skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google+ literally had billions of registered profiles. Somewhat fewer than 99.99% actively used the site.

I sampled a random selection of ~50,000 profiles to find out how many were actually actively using the site.

9% of all profiles had ever posted anything at all to the site. This is somewhat fewer that 99.99%.

And only 0.016% of all G+ profiles had posted publicly in the first 18 days of 2015, when I performed my sampling.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/naya9wqdemiovuvwvoyquq

And again, you're talking to the guy who ran that experiment.

Eric Enge of (then) Stone Temple Consulting independently replicated my analysis using a much larger sample of 500,000 profiles, confirming the results I'd found and providing additional details:

https://blogs.perficient.com/2015/04/14/real-numbers-for-the...

I had absolutely no idea Enge was doing this until he published his results. They're a completely independent validation. Which is how science is supposed to work.

Your other comments about G+ are at best speculation, and largely fail to match my knowledge and understanding of the site and service.
I do the same. I wrote[0] a little wrapper around this workflow that does a few additional niceties: 1) normalizes column names and removes whitespace, 2) supports importing multiple csv files without importing the header line as a record.

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/csv2sqlite
its only been about getting the Surveillance architecture in place... nothing else.
Contact-Aware Inverse Dynamics
That's pretty right. In particular, there is a (huge) subreddit devoted to selfies where a high number of users that post in there have a OF link present in their biography.
for shame!
Almost didn't catch the fact that the data he pointed out only really counts people who actually got jobs. What kids need nowadays is to know which majors generate the largest percentage of graduates who get work in their respective fields. That would be a better indicator of your chances of being hired after college.

It does most of these kids no good to know that a given type of engineer can make 150k right out of college, if less than 2% of them are actually able to secure work in the field right out of college. In fact, I'd wager that prior to going into a field, most kids would rather know about the "less than 2% are able to secure work" part rather than the "150K starting salary" part.
New NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized Covid tally
> Gas turbines are flexible renewable energy?

Depends what gas you burn and how it was generated, but yeah as long as the source isnt adding fossil carbon to the air then they're part of the solution.

In fact, after reading the article, the next paragraph after your quote says exactly that:

> Incidentally the gas turbines can themselves be fuelled by ‘green gas’, for example from composting municipal and agricultural wastes, or produced from surpluses of renewable electricity. More on this below …

The "more on this below" refers to later parts of the article that cover making syngas from water using electricity supplied by wind power
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Biggest question -- can ETH/BTC completely operate under the table?
Hey there! Thank for comment. I believe some of what we do did not come across? We are not just a video subscription tool. We literally lead 'read out loud' in the classroom while the teacher/actor is acting out the main character in the book. We have a weekly designated Litnerd period in the schools/classes we serve and we live-stream in our teachers/actors for an interactive session (the students participate and read live with the actor as well as complete written lesson plans, phonetic exercises etc). We are currently serving 14,000 students in this manner.
I'm a CEO, I'm pretty familiar with the costs. I didn't say it was free, I very clearly said the opposite - that it is a purchase.

The parent was very clearly (and admittedly, elsewhere) thinking of investments as a literal loan.
The world is more accessible than you think
I wish I could somehow steer attention from this guy and this topic to how great album it was.
Some people who buy porn will lie to other people in their life and open chargebacks if they’re found out, and dealing with those people is a nightmare because they’re lying and they get loud and angry and litigious to try to sell the lie so they don’t lose social standing and/or in-person sex.

Something like Apple Pay, that is rooted in a biometric/pin-verified payment (low fraud) rather than “enter your card number manually” (high fraud) would be a godsend for the industry, since it would detect the lie in the fraudulent chargebacks as described above.

Human beings in many world cultures are such a huge pain when it comes admitting and openly talking about paying for sex and sex-tangential things, that I can understand and grudgingly concede that higher processing fees are necessary. I do not know if they need to be 25%, but they do definitely need to be higher than for other industries.
I think there are shades of gray.

Two of the five IC's I manage are prolific open source contributors on a project mentioned here often. By any measure these two IC's are outstanding engineers and mentors, but also have zero interest in "growing" or having more responsibility.
> - Now they are making money by inviting you to sell your soul and exhibit yourself naked for money.

Actually, they were trying to stop the naked part, and that's what people were up in arms about.

And given it was the people that were upset, not the company because it couldn't take advantage of the people in this way, I'm not sure how that works with your premise.
Photos confirm Debian Mentor/Intern relationships before hiring decisions
What blows my mind is the number of people signing up for these "VPN" services thinking it's secure. Time and time again we've found that they are logging and if they aren't it's logged at the flow point (as linked in this article).

I'm fine with VPN to evade restrictions or whatever purpose you want, but stop pretending it's all that different.

