skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sex for money between two consenting adults is the definition of victimless crime. Nothing and no one is hurt but those with puritanical sensibilities. Arguing that legalized prostitution increases trafficking or abuse is hypocrisy to the extreme - does legalized alcohol not increase alcoholics?

If you want to reduce harm, legalize and regulate. The market for sex will never go away, and sex workers need the state to protect them to reduce the influence of pimps.

20 years ago, no one would have imagined that marijuana would be essentially legal in the USA. 20 years from now, I predict sex work will be pretty much the same. It's a matter of individual rights, and the fact that it's illegal to profit from your own body in the USA is a travesty.

Edit - I want to reiterate that I 100% do not support in any possible way the exploitation of underage persons nor blame them for what was described in the article. However, I believe such articles negatively affect the image of legitimate sex workers and feel obligated to make a statement on this violation of personal liberty, especially when we have moved so far towards liberty of marijuana in the past few years.

I will always promote individual liberty in controversial subjects such as sex and drugs, it is a moral obligation.
These two articles talk about this question:

https://www.popsci.com/why-did-nasa-still-use-pure-oxygen-af...

https://www.space.com/17338-apollo-1.html
5G is live in 3 countries, but we still need answers on health risks
Nonetheless, if you were to come down with an acute illness that requires hospitalization, or break a leg (god forbid), you will get care whether you have the means or not. That is, by definition, "universal" healthcare. I did say he simplified the situation, but not by much. He did it for the purposes of persuasion, as he often does.

His main point was, _we are already paying_ for universal healthcare, since everyone who _really_ needs the expensive stuff done, gets healthcare care. It's hard to argue with this.
How certain are we that the visual configuration of those ~5% males aren't an intermediary step towards better human sight, a benign mutation? They might even have better sight than us normies already only we haven't the technology yet to take advantage of it. Given the right glasses maybe they can see to Mars. Or maybe once we live on Mars, they are the ones with the better eye sight and we are considered the ones with a flaw.
The event happened near the coast and prevailing winds blew the cloud out over the ocean
"SpaceX Crew Dragon pad testing finds anomaly delaying launch" sounds more accurate and less distressing.
I'm not familiar with the history of tea cultivation in Indonesia, or its tea culture. If you know of a good overview I'd be interested in reading it.

One country I neglected to reference and which should be listed ahead of India and Sri Lanka is Vietnam. Here is a good overview of that country's history of tea cultivation and its present state:

https://specialtyteaalliance.org/world-of-tea/vietnamese-tea...
Some people can do both, but choose the second (using a library) because of all the reasons reusing existing libraries instead of rolling your own. From this point of view, I'd rather hire someone who doesn't suffer from the "not invented here" syndrome.
Did you read TFA? Because it's about pimps grooming teenagers, not consenting adults.
The implementation of those green threads wasn’t so green. Yes, it’s taken some time, but we’ve gone from a frankly pretty bad implementation to a best-in-class one, at least in terms of efficiency. These things are not simple. It would have been nice to have it years ago, but millions of lines of Rust have been written since then without the need for this stuff.
Why German bread is the best in the world (2018)
>>I'm now starting a software company.

So are you going to

a) hire the best developer you know and pay them whatever they ask, or

b) hire the best developer who falls within your budget (which, I presume, cannot be very high when you are starting)

If you answered b), then I guess you already know the problem. No matter how qualified you personally think you are (and you are, I am not doubting that) - the only thing that matters is whether you fit into the plans of your employer, which includes whatever nebulous salary range they have in mind.

I suppose you will say that you are already running a successful business. But IMO that doesn't actually amount to much when you are creating a software business. Why? Because you are now competing with the FAANGs of the market. And there is already a lot of talk that FAANGs are actively hiring to take the best labor off the talent pool even if they don't need the services of those hires. So suddenly you have just lost almost all opportunity you had to create arbitrage - that wonderful and probably mythical situation where you buy labor low and sell the output high and take home a handsome profit.

So you recalibrate your expectations and go one rung lower. And you do grow your company quite successfully, because, lets be honest, if you can "do things which do not scale" at first to grow companies, it pretty much follows that you can make plenty of money despite hiring ordinary talent in the beginning stages if you have a good business background - which you do. And at some point, because you grew so fast, you will face a similar shortage for some kind of skillset, only to find that you suddenly cannot really afford to pay what the very well qualified person wants because that isn't even a part of your culture anymore.

And ironically, said person then goes and writes a post about how your company completely lowballed them :-)
The absolite vitrol at the fact that WHITE people were psying money out of their pocket for community libraries which had the side-benefit of projecting a certain image baffled me.

