skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are already a few competitors, and afaik pornhub cleaned up its content in order to follow that model. If they are registered to hands-off countries they ll probably steal OF's thunder overnight.
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check your installed addons, try with new profile?
+1 to these Taipei real estate price estimates. Note that TSMC is headquartered in Hsinchu County, and I think real estate is much cheaper there (please fact check me on this though).

source: Parents are from Taiwan, and I have relatives in Taiwan who tell me similar price estimates.
Exactly.

Pick any "we should oppress this thing that other people want/like/are" and there are people who miraculously realize that actually, there's a reason people want/like/are that thing once it happens to them.

I think it starts from some combination of factors like fear of the unknown, superiority complexes, downright stupidity, etc., which are only un-blinded when it smacks you in the face.
Yes, money launderers and tax evaders would like to continue laundering and evading -- I think the real question is why are we making this easy for them?

Buying property with ill-gotten gains is an extremely common method of money laundering. Having a large hoard of cryptocurrency that you prefer not to liquidate screams "I'm trying to pretend that this isn't a taxable event."

We don't let people pay their mortgages with pre-tax stock gains, why the fuck are we bending over backwards to let people pay their mortgage with cryptocurrency?
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I think there are probably good cases to be made in areas.

Maybe something around consumer harm - ie, people bought oculus devices being told no facebook login, now required to use a login - do something like a 70% refund for those who want one and return their device?
Ebay has the same kind of rules, prohibiting "sexually oriented materials" and allowing nudity "only in limited situations". (https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...)
Yeah, this is a fair point. I think it would make sense to require them to offer services, but let them charge a rate that allows them to make similar margins as on other business.
They are "shady" only by circular reasoning, because they handle porn.
Can you explain how these theoretical political memes hash-match to an image in the NCMEC database, and then also pass the visual check?

> "No, this misses the point completely. You cannot easily trigger any automated systems merely by taking photos of 17.9 year olds and sending them to people."

Did I say "taking"? I am talking about sending (theoretical) actual images from the NCMEC database. This is functionally identical to the "attack" you describe.
Umberto Eco once wrote that the purpose of your life is what you leave behind.

I find value in this in both creating and doing nothing.
In this case, shipping a deletion of a feature/code, would also mean shipping? As in adding new commits to codebase, not exclusively shipping new features/software?
Perhaps, but OnlyFans will always be a porn site in consumer imaginations moving forward. Nobody’s going to put their wholesome knitting content on there moving forward
I genuinely don't understand. If PornHub and Chaturbate can accept major credit cards for explicit sexual material, why can't OnlyFans?
I am sure someone is going to come up with silly edge case examples, but OnlyFans is for porn, and anyone else who says otherwise is trying to spin you.
While both those things are true, the 'mostly' part is not. There are a lot of couples and singles posting their exploits and OnlyFans creators trying to drive traffic to their feed. What are you searching for that got you those results??

Let's not kid ourselves about PornHub...
Assuming Roman numbers count, I suggest arx4.
what does that have to do with paying your monthly on a 30 year mortgage?
> My conclusion is that C lets me do what I want straightforwardly, I still haven't found this quality in a different language

C is the language where you've found things to be straightfoward? I'm curious what you're working on where this is the case. I'd reach for Python, Go, Java, Swift, C#, depending on what I'm trying to do (even C++ can be better, but it comes with its own unique additional set of footguns so some C acolytes tend to shy away from it). For most projects (at least those starting from scratch today) I'd probably choose Rust if C/C++ would otherwise be the only appropriate choice & use Python/Go/Swift/Java/C# elsewhere.

> All in all though, while I'm not be the most sophisticated programmer and most of my programms are never exposed to hacking attempts, just anecdotally I've had very, very little headaches from UB.

and

> An example that I've personally learned at some point is integer shifting and masking in conjunction with implicit type promotion to int (which is signed).

Is an interesting mix of statements. I can say that I've worked on quite a few large codebases with a myriad of contributors, & I've always uncovered UB when I went looking for it. Some of it harmless, others less so. It's a "this probably is invisible 90% of the time you run it locally" kind of thing, so unless you have thorough tests you can run under UBSAN, you're likely just unaware of the scope of the problem. That being said, I don't want to blow it out of proportion. I'd say memory safety & thread safety are bigger classes of issues. As with UB, if you're not running sanitizers with very large test suites, you're unlikely to see it [1][2].

As for why UB is a real problem conceptually, this used to be well-formed and correctly behaving pre-C99:

```
uint8_t x = <pointer to some buffer>
uint64_t y = (uint64_t)x;
```

I don't mean in a "this just happened to work" but in a "this was valid semantics of the language". Now it requires a memcpy. It's also entirely possible this is valid in C & not C++? That's what I mean by UB being very subtle. Yes, I understand why UB is important to allow compilers to generate more optimal code. I think Rust strikes a better balance here - most code doesn't* need that tradeoff and where it's important can be explicitly annotated with that fact.

