skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that this industry has way higher than average chargeback/fraud rates, which is really what discourages payment processors/banks from wanting to support them.
I don't know if there's any strain gauges designed for this application. I'd be worried about nonlinearity, creep and how you would calibrate it in the field. (If it requires a dial indicator and a surface plate, you'd probably be way better off getting a regular CNC mill)

Optical tracking might be easier.

I'm not sure how much deflection you could actually tolerate before deforming the joints in the arm. Even with deflection tracking you might end up taking very, very shallow cuts. A 3D printer that runs for 16 hours in your apartment is annoying, a CNC mill running for 16 hours will be genuinely intolerable.
> Seems like a business opportunity for someone to build a Stripe for vice businesses.

It seems that was a big part of WireCard's business. Didn't turn out that well. (Though their vice business might've been one of the few parts that actually made some money...)
right, but all those reacting would be insiders. wouldn't that mean that my 401k, or my college endowment, or my favorite foundation's endowment would be left holding the bag? why would any institutions invest in such a system?
I do not consume OF but tbh if I was an attractive girl I would probably choose making 80k a year on OF over 30k a year as a hostess or factory worker or whatever. I don't think it is exploitative or has less dignity than these.
> I've written it before on HN for other reasons, but people like to talk about new laws/standards/etc, but IT doesn't have problems that need legal solutions, as an industry, IT needs to improve discipline across the board and stop letting situations where one person can be so destructive happen. Too many places still run their IT like it's the 80's/90's where one or maybe two with absolutely control over everything.

I mean, it's like having the neurosurgeon at the hospital retire/quit for a software company to lose it's IT.

The issue is, many software companies don't know/think they are a software company.
Doesn't require a whole lot of elaboration.

",".join(["a,b","c","d\ne","\"f\",g\""])

yields:

a,b,c,d

e,"f",g"

Try opening that in any csv reader.
Yeah, exactly. Underage performers, revenge porn, nonconsensual stuff. These are common problems for every other site with adult content so why would they be immune.
I am not exactly sure if this is how this works but it appears to me that all the hashes of your photos get uploaded to a server and was wondering if it is possible to reverse the hashes to be able to deduce what's in each photo hashed..
It makes it easy to comply with the Fair Credit Billing Act:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Billing_Act
Yes it is the marketing speak of 80% less. And generally speaking works much better than percentage.
They're not forced into it the same way nobody is forced to be an under the table construction laborer. They just consider it to be a better all things considered way to make a living than getting a fast food job or whatever.
Yep, we are terrible :-) I see that the guardian invented the part about braying donkeys, but well, is the guardian talking about Spain, so passing a distorted image is expected. They are so clueless as always.

This is a joke obviously, but is surfing in the same wave that the french government started in January when they passed a new law to protect legally the sound of roosters.

Ribadesella has a part that is a small city with a beach and a port, and also some rural areas around. Having a donkey or a cow walking by the street in the middle of the city is definitely not expected. You will hear lots of gulls, lots of people and some cars.

But If you are hosted in a rural house near Ribadesella, expect exactly that. A rural lodge. Most probably a modern building clean and with gorgeous views and exactly (exactly) the same things that you would find in the countryside in England. All except the kitchen, that is excessive, and clearly better.
Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life
That was a bogus claim made by Biden. Looks like hourly employees don't sign non-competes.

See:

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/bidens-false-claim-about-m...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/28/joe-biden/...
You're assuming the government won't just ban it entirely.
I have a weaker memory than I used to - and definitely feel extra hazy for the 4-5 days immediately after use.

I think its possible some of it is just me getting older? But there are plenty of studies out there which suggest some link here so it wouldn't surprise me.
In the US, you can't click a button to make a chargeback happen. People are eliding some of the steps or being a bit sloppy with the terminology. A chargeback is something that the bank (or rather, the credit card issuer) does to merchants.

You can log in to your credit card account, click on a transaction, and open a dispute. You have to choose a reason for the dispute. The reason has to be something like, "I was charged for a product, but never received the product."

This just starts the process. The end result may be a chargeback to the merchant.
Probably a stupid question and I'm guessing the answer is yes, but you would you still need to pay capitol gains on the increase in value from when you purchased it?
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The overall theme here is difference between bank, and visa/Mastercard.

If I have a legitimate charge on my debit/chequing account, I too don't know how to reverse it directly through bank.

But if I pay with visa or Mastercard (actual credit cards), I call the toll free number or go to website and start process and go through it.

