skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

I was recently incredibly annoyed with my TV "threatening" me that if I didn't accept the regular new privacy policies, I would lose functionality (of course, with the 50 pages of on-screen legalese that you're supposed to read before accepting).

LG ... I'm looking at you and your mafia tactics. Good topic to bring up, it's getting ridiculous.

Signed:
A previous LG fan
I'm in the same boat. Every now and then I'll dip into an episode or two of an old series I liked whether on DVD or streaming. But I don't watch a lot of video generally and really can't imagine sitting back through the 100+ hours of video that made up a typical network drama series.

And I get tired of universes too. I've enjoyed some of the newer Star Wars material (esp. Rogue One and the Mandalorian) but, for the most part, I'm pretty done with it even if individual stories are interesting. You can only be so fresh within an existing universe.

That said, I understand if not fully appreciate that some/many people are perfectly happy to rewatch familiar settings and characters whether literally or in new plots.
I'd never heard of Exodus Cry mentioned in the thread, so looked at their website. They seem to have made themselves a target of accusations from Pornhub as a result of the NYT article. Here is their statement on the site that addresses some of the things presented as fact in the Twitter thread:

https://exoduscry.com/downloads/Statement-of-Inclusion.pdf

I'm sure there's much more to the story, but thought it worth at least looking at the vision, etc. from this company given the accusations made against them.
Storj DCS is a great tool. So obvious that decentralized storage beats Amazon S3 in price, performance, and security
The Ruin of War
Biden Is Now Tear-Gassing American Citizens Trying to Escape Afghanistan
Joe and the Hoe have got to go!
I have a homebrew cnc with a fairly similar design, and can cut anything up through mild steel on it. The steel cuts don't have great tolerances, get something around .005" rail deflection at the extreme, but it's amazing what some extrusion can do if you have a decent spindle.
Quick UI issue I noticed - on the English version of the site, some of the text is still in Spanish. For example the banners on the top-right of the photos at https://en.ancana.co/properties say '30% vendido' etc, and the property description on https://en.ancana.co/properties/seis-encantos is in Spanish. (Also, the column title 'Completion Date' is repeated twice in the property details table).
On a smart phone one can do any of these things while on a phone call. I’m not seeing the point.
Switch to any other mobile browser (even on iOS) and the prompt goes away.
What exactly is the dog whistle here?
Careful there, only approved liberal website are allowed on this forum.
The screenshot indicates it was around 5PM, and on Mon (based upon the tweet).

Surge price for Mon office commute, triple than normal?
> Anxiety, depression, a sick child, yourself being sick, recent marriage, a big move, and a slew of other things can do this.

Maintaining a modicum of personal responsibility is not asking for very much here.

In fact, I’d say it’s the bare minimum professionalism requires.

You don’t own your company-provided equipment. This is explained by Apple, in addition to being a patently obvious fact.

If you personally choose to misuse company equipment, that is something you are personally responsible for.

Adults trying to shift blame back to Apple is a remarkable abdication of a simple responsibility. If they cannot exercise good judgement in such a straight-forward case, I question whether they can be expected to operate professionally in the work-force at all.
This situation could be greatly improved if these companies didn't have or need to have this data in the first place.

Prepaid mobile plans carry a lot of stigma with them - perceived to be "low-class", or even criminal by many. But at least your SSN and address won't be in their database.
I don't want to ever hear from the Dems/Progressives about womens' rights again
The "people are getting dumber" argument really rubbed me the wrong way as well. It's glib and pithy and people love to make this claim when talking about things they don't like about society.

"I dislike ads and only stupid idiot babies would tolerate platforms with ads, therefore everyone using the majority of websites is an idiot" is such lazy thinking. IDK, I'm a huge fan of social sciences which means I might as well be the devil to many engineers/HN posters.
> From a business perspective, it's better to take a small financial hit but continue to run your business without any additional regulatory oversight.

Indeed, staying on the down low and out of regulator minds (and crosshairs) is one of those "cost of doing business" things older companies do.
Thank you, I'll keep an eye out!
> The amounts are minor as far as payment processors are concerned, but those payment processors want to avoid governments getting up their grill.

The actual profit in this specific case might be small but there are lot of money in things related to adult content. They are all now looking for a trustworthy processor. Also even for non adult content lot of people will prefer having payment processing partner who will not kick you out based on some newspaper image. There are lot of grey area in most of the business, specially the biggest ones.
Not entirely true. You can have toxic algea in moving water if the situation is bad enough. If you go hiking on agricultural land you'll see this.
Specially because humans can't eat all matter. All calories come out, but some are undigested and don't contribute to nutrition.
As wffurr said, you have to pick your battles. I was in a similar situation: absolutely didn't want to install work apps in my personal phone, so when told to install a crapload of software I asked if the company provided phones. When they said no I said:

Sure, wait a few days since I am getting a new phone. Spent ~$80 in what is probably the crappiest no-brand Android I could find in Amazon with questionable preinstalled software. Cleared it with IT and that's what I use to test my work-related stuff.

