skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a fascinating question!

I think the answer to it might be in assigning some unscientific statistics to the world.

Starting here: perhaps 5% of people are psychologically capable of sex work. The reason behind legalizing (or decriminalizing) sex work is to maximize the liberty of, and reduce the harm to, this 5%.

Concurrently we must account for the 95%.

If we were to normalize sex work in the context other professions, then the volume of jobs requiring sex would quickly outpace the number of people who would choose that profession in lieu of economic necessity, and so you will have people be sexually exploited. Perhaps the free market will solve this in the long term but in the mean time you’ll have many a hurt persons.

So basically the whole thing is a compromise based on what we believe about the economic incentives and workforce, aiming to please multiple outlooks.

Although the “contractor” point another poster made is maybe more compelling.
Yes. There would be no need to be synchronized if the interconnect is only DC.
It's true. I've read one side channel attack paper that admitted towards the end that the researchers didn't actually even have access to AMD hardware to test with, but thought it should work in principle.

Fact is Intel takes the brunt of these attacks because their HW is more available especially in semi-standardised environments like universities. Also, Intel fund researchers (this paper was part funded by Intel), and their technical documentation is better than AMDs, at least in my experience. That makes it easier to understand the CPU internals, which is a big part of these papers.
If you're the kind of person who wants to play the entire PlayStation catalog, I can see the value. For me, I paid for PS plus just to play Battlefield One. I downloaded the plus games every month (when I remembered to) and most of them didn't really interest me (e.g. Just Cause and Batman I just didn't enjoy after giving them a shot).
> By modern standards he would be a sex offender for life.

Age of consent in Britain in 16 and 14 in Central Europe. We also don't imprison 15 year olds for life.

Not all the world suffers from Yankee puritanism to the benefit of everyone.
I think the point was fair. We try to have a world where force is not used to reshape borders. Eg, we rightfully call out Russia's annexation of Crimea and sanction them.

If we are to call out China's genocide of the Uighers, we should also call out the Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States when they commit human rights abuse.

It's about applying human rights and international law as impartially as possible, and using economic might to sanction any country which breaks the rules.
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Was it not always prohibitively expensive to raise children? Seems to me that the main thing that has changed is the invention of (modern) contraception, making not having children but still having sex an option in a way that it wasn't in the past.
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We handle everything (all support and onboarding) until the funds are disbursed by a 3rd party lender/funder. This is to keep the experience consistent across all of our financial institutions.

Our platform partners makes money by earning a % of the loan value from each business that is funded.

If our platform partner decides to fund businesses themselves, then yes they'd need to collect from the small businesses and earn the full margin on each loan they issue.
> I want to be able to say I could do what McDonald or Snowden did, but if I'm honest, probably not.

I suspect that same can be said of most people. In cases like this, it is incredibly hard to make the right decision before the fact since there are only two scenarios in which you will be redeemed: you're ignored and disaster ensues, or you're acknowledged and further inspection reveals the component failure. A successful launch or inspection does not change the fact that it was the right decision, yet it will most likely have a deeply negative personal impact. The bit about being trusted to make decisions is apparently irrelevant.
Yeah it is really apparent how much excitement their is for Rust. This is also quite noticeable in the community which is also super friendly and helpful. And the fact that tools get rewritten in Rust left and right instead of using mature frameworks in other language speaks to the incredible momentum. The hype train is certainly deserved.
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do you realize all the calculations use CPI?
the bond market is highly manipulated because of that, why have a market then?
why are retail accounts in germany, netherland already negative rates? does that make sense to you?
can banks make money that way? danger of nationalization of banking?

personal beef? no. I thought this is a forum for civil discussion and reasoning?
Isn't basic calculus a mandatory high school course? How would such a scholarly person be entirely unaware of calculus?

Edit: I'm surprised, but it's quite impressive to have discovered the same concept Newton did, all on your own!
> a trillion dollar behemoth

I doubted that but you're right:

Company, Market Cap $billions
Alphabet, 1,368
Facebook, 737
Apple, 2,296
Microsoft, 1,773
Twitter, 53
Can you give a concrete example of something that can only be learned as a child?

Also, feral children may not be a relevant example as they have not undergone the full childhood development and in that sense they have a development disability as opposed to just having missed some typical learning. They cannot learn some typical human things and the rest of us cannot learn some typical unhuman things.
The US has given Egypt $80 billion over the last 40 years, which is about what the US has given Israel over 70 years.

