skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare has always hidden behind this stance as a way to justify doing awful things.

When I worked at Malwarebytes we had regular issues with malware being hosted on Cloudflare. Now I don't mean like "hey download this file so you can learn"- that kind of thing we fully supported. I mean that these files were being explicitly used in drive by exploit attacks- if a user with a vulnerable browser went to the wrong webpage, that webpage would load exploit scripts from the Cloudflare network and then inject the malware.

To me this is a very simple example of abusing a network. It is not a free speech issue, unless you think punching someone in the face is free speech. We proved that this was happening by providing pcap files showing the entire network transaction and the fact that users were not initiating this on purpose.

Their response was to ignore us until we started blocking their end nodes, at which point they came to our forum and straight up lied.

> Unfortunately, the new system is unlikely to resolve the current controversy which is more political than technical in nature. The current controversy involving Malwarebytes blocking CloudFlare IPs is centered around one site. To be clear, this site does not distribute malware itself and visiting it will not infect your computer. It does, however, provide information on how to create malware. Philosophically, we believe there is a difference between distributing malware -- which we will prohibit through our network -- and distributing information about malware. We do not believe our role is to play censor to any information on the Internet, even information we find disturbing. Publishing the Anarchists Cookbook does not make you a terrorist. Blocking sites based on the information they contain, as opposed to the actual harm they do, takes a step down a slippery slope I find deeply troubling.

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/108447-my-site-using-c...

This was a 100% dishonest lie, and it's the same pattern Cloudflare has been following for a decade now. In this case they lied claiming we were blocking educational material, which is something Malwarebytes never did. He said all of this after we sent the pcap files proving that this wasn't an issue with educational sites.

From my perspective Cloudflare has always been willing to hide behind free speech even if it isn't relevant. It's their go to excuse for any bad behavior.
I never said this. I don't know how you can keep misinterpreting it. You can't simplify further because your off on a tangent trying to simplify something that is not the point.

You are already being "politically correct" in your own way. You don't refer to me as an idiot, that's a rule you follow. Thus you are already obeying your own "political rules." If your rules were identical to everyone else's, they they wouldn't be be pissed off and neither would you.

That is what I mean when I'm saying "everyone is politically correct" that's it.
yes yes yes! not only that, the graduation ceremony won’t be as interesting as a casual day at home. What are the kids playing with? what’s on TV? or on the computer screen or phone (that’s going to be vintage in 20 years). Cars on the street and signs on shop or on buses. The dull daily stuff can become super fun to look back on.

source: me looking at family videos from the 90s
I have no picture of me just because of privacy. If you upload a picture to everything social media like today, you lose all right on the picture. Also some funny guy will make a DB with all face pictures, another guy will do some ML stuff and abuse your face picture and so on. No thanks.
40M MAU globally is not head-to-head with Line (which way bigger), Line is also primarily a messaging app like Whatsapp, not sure if that commenter knows what they talking about
It's a little ironic how the field which continuously talks about the importance of communication doesn't understand the basics of communication, and how synchronous communication made them a luxury.

Being cooperative, specific and transparent is really all you need to start with. Even synchronous communication benefits from this.
Apps that are just database front-ends are eventually going to get less and less money. Even I would rather have more "things that are useful" than just another database schema surrounding my email address. Yes there can be room for some iteration of it, but increasingly investors want something more than database + react + app
It sort of does. You can see the fork got damaged mid-span in some of the riding shots. Still there isn't enough strength in places like the fork ends or crown without the concrete.
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> If you are denied service by cloudflare, you can't just go to another cloudflare down the street

... Why not? Fastly, AWS, CDN77, Google, etc all still exist.
Yeah definitely that sentence was taken as a comment on what everyone should be doing. I meant what I’m doing personally. I live in a “commie block” myself and it’s the energy bills that will rise for our building. I don’t have to think about fuel directly.

