skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're hiring as a consultant the procurement officer at Netflix that decides to grant them the contract (and Netflix doesn't know about/approve this arrangement), that seems _very_ transparently to be a kickback to me.

> it's hard to prove that what they did was illegal.

Sure, it's a lot of work. That's why we spend money on prosecutors. But they literally _just_ proved that in a way that convinced 12 people "beyond a reasonable doubt", so it's certainly not impossible.

It just seems weird to be asking: "is the described scheme illegal?" in an article describing a conviction for the described behavior, unless you're questioning the validity of the judicial process in this case (which itself is a fine thing to do)
That seems pretty cheap. That would mean designing the SAT would cost $0.6 million. Compare that to the $640,000 million we spend per year and it seems absolutely negligible.
As the author mentions, some clients are busy and just want a sure thing. Others are cheating on their partner and don’t want to involve a civilian who might blow up their spot.

I’d say that most important is that she was SUPER thoughtful about the experience she provided to her clients. Things like identifying non-latex condoms to avoid allergies, wearing a short necklace so it won’t slap him in the face.

Whenever I pay more for something and am glad I did, it’s almost always because I am impressed by the attention to detail. Then again, maybe that’s because I, too, pay attention to detail.
His LLC had nothing to do with how they caught his fraud, or his culpability. I don’t get the point you’re trying to get across with “I Steal Trucks LLC”.

> The American public gets defrauded by corporations daily. I seldom see white knights in the government volunteering to prosecute them on our behalf.

Then you are not paying attention.
There are options, but they’re much more limited. As a bit of anecdata my wife was coming from a pretty old phone. She views it as getting something more cutting edge so she can keep this one as long as her last one and didn’t think that starting with older hardware would get her there. That view limits the options to only a few.
Hoff having the power to take back his copyright from Penguin is not an example of laws twisted. That right was instituted specifically to enable creators to get back control of their work after whoever bought it have had (way more than) enough time to make up their investment.

And, no, Penguin will not now be sued for infringement unless they are now infringing.
Presumably in other domains Pooh has been in the public domain for a long time.
Have you elbowed an anesthesiologist?
Realistically, we all know that when we sign up a Facebook account if we link it to an email address that is the easiest way to recover an account if the event of a forgotten password.

If you haven't logged into the account or the email address long enough that the email address domain expired. Then that's poor planning and isn't necessarily a problem with Facebook. I'd say most of my online accounts that don't have 2FA would be difficult to reset passwords for if I lost access to my email account.

If I signed up to a Facebook account and put my dogs name on it, how would Facebook ever know who human the owner is?
> Neoliberalism is a failed experiment

how has neoliberalism failed?
I always get the best thing I can find that doesn’t offend me.
I’m crossing my fingers 64gb of ram is enough for the QubesOS life I want to live on a Librem 14.
Dev machines that are underpowered waste your one true scarce resource - time
If the average is getting worse it’s not fair to let some get too far ahead. /s
I can't believe you introduced partisan politics into a post about how to solve problems. Well I guess not believe in anything is a first step anyway.
What I mean is, once this product goes live, how can I opt out of being “incidentally” included in your data collection by everyone dumb enough to buy this product?
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This is a fantastic article. I hope this goes viral. Sex work should be legalized, regulated, and protected. Escorts should be able to call the police without fear of being arrested if they are abused.

I have several female friends who are escorts, or rather "providers", and the term most frequently used for the men (as OP said) is "hobbyists". However, they don't really see "hobbyist" as derogatory as OP claims. Which is interesting.

I'm saddened that she describes such a solo experience. There is (was before COVID) a weekly meetup at a local restaurant where the providers got to know each other and swap stories. There was a back channel network where they could blacklist individuals. It was a cohesive group that looked out for each other. They even had presentations on how to launder money through Etsy. As OP said, the IRS will notice!

In addition, some women jumped in for a short period, but some stick around. One friend have been at it for over 15 years: there long-term relationships are pretty amazing to hear about. We dated and I would sometimes get de-identified summaries of fetishes.

There are "old timers" in this profession just like programming. This OP is like a ReactJS dev talking to CGI-BIN devs. I use this analogy becuase one of my friends worked mostly with programmers and went by "RubyGetsRailed" online.

EDIT: I hope I'm not mansplaining, but it is a diverse community that exists everywhere and I wanted to share the variations I've encountered.

Un-stigmatize sex work.
Paraphrased, yes. :-D
Its not clear that those a different sets of people. Just because they screen their clients now, doesn't mean that they always have. Unfortunately, getting personally assaulted might be the reason they now screen their clients so well.

> I also wonder how those assaults could be brought down, if that is even possible in the first place.

