skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the only fair solution is their own incarceration for the equal number of days, but the only real consequence will be a slap on the wrist.

Notable cunt Annie Dookhan[0] is responsible for putting up to 40,000 innocent people in jail by falsifying DNA records for the Massachusetts state AG. Over 21,000 cases have already been dropped. Her punishment? 3 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan
Wake me up when when they put government liars behind bars.
Thanks, useful to know. I read a little bit more about the design of the system/apparatus and it seems like it's not really the intended use case (history of where something was vs. where something is right now that you are looking to find)
Do we have the science to know how safe/unsafe it is to drive under the influence of marijuana?
They probably won't, will end up being sold to a bigger co and the tool will be transferred to the "community" for maintenance. See RethinkDB.
The latter two can be required if the landlord as a condition of renting a retail zoned space.

Regarding health inspection, the big one is sanitation. And that’s not something you just have a guy come in and check before the business opens. You have to inspect actual food, which means you do it after the restraunt opens.
Yeah, state-actor scale sabotage was one of my first thoughts. And it gives me no joy to contemplate it.

Secondly, the researcher’s attitude sounds high and mighty - making process improvement suggestions when their own ethical compass is in question. Their “experiment” was “what would happen if...”. Well, bans happen. If one starts a fight don’t get indignant over a bloody nose, lol
Pimping will still be prosecuted.
You'll notice when the internet goes out and you can call and pay the balance then. That's how I handle them. I just signed up using my spam email address that I never check and recently when I had to cancel my credit card I wound up having the service temporarily shut off, took ~5 minutes to correct.
Hmm. I think I understand your point: keep foreign born population under 10%, and you avoid some of the pushback against perceptible "demographic change" (ethnic/cultural).

I wonder though how adjusting for undocumented immigrants against the overall number would work, and the impact it would have. The legal immigration system also strongly leans against a large influx of people from any one country & towards a more diverse mix. This isn't the case with most undocumented immigrants, who largely (though not entirely) come from a handful of countries based on geographical access.

Now, for me as an Indian biomedical researcher with a PhD working in the US, the path to immigration today is incredibly steep, almost to the point of non-existent. Adjusting for the undocumented burden would severely curtail the pathway for people like me, so I would be biased against your proposal. I can see the merit in it, though. Still, the fact that my co-worker who is a Spanish citizen faces an exponentially lower barrier to entry does stings.

If the goal is to keep the foreign born population under 10% (or perhaps establish a cap at the present 15%), does it matter where they come from? Or is the country wise quota one of the things that should be retained?
I'd say that human trafficking happens exactly because prostitution is illegal and pushed underground and that's where real cruel stuff happens. Prostitution should be heavily regulated and taxed, pimps are what needs to disappear from the whole equation. If that were to happen the underground shady prostitution would diminish greatly, not sure if it would disappear completely but customers would think twice about risking their health there since the regulated world would ensure healthier sex workers, up to date on STD tests and so on...
Here's an older copy while it is temporarily down: https://cdnsponsor.ajay.app/database/sponsorTimes.csv
> both parties have had total control in the last 5 years

Neither party had total control. Now everything gets fillibustered. You only get around it with 2/3 majority or if you can turn it into a budget-related bill and get it through budget reconciliation.
Practice slow, learn fast. Practice fast, learn slow.
> Would you still need to traffic if the jobs were legitimized, and you could sponsor employees?

Things that are not typically legalized with prostitution still have a market which (absent successful constraints other than mere legalization of prostitution) will continue to be met by sex trafficking.
Having a large share of a market doesn't constitute a monopoly.

> exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action

Google doesn't own exclusive control of the supply of answers to queries about the rest of the web in fact it would almost be silly to even talk about such. Its also not the only game as far as ads

What people are worried in fact is google controls access to a very large share of incoming eyeballs in terms of organic unpaid for results such that ranking you poorly or not at all could harm you despite having no business relationship with google.

This however isn't business because the only customers are searchers and the ads on top of the results.

Whether you appear 3rd or 37th is material to your business but not a matter of google having a monopoly on my eyeballs. The framework which you understand commerce doesn't fit the situation.

If you believe it's worth addressing it will have to be via unique legislation that actually suits.
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Why do you think the Senate will tie?
About deprecation: the gold standard is what AWS is doing with SimpleDB: essentially, never.

The thing here is that if you run hundreds of services in production - many of which work smoothly and you don't need to touch often, you will find that Google's habit of forcing you to change how to use their tooling will generate a huge burden...

They discourage you from using it and make it clear that for every use case some other tool at AWS would be best, and have been doing so for several years now... They wont even list it anymore under https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/ ..

