skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "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

That propaganda tactic is probably more effective in that area than any other, but it's not exclusive to it. It's basically an attempt to hide a large system of exploitation in the shadow behind a very narrow sympathetic story, and that's standard operating procedure for people who create those exploitative systems (see also: gig work, child labor, etc.).
This is very cynical. If you can't even tell your family how much you make what's the point in having a family? What is a family for in your opinion then?
Wages are such a weird thing...

In HS I was a grocery bagger and I made $5.34/hr 1992-93

I then worked as head cad drafter (autocad) for multiple architects... When I announced I was quitting my firm to move to seattle, I told them I was moving and needed a raise so I could save up to move in 3 months, they laughed at my gall and granted me the raise from $8.50/hr to $9.25 -- 1994

I moved to Seattle then made $9.50 as head draftsman designing Fred Huchinson Cancer Research Center and a bunch of fast food restaurants and gas stations and cell sites... (Rent was $400/month for a 1 bedroom)

Moved back to the Bay in '97 and got a job as IT manager for a company making $42K/yr (Rent was $1,200 for 3-br

then $65k

then $70K

then $104K (mortgage $2400)

120, 150, 170, 250K

Now I am looking for work and make nothing...

I am happier making nothing than anytime I was on the clock 24/7/365 worrying about production uptime that made nothing better in this world....
Nowhere near this money, but I did notice during this pandemic a situation where:

- Wife and I were in a tricky situation (stuck in a different country, living with parents since we couldn't go back home).

- It was stressful to be away from our home and not knowing when/if you'll be back.

- Nobody in the family offered any empathy to this situation since "what do you care? You have money."

We're nowhere near even the bottom mid of the most affected people by the pandemic, so don't take this as whining. I think others (especially those who don't have enough money not to worry) tend to believe that money would solve all their problems. Hence, they think you don't deserve empathy.
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I'm not a big fan of C# in Depth as a reference book. It follows a very chronological path (here's what was introduced in .NET Framework v1, here's what was introduced in version 2...), which can be interesting but I don't think it's a useful framing for most people.
> But a medical doctor and researcher on one of Joe Rogan's podcasts

Immediately disregarded
What's the Switzerland of software?
How I got hired at my first programming job by not trying
Cutting off jobless benefits early may have hurt state economies
Is there anything like this for Canada?
Let me point out that this service should not be necessary: every german ID has a physical key infrastructure necessary for any shop or vendor to do this with a local terminal, yet the enabling legislation deliberately didn’t instruct the government to build out any ecosystem.

Compare this with, say, Estonia where practically everything can be handled through the keys in the ID card.
Oops meant to write "nit" but my phone didn't think that was a likely word.
Yes, I understand. I'm saying a $500k house in 2007 is now $1M in many markets.
I'm curious about how this works in practice. Did you just pick and buy houses for all of them? Or did they pick and you paid? If the latter, did you set some kind of price range?

Also, do you worry about any future expectations they might have?
they probably can rise "forever" as long as the rate of increase keeps pace with general wealth and economic growth. now, a bubble can't last forever, but moderate price increases (inflation) are pretty normal.
I tend to term such a device a ‘handset’ for that among other reasons.
Having the ability to use LIDAR and not just cameras is less constrained, not more.
There’s lots of hardware, and it’s gotten very cheap. Much cheaper than early home computers. That’s not the problem. For some reason people don’t find it that compelling.
The penalties for violating the sanctions are too big. Ridiculously massive. So massive that the question of trying to work around them is a no-brainer. Right or wrong, there's little to gain and everything to lose.
> Is it a millennial thing?

"Elder millennial" here. Didn't have a cell phone until college, and then it was a dumb phone.

Phone calls are my least favorite form of communication. Oddly enough, I'm fine with them in a business context, but personal? Don't call me unless someone's dying or I'm expecting a call from you. I will be annoyed otherwise. Either the person you're calling is ignoring all calls (phone silent and out of sight), or you're about to set off a blaring DEAL WITH THIS RIGHT THIS SECOND, DROP WHAT YOU'RE DOING alarm for them (even if it's on vibrate, still, that's what it is). It's like yelling "I need your attention this second!". So it should be important enough to warrant abruptly interrupting someone who may be in the middle of who-knows-what.

