skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad thing about this type of article is that we have a perfectly legitimate case for people whose work happens to involve sex - in a fully responsible and measured way - and it becomes as a hook to make a shallow "all sex work should be normalized".

> What difference does it honestly make?

Is that a cheap rhetorical question or do you don't see the moral issues of legalized prostitution?

Just to start with the basics: how "incentivized" is someone who grew up with poverty and/or abuse and started prostituting themselves? How can we prevent young vulnerable girls getting lured into it? What is a woman that entered into the oldest profession to do after she reached an age where she is no longer attractive and can not compete with the hordes of young girls who see it as a way to make a lot of money for little "work"?

Let's think a bit further: how about the health and their own relationship with sex for a woman that turned to prostitution? Don't you think that dealing with all sorts of Johns (who are likely to have their own issues when relating to sex) leads into prostitutes having their own sex issues?

"Well, porn has faced the same challenges, got regulated and now it's a huge industry", you might say. Yes, it's true. The questions are then: do you really want to turn everything into an "industry"? Are we better of as a society after that porn became something to be mass-produced and mass-consumed? For every Mia Khalifa that managed to turn her life around, how many other women got ground up by a life-changing decision they would make when so young? Do we want to have even more of the political-bureaucratic machine responsible in telling us what is acceptable and what is not?

> If prostitution were legal and accepted in the USA

Plenty of countries where it is legal and it still doesn't hold a candle to drinking or smoking.
> A lot of chips are made on mature fab lines because they don't need the performance of 5nm lines or can't justify the mask costs.

Alternatively: they're car-scale products dealing primarily with high electric currents (10s or 100s of milliamps) and/or higher voltages (5V instead of 1.3V).

Smaller chips use (and therefore output) less current than larger scale chips. But if your goal is to output 10mA to better drive an IGBT or other transistor anyway, then you really prefer 40nm to 130nm ANYWAY, because those larger sizes are just a lot better at moving those large currents around.

Bigger wires mean bigger currents.
I have used the Kelly Criterion successfully in automated sports gambling. It's relevant anywhere you are doing confidence-based arbitrage.
In other words, good quality book metadata is expensive. Book recommendation/reviews aren't haven't been so profitable as to justify such investment. If I was a publisher, I'd put my money on the book influencers, not on Goodreads and alternatives anyway.
Zanzibar’s project to put itself on Street View angered a legion of streamers
Also worth looking at is this previous discussion on HN,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13143821
I'm saying from the ones that do excel, they do just fine, and far more poor asians excel.

Calling it a dogwhistle is just trolling. The real racism is from people judging based on race instead of ability.
I don’t agree with your cynicism. This is a very practical, potentially accessible, inexpensive solution to save literally tons of power. It’s an easy win. Let’s take it and move on to the next area we can make gains in the fight against climate change.
I heard this with Maine Public Radio a couple of years ago, but actually I have not noticed it lately.
>The same things were said against Walmart, the exact same arguments word for word.

And?

>And yet we saw the rise of independent stores, gentrification, Whole Foods, the rise of e-commerce, the rise of etsy, amazon, ali, ebay, the rise of the Apple Store

So... Walmart was outcompeted by the Apple Store?
It depends on how exactly you frame the question.

If you ignore the implementation, its basically a procedural texturing technique? Those are widely used now.

If you're talking about a real time post effect, it would probably be a bit too slow for a few more years.

If you count SLAM techniques that label camera feeds for AR games, those are very close but I dont think most run at a full framerate.
Hi, I wrote an essay about Kelly Criterion a while back based on a review of paper by Edward Thorpe. Cheers.

https://medium.com/from-the-diaries-of-john-henry/an-optimal...
Why would Instagram be appealing to children?

Instagram is mostly used by young adults trying to build their social status through a curated (manipulated) image of their lives.

I don't see how it would appeal to children.
> I find it extremely difficult to believe that I would've been evaluated the same way in grad school applications if I hadn't done the post-bac where I did.

I have a similar background: undergrad @ middle-of-the-road state school. PhD at HYPS school.

As you would expect, I was a teaching assistant for a couple of undergraduate courses. As such, I got to know many undergrads.

I would occasionally bump into them when they were about to graduate and I was frequently shocked when they told me stuff like, "Yeah. I'm going to Harvard Med" (or some other illustrious program) and I would think to myself, "You were a good student, but I knew undergrads at my state school who were just as good. And Harvard Med didn't even given them an _interview_."

