skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The use of crypto in real estate purchases has a history dating back seven years, with BitPay helping facilitate the sale of a Lake Tahoe property that sold for $1.6 million in BTC in 2014.

In case anyone's wondering, it was 2,739 BTC, which would be worth around $127M today.

See: https://www.wsj.com/articles/lake-tahoe-property-sells-for-1...
It would also require the failure of both the prosecutor and the judiciary to recognize the images as non-CSAM.
It doesn’t necessarily lack it, but it’s set up differently via one way payment channels.
This is the information I was missing, thanks.
It's the human driver that costs money. Fuel is a very tiny part of that, especially in the US (compared to the EU) where fuel is practically free.
> * These social network things seem somewhat fragile. Myspace came and went, Friendster was hot. Now I see a lot more folks on tiktok. Are kids still even active on facebook?

Facebook's only role in my life is as the main web presence for lots and lots of small organizations. They may have other things—even a website—but FB will be the first, and sometimes only, place content is posted. HOA, kids' schools, small area businesses, almost all treat FB is their main outlet for information, even if they do communicate some on other channels.
Actually, my own personal observations would tend to agree with you... I see dysfunction everywhere I look, and my social & family circles are brimming with people who've suffered from family dysfunction. If I took my own observations as a fair random sample, I would definitely believe your conclusion.

I come from a dysfunctional family background. I've spent a lot of time in therapy & recovery, and learned a considerable amount about this kind of behavior.

I'm also aware that my own experience biases me toward seeing this behavior, everywhere. If anything, I tend to over-pathologize people around me, as an artifact of practicing the kind of thinking that I needed to do in order to get better... And my personal sample of observing the human race is pretty heavily weighted toward other people who definitely have pathologies, because I've spent so much time with them in meetings and groups.

It's really common for people with this kind of history to feel like "Everybody I meet turns out to be messed up... All my friends, family, and romantic partners seem to be dysfunctional, too." This isn't an accident, though... Messed up people are drawn to other messed-up people, for a lot of reasons.

Anyway, point being... I have to work to maintain awareness that my personal observations are probably not a fair, random sample of the population. I don't trust my intuition in this regard, because I know that I've been so hyper-focused on it, my whole life.
E2EE implies it's encrypted between the two parties exchanging messages, which it still is. I'm not suggesting that this isn't an immoral circumvention of the system, but it's still certainly end to end encrypted between the two clients, given that the scanning is performed on device, and not in transit.
Same, was enrolled in private school in USA.

Public schools in USA are more about babysitting vs teaching kids to critically think and learn.

I don't see how people in the USA argue over specific spots of land/housing stock just to send their kid to a "good" school when the standards are so bad across the board.
Hmmm. I wonder to what extent institutional investors are able to get out early when there is an earnings miss. I guess I assume they usually get front run by day traders anyways, but not sure how/where to find data to answer that question.
> The excuse I think was that they did "organized brigading" or something like that.

It was actually for "violence against police". Hillary Clinton's MediaMatters group found a few comments and made an article on it, this was pushed as far as possible, presenting Reddit with enough cause to "quarantine" them.

The specific anti-police messages were about a congressional walkout in Oregon, and threats to use the police to bring them back for a quorum. A rep replied "Send bachelors". This was the cause and theme of the comments MediaMatters focused on. None were made by mods, their own posts, or even upvoted (under 20 or so). Reddit used this to say the mods there were not removing extremist content, eventually forcing the sub allow only mods "approved" by Reddit Inc. They shuttered the sub before allowing this to happen.

The big joke to is that these anti-police messages were before the summer when it was non-stop ACAB, Kill The Police, etc, in practically every other sub-reddit as part of the riots and protests. Standards applied evenly, Reddit would be left with a knitting and a windsurfing section.

