skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although it’s a legal document, the introduction to this report reads more like a tabloid, with “and child sex trafficking” tacked on everywhere to sensationalize things.

But here are the plain facts: Backpage.com intentionally facilitated adult prostitution, while attempting to avoid criminal liability for doing so. They also reported many thousands of child sex traffickers. It’s widely accepted that this was good for the adult prostitutes, since they no longer had to walk the streets and rely on violent pimps for protection.

As part of avoiding criminal liability, Backpage instituted a filter to remove a wide range of words from postings, for example “pay to play”, “full service”, etc. The allegation that they cooperated with child sex traffickers comes from the fact that this filter also included words like “teen” or “young”.

But on the whole, Backpage walked a difficult line between reporting any instances of child sex trafficking and continuing to give adult prostitutes a safe place to advertise.

These charges are primarily enforcing the ban on adult prostitution. The claim that Backpage was “cooperating” with child sex traffickers by filtering a wide range of words from postings is a pretty far reach, but it’s plastered all over this report in exaggerated terms. This is because many people realize that Backpage.com was beneficial to the safety of adult prostitutes, and legalizing prostitution would be more so.
„In a related study, the same authors found that electric cars on average are not any faster than petrol based cars.“
As an end user, I would expect apps to be updated at least as frequently as once a year, given that they release major OS upgrades and new hardware each year. Frankly, if you can't be bothered to update your apps, I'd rather not see them in the store. Apple is optimising for user experience here, and developers who don’t keep their apps up to date for the best user experience clearly isn’t Apple’s top priority.
That's weird, since I seem to remember nuclear is very safe.
The animation style is drawn. Probably just to get you thinking like you’re watching someone draw it out.

They also could’ve played with the idea that he did draw or drew afterwards and edited in the animations instead. Might make more sense since he’s holding the marker.
Probably the internal data model is different? So ABI compatibility would mean rewriting an entire model into the in-memory format of the other software, running the plugin and converting back.
I wonder how much the energy required to organize 100k people would reduce the effiency gains of they were accounted for.
It seems ridiculous for Slate to call it the “transfer” of land - the map calls itself a map of the “Invasion of America,” a far more accurate title
Fair enough, I think he did it as comic relief in his writing, give it some break and relate to his audience.
I like the idea but I don’t think it scales. How many developers are qualified to work on Blender? It would be hard to hire for. Also you need someone that both works in your organisation and that fits in well with the blender developers so their patches get accepted etc.

I don’t think the popularity of proprietary solutions is vanity, it’s rather that switching between 3d modellers is really hard. It might be months before you’re even close to productive again. Also interoperability between packages is a huge problem. Blender only really started to get a good UI this decade, and I think you’re more likely to see it get picked up in new shops rather than old shops migrating.
Yes, there aren't great AWS provided tools, but the data is there. We happen to use Cloudability, though I'm sure there are other good tools, maybe even free ones.
>why is it that when a safety limit has been established and later on reached, that (seemingly) uninformed people start walling by screaming 'but the jobs' and 'but the power'. None of those should be more important than a reactor problem you'd think.

And if it depended on those people the reactor would keep running until it exploded. It's almost as if democracy was stupid and ineffective.
There are certainly some people who argue that any form of IP shouldn’t exist. Copyleft is a way to work within the existing IP system, but they would prefer IP be abolished. As for why free software took off while free $(other engineering discipline) hasn’t, I’d say it’s because “everyone” has a computer, but very few have an airplane factory.
You shouldn't read headlines like that literally or you're destined to be disappointed. They're hyperbolic in order to attract more clicks. The way it should be parsed is, "things that are useful to know if you're working on things where stuff like this is important." It should be obvious that if you're not working with AWS or plan on doing so in the future then you just skip articles about AWS, right?
>...judiciary must acquiesce to the official class (which is synonymous with the party), whose opinion is the only one that matters.

Since we've gone down this rabbit-hole, doesn't that mean or infer that the states is no longer a "rule of law" country, since the current idyllic seems to be overturning laws - based purely on political alignment (e.g.: the "sudden rash" of states banning abortion because the end-goal is to overturn Roe v. Wade)?
Sorry, I misunderstood you thinking you were saying there is no debate, i.e. case closed. I think that's the word I was looking for
"Any medium sized graphics shop could have a full developer on the payroll for a fraction of the repeated licensing costs of proprietary solutions"

If the returns to the particular company that employed the developer was higher than the opportunity cost of expending that money elsewhere in the company, then you'd have a strong case for that. However, most medium sized graphics shops are probably concerned that they'd effectively be subsidising their competitors' production costs, since the 'exclusive' returns to the shop employing the developer are likely minimal compared to any other user of the feature they develop.

