skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to put up with the status quo[1] often, but don't let that dissuade you from your path.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

> Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts. Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association, and a widespread (if still contested) franchise. But we believe that if policymaking is dominated by powerful business organizations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened.

This is how lobbies pulled off Brexit.

On a second thought, I had to take Socrates' opinion on democracy into account:

> Socrates also said that democracy without education becomes demagogy, a sneaky and dishonest way to achieve political power. A demagogue exploits people’s ignorance and promises anything to cheat them to gain power. At the end an unqualified person will be ruling a country and people will get nothing.

https://www.isvara.org/archive/democrazy-socrates-opinion-an...

This reminded me of Dondald Trump.

Seeing people adopting ridiculous ideas (e.g. flat earthers) is quite unsettling, but that's why it is important to fight against ignorance and poverty.

“The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.” - Ataturk
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A Poor Journalist’s Text-Mining Toolkit (2016)
Some modern cameras (mostly delegated to broadcast cameras) still use prism to split light into multiple different sensors. See this 8k 3CMOS camera: https://pro.sony/en_FI/products/4k-and-hd-camera-systems/uhc...
Yes, cheaper than any EU country by a big margin.

Bloomberg have a nice visualisation tool : https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/gas-prices/#20202:United-...
> very possibly Apple moves production (not just sales) out of China

As a matter of fact, I am not sure that would be possible: It might well be that no other country has the capacity (machines and labour) to churn out that many iPhones. Would be interesting to hear if anyone has insight on that. (Tim Cook presumably knows...)
Context and quantification are needed, not sensationalism.
Yes there are real accounts of abuse. The problem is that the policies adopted aren't actually directed at solving those problems with minimum harm to people involved; they are directed at eliminating sex work.

How many problems occur, what kind, what protocols would address the problems without needlessly harming performers and consumers?
> Generally cash real estate transactions aren't subject to most KYC / AML rules.

That's not entirely true. The bank wants to know enough information to make sure that the cash came from the buyer, and not from someone else other than the buyer, for AML reasons as well as creditworthiness. So they do seek proof of the provenance of the cash sufficient to demonstrate that it actually came from the buyer.

(Source: detailed conversations with bankers when buying a home.)
Bleeergh. Bro, please. You think I don't have purpose, dreams, ideas? The fuck am I suffering for then, accomplishing 1/100 of what I could have? You think I find this fun, useful or even tolerable?
Skylake is not an Atom. Gracemont is post-Tremont, the current generation of Atom. Tremont and Gracemont have several interesting properties for systems programmers, including UMWAIT which allows a user-mode program to wait for a write to a given address, and a huge shared L2 cache that all cores can access in 17 cycles. The former have apparently been ported to the new Cove high-performance cores, which will unlock some really neat abilities.

I've long wanted a consumer Tremont part, without any of that Cove junk, because I think it is really offering something unique to the programmer. If I have to buy a hybrid CPU to get it, I guess that's fine.
I don't know - OF has one type of users, Patreon has another type of users. OF would need to completely re-brand themselves, name change and all - because seriously, what non-adult (or those very close to adult content) content-creators would use OF as a platform for their work?

Onlyfans is synonymous with camgirls and porn
The first 30 seconds are slow but after that crossing the intersection gives me a new appreciation for the human brain :-)
Saying this is no worse than the status quo isn't a good argument. The status quo is the problem.
I think few people are making the appropriate parallel. What we’re looking at is not necessarily government overreach, but fascism.

When the hell did it become Apple’s job to do this? Apple is not a branch of law enforcement. The government needs warrants for stuff like this. We are merging corporate and government interests here. Repeat after me, Apple is not supposed to be a branch of law enforcement.

It also says a lot about us, that we are beholden to a product. We have to ditch these products.
And then in '98 the famous Celeron 300A[1] came out, which could comfortably be overclocked to 450 MHz and remain rock solid stable with a cache running at the same clock. It was an incredible time to be a home computing enthusiast.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/174/3
I read an article on this behavior many years ago explaining why it does this, and it has something to do with performance.
I've seen that, but I wonder to what extent they've done custom work and to what extent they've just used established Kconfig options to compile out surface area they're not using.

In any case, Firecracker+Nitro seem like they'd be a sufficient security boundary.
> Verification raises the barrier and makes performers much more vulnerable since their legal identities are attached to their work.

