skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup - I think it's very important to point out that there are two different problems to solve here.

1) What sort of behaviors is a community willing to tolerate

2) What does that community do with people who are unable to stay within the confines of tolerated behavior

The problem is that asymmetrical answers to the two questions can create a strange grey-zone, where problems linger.

For example - if you murder someone, I don't think many people are going to argue against you spending some time in prison. The response is in line with the severity of the action.

But... if you say, consistently piss in the elevators of your local metro (even though public bathrooms are available), most folks aren't sure prison is the right answer. Ideally - we'd just keep you out of the metro entirely - but setting up that system is very expensive when we're dealing with a very small number of bad actors.

On the flip side - that small number of bad actors is doing considerable damage long term. They're making metro usage far less pleasant, driving down ridership, increasing cleaning costs, reducing public health, and requiring additional staff in attempts at monitoring. Each other member of society is only inconvenienced a relatively minor amount, but they're impacting a very large number of them by degrading a public and shared service.

The same is true of those who camp/sleep outside of businesses, or scream & rant in public spaces, or do drugs in public spaces. They are actively harming the space they are using at large, and are unwilling to stop or unable regulate themselves.

So what do we do with those people? What is a proportional action that we can take that prevents the damage this person is causing at scale?

Prison/Jail rarely work - because the damage of each individual occurrence is small, they are usually out very quickly.

Providing housing can resolve problems in some cases, but there are people who are actively unwilling to stay in publicly provided housing (for a variety of reasons - although the most common I see is consistent drug use, closely followed by serious mental illness).

Meds can definitely help - but the category of people creating these disturbances generally have trouble consistently taking meds (again - for a variety of reasons including access to services and payment, but not the least is active, personal resistance)

So... if we've ruled out (as in - tried and failed) self medication + housing + prison... where do we go?

Because at that point - I'm not really convinced that forced treatment and care are really unreasonable responses. It is far more cost effective to gather these folks in a single place and confine them there than it is to allow them to roam and attempt to stop their problem behavior at the place it occurs. It's the difference between 10 guards, a large facility home, and medical staff - versus thousands of required staff spread over a city.
I haven't read War and Peace, nor (presumably) have I tried this app, but I will gladly come into the comments and shit on it. Gotta love hacker news.
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Many folks fully don't believe mental illness among younger people is as serious as it is. Maybe they have never seen it up close. Somehow the frailty of old age legitimizes it.
We wouldn't want to cause harm to Stanford. They might be reading this thread and get offended.
This happened last month.[1]

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-09/amazon-hi...
> Norway is already at ~80% EVs for new car sales. There are gas stations that are ripping up their pumps for fast chargers.

What do you do about the snow plows, garbage trucks, ambulances, police cars, buses, etc....vehicles that are currently being used for several hours a day and can't have any downtime??
People took some potassium and lost some weight
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/tethics
Why do the lawyers deserve this?

I can kind of understand the lawyers actively involved in the case being banned from the arena, but why should a lawyer who is not even licensed in NY, and does not appear to be involved in the case be banned?

Should lawyers be banned from going to hospitals they are litigating against?
google already has this technology and have submitted their own research. this is just hard to deploy at google scale. chatgpt is millions, google is billions and many companies rely on that entire ecosystem/ads
tmux. I only discovered it in the last several weeks so it hasn't saved me 100 hours yet, but it very clearly will. It has completely changed the way I work. Now I mostly work with just one large terminal window and I hardly ever touch the mouse anymore.
Not economically viable. Input costs are too high, especially wages and construction costs.

There's a reason why American companies turned to off-shoring with its lower costs several decades ago.
This is a bit too Luddite for my taste. Humans were involved at quite literally every step of this process. The human decided that this other group of humans is not allowed on their property. The only thing interesting the computer did is tell security that someone not allowed to be there was there.
Found the memo, reads Java.

Link :

The source :

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1433837480449613839/ph...

Discussed on HN, 2021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28424339
> I do not want your lawyers or their investigators or staff coming in and chatting with my staff or poking around my business without my lawyer being there.

Which was not the case here. You can not summary ban every employee of a large company that's doing something you don't like.

Kelly Conlon is not involved in the case against MSG, and (as far as I understand) had no knowledge of the case.
Put yourself in the shoes of the developer of a midi sequencer in the 80s. You could target the Atari, where midi ports are standard and everyone with an interest in music is a potential customer. Or you can target the Amiga where there’s no standard, effectively forcing you to source or develop a midi dongle yourself to sell with the software, increasing the price by at least $20 or $30, and adding complexity and development costs up front.
Unless people like beautiful content? Shelter doesn’t need to be beautiful either but weirdly people like looking at photos and videos of beautiful houses.
tbf, (TFA's author notwithstanding), although I agree the likelihood of offense for the first column is questionable in many cases, in a quick skim I didn't see any where replacement (not necessarily by the second column!) would have been at all objectionable, either.

tl;dr "Big Brother" seems far downslope for this concrete case. (And neither has its slipperiness been shown.)
Why isn’t endless growth attainable?

