skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you said except the last sentence. Why should the punishment for the crime be increased to be used as a deterrent for others?

Add a deterrence but only make the deterrence with the intention/scope of the individual who committed the crime.

Don't add a deterrence with the intention of stopping other unrelated parties. That is an unfair assessment of my individual crime and the harm that I caused.

That is an unequal punishment/consideration that shouldn't be included in the process.
Yep. From wikipedia:

> On Wednesday, November 9, 2016, an underage African-American Oberlin College student and Student Assistant Treasurer,[9] Jonathan Aladin (aka Elijah Aladin), attempted to purchase a bottle of wine using a fake identification card.[8] The store clerk, Allyn D. Gibson, a son and grandson of the owners,[6] rejected the fake ID. Gibson noticed that the student was concealing two other bottles of wine inside his jacket.[10][6] According to a police report, Gibson told the student he was contacting the police, and when Gibson pulled out his phone to take a photo of the student, the student slapped it away, striking Gibson's face.[11] The student ran out of the store. Gibson followed and then grabbed and held onto the shoplifter outside the store after the shoplifter had also assaulted the store owner, David Gibson.[6] Two other students, Cecelia Whettstone and Endia Lawrence, friends of the shoplifter, joined the scuffle.[6] When the police arrived, they witnessed Gibson lying on the ground with the three students punching and kicking him.[11] The police report stated that Gibson sustained a swollen lip, several cuts, and other minor injuries.[7][12] The police arrested the students, charging all three with assault and the shoplifter with robbery as well. In August 2017, the three students pleaded guilty, stating that they believed Gibson's actions were justified and were not racially motivated.[11][13][14] Their plea deals carried no jail time in exchange for restitution, the public statement, and a promise of future good behavior.[13][15] From their trial courtroom, Assistant Dean of Students Antoinette Myers sent Raimondo a text message: "I hope we rain fire and brimstone on that store."[16]

That's not really an example of a "chase-and-detain policy", nor was it a "suspected shoplifter"; by the time anyone was chasing anyone else, it was a matter of assault.
“centralized chat and account moderation goes against everything minecraft stood for”

That seems… hyperbolic? I don’t feel like Minecraft has ever stood for anything in particular other than creating worlds and sharing them with others.
Psilocybin is quite different from cannabis!
Not to suggest culture=politics, but if you haven’t watched the Buckley-Vidal “debates” from the ‘68 election, you are missing out on some interesting history of the fight between American liberalism/socialism and libertarianism/conservatism.
And the biggest push to invest in re-inventing a software stack is a legal ban on access to the existing software.

If previously building a separate CUDA-like framework competed against paying a bit more to Nvidia, now this decision is infinitely simpler, since using Nvidia products is just out of the question.
The fact that it’s been 30 years and only 4% of people are more concerned about climate change is pretty damn grim
> And why are you inviting trolls to play with your 6 year old?

Public servers with hundreds of players and little to no barrier to entry - they'll be full of "trolls". All the 6 y/o has to do is join one, which takes about 5 seconds.
> it has become too ingrained in the culture, too many things were built on top of it. It will take a long time before something comes along that will de-throne them

The reality is that nobody cares what you use to make your webpage or app. It might take a while to dethrone python and react, but who cares? Make software using whatever tools you want. There's lots of jobs, and these things are super easy to learn anyway.

I'm convinced that half of the jobs listing React are using Svelte or Vue or something, but know they'll get more candidates applying if they hire for react and then just train the person in vue after they start.
Yep, when the sky was just right the sun would hit the trails, looked pretty impressive.
Again basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas have roughly a 100% 5-year survival rate - so much so it's not really been calculated. But the risk of melanoma, which is the bad one (and only accounts for 1-3% of skin cancers), goes down with more exposure to the sun. And as the article says, the benefits to CV health and reduction in melanoma risk outweigh the risk associated with these very low-risk cancers.

