skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that espresso barristas seem to favour robusta.

> Those tones come from a specific plant

No doubt; but I'm sure that "terroir" and growing conditions are also important.

Also, from what I can tell there are two ways of separating the berry-pulp from the bean: mechanical separation and wet fermentation, which create different flavour profiles.

The two I'm alternating at the moment are both pure arabica, both from East Africa, and both high-grown; but they seem to be processed differently.
Seems like a no-brainer for most people to get the covid vaccine too, and yet something like 1 in 5 haven’t done it, and maybe up to half aren’t fully vaccinated.

There’s also the question of availability and it currently isn’t clear how available the monkeypox vaccinations are.
I work in electronic trading :)
Hmm. Like the idea but the name... I get it, but if you say it fast, it sounds like famine.
As a German: It is amazing, but not just because of the price, also because of the unbelievable simplicity that it makes possible.

You pay 9€ and you get 1 ticket. The transport company then charges the government back based on usage.

Why is this a big deal? Well, try finding out how to get anywhere in Germany not using the national railroad. Here's the map [0].

Not only is there hundreds of local transport companies, they are also all part of different, partially overlapping, partially non-boundary-aligned conglomerates for which your ticket might or might not be valid.

It's insanity.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Karte_de...
Yes thankfully there are multiple extremely effective vaccines for the poxes. (So effective we have exterminated smallpox with them.)

Unfortunately supply of the two modern vaccines is limited and likely will be into 2023. (Many countries do have huge stockpiles of the classic smallpox vaccine, which is also effective. But it's, you know, the old smallpox vaccine, live attenuated virus jabbed under the skin then allowed to do its thing, hopefully without too much scarring at the injection site. You don't want that one unless absolutely necessary.)
Edit: Had wrong % for LE.

Former Amazon SDM here. The actual rating process didn't strike me as something all that controversial. I had to do extensive write ups for all of my reports--this was standard stuff: what went well ("superpowers"), what didn't ("growth areas"), and some actionable ideas for improvement.

Then I had to pick numerical scores for "impact" and "potential" that were fed into a black box that resulted in an "overall value" score--this score is meant to be mysterious to the employees but it's the worst kept secret in Amazon at this point. OV ranged from LE (least effort/effective) at the low end, through HV 1,2,3 (high value) which is essentially "meets", and then TT ("top tier") at the high end.

~10-15% of a director org is supposed to be LE, up to 20% TT, and the rest of people distributed through the HV levels. I proposed these ratings to the bigger org that were then agreed to or adjusted by HR and higher management in a formal manager meeting.

The infamous URA quota of ~6% unregretted attrition (PIP) is meant to be met through managing out LE employees. The process starts with a PIP-lite called "Focus" and goes to the real PIP at the next stage, called "Pivot".

Many people got out of Focus, very few get out of Pivot. The part of the process I had trouble with, which contributed to me leaving, is the curve fitting of ratings for people. I had to do things like trade a HV3 down to an HV2 in order to keep an unpopular but otherwise fine performing engineer from getting an LE.

The stories people tell about hire to fire and unfair Pivot are overblown in my experience but not false. From what I've seen, the company will find pliant people and lean on them hard for more and more and more and then manage them out when then start to falter.

Lot of nuance to this--I have no love for Amazon and I'm happy to have moved on. It is definitely a meat grinder. That said articles like this are pretty low effort on my view.
The interest rate is RPI+4% which is such an obvious joke that they had to take 5% off the rate recently because it hit 12%, but it's still 7% interest!

Those grads are never going to pay their loans off, so that's a 9% tax on their salary every month forever.

The only ones who can get out are those with family who can lend/gift the money to pay the loans off.
The Oracle model that everyone copied was “Oversell and eventually you can hire the engineers to make your product actually better than the competition”

It worked so well (where are Sybase and the other RDBMS makers?) that everyone else copied the playbook.

For intangible products with high switching costs it’s just more profitable for vendors to lie.

This low integrity process has taken me a long time to come to grips with, and makes me especially prudent as a buyer.
I am. Those are the only people who have PC's that I know. That's the point. For non-corporate use, if PC gaming didn't exist, there would BE no PC market.
>In all other aspects of our lives, we do not accept rules imposed upon us by a large private actor. There are courts, and appeals processes, and politicians, and other channels through which we can assert our societal norms.

Out of curiosity, where do you live?

Where I live, I accept that my phone will receive unsolicited robocalls and texts, and that the majority of mail delivered to my address is, similarly, unsolicited waste.

Where I live, I accept that the marketing efforts of a coalition of firearms manufacturers carries more weight than schools littered with dead children, a thousand unarmed people shot to death by police every year, thousands annually killed in domestic situations or on street shootouts. There's also, of course, the #1 cause of death by firearm: suicide.

