skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So OnlyFans should pay people to post nudes ? (Rather than providing a place to post pictures and charge other people for them, in case you missed it)

I see this same argument made about Tinder, from guys who can't get laid.

You realize it's just a platform don't you ? Those are real human beings on the other side of that screen. OnlyFans can't choose for the humans on the platform.
> In what universe is 20+ years "recently"?

One day, you too will be old.
The most hilarious ordeal I read about was the so called "ordeal of the cross". [0]

To even conceive that idea? ...

[0]: https://www.liquisearch.com/trial_by_ordeal/ordeal_of_the_cr...
Always just saw their power tools as 'better' ryobi stuff. But with Ryobi's draw being cheapness, battery compatibility and unique tools.

However they're the defacto when it comes to pipe. Real quality heavy rigid stuff.
How would self-custody of BTC allowed this man to pay for his father's medical bills? As far as I'm aware the hospital did not accept bitcoin payments.

There have also been several instances in time where BTC has lost 80% of its value (and many more instances of 50%+), so it doesn't protect against the downside risk of needing money in an emergency.
>Then replace the single-use bottles with reusable ones like stores have done with bags.

What realistically happens is that we end up with thicker "reusable" bottles that end only being used once. This is basically what happened in cities that banned single use plastic takeout containers. Restaurants replaced them with "reusable" containers (think the plastic ones used for mealprep), that end up being chucked after a single use. The whole situation is worse than before because the "reusable" containers use more plastic and therefore have a larger ecological footprint than the thinner/disposable ones.

>Soda fountains

Most restaurants do have them, for cost reasons. However, they're not really feasible for small scale operations (eg. food trucks) and/or remote areas.

>cans

They're not recloseable, which presents a big problem for large portion sizes. Also they don't seem to be available in sizes larger than 12oz for carbonated drinks (maybe they don't scale well?).

> at-home carbonation are all just as good if not better.

They're only really economical if you're a frequent drinker. Otherwise it will take forever for you to recoup the cost of the unit. There are other issues with it as well. The syrup for those aren't "name brand", which puts off some people. Also, IME you lose quite a bit of fizz when mixing the syrup with the carbonated water (they tell you to carbonate the water first, then add the syrup).

>What? Water does not naturally contain microplastics. The microplastics come from plastic, not from water.

Water might not "naturally contain microplastics" in the sense that they didn't contain microplastics a few hundred years ago, but nowadays microplastics are everywhere to the extent that you can assume almost everything contains microplastic. From the article:

"Microplastics in bottled water may affect the health of millions of people, and they show their presence worldwide. Before, experts detected their prevalence in the world’s oceans, where more than five trillion pieces of plastics swim about"

see also: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/micro...

>Why do you have such an interest in defending the bottle beverage industry?

Why do you have such an interest in questioning other commenter's motivations?
Ugh video tutorials are the worst. Nothing like wasting 5 minutes watching a video that turns out to not even have the info you’re looking for.
TIL of this site.
It’s true it can help if the local currency is dogshit
What's wrong with the State Dept? They work on peace and diplomacy. They are probably one of the best branches of government as their job is to build international trust and cooperation and avoid wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_St...
They would certainly accept USD
I spent years being extremely controversial on twitter. Account is still active and does not have a phone number linked.
There are a handful.

https://www.protoolreviews.com/power-tool-manufacturers-who-...

I think I’ve seen a better source in the past.
Have you ever considered that some people use vpn in order to be able access your service not because they want to hide from you?
While at the library a while ago, I ran into a book on VRML (the Virtual Reality Modeling Language from the ‘90s). That was a doozy.

It looked like they hadn’t bought any new programming books in a while either; there didn’t seem to be any newer than about 2010. They also had a book on programming with Python on Symbian (Nokia’s pre-iPhone/Android smartphone OS)!
Did the survey out of curiosity, seemed moderately accurate and provided some common sense strategies for improving aspects of psychological health through direct action, habits and techniques.

Not sure why AI has to be involved, it's a pretty simple set of rating scales which tailors some sensible, straightforward advice.

That being said, am I missing some more sinister or cultish angle? Is there something sinister in the click-throughs that I'm missing? I'd agree that Scientology seems to do this - start with common sense and somewhat effective therapy, transition into cult.
That depends on whether said bad software solves your problem now by creating even more problems in the future. For example, through lax security.
A comment in the video says that the framerate is being held back primarily by network latency. Would something like mosh, which immediately updates local state based on how it thinks your input will change the state (and then applies any necessary corrections once the network round trip happens) help here? I guess it would only apply to text-based sessions, but it sounds like there's already a recommendation against using it for video content.
I don't have a smart phone but surely there must be an app that creates a fake text messaging UI and locks the real messages behind a unique password?
Yep, a _chromed_ pipe wrench. "The Tool".
Here is a graphic with a bunch of power tool brands and who owns them.