I felt very differently about this before cell phones. Yay! Someone called me! Now it's like, damnit, why are you being such a jerk by calling me when there's not something super-important and urgent going on? I think part of it's that home phones couldn't interrupt you everywhere at all times. Mostly just indoors, in your house.
Your devices and your employer
This is an age-old concern, and there's a traditional approach: tithing. Automatically donate 10% of your after-tax income to a charity you believe in. Then stop thinking about it except in special emergencies. Tune the percentage as you wish, but make that decision once (or infrequently) and keep it out of your daily anxieties.
SMS as 2FA is so stupid. So many banks and financial institutions are doing it in America and it amazes me. I mean what are they spending million of dollars in compliance/security/SOC etc on if they can't get a basic 2FA done correctly ? And don't get me started on stupid password requirements where a more secure password generated in keypass etc won't be valid. Who builds this stuff today ?
In Sweden the personnumber is public info and there is no value to keeping it secret. Everything works fine there.
GiveWell and other "Effective Altruist" organizations are generally the most widely-trusted source for these recommendations. If you're OK with their starting principles and assumptions (which you should familiarize yourself with!) they seem pretty solid overall.
Pretty common in Europe. Whitelists, blacklists, limits, SMS confirmations...

You can use EU card in US with account nominated in USD.
Before my father passed he still grumbled about me buying a meal and he was retired!
With the advantage of hindsight, I now greatly regret writing the documents that influenced Jeff Dean into making a Google Health Research group. What I have realized is that he is not the right leader for Google Research and Google proper will never be able to do consumer business (android, youtube) and also be able to do trusted Health Research.

What a shame.
> An algorithm is just going to give me a mix of what's popular and what I've liked in the past.

That's exactly the same thing a human stylist would do + making sure the outfit pieces look good together (Which I assume the algorithm is also trained to do).

As much as I want to believe that a human in the end would do a better job, I think an algorithm is capable of becoming a more accurate and dynamic stylist than a human.

Unless you want to be a trend-setter or do some artistic expression through your clothing. In those cases a human stylist does make sense. But for the regular Joe, I think a well trained algorithm can perform better than a human.
In a lot of places (where I luckily own a home included), prices hockey sticked hard. It's not natural. I don't see it staying this way. And if it does, my house--which I bought for $285 8 years ago--will be worth a couple million bucks in a couple years and I can sell out and retire on the road.

Not banking on that.

And if it does, we've entered some kind of new era for the haves and have-nots. :(
Here’s their paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-kulshrestha.pdf

Their system is vulnerable in all the ways they claim.

However Apple’s system is not the same and does contain mitigations.

> Apple’s muted response about possible misuse is especially puzzling because it’s a high-profile flip-flop.

This is a dishonest statement. Apple has not been muted about the concerns these researchers are presenting.

They address them here: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...

There is nothing in this piece that relates to Apple’s actual technology.

These researchers obviously have the background to review what Apple has said and identify flaws, but they have not done so here.
Well, most people can generally recognize when a belief is wrong if they are directly confronted with the fact. I think it's a bit more meta - such as creating modes of thought that systematically (again, holding in mind the assumption that nature is regular) produce right and useful thoughts, and dismantling modes of thought that systematically produce wrong or useless thoughts.

But in essence, yes.

(Though of course, again, the ultimate goal is to be better able to achieve preferred outcomes in the world, and if thinking only the word "blue" on repeat produced outcomes perfectly in line with your preferences, then rationality would espouse blue blue blue blue. But at that point, most of the techniques gathered under the label would be useless, because yadda yadda ordered world etc.)
Nobody is different. The people around the newly rich person are just acting just as entitled as they always have. They just formerly never pointed that behavior in the direction of that person because they never had a reason to.
I’m aware, but they can just search for that directly, no need for CSAM.
No, I don't think it's a millenial thing.

I agree with you completely.
Storing water in ponds has to deal with evaporation, algae growth etc. Also expensive to build.

Storing water in tanks means buying and maintaining something as well.

I think the point here is the "low tech, thousands of years old and it works" part. Underground water doesn't evaporate or grow nasty stuff. You do have to have the right terrain I suppose but where you do this sounds awesome. The ground will actually even help with filtering out many nasties.
But also salaries have risen and additionally so has the value proposition of owning a home compared to living in an apartment. Why? Because they've stopped building homes for the most part in desirable areas close to big tech companies.
It seems like a non-issue unless you are one of the many people who have been bitten by a dog. A lot of people are rightly afraid of un-trained and poorly socialized animals in public. When you share a grocery aisle with them it can be a bit hair raising. Just ask anyone who does work involving delivery or home service.
The current bulk of sanctions against Iran were unilaterally imposed by the Trump administration in violation of the JCPOA. The UNSC, including "allies" like Germany, explicitly opposed the US's illegal application of sanctions in 2020.

The US violated the JCPOA, not Iran. Both the Rouhani and Raisi governments have the stated policy that they will return the the JCPOA if the US first reverses its violation.
> For me, other people's problems aren't my problem.

If your luck runs out, we'll be here to help you.
The $1k minimum is kind of the entire argument here though, they are exploiting free labor and making massive profits off of it.