I doubt we would ever get it down to the background rate, but having a high base rate means there is a lot of room for improvement.

Just legalizing it would probably help. Having an above ground would likely improve the quality the background check network, and would increase the accessibility of information on how to be a sex worker with relative safety.

Beyond that, the potential to have a good relationship with police would probably be a big help. I doubt it would see much actual use (who wants to risk a reputation of getting their clients arrested), however at least some people would be more careful if they thought there was a chance that the sex worker could report them.

There is also the option of proper brothels, with panic buttons and bouncers listening in for screams.
This article is not actually about denialism, it's about propaganda.
I saw a very popular pornstar for $1,600. No regrets.
> If you turn the iCloud Photos feature off, no more scanning is happening.

Yet.

A few years later, [Insert gov agency here] will force Apple to scan all photos and compare hashes to material banned by the government.

This ability to scan photos on the device simply should not exist. If they only want to scan photos being uploaded, just scan them on the server itself. It really isn't that hard.

Apple has turned a steel barrier that's capability focused, into a policy barrier that can be changed by influencing people. That's simply much more insecure and much less privacy focused.
Once you get maybe 3-4 years experience, nobody will give a crap. Work experience trumps all.
This is a key statistic. Language skills from reading effect everything else for the better.
The thing that the FSF makes contributors sign isn't a CLA; it's a copyright assignment agreement. It goes much further than what's described in this article; rather than merely shifting the legal risk around, it makes it so that the FSF, not you, is the owner of the code that you wrote.

Obviously, something like this carries substantial potential for abuse, and so would generally be treated as sketchy and an indicator of bad faith if done by anyone else in the FOSS community. The FSF gets away with it because they have a long track record and everyone knows there's no way they're going to pivot to a proprietary-software business model.

The reason the FSF requires copyright assignment is because they want to be able to proactively sue GPL violators (because doing so is a way of furthering their core mission), and U.S. copyright law makes it difficult for anyone other than the copyright holder to do that. Most other organizations' priorities are such that this would be a waste of time for them.
> Even someone is taking photos / videos of me this person is not allowed to share those with third parties without my consent.

Is that really true? Does that mean every tourist taking photos with an iCloud connected phone is violating some European law?
I used to believe Samsung's additions were all bloat. After using one, I know prefer the customizations, the additional side gestures, and edge panels. Dex is nice and I have Linux installed so I can use the phone like a computer when I connect it to my usbc huh. It's extended the functionality massively and blown me away. However Google's software is better IMHO regarding updates.
Hey, you busy? I have thousands of questions to ask you (2018)
You don't use phone cases, I take it?
BTW, this sounded surprising to me, so I went to check it out. According to YOLOv4 GitHub, i7-7700 can only do 4 FPS of detection. For comparison, tuned version on Jetson Xavier (NVidia dev board) does 40FPS.

https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet

https://github.com/indra4837/yolov4_trt_ros
I agree that it is arguable, but I would say that React is a framework for this reason: usually you do not decide when to call React code, instead React code decides when to call your code.
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They need to add a couple letters to LGBTQ.... like HS or something... for hyper sensitive.
The problem in these environments is often not technical, but human, full of egos, people without competence wanting to be involved in every discussion and generally people talking and evaluating systems based on specs for a year without actually testing things.

For every one of the systems you mentioned there is a fairly straightforward solution. And even if you can't solve them all you could gradually migrate everything.

Oftentimes because of management wanting to push liability to a private party, they don't want to invest into local dev teams, but instead want to buy a big enterprise solution.

The VA, NHS and the German systems all have these issues, but it's not because they're public institutions, it's because they work like enterprise.
I’m grateful it’s falling out of favor, even when I was taught this rule and eager to follow rules I found it absurd. If everyone follows the rule I good faith it’s still easy to misconstrue or mischaracterize a quote by accident.
$300K doesn't get you much. Perhaps $10M though..
I say this as a software engineer, does anyone honestly believe that software engineers are engineers?
You do not have to use Google Photos if you do not want to on any Android phone. You can upload photos to your own server in the background exactly like the Google Photos app does. On iOS, only iCloud Photos can do that. It is strictly worse for privacy.
Do we know how their chip compares to Apple’s offering?
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> React really isn't the thing people have decided is the optimal solution

My point is there is no one thing people have decided is the optimal solution. React is an element of snow me of (several different) things people have found is optimal for some problems, and not part of others.

> jsx and keeping presentation tightly coupled to business logic is.

