skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VTA plays an important role in a number of processes, including [1]

- motivational salience ("want")

- associative learning (if a neutral/novel experience is paired with "painful" or "enjoyable" innate instinct, it elicits a response on its own: money or your favourite sports team winning)

- positively-valenced emotions ("happy", "content")
emotions)

- orgasm

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventral_tegmental_area

Via the mesolimbic pathway, from VTA dopamine is signalled to the NAcc, which also has similar functions: processing of motivation, aversion, reward (i.e., incentive salience, pleasure, and positive reinforcement), and reinforcement learning.

As of October 2017, hedonic hotspots have been identified in subcompartments within the nucleus accumbens shell, ventral pallidum, parabrachial nucleus, orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), and insular cortex.

Microinjections of opioids, endocannabinoids, and orexin are capable of enhancing liking in these hotspots. [2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_system#Pleasure_centers

The second Wikipedia link explains the difference between primary and extrinsic reward, "wanting" vs "liking", anhedonia vs aversive salience, and the known information about addiction and neuroanatomy so far.
for selling sex? definitely no.

for buying? maybe, but only if your country monitors and supervise prostitution in some way. As much as I don't like it a model where there are licensed brothels could work
What's tough for a website owner, monetization perspective is that a lot of ad management companies are built off of Google analytics and they are the "Gold standard" for advertiser approvals and revenue attribution. Thanks for sharing
Now when is someone going to write a javascript emulator for the IBM 5110 :)

Only semi-serious too, I don't see many future tech ported backwards often, which I think is more interesting.
I think, it would be nice to illustrate some examplesand easy animations would help.

Like animating the travel of a request through a chain of services, etc.

So, nothing too fancy.
IMO it’s also very important to be incredibly hands-on, to manage your attorney after getting them to explain the case to you.

When hiring one of the best attorneys to defend the type of action brought I had to be very clear about what they were to do in between our calls (ask the third party to agree to drop it if we get plaintiff to drop it, ask plaintiff these questions, if they don’t do X we will do Y, offer them Z).

It was also important to stop them from taking pointless actions that would have cost tons of hours: do not read the discovery (hundreds of pages of details that wouldn’t change things), do not read the third party’s ToS looking for a loophole (another ~50 pages) as the company likely had already spent hundreds of thousands writing it and millions testing it in court.

We would have done those things if necessary but they didn’t need to be done simultaneously and the settlement attempts paid off immediately. It was not an IP case and I don’t think it had merit, but it would have likely cost at least a little more (or possibly much, much more) just to find out and I wasn’t interested in finding out. It was not a scenario where some floodgates could be opened if we settled.
The CPU lives on, in space.
Oh wow.

I would not have guessed that.
I feel like in the 21st century (at least in the context of parties with widespread support and elected officials), there's no practical difference between social democrats and democratic socialists.

But you're right, the Eastern European parties call themselves "social democrats" and the Western parties call themselves "socialists"
there was an xkcd comic on this issue:

https://xkcd.com/1172/

Thing is, does Dell owe customers' workflow any consideration?
You ask me "what do you think of suffering?". I honestly have no clue what you expect as a response. Yeah, it's bad. I don't want people to suffer. What is your point? What has this got to do with what I was saying?

And again, the only person who keeps bringing up Joe Rogan is you. What has this got to do with anything? Can we just focus on actual points being made here?

My OP was about how impossible it is to have sensible debates about trans issues without being lambasted. Where is this thread going now? What direction are you taking it?
I've come to appreciate Lucas and (Clone Wars and Rebels director) Dave Filoni as prophets of our times. It's very true that the prequels are deeply flawed by overcomplication and bad acting.
The prequels are rescued by the last couple seasons of the Clone Wars which really fill in the gaps in this story and make Anakin's journey and the fall of the Republic more understandable and relevant to the current situation in America.
The Bad Batch is about a group of clone troopers living through the fall of the Republic, trying to figure out which news sources to trust and how to deal with cops^^^^clone troopers shouting "Good soldiers follow orders". This may be all of us soon enough.
Why would the CCP intentionally increase the spread of a dangerous novel virus in their own country?
Not Kiwi. Just wanted to point out that distilling at home as a hobby is also (uniquely?) legal in NZ as well. So this is not necessarily an isolated attitude on their part.
TeXmacs is one of those apps that I reinstall from time to time when I want to scribble some math notes and find the split screen setup of most LaTeX editors or Markdown with preview too distracting. It is hands down the most pleasant to use for that purpose.

