skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that the sky isn’t falling and none of these rules are new, just finally being enforced by a different entity. I’m aware that visa/mc doesn’t offer services directly to merchants. But they still set the rules the ipsp’s( like cc bill, epoch, etc), merchant banks and others have to enforce on their shared clients. I have yet to see evidence of anyone being singled out, if you have, please share, otherwise it’s just a conspiracy theory. And frankly, anyone well informed has wondered why these companies were allowed to get away with this stuff for so long. They dared to keep pushing the limit of their agreements and skirted regs/laws via thousands of shell corps for too long. Time to pay the Piper. Between letting anyone upload anything, flaunting copyright, DMCA, and all the credit cross sell stuff, plus hiding is strange jurisdictions, tax avoidance, regulatory avoidance, etc. It’s about time!

Either way, responsible, well ran adult companies aren’t having processing issues. I think even PayPal is talking adult content sites again.
https://archive.is/a0xYl
>Sure, but is it an illness which can be alleviated?

That's exactly my point. There isn't. So we criminalise it instead. It's inhumane and will be most certainly seen by our grandchildren in a way similar as we see chattel slavery today, but it's just simply that we have no other way today.
Because collectively we've given up caring about digital privacy as a society. You and I and maybe most of the HN crowd care, but most people don't. Not really. This is just a reflection of that broader value system.
A lot of people prefer renting though, even if they can afford to buy a home. Many don’t want to be homeowners, or enjoy the flexibility of being able to move at any time without the hassle and expense of selling a home.
Why were they destroyed?
A common practice used to encourage adults too

Whether I dis/agree with the practice or not, I find a separate standard for children to be disingenuous if we are talking about a common practice
I have X1 and battery is great.

The main issue I have is that it's almost impossible to have full screen video calls on external 4k displays: cpu starts frying and audio starts dropping. I think I've managed to get hw accel set up, but it's so confusing nowadays I am never sure (with Xv you knew where you stand :)).

For that reason only, I'd look for a Ryzen APU next (T14 has it as an option). Edit: T495 GP brings up is Ryzen too. The only drawback with them is no TB3/eGPU.
The threshold to cash out seems high, but the percentage cut is curious, and I'm not convinced "exploitative" is the right word. It's a high cut, but is there anything else that makes it anywhere as close to make a game and share it with your friends? It seems to be in an entirely different league as any of the app stores or PC game development, so a higher cut there would make sense.

The "it's just for fun!" argument does cut both ways - then why introduce real money into the ecosystem at all? - but has an obvious "because real money is needed to make the product and ecosystem exist" answer. Is taking this much real money necessary? That seems like a much harder question. You could say it's a bit like college sports - playing a game with your friends and there's some institution that's taking all the money, and then, yes, if Roblox is rolling in huge profits and distributing a penance, they deserve some pressure on that.
A study demonstrating the mechanism for Delta ADE in vivo: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34384810/

Highly-vaccinated Israel's third-wave surge in both cases and deaths: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/

Unvaccinated Palestine's lack of third wave deaths:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/state-of-p...
This logic doesn't hold in all housing markets.

In California, people generally buy the absolute most house they can possibly afford. Houses are extremely expensive and people don't want to live in shacks, so they stretch their budget as far as they can. Home prices in these markets are extremely sensitive to changes in interest rates, as you've described.

However in other markets, interest rates can wiggle up and down without having as dramatic an effect on prices, because livable homes aren't as expensive and people have more slack in their budgets.

In markets with lots of cash buyers, home prices may also be somewhat isolated from interest rate swings.
Sequin fronts the money to the merchant and pays ourselves back automatically from a connected bank account (unlike traditional debit cards).

We are an official Visa partner and deal directly with credit bureaus.
> characters that become caricatures of themselves and what they represent, etc.

New Trek definitely lost what made Trek attractive in the first place, and replaced it with drama, action and expensive SFX. Maybe it's what the current market wants, although I doubt it.

Old Star Trek has self-contained episodes, and it wasn't afraid to dedicate a whole episode to a single character. Discovery and Picard are serialized, yet we know little about the characters and their motivations. Most characters are cartoonish, and the moment a random characters gets a backstory, you know it's because he will die with long and dramatic close-ups very soon.

When TNG's Picard was caught by that admiral in Captain Picard's Day Picard Day, and he says "It's for the children. I'm a- I'm a role model", we knew exactly how he felt without having his face full-screen because his character was well established.

When Picard's Picard reacts, you have to wait to be spoonfed his sentiment, because his character is inconsistent, not only with his canon, but with his current characterization.
> Carmack is a full time AI developer.

