skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote about this subject here, if you're interested: https://chadnauseam.com/coding/cryptocurrency/a-hackers-case...

The TL;DR is that blockchain scaling is a very difficult problem. There are scaling layers like ZKSync that are only possible because of cryptographic primitives that literally didn't exist in a usable form 14 years ago.

And I somewhat disagree with your premise – cryptocurrencies are actually used in the real world today. Most of the usage is to get around regulation, like when you want to send remittances or buy drugs, or bet on betting markets. But on the whole I do agree, it's disappointing that the technology is still so immature.

Disclosure: I work in the cryptocurrency industry
It's not just that "Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn". It's that one billionaire called up a ~10s-100s millionaire and said "stop this because I read a NY Times article that made me really angry", and the response was "On it."

More rule-by-oligarchy, as usual.
that is literally not what's going on given the content of the article. As the article points out the self imposed regulations do not only concern minors or illegal content, but an entire plethora of sexual content. From furries, to 'vampire porn', to depiction of aliens, any mention of blood (a livecammer giving the example of not even being able to mention the word 'period') and so on.

The topic is not mastercard/visa indirectly enforcing the law, it's a private institution pushing their own sexual morality on others, by virtue of controlling the payments industry.
I might not understand your question. I'm not saying the payment processors were wrong to blacklist them. PH was being genuinely scummy.

Its a forced position because PH very much wanted to continue to accept credit cards, which I suspect was where 99% of their income was from. However, the payment processors blacklisted them so they can't.
There is no such thing as a decentralized stablecoin
You can prove the limitations of your memory quite easily to yourself -- but don't cheat!

Find a so-called DRM word list (acronym originating from the researchers' names Deese, Roediger and McDermott) and have someone test you: They present you with the word list for a predetermined amount of time during which you attempt to memorize it. Then they ask you to recall which words were present. Along with recalling (some of the) actual words, you are in addition likely to recall a so-called critical word which was not actually present in the list.

A collection of such word lists can be found at https://www3.nd.edu/~memory/OLD/Materials/DRM.pdf
I do subscribe to podcasts using Apple Podcasts but I use the "mark all as played" to regularly defeat the automatic queue in it.

I miss the days when podcasts were just posted like blog entries and you could conglomerate them all into one feed with a good RSS feed consolidation app. that was a way better approach than all the closed podcast ecosystems. Some podcasts I listen to are not available in Apple's podcasts app (and no wonder, they impose a lot of limitations for no good reason) but are available instead on other platforms which also suck (podomatic, mixcloud, etc.)
That's an entry level FPGA challenge:

https://www.fpga4fun.com/PongGame.html
If you cared about "cancel culture" and platforms having too much leverage, you'd be a lot more concerned about this duopoly than whether Twitter lets Nazis speak.
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Well I can tell someone is dutch based on their accent, it's not that far fetched.
Regarding the genre of R&J, the confusion is because the genre names have changed meaning over time. "Romance" back then is closer to what we would call "adventure" today. Comedy basically means the characters get married in the end, while tragedy means they lose everything and die. What often confuses readers today is that Shakespeare tragedies can be very funny.
Deciding who controls the definition of “legitimate” is exactly the problem.
> First off -- and this should be enough by itself -- the research the Wuhan lab did hasn't appeared to have helped in a material way to fight the COVID pandemic. So they gambled, lost, and there is nothing to show for it.

You can't possibly claim that without being a qualified expert in the field. I'm not, but I have asked friends who are--and they're quite firm that this type of experimental research (1) did help speed up our COVID-19 response, and save lives, and (2) is critical to prevent future outbreaks from becoming much, much worse.

I'm not asking for journal cites or anything, but I am curious: What's the source of your conclusion that gain-of-function research didn't help prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from becoming even worse?
Try out a tool called Gatling. That's my favorite. But I'll settle for JMeter.
It isn't at all. At least not without data to back it up.

For instance it could be easy to argue that the opiod crisis which has been depressing life expectancy in the US substantially is primarily affecting existing low socio-economic status citizens of the US rather than immigrants. (some data seems to suggest it might be half the death rate for Hispanics compared to white US population

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6843a3.htm#T1_down
)

And doesn't the US have a strong mix of highly skilled immigrants to skew the overall immigrant numbers if indeed low skilled immigrants have shorter lifes?