The fact that a paid product was used disperportionstely by rich peoppe who could afford them, and educated people that read was blindingly obvious. The fact that areas which already had libraries would have many of these paid mini libraries is fairly obvious because areas with libraries are full of readers. I fail to grasp the point of much of yheir demographic analysis.

For an article so firm that little libraries were virtue signalling this article was chock full of bog standard progressive virtue signalling like bashing on something because white people participate in it. Goddamned fucking White people reading and sharing after they've finished smh.
My understanding is that the initial design was intended to fly in space with a ~5psi pure-oxygen environment for the same reasons that previous spacecraft all did, and that American spacewalks today still do: it reduces complexity, reduces weight, and decreases required hull strength. Fire propagation in that environment isn't actually as bad of an issue as you expect because the pressure is correspondingly lower, so their isn't actually more O2 available in the air.

The problem is that the Apollo 1 test was run with both a pure-oxygen environment and a positive relative pressure to the outside, but was run on the ground. That meant a ~16psi pure oxygen environment, which is a real fire propagation issue, meaning materials which were specced not to burn in the flight environment could burn during the test.
all he has to do is go to defcon, and not care about certs. You'll find great security folks.
That wasn’t the question being asked.

Games played by computers (with the exception of NN-based programs) have a generally-discernible feel to them that I believe most grandmasters can spot a mile away.
This doesn't account for land value. Much of this land might be worthless on a m2 basis.
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-treat-periodontitis-...

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-food-for-periodontal-d...

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-dental-he...

Click on "sources cited" to find plenty of research
> Is there nomenclature that’s better?

I prefer "rapid unplanned disassembly".
Holy shit HN is extra today. In this thread I counted maybe three responses that were meaningful. The rest were armchair quarterbacking from a lot of folks on how to do it better or how the product sucks without substantive feedback. What happened to HN? Nearly every thread is like this anymore. This quote is becoming more and more relevant here.

“You write your snide bullshit in a dark room because that's what the angry do these days”
A software analogy would be: if a client asks for a simple website with a shopping cart and a newsletter, and you ask 10 programmers, you're almost guaranteed to get 10 different platforms (different CMS, different language like PHP vs Ruby vs .net)

It's kind of the same thing with dentists: a good surgeon will tend to lean towards surgery, and there are usually at least 2-3 different ways of solving a particular problem
> I'm 45 and have gray hair. /.../ It apparently indicates I am completely ignorant about technology and social media.

One has to be on serious drugs (or profoundly ignorant on the not-very-bright-kindergartener level) to think somebody 45 years old working in tech is ignorant about tech or social media. This is the generation who had computers since they were 10. And back then computers required real investment of time and knowledge to use.

Is it a real thing that happens? Are there recruiters like that?
I'm not denying it. Just that, when they started out, their response was telling: "How do you plan to run this 'awesome publishing platform' for free?" "Um ah we...ummm...magic? We'll see." I've seen that enough times to recognize digital sharecropping: first you work for free, then we monetize it for ourselves. Amazing that people dismissed that with "nah, they wouldn't dare. Why not? They're new, therefore not evil!" #wishfulThinking

TL;DR: "first dose is free"
>> You just didn't have...
>> So you're unlikely to get...

You have crafted a strange model. What are the upsides to such a system, to you, the employee?
Because experience is a very weak signal and skills are hard to quantify and extremely hard to measure in the relative brevity of the interview process.

There are obviously problems with a reliance on salary as a signal of quality/value produced. But I don't understand the impulse to pretend that there isn't nontrivial signal in a previous salary.
Fourier transforms also smell quite similar. With those you also know how many samples you need to represent a function which changes at some known maximum frequency, using the Nyquist theorem. Is there anything translatable with neural nets? Like would you be able to prove you need X nr of neurons to represent a given function?

It seems the choice of function inside the neuron is kindof arbitary or is it locked to the sigmoid function? If so you could put cos and i*sin as function in your neurons and your neural net essentially becomes DFT?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_Fourier_transform
While "RNNs are Turing-complete" is true in theory under certain assumptions, it is not true in practice. See slide 12 and on here (https://uclmr.github.io/nampi/2016/talk_slides/grefenstette-...) for some discussion.
Never use that word here or you will be automatically down voted by Luddites.
Fascinating. Do you have an opinion on if they should keep name or not?

I’m in favor.
> I'm afraid to link it here because the traffic might kill my puny box.

So what if it does?

Presumably it isn't a "critical" host so the worst that could happen is, what, no one can read what your blog posts for a little while? Eventually, the traffic will go away and things will go back to normal, yeah?

