skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right but that just sounds like a user having control over their hardware. Who knows maybe some of them will like it.
Imagine you are a Visa or Mastercard executive. Your company has found evidence of illegal, sexually exploitative (including that of the underage variety) materials on a site your company tangentially provides services for. What other option do you have?

Congressional testimony, civil suits, reputational risk and damage. These are the pitfalls you are attempting to avoid by deplatforming Mindgeek through their payment processor.
Okay, I really need to spend a bit more time before I'd feel comfortable doing that but I'll definitely take your advice to advertise it sooner rather than later.
What I miss is the ability to discuss policy matters as an intellectual endeavor, rather than the tribal warfare that exists today.
Articles about math in general dissuade the average person from reading
Not within the Red Hat ecosystem.
Can confirm the same from my own experience with Oculus Q1+Q2
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This is a huge victory for the religious anti-sex work movement. Some backstory to how this happened: https://newrepublic.com/article/160488/nick-kristof-holy-war...

I suspect Mastercard will pull processing on many adult platforms now. I wonder what this means for Twitter and Reddit that allow UGC adult content.
This is a solved problem for every other service out there. You don't just delete the data, you give the customer a few days, weeks, or a month to pay their bill and if they don't, then you delete their data.
I thought the same thing until i started playing rdr2 on a 4k screen after using 1080 for months. Immediately i was able to detect ambushes, see much more detail in everything, and generally it was just easier to play.
The point is that Brave is doing something different though?

Something where your privacy is not violated and the value generated from your attention goes directly to the content producers you like most.
Is there a betting pool for this being the most quickly retired Google product ever? I have some extra cash lying around.
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Amazon has been aggressively eating into Google's search advertising market share, which is actually the biggest threat to Google's model today (aside from general obsolescence as activity drifts away from the open web).
I guess it could be the case that they regularly sever relationships with vendors for this, but usually it's not newsworthy.

So the angle is basically preventative PR? Business lost based on future outrage outweighs business lost to porn subscribers, sort of thing?
... which makes Amazon Linux more relevant than ever. There's now OEL and Amazon Linux unless you want to live on the edge with CentOS Stream. (If there are others based on RHEL, I can't think of them. Yes, I'm well aware of Ubuntu and Debian. There's nothing wrong with them, but some folks need RHEL for various reasons.)
> Of course there's "technically" enough water, but that's academic pedantry at that point.

The GP comment I was responding to was specifically talking about water being "a real limit to how many humans this planet can support." Literally the first thing I said was that regions could run out of water. That said, how we frame our problems influences how we think about solutions - how we solve a water infrastructure crisis is very different from a water scarcity crisis.

> There's technically no such thing as peak oil either, but there is a point where it becomes economically infeasible to produce more oil

Peak oil is the point when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to enter terminal decline. Peak oil is most certainly real, and likely in the near future. Oil is an energy source and it takes energy to extract it - eventually you will hit a point where it takes more than a barrel of oil to produce a barrel of oil. Further, oil is destroyed when used, and it takes more energy to recreate it than you get from using it, so there is no sense in replenishing it. Conversely, you don't need to spend water to get water, nor does it cease to exist when you consume it. You can replenish a region's water supplies indefinitely.

> The problem with new cities is generally trying to move employment. Unless there is a specific reason to move employers tend to like clusters of other employers. Most planned cities without a specific employment reason either fail or become big suburbs.

If the companies won't move, tax them enough to build the infrastructure to support their employees. Either you'll have no problem getting them to relocate, or there will be no need to.

> Making it easier to move to other countries is not exactly within the realm of possibility, given that India is not in control of how the US makes legislation and pressure would pretty much result in backlash that would probably make the situation worse, not better.

1) The US is not the only country to move to, or even the best option
2) The US is a nation of immigrants which could most certainly be convinced to take immigrants from India with the proper incentive structure
3) As an emerging powerhouse, the assumption India has no negotiating leverage and is simply at the mercy of other nations seems extremely unfounded

As someone descended from poor subsistence farmers who moved to the other side of the planet to avoid famine, I am extremely skeptical of the claim that millions of people will just sit back and wait to die of dehydration as the water supplies dwindle. History is a long tale of people migrating to greener pastures when they are available and making pastures greener when they are not, and I see no reason that this time around will be any different.
Because he's not a fan of enabling kiddie porn, rape videos, and worse?

Read the NY Times article that sparked this.
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Does it matter if there are bad grades? Is the difference between bad grades, and exceptional grades, a good reason to set a kid up with Lambo-grade back-up as far as resources and access to capital?