Another statistical reason why I would think that immigrants have higher life-expectancy is that by definition child mortality won't affect immigrants. If you die before immigrating you are not affecting US statistics. If you are born after immigration you aren't an immigrant.
Pornhub had a large blogpost claiming that thye are better at filtering illegal content than facebook, and that the latter has many times greater problems with illegal content.

the post claimed that Pornhub has been targeted because of their industry.

i have never verified the veracity of these claims, but they seem plausible
You can use it with VLC or LocalCast for appletv, as UMS is has working DLNA, but i have no recent experience with appletv so can't guarantee that it will work.
Yikes. Not a fan of publicly funded art, hey?

I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise, but I am going to put a note here so people think critically about what you said - first off, cultural impact - during the cold war the CIA dumped many uncounted millions into arts funding in an effort to control people's perceptions. By most accounts it was a success, and ideas they funded have dominated the way people think about art, creativity and communication ever since.

Next, value for your dollar. Sweden funds their music industry to the tune of something like $30-40 million, and the industry returns that in the billions. Funding the arts is profitable.

Public arts funding does suffer from cronyism and nepotism, so does literally any other type of government spending - but at least where I'm from most of the arts funding bodies are actively trying to solve that, I don't think you can say the same about defense contractors.
> OP also misses the fact that Visa and MC can gate-keep legal activities as well. Selling smoking accessories is legal under US law, but good luck getting a payment processor that'll let you sell those goods online

Visa & MC are not processors.
I'm sure this is me, though I mostly think the world is too complex for me to understand. Was there voter fraud in the 2020 election? I don't think so but that doesn't mean there weren't any instances of it. What percentage has to occur for it to be true(I suppose about .5 percent or whatever the margin of victory was). One of my biases is that I fundamentally believe in the goodness of people, and therefor I'm less likely to believe in things like corruption unless the evidence is staring me in the face.

I consider myself decently read but what weirds me out are the people who are way more confident than myself. Maybe I'm just dumb about most things and these people are confident and right? I have a relative who is very well read but largely believes all of the talking points conservative media advertises. I find his confidence interesting but I'm skeptical of anyone's perspectives are aligned too closely with a particular ideology. What I find interesting is that he'll say "I'm a conservative, therefor I believe X" Rather than "I believe X, Y, and Z, therefor I most closely identify as a conservative." I guess I would say that I am biased towards moderate beliefs and self-doubt. The more nuanced your beliefs the more likely I am to believe them.

I like to think that my stance that most things are two complex too be truly knowable means I'm fairly accurate about what I know and don't know, but I'm curious where the glaring holes are.

Maybe ironically, in my professional life, perhaps because I know so much more about the nuances of it, I am much more confident that I am wrong about many things. Much more confident about that wrongness than I am about the world. There just really is so much to know.
I tend to think: that's just me of a few years ago, or me running late.
Lawful? That's up to the government to decide.
> Despite evidence to the contrary, nearly one-third of Americans still believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

> Speaking of naïve realism, what evidence

You can really only prove this type of thing in a single direction, by providing evidence that there was fraud on such a scale as to have swung the results. Otherwise, one could endlessly claim that the election thieves just covered their tracks so well that you don't have any evidence of your assertions regarding their behavior.

The burden of proof was on the ones making accusations of election stealing, and as was reflected in how they lost case after case regarding this, _they did not provide it_.
It was more the "big" part of the "big companies" statement I was disagreeing with, rather than the "companies" part.
If you're looking to avoid the western slant, you could check out Rest Of World: https://restofworld.org/
One reason why it sucks as background is, you generally don't find purple as background color in a natural setting. White (snow), blue (water), green (landscape), grey (clouds) - are all good choices for background because they are associated with natural settings. A strong color such as purple distracts the attention from the foreground, defeating the purpose of the background.
I don't know. I passed a bitcoin ATM machine (don't ask me what that actually means, please) on the street yesterday. Friends and family members, including (especially?) non-technical ones, have asked me about Bitcoin and how to invest in it. One of my friends recently bought a car with Ethereum.

"New" means "new," it doesn't mean "not widely adopted yet." We don't widely adopt things that fail or have unacceptable side effects; that doesn't make them new again.
David Cronenberg really predicted the future in 1986.
> Regularly, yes. But all the time? Come on.

I have literally never turned on my video despite 2+ years of working remote. None of my team has either. The only people who ever do are director-level and above.

You are out of touch. Not every workplace is your workplace.
Yeah that might have been it, or something closely related. I do remember looking at that page and a bunch of similar ones. This was after there was a huge thread in the python.org bug tracker about speeding up Python start times, and they ended up doing it in a somewhat painful and module-specific manner. I wished they had done something like this instead. Linux really would benefit from some kind of kernel support for snapshotting executables, since there are all kinds of programs like libreoffice that are currently slow to start.
It's an arts research organization, of course it has staff. The staff aren't working on "tiny mining" they're working on art projects - one of which is tiny mining.

