skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about how the original vision for cryptocurrency was basically "once this exists, governments will fail because they can't tax it" and how far reality had strayed from that.

It only gained popularity by people hoping to get rich in regular currency from the value changing. It morphed into being basically another type of security that gets traded and rises and falls with the general stock market.

And that's ignoring all the scam and theft that has happened. I used to feel bad I didn't buy bitcoin when I was younger, but these days I feel good that I stayed away from cryptocurrency in general.
I don't think that's true, I've made friends at school while only seeing them at school. I saw them in other contexts only after being friends with them.
You see, like ̶A̶l̶ ̶G̶o̶r̶e̶ Ted Stevens said, it's really all a series of tubes. You put ten dollars in and it gets whisked away to a centralized location. Unfortunately, the location of the stuck tenner is right at the junction where all ATM transactions pass through. It's an unanticipated feature of our new centralized system.

To complain, please fill out form 27-B-stroke-six.
Google links/indexes websites, but doesn't host them. Unless you are talking about the cache.

> you can't just hold a provider accountable for user uploaded content.

Can't you hold providers accountable for not verifying user identity? Just ask for verified photo-id and illegal content becomes enforceable. An video-hosting adult site of obviously more sensitive than a web-scraper/search engine, so the extra steps are justified. Then (and only then) can you go after the uploaders.

> require government ID for every Pornhub account

for uploading, yes. Not spectator accounts.

> Plenty of stolen content on there already!

Mostly it's links, not hosting, afaik. If they remove any cached images/videos if the original link goes away then I figure they're covered.
Why do everyone so casually snuck "child" before "porn"? Are they synonymous?
That's some crazy backwards contortionist thinking you've managed to tie yourself into to somehow link a "they" that includes the religious far right with "the left" (whatever that means)

We on "the left" are not "calling for" the banning of porn or "mandatory censorship" of it. Nor are we puritans.

In fact you can probably thank "the left" (again, eyeroll) for the liberalization of sexuality in the west. When "the right" was "in charge" it was an era of sodomy laws, anti-pornography "decency" etc. Mostly struck down by liberals.

Expecting ethical and legal behaviour around consent and people's private rights to their bodies and images of their bodies is not censorship or puritanism. It's not "left wing" either -- it's fundamental small-l liberalism.

Dear god, I'd expect libertarians of all people to be up in arms about the private property rights and violated individual liberties of people having their personal bodies and sex lives sold against their will. Somewhere Locke et al are spinning in their graves.
China Surpasses US in Eyes of Young Africans, Survey Shows
I wonder if that's even a majority of bitcoin owners. I use the term owners loosely.
Yeah once you had millionaires buying superbowl ads selling crypto pump-n-dump schemes, it was pretty clear the hype was at its peak. I'm also curious to see what lies on the other side of the crash.

My guess is another hype cycle. Crypto tech has no value beyond finding a bigger sucker to hold the bag.
There are also features they release India-first.
There definitely won't be a 1:1 replacement of petrol based car to electric. Public transportation will have to develop and drastic change in the way we move will be needed. The ban is coming too late if you consider the Paris agreement for a 1.5°C target of global warming is already on it's way to be missed.
And presumably most porn consumers would like that consumption to be untraceable to their real life identity.
In our case, there is no "brand dishonesty". In some cases, the front-end is co-branded, in others the front-end is white-label while the resulting product, if used, has our branding. And sometimes the end-user gets the raw data without a need for our branded artifact. In the absolute best-case, the customer automates their interactions and never sees any branding. (I know the marketing people on here blanched when they read that.) Our concern is utility for the customer, growing that utility, retaining existing customers regardless of how we acquired them and who got the generous sales commission, while growing the number of customers and the volume of product used year-over-year.

Affiliate sales have always seemed more dishonest to me than working with a vendor who adds value to our product for our shared customers.
..except they probably wouldn't come up with janky code like this - especially not during the interview

This is something you memorize to try to show off
Amazing work Peter, congrats on all the success that you've had so far and future success!

I've watched this project from my time at Intuit (PCG), and the impact that it had there
> Since the growing sentiment of the left has for the most part abandoned the principles of free speech, their growing dogmatic puritanism will no doubt lead to further to calls to ban pornography because of it's so-called exploitative nature.

Ok... but the lady that is central to this current story, Laila Mickelwait, who is the one pushing the "dogmatic puritanism" you are arguing against is a right wing Evangelical Christian.
Please don't quote Bible quotes at me, all of those were written by racist sexist men a couple hundred years ago as a form of control.

I am an Atheist, your bible verses mean nothing to me.

Here is the thing, in America we have so much shame about sex. Yet we have an insanely high amount of childhood pregnancies. With schools preaching abstinence, that their desires are wrong, etc. It is no wonder that they have sex.