I can say though for a fact that a few of the largest security companies have been paying for strategic access to netflow in the us for years. The reality is there are good arguments pro and against.. and that doesn't even account for any "netflow" visibility US and Foreign Agencies may have.

We really have to determine what we want to be standard for privacy and what advancements we're willing to give up in exchange.
> Also what happened to Chia?

All I know is that hard drives are still marked up.
Apple's human review is largely useless.

Trolls will be able to easily use tools slightly modify ambiguous adult porn to collide with a "known CP hash".

A human reviewer will see a blurry grayscale derivative of adult pornographic content and hit "report" every time.
That's rather spectacularly missing the point.
a lot of it can be attributed to spending in non-academics - like administration, sports, etc. these need to be reduced.

Similar to ROTC programs for Army in conjunction with local colleges, why not special sports programs administered seperately but just co-located with regular colleges that go along with the scheduling, etc?

Administrative expenses need to be chopped from the outside, there is no way the current folks are going to reduce that.
Not in my house it's not. A lot of sites are practically unreadable without reader mode these days.
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I should also add, the format of our program is such that if you don't complete the assigned reading and worksheets, you will feel like you are missing out on what is happening in proceeding episodes. In this way, reading is layered in as a fundamental core to the program.
content creators will now have persistent anxiety about OF pulling the plug in the future. They'll hedge with other platforms.

I think OF killed itself and this backtracking will not save it.
> I'll go somewhere else where I can get the same job I'm doing but negotiate a much better pay bump

Can confirm this works in our current employment market in the US for Software Engineers. In fact, I have less responsibilities because I don't know anything about the tech or product yet and got a 30% pay increase (granted I was close to underpaid).

Obviously YMMV.
That's selection bias. You never hear from them because they weren't famous enough to hear from. I know someone who modeled/acted a couple of times as a kid, not remotely famous, and yeah, it wasn't good for them. But you'll never hear their story, because they weren't famous.
He should just do an NFT of the cover. probavby make way more $ than any settlement
I looked into making a site like this a couple years ago, but yeah the market already seemed saturated.
I understand that part, you cannot terminate someone for organizing. There have been posts here about Amazon and Google using a PIP as a "legal" means to terminate someone, so I'm curious if a large portion of "loud" individuals at Apple are suddenly going to have productivity issues all at the same time
CS6 works out-of-the-box for me in Wine, but I suppose that's not everyone's cup of tea.
This was one of the features I was actually sad to see go when I updated Firefox.

I used this feature a lot as it was mainly manuals that I was saving.

They also replaced the default start page to be Collections instead of bookmarks, which b of course for me was empty.

I think I've got used to the new layout that I probably won't downgrade just for the offline capabilities.
> Is it really worth turning personal devices into snitches that don't even do a good job of protecting children?

Yes, because the point is not to protect children. It's to get everyone used to the idea that their content is being monitored. Once that is accomplished, other forms of monitoring can and will be added.
His parents consented for him. If he wants to sue anyone, he can try going after them. I think he'll get about the same outcome as this lawsuit, though.
The consent was given by his legal parent. So he should sue them not Nirvana.
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Yeah, just imagine. You are born into this mysterious existence full of beauty, suffering, sadness and joy. You live on a mote in an infinite universe, sharing it with billions upon billions of self aware entities just like yourself, and ever since the very first moment you had awareness, each and every one of them had seen your little tiny baby penis.

Poor bastard.
Overbuilding solar and wind have been long suggested. But your insistence that batteries will only provide power for a few minutes is honestly not backed up by any data.
Speed is probably 85-95% of normal speeds. Maybe less if the speed is gigabit. Depends on servers or VPN service.
What I wanted to point was that talking about "employability", people don't have to go to a university to get a degree and then try to find a job. There are other great ways to make enough money to don't have to end on OnlyFans.
They said they were only stopping because of the banks. There is also something very strange going on there, because other porn sites were able to clean their act by implementing regulations demanded by the payment providers, but not OnlyFans. I feel we still have to hear the full story on this.
I hadn't heard of Jacob Collier, so I guess he is the Fabrice Bellard of his domain.
And also why piracy is increasing again as the movie/TV series space is becoming so fragmented.
Scientists develop brain organoids with complex neural activity
I don't get why you are being downvoted, I am happy to see similar phenomenons as well.

