skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [P]eople across the political spectrum think porn is addictive, psychologically damaging, and leads to sexual dysfunction.

I think everyone acknowledges it can be, but it's a pretty distinct cohort that holds it necessarily is. Definitely not that it inevitably leads to sexual dysfunction, that's just patently untrue.

Most adults consume pornography, and for the vast majority of them it isn't a problem. Every adult who's sex life I know anything about, watches porn. They're fine.
Thank god for those librarians fighting for our liberty. Read a book everyone!
Good points! You probably realize this, but in case others don't, assuming a 12.3% tax rate may overstate things even more than just being "conservative". Only the portion of income greater than ~$700K is charged at this rate, with everything less than that being charged at lower marginal rates: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/california-state-ta.... Someone who earns less than $350K (and the first $350K for everyone) is at a maximum marginal rate of 9.3%. This makes your conclusion even stronger---the article seems misleading.
I really enjoyed the first two thirds of Seveneves. Wish I’d quit then.
looks like the increased cost is not worth the profit. simple mathematics. capitalism is nature and you cannot fight the nature because sooner or later something gives.
I moved to Finland after reading it's the happiest place on Earth
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" (said in Leonard Nemoy's voice, of course)
No, once an IP had failed authentication a configured number of times, the IP is blocked (for a configurable amount of time.)
There are 3 reasons I can think of based on my experience building rule engines for cross functional teams:

#1) Conflict of Interest.

It is not in the interest of a wage-earner to implement a system which automates away his/her job. Most engineers would love to take a day to turn simple conditional change and get paid for it. Most business people would also love to own their spreadsheets and be the owner of their logic. Each role prefers to be the gatekeeper of their respective domains as most in-the-weeds folks are paid for their time and not for their outcomes.

#2) Useless Upstream, Dumb Downstream

"the users are placed in a position where they must be more self-reliant".

Oh the naivety! Rule engine projects try to transfer the domain knowledge and business logic from one brain to another brain. Herein lies the problem, you'll never be able to get someone upstream of you to implement the business logic because that's what they pay you to do (useless upstream). People downstream of you don't understand the business logic and cannot be trusted to build it (dumb downstream). What ends up happening is that you build the rule engine for yourself. This is a win for everyone except the rule engine implementer - see #1).

If your rule engine can be updated 2x faster, decision making time should get cut in half. But in practice this does not happen. Instead, you will receive 2x the number of update requests to net out the time. This is the reason people hate building productivity tools for others - because inevitably, the business people say "hey if its so easy to update why dont you do it?"

#3) Outcomes

The key to a successful rule engine is sufficient tooling around the integration of rules engines and "business outcomes". When a rule engine is built with a domain specific outcome in mind, they can be very successful. Financial business logic is often written in excel for very exacting levels of specificity - spreadsheet conditional logic is a rule engine. For engineers, Visual editors provide great integration points for coding a vis-a-vis rule engine which ties into software systems. Klaviyo has done a great job of building a rules engine for marketers with a great UI with outcomes tied to both email marketing and automation. There are several such tools. You need a very high quality domain specific UI which is tied to a specific business outcome.
isn't this similar to what Canada was/is trying to do to podcasts?
I couldn't readily tell if this was related to the recent 37C3 iPhone submission, but in case someone missed the irony: https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hard... was RCE-ed via a truetype file and it's always been just the gift that keeps on giving https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=truetype
Don't suggest this. While I agree it can be helpful, the problem is if you're a novice you won't be able to distinguish hallucinations. Which in my experience are fairly common, especially as you do advance topice. If you got good math rigor then it's extremely helpful, because often things are hard to exactly search, but it's a potential trap for novices. But if you have no better resource, then I can't blame anyone, just give a warning to take care.
I get into the gym 5x a week. It is a non-negotiable part of my schedule. I sign up for running events that are 12-16 weeks out and then use training plans like Run with Hal or Nike Run Club to figure out what I need to do daily.
According to the Gun Violence Archive[0], the US has averaged 2 mass shootings a day over the last three years - less common than earthquakes in Japan, but far from being rare or a freak occurrence.

I would agree that it would be pointless, though.

[0]https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
The law says it applies if more than 30% of the content is adult content. So won't apply to reddit or Twitter at least but I could see this still leaving plenty of gray area for other sites.
They are leaving it out where anyone can get it (if their parents aren't watching), not showing it to unsuspecting pedestrians. Maybe teenagers have too much autonomy online but it's the place of their parents to take it away from them - not the state of North Carolina.
Kindle does not natively support epubs: https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kindle...
They also enabled bueray DVDs.
Yeah I know it’s a common challenge. I think it took me a bit longer than some of my peers because I was trying to force it to be like something I knew instead of meeting it on its own terms.

