skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Finland tax records are public and papers make articles and search engines so anyone can look up how rich any person is (as long as they make more than 150k or so)

People complain and there has been talk and steps forward about changing the system but in the end I don’t think that much harm comes from it.

Ironically lottery winnings are tax free so they are the only people with stealth wealth.
You mean C?

C hasn't supported the Dijkstra's bad version of goto since the last century. Gcc was one of the first to add a verification against it, so if your code compiles on gcc without any "ancient code" flag, it's not there.
The basic flow would be:

- You GET /reset/abc123
- Your server responds back with a page that has a form
- There's a hidden field with the token
- Javascript kicks in and on page load executes the form as a POST request
- Your server responds to that POST request and does whatever it needs to do

All of that is kicked off by gmail visiting /reset/abc123, and now it comes down to whether or not gmail's pre-visiting code will run the JS on the page. If not, then the above workflow fixes this issue, if it does then you're in the same position as avoiding all of this and having a GET /reset/abc123 perform the destructive action.
You don't seem to be talking about the article that was linked to in the comment you replied to.
There’s non-porn content on PornHub too, but much like OnlyFans that’s a neat trivia fact and statistically meaningless to their bottom line.
I think you can enjoy money without spending it. It's nice to think "Hey, that's pretty cool, and I could buy it if I wanted to."
I already had Bind on the machine so it was logical to add the zone there and utilize nsupdate : https://gist.github.com/kronthto/893715f12cc0b1cda9fcfdbd8dc...

But what you are suggesting should work just fine aswell - there should be no need for a persistent service. Of course the service would need to run on port 53, so you actually cannot have another nameserver on that machine already, and also require CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE .

A quick search lead me to this python project that could be an inspiration: https://github.com/pawitp/acme-dns-server
SpaceX’s Starlink near-misses with other spacecraft are getting ‘out of control’
I can't parse this comment. Shifts in power? Lowers the monthly takings? What?

If you expect to make 6-8% a year in the stock market and pay 2% in interest on a loan, you'd miss out on a lot of money paying it off.

You're essentially making another 4-6% a year on the amount of the loan. If that's a million dollar loan, that's $40-60k a year.

There are reasons not to do this, like if your interest rate was higher, or you want to be safer (it might not be 6-8% a year! You might even lose it all for some reason!), but I have no idea what your comment is saying.
That's a fascinating link; thanks! I have the sense that we are glimpsing the iceberg above the waterline. It's only when these actors make apparently silly mistakes around perceptive people that they can even be detected. Another example would be the whole weird Mexican social media political conspiracy that "Reply All" covered a few years ago. [0] How many of these organizations are doing this? When we do somehow detect one, can we learn anything from that? It's possible that intentionally revealing "secrets" actually serves some secret purpose.

[0] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4hl36/112-the-proph...
Do you not see that there's a huge difference between $11.32 and $1000?
Oh yeah, github pages too
Cproc+QBE doesn’t seem to be trying to do the linker job itself, so presumably library order (apparently a main point in that PR) does not need to be changed?
Also, the overwhelming majority of adults consume pornography. To pretend otherwise at this point is a ludicrous farce.
I've wondered if we are in a regime today where interest rates simply can't go up. I can't imagine a scenario where they can go up more than a point or two without blood in the streets... possibly literally.
Actually, from the Nat Geo article it seems this is a case where that is not true:

> Though the size of the city has yet to be determined, its date is clear thanks to hieroglyphics on a variety of items. A vessel containing two gallons of boiled meat was inscribed with the year 37 — the time of Amenhotep III and Akhenaten’s speculated father-son reign.

Therefore i'm afraid i must condemn your joke as inaccurate.
Launch HN: Kalam Labs (YC S21) - Stem Learning via Live Gaming
Hi HN, we're Ahmad, Sashakt, and Harshit of Kalam Labs (https://www.kalamlabs.in/). Kalam Labs lets 6 to 14 year old kids learn their favourite science topics by watching live game streams and playing science games. It's like Twitch for science, except you also get to play :)

Watch a video of our live stream here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMmUg0N0HE

High curiosity in kids is directly linked to better academic performance and better outcomes when they grow up. However, school leads to a drop in curiosity as they discourage asking questions and encourage “focussing on the blackboard.” Parents don’t have a solution, as internet resources are unstructured and unreliable and encyclopedias are static and boring for the kids.

We were batchmates at our undergraduate degrees and worked together at India's largest educational body, NCERT. There we interacted with hundreds of kids, and they were really curious about science. Their heads were filled with questions like: Why is the sky blue? What is inside a black hole? etc. But the conventional teaching mediums were just too boring for them. So we started searching what do they want?

