skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they are profiting from child pornography, revenge porn, and actual rape pornography.

This statement buries the lede; MindGeek profits off porn, but it isn't clear to me that "child pornography, revenge porn, and actual rape pornography" are the actual money makers for the company. Is it the case that they are actively distributed and profiting off of said content, or are they just deficient in moderating the platform.

The distinction is important, if all it is is that they are not moderating the platform, the Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have far more cause to be deplatformed by Visa than MindGeek.

MindGeek's platforms gets billions of impressions per day, and I find it hard to believe that most of the world is consuming child porn.
"Can" is true, and a good point. "Should" is a bit more dubious though; if IP-range-based rate limiting is enough, not wasting your users' battery with PoW-based rate limiting seems like a good thing. It seems like a potentially useful tool in your tool belt, which you should probably only deploy if IP-address-based rate limiting proves to be not enough.
Yeah. If there's an evolutionary aspect to the increase, we should expect to see c-sections as a generational phenomena, and correlated with cranium size. I wonder if that study has been done.
>If they actually started diverting traffic in some way before the transfer had been rejected then that's pretty bad.

They did

And continued to do so for ~1 week until I was able to claim back the fraudulent account (thankfully the scamsters had used a real email associated with me (but not with the domains, oddly enough), so I was eventually able to enable 2fa on it and shut it down
Every non-trivial enterprise software project eventually need to add support for upload and download of Excel files.
Tell him about my Linux port, I'm updating it regularly and fixing bugs :)

https://github.com/taviso/123elf/wiki/Getting-Started
This doesn't even make sense. Why would a brand manager role interview have leetcode questions?

That being said, who the heck greenlit this change? This is parody level mismanagement.
Doesn't a similar DoS risk (from allowing users to allocate arbitrarily large amounts of memory) also apply to the heap? You shouldn't be giving arbitrary user-supplied ints to malloc either.
For me, xeyes can be useful on multiple high-DPI monitors where I occasionally lose the mouse.
If you beat the heart a lot faster you probably get pretty good cooling. Vent that in the extremities and start sweating. There is obviously still a limit but in day-to-day life we don't even really come close to the brain's cooling capacity.
What's with the weird license? Where's the code? Looks cool, otherwise.
I think Godot 4.0's new multiplayer nodes get closer to what they're promising but even then, you still have to write some code around it to use it.

I prefer Godot's approach but it's not as ready to go as they're describing.
Wasn't this largely the point of creating Alphabet? Trying to separate the money making segments from everything else?
Any kind of military action. To US, Taiwan is a “stone aircraft carrier group”.
I think the parent comment was about malloc not being real-time? Not about storage space.

Though I do wonder why there can't be a form of malloc that allocates in a stack like fashion in real time to satisfy the formal verifier?
It’s not unique to them but I think it’s common to companies with a strong cash cow but not a strong culture of accountability - Microsoft felt similar from around the turn of the century until a few years ago because Windows and Office just printed money. If they don’t have some way other than profits to provide accountability, people who are good at playing politics can keep getting promoted because to a first approximation nothing they do will lower revenue.
Fucks up your enzyme kinetics and is much more expensive than Fiji. Would not recommend.
My dad did that too for awhile but eventually gave in.
I wonder how many of the unintelligible jokes are puns and wordplay? That's one of the most favored categories of jokes, and hardest to translate.
I'll take the third side of that bet: we've already so fundamentally altered "nature" to our whims, often in very destructive and short-sighted ways, that we're well past the point of trying to pretend like we're preserving any "natural" state of affairs ( https://xkcd.com/1338/ !). The best we can hope for at this point, barring a severe and abrupt population decline, is to continue engineering our way out of this mess as best we can, with the long-term interests of humans at the forefront.
Also

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/
Hence what makes the views so irreconcilable. If words don't mean anything, nothing does. I can see the appeal of ruling out reality as irrelevant, but it's not consistent. My beef is with a common anti-belief, which is there is no truth, as it's the founding idea in a pernicious ideology that has produced this anti-conspiracy hysteria, which is the explicit effect of iterating affirmative conclusions from this negative premise.

The OP's entire problematization of conspiracy theories is insincere. Without a mutual understanding that originates from a belief in the possibility of both truth and meaning, we're just animals without humanity to one another. I acknowledge these distinctions because those stakes are too high to be so intellectually careless as to ignore them.
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Rest Isn’t the Opposite of Work
I was working at Capital One a while back, and like most larger companies, they have a referral bonus and an internal recruitment website where you can refer candidates. They also have a personal link so that if you share it with a friend, and they apply, you get credit and the referral bonus automatically. You might know where this is going.