I am using similar stack for my own profitable web apps as well.
These files are so simple to distribute - there’s no engineering challenge and it’s very hard to justify building a moat. That’s one thing the notables you list did, beyond merely gatekeeping content.
Under a western concept of ownership, yes. There are systems of ownership, particularly among tribal societies, where things are owned by a collective. The interface can get weird, but if you think of the tribe as a corporation that is its own legal entity distinct from the members it's not actually that foreign.
I think there's just a lot of competition. I never was able to land a junior dev position and gave up (was self taught, though.) I just decided to go freelance and work on personal projects until I had a portfolio and was able to get hired as a mid-level engineer.
Kimsufi onced nuked my server. Someone was running the usual blanket port scan and my IP was scanned. That was it. Weeks later someone replied to the ticket with an one liner “server hack suspected”. Then radio silence forever.
Courts will respond that way, minus the profanity. Usually it’s an immediate approval of a motion to dismiss with prejudice which means final decision and don’t dare even argue about it.
I don’t understand why they don’t just use Bitcoin or some other crypto, seems like this is the exact use case it was designed for
We just left the 20 year "Forever War", not much difference in terms of the ability for the state to steal tax payer dollars and give it to private companies. History repeating.
Alright, cool, I'll probably try that!
I can see it now. Most ROMs would be available, but Nintendo would be notably absent from any of the platforms and only allow their ROMs to be streamed from their own service.
The most obvious difference seems to be "a painting can be done without a specific live model."
I doubt that's going to happen any time soon. Nintendo would rather publish its old games on its own store. Ditto for Microsoft and Sony. The older consoles now usually have a collection of ports for old games sold on the newer platforms, though those don't always behave true to the original platforms without special hardware.
Shameless plug: I maintain a cross-browser reader extension that is like reader mode with some additional features. It's called Just Read: https://justread.link/
I think this is thinking about it backwards. The payment industry are discriminating here on the proportion of payments to porn sites which are fraudulent or disputed, not the proportion of fraudulent or disputed charges which are to porn sites. It can be simultaneously true that the vast majority of fraudulent/disputed payments are not to porn sites and that a very large portion of payments to porn sites are fraudulent or disputed.
> The first step is creating enough trust and openness in the relationship to get past this communication impasse.

How do you propose doing that given that a manager -- by their very job description -- does not have your best interests at heart and will happily use those interests against you if doing so answers "yes" to the central question: "But Is It Good For The COMPANY?"
The only thing that prevents this from existing is the licensing nightmare of trying to track down who still owns the rights to those old ROMs. So many defunct companies and cases where even the people who worked on it have no idea who currently owns the rights.

Had we kept the 28 year copyright duration from 1831 almost all ROM images would be in the Public Domain now.
Personally I find it clearer in many cases to use a format string instead. ie. instead of writing:

[(.number|tostring), .title] | join(" | ")

I would write:

"\(.number) | \(.title)"

which IMO is more readable in cases where you have specific values you want to put in specific places, as opposed to a list of unknown length which you want joined (eg. I would still use join("\n") in your example).
Just getting a match on the neural hash is not sufficient to declare an image CSAM. It just flags it as a candidate for review. Apple is not required to report it unless it can be verified to be CSAM. there is a multi-step process involving multiple processes and organizations to do so.
The issue is that the VG industry is pretty far behind in this respect, not that there's a lack of demand. Just look at how the NES/SNES classic consoles sold out in the blink of an eye and there were mass shortages.

The demand is there, it's just a question of having a convenient enough package
Agreed. I use buku and bukuserver because I can view bookmarks on my terminal/cli in addition to the browser page.

Bookmark management is in a bad state of affairs. If I'm on my phone or misc. browser, I use Pocket. I then use 'puku' to sync my Pocket urls into buku (with tags).

I use bukubrow for Firefox as an extension.

I wish there was a better way, but for now it works.

If anyone can write an iPhone/Android app, I'd be open to collaborate on project that could optimize bookmark management.

A great product would be: browser independent extensions, cli tool, db backend, os independent, self-hosted (with option for cloud) and no requirement for a web interface.

Just my .02 cents.
I made https://divjoy.com, which was mentioned by the other commenter. I'm obviously biased, but I'd say about 95% of users I talk to say they feel it saved them significant time. Of the people that request a refund, the issue is generally that they aren't happy with the UI kit (I give them Bootstrap, Bulma, or Material UI, they want Tailwind instead) or the database integration (I give them Firestore, they really want something relational). So basically, boilerplates can save you time but make sure you're still using the appropriate tech given your project and pre-existing knowledge. Happy to answer any questions.
Roam Research was a game changer for me. - I know it’s expensive, the founder behaves arrogantly, but nontheless: They have created a product that is very unique. Many have imitated it’s feature-set (athens, org-roam, logseq to name a few), but they were first and paved the way.

What makes this product exceptional is the way it allows to link notes: Deliberately by surrounding words by doulbe brackets or automatically by linking notes that have the same keyword in them.

