skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not evidence of absence. It's anecdotal that pedophiles existed before the internet had any photos of children. Increase of photos of children on the internet just means that more people are using the internet.

You actually want to look at actual crime statistics.

> between 1993 and 2005, the number of sexually abused children dropped 38 percent, while number of children who experienced physical abuse fell by 15 percent and those who were emotionally abused declined by 27 percent. [1]

People want to blame pornography and the internet for problems that existed before the internet even existed. And the numbers and facts show the exact opposite: crimes are going down.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/17285-child-sexual-abuse-numbers...
> Sometimes the aftertaste is terrible, sometimes the texture or versatility.

These are both true of dairy cheeses too.
Thanks for the link. It looks interesting.

I would be willing to pay $10 if the solution wasn't so hacky... Maintaining a system solely to run unsupported software (in a way that I would have to imagine is against ToS somewhere) is just too risky to handle a critical piece of my communication. I can't drop a message - especially if my excuse for dropping messages is "the laptop in the corner of my closet had to install a security update and restarted on me"
The same way Inkle does: make a game and sell it.

Ink in particular (as opposed to, say, Inform7) is strong here because it already supports Unity integration. Heaven's Vault was developed with Ink, and that's a 3D adventure game that happens to have its story branches managed by Ink but the user experience is far from typical IF fare.

But you can even make commercial parser games. Anchorhead and Hadean Lands are two relatively recent examples.
I wish we had started with Spivak! Reading Rudin after 3 semesters of Stewart was a lot.
There are a bunch of criteria for employee vs gig, but the law isn't written prescriptively - so the person's work for you satisfies some of one and some of the other, then someone will have to decide how much control the contractor has over the working conditions (the greater the control, the more likely the classification of "contractor").

Generally, contractors should have expertise, use their own equipment, decide how the job should be done, and have a risk of losing money.

If you insist they use your lawnmower, that's a very quick employee classification (from what I've experienced). My gardener refuses to use any soil/mulch/whatever we own - likely for this reason. I've worked with real estate folks, and when they do a flip, they're very careful not to buy raw materials for the contractors lest some of them sue to be classified as an employee and collect benefits. They'll even use SW to set up an order with Home Depot, which emails the contractor's a simple way to place that order at HD and pick up, and then they'll ask the contractor to add the raw materials cost to the invoice. But they will not buy the materials for them.

Also, if I screw up my current job, I'll merely get fired. My employer cannot demand I repay wages (generally). If your situation with your contractor is comparable, he will be classified as an employee. They must take on risk of losing money if they negotiate poorly or screw up a job.

> It feels like instead we should just say this is a new thing, and create a new set of laws to regulate it in the way that we think is best.

I don't think anyone is disagreeing with this.
> The problem with your argument is that because the law is ambiguous with regard to this situation, the labor secretary is effectively making law by choosing a particular interpretation of the law.

As a member of the Executive branch, that seems to be his job, yes.
Looking at the 2020 stats, customers were plucking 6 iPhones per second so only 1 every 7 seconds would be a disastrous year for Apple.

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/
When Uber gives drivers the ability to set their prices, I'll believe they're independent contractors. As it stands, Uber doesn't even let their drivers know what the value of a given ride is going to be until they've already started it.
On average, that’s exactly the system we have. Nice attempt at sounding authoritative while attempting to invert a fundamental reality, that more births obviously results in more deaths.
I can't imagine that working well for apples being sold in supermarkets to consumers?

For juice/cider/etc though...
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Berlin in the 90s. That's what made it for me. Love Parade. E-Werk. Tresor. East-Berlin hidden bars. Tiergarten outdoor parties.

I went from "techno is boom boom music" to "mind-blown" in one week. Forever.

Thank you Detroit, thank you New York City, and huge thank you Berlin.
Using an example of something that exists in nature like aphids/ants to justify human behavior is a fundamentally flawed argument because quite simply: ants aren't humans, we're quite a bit more sophisticated and have far more reach/impact which comes with greater responsibility and consequences.

Putting that aside for the moment because it is a rabbit hole, there is a continuum of what people think constitutes animal abuse.

One the worst side of the spectrum (IMHO), are CAFOs: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. These are the first things you read about when you research animal cruelty. They're the videos of hundreds of thousands of cows standing kneed deep in their shit their whole lives and pumped full of antibiotics. And yet, some people look at this and go, "Yeah, I'm cool with that."

On the other side of the spectrum, we have vegans who do not use any products derived from animals.

In between we see efforts to mitigate the cruelty, such as: free range vs. constricted cages where movement is impossible; feeding them diets of foods they would find in nature (instead of feeding cows ground up chickens); not forcing them to grow so much meat they cannot move (chicken breasts; growth hormones in cows); not forcing them to produce so much milk their udders tear and become infected so they are injected with antibiotics, etc.