Ultimately, to me the fact that even the Linux kernel is subject to these kinds of issues[3], gives me enough pause to believe it's a real problem in the ecosystem (among many others). So other, safer languages, are usually better if you can use them. Most experienced developers should have a number of languages under their belts they're fluent in and be able to switch to languages they haven't seen before (albeit there's always a cost & it's not fun, so I don't seek it out as often as I maybe should).

[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D51170
[2] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23293
[3] https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/blogs/n...
> They already make installation of some apps mandatory by law. Also, some communication must be done with WeChat and so on.

Can you give some examples of this on the iPhone?

Also, it seems like on the spying front [1] (at least publicly, with Apple), they've preferred more "backdoor" ways to get access over more overt ones, so this scanning feature might encourage asks that they wouldn't have otherwise made.

[1] this contrasts with the censorship front, where they've been very overt
Most long-term research comes out of monopolies, which by definition have slack time and money to invest in speculative projects.

(obviously not all monopolies choose to invest this way, but absolutely no companies which live or die by quarterly earnings b/c of market competition can do this)
Gonna be real awkward for employers adopting this if their non-fb-using employees get permabanned from Oculus for using Oculus...
Linux Plumbers Conference 2021 Accepted Microconferences
In typical google fashion, there is no convenient pathway built for people who developed software targeting this and now want to switch to wasm.
Sure, in theory, it is just a matter of retargeting. But nothing really works.
> Your bank can't block shit and has to process whatever transaction you want

I don't think this is true for things that are in a gray area - storing profits from cannabis where its legalized and purchasing cryptocurrency

https://decrypt.co/39226/banks-still-blocking-crypto-transac...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthoban/2020/08/18/the-cann...

(Although the cannabis one seems to have changed recently)
Alexander Veysov on Self-Teaching AI and Creating Open Speech-to-Text
United Wholesale Mortgage was the subject of some reddit /r/wallstreetbets pumping earlier this year which then later fizzled out.

I guess they are trying to piggyback off crypto hype to keep up their meme stonk status.
Flying cars largely won't work in bad weather. They will also be easily be thrown around in a vomit inducing manner by mildly bad weather as anyone who's done small plane aviation has experience with. They also have to be in almost perfect operating condition. Any sort of half working thing will lead to a crash.
Sounds like a great opportunity for another player to step in and fill the vacuum, given that OnlyFans already proved there's a market for this. Just like Vine vs TikTok.

Also, weird that they would give up an entire market because of prude payment providers. Are these providers from Afghanistan? They should not have that much power over their customers.

Maybe a crypto spin off could work.
I agree, but the law does have to consider the very different risk profile some customers present. As has been pointed out, adult businesses have to deal with shame and a lot of fraudulent chargebacks. The reality is that they are much more expensive to service.
This is already happening to phones. The baseband blobs are proprietary and most devices permit DMA.

Nobody really knows what the blobs do. They likely have paved the way for Stingrays and other devices.
Ground Zero of Web 3.0
While that might help them accept payments, they'll likely then have troubling converting that back to USD and doing normal business banking.

While crypto could fix those issues as well, it's just layers and layers of segments that need wide adoption (B2B transactions, payroll, benefits, etc.)
More importantly, cryptocurrency also lacks recurring payments. Most adult sites depend upon income from ongoing subscriptions.
Onlyfans isn't a duopoly, unlike iOS/Android.
I don't have an Oculus, but I occasionally suffer days with 4+ hours of meetings. How long will you be happy wearing that headset?
> I worked ... in operations

So... OpOps?
When I was young I learned this the very hard way. I moved. Called to cancel my cable service. Person said no problem, box up modem and leave it outside. I did that.

Never thought of it again for 4-5 years until I was trying to rent a place in my own name. Yep, the retention specialist 5 years ago met his numbers by NOT cancelling me out. So I had something like an extra 12 months of charges plus modem cost plus a credit hit.

Because I really need this place to live in (3 others were depending on it/me) I ended up coughing up a ton of money. Lessons learned.
> Do people honestly believe a single CSAM flag from an “innocent” image is going to result in someone going to prison in America?

being on a government maintained secret list of CSAM flagged would probably have a lot of consequences in your life going forward without you knowing about that. It may be just one innocent image which accidentally matched the hash, yet without any procedure to get you off that list or even just to learn whether you're on that list ...

>If some corrupt government wants to get you they don’t need this.

it isn't corrupt government which is a threat here. It is a well intended well functioning relatively uncorrupt government which spends a lot of effort to protect its society from terrorism, child porn, sex trafficking, drugs, etc. In case of corrupt government the situation is kind of easier - you can always learn and correct necessary things through the corrupt government officials by paying a corresponding "fee".
I could not disagree more. Perhaps the author is writing about a small niche area where the data is more complicated and/or typing is useful.