I'm not saying the students were not talented enough to excel @ Harvard Med, but I imagine there is some level of "peace of mind" if these schools favor their own. As the saying goes: Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM stock....
Ah really I didn't know that.
I think in larger companies you separate infrastructure from teams. Teams are provided with tools or ways to set up new resources at a higher level.
I use Twitter mainly for checking updates on kinds of stuff that I have an interest in.

I found it easier to read all the information here, following what you want to know.

You can use it to check stocks, read the news or learn new things.

You can do many things on Twitter, but you should never dwell on social media to the point that it affects your productivity.
I've wondered about this in long-form talk podcasts I listen to. I always just assumed there were audio file formats that included timecode.
It is informative in it that there's people out here who think he knows nothing about that which he speaks of. I'm not parsing this information for him though - we have search engines and a lot of good resources that fit the purpose. Or he can just go on thinking NFT's are "magic digital baseball cards" if he wishes. Not even gonna comment on his remarks about rapa nui history.
Why does this sound like trouble?
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This program will help any entrepreneur grow, whether you have a product to sell or no product at all (affiliate marketing).
Or the numbers 0 to 9 at 48 to 57 (ie just mask out bits 4 and 5)
> So you are running a second server to test issues away from production? I thought this is possible in other languages / frameworks, so I must be missing something

The Swank connection runs on a different thread, not on a different server.
That does exist, but I think we could do a better job pre-high school. At least at the high school I went to (which wasn't highly regarded, or anything) there were remedial classes for kids who were behind, and honors classes for kids who excelled. You could opt-in to honors courses on a per-subject basis.

I think K-6 are where we struggle. At least that's my experience.
In this case, what is the point the blog post is trying to make?

The title of the post is "Go Executable Files Are Still Getting Larger". Upon further reading and conversation here it seems this is possibly not true, nor what the post is about. If we believe Russ's comments, Go executable sizes haven't increased much in general. Perhaps the reason you're seeing increases in Cockroach DB is because you keep writing more code for Cockroach DB?

Now the point has shifted to this notion of "dark bytes". So the article is about ... how the way you previously diagnosed the contents of binaries doesn't work anymore? That's fine and legitimate, but it seems like the point is over-extrapolated to become a criticism of the Go team.
Amazon Prime Passes 200M Subscribers
How is Kotlin going to support the SIMD interface? It really sounds like #ifdef for every platform, unfortunately.
Almost all of those are additive changes. PEP 563 is a breaking change.
Throw grant-money at it to until those with weak evidence, buckle under the load?
The place I see it most is in networking RFCs.
Mosquitos have killed more of your ancestors[0] than anything else. To use your Nazi metaphor they probably look at themselves in a manner similar to the people who landed on Omaha beach in 1941.

[0]"The general consensus of demographers is that about 108 billion human beings have ever lived, and that mosquito-borne diseases have killed close to half—52 billion people, the majority of them young children."
https://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/mosquito-killed-billio...
Interestingly one of the most enduring shows on NPR is Fresh Air with Terry Gross and she traditionally has not had her guests in the studio with her over her 40 plus years hosting the show. She has even spoken about how she's been able to use this to her advantage. This following is quick read on this:

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/WHYY-NPR-Terry...
I not sure he mean never panic at runtime. I think there are good reason to panic at runtime if you care about safety a buffer overflow is a good reason for instance.

But a memory allocation failure is clearly not a good reason.
> You playing a game 4h/day is nothing compared to 1000 gpus mining 24/7.

Red Dead Redemption 2 sold 34 million, the game takes well over 100 hours to complete and runs GPUs to their limits.

I think even if just half or a quarter of the players completed it that's significant next to mining and needs to be looked at with the same level as criticism.
If that would be important you would disable overcommit in Linux. If you didn't do that, it's probably because it's good tradeoff that saves resource.
> With Netlify and CF as DNS I get the basic 30-day high-level analytics from Cloudflare (# unique visitors is all I look at there)

I added my blog to Cloudflare DNS last night, but all I can see for analytics is total requests. No info on pages visited, or how many visitors. All I see is a button to upgrade to pro to get web traffic analytics :(
This is totally on point, it's true when you get people in as contractors or outsource the work.

But, if you onboard people into your startup I don't think most people would consider it a wise strategy to underpay certain team members that are part of a distributed team based on where they live..
> I'm really surprised Germany is playing so loose and fast with privacy

You're surprised because you're expecting politicians to have consistent principles, but it's just about what's convenient right now. This is an inherent issue with having elections every couple of years.
Fun trivia: in the early days of the ARPAnet, mail was delivered (at least on PDP-10's) by FTP-appending a message in to the receipients mailbox file. (Which was protected as append-only to world (owner, group, world).)

