skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing particularly noble about porn, but it irks me that payment providers act as unofficial censors of business. Why should legal businesses be denied access to the de facto legal tender of 21st century? And on a whim of unelected CEOs...
Yeah it's definitely facebook that's the problem, as opposed to Google, Amazon, and payment processors. Definitely if I'm looking for a monopoly, my top concern is making sure people on the internet can chat without that familiar old household name "whatsapp."
It may be pragmatic, but it’s incorrect. “Is this time value an unset time value?” is not a question you can answer (using IsZero considers the epoch an unset time value, but it’s a perfectly valid set one too).
It’s a recent push toward more mainstream performers. For example, there are pro surfers who are popular youtube vloggers (e.g. Nathan Florence) who recently started onlyfans channels. Nathan’s is a fitness training channel. It threw a lot of people off guard. And I strongly suspect that onlyfans paid him to start this channel.

https://onlyfans.com/nathanflorence
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/17/onlyfans-pivot-porn-backi...
Ask the Star Wars writers.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/DeNGv

https://archive.is/PMu54
No need to downvote me - if there's a better practice, I'm absolutely happy to adopt it. Or I can give you the github details and you can send a PR.
That hasn’t been my experience with large enterprises, but my experience is simply anecdotal so you may be right.
> It would strike me that with massive labor shortages, many businesses will look to technology to replace labor.

Sraffa went over this in his Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities:

> In essence, Sraffa shows that:

> 1. It is not possible to identify a law that simultaneously determines the wage and the rate of profit because: i) the rate of profit can only be determined by setting the wage (or vice versa); ii) it is impossible to measure capital without also determining prices (including the profit), so it is not possible to calculate the profit based on the value of capital (as its remuneration).

> 2. It cannot be assumed that, as wages increase, labour is replaced by capital, as the value of the capital depends on the duration of the initial investment; considering capitals of different duration, it may well happen that we prefer to replace capital with labour even if wages increase (so-called "return of techniques"); consequently unemployment cannot be attributed to the increase in wages.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Sraffa#Production_of_Com...
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It's a form of protest, thus not seen as a waste of time by those doing it.
HN looks different in the past day or so, no? Not sure how keybase does it, but scraping the profile page sounds like the easiest.
Ah, so it has. Great!
No, I believe the original commenter believes that. I never said it was my personal belief.

That said suicide rates at my engineering school were high enough that the administration had to close roof accesses :)
It's not original research, more like synthesis. Reading the policy he's probably OK under the routine calculation exception.

The edit got reverted because there was no clear criteria for mentioning Queen Elizabeth III but not the other descendants. If he made an info graphic or info box with a clear inclusion criteria and stuck it in the Alfred article it would probably stick.
Much more effective pr for palintir than any ad agency
Wow, the ultrarich are donating their table scraps. I guess we shouldn't worry about taxing them after all.

Edit to add: @rdxm -- my first thought was what you originally posted. If I could give you an upvote I would, rules or not.
If only there was a Standardized Electronic Payments API supported by all banks, perhaps with interoperable bank account numbers. Then you could just send money to any account without the need for credit card providers.
Ridiculous expectations about open-source maintainers
I think they mean that it should be s/the pornography //, rather than s/of the pornography //, so it's "out of business."
Many phishing test as a service companies will report clicks vs. people who actually interact with the page.
I will pay for or sponsor any project that reports on the existence of archive efforts, historical and current and planned.

The existence of Archive.Org has led me to conclude that everyone has assumed that the problem is solved. We all know - here - how far that is from any consistent definition of reality.
I'm writing a book at the moment (https://learndevops.com.au/) and for me I've found I go days, sometimes a whole week, without writing. When I do eventually write I push out upwards of 5,000 words.

This system has worked well for me. If I try and change this I fall into a sort of resentment that I have to do something when a calendar is telling me to.

The thing is though: if I were to write everyday for an hour, and produce 300-500 words, I'd output... 2,500 words per week. That's not bad. In fact it's good, actually.

So I don't know. I agree with the article, but I also find letting creatively and desire to a grip on me and then running with it has resulted in big output.
Prostitution is a subset of sex work
What?! Unverified?! This is an outrage ... we must alert the internet immediately!
I think many HN readers don't gloss "Palantir CEO" as "tech celebrity" but rather as "Spymaster of Evil Mercenary Spy Agency".

To these people, news where the Evil Spymaster does something humanist and caring, would be surprising news, simply by being completely at odds with their biases.
If you can spend a good 9-10 hours a day on travel and office time, then presumably you can spend that time running your own business.

I would agree with starting on the side though, regardless of how hard that may be. The stress of suddenly being without a job, or worse, having the pressure on you to make your company work while also dealing with the stress of raising a baby does not sound great to me.

