skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you know that cheap editing job on fiverr is not made by an enslaved worker?

That's my point, you don't and can't. You should be cognizant of the possibility of abuse, not write off the possibility. Don't pretend to know when you couldn't possibly know. People who claim that abuse doesn't exist on Onlyfans are almost certainly wrong. How much abuse content exists on OF is unknown; unknown to everybody in this conversation, and unknown even to OF. Whether OF is ethical depends on how much abusive content is on OF, which none of us know, and how much abuse somebody thinks should be tolerated, which is subjective.

Anybody who claims that Onlyfans is ethical is making a claim about the rate of abuse which they can't back up.
Adverse possession requires openness and discovery is what caused the saga.
Monoclonal Antibody Treatments as First-Line Treatments in Florida
Elite overproduction is not as big of a concern as the hype would seem to suggest

Despite record high college attendence, the college wage premium is fatter than ever, and unployment for grads is really low at just 2 percent, the baritista meme not withstanding.

The majority of grads major in actionable fields with good career prospects, not journalism or the humanities. Liberal elites who write highly publicized articles about matters pertaining to gender studies or politics are of the minority of majors. Most grads just want the requisite credentials for a middle class lifestyle, not to change the world or rise to the highest tiers of power.
Curious how things like database migrations are handled in setups like this? Is the expectation that schema updates are built into startup processes of services and happen automatically? Or is it outside the scope?
A site which calls itself Voat and uses Voat branding is back under the domain voat.xyz and it has a higher percentage of extremist content than the old Voat (if you can believe that).

It doesn't appear to be ran on the same codebase or the same database as the "old" Voat, but it can essentially be considered "back".
Epic is losing a great opportunity to build a gaming device with a friendly developer store and kick Google/Apple stores.
Spanktoshi Nakabooty

I hope that was a legal name change.
https://archive.is/VeB0U

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/3t6Dx
A sphere of debris would flatten out into a ring. The denser the debris, the quicker the ring would form. So all you’d have to do is avoid the ring.
In my last job I moved from a team that had no "senior" level people on it to a team that was pretty much all "senior" and up level people. I was impressed at the high rankings of everyone on my new team and thought that first, I was about to witness powerhouse performances and a lot getting done, and second that on such an elite and senior team I would have a good chance of moving up the org chart myself.

What I found was that all the senior plus level people wanted to do was work on plans and reviews and architecture decisions and so on and so forth. We had a lot of "leadership" but very few people willing to actually put shovel to dirt so to speak. Our ultra-elite team was really unproductive.

I began to think of the senior people as something like salt. A meal may be best with a lot of food and a little salt. One or two high level people to plan for and guide a lot of lower ranking people who could actually do work. The second best configuration would be all food and no salt - people doing work without the high level insights and planning. The worst configuration, I discovered, was all salt and no food - just a ton of meetings, reviews, plans, and missed deadlines.

I'm connecting my experience with this blog post because it seems to me like the process of "becoming elite" causes the damage. Everyone on our software team was so busy trying to have cross team impact, show their leadership, come up with consequential architecture decisions, and the like - because all that stuff is what you need to be well regarded as a senior type person, that nobody wanted to do the more mundane tasks of actually implementing our plans. From the examples of the article it's like everyone is worried about the metrics they can control, like the academics publishing more and more papers in better journals, that they forget about actually discovering or documenting things.

To use the high variance language, maybe in the ur-company, when it was just starting, you could have done something big and consequential. If it was a success you'd get rewarded and become a senior or a principal or whatever. If it failed, even if it failed through no particular fault of your own, you wouldn't, or maybe you'd get fired. Nowadays, as the company has grown, there are fewer of those big risks and more people who want to be seniors and principals, so people take the low variance route - establishing that they are influential planners who wrote and reviewed a lot of stuff and so on, forgetting about the nominal goal of the company - shipping good products.
How is Redis different than Hadoop?
Two posts from Astral Star Codex

* A THRIVE/SURVIVE THEORY OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM [1] - Still the best theory on the conservative/liberal divide. It changed how I view the conservative viewpoint and helped me understand it better.

* MEDITATIONS ON MOLOCH [2] - One of the most famous blog posts on the internet (certainly in HN circles at least). Part fantasy, part philosophy, part game-theory - all of it brilliant. It changed how I approach my life goals and what I need to optimize for in life.
A blog post so famous that it has it's own podcast[3]!

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory...

