skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1GB of data per day? That's incredible. Have you tried to inspect the data? I'm curious to know what a washer and dryer could possibly send home per day to total that. If what you're saying is true, it smells like you're getting spied on.
Yeah, but how does it help with essentially duopoly of payment processors? How does it help with the US finance industry exporting their rules under ultimatum "either you comply or you will be excluded from the world financial system"?

We saw how it played out with funding of WikiLeaks for example. We need cryptocurrency to avoid this happening again.
> For anyone curious, Melbourne has 5,159,211 people, which puts it ahead of fan-favorites in the US like Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston... and literally every city in the United States with the exception of New York!

I tried to look up what the "metro" population of Melbourne is, but could only find a reference to "greater Melbourne" being around 5M. LA metro area is 12M.

Is Melbourne really larger?
Russia demands Apple remove opposition leader's 'Navalny' app from App Store
The other question to ask is whether that piece came out of the blue or because someone was talking it up with Kristof. The author of that twitter thread thinks it’s inspired by an evangelical group (Exodus Cry) and it seems highly unlikely that they’d only be talking with him. It seems more likely that companies like MasterCard are hearing from them, politicians who are getting lobbied by their supporters, etc. and the NYT editorial was more like the final straw than the trigger.

It’s important to note that this isn’t wrong or malicious: many things most of us approve of (e.g. ending child labor, environmental reforms, banning dogfights, etc.) followed the same process. The concern is transparency and whether it’s effective at the stated goals: for example, I think trafficking is evil but I also think that the best way to support it is by ensuring fewer people are financially desperate rather than driving them underground where abuse is more likely and harder to prevent.
I believe the real issue here is that Fedora serves as an upstream test bed for Red Hat Enterprise. Since the code changes made in Fedora trickle through to Red Hat, and Red Hat is widely used as the distro of choice in military private clouds, and the UBI distro from Red Hat is the container image base of choice for the DoD assured containers repository, they're trying to keep contributors from countries hostile to the US military out of the supply chain. It's not that they're trying to punish the guy for being from Iran. They're trying to keep Iranian contributors out of the code base because they fear the Iranian government can lean on him to plant malicious code.

I can rightfully see this leading to questions about how "free" Red Hat really is when it needs to bow to military interests like this for commercial reasons (they want to keep those enterprise support contracts with the DoD). Software freedom was always meant to refer to freedom for users, though, not freedom for developers.
Pretty sure Red Hat legally has to ban him. We can do far better, but the method is by repealing laws not ignoring them.
> How do you put sanctions without hurting the people?

You don't.
Another approach is to avoid basing important Free Software projects in the USA.
> this action prevents the Iran government from accessing the source codes and prevents the Iran government from using them for military purposes! Isn’t that ridiculous?

No, not really. Originally the US government considered crypto-cipher implementations — including FOSS implementations thereof, if done by domestic parties — to be munitions and carefully regulated their export.

That specific interpretation was struct from the books, but the spirit of it lives on. Rather than manually white-listing both FOSS projects and export partners (a lot of work for some government agency somewhere), the process is now simplified: it’s a blacklist of countries to which one is not allowed to export pretty much anything of use.

It is my understanding that this wide net isn’t there because the US government really believes that random FOSS libraries are useful to the Iranian military; but rather because there’s no way to keep track of every time someone creates another FOSS implementation of a crypto-cipher, or military-precision GNSS receiving, or an atomic clock VLSI, etc. — the types of things that would actually advantage an “enemy nation”’s military to not have pre-made well-tested implementations of. The US government cannot — without work that it doesn’t have the time/money for — tell your FOSS library apart from one of military value. So it’s prohibited from ITAR-blacklisted countries by default.
Social media - at least, Twitter, but a couple of other sites before that - is still the go to source for breaking news.

It can take tens of minutes to hours for major news sites to report on a breaking event (e.g., the fall of Kabul). Meanwhile, you can get detailed - albiet in some cases very innacurate - information within minutes of it happening simply by watching for Tweets from people on the ground.
FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated
> But does anyone care or know what MasterCard is associated with?

The average layperson would care if MasterCard got hit with a headline like:

"MasterCard processed payments for Very Bad People for months/years!".

Layperson: Guess I'm calling my congressman and switching to Visa!

I assume MasterCard would (a) retain some very good PR firms to assist with keeping their image clean and (b) distance themselves from anything that might tarnish their image, like, well, regular porn websites.
Free gin?
I am not a lawyer, but I don't imagine they would want to have documented, in writing, that they knowingly broke export regulations for one week.
Free crack?
A good portion of those who don't believe in evolution, do believe in 'micro-evolution', where say the colors of the butterfly adapts to the changes in the colors of the trees. They just don't believe in the idea that evolution can form new species.
You need to test ‘duh’ things because sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong. Doing this is good science.

