skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been plenty of indications in the news, if you've been paying attention. It is in China's security interest that its neighbor does not fall into chaos. The CCP have already met with a delegation of Taliban leaders.

China will reportedly offer infrastructural investment in exchange for a modicum of peace. There are also many natural resources which China is eyeing.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1232262.shtml
The absolute worst cancellation process I've experienced except maybe for The New York Times. I will never use Adobe subscription products again after going through it
Nestled in between "malice" and "honest mistake" is "criminal negligence". When you put yourself in that position - when you invade a country - every resulting civilian casualty is on you. You do not have the moral standing to decide what is and is not acceptable "collateral damage". War is hell, but you chose to make war there. The civilians didn't.

>the Taliban and its allies were responsible for 76% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2009

Or to phrase it another way, allied forces killed a third as many civilians as the actual Taliban, a regime noted for its extreme brutality and callous attitude to human life. I'm not impressed.
I'm from a poor country, currently live in the US and my parents have astonishingly "old-school" beliefs to put it lightly - similar to your interpreter. While it's frustrating to see people not take advantage of the freedoms Americans have, and to squander their new opportunity, reject American values, refuse to learn English and integrate, etc, we should absolutely let these people in because it's their children that will benefit from their new homes.

I saw where my parents come from vs the US, and with the fresh perspective of a child absolutely realized how lucky I am.

Now I'm a high achieving worker, donates heavily to charity (EA ftw), and mentors similar people.

I really hope people have patience for refugees like your interpreter because while it's understandable very frustrating watching their life happen, please think of their children who will undoubtably appreciate the US a ton more.
No. The purpose of the war is to fund defense contractors and create jobs back at home. Giving the money directly to afganis would not do that.
Monopolies also breed more monopolies.

If there is only one buyer/seller then in order to fight their price making power, you can’t form a cartel (illegal price collusion!) but you can consolidate into another monopoly and push the monopoly price making power elsewhere in your benefit.
I still don't understand this argument, maybe because I just don't understand enough about crypto currency itself.

What coin is stable enough to use as currency? Unless OnlyFans could pay its employees and services with that said coin (who could then use it elsewhere directly), the company would still have to convert to fiat currency right? And wouldn't that itself affect the coin price?
Meanwhile my platform for Henry Winkler impersonators goes unloved.
> I don't think a full standardisation of API token formats is ever likely

I thought so too but then https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8959.html came out this year.

Importantly I am not proposing a big change at all: The tokens can stay exactly the same (in the database and crypto code), you can still use UUID or Macaroons or JWT, you only change the frontend to add this prefix. Apologies if this wasn't clear in the the two examples I posted without explanations. The benefits would also be a bit higher than the PR you reference, which seems to help with scanning on GitHub (you mention that it would already work without the change).

As you note in your PR, many tokens are already identifiable, so standardizing a way to put the reporting domain in there shouldn't reduce security (by obscurity).
Exactly. This is the method for being able to say you predicted 100% of the stock moves over the last year - while getting endorsements from people who followed your recommendations.

Send out A/B newsletters. Group A gets a version which says a stock will go down. The B group's newsletter says the same stock will go up. Rinse and repeat. You are guaranteed to have a path to victory...

In other words, don't believe everything you read or watch, even if it is from a newsletter or youtube account with 100% success.
This is what happens when corruption is systemic in a country.
I've probably worked on the same team as 100-150 people over my career so far. Maybe 200. I can count on one hand the number of people who:

1. Are happy in their current title, company, responsibilities, etc.

2. Don't want to get a big raise

3. Just want to "do their job and go home"

I'm thinking of exactly two. There may be one or two I'm forgetting. Coincidentally they were also two of the least skilled developers I've worked with, I think in part because they had very little interest in growing professionally.

There are plenty of important, fulfilling, well-compensated careers in which you don't need to grow, learn, and expand. Software development is not one of them.
I agree that a few points seem 'matter of fact' at face value. What's weird is that IMO even people that would see this to be obvious, sometimes behave counter to it. For example, I've seen good teams release things that pretty much anyone could classify as 'broken' from the outset, but they do it anyway because there's an overarching 'hustle obsession' and aphorisms like "ship to learn" make it easy to justify that. It's probably a mix of flawed incentives, company culture (glorification of failure?), and so on, but my point there is that in the weeds, it can be hard to put even the simplest rules in practice, with nuance.

