skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's actually a good idea. however, 99.5+% of those who watch porn might not have a problem with it and hence, might not need our solution. but, worth exploring, this could be similar to running banner ads where a small % of impressions result in click.
> This is where Apple's paternalistic view takes over. … There are merits to both approach…

Isn’t it generally accepted by both small children and adults that having a Dad is better than not?

Sure, teenagers rebel for a while against anyone caring about them, but they tend to grow back out of that as soon as they have to parent too.
> Are you implying Mozilla Firefox cares less about the user than Apple?

If I look at Pocket and some of their surprise telemetry decisions, I think it's a reasonable implication. They care more about the standards and "providing an alternative to X" than they do the end user.
Dozens over the open ocean and uninhabited places. between zero and 2 over california.

why did they position them this way?
You answered your own question: they want to have the opportunity to maximise earnings per customer by attempting to find the maximum each and every customer is willing to pay. This can only work when the pricing structure is opaque. It is one of the reasons why I shun products and services which require me to contact the vendor to find out what they expect their customers to pay.
Have you tried Pinta? Filled the niche for me after switching to Linux.
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There are solutions for untangling gordian knots.
As another commenter noted, there’s no Rust code currently in the Linux kernel. There may be some soon, but not much - it’ll be a dominantly C codebase for a very, very long time, maybe forever.

As for seL4, doesn’t that just support my point that highly secure software can be written in any language, even C? seL4 is primarily implemented in C. There “executable spec” is written in Haskell, but the actual kernel that people use is written primarily in C and a little Assembly.
I could believe that. Density drops off pretty fast outside the East Coast and the westernmost post of the West Coast.
Let me get this straight. You believe saying Obama is from Kenya is a conspiracy theory, but think accusing Trump of planning a coup is just fearful thinking?

You pretty clearly are just choosing what to call a conspiracy theory based on politics. There is no sense in continuing this conversation since you have shown you do not have a consistent definition of conspiracy theory.
I think it just means they have non-mainframe stuff running in the cloud that the mainframes need to access.

Like "uh, we moved payroll to cloud and this mainframe job needs that data".
"Arathorn" is the only tech CEO who has personally insulted me in past comments, when I used to be much more charitable, so yeah it's personal. I listed problems I had trying to run Synapse and explained the fake identity federation and he came out of the woodwork to run interference about how it's ONLY name addressing that isn't federated, as though that matters

So yeah, it is personal. I love chat protocols and federation and want to be excited about Matrix but "Arathorn" is a liar and an asshole and he's made it personal. The protocol has serious problems and isn't above criticism but "Arathorn" isn't open to it.

And he's sullying a good JRR Tolkien reference with his handle. He doesn't deserve that handle, that's why it's in scare quotes.
There's a surprising amount of coasters that run backwards nowadays! You have a handful of wooden coasters that generally run (or did run) backwards as part of a Halloween event (Racer 75, Thunder Road (RIP), Racer at Kings Island and Viper at Six Flags Great America) but a lot of modern steel coasters actually do it by design. Like Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure at Islands of Adventure in Orlando has a decently lengthy backwards section (plus some other surprises I won't spoil) or Mr Freeze at both Six Flags Over Texas or Six Flags St Louis both go through their courses both forwards and back. And that's not even counting Boomerangs like Bat at Canada's Wonderland that another sibling commenter mentioned

(PS glad to see my favorite hobby being mentioned on HN, I could literally talk about this stuff all day)
Google and Apple's bids weren't high enough to get anyone in dozens of shady governments with access to NSO Group's services to successfully risk adding burner phones and then analyze these attacks.

I think any alternative explanation to too cheap is even less savory.
"Why would anyone use X after reading a critic blog post about it?"
People used to grab their gun and see if someone needed help/be around to observe if any fuckery was amiss.
According to the FAQ there's also a setup fee for self hosting a chat server.
A farmer on Hacker News? Please tell me more.
It's really fun to recover a system that's designed to never go down. Some years ago I was working with Tandem/Compaq and they had a web server on the NonStop Himalaya platform. Long story short, said server had its first experience with real world web traffic at scale when we were delivering coverage of an international sporting event, and Things Went Poorly.

The onsite Tandem engineers had never been faced with a NonStop setup that just...stopped (actually it was worse than that). Bear in mind this was the company that used to do demos by randomly unplugging hardware and the transactions kept chugging along. We ended up punting coverage to a smaller flat version of the site served off Compaqs running IIS while we cleaned up the mess.

