skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming your question to be in good faith (because I'm surprised that it would come as a surprise that many EU countries tax the shite out of automotive fuel), gasoline seems to be approaching $7/gallon in some EU countries, whereas gas in AZ is under $3.
Wouldn't that only affect the issuing bank, rather than the card processor? The card processor would just process a chargeback like any other CC transaction.

So I could see why issuing banks may not want to support adult content, but then there could be a porn friendly issuing bank that may charge higher fees or something.
That's not actually answering the question in the GP about why this is different.

Photos people send me to my Android are automatically sent through 3rd parties, either through MMS, Facebook messenger, Google Photos, or One Drive. Photos arriving on my device are almost guaranteed to be uploaded to both OneDrive and Google Photos based on how defaults of Android phones are setup.

So someone could already send hash collisions my way (purposely or inadvertently) and authoritarian governments already have access in their respective clouds (at least China does).

And yet, there are not stories of people being falsely accused of child porn due to PhotoDNA hash collisions.

Why does "on device for apple devices only" change the calculus.
> I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

aka. Don't be a Corporate Apparatchik.

Remember this isn't a black & white think.

Feel if you don't fit in with the corporate BS you'll be fired and you don't have another option now...

* Go slow on the BS and fast on the stuff that actually creates value.

* Malicious Compliance.

* Speak up.

* Speak to other non Apparatchiks and organise non confrontational solutions.

* Start working on alternatives.
How could they operate no-cash businesses if this were true? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/16/fac...
It's not even enforcement it's before any crimes, or after a crime has been adjudicated. What's worse the article shows that the visits induce crimes because of police behavior...

But yeah for sure on selective enforcement = super biased. On race and wealth.
I think this must be the most overlapping possible Venn diagram of HN and OF, no?
Why can't the payment processor just come to an agreement with OnlyFans to hold back some reserve funds to cover the high chargeback/fraud rate?
Okay, so, let me ask you a question: there are payment processors that process adult transactions; has a single one had its license pulled because of that? I can't find a single instance of that happening, only more instances of adult content providers being targeted this way: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/payment-processors-are...
Yup. This is specifically about Nathan Robinson disappearing up his own ass lately. He's advanced some truly bad opinions of late, and it's probably his worst nightmare to be forced defend those opinions against his own staff and to maybe be overruled or publish opposing opinions on his own site.

A lot of nominal "socialists" are the most traditional, patronizing, power-tripping, small-business tyrants when the rubber meets the road. The problem is that most socialisms don't have any concrete description of how a socialist workplace should actually operate, and nothing even approaching how one should work within a capitalist society.
Well in the US it is apparently 0.9 USD per liter. In Ireland for example it is 1.8 USD per liter.

https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/
Was it a Jaguar you saw? because those vehicles are electric.
Or collecting rain water in a barrel! I wonder if here is a legal concept of the commons, sort of like a really low speed limit on the highway that would be dangerous to follow given every other car goes 15+ over it.
Good way to get rid of that person, that's for sure.
What is going on is that reality is slapping some techno-utopians in the face and they are shocked, shocked, that governments are more powerful that businesses.

That's not at all what the lefty geeks learned by reading Chomsky or what the righty geeks learned by reading Heinlein.

All along these people thought algorithms and protocols (e.g. bitcoin and TCP/IP) would somehow be a powerful force that would cause governments to fall on their knees and let people evade government control. After all, it's distributed! You can't stop it!

Well, that was all very foolish, because they mistook government uninterest in something for the equivalent of government being powerless to control it, and when governments did start taking an interest in something, it turns out that protocols and algorithms are no defense against the realities of political power. It is to the field of politics, and not the field of technology, that one must turn in order to increase collective freedoms. Individual freedom can be increased by obtaining money or making lots of friends, but collective freedom cannot be increased this way, it can only be increased by organizing and influencing government.
One issue - I like actually that Apple is big enough to negotiate (ie, screw over) third party developers.

You have to notify of renewal terms of trial in same font (ie, $1 for 1 week, $100 per month after).

You have to allow people to use your app anonymously (ie, with an apple sign in).

I KNOW I could never negotiate terms like these - but Apple can.

Yes, it probably is a sign they have too much power, but they seem to direct a lot of their headaches to third parties, which makes my consumer experience better not worse.

Good tips on the privacy.com thing.
I put any metadata in the first lines of the file. You can trivially have R skip those lines.
I don't think we should expect a policy to serve the stated purpose when the people driving it have entirely different reasons for pushing it.

