skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not knocking down anyone's decision for how to earn money or spend their time, but the porn industry in general (corporate or indie) is notorious for exploitative attitudes and behavior, whether it's Pornhub exploiting unverifiable nature of some videos and favoring turning a blind eye to the whole thing until tension mounted, or a someone being in a relationship with someone else and doing videos together because god knows how much fucked up shit they've been through by the time they became 18.

I'm not in favor of big corporations, but in this case, the rules made by Mastercard seem sensible to me, and I'm not surprised that the Pornhub/Onlyfans are gonna position themselves as "being forced by the big companies to abandon the creators they support".
Why is the method to set the text on an object "get_text()" ?
This has been going on for years. Nothing new to see here. Uber is evil
Can you point out the errors in the article?
Yep. The Tweet thread is so easily proven wrong.
Nick Kristof is not right wing by any means based on his articles:

https://www.nytimes.com/column/nicholas-kristof
Starship seems really promising, though, making amazing progress in record time. I'm really optimistic about SpaceX, that whole company seems to be aligned toward one goal only, getting people on mars, if I had any expertise in that area I would sign up in a second.
I have to disagree - I think with the ease of extending the feature, and the track record of similar features being extended, we need to consider the long term implications. Not doing so in previous instances is how we got UK ISP filters for CSAM extended to copyrighted material, for example.
photo slideshow mentions this parade from April:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56508475
The Ten Blessed Methods (no there currently aren't ten of them, yes I'm going to keep calling them that) do not allow you to just make up rules like "Let's have a DNS record saying it's OK not to verify anything".

Currently methods 3.2.2.4.18 and 3.2.2.4.19 allow you to get a wildcard based on the web site changes, but that's clearly unsafe and is going away from December. Let's Encrypt never allowed it because it would be hypocritical to have people saying "This is unsafe" while also allowing it.
For unemployment benefits here you need to have worked 1 year in the past 2 years (possibly interpolated). This applies to nationals and union citizens alike. But the time you worked in other EU countries count towards that total as well. So there is not even indirect discrimination against Union citizens.
Could gut bacteria slow down ageing?
Next Gen Networks+5G=Next Level Enterprise Business Transformation?
I recently learned the term "thought-terminating cliche" and this is one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
I think generally saying "this is a bad take" isn't very helpful. You should elaborate on how in terms of practical functionality Apple's system is really that different than other systems out there.
given that they sold their self-driving car unit last year, these "new investors" should be very cautious.
Please god no, leave that shit in c++
In addition, you can have expectations of privacy from far more than state actors that can coerce multinationals into violating unambiguous statements about where they draw a line in the sand.
Bob looks to be a more important part of the story than Carole. He is certainly mentioned more often and his contributions are more clearly defined.
I have defended Apple because they like everyone else in the industry were already doing this server side. Their getting backlash because they are open about what they are doing not because it’s in anyway unusual.

The actual negative implications are slightly worse battery life and more network traffic if you use iCloud. The upside is people can inspect the perceptual hash. Also, the phone isn’t reporting anything it doesn’t have the database to compare it to.
> I find exercise sets the tone for what and how much I eat

I agree. I can lose weight simply by restricting calories, but exercise is what makes restricting calories doable. I get far more from the exercise than just whatever few calories it burns.
That’s on the Windows team, not the .NET team.
> Part of the advantage to tweet threads like this is that other users can reply directly to any one of the n tweets in the thread, rather than commenting on the thread as a whole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_styl...

Too bad the inline reply style got lost in email culture, but it's good to know it's alive and well on Twitter!
Agreed, few anecdotal stories are not evidence of it and yeah it seems like it would be easy to test.
True. That's why the cross-country autonomous drive that didn't happen in 2017 is imminent.
I thought shorter astroturfing was a 2020 thing
Have you imagined building a birds nest using a helicopter or similar flying machine? Seems to me trickier than driving a car.
This is gish gallop.

Mixing together a bunch of weak arguments does not create a strong argument.
The failings of scaling source control should not be what enforces your dependency graph. Some other tool that actually understands the semantics of your code can do that. Source control should just support any workflow you throw at it.
His entire argument seems to be "because people who are involved in this are christian, it's evil". Or alternatively, this one guy at the NYT, wrote a article that I claim to be opinion (and ignoring the role played by the BBC and others).

Pornhub was actually peddling in CSAM and revenge porn, and rape being sold to consumers. They are cracking down on payments, because of the reputation risk, and plain old morality. This has the risk of pushing some sex-workers into less safe avenues. We can debate this - and there is a healthy debate about that.

But in modern media, you don't just need facts to make a opinion, a group that is a outgroup that you can attack is also necessary. Hence this article.

hence this article.
Hi! Thanks for your response. I greatly appreciate the detail. I very much like this way of thinking - "they only increase in value, the longer you don't look into them".

