skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are the ends / results for sex work? While certain sex workers may make an inordinate amount of cash (which is certainly their right to do in a free market exchange), sex work does not provide a net benefit to society. It ruins relationships (e.g. infidelity with porn or physical sex acts, harming unwitting partners and children of the transgressors) and prevents them from even starting (e.g. stunted personal development due to excessive porn use, as I have seen in a lot of my male colleagues who were the first generation to grow up with high speed internet porn and are now in their early 30s and have no idea how to connect with a partner as a human being and not just a sex object; or in women who sell their bodies one way or another and then end up in no relationship or in an abusive or otherwise substandard relationship because they neglected to build career and interpersonal skills that could benefit them and their pursuit towards self-actualization).

A lot of what you said makes some sense but I definitely lost you there. If you are seriously disabled, your partner has died, you are very old, or have any sort of issue that makes it impossible to have a normal sex life or have any chance of finding a partner that is young and attractive, this is certainly ethically OK to trade money for temporary sexual activity. This is a free exchange between consenting partners.

"Net benefit to society" is the dumbest part of what you said here. By definition two consenting adults trading anything - baseball cards, lawn mowing, sexual activity - is mutually beneficial or they would not have conducted the exchange. Society is better overall when your arbitrary restrictions on what two consenting people can do is removed, as my beliefs on what should be banned are different from yours and different from the guy down the street, so it's better to default that anything that doesn't harm me and is between two consenting people is fine for them.

I get an overall attitude from you that sex is something morally bad. I am friends with a pair of swingers and have witnessed them meet another couple who was into the same thing, leave the party to consummate the relationship, and return a few hours later as if nothing had happened. For some people sex is just something they do and is separate from emotional commitment.

The fact some people watch porn and cannot connect with others intimately does not mean everyone is this way. Just as not everyone who tries cocaine becomes a drug addict, not everyone who watches porn becomes sexually broken. My wife and I have a very healthy sexual relationship and we are both OK with each other viewing erotic material, either together or personally.

I think you need to broaden your horizons about what the totality of human experience is and accept there are many who live very fulfilling lives unencumbered by arbitrary rules on sexual expression.
You can neatly mount your Pis in your rack where you have the rest of your gear supported by network switches, power delivery, cabling, cooling, good internet connectivity connectivity (if housed in a machine room or colo) etc.
I read the same "fact"* in Graham Robb's 'The Discovery of France".

*scare quotes because I've only seen one reference
You could consider move into contracting, if that is something that suits your mentality.

I think you could make 600EUR/day with your experience. Do that for 200 days a year and you hit 120K. That leaves 20K for expenses related to freelancing, like sick days - and you have buffer time between contracts.

Check out freelancer.com and check out which companies are used to hire contracters in your area. I know some in Denmark and Norway, but don't know how it works in

It is not as safe and "cozy" as being a full-time employee - but you can definitely make more.
For the record no real feminist would publish this horseshit. It is one thing to advocate for better conditions for sex workers. It is another thing entirely to pimp young girls on the internet, and to even equate the two while pretending to be a feminist is just despicable.
It's the US and specifically the Bay Area that's the outlier here. Because it has a few hugely rich tech companies and is pumped full of VC cash.
$200k+ is a subset of $125k+, yes. There are absolutely mid-levels in both cities making under $200k that aren't working for FAANG or funded start-ups.
How strong? Are we talking people like Brendan Gregg or just "tech lead" types like "the tech lead on YT"?
The proper name would be logistic regression, but linear models aren't so sexy anymore nowadays :)
Mitigating risk by using methods approaching zero efficacy is useless.

"This is just physics".

No this is just your intuition. Scarfs don't protect you or others. Neither do gaiters. This has been tested. They may work mildly for UV protection... But there you can be fooled as well.

They just don't work. N95s provide a level of protection but they are not full proof. The further away you move from N95 the more useless they get. Cotton etc. don't protect. They are overcome by physics.
I'm really sorry about my ignorance. Never considered that you could turn asexual after a traumatic experience. I was under the impression that it was a natural-born condition; thus my comment.
For me, discord and slack are like private clubs. did not feel so welcomed. any idea how to find them?
25%? Ryzen is twice as fast on some benchmarks. And that's not even the fastest Ryzen chip mind you.

And no, we can't imagine what would happen if M1 was overclocked because it's Apple. It doesn't allow you to do that on it's locked down system.
I remember that moment. I turned to my girlfriend and said "Whelp, guess we're not playing a stealth build".
Why unlikely? The UK has always had a significant presence in CS, both theoretically and in practical engineering.
One thing it's not clear to me is why did ARM was so much power efficient even at the beginning and apparently without being explicitly built as such
You could go into freelancing. For normal developer gigs in Germany you'll usually get 70-80€/hour. Contracts are often for 6 months and will get extended in 6 months steps. Depending on how much you work you can make 150k+. Still not comparable to SV salaries, but better than being a permanent employee in Germany.
> The result is a big beautiful and empty world with a linear path.

