skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the largest issues is jurisdictional issues. These internet sites are global, but most law enforcement have fairly restrained jurisdictions. A victim may go to their local police, but the local police then have to interact with agencies potentially all over the globe to actually build a case, make an arrest, etc. Which isn't to say they don't try, but it can be very difficult and take a very long time.

Even if you can track down someone's ex-boyfriend (likely to be more local) and charge them, once the video is out on the Internet, random people all over the globe can continue to share and distribute it. And large scale video platforms have little desire to put meaningful controls on uploading videos as it would negatively impact their ad revenue. Furthermore, these platforms can claim that they didn't upload it, a user did, so they shouldn't be held responsible.
That point is absurd. You can easily lose everything you invested.
You replied to my comment with the least charitable interpretation of what I wrote, which is against the guidelines. You also accused me of dishonesty.
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A) Facebook did not abuse their power in any way (at least in the case).

B) The notion that the resulting action 'brought down governments' is just beyond false.

Anyone involved in digital marketing knows how absurd these claims are, moreover, there are numerous other, legal, and very common practices being used all the time that are considerably more impactful.

To boot:

C) The suing government's actions are vindictive and biased. A commenter above posted a link to refer to the UK government's damage claims. As part of the countersuit, FB demanded that UK office (ICO) demonstrate it's objectivity in the situation (the judge agreed). So guess what happened? The government made a quick perusal of their own communications and realized they would be destroyed in scandal and moved for a quick resolution with a very small settlement.

FB has good and bad attributes we have to be smart about it, this kind of 'anti information angry mob' stuff should be beneath people.
Thanks for the reply.

If you ever have time, it'd be great to snag whatever code or data you had, to create a replicable test case for us to make a fix against. Sorry about the wasted time you experienced, I hate that.
I do own WPs, from a couple of years ago, for general use.

I walked into a WP store in the last couple of months and asked.. alas, I was told something different.
The article states that Pornhub did comply and take down the videos. Like most companies, they also reported these cases to the FBI or other appropriate agencies.

What, exactly, do you want them to do?
GF had the same experience.

She went online, bought a pair, they didn't fit well out of the box when they arrived. WB has a local shop in the city (we live in outlying suburb). Place was packed on a Saturday afternoon. I was thinking, "Oh man, this is going to take an hour."

We were out of there in 15 minutes. Her glasses were adjusted quickly and she was happy with the results. I was impressed with the quick service and the ability to buy online and they go to a local store and get them adjusted for free.
Purchasing options is usually terrible advice for anyone who hasn't been doing this for a long time. Options are very difficult to do right. Even if your intentions are sound relative to what is occurring in the market (e.g. volatility plays today), you can still get some aspect wrong and lose a bunch of money.

My strategy is to operate with a margin account and use high/low water marks as the trigger points for adjusting leverage. For example:

I prefer to maintain my margin utilization under 40% of my overall portfolio balance. I also prefer to maintain a value/growth allocation such that my margin is usually self-funded via dividends, but I don't mind eating a little bit of fee for the long-term opportunity.

If my margin utilization falls below 40%, I will use the leverage until its right back at 40% (mandatory minimum).

If my margin utilization is at or higher than 45%, I will stop use of additional leverage (mandatory maximum).

The sweet spot for me is 40-45%. This is effectively my "options" range for market downturn. Within this range, I have granted myself authority to purchase equities based on daily market conditions. The window is narrow, but this morning I purchased a bunch of equities on margin right up until the 45% mark was hit. I obviously went for the ones in scope that were hit the hardest today.

Tomorrow, I will re-run that ruleset and act accordingly. The advantages of using margin to acquire shares is that you have the actual shares and can hold them long term. Contracts mean you get to pay taxes right away and have nothing to show for it after everything clears.
Yes, the people who think that universal healthcare might be necessary to beat back this pandemic, as compared to the patchwork cruelty and parasitism of the current American system, are the ones who are naive.

The problem with rugged Capitalism in healthcare is eventually you run out of other people’s immune systems.
This is one area where bug bounty programs can really outperform an internal security function. There are others, generally, but this deep rabbit hole exploration is one of the best.
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>Part of the reason their numbers are so low is because they're testing, which is revealing the stacks upon stacks of asymptomatic cases or cases which lead to the sniffles.

I don't disagree, but my point is S.Korea is not just testing they are treating...if they were not treating presumably the mortality rates would increase. In other words whereas you suggest testing is proving the mortality rate is low, who many of those who tested positive received treatment? and further, got better because of treatment?

