skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I don't think all of my perceptions are realistic and objective. Some things are biased that I don't know, some things are biased and I do know, and somethings my perceptions aren't good enough to get a realistic sense of it.

2. Because of 1 I don't expect any reasonable open-minded person would agree with me. Plus there are some things I think about that most people don't think about. Or I think about them in a way that other people don't think about. Maybe because it's purely theoretical and not useful and I don't expect they'd see it my way.
> Good job, jackasses, now this will get trotted out as an example against anything that ties a name to a firearm (i. e., registration).

We're way past that phase. New York has been playing this game for years[1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/25/us/new-york-gun-permit-map/in...
This is a reasonable point, but it demands that we ignore the parabolic trend in every other aspect of human development. We've gone from horse-drawn carriages to moon landings and instantaneous global communication in the last 125 years; why does Bitcoin get over 10% of that time to do what I can already do with the piece of plastic in my wallet?
I'm not sure this is a greater risk than currently exists with in person interviews.
Breastfeeding seems very likely, as does sleeping in the same bed as someone who was infected.
Is this any more effective than just pumping water into a higher reservior? It seems like a lot of stuff can fail here.
Interesting. Actually need something like that for my lab. Thanks
> Not much dialogue in the trailer, which is the thing that caused so many people to remember the first games so fondly.

Maybe the HN crowd is too young, but both MI 1 and 2 were originally released on floppy disc, and had no voiced dialogue at all, just text on the screen.

They didn't have voices until they were re-released in 2010.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but my guess is there is probably little overlap in the Venn diagram of people paying for porn subscriptions and people capable of managing a crypto wallet.
What sort of answer are you looking for? All of these proprietors are human. Humans make mistakes and act irrationally at times. Criminal enterprises are complex. Opportunity for mistakes increases with scale. The guy who ran Doxbin is the only high-profile case I can think of with apparent-flawless opsec, and that much only because he bailed before the long tail caught up to him.

The tightest opsec I've ever seen is maintained by disability fraudsters. Privacy laws protect the evidence anybody would need to present against you, so as long as you keep doctor-hopping and never admit to anything, nobody can touch you. These people tend to be reclusive and not public-facing, but with such low risk comes low reward-- there's no real money to be made in it.

(...unless you're the doctor knowingly signing off on false diagnoses. This increases scale, at which point, the more of those you write, the greater the chances of some mistake made by you or any single one of your patients bringing the whole enterprise down.)
Nobody cares about your code: a reminder for my past, current, and future self
Well, if Amazon spun off AWS they would have no choice but to treat all the retail-side issues (counterfeit goods, BS reviews, garbage search results, shoddy delivery subcontracts, facilitating the sale of stolen merchandise, warehouse working conditions) as actually worthy of Day 1 focus. Are they ready to do that? Unfortunately it's not as glamorous as building rocket ships, buying news companies or building web service infrastructure...
These are good points. But the problem, as discussed in this article and the comments, is we already have defacto morality police: the credit card monopolies.

Given we’re going to have content police in some form (we clearly do need them to an extent), shouldn’t they be as transparent and accountable as possible?

We should have the equivalent of bodycam footage when a decision is made—a paper trail showing who signed off and what the rationale was. There should be a process for appeals. Decisions shouldn’t be political or religiously motivated.

Being cut off from the financial system is as much an imposition on a person’s rights as being fined or arrested by the government. Sure, it needs to happen sometimes, but there should be protection against being targeted in an arbitrary or abusive way.
As far as I know there is nothing illegal about drawn furry pornography and no requirement on the part of Visa/Mastercard to restrict access to that content. We even saw Mastercard reverse their decision on OnlyFans recently due to major backlash, so they obviously have the power to do so.
> Facebook and Twitter users sway elections.

That's not what gp is saying.

Facebook and Twitter control what users, in bulk, say in a way that can sway elections.

Facebook and Twitter moderate and suspend and users adjust what they say in order to not get suspended again, if they care to not get banned. (Those who don't care if they get banned are a red herring.)

There is also the algorithmic feed which gives a lot of control over what users say to other users.
More banks and wire transfer companies like Wells Fargo and Western Union, as well as the mega-banks like BoA that make their money off poor people getting hit with fees...less credit card companies.
Spot on. I hunt red deer and while you _can_ use .223 / 5.56mm, a humane kill requires very precise shot placement. It's okay for smaller deer (fallow, whitetail, sika) and chamois, but not really for the reds, sambar, rusa or tahr.

