skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s a prime example of maybe how we shouldn’t be letting AI run the world maybe, but this was clearly a mistake. So I appealed with my trademark good humor.

> Overnight, I received a response that my appeal had been denied. So a human being, someone who works at Twitter dot com, looked at that video, looked back at the rule it was breaking, looked once again at the video, and went “Yeah, this all checks out.”

The most cost-effective an efficient implementation of an automated appeals process is the UNIX command "yes no". I'm convinced it's also in widespread use.
I read this advice so much as a younger programmer, but now I am in a position to say - this doesn't work.

Sure think of yourself as multi-lingual and able to learn anything (which you probably are). But don't market yourself that way, especially if you're a contractor. People want someone who knows their tech stack and they want you to be productive yesterday.
When people talk about the flavor of "third wave" specialty coffee, they are talking about C. arabica.

The current US Barista Champion (Morgan Eckroth) did use C. eugenioides in one of her beverages, but that is still priced out of reach for all but the most dedicated enthusiasts.

Robusta is only used in "traditional" espresso blends (meaning the original Italian style) or, stereotypically lower quality products. (Edit: not to denigrate anyone's choice of using Robusta in their morning cup - please do whatever you enjoy the most.)

The thing about arabica is that there are many different varieties, from Ethiopian heirlooms to Typica, Bourbon, Pacamara, Gesha, etc. They are grown in varied soils, elevations, and climates. And as a sibling comment points out, the "natural process" and experimental fermentations are becoming popular because of the secondary flavors imparted. (Though my view of the scene is that most snobs still scorn natural process coffees for lacking cleanliness).

The brewing method and temperature will ABSOLUTELY alter the flavor tones of the cup. And the quality of grinder is the most important factor by far. Tweaking grind size can take you from a flat, mediocre cup to something with distinctive flavors and sweetness.
The key thing is, the UNSC was established to prevent nuclear war between the super powers.

While it has been successful on that front, it has utterly, utterly failed however in preventing a repeat of what happened between 1933-1945 in Germany, which was the reason for why the UN was founded:

- China is genociding off Tibetans and Uyghurs for many years and no one seems to be willing to put a stop on that. Not to mention Chinese fishing vessels illegally fishing as far as Africa or continuous Chinese imperialist aggression against its neighbor states.

- Russia... well, the current invasion in Ukraine speaks for itself, but there has been more. Alone the land grab of the Krim 2014 should have been more than enough to warrant intervention.

- Syria, where Assad (with a lot of assistance from Russia and its Wagner mercenaries) has liberally broken every red line the Western nations set. Barrel bombs against civilians, genocide, nerve gas, torture, and that's just the rough list.

- the collapse of Libya and its descent into civil war and chaos

- a boatload of other conflicts turning into ethnic cleansings and genocide across Africa

- a lot of nations in South America falling under the effective control of drug cartels

About the only horror stopped by the UNSC was the self-proclaimed Islamic State, and that was only because both Russia and China didn't want anything to fuel their local Islamist-extremist insurgent groups.
Per road vehicle. But 1 train car fits what, 1.5 trucks worth of cargo? Versus 20-30 passengers. Is it better to eliminate 2 truck trips or 10+ personal car trips?
The Logit Function And Its Applications In Sports Modelling
"Any willing person"=?
I fear the title has become more clickbaity by my changes to make it fit the HN length restrictions, this was a change to the subtitle "Will a jury find James and Jennifer Crumbley criminally responsible for their son’s mass shooting?" I could have gone with the title "A Handgun for Christmas" but I felt this was more relevant to the actual text.

on edit: also archive.org - https://web.archive.org/web/20220721041318/https://nymag.com...
>it's a different kind of competition than the players expected

CTFs are (usually) hacking competitions for hackers, what else would you expect?
If not, he should feed the whole body of statutes & case law into the bot, and then let it be its own lawyer.
> The flagged post was reviewed by two humans.

How do you know? I wouldn't be surprised in the appeals are automated too, especially the initial ones.
Amazing information. Thanks for this!
It works. But it only works for standard WP stuff. Throw in a non-standard gallery or something, and it will degrade.
I'd say the cut off time is more like four hours, with the delays incurred by airport security and the fact that airports are huge and therefore more likely to be located further out from city centres.
You don't have a lot of control over that if you're not a manager. Early career politics is basically your relationship with your coworkers and your manager.

Ideally you'll have coworkers that want to succeed and want you to succeed so that you are all open to learning from each other.

Sometimes you have a coworker who has gaps in their knowledge and is insecure (or sometimes that person is you). To avoid politics there, just help that person feel secure -- find things to learn from them or find ways they can help you.

Maybe a coworker is burnt out and doesn't have the energy to work as hard as you can. Learn what you can from them too, help them feel important.

Maybe your manager is overloaded with work. Figure out what their responsibilities are so you can prioritize what you work on in a way that makes their life easier.

