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It comes off as strange to me because it doesn’t make a difference if a “sex worker” is intelligent or not. And this goes for any job that doesn’t require brilliance. Am I supposed to feel better for, more accepting of, more sympathetic to, etc. a person because of their intellect? And if I have a problem with sex work, it has nothing to do with how I perceive the intellect of the workers, so the pre-empting seems unnecessary.

Maybe comments should read each others’ future, unwritten comments in the most charitable light possible. Otherwise it starts looking like we’re writing up preemptive strawmen.

Also, it is quite clear that comment was written to elicit sympathy. I can see why someone gets angry when intellect is used as a justification for sympathy.
They should give him this dollar bill (should be worth more now).
No, literally always spelt tapu, a different word with completely different meaning and connotations than taboo.
They are describing a particular incident when they were aiming at a man carrying a walky-talky, but the missile instead struck a different motorcycle with two adults and toddler. So killing those three people were accidental.
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> I have a friend who worked for 5 years at a big consultancy company and he got stonewalled for getting promoted to a team lead role because he didn't have a masters degree. Like, he was getting top marks every year at performance review, clearly knew how to do the job, but some internal policy somewhere said that you can't be a lead without a masters degree, sorry.

Well, that's part of the job - are you able to figure out what needs to be done to reach the objective, and then do that? No? Well, no promotion for you.

> He did manage to arrange with them that they would pay for him to take a 1-year old masters in CS in his own spare time, and if he passes he would be promoted - and he was.

Seems like your friend did figure out what hurdles to jump.

Part of the reason that employers require advanced degrees is so that they are assured that the individual in question can figure out what steps need to be taken to fulfill an objective, and then take those steps.
My reason for not caring about his motivations is that a big reason for torts to exist is to discourage bad behavior from others. If you look at the actions of a major American corporation a huge fraction of them are “so we don’t get sued.” The next time a record label thinks about using an exploitative image of a baby for their advertising, I want them to think “oof, remember when we did that and had to pay out $100 million?” Not “oh yeah, remember that was one of the iconic album covers of all time.”

Elden himself hardly matters to this... a judge ordering the label to set $100 million on fire (or make a non-deductible charitable donation) would have the same effect.
its crazy how a friend of mine's wive hired a hacker thejamiehookup@gmail.com so she could go through his only fans account and found out a lot of shit he got going on. i think ecplicit content should be band tho.
Not a user, but I think OnlyFans is less about consuming porn and more about forming parasocial relationships through subscriptions.
Yes, it's not wide enough.

Just holding up a book to my screen, 700px is about the width of the text in a mass-market paperback. But the reading distance for a screen is much larger than the reading distance for a book, of course. And hardcovers or trade paperbacks have wider text columns than that, of obviously, and are generally somewhat nicer to read than mass-market paperbacks... though also often get held at slightly larger reading distances.
I'd argue from practical experience that an SQL which universally enforced set-relations would introduce significant implementation overhead: DISTINCT on large relations is v. expensive!

I believe it would also add complexity on net for users, as they would have to re-introduce those "hidden identifiers / row keys" in the not-uncommon cases where bag semantics are desired.
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somehow I have no issues understanding call/cc, but shift reset has never clicked for me.
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Postgres

Redis

Express + knexjs (TS on backend)

Heroku

Create React App front end.

Simple, boring technologies.
I know this has been an on and off thing with Chrome, but, yes, it does appear to be back and works now.
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Is there a more worthless degree than a CS MS? No offense to anyone who has one, only my condolences.
I too would be interested in playing around with more processor to processor interconnects. Just for fun I built a 16 way SAMD21 board that used the serial interconnects to make a hypercube arrangement and it was very cool to play with.

It would be possible to build an interconnect over PCIe, but of course it might just be better to use a 10g ethernet PCIe interface chip for each node and a local to PCB network.
Not op. But I do buy groceries with crypto. Amazon is kinda irrelevant around here (Switzerland) and the biggest local competitor accepts crypto for several years now. Some places even accept it for taxes.

I rarely used to for P2P transfers, but I find crypto super useful for online shopping.
Thanks for the Aurora rec. It works great. I needed few proprietary apps and was looking for a way to get google play apps without installing any google services or downloading apks from untrustworthy sites.
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There's also a meta-level. I stand for what I think is right. But I also believe that the rules of the game are important, beyond what I think is right.

