skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if you switched to a part time job that let you take care of the bills without dipping into any retirement funds?

That would give you the option to work 20-25 hours a week for your main part time job and then another 20 hours a week for your start up idea while still working ~40 hours a week.

Personally I would say it's well worth spending a couple of years trying that out instead of going down the path of 12+ hour work days with a family.
Good for River Dale but Alex Karp should be in prison and Palantir should be shut down. An enemy of the free world. Hopefully we'll see Palantir employees face prosecution if they ever dare to leave the USA.
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It is _impossible_ to "knock" something from LEO to GEO. You can kick it to raise the apogee to GEO altitude, but the perigee will still be LEO. To change between two circular orbits, you need at least two impulses.
From the article...I am also amazed at the downvotes.

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Schools have shared anonymous reports of pupils using the site, including a 16-year-old who boasted to her careers adviser about the amount of money she made on the site, and showed off her "exuberant" spending on Instagram.

Underage creators and users of the site include victims of prior sexual abuse and those with mental health issues and suicidal thoughts, according to Childline counsellor notes.
UK police forces say children have complained about their images being uploaded to the site without consent, and one 17-year-old reported being blackmailed.

Missing children are appearing in OnlyFans videos, according to a US watchdog, which also says it has received reports of child sexual exploitation.

"It is increasingly clear that OnlyFans is being used by children," says chief constable Simon Bailey, the UK's child protection lead.

"The company is not doing enough to put in place the safeguards that prevent children exploiting the opportunity to generate money, but also for children to be exploited."

In a statement, OnlyFans says it could not respond specifically to the anonymous reports we were told about without the account details.

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> Here is my related hypothesis: we now put more weight on many smaller lower-noise status markers, instead of fewer bigger noisier markers. In particular, we put more weight on markers of connections to statusful people and institutions.

At first I didn't agree with OP's claim that there is more visibility of status. I don't think that is entirely correct: I always knew my family was poor, and I knew who the rich kids were, or who the top performers were. But when I circled back to the top of the article I realized it makes sense: 40 years ago in my childhood it was rich/not-rich, smart/not-smart, hot/not-hot. Now there are dozens of metrics for ranking oneself. I agree that overload of negative data is the anxiety driver.

It's like we're all being forced to become data scientists and numbers junkies. We've metricked the hell out of our well-being. At least for this generation. Aren't we infinitely adaptable? Or will future kids just have shorter life spans due to the social stress?
A. Needs the usual disclaimer "in mice" added to the title.

B. It's not as simple as the title seems to suggest and I like this section for summing up a nutshell "good news, bad news" take on this:

Evidence has emerged5–8 that the small intestine acts as the gatekeeper for the mammalian body against the harmful effects of fructose, the main one being the aberrant accumulation of fat (termed steatosis) in the liver. Moderate amounts of fructose — for example, those ingested when consuming fruits — are taken up and broken down by intestinal cells. Excess amounts, such as those that might be ingested after drinking a sugary beverage, overwhelm the intestine’s absorptive capacity and the fructose either ‘leaks’ into the bloodstream to reach the liver intact, or it spills over from the small intestine and reaches the colon5.
IDK... if money is all that concerns you, I'd say stay away from porn, or white supremacy. Not much money in being a pariah, usually. As you say, employees may leave. Investors may leave. Banks may try to drop you.
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How did they adapt to it? Asking as someone who didn't know Tumblr was still around.
I did it at 37 with two kids.

As others have pointed out, the key is focus. You have a family and they demand / deserve some amount of your time.

So make that time. Prioritize it.

There will always be more to do in your company than you or your team can address. Focus on the important stuff, say no to the rest.
I guess that's possible, but it's hard for me to imagine that with billions of dollars at stake they didn't even consider it. I think they made the calculation that forcing their customers and creators to use crypto would lose them even more business than banning their core product.
Elevating this. The youngest years are the hardest for the parents and also the most formative for the little ones. Take the time, work somewhere with good parental leave (and take it!), and become a founder a few years later. Or stay a founder and iterate at a pace that's balanced.

For the kids, for your health, for your wife :)
I don't understand the argument you are trying to make.

Are you arguing that all sex work should be illegal because it is possible that there is an unhealthy relationship involved?

Would you also extend that to the modeling industry as well?

What about professional cheerleading?

Hooters waitresses?

If there is a couple who decides for the guy to be a stay at home dad, and the wife pays the bills via sex work, is he a pimp?

What if you reverse the genders in the above?