We are ready to defend - our only weakness are the incompetent people we have elected into power. In a very quiet way they have done nearly everything possible to weaken us strategically.
It seems like they could achieve the same results by pouring concrete around a real bike frame (instead of build a bike frame out of rebar).
Maybe not in its current incarnation but if things keep moving at this pace I wouldn't be surprised if it actually happened. When internet went down I was staring at the screen, subconsciously waiting for something to autocomplete. Only then did I realize how much I actually rely on Copilot, to the point where it's part of my backbone. I felt handicapped and couldn't understand why until I saw the Wifi symbol.
Deep learning technologists != people that write articles about machine learning making various professions obsolete. I don’t think anyone that works with neural networks professionally is drinking the kool-aid. Don’t get me wrong, deep learning is an incredible technology, but not in ways that it’s made out to be in the press. Like a lot of other technologies, it’s real value is in solving really boring problems at a scale. But that doesn’t make for good content so we end up with a bunch of articles about self driving cars and nothing about using deep learning to take something like 3d photogrammetry from “passable for artistic purposes” to “industrially valuable.”
> fixing up my diet + exercise

That’s definitely a complete change in lifestyle. Sorry but not sorry.
I don't want to hear cloudflare's opinions on social matters. If kiwifarms or whatever is doing something illegal, let the law go after them and encourage that.

I don't want to force cloudflare to be a public utility, but it is probably bigger and more dominant than any company needs to be, like many others it should be broken up into smaller pieces.
To be fair, climate change is already "solved" in that we know how to reduce, slow, or possibly even halt it. It's not a matter of figuring out how, it's a matter of getting people to actually care enough to do those things.
I love this idea of extending the canvas to build out the scene. It makes me wonder if anyone's tried using Poe's stories for illustrating with AI? His descriptive writing style seems ideal.
I'm genuinely struggling to see how this answers my question. You continually discuss laws when I made it abundantly clear that because laws are, as you put it, Calvinball they are irrelevant to what should be done.

> CloudFlare (a) is in a position to stop digital protection of Kiwi Farms

So too is Illinois to stop police protection of Nazi activists. I ask again, why SHOULD one organization protect speech and another shouldn't, given our agreement that any specific laws/amendments do not dictate what SHOULD happen?
The front left fork failed. You can see the crack in the video as he is riding. The front fork has a bending moment as well as compressive force. When the bending force was applied the concrete failed and the rebar did not.

Overall, I really liked this as an art project. I'm not sure what the artist wants to communicate with the bike, but I found it very satisfying.
Who decides what's a minority?
Discord servers.
Unlike the other technologies listed, Deep Learning, AI, and to a lesser extent, "partial self driving" exist today, are rapidly advancing, and are producing massive amounts of value. You can play with the AI systems yourself too.

Don't even talk about them in the same sentence as useless shit like the metaverse or blockchain tech.
On the other hand, humans also don't give 100% correct output in anything, either :D
While I think the fear might be overexaggerated, being able to make realistic fake content with such ease means it's harder to know what's true and what's not. Plus this has been the claim of OpenAI from the beginning. It's possible the true objective is to keep it private to leverage for money and this is just their excuse.
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We've just added the first couple of retailers, but are aiming to add as many as possible over the coming months to save time for consumers.

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Absolutely. If my hand brake breaks while I’m not in my car, the neighbor parking behind me will still sue me, not the car manufacturer.
Well, you always get to weigh the effort of rebuilding a toolchain vs working within the existing clunky toolchain. However, I daresay that reimplementing everything that eclipse does for java is no trivial matter and for a day-long project, not worth my effort.

Though not everything can be done with different development tools and AHK is a versatile swiss army knife. It can also do things like hotkey to make any window stay on top, send window resize message to a runaway or disobedient window, or be hotkey window clicks for games. I use it in stormworks to make my own shortcuts to edit / wiring / mirror buttons since they're 54 inches apart, and hopefully this all shows where AHK's versatility shines.
Just a reminder that (lowercase) "free speech" always has a giant fucking asterisk after it. It has never been, and will never be, absolute.

"Freedom of speech and expression, therefore, may not be recognized as being absolute, and common limitations or boundaries to freedom of speech relate to libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, hate speech, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, non-disclosure agreements, the right to privacy, dignity, the right to be forgotten, public security, and perjury. Justifications for such include the harm principle, proposed by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty, which suggests that 'the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others'." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

Additionally, private companies can always throw you off their platform for any reason. No shirt, no shoes, no service.
Illinois is not morally required to protect speech. They are prevented from using government powers to restrict or punish speech.

If counter protestors show up and shout over the Nazis, Illinois is not morally required to silence the counter protestors so the Nazis can speak.

And if Nazis want to gather on private land, Illinois is not morally required to force the private landowner to permit that.

