games, but games like Deus Ex Mankind Divided and No Mans Sky have better frame rates on my buddy's Ryzen 2 machine with otherwise identical specs than my i5 3450.

The first game where I saw the difference was Battlefield 1.
The article explains that fasting is often prohibited by malnutrition and low body weight. Obviously fasting cannot be undertaken long-term, as it results in starvation. I wonder whether there is any benefit to caloric restriction / fasting, versus maintenance calorie intake with a ketogenic diet. The crucial thing seems to be the elimination of insulin promoting carbohydrate, and depletion of glycogen which forces metabolism into ketogenesis, reduces growth factors, and promotes catabolism and autophagy.
I know there are certain countries/religions (Turkey comes to mind) where fasting is practiced...sometimes to the extreme. Did anyone thought of doing a research for cancer numbers in those countries vs others?
This author should avoid Reddit at all costs. I got time -40 karma for saying I personally didn't care about screen refresh rates this week.

Also as a stack overflow mod my group doesn't have such issues. Nor have I experienced these issues. Worst I've had was a few extremely technical questions require a bounty the get an answer. However my group spends a lot of time helping new users. The ones on the main group might have issues as there are more posts and less mods.
How about having some sympathy for this man’s many victims and the people he would have preyed on in the future? While a life sentence without parole sounds excessive, he will never again rob or burgle or otherwise prey on the citizens of that otherwise civilized country. The only reason to permit the state monopoly on violence is because the state in turn keeps the peace. That includes protecting its citizens from robbery and burglary.
By "stealing" I refer to the removal of the original content from the main site, not to the copy itself.
This is why I didn't write "all". I saw it working in Switzerland myself.
There's "Stack Overflow isn't very welcoming" blog post on stackoverflow.blog from Apr 2018, so they at least did notice.
You also lose 1 reputation for down-voting which helps prevent people from getting too trigger happy
Windows 10 passes 50% market share, Windows 7 falls to 30%
How to configure a network dump in FreeBSD? – oshogbo//vx
1 rep doesn't matter at all for high-rank people, the rep loss should be based on total rep.
This is kinda unrelated (it involved a line frequency slowdown from 60 Hz to 51 Hz), but I always found this radio recording of the US northeast blackout of 1965[0] fascinating as the DJ is grappling with records/tape cartridges slowing down and lights dimming live on the air https://www.musicradio77.com/images/ing11-9-65blackout.mp3

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965#Rad...
I feel like HN is turning a bit in this direction too. I feel like I’m seeing more downvoted comments, and they are more often than not perfectly good comments, and no one replies explaining why they don’t like the comment. Of course you can’t talk about it because it’s against the rules.
I feel the same way. I tried a couple times to contribute but found it too demoralizing.
The Science of Elevators
I have to say, last time I had a phone break, the first thing I dug out was my watch. You really notice a distinct lack of visible clocks these days when your phone dies and you don't have a watch and people these days seem to look at you like there's something wrong with you if you ask them the time.
This insight terrifies me along with my complacency at work and my memories of being frustrated as a green new hire at the way things were done inefficiently at a snail's pace in the enterprise world.

Startups allowed me to extend myself and tap back into that motivation and drive from my younger years to try new things and push myself to learn faster.
I've found the only way to maintain a nice, helpful community is to be liberal with the ban hammer. If you are early and consistent with it, you don't have to use it that often. But people in general fear conflict, fear taking a position of authority, and exercising that authority.

I have a weekend Meetup that I have been running for 5 years. I've had to ban three people. The first two were three years ago, after a spat of incidents. The last one was a month ago, and it was an easy and quick decision with little impact on the group. The activity in the group now conveys what sort of behavior is acceptable, so it takes a real, honest to goodness troll before we get any trouble.

Being nice is a component of the quality of a community. If "quality" is so important to defend, being nice is important to defend.
I was a heavy SO user before some years however I have stopped posting questions nowadays (mainly because of the reasons presented in the article) and I find answering too time consuming.

What I've found really helpful when I need to learn a new language / paradigm is to use IRC (freenode). I more or less learned Kotlin and Elixir just by reading some online articles and asking things on the corresponding IRC channels. The people there are helpful and the most important thing is that asking a question will start a discussion about being idiomatic, other ways to solve a problem etc, things that are not possible in a Q/A site like SO.

Also I had asked some very difficult questions about mysql and postgresql in the corresponding channels (that I expected to get no answer) and they were answered almost immediately.

I urge you to try it: No walled gardens, no people selling/advertising through your data, no point system, complete freedom to ask (and answer) whatever you wish.
Agreed. Similar experience. Asked a question about architecture and dependency injection in .net. it was immediately removed as irrelavant because .net is better than Java.

