skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should they also comply with $pick_a_dictatorship_you_find_reprehensible 's laws?

Edit: The comment I replied to has been edited and originally explained the owner was Canadian but serves US customers and so should abide by US law.

I don't want to claim to agree or disagree, I'm just not sure how to work out what's right.
This is why so many people are so gungho about crypto.
Why is there an explicit line between Phase 3 and roll out of a vaccine?
"Brick & mortar" == physical stores.

Amazon.com takes in hundreds of billions from online stores, tens from physical:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/amazon-revenue-model-2020

https://www.amazon.com/find-your-store/b/?node=17608448011
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In their case the ads are not used to support the services, rather the services are used as a trap to feed customers for advertising.

But you have a point, I have to admit.
The content that exists of women and girls being raped online is absolutely horrible and terrifying. People are monsters.

Why was Mastercard even allowing PH to process payments at all?
Yes. You comply with the laws of the jurisdiction you operate in. You have the freedom to not operate where you don't want to obey local law.

EDIT: I edited my comment as I'm not willing to argue the merits of cross border law enforcement actions in this thread.
Cellebrite’s New Solution for Decrypting the Signal App
I remember when the (then) anonymous EA Spouse posting went up bringing wider attention to the routine practices of the game industry. Long story short, game companies can abuse the enthusiasm of young people of the medium and burn them out, over and over, for little pay. There is always someone behind you to happily take your seat. It's one of the reasons I left that field early in my career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Hoffman#%22EA_Spouse%22_b...
Pornhub does verify its uploaders, requiring IDs for performers and affidavits of consent for all involved. Obviously some bad actors slip through. But far less than these pearl clutchers would have you believe.
Lots of research and methods related to covid-19 is not patented.

That's the problem. Patents aren't useful to the public because they don't describe enough to make a useful product when combined with public knowledge. The monopoly granted is supposed to be in exchange for expanding the public knowledge after expiry, but if most of the knowledge is kept secret, then the patent system isn't striking the bargain it was meant to strike.
So all the products recommended by Satchel ar YC products, huh
I mean they specifically asked for brick & mortar stores as examples. You can buy software all over the place, limiting it to iOS devices doesn't make sense if your issue is competition from a consumer's perspective. Sure there are exclusives but lots of platforms have those. Where the arguments start to stand up is competition from a seller's perspective. If all your potential customers only shop at Target then you're in a bind and Target suddenly has a lot of leverage over you.

These kinds of dynamics already exist in brick & mortar retail with wholesale clubs. Very few people have memberships to more than one and are usually very loyal to the one they like so if you want to reach their customers you don't have many options.
sounds interesting, does it support reminders?
Happy pills were literally in Brave New World.

Metaverse, aspect of Snow Crash, is basically like MMOs such as World of Warcraft or Second Life, but once Facebook goes 3D (and to me the question is when with AR/VR), its more akin to Facebook.

Wealth is so unevenly distributed that some people have 3 jobs just to pay their rent, whereas others buy their entire street's housing just to have a privacy while being the CEO of one of the worst private collection companies in the world (Facebook).
> It's not an article, it's a hit piece, written by a known agitator not a journalist

I wonder how consistent most HNers are wrt this statement about The New York Times.
But why are we looking to MasterCard to police pornography on the internet and not our government?
It's not an article, it's a hit piece,

It's an article. It just happens to be an article you disagree with.

written by a known agitator not a journalist

That's why it's in the Editorial section, not the News section. Also, "agitator" is a loaded term that is in the eye of the beholder. Some people might use "activist" or "hero."

at a time when the religious anti PH movement is at it's crescendo.

If you believe this is true, nobody on the planet change your mind. But I will tell you it comes out like hysterical raving.
And this is another use-case for cryptocurrencies; that nobody can arbitrarily block payments to your legal business.
Is Mastercard going to stop processing payments on Netflix for "Cuties" as well?
You're being too modest. Pixie is a general purpose observability and monitoring tool, with especially strong attributes around APM.
Ah, I didn't know!