This may be the #1 reason why I don't play games anymore. Every game made in the last decade masquerades as open-world and turns out to be a linear path. Either wandering outside that linear path leads to a total void, or you get annoying game behavior forcing you to go back to the linear path, or you get bullshit like death timers.
I find it funny that there is a movement on every side of the political spectrum against touching yourself.

On the left? It's more of a fetish type thing (chastity) but it's one of those lifestyle long-term fetishes that someone might notice at a party.

In the middle? No nut November, which started as a joke but has a very serious reddit presence.

On the right? no fap.

None of these 3 groups have any overlap with each other - yet they all agree that touching your dick (even if only temporarily like in November) is bad.

Always thought that this was very funny
I think for more then 80k, you need to be a bit more competitive.
An alternate way to address the desire to separate those aspects of life is for platforms to provide easy and clear ways to filter and segregate the content you see. For example, a platform could have a “NSFW” switch that toggles whether or not that content is shown. Not saying that would be straightforward, foolproof, or perfect - but it’s one way the problems could be solved.

But, that’s not the way most social media approaches the problem. Given that there are alternate ways to address the problem that aren’t being tried, I don’t see “hostility” as an unreasonable take.
Only Seven of Stanford’s First 5k Vaccines Were Designated for Medical Residents
This is my experience as well. The smaller the company is in the DACH region the more it can afford to pay.
On the other hand one downside is the lack of capital for anything else (like no perks or expensive hw or even being cheapskates when it comes to infra)
So you're saying cookbooks started out high-level then went low?
Comcast has done this to me TWICE!
The "glass half full" perspective here. The OP misses one hugely important factor: cost and hence availability of computing resources.

During the recent history of computing, the technology improvement opened new possibilities at each step:

- Punching cards: allowed more people share mainframe,

- Video terminals: allowed faster turnaround of mainframe jobs,

- Mini-computers: gave more people access to computing,

- PCs: got even more people into computing,

- Commodity hardware in datacenters: more people could develop services and more people from general public could get access to applications and data,

- Cloud: more people could afford to build applications,

- Microservices: bigger teams could collaborate on increasingly sophisticated services,

- Serverless: reduced the burden of capacity planning and service distribution and further lowered the barrier of entry into backend application development.

Each statement above comes from personal experience and I am looking forward to what new possibilities the future brings.
Happy Holidays to you.
>When I was at school one of the punishments was to be sent to stand in a corner and stare at the wall. It used to send some kids almost crazy but never bothered me much—all I had to do was to go into daydream mode to pass time away

Me as well. I wonder if it is the upside to having near-crippling ADHD.
Apple Shares Manual on How to Lock Down Devices When Personal Safety Is at Risk
I'm not from US, but my understanding is that when people quote the US salary figure it also doesn't include all costs that employer has to hire an employee.
To my knowledge, the author co-authored interval tree clocks as well as dotted version vectors. He also co-authored a lot of the literature on CRDTs.
So true.

Last year I had to deal with Comcast with regards to an identity theft.

When I refused to jump through their extra hoops (I had provided them more than enough information to prove my claim, they wanted everything just short of a DNA Swab,) they told me that I would never be able to get service through them unless I kissed the ring.

When I told them that I base my residency choices on being able to -not- have Comcast as a cable provider, their script rather obviously did not have a response to that based on where the conversation went after.

They -expect- to be a a monopoly, and their internal policies already reflect that.
Not at all. You rely on the law enforcement and the courts to hold your rights over property, not insurance companies.
I assume the parent means UNIXy tools which target ARM broadly are still very fast on Apple Silicon. Not to mention VM performance.

But your point, that there's still a lot of Apple stuff at play there, is a fair one. It will be very interesting to see how (native) Linux runs once that porting effort gets more under way...
I'm not sure what the Ruby market in Berlin looks like, or what counts as a complex project. But earning 100k and more as a freelancer is absolutely doable with mobile apps, cloud stuff, or dev ops. The downside is that if you charge €100/h, you'll probably attract the sort of project where an outsourcing experiment failed catastrophically, and the deadline is tight enough that management stopped counting beans and wants an expert.
Depending what you are doing. For use cases like Dropbox cloud was never an option, other use cases can realize 30% year over year saving just by moving to the cloud. I think where RPIs make the most sense is soho, office building use cases, onsite backups, NAS, hosting infra services (DNS server for example) where you can use many nodes without much power and with a good amount of redundancy.
Stadia offers a 10 EUR OFF voucher for your first game when signing up for a Pro 30 day trial. Until a couple days ago, they also had a Cyberpunk special promotion that upon purchase of the game you also got Stadia Premiere edition bundle (Chromecast Ultra + Stadia Controller) for free.

