skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to a) they have flagged gay porn as CP [0], and are generally banning anime porn with certain features [1] (both articles have links to other Patreon-related articles if you'd like more examples, such as kicking creators off for content violations that happen off-patreon). The issue seems to stem from payment processors pressuring Patreon to stop supporting creators that don't follow their values since both Visa and MC forbid adult content [2].

All links are NSFW, but not graphic unless you open the embedded tweets.

0: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/patreon-yaoi-deepthroat/

1: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/patreon-anime-porn-ban/

2: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension...
Yes. Against indigenous and minority groups for certain.
Thanks for sharing this! I’ve been thinking about this problem a lot since shelter-in-place as well. I mostly listen to podcasts while cleaning or exercising, so some sort of hands-free solution would indeed be great. Perhaps a gesture to simply mark that something interesting was just said, so I can go through the timestamps at a later point and take more detailed notes. Best of luck!
I think it varies a lot. Some Patreon creators use it as a sort of "tip jar", where the rewards for various tiers are relatively minimal compared to the main product that is given away for free. This is very common for web comics, and I'm guessing also common for Youtubers. In these cases, the main "reward" is helping to ensure that the creator can continue producing the content they're releasing for free. Other creators use Patreon as the medium by which to deliver their content, and only patrons hace access to it. So this is more like a traditional subscription model than a tip jar. And of course there are various gradations in between, and probably other models as well.

So because Patreon is used in such a wide range of ways, It's hard to make generalizations about all of it. And by that same token it's also hard for Patreon to make changes in a way that doesn't interfere with the way someone is using it. (Not that this in any way excuses their numerous blunders.)
This is wrong, I’ve got clear memories of booting up Legend of Dragoon on my PS3 from the disc. I dont think this was even axed from the later versions of PS3 like PS2 compatibility was
Look up browser fingerprinting. It’s a lot more complicated than just obscuring IPs.
You ignore the fact that prices can't increase if students can't pay. Of course students can pay due to indiscriminate access to credit.
Complete worldwide infections are 25 million that are known.

There's around a 40-50% asymptomatic number so the total estimated infections so far are around 40 million.

Total deaths is around 800,000.

.02 death rate on average and it drops drastically the younger a person is.

Depending on your risk tolerance, to many people, that's not worth destroying life as we know it.

Especially because the death rate of heart disease and cancer is higher than this and has easily targeted reasons with mountains of scientific evidence that could reduce the death rates.

It just seems like propaganda and we're making a bigger deal out of it than necessary.
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It’s Google. The level of investment isn’t correlated to the propensity for cancellation.

Remember the most expensive ever Google product? Plus?

Right...
I'm not sure if I'm missing some context but I'm assuming you are outside the return period. But anyway, I'd be really beyond surprised if these cards are actually available at these prices anytime soon.

Also if find a 2080ti for 200 before the year 2022 let me know I'll buy you a beer.
Publishers put up their website because they want people to go to it. They get ad impressions, subscriptions, sales for affiliate links or wine club memberships or whatever their business model is.

That said, I don't agree with the grandparent. In my view it's clearly win-win, and neither direction obviously benefits more than the other to me. "Free" seems like a fair compromise unless the news sites start blocking Facebook traffic, because the friction of agreeing on and setting up payment is costly.
What's EGS in this context? I'll take it it's not the Epic Game Store, and searching for Wayland EGS only lands on this HN comment.
This is the old guard idea, I too was a proponent, then I had to deal with figuring out what it meant to moderate content online and this idea just ends.

The market place of ideas is flawed in practice, as much as it may be a great metaphor in discussion.

In practice there are too many weaknesses, asymmetries, and lopsidedness of time and obsession for conversations online to naturally support a market place of rational ideas.

If you want an emotion and superstition filled market place carrying only the most addictive, neuro invasive ideas, then going with the old guard way is a good way of achieving it.

Unless you have a solution for the problem of content, then this idea is only a first draft, and not applicable in its unalloyed form.
Except it's not that the colleges are using this money to truly hire the amount of faculty they need for ballooning class sizes, rather just hire more administrators, some easily pulling down 250k+. Watching my school downsize during COVID of "non-essential" staff while the president took a very nominal cut of their 5mil compensation package is insulting.
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The main purpose of the PSR is to detect potentially dangerous flying objects which have no transponders. The PSR we tested were able to also detect e.g. parachutes and paragliders. I would assume that the radar cross section of the winged jetpack is large enough for detection by current PSR.
"many things" being all RTX based. If you don't use RTX - it might not be a substantial improvement.

