skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree that there's a risk of that, but I think it deserves to be included in the analysis.

It's different from drugs in that one of the participants is unwilling, though I don't know whether that's a big enough difference - particularly given that that participant is also unwitting.
Sure, but I think there's a tendency to try and make this seem way more clear-cut in either direction than it really is, e.g., Apple clearly {is | is not} guilty of antitrust violation by using their position as platform owner to dictate what applications and services are legally allowed on their platform. There's very little precedence in computing history for this other than game consoles, and it's not super crazy to ask whether that's a model that should apply to smartphones and tablets. (To me, that seems to be actually be a fundamental question, and I don't think I have an answer.)
> I really wish law enforcement would enfoce laws, and payment processors would process payments.

Funding criminal activity can itself be a crime.

So financial processors who process payments indiscriminately can find themselves in court for the sins of their clients.

Most financial institutions are not willing to bear the expense of legal defense for questionable clientele.

Update: This is similar in a lot of ways to the issues Marijuana retailers have with banking: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/01/22/...
In this case the state can come from a centrally managed k8s controller. Something that most cloud providers provide and have good SLAs on.

Kubernetes just makes that story so much simpler. Heck a good cloud provider can just handle any machines fucking up automatically without any human intervention on your side.

The same can't be said for a single machine.
I feel like if there's a video game that comes out with cyberpunk themes for our time, Zuckerberg won't allow it to buy ads on Facebook in the same way Hearst tried to prevent Citizen Kane from having newspaper coverage.
The Polish bookmarking service.
The Murky World of Moderation on Clubhouse, a Playground for the Elite
Except you can't pay for Pornhub with PayPal, as PayPal can't be used to buy pornography. Not even the legal kind. They won't even take the proceeds. Venmo is owned by PayPal and has the same policies.

Google Pay also has an explicit ban on pornography. As does Apple Pay. As does Samsung Pay. In fact, I don't think any balance-carrying service available to Americans even theoretically allows paying for porn.
I have three pieces of advice:

1) Continue to be proud of your work and always put your best foot forward. Don't do yourself a disservice by half-assing things.

2) The pandemic, economic downturn, and the accompanying unemployment levels might actually mean a 2% increase is 2% more than anyone else, certainly when compared to people potentially let go.

3) Related to item #2, from a job security perspective, you never really want to be the highest paid employee. Having others at the same salary level allows you to be the best for the money rather than the best, but also most expensive.

Best of luck.

I would recommend that you let them know that you hope to revisit your compensation in the future, particularly in light of your new responsibilities and profitability of the company.
> crime is rampant (...) looks exactly like many east Asian metropolis at night

Dunno about that, I was in Seoul for a few months for work and I've never felt safer in my life, even while walking alone downtown in the middle of the night.
AAPL is 5x WMT.

The issue with Walmart is the monopsony concerns:

https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/51289
I think that's a perfectly reasonable stance for more physical businesses, e.g. shipping products.

Really though, how does it work for a business like this? How do you not serve a specific country on the internet? I'm not aware of any technical solution to this - geoip databases simply aren't accurate.

For businesses where most customers pay, perhaps you can gate the site and verify payment details but that plainly doesn't work for the business model we're discussing as most people surely don't pay anything by design? This isn't Netflix?
I won't claim to be "tracking this issue" and "digging into the details of it." If that's your thing, good for you.

As for it being religiously motivated, I don't believe that it is exclusively religious. I think that regular, average people and people with religious convictions can both be against rape videos and child pornography. If you're not, then I suggest you seek mental health counseling.
> This prevents businesses from establishing their own, hard-earned relationships with customers.

It requires them to earn the relationship instead of leveraging a single transaction into an unwanted intrusion.
Love’s Brain: A Conversation with Stephen Porges (2018)
I assume that there are people who want to only see articles which are similar to the ones that they've already seen, but that defeats the purpose of RSS for me.

I want to see new things from the same sources that I've already identified as being interesting. To that end, I frequently add subscriptions to a category called "New", and after a dozen articles or so either file it properly or stop pulling it.

Most RSS readers can handle this workflow.
One you might like if you haven't seen it already (it is from a couple of years back) is "The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875 (and later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23196626 ).
The government can't outlaw payments to a company that isn't illegal, but they can lean on our duopoly of payment providers to effectively do the same thing. Crypto enables true peer-to-peer payments, which prevents aggressive government action against companies that are morally corrupt in the mind of some (but not all) people.
IIRC It has to be enabled by your Office365 admin. Office365's IMAP also doesn't support 2FA so if your org uses that, then IMAP is out.
It's funny that when some more right leaning site gets banned many people on hacker news are like "yeah well they should create their own payment platforms then".