Moral of the story, for 50 euros I got:

- Cyberpunk,

- a 30 day Stadia Pro subscription,

- A chromecast Ultra

- A stadia controller

I'm blown away by the quality of Stadia, and the fact that Cyberpunk is running super smooth and did not experience almost any glitches / bugs.

Loving both the game and the platform.
Covid-19 in South Dakota: Three weeks after Thanksgiving, cases continue to drop
A lot of those "abstractionists" you mention were very heavily practical, too.

1980s and 1990s gave us "decision made by senior management reading shiny magazine during flight", we just look back with sentiment now combined with survivor bias.
"the Paradise I am talking about, you don't die after entering it"

Not every religion considers eternal life desirable. In some forms of Buddhism and Hinduism, for example, the ultimate goal is to leave the cycle of death and rebirth.. not in to paradise, but in to nothingness.
Have either of you filed FTC and/or FCC claims? The more data we give those agencies, the better chance we have that someone will actually care and finally break them up.
More stars and more contributors than ZIG, no wonder the zig developers were jealous when this language was announced
If you think only about yourself, of course not. If you think about your family, like your children and grandchildren that may not work in IT or a similar well paying industry, then it starts to become worth it. You know they will have an acceptable quality of life whatever happens. Years after your death.

Of course you can work a few years in California and move back to Europe. It takes some courage and a lot of people prefer to not move abroad.
While I kinda feel the same like you ... I have a 3.5 year old daughter now and if she later wants to become a prostitute or work in porn, I'd support her. There are some people that really enjoy this kind of work, for example check out this interview with Lisa Ann [0] ... she really enjoyed her work in porn but was very careful to not catch diseases and it was always a worry for her.

But if my daughter would consider one of those jobs, I would make sure she would be very aware of the risks and I'm not just talking about the STDs. I'd make her aware that it could be extremely hard to find a different job, especially after a career in porn. And also, if my daughter would get children of her own, children could be bullied if they discover their mother worked in porn.

Also, it does seem a lot of actors and actresses in porn are from broken families and that is kind of sad.

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPT1TKFmv_o
Reminds me of the norse mythology cow Auðumbla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au%C3%B0umbla

" Gylfi asks what Auðumbla ate, and High says that she licked salty rime stones for sustenance. He recounts that Auðumbla once licked salts for three days, revealing Búri: The first day she licked free his hair, the second day his head, and the third day his entire body."

Some pictures:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Ym...
"The primordial being Ymir suckles at the udder of Auðumbla as she licks Búri out of the ice in a painting by Nicolai Abildgaard, 1790"

https://imgur.com/a/x8AHWWv

https://www.svetlanas-galerie.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/...
> one needs to bear in mind massively cheaper costs of living

Again, you don’t have to live in the Bay Area to make 100K+. You can easily pull that number with OP’s experience in the southeast, and I’d bet good money the cost of living is a lot cheaper than most anywhere in Europe.

> day care for kids for example is 100% free (as in tax funded) in Berlin.

This kind of hits at why some people prefer higher salary versus “free” government programs. My kids won’t need daycare forever. I’d rather make a helluva lot more money and pay for daycare out of pocket for the 5 years they actually need it than pay for everyone else’s free daycare for the entirety of my working life.
Where in Europe? Europe (nor EU) doesn't universally have top-notch public healthcare or best standard of living.
I stopped reading, frankly, at...

> I’ve now worked with “The Cloud” for long enough to see that there’s still a long way to go before it becomes materially better than, say, the oldschool method of renting a couple of servers

Lol, it takes a lot of hubris to assume you're the only person, or one of few persons, who understands how the rest of us have been conned. I'm not getting into a debate about the hundreds of ways our infrastructure on Google cloud is "materially better" than "renting a couple of servers." It ought to be sufficient for persons of humility and sense to know that we're also smart people with experience, and we continue to re-examine these decisions and run our stuff in the cloud because, yeah, it's materially better.

And for those lamenting that software engineering is "fashion driven", welcome to humans. To some extent we're all stumbling forward in the fog, and the sound of other footsteps nearby is comforting.
> Have you tried to do any physical task before, and not gotten it right the first time, tried again, and got closer? Hello, backprop.

Backprop is a very specific mathematical operation using derivatives, not a general concept. IIRC there is counterevidence against that neurons train by taking stored inbound activations and updating their weights with a backwards propagating set of gradients.
That’s how the personal computer revolution started. In fact that’s why high level languages were invented. Competition is good. Intel has stagnated the CPU for over a decade now.

In addition we have better and standard instruction sets. Compilers are way more competent as well. If this means faster and more processing power and capabilities we’ll do more than fine.
To be fair he did point to the more details for another article from the company website [1].

