skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this still true? Porn sites seem to have no problems selling ad space, although it may not be to major brands. I suspect that eventually even that will change. How many people are really so put off by human sexuality that they'll refuse to buy a product that advertises on a porn site? How many of those people are going to porn sites to see those ads in the first place?

I think that slowly corporations are going to dismiss the loud puritanical few that complain about it and that those who do will find advertising their brands along side porn is extremely profitable. Corporations have been using sex to sell their products for ages specifically because it's so effective. It's just a matter of time until they start being honest about it.
Reality sucks. Problems, emergencies, deadlines and complaints. Planning and designing is much more fun and 9-5.
I’m so tired of this “in mice” meme, it tells us nothing about how accurate the predictions can be made from these experiments. Can everyone just assume “in mice” is the default and in humans the exception? We do experiments in mice because so much is the same between mammals.
Be realistic, if I offer stolen set of fancy hubcaps or something (ie something potentially expensive but doesn't have a serial # like a computer) there's no real way to tell if it's legit or not. If I offer porn for sale and there's an anti-porn policy, they can just say 'welp this is porn to us.'

Like how would you distinguish between a stolen item and a used item without requiring people to keep every receipt for anything they ever buy? This is not an endorsement of their anti-porn policy, just observing that that it's easy for them to implement that in contrast to your theft example.
Semi truck driver.

Yeah I like it.

I currently drive a 2022 Freightliner Cascadia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freightliner_Trucks

https://freightliner.com/trucks/cascadia/

White Freightliner Blues
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VrNKmCoonw4

Some people drive local or regional. I drive OTR, Over The Road, all over the lower 48.

I mostly pull 53 foot "dry vans," as opposed to a "refer" (refrigerator van). Sometimes I pull refers. 53 foot vans of either type are the most common trailer that you've seen on American roads.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-trailer

Usually I take an empty trailer to a shipper and trade it for a preloaded trailer: "drop and hook." Then I drive it to the receiver and trade the loaded for an empty.

Sometimes I have to back up to their dock for a "live load" or "live unload." I sit or sleep in the truck while a fork lift runs in and out of the trailer, moving pallets.

Most OTR drivers go home for 2 or 3 days every 2 or 3 weeks. I go home 4 or 5 days every couple of months. My adult son saves my mail.

I feel pretty comfortable living minimally and solitary in my (employer's) truck. It's a tiny house.

This truck has a microwave and coffee pot (both mine) and a refrigerator (came with the truck). There's a battery powered AC unit for the bunk area, and a diesel burning heater. (Of course there's engine AC and heat while you drive). The longish twin mattress is reasonably comfortable.

I shower at truck stops, usually free via loyalty cards. My employer tells me where to fuel.

There are many different ways and variations on how to be a truck driver. I'm a "company driver," the most common type. There are owner operators that own, rent or lease their own truck, and sometimes the trailer too. Two drivers can team drive, one sleeps while the other drives. I'm paid by the mile; some local jobs are hourly.

I used to be a sw dev, and more recently swqa. I rage-quit my last swqa job, and here I am. I make about $60k/year depending on miles driven.
Too bad they had to edit out half of the explanations. Presumably to avoid copyright.
one third of americans have a college degree; this number used to be in the low single percentages. do you think we've all gotten that much smarter?
Just because the market is big doesn't mean it's easy to get a slice. The food industry is absolutely huge and also very brutal. Margins are razor thin and people get crushed constantly.
Elon is finally on stage @ 5:48 PM pacific.
Great idea! We definitely want to do this. We have an open issue to track it: https://github.com/tangramdotdev/tangram/issues/28.
Follow the money.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boosters-pfizer-moderna-vaccine...
The only implementations I ever used, PDP-10 and Atari 800 only had upper case so it had to be written LOGO.

Like ARPANET, in those case insensitive days we really didn’t think about it. Multics was case-sensitive, and it felt weird.
I think your Amazon link got truncated: https://www.amazon.com/Nationalism-Elie-Kedourie/dp/06311888...
I haven't fact-checked, but this OF creator posted screenshots of her chat with OF support denying the Bloomberg article & stating sexually explicit stills and videos will still be allowed: https://mobile.twitter.com/ShyCutieMFC/status/14285024291510...
What could falsify this hypothesis? I feel like I can tell just-so stories about the all-consuming importance of elite status in the post-war United States that are just as shocking and compelling as what is written here. Did you know people used to smoke cigarettes to look cool and keep their weight down? That men working in white-collar jobs wore suits to work to distinguish themselves from the lower-classes (hence the name "white-collar")?
One counter example: the Go team, when it started (Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Robert Griesemer, Russ Cox, Ian Lance Taylor), was quite senior. But they did deliver.
But then you still have “getting”
> Is Social Science considered a rigorous science, or will we look back in 100 years and group it in as we do with phrenology?

