skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outrage and virtue signalling is mostly noise. It only works on businesses when it becomes a credible risk of monetary losses.

> Instead of asking the payment processor monopoly to censor things you don't like

There's no monopoly here. There are many payment processing options, but their differ in their level of service and transaction fees. Both of which get better with scale. So while everyone wants to use the major processors, those processors have to cater to majority use case, because that's how they maintain their position and profits.

> last time i checked onlyfans was wildly profitable and legal

And niche. The OF story is weird in many ways. At this point I half suspect it was a PR stunt. But still, it's a fast-growing company, and like all such companies, they evolve towards being appealing to the masses, because it's the only way to continue rapid growth.
YouTube Screws Me over for Three Years and Counting
A payment processor is useless without the possibility to pay with a credit card. And that means you depend on Visa, Mastercard and Amex.
I think the feeling a lot of people have – or at least the one I have – is just tiredness of al the churn. This year all tables need to be in wood, but in two years wooden tables are soooo old, what kind of old coot are you for using wooden tables?! Is there something wrong with you?! All Real Programmers™ exclusively use steel tables now!

Two years down the line people start to realize that steel actually isn't perfect either. But wait, now someone made a carbon fibre table and we need to break down all our steel tables and burn the few wooden tables left and rebuild it all in carbon fibre! It's the future, after all!

Of course, eventually people figure out that wooden tables are actually quite good for a fair number of use cases and we've come full circle.

I'm just tired of the churn-and-hype cycle and suspect a lot of people have roughly similar feelings, which is expressed in the "languages are unimportant; I build systems"-sentiment. Less and less of modern software development seems to be about actually building interesting things to solve real problems.
Silly me, thinking the real scandal is that our daughters are forced to sell nudes to survive.
You know nothing about me and my friends.
>> then you should launch a payment processor that serves the market

Checkout.com was most recently valued at $15 billion.
It looks nice, but some people might be instantly turned off by the new meme dialog.

I was pretty tired so I didn't read everything that carefully, and just pressed the "upload gif" button expecting file picker, but instead I got an error message that the upload failed. I actually thought your webpage was broken.

Only when I when back and read everything carefully did I realize what had happened. Two and a half suggestions: In my mind upload means its transferred from my device, so consider changing the text to "fetch" or something. Handle empty url as a special case. Like maybe just highlight the url box in a red border or something. And finally the half suggestion: measure whether uploading (my guess, but idk) or fetching is the more common usecase, and emphasize that one visually.
If you have a limited company in the UK you must use a suitably qualified accountant. Not sure if that counts as a "no".
I wonder if there's scope for dealing with this sort of situation in trademark law.

That is, maybe we could make the law say "if you want to be able to use the courts to limit the use of your brand name, you have to follow certain rules about when you can use the same model name for different products".
Tesla Packs 50B Transistors onto D1 Dojo Chip
She may get away with this, depending on the women on the jury who are likely to be sympathetic.

Imagine if a man tried the defense to a crime "my girlfriend abused me."
My wife's wine-growing family are hedging bets in Australia by buying/planting vineyards in a different state with a cooler climate. There have been cases where large swathes of a region have lost a vintage to smoke taint from bushfires also, so having a backup option is useful.
Since nobody had the temerity, I'll answer. If nobody had to justify their existence, then our society would not need systems which destroy people. It's that simple, and the folks using downvotes instead of words should confront their biases.
Yes.

Welcome to cancel culture.I can recommend some reading to get caught up.
Conservative media rallies around Afghanistan
This bad take reminds me of an old George Carlin joke about environmentalism: people often use(d) the term "save the planet", but it's in fact us that need saving - "the planet" will go on regardless.

So yes, there is no "correct"\"natural" temperature for the Earth. But there very much exists a correct temperature for human (and many others) organized life, and that is basically the temperature of ~200 years ago. As it will get hotter, hundreds of millions will die of heat stroke and water and food shortages, wars will erupt probably killing billions, civilization as it exists today will dramatically change. Many plants and animals will die as well. Other people, societies, plants and animals will take their place of course - the Earth will sustain life for a wide range of temperatures - but that does not mean that we shouldn't fear these possibilities.

Edit: George Carlin, not "Steve" Carlin...
Did you read your own article? A few people broke away from a peaceful protest and trespassed. In what reality is that even close to a huge mob breaking into the Capitol building with such force that they killed a cop and injured several others?

Its also a bit of a non-sequitur to the thread’s discussion.
How does this narrative fit in with banks who've laundered obscene amount of money for murderous cartels?
Maybe you'd be interested in looking at the way Jonathan Blow implemented macros in his programming language.