I may be mistaken occasionally (hard to believe, but it happens), or I just believe that a functional society is based on more than just being right. Either way, I will support ground rules for open debate even if they momentarily hurt my argument or my tribe.
Frequency doesn't matter because at a large scale you can't match AC frequencies anyway so you go to DC for transmissions. There are other advantages to high voltage DC over AC as well that I don't remember.
By the way, Maxwell is still in high school! It's been humbling to see the amount he's been able to do/learn in such a short period of time at such a young age.
Seems like plain old common sense to me. You’re never going to hear the US government say it. But that doesn’t make it untrue. It’s just an inconvenient truth.
So your argument is "iOS is complex, they could have just hidden it in there, but they didn't, they told us about it." I'm still not sure why this matters. From the standpoint of interacting with a government Apple could say "we cannot do that and maintain the security of the OS." Now, post announcement, they have to say "we will not do that."

That is a huge difference.

I got snarky because the human-in-the-loop for decision making is the the least concerning part of the process and the alternatives are as ridiculous as I laid out. There will always be a human-in-the-loop in this process - I'd rather it start with Apple's human, then law enforcement, then a prosecutor, then a judge, etc.
Your mistake is thinking that porn is a generic concept that people consume. Almost no one would not be satisfied with a generic porn channel that showed random content of random ages, random body types, random genders, etc. Everyone has some criteria when it comes to porn they consume. Some people just have more specific criteria than others.
Hi! I had never heard of your service, so I googled it and accidentally misspelled "Pixel" as I often do as "Pixle". The first result was a reddit thread and the second seemed to be a full-length rip of Becoming Royal that had some really malicious ads which were clickjacking and covering the content. Just thought you might like to know. :)
The appeal is it’s easy for women to become online prostitutes and make ridiculous money from incels and sexual predators. I thought women could aspire to something more than this but I guess this is progress although regressive.
You've just made as much of a straw man (by listing jobs that evaporated over 4 years) as the comment you were replying to.

The fact is that some jobs will always be in demand. Some jobs will almost always be in higher demand.

And the rest of jobs... won't.

Get a degree linked with the former, you'll have more opportunities. Get a degree linked with the latter, and you won't.
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I use Watson which stores the time tracking data in plaintext so I get to push them to Git.
Quite ironic. He claims to be an artist, maybe this is a performance piece?
That explanation doesn’t make sense to me. Standard (IEEE) floating-point math is deterministic; it shouldn’t depend on the hardware.
Starting your own payment processor is done reasonably frequently, it has a certain barrier of entry (a few million and a year or two for all the approvals, so feasible with investor backing if you have a valid business reason to make a payment processor) but it's being done regularly and also you can buy and rebrand an existing one, which is a common way to get a quicker market entry at the cost of a bit more money.

However, that new processor will be a member of some existing payment systems e.g. Visa network and bound by all the same constraints as the other processors there. Creating your own alternative to a payment system (e.g. a major, widely and internationally supported card network like Visa or MC) is not really plausible. Perhaps you can look at the whole setup of cryptocurrencies+all the crypto exchange companies as something like such an alternative system, so there's one alternative made in this millenium.
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They are not inflated numbers they are what you can get working for a set of top companies with deep pockets competing over the same talent. It varies but 150k is entry level comp pretty much anywhere they hire in the United States [0].

It’s not “fair” but it’s worth your time to look into getting into the US tech sector. Your skills have the most market value their.

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Nice. Any reason why installation section is not prominent and on the top of the readme?

It's even in an non-intuitive place in the documentation.
I use Reading List feature to save articles that I want to listen to later during a run or workout. I made https://per.quest to listen to any URL. I wish there was a rss feed provided by the browser for Reading List feature so I could listen to articles one after another.

I also stopped using reader mode for sites with insane ads/videos/js/popovers that hog the browser and just open them with per.quest/read/[URL] to extract just the article text.
I am partial to simple text files that I edit in vim.

I have a simple script that parses my notes (based on tags), puts them in respective files, and creates a new md file for the day.

I think it's important to have a space where the threshold for what needs to be written down is low and unstructured. Since vim is great at editing text (compared to writing), I use it as a space to dump my thoughts out and organize them in front of my eyes. Works great for me.
Voter suppression is illegal and carries with it both a fine and up to a year in jail.

Even if it was only 1.1k that would still be over 1,000 years in jail.

The people making these robocalls are fortunate the FCC is the organization taking up the issue instead of the justice department.

And when it comes to messing with someone's constitutional voting right, there's no such thing as "only" a certain # of incidents. It's all bad, it's all illegal.
Doing exactly this with a large format e-ink tablet has been revolutionary for me
Worldwide governments are starting to seek backdoors/monitoring into everything.

It's only a matter of time before either hardware or OS creators are all compelled.
You mention that you have user-facing servers as well as storage servers. So do the user-facing servers act as reverse proxies for the storage servers, or do you simply serve a redirect?

