skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's three different entities:

Whoever is supplying content to PornHub has to uphold the law. They do that by providing evidence that there are no minors in the adult content (easy for a legit business) and that they hold copyright (somehow this gets forgotten).

PornHub has to uphold the law. They do this by keeping records supplied by the content producers about verification of actor's ages; when there's a problem, they need to remove the content. If there's a recurring problem, they need to bar the source.

MasterCard has to uphold the law. They do that by investigating complaints, and if they find illegal content, they send PornHub a warning. If PornHub doesn't act, either by showing that the content is legal or by removing it, MC has to drop PH.
This is basically an abstract version of Fold@home, right?
this is not fair because they don't do this consistently in other industries.
Which parts specifically?
Didn't know about this before. While reading about the process, does this expose publicly what extensions a person uses?
Yep. The problem is that the credit card issuers' regulations go way beyond determining that the content being purchased is legal, and well into judging the morality of that content. Credit card processors go even further; many of them forbid sales of adult products and services entirely.
If You’re Interviewing with a Startup, Here Are Three Questions to Ask Their In
Related:

Text Rendering Hates You - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21105625 - Sept 2019 (170 comments)
I interpreted this as politeness given that it’s the inaugural conference of Remix, a direct competitor in the space.
It’s actually really hard if you approach this from a well-meaning perspective, because typically you’d still be selecting the jobs based on your normal (when having a single job) criteria.

The key is to turn the thing upside down and seek out the jobs you’d normally reject - shifty companies with lower pay, bad tooling, tons of bureaucracy, etc - basically a place where no sane developer would willingly apply. Then, you’ll be the smartest person in the room without having to do anything special and the extra bureaucracy can be either automated away or come in handy as an excuse when you fall behind, while the lower pay isn’t really a problem if you have 4 of them running concurrently.
Them not replying to an email is not your fault. What I would consider someone's responsibility is to follow up and try alternative communications to just sending an email. If that doesn't work then escalate it on your own accord to your team lead. What I would consider not acceptable is sending one email and just blocking any attempts at forward action because you didn't get a response. Quite honestly that type of behavior would make me happy to see you run away screaming.
I have no idea if it would work or not, I'm a software nerd and amateur electronics engineer.

Positive charged ionosphere, negative changed earth, air insulator between... Sounds a lot like a giant cap to me.

I imagine if it was a feasible idea folks a lot smarter than I am would be working on it though.
I was just renting and being sarcastic. I was talking in general about how HM comments can be. When I wrote the crazy meta stuff it was not about your comment. I agree that it is great to ask questions and learn. So if I hurt you in any way I’m sorry.
Or node-fetch and @adobe/node-fetch-retry.
I'm a big believer that the ultimate solution to the climate crisis will involve in big part carbon sequestration in many forms.

This is why the cost of energy is so important. Carbon sequestration is a relatively simple process but it makes no sense to burn hydrocarbons to do it. But if energy is sufficiently cheap then you can produce hydrocarbon fuels from the atmosphere, which at least is carbon neutral.

There are a lot of use cases for this beyond economics too. For example, solar gets used a lot in a lot of cold remote regions. It's nowhere near as efficient as, say, ecuatorial solar power but the alternatives are much more expensive. Getting fuel to remote locations can be really expensive. Economics matter but so do circumstances.

Solar is particularly good because it has no moving parts and is particularly efficient because it's about the only mass form of energy production that directly produces power (rather than, say, heating water to turn a generator, which adds a lot of expense, maintenance and failure modes).

This article is kinda vague about what's going on but some form of carbon sequestration for practical purposes is going to be important IMHO.
The nice thing about this is that it requires nothing even as exotic as batteries. It seems like you can build it out of off the shelf stuff.
To me the part about:

"... and the client is only responsible for re-rendering small islands of interactivity. A model where the developer explicitly opts in to client side rendering for specific components. ..."

actually sounds more like ASP.NET (the original Web Forms, not Core) support for AJAX:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.ui.up...
Navigating privacy and protecting your reproductive data
What are the community's suggestions for how women should be protecting their data, including purchasing/browsing activity in a time where it can be used to prosecute you.
Visa and mastercard can do anything they want as long as they want to do it. They just don't want to deal with porn by choice
My office used to be right by the local art museum, and I was a member. Whenever I felt stuck, I'd go take a half hour to look at art, and usually a solution would quickly come to mind.
They stopped being able to process credit cards because Mastercard and VISA cut them off when there was a public outcry about PH doing such a shitty job of moderating illegal content that everyone got the impression they were supporting it.

