skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular lecture series, focused on the erotica magazine On Our Backs (with a mandate to "deliver sexual content" in the lecturer's words) and presented by one of the early editors of that magazine, has quite a bit to do with pornography. That doesn't make it non-academic, but it's not some kind of abstract analysis at a distance either.
I'm not sure about the apps you're using, but our SaaS app sends users to Azure AD for example to authenticate via OpenID Connect and in 90% of the cases they are instantly directed back because they are already logged in.
I had fillings that failed and three of my teeth needed crowns (they really did). I was quoted $2500 per crown. My insurance only covered up to $1000 per year and I didn't have a great job at the time, so I was like "well, no way I can afford $6500" and did nothing.

Eventually the teeth got so bad they had to be removed, and had to get two bridges put in. That was quoted at $6k apiece. At that point I did have a good job again and could afford it, but yeah, that hurt.

Since then one of the teeth in the bridge had to have a root canal, and then the top part of the tooth cracked when the root canal was checked, and so now I need to replace the anchor teeth in one bridge to 2 implants. I was quoted $7k for those (that's one of the cheaper quotes, I've also been quoted over $10k), not including a new bridge that will have to be made, which will be another ~$6k.

I've put that off for three years now (even had a scheduled surgery to start the process I ended up cancelling). My bridge just has a good amount of temporary cement over that cracked tooth, which has oddly stayed in place the whole pandemic. Eventually I'll have to get it done, but I'm putting it off as long as possible.

If I had somehow figured out how to get those crowns in the first place, I might have saved all this grief and extra expense after. I'm up to 3 removed teeth and 4 teeth stripped of their enamel to become anchor teeth to put the two bridges on, which can never just be 'normal teeth' again.

I've also since heard that some places have machines to 3D print crowns onsite and can do it for as little as $300 each. I wish I knew that was a thing before I decided I was too poor to afford proper dental care.
What’s the activism angle exactly for? Do you think people on the fence about some issue will be swayed one way or the other?
An ethernet interface is not a netdev. Netdevs are always virtual interfaces.
The Creami is definitely easy. My typical run takes me about a minute or two at most to make a pint, and my run is similar to yours (fruit, I use yogurt, allulose to overcome the bitterness of the yogurt). Try using some Xantham gum in yours, just a pinch, it helps keep it creamy. I should try adding flax or hemp hearts, thanks for that tip!
No, I'm just saying that if it was a rainbow or Juneteenth flag that made you mad, then say that. Don't over-generalize, tell us how you really feel.

I'm being earnest.
No it doesn't. So what？We have this exact problem to deal with when people suffer brain damage. To what extent are they conscious, or still people? Yet we do come to medical conclusions on that question. There's always a degree of uncertainty, but you still have to make the call based on the information you have. The information I have indicates to me with a very high probability, in my estimation, that these things are not conscious.
Too dumb to setup cookiebar, I guess.
> The man isn't the program. The man is just executing the program.

That is the whole point. The external observers don’t know if there is a machine in the room. They just see Chinese characters coming under the door. How do they tell if the man knows Chinese or not? Or if he is just emulating a machine that does?

Likewise if we see a computer that is producing “consciousness looking” responses, how do you know if it is the computer that is conscious or just the people who created the content for the training data? Since the computer is modeling them.
I’m working on Mina already
I'm curious, how does VPNs break the internet? The only angle I can immediately see is the shortage of IPV4s.
Not the original commentor but I have the same order.

For me it boils down to these companies' business models. Google and Facebook make their money by providing a free service and selling access to the data of their users. In that sense, I am not their customer, but rather their product, being sold to advertisers. My use of Google and Facebook services mostly boils down to a lack of viable alternatives, because nobody can really compete with "free" on the scale these players operate at.

Apple's business model is very different. Apple makes their money by selling me hardware, and access to their ecosystem through that hardware. I am the customer, not the product, and that is reflected in how Apple treats their users. Apple are big fans of creating vendor lock-in with a walled-garden approach to their ecosystem, but they also know that they only get away with this as long as their customers are satisfied enough not to look for alternatives. So while I do not find this arrangement ideal, I do find it considerably more honest and palatable than what Facebook is offering.
What about the arguments outlined in the article? You first dismissed the arguments because an iron bar couldn't have enough physical states. But we both accept that there are physical objects which do have enough physical states, even if we have to use the entire observable universe as the object that the mapping draws from (and that's not related to the Boltzmann Brain). So the arguments in the article seems to be either ignored or misunderstood.