Testing is the key to treatment and minimizing mortality rates, other countries are failing on the testing, so it can be presumed they are also failing to treat (how can you treat when people aren't being tested).
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I'm quite interested in Kotlin and the Kotlin Multiplatform / Native project, I would like to try building a cross platfrom mobile app with it using Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI when it all matures a bit. I've also been watching the Rust hype train for the last two years and wondering when to jump on. I'd also like to finally finish SICP which I never get around to doing and finish a few side projects.
Tech doesn’t look too rosy if there is a problem with the entire hardware supply pipeline in China.
> The practice of referring to increases in the price of an instrument as "gains" but any decline as a "correction" is bizarre.

Its not any decline - it needs to be 10% or more:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/correction.asp
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GMS feature matching trumps SIFT (and all other feature matchers) in just about every category including performance.
Gibbons v Ogden (1824) — states may pass quarantine laws under the interstate commerce clause.
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Brushing up on some social skills. Been reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. I'd be curious if anyone on here has good recommendations for this area.

On the tech side I'm going to try to develop my python skills a little more. Expand my DevOps knowledge in my current professional stack which will mean Azure DevOps. Perhaps sprinkle in some LeetCode. I don't really want to grind it, but I would like to move someone warm like Florida, and it'll probably be a good idea to study a bit.
Not necessarily. Not everyone uses the same definition of war. The definition I was told in the military is that it's a political tool used when all other methods have failed. So if placing economic sanctions is a last resort, then economic warfare would make sense.
DMCA safe harbor. The same law that protects this very website, and others like it.

User content is a double edged sword. You want to allow the free exchange of ideas, but you also want to protect victims.

It's a fine line to walk.

That being said, PornHub could probably do more to police themselves, at the very least auto removing content that lists the names of people who have asked them to take content down.
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>The US almost certainly would

What happened with China?

I know FB isn't really operating in China. (At least no one I knew in Ningbo had it?) So did we sanction China for that or how did that all work? Because, and I don't know if we did or didn't, but if we didn't sanction China, why sanction Australia? Was that situation different somehow? (Other than just "China's richer").
No, if you care about advanced problem solving, you still want your solution to be readable and maintainable with as little fuss a possible.

The idea that concise formulas provide this (and that more modular solutions can't) appears to be a conceit.
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Pornhub should be required to prevent illegal content (specifically in this case child porn) from being hosted on the site at all. They should be held responsible for content they make available.

Presumably this would require human intervention to greenlight the video once all the necessary verification has been sought.

All platforms should be held to this standard frankly. I don't understand how we've gotten to the point where it is acceptable for anything less.
> we told the company that she was underage, that she didn’t consent to being on their website and still it took several weeks to remove it

Maybe remove the video when it's reported to be child porn, and not "several weeks" later.
> ... they have not felt the need to take the extremely aggressive step of suspending their citizens' civil liberties ...

If that's your definition of "fine", then when you wrote this:

> why are Germany and France fine despite having looser quarantine measures ...

were you actually saying:

"why are Germany and France having looser quarantine measures despite having looser quarantine measures?"

/shakes head
Counterpoint: My friends/family/co-workers are not trolls.

Twitter is optimized for fake identities, and for virally spreading the most sensationalistic content.
I think that your use case is not what multiple "accounts" would be designed for. Have you tried keeping multiple backups, one for Japan and one for USA? That seems like it would work, but be extraordinarily terrible!

As for multiple accounts, they exist on iOS. You just have to be managing the devices for education:

https://help.apple.com/deployment/education/#/cad7e2e0cf56

When I mentioned multiple accounts, I meant on AppleTV. AppleTV can switch accounts in "consumer mode" so each person gets their "personalized experience"

Honestly, it's a mess. But they can improve by working on it and paying attention to real-world situations.
So we're adding another middleman to the healthcare system? It seems like we should be working toward the exact opposite of this. I view any service like this that makes money from the healthcare industry but doesn't actually provide healthcare as a huge inefficiency that will further increase the price of healthcare. What's next? A startup that helps you choose between these middlemen companies?

This insanity has to stop. I want to be able to get healthcare and pay the people providing it directly and know my costs up front. It's as simple as that when it comes to healthcare. As for "insurance", I don't want to go bankrupt if I get cancer. These are two separate issues. Insurance should not be required for healthcare.
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> For example why Russia has so few cases, when they are sharing border with China?

The shared border of Russia and China is barely populated and thousands of miles from the epicenter of the pandemic in China.
I have been buying from ZenniOptical for years. I’m pretty nearsighted and use bifocals. As a test I purchased $1,500 specs from my local optometrist and $39 bifocals from Zenni. No difference except the Zenni frames lasted much longer. Also I’d swear the Zenni lenses were clearer, which makes no sense.
On the other hand, under the UCMJ generally subordinates that are forced into compliance with unlawful orders are not punished anywhere near as harshly as the superior officers that cause the situations.

