skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you notice that article is in the opinion section? That implies it's a work of fiction. No fact checking needed.
DNT was also intended to be an explicit opt out. However Internet Explorer enabled by default for three years, giving the industry an excuse to question its validity and ignore it. Privacy centric Microsoft or intentional sabotage?
If they had been diligently trying to remove them from the website, I don’t see anything wrong with it.
Pornhub monetizing user uploaded content is what caused these issues. A Porn company that employs only legal workers avoids, or at least minimizes, this issue. I think the fundamental problem here is people's demand for free pornography.
yeah Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, the Chinese megacities - crime is not "rampant" in any
This is getting silly at this point.
No, that's not the same at all. MasterCard could report PornHub to the police and still keep them as a customer. The police (well, FBI, probably) could decide what to do from there. They might investigate and find that PH isn't violating any laws. Or maybe they are, and get fined or some of their employees prosecuted. Either way, "this company is doing crimes" should have nothing to do with whether or not they can be MasterCard's customer.

(Ignoring, for a second, KYC-type laws that can make MC criminally liable for not policing their own platform... laws I think are mostly garbage.)

Your analogy doesn't fit, because the current scenario (MC kicking PH off their platform) would be like if a daycare discovered criminal activity involving one of the kids they watch and then refused to watch the kid anymore. (Which would be a bad thing that might make the kid less safe!)
>> Most financial institutions are not willing to bear the expense of legal defense for questionable clientele.

Which is why banks won't do businesses with legal cannabis dispensaries since on a federal level, its still illegal.

Legalizing cannabis at the federal level would give a large number of dispensaries some relief from this federal oversight of the banking laws.
Ah yes, the American way.
facebook is a 4th generation warfare munition.
FB is cultivating a body of heuristics for the manipulation of reaction prone individuals, and astroturfing to entrench ideals and predictable reactions to shocks or stressors.
simply put doxing and gaslighting to create an advantage that is beyond antitrust, and in the realm of world threatening.

for your convienience:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince
It's fatigue. That's what you're reading from comments like mine and the one you dismissed and judged so easily without informing yourself.

I've been "tracking this issue" and "digging into the details of it" because I'm a pornhub performer who has had payment issues since earlier this year when this campaign kicked off out of nowhere. My partner and I went through Pornhub's verification process (for which we uploaded current government issued IDs and signed forms, and were initially rejected and had to appeal). My partner and I have millions of video views in the last year, and yet despite the fun and monetary benefit of it all, I happen to view myself as a good person who is conscious of how my actions can impact others negatively, often unwittingly. So I've naturally wondered whether I should ethically be involved with Pornhub at all.

So apologies for my snark, but this campaign is not rational, and me and others like me are fatigued at those jumping to all sorts of non-sequitur conclusions based on fearmongering which is in turn based on shoddy (and at times obviously manipulated) statistics. Even IF pornhub had a verification issue (which will never be perfect), it is not AT ALL clear who has responsibility in this new age of information sharing, how morality should be controlled (god I hope it's obvious it shouldn't be controlled by finance execs), etc. Who is financing the campaign against Pornhub?

Dig into this campaign and it's obvious it's not motivated by sound understanding and reason and has its roots in religiously affiliated action groups.
Paying for porn is a good thing. Platforms where money goes directly to content creators are the best way of going about that. But even PH is pretty good at paying artists who use their platform.

What PH is really bad at is content moderation. Should they improve that? Absolutely. Is this grounds for legal action? Maybe it is. Is this a good reason to boycott them as an individual? Go for it! But is this a reason for a payment processor to get involved? I think it's not. But you're free to disagree.

As for "soul-sucking debasedness", please stop imposing your sense of morality onto others. Yes, there are some people who are forced into porn for various reasons, and we as a society should try to prevent that -- just like we should try to prevent all kinds of abuses. But there are many people who enjoy working as porn stars. Don't judge them.
Another example of how Google just doesn't make exciting technology anymore.
We need to improve the welfare of life science trainees
Two thinks:

1. Yes, pornhub has frequently unlaful content. Under german law it literally contains child pornography (hentai containing children) to just name one example.

2. I'm supper annoyed how payment providers discriminate (and by law often have to discriminate) against pornographic content platforms. IMHO this will just push/benefit platforms which operate on a less legal basis and in turn have much less motivation to hinder problematic content (like child pornography, revenge porn uploads, etc.)
Instead of Rewriting Foreign Code for ML Automatically Synthesize Fast Gradients [pdf]
As an ex-Googler working in a customer facing role in Cloud you did very well to get a $72k bill written off! It's definitely possible but requires a lot of approvals and pulling in a few favours. I went through the process to write off a ~$50k bill for one of my customers and it required action every day for 3 months of my life.