Where I live, a large private actor repeatedly abused the legal system throughout his career, and through a particular quirk in our bizarre republican democracy, was elected to the highest office in the land after losing a popular election by millions of votes. He continued to break laws while in office, but was never held accountable, and the second time he lost a popular election, went on to break more laws, along with his cronies and a crowd of supporters... There are myriad reasons why this private actor should be in jail, but the government where I live has largely been gutted of any regulatory power.

More often than not where I live, you have one choice of broadband provider, provided by a large private actor, who often times has worked with politicians to outlaw choice.

Maybe you live somewhere else, but where I live, we are reaping what decades of aggressive pro-business anti-government action has sown.
We are still fixing bugs in restrict...
SNI (the thing in the ClientHello packet which indicates the domain name for which to get a certificate, just in case if there is more than one SSL website on one IP) is not encrypted. DPI solutions (and even plain old Squid) can look into this without the need to break any encryption.
"Then you have to pay more in taxes"

How? Taxes for couples are generally just doubled. You can actually save on taxes by not being married and maneuvering who claims what (house, dependants, etc).
Monkeypox is not an STD and it is not an airborne disease.

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/faq.html
I wish the UK will do this.

Public transportation costs in the UK are totally criminal.

yeah the trains are better than in the states.

but it's totally criminal for trains to cost 30 quid from places that are like 30 mins from london.

a single journey bus ticket in a small town 2.5 quid
The interesting part is not that they identify their best performers, but how they try to do it. This tells us something about the company, what they value and so on.
Relative humidity rises for the same volume of water/air as temperature decreases. The dryness of an A/C is because of the condensation accumulating from the air passed across the evaporator, it is dehumidifying at the same time it’s cooling.
Uh... I used Linux on the desktop for 19 years, and desperately wanted this to happen, but last time I looked, Linux still only accounted for a couple of percent of Steam platforms. Maybe this will change with the Steam Deck, but that's a gimme.
In the absence of mind-reading abilities one can only use the evidence of one’s actions to make determinations of motivation and character.

The author has taken the time to chronicle and detail those actions.

The difference as I see it is that while we can speculate about whether someone is a “real X, Y, or Z,” Thiel’s money is being used to really advance the goals of Xs, Ys, and Zs.

To his benefit and our detriment.
Agreed, dealing with bots, fake accounts, troll farms, and the scums of the universe actually posting child abuse, revenge porn, or other such things, is a hard problem, especially at the scale of Twitter.

Designing and deploying mechanism that are effective at preventing those and have zero false positives is very hard.

Having humans in the loop at that scale is very hard.

It's all a tricky balance. You can force people to have zero false positives but it's futile, in practice they still will. You can force them to manually verify each posts, but humans also have false positives, and this might come at a cost that Twitter can't afford. It's complicated.

What's less complicated is running your own website where you can be your own moderator...

I think an alternative is to give people some rights. Like establish a category of things that is always allowed. Then use the normal court system. Of course, it's a terribly slow and expensive appeal process, but also the best, and publicly funded.

Similar to a case where you claim you've been refused access to a job or business because of a protected characteristic for example. You'd need to sue.
In the beginning, the licence and being C instead of C++, that is why it was started in first place. KDE is older and Qt licence was different in the 1.0 days.
it's possible to measure or estimate ridership, and make judgements that way

also, like highways it's probably on some level subject to induced demand
If someone with Monkeypox visits your gym, and you touch the same surfaces they touch, yes, it is possible.

Source: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

Even after they recover, they are still very infectious: https://twitter.com/alexmeshkin/status/1543313032817917953

And yes, someone with Monkeypox went to a gym after feeling sick (https://twitter.com/KxngRudy/status/1545893342994644994).
You said you tried it “a couple of years ago”. Sounds historical to me.
What Deadspin really hated was The Process, Fultz was just a huge symbol of that thing. I strongly agreed with then but thought the guy had no fault for being picked no.1 and thus was unfairly targeted. But seeing the whole stuff going bad gave me great joy.
> omnishambles

TIL this amusing combo, thanks! The Wikipedia entry is helpful [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnishambles
I am late to this conversation, but I have a question: both my iPad Pro and my iPhone 11 Pro seem to get slightly shorter battery life between charges. Has anyone else noticed this? Perhaps it is because Javascript runs slower?
better accessibility for one, which is a major reason it's the often the only option in many enterprise distributions.
Yeah the headline is bad.

The article itself is better. The real complaint appears to be that there are cheap and easy solutions to get much better performance.

It's almost certain that Apple is well aware of this, and are just using thermals to differentiate between products. If they fixed the thermals here, there'd be no reason to buy the next machine(s) up.
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing resources/services over the internet. These services include computing power, storage, data stores (databases), analytics, streaming & eventing services and many more.
You don't understand how fingerprinting works, both LItTerAllY and for browsers.
It's true (in some memory spaces) in AMD GPU too:

https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html#memory-spaces
Thiel clearly isn't a nationalist nor fascist. Fascism is an extreme form of nationalism where individualism is eradicated.

