skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but one can start by stopping to stigmatize prostitutes, starting with ourselves and then with the people we know. Just threat them as well human beings.

Agree.

>> Sure, if you have 2 choices - prostitution or dying from starvation, then it's not coerced consent.

> Correct, that's life being shitty to you. It's not coercion because coercion requires somebody to make threats.

To pressure, intimidate, or force (someone) into doing something.

I don't see a difference here, drug dealer or shitty life, it's the same life threat with the same outcome. What consent can we talk about here? How prostitution can be not destructive for the psychic health? We can't look at our body as some crutch which you can sell for a couple of hours. Prostitution is destructive for the person and as such, for the whole society. And no, physical labor and repetitive work are not the same as prostitution.

I understand the conversation better now, kinda, so now i think i should've written smth like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28932786

> It seems to me you're advocating taking away the prostitution option,

I wanted to say:
~Not at all. I think it should be decriminalized everywhere, not because there is "no easy solution", but because no one is interested in actually doing smth - same labor as everything else, nothing to see here. Brothels should be forbidden though if they are "for profit".~

but what's next? Let's decriminalize child prostitution? They have nowhere else to go and have to get some money for living, you know? Ah, the age of consent is too high? Let's lower it, kids need to work and there are so many wealthy guys who would like to get some. And, since there is no coercion, it's all fine. In selling organs too - those are you own organs and no one "coerced" you, your choice.

Maybe decriminalization of __adult__ prostitution will make sense only in case smth being done for it's elimination? Like raising minimal wages, better protection of the workers, social security, stuff like that?

But for now, i say, it should be decriminalized the other way - the one who will be prosecuted should be the buyer, for exploiting people in need. And the stigma should go to them instead.

Same could be done about people addicted to heavy drugs and being prosecuted when they are caught with one dosage. Selling heavy drugs should be forbidden, carrying a dosage for yourself - no. And there is at least one country where it worked.

> which then leaves only starvation? How is this better?

It doesn't leave only starvation. It leaves people realizing that they have nothing to lose but their chains. It's not the decriminalization of prostitution we should talk about, but solving the real problems which caused it. DoP will not solve them and after that we will absolutely need to decriminalize something else. Gladiator fights, maybe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28928183
Someone here was sad that men don't have a luxury of prostitution so let's make gladiator fights men only.
Ask HN: MoonPay vs Stripe - who will become the web3 payment solution?
I am wondering about what HN thinks about web3 payment solutions and if Stripe is already too late after the huge MoonPay funding round.

MoonPay funding: https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-fintech-moonpay-reportedly-aims-for-3-4b-valuation-in-first-vc-funding
Is it illegal in the US to sell zero-day exploits, or to package up zero-day exploits into nice usable tools? My understanding is that it is not illegal, but something like this perhaps give the US a tool to pursue and/or prosecute individuals that engage in these types of sales when they are selling to the 'wrong' customer (the 'right' customer being NSA or other US intelligence gathering operations).
“I learned it from you, dad!”
It looks like the original as been updated, the differences don't seem very drastic especially when you consider what the SKU's w/ the m1 max cost

guess it's about a 1.5-2x difference in battery life though
I was an extremely gifted child before being stuck down with ME/CFS. ME/CFS and other autoimmune disorders appear to be much more common in the gifted population. I’m of the view that like autoimmune disorders giftedness is largely genetic.

I believe it’s irresponsible to try to achieve equality by holding back those who could do better. It makes no sense to handicap athletes to such an extent that I could participate. It makes more sense to me to support those with natural talents so that we can all benefit from their achievements.
>This is why I'm bullish on tech like Stadia. It's simply not possible to have conventional cheats on it.