The free rider problem / tragedy of the commons strikes again.
That was a pretty common pattern at Sun. Engineers there did a lot of great work, no denying it. Like many other projects, ZFS solved some pretty difficult and important problems while ignoring others. Which ones get talked about ad nauseam? We all make mistakes, of course, but some of those ignored problems were well known at the time to be worth solving. Did those self-professed "complete engineers" learn anything from those times they missed the target? The fact that Sun doesn't exist any more suggests an answer.
Not only is Blender free but there is a huge amount of incredibly high quality stock content that is creative commons too like blendswap.com
Why is this post even listed here? Business Insider is not a credible news source. They are a corrupt media organization owned by the shady Axel Springer SE. They have strong ties to powerful short sellers.
> Can someone explain why this comment is being downvoted?

Because HN is full of people who subscribe to fad diets like keto, carnivore, gluten-free, etc.
I feel like serverless in a lot of cases is more expensive than just running a monolith, once you get past the toy example or past the MVP stage.

This is especially true once you factor in all the development overhead, which can ultimately be very expensive to do things correctly with serverless.
>Starting salary for a US nurse with a bachelors degree is well over double that

Your overall point stands however the text on the linked page seems to be a lie, the page it references actually says that the median salary is ~$70k NOT starting salary.
> I think it has something to do with appealing to an employee's vanity, where getting a very expensive software package "for free" to do your job makes one feel appreciated.

It learned 3D modelling with one of those "very expensive software packages" and it made me feel appreciated at the time. The knowledge however is now completely useless for me because the software, while still existing, is totally niche now. Blender would have been a lifetime investment...
Your “few bad cities” also contain 24.5/40.0 million (Shanghai), 22.5 million (Beijing), 19.8/44.3 million (Guangzhou), 15.5/16 million (Tianjin), 15.4/25.2 million (Chongqing), 14.7 and 18 million (Chengdu), 12.4 million (Shenzhen), 10.7/19.8 million (Wuhan) and 10.0/21.1 million (Hangzhou).¹ China is 58% urbanised.² Most of the land area of China is not as polluted as Shanghai, that is true; but disproportionately many people live in those areas—which is unsurprising, because pollution is often due to high population density. (Pollution per capita is of coursed generally reduced by density, but that is another matter.)

1. see the Wikipedia page for largest cities in China

2. Yiping XIAO, Yan SONG and Xiaodong WU, “How Far Has China’s Urbanization Gone?”, in: Sustainability 10.8 (Aug. 2018), p. 2593, DOI: 10.3390/su10082953
AWS doesn't recommend Aurora Serverless for production, yet.
Negative reviews in Yelp can be removed. That is what the flag is for. So the review removal infrastructure is in place.

I had a favorite sushi restaurant who would get the shakedown calls from Yelp sales. I was a regular and I remember the Mom+Pop owners complaining about the shakedowns.

But what Yelp does is apparently legal.
I just had a chat on mumble last night catching up with a collage friend who now lives back home in the middle east. It was totally fine and clear. I also had a chat with my mother over a cell phone, and she lives in another city in the same state, and that quality was way worse and actually dropped audio at one point. It's really kinda embarrassing how bad phones are at this point, relatively speaking.
I don't think democracy is the problem. The current and broken system in many nations is. I'd rather not have a dictatorship and I don't see Anarchy being particularly effective either. What is your solution?

Edit: I understand the feeling of helplessness, but saying that democracy doesn't work is dangerous as this feeling of apathy spreads and people stop participating in the system and we lose many of the more reasonable voters and then less savory candidates get elected and make things even worse and more apathy spreads and so forth. It becomes a vicious cycle and self-fulfilling prophecy. I'm very guilty myself, but have vowed to start participating more in elections and local politics.
I have such a cat flap. A) they are easy to modify it to hard wire a power supply into it, but they might not have a wall socket close to where the flag is fitted (Ive mod’ed my cat flap so it’s IoT Bullshit by hacking in an esp32. I can see when my cat uses it and have an idea of if she is in the house or not but little bugger still prefers going though the office window, but she uses the cat flap when I’m not about to be her man servant. I can also lock the flap remotely on days she needs to stay in because of vet visits. Did it need to be done? Nope. I just like taking things apart :-p).

The batteries issue (before I hard wired mine) is a case of him doing it wrong. You keep a stock of fresh batteries near the cat flap and inform people that you will break legs if they nick them. Or say that nicking those batteries without replacing them in a timely manner is like taking someone’s keys without letting them know you have them, it’s inconsiderate to the cat who is a member of the family at the end of the day.
Keep a stock of them in the house and replace the stock as they are used.