Still, they support it ( https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ ) because there are customers with legacy systems that depend upon this service.
Sorry for the delay in response. What do you mean in particual by political concerns?

If I'm understanding the situation correctly, if the company is large and spread far apart, an employee should be able to reach out to the leads of other teams, explain what it is that they hope to accomplish with the meeting, and ask the leads to invite anyone else who may either contribute to it or get something out of it. That said, even just pinging those people ahead of time with the question of "do we need to have a meeting about this? / Would this meeting be useful?" can go a long way in either refining the agenda or cancelling the meeting altogether. Depending on the organization, of course.
It’s not the same. Kidnapping is an illegal act but not a form of slavery while human trafficking is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_to_Prevent,_Suppres...
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I don't think anyone has been able to conclusively say that marijuana legalization actually increases the percentage of smokers in any state where it has been implemented.
I can definitely see that when they are discussing countries that the US is not on friendly terms with.
I guess you blame the pusher and not the user because the user is the weaker party. In the sex trade, the pimp and the user are the strong parties and the sex worker is the weak party.
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Useful to know. I might be too ADHD/impatient when I am scrolling across Apple marketing pages, but I couldn't seem to easily find a "tech spec"/diagram that showed the mechanism in action.

It sure is getting hard to find a way to perform intelligence operations on my cat's secret business....
I wish I could blame the lack of reasonable mask guidance on the previous administration, but last I checked the official CDC guidance was that they'd rather have the general public tie the tattered remnants of their Def Leopard Hystaria tour t-shirt over their face than an FDA approved K/N95 mask. We've had a good supply of masks available for many months (Although you have to be careful about your supply chain). Of the many, many unforced errors of this pandemic, this may be the most baffling to me.
No. `async` on a function automatically defers it even if the return value is immediate.

> async function foo() { return "hello"; } foo().then(console.log); console.log("after")

after
hello
My experience with anything that involves other faculty (at worse, tenured faculty) is that it will get done some time between later and never. With prioritization slipping the further you venture from your home department.

And this is by definition a matter that will involve a lot of parties. At minimum, as everyone in the chain tries to ensure their ass is covered and how it's not really their fault, because it wasn't really their job to say no to this.
This is a thinner argument than I think people realize. That’s like saying “it’s already illegal to kill bald eagles, so it should be legal to sell bald eagle feathers.” Sometimes it’s very hard to prosecute some source wrongdoing after the product has entered the steam of commerce, so to speak. We routinely make things illegal at the point where it’s easiest to prosecute, even if doing so incidentally captures some distinguishable conduct.
Maybe ISPs would finally be forced to act as impartial common carriers
Indeed. The thing that caused me to actually move stuff off AWS to GCP was that you could deploy generic Node Express apps as Firebase Cloud Functions (and then Cloud Run). I knew I could move those anywhere if I needed to.
What does that matter if the house is in good condition and has a sensible amount of room for a family?
> Prostitution should be heavily regulated and taxed

I'm not sure why this always comes back up. Why would you want to stop violent oppression of prostitutes by police and criminals, and then replace it immediately with economic oppression?

You have it backwards: There should be tax credits for sex workers; for centuries they plainly have not been getting the protection under the law that tax money is expected to pay for.
What even is taking marijuana "too far"? It has been legal for >66% of the country in some form for many years now, and society has not descended into chaos.
It certainly is considered harm. Ethical research with human subjects makes every effort to do no harm.

Taking someone's time without compensating them can be harmful. That's why researchers often give gift cards or small amounts of money for filling out surveys.

It's not always as straightforward as paying participants, but compensating participants for their time should be a consideration in ethical research with human subjects.

I don't know how much time the kernel maintainers spent on these patches or what their time is worth, but I'm certain that the time they spent on this is worth way more than the nothing they got in return.

The uncompensated time that maintainers spent on this is harm. And that anger that you imagine you would feel is harm. Ethical research with human subjects tries to avoid causing this kind of harm, and there seems to have been no such effort in this research design. This was not ethical research.
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What you said has nothing to do with my point: This study is not a human research.
...and even the ones that use actual VPN software don't actually have anything for the "N" part of "VPN", so they are still just proxies.

But I guess it makes it easier to refer to than "proxy for all protocols."
Is anyone knowledgeable about European countries where prostitution has become fully legal (clients won't be arrested)? Specifically the countries where pimping is illegal, but an individual sex worker and client transacting is legal.

Is there reliable data either way about legalization increasing human trafficking?
That didn't answer the question ;)

GCP does deprecate products (former App Engine PM here, deprecated many APIs), but it's definitely less frequent than the "Google deprecates everything" memers want you to believe, and there's a minimum 12 month deprecation period before literally anything is deprecated.
9GAG is worth half a billion dollars, according to a quick search.

