skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that people who talk about a slippery slope were correct.

The more that you let large and powerful organizations, get away with targeting groups that you don't like, the more likely that those powerful organizations are going to be able to turn the guns on you, or your favorite cause, when public opinion doesn't go your way.

Neutral platforms, that don't discrimination, protects your enemies as well as your self. The slippery slope is real.

The people who oppose neutral platforms have made their bed. Now we'll see if they change their mind once they have to lay in it.
Cool! I'd recommend the author make the title more clearly "Writing a JSON parser in JavaScript/TypeScript" since I've got a similar post on writing a JSON parser in Python and it gets some of the most search engine traffic of any of my posts. Clearly a lot of people are interested in parsing basics.
honey pots would make counteracting them very effective
The issue is likely that if there are hacks and leaks of wallet addresses tied to personas from a exchange for example then someone can build a tree pretty easily off of that
The primary purpose for most certificates is to get past the HR droid that is filtering applications.

Beyond that, I find that most certificates don’t have a lot of value. Perhaps that you’re willing to put in a certain amount of work and pain to achieve a piece of paper, maybe.

There are some certificates that mean you actually know something — Netware, Cisco, etc…. Some of the AWS certificates mean something, but that’s limited to the higher level Professional certificates.

The Associate level certificates mean that you’ve memorized a few buzzwords, and not much more. You need to go beyond the Associate level to get to the ones that are actually meaningful.

Note that I say this as a person who recently obtained the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certificate, which is a level below the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate cert, but that will be the next one I work on. I’ll start by taking some practice tests to see where I might need some fill-in training, but then I’ll probably just launch into the actual test.
First, this can already be done using MakerDAO CDP loans. Convert crypto to DAI using a CDP loan and then convert DAI to USD to purchase a property. Second, there are many people that own cryptocurrency that are not money launderers and tax evaders who might like the convenience of paying their mortgage with cryptocurrency.
Stopping world hunger does not need more food, or even fewer people. Humans produce quite enough food to feed everyone already. The problem is distribution.

This problem is twofold. First is that much food is produced far from many poorly nourished people. This problem is totally solvable by modern transport. There are enough charity donations to prevent hunger everywhere.

Second, and most importantly, it's the social structure what prevents ending the hunger where the hunger still is. People prevent production and distribution of food in order to keep the social structures where they are on top, or are fighting to be on top. They themselves are not hungry, and don't care about the rest much.
I know dozens of ways to think about multiplication and division problems. However when the math question says "Solve this multiplication problem by making a landmark number" I'm kind of lost. I can guess what they mean, but it is often something that would be marked wrong.

Similarly I've seen Array questions marked wrong because they curriculum defines which order (row, column) lines up with the multiplicands and the student has them reversed...
Couldn't the explanation be as simple as them lacking imagination? They're not a Silicon Valley funded startup. My impression is they lucked into the golden goose, and this move makes me think they're downright clueless about their options when things get adversarial.
Intel RealSense Shutdown Reminiscent of Kinect and Google Tango
The parent comment might have misunderstood what the government asked for. It asked for a feature to "report spam" by end users.
Gonna be hard to get people to spend a speculative asset, too many people had a couple bitcoins years ago (and everyone had the chance) kicking themselves, I think, for it to be seen as money.
does this need a spoiler alert flag?
I've always asumed that whatever I do on my work laptop/email is monitored by my bosses/employers. That's why i only do work stuff on those, and anything personal on the devices I own.

This is explained very well in the quote in the article:
"Employees should assume that whenever they’re using work owned and issued equipment, anything that they may do – including written communications or websites they may visit – is subject to review"
It's tempting to consider different languages...
Cool! Let us know how it works for you, and open an issue on GitHub if you run into any trouble!
Sure, and there can be leaks from OF or equifax or a payment processor showing your purchase, too.
I too had some fun getting a nice neovim setup going but in the end I just wanted to get work done instead.

I settled on https://github.com/LunarVim/LunarVim and then I customize my lv-config.lua with the extra pluggins/settings I want.

I really like 99% of everything with VSCode except, 1) it kills my CPU and 2) the terminal experience is terrible. I spend all day in a shell and I want to move around quickly.
RDF has to be the best and saddest example of sunk cost fallacy. Instead of redirecting their efforts to a more general graph model which has actual hype and use by developers, its cultists are double downing on their abstruse technology stack, making it always more complicated while still not addressing any of its fundamental problems.
Not at all. If someone told anyone I know they have a onlyfans, I can’t think of anyone who would assume anything other than porn
Not to mention that the answer by itself is pretty much worthless, but Mathematicians are rather interested in a proof of the conjecture (or its negation).

I get that it is supposed to be a joke, but it kind of falls flat because it misses the point entirely.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-ever...

