skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harvard doesn't need to game the rankings because Harvard grads own the friggin' board. The rankings will fall in line accordingly.
I think decriminalizing drugs and offering extensive health care as a basic human right sounds like a better choice. I don't see Walmart execs going to jail when people conduct drug exchanges in Walmart parking lots.
This is a fair point. To Wikipedia's credit, I think it's adequately addressed in the article I linked.

I think a more general statement could be made. It's nearly useless to make comparisons between countries. The United States cannot adopt Swedish policies and expect to achieve Swedish outcomes. I'd much prefer we discuss policies for our countries in our own contexts rather than introducing comparisons between them.

The parent comment introduced a comparison, though. So, I think it's only fair to introduce some form of statistics.

Thanks for providing a more founded empirical interpretation of the facts! It seems Sweden has some edge on the USA, but the original claim (that it's almost impossible to be homeless in Sweden) still seems as unfounded as I expected.

As another commentator noted, I think climate is something to consider. I expect that you'll find higher concentrations of shelter-less people in more temperate (or at least warm) places. Cultures will evolve to prevent people from needlessly dying, but we aren't inclined to give more than the bare minimum.
Yes seems to be just an abstract. There's also the weird sentence that the article was accepted by Gustavo Manso, so does that mean he was the reviewer? Was there only one?...
No, if mullosk was serious they should've started with Moon colonization.

Worst case: It's a huckster distraction while the public gets robbed.

Best case: He's an idiot huckster taking the public and his cultists for a spin.

Initially we were excited about the SpaceX plan but now it's revealed to be largely a sham. Human interest is apparently not the end-game.
I'm not sure what part of these statistics you're commenting on in particular. If you're amazed at how much experience the average open source developer has, it's worth pointing out that there's a lot of open source software development that is directly sponsored by enterprise-scale companies that use the software itself. E.g. companies that both use, and contribute to the Linux kernel such as Google, and Facebook. Another good example is Netflix and FreeBSD. Also relevant are processor manufacturers who contribute code relevant to their IP to GCC. It's really awesome seeing companies be good stewards of OSS.
351JRZ. Look at the frequency columnwise.
I get it.

I'm not into the "Throw it all away trend. That whole minimalism trend the wealthy can experiment with.", but when it comes to paying for a mini-storage (I'm just assuming); it's a win, win.

I worked at two mini-storages whilein college on the weekends.

I learned men and women valued different possessions.

In 99% of the cases, the rent/fees did not add up, but we like our stuff. I get it.

Once a month, an angry customer would empty their unit into a dumptster. The owner had signs up about dumping, but I wasen't paid enough to deal with the person who was at their last bit of hope, and decided Saturday was the day to finally dump it all. One out of 50 customers finally realized that junk they were hanging onto was not worth it.

I did talk one guy out of getting rid of his first edition books though. I was watching him throw away case after case of books into the dumptster. I was sweeping near the dumptster. The first book I picked out of the trash, was a signed book by Hemingway. I knew he wasen't crazy, but he was angry with life.

There was a part of me that just wanted him to leave, and my broke ass could make some good money selling the books.

I decided to tell him forcefully that he was being rash. He took his books out of the trash, and put them back in his unit.

I left the job a few weeks later. Always wondered how his life turned out.

(If you ever have to use a mini-storage: 1. Prorate the rent to the 1 day of the month. Mini-storage owners love late fees. Pick a mini-storage with cameras. People steal, even the mini-storage owners. If renting on the top floor, and the owner only used chicken wire to enclose the ceiling of the unit; you are taking a risk. It's easy to get into your unit. Realize the hardest part of storage is moving your crap in. Most people leave their belongings in way to long. The mini-storage owners know this, and that's why you see ploys like 1st month free bs. I've always felt the government should provide all homeless individuals with free lockers. I saw so many people trying to live out of their car whike renting a unit. I only was one guy who succeed year, after year. My Mini-storage rant is over.)
> It's unbelievably easy to get a job right now, especially if you're in tech.

It's not true, at least not universally. I have plenty of examples when very competent people, no less than seniors, spend months - in today's market conditions. A big chunk of the reason is this - you're laid off, so something is wrong, and often it takes time to get to interview - so you're without job, and you're offered inferior salary, and the time isn't on your side. Many people don't specialize in searching for work, they specialize in e.g. software.
Lol.. Windows desktop runs a lot more than explorer.exe.
It offers a free trial so you can try it for yourself. It's very easy to use and to setup.

My impression is that most developers will find it useful as a better code completion and even code documentation tool. Of course, it doesn't replace actually reading and writing code but just writes the boilerplate to speed things-up.

