skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting considering issues with CSEM far and away plague social media websites significantly worse than porn websites. Credit card companies are super eager to drop porn and sex related vendors, in the United States. The stated reasoning is that this kind of stuff leads to a lot of chargebacks/disputes/fraud, but I suspect this is not the full story, and this news doesn’t do much to quell that concern.

I’m not saying there is no problem whatsoever and nothing should be done. However, Pornhub has come under increasing scrutiny despite an underwhelming amount of evidence that it has a serious endemic problem. Such illegal material could easily end up on any website if it is mistaken to be legal, which unfortunately does happen; it’s not very easy to tell if someone is biologically 18, you are likely underestimating how much the human body can vary from person to person if you think that it’s easy. But, while it’s not a good thing, the bigger picture is that Pornhub is largely not being used to intentionally distribute illegal material, whereas social media and chat programs actually are. Sometimes surprisingly close to out in the open.

Something feels disconcerting here. It’s not that I care personally about this particular action; in truth I have almost only ever seen meme videos on Pornhub. But it feels like it could be a precursor to another push to censor pornography and the internet. Somehow, when eroticism is involved, people either cheer on or simply are ambivalent about censorship. I think this is irrational. The edges of free speech are the only parts that really matter that much. This action here doesn’t really hinder anyone’s expression directly, but it certainly seems like it will have chilling effects that justify future actions that will.

Of course I hope this is mostly nothing and it ends up being purely positive. However, I at least implore some thought here as this didn’t just occur in a vacuum.
> Even porn companies that feature of-age performers are highly exploitative and uncomfortably close to human trafficking

Why?

> I don't think it's unreasonable to argue that some sexual behavior should be considered "bad" - voyeurism, selling yourself for money, extreme fringe interests/fetishes, etc. I don't buy the idea that Pornhub is just an innocent business trying to run their website. They have built an empire on human exploitation.

Ah, I see why, you simply consider it bad per sē that sex be treated as a service that can be sold for whatever price the market might dictate.
I had bad experience on linux-bluetooth mailing list when I tried to add battery reporting to bluez.

Saying that it's hard to get through is an understatement.

I can say I can let this pass if the maintainer was really an overworked volunteer who shared his work on Linux with his day job, but not if the guy works for the biggest electronics company in the world.

I believe Linux core devs need to put stricter criteria on system maintainers if they are working on company's payroll.
Roots from different plants compete for prime real estate underground
Yep, exactly my point
> Don’t just tell me I eat a lot of plastic—on its own, that’s useless information.

Is it though? I don't think I've read an article that quantifies how much plastic we ingest in relatable terms or quantities. Most people may even be unaware that we ingest any appreciable amount.

Many people remember the BPA bottle recalls and know what/why everything says BPA free on it these days. And I think this article would inspire people to start asking themselves if that's a problem.

Not everyone gets upset and dismissive when something they read isn't a one stop shop for any and all information on a subject. They do occasionally seek additional information.
I can see why you'd like to think that, but I'm not seeing anyone saying "and now I'm going to boycott pornhub", so my guess is it doesn't.
> This means lots of casual exhibitionists will be reluctant to upload.

You're saying it like it's a bad thing. Phub already has a process where content creators can ask their content to be verified directly. No platform should have porn on it without being able to source the origin of that content, period. (US) Studios have to retain a list of performers legally, I don't see why these free pornsites shouldn't. Countless lives have been destroyed because of revenge porn uploaded on these websites.
There was an article the other day that basically said these steam boilers became popular during the 1918 flu pandemic, and they thought increased air circulation would help people not catch the flu (turns out they were right). So the boilers were tuned to run extra hot, as they were intended to be run with the windows open!

Found it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-curio...
How our GPT-3 based chat bot works
I believe the point they are trying to make is Reddit is tying access to pornography to installing the app, thus making an explicit connection between porn and their app, while Apple bans apps featuring adult content from the app store completely.
I can see how this could be called sophisticated, but worry about language inflation because we still need something to describe technical feats that are govt/military level like Stuxnet.
Gruber and Ritchie on Touchscreens for Macs
I think it's helpful to talk about "bias issues" specifically. When we talk about them in the abstract, they always seem to carry this boogeyman-ish quality, but when we talk about them as concrete instances, we can almost always (and rather easily) come up with concrete mitigations. For example, some people have rightly expressed concern about statistical models of criminality derived from law enforcement data, so we augment and weigh that data with other sources, such as victim surveys, hospital records, and so forth. Of course, that doesn't eliminate all bias (we can never completely eliminate bias) but it's a significant improvement, especially when the alternative to "using a formal statistical model" is "using law enforcement officers' personal judgment". We can also make available certain information about the training data set and the methodology to provide an audit trail. Very rarely are these ethical issues really as insurmountable as critics seem to imply when they speak about "biased algorithms" in the abstract.
This is, for better or mostly worse, how a lot of sites bootstrap. Crunchyroll is another example.
> It wasn't too long ago when abortion clinics were being bombed

Yes, by a minority, because they where a minority. If the majority disagreed with the clinic, they would simply be illegal and no-one would need to seek extra-legal means of suppression.