>If you haven't, give it a try (free): https://stadia.google.com/games/destiny-2

Perhaps you should also mention you work for Google.
As SpaceX plans a natural gas plant, environmental concerns take a backseat
Yes, many of the Central American tribes had been oppressed by the Aztecs for a long time, and were happy to have an advanced ally to fight against them.
Yes, but guns are an insufficient explanation for the complete overthrown of indigenous Americans. Or even the primary cause.
Cybersecurity has a number of factors that allow 'crooked' nations to steal a march on ethical and lawful nations.
We have seen how many people refuse to deal in matters that they feel are not ethical - Google's employee stance a short while ago against what they felt were crooked practices are a case in point. You can be sure that there is no shortage of fully crooked people at work for China/N.Korea/Russia/Iran etc., who are quite willing(or are forced) to do this.
These crooked people also operate on wage scales that are a fraction of what IT people in the West work for.
Will these people ever walk out in protest? They may want to, but there are factors that mitigate against this - breakfast/lunch/dinner - and life itself being major factors.
We have seen how totalitarian regimes use a whole array of the very practices that the Google employees walked out over, as well as many far more onerous forms of villainy.
Will the people ever rise up? The USSR failed by the crooked nature of it's own government ruining their economies until the old guard died off - yet it seems they back slid? Will the same old guard shuffling off this mortal coil work in China and the mass of people will at last get sick of the various ways communists fail? Perhaps not. China has a well educated ruling class - more so than the USA, will there be a sea change in how China rules itself as more young turks emerge?
It's as simple and seductive as Ruby on Rails was 20 years ago.
I mean it's HN, I'm happy to read and hear about that stuff. That is the kind of thing I want on the front page here.

Also it does mean bad PR on their part. Which that is part of cultural warfare.
No, that's just a different kind of blindness: not recognizing your own experiences might not extrapolate to others.

I'm sure there was pockets of people who thought 3D TV was the greatest thing ever, and look how far that technology has come. Alexa and Siri were once upon a time going to be the greatest things ever, until everyone realized how very meh the experience was in practice. Smart watches were similarly going to change the world and have since largely pivoted to being niche products for health nuts.

BTW, I'm not saying you're absolutely wrong! I just don't think there's any reason to believe you're right, either, and a lot of reasons you might not be, including sky-high costs, practical technology limitations, the lack of killer applications, social barriers to adoption (see: Google Glass), etc.
If the author sees this: Well done, really nice read.
I think Tesla will be successful, but the current valuation seems to assume that every IC car on the road will be replaced by a Tesla in the next 10 years.

I think Ford and Toyota are going to figure out how to be tesla a lot sooner than Tesla is going to figure out how to be Ford and Toyota.
Fwiw that's based on "Guns, Germs and Steel" which is not very respected as an academic work
That can be accidental, too. If you format text as `display:block` in CSS it is not selectable.
Isn't that exactly why you out half the plants in China? Chinese plants for Chinese cars, American plants for American cars. Europe buys from whoever has surplus. No worries.
Not yet. But Tesla's P/E is 147 now at this quarters' rate of profit.

That's nothing for a company growing revenues at over 50% while still increasing its margins.

Also, Tesla is still production limited (i.e they would steal their competitors' market share if they have a few plants available). The only market where Tesla is not growing its share steeply is where they decided not to prioritize sales. Just look at the Model Y sales in Europe where they finally to make deliveries.

Tesla don't even have a pickup to sell yet, which is USA's #1 model.
I don't care whether it exists, but I care whether it helps me to reason about things I care about. What changes about life, depending on whether it exists or not? If nothing changes, what's it matter?

There's probably a philosophical term for this attitude. That doesn't really answer my questions, though.
Latvia is first country to reimpose lockdown in Europe’s new Covid wave
As always, there's an xkcd on this

https://xkcd.com/1172/
> Market breakdowns seem to show that where options exist people do not pick Tesla 100% of the time. It's more like 12%

That's an extraordinarily hard analysis to do. Basically everyone in the industry is production-limited at this point (Tesla by factory bandwidth, everyone else by part shortages). Total volume reflects industrial realities far more than it does consumer choice.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2020/10/08/te...