He's still simultaneously the CTO of Facebook's Oculus division, which runs their 30% app store and is building the Roblox-aesthetic Facebook Horizon "metaverse":

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Facebook-W...

https://roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

https://roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

He's separated out his AI work as his own thing.
I highly doubt that you, specifically, or any other commenter in this thread will do anything to help me if I run into trouble. And if one were willing to do something, I would hope that they'd choose to channel their help towards someone their know deserves it like a loved one; not me, who as far as you know could just make up a fake sob story to con selfless strangers on the internet.
We vaccinated all the old people, who were the population most at risk for death the first time.
In Brazil a new iPhone 6 costs about two months of the national average raw income, while a cheap Android alternative would be about 1/3rd to 1/4th of an average monthly salary.
> make it harder for Iran to have good engineers and technology scene, that could later be used for other things.

Perhaps Iranians will be forced to use the Chinese versions of Github, Fedora and kernel.org. Is that the future anyone wants? I don't think the Iranian engineers will quit and become plumbers or farmers.
> SSNs should only ever be used for your employer knows how to report who paid what taxes to the IRS. If someone else wants to use my SSN to claim that they paid my taxes, fine with me!

That could go the other way, with someone else filing their income under your SSN without any corresponding withholding. This, too, needs better authentication than a mere SSN can provide.
It very well could have been that breath sounds just sounded differently, or the whole experience was unnerving to our user base (healthcare) at the time. In any case we set the sampling rate back to 8kHz and moved on.

I too miss the days of a B channel on a T1 PRI!
I wouldn’t go as far as to ban rentals outright (people moving to a new city can’t be expected to buy a property before moving), but I would certainly support steep taxes on non-owner occupied properties, with deductions available for maintenance/upgrades (thus making rental businesses de facto non-profits). I would also add deductions for developers building new rental housing stock to encourage new construction.
> That $1,000 worth of Robux becomes $350 when you go to extract it.

Knowing nothing at all about Robux I’m not sure I follow. When you say “$1,000 worth of Robux” here you mean $1,000 USD, right? And not 1,000 units of Robux?

So if I’m a developer on the platform and I’ve earned however many Robux equal $1,000 USD and I initiate a transfer then my actual cash receipts will be ~$350 USD? Am I understanding that correctly? Because that seems nuts. Especially when they’re targeting kids as their primary “developers”.
Middle class will reduce consumption, upper class will have a reduction in investment income they already didn't need due to diminished marginal utility of additional fiat about a threshold.

TLDR Fatter middle class, thinner lower and upper classes.
>It’s obvious that high home prices are supported by inflation, low interest rates, laws, birth rates, nimbys, prop 13, AND speculation. And more in concert.

It's obvious that the the initial post didn't agree with that proposition.

>Pedantry does not persuade. It’s the whole point of the technique.

It wasn't pedantry. It was half the content of the comment.

I really hope this technique isn't being popularized this way. A person doing this outside of very specific brainstorming-type processes reads like a person willing to lie or say whatever in order to get agreement (even if they won't stick to it).
I wrote them, explained my job and asked for a camera sample to test with our software (video security) and they sent one. It was intended for a specific client and a special case use, which it satisfied 100%. Whatever that cost was, it was bundled into the client's fees, so I have no idea. Afterwards the sample hardware was returned, but they sent it back to us saying "you might have future special needs clients. Keep that camera, and we'll send you another for just asking."
The reason she'd regret the latter is because society would shame and bully her for it.

Sometimes morals are the devil, and it is so in this case. Logically, there is no physical or mental harm, unless others choose to inflict it as a result of doing something they consider immoral and want punished.

Even in the case of CSAM I read this is often used to blackmail the child into continued exploitation. They'll get one photo out of pretending to be someone of the same age and all that, and then they'll get more by blackmailing the child that if they don't they'll send the photo to their parents, friends, and all that. The child has already learned that what they did was wrong and that people will make a big deal out of it. They fear the moral repercussions more than to continue along with the exploiter. That's messed up.

In my opinion, this same morality is also responsible for the illegal market around sex work and its bad conditions. Because it puts the workers and/or the exploited into a corner, with everyone against them, on one side there's the exploiter, and on the other side the moral police. That makes it that sex workers have no way out.

If sex work wasn't moralized, and was just work like any other, you'd be able to see the clientele improve, since more normal people would pay for the service, where as now it's only people willing to break through the morals that do so which tend to be sleezier. And you'd see the work conditions improve, as workers could mobilize, freely hop from one employer to another, go to the police when they need to report bad conduct or abuse, file a lawsuit against their employer, etc.