I think it's pretty natural, if your resources are exceptional, to treat that as extending to your immediate family. Therefore it doesn't matter what grades the kid gets because there is nothing they can possibly do that's more important than being your kid, and so they'll automatically be your kid and have access to the resources of your family unit.

I don't see a special moral dispensation for, 'this kid APPLIED himself and therefore it's okay that he never had to worry'.
Granted, 2000 hours is a lot, but most humans need at least some time to unwind and relax in order to maintain high levels of productivity.
I've thought about doing this myself, but I get stuck on how to get everyone's PC to the location. Does everyone ship their stuff? Is the cost reasonable?
“The tragedy of the commons” in software development
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But you can make a separate one just for Xbox and they won’t ban you, unlike Facebook. And you don’t have to use your real name.
>I’m still confused as to which “market” is harmed: advertisers? Facebook users? other social networks?

Even with scare quotes it's not a multiple: the social network of Facebook users is an advertising market. You don't have to be a snot-nosed growth hacker to see that FB has a monopoly position in advertising.

Here's a test: does FB have any reason to care about the quality of whatever is being advertised in any one ad? Where are you going to advertise if FB keeps putting your ads for your doctor's office next to ones for a child-rape rock opera and/or "COVID-19 is a hoax" seminars? What is your recourse, switching your advertising to Parler and LinkedIn? NYTimes dot com? The 72 next most popular social networking sites around the world? Surely VKontakte runs a clean house.

Again, look at railroads. In the Trust era, trains were not the product, were not the market. Transportation was.

Here's a nice little rundown: https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1336813617736507397
I am not sure what that is; is there a list of things that cannot be done (or done easily) on FreeBSD that would be essential to Linux application servers?
1) Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM. (This quote was relevant here even before IBM literally acquired Redhat).

2) Redhat offers support; and that support is a potentially valuable service worth the cost. If you want that support, you need to use RHEL.

3) If you are developing for a regulated industry, RHEL may be a pre-certified base you can use. This can substantially reduce the cost and risk with certifying your entire system compared with trying to use a not-yet certified base.

As someone who develops for RHEL because of (3), CentOS filled the niche of 'development environment for RHEL without needing to worry about licencing issues'.

It also served as a way out of vendor lock in if you wanted to stop paying for RHEL without needing to migrate your system.
I think there’s a pretty clear difference between “3rd party smartphone software distribution” and “3rd party smartphone software distribution for ~45% of all American phone users, and I get to pick which users, and coincidentally I only pick Apple users”. You’re the one stacking the deck in that instance, not Apple.
I think you need to consider whether it is the public who should be served in the free market or well connected lobbyists who have been highly paid to corrupt the executive branch. The NWS will not serve the public with what they trivially could so that a private corporation can make (more) money filling that niche and continue supporting politicians and their friend's lifestyle. That is the crony-capitalist way and corporate first amendment rights to spend money any way they want shall not be abridged (by this Supreme Court).

Stolen from a parallel thread:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...
There used to be things that weren’t the “Internet” that required acknowledgement of the difference with a noun, maybe. Like AOL and Prodigy were online but they weren’t the Internet. You could get to the Internet from them, but it was a distinct experience.
Pornhub is full of child porn and does very little about it. This is a good choice. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra....
Sounds like a bad move. I doubt it'll hurt Pornhub at all either as there's other ways to accept payment than MC.
Is that 2 promos?
Lightsail is EC2 so all the benefits are the same. If you poke around your instances you'll see it. It's just that the instances live in Lightsail's EC2 account instead of yours.
Argument in bad taste. You probably wouldn't get to use an iPhone today if antitrust hadn't reeled in Microsoft.

Remember, MS bundling IE is nothing compared to the tightly coupled ecosystems of today.
"I have a belief system that's coherent and arrived at through my personal experience"

Other people also have coherent belief systems they arrived at through their personal experience, that contradict yours.
> you're not monitoring your test, why are you doing a test?

Agile. Bringing you bankruptcy at the speed of cloud.
One thing I was surprised not to see was a mention of their Swift 2 to 3 migration, which was terrible in my experience working on apps that were nowhere near the complexity of Uber.

Apple should have never pushed Swift as hard as it did at the time. Between the constant API changes and issues like requiring dynamic framework linkage and copying the whole runtime into every app, it was absolutely not production ready.
Clickable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072
Is it April fools day?

What's next GitHub Stories?

Stack Overflow Stories!

Hacker News Stories?
> 1 person who will protest against Rust and will write it in PHP.

1 person who will protest against PHP and will write it in Node.js, bringing a hundred miles of wire along with it
Hm, but who is we?

Society on average? Well, I guess by the amount of prescribed happy pills, probably yes. But I guess it will be hard to meassure, if past generations were really happier.