The morality of equality is compromised by the practical execution of law. It’s legal for a cop to pull a gun and force you to the ground; it’s not legal for you to do that to me (or vice versa). So we place constraints on when the government can apply those special powers.
So, websites start banning Californians who can't prove they are over 18?
> Isn't it, though?

Nope. Do we elect the board? Do they charge mandatory taxes in the currency only they can emit and will they have an armed force arest you if you don't pay?

> But this isn't really the case in the modern web because you often don't have alternatives.

Facebook and Google really are a monopoly in the West and that's a problem with must deal with. Cloudflare, thankfully, is far from being a monopoly anywhere but in our tech bubble.
I'm certainly unconvinced that the first part of that statement is true. We've seen self-driving cars run into static obstacles. We still need to deal with emergent behaviour of groups of self-driving cars. There are still unpredictable environmental factors that we rely on humans to work out now.
I think the big issue is that we have bad intuition about what works well with machine learning and what doesn't, leading to both under- and overconfidence at the same time. When I was at university I came across machine learning in medical imaging. The job of radiologists seemed obvious to be a classic machine learning problem that should be easily solved by the upcoming possibilities. In the end other stuff materialized.
Map: Rough sense of U.S. land use
Journalists will sometimes go to great lengths to get a scoop and to make a name for themselves. This passionate desire "break the story" makes many journalists vulnerable. They become easy marks for bad actors who can gain by manipulating them.

There are many examples of this occurring.

Sometimes the manipulation is just designed to make the journalist(s) look stupid as in KTVU's scoop on the names of the Asiana Airlines pilots responsible for the deadly crash at SFO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JYHNX8pdo

Sometimes it's more serious as in the case of Matthew Keys, who went to prison. I suspect he thought he was chasing a story but was too naïve to realize he was being played.
https://www.wired.com/2016/04/journalist-matthew-keys-senten...

Dan Rather's desire to take down former president George W. Bush for all intents and purposes ended his own career by not vetting documents provided to him by a source. His producer Mary Mapes was forced to resign as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_military_servic...

I think we can all learn from these people's mistakes. Our own desires for a particular outcome or to have our personal beliefs confirmed can make us vulnerable to people who might have an incentive to manipulate us. For this reason, it's probably wise to employ a healthy level of skepticism when consuming "news" regardless of how trustworthy we believe the source to be.
Also its quite funny to see OpenAI (with all their researchers and engineers) get disrupted by someone with little to no background (Emad) in AI and ML but who embraced OpenAI's original mission about making AI as open as possible.
There can still be issues. For example, how does the ELO system view previous wins/losses when calculating ELO gain/loss from future wins?

Anecdote: My friends played the first few ranked seasons on my Xbox Overwatch account, they started at Bronze and eventually got to Silver. I decided to pick it up and play ranked with a different friend, we won 9/10 of the placement matches. I got ranked Silver, he got ranked Platinum. A month later, I make a new Overwatch account on PC and rank Platinum with ease.

In these systems, if you gain a lot of skill in a short amount of time, or have bad luck early on in your ranked career, you can be held back in rank gains to the point that you are essentially stuck in place. Creating a new account generally allows you to advance significantly faster through the ranks.
The Netherlands are a rich developed nation. It helps. No monsoon there either.
It's a Major Ongoing Topic (MOT) so we apply the SNI test: if an article contains Significant New Information, then it's probably ok, otherwise we'll tend to downweight it.

We learned this approach the hard way after HN got inundated by topic avalanches in the past (e.g. Snowden in 2013). It works fairly well, but it requires us to see the posts, so if you notice a follow-up submission that isn't singing particularly well for its supper, we'd appreciate a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com so we can downweight it.

Past explanations, if anyone wants more, can be found by scrolling back through these links:

'significant new information' is key when there's a major ongoing topic - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

we tend to downweight follow-ups unless they're particularly good - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

repetition is bad for curiosity - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

diffs are what's interesting - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> It's a platform of services like a government service is typically provisioned.

It's a monopoly funded by taxes obligated to serve everyone?

> While not a democratically elected government, they use governance all the same.