I think there's a middle ground between being a rigorous science and being an anti-science like phrenology. I think there's no problem with having soft sciences, as long as the difference between them and hard sciences is understood, and one does not confuse the levels of rigor and certainty between the two.
My Visa debit card has all of these protections.
They ran the experiment with HFCS, so that's what they used in the conclusion.

In practice I wouldn't expect different results with a bolus of table sugar. However, they didn't test that so they didn't make any claims about it. Mostly just being scientifically accurate.
Show HN: A virtual 1960's TV that lets you relive the channel-surfing past
I launched My60sTV today and thought I would share it with this community.
Hope you enjoy!

Thanks,
Joey
vnlog: https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog/

Magic comment with field labels is required, and you can then use the usual unix tools for processing. It's magical.
Why do you want to do a startup? Money, "success", really care about a cause? Whatever it is, how much of your family will you sacrifice in pursuit of it?

Does it have to be a "startup." Is there a business you can start and grow at a reasonable pace?

There is such thing as ministry of presence. It's the value others receive by your simply living life with them in an attentive and caring way. IMO, the typical startup will require so much from you, you won't be able to invest well in your family.

I'd encourage you to make family investment a top priority. I'm 40 and I've done freelancing and now own a dev consulting company. But I deliberately avoided the startup lifestyle or expectations. I prioritized my family and I've not regretted it. I'm not successful by some standards, but I won't lay on my death bed someday regretting not being there for my wife and kids.
Mine is web-based, written in a memory-safe language, no need to download and run a local executable, supports OSes other than Windows, thousands less lines of code, but read-only. Thanks for mentioning TweakPNG though; I think I'll link to it as another resource.
So the only winning move is not to play? A strange game, indeed.
> the prefix of many of your trigrams is just going to be surrogate pair bytes

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Surrogate pairs are a UTF16 thing, not relevant here.

> you've essentially eliminated Unicode support entirely.

That's not obvious to me at all. In text containing non-ASCII characters, the trigrams that span UTF8 character boundaries are likely to give you the selectivity you need.

> And for languages that use characters with three bytes, you're essentially indexing individual characters

Not at all. The index would be a function of character pairs.

It certainly could be worse but how much worse would depend on the characteristics of the source texts, which is why I think it would be really interesting to see whatever data Sourcegraph has on this.
I compiled these links a month or so ago (an aeon in Covid-time):

Brain damage - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01693-6

Pulmonary function - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7997144/

Cardiovascular disease - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-020-0413-9
I mean everything Peter Thiel funds is basically a technology out of Minority Report combined with a name from Lord of the Rings on it

At this point you can probably reverse engineer that process. Invent something that persecutes minorities in some form, go to the lotr wiki, hit the random button and apply for a loan
Absolutely. FiveThirtyEight has an excellent article [1] from 2016 that reiterates what you say here. In short: A lot of the tropes about college elitism are bogus. (But instead of relying on conventional wisdom to support their argument, they use data, and some might find that too elitist.)

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/shut-up-about-harvard/
We actually do need action, and the whole “we can’t do anything so why try” argument was never made in good faith to begin with. Rather it’s just one barrier of many in a game of political trench warfare. The bottom line is that we have incumbent industries that make money from the status quo and they maximize income by running out the clock.
Risk I understand. But that's not really an issue here. These are relatively small payments, and it is easy to see what percentage end up causing them trouble. I doubt it is any higher than anything else.

Content, no. My email provider doesn't get involved in what I am emailing (even though they might be "facilitating" a crime or other unsavory), the car dealership doesn't get involved in what I am going to use the car for. I mean by your logic a grocery store could ask what business you are in, and not sell you food because that is facilitating what you are doing.

Sure, if law enforcement and courts get involved, then they can stop being a provider.

But to suggest that it somehow reflects badly on the credit card company that they are used on a porn site is ridiculous.
I agree that societal instability stem from problems within the elites, but not sure it's due to 'elite overproduction' necessarily. I think it has more to do with divergence of interests within the elites. Even without elite overproduction, if the interests of a significant segment of the elites diverged from the interests of the rest of the elites, then you will have societal breakdown, civil war, etc.

One example is the american revolution where the one group of elites in the british empire wanted good relations with the indians to protect their fur trade while another group of elites wanted to invade native areas and steal their land. Don't think there was an issue of elite overproduction in the british empire in the mid 1700s. But there was an issue of divergent interests and there was no room for compromise as these competing interests directly conflicted with each other.

Another one is the civil war, where the interests of the industrial north ( the desire to protect industry via tariffs ) directly conflicted withe the interests of the agrarian south ( who wanted to remove tariffs ) so they could sell cotton/agricultural goods to foreign markets. Once again, I don't think there was an overproduction of elites in the north or the south in the 1850s.