Producers should have been doing this anyway.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2257

> "... create and maintain individually identifiable records pertaining to every performer portrayed in such a visual depiction."
The real reason is probably that "adult Patreon" probably isn't a sustainable business model. The incentive for famous influencers to scam users with photos and videos that are only technically nude is just too high, and that will result in charge backs galore.
> The chance of a match being CSAM is not almost certain, though.

Not according to Apple. They're publicly claiming a one-in-a-trillion false positive rate from the automated matching. Either that's blatant false advertising or they're putting known (as in: more likely than not) CSAM in front of their human reviewers. Can't have it both ways.

> Further, Apple only gets a low-resolution version of the image.

Which makes zero difference with regard to the content being illegal. Do you think they would overlook you possessing an equally low-resolution version of the same photo?

> In any case, presumably such issues have been addressed, as neither the FBI nor NCMEC have raised a stink about it.

Selective enforcement; what else is new? It's still a huge risk for Apple to take when the ethically superior (and cheaper and simpler) solution would be to encrypt the files on the customer's device, not scanning them first, and store the backups with proper E2E encryption such that Apple has no access to or knowledge of any of the content.
This situation reminds me a lot of the controversy around Google's changes to code signing for Play Store apps. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27176690)

In both cases people are stretching to come up with hypothetical scenarios about how these systems could be abused by a government ("they could force Apple to insert non-CSAM hashes into their database" or "they could force Google to insert a backdoor into your app") while completely ignoring the elephant in the room: if a government wanted to do these things, they already have the power to do so.

If your concern is that a government might force Apple or Google to do X or pull product sales in their country, whether Apple performs on-device CSAM scanning vs scanning it on their servers, or whether Google signs your app vs you signing it doesn't materially change anything about that concern.

The outrage around this particular situation is even more confusing to me because you can opt out entirely by disabling iCloud Photos, and if you were already using iCloud Photos then the scanning was already happening on Apple's servers anyway, so the only actual change is that the scan now occurs before instead of after the upload.
Just going to put this here to save some clicks for people thinking nftables may have anything to do with NFTs:

> nftables is a subsystem of the Linux kernel providing filtering and classification of network packets/datagrams/frames
Okay, perhaps the three thumbnails was unclear. I didn't mean to illustrate any specific attack with it, just to convey the feeling of why it's difficult to tell apart legal and potentially illegal content based on thumbnails (i.e. why a reviewer would have to click "possible CSAM" even if the thumbnail looks like "vanilla" sexual or violent content that probably depicts adults). I'd splice in a sentence to clarify this, but I can't edit that particular comment anymore.
More money for Twitter. I would venture to say Twitter has more sexually explicit content then OnlyFans.
Cryptos are extremely volatile. That's not possible until that changes.
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I suspect the economics of OnlyFans is similar to the economics of gambling, loot boxes, and heroin. 20% of the users are generating 80% of the revenue. People can form an unhealthy relationship to anything, but there’s probably a lot of people getting real enjoyment out of OnlyFans without it causing personal problems.
Honest question, I tried to ask it below: the optics issues of being associated with illegal activity, being a waste of energy and hardware during a chip shortage, as well as the actual reality that most people in crypto are speculators at this point, these seem like issues that crypto advocates can actually recognize and address so crypto can achieve wider adoption. It unfortunately feels like crypto enthusiasts just dismiss these concerns and think they don't matter, which just maintains the status quo with respect to its adoption.
There's a future for this not only in VR, but 3D meeting apps as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-gyxlGi5ao&t=3s
"but the driving forces behind the legislation are anti-abortion groups"

This is the definition of an ad hominem, which is what the whole separation of church and state discussion is, since neither church nor state are involved here.

We arent discussing regulations, we are discussing payment processors choosing to not do business with video hosts who cannot prove legal consent was obtained from all involved.

If you ran a business, would you want to make money off of rape and child pornography? The payment processors chose "no", and that is their right.
I'm bothered that more people aren't upset about 2 payment providers effectively controlling all non-cash commerce.

