skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many people here are aware of Snapchat's thriving underground OnlyFans-like ecosystem. I also wonder how much of that is driving Snap's user metrics.

As far back as 2014, I remember there being a huge ecosystem of "premium" snaps (sometimes known as "prem(ium) girls"), whereby you would pay the account owner a one time or recurring fee for access to a "premium" snapchat account where the owner posts nudes/etc, essentially OnlyFans-like content. Owner would typically accept payment through any number of ways (paypal/cashapp being most common), and "customer" would provide proof of payment by sending screenshot of receipt that the owner then confirms.

The premium account owner would also typically have a free/open account where they would post free content / teasers/etc, essentially marketing/advertising for their premium account. They would sometimes also market their account on Twitter and Reddit and especially Tinder (and one less popular app by the name of Whisper), much like OnlyFans content creators do today.

As far as I know, this preceded the popularity of OnlyFans and remains a popular use case for Snapchat. I don't use Snapchat much myself nowadays, but I used to be a customer of many of these premium snaps years ago. When I do log in once in a while, many of these accounts are still active, though some are also advertising their OnlyFans.

I think Snap officially bans this practice, but by nature these accounts are private and the owner adds users on a one by one basis, so I don't imagine they get reported a whole lot.

The fact that the content is ephemeral surely helps and is probably one of the main reasons the content creators choose Snap as their platform. Snap also tells you when users screenshot your content, which would often result in getting banned from the premium Snap. Unlike OnlyFans, which cannot get in the AppStore and is relegated to being web-only, Snapchat is mobile-only, making it harder for users to download the content, which is another appeal for these "premium" content creators.
I really don't buy this. Almost all of my friends, who were prolific snap users in college, have converted away to instagram. Stories are so dead, and despite adding people most of my stories get the same ~15-20 views per 24 hours period.

That's all very anecdotal, and so is my next point: I get a new bot or porn spam account adding me once or twice a week, some of which have large karma counts indicating they've been around for a while.

So yes all of that is anecdotal but I suspect the bots I'm seeing are just the tip of the iceberg of what is actually making up the growing userbase of the app. Most of the young'ns appear to be on tiktok these days anyways.
That’s where the vacuum comes in. Extract half of that hot air, seal the container, and you have 70% of the helium lifting force. (Math may be wrong there but you get the idea)

Really you don’t need hot air at all. If you have a massive vacuum contained by a rigid shell of some super light super strong material you’d be set. Density of air at sea level is around 1 kg/m^3, so 100 m^2 of material lifts 3 tons. Assuming one ton for material, one for propulsion, one for cargo, you end up needing a shell material that can weigh up to 1 kg/m^2 and can hold a near vacuum. Like I said earlier, “just” and engineering problem.

The good news is economies of scale are on your side: 10000 m^2 of shell can lift 3 thousand tons. At that scale your shell can be up to 300 kg/m^2. A bit more reasonable.
I've been using a Zoom meeting of just myself, locked, audio and camera off. Worked like a charm when I needed to discharge a swelling battery.
Motherboard isn't offensive. It shouldn't be offensive. If someone is offended by it, that is a problem of theirs.

The idea that a large, influential organization plays along with the idea that "motherboard" should in any way be filtered is as absurd as filtering the words "table" or "stereo".
I mean in the interview that idea doubted, the maximizing of ad revenue.

At least with facebook, but I assume with others, they are using engagement as a proxy for delivery value to you. That is the goal they are trying to maximize for.

So they want to maximize how much pleasure you get from the service, so they maximize engagement, but they don't necessarily maximize revenue, because that would hurt engagement.
I had a similar experience when we introduced our child to solids - we all ate the same meal so obviously added sugar and salt were out of the question.

Within two weeks I started experiencing flavours that I previously had no idea were there - especially rice has a different taste initially than after it's chewed.

I used to eat those instant ramen noodles every other day. Now I can't stand the salt content.
Since when did Newspapers become independent?
fungi are smarter and more meticulous than bacteria, so I’m willing to believe they could dictate our preferences
Building the World’s Largest Animal Crossing Outside of LA
My seven and four year old girls definitely understood what the hungry hyenas were doing; but then, I've never really sheltered them from the horrors of nature.
Has anyone here ever been married to a woman who isn't a software engineer? (Or at least talked to one? The fuck)

> Then why do you think girls are self selecting away from computer science?