JSX is more generally than React is, which is why many not-React solutions use React, too, though even that is far from universal. Tight coupling between business logic and presentation is, OTOH, far less generally what people have decided is optimal.
In reality, all-optical computing is mostly a terrible idea: fundamentally, it cannot reach the integration density of electronics. It boils down to the elementary differences between Fermions (electrons, neutrons, etc.) and Bosons (photons, etc.). Their intrinsic behavior determines the interaction with matter, i.e. conductive/absorptive properties. As a result, optical wires (waveguides) have to be sized roughly at a wavelength (hundreds of nm), whereas electrical wires can be much smaller (<30nm and below). Suppose you want to build an amplifier: all the claimed speed benefits of this optical device would vanish in the path delay of the feedback loop.

But just like graphene, carbon nanotubes, and other fads, you can publish fancy papers with it.
Weirdly this bothers me in code but in prose I just breeze past it without a concern.
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I'm not convinced that outlawing the dissemination of an opinion, no matter how ridiculous or repugnant is a mark of civilization. The whole point of freedom of speech is protecting unpopular speech.
I couldn't wait any longer so I purchased a very expensive Samsung S21 Ultra ($1200) because no Google phone could lure me away from my fading Pixel 2 XL.

My mistake, because the Samsung phone had preloaded software that took considerable effort to remove (more than most people could/would deal with). It wasn't the software itself that bothered me, but rather that there were notifications for apps I don't use that I could not turn off. That's enough to make me hate a company for a long time.

Bloat my phone all you want, but notifications take my brain-space, not my drive space. At least with a Google phone I have a semblance of control over the core function of the device. Looking forward to the Pixel 7 or equivalent once this Samsung device has served its purpose.
> it has already happened recently in the EU state of Hungary.

What do you mean? They have seemingly standard parliamentary elections, last one in 2018, next up is 2022. People voted for Orban and co., and their policies are apparently preferred by majority. So how is it minority rule?
I can't even open the store page in India. Very very frustrating
> a policy barrier (now you can scan all photos, there's just a flag in the software which means you don't do so.)

This is not the case. People are guessing about how it works and getting it wrong. The device doesn’t know if there’s a match or not. The logic is not “if there’s a match, tell Apple”, the logic is “attach a safety voucher to every iCloud upload and let Apple figure it out on the server”. You can’t flip a switch and just run it against all photos on the device – the iCloud upload is a part of the design. If Apple wanted to scan all the photos on your device, they would have picked a different design for this. If Apple change their minds and want to do this in the future, they need to redesign how this works, it’s not just a policy decision.
Hold up -- Angel investors give you money in exchange for equity. That's usually how it works. Are you saying that instead of giving money, these angel "investors" are executives a major companies who are trading customer deals at the company they work for in exchange for personal equity? Or are you just saying that they invest their money and provide connections in addition to their money?

In the primary situation, they are benefiting by getting stock in exchange for giving their company's business to the startup (illegal kickback). In the second situation, they're referring companies they have a personal financial interest in for business to enhance the value of their investment (conflict of interest).

Need more specifics.
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How do you feel about the approach being taken in Victoria, Australia?

It's been legal in licensed settings for quite a while, but they're now changing to make it legal in more situations in response to requests from solo sex workers. I'm rather happy with the situation (and new improvements) as a client and my understanding is that workers are happy about it.

https://www.vic.gov.au/review-make-recommendations-decrimina...
My first job was managing bare metal for a variety of companies including fairly large multinational labs, all the way down to plugging in the RAM and fiddling with the routers, mostly for VoIP systems but also data backups. I didn't architect any HA environments but worked on some.
That's the narrative that Apple's marketing department is selling, but I'm not buying it. The fact is that Apple devices slurp up more data to Apple that you cannot turn off without making your phone essentially useless than Google devices slurp up to Google.
This is a direct result of elimination of the middle class, the relatively rich getting richer, and those below well, not.

The tax base just evaporates. I've seen literal unincorporated swapland turned into a subdivision, well more of a little city, for the 'haves', complete with its own elementary school. Top rated, of course.

Bussing attempted to solve this problem, in my belief in the wrong way. For a public good, especially one for non taxpaying class(children), the state should probably take the taxes and divvy it up fairly. I'm a big believer in personal property rights, hard work, all that jazz...but not that rich children deserve a better education than the less fortunate.
Males can explain things about women without mansplanning :P

This felt informative, thanks
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"Trickle down economics is bullshit."

It's been happening since the dawn of the industrial revolution.

The harnessing of fossil fuels and machinery should have put everyone out of work forever.

We used to be 85% living and working on farms, and now we're 5%.

In short, we found ways to make people way, way more productive, and the standard of living for the average person is astronomically higher today than it was 200 years ago.

I think special attention needs to be paid to accumulation of assets, and that this can definitely get out of hand (even as wages and standard of living rise, it can still be a problem), but overall, it's worked out.

