skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Legalize the sex trade with strong provisions to protect the workers and support systems for escaping that life if they so choose.

There’s strong indications that the immediate effect of a jurisdiction trying to do that is to make the jurisdiction a magnet for sex trafficking. Now, you can argue that the long term effects will be better, or its a matter of fine tuning protections, or that the effect is in part illusory because it makes detecting trafficking easier, or that it actually makes things net better, and that the trafficking it reduces is greater than the trafficking it diverts in from other jurisdictions; I personally think all of those arguments have truth to them. But those are things that are less apparent from the data, so its a hard sell.
Seemed inevitable.

I first found out about Bitcoin in 2017, but didn't have time to fully understand the technology, so I brushed it off as a curiosity and moved on. I heard about it again in November at the start of the price increase, but upon further analysis decided not to invest due to the fossil fuels required to secure the network (I extend my thanks to Stephen Diehl for his thorough and nuanced introspection of the technology).

I feel sorry for those who have lost money at this time, but I am thankful to have had the foresight to avoid this inevitable price crash.
I'd also add that chasing clients tends to be a loosing game in the long term. The devs know this, but sales only sees an individual commission. In enterprise you get a lot of the following coming off the sales team.

"We had a 5 minute phone call with someone doing a vendor comparison and saw that we didn't have features Y, and Z that X has. We got them to say they'd consider us if we delivered Y and gave them a 50% discount."

The customer already decided on X, X isn't a direct competitor - if you build Y you'll just be a crappy version of X. Not to mention building Y means pushing out features that your target customers keep asking for.

As a PM I got pulled into dozens of these calls as the sales team was desperate to hit quota. Not a single time did I see a feature that was worth building. The few times I saw a deal swing on these offers we had effectively guaranteed client specific dev work that other venders were turning down due to the risk of losing money.
Two different attacks though. One was ransomware run amok, one was targeted supply chain attack to conduct espionage.
Why should I study now instead of revising before the exam?
Brian Reynolds was behind that one, not sure how much Sid was involved in it, if at all.
The WSJ article says they are almost 99.9% sure there was no driver. https://www.wsj.com/articles/fatal-tesla-crash-in-texas-beli...
> The electron binary is native code, of course, or it wouldn't execute.

It isn't always; after all you can run Electron apps under Rosetta if there's no M1 version of it even though it is compiled but for Intel instead.

So, it is not as simple as "compile vs. interpreted" because there's emulation as well.

In this case, many folks don't consider Electron as native because it doesn't use native UI frameworks as it uses the web stack tech (JS/CSS/HTML/etc) to render. That's why Electron apps can run with same UI on all desktop platforms.

In other words, pure Swift/Cocoa UI apps are considered to be native macOS apps, even if its backend is built in any native language like Objective C/Swift/Rust/C etc.

However, same folks will not consider Electron apps as native even if it is using a backend built in any native language such as Objective C, Swift or Rust/C/C++.
For some more context, when I worked at a large organization, any manual changes that were being made via SQL commands or CLI commands were sent through our code review system first.. and these were being done by developers. So by enabling a similar paradigm with a UX for non-developers, I think you're on to something here, good luck!
The more I read Elon’s responses to these things, the less I feel like he actually cares. Elon’s response for me translates to “It’s not a misunderstanding of the name, it’s a misunderstanding if the name by experienced users” In the end the name Autopilot is a really cool name, but it is by actual definition misleading af. Given I don’t think Tesla’s cars are inherently more dangerous, it just seems like people think Autopilot is more than it is, experienced or not. They absolutely should implement features to make sure the driver is at least in the seat!!
Your account appears to be one of a long series of accounts we've previously banned. The holder of these accounts has not only been breaking the site guidelines and getting banned here for years, they've also used multiple accounts in the same threads to appear to be multiple people, which is obviously an abuse in its own right.
> Tourism can decrease housing supply, making is less affordable for long-term tenants.

I'm not sure what's the size of this effect though. I've heard people making comparisons like "1/3 of the apartments for rent at any given moment is short term"- which doesn't make sense, as it ignores the amount of properties rented for long term that are currently not on the market (while a short term rental is always on the market). What I think is that it makes owning a house more attractive, because the possibility of renting it out now and then lowers the cost of ownership. And thus it increases property values.
Feel free to look through my comment history to see some of my arguments against fiat currency and federal reserve. I don’t think you’re familiar enough with the economics, the ideas of hard money/soft money and hyperinflation.
Enforcement mechanisms for noise are there to handle the extreme end of the scale, on the assumption that there are relatively natural limits in place because of how neighbourhoods are structured. That you don't understand this consideration suggests you have very limited experience with disruptive neighbours in a city.