Whoever helped you inside Google will have gone to a LOT of trouble, opened a bunch of tickets and attended many, many meetings to make this happen.
Great. I'm not claiming that existing RSS aggregators are broken, but this method is certainly better for me personally. Findka's meant to make things a little more automatic for those who want to spend very little time on managing their sources. The bandit algorithm makes it so you don't need to explicitly mark which sources you've decided are interesting. And the main, non-RSS part of Findka (article recommendations via collaborative filtering) helps expose you to new articles and sources.

This new feature is probably most useful for people who aren't already using RSS regularly.
You felt safe because of their immigration policies. Not letting culturally incompatible people in results in extremely low crime rates.
It's a legitimate question highlighting the absurdity of defining a monopoly by revenue.
There are mRNA cancer vaccines in clinical trial. I'd say the future is looking pretty awesome.
I guess that explains why I keep getting hooked by it.
No, what you've stated is false: your last sentence lacks any logical thought. You need to check your racism.
It also depends on personal experience.

Before we had kids, I told my wife about my dream to save a lot of money and retire early. She told me she couldn't respect a man who doesn't have a job. "Even if he already made so much money that he can take care of himself and his family for the rest of his life without having to work another day?" She admitted that it was probably an irrational preference, but this was simply how she feels. The ideal man enjoys working full-time, no matter what. Even a desire to work part-time is a turnoff.

A few years later, having small kids, I asked her again whether she would respect me less if I took a part-time job and spent more time taking care of the kids and household. Now she said that as long as we would still have enough money, it would be great.

(It remains only hypothetical, because I don't know any employer offering part-time jobs with hourly salary similar to what I make now. And I don't want to work 1/2 time for 1/4 money; I'd rather save some money now, and maybe later take a sabatical between two jobs.)

I am not sure the society is a sufficient explanation here. We disrespect the unemployed, that's true, but we respect rich people without asking how much they work. I don't think that a rich entrepreneur or politician would be turned down by women after admitting that he actually works 15 hours a week.

Maybe it is a function of age and experience. When you are young and childless, your world is only fun and work, so "I wish I could spend less time at work" translates as "I wish to only have fun all week long", which of course sounds like bad news about a potential husband. Only later you realize that things like taking care of kids and household are also valuable, and they compete for time with the job.

You seem to blame patriarchy for this (you didn't use the word, but you said "society predominantly run by another gender"). Ironically, seems to me that feminism plays its part here, too. (Not too surprising; horseshoe theory, etc.) If your political goal is to get women into all kinds of jobs, you need to brainwash them that a career is something intrinsically desirable, as opposed to merely something you do in order to pay your bills. Many young women are thrilled about their dreams of a future career, and then of course a man dreaming about early retirement simply has incompatible values. It takes a few years of work experience to realize that the career isn't what you imagined it to be during university.
I still have memories of writing code in my car with the heater on full blast because the building shut off all heat at midnight (middle of snowy winter) and by 1am you could see your breath in the office.
Apple: I can install whatever I want on my laptop, why can’t I do the same on my phone?
> I visited the home pages of those sites. I'm not sure how to open up stories if I were an internet user just passing by.

That's probably by design. The stories are meant to be discovered while searching on Google. Of course a site owner should have the common sense to include a separate section on their site for stories. In most CMSs, It would be as simple as setting a 'web stories' category, then adding a link to the navigation that takes them to a dynamically generated page, something like "example.com/web-stories/"
Even if we have enough nurses, we also need more doctors, respiratory therapists, and so on...

At some point in a wave, the number of ICU beds used across the US would be greater than the number of professionals available even if they moved to other hot spots when they could. It's a good idea to stay as far away from that point as we can, especially if we're unsure about the rate of spread in the winter/flu season.
I actually had really low expectations for this game precisely because of how much hype and marketing there had been surrounding it over the past couple of years. IMO anything in this world that requires that much in-your-face-evangelism is probably shady beneath the surface.

Therefore, I'm pleasantly surprised, it's actually a playable game with a decent looking world.

So, that's me.
Google eventually forgave the bill in Part 2: https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/

> Google let go of our bill as a one time gesture!

Thank goodness.

And it looks like it had to do with not understanding the API / system on the first order, IMO.

This hit me hard a few months ago with CloudFront invalidations on AWS. I check billing and the things at 30usd in a single day, from a norm of <1usd per month, so it's showing a 13,000% increase (this is for documentation of open source projects). I'm writing their support and at the mercy so to speak - technically I ran up the bill. I ended up paying up, but I secretly hoped I'd get some AWS credits for the projects, heh

Aside: Amazon has some nice features for rule-based alarms on accounts so when you spend more than X dollars, you get an email.
The reasons behind this are a big part of why I will only look at porn that features older women by porn standards, i.e. 30 years old, or verified amatuers in their 20's. It's not a fetish, I just don't want to view porn of women who could very well be girls still. On top of that, exploitation of younger women is much more common. Tags like barely legal, teen, just18, etc all likely have illegal content.