RBLX is worth over 40 billion dollars.

Let's not forget all the people who bought GME because it was a meme.
IIUC, one aspect of your experiment would be self-organizing teams.

I was a part of that once. It was a complete trainwreck. Never again.
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And the odd thing is that Google has been significantly better for consumers than other FAANG companies.

Apple has historically been anti consumer and anti developer with a huge marketing budget to wash it. Facebook intentionally makes us sad. M$ and their anti competitive practices should be well known.
I feel you on Cloudformation :S

I haven't used Kubernetes on either platform - so there may be more to that.

One thing I really dislike about GCP is how expensive it is for personal or hobby use. I burned through $300 for a simple vm on GCP in a few weeks because their cheapest instances are so expensive.
If you use marijuana, you either need to lie on the form required to buy a gun, or the gun store won't sell it to you. Also, in theory, if you have a gun and use marijuana, you are a prohibited person in possession of a gun, which is a serious crime.
This is a pretty silly way to think about the issue. Loud music, dogs barking, kids running around on the floor above you, smoke of any kind, a bed frame hitting the wall repeatedly. I wouldn't rethink the legal status of music, dogs or children because of some bad neighbors.
But what if your project was at least guaranteed a fighting chance to succeed? Say 1 month before facing the verdict? Anyone betting (either for or against) the project would have more evidence on which to make their decisions. Anyone working on the project would have an opportunity to either make it work or drop it as necessary. Any customers would not have to deal with bugs or feature churn before the bet was verified.

Would that not be more "safe" for everyone involved? That's but one tangible, measurable way we can increase psychological safety in organizations. Your claim of immutability seems to lack basis.
The single biggest concern I have with Google cloud, bigger than Reader or the like, is Project Maven.

What if some Google employees decide my company is bad? Will Google cave in and fire us as a customer? That’s an existential risk.
It’s two sides of the same coin. Both consuming substances and soliciting your body are choices that affect your own body.

Selling drugs / buying sex are transactions at the expense of someone else’s body.
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It should be legal to sell bald eagle feathers, as well as have any arbitrary sequence of bytes stored in a file on one's disk. I don't see why everyone in society should have to have their liberty arbitrarily restricted just because cops are terrible at their ostensible jobs.

It's not that enforcement is hard, it's that legal systems have decided that cops shouldn't have to be any good to do policing, and then they work backward from that. It's the wrong way around.

Attacking the leaf nodes of a societal problem lets it look like something is being done by police, when it is actually a huge injustice and a complete waste of time and resources.

You could spend billions to bust a million hookers and johns and never once make the tiniest dent in human trafficking.
> According to this logic, if results were listed alphabetically (i.e., based on a truly objective criteria), we would see folks naming everything beginning with "0" or "A".

This is seen in practice. The yellow pages were?(are?) alphabetical, which is why you see so many business that start with the letter A.
Prosecutors can choose which law to enforce or not. This doesn't sound good to me at all.
If your issues were disk speed related, you should know that accessing files in NTFS using WSL2 is very slow. You'll have to move your files to the Linux FS first.
> The clock is ticking for Google Cloud. The Google unit, which sells computing services to big companies, is under pressure from top management to pass Amazon or Microsoft-currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share-or risk losing funding. While the company has invested heavily in the business since last year, Google wants its cloud group to outrank those of one or both of its two main rivals by 2023, said people with knowledge of the matter.

If they pulled this off, they would be hailed as gods of marketing for eons to come.
Usually "foreign" banks can mean multiple things. Imagine you have a bank out of the UK with a subsidiary based in the US (one example could be Barclays in the UK and then Barclays US).

The US based subsidiary could potentially be FDIC insured, but wouldn't cover deposits denominated in the originating foreign bank's deposit, which is logical IMO.

The FDIC has a page about this but it's pretty useless.

https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/part/
How does it make any sense to decriminalize sex workers (and their pimps by extension) but still criminalize their clients?
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I have over a decade in the technical operation of escort ad sites. Laws like FOSTA/SESTA make it far worse.

Very few sex workers are trafficked. Sites like backpage had a staff of many people who silently reviewed ads and reported trafficking tips. They were the #1 source of tips to the government. Backpage got shut due to a pissing contest between the owner and a AZ lawmaker IIRC.

Legalizing is humane.

The only trafficking I have witnessed is in California AAMPs. Gangs bring over women to work off “debt” and they move them to a new city every week or two to prevent them from making friends.
To see it in action, watch a pro sushi chef
The speed traps is more a small town thing I think? NYPD is politically powerful in a rich place and just has a massive budget.

In this case there is dueling advocacy for the so called "swedish model" and full decrim, and by all accounts the lame duck DA is just trying to look good with the boring middle ground before his terms up.
Selective enforcement really is a great evil. The law most be applied evenly or it should not be applied at all.

