skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I certainly relate a lot easier to, say, pickers and packers in a warehouse than I do with execs in fancy offices. Maybe the article wants me to flip that around, but it's the workers - the actual users of my code - who drive what software I write and how I write it, and it's therefore their best interests that are at the forefront of my brain - and if it's in their best interests, then it's in the best interests of the company as a whole, since (to the article's point) enabling ground-floor workers to work as efficiently as possible both maximizes profit and minimizes cost.

Being disconnected from ground-floor workers has been the hardest part about remote work, on that note.
Yes that is correct. It's not always the most intuitive language.

5 times less than 20 would be 4 or (20 * 1/5), the same as 20 is 5 times more than 4.
That's the part that makes it only marginally better than just counting on them to manually forward the money. The only advantage is you skip the part where they already have the money but have not yet betrayed you, and are looking at a huge figure already in their own account and maybe contemplating not sending any of that to you. They can still just have it sent to the wrong place to begin with. Since it'd be easy to fake fulfilled contracts (make sure you own all addresses the contract disburses to) completed contracts, even if publicly visible, aren't even very good for building a reputation for paying out. You might just be paying yourself at multiple addresses, to make it look like you reliably pay out rewards.
Technically they're only robbing the ones who receive more in government services than what they pay in taxes
> Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

which I then put at the top of the file I use as a todo list.

This is a good memento.
It's very easy to fall victim to self-fulfilling prophecies, negative thought cycles and the like.
Hard to escape from them, but as Paul argues, you ought to change your environment and life.
Get out of a rut to change your perspective. Recharge, reframe to combat unconstructive thoughts preventing you from thinking clearly and getting ahead in life.

Consider also cognitive behavioral therapy to unlearn self-sabotaging behavior.

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

Consider also Stoic philosophy. Stop worrying so much about things outside your control. ;)
> Sure, the probability is lower than getting struck by lightning.

I don't think anyone can actually know that, because I don't think statistics are kept on how often these sort of dragnet programs result in civil liberty violations and secret grand juries. That should be the more immediate concern, because after that point you are depending on the goodwill of prosecutors... which is a super bad idea.
The Bae et al paper linked in that paragraph (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab46b0) (note Bae is cited second on OP paper) actually has quite a bit more to do with the way planets settle into orbits, based on study of this same system. As a fellow layman I haven't read it in detail but it looks fascinating, will check it out later.

These are really interesting papers and full of pics and diagrams, although the math is beyond me.
Even various FAANGs do something quite similar: overtime is allowed, unmetered and unpaid.

At the same time employees are [secretly] stack ranked and everybody knows that the expectation is to work 50 hours a week to survive in the company.

That's a 25% more work than 40 hours. Not a rounding error.
Serious Question: Do they all use it for adult content? I've never used OF but see the porn/adult references all the time so I assumed that is all it was (obviously not it seems?)
Reminds me of all the politicians who were anti-LGBT until one of their kids came out and then they miraculously flip flop.
It's a tutorial, so there's a benefit to writing out the separate function in the article, but given that it's “in JavaScript” I agree with your suggestion.
Inspired by these cool looking setups, I spent many days trying to setup a modern NeoVim setup, but ultimately failing to produce a really usable experience.

I feel these really tuned out Vim/NeoVim setups are the modern equivalent of really tuned out Linux setups, as in they are something you can spend a lot of time working on and creating some very hacker like cool setups, but ultimately usability is not so great compared to a more full blown and integrated IDE like VSCode.

And I'm a hardcore VIM -user, dont' get me wrong, but making these configurations where you combine like 10-20 different plugins, it's gonna be a whole incoherent experience with many different thought paradigms colliding easily.

I do love the idea of having something working in Vim as perfectly as in VSCode for example, but the actual experience is not there. Ultimately things like C++ code completion and intellisense require a lot of work and code to get right, and NeoVim/Vim attempts are not there yet, for example I had to give up when the only way to figure out what compilation flags a project uses meant configuring it manually.