I use .308 Win, probably the most common calibre for red deer hunting here, but you meet people using fancy powerful rounds like 7mm Rem Mag or .338 Lapua.
I guess if that's how he wants to describe it, but the fact is that this new game is not using state-of-the-art tech and art. So it isn't similar to Monkey Island 1 & 2.
I'm just bemused by the world I find around me.

We seem to have completely lost our grasp on differentiating "real things" and "made up things"
It's a point-and-click adventure game. The PC has a mouse. (A Mac version is already announced.) The Switch has a touchscreen. Other consoles don't have any of those.
So just to move this into a recent topic (and please have a civil conversation - or I'll just delete this thread), given that this will soon be a grey area in many of the U.S. states, would it behoove Visa and Mastercard to regulate purchases of the "Morning After Pill" or "Plan B" to avoid future litigation or moral outrage, if they are also going to take such "moral high ground" stances against a rather banal item as pornography?
The trick is to not double your hours. Idk if it works.
This article doesn't seem to mention it, but this is only a half truth.

There was a legal liability change around payment providers and accidental support of sex trafficking that changed the calculus around risk for supporting these services.

As a result many of the payment providers backed out.

They're not really the "de facto" regulators - they're responding directly to incentives placed on them by government regulators.

Write up on this law here: https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-controversial-new-sex-traf...
>"If women don't have a right to privacy regarding their own bodies, why should gun owners get to keep their guns secret?"

This isn't a zero sum game. To lose a right to privacy somewhere doesn't mean it deserves to be lost everywhere. If you are upset that privacy is being violated you shouldn't be happy this happened.
Also a strawman. Every database I listed is not the "Butlerian Jihad," they're all simple databases to keep track of identities for very reasonable reasons.

>Did I say we should stop using databases altogether?

Claiming this is a reason to dislike all databases coupled with your wistful statement "it's not like the old days..." sure looks like your advocating for the old days.

>Have you considered that maybe there's a middle-ground between collecting, trading, and analyzing every possible scrap of data we can squeeze out of people... and the Butlerian Jihad?

Yes, which is why I mocked your dislike of all such databases (including as you wrote, banks and ISPs) and a weird reference to ancient systems as if they were a better option.

If you thought middle ground was a good solution, you could have simply written that instead of writing two extremes. But you chose the extremes.
Last year, SCOTUS ruled that California could not collect donor information from non profits. A large part of this was that California did a poor job of securing this information. They accidentally posted over 1700 Schedule B forms online for anyone to access over the last 10 years.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1004062322/the-supreme-court-...
It's not their business.
> Carbon dioxide is easier to compress and store at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure compared to other gaseous storage vehicles, like hydrogen or air.

CO2 phase diagram: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=co2+phase+diagram

Nitrogen phase diagram: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nitrogen+phase+diagram

You can see that CO2 is way more reasonable to store liquid at ambient temps.
So then the exchanges would be the regulators? Also now you have a nice public ledger of what porn everyone is buying lol
I'd would say that this is a simpler alternative for a smaller or less powerfull pc's.
Mastwrcard doesn't find illegal content - they find somwthing they Think is illegal, and they could be wrong.
Then please read the submitted article, the press release (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2022/optical-microphone) or the paper itself (https://www.marksheinin.com/_files/ugd/a41a28_7d370603fafd41...) again, as it has nothing to do with audio quality.
1. There's an ethical argument for people that they ought to pay for work.

2. The above is stronger for areas that aren't well-served - women directed producers for example.

3. Parasocial relationships have become a huge driver of revenue for performers - hence OnlyFans and other Patreon-like services.
> the next place

is there a current place they're commonly used ?
But what's cool is that the energy is easily stored and transported. 40% efficiency is fine as long as production is cheap.
Personally I think they should, with objective, explicit exceptions common to all merchants, something like:

1) rudeness or disrupting

2) age and health

3) intoxication and indecency

4) whatever else society can agree on (good luck!)

Both service providers and customers keep ending up in court because the "right to refuse service to anyone" too often becomes "discriminating against a protected class", and the lines get blurrier every day. Much easier to just say "serve everyone or don't go into the business of serving people" and be done with it.

In fact, the obligation to serve customers by law would serve as both a consumer and merchant protection for cases exactly like this -- the fact that, until sodomy laws were ruled unconstitutional in the US just a couple decades ago, many banks refused to lend to otherwise-credit worthy gay couples or unwed heterosexual couples for mortgages (afraid of being accused of supporting illegal activities), which would be more of a moot point in this sense because the onus is no longer on the bank to scrutinize how someone lives their personal life so long as they meet objective measures of credit worthiness.
Announcing Vitess 14
Companies take forever to fire people.
(Netlify engineer here) To echo what the others have said, lambdas are a bit smarter than that. They actually keep the node process running until it has been idle for around 5-15 minutes. We can make use of that ourselves by reusing the Next server too. We even cache data locally in the lambda tmpdir (though we do that more for Gatsby). The cold start issue though is one of the reasons that using isolates rather than Node-based functions is so great. Both Cloudflare Workers (used by Vercel) and Deno Deploy (used by Netlify) have extremely fast starts, even when cold.