Divorcing this discussion from quantitate measures allows for a distorted view based on cherry-picked examples.
What is unstated here is that the Health Minister is unlikely to mention this in parliament if it is not suspected that there may be a more contagious or harmful strain.

If there is a strain that is more fatal or more virulent, it will be the UK's own fault.

I did not see this reasonably obvious possibility being taken into account in any UK government modelling that was done. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone in December 2020, and yet it is apparently a surprise to the UK government.
Because we can, and we are nature too.
it just looks like the upload credentials for an incoming directory were easy, but that doesn't imply a weakness. I can "upload" stuff to Google Drive. that doesn't mean Google is easy to hack.
> Their entire business is built on stolen content uploaded by anonymous users,

Not disagreeing with you, but, to be fair, that was exactly Youtube's recipe for success, and still is to some extent. I never understood how Youtube could get away with that.
I love this comment[1] that rants about how Steve totally doesn't understand philosophy, and then recommends a book that most philosophers consider biased/mediocre (in comparison to his other work).

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/software-needs-philo...
We don't have curtains, actually. We have some pull-down blinds that are almost always in the up position. And I have to be honest: I only care about walking in front of my windows naked to the extent that it would bother my neighbors. I couldn't care any less. I only ever pull them down to spare my neighbors any embarrassment.

Which is just to say: a lot of privacy talk is mere question-begging. It's assumed we all feel the same privacy-based emotions (and pro-privacy arguments like yours attempt to appeal to those emotions), but I find that I rarely share my interlocutor's intuitions on this topic, so your argument is still ahead of you.
This is great for users already on Aurora, but I'd love to make stored procedure calls to Lambda from regular old RDS instances.
Is This the Dirtiest Song of the Sixties?
I don't know what porn are you watching, but there is not much about relationships (in fact, lot of porn is specifically about fantasies of being unfaithful).

And that's the main problem with OP's post. If you have unsatisfied sexual needs, it's awful to suggest that you should attempt at relationships (or even start a family) for that reason. No, people should do these things because they genuinely want to have them, and not to pretend they want them just for a bit of nudge nudge.

I am grateful for porn existing, because it lets me not to have a (sexual) relationship if I don't need the emotional component. I think it's more honest that way, actually.
I would hope that the courts would not be præjudiced against the plaintiff simply for being pornography producers.

I would, sadly, also not be entirely surprised to find out that the courts are.
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Add:
If you want an easier, and use shadowed variables:

#define guard_name3(name, line) name ## line
#define guard_name2(name, line) guard_name3(name, line)
#define guard_line_name(name) guard_name2(name, __LINE__)
#define guard { void * defer_scope = &&guard_line_name(defer_scope ##_exe); \
if (0) { guard_line_name(defer_scope ##_exe) : defer_scope = 0; }\
if (defer_scope != 0)
#define guard_end goto * defer_scope; }
#define guard_break goto *defer_scope;
#define defer(func) void * guard_line_name(defer_scope_item) = defer_scope; \
defer_scope = &&guard_line_name(defer_scope_item##_label); \
if (0) { guard_line_name(defer_scope_item##_label): { func } goto * guard_line_name(defer_scope_item); }

guard {
void * p = malloc(10);
if (!p) guard_break;
defer({ printf("freep\n"); free(p);});
void * q = malloc(10);
if (!q) guard_break;
defer({printf("freeq\n"); free(q);});

void * fail = 0;
if (!fail) guard_break;
defer({printf("freefail\n"); free(fail);});
guard_end;
}
Interestingly the same can be seen in Japan despite it being a common example: Honshu (the main island) generally has poor insulation and heating. Hokkaido, however, generally has good insulation and central heating.

Unsurprisingly, while nowhere near as bad as Winnipeg winter in Hokkaido is much longer and deeper than in most of Honshu. Although it likely helps that Hokkaido is much drier, especially in summer, meaning house rot is less of an issue.
It is quite dangerous. IIRC some compilers do catch the issue and warn about it.
On the ops side, /r/selfhosted and /r/homelab often come up in searches with pretty good content. /r/aws is also okay, but there's obviously also a lot of certification and amazon event noise. On the dev side, /r/reactjs as you mentioned is pretty good, and I can't really speak to any other languages right now, since I've been full stack js for over a year now, and /r/node and /r/javascript are not so good.
That sex should look more like porn is quite a dystopian future for women. I think expanding our definitions of sex is a good thing, but that doesn't mean there should be no restraints either.
If only there were a way to redistribute resources and provide services to the less fortunate without relying on the whims and benevolence of predatory multinational corporations.
The ultimate use of this is not so much ads but more about control.