Why do you think? Hypothesize. Do you think women/girls today are being told in-large they're too dumb or stupid to do such? (Especially considering girls actually get better test scores and grades than boys from an early age - choose whatever reason you want for that existing but it is the case)

It really isn't the case. Women choose other things because they're interested in other things. A lot of women don't want to work in STEM or tech because it's not particularly sexy. The ones who do work in it usually don't find it sexy but are instead, "Yeah, I'm pretty nerdy and into nerdy stuff. So, this is what I like to do." but most women aren't like that. A lot of social factors are involved but overall - women are known for being more social than men and STEM is very well known for being the least social of about any major field you could go into. Why would you go into something that wasn't very social unless you were less social yourself?
That's pretty handy! I remember a coworker asking me for something similar years ago and me just making something on the fly in C++ (a glorified wrapper over "SetThreadExecutionState"): https://gist.github.com/Hamcha/3a7b3e7518e13d1fba7e

I wonder if that page would even work, his work PC at the time (late 2015) was a dual-socket Pentium III which ran surprisingly OK given the already 15+ years of age, but lacked in software support as apps like Skype and Chrome at one point started shipping binaries that required.. SSE2
The real trick to root cause analysis is not to find a straight chain of 5 "whys" but to find a tree of whys and examine the leaf nodes. One path from root to tip would resemble a "5 whys" (but potentially be longer or shorter) but stopping when you've found a single item to fix is doing yourself a disservice.
A net gain of 500,000 against an expected gain of 2.5M is horrible. Don't think analysts are ignoring the Russia situation, they just realize that Netflix has much bigger problems.
Recognizing seniority is hard. Computer Science is a field were a teenager in front of a computer quickly feels like a god. You can do anything!

But getting that out of their thinking takes time. And that is IMHO what you experience. It is disheartening that they lack the respect they should have socially independent of profession for an "elder" person.

I am in my early 40s as an architect arguing with our mixed-age teams to give me the necessary rationale before making stupid "it's different now" decisions.
Intel did not ship even one working implementation of TSX, so it's not like anyone will be inconvenienced that they cancelled it.
I was going to use it to chat with some friends but the app is so annoying I decided to leave.
> This is categorically false, look at the insane 1200 airstrikes that were launched in the last week.

That'd be an insanely high number, yes. You misread things: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zelensky-says-russian-inv...

"Russia claims to have hit more than 1,200 targets in Ukraine with missiles, artillery and airstrikes overnight as it launched a long-awaited new offensive in the Donbas region."

Also, no one doubts that the Russians are flying air missions, but "air superiority" means something far more than that.
Regular plasma donation is probably much worse for your long term health than ppb levels of pfas.
>"Piracy is easier" refers to the experience after you've gone through the work of setting up your own entertainment system.

and the thread here as a whole is rebuking the argument that Netflix is losing money because people are pirating. Most people don't or can't go through this work, so that likely isn't the reason why Netflix is seeing drops.
Very cool, and looks slick!
Any code modification is a potential security issue. There is nothing special about dynamic class redefinition in this regard.

I use it for development and deployment. I can deploy new code without having to take my application down. In fact, not only do all my existing instances get updated, but I also use an ORM [1] that automatically updates my database tables too.

[1] https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib/blob/master/layer1/sql....
This seems like a well articulated case that you're making, though I'd like to argue from the opposite perspective for a bit.

> If you do not acknowledge this is the case, then DEI efforts can seem very unfair.

This is a non-trivial objection. I struggle to think of many acceptable scenarios in which we have to choose between acknowledging something which we don't believe as true, or living in an unfair system.

Likewise, I don't know of any people personally who object to DEI efforts to make fields more appealing to a wider audience, or bringing in more diverse perspectives, or even critiquing existing processes.

The main objection that I see is against the policies which are enacted in pursuit of that goal. For instance, saying "our engineering team is largely Asian, we might be missing other perspectives" is a good call-out, and I can think of nobody who'd oppose calling that out. Enacting a policy that said "for the next engineer in this team, let's make sure we hire a non-Asian employee", that is the source of a lot of the umbrage with DEI efforts.

In my experience, opponents largely agree with the goals (more diverse viewpoints), but disagree with the methods (pandering in the best case, and preferential treatment by group in the worst case.)

You are correct that there is no inherent cost to learning about and bringing in different perspectives. There is a cost of the efforts to bring in those perspectives if they mean that I lose a job that I would otherwise have gained.

Moreover, an even bigger concern is that these decisions aren't being made based on perspective, but only on immutable identity (e.g. race, ethnicity, gender). In these cases, the cost is even greater, since one can't address the situation by bringing in more perspectives; if the company says "we need more non-Asian employees", it is a really big cost (and one you can't avoid) if you happen to be Asian, regardless of how many heterodox opinions you might otherwise bring.

Nobody I know opposes thegoals of DEI, but it's not hard to see how policies enacted which disadvantage people based on immutable characteristics might be reasonably considered unfair.
Agreed but this is not unique to the current federal government at all. Whoever is in power at the state or national level has used this power for their benefit.