For example, there is a cattle farm 10 miles from my house that has about 20 head of cattle, and you can purchase one as part of a co-op a year in advance. You can go visit the cow. You can see how it is raised and its conditions. This makes me feel a lot better than buying plastic-wrapped package from a Save-Rite supermarket. But that's me: some people might laugh at me for being "fancy pants liberal simp" other's think I'm still keeping animals from doing what they would do in nature if we weren't harvesting them.

My point is: this is not an easy answer, and in my opinion how we treat animals that we capture and cage matters. Why? Since reason is a social construct, I can go deeper if you push, but it is my choice to not make animals suffer more than they have to.
Not only that, IIRC ( never went through it), France has a popular test format with multiple choice questions, QCM, which penalises you for mistakes ( as in points are actively deducted for every wrong answer instead of just not given), which is IMHO terrible because it encourages memorisation and zero thought.
I don’t know if cows can suffer like humans can or not, so I am content to not get in your way.

That said, I invite you to consider what you would and would not allow others to do given a hypothetical: if you genuinely believed that cows were just as capable of suffering as humans — especially given that cows lactate only after giving birth, and dairy cows live only for so long as their milk is worth more than the cost of keeping them alive.

Most functioning adults can keep quiet about a simple preference (for Star Trek when around Star Wars fans, or whatever) but morals don’t work the same.
Co-founder here. The basic premise is we price based on the type of environment, the number of environments and the number of services within the environment. The reason we took pricing off the site was because every company has a unique setup. When we did user research it was confusing presented as a big table with checkboxes. We decided that for now a quick chat to make sure we understand what's needed was the best way to communicate what it costs. But, the starting point is as around $1000/month if you have a modest setup. For most funded startups with a development team this is usually where they start. We're specifically targeting companies at the moment and not individual developers. We do have some plans to address that segment of the market but we've had to focus where there's an addressable opportunity for our size and scale. This is great feedback and we'll figure this out soon.
I've not really encountered the idea that it's unnatural exploitation, to be honest, and I completely agree with your point there. The core ethical argument that I generally see presented for veganism is that once you've advanced past the point of requiring animal products to live a healthy life, consuming them becomes entirely a matter of convenience, taste, and preference. The argument follows, then, that it may not be ethical to subject animals to the realities of modern husbandry simply on account of these reasons.

The question of whether abuse is inherent is largely academic at this point. The fact of the matter is that almost all of the animal products we consume are the result of optimized industrial processes that result in shortened, low-quality lives for those put through them. Whether an animal could, under the right circumstances, be humanely raised for resource extraction or slaughter doesn't really apply in modern consumption.
Pre-covid story, but we had two people in a sister team that had arranged WFH, other than occasional trips to the office for important meetings etc. They were both very good at their jobs, and also had a lot of knowledge on how certain systems worked, etc.

New CTO comes in, immediately mandates there will be no more of this WFH nonsense anymore. Short while later, both of the aforementioned people hand in their resignation. A lot of knowledge was lost. These were people that had been there a long time, so while they did their best to hand off knowledge, such things are always imperfect.

Covid comes along, and we're forced to WFH. But the CTO (same person) is making sure that once we're back to a safe level, WFH will again no longer be an option. In a town hall, some people dared to question the decision, but all she would say was that it was "scientifically proven by data that WFH is not productive". Nevermind that the company had just spent a year WFH with little to no loss in productivity.

Asked if that data could be shown, she said "it's out there for anyone to find".
Honestly? Those words seem like they could be interpreted as being intended as timeless placeholders.
The larger point: You should not "expect" two different classes of viruses to act the same given a specific mitigation, as there can be substantial differences between them.
Used baseballs can be recycled by 100%, try to beat that.
Yeah I think 10-12 floors is plenty and still "climbable"
We disincentivize starting business (anti-entrepreneurial), work hour flexibly (anti-family), working independently (anti-individualism) and instead heavily incentivize reporting to a boss, on their schedule, at their chosen location, and getting paid only whatever you can convince them to pay you.
From the article:

In response, the UMN researchers posted an open letter apologizing to the community, followed a few days later by a summary of the work they did [PDF] as part of the "hypocrite commits" project. Five patches were submitted overall from two sock-puppet accounts, but one of those was an ordinary bug fix that was sent from the wrong account by mistake. Of the remaining four, one of them was an attempt to insert a bug that was, itself, buggy, so the patch was actually valid; the other three (1, 2, 3) contained real bugs. None of those three were accepted by maintainers, though the reasons for rejection were not always the bugs in question.