Source: currently trying this, and while the side job often has to give, it’s always at the expense of more important things, and my livelihood doesn’t depend on it.
Ditching CFS is laudable. Ditching oil is a bit harder.

I remember the hole in the ozone layer thing from start to not being quite finished (there are still a few holdouts in some parts of the world)

I remember the breathless announcements on the TV news and realizing that the underarm deodorant I was using was a wrong one and doing fuck all about it (I was a teenager.) The manufacturer of that deodorant switched chemicals.

I remember fridges and freezers being dumped because they were using the "wrong" refrigerants by well meaning owners. Could they have been re-gassed up with a non CFC and continued to work? No idea but I suspect that a lot of waste was generated.

Pollution is hard to deal with, it's so easy to emit and so hard to withdraw. At the risk of trivializing the issue: try farting in front of your parents-in-law or considering doing it in front of 'er Maj Queen Elizabeth and considering the consequences.
How so? My understanding is you'd still need to implement shouldComponentUpdate in the class component.
Probably because requestAnimationFrame is much better than setTimeout, AND requestAnimationFrame is supported even by IE10 so there's absolutely no need for a fallback. Also no, setTimeout is not more reliable than setInterval in many situations.
There are a lot of other people out there with a lot of money, and Karp was the only one who did it.

That's a mildly interesting fact. Now I'll slightly adjust a couple priors. Good enough for me.
Okay, what’s the story behind this story?

How did Karp know of River Dave? What was the property dispute that resulted in the fire? Why does Lidstone have his own Facebook group of supporters?

Can’t put my finger on it, this story just seems strange.
Did you know Pornhub has a social network-like function and achievements? But if a coworker wanted to connect with you by asking you to add them on PornHub, you'd probably not think that this is about a casual coworker friendship.

It's going to be similar if people link to OnlyFans instead of Patreon (or Locals).
> I agree, but how do you initiate a POST request via an email message? Embedding a form sometimes raises its own security alert.

So, your question is how to evade security alerts for actions with potentially significant side effects?
That's something to be aware of (and IMO phoning home should be called out in some extremely obvious fashion in the readme or getting started docs), but for people who care it's pretty easy in today's world to build a version with the telemetry ripped out or to just disable external network access for Sourcegraph at the OS level.
The reason nobody can compete is because of regulations. If it was a free market, there wouldn't be so many regulations, and people would be able to compete.

The unfortunate truth is that anarchy is better than a weak democracy, because weak democracies just become oligarchies with more steps.

Ofc, a strong democracy is better than either, and regulations are extremely important. But in this case, those regulations are more for the oligarchs than the people.

If you really want a great example of anarchy vs oligarchy, take note that the anarchy of the private world ran Trump into the ground repeatedly and called him a loser while our public world gave him all the power it could and started a cult. Anarchy isn't great, but it's better than that.
I actually read about River Dave recently. I don't think I posted the story. I don't recall why. I did think about posting it.

Anyway, if you don't care about the CEO angle, River Dave's story is interesting. Or was to me, fwiw.
Honestly i'd rather people err on the side of scrapping wikipedia too much than live in fear of being disruptive and not do cool things as a result. Wikipedia is meant to be used to spread knowledge. That includes data mining projects such as the one in this blog.

(Before anyone takes this out of context - no im not saying its ok to be intentionally disruptive, or do things without exercising any care at all. Also always set a unique descriptive user-agent with an email address if you're doing anything automated on wikipedia).
I wonder if FedNow would help, whenever that is supposedly supposed to show up. Then there wouldn't necessarily be a need for intermediary payment networks in the first place.
It’s not Twitter. It’s the US gov pulling the strings
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

-- Jamie Zawinski
>This seems like an opportunity, not a problem.

It is both. If money is the primary driver you should simply accept the opportunity and pivot. However I would guess that the people who founded, worked at, and invested in these companies before the brand change were probably a little uneasy about that "growth hack". I know I would leave any company that to pivoted to white supremacy or porn. The former for personal moral reasons and the latter because our societal morality creates a stigma that isn't worth dealing with.

Plus this content is generally kicked off the original platform for some reason other than morals. It is usually because users are abandoning the platform or other companies are refusing to work with them. Embracing this content can therefore result in headaches like payment processors or cloud providers refusing to work with you.
Why can't people just get green-pilled on the minimum wage already? I've noticed that when topics like these come up people usually say something about how the minimum wage needs to be higher when the existence of a minimum wage is arguably causing/contributing to these problems.

The market sets the price of labor just like the market sets the price of goods. People think that the minimum wage will force employers to raise wages when in reality it just makes those jobs illegal, even if both parties, employer and employee, have an agreement. E.g. what are you going to pay California's hundreds of thousands of homeless people with little to no skills $15/hour to do? Are they really better off with a $15/hour minimum wage working 0 hours and making no money? They have no path up the economic ladder if we chop off the bottom rungs.
We built this for my company. It's called YATM. Yet Another Thing to Maintain. ;)
Why would they unverify him?
Maybe Nabisco/Kraft is a big advertiser on Twitter.

