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Can we get some dates on those facts?

Too many time I have seen evidence like this, only to later see that the dates changes the context.

Did Salesforce have a PR campaign against human trafficking and prostitution before or after Backpage got seized by U.S. authorities in April 2018? Before or after Backpage became a customer? Before or after the adult section? Before or after it was generally known to include sex trafficking (which given a glance on the wikipedia article is sometimes around 2012-ish?

The other question is why did it take U.S. authorities until April 2018, 14 years after backpage was launched and 6 years after it was generally known? Were they incompetent, a lack of resources, or what? Did saleforce has knowledge that the police did not, and if so when, and why was it not given over to the police? How long time was the investigation and was salveforce involved? Was it a legal grey zone and as such the opinion of lawyers was involved, which we don't know the context or dates of? Did Saleforce get advice from the prosecutor/police?

This case is interesting but to me almost all the important details are currently not public.
Unfortunately, some these chemicals can also have significant negative effects at vanishingly small doses, we're talking 1 part per billion. This is especially true for developing embryos (which share blood with the mother).
I also like to ask if I can see the "solution" they are advertising on there website.
For international phone meetings this is good but for travel it’s really bad.
This is more like some guy in the early 1900s having the job of hand-delivering important information on a horse.

Then deciding on his own on the advice of HN that he should try a car for that task instead, the car breaking down, and the guy getting fired because his employer never approved of this whole "car" thing and he shouldn't have introduced that into his job workflow without having talked to his employer about it.
Because the beach gets boring after a while.

I sold a company at a young age and had enough money to not have to work for several years. I sat on the beach. I traveled. I had fun.

Then I got tired of it. I really wanted to do something with my life.

So I started another company. That one didn't work out as well as I'd hoped, so I collected myself and invested in/became co-owner of another company. That one has done really well. I don't need to start another company to make money.

But I'm starting another software company now, and excited to do that. I am less motivated by money, and more motivated/excited to see this dream come to fruition.

There are certainly some people for whom the beach doesn't get boring. I absolutely know people who exited for millions, whether as a founder or an early employee, and just retired. They won't be interviewing you, however.

The people who decided to start again are the ones who have a kind of genuine excitement for making the world a better place, and their startup is a vehicle for them to do that.
This is super cool! We're going to have to rush to implement this in the wasmer runtime!
> It should operate like a good old paper calendar.

In that case, you enter a recurring 10 am conference call every Monday, and the moment you move timezones you miss the call.

The problem really is (as mentioned in this thread) that the user's intent is not known.
Paper calendar/planners don't have this problem. That's why I still use them.
Switched to neuroscience, much more low hanging fruit there. Though imho work in academia has an expiration date.
How not? Heat rises, so any house that lets all the air float up through a giant foyer to the 2nd floor is not optimal.
Let me get this straight, a missile is easy to track, but a giant mirror reflecting a load of sunlight that would have to be LoS to the satellite wouldn’t be? Not to mention that bombing the mirror would be a lot easier than shooting down the missile...
I never understood Tile and the rest.

The only thing I want a locator on is my phone.
Pedantically, it's running your code via Miri. Miri is an interpreter, so you have to trigger undefined behavior during a specific run of Miri for it to be reported.
I find it ok for me to photograph other people without their consent in public.
But no one is talking about this in America, in which The British rightwing would be classified as undeniably liberal. Why is this happening in the UK vs the US?
It assumes/alleges salesforce knew that Backpage was in human trafficking and they knew backpage was their customer at the same time, neither of which they prove or even attempt to prove.

Gonna wait on the courts for this one, so far its all too much implied and nothing for actual facts.
That's a great point about access to Shenzhen from HK. How's the language barrier been? Have you had to learn both Canto and Mando and read both simplified and traditional? Is there a distinct advantage to living on one side of the border over the other?
I think it depends on what the time represents.

When a user inputs a time, let's say for an alarm, this is always "wall clock", and this is what you store. The timezone can be stored too, but this is also dynamic. For example, a user put a conference in a calendar at 7 am, this is dependent of the user location the day of the conference.

For app following the user, this is simple (like a mobile app), you just use the current timezone of the system the app is running on, but for a distributed system (client server), it might be complicated to pick a timezone and is dependent of the application.

For computer times (like logging, cron...), just use UTC.
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As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it is not just about convincing people, but also having an avenue for repair once they are convinced.

The UK can mend existing laws by voting in a new parliament who pledge to carry it out in their election manifestos - unless of course, they are lying sods like they current government who are betraying people by doing the opposite to what they pledged.

