skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's this common meme of blaming anti-sex-work sentiment on some bloc of US Evangelicals who secretly rule the Western economy and politics. Because surely, it couldn't be the market speaking out against adult material?

Here's an alternative hypothesis: between those anti-sex fundamentalist religious groups (Christian or otherwise) and people who absolutely love everything sex-related, there's the vast majority of people who find the whole topic uncomfortable to a large degree. Whether they themselves like porn or not (or like, but feel guilty about it[0]), whether they make use of various meatspace sex services or not, they don't like being reminded of it. They don't like sex being mixed with other areas of life. They might especially not want their kids to be exposed to porn, or to become sex workers.

The market caters to majority case. Advertisers, especially, cater to majority. In such hypothetical world (which I posit might just be the real one), the market itself will exert pressure against overt pornography and sex work, and anything that associates itself with it.

So, perhaps, there's no conspiracy in play - maybe it's just the majority getting the things to how they want them to be.

(It's supposed to be good, right? When some people here complain that technology is increasingly user-hostile and exploitative, there's no shortage of arguments saying it's not conspiracy, it's just the market catering for majority use case. So which way is it?)

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EDIT: Three more thoughts.

1) Of course, the degree of discomfort with sex topics is a spectrum. But on this spectrum, sex work and hardcore pornography are one of the extremes, not the middle point. Thus, the majority being uncomfortable shouldn't be a surprising concept.

2) I suspect the same thing happens with drugs. There's people who are strongly anti-drug, often on religious basis. Then there's people who are for everyone (responsibly) ingesting whatever they want. But in between, there is - in my experience - the majority who's afraid. Afraid of health effects, afraid of associations with organized crime, afraid of being shunned by others. And so, even legally selling mind-altering substances (other than alcohol and cigarettes, which have been normalized over centuries) faces the same challenges as sex businesses.

3) One can say it's religion all way down. Perhaps. Atheism as a cultural phenomenon is a very new thing in the history of humanity. The way people think about sexuality carries thousands of years of baggage. It's not going to change overnight, or over investment round, or over election cycle. So I don't think you can fix the problems faced by sex workers by telling Visa or Mastercard to chill out.

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[0] - There's no shortage of pundits - secular, religious, and religious pretending to be scientific - that make careers out of convincing people that porn is bad for you.
What anyone with this argument doesn't understand is how censorship can't be comfortably shoehorned in these "morally understandable, accepted by everyone" categories. This false belief was a relic of the 80s-2000s. Shoehorning is very subjective of the current societal compass, and now that this breaks up to thousand pieces in online platforms, it fails us all.
I think this concept of a CI-like system for accounting is really interesting. You allow bad journal entries to go through but you show exactly which one put the GL out of balance.
You know, that shouldn’t be too hard to build. I don’t really need that for my current project since all journal entries follows templates that were designed and well tested, but I’m fairly certain I have all the structure necessary for building it. Lemme know if you’d be interested in working on this CI, I could give you a hand ;)
Samsung does not dominate the South Korean car market. They own an important supplier in Harman and they're doing their best to sell automotive grade SKUs of their Exynos SoCs, but they don't act significantly as an OEM or anything.
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Of course, the classic move!

What a joke if the jury fall for this.
That she's representing herself doesn't bode well, that no law firm or lawyer seems willing to use this approach of hers.
There is no credible evidence. Its an insane conspiracy theory.

There were many, many lawsuits all of which were heard in court and ruled on.
While I am concerned about the coercive power of these platforms against speech they find unpopular, whether porn, or something else....

> A girl pleasuring herself isn’t the same thing as encouraging people to storm the White House and overthrow democracy

Enough with the hyperbole, the FBI has already stated they found little evidence of a grand conspiracy to overthrow the govt [1], despite the fact we know that the Oathkeepers' leader is actually an FBI operative or informant [2]

[1] https://www.salon.com/2021/08/20/fbi-finds-little-evidence-j...

[2] https://www.revolver.news/2021/06/stewart-rhodes-oath-keeper...
....how? There are literally hundreds of devices that will offer YouTube playback and music for as little as £30-40.

Whether it's a good idea or not is a different matter entirely, but the notion that you "have no choice" is just silly. Is someone forcing you to watch YouTube through your TV?
This isn't an investigation or analysis of what is wrong with SF government, or even a substantive argument that anything is wrong. Instead it's just a very familiar list of complaints. The fact that it quotes someone who moved to Puerto Rico (a place whose government makes SF look like Switzerland), presumably for tax reasons, says everything you need to know.
I'm like the guys in your mastodon server. It's not a hobby it's an ideology. For example I sincerely believe intellectual property is a threat to humanity because it shrinkens the realm of ideas and it's impossible for us to notice. Humanity could go extinct because we can't imagine solutions to imminent danger like global warming. I'm willing to sacrifice a lot more than my comfort for this ideology.
I agree the logic is internally consistent.