Didn't last long, obviously, but that was back in the days when every site had a well-publicized guest login and you could telnet anywhere. (Well, OK, in 1972 there were only a few dozen nodes, but there were some really interesting ones to play with.)

We used to play a game with telnet from HARV-10 where we'd telnet-chain around the world until someone dropped the connection or it got too slow.
All right so it seems that a precondition for peertube taking of would be that a lot of people setting up servers for video redundancy?
People looking for books online likely have more disposable income than the average population. So I would say ad revenue will probably look pretty good but this is just a guess. Sometimes this can be surprising for different niches. For example, you might not think recipe websites make much money but in fact they often make $30 per 1000 visitors (on ads alone) due to their audience profile. I got turned down offering $140k for a recipe website a few months ago. They were making around $3k per month.

As far as affiliate revenue, they are very likely to be making a purchase soon if they are looking at book reviews so if you can get them to click your Amazon affiliate link there will be fairly high conversion. The revenue per purchase probably is quite low due to the price and margins on a physical book (although I wonder what it looks like for Kindle books) but with enough traffic you can absolutely make it work. I can think of some interesting ways to get a lot of traffic with Pinterest as well in this niche.

This is a numbers game. Keep your costs low and your time involvement low and even if it is only making $2k/month that is good enough because you can have several sites at the same time.

Btw as far as needing a ton of traffic to make money well sometimes that is true to an extent. Recently I was looking at a website that was the most popular user-created website for a specific mobile game. It is generating $6k/month despite having the lowest RPM I've seen so far (only making around $2 per 1000 visitors). Despite this the hosting cost was only $50/mo and I bet I could get that down to $15/month with even better performance.

Side note - you get paid commissions on everything people buy for a certain time after clicking your affiliate link. People buy tons of stuff on Amazon so you'll get lots of revenue for non-book things too.

If you want more info on this type of business model go look at these site (I am not affiliated with them at all):

https://thewebsiteflip.com/
https://fatstacksblog.com/
Amazon squashes competitors and raises prices or reduces quality/costs safe in the knowledge that consumers have few alternatives.

It's weird asking "how does killing off the competition hurt consumers?" when literally all economic growth depends upon it.
In my experience at Princeton, this rings true. I was surprised by the amount of cheating taking place.
That is indeed annoying. Thanks for the example.
It's certainly low odds, but it's not impossible nor does it require a trick coin. I've seen people roll a 20 on a d20 10 times in a row, and then not a single 20 the rest of the session on the same die. Shit happens, it's probability and it may be improbable but it isn't impossible.
This reminds me of the question "Why has no one made a better Board Game Geek?" (https://boardgamegeek.com/). It actually is slowly getting better now, but it is still shockingly stuck with a UI/UX from the very early 2000s.

Another website, Board Game Atlas (https://www.boardgameatlas.com/) was launched a year or two ago to compete with Board Game Geek but hasn't really caught on, despite having a superior UI/UX and some killer features.

Why has it not caught on? Mainly because everyone is already using Board Game Geek. That is where the community is so unless everyone moves over en masse it probably isn't going to happen.

However! After Board Game Atlas was launched, Board Game Geek suddenly started updating their UI/UX.

Here you can see the pre-Board Game Atlas homepage:

https://boardgamegeek.com/dashboard

Here you can see the post-Board Game Atlas homepage:

https://boardgamegeek.com/

They've made similar improvements for interior pages. Up until very recently the interior pages were totally unusable on mobile (the forums are still terrible), but now they are mostly usable.

My take away is this, if you want Goodreads to have good UI/UX, create a competing website that does the same thing as Goodreads with good UI/UX. When Goodreads feels threatened by the new site, even if people are not moving over to it en masse, they will start to find the time and money to fix their own UI/UX problems. Though, it may take awhile, BGG has been improving, but it is taking a long long long time. A shockingly long time.
Value is created by having an asset that cannot artificially be inflated at will. It is a protocol that is open source, decentralized, permissionless, and censorship resistant.

Central banks have monopolized money and obliterated the concept of sound money when they began manipulating the interest rate. They allowed fractional reserve banking, where you can give out money you don't have. They created and spent trillion of dollars they didn't have to prop up markets through quantitative easing.

And now you have housing markets and stock markets in bubbles. Inflation that is inevitably coming.

Mortgage rates only ever go down to support the housing market.

http://www.fedprimerate.com/mortgage_rates_chart-graph.htm

Treasury yields only ever go down to support the stocks market.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2016/10-year-treasury-bond-rate-...