One final question, what is the difference between your 2020 book and the books which detail what you were into that year? Is a year book just a copy and paste of what you were into in a chronological order for that year? Thanks so much!
I struggle to see a legitimate reason for an app to be able to access battery level. It's pretty unlikely that app is going to change behaviour to preserve battery life – that's probably better handled by the OS slowing things down. Better to simply deny the app this information.
This.

If you are going to be a legal dualolopy, then you can't cut off payments like you can't cut off power or water.

Personally I breaking thei anti-trust behavior entirely, so people have options.
Because it's not conjusive to a minimal attack surface - by way of example: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/02/13/cve-2019-7304/
"Exercising is almost irrelevant,"

But still crucial. It has several other advantages.
iOS has battery level APIs and it doesn’t require any permission from the user (last I tried using it).
Moleskine (and I’m sure others) make pocket-sized notebooks. I find this easier than fiddling with a binder clip every time I want to write something. It’s pricier than the index card solution and the notebooks eventually fall apart but my use case is temporary storage while I’m on-the-go. Important notes are then dealt with or copied to more permanent media during reviews as appropriate.

Moleskine’s version:
https://www.moleskine.com/en-us/shop/notebooks/journals/cahi...
Brilliant: the project itself but also the trouble you took to share the how-to deets!
He tends to share his ideas publicly before they are "verified with reality", which leads to a lot of them being late, over-promised under-delivered, etc.

But if you take his statements as "thinking aloud", I much prefer this mode of operation. On the other end of the spectrum is Apple, with zero "thinking aloud" or sharing _anything_ until it's ready to ship. It's ok... but much less fun.
100% on the cable. I had 10 or so laying around that all didn't work but I could hook up to my PC just fine. Thought it was my old phone at the time. I bought this one and problem solved: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G12WYCG
It would also not supplant grain, which is really what causes cows to emmit so many greenhouses gases. If you ate the grain that cows eat you would have terrible gas too. Grain is intended as a supplement to grass as it is loaded with different nutrients, salt, etc., but it also makes cows grow faster and produce more milk and so it is a competitive advantage for a farmer to feed more than is really required for the cows to be healthy.

Seaweed may be better than grass in regards to gas emissions, but probably not 99 percent better. However, grass or seaweed alone won’t let cows get fat enough fast enough. Time is money and it is a commodity market unless you specifically target the organic, non-GMO, grass-fed crowd, which, while growing, is still a niche market that adds a bunch of complications.

On some farms, grain only supplements the grass diet, but on many beef cattle farms a larger portion of their diet is grain so they grow and fatten up more quickly. Dairy cows often fair a bit better in this regard, although the calorically rich diet of grain is also good for increasing milk production, so they are fed a good bit of grain also.

The grain does serve a health purpose for cattle, it is just often probably given in excess of what would be required for optimal cow health.
Why the prefetch though? Reason being bots don't open them? If so, this is a really good idea!
> They keep on finding new investors who believe true self-driving AI is just behind the corner

Which is ironic, as Uber sold their self-driving unit and doesn’t have skin in that game anymore.
What I meant was, given the meteroic rise in the past years increase in valuation - Tesla took a lot of capital and invested in this division.
People have been expressing this skepticism for many years and every time there's a groundbreaking accomplishment the goalposts get moved. At what point are we able to admit that he's the most accomplished CEO since Steve Jobs?

I personally thought the rocket reusability sounded far-fetched and doubted the Model 3 was going to be successful. I also thought there was no way they'd ever manage to get so many Starlink satellites in orbit before bankrupting themselves. Wrong, wrong and wrong again.

The self driving doesn't seem like it will ever work, the Starship sounds like a fantasy and the robot sounds like an episode of Star Trek. But I'm just some guy who has been wrong every time about what Elon's companies can do, so what does my opinion matter?
This story is simplistic and doesn't represent the dynamic nature of the human body and mind. For example, as you reduce your calorie intake, your metabolism also slows down. This means you have to exert more willpower to consume the same amount of calories below deficit than you used to. Exercising is absolutely vital in establishing long term habits for losing weight and just being healthier in general.
I think Apple might be held to a higher standard here because they advertise themselves as the privacy-conscious choice?

On Windows, it's kind of routine that everything from your keystrokes to your searches gets used "to improve our products", for all I know Win10 looks at the files on your disk too. They certainly don't offer Apple levels of privacy even for private folders on your Onedrive.

It's also par for the course in multiplayer online games that while the game is running, it monitors your PC for known cheating services - sometimes even when the game is not running, although that still causes a bit of a huff if the program doing this gets caught.
These kind of policies don't have the Iran government as target, they target Iran citizens.

By making the lives of Iran citizens miserable, the US government expects the Iran citizens to go against their government.