But when it comes to porn...oh NO! NOT MY PORN!
Anything else seems like an even bigger mess:

What happens when a user who travels unexpectedly discovers they need to download a new version of the app for where they are now? And what if they're on a low-bandwidth or capped cell plan and can't download a 100MB app easily, where 3/4 of the data is duplicates of stuff in their other 5 copies of the app?

What happens when a user tries to book an Uber from one area with a special app version to another area with a different special app version? This could easily generate tens of thousands of permutations.

What happens if the user is physically in one country right now, but is a national of another country and wants to pay for their Uber in their usual currency and payment method?

If the user ends up needing to have 20 copies of the app for various locations, how well will they sync ride history, changes in payment methods, and other such info?

I don't even work for Uber, and I thought of all of these complications in 10 minutes. The real Uber probably has 100x more complications that would arise from splitting location-specific functionality into location-specific apps.
Since users are essentially allowed to upload their own videos, and Section 230 prevents online distributors from being held liable for the content produced on their site, they aren't doing anything illegal by hosting these videos depicting underage women or sexual assault.

Sometimes the only way to force a company to change is to use the market to force them to change. Attack their advertisers or payment processors and force them to do something.
While you're at it, why not shut down MasterCard too. They've been facilitating payments to sites with unlawful content.
But the apps are not just mobile anymore. They are macOS apps, which happen to run on iOS
> It is simple, and many countries have done it. I currently live in one that is doing precisely this - closing businesses and compensating them.

It's not simple. Even in your country, or any other country that has done this effectively, I promise you it is not simple. There are sacrifices being made, whether you can see them now or not. And just because it has been executed well in one country and economy does not mean it can just be universally applied without issue.

In any case, I'm absolutely all for such compensation, I'm just not under the delusion that it's easy to achieve.

> There's nothing inherently authoritarian about it.

You've apparently just conjured up your own notion of what authoritarian means to select cases. I'm not going to argue semantics. Suffice to say, this is more governmental control than many people are willing to relinquish.

> Australia and New Zealand are extremely diverse immigrant nations. They're very similar to the US in that regard.

Neither are anywhere remotely close to the diversity of the US. The major cities are to be sure cosmopolitan as they are around the world, the general populous is not.

> There's nothing inherently authoritarian about it.

You've conjured your own meaning of authoritarian here to apparently require specific political opposition oppression. This is not correct, but I'm also not interested in arguing semantics. Suffice to say many view lockdown as more interventionist than ideal in their government.

> First off, lockdowns are effective

I will refer you back to my original post and the very first sentence I responded to you with, as well as the parenthetical you replied to here. They are effective in reducing cases. This is not the only factor at play.

> And in fact, this spring, an overwhelming majority of Americans did favor lockdown measures (around 80%).

Indeed, when the world as a whole locked down together. Since that time is has become partisan as you said, and also highly questioned whether the costs were worth it.
this is quite a beautiful page, and in the first few seconds you can immediately grasp focus & depth-of-field/bokke. But then it keeps going!
How do you block/censor a Bitcoin transaction to a porn site?

Perhaps if the sending address has been linked to an IRL identity you could prosecute. But then you could just use Monero or other anonymous currencies instead.
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Lemmy also has RSS baked in, so for this instance, you could use the following:

https://hystoria.100millionbooks.org/feeds/all.xml

There are a couple more endpoints (one for communities and another for users) but I'm not sure they're relevant since I've closed off the community feature on this instance.

More details:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/348
> And those judges were probably presented solid evidence that amounted to more than conspiracy and hand waving.

The problem is, that many of the judges themselves are guilty of hand-waving away the evidence/affidavits.

Take for example the below judgement:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18619867/1/donald-j-tru...

Regarding the challenger rights to observation, the judgement says the below:
"This requirement was met at all times.(6)"

This is in direct contradiction to the affidavits that were provided:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18619867/1/donald-j-tru...

I watched the entirety of the Michigan legislature hearing. I heard the affiants speak. Each one provided testimony with a consistent pattern: the Republican poll observers were harassed, kicked out, and not allowed to do their job. This would be in direct violation of state law (http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(d3swxbgf3srsrnw20ak5uthw))/...).

Nowhere in the judgement does the judge address the affidavits. The footnote for that statement (6) just calls it a "conspiracy theory" without addressing the substance of the affidavits at all.

This is generally the case for most of the judgements I have read. Other judgements are denied based on technicalities/standing.

Not a single judgement I have read has addressed the actual substance of the affidavits that have been provided.
That's why I said sometimes misguided. We did get gay marriage. We are getting marijuana legalization and decriminalization of many drugs, which is good in terms of inequality and social issues, because it puts less people into private prisons for victimless crimes.