So you're basically saying "It's totally fine if Roblox keeps up to $999 in profits from millions of developers (potentially children) because they haven't hit the $1k min."

I'm almost certain ANY of these kids would be happier with $100 in cold hard cash in their pockets than they would be with $100 of robox currency. Right now they just have no option.
The cheat code feeling might only occur if your focus in life is earning lots of money. If you are instead pursuing to contribute something valuable in arts or sciences, a ton of money might just give you ease of mind and time to create something really worthwhile. Thinking about René Descartes, Charles Darwin and (as a more recent example) Jimmy Wales. It could indeed be that many of the former lottery winners ending up badly fell into the former camp.
Oh no, another company that creates ghost houses full of vacation Appartments that nobody uses because they are "investments". Has it come to your mind that an increasing number of European municipalities issues punitive taxes if the Appartment stays empty for n days per year?
A lot of people still buy with like 5% down and pay pmi even in hot markets. There are also first time homeowner benefits. My city offers a down payment loan where you can pay 1% down up to like a 750k home if you are lower income.

I think that not a lot of people are well educated on homeownership and think that you need to have a huge down payment or an all cash offer, when thats just not true, and often don’t know about the benefits offered to first time homeowners by multiple levels of government.
It's obvious that the company is trying to create clear distinctions between hobbyists and professional devs. A low cash-out threshold seems like bait, where as a higher threshold discourages would-bes from thinking it will be easy money and filling the catalog with garbage.

Though I do concede... the catalog is filled with a lot of garbage.
Sounds like they already have one.
> The news section is different, and it's job is to report facts. The news and opinion sections are run as totally different organizations in well-run newspapers.

You have definitely described an ideal. It's a reasonable ideal, even when those who follow it fall short. But do you actually contend that this ideal is shared by those at the New York Times and do you feel your words describe their newsroom accurately? That is the specific paper before us, after all.

> Also, City Journal is even more ideological and biased than the New York Times.

Perhaps so! Sometimes this is a positive feature; those who are biased do have an incentive to investigate facts, and uncover the truths their enemies would prefer to remain hidden. No doubt that this has been a major reason for the New York Times' success with their coverage on Trump, which contains many damning facts.

Is this a positive feature insofar as this article on OnlyFans is concerned?
Knowing what we know about these companies and their security practices, I would give benefit of doubt to this "someone" who posted on a hacking forum.
I'm not sure they'll even drop if building codes are relaxed. After all, those SFH owners also own the land beneath their house. The price per square foot of living space could drop while the price per square foot of land goes up.
> There is no "algorithmic bias in the dataset".

Yes, this is where the article unveiled its non-ML underpinnings.
What Dave does with his money is none of your concern. But since he put it out in the public, you are certainly entitled to your opinion.

You see, that's the point of not telling anyone. Everyone has an opinion and once they know a little something about anything they want to share it. Most of those opinions are how to separate Dave from his money. Nobody needs that in their lives. Not Dave. Not anyone. He was right to keep quite and it looks like he had good reason to keep it quite in the first place. How you feel about finding a middle ground is the problem Dave was looking to avoid. See my first sentence.
Practically, it's an advertising apparatus. Creators probably fit a normal distribution for mass appeal, so your ire might be better directed at advertisers who enable and curate primarily profit-driven content.

Nothing wrong with making a few bucks off of your craft.
What I find most disturbing about this is the possibility to use real money to promote the games. Due to the misrepresentation of the chances of success this turns the platform into a gambling den for ten year olds.
Reminds me of the Filipino maid friends living in the middle east had working for them. The pay included airfare for going home for a few weeks once a year, but somehow she always declined and rather wanted to go on holiday with her employers (and the kids, so not really a holiday for her).
After 3 years they finally found out she actually really wanted to go home and see friends and family again. However she was so scared her family would guilt her into giving them all the money she had earned abroad, and making her dreams of what she would do with it impossible, she could never bring herself to book the ticket.
Technically, Iran agreed to a nuclear non-proliferation treaty in, like, 1972, violated it which led to UN resolutions in the early 2000s, then agreed to a "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...) in 2015, which led to a partial lifting of sanctions. (The US went crazy around this time and broke the agreement as well, but...) In 2019, Iran "suspended implementation" of "part" of the JCPoA.

Treaties are generally treated as law by signatories. So, "illegal". Not that it really matters any; who's going to arrest a country?
(quoting the article:)
> Now you can make lots of money by making cool things

I know I am in a forum that talks about startups etc. But I wish and believe this "get loads of money" mentality will die in this century. This is an even more important lesson to unlearn. I also believe that if it does not die, its side effects, like climate change, will kill us.
I've read through the comments. Pornhub debacle is mentioned often.
No one here is mentioning that many people have fantasies like a rape fantasy, a teenage fantasy, etc. A good search algorithm picks up on that and will make suggestions based on your previous searches/watched videos and the videos other people with similar interests have watched. This should be obvious. The videos have bad unspecified titles because it's easier to find. People are unspecified in their search terms. They don't search for "rape fantasy" they search for "rape". They don't search for "feet fetish" they search for "feet". What is it people don't get about this?

