skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appear to be the highest ranked woman on Hacker News. I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent any time on the leader board here (under a different handle).

A number of people on the leader board are millionaires. I have reason to believe their participation on HN is part of what makes them wealthy.

I was homeless for nearly six years and remain dirt poor and continue to get a lot of guff any time I try to talk about that, no matter the reason and no matter the framing.

I have six years of college. Etc.

While I was homeless, men sometimes offered me cash to sleep with them based solely on my looks and obvious poverty. But trying to network with business professionals on a platform that literally helps a lot of people become quite wealthy has done relatively little for my bottom line and I have been repeatedly told "Go get a real job" and this kind of crap.

You said you are paying four times your hourly wage and I imagine that $25/hour is fairly good money for Romania. It would be decent pay in the US where people are trying to advocate for a minimum wage of $15/hour.

I don't know what her cut is out of what you pay and I don't know how much of her time you are getting, but for a lot of women, that would be vastly better pay than they have any hope of making any other way and they will put up with it simply because the alternatives amount to starving to death and may be just as objectionable as sex work.

Lots of low paying jobs are unpleasant work, like cleaning toilets. Lots of low paying jobs subject you to abusive bosses and abusive customers. It's common knowledge that wait staff at restaurants are typically treated terribly.
> I think especially for podcasters in recent years there have been some.... issues with community management.

A show that I listen to skipped a week during the early stages of the pandemic. I was concerned that one of the hosts was ill / possibly dying. It was some planned thing, like a vacation or something. A little notice would have been nice.

Sure, these are strangers and my emotional investment is a bit like teen girls crying when they saw the Beatles play: “Really?”. But I love the show and would have missed it, so I was anxious about its (possible) demise.

I think you’ve nailed it with this.
You've astutely noted the difference between what people think is happening in a direct listing and what actually happens.

People think founders are sticking it to Wall Street. In reality, the exact same mechanics are playing out with an IPO but without any downside protection for the company.
I have skimmed the first 2 chapters and I still don't understand how causal inference is a useful tool or how you apply it to anything moderately complex.

Obviously being able to identify causality is useful, but I don't understand how you can apply causal inference and get a meaningful result.

To apply any of the rules regarding DAG structure you first have to have a DAG of events, which seems like it would be difficult to accurately build up.
Ok but what other business do you have to be afraid to piss someone off by hiring them to do their job?
Those extras are only available to certain customers. At this price it's more the easy-to-use part that is expensive rather than the hardware itself.
Why should they not have the final say? It’s their platform. By the way, in eBay’s seller terms & condx, I guarantee there’s a clause where sellers give up any recourse if eBay decides for any reason to delist your items.
We are talking about body, not mind. Transgender women are women with a biological man body (otherwise we wouldn’t have this conversation.) So it is unfair for women with biological women body. The whole point of separating biological women of biological men in sports is to prevent that.
The Q605 is a great machine, and probably the best choice for a lot of uses back then.

You could easily add an external CD-ROM drive, hard drives, Zip drive, etc.

Only real downsides are the lack of an FPU (although you could upgrade to a full 040 aftermarket if you wanted), and use of LC PDS expansion cards which weren’t as plentiful as NuBus cards.
Birth rates plummeted through the 1960s and 1970s across the Western world, while the gonorrhea rates skyrocketed, in a period specifically noted for its sexual forwardness.
Theoretically, when comparing frames, frame type (I/P/B) should be considered and it's better to compare same frame type. How do you treat about frame types?
2020 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index
Receptionist + some heavy underground construction at the boring company.

Sounds awesome.

None of those examples seem to have a problem...
Game of Thrones has plenty of nudity, including full frontal (ermagerd!). But it doesn't have a whole lot of sex that you'd call erotic, as opposed to just being violent rape, carefully catalogued here:

https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Rape

It's telling that the closest thing to a loving, normal relationship seems to be the incestuous brother-sister saga of Cersei and Jaime.
Whenever I hear about something like this, it reminds me of things that were advantageous to, and allowed by, an old guard that the new guard isn't going along with. There isn't much going on that some "authorities" aren't capable of putting an end to if they so chose.
The paying audience for blockbusters is now global - and many movies earn more outside the U.S. than in it. As such, movie makers are probably now paying more attention to what is considered appropriate versus obscene elsewhere.
Some of them depends on proprietary SDK.
This phenomena doesn’t apply to just dangerous work. One should expect any provision in a contract to be the norm. If a contract specifies that work on Saturdays is ok, assume every Saturday that you will work. Adjust your pay requirements to reflect this. Don’t let the other party to convince you that “it’ll only be sometimes” or “just in case”. For the 50% stuff, the real answer is empower the worker and train people to sign 2 different contracts for seemingly unrelated jobs. If that screws them out of benefits, then ask for more money. At the very least, it prevents the low pay for hard labor.
I would have said it highlights the dangers of Soviet bureaucracy and tyranny, particularly in the context of nuclear energy.
One of the first "public" descriptions of this process was phrased something like:

"shooting a mass of uranium down a barrel into another mass of uranium to form a supercritical mass."

