skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not against extreme regulation of payment processors. After all they are dealing with money and there is huge risks. But on other hand it should be open market and anyone who fulfills the regulatory burden should have equal rights to paid access to existing players like banks. And I don't even think it should be cheap access, but access that can't be revoked.
It is still very much so when it comes to Facebook videos.
There are a lot of people here. Are you sure it's the same ones saying both of those things?
I agree completely. For the most part it seems if a person has to think long and hard about it, they probably should not use C and if it is the obvious choice that’s probably because C is ordinary in the context. These days there are probably fewer edge cases than in the past.
Also see President Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" speech:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carter-...

> Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
It's much more likely than senseless violence is far worse for the psyche of an individual than senseless sex is. I'd rather 10 year old timmy see sexual content instead of terminator.

I'm most likely in the minority - but I'm also convinced that I'm living in a clown world where our society tolerates and encourages senseless pain and violence from the very beginning (through routine male circumcision of hundreds of millions as just a single example), so being in the minority makes me believe that my chances of acting ethically are higher, not lower.

Basically, porn is far less bad than violence from a very early age.
With a while loop, to know what happens at the bottom of the block, you only need to check the top of the block. With defer, to know what happens at the bottom of the block, you need to check the entire contents of the block.
"privilege" is a weaponised term that relies on an overly simplistic view of power relationships.

> they could afford to simply ignore the other side after the debate because there was no risk to their personal position of privilege

What is the alternative - people not being allowed to ignore some side of a debate? This isn't just about stakes/skin in the game; It's also about quality of the debate, and when someone has so much invested in the outcome that they won't allow their position to lose, the quality wrt a free exchange of ideas, isn't likely to happen.

In fact, most versions of this can't be described as a debate at all. "shut up and listen" while being dictated to (without the right of reply) bears no similarities. This perspective is basically: "certain people believe the wrong things, so shouldn't discuss them; they should just be told what to think by the right people, and believe that.". If "wrong-thinkers" now want to debate amongst themselves without correction from self-appointed "right-thinkers", is it any wonder, even if they valued diversity of opinion/perspective?

> consequences are something for 'the other' to deal with

Can you give an example? There is a big difference between, say, the consequences of the topic of a discussion, and the consequences of the discussion itself.
I try to make it a point to get up at least once an hour for light exercise (pushups, bodyweight rows, squats, dips, maybe some jumping jacks) just to keep the blood flowing. Seems to be effective for me (my feet have a tendency to get very cold when sitting for too long). Plus it's better for my health (definitely improved muscle tone, even though I still cheat on the dips).

Takes less than 5 minutes every hour. Pair it with walking to the kitchen to top off the glass of water and staying hydrated, and my focus (when I get back) is generally much better than if I just sat at the desk all day with frozen feet.
> They're just an opinion columnist's penstroke away from the mob coming to roost.

If Reddit is not doing anything about content with underaged actors, rape, and non-consenting participants, then they should face scrutiny.

If someone opened a video store in our city with videos of people's underaged kids, portraying rape, or using footage released without consent. You can bet the local PD would be knocking on their door eventually. There is no reason a corporation should be exempt here.
> For the readers who couldn't fully understand the tweet, Vinoth had apparently gotten access to a SolarWinds FTP server on 19th November, 2020 which is more than 1 year ago.

2019.
> 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

Of course he has done wrong, but the fact why people are standing up for him is he did not do it while being in the US. It is one thing if the US asks for extradition of a criminal who committed the crime in the US, but an entirely different thing if the criminal committed the crime in another country - and that doesn't even answer the question if what the criminal did is actually a crime in that country.

It's already a legal stretch to arrest and punish pedophiles who fly out to Asia to rape children (because enforcing the laws against child rape should be something for the destination countries!), but the Dotcom and Assange sagas should not result in extradition.
You've made it fairly clear which camp you are in by the framing of your "falsehoods".

Masks primarily protect others, so whether they protect you is a secondary question.

And no-one (with any credibility) is really stating any of the other positions you've listed.
In your opinion, what would the pseudo left need to do in order to become the real left?
Don't write keys into code, even "test" code. Discipline yourself (and your team) to use dedicated key storage even on test systems, (and of course that key storage isn't "Duh, a github repo" but an appropriate technology for your platform)

If you instinctively want to write

shiny_api_key = 'SOME.KEY.BOSS.EMAILED.ME'

Force yourself to instead take the extra few minutes to do

# my-cloud-vendor key-store create shiny_api_key
SOME.KEY.BOSS.EMAILED.ME

and then write

shiny_api_key = key_store_access('shiny_api_key')

This way, when six hours later you check that code in, to GitHub, and go home for the weekend, you won't get a call from the boss ruining your Sunday lie-in, "WTF Did you upload our $5000 shiny API key to GitHub? You are fired".