> V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). V2_ presents, produces, archives and publishes research at the interface of art, technology and society.
the problem with free market fundementalists is they deny that stereotypes, emotion and plain stupid decision making are often having greater effect than the hand and foot of the market
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Drip. Period and fertility tracking secure and transparent
Nope, not true. I’ve been contracting for 15 years and regularly encounter leetcode interviews.

When I can, I’ll outright ask if the client intends to do this kind of interview. If they say yes, I’ll explain my objection to the process and if they aren’t willing to modify their interview approach for me I will decline the interview.

I have on occasion had this sprung on my without warning halfway through an interview and I’ve declined to do it; most of the time I get hired anyway.

Whenever I can I try to convince hiring managers (and I’ve been one myself) to ditch leetcode nonsense for future interviews.
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Absolutely! Speaking of operators, out of curiosity, what's the reason for using '!' with templates?

Naively, I would think that making template instantiation look the same as a function call would be a desirable feature, with ambiguous calls needing to be resolved by the user.
Let's talk about forging hammers for a moment: I could just be a blacksmith forging nice hammers to put nails into stuff and try to make them high quality - nicely weighted, comfortable handles, durable, repairable etc, make some decisions about quality/price etc.

I could also sing Erika or the Internationale at the top of my lungs or rant about the modern art market at the same time. These aren't very related at all to my actual job of forging hammers. I could also have opinions about something at least somewhat related, like constantly telling people they shouldn't use my hammers to build modern architecture because it's a steaming pile of ugly garbage. Let's say modern buildings use a specific kind of nail. I could make the hammers so they're by default kinda garbage for working with those nails, though adjustable to work with them if the user so wishes.

This evaluation of modern architecture is a valid opinion! But it's still really unsightly to advocate for simple tools to not be used for general purposes, or to try to build features into the hammer to make them a pain to use for making ugly buildings. It's simply not really my job as a hammersmith to do that.

And it's that attitude that we've generally losing as a society - a craftsman's attitude to just do our jobs well and leave the unrelated politics elsewhere. We literally have spice merchants' websites with menus that go "Spices - Gift bags - About Republicans". Your job was to sell me chili and nutmeg so I don't end up in those plain toast meme pictures and not political commentary about how one party is the source of most everything wrong in America.

Think about something like Christian rock. Most of it is pretty dull. Why? It tries to be Christian first, good music second.

I'd like there to be more craftsmanship-type organizations and less political activism with a job on the side.

Sincerely, one of your "vaguely fascist users".

EDIT: Apologies to dang for talking about hammers and pepper sellers.
Google News these days shows more of a variety of perspectives. I use it in incognito and see headlines from across the political spectrum. Most of the right-leaning news is from Fox though, which is unfortunate.
Seems like Bitcoin or other crypto would have filled this usecase
How about new in the sense that other currencies have been around for hundreds of years compared to only 14?
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Great ressource!
Not to my knowledge. Certain types of accounts that come with credits have that as a hardcap, but its not something that can be enabled as such

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billi...
> I've suspected that the next place cryptocurrencies will see usage for actual consumer payments will be porn.

If cryptocurrencies were useful for this problem, they'd have been adopted already. It's an sector whose businesses and workers are very savvy about anything that helps them evade repression.
Which government? If you're talking about something like paying for an abortion or marijuana, you're likely to get very different answers if you ask the US federal government versus certain state governments.
Isn’t the democracy happening now? The majority of people had chosen the institution that create a law that is followed by VISA and Mastercard.
And here I thought the other party runs the United States government.

I did a quick Google, and -- sure enough! --

"Biden nominee for ATF Director says he's never owned a gun"

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/06/biden-nominee-for-a...

And I'm also pretty sure it's not "Republican" DAs and AGs refusing to prosecute crime.
In stills it feels like it’s waving towards the UPA style, as filtered through modern tools.

Back in the late 1940s and the 1950s, there was an animation studio called United Productions of America, founded by Disney-trained animators who wanted to rebel against the “illusion of life” so beloved by Walt and experiment with the cool new visual ideas coming from an art movement known as “cubism”, as well as experiment with highly abstracted and stylized forms of movement. Find a copy of Amid Amidi’s book “Cartoon Modern” for a nice survey of this time in animation; look up anything in it that sounds interesting on DailyMotion or Youtube. The sound sync will probably be off by a few frames, which is super noticeable in things this stylized, but you’ll still be able to see how striking this kind of animated cubism can be.