Would that be his best book, in your view?
I have a dozen of questions...

Did you also evaluate fingerprintjs in that context?

Also, did you use css tracking techniques, too? Because there are hundreds of them, especially since the logical conditions spec.

In my own Browser I'm trying to "fake" behaviours, so that it looks like an e.g. Chrome useragent is browsing the website. I'm also filtering a lot of CSS and HTML that could be abused to track users which is, honestly, a lot.

Even the Accept header alone is enough to identify the engine. If you then use a clever webfont you'll have the navigator's version and OS identified due to antialiasing behaving differently...

I'm also curious how you evaluated the fingerprintability...is there a project that you were using for that, which someone could maybe test their own browser against?
For hobby projects you probably don't need auto-scaling, and should use a provider that charges a fixed monthly rate. You'll "waste" a little bit of money on unused uptime, but for a hobby project it will be a minuscule amount.
I understand the repulsion against child pornography and unauthorized porn, I should not have to clarify that, but this the Internet. Let me tell you a story, some months ago I came across a NGO that is heavily against pornhub (You can see their campaign in many social media sites) They were a little bit over the top so that got me suspicious, so I started to research them a little, being an NGO and all. To summarize, they have been basically running a scam for years! Those people must be racking mid-high six figures a year from donations and when you check their numbers they have not done anything of what they promised (Like helping sexual workers and stuff) 95% of their budget goes to A)A hefty salary for the founder. B) The budget for a "documentary" years in the making. Ironically, those guys have a profitable cottage industry from outrage on the Internet.

If you are a sociopath that is a highly motivating example. I thought about tipping a journo, but knowing current media I thought better and just let them be.
They were using photoDNA and Youtube CSAI Match before the article. This is the same as what Reddit uses. I see it mentioned here back in March https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN21D3E9
I dunno, seems like the vast, vast majority of "for the children" initiatives rarely end up accomplishing what they say they will, and mostly just end up limiting the freedom of people totally blameless in such things.
Same, 2010-era FP in Scala was a disaster and also very angry, but I'd say in about 1-2 years FP Scala will be about at the maturity that they imagined they were at in 2010. Still kind of angry though.
Heh, maybe you remember Syndicate (1993) [0], "set in a dystopian future in which corporations have replaced governments, Syndicate puts the player in control of a corporation vying for global dominance. "

Ironically, the creators themselves at Bullfrog Productions got a very bitter tasting cookie [1] around that time selling to EA, cut from the same dough...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_(1993_video_game)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfrog_Productions#Acquisiti...
> You can't charge me a subscription that I can't figure out how to cancel.

This we need to regulate. This is what our lawmakers should be doing.

Apple isn't doing this out of their own generosity. They're trying to get a slice of the pie.

It's also why they shut down mobile advertising IDs, which on the surface sounds delightful. Ultimately that's more commerce going through Apple rails. More pie.

Apple is strong-arming here to put more people in their walled garden. The government should craft legislation to protect privacy and should stop the "pretend privacy" game Apple is playing.

Apple doesn't care about you, otherwise you wouldn't have to pay extra for a phone charger and they wouldn't squash 3rd party repair shops.

> You don't get my email address or my information unless I want you to.

This prevents businesses from establishing their own, hard-earned relationships with customers.

Apple has your email and sends you promotional material all the time. Do you send those to trash?

> slipping in "features" that abuse my privacy

Apple already abuses your privacy, and if you don't see it you're being naive.

They track which apps are running on Mac, and they recently caused an outage doing so. This is part of their push to ultimately lock down that platform behind an App Store.

They do the same on iPhone. They know your location, your files, your chat history. You trust them. Mark Zuckerberg had a quote for that.