PH didn't decide "we are only gonna accept crypto so we can circumvent the system" it was a position forced upon them as a punishment for their shitty behavior. Now they are trying very hard to moderate effectively in order to win back the good graces of the payment processors because they are probably going to eventually go bankrupt if they don't.
I've seen this, but the proofs I've read there seem targeted toward people with a level of mathematical maturity I don't possess yet.
Your last sentence combined with your introductory visual of somebody “waking up” one day as a pornstar is pretty disturbing. Anybody waking up to discover they are the subject of pornography would be experiencing a traumatic public humiliation. Check your head.

BTW, basically every “female” along with male out there has high resolution photos on social media.
That's...very weird I guess? Hardware mul/div requires so little chip real-estate relative to the whole die these days, and has such obvious advantage, why did they make it optional?
I wonder if the US Supreme Court might revisit that too
I think it is more likely the web devs didn't know or care what they were doing and they were just working on contract and they were told to put a button there so they put a button there. The middle management responsible for it probably fucked it up due to simple negligence and not carefully reading a stack of requirements and just not being at all engaged in the broader issues other than delivery. Someone who actual gave a shit probably got a few sentences into the requirements doc somewhere around access controls and PII concerns, but it was not called out clearly and just missed.

But yeah whatever really happened I'm quite certain that "the government of California just DELIBERATELY and with MALICE doxxed all the judges with carry permit" is the argument which needs to be met with "that's a hilariously large load of speculation".
The idea is that MC and Visa are themselves at risk of being shut down by the government if they knowingly allow payments for illegal activity. Companies being what they are, to avoid the risk of impropriety they forbid more than what the law technically does.
Surely that’s based on ads though?
The alternative would be that payment processors don’t deny anyone unless a government regulator tells them to, and then it’s the regulator’s responsibility to draw the line.

It certainly wouldn’t be perfect either, but at least there would be some measure of legislative/electoral accountability.
> I don't think most of it makes it way on the internet through sale. It gets posted anonymously on porn sites.

Yes, and as far as I know you can't do that on websites like OF or PH, due to them requiring you to verify the identity of everyone involved in the video.

Thus, it's impossible now to upload content without the consent of everyone involved, at least on those 2 (major) websites.
IIUC this is because:

* mul/div take a lot of transistors and may not be a single or fixed cycle instruction.

* A lot of embedded systems don't really need those instructions anyway - they just encode discrete state machines or do something like networking that doesn't need * or / for operation.

* less transistors means the chips are cheaper, and single (or fixed) cycles per instruction means hard real-time is simpler to reason about.

Is that correct?
Neat. Thanks for taking the time to post and show it off.

Do you feel as though you're essentially done with the project or is this something you'd like to see yourself working on in the future? neilk brought up that a startup tried this concept so it would seem that there is - or, rather was a niche in the market for it. But very cool and well done.
I think that's probably true. Cryptocurrency has use cases in paying for drugs or illegal gambling. It will likely also have uses in paying for child pornography and other illegal forms of pornography. As usual, this is bad.
These are known as high risk payment processors. They do this because of the outsized risk of chargebacks that occur against payments for porn.

Wife catches a weird pornhub charge on your monthly statement? Whoops! Those hackers are at it again. Call it fraud and charge it off.

The high cc processing rate accommodates the increased risk.

Btc solves this as no chargeback is possible.
There is no scenario in which they would a) know the answer confidently enough they'd tell an interviewing prospective employee about it; b) be willing to do so; and, c) be stupid enough to do so.
Because OOH LOOK A SHINY NEW FRAMEWORK!
I know that some retail games for the SNES were written in C, so there are one or two C compilers out there. I'm curious what the history is for 65C816 compilers (besides the one you can get from WDC).
You help maintain a system that does X. You do good work.

System X is terminated. You are redundant. You are let go.

Your routine of waking every day and going to work, of getting paid every two weeks and spending that pay, is gone.

Instead, have an important hand in many projects. Don't just be tied to X, also do Y and Z and some of G and L. Have so many projects your own boss isn't sure what all you do, just that you do a lot and what you do is important and scary.

Be unpredictable. If you were to be forcibly transferred to a new division, they should be afraid you might leave. If they tried to cut your pay or demand more hours, they should be afraid of that. Fear and unpredictability are often the same thing.

