skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't think that this problem lies solely with porn websites. The same illegal content is uploaded and distributed to Twitter, tictok and other social media but they're protected by the same article 240 pornhub is.

However, in the eyes of the leftist cesspool twitter is, if you say you want to remove article 240 to hold twitter accountable for distributing illegal content via tweets, then suddenly you're a Trump supporting alt right conspiracy theorist.
If you have schools (e.g. institutions, not individuals) already paying, maybe experiment if you can make a pricing tier for institutions.
E.g. Special School package 3k/yr includes unlimited tracks, group by classroom, some other school specific feature ...
This is where I think the disconnect is. I see the entire iOS device as Apple's marketplace and so the housing analogy doesn't make sense to me. The app is your stall where you're allowed to sell things and conduct business.

I'm not saying it's low friction at all. Hell I would try to make my hypothetical market as high-friction as possible by having a prepaid high-cost membership fee, as many exclusives as I could find, and lots of benefits and services tied to it. This just seems like business.
Philip Rosedale announces API license of 3D audio to improve online conferencing
> Why anyone would want this? I do not know.

I would imagine some portion of the 1 billion Instagram users that are familiar with this style of storytelling.
Docker For Mac 3.0.0 can't mount files in documents folder
//Funding criminal activity can itself be a crime

Depends on what you mean by funding. If payment processor like Mastercard is considered 'funding', so does the 'treasury' if cash is used. the factory that printed the currency bill too? how far do you really want to go with this?
At the end of the README: Disclaimer: This is not an official Google product.
BAT sounds to me like just another form of airline miles or cryptocurrency?
Probably because I'm in Denmark, maybe Vodafone has taken an ad in the European or Scandinavian or Danish market.
That comment made my day. Those laws are a pain in the ass for Digital Nomads for example which is a growing population.
Much less than the amount from deals with strategic partners. The long tail of $5 a month from forgotten VMs is likely orders of magnitude less than the handshake deals you can publically read about.
You could make the same argument about so many different things. E-cigarettes or junk food is not a net win for civilization. What about addictions to video gaming? Donating to political parties that you think are against progress?

It boils down to the fact that you're wanting to let opinions on "how things should be" steer availability of core economic infrastructure, rather than relying on the legal system which is more properly setup to come to these conclusions.
> But kneecapping an organization by tightening its purse strings

I haven't seen anyone in this thread suggesting reducing their budget. You're coming out of nowhere arguing against things nobody said.
Compared to how google treats you?
Wow! nice story man! Can you please tell us how did you get the product idea, and what you did to promote your product (content marketing, paid marketing...)? Thank you so much for sharing this <3
The game has corporate leaders and the rich killing and trampling over poor people throughout the game. While walking through the city you will have people randomly hit the ground in front of you because they jumped from a building. Do we really need a character to come out and tell us how bad this is in words for it to be a critique?
Of course you get to benefit, you get to see the content without paying for it.
Not instead of, in addition to. This is no different than expecting employees of a daycare to report criminal activity involving children to the police, or expecting startup employees to report cases of fraud (like in the case of Theranos).

It's not reasonable to expect police to be watching everyone all the time.
Yeah, sex is just another thing to be commodified. Eventually it might be difficult to have sex without someone making a profit.
> We don't have time right now to run randomized controlled trials, while the number of cases continues to rise rapidly and hospitals fill up. Exactly how dangerous each activity is is difficult to know.

We have data on various types of activities now. LA's own data showed outdoor dining only being responsible for 4% of the spread, for example. It's hard to justify draconian measures for such a drop in the bucket.

> We can temporarily shut down restaurants and compensate them for their losses.

For how long? California can't just print money. (The Federal government can, but that's a different problem altogether.)
For context, here's the email where sundar dehumanizes her and treats her like an angry Black woman: https://www.axios.com/sundar-pichai-memo-timnit-gebru-exit-1...
2020 is a brave new world and Karens run it.
You can rent full apartments on airbnb, which is I suspect the most used feature.
This sort of criticism isn't about content. Simply having something like that happen in the plot is different from saying something interesting about it. Those sorts of plot elements are core to the genre, and are an expected part of anything within it. The genre gets most of its appeal from philosophizing about its content though.
I was stretching the point, but what amazes me is the amount of stuff people want to do vs. the amount of equipment they throw at the problem.
Its like Instagram except no one will use it and it will be gone in a year.
But storage costs continue to add up even when you're not accessing them - there's a cost to storage existing which continues to accrue with time.