Not that any institution gets it right or is spotlessly incorruptible, but the general direction of UCMJ actions is the good of the service, not just being punitive.
> To be fair, the Russians also occupied Afghanistan with very similar results

Exactly, but was that lesson learned? No.
> I don't disagree, but my point is S.Korea is not just testing they are treating...

There aren't really any treatments broadly available. They're holing people up in hospital beds and providing supportive care if needed. There's a few antiviral treatments in the pipeline.
It was really jarring to order a $25 pair of glasses from Zenni and have them be basically indistinguishable from my old $400 pair.
You can go to an optician and get lenses installed on a frame that you bought elsewhere (at least in Europe). Did that for a vintage frame bought on eBay and it was the best of both worlds.
Unless consumer spending goes up significantly (also possible, and also good for the economy), the actual funds will likely get rolled into other investments after paying taxes, though. That's what I did after inheriting my dad's IRA: I didn't need the money, so it came out as an RMD and then went straight back into a different investment account.

I guess it could also go toward the down payment of a house, inflating the housing market even more. If lots of old people die the stock of houses on the market should go way up though, somewhat blunting the impact of this.
That's funny. But I was only pointing out that this is akin to markets saying: this game only works as long as we can change the rules. This kind of statement is not conducive to trust. Unfortunately, the whole financial field needs trust to thrive.
I think more detail is needed to answer this... what sort of class is this for? An obvious choice would be to come up with an idea for leveraging bittorrent technology in new ways.
True, before it all fell apart. This sort of thing isn't unprecedented either [1]:

> In this downturn, however, the ground for the next economic explosion after 1500 was being laid. Wages rose and huge swathes of society had more money to spend on consumer goods, from beer to clothing to furniture. With fewer people to feed, the largely agricultural economy could focus more on livestock or specialty cash crops like hops or sugarcane instead of grain. Diets improved and, plague aside, so did health. More and more people were drawn into the market economy and trade networks grew wider and deeper.

[1]: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/after-the-black-death-euro...
I don’t think spring mattresses aren’t as overpriced as you might expect. You can look at the pure cost of springs, foam, fabric/covering, etc... It turns out that buying these things individually, for a minimal queen size mattress made of springs (~1000, pocket coiled) with a foam top (2” latex or synthetic), foam support on the bottom, and not too much edge support (other than tighter springs on the edge) will start to approach $750 or so. Ikea makes cheaper beds but they skimp on the coils and use the cheapest possible foams, but that’s often okay too.

Add $100 for labor and you arrive at a mattress that that is about $900. That’s about the floor for a mattress most people would be happy with.

The 100% foam mattresses are much cheaper (less labor, cheaper materials) and many people are happy with those, but not all.
This is nice for remote companies. We went to the pain of trying to get a good price Kaiser group plan but found out that Kaiser doesn't operate in other states that we have employees in.
He was the gas station attendant, if I remember right. A small role, but played excellently.
> This K text editor is way less than one screen

Where's the handling of encoding when loading and saving? Where's the handling of different line-endings? Where's the error handling?

Would have been nice to see something approaching real-life code rather than these toy samples.
I tried WP. They had some nice styles and were close to what I was looking for, but none of them quite fit my face. I wanted a pair that was just a tad wider than what they offered but it seemed like they're 'one size fits most'(yes, they have a couple sizes, but not enough). I ended up settling for a Costco pair.

Costco is touch and go though. I've had problems with their coatings in the past(AR crazing, AR watermarks). I also had to give up on their prescription polarized after a couple pairs in a row had bad stress marks. I'll probably have to pay full price to get a pair of Rx polarized sunglasses that are free of defects.
Don't mean to hijack the thread hope the following is helpful once some replies roll in. I've been wondering about meetings + tooling + project management styles, etc too.

Here's a rough survey, should be able to see result graphs afterward submission:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUkV2P1VxAnRSD88eU...

Raw data results link for community to look at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x59q4CbEGOeYirskJ7Ac...

===

Main Q: ~16 hrs/week (had about 10 1:1's/week for a while)

Bonus Q: 2hrs
Should Hacker News be responsible for stopping you and everyone else from posting possibly illegal material?