I know couples in both situations. I wouldn't characterize their relationships as abusive, but you might?
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Interesting article and ideas. I wonder how well we can truly know how the thoughts and motivations of “our generation” compares to “past generations” though. How would we _know_ that people today are more worried about status than people in the past? How would we _know_ that in the past merit carried more weight than “noble blood.” That doesn’t seem to me like something that can be quantified, so I don’t see how we can confidently make comparisons over time in any scientific sense, only in an anecdotal and philosophical sense.
When I saw Starship Troopers in theaters as a pre-teen, I was super pumped about fighting bugs as I left the theatre with my then friend. Funny how my perspective changed as I got older.

I thought he'd mentioned Anchorman cause Ferrell's gimmick for a good minute in the late 00s/early 2010s was parodying these traditionally masculine, patriarchal roles with his emotional manchild schitck that so many have seemingly derived their acts from (Tim Robinson and Eric André come to mind) and shortly after, or perhaps concurrently, the new wave of feminism took hold.
This.

You have to stop and ask yourself what it’s all for. What is the point of anything? For me kids filled in a large missing piece of the puzzle I couldn’t tell was missing.

Your startup can happen any time. Kids happens once, maybe twice and you are going to want to be there.

They’ll be in school so soon and then you’ll at least have a clear time in the day.

The more time you spend with your kids the more you’ll like it - and it will probably inspire a ton of ideas!

Misery is doing one thing while thinking about another
You (and LLVM people generally) use intermediate representation and bitcode interchangeably, it seems. The term bitcode seems specific to LLVM but I've generally heard bytecode as a code stream interpreted at runtime by a virtual machine (esp: java bytecode) while intermediate representation is a compiler's detailed representation of compiled (which will be later transformed to machine code instructions). It seems like bitcode is an IR/intermediate representation in this sense but the situation seems a bit fuzzy given LLVM is "low level virtual machine" but at this point, it's not a virtual machine at the end of the day but a compiler (which creates runnable machine code, right?).
Payment processors are totally cool with exploitation of kids with Cuties but lord forbid if consensual adults want to share sexual content, then that's a problem!
I certainly miss 90’s arcades but what made them special was limited access (my parents would only take me every now and then) and the gap between arcade and consumer hardware. There was a little bit of socializing but it was mostly with the friends that came along. I wish location-based VR experiences like The Void would become a modern substitute but the economics don’t seem to work.
Have you considered a ms surface for accessing your main machine? I’ve been tempted to use one running a linux disto for pretty much your use case, but haven’t pulled the trigger quite yet
Well, ok, disable credit cards. But debit cards don’t have these protections, transactions are essentially immutable.

I get they are less popular in the US but are probably, hmm, 70% of cards in Europe? So that’s a viable option.
Mono Clouds vs. Multi-Clouds and Hybrid Clouds
I went to a local Amazon fresh store and I was a bit disappointed. It had a barebones kind of feel. I found all I needed but I did not like being there. I can't put my finger on the cause but I don't think I'll return. Part of it was that the store was dark but I suspect there's more to it.

Anyhow, I hope they do better with their new stores.
I don’t understand this argument. I was there in the 90s and I tried it and it was shit and I got one of the worst headache I ever got. I had the first Go and Quest and holy shit how can anyone compare that to 90s VR?
There's quite a few dubious assertions here, but the interpretation of a poll jumped out at me.

> A poll of students taken at Pomona College in 2014 found that 5 percent of them identified as "disabled". That same poll administered in 2019 found that the figure had grown to 22 percent. A nearly fourfold increase in so brief a surely tracks the explosive growth of a culture of systemic advantage seeking; but it likely also indicates a changing perception of the self, a higher threshold of sensitivity to the vicissitudes of everyday life, and an overall normalization and valorization of the condition of disability.

It doesn't necessarily say that at all. In a country with thousands of colleges and universities, I don't think you can rule out chance. (Also, Pomona has 1500 students.)

Even if we saw a large increase across the U.S., it could also be due to increasing numbers of correct diagnoses (rather than overdiagnosis or fraudulent diagnosis) or a change in what conditions count as "disabilities." People considering, say, certain mental illnesses disabilities that they didn't before, that is an shift worth studying and commenting on, but not necessarily one caused by "systemic advantage seeking" or a "higher threshold of sensitivity".
I think this goes beyond status afforded to you by wealth and education. If you look at beauty standards for both men and women, they are converging around one or two achievable looks via make-up/filters/diet/exercise. Sure, we could all end up with the same credentials, but what’s everyone’s plan when we all also look the same?