It has been proven time and time again that trying to say something is bad encourages people to use it. We have seen it with sex, drugs, alcohol, etc etc etc.

Bondage is not vile! It is just another act of sex/love (either or, depending on the situation) between consenting adult.

Youth have sexual desires! It is natural, for fuck sake we go through puberty in our youth. Instead we lie about where babies come from (because apparently "mom and daddy loved each other and you were inside your mom" is too much?).
60 kWh/day is definitely not much in climate where temperature can go below -40F/-40C.
> How much more dead do you need something to be before it's worth talking about?

This is a strange question. One normally doesn't talk about dead technologies at all, except perhaps nostalgically. "Hey, remember Netscape Navigator?" Declaring RSS dead doesn't have the rhetorical effect that you intend, as the dead can't be brought back to life.

> I'm sorry you think it's cliché.

It's not just me. A lot of people upvoted and/or agreed with my comment, so I would take that as a sign that the "RSS is dead" rhetoric is counterproductive and distracting to your points.

I feel the same about the old people/kids shtick, by the way. If you're trying to make a serious point and actually change things, don't turn it into a joke.
Not only fiat. You need them also to convert it into any other crypto.
Yeah still waiting for an actual Turing test with this where it has been promoted to try and pass, and with questioners who know what they're doing (not just softball questions).

I'm guessing that hasn't happened because it would still easily fail.
My favorite mobile email app now working with my favorite desktop email app. Love it!
I agree. There are certainly problems with content moderation on pornhub (and the internet at large), but "extreme" groups just muddy the waters.

I'm not sure quite how strict it is, but pornhub now does require ID verification for anyone uploading content.
The problem is going to be drawing a clear line around "coercion" in an unequal capitalist society. In a very real sense I am coerced into working at all. I have lucrative paths of work available to me other than sex work, but if I didn't and I did sex work because it was the best pay available, would you consider that coercion?

I would, and do. Let's remove that coercive pressure on labor and then see who wants to do sex work. I mean this seriously, I'm sure people will still choose it. But probably in different numbers and different forms than they currently do.
Kids don't have much common sense. Some friends invited us over for lunch, our kids are 3 - 5 years old. One of the older ones got hold of his dad's phone and got one of the younger ones to "show your butt" and he took a picture of it. The dad discovered it by accident on his camera roll. That act was fairly innocent but going from there to posting it online is only a very small step.

> Do it only when you 10000% trust the person and even then you should be reluctant.

Even if you trust the person, their device could get stolen, their significant other could find it and blow a fuse ... it's best to just not ever do it.
Heads up on doing ad-hoc/jit-rendering in CF workers though. They bypass the cache.
I agree that Pornhub is one of the better actors here. I think, though, you have to recognize they came to that position (of verification,e tc.) essentially by force. That is not where they started. And they lived in an ecosystem of a whole bunch of other similar "tube" sites (most of which still exist, wild west) and they just happened to become the biggest.

They've made steps. They probably need to go further. I think this article probably focuses too much on Pornhub (also too uncritical of this Xian anti-porn group, too)
It may feel strange, but as Javascript has become very, very fast in the last decade and the new SPA frameworks are highly optimised, I'm not surprised by the performance of SolidJS. Obviously for dynamic content.

That's by the way the reason I was asking for benchmarks. The new kind of SSR frameworks are by the way much more complex than the older template based server-rendered HTML.
Well let’s see.

1. Mobile apps convert higher than the web.

https://buildfire.com/mobile-apps-convert-higher/

2. Developers were clamoring for native apps each time. Not the mobile platforms. You act as if the modern web development environment isn’t a clusterfuck of complexity compared to modern IDEs for native apps.

3. Both Apple and Google have initiatives where you can have small instantly installable “applet” equivalents that make downloads fast and the apps are more responsive.

4. Cost is lower for the developer. But at the cost of a much worse user experience.

5. Browsers might have “higher backwards compatibility”. But the dependency hell and ever changing landscape of the front end framework of the week is real.
You are right it is not worse, because the protocol is known, flaws and all, and not just one guy sending his personal account 50mil every day because its a bull market and they can get away with it or cashing out whales while regular joe gets 1 cent in the dollar.
Godspeed!

0.x has no meaning to me, everyone's threshold of 1.0 is arbitrary anyway
To fuck with karma, I'll tell you what, this is the wrong story, the wrong conclusions, the wrong pretty much everything with our society.

In most cultures people are raised such a way, the naked body is something "forbidden", "bad", "immoral", "shameful", etc.

That's only part of the issue.

Another part of the issue is that in terms of having sex women have an ultimate monopoly - especially in the Instagram era they've taken the position that if you're born a female you can ultimately get the right to "sell" access to your body to the highest bidder. Nothing needs to be done to claim that, just being born the right sex.

These two things lead to the conclusion that nude pictures/videos first of all, are for sale, second, can cause a lot of drama and moral pain, and as a result can be used for blackmail.