Sorry for the privacy-invading Giphy/Facebook link, but Apple is literally this: http://gph.is/XJxIL3
I mean, both aren't ideal things. We should be mindful of that and seek to improve on that whenever we can as individuals and as a society.
This seemingly endless micro-debacle is just proof positive of Sundar Pichai's weak, rudderless non-leadership of Google. I can't be the only one who sees this.

Pichai can't decide if he wants Google to be a safe space for progressives or a ruthless profit machine. He keeps playing both sides without success or conviction.

Icing on the cake - he effectively threw Dean under the bus by questioning his decision. This tells every other manager in the company to ape Pichai's indecisiveness and cowardice. Why does Dean even stay? He could trivially attract capital for any venture he might wish to start. His contact list is literally everyone who matters in Silicon Valley.

Pichai will continue to get away with it because Google's profit machine is on cruise control for now.

At some point in the future, Google will get a real CEO and that person will inevitably send out an all-hands that curtly requests anyone who doesn't like Google should leave ASAP. At some point, what else can you say? Managers can't exist only to change diapers.

As for Gebru...the shoe fits. You tried to play chicken with the machine and lost. And the fact that this story won't go away bears out how desperate you are to extend your fifteen minutes.
The same pearl clutching about making payments to site hosting "unlawful content" will apply to cryptocurrencies as well. Sadly, there are already efforts to track crypto payments and regulate the crypto ecosystem.
That's fine, use the App Store if you want!

It's the fact that Apple doesn't let you, the owner of your phone and licensed user of iOS, take full advantage of what you purchased.

The inability to side load apps you want to use outside of the App Store (or to use another app store) is an artificial limitation. It's created from greed or fear of competition from a better managed app store.

I think what people are arguing for is a similar model to macOS. Have you ever heard anyone get mad that they were able to download apps outside of the App Store on macOS? No! You can use the App Store if you want, but you're still able to trust a third-party developer to use the device you purchased to it's full potential.
It's not about me, or my views. I'm merely giving a possible reason for his sentiment. Your hyperbole is meaningless.
In US, behind a pi-hole, all results on the first page except one are directly vi-related. Not sure if this might have something to do with the fact that I've been searching spacemacs keybindings nonstop in the past 2 weeks.
Nick Kristof and the Holy War on Pornhub
No it is not an ignorant comment.

1) If you missed my quotes around "work" it is because some people describe certain tasks as work equivalent to other tasks. The effort of digesting vs. producing material is about 2 orders of magnitudes for me. I took 60 hours of lectures (time spent in class) during one of my semesters of undergrad. 12 hours of lecture everyday. That is completely sustainable because all you have to do is listen. Reading papers is the same, it's a low effort activity. Something you can do for 12 hours a day. Yes, "advanced academic lecture" is more draining than Harry Potter but less draining than driving a vehicle.

2) Working hard (or long hours in the case of academia) vs. working intelligently are orthogonal. I can't really address the entirety of graduate school because history is going to be much different than engineering. Applied much different than theory. I'll repeat my claim, if you actually take the useful bits of a grad student's day, it often compresses to 1-2 hours. Yes, reading is important. Yes, there are often other teaching commitments that are usually treated like second class citizens. I'm not debating the time spent in an office. Merely, that the "60-80" hour myth really needs to stop.
You can also make nice updating (but not interactive) background with conky.
On the Whole CentOS Thing
Kara Swisher: Yes, Facebook Has Become a Menace
>However I'm not so sure about the lockdowns, they would almost certainly oppose giving the federal gov. the power to issue a lockdown but may have been okay with local lockdowns.