^I believe this is the blog post that was the final straw on the camel's back that convinced me to start giving at least 10% of my income to charity. I don't think it will have the same effect on you, but it may.
Except that the VVE thing in the Netherlands is only customary for apartment buildings (and then limited to only within the building) while in some places in the US the HOAs have grown to control neighbourhoods of detached housing.
Do you think prostitution should be legal?
Presumably OF would use a ton of auto generated wallets which a random family member wouldn't easily connect to them and remotely savvy users will send money from their exchange to a separate wallet for either family or OF.
Not a reputation thing, unless that's changed lately. You can use credit cards for all kinds of porn and various shady things, they don't care.

For decades, the specific issue was with the huge chargeback/fraud rates associated with online porn.

- People paying for porn with stolen cards

- Or, more frequently, people disputing the charges when their wives see the credit card statements and get mad, so they claim the card was stolen etc.
> I remember the excitement when the SB meant my computer could play, e.g., human speech in my games—I forget what the games of that day were; one of the early Ultimas?—rather than just the beeps and boops of the PC speaker (although some people could do amazing things with that speaker!).

They certainly could do amazing things with that speaker. I remember being blown away when I loaded up a PCPlus magazine "superdisk" cover disk some time in the early nineties IIRC and speech came out of the PC speaker -- "Welcome to SuperDisk 61" (or whatever number it was).
Primes in Arithmetic Progression
>I saw in Visa data that 70% of women's spend (concentrated around young women), was similarly on debit or cards in other people's names

That's so odd. Studies on this outcome would be interesting.
Oh wow.

But every other infobox I've seen has key/value pairs where the key was always a string.

So what's the spec for an info box? Is it simply to have a starting `<table class="hello_i_am_infobox">` and an ending `</table>`?
https://archive.is/9g0w7
It looks interesting, I'll watch it when it gets to one of my existing subscriptions.
So...Conway's Law :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

There is also the "reverse-Conway maneuver": Structure the org to produce the results you want.
Pakistan's Smart Lockdown Guidelines [pdf]
It needs to go in the other direction - it should be easy for anyone to buy property anywhere.
I live alone, have no girlfriend, and want one. Hi.
Because Exodus Cry campaigned for it

https://mobile.twitter.com/GustavoTurnerX/status/14284408173...
I’m from the US and I don’t know why you’re saying that. Is EU fuel comparatively more expensive?
Absolutely terrible that companies feel the need to drop sex workers, many of whom depend on the platform to make a living.

Don't even blame onlyfans because it's the demands of banks and VCs in this case and society at large who still treat sex workers like some kind of caste of undesirables they don't want to be associated with.
I do find the intuitiveness of Bézier curves' control points beautiful.

I have some reservations about the beauty of things created using Bézier curves--informally based on the shapes of Renault cars and upmarket cars being designed using costly physical modelling processes.
Better yet-- what is the set of wikipedia articles which have an info box that cannot be sensibly interpreted as key/value pairs where the key is a simple string?
I suggest that you read about the history of ecological changes (aka "catastrophes") during the last billion years. Life is not a perfect serene balance, if anything, it's the opposite of that.
There are many cryptos that would be perfectly viable for payments here. XLM, USDC, Polygon for example. I think the investors told them that it’s too niche and they’d rather have credit card payments for whatever remains after the policy change.
More broadly speaking, every part of this scheme that is currently an arbitrary Apple decision (and not a technological limitation), can easily become an arbitrary government decision.

And yes, it's true that the governments could always mandate such scanning before. The difference is that it'll be much harder politically for Apple to push back against tweaks to the scheme (such as lowering the bar for manual review / notification of authorities) if they already have it rolled out successfully and publicly argued that it's acceptable in principle, as opposed to pushing back against any kind of scanning at all.

Once you establish that something is okay in principle, the specifics can be haggled over. I mean, just imagine this conversation in a Congressional hearing:

"So, you only report if there are 30+ CSAM images found by the scan. Does this mean that pedophiles with 20 CSAM images on their phones are not reported?"

"Well... yes."

"And how did you decide that 30 is the appropriate number? Why not 20, or 10? Do you maybe think that going after CSAM is not that important, after all?"

There's a very old joke along these lines that seems particularly appropriate here:

"Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?

Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course…

Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?

Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!

Churchill: Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price."

Apple has put itself in the position where, from now on, they'll be haggling about the price - and they don't really have much leverage there.
Meanwhile, I have accounts for years for only person to person communication and services, and I still get sent to spam — Gmail to Gmail!