You can make the worlds people interact with and you can make up the rules.

Once you make it immersive enough you can have it take over people’s real lives such that this becomes their preferred life. Once you have that, you can control your users/population without the oversight we would have in the real world.
Or a blanket over the legs (I'm at home at my desk in New England and I have a blanket over them right now).
Illegal content is on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit. The question is if and when it is removed. There are people accusing all of those sites of irresponsibility when it comes to moderating. But roughly, there seems to be no strong evidence that Pornhub did not remove illegal content they became aware of.

More generally, the question is if a porn-site that allows anyone to upload stuff should be legally viable. You may feel that it should not. But make no mistake, Laila Mickelwait wants to shutdown the porn industry, not improve Pornhub.
The article/twitter thread don't offer anything definitive. It could be this leaked password was how their supply chain got compromised, it might not be.

Just anecdotally I'm looking at my own release infrastructure and it would take a bit more work to get compromised binaries to our customers than a leaked secret in a public git repo - and if it was reported that we leaked some key or password that gave the keys of the kingdom away, it would be trivial to change it and verify that we didn't push malware.

This article can explain how malware made it into a download server, maybe. But does it explain the fact the malware was signed? Maybe, but that suggests a bigger fuck up than leaking a password.
I Share Startup Ideas and Many Peoples Don’t
You might be thinking why not I just implement these ideas and become rich, why do I have to share them? well the answers are simple, I get so many ideas that it is not possible for me as a single person or two to implement and manage all of them from development to marketing etc. After-all sharing is caring and the blessings of returning back to society and people are enormous, at-least the humanity will be benefited. There is always a space of improvement and betterment. Keeping that in mind, I share many ideas which may not be fully mature from each and every perspective, I may not have the deep insights about the industry to which the startup idea belong or the pros and cons of the idea but still I share whatever I think may be possible or could improve the system and society positively. Who knows, there might be thousands of industry experts, wannapreneur, students who can improve or polish that raw idea and implement it which in return solve problems of thousands of peoples. Who knows there might be millions of peoples desperately waiting or dreaming for such idea to be implemented or existed in real life. It’s really hard to know and realize all the problems of millions of peoples. So instead of thinking and asking too much, wasting time in ambiguity, I just share the idea and leave it open to all the genius, creative minds all around the world. There might be possibility that a small seed level concept of idea can be reason of some other big and creative startup ideas which can help to millions of peoples and bring millions of opportunities, create new industries and revolutionize the world. Possibilities can be endless. It might be possible that your raw idea can become a single dot of someone’s connecting dots.

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This is just pure speculation at this point. The facts are that a leak existed and allegedly was fixed after the report. It’s quite a jump to conclude that this exact leak was used in the attack.
Containerized OpenStack Clouds? Sure Says Mirantis
I was searching "how to get a bipartite mapping from adjacency matrix" and it was showing how to get the matrix from the mapping. Exactly the other way around! With all the language models and BERT's they've been using lately, this happens often, it gets confused.

Google is in a bad moment now. Attention moved from desktop to mobile and social networks. So Google needs to position itself well in the future. The new search interface is voice and dialogue, we have seen neural nets do amazing demos, but Google Search seems to be going worse by the year. Where's the promised magic?
Yet sex has been changing to more closely resemble porn and teenage girls feel pressure to do things depicted in porn.

I don't think you can dismiss it so flippantly.
Presumably you may have seen CP and just not been aware of it. Once you reach a certain point, you can't reliably tell someone's age by looking, even when you can literally see every part of them.

As illustrated in porn by the famous case of Lupe Fuentes, and at the opposite end, Traci Lords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupe_Fuentes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traci_Lords
I love this comment and I think it touches on something that is really controversial and difficult to discuss on internet forums.

It has become clear to me that for young men of my generation that this type of video-gaming is very much the equivalent of 'doomscrolling' as mentioned in other comments, and is generally pretty harmful. I have so many friends that have improved their lives by following the much-mocked advise 'turn off the game and do something else'. Are games the culture-killing brain-rotting rotten life harbinger that our parents made them out to be? Of course not. Are they the epitome of entertainment and growth that places like reddit make them out to be? No, not really.

Like always. The truth is in the nuance.
Step 9 hasn't happened to YouTube, and doesn't appear to be likely to happen in the near term.
The difference there is the humidity making you feel cold.

I live in the Yukon where -40C is the standard daytime temp for months, and I'm perfectly happy/used to it.