Partially it's that highbibterest rates pay for policies and systems and options and insurance. Partially that credit card fraud is common so systems must be easy for consumer. E.g. I had my credit card used by somebody else probably 5 to 6 times over 15 years. They'd call me when they detect fraud,we'd go through list of transactions, and based on quick word over phone they'd cancel all transactions that weren't mine. It's a very different process than banking.
Not generally about the policy, but there is one famous instance I'm aware of: Sargon of Akkad. It was something to the effect of him calling the neo-Nazis the N-word on someone else's Youtube channel. To be clear, he used the slur AGAINST the neo-nazis. Then Patreon dumped him. Here's the first Google result I found about it, no guarantees of accuracy.

https://heavy.com/news/2018/12/patreon-sargon-of-akkad-jorda...
But cash is illegal!

If you try to pay a $10K debt in cash, it will likely be seized for no reason whatsoever, on suspicion of criminal activity.
Story time! When I was around 12 years old, I've tried so hard to understand the JavaScript code to render an analog clock within HTML. I did not learn yet about sine and cosine and it was really a miracle how the code could determine the positions of the clock elements.

First learning how to code, then learning the math was a hard way to do the interesting stuff with computers. The other way around is much more straight forward.
It's almost like it's a feature and not a bug. Like somehow management was able to use all these ill-gotten gains to exert influence on the courts/legislatures to create a more corporate-friendly/employee-hostile environment...
>But many comments here imply that chargeback is almost as easy as clicking a button or asking nicely. How's that?

I can log into my banks website and, selecting any payment transaction within the chargeback period, initiate a chargeback claim by just clicking a few buttons.
It means that companies will not succeed just because people also doubted Amazon.
Uhhh.

ATT's bell labs generated 9 noble prizes. Per wikipedia Bell Labs developed radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL.

Yes, they are broken up, and now the separate baby bells (pac bell etc) I don't remember anything close coming from them.
The properties of certain cryptocurrencies that make them good for illegal transactions also make them good for pornography and other "not illegal but touchy" areas.
no and no
A better question is how much any of these minds deserve and what they do to achieve it. Competitive reality is not a dream, it’s pretty harsh. There is not much to have and you can only have so much in total.
Most people and parents are harassers not knowing they are harassers. Most parent treat their child as a possession as well, being the root of abusive behaviours. All of those things are difficult to explain for the average person and difficult to listen to and understand for the average parent.

Harassement and abusive behaviours are a way bigger problem that people think it is. My opinion is that more than 50% of people at least are harassers and abusers to a degree or another. This is just how society used to work not long ago and since the dawn of mankind.

What can be done is teaching kids what harassment and abusive behaviours are. Most people think their behaviours are normal. My mom who has a relatively high education speaks to me in a completely abusive way. As do my father who has 2 engineering degrees.
https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

Wallace says it himself in the speech:
"
Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.”

I second this nomination. This is one of the most insightful essays I've ever read. Wallace's central points of consciously choosing A) what you give your attention to and B) how you construct meaning from experience REALLY DO lie at the heart of learning how to think and live a meaningful life.

("Water" is the noise in life that surrounds us every day which we've learned to ignore. But it's still the lens through which an untrained eye sees everything, that shapes who we are and how we live, since most of us don't act deliberately so much as react to life. Being oblivious to water is about remaining clueless to this noise, just going with the flow, unquestioningly and passively allowing your view of the world and your role in life to be shaped by mostly meaningless turbulence.)
> Everyone remembers what happened to Joe Nacchio

Everyone paying attention. Most people have never heard of him, and don't know that the USG regularly exercises huge power against private enterprise in this way.
PostgreSQL: Using JSONB instead of append-only table for faster data analysis
Its always so strange when the first you ever hear about a company/product is when they either shutdown or are acquired...
You hop on the phone with the bank and initiate a dispute. They give the merchant a chance to prove that you specifically did indeed make the purchase and/or receive a hard product. If they can't, the money is refunded to your account.

Of course, if you keep on charging back, eventually your bank will give you a polite call to let you know that they're closing out your account. This provides the incentive to be relatively honest about charge backs in addition to the fact that a false charge back is a criminal offense (fraud).
BuiltWith blocks many email addresses from registering, implements scare tactics
Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, iCloud, Mail.com, and ProtonMail emails are blocked. The ones that I was able to get through the sieve were Gmail and Hey.com.

Also, if BuiltWith detects multiple accounts made with the same IP address, they show the user this notice designed to scare them:

"Fraudulent Account
We think your account may be fraudulent, all IPs you have used to access our site and contact us will be used to investigate any crime that may have occured [sic]."

Site also shows badges of the Russian police and the Chinese Criminal Investigation Bureau.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/agFL4wA.jpg
Yes, the key thing is that today you have both Apple and Google (Android and Chrome) selling products where the hardware, the operating system, the local applications and cloud application are melded together (with MS getting closer to this).