EU citizens have only one option: To beg. They do not have an avenue for repealing laws because the people who make the laws are not accountable to them. They are not elected, and they can't be voted out. The people elected by EU citizens are merely a defense mechanism who can reject bad laws that the unelected might propose, however, bribes can certainly solve that problem. What the commission wants, the commission gets.
Yeah I had a startup offer me 50K shares or something like that and I started poking at what their full diluted share count is and they hemmed and hawwed. Pass.
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The concept that has been upheld for the current system in the past is: Companies do R&D, some fails, and some succeeds, and the profits from the successes pay for both the failures and successes.

The poster I was replying to points out that this concept isn't actually what is happening (at least, anymore, for some areas) - instead, smaller companies do R&D - some fail, and the investment is lost; some succeed, and the profit from being BOUGHT rewards the investment. The reward for success is great enough that some investors will gamble on these small companies (while the big companies investors are investing with lower risk, lower rewards).

I pointed out that this is very similar to the XPrize - private investment was done in many companies, but only one (ish) would win. (This is actually a bad analogy, since the XPrize was much more about status - the prize wasn't large enough to truly be significant to a company that could claim it). My (unspoken) point was that the govt could stipulate controls on the resulting product - companies could research with greater confidence of what payout they'd get (on success, of course), but the incentive for price gouging is removed.

The difference between today's IP-monopoly and the XPrize is that the prize was a known amount, and in the part I didn't state, minimal profit would be had past that, compared to today's "you get as much as you can gouge, for as long as you can abuse rent-seeking".

Really I just did a terrible job of explaining my point.
You got me thinking about this, assuming good sexual education relating to safety and age of consent, fundamentally, I can't see an issue with allowing someone to see how healthy sexual encounters play out in a video format. So we're talking about a very specific wholesome type of porn. The taboo and embarrassment are social constructs we could get past.

Would you stop your child from watching another species have sex in say a zoo? What reason would you give if so? I think we could separate observation of the act from participation in the minds of our youth, probably not in my lifetime but I think it could be done.
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What a surprise. Politicians step out of their bubble to find out that people hate the laws their sponsors are pushing and try to backpedal.
So... Don't announce scientific achievements by your national space agency during an election?

Talk about skewed perspectives.
And then complain about how they don't make enough money (aka, the rent is too high) and the place is nasty?

A simple cost/benefit analysis shows that living in SF or NYC is a losing proposition for most.
Then you must be sad when the Internet was invented as well ? How about cars ?
It will also ionize the air in an extreme manner, probably rendering the surrounding environment impossible to be in.

For a rough estimate, see this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
I definitely agree with you about zoning needing to be done at the state level. I'm somewhat optimistic that some of the state level zoning initiatives in CA will take hold and we'll see some progress in this area. Fingers crossed!
But the point of the article is to break down the economic incentives. If you're personally disadvantaged by economic progress, you're incentivized to oppose it. I'd argue there's significant empirical evidence of this throughout history. The author posits that a large number of people in major cities are incentivized in this way, and while I don't know what the numbers are, I'd argue the theory is sound.
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You might be interested in issue #511: Building a REPL on top of miri [1]

If you just want to get the MIR, you can do that today. In the playground, expand the "Run" menu and select "MIR".

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues/511
> Well, how many jobs that pay 100k€ can you find in Berlin?

Unless you are C level you can forget about it.
Some number less than 100% of the current US population owns 100% of the homes, though, since tens of millions of people (due primarily to age or resources) do not own real estate. Thus, using a percentage of the total population this way, outside of that context, doesn't really mean much.
Been hoping a stdlib for WASM would spring up. So if I wanted to implement a WASI backend (e.g. on the JVM), are the function definitions I should implement here: [0]? I assume string, array, struct, etc layout in WASM mem is as C expects? Also, is it a goal to provide a test suite to test conforming backend implementations (may already be there, didn't look)? Finally, pardon my lack of research before asking, does this mean that an LLVM-based WASM compilation can target this instead of emscripten/libc and the final WASM could reference all of these API pieces as a imports? Is there an expected posix/libc-to-wasi lib?

0 - https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime-wasi/blob/wasi/docs...
That’s why most edu addresses get huge breaks
Depends on the neighborhood/city. In the south it's not uncommon to get people throwing trash at you and/or forcing you off the road.
Physics PhD, 2015. I knew from the start of my PhD that I didn't want to pursue academia. The PhD was like being in a band for 6 years and doing really cool stuff.

