skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there are 100 times more potentially fraudulent transactions than climate contributions.

Humanity at scale...
Ah, I see, you've misunderstood what the strike price is.

The electricity market isn't paying that strike price, it's just paying the market rate.

The government (via the "Low Carbon Contracts Company" which it owns for this purpose) settles the difference (hence "Contracts for Difference") between the strike price† and the market price of electricity when you sell it.

There are three prices to think about here:

A. The price you are willing to sell your electricity to the market for. This is probably very low, let's say it's £1 per MWh.

B: The settled price for a period, paid by the market. The market pays everybody a price determined by finding the minimum price for which it could buy enough electricity (with some margin). This will usually be higher than A, if it was lower you just won't sell electricity, for a coal or gas plant this means you needn't burn fuel to make electricity. Maybe B is £48 per MWh.

C: The strike price from your government auction. This will often be higher than prevailing market prices (B) but not always. LCCC settles the difference with you, if C is higher than B (the usual case) you get enough money to make that up, if B is higher than C, you pay them the difference. C might be £67 per MWh.

So in our worked example we bid A = £10, the market settled at B = £48, but our net reward is C = £67.

If other people's prices were way higher maybe a major gas pipeline exploded, maybe A = £10, but B = £200, however our net reward is still C = £67.

Why would anybody want a CfD? Because all the cost is in building the wind farm, whereas all the profit comes from long term energy supplying, and it's hard to predict what that'll pay. Knowing, a decade in advance, that you're getting £67 per MWh, no matter what, makes it much easier to find investors for your wind farm project.
> PHP's "arrays for everything"

I think that's more a framework/library philosophy than anything else. When I dabbled with PHP + symfony, I worked with some of the most clean APIs I've seen to this date.
Out of interest to you have the numbers or a breakdown of the figures? I haven't seen them.
The first chartered corps were created in order to streamline genocide - East India for example. This new form combined the merchants' wealth and the royalty's military power into an entity that was accountable to no one but those who stood to profit from it.
- A good helmet to cut down on noise.

- Good riding posture.

- Stretching and walking around for a few minutes at gas stations.

- Stretching on the bike: standing on the pegs for a few minutes every so often, switching riding positions, putting your feet on the passenger pegs.

- Walking, standing up, lying down... anything that isn't sitting when not on the bike.
The S&P 500 has crashed already but most people don't realize it. Everything else will follow in the future. Crypto and everything else.

Companies are guiding down. Rates are higher for longer.

It's a bad economy.
This does not address the above commenter's point, "
...bystanders and society as a whole can be harmed by conduct between consenting adults." How doe a sex between two consenting adults harm people besides those two adults and society as a whole? Your comment doesn't explain this, it's focusing on the purported harms experienced by one of the participants, not the bystanders.

And regarding your point that paid sex is not consent because they need money to afford necessities: the same can be said about pretty much any job. My plumber probably needs money to eat and pay rent, too. Paying someone who needs money to do a job is not something that society by and large consideration unethical.
Please constructively add to the conversation rather than trotting out poorly reasoned quips.

Clearly, natural language is not formal logic [1]. And even if it was, the statement doesn't necessarily translate into formal logic so straightforwardly [2].

[1]: https://www.argumentninja.com/view/courses/vl-principles-of-...
[2]: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/2359592
I specifically said the collective experience of humanity before now (the average attitude over the last several thousand years). Nothing to do with our current government.
There are a lot of things I wouldn't want my (hypothetical) daughter doing. That would be a long list of things to make illegal.
Again they were laundering money gained through the fact that sex work is illegal. there wouldn't be any laundering if it wasn't a crime.
Monopoly Board Game
"This has led to the canonization of a number of house rules that make the game more palatable to children (and sore losers) …"
"Freedom of travel" means the government can't tell you you're not allowed to move to (or visit) another location.

It absolutely does not mean that they can't tell you you're not allowed to drive. Driving is, and always has been a privilege in the US; not a right.
I live nearby. It's a pretty sad affair. I'm not judging them. It's good that it's legal, it's a hard profression, but street honoring them is BS.
Pretty sure no one outside of stripe has any use of real time revenue for only one day on an aggregated level. Doesnt have to be functional because people dont really "use" it. It is just for fun
>No one wants them because mass migration suppresses wages.

But then why did the UK allow them in the EU in the first place? The UK could have vetoed this then.

>For example in the UK we systematically suppress NHS wages to the point no Brit would want to work in the NHS anymore.

Sorry, but to me that reads as 100% as a problem of the UK NHS for underpaying it's workers in the first place. EU workers taking those lower paying jobs is only the effect but not the cause.

So why blame eastern European workers for a problem created by UK institutions? To me it read as targeted xenofobia in disguise.