As a practical matter, personal control is easiest and perhaps only possible on local machines where you load software you control. Apple and Microsoft have up to now felt somewhat constrained to sort-of maintain the formal situation that the user can run what they want locally and that the system/OS doesn't just make decisions for the user by fiat. But this particular action seems to imply a general "we'll change anything in the system according to our agenda" position, which understandably has many people upset (of course people should use Linux but that's a different step).
BlackBerry resisted announcing major flaw in QNX operating system
Even more so if the GP owns the OnlyFantasy domain.
Porn sites still exist and they accept credit card payments all the time. The major credit networks do not censor them.

Then, it's simply a question of the fee structure.
You haven’t explained how evidence could be planted. That is what you are being asked.
If you focus on start-up environments, how about synced browsing for multiple employees to see the same thing? it might have an edge over screen sharing in that it doesnt compress/blur the image and you could built on top of this with annotations etc.

I'm not your target audience and also not active in start ups so this is just my 2 cents
A few comments here are drawing a parallel between tech companies shutting down Gab (temporarily) and payment processing companies forcing this move from OnlyFans (which from the outside looking in appears tantamount to shutting them down). Regardless of how you perceive the two specific cases, I think they make people uncomfortable because in both cases they demonstrate the power that large tech platforms have over law-abiding companies.

It seems to me that the government needs to take some of that power back from tech companies by clearly delineating which services can and cannot be refused and in what circumstances. For instance, I think it is perfectly right for Google to remove Gab from their app store if they wish, but I think it would be wrong if Gab was refused internet service by their ISP, for example. Similarly, as we transition to a cashless world I think there need to be limits on the authority that payment processors can exercise over which businesses are allowed to receive payments and which are not.
I think it is just a matter of which presentations you remember the best. In the video below, there are a couple of places where it is all caps. I'm not sure I recall anything not in all caps on a Commodore 64. Not that I spent much time on one, but it was pretty much my only exposure to Logo.

https://youtu.be/Nv5jl1l909s?t=366

https://youtu.be/Nv5jl1l909s?t=402
Yes, they will even support drug cartels and actually even terrorists -- at least until they get caught. Nobody goes to prison anyway and the resulting fines are just price of business. See HSBC, for example.
AFAIK, all modern satellites launches require a plan for decommissioning them when they reach EOL.

The problem is 'What happens when the plan fails due to design errors/bugs/accidents/breakages/etc'.

Recovery of a satellite is incredibly expensive.
Cool stuff with the "slice units." I use systemd to keep apps running but didn't know all this. And yes I understand the basics of what Docker containers are. It just seems logical to me that it would be a lot more taxing on the system running that overhead. Like is it exponentially harder to fit the same amount of apps on a droplet if they're all containerized? Or is it still easy to run 4-5 modest containerized apps on a $5 droplet?
lol. "we are investigating the feasibility and requirements" somehow means "this is totally happening soon"....okay...
Better question - why not?
Yes, both the purchaser and seller would need to pay capital gains taxes on the realized appreciation in the digital asset and real property, respectively.
I have found memories of my first personal PC.

A Packard Bell 486DX2 66Mhz.
This is a massive exaggeration. I've spent a fair amount of crypto without trying to hide it, please tell me what on.

Maybe the state can find my addresses with a bit more effort than they can find my CC purchases but random people or friends and family not so much unless I want them to.
Even cryptocurrency x into cryptocurrency y exchanges are capital gains events, so cryptocurrency into real estate is absolutely one such.
> Instagram wasn't that big when purchased

That's... the point. Instagram was a very rapidly growing threat to Facebook's market position. Facebook took drastic action to ensure that they didn't become big.
I've been reading for over 15 years that the 4+4 pin was to provide more power to the motherboard specifically for the CPU, not to deliver it closer (though I imagine it was a nice bonus).
Not really - these are high volume low value transactions and need to be low friction. Money laundering and similar illegal transactions are fine with the opposite.
Will people using crypto to buy/finance houses need to provide documentation regarding the provenance of the funds as well as being in the clear around any tax declarations?

If not, there would likely be some who see this as a vehicle to clean up some holdings, depending on provenance.
Or just use a private crypto like Monero
The last case against FB, that was thrown out of court was also very weak. Now, the new head of the FTC had spoken out against monopolies. It isn't surprising that a hardliner who is emotionally invested in bringing down Big Tech won't accomplish much. I think we can expect similar cases brought against Google, Amazon etc.
Big fan and user of LunarVim (esp as a ol' vim fuddy duddy).