I totally agree re books, blogs, tweets. Categorical statements are easier to remember and digest, nuance is kind of boring to talk about (read: politics atm, or always?). Maybe it's something about human psychology that we are collectively drawn to the simpler, discrete answers because they feel more comforting and approachable.
...and by that I mean authorization is the next big challenge especially in a multi-tenant/multi-enterprise SaaS type platform
It is a country built on state-sponsored oligopoly as competitive advantage.
> It seems likely that you don't believe in the rights, the negative individual rights, that these Americans believe in; rather, you are willing to subordinate them to a cause which you believe is a good cause. (It might even be a good cause in fact.
> If this is the case, then it is "tiresome" because, old as these ideas are, they are working exactly as intended: they are presenting a stumbling block to your utopian designs. Modern history is full of movements promising utopias by systematically violating human rights.

That comment directly applies to this situation and proves it. You're against property rights (a negative individual right) for a 'good cause' (anti-racism), and in favor of letting it be subordinate to positive rights.

A history of property rights being 'tied' to racism doesn't mean that we should repeal or lessen property rights; we should ensure property rights apply to everyone. The only issue with America's human rights was that they were not equally applied to everyone.

My ancestors were essentially enslaved for several hundred years and now my grandmother, father, and mother all own a bit of property. We won't be letting anyone take that, or any part of property rights, away from us. I appreciate that you're in favor of this for a noble reason but nobody needs a savior to take away others' rights.
Simple solar device for heating water in hot countries [audio]
The nuclear situation is terrible, whether in USA or France (don't know about other countries). There's plenty of unplanned incidents happening all the time, plenty of scandals around waste management and safety concerns.

They're supposed to prove the supremacy of french engineering companies with the new EPR design, however all it's shown so far is the many inadequacies of any institution we've known so far to respect basic security/operating principles.

There are many, many EPR-related scandals to explore if you speak french, and even more scandals relative to french engineering companies if you're curious like Lafarge, Areva, Bouygues..
No.

Semantically these are very different objects/concepts

Passwords:

- tightly couple authentication (I am kortex) and authorization (I can do everything logged-in kortex can do)

- not meant to be rotated unless breached (forced password rotation mandates weaken passwords, imho)

- are passwords meant for human transport, if even briefly

- hard to revoke (once expired, still valid until user rotates)

- usually insufficient entropy, dependent on user habits

- one flavor: a secret string

Tokens:

- decouple authentication and authorization

- ephemeral

- revokable

- enable automatic rotation (session tokens vs auth tokens)

- can have metadata

- as much entropy as you want

- many flavors
I suspect that OnlyFans realized they have the choice of either having a business that makes it incredibly hard to process payments, or to have no meaningful business at all. It's too late to pivot the brand to SFW with a couple of users going slightly over the line (similar to Patreon).
Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly
I doubt this nets out as "free". The campaign was "this ship is sinking" (for people doing adult content), and subscribers and content creators have been acting accordingly.
Can the US crack down on fake vaccination cards?
I'm sure everybody has their reasons. But on your second point. My guess is that the $180 average on OF is WAY higher than the Average monthly income on any other site for this type of content. Some workers may earn massively more on other sites, but certainly not the majority.
Payment processing isn’t something a bank gets to decide on their own either. It’s decided by a group. In the US it’s NACHA:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACHA
The withdrawal doesn't need more support. The public has been calling for withdrawal for years now. It's already popular. The only ones who still support staying are politicians, military suppliers, and the media.
You shouldn’t need to “excuse” sex work.
The inevitable decline of fully open platforms
How is the human reviewer expected to make that judgement call? They’re not allowed to see the original to compare with for obvious reasons.
Opinion: Don’t put your business data in s3 objects!

It can work if all you will ever need is a key value store, but as soon as you need SQL-like queries (joins, filtering, transactions) you will be stuck reimplementing a sql engine in your app code.

I recommend to try SQLite with some kind of replication (either Linode disk snapshots, Litestream etc).

Having your state observable and local to your application instead of a slow http hop away makes development much easier.
I think this is an incredibly well done comic-book style walk through analysis. I know a lot of the comments here are about this presentation not being mobile friendly, but one of the tough pieces here is that it's an analysis of a flow that ranges from email to website with commentary on top... that's honestly tough to do without a structured format.

I really appreciated the alternative design directions offered and supporting documentation. It really helps reinforce there are best practices and reasons for these dark patterns to exist, albeit for the wrong (or right? depending on your place in an org) reasons.
> America runs on money and thus tries to solve problems with money.