I can’t help but laugh.
I think there is a lot of content which is not solo.
To clarify: The increased nutrient absorption they observed wasn’t actually a good thing. Our stomachs evolved to very efficiently extract as many nutrients as possible from the food we eat, so these nutrients weren’t being wasted. Rather, the excess fructose overwhelmed the normal nutrient breakdown process and resulted in an abnormal nutrient absorption pattern:

> Moderate amounts of fructose — for example, those ingested when consuming fruits — are taken up and broken down by intestinal cells. Excess amounts, such as those that might be ingested after drinking a sugary beverage, overwhelm the intestine’s absorptive capacity and the fructose either ‘leaks’ into the bloodstream to reach the liver intact, or it spills over from the small intestine and reaches the colon

Basically: Too much fructose at once, especially without all of the fiber and structure of fruit to slow it down, ends up in places it shouldn’t because the normal digestive processes can’t keep up. Spilling bursts of fructose into your bloodstream and your liver isn’t great for your body.

Excess Fructose spilling into the colon creates another set of problems as this can do weird things to the microbiome. Ideally the small intestine would be able to handle the fructose and leave the colonic bacteria to feed on the leftover complex carbohydrates, but if you eat too much fructose some of it spills into the colon.
Matching an exact string is also a valid regex, and I think the GP's simple attempt to use the substitution syntax illustrates JWZ's point even better than a more complex expression. There are so many ways of screwing it up that even a simple joke contained a bug.
two scenarios:

- Those images would either have to be actual CSAM (illegal to distribute in the first place and generally hard to get)

- fake collision images are placed instead, and all that would do is push the multiple fake CSAM images to Apple's human reviewers who would then likely mark it as a false positive/spam. If the Apple reviewer makes a mistake and does report it as CSAM them the only risk (in the US) is law enforcement having probably cause for search & seizure to look for other CSAM.
> You say there's neither church nor state, but then you cite payment processors and legal consent, which are both constructs that are determined by the state. And the content that's in question is sexual consent.

I don't think many people who believe in the separation of church and state would think that implies that the state doesn't have the ability to make and enforce laws around consent.
> 3. Despite #2 its hard to ignore the more than tripling of events from 1900-2000 to 2000-2100 (and we are only 20 years in this century)

Taking a brief look at the data, it's almost certainly reporting bias. Most of the entries for "trigger" in 2019 are variations on the theme "man stabs neighbor [sometimes only maybe] because water." The sources for these are generally local news reports, which are far easier to find in 2019 than they are in the 20th century. Indeed, the first such listing I see is in... 1999.

In general, the quality of the curation of this debate doesn't inspire much confidence in me (the Lesotho coup, I noticed, is listed twice as well... how did that get missed?).
My sense living in America is that sex-related issues are taken more seriously than, say, gun violence, murder, etc.
While the premise is interesting, I really do not buy some of the contemporary examples given at the end of the post. In particular the one about physics exams. It sounds a lot like "kids these days" fallacy which has been the standard complaint of each adult generation since the start of history https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love...

I teach university physics. Intro classes are easier and the exams in these classes are meant to test whether you have learnt physics, not uncover "gifted geniuses". Once you have shown interest in the early classes, you can decide to go into the more challenging classes, whether the classical "problem based" ones celebrated in this blog post, or the more recent "project based" ones which are just as challenging, just a different style of challenging. Which is good, we should encourage all types of genius, not only the masters of algebra. However, yes, we should avoid belittling the masters of algebra in these conversations as well, the same way we learnt to stop belittling "nerds" and "geeks".

For what is worth, the bad "problem based" classes that the author bemoans, have always existed.

Edit: A sibling comment explained that the Socrates quote I used is probably wrong. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
Negative feedback means the feedback coefficient is negative, you are trying to redefine the usual meaning.

It is like saying that I tested positive for COVID-19 WRT my health because I don't have the virus, it is not what a positive test means and it will confuse anyone who knows the correct terminology.
I'm substantially younger than River Dave and a lot of social norms and legal stuff has changed within my lifetime. Even if the law doesn't change, how it gets viewed, interpreted and applied can.

Social norms change and then older people are sometimes treated like their assumptions are crazy talk rather than totally normal assumptions from their childhood when what they are doing now wasn't some freakish, weirdo, "you must be an abusive criminal type" back then.
Your body is going to absorb the nutrients one way or another. High fructose doses are changing how those nutrients are absorbed in ways that aren’t beneficial. You don’t want a rapid spike of fructose absorption pumping unprocessed fructose into your bloodstream, as they observed.
But that’s not the problem. The problem is payments for services that aren’t illegal (legal age adult content), merely taboo and unwanted by a payments oligopoly (Visa and MasterCard).

Yes, crypto incurs drag from fees and inconvenience for a platform to transact in it, but it can’t turn your payments off overnight.

(and I make these comments as a crypto skeptic)
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Going to a university abroad, want to quit it and move back to the states.

My parents expect me to get a degree (they'd be fine with even an associates) and I don't hate the prospect but I'd prefer to start spending my time working on side projects (very rough list of random ideas: https://rajspace.brick.do/. there are plenty more in my head).

