skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. High value virtual content is the best way to launder money, especially if it is private content like shows.

However unless there exist payment rails outside Mastercard or Visa, no one is going to build ”Stripe.” The only way would be Stripe running on crypto, but then how people get crypto in the first place if not by a card?

EDIT: Crypto also lacks chargebacks (so called hard money).
Congrats on making the dumbest business decision ever made!
But it just removes photos from image search; AFAICT text search results are unaltered. Perhaps I would no longer see Boris Johnson failing to comb his hair in Google Images but I can still read articles about it and they will still have accompanying photos.
An appropriately stiff integalactic tax on entropy, enforced only above some enormous threshold like burning a planet, could be optimal.

Because you're right -- at some scale, for some payoff, burning a Venus is the right decision. But ceteris peribus, harvesting from the entropy already present is better than adding to the universe's entropy.
and probably the most expensive, I see them going in circles all day long in my neighborhood, fuel alone must have cost a fortune
Given that the parts for this are meant to be 3D printed and thus the people who have this presumably already have a regular 3D printer, it probably makes more sense just to make a rotary table for your cartesian 3D printer.

Also given that objects on the rotary table can not overhang without causing interference with the vertical axis column, there's really no harm in adding another column and spanning the horizontal axis across, instead of cantilevering it. This will provide a substantial improvement in rigidity.
Like what? Besides kiddie porn and sex trafficking / forced labor, what could possibly be illegal?

Isn't this site just a bunch of naked girls twerking in front of webcam?
That's exactly why I don't call myself an "engineer" beyond whatever formal title some employer might assign to me.
Eventually this will just drive BTC adoption. Perhaps OF had a reason not to go with this option, but other parties will step up.
Yeah exactly. PornHub is the exception, not the rule - they were taking card payments right up until the recent news coverage about illegal content.
> Mainly what I'm missing is being able to better see those subtle emotional cues & the ability to build deeper relationships.

I don't understand what do you need these for. In the 21st century, we have succeeded in creating a perfectly emotionless office worker. I just had my unconscious bias training, and I can assure you, my thoughts are now completely rational, without any hint of emotional judgment. Frankly, "having deeper relationships" sounds like a recipe for a potential conflict of interests. As Salaried Professionals, we find Other emotional Cues of any Kind to be deeply distracting from our mission.
Yes, we do. The law only governs medical data of adults to some extent.
Seems like it's the cost of fraud protection then. 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.
You would think that it would be profitable enough for them to become their own bank and processor if no one else would. This right here tells me they knew they couldn't. Why? Who is telling them no? How can we live in a place where LEGAL businesses are purposefully excluded from the market?

I think they should start taking Bitcoin or Monero. Fuck MasterCard and whoever dictates what they do. If you are going to be forced into bankruptcy, at least do it in style.
PH was blocked by payment processors (Visa and Mastercard): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/10/pornhub-mast...

Parent is making distinction between credit cards and banks.
> Clone the full experience on a dedicated site, OnlyFantasy.com

You are, absolutely, a genius.
It's not hard to make a mill that can cut shapes into a block of styrofoam. If I stretch I can maybe imagine some industrial uses for a styrofoam-only CNC mill. (Moldmaking?) But what would a regular consumer use it for?

"Serious" just means the ability to cut more useful materials, like wood or steel.
>Our European visitors are important to us.

me too, kron4, me too.
Thanks for the reply... perhaps a good policy would be to not allow any launch off-planet without a recovery / disablement plan?
> citizens are spied on by a country that is not them

I thought countries often have under the table agreements with one another to explicitly spy on each others citizens, since its illegal for the country to spy on its own citizens. It's illegal for the other country too, but it's a lot easier to turn a blind eye to it.
Sadly the porn industry shot themselves in the foot almost a decade ago trying to scam as much money out of people as possible until VISA and MasterCard stepped in themselves and banned a terrible practice from being accepted.

Remember in 2012 the whole hubbub of "pre-checked cross-sales?"

The act of hiding the checkbox below the fold of the screen and make the visitor think there's nothing more below so they won't uncheck the box that says "Yeah, charge me $1 for this 3 day trial, but also sign me up for all these other programs that will bang my card for $60-120/each"

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.
> Netflix, Uber, Amazon, PayPal, etc?

Not sure if Netflix was first to DVD by mail, quite possibly; they were early, and I don't know if VHS rental by mail was ever a thing.

Uber may have been the first to internet hail livery vehicles, but Sidecar was the first to do internet ridesharing as an app, and Lyft was the first to call unlicensed taxi service ridesharing. Uber is winning in the marketplace at the moment though and Sidecar is dead; of course, winning in this market still means burning money.