They would probably be split on that, but also would probably agree that lockdowns in some form were not unreasonable, so long as they were temporary and based on sound science.
Neither Visa, nor MasterCard, nor PayPal, nor Stripe should have the power to pick whose payments get processed. I don't care that these are private organizations. Payment processing is a fundamental utility service for society today. The fact that we've outsourced it to oligopolies that enjoy the lack of real competition from network effects is an indication that these companies must be broken up or heavily regulated. Payment processors should not get to deny clients except where the law is explicitly broken, and even then, only at the behest of the justice system.
It's always been super interesting to me that inside every capitalist enterprise is a command economy wanting to grow.
The problem is that the former will go after the latter if they knowingly take part in unlawful activity, so they have to cut off support if they believe there's something illegal going on.
is it that hard to believe he may have come across genuine examples? I'm certainly not willing to search "14yo" on pornhub to judge for myself.
Reviewers that lean extremely far left weren't happy that a video game didn't espouse their ideology at every second. What a surprise. Depending on what path you chose the start of the game literally has a corporate employee order the execution of elected officials. But I guess that wasn't on the nose enough?
And I'll tell you that your position is as equally misinformed and comes off that way. Those who have been tracking this issue and digging into the details of it understand it to be religiously motivated.
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Here's a link that works...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-melatonin-supplement-...
The strip clubs I went to as recently as three years ago all took cards. The ATM in the lobbies were only so you could hide the charge from your wife.
No because Visa isn't crossing markets with it's users. Payment processing is a separate market than mobile operating systems and hardware.

I can't reach iOS customers for payment processing without going through Apple's offering in payment processing (which interestingly enough takes a 10x higher cut than Visa, Stripe, et al.)

If Visa used their market leadership in payment processing to try to dominate other markets, then it would be comparable (and then they should absolutely get antitrust scrutiny).
The first nail came in January 2019: https://www.pcmag.com/news/mastercard-bans-automatic-billing...
Except that customers loves and trust them.

Trust is the key. People can not trust thousands of random companies/developers. Trust is built up over time through a relationship.

Without Apple, most of these transactions would not take place. This trust, App Store etc., has been built up and cannot be transferred automatically to another party.
Microsoft Bing competes with Google Search.
This definitely has something to do with your (or my!) search bubble because the top link for `vi` for me is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi, followed by "Basic vi Commands - Colorado State University" and "How to Use the vi Editor - University of Washington" (vim.org is the 4th link)
Given the sizes of the two companies I'd expect Facebook to have one or two orders of magnitude more employees for most roles.
> Sometimes it's better to take a deliberately underexposed photo and tweak regions of it in post to achieve the desired exposure instead of introducing global noise from in-camera amplification.

That is definitely not my experience for Canon's in low light situations. Here [1] is an example shot at ISO 100 but pushed by 5EV to match the brightness of the same scene shot at ISO 3200. The noise is much more tolerable for the latter.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/Ca9ccbK

P.S.: it's raw, no in-camera JPEG denoising in place.
Saw this somewhere else a week or so ago. Love the term 'acute mortality'.
You can rent a full 42U rack in a colocation center for ~$1500/mo easily. They'll handle all of that stuff, including redundant power and redundant internet.

Of course self-hosting on real hardware is not quite as simple or cheap as GP made it out to be. But everything in your post can be solved with simple fixed pricing, which is still the main point: there are no dangers of wildly variable pricing or accidental massive bills as there are with cloud hosting providers.
A new version of the Firebird PHP driver is available: 1.1.0
Make no mistake, crypto or not, the law still applies and you aren't going to "win" against a nation state that has a monopoly on force and legal enforcement.

Your actions on the ledger are mostly permanent, and one opsec mistake and you're screwed.
Don't worry it's not a big deal. Thanks for the article.
They use the financial systems in both these jurisdictions, and that’s enough access for both governments to regulate them.
So because there are illegal videos on other platforms, they should be allowed on PH, and the credit card companies should process those charges.

That's called deflection. Or in HN-speak: "Whataboutism."
"Can you teach me” is an idea for collaborative learning. Will you use it?
Can you teach me is a slack extension inspired from donut (https://www.donut.com/). A user can have a list of things she would like to learn about. Other users can see the list and see if they can give her a head-start.

