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https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/freight-transportation > While nearly three-quarters of the world’s cargo is carried by ocean-going ships, road vehicles like trucks and van…

They've also got a developer interface - https://developer.yr.no One of the things that I've seen with them that I haven't seen with others is the cloud cover by layer. htt…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818 (and the related links) would be the long form authoritative answer on that. There is a difference between discussing politics and politi…

As I write this, catb is not serving promptly... so https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html I also recommend Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in …

My read of it isn't about if it's legitimately debatable, but if it's productively discussable (in an online setting). Topics about someone's identity aren't things that one…

This essay also likely influenced the "what are things appropriate for HN": https://paulgraham.com/identity.html I finally realized today why politics and religion yie…

On ChatGPT... Personalization: Base style: Efficient Characteristics: Warm: less Enthusiastic: less Headers & Lists: default Emoji: less Custom: Not chat…

You do realize that they made an entire site for CodeGolf that is reasonably active (and has its own culture... and lead to the creation of specialized languages for it... and even pushed the bounds o…

> You get points for suggesting edits ... Up to 2000 points. When you get to 2000 points, your edits are no longer suggestions and you don't get any additional points for it. https:/&#x…

> ... With the smallest 0.2mm nozzle, will it reach resin levels? ... Necroprinting isn't about printing necrons. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953 …

Jeff was the author of https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-... and was more focused on quality than community - his vision was the library. Joel…

When I worked technical support in college I often worked nights and weekends (long uninterrupted times to work on homework or play games) ... there was a person who would call and ask non-computer qu…

Comments have less visibility in moderation. This has made them spam / link farming targets in the past. A lot of people come to Stack Overflow with the mindset that it is a forum to discuss som…

That would entail a significant redesign of the underlying display engine... and an agreement of that being the correct direction at the corporate level. Unfortunately, after Jeff left I don't th…

> Moderation should have been aimed squarely at making the site friendly, and community should be moderating the content entirely, for exactly the reasons you point out - mods aren’t the experts on…

What points do you get for moderation activity?

The site was a consensus of what Jeff and Joel and their associated blogging communities who started posting on Stack Overflow wanted. There was some tension between those two communities about what …

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange_20250930 > As of (and including) the 2025-06-30 data dump, Stack Exchange has started including watermarking/data poisoning in t…

> I remember one infamous user who would farm points by running your questions against some grammar / formatting script. You can only get at most 2000 rep from suggested edits. After you get 2…

I believe that this tension about what type of questions was baked into the very foundation of StackOverflow. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/09/15/stack-overflow-la…

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438828 (at the time of this comment, 199 comments there)…

It's not a bad habit ... it's a bit of a culture marker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c... and https://www.ebsco.com/resea…

To whom it may concern; Congratulations on your hiring for head of digital security for the inauguration of the mayor of New York City. The mayor elect has drawn scrutiny from right wing agitators and…

In the United States, that's known as constructive dismissal or discharge. https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/eta/warn/glossary.asp?p=constr... https://en.wi…

You can get the overall unemployment by demographic breakdown at https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm (this also gets into how do you count unemployment https:…

> People don’t realize how many man hours went into those early decisions. In my "trying to hunt down the earliest reference for the coefficients" I came across "Television standards…

This gets into "my French is rusty... and legal French is non-existent". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_(employment)_in_Fran... https://www.rippling…

To the "the grandfather of all luminance coefficients" ... https://www.earlytelevision.org/pdf/ntsc_signal_specificatio... from 1953. Page 5 has: Eq' = 0.41 …

> You're uninformed. France has that, and it doesn't result in excessive unemployment; in fact, the unemployment rates in France and in the US are practically the same, respectively 7.5% …

> A fun tangent on the "green cast" mentioned in the post: the reason the Bayer pattern is RGGB (50% green) isn't just about color balance, but spatial resolution. The human eye is m…