That article isn't strictly wrong to say that exposure to sunlight is linked with melanoma, but it's linked to childhood sunburns and intermittent sunshine/sunburn. Sunburns are bad, sun is good.

> And perplexingly, outdoor workers have half the melanoma rate of indoor workers. Tanned people have lower rates in general.

I think it's also fair to say that exposure to the sun doesn't cause premature aging so much as not being exposed to the sun makes you look younger than you would otherwise - but of course that only helps if you're alive. Direct sun exposure reduces all-cause mortality. [1]

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.12251
It’s a cult and she is a cult leader. But the the thing is, you cannot entirely remove the need humans have for cults, religions, nationalism and their corresponding figureheads. You cannot entirely remove the need for unity via shared rituals and traditions, how ever inane.

So we have two options, pick good cults and cult leaders or live with bad ones. The Royal Family at the moment asks nothing from the devout. Literally, you don’t have to pray, believe ideologies, support politics, almost nothing. Just show up for the weddings, respect the titles and play along with the ceremony.

That’s the best version of religion we can get.
Found the button! Fixed ^_^ Sorry for the trouble
Gp wasn't talking about the college but the shoplifter, who was a criminal defendant and whose legal representation we have no knowledge of.
Amazon learned people don’t really care … for now.
Took a while to end 'stay in Mexico' had to go through courts iirc.

Seems like a lot of the drilling and EPA stuff has been gummed up in courts too

Interesting article link below talking about Biden's push and the problem with R partisan judges.

and the potential that if an order goes too far, court is given opportunity to make a broad and lasting ruling that would limit powers. I can very easily see this happening.

https://time.com/6205771/trump-judges-biden-executive-orders...
For servers that kids are supposed to be on, sure. Not all servers.
On the margin, we're comparing 2022 to 1922, 2021-2022 to 1921-1922, &c. There's little question that this span overlaps substantially, probably 80+%, with the 100-year spam of greatest change in humanity, but I think there's a strong argument that, pretty say, 1914-2014 > 1922-2022 (which amounts to that the changes of 1914-1922 were more substantial than those of 2014-2022). Where exactly the optimum is, of course, hard to say, though I do think the 2000s have been on the whole exciting enough that that the next serious cutoffs would be around 1905 or 1903, and not likely in between.
Yes it is deterministic, and it's beautiful, now works of art will be forever recoverable by prompt/seed/inputs.

Even if ipfs and cloudflare loose your jpg, as long as civ is humming, and SD is runnable somewhere, your art will live. Forever
They do authentication. And if you're banned they will refuse to give you your token.
I'd say this is to appeal to parents, who buy Minecraft and authorise associated micro-transactions for their Minecraft-playing children. It's a much easier sell if MS can "guarantee" that little Timmy won't hear bad words.

At the end of the day it's a big market, one to which Minecraft is heavily targeted, and parental paranoia is very profitable.
Or, like has happened with marijuana, decriminalization will increase the amount of people using it and therefore schizophrenia.

Just this past summer I had a friend tell me he was thinking of getting some mushrooms for us to all use at a party, like it was something you just casually do for fun like weed.

I have another friend with a serious family history of schizophrenia and he does pot and now psilocybin because they’re “natural and harmless.” I warned him, showed him literature, etc. There’s been far too much propaganda (?) on how safe those substances are for him to think they could ever cause harm.

And frankly, he’s always been a bit crazy but the past couple years…. Something has definitely changed in him. We’re talking things like believing he can heal people.
I'm glad I got to hear your opinion but the only reason you were able to make it here is because this place is heavily moderated. No popular forums can survive a lack of censorship in any form.
Sweden and switzerland disprove all of your rhetoric about insufficient density or any argument about cold weather or hills.

