skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a lot of places of the world that's literally how prostitution works. Since you aren't allowed to pay for sex, they have tea and coffee houses where people pay for very expensive drinks and other things.

Then the women "decides" whether they have sex. At least I'm not so clear on how the second part of that secret handshake works. But it's very much a concept of paying a lot for things that are not technically sex because that would be illegal.

A lot of escorts will also take perfume, jewellery or other expensive gifts instead of money.

Just a quick google search yields this:

"It came to my attention on a recent trip to China that teahouses are now becoming the new center for scandal and prostitution. In fact, teahouses have had a mix meaning in China for centuries. Dating back as far as the Tang Dynasty teahouses were places to relax, play games and take in a traditional Chinese opera show. They were also a place where the equivalent of a geisha would cater to men by accompanying them with drinks, laughter and often-touchy behavior. Although this was seen as more of a custom to enhance customer service, it also gave customers negotiating room to ask the women for other services such as sex. Brothels were very common across China during this time and teahouses happened to be an outlet where prostitutes could also be ordered."

http://qifullife.com/tea-house-meanings/
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The article's full of references to LeCarré
Referenced research paper: https://chrisparnin.me/pdf/interviews-HN.pdf

Only read it partially so far, but it seems interesting.
I find old laptops and VMs are better in most use cases outside of utilizing the GPIO pins. With laptops you also get all of the peripherals and a battery backup.
Given that some vaccinated people still die, a booster shot now and then seems like a much safer strategy.
Agreed completely. Crazy to see this endless iteration on ad optimization and maximizing screen time has made disinformation, polarization, and conspiracy so common. Really destroying society from the bottom up IMO
Big corps have been known to do worse...see, e.g., the nesle baby formula scandal.

https://www.ranker.com/list/nestle-baby-formula-boycott/meli...
That's what I find so frustrating about these comics and the general narrative about medical care and procedures.

Anyone who has had to deal with doctors regularly knows how little they should be trusted. There are those who will diagnose any chronic health issue as anxiety, those that prescribe life-destroying drugs for a scratch, those that dismiss patients with serious medical conditions as drug-seeking or "being whiny". That's only worsened by the widespread arrogance in the profession that makes them speak with unwavering confidence about things there is little certainty about. Good patient care can only be achieved when the family is well informed and ready to get involved and push back.

If you go on any disability forum, you'll find hundreds of testimonies to that effect.
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A person with the level of general knowledge that the author exhibits is obviously going to be well aware of libertarianism's stance on taxation.

Most forms of taxation constitute "expropriation of private property by the state", which libertarianism strongly opposes.

And in that passage I quoted from his article, it is funds derived from taxation - since that is the source of all government funding - that the author is alleging libertarianism/free-market-capitalism not only accepts the wasting of, as long as the waste is under the umberage of the government provisioning security services, but also, in its governance philosophy, expressly forbids having any rules to reign in the wasting of. Even spelling out his logic leaves me dumbfounded by its shameless dishonesty and absurdity.

I can't believe I even have to explain this: his claim is completely baseless, with nothing in any mainstream definition of libertarianism to justify it, and moreover, it contradicts one of the core concerns of libertarians/libertarianism, which is the avoidance of inefficiency and waste when expending tax dollars.

The article is an ideological hit piece, and it's crafted in utterly bad faith. But hey, as long as it's supporting the right political tribe, that's evidently okay for some people. The ends justify the means, i.e. bad faith sophistry is justified by the righteousness of the larger cause.
Aren’t anti bodies supposed to get down at some point? I thought the point was that the immune system would make new ones a lot faster cause it already had to build them once.
A monthly payment on a mortgage of $1mm is ~$4k. That’s the same cost to rent a 2-3br in the 1k-1.4k square foot range in much of San Francisco.

Napkin math suggests that it’s a reasonable payment for those >=$170k annual income, which is very common in software in the USA.
The chart you linked was way more dramatic than I imagined when I read "skyrocketing" and "cratering".
Default GC, and no quota - which means my full machine (i7-6700HQ)
YouTube was solved 15 years ago?
He is from Australia, so they have access to the E-3 visa [0], which is a lot easier to get than most of the others. That is not to say that it is the visa he is on, I just wanted to highlight the possibility.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-3_visa
GM also does this with the Bolt and Volt. I was under the impression that Tesla did this less so.
You’re tripping and reaching so far it can only be conceptualized in a virtual, abstract space like the internet
It's not as high as 50%.
> Meanwhile, Ingenuity[0] is flying around Mars with running Linux and literally off the shelf components[1].