But they sure are cool for hacker-type setups and look cool for sure.
Same here in the Netherlands, we pay with a debit card. In stores as well as online.

May people do have one (55%) as it sometimes comes with a payment package, but they are generally frowned upon as tech from the stone age and insecure.
I'm not the guy you're asking but what jumped out to me is that this change creates a database of images of minors and the damning/ironic part is that these are images of people who don't want to be easily searchable to begin with. Imagine the damage if this somehow leaks.

If my wording above sounds convoluted then let me paraphrase: a blacklist is a database too. Google's blacklist will contain assured images of minors because the minors/guardians reported them as such.

Sure it can be hashed/MLed/Bloomfiltered instead of a tabular listing but someone with enough patience and resources can probably make something out of it. (To be honest I don't want to peddle FUD and I'm speaking out of my depth here so I'd be glad to hear an assessment from someone with qualified experience in this area.)

This would be greatly alleviated if everyone was allowed to remove their images in search. I can't help but think it would help https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216733 .
Riding the Covid Coaster
The government tries to keep medical care expensive to avoid competition that might result in some instability so the cure is … government running health care.
As a customer I wish I could have the option (in return for a cut of the interchange + fraud fees the merchants pay).
If crypto was actually a viable alternative they wouldn't be doing this.

I'm not against the promises of crypto - but the tech so far has failed to deliver anything but a platform to streamline illegal activity, asset speculation bubbles and a whole bunch of wasted energy/hardware along with reliving the problems people had historically with bank fraud in free banking and the likes (banks printing their own notes without cover till you get a bank run - this is why central banks were invented ...)
And google could get a written permission from those people before their pictures show up in search. But that would put a huge wrench into the data hoarding business.
How is it ‘pointless’? It’s applicable and useful whether or not you understand the proof.

Similarly, remembering the capital of a country is useful when you hear that capital mentioned in a discussion.

Both of these can be scaffolding that enables you to learn the deeper concepts.

A far greater problem is students faced with nobody willing or able to teach the deeper concepts when they want to know about them.
I totally agree that OnlyFans is a legitimate and ethical site, but let's not kid ourselves about PornHub. It was mostly pirated content with a lot of videos of people being harmed.
For context, that DMU50 mill is about $275,000 new.
Can they not setup an account on another for profit service which will commit to verify identity, age, and consent of performers?
McDonald's to stop selling burgers and fries.
Weren't banks closing accounts over Coinbase transactions a couple years ago?
I would just read the document explaining how this works (see "Matching-Database Setup"): https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...

At no point is anyone besides Apple able to view any NeuralHash hashes from the CSAM database. You can verify the database is the same on all iPhones, but you are not able to look at any of the hashes.
From [0]

> "Google recognized that Epic might not accept its offer. 'As a potential alternative', a senior Google executive proposed that Google 'consider approaching Tencent,' a company that owns a minority stake in Epic, 'to either (a) buy Epic shares from Tencent to get more control over Epic', or '(b) join up with Tencent to buy 100% of Epic,'" the complaint said.

So for Google to control Epic and perhaps protect themselves in the anti-trust complaints, they wanted to buy up shares from Tencent or team up with them to buy Epic out 100%, with the goal to stop them from complaining about their monopolistic behaviours in the Play Store.

Now that's one way of showing your true nature, since they know they will lose anyway.

Regardless, absolutely vicious creatures.

[0] https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/google-tencent-epic-games...
If they do one of those, it will be obvious it happened, because people can at least reverse engineer iOS and see that it’s different.

If they add some new hashes I presume that would be harder to spot and isn’t going to be advertised
"Also something many people don't realize is that in the '50s the highest marginal tax rate was 91%, for $4M or more. (The lowest was 20% for $40K or less.) So I don't totally see how your comment relates to the article. You can draw diverse conclusions looking backwards. "

This gets mentioned frequently and it always bothers me.

