skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Porn is a product designed to draw in consumers, and with social media the business is either targeting marketing to the pool of consumers, or getting the consumers to sign up for some kind of paid monthly plan. Generally speaking, everyone agrees that there should be some kind of regulation of products for various reasons. With porn, the main issue is that the only performers should be consenting adults. The fact that some buyers of social media ad services don't want to be affiliated with porn content is a market issue, not a regulatory issue.

Note also this is hardly the only controversial class of content. Consider two others: the manufacture of weapons and explosives, and the manufacture of drugs. These also break down on the legal/illegal boundary.

For example, with weapons, what's allowed? YT is full of videos on how to reload gun ammunition, for example, but when it comes to home synthesis of gunpowder needed to reload those cartidges, using the well-known historical recipe (charcoal, saltpetre, sulfur), it seems those are all taken down under 'YT community guidelines'. Curiously, automatic weapons or machine guns (including disassembly and repair) are also all over YT, even though owning such weapons without a license is about as illegal as home synthesis of explosives is.

Another example: drug chemistry. Aspirin is common household medication and is synthesized by the reaction of salicylic acid (from willow bark) with acetic anhydride (basically, dehydrated vinegar). There are no shortage of detailed walk-through videos on how to do this reaction on YT. However, if we simply replace the willow bark extract with opium extract (i.e. morphine), we are now making heroin, diacetylated morphine. No such hands-on walk-through videos seem to exist on YT, or for say, the conversion of coca leaves to cocaine sulfate paste to cocaine hydrochloride or freebase cocaine (i.e. crack). There are of course, no such restrictions on videos about the fermentation of agricultural products and the distillation of the result into strong liquors (does YT block this in Muslim countries?). Growing cannabis is currently a kind of grey area.

It seems that social media companies want their user-uploaded content to be in line with the regulatory norms of their viewer's host government (and perhaps more fuzzy concepts like local social norms), but those norms, globally speaking, are all over the map.
Well if it was only 100 lines of plain JS then how would one guard against reflection attacks? I.e. submitting HTML (like script tags) then getting that to render when others view the tainted data.
Tiresome? You don't think the WEF goal of "I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better"[0] needs more awareness?

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...
> In the case of porn this is not much of an issue,

It is.

> but the fact that these companies have that kind if power I find really scary.

And you just said why it is :)

Infrastructure providers (Visa, MC, Google, Apple, $RANDOM_ISP) shouldn't be allowed a say on what they're used for.
Mental health is terrible in east asia (at least in Korea), where mental health issues are highly stigmatized, mental healthcare is not covered under insurance (it's all in your head), familial and cultural narcissism is rife, the suicide rates are staggeringly high (especially among children and the elderly), and highly disordered behaviour (drug abuse, eating disorders) are considered as part of the culture, so I'm not sure these are good examples?
I worked for a Usenet provider for a number of years designing and writing the software that powered their Usenet feeding infrastructure. The Usenet feed is basically a giant stream of articles, and we used queuing theory to scale out the systems that read it in, process it, and distribute it to readers.

My experience with the formula's is a little different from yours. People thought what I showed them couldn't be true. "If the feed is X articles/second and system's P95 is Y, the backlog will continue to grow," would often be met with, "That can't be true ..."
> Things are moving very quickly in PV.

Hope is not a plan.

As Germany is going to find out this winter.
There are a lot of other NSFW topics, like gore, bondage, gambling, organization of union activity or illegal protests, etc. Apple only specifically bans porn though, because of American puritan morals, I guess.
Yup, plenty of large electric commercial vehicles on the road already, mainly in Norway I'd bet.
I’m all for accountability, but I feel very uncomfortable with the idea that hundreds or maybe thousands of randos on the internet can ruin someone’s career, even if that person has done something wrong. The legal system should be the solution here but it is broken. Ideally we’d spend our energy fixing it but… easier said than done. So I guess there are no good solutions :( Please tell me I’m wrong
Government software contracts are never meant to succeed. They are meant to burn as much cash as possible. Everyone I know who has worked in Arlington has the same story. Huge headcounts. Billable hours. Literal coked out VPs on yachts.
> But this is basically due to Elons reckless tweeting. It’s quite different to faking the creation of an electric car like Trevor Milton.

Securities fraud is fraud.

What you said doesn't refute anything on both of them committing securities fraud, which still makes them both fraudsters. Elon Musk didn't file his intentions with the SEC about what he said and he knew it was a lie to investors.

> Elon may be guilty of being an idiot and not thinking before he tweets, but he pushed forward electric cars and rocketry more than any other person currently living I would say.

The is no amount of apologism to realize that he is a fraudster; that is even before mentioning the FSD Level 5 robo-taxi false promises.
What's banned is marking a data page as executable (which happens to be required if you want to build a competitive javascript engine).