I'd expect that the file access patterns are power-law distributions, i.e. recently uploaded files are requested more often than older files. If that's the case, can you use this property for sharding by having hot and cold storage servers?

How do you handle users uploading forbidden content? I see from another comment that you ban the usual types of illegal content. But in practice, do you manually review every mail you get on your abuse contact and take appropriate action? What's the most common type of complaint?

From a business perspective: How did you grow your site? I imagine the competition must be rough since file hosting is such a "simple" service.
Ok, but I'm not from NY/SF but I'm assuming based on the small amount of time that I spent there, that every thing is more expensive there, including housing and medical care... In Germany (Europe?) I would say that a Software Developer salary floats between 30k/y - 100k/y.
It is unlikely unless you manage to capture some position and happen to have some background. This whole thing is a nothingburger. This is one of those weird things were many people have baseless gut reactions and then try to go and prove if flawed even though they don't have a complete picture.

It is unlikely that there is a collision of benign image with the database and even if that happens it is not some automatic process that just sends cops to your house to raid it.

Of course we can get bunch of collitions with essentially same images, I don't get why this is so magical just squint your eyes and I'm sure you have two objects with in your reach that could be made to collide, but that isn't a gotcha on any level
> It wouldn’t shock you to learn that Carlos hated the new Nike ads I texted to him. His exact words were, “I don’t want fucking activism from a sweatshop monopoly.”

As somebody who grew up in Oregon, this is precisely it. I don't just want Nike to change its outward branding; I want Nike to stop advertising. I don't just want friendlier campus life for women; I want Nike to stop employing. I don't just want Nike to move its sweatshops from one country to another; I want Nike to stop enslaving.

Nike should stop existing. Anything less is neoliberal simpering.
Why bother with the rights? He could just auction the concept of him on the cover photo. It's all meaningless anyway.
Nothing in your link supports the claim "we know the vaccine improves survival regardless of previous infections."

> It doesn't matter in countries like the US where the vaccine is free to anyone who wants it

How about the medical bills for a life-altering adverse event? Are those free for anyone who has to pay them? These considerations matter when we're talking about administering a vaccine which may provide very slim or no additional protection over natural immunity. There has already been one study suggesting the second dose of Pfizer even reduces cellular and humoral immune response.
> If this is the case there is zero reason to scan locally and you can just scan the uploaded image once it is on the server.

You’re having a house party. Because of the pandemic, you’d rather people who have COVID not attend. You can’t trust everyone to get vaccinated or get tested beforehand. So, you decided to set up a rapid-test system, just to be sure.

Would you rather test in your kitchen or your driveway?
To quote you:

> largely redistributing wealth from the commons to rich billionaires

Which means that you are saying that Musk is getting taxpayer money from SpaceX. This clearly isn't the case, he's sinking his own money into it too
I seed all linux distros that I use. Bandwidth is expensive when centralized. It pains me to think of dollars going toward paying for egress data rather than developer work for open source projects. Please download them via torrent instead of http, and then please seed!
Yes, because it's impossible to ever change careers or apply your work ethic to gaining new skills. The idea that you don't have marketable skills having been in the military is also the biggest piece of bunk I've ever heard and you really have no idea what you are talking about.

-former infantryman
Steam has competition - Epic Game Store, Windows, or direct distribution. It is a lot more feasible for a consumer to switch between these stores, so there can be an effective market that choses which service to use.

This does not exist for iOS because there's no other stores on the platform, and you cannot "just" switch to another the Play Store.
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This is the common refrain, but I think it's equally likely that it boils down to "I did this, so you should have to do this, too."
Quickbook - https://quickbooks.intuit.com/in/

They have a decent interface, press the "clock in" button and the time starts. Whenever you want you can "clock out".
You can see the "total time" report as well as the invoices or payout made.

The only downside I see is that when you "clock in" you get a small input box in which you can choose to write whatever work you've done or you are doing. The issue is that box is super small and you can't really see that much in it. So there is lot of scrolling involved.
Good luck convincing all the couples who back up all their pictures by default to iCloud that those pictures are not private.
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Saying that here will be unpopular.

But it’s important to keep in mind that in many countries “engineer” is a protected term with qualification requirements and not simply a job title.
I would disagree with that given the state of many high schools where people are "graduating" functionally illiterate.
Trying to dig into the sources of that article a little bit, what makes the most sense to me is that the $4.3 billion number is Steam's cut of the sales. If you go for a 3-4× multiplier, then you're looking at somewhere around half the total PC gaming market going to Steam.