Of course the US gives Israel some money still, mostly related to its on-going military relationship with Israel in developing weapons systems and technology. There isn't anybody in this thread that doesn't already know that. And the US gives money to a lot of other nations too.

None of that negates what I so precisely worded to try to avoid this follow-up response. I failed unfortunately.

Israel has a $400 billion GDP at this point. As I noted, the US does not particularly fund Israel. US funding to Israel represents a now trivial part of their economic system. They do not require the US, they are free-standing.
My understanding is most the aid given to Israel is spent on American military equipment. Israel is ok with it because they get free military equipment, and the US likes it because it funnels aid money to the military.
Not really. Perhaps if you squint really, really hard?
The cables aren't critical, though. They're nice to have for peacetime, but given it hasn't happened yet it's clear each nation is able to at least function without them. In a war, there'll be bigger concerns than "everyone turned on their AC in Israel and we'd like to buy energy from Greece".
How valuable is TLA+ for non-concurrent applications? I've always been interested in formal verification (is TLA+ technically that?).
https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/

Be sure to refer to overview.txt and for more high-level details refer to https://www.bls.gov/cpi/data.htm and https://www.bls.gov/cpi/methods-overview.htm — you might also find relevant information on weighting here https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/home.htm

Typical entries in the AP (Average Price) series look like:
APU0000701322 2015 M05 1.335

where APU0000701322 is a pound of spaghetti or macaroni, and M05 is May.

I thought of telling you off for spreading misinformation to incite, but I figured that saying it this would gets my point across more strongly.
Haven't read the article, but i'm sure the problem could be greatly alleviated, or even entirely eradicated, by cutting down on food waste. I understand an absurd amount of food goes to waste, something like a third.

All around us, obscene amounts of food is going to the bin.
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To have a emotion of the word, I watch this channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKgpamMlm872zkGDcBJHYDg/vid...
Totally relevant commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNCrMEOqHpc
> why are you engaging in this creative writing exercise?

Because I'm responding to the very top comment about assuming good intent and the people already agreeing with it. I'm not arguing that what happened in the article is verified true.

> Are you really trying to claim that you have traversed the near-infinite space of potential interactions and deemed them all 'NOT OK'? All of them?

I made no claims. I asked the question.

> What if this comment was in context of a sun-tan because you, your new coworker and other people were talking about about their sun-tans and your new coworker pointed out they tan really quickly (or not at all)? Is that too silly? What if your new coworker was the one who brought up their skin tone and you politely agreed with them? Too contrived? Don't like this creative writing exercise? How is that different from what you're doing ... except you're not only taking the absolute worst and most ugly interpretation of a half-a-sentence reference from this article, but also categorically stating that there is no context under which it would be 'OK' for two co-workers to reference skin color. Insanity.

Then you're just assuming good faith on behalf of the offending party in the article based on certain "what ifs" that you conjured, which isn't so different from my engaging in conversation with HN re: the boundaries of workplace racism based on the "what if" that the article is, in fact, true.
It’s crazy to think about the child Malala to this!
Don't think they were trolling...

Opened this thread excited to begin conversations with potential partners, and instead was greeted with text I'd never put in front of my clients.

Very disappointing!
Haha yes, saw it on my phone and had to hold it back from my face and rotate it back and forth to make sure it wasnt just my imagination.
America to the West, Africa to the South, Russia and China to the East. Constant tensions at the borders of Europe. To me the neighborhood looks incredibly dangerous and increasingly so. On that subject, the lackadaisical attitude of some EU nations towards defense is bewildering (looking at you Germany).
I'm sorry if I'm blunt, but the last year of compiler improvements have been nothing but targeted for this exact purpose? That's half of all spent time since 1.0! The issue tracker is filled to the brim with PRs and issues about making _everything_ faster. How does this constitute "refusal of a obvious step" for you?
Counterpoint: I bought a Xbox Series S for 380$CAD and 3 years of Game Pass Ultimate for 240$, both before taxes.

I could have paid 400$ for a Switch and then buy 3 games at 80$ and play the same games all the time and I'd be bored in less than a year.

I used to love renting games as a child. My family wasn't well off and if it wasn't for renting games I would have missed many gems.

Now with Gamepass I have almost 300 great games to play, I finished 3 games already and I'm currently playing Hollow Knight. After that, I'll play FF7 original and then all the Kingdom Hearts.