But I still get distracted by this one issue that bugged me since I first tried it 15 years ago: the anti-aliasing quality. The font doesn't look as crisp as what you'd see in other ClearType-enabled applications.

Earlier this year, I checkout out the SVN repository to see what's going with the renderer. The default Roman font is not TTF and cannot be rendered by FreeType, so TeXmacs has its own bitmap renderer for TFM fonts.

Basically, a glyph is rendered monochrome at a large size and then scaled down to the needed size with 8 color grayscale, IIRC. The bitmap is cached so wherever the glyph of the same style and size is needed, the same thing is drawn. Due to this, the font can sometimes look like it has weird kerning.

I tried to at least try subpixel rendering of the glyph bitmap to see if it makes things look better. The subpixel thing worked, but it didn't look any better. In the end, I gave up working on the issue.
If you're born into a family making below the median income, it is incredibly unlikely that you will end up making an income in the top 10%, no matter how hard you work. The systemic pressures to prevent socioeconomic mobility are such that you still need a massive amount of luck, whether that luck is in being born rich or in getting just the right opportunities at the right times to break free of poverty.

And painting this as just being about mindset is also an incredibly narrow (and privileged) view. The amount of energy and brainpower that the stresses of being poor sap from you is just staggering.
I think charging several times during a trip is going to be a blocker. And there are really many planes from the Dutch airports to the Mediterranean: 30 in the coming three hours from AMS, EIN and MST combined.
Live Programming Paradigm
> The instructions open with asking readers to make sure they do have legal authorization to search the device; this can be in the form of a search warrant.

This is a joke. As a rule, law enforcement does not respect fourth amendment rights and see the constitution only as red tape to be ignored or circumvented whenever convenient.
Last time I checked on Elixir, it seemed like people used Phoenix to pretty much do anything useful with it. Is that still the case?
Covid adds to California yoga and wellness QAnon problem
Not every place is the same situation, but I can definitely think of a lot of reasons why a particular area wouldn't be appropriate to let cats roam about.

* places where there are endangered birds

* urban places with lots of car traffic

* places with coyotes or other cat predators.
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>I think that's quite a huge assertion to make, personally.

Not really, especially in the context of the discussion which is privileging the continuity of experience which objectively breaks when you lose consciousness during sleep or anesthesia.
Is New Zealand much different from Germany in this respect? Or the Netherlands?
Let the HK brain drain begin. If the US were to open their doors a little more to Hong Kong immigration you'd see a lot of those supposed "shortages" in science and tech disappear.

Clearly China has no interest in maintaining Hong Kong as a livable place, so we might as well help out the people who recognize they're tumbling towards an authoritarian hellhole.
No. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
true, but it's a range where prostitution is on the lower side. Do note that some of those professions are supervised to some degree, for example by health services, or requires some license
Booing you does not prove you are right.

The US is no more a meritocracy than anywhere else. All thats different are the labels.
Huh? I wasn’t suggesting the person should apologize. I was suggesting they should ask about the user’s experience rather than telling it.
Forgive me if obvious—where are you pulling the underlying data from? Is the data itself OS licensed?
He should have done it. He could have reserved just 8 hours for "night" to do the minimum, so he'd only use 50% more time then (still have 16 hours per day to make calls).
The reason is Costa Rica, while being a colony of Spain, used to trade a lot with UK, specially tobacco. Also had good relations with the US. For that reason it has one of the first electrified cities in the world.

The army was removed before the cold war started, and CR was neutral in the game that USA-USSR played in all Latin America, of placing and destroying governments (Iran-Contra, CIA drugs, Noriega, etc). Also the savings are transferred to education and infrastructure.

The lands in CR aren't as fertile as the rest of Central America, but it has plenty of water from the mountain ranges. It can sell hydro-power to its neighbors. Also the geography detour hurricanes which means more savings from reconstruction.

Intel factory was established with the help of national electronic engineers who studied their careers in Germany.
A closer analogy might be pulling the plug on a ventilator. Yes, Thatcher was the proximate cause; but those industries had been dying for a long time and only survived as long as they did because they were being propped up by the government.
I think the one big emotional difference which has put prostitution in a separate category is that it kind of overlaps with drugs and addiction.