I also think it's absolutely absurd and that people will justify anything. Especially if they're already committed to it, and don't want to find out they're previous actions were nothing but show.

Including "you should intentionally get sick to prevent you from possibly unintentionally getting sick."
I mean it does work, because that's exactly the difference they were pointing out.
...in 40 years. This is indistinguishable from random people being nutcases imo; you use the numbers to try and make them scarier than they are.
I've had it happen once or twice with an upright freezer I have in the basement. But, yes, a rare event. I've had an extended power outage more often during the same period.

The fact that they're for rare events is a problem with a lot of alert types because it means that:

- False positives are a big no no. You'll just delete the alert.

- They probably don't work for edge cases like power outages.

- Batteries die over time.

- If you're not at home you may not be easily able to do anything about the alert, even if you have confidence in it.
I dont think they were talking about January 6 posts. I have seen all manner of Facebook friends censored for speaking their thoughts on varying subject matters that have been politicized over time. Also seen friends banned off Twitter for literal shitposting. I miss the internet when it was mostly full of nerds. After smartphones it all went downhill.
I didn't remove anything. What I wrote is just my attempt at translation, while I am not fixated at orgs like you seem to be.

Why don't you answer the question instead of insinuating I have ulterior motives?
Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, Balwani joined in 2009.

Is she going to argue that the lying to investors increased after Balwani joined? Because isn't it the case that she lied to investors from day 1 of Theranos existing?
The revolution will not be televised?
This is less crazy than it sounds. Any half-decent manager would read your poem, laugh, and write a fair and accurate review.
I have init manage an emacs daemon but open separate emacs instances if it's doing something important, even though it practically never freezes for me. I think this works fine as long as you don't have server-start in your config.
As somebody else in this thread stated, Discord is a platform mostly for young people. I doubt most users are aware that bots are a privacy risk. How are they going to know that they need to create a separate bot-free channel for their private discussions. This isn't something users should even need to worry about.
The latest series has an issue with stuttering when watching live TV, hundreds of pages of complaints on their own and other forums, and Samsung has officially replied that yes, the issue exists, but they won't fix it. I know at least 3 people who have bought Samsung TVs in the last year and they all returned them due to this very issue.
In a technical sense concept drift awareness is unlearning.
I think I studied that in time series about twenty years ago.

It's an old concept...

And yes if people would unlearn, their machines would follow.

Some way or the other.

The question is, wether someone gives a shit and bothers to build it.
Or better, is payed to build it in such a way.
To add something about this app, I know that people understand “open source” to mean different things. In the case of Raivo, the app is a “source available” one. It’s not FOSS.

The license [1] says:

> Modification, duplication or distribution of this Service (in source and binary forms) for any purpose is strictly prohibited.

[1]: https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application/blob/master/LIC...
A key reason for the cost of the CC payment infrastructure is that these costs were instrumental in solving the chicken/egg problem of adoption by ensuring that there's enough money/kickback/etc for all the infrastructure partners to market cards and offer various benefits to get both the cards in the consumers pockets and also terminals rolled out at merchants. Noone wants to take the risk to transform crypto into as convenient a service as credit cards because crypto is decentralized enough so that no organization can feel sure that they (as opposed to everyone else) will see enough payout (e.g. lucrative lock-in, skimming part of every transaction) to justify the quite immense and risky long-term investment required to push consumer adoption.
This will further undermine the trust between man-woman co-founders/top execs.
Ask HN: How to send dkim/spf compliant email from Debian?
I don't need to create a full blown email implementation.

I don't need to receive emails from anybody.

I just want to be able to to send emails from no-reply@mydomain.com for password resets, email address verifications, things like that.

And I would like to at least make an attempt to have the emails I send pass through a basic spam filter. So I assume at the very least I need to setup DKIM and SPF records.

Is it as simple as following https://wiki.debian.org/Postfix and https://wiki.debian.org/opendkim ?

(That is the route I am taking right now, will report back here what I find out in a few hours!)
Yup, and the problem with inadequate housing affordability means pumping money into rehab just further increases the price of housing as you need to house people in rehab, after all!

Get rid of height limits, parking minimums, single-family-only zoning, and make most housing projects zoned by-right without public comment required.
quite literally.

http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/do...

This does not mean that, from the objective point of view, human work cannot and must not be rated and qualified in any way. It only means that the primary basis of tbe value of work is man himself, who is its subject.