Amazon was early to selling books on the web, but e-commerce catalog sales were available on pre-Internet information services. AWS defined a new category of managed hosting, but lots of other companies did similar things before.

I think BillPoint may have slightly predated PayPal. Being early here seems to have had staying power, as Yahoo's PayDirect didn't do well enough to stick around. Otoh, Venmo was good enough to buy, Zelle seems popular, and other easy credit card processors like Square and such seem to be winning over that side of PayPal's market. There's a moat, but it's not very deep.

> Was Dropbox first to market? Did they win the market?

No, there was XDrive and Yahoo Briefcase and probably more that launched and shutdown before Dropbox. Not sure if Dropbox won, OneDrive and Google Drive are contenders still.
Are you sure? Another user posted this elsewhere in this thread, a few posts below yours:

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Ugh - I hate this HN type of misinformation. It just seems reactionary.

Please post to the conditions facebook violated around their instagram acquisition. Remember, instagram had 13 staff or something - it was pretty tiny!

Even folks who are arguing for breakups admit this fact:

" Yet the Federal Trade Commission approved the merger without conditions. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/28/case-break...
It doesn't have to be "porn".

People are making huge bank with content you could post on Instagram without fear of being banned.
I think that is the exact opposite of what a downvote should be for: comments which aren't even worth replying to.
You can run multiple instances, and use something like distributed locks to avoid contention causing failures.
>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,

Why wouldn't it just revert back to how it was before all the amateur stuff got monetized over the past 5yr or so.
Their primary payments processor was CCBill, so no, they were using "adult proof" providers. I think there's something going on on the adult payments industry that I don't know about.

Either PornHub/OF got too big even for CCBill's approach to dealing with fraud, or CCBill is pulling the plug on websites that take market away from "traditional porn" probably because of pressure from the later.
Of course they do. No one paying to see
Someone put legos together
They said there was probably already research on weed’s safety. I would argue that research is promising re: safety but more is definitely needed. I agree that this isn’t reason to delay legalization, but it’s still something that should happen.
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Parser combinators [0] are great for quick parsing, usage from typescript is very neat. You can collapse tokenisation, parsing and some evaluation for simple grammars (they appear in production from time to time) into single parser combinator phase (there’s nothing else) where you get desired, typed result from your parser. It’s really fun to play with and imho one of the best ways to grasp monads really - when you write parser combinator by yourself it really clicks in.

[0] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/parser-combinators
PayPal and other pseudo currencies already did, for a while. You bought virtual currency (which PayPal was at first, and so was e-gold, webmoney, etc) and traded that for anything you could.

Then PayPal wanted to go big, other virtual currencies were caught in fraud scandals of their own (not their users'), people just lost trust and interest when card processing became more common.

Some are still around but sellers can't be arsed to use them. Maybe they will, once again.
Well yeah, I think that's the premise of the article :)
Keep motivation is the key to me. It's like avoiding doing repeated task in long hours. Try to switch to different habits could help you forget boredom and actually focus on current task.
>You would think that it would be profitable enough for them to become their own bank and processor if no one else wou

Or just buy a bank. Surely they could have raised the capital.
Free speech, separation of church and state has nothing to do with it. Not wanting to be associated with rape, child and revenge porn (variations on non-consent) is all it is.

User submitted content is so much harder to verify facts about (consent in particular) and as long as the user submitted content is sexual in nature, it is legal plutonium.
> We’re building systems that operate without any reliance on human drivers. Either the system can complete the entire trip or it cannot. There is never any confusion about who is in control and responsible for the safety of driving. So we focus on the hardest parts of the challenge, which is critical to reliably scaling vehicles with no human drivers.

Wow and really impressive demos to support their claims. Waymo's tech seems likely to surpass the capabilities of Tesla and others if it hasn't already.

Has there been any progress on an open test or benchmark that would reliably highlight the differences in performance and degree of autonomy provided by these competitors?
Fair point, though I'd still like to see a source, re: banks not being allowed to "block shit".
Probably impossible as someone mentioned it might be due to FOSTA-SESTA which is intended to curb online sex work, which is arguably what onlyfans currently enabled right now. They probably determined it's too risky to continue.
Thinking same thing. CSV is already a text file. Why not just append the metadata to the file already. Call it a CSF file or something like that.
It also highlights the lack of anonymity with crypto - everyone gets to see what you spend money on.
Good thing he had a taser. Shame it's so hard to get a carry permit for a firearm in SF when things like this happen. At least he was prepared as best he could given the location. Is it a good thing he had to be armed at all? No.
Your 7 year old laptop does not run all modern software just fine. c'mon. It runs the software you feel comfortable asking it to run, but this whole comment board is suffused with people mistaking their stagnant demands for stagnant computing performance/software requirements.