Basically: politics is inevitable but you should just be new, make friends, have empathy, and let things fall into place.
It’s not inane at all. People love the idea of free healthcare, loan forgiveness etc, but don’t like the idea of higher taxes
How far are you willing to take it? Given that most child abuse happens at home, and most abusers are family, it would seem that mandatory surveillance cameras in every residence would help quite a lot; much more so than anything you could do online, anyway.

Of course, this is also very intrusive, but if your threshold is "it's okay unless it's worse than the child abuse that it is likely to prevent", then it would seem to pass that. Unless you have other criteria?
As a fellow webpack victim, the new way of bundling things in FE is esbuild and it's better in every way - faster, simpler to configure, easier to understand... and did I mention faster? my god it's so much faster.

Your point about wasting your finite life dealing with webpack still stands, but just want everyone to know that there is a ray of light in frontend.
I'm not sure the title captures the actual thinking. Consider:

> For example, much of what looks like GDP growth since the Fifties was simply a matter of changing how we measured the value bundled up in family life. If, he points out, “you shift an economy from a single-income household with a homemaker to one with two breadwinners and a third person who’s a child-carer, statistically you have three jobs instead of one and therefore you have more GDP, and you will exaggerate the amount of progress that’s happened.

To the degree that this is a true statement about employment and GDP measurement, I'd agree. It's a reflection of using money exchanged as the definition of economy. If money isn't exchanged, it isn't counted as part of the economy. Yet it is.

Why wouldn't this be then a suggestion to find a non-financial (ie "squishy esg") method of accounting for things like quality of life? What else is the economy for?
The great majority won't. But a part will, which is likely to be a problem.
This isnt at all related to rhe original topic but if you like game theory, you'll love this paper[1]. (Tl;dr tit-for-tat isn't the optimal strategy after all).

Also, in repeated prisoner's dilemma with random errors, it has been long known that tit-for-tat isn't the best strategy either.

[1]: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/26/10409.full
I am French and I don't think France is secular.

* For example, why do most French people want to have a Catholic mass celebrated on the death of a loved one?

* Most towns have a double set of schools, cultural, sports establishments. One "laique" the other religious.

* And anyway a large part (8-10%) of the French population today is Muslim.

* French "laicité" (secularism) has its organisation and events modeled after the Catholic religion. For example the "fête de la laicité":

https://www.ufal.org/%C3%A9v%C3%A8nement/fete-de-la-laicite-...
Please avoid linking to content made by white supremacists and QAnon followers.
Isn't this what trees do already?

And if trees don't do it "good enough", should we really replace the trees with technological mini-chemical-plants that will starve all of the CO2?

I don't get it.

Why do humans think their crazy ideas are better for nature, while at the same time it is obvious they are going to exterminate whole species when implemented.
I would suggest looking into meat based dishes, including organ meats, eggs, bone/meat broths and such. You'll find it much easier to 'fill' all the nutrition bars if you use that.

I would also suggest avoiding leafy vegetables in general, since there are a lot of defensive chemicals in them that are not very good for you, especially concentrated blended versions of them. You tend to want to eat plants in states that they want to be eaten in, such as fruit flesh. Plants don't want their leaves and seeds to be eaten, thus the large amount of protective chemicals in them to discourage that from happening. The ideal situation for plants is you eat a fruit when it's ripe, swallow the seed whole, and pass the seed in your stool somewhere else in a stool fertilizer bed on the ground somewhere. This means low sugar fruits that we call vegetables like cucumbers and tomatoes are also ok.

Also fish and liquid oils tend to go rancid fairly fast. Solid oils tend to stay fresh longer. If you want more fish in your diet, eating actual fresh wild fish vs a fish oil significantly healthier.
my experience of tokyo was as a tourist some 10 years ago, so i can't speak to the breadth of the transit experience there. i just remember being very impressed with the quantity and punctuality of trains and don't remember any homelessness. that's not to say i saw no homelessness in tokyo, but it seemed tiny compared to LA. i also rode the shinkansen between tokyo and osaka, which felt almost like flying, in contrast to amtrak's acela train on the east coast, which feels only slightly faster for a few short periods.
Why would I want me and my family on a packed train with our luggage and gear rather than in our comfortable, climate controlled, and spacious vehicle? Who would seriously vote for that?

I’m grateful to live in a country where having a vehicle is normal and not just for the wealthy class. I’m happy to not be packed onto public transit if I want to take the family to the beach or go hiking or something.
Because the goal of boiling water for most cooking is to heat the water to the boiling point and not to make steam.

You also have to deal with cleaning a pan with micro cavities.
Check out the Lance Hedrick review of this device on YouTube.
Oh wow those are bad, lol. Almost as bad as those 'shops where you can see the background bending around the inhumanly-shaped waist or butt.