Flat Earth was ‘duh’ science at one point. Good thing we tested it.
How do you know your users have never run into this?

People don't tend to report problems like "my account was activated sooner than I expected"
Yes, of course it needs WiFi. Bluetooth doesn't have the bandwidth to carry the video stream.
Probably is, but most of my friends who aren't in tech told me I'm too "extra/petty" for calling.
How Should We Meet? And Who Decides?
Words are violence.
> Here is the data that is available in this leak:

Name

Phone number

Physical address

Email address

Social security number

Date of birth

Not only the phone number but the physical address?

If this is true, absolutely outrageous.

> The hacker has said he is willing to reach “an agreement” with AT&T to remove the data from sale.

Might as well pay the hacker's ransom, AT&T to remove the data from sale otherwise if leaked; a massive fine (probably larger than the hacker's ransom) awaits you.

First T-Mobile and now (if true) AT&T. Let's see who is next to unveil another hidden breach... maybe Verizon has something to hide?
Yea i also used to enjoy it more when i believed it to be literally "all" - as far as i can tell it's an alternate front page. My wife and i have different /r/all's for example, meaning they seem to rank links similarly to your subscribed frontpage.

The web is far more interesting to me when not curated for what something thinks i want.
>so it made sense to raise

It totally makes sense, I agree. Just seems odd to say we won't, and then do, repeatedly.

>And it's a myth that Tesla doesn't do any profit. For example last quarter Tesla got around 354M in regulatory credits (this is what the anti-tesla crowd likes to point out) but the net income was 1.14B.

It's only a myth if you don't actually examine the underlying accounting. Regulatory credits, realizing deferred revenue on FSD (which doesn't exist), expanding the accounts payable, cutting R&D, bitcoin speculation...

All of these things affect the income statement in a way that pumps income that may or may not even be sustainable. All so people will say "look, profits!"

Are they marginally profitable now? Maybe, but that's nothing to brag about at a market cap of over half a trillion dollars.

>not like the oil industry hasn't had it's insane amount of subsides over the years.

So, what's your point here? Did I say oil companies deserve subsidies? Am I looking at the financials of Exxon? Being as how Tesla vehicles have tires, plastics, a supply chain...they also benefit from oil subsidies. What does this have to do with anything?
I'm sorry, you clearly are an apologist in your phrasing

> Apple's privacy measures, such as not scanning your Cloud photos, is what helps enable CSAM.

This phrasing implies apple is somehow complicit for not scanning files AT REST. Files at rest are like files sitting in your closet, nobody ever expected them to be automatically scanned throughout all of history in the past, and hopefully aren't scanned in the future without any sort of warrant.

This is why Facebook has more reports - it's a public photo distribution platform.

> Sexual abusers very often take photos and often upload these to their communities, and Apple has given them a secure device with which to do that.

No. Again very disingenuous. That's like saying "Some people abduct kids and Toyota has given them a vehicle with which to do that." No other device scans files at rest. Any form of distribution iMessage, cloud, SMS is already and should continue to be scanned during any sort of distribution so this policy does nothing for that.

In short, No - we don't know why Apple is doing this. It's at best a hollow symbolic gesture against child porn (most of these measures scarcely ever catch anybody for child porn) and at worst a tool that will be misused by malicious governments in some form.
Some of this is going to come down to legal liability. Someone who suffers because of child or revenge porn at OF or PH might realize that there isn't enough money at those companies and will instead direct lawsuits at "the companies that enabled the behavior." Even if unsuccessful, the legal fees could be enormous.
I'd say that submitting a link to HN is not about having it handled in the most just and impassionate manner. This is a social media site, it's prone to fads and mood swings.

If you think something is worth considering, submit it in the right time: when the news feed is not yet very crowded but the readers are already there, or when the home page is already discussing a related issue, or has discussed it yesterday, etc. If not successful, use the "second chance", at the right time, again. In any case, bring good material.

Schooling is an ever-important topic, and with September looming closer, it's on many people's minds. PG used to write quite good essays, with important ideas, so people don't mind upvoting, just in case someone missed it in 2019.
At 2.3% in Japan, and a much higher percentage in some specific industries there like healthcare, some people probably might be bothered supporting IE. Not me or most people though:

https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1428359948182818836
He said prioritize not deny care. This is something hospitals and medical workers have always done.
Replying your specific question, actually the planet is slowly getting rounder.

A simplification of the process:

Tectonic plate movements create mountains, as they climb on top of each other (and where space was opened, lava there turns into new rock)

Then erosion carry material from high places, to low places.

Thus over time places in high areas get "shorter", while places in low areas get "taller".