I started migrating my journal entries (date stamped) and my markdown notes into it, and I start to see connections among the notes that I did not make intentionally.

Slowly I start to come up with more and more categories for note taking that I want to do in Roam: Dream journal, reading notes, articles, research.

Before I was using Bear, Ulysses, Evernote, later I started using Emacs/org, now with a small detour settled with Roam.
Given that it was legal content and his parents consented, why is it any different from "stage mothers" and others consenting to (and indeed pushing) their children into any number of ads, photo shoots, TV, film, etc.?

Otherwise any adult who felt embarrassment over their appearance in media as a minor could sue and parental consent to do those activities has no meaning.

ADDED: And if your response is that "But he was nude" then your beef is with the law that didn't make this illegal. There are of course borderline cases. See Brooke Shields in "Pretty Baby" for example which caused quite a bit of controversy at the time. (And, indeed, as I wrote elsewhere, I'm pretty sure no major record label would go near this cover with a 100 foot pole today not because it would likely be illegal but because it would be a lightning rod.)
I'm interested in the details of the manual review. Does Apple have access to the database of original images and will they use it compare? If not, I can imagine a scenario where a photo of a naked child is flagged as matching the database, the human reviewer sees that it is in fact a naked child and assumes this must mean the image has been legally determined to be child pornography. The case gets referred to authorities and the innocent victim's life is upended for potentially years until the case plays out.
Congrats Anisa! Kids need more ways to inspire them to read, and this is a great program!

I created programs for title 1 schools / kids in math and always wanted a cool way to inspire kids to be more curious and excited about reading.

Can’t wait to see Litnerd grow and reach more kids!
States offered muted reaction to Apple's iPhone-as-ID push
My wife says front loaders are more gentle, so do less damage to delicate clothes. Maybe due to the lack of the central agitator (do new top loaders still have that)?

The big reason I prefer them though: I can put a counter top above them for folding laundry and things.

They are an absolute pain in the ass to keep clean and odor free though.
This reminds of an exchange I read between a Rockchip dev and a kernel maintainer. The Rockchip dev wrote the following as justification for special handling of their board:

There are many legacy IPs which only support 32bit bus, we have to use them as is in the new 64bit SoCs, I think the 32bit GIC can be considered the same as those case, can we add CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 support in GIC driver?

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip/874kg0q6lc.wl-maz@ker...

Note that this is in regards to their new rk356x platform, which supports up to 8 GB of RAM.
But we’re making the world a better place by open sourcing our Nth JavaScript framework and a new database.
But on a serious note, that part community just looks away, because the answer is not easy.
Popular sentiment on HN is privacy, freedom and de-centralisation .
Yet major portion of community works with companies that break at-least one of those.
If she thinks he will go after her if she has his wages garnished, she should add a restraining order.
If you can't change your company, change your company.
When you leave the military with an infantry MOS and without leadership experience (which is the situation most people who quit after 4yr are in) all you have is a proven ability to work hard and put up with bullshit. You're on roughly equal ground with someone who's been a warehouse laborer or janitor for an equivalent period of time and on lower ground than someone who at least has industry adjacent experience. Being able to show up and work hard confers a much stronger advantage than it used to when applying for entry level jobs but it's not particularly unique. Yes you can apply a your work ethic to learning skills but that requires a kind of self-starting that we both know not everyone in the military develops.
we're calling Merkel cell nerve endings and tactile corpuscles "sensors" now?

I mean I guess they are, but it is weird to hear terms for artificial/technological apparati being applied to biological apparati
I hope they keep the 20-pin ATX power connector. The latest Turing Pi V1 boards are missing it, and one must have an ATX-compatible PSU with the 4-pin motherboard connector instead. Most ATX PSUs have this, but not all 1U cases come with such PSUs. Supermicro's CSE-512 doesn't have one, and it's a shame that the V1 is not compatible with it, because they're the cheapest 1U Supermicro cases on eBay. No one is buying them, but had this point of compatibility been preserved, they could have gone to better use instead of the scrap heap.
>Nintendo would be notably absent from any of the platforms and only allow their ROMs to be streamed from their own service.

They already do this, you need a Switch online subscription to access the NES/SNES ROMs they have available
Well, not naked at least.
Oh my God, so many games. Why can't I just do good work, get paid, and everyone get on with their lives?
I use an app I made for myself:

[link redacted]

The main downside is probably that it doesn't automatically share data between devices, but it's fine for me as I just use it on my main work PC.

It can save/load data to files so I have an `inotifywait` script watching my Downloads folder. When I save/download a file from the app it automatically gets backed up to cloud storage.

I'm not sure how usable it might be for people. I've made a start on hints/instructions but that part of it is pretty threadbare as I've not got around to sharing it with others yet.