skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is religious conditioning. Not everyone believes sex between two consenting individuals needs to be so righteous. Women don't need to be protected from having sex for fun. Of course there are dark sides to the porn industry, but the concept in and of itself is not bad. Lots of people enjoy casual sex for fun, and there is nothing bad about that. Lots of people enjoy watching other people have sex, and there is nothing wrong with that either.

Re Rabbi ... Jews are not as sexually opressed or conservative as other world faiths, quite the opposite actually.
Or they go to Google images and type in “boobs”
Brave, the chromium fork that hijacks affiliate links? GTFO.

And you know, they could still use this feature on chromium browsers, just feature test it before breaking it on Firefox. Or use any of the many ways to achieve the same result, classList.includes is one. It's webdev 101, don't be impressed by their lazyness.

And an aside, MDN is maintained by users like Wikipedia, not by Mozilla. If you're missing something there you can just add it, even if Firefox will never support it.
I've often wondered if the american hatred of what we europeans love is born out of a real lived experience of vastly more gov. oppression than we have.

We have no HSAs, no three or four layer tax systems, no governments trying to legislate really bizarre religious issues, no paranoid militarised police, no busy-body suburban sprawl of interfering no-bodies.

Here, the prices in our stores are what we pay; our taxex are handled for us; the "invasion" of the government, eg., in healthcare, is to unburden us from concern.

it seems "society and government" in the US is preoccupied with burdening people, and "micro-oppressions" of bureaucracy and interference
I can tell you as a dad, it frightens me that the future is coming so fast I cant even see 1 year ahead.

I teach my daughter things from small circuits to assembler, c, python, sql but also basic prompt engineering, how next word predictors work, how surveillance works or how privacy is infringed, how do we pay for the "free" apps, or how to make an idea into something real, also things about how to type fast (at the moment she types with 80wpm) and how to not be afraid of computers and how to just play with them.

Of course, it might turn out that I have wasted her time, but we spend time together, and during this time I also teach her how to learn things.

Honestly I am not sure "what" you are teaching is that important, If I knew how to bake, I would teach her the deep mastery of baking with all my heart.

PS: you can check my teaching progress log here https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/...
I mean some of the opponents have been obtusely racist in their criticism. One example is imploring the tribes to use "traditional" indigenous building techniques. As if that is supposed to mean they should be building as if they were in the 19th century.
They'll just go to to one of the million other sites that don't enforce this at all. Which may actually be worse, since many of those sites are far less scrupulous about sharing data and spreading malware.
How transactions work when you end up querying different shards?
Why? Set the chart to max: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin-sv
Pornhub tries to keep their brand positioned inside the law and away from politics so that they can retain dominance of any legal market for online porn and serve porn consumers of all political stripes. They're relatively risk-averse, avoiding insult and heated political confrontation over stuff like this.

Even if there wasn't a sure enforcement method, they're not the company that would risk court drama to find out.
DNA is all you need? In the future generative AI will generate You!
Valuations are silly and comparing them apples-to-apples rarely makes that much sense. It's just some numbers on a paper, there's no real "value" there.
As a technologist the most interesting part to me is they bring up "Device based age verification" and I am very curious what the current state of that is. Some initial research shows that it is only at the exploratory stage (according to my 10 whole seconds of searching) but it definitely seems interesting.
IRL they always did and therefore discussed "apogee kicks" after payload release into elliptical transfer orbit(literally GTO). That's where I'm getting at.

If you think about it, there can't be an ellipse that intersects a circle while also being fully encompassed by the latter. That's to say the periapsis can't be higher than the maneuver altitude that the off-apsis burn takes place as the other guy is suggesting.

On real rockets they add small shelf-stable stage such as the spinny boi Star-48 or the notoriously narcoleptic Fregat, inside fairings between S2 payload interface to actual payload, or let the payload pull itself into the final orbit at a great expense.

Yes, you can keep the S2 burning all the way to Ap and then burn at -45deg at Ap to deform the ellipse back into a circle, or fly a by the book gravity turn trajectory, but that's not the most energy efficient insertion, only what are situationally beneficial when there is land below and acceleration is limited.
The ~~conservative~~ libertarian Cato institute recently ranked[0] Texas dead last for personal freedoms among all 50 US states.

0: https://www.freedominthe50states.org/personal
You are a contemporary yet timeless sort of gentleman. Well done.
It would be more convincing to rage against planning if the backdrop wasn't a situation clearly created by the complete absence of planning. Obviously there's a middle ground. This isn't it.
Surely, there are many different senses for the word "shortage", so, even if you are pragmatic, its a good idea to be pedantic as to which one you are using.