Every month I would post on Hacker News' "Who's Hiring" post with a rundown on a few of the positions we were hiring for, and while I was there I probably picked up referral bonuses for like 10 people.
I am a co-founder of a competing OSS product called Appsmith. I discovered Superblocks early this year and my first reaction was that the UI builder looks similar to Appsmith. Examined the DOM, and it was Appsmith code under the hood.

I’m new to the FOSS world and it was quite interesting to see someone use our project to compete with us.
Kind of a misleading headline given that there's never been a confirmed picture of an intact, unfired R9X missile. Given how it has been described in the media, I'm somewhat curious what they are "hiding" by keep it so secret. Like, if it is just a hellfire with some pop out blades, why no pictures of it?
Ok, after COVID we had 3% inflation. And you tell that without Putin and gas prices it would reach 9% in a span of 6 month?
I debloated successfully by wiping Windows and installing Ubuntu. No regrets.
And now Apple is like Mr Krabs. "Money"
Excel is transformational. If you're reading this indoors, there's a good chance that significant portions of the building around you were engineered using excel.
I wrote a piece of code that was front-ended by Excel 3, in 1991 that talked to multiple, heterogeneous databases. There was some UUCP action, some FTP, DB2 on AS/400, some AT&T Unix, Wang, OS/2, and so on. It showed inventory and sales charts on a projector for executives. That thing ran till 2019 because the company called me and wanted to know how it worked. They were planning to replace it but could not figure it out.

Excel never dies. (My first spreadsheet was SuperCalc. It was amazing, for that time, but no one seems to be talking about their SuperCalc sheets any more.)
It only includes roads and locations mentioned in two sources: the Peutinger map ("tabula Peutingeriana" [0]) and the Itinerarium Antonini [1]. Clearly you've found where those sources lacked precision.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Itinerary
The article states that landlords, like any homeowner, can walk away from a property. Eventually the city will seize it for unpaid taxes and put it back on the market, but this can be a years long process. Solitary, often elderly, homeowners with cognitive impairments commonly fall behind on utilities and taxes and city administrations need to move with caution.
> The NSPCC are spending literally almost their entire lobbying budget on it due to the personal obsession of key staff

If we're still wearing our tin foil hats, I have to ask how did these people become key staff, and what links do they have to GCHQ?
I am gonna have to get a job with a commute. Podcast is over 5 hours.
Maybe they will allow you to type/speak the thing you want to do and will call it "search."
nerves of steel on that guy tho
Consider that there is zero reason not to print that line, and exit anyway.
I'm out of the loop on game development, is John Carmack a "big brain" as presented on grugbrain.dev?
This doesn’t use sunlight. It uses hydrogen gas as the energy carrier.
this was my next step. webassembly? what engine are you using, and do you still need to code the multiplayer networking yourself?
That was indeed one of Knuth’s primary goals. But perhaps it wasn’t one of Pakkanen’s goals though.
John is such a legend
Imagine monarchs and elites in the 1200s picturing what would happen if the commoners were educated and able to pursue intellectual pursuits en masse.

They'd have similar arguments. And I mean, they wouldn't be wrong: we're wasteful; we duplicate effort; things are scattershot and disorganized.

But we live in an amazing world of progress, creative expression, and wealth, too.

Imagine taking another small step in the direction towards developing and exploiting human talent and allowing for self-actualization.
GrapheneOS?

Been using it for almost a year and I never want to go back.
The Microsoft-acation of Google continues.
> important, long-term goal of the Natrium™ program

How the hell did they manage to trademark "Natrium"??
"to die, in the rain"
How is it possible to get rid of SEO? Search engines have to have some mechanism to determine order, and websites will get more clicks if they are at the top… those two things together will guarantee that sites care about optimizing their appearance in search results.

How would you stop that?
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Not really comparable to Qubes-OS technically, but there is graphenos.
Somewhat tangential, but for unusual uses of Excel I like this video where Michael Shackleford derives blackjack basic strategy from scratch using Excel in about half an hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCF-Btu5ZCk
I just hope that DDG are first to solve this SEO problem
That would be recursivedoubts, the author of HTMX.
Once you install the "free 10000 channels INSTALL NOW" add-on your cousin recommended to you onto one of these Android-based sticks or TVs, anything can happen.
Thanks for all your support, maddog! I still miss the Alpha...
“The left-turn command was 2.5 minutes old and should have been erased but wasn’t, according to the internal report."
wow...
Generally a downvote should warrant a reply. The goal is to encourage healthy discussion AFAIK.
Back in early 2000's, I'd written a simple ASP page that produced infinite amount of random email addresses page by page. Had any crawler bot got caught up in it, it'd keep filling its database with these nonsense email addresses. I'd distributed its source code too. Troy Hunt's project made me remember it.
I think it's about the decoration, and I'm pretty sure the guy who painted himself in pitch did so in order to pretend he was wearing the leggings he couldn't fit into.
This is an eternal contradiction in US attitudes towards porn. Porn was condemned by mainstream consensus in the 80s/90s for creating unrealistic and strange (plastic) bodily standards, but the companies that were closest to the mainstream and in every hotel PPV were Vivid and Wicked, who were the pinnacle of that slick plastic style. The farther you got away from them, the more natural people looked and behaved.