Sweden has a lower population density than the USA, but has a quarter modeshare in each of transit and cycling. There are cities with population densities as low as some places in texas that still have good non-car infrastructure. Re. building transit and density in a couple of decades, that's how long it took to steamroll urban areas and replace them with highways. It can be undone in less time. And again toronto and istanbul did it, so san francisco and new york with orders of magnitude more money can do it too.

It's not an idealogical pipedream when many places have done it successfully. Just because you currently choose to restrict the designs that produce good living areas with infrastructure that is far cheaper to maintain and run to rich people, doesn't make them expensive or unattainable.

Sustainable transport and zoning are good for the budget, they're good for the environment, they're good for car drivers, they're good for residents, and they're good for the poor. Your gaslighting about calling people smug not being an attack does not change that.

The pipedream that hasn't happened is one where self driving cars work properly and don't render any high density area completely uninhabitable by humans.
I haven't used the cpan shell for a long time `cpanminus` does everything I need with a great deal less pain.
> The college basically got into hot water for having its Dean show up at a protest holding a flyer.

Oh wow, no-- go read the the court docs. Particularly what they obtained in discovery. Or just check out the appeals decision, which gives an okay summary (though it skips some of the schools wrongdoing that wasn't disputed): https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/9/2022/2022-O...

They got in hot water because a dean was distributing flyers full of falsehoods, because the school posted in their buildings and refused to remove a resolution repeating the same falsehoods, because -- even knowing the claims were false they refused to issue any kind of retraction or reversing statement (because they thought doing so would anger the students), instead trying to extract a promise to not report shoplifters to the police anymore, and then the school barred one of their vendors from doing business with the bakery, causing a significant financial damage to it.

One could excuse the school for making some initial errors in judgement, but they aggressively refused to correct them even after the errors were abundantly clear.

Their actual award was much larger but the punitive damages were limited by damage caps to twice the compensatory damages -- too bad, because given Oberlin's wealth the ultimate cost is comparatively insignificant compared to the magnitude of their gross and sustained misconduct.
The magnitude of punitive damages is not to deter others. It's to deter the responsible party. They are calibrated to be large enough to catch the attention of the party being held responsible.

If they were meant to deter others, they would be pegged to the size of other potential wrongdoers. But they are not. They are pegged to the size of the actual wrongdoer.
Not sure whether it would help, but if someone finds themselves in this kind of situation maybe try to find a way to discreetly suss out whether they are doing it because they've drunk the kool aid or as a "work to rule" strategy. It seems to me that many of the Agile methodologies, and Scrum in particular, are susceptible to that kind of approach.
> I always felt slightly ashamed for the fact that I don't use foreign keys.

Good, that's the correct reaction.

> I feel better having read this thread!

Don't.
An open source hierarchical spreadsheet
He declined to file a Radar ticket, saying that tweeting about it was enough to inform Apple. Given that his tweet made it to HN, I’d say he’s right.
People with a peanut allergy stay away from peanuts. It’s hard to know who will be triggered by these drugs, but even people with a family history don’t often believe they can harm them.
The only minority worth protecting beyond reproach of politics are those afflicted with poverty.
I have found both parties incompetent in this regard.

800k shacks with outlets in LA for the homeless. The complete dismissal of the responsibility we have as a society to rehabilitate people in the prison system. the absolute abandonment of native americans that ultimately lead to an institution of sexual abuse. Unions run the schools but the worst outcomes happen in urban cities, which leads to violence.

the problems we face are complex. and I think we would do better to lean inwards than rely on looking to the fringes for our philosophical goals.
Even if it remained a luxury item I still think there would be a market for this. It has the immediate “take my money” factor
Interesting. Thanks for this perspective.
> As part of a strategic shift of a portion of our security program, we have parted ways with five employees. We also partner with a number of external organizations

This is the key part here - whoever they've outsourced this to costs less than those 5 employees and presumably still lets them tick whatever regulatory boxes they need.

Either that or their 5 person security team made a boo-boo recently and this is the fallout.
GIANT differences and anyone pretending not is usually acting in bad faith.

