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Please don't post this sort of high-indignation, low-information post, especially when the topic is inflammatory. It breaks many of the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and degrades discussion.

If your post is rooted in personal experience that you would be willing to share, of course that would be a completely different thing. But simply venting the energy of it like this does nothing to foster understanding.
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Think “show your titties,” not “suck a dick.”
> Gab was being used to promote hate, violence, and misinformation

So is every other social media site
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Facebook - Their infrastructure is pretty crude which means they’ll run into the problem.
Not any more.
Seems like a business opportunity for someone to build a Stripe for vice businesses. Question I know nothing about is besides being stigmatized, do these industries have higher fraud rates? Pretty sure credit card companies won't let you "chargeback" stripe clubs as fraud even if it wasn't you.
For the person yes. But others may prefer to build their understanding emphasizing one or the other. (And that might feed back to the first person's presentation and incentives, in turn affecting their person.)

Does We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse deserve a mention here?
How did you know about those to follow in the first place?

They are known because 1) they care to publish their opinion, and 2) they tell others about their work.

2) is also known as marketing, a.k.a. advertising. We're often told it isn't enough to do good work to advance our career, we have to tell others about it as well. How well you present your story has big impact on how far reached and well received your work can be.

Bottom line is, you are influenced by marketing/advertising, whether you want to admit it or not. You following someone is for sure not solely because of the quality of their work.
Why is Bloomberg the primary source for this? OnlyFans is too cowardly to make a press release?

Anyway, it seems like OF is about to accomplish an epic maneuver: raise money at a $1 billion valuation based on a product you just cancelled.
> taxes expand to include more and more people, despite originally being told they would not.

And with them, the country's population, infrastructure, and economy expanded and transformed. Some may argue for the better, others for the worse, but taxes and societal development are intrinsically linked.
I don't think I've ever been on onlyfans, but anytime I've heard the name in a news context it is associated with pay-for-porn. I don't think I've ever heard of a non-porn thing on there, whether its in the news or people advertising their fan site. Do they actually have some sort of non-porn reputation that exceeds the porn reputation that I've never heard mentioned before? From what I gather, their reputation is about the same as pornhub, when it comes to "porn." I don't see how they fix that, and stay in business. This is just an opinion of a passer-by who casually hears the name. I don't think I'm much different than most people who have never been on there, which I'm assuming is most people in general.
Basically affiliate cracking! That's an idea!
I know of people building OF in crypto, I’m sure they’re happy right now.
> (as suggested by the amount of reports done by Facebook)

The number of reports is not the number of actual incidents. It could be Facebook's algorithms are really shitty and has millions of false positives. NCMEC and similar organizations like to brag about numbers of reports because Big Number Good.
I'm actually starting to evaluate some VR collaborative work/presentation tools and I'm very interested to try this.

The problem these kinds of tools are trying to solve is the one thing video conferencing can't do, which is the ability to communicate using the semantics of 3d space. In a meeting room, I can direct an audience to different parts of a room for different conceptual "spaces". For example, I might use one part of a room to collect and display engineering drawing, another for prototypes, another for a Kanban, etc.

After a solid year of literally thousands of teleconference calls, it's clear to me and my team at least that this spatial component is important in real-life meetings and is noticeable when it's not there. When we all come into the office and hit a meeting room together, the ad-hoc ability to use a whiteboard (often together and collaboratively), or sit together in groups around the conference table, it all has important value.

So far I've messed with Spatial.io and a couple other remote training applications, and while they're "ok", they're fussy to use in practice. Most importantly they don't really have a smooth way of integrating work artifacts from your computer into the experience, and the whiteboarding frankly stinks. Lots of comments here also talk about how this kind of meeting eliminates subtle facial cues and can be kind of uncomfortable for the wearer. I also totally agree with this.

But I'm also aware that this is a technology in its absolute infancy, and I'm expecting it to get better at some point.
I think the point is that if Apple did optimize the algorithm using ImageNet then they and we are seeing the same best case scenario.
Man, I would hate to be the judge of "nude but not sexually explicit" content
"We went from 1400KB of RAM per repo to 310KB with no measurable latency changes."