Thought experiment:

What if you just accepted this and went all-in on it, with a dash of MMT and tech, as follows...

Give every Afghan a smartphone.

Lock it way down. Provide a social networking platform that you can monitor. Include a "Fed.ly" banking app. You can control account balances.

Also build stores that accept Fedbucks, to ensure they have value. Basically, Fedbucks would be backed by food, and stuff from China.

Next, require some time consuming activity of Afghans, which is not too obnoxious, but which can't be faked. It needs to produce trustworthy proof-of-work.

For example, it could be like Pokemon Go, with GPS trajectories being proof of work. Or CAPTCHAs. Or taking photographs or videos of different places. Or any combination of these activities. Actually, if you do the GPS waypoint thing, you could have them carry passengers while they're at it.

(You could also imagine using Jira tickets for this, but the interface is a little too clunky.)

Then, on receipt of proof-of-work, deposit money into the accounts.

People will be too busy with these activities to fight you. That activity -- which provides them with food and flip-flops -- will be much easier than fighting. And it will also be easier than whatever they had done before to earn a living. So they will do it.

And if ever you start to see resistance, just increase the wages. Eventually people will comply.

In a way, this was the model behind the Afghan Army. It was UBI in exchange for bullshit. But it kept those men out of trouble, so long as the US was paying.

My proposal is that this model be rolled out, indefinitely, across the entire country, and made attractive enough that even members of the Taliban will do it.

If you insist that this system actually produce economic output, you could organize activities in support of mining or other sectors.

The key is that it has to be much more profitable for an individual to play along, than either to grow poppies, or to fight back.

If you hype it properly, you might even be able to fund it with Softbank money.
Work hard to keep their skills /experience relevant and up to date and keep their options open.
I recently started using this too.

Now why can't websites just be written to work this way in the first place?
> deprived many less industrialized societies of control over their own citizens at a crucial juncture.

Spoken truly like a person[1] who hasn't had much interaction with states with "control over their own citizens".

Citizens are not meant to be a state's property. That's why we don't call ourselves subjects. Sadly, too many have reverted to feudal thinking these days.

[1]: https://www.kyleharper.net/about/
Technically speaking, this does not prove that an adversarial attack is possible on the CSAM system of apple, Given that apple has another not released neural hash system on their servers which is potentially larger and works better than the one on device.

The more interesting technical question for me is: do collisions transfer across models? or how to find collisions that transfer across models?
> I’d imagine it’d be a lot easier to optimize the data center compute resources than optimizing the scanning on individual devices and not trashing battery lifespan.

No amount of data center optimization will beat running computations on hundreds of millions of devices other people have to pay for.
Only a fair trial can declare anybody guilty. Without a right to say anything they are innocent by default. The video don't record any obvious crime by part of the killed people. They are innocent until proven otherwise.

A world when everybody must prove that is innocent, so is not executed at first sight by a machine is terrifying. And as long as people starts seeing preemptive murder as a good cheaper alternative to justice, the fall is unstoppable. We really want to live in that world?
Thanks. I will try to self publish. I want to keep freedom over content and target and I am not looking for acclaim for having my name on a book from a well known publisher. I am just hoping to help people solve their problems.
Hence the reference to the onion, etc. The responses prove my point; and yes that's sad.
> For $$ per hour worked, why would they field low wage, menial jobs with a risk of COVID?

Median OF revenue per creator is $180/mo for equivalent of a full time job.

https://sea.mashable.com/culture/17130/top-onlyfans-creators....
OnlyFonz?
> These should be considered war crimes.

It's not a war crime unless you lose the war.
You have to realize this was marketing. Coca Cola did this, and brought their earlier recipe back within three months. Plus this generated greater product interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
Coupled with teachers working unpaid hours it is somewhat frightening (even if you are not a parent). And we wonder why our society has issues that are so divisive? There is a line between those who are well educated and informed, and those who are not, that starts in elementary school!
https://chemguide.co.uk is great for A-level chemistry.
That's too many regional managers, I don't think the economy will support that.
Open source the code for YouTube bot, then perhaps many people can fork it and use it for themselves
Looks good. Congrats on this release! How is memory usage compared to e.g. Transmission?
I wonder how these techniques reconcile with the 24h dough method. He suggests that the warm rise method is more difficult to do effectively, but seems to bank it on a 6h timeline, and this is what he's comparing to a 1-2 day cold-rise. I expect this uses a particularly warm environment for rapid rise.