Posted a week later with a friend's account and it stayed but my friend panicked at loss of points and inability to do their job without them and removed it themselves (tho gave me answers firtst).
Any context for this quote ? Google didn't find anything behind people using it in their email signature.
I think that the fundamental problem with the downvote, pretty much anywhere that has it, is that it's physically structured as being the inverse of an upvote, and then there are some community guidelines saying, "This isn't actually the inverse, it has some additional semantics associated with it."

In SO's specific case, the problem it's ostensibly trying to solve is indicating that the question, as asked, needs work, or should have been asked elsewhere. But there's nothing in the mechanism to ensure that it's solving that problem. So, where what they needed was a constructive feedback mechanism, what they built was a ruler for whacking knuckles.

I think that SO would be greatly improved if they simply took away the downvote, and replaced it with a more structured mechanism for giving the question asker feedback on how to improve their question. It would make the place more friendly, and it would replace a mechanism for brusquely chasing newcomers away with a mechanism for teaching them the community guidelines in a positive way.
Yep, the time dimension is seriously overlooked by people flagging questions closed. IMO the duplicate close reason shouldn't accept questions older than a year.
My experience was the nausea was far worse than any hunger. It didn't help that at the time I was encouraged to eat. I intentionally chose foods I didn't like so that I wouldn't associate favorite foods with nausea in the future. In retrospect I would have appreciated the option not to eat.
> If you're using a public form

If you don't understand how comparisons work, you have a bigger problem to worry about.

> put it this way

The question then becomes... the 26 year veteran surgeon does boob jobs and tummy tucks. The 5 year veteran does emergency room and brain surgery.

Given how complicated something as simple as "surgery" is... how do you plan on registering and ranking something with multiple levels of "experience" for "easy" viewing by users who want to ask questions?

New to site, surgeon, decades of experience, plastic surgery

Been on site, surgeon, years of experience, "real" surgeon
And Bill Gates wrote the first code of the FAT system during a 5-day stay in a Albuquerque Hilton hotel.
Can you give an example of one that works poorly with zoom? Like I said literally all of the browsing I've done in the last couple of years on my work PC has been with 200% zoom and I've never noticed a site be broken/different to my 100% setup.

I suppose if you have e.g. a 720p screen and do 200% zoom you might run into some problems but that's got little to do with zoom and more to do with the lack of space on your screen to put content anymore.
Marked as answered is a fundamentally horrible idea and that feature should be removed. The problem is that the person asking the question isn't capable of determining a correct answer. Far, far to often they pick something that appears to solve their problem but actually is a terrible idea.
Iran warns it will take 'stronger step' if Europe doesn't act
Fry: Usually on the show, they came up with a complicated plan, then explained it with a simple analogy.

Leela: Hmmm... If we can re-route engine power through the primary weapons and configure them to Melllvar's frequency, that should overload his electro-quantum structure.

Bender: Like putting too much air in a balloon!

Fry: Of course! It's all so simple!
This reminds me of a misconception a lot of people seem to have about Markdown.

It's not "wrong" to present it to readers verbatim (i.e. not rendered to HTML), since Markdown is a codification of existing plaintext conventions, and was designed to look good verbatim. In other words, though it is often used for, it is not solely a vehicle for generating HTML.
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> What I've found really helpful when I need to learn a new language / paradigm is to use IRC (freenode).

Absolutely, for example my experience with PostgreSQL people there has been amazing.
Here is my proposal for removing downvotes but people do not like it: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252338/downvote-sys...
Minus blog post I came to a similar conclusion; asking on StackOverflow is a waste of time. I asked a question about how to do X - which turned out wasn't possible or I misunderstood how the system worked, and rather get an answer, I was told to reformulate the question or have it closed. Then eventually I was told in the comments of the question that this question doesn't make much sense. It was still a valid question, deserved a simple response, at least to add to the knowledge base.

Whatever, SO is a waste of time.
> all Stack Exchange content is licensed under Creative Commons in perpetuity. Which means, with proper attribution, we can give it a permanent home on our own blogs.

But can we, in practice? Where can I find all the answers to that question, including the comments?
And here's Levine's comments FYI
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=spamvictim
I had a wake-up call when my Doctor said my Body Mass Index (BMI) was 29.7 (obese is 30). So I made a total lifestyle change to a 16/8 intermittent fast (16 hours water only, 8-hour feeding window), and a plant-based diet (basically vegan plus a fish once a week for Omegas).

It was life-changing. I lost 22kg in two months, with no exercise. I am now back to a healthy BMI, but I no longer use BMI as a measure, I use the Relative Fat Mass Index (RFM) because my research indicates that this is a more accurate measure for tall people (I'm 6'3").

Besides looking great after shedding all that weight, I never expected the mental benefits to be so pronounced. Indeed it is fair to say it has had a nootropic effect. I no longer 'need' coffee, and the persistent brain fog has lifted and my default state is calm mental clarity.