I assume we'll wake up a few years from now and say "oh, yeah, probably wasn't a good idea to let private companies get this powerful". Or maybe not.
I was a freelancer back then. So worked across several different stacks. VB6 was my goto for RAD. Delphi for performance. Wasn’t keen on C++ back then and the less said about Java (with regards to desktop applications) the better. I remember hating .NET v1 beta but I can’t for the life of me remember why. C# has definitely grown on me since but ironically these days I don’t touch Windows (nor even write GUI applications).
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This transaction was actually facilitated by chamath palihapitiya who paid USD cash to a Bitcoin company who bought it and paid out the seller in USD cash. It was a publicity stunt to prop up Bitcoin and it worked.
moreover, if insiders within a listed company were able to trade that company's stock freely, wouldn't it be more consistently profitable for them to intentionally generate surprise volatility in their company's stock price, and then trade against the market with the alpha that they've engineered for themselves? how many other schemes that ultimately defraud investors could be cooked up?

imagine a company that reported realtime profit and loss through the magic of computers in a world with no insider trading regs. the sales team (or whatever team has the biggest ability to impact realtime pnl) would be making and cancelling deals just so they could trade on them.

quarterly earnings and embargoes around them are kind of the last bastion of the idea of ensuring long term incentives, if anything we need more long term incentives, not less.
This seems kind of silly. So you need 2 parsers now and two files you might as well just put your data in JSON.
You are doing it wrong. You start with a bare vim/neovim editor. Then you learn the basic keystrokes of vim and maybe adjust them a bit for your fingers. Then you add, for example, an autocompletion plugin or tool (there is COC.vim or native-LSP for neovim); then you add a theme; then you add a files explorer, etc...

This is done over the course of a "few years". I understand this is not an instant solution like an IDE is, but Vim takes a lot investment in terms of muscle memory or configuration to finally have a setup that "fits you". Once that happens, that's where Vim/Linux/your-shell will "click". You can't fit a mass-consumer IDE to your style, you have to "fit in". That's not the case for these tools.
Not a bad list, out of these I enjoyed Children of Time, Gideon the Ninth, The Martian and the Murderbot books the most. Another good book which I saw an another HN post is "There is no Antimemetics Division", well worth a read.
One additional issue that I haven't really seen discussed is how to handle a situation when a false accusation is made.

If a person knows the right people who work at these companies, things get sorted out, but I imagine sometimes a person is forced to just handle the consequences.

Stepping away from CSAM and going back to something like developer account and apps getting banned on platforms for violating vague "guidelines". It's someone's livelihood that's sometimes destroyed. Demonetization, apps getting banned, payment processors freezing accounts are mostly black box events and most situations aren't even related to crimes dealing with CSAM.

If it was something the government made a mistake with, there's legal ways to fight for your rights. There's generally a level of transparency that is afforded to you.

It is concerning that people flagged for handling CSAM will not know if they have been manually reviewed. The need to keep the forwarding to authorities a secret is understandable, but a human review before forwarding is only necessary if you expect false positives to begin with. Keeping that flag secret seems like another black box you can't fight as a user.

I don't deny the value of catching these criminals, but it throws the idea of due process out the window when the only assurance so far has been "trust us to do the right thing".

It's also weird how Apple has chosen to intentionally insert itself into the investigation pipeline rather than just let NCMEC handle it like all other cloud providers.

I am glad this hasn't flown under the radar just because it is Apple who is making these promises. I have heard non-tech people talk about this but there's a lot of misunderstanding.
The "only people doing illegal stuff use it" point doesn't really hold up when you consider how much energy is going into keeping legal uses less convenient than centralized finance. It's like saying only robbers wear masks, and then we have a pandemic and suddenly everyone does. With the right economic incentives, defi is a tool waiting for the right moment to shine. This could be such a moment.
It took a while, here's the video I watched that made me not want ANY Waymos near where I live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdKCQKBvH-A

I think the thing that made me so furiously mad is that there's all these situations in the video that people might laugh at, but there are situations where I've been stuck in traffic in an emergency and if I found out it's because Google was trying to make it's next pentillionth dollar I would blow my top.

Can you imagine one of these during the Campfire evacuation?
Because of your chargeback rate is persistently high enough, the payment networks will cut you off irrespective of processor.

If it was just covering the chargebacks it'd be easy.
It would be good, I think, if people read Apple's threat assessment before calling it "pretty trivial":

> • Database update transparency: it must not be possible to surreptitiously change the encrypted CSAM database that’s used by the process.

> • Database and software universality: it must not be possible to target specific accounts with a different encrypted CSAM database, or with different software performing the blinded matching.

I mean, you can argue that Apple's safeguards are insufficient etc., but at least acknowledge that Apple has thought about this, outlined some solutions, and considers it a manageable threat.

ETA:

> Since no remote updates of the database are possible, and since Apple distributes the same signed operating system image to all users worldwide, it is not possible – inadvertently or through coercion – for Apple to provide targeted users with a different CSAM database. This meets our database update transparency and database universality requirements.