My guess is that the person who first said that didn't intend for the metaphor/description to be taken quite as literally as everyone ended up taking it. (Or they meant to mislead.)

Hypothetically, if you read "into" as crash/collision and not "in to"/inside of, you start to see how a generic description could be ambiguous. Run this (or a similar story) through a few iterations of the telephone game and draft revisions by journalists/editors (that somehow all seem to graduate without ever taking a single sophomore level technical writing course), and a description becomes a misunderstood metaphor becomes a fact. Somewhere along the way, the word "bullet" gets thrown in, and then no one "un-see" the visual.

That's my take. That and the author of tfa is trying way too hard to make a big a deal out of it being a "gendered" thing, when it's not.
Thanks OP.
Audio would surely be the way to go, IMO, although I would avoid Bluetooth and generally any non essential digital transport both because of latency and possible compression artifacts. One could trick the mosquitoes into flying through a small restricted area in which wires wouldn't pose a problem by making it the only possible way to some bait for example, then setting mikes and traps in there.
Not necessarily. There have been about 60 million abortions since then in the US which don’t get counted in the fertility rate.
Violence in media doesn't lead to violence in real life for various reasons. Most people are generally taught not to be violent to others and laws help enforce that social norm.

Sex in media does lead to more sex real life because there's no social norm or law against not having sex and sex leads to STD and unwanted pregnancies.

Hence, there is a logic to violence in media is okay and sex in media is less ok. One has no consequences, the other does.

https://www.google.com/search?q=does+sex+in+media+lead+to+se...
I had the same takeaway. The guys attitude was “if you want to travel in space you need to take risks and based on what I knew this was a risk worth taking”.

Of course it comes across as quite callous considering it’s not his life that’s at risk, but he does have a point (not necessarily a valid one for the o-ring issue, but more generally speaking).
Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect
Royal commentators hoaxed into critique of Meghan interview before seeing it
I don't want to be that guy but it really has nothing to with facism.

I suggest you google the definition.

It's definitely a bad idea, but just because something is a bad idea does not magically make it facism.

If you think stuff like this being okay in the hands of a government then you might want to reexamine that line of reasoning, given that most governments are barely any better than corporations at the end of the day...
Very interesting observation and I like the way the author put it. Everything now is seen as an investment to achieve a personal satisfaction goal. Very true indeed. However the rationale we got here is to be debated. I like the theory the author puts forward but I don’t think we can narrow it down to one theory. Something that takes decades to evolve usually has multiple driving factors.
How appropriate considering how the ZX81 launched the careers of many software engineers.
It seems really weird that BBC would do a story on these alternates to youtube, mention them, and then not link to them.

I watch Linus Tech Tips so I've heard of floatplane but I haven't heard of the others mentioned. Even one of the three links in the article just goes to another site called tubefilter which itself doesn't link to this nebula thing. It took me ten minutes to find the site because I had to read the articles trying to see if they linked to https://watchnebula.com/ (admittedly, that link doesn't really do a great job of selling the product either)

What is the point of doing stories about other web sites without linking to them?
Then watch something different to mainstream porn :)
It's disturbing to me that people think population must keep growing. If anything the world could stand to LOSE a significant portion of the population. Resources would be far less strained.

If we built our economies on the expectation of continued population growth, then that just means there was a MASSIVE lack of forethought. But that doesn't mean the solution is to start pumping out more kids. Instead we adapt how these structures work to accommodate the flat or lessened population numbers.
Birthrates plummeted in the 1960s but were still vastly higher than today. Birthrates peaked in the 1950s. Current birthrates are equal to the nadir of birthrates in 1980, but they appear to still be falling (but we shall see!).
> why is 100% sex work less exploitative than 50% sex work?

I oppose receptionist that also has sex with the boss. Exploitation has nothing to do with that.

At least in my world view, having sex at workplace is unprofessional.

First of all, spending corporate or investor's money on paying sex workers is wrong.

Even if the boss is the sole owner of the company i.e. spending their own money, boss fucking a receptionist causes unhealthy atmosphere in the company. The company gonna have hard time attracting female candidates on other positions. Employees who have families gonna have interesting conversations with their SOs.
A docudrama might be a more appropriate description. Nevertheless, Chernobyl on HBO was haunting and forces you to stop and think how a similar tragedy could be avoided. More broadly speaking it forces you to think about systemic power structures and perverse inventives that lead to these situations. These two are outliers, you need to ask yourself how many millions of times does this happen with localized/limited consequences.
Porn isn't gourmet or not gourmet, it can be whatever you want it to be.

