skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UPS is only supposed to get you over the hump while you bring your generators online and let them stabilize. It’s not supposed to last you for days.

It’s not like you have your own Remote Area Power System like you would use in the outback of Australia or Austin, TX where the grid is totally nonexistent or sufficiently unreliable.
(Conservative ∩ Woke) == {e : e ∊ (bland ⋃ tedious)}
I tried to look up [Antonio] Dickerson v. US, but I don't see any SCOTUS decision on it, only a certiorari petition. Do you have a reference for the decision?
DeepMind: Putting the power of AlphaFold into the world's hands
China's laws are such that there's no need for them to obtain a warrant for data housed on servers of Chinese companies. Not only do they not need a warrant but companies are required to facilitate their access. While the servers aren't controlled by the Chinese government, government law enforcement and intelligence agencies have essentially free access to that data.
This is asking for a partnership with shopify: onlyfans could automatically generate a t-shirt/coffee cup store on shopify and a t-shirt fulfillment partner, and creators could perform for fans who buy a lot of t-shirts ("buy 3 t-shirts and I'll take off mine for you!") with smooth bidirectional API integration etc. Card processors can't ban all these people buying t-shirts.
Because Gordon Moore, Andy Grove and Robert Noyce wanted to improve integrated circuits to do amazing things with technology. Not rape the planet to become trillionaires. You realize there are other motivations in the world for doing things, other than just money, right? Perhaps you don't based on your reply.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be concerned with Apple actually launching things that are bad. I’m saying we shouldn’t make arguments of the form “this isn’t bad yet, but they could change this later to make it bad.” Because obviously they can change anything later to be bad. If the system as currently described is a violation of privacy, or can be abused by governments, etc. then just make that argument.
> You’d need two interviews separated by some time, which is obviously impractical.

My experience with multi-round interviews being stretched across multiple weeks strongly suggests otherwise.

Further, this is kind of the whole point of a probationary period, no?
The source code itself is stored as UTF-8, but the trigrams were represented as Unicode codepoints in the index. The last optimization packs the ASCII trigrams for efficiency.
Discussed at the time:

The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20962780 - Sept 2019 (347 comments)

... not very interestingly. Diet threads tend to evoke the same basic comments over and over, and like most predictable topics, tend to turn nasty. My theory about why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
> Not too jazzed to be tracked and datamined at home AND work.

They promised they won't track you at work.

Trust is hard earned, unfortunately.
They could set up their own payment processor (unless it's really Visa or Mastercard pushing this).
Antibodies for which variant?
Totally paywalled.
>We as in the public have not been told this is underway. Nor have we heard hints, leaks or anything of the sort.

>This is not happening right now based on the available information.

If we continue with that logic -- an apparent lack of information regarding active investigations -- the only conclusion that makes sense is "we don't know."
On a 386, MS Word would make you sit around for 10-15 seconds looking at the splash screen. Then when you upgraded to a 486, you opened Word and it was like "bing!", you're up and running.

Now with magnitudes more speed and memory available, loading Word is...somewhere in between.
I’m sure there’s got to be other full-time UI designers/part-time circuit queens out there. Can’t be that weird.

But yes, these are consenting adults (a fair number of them quite highly educated and absolutely aware of what they are doing) selling solo videos or videos with other consenting adults. It’s legal, it’s a huge business, and it’s dumb to push it further to the fringes.
Since the Obama administration the government has been using threats of increased regulatory scrutiny against banks that do not block transactions dealing with certain undesirable industries including guns, cannabis, and porn -- whether such transactions are legal or not.
What has more potential for abuse than the fact that Apple can push any software they want to iPhones at any time?
If most purchases are from cards (not saying they are, but we are slowly trending that way) that's essentially a 3% drain on the entire economy for shuffling around some rows in a database.

If I were a government overseeing an economy that has a total expected yearly GDP growth of less than 3% (like the US/EU/UK) then I would exceedingly interested in removing that drain on the system.

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If anything, I'd say rewards cards are the perfect example of a product resulting from a system that has too much revenue compared to costs.

They make so much money from having you use your card that they're willing to share some of it with you (admittedly - often through convoluted systems that are hard to place a real dollar value on).
>“Facebook lacked the business acumen and technical talent to survive the transition to mobile. After failing to compete with new innovators, Facebook illegally bought or buried them when their popularity became an existential threat,” said Holly Vedova, FTC Bureau of Competition Acting Director. “This conduct is no less anticompetitive than if Facebook had bribed emerging app competitors not to compete. The antitrust laws were enacted to prevent precisely this type of illegal activity by monopolists. Facebook’s actions have suppressed innovation and product quality improvements. And they have degraded the social network experience, subjecting users to lower levels of privacy and data protections and more intrusive ads. The FTC’s action today seeks to put an end to this illegal activity and restore competition for the benefit of Americans and honest businesses alike.”