Since according to Einstein "you can make it simpler but no simpler", me think he and his colleague did pretty well there if we refer to the reduced complexity equation provided here [2]. To be honest this simplified coherence estimation equation in words literally looks like the most complicated equation in words that I have ever seen (page 34 in [2]) - imagine the details elaboration for the mathematical equations but bear in mind that this is for the more sophisticated multi-static radar:

Coherence Estimation = [Radar equation system noise (gammaSNR)] x [Quanization Noise (gammaQuant)] x [Ambiguities (gammaAmb)] x [Baseline Decorrelation(gammaGeo) x [Doppler Decorrelation(gammaAz)] x [Volume Decorrelation(gammaVol)] x [Temporal Decorrelation(gammaTemp)] x [Processing & Coregistration Errors(gammaProc)]

[1]https://www.capellaspace.com/sar-101-an-introduction-to-synt...

[2]https://elib.dlr.de/43805/1/eusar06_tutorial_advanced_bistat...
I find this article that I recently read very relevant to the discussion "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" for anyone not familiar with the article I'll leave it to anyone reading to wait until they get to the end.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...
I regret not jumping on this offer (expired two days ago)
Argle-bargle. People get promoted for many reasons, and this is even played out in the show. Michael Scott, for being a bullshitter (great in sales), Jan for "looking corporate", David Wallace seemingly for competence, Ryan for credentials, Creed for seniority, Kelly (temporarily) through some diversity push, Andy for lack of a better option, Kathy Bates through marriage, Robert California for being a real pyscho, and Dwight through sheer doggedness.
I think that often, the best way to develop confidence is to engage in the activity about which you aren't feeling confident. I have found interviewing.io to be very helpful for this. Once you have some measure of success with a live interview, it can be easier to keep going.

I have also found that mindfulness meditation has helped me put my focus where it needs to be. It's done this in two ways: 1) during meditation, if I feel anxious thoughts, I can act as an independent observer of those thoughts and simply notice them without judging them. 2) During an interview, if I feel anxious thoughts, I can recognize those thoughts as being normal without being overwhelmed by them. Once I do this, I can more easily put them aside so I can focus on doing the best that I can on the task at hand.
Apple is playing the margin game not the volume game. Just like Apple takes something like 98% of the profit in the global phone manufacturing business, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re doing the same thing in the developer compute market.
We've probably given it the hug of death.
^ this.

I’d venture a guess that the concept (“Middle Class of the Creator Economy”) was thought of before any backing was found.
This is clearly an outlier, probably owing to the fact that many covid cases from "inside" the city end up dying in hospitals in the surrounding region (SF itself is only about 12% of the population of the bay area).

Nationwide, overdose fatalities are absolutely on an upswing and worth worrying about. Nonetheless a quick google pulls up this coverage of some CDC data:

https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/27...

... that shows national fatalities of 75k in a 1 year period. That's about one fifth of the covid death rate of ~400k/year
1. Websockets

2. Depends on the size of chunks and amount of files in the HLS playlist. Both are configurable values. Anywhere between 3 and 20 seconds

3. Not yet, but it's planned
If a platform wants to steer me towards things I may not know about to help me discover previously unknown content I may well be interested in, that's one thing. But I don't want a platform to "spread the wealth" by steering me to less interesting stuff because it's good for the platform or just "fairer."
What's notable about the EU is that everyone gets those benefits whereas in the US only upper class has that.
You can always make it illegal to use the services in other countries.
"How do you even do that?"

I would guess it's something like non-deterministic order of patch installation. Which seems easy to end up doing even if you think it's deterministic. For example, some patches don't finish install until boot time, so unexpected reboots could bork things. Or things like "can't install this patch while X software is running", etc.
I'm a Steam addict and don't do Stadia, but I have a chromecast ultra and I'm on love with that thing.
Brand marketing. It cements the Apple brand as being high quality and Apple products as being better than anything else available, justifying a premium price in the minds of their customers.

It's usually a legitimate justification, too. Nobody else makes hardware this nice, almost as a general rule.
I already got the email from Comcast last week that they were raising rates. Now I know why.
Why shouldn't it be debatable? Porn and "free sexual expression" have a lot of damage they do to individuals and society as a whole also. I don't even need to list the examples because everyone already knows them. The rise of dangerous choking accidents during sex is a direct result of the popularization of that act through pornography. BDSM and the socially acceptable connection of sexual pleasure with real physical violence is another. Like many other vices our extreme opinions about freedom allow everyone to fall victim to (gambling, alcoholism, drug abuse, etc) porn addiction and it's various consequences is also on the rise and it's not going to get better any time soon.

Many feminists still believe that pornography is the oppression and exploitation of women. And they have good reason to believe that.

Who are you to say that everyone else is a prude and you are right and they are all wrong? How come you get to dismiss the real world effects of this activity?
Mathematics and Computation (2018) [pdf]