Reddit wanted the_donald gone, end of story. MediaMatters helped, and the reason was surface level deep, but they didn't need some iron clad reason. Interestingly, Reddit removed the "violence against police" reasoning, and replaced it with a more generic cause, as the hypocrisy was warming up.

I researched this shortly after it happened.
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How Big Tech Secured $800M in Tax Breaks for Data Centers
I am super skeptical of this. i play sports, and talent is evident. I have played soccer for 20 years and never gone past upper intermediate level.

Yet, i have had younger people join, that didn't really know how to play, get really good. Their talent: They were super fast. Track athelete fast. They knew nothing about soccer, but after a year or two of playing, they became better than the players that had been playing for over 10 years.

Their advantage: Sheer speed, and fast reflexes. At some point the mantra 'if you try hard enough you will became great', becomes sheer lie. Some people, with given the same amount of training, or even less, became much much better...

But, hey, the '10k' hour rule type of books that give false hopes do sell, so the fradulent authors will keep em churning.,
>This industry is rife with user-hostile behavior. It's become so commonplace you'll find these purveyors openly discussing it as if there isn't anything wrong with what they are doing; industry "best practices.

The interesting part is that the comment you're replying to attempts to normalize a number of anti-competitive strategies employed by Facebook in the exact same way.

Supernormalization at work - if your institutions get defanged, people 'learn' to accept the new status quo as the way of things.
Maybe I’m out of the loop, but at least Tumblr had recognized non-porn uses.

If someone linked me their OnlyFans, I would assume it’s porn.

How do they seriously expect people to use it when the brand is porn?
True, very good point. My confidence in the claims have definitely decreased. However, I do think there is a slight distinction between these things. One is a controversial claim of fact that you basically have to take their word for ("secret operation by foreign adversary") and the others are ultimately subjective anecdotes from real individuals ("I'm suffering from something and it's affecting my life").

Even if one thinks the suffering may be psychogenic or just caused by something completely unrelated, the suffering is likely real; I find it doubtful the media or the sufferers are just completely fabricating their subjective experiences. I am distrustful of the media and distrustful of anecdotes, but in this case I trust at least that part of the story, even if it ends up basically amounting to some sort of nocebo effect from people who may have already had some unrelated neurological issues or who may be experiencing a purely psychogenic phenomenon.

There's additionally the WSJ article subject's claimed diagnosis from a neurologist, which could be just as faulty as the JAMA studies if those are indeed faulty, or could be real but could have a cause unrelated to any kind of embassy attack. But I think that, at the least, it increases the chance that the patient is experiencing something that's negatively affecting their quality of life and functioning, whatever it might be.

I'll do some more research and probably post this in another place that I know has experts on topics like these.
What an absolute shame. Not particularly because I use OF, but because they feel the need to do this, due to public pressure, pressure from banks, etc. When are we going to stop moral policing (literally via power of the state and figuratively) consensual adult activities?
> Am I insane here, or does Excel generally do a very good job of handling almost all CSV files.

If the user does Data > From Text/CSV > Transform > use PowerQuery to set the first row as the header, I think it's true that Excel does a good job. It provides the basics at least: configurable charset and column type detection. When the user re-saves to CSV, I'm not aware of any way to configure the output (e.g., force quotation of text content), but that's sort of ok.

The easy path—double clicking on a CSV file or using File > Open—is where all the weird auto-conversion of values happens. But other posts have covered that part.
I think it's more realistic that baddies pay employees to see some of the juicy data in the company db. Lower(but not 0) risk of detection.
I worked at a webcam pornography company (as a software engineer) a few years ago and honestly, I get it from the processors perspective. I wasn't privy to all the conversations, but I know at the time, some higher ups were toying around with the idea of basically building an entire in house payment processor to handle transactions.