Shouldn't the FTC be a neutral body?

How did the FTC miss this criminal activity for 10 whole years? I think an investigation should be called for.
The supposed antitrust laws have failed miserably. This must be the one of the FTC's worst failing ever, by their own admission.

This gem: “Facebook lacked the business acumen" FB has a market cap of
1T USD. That's $1,000,000,000,000. She sounds deluded.
There's a big correlation between parents who cause a lot of damage to their kids, and parents who are incapable of honestly addressing their own failings.

The common cause is that these parents have some kind of disordered personality, mostly in the "Cluster B" direction (NPD, BPD, etc)... They tend to display a lot of shitty behaviors, generally, because they lack the self-awareness to change.
They have lists of all your phone contacts (if you uploaded them to Apple, Google or socials), your socials friends/followers, the people you call and text (via cell service providers)... These all get shared interagency. It's not like the SEC is collecting it themselves.
Cleaning staff usually have TS clearance at places like this oddly enough, and are usually on a pension and work there for life.
Interesting. I've been coding in languages which heavily rely on pointers for decades, primarily C, C++, C# and Turbo Pascal/Delphi, and in my experience nil pointer errors are quite rare.

I agree that it's nice to be explicit about optional stuff, but overall it's not been a huge deal in the projects I've been involved with.
> the fact that anyone is forced into porn to get housing be safe from abusive partners is the indictment of a society.

You're right, we should tell them to wait until society is fixed.
Well there is this here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens#2002_pornography_...
With all the focus on "local" now, maybe society just needs to go back to good ol' fashioned red light districts with brothels where Johns can make cash payments to the Madams that credit card companies and Apple/Google Pay can't block. Instead of paying with a credit card to see pixelated computer-screen boobies that are 3000 miles away, maybe just go to a local "gentleman's club" and see actual in-the-flesh nude women or something, ya know?
N times less usually just means it uses 1/N. So this would mean it uses only 20% of the memory it used originally.
Ignore a few downvotes in the first hour or so, they're likely to be compensated with upvotes if you're saying anything substantial.
The tech is there but mainstream adoption and understanding is still coming along. It's incredibly easy and cheap to send USDC or DAI to OnlyFans if they accept tokens on a sidechain (like Polygon or Fantom).

You don't have to sign up for an account or provide any personal info, just use your wallet to send certain tokens to an address, then you can use that wallet as a sign-in.

OnlyFans can then use Coinbase or an off-ramp to go from crypto to fiat.

It's a more seamless user experience and solves the payment processing issue.

In my opinion it's a matter of educating the masses to a very different method of paying for services and using services (both on the business and consumer side).
Built this homelab (thanks to Covid)
You are insane :-).

Excel has the most inexplicably horrific handling of long number strings that it is borderline unusable.

https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-...
Why It’s Hard to Give Computers Something You Take for Granted: Common Sense
Author here, ask me anything! :-)
A lot of the attacks against amateur porn and sex work are by religious groups masking their actual motive by focusing on consent verification. Verification raises the barrier and makes performers much more vulnerable since their legal identities are attached to their work.

https://newrepublic.com/article/160488/nick-kristof-holy-war...
I think the most important thing would be wrapping the destination address around an easy to view label. Maybe only allow transactions to trusted/verified addresses for partner companies and services.
Oh, so, I recently had opportunity to play around with this some, a bit over the past week. My initial questions were along the lines of:

1. What's the point? In end-to-end encryption situations usually the concern is around data storage (perhaps), but for just sending messages typically TLS is enough (or seems it, anyway, from my perspective as a non-security engineer)

2. The codebase seems to have separate C, Rust, and Elixir versions. Are they interchangeable, or do they serve different purposes?

Of these I only have rough answers. For the first, it seems like this solves the problem where, say, a single TLS connection isn't enough to get the data all the way to where it's needed (perhaps you need to go over bluetooth, or do multiple steps of HTTP, etc).

And for the second, well, I'm not sure. I think the C implementation might be equivalent, and be being replaced by the Rust one?
real innovation saving lives. best of luck to you & your team
Yeah. She was there because of “no clothes naked” which is explicit. She ended up being deceitful and hurting others. Still means she was there because of explicit stuff. in other words, there’s a reason she made millions on onlyfans in no time and not with a brand new Payreon.
They still have to deal with it. For example, a previous company I worked at valued every customer service call at ~$13. If it was a <$10 problem we would simply offer to refund the customer in full online, no questions asked.
Both types exist, I'd say.
Debit cards have some of the same protections as credit cards. You can dispute a debit charge.
Imagine the data this would yield: millions and millions of desktop applications with chat logs, hardware specs, usage patterns, social graphs, anti cheat that monitors everything, even more spending habits, the developer ecosystem and any monitoring that goes with that…
I'm so done. I'm sorry to dump a pointless rant like this on HN but... what the hell is going on these days? Nobody seriously seems to care about legitimate privacy concerns anymore. If I were in a position of power, like being CEO, CTO, or even just an engineer on the team at Apple that implemented this, I'd do EVERYTHING to make sure that my power is in check and that I'm not pushing a fundamentally harmful technology.