“To my friends: anything, to my enemies: the law”
This was always a crime of the sensibilities — I don’t think number crunching really weighs in. It’s not like financial crime
Vouching for this, haven’t found an native alternative for Windows.

Feels odd to run another entire OS just for a terminal application, but here we are.
Woah. I Googled that! Nice reference. This is a good explanation with more links: https://github.com/AllThing/socat_backdoor
Reminds me of The Great Silence by Ted Chiang, a short story written from the point of view of a parrot inhabiting the tropical forests of costa Rica :

"The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they've created an ear capable of hearing across the universe.
But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren't they interested in listening to our voices?
We're a nonhuman species capable of communicating with them. Aren't we exactly what humans are looking for?"

https://vimeo.com/195588827
> This is really just scratching the surface of how odd and complex Burroughs' life and psyche are. If you are a fan of surrealism, the beatnik movement or other larger than life writers like Hunter S Thomson, it's worth giving his work a chance.

The movie Naked lunch, nominally about Burroughs, is also very much worth a watch.
I think you really should look at some actual stats if you think that poorer people aren’t extremely over-represented in court systems. There’s a reason that there are huge pushes to end cash bail and the like.
I Am Sitting In A Room is a remarkable piece.

https://youtu.be/fAxHlLK3Oyk

(Resist the urge to skip ahead as long as you can)
Ms Haddaway made a secret deal with the prosecutors and the prosecutors did not reveal this. But did she lie?

What this article forgets to mention is that Ms Haddaway wore a wire and got Jonathan Smith on tape that he committed the murder in order to get $60000 [1]. Here's part of the dialog for reader's convenience:

"[BH:]Why were you in that field with blood all over ya? And they take, I seen ya goin’up the road that day, you know it? And you had a blue coat on and Ray [Andrews] and you both had huntin’hats on. And then when I come back by there and you were in that cornfield and you said that blood come off a dog, but I think that you held her and David [Faulkner] killed her or one of you three done it.

[JS:]They never found out yet have they?

[BH:]I know, that’s why I want to know ‘fore I die. I seen ya, did I ever tell anybody? You know I ain’t gonna tell on ya, goddamn, you’re my blood. I just wanted to know if you done it. I didn’t really think you did. I think crazy David did

[JS:]It’s a secret. It’s a secret when one person knows[.] It aint [sic] a secret when two people know.

[BH:]Well, the three of you know.

[JS:]Right, there’s only two left.

[BH:]It was you and Ray and David.

[JS:]Ray wasn’t there until after it was over.

[BH:]Where was he?

[JS:]Down the road.

[BH:]Ray was right with you in the goddamn field.

[JS:]Yeah. That was after it was all done with.

...

[BH:] Tell me. I ain’t gonna tell nobody, I just want to know (inaudible).

[JS:]He didn’t do it.

[BH:]You done it.

[JS:]Uh huh.

[BH:]You said you did it before. Why did you kill her? I thought she let you in there when you went fishin’[.]... What, you didn’t know her?

[JS:]I knew she had money.

[BH:]You knew she had money.

[JS:]She had money."

[1] https://www.courts.state.md.us/sites/default/files/unreporte...
Microsoft was the most baffling - happy to give me 25k+ credits for free in their startup program, unable to let me pay them for the same setup going forwards.

My quota requests weren't outrageous - never more than 20 VM's, albeit very large VM's.
This is very real. After a production outage caused by excessive health check failures the day after a massive GCP outage (Sept 2020) -- where we quickly hit our already-oversized quota (quotas, another GCP issue) during a traffic spike -- we've moved all of our sensitive workloads to AWS.

We continue to use GCP for less sensitive workloads and for GKE, but our entire ops team has unspoken distrust. This is totally an infra-specific opinion, ignoring the fact that we've had to rewrite apps entirely after breaking changes from Google products.

GCP has a great UI, the project structure makes much more sense, and billing is way easier, but after having a massive outage during a pretty standard scaling event, we just can't justify the risks.
Yep, sorry, I double-checked and edited it quickly. Sorry about that!
Now that excess mortality figures are available for comparison, Belgium's reporting looks in line with e.g. France or Israel:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v...

As in several other countries, Belgium's excess mortality was lower than the number of reported COVID deaths, but that's most likely because there was a lower number of flu deaths than usual.
I think I will be better off if social media and search engines don't help people poison their minds. That is to say its possible that your desire to be informed and my desire for you not to find what you are looking for might be opposed.

If you think that you are missing out on legitimate information pick a different search engine or make one.
Pull a page from Microsoft's book and count every Gmail user as a Google Cloud user.