A 7-year old processor is somewhere around a haswell or broadwell, right? An i7 of that gen had a passmark score of like 950, whereas an i7 of current gen is about 1700. Even ignoring improvements in mobile graphics, power consumption, displays, and memory capacity, a modern laptop provides a completely different experience and level of capability than a 7-year old laptop.

As I said in another comment that got voted down to hell and even flagged (for goodness sake) these comments about the adequacy of very old hardware probably tell us more about the owners' unchanging software tooling and work habits more than they convince us that technical advancement has come to a near standstill.

WFH in 2020 required many people to add frequent VC on top of their normal workload. A 7 year old laptop would fully show its age if that normal workload was already pressing the laptop's boundaries. God help you if you wanted to add OBS into the mix. I can play an acceptable form of Assassin's Creed on my Tiger Lake laptop. I couldn't comfortably do that with my Skylake laptop. Examples and scenarios are legion. I'll use any resources I can get in a 13-14" mobile platform and then some.
A government mandate certainly helps a currency develop.
If read an article that parents in the US sends their children into "russian-math-classes" after school, but maybe gender/social studies are more important atm in the US ;)
Agreed - the idea that facebook was "outdated desktop based technology" is laughable.

It was one of the first apps most people installed - and they actually made it run on an INSANE number of platforms. Wasn't there versions of facebook for things like symbians and nokias and low bandwidth devices in developing countries?

Instagram had a pretty small team when facebook bought them, and facebook was active on mobile before that.

This complaint is such trash - I can't believe they can't find better arguments to make.

Edited: It looks like in 2010 or so facebook had something like 150 million mobile users (using this "outdated desktop technology"). I don't doubt it wasn't perhaps best of breed, but there were lots of mediocre approaches back then. Did the FTC even have an app? Did the fortune 500 all have amazing apps?
McDonald’s is also forcing noncompetes on new hires. Nobody should work for them

Edit: my source (potus) was mistaken apparently. A better source is below and involves non poaching and different restaurants (not McDonald’s as far as I can tell)

> About 80 percent of fast-food workers are constricted by no-poaching clauses, according to Healey's office. The other fast-food chains targeted by the states' investigation are Arby's, Five Guys, Little Caesars and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/07/09/11-st...
Huh? Many services on the Internet accept crypto, Namecheap is a good example.
Those ain't mutually exclusive, as this article demonstrates rather plainly.
interesting. so traditionally the preprocessor has been used to work around incompatibilities across various compilers/platforms and to completely enable/disable features at compile time. what's the new thinking there? can you build big projects across clang/g++/intel without preprocessor workarounds now? has the number of viable compilers in use dropped and compatibility amongst those that live on increased? how about stuff like debugging/instrumentation? or is the current thinking on all that stuff to always build with all of it and enable/disable via runtime branch? (along with some argument that configuration at build time was more trouble than it's worth on modern spacious/fast machines)?
Good old "I know it when I see it"
And when the general public agrees cash is bad? After all you can buy anything with digital methods nowadays. Cash is only for criminals.
Needs more latin
> It took me minutes to setup a Coinbase account to send funds to SciHub.

The issue is getting money from Coinbase into Wells Fargo or wherever, not getting it into Coinbase.
That's just shifting the responsibility to someone else. Aka the "not my fault, I'm a victim of circumstances" mentality.
The NSA is out of the league, but sometimes there are other enemies to protect from.

Does Bill Gates just have a standard phone? Do Macron and Merkel just have standard phones? I have difficulty imagining they run Apple’s image detection software.
Really? Never heard of that...maybe a US thing then?
> I'm making a significant positive impact in the world.

You must be joking.
Not if you use Monero.

https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/what-is-monero/
Amazon plans to open its own department stores
True, I forgot it was created on a upper-case-only PDP. It's just that I never saw this spelling in literature, even in the 1980s.
Well to know for sure if that's lower we'd need to know the size of the NCMEC database. They're the same if the NCMEC contains around 10 000 images.

Though knowing that 1 in roughly 30 million images generates a false positive is the most important figure I suppose. Assuming 100 million iPhones with each 1000 pictures that would generate some 3000 phones with one or more false positives [1] and a roughly 5% chance that some phone has at least 2 false positives.