It’s like saying “we can’t keep writing poems forever.” Sure we can.

Realistically, many poems will be forgotten.

During my lifetime, we’ve probably forgotten/lost more poems than were written in all of history before my birth.

But we can keep making them, just as we can keeping building parents and software and flux capacitors and warp drives.

Why is there an inevitable limit, I truely don’t understand.
> I've never seen an ugly personal trainer.

That's too general. "Ugly" has too many dimensions. For example, a lot of women would consider most of the latest "Mr. Olympia" contestants as grotesque and ugly. One could also be greatly fit and still have an extremely unattractive face.

Now, if you want to say that you've never seen a successful, out-of-shape personal trainer, I'd probably concede that. Being in-shape is marketing for the expertise you are taking payment for.
I think it would be helpful in the comments to separate the issue of using facial recognition for public identification and entry, from the other issue of whether this person should have been allowed in regardless of the policy.

Personally I don't think facial recognition should be allowed for public identification.

On the other hand, I think it's perfectly fine to bar opposing attorneys actively working against you from entering your business. This is not a member of the "general public" and wasn't denied entry based on identity characteristics. She was banned because she (her firm) is SUING THEM. That seems like a pretty good reason right there...
Soviet control rooms and CRAY-1 aesthetics is what's missing in my life
> It led to a story that Macs were export-banned like weapons due to performance (reality is more fuzzy here)

The US government classified the G4 as a "supercomputer" and banned their export. Apple tried to make hay of this, but it hurt them, and within months Apple was lobbying to lift the ban.
> Race can never be a BFOQ except in the specific case of artistic works, due to the first amendment.

This is technically wrong, in that the First Amendment limitation on title VII is separate from BFOQs, and race can expressly never be a BFOQ. But the effect of the limitation is similar to allowing race to work like a BFOQ in certain circumstances in artistic contexts.
Ninite's automated installers [1].

This one tool has saved me hundreds of hours back in my support days (both at previous sidejobs and family members' houses) in downloading, installing, and _updating_ basic applications. I could leave the tiny Ninite executable on their desktop with the instruction to just run it once a month and it would keep all their stuff up to date.

[1] https://ninite.com/ Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once
>It feels like everything is broken in the Java web-dev ecosystem, except spring.

"Except Spring?" Spring IS the modern Java web-dev ecosystem. You can't write it off as a small exception. With Spring Boot it is very easy to get something working quickly.

It sounds like you may be suffering from the Paradox of Choice when it comes to the broad Java ecosystem(s). For new projects, just pretend nothing exists except Spring Boot and use annotation/java config for dependency management.

There's obviously a lot of legacy Java out there, but it's so massively popular that there's an immense amount of greenfield development going on as well. Don't take jobs working on Java EE stuff unless nowhere else will hire you and/or they are paying you a massive amount of money to do it.
I keep a handful of left-handed drill bits on hand for drilling out screws. You can get them cheaply from mcmaster. They work much better than "Easy-outs" and similar tools, and 90% of the time the fastener backs out well before you reach the point where you have to hope you're not damaging anything but the screw.
Not at 100 hrs yet but fastlane is getting there.

I set it up for making screenshots, building, sending to slack & submitting an app to App and Play Store. Saves time by minimising boring work, double win.
Ask HN: Which API IDLs would you use?
The state of competing standard problem seems to be here to stay so I have to pick one.

CADL from Microsoft: https://microsoft.github.io/cadl/language-basics/overview

Smithy from Amazon: https://smithy.io/2.0/index.html

JSON Schema IDL vocab (not a thing yet, and doesn't sound promising at all): https://github.com/json-schema-org/vocab-idl

And I know there are many IDL, but I only pick the ones based on their API related work.

OpenAPI's JSON Schema is definitely not designed for data modeling that's why the generator is a mess.

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I'm personally inclined to Smithy which seems to be the most battle-tested with real and large use case. And there's a better chance to convince my boss "it's from AWS", and generating OpenAPI file from it is also aligned with "standard" vibe.
I assume you use it with VS Code. Anyone used copilot with SublimeText? I know a plugin exists...
Android does have Content Providers [0], basically apps can provide a "filesystem" which isn't locally stored on your phone and act like Network Shares. Caveat is that you need an internet connection.

[0] https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content...
Sapir-Whorf almost can't be disproved. There's no point in disproving it. But where's the evidence?