Answer me this: Now that eastern Europeans don't come work in the NHS anymore, did NHS wages rise? Or are they now importing cheaper labor from outside the EU by rubber-stamping work visas like crazy, meaning UK workers are now also wagedumped and also without EU membership benefits? How do those apples taste? Xenofobia has its price you know.

Also it's easy to wish for bigger wages for local workers, we all want that, but are British citizens willing to put their money where their mouth is, as in pay the higher taxes and prices to afford those higher salaries for those workers? There's no free lunch here. Higher wages for workers means cost increases up the chain and from what I saw Brits love their cheap prices and services and any small increase in prices leads to a dramatic increase in people living below the poverty line in the UK.

You can't have your cake and eat it too as brexiters wanted. Do you want cheap immigrants, or do you want cheap food and services?
But then you'd have to write in largely untyped PHP (yes, I know PHP now has some types, but it's not the level of other languages) and not a better language like e.g. TypeScript or Rust.
I have worked at 2 different universities, and later a startup where reading Nature/Science papers was necessary.

Everyone, and I mean _everyone_, used SciHub to download papers. I can assure you that most of the academic world _does_ use SciHub.
Yes? United Fruit Company now known as Chiquita.
And so rape is just theft?
What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently. Widespread prohibition of it is not as much a holdover from medieval times as a recent sex-negative feminist innovation. Which makes sense when you consider that the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys.
So because I think it is ok that smoking cigarettes is legal, therefore I am perfectly happy if my wife or child started smoking?
Once you have them or can make them. If they had remained a hypothetical because there is no known way to make them, the world would look quite different.
I don't want anyone to be homeless, daughter or otherwise. Nevertheless, criminalising homelessness is unlikely to help.

How long have there been attempts to stamp out prostitution? Centuries? Millennia? At some point, and that point is passed, the retrogrades would do everyone a favour by working to providing alternatives and get better outcomes than trying to send in the police. Arresting these 3 septegenarians:

* Is a waste of taxpayer money.

* Will have no impact on the ability of prostitutes to sell their bodies.

* If it does have an impact, will probably make the lives of prostitutes even worse, somehow.

* Will save no failing marriages.

Something can simultaneously be horrible and legal. Sex work should be in that category. If human trafficing is a problem concentrate on that - but this article is (and I repeat myself) the US government at its most petty and ineffective.
Friend = Enemy(Enemy)
Sounds like your local gas station may be in trouble if it paints over reviews underneath the phone number so that it removes ones that specifically mention sex work, but leaves more subtle reviews and the actual phone number alone.
Yes, quoting the risks paper, "policy makers must define performance criteria for these devices".

What amount of error rate is low enough?

Even air bags "occasionally fail to deploy in higher speed crashes or deploy at lower speeds than anticipated, resulting in injuries and deaths that would otherwise not be expected".

A quick look at the literature says DADSS tests your scenario. In "DRIVER ALCOHOL DETECTION SYSTEM FOR SAFETY (DADSS) – PILOT FIELD OPERATIONAL TESTS (PFOT) VEHICLE INSTRUMENTATION AND INTEGRATION OF DADSS TECHNOLOGY" at https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/26/26ESV-000262.pd...

> After comprehensive research that investigated optimal sensor placement in numerous locations within the vehicle, the sensor was adapted for installation in the DADSS research vehicles in four different positions: above the steering column, above the glove box, in the passenger’s door panel and in the driver’s door panel. These positions improved analysis of the impact of cabin air flow and the driver’s position on alcohol measurements as well as optimized performance. It also allows a sober driver to operate the vehicle while a dosed passenger can provide samples for analysis.

and in proposed field testing:

> Drivers will not be permitted to consume alcohol and only alcohol-free measurements will be obtained from the driver side sensors. Passengers will be asked to consume two different amounts of alcohol, approaching a breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) of 0.02-0.03% and 0.04-0.05%, respectively.
They mandate the price will never go so low they will loose money.

Imagined you could buy gas wholesale for a dollar a gallon and the price floor retail was two…. Guranteed to make money
Programming is still a craft, not engineering, or manufacturing. A software house should work like bespoke tailoring, or fine cabinetry, or glass blowing.

There's still no better training for programming than the equivalent of master/journeyman/apprentice. Apologies for the gender specific terms, but they are specific to how tradespeople operated from medieval times.

The worst thing to ever happen to the practice of business is the invention of the MBA. MBAs are imbued with the misleading axiom that management is a craft and science of its own, independent of the type of process or practice that is being managed.

Combined with endless selling of the latest buzzword theories by consultants is why we end up with JIRA-Driven-Development, nonsense like t-shirt sizes, 2 hour wankfests called "Sprint Reviews", let alone all the scrumming and standing-up and backlog-refining and endless make work.
There are plenty of legal job I wouldn't want my spouse or child doing.