Paradoxically, I still trust markets and regulation more than I do centralized control and distribution. The current US governments multi trillion dollar budgets come with all sorts of special requirements, usually of the social kind that can be liberally interpreted by institutions receiving the money (i.e. schools have to comply with our social view in order to receive the money, instead of just making sure that it's fairly spent).

For example, I think min. wage increases tend to be a better social measure because it's attached to actual production, and, it's generally not encumbered by some kind of employment and hiring ideology.

I honestly believe the tools are available to us, and we can make a ton of progress by just doing basic adjustments, closing loopholes, ensuring standards.

As an example, Healthcare reform of one way or another, even something that disentangled employment from Health Insurance, and somehow got 'pretty much everyone' covered one way or another, might yield gigantic side benefits with reduction of poverty and individual calamity. 50% of individual bankruptcies are Healthcare related. Imagine how much strife comes from that, and it's most unnecessary using a policy framework that we could apply today.

Especially things like offshore tax havens, tax loopholes, bogus charities etc. etc..

So much low hanging fruit, or at least, low-hanging from an ideological perspective.
After 10 years of programming I found that I can more and more relate to (good) detective movies, investigative journalism pieces and reading courts decisions and submissions (I have weird hobbies).

I learned that what works best is a systematic approach and what works badly is overlooking certain parts to save time based on intuitive assumptions.

I can't count the number of bugs that took me days because I've just jumped to the "heart" of the problem assuming the rest that got me there was fine. Only to have someone else looking at the problem with less knowledge, going through tings that seemed mundane but who finally gave valuable hints even if they were not problematic themselves.
I don't get what prescription is required for a hearing aid?

Are there different types? Like with equalizers or volume controls?

Why can't a person, who is hard of hearing, go to a store, pick one and start using it? Granted, let FDA approve them and mandate using only FDA approved ones.
There are lots of bad things that arguably shouldn't be illegal but suppressed. Smoking, abortion, prostitution, drugs, etc. I think for society to fully embrace decriminalization there needs to be a diversion mechanism. Cigarettes have taxes and programs to quit. What would the prostitution equivalent be?

"Something is either morally wrong or it isn't, it can't be slightly morally wrong" Therein lies the difficulty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIYfiRyPi3o
That report did not account for pension fund and other retirement account investments.
What? They must be kidding.

It's not April 1 - I've just checked!
All of those technologies had extremely low investment due to the competition with an oft-abused migrant worker class sacrificing for their families. This was short term thinking because the human race would have been better off with more investment here.
Yes, I'm not denying it's common, just that it doesn't have to be that.

That so many M&A deals are so blatantly shady it completely shocks me that CEOs/Boards/Shareholders aren't more vigilant about it.

In your view, are the the most respected firms more or less immune from that, (maybe because they do really well and don't need to), or are they the worst offenders? Or is there a differentiation for simple favours for favours i.e. VC ABC wants to find a home for a project and it actually does make some sense that company XYZ would want to buy it, the deal is done and that's that. Maybe the M&A lead at XYZ later does get a nice job somewhere, but is it really that sweet of a deal to the point wherein it constitutes fraud? Is the M&A guy really getting a simple consulting job that pays 'many millions'? Or is it in XYZ's best interest to have a good relationship with the VC firm and to buy the semi crap companies so they get access to the good one's as well? And what percentage of M&A deals would you say follow this angle?
I’m pretty sure that they are on to us.
Consider this: The OS reserves 10.0.0.0/8 for this purpose, possibly with a few common exceptions (10.0.0.0/16 maybe) being allowed through unmodified. If an ipv4 server has an incoming connection from an ipv6 address. That ipv6 address is given a corresponding 10.x.x.x address. Likewise, if an ipv4 client does a gethostbyname a 10.x.x.x address is allocated and returned. This simple system already supports 16m concurrent connections.
This. It’s less bad than you think.

learning styles:

- text

- videos

- tutor

- with random person from the web (eg pramp)

- with a buddy

(And all include practicing problems)

Pick the learning style you like most. It isn’t so bad.
Actually CIEM balanced armature drivers were originally made for hearing aids. They're conceptually very similar, but most of the market is consolidated to 2 main manufacturers Knowles and Sonion(+ some niche manufacturers).

If anything the Chinese are disrupting this market, in price, volume and choice. Just like they're doing with cheap lenses such as omnivision.
Of course they agree, otherwise they would be cancelled.
This is also common in government contracting.

When you say "offload" crappy startups, do you mean getting the company acquired by that company or purchase the startups products?
That's the real number. A useful number for actually thinking about how to allocate your resources.
Are they? Or is it change for change’s sake. If it looks like it did the last 5 years it looks “old” so you have to do something.

They did this. It’s trendy. Later they’ll “discover” information density and go in the other direction.