This habit also allows for correct separation as an organisation grows, when you're big enough you want it to be possible for somebody to write code against test systems with test API keys, and that same code to work as written in production, even though production API keys are not accessible to the coders. Using key stores to mediate makes this much more likely to actually work.
DMCA safe harbor (copyright) instead of section 230 (moderation for content), but yeah, that sounds right. Before Content ID existed, they could convincingly say they didn't have automatic means and they were taking all commercially reasonable efforts to respond to manual reports, and meanwhile their staff couldn't keep up with people uploading new infringing content.
Sequoia and KKR lead ByteDance funding round that values it at $180B
IIRC iOS rule is that adult content can’t be discoverable. That’s why NSFW subreddits don’t autocomplete, for example.
These seem all very different critiques. The Nick Kristof article is based on the work of Laila Mickelwait, who has for the last couple of years worked tirelessly on her campaign to shutdown Pornhub. I twas her who has surfaced all the victims in the article.

Though I doubt she will succeed now, she is very clear that the end-goal is not to monitor Pornhub, but to criminally charge it's owners. This is because a criminal case against them, similar to Backpage, would essentially make all tube-porn sites legal unviable.
Plans to provide internet access for all are lagging
Stripe terminating my account what can I do?
Hello you all,

I am having some problems with stripe could you help me with it,i have made an ecommerce store for selling vases which we make, these are some basic vases but they not so basic in looks they are perfect blend of modern and contemporary looks which makes them perfect for house decor.

So on 28 Nov i applied for stripe and filled the application but as i hit the submit button a message started appearing on my dashboard that they cant support my business because it violates their terms and conditions then i thought maybe it is violating their business but after i talked with other peoples and today i read the terms and conditions page i dont think my business comes at risky side and violates any policies i guess they have started rejecting ecommerce businesses.

I am a little bit confused as this is a new thing for me but i really want stripe because of its easy connectivity like stripe connect so it would mean a lot to me if any of you could help me out with this problem and if you have any other suggestions i am really looking forward to it.

Thank you for reading i hope you all have a great day.
> Of course it will, - at least, it better - but what if it doesn't?

Same question for non-cloud.
> This is interesting considering issues with CSEM far and away plague social media websites significantly worse than porn websites

What's your evidence for this claim? I don't know if it's true but it certainly isn't what I'd expect.
It's the size of Jamaica and could plow through the near shore sea bed, and block off access to feeding grounds for the penguins on the island. Basically everything below the water will be crushed, and everything on land will starve.
I don't think it's unreasonable that the stances that most regularly get highly upvoted to the top of the threads are taken as a gestalt 'HN opinion'.
That is basically it from what I understand. It is impractical for most entities to track down violators and issue takedowns, so the content stays up.
Zendesk support ticket tagging: Why NLP is so powerful
They do for their current site, but old.Reddit.com is still available with all content unblocked.
Not just the incoming ftp dir, the whole server was exposed,
in and out. Plus the admin name and password
This was a great read! Thank you for sharing :-)
I thought about it but the year is also required...
This is a standalone sequel to "Pointers Are Complicated, or: What's in a Byte?" (https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html).

Which has been discussed on HN

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376797

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17604402
Not saying it is a "right" way, but this video of the ActivityPub conference contrasts content moderation of the big centralized platforms to how moderation is conducted on the decentralized fediverse (e.g. Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube, etc).

Spoiler: where the latter makes it way more manageable, and for the former it is near undoable.

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01...
The email mentioned in the tweet is over a year old, with the response fixing the issue over a year old...the tweet in question is pointing out that their decisions relating to security are extremely questionable, not that this was the way they got in.

