skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've seen, PornHub is one of the worst thing that happened to the porn industry. It is a piracy hub, 90% of it is illegal with regards to copyright, the rest is fueled by predatory business practices. If it was mainstream media, it would have been sued to oblivion, or, like YouTube, forced to adopt aggressive anti-piracy measures.

And, maybe there is a little bit of child porn on PornHub, it is bound to happen since users can upload anything. I could probably upload child porn on YouTube if I wanted to, that would be short lived and it would get me into trouble but I can probably get a few hundred views before it gets caught. But the thing is, I never stumbled upon it. In fact, I pretty much only get illegally uploaded content from legitimate studios or "PornHub originals".

That anti-sex work groups attack PornHub is ironic. It would be like being against the record industry and attacking The Pirate Bay.
> If you make a url return data that is visually aligned with “a story protocol” google will put it at top of relevant search results.

Seems like it would be a magnet for low-value SEO content and outright scams.
People and companies must every day decide is this legal or not. Eventually courts have the final say, but then it's too late.

Waiting to get conviction is not good way to live or business to operate.
I was thinking of critique more along the lines of Carolyn Petit's article for Polygon.
Electronic amoeba approximateS solution to traveling salesman problem
The overall challenge for this seems similar to the challenge of reproducible builds. How do you eliminate every single measure to deal with a system quirk and so get the same VM results everywhere?

Basically, you want the VM to encapsulate everything and give the same result everywhere. You need a theoretical approach, a system of encapsulation and testing. But if you get that, the benefits would extend beyond anti-finger-printing, to privacy and also to making the platform reliable.
Do you go hiking alone without your phone? That seems dangerous.

And why would you start a test if you won't be there to see the results of the test? Seems more sensible to either leave after you've run the test or wait to do so until you get back.
The crux of the problem is that for much of the US population any porn is unethical and immoral. Since the advent of the Internet the % of population declaring no religious affiliation has jumped by 25%. Once the US hits near 50% non-religious population then the fights are really going to begin about social norms. The struggle is much larger than just porn norms, but all norms.
Price of polluting in EU rises as carbon price hits record high
Included by reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23974212
Apparently 26000 GBP a year, which is somewhat depressing.
How far apart is an iPad Pro with a keyboard from the new MacBook Pro with the M1 chip? It seems pretty obvious they are converging to me. If they do converge, do you think Apple will start allowing MacOS on iPads, or will require MacBooks to run iOS and provide some virtualized OS emulation layer?

I know what I'd put my money on, given lack of legal reasons in the future to force it another way.
As a completely out-of-left-field suggestion, the next time you have a routine doctor visit, ask for a parathyroid hormone test. It's a cheap and quick blood test. This is probably not your issue, but if it's out of whack, that could easily explain your feelings. And it's fixable.
Paid Model for Piazza
post-ARC, Objective-C and Swift aren't very different in terms of memory management. retain and release are handled for you, and you only need to worry about retain cycles. structs in Swift change things a bit, but not that much
Not just a hunch, actual US policy: "Operation Choke Point" was a 2013 inititative by the DoJ to hurt legal but unpopular businesses (e.g. payday lenders, tobacco, firearm dealers, and - yes - pornographers) by making it harder for banks to provide services to them.
"Users who like this, also like ..."

Here is a video with simulations of coronal mass ejections [0] and an article on this by Phil Plait ("BadAstronomer")[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLLq6plMjU0

[1] https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/2012-solar-disaster-almost-was
I read that a few times when I was younger. It's such a great story, and I've always been meaning to revisit it as an adult. When my kids get a little older I'm sure we'll enjoy it.
India cabinet approves setting up a ‘massive network’ of public Wi-Fi hotspots
Thanks for the feedback!

You're right in that this isn't meant to be used in the same way as soundcloud.

Soubdcloud is about discovery whereas my app songbox is about sharing privately. Most of the music shared in SongBox is pre-release and not for public consumption.
Part of AMP (1) is a web component library grounded in the extensible web manifesto (2).

The plan was that the browser vendors give developers deeper access so that they could test new elements/standards through web components and polyfills.

The AMP component library is one example of this, and stories are one of their forms. So basically if you use their tags to structure your content, it creates a ig/sc style Web Story.

The structure that they have is (3):
Story -> Pages -> Layers -> Elements

Each page represents a tappable screen,
Layers occupy the full screen, stack and have layout defaults like fill or lower-third and
Elements can be regular html elements or other AMP components.

I think that it's a neat way of organizing pages of information and made a clojure wrapper around it here: https://github.com/rainbow-bamboo/sargam

1. https://amp.dev/about/mission-and-vision/
2. https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto/blob/master/READM...
3. https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/start/vis...
It's likely the DOJ is pressuring them. Look up Operation Choke Point.
Right, I just don't understand how this doesn't just become a problem for the exchanges at that point. Right now they're too small to be on the radar.
> My parents, children, and friends who have iPhones have the same benefits.