That's the important bit and what we all need to find out. Very few people are playing just RTX games.
That's awesome, not only for you but I especially applaud those who pay for your content. As a game developer it makes me wonder if there's a viable & addressable market there, to work on a single game "long-term" without feeling the crunch from Steam/reviews/etc.
> "...there really is no widespread, institutional education on what labor unions are or do, and what benefits they can bring"

I watched the UAW's behavior in Detroit for a couple of decades. That's all the education anyone needs to conclude that unions aren't in anyone's best interest.
Most Americans cannot deal with knowing our government and society is a trainwreck that exists to print cash
I just used the contact form on the site because of this comment :)
They also ran surprisingly long, particularly the die-shrunk iPad 2: https://i.imgur.com/ELyFwFu.png
I feel that the public doesn't know that for sure; same with Banksy.
Ok, and that justifies the cost somehow?

Disclosure: that was obvious :)

No hard feelings, just pointing out the community needs more than corp speak to be convinced, especially when Microsoft is telling you "its just better ok"
Per your statement about race; look into that statistic you listed more, there are good explanations. Imagine this chain - the system is rigged in deep ways against a young man of color. He probably grows up in a broken home, a poor neighborhood, with low access to schooling or opportunity. As a result, he is driven to commit crime. So police patrol his neighborhood more, so they learn to associate his kind of people with crime, so he has more police interactions. And then that statistic lands on your news feed.

Do you think the system is more fair for all people regardless of skin color? Or that crime has little relation to poverty? Or that people of color are inherently more likely to commit crime whether by genetics or culture? Then you won’t be able to follow that chain. There are a lot of interacting systems. Not questioning as an attack, just pointing out that the logic makes lots of assumptions.

Consider the problems with our algorithm for determining recidivism rates. The data shows people of color return to crime more when released. So the algorithm assigns them higher jail time before parole, which means more time out of society and among criminals, which leads to more crime when released!

That statistic, “people of color commit more crime” is a self-fulfilling prophecy or recursion of some sort, it’s harmful unless we’re using it to determine a “why” that isn’t just “because of their skin color or culture”.
I remember the time (heh) when this was all the rage.

It's an interesting concept, especially since the notion of 60 minutes - 12 hours are derived from Babylonian numbering system [1] and even without timezones I find myself having to stop and calculate minutes & hours all the time because they're not nicely divisible by 10 like the metric system.

Having said that, if the goal is to eliminate timezone confusion, we can all just use UTC time and be done with it :)

In short, it was an interesting concept, but even an impressionable young me at that time thinks it's more a marketing effort rather than a scientific effort to "fix" clocks.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-time-divi...
> For (a), they've already banned a lot of adult content (thus the rise of OnlyFans, until they follow suit)

How would OnlyFans follow suit on that? Isn't their entire thing adult content?
From experience, work at these companies five years ago, get options, don't leave even though it's awful
No. I do not condone violence or murder. I am curious about your criteria though. What’s the differential on “enough murders” to discount the BLM protests vs the police murders that fuel them?

Also, saying that the KKK was “democrat-controlled” makes me think you’re trolling here. It hasn’t been true since the 60s, and using “Democrat” as an adjective instead of “Democratic” is a signal that you’re just repeating Republican talking points. That’s not even delving into what the KKK’s goals or actions were about.

What do you think of Kyle Rittenhouse and the president’s support of him?
Yeah, at least that's the claim. We'll see how that holds up with real world benchmarks.
Patreon’s tendency for police content that doesn’t agree with their politics and values is unacceptable.

I hope they fail so a neutral provider can take their place. I know of https://www.subscribestar.com/ - are there others?
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I don't think so. For one, he wants it to run in the browser, and SQLite doesn't run in the browser. In his "embedded" section, he makes it pretty clear that he doesn't want to build on SQLite:

> SQLite is a great example of that: it is a very powerful relational database that runs almost anywhere. What I miss from it that SQLite doesn’t provide is the ability to run it on the browser

> Mentat was an interesting project, but its reliance on SQLite makes it inherit most of the downsides (and benefits too) of SQLite itself.