This is meaningless.
The scrambling to stay relevant after Stable Diffusion is very very enjoyable to watch.
By "vocal minority" I mean a small but loud group, the literal definition of minority not the social justice sense of some oppressed group.
You're absolutely right - there are plenty of companies out there targeting POC and claiming to have the best ingredients and dermatologists. Once big differentiator is how we've curated the product line. We are both analytics people by background and actually scraped information from Facebook communities and Reddit threads discussing top skincare issues and product needs for POC. We found that hyperpigmentation was the number one talked about issue for people of color after acne. Next was sunscreen, then ingrown hairs, dark eye circles, deodorant, and hyperpigmentation for the body. By focusing on the actual problems and not just the marketing buzzwords (dermatologists, ingredients that trend well on Google), we've been able to take an unbiased, more scientific approach to product development.
The pleasantries description feels out of alignment with the practice outline as an example. The good message still starts with 'hello', it just doesn't treat it as a statement that requires individual acknowledgement. Which is great, that practice is great, but I think the framing could use some work.

But it also has a special badge so that can communicate to other people that you bundle polite greetings in with the payload of the message, which I think is weird, and is probably a clue that the author and I don't share a cultural context here.
Wow, like when Google shut down Orkut despite it being huge in Brazil and India.
In this case, the drug addicts are people with medical conditions that have been intentionally pushed to abuse their medication by the pharmaceutical company and Google, etc.

The argument is closer to "encouraging and profiting from illegal drug abuse is not 'responsible corporate stewardship'".
Yeah. Good luck stopping that thing with a bit of speed. Notice that in the video he always pedals super slowly.
If anyone finds it useful, I have a Maven plugin that does something similar for Java (Java -> TypeScript)

For anybody that still uses Java. :D

https://github.com/BlueCircleSoftware/bluecircle-json-interf...
This entire 'freedom of speech' absolutism bullshit is so incoherent.

They host and protect a website only dedicated to muzzling people the userbase disagrees with...
I am ready for any climate-freandly solutions like extla-low use of energy. But my diet is meatful and always will be so. Let every people will have his carbon rate as countries use to have according to the Paris agreement.
FLIC animation, now that is a blast from the past!
Cloud is high margin, its just that the battle with Azure and AWS is really bloody
You didn't answer the question. And people only care about shell companies when used to hide true ownership of something else.
Has the last few years popularized that name or has an article gone viral (and been a sponsored ad on the Firefox homepage) for the last couple days attempting to coin that exact phrase.
Great article. Shouldn't have been flagged; I think a few folks pride was hurt.

However, there's a foot-gun in the first paragraph. In the mid-nineties practically no one was using "black and white" monitors. I remember a few ancient DOS test-only stations at a school and a single amber-monochrome hardware terminal (connected to big-iron at work) in that time period. Everything else doing real work was Win3.1 and color Mac by then. Netscape browser had already dropped and was popular; no one was using it in black and white.

This was in California. May be slightly ahead, and I'm not taking developing countries into account. But color was so compelling it was already not-uncommon by the late 80s.
We might be watching a mass disruption of art as a profession.

I think that's worth a few HN posts.
I hold it in such high regard that I have considered the question of whether or not Kiwifarms inhibits free speech.
Yes I understand the function coloring "problem" (oh no functions need to specify in their signature whether they return results immediately or eventually). Regardless, I still don't understand how this prevents green threads a la Project Loom, if you have a function that returns a `CompletableFuture` in Java, it also needs to change its signature.
Hmm, maybe this is a dumb question, but Numpy, Pandas, Scipy, etc are all libraries. Are libraries considered tooling? When I think of tooling, I think of linters, debuggers, IDEs, and so on.

I can definitely see why libraries should be written in faster languages, they are used all over the place. And anyway, something Numpy is most importantly an interface to pre-existing high performance libraries (BLAS, LAPACK) which were already written in faster languages.

I think it is less obvious that a tooling in the second sense should be written in a lower level language. There's the obvious flexibility tradeoff, the fact that a person interested in a linter for a language probably is most familiar with that language.

I'm not familiar with the computational problems in linters. Is getting better CPU performance a huge concern?
Good luck catching me on their intentionally-hard-to-push chair.

Think of the profits from thiw move fast and break things approach! Always be hustling.
Yup. And if your choice is pro-nazi, the rest of us can decide for ourselves what that means about you.

For what it's worth, you can't be just a little bit Nazi.

It's like poop in ice cream: if you have ten tons of ice cream and an ounce of poop, if you mix them together, you've just created ten tons of poop.
What are your favorites?