If we had a society where the naked body was not something immoral, where sexes were truly equal (aside from strength and mass) and people were equally worthy of one another, there would be no such issue.

There's no shame in being naked. There's no shame in being seen this way.
Collective mythologies underpin most of modern life. Does the Turkish Lira have more or less intrinsic value than Bitcoin?
It’s a numbers game, not a statement that one group of people is ok to exploit. There are more young women eligible for exploitation than young men.

In a given cohort, ~50% of people are female. I would guess if you surveyed young women, ~30% were in a situation that put them at risk for this type of exploitation.

I’d venture to guess in a given cohort, ~5% are gay. Even though gay teens are probably more vulnerable on average, many are effectively hidden because of stigma, subculture etc and their situations aren’t known. That’s one of the reasons the LGBT community is still fighting for awareness.
It has been tried, it's on my computer right now and is irrelevant whether some exchange has paused withdrawals or not.
2015 is long after iMessage started, and “unlimited plans” were something that you had to pay a premium price for, they cost extra money. When iMessage first came out, unlimited texting was not available on the standard/budget plans, and today it is.

I mean, WiFi texting was a selling point of iMessage for a reason. They made a big deal out of being able to send messages for free. From my perspective in the US, I wasn’t even aware of WhatsApp at the time, and so it felt like iMessage was the primary force causing telcos to back off. (That and the fact that charging for SMS was stupid because the cheaper alternatives used more bandwidth.) WhatsApp might have in reality been a larger force, but I’m skeptical because WhatsApp was an app you had to go get, while iMessage was the built-in default way to send text messages. IPhone user base in 2011 was more than 2x larger than WhatsApp user base at the same time.
Hate to be a stick in the mud, but I worry about a loss of focus when Thunderbird is one of the few in a dying category on the desktop, which is much less true on mobile.
Situations like these happened multiple times during the existence of Luna, and the peg held up nicely. Then one time it didnt.
I think GP's point is that a "faith-based group" would not, and therefore the sentences are the same. However, that's a big assumption - not all faith-based groups think that way, so IMHO it's better to be explicit.
Totally a great example of a Country with great ideals that the rest of the world should try to emulate...

If that is seriously your argument I... tells me everything I need to know about you.
They are merely facilitating, participating and offering the services in the crypto scam no?

Stripe went in to Bitcoin, exited Bitcoin, then invested into a shitcoin called 'Stellar' and went back into crypto again supporting crypto exchanges like FTX, NFTs and offering crypto payments with 'Polygon'.

That is hardly getting 'suckered in'. I would argue that they are 100% fully complicit in the crypto scam.

Since we agree that 'crypto is all a scam', it should mean that Stripe, Coinbase and all the other companies that have crypto operations should be called out for their participation in the scam and they should immediately shut down their operations since 'all crypto is a scam' right?
> Maybe Stripe stop their crypto endeavors

They probably should, yes. It makes them look sketchy and less trustworthy by association.
All the Saudis just drive over the bridge to party and drink in Bahrain.
I'd be interested in reading a source for both of these points, if you have one. By "moving the Azure DevOps engineers to GitHub" do you mean they switched internal tooling on their own team? or that engineers from the ADO team switched orgs and now work for GitHub?
Sounds like the problem's with trading, rather than using it like currency. I've used it for legal, in-person transactions just fine. There are also decentralized exchanges, but the peanut gallery and the incompetent masses would hardly know about them.

Shockingly, "get rich quick" schemes are a bad idea. Who would have thought? Oh, wait. Everyone.

I still think most cryptocurrencies should be highly legislated, because most adults in society are more or less children who can't be trusted around shiny objects, but we should really stop pretending the problem is with the technology. It's with the users, trying to shoehorn it into a use-case it's unsuited for (get rich quick schemes).
Does your argument exclude foreign currency holdings?
there are products headed in the right direction with simple self-custody:

https://www.coinbase.com/wallet
Please avoid using HN like Reddit. I'd be really interested in hearing an argument for why the poster is wrong instead of attacking them like a 12 year old.
> Is anyone using postmarked as a daily driver replacement for their phone?

Yes. I'm not sure I understand your question though. A big use case for PostmarketOS is software for a mobile phone, so that's my use case.
>> Anyway there was (sadly) nothing realistically actionable in this article for anyone seeking something even vaguely science or stat based.

Actionable to achieve what? It makes clear that there is no fixed procedure for making friends, but there certainly are a lot of suggestions.

I suspect the many linked stories have a wealth of information and examples, but they will all be anecdotes where none of them could be forced to happen if we tried.
Mostly because of this. There's a strong faith-based push to remove all sexual content from the internet, and regulation is one way of doing so. Not being able to sext without a 18 USC 2257 form is overly restrictive on individual freedoms. Not being able to pay providers with MasterCard is a huge barrier to sex work in general. The porn industry should exist as long as people need money for food. Despite how awful some individual actors are, any broad-spectrum push will likely find the wrong allies and encourage the wrong solution.
According to the terms and conditions, uploading content to Pornhub requires a valid ID and facial scanning to confirm you're you.