Turns out almost every kid was on Roblox and Minecraft. There were entire communities there hanging out, hosting live streams chatting with each other. Digging deeper, we saw that Roblox and Minecraft are being extensively used as educational media. Microsoft has launched Minecraft for Education and Roblox has launched Roblox Education, and this was prompting teachers to migrate from Zoom to these multiplayer games. So we got it: we will use live game streaming to help kids learn science. We launched our MVP and saw phenomenal results. Generating $1k USD revenue in just a couple of days, we saw a market potential of scaling it and hence decided to start a startup around it.

At Kalam Labs we host daily live game streams on kids' favourite science topics like space, black holes, and dinosaurs. During the live stream, an instructor takes the kids around a virtual world where they learn new topics by playing game-based exercises. The cool parts are: unlike a typical live game-stream on Twitch/YT where only the video of instructor playing a game is shared, at Kalam Labs kids can play the game with the instructor. This helps the instructor to give short fun activities for kids to solve for explaining any topic. In addition, our Live Chat has a tag-feature, which is really loved by kids. Instead of typing the entire chat, kids can just tap on the different recommendations and convey their thoughts. This leads to very high-engagement with sometimes kids liking the tapping feature more than the game itself.

We are seeing cool metrics pop out due to this: Our average watch time of a live stream is 40 minutes - 5x higher than Youtube. Further, just launched in Mid-June our product has amassed thousands of paying customers growing 50% week-over-week.

Please share your thoughts and feedback!
I wonder how much of this help Stitch Fix stock narrative (and bottom line).

Stitch Fix has market valuation as if they are a tech company (due to unique machine algorithm cloth matching).

Having 1,000s of employees is counter to that narrative and might make wall street reassess their valuation.
Everybody can choose to donate, nobody should donate (otherwise it is also not really a donation if you should). Singling out rich guys to donate who do not donate could actually be counterproductive (since people just feel the responsibility lies with the rich guys). Encouraging everybody to donate small amounts of money might lead to a better outcome.
> When you make a video and upload it to YouTube, that creation is entirely the result of your own hard work and ingenuity. YouTube doesn't need to exist for your video to exist.

YT probably does need to exist for many creators to get the kind of distribution that enables them to monetize their content including the operationally managing the scale of the site, the brand they've built and the ad network. A highly viewed piece of content is generally much more valuable than unseen content. Which isn't to say you can't monetize video outside of YT, just the YT is providing a very valuable service and it isn't clear to me that is qualitatively of less value than what Roblox provides its content creators.
So when people say university degree, is it usually Bachelor's degree then? I'm assuming Master's so 5-7 years. That's the default in Nordics, I don't know a single person with a Bachelor's.
I'm with others here in that this - while an extreme example - is just another version of common revenue-sharing that happens on pretty much all online creation platforms where the user isn't responsible for hosting the content themselves.

I think it's a bit ludicrous that the company is pushing that as a marketing point towards children, that the payout-threshold is so high, and that they take multiple cuts of that payout, but at the end of the day; aren't all monetized products aimed at children kind of a scam built on exploiting people who can't recognize they're being exploited?

Kind of egregious, but also just the same principle as many other platforms like Twitch, YouTube, Spotify, Medium, Google, etc.
My parents will still try to pay for me sometimes, but my mom has venmo now so I can at least fire her whatever my costs were.

For all the weird shit I put up with in my family, at least money doesn't really come up as an issue in that sense.
You also do not want just what "I like". A stylish friend did a shopping trip with me and made me buy stuff I didn't really like: too tight, too colourful, etc. Not outlandish, just way outside my comfort zone. Apparently I look really good in red.

OMG. The compliments. From co-workers, random people on the street and staff in stores. I was shopping for a nice watch for my wife, went to a place and was ignored but saw a watch, went back a few days later in my new clothes, and the same staff was super friendly and helpful. It really changed how I viewed the importance of style and fit.
I mean, I know it's not -at all- the same but that was kind of a staple for Bitcoin. Hasn't seemed to bother anybody...
This is straight out of Silicon Valley the show, when they're giddy to see their daily active users skyrocket, only to realize that it's become a pedophile haven and they're liable for billions of dollars in back fines.
See Carmack's rebuttal: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1428483898896535562

> I have been impressed by the number of real world economic and business issues that Roblox is exposing my younger son to, both in the experiences and the larger ecosystem. There is a lot of thinking in terms of effort, reward, and risk.

"You seem to be ignoring the thesis of the video. For the vast majority of their creators, their is very little reward, and mostly a lot of exploitative business preying on children."

> I am disagreeing with the thesis of the video. Roblox provides opportunities previously unavailable; it is up to the individuals to decide if they are worthwhile to invest time in.