I assume that (part of) the reason for writing your blog post was so that others could read it. Yet, by not posting the link, you are ensuring that we don't -- even though pretty much all of us in this comment thread are the target audience.

Alternatively, as someone else mentioned, there are things like the Internet Archive.

(FWIW, several years ago, a page on my blog was linked by The Atlantic one morning and shortly thereafter it also hit the front page of (IIRC) both Reddit and HN. The only way I figured out that "something was up" was due to the huge number of "new follower" notifications I was getting from Twitter as I was driving to work. At the time, I was running WordPress on a little VPS with 1 CPU core and 768 MB of RAM and it handled the ~115,000 page views just fine that day -- although I did have caching and such in place. YMMV.)
> The employer will therefore still know if you're making above or below the usual salary.

Thats still way better than being forced to give an exact number. Now the employer has to kinda sorta guess. Instead of getting underpaid by 30%, you might only get underpaid by 20%.
Did you say that on the phone or email? Did they reach out to you first after two weeks of radio silence? I’m always curious how these negotiations go since I just got off the job market.
<Edit>Quoting</Edit> James Comey lecturing people on how to pick their battles in post 2016 is pretty rich.

Edit: Wanted to clarify that the time of the Comey of anecdote didn't occur after 2016 isn't suspect, but putting stock in it after then should be.
Southwest to buy 100s more of 737 Max planes
unfortunately there are still many "land locked" public lands among those protected lands in california: public lands which are encircled by private lands, with no easement. in the sierra the access situation is generally very good, however there are definitely examples elsewhere which beg the question of what it means to be "public" when it can't be accessed.

for example, although the summit of berryessa peak is on BLM land, the only access is through private land. fortunately one land owner was convinced to allow an easement on a short section of trail to allow the opening of the berryessa peak trail, and access to this peak, but for years it was public and yet off-limits.[1]

on the west side of lake berryessa, cedar roughs wilderness, currently has no access. there are old roads/trails in there which are accessible from private land, but no public easement.

there was an article posted here last year about similar issues surrounding the crazy mountains in montana[2].

[1] https://www.summitpost.org/berryessa-peak/766290
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-25/this-land...
It looks like it’s on Github (link from the Sciter Downloads page).
Yes - and why does this pimp have business? Because customers cannot distinguish between above-board providers and monsters like in TFA, because the government has outlawed the entire industry and driven it underground.
A large number of people have the job title "mental health nurse" or "psychiatric nurse". A majority of those people spend a majority of their time working with the most seriously ill people. For a high-income country, the US has an unusually low number of mental health nurses relative to the overall population; there are more than five times as many mental health nurses per capita in the UK, Scandinavia, New Zealand or Japan.

https://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/nursing_atlas_200...
I am not interested to watch the video; PGN would be more useful (with comments added), I think. Then you can print out, too, if you want to do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 perhaps?
“There is absolutely no facial recognition component to these cameras, no facial recognition software, or anything else that could be used to automatically identify people in any way, and we have no plans to add facial recognition software to these cameras in the future,”

Nice evasion of the actual question.

Nobody is expecting the cameras to have facial recognition software running on them.

Where's the video feed end up? WHo has access to it? What safeguards are in place to ensure the video/data stream coming out of the camera do not ed up on systems which do or can run facial recognition software?
We have Quickbooks compatible exports.

Looking into a deeper integration
Which means that they haven't done the bare minimum research into the position, they hired incompetent people, or they themselves are incompetent. None of these options really screams good place to work.
I'd believe that Stranger Things was influenced by the second coming of D&D rather than the opposite.
I used minetime for a bit after getting frustrated with some bugs in Thunderbird with lightning. It stopped updating my calendar mysteriously on my desktop but not my laptop, but was good besides that. I'm uncomfortable sending them my data so never used any advanced features - I guess its their selling point but really the main app was fairly user friendly.

By contrast, I can't switch an event's calendar in Thunderbird successfully, gnome calendar isn't working with caldav, California didn't support click and drag last I checked, and evolution is really clunky (why is the week view not a normal week view for example?). Gnome calendar used to also move events inaccurately when click and dragging, being off by X hours...

Tempted to switch to a web calendar tbh, these apps need to team up and make a single version that works better. Each is so close to being good but none is quite there.

Edit: typo
You honestly think that’s not adding you to the list of people who were in the area? Seems a bit stupid there, buddy.
.Net Core SDK Docker Images Contain PowerShell Core
For an alternative approach, if you treat this function as a time series where x is time, you can get a reasonably good approximation by performing SVD of the trajectory matrix and building the forecast from the principal components (eigen vectors) using a recurrent formula.