But it would take more than legalization, it would need to become morally inconspicuous and accepted as just another normal thing. Until that happens, well, yes, you're totally right, it would be regrettable to post a photo of your butthole online, as society will shame you for it big time. In fact, it doesn't care if you post it yourself voluntarily, or if you are exploited into posting it, or if your ex-boyfriend posts it out of revenge, you'll get shamed and punished by society equally on all cases for it. That's where I feel society is responsible, we create the opportunity for harm by making it shameful.
That’s over stating the case, the Shield of Achilles doesn’t demonstrate a flat earth cosmology, and shields of that time period where generally curved not flat to provide better protection to the arm. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/3196_-_A...

Indian philosophy uses a spherical earth in 6th century BC as well as many thinkers in Ancient Greece like Pythagoras.
> Early data from Scotland indicated that delta-infected Covid patients were 1.8 times more likely to be hospitalized than those with an alpha infection. Other U.K. data support the increased risk of hospitalization but do not provide clear evidence that delta patients experience more severe illness once in the hospital.

How do hospitals identify individual patients infected by Alpha, Delta or other variant?

Do they perform genetic sequencing of a virus sample from each patient, to determine what mutations are present? If they are doing statistical sampling, what percentage of patients are being sampled for variant identification?

It would helpful to have variant-specific numbers of cases and deaths added to national data, so that accurate graphs can be drawn for each variant. More granular data would support data analytics of local, variant-specific, policy interventions, to evaluate cause-effect on local health metrics.
What arguments do people have for resisting it?
See my reply to a sibling comment. The most damning evidence comes from the comparison between highly-vaccinated Israel, where there are many third-wave deaths, and mostly-unvaccinated Palestine, where there isn't a third-wave death spike at all. Having mostly-unvaccinated Palestine as a control group is showing us that we don't know what we thought we knew.
Human Artist and AI
It's probably how you telegraph it to them. For example, you chose the username "brokeAF" ("broke as f***"), it could be a fun play with irony, but for someone who doesn't know about your wealth, it would just seem like you might be desperate for money.

I would suggest making up a white lie, like you found a gig to edit travel articles, so it's a remote/digital gig, and a benefit is you get discounted travel. If you don't travel, find something that works with whatever it is you do with your time.
I’m pretty sure mathbox got abandoned when mathbox2 came out (understandably, it’s mostly one guy building it). But then mathbox2 appears to be abandoned now, and last time I tried to use it (a couple years ago) the coffeescript would no longer compile.

It was a really visionary piece of work, it’s a bummer to see it fall apart like this, and I don’t think anything has come out since that really replaces it (though manim does look cool).
I couldn't agree more with the recruitment, and the future momentum of the stack you choose.

I try to stay straight through JavaScript. Fast and gets the job done on most projects these days. Most API's support Node.js and so does AWS Lamba etc. I want to build a web based platform at https://ikooru.com/ I am just bouncing between react and angular libraries more than frameworks.

It's not that things like PHP are not an option. But other than the front end WordPress site... or if you are build wp apps. I'd rather go with Facebook and Google using JavaScript libraries than fight an up hill battle in the future.
https://archive.ph/sycgo
The most interesting thing about this is the linked article about the employer that tried a bit of sharp practice to insert additional clauses into the NDA: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/11/09/signs/

There's definitely a few morals to this story (but note: not legal advice! I am not a lawyer!):

1. You should keep your own copy of anything you sign as part of your employment contract.

2. You should maybe keep a record of when you handed that to your employer ("I did in fact sign a copy of the NDA when I began my employment, and handed it to [person] on [date]. I hope this helps you to locate it.")

3. If the NDAs are so long that it would be impractical to visually diff them, you can just ask the company: "Can you please ask [name of company lawyer] to send me an email confirming that this is the same NDA that I signed at the beginning of my employment on [date]?" If they do, and then later rely on a clause that has been inserted, I suspect they would have a hard time convincing a court to enforce that clause.

4. In the author's situation, they sound like they were over a bit of a barrel economically and it's hard to push back in that situation. If you are willing to push back, remember that your employer is asking for something from you, i.e. a change to your contract. And if that change is that they can audit your personal devices, that is not a small concession! "This NDA does differ substantially from the one I originally signed, and would represent a significant change in the conditions of my employment. I understand if the company has new security concerns, and I am willing to work constructively to find an acceptable solution. For instance, if you are uncomfortable with me being able to access work e-mail on my personal device, you can issue me with a separate device over which you would have auditing rights."
Link to the artwork: https://i.imgur.com/p2lCwef.gifv
I'm honestly more concerned about the immediate effects today in the USA than what China can do with it. And with the slippery slope effect in the United States.

Today it is "think of the children" tomorrow it is "prevent terrorist attacks", eventually it is "citizen why do you have union organizing material on your iCloud uploads?"