As for the whole security aspect. The cat flap removes security in favour of convenience. If you don’t have a dual scan flap (so the chip is check on entry and exit) cats have been known to learn they can pull instead of push and gain entry :-) and that is just your treat vector from other kitties. A human can easily slip the latch and have a nice large hole to fish things in and out of your house (but that’s the same for any pet door).
We use a commercial tool. But, the most important tags are environment (dev, test, prod), application name, app version, and owning team.

For some apps, perhaps a "component" or "service" tag would also be important.
In India, we vegetarians eat main courses made of vegetables and pulses, with grain-based bread or white /brown rice. Thus, we don't eat only carbs and butter, but lots of (in fact, mainly) vegetables too.

I do not know about the availability of vegetables in mainly meat-eating countries. I do know that vegetables may not often come to mind, and indeed I'm amused at various powdered vegetable drinks :)
I think they started improving the UI with version 2.5, and now with the 2.8 release the UI is very user friendly. I still find the undo stack confusing sometimes.
This article makes a false equivalence between being low calorie and being healthy. The challenge for many vegans (and vegetarians) is getting enough energy each day, so it’s actually healthy for plant based options to be highly caloric.
Is it not free and gratis?
I use private mode and log in.
Totally agree and it also seems like the bbc is trying to scare the shit outta people. Everyone does have a right to know, but a crack within the core that's been accounted for by professionals needs a concise article with a way better title than this crap.
> The Green movement does not seem strong in France, but I'm not sure why.

I have a theory. The French people like the American people put a great deal of value on liberty. Most of the purposed changes made by green activists involve ratcheting up state control the citizen's daily life and as a result are unpopular.
Maybe they don't have time to wait for features to be developed? Only the biggest projects have people saying "we'll need new fur/hair/dragon breath/water effects" early on and have a long or flexible timeline. Whereas your average project just need to work with what they already have. Even GoT which had a huge budget must have tight delivery deadlines that will make a project manager think twice before putting software development on their critical path.
Personally I see Meson as an attempt to do CMake right. A big differences between Meson and SCons is that SCons handles the execution of the build graph, while Meson delegates execution to Ninja. The nice thing about the former is that while the graph is being walked, new nodes can be added. The nice thing about the latter is that it's incredibly efficient.
Good sci-fi on this topic: "The wind-up girl".
Yes, AWS incentives are not aligned with their customers. Any sufficiently sized organization on AWS ends up building custom tooling to help manage cost. They may also hire consultants to help optimize cost.

This is all by design.
You're probably hearing about this because Chernobyl aired. It wouldn't be newsworthy otherwise.
This is the normal way when a program was widely accepted and has a lot of legacy code around that needs to be maintained. This is not the case with blender. I remember when skype, or the germ of whatssap, were born, nurtured and developped in Linux. We don't have any good alternative to skype nowadays. Nobody remembers skype as open source.

Blender interface was ridiculously hard to grasp for a newbie and as result, it looks still like a minoritary arcane software. I'm not in the community and could be wrong, but seen from outside it seems that blender is still struggling to be widely known or adopted. Twelve years had passed after "Big Buck Bunny" and blender seems to have problems still to attract new users (or it moves in a very closed circle).
What's wrong with thunderf00t? I only remember him for anti-creationist videos and exposing Solar Roadways. It seems he's anti-conspiracy theorist if anything.
Right. I see how that was unclear. A 1/5 increase in labour costs is a much more precise way to frame it.
>A lot of these games are designed in a way that makes them less fun when played only a little. Or you become a drag on the team. There are also long term quests and you need to be present to participate.

I think the solution to this is to find games that don’t do that
Yes, a thumb is a finger. Most humans have ten fingers and ten toes.
Tesla didn't make a mistake. It's more like a trial period in software.
Sure, the construction of the plant and acquisition of nuclear fuel uses CO2. The generation of nuclear power itself does not. I'm willing to be that CO2 emitted per megawatt of nuclear power is a fraction of that of coal or gas plants.

And the gasoline used to run the mining vehicles and transport vehicles are already counted in other carbon emission categories - namely transportation. So if you included them in the power generation emissions estimate you're likely double counting them.
How does one take a biased noise source source (like atmospheric noise with a certain spectral density) and convert it to a stream of uncorrelated random bits? I've never understood this.
You can find some more information here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lists-of-agricultural-a...

Note that there's no restriction on the buyer, you can buy whatever you like. But in order to sell seeds to the public you can only sell registered varieties.

I would guess this is to prevent crops which are disease prone or invasive from spreading. For agricultural crops the fee includes mandatory testing. You wouldn't want the country's cereal crop to get decimated because someone started selling dodgy seeds. Having read a bit of the legislation it also looks like it's been heavily lobbied by businesses.