edit: even now, the places where extreme bodily exaggerations, distortions, and surgical interventions dominate are very vanilla and mainstream, like instagram and twitter, or even softcore/non-nude.
The Promise and Perils of Large Language Models
Apple already has ads in the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple News, etc. So doesn't it already have a "demand-side platform" for the businesses that purchase ads for those mediums? Or am I misunderstanding the term?
Windland – An Immersive Three.js Experience
Case Study on how it was created: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2022/04/25/case-study-windland-...
The subtext is that Google's excessive emphasis on engineering over pretty much any other discpline is what led them into this mess. The parent comment was a joke
Next thing they will reject my app from the store for having the version number on the settings page.
Haven't listened to this one yet but for people with sticker shock over the time commitment, Lex consistently does amazing podcasts with really sharp people over the course of a few hours and imo (being an avid podcast listener) it's one of the best out there.

Edit to add: His recent episode with Jack Barsky (former KGB spy) was exceptional and worth a listen if 5hrs is too long of a test case
An Open-Source Cultural Consensus Approach to Name-Based Gender Classification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README points out that "README.TXT" was used in 1974 at http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/decus_20tap3_198111/01/decus..., which predates VAX/VMS by a couple of years.

That was for a DECsystem-10, so still DEC, just a bit earlier.
When I read the words "serkle nufding" I pictured in my head, with zero perceptible delay, a weird little goblin guy with pale green skin and long ears and a pointy hat.
John Carmack BIG brain. make Doom. make rockets too. work for oculus too, but then leave
Elon Musk's tech allies miffed about Twitter subpoenas
Facebook is dying, so it seems less important now, but I'd have liked to hear in his own words how he felt supporting a company with such questionable ethics.
And will your database, webserver, php and linux auto update itself next 20 years?

Reality of that is that most people will use some plugins or their theme wont update or your code will have breaking change.

The auto update is nightmare. Because so many people are trying to hack WP you gotta do it and every other update becomes stresfull event. Good luck updating someone elses plugin.

Much higher chance of website working 20 years is - take simple preferably file based system. Make manual update every 5 years. If its good system then the migration will be well documented and painless probably taking 5 minutes.
>> Texas will claim jurisdiction since in its eyes a citizen was murdered.

>But this just isn't how it works, right? "Claiming" jurisdiction I mean.

yes, that's exactly what might happen.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/15/1111383520/texas-abortion-law...
...so what you're saying is that a service to keep your gitlab project active is worth $5/yr? BRB
Lex Fridman's Podcast is what I listen to when doing sports, will take me weeks to get through it but I am really looking forward for this episode.
These card companies have too much power. Companies engaged in the kava trade (vendors, kava bars, etc) have a very hard time with payments processors and banks due to the strict rules of Visa and Mastercard despite kava being a legal dietary supplement in the US.
It is quite possible that the standards for adoption are such that only couples able to raise children in a nurturing environment capable of fostering intellectual growth are typically allowed to adopt and raise children. They are not an accurate cross-section of all potential parents by any means.

I am imagining if any couple could adopt; taking the same kid (which of course we cannot do) and having them raised by a couple of college professors vs. a couple of meth addicts living in a drug den - I would be absolutely stunned if there were no difference in what kind of test scores the kid would get growing up.
I'm not doubting the reasoning behind not wanting those category of toys, I'm asking if OP did the polite thing and, you know, told the potential gift givers how they felt about cheap toys before writing them off as "non-friends".
Congratulations, she's a keeper !
When in modern UK history there was 6% inflation gain in a span of 6 month? Your list looks like usual things exist for ages.
i miss this usage. way more useful than developer centric stuff that is shown at a code repo.. im at already at the code, maybe a contributing or development file, or anything else really
Right — some networks are unknowingly/unintentionally giving him airtime, others are doing so knowingly.
Garbage can be written in any language.
Yes, you can even generate models from JSON directly. Then there is JSON Schema and other schema first options that mostly no one uses anymore.
Eh, have you followed Microsoft in the past?

It seems to be par for the course for very big companies. Apple's been doing strange things as well. IBM in the past.
Idk, I struggle with this. I agree that watering down words is a problem. For example see people saying speech can be violence or even inaction can be violence or some like, but I think humans are tempted to ascribe the past to evil. If you think racism has to be intentional then it's an easy jump to say that racists must be aware of their racism, and before you know it you believe that evil looks like Voldemort and not some guy administering a study about syphilis. I think the truth is people in the past were much more explicitly racist, but also used a lot of the same excuses you'd see today. Things like the economics dictating that film should be optimized for light skin, or worrying about property values or something. By and large people don't think of themselves as racist so they don't do things with racist intent, they just happen to be racist and that influences the the things they do. Plus I'm not convinced that anything has free will making the whole question of intent less useful anyway.