Your parents are consenting adults. What makes you think your parents don't deserve to be trusted to use an app they want to use?

As for children, just don't give out your Apple ID password. Children under 13 are not allowed to create accounts.

> I have not yet had to help one of them get malware off of their iOS devices.

This is a completely different issue. Apps can still be sand-boxed for security.

> Why did you buy an option that doesn't have the features you want, and now you want to take away a feature many of us like?

You have nothing to lose here. I really don't understand why you're still calling this a feature.
So, no more gay porn if your site is accessible from the UAE ?
Initial install bundle should be minimal and only have code that is required everywhere and or for downloading/installing more stuff.

It's not about creating 10,000 different permutations of an app, but downloading/installing content on demand.

If we are afraid that there might be problem that user later on has not enough bandwidth or issues like that, we'll start immediately downloading/installing after
initial bundle in order we think this user might need them.

This means much faster initial usage, much less bandwidth used in total.

Same with developing experience. You shouldn't have to compile code that is not important for your development exp. This way compiling wouldn't take much time, dev productivity would be increased tremendously.
Lots of companies don’t speak publicly about their product strategies, like certain former employers of his.
I'm sure there are examples, but in common use it is understood to be plural and has been used that way in all writing for a long time.
I know there's no reason for Google or AWS to do this, but man do I wish there was a way to put down a spending limit and simply disable anything that goes over that limit.

It's a little bit nuts that there are no guardrails to prevent you from incurring such huge bills (especially as a solo developer that might just be trying out their services).
There's definitely been negativity around forever (infamously, the Dropbox announcement post), but it subjectively feels worse now. Not sure if that's real or just nostalgia.

Regardless, it's still disheartening. There's a strain of thought that correctly notes that every success story has some luck involved and then incorrectly applies that lesson to believe that it's a 100% lottery. You can, in fact, still learn from people who have succeeded.
No, they don't. Speaking from experience, I've uploaded plenty of personal content on PH without showing ID.
Applying your own bartender analogy, in this case pornhub should be properly policing the content made available on their website. Mastercard doesn't have any useful domain knowledge.
This is amazing feedback. I love the Audible angle.

More food for thought.
And this comment makes you look incredibly naive and narrow minded.

Running some code on a CPU != running a startup. Great you can buy a Dell server on eBay, or you can build a powerful desktop, or rent a VM or get a droplet or scrape on lowendbox. These are not a secret and there is a great reason no one does this other than hobbyists and neckbeards.

You do your testing and it works, then what? You have to deliver scalable reliable systems in production that require identity management, security, backups, resiliency, reliability, various networking services and a million other supporting services and all the systems that come with it. Never-mind actually scaling the application, monitoring it and all the tools, systems and processes needed to run reliable systems in production.

The eBay servers provide you exactly zero of that and you've just wasted time setting up an environment that is a snowflake and doesn't represent reality. Testing on the cloud on exactly the same platform you would use for production has a lot of benefits when you look at value as limited developer time delivering value to customers and the business.

Whilst the $1200 server on eBay might be cheap today, you are entirely missing the hidden cost of lost time when your team of developers costing $M/year are wasting on testing in an environment that doesn't help them find and solve production issues. You don't need many hours of wasted time or downtime to lose all of your so called cost gains.

Optimising for absolute minimum cost is a fools errand that only slows down actually delivering production systems that deliver value to your customers.

Please spend some time thinking bigger about the opportunity cost and value delivery of technology beyond the immediate dollars and cents - it might surprise you.
>The only thing we don't have is flying cars, which is really what I was hoping for.

Aren't they called helicopters?
This is an outlier and painting it in retrospect as "we knew they're gonna make it from the first time" is just ludicrous. This stocks are full of money from the government and wouldn't stand a chance in a different stock market.
Also there are not tech companies at all. They are marketing companies fueled by cheap money.
I feel like the answer is obvious. The countries are younger and healthier.

Look at the age distrabution of Gabon and compare it to the US or Italy. We know that covid is most deadly to the elderly, with 80+ being 100X more likely to die than someone in their 20s. The entire country of Gabon has <4,000 people over 80!

https://www.populationpyramid.net/gabon/2019/
https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...
https://www.populationpyramid.net/italy/2019/
My guess is 9-11 million per month without any noticeable fluctuations during a year.
You need separate costed quotas for each type of activity
with a combined total at the bottom.