If citizens put enough pressure on the Iran government and go rebel against it, the US government can justify a military intervention to protect "human rights" or something like that.

It's the same Cold War playbook over and over again.
They are likely very psyched up and stressed. Possibly even pacing a lot. Possibly eating less without thinking about it. Your average game of chess wouldn't have the same effect.
> To lose weight, you simply need to intake fewer calories than you burn.

While this is true, there a lot more complications.

You body has its own idea of your weight set-point, and tries to keep your body mass in that range. Any short-term intake / expenditure imbalance will be corrected when sufficient calories are available afterwards.

If you are suffering a longer-term shortfall of calories, your body will "turn down the thermostat" in a couple ways. One by literally producing less heat, but your metabolism slows down in other ways, and an emphasis is put upon storing calories as fat.

So if you cut your calorie consumption, and your body decides to cut calorie expenditure even more, you can gain weight.

Also, your body will reduce muscle mass in a reduced caloric intake situation, because it will burn that muscle mass as energy to power the rest of your body, and also because muscle mass just uses more energy even when it is not doing anything.

Going on a diet that causes you to lose muscle mass is a recipe for rapid weight gain after you stop dieting.

Unfortunately, many fad diets will work in the sort term, but will make it easier to gain weight back later on.
Its more than just calories. What your body does to those calories matter too. Your body's chemistries matter.

You're absolutely right about exercising helping lose weight. An hour on a bike is 500-600 calories. A lb of fat is ~6000-8000 calories.

as a single example, I lost 35 lbs (16 kg) eating 4000-4500 calories a day (no carbs). I exercised 1 day a week playing ultimate frisbee in a local rec league.
Hmm, isn't that exactly how they work?
Microsoft should either use Flutter or make a C# version of something like Flutter. Its simple to understand and doesn't have any magic xaml tag to make things work.
PhpReel – open-source subscription-based video streaming application
I looked into the history of anti-trafficking movements when I was deciding what I thought of SESTA/FOSTA, and I came to the conclusion that “true” anti-trafficking movements have been hijacked by moral crusaders who realized that attaching “anti-trafficking” to a law was a way to make it palatable to legislators beyond just a smaller group. Human trafficking is not a made-up issue, but these groups do nothing but harm to the real anti-trafficking cause.

I agree that it is not just the Christian right who has engaged in this, though. Famously, boxer Jack Johnson was charged for human trafficking for driving his girlfriend across the border. Their consensual relationship fell into the “immoral” bucket by the standards of the time because it was interracial.
>huge companies do not make changes like this purely on the basis of newspaper columns.

The same newspaper ran similar tactics against YouTube which resulted in colossal changes. These kinds of stories have an enormous impact, magnified I think by company's (in the case of YouTube, advertisers, in the case of OF, payment providers and investors) being terrified of snowballing bad PR in social media.

It's strange but in the modern world yes, 'old media' can have transformative impact on corporations.
Think of it the other way around. Sex workers can finally go “legit” via OF and can stop fucking random people.
I would hope that patent holders are more likely to be wealthy. Geez.
Your brain uses more energy when it's working hard.
The content they’re talking about is reprehensible. (Beastiality, incest, prostitution) but I’m wary of things being labelled “illegal” since in the UK, facesitting, spanking and “water sports” are illegal.

So it’s easy to cite 1 case of beastiality and later say there are “200,000 illegal articles” when 199,999 could be spanking.
Agreed that OmniSharp is inexplicably terrible. But Rider is a very good cross-platform alternative.
This is alleged “with evidence”. I understand you want more evidence. It’s alleged and now others can try to simulate.

For what it’s worth, I was able to simulate prices ranges of $50-130 for the same ride with a few friends when we were all standing next to each other. Any new phone shows a low price first, if you search again the price goes up nearly 50%.

So simulating the evidence here might be hard based on other algorithms Uber uses
That's an awesome question! Yes, any arbitrary protocol can be tunneled through an Ockam SecureChannel. So if you have a device that produces readings as some binary structure or JSON or some other encoding ... a secure channel can deliver that data end-to-end protected to your backend application. You can even tunnel high-level protocols through a secure channel, we recently tried tunneling SSH through Ockam to create secure remote access to a machine that is behind a NAT .. and it worked like a charm.

To make this simple and transparent, we're building a feature called Transport Inlets & Outlets. With that you can easy create a proxy (either on the same device if it has an OS or in a nearby device) without modifying your original device application - the code of your sensor. There is an open PR on TCP Inlets & Outlets (portals), if you're interested: https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam/pull/1756
Ask HN: How to Work Fewer Hours?
The gist of this question is, what can I do differently so as to work fewer hours and have more time for enjoying life?