I have to assume the conversation between authors went something like this:

> Muscles look like this, right? https://unbelievab.ly/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/photoshop.j...

> LGTM, ship it
Not sure if you care about validation. If not skip to 2.

1. Anybody want it?

First I pitch the rough idea to a few paying customers. If they are lukewarm on it I set it aside.

If they are warm on it I set it aside.

If they say they want it I set it aside.

When some time goes by and they check in and say “whatever happened with (feature) I consider it validated.”

2. Be bad at it

Give myself permission to make the absolute worst version of it.

That frequently involves writing a one page max description of it, and then asking myself “okay how much of this could I cut before it was literally doing nothing.” But if I’m feeling bored I just start coding.

This version has no error checking. No tests. No capacity for large requests. No logging. Nothing. It just prays beyond all reason that the user doesn’t do anything silly that breaks it.

3.beta test the MEV

I just made it up. It’s not a real acronym. most execrable version. It fits because it does feel like something I excreted. I hate it. I’m embarrassed. My impostor syndrome is no longer a syndrome it is just accurate identification and classification.

I give it to those users who were interested.

I watch them on hot jar.

4. Tea leaves

This is the hard part. If they are enthused great. But if not You kinda have to sense whether or not their dissatisfaction is because it’s an MEP.

If you’ve done it right, however, and found something they super want they will actually struggle through it to get that thing done. Sometimes the MEP isn’t far off from an MVP. Sometimes their satisfaction is enough to convince you not to do the rest of the stuff you thought was necessary in your on paper Valhalla take.

5. Users of Software

I often forget that your average software user does not have our relationship with software. They don’t see the amazing version in your head so the crap version feels like magic.

You’d be surprised how hard people will work with a subpar system with the hope that it’ll work out for them, both from optimism but also from a lack of viable alternatives.

Or maybe you’re not that surprised because you’ve voted in America zing I went political at the end.
100% agree.

but even if not free (free should be the goal) heavily discounted prices would already be good enough, especially for regular users that typically are the lowest paid workers.

Also, the farther you travel, the higher the discount should be, to disincentivize the use of private transport.
Public regulatory agencies are chronically underfunded and have been for a long time.

The FAA gets Boeing to hire people who carry out the jobs of regulatory approval, just think about that.
Well-played!
Here's the UK Covid data dashboard.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

"Deaths within 28 days of positive test in England" is in huge bold letters.
In case others don't know who the person referred to is: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/165392-and-make-no-mistake-... David Foster Wallace.
> Actually, yes. There are laws regulating loans for the purchase of securities. Most jurisdiction ban lending for gambling.

How is Wall Street exploiting them in this case? It sounds like they are committing some sort of fraud (perhaps even criminal?) against the lender by breaking the terms the loan by investing in speculative assets.
Hard disagree. And no one is arguing that _everything_ should be user choice, but there is certainly a meaningful accommodation that makes power users and tinkerers happy. We've had it more in the past and still have it with some software in the present. I'd argue this friendliness and synergy with the user is always the case in the most powerful and beloved software.

It just feels smug and talked-down when someone comes along and sands over a reasonable amount of control and complexity that previously existed. I hate having my workflow disrupted because I like getting work done.

Would you argue that we should have no shell aliases? No BIOS and boot order? No desktop wallpaper? No ability to set homepages in the web browser? Etc etc.

The computer is like anything else I own and the more it responds to my wishes, the better. Small tweaks left to my discretion remind me of that, losing control piecemeal provokes disquietude. If it doesn't accommodate my needs then it feels less mine and for that reason I reject software that restricts my choices.
Yeah when it comes to dating, whether online or IRL, I think standing out (in a way that’s true to yourself)is generally a higher “return” for the same effort vs “standing above”.

Getting a Mohawk may decrease your potential dating pool by a lot, but also the few who see that as a symbol of compatibility will be far more likely to push harder to get a relationship with you.

Whereas competing to be the most classically eligible bachelor wins you the most dates if you can be in the rarefied percentiles…but there’s a lot of competition. And within the population of single men and single women, it does tend to be a “winners-take-most” situation.

I think the real “social crime” though is people pretending to be who they are not in order to score dates. Then even if you get in a relationship it’s usually not what either party actually wanted.

Somewhat similar advice for jobs, actually. (In terms of being true to yourself as much as possible to find a good employer match). Obviously with jobs you just need money sometimes and have to shove yourself through a square hole.