When all you have is a hammer and all that
Ah, one of my abandoned projects was doing this sort of tracking for a car-sharing fleet (think car2go, where the car can be left in many parking spaces in the city when terminating the rental), although with cars the route taken is less certain, someone could rent it from a few blocks away from their home (at that point it would disappear from the list of available cars), go to IKEA, and it could end up near their place (reappear in the list) many hours later. Animating this "journey" would make it appear like there's a car going a short distance, very slowly..
I've asked a lot of people about the potential future of not having to spend 2/3 of our life working to be able to feed ourselves and have a roof, and I'm afraid so many people are what I could best describe as being "institutionalized" (to borrow a term from The Shawshank Redemption) that they can't even envision such life, to the point that they instantly start defending the current status quo, the 9-5 grind.

It's mind boggling to me how some people can't see that getting 2/3 of life back to do with as you please would be .. absolutely amazing.
This is a wonderful lead and gives me hope at recovering this lost curiosity... I will continue to refine my searches, you have my thanks!
Reddit is easily at least 30% porn if not 90%
I mean only if you care about furries, for anime Danbooru is probably an equivalent, funny enough I have never found a website like E621 and Danbooru with real photos, the tagging is always terrible.
Laundry detergent doesn't contain phosphate for similar reasons. Zoning laws generally have tight restrictions on what a land owner can build.
> Officials explained that companies will be able to use commercially available databases to verify that users are old enough to access their content. The new law will take effect starting January 1st.

ಠ_ಠ
I mean, just talk to your kids about sex. You're not going to succeed in censoring their internet activity. Any more than you'll succeed in stopping them from sneaking out and going to parties or drinking with their friends - did your parents try to stop you from sneaking out? Did it work? Because I got really good at scaling fences and climbing out of windows.

But in the effort you will send the message that there is no trust between you and your child, and they won't feel safe talking to you should they need to. If you take the attitude that sex is something illicit, they will take the message that it's something to keep secret from you.
Isn’t the simple explanation that Navigator sucked and people decided not to go out of their way to download it?

Navigator did suck and was crash prone and could bring down the entire operating system on weaker operating systems like the Mac.

We have two instances where people did in fact choose to go out of their way to download better browsers then the default - first Firefox and then Chrome.
No, they're talking about the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (1994), which is 100% about foreign works and formalities (copyright notice and renewal requirements). Disney was ''against'' that change because they benefited from foreign works (such as Prokofiev's ''Peter and the Wolf'') which were in the public domain in the US due to national ineligibility at the time.
Mechanically, America could convert to a unitary state with a Constitutional amendment. Practically, very few want that. American states individually command resources on the scale of rich nations.
Agree finding browsers can be tricky, but the node Chrome-launcher package has a fairly good approach that you can patch and extend to the other vendors.

In graderjs i solve this by searching for the installed browser, and then prompting the user to download it —obviously just the first time! — if we couldn’t find it. so the download and install happens as part of the application start up process and it’s baked into the framework. I think it’s a nice solution where the application installs any components that might need.

I think another nice solution would be to use playwright because that usually downloads all browsers that you might want and I’m sure that can be customized. playwright is a reliable source and it’ll put them in a location that easy to find.
Language and memes evolve beyond their original intended context, boo.
A legitimate use, in the abstract, is one where a particular individual is willing to have their voice used to say X. The entertainment industry - movies and games - are likely to want this.

But if it's trivial to use somebody's voice to say any arbitrary thing, then it'll be done. Combined with deepfake videos, the result will be the ability to show anyone saying anything, including lies and things they find incredibly objectionable, in a disturbingly realistic way, and more so as time wears on.

The fundamental issue is that we don't live in a rights-respecting world. Making it easy to utter anything in the voice of anyone will lead to many more abuses than legitimate instances.
My most pessimistic outlook is another 9/11 incident close to elections. It's the perfect moment - Americans are pissed with what's happening in the Middle East. They're pissed about their own quality of life and poverty. They're pissed about the poor handling of COVID and lockdowns. America's enemies may use it to provoke American policy to be more isolationist, much like it was pre-Pearl Harbor, because doubling down on the war on terror sounds like a bad idea.