Ingenuity was built in a clean room. It uses some off the shelf components mated to space qualified components. You're describing it like it's a drone from Best Buy that was duct taped to the rover at the last minute.
Not that I buy into the argument but that it helps to create more human trafficking and the involuntary part of the trade has a better hiding behind the legal one.
No, they are scare quotes as the poster admits in another comment.
Along with a Surgeon General’s health warning banner on all UX
Maybe that is the downside of the general policy of abstraction that Devs use, that software should be made to look as simple as possible, and all the apparently "unnecessary intricacies"(which could have disastrous effects) should be dumped under the hood.
This is a ridiculous website:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/

They should be using rocks instead of a computer with this mindset.
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I wonder what happens to Facebook, Reddit, and other social networks if they are eventually forced to pay reparations for the societal damage in much the way the tobacco companies had to pay billions to re-educate Americans about the real dangers of smoking. We see that Big Tobacco has pivoted to owning other parts of the consumer economy and they are still quite strong and healthy companies though their tobacco operations have shifted overseas where there is little to no education or regulation.

Should Facebook have to sponsor educational initiatives designed to pivot users away from social networks and/or pay restitution for teen suicides, family break-ups, politically motivated crimes committed by their users? That would be great but we tend not to hold anyone accountable for anything nowadays. The worst penalty our society applies tends to be banishment from social networks or public shaming of participants.

It reminds me a bit of the oil and gas business. In college we learned about the creation of the Texas Railroad Commission and how it was given control over oil and gas operations in the state at a time when over-production was driving oil prices down and boomtowns were lawless. The Railroad Commission created the guidelines that established minimum well spacings in producing fields, production rates, etc and they were given control over how to handle spills and most anything related to oil and gas operations.

The big brag in the course was that this was such a comprehensive set of rules that it became the model for the world in how frontier operations were managed. Basically the oil and gas industry wrote the regulations that they would need to follow and used those as a blueprint for operations globally in countries where there were no established laws. As time went on, industry tailored the rules to the sophistication level of the judicial system of the operating country allowing them to produce other nation's assets at the most favorable rates, in the most industry-favorable manner using rules they modified so as to maximize their own profits and minimize their own liability.

I'm not sure how I got off on that but it is late here and I go on tangents sometimes but it seemed relevant in the sense that Facebook and others have O&G industry levels of influence, they have no incentive to hamstring their own operations or to do anything that would diminish or negatively impact the future value of the massive amounts of data they have collected on everyone so it seems like they will get to write the rules about how their own operations are regulated since, just as the O&G industry did back in the day, they can portray themselves as the experts who are the only ones who really know how to fix the problems they themselves created.

Anyway. Sorry for the long-winded reply. Not sure if it adds any value to the conversation.
Okay I'm not sure how HN convinced themselves of this but higher paying means more prestige, not less prestige because "no one is willing to join otherwise". It would seem pretty intuitive but apparently not on here where the mental gymnastics to discredit FANG has somehow correlated lower pay with better job these days.

And prestige among the FANGs generally goes: Google and FB in their own tier (depending on whether you value WLB or compensation and promotion rate), Apple and Netflix slightly lower, and Amazon (and Microsoft, albeit not a FANG) much lower than all of them.
If I were a charity I wouldn't list the salaries, not proudly at least.

I see what you mean but the amount of times I see people making a fuss about charities daring to pay a decent salary to their employees really irritates me. I have tried to explain to people that good leadership is not cheap but the only thing they ever think is that any money not spent on food is wasted. A big charity might have millions or even billions in assets, and should be run with similar gravitas and skill to a comparable business.

I see your point about nonprofits though.
This is a much, much better donation than Wikipedia.

https://www.theregister.com/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_c...

Don't give money to Wikipedia. Give it to Internet Archive.
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You're right, that's a mischaracterization. These people aren't hypocrites, they lived and died with their core tenets of mask-aversion intact.
That makes sense - but why was that abandoned in the 16 bit era? Neither the sega megadrive nor the super nintendo have 16 inputs.
I think it's I'll advised to mix and match vaccines. If you've gotten the first Pfizer, get the second one and nothing else.

It's probably safer to wait it out rather than risk something by mixing vaccines (something I think there is little study on ATM)
So, does it actually work?

I mean given the article links to a YouTube video of the incident, clearly it didn't work at all in that case.
Unless they get seed money
> Rogan took so many things it's impossible to credit any one part of his cocktail.

Of course. I'm not saying that's what fixed him, mostly just that mocking someone for their stupidity in trying early treatment whom also recovered in above average time...
The “free market” in this context is just a consumers ability to make choices for themselves. The “freedom from” argument is just a contrivance that suggests you’ll be more free the less choices you’re allowed to make for yourself. It’s just rebranding a clearly anti-freedom idea as a pro-freedom one as a form of rationalization, and hoping nobody thinks about it long enough to notice.