When there's no budget left, what do you do with those accruing costs for existing storage?
What do you mean they don't live there? The folks who live in CA and commute all day (BART or cars or whatever), or are priced out of their old neighborhood, or sleep in their car? Or pay a fortune for a room illegally sublet? Can't they vote on CA elections?
> Agree. My hunch is that the US government is using money laundering and “know your customer” laws to force payment processors to play cops.

This isn't a hunch, this is entire purpose of KYC and AML. Even something as simple as making a large deposit at the bank is enough to trigger reports going to places that might cause you concern.
EU funds development of secure low power embedded processors
"And that's fine, buy a device that doesn't have the walled garden feature!" (yes, feature here is a bit tongue in cheek)

You know what other benefit I get from it? My parents, children, and friends who have iPhones have the same benefits. When my mom calls me for help, I know for sure where all her apps came from. I know that they've been at least somewhat vetted and come from a singular trusted source. I know that "some kid from school" didn't show my kid how to use this "cool other app store" where you can download "all kinds of free stuff". I have not yet had to help one of them get malware off of their iOS devices.

My point here is that this has been the deal for over a decade. If you bought an iOS device, you knew the deal. This isn't new. Many of us bought it BECAUSE of these. And you may think that having access to other app stores doesn't affect me, but it does. At this point, I don't understand why people who don't like it are buying iOS devices. There are options out there that do exactly what you want. 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?
I'm hoping someone with experience working at a coop could chime in here...

I'm curious what the workplace politics are like at coops where key decisions are made by vote of the employees, as opposed to the authoritarian capitalist style used by most private companies. How well do they work?
I think the considered response to that must be, "Good luck with your startup".
> CentOS Stream is a bleeding edge OS mirroring Debian Unstable

It most accurate so that Stream is Debian Testing, since it will be a minor version ahead. Bleeding edge would be Fedora.
3n + 1 is interesting because it seems so tantalizingly easy and beautiful at first glance. Its like looking at a stream where you can clearly see the stony bed and it appears to be ankle deep but once you take a step you realize the lighting has fooled you and you fall head over heels into icy waters.
It wouldn't be a quick fix but a first step in the right direction, much like GDPR.
Here's how to do it:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/amazon-l...

And there's a Vagrant box for it: https://app.vagrantup.com/gbailey/boxes/amzn2

(There are a few versions of this.)
Hwck
Bunbungirl
No, that's why it's beautiful product design. They know something about me. I am at location A and I have a problem: I want to be at B. They then solve that problem smoothly with reasonable defaults. They know this is the prime problem I have and that I have some top few variants on this.

Speaking of the defaults, the auto-suggests these guys have are fucking ridiculous too. Both Lyft and Uber. It's 4 AM in the morning and I've opened the app at home: offers me a ride to SFO. It's 11 PM in the evening on a Friday/Saturday and it offers me a ride to my friend's place. It's midnight and I'm at that friend's? They offer me a ride to my favourite club. I am one-click touching everywhere. These guys are good.

Superb user functionality.
I disagree about the fallback plan.

Please people, do not max out your credit cards, at least not until you are as good as what you do as they Airbnbs were in 2008.

I think there's a cognitive bias at YC where they don't realize that most people (especially 20 year olds) are not very good at making things, and so on average the best advice you can give the general public is just to get better at making things.

The Airbnbs were exceptionally skilled and hard working people. They made all sorts of weird stuff—and did it well. The cereal boxes were the tip of the iceberg. Brian and Joe could design (and throw a good party!). Nate was a terrific coder who did CS at Harvard.

I would absolutely say they had the best fallback plan—they could make things. They could've gotten other jobs. That takes decades of hard work (I'm sure they started building things when they were very young).

So if you can't make good things, DO NOT max out your credit cards. You will be setting yourself up for disaster. Instead invest in your skillset. If you aren't good enough to build something great, go out and get a job(s) and keep working on it.

I like a poem written in 1916 about being someone who "delivers the goods" (https://breckyunits.com/deliver.html)
Honest question. If you found out your client was making money from child porn would you continue to do business with them?
For me anything less than maybe 50 is unplayable, it just looks janky.
Interesting article. It makes me wonder how different women are at age 14 and age 18. In other words what makes it okay for them to make the decision to go public just when they hit 18. 18 seems like a very arbitrary barrier. It is arguable that a many women are undeveloped mentally and emotionally at that age and that it is not a reasonable decision to leave in their hands.
Just like Alphabet is just a search engine, and Microsoft is just an operating system, and Amazon is just an online store.

Companies grow into new products, services, markets, etc.
Sounds like Pornhub's changes weren't satisfactory or were too late.

This is an absolute inditement of the "let anyone upload anything and police it later" model that YouTube and Pornhub depend on.