I felt cold to my bones in the UK.
Any problems you see are likely on the video players side, not the CDN/hosting side. If you like working on this stuff, there's a job open!

https://boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/2168814
Because browsers allow it.
I have the same reaction. We have listened to falsehoods after falsehoods. A few other examples from the top of my mind:

- Masks protect you / masks don't protect you (I don't know which is true but it is one or the other)

- Infection fatality rates > 5%.

- Virus also dangerous for young people

- Drawing any conclusion from comparing daily cases from the first wave to the second wave (when orders of magnitude more tests were done during the second wave)

- Virus as dangerous as Ebola (read on the front page of the Times in the UK!)

- Hydroxychloroquine is a dangerous drug

- You must stay locked-down until there is a vaccine, even if you had it, as we may not develop immunity (it is either one or the other, if we don't develop immunity there will be no vaccine).

- The virus is not a concern if you go protest BLM

- The virus doesn't respect borders (of course it does because it is carried by humans)

I am sure I could think of more. But my point is the media did everything they could to terrorize the population. And the outcome is x% of the public terrorised, and (1-x%) of the public not believing a word from the media anymore.
...just go ahead and scroll through r/gonewild, and you know what the OP meant.
Section 230 + lack of resources by the owners to sue, right?
What new engineering managers need to understand about their role
A/c in the context of the article?
That looks both cool and dodgy at the same time - making potential security breaches immediately available to anybody looking at it is rather different from offering it to people as a private security check service.
Yes, especially an infrared heater, that allows much more efficient "spot heating" than a more traditional convection heater.
A similar product was created for the Japanese market: https://gatebox.ai
Now that Visa/MasterCard have dropped them, how are they going to get paid? Are they going to have to implement ACH and equivalent around the world? Just switch to a different payment processors? Move to billing to an intl visa subsidiary? Appeal to Visa/MasterCard now that they have policies in place? Or does advertising cover their costs and charging users was just an add-on?
Content ID and agreements with major publishers?
> I would really love to see, what ideas Apple discarded

“The new MacBook Air. Even we say it has no fans”?
What happens to the soil (or growth medium) over time? Soil is a living system, pretty much an organism unto itself. You farm the soil and the soil grows the plants.
Yeah, sophistication to me sounds more like the skill of the hacker. For example, logging in with leaked creds but cleaning up all relevant logs, and doing it during normal business hours for that account is a more sophisticated attack than using a zero day remote exploit and leaving a mess of evidence on the target systems.
problem is, to unify lambdas and function pointers you either break the ABI and use fat pointers or you need to disable W^X which is a security issue.
The real purpose is procreation. Should we then restrict sex to sterile, clinical rituals purely for baby-making like in 1984?
Thanks! That's very nice, a lot better than I expected.
Assume that secrets are going to be leaked or discovered and change them regularly. Everything else is a delay tactic, people mess up (or get tricked into messing up).
'Handful' of Michigan Cadillac dealers take a buyout rather than sell EVs
SVN in 2020? Why not git?
> What's the best way to prevent accidental github leaks?

Don't use GitHub. Guaranteed to have 100% efficacy.
> When tired, relax.

Agreed, it's just that in the moment, it seems like finding a solution for whatever problem I'm facing is a function of time. "If I spent hours on it, how could a break help?" It's counterintuitive that breaks help, but it is supported by science.
And substitute "teenager in his moms basement"?
Migrating a Monolith Towards Microservices with the Strangler Fig Pattern
>Their entire business is built on stolen content uploaded by anonymous users

I don't know, whenever the topic of Kim Dotcom/Megaupload comes up people on hackernews act like he has done nothing wrong and is a victim. Now the community is against a business being built on uploading stolen content by anonymous users?

Ok.
This question presumes that they have some inalienable right to scale despite not having solved this problem
https://en-volve.com/2020/10/29/breaking-hunters-laptop-reve...
Pre-commit.com has built in checks for AWS and SSH keys.

I add this hook which checks for passwords, high-entropy strings, etc. and has tools for managing false positives: https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets
Video Processing in Android with Fritz AI
It isn't open sourcing that increases risk, it is the open repositories. It is a vital distinction to make.

Code needs to be scanned for secrets even in closed repositories because of insider threats. But opening them up guarantees your mistakes will be caught by, ah, volunteer sysadmins.

I understand you're pointing out that fuzzing the distinction is a way for someone with an anti-open-source agenda to advance their efforts, just trying to make the point explicit.
Well, why, good Sir - don't they usually get bonuses?
The Washington Post immediately using the incidents to call for pushback against "Russia's secret war" doesn't inspire confidence in the official story either.
I share ideas too. The amount of effort to actually build anything these days is so much that most will fail if they try, let alone doing all things right.
definitely some good ideas in there, I'll probably snatch a few!
Trump to pardon Assange
Run your own git server behind a VPN. It still won’t prevent people from doing deliberately stupid things but will cut down on accidents.

If you are super paranoid you air-gap everything.