But I guess if the elite overproduction was severe enough, it could structural conflict of interests. But my guess is that conflicts would naturally arise amongs the elites long before elite overproduction.
Taliban to Gain Control over $1T Mineral Wealth
> So, you get it now?

You said you thought it was supposed to make us feel good, then you said you don't know what it was supposed to do.

Both things cannot be true at the same time, can they?
Exactly. Many senior-level people probably do want to write code, create things, and do that "shovel to dirt" work, but their company's performance review process discourages it. So, instead they have to fill their days with all that cross team impact, leadership, architecture, complexity, and process improvement stuff. Everywhere I've worked, "shovel to dirt" work is seen as what's done by the lowest rung on the totem pole. This mentality is all over industry. If you want to get promoted, you need to "create organizational transformation and synergistic thought leadership" instead.
You are paying in pesos, but someone is happily taking a fee to do the exchange and settle the payment with you in a different currency.
Am I the only one who feels like there are more important things to worry in the world about than emotional support animals?
Bees some of the most organized forms of life on this planet.

Bees have different roles, among them, the queen bee. Bees have the ability to create queens by feeding them with royal jelly. When for any reason there's more than one queen, queens fight to death.
> My wife is at home full-time - Chief of Domestic Operations - and that’s what makes it work.

I feel that this is very important and makes a huge difference. I think most families still have a "primary" caregiver (by that I mean it's not 50%-50%), even if not stay-at-home. Not only being that parent is incredibly time consuming [1], but it also comes with a draining mental load (raising kids is an endless grind of having to make decisions in the dark).

Grandparents and other community support can also be very beneficial.

[1] At some point during partial lockdowns, I clocked 70+ hours per week spent with my children. Meanwhile my partner was not slacking off averaging 40+ hours. That's with two full-time jobs, only two children, and still some daycare access (child care was prioritized in my area and was shut down only during the direst of the pandemic).
This is pretty cool. I'm hoping to see a stress test write up.
I think its cool.

Is the code for this open source anywhere?
“gay unicorn at a funeral” is not a particularly convincing example of “NSFW intent”.

They also seem to think “art related” and “NSFW intent” are mutually-exclusive categories. This is a rather narrow conception of “art”. The collection of the Yerba Buena Center, for one of very many examples, would be much poorer if it was restricted with this view.
Huh.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Informatics+pharmacist&t=fpas&ia=w...
And it seems like a weirdly petty thing to do, too. If Twitter had a problem with what he said, they’d warn/ban him, not take his badge away.

I’m inclined to believe this was a mistake on someone’s part.
We do experiments in mice because they are cheap, most people don't care too much if you kill them and dissect them, it's actually quite hard to get meaningful data from humans and a violation of a bunch of medical ethics stuff to do similar experiments in humans.

I happen to think "in mice" matters. We don't really know how well that translates and I read medical research pieces because I have a serious condition. For me, the stakes are fairly serious. Killing or not killing me is not hypothetical. It's very real.
Really like the initial impression. I’ve been playing around with Apple’s CreateML tool, which seems to be similar in capability, maybe(?), but is a GUI app that forces me into a process where I need to use switch from ruby to GUIs to XCode and Swift to the cLI…

The reference in the name & the monospaced font work well to establish a sense of being a developer‘s company, but not just anyone but someone with a background in math(?). Perfect marketing to get me, although I‘m not a lucrative prospect. Is it possible that you’d catch bigger fish by going corporate? Possible, yes. But it’s my impression this has and still is shifting drastically.

One meta-issue for now: somehow, I always read the imprint when I am checking out some software or service. I can’t really make a case why it’s helpful, and you are obviously free to maintain an air of mystery. But if it’s just an oversight or you haven’t gotten around to it, just naming a city & country goes a long way to convincing me that you exist. Short bios are also useful, or links to your Twitter accounts, although J found those with only minimal stalking.(This preference may just be a result from my home country of Germany requiring such data and making it possible to get into the habit).
To be frank the "water wars" seems suspiciously zeitgeist and "trope-driven" like Bloomberg's "backdoor chip" story. There is no need for them to add a separate chip when they are fabbing the damn thing. It seems far more "apocalyptic symbolism" than any remotely rational connection beyond "Step one: water instability. Step two: ??? Step Three: War!". It completely ignores all conflict resolution mechanisms, deals, and trades and just assumes foreordained war.
Is there a way to start watching at the beginning if I missed the start?
Thank you. That said, I had a chance to look around while waiting for some experiments such as https://www.kapwing.com/ai-video-generator/611efcb7027b69010... ... Neat service you have. Will try at some point.
> You'd think you were getting a 3 day trial for a buck but instead you'd be getting a $300-1000 charge on your card.