https://cdn.protoolreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/po...
My only gripe with cast iron is the absurdly small handle that they almost always have. They are not designed to be handled well and in a stable way, especially with added weight from the food.
So what? Windows likes the word folders but it works the same way. And you could easily have file access permissions depend on the directory if you wanted to.
I've been using my Remarkable 2 as a terminal for Vim via SSH. Works a treat - like having a super capable typewriter: https://imgur.com/a/hyLjg14
The Knowledge Project

All In

Conversations with Tyler

Lex Friedman

Tim Ferris Show

Bankless

Hardcore History

I find that with most podcasts you have good and bad episodes. Also even really medicore podcasts often have 1 or 2 really good episodes.
I don't see the issue.

Let's put all subtleties about Unix directories to the side. Zoom wanted to change the permissions of a file so that only root could access it. The obviously correct way to do that is to simply change the permissions of the file.

Even if their solution of putting the file in a root dir worked the way they expected, it would be a circuitous and hacky solution.

> sounds like a lot of reliance on people knowing and wanting to do the right thing?

At a certain point, people need to have basic knowledge. There's a lock on your front door. It does not lock when you turn your lights off. The lock maker is not responsible if you expected it to.
"disposable" just means it's... disposable. In other words, that you can dispose of it. What makes you think "disposable" implies it will readily degrade in the environment?
Is this not basically what julialang does?
I’m 67 and don’t have any trouble learning new things. My priorities change. I’m not willing to waste time on certain topics now but will spend hours on others. The claim that “old people” can’t learn effectively is a myth and has been shown as such by numerous studies.
Hmm I'm not able to reproduce that. Which phone and iOS if I may ask?
I’m not advocating for putting 100% of your money into BTC, but a chunk would help (especially in countries with less stable currencies).

The hospital might not take it directly, but he’d still retain control of it and be able to find a way to exchange it for something the hospital does take.
Right. I'm a pretty bad example because I obsessively investigate further. I can't help it. I see something, I need to understand it. It's my curse in life.
>are you really going to want to start an account on that site?

If I thought it would benefit me and was worth my time, then yes? Is the implication one shouldn't try to earn extra income because someone else earns more?

>Your comment seems to align with typical capitalist motives: focus on short term gains, ignore everything else.

That's somewhat of an ad hominem. Anyways I'm all ears if you have a superior evidence-based economic model, instead of selling utopia.
Why do you think that Teams was built on Skype? Technologically, even the stack is completely different.
How is this false advertising? It’s no secret that when you open a chequing or savings account at a bank, you’re loaning them your money.

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, I’m just saying that’s how it works, and everyone should know that, because it’s not a secret.
That's not fair, he also talked about doing loads of mushrooms.

Quote is in number 14 if anyone wants to read it themselves. You'll also see that the Ayn Rand quote mentioned in the sibling comment comes with critical commentary.

Re: testability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf0fLKjCKHA&t=73s

"So then the people who don't do psychedelics say 'well this is something it's like channeling or all this other stuff'. No it isn't, because we are not like those people. I mean, I maintain this rigorously, that our bit is intellectual rigor, not airheadedness. We're willing to put as much pressure on the ideas as you want we just believe in fairness. So, that it's not ipso facto that there's no such thing as elves. It's that if you think there are elves, prove it to me! Well, then the problem is that the skeptic, the critic, says, 'well the notion that are elves is just, you know, you're sadly deluded. You're living in your own private Idaho.' But then, you say, 'well, the proof of the pudding is a 15-minute DMT trip. Are you willing to carry on this criticism after having made the experiment, sir?' I mean, we're not like UFO enthusiasts. We're not telling you to stand in cornfields in the dead of night and pray. No, no, this will work! This will work on you, you the reductionist, you the doubter, you the constipated egomaniacal father-dominator. It'll work! And they say at that point 'You know, you are a menace, is what you are!'.
Yeah, carbon steel is pretty much end game for me. Lighter than cast iron, better heat distribution, heats up faster. Similarly near-indestructible (more indestructible, even, since it won't shatter if you drop it). Slot a silicone handle cover on it and it's basically perfect.

And still cheap! Slightly more expensive than cast iron, but not much; an entirely usable Lodge carbon steel pan is $40 on Amazon. The silicone handle cover is an extra $12.50 (although you don't reeeeally need one if you don't mind wearing oven mitts).

Personally I ditched nonstick coated pans — sure, PTFE is supposed to be safer than the old Teflon formulations, but the chemical used to replace PFOA in many formulations is GenX, which recent EPA studies indicate is probably similarly bad [1]. Carbon steel and cast iron just avoid all of that.