Meanwhile some parts of tectonic plates are sinking again and melting again.

But as the planet core cools down, this process get slower and slower, and erosion speed remains "constant", so over time the tendency is the planet get rounder and rounder, eventually the planet would have cooled 100% and no new mountains would form, while erosion would make all mountains become flat over time.
I think OPs original point was more of a circa-2005 blog, which would be nice. But your point is equally as valid. Try searching for a recipe for your favorite dish - the first two pages are blog posts each filled with incessant chatter about how the dish makes them feel. You have to scroll to the very bottom just to get the actual recipe.
I don't regret sticking to dumb appliances. I hate Smart TVs with a passion, but they are all you can get nowadays. But I can just throw the TV out the window if it stops working when I unplug it and continue living just fine. Not so much with my washer, dryer, stove, car and fridge/freezer.

I do not look forward to the day you CAN'T buy a non-smart appliance like a fridge or water heater.
No. If a journalist asking uncomfortable questions about your business endangers your business, then the problem is not the journalist, the problem is your business.

If a journalist blows a story out of proportion, then usually nothing happens and the story is forgotten after a few months.

But in the porn hub story, the uncomfortable truth is that there was a lot of involuntary porn on the platform. The NYT story just made it a bit harder to ignore that uncomfortable fact.

And it's not like mastercard just changed their policy on a whim based on a single NYT story; credit card networks have always been known to kick all kinds of sex related services off the platform. Sex related businesses have been complaining about that for ever.
In order to say things like "my brain" one is necessarily creating a distinction between themselves as thinking subject and a "lower self" which consists of a biological substrate. Of course, this is common practice in folk epistemology, but in order to achieve this, one needs the support of an "objective" frame of reference, which can only be achieved through a theological justification (or in this case cosmological, through reference to evolutionary processes).

This was an issue that Kant grappled with, in that the mind cannot distance itself from itself. When we "understand the game theoretic strategy that our brain is executing", we are still implicated in other "game theoretic strategies", we've just made certain ones manifest and chosen to ignore others.

That said, I still support the end-goal of "bringing emotions into harmony with our conscious beliefs", but often that requires turning in the opposite direction: asking questions to the emotions themselves rather than to the world, which requires an entirely different conceptual toolkit (e.g. psychoanalysis, Buddhist thought, etc).

I view evolutionary psychology as in the category of psychological divination techniques, in which a set of predetermined systematic constraints allow you to locate interesting patterns in your day to day life through a process of reorientation. In all sincerity, I suggest astrology as an alternative technique that avoids any normative connotations of "fitness" etc.
You can freely buy alcohol in Turkey, a 90% Muslim country.

65% of people saying they’re Christian in a survey doesn’t mean 65% of people are part of the most strict faction.
It definitely is 1GB per day. Any insight/links on how I can do that? I'll admit I have no idea where to begin when it comes to this.
> albiet in some cases very innacurate

I would correct to most cases. Or that the information you get is without sufficient context to be of use.
The story [1] literally called them out: "And call me a prude, but I don’t see why search engines, banks or credit card companies should bolster a company that monetizes sexual assaults on children or unconscious women. If PayPal can suspend cooperation with Pornhub, so can American Express, Mastercard and Visa."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...
I'm skeptical. Blogs are difficult for subject matter experts (people skilled in a domain, and not necessarily skilled at making money off of the web) to monetize.
First T-Mobile, then AT&T (except that AT&T is denying it, which is hopeful). All eyes on Verizon...
OK, well best of luck.
There's some context about the gas field at the centre of the protest on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_gas_field

I'd be curious what the price paid by the energy company to obtain 75% of the retention lease was, and how that would compare to putting the same funding into renewable energy generation (to determine the relative return-on-investment).

ARENA[1] puts the levelized cost of energy for solar at approximately $100 per MWh (AUD, I think), given a discount rate somewhere around 8-9%.

[1] - https://arena.gov.au/assets/2018/12/large-scale-solar-progra...
This is the argument that needs to take place. Over the past several years, I was forced to understand what “publish” actually means in legal terms. Spoke with many lawyers. In the beginning, I was surprised to hear a lawyer refer to sending information in an email to a third party as “publishing” something.

Whenever you communicate information to a third party, you are in fact “publishing” that information, and you become liable if communicating the wrong facts. You don’t have to be a news organization to publish information or to be held liable—I just used the New York Times as an example to help someone imagine what they might think if they read a NYT article and later found out the wrong person was pictured inside of the article.

The truth is, the law applies to every single person/ entity who chooses to publish (communicate or make publicly known to an audience) information. Legally, we are all held to the same standard whether we realize it or not. Some just expect more from a company like Google, or an actual news organization. I hope this makes sense.
1GB of data does not pass a reality check for me. What on Earth can they be collecting about your washing and drying that is so much data? Can you tell us what it comprises?
It depends on which stage of life you are in and your personality as well.