For example, when states strengthen regulations on abortion clinics with the stated goal of improving patient safety, but the driving forces behind the legislation are anti-abortion groups who know that rural abortion providers will have to close, creating large unserved areas... will those laws help or hurt the safety of women who want abortions?

Likewise, we should be wary of consent verification laws that are pushed by groups whose supporters are opposed to legal pornography.

In both cases the goal is not to protect women. The goal is to take something morally wrong and make it seedy, underground, and dangerous, like morally wrong things are supposed to be.
>could you use strain gauges to measure the deflection and fix it in software?

No. There's no substitute for rigidity in fixturing and of the machine itself. There will also be vibration motions that have unpredictable nodes, frequencies, and amplitudes.

Consider that a 2 flute mill at 20,000 rpm will induce vibrations with a fundamental frequency of about 670 hz. This would require a servo system with a bandwidth of about 2 khz to correct, a sampling rate of 8khz would be a bare minimum.

Next, what to do if the tool digs in, and shoves the part? You have to have backlash sufficiently damped, and rigidity enough to keep the tool or part from being snapped off.

There's a good reason machine tools are as heavy and rigid as they are, and why they must be on a thick foundation, and leveled precisely before use.

If you're going high precision, you'll also have everything in a temperature controlled environment, and allow the materials to soak at a day to achieve the proper temperature. Cooling is very important when you get into fractions of a millimeter, or "tenths" (1/10,000 inch) tolerances.

The best machine tools are old American cast iron machines from about 1940 to 1960, rebuilt with modern control systems.
Ok yeah, I do agree this scaling attack potentially makes this feasible, if it essentially allows you to present a completely different image to the reviewer as to the user. Has anyone done this yet? i.e. an image that NeuralHashes to a target hash, and also scale-attacks to a target image, but looks completely different.

(Perhaps I misunderstood your original post, but this seems to be a completely different scenario to the one you originally described with reference to the three thumbnails)
With respect, we don’t have that many fab engineers any more. At least, not of that quality. And most of the ones we do have are already locked up by other employers, like Intel, IBM, and the other companies that still have some fabs here in the US.

Sure, we can do small scale cutting edge prototype fabs, but the few production fabs we have here are not TSMC quality (go ask Intel), and they are already fully allocated. Many of those might not exist here in the country at all, if it weren’t for the requirements from the US military and certain other classified customers to have certain types of chips made here domestically.

We used to have a lot more fab engineers here in the US, but we outsourced those jobs and sent them overseas. And the people who used to do that work have moved on to other careers, or retired.

And the reason why Silicon Valley has so many EPA disaster area cleanup sites is because of the fabs(and related businesses) that used to be endemic in that part of the country. Fabs aren’t clean businesses to run. You’re going to have to find a place where you can run those dirty kinds of businesses, and that’s either going to be extraordinarily expensive, or even impossible, due to legal restrictions on the use of toxic chemicals, etc….

There’s a reason why those fabs are overseas. And all those reasons are why it’s going to be extraordinarily hard for us to pull that work back. There’s a reason why Steve Jobs and Tim Cook have both said “those jobs aren’t coming back”.
Based on a quick glance at the name, I guessed your company sold some kind of carbon offset credits.
Because you are raising funds on Patreon, we may be held accountable for what you do with those funds

Wow.

That is not good. Any hypothetical employer could justify any hypothetical abuse using that rationale.
It sounds like a fixed term future written by the lender directly may be a better option, I would not expect a large lender to actually trade futures Kraken/Coinbase.

Agreed it is a gimmick, I would imagine everything will be in fiat except at the time of each payment, when the instantaneous crypto value will be credited.
I love the idea of the reverse Conway maneuver. Thanks for that. Obvious in hindsight.
You're not taking the right medication.

I know it's nigh impossible what with the prescription racket and the quality of doctors out there, but the meds are out there and it's possible to create a regimen that would make your brain work like you want to.
Try vrland.io/lobby, a WebXR alternative to Spatial and Horizon Workrooms. Even works on mobile web and computers too!
$7/gal (converted from €1.60/liter), give or take, vs < $5, depending on where you are in the US. It's obvious hyperbole to say it's "practically free", but large parts of the economy would stop being functional at $7/gal.
I think this is a tough one, and I'm not sure where I stand on this.

On the one hand I don't think the government should be able to tell you what you can and can't do with your body. If you want to sell your body, you should be able to.