And we've seen the big tech giants steadily morphing into quasi governmental agencies and we've been steadily giving up privacy rights over the decades. I don't think its a huge leap from where we are now to having Apple/Google/Amazon devices that are monitoring what we say AND reporting on suspicious activity. Particularly when combined with those companies wanting to own your private time and link all your accounts with them.
This is great feedback, perhaps our explanation wasn't clear. The scheduling system isn't automatic, each owner has the flexibility to book stays whenever they'd like (the booking window is 2 days to 1 year out). What we try to do is make sure that each co-owner gets access to the property on the dates that matter most to them. To accomplish this we give each owner the ability to select their priority dates before the general booking window opens
Yes, but you can spend your whole life worrying about appropriate amount to donate, without donating anything in the meantime.

10% is a good start. If you think it's too little, you can adjust upwards later. While you're making up your mind, you'll still be giving that 10%!
There is a specific locality to housing that is key to think about.

This report from Brookings [1] titled "The Washington, DC region has built too much housing in the wrong places", lays out a strong case for what is happening in my general geography. All politics aside, this is very accurate anecdotally as all the major housing developments I know of were fairly distant from work. We have housing going up, but not in the right place for the employees. Had colleagues commuting > 90 minutes one way for work, pre-pandemic. COVID changed all that for the better.

Before getting married, my wife & I rented individually, and our combined housing expense (mortgage) for a medium sized TH in a good neighborhood is fairly close to our rents, previously. This is thanks to the low interest rate environment which has increased affordability despite the higher prices.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-washington-dc-region-...
See also: https://archive.ph/sycgo
A big issue is whether or not our power grid can handle all these new air conditioners coming online. Historically, it hasn't been able to handle it well in the past two years.
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Quote from my friend, who is a mom:

> I'm honestly not a fan as a mom but it's a very fluid marketplace for games and gives people an opportunity to make their own video games and make money.

Given that this opportunity to make money scarcely exists in reality (it's equivalent to my opportunity to make money by starring in a Hollywood film as a random Seattle engineer), seems like parents don't really have a clue what's going on.

From my own experience from when I was a kid, it would seem to be true that parents don't have a clue what their children are actually exposed to on the internet, unless they take extreme and draconian measures.

Unfortunately, parents have a strong interest in protecting their image as that of a good parent, so it's rare for them to admit to not knowing such things.
Safety tip: carry plenty of water and a personal locator beacon. You have to pay for the hardware and register it, but afterwards it's free and is a reliable way to summon emergency services from anywhere. It sends an emergency signal received by satellites and rescuers will be alerted of the location of the signal.
How did I get a background in toolpath generation.
I don't like talking about myself in public.
You have my website. If you really want to know more about these, please contact me. I happily answer your questions.

About recommendation;
Toolpath generation is based on 2d and 3d geometry math.
Simply dive into 2D and 3D geometry and try to understand some libraries.
This is a very good one: http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php

Most 2d and 3d calculations are based on triangle calculations. There are also solved algorithms like finding the closest point on a curve. Once you start playing with triangles, I'm sure with some software development and machining background you can easily begin to understand how toolpath generation works.
It's easier to create toolpaths from stl files. Because stl models only consist of triangles. Thanks to the gaming industry, triangle-based math isn't a cutting-edge science these days, and there are many open source libraries.

You also need tons of coffee and tons of dedicated time.
I'm not sure "only twice as bad" paints an accurate picture.

- Herd immunity is much harder. Calculated as 1 - 1/r0 where r0 is defined in relation to transmissibility. So if r0 = 3 that's ~66% need to be immune to stop the virus. If r0 = 6 that's 83% needed, much higher threshold.

- The virus is only getting more deadly. A preprint study found delta has "120% greater risk of hospitalization, 287% greater risk of ICU admission and 137% greater risk of death"[1]

Also 225% more transmissible is 3x more unless I'm doing my math wrong?[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant#Virul...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant#Trans...
Most of the biggest safety features that had the most impact were developed in the 1960's and 70's after people like Ralph Nader really pushed the auto industry to do better. There was a second big bump in safety in the late 80's and earlier 90's with the addition of airbags.

I'm pretty sure you could design a car with few or no computers in it that would be on par with most cars on the road today in terms of safety. Sure, you'd lose some safety features like backup cams, but nothing that huge compared with earlier safety improvements.
To combine the numbers:

Roblox takes 75% of each sale. This means the developer needs to make 400,000 in Robux sales before the developer accumulates 100,000 Robux for cash withdrawal.

If 100,000 Robux is sold for $1,000, and 100,000 Robux only nets the developer $350, then the double dip gives Roblox a net 91.25% of developer sales. This excludes any applicable taxes or app store fees.
Growth means that things get better. If you build better houses and cars, that is growth. Likewise if you cure more cancers.

Economic growth does not imply consuming more resources. Developing a more fuel efficient car is also growth, for example.