Whereas few people actually need sex/dates. Sometimes it sure feels like it, and human companionship has huge effects on physical and mental well-being (good or bad). Yes, I’m sure it’s saved more than a few people from suicide or poor decisions. But there’s no way to categorize this as a need unless we invent a way to fulfill it, all of which previously have been inhumane. Maybe AI/robotic companionship will allow new options.
Many public libraries in California do struggle with homeless patrons. Librarians serving those libraries are sometimes required to take specific trainings to be able to provide help for the less amicable homeless crowd, and some are even equipped with narcans for emergencies.
I had a digital art portrait done of my wife and had it printed at a local fine art framing kind of place. It turned out beautifully! No clue where you live but you might look into such a place near you--the staff at mine were super knowledgeable to the point they asked the artist to change the color encoding/scheme/whatever (sorry no clue about this stuff) to make the colors pop more on the canvas.

It wasn't cheap but the results were worth it!
Interesting- this is contrary to what many people responded when I AskHN'd recently:

> Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31906829

How does one learn to do what you do (write COBOL in the real world to make a great living)?
> Which is a net positive.

That would entirely depend on what you’re looking for. Not everyone one dating sites is looking for a long-term romantic partner.
Yall are missing the root argument.

Drinking is correlated with others drinking. It's a sort of community effect. Cowen's argument is to stop because it's contributing to problematic drinking.
Sure, but building a rail network that is able to compete with four hours of flight is orders of magnitude more expensive than building out decent HSR between major clusters of larger cities (e.g. California HSR).
> The new plan has some limitations. While Germany’s 9-euro ($9) passes cover all public transit except faster train services, Spain will restrict itself to regional and suburban rail services, which are not as extensive as they are in Germany. While it might be technically possible to travel across Spain using only regional trains, it would not necessarily be easy because the slower network is quite patchy.

To be honest the German situation is not so different from the Spanish one.

Going from Munich to Berlin with the 9-euro ticket requires from 3 to 6 changes, and from 10 to 15 hours.
> But the top 20% of engineers is not that much better than the middle 60%.

Have them watch some of for example Jonathan Blow's talks or coding streams and then ask if they still believe that.
I believe you're confusing /v/ with the basket of lunatics on /pol/.
Probably made up statistics, but 80% of drivers think they're better than average.

Question is, how do you know? It's super subjective. A lot of "top-talent" probably thinks that they're better than average.

I would imagine the actual top-talent doesn't apply for jobs, I would kmagine that they are poached.
Yeah but our trains are filthy and full of derelict and deranged people. I love the Subway but the Tube has a lot going for it.
mac and apple devices are like 90% of the laptops for people in the art field from what i've seen. And I live in western Europe.
Out of curiosity, can you give an example of where we can find better trains than in Switzerland?
Oh. One other thing. I tend to go backwards. UX first. Then API. Then whatever fuels it.

If I go the other way around I -inevitably- forget some stuff that is crucial for the front end implementation, whereas it’s hard to forget how it supposed to work for the user.
Yes, many things I might do could affect you and vice versa. For example, say I show up in a suit and tie rather than in a T-shirt and a pair of jeans. The mood of the evening will probably be a little more formal in the former case.

One rule I have is that if we're going out, and I know you've had a problem with alcohol, I will refrain from drinking or ask if you have a problem with me having a glass of wine.

If you're sober because, like Tyler Cowen, you want your brain to always run at full speed and for some reason you think alcohol would make it run at half-speed, I won't ask you if you're okay with me drinking, assuming I want to drink—I will just order a Negroni.

If we are out, I get a drink, and you start a tirade about the benefits of sobriety, it's unlikely we'll be in touch for very long.

A final point is that we need to keep in mind that we tend to claim the beneficial properties of the activities we engage in and to which we are predisposed. Tyler Cowen likes to talk about sobriety and the benefits of giving up alcohol. More than anything, he doesn't like alcohol, so it's easy for him not to consume it. Not surprisingly, he does not evangelize the benefits of moderate eating and physical activity, which, from what we can tell from his appearance, are not particularly congenial to him.
We've historically treated the bedsheets of the ill as being an infection vector, before germ theory.

It is odd they tie bedsheets to sex contact alone. Eg if you sometimes co-sleep, that itself is a vector. Though good chances are you are also having sex with your sleeping partner.

There is a time element as well. If someone with the disease laid out on your sofa yesterday and it's dried out since, you're fine. It also probably requires sustained (and probably wet - eg sweat) contact.
Where was this 6nm chip fabricated? TSMC?
Broadly speaking, if a bank lends you money and knows or should have known you were going to use it to gamble or buy securities, the regulators will ding them. The borrower may separately be pursued for fraud. But this is a known failure mode when it comes to human emotions and magic numbers. Some sociopaths just found new lipstick for slot machines.
If you look at the wear and tear on the roads, then 30 passenger cars are much better than two trucks.

If you look at emissions, I guess this is a pretty close one, too. And since so much freight is already on the rail in the US, this is the much easier fruit to pick.
Kate’s syntax support seems unmatched, imo
My favorite: Danny’s Pizzeria; Maspeth, Queens, NYC.
If it were one of my cats, I'd have my face and arms covered with bleeding scratches, and no cat in the picture.