Also, I'm sceptical you could make SQLite efficient for an immutable DB, IF you want to support full SQL. A DB like Datomic has to do some pretty crazy stuff to be remotely efficient, and it doesn't even try to support full SQL - a great read on Datomic internals: https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals

Mentat, the DB he links to, is much less ambitious than this proposal, and had a couple years of work by a number of devs before eventually being shuttered/abandoned. It's about 35K lines of Rust, despite being built on top of SQLite, isn't remotely done, doesn't run in the browser, etc.

Even if you did build this proposed DB on top of another DB, to make it efficient, and have all of the features discussed, I strongly suspect that it would be an absolutely massive amount of work.
Where the hell are you working where people think that's ok? I haven't seen anyone defending that for 10+ years.
Those titles were all cherry-picked by Nvidia though. I would be very hesitant about the data used. A lot of DLSS used too - so, not even true 4K.

On top of that - if you only care about 4K gaming then fine - but what if you're more of a 1080-1440p with higher refresh rate person?

Personally, I have a 1440p display that goes to 144hz. I'd much rather have 1440p @ 100+ FPS than 4K at 60 - but we don't know what these new GPUs will do.
Some of those SD cards run linux! https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-...
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>Also students are not yet used to thinking about debt, or how things are paid for really

And why politicians want to see them in the voting booths so badly.
It’s nice to see someone has consciousness all figured out.

But seriously, do you know of any studies that show no changes to mental state or capacity or personality or memory or any of the other things that compose “the mind” in such people?

I can’t believe anyone has done such studies yet. And just because you don’t see changes in such people, does not mean there haven’t been minuscule but measurable changes.
> limiting the moderation of content to the news organisations' own Facebook pages only

I have a Facebook page for my business, and I can already do that today.
Are there any stations still broadcasting?
They'll be fine since the credit card processor pushback is unlikely since they seem to use ccbill which is generally OK with adult content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294801
This is pretty useful!
I'm not ignoring this at all. I'm merely explaining the mechanism by which public university pricing effects private university pricing. Of course access to credit increases the ceiling! But also, when public universities receive less funding, private universities increase their prices. These two facts are not mutually exclusive.
I speak daily with Canadians ( working for a Canadian company from Europe).

And there are struggles between French and English.

Racism... is nowhere near as bad as in the US. I hear issues about the language mostly that are pretty bad though.

Eg. If you speak English you wouldn't get served in a restaurant ( = stories from Canadians from other people they know)

There are more examples, eg. "Being forced to learn Canadian French in school", ...

But I live in Belgium and we learn 3-4 languages in the flemish part, so that might influence my perspective.

And we also have our own issues ...
> It’s not that this is a bug in CSE, since this analysis is shared by (many) other passes.

Is DFGClobberize not part of CSE? I read the post and glanced at the code and I’m not sure if I understand your clarification otherwise.

Do note that my comment is not the team “clearly wouldn’t try to prove this right” but is really “hasn’t proved this right”, the “clearly” part being a reference to this bug ;) I would be extremely surprised if there hasn’t been work done by the team to partially verify instruction side effects given how often they lead to bugs in the JIT (I haven’t seen much writing much about it, though, so if there’s something on the WebKit blog about this I’d love to give it a read). However, what I’m suggesting is some sort of proof that the semantics encoded in JavaScriptCore are complete and correct; maybe with some formal language specification involved. Or maybe you could have the CI machines churn through the entire state space for the unary instructions during the holidays or something :)
Someone posted a widely-downvoted comment of "They are another facebook. They will turn cancerous very soon, if they haven't already"; while I certainly don't think Patreon is another Facebook, it's at least worth considering what their sky-high valuation means. With this round of funding, they've officially passed "unicorn status," and that's kind of a double-edged sword.

The problem, at risk of stating the obvious, is that investors are hoping for big returns, and that means big revenue -- and that means changing the definition of "success" on Patreon. To hit a few hundred million in revenue a year and earn their valuation, they're going to need to start competing with not just YouTube and Twitch, but major music labels and indie-friendly TV/film studios. They're going to need to recruit the new Taylor Swift, the new Lady Gaga. Hell, they may need to recruit the current Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.

The most successful campaigns they have now are bringing in tens of thousands a month, but those are wild outliers. The vast majority of their creators are making side money, not a living; bringing in just $1000 a month puts you in the top 5%. (It's hard to be sure, but I think there's a good chance it puts you in the top 1%, given that there's about 178K campaigns total and there are folks in the top 1000, according to Graphtreon, barely making over $1K a month.) And... that vast majority of folks won't be Patreon's focus in future years. It can't be. (One can argue it isn't now.)