Also, materialism =!= substrate independence and invariance to speed of computation. Consciousness can have a materialist explanation yet also be substrate dependent to an extent.
I would be truly amazed if there weren't 70 rapes per day in some individual states, let alone the US at large. I'd also be surprised if there were only 70 per day in India. Where did you find this number?
> Problem is instead of choosing a TOTP which would have been compatible with any OS/device they favor their own proprietary app with a push based solution. This suck.

As far as I understood from the news the reason was that regulators (or the regulation itself) told banks that the 2nd factor could not be easily cloned. Before this regulation most Finnish banks were using one time pads (actual physical paper), but because it was possible to make a copy of it they had to phase out the usage.
Well yes, if you choose not to use free software, then you don’t get the benefits of free software.
It is pretty difficult to ensure that tracking IDs are not passed between apps with a sandbox. The legal enforcement is a much bigger deal on these things.
@dang: this shouldn’t be flagged.
I am terrifically saddened by the fate of Scientific American. That magazine was formative to me in my teens; now I won't even bother browsing a copy left in the breakroom.

The only other magazine that I miss as much is old-school Byte.
That was a long time ago... before many of the societal transformations we've been through.
License says yes.

https://github.com/kochrt/markwhen/blob/main/LICENSE

> kochrt/markwhen is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
CleanMyMac put a Ukrainian flag in my toolbar and I promptly uninstalled CleanMyMac and cancelled my subscription. I was already using AppCleaner (OSS?) for most uninstalls anyways.
Wow, nobody knew that there were overruns in the SLS project!
Main thing is whether the non-technical guys are real deal or just masterful pretenders.
Unfortunately shipping li-ion batteries is not easy as well. IIRC, this is actually one explicit reason Pine64 is making an EU store, so it is easier to ship things like li-ion batteries to folks.
Response to the edit:

Yeah that sucks, but your experience doesn't define the broader landscape.

I had a sister with cancer, and we were very, very poor when she was diagnosed. She still managed to get treatment and make a full recovery, albeit we did end up with a good deal of medical debt. Nonetheless, she lived.

Why does your anecdote carry more weight than mine? It doesn't. I understand you're going through a very difficult time but the solution is not to deny statistics and established facts in favor of your poor experience. People die, it sounds like your family is genetically predisposed to lethal cancers.
I think saying subscriptions are a dark pattern is going a bit far. In the case where you're offering an ongoing service that requires a cost to service, a subscription model is completely appropriate and in the best interest of both the subscriber and the issuer.

For sure there's some abuse of the model where you're selling something that should be a one-time item, but that's not the case here, and Mullvad is providing an ongoing service (and still billing by month / year / etc. for the service, just without automatic renewals).
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I have been part of a dance/art community in a past life. There's a prevailing belief that "the personal is political"[0], which basically manifests as all things (art/products/etc) being unambiguously imbued with your politics, because politics doesn't end at the public sphere.

This idea became mainstream at some point, and the result is that we must now signal what team we're on in everything we create. Abstaining from this signaling just means you're either ignorant of the causes (best assumption) or you're on the other team (worst assumption).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_personal_is_political
I won't touch crypto with a 100 foot pole, I've said it many times. So many people ask me about this or that coin, about helium, about new protocols and decentralized Internets...

Yeah, no. Waiting for this massive crypto bubble to finally deflate so I can see if there's anything worth caring about in the mess that'll be left over.
It probably had 0.01% effect on their profits so I don't see why they would be upset.
Clickbait .. but a rightfull one :)
tumblr is a bad example. The reason why Apple got on their case about porn was that an app reviewer saw child porn on the front page of the site. Massive red flag that whatever moderation tumblr was doing was ineffective at best. Even before that, their NSFW/porn filtering was so bad that they would literally just block certain search keywords on iOS to get around the problem.

Apple's actual policy for the bog-standard, consenting-adults kind of porn is that you can't put it on the App Store, and if you are a social network you need to filter for it. This isn't a full ban; reddit is able to get away with having an off-app NSFW toggle that turns off filtering on the app.

A better example might be Discord, which also had a spat with Apple over NSFW servers. Apple wanted specific communities banned from the app; the actual guidance[0] provide by Discord is vague as to why they were banned, but suggests that there's an extra level of NSFW-ness to which the "off-app toggle" solution isn't good enough for Apple.

As far as I'm aware there's no appetite at Apple for an "adult tax" - it's specifically that they don't want the brand association[1] that comes with "porn on iPhone". If it was just a matter of the higher chargeback rates of porn, they could have a separate payment processor and commission rate structure for that.

[0] https://i.redd.it/shpi09y71lt61.png

[1] Casual reminder that people are absolutely terrible at separating the product, the OS, and the app vendor from one another when they are very mad at it. Or when a news outfit is trying to sell them anger.
I've been doing this for 20 years now, and Apple or DuckDuckGo have made it accessible to normal people. The day I started receiving pornographic spam addressed to dell@majid.fm (no longer the domain I use, BTW), I knew Dell's security was worthless and they had been breached.