But, I also definitely do think there is something worse about someone who hates black people and uses a racial slur to describe them compared to a model trained on humanity doing the same, but certainly both are huge problems, and it can't slip my mind that the racist person was also just trained on humanity's racism
Forgive me, but I’m sat here wondering what “squirt” is in reference too. I don’t wish to google it. Diarrhoea related? So women can defacate but not urinate?
Not so sure. On a technical level at least, everything that I have read from him has been very concise and pragmatic. His programming advice is always to be as simple as possible because simple is fast. For example, the one I always remember is that in order to optimize that you should try to remove as many "edge case optimizations" as possible, so that everything runs always the same way, and then optimize _that_.
I'm not sure what to make of this yet, but yeah, solein is by solar foods which George Monbiot wrote about in 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-gr... .

The questions for me are what the input costs really are (from energy material sourcing all the way to distribution). I've seen a bunch of critiques of cellular ag from the 'regenerative' spaces (which make good arguments around monocrop farming and impacts on rancher livelihoods (particularly those trying to do more indigenous practices)), and also provocations of inquiry such as:

Gabriel Rosenberg: https://bearistotle.substack.com/p/labriculture-now-4f1

Isha Datar: https://mobile.twitter.com/IshaDatar/status/1441070303786913...
Has anyone used their protobuf-es library? Seems interesting and better than the other libraries from a quick glance. I wonder if there are bazel rules for it.
Can't wait to find out what the heck he's been working on in AI! Seems to me like he would be best at scaling to extreme model size and making efficient use of available hardware, but it would be too expensive to keep up with the corporate labs as an independent researcher. And from what I've seen before it seems like his opinion is that scale might not be required.
Your point is well taken, but if you have never witnessed it in extreme I believe you are not evaluating it fairly.

On ships, vacuum vapor distillation is quite common for drinking water production. This is because the equipment is used to generate boiler feed water, which must be high quality distillate. Acquiring additional water-making equipment is redundant.

Nutritional content can be limited and lacking diversity. Many minerals in the body are of very low concentration, they are nevertheless, necessary. Osmosis will delpete the body of these over time. The health effects of this would require a longterm study for chronic symptoms to appear. I have never seen any study of this nature. I have seen mariners after several months at sea with no other water source and, yes anecdotally, they look like hell. I will not drink distilled water for any length of time, but a few weeks would never amount to anything.

So in your day to day life, sure, you have a healthy, diverse, first-world diet and have no ill-effect from drinking distilled water. You can 'live' drinking only Coke. Appalling, certainly, but doable. In terms of cost and energy expense, distilled water is likely higher than Coke to produce, though that is an aside.
My goal is that Postcard can get your site published in 2-3 minutes with nice design.

Wordpress isn't built for personal sites. Too many themes, too hard to set up, too much overhead. I think most people that want a personal site are not motivated to figure out the whole process of finding a template, designing the pages, configuring all the content sections, etc. Plus, Wordpress doesn't have an easy mailing list tool built-in.
Other paywalled sites included a full list of subpoena's that include Jason Calacanis. So three of the four besties (All-In podcast) received subpoena's. Calacanis who has a daily podcast has so far not mentioned it.
There's been a big push to develop modern standards in the IndieWeb community [0]. There are two important standards:

- WebMention, a W3C standard that is basically the equivalent of @ing someone on Twitter [1]. It is simply an http request to a discoverable endpoint with two pieces of data: the webpage being mentioned, and the webpage mentioning it. WordPress had a similar standard called Pingback and websites supporting WebMention often support both for backwards compatibility.
- microformats2, an ad-hoc standard for adding metadata to webpages, meant especially for providing metadata for web mentions [2]. For instance, you can specify that the mention is a "like", "reply", or "reblog", and set the author name and avatar.

Independent websites that add support for this can then parse the WebMention to create a comment section and like counter and readers can follow the links to other blogs that talk about the blog post they just read. There are a decent number of personal sites that already support this, like those mentioned in [3]. With enough adapters, it might build the network effects necessary to become a viable social media alternative. Right now though, those in the network are predominantly tech oriented since there isn't a ton of third party support.

[0]: https://indieweb.org/
[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
[2]: http://microformats.org/
[3]: https://indieweb.org/Webmention#IndieWeb_Examples
Reader really was the turning point for me personally.

Before that I was a strong advocate for Google, I used any of their products that made sense and I would jump in and try anything new.

Then reader was shut down and I had to start re-evaluating the services I used. Slowly that meant distancing myself from anything google.