I'd instead rather see much, much more CSV as well as flattening data models to make data more suitable for tabular representation.

Handling newlines and quotes is really not that difficult.
The Senate just passed a bill calling for a trillion dollars worth of spending. It's not like nothing can pass; you just need buy in from 60 Senators. The right legalization bill could do that but it might not have have everything. I'd be happy with removing marijuana from schedule 1, eliminating the penalties for possession and reducing those for selling.
Don't chargebacks go to the merchant anyway? Why would the payment processor care?
Looks like a SPAC stock too. Never the most reputable...
fuck you zuck
Gab was created as a reaction to other social media sites trying to remove that content. They're clearly different beasts even if Facebook and Twitter don't do nearly good enough of a job at tackling it.
Agreed, I think this is a crappy policy and I feel sorry for those that would get hurt by it, but blaming it for the suffering of domestic violence victims is over-the-top.
I'm surprised that they are storing Unicode characters instead of bytes. For example Rust's regex library works on bytes and unicode patterns are compiled into byte patterns which means that it doesn't need to worry about unicode and variable length characters when matching.

You'd think for code where the vast majority is ASCII this would be a huge improvement. I guess the downside is that searches for emoji and other "long" characters would need to look up more index entries. However I would expect that due to the rarity of that it would be beneficial overall.
There's basically four flavors of LitRPG.

1. Books where the main character is a person playing a (VR) game. Travis Bagwell's Awaken Online is a good example of this.

2. Books where it starts off as a game, but then becomes real. Sometimes it's getting pulled into a game world magically (Rachel Aaron's Forever Fantasy Online, Aleron Kong's The Land). Sometimes it's getting uploaded into a game world (James Hunter's Viridian Gate Online, Dakota Krout's Ritualist). Sometimes it's a game world and a magical world getting cross-linked (James Hunter's Rogue Dungeon, Drew Hayes' NPCs).

3. Books where the world is just the world, but it runs like a RPG (video) game. People have classes and levels. Frequently they have an inventory, go on quests, gain experience. People will even see pop-up notifications and see and navigate menus only they can see related to their classes and abilities. Frequently there are dungeons full of monsters. Anything by Jonathan Brooks usually falls into this category. Full Murderhobo by Dakota Krout.

4. Books where the world is basically a game world, but the rough edges have been sanded off. You basically have classes, levels and experience but the author attempts to justify it with the metaphysics of the world. You don't have explicit quests or popups or anything like that, but you may still have dungeons and adventurers. Dakota Krout's Dungeon Born is a good example of this.
You’re probably right.

The USA is probably doing it for them.

NSA tapped German Chancellery for decades, WikiLeaks claims

NSA spying row: Denmark accused of helping US spy on European officials

US caught spying on EU ‘allies’ AGAIN…not like the Europeans will do anything about it
'No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.' - Heraclitus

He is not the 2012 PG anymore, he is the 2021 PG. :P
Now that I think of it, what will the 2030 PG be like?
No, this is dictated by a vocal minority of puritans, don't drag "democracy" into this
Can confirm, same thing happened to me and i’ve never signed up for any newsletter (and i always make sure not to)
Selling porn site accounts is a popular way to turn stolen credit card details into untraceable cryptocurrencies.

That means there is already an userbase for crypto porn.
c'mon man
I clicked the link while thinking, "I wonder if these videos are as good as DevOnDuty's videos". Imagine my surprise.

Thanks for making such high-quality content.
Fructose in diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption
3 U.S. senators test positive for coronavirus
I assume because as soon as you become the "place where people get crypto for adult content" then the same issues that OF is running into now become your issues as well.

Unless people are getting paid directly in crypto, they are purchasing it from somewhere, and wherever that entry point is will have this problem.
Are you familiar with Karius? They turnaround a diagnosis in a day (genomic). I could imagine both assays being run on the same sample.
I agree that payment processors shouldn't get to say what people do for employment or how people spend their money - but how is it that OnlyFans is keeping women out of abusive relationships? If they couldn't earn money selling pornography they'd have to return to abusive partners?

OnlyFans is only a lucrative option for a small group of people - young attractive women. How is it that every other segment of the population can keep out of abusive relationships and beneath a roof (to the extent they can) without the benefit of OnlyFans?
I think a remote with buttons that can be customized (think hotkeys) that integrates with existing video conferencing solutions is the holy grail
I too am curious about this.

I imagine those at growth stage would comprise a refined batch of investment opportunities.