Idea:

- A user can have a list of things she would like to know.

- Other users can see them and tag them if they happen to have worked with it in past.

- Every week the app will pair up two people who can teach each other one thing.

- Both of them will meet on a video call for 1 hr.
They will try to learn the thing themselves by googling around, but the expert user can help them finding good resources and solving quick doubts.
Is it on PornHub alone or is it on everything that Mindgeek controls? Because that would be most of the porn on the internet. If it isn't.. why not?
I've had my Facebook account for > 10 years, but use it sparingly. It was locked for "suspicious activity" the exact moment I linked my Oculus account to my Facebook account. It gave me two options to unlock it: link my Facebook account with a google account, or send in some pictures of a government ID for verification. I don't believe that the act of linking two, required, accounts on the first day the device was publicly available, before my first experience with VR, is somehow racist or objectionable.
> Unfortunately I'm sure that this game will entertain more than it will highlight horrible industry practices.

This statement may still be true, but Cyberpunk 2077 actually did a great job at highlighting the gaming industry's horrible practices due to CD Projekt Red promising to keep away from the status quo of mandatory crunch time. Breaking that promise put mandatory crunch time in social media's limelight.
CentOS 8 EOL was effectively 2029. It's now 2021. So, yea, it's out of date :)

CentOS 8 was a stable OS mirroring RHEL, CentOS Stream is a bleeding edge OS mirroring Debian Unstable / Arch / similar.

Let's not pretend these are the same thing. CentOS went from something valuable to something we already have many of and, frankly, don't need more of.

(Don't get me wrong, I'm not a CentOS / RHEL user - but I do understand the value proposition that was the original CentOS vision)

(Edit: also don't get me wrong, I'm not disagreeing with you. Just stating in more explicit terms that CentOS as we knew it is gone)
Some also worry about chargebacks and disputes from credit card companies.
"At some point, you'll look down at your character's hands and say 'wow, my hands are metal all the way up to my elbows? Well, that's kind of creepy, it feels kind of wrong'."

The article doesn't really dig into any of Pondsmith's thoughts here, but to my reading, Cyberpunk's fantastical body-modification tech is very much intended as a mirror of our real technology.

We've all been wired in with cyberware for the past decade; we just didn't notice because the hardware stays in our pockets instead of under our skin. But the effect has not been entirely different: We are now persistently linked to our contacts wherever we go; we can instantly look up contextual information whenever the need arises; we can store anything from a date and time we need to remember to an entire scene of sight and sound, all in an external extension of our memories that can be called up almost as quickly as the ones in our heads.

Smartphones made us all cyborgs, just ones with lower-bandwidth implants.
Bully which made a business of distributing videos of small studios which weren't large enough to enforce their copyright, gets bullied by an even bigger bully.

Hard to have strong feelings about it.
I enjoyed this[1] other honest review as well, it includes an introduction about CDProjekt.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJKeBbk-9YA
Edit: I wasn’t thinking about financial regulation applied to processors on a whole range of illegal behavior, where regulator will go after the payment processor to force it to police transactions

Gist of the original comment:
As other commenters point out, your go to option should be to alert authorities and have them investigate.
isn't "whataboutism" about slightly different situation, namely when a person, as a defense, accuses their interlocutor of crimes?

situation in this thread is a bit different, it's about choices of a single person.
> If your use-case is just wanting to fetch emails from a bunch of inbox folders in real-time, potentially with some querying/filtering,

Nobody says you need to implement all of JMAP (from a client perspective). Just implement Email/query Email/get
I think your conclusion is wrong.

I am also aware of many other businesses that refuse to take credit cards, and work cash-only.
In the case of "Open Source", that seems to be readily explainable by it being either an adjective or a noun, with the adjective being lower case and the noun being proper. "Internet" fits with that; you might say that an internet service provider provides access to the Internet (or, someday, to one or more internets, once there's really no longer a single Internet).