- abortion
- environment (or you know that global warming is real and caused by humans)
- LGBTQ rights
- race & equity
- immigration & treatment of asylum seekers
- role of Fed & state regulators in markets, like energy markets (tx)
- taxes
- workers rights
- federal govt powers

could go on and on but that's not the point of your comment is it
I can only say that I thoroughly disagree with this, and I have every single society that has ever existed behind me.
> The concept that a function can fail is pretty fundamental

Not at all. This is a grave misunderstanding of computing. Functions fundamentally can't fail. They can only enter different states. Only under exceptional circumstances, like the programmer screwed up or the machine is literally on fire, could they fail.

Indeed, Go does provide a method for dealing with exceptional circumstances (what we often call exceptions for short). See: panic/recover.
I wonder if their insurance premiums have gone up though.
Dat double rainbow …

Gotta agree, what the fuck lol
> iPads don't have fingerprint sensors.

Yes they do. My ipad air from last year certainly does. (And its missing Face ID).

> The ideal here would be to automatically switch profiles when this happens, such that they seamlessly get the same app, but with state recorded for their profile, rather than their sibling's.

Sounds like a version 2 feature for user switching. If I were apple and I cared about this, I'd release a simpler version first and wait for feedback.

I hear what you're looking for. I really do. I just think its very complicated to get the interaction you're looking for right. If FaceID started doing its thing every time I handle my iPad, it would be scanning basically all the time.
> Indeed, given they swear an oath to the monarch, they're probably not even able to bring about that vote.

The oath itself wouldn't stop the British Parliament passing an Act of Parliament to abolish the Crown and replace it with some other system. In theory, the monarch could refuse to give their assent to the proposed law but given that would cause a constitutional crisis, in reality the chances are the monarch would assent and the system could be changed.

It seems it would take a republican government in power _or_ huge public demand that the monarchy to be abolished for that to happen which seems unlikely any time soon assuming King Charles III and his successors don't err massively.
IMO 3D movement around 2010 was hyped but now is too underrated. It's unlikely to wear glasses every time watching TV, but not too bad to wear it once per month for watching a movie. Finally it lacks better contents.
I don't have that expectation and don't want to have it (my son is a Minecraft enthusiast).

Folks from the US need to stop imposing their backwards values on the rest of us.
The post you are responding to is probably referring to the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act. According to some, that act (signed by Clinton) was (somewhat) responsible for the financial crash. But this is certainly a matter of dispute.
They just gave java edition to every bedrock owner, so I'm not very concerned about the "stopping sales" idea.

But this sure is a walled garden extension I don't like.
Being a HW digital designer, timing is everything :)

You are welcome!
The compensatory damages were based on an expert economic analysis, forward projecting 30 years of income based on the fact that the business had been operating since 1885. The damages weren't just to the bakery-- the bakers also owned two apartment buildings that were used as off campus housing by students and their income was damaged there as well.

The fact that Oberlin's misconduct has has zero serious consequences for the institution or the culpable staff shows that the punitive damages were far too small. There is little incentive to change their practices to avoid similar incidents in the future.
Another reply in the comments here posted what they claim is a snippet from some sort of Patreon Discord server. It looks like for reasons unknown (probably financial) they have outsourced their security to "a number of external organizations" that they already have relationships with.

The key part of the Discord post is this;

> As part of a strategic shift of a portion of our security program, we have parted ways with five employees. We also partner with a number of external organizations...
Thanks for all the explannations!

> Well if you go really really fast aero is the most important.

Yes, and in the context of the submitted article, aerodynamics is the only difference between riding alone vs in a peloton, isn't it?