> the idea that language has an influence on your thought patterns.

What does language even mean in that statement? You can weaken it down all you want, but in the context of this topic, language means: word usage, and thoughts mean: racist, sexist, etc. opinions. Do these opinions get influenced by e.g. the food you eat? The sunset? The temperature of your living room? Those are stimuli, or at least external influences. Language is not a stimulus, but more of a skill. It's encoded in your brain, and it allows you to communicate.

To put it bluntly: is there any evidence that people who are forced to use "black" instead of "African-American" become less racist?
Ahhh, that makes sense. So you can have a cross platform c++ and then bind cocoa. Thanks!
In many cases, I suspect providers would love if this was illegal, as they likely dislike being forced by the public to become arbiters of decency (thinking especially of Cloudflare banning trolls).

The balance, according to my limited understanding, is that certain types of activity including porn-adjacent sites have much higher card failure rates, so banning some activity is a way to reduce chargeback costs falling on Stripe's shoulders.
Related ongoing thread:

Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066965 - Dec 2022 (378 comments)
I can see it working for certain industries, but overall we need digital systems too. I work in manufacturing (biotech); everything we do uses a automated recipe, and there are only a handful of systems where we need an operator to directly interact with a UI to make stuff happen.
Translating song lyrics to code with ChatGPT
This engine at least says it has "High DPI resolution & Canvas advanced auto scaling", so it might not have that issue.
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Wells Fargo is the worst repeat offender in American consumer financial services.

There should be serious discussions around withdrawing their banking license. It's incredibly difficult to get a banking license in this country, and it does not serve the public good to have this predatory institution operating under the aegis of the American government.

Pull their license, let some new entrants into the market.
That's true but that saying breaks down when you're investing money into and benefiting technology that makes the world less open and sustainable and then proceed to talk about everything you're doing to make the world more sustainable.
Sure we can take that matter of fact approach, and she accepts. However MSG is now not allowed to have a liquor license as a matter of fact.
Especially since companies can, as of recently, issue new shares to sell as part of the listing (like they would in an IPO) instead of relying on insiders to provide the liquidity.
> according to the musical disposition of that day, he was generations behind it”. He used forms – particularly the fugue – that were unfashionable in the early 18th century.

All the music from the Bach era (1680s to 1750s) that is emphasized today has a great deal in common with J. S. Bach. Bach is just a cut better at it.

Bach didn't just write fugues, and he gave them fun preludes when he did.

From a historic perspective, Bach's music cannot be called anachronistic w.r.t. his period, when taken together with other music from the period which survives.

Hey, look, these three guys were 1685 babies:

J.S. Bach: 1685 - 1750

Scarlatti: 1685 - 1757

Handel: 1685 - 1759

A little senior:

Vivaldi: 1679 - 1741

Telemann: 1681 - 1767

Lol, everyone I can think of off the top of my head is clustered around 1680.

If one of them made old, unfashionable music, they all must have.
My co-worker's engagement was recently reduced due to lack of work matching his highly specific skills, so he's on the lookout for another project.

He was told by one of the recruiters that while there are offers for contractors such as us, it's the first time since time immemorial when they're actually considerably lower than the previous year.

Don't know what to make of this - could be just a negotiation tactic but indeed the budget he was offered there was around 75% of what he had in his previous main thing(our project is technically his side gig).

Meanwhile Google was on a hiring spree around here for the past few months, but the compensation offered is reportedly, ahem, uninspiring.

Perhaps if enough companies do the same we'll be facing not a job shortage, but a well-paid job shortage. I think it's possible.
Probably she is associated with that firm on LinkedIn... It's not easy to imagine how someone gets a database of photos of employees of a law firm.

I'd bet she self-identified as being an employee and posted to social media about it.
This regression I've personally tested and confirm:

You can't hit anywhere near "line rate" with usb 3.1/3.2, though an Intel Mac will gladly do so with the same _exact_ drive. You will experience write stalls and other performance problems. I don't have a usb4 drive to test by I wouldn't hold your breath.

I do not have a Thunderbolt 3 device to test. Google tells me it's a problem: https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/18/m1-mac-thunderbolt-4-ports-sp...

Expect _at most_half the advertised speeds and feel lucky if you achieve them.

EDIT:

From the article I linked: I just noticed they suggest try connecting my drive to a Thunderbolt 3 dock first. LOL, ok, I'll give this a try.
That is so strange. I worked in a mixed shop and all of us OSX people laughed our butts off when we did zoom and screen share with Windows guys as they took forever to do stuff we did almost instantly. I used Windows side-by-side with OSX for years and had nothing like your experience.