This leads immediately to a very important conclusion of an ethical nature: however true it may be that man is destined for work and called to it, in the first place work is "for man" and not man "for work".

Through this conclusion one rightly comes to recognize the pre-eminence of the subjective meaning of work over the objective one. Given this way of understanding things, and presupposing that different sorts of work that people do can have greater or lesser objective value, let us try nevertheless to show that each sort is judged above all by the measure of the dignity of the subject of work, that is to say the person, the individual who carries it out. On the other hand: independently of the work that every man does, and presupposing that this work constitutes a purpose-at times a very demanding one-of his activity, this purpose does not possess a definitive meaning in itself.

In fact, in the final analysis it is always man who is the purpose of the work, whatever work it is that is done by man-even if the common scale of values rates it as the merest "service", as the most monotonous even the most alienating work.
I appreciate the encouragement. I find it really hard though. LinkedIn as a platform is just gross and its had so many security incidents over the years, I don't want to give them anything more than I have to.
She could just accuse her neurons, much easier to prove that they maliciously controlled her.
> analphabetism

I've never heard that word before. It's a synonym for illiteracy.
What’s “the west” and how were they trying and weren’t able to match tu-160?
Even if there were evidence for this, heinous criminals AFAIK historically haven't been being set free just because they themselves had been abused some time before they committed their crimes. That line of reasoning is just not something that's likely to yield a welcome result for her.
The circle has come full circle (it's a headphone jack)
Do you feel like it is?
Stage 5 climate denialism: "It's too Late!"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

Isn't HN an "ideology free" zone? Why do they allow nonstop ideology from The Economist? Not to mention the paywall.
This is a very nice combination to have for those students who want to go deep into language implementation and its interface with OSes. C is good for understanding how to write VMs, Scheme is great for code transformation.
Let’s see, people who bothered to learn how to program might not understand the problems with the software libraries they use.

Ok, maybe, but now we’re supposed to believe that people who know absolutely nothing about how computers work are in a better position to understand their limitations and regulate them?
Where this comparison fails for me is that over vs under engineered is not the only dimension that is a factor in maintainability.

I have experienced very poorly engineered code (from a best practices standpoint) which easily would be considered over engineered, and very well engineered code (again from a best practices standpoint) which falls squarely in the under engineered bucket.

In my experience, the code that most closely follows best practices, be it either over or under engineered, will be easier to correct.
This is unfalsifiable, conspiratorial BS. It just allows you to write off any group with an opinion you disagree with as billionaires "astroturfing." It conveniently allows you to always think you should get your way, while at the same time believing in Democracy.
The threshold for starting new research projects from scrath is getting much higher all the time. When Smalltalk was developed you could implement most of the software stack in a quite small team in a few years. I’m not sure that is possible anymore if you want to connect to outer world eg. web. You will create dependencies out of your control quite fast. These dependencies will shape design decisions. Lowest common denominator rules and fighting that will take considerable resources and effort. I think this is one reason we are stuck with Unix like file based systems for most foreseeable future
There is a lot of migratory birds that just can't survive winter, let alone harsh one, even when fed.

Some have evolved in much warmer climate (a lot of migratory birds from Europe evolved in Africa) and never evolved to survive winter.
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Source please? Those are extraordinary claims.

Chinese is totally fine.
What's your point? That someone at the Guardian does not share your personal opinion?

As for me, I'm not okay with either banks discriminating against free speech and banks discriminating against porn. For example, I was vigorously against banks blocking Wikileaks payments. Therefore, I'm fine with the Guardian article.
This issue happens evey decade or so. Last time it was wikileaks and VPNs being delisted by american credit card companies. That popularized cryptocurency and saw bitcoin rise as a censorship-beating payment system. And last week i signed up for a VPNs using my visa without issue. After that they went after filesharing platforms like rapidshare. Now "file lockers" are called "cloud storage" and are a normal online service. This time they are going after porn, an old favorite for US companies to hate. It will again come to nothing.
In the absence of evidence a court will side with a woman.
That’s a misreading, I think. It mentions her legal team several times in the article.
Also should add- this wasn't the result of a bad design choice.