The video is quite long (and has a Q&A accompanying followup), but I think just the example of creating custom iterators with macros is really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX46eLqq1ps
So the Guardian also has a comparable number of Opinion pieces decrying the financial censorship of sites like amren.com? Since, as you claim, what they choose to publish under Opinion is completely unrelated to their ideals.
You're one good conscientious developer.
I think the OPs point was not that they were intellectually difficult to comprehend, rather each discovery radically alters your perspective of the world.

If we were to discover with certainty that our universe were one of many, it would completely blow my mind.
the data sets are the difference, can they be "inspected"? .. can the models ?
Oh. Like the time deutchbank was fined a billion dollars and nothing happened?
So they are really imposing their idea of "should" be allowed or not. Democracy is passe.
There are a more than a handful good and active German subreddits. Especially finance-related one like r/finanzen (113,151 readers) and r/mauerstrassenwetten (109,592), or subreddits like r/de (480,614), r/600eur (33,871), and r/germanrap (22,459 readers).

But I agree with you and personally spend most of my time on reddit on international subs. But it doesn't make sense for a German to spend much time on r/personalfinance for example because it's too US-centric. That's where r/finanzen (and r/mauerstrassenwetten (like r/wallstreetbets)) is the better place.
I am looking for an old page from 3-5 years ago that presented 4 or 5 short stories with possible futures and themed around climate change.

One of them started with people living in an artificial moving island, growing food from algae and based on nuclear/renewables energy.

Another one started with someone living in a dystopian building and references to a rampant plague.

I lost the bookmark and I could never find it online again, does that ring any bell to anyone ?
u'i xo'o xu la pygy ku jai logji .i pe'i so'i valsi .iku'i na'e logji
It would be great if the example in https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0?t=521 still worked.
Thanks for mentioning that, never heard this discussed before. Sorry for making this political, but if just a small percentage of what is spent on unending wars for profit was spent instead on new food and water preserving tech, then I think we could fix this.
The banks do this as counter measure to human behavior, eg. Spouse , wife, family finds out about porn payment and then the people deny they have made the payment.
Or sometimes an unauthorized family member or friend uses it to pay porn.
Another scenario is porn pages doing dodgy monthly subscription charges.

All these lead to chargebacks.

It's simply not worth it for the banks, it's bad for everyone involved.

It happens more frequently in porn, it has its own risk category, so to say. And most bank regulations are globally similar, so no surprises there.
Most transactions have a trajectory between many correspondence banks and none of them wants to deal with chargebacks.

Source, worked in chb department.
I see this attitude a lot that after 5-10 years devs think they no longer have to worry about writing maintainable code.

I respect that once you reach a certain level of competence you can probably coast by without thinking too much, but let's not pretend comfortable stagnation is the same thing as mastery.
Doesn't Google make enough money at this point that they can stop clinging to the idea of not having any functional user support as a cost saving function?

It is ridiculous that the only way to get an exceptional issue solved is to post to HN and hope someone at Google sees it.
Can your friends justify their opposition? Because it makes sense to me, not that politicians will ever do anything about it.
> What can you say in this language that would be impossibly inconvenient to say in others?

Maybe it's just me and my possibly-unreasonable infatuation with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (SWH) but I've come to think it also applies to many things in life, PLs especially so. "Weird languages" aren't valuable because you can deploy it in production, rather because it will help you recontextualize a problem (in SWH-parlance, it helps you see the world differently).

You can also say, SWH is an academic formulation of the beloved programmer motto "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". If all you know is an imperative syntax, all problems look solvable by breaking them down into a series of steps/procedures.

In my almost ten years in the industry, there's exactly one time I was able to apply an "unusual" paradigm to solve a problem. GvR might curse me because I sort of made a Lisp-like DSL in Python but I stand by my design decision. The end-result was a small (~200LoC linted with black) DSL parser with some DB access and a lot of rules which actually tried to solve the problem. When I found something wrong I just had to reformulate a rule, not actually wrangle with loops, conditionals, and control flow in order to rewrite logic.

Honest negatives: I had to turn over the project to someone whose background is in EEE, not CS, and I had to explain Higher-Order Functions to them. Not ideal! Actually, in fairness, I bet most in that team would have a hard time figuring it out because, hey, I made a Lisp in Python! But I still stand by my decision; it was the best for the problem given the resources and time I had.
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Good catch. I didnt read it that way myself but i can see how some might.
These were expensive for us.
This is only a problem if you're Eric Holder and prefer to indict corporations rather than the employees or officers of such corporations.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34397551-the-chickenshit...
I'll just take Latin, brb
Considering Theranos' board (powwerful males) decided to remove her, but she somehow convinced them to NOT remove her, but also to give her more authority, then the defense can argue she was not coerced. Rather she is the coercer
> They have the mean tendency to explode into super sharp pieces when you're not expecting it, so wear goggles.