It's also quite common for terrorists/rebels/etc to make moves close to elections because they expect it to be a time when govs are too tied down with campaigning to act decisively.
don't tread on books
They sell an online subscription. Some states consider there to be a nexus if you’re selling to residents in the state. NC doesn’t tax digital software, so that would complicate things, but it wouldn’t be as cut and dry as “we don’t have a physical presence there.” Fighting the government, even if you’re right, is very expensive.
I think a reasonable analogy would be putting TV's playing porn outside of a school and covered them with a cloth and sign that said adults only. What would my liability be then? And I also sell advertising on the side of the tvs?
Don’t want to dismiss your complaint, but I find mine generally is not even that noticeable considering the main function of the Apple TV is playing media on my tv that lights up the whole room. What annoys you about it?
I read the everything trying to determine supported locations. After finding nothing, I decided to install the app. After agreeing to everything and giving permissions, it informed me that only locations within Japan are supported. I’m not surprised, but it would have been nice to have that information somewhere on the website.
I tried to launch a small pagebuilder way back when (before wix and friends) and the only users I had were religious zealots. It was an interesting predicament to be in, but I was shutting it down anyway so I shed no tears when I removed them all.

Interestingly where I live we have no equivelant of "Safe Harbour" laws which prevent a platform for being sued or criminally liable for content posted by users. I became acutely aware of the risk I was taking when fringe interests started showing up. Luckily no criminally fringe users had found the platform yet.

That said, count yourself lucky in America, for such laws enable a whole heap of platforms that get general use but also abused by fringe users as it is very challenging to moderate free platforms.
It is one thing to show ID. It is an other thing to show ID and have the details stored in a database in perpetuity by companies who don’t have huge budgets for data privacy and security.
"porn" is poorly defined and has definitely been used to censor things before that aren't necessarily pornography.

whether or not you agree with the blocking of that sort of content, supporting these sort of restrictions on pornography means supporting a policy that lets the government gate content they deem objectionable behind an id check. i guarantee you there's at least some content out there that you're not going to agree with the government's definition of pornography. or even if you agree with the current government on all their content moderation choices, you might not agree with the next one.
No, it’s everything. Can’t think of anything that wouldn’t count.
Our issues are sponsored results crowd out the first page, strange no name companies crowding out brand names, can’t sort by retailer, or any usefu sort or filter mechanism.

It’s all gamed to have you click on a sponsored result. If you buy from third party better check the condition, terms, and return policy. Oh and it might be fake or previously used.

That said, I still find it useful but only because like someone else said, every other “a to z “ company is worse. That said, Amazon is competitive at price point still but it isn’t where I go to find products organically. I find recommendations elsewhere then comparison shop. Walmart at least you can sort sold by Walmart, BB/Home Depot work fine as well. Amazon has its place but it’s not a good or enlightening experience.
> They can but that isn't what is happening according to the article.

I'm aware, but I don't see how that's relevant to these comments. Someone proposed a system to help with this problem (requiring a fee to file a takedown), and now we're discussing the issues with such a system. Those issues extend beyond the cases discussed in the article.
Medium-sized quibble; an individual working 2000 hour years is actually spending about 22.8% of their time working. If you subtract out 8 hours per day for sleep, they spend about 34% of their waking hours on work. These are, of course, overestimates, as the young and the elderly often do not work.
I don't think we're saying the same thing, but rather speaking past each other. I think I need to dissect these two parts of your original comment:

> What worries me is California refuses to raise property taxes

Sure, if you're trying to increase taxes somehow, then the proposal in your reply could be one way to do it, and it sounds less painful than increasing everybody's property taxes. That logic isn't what I have issues with, since you're just comparing different ways to do property taxes regarding primary residences. (This isn't to say I agree or disagree with it.)

> Raise property taxes because without it, your income tax will have no upper bound.

This is the part I took issue with. It appeared you were trying to motivate property tax increases by arguing income taxes are an obviously worse way to make up for them, but... why? I didn't understand the logic behind that, and that's what I was asking about. If I'm a policymaker trying to choose between increasing income and property taxes, why should I choose property taxes to be the one to increase?
Nothing that can’t be resolved with a soldering iron and a screwdriver
Double sided tape. Cats hate it.
That's covered on page 8 of the field manual [0]. Most of the words are real, some are not, and those are called out specially. Also, there are rules for ignoring letters. Generally, the journalism glosses over much of the detail.

https://books.google.com/books?id=vICPCHgtPtkC&newbks=0&pg=P...
This is true but I do wonder if this is where the interesting part of the question around platforms lies. Dark stuff aside, reddit has a lot of porn period. If challenged, I wonder if they would be able to compromise by introducing an age-verification requirement for specific subreddits. Since otherwise it seems like they'd either have to just outright block traffic from places with similar laws or go the imgur route and attempt some kind of content purge if they wanted to avoid id-ing people.
Some people do enjoy work, find meaning in it, and strive to have successful careers. Does a world without work still provide opportunities for people who want to work? Does it allow people to advance their wealth and social status?
> Most adults consume pornography, and for the vast majority of them it isn't a problem.