Debt to GDP ratio only ever goes up:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

Ask yourself why this is happening, and how we return to sound money.
Go live in Mozambique. Get malaria a few times, watch children get malaria, and then tell me again of your passion for that one strain of mosquitoes out of dozens, which carries malaria.
Yes you could it and it would be a better use of money than an electric water heater. From my understanding of crypto mining, the energy usage on off the shelf machines is usually greater than the immediate value of the coins mined. Using it to heat water could change the economics. As the value of coins is always changing these coins could be held as an investment or coins could become valuable enough that they are profitable from the time of mining.

I remember a startup selling cpu based heaters to support cloud services, there could be a similar market for water heaters. If you have a cpu in your house you’re already heating with it whether you know it or not.
I follow people whose reviews I like.
The variable annotations are used at runtime to define the fields. They aren't type checked.
Kelly goes beyond binary outcomes. The underlying principle is the same, though: you maximise expected logarithmic wealth.

To do that you need the joint distribution of outcomes (what are the possible future scenarios and how likely are they?) Estimating this well is the trick to successful application of the Kelly criterion.
It's a very well known issue and it has been studied for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem

It's a classic NP-Hard problem. And depending on the size of the sample we can have pretty much the best route available, but we still don't have a way to solve this 100% accurately (particularly for large sample size)
At the moment the longest part of my deploy is copying the new executable to the server.

Do you use rsync [1]? I ask because most of my collegues don't and they take minutes to deploy what I usually do in seconds.

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rsync.1.html
Furniture made without cutting trees
Why is it that we need to destroy the planet to make stuff? We can make most of the stuff we need without natural resources like wood from forests.
>the well-known lack of trust among Arabs for anyone outside their own family adversely affects offensive operations.

This can basically summarize the entire problem of the middle east
No, montecarl, higher education should only be for kids who get the most obedience points in child jail.

Please ignore the vast gulf of quality between child jails, if they were gifted students they would have risen to the top anyway.
I don't really see why the UX needs to change, Web 1.0 design was/is very functional, and I find that Goodreads has a nice/balance between the simple things (Adding books to a list) and the complex (e.g. filtering). Of course, the writers design a UX blog, so they might disagree.
While this is irrational in this experiment, but it is likely that the biological systems in which humans evolved, tend to not have truly independent events - hence our intuition.
Have a white sounding name
Weirdly enough, the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), Germany's cyber security authority, is actually very good and has very competent security experts. I bet the officials never consulted them about Luca.
In the US, somehow introducing a camera between consenting adults exchanging money is legal, while without a camera it is not.

There's nothing wrong with the oldest profession except the prudish puritanicals who throw pimping, "exploitation," and human trafficking FUD, moral judgments, slut-shaming, and sex-negativity onto independent sex workers and consenting adults. They need to stay out of other peoples' business.

As my ex would say: "If everyone had more sex, the world would be a happier place." I think this starts with stripping away shame, judgements, and disgruntlement.
U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4M Homes Short of Buyer Demand
> Anybody who has been through education has observed that there are the people who "get it" and the people who struggle.

I've been through education, and my take-away is that it's quite a bit more nuanced than that dichotomy. Get what? Struggle with what?

> The idea that "we all can do it" because "we're all equals" is doing a disservice to the kids who struggle. You better prepare them by putting them in courses that are matched to their level and challenge them appropriately.

Strawman. The idea isn't simply "everyone is equal". The literal first thing I quote mentions differences.

> To be blunt

> But all this "not sorting" kids stuff? That's just nonsense.

Careful not to confuse being blunt with being upset and stubborn! Or maybe you just really like the hat in Harry Potter!
Cancelling the cancellers leads to madness and ruin.
Not a strategy game.
Hello from Miami. Sorry but your assessment is just a luddite fallacy. You point out potential harm without acknowledging any potential benefits. It's clear to me that the potential benefits massively outweigh the potential harms.

The potential harms you point out are tiny compared to the millions of lives ruined and hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by malaria.
What do these QR codes do?
I think the "Topics" list really needs some curation [1] and some more layers of taxonomy. Right now the "topic" breakdown seems 100% isomorphic to the "recommender" breakdown - the links literally go to the exact same URLs - which isn't sustainable. Bookshops don't have separate shelves for each member of staff.

[1] Do we really need both "Anglo-Saxon England" and "Anglo-Saxon Britain"? Or three different "Norse Mythology" topics and two different "Norse Myths" topics and a "Norse Mythology and Polytheism" topic?
Right, this has always been the case but it's inconvenient to do so. It's incredibly convenient to just subscribe to Spotify. If you took the convenience of Spotify away, people will go back to piracy.