So, not exactly, but close. ~22% of previous usage.
Swedish penis pump?
Thanks. You're right. Very sophisticated system. Still find it morally repugnant, but technologically it is fairly thorough.
1. Freedom of Speech extends to all parties in a relationship

2. Freedom of speech includes choosing who I work with

3. It makes sense to have certain restrictions on freedom of speech, especially as it relates to clearly harmful discrimination (i.e. racial discrimination, gender discrimination)

4. It does not make sense to restrict freedom of speech in the case of pornography, specifically, whether a company can choose to work with pornographers or not
Right, but that means it will be a lot easier to scam regular people. The ability to clawback money is a vital way of stopping scams over the internet.
I see a similar pattern in electronic health records startups, javascript frameworks, backends for APIs and many other domains:

1. There are way too many standards, we have n standards

2. The ecosystem is fragmented and we have to let them talk to each other

3. I think we should solve it by introducing our new standard

4. We now have n+1 standards

And I am not saying I have solution.
I understand, but there's usually a good reason why the underserved sectors are the way they are. For the payments industry I would imagine this market is simply not large enough to allow for economies of scale, so the services can't be priced at a level where it can be sustainable.

It seems like an obvious area for crypto to stake a claim, but that doesn't appear to have happened.
Because it is a high risk area, just like gambling
acer nitro 5 is my choice for a laptop for running ubuntu, good battery life, I get about 5+ hours.
Unexpected.
Post LinkedIn jobs as ANY employer – so can attackers, a hotbed for ID theft
*people who could afford a palliative care nurse
No. I'm in the US and my bank even blocked sign in bonuses "just to be sure everyone is ok with it because it's a lot of money". Using plain old inter banking transfers for something like OnlyFans subscriptions is suicide and the new APIs like Zelle or Venmo are subject to even more internal regulations than credit cards regarding percentage of fraud transactions/porn.
HOA -> Vereniging van eigenaren.

I assume one needs to reach an agreement.
If you're looking for a desktop application you can run locally, https://www.sourcetrail.com/ is quite nice.
You can both trust someone and have a prenup. The reasoning is that no one is 100% infallible with perfect judgement. Recognizing that you don't have perfect judgement doesn't mean you trust your partner any less.
I have Mon/Tues/Friday blocked like this.

If people can't find an open time on Wed/Thurs, or they have to schedule on my blocked days in order to coordinate with others, then they reach out and ask when I'm available.

It's a great way to control your time.

Also, always ask "can this be an email?" and "what's the agenda & decision that needs to be made for the meeting?".
The AMD 5x86/133 was a similar kind of situation. Drop one of those into a decent 486 board w/ some L2 cache and you got better than 75Mhz Pentium performance at a ridiculously low price point as compared to a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM.
Some years ago I interviewed with a company that served as a payment risk processor for high-risk businesses (in short, porn).

The chargeback rate on online porn is huge. As a result, where a traditional payment processor may be 1.3–3.5% depending on the business and the assessed risk, for a high-risk business, the rate can be much much higher. While Onlyfans keeps 20%, I'm guessing that they'd be badly hurt if they had to give half that to their payment processor. I'm sure they've looked at their numbers and they find the non-porn providers are more profitable to them, especially if it means they can lower their processing fees. Booting the porn providers will likely also make it easier to recruit more non-porn providers.
IDEA: Master/Slave-Card, available in Black or Brown just chargeable with crypto or cash max amount 300$ no address needed, if lost, your problem.
It's six in one and a half dozen in the other. Banks only care about sex trafficking because sex trafficking is a crime and processing money from criminal activity is... money laundering. But regardless, what's the risk of sex trafficking here? Again, these payments are coming from and going to known parties. In fact, this should be a KYC dream come true. Because of the adult content OnlyFans collects (and in the case of payment recipients, confirms) the name, DOB, and address of everyone buying and selling on the platform.

If human trafficking were the actual risk banks were trying to mitigate here then it would be difficult for any business sector that relies on migrant workers to obtain banking services but I've never heard of an almond grower having trouble opening a bank account.
Or that just the transfer fees would be more than most payments.

Or that no one would be able to properly use those payouts.
Won't enough images be real matches for them to be looking at it (in low res) for most of their work day?
>I do not trust Apple. I don't really trust any major tech company, because they put profit first, and everything else comes second.

Then you should have never been using a closed system like Apple in which they had control over every aspect of it. That is my fundamental point. I'm not saying you should trust Apple. I am saying this shouldn't have changed your opinion on Apple.

>So that we can all get used to it, and not make a big fuss when google announces android will do the same thing. It's much easier to do things without needing to keep them a secret. This is in no way only about apple, they're just breaking the ice so to speak.

I just need more evidence before I believe a global conspiracy that requires the coordination between both adversarial governments and direct business competitors.
Is this page purely a Seinfeld reference?
i'm down
Same here, whole at my previous job, they contacted me and since I knew the product already I really wanted to use it.

I engaged with them because I wanted to convince my management to pay for the damn thing instead of running some crappy hound instance. But you know how those things go, management didn't want to invest time in running the trial, nobody could just install this on their spare time because the very fact that we started this engagement with the trial program effectively turned fun into work and so nothing happened.