But also e.g. increased traffic is a consideration many places, as well as simply reduced affordability for people actually connected to the place and working there.

People also pick places to live based on other factors, such as e.g. distance to schools and the like, and having density of actually available residential units driven down as such can be massively damaging to local communities, as well as drive up the costs of provisioning services as a result.
'Connect to an existing node' is likely implemented using ERTS (http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/distributed.html). So you're basically connecting to the runtime of the target node. The security model for ERTS isn't great, though, so your point stands. All you need is a matching secure cookie and you can connect and run any commands you want.
This is right here probably a major explanation for the whole phenomena. I have seen this exact attitude with individuals who are in their 30s and living with their parents. Something in their upbringing gave them this immense sense of worth but the world isn't rewarding them for the little work they do as much as they think it's worth.

This is extremely presumptive and dismissive. Also living with your parents isn't necessary an indicator of a social reclusve.
Because films’ promotions may deliberately conceal information about tragic events in the story to achieve maximum impact and nobody thinks that is unethical.
The documentation is great but the learning curve is steep. I'd propose Nim instead.
Probably just an abundance of this in humans in general?

A lovely John Steinbeck paraphrase/misquote from another thread:

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Can you elaborate on why you think they “botched” the standardization? I don’t know much about the topic, and I’m genuinely curious about what went right and wrong.
Many of them can be true at the same time.
Up until approximately 100-200 years ago (99.999% of humanity’s existence) it was a possibility in most of the world to retreat into complete wilderness and live as a hermit. Now there’s nowhere left to go. We have wilderness but it is owned. We have recluses but they have SSNs and tax burdens and fingerprints. A person who becomes detached from society is put in a mental institution. The result is a kind of cultural fascism/authoritarianism. You MUST live in society, and there is only realistically one to choose from. What an incredibly unprecedented global experiment!

It seems to me that for some the only winning move is not to play.

EDIT: and as I understand it Japan’s culture is especially brutal for some personalities, although I have no first-hand experience. For all the problems we have in the US at least I can be a total wackadoo without feeling like I have failed my entire family and shamed myself and all my acquaintances in the eyes of society.
If all you need is the ability to run a lambda function's code locally you might interested in docker-lambda[1]. I haven't really used localstack or SAM but a couple of years ago when we needed to run some lambda functions locally for development docker-lambda worked well enough.

[1] https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda
> because they are on your website so you get the same data

Or you provide the link via any social media website, or email, etc..

> or can instead be obtained by tricking them into clicking on a link to your website instead of that one

The target may feel much safer clicking a link to knowntrustedsite.abc than yourunknownphisysite.xyz
Why did you buy Voltaren and that's probably your answer.

If you bought Voltaren as a joke though an offline random process ( which is hard to do ) then you might have more evidence it's linked to the sale part.

The other day I watched Mosquito Coast again after 30 years. Afterwards I saw Apple are making a TV series. That's not a coincidence I just have no idea how it happened. It was not simple, a Ad or Article I would have read, it's an interesting premise I always remembered. It was downloaded from the torrents. It was after looking at a movie then director then actor then movies then the decision to watch. But something I don't know what, helped me stop there on the chain of browsing and watch it.
Sure, but some people suffer lots of abuse in life just by the way they look or their ethnicity, sexuality, etc (black people, Jewish, LGBT, etc. in bad places like the middle east come to mind). Imagine been Jewish or very obviously gay and effeminate in Saudi Arabia.

Some time it's better to be alone that to be abused. I saw a documentary about this -Hikkomori- and that was one of the guy's point. He took a lot of sht from people first at school, then at work and on the street too because of how he looked, and he got tired of having to put up with random shtty people insulting him every single day for years. It wore him down over the years and at home he only had a mother that didn't seem to be supportive at all until he gave up. You can see it in YouTube, is one of the first results. It's sad that he could not make it work by moving around until he found decent people, but some times you just have bad luck.
I agree that Airbnb is technically breaking the law with almost every rental, but increasing the supply of housing is a MAJOR benefit to society. Zoning laws and business building codes are completely unreasonable in most cases.
I don't give exit interviews. My last exit, HR couldn't spare a person to talk to me in person, even, so I ignored the form they sent. I have given (prompted) feedback multiple times in cases to terminate directors, and have been thanked by their supervisors for detailing those breakdowns in ways they could "take forward" (in those cases, it took way too long for those directors to be on the chopping block - nobody ready for me to talk about that part of it)

I thought about it a lot, and came up with an idea - I'd do it for $50,000. Because my experience was unless the requester remunerated for the feedback (i.e. "a [management] consultant said"), the feedback would not in any way be taken seriously and no change would occur. Since no change would occur for the "free" feedback anyway, the only thing the feedback session could do is make things worse. My exit definitely cost them at least that much in productivity, so if they were interested in minimizing regrettable attrition, that's an investment (the pound of cure instead of ounce of prevention that was free to them all along).