I don't think Patreon will "turn cancerous," per se -- but the Patreon of 2022 may not look that much like the Patreon of early 2020, which some would argue didn't look as much like the Patreon of 2018 as ideal.
Am I crazy or is the solution the thing you'd design in the first place if trying to make the simplest system possible
Does anyone consider github stars meaningful? Especially enough to game? I ask this sincerely, I don't think I've never even noticed the star count for a repo.
You could pay to buy monitors for people and ask them to toggle the brightness until it dies, then record it down on a wiki and opensource this information.
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If only you had created this sooner, I could have saved so much time writing up lab reports for my physics courses. I attempted something similar with Excel sheets and some bash scripts, but the effort involved took more time than just writing the lab report by hand.
System 7 checked for mouse motion every fraction of a second and if the mouse was moving it would drop everything and draw. It didn't need apps to yield for this to happen.
You absolutely should not ship updates by pulling from an unversioned tag; it's bad for a number of reasons. There's some simple ways to avoid it:

# In your CI pipeline, something like this:
$ cat Dockerfile
ARG release_tag
FROM baseimg:${release_tag}
# etc; i think the container metadata keeps the base version, or you can store it in the container with a RUN line

$ base_version_tag=$(./get-latest-versioned-tag.sh some-docker-repo:my_prefix/my_image:stable)
$ new_container_version=$(./make-new-version.sh)
$ docker build -t my_img:${new_container_version} --build-arg release_tag=${base_version_tag}

Then you run your tests on the new image, maybe do a gradual deployment, and can quickly roll back to the last base image or skip broken versions. Your own container version is always rolling-forward, and you can revert the base image version at any time.

If you do this with a specific stable tree (like debian:8-stable or something) you should only get security updates, but if you use :latest, that's a total nightmare.
Oh absolutely, it's not a silver bullet - just an attempt at alleviating that single dimension, which I still think is significant enough to take seriously.

IMO there will never be a complete solution but that means we have to tackle each issue or dimension individually within the larger context, not just throw our hands in the air and give up.

Maybe should have been more clear on the scope ambition in the OC but can't edit the comment anymore.
This is actually a really interesting recursive algorithm: That is, the job listing for analysts to track labor organizing threats turned out to be a labor organizing threat.
I really like the Wikipedia introduction to the article on Mechanism Design which describes it as taking:

"an objectives-first approach to designing economic mechanisms or incentives, toward desired objectives, in strategic settings, where players act rationally. Because it starts at the end of the game, then goes backwards, it is also called reverse game theory."

Also, I think you are overstating Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. It only applies to voting systems where voters can rank candidates, and where the result of the election is desired to be a consistent community-wide ranking of all the candidates.
For many people it's not the bodydying that's scary it's the end of consciousness while a copy of your consciousness lives on. But I believe it's possible to make the transition seamless without a break from conscious thought.

The process would probably involved disconnecting parts of the brain while simultaneously activating the emulated versions. It might be possible to do while awake even. but not for a long time
This is obviously some person's side project to test a bunch of ideas. One of which was to add in TLD whitelisting, so they came up with a couple of TLDs to whitelist with the intention of expanding it once it went viral on hackernews and they were bought out for a billion dollars by Walmart's venture capital vehicle.
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Awesome, do it! Making languages is always fun :)
Making the arithmode argument optional seems like an avoidable mistake here. If it was always required to explicitly specify it, it would have been more visible to a reviewer's eye that the problem opcode was an outlier.
Spain and Italy have a reputation for crappy universities. Italy especially.
Arguably they do 'burn down' small local businesses through aggressive price-cutting competition and supplier relationships, which a lot of people object to.

I'm not among those complainers, having grown up in a small town where you couldn't get anything without mail-ordering it until Wal-Mart came in. But I could certainly be swayed to their point of view if Wal-Mart starts selling counterfeit or extremely low-grade crap like the rope ericbarrett purchased.
The company would have some sort of training on how to review resumes. Do you think they would have a secret policy of "you must have a college degree" and tell every new HR hire never to discuss it in a discoverable medium?
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Why did you leave Apple?
I could imagine that if for example the x axis is our normal time, the y axis would be timelines. That is, you would move to an entirely different configuration of the world for the given space coordinates and the same value of time on the x axis. Now if you ask me about a third dimension of time..

Disclaimer: my ideas come before having done my homework on the link above, so I need to read Greg Egan's stuff really. He's such a wonderful person and I need to dedicate more brainpower to his work.