But on the other hand, if you legalise it then you open the door to people being exploited, and I'm aware that people are exploited now in prostitution, obviously, but I feel if it's legal it might be harder to punish those that do.

So maybe on balance it's better for it to be illegal if it protects at least some people.
Can you explain in more detail? I just don't see the analogy you're drawing here. People may sometimes fence stolen items on Ebay, but you're not allowed to, and payment processors would definitely cut them off if you were.
No, the logic is that separation of church and state is a red herring.

Payment processors are choosing to not associate with businesses that cannot demonstrate that legal consent was gained from everyone involved in the production of the videos.

There's neither church nor state involved here.
Good points! I would like to bring to your attention that consumerism is indeed not the key for living a healthy life.

> Money doesn’t buy happiness. Neither does materialism: Research shows that people who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/consumeri...

> Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-8...
Totally!

I think it's more than struggle to fit in though, just like immigrants it was (is in some places) active discrimination and exclusion.

It's funny the amount of people who identify as Irish or Italian that just a few generations later treat the new ostracized communities with discrimination just like their ancestors were.
Tom Lehrer complained about "New Math" some 60 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

(To be honest, "new math" makes sense to me. But whatever, for us oldies this is as obligatory as a XKCD)

He had no idea about where the world would go with "woke", though.
It really seems weird to me that with all the countries that allow various forms of sex work, payment processing is still such a bottleneck.

As I understand it, independent providers doing 100% legal work in their countries live in terror of their payments being cut off due to the factors mentioned above.

Where is the CoinBase of legal erotica?
one book at a time as aquired, scanner taken out of stock plastic and mounted to allow the book to be placed with the spine stradding a 90 degree edge.

once the dexterity is burned in it can go quite fast.
havnt had the motivation to deal with a page turner but that would be the way to go if dont want to spend a long time manually.
How much fun would that be for customers if India then decided to confiscate every iPhone it encounters within India (maybe excepting tourists, but maybe not)?
As of this year you can no longer sell on eBay without going through full KYC, including SSN (not EIN), providing a physical bank account, etc. If you are selling as a company, including a multi-owner or multi-person company you are still required to provide full personal details for the people involved and any beneficial owners.
PH is having problems due to so much "user uploaded" content that they can not verify the identity of the actors contained within. The difference now is that Mastercard is enforcing the rules rather than the US Government which had USC2257 in place for many years with the same requirements. The difference this time is that MC is global(and controls these sites income) and USGov is not, so MC is actually able to enforce this. Adult content sites with their IDs in order(as all US based ones should have already) will have no problem under the new rules. It's not a closing down of the business its actual enforcement of rules that have been on the books for 20+ years by a private entity instead of the lax USGov.

Lets be real, if PH had a way to take monies without having to clean up to save face for the card issuers, it would still be business as usual.
It may be so, but they won't need payment processors once they don't have payments, or users.
The problem with VsCode is that it's so GUI-dependent. It's no good for e.g. working remotely via SSH, or even for a lightweight, productivity-focused, low-distraction workflow. Really, we need a UX more like the old text-mode IDE's of Borland's "Turbo" and Microsoft's "Quick" series, complete with intuitive faux-GUI elements (menus, windows/frames, widgets) that could all be efficiently operated via keyboard navigation as opposed to the mouse. That would be cool-looking in a way that hackers can appreciate, while also being highly productive for day-to-day use.
Try vrland.io/lobby instead. It's web-based and works across mobile, PC/Mac, as well as VR via WebXR. We have many template rooms you can access in addition to an office, like a gallery, concert venue, conference hall, and much more.
> In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of our platform, and the continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines

So, they are trying to get inclusive by excluding most of their community...

I understand it is bullshit and the only reason they do it is because porn is a difficult investment, with a lot of credit card fraud and limited opportunities for partnership. But still, OnlyFans made a name for itself with porn, and even managed the impressive feat of staying mostly clean regarding abuse and copyright infringement.

It is a difficult niche to fit in, but by abandoning it, they will compete with everyone else, including Google, Facebook, etc... and I don't think they will stand a chance. It is like, say, a shop that sells craft beer next to Walmart. Craft beer suppliers may be unreliable, have limited stock, with wild variation in quality, etc... it is much easier to deal with large industrial breweries, but if you stop selling craft beer because it is too hard, people will not buy your new, "guaranteed profit" industrial beer, they will go to Walmart, because Walmart if bigger and can negotiate lower prices, and people can get their beers with their groceries. The only reason the craft beer shop can make money is because they do the kind of thing Walmart refuses to do.
And people seem to be forgetting that ASML is a Dutch company. It’s the worlds leading producer of the chip lithography equipment, and the other quality companies in this space are in Japan.
TLDR: Roads were built despite the market's desire for mass transit.