Thiel is an extreme individualist and hasn't done anything to build America's (or any other nations) institutions.

Like Nietzsche or Ayn Rand, Thiel takes individualism to its grotesque extremes, and this causes milquetoast liberals to despise him. He's so familiar, yet grotesque.
I wish they would drop and add some features too, but unfortunately no one can please everyone...
This truly reads like science fiction, but AI ain't sentient. Long way.
Good to see the MS FrontPage days are back :]
Will this not cause more issues?

They will very likely use these appeals to help train the content AI.

You're rewardimg it for a wrong decision that it will use for future decisions.
Hey if you’ve got David Deutsch dead to rights you should book a meeting and have him hand you his Fellowship in the Royal Society.

I’m not a physicist but I am an interested layman, I’m pretty sure I’ll catch wind of the Nobel Prize you’d win for proving him wrong about everything.
I don't think adding a null terminator is useful for binary files which are not null-terminated strings, and may even have embedded 0 bytes in the middle.
Didn't Siri Lanka do the same and it caused food shortage/crisis?
> as opposed to companies I've worked at where it's mostly how your manager and his manager "feel" about you.

From reading the article that's exactly what Amazon is doing. How does your manager feel about you, how do your coworkers feel about you, what do you think about yourself. Just with more ceremony, so it doesn't look like a bunch of dice rolls.
If that was the case, it would be more humid, not less.
UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) Digital Asset Amendments and Article 12 Finalized
This is why it would be good if the employers who benefit most from these education systems contributed more towards society. Every time a FAAMG company hires a Scottish graduate to work in London or California, the Scottish taxpayer has effectively given big tech a little subsidy.
Wow, seriously nice work. Downloaded it and started playing around. Pretty much exactly the features I wanted from a CMS. Both simple and powerful.

I attempted to build a CMS years ago and this is pretty much exactly what I wanted to create... but sadly was too incompetent to finish.

Nice initial list of themes, hope they build up a designer community around this.

I could see a commercial hosted version being pretty popular as well (for companies that need to collaborate on posts). Easily could outcompete Squarespace and others.

Anyways, bravo!
He makes three big assumptions: that readers use alcohol, that they use it closer to the median rate in their area than to zero, and that they drink with others in the middle of a respiratory pandemic.
From what I understand, the desiccant releases water under slight pressure from vacuum pump, which presumably is less than the energy saved by using the desiccant in the first place.
Surely people able to go place to place easily and quickly (and presumably generate tax income at those places) is worth more than whatever fare they paid to get there?
Good! The last thing we need with supply chain issues is actual luddites destroying infrastructure.
India has joined the chatm

There are multiple aspects depending on what you're trying to accomplish.

Your list is great if the target market is upper middle class (great for voters and private interest groups). Convenient and plentiful are really the ones that matter for economic mobility (person that can't get afford car, gas,insurance)
Are you young? Because, we once had the web3 you're describing about. Back when P2P was a trending technology, we implemented most of the web on peer to peer mesh network. File sharing, forum, web pages, we had it all. The conclusion is, it was so inefficient most people don't want to use it. That's why people of today use Hacker News rather than P2P forum, trusting the central authority that is Y Combinator.

Are you regularly using these P2P mesh network based communication tools? If not, you won't see the web3 future you are looking for. You don't get a future you don't want to use it regularly.
Maybe it's developed a new tendency to mutate like covid and could turn into something worse. Sounds like it's time to make vaccines available.
The very few people who I known worked there seemed to like it. Is there any particular reason why you left? I know one of them said he only left because they were overworking him
This guy is upset that the free service he uses employs imperfect AI and it affected him personally. I agree we shouldn't be using AI for everything and we might even include humans after an AI makes a call just to verify the call. However, that has a cost and this guy isn't paying. I'd guess this guy wouldn't pay, because having to deal with occasional AI errors is part of the cost and he clearly doesn't want to pay.

So he appealed. Sure. Here's his appeal:

> This is a video from the PlayStation5 game Stray. You cannot possible be this dense.

Verbally abusing reps like this is not acceptable and certainly does nothing to make me sympathetic to this guy. Who would want to help this guy? Even when I was a minimum wage employee at a fast food chain policy was people verbally abusing employees didn't get our food.

So, the appeal was denied.

Now he's going on the warpath because he's 'right'. He's not right. He was right that the ban was nonsense and should not have happened. He stopped being right with his verbal abuse.