This is also what he said in the Q&A session:

> I think the attackers must have used the same approach as the FTP server was open & credentials were not strong enough. But it was a sophisticated attack as the binaries were signed.
Antimicrobial Packaging
> - The virus is not a concern if you go protest BLM

That’s right. It doesn’t care whether you do things for fun or for politics. It cares if you do them inside or outside, and that one’s outside. Feel free to go to the beach too.
Given their effect on how we think and live our lives, economic systems are much more than tools. We adapt ourselves to fit to them rather than using them for our own purposes.
Why bother with blockchain? This is a torrent use case because nobody wants to share their record of porn ownership.
FTP? FTP does not have encryption (in contrast to HTTPS), correct?
Reminded me of Geordie Jumpers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOJzPXzcF_g
I am speaking here as a hypocrite. I think porn is wrong and I don't pay for it on principle. I pirate it instead when I succumb to my baser urges.

What I'm saying is that I have mixed feelings.
I have never lived in a cold climate, but this sounds sensible to me. Much of the FIRE, "Mr Moneymustache"-esque advice around saving money contains this suggestion.

I like this line: "Indeed, these high-insulating garments demonstrate how valuable fossil fuels are as a material, and how foolish we are to simply burn them." Thanks for sharing.
Very true. House of cards definitely wasn’t the same once they exhausted their source material. The plots weren’t as intricate, having Frank and Claire at odds didn’t really work, Frank and Freddy at odds didn’t really work, and personally I would like to have seen the Zoey/Rachel story lines fall off - sort “little people” fading to obscurity as Frank marches on to his next conquest. Maybe they will do a reboot one day.
as one of those /r/reactjs mods, very happy to hear that we're doing reasonably well! :)
The simple fact that you are framing it as "a camp" shows the problem. So there is my camp vs your camp. And one camp is right and the other is wrong? Is that how we deal with infectious diseases?
Interesting, forcing mobile Safari to pretend it’s a desktop solves the issue.
They've already started taking small steps in this direction. For example, about a year and a half ago they added the option for subreddit moderators to "lock" an individual comment to prevent others from replying to it (previously it was only possible to lock entire threads). They deliberately avoided exposing this functionality through the old Reddit UI.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/brgr8i/moderators_...
That's the story for every publisher or platform. Even the United States didn't take copyright seriously until it was big enough and had something worth protecting.
There are four authors in that paper. Just because there are papers that contain 100s of authors should not influence this specific case of a four author paper.
You could buy a complete list of calls, short messages and bandwidth usage made in a single day by a cellphone for $120-500 depending on a carrier in Russia, this price range is stable for at least 10 years.
YouTube made their deals with the various industries pretty early on IIRC. Not sure there was a decision as to who did or didn't have to make these deals as much as visibility and their own willingness to make these deals just resulted in earlier deals.
> You could write a RAII implementation in terms of defer but not the other way around.

c'mon, here's the article from 2000 that introduces ScopeGuard : https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/generic-change-the-way-you-write...
I've seen this pattern before with other bootcamps. If you want to advertise "99% employment after 3 month", the people who aren't succeeding have to go somewhere. Failing them out of the program is one way, but also hiring the borderline cases you couldn't fail out is another.
It's easy to make fun of UI changes but... reddit on mobile without using their app is near unusable. You can't see all the comments and both the top and bottom of the screen is telling you to use their app.
Director of AI at Nvidia publishes list of people she wants harassed/canceled
I'd be interested, too, but I think Germans will always try to adapt to English speaking folks, so I guess no?
I guess something highly resilient would be - say - a mailserver on a rented VM replicating to two cloud providers via a service mesh.

Nice and simple! :D
Israel-Africa Agri-Tech Conf hears of opportunities for Israeli tech companies
This article is literally pure-speculative garbage.

You have one guy saying he found an FTP credential in github and on the other hand a nation-state attack and putting two and two together with no proof or reasoning other than they both happened at some point in time.
That's the problem - who has credibility?
Professor pants-down?
Sweden? Germany?
The high profile person on that side, or the high profile person on the other side?
It’s 18C in your flat because the neighbors are paying to heat theirs, so you get to free ride. Typical Balkan mentality.
That is not their problem, it’s your problem. A graph with labels would not be any more true but it wouldn’t make Intel happy.
Automation to run VMs based on vanilla Cloud Images on Firecracker
Well, if you're really meeting people where they're at, then you're necessarily speaking about what matters to them. Which is generally going to be the benefits/results rather than the features/artifacts.

On the other hand, it's very easy to talk about benefits that no one really cares about. Or to talk about them in such a way that they don't see how it applies to them, or why it might be important or impactful in their lives.

So that's why I prefer my way of thinking over "benefits > features". To me, it's a more complete way of looking at it.