Some people don't like it because it makes the actual coding part faster and so they probably feel threatened in some way but the actual coding is actually not the most important part of a software engineer's job (design is the more important part) and as Copilot shows can be automated in a sense already.
I was not clear then. I was basically taking exception to the comment above that seemed to grip about the lack of walkability of suburban and rural communities and how they were not optimal communities. Some folks just don’t want urban (I don’t). Some folks want suburban (I do) and some folks want rural (not for me).

Suburban tends to be not generally walkable because grocery and retail tend to be on the outskirts and not city center. My comment about big box stores was meant to basically convey that they are not walkable or bicycle friendly because folks in suburban environments don’t want those giant stores that near their homes, but they don’t mind and actually prefer them to be 5-10 by car.

Some neighborhood developers drop quasi downtown main streets now with a few restaurants, boutique shops,etc…but these are not designed to sustain the community around it, but more as a neighborhood perk. Generally are nice enough that nearby homes are not devalued by close proximity the way a large retail or grocery store might be.
“Uber denies its lobbying was secret and the ministers insist rules were followed, the BBC said”

There is no actual story yet

(And this website is an ad crapfest)
Exactly this drives a lot, for larger terminations they may even script or pre tape things to insure as little said as possible
When Giving People Money Doesn't Help
If you get to the point where you are choosing between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, you may as well choose based on the color of the curtains in your dormitory because it really isn't going to matter.
I use Sway and it definitely is a lot faster than Gnome or KDE. KDE is more of an ecosystem though. Installing any package on Arch that has some dependency on KDE wants to pull in a bunch of large dependencies.
Ive had six egg scrambles for breakfast many times. I then can eat a lunch at a reasonable time very easily. Most of this food stuff is in everyone's head. I think everyone should try a 3 day fast once in their life to see what it all feels like and realize nothing bad will happen. If anything it quickly makes you realize why people stress eat. Being actually pretty hungry feels a lot like anxiety to me.
US tourist injured falling into Mount Vesuvius crater after taking selfie
dave doesn’t extract the most capital or something like that
No, it's not, this is called the lump of labor fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Where to begin...

First off, saying "the average person would do X" is a hypothetical. It doesn't mean they're in that situation: "If given choice between modifying car and paying money, will pay money"

Second, the article is about BMW, so even if you missed that it'd still be pretty easy to infer an average person amongst their customers...

Third, what's with the weird dig against people for owning BMWs. Different people can want different things... and there's a reason Toyota's halo sports car is rolling around with a BMW powerplant.

Fourth, Toyota started this is 5 years ago by paywalling remote start not just with the app, but with your normal physical key fob: https://ktvo.com/news/auto-matters/costs-associated-with-ent...

They even doubled down and removed the physical button on newer models!: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/toyota-remote-start-digit...
What It Takes to Be a Successful Independent Blog Writer: Numbers and Tactics
"The Pepsi ratio is aesthetic geometry" could indeed be lifted from the writings of Earth's Wisest Human.
Hehe. That said this does make me wonder if I shouldn’t just record a few long 4K 60fps video walking through our apartment opening cupboards and drawers and quickly scanning everything as a low effort catalog
You seem to be also missing the point of these lottery retailers being disproportionately clustered in the poor Black neighborhoods. The "math problem" also involves pushing the distribution of the "vice" off on them (where such people are more desperate to escape their circumstances), then negating any overall or possible benefit to those poor Blacks that don't have such a vice (like kids) and need greater educational funding and opportunities.
Please don't go "harsh and critical" or cross into personal attack. We're going for the opposite here: thoughtful, respectful, and above all curious conversation across differences.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
“It feels awful that my last interaction with the company had this carelessness and lack of empathy.“

For regulatory / compliance reasons they may have been told to avoid discussions with you or direct you to HR.
I don't know if you are from US or not, but the stuff over there cannot hold a candle to what happens in the US. I'm not saying it's totally meritocratic, but compared to US system, it is WILDLY more so for high performers.
One of the main reasons I've switched from a Mediterranean type diet (lost about 20 lbs there) to low carb was sort of about this as well. When I eat bread and other flour based things my energy through the day is much more variable. Low carb seems to give me a much steadier supply of energy through the day after I got over that initial two week hump where your body adjusts to a new way of eating.
Not sure I understand the point you are making. That everyone should be able to cheat the immigration system?
Well presumably because it doesn't really matter. The type of org that will do that is the type of org where employees are a widget, to be added, replaced or removed as required for the machine to operate. Anyone comfortable with working in such a situation must acknowledge that the org does not care about their feelings, why would that suddenly change during the termination process?
What's crazier is that A is also a possible answer, if the wall is 2' tall. But C and D aren't possible unless the wall is {4,5} + 16/21' tall. The fraction is 9.143" in case anyone is wondering. But the answer is completely ambiguous. What balcony wall is 1-2' tall?! That's a safety violation!
Word-of-mouth, popularity, familiarity and availability are the biggest factors for using some products; and of course how well it works. A lot of times products find us. I usually start using an app or product, until I find something that is better.