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

[3] https://open.spotify.com/episode/7yGVsF2VPi4knhfRujM1Yx?si=q...
Or it could be because it sells papers as River Dave attracted a lot of attention. Black and white thinking is presented as critical thinking far too often.
Hello Sudhir. We recently switched to VISA, and we are giving VISA cards to our new customers. Life is good !
It used to be perpetually 30 years away... Almost there!
I have been seeing more and more press hits for "elite overproduction" recently. It stinks of an ulterior motive: the middle class has been under withering financial attack for decades and I fear is now weak enough that the overlords smell the opportunity for a frontal assault on the concept itself.
I've started to wonder if there's some ceiling to predictability in a complexity sense. People throw this idea around in terms of emergent phenomena at all levels of analysis, but it would be interesting to see it empirically and robustly so. Will we be able to predict human behavior better? Probably but my guess is there might be some limit, or at least some sweet spot in terms of how far down you'd want to go the hierarchy of level of explanation.
I saw a girl on Twitch doing her PHD studies. The entire point was music and silence and everyone comes together to study with the stream on. Every 20 minutes or so (pomodoro technique) she catches up on chat messages and does some community interaction for the break, then right back to it.

A bit weird but seems like it'd be really effective for some people.
TIL intercept had paywall

https://archive.is/nzA57
From the news article, it seems to me there was no push for publicity on the side of Palantir or Karp.

And ironically, for someone like Karp, giving anonymously might engender worse speculation if found out.
> Then why didn't they get rid of them until a year later? The event you're referencing seems to be part of the quarantine, not part of the banning. The banning took place after the mods of the subreddit tried to evade the quarantine by moving to another sub and continued to support breaking Reddit rules.

Except that what actually happened was they had moved off Reddit, locked the sub down as an archive, and then finally banned when they refused to accept the Reddit provided mods.
At the risk of inviting survival bias, this Sounds like the situation that befell the the Bronte family. Well, at least one can make the argument that the Brontes died young because they couldnt move out of the unhealthy curate living environment.
They're done.
> I suspect that their aversion to adult services payments might be based less on moral qualms than on elevated levels of chargebacks with said services.

Mastercard demands a lot of keyword blocks that are pretty definitely too obscure to be chargeback related.
> The problem isn't that you need an alternative to PayPal, you need an alternative to Visa and MasterCard.

Isn’t that exactly what crypto is?
Founder in 50s. Echoing others. Give all your energy to your family now. It will be hard with ideas and founder energy and motivation to read again that book you have read to your toddler a dozen times. Meet that challenge, find the love to do it, again and again and again. Your kids will be better humans, you will have a better marriage, and when the time is right, you will be a better founder. (Hint: do NOT optimize for grinding).

Best wishes.
Coursera is a good place. They cooperate with actual university to get degrees. From what I've seen, the courses are top notch.

Also EDX may have similar program
Modeling impacts of crypto mining facilities on US power grid
co-founder and i want to do a detailed 8760 study that quantifies impacts of mining - both costs and emissions - for mining facilities in Western half of US. we need to acquire electricity usage data from mining facilities. any sharing of load profiles or suggestions appreciated in advance
I guess they’d probably have another card, but one has more money on it than the others?
If caddies are so smart as to give advice, why aren't they in the tournament?

Maybe it's because they are smart; they get paid, win or lose.

Just like the hedge fund manager who makes money whether or not you lose yours, or the consultant who gets paid whether or not your business flops and so on.
"The guidelines for enforcing these laws require producers of sexually explicit material to obtain proof of age for every model they shoot, and retain those records. Federal inspectors may at any time launch inspections of these records and prosecute any infraction."
lol, mate you seem personally offended by this satirical statement pointing out the conflicting logic
The summary was irritating because it mentioned HFCS over and over as if it is the cause of excessive fructose consumption. But most HFCS is either 42% or 55% fructose, while ordinary table sugar (sucrose) is 50% fructose.

It seems to me that overconsumption of sucrose is just as bad for you as HFCS, in which case focusing attention on HFCS is harmful. People will drink Mexican Coca-Cola made from sucrose and think it is better for them because of this article.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/2kYsz

https://archive.is/sAPV7
I'm gonna guess because for most of history few people were able to get a massive amount of fructose at once and so there wasn't much evolutionary pressure to select for that.

A bit like an exception nobody thought about while designing the code and so never wrote a handler for.
Luck isn’t a trait, it’s just a thing that happens.
Like the Valve Steam Deck?
Anyone who does will face the same pressure from payout vendors.

No one corporate wants to be actively involved in paying sex workers.
There is a very high chargeback rate for elicit materials - i.e. “Honey of course I don’t recognize that charge, I’ll call the bank right now”.

There is also a non-zero amount of liability with hosting/selling child pornography when user-generated content is able to be uploaded. Age verification is imperfect at best online.

Porn is massively popular on the web but our entire society is wont to deny it. It would take a cultural shift towards acceptance of sex work for there to be a change in the financial dynamics of payment systems for it.
In the past, "noble blood" was the metric of merit.
To give an example, our bodies seem to almost completely ignore liquid calories from sugar.