Now, Tandem shouldn't feel bad. After all, Cisco had guys in the hosting facility trying to keep the then-new PIX series up and running.
Can this be adapted to keep our kids away from porn?
that's an interesting idea. will explore this further. do reply if you know any such organizations at the top of your head.
Firefox on iOS is an excellent browser. I use it as my daily driver, and it works perfectly well.
I do hope that this phone will be their breakthrough product. They used to be the monopoly of the phone industry yet fell off since the rise of the smartphone era.
It seems IBMs business model is to make the customer pay more with time until they give up and leap from their (legacy) platform, at which point they migrate to something ground breaking like... DB2 on x86 (of course it would have been cheaper to migrate things 10 yr. ago but the oxygen restriction caused by neckties usually prevents some kinds of foresight)
Congratulations on the HN launch, Tejas. This has been quite many years in the making! Kudos for persisting.

> Compulsive porn usage is a taboo topic. Millions of people want to get away from this behavior, but it's an embarrassing problem to discuss socially.

Definitely: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/ Some folks clearly signal a need for this no doubt, while others who've quit porn, report substantial improvement in their personal relationships, as well.

> Blocking adult content effectively is quite challenging as users will always find ways to bypass the blocking. The difficulty is to make the blocking robust enough that the user can't bypass it, but at the same time that the blocking only happens on adult content and not others (minimizing false positives). We have done a bunch of optimizations on our Android and iOS apps to make it just right – we consider multiple signals before blocking to ensure the blocking is accurate most of the time.

I co-develop an open-source content-blocker for Android based on DNS and IP addresses. The top feature requests have always been around blocking porn and social media. We rely on publicly-curated blocklists for that, so that's one source of lagging indicator where some domains pass through.

Besides, for an Android app to track user's habits (accountability) is achievable, but letting a user never bypass it isn't do-able at all, because the phone and all its Settings are in control of the users themselves. As one example, if users set DNS to point to family.cloudflare.com, they can also unset it just as easily. If the user needs to start the app to track porn/social-media usage, they can also force-stop the app just as well.

A hardware-based firewall like firewalla or PfSense can be more powerful in terms of preventing a bypass network-wide, but it isn't mobile, and its effectiveness is limited to home networks.

So: I am curious (and you stress more than once in your post) how does BlockerX accomplish preventing its users from bypassing block protections?
for example, if the media would report on the side effects of the vaccines, instead of pretending there are none, then there would be less room for falsehoods to spread. I've yet to see fauci asked one question about vaccine side effects.

of course I'd love to hear how you determine rush Limbaugh listeners to be uninformed, especially since 90% of his show was reading/playing and then responding to mainstream news articles.
I've become profoundly cynical about big non-profit organizations. Not all non-profits are bad, of course, but it really seems like the bigger the organization the more likely it is that the organization operates like a front.
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Speaking of busking, how could you leave out YouTube? It might not be particularly useful for indie game devs, and you might not like it, but nobody can deny that YouTube is currently the most well-known place on the planet for people to sing, dance, do crazy shit, or maybe just film their cats and make money out of it. YouTube even has a system that allows channel owners to collect recurring donations, somewhat like Patreon.
that's true. a few of our competitors are quite strong in religious channels to promote their products. this is definitely an interesting channel to explore. as to /r/nofap - for some reason this channel doesn't show in the sub reddits where ads can be shown. it could be due to adult words used in the forum (just a guess, not sure what the reason is).
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Is porn really a problem, or is this an excuse to inject big brother into peoples lives.

I’ve always considered it incredibly creepy and suspicious that people even want to get into “nofap enforcement movement”. This is like religious morality policing you would find in places like Iran.

I don’t like it. And think one should do some soul searching over why you need to push your morality on others.
I've heard the metaphor that having a calm mind is being able to watch your thoughts go by and not engage with them, like standing on the shoulder of a busy highway and not having the urge to get in any of the cars.

For me, the biggest break through was realizing that my mind isn't as sophisticated or nuanced as I think. When I realized I could control what thoughts I engage with by simply redirecting my thinking to something else when intrusive thoughts came knocking, it was a game changer.

I think you're looking at the flower during the week and linking it up with negative thoughts, now. You're effectively creating your own reality and loop of:

Wednesday --> flower --> where's the chill? --> Oh right, I can't during the week --> Anxiety

Do the work so that when you encounter the flower, you are already chill. Intrusive work thoughts? Redirect thinking to interests and things you enjoy. Repeat as necessary. It gets easier every time. Eventually, the intrusive thoughts don't bother trying to interrupt -- they aren't welcome.
You could watch somebody work 16 hours, and totally like the idea, but you yourself of course would be too broken and debilitated by your internet access to do the same.