I especially love the community aspect of it. Chris' youtubecasts routinely draw 20+ people. Lot of genuine excitement about tools.

I understand neovim (or any other tool) requiring personal setup/configuration is not for everyone. And that is totally okay (see vscode, jetbrain etc). There are several alternatives and something for everyone out there.
Interesting. Yeah I would love to know what percentage of charge backs are a result of that vs stolen cards. It seems like adult entertainment has two significant sources of fraud then. A couple of years ago Visa clamped down pretty hard on "high risk verticals" and the threshold of charge backs they need to maintain. See:

https://directpaynet.com/new-visa-rules-dating-adult-info-pr...
>We don't care that any two images have the same hash,

Why not?
It's none of our business if your life is strange, the question is if it's illegal, which it isn't.
Either capital gains tax or income tax, depending on how long ago you purchased.
It's probably relatively trivial for the US or China to coerce another county to agree to an image.
I find it funny that this speculative report about Amazon comes to us via a Bezos-owned media company.
> I find it easiest to clean my home when I'm on a voice call with someone.

Then you're mom's asking you, "what's that clattering around?" while you're unloading the dishwasher while talking to her. :P
What makes us think that that isn’t exactly what this is already?
There was a thread on this a year ago [1]. The leading theories seem to be that they use Stripe for SFW content and others (ex. CCBill) for NSFW content.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291790
What basis do you have for concluding that the number is more than 50%? Is there any data that suggests that?

I'd agree that these kinds of dysfunction are common enough to be visible, but I've never seen any actual numbers about the prevalence of this kind of behavior.
A problem (for the criminal org) might be that if an employee is willing to follow the customization steps for the ransomware and deploy it in order to receive a share of the ransom, it might not be much more difficult or illegal for the employee to just do everything by themselves and receive all of the ransom, cutting out the criminal org completely.
There is a huge incentive for ransomware gangs to pay out to employees: So they can hack them again.

Many companies that get hacked get hacked again anyway. With the help of an insider, an attacker could more effectively around any new countermeasures, too.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/lightning-does-strikes-twice-i...
Yeah, I absolutely admit to my hypocrisy and/or short-sighted attitude here.
It's not about quality of product. It's about motivation to deploy new technologies for the experience it enables.
It's fairly obvious: first, it's pretty clear that you need to connect all of the fences together to form a single continuous fence (no branches). Second, if you think of it physically, you can take any configuration and pour more "space" (or animals or whatever it's containing) into the enclosed area so that they apply pressure. It's pretty clear that they'll all push outward, and thus that they'll tend towards a circular configuration as you increase the area enclosed.

But it's obvious, and only obvious. I have no clue how to prove it. I could prove that if you're close to a circular shape, that shifting to more circular will increase the area. But that's not a complete proof.

Still, I have to say that this seems obvious enough to me that the difficulty in proving it doesn't really bother me too much. I would have to read the actual proposed standards to know whether these complaints are cherry-picking.

There's long been a battle between conceptual understanding and rote learning, and I lean towards conceptual understand and yet don't want it to go too far -- you need practice in order to cement things and to provide an opportunity to cover all the little subtle gaps that you won't fill in with a top-down approach. A student has to work actual concrete problems no matter how well they grasp the general concepts.
They were eventually banned after the quarantine.

But they also spent years promoting racism, hate, dangerous conspiracy theories, a neo-nazi rally that resulted in murder, etc. It's hard to look at all of that and think it was just "kind of taboo".
A number of my friends and loved ones will be affected by this, and many more have been thrown under the payment processing bus before.

And forgive me if this seems ranty, but it isn’t just payment processors, it seems to permeate so much that comes out of the USA. See the various App Store rules too.

And this isn’t about fraud rates. Because why are the fraud rates high? It’s because the sex whole industry is pushed to the fringes, and loaded with shame. “Oh that payment wasn’t me, my card must have been stolen”.

I feel pretty angry how much this puritanical nature in a foreign country affects the people I care about around me.

If you can let China censor your platforms, you can let Europeans have porn.

Ok, rant over. Please don’t downvote too heavily.
>While Onlyfans keeps 20%,

Where's the rage against a 3rd party platform ripping off the users?
There's plenty of services for that - e.g. Coinbase has an enterprise one for that use case.
It tells the site owning the endpoint at which the script it hosted your current IP address and in most instances the site you visited (referrer).

Large internet companies can combine this information across other properties / sources to have a very good idea of who you are.
Ah yes I'd forgotten about that.

Thanks for sparking a fond memory ^_^

CONFIG.SYS be damned!
That's the hope!
the free speech issue has been settled: it is no longer a core value in western societies

it's all who/whom now

i don't like it, but that's the reality