If you were to be terminated tomorrow, you should be in a place where you may go nap on a beach for six months or write a book poorly or take up meditating. The threat of losing your job should sound like a nice relief and not a threat. This requires controlling your money and your money not controlling you - golden handcuffs are real if you let them be.
I'm not sure if that's answered somewhere but how did Ronnie Gilbert secure the rights for publishing this Monkey Island sequel? My understand is that it belonged to Lucas Arts and now to Disney.
Nah, AFAIK ads pay very little for adult content websites, most websites now have a subscription based model and the possibility to buy additional content once subscribed.
This is happening across a few large retailers[1] (Walmart, CVS). It's what happens when people panic and try to buyout the store's stock.

From the article:

> Since Roe was overturned on Friday, many people who can get pregnant have expressed their interest in stockpiling the pill. Sarah McKenna, a 21-year-old spiritual adviser and tarot card reader in Saylorsburg, Pa., told The New York Times this week that she went on Amazon to buy pills “not only for myself but for those who need it, because people are going to buy them and resell them for a crazy price.”

1 - https://news.yahoo.com/cvs-walmart-rationing-plan-b-02331539...
It's probably more correct to say that the whole system exploits sex workers. No intention to punish is necessary--MC & Visa are happy to make as much money as possible while ultimately dumping all risk onto the individuals making the content.
Shout out to southwestern Oregon => https://www.wood-database.com/oregon-myrtle/
Unfortunately LeetCode problems stop those creative engineers early in the process.
What is a gun show loophole? To purchase a firearm at a gun show you must go through a background check.
I'm not afraid to make it; there's no burden of proof online.

It's too conveniently timed--and too specific in content--to be coincidence. They didn't leak a list of everybody on food stamps during a slow news cycle.

Everything other states have threatened to do regarding abortion, California has responded to by doing the exact same thing, only replacing the word "abortion" with "guns."
Yeah, my joke didn't scale well. We did well with servers (sans cloud) and comolex apps before.. something changed in collective mindset in the meantime.
Why is any of this database online in the first place?
My family is what is called St. Thomas Christian, part of a (fairly) endogamous and ancient community in South India. Though there is a lot of denomination diversity in the community these days, the most ancient denomination is Syrian Orthodox, which conducts its liturgy in Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic. This language is part of my linguistic heritage, even though I only know a word here or there.
There is no competition in the duopoly that is MasterCard / Visa, and so there will be no improvement in service. They don't have to build things customers want to not go out of business.

The solution is something like Section 230 but for CC vendors. If Visa processes an illegal payment and the government finds out, Visa is off the hook, and the merchant gets a letter from the government. The payment processor has a duty to report, and that's it.
That's not what I'm saying. I'd just rather it be regulated by our democratic institutions rather than by unaccountable payment providers.
Tangentially https://lite.pbs.org/ also launched this year.
For those who are unfamiliar with “Plan B”, it’s a pharmaceutical that is considered over-the-counter abortifacient.
The sibling comments cover the bases really well, but just in case it's not obvious, what you are thinking of as a relatively simple machine - with a limited range of operations and registers - is actually itself an abstraction.

You see the machine executing a sequence of instructions, and that is exactly what happens - eventually.

But behind the scenes, the goal of the hardware is to execute those instructions as quickly as possible. Since there's a limit to how fast silicon can work, the way to achieve this is via a number of tricks that effectively throw yet more circuitry at the problem, taking you from millions to billions of transistors.

Just one of these tricks for example is caching. Instead of writing directly to memory (as it appears to your assembler code), the CPU actually writes data to the L1 cache, a smaller but much faster block of memory on the CPU itself. At a later time, the data can be transferred from the cache out to RAM. In fact a modern CPU will have caches feeding into caches - e.g. CPU feeds into the L1 cache, which itself feeds into the L2 cache, then into the L3 cache, and finally into RAM. At each step, the cache gets larger and slower - so while the L1 cache is measured in KB, the L3 cache in a modern CPU might be up to 64MB in size.

You don't see any of this when you are writing assembler code. To all intents and purposes the caches are invisible to you. There are obscure instructions like CLFLUSH that provide very limited control of the cache but these are not typically something you'd use.

It's easy to see how managing these caches enormously increases the circuitry in the chip, without any need for you, the assembler programmer, to even think about them.

As other commenters have noted, other areas where extra circuitry is thrown at the problem include area is pipelining. In your mental model, the CPU is probably plodding along executing instructions one after another. In practice the CPU is aggressively trying to reorder those instructions and execute them in parallel as much as possible. This is an incredibly complex process, requiring enormous amounts of circuitry.