It seems like you're using something like the efficient market hypothesis without looking at the evidence.

I'm not a huge porn consumer but I've seen enough and know enough of the industry to say you're basically wrong, at least wrong as far as any "cottage industry" for porn with decent production values, acting or "sincerity" goes. The key thing is decent production value in a movie can't be created in home-grown way, it requires serious dollars. Oppositely, there are actors and there are "adult actors" and the two jobs are considered very distinct (in the way that receptionist and sex-workers are segregated and should be segregated, as mentioned on another thread).

But hey, prove me wrong. I'd love to see a counter example.
I didn't own property, then I went to a bank to apply for a loan. Now my tenants pay for that loan with rent. They are paying the bank interest and money for my loan on a property I never lived in nor have the money to purchase without a loan.
Does violence in movies lead to more support for foreign intervention, I wonder?
Why would we be in a new era? What different from this tragedy versus all the ones that came before it?
> A bare breast is more difficult to get through the censors than a body riddled with bullets.

I see this point a lot and I think it is a good one but I have some theories on it too.

I think that violence (at least to a point) is part of our natural play instincts, think cops and robbers as a kid. We aren’t disturbed when young children mimic violence, we even see it in nature fairly ubiquitously. Animals play fight with each other. When we see violence in a movie we see it as play, not as reality.

As for why Americans are hung up on sex I’m not sure, but I think there is good reason we may see violence as less of a big deal than it would be in reality.
In most cases yes, peer reviewers are not paid. These companies are pretty much a paywalled pdf hosting service hence the outrage against them.
It always seemed like Apple missed an opportunity to make the iMac's a bit more portable. There wasn't much 3rd party kit for this either, like a collapsible stand, or display cover, no carrying handles, etc.
> The NYSE now offers companies the option to raise money in a direct listing after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved it in December.

Doesn't the new NYSE listing format 'stick it to wall st' or at least institutions that get early access to IPOs?
Hollywood movies are made for an international audience and don't just reflect American culture anymore. Europe has always been more sexually permissive than the US, but other places are often more sexually restrictive than both. I think that's why Hollywood movies have become more prudish. It's also why the characters and dialogue are flat. Nuance is hard to translate; explosions are not.
I think there are people in both the camps. There are some with consciences that believe in doing the right thing, but also those that are in the sociopath camp. The news is full of the bad leaders that take ridiculous risks (e.g. Boeing) but the good guys don't make the news often.
Testimony: https://www.c-span.org/video/?126036-1/presidential-commissi...
Or just aiming for the lowest common denominator - and taking out anything that might be controversial in any of their global markets. (Take out sexuality for the American market, and take out politics for China).

A $100m+ budget doesn’t have room for risks.
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

Research on satisfaction differences between relationship types is illuminating
What if you used a magnetic material to increase the flux?

Why use such low gauge wire if you are only harvesting 100mA?

And as mentioned, the rogowski coil is neat.
Love this idea. I think the depersonalization of slack, the difficulty to organize of Snapchat, and the cumbersome nature of zoom needs to find a good spot. Hopefully this is it.
> I have been considering grabbing a Librem 14 and switching to Qubes as a daily

FWIW, I did the same thing and was unhappy with the result. The Librem hardware wasn't great quality and Qubes really requires a massive desktop to run well. And if you are paranoid enough to need Qubes, then you want ECC memory to defend against side channel attacks.
Why do you need 12 gauge when you are drawing 100mA?

Also, what if you stick a magnetic metal in the coil to amplify the flux?
Sure, I'm not saying that they are the only people responsible. The thing is that everyone has the same mindset to the point where it seems almost like a coordinated effort. And Cloudflare's CEO admitted that the purpose behind their actions was to kick them off the internet.
please accept ETH coins i have no credit cards

ETH will be env friendly soon when its consensus algorithm switch to POS

or

make android app

im willing to watch ads everyday

btw, why your twitter account ge suspended
Saying his ideas are well-supported by history is a bit generous considering his historical arguments always seem to boil down to a barrage of anecdotal evidence of dubious factual value. To be fair, I've only read the Underground History and not Dumbing us Down, but here's a quote from wikipedia:

"The publicity generated by the initial success and compounded by the publishing disagreements propelled the pamphlet to incredible sales and circulation. Following Paine's own estimate of the pamphlet's sales, some historians claim that Common Sense sold almost 100,000 copies in 1776,[13] and according to Paine, 120,000 copies were sold in the first three months. One biographer estimates that 500,000 copies sold in the first year (in both America and Europe, predominantly France and Britain), and another writes that Paine's pamphlet went through 25 published editions in the first year alone.[7][14] However, some historians dispute these figures as implausible because of the literate population at the time and estimated the far upper limit as 75,000 copies."