I think it's long overdue.
Personally I’ve taken advantage of not having to be in the office to move out of SF and do airbnb hopping (stay a month here, a month there). It’s been great.
Yes but not originally. The description from PG’s post sounds exactly like couch surfing, which had been going on for at least five years at that point.
Nah I just said its hard to feel sorry for them. I don't think payment providers should be politically partial.

EDIT Oh PornHub is now implementing the following measures:

a.) allow uploads only from verified users;

b.) no downloads;

c.) improvements in moderation

Maybe I'm actually for this then. Apparently this is what it takes.
Another example. If you tell anyone at a school (public or private) or a psychiatric professional that you have intent to harm yourself or others they are also required to report it.
That looks interesting. The code is not simpler to understand nor is it more efficient, but it seems to work, assuming target is in the list. How would you represent the empty list?

Not sure why you are being downvoted.
As a former victim to the same issue as OP, I am furious every time I see a Googler promote that as a solution.

In our case, we racked up a $10000 bill on BigQuery in ~6 hours, when a job was failing and auto-retrying.

We had set up every alert correctly and our reaction time was about 5 minutes (about $100 of usage, no big deal). So how did we get a $5000 bill? Google's alert was 6 hours late (according to them, this was root-caused to us, because we were submitting jobs continuously). They pointed to their TOS and said they don't guarantee on-time delivery of the alert.

I had to write up a blog post with fancy graphs and prepare it for social media before they finally agreed to eat the bill.
> Giving someone a random e-mail has nothing to with identity. You're giving someone a random set of characters, so that if you chose to re-engage with that entity, you have some way of doing that.

...until the entity wants forms of payment. Then you've got to keep that random sequence of characters for your life unless you're willing to part ways with your purchase.

No, your statement doesn't reflect the reality that companies do treat emails as identities.
Came here to say the same thing, that I'm still irritated by the lack of sourcing.
Law enforcement does enforce laws for things like this, one of those ways is through finances. Risk averse and perhaps morally motivated, payment processors see a poorly regulated market and choose not to participate in it.

Pornography is hard, it's on the interface of liberty where if you want to maximize freedom, it isn't just a simple action. You need to be careful to protect people in their freedom to express themselves, and you need to protect people from being abused.

>these seemingly arbitrary decisions can be extremely impactful

One would hope that they are impactful. An enormously profitable industry has not been doing enough to protect people from the abuses the business encourages and is thus threatened with losing the ability to sell its product. I really don't see a problem with that.
I run Cold Turkey: https://getcoldturkey.com

It started as a fun side project in university. My friends needed something to block themselves from playing WoW so that they could study.

For three years after graduation, I've continued to work on it in my spare time. In 2015, I decided to see if people would buy the pro version with more features. As it turns out, yes! I was able to quit my job to work on it full time a few years ago.
It's important to remember that official Opinion pieces are not fact checked, and don't even have the semblance of being fact-based. And this particular opinion writer is well known for being really bad at facts. That being said, it is simultaneously possible for:

1. Nicholas Kristof to have a tenuous grasp on reality and to launch unfounded moral panics, and

2. PornHub has a lot of serious issues that should be dealt with.

You know the sayings about broken clocks...

(And for that matter, while I trust The NY Times more than the average newspaper on some topics, like science reporting, it has SERIOUS issues with being driven by political access rather than journalism, doing "both sides" too much, and not being willing to question Trump very much. That and their massive support for pretty much any war, to the point of open lying about stuff. I have cancelled my subscription in the past and will not subscribe again.)
> Your skip level manager is not any more able to fire you than your manager

Not in my experience. For my manager to fire me I need to be first put on an improvement plan. Skip manager can waive this and fire me on the spot, risking a potential lawsuit for the company.
I meant that the cities look similar, not that they have the same issues.
> western property rights

Not sure what you mean by "western" property rights. I'll assume you meant private property rights.

> turn out not to prevent famine at all

They do prevent famine. They don't prevent all famine. To conflate the two, as you have done here, is dishonest.

Certainly private property rights cannot prevent every natural disaster—that's not "strange" at all—but lack of respect for them can certainly amplify the effect of natural disasters.

For example, regarding the Great Irish Famine [0]:

After the defeat of James II in 1690 a series of “penal laws” were passed by the Irish Parliament, dominated by the Protestant minority who had supported William III. The first, in 1695, took away the right of Catholics to bear arms. Another forbade Catholics to go overseas for education and prohibited them from teaching or running schools within Ireland. The most important however was the Act to Prevent the Further Growth of Popery (1704). This prevented Catholics from buying land or inheriting it from Protestants, or from leasing land for more than 31 years. At about this time the potato was introduced as a major crop. The combination of the legislation and the new crop was ultimately disastrous.