I won't have to spend a penny on games for the next 34 months, legally.
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Gas stations are an exception: They will usually pre-authorize a certain amount (usually some number that is not likely to be exceeded by reasonable gas tank sizes) and adjust downwards once the final amount is known.

This is different from having different amounts in the chip transaction and in the "actual" transaction amount fields.
I hope more people abandon the monopolies and consider federated networks instead. In this case, Pixelfed.
Minting NFTs of NFTs is the next level.
> What do you mean 'beyond'? It's not like there are many other languages that have compile-time polymorphism. (Java, Go, C, etc., don't.)

Java does, it's called generics. Also D, rust, Ada, free pascal, nim, and most statically typed languages from the last 3 decades (even Go is finally getting them ). Still can't see why C++ is closer to ML than C, since it's literally an almost compatible superset of C.
>a) entirely ephemeral and b) worth a damn.

I can look back to some really really good fireworks shows.
I mean...email.com?!
google Riyadh KSA?
Sure, the country who invaded and has been illegally occupying 1/3 of another country for half a century is the one being poked at.
Apple may have lost the strategic battle over antitrust definition in Europe
There's some cards which lasted a while (1080 Ti, or the Titan cards, probably the high end 3x series and AMD's equivalent), but consoles are made obsolete pretty regularly. It's more worthwhile if you haven't already bought a work/life non-gaming PC though or need to upgrade that. If you don't have a good TV for the console, that might be an additional cost.

Can't beat the ergonomics of chilling on your couch with a controller, but you could set that up with a PC if you really wanted to.
If you are expecting pure Hayek, you are in for a ride:

George Selgin is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of fractional reserve banking. (And with good reason.)
Exactly, I know first hand that it's easy to believe in such admittedly creative ideas. But thinking it through was fun and cleared up my misunderstanding; in the end the information itself cannot be compressed, one can only reduce redundancies. And an arbitrarily chosen algorithm tends to do a really bad job with that on average.
Yes but sometimes you do have to code, and when you do code you use certain tools. That's why there are dozens of companies that help solve this problem for technical screens.
As a (former) military officer I will refrain from commenting on current foreign politics. I just observe that both countries could gain a lot from the cessation of their current conflict.

Which country actually initiates negotiations is not very interesting, if you can even accurately determine the "start" of any negotiation in this time of digital communications and backchannel diplomacy.
IMHO your CS212 work is didactic, not applied
They might have been published, but how successful are they? I have no idea, but it's very realistic that one publisher is more risk averse while another isn't. This doesn't say anything about the language, really.
In the server market Intel had 92.9% for Q4 2020. AMD is actually up a lot in that market, Intel had 95.5% in 2019, but outside of a few specific use cases Intel still owns the market most likely to contain interesting information an attacker might want.

This attack as it stands does not seem to apply to Intel server hardware from Skylake to present due to a different interconnect architecture, though the researchers indicate a belief the attack may be portable it would also be more limited.

Complete rectal estimation here, but I'd imagine executive laptops to probably be the next juiciest target as the end user station most likely to contain "interesting" data. While AMD has been making incredible inroads in the laptop market with Zen 2 and especially Zen 3, as opposed to the Bulldozer era when seeing an AMD sticker on a laptop let you know it was the cheapest one on the shelf, they still haven't made it to the models commonly bought by businesses.

AMD is absolutely killing it in the DIY desktop space, deservedly so (this post typed from a 3900X that I love), but on the OEM side of things you still generally have to go out of your way to find them in anything not marketed at gamers.
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Housing - I did not have enough money to buy it outright so no choice for me here. For cars I do so would never lease one. As for environmental impact - go preach to bitcoin miners and other heavy users. I would suggest starting with 3 percenters.
I share the same opinion. Its been a long time since I read Kent Beck's book on TDD, but I don't recall him saying TDD = unit tests. When I see people using these as synonyms it feels to me they don't quite understood what TDD means and just jumped into this conclusion of "unit tests that check every method/line of code you write".

Testing behavior from the user perspective should be the goal, these are the kind of tests that bring most value in the long run.
I think you need both. Intuition most of the time to prevent the problem of a little bit of slow everywhere adding up, and then profiling to make sure there is no huge thing hiding in the blindspot of your intuition.
> Times are changing.

The same thing was said when C# came out, 20 years ago. "Now hardware is cheaper and software costlier"... "C# is the language of the future and will replace X language (and X++ too)"... "Just add some GB of RAM to the server and that's it, since it costs nothing".