The practical upshot of this is that nobody has bothered porting a browser engine to iOS, since it's javascript performance would be unacceptably slow.
Summary:

Electricity is used to heat up bricks. Bricks store heat for very long durations. Bricks transfer heat to other systems for industrial heating such as boiling chemicals or steam ironing clothes.

This replaces the fossil fuels used for industrial heat.
Have you ever scrolled through Stack Overflow's new-question queue? It's quite easy to separate not just beginners from advanced users but also beginners who have done their research from beginners who have put less effort into their question than you put into reading it.

Maybe it seems rude or condescending to address a poorly formed question, but I'm not sure what else you can do since you have to realize that low effort questions also have a cost.

For example, have you ever tried helping someone where you have to ask a 20 questions just to glean enough info just to help them? You can see this on SO all the time.
Your premise is not true. Gaming at high resolutions with high frame rates and full settings required powerful GPUs. VR especially demands high frame frame rates to remain immersive while also rendering the scene twice (each eye has a different perspective).

We actually have a long way to go before GPUs can really support fully immersive VR. The new 4090 is just barely enough to handle some racing sims like ACC in VR at high resolution and settings.

Even 3000 series cards couldn’t deliver playable frame rates at 4K with all of the graphical eye candy turned on (RayTracing, etc.) in games like Cyberpunk 2077. As with all games, you can simply play with lower settings and lower resolutions, but the full experience at 4K really does require something like a 4080 or 4090.

And of course, next generation games are being built to take full advantage of this new hardware. It doesn’t make any sense to suggest that GPU vendors should just stop making new progress and expect games to stay at current levels of advancement.
I wouldn't say he settle what I consider "securities fraud" even if that's the technical label, just like I wouldn't say someone that got a speeding ticket violated "federal interstate travel statues" by speeding on I5.
I'm not quite sure I believe anything the Chinese government says.

China hasn't stopped building nukes, you'll notice.

Edit:

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...
Oh come on, it’s just collision avoidance, you don’t need general AI for that
And that point is when you can’t find someone to host it for you.

Though, I’d be sorely tempted to spin up a bfc of clickhouse on bare metal.
So the new bridge is a sign of decline and the under-built bridge that was poorly maintained was a sign of better times?
In particular anti-semitism is usually associated with the right, but it has a pretty long tradition on the left as well. The 60s in the communist block were a good display of that, but also the 40s in France (Tony Judt wrote a couple books about that, e.g. the French Communist Party, as depicted in The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century).
I think card companies and the related businesses have too much power. I am a board member of a BDSM club operated by a volunteer organization (we are legally a non-profit). We want to implement card payment on our website for membership and event tickets, but when applying for the service that would be the best option in our country, their payment processor rejects the application citing that they don't allow things like strip clubs, sexually oriented massage parlors, escort agencies or "any sexually-related clubs or services". I get that a BDSM club would easily get caught by this wording, but it's a social arena where our members can hook up and play, and we don't sell any sexual services.

Adding insult to injury, the company behind the service loudly markets that they support Pride every year. The payment processor has pictures on their Facebook of employees attending the Pride parade... We're not a commercial entity, our activities are legal and we also march under the same (rainbow) flag.

Oh, and there is no reasonable appeals process. We initially applied for a different product a while back and got rejected since they had run our web page through Google Translate and determined that we were involved with "public group sex". Asking the service to get is in touch with the payment processor to clear up the misunderstanding was not possible, they just said there was no way to appeal and our best bet would be to contact them ourselves through their website.

/rant.
That sounds like a really bad solution, actually.

Building a reliable DBMS with any kind of decent performance can easily take years. And by then, it's still not sure that you're doing any better than any of the existing solutions.
>The National Review was a loud mouthpiece for the politicians promoting the war on terror, including the use of enhanced-interrogation-teqniues-don’t-call-it-torture. A piece of that national shame is all theirs.

Do you have a citation for this?

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Supposing a journalist submits an article to the editor-in-chief, and the article expresses disagreement with a position that the publication took in the past. If the editor-in-chief says "no you can't say that, we need to present a consistent perspective for our readers", I'm less interested in reading their publication. This appears to be a case of the editor of the National Review passing that test.

>I guess it’s nice they don’t seem to support it anymore, but it looks more like a shift of convenience to me — the better to stroke the current conservative narrative to redefine “free speech” so as to cast speech they dislike as “cancellation”, that it can be repressed while still claiming to own the moral high-ground.

I wasn't able to parse this sentence.
This has also always been a chicken/egg scenario: even if you accept the premise that current graphics cards are adequate for current games (which many here do not), the next round of games will target more powerful graphics cards when they area available.