> Apple will publish a Knowledge Base article containing a root hash of the encrypted CSAM hash database included with each version of every Apple operating system that supports the feature. Additionally, users will be able to inspect the root hash of the encrypted database present on their device, and compare it to the expected root hash in the Knowledge Base article. That the calculation of the root hash shown to the user in Settings is accurate is subject to code inspection by security researchers like all other iOS device-side security claims.

> This approach enables third-party technical audits: an auditor can confirm that for any given root hash of the encrypted CSAM database in the Knowledge Base article or on a device, the database was generated only from an intersection of hashes from participating child safety organizations, with no additions, removals, or changes. Facilitating the audit does not require the child safety organization to provide any sensitive information like raw hashes or the source images used to generate the hashes – they must provide only a non-sensitive attestation of the full database that they sent to Apple.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...
When they say "Redis compatible" I wonder if this include Redis keyspace notifications, Redis Pub/Sub and server assisted client side caching.

Those are the only reason I am using Redis because not other database easily let you subscribe to notification on change to a specific set of keys.
I tried to address the issue with finding out about the match at the end of my comment. I agree it's not exactly practical without other serious work to intercept the alerts, have 'spies' in the apple review process, etc. Much easier ways would exist at that point, but it's somewhat amusing (in a horrifying way) that some bad actor could in theory use modified CSAM as a way to detect the likely presence of non CSAM content using generated collisions.
Your explanations are brilliant. Thank you
Are you saying that working retail or construction is about the same as doing porn in terms of how society treats you? That does not match my experience by a long shot. They are qualitatively different.

> Religious morality is the only reason a much more safe, comfortable and lucrative option like OnlyFans is banned.

I do not think this is right either. Take away all the religious baggage and still parents will try to keep their daughters from doing porn. Change our neurobiology so we don't act that way and, well you have a different species.
Note that this depends on the doctrine of water rights. The situation described is common in the Western US, where seniority of claims has priority over location in the watershed. Elsewhere, upstream users may have the rights to water.

There's also been an increasing amount of explicit exception to seniority rules for the specific purpose of rainwater collection, though this may include limitations, notably that the water be used only on the property in which it was originally collected. That is: you cannot collect rainwater, then sell it to others.
Volatility literally doesn't matter at all.

You can reduce it to 0 by shorting Bitcoin futures contracts. You can make it even more volatile if you want. You can change the multiplier on base price change i.e. volatility to be any number between -300% and 300% of its base rate(the caps depend on margin requirement), with appropriate setup.

That's for Bitcoin, but you can do other cryptocurrencies indirectly.

And these are government-regulated contracts, marked-to-market daily.
It's not about a flat yes/no to porn, it's about the level of arbitrary rules, shifting policies, banned keywords etc etc that Mastercard inflict on any businesses that include adult content, that make operating a business nearly impossible.

These rules are getting worse because MC's head has decided to give in to the scaremongering by far right religious group Exodus Cry.
Bitcoin gained 7% so far today from it's lowest to its highest. If I have a 5% margin on whatever I'm selling how could I ever feel good about trading for it, knowing that 7% was equally likely to be a drop and not wanting to treat it like an investment, where I have to wait for it to gain value again before I can sell?
U.S. officials' decision on Covid-19 boosters baffles and upsets some scientists
All cultures accept murder. The ones that didn't were killed by the ones that did.
Well, no, I don't think they have any way of force install updates, but that would also apply to this update to add CSAM hashing.
So, you consider yourself an engineer then. How are your partial differential equations modeling skills? did you enjoy your strength of materials course?
Isn't it funny how porn-related news generate such great interest and such fiery intellectual debates on HN?
If their "top priority is to keep people safe," maybe they shouldn't help normalize the Taliban or help them gain legitimacy.
Lol, such as the people involved can't be dressed as vampires.

"Extremely reasonable"
Maybe that people may sometimes post illegal porn on OnlyFans but you're not allowed to either?

User-traded goods on e-Bay are also much harder to verify facts about than goods from a brick-and-mortar shop. Doesn't seem to prevent e-Bay from operating.
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I saw advertisements "now 20% cheaper!", while price change (original->new) was 30€->25€.

Marketing always finds a way.. 5/30=16.6%, 5/25=20%
I've been suffering for a long time for a variety of reasons.

The reason you suffer may be to due to expectations or desire.

I feel like I'm not longer suffering since I let go and started to embrace that life is a journey. What matters is the present, but it is hard to recognize that when we can look forward.