TLDR; what you see as a relatively simple CPU instruction set is really an abstraction - behind the scenes is an enormously complex collection of moving parts that break your code down and try and execute it as quickly as possible.
So, fire every dev immediately?
Who is that "somoeone whose entire life and identity has been in animal agriculture"? I work in IT. I chose my username because I make cheese as a hobby.

btw, when did I say anything about "cow overpopulation"? I don't even know what that is?

Oh, wait. Of course. It's a straw man. Nevermind.

> Both the American Dietetic Association[0] and British Dietetic Association[1] confirm that a well-planned vegan diet is healthy for all stages of life.

The key words being "well-planned". As the Vegan Society says, most vegans have low homocysteine levels which is a clear indication that their diets are not "well planned" and put them in danger of heart disease, stroke and pregnancy complications, at least.

That is "most" vegans, in the words of the Vegan Society.

Then of course there's the vegans who feed their kids vegan diets without any planning at all and end up damaging their kids' health, or killing them:

> In 2002, a vegan couple from New Zealand was accused of child abuse after ‘failing to provide the necessities of life’ for their six-month-old child. Their son died of medical complications due to vitamin B12 deficiency after the parents left the hospital against medical advice to treat their son with herbal remedies (23). In addition, seven infants exclusively breastfed by vegan mothers developed nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency. Most of these children presented with hypotonia, lengths and weights below the third percentile, and psychomotor retardation that improved with the appropriate nutritional supplementation (24).

> As recently as 2005, despite the significant available literature on the potential risks of alternate diets, strict vegan parents were taken to court and charged with neglect after one of their children died of malnutrition (25). Their other four children were all found to be below the lowest appropriate percentile for height and weight for their age. These parents avoided taking their children to see physicians and the children were not immunized.

https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/2528709

So, well-planned diets, my foot. Most vegans have no idea what to do to stay healthy while eating their preferred diet. And do you know why? Because irresponsible internet vegans like you try very hard to hide the fact that a vegan diet is a health risk. The Vegan Society at least is honest about that:

> The risk to these groups alone is reason enough to call on all vegans to give a consistent message as to the importance of B12 and to set a positive example. Every case of B12 deficiency in a vegan infant or an ill informed adult is a tragedy and brings veganism into disrepute.

https://www.vegansociety.com/resources/nutrition-and-health/...

My guess is that this is because those folks care deeply about their principles and don't just use them as a bludgeon to win internet arguments, like you guys.
That's fine if people helped her after work, it means she is struggling a bit technically and she has to work after-hours to learn. It's ok. It means she is dedicated to her job but lacks some skills and is trying to learn.
The result is also the most important.
This would be a great time to reread the classic "Better Than Free" essay. https://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/ By my count, the average OnlyFans account absolutely nails 5 out of the 8 "generative" qualities that Kelly identifies.
One thing that surprises me looking at people who are burned out in engineering and PMC jobs is the amount of helplessness people feel despite being among the highest resourced people on the planet, especially in Silicon Valley. People who can afford houses, often have years worth of living expenses in their savings accounts, often have no dependents to support.

If your work is making you miserable, many of you can literally just stop and reassess your situation. Quit your job, spend the summer fishing and becoming a regular at your local pub. Go to Mexico for a month. The worst thing that can come from a break like that is that you have to explain the gap in your work history in one of best sellers' markets for engineering talent in recent memory.

And the potential upside is that you are able to evaluate your priorities and plot a new course forward that doesn't make you feel trapped or depressed. Maybe it isn't in engineering.

I have many friends who would kill for the opportunity to get off their treadmill and develop themselves and fix things about their career, life situation etc, but they can't because they would literally become destitute. If you're in engineering you very likely have a privilege that a shrinking minority of USians in particular have. Use it.
The objectivity I claim does not reside in the dogmatic axioms, they are indeed unproven, the objectivity is in the fact that a some theorem provably follows from the axioms.

I state nothing less myself when I describe "fundamentalism" as a better moniker: the quest for locally minimal sets of axioms that allow maximal sets of theorems to follow from them without generating mathematical inconsistency.
And if it has the same end result, then that's three pointless clicks. Just to change the background color of emails in gmail.
Yes, 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. You can get a high risk processor, but they hold your funds for longer, charge a higher rate, and you can lose processing ability at any time.

If you're established, Visa and MC will make exceptions, but who decided to make Visa and MC the deciders on what people can and cannot sell. That's what US laws are for. In my opinion, this is the only use case for crypto that I can see playing out, decentralized payments. Sure fees maybe higher, but at least a private company can't restrict what you can sell online while whitelisting some competitors.