The first automobile suburb was Long Island. Created by Robert Moses. Copied by all. Money was stolen from public transit and spent on roads, stolen from urbans to pay for suburbs.

In fact, cars did not scale. The road capacity did not, could not, ever, accommodate the demand. Physically, logically, economically impossible.

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

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Broker-Robert-Moses-Fall/dp/039...
"History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes."

Prediction:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38963007

Also relevant... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_o8vYUU-jo
Is this available on the self hosted version as well now? I am getting RAM issues on the AWS hosted cluster.
In the US at least, not having a social presence is indicative of an outdated enterprise. FB is the primary expectation. (along with a Google and Apple Maps link for your address)
The problem is that the industry is ripe with fraud, even from what were legitimate customers. I listed some examples elsewhere, but I'll repeat:

* Money laundering by people making anonymous accounts with stolen credit cards and then selling them to people using crypto (so that they're not associated with the account).

* Customer's spouses/SO finding out about it and the customer claiming fraud to chargeback and cover it up.

* (More OF specific) Customers making a large payment for custom content and then filing a chargeback after they get it. This is more or less a problem with all digital goods, but probably more of a problem with custom content.

Most banks/payment processors don't want to touch this industry since it poisons their image to others in the network. For example, if Stripe started serving the industry and fraud went up, that ruins Stripe's image to all the banks they interconnect with. It's just segment that isn't worth serving at the expense of all your other markets.

Even if someone made a bespoke payment processor for the industry, banks would just stop working with them.

In reality, the fraud problem really needs to be dealt with first. If your "customers" are going to be bad actors then there's really nothing you can do on the payment side to solve that.
Because it's a valid answer as to why would a business not choose to do this?
Google Project Ara (2016)
You might be overestimating the mass of asteroids. The total mass of asteroids in the asteroid belt is 3% of the mass of the moon. Kuiper belt is 2% of the earth’s mass.
Heck, didn't Apple finance expansion of TSMC so Apple could ensure that they received priority when ordering chips?
That may not be such a bad thing. When self-driving cars are better than a human driver in every single way, car companies have no reason to sell the cars instead of adding them to a massive robo-taxi fleet. A nearly-uncrashable car that handles everything except the first and last sixty seconds of every trip is close to the ideal outcome for consumers, in my opinion.
If you don't want to read:
The only number I've heard from Apple is, "the likelihood that the system would incorrectly identify any given account is less than one in one trillion per year."[1] Which I read as enough false hits to flag an account that year (some interview said that threshold was around 30). That depends on the average number of new photos uploaded to iCloud, the size of the NCMEC database, the threshold for flagging the account, and the error rate of the match. Without knowing most of those numbers it's hard to gauge how close it is.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
I just looked at the linked repo. Have they made any progress? It looks like _very_ early days.
I agree with this. There's work done by NVidia on AI Video Compression around facial ticks and reducing latency and bandwidth. Maybe these two approaches can be combined for a best-of-both worlds result.

https://developer.nvidia.com/ai-video-compression
That ... still depends.

There are areas with highly permiable soil and scattered watersheds. Much of the rain that falls in such places either isn't captured by reservoirs, or is directed elsewhere (absorbed into the ground, perhaps refreshing aquifers or the water table, evaporation). Reservoirs themselves have evaporative losses (especially in dry and windy climates). At smaller scales, localised cisterns could make sense, especially as supplemental storage and when integrated into initial designs (the case for many traditional building styles in dry climates).

Considering that existing building styles already provide virtually all that's necessary for rainwater capture except the storage containment itself, the additional marginal costs are fairly modest.
Why Twitter Allows the Taliban to Maintain Accounts on Its Platform
CC processing business is hold by 2 American companies. When they warn you (through your CC acquirer), you have zero negotiation power. Comply or die.

You can use proxies if you are a small company. But at onlyFans' level, the solutions are limited.

PS: By experience, I can also confirm that most of the CC acquirers evaluate your business not on its legality but on its morality.

PS2: With mandatory 3DS2, the excuse of high fraud/complains rates (which were true 10 years ago) does not make sense anymore.
> an iOS feature for reporting phone calls and SMS

Why doesn't the US govt follow India's govt? I've read that Americans can receive up to 4 unsolicited calls a day.