This can probably be faked or abused (if your abusive ex is in the video, so is their face scan) so you'd need a proper face scan of everybody in the video attached to the account. That can be tricky as there are plenty of videos where faces are intentionally not visible, but I suppose certain kinks could be sacrificed to get verification going.

You can put weird stuff on YouTube much easier than you can on Pornhub. Tag any sexy poses as "naked yoga", edit some free spiritual music underneath it and you've got yourself a YouTube video.
Depends on your SPA framework:

https://hackernews-csr.ryansolid.workers.dev/

No need for rehydration, I'd say. Combine this with code splitting for large apps.
Does it even matter? What is interesting and actually-important is that it is even possible. Just because most people do something dumb doesn't mean we should throw up our hands in defeat and build systems where it isn't even possible to do something smart.
A major fraction of content on many of these sites, thus the source of their ad revenues, are pirated content. I think that creates conflict of interest between company operations and rule enforcement in strong favor of the former.
None of this is easily verifiable. Are the tax agencies going to install cameras in your office and monitor your internet traffic to verify compliance?

Not recommending tax fraud, but as a practical matter, these are non-issues.
The root of the problem here is in our culture which attaches intense artificial meaning to the idea of being seen naked or having sex. In the past I used to dread that, but I thought about what sense does that make and now I don't care. The whole problem is in our heads: it makes a victim to struggle and the villain to consider this a crime worth committing. And it doesn't occur in our heads naturally, we are taught this way. I would bet this generally is much less of a problem in the EU than it is in the US.
We have a lack of a common culture in the US, and places like the South Side of Chicago are the fruits of the allegedly well-intentioned effort to destroy what little was left. Families with both parents are important.
CryptoCurrency

Not only an oxymoron but not a safe investment in any fashion AND that was by DESIGN.
For actual competitors, like legit porn stars with contracts, there are already record requirements per 18 USC § 2257. A company can easily use that information to validate incoming content removal requests.
This is great if I want to store it, or spend it on places that accept Bitcoin (or other coins) but what if I want to exchange it for another currency? Seems to me only two options, an exchange or a face to face trade?
So crypto is fine for transactions that I can wait a few tens of minutes to a few hours to resolve, but not ones that I want to make at the rate of every fiat currency I hold.

I can see how other people would have that use-case.
We are not in control of what happens. No one is at the console pressing buttons. We are growing because millions of individuals are making individual decisions resulting in run away growth. The best we can do is alter the incentives and hope we did it well enough that those individual decisions change. Given that, sticking to a system where you know the population is growing at a rate where you cannot keep up by growing the supply of gold is locking yourself into deflationary currency. That is BAD for everyone in the system considering we want money moving not sitting idle.
Now that is hyperbole. There are still good actors out there. Monero is doing its job dutifully. Don't know much about Zcash, but it seems to be doing well.
What does a “stuck on-chain transaction” actually mean, can someone explain?

The least generous read is that they’re testing their withdrawals halting system in preparation.
> iPhone 6 was bending in people's pockets?

> The list is far from short

It’s not a short list, but you’d make a stronger case if the most recent thing you mention was released later than 2014. They release plenty of products every year, pick something newer.
In the cases you've mentioned, people by and large don't form their opinions based on studying historical facts in an objective way but based on what they're told, almost exclusively by their government in these cases. Certain atrocities are highlighted and emphasized repeatedly, others are overlooked or hidden, but rarely because of how bad or bloody they were. World history is basically the history of war and few people consider them all to be bad.

The only school shooters I can remember the names of are the Columbine shooters and I'd say that's mostly due to the fact they were the first in the modern school shooter era (depressing reality). Perhaps that fame helped fuel other shootings, but I can't name a single other one out of the many since then.

I'm sure the fact that we're so used to acts of violence in the US on a regular basis is a contributing factor. At this point you'd have to do something pretty horrendously bad to go down in infamy. On the other hand, if it were an act (without innocent casualties) committed against say a financial, insurance institution or some other disliked entity, they could become a folk hero.
Russia isn't really consolidating anything - they are destroying Donbas, razing entire cities. That's after three months of failures, like when they were forced to flee from Kyiv and then Kharkiv. And no, that's not 20% of their capability, that's all of their military capability (that's why they are using conscripts), except the strategic forces. And that's against a rather underfunded country which, during previous Russian invasion, couldn't defend at all.

Ukraine's main problem is that they are not being supplied with enough heavy weapons. The sooner they are, the sooner we can have peace.

You might want to take some time off from reading Sputnik, comrade :-)