With regards to funnels, you're 100% correct of course. But they're not always available, and many different groups of people with different needs, interests, and beliefs can (and do) end up on the same funnel path. You can keep breaking your funnel into every more refined steps, to be as specific as possible, but then you run into the issue of people giving up because you've asked too much of them before asking for the sale.

For example, the landing pages for those M1 Macs. What would you do to make sure you know more about your audience before telling them about the product? Are you going to put a series of questionnaires ahead of the content? The content there has to work for pretty much everybody.
It would be interesting to know how many of these vehement anti-child-pornography activists people are secretly pedophiles themselves, just like it was shown to be true for homophobes.
Show HN: Progressive Deployments using Machine Learning (no custom scripts)
> I'm curious how you'd describe external mechanical keyboards with cherry reds or blues. "Ludicrously", perhaps? Even my Logitech keyboard was louder.

The point wasn't to say that the keyboard was "insanely loud" in and of itself. The point was to say that to think Apple cares for quiet sound is to disregard the comparatively amazingly loud (and generally faulty) keyboard.

So it's not really the quietness Apple it after. It's the cool factor, a differentiation feature. Otherwise, if it was a genuine desire for quiet environment, the keyboard wouldn't have made sense.

Tangentially, I do own a number of these "ludicrously loud" mechanical keyboards (with various switches). I wouldn't take them with me to a library, or a lecture hall though.
The author is just rehashing old events and making baseless speculations. Pure blog spam.
Usually this is paired with dividends paid equally to everyone. As you said we don’t have the sophistication to apply reimbursement fairly to those affected.
Stealing is the #1 growth-hack.
The article title is "SolarWinds exposed FTP credentials in Public Github Repo" (in 2019) which is far less definitive than the misleading title submitted on HN.
The entire comment borders on nonsensical. Something about how board members should watch videos of alleged sexual abuse, some of it involving minors, before their companies make decisions that could impact PornHub? What??
Camus spent some time withing the hard left (including being part of a communist party for some time), and was friends with other hard leftist philosophy authors (sartre being the classic example). The socdem point is far later in his life, and the authors should include his earlier political life in this analysis...

Camus is without a doubt a part of the leftist cannon. Just read "The rebel" if you don't believe that Camus has anarchist sensibilities.

Orwell literally joined a red brigade in the spanish civil war and killed fascists for left-wing political reasons. He's also a leftist, even if he ended up disillusioned with the soviet form of it by the end...
> it's still 18c+ indoor even without any heating in my flat

You can thank your neighbours.
If a business can't run profitably and legally at scale, then that business model is a bad fit for that scale and shouldn't exist at that scale (presuming the laws in question are reasonable, which I think 'banning child porn' qualifies as.)

It's super weird that people seem to constantly start from the premise of, "But their business couldn't possibly [comply with law] profitably at scale! Oh well. I guess until someone comes up with a feasible solution, we'll just have to exempt them from being responsible!"

Imagine if pharma companies went "gosh, but hiring quality inspectors to make sure all of our drugs are untainted just doesn't scale!" I have trouble imagining you saying, "Well, they obviously can't sacrifice scale, so let's just wait and see if a better quality inspection solution comes up."
Tell HN: One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure
If you have something you worked on and it doesn’t seem to pan out due to low adoption/distribution, don’t just delete it.
... which is exactly how C++ RAII behaves when there is an exception ?
reddit doesn't buy squat, it's conde nast. same people that wrote fluff pieces on a 'new wall street wonder boy' named jeffrey epstein.
You can change secrets regularly, but if you don't change them often enough then you can still be compromised because of it.

If you change them too often then it's a maintenance problem. You might even take an outage because you have mismatched credentials (i.e. application or database had the database credentials updated but the other one didn't)

Changing them regularly IS necessary. So if you're going to do it you should use a credential service like Hashicorp Vault.
> Is there a “right way” to do this that protects everyone?

You do it the way the porn industry has for years. You get consenting actors. You get releases from the participants. You keep track of who is in the videos.

If you are hosting third party content, you verify they do the above.

This isn't like hosting a Disney movie on YouTube. If you screw this up, there are real victims here. There should be some weight and repercussions to posting child porn, revenge porn, or any kind of porn where some of the actors have not signed off on it.
I feel I agree with you but a few years ago it wasn't like this: I remember being able to use google for discovery and I can't anymore.

Google game of whack-a-mole somehow turned against them and this article is spot on on that.