It’s a lot harder to animate than it looks; to really make it work you need to have a firm grasp of animation and 3D movement despite the drawings looking super flat. Over time this look went from super hip and new to the cartoons cranked out for TV by Hanna-Barbera. And design drawings that were inevitably reworked into something less stylized - pick up any Pixar art book and you’ll find a ton of great drawings in this mode.

If you’re willing to split your drawings up into smaller shapes and create more of an illusion of three dimensionality, you can do some gorgeous stuff. But I doubt Gilbert had the budget to do this, given the results in this trailer. Instead we just have cool drawings that are snipped into a few pieces and moved around, which is a thing that hasn’t really been satisfying since Flash made it super easy to do this. And super easy to make animation with no lines.

Two relatively modern examples of this style actually working: Samurai Jack and Psychonauts. One is done by hand, one is trying to adapt these kinds of abstracted shapes into 3D models without super-abstracted rendering.
You make an interesting point and it makes me think about what might be driving the behavior of people not taking extended time off, if by many measures they should be able to?

My vote is for the industry itself that’s driving burnout; not any specific job. One can only go through so many cycles of everyone reinventing the same wheel and having to relearn all one’s skills before just getting completely tired of the uselessness of it all.

Another framework. Another platform. Another language. Many with no real reason to exist other than it just happened to catch on and became the trendy thing.

You can love and be good at technology, and just get exhausted from the useless churn.
The conscious filtering and the actions are an illusion. They certainly happen on some level, since humans are clearly adaptable and reactive systems, but they are not likely to be conscious as we conceive of them.

We usually feel like there is a person inside that has control and almost extra-physical ability to override, but surely this must be result of physical inputs and processes?

In a weird twist, meditation is one thing that makes this subjectively apparent. There have also been some (contentious) scientific experiments pointing towards this.
I'm fairly sure that you're thinking of methane, CH4, which is a gas at normal temperature/pressure. Methanol is a simple alcohol, is liquid at home temperature/pressure, and I don't believe it has the same extreme GG effect as methane.
but nor does redistributing the kings' wealth help the peasants.

Bill Gates's fortune split up among everybody in the US would be about $500 a person. You can't seriously think that would make a wit of difference in people's lives, it would disappear in a blip without lifting anybody over the poverty line, and that's even if it was spent wisely, which it wouldn't be.

What the peasants need are ways they can earn money, because money comes from productivity and the peasants will quickly need more than $500 times the number of billionaires consumed by the revolution. BTW most of Bill Gates's wealth is actually tied up in productive assets that are producing things the peasants need, and providing them jobs.
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They're probably planning on making another vercel way and tie in future customers to their platform running v8 isolates.

I understand it from a business point of view but it's bad for users and for performance. Same thing happened to images in next. The plugins to have optimized images in next are all broken and the official one use a "free" dynamic route offered by vercel.
That in no way affects how likely they are to pay, given that (in some volume) they already do.
Reasons vs raisins caught my interest. I read somewhere that the accent of Shakespeare's time was somewhat closer to what the Irish accent is/was than it is to RP (Received Pronunciation) and I have often heard "reason" spoken as a homophone of "raisin". Indeed a colleague of mine used to say "there are reasons for everything and raisins for cake" when he heard someone using one or t'other. Shakespeare punning on reasons/raisins (in the Irish accent sense) is not all that amazing when one considers that the avon in Stratford on Avon is related to the word abhainn or river in Irish. Ofc, I could be completely wrong about this.
Where I work right now, the status quo is to have your camera on in meetings with other managers, but have all cameras off for meetings with individual contributors. To be honest, at this point the idea that we're anything more than just voices in the cloud is a nuisance more than anything else. I have a new intern who apparently keeps coming by my office for meetings expecting me to be there, when I'm actually sitting in the park on my 5G hotspot on the other side of town. I do wonder if this is just the last gasps of a brief moment of freedom, though, or if it's going to be the way we do business long term.
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There's a lot of "mainstream" porn but if you're a furry or have niche interests I imagine you're dealing with a much more limited content market.
Purple is not a very natural color. It's appearance in nature is sparse, and traditionally creating "purple things" was a luxury few people could afford. Now that painting pixels is as cheap as powering an LED panel, people don't have the same restraints and can easily apply it to anything. I personally don't mind it, I think purple is one of the most tasteful of the cooler colors and is much more benign than using green or red branding. It makes sense that people would start picking it up more often for design purposes.
Businesses shouldn't be forced to serve customers