It's not particularly hard to get stuff added to the list, but it's pretty expensive. An amateur heritage variety costs £100-175 to register. So someone like Fothergill's or Thomson and Morgan don't have any trouble, but a small retailer might struggle.
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"Obviously not"

Well I didn't think so either, I still don't see how it would work though, if they swerve into your lane ahead of you, you should brake, if they were behind you, you probably wouldn't see them, so there's a very narrow range where you can both see them and plausibly argue that accelerating is a reasonable option, and even then it seems to me at the very least, braking would be no worse.
My favorite place to browse for inspiration is my city's website. It has a lot of data and resources which are poorly organized, terribly formatted, and is just generally difficult to use.

One big plus is that if you can improve something small and make a website that people can find, you have tangibly made people's lives better in your community.
Yes, which is just v8 + some system interfacing libs, not something that is slow/memory hungry by itself anymore than v8 alone is.
I've seen no evidence that non profit hospitals treat doctors and nurses any better than for profit hospitals. There are plenty of powerful non profit hospital systems that engage in aggressive business practices
Oh. They have some extra salt.

Well I'm sure glad this make it to the front page to stimulate my intellectual curiosity.
There is some series on nuclear disasters going on all the time. PBS just did a big one on Fukishima last year and Command and Control has been put out again recently. Maybe it's a slight surge, but people have always been interested in these subjects. If you haven't seen either I would highly recommend. Command and Control is particularly frightening as many don't know about it.
How incredibly naive.

Industries funding favourable research is the oldest trick in the book. See climate change studies, tobacco, etc.
The strategic industrial behavior is to accept conservative safety limits initially and then apply for exceptions as needed to keep the site running. You'll see the same thing from nuclear power to various chemical plants to NASA.
One big difference is Africa and Europe didn't have the one sided die-off from disease that North America did. Africa had sections that were quite dangerous for Europeans, and when Europeans had their plagues it was pretty universal.

If Africa had disease outbreaks like North America, then it would have probably gone the same way as North America, even more so really given the shorter distances.
all one has to do is to find their microphone and play repeated noises into it!

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures...
I’m not sure where your sample starts but to start from the beginning one has to take into account the Great Leap Forwards, Cultural Revolution, invasion of Tibet, and so on. The ineptitude and corruption of the Nationalists never approached the suffering of the 50s and 60s which were actively difficult to achieve.

The sole mechanism by which the party became a force for stability is slowly being eliminated: collective leadership in China is now something of a joke. That’s where things went wrong under Mao; it’s why the “bad emperor” problem exists as a concept; and it’s where things are beginning to go wrong at the edges (Xinjiang, Tibet…) under Xi.
Perhaps, but surely you realize that there is currently a lot of pressure (and therefore bias) for keeping the plant operational: Jobs, energy supply and the operator's profits. And the thing is, those biases affect both the regulator (the government), the local population (who probably want to keep their jobs) and the operator (EDF Energy).

So at this point in time I would be skeptical of new experiments and model updates performed by the operator and approved by the regulator. IMHO: Don't approve the model change, do some lab experiments / examine more empirical evidence over time and then possibly change the model for a _future_ reactor.
Kind of surprised at the lack of information about the current setup, which is certainly most sophisticated and therefore the most interesting. How did they manage to distribute the servers? What are they using now as a source of randomness? Are there still notes on these nodes to keep away?
I somehow find this less funny than the glitter version.
> However, most medium sized graphics shops are probably concerned that they'd effectively be subsidising their competitors' production costs, since the 'exclusive' returns to the shop employing the developer are likely minimal compared to any other user of the feature they develop.

What causes most usage of big proprietary software is that the software has 10,000 features and every customer only needs five of them, but for each customer it's a different five. That makes it hard for a free competitor to get users because adding five features only gets one customer; it scales poorly without revenue.

But as the customer yourself, having your developer add the five things you yourself need is completely feasible, and doesn't help your competitors that much because the five things they need are different.
They're going to limit you if you spin up a bunch of cheap instances to use up their bandwidth, but if you pay $300/mo for their 3 Gbps connection you can saturate that and they don't care.
US nursing salaries are at least as high as Canadian salaries, so this Canadian nurse's experience appears to contradict your claim:

https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/views-from-th...
You could make the same argument about commercial software. The money you pay the developer will go into building features and better quality software that helps your competition as much or more as it helps you. Yes they are also paying, what difference does that make? I don't see why you'd waste time worrying about this in either case.
It makes sense at the current rates. Solar can replace the entire grid. And instead of using large HVAC transmission lines, small communities can form small grids to help share battery stored energy (while still metered so the power usage is fair) or a resident could opt out of the community grid and do fully off grid solar as long as the had the ability to handle a few cloudy days.
Simpler problem: how do you take a biased coin and convert it into a perfect source of random bits?

You flip the coin twice. If it comes up differently, you pick the first one. Otherwise you repeat. That will produce 50/50 random bits, no matter what the probability of the coin is.
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