The tax code was so utterly different back then that you're comparing apples and oranges with it. Consider that the like-for-like transaction qualification was much larger and loopholes (aka deductions) were more common. In practice, nobody paid the 91% rate.

If you don't believe me, look up the bipartisan Tax Reform Act of 1986, which lowered the top marginal tax rate from 91%, was revenue neutral. [0]

Also note that state & local taxes were very little. New Jersey, which today boasts a very high income tax, did not have one until 1976. [1] New York City did not have one until 1966. [2] Despite this, both states have higher sales taxes than Florida with roughly similar property taxes (though property is much cheaper in Florida). Florida, of course, has no income tax.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindsay#Labor_issues
The recent tmobile breach?

A database feeds more evil than a printed book could, even if scanning/ocr it were feasible.
Let me remind you that eBay allowed sales of digital products and OTC medication.

For a long time, so they somehow dealt with all the supposed fraud.

Then they grew large enough to tell digital product sellers to fuck off and stepped hard on the medication sellers (pretty sure they banned anything that's more than a supplement).

PayPal did the same, or maybe it was PayPal leading that, they were the same company for a long time.
I think this is a rule to keep payment processors happy that won't be enforced. How are they going to find these sexually explicit videos among all the nude videos they still allow? Maybe they have software that can distinguish between a nude video and a sexually explicit nude video. If not they need to either review videos that are posted or rely on users to report sexually explicit videos. I doubt they want to manually review all uploaded videos, so that leaves user reports. Who is going to report an onlyfans account they subscribe to for posting an explicit video? Probably nobody.
One of the big issues in 2008 was that payments took multiple days to clear. That meant all the banks owed each other big chunks of money. That's not really a problem: if Bank A owes Bank B 1Bn and Bank B owes bank A 1.01 Bn, they're both solvent and you can just net them off to tell what your profit is.

But if Bank A suddenly goes Bankrupt, Bank B might still owe Banks A's creditors but won't get paid. So Bank B is fucked now too, even though they weren't doing anything dumb. In turn other banks will be pulled down when Bank B fails. This is why Lehmans was bailed out (in theory, conspiracies aside)

This is called Contagion, it's a type of counterparty risk:
the risk that you make good deals and everything works out in your favour but the people who are meant to pay you welch.

To reduce this, there has been a big push to cut the time between trades\deals and settlement of payments. Ideally we want it to be immediate.

This is one reason central banks might be pushing this.
Mass adoption of crypto will come with the same problem - middlemen slipping in under the guise of efficiency and convenience, who will then be compelled to cooperate with big brother.
The porn industry is regulated, believe it or not. What happens is that financial system support is withdrawn from places that provide avenues for exploitation of children or victims of human traffickers. I expect OF didn't think they could meet recordkeeping requirements or assume the liabilities of doing so incorrectly.
Even adjusting for PPP is complex though, because different goods have different cost adjustments. Actually buying a condo in Taiwan isn't cheap - I think my in-laws said it was around USD$500K for a 3BR/2BA in one of the Taipei exurbs, and can go up past $1M for luxury condos near a city center. That's close to Bay Area prices on McDonalds wages. A lot of Taiwanese youth are pretty much priced out of many markers of adulthood (not unlike many American Millennials), and can't do much other than eat, work, and play videogames. To have a house of their own and a job with the potential for career advancement, they basically need to wait for their parents to die. That's not really captured in PPP numbers, the same way that rampant asset inflation hasn't been captured in the American CPI.
> Question I know nothing about is besides being stigmatized, do these industries have higher fraud rates?

Very much so. Adult businesses have extremely high rates of friendly fraud, which is worsened by the facts that 1) they don't deliver a physical product, so it's difficult for the merchant to prove that a charge was legit, and 2) some customers will charge back purchases which they regret making, or which a partner disapproves of. ("No, honey, I definitely didn't sign up for that porn site, I'll call the bank right away.")