That is why it is possible to consume a literal 1000 calorie frappuccino and not feel the slightest bit full.
Interesting.

How does that work?

How do Firecracker VMs differ from containers on lambda or fargate?
As long as automation solutions (such as all ci-tooling) uses yaml to define logic instead of a proper programming language (or at least configuration language like dhall), I will try to stay away from them as much as possible.
The legal part seems to be the issue; Mastercard wants more stringent checks on the age of performers. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/548279-mastercard-upda...
React Native in H2 2021
This pedantic argument is so tired. This is not about arguing over the details of some economic model. The problem is culturally pushing some neopuritan nonsense, always in a highly selective way as you can always find a ton of contradictions. Not to mention when you consider the practicality of outright banning entire market categories in order to combat tiny edge cases.

These conversations should be about the end results and not just blindly accepting a culture of overreacting to every sort of risk.

Forcing companies to middleman sales at gun point isn't any better of a solution either, nor is it even probable, which is really the only other economic model (besides some true-scotsman bitcoin solution).

Trying to work with the system is better than abandoning it for some pipedream or throwing up our hands like there's no solution.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/jskJd

https://archive.is/Smczc
Already developing products address the question. Below is a post from June 2021, followed by one for the paper it discusses - regarding the 'benefits to recycling perovskite** solar panels, though they are still in the commercial development stage...'

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/06/recycling-next-gene...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00737-z

** ' a family of crystalline materials with structures like the natural mineral calcium titanate'
You can't win at this game. You can only lose. Especially these days, with the "dozens of metrics". No matter how well you do at one (or several) metrics, there are more at which you fail to excel. If you measure your worth by your social standing, and your social standing by status metrics, you lose.

So, don't do that. Don't play a game at which you can only lose.
Sure you will not succeed in long term without a good, market differentiating product, but a starup cannot even get off the ground without selling.
Aha, so OnlyFans is closing business. Sweet.

Anybody interested in building a clone and taking over of their core business?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be kind."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

I am not moderator but just reminding you.
Assigning Roles is not so hard, as there are so many hats to wear when you are a founder - Operations, Sales, Account Management, Product, Lead Generation, Tech, and Investor relations.

Since we are six guys, we bring multiple ideas on the table, and sometimes it is hard to choose the right one for the company. Like every company, we manage conflicts.

I think we would see more than two cofounders in Indian companies, as companies mature. Deepinder from Zomato promoted multiple folks as cofounders at the later stage of the company.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/zomato-ap...
Cassandra, GraphQL, Open Compute, eBPF, Hack/HHVM, Flow, Hadoop (contributor), PyTorch, ARIES, TerraGraph, Presto, React, Jest, rocksdb, folly, Relay, zstd, infer, buck, proxygen, Hermès, tons of NLP research and libraries, pyre, redex, Haxl, osquery, LASER, Kats, phabricator, Thrift (contributor I believe), Nuclide, and so much more.

Let’s separate the company from the technology contributions engineers have made from working there. This list doesn’t even include the HUGE list of startups people have created with inspiration from internal FB tech.
Yes, all these optimizations have been in the last few releases.

Reducing RAM allocations in the cluster can be tricky. Zoekt memory maps its index files and will absorb all of RAM as cache, and the standard cadvisor metrics will simply declare that your container is using almost all of its RAM allocation. Looking at go's heap statistics for the process will give you a better idea of how much overhead you need.
I read some more about this and it seems like verification of performers is precisely the bone of contention. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/548279-mastercard-upda...
LiteBSD runs in only 512KB, RetroBSD runs in 128KB.

https://github.com/sergev/LiteBSD

http://retrobsd.org/wiki/doku.php
Here is my intuition: let's say two satellites impact at high relative speed to reach other in LEO. All orbits of the debris have to pass through the impact point (since all debris comes from the point of impact). Any fragments on an orbit that go much higher will have the other end of the orbit intersect the earth's atmosphere. For debris to remain up the longest, it needs to have a very circular orbit (whether retrograde, polar, whatever).

Disclaimer: I don't really know anything about the topic, so if there is something I am missing, then hopefully someone corrects me!
I'm afraid the apply it better part needs to come either at the same time or first. The spending will reflect the priorities. You almost certainly will hate them.
As an Ex-elite person, what you are missing is their performance goals as were given to them by their manager.

As a senior person in a big org, you are judge by your leadership efforts / cross team efforts, so this is what they tried to do.

I bet that if their goals were to write code, you would see them write code.
I had not heard of this before. So, I dig around and find https://www.kapwing.com/ai-video-generator

> ... creates a video based off any text. ... made by the team at Kapwing, based off code by Hillel Wayne and Katherine Crowson.