In my location they could not fire me for requiring a phone for my job-related work, but didn't want to make trouble for $80, specially when I was already fighting for my holidays (a much more important thing for me).
I wouldn't phrase it that way, but I think I believe something very similar coming from a different cultural background. I'd be curious whether you would agree that the issue isn't so much any hierarchies at all, but too few of them. I still want to reward the best podcasters or authors or aerospace engineers, the issue is when too large a portion of society rewards too small a number of people for too broadly-defined a set of criteria. And elite overproduction is sort of when too many people want to be at the top of the biggest hierarchy for poorly defined reasons, rather than being the best author they personally can be.
I used a dumb phone for a few months last year. Ultimately it was actually the difficulty of using iMessage on my other devices conflicting with texting on my dumb phone that made it nonviable for me and forced me to switch back to the iPhone.

There is a difficulty (at least in the states) of finding decent flip phones with the exact level of dumbness that you need. And they are all quite expensive too, due to the nicheness of the product. I eventually found one reasonably priced on eBay secondhand, which seems to be a common story with a lot of dumb phone users.
Most of social media is just liberal bots pushing their liberal agenda.

Someone once mentioned that something like only 8% of twitter are actual real users. The rest are just bots.
Thanks for this, as a new learner I'll take any resource for regex I can find.
The tweet that comes right after is much more relevant imo:

> One of the primary sources in Kristof’s article is Traffickinghub founder Laila Mickelwait. She also works for the group Exodus Cry, a Christian group that is among other things anti-sex, anti-homosexuality and, naturally, anti-semitic.

While the article itself was a spark, this group has been lobbying for years and pushing from every imaginable direction, including lobbying payment processors and suing companies left and right. So yes, the article was just one tiny piece of the puzzle, but Exodus Cry is the real puppet master.
> Like someone pointed out, it’s pretty obvious they never used it themselves.

There's some irony in the many people saying this who have clearly not used it themselves.
I think a lot of companies, when talking about blockchain technology, really mean a merkle tree - distributed or not, with proof of stake/work or not. The whole point being to cryptographically prove things like chain of custody, who is asserting what facts etc. The benefit to such tools is transparency, which helps in low-trust environments.

I'm pretty sceptical of blockchain applications in general because it became one of the word examples of a technobabble buzzword, but in this case I can see the argument for it.
https://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/meet-earths-oldest-farmers-... Some ants do, curiously enough.
> OnlyFans and other sites very in violation of these rules for very long time.

I think the big problem is actually with fairly recent changes in how the rules are applied (and maybe to the rules themselves, not just application) to intermediate distributors between the producer and the consumer which has caused existing sites to have compliance issues.
If it looks like a timeshare and smells like a timeshare, it’s a timeshare. If there’s no secondary free market to sell these “fractional ownerships” it’s just forced rent I can’t resell.
Tnx for the info. I use credit cards from https://www.tremendous.com/ for money transfers and credit cards digital options. They can help with gift cards, credit cards with company's logo.And send a free sample rewards. Useful service for business.
Exactly. It would change OnlyFans from an almost no-overhead (just servers and storage) business to one that would need a huge increase in staff (payroll, offices/equipment, benefits, etc) to do the verification reviews, as well as a bigger HR deparment to handle the recruitment and hiring of these people. Their overhead costs would explode.
You think old memes are never reused?
It absolutely is. Because its true.
All this talk about free market and puritanical this and that, when the reality of the situation should be pointed out.
Are you suggesting that the Iranian government is blameless?
To help with the real time, could maybe add a layer of hot caching or the user could submit a batch job. if one fails, it's not blowing up the request.
"Think of the suffering, destitute indie producers!" is sex-positive activsts' way of turning liberals, usually sympathetic to the exploited, into pro-capitalist libertarians on the topic of porn/prostitution specifically
Why are you describing timeshares as if it's some sort of innovation?
Yes. Serious: connected devices should be legally forced to use owner-controllable open protocols. I see no other way to guarantee that the costumer can't be abused.
I got a TV that wishes it were smart. I just refused to accept the ToS upon turning it on, never connected it to the wifi, and use an HDMI cable instead.

To this day if I accidentally click the wrong input button it asks me to accept the ToS. But since I haven't and won't accept them at least that's something.

Though I think it should be extremely illegal to change the terms of service for an appliance. Software maybe, a service maybe, but not a washing machine or TV! What are you supposed to do if you disagree, try to return it 3 years after purchase? Will the manufacturer pay for you to spend your time packing it up to send back to them for a full refund (of purchase price)?