The penal laws, together with other legislation, created a set of powerful and perverse incentives. Because Catholic tenant farmers could not own land or hold it on anything but short-term leases, with little or no security of tenure, they had no incentive to improve their land or modernize agricultural practice. All the benefit would go to the hated alien class of Protestant landlords in higher rents or more expensive leases.

By 1841, 45 percent of all holdings were of less than five acres. The lack of capital and the restraints on the Catholic majority meant that Irish commerce and manufacturing did not develop, and by 1841, 5.5 million out of a population of over 8 million were totally dependent on agriculture. The final, extra twist was the impact of the Corn Laws, the system of protection for English agriculture set up in the early nineteenth century that prohibited the import of grain until prices reached a particular level. This had the effect of preserving the flawed Irish farming system.

I'm not sure if you read your second link, but it doesn't refer to any particular famine. You'll have to be more specific.

[0] https://fee.org/articles/lessons-of-history-the-great-irish-...
But I'd rather pay for it than have my eyeballs mined for vastly more than the value I'm getting.

Brave allows me to do that easily.
Single-crystal technology holds promise for next-generation Li-ion batteries
> any enterprise has an obligation to not help another person or enterprise engage in crime

This is true. But the standards applied to financial transactions are way more stringent than other businesses. KYC/AML laws basically create an affirmative obligation for financial institutions to proactively determine whether each and every customer is engaged in illegal activity.

Unlike in other businesses, it's not enough to just say that you weren't aware of your customers intentions. Unless you've taken efforts to affirm that all their activity is legal, you can be criminally liable.

If some guy walks into a bakers and asks, "What's the best cannoli to bring alone to a mob hit", then the baker is obligated not to do business with him. But the equivalent of KYC/AML would require the baker to verify and document that none of the pastries are being used for illegal activity.
They released a Wordpress plugin a few months ago[0], so this is designed more for content teams and marketers that would prefer to focus on producing stories rather than dealing with developers' objections. Google Tag Manager has the same raison d'etre.

[0]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-stories/
Doesn't this just make this a problem of converting USDT to USD at some point? Any guy who offers that feature as scale is likely to fall into the same problem.
That's part of the issue here--they aren't breaking the law (at least in the U.S.)

Thanks to protections enacted by "Section 230" of the 1996 Communications Descent Act [1]:

Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by third-party users:

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
As far as I am concerned, it’s a place and capitalized, except if it’s used as an adjective.
The whole normalisation of porn is not a net win for our civilisation

It doesn't matter.

Or rather, if the only idea you have for solution to the situation is repression, it doesn't matter what you think of the impact of porn because you're not going to stop it, you're just going to create "porn and repression, together" just like the war on drugs created drugs and repression together.

Guns and small pox weren't net wins for a lot of societies they were introduced in but once things start with certain processes, you kind of need to find mitigation, not a heavy handed repression.

And sure, a better for people to relate together than exists currently would be great but shoving the genie back in the bottle isn't going to it.
A democratically elected government implements the only rational response to a public health crisis, with broad public support, and consistent with the laws of the country. Calling that "authoritarian" is just a scare tactic, as if it's the first step on the slippery slope to tyranny. I'm sorry you can't go eat at a restaurant. Hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake. Just chill at home for a month. It's possible for the government to compensate people, while keeping minimal services open.
That's an ad hoc hearing. How is it different from any other hearing about voter access to the polls? They happen all the time. By contrast, Giuliani's most recent hearing in MI was an actual, straight-faced attempt to get the state legislature of Michigan to overturn its election and award its electors to the outgoing President.

Just to keep this from noodling, I'll ask directly: are you really claiming that the Democrats seriously challenged the results of the 2004 election?

Jerry Nadler is a tool.
until PornHub does something about the absolute oceans of child porn, rape content, and content from sex traffickers - this is good
You are probably right regarding speed, but the article is definitely not pointless and bad.
Interesting reading about the Sears experiment (with an editorialized headline). https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4385-failing-to-plan-how-ay...
Yes, it can, but the question is who is going to decide it.

Going with this argument any organization large enough would be criminal.

Normally what will happen is if the assistance in money laundering or funding criminal activity is incidental or the organization didn't know there was a problem and couldn't be reasonably expected to know, then it's not a crime. But if the organization knows or should have known, then it is. MasterCard is now in the knows or should have known state, so continuing to fund illegal activity could reasonably be considered a crime, at least based on the typical patterns of these laws.
> your go to option should be to alert authorities and have them investigate

And then continue processing payments for what you sincerely believe to be child abuse and rape until the justice system finally gets around to dealing with it?
No, it’s relatively easy to go from one cloud platform to the other (thanks god for terraform). To go out of fb infra? I can’t even imagine.