His idea to win them over? By fucking himself over. He has 57K followers. That's not nothing to him but in the grand scheme it's essentially nothing to Twitter. He's a supplicant but he thinks he's king. He has no leverage here and rather than being nice he's saying he's going to be more of a jerk. I won't even wish him good luck.
Does anyone also feel reminded of the TCAP or Transcapacitor or Transfer Capacitor story / hoax from 1998?
> It all changed about two years when they were bought by private equity (G/O I wanna say) who attempted to exercise control over their editorial, resulting in a mass resignation. Many of the old writers started Defector (https://defector.com/), which writes in the same spirit.

This really was one of the most fascinating journalism stories in recent years. There was this well respected and financially successful media company, in an industry in which most outlets are struggling. But management had no idea what made that company successful and was seemingly on a mission to kill what made it unique. Eventually management got so bad that the entire staff resigned over the course of a few days. Dozens of people quit their job in a shrinking industry in which any journalism job can be your last. Then after a year of many of the journalists bouncing between freelancing gigs, most of that staff is able to band together to create a new company. This time it is a workers collective in which the journalists are not just employees, but also owners. The new company is almost immediately a success, continues to grow in size, and build on the legacy of the original site. I have never seen anything like that before.
Why don't you explain?
The Internet is quite a bit bigger than it was in 2016: https://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm

(Have no idea how reputable that data is, but it seems about right to me. In 2016 there were 3.6 billion Internet users. Now there are 5.3 billion.)
Many people live near their means. It makes sense that doubling costs like housing, property taxes, and utilities would likely require downsizing or hard choices.
This is why you do not use a work/professional account for things other than work.
The screencast looks good! For parallel/prior work in this sort of "live update" of the typeset document (and to learn from their experiences), you may also want to look at:

• SwiftLaTeX (https://github.com/SwiftLaTeX/SwiftLaTeX / https://www.swiftlatex.com / https://doi.org/10.1145/3209280.3209522 — the cool demo that used to be on their site seems to be gone, but see HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21710105)

• Texpad https://www.texpad.com/

• BaKoMa TeX (http://www.bakoma-tex.com/) — its eponymous author Basil K. Malyshev passed away recently, but the product and page still exists for now

• VorTeX (see Pehong Chen's PhD thesis from 1988 https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1988/CSD-88-436... — it actually discusses the issues of quiescence, etc).
A different "species" of a virus is as different as you or I are from a dog, so yeah it's a distinction that matters.
> It was reported in local newspapers and even national TV.

But did you also experience it IRL? Usually the things that are newsworthy are not the common standard that everyone is actually experiencing in day-to-day life.
In general I think society is based on the idea that everyone's life has inherent worth, and thus their rights should be protected. If we start designing systems based on the idea that some people's lives have negative worth and if they die it'll be beneficial society, that flies in the face of the idea of inherent worth. It seems to me that if society says certain people's lives have negative worth so their lives don't need to be protected because their death will benefit society, that could progress into society saying that it's ok to actively kill those people.

Yes, the US does today in fact actively kill some people with the death penalty. Though it does have a lot of checks in the process to avoid making the determination wrongly. It's a very expensive and thorough process. I'm against the death penalty because it goes against the idea of the inherent value of human life. If you live in a society where jails are very primitive and can't stop determined prisoners from escaping, then the death penalty could make sense to prevent prisoners escaping and then hurting others. We have jails that can hold people though.
Cheaper than most motorway building projects!
Then again, at least the comparison with India doesn't work given the massive gulf in costs, safety standards and historical context (India's railway network being inherited from when it was a colony and there were less ethical 'restraints' on how to control costs).

The US has a massive setup cost problem, any significant infrastructure project takes years of regulatory hurdles and then legal challenges as competitors and NIMBYs try everything they can to slow things down.

Thus ending up being way more expensive than countries where they still have slums to ruthlessly tear down or land to seize from small-time farmers to make room for new infrastructure (not to imply that the way it works in the US is much better).
Leaking natural gas tends to leave you exploded, too...
I'm not a paleontologist or anything, but it seems rather cruel to bring back an ice age creature, well adapted to frigid temperatures, into a world we've basically been heating since their disappearence. Especially considering climate change is thought to be one of the reasons for their extinction in the first place.
Depends on which strain. The strain in this outbreak appears mild.
My fantasy when it comes to temporary measures like these is that no one will be willing to take the political hit to take them away.
Absolutely agree. No way I can sell this to my friends without an info page.
I'm not a conservative, nor am I parroting some meme, so almost nothing you say applies to me. My comment is based off reading the travel advisory the WHO put out claiming "no significant human-to-human transmission, and no infections among health care workers".

"WHO does not recommend any specific health measures for travellers"

The WHO put it's faith in the Chinese government, how did that work out? If China was open and honest, we could have started taking COVID-19 seriously a month earlier. Instead they tried to assure everyone it was nothing to worry about and the WHO went right along with it.