skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do as much as any UGC platform (auto scanning with photoDNA, reviewing, flags etc) and just committed to doing even more like forcing users to give ID to upload https://help.pornhub.com/hc/en-us/categories/360002934613
This was a long campaign by anti-sex work campaigners.

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
FTA, the amount of hires they have to weed out visually intensive and traumatic material was listed at 80 worldwide. The article compares it to Facebook's hires for similar weeding out and there was a couple of orders of magnitude difference. I recommend reading the article - it was sobering how bad it is and how it continues to traumatize its victims.
> My one on ones with my manager have become repetitive

My 1:1s with my boss are basically useless and I think we're both aware of that.

What do people generally talk about in 1:1s?

I've never really been clear what the purpose is other than to check a box and say it happened.
"I love emacs. Extremely powerful. Just lacks a decent editor"
Your word for today: Whataboutism
But in this case, it appears they do have legal reasons for denying services.

The company was aware of it's CP problem and didn't do much to stop it. Now they have a very strong incentive to police their site.
Compute sucks on AMD no matter the OS. CUDA is so far ahead.
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> Suggested a very overdone architectural revamp, moving everything possible into AWS Specific technologies.

To be honest, depending on the technology, the savings could be worth it... for example, did you know you get a discount if your traffic is served over cloudfrount? even if your distribution is set to no cache any resource, you can front your APIs using cloudfront and save networking.
A message to my previous self: Before you write a line of code, decide what the interactions are going to be and then use an engine which can handle them and no more. If you're writing code that handles when two stacked physics enabled boxes have their supporting structure removed from them at near t speed of light, but don't require such interactions to make your game fun, then you're stuck in a tar pit from which you'll never escape.
Spot the sleight of hand. starts with

> When literally hundreds of thousands of ballots are being counted without any oversight

which is itself BS.
and then swaps in:

> illegal ballots

This conflation is not a good faith argument.

> The "Right" is convinced beyond doubt that the election was a fraud.

I know this. It's a problem. The prediction "If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy." turned out to be very true. It's not deeper than that.

> The "Left" is convinced beyond doubt that Trump is trying to overturn the election.

Who doesn't? If he isn't trying (badly but nonetheless) to overturn the elections, then what on earth _even are_ these nutty lawsuits? The idea that they exist and are an attempt to change the outcome of the election should not be up for debate. I mean, do you disagree about the existence of them? You think it's an attempt to order from McDonalds maybe?

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

> I'm happy to provide evidence to anything I've claimed.

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.

Frankly, you seem to be struggling with basic logic here.
> We pick 1,000 as a default value for "maxScale", this can be considered high for some users, but low for users who expect infinite scaling from the service and start with a load test to evaluate it.

That seems absurd to me.

I think it makes much more sense to put the onus on the sophisticated customer to increase their maxScale to an unusual value. Users who "expect infinite scaling...and start with a load test" are sophisticated users.

E.g. set maxScale low, like 2 or 4. The sophisticated customer would recognize their oversight quickly. Click-click, fixed, restart test.

Effectively 100% of less-sophisticated customers will not need enormous scale on day 1. Customers with whom you do not have an existing billing relationship in the 10s of thousands of dollars per cycle will almost certainly not want it.

I'd consider that level of overspecification to be a strong anti-pattern.
Sexual assault of children is illegal. Sedition is only illegal in rare circumstances. In the US anyway.
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25301913

I guess this story explains why Pornhub decided to change their policies a few days ago & banned uploads by unverified users. See this Vice story: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7m7k8/pornhub-banned-upload...

Too little, too late.
It's not an article, it's a hit piece, written by a known agitator not a journalist at a time when the religious anti PH movement is at it's crescendo.
Show HN: Ness deploys websites to your AWS account
I got tired of standing up the same infrastructure for static websites repeatedly, so I made a free CLI tool for deploying sites with a single command.

It's like Amplify, but exclusively CLI driven and lacking all of the (backend) features :D. Or like Netlify but deployed to your own (AWS) infra.

I also still don't know if it works for anyone not running it on my machine, so there's that. I'd love some feedback if anyone else finds this useful!
> I think we need to invest more in investigating the criminals making and uploading

Agreed, but in this specific case it would be the child, herself, that made and distributed the original content. How would these cases be handled?
And how big is Google's web search bundle?

Most of what you mentioned should be server side.
I work in this space and you’re absolutely correct. Your last paragraph hits the nail on the head for pretty much every complain people have about the public clouds.
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$5 droplet, 2GB swap (set it internally) and run Caprover.