OP has a long list of very specific list requirements. When I have specific requirements, it is usually about ingredients in food items, or things like 100% cotton shirts; and it is rather a short list. How do I find them -- it is usually hard.
I feel like I've learned an excellent life hack. Thanks!
I sense ambiguity in the sentence: "a CD did not work in the CD player, so he took the CD out and smashed it in to pieces"

Did he smash the CD or the CD player? What was "it"?
I'm still not convinced that some lottery winners aren't preselected. I get it, that it is supposed to be auditable and resistant to cheating but wouldn't be the first time a large gambling system has been found to have issues. It also seems like whenever there is some financial crisis happening that Powerball and Mega Millions always go up and it gets talked about in the news.
Number of downloads correlates strongly with "centrality," i.e. how highly connected (in the dependency graph) a package is to other packages. That, in turn, maps pretty well to "criticality," if your definition of "critical" is "a malicious takeover of this package would compromise large swaths of the Python ecosystem."
The attempted murder for hire stuff was included as part of the conspiracy to commit narcotics trafficking charge, and the evidence for it was included in the case for proving that charge.
Having once found myself in a room with a hard tile floor, sound-dampening paneling, and a very large stack of old CD-ROMs that were to be thrown away, I can assure you that if you work on your technique over a few dozen iterations, you can reliably get them to shatter very nicely into little bitty shards.
It looks like you already answered your own question. This isn't really HN material.
They deserve more.
Fair enough, I may have skirted a line with my comment.

So, if it's true that HN is being targetted (give me a moment of leeway here) should we go to Reddit or elsewhere to discuss it? (serious question, as it seems like that is not really allowed here because of a ironic set of rules that protect careful actors)
Pepsi, Tropicana and the like, and their parent companies, are a direct cause of the Metabolic Syndrome epidemic in (particularly) the US, other former UK colonies, and UK, causing many times the preventable deaths from COVID, year in and year out.

The "cause of death" noted for these cases never mentions metabolic syndrome (variously, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, processed-food disease), but rather secondary illnesses it drives, most notably high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and circulatory illness. Most of these are products of high uric acid level, itself a byproduct of fructose processing in the liver. Fructose is processed only in the liver, like other toxins, and most similarly to alcohol.

The standard to diagnose high uric acid has risen sharply in recent decades as levels themselves have risen with sugar intake, so people with a deadly uric acid level do not learn of the core problem. They instead are told of the high blood pressure and diabetes, and get medication for that, masking it but not its harms.

We should not be allowing sale of these products; or at least, labels should warn of their fructose content. We could start seeing "contains no fructose!" on packaging, instead of "non-fat". (Because fat, even saturated fat, it now turns out, is harmless.)

(Fructose in normal food, particularly fruit, comes with enough fiber to divert most of the fructose to your gut bacteria. Juice and soda strip away this protection.)
Indeed - the first evidence for this came from the DALL-E paper itself where they used CLIP to rerank outputs (as classifier-free guidance hadn’t yet been applied to fix DALL-E’s problems with noisy outputs).
Twitter says Musk’s termination of their agreement is “invalid and wrong”
> We are pleased to announce that this service is now generally available for customers with Windows Enterprise E3 and E5 licenses.

In other words, this impacts / helps precisely nobody. A rounding error or less for the common man.
Ask HN: How to improve my interview performance
I hugely under perform at interviews. Mostly because I turn into a hot mess and lose organization when discussing my experiences during interviews.

I've done some of the typical stuff like writing down key points and rehearing answers ahead of the interview. I also seem to do ok with the coaches I've occasionally enlisted.

Love to hear from someone who has solved a similar problem.

I am also curious how and how much do most people practice (esp the ones who aren't exactly glib talkers)
wordpress is the worst - except for all the others.

i think most people hate WP because, well, a bunch of reasons, but reason #1 is usually speed -- WP is super-slow if you don't host it well.

so, find a blazing-fast WP host. your client will be like, 'ok'.
How low are you willing to go? Asking for a friend, of course.
Series I bonds?
I wrote something to do this that I believe to be superior and have been quite happy with so far:

https://github.com/pnovotnak/ohm

It was inspired by the HN anti-procrastination feature.
Practice with a live person. Write down your answers to anticipated questions in advance.

Write down at least 5 value-add stories and practice reciting them smoothly in advance.

Preparation is key!
Now that is interesting. His work on webform is really impressive. I feel like the next step for CMS is going to be content model and UI component interoperability through shared semantics (e.g. the Block Protocol [1] for UI). I wonder if this Blueprint module could be the correlate for content models.