Maybe, maybe not. But they have double the margin of everyone but Toyota and Toyota is dragging its feet on going EV.
Tangentially related: Kim Stanley Robinson's early story Vinland The Dream, in which an archeologist discovers that those very remnants here were actually planted there as an elaborate hoax 100 years ago.
While it's unlikely that you had significant lead exposure due to this as others have pointed out, I also wouldn't discount your issues with getting sick more often, particularly if it was upper respiratory illnesses - people who live under airport flight paths are exposed to up to 4x as much harmful exhaust gas byproducts, superfine particulates, and other nasty particles* vs baseline.

It's amazing that airports aren't required to purchase and relocate the (typically poor) people who are absolutely getting their lifespans shortened by living near an airport.

*(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32639745/)
NVDIA has a similar service that let's you run your own Steam games but for some reason you can only run games Nvidia has their own licensing agreements with. I.e the problem is that you apparently don't own the game 'enough' to install it on a cloud virtual machine. I suspect that Google ran into the same problem and the game publishers would only agree if it meant they could sell the game yet again.
Ten Thousand Years
That LGBTQ/BIPOC/etc. are oppressed must be fronted as a theme in media, just like the climate, income disparities, and huge corporations controlling everything.
for me maths is just measurement, including of itself
If you are referring to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, I think it's been decommissioned (their project is now archived https://web.archive.org/web/20090426190617/https://www.bsc.e...). Though this is expected in my opinion (Buy equipment -> Produce research -> Move to the next thing). IIRC their big thing is now the MareNostrum 4 supercomputer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MareNostrum).
There's no dispute that students differ in aptitude for subjects. Where things get more complicated is when you view this in terms of other variables like time. Do some students eventually get better than others, say start off worse but end up becoming better (a sharper trajectory)? If so, at what point do we deem a student's aptitude to be better than another student's, or should this always be a time-varying function? Do certain subjects which become more important due to technological or social changes, like say computing, benefit a student who otherwise would not have shown a talent in anything taught in a school? Donald Knuth was a history major in school originally.

I think there will always be really good and really bad students in every subject. The hard part is everyone else.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan should be instructive of why we should not be eager to see a big power-grab from the current administration.

The main three causes of this shipping kerfuffle are: 1. Environmental regulations on trucking. 2. Anti-independent operator laws in CA. 3. Government subservience to the longshoremen union. 4. Overly-aggressive stay-at-home policies and subsidies from COVID.

The current administration would go in the wrong direction on every one of those causes.
> the Identified Documents are not required to be released on the ground that they constitute material communicated in confidence.

So a government entity can hide from FOIA requests any information related to its dealings with a private entity, as long as they get an NDA?

Basically, this puts private contracts above public law. To prevent breaking a private contract, the law requiring this taxpayer-funded organization to be transparent is ignored.
When kids get put in a "gifted" program at school, what exactly is being selected for? It's not general intelligence, as plenty of smart kids do poorly in school. It's not, say, athletic ability. There are sports teams, but not programs for "gifted" athletes in public schools as far as I know. It's not emotional intelligence, or empathy, or any of a number of axes that a child could be "gifted" on. It's their ability to follow instructions, and sit quietly, and pass quizzes faster and more accurately than everyone else. It's a very specific set of skills that is necessary to succeed in school.
> “Biden held this EV summit. Didn’t invite Tesla. Invited GM, Ford, Chrysler, and UAW. EV summit at the White House, didn’t mention Tesla once and praised GM and Ford for leading the EV revolution. Doesn’t it sound a little bias? It’s not the friendliest of administrations. Seems to be controlled by the unions.”