The same law that protects HN protects PornHub.
This exactly. Another important point, those who are most likely to succumb to an infection are also those who put the largest strain on public healthcare systems. Please note, I want our older relatives to remain alive and healthy for as long as their quality of life is good. We all benefit, and we all get to enjoy each other. But at the same time, the rhetoric from alarmists is getting non-sensical given the reality.
It’s going to be real interesting if YC’s HN becomes the destination of disgruntled former employees of startups that get their VC-inflated bubbles burst in the upcoming recession
VC's "skin in the game" is interesting.

EG the $21,000,000 they just "gave away" will need to be paid back to investors before Sequoia partners see any of their carry / performance fee.

On a $100,000,000 fund the VCs have a performance fee of something like 20% of the profits on every $1.00 over $100,000,000 they send back to investors.

Yes this is house money, but it's still real skin in the game for the partners who just evaporated at least $4 - 5m in potential fees on other investments to maintain the integrity of their brand.
Is it actually a criminal offense in the US to distribute “rape porn” or “revenge porn”? I seem to remember it’s only a civil matter.

That makes all the difference here, because Section 230 is specifically limited to have no impact on federal criminal law.

That would also explain why child pornography is extremely rare on these sites.
Once they've removed a video they could add a hash of it to filters, making the reupload a bit harder.
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The us has allies with which it shares technology and weapons. Why should it not have diversity in sourcing?
I wonder how this will affect podcasting. I don't do Instagram but I do know some of the products in this article from supporting podcasts I listen to. I've even gone out of my way to buy some of their products. (Harry's makes fine razors that last too long for the company's own good.)

I've been shifting money to Patreon campaigns, but I don't know well that will work for them.
The health plan rates available to individuals cost quite a bit more than ones negotiated by a big company or consortium of smaller companies.

When I last had to do my own insurance, it was $2200/month for a high end, lowish deductible plan that covered my family. Choice is nice, but the costs are so high now that I'd rather have the lower negotiated rates with less choices.
By trying to find a job in tech again so I can start saving up an emergency fund. Otherwise I'll have to move to a lower COL region.
Absolutely, but I haven't heard anything about them being significantly more conservative than other countries in that regard.

I'm not saying the CFR will go up in South Korea. I'm saying it's still early days to make the claim that it will definitely stay at 0.7%. When we get from 97% of cases being unresolved to something like 85% of cases being unresolved, and the CFR is holding steading, I'll be much more ready to spike the football and celebrate the intervention.

None of which is to say we shouldn't be copying the South Korean playbook closely. They've done a damn-near miraculous job of keeping the number of cases from exploding, and the preliminary CFR does look good. Even if it goes up, it still seems likely that they will have a lower CFR that many other places with a sizable outbreak.

Their response is the bright-spot so far, and we should absolutely be copying their playbook. I'm just saying, it's a little early to tell whether their playbooks is excellent or just really good.
In most of the world people have no problem with holding the site responsible for hosting images of child sexual abuse, even if those images were posted by users.
HN has competent moderators that do a reasonable job removing illegal or harmful content. (Hi dang <3)

Section 230 protects bad actors, not good ones. Platforms that invoke Section 230 as a defensive measure are generally either refusing to moderate, or entrusting moderation entirely to algorithms, claiming they're "too big" to moderate their content.
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> I don't know what you mean by "Firefox doesn't enforce [CT]".

They mean Firefox, unlike Chrome and Safari, doesn't require proof of inclusion in a CT log for recently issued TLS certificates to be considered valid.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Certif....
That sounds like it involves the legislature passing a law, not an executive decision.
> anyone on here has good recommendations for this area

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Why is this an improvement? Has there been a rash of stolen certificates or domain name ownership changes? Is having a third party with a cert for a domain you're using for 12 months acceptable in a way that 2 years isn't?

It would be nicer if certs could be issued with long lives but required a stapled revalidation with a short time span (daily? weekly?), which would be automatically issued at any time requested unless the certificate was revoked.
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Blazars are just quasars with the jets pointed towards us. Quasars are basically galaxies with active super massive black hole in its centre. Luckily for us, our galaxy has a quiet black hole (quiet meaning it's not feeding like crazy). This picture might help https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March04/Torres/Figures/f...

BL Lac in the picture is a blazar. So same object is classed differently depending on is orientation with respect to us.
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Except that in practice nobody says that. I've worked with both large financial institutions and tiny hedge funds going back nearly 30 years, traders are cognitive bias on legs. There's a reason Wall Street has a statue of a giant bull but not of a bear.
Sure, while humans are critical to maintaining the infrastructure of the various markets, but we are beyond the days where markets were tracked on a chalk board. The NASDAQ is very much running on servers from an undisclosed data center off route 95 in New Jersey.