Got a source for this? Because everything I look at suggests that much like alcohol, a relatively small number of habitual users account for the vast majority of consumption.
As a father, I also wish recruiters will understand when I tell them that I work in odd and random hours because of my kid. I always get that "oh?" response. I get meaningful uninterrupted coding only when my kid takes a nap or sleeping.
Results: https://kagi.com/search?q=download+youtube+videos&r=au&sh=Ow...

First one is https://wave.video/convert/youtube-to-mp4-355 It downloaded the first video just fine.
What is 'txr'? The script requires it to run the modules.
Based on the growth of some "romance boutiques," who seem to be able to open chain stores anywhere, the liability is nil.
> Sims don't really teach how to make good landings because you don't feel how hard the landing was.

There are clear indicators for how hard the landing was. It would be a terrible sim otherwise. It's clear your experience with sims is extremely limited.
I read 3 books at a time.

Great fiction for bedtime and leisure.

A nonfiction book I expect to invest significant time with to learn something.

And an audiobook nonfiction or fiction book that is engaging but fits
into my brain while commuting.

I think it helps to switch between the different types.
What does GP mean? I keep seeing this crop up. I'm used to seeing OP for Original Poster
It’s on the front page underneath the headline.

“Delivering the most appropriate information at the fastest level in Japan”
I expect that has to do with the properties of the human eye, and the fact that the lumen is defined in terms of those properties. I doubt white LEDs are significantly more efficient than any other color in terms of EM flux per watt, but a relatively large proportion of those emissions are at wavelengths to which the retina is sensitive.
I’m working on this, but our approach is to make purely solar powered machines (no batteries even, just supercapacitors) and redesign the farming process to be less energy intensive. This won’t be a drop in replacement for current conventional farms which rely on a lot of energy intense tillage, but it does seem to me a viable path long term.

https://community.twistedfields.com/t/join-the-solar-farming...
When I look at it from the perspective of having to work since 18 to 69 (which is when I can retire in my country), that's 51 years that I have to plan everything _around_ the fact that I spend the daytime of most weeks from mon-fri working. That I have to squeese whatever hobbies I have, whatever friends and family I'd like to spend time with into the little space in a weekend or the few hours I have after work, and suddenly it no longer feels like I only spend 22.8% of my time working.
Carbon is Facebook.
Wow, this moronic bill passed nearly unanimously. It's nice to see bipartisanship on display in North Carolina when it comes to the stupidest ideas.

> Any commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall...

That's a ridiculously vague standard. Google and Bing both distribute material harmful to minors in "substantial" quantities...

I hope it gets thrown out on judicial overview.
I always thought the problem was with me, but increasingly I observe that the people around me also hate the world of work, the politics at work, the greed, the falsehood, and the bullshitting.

The holiday season is so nice for gathering family and people who will soon move to another plane, but we have a limited time to enjoy all this because of a foolish convention that was invented where we must keep the gears turning 9-5.

It's a shame we didn't know how to appreciate the gift of life as we could have.
Is it fair to call something an introduction if it uses math from an upper division undergrad math criteria? Such as metric theory. My opinion is that it is context driven. E.g. Introduction to Differential Geometry or Introduction to Homotopy Theory. But I think you can't look at the title and infer prerequisites that are within the ballpark. I'd wager most people outside math and some physics students are familiar with Galerkin methods (maybe a handful of engineers) at the undergraduate level. I don't think most outside math and physics even learn PDEs (my engineering friends mostly didn't and my uni's CS program doesn't even require DE).
Along with MIPS. The significance of which is that it led to a lot of network gear using one of these 3 architectures. Now most network data planes are in ASIC and increasingly these BE ISAs are being supplanted by ARM but for a long time it held out as a bastion for PPC in particular.
They allow kids to go in?
Interesting: this looks heavily inspired by Go, but it supports things like sum types
(the lack of support of which is one of my biggest gripes with Go).
Interestingly, some of those moves by the EU (like the GDPR) are widely popular with citizens around the world, to the point where some US jurisdictions have been working on their own copies.

So perhaps there is worthwhile innovation happening in the EU after all?
I'm japanese.TBH for a long time i had thought this was a parody account.
Around the time of 2011 3.11 earthquake, the NERV Twitter account(the origin of this app) gained popularity and reputation as a reliable source of information in the social media space (At that time government official information provided on Twitter was extremely little).

I guess a part of the reason of its popularity today belongs to otaku culture on the Internet that was a good fit for this kind of anime-origin stuff.
Plus the company that runs NERV is owned by Sakura-Internet, which is one of the biggest computer infra business, and is believed to provide a reliable system at time of emergency.