Of course not. The warranty and return periods are up, you have no choices.
The image saving is migrated by using apps that autosave received images by default. I.E WhatsApp.
Maybe we should get a law passed making it illegal to fund any non-profit church with a credit card...
Yes this is a clear GDPR violation. But depends on which jurisdiction, of course
Having an intellectually stimulating job and enjoying it is a real luxury.
Most observers doubt it will make it that far. It needs unanimity among Democrats in the Senate, which it's unlikely to get.

This is more about nudging the Overton window, declaring that it's something they will consider seriously. They want people to see what such a bill could look like, and what would be in it, to see how they react.

It's possible that the Democrats will pick up a few Senate seats in 2022, making passage more feasible. If so, Biden's veto becomes relevant, but it's also subject to internal party negotiations. They could provide various ways to mitigate his concerns, or simply make clear that it would greatly improve the party's standing.

That's a problem for a couple of years from now, when things will be different. They're just laying the groundwork.
The article itself was also a side-effect, not the source. Exodus Cry has been lobbying everyone such as payment processors, rich donors, advertisers, as well as NYT (getting them to write the article).

So article wasn't the source, it was just another piece in the path of Exodus Cry's rampage. They have a huge legal team and they've been attacking this from every imaginable angle.
I've never broken one, but every few months I have to use a needle to scrape the pocket lint out of the port on my phone. Never had that problem with previous phones.
Could this be a case of correlation =/= causation? If we consider independently when batteries may be low, and when prices may be high, it's possible those overlap. For instance, at the end of the day on Friday or Saturday, after being out late at night, the battery is more likely to be low; similarly, Uber prices are probably higher on weekend late-nights with higher demand.
Apple doesn't even need to add scanning "just for China", all Chinese data is stored on the servers of a Chinese partner.
It occurred to me this would be fairly easy to test. However then I realized this user could be in an A-B test, or this could be a feature-flag that they turn off as soon as a tweet blows up.

If somebody wants to prove it though, they should take a video of the whole process, preferably using 1 phone and 1 account, and show it happening 4-5 times in a row within the space of an hour, and that would be definitive proof.
To put it another way, with aether, the zeroth derivative of position may be relative ("above me" may be "below you"), but the first derivative (in principle) had a universally agreeable absolute value as the velocity of something against the universal aether.

In current physics, it is only the second derivative that is absolute. We can universally agree how much acceleration something is undergoing, but neither position nor velocity have a method for absolutely measuring them.

This can be a difficult distinction to express in English but with this math terminology it should be clear how very significant the difference is.
It's just a social construct.
IMO this line is reasoning is flawed. You're judging us as exceptional purely because of the technology we have now. For most of the time our species has existed the only exceptional thing about us was our ability to control fire.
A friend of mine really loved the S4 and says the show runner (or writer?) has been a big TOS fan and that's contributing to it, I guess.
> For those interested in building an open source Pocket, please check out https://github.com/open-pocket/open-pocket [0]

[0] https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75...
Human biodiversity is also much greater than most people give it credit for, and because of that, the fact that this one guy ate an all-Twinkie diet and became healthier is almost irrelevant - it's not even anecdata, because that would imply n>1.
Yeah, at least on Android I know that it works that way. It's not convenient, you either gotta use earphones or put the other side on speaker but it works.
It's only an issue if you're dead against using a headset/earphones, or speaker phone.
Shoot him an email them. It's common courtesy.
If there's a dispute then a monorepo makes things easier because all interested parties have a complete global view of the entire change.

In a multi-repo setup, one change becomes many commits and everybody sees only their piece of the jigsaw puzzle.

It does depend on everybody being adults and behaving sensibly; unfortunately there's no technology that can solve that problem.
This kind of thing is why you really can’t have conversations on phones in confidence. You really have no idea what the chat client on your phone (much less the other person’s) is doing.
Modern academia doesn't even descend from any ancient Greek institution since schooling in Greco-Roman antiquity was far more of a personal engagement, universities were extensions of Christian monasteries and modern formal logic and 'rational debate' developed out of the practices of those monks communications with one another across distances.

Moreover it was the Muslim Caliphates and Eastern Romans who inherited and further developed the wealth of surviving antique knowledge between the end of the Roman Empire in Western Europe and Northwest Africa and the renaissance, but since Hegel Europe has had this lasting fascination with a direct link to antiquity.

Edit: An aside - People of Descartes' and Locke's generation were amongst the first waves of a secular break of this sacred academic tradition that was commensurate with similar breaks in politics.