1: https://www.epa.gov/chemical-research/human-health-toxicity-...
Also I would like to note that anything from Stanley Black & Decker after the merger is of low quality compared to other brands, in my experience. With the possible exception of Mac.
It was one guy maintaining it. I spoke with him a few years ago about it. I really wish people who do volunteer work would post their wallet address. Even if no one gives at the time when people miss your work it can be a good way of letting them know how much.
It solves the initial problem of "how do I get my money out of the bank" because you ARE the bank (sort of). BTC doesn't directly solve the problem of liquidity, exchange to other currencies, etc. however.
15% of German electricity production is from natural gas. https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris...
There have been a few waves of overdoing mergers.

The more you allow companies to acquire other companies and sometimes just trademarks, the more you dilute the meaning of brands. In particular the pattern is to build a high quality brand and then sell it to someone who will suck every penny of that built up goodwill by gradually reducing quality taking advantage of the perception of quality until it’s all gone. Sometimes this is actually forced by fiduciary duty.
Hey, made an account to respond to you. Check out The Energy Gang. My favorite podcast in this space. I think it meets your requirements. I listen to every episode and can’t recommend it enough
I recall a Starcraft multiplayer game diverging with a dorm buddy back in college. Thought I was winning; turned out we were playing entirely different games!
I clean the pan about 80% of the time with just salt and a paper towel. Pour salt in, rub it around, dump salt in the trash, marvel at how nice the pan looks (seriously, I have to admire it every single time).

The other 20% I need water because something stuck bad, and usually I'll just use my soapy sponge. But if the pan is real hot still, I'll just put water in it and let it deglaze the stuck stuff.
Great article, very informative. So apparently you can always buy a box and give it back as is--though stores selling them were typically reluctant to provide refunds in general. Except with the shrink-wrap license: provided the shrink-wrap is intact, by all means you can return the box. That clarifies many things.
I assure you, Japanese high schoolers also say they want to be influencers, YouTubers, and TikTok celebrities. That just wouldn’t fly on Benesse’s blog (they run a cram school).
Freedom is not free, nor are you free to do whatever you want. We have rules and expectations as society, we elect officials to codify these into law. Most of us do not want anonymous money because of the downsides. It's not so dissimilar from seatbelt or smoking laws.

Tornado was shutdown because they were knowingly supporting sanction violations. The developer was arrested in a country that does not have the same freedom of speech we do in USA

The crypto commodity community will have to learn that they are part of the larger society and accept that they will not always get things their way. If you want things to change, you'll have to adjust how you approach these differences, and more than likely give up some of the absolutist views to meet in the middle.
Yeah I think the main health concern with cigarettes (other than nicotine) is tar, and I'm not sure how possible it is to make a cigarette without that
Put Your Phone in a Lockbox
If you view all crypto activity as only imaginary or fraudulent, I doubt either of us will be able to change each other’s minds.

The NFTs that artists minted in the boom in early 2021 are still being traded across different platforms, curated in physical exhibitions, indexed and hosted by multiple competing companies, and talked about in online magazines and podcasts. Sales on OpenSea and other platforms continue to pay royalties back to creators and sometimes non profit charities that they set in splits. Hundred-year-old art auction houses are now in competition with open source platforms that take nearly a hundred percent less commission on sales, have a lower barrier to entry, and provide higher artist royalties.

Blockchain hasn’t given us flying cars or replaced corporations or whatever boosters say, but it has given us some new tools to imagine transactions and ownership differently than just whatever Stripe is doing.
Yeah yeah, they'll outlast me yadda yadda yadda.

There's no maintenance to do with nonstick pans. Take off shelf, use, put in dishwasher, put back on shelf, repeat. When all you use are silicone spatulas (because they are frankly the best kind of spatula) then there's also no danger of scratching them.
https://archive.ph/NIYku
A lot of the trouble of implementing numerical linear algebra is getting decent performance and numerical stability using finite-precision operations with bounded numerical representations.

How do you think this sort of generalized approach would work if you want things to behave nicely with, say, poorly conditioned matrices, or matrices with certain structure that might get clobbered when changing to another algebra? Are these things even necessary to consider in such a design?