If any monolithic CMS is going to make it through to that far shore, I feel like it will be Drupal.

1. https://blockprotocol.org/
Why would you need a Twitter account? I just went to that link in private browsing and it shows me their profile page, which is the link.
This is good stuff, you can't make it up.

It looks like lots was going on at the Arnell group at this time. In this article it even quotes Arnell as saying this work for Pepsi in OP as "Bullshit"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-firing-of-weird-design-...

You can't make this stuff up
Exactly. It's not a situation of well off people going somewhere to spend extra cash, as it is exploiting desperate people hoping to find some miracle to escape their circumstances, by shoving a negative vice in front of them.
As tech workers we're in a great position to move the needle a bit more towards a cooperative/worker owned model for our livelihoods and careers. That would address a lot of the problems here around the impersonality of it all, having to lose meaningful relationships, obscurity around business decisions, etc.
You make a very good point, but makes me wonder if they were fully responsible for maintaining the seats as part of the contract, would that then make this acceptable?
I grew up poor, lotteries are 1000% entertainment.

No one is stupid enough to really think they'll win. It's a fun shared moment, like watching football.
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We did.

Civil Service exams are intended to assess merit and fitness for a job. This has been subject to litigation since the 90s by various parties who felt that minorities and others were underrepresented.

In New York, the courts found in the 90s that many exams were partially IQ tests, which put the plaintiffs at a disadvantage. So they dumbed down civil service exams to be a combination of grammar, random factoids, and basic math.
I suspect the OP is saying that children trafficked into a country they subsequently grew up in should probably be treated as victims and dealt with compassionately, whether or not they're widely loved sports stars
The Netherlands had the highest gas taxes in the world last time I looked.
> Ah, apparently so; his murder-for-hire behavior wasn't part of the trial but only considered in the sentencing.

It was part of the trial, as part of the case to prove one of the conspiracy charges.
In the 90's there was an artsy site linked from Bud.com (which should take you back...) of a dude that was in the process of scanning everything he owned. This was back when merely hosting high-rez images was sort of an ordeal.
And he called this work for Pepsi "BS"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-firing-of-weird-design-...
On that subject, https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/ tracks the desecration of all these once colorful, beautiful, expressive logos into this new bland style that's in vogue.
Statamic has been great for us.
It doesn't work, for the simple fact as not everyone works the same. As the saying is, in most teams 20% of the people do 80% of the work and move the team forward, while the rest do fill the gaps, and are more of helper, yet want the same comp.

I have seen this happening over and over.
I did this, best decision of my career. We negotiate as a team now!
Damn, that's cool. Does Discord have any blog posts talking about this?
With this resolution, I’m wondering if we could see some artificial structures made by Type 3 civilizations, or some side effects of them. Or maybe we will feel even more lonely.
Perhaps you can develop such a browser extension. Sounds like a very good idea actually.
> in tech we're exceptionally lucky - the packages are large, and it isn't traumatic

That totally depends on which countries you are in, and what kind of tech you are working with.
> This shift can turn lotteries into a de facto tax on being bad at math.

Would lotteries be ok if the expected value of the players prize equaled the price of the ticket? Being bad at math and lotteries being a regressive tax seem orthogonal.
I’ve had two occasions in the past year where I needed to document everything. In both, I went room to room photographing everything.

The first was was right before we moved from one state to another, about 12 hours away. Luckily we sold a lot of stuff (mainly on FB marketplace), which took literally about a year—you never know how much stuff you’ve accumulated until you move. And 20 plus years is a lot, with raising 2 kids. I took initial of everything, especially before we let people come through house when it was for sale.

Then,6 months after being in the new house, there’s a wildfire within a few miles ( we live in national forest area of Colorado), and we are in the evacuation zone. So I’m frantically going around photographing room to room while the rest of the family grabs the important stuff like phones, tablets and laptops. And other essentials. Didn’t expect that, so now I’m working on cataloging everything.
I think the sophistication is lacking in the criticisms voiced in the comments.

Regardless of the excessive & laughable b.s. factor of this high level design concept document, the proposal meets its brief: design a rebranding strategy that can be used in 2d, 3d, kiosks, blah, etc. as required, without each needing their own design proposal.

So this designer latched onto geometric features of original pepsi logos, extracted some pattern, adjusted the sizing using golden ratio (thus the art history tour), and then went on to apply it to various use cases.

So maybe the design sucks, or possibly you can think of a more sophisticated approach to providing what is effectively a meta-design for a product suite, but this fairly simple approach that is proposed can in fact satisfy the design brief, in a fairly simple manner. Simple is good, right?
Are there any long books that don't have lots of characters?
I don't think you have to disclose that you were laid off.