Sex releases happy chemicals, just like drugs. Nobody is getting hooked on paying people to pour concrete.

There's the saying "if you look for yellow cars, you'll find them." I think your assumption that the difference was gender is just a product of the times: you were looking for that answer. Even though male prostitutes are illegal too. And there's clearly an emotional difference between having sex with someone, and having them mow your lawn.
All this focus on redundancy should be replaced with a focus on recovery. Perfect availability is already impossible. For all practical uses, something that recovers within minutes is better than trying to always be online and failing horribly.
>What you are suggesting will again put biological women in the position where they cannot win.

We should remember that most cis women cannot compete at an Olympic level anyways. That's the point I'm trying to make in this thread - physical outliers are already responsible for lots of non-competitions at the top level of many sports.

Every athlete with a physical advantage precludes some other athlete from the top of the competition. If the "point" of womens' leagues is to provide a level playing field for cis women, then maybe we should be more open to introducing level playing fields more generally - because there are large parts of the population that cannot win in the system we already have, either. Otherwise, the "point" of womens' leagues is just to provide a space for women to compete, and trans women should be allowed in those spaces.
Knowing the number of people doing IoT stuff with nerves, i highly doubt it is still the case.
Serious question: why even call yourself a Christian if you don't believe that God is powerful enough to guarantee that his Word will stand, be known, and is final and authoritative? If we can't believe that minimal fact, how can we believe that Christ died for our sins, that we will be resurrected bodily in glory, that the Lord was conceived by a virgin, or that God parted the Red Sea, or made the world in six days?

"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever" (Is. 40:8).
Right now, people have the choice to use a system without sideloading or one with sideloading (Android or presumably something like a pinephone). Forcing iOS to be open to sideloading or other AppStores would remove choice. I chose to use iOS as is because it’s locked down and that’s what I want. Opening the platform would remove that choice.

I consider the lack of sideloading to be an advantage of iOS and I pay a premium for it.
Chimps and Monkeys get upset over inequality
>How I tried to avoid scaring people with ghost calls in the middle of the night. (...) You get a call, which you pick up, but the caller remains silent. After a while, the caller hangs up. This alone can feel threatening to some people.

And the author's solution is... to delete call recordings. What about just playing prerecorded message explaining it? I can't help but question intelligence of the author.
I can't argue bout that, and actually Sweden is not that bad at that
Those kinds of non-disclosure agreements should be illegal. Not just unenforceable, but illegal, with penalties for those that draft them. The public has a right to know the abuse carried out in the name of its legal system.
I don't think that's ok, you should never be forced to do business with a particular party, even if that party is a union that ostensibly works to your advantage. Here in NL there are multiple unions and people can join or abstain on an individual basis. I do think people should not be able to join more than one union.
You are absolutely correct. However as a individual decision maker your options are far limited. We should certainly think about economic incentives to address what you point out.
Both of your accounts match my experience, even down to the forgetting. ADHD people are generally bad at self-reflection, and I know I definitely am, despite having gotten better at it over the years.

I’m so happy to see this discussion happening on HN
> u/broccaaa wanted to prove the manipulation, how naked short sellers can acquire shares and close the FTDs. He designed an algorithm to detect a type of option known as a “deep in the money (ITM) call,” which allows buyers to purchase shares significantly below the market price.

Thats not how any of this works.
Great platform! They are able to improve the DX (developer experience) year after year and update their products to make building and hosting websites tremendously easy.
No Code Reviews by Default
That's pretty much the business model. Cost of settling can be less than the cost of defending the suit.

Every case where someone with pockets deep enough, holds out and gets a judgment against the troll - especially with legal costs included - is a huge blow to their business. And a single case that doesn't go their way is often enough to shut down their business and poof.

Hope one of Design Basics's defendants is in a position to say Enough!
Is there a wrapper for the interactive `iex` shell with bells and whistles (colors, better autocomplete, etc.) like `ptpython` for `python`?
> I don't think I missed it, did I?

You were talking about sandboxing, I was talking about building and distributing software. Sandboxing is an optional thing flatpak provides at runtime, so I'm not sure how it's supposed to make development or distribution easier. It seems we're just talking about different things when we say "sandboxing".

> I mean, I understand that sandboxing your software will make it run on every platform, but so will shipping a VM with your program preinstalled.