In any case, with freedom and wealth you can build up and life alternatives today. There are quite some people out there trying this, with various success.
Because the future is going to be years late?
One of the limiting factors for modeling bokeh and flare-like effects is dynamic range limitation. You need extreme HDR capturing to accurately reproduce these effects, as they often play the largest part with bright, especially colored, light sources. I did work on flare simulation and while many effects can be modeled by a rather simple convolution (in the spectral space of course -- you cannot make a rainbow out of RGB straightforwardly), the problem is that kernels (PSFs, point spread functions) for these convolutions have very long tails and it's the shape of these tails that gives most of the 'natural' artistic feel.

The thing is, these tails become apparent only when you convolve with a very very bright source -- which on a typical 12-bit level linear raw image would amount to something like 10⁵-10⁶, i.e. needing 4-8 additional bits of HDR.

Here are some useful links on the topic of flare simulation, I believe bokeh has mahy similar aspects:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200119024053/http://simonwinde...

http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/hdr/TemporalGlare/
It sounds like you haven't read the NY Times article. It's not about religion. It's not about some anti-sex worker movement. It's about content that is illegal and reprehensible.

If it was about some "religious anti-sex work movement," then the credit card companies wouldn't still process payments for the legal brothels in Nevada. Which they do.
> They of course are free to work with or not work with whatever vendors they choose

Don’t like Standard Oil? Just heat your home and cook your food with someone else’s oil!

I’m tired of hearing this argument to defend technology monopolies and duopolies. If you have no legal reason to deny services to someone, don’t.

That would mean baking cakes for gay weddings if you’re a baker open to the public and processing credit card payments for pornography if you’re a payment processor.
Do you also abstain from going to movie theatres?
I don't like use kubernetes raw but I am a fan of Caprover (which has kubernetes support)
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https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/

> To overcome the timeout limitation, I suggested using POST requests (with URL as data) to send jobs to an instance, and use multiple instances in parallel instead of using one instance serially. Because each instance in Cloud Run would only be scraping one page, it would never time out, process all pages in parallel (scale), and also be highly optimized because Cloud Run usage is accurate to milliseconds.

> If you look closely, the flow is missing few important pieces.

> Exponential Recursion without Break: The instances wouldn’t know when to break, as there was no break statement.

> The POST requests could be of the same URLs. If there’s a back link to the previous page, the Cloud Run service will be stuck in infinite recursion, but what’s worst is, that this recursion is multiplying exponentially (our max instances were set to 1000!)

Did you not consider how to stop this blowing up before implementing? Having one cloud function trigger another like this with no way to control how many functions are running at the same time with no simple and quickly met termination condition (with uncapped billing) is playing with fire. It's not going to be optimal either if most of the time each function is waiting for the URL data to download.

You need to be using something like a work queue, or just keep life simple and keep it on a single server if you can.
One of my favorite quotes of all time. J. Paul Getty was quite the weirdo. His Wikipedia article is worth a look, especially the section on his frugality.
> So the angle is basically preventative PR? Business lost based on future outrage outweighs business lost to porn subscribers, sort of thing?

Yeah. See exileration's comment about the NY Times piece. Pornhub looked the other way on verified users and safety/trust (content moderation and the like) to generate more users/views and they got burned.
Every time a GCloud rep would ask us about what we need, we would say: fix the billing interface. As far as I know, it never got fixed. The feelings I would get when looking at cloud billing interfaces can be summed as: obfuscated, like a pawnshop, and caveat emptor. I kind of came to the conclusion that if the cloud giants are not fixing their billing interfaces, then just like Amazon not sending you the details of the items you ordered by email and thus causing you to use the app to help with primenesia, there is a 'business' reason why the billing interfaces are generally incomprehensible.
Brave is only the middleman with advertisers.

You can buy BAT directly from any crypto exchange (or better yet exchange ETH / any ERC20 token for it on a decentralized exchange). Then you can put that BAT into a wallet on your Brave browser, enable a setting, and every month your browser will automatically disburse the BAT proportionally to the content creators you are consuming, as long as they have their own BAT wallet.

That's what I do. I don't opt in to the Brave Ads. But you can if you want, and it's worth pointing out that Brave's ad system is very privacy focused, in that all classification of you as an ad-target happens in your browser. The only thing sent to Brave is basically just a list of keywords. Then Brave lets advertisers bid on putting up ads for people with certain keywords.
To say they are "taking advantage of the commons" implies they're leaving the commons worse off. I haven't heard any good arguments that this is the case. Particularly because the amount of water they're pumping really isn't that significant compared to agricultural or industrial users.