But I do agree that there is a flood of nonsense. When I was a kid, it used to be "race and gender shouldn't matter". Now they define you by your race and gender, it's the only thing that matters. Just throws gasoline on the fire IMO.
I've been on the other end of signups like that. Sorry to tell you they elicit little more than an eyeroll and a swift deletion. Even from executives.
No, I wonder why Mastercard does process charges on those platforms and what it means especially for Twitter and Reddit that allow UGC adult content.

Here's an anecdote from Carrie Goldberg about how Pornhub compares to FB and Instagram:

I'm a victims rights lawyer. For every 1 case involving a rape tape on Pornhub, I have 50 involving rape and CSAM being disseminated on Insta and FB. Pornhub is far from perfect. But mainstream big tech is far worse and have a built-in mechanism for harassing victims directly.
https://twitter.com/cagoldberglaw/status/1337026875441491973...
Why can't the RedirectByRegEx declarative action be used to "strip umt tracking parameters"? That sounds very much like something you can do with that declarative action type.

User agent spoofing also sounds like the sort of thing one could use the SetRequestHeader declarative action for.

As for disabling JavaScript, yeah declarativeWebRequest appears to lack the ability to do that.
Because that's a false dichotomy and we are looking to both.
Sundar Pichai's Semi-Apology
SO policing what clients do should be the job of the payment processor instead of police?
I believe it. During my last stretch of unemployment I started tracking the days I couldn't get out of bed in my spreadsheets.
OP here.

Maybe it comes across like that, but as somebody building a product with very limited resources, Google's documentation is one of the best so far.

The situation was our fault too. I just went with a test and fail fast attitude, just like with every things we do a dev environment.
Yeah, the targeting is the most interesting part of this story for me. All of the best AAA games are the best because a lot of people put a tremendous amount of effort into them. If you want to make a new game that's a serious contender for one of the best games of all time, and you want an ambitious, deep world and story in a realistic setting, you're going to have to match or exceed previous efforts. If you find enough people who are as interested in the concept and want to make it happen, it's possible and it will probably never be a walk in the park.

There's always a market for indie-scale games, 2D platformers, simple but innovative 3D games, etc, where good, simple ideas are more important than huge amounts of effort. But there's also a market for complex games, and if they're well done, people will happily pay for them.

source: over a decade in the modding and gamedev community, never done it professionally (yet) but have made some popular mods/minigames, and a decent grasp of how much work goes into large-scale games and how much you have to want to make it happen for it to happen, and sometimes, you're willing to spend these long days, and sometimes it's even enjoyable before the money and fame start rolling in, or at least enjoyable enough to stick with it.

I hope, and suspect, nobody who is working on AAA games has zero interest or joy in making big, complicated games.

You get the job because you have skills at it. You have skills at it because you were interested enough to learn them. Those skills are worth money. All of the articles criticizing gamedev seem to miss this.
Well only if it’s not good for the consumer. Amazon is bad for suppliers, but good for consumers.
If someone was pointing to behavior of another payment processor it'd maybe be deflection or whataboutism.

Pointing out that the actor listed is applying their standards here unequally and therefore the standard might not be what's publicly said isn't deflection or whataboutism.

The amount the term "whataboutism" is used in an attempt to not have to address an empirical counterargument is getting old.
This is one of the few benefits I can see to cryptocurrency.
Having been to SF, I can see what you mean. I had never seen someone shoot heroin or smoke crack until I walked the streets of SF. I'm thankful that there are other cities and countries one can choose where to live. I hope they don't all end up that way.
It's called targeted enforcement where your friends don't get in trouble. Facebook has so much more clout than PH they can never get cut off from payment processors.
That was the point! You can run Amazon Linux in a VM or in an EC2 instance. It's a reasonable replacement for Centos, and very similar.
That's one less battle to fight, though. At least with crypto the payment platform is plausibly neutral.
I didn't see HN complaining when SubscribeStar got screwed by payment processors. Payment processors should process payments.
With all those scallions, and that massive amount of cilantro you won't be able to taste the avocado. This reads more like some sort of chutney.

/s
I earn about 50% of my income from my business which currently includes https://LaTeXTemplates.com and https://LaTeXTypesetting.com. In the coming months I'll be releasing a product in this space I've been working on for years so I'm pretty excited about that!
The new project: https://rockylinux.org/
Forums: https://forums.rockylinux.org/

CloudLinux also announced a free alternative: https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-communit...
I'm curious - and perhaps you can help ...

I hate wunderground - it is a giant, bloated mess of a website with a UI that jumps all over the place ...