You could also have a setting in the admin panel as to what the system should do:

[ ] I want to keep going beyond my quotas (but email me)

[ ] Please shutdown my site
You live in a 220,000 square foot building?! Is this an abandoned missile silo or something? I want to know more.
> Millions of VERY illegal child abuse are uploaded to

> Internet Watch Foundations number of 118 cases of CSAM over 3 years

If there is millions of them, I'm sure you can do better than 118 cases over 3 years...
Both sides!!111/s
Running Lighthouse in GitHub Actions
Make a Language in Rust: Comments
The leap of faith: going full-time on browserless.io
Import-on-Interaction Pattern
MacOS on iPads won't happen anytime soon. Not so long as Apple can sell you two devices instead of one.
Your framing doesn't make sense. If someone tells me "I'm not a doctor or a scientist but you should eat 4 Apples a day" the correct response is to ignore it, not try to decide what the opposite of 4 Apples a day is and to believe that, whatever the heck the opposite of 4 Apples a day would be.

If I read an article where someone says "I'm not a journalist that this isn't fact checked but ABC" it would seem the correct response is to ignore it, not assume what you read is correct or even the opposite is correct.
A molecule will generally only be approved for a given indication once (until it goes generic). If one company releases it, the second one to discover it can’t.
Actually I want large banks investigated and prosecuted the way small banks are. Which isn't the case. HSBC laundered billions for terrorists and human traffickers with zero DOJ involovment despite whistleblowers tipping them off. But Charlie Shrem didn't report his bitcoin sale and went to prison. If you think these laws make banking fairer I've got a bridge to sell you.
hopefully humanity dies soon. thats what I hope for.
Minor nit: many non-billing metrics are near-real time, e.g. DB concurrents, cloud functions CPU/RAM usage; any metrics that require aggregation (storage, billing) are going to be batched less frequently. This is going to be true across all platforms of non-trivial scale (eventual consistency + batch jobs).

Second note: the number of people who actually do this is very low (a few a year, of hundreds of thousands of developers). The blog posts are scary, but in my ~five years at Firebase, I'm pretty sure we refunded every one. As my boss (James Tamplin, CEO of Firebase) used to say, "There are lots of bad systems, but rarely are there bad people."
Even if it is just used as a figure of speech: "I bet that millions will die in next 4 years" crosses the line for me. But I guess it's just me.
Hm, then your experience was different from mine. When did you get approved as a model? Because I certainly did have to show IDs back in... January I think it was. And my partner and I were initially rejected, then we had to appeal. For us at least there definitely was a process.
wild.

Aside: I've seen cannabis contribute to schizo onset.
I think you're missing the point, the thing is that LSD gives you a new perspective on yourself, not necessarily that it just boosts the happy molecules in your brain.
so... for a small cluster then it's like aws beanstalk, right? rolling deployments, load balancing, etc. all for free.
This is amazing feedback. Thank you.

1. There are various images on the homepage that show the "listener" UI. Is that not coming across?

2. On the "pro" tier you can offer the tracks for download, but not for sale. This has crossed my mind as a future option but I'm not sure if this is the platform for that right now. Maybe when / if it scales and becomes more mainstream.
> it's actually convinced me on the virtue of regular OO/procedural languages over lisp.

This is an example of the problem of Clojure being promoted as Lisp. There are now people whose idea of what is "Lisp" is represented by Clojure.

You might like coding in a normal, procedural Lisp with OOP, but due to a bias induced by Clojure, you don't suspect that's even a thing.
> I wasn't the person you responded to, I just wanted to point out the expectation should be the article is fiction. The women may not even exist. They may not have been quoted correctly if they even exist. There is no expectation it's been fact checked. The article is in the opinion section, which means NY Times doesn't believe it's journalism at all.

You misunderstand what the opinion section is for: it's not for fiction, it's for advocacy [edit: and subjectivity]. A direct condemnation of PornHub or expression of revulsion to them (which I recall the article had) would have been totally inappropriate for the news pages.

Nicholas Kristof would be fired if he made all this up.
> We did get gay marriage. We are getting marijuana legalization and decriminalization of many drugs,

You are giving way too much credit to the SJW millennial crew. None of those things were enacted because of them.
By the pattern of your answer I can conclude that you have never been contractor, so you do not know enough about IR35. But fair enough you have huge karma so you can downvote my answer.
IR35 has existed for very long time and has relied on determination of who is in or out, liability before was on Limited companies to determine status. Now, government shifted that liability to employers as for the past 10 years they have not got more than handful of cases in the court against those single-person companies.
So, employers in fear of heavy fines, are using blanket approach and placing everyone Inside IR35 regardless of their real practices.

IR35 is advertised as fair but in fact it is not as on example of Amazon
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/08/amazon-uk...

Those really big are exempted of taxes, you just need to have enough money and good leverage.