I just feel so lost and powerless these days, I don't know how much longer I can go on when every piece of technology I own is working against me - tools designed to serve a ruling class instead of the consumer. I don't like it one bit.
Google Sheets handles CSVs MUCH better.
The only example I remember was a little less bad, but still pretty bad in my opinion - the artist in question uploaded contra-TOS artwork on his Twitter account, and had a link to his Twitter account from Patreon. However, Patreon's own terms of service state that they look where traffic is coming from to see what kind of things you're funding with the money, and can ban you on that alone:

>Because you are raising funds on Patreon, we may be held accountable for what you do with those funds, so we may also look at what you do with your membership off our platform. As a result when we talk about “On Patreon,” it means the creations you are funding on and through Patreon. When reviewing a page, we look at how creations are shared, where the page is linked to and where the traffic comes from. No matter what happens, we always give creators the opportunity to appeal a decision by contacting us and sending any relevant information they believe was not considered. We may not change our minds, but we will always listen.

From: https://www.patreon.com/en-GB/policy/guidelines

This means that you only need to link to your Patreon, not even link from your Patreon for them to find you objectionabe.

About NSFW creators leaving the platform because of tighter content restrictions on fiction:

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/patreon-hypnosis-porn-ban-sexua...

https://thenextweb.com/news/patreon-continues-to-crack-down-...

Further, Patreon has communicated to artists that regardless of the age of a fictional character, certain art elements common to anime/manga style drawing (even of adults - "big head, big eyes, short height") may be considered as marking the artwork as a child - and even adding adult-like proportions such as large breasts may not be sufficient to evade Patreon's ban: https://twitter.com/Waero_Re/status/1238408555507539968

Another artist in the thread noted that Patreon decided their content was "violent" because their drawings featured people not smiling during orgasm.
> The European SEPA has virtually no fraud protection, unless it was a technical error (duplicate payments etc). The upside is that no-one cares who you transact with. All payments are final.

Yeah, I'm used to using that domestically and rarely for business. We usually use Giros[1] for business and now Swish for more personal stuff. I think most areas now have Klarna (even the US according to Wikipedia). I wonder how much they would interfere in things like this.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klarna
Looking at a fragment another recent video I don't feel like it's really that great yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjztvddhZmI&t=644s

Yes it's amazing what they can do, but if after all this time they can't even react correctly in such a simple situation I really wonder if full self driving is feasible.
> Better question - why not?

Because crypto payments are niche and likely come with more hassle (e.g. volatile value, lender needs dollars and has to take on any risk with liquidating bitcoin/other cryptocurrencies). You might as well ask why US mortgage lenders don't accept payments in RMB or Euros.
Sourcegraph is literally pushing their trial and upgrade down your throat, once you have the open source edition

Then they send you emails from a mailing list you didn’t sign up for:

Thanks for installing Sourcegraph

Hello- Mark here with the Sourcegraph Team!

I've shared a couple of links below to help you get started with Sourcegraph.
https://docs.sourcegraph.com/getting-started
https://docs.sourcegraph.com/integration

Out of curiosity, how did you hear about Sourcegraph, and is there a specific use case you're evaluating Sourcegraph for?

Best,
Mark Muldez — DevTools Advocate
What other brand do they have?

Also, there seriously needs to be a reckoning with the payment processor issue, somehow.
Patreon already exists for exclusive SFW content, and with exclusive Discords you can also interact with other fans of the same content. Not sure where OnlyFans would fit in other than "different Patreon".
Saying anything on the internet these days is a risk, you're almost guaranteed to be wrong somehow.
Someone Is Pulling Emergency Brakes on New York’s Subways, Causing Delays (2019)
Adobe to Acquire Frame.io
> random people or friends and family not so much unless I want them to

What I mean is if you ever send F&F money they'll see all your previous purchases too, and if OF is a well known wallet its easy for them to see that detail.
So they can let corrupt Chinese middle party bosses buy US real estate directly.

Then, in the remote chance the business gets convicted later up the road, it will give up 1% of it's quarterly operating profit as a fine.

I mean, duh, that's how US finance operates.
I was waiting for C++20 modules to finally come back to using C++ again.. and what a disapointment

You still have to predeclare everything......... and you can't have circular dependency....