But, good on you. It's nice that you found your niche. If you ever are forced to switch back reach out. I have a lot of good techniques for fast and pleasant OSX.
This makes sense for the small stop and go trucks for around town, but I'm not sure if it's that great of an idea for longer haul trips between distribution centers
The market had probably expected a worse punishment.
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$600 per year?? You should ask the city if you are allowed to deduct that from your local property taxes that would normally go toward the police budget.
I'm siding with not banning journalists on an absolute free speech platform.

> Orwellian

Ok bud.
You can't post like this here. Since you've been breaking the site guidelines in other places too, with unsubstantive and flamebait comments, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

No this has nothing to do with how right or left you are. You can s/left/right/ the text and it would be just as bad.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I can’t imagine saying with a straight face that the legality of nude videos would depend on how attractive (according to some standard) the people in the videos are.
Your code example essentially renames a regular wildcard Exception to module-specific wildcard exception.

But here's a thing:

For direct callers of your module, regular wildcard and module wildcard are exactly the same. There's absolutely no difference for them whether they are catching module.Error or Exception, because your code is structured so that mean exactly the same thing.

For indirect callers higher in the stack, your custom wildcard exception makes error handling harder, because instead of familiar exceptions they will see your custom one. Your wrapper makes it harder to access what happened, but easier to access where it happened. This is just a bad tradeoff. In some cases for you where might be more valuable than what. But you are in no position to assume that this is how it's going to be for your customers.

Examples where this practice might be useful (e.g. explicitly shifting the blame to a 3rd party) are simply too rare to justify those wrappers. You could still achieve the same results by inspecting the stack, without impeding the ability of your customers to deal with known exceptions.
Oh for sure... I'm used to waiting forever for a cab sometimes at JFK, which kind of suggests there's not a whole pool of cabs waiting to pick someone up. I guess I'm surprised that given these volumes cabs have to wait as long as travelers do. Seems like they need a whole foods style queue with multiple lines.
Sure, I’m with you on that. As a one-time transactional system, like verifying that the person presenting an ID card is the person on its photo, fine. I don’t want it going into a permanent database.
macOS and its integration with mac touchpad. I used Windows and Linux on several laptops and none was so well designed to switch between desktops and searching for windows. Ah and M1 speeds (unless you count updates and installing Xcode but you can't have everything).
Same here. I wasn't financially prepared to buy a house at insanely inflated Covid prices while interest rates were down in the 2% range, and I'm not excited to to buy a house at 7% while prices are still substantially higher than pre-Covid levels. Meanwhile rentals for anything other than a tiny box are just as expensive as a mortgage at those rates.

I don't understand how people who do not have 6-figure tech salaries are expected to have anything other than a poverty lifestyle when housing is so expensive.

I also don't understand these well-dressed young families parading around Boston and New York with their expensive baby carriages and $75k SUVs. Did I miss a memo on how to get rich at 30? Are they all going broke living like that? Did they all inherit a lot of money? Do they live in tiny apartments?
I've already read a science fiction story or two about this scenario - a dangerously schizophrenic guy goes off his meds and then murders someone during mania. He gets charged with criminal negligence because he knew how dangerous he would be without his meds. One of Niven's short stories, he loved to write about the ethics of schizophrenia.
The media is corrupt and filled with incompetent writers. According to them we will be replaced by ai monday morning. They did the same wave of stories where they said baristas and chefs will be replaced by ai robots just a few years ago. They even had “proof”: a robot arm here and there doing a crappy job at making a burger and scrambled eggs. Now it’s tech “workers”. Also there are no jobs in tech. These folks writing “news” really are clueless and have no idea what they are writing - dont usually bother talking to people and researching their content, they just spew it out.
This approach breaks down when thinking about teams in a large organization. Language switches are a big deal.
There are widespread reports that there is no shelter availability for single men in my metro area. I suspect that multiple times per week I’ll be unable to find a cot in a shelter. Not sure what the legal thing to do then is.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/...

I’m also a bit concerned about the safety and conditions in the shelters, being that close to unpredictable strangers. But I’d prefer that over doing anything illegal.
Wow. Real solid good-intention paving bricks on the road to hell. For consistency, are the people who study taught by people who teach, or are students taught by teachers? I'm particularly struck by "addiction" -> "devotion", as that makes it sound holy. Etymologically, addiction (without say) seemed apt.

Hope this is accurate and not farce fobbed off on the ignorant. Then again, maybe I don't.
Specially when best worker experience companies have delivered best consumer product experience.
is there a video of this feature?
Shotgun and slugs, with a sling for carrying. Slugs tear through whatever is in the way.

I do have the big spray canister with holster, and that setup seems finicky. Though I haven't done live practice with it.