So three submissions were malicious and buggy.
There were certainly polarizing events in the past. Canada has no shortage of important events including the Quebec referendum. But i've never felt like i was under continuous pressure from one news cycle to the next.
Well, admittedly, I'm thinking in my native language, which is Greek, and where "almond milk" was basically milk mixed in with "Soumada" [1]. Whereas if you say "almond milk" now even in greek, it'll probably refer to the vegan stuff, and you'll have to literally say "milk with the taste of almond" for the other one.

Soumada is very tasty, a bit like amaretto but without the alcohol. I haven't had it in years ...

A similar and very popular drink along similar lines is "rose milk", which is stirring up some rose sherbet in milk.

It was a popular way of getting kids to drink milk back in my day (slightly less popular these days).

But I admit, if a vegan "rose milk" comes out as some milky alternative made of rose petals and I have to repurpose "rose milk" as well, I'm going to be quite upset :p

[1] https://www.mycretangoods.com/article/16856/Soumada-traditio...
Thanks for the tip. I'm looking at it right now. I feel like such a fool :).
Given the rather low mortality rate for the flu, I think implementing more regulations in our lives isn't a good idea. Bureaucratic creep is a serious issue, and this sort of thing could be a gateway to regulating more aspects of life down the road.

Educating people and encouraging them to wear masks 100%, but let's not start mandating anything new, or levying new fines that we have already seen be disproportionately used against over policed groups. Studies show that education and awareness works just as well as state intervention.
There is no purpose to owning an NFT. It's a scam.
Which tools are you looking at and what is your evaluation criteria?
There is also a whole host of mental illness that are triggered by physical immune responses. Eating disorders that stem from one bad diarrhea episode are a really common example of this. Both ends of this spectrum can result in bad mental health.

Both ends of this spectrum can also result in physicals health issues too. Get a stomach bug and end up with post-infections IBS. On the other hand, stress from fear of germs could also cause IBS. Sadly you end up with the same result. Both approaches, when taken to the extreme, can cause equal amounts of health issues.
Pluto notebooks are Julia scripts, usable at the command line.

Edit: Pluto uses Julia's package manager; moreover, Manifest.toml can be used to pin all of your project's dependencies so the notebook is repeatable, from a code perspective.
That's a shame. The book's ending is one of the most memorable things I ever read.
> 1. Buying a vechicle specific four door vechicle Uber approves of before even applying to use the app. That is a huge upfront expence. Uber makes it sound like we all have a late model four door sedan collecting dust in the four car garage?

I'm not seeing it anymore, but I recall seeing an Uber related lease program, and now I'm seeing Uber related rental car programs. In the Seattle area, it looks like I could rent a car from two different companies for about $220 per week that's intended to be used for unlicensed taxi services.

If I were going to drive for Uber, and they didn't like my current vehicle, I'd drive a rental for a few weeks at least, to make sure it met my needs before dumping a bunch of money into a car.
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Honeypot is much smaller.

Any centralized source of data is very attractive and worth spending a lot of time & effort on and inevitable gets hacked:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches
> Uber is engaged in making transportation more efficient in an environment where we have screwed ourselves

Is it? There isn't anything efficient about an Uber. They might be easier than a taxi in some cases due to their app UX, but that's about it - they're very inefficient in ecological and congestion terms.
Existing harvesting equipment often has a tarp or net set at an angle which both funnels and slows down the falling fruits. If you want to speed up this robot it'll be using a net or a chute of some sort so that the hand is freed up while the previous piece of fruit is still being collected.
Not Americans in their 50s.

The 1950s.
I always love the, "People are too stupid to make decisions for themselves" argument. People are more than adequate in making important decisions that directly touch their lives.
Most of the vegan "cheese" I tasted were honestly quite bad, they seemed to be plastic imitations of standard milk cheese.
But once I found one named Cicioni [1], and it was absolutely awesome! But sadly I have a hard time finding it in shops. :(

[1] https://www.casadelfermentino.com/en/brand/cicioni/
> At least in CA, the decision was clear that it wasn't against people's interest.

This must be why Uber incessantly spammed their workers with Prop 22 propaganda via push notifications[1] on their phones and tablets.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/15/21517316/uber-spamming-u...
I think you're on the right track, likely our optics into the flu has disappeared. Not the flu itself.
Haha I listened to For What You Dream Of just yesterday. Great track.
FWIW under current Medicare as it exists, you can choose between different private Medicare Advantage providers, or buy a private "supplement" that fills in where Medicare lacks. The same big insurance companies provide these plans, but have to actually conform to Medicare guidelines of not screwing people.