Now, why was contracting good in UK?
Because short rotation of contact was helping to increase "salaries" (rates). Permanent employees do not negotiate salaries on regular bases, and what I have experienced that they sitting on the same level for years.
Natural tendency in capitalism is to maximize profit for shareholders and minimize all expenses in process. Salaries of permanent employees are expense column.

Why is this bad news for all companies, regardless of higher rates, it is easier to discharge contractors. Having very strong unions in UK, that will not go easy with permanent employees. Meaning startups will have issue to find people on short term bases.

And many more things to cut the long story short... Nothing to do with fairness but as Jean-Baptiste famously declared “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.”

That new IR35 changes are bad proof is decision to delay it for one year because of pandemic...
Excellent feedback. Thank you. Will do that for sure it seems like an easy win.
also hope that the pfizer vaccine doesn't get approval so we have more death.
y combinator bragging
since i preordered its coming with a "free" controller and chromecast, so i can play on the couch once it arrives. i assume they do this to lure me into purchasing additional stadia content and since this has been so smooth i just may.
It's total rejection rate to total rejection, so that's apples-to-apples, right?

It is interesting that the GA SoS claims rejections in 2016 due to signatures was really low.

If that's true and 2020 is comparable, then we would not expect to see a significant number bogus signatures in an audit, which would provide reassurance to all observers.

Hence, in that case, I don't understand the reluctance to perform an audit.
We use event-based analytics. A super easy way to do it is to create an AWS Lambda function that you can hit using a Rest API. A simple `console-log` statement with JSON.stringify will log it to Cloudwatch logs. And bam, you can create basic charts and stuff with [Log Insights](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/CWL...). Up to 5Gb in the free tier. Easy dashboards. All data is in AWS (so less tools to keep up with)

Tradeoff - their query language is poor, and I really want to do cohort analysis. But you can export as CSV, or easily push to Datadog.
"Mastercard Inc and Visa Inc on Thursday stopped processing payments on Pornhub after a New York Times article said many videos posted on the adult website depicted sexual assault of children" Child Porn is explicitly the reason they did this.
> Specific claim: During the counting at the TCF Center in Michigan, Republican poll watchers were denied their legal right to meaningful observation.

Basically, this junk again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25373634

it was "not credible" (1), it was thrown out of court, the end.

Move on. Accept that the election is over and it didn't go your way. That's what happens in democracies. The only question, is, is the USA still a democracy?

1) https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/11/michigan-judge...
Great feedback, thanks. I will add that to the list...

I cannot believe how much amazing feedback I'm getting from you guys today. Blown away.
The non-cynical take is that "stories" is the first content format since the "feed" that is really sticky and opens a new avenue for user interaction. Everyone is adopting them because is now clear that it's not a fad.
Consumers understand the concept of stories and actually engage heavily with them so nobody wants to miss out.

Of course not all the implementations are good or useful, but from a user interaction perspective the functionality is becoming so widely familiar that it makes sense why everyone is adopting this format.
What's the problem? These are futures, not options, so the dynamic is different and you MUST take delivery at the price you bid for. If anything this is a fantastic step in the right direction of starting to acknowledge that the cost of consumption should be borne by the consumers (and not by the politically less privileged).
Abusing WiFi Direct for Fun and Profit
Ask HN: better for eyes? 25% in dark or 75% in light room?
What do you find better for your eyes? Low screen brightness in the dark or moderate screen brightness in a light room?
Thanks for the feedback. That Miley Cyrus thing is just a vocal stem. I recorded all the music myself.

Will check out amazing radio later :-)
There is a period just before the freeze which can also get a bit hectic, but we should be well beyond that point for most relevant services by now. Don't know the exact dates since I left in September. But your point stands: holiday freezes exist and are taken seriously.
And even that is tenuous. In cases where you run afoul of AML regulations, cryptocurrency will not save you.

In cases such as this where you break no laws, but your payment processor refuses to process payments ... well, at some point you'll have to convert your crypto cash into real cash - so all you did was kick the ball downstream and fixed nothing. If MasterCard refuses to process your payments, they can also refuse to process payments for the crypto exchange if they do business with you.
Canada gon get rich.
It also has a dark history -- it basically managed to dominate by initially causing pornography publishers/producers to go under due to its rampant and unchecked hosting of pirated content, and then, in the ultimate ironic twist, it would turn around and cheaply acquire them: https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/mindgeek-porn-monopoly-...
No, but as a community we have limited resources, and it makes more sense to focus on the technical solution than the legislative, which is usually a long slow process and never gets done what you want after all the lobbyists get their hands in it.
If the opinion section isn't fact checked, why would you believe the premise that results in call for advocacy is correct?