If you build it, they will come.
A few years ago I start a dashboard project that was mostly raw SQL.

I then saw the team wanting to convert it to ActiveRecord, which they started. But lots of queries had to use AREL (Rails' "low level SQL AST abstraction"), since they weren't really possible or just too difficult to do in ActiveRecord.

But AREL is so incredibly unreadable that every single AREL query often had its equivalent in plain SQL above it, as documentation, so new people could understand what the hell it was doing.

In the end some junior was unhappy with the inconsistent documentation and petitioned that every query, simple or complex, AREL or ActiveRecord, had to be documented using SQL above the AREL/AR code.

Then they discovered that documenting using Heredocs rather than "language comments" enabled SQL syntax highlighting in their editors.

After that we had both: heredocs with the cute SQL and some unreadable AREL+AR monstrosity right below it.

I still laugh about this situation when I remember it.
> I don't see the meaningful distinction between NSFW content and porn.

Abstract: Pornography is reasonably well-understood by honest adults. "NSFW" is a bullshit term that's expanded based on how criticism-averse the host is, and how effectively the assholes can come out to shit on minorities.

Queer content is often marked "NSFW" simply for being queer, even if it isn't pornographic as a rational adult would understand the term.^1 Saying "NSFW" or "inappropriate" content is being removed is a typical content-free claim from companies that don't know, and don't care, how much queer content will be removed and how much will never be created due to the chilling effect.

^1 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444820904362

Of course, add to this the usual tactic of people insisting that the very existence of queer people is "inappropriate" or "NSFW" and the host is opening itself up to a shitstorm it is likely to resolve by increasing its content controls and doing further damage to queer expression on the platform.
After 5 months of being embedded in a team, firing someone who management doesn't like but who is popular with other employees will cause major morale issues even if they are still technically in probation.
He is not a total hack like Milton but the promises for years that FSD is right around the corner are borderline fraudulent.

Reckless tweeting or not, the SEC considers it fraud, at least legally he is a fraudster.

Trevor Milton is definitely much more in the Elizabeth Holmes' school of fraud though.
Deprecated == disapproved-of.

Depreciated == reduced in value.
My experience is stale by now. I'd really like to try recent versions of Idris, though.
> The really hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect.

Subjective experience is just the system I described happening extremely fast. What I describe seems simple and doesn’t explain experience, but when you acknowledge the scale of our computation, what emerges is the self.

Continuity, recursive loop between inputs, cortex responding to those inputs, and being fed through our prefrontal cortical decision making models. Then that feeds back into the system again with even more inputs in the next stack frame. It’s happening millions of times, causing bursts of brain activity. All at the same time our brains are also being molded by all this brain activity. Changing constantly.

It is absolute chaos.

It’s this recursive reduce function that gives rise to what we describe as the self and subjective experience.

We as humans are hopelessly biased here, we put consciousness on a pedestal, but I don’t think there’s a hard problem.
Not joking: I'd do it right now. I find high bandwidth internet detrimental to my health.
Details: bricks can be heated up to 3000 deg (Celsius?). The heat that comes out is only 120 deg Celsius.

It's a heat storage system. Before water is used. Now we can use bricks.
A person overestimates what he/she can do in a day and underestimates what he/she can do in a year. I read that somewhere and I often think of that. Seems also applicable to a bigger scale.
There are clearly different levels of fraud. Completely faking a working car is obviously worse than tweets that break SEC rules.

The self-driving thing is worse than the tweets I would say, but nobody seems to care about it for some reason. Surely a class action lawsuit is due?
Agreed, my 3080ti struggles to sustain 144fps for my 144hz 4K monitor even in a game like Apex Legends with all settings at low. We definitely need more GPU evolution still!
I am the original owner.

There was tar put around all parts of the cement walls underground. Then gravel and sand, then dirt.

Drainage was put around the base outside the wall, and underneath the floor. It ran out the front of the hill, 10 yards from the house. It's never significantly flowed.

There's a 4" structural foam (the blue stuff) pad under the poured cement floor, nominally to insulate the floor but some moisture protection too I imagine.

Under that, sand then gravel, a couple feet worth total.

That's what I remember.
You don’t need AGI to do edge detection it’s purely a vision problem
Came here to mention OpenBB (free/open source) as well.
They create plausible deniability for higher ups.
It always has been and always will be the people in power who do the canceling. And they've been canceling people for various reasons before Twitter even existed.

You can go back to the McCarthy era, where people were blacklisted for allegedly being Communist sympathizers.

A "Twitter mob" has no power to fire someone, cancel contracts, or do anything other than tweet. If the people who are in power cave to pressure from a bunch random people on Twitter, that's on the powerful, not on the otherwise powerless tweeters.