Case in point, office of a prominent Indian actor was broken by a state government which is the political rival of the government at national level, even after a high court order preventing them from doing so.
What a rare and interesting view. Most products fail anyway, yes, so that this one originates from a huge conglomerate doesn't do much to change the odds. I'm bearish on legacy media and CNN in particular for other reasons, but other examples would be how Yamaha, Sony, Nintendo, have all launched fresh products that grew from within a legacy org structure. Nice to have my own schadenfreude broken by a thoughtful insight.

I'd wonder whether the natural evolution of a succesful large org ends as a ventures group.
No, it's about how much time you have to spend in the recharging.

For the majority of users, that time is a few seconds. They arrive home, plug the car in, and walk off. It doesn't matter how long the charge takes because the user isn't involved.

I dunno where you spend 40 seconds putting gas in. It takes longer than that for me just to put the credit card in and get everything prepared, followed by a couple of minutes to fuel. During which I'm in a gas station somewhere, outside, pouring chemicals.

There are situations where that time to re-fuel matters. But that's not what most people face most days.
I have thought Sketchup to hundreds of people in online and in person classes. Nowadays I don't do that anymore because Trimble effectively killed off a vibrant community by putting Sketchup desktop behind a paywall.

I think the web version is great, but it doesn't have extensions, and it has limited exporting functionality. You can't have the freedom you used to have in 2018 anymore.

I think Sketchup was at it's best when it was under Google. Their interest was to put it in more hands for the sake of Google Earth. So they gave users a lot of freedom.
Anyone got an idea why in the simulation they targeted a bird?
Most servers obviously by default do not log the password, all of the ones I checked do not even have a way to do so.
The Organization Modi belongs to:RSS and the political party he leads:BJP, both of them have pictures of Godse on their office walls. They garland his pictures, they celebrate the day Gandhi was assassinated and they believe Godse did the right thing by shooting Gandhi.
There was nothing baseless about the tweet.
Either u are intentionally trying to mislead the audience here, or you do not know enough about RSS/BJP's politics and Ideology. In the latter case, perhaps do not accuse others of 'baseless accusations'
The article mentions the reduction, not beginlevels of the substances. It turns out that the reduction during the test period is about 30% (for at least one of the substance categories). A meaningful reduction for sure, but it should be interesting to test them after a few years of blood donation. On page 6/7 of the JAMA pdf you find the relevant graph.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/articlepdf/...
There is no way they are paying 200k, even Canadian dollars.
I don't believe this has anything to do with AI, it most likely is rule based (not the entire system, just inclusive warnings). People like to shit on AI, but AI wouldn't really make such ridiculous suggestions, only human can.

The suggestions look a lot like code linters in FAANG companies. People from the outside will be shocked at some of these "inclusive" linters if they take a look.
It usually starts as an HR initiative & then ERGs are created as a means of fulfilling goals set by the HR departments. I wouldn’t really characterize it as bottom up, although I’m sure there are plenty of companies where C suite & other divisions didn’t want this to happen & it’s being used as political leverage against them.
Also interesting that's less than a mile, so you do 1200 miles up for an LEO satellite... yeah. There is the laser approach too.

I guess if they figure out space elevator, just use that, a literal power line from the sky to the ground ha.

Oh use repeaters (high altitude balloons)... not sure if that helps.
Rackspace email change to open-Xchange
Seems like as a e-mail reseller for Rackspace I'm loosing at lot in this 'improvement' look at what is being removed...
They have different prices for different countries.
That seems to answer it on face value, unless the prices quoted for blood panels are very inflated due to insurance.

EDIT>> Maybe a punch card? Donate N pints, get a free blood panel.
> I think extreme introversion is as unhealthy as eating poorly and refusing to exercise

You think being an introvert is so negative to your health that it will literally reduce your life expectancy?

What exactly do you think introvert means?
> I have no idea how would I train an AI which would classify "motherboard" as inappropriate.

I believe you just need to give it emotions.
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Similar thing happened to me- I used the term "biner" to refer to a carabiner, but was told that it was an insult used to refer to hispanics who collected beans in the central valley of california. At the time, I was in Connecicut. I've also had people tell me I can't call a particular card suite a "spade".
It's exhausting to find good content on Netflix. I found myself dreading opening the app because it would take 10+ minutes to find something decent to watch. So I stopped using it.
Show HN: Wikipedia page views for interest-driven topics
+1 Netflix not integrating with Apple TV is a pain for me also - for everything else, I often search on Apple TV.
Just yesterday I discovered that youtube's "home" feed in the iOS app is not actually endless. I know this because I reached the bottom of it without tapping into a single video! For the past 6 months or so in particular, their recommendation engine has just been abysmally bad.
All of those already existed by the 80s.
It is one of several patterns I have just noticed in the past couple of weeks

US made a human rights comment.

Germany media made a big deal about the oil purchase, trying to deflect attention from their own increased purchase.