They learnt nothing, and they missed an opportunity to be relevant again

C++ is definitely dead, at least to me

This is so sad..
The stripping of leading zeroes is dreadful when working with zip codes and SSNs.
Patreon has decidedly 18+ content on it. It even has 18+ interstitial pages to make sure you’re 18+
The first commercial use of any technology is porn ;)
Well, sure, it would have been easier not to get blackballed. We don't live in a just world.
With ~90% of it currently being used for speculation or illegal activity, I don't see it getting real traction.
> So Apple scans Chinese (or whoever) citizens libraries, finds "CSAM" and reports them to ICMEC which then reports them to the government in question.

If Apple finds that a particular hash is notorious for false positives, they can reject it / ask for a better one. And they’re not scanning your library; it’s a filter on upload to iCloud. The FUD surrounding this is getting ridiculous.
The CCP already runs iCloud themselves in country so this is a bit irrelevant. (Though I think this kind of capitulation to authoritarian countries is wrong, personally: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html)

This policy really needs to be compared to the status quo (unencrypted on cloud image scanning). When you compare in transit client side hash checks that allow for on cloud encryption and only occur when using the cloud it's hard to see an argument against it that makes sense given the current setup.

The abuse risk is no higher than the status quo and enabling encryption is a net win.
I have some answers here although they are incomplete:
The libertarians (anarcho capitalists) have specific ideas of consent that mean the government's use of force is non consensual but a private corporation's authority is consensual.
Have station doors, and slam shut them before the train doors close.
A huge chunk of the planet is forced into jobs they don't like to provide for themselves and their families. What's so "dignifying" about a job getting humiliated by entitled customers in retail or waitressing for minimum wage or breaking your body doing hard manual labor? Religious morality is the only reason a much more safe, comfortable and lucrative option like OnlyFans is banned.
> but my objection to STAR is that it is harder to fill in and count by hand (requiring 2^6N piles, or the use of N calculators).

I honestly encourage you to attempt it. Create a fake election and test ballot counting with IRV, Approval, Score, and STAR. The last 3 you can actually use the same ballots so you only need two sets, one ranked and one rated (approval would be scores above a threshold).

I am absolutely certain if you do this exercise you will see that the cardinal systems are far easier. Remember, you are doing many of the same operations in both ordinal and cardinal, but in ordinal systems you have a longer outer loop. In cardinal systems you don't have that outer loop (i.e. dropping candidates). The issue is that you're not considering this into your complexity calculations.

Let's look at the algo again, but in a bit more detail.

While > 2 candidates: # This loop cannot be parallelized

- For each ballot: # This can be parallelized by prefix sum

--preference = argmin(ballot) # The highest ranked. This is a lookup on all rows btw

--preference += 1

--update table of candidate score list

- pop argmin candidate score list

We'll probably make this computationally easier by first sorting each ballot's preference. This will reduce the complexity of argmin

Now Cardinal

For each ballot: # This can be parallelized by prefix sum

- for each candidate: # This loop is trivially parallelized (prefix sum again)

-- candidate score += ballot candidate score

argmax candidate score list # You're doing this on the final score (row), not per ballot.

The second is far easier to do by hand and far more easily done by computers. You're just summing columns. Anyone with an excel spreadsheet can do this. Anyone with the spreadsheet can easily read and verify this too. I would not argue that the same can be said for ordinal systems. Take a look at the NYC Mayoral race[0]. Now imagine if Rounds 2-8 didn't exist. Easier to read and compute, right? What's happening inside each round is pretty similar. The difference is if you're doing += 1 or += score. And with cardinal systems you don't have to sort or determine who the preference is before doing the increment.

I'm not sure where the confusion is here.

[0] https://vote.nyc/sites/default/files/pdf/election_results/20...
So my understanding is that you’d owe a set amount in Fiat but you can make payments in crypto. Would you be locked into crypto for payments, at a designated fiat value or designated crypto value?

Because if you borrowed in crypto for a house and then the price of crypto skyrocketed you would be screwed. Seems like a nice option for people trying to short the crypto market, but I doubt this has much viability.

Companies realize they can get a headline by adding crypto as a payment method, but nobody cares anymore. It’s the equivalent of a brick and mortar store accepting Venmo and then gathering everyone in the town to tell them how innovative they are…
Fresh, healthy and clean, like nuclear waste.
InRange moved to pornhub when they were banned from Youtube. While cute and all, that made 0% revenue for them.
The BadAlloc issue [1] [2] is that calloc [3] can return a pointer to a smaller than requested allocation when it should have returned NULL when given arguments those values result in an undetected internal overflow.

[1]: https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa21-229a

[2]: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/04/29/badalloc-memory-a...

[3]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/c...