Of course, I can only speak from my own personal experience here... I haven't done extensive blood tests pre and post this lifestyle change, but the change has been so shocking that friends and family cannot believe it.

You might think going 16 hours with no food is going to be hard but if you get the timings right, it's easy (and you get used to it). I start my fast at 8 pm, and I break the fast at noon. This way I can have business lunches and early-ish business dinners (as long as I finish eating by 8 pm). Most restaurants cater for vegans or at least have a vegetarian option. If not, I go for a fish option.

When I break the fast I do it with an avocado/cucumber/kale/spinach smoothie which blasts my body with super nutrients. I avoid all processed carbs (no bread or pasta), I avoid all processed sugar (no cola or any refined sugar products), I avoid all dairy, and of course, avoid meat. Also, there is no calorie reduction... I eat as much as I like in my 8-hour feeding window (which controls Ghrelin and therefore doesn't mess up my metabolism).

Always consult a medical professional before you do any drastic changes like what I've done, and do your own research on this stuff so you have the confidence that it's the right choice for you, and that you'll stick with it.
These two individuals are quite knowledgeable programmers, so I'm inclined to agree with them.

They're both extremely knowledgeable, but neither of them can work with other people, so their forks seem motivated by the desire to do what they want without question, rather than any purely technical concerns.
Malicious websites were used to secretly hack into iPhones for years
At this point I just ask a question, get an answer, and if I don't like the commentary, I just delete it. I post there under my real name, which means I either have to address or accept dumb/nit-picking criticism, which is a no-win situation.

If the person who answers actually needs the points, I'll give that some consideration, but it seems like a lot of the time the solution is offered in the comments anyway. I don't know why that is.

Every once in a while I'll swoop in on a basic question and try to answer it before anyone else notices.
I think checking referrers is the normal way to solve this. As long as your site doesn't have XSS vulnerabilities on other pages, I think you're fine, but I'm not an expert though.

EDIT: Nonces are better, ignore this reply.
both sides lied and both sides relied heavily on foreign influence

I agree, of course, that the handling of the issue by May was a disaster, and Johnson is even worse
Stack Overflow started going downhill when they stopped allowing "fun" questions. used to be that I'd go there, ask a question and browse through the questions, seeing which I could answer and also fun ones I could just read for interest and pick up sometimes useful sometimes not bits of information which would lead to other topics and so on. Since then it's just a constant stream of "noob" questions with basically no answers. There's nothing wrong with "noob" questions, the questions I've asked on there are pretty much all "noob" questions as I was first learning about programming. The problem is only having those types of questions and nothing to attract people capable of answering to the site.
Given that the federal government has consistently grabbed more power than our founding documents actually gave them, forgive me for not really giving a shit what the federal government's opinion is.
Impressive, direct, and clear enough is the FP book you cited I will likely give OCaml a go again, not just AsciiDoc, thanks!
Now that I have a few hundred reputation points the site is much more usable, but the privilege system drove me crazy for a while. If you are an expert in something, you cannot even comment (50 pts) to explain why an answer is wrong. And there are editing minimums so fixing bugs in broken code can be tedious sometimes.
That's pretty paranoid if you're already trusting the source or binary. Have you previously ensured that same source acts non-maliciously on all malicious inputs and runs on secure OS? (Sources of most attacks.)
I don't actually recall any other screensaver that people would invoke on purpose and then actively watch for great lengths of time. Every time he did something new made you want to watch just that little bit longer.

JC was significantly more entertaining than the aquarium animations and the ubiquitous flying toasters.
It just turns into a "ACTUALLY!" contest, of who can pee higher. No matter how right you are, some guy will link a blog post detailing why in some obscure scenario that might not be valid, and proceed to downvote your obviously wrong answer.
>If you try to cancel your Prime Membership, they make it sound as if you lose all benefits right away

This method of obfuscation is also prevalent on most music services I have subscribed to ie. Spotify, Deezer, Tidal et al., which also make it harder to access the option to cancel in the first place. If you use PayPal for the afore-mentioned services, an entry for recurring charges also gets placed on the account and once you cancel, it sits there dormant. Although, it can be marked as inactive manually, however, the process is not intuitive and hidden away in settings, where direct debits are labelled as pre-approved payments.
Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K at megabar pressures (2018)
I just started using it and I love it. Simple, easy to configure, and it just works.
La Lévitation Quantique – Julien Bobroff, à L'USI
The text says 24-60 hours, but then in the table where they talk about the other studies being considered, a lot of them did 48 hour minimum and as much as 96 hours for some. When I saw the headline I was excited because a 16-18 hour fast really isn't very hard for most people, but 48 hours sounds a little rough. I guess if it's just a one-off event while you're doing chemo it's not that bad, but I'm not about to fast 48 hours once a week for the rest of my life.