I think a lot of people think the processors are doing this out of some moral high ground to try and kill off the pornography business, but that's not what's happening. It's all about risk and opportunity cost. I forget the exact numbers, but pornography and gambling are near the top of the list when you look at industries with the highest number of fraudulent transactions. When someone reports a transaction as fraudulent, the money to refund the customer comes out someone behind the scenes pocket and often that money gets tied up in limbo while everyone points fingers at everyone else. Dealing with fraudulent transactions is a massive headache that wastes a ton of time.

Most major processors just don't want to deal with the hassle and the ones who do charge extremely high fees to offset the extra risk. OF has probably been using a processor that doesn't allow for pornography this whole time, but the processor has been letting it slide. My guess would be the risk has finally grown too large and the processor is cracking down. Like I said, there are other processors out there who are happy to work with the porn industry for a much higher fee, but it seems like OF has decided for one reason or another that that isn't as lucrative as just banning explicit content all together.
very basic shadertoy shader in the spirit of the article:

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
vec2 center = iMouse.xy/iResolution.xy;
float aspect = iResolution.x/iResolution.y;
vec2 uv = fragCoord/iResolution.xy;
uv.x *= aspect;
center.x *= aspect;
float r = distance(uv, center);
float h = (sin((r*50.0)-(iTime*2.0))+1.0)/2.0;
h *= 1.0 - min(1.0, r);
fragColor = vec4(h,h,h,1.0);
}
A Rubyist's Guide to Vite.js
One of the reasons Ruby is enjoyable is that the development experience is interactive, and we can do more with less.

Vite.js shares the same philosophy—great conventions out of the box, and a fast feedback loop that allows us to stay creative.
It might be easier to operate a dodgy site off of USPS money orders than it would be off of cryptocurrency.
What Credibility - They are 75% owned by Leonid_Radvinsky.

He puts the sketch in sketchy (porn click farms in the 90's, sued by Amazon and Microsoft working together for spamming emails by the millions in the early 2000's).
I was hoping it would be able to drill the PCB in the video, too.

btw, "softwares" sounds so incorrect.
> stagnant demands for stagnant computing performance/software requirements

I'm going to do mostly the same thing, although I'll certainly acknowledge hardware has gotten faster and more power efficient. It's not nearly the same growth rate as before, of course.

But, as a grumpy old person, I don't see a whole lot of change in what people are doing with their computers. Yeah, a new one would be more powerful and often use less energy, but would it change what I can do? Newer games are a real thing, but can I spreadsheet faster? Does it make chatting better or just enable more bloat? I used to send animated gifs to friends with AIM in the late 90s on a pentium 75, and the gifs were really animated gifs. Somehow, a modern chat client needs a quad core machine.

Maybe more/different VC stuff, but I usually run VC on a haswell chromebook with 2 cores, so that doesn't seem hard.
Cant pay with them on OnlyFans, let alone buying used bath water.
This is rad. TYSM
Manually, perhaps because the attacker crafts the messages to make that desirable.

But a bigger concern is automatically. WhatsApp for example can automatically save all received photos to your Camera Roll, which is of course automatically backed up to iCloud for many people. So an attacker could potentially just send you a bundle of 40 images of however many and your phone automatically sends it to Apple.
How is banning theft any less arbitrary than banning porn?
There's no reason iOS needs to be the only game in town. Why can't Apple Computers and Apple Operating Systems be different companies?
Space Satellite Recovery Startups are back on the menu boys!

We need both space junk recovery and ocean plastic recovery robots.

Recall that startup that tried to launch the ocean plastic/garbage gyre bot and it failed and no mega-corp tried to save them.

if anyone should be forced to help on this effort, it should be amazon/bezos
> can't even react correctly in such a simple situation I really wonder if full self driving is feasible

I don't know if you can extrapolate from "can't react correctly in such a simple situation" for a few reasons. Fristly, I will point out that car stopped, but the complaint was that it was little bit more jerky than preferred. Also, automated drivers will excel and fail at different scenarios. Imagine the other way around: Imagine if Waymo's tech was ready for all roads, and we were evaluating letting humans drive in manual. One could say things like:

"I saw a human apply the break suddenly on the highway because they were checking their mirrors for a lane change when the car in front of the slowed down. The human had a delayed reaction because they were checking their mirrors. An automated driver would be able to analyze the lane change, and the traffic in front of them at the same time. Also the reaction time of the automated system is superior than humans... so I wonder if human driving is feasible."