But if you did, you'd be happy, you just know it. A simpler life, fruits of your labor and such.
“I’ve yet to see it used successfully…”

As far as you know. By definition, wouldn’t its successful use mean you didn’t know it was successfully used?
It doesn't even have to be something you hate - but it's something that's not yours.
Those are currently over the ocean but will eventually (after ~1.5h) orbit around to more useful areas.

Satellites in low earth orbit need to move very quickly to stay up. If you want a satellite to stay over the same spot you'd need to put it way way above, in geostationary orbit[1], and get really bad latency.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
Because the statement could apply, doesn't mean it is or needs to. The argument was directed at Toyota specifically.

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

Toyota is the largest car manufacturer in the world. They should not be partaking in these behaviors.
One of the pains of moving from windows to a Mac was not having Sumatra. I've been using it on Windows for so long. I have tried many options on Mac, but they just doesn't feel "right" (too many options in viewers like Acrobat, too less features compared to Sumatra in others). Any plans to create a mac version?
I love the series! I hope there'll be more!
In fairness, acrobat is a full fledged editor of a hacked file format. My Acrobat Reader DC install is sitting st 384 MB and Sumatra is at 18.7 MB; only a factor of 20 larger. :)
> In his defence, the "regular"/cheap rubber dome keyboards you mention are unusable if you're used to mechanical switches.

My solution to this has been "not getting used to mechanical switches."

Even over 10 years, the cost really doesn't add up, and I have used fairly acceptable membrane/rubber dome keyboards that get the job done fine.
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Firefox doesn't allow site for even asking permission to notify you without some good reason. It's only Chrome (as always) that doesn't care about your well being. If you want respect, drop the unrespecting relationships. (And yes, complain the hell out of it and ask for Google's head, because they deserve it, but act too.)

Push notifications are extremely useful for a few niche applications. Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Thank you, this is very helpful.

I have a hundred or so MiniDV tapes awaiting ingestion...first need to figure out where to store the data.
Are they as terrible as slack's implementation?
The shot choices in that opening are spectacular. One of my favourite episodes.
Suggestions for landing page copy:

- I would change the hero text "Helping Millennials Overcome Digital Addictions" to just "Overcome Digital Addictions"

- "millions" is not consistently capitalized.

- "Know more" -> "Learn more"
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Sumatra is pretty nice, and definitely an app I miss on Linux. I used to use evince, but it had more compatibility issues (it uses the Poppler library that Sumatra dropped) and I wasn't a fan of the UI redesigns for Gnome 3.

These days I actually use Firefox as my Linux PDF reader.
If 10% of new cars being ICE isn’t enough to keep most gas stations in business then any number less than 10% would also cause most gas stations to fail. In the early days people where willing to be inconvenienced because ICE where such a step up. But, if the alternative is drive 20 minutes each way to a gas station or charge up an your parking space it’s just not going to be worth it to drive ICE.
Persistent people are much more likely to ignore their misses and focus on their hits. Someone that hits 10M in revenue may have pivoted multiple times when they were below 1k in revenue trying to get traction. They probably don't even see it as a pivot, they have forgotten about the sales pitches that totally fell flat, and remember the times that a customer said "Could you also do X, we really need that"
Good luck, I'm working this same plan here! I also do contract game dev on the side which helps me work out engine ideas / tooling [0].

[0] https://doctorarcana.com/
hmmm is this a new variant?

or have they got bad testing processes outside of hospitals?
So many things this might be...
Is it just me or does the graphic towards the end of the post misspell triage? I dont believe tirage fits at all for that use, but I could be wrong.
Pinta uses an older Paint.Net code - https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta
My outlook has almost nothing to do with being paid, but rather having the proper rewards for taking a proper risk. For someone like Musk, the reward from PayPal enables him to pursue even greater innovation, which he is doing marvelously. I would bet a large sum that he would not be where he is now if his gains were capped at 100x poverty level.
Well let's see, covid is clearly airborne as proven several times in the past year and the one place guaranteed to have covid in the air from severe cases (shedding) is a hospital.

I'm more impressed with people at the hospital not for covid with an extended stay who leave without covid.

Imagine an emergency waiting room in the USA.
The CDC will recommend that some vaccinated people wear masks indoors again
Lack of the right kind of metadata would be the first tell.
I honestly don't think there is any policing. there are groups like nofap because people who fundamentally believed that they wanted to quit porn came together and there's no force. people do this voluntarily based on their own choice.
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I believe the API gave you control over the framebuffer (r/w), so theoretically it would have been possible for Uber to read and store buffer data to record your screen.
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> 56 neuroscience-based studies [...] All but one provide support for the addiction model as their findings mirror the neurological findings reported in substance addiction studies.

