skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DDoS attacks don't just hurt the target of the attack. If any link on the path to the target is overwhelmed by the attack traffic, all users of that link are affected. Large attacks are hundreds of Gbps - a datacenter with 100Gbps of internet connectivity would be effectively offline. A datacenter with that much connectivity will likely host more than one site.

I know you aren't advocating that other sites be taken down, but that is the effect of allowing DDoS against a site. Perhaps you don't mind collateral damage but it should be acknowledged as a consequence of your suggestion.
Some users of KiwiFarms may have the agenda of wanting to drive people to commit suicide, you seem to be accusing the website as a whole of a) having an agenda and b) that agenda being to drive people to kill themselves

What evidence is there for this? I haven't kept up with the website recently, is Null telling people to harass people to death?
Well, maybe this site will help:

ddosforhire.net

They're a lovely recommendation/review site that lists a few dozen DDoS-for-hire sites. Take a random look at who hosts the individual sites' DNS.

Their business is fundamentally a shake-down racket, disguised as a free-speech defender.
Well, if you crop the image you are more likely to end up with an exact copy of prior work.

Similarly, Copilot can be seen to reproduce 'snippets of code' but would probably struggle with a full application.

The images generated from these AI models are not transformative. In fact they are not even generating art, they are only generating pictures.
They're right you know, report them to the authorities. Not to an entity like Cloudflare.
> India is neither aligned nor allied with the US. They share interests

Which is pretty much what I said, no?

> particularly when it comes to containing China. But again India's interests on this have nothing to do with being a democracy or with China not being a democracy.

But... it is. India can trust the US, to be blunt, not to shit in the bed of international commerce and trade. India can trust, on balance[1], that if it provides valuable exports that the US will consume them and that if the US has a product on the market India will be able to buy it. India can not trust China or Russia to operate in the same kind of good-faith/mutual-interest paradigm.

And the reason is that the US government is constrained by its populace, who don't like it when stuff gets expensive. Putin and Xi are not so constrained (to different extents, Putin is far more of a rogue actor), and are free to take actions in direct contravention of international norms if they think it's in their "long term" best interests. Democracies can't do that.

[1] Yes, there are always exceptions. But they don't involve "lemme just outlaw all your products and invade my neighbor, 'K?"
> https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio

Plenty of asian / artists / styles on the datasets no?
This is a failure across many journalists; the inability to view what they're involved with objectively. The amount of scrutiny applied to a source is inversely proportional with how much I want to believe the source.
Lemme guess, you're German. EDIT: comment history talks of "pro-nuclear crowd" and shows arrogant and dismissive behavior. German for sure.
Based in Cambridge and would consider travelling down for the occasional meetup - but would really appreciate some of the events being virtual if possible?
Yep. I'd also be interested at least in A/B-ing this against current motion interpolation methods used in televisions. Does it perform perceptually better in blind viewer tests? Does it get rid of the soap opera effect? Does it have its own flavor of "something's off about this video"? All questions I'd love to see answered.
What's your source on the SWAT-ing + death threats originating from Kiwi Farms?

My understanding of that website is that it is moderated based on the philosophy of "look, don't touch". Your statement runs contrary to this...
Indeed, the nice thing is power use grows quickly with clock, so even something like 5GHz vs 5.5GHz can allow a chip to run a fair bit cooler, and since there's various bottlenecks like memory latency that the performance difference will be less than 10%.
join online communities at random and learn why people think they way they do. Particularly seek out those communities whose opinions puzzle you.
The fact that you can do something that you are not authorized to do doesn't mitigate the fact that you don't have consent to do so. Just because we expect criminals to break the internet without consent doesn't mean everyone is morally absolved to do the same.
Is it really props when you're being sued nearly half a million in damages to continue hosting the articles?

If he wanted to take down the articles because he felt he was wrong, he had months to do so.

He gets zero props from me for only taking down the articles after being sued.
"Unlock a few billion"? Whose few billion? They're going to want you to prove the return on investment before they're willing. And even then they may not, if they think there's a greater return on investment somewhere else.

I'm slightly familiar with one project: Adding a third main track from Needles to Barstow, California. Two years ago (I think it was, might have been three) I found a very preliminary survey crew at Ash Hill. They were just establishing the... baseline points, maybe? The fixed locations from which the surveying is done.

Now it's two or three years later, and construction has reached (or so I hear) from Needles to Ibis, which is maybe 1/10th of the distance.

These things happen over years, not over weeks, even with a billion dollars.
They hired like crazy during Covid.
> Which seems nonsensical considering their readership is strongly correlated with the subset of Americans who think we should do things like Western Europe.

In a somewhat myopic way. Social security is great, but laïcité is bad. Scandinavians can do nothing bad, but the rest of Europe is a big mess. Free speech (as it is seen in the US) is a fundamental right, but not for those who criticise organised religion (like those European blasphemers).

Reports of anything in places like Germany, France, Spain, or Italy is always ambivalent.

From my experience this reflects the majority point of view in American liberals.
Never thought I'd see the Left trying to weaponize corporations to suppress speech they dislike.

It is a terrible fact of human psychology that being abused in a particular manner make you much more likely to abuse others in the same manner, not less.
What should he do going forward?
> But legally your friend has no legs to stand on.

My friend is just upset.

Legally he has every right in the World, he's the author for Christ Sake!