It's because many of these pumps are literally older than the electricity grid.
It the last years Samsung where the ones to beat in the SSD space. Higher price and higher perfomance, which can be measured but seldom felt in day to day operations, so i opted to save some bucks and bought Crucial SSDs.
I was unaware the rendering could and was being done client-side! Given the limitations I can see why gif would indeed be suitable format. You've tooled a compelling amount of functionality into something very lightweight and convenient, and that's a more than acceptable tradeoff.
Have nothing to say on the veracity of what she is alleging but does she really expect anyone to believe her?
This is a Hot Take (tm) that I havent fully considered so grains of salt etc, but boolean flags are in essence bad product type. Given a function

create(entity, bool_a)

we have a function that creates an entity and take a bool flag, and it has 2 possible variants (entity + true, entity + false). If we add another bool flag

create(entity, bool_a, bool_b)

then it increases to 4 states. Add another and you're dealing with 8 states, and so on and so forth. We likely don't care about all 8 states - rather 4 or 5, but complexity increases.

In this case, with the type key, we're essentially dealing with a sum type that has two variants

(admin, attributes) | (customer, attributes)

which is fairly clear. if we add another variant to it, we only increase by one

(admin, attributes) | (customer, attributes) | (distributor, attributes)
There is a difference between a platform that can be easily replaced choosing not to serve certain content, and infrastructure providers choosing to deny service.

I'm all for Twitter choosing what they will allow - if anything the more aggressive they are, the more space it creates for competition.

I'm on the other hand not for payment providers even being allowed to choose, because their position then makes them effective arbiter of what kinds of businesses are allowed to exist without democratic oversight.

For all the power the social networks have, it's nothing like that.

Maybe crypto will change that, but today threatening to withdraw payment processing is an existential threat for a lot of online businesses which gives payment networks undue power.
I’ve forgotten a lot of things I’ve learned.
I would love Emacs to get a facelift in the UI aspect. I like what Neovim is doing for UI stuff. Maybe Remacs can head a similar direction.
> Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, Balwani joined in 2009.

They met in 2002:

> Balwani and Holmes met in Beijing on a trip through Stanford University's Mandarin program the summer before Holmes went to college. While there, the two struck up a friendship. While it wasn't clear when Balwani and Holmes became romantically involved, it appears to be around the time she dropped out of Stanford to start Theranos.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-president-su...
Yes but obviously not "everyone picks [those DBS]"
Yup, typescript is pretty good when it comes to this kind of stuff. This was one of the very few things I tried when I first started with TS.
A man who represents himself has a fool for a client.
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I disagree. IMHO it fits well.
It was actually really controversial at the time, at least for conservative English newspapers. I stumbled upon old news footage of it on YouTube once. I remember an English worker with a rough accent saying something like “I don’t care if they put three es on the end, just let us keep working on the bloody thing”.
This is true for absolutely any world leader. I doubt that Hoover was starving during Great Depression. It's an unfair appeal to emotions: no matter how much or how little Stalin ate, it wouldn't solve hunger problem of the entire country.
> but I assume all their higher end stuff is top notch.

From my unscientific sample, yes.

The Sony Master series of OLED TV's (e.g. A9) are IMHO, most likely the best TV you can buy at the moment.

I've seen them side-by-side next to high-end Panasonic kit, and whilst the Panasonics put on a good show compared to your average TV, the high-end Sony's are noticeably better.

The Sony firmware also seems to behave more consistently with HDMI auto-switching than the Panasonics. Sometimes you ended up having to switch manually on the Panasonic because whatever automagic was meant to happen didn't happen.
I mean, if it's really a great market that's underserved, then you should launch a payment processor that serves the market.

People think this is about morality, but it's a lot more about the cost of operating in that market. I bet that there are way more claims of fraud, money laundering investigations, subpoenas and other overhead that the banks don't want to deal with.

Like teenagers stealing credit cards to pay camgirls is probably pretty common. And there are likely a lot of prostitution investigations.

The real problem is that sex work isn't treated like normal work, which just creates freedom for criminals to take advantage of vulnerable people.

If it was licensed and regulated, then it would be easier to tell the crooks, and victims of human trafficking from the people who are legitimate, voluntary workers.

Then the economics might make sense for banks to keep serving these customers.
I have the original one made for Mac, with only thunderbolt inputs. It's nice:

- 5k

- Built in webcam

- Built in speakers

- Built in mic

All work on Fedora. Thinking about it now, I realize that I may be overselling it in that I did have to tinker to get brightness adjusting to work. I installed this [0] tool, and mapped +/- to Super +, and Super - so that I can quickly adjust brightness.

So, it's definitely not as seamless a setup as the Mac, but it was honestly not bad at all and is a great setup.

[0] https://github.com/chrisdavies/lg
I have to award creativity points for the defense. If it is true it is terrible and I'm sorry it happened to her. However it's a bit of a stretch to see how it would directly translate into bold faced lying to your investors and falsifying documents all along the way. It's not like she was a shrinking violet who had no drive and charisma of her own.