They do contribute back through taxes, including income tax their employees pay directly to the state of Michigan. If they aren't paying enough, I think reforming corporate taxation is a better solution than arbitrarily taxing extraction of a plentiful resource out of dislike for the extractors. Hopefully that doesn't make me some kind of anarcho-capitalist nut.
Put them in a VM... it's the safest easiest way to be sure.
> Apple’s guideline 3.1.1 prevents apps from allowing users to give to, or tip a person, company, or service — unless what is given is purchased via an Apple in-app purchase.

How is this not extortion?
Facebook is full of sedition and does nothing about it.
> Pornhub said on Tuesday it had banned video downloads and was allowing only certain partner accounts to upload content after a New York Times column reported that many videos posted on the adult website depicted sexual assault of children.

I understand the different angles people will take on this. Yet, it looks like the issue at hand in this case is illegal activity surrounding children. If MasterCard is aware of this illegal activity and is complacent with it... what does that mean ethically and legally? Some people have to deal with that.
Well... It should be.
How do you know they dont do anything about it though? I’d wager they try
What is a good secure way to pass a random token to the browser? If the token is part of the URL, which is in the command-line, then it appears other users can see the token. What I do for DomTerm (https://domterm.org) is create a small only-user-readable html file which sets the secret token, and then does a 'location.replace(newkey)' where newkey to an http url to localhost and includes the secret token. I spawn the browser file a file: url, so teh browser can only read the file if it is running as the same user. Better suggestions?
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I really wish law enforcement would enfoce laws, and payment processors would process payments. If the latter notice unlawful activity, they can simply report it to the former. There's a whole machinery set up for dealing with law breakers and with punishing them. Including a forum for the alleged lawbreakers to defend themselves.

They are certainly free to do business with whomever they please, but with MC/Visa being a more-or-less global duopoly, these seemingly arbitrary decisions can be extremely impactful.
Why does any of this matter?
Are you against the internet? Surely there's no larger enabler than the broad internet
> I came across many videos on Pornhub that were recordings of assaults on unconscious women and girls. The rapists would open the eyelids of the victims and touch their eyeballs to show that they were nonresponsive.

Either the writer is one of the few people on earth who believes that porn is real, or he's somebody who lies to push their ideology. Hard to believe that it's the first.
> MacOS [...] pretty soon will be [...] denying anything not sold from the app store.

Is the Year That Macs Go Full iOS happening before or after the Year of Linux on the Desktop?
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I've been enjoying the game thus far, albeit on the PC. No issues, no bugs encountered. Granted I'm only 6 hours in, but still. I think people go out of their way to find things to complain and be negative about.

Frankly 1.0 releases of just about anything these days are buggy.

I don't expect initial releases of anything to be error free, and in a world of internet based distribution and continuous updates of games, I'm turned off by constant complaints about initial releases.

Cyberpunk 2077 was pushed back to address problems and people complained. They released with problems and people complain.

Game companies can't win in any scenario.

Announce too soon? Complain. Release when you say you will, but with bugs, complain. Release late to address bugs, complain.

Tangentially related, IMO the term "beta release" has evolved from being a true "help us test and find bugs" as a marketing tool to excuse negative feedback.
US VISA also does not process porn or sex-work related charges, but VISA international does. Hence things like CC bill (source: I tried to become a cc provider for sex workers and porn sites, and found out it is a trainwreck). I'm not defending PornHub at all, I'm pointing out religious conservatives still have significant power when there is such a credit-card monopoly.
Ask HN: Which OS do you use for server production environments?
> they don't give you anything for yours.

Well they give you access to a bunch of useful services.
Are you sure it's the money?

Most times I've left a company for what I thought was money, I later realized there was something I didn't quite like about working there - I had sorta conjured the money as the reason to move along although in many cases, I did do better financially by job hopping.

That being said, the company may well have its hands tied re salary (which I agree is dumb) - but you can always try to negotiate more equity or bonuses... If you can't get anything done there, start interviewing, get an offer for 10+% more than you make now and you can ask them to counter -- although I generally don't like the idea of taking counter-offers.
If you take up a larger part of the sensor, then the distance between any two details must be larger so the areas that their light covers over the sensor don't overlap. If they overlap, you have no clue where the information is coming from.

Look up circle of confusion, Rayleigh resolution criterion and sparrows resolution criterion for the technical details of resolution.
But that is exactly what PayPal pioneered and still does. So why can’t I use PayPal to buy iOS apps?

(There are other problems with PayPal, so if that bothers you, replace X with PayPal that has the same privacy and subscription management features)
Because it might help limit easy, mass distribution of child molestation, rape, etc. videos.
This mindset is the basis of half the dystopian fiction on my bookshelves, and Aldous Huxley wasn't even the first.
The creator only gets that tip if they verify with Brave.