In my 20's, city living was aspirational. But once we settled down and had a family, I shudder thinking of the inconveniences of a city life (parking, storage, etc.)

Also, city life is too noisy for me, with everyone offering things to do/activities for me and my family all the time. I like some peace and quiet to think and commit to long term projects. The constant bustle of the city grates on me. But, that could be due to my personality too.
Not since async was added. You can’t make changes to any async methods because they haven’t figured out how to update the state machine.
Nobody is defending CP and revenge porn.
A lot of that is fueled by fear of actual government roles taking charge.

Tech companies have been left unregulated for so long and now governments have noticed how pivotal they are, that tech companies are trying desperately to head off regulation with self-regulation.

Just look at the mixed reactions to GDPR here on HN to see how controversial is it when governments do actually regulate things, it's not hard to understand that tech companies are eager to head that off.
The issue is that some people want to blog for a living (and there's nothing wrong with that IMO) which leads the platforms to optimize for that. I don't think enough people are willing to spin up their own self-hosted blogs just to throw their thoughts into the aether. Not when points to what the internet has become exists and they can get the engagement/dopamine they want elsewhere.

That's not to say your prediction is wrong, just feels extremely unlikely, barring some massive regulatory upheaval changing the internet's current paradigm.
Thanks for the recommendations, I'm going to try out the Murderhobo Series, because I'm /greatly/ amused by the name.
I find the headline to be promise more than it delivered.

A women had a husband (Bob) who was a genius at design and
developing hardware accessories and later a full computer.
He had little interest in running the business.

His work created a hardware company called Vector Computers.

His wife and another woman ran the business aspect of the company
and the company did well.

It did well thanks to the husband's identification of a huge market that
offered a lot of opportunity.

The company grew and this is certainly a credit for the two female executives.
They were pioneers both as female executives and within getting in early in the
computer industry.

Once Bob learned about this soon to be released IBM PC he requested and begged
the company to start making IBM PC clones and accessories.
He said the company had a year left unless it started embracing the PC

The now soon to be ex wife rejected this idea and kept the company running
the same as always. She also fired her soon to be ex-husband.

She did take the company public within that year and was generous allotting
stocks to every employee in the company. That was also a first.

I hope everyone sold their stock as soon as they could, given that the company
died 2 years later. Because they are failed to adapt to a changing market
and rejected advice of the technical founder and the guy who identified the
market segment they started in.
Personally, I'm glad it's mostly dead, at least in a forum context.

To me, at least, the inline replies were always a signal that a conversation was about to degenerate into an interminable running battle over minutiae.
If you live in California, use the CCPA to figure out what they have on you and then submit a deletion request.
A thread from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204948
This might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tack_hypothesis
> This year has seen both a high melt as well as a high accumulation of snow, the balance of which currently lies clearly at the positive end - Greenland has far more accumulated snow than average.

Seems to apply for the whole northern hemisphere.
Look at the diagrams for 'the current Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent relative to the long-term mean and variability' (GCW/FMI SWE Tracker) at https://globalcryospherewatch.org/state_of_cryo/snow/

Last year this diagram was similar.
Interesting "feature": the user perceives a (real) benefit: preview. But, there is also an unspoken benefit for Microsoft, who can feed their marketing analytics, or AI training data, or ... with what it learns via the chats and links.

I'd be fine if the fine print in the EULA provides a guarantee that the feature scans content solely for generating previews, and that M$ keeps no copy of it, etc....But, I'm sure I'd go blind looking for such text in the EULA.
But do we really need to know breaking news, instantly? It becomes addicting; it especially was for me during the last administration.
I’m completely fine finding out a few hours later about a breaking news story that doesn’t have a material effect on my immediate safety (ie wild fires). If Twitter’s biggest justification is that it lets you stay up to speed on news in real-time, I’d still agree we are better off without it, from a mental health perspective.
> I did this because my friends who were already there advised me that the company did not supply phones but did expect you to load a crapload of apps on to do your job.

Serious question: what if you don’t have a smartphone (I know several people) or simply don’t want to install work stuff on your private phone? Is this a prerequisite, do they fire you or how would this be resolved? Also, this sounds like a security disaster waiting to happen (I also know people without a passcode on their phone)
Unlikely, many of us are also not that interesting on a world scale when nude.
It’s not even illegal in large parts of the world.

I can understand wanting to fight revenge porn, child porn, human traficing and exploitation, but we’re also making it unreasonable for prostitutes, porn stars and cam girls to do their job. And I kinda doubt that these rules makes much difference to the unlawful actors in those businesses.