Still, we see everyday new articles on HN about new "low-level" or "system" languages, with focus on performance, speed, safety and whatever, on today's hardware. Even today, there is still a need to write low-level, fast software, trying to squeeze every cycle and bit of RAM. And C and C++ are still alive.

> Also programmer productivity is very often worth more than a few cents of BOM cost.

Guess what would happen if I say my boss that a $0.03 MCU can do the same thing as a $0.30 MCU? What would my boss choose? My mental health, or his pocket?

$0.27 x 1000000 = $270000. That's another Ferrari.
How long does the Gulf continue to maintain relevance in a world of Electric Vehicles?
> Any ranking of military capabilities on virtually any dimension puts Israel in a higher tier than Greece.

Those rankings are accurate when looking through the lens of "how many offensive resources do they have", but when you say "on virtually any dimension" I think one needs to also take geography into account.

For example Switzerland is also ranked well below Israel, but good luck invading the Swiss on their home turf.
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* Zelf te bepalen werktijden, als het werk maar af komt / Flexible working hours, as long as work gets done.

* 1ste of 2de jaars TU student met een beetje ervaring is geen bezwaar / First/second years university students with a bit of experience are welcome to apply.

Gezocht voor schrijven en fuzzen van bestaande vrij ingewikkelde software: C++ programmeur met ervaring. Zelfstandigheid is groot goed, "af" maken is het moeilijkste wat er is / Looking for adding to or fuzzing of a large existing codebase: C++ programmer with some experience. Independence is a great boon; finishing things is the most difficult thing there is.

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Because turks are really nationalistic and they see everything as a threat and they see themself always a victim. Like they see a country with a population of 10 millions provoking a country with 82 million inhabitants, just because Israel wants to link their power grid to Europe. Talking of poking and insecurity, how is it even possible to see Israel connecting their power grid to Europe as poking by Greece? Why should Greece, Cyprus and Israel ask Turkey first, if doesn't go through turkish sea and land?
Or they actually are naturally thin. Such people do exist and I refuse to believe most people haven't ever met someone like this. Why is it so hard to believe that the tiny fraction of people who make into Hollywood are selected for this trait?

I'm not saying they don't also do unnatural things to their bodies that set unrealistic standards and don't set a good example, but being "thin" is not one of them.
Sts-27

https://youtu.be/BswkvaAaqSM

1988. Damage to orbiter Atlantis.

Not the same foam that shedded (pieces from SRB rather than external tank). But still demonstrated failure modes.
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Would you pay to travel for remote work?
Airbnb building their service for remote work- https://www.airbnb.co.uk/work

Wondering if people would really pay for that vs the sort of thing I am building as an alternative - https://wws.jjm.mybluehost.me/will/
Lockdowns aren't free, but neither would ignoring the pandemic be. There's no way to avoid the cost

Looking back at the Spanish Flu, https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-covi... showed that lockdowns ended up being cheaper than no lockdowns

Unfortunately the ruling class will always find a way to trickle down costs, so it's no surprise that the poorer you are the more impacted you are. With or without lockdown

"I am once again asking for your financial support" meme for tax payers bailing out megacorp bonuses yet again
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It's panicking that caused the issue in the first place.
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I think the simplest response I can give to this is the "above defition" is of a pattern language, not a pattern.

A pattern language is an organized and coherent set of patterns. They are developed holistically to work in relation with each other. They're designed to be combined together - as sequences, in parallel, as contrasts - and also to be as "platform-agnostic" as possible.

For example, Alexander's book helpfully includes a ton of points on how to combine the various patterns in the book, and a healthy "see also:" section to get alternative ideas or just areas of overlap between them all.

And the patterns in the book are about the physical, environmental, and social needs of humans (the problems) and how they can be met trough architecture and infrastructure.

It's very distinct from just "a list of patterns." They're always described in service to the whole, in relation to the others.

For the English language, I would say Aristotle's Rhetoric is closest in spirit; whereas Elements of Style is clearly more a "list of patterns"

Other "pattern language"-style books I can think of are The Prince by Machiavelli; Capital by Marx; 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Ries and Trout; Diffusion of Innovations by Rogers; and High Output Management by Andrew Grove.

I would also say the original C2 Wiki comes closest to creating a "bottoms-up" pattern language. Here's the entry on A Pattern Language - https://wiki.c2.com/?PatternLanguage

But these books aren't explicitly set up as pattern language books - nor are many others. Very few books (not even the GoF) are put together so well and as comprehensively as A Pattern Language. It's truly a masterpiece.
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