Will goggles really help? This sounds like it would rip your whole face..
Do you have a source for this claim? It seems you're right about OnlyFans, majority-owned by Radvinsky [1], but I don't know about the payment processors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Radvinsky
Japan has a colonial history, for example it colonised Taiwan and Korea, ruled the Philippines at some point, etc...
I found this awesome Samuel Johnson index in an 1887 edition of Boswell:

http://www.adamponting.com/sayings-of-johnson/
One is a strict subset of the other
Sure. Either way might be better depending on circumstances. It is when rule of thumbs are applied dogmatically the result suffers. And there are alot of dogmatic programmers in my experience.

Eg. I have noticed some collegues want a functional programming like flow of constant value objects, but they don't think about that they are essentially storing the state in the code path instead. Etc.
Of course. I'm not saying the market is right in everything "it decides". On the contrary, I think it's usually wrong in the long run - it shoots past the social optimum as businesses continue to figure out new ways to extract money from established things.

Anyway, my point is just that this may just be market at work, and not some conspiracy or minority exerting undue influence over society.

(And my second point is that, for the same reason, I don't buy the argument that shitty technology is good because that what sells with most people.)
Right, the "other people should stop politicizing it and just do what I say" argument
You can express things with macros that you can not with normal code. But with the advent of decorators and templates that gap has shrunk, and with C++ templates for example. It might almost be possible to do everything with templates that you can do with macros. That code might end up looking weird though.
This sounds like a ransomware hacker's wet dream.
But their Arizona test is just that, a test. They are (or at least they state that they're) polishing the experience of using the service. What better place to do that than in a place where demand isn't going to be especially high, with ideal weather and lots of well-kept roads? Surely nobody thinks the Arizona service is Waymo's best stab at a productionalized offering.
Why did you fight your frugality?
> A HELOC is just a tool for getting lower interest rates on another loan

Yes, paying less money if you have to borrow to meet the same emergent need or opportunity as another person makes you richer than the one who pays more.
I wonder why the cost is high. Maybe to discourage folks who want a service competitive with a human driver?
This sounds like anti-bank/centralization propaganda.
I'm trying to parse your second sentence, and I think I somewhat agree in a technical sense, but I think it would be fairer to say, Duo forces a second factor on you, whereas Google gives you the option; and in the long run it's better to not babysit people through a "lie."

Last sentence? Serious question. Can you? I was just presuming that you can't; i.e. if I were to build a freedom-reducing proprietary solution like this, I'd keep the the key on my home servers and only deliver the 6 digit codes?
It is but people on Hacker News refuse to acknowledge this because they are angry that they missed out. Techies "who should have known" are embarrassed and jealous so they do everything in their power to dismiss BTC.
This feels like "yeah, gang crime is kind of like the Holocaust -- people die".

There's really no similarity, and pretending otherwise is just trivializing the Taliban.
Nothings stopping you from doing it voluntary.
I think they were complaining about reliability. QLC cells can't handle as many writes before failing.
This is not unique to banking in the least. It’s pretty typical for most industries to follow a company that does something the others want but don’t want to be the first one to do.

Price increases are a great example. One company will take an increase and most follow.

And how is this chilling of protected speech? The constitution guarantees free speech, not payment for speech. There is nothing stop these workers from sharing their content/speech.
> It's interesting to see the comments from people who supported [..] but are suddenly against it ...

I hate this argument, it is so easy to say: people were against before and they are in favor now. Without proving that the people who were against are the SAME people that are in favor of it.

For example, people wanted mask at the beginning and now they don't wear them. People support Facebook censorship but are against when it is for porn. People wanted a vaccine but now they dont want to take it. People protested against motorbike sounds yesterday and they protest in favor of motorbikes today

Sorry but what tell you that they are the same people ? Without that this is just wrong
Great job, especially the UI, which is clean and simple. I like the Tools section of your thesis - not being up-to-speed on web dev, I understood the which? and why? of your tech stack in under 5 minutes.
I have a pull up bar in a normal door frame, so it's really not high enough to completely dangle from.

I chose to bring my legs and feet to 90 degrees behind me, since I find it easiest.

Given that, you have the choice between grip and passive or active hangs, all of which have advantages and disadvantages.
My plan has been to use AWX but my curiosity is if there's something people like better lately. There seems to be a decent amount of hate for Ansible in this community and I'm not married to any specific tool here. My past experiences with chef in a pull model exploded in spectacular fashion (most pre Erlang rewrite), so I'm unlikely to traverse that path again but it's been while and I like to stay open.