*SIGH*

Based ON.[1]

[1]: https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/based-around/
Your answer without an explanation doesn't amount to anything more than a scant opinion. "no and no" isn't worth commenting on hackernews in my opinion. As I stated above, I am not very familiar with how this bleeding edge technology works but am not learning anything new from your response. If you wanted to expand I'd appreciate it
I know nothing about Social Science, so maybe someone can chime in. Whenever I read about something from the social sciences, it always seems to read as an opinion rather than something rigorously tested.

Is Social Science considered a rigorous science, or will we look back in 100 years and group it in as we do with phrenology?
Thomas Sowell talks about this phenomena a lot, however he describes it as an abundance of wealthy individuals who are highly educated in philosphical ideas but who have no practical or useful skills for society.

It often happens in societies where hard work is looked down upon as something only poor people do. The result is that these 'elites' have nothing else to do but agitate politically.

I feel like people have a great need to succeed and further themselves in life. When they don't have an avenue to satisfy these needs through hard and useful work, they find other outlets. Often these other outlets that can be very detrimental to society as a whole.
This is my feeling as well. I might be concerned with "elite overproduction" if the middle class hadn't been shrinking for decades.
We have been increasingly worried about the trend on Windows,” says Selena Deckelmann, senior vice president of Firefox, in a statement to The Verge. “Since Windows 10, users have had to take additional and unnecessary steps to set and retain their default browser settings. These barriers are confusing at best and seem designed to undermine a user’s choice for a non-Microsoft browser.”

Come on. Those of us who are a little older remember when this browser lock-in was Microsoft's SOP in the 90s.

And not just browsers. MSFT has used lots of dirty tricks to fool their customers and thus lock them into using their DOS ('AARD'), their 'Java', their disk-compression, and other different stuff since 1975.

People keep saying 'It's a new Microsoft. They are much better than they used to be' - but I keep seeing the dirty tricks returning over and over again. Maybe one day they will change. But I don't see that day any time soon.
They make fun of them and yet the commercialism indicates this hasn't quite been won yet.
Seems like the obvious is being overlooked? If elites are being overproduced, it suggests that whatever is being used to justify that status isn't warranted, and therefore, any inequities are unfair or unjustified. You can move the goalposts but if it's in the wrong direction you just make the problem worse.

This might be why the "class grades don't mean anything anymore" rings hollow to me -- it's trying to close the barn door when the horses are already gone. Or to use a different analogy, it's like some variant of the fox and grapes fable (maybe there is a fable for it on its own?), where if the elites' markers are shown to be empty, they start saying "well those weren't good anyway."

That might work for awhile but if there's enough of it people start thinking the system is rigged.
Radio Log from Police Copter's Chase of Bizarre Craft over Tucson Add to Mystery
GitHub: Explain it to me like I’m a designer
LA County school district mandates Covid-19 vaccines for K-12 kids
My cofounder, Amit, came up with the name Karbon (Carbon)- the basic element of organic matter or life.

We give minimum of 0.5% cashback of prepaid cards, and one of our customers suggested us to donate that cashback to charities. I liked your idea of carbon offset credits. It is something we could consider doing in later stages of our company.
You could give the user an option to specify that the CSV file represents equally-spaced time series data, in which case you fit a time series model to predict the target column.
OnlyFans going out of business in November.
Ahh, that's bad grammar - I can fix that. Thanks for the catch.
my aim was to point out that the above reverenced "image scaling attack" is easily protected against, because it is fragile to alternate scaling methods -- it breaks if you don't use the scaling algorithm the attacker planned for, and there exist secure scaling algorithms that are immune. [0] Since defeating the image scaling attack is trivial, it means that, if it is addressed, the thumbnail will always resemble the full image.

With that out of the way, that, obviously, just forecloses this one particular attack, specifically, where you want the thumbnail to appear dramatically different than the full image in order to fool the user that it's an innocent image and the reviewer that it's an illegal image. It's still, never-the-less, possible to have a confusing thumbnail -- perhaps an adult porn image engineered to have a CSAM hash collision will be enough to convince a beleaguered or overeager reviewer to pull the trigger. The "Image Scaling Attack" is neither sufficient or necessary.

(However, that confusing image would almost certainly not also fool Apple's unspecified secondary server-side hashing algorithm, as referenced on page 13 of Apple's Security Threat Model Review, so would never be shown to a human reviewer: "as an additional safeguard, the visual derivatives themselves are matched to the known CSAM database by a second, independent perceptual hash" [1])

[0] Understanding and Preventing Image-Scaling Attacks in Machine Learning https://www.sec.cs.tu-bs.de/pubs/2020-sec.pdf

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...