When I claim a free market has no shortages, I'm using "shortage" in the sense that demand does not exceed supply. "Demand" and "Supply" are also very carefully defined by economists. It's a theorem that under these definitions, in the condition of a free market, there are no shortages.

The market for programmers is certainly not a completely free market, but its close enough that if somebody says they can't find any programmers, it means they are not willing or able to pay market wages for programmers.
What tweaks gave you the most success?
Danish payment app MobilePay also just revealed the full name of all its users, linked to the government database.

You can enter any phone number and the full name of the user will be shown. Previously a user-selectable name, now it's coming from the government database of citizens.
another explanation - they did test it in other scenarios but the results were against their hopes so they 'accidentally' omitted such tests in the 'official' test suite. Very common tactic, you massage your data until you get what you want.
Nice! Thanks for sharing this.

We tried approaches like VimGPT before but found the rate of hallucinations to be a bit too high to be used in production. The sweet spot definitely seems to be to combine the magic of Dom parsing AND vision

We're going to definitely work on logic generation and execution, but we're taking it a bit more carefully. Many of the workflows we automate have changing workflow steps (ie I've never seen the exact same Geico flow twice), but this certainly isn't true for all workflows
At least that confusion is a "normal" one in terms of pop-literature talking about energy. Every "new" energy scam talks about the voltage gradient generated as if it is meaningful, with zero information about the state of the circuit generating that voltage.

I will never understand how insanely ignorant the average person is about electricity when every single electrical object in the US comes with label that concisely and accurately describes how much voltage and current it uses, and you get billed by the kWh, and the equation that pulls all this together is literally a simple multiplication, and I've struggled to put two transistors together in a circuit every single time I've tried to learn analog electronics!

It feels like watching that early internet video of the lady that couldn't figure out that if you are driving 60 mph, you drive one mile a minute. I want to be clear, I'm saying this as someone who struggles with doing basic dimensional analysis in high school physics. I cannot comprehend the willful and purposeful ignorance that most people seem to carry throughout their lives.

I don't think people do enough recreational math or unit conversions. My STEM trained friend recently expressed surprised at how much chicken "2 kg" is, and I just don't get it. 1 pound is close enough to 500 grams as to not care about the actual conversion! Same as 1 meter = 1 yard, and 1 qt damn near equals 1 liter. I know my brain is broken compared to most, but how do you live without figuring these things out?
As others have mentioned, moving to per tenant databases can really simplify things at scale and doesn't leave a massive amount of engineering complexity and debt in its wake.

I feel sorry for the team managing this 5 years from now.
Notes from the Underground Internets.
even a specious attempt to define generally what "object" and "put away" mean is still 100s of PhD theses away

Is this part still true? There are widely available APIs (and even running at home on consumer level hardware to some extent) that can pick an object out of an image, describe what it might be useful for and where it could go.
> I've often wondered if the american hatred of what we europeans love is born out of a real lived experience of vastly more gov. oppression than we have.

What is it that "Europeans" love that Americans "hate"?
Big banks easily pay 200-300k
The thing is you did find reddit via marketing, its just the marketing hit the people before it hit you, that guy that told you about it or the one that told him was the one that marketing got into reddit, which got them to a critical mass that word of mouth can take over.
Where does the bridge start and end? It's an embankment onto the bridge from a stroad. You're both right.
American issues are deeply rooted in christianity. Separation of church and state is unfortunately not really a thing here, despite it being inshrined in our constitution.
Basically this, it's been years now since Pornhub purged anonymous content (and by extension, pirated material), so anything that targets it is redundant.
You've effectively reinvented 9p here. Which is good!

There are some differences which may interest you: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man9/intro.html

I think you may find that some of the additional complexity of 9p is necessary, but perhaps not all of it.
They’re such a unique company, but they’ve always fail to recognize just how unique their situation is and how most people can only dream of being so lucky.

- First you have DHH who is one of the creators of Ruby on Rails. He has a large cult-like following

- You have relatively simple projects that are profitable from day 1

- They have a series of “self-help” style books for running a business that are popular. Rework was their most popular by far.

- And when you do take on money you get an extremely unique business arrangement. Bezos invested in them early on and only became a member in a LLC. All the VCs I know make you reform as a Corp.

The only other places even remotely close to that might be Vercel and Netlify. And I only say that because of their widely popular open source projects.

https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on...
> Since first nations metrics along the lines of economic status are still below the national average, it's clear we're not there just yet.

Instead of rushing for race-based policies, how about implementing policies that would help all disadvantaged people equally without looking at their race.

You can't compensate for past racism with modern racism. It will never end. Canada will learn that the hard way, it seems.
I'm more afraid that McDonald's is just going to increase the chemical engineering their "food," so that it is cheaper to produce, but far worse for us.
> “It’s a challenging consumer environment,” said Ian Borden, McDonald’s CFO, noting that many consumers are trying to manage inflation, higher interest rates and dwindling savings.