It's generally just a better fit for this model, which is why I'm so glad to see the approach becoming more popular and am genuinely please that Vercel's offering has gone GA. The more this model of edge computing spreads, the better. More framworks will add support, and it will be a virtuous cycle. The WinterCG work on creating a common standard for these runtimes is also a great project.
> I would personally call telegram/viber/whatsapp/et al. groups/chats/channels "dark web", since information is not indexed

That's a really odd way of naming thing.

They are not web, and "not indexed" usually is referred to as "deep web", not "dark web".
Most specific law applies then. Not hard.
excited to try this out! congrats on the launch!
Alas, it's probably hard to pull the cap off of your hardware wallet with only one hand. But isn't that what we're told Coinbase is for?
This is how people want it. It's been two years of "Twitter is a private platform" over and over again. If you aren't going to stand for free speech when someone wants to talk about the Wuhan lab, why the hell would you expect anyone to defend your right to furry porn?
Yeah, subsidiarity or lack thereof can get messy, but it’s not that unusual to get different answers from different levels of government. It’s a totally different situation when a private duopoly or oligopoly supersedes democratic control.
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> Banks are so inherently risk averse

... that 2008 never happened.

Banks are risk-averse when it suits them to be so.
I was told the blockchain will solve this ;-)
Similarly: In the Navy there used to be a saying that when you relieve in a billet (i.e., take over a position from someone being transferred), your predecessor left you "a total can of worms," but when you get relieved, what you're leaving for your successor is "just a few loose ends to tie up."
>Despite evidence to the contrary, nearly one-third of Americans still believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

What evidence? An accurate statement might have read, "Despite the lack of conclusive evidence, nearly one-third of Americans still believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen".

>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.

This assertion relies on the baseless assumption that the elections are fair unless proven fraudulent. Given the history of elections the opposite could just as easily be argued. This is one of the most important reasons to have total and complete transparency on every level of an election with an auditable paper trail that can be publicly scrutinized leaving no doubt about the integrity of the election among any honest arbiter.

Personally I have doubts about the integrity of every election in my lifetime, and I'm not a young man.
I disagree. It's a useful clarification. The OP didn't say "most" but neither did they say "some" or use any language to that effect. A naive reading could even take it as an implicit "all."
> Visa are themselves at risk of being shut down by the government if they knowingly allow payments for illegal activity.

surely this is a joke. when was the last time government has shut down a major financial institution? From 2008 securities fraud to HSBC being involved in laundering drug money, this never happens
Sure but again let's be a little more nuanced. When the Euro came out, trillions in wealth were automatically converted to it. Pretty apples to oranges comparison. If all USD was converted to BTC, BTC would become useful everywhere as fast as people could change the POS systems. Not a fair comparison at all.
Also in this category. Buying weed from a depensary. You can't buy it with a debit card or credit card. The processors won't allow it.

But you can ATM loophole your way through it.
The reason it feels like rocket science to a lot of people is that they realize that 40 years ago our institutions and popular culture agreed that being gay was wrong, 60 years ago they agreed that black people were inferior to white people, 250 years ago our institutions believed that owning another human was OK and women were also considered property.

What is 'repugnant' to society isn't fixed, and isn't always universally agreed upon.

Someone with your view 60 years ago would have said similar things about depictions of love between queer people, or 100 years ago would have said that different races shouldn't be allowed to post pro interracial marriage messages in the newspaper.
Plenty of other reasons they might decide not to deal with it besides regulation, such as the large chargeback issue the industry has or pressure from fundamentalist groups that hate pornography on principle.

It also isn’t actually that uncommon for companies to make decisions for moral reasons, for all that we talk of corporations as money-hungry husks they are ultimately made up of people and have their own internal culture. Traditionally they’d eventually be outcompeted by a company who doesn’t have an issue with the action, but given the stranglehold Visa/MasterCard have on the industry that seems unlikely in this case.
you mean like IMAP?
Life expectancy for an adult is calculated based on your present age, not birth. View any mortality table and your life expectancy changes every year you live.

>If you are born after immigration you aren't an immigrant.

If you are born of an immigrant of low socio-economic status, you are predisposed towards a lower socio-economic status. Therefore the immigrant has influenced this statistic even through non-immigrant births.