I think when comparing FSD, one needs to compare it to human driving at some percentile, and not perfection :).
Given the volatility of Bitcoin it would be real rate risk for the lender. I mean, over decades? There’s no way to price that.

During the great bubble, borrowers in Eastern Europe got mortgages in Swiss francs. When the market collapsed and the exchange rate sank, they were completely fucked. Don’t borrow in currency you can’t easily get your hands on.
Woth to know that NetBSD(up to 4.0 ?) and Linux up to kernel 2.4(?) can work on 386SX with 4 MB of RAM.

It's intresting that for some reason before ~2002 it was possible to run Linux(up to 2.0?) and NetBSD (for sure 1.6.1) at just 2MB of RAM.

For some reason most modern operating systems requires 4MB of ram - even if kernel size is far less (like 700kb), as there is SOMETHING hardcoded in the kernel to prevent boot under 4MB of RAM. I think this could be due the "large memory pages" switch from 4kb to 4MB - but I never found anyone knowledge enough to confirm it :(

Anyone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26979499
Our banks are horribly, horribly insecure. I use a credit card because we don't have a good way to use our banks.
> Seems like a business opportunity for someone to build a Stripe for vice businesses.

Well, not really. The whole point is that if you do that, the government will apply soft pressure on you, until you go out of businesses.

Its an end run around of the 1st amendment, basically. A senator doesn't have to make a law, targeting you specifically. They just have to threaten your bank, that they will be punished, sometime down the line, in an unrelated law, and then the bank will, shut you down.
Nftables 1.0.0 Released
At FAANGs (and in most other tech companies) employees are salaried so overtime is never required to be metered - this is different from hourly work which does require accounting of those hours. There is nothing legally stopping you from being asked to put in 60 hours for the same rate at Google - if you're on the receiving end of it you need to decide for yourself if it's worth it.
Or just use some other text format instead? CSV is supposed to be simple.
I haven't pressed Follow in Steam or anything, but the updates come through as expected, and when an update shows up on the Downloads screen, it has a "View News" under each one that takes me to the "what's new" page for each game

DSP's is https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1366540 and the update in question is https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1366540/view/3008952...

They also added some kind of global scoreboard system (Milky Way) if one is into that kind of thing and want a bigger challenge that just "local universe automation nivrana": https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1366540/view/3044975...

They alleged to have released some portion of the source code (https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1366540/view/5694225...) in order to make mods easier, but there is some massive confusion about where, exactly, one can find such a thing and I'm evidently too old to find my way around Discord
In Android yes, but Apple has an advantage here that they control the whole device.

If Apple really wanted to they could secure the iPhone. Just offer a 2x higher bug bounty than any government and things like stingray would not work.
"Facebook lacked the business acumen and technical talent to survive the transition to mobile."

It's also crazy to think knowing that Facebook was developing React before the bought Instagram.
is this like Ford saying they're going to stop making vehicles?
Isn't that the point of their site?
Sex work is legitimate work. They should not be shame and pushed to the fringes as we do here in the US, both by power of state and morality. I cringe at the number of people, mostly women of course, who are going to lose their livelihood because of "virtual Karens" imposing THEIR moral beliefs on others via power of the state.
But c'mon, literally 3min a day only?
I don't see how a payment processor is "being associated" with the content. Deciding whether that sort of thing is happening really shouldn't be their purview.
I wouldn’t know, I’m just saying the exist too in Europe. Also many of the multi-chain gift cards are also prepaid payment cards they go through the same payment system it’s much easier to leverage it than to build another one.
> VS Code is really great for the amount of features it has.

vscode isn't popular for being vscode

there was already atom back in the days

vscode became popular because it was "relatively" "faster" than atom, and was better at being hackable

vscode is now insanely popular due to its ecosystem, the people and their plugins made vscode popular
I think a lot of governments are starting to decide that social media and porn are a terrible waste of resources. If so, they're not wrong.
Go off king
91-96, 386sx16 to pentium 90, that's exactly what I did. The difference was huge.