Now, this gets into a bit of a weird circular argument where the book didn't sell as many copies because the people weren't literate and therefore the people weren't literate because the book didn't sell so many copies. Still, claiming that the book sold 600,000 copies seems disingenuous unless Gatto expanded upon it. I don't remember him citing his sources either in his book, but it's not like I've looked at the sources either, so whatever.
These arguments often take the form of [complaint about Bitcoin not working] → [sardonic counter about Bitcoin working despite the nay-sayers]

A better way to frame the problem IMO is that if Bitcoin works as intended, it will only serve to create a new elite of early adopters that will be even more massively powerful than the traditional one

So you have a lose-lose proposition for late adopters, with collectivized costs and pollution, and basically the promise of boundless wealth for the rest. I can't blame early adopters from working towards this, but in turn they can't blame the rest from reacting.
My bad, I thought the anti electronic ID vote was also a referendum.

Populist ideas, can easily thrive in a direct democracy.
Putting aside parenting choices, the two types of images (sex and violence) are not equivalent.

Sexual images produce a physiological response... you get horny.

Violent images don’t really do much, maybe revulsion. But, other than that, not much at all.

A picture of a bullet-ridden corpse will not make you want to shoot people.

A picture of a naked chick having sex, on the other hand, will elicit a desire to have sex.

Apples and oranges.

To be sure, there are many who blame the ‘violence in video games’ and the like as the cause of crime. Those people are idiots... getting a good headshot in Counter-Strike gives you the exact same kind of thrill as making a basket or a hole in one ... nobody says, “Hell yeah! Now I want to kill someone!”

But, watching porn?
That’s exactly what it does... the imagery itself makes you go “Hell yeah! Now I want to fuck someone!” (Which, to most porn watchers, means fucking their hand.)
Every variable in a cooking recipe can be substituted and modified making a recipe a technique that is applicable to different sets of materials and conditions.
And sadly the next/upcoming big market, India, isn't any better than China when it comes to censorship.
They don't tell about profitability, but revenue was $15B so chances are they at least break even.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...
There was a case a few years ago where a US federal judge refused to outlaw torture in case there was a “24 type situation”. (24 was a popular tv show a few years ago in which the main character regularly tortures people for information, to protect America.)
I've been using a nova pro since its inception, the nova 3 is a lot faster than the Nova Pro I had, so I'm tempted to switch as well.

The Boox Note Air is probably closer to the RM2. Nova Pro was too slow for most android apps IMHO. The newer Boox devices are much more usable in that sense.

The glass screen is quite good, although I think the typing experience on RM2 is a bit better. I personally prefer Android, because of software accessibility, but if you want to hack around with your device and build things on your own RM is the way to go.

Also, as always with "small" Chinese companies they're not complying with the GPL.

I think in terms of syncing Onyx Boox is ahead of RM "(out of the box)"
That's what Feynman's issue was as he reported it in the Roger's Commission[0]. Is they _didn't_ understand the risk when they thought.

Management thought the risk of lost was 1 in 100,000 which is launching everyday for 274 years. Engineers polled was 1:50 to 1:200. Obviously a massive disconnect.

The thing that gets me is they broke their own protocol operating below 53'F. This wasn't a calculated risk where it's 1-2 degrees out of spec, it's wildly out of spec, below freezing into a completely unknown, untested and un-spec'ed space.

This is what frustrates me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Role_...
Seems a link to the 300 Club might fit here - I think it's normal to have some mild respiratory effects for a day or two after, even being careful to inhale through the nose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club
> When Paul Verhoeven adapted Starship Troopers in the late 1990s, did he know he was predicting the future? The endless desert war, the ubiquity of military propaganda, a cheerful face shouting victory as more and more bodies pile up?

- Yes he did, I reckon that’s why this is such an underrated movie. American audiences largely didn’t pick up on the sarcasm.

> No one looks at each other. No one flirts.
A room full of beautiful, bare bodies, and everyone is only horny for war.

- Not quite true. Rico and Flores do end up shagging
You need a good microphone and a relatively noise free environment for this to work well. My built in microphone never worked, I had to use my phone as a microphone because it has decent noise reduction and doesn't pick up my laptop's internal humming. It fails to recognize most of the words or picks up passing cars as commands (I live on a busy street). It works better in English than in Spanish even though Spanish is my native language. It consistently fails to recognize words that start with the letter d (but when I pronounce something that starts with t it sometimes thinks it's a d). It only recognizes Spanish if I speak in a Mexican or Spaniard accent. I hope this tech keeps improving because it could speed up a lot of tasks but as it is right now it's a source of frustration and leaves a lot to be desired.