Wow.
> They are already incredibly overcompensated workers

They work incredibly socially necessary jobs and they are able to bargain collectively to increase negotiation power, so they seem to be compensated fairly.
No this was very much deliberate. It has a js popup saying copying was not allowed.
Do you think around 50% of the cars on the road in the US will be Teslas?
also interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarni_Herj%C3%B3lfsson
In Seveneves, any negative portrayal of any particular woman was massively counterbalanced by the narrative of, ummm, the seven Eves. What female character in 3BP trilogy balances the disastrous actions of Ye Wenjie and Cheng Xin, the two most consequential female characters?

Granted, the disastrous action of Ye was somewhat offset by the inspiration she gave Luo Ji. (In the long run, she was still responsible for the deaths of billions.) But Cheng is something else entirely. The plot of a book is entirely up to its author. The time scale portrayed is many hundreds of years. It would have been possible to have conjured up a male character to take at least one of the several treacherous and/or civilization-destroying actions Cheng took. Maybe the character of Wade could have been that, but in retrospect even this clumsy caricature of an amoral reptilian white American CIA asshole always made the right choices with respect to the survival of humanity.

I really enjoyed the trilogy, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have this specific flaw (and several others besides). Reading antifeminism is not the reader's fault; it's right there in the text.
Or maybe I'd even say "people don't like to use terrible app stores unless forced". Unfortunately, all of the commercial ones I have used are really terrible (gPlay, the Apple App Store, the MS Store), though at least on everything but iOS you aren't 'forced' to use them per se, just aggressively encouraged. It's kind of mind-boggling to me that none of them have managed to make an acceptable example, how hard can search + suggest be? Even when they implement wishlist/bookmarking, it's clunky and frustrating.
The biggest advantage the Conquistadors has was everyone else in the area fucking hated the Aztec. They were horrible to have as neighbors and when any chance to fuck them over, the Spanish, came everyone jumped on board.
Classical .NET Framework CMS like Sitecore are now API first, and migrating away from .NET into a mixture of .NET, Java and JavaScript offerings.

Back in .NET Core 2.1 days, I had a two months project to port an application from .NET Framework into Java and deployed into Red-Hat Linux, because if a rewrite was required, then better away from Microsoft ecosystem, as this specific company already had enough from rewrites.

This is how well some customers have been taking the .NET Framework => Core migration.
Publicly, Poindexter and the rest of the criminals under Bush Jr. went all-offence and launched the Information Awareness Office [0] to pursue a strategy of Total Information Awareness [1]. They wanted to ramp up ECHELON to hoover the whole world, started hoarding 0-days, and eventually created a whole industry to shop exploits. Now that is a business, nobody is going to make director leading the blue team.

Privately, I speculate that they also assessed the state of play and just gave up. Microsoft back then still believed that code-signing would fix their bug-of-the-week run. Industry security practices were so weak as to be non-existent. Hell - telnet was still common.

The only nice thing I can say about it was they had an amazingly honest logo [2]. That is, until congress freaked out and made them hide it all behind a bit SECRET sign. And so we heard little more about except via a steady drip of whistleblowers like Mark Klein, Thomas Drake, William Binney, and Snowdon.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office#/...
> corporations are not a free market invention

Well, if a "free" market cannot create corporations, then what can it really do? You're talking about a fantasy created by your head, not about a free market.
Est $1.585 EPS

Act $1.86 EPS

Notably the carbon credits have decreased in contribution
`body::before { cursor: none; }` doesn't quite do the trick because the SVG is larger than the notch itself and includes a lot of dead space. Changing that to be a smaller image + some margin should be an option.
What's the other one?

Let's imagine there's a natural number exists between 7 and 8, and it is particularly sneaky so that it won't show up in any arithmetic operations performed by human and their devices. How we can argue it does not exist?
This is my personal opinion. I don't imply in any way or form that my point of view is right. You can down-vote, call me names, or ignore what I am sharing. I don't care.

Since Apple CSAM attempt, something at the back of my head screamed: Regroup. React. Change. Now.