That's why opensource wins. Nobody is pushing it down your throat. You have a problem, you find a solution, you have the incentive to actually follow through your own drive and just use the best tool you found. Some companies have understood that and monetize on support and other things that happen long after you've been hooked to the free and open product.

Not sure sourcegraph can't do that as well, but I'm sure they have their good reason. Business is hard, I'm just an engineer.

I'm sharing this perspective just because, when you seel stuff to engineers, you should know how engineers think.

Yes, some products for engineers are sold to managers/execs instead; you can tell because engineers hate to use those, but they usually have no choice.

Sourcegraph is a pleasure to use. I'm regularly impressed by the snappiness of the UI. No wonder they're trying to sell it to engineers, it seems to have been indeed built for engineers!

But yeah, their reach out strategy can feel a bit invasive and sloppy.
i imagine their income from a few years ago is much larger than it is today.
Also, as an immigrant to NL, the first election I was eligible to vote in was for my local water authority - because they predate the Netherlands as a state by hundreds of years so the only criterion for voting rights is residency. Fascinating stuff, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_board_(Netherlands)
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I imagine their options were:

* switch to crypto entirely

* keep credit cards, but block sexually explicit content

I doubt there was middleground where they could accept crypto for sexually explicit content, but still accept credit cards for everything else.

Which makes me think that a smart move here would be to spin off a second company that does allow this content, but only accepts payments in crypto. I suppose if they don't, there is a opportunity ripe for a competitor to take advantage of.
I'm still surprised nobody tried to bridge the two .. it seems like the most obvious of shark fad business move
Love this idea! Have felt the problem myself and have seen my mother/MIL/wife struggle with the same thing.

It's clear that you both have extensive experience in the space, too.

How can I help / get involved? :-)
Nothing is on crypto payments because you never know how you are actually paying
Porn isn't criminal... ?
Right, resonance dodging and deflection compensation aren't going to cut it here, not by a long shot. I still think a sufficiently good 5 axis control loop could damp acoustics: for one, the (fractional) millisecond timescale of the acoustic oscillations are geological by compute standards, and while I'd expect limitations from sensing, actuation, and power electronics, I don't see anything fundamentally prohibitive. I'm pretty sure this is an engineering problem, not a physics problem, and that eventually someone is going to crack this nut. It won't be the Polar Bear.
That's precisely what I was alluding to.

I myself have severe ADHD combined form or whatever it is called in English. Medication helps to level the playing field somewhat and I'm glad it exists and that I have access to it, but it is not a definite fix by any stretch.

Not. Even. Close.
3D Printed Solid-State Battery Rivals Lithium-Ion
But it's just an internet search of photos isn't it? You'll still get links to news articles and write-ups and anyone reading about Abu Gharaib tortures will still see these and the accompanying photos. A prospective employer googles your name, it could still come up, just not the photos.
Jason Yip shares his observations for scaling software teams during hyper growth (and what not to do). I liked his insight on group structure alignment with the stability of the group's strategy: "Structure should be stable where strategy is stable; structure should be flexible where strategy is volatile. For example, if a broader department-level product strategy is stable while more local tactics are volatile, you should want the structure and shared identity of the department to be stronger and more stable than team-level structures and identities."
I've seen this before, it's a not uncommon link to see thrown around any time someone wants to accuse someone of being disingenuous of the reason for someone else's anger or resentment.

Although even the piece notes that sometimes people are just shitty, sometimes the reason isn't that the estranged did something wrong. And in that case, the estranged could genuinely not know.

And that those who know don't hang around forums like the ones mentioned because they aren't helpful. If you know why someone is estranged from you and you can articulate those reasons, you go to a place that deals with those reasons.

Although I'm curious what prompted you to post this.
Coinbase and Venmo's role is analogous to a bank that offers account holders debit cards that can access CC networks, not the organizations in control of the CC networks themselves.
That's not young at all. How much trouble did people have accepting Euro in 2011?
I just ignore all downvotes that don't give some sort of rebuttal. I just assume I pissed someone off by stating fact they didn't like otherwise. In fact, I think that would be an excellent feature - you can't downvote without an honest reply.
I agree, those are all blowback of subsidies. But they are also side effects of food abundance. The downsides of food shortage seems much worse.

Maybe there’s an argument that we’ve moved passed the era of food scarcity when those policies were enacted and they should be modified. But I think a blanket claim that food subsidies are an inherent bad policy misses their point.
idk... the Euro was introduced in 1998/1999 I heard it was already pretty huge a couple of years later.
I think you’re wrong to say RDP isn’t up to scratch. I do _optimize_ it, but it now encompasses modern video and audio codecs with very low latency, and it is certainly good enough for me to view training videos, do full screen browser scrolling at a very good clip, etc.