It's not about the legal status, I just don't want to see young girls exploited. Even 18-20 year olds are too young and are often naive and exploited. Look at Mia Khalifa as an example. Young and impressionable, she did a few porn shoots at a young age over some months and now it's the defining point of her life and something she'd love to leave behind.
This is a minority opinion, but I very much agree.

https://fightthenewdrug.org has the data. I'd be curious to understand data or reasoning that makes a compelling argument for the contrary ("porn is great or neutral for society").
Plenty of us are seeing it happen. Now we just have to figure out how to take action to redesign the system to stop and undo it or use the tools already avaiable to undo the damage.
> People, like matter, reveal their nature under extreme conditions.

An excellent nugget of wisdom from Paul Graham. That was worth the read by itself.
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This is just plain wrong. Section 230(e)(1) [0]:

> Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair the enforcement of section 223 or 231 of this title, chapter 71 (relating to obscenity) or 110 (relating to sexual exploitation of children) of title 18, or any other Federal criminal statute.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
To be fair, sex has been a commodity since... probably before humans evolved sapience, since sex trades exist among other primate species. There's a reason the "world's oldest profession" is what it is.
Is there any reason that legislative and technical measures are mutually exclusive?
They're required to report it, not expel you from school.

MasterCard could similarly report these alleged (alleged!) crimes, while still processing their payments, and avoid damaging someone's business without due process.
> The rough gist of the argument is that only legislatures are empowered to choose the method of selection of electors, and therefore governors (like Texas's governor) or courts (as in North Carolina) that order changes to election procedure render the entire count of the election invalid.

It’s a bad argument. The US Congress has delegated some of its power to the Executive Branch (FDA and IRS, among others), just like I’m sure some of these states have. If a state legislature passed laws allowing the governor to change election rules, then the legislature is still choosing the electors, not directly, but by having delegated that power to the executive branch of the state.

I’m not a lawyer but this argument sounds flimsy at best.
That is fascinating.

If you have the time could you (anyone feel free) talk a bit about how you would implement a globally distributed budget?

I can imagine a few simple options, but they all seem to have significant shortcomings.
I really like this quote:

"I am seeing some extremely good creators showing up, a lot of really good people of colour and women coming into the field,"

It always amazed be that in a supposedly capitalist country, companies do not take advantage of talent, not matter what their background is.
I'm really happy that credit card back end processors now decide what is lawful and unlawful. I fully support corporations deciding now what is right and wrong to their risk mitigation strategies and this signals the need of why cryptocurrency or peer to peer transactions are bad.
Genuine trinary logic so exceptions are mapped to unknown but can still short circuit the overall expression.

https://github.com/google/cel-spec/blob/master/doc/langdef.m...
I've suggested multiple times to them and even offered to help them setup HTTP BitTorrent to reduce the loads, but there's just no actual interest in solving the problem...
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Your assumption that the fear does no harm is wrong.
I actually wonder if credit card companies even make money doing business with PornHub? My understanding is that porn credit card charges are charged back extremely often. Dealing with those has to eat away at the margin.

Maybe they just saw this as an opportunity to get out of business with PornHub and not look like they are unfairly denying service?
webassembly would be a good thing to have extensions within your app via wasmer/wasi unfortunatly not many languages are going into webassembly
The whole normalisation of porn is not a net win for our civilisation.

Is porn/sex work really being "normalized" in a historically contextual way? Outside of about the last seventy years (maybe less), prostitution and sex work were extremely common, and, compared with the modern era, basically not criminalized. I'm not aware of a body of research that demonstrates a causal relationship between the consumption of porn and any social ill. I'm also not sure if I feel like I'm in a position to decide if OnlyFans customers would be better off without that outlet.
Same for fight club, that movie had a dumb title, kept being advertised on TV as a Cassette you could buy. Who advertise for a movie when you can’t watch it in theaters anymore? Then I watched the movie and... oh.
I agree in general, but under a certain amount, it just takes you out of the moment too much. 25fps constant seems to be the start of OK.
Are you suggesting that platforms should be held responsible for all content posted on their respective sites? I personally feel that is an absurd burden and simply won't work.

In May of 2019, 500 hours of content were uploaded to YouTube every minute. How could a platform possibly be held accountable for that sheer volume of content? YouTube already tries to do this, but AI is only so good and hiring that many humans to both watch the content and report on it is a massive undertaking.