I don't work in the fast food industry, but I'd have to guess the extremely large price increases are responsible for creating a "challenging consumer environment". The challenge comes from nobody wanting to pay that much for the equivalent of things they can pull out of a garbage dumpster for free. Might as well buy food if you're going to pay prices like that.

My last visit to a McDonald's was quite a while ago. The McRib was back, so I thought I'd grab one. A meal was $11 or something like that. I left and ate lunch at home.
JWST would still have been an extremely novel and therefore expensive on Spaceship. We just don't build anything that uses that kind of sun shield or those sensors etc and everything needs to work on one shot, thus serious engineering effort.
That's crazy. We usually create robots and most of the time we charge less than a thousand USD.

We have a lot of tooling in place now so most things take minutes. The harder step is getting the data in the client's infrastructure
Yup, the model will still forget details sometimes. This is a common issue with prompt upsampling methods, but I'm hoping to improve this with the next version.
Need to look into connections between NordVPN and legislators methinks.
Governments, and "Freedom" as understood as governance
Time to milk those juicy VPN-codes that are thrown around like drops. I hope we will see some statistic in some week, about the Texas-centric growth, this could be really insightful, for ah...political reasons.
The shelves wouldn't be stocked because stores and factories magically appeared; they would be stocked because the price was so high that nobody could afford to hoard bread or toilet paper.
At the end of the day you need to pay someone to swing a hammer.

When the City of Vancouver built its own below market city owned apartment at Main and 7th they hired local developer Marcon to build it. Marcon also builds for-profit condos all across the region.

"Corporate money" being involved in the creation of housing is pretty unavoidable.
You assume that kids today know as much about technology than when you were their age. I can assure you - it's not the case. They might know what is VPN and how it works, but they do know how it install it from app store and avoid geo-restrictions.
This is absolutely the correct answer, all identity-based solutions are coarse and imprecise ways to solve a directly measurable problem (relative economic hardship). But the identity-based lever has proven too effective rhetorically and creates ample rent-seeking and self-enrichment opportunities to those wielding political power with an identity-based community. Plus, general means-based intervention is generally scary to the “wealthy” identity (cutting across all other identity divisions).
Can someone who understands Texas well help characterize the values and political behavior of it?

As an outsider, I only have incomplete impressions:

* Personal liberty is highly valued.

* Pro individual ownership of guns, as well as self-defense.

* Oil is a big part of the economy.

* Socially conservative overall, with exception of some enclaves of more liberal or progressive values.

* Large percentage of people identifying as Christian.

* Centralized editorial influence over school textbooks, for not just Texas but the nation.

* Aggressive anti-abortion push.

Apropos of this post, I'm interested in whether there are conventions over how conflicting values are reconciled (e.g., if anti-porn is driven by social conservative values, how does that override personal liberty values).
If your target audience is businesses, not individuals, then you can go a very long way with fully manual onboarding, invoicing, etc. It's different for things like consumer services or e.g. forum users, but why couldn't you manually vet every business your business trades with?
I found it useful. Allowed me to compare if I have similar idea to the author.
Microsoft singles out Google's competitive edge in generative AI
> If you ask a developer if they’ve ever written bad code, they will most likely say no. I’m guilty of this as well. I don’t remember ever writing bad code; ...

What an utterly nonsensical article. Not a single developer ever said that.
Using NoSQL might not be the best idea in this case. I've seen it backfire for many companies. They start with NoSQL, but then end up needing relational features as their business grows. This leads to performance issues, redundancy, and data sync problems early on, which shouldn't be happening.

Especially in the early days, NoSQL companies used to market their databases as general-purpose database that scale easily, but that hasn't always been the case obviously.

I usually recommend starting with a relational database like PostgreSQL. If scaling becomes necessary later on, you can invest in sharding the database. Figma's approach seems reasonable given the tools available at the time.

I've helped small companies switch from NoSQL to SQL because the benefits of NoSQL weren't worth the trade-offs at their stage of growth. In case, anyone is in a similar boat: https://mongotosqlmigration.com/
that's the point of sep' of church and state. it's to protect the church and keep it religious.

We have no sep' in the UK and our most sophisticated atheists are the appointed bishops of the church of Englandm (selected by, iirc, our prime minister)
I never refactor for the purpose of refactoring.

If I can do things better, and I usually can, it's because I have a more performant higher level algorithm or set of low level optimization strategies to apply.

I agree, Those API organizers are just creating future crap for others. However, objective benchmarks showing my changes yield 10 to 100 thousand times quicker execution than the old method mean the legacy code was crap...