I just leave dough on the counter for 22-24 hours, room temperature, i.e. the Jim Lahey method. In rabid pizza forums the prevailing wisdom seems to be that cold-rise is inferior to that. However I'm not taking into account the other aspects of the technique.

Since I oven-bake at 550F my dough isn't nearly as wet. Still comes out quite flavorful. I don't autolyse before kneading however, and might endeavor to start doing so.
Don't be silly; this is not anyone hiding anything. If a website survives based on advertising and needs to now pay a service to keep them up to date with the latest EU regs, then they may just switch on GeoIP filtering and be done with it.
From the way all of the current vaccine passports "work", I would guess not.

Who could have thought that the government trying to roll out an app/service to millions of users overnight would be flawed? /s
>>First, the government should cover, at no cost, two years of community college

I am honestly not opposed to that... But I still believe we should have a better Public Education system less focused on "college prep" and more focused on actual education, preparing people for Life, Jobs, etc as an adult.

The 2 years of Community College should be Vocational Training for the chosen field after your General Education is done in the K-12.

But many people go to Community College to complete their General Education College requirements for their 4 year degree..
Kind of? There are some tech differences on what the creators can do. Especially around video/live streaming that are all handled on site instead of externally like Patreon.
Personally I didn't want passive collection phoning home if, at any point, anyone connected it to anything, and there is also the possibility of connecting to open access points.

And, well, saw no reason for leaving around untrusted unreliable crud I couldn't remove. It was worth a modest markup to get rid of it.
It doesn't really make sense in my opinion, so maybe I'm the wrong person to answer, but I think it's a game of statistics.

OF has captured a certain market, and is making a certain amount of money. Of companies like that, a small but not insignificant number grows to super major size, the size that can do an IPO and exit for billions.

The current owners are OF are trying to capitalize on the value investors put on that possibility, and on the reduced risk of having so much money invested. With each investment round the risk of failure goes down a little, and the risk of major success goes up a little.

A major example of this is Facebook. It was profitable and well established, why would they need extra investment or an IPO? Then out of nowhere Facebook bought Instagram, and Whatsapp, and it is clear now that without those two acquisitions Facebook could have been in serious trouble. The absolute crapton of cash they got effectively took away risk.

So it's a chance to de-risk and cash out of OF, and let the big boys play on taking OF to an IPO.
Your right to representation and to a trial by jury are limits on government power, not positive rights. You do not have the right to a lawyer or jury whenever you want. These are the conditions required if the government wants to prosecute you. If these conditions cannot be met the government can just drop the charges against you. We've seen this happen recently during covid due to court backlogs.
Ideally, there is some competition between multiple providers to drive innovation and efficiency, and that's what regulators are trying to achieve. So you get the best of both worlds.
I agree with you in that I don't think the problem is the closed-source aspect. Closed source software can still be audited (with difficulty). The problem is that the source material for the hashes can't be audited, even when we know exactly how the system works.
I think you're implying that scanning of private personal property by a corporation without a warrant protects users from searches of their content in the cloud that is authorized by a warrant or national security letter. I don't understand the mechanism if there isn't end to end encryption, and I don't understand the mechanism if there is end to end encryption.

Scanning makes phones a greater threat, and also erodes the expectation of privacy that is a legal barrier to surveillance.
When I graduated (5-10 years ago) internships were the best way to grain experience and stand out a bit above the rest in the full time hiring portion.

1. The company that hired the interns received a fantastic deal on labor. I think the company that hired me did it because they had an extra fully equipped desk that was going to waste without someone coding on it.

2. Not every student earned an internship, so gaining one was real feather in the hat.

3. Not every intern would have accomplished the same amount. Just like school and life, the more you put into an internship the more you get out.

4. It jump started my professional network of people actually in industry.
Interest rate and documentation.

Pretend that a batch of YC startups are all getting loans rather than ownership purchases. What effective interest rate are they paying? What is the default rate where the startup dies before acquisition/profitability/IPO?

Write a heuristic to determine a fair interest rate given the current prevailing rates, financial history of the company in question, financial history of similar companies, and similar objective and quantifiable subjective factors. Document it. When someone complains, demonstrate to your regulator that your procedure was fair, reasonable, and applied evenhandedly, and to the extent possible is consistent with actual outcomes.
I would think that deploying lethal force without positive target ID is against ROE.