Deploy your Postgres (for DB), minio (for s3 storage) and your webapp from Caprover. Add nodes as you need to scale out.
If pornhub is breaking the law, then it should be prosecuted. The ability of companies and individuals to send and receive payments should not be at the whim of public opinion anymore than their access to the electric grid. Payment processing is at the point where it needs to be regulated as a utility.
Reading the New York Times article mentioning women and trafficking reminded me of this old American classic from over a century ago, about the yellow journalists of the day spinning the same stories, sans the modern streaming element https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-the-whi...
This article seems to be making a case for workplace democracy. I think characterizing self-governing enterprises as capitalist is a contradiction in terms, but hey, if that's what it takes...

I see workplace democracy as a pole in the axis of alternatives to capitalism. On one side, you have a market economy where private enterprise is dominant but governed by its own workers, and the other being the democratically planned economy. Both fit the definitions and frameworks for socialist post-capitalism economies. We've seen trials of the latter, but I'm very curious as to what the former at an economy scale would look like. It seems like a very promising mode of economic organization, that despite being very old in conception, didn't really get a fair shake outside of very short term experiments at scale.
Users who desire to upload content should be forced to provide ID to comply with US law as it relates to age verification of adult talent (2257 Regulation) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_film_industry_regulation...
Is centos slimmer? I haven't payed much attention, but I haven't heard it talked about as a particularly slim distro.
Your last part needs an "and if they were logically consistent" qualifier. (Which they may be, but I wouldn't assume.)
> One could also say that all of Gibson and Sterling's early novels were warnings, describing in some detail near future cyberpunk dystopias.

That's the original core of cyberpunk, it was in no small part a condemnation / reversal of the utopian post-war SF.

And the Cyberpunk TRPG (which is the universe / setting of Cyberpunk 2077) is very much set in that genre / ethos.
Hallucinations are one thing.

If they took datura your friends most likely experienced delusions (aka distorted perceptions or thinking - and you believe it is real).

It's a really reckless thing to mess around with under almost any circumstances.
I think the more apt analogy might be choosing not to sell flour to that jerk who runs the anti-gay cake store anymore because you don't want to be caught up in the bad PR.

I'm pretty sure you can still use MasterCard to fund a PayPal account, which can be used to buy any manner of thing, so it's not purely that Mastercard doesn't want their money being used to buy illegal things. They just don't want to be associated with it.
> Honestly, I've never found story pointing exercises to result in anything resembling reality.

I've never found story pointing exercises to provide anything meaningful. Goodhart's law in action; you either ignore the story points, making them useless, or you use them to estimate productivity, causing people to game them.

I understand that gauging velocity and individual contributions is important, I just think story points or work estimates are a bad way to do it in the context of sprints. An individual task, or even a sprint, is too micro to get any decent measure out of. I much more strongly prefer evaluations based on longer milestones (monthly or quarterly). Someone being low on story points for a sprint means nothing without a lot of context on why. Someone missing a milestone on a month or quarter long project is much more indicative of a problem, because they've had enough time to ask for help, or to smooth out bursty progress.
Theres a browser extension that can do this for you if you feel so inclined.

https://adnauseam.io

I've never used it myself so I don't know if it still works but I remember reading about it here on HN a few years ago or so.

I think however that if it even still works there is a risk that you may start being prompted with a lot more CAPTCHAs. But again, haven't tried it so don't know if that would happen or not.
Yes, now that they got caught they've started doing this stuff. They weren't before, such was the whole point of the (first) NYT article.
AWS Certificate Manager gives you free non-extended SSL to your machine, it's pretty nifty.
Right but if we follow this to it's logical end we're at the same place. In my mind any platform that can be used to promote sex work is going to have these issues. Does that mean we just push sex work back into the dangerous fringes of society?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...

We can’t let the abuse that happens on platforms like pornhub become a partisan issue. It’s grotesque and tortuous to the people who are affected by it. This has zero to do with being sex positive.
I do not agree. First, being recognized as part of a group is better privacy-wise than being uniquely identified. And second, yes your unusual values will stand out, but as they always change, it makes it harder to link the browsing sessions together, and lower the confidence of the algorithm. It makes it harder to _track_ the profile in the long term.
Funny enough the biggest criticism of the game I have seen in the reviews (apart from technical problems) is that it uses Cyberpunk as a pretty setting but touches on its themes very superficially. IMO it's futile to try and stay away from politics and controversy when you're in a genre that is so deep rooted in it.
Show HN: PointNG – Privacy-protected location detection developer tool
> I came across many videos on Pornhub

I bet :)
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OP here.