Seems more likely it's some random coincidence.
Amazon Plans Retail Locations Akin to Department Stores
log(5x) = log(5) + log(x)
log(x/5) = -log(5) + log(x)

So the difference is just a sign change on a log scale. And it's natural to use a log scale when working with percentage changes.
You minimize this as a $7.15 donation, but as someone with a net worth approximately in this range I don’t see the problem? If someone unsheltered asks for a fast food meal I’ll buy it. If I see a sad story from a stranger with a GoFundMe link I might donate $5 or $10. I don’t expect a news story or anything out of it. But I do like to think my small action has in some tiny way made the world a better place.
Target date 2023: https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h...
Consider a different approach to mitigate automated URL fetching interference (this can apply to both email ownership verifications and password resets).

Make the emailed verification/reset link (GET request) idempotent (1 and >1 request has the same effect).

Have the link just present an interface for the user to take the next step. In the next step make a POST request that actually commences your verification/reset process.

In all likelihood you'll want expiry logic (let's say it's 30 minutes) - if you store the token with a created_at timestamp on the server you can have your verification/reset process check that now < (created_at + 30 minutes)

If expired, provide a UI for the user to request a fresh verification/reset email.
Regarding point #2: you can also create for your own pleasure. Not everything has to be a product.

Coincidentally, here's a fitting answer to the GP and your comment: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
There are a lot of similarities with vowpal-wabbit. The biggest difference is that tangram has libraries for a lot of popular languages (js, go, ruby, elixir, etc.), and has a web application for learning about your model and monitoring it in production.
Hmm. Following on that thought, globally, controlling our environment on a global scale seems to have resulted in a total loss of control of the environment.
Ah yes, every student in my district had this distinction too, until they lifetime banned our egress IPs over it.

The person who did the revert seems like a bundle of joy, though. Congrats on your efforts.
Actually I'd have to say a good marketing department. I think it was part of a long-term plan to be relevant to broad audiences, and come out through the woodwork already strong.
Many years ago during the arab spring, lots of Egyptian protestors were coordinating via Twitter, mostly giving tips on where to run from the Junta who were savagely beating them. Twitter shut down in the entire country and as a response I deleted my account.

Since then, Twitter has taken increasing liberties when it comes to supressing use of their platform, to the unheard of extent of banning a sitting President.

I do think that free speech does have some natural limits. I dont think Twitters approach is healthy.
If the town tax assessor hadn't caused a stink over a few hundred dollars in taxes for this shack, all of this fuss could have been avoided.

The landowner wouldn't have even realized this geezer was squatting, and he would have continued in peace and tranquility for the few years he has remaining.

Instead it's been a whole hoohah that's wasted a lot of time and money and energy.
>I can refuse to exchange goods and services with a private entity, or refuse to work for them.

Not if they buy the road you live on to set up tolls, or buy your town, or make deals with the local death squads to be the sole suplier in your area, etc.
> A network of trial lawyers and medical entrepreneurs found a profitable niche in colluding with a growing number of Americans regarding themselves through the prism of victimhood that happens to confer legally protected status onto them

What a statement. Its as if its saying lets just invalidate actual meaningful treatment modalities for ailments we've struggled to treat for decades. This is conservative talking point drivel that has never been true (see: welfare queens, satanic panics, "pussification of america" morning talk radio, reefer madness, etc).
There was.

The Montreal protocol happened because Du Pont (the major maker of CFCs) made the mistake* of making an engineer their chief negotiator. When he saw the science, he basically said "yeah, we have to stop using CFCs".

* From Du Pont's point of view, not ours.
Any security scanner product should also run the JS just like the real browser does. Otherwise cloaking the phishing page will be completely trivial.
This strikes me as strange. Why would Twitter unverify a fairly famous comedian for the mere act of supporting a union?

Either there is more to the story, Twitter is asinine, or someone is pulling the strings.

There must be more to it than just this.
Hours scale linearly. Startups scale exponentially.

IMO, the grind is overrated and merely covers up impending failure in many startups. Start small, stay focused, be extremely intentional in everything that you do/don't do. Grind when necessary (like to close a client or a big push).