Went right into industry after PhD working for a life sciences company in systems engineering (the product design type, not the computer networking type). Now managing a small team designing robotic systems to automate chemistry/biology research.
I think the parent means rent control as in "control of the rent in a particular area everywhere at once", rather than "rent-controlled contract for this particular property"
Thanks - it's been tricky to say "no" and it feels weird to ask them to do a trial before. I think it depends on them as they might feel they are not "good enough" and it requires a certain level of maturity to realize trials are good for both of us.
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Same here. I was fast-tracked from Cubs to Boy Scouts because I was picked on and teased endlessly by many of the scouts. Later in my early teens even the scout master gave me hell because he was the father of the worst bully in the troop. I eventually had to leave what I saw as an organization of bully-enablers. This was in a small country town in SE Texas, more like redneck-scouts.
You gotta fight with it with operators if you want a useful search. Google loves to remove useful operators or hit you with captcha challenges if you are using operators too much.
Android wasn't created by Google. They acquired it, and then had to deal with the legacy cruft that was already a part of it by then. The "platform-level" changes they've made since the acquisition—e.g. replacing Dalvik with ART—have mostly been sound engineering choices.

> They do not realize that they are make •a platform•, not a product.

Consider: maybe Fuchsia isn't a platform?

ChromeOS certainly isn't a platform: developers don't develop "for ChromeOS." App developers target the WebExtension ABI (or, more recently, the Android ABI), and ChromeOS just runs their apps using mysterious virtualization magic that doesn't matter to the developer. You don't target the OS; you just target a stable ABI. (Other examples of this: the Linux kernel ABI used by Docker on {Linux, macOS, Windows}; the Linux kernel ABI used by Illumos branded zones; the Linux userland ABI used by the Steam Runtime.) Essentially, you can think of ChromeOS not as an OS in the traditional sense, but as a hypervisor. The libs your apps depend on aren't part of the OS; they're part of your ABI's zonal environment, which is stabilized separately from the OS.

I would expect that Fuchsia is doing the same: being an OS but not a platform. The only people who will have to directly target Fuchsia are Google engineers.
It's a US thing. Most folks here have very little exposure to political philosophy unless they seek it out or major in something at least adjacent to it in college, and the bit they do is almost all Locke's concept of natural rights, by way of Paine. Neither figure is typically read, only mentioned and briefly summarized. Like, that's it. Beginning and end. Whole thing.

That the concept is... not trivial to defend, in these our modern times, and further that it may not have much practical use beyond its value in propaganda (which is real and shouldn't be dismissed and, I suppose, is furthered by the sort of education above) isn't really covered.
I am a current Sr. SDE at Amazon in the Retail org. I would agree with most of the rebuttals, and I don't have too much to add, since they do a pretty good job summarizing.
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Unix timestamps are almost always the wrong choice to represent date/time, unless you're doing something directly involving a unix filesystem.
Given my point is that you don’t need to be a dictatorship to do it, yes.

Not that being free from government influence frees you from the political preferences of your owner, as this recent non-sequitur headline from the Express should demonstrate: “EU BLACKMAIL: Brussels threatens FOOD AID to UK in 'last throw of dice of Project Fear'”.
Yo! Zeeman splitting or faraday rotation?
Craigslist would have been shut down if they hadn't closed down their 'lonely hearts' section. Backpage was essentially a craigslist clone right down to look and feel and allowed prostitution advertising, which was the main substance and content of that site until they were closed down.

This is another difficult free speech and enabling platform 'responsibility' area which is easily exploitable by both criminals (human traffickers etc) and exploiters of the law's grey areas (Those suing SalesForce). Like the Michael Jackson accusers there is a danger that widely circulated accusations presented as fact by the corporate media will greatly damage SalesForce's credibility. huge sums of money as compensation/hush money are at stake and there is much to gain and little to risk for accusers in the current climate.
Of course, and in that case as the user has to enter their credit card details DirectPay's UX is more comparable to Stripe. In my opinion Stripe is preferable in that situation as it's just looks much better, and has friendlier language around it.
Earlier discussion about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19499104
high as in I usually have 50% of my income available after paying rent/food/transportation and other costs. Rent is high if you keep "western" standards for your living space, likewise for food.
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> Might annoy or alienate a CEO (maybe that’s a warning sign?)

Yes, this is a warning sign. A CEO of a startup should know that employees take on risk by joining and that prudent candidates will want to take the financial health of the company into consideration when comparing offers.
Or, just let private builders build. Housing is not magically immune to supply and demand. Only advocating for the government to increase supply isn’t a very effective solution.
That already existed before the Web got widespread.

Mainframes, X Windows terminals, Netware, ....
There are two use cases: one is for meetings with participants in different timezones. Gcal does this well. There other use case is travel. For this the current system is not very good.
Bachelors in physics. FANG software engineer now. Gotta afford Bay Area housing.