Or would this direction be mostly for bootstrapping a functional—but perhaps not performant or numerically stable—library?
What did you think of Jane from Doom Patrol?
I do think allocating some percentage into BTC makes sense depending on an individual's risk tolerance. But only as a speculative investment and absolutely not for emergency funds, due to the volatility.
yesn't? there was a big issue after commercialization (1993) of the internet as credit card companies did not have the protocols to feel comfortable processing payments, so everything was seen as a problem to them, this has only recently improved but also regressed due to fintech apps flagging and freezing everything arbitrarily

pre-commercialization (pre-1993) there were prevalent scams purely due to being a communication method without a transactional method

pre-commercialization there is no way to quantify it at this point, but if we are looking at transactional demand then maybe it was primarily for scams? if we are saying speculation isn't utility, then the internet was primarily useless pre-commercialization as well, as much of the daily demand was also volume for stock trading and speculation.

it might be becoming clear that blockchains would also have to be held to an equivalent standard of determining if you want to like the prevalent use cases of speculation, or consider it all a scam all the way down. but for people within the blockchain space, the volume is primarily not within things those people call scams, things that undermine expectations aka rug pulls.

but also, your premise itself may be misaligned, when people say early internet they aren't talking about the WWW, many are talking about the protocols, the time period where it wasn't clear if TCP/IP was even going to be the underpinning standard, and other protocols were co-existing and continuing being developed by different teams, or even early with Darpanet in the late 1960s. A more direct comparison here would be all the different blockchains and all the different protocols on top of those blockchains. Where each one rapidly iterates to more traction and there is crossdrift to implementing the same protocol design on a different blockchain.

with that view, blockchain has been wildly successful and growing at a very fast pace, compressing 40 years of activity into just 10. But when thinking about just the WWW +10 years, then blockchain is only growing at a moderate pace.
Zero Reserve, an experimental decentralized Bitcoin exchange (2013)
I don't disagree. After all, without such deterrent, the very next day all the banks in the country would be held at gunpoint.

There are many, many people who feel just like he does and are already on the edge, after having been shit on by banks and bank employees for 2 years now. Bank employees humiliate people, as it became a kind of Stanford Experiment. There were even demonstrations outside in his support, during the hostage situation, the moment it hit the news!

And this is why this story is making the rounds.

Even from a legal perspective, the banks don't have the right to do what they're doing. But the government is enabling them to do so, while the parliament is "trying" to work on new laws to regulate this period of "capital control". But no one will come after the banks. The government(s) caused this situation in the first place by borrowing the money from the banks, so it's not like there is anyone on the side of the regular Joe in all of this.

People are on edge, and desperate. Poverty and humiliation, after long hard working lives, to see all of their life savings disappear.

This the kind of environment in which people stop believing that the rule of law is just or should continue.
[0] The Jordan Harbinger Show - Jordan has some amazing guests, is charismatic, and a pleasure to listen to (twice a week)

[1] No Such Thing as a Fish - Dan, James, Andrew and #GetAnnaOnTwitter deliver interesting facts with great humour (weekly)

[2] Techmeme Ride Home - Brian gives a great brief breakdown of tech news (daily)

[3] Software Engineering Daily - Mostly interesting deep dives, when it's not a promotional piece by a company. Better when Jeff hosts (insanely: daily)

[0]: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/
[1]: https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/
[2]: https://news.techmeme.com/180306/podcast
[3]: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com
It looks like a movie from here La Odisea de los Giles (Heroic Losers [1]) about normal people that was robbed by a bank (in 2001 all banks were not giving back the money to people) and plan to recover the money.

1. https://youtu.be/JLGouIpUrXg
Bank system collapses aren't equally likely everywhere. A useful risk assessment will take into account local conditions.
Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java, by Carlton Egremont III.

I don't know if Carlton Egremont III is a real person, but this book, at the time, tweaked all the noses.
2.5 Admins - with Jim Salter from Ars. It’s a great sys admin podcast

BSD Now - everything *BSD. Quality has declined quite a bit since Benedict joined, though.

Corecursive - some really great stories on software development. The recent one on debugging LISP in deep space is great.

Changelog - Sometimes decent interviews with founders and in-depth tech interview. Avoid JS Party though, it’s really daunting.

Cyber - stories on hacking and cyber security from Vice / Motherboard.

2600: Off the hook - legendary.
BBC In Our Time -- such a broad range of topics, highly recommend for a browse. ~45 minutes, usually a conversation with three or so experts in a given field, hard to get depth but excellent surveys of topics that you might not have encountered.

Fall of Civilizations -- 2-4 hour histories of various societies.

History of Napoleon -- I like to have a long-form on the go, this is my current one. Adds a lot of context to modern Europe. Previously History of Rome.
To be fair, Microsofts citizen status is self inflicted. There was a time when they were actively hostile to programming languages not built in house. See, for example, Java. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
> After, I run it under some water and scrape it with a spatula, then toss it on the burner for a few seconds to dry.

I still can't get over how you guys think this is in any way sanitary. Not to mention that if any soap touches it you have to re-do the oil burning thing to remake the nonstick layer thing which isn't exactly practical, not to mention the seasoning thing. They're also rather heavy in comparison, not sure what kind of shape you're in that you manage to flip pancakes in one hah.

It's definitely harder than chucking the thing into the dishwasher for it to be washed with zero effort and maintenance. Scratches are also an impossibility with silicone spatulas.