Legacy being crap is not always the fault of devs. Back on Z80 and similar, before execution caches were expansive and expensive to invalidate, the short circuiting && and || bool operators made sense. Now that invalidating the CPU instruction cache with a jump is far more expensive than just running the ops these short circuits are trying to avoid, it is better to just use bitwise | or & instead of boolean || or && unless there are needed side-effects (really should make the conditional evaluations into proper branches [if statements] anyway, if only for clarity). Benchmark it and see. C is stuck doing LOTS of old and busted style logic, and coders imagine their compiler is doing a lot of magic voodoo under the hood that simply isn't happening. There's loads of compiler optimization hype.

Sometimes the hardware or platform just shifts underneath Good Code and turns it into Crap Code.
I see where my post above was unclear. For the theorem to apply to a 1+2n dimensional object, the vector field on the 2n dimensional surface of the object must be restricted to the surface - it must be tangent to the object everywhere.

The proton is fully 3-dimensional AFAICT so the vector field on the surface (if it has a surface, I'm not a physicist) can have non-tangent components, pointing inwards or outwards.
And generally far less scrupulous around content.
Biden to announce Intel chips grant in Arizona next week, sources say
"Foreseeable" is roughly "five years"? Starship HLS (Human Landing System) is currently planned to land on the Moon, with people, in 2026. It may very well slip a year, two or three - but landing on the Moon this decade still seems quite possible. Or you consider "passengers" different enough than "crew"?
For me, the killer feature is being able to keep up with my various non-SMS/MMS/RCS conversations (with prompt notifications) without having to install the Facebook app et al
the guy who runs this was an editor on the harvard law review with obama
Defund SLS
Create static site in Drupal with Tome
Yeah the irony of the focus on PornHub is that 1) they were never any worse than the other dozen major sites which still accept anonymous uploads, and 2) they're now one of the most squeaky-clean porn sites out there.
Yes turning complete wasn't the right term. , it would be better to say that it's surprisingly complex to parse
Maybe someone designed this castle in Figma.
I'm (drastically) oversimplifying, but there's a whole strategy here to starve the government and then point at it showing how ineffective it is.
Whole lot of commenters haven't read the article. Here's the first line:

"Pornhub and other affiliated adult websites have blocked access to users in Texas, amid a legal battle with the Lone Star State’s attorney general over an age-verification law."
ah, I understand. I've lived in both city and "walkable town with a core. I now live 2 miles outside of a New England mill city. The value of each place has been for what I can reach, not the place itself.
Resumes still filter out "bad" candidates. "Good" resumes just doesn't actually mean someone is good. Like I said, plenty of people with 20 years of experience who can't do something a junior developer can do easily.

I agree the system needs change but I don't have the answers for how to change it, hence why I said it's the million dollar question. Best we can do is try to make improvements.
The Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
Bomb sights aren’t used anymore. The weapons used by the B-52 are all gps guided and the computer on board simply gives a timer for the pilot to press the pickle button. The weapon then self guides to the target.
It sounded like they might have had flight data recorders on-board which might have survived through reentry with telemetry. If so, they'd have some logs, but yes, figuring out reentry will likely be the main challenge for now, not only is it hard to debug, even getting to it requires everything else to go more or less perfectly.
"Houston we have a problem" has a new meaning...
The Texas legislation is effectively a block - there's no way for PH to verify the age of users entering the site in the way the legislation demands, but they face fines and legal action for not doing so. Catch-22, the only solution is to turn off access.
Foreign what? bodies? cash? That cash is busy going everywhere else too.
[e] A lot of it is deeply rooted in American culture, the founding of the country, and a culture of individual independence/reliance on the self. In regard to this pornography thing, it's really not related to any of that; it's more of an evangelicals versus... I guess everyone who's less-than-evangelical thing, which largely splits along red versus blue party lines in the south.
There are orgs that specialize in detecting click fraud as a service.

They will offer research on what sites are the worst offenders in terms of click fraud. Reddit typically ranks at the top. Tik Tok is also very high.

Click fraud just means that someone deliberately clicked on an ad with no intention of engagement. This could be a bot network trying to fake engagement, a competitor trying to cost you money, or the advertising network might just be making up numbers altogether.

For instance, imagine you post an ad on google search. You enter keywords or phrases you want your ad to show up for. Every time someone searches your keywords, there is a chance your ad will be displayed to them. Among other things, Google will report to you how many users viewed your ad and how many clicked on it. Every time someone clicks on your ad, you'll be charged by google according to whatever you bid on the keyword. This cost-per-click (CPC) can be as high as $50 for a keyword like "insurance" or as low as $0.01 for a word that no one else is advertising against.

You can see how a bad actor could abuse this by spam clicking on ads.