Also, it keeps getting improved-today’s RDP has very little to do with what we had five years ago.
Well, the article was copy pasted from a web page with a big old "Copyright ©2013 The Optical Society" at the bottom. So yeah, it's textbook copyright infringement; press releases (or publicity blurbs, in this case) are protected by copyright law. I don't think the Optical Society was likely to pursue legal action against Wikipedia for this, but it's perfectly reasonable for Wikipedia to enforce a policy of "don't copy paste copyrighted material into articles."
You joke... but having personally seen how many decisions are made this way at high levels of corporations and even government this is rather plausible.
> An individual willingly trying to compromise their employer’s network is not going to publicize not getting paid because it will get him/her arrested.

They will anonymously post on the message boards dedicated to ransomeware gangs that this particular gang is not reputable. Like leaving a Yelp review, except even more trustworthy because it's a relatively tight-knit community.

It would only work out for the gang if the ransom was enough money they decide to "retire" and not pay out. In all other situations, they need their reputation.
With all due respect, the fact that anyone is forced into porn to get housing be safe from abusive partners is the indictment of a society.

I get that it's a de facto situation for some, but let's not drop the onus on "morality police", payment processors, and OnlyFans for a massive societal failure to help vulnerable people. You could take that argument as far as you want (prostitution, drug sales, etc). There is some level of dignity that everyone's entitled to. If someone does OF by choice because they love it, good for them. If someone is compelled to in order to feed their kids or leave an abusive partner, then we should all be ashamed of that.
Almost all very wealthy countries have socialized healthcare including palliative care. For roughly a billion people, palliative care is free.
China does not really need Apple to do much. They already make installation of some apps mandatory by law. Also, some communication must be done with WeChat and so on. They have pretty good grip already.
There are stable coins as well, where you know exactly what you're paying.
> Yes, the payment processors will bark at the porn site. Move to a more expensive processor for that site only, pay 5%, 10% fee, it doesn't really matter, it's free money.

If PH is having trouble processing any form of credit card, a smaller company will have no chance at all. We're seeing a sterilization of legitimate porn on the internet, done by legitimate tax paying western companies. It'll be left to whoever can operate beyond those constraints, which is kind of a sad state of affairs for free speech, separation of church and state, and policing in general.
> Starting in October, the company will prohibit creators from posting material with sexually explicit conduct on its website [...]. They’ll still be allowed to put up nude photos and videos, provided they’re consistent with OnlyFans’ policy.

So nude is OK but it may not sexually explicit?

That seems like a very fine line to walk, with much associated drama.
Which general public? This stuff varies by jurisdiction.
There was even a AskHN question here a while ago (1..3 years) from somebody ot of this kind of business. A part of the discussion was also how OnlyFans just can do it. The fall of Wirecard (and new owner) was a problem for Pornhub last year.
I the most early case I know was Fetlife .. it had been over 10 years now..
Product management in infrastructure eng. – Irrational Exuberance
When I was working at BBN in 1978, in part on a LOGO project, the official spelling was in CAPS.

Don't forget, in those days, a lot of devices were upper-case only. Hence, even in the 1970s, many people said `FORTRAN' and `COBOL'.
I don't have any at the moment where a commit to one triggers a build in another, but I have a bunch that run on a schedule, pull code from other repos and do stuff with it.

Best example of that is here: https://github.com/simonw/covid-19-datasette/blob/main/.gith...
"Most infrastructure teams have a lot of experience in Foundation, but have much less in Innovation, so I won’t belabor managing through scarcity, and will instead dive into how to manage in times of surplus engineering capacity." -- Will Larson covers how to approach roadmap planning and vision when it comes to internal infrastructure teams. It is never easy to get this right, as you often find yourself considering building a generic PaaS (although it's not your core business) versus stitching together a solution based on a few well-known tools.
I would bet money that there is some portion of the content on OnlyFans breaking the law.
I'm good at some stuff, and got there by practicing, but the stuff I'm great at* I got to through love. It's extremely effective, if you can accept the constraint on choice. You can (conditional on willpower) choose what to study diligently, but choosing what to love is harder, maybe impossible.

*I speak amazing-for-a-gringo Spanish largely because I married a Colombian. I'm CTO in two places at once because I coded a lot of projects and learned a lot of languages for fun. And I used to play piano or guitar on average 4 hours a day, which paid of by making me good at it but in no other material way -- almost no money in particular -- so take that as an argument in either direction.
How long were the ticks on you before you removed them?
The Netherlands is a complex, densely populated country with more ethnic and religious diversity than NYC. It's an overbearing nanny state or anarchy.