The same technique, though not to such an extreme degree, was used to make candidate loans in the last US election.
from [2],

> Further, the claimant must possess the land adversely to the actual owner. This means that the adverse possessor cannot be occupying the land with the permission of the owner.

Dave claims that he was given permission to occupy the land by a previous owner, which can complicate matters here. If the current owner took possession more than 20 years ago and insists that permission was not granted, then Dave wins. If they took possession less than 20 years ago, then Dave hasn't been there without permission for long enough, unless there's some duty to inform. Given that the legal dispute started in 2016 the window probably isn't even 27 years: more like 21. And without documentation to establish that he was actually there 27 years ago, it's not looking good for Dave here
Perhaps somebody could make unflaggable CSAM images by giving them the same hashes as very widely available images.
(I agree with your rant.)

Stepping away to take a walk helps clear the air, gets the blood moving, and changes up the surroundings. It's rarely the full solution, but quite often a good first start. Good luck, and take care.
https://archive.is/rLzQF
Open it in YouTube and scroll back.
A sufficiently advanced technologist is also indistinguishable from a magician.
If that's the case, then why is student debt such a problem? Or is that equally overhyped?
This. It was (near the) front page news of most local newspapers that all get their news from the same Reuters-like sources/each other - stories like this are always popular water-cooler topics and spread rapidly as easy smalltalk.
Check out edx.org. It is run by Harvard University and MIT. Can't get much better than that. They coordinate classes and programs by great universities all of the USA and world. Here are other universities that are part of the edx.org program: https://www.edx.org/schools-partners

You can take classes for free or can get certificates of completion for each class.

They have micro-Bachelors programs offered by universities that have a higher cost, but are 100% online, very inexpensive, actual real college credits, no application process. You can pay $500 - $1400 for a micro-course of 3-5 classes, or you can take them individually for free.

https://www.edx.org/microbachelors

They have UX classes: https://www.edx.org/learn/user-experience-ux

https://www.edx.org/learn/ux-design

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They also have professional certifications. https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate

UI is great. If you are not 100% settled on that, Cybersecurity pays huge dollars and you will get job offers out the ass. It costs $1,344, which is a screaming deal, if you want the certificate. And again, you can take each class seperately for free, but with no certification. https://www.edx.org/microbachelors/nyux-cybersecurity-fundam...

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I would definitely give this a look.

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However, if you want an actual associates degree, then I would advise you to look at your instate public community college system and see if they have online programs, as that will be by far your least expensive way to go, and follow that up by going to your instate public state university. As you said, it is up to you to check each class for it's transferability to your public state university. I would hard core recommend that you do NOT talk to any private university unless tuition is under $10K per year, which I only see rarely. And you need to go in-state public universities because it can be very expensive to go to out of state higher education. For example, for California community colleges, the average tuition is approximately $1,458 per year for in-state students and $6,710 for out-of-state students. I know my nephews took a lot of online courses from the California community colleges. You'll have to check out your own, in whatever state that you are in.

Good luck.
I dont want to be in a facebook owned vr space in order to do my job. That plus these cartoons in a corporate context is so disgusting to me
> Growth != more people

I think you've conflated the success/ROI of the business with the need to hire more people.

Success is not guaranteed, no matter how impressed we are with an idea or how proud we are of its execution. A leadership team over a long enough period of time running the business and constantly looking at "the numbers" will develop some intuition of how to steer the ship. They'll make plans for what they think they need to do to increase the chances of success, with concrete facts and trends or just good storytelling. There's no magic bullet.

Your company may be mature enough that it has steady revenue so you need to protect that part of the business, because it's not fun to explain to investors that revenue is down because you pulled employees off known-revenue generating projects to do projects that may or may not move the needle. You need to be mindful that there will be future fundraising rounds, and you want existing investors to join them.

So you have to hire. You need to spend money to tackle new projects, to increase your chances of success, without impacting the existing success you've had and adding headcount is much cheaper/less risky than rocking the boat on existing projects or not tackling the new things.

But no plan is perfect, and even experienced leaders will make mistakes that will have negative consequences within the organization.
Is this the terminal stage of a tech startup?

Your entire business model was crushed by payment companies so you pivot in whatever direction you think you can.
What does this mean for Round 1?

It seems to be making inroads in the US.
umm they aren't in the tournament because they might not have a good swing or the strength or focus the actual golfer has
Agreed. Unfortunately, a concerning percentage of the population seems driven to treat it as the former when defining their core beliefs, like castles built on sand.
OK, RealSense CTO put a comment in another issue:
https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/9648

tl;dr: RealSense Stereo cameras are mostly sticking around.
I wonder how many would carry the pornocard in their wallet. Perhaps the ViceCard or even FreedomOfSpeechCard.

I doubt ApplePay would support it.

Perhaps a membership service like Costco. Probably someone has tried it, like perhaps a casino chain.