Active military service for example. Doesn't mean I think it should be illegal.
This is a real issue I've seen at my past jobs in Support -- in theory, the better the support team got at closing issues without needing RND, the better the case load should have gotten and the better overall time for everyone involved (support, rnd, C-levels, customers). We had many huge enterprise customers using the product (usual big names across the globe), and everything was working pretty damn well and people were happy.

Then the acquisition came, hordes of new C-Levels and directors added, and suddenly, the system everyone wanted was no longer enough; we needed more out of the Support/RND team for some reason, more sales, more renewals, more special contracts with ENT clients with exhausting demands from the company. And the expectation was just "be more efficient". All of this came over slow time with small changes (back porting features for ENT clients who refused to upgrade, forbidden solutions for the Support team because "it upset the major clients", allowing sales/renewals to force RND engagement if they demanded it, new CRM because it was too hard to do marketing campaigns in the old one, even though people were calling _us_ and asking to just send them a quote they liked the product so much)

I honestly think trying to commodify and extract even more from what was a very successful system financially and just overall ended up ruining pretty much everything. Sales are slumping as are renewals, we're churning RND and Support folk, and because of slump in sales, there's belt-tightening everywhere.

We've implemented so many new systems needlessly with huge implementation/consultant fees that absolutely no one knows how to use -- workday is a prime example of this as out of the box it doesn't do _anything_ we needed, but we had to use it anyways, and absolutely no way to pay for the features we really needed. Same with ServiceNow implementation, it was supposed to be a near 0-code experience we were sold, but naturally that was not the case. Why did we get it? No idea except that it came down from on-high from persons that don't use the CRM and now we're stuck with it.

For me what it comes down to is too many people having to be like the CEO and Bill from the article -- for some reason such Clevels need to show they're doing "something", but I didn't think that something should include implementing wild changes to workflows in the company the C's know nothing about, or even worse, responding to customer complaints and demanding we "fix the issue" without knowing what the issue is.

The conference experience from the article resonates with me heavily, cause we have all these systems that do "everything but nothing", all these workflow changes without listening to the people having to use the work, it's really awful.
Same here on Firefox and Brave
Good, reliable video streaming is not cheap nor easy. I think they're providing a very valuable resource to creators.
The effects don’t stop at the doors of the bedroom. For example kids suffer when marriages break up due to infidelity.
That is such a weird system of value. Obviously there are people who will do that.

The reality is that sex work happens, bringing it out of the shadows protects the most vulnerable people, mores have very little to do with this. As a society we should be protecting these people where we can instead of moralizing.
I do think the term “kill switch” sort of prompts you to envision some kind of operations center with people watching you drive and a big red button they can use to instantly disable your car, whereas the reality is likely going to be much more mundane.

I imagine this will be something that beeps at you a lot, and relies on various sensors whose performance degrades over time, such that mechanically-perfect ten year old cars will occasionally become unusable until someone skilled figures out which $5 sensor is sending erratic values.
> subsidies

e.g. the government giving them free money just so they can continue to exist? SpaceX does not survive on subsidies.

> contracts

Doing work in exchange for money? Yes, that's how SpaceX survives. That's the way any rocket company is supposed to survive, yet you're construing this as somehow a bad thing. Seems like a sad case of EDS.
There are some opensource LTE UE stacks, for example srsRAN has one. Legalities aside, it can in theory connect to a public network using an USB sim card reader (or a software sim emulator if you know the required keys). For a stationary node you should get more or less the same performance as good LTE dongle, but dynamic applications will perform very bad.

Unlike WiFi, LTE allows quite high latencies, so the host computer can do all computations, no real need for FPGA code.

For WiFi you have OpenWiFi: https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi It currently has 11ac support and WiFi6E is in development. Operation on 2.4GHz can be a bit confusing due to lack of 11b support but on 5 or 6GHz it 'just works' (though note lack of DFS support).
The sad part of this line of thinking is anti-human trafficking efforts are infact made WORSE when you have a blanket prohibition. It drives the entire market underground, wastes resources that could be used to find and rescue victims and makes it where market customers have no real venue to know if a provider is "trafficked" or not. Where a legal market would have such things built in.

Blanket prohibitions on anything, sex, drugs, etc do not curb or prevent abusive actions it infact masks it, hides it, and makes such abuse MORE PREVALENT,

if you want to reduce human trafficking, legalize Prostitution
Or he is ushering in a new age of competition on the advertising space.
A gross violation is, driving drunk and killing somebody. Wave the 'rights' flag all you like, dead is dead and that flag is much, much bigger.
> remotely controlling our freedom of movement, is a new dystopian level of government control.