>At least not without data to back it up.

You want data to back up that generally in the US and/or within immigrant populations, life expectancy is lower as you go into lower socio-economic groups? Is anyone really trying to refute this?
I tend to trust round numbers more than other numbers for this very reason...

When people make up stats, they use numbers like 63% or 87%, not 75%.
Also: which government? I also don't want US regulators controlling UK content because historical accident has put payment oligopolies under US jurisdiction.
I expect it becomes financially unviable if they end up storing it for long. Daily charge/discharge allows them to amortize their annual cost of capital across 365 cycles. Weekly or seasonal storage is going to be much less cost effective.
WhatsApp might be a good model to compare against. Americans paid for it and it never really took off in the US. Rest of world had it free and it still dominates.

A lot of people want to avoid WhatsApp because you're really just paying with personal information. But until there's a real barrier, it'll be around.
These days you could use a language with compile-time macro execution like nim or D and have it both ways…
Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a look.
I know of at least one sex-related forum that now supposedly requires btc to join. (This said, the related statement on the homepage mentions an absurdly high amount, probably set years ago and promptly forgotten...)
Out of the ~120 million households in the US, somewhere around 50-80 million of those (depending on which polls/stats you look at) have a gun in them.

Which of your incredibly classist and racist indicators above can you apply to that many households?
I am coming to the conclusion that we’re in the current situation by design.

A bunch of powerful people feel some stuff should be punished, but they can’t make it illegal. So they’ll stay in good term with de facto gate keepers and nudge them in their direction.

In the article it’s some billionaire, but ruling parties are probably doing the same extensively: instead of making the controversial decisions themselves, go through all the paperwork and get all the backlash, they’ll have a private entity deal with 95% of the problem (the industry “self-regulating”) and call it a day.

A pettier exemple than money transactions: there’s no reason smartphones shouldn’t be able to record calls out of the box (using it within legal boundaries should be on the user) but phone makers will self-block that behavior with no specific interest on their side.
Just curious, would this be able to be used as material for conspiracy theorists on both sides?
Second this, I wish it wasn’t so tied to a vendor but it’s really well built
> 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.

Operative word being knowingly. Demanding every customer prove every part of their business is legal activity != "not knowingly allow illegal activity."

Also, the notion that MC or Visa would be shut down over this sort of thing is absurd.
Oh, you're right, they got that in in April.

Very slow progress but nonzero progress.
I see two answers to this:

1) if something is legal wherever the purchase was made, then the credit card companies, as basic utilities, should be compelled to process the purchase.

which would be the easiest for me to understand, but possibly more complicated to enforce than

2) if something is legal wherever the credit card company is incorporated in, then the credit card companies, as basic utilities, should be compelled to process the purchase.

If laws or enforcement are unclear about the legality of a thing, handle it like it would be handled in case of a cash sale or have the credit card company be cautious and enforce the strictest rule.
For 6502s, Interpreters were much more common, with BASIC of course the most popular. Even ostensibly "compiled" languages often targeted something in between, e.g. UCSD Pascal targeted a virtual machine, and FORTH compiled typically to some sort of jump table.
a comoany doesn't have a brain, people do. And people have personal agendas.
Google Books found an example in the 1965 book "Sprache und Humor des Kindes". However, it does not appear to have anything to do with "Polnisch rückwärts".

While the term "Polish Notation" predates 1965, including in German as "polnische Notation", it appears to be in a specialized context not related to children's humor.

The only other Google Books reference for "Polnisch rückwärts" is a 1982 reference with nothing to do with computers.

Looking in archive.org, here's a 1984 German computer magazine which describes FORTH as „polnisch rückwärts“. https://archive.org/details/cpm-anwenderhandbuch-thom-hogana...

On the other hand, a 1986 article uses a different structure, at https://archive.org/details/hc-mein-home-computer_1986-10/pa... :

> Der Programmiersprache Forth eilt das Schlagwort „umgekehrt polnische Notation“ voraus, was ein wenig wie „polnisch rückwärts“ klingt und auf den ersten Blick meist als Rückschritt gewertet wird.

Those are the only two uses of that phrase in archive.org. By comparison, "polnische Notation" is far more common.
It's obvious government can use this to suppress disagreement and fundamental human rights.

Freedom includes, most importantly, freedom to protest, and people have been doing to for centuries. If the people are free and have self-determination, if it is a democracy, then government has no business here.

> If all protestors could use amplifying equipment without limit, the right-wing fanatics, left-wing fanatics, and every other type of fanatics would be shaking the earth with competing loudspeakers.

Protestors have been able to use amplifying equipment until now, and that hasn't happened.