> Over 60 studies reporting findings consistent with escalation of porn use (tolerance), habituation to porn, and even withdrawal symptoms

> over 40 studies linking porn use/porn addiction to sexual problems and lower arousal to sexual stimuli

> Over 80 studies link porn use to poorer sexual and relationship satisfaction

> Over 90 studies link porn use to poorer mental-emotional health & poorer cognitive outcomes.

> over 40 studies link porn use to “un-egalitarian attitudes” toward women and sexist views

> Got it. No evidence.
Web developers (and/or the companies who hold their reins) have proven that they can not be trusted with access to notifications. I personally don't care how useful they may be for the 0.001% of applications when the remaining 99.999% are spammers.

There's not one site that's allowed to spam me with notifications on the desktop, and I'm thrilled beyond belief that they can't do it on my iPhone.
The performance and charging network right now is not adequate for most people I know. Maybe it will be in 5 years, but I give it 10.
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Most Patreon artists I've seen have transitioned to Patreon from other platforms, such as from Youtube or from releasing early versions of their side projects.

I think most people have a job next to their Patreons right until they make enough Patreon money to live reasonably comfortably. That definitely makes the whole thing less risky. You need to have a passion for what you do in order to make it that far, though.
What do you think about supporting KaiOs, feature phones, older browsers, or 2g connections?

Build your websites with progressive enhancement in mind, and you'll never have a problem with safari again. Safari is great.
I’m not sure why this access required a “special relationship”. I remember years ago reading public Apple dev docs that recommended rendering certain things on iPhone and sending them over to the watch as a rasterized image.
I used to fix compilers for IBM and we worked on (older versions of) these machines. They were awesome! Coming to the PC business after using mainframes was a sad joke. You should see what it's like working with VM, IBM's virtualization environment. It was amazing and that was 25 years ago.
And farmers also had pretty crappy lives too. If I gotta be in an office 8 hours a day so I can eat deep fried Chinese food, have a car, and live in a nice apartment, so be it. Better than eating half assed food on a farm on top of meagre wages.
> I am not taking PC build advice from a person that got their first AMD processor in 2021.

Okay, but when I bought the PC I'm using right now Ryzen wasn't even a thing. And the Athlon stuff was hardly good.
sure, thanks so much. will correct these rightaway!
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There is also stuff like a sorting co-processor which I find interesting https://blog.share.org/Technology-Article/peeking-under-the-...
How hard is it to get those debits reversed?

Here in the UK while it's super easy to set up a fraudulent direct debit on someone else's account details, it's equally easy to claim those payments back (and the scheme guarantees you the right to be able to claim a payment back for any reason, doesn't even have to be fraud - the merchant can of course still chase you if you've declined a legitimate payment you owe them).
Simpson's rule is a more accurate approach to numerical integration without being more computationally expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_rule

Nevertheless, this was a very interesting article! When the topic of a time-weighted average came up, my first intuition was to give each sample y_n a weight of x_n - x_n-1, that is, the distance/time to the sample that came before. Wouldn't that also suffice?
It's crazy how low the percentage of women chess grandmasters and black chess grandmasters is. I wonder how many grandmasters are aged below 15 years old. It's amazing how players play against each other despite the age difference.
As a farmer and WFH veteran of the software industry for 20 years, I think there are some decent parallels. I’m not sure the article expresses them well.
> In fairness blue origin seemingly jumped straight to a successful launch with their founder on board. Spacex is known for their unplanned disassemblies.

Taking 20 years to launch your first customers is more a figurative crawl than a jump. You’ll see their fair share of RUDs from Blue Origin once they start testing orbital rockets instead of impressive toys. In the meantime SpaceX is landing orbital boosters on autonomous barges at sea and testing a giant interplanetary grain silo. All the best to Blue Origin but don’t be fooled, they are playing a desperate game of catch-up and failing a bit right now. Go Team Space!
Security footage tamper contracting is one obvious black market extension of this.
They're not in geo-stationary orbits. A satellite that's over open ocean now will be over land later in the day. If you zoom in on the visualization, you can see how fast they're moving.
Can anyone comment on the state of "re-hosting" solutions out there now? Seems like anyone who could, would be using one of those to get rid of the mainframe and run their code on commodity hardware.
It depends heavily. I'm in the Midwest. There's 200-500 miles between major cities, not to mention all the small rural areas further north.
I just downloaded it and I'm quite impressed with the ease of use of the color options. Just a few lines in a text file. I can swap between dark and light modes easily.

Does anyone know if the window background can be darkened at all? The window UI text color is controlled by the same setting as the pdf text color, so when using a dark background/light text mode the window UI text is very low contrast.