I'm the sole income earner and need to provide for my family. I find it difficult to put in all the hours I need to in a day. (Theoretically, I'm a salaried employee, but I also need to account for eight hours five days a week).

I want to be there for my family. My son built a game and would like to put it up on the internet. My wife has written a novel and it needs proof-reading, and so on.

I go to bed tired and wake up the same way. I am actively looking into improving my health. I did just get back from a vacation, but, well, needed a vacation from my vacation.

What can I do?

I haven't talked to HR where I work. Would that accomplish anything? (I am a programmer, and am in demand; maybe there isn't too much downside). Maybe I could ask to work fewer hours in a day -- but I fear that might mean I lose benefits. [I would expect to be paid less; I would have to weight the pros and cons].

Starting my own business -- I tried; it went nowhere. (I did learn a fair bit, high among it being that I can't stand marketing). And I don't have the oomph for a side-gig right now.

Looking for other jobs -- maybe. Suppose I did; are other employers likely to, say, let me work six hour days?

I did look into taking a stress leave. Here in Alberta, Canada, I could do that for a few weeks, and get something like half my income from the government, which honestly is great, but even though I wouldn't say money is tight, it would be a struggle to get by.
I've also heard it alleged that in NYC umbrellas are more expensive when it's raining
> Exercising is almost irrelevant

I get where this is coming from, but I really feel like everyone has over-corrected on this and ended up being wrong again in the opposite direction. Exercise burns a significant number of calories. An hour run can easily burn 700 calories for someone my size (~70kg). Running an hour a day 6 days a week burns more than one pound of fat a week. I run less than that amount and my phone estimates I burned 15,000 calories last month from running. That's not a get-slim-quick magic pill, but that's really significant!

Exercising for 20 minutes once or twice a week is pretty negligible and people over-correct by eating more. But a consistent, easily-doable exercise habit is a huge source of additional "calories out".
There's a fair amount of precedent. Recently it's what happened to pornhub... these evangelical groups put general pressure on the industry and when one company folds the focus on the others ramp up. Mastercard and Visa compete pretty closely so neither wants to be "the one that's ok with sex trafficking" (total bs, but how it's framed) and end up with more regulatory scrutiny than the other.
Oh, I fully agree: https://twitter.com/jadengeller/status/1427672235028795396?s...

(Seems like many others do too!)
You argued that somehow Apple blindly followed “elite consensus” to end up with the system they announced. I pointed out that the system they announced questions every aspect of “elite consensus” about how to scan for CSAM in a cloud service. Now you’re waving your hands and saying they’re practically the same when there is a 14 page security threat model on Apple’s website which lists the many ways in which it’s not. How many of the incumbent systems make their perceptual hash available or let clients inspect the data used for manual review in an associated data packet? Where does Dropbox publish its root hash for the known CSAM database? I could go on.

Next, arriving at “practically the same solution” is a necessary but not sufficient condition for having the same assumptions. Arguing about practical functionality doesn’t even prove your point.

Finally, I explained why it’s a bad take so I’m not sure what you find unhelpful.
This is why you need to ask everyone who interviews "What is Container vs Presentational, and why is it good/bad". If you cannot give you a good answer don't hire them.
That is a great way to do a cross-link DDoS of unsolicited link opening services - send 1000 messages with google links on skype and send 1000 gmail messages with microsoft links there, all gigabytes in size...
A Tired Raccoon’s Containerization Manifesto
Random thoughts:

I thought the fact they have 1,000 data labelers was interesting.

I'm unsure about their dojo efforts. Seems cool, seems better than Nvidia but not 10x better (hard to tell it's not apples to apples). For example their dojo cluster us supposed to have over an exaflop vs a A100 superpod at 700pb (seems like I/O is over 2x better which I understand conceptually why it matters but not real world implications). By the time this gets production ready (next year) seems possible Nvidia will have a replacement that is about as good or better.

Network architecture was not using video before, it was using 2-3 frames, which seemed obviously not going to work so seems better now.

The updated network architecture plus the fact they need to train with a supercomputer to me means they will almost certainly need a new inference chip. They didn't announce a v3 of their FSD computer, but that is probably the physical component blocking FSD rollout.

My take on timeline for actual compete everywhere self driving (robotaxi) seems to be:
-dojo isn't even in production until next year, so no earlier than that.
-FSD chip v3 probably not going to be design finalized until they use some dojo models in it. That plus chip shortages means it's unlikely to happen at scale until 2023.

So I think this presentation was to make it clear the large about of progress they are making (very impressive), but IMO this was also a subtle way of making 2023 the new target FSD date.

The alternative is they don't think they need dojo to get FSD, and if that is the case why bother building a fully integrated chip manufacturing process?
Looks impressive! Congrats, but more than the software I admire your persistence on a side project over two years.
First "starship" launch will end with Big Bada Boom and will end SpaceX.