BTW I build a simple spreadsheet-like GUI for Postfix to manage the list, as it's grown quite large:

https://github.com/fazalmajid/postmapweb
Yeah, in my experience the colleagues who generate the most incomprehensible text tend to be the “writing is easy” ones. The 10x author, perhaps?
I’m pretty sure they told you how they feel.

Why are you assuming things not stated?

How is that helpful?

Also, there is a Juneteenth flag? It’s a full time job to keep up these days.
Hi Megi! Thank you for your great work to make the PinePhone so much better than it was when I got it!

(I was going to add a people "I want to thank for their hard work"-section to the post, but lacked the time to do it thoroughly and make sure I would not forget a major contributor, and therefore dropped that.)
A law targeted at Facebook might work, something like "posts by a business or government entity or non-personal entity" or something *must be publicly available without a login.

A similar policy aimed at ADA requirements for governments, state and local and federal, might also mitigate some of it.
You know we’re not disagreeing right? Is it simultaneously true SSO should be used by everyone at all company sides and that small companies will absolutely take an 80% discount to not have it while large orgs will pay full price.

The features of GH enterprise you listed are nice-to-haves, above a certain org size SSO is required.
The main question I have after reading this is: what 'bargain' is the author referring to? Apps change their logos all of the time, as is their right. The timing of this post is coincident with pride month, and many companies changing altering their logo to use the pride colors. I disagree with the suggestion that changing the color(s) of the logos and icons hinder the user's ability to find the app. A rainbow version of Dropbox's icon isn't going to make it any harder for me to find the Dropbox app and it might just make under-represented groups feel more seen.

I think the more general topic of brands taking political stances is worthy of debate, for sure. I tend to think it's fine. If I agree, great. If I don't, then I can choose spend my money at a company whose values align better with mine.
Some of the folks developing wasmtime plan to run it as a server environment where any users can submit code to be run. They are very incentivised in making sure the sandbox can’t be broken.
I'm feeling good about seeing the demise of Facebook in my lifetime.
> but you can definitely pay enough for a service

That’s exactly the issue here - they weren’t paying anything for the service provided.

> For a long time the value users provided to Google was the data

But Google doesn’t and hasn’t used Workspace data for Ads (1). That would be bad business.

(1) https://workspace.google.com/learn-more/security/security-wh...
That is called to have a "hidden agenda".

Nowadays, articles get a lot of criticism for having "an agenda". That has never been a bad thing, everybody one way or another has an agenda. Nothing wrong with that.

But in that noise it has been lost the idea that "hidden agendas" are bad. Someone pushes for an idea, but in reality they are pushing for some effect that has nothing to do with that original idea.

"Hidden agendas" are bad because make dialog, understanding and getting to agreements difficult if not impossible.
Exactly. If I buy and drive a BMW, I’m a BMW driver. I’m not BMW’s user.

What a scary way to phrase that relationship.
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Interesting to see how China will react.
This is a common sentiment in the anti-FB media blitz era, but I find that people have wildly different (and often conflicting) reasons they think FB is evil.

What is yours?
If it were part of medical, I'd expect to see most expensive procedures (that aren't already covered under medical) such as crowns, implants, and root canals wouldn't be covered because they'd be considered cosmetic given that extraction is usually an option. Routine dentistry is pretty inexpensive, especially in the context of medical costs generally.

Any company dental plan I've ever had is mostly a tax advantaged benefit that saves you a bit of money but the annual max of mine is something like $2,000.
https://github.com/kochrt/markwhen is about a month behind the live website.

The upstream repo that the live site uses is available to sponsors.
As an American living in a suburban Swiss village taking the bus into Geneva, I don’t think the bus was more than 1 minute late once every hundred days. And I was pretty far along on the line. It was staggeringly punctual.
Banking is highly national. It does not even work very uniformily in SEPA (Single European Payment Area). Of course there are mandatory SEPA features that every bank in every country must support. But there are other national features which are used in some countries by practically all businesses basically making everything incompatible again.

And of course there are many countries completely outside of SEPA.
I'm a pinephone early adopter so you don't have to sell me on that. But I also know that such things are not viable for mass market. Pinephone works for me because I am technically savvy and value ownership of my device more than ease of use.

But time and time again we've seen that the market as a whole will go for whatever has the lowest friction. That's the singular most important factor. Whatever lets people do that thing quickest and easiest will usually win out.