I'm looking for something:
-cheap
-not too time consuming (10-20 hours per week)
-ideally an associates degree with optionality to transfer to undergrad

I'm thinking of doing computer science since it's been a long-term interest. At the same time, I'm more interested in UI design but I'm not sure I'd want to study it for a full 2-4 years. I'm open to something completely different with studying programming myself on the side too.

Any suggestions on universities/courses?
No, the FBI's job is to investigate whether or not a crime has been committed. They'll do this by getting a warrant for your devices, and then take them and scan them.
Edit: Regrettably, the entertaining quote I copied below seems to be completely misattributed, as seen in the comment below.

This is a quote that I put in a sibling comment that might entertain you. The "kids these days" complaints have been a consistent claim made by each adult generation since antiquity https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love...
The notation s/<regex1>/<regex2> is perl for "replace every instance matching regex1 by regex2. Literal strings are regexes that match only themselves.
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I did not need to imagine Linus playing with himself today.
https://opensource.com/article/21/8/open-source-maintainers

i think
For those confused by this comment, they were referring to automatic loading of images when you open mail.
Yes I have worked with road workers. Have you?
>>Ok, but… how do I profit?

To some people the ethical problems with this system are worth the effort to make their implementation impossible.

if you are asking for monetary profit, that does not have to be a goal for someone to want to engage in disruption of this service.
I'm so glad you said this.

As someone not in the tech field, it is incredibly concerning that half the people here on Hacker News, people who help build this kind of technology, do not seem to be concerned with what Apple is doing.
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A false report is not going to lead to charges. In order to bring a case they need evidence of possession.
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> So, your question is how to evade security alerts for actions with potentially significant side effects?

Well there's already a big ol' button in an email that says, "click me to register". The end user doesn't really care about the implementation. If one pops up a security alert (the POST form) and one doesn't (the simple link), how do you think everyone implements that big ol' button, 100% of the time, for 100% of everything?

I wish email didn't work this way, but as far as I understand, this is the lay of the land. If there's a better way, I'll be happy to implement it in the system(s) that I have control over.

I'm really asking for engagement within the community with help solving this sticky problem (if it wasn't clear). If link caching is this prevalent, what to do about it, for things like registering via email?
Should be entitled, "OnlyFans to voluntarily shut down". Good for them. On to more upstanding work.
Assuming the issue is with payment processors, it's an existing issue. The same thing happened with Patreon and has been happening with other websites selling adult content for ages. If anything, the slope that they slipped down was the one resulting in Gab's troubles.

Most people don't really want neutral platforms. If you go to a restaurant and another customer is violently drunk, yelling, and really just ruining the night for everyone, we hope they get kicked out so that we can appreciate the restaurant. The person saying, "Yeah but next they're gonna come for [insert whatever thing that shouldn't result in getting kicked out]" could be right and the restaurant may cross what you think the line should be, but that doesn't mean that the restaurant was wrong to kick out the violently drunk person.

Similarly, I've seen dang around on HackerNews giving folks warning about their comments not really being a great fit, because they're low-effort, out of place, etc. In general, it keeps the quality of discussion here /way/ better than you'd see on Reddit. I like that they work to keep it that way... but it could be a slippery slope in the same way.
Sure, but ditching your 20-year old beater of a car for a new electric one is not viable for a large percentage of the population at the moment, even in the richest countries. Maybe when 20-year old beater EVs are a thing the tide will turn.

I agree about nuclear, though. We should have been doubling down on them years ago, if only as a stop-gap until the renewable power storage problem has been solved. Although I'm of the opinion that they should be a solid percentage of our power output until fusion plants are viable. Our energy needs are only going to go up in the future.
Interesting!

Thank you, that was what I was looking for that closes the gap somewhat.
Metamask and WalletConnect have solved this problem. You can use a browser wallet, or a mobile wallet that connects to your browser.
Waymo cars currently only operate in pre-mapped areas with good connectivity. Self driving doesn't have to replace human drivers on 100% of roads 100% of the time to still be immensely valuable and life saving.
Every federal agency that has anything to do with consumer products sends Amazon warning letters all the time regarding specific sellers and individuals, including the FTC, telling AMZ to knuckle down on the seller and/or the brand, or vaguely telling Amazon "do something" which Amazon may misinterpret. Then there are the more significant inquiries that are also going on apart from those 'market, regulate thyself' actions.
Having worked at a porn site and a FAANG, I’d say my porn work was more impressive — because payment processors / ad providers / hosting companies / etc are so anti-adult-content, getting anything done is a lot harder.
36 with a 6 year old child. I am building two companies on the side of my day job.
Here's an unpaywalled article about what happened:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/river-dave-grateful-fire...

Still unclear to me why Karp gave him the money but seems like its helpful to "River Dave".