I think people should just mind their own business and stop policing what other people do.
"If you don't like it don't watch it".
As long as it's not illegal leave people alone with their fantasies. Don't be so damn judgmental.
It's just sad how sexually repressed some people are and that they think they have the right to control other people. It feels like we are one step from starting to burn "witches" and books again.
Tell HN: Heroku bans 10 year account without notice or explanation
I've been a paying Heroku customer for a decade, with multiple businesses (a surf company, tennis reservation system) and personal projects hosted without issue.

On Tuesday, I woke up to sites down and my login not working. No emails from Heroku. After emailing support, I got an automated response that I'd been banned for violations of the Acceptable Use Policy. No details, just instantly dropped.

I've sent 10s of emails to every Heroku and Salesforce support and security department, called the SF offices, and tried social media. I still have no idea why my account was suspended, and apparently I have no recourse to get my company data back (backups, credentials...everything is through the Heroku login).

Heroku is trying to put me out of business, I recommend you leave them before they do the same to you!
Landlines are expensive in a lot of places. Looking it up, a landline would cost me $70/mo which is significantly more than my mobile plan.

I think different countries have different norms around things like landlines - or even texting. In the US, people ignored texting for a very long time and preferred to call people even if it was just a short note.

In terms of audio quality, VoLTE has improved that quite a bit when both sides will inter-operate with HD voice. Older stuff often used 8-12kbps and primitive codecs to encode your voice which simply a lot of compression. I know Speex has had some great results at low bitrates, but that's a far newer codec. However, I believe VoLTE's AMR-WB codec still chops everything about 7,000 Hz. T-Mobile US and Verizon have both implemented EVS which goes up to 14,000 Hz.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-make-your-cell-phone-cal...

Of course I'd find a Sascha Segan article when looking to confirm some information. It has some great recordings to compare and you can see huge differences depending on carrier implementations. The Sprint-Sprint test shows very poor quality. The T-Mobile 2G test also shows how old networks just used poor codecs with limited bitrates. You can even hear distinct differences between the T-Mobile-T-Mobile call and the Verizon-Verizon call where the Verizon call just sounds significantly less rich.

Back in the day, calls used a huge amount of network capacity. Even today, because calls need a more guaranteed bitrate, networks need to leave some extra room for them. 128kbps of streaming music isn't the same as 128kbps of real-time voice because the network can deliver 15 seconds of music and then it can deliver the 16th second of music any time in the next 15 seconds. Real-time two-way communications don't have that luxury. Still, bumping up the bitrate on communications makes a big difference and networks today should be more than capable of handling it.

I don't know what German operators have implemented, but cell phones have come a decent way in terms of audio quality, though carriers being lazy and interoperability problems can mean that consumers don't always get the benefits in the real world.
In technology or really professional fields more broadly, saying you're a consultant is probably the best way to obfuscate a lot of travel, sort of vague job duties, etc. especially with friends and family who never really understood what you were paid for anyway.

Now, it will presumably be obvious that you now are comfortably well off but, so long as you don't buy that penthouse suite in Manhattan, they don't need to know how well off you are.
That's pretty cool. Name of the bank?
Not only that, but it is an unusually safe place to put money. If you have to go bankrupt, most other assets can be taken away from you, but the house you live in is usually safe.
I don't have the source, but I saw recently that if you price houses in gold bars, prices have remained highly consistent over the past 125 years at a price between 225-250 ounces of gold for the average new home in America. It's the dollar that has changed it's value.
Man, if I won that kind of money I'd treat my parents to crazy stuff like a nice classic car or a trip around the world... and I'm not even that close to them.
When you consider people denying the existence of Covid while being in the hospital ICU with it, it is not surprizing. The saddest thing about last few years is finding out easy and effective propaganda is.
That thread isn't particularly dumb. It's a completely normal level of dumbness for a reddit thread. You just happened to be able to smell the bullshit because you approached the topic in question with a critical eye.
It's all fun and games till people start talking about money and exploitation.

Back in my day, we made mods for fun, and then we used the skills we learned to get jobs doing something corporate.
I would prefer a normal family and friends plus a comfortable $1m networth (am working towards it) over $55m plus not liking everyone in my circles. Money can only go so far, with $1m I can travel the world with my family or friend and share stories and experiences with them, and that is good enough for me..
Apple says the iMessage flaw NSO's Pegasus uses is 'not a threat' to most (July)