However, I can't find anyone else to give me a 10 day forecast. It seems like wunderground is the only place that collates it like that, which I like very much.

Am I wrong ? Is there some other source for a proper, detailed, 10 day forecast ?
Never said I was automatically right, timeeater. All belief systems are coherent to the believer.

They're tested by reality. It seems to be that a lot of the people who say 'orange man bad' and think that's the heart of my position, are currently dying of COVID or giving it to others. And that is their experience, though a lot of those same people are sticking with their belief systems UNTO death, not being shaken from them by their experience.

I will keep an eye out for when things in my belief system seem to be not lining up with reality. I wish those 'other people' would do likewise, but I think I'm better at it.
An important omission here is that Amazon Linux 2 is based on RHEL 7, not RHEL 8. (At least, most of the userland is, they do use newer kernels.) Which means it's competing against CentOS 7, not 8 or Stream.

Curiously, Amazon only supports it till June 30, 2023, a year less than RHEL7/CentOS7. It will be interesting to see what they plan to do for Amazon Linux 3, with the latest CentOS news.
Hi,
Congrats on hitting that milestone .
As others have said, the site looks great and it's clear you've put a lot of time into it.
I can offer a few feedback points:

The pricing tiers could have better names, from a quick glance I wasn't sure which plan fits me. Maybe take a look at what are common traits for customers in each plan and see if you can come up with a one word persona for each plan that way.

The product tours after signup are really clear and crisp well done. I've found that getting users to Wow fast is key to drive conversions, and that tours aren't enough. They show me how to get to wow but don't bring me there.

A common pattern is to prepopulate the app with some data and lead the user to a likely wow event quickly. That's super hard, because you need to know what wow is, but it's gold when you crack it.

I've asked customers "What made you decide to give us money" and that can get some good insights towards what wow is.

I just visited the site for the second time, and my dashboard is empty because I haven't done anything. A real user will likely churn, because they don't know what to do. Nudge them hard towards the action that will bring them to wow.

I'm parroting patio11, but your pro plan is priced to low. Try raising prices on it (a lot) and see if anyone goes for it.
Anecdote: I set a pricing page to have $50, $180 and $1200. $50 sold the most, but one day someone self served themselves an annual $1200/month plan, which is 24 $50 customers. Point being, if someone wants to give you a lot of money, give them the chance to do so.

Last point, I just noticed the video under the the pricing section. My personal opinion is that it's weak for marketing purposes, it tells me how to use the app, but doesn't immediately show me what the app can do for me. The point of a video on a marketing page is to get me excited to try and then convert. Make me feel excited ...
On the other hand, it is a very good tutorial video, maybe put it on the dashboard of the app if the user hasn't uploaded any tracks yet.

Good luck!
I love the premise. Best of luck with it.
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Because to do so would be an extrajudicial act. They're bad, real bad. States have a monopoly on violence for a reason.
Developers are pissed of because there’s something that can be technically possible and can benefit them but they are not allowed to do it.

It’s the exactly same mentality of intelligence agencies: There’s a microphone, location tracker and communication logger in the pocket of every citizen but they are not allowed to access those! Ban encryption to make my job easier! Give me a backdoor to everyone to make my job easier!

I am a developer too but I try not forgetting that I am also a user. As a user I don’t feel obligated to make developers job easier who screwed me many times before, I love dealing with Apple and I like keeping it that way.

If you think you can do it better, go do it on Android and if it happens to be good I may switch. There’s no monopoly.

I don’t know why developers think they have right to access me. Apple made the thing and I bought it from them knowing what I am getting into and I have no complaints. I am being taken care well and I will ditch Apple if this changes.
Seems MasterCard just did not want to continue business with that customer, and I suppose others in the same "entertainment" sector, be it a corporate decision or through external pressures to so. Should alleged "unlawful content" be cited there should be throughout proofs (through formal jurisdictional procedure), otherwise I do not see how this is not defamation. These !accusations are quite a growing phenomenon with service providers I believe.
Not to be cynical, but they're probably working their way down the list. CESTA/FOSTA was also ostensibly about stopping people from being abused and has instead harmed sex workers[1].

[1] https://hackinghustling.org/erased-the-impact-of-fosta-sesta...
> I really wish law enforcement would enfoce laws, and payment processors would process payments.

I'm usually on the same page. But it is really hard to feel sorry for Pornhub, they're not Good Guys. The whole normalisation of porn is not a net win for our civilisation. OnlyFans is a relationship simulator for lonely men and as such exploitative. Using the gray corporate term "sex work" mis-characterises the soul-sucking debasedness of it all. It turns everyone into a consumer along its path, and the effects it has on gender relations and family formation are devastating. But I'm fully aware this is a minority opinion on HN.