Bankruptcy fear was real at the time. Google has at least a few thousand lawyers on payroll. They probably also have a process of handling delinquencies and sending them notices. A quick look at the lawyer fee to just manage the case, let alone fight it, is enough for bootstrapped company to raise hands.

+1 to bad actors possibility. I shared this with Google team, I'm not sure what they have done since.

We are out of that situation and I wrote the post so others, relatively new to Cloud don't make same mistakes.

Fail fast is a very bad idea with Cloud.
"But they do belong together, don't they? I mean, they are all under attack by facts-denying militant groups fueled by anti-intellectual propaganda."

No, that is just a strategy of defamation that you fell for. Basically the "Hitler was a vegetarian" argument against vegetarianism. In short, "a person of type x believes y" does not imply "everybody who believes y is a person of type x".

" And no, just because a militant group actively denies and rejects facts that doesn't make them disputed nor does it means there is no consensus."

If you would watch more YouTube, you would be aware that it is not only "militant groups" who argue about aspects of Covid.

"This is about people actively disseminating and consuming propaganda and disinformation."

There are such people on all sides.
Nah. We had 6G in the UK first! Look at the photo. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/truth-seekers-nick-frost-sim...
IBM made AMD the second source for Intel's CPUs used in the IBM PC line of computers.
> 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.

Don't know about brothels, but even in the strip clubs I went to years ago they didn't process cards. Instead you had to go to the corner ATM with ridiculous fees to withdraw some cash.
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What's that line, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet?

Walking around SF and I definitely feel like we're pretty much at the radical inequality cyberpunk future we were promised. I walk outside and see self-driving cars right next to tent cities and people cooking over open flames on the sidewalk.
I'm sure Fauna is a great database and probably cheaper in many cases. I just have some issues with the "Complex Example". I just don't feel it is realistic that anyone familiar with DynamoDB would create such a schema. It comes across like a good schema for Fauna is being forced onto DynamoDB, without an evaluation of what would be the recommended "DynamoDB way" of solving the customer's needs.

> We have an accounts table with 20 secondary indexes defined for all the possible sort fields (DynamoDB’s maximum—Fauna has no limit).

The usecase of having 20 secondary indexes in DDB is an extremely rare case. Arguably should be considered an anti-pattern, only used for an application transitioning query patterns in some way. If this is the norm for an application, I'd argue the product managers/developers do not understand their customer's needs well enough. I'd assume that at this stage in the product's life, a basic Postgress installation is likely a better choice.

Additionally, if the query pattern really needs to be "super flexible" for the long term, you'll find that eventually you'll need more and more of ElasticSearch's tech (or similar tech). A very common pattern is to use DDB Streams to ElasticSearch connector (obviously sacrificing query-after-write consistency).

> Viewing just the default account screen queries 7 indexes and 25 documents. A typical activity update transactionally updates 3 documents at a time with 10 dependency checks and modifies all 35 indexes.

This is such a red flag. If your application requires this from DDB, you should change your schema (probably more de-normalization). However, the example doesn't have enough information for me to suggest a better schema to meet the customer's needs.

Disclaimer: I work at Amazon, but not in AWS. My opinions are my own.
The formula for receiving tokens is public. Uphold requires KYC because it isn't sketchy.

In the crypto world many users want to move tokens around without paying tax. Catering to these users is not how you build a legitimate business.
The reaction to "success" posts (in monetary terms) on HN have been quite disheartening.

I don't know what's behind the change in sentiment (maybe the influx of new users?), but big returns require big risk. It's absolute lunacy to pursue a startup, but people do it anyway because we've created a system that rewards ambition.

A system that has elevated the standard of living consistently since it's inception.

For those preaching "survivorship bias", the "crabs in a bucket" fallacy is alive and well here.
Tried checking out your writing, but it seems like your websites down. If you're extending your generosity to other commenters, I'd love to take you up on the offer :)
This article explains the originals of the NYT opinion article and the anti-sex work campaigns behind it: https://newrepublic.com/article/160488/nick-kristof-holy-war...
Millions of VERY illegal child abuse are uploaded to Facebook, Twitter and all UGC platforms. In the NYT article, the journalist dismisses the (non religious) Internet Watch Foundations number of 118 cases of CSAM on Pornhub over 3 years. He asks IWF why the number is so low and says they couldn't explain it. Maybe because it is.
... are you serious? You use an infinitely thin rope of course!