And as a former colonialist I couldn't expect the UK not come up with it's own act.

Collective guilt works both ways especially among democratic countries of which India is thr largest and US the oldest.
Oh and do not give up on them. Junior engineers are like teenagers. You need to raise them even if they are their worst.
Does anyone else feel like the recent focus on gender identity/pronouns/trans is being totally driven by the extreme 5% on both sides (left and right)?

Meanwhile the remaining 90% of us are under the attitude of "equal rights for all, do and/or call yourself whatever you want as long as it brings no personal harm to others".

Personally, for every gender non-binary person I've encountered (there have been multiple), when I incorrectly use the wrong pronoun, I get gently/nicely corrected and the conversation moves on without anyone caring further.

In the article the author laments "At the time, I was exhausting so much mental energy memorizing my coworkers' pronouns and all of the new progressive dogmas out of fear that I would be fiercely condemned if I slipped up"

My question is, does this really happen as described? Or only at the extreme end? And I'm being totally non-facetious here.

Again, I've called non-binary people "her" before and you know what happened? They said "Hey actually, I prefer 'they' just FYI", I responded with "ah, sorry, got it!", and we moved on. That was it.
I'm not referring to housing--although I think it's anyone's guess what happens to housing. Bonds are currently dead as an asset class and people see RE as an inflation hedge. I do see an upper limit to what individuals can afford and we're beyond that.

The only two groups I'm interested in as tenants are low income housing and corporate tenants. That's why I'm in industrial real estate.

Either way, this royalty agreement by comparison does not look like a good investment. The illiquidity of it means I need much higher returns IMO.
Media that highlights this dynamic is interesting, though it implies some fourth-wall breaking. Funny Games did it (and I hated it, but it was interesting.) Sometimes video games do it too; Metal Gear Solid criticizes the player for enjoying all the killing.
> newly minted eth

Cryptocurrencies make their inevitable appearance in the thread! :]
Big.Little-like architecture? Even intel has adopted that in their 12 gen.

I believe a lot has happened around mobile and power as well. Apple boasts their progress every year, and at least some of them are real. But they are too secretive to talk about that. I hope some competitors have written some related papers. For example, the OP talks about dark silicon. What's going on around it these days?
When you take this to the extreme, it's like, "men should enjoy another man's penis as much as women do if it wasn't for those damn external societal pressures." It's like... there can't ever be biological differences or biological reasons for any kind of preference at all?

It doesn't add up. If you acknowledge men and women are different then you have to acknowledge there are biological reasons for why some people might prefer some other things than others. If you don't acknowledge any differences then you must not believe sexual orientation is real - in which case, you're fucking crazy.
> Unless you believe they are somehow biologically wired to enjoy tech less

Duh? Women and men are not the same (on average, in aggregate, #NotAllWomen etc. etc.) I find this blindingly obvious and I am a woman.
its a game kinda thing. it needs rendering space. not mobile friendly
why do you guys use Caml?
I remember my previous employer's www was mentioned in the same article with google with a back link in the first paragraph.

We got less than 100 clicks due to google analytics. It was 2012.

I was shocked that this number was so low. It was proably semi sponsored post but anyway...

Now i know its not worth to pull my strings to be mentioned on TechCrunch so much if you are outside SV anyway, it wont provide too much value if this is a one shot event.
This is just it. I have an amazingly smart home: in every single room, I have installed a robust remote control for lighting that cannot get lost, can be replaced for $5 if it breaks, and is perfectly customizable with interchangeable face plates. The kids can even paint them!

I don't need my lights to turn on and off on their own. I don't buy that anyone does, short of perhaps someone who has a physical disability for whomst it would be too difficult. For $20 I can get a timer - perfect for the closet light we always used to leave on by accident.

I think this is basically conspicuous consumption, tasteless pseudo-luxury. I am not impressed by your IoT colorful lightbulbs; impress me with your conversation.
There's a ton of very new research on this. The big exciting candidate right now is Akkermansia muciniphila, which seems to emit a glucagon-like peptide that moderates appetite [1] (similar to drugs like Wegovy, only maybe without the side effects.) The western high-fat/carb diet also seems to cause Akkermansia populations to drop precipitously, which may be either cause or a separate side-effect of the obesity epidemic.

Apparently supplementing Akkermansia in obese mice has extremely beneficial effects on weight and all sorts of health measures. I tried some from the only supplier in the US and (unfortunately) noticed absolutely no difference, N=1. Still, I am eagerly awaiting the day when someone conclusively nails the obesity epidemic down to something as simple as gut dysbiosis.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00880-5
Your industry pretty much stopped making movies I care about, so I don't care if your industry curls up in a ball and dies.
I would not have guessed that bleeding would come back as a medical treatment in the year 2022.