You’re already free from Facebook if you want to be. Nobody will make you use it. Your also free to parent your children in anyway you want to. But freedom isn’t forcing everybody else to make the same decisions you do.
If you copied these popular StackOverflow code snippets, then you coded it wrong
But SOAP endpoints can be autogenerated (as opposed to REST), which basically makes this much less of an issue.
Any news about their lawsuit and what the chances are that they're going to get sued into oblivion some time in the next couple of years?
I agree it is hypocritical but I do think there is a difference between girls and boys and what they can handle. Girls are more sensitive and impressionable, that was common sense until not too long ago but now we all have to pretend that everything is the same. So without getting into the question whether we need to legislate social media or not, the fact is that gaming is a good social activity for boys which didn't cause any harm whilst social media is causing a lot of harm to girls. I can see it with my kids and their friends. We need to first go back to the assumption that girls and boys are not the same and move on from there.
After my nexus 7 became unusable shortly after a year from flash degradation, I have decided not to spend a single ₹ on any Google product or service. They simply do not care about the customer. Buy pixel hardware at your own peril.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/143829165423921561...

Snowden just denounced ExpressVPN because of their CIO involvement in this
Your quarrel is not with the FDA. They approved topical steroids as safe and effective, which was correct. But the FDA generally can't control how physicians use those drugs. If a doctor misdiagnosed your son or prescribed improper treatment then you should file a complaint with your state medical licensing board.
I worked for Mozilla over a period during which we went to having no telemetry to good telemetry and the benefits for quality were huge, especially for crashes. Without crash telemetry you simply have to guess which bugs are the most important to fix first. With telemetry you know. This is especially important when a bug suddenly shows up in the field, e.g. some antivirus vendor ships an update that breaks your product. Diverse teams are good but you are never going to have a team that truly represents the experiences of non-technical people.
This has nothing to do with hierarchical government systems (whatever that is and in contrast to what else), but all about corruption and fraud by corporations.

Most corporations just as most humans are driven by their ethics and internal processes to act inside the law. And it isn't easy to abuse/subvert the FDA's approval and monitoring processes as anyone can attest that ever received a FDA warning letter.

The ability of a government agency to withstand attempts of corruption in mind hinges more on the societies attitude towards corruption than the structure of the government organization.
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The reality is that coders are systematically underpaid and mostly fungible. The cliche is that you get a raise when you switch jobs (and your new employer knows the least about you). Not that you get a raise when you stay at your old job and differentiate yourself more and more from those other, less competent people who have the same title and qualifications as you, but are somehow worth less to the company.

Coders will never voluntarily allow their salaries to become public. Every coder thinks that he is better than average, and that the salary that he is paid uniquely reflects his superior technical and negotiating abilities. In a misanthropic industry, coders feel that the other employees are their enemy, out to prevent them from being secret ninja superstars.
Worked in consulting for 5 years mainly for large companies (> 20k employees) and it wasn't so nice.
You'll end up solving problems that the digital natives solved 15 years ago.
Moreover, half of the projects were staffed just because some C level read something about 'new technology x' and it was deemed to be cornerstone of the business. Of course our whole work was thrown into the trash the second we were out of the door.
Lots of colleagues were in consulting just for their ego, they didn't care about the customer as much as being idolatrized by them.
I switched to a swe role in a faang company and in half of the time I learned twice as much I did in consulting about the real engineering problems the industry is facing.
Consulting is fine if you need an ego boost, otherwise go to a company doing serious engineering.
>...estimated 0% (not a typo) vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection after 20 weeks

That's also extremely misleading. The greatest vaccine benefit is not elimination of merely symptomatic infection, but to reduce serious symptoms (i.e. hospitalization) and death.

Here's what the study says about that:

Meanwhile, BNT162b2-induced protection against hospitalization and death appears to persist with hardly any waning for at least six months following the second dose.
How many people actually use Duolingo in real life for serious language learning? I’ve met people who sue Rosetta, Babbel, Pimsleur, etc. But Duolingo seems like something people try out as a hobby or distraction more so than a commitment.
> February 14, 2005; 16 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

It had a lot of content back then.

Work since has gone into scaling and transcoding, but much more work has gone into ads, platform stickiness, music rights management, abuse detection, etc. Not really solving problems at the forefront of humanity.
>>As I see it, these companies are using public infrastructure when it suits them.

I agree with everything you've except what's quoted above. How is FAANG using public infrastructure, when private companies own everything from the undersea cables to the servers?
What's the relevance of mask wearing when it comes to business?