Slightly more seriously, you take the limit of a alpha-sized goat tied with an alpha-sized rope as alpha goes to zero from above.
Completely agree with this sentiment. Dug slightly deeper and founds this. Stories are part of APM, adding the ability to create the 'stories' pages by conforming to Google's format like including a link to their stories JavaScript.

https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/start/vis...
This is good news for cryptocurrencies. Mastercard/VISA offer no value in 2020 and are an anachronism to an era that no longer exists.
I feel like someone has eaten the onion... Babylon bee is a spoof site.
What actual change has the social justice movement effected? I know it's very loud and powerful when turned against isolated individuals, but I was unaware of a successful track record against the actual systemic causes of the various injustices they oppose. I just assumed that as a leaderless movement without clear goals or a definable end state ("end racism and sexism" is as malleable as "end terrorism" is), they functioned more as a pressure release valve for the frustration of a generation denied the freedoms of their predecessors without being anesthetized by the numbing flood of meaningless content and nihilistic culture that will safely neuter their descendants, than an effective agent for change.
Alternately, maybe there shouldn't be a payment processor duopoly and businesses should be allowed to act ethically (within the bounds of the law)?
Out of curiosity, did you read the linked article? It would appear that you're implying that the women that were directly quoted as being harmed by the site were also lying.

If so, I find the stance of "either the author is an idiot or there's a conspiracy" to be an interesting dichotomy that excludes a third possibility.
> technology is not good for people

I would strongly argue that lot's of technology is great for people. CyberPunk didn't really anticipate how cheap solar and wind power would become, and a lot of the 1980's projections expect rising energy costs. Beyond that, just look at things like the mRNA vaccines rolling out this week. The technology behind it is something you can almost work with in a home lab, but was unimaginable 10 years ago, and will save millions of lives.

> Pollution is rampant

This is true in place, but it's getting better. China is starting to clean up, and India looks to be making moves in this direction. The US is far cleaner and greener than it was in the 80s. The famous smog over L.A. is nearly gone.

> crime is rampant

Crime until 6 months ago in the US had been declining for 30 years.

> social and economic inequality is just accepted

People are making plenty of noise about this, and just this week the FTC, and EU regulators are taking on tech giants. I'm keeping an eye on this topic.

If we can get our shit together on CO2 emissions and how we utilize the ocean, the future isn't looking all that dim.
That's why I like to use the "anti-competitive" terminology when I talk about this. Anti-competitive behavior is the problem, a monopoly is a specific very problematic example of anti-competitive behavior, but it's that it's anti-competitive that makes it a problem.

Apple may not be a monopoly. They've definitely set up the ecosystem to be anti-competitive. Whether that's harmful to consumers (which is what matters) is debatable. I tend to think it's harmful, but they've done such a complete job of locking it down that it's hard to even compare without having to change a lot or things, since they control and exclude others from the hardware all the way up to sales transactions for services, and everything in between.

That said, the fact that Apple was able to quickly cut their fees from 30% to 15% for some developers just because of growing public sentiment seems to indicate that competition is not working well to normalize these app store fees, and that likely means developers and by extension users are paying more because of that.
I don’t think MC much cares if it hurts or helps Pornhub they are getting out of a bad partnership that could put them at risk of being called part of a child rape ring.
> Marketplaces are quantified by economic value

So if Apple had 100% of all phone users and 100% of all apps but the apps were entirely free, that wouldn't be a monopoly?

> there being no other universal unit.

I suggested a number of other units above.

> There's an arrogance in tech that we can make up definitions to suit ourselves.

The question of defining the market is the basis of how the decision is made in court and the biggest point of argument between the legal teams. This isn't about tech arrogance.

I also feel like this back-and-forth isn't constructuve so I'll stop here.
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It's not "anti-sex work" to want to stop people from being abused. Are they targeting onlyfans too? No. Just these exploitative sites that enable bad behavior.
Yes, for the original hardware, with known latency it worked wonders. But software implementations on different hardware stacks, often with i2s dacs that don’t report their latency back to the OS makes for a headache inducing sync.
It’s a huge leap to go from cheering the leak of those emails to alleging that Trump colluded with Russia to “steal” the election. To me that implies manipulating votes. I don’t think releasing information can ever count as “stealing” an election. Certainly that doesn’t justify calling him “illegitimate.” If those emails changed the outcome of the election, that’s only because the information was probative to voters.

To use a legal analogy, I don’t see political discourse as being something where there should be judges excluding unreliable or prejudicial materials. Information is fair game.
I normally receive only my "part" of my corporate credit card statement, but earlier this year I was sent more of it.

That's when I found out the card has a credit limit of over €50,000.

Reading this, I wonder if we should contact the bank and ask for another card with a lower limit, to use with various cloud services. We are 99% on-premises, but have about €200/month in various GCS/AWS usage.