To me the "prevailing culture" is more about the vibrancy of walking into a vendor and directly paying for services that you would like, rather than needing to appeal to some bureaucracy (whether "public" or "private") to convince it to agree that you "need" something. The medical system is currently so far from this, that I don't think it has much bearing on the practical reforms being discussed. Although I would love to see reforms in this direction as well - eg published price lists uniform for any payer, and a prohibition on arbitrary post-facto billing.
AI Dungeon isn't an individual, it's a business that charges people money to use their product. In the vast majority of cases, responsible disclosure means first telling the developers so they can patch the vulnerability. After it has been fixed, unless there are special circumstances, the fact that there was a security flaw should be disclosed to the public. The purpose of this should not be to shame the developers or anyone else, but to inform the people using the product that there's a chance their info has been compromised. I'm mostly just surprised that AI Dungeon chose not to disclose the first instance of this flaw.
They can. It'll work where the labor supply exceeds demand and won't work where it doesn't. It also won't be as effective as ride sharing becomes more of a commodity.
I am not dodging it. As the parent noted in their own post, the best mean estimates we have for SARS-CoV2 are a fraction of a unit away from the best mean estimates we have for influenza or rhinovirus.

Trying to use this tiny relative difference in fuzzy estimates of empirical parameters to make a complex causal arguments about...well, anything...is folly.
I think that generative adversarial networks make the method ineffective. During the training of a GAN, the same type of distortions are applied to its training data to force it to generalize.
What driving job as a contractor lets you choose your clients and set the rate? Not even truck drivers and not even most private pilots can do that.
I have similar feelings (particularly with meta-points 1&2). K&R also just seems more compact, which wasn’t something I used to prioritize, but appreciate now.
Well there is probably nuance to this as is it is with everything. It's petty. But maybe DHH had a bad day. Or the employee was known for hypocritical takes and this was the last straw. Or maybe it was straight up bullying from DHH and even worse than we know. It's kinda hard to know from the outside.
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It's not really a matter of what formal system is most powerful. It's a matter of what formal system can represent ordinary math in the simplest and clearest fashion. I think this what proponents of category theory argue. Basically, category theory lets one take many standard mathematical theorems and generalize them widely - ie, lot of standard math theories can be seen as theories about categories and when you see them that way, the generality of a category means the theorem applies broadly.
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Code is NOT the hard part of these projects.

You'll spend an inordinate amount of time painting boxes to be the right color and design. Or drilling holes that are just the right size. Or deciding on acrylic cases vs wood cases vs altoid containers. Or the pros/cons of 1.5" standoffs vs 2" standoffs.

Once you figure out those details: you need to think of power (4xAA is my favorite), with probably an efficient buck-converter to drop the 5V down to 3.3V, and then a myriad of sensors that are in the 3.3V range... probably SPI vs I2C interface, or maybe a raw voltage reading so that you can do thing from your ADC converter directly.

Then the whole thing is cobbled together with maybe 500 to 1000 lines of code. Like seriously, code is the easy part.

Then you realize that your ADC converter is having an aliasing issue (physical: nothing related to code), so you need to build a low-pass filter. Do you wanna go with a passive inductor+capacitor approach? Or is your ADC converter at a high enough frequency that you need to go with a quad-Op-Amp and get a 8th order Butterworth filter up in there? What's the frequency of the aliased noise? Can you measure it on your oscilloscope?

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I'm talking about basic "read sensor" and "blink them lights" projects. These are the things that come up in practice.

Code... sure. Reading the docs for how to run the various sensors (if I2C or SPI) may be tricky at times, but they "just work" more often than not. Physical issues (voltages, frequency, filters, and making your paint actually stick on the altoid can etc. etc.) are harder to debug.

And if I were to take a guess why your I2C "code" isn't working, I'd bet on a physical issue (ex: fanout, resistor choice, trace length, capacitance) over code issues, especially if you're using a plug and play library like Arduino's I2C or Rasp. Pi's I2C stuff.
It's very much disputed how much 'viral interference' was or is an influence in the current pandemic, and this effect (to my knowledge) has been only studied in animal models and human tissue [1], paper from the article [2].

Or to put it another way, the influenza season was already under way when SARS-Cov-2 hit in Feb 2020, but there is no indication the influenza virus slowed the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic.

The exciting thing about viral interference is that no genetic similarity between the viruses is needed, however, the effect is only temporary (days to weeks) and limited.

Unfortunately viral interference is also being misused as an 'alternative explanation' by folks that do not want to see the evidence that non-pharmacological interventions (hygiene, social distancing, quarantine, masks, large gatherings etc.) are effective against a whole host of respiratory diseases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_interference
[2] https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/inf...
In fact, in the US at least, "Cheese product" nessesarily means it isn't vegan.

Vegan cheese products also tend to be pretty upfront about not actually being cheese too, because they're marketing to people who don't want cheese.
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