If the most legendary game developer of all time thinks Roblox is fine, are you sure he's mistaken?
It might not be a clean trade but their are situations where your equity growth in house 1 gives you enough liquidity for a larger down payment on house 2 where your monthly payments might even be lower, especially if it means things like you no longer paying pmi. This is how the property game is played in places with moving real estate markets, I know people who paid more a month for the condo they lived in a few years building equity and seeing gain to afford a down payment on a single family home.
Seriously. Too many SaaSes getting greenlit, seems like their board of investors realized that rent collection is far more profitable than making good products.
> It seems like your argument really boils down

Nope! You have misunderstood my argument, and everything else you say in your post doesn't actually address the singular point I am making.

Instead my argument boils down to "I told you so", and that things like this happening are a completely expected result of people and platforms becoming less and less interested, over time, in agreeing with the general principles of neutrality.

So, you can't really act surprised when stuff like this happens.

Just don't act surprised. Don't pretend like you couldn't have predicted stuff like this happening. Thats all.

That is the only thing that I ask. Is that you don't play dumb, and be surprised that stuff like this is the result of society caring less and less about neutrality over time.

And if you actually want to address this pretty simple argument, you need to actually talk about this fake surprise, which nothing in the rest of your post did.
Similar deal. I had one service that (to their credit) canceled my subscription when they saw I wasn't using it, then months later tried to charge it again, which got flagged as a fraud alert. I contacted them and they apologized and refunded.

Then charged again the next month. This time I filed a dispute. The credit card sided with the merchant, who claimed I started a new subscription, and their proof was a shot of "my" webpage form, which showed me entering my very new CC number (old had expired) that I never gave the merchant, but with an old address that wouldn't have gotten the transaction approved if I had really entered that in a new. SMH
Andre Fachat also wrote a pre-emptive multitasking kernel for the 6502:

http://www.6502.org/users/andre/osa/oa1.html

This is basically the same CPU as in the NES.
Yup, OneFinance is awesome. A true replacement for Simple Bank
> told I need to reach out to these companies to prevent future recurring charges

This is a request by the bank. If they keep letting through fraudulent charges, they can keep paying for them.
If I had 55M, I would like to be able to tell my friends and family that I can help them with education/medical/bootstrapping expenses if they ever needed it. I’m not completely sure what everybody else is saving their money for if not that
An account via the cancelled card's number.
Not agreeing or disagreeing but this is a poor argument. First, it's not like wars of the size and intensity of WW2 happen often, so a lack of similar action since then isn't surprising. Second, the lack of use may be partially explained by threat of repercussions. Are you not aware of standoffs like the cold war? Third, agreements between nuclear powers to not launch under almost any circumstance.
OneFinancial
Could you explain this? The process, according to what's publicly known, is that the images will go to NCMEC for further review, then NCMEC will report it to the authorities, if it's actually CSAM. The low paid (a big assumption here) Apple reviewer is only the final step for Apple, not prosecution.
Lambda School ISA terms have a 5 year enforcment term. How is that justifiable?
Learn from a predatory loan victim and just teach yourself to program. Hindsight is 20/20.

I get it; I made a bad decision and signed a $30k contract for for 7 months of "Education" under the guided assumption I would immediately (or at least quickly) get a job after with my newly developed skills (Web Development(Node.React)/Computer Science Track 2018). I was poor af at the time and $50k a year was way more than I could ever make doing what I was doing.
This did not happen. I did not get a job making over $50k.
After several months, I took a crap PHP job making $12 an hour. A family member worked for the company and got me the job. I figured, at least I'd be learning a new skill and decided it was better than making considerably more money bartending.

I worked there full-time for a year and then part-time for another year leveling up my PHP/Laravel skills as well as devoppsy stuff (They had their own server. It was actually pretty cool). The reason I went part-time was to pursue a crypto venture with some friends, also written in PHP/Laravel but included Vue as well. I got pretty proficient in Vue over the year and had that project as well as some others to show for it. Using these projects in my portfolio, I landed a much better job.
I started doing some Vue contract work for an actual software company and, after a few months, they hired me full-time.

2021, over two years after completing Lambda School, I got a over $50k paying job which I was qualified for due to my two years of programming experience. For, the icing on top, the past two years haven't even been related to what the Lambda curriculum was. I haven't even used those technologies since 2018.

Here I am now, obligated to pay %17 percent of my pretax income for a course I did years ago that didn't help me at all get to where I am now. How is that fair? I'm pretty sure I have no legal basis as a contract is a contract, but this is just wrong.

There has to be many people in this same boat; A lot can happen in 2 years, let alone 5! I'd like to hear some feedback on this.
> Why didn’t they compete with each other to bring costs down?

I remember that happening in the 90s due to deregulation and breakup of at&t. 10-10-321 had a lot of commercials in the 90s[1]. I'm sure they're on YouTube. Most people I knew would go to a convenience store to buy a pre-paid card for long distance. 1-800-collect was a similar service that had a bunch of ads for calling collect.