Do you know of a VM solution which is as easy to use for developers and users, offers the same or better platform integration and has little to no runtime overhead?
The only thing 'rat poison' is Buffett's favorite stock, Coke.
"Disaster" is also hyperbole.
You can't just port the number to a VoIP provider and keep it regardless of location?

I work for a VoIP provider so when I got rid of my secondary phone I just ported it to my system and now I can do whatever I want with it.

A bunch of my clients have numbers from all over the state or even the country that route in to their one actual office.

It seems really stupid for that to be legally prohibited.
Believing "trans women aren't women" isn't "despicable", it's what everyone believed only 50 years ago, and what most people alive still believe. It's not even despicable if they were a minority.

The only reason the phrase TWAW exists is as an ideological counter to "trans women are men". They're really not either one, and saying trans women are women, full stop, is just an indefensible position.
You don't "have" to leave. Nor do the cat owners. My point is you can't arbitrarily and unilaterally decide that one type of pet is OK and another type of pet "doesn't belong in cities" and should be banished to a farm. There are far more cat owners than chicken owners in cities! And I am sure some people do not like the sounds or smells of having a neighbor with chickens.

It sounds like your real issue is that your neighbors are irresponsible jerks who don't put any effort into managing their pets' behavior. I can relate -- I sure wish my upstairs neighbors would hire a dog trainer, instead of loudly shouting "stop it!" at their dog who audibly barks over a hundred times a day. It's utterly ruining my quality of life. But I wouldn't proclaim that dogs "don't belong in cities" just because my upstairs neighbors happen to be jerks.
> All this makes the sort of modelling attempted here a vain pursuit. You just can't model strategy this naively.

Exactly. Voting systems that have strong advantages to vote strategically should be analyzed in game theory framework (analyzing nash equilibria in payoff matrices defined by voter strategies)
Consenting adults should have the right to exchange money for sex. Any speech or laws attacking this right is an attack against our autonomy over our own sexual preferences. I truly hope that by the time my daughter is an adult, prostitution will be legal and protected from discrimination.
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This seems very unlikely to me. I'd believe it if they said there was cheaper fish in there as well, to pad it out. But it would take a huge effort to make a passable fake tuna with zero tuna in it. Tuna has a distinctive flavor and texture, and it wouldn't be easy to turn pollock or tilapia into that.

So I'm curious about the tests. Cooking is one known reason why they might be incorrect. I'm sure there are others.
OpenStreetMaps probably.

Mapbox uses data from OSM among others when they create their tiles. https://docs.mapbox.com/help/getting-started/mapbox-data/#co...
Strictly speaking, yes, you're right that some people are mentally deficient. But no one is disagreeing with the fact that people with mental disabilities exist.

So I'm focusing instead on otherwise productive members of society who just don't happen to be scientists or engineers. Those people are definitely in a position to benefit from better educational opportunities.

My intent was to argue against what I read between the lines of the original comment I responded to -- the insidious implication that certain races or certain classes of people have innate mental deficiencies, and that we should use that observation to allocate resources in society.

Further, some technical people unfortunately have the mindset that somehow what we do is special, on a completely different level from what "normal" people do, and that "anyone who works in a non-technical position is mentally deficient". This thinking is absurd -- I've known people who sure, couldn't sit down and compose a 30-page essay, but they can strip a car down to its bare parts and reassemble it, no problem. I'd disagree with anyone who tries to say that's not real intelligence.

Maybe none of this is what you had in mind when you replied to my comment, so forgive me if I misinterpreted you. I responded in the context of the OP.
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Sounds like the problem here is drug addiction and not prostitution.
It's simply not accurate to say that IRV isn't particularly strategic. It removes strategy from basically one case: two viable major candidates and one or more nonviable minor candidates. As soon are there are more than two viable choices, IRV often requires you to betray your favorite and rank them lower in order to reduce the likelihood that your least favorite will win.
actually Sweden has a decent job equality, I have seen women doing work that is considered men's work elsewhere- we are talking low level, unskilled work here not computer science
Sorry, I should have clarified. The EU commission is focused on digital identity. I haven't dug deeply, but yes, I suspect that they are not as interested in decentralized identity (as the original link was).

> As mentioned, correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I can see all of these EU plans are basically just giving each EU citizen a cert that is issued by their government and some nice applications that build around those certs?

Sure, but wouldn't that ubiquity be a game changer?
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The alternative is letting Congress decide how to spend it. Decentralized philanthropy seems to me like a better system