Paying out for that feedback is also potentially a way to compensate for the fact that fixing the environment was never my job in the first place - the existing feedback I did give didn't go anywhere and I was powerless to implement any of it, being told to focus on "my work" (coding). Nobody asks a manager+ to FizzBuzz on their way out

A year later I caught up with someone I worked with and was completely unsurprised that it had gotten worse, and recognized how much of a waste of time it was for me to even collect my thoughts about that place much less point out why it sucked and encourage ways to minimize that
>lacking the space you assume they have

Did you even read my comment?

>Of course it doesn't mean owners have an extra room.
Yeah I mean I’ve read the technical FEYE writeups, and yeah once they had a foothold it got fairly f’ing complex (hope those guys don’t end up in my CI/CD ever, yikes).

That said, foothold for this stuff more often than note comes from keys on public GitHub repos (or things like that: simple misses that are enough to throw the door open).

I hear things like “intern” and “totally unrelated” and it’s the dog whistles of policy/policy enforcement failures of these sorts of initial ways in.

So many sexy hacks start from admin123 passwords unfortunately
Most of news related to COVID is bad news. You don't get to 500k deaths in the US (3 million globally) as the result of an equal amount of good things (i.e vaccines) vs bad things (repeatedly overwhelmed ERs) happening.

The media has the effect of amplifying the bad news, and some of it is very appropriate when it emphasizes the bad behavior of those in positions of extreme power like the president, but the nature of a pandemic is to be inherently far more bad than good, and most of the good (vaccines, economic relief packages for the working class) are only relative to how bad the fundamental situation is.
Flutter vs. Swift for iOS Apps
IANACryptoExpert, but:

The production rate of BTC does not depend on the number of miners as long as there's one miner (with zero miners no BTC is produced). A block is produced every 10 minutes by a computer that produces the smallest hash for a randomly arranged set of inputs (transactions and previous block's hash). This lowest hash serves as an identifier for that block and all input transactions are recorded on the new block with that hash and appended/linked in the chain. Currently, each mined block is associated with a miner reward of 6.25 BTC (I think) that's given to the computer which produced the lowest hash. It doesn't change if there are more/less miners in the network. So, there's no "dry season" just because the mining rate cut in half. There's just less energy being spent competing to generate the lowest hash and get block rewards. So, all the miners not running are failing to potentially earn money and the system is, theoretically, less decentralized, now.

But, there's no change to the rate of production.
I wish more people felt this way. The pressure for all people (and all organisations) to pick a side in all issues doesn’t seem like it’s actually helping to fix very many issues...
Even smaller ones are not immune. I found myself in the same situation in Cambridge and Venice. Cambridge one was very, very sketchy.
China’s vast Bitcoin mining empire risks derailing its climate targets
Honestly this reminds me a lot of some numbers Pew tracks. They look at crime and perception of crime. For quite some time crime rates have been falling dramatically but perception of crime has increased.[0] There's even a pretty strong political correlation[1]. But that should be no surprise for anyone that watches Fox and CNN. Though one thing I saw at the beginning of the pandemic is that CNN really went all-in in adopting Fox's strategy: fear. I'm a bit worried when the major news sources are selling fear over reality (tricky subject). It also has a big effect on how other countries perceive us and what it is like living in the US. We see so many from Europe, China, India, and elsewhere think America is a lawless land with death around every corner, and I don't blame them if that's what we're pushing with our news. If we consider cultural warfare, I'd say it looks like we are trying to purposefully lose on that front.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about...

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/16/voters-perc...
This is FUD. There is competition between miners and even if some miners for whatever reason don't want to include certain transactions (and how would they even know which transactions they want to exclude?), other miners will, because there are transaction fees to be earned.
Maybe, but ignore Vertias involvement and just concentrate on the raw footage they captured. You can't just fake a conversation like that without fearsome technology or maybe bribery.
IANAL so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Because of SESTA/FOSTA, Section 230 no longer provides immunity for websites or website infrastructure from civil or criminal liability with regards to knowingly hosting trafficking-related content (however how "knowingly" and "trafficking-related" would be defined/interpreted in a court case, I'm not aware). Square space would theoretically be liable even if it is an intermediary/provider of infrastructure but neither a producer nor direct provider of content.

Before SESTA/FOSTA, SquareSpace would have legal immunity from suits regarding user-generated content and only users would be held liable if the content was determined to be criminal. SquareSpace has not and is not legally responsible to police content of it's users. Doing so would violate the SquareSpace's 1st amendment rights as a private company. However, under third party doctrine, SquareSpace could be subpoenaed for (theoretically)narrowly tailored and relevant user information by a court of law. Netlify, wordpress and other hosts would similarly be held liable to the degree SquareSpace is: knowingly hosting trafficking-related cotent.