Running a k8s derivative has been considered but the value proposition was bad. I like and use k3s but it doesn't solve for much in our use case.
I’d go further and say it’s not possible to fully implement async/await without compiler help.

I got really far with stateful, back in 2016 [1]. Stateful was an attempt to write a coroutine library in a proc macro, which generated state machines, as opposed to using os primitives like green threading. This was back before the rust community really started working in this space. I ended up extracting the type system from rustc to do much of the analysis, but it ultimately failed due to how difficult it was to output rust code that respected the borrow checker rules. I also didn’t have anything like the pinning system, so I couldn’t catch move issues either.

It was a much better idea to just implement this in the compiler.

[1]: http://erickt.github.io/blog/2016/01/27/stateful-in-progress...
All true, of course, but USSR had wine regions just the same, they just weren't in Poland. This was a surprise for me, but apparently:

> The former Soviet Union (FSU) was the fourth largest wine producer in the world in 1980 behind Italy, France, and Spain.
Most high end chips with high TDPs are already packaged upside down.

You CPU, or 9 out of 10 recent phone/tablet SoCs are all upside down chips.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_chip

So, it's actually going to be an improvement from the thermals side, especially with TSVs carrying heat from the other side to the heatsink.
>Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909; left), William Howard Taft (1909–1913; center) and Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921; right) were the main progressive U.S. Presidents; their administrations saw intense social and political change in American society.

Many people would resent calling Woodrow Wilson a progressive.
There have been fatalist predictions since ever and about so many topics.

In my own country, Spain, you could find an article about Maldives shrunk in 2010 and with no human-consumable water in 1992, that would make 200,000 people abandon the islands. It never happened. The article from 1988.

Also about a lack of food and a hunger in 1975. Syberian weather for 2000 in 1970 article for UK...

And many I am not going to mention here since the 60s as far as I researched. It looks like we are approaching a disaster and the end of the world continuously.

It could be a fact that climate is changing. And also that we contribute to it in some known ways.

What I am not convinced about at all if most of this phenomenon is human-induced. If it is not we will set heavy restrictions for no gain, maybe even impoverishing people.

Who will be responsible for the consequences? Also, we can keep adapting, as we always did if the climate is changing.

I do not see the point in taking every piece of news from climate change like the end of thw world: we will have to keep adapting. But no fatalisms, after all, media has a TERRIBLE track in publishing bogus predictions or incorrect and half-baked.
besides fall short to cut ties with betting cartells more than likely to be associated with so-called organized crime syndicates
The controller isn't slower in general though. I see it more as a problem of review sites not tracking revision numbers. It still reaches the advertised claims on the box. If you want to make decisions on information the manufacturer doesn't provide to you it is your responsibility to check that you are comparing the right revisions.
There can't possibly be a hard cutoff like that, because day-to-day temperature variations far exceed 1.5 degrees.

Of course, even an incremental difference can tip farms over the line from sustainable to unsustainable, especially in subsistence farming regions where people are barely clinging on in the first place. But that has much different implications than a scenario where the world as a whole can't grow enough food.
Yeah, I don't know. That struck me as well.

Because I am a closet luddite I'm going to suggest that they were unconcerned about a notification, text, call, or email interrupting them.

They knew the news was not going to arrive until the next morning (in rolled up paper form in their driveway), that if there were a bomb explosion or plane crash somewhere in the world they would hear about it in due time, they would go home soon and be disconnected from university/work and would crack open the book they had set down the evening before....
I’ve ran one - now there is a team, so that project no longer qualifies. At that scale, most of your time goes to customer service, marketing, bug fixing, and admin. Not value creation. So you start hiring to delegate low-impact work, and congratulations now you have a small business. The day-to-day is far less glamorous than it sounds.
It always reminds me of Eisenhower's famous chance for peace speech: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech
I think a regular national ID was attempted under the Obama administration but failed due to pushback, if I'm remembering correctly. The closest we got was Real ID, passed in 2005, which is barely being implemented fully now, over 15 years later.

It makes me wonder how long it would take a true national ID system with digital verification, maybe something similar to Estonia's, to take to actually implement. It would have to be something not left to each state to handle, or it'd suffer the length and per-state disparities of Real ID.
> Most people don't have a use for a line of credit other than to spend it on things that don't make them any money.

Even if that were true (it's really not—it may be at any one moment but over a substantial period of years people tend to have emergent needs and opportunities that not having access to capital, or higher cost access to capital, either misses with real costs or pays more with, quite obvious, real costs) people tend to borrow and spend money on things that don't make money fro time to time; if you have a lower financing costs for such frivolous purchases, you are richer than someone who has the same spending pattern with higher financing costs.
The Soviet scored another first by dooming its plane before the West