It is this sacred origin of secular thought that John Locke is referring to in The Essay on Human Understanding in the form of "the schoolmen" he references as his constant opponent: these are the Christian scholastics, from Peter Abelard down to Aquinas, who developed the prototypical notions of universality/causation as we understand them today, but these were conflated things from the scholastics all the way down to Kant rather than how we now consider the former distinctly as an exhaustive, inclusive set of things in some category, e.g. being human. The categorical imperative doesn't mean "act as if everybody else had to also do as you do", it means "act as if your decision was inextricable from any other necessary, causal law we observe of nature, like gravity (does the Earth decide to pull you back down when you jump up?). Morality based on pain/pleasure is a BIG NO-NO for Kant and Kant's minimalist definition of being human excludes being able to be recognized empathically/sympathetically.
How about distillation? There are emergency water-distillation kits that people bring on desert hikes. (I guess it would depend on whether the toxin forms an azeotrope with water.)
seems like you could get a reasonable idea by performing a brief workload that should reliably trigger boosting, and see if boosting occurs?
It seems to me like the problem with VR isn't the lack of a killer app, its the lack of hardware enabling that app. Especially with the rise of remote work, I think this type of VR collaboration is the killer app. No one has successfully made it work yet though.
FYI "You're overthinking this" is given as if in advice, but it only means 'I am bored, not committed, and/or no longer listening'.
Interestingly, I stopped being an AT&T customer 4 years ago but just this morning I received a phishing SMS containing my real name and a mention of AT&T overpayment or some-such.

Could be a coincidence, or it could be the data is already out and being used.
I am not sure whether to laugh or cry at that. "We want to tell customers what they want. And it turns out what they want is this half-assed thing that will advance the career of the executive pushing for it."

I have my issues with Apple. But they have such a deep tradition of user research and customer focus. When they tell customers what they want, it's often because they have really good data indicating it's what customers do want but don't totally know it yet.
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I have no idea but my TV has service menus which seems very advanced. Google your TV brand + service manual and you may find something.
Slightly off topic, but I barely use my phone as a phone. I think it's dumb to call them phones, it an artifact of their origin.

I could just as well not have any phone functionality if it has internet.

At this point I even don't pick up calls from numbers that I don't recognize or weren't scheduled beforehand.

It's now rude to just call someone on the phone without asking permission first.

It's the equivalent of dropping unannounced at their place.
If there really are minors on there, I'm glad they're being forced to clean up their act.

Downvote me all you want for feeling that way.
Google clearly determined that a potential fallout from this evidence leaking would be too little, too late. Top notch corporate strategy.
Speaks to the strength of the current labor market. The jobs had low value, and those who stuck behind either want the job or have no other choice.
I don't disagree with the article overall, but it is very sensationalized. Statements like this

> It is monetizing video compilations with titles like “Screaming Teen,” “Degraded Teen” and “Extreme Choking.” Look at a choking video and it may suggest also searching for “She Can’t Breathe.”

imply Pornhub is going out of it's way to specifically monetize rape or child videos, when the truth is they monetize every single video on their platform. If it was as easy as creating some sort of child or rape filter and de-monetizing those videos as the sentence seems to imply they should be doing, they would just remove the videos entirely, not de-monetize them.

And the bit about related suggestions sort of implies to a non-techie that Pornhub employees are generating these suggestions, and it's not the only place in the article they make this point.

The reality isn't an evil mustache-twirling Pornhub employee sitting at a desk and brainstorming "Ah yes, if they searched for ‘Young Asian’ they probably want to search for 'young tiny teen. The reality is an algorithm detecting patterns in user searches, and some of those users are sick people, and there's basically no level of human moderation of videos or search terms happening at the scale of usage Pornhub gets.

Sentences like

> Mindgeek’s moderators are charged with filtering out videos of children, but its business model profits from sex videos starring young people.

Implies that Pornhub is getting a substantial amount of it's profit from illegal porn, which I highly doubt is the case and the article provides no evidence of.

Again, I agree overall with the content of the article, and approve of Pornhub's reaction to only allow verified videos (which was suggested by the article). I'm not angry at Nicholas Kristof for sensationalizing some things, as it appears that is what it took to actually make something happen. But the article is definitely skewing towards misleading in some sections to get more reach.
More or less, yes. The unfortunate nature of having a project operate on a global scale of that the project is then subject to politics and problems at a global level, and to some extent needs to be aware of the relationships and conflicts between global-level entities like nation states. They are part and parcel.

Such a project can only make it best effort and choose to rely on domains where it thinks it will have the least problems. Sometimes that isn't the US, and sometimes it is.
But it can still locate the originator which is the problem.
It’s worth reading the article. The standard being referenced here is whether to file charges of organized criminal conspiracy a la racketeering. That has a high standard of proof, far higher than the typical colloquial use of the word “coordinated.”

Hilariously, the article describes the rally before the attack as “nearby,” as though it was a coincidence or something. When in fact the speakers at the rally enraged the audience and then told them to go to the Capitol.