And perhaps also serve as good business case studies for Stanford et al.
Sure, life is not about being miserable, but it is necessary part of it. Otherwise life would be pointless.
You just described my whole career, haha. I learned JavaScript by inspecting other's people code. I remember this cool effect I saw on the website for the matrix (the movie), it blew my mind back then, now I know is just image replacement on the mouse hover. The effects was a bunch of out of air tvs and when you position the mouse the tv would show a channel
>And to see that get taken away because the payment processors

There was a story about an online dildo seller who couldn't sell specific colour of dildos because American Express didn't like them. I think it was lovehoney
that's exactly what i am saying, they want to confuse people

why deny
> Where's your threshold?

I meant world scale extinction event like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_extinct... . A layer of sediment literally everywhere, etc.
I miss those days :-).

The original author missed that the 386SX had the memory addressing models that the 386 had in addition to the backward compatible 286 modes. So you could access your "Lotus eXtended Memory" much more quickly than you could on a 286 based DOS machine (aka the PC/AT). A lot of businesses that ran on large Lotus spreadsheets used the 'SX for just that reason.
So how do banks verify identity in the US ?
The fact that OnlyFans isn't even trying to move to crypto to keep their business alive is a stunning indictment of the state of crypto as a viable payment method.
The cryptocurrencies I consider viable for this kind of thing (mostly Monero) are actually better for low-value transactions than conventional card payments, since they have a low, fixed transaction cost (well under 0.1USD, try that with VISA/MasterCard). I'm not sure about scaling volume, but the current situation looks promising.

Friction is a problem, but I don't see why sending Monero has to be any harder than with conventional payment methods. The hard part is overcoming the network effect of payment cards.
Could this be too general a problem to "solve" without narrowing down major uses-cases and industries, and likely first-adopters? Will there need to be different evolutionary/adoption paths? Will Postal's rule need to play a role?

A priori, the design space I'd want to look at is something between protobuf and csv. Perhaps optionally at the end of each line [somewhere non-breaking] you add metadata for that line, including specifying a parser implementation you know can perform perfectly.

The OP suggestion might address this if metadata(s) could apply to particular ranges of lines. It would be more fragile to the extent of being in different file.
> OnlyFans to block profit starting in October

ftfy
All four of your hard questions are effectively the same. Measuring and improving performance is one part of the job, but it's not the only part.
Startup or Not to Startup
The difference, of course, is threats and violence. I don't imagine many OnlyFans models are mentioning their love of firearms in the same breathe as they mention that civilization will end if we don't establish an all-white ethnostate.
Yes, engagement has a direct impact on the performance of individuals, and managers are responsible for creating an engaging environment - which shows why individual, team and manager performance are hard to disentangle.

Measuring development performance at the individual level is futile given the collaborative nature of the work and its complexity. Team and manager performance are more tractable.

Team performance is highly influenced by external disruptions, which is why the culture of engineering management since the 1980s has been centered around "removing blockers". Focusing on building a smooth-running operation (good hardware and software, fast code reviews, fast deployments, minimum amount of meetings, etc.) is probably what this article means by DecisionOps.

Re: managers, one formula I've used in the past (inspired by Andy Grove I believe) for managers' performance is a combination of the following: how is their team delivering ? How are they helping neighboring teams deliver as well? Do people want to work for this person (internal transfers + hiring) ? Or do people want to leave this team ?
My own observations. (note this could highly vary from country to country as well)

Thanks for your comment. My guess would be you are just not trained to see those behaviours.

edit: note this is surfacing in the game and movie industries right now. This is entire companies crippled by harassment and abusive behaviors (not only sexual ones).

edit2: an example. Your boss doing what he do to keep his position is using harassment. To a degree or another. Though it feels normal to you and me, like it used to be normal to joke about different people.
This is a naive, but very fun, implementation of a 2D signed distance field. It's the same principle that artists like iq use to make amazing shader animations.

https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfu...
as functional as an IDE? X doubt

how do you debug your native program?
Here's the whole thread. Since Twitter has started forcing logins to interact with the site, I've found it much more infuriating as a 'user' without an account.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428003771330793479.html
There's https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep for your own personal stuff.
They didn’t say one in a billion, they said 2 in 2 trillion.

A billion users with a thousand photos each would only be one trillion photos.

So a chance someone inadvertently has to look at a photo and … not prison, but, “nah, not this photo”.

Probability seems rather higher that the global suspicion-less and warrantless search will generate more positive PR results and systemic downstream negative privacy impacts than that chance of a subsequently easily avoided adverse result.

Odds are decent this all turns out seeming to normals like a “no downsides” implementation. If anyone wants to screech, better screech before it all proves perfectly splendid.
No shit. It goes without saying that almost all "covid" measures are complete and total security theater, no different than TSA in a post-911 world. Just more evidence we are living in a deranged world still largely driven by mainstream media narratives.