> Pretty sure credit card companies won't let you "chargeback" stripe clubs as fraud even if it wasn't you.

I'm pretty sure they will.
Intel Arch Day 2021 – AVX512 gone?
When I started driving in the 80s, there was always a real chance that the car wouldn't start, or have a problem starting. Even new cars. Now? Except for a dead battery, I haven't had that problem in years, and we don't buy/lease new vehicles very often (our two current vehicles are 4 and 17 years old). ICs are far more reliable than old school electronics/mechanics!
Rgbfaq – From Bell Labs to synthetic datasets and the new ‘technical debt’
Here is the story https://www.xbiz.com/news/258606/heres-what-the-new-masterca...

But sounds like OnlyFans could have complied with verification requirements, like PornHub had done?
> Pretty sure credit card companies won't let you "chargeback" stripe clubs as fraud even if it wasn't you.

Of course you can. If your wallet was stolen and the perp went to the champagne room at a strip club, you would not be liable for it. The strip club knows that as well so the onus is on them to actually check that the ID matches the person and the card.
very much a trope now, but waitbutwhy on Elon companies back in 2015. I felt like I had to be a part of it and got me into STEM. Now I'm fully in STEM, went back to school to take a bunch of STEM fundamentals, got into CS, etc.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html
All I ask and hope for is consistency in the law. We shouldn't use reasons like "it's a forming brain" to shoot it down in one drug context while ignoring it in another, totally legal drug context. Alcohol is a drug, period. A very destructive drug, and it's completely legal for anyone of age. If cannabis is too destructive to young minds to be legalized, so is alcohol and we have way more scientific evidence in that case. Let's just be consistent.
I'm afraid I'm dating myself a bit here with my cultural references: https://youtu.be/Yh6kbQnOAg4?t=35
r/The_Donald was "quarantined", which is not banning but kinda. The excuse I think was that they did "organized brigading" or something like that.
Is this satire going over my head?
No, it's very clear in the first 2 paragraph that EPI is referring to recurring underpayment, not an occasional good-faith error or delay.
visa/mc giftcards are a thing.
So uhh... time to raise some funds and launch a crypto-payments version of OF?
Apple doesn’t control the database
"Typically the product life of a semiconductor chip (nine to 12 months) is less than the time required to construct the facility and install the equipment for manufacturing (24 to 36 months).

That's an absurd underestimate of market lifetime. I'd bet that fully 80% of the chips available in 1999 when that report was written are still in production today (or would be, if not for the crunch.)
Second largest US mortgage lender will accept crypto payments this year
Qute is pretty cool. I have tried qute & vieb in past, but I do depend on other firefox extensions too, and intertia keeps pulling me back to FF.
Stripe is their payment processor and they're _full aware_ of what Onlyfans' content mostly is.
It's been a pretty well established line with the MPAA for decades, so they can likely use that standard out of the box.
I believe you could type it in DOS with the same trick that works today: Alt-028, though nowadays you have to say Alt-001E due to Unicode. (Actual ascii/uni codes may vary.)

Perl6 tried incorporating non-US-keyboard characters into the language and that went very badly. I'm sure it works fine for Perl6 people, but beyond that boundary, I still encounter people who can't type é on a Mac with the keyboard alone today, much less handle Alt-001E. So I am extremely pessimistic.
Even if OF could accept crypto, they'd still need an off-ramp back into fiat. They can't operate only on crypto, even just stablecoins, which is itself the indictment of crypto.
Breaking the web forward (Safari is the new IE)
My 386SX 33mhz SMT was in a Victor 300SX which is a rebadge of the Tandy 1000 RSX that had the SMT 25mhz SX. Victor was sold by McDuff's, a subsidiary of Radio Shack.

It barely ran the Doom demo but it did run. I ran OS/2 2.1 For Windows on it too at one point but eventually I build a home built Cyrix 486 DX40 that ran OS/2 Warp and Dos games like Doom at blistering speed.