It kind of makes calling confusing (and required going to a store and buying something upfront), but I remember younger people (who probably weren't paying for the landline at home) never really considered using their home phone's long distance service. I think most landline services kept their high prices because the few that used it were too lazy or didn't know better. I wouldn't be surprised if it's still expensive (I haven't had a landline in over a decade).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-10-321#History
> I stand by what I actually wrote: that they did everything feasible to remove and report illegal content.

I mean they didn't even do that. Wasn't their enforcement team pretty small? The original op-ed said it was ~80 people. In any case it was inadequate.

> but rather an effort to prevent said content from being uploaded in the first place.

PornHub chose a model that made it impossible for them to deal with their illegal content problem. The distinction between legal an illegal porn is often too subtle for any solution that just looks at the content or relies on "someone else" to do the work for them. That's the core issue. It's like a factory that dumps toxic waste into a river, and then "solves" that problem by building a little filtration plant far downstream of the factory that only filters a fraction of the river water, just upstream of some city. Their solution can't work, for reasons that should be obvious. The only solution that has any chance of working is filtering the waste before it goes into the river at all, and that's essentially what PornHub has started to do with their more-thorough vetting process.

Businesses don't have the right to make compliance optional or inadequate if it doesn't work for their business model. They have to pick a business model that can be compliant.
Yep -- see Mastercard Automatic Billing Updater.
Interesting - I've always wondered if something like this is possible.

Even just if privacy.com or someone would let me signup with a fake identity to t-mobile. Then who cares if these folks get hacked?
> I think it is unfair to label a platform with a two hundred dollar entry barrier as an equalizer.

Even in poor areas, lots of people are walking around with iPhones. $200-500 gadgets are not out of the range of poor people. That works out to less than a dollar a day.

One time amortized expenses aren't that much of a barrier, from what I've seen. The real barriers the poor face are things like high rents, high medical cost, high cost of education, etc.
Can you share the methods?
You care about the total number of collisions, not collisions for a specific image, so they differ by a square -- hence the 1 in a trillion vs million difference.
I think your example is obscuring the issue here a little bit, because you didn't really describe a targeted learning problem:

> It is trivial for algorithms to introduce novel racism: consider processing text analysing minority causes. These texts contain statistical associations between politically sensitive terms, negative terms, (and so on). However they are not racist, are not born of any racist project, and most humans reading them would be moved to more positively regard racial terms. The meaning text express consists in what they want their readers to do. It is an activity of coordination (writer/reader); and it here it has no racist aspect.

Yes, negative words will associate with black people in such literature. They will also likely associate with white people. That is, emotionally intense language will associate with race in literature related to racial justice issues. That is a perfectly valid inference. What you seem to be implying is that the model will learn the propositional statement "black people are bad", but your example is just about associations, not propositional assertions. Associations are not assignments of quality, they are just that: associations. Such a model would correctly learn such associations and not be in any sense biased, morally or otherwise, because the model is not making decisions or evaluations of people or moral objects.

The notion of bias usually talked about in ML is in the context of either:

1. Making statistical decisions (e.g. granting a loan, or predicting criminal recidivism)

2. Providing a service of some kind (e.g. facial recognition in a camera/video, ad targeting)

Talking about bias in these cases brings the issue into focus, because there is a morally relevant objective function in these cases. And my point is that in these cases, standard untrained ML models are morally neutral. They come to the table with no preconceptions. In a society without racism, they will not learn racism. In a society without sexism, they will not learn sexism. They only reflect what we feed them.

Is it reasonable for me to describe my mirror as biased if I don't like how I look? In theory, I could build another "mirror" that reflects me the way I want. It just wouldn't comport with how I actually look, and we would no longer call that object a mirror.

I want to step back for a moment and say that I think we probably agree on the object-level facts here. I believe you can correct the morally biased ML-output problem at the model level or the data level equally well. I'm mostly objecting to the linguistic utility of locating the moral bias equally in each of them. I think that kind of relativism is just not a very useful way to describe things.

I think for some reason this idea has formed that saying the bias is in X means we have to correct it in X, but I think it's that view that's mistaken. We can and should correct it wherever we feel is most efficient and effective.
How is it HN can be relentless about accuracy and completeness but constantly allows newspeak to be normalized?

Yes. It does matter. Words matter. We can't giving a free pass to deceptive language and then expect change.
Build more and ban investment properties. No more AirBnB, no more rentals. Prices will come down and those people who previously had to rent, will now be able to own and life will be better for everyone except the poor souls who bought in the last 20 years.
The seller hasn't sold the data yet. Unless it has already been available behind the scenes and changed hands, I don't think the breach is related.
>Is it true that people are getting dumber? Big claim, no evidence. Do paragraphs exist? I'm looking for solution.

Are the grammar issues intentional?