So any serious and realistic discussion has to keep that in mind. This is why consumer protection laws are important. Because "people" aren't going to necessarily look out for their own long term best interests. And will choose the option that is easy today but will screw you down the road.
> What are some of the rivals of FB these days ?

Google, other major ad exchanges.

Consumer facing: Tiktok, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn
Similar advice was given by a famous VC, Tomasz Tunguz, a few years ago: https://tomtunguz.com/writing-separate-lines/
MAGMA also works
You might be interested in logseq, a bullet-oriented MD editor: https://logseq.com/
You can consider not using the product? If you can't stomach a temporary icon change, which I'm guessing has to do with either Pride or Juneteenth, then I'm sure the app organization and society wouldn't mind you finding an alternative.

The latter has become a federal holiday so it's not exactly activism IMO to show alliance with that.
I, personally, care a large amount about convenience. I don't want to think about bills at all. I've been a Mullvad subscriber for years on a PayPal recurring payment. It works so well that I don't even think about it. I just use it.

Having to think about paying a bill every month is really a pain to me. I get the privacy ideals, but the tradeoffs are not ridiculous. I should be able to make a decision about how private I want to be, not have Mullvad decide for me so that they can feel better about themselves.

I will probably move over to Mozilla VPN now, since they will continue to rely on Mullvad for their infrastructure but allow me to pay them in a convenient way. I guess compromises are in order.
The fundamentals of Value Types versus Reference Types: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/program...

What you linked is an issue regarding storing Reference Types (classes) in stack space. Again, there is a difference in .NET between a Reference Type and Value Type, and this is a fundamental dichotomy going back to the earliest days of .NET.

I don't appreciate the ad hominem attack and suggest that you google any further follow ups yourself.
I disagree. There are entire companies built around making it simpler to implement and manage SSO (like https://workos.com/ which we use) - it is time consuming to support. Enterprise pricing will always be about finding some way to gate enterprise users into a more expensive plans.

Let's take Tuple as an example. You put "Active user pricing" into Enterprise plan. Why is that not "table stakes"? It does not involve complex tech, and not charging inactive users seems like a fair thing to offer all your customers?

This blog post feels like a "beef marketing" play out of Basecamp's marketing book.
Woah, love that idea and it looks really cool. Thanks!
This looks neat. I wish it used iso8601 [0] dates. It’s pretty convenient as the time periods uses the format YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD and I think is easier to mentally parse than MM/DD/YYYY-MM/DD/YYYY.

Of course I didn’t even know what a solidus (“/“) was until using iso8601.

Also, I usually find standards pretty much as overhead, but 8601 seems pretty good as a universal standard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
Nice to see an EFF article here. I'd like to point out that they are a wonderful non-profit organization that supports digital rights, and you can donate to their cause here: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-eff-m--h

I've been a "member" myself for over 10 years.
I think you’re right. They hobbled it, and made it less useful because they couldn’t trust it. A fairly solid example of why we’ll never attain the singularity: it’s bad for business.
I think you can take a look here: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

I am in no way affiliated with them nor I know many of the technology names they use there, but I think it might provide a good starting point.
~7 years ago I started shaving my head. I do it every 3-7 days, so it does require regular upkeep. And at 7+ days it's quite annoying to shave at that point because the razor clogs quickly, maybe every couple inches. Probably would be better to start with an electric razor or clippers first at that point.

I tried to use a app that would simulate a shaved head, it was pretty rudimentary and I ended up looking pretty goofy in the simulation, because it used a very smooth ball shape, in reality it doesn't look goofy at all.

It does also mean you gotta wear a hat or sunscreen if you are out in the sun.
Title for both this post and that of the article ('How India could..') is misleading.

The article is just narrating handful of stories on how people are growing mushrooms, India is at 2% vs China at 75% of production share, etc.

Nothing about how India can increase its production to match that of China's.
Yeah Facebook and Google are both in the same business of sucking up as much data as possible, but Zuckerberg has consistently proven himself to be a menace to society.
I was part of the Orkut closed beta, wow time flies
Decent place to ask I guess: what's the state-of-the-art for self-hosted SSO providers for a company that does a lot of self-hosting of open-source solutions? Like, if you're not relying on 3rd-party support for this, aren't using a cloud provider's proprietary solutions, et c., how do you do it in 2022?
It depends, some apps might be configured to require auth before taking you to the app. It may depend on compliance, or some company policy. Or if there is an SLO app that invalidates login sessions.
Have considered and have been told many times this is costing me revenue (which I think might be true). But I've never had a customer ask for it. Which is an important signal for me to consider a feature. Online payments are very easy for my target audience (mostly Dutch retail customers) with iDEAL so the benefits of automatic renewal is low.
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