Here's an example:

https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/9922f98f

* Chart 1. Function value for x in [0, 1).

* Chart 2. Function value for x in [0, 2).

* Chart 3. Function value for x in [0, 1) and extrapolated values for x in [1, 2).
Apologies, keeping things brief on my phone often backfires.

What I meant is that most of us don't have the same content that needs to be styled differently across different devices. Majority of the time, things are easier. As you mention, use the predefined UI elements and call it a day. It is sadly hilarious how much better that would be for most applications.

For things that do have content that wants custom styling, think games and such, you are almost certainly either inventing your own abstraction language and porting that to different targets, or just creating a new implementation for each target. Yes, some folks have tried to make uber languages where you "write once, run everywhere." Those are almost always subpar compared to "write once for everywhere you care about running."

I'll say that I do agree with the argument on its merits. However, I disagree with the argument on evidence. Statistically, the style/content divide has really just increased the complexity of the code I deal with.
What a worthless, pontificating article

This represents the stupidity pretty well:

>Companies also need petabytes of data to be successful. Most of them use supervised learning, so there has to be someone who supervises this.
> ...once they're done taking what the rich have, then they're going to decide that those who have the most at that time are now the rich, and the process will continue. And it won't stop until they decide that I'm the rich...

Isn’t this just the slippery slope fallacy?
For me the question remains... should a particular set of functionality be written as a "separate program". After all, isn't a microservice just an independent program that communicates with others using an industry standard protocol?
They can probably distinguish between a 14 year old and an adult.
>No, HTML and CSS are document markup languages. They are actually quite bad at UIs.

This was true 10 years ago. Now frameworks like React are at or beyond the sophistication of anything native. Practically every other UI technology implements their interfaces in an XML-esque syntax that is far less expressive and flexible than HTML, which end up locking you in to a small constrained ecosystem. CSS has evolved as well, and with GPU acceleration out of the box and things like grid and flexbox all of the older issues are gone.
On the contrary. He could go to Defcon and find it just validates his views. After all, it's a huge security gathering and noone meets his requirements.
I once interviewed at a company and I was shocked at the job description as it was network & server support + IT support + full stack developer in python, java & .net but the ad was for "an experienced python developer". My career history is, I started in IT support then became a developer in .net & later moved to Python. Maybe that is why they called me. But none the less, I told it was not possible for 1 person to do it all. But they said thats how they have it in the company with 3 member IT team. Interestingly, no member of the IT department or IT manager was at the interview. They refused to give any more details without me joining the company & signing a non-disclosure + non-competence + 2 yr bond.

Then once I was done with the interview, I went to the near by restaurant and casually asked if they knew anything about the company and luckily, a person from the accounts dept was there. So, he told me how the company initially had 12 members in the IT department when 6-8 would be enough. Then on a cost cutting sphere, they axed 6 on 1 day and then it thinned out to 3. Of which, the IT manager has resigned leaving just 2 members, both related to the owner. While the owner's son, a 1st yr cs grad student is the IT manager.

This is an extreme tale and I couldn't verify the story. But now this trend of making 1 person do the job of 2-3 for the salary of 1 seems common nowadays.
I use TouchID all the time. I think yours is simply broken, to be honest.
Yeah, and that's terrible, I'm not saying that it's not happening or that it's not bad. It's just that there are many homeless people that don't act that way, so you can't solve homelessness by institutionalizing people against their will. The vast majority aren't an immediate threat to themselves or others. Some are, and most people are okay with forcing help on them. For the rest, offering help is all you can do, but if they aren't ready to take it, you can't force them.
They’ve recently done a second paperback edition so you can even get a physical copy! It’s a great read for anyone, and shows the crazy risks taken in the early rocket programs.
Pandering to their readership. Daily Telegraph is mostly read by rich old white people who need constant reminders that they are upholding ancient and noble traditions to justify their choices.
Sure, the power of unions can sometimes be too much in terms of compensation demands but it certainly isn't like that frequently and their benefits far outweigh their negatives and outlier issues. However most importantly, in cases where there is poor worker safety, issues with production quality or life endangering corners are being cut, workers can speak up knowing that they have protections through the union should managemen be happy to retaliate about what they say. We are all safer because of those protections and securities a work force like that has.
Seems below average for law firm partners [1], and there's a lot of them out there, so it doesn't surprise me at all that technical consultants with genuinely rare skills could command hourly rates like that.

[1] https://www.mlaglobal.com/en/knowledge-library/research/2018...
Actually there are signs of progress.

Universal access to health care has become the majority opinion. As has the idea that locking up the mentally ill in prisons isn't really Ok. And that the current way the justice system works isn't really working.