I really enjoy thinking of it as "working at the peak of sustainability".
My father used to hum or whistle this song, EDIT : [Who Looks After] The Caretaker's Daughter [When The Caretaker's Busy Taking Care?] whenever appropriate :

https://www.google.com/search?q=caretakers+daughter+song
Quite. Plant trees and conserve peat bogs.
lol twitter is like one of the furthest left companies in the history of the world. highly doubt they did anything
Okay this is probably a stupid question, but how would Google go about doing this when Tim Sweeney is adamant that he owns over 50% of Epic's shares and Tencent only has a 'non-controlling' (as Sweeney has said in the past) 40%? As Epic is a private company, I don't understand how this is possible, but then again I'm not well versed in this stuff at all.
They have very advanced risk compliance. They know about Every trick in the book.. all tracked. You would need to do way more than that.
Now that everyone can clearly see that 'Stallman was right', we're all just haggling about the price.
Keeping north up on your GPS also helps a lot. At least you get a better sense of where you're heading.
I'd like to note, though, that this video also treats OnlyFans as a porn-only site. It literally starts with asking "Why do people spend money on OnlyFans?" when what they're asking is "why do people spend money on porn".
I don't either. I do think it's "problematic" (not my terminology, but we'll roll with it) to speak on behalf of 70 million other people, though.
To be clear, I don't think you have any obligation to the public; it just seems like you were out to make a partisan point (and wanted to 'team-up' with the commenter you originally responded to in this thread).
Oh, certainly, you could change the architecture to have byte-trigrams. These optimizations work without any large-scale architecture changes, making them safer to test and deploy, no data migrations or reindexing required!
Looking like GabPay might find a big new client
This is the pair of articles I thought of while reading the title. It's excellent advice.
Society is incredibly gynocentric. Few journalists have any interest in how the dating apps exploit lonely men either (by upselling them boosts, superlikes, gold, platinum, and other memberships that the platforms know won't do much to help the average guy on there).

Male mental health is ignored a lot and it's sad.
Note: that's the sparql endpoint. Much better at searching chains than SQL (but easy to make slow queries that timeout).

The SQL endpoint is at https://quarry.wmflabs.org/ however it doesn't have the actual data so much as metadata (mostly) so its not super useful.
Yeah. It is general internet culture at this point.
Here is good backstory to the strike, the Big Why.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/nabisco-workers-strike-portla...
I just finished reading The Cult of We. If the author is to be believed, Adam Neumann managed to build WeWork into a $50 Billion unicorn while fathering 5 children and being perpetually drunk and/or high. And having no real talents beyond incredible salesmanship and incredible obliviousness.

So yeah, it's possible. But is it right for you? We can't say without knowing more.
I suspect that China is trying to make sure its manufacturing sector does not deteriorate. The country is trying to become a world power in all aspects. It needs a strong and efficient manufacturing force to beat the rest of the world plus it knows that it can't become a strong military force if it can't count on domestic manufacturing. Xi Jinping is just trying to balance the 2 industries. It's now a strong world power in software and there are all kinds of reasons to think that with in the next 30 years it will be a first class manufacturing power that will feed its quest for military might.

We are looking at his actions short term but he's acting on a long term view. Yes, his actions are causing a bit of turmoil now but long term it won't matter since he will get what he wants. A china that's second to none.
you were probably busier than the usual a few weeks ago when the story of river dave got mildly viral.
I don't know much about OnlyFans, but isn't it mostly solo performances, where the performer is the channel owner? And every viewer is paying?

That would mean you just have to confirm performer, photo ID and bank account all match. And the cost of any manual checks can be funded by your margin on the viewers' payments.
If an article asking questions about it from 2014 is the most compelling piece of evidence that this is a serious issue then I'd say it isn't particularly compelling.

Note that the "Operation Chokepoint" wasn't just about porn - it was also shutting down payday lenders and firearm dealers. The operation was stopped by the government in 2016 and bipartisan legislation passed in 2017 to stop it happening again: https://www.forbes.com/sites/norbertmichel/2018/11/05/newly-...
It's not hard to google, but I probably read something relatively local with an ugly interface (which might be the reason I didn't post) and a quick scan makes me think it was roughly a story like this one:

https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/river-dave-doesnt...
Are investors and payment services upset because they're just stuffy conservatives who don't want their name near sex work? Or are there extra liability or legal issues that go along with being apart of that industry?

It's VC, where greed goes above all else. I figured there'd be at least ONE firm who'd be more than happy to rake in the money.
And suburban dads had wrench sets and wheel stands. Some of them had chain blocks for lifting out the engine and transmission to work on it.
Founder in my 40s here. "1 toddler and another child is coming" - Then you want to work one and a half or maybe two jobs? Unless your wife is Superwoman, sounds like a divorce to me. Wait until your kids are in school and more independent. In the next few years, your wife and kids need you. There are plenty of successful founders in their 40s. In fact the average age of the successful founder is 44. Plenty of time! Focus on your wife and kids or you will regret it.
I don't like stories like this, that are supposed to make us feel good towards the ultra rich. This is a raindrop in an ocean of people in need. Tax the rich and it wouldn't be necessary.
Are You Ready for Sentient Disney Robots?
Hm, I'm getting a 404.
I assume you're from Russia, Africa, China, or the USA, where prostitution is not legal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_law#/media/File:P...