Will he try anything?

Of course not.

Are you okay with this?

Well, then you should reconsider your values.

> People do "like copies" of works all the time,

If those copies are authorized, I don't see the problem.

Try to recreate a Star Wars image and sell it on the Internet.

See what happens.

> Unless your friend thinks the AI is copying snippets of his work into generated images

Would you bet your life on the fact that it doesn't?

You know why we Europeans came up with the GDPR?

Yes, exactly, because processing of the data, automatic or not, must be authorized by the holder of the rights on that data.

We are not talking about artistic expression here, I'm not sure where you are getting this idea from, this is not inspiration or art or human expression, this is simply data processing leading to algorithmic replica of other people's works.

Without people's work, no model could replicate it.

Impressive, still completely dependent on some kind of source material, that they scraped, they haven't produced it by themselves.

There will be a day when people like you will realize that appropriation is not right.

Books are different, most of the works models are trained on are in the public domain, Shakespeare is public Domain, nobody will ever contest that, but if you think a living author has no right to have a say before someone process their work, you're the one with crazy ideas.
Climate and plastic pollution are the problems of our time.

I see progress made towards number 1, no progress towards number 2.
This guy makes jokes immediately after listing Russian war crimes. Not a sympathetic gentleman indeed.
Sure, MAD helped. As did all those wars in Korea, Vieynam and Afghanistan (there was one involving Russia way beforw the US went there, based on the ignorance of history in this thread I thought it makes sense to add). More than one thing can be true at the same time, especially in a complex world
Only when it makes them more money than claiming to be a “bastion of free speech”.
The entire world didn't have AC just a few decades ago and most people slept fine.

If in less than a century of introducing a tech your body becomes so dependant to it it impairs a critical body function if you don't have it, yes, it's a handicap.
I heard the Punjab has a great irrigation program and that is the reason why they do not suffer floods like Sindh, outside of the usual regionalism are there any constraints in developing similar irrigation and flood control apparatus in Sindh.
Honestly, at peace lol. I don't really care about living.

My primary desire for living atm is keeping my family safe, providing for them, etc. Beyond that, i am living just because i am - and i enjoy life as much as i don't want to _not_ enjoy time i'm here anyway.
> I think it's obvious he's going to do something to avoid this happening again but also I highly doubt anything would be disclosed publicly about this. This isn't exactly a guy with a track record of not learning.

Sure, but part of a "mea culpa" is saying what's important to be said. Otherwise why say anything at all? Maybe he doesn't get it? Maybe he sees the facts differently?

Generally I agree with you, and think he's a smart guy who is likely aware of this. But by not touching on those lessons, he only weakens his message.
> there will be little reason for me to copy someone else’s work

Can I interest you in some recently discovered DaVinci paintings? 10% off when you buy 2 or more.
There used to be a rule in journalism: one source is no source.
This is a cycle. Some day, fascists will attack Cloudflare for protecting a site that hosts e.g. the home addresses of supreme court judges that ruled in favour of reducing civil liberties. Everyone criticising Cloudflare now had better remember it when the time comes and they realise that they don't actually care about frameworks and values, only about winning.
Isn't the issue more with how we implemented IP than BGP? AFAIK, DDoS attacks would be far less effective if every ISP implemented BCP 38.
Yes it seems like the path of 'medically supervised biological optimization' is underutilized here. Clearly more ethical than 'secretly and unevenly distributed self managed biohacking'
The problem is that every democratic government is ultimately based on the idea to give some people enough power so they can govern, but not so much that they cannot be removed from power again.

That balance is not something that would remain uninfluenced by giving the executive the power to surveil the population that brings a government into power.
The US and its allies did that damage to themselves by doing the things detailed in Snowden's leaks. Snowden is not a traitor because he swore an oath to protect and defend the constitution, and he did just that by leaking. If anyone is a traitor, it's the people who gave and followed unconstitutional orders.
This is Hackernews. The cure is fasting. Whatever disease you have, the cure is fasting.
Yes, it has many end runs that lead to the high 60's in multiple junction systems.
Add $$ = works in orbit. A good outline is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limi...
I would be too. Millions of dollars where lost because he was a unwitting accomplice to a extortion scheme.

But lowering the bar to say "I'm sorry" when someone is obv incorrect is still a good thing.
Barreleye – Fish with a Transparent Head
Where I live, elderly people who are used to not having AC (esp. from the time when intense heat was rarer here) often do not appreciate the importance of keeping their own climate controlled. It isn't actually always easy to tell when you're causing already-impaired organs a lot of stress. A lot of the heat-induced deaths occur as "sudden" heart attacks or strokes.

I think you and I agree that for e.g. a young healthy person it's bad and wasteful to keep the same temperature control. However, the comment to which I responded doesn't have the disclaimers you've added; it contributes to a "people should be able to tough it out" narrative that we shouldn't perpetuate when in reality, people are dying unnecessarily.
I'm sorry if this hurts your beliefs, but in what way are aggregated and anonymized data exploitative? Every "offline" store does it. How do you expect businesses to make profits if they can't look at what drives their revenue without bothering every single customer with consent requests?
Having grown up driving tractors with hundreds of horsepower, it's not that. These projects are neat, but they are backyard gardening toys. If you wanted to build a tractor that competed, you could start perfectly fine with something big. You would need the kind of machine tools