However bigger question is how far does this go? To the registrar level (e.g. Namecheap)? The DNS (ICANN/IANA)? What about Internet Exchanges and Peering (e.g.AMS-IX)? While SESTA/FOSTA hasn't been tested at these levels, it theoretically implicates the entire infrastructure of the Internet should just one site host sex-trafficking related material. This would violate the sovereignty of other nations and gives the US government universal jurisdiction. Hopefully this can be resolved at some point by the Supreme Court. Hopefully.
It Seems My Silence Was Heard (2019)
Two men ... nobody driving.

This is a "hold my beer and watch this" accident.
>immense sense of worth

Not necessarily sense of worth, I would argue. I doubt that it's the first time in history when parents told their children that they are very beautiful and smart, much better than anyone else.

IMHO cushion of enough wealth to allow a lifestyle of "prefer not to" combined with lowered expectations of the life is a total destroyer. Many people in developed countries can choose not to face the difficulties of the life and be entertained and fed through their adulthood.

If it's hard for you to face rejection or go through social situation there's enough infrastructure to let you live your life in a room. You may or may not have income if you don't have to pay rent, staying alive is extremely cheap so your parents can take care of you with almost no impact on their budget. You can also do some remote work that requires only tech literacy.

I myself had periods of "going back to parents home" when I was feeling "No expectations form my life but not interested in dying". What worked for me was forcing myself out of my comfort zone through changing cities/countries with no enough fund to sustain that kind of lifestyle.

It worked well for me 3 times so far. The state of "living in your room" is easy thanks to the internet, I don't remember getting bored because my schedule was always full with "projects", TV series, games and online discussions(forums->facebook->Digg->reddit). You notice the toll on your body and you disconnect at some point when your peers move on with their phase in their lives.

I'm not exactly an introvert(I simply need time alone too), I actually enjoy the company of people and what works for me is re-inventing myself somewhere else and meet completely new people. That's the phase I feel alive instead of content, suddenly I feel like I have a purpose(because I actually do have a purpose. I'm doing rebuild from scratch and there's plenty of stuff to do). At some point the things stabilize and I start feeling like disconnecting from the society for a while.

I just wonder why these other people don't seem to break their stay in the room period. The world is full of opportunities and it's actually very friendly place overall. The flaming extraverts are cool too.

I have a hypothesis for this too. One thing I noticed about my "live in the room phase" peers is that they tend to deny observations, they are extremist in their lifestyles and fight to the bitter end any evidence that another way of life is possible and it's within their reach. They are extremely cynical towards the outside world. I think this is required because, to maintain inaction you need to have a gap between what's possible and what you can do. If you accept that the world is full of opportunities, the only way to have a gap preventing you from picking these opportunities is to have low abilities. So yes, it does have a component of self worth.
Is it personal health information if it's tied to an anonymous ID that contains no other details about you? I doubt the advertiser knows OP's name or address when they choose which ad to show.
If it was quiet enjoyment of anyone else at home, nobody would be complaining. It's exactly because that isn't what it is there are complaints.

Good for you that you've not been affected. Lots of other people have, and you're arguing for depriving them of quiet enjoyment of their homes because you want people to be free to ignore the effects of their own actions on others.

Incidentally I'd be all for supporting proposals to zone to allow unrestricted tourist rentals in certain places if there's demand for it. But I sure as hell would never live in such a zone.
Creating Chatbots Using Azure Bot Service
Both paths, sales or product (or market) can lead to success. The key is always execution.
Saying someone is responsible for themselves really doesn't help them. It's like telling a depressed person that they should be happy.

They need help. Because in the end, we're all interdependent and dependent on each other.

I had to tell myself that I am the hero or villain of my own story after some help. Still, it's an absolutely painful journey sometime.
It has to do with the way western medicine is organized. It’s optimized for treating diagnosable illnesses, and does that very well.

Complex multisystem diseases like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome express themselves differently in every patient. Different symptoms take you to different specialists, but there’s no one to look at your situation holistically, or who has the time to put it all together. There’s apparently a new approach called ‘Functional Medicine’ which tries to better this issue.

I’m reading Sarah Ramey’s ‘The Ladies Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness’. Part autobiography of her own experiences, part explanation about this whole cloud of mysterious illnesses from ME/CFS to Fibromyalgia to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. It must sound like a terrible choice for anyone but those affected, but Ramey has great literary qualities and zero tendency to linger in self-pity and the injustice done to the patients. Really worth the read.