Cowardly people in power would rather throw their colleagues under the bus than experience any bad PR whatsoever. Is that the fault of Twitter? No. Would that problem be solved by shutting down Twitter? No.

> It’s very difficult people to fight alone, or take risks alone, but having the backing of an organization or legal fund can make a big difference.

But they could easily fight it if they had the backing of their own employer, for example, who would be the very organization that's officially doing the "canceling".
It's a problem because if you are a vendor creating shrink-wrapped software you will have a hard time ensuring that your software supports all plausible extension combinations. Thus you will not bother just like most gaming companies does not bother porting their software to GNU/Linux. Sun basically did the same thing in the early 2000's with all their Java editions and profiles. It didn't work out well.
And people in general probably seriously underestimate the cost of production vs. reproduction. I'm pretty sure the average person thinks the costs associated with a physical book are a lot higher than an ebook and they really aren't--at least for a book involving editors, etc.
It's tough to fight against cancelling for the same reason it's tough to fight against bullies: you risk getting targeted yourself. If somebody calls X a racist, and you defend them, hey presto, you're now clearly a racist yourself.
Most new games will not achieve max resolution + refresh rate of modern screens so there is quite a long way to go to catch up to peak monitor quality.

Also game developers are making games on the basis of the average configuration, not the other way around.
Google harder :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit)
I had a play and created a file and logged in and out and the file persisted as did my ability to look at the /onion directory via Tor after the ssh session was stopped.
ls /usr/games/

To EXIT, press CTRL-E and type 'quit'

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxIPcbmo1_U
> Nuclear avoids these issues. It's a non-intermittent source with the greatest capacity factor of any generation system.

A nuclear plant is pumping out electricity 24x7, but the problem is, no electricity consumer needs that kind of supply, certanly not at the prices nuclear needs to charge. When the wind is blowing and/or the sun is shining, every single electricity consumer would prefer to pick a cheaper, renewable, option.

The only way nuclear can even pretend to make the math work out is by going on and on about "baseload" and hoping that they can lock in buyers over several decades rather than having to actually look the spot price in the face.
There are various bacteria that stay within our gut and help us process fibre that comes from mud and nature generally, we have a symbiotic relationship with at least thousands of bacteria.

The more interesting and potentially very medically relevant presence in mud is Phages, viruses for Bacteria. There are various bacteria our body can not clear and that are also antibiotic resistant and a treatment for them would be immensely beneficial. Yet nature has a phage for all of them, millions of different ones and they are very effective if you can find the right one.
> This is just a dumb idea though.

True, but that's how "inspiration" works in humans as well: generate stupid ideas until you stumble upon a great one.

That's why I said we only need verification. It's the artist-critic model, we got the artist we need the critic. Sometimes it's easy (in games, code, math) and other times we don't have a good way to verify.
The biggest issue with KF’s archive is how easily a motivated person was able to get it pulled especially at a time where the only option left was to take everyone’s word that the content said what it said.

Profit is the only principle that applies anymore. If it's more profitable to appear to be dedicated to free speech and the law, that's what companies will do. If it's more profitable to appeal to the angry mobs, that's what they'll do instead.
It is probably not as known to as you think. Lots of parents out there would put their kids in sterile rooms if they were able to. Idea of their kids playing in mud would faint a couple parents out there. Most uses antibiotics on their kids with slightest fever
That makes it a great airport hub, but it doesn't have the infrastructure to host, feed, transport, place in a stadium the hundreds of thousands of fans that want to watch a World Cup.
One of my grandmas was in the Army during WWII. She served overseas.

My other grandma was a medical technician of some form in the Wehrmacht in Austria.

Maybe one day we'll end the fiction that old people don't know about pornography.
True, but I would say pre-selling FSD for years in the full knowledge that they wouldn't be able to deliver is is fraud.
It decreases the necessity of other types of batteries for this application, which is a substantial amount of energy consumed in the world.

Better to have some hot bricks being used for heating i the industries, even with lower efficiency, than having to supply the same thermal energy by storing it as electricity in some chemical battery.

Multipronged approaches are the only way for humans to become more energy-efficient.
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The way I'm using the word "censorship", it applies even if done by a private entity. For example, if B&N removed a top selling book from their shelves due to a pressure campaign from people who disliked the book, I'd say B&N was censoring the book.

I don't advocate using government force to compel film festivals to show particular films.
The knowledge gained is forever. Once we learn something in science and engineering…
In a broader economic context, they take profitable but unpredictable companies and make them boring. Google is the more recent example. Apple (pre-return of Job) is another. Here's a good article: https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/apple-googlemckinsey-how-a...
Let's just all keep on pressing that "don't have an ADblocker? Report an issue" link on the bottom of the first screenshot