I'll probably retire early one day and then work on other interesting stuff I like as well, e.g. rocket science which I did briefly.
Nice quote. I'll have to read that paper later.

You can merge ML and theory in at least one way. I attended a talk by Prof. Karen Willcox of the University of Texas at Austin (I'm a PhD student in mechanical engineering there) where she argued that in fluid dynamics and combustion at least, it's better to use "model order reduction" instead of machine learning. The problem with many models (e.g., Navier-Stokes equations) in these fields is that they are computationally expensive. Model order reduction looks for ways to reduce the computational cost of the model while maintaining accuracy, and it uses many of the same techniques as machine learning. Based on the examples she gave it seemed to be the closest thing I've seen to merge the two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_order_reduction

http://kiwi.ices.utexas.edu/
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Is anyone really surprised that a politician would make an excuse like this? Whether the politician actually made a mistake or is just saying so after the fact really is immaterial. When it counted, they did the wrong thing. Trying to make excuses after the fact says a lot about the politician.
Not sold. Motorcycles are inherently unsafe because they are extremely unprotected - there is very little you can really do against a driver making a mistake. And the reason most people riding them are risk takers is because everyone else has enough sense to not ride them.

I knew a person who was a careful type, always wanted a motorcycle, took classes, rode carefully, had full protective gear, etc. And he did it for a while but driving in traffic he realized that very little protected him from death. He discontinued eventually.

Generally, "but I'm special, I'm different" is not a great assumption for safety. The average car driver is not great, either, but they're still not dying in the same amounts.
Insert "But the USA/EU is..." comment here.
Most people have more events that happen at a particular instant but different local times (e.g. phone calls between people in different timezones) than events that happen at a fixed local time but different instants. When I'm planning my trip to Germany I certainly don't want it showing all my calls at the wrong time.
I am not a physicist, but one thing I've noticed is that the physicists I know tend to be very good at Mathematica, and if they happen to transition to a data science role, then Mathematica is sort of this secret weapon that they have.

I've been learning it for the first time recently, and there are data science problems that are somehow tractable in Mathematica that were very hard for me to do in Python. Some of this stuff, like FindDistribution, seems only to have been added in the last few years. The random process library is really amazing as well.
2. Stripe's currency conversion rates are also terrible. And you're forced into converting the currency rather than being able to deposit it in the currency my users pay in...
I still disagree. I also travel a lot, and I set the meetings in the timezone where the meeting is. It's not a paper calendar.
The buildings might get 2 stories taller! At least they chose a reasonable time for the meeting.

I don't know what to do in SF other than trying another round of electing supervisors at large. The way the "supervisorial courtesy" works in the city turns neighborhoods into inviolable fiefdoms. I can influence my supervisor, but my district isn't going to be able to solve the various urban decay problems on its own.
I don't know much, but did see there was a Bloomberg series about Shenzen that had some Western entrepreneurs in some episodes. It looks awesome tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLmaIbb13GM

I think in that episode they were talking about the Hax incubator. https://hax.co/
I’d ask some form of “what separates you from your competitors?”

I’m interested in why this CEO/company thinks their solution is better?

How will they protect their advantage (or rather, how is that advantage protected)?
This is what I think it is. News websites want to turn to paywalls now that GDPR is going to decimate targeted advertising once the lawsuits start coming down but to do that, they need to

1: prevent any free news websites from linking to their pay-walled website and paraphrasing/quoting the whole thing (most people won't pay for the original news source when they can read practically the same thing from a free website). Article 11 prevents this without compensation to the original source.

2: prevent any single user who has access to the pay-walled website from posting the entire article onto websites like hacker news and reddit which I see happen all the time (that and outline/archive links). Article 13 prevents this with automated filters that if fail, the news website can just sue the website and get compensated that way.
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Honestly that's comparable to SF, percentage-wise. But the 50% that's left will be higher.
There is actually also +3 at that latitude. In russia, the moscow timezone reaches far enough in the North.

That means you get 6 timezones for that latitude if you include the ocean.
How much of the Fuscia model apply to Web Assembly? It seems like they could share similar security models
~80% of human trafficking victims are sexually exploited [1]. So that seems alot more than tangential. I don't think anyone is arguing that human trafficking should be legal.

[1] https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/global-repo...
>He's abnormally persistent about enduring failure until he finds the big thing. Blogger and Twitter were both preceded by long periods of failure.

If that "failure" still got investor money, then there's not so much "persistence" involved.

Blogger was sold in like 4 years, that's not some incredible tenacity either.