Never heard anyone complaining about business being bad because people have to wear shoes.
Reflecting on what? I never see any well-reasoned arguments against telemetry. It's just "any data collected for any purpose must be EVIL".
There are loads of psychiatrists who will ask you what you want prescribed. I’m not too sure how they are different from drug dealers.
+1 for improved search functionality. Was just looking for information today and would have killed for this
They will never be brought to justice, since they are another arm of the state. These groups are a way of doing what the powers that be want to be done while having some plausible deniability.

These groups are deliberately allowed to do this.
In addition to financial donations, I would encourage people who are familiar with particular areas of the Archive to share the interesting resources they have found through their own bibliographies, playlists, indexes, etc. The Archive’s resources all have permanent URLs, so lists hosted on other sites will not suffer from link rot.

I’ve created two such lists myself, one of books by British and American visitors to Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries [1] and the other of forgotten novels of the 19th century [2]. I’m now thinking of compiling a list of direct links to writings from the 18th and 19th century about slavery in the United States.

I would love to be able to listen to other people’s playlists of songs from the 78rpm and LP record collection on the Archive.

[1] http://gally.net/jatsi/about/sources.html

[2] https://blog.archive.org/2021/07/14/forgotten-novels-of-the-...
what is your evidence for this?

High wage countries don't seem to have a shortage of places to eat. if competitors are subject to the same labor market, all prices should go up together which would not give you a competitive disadvantage. certainly a lesser disadvantage than not being able to open because you are unwilling to pay the market labour rate.
But they all shop at Walmart.
I think he was implying that the expensive "date" was code for sex.
Very cool and ambitious project! Props to you for standing your ground for Freedom of Expression.

I know this is a non-issue for your case but I wonder how much more expensive would self-hosting a blog (+ a few web-services) on a SBC be w.r.t cloud solutions? Have you calculated the numbers (electricity usage, traffic, etc).
The law should not govern or restrict younger people ( age 18 or below ) from using a website.... instead, it should explicitly prohibit a website from TARGETING or allowing an 18 or younger to use it. The Onus is on the website, not the user.
In the past, digital copies books at the internet archive that were still under copyright were treated somewhat like real physical books. IA would let people "check out" an ebook for a limited time period. The number of checkouts was limited by the number of physical copies of the book that IA or IA-affiliates (or I think even just individuals who pinky promised that they owned a copy of the book whose PDF they were uploading) had in their possession.

At the beginning of COVID, they started doing what they called the "National Emergency Library" (this is probably the best term to look up to find more articles and different takes on the topic), where they just let everyone download copies of Harry_Potter.epub. IMO this was a needless provocation and not surprisingly book publishers claim that this is copyright infringement. They're going a bit scorched earth in response- the lawsuit isn't limited to just the "uncontrolled lending" aspect of the program.
What does the content on the rest of the site have to do with the link I posted? This is literally ad hominem - disregarding an argument because you dislike the author.
As an aside, it’s great to see content on Locals and Odysee. We need these alternative platforms to succeed to diversify the technology utilities our modern society depends on.
It might have something to do with the reports from US states that legal and widely available cannabis tends to curb opioid use. No, people won’t necessarily stop using opioids, but they will use much lower doses and not as often.
Added circuitry is not free. Every gram or redundancy is one less gram of mission payload. Added circuitry is also increasing the number of failure modes.

That's not to say redundancy is bad or should never be considered but it needs to be weighed (literally and figuratively) against every other part of the mission. Optimizing for mass and mission capability means manufacturing will get more expensive.
As usual this over simplifies the problem and is incorrect when it comes to the FDA's role as a regulator.

The FDA job is to ensure that approved drugs met a risk vs. benefit threshold. Once FDA approved, doctors can prescribe a drug for whatever they want. Bump your elbow? Doctor can prescribe Oxycontin for it, even if the FDA never approved it for that. Doctors are the gatekeepers for prescription drugs (along with pharmacists).

Anyone who has done even a little bit of research knows the FDA was looking into the abuse of Oxycontin way back into the late 1990's. This issue wasn't ignored and the FDA issued multiple letters and updated product labels to inform doctors of the risk involved.

I guess, what were the FDA's options? Pull Oxycontin from the market? That would cause harm as well since many patients benefited from it (and continue to do so).

And as another comment mentioned, when it comes to controlled substances, that's the DEA's purview along with physician licensing organizations in each state. It was apparent those folks were asleep at the switch as multiple clinics had line ups out the door of cash paying customers who would fill a script and then turn around and sell it in the parking lot. And that went on for years. Not sure what the FDA should do in that case.
That's a very cool site!

When I click on the 25Y and 'all' views, it definitely looks like a hockey stick.

Ergo the popular narrative of lumber prices has been accurate.
lol Pretty much! It cites the Robustness Principle.