You couldn't run OS/2 2.1 on a 286 at all back then.

I think the biggest issue of the 386SX was the data bus but I enjoyed my time with it. It is a bear to get modern storage to work with my Victor where as I see people with 286s on YT adding all sorts of modern goodies custom made for classic computers. It makes no sense why my Radioshack motherboard has problems with new modern tech and the 286s that I have seen don't but it may be due to bios issues. Atleast I had upgraded my 107mb hard disk in the Victor to a Maxtor 540mb drive and it worked with the software Maxtor had iirc though I lost the ability to play games if I was using MSDos at the time because it took too much HiMem.

Those were the days. I really was stretched trying to get things running on that 386SX other than productivity software for Highschool...

PS... My Highschool had IBM PS/2 Model 30's and 40's with Microchannel buses. So we couldn't sneak upgrading our PC lab computers with Joystick boards. At least we could learn Turbo Pascal.
Oh yeah, the $1 color(?) laser prints! And the $1-per-page faxing.

I had a childhood very tiny shrinkwrap software business then, and my packaging was based on paper inserts in clamshell packaging (lower startup costs than actual shrinkwrap machine and supplies).

Places were offering color laser prints for $1 per page. That was a little too painful, and my tools for mastering were limited (monochrome paint programs that wouldn't even display square pixels, and some bits manually taped up). I ended up using a normal print shop for offset printing, using one standard (unmixed) color, and I think the guy gave the little kid a discount, and also fixed the tape-up. First product had a standard blue on white paper stock (with a couple colored circle stickers like for garage sales, printed with things like version number on my 9-pin printer), and the second was standard red on canary stock.

We actually did a youth group newsletter a similar way, except with more tape-up (every little big was printed separately), and just 5-cent photocopying.
"Stripe for vice business" wouldn't work because the payment processors are still beholden to VISA and MasterCard. This company would also have to create a whole new credit card in which majority of people are using.
I suggest you reread the comment, because "people can send you images that are visually indistinguishable from known CSAM" is not what is being said at all. Where did you even get that from?

The point is precisely that people can become victims of various new attacks, without ever touching photos that are actual "known CSAM". For Christ's sake, half the comments here are about how adversaries can create and spread political memes that trigger automated CSAM filters on people's phones just to "pwn the libz".

> Guess what, they can already do this but worse by just sending you actual illegal images of 17.9 year olds.

No, this misses the point completely. You cannot easily trigger any automated systems merely by taking photos of 17.9 year olds and sending them to people. E.g. your own photos are not in the NCMEC databases, and you'd have to reveal your own illegal activities to get them in there. You (or malicious political organizations) especially cannot attack and expose "wrongthinking" groups of people by sending them photos of 17.9 year olds.
Another thing that feels uniquely-US to me is chargebacks. I don't even know what's the process for initiating one in Russia. I once wanted to do that (forgot to disable auto-payment for internet in the apartment I rented and since moved from), called my bank, they told me that there's nothing they could do and I have to talk to the merchant to get a refund.

But many comments here imply that chargeback is almost as easy as clicking a button or asking nicely. How's that?
If you don't want to read a PDF: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2108.05939/
I'm curious what the recent data is on the success of YC companies - beyond raising large seed rounds. How are YC co's doing at the growth stage now, vs early batches.
Yeah, they are basically screwing up their investors. They pumped up the valuation being a porn site and now will get a bunch of money with low dilution for hiring more executives and stuff probably with a stupid plan like "we are going to be the next Twitter" that will fail in like three years.
But also a business opportunity for someone, with high margins.
Embedded Rust with Golioth and the Nordic NRF91
> "This is good for adoption! Next up, Onlyfans."

Sadly it doesn't seem to be working out as the crypto-enthusiast author might have wanted.
Absolutely higher fraud and chargeback rates.
Even in the US, palliative care is covered by Medicare.

https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/hospice-care