Which kind of feels about right: there are other game stores; Ubisoft and Origin are the ones that cater to AAA publishers as well. Not to mention that things like the Microsoft Store could well cater to the surprisingly large casual game market (one of the sources quotes $5.2 billion for "Browser PC Games", which I think is reflective of how big casual games are). And you can find people who publish and distribute games outside of Steam.

So saying that Steam has a dominant but not overwhelming market feels correct. The numbers I see most bandied about are 50-75%, which look to be estimated from very old data from what I see. I'm sure if any competitor to Steam had reason to believe they were larger than Steam, they'd be trumpeting it as loudly as they could.
privacy.com: use it & take back control. Give the subscription monkeys a temp credit card that only allows for one payment.

When Payment #2 fails, they'll notice, believe me. You can choose to "really" cancel, or just let them figure it out.
This will thrive business to Switzerland and other crypto save heavens. Nice one EU
I just wish they had released M1 and M1X simultaneously so that those of us needing to switch larger models for various reasons weren't stuck in this dead zone between clearly worse in every way but one and clearly better in every way except the one that we need.
Here's some help (left to right is worst to best): https://www.pentagram.com/work/consumer-reports#22596

I still don't know where the black with white dot goes. I guess it's one better than the empty circle in the middle.
I have run torrents on several VPS/Server provider (mostly OVH) and never had any issue.
I'll be honest, this is my favourite feature of my Kobo - using Pocket to save webpages and articles and read them offline. It seems to accomplish a similar goal to what you do here - without the need for all that paper.
Nitter has existed for roughly 2 years already and I think Twitter knows about it even without this HN post :)
In reality they always knew it made no sense, but the amount of free PR they got from every major news outlet across the world posting essentially: “Popular pornographic app only available for a short while!” Is absolutely insane, and made the full circus with it all.

It’s like Red Bull leaning into the “dangerous drink” coverage.
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oh sorry how many of those life altering adverse events have there been as a percentage of people vaccinated?
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And I'm sure it's just a happy coincidence that news about US military murdering civilians cant be accessed outside of the US :)
Besides delegating the secrets protection to entities that do it well, key rotation is a major benefit to ensure that in the likely event your credentials are leaked (either due to malpractice or a vulnerability) the attack surface will be shortened by the time they can be used by.
Yeah, I have thought about that, and I also think it may be intentional, for the reasons you mention.

But it's quite ugly that in order to implement that "endorsement system", they push you to lie, because both the letter of the law and the forms that both the immigrant and the "helper" person sign are quite unambiguous: you are declaring that the person physically lives in that address, which is not true.

If they want an endorsement system, they could explicitly create one.
Install with

pip install git+https://github.com/abey79/vsketch#egg=vsketch
pip install git+https://github.com/marceloprates/prettymaps.git

If prettymaps needs vsketch, why does it not put it into its setup.py?
But can you do a 4x/cluster SYN flood with a GTX 1060
It's not expensive, difficult or very time consuming to have a static website connected to a email marketing or newsletter service in order to communicate directly to people and improve the services offered. Basic marketing strategy. There's no need to run the entire business on their own.
Why do people think that? Where do you get your data from?
It seems like hardware could benefit a lot from more standardization. One of the big problems with a hardware project like this is that parts aren't fully interchangeable and therefore redesigns are necessary for minor part changes. If hardware parts were commodities instead of unique products with unique requirements, it would be a lot easier to handle supply chain disruptions.

And supply chain disruptions have been so extremely painful in the past year, why doesn't the industry do this? It seems like if you could provide guarantees about interchangeability, that translate to guarantees about availability, people would be willing to pay a premium.
The question of whether Apple should open the "proprietary abstractions it builds on its own operating system" is a major one that is now being litigated in multiple courts and regulatory jurisdictions. My argument is simply that sophisticated iCloud integration falls into this category and should probably receive attention from those same courts and regulatory insitutions.

To the extent this is about privacy, the argument is that Apple has created an opinionated regime for scanning user photos using untested technology -- and has (quite correctly, I think) determined that privacy-conscious users should have the right to opt out. The issue here is that Apple's version of "opt out" does not allow users access to the same functionality through third-party cloud providers. Users who opt out for privacy and security reasons will be substantially worse off than users who opt in. This isn't the only reason that regulators should consider revisiting Apple's cloud integration, but it's a new and important one that did not exist before Apple announced this service.
The comment I was replying to described the website as “perfect”, so I expect the website to be accessible. Quite frankly, it doesn’t matter where I decide to read it and on what device I decide to read it on.

HN people praising 90s web design like this as the epitome of design is comedy.