Two months after Apple's "postponing for better implementation": My company runs on Arch/Manjaro (over old MacBooks Pro without T chip, custom PC's, etc). There is no iPhone in sight - my colleagues/employees found personal alternatives. I use DeGoogled Android device for banking app and flip phone.

Designers are with powerful Linux boxes: Windows VM - mainly Figma (I don't like it, but this is production standard now) and Affinity Designer/Photo.
We use mainly Vim/Emacs/VSCodium/Sublime.

Vendor lock-in is inevitable, SaaS business logic is based on this premise. I don't care how cool it is, or how 'trendy', there is no way my company production code to be served as a "free petrol" for some monopolistic/"good intention" scheme which will feed AI advancements geared towards removing of skilled professionals.

I don't like SaaS apps direction at all.
We have powerful hardware now, there are proven ways of collaboration with FOSS, moving everything in the browser is utterly insane.

I cannot hide how I feel about the lack of critical thinking in designers and developers today.
They are always ready to jump on the bandwagon just to feel 'cool and important'.

Call me crazy, or paranoid. In 5 years time all will be transparent and obvious even for the most "optimistic" ones.
per the article, those positions will be filled.
Thanks, orbital time isn't final yet. Those are the initial thoughts to solve it. The approach of using the Sun's location might work.
Yes, many corner cases, but somebody has got to solve them, this is the start.
> If you need to get the area under a curve by breaking it into a billion tiny rectangles, so what, your computer will do that calculation in a second or two.

That, too, is calculus. However, a closed-form solution will always be preferred—"a second or two" might be acceptable if you're only evaluating the function once, but it's clearly not good enough when you're applying it to a large data set. We may all be carrying around supercomputers in our pockets but we're still well short of the point where that kind of optimization wouldn't lead to a noticeable increase in both performance and (practical) functionality.
Given they have an enormous factory in Texas and another in Berlin both coming online before the end of the year, and they are continuing to expand their factory in California.... I'd say they're covering their bases quite well.
Looks like you were getting down voted a bit for this a bit, but it's unfortunately true. I am not a fan of Valorants anti-cheat system, but so far it has been effective. It's extra unfortunate because it's effectiveness is inspiring other games[1] to implement similar systems.

[1]: https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2021/10/ricochet-anti-cheat-...
it was 30 years ago when i discovered that it doesn’t really matter what my name is. the system i’m interacting with expects my name to be “john” or something like that. so i let it be.

30 years later and i completely dropped all non-latin chars from my name in any and all forms. from airplane tickets to passport to you name it.

and you know what? no one cared about non-latin. not even the government. i loled when i actually realised.

i’ve encountered zero issues ever since.

and it’s been the same for lots of my friends. they just adopted some western name. case closed, no more issues.

it all depends on who much importance you attribute to your name. for me it’s always been a random variable. for others it’s a matter of pride. but to the “system” it will be a “random list of chars”, sometimes latin, other times utf.
I believe it's higher than Finland on average, too, as well as in absolute terms in each state. NYC spends even more, for even worse education. You can easily the statistics, and once you do, you'll see that throwing even more money at this problem will only exacerbate it.
I feel Windows Containers are a whole separate thing. I personally have never seen anyone use them, but then again I have never worked on a Windows Server stack.
Sorry for that, I'll work on improving the cookie settings and experience.
If you read the article you'll see that Musk made a baseless comment about a meeting he had no place at because it was about changing petrol car manufacturers to at least 50% EV sales. Nothing to do with political risk, just Musk being Musk and tweeting/commenting before thinking like he always does.
There are lost bitcoins though. Shouldn't they cost zero?
I don't think what you're talking about, where I live, life is not at all like you described. Billboards aren't allowed except on reserves here in Canada. Unless you're in a commercial setting, you don't see posters or screens everywhere.
I am thinking it is a new marketing term for my bullshit bingo cards. Basically Same Old, Same Old, new name for scheme, with added pizzazz.