I don't think we get the same kind of performance gap in desktop pcs anymore.
If you try to pay for your meal in a restaurant with cash and they refuse, you can just walk out and they wouldn't have a legal case (probably. in theory. not legal advice).

I think they would have a case, because you still owe them a debt. But then after you lose the case you can pay in cash. Just how I understand it, could be wrong. Doesn't change your point though.
I am skeptical that a modern automobile factory could be converted to make tanks or airplanes at any kind of scale using current designs.

The stuff is so specialized and automated now that even the workers probably wouldn't have much translatable knowledge as WW2 days. You would i guess have a supply of welders to lean on at least that would ramp up faster than someone fresh.

But I doubt a factory that makes modern cars can handle making M1 Abrams without so much additional tooling and extra equipment that you are halfway to making a new factory anyways. (they could probably handle making light vehicles like cars and bikes at least)

Maybe if we had mass production style designs that were built purpose first to get cranked out. But we don't, and there isn't profit in that for the Military Industrial Complex.
Payment with crypto is a taxable event whether it is converted into USD or not. You will pay capital gains or income on the delta of the value of the currency at the time of transaction.

This doesn't make it any easier to evade taxes than it would if you paid with cash. The IRS can subpoena your payments and tax the value of the crypto at time of transaction. If you don't report the sale (payment) of the asset on your taxes, there will be a mismatch that is easily traceable.

This is just the real estate industry adding artificial value by catering to the crypto market.
It's a non-profit that is effectively maintained by the US government (funding, special legal status, interaction with government agencies etc).
"Deciduous" is the same as graphviz?
Ransomware Attacker Offers Employees a Cut
Exactly. People talk as if these girls are oblivious to the fact that they can work some shitty minimum wage jobs.

I totally get their mindset. If it wasn’t for my own residual sexual conservatism, I’d much rather be an OnlyFans sex worker than some underpaid wage slave.
TFA:

> OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business.

HN:

s/of the pornography //
I thought “Google” put this lie to bed. But anyways, this looks like a slightly self aware project that markets precisely to who it needs to, given the list of “Chad contributors”.
Comparing human arms to CNC "arms" makes about as much sense to me as comparing a sparrow to an F16.

Yeah both humans and multiaxis cnc machines can articulate their arm to apply a tool to a work piece and both a sparrow and an F16 can fly through the air.
The person was clearly not going to cross right there at the corner so such an abrupt stop was totally unnecessary. If the car assumed he was going to stop a bit further at the yellow lines it should have either braked earlier or just keep on driving.

The way it reacted it IMO just looks like clueless new driver.
True, but I think there's obvious legs to it. Some common reasons for fraud are:

* Laundering money (buy accounts with stolen cards, sell them using crypto to people who don't want to be associated with the accounts).

* People falsely claiming fraud to cover up the payments (ex. a spouse finding out about them).

* More specific to OF, people paying for private/custom content and then filing a chargeback.

I think people being prudish is kind of what allows this market to be ripe with fraud. I'm not sure there's a way to "disrupt" this industry using credit cards just due to the inherent tendency for fraud in the market.
Preventing an exodus of other employees while mass firing others?
From Patreon Support:

While we allow nudity and for creators to push the boundaries of art, we also have guidelines against funding pornography on patreon. In our community guidelines: We define pornographic material as real people engaging in sexual acts such as masturbation or sexual intercourse on camera.
What makes you so sure that Epic will win?