*Freedom of movement* doesn't require that you are able to drive your own car. It's not *new* either. Get pulled over for a DUI, and you won't be allowed to drive for a while.
It doesn't have to made illegal, but if it is openly encouraged and made to look cool, it reaches everyone.
The problem isn't that they are making partnerships. The problem is that they are using the success of Android and Google Play Services to force their search engine which should be seen as an unrelated service.
the employment market supports labor trafficking, guess what, labor trafficking is still illegal.

there is no reason for sex work and sex trafficking to be conflated, as sex trafficking is labor trafficking. in both a decriminalized or legalized world, trafficking is still illegal.

everything else you wrote is a labor rights issue as well. those particular harms of prostitution are specifically because the government perpetuates it being more dangerous than it is.

you not wanting your daughter to become a prostitute is not a government problem.

in another comment you wrote you're worried about government endorsement: the government getting out of the way in a decriminalized framework, or providing consumer protection in a legalized framework, is not endorsement. if you want to reinforce a deterrent, that comes from your community.
People taking shits in the street does have a clear and concrete harm: worse sanitation, namely the likelihood of stepping into a pile of feces.

How does this analogy map onto prostitution? Higher rates of STDs? People get diseases from non-paid sex too. You don't like seeing prostitutes soliciting on the street? If only they could advertise online...

I'm still not seeing an explanation of how prostitution harms "bystanders and society as a whole".
Similar to the concept of “user as the product,” when data is made to look cool the purpose of the data is to attract attention, not be the object of attention.

Is any person looking at that “live dashboard” as an actionable data source?
The problem that people make quick judgements based on appearance is not modern. I also would like to just make things functional and have people quickly see the value, but unfortunately we're stuck with the need to also make things look cool.
You'd be a mug to believe that, indeed.
I had some wool (mostly) socks that I love and are 95% in great condition, but the other 5% was holes/near holes in several key spots.

I finally got around to trying darning, and I succeeded, and it's incredibly satisfying to look at and wear those socks. It makes me happy that I managed to turn them from trash into something that'll last another couple of years, and every time I look at them I'm reminded of that.

I even chose some bright colorful yarn for the darning, and it just improves the experience even more for me.
It is more like, what isn't there can't be used for CVEs.
The rise in global temperature does not coincide with solar activity:

1) Temperature vs Solar irradiance: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/189/graphic-tempe...

2) Temperature vs Sun activity: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/solact.htm...

3) Number of sunspots over the year: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/couldnt-sun...

Not sure why people think scientists would miss obvious things. If a non-specialist can think of a probable objection, chances are the specialist in that field has already study that objection in their intro classes.
Why stop here? This engineer experimented with 20 wings and more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Frederick_Phillips
I suppose that might come down to perspective. A luddite cult that thinks AI needs to be stopped at a cost of killing anyone who might work on it would probably put me on their list, but not very high. Actual AI researchers would not likely consider me an AI researcher.
100% with you i kept hearing about. gimp being the defacto FOSS standard for image editing/creation, but holy crap its like you need a degree to get started with it
Journalist in 2023: read other journalist's work/tweets, regurgitate it, post on affiliate website. The profession has fallen so far.
I'm the author of the shared post and I blogged about the reactions to it, thanks all for the feedback: https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/reactions-to-my-post-on-can...
My intention was to chop out everything about the "whites below the eyes" version of it, because it's the "whites above the eyes" variant that is relevant to the discussion above. This kind of analysis is not medical at all, it's "traditional medicine". If "traditional medicine" were real medicine, it wouldn't be called traditional. To call something "Chinese/Japanese medicine" amounts to the same, not real medicine. If "Chinese/Japanese medicine" were real medicine, it would just be called medicine.

Also I said after that quote that it's not scientific, but it nevertheless seems true. That's my editorial take.
> Driving is a privilege, not a right.

In the US, the ability to drive commonly determines other abilities such as working, buying food and keeping scheduled appointments - inc medical ones and ones mandated by governments.

For a sizable % of the population: Driving is a privilege in the same way that being housed, eating, keeping needed health and not suffering persistent government penalties are all privileges.
They are of some practical interest as well. I think David Turner was the first to use them in his SASL language [1].
When combined with a graph rewriting implementation, combinators offer an excellent balance of simplicity and efficiency, as demonstrated in Ben Lynn's IOCCC-winning Haskell compiler [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SASL_(programming_language)

[2] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/compiler/ioccc.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language)
(A Lack of) Curiosity Killed the Software Project
Publicly, the Gates foundation wants to take credit for polio eradication, but they never seem to want to actually spend the money on the things that are required for polio eradication. If you look at the modeling results, Gates and the WHO manage to do less than the minimum required to have a decent chance of "turning the corner," while also doing a lot of fun science projects like making a new version of OPV.

Gates himself moves between a lot of different "current things" - it was polio 15 years ago, then it became malaria, and now it seems to be the climate (with a brief stopover on COVID).