Ha, now I wonder whether you could get better endurance performance, if you took the vehicle from https://www.engineering.com/story/human-powered-vehicle-brea... and stuck tank of pure oxygen in the chassis to hook the rider up to.
So let’s say that I was going 80 miles per hour in a 55. I stopped at the gas station and you tried to detain me when I got out of the car. Let’s also say I have a licensed firearm. Also let’s say it was caught on camera that I was minding my business pumping my gas when you tried to detain me. How do you think that’s going to end up both right then and in a court of law?

This is completely hypothetical, I don’t own a gun.

But, because of the incident I posted. Even the very red GA and the Republican governor thought that it might not be a good idea to let any random yokel detain someone

https://apnews.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-georgia-arrests-gov...
Not OP, but the Glass-Steagall Act was repealled in 1999, under then-president Bill Clinton, and is posited as a substantial contributor to the 2007-8 Global Financial Crisis.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_repeal_of_the...>

<https://web.archive.org/web/20111019192852/http://prospect.o...>
Oh. I said, you're accusing me of x, and of y. That is because he said "you are either an x" that's the first accusation, "or a y." the second accusation. So there can be no confusion then, I can present the fact he considered accusing me of being an x, to disprove I'm a y, and the fact he accused me of being a y, as evidence I'm not an x.

Two accusations in this case.
No worries, things happen. Good post btw.
The one thing that drives me crazy with react compared to angular (having moved to a react shop from an angular shop) is the fact that every react app we have in house is architected/structured differently. One is using nextjs and xstate, another is using react router and redux, another is a CRA based app, and so on. At a large org you wind up needing a committee to try to standardize on app architecture. With Angular at least, most things have well defined patterns.
Payback in 5 years --- with the goats in place? I don't think so.
No one gets out alive.
Bingo.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32762714>
We're talking about payment processing vs. platform, right?

"Good UI" doesn't make something a platform.

Doing payments in a fee-minimizing way definitely doesn't make something a platform.
And size is already calculated in with the idea of deterring others based on sentencing guidelines.
I think "what Microsoft is trying to do" starts and ends with your kids having office.com logins.
> it said that “with careful financial planning,” including insurance, it could be paid “without impacting our academic and student experience.” Oberlin has a robust endowment of nearly $1 billion

So insurance is gonna pony up for them, they won’t have to touch their BILLION dollars, the my don’t have to apologize, and aren’t admitting any wrongdoing.

At least the Gibson family will get something out of it. Not sure it’s justice, but $36Mil would go far…
> Can I ask why you’re so upset about something that apparently does not involve you at all?

We’re in the same society, this is bad precedent, and I’d prefer for it not to happen where I am.
Source on her trying to entrench antidemocratic privilege?
> Or at the very least, Apple could change the wording of "Add to Home Screen" to "Install the app"

This makes me think the article is parody. Apple will never call PWAs "apps". Apps come from the App Store, silly. The question isn't when will Apple provide parity with native apps, but why they support PWAs at all.
But intent matters far more than the actual words used.

Somebody that's tilted is going to be annoyed by a message that's mocking them regardless how innocuous the words are in the message.
I know the business need but I've been very bothered by the fact that online gaming for kids has defaulted to mmo-style open servers.

My daughter asked to play Roblox and after looking into their system I said no.

I'm more than happy to let my kids online... to play with their friends, with content that was created by their friends or curated by professionals. Not to play with strangers in a slushpit if user-contributed content curated by an algorithm.

So I get why Minecraft is doing this, but imho it's the wrong approach. Make it easier for parents and kids to run a private server. Publish curated plugins for kids to load into said servers.

Let us parent, and let the pubs be pubs.

Instead MS seems to be following the Roblox approach of "trust our algo and our banhammer". Which, no.
California has power outages way more often than Texas has, in fact it has widespread rolling blackouts right at this very moment. If Texas is a glass house, then California is really a soap bubble.

But this is beyond the point: none of this have anything to do with the topic of conversation, that is, zoning and urban planning. The truth of the matter is that, despite the Houston being widely panned for this on HN, people nevertheless flock into there en masse.