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28100+million%29+e%5E...
[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+%281+-+e%5E-l+%28e%5E...
OnlyFanBucks heh. Don't actually need crypto for that, but if it's better, then whatever.
I'm sure you could find a few volunteers.
> The only person(s) notified are THE PARENTS.

Notifying the parents is optional (controlled by parents), and only for accounts below a certain age afaik. It primarily notifies the phone's user.
Um... Who would be the villain? What's his evil plan? My comment was analogous to "If COVID gets really bad, then Elan's Eatery has more outdoor seating and a better location for curb-side pickup than any other restaurant in town."

(Yes, I know that "Moonraker" was an extremely profitable Bond film. No matter how idiotic the [cough][gag]science in it was, Hugo Drax was trying to wipe out most of humanity.)
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Sounds like a great way to get crypto federally banned. It would probably only take a single high profile trafficking case to get a law to sail through both houses.
It's easier to pretend economics is a science with real natural laws than admit it's all voodoo invented by humans.

Personally I think all economists should study history and psychology, but they prefer their fancy numbers.
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People with substantial amounts of crypto would like to be able to finance larger purchases directly in crypto without needing to liquidate into fiat first
They also donated the income to a right to repair act.
> Just do mass refunds across 10's of thousands of customers.

> Instead they are going after Apple.

They have ordered Amazon to do mass refunds in the past for other reasons.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/05/refun...
You make the claim they are forced but do you have any sources for that claim? All I can say for sure is that now, they are forced out of porn. This problem is not directly a morality problem. It is a chargeback issue. More like chargebacks via stigmiziation of sexuality but that is just an opinion.
Speaking opinion: in the long term, it is mostly rich people trying to get richer that caused this

And the chips in question exist in the first place because...?
Isn't recovering from a ransomware just... restoring from backup?

Legitimate question here.
I think this is different. If the customer is unhappy with the service provided, their dispute has nothing to do with the electrical company, nor are they going to claw back payments to them.
The EU is not spying on any of its citizen. If you think otherwise, please link to some sources. Otherwise these are baseless rumors.

These "everyone is doing it" statements are nonsense. Not everything is doing it.
Wait, so what are they going to do without their only source of revenue? I was pretty well under the impression that OF pretty much only hosted camgirl accounts. I mean, other than the token "thought influencers" they probably bought to try to give themselves a glimmer of legitimacy. It's so bad that other social media sites (well, TikTok, I don't know about others) completely ban mention of OnlyFans under the assumption it's just porn.
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The US has specific legal rights to a chargeback.

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

"I forgot to disable automatic billing" probably wouldn't be a valid chargeback, though.
Its almost as if Yarvin had a point when he described The Cathedral.
Software vulnerabilities can go undetected for years, why would this necessarily be any different?
It is somewhat ironic that 2012 PG writes "don't work too much", but 2021 PG writes a long essay on "how to work hard" (at the very top of his essays page), lionizing the idea of non-stop work and expressing disgust at idleness.
Will it handle clustering and failovers better than elasticache?

I'd hope so, given its claims about durability, and this would make it more useful than redis/elasticache.
> User submitted content is so much harder to verify facts about

That doesn't seem to be stopping e-Bay and such. I don't believe that payment processors have any idea what are people buying and selling.
the hashes are also shipped with every device and can be inspected.

A few bytes changed in a binary blob that would enable a backdoor would be almost impossible to detect.
With most crypto, yeah. Monero happens to be private and anonymous.
> I don't think that he's showing them what they have to do. Unless acting like he does in the scene is what they're supposed to be doing as salesmen?

Limitation of the format of the media and that it's for entertainment. Do you really expect a dry presentation about sales tactics in a play/movie???

It's a wake up call speech. It's a speech that you need to either shape up or get out - and to stop expecting handouts and to stop acting entitled. And the thing about his speech is that he's actually empathetic to people - he isn't saying you're worthless as a human being, he's saying you're not fit for the job and you need to be fit for the job if you want to keep it. "Good father? Fuck you - go home and play with your kids." It's a retaliation against the "but I'm a good/nice/whatever person" mentality of entitlement. If you want to work here - you need to close. That's the whole point - that our environment needs people with skills and people who can actually use those skills in a useful matter. You can't do it? Fine - you're not a worthless person but you don't deserve the job just out of birthright.

I'd watch the full thing to the end - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrhSLf0I-HM In no way is he entrapping them or anything - he says over and over again... "Don't like it? Leave." He's tell them over and over - do the job or leave. Stop expecting a handout - stop being entitled - do the job we hired you for.