It would make sense to pursue Twitter if they are in fact acting in _bad faith_, but not being able to read all 9255 tweets posted _every second_ doesn't seem like a reason to punish Twitter.
1. Opportunities for timely feedback (in both directions)

2. Concerns/issues

3. General chat

Most people forget the third option. It’s OK if it’s just time to hang out with each other.

That said, it’s your meeting more than it is your manager’s. If you want to cancel, you should. However, frequent cancellation is a signal of a problem to my mind.

As a manager, the only thing more frustrating than a 1:1 which is like pulling teeth, is a 1:1 with somebody who doesn’t want to communicate at all.
Lol. I love it. I moved to a state I'd never considered because it had the largest, cheapest building in the US.

It's 220,000 square feet, but I've lived in a tent out back for the last 6 months because I can't get an occupancy permit, it's not zoned residential, and I refuse to pay rent on an apartment.
I've personally pondered this a number of times and here is my conclusion that I am comfortable with.

While there is some sense of continuum, there is a difference between being hurt and being injured. In a similar sense I feel there is a continuum of "something" and disabled. I don't really know what to call the "something" end of the disability continuum that would be analogous to "hurt" rather then "injured". For me I'll call it "inconvenienced" but I choose that word for me not to insinuate or inflame others.

Serving in Afghanistan, I was "hurt" on many occasions and "injured" once. That injury left a very visible scar on my face, migraine like headaches and some hearing loss.

Am I disabled? I would say no. I can do everything I have always been able to do. The scar is a conversation starter and the rest is manageable. I view it that I am "inconvenienced" rather than "disabled".

I would say, in general, if you are not sure if you feel you are disabled (even if you have been diagnosed) then I would say you are not.

Again, that is just my view and I don't offer it to be combative or diminish someone else's plight.
So I'm not wanting to get into what appears to be a growing argument. But I have a young family and an intense day job. I still managed to build SongBox.

I just love building things. I don't do social media, don't watch shitty tv. I just like to build.
Did you notice the article is in the opinion section? I believe that means it isn't fact checked at all and there's no journalistic expectation it's anything other than fiction.
I'm actually planning to use this to create a web version of the music zines I post on Instagram. I used to create them using the Swiper slider library, but you have to build the entire HTML+CSS structure yourself, which is very time consuming. Something GUI-based and mobile-specific will greatly increase the speed of production.
False equivalence.

Regulating what happens on your own private platform to ensure compliance with applicable laws is, and always has been, the job of the platform owner. It is not realistic to expect law enforcement to check every platform for compliance under every law.

Even if MC would ultimately win in court, litigation is not cheap and the brand damage alone would be massive.

MC is a massive, trusted financial household name. They would be very publicly fighting for their right to knowingly process payments for a company that is serving illegal sex videos on the largest porn website in the world.

I do not envy the PR agency that would be tasked to spin that one.
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We've been using it in production for a web service for over a year now, it's been a pleasant experience. dotnet core and ASP.NET are great platforms/ecosystems and F# has no trouble piggybacking off all that success.
> Start by making a specific claim.

Specific claim:
During the counting at the TCF Center in Michigan, Republican poll watchers were denied their legal right to meaningful observation. This resulted in many hours of counting without oversight, with hundreds of thousands of ballots counted during this time. This was in violation of state law:

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(d3swxbgf3srsrnw20ak5uthw))/...

Evidence:
List of affidavits here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18619867/1/donald-j-tru...
Witness testimonies during the Michigan legislature hearing: https://www.facebook.com/wxyzdetroit/videos/4110372688977369...

> I refer you to this brief response to the "Texas lawsuit": https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1337119761902276608

That link mostly addresses Texas lack of standing to challenge PA's elections, which I am in agreement with - Texas does not have standing here. I would be more interested in a source that addresses the specific claims being made in the Texas lawsuit. I reference the Texas lawsuit only as a useful document, as it has a fairly well summarized list of complaints for each state.

> I've seen the quality of such that you provide elsewhere in this thread, I don't see the point in you doing this again.

No problem. I am genuinely interested in seeing an honest refutation of the claims being made by these witnesses. The judges haven't provided that. The media most certainly hasn't. From the replies on HN here, only 1 or 2 people have attempted to provide constructive information. The rest, very similar to yours, is primarily ad hominem and casual dismissal.

If you do have something productive to add, that would correct my perspective in a constructive way, I am genuinely eager to hear it.
Amazon Linux has an eol of 2023. That's not "years to come."
Only the seediest strip clubs I've been to don't accept cards, and in every case it was because they'd had too many chargebacks in the past.
Not seeing how it's hyperbole, nor how it would be meaningless.