What the hell happened, Gmail spam team?!
It would be great for shareholders, much like splitting Standard Oil was.
I went to the Donald all the time to get a different perspective and if there was racism and hate any worse than /r/politicalhumor or /r/politics I never saw it.
Show HN: Entropy-Controlled Contexts in Python
https://archive.is/OP5ku
Not quite, a CSAM hash match triggers another match within Apple to avoid false positives and then a human review. It wouldn't be trivial for them to extract matches out of that, and they'd only be able to track files they already know the contents for.

I would think they could more easily just make your phone carrier install a malware update on your phone, rather than jumping through all of these hoops to get them access they already have.

Plenty of data is leaking out of people's phones already as can be seen from, e.g. the Parler hack.
That blanket claim was never made. The made claim was that the ineptitude and mishandling of agricultural subsidies is reason to reconsider calling for government involvement in the chip shortage.
The hardest is part is keeping all the onboarding tools, docs, etc updated as the product, infrastructure, and process changes.

You really need a full-time "onboarding" engineer, or make a rotation for everyone to dogfood the onboarding process and update it.

Otherwise it falls on the new person to update the process, which is both education and frustrating, depending on how busy the rest of the teams are.
Apple's CSAM detection has nothing to do with this. The vector for an authoritarian government getting blacklists into tech is that government telling the tech vendor "ban this content. We don't care how."
> As the report states pages (let alone just US pages) contribute less to what you see than either friends or groups.

Facebook wants to control the public narrative about Facebook, and the narrative that they want seen is that Facebook is a positive place to connect with friends and form communities and they're doing everything they can to keep it that way. There's enough data out there to call that narrative into question, and Facebook's doing what it can to limit "transparency" to a window that only shows what they want people to see.

IMHO, any report Facebook releases that supports their preferred narrative and disconfirms more critical ones is unbelievable unless accompanied by enough (verified) data that a skeptic can recreate their analysis and be satisfied. Otherwise, it's like deciding a trial based on only the defense's case.
In total agreement here, Uncut Gems ranks as one of the few movies i have been unable to watch until the end.

Anchorman is another "not that great movie", but i suppose it's due to not thinking Will Ferrell is funny or interesting.

So I'd rather spend time going through the movies on the list "Top 10 Movies That Mess with Your Mind"

https://entertainment.time.com/2010/07/16/top-10-movies-that...
OF will probably die off and clone will emerge in the country that US can't pressure into complying. Like it happened with torrent trackers.
As I understand it, Apple's servers know nothing until the 30+ match threshold is reached. This is actually one way that their system might be an improvement.

NB: I'm not in favour of this system - I'm only commenting on this one specific scenario.
Ironically I think the best application of Bitcoin right now is ransomware, bringing the tragedy of its existence close to the US military's.
All of the major tech companies already scan images uploaded to their services so isn't this already theoretically possible now? How is the situation changed by Apple using on-device scanning instead of cloud scanning (considering these images were going to be uploaded into iCloud anyway).
I think what people are saying is not that my computer is fast and getting a faster one wouldn’t improve their experience that much.

I have an old work laptop (6years) and a much newer Linux home laptop that is faster. I notice and it’s nice to have the speed but Im not suffering with my old machine.

We’re a long way from watching a spreadsheet recalculate (AppleWorks on the Apple 2 Im thinking of you)..

Sure for gaming/ music or video work or high end development tasks it makes a difference. It probably matters more than people think but they aren’t suffering with older hardware.

Some development platforms are looking to induce upgrades however (electron apps for example)
MasterCard calls the shot and they were drive into this by Exodus Cry campaign https://mobile.twitter.com/GustavoTurnerX/status/14284408173...
If you don't want to read the title: "Where did the web archive go?"
Hah the funny you should say that about windsurfing, as the mod of the most popular surfing subreddit was banning anyone who posted in the Donald.
right above his graphic:

> (warning: spoilers for the first ~8 minutes of the episode are ahead)
nope, not for adult content/services https://commerce.coinbase.com/legal/terms-of-service-2021-08...
> Makes sense

Does it?

Nude is ok, but sexual isn’t? What if I find nude sexual, what if I find sexual separate from nudity? Why business is it of payment processors to say what is OK when it comes to sexuality?
I'm of the opinion that the German or Dutch army probably isn't as incompetent as half the population thinks compared to the US. It's just that the US has a much more "thank you for your service" culture than the "what an idiots" attitude the Germans and Dutch (and UK?) have to our armies.

Not sure how the French do with this?
This is a very legitimate concern -- payment processors could start enforcing that kind of thing based on morality.

However, unless something has changed lately, for decades the issue with adult content + online payment processors is not morality related. It's because of the high fraud/chargeback rates associated with online porn transactions.

Unless it's SESTA/FOSTA related, but I don't think anything's changed on that front for a while.
As I understand it, the majority of these future's contracts are on Etherium or another crypto market, and pay out in stable coins at best.

That's already too much risk for 10 years out. The chance of etherium having died in the PoS transition, or the chance of any given market-related contract having an exploit that renders it worthless, are both simply too high to actually participate in for a 30 year loan.

Do you have a reference to a place where I could get one of these futures to get a good feel for how much extra it would cost to secure a loan against that volatility?
This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy.

Just a note that Tumblr's anti-porn policy has been fairly leaky and users basically adapted to it. After a decline, the site now hosts nearly as much porn as previously.

The problem is that onlyfans has a much bigger spotlight on it. So yeah, one wonders how people justify just killing their product.
But if coinbase doesn’t want to be associated with OF, they no longer have that avenue.
Also, the potential for attracting Congressional attention.
Here are the details how MasterCard got into the censorship business https://mobile.twitter.com/GustavoTurnerX/status/14284408173...

OTOH OnlyFans could have complied, and the requirements are not impossible, though harsh.
Wow thanks so much, that's so kind of you and it really made my day!
My roommate is one of the risk analysts on the fraud team for a large subprime credit card company. About 45% of credit card transactions from OnlyFans are CC fraud.

Edit: update numbers to be correct
That is definitely the solution to rate variability, but it doesn’t make sense economically. If you are borrowing money why would you also want to buy futures contracts, it would eat into your mortgage spending power when you can just trade in the Bitcoin, get a normal mortgage and probably far better rate, then buy at full buying power.
idk I thought if you have antibodies for one variant it still protects you against others but in lower percentage. At least that's what Pfizer and Moderna CEOs are saying.
Except "sexually oriented materials" are not the same thing as illegal goods. I was NOT talking about "sexually oriented materials".
Wow, this is really bad for crypto. Even though they can circumvent VISA technically with coins, OnlyFans doesn't want to go down that path. Probably because it immediately becomes partially funded by money laundering or sex trafficking, and they get shutdown eventually
Big Porn like onlyfans and pornhub are not being targetted by cc companies because of fraud rates, but because of the weird Christian fundamentalist lobby in America.
Most wallets create new change addresses for every transaction which eliminates that sort of trivial transaction association.
Also doesn't have to be DAI, any stablecoin works.

People worked up that this would enable money laundering seem blissfully unaware how easy it already was to begin with.

It's so strange to me that Hacker News of all places has a very vocal anti-crypto, anti-decentralization crowd whenever any news like this comes out. In other threads they're unironically complaining about "big tech censorship" or the increasing control banks have over one's life!
The requirements from MasterCard are here and not impossible to comply https://mobile.twitter.com/moo9000/status/142844966253361972...
Hehe-- I am going to rankly speculate nearly all of them follow an obvious standard of key/value pairs where the key is a string. And then there are like two or three subcultures on Wikipedia that put rando stuff in there and would troll to the death before being forced to change the their infobox class to "rando_box" or whatever negligible effort it would take them if a standard were to be enforced.

Am I anywhere close to being correct?
Okay, that seems much worse than OF since there's no chargebacks or anyone over them for it to be an issue.
Not clear at all that the person wouldn't cross the corner.
Maybe I did. But what difference does it make? There's plenty of other instances where Apple has reportedly been bullied into action or inaction (being dissuaded from implementing E2EE for iCloud is one example). I've really just reached a breaking point and I'm sorry if logic does not apply.
Sure you can. With enough networth in an account you can do margin LOC in the 1.9-2.5% range.

The whole train of thought is weird though. There are plenty of people who pay all of their taxes on everything, but still deal in largely cash.
no problem on my part (firefox that comes ubuntu 20.04). only add on are ublock origin, downloadtheall, selenium ide.
So, someone high up in the company is heavily invested in crypto?
OnlyFans is banning porn, the thing that made it big
The article hints at one potential source of the problem when it talks about how this doesn't fly for civil engineers, namely a civil engineer needs to be licensed, but anyone can be a data scientist. When I was doing my master's in stats, we spend tons of time on data sampling, things like Simpson's paradox, and other subtleties. But would expect the same things from someone who graduated from a DS bootcamp?
Tax saving for buyers with crypto holding, therefore, increase demand. And probably hefty fees involve.
The choice of wording -- specifically "debt" -- is deliberate and meaningful.

If I owe you $5, you have to accept my $5 bill as legal tender

But if I want to buy something from your store that doesn't mean you have to accept my $5 bill - that's not a debt
The big difference is that those middlemen won't be required for payments to function so OnlyFans could ignore them and take payments directly.
Hey folks! Cody from WakaSaba again.

Honestly blown away by all the amazing feedback / thoughts here. I was not expecting to wake up to this considering this post had 3 upvotes when I went to bed haha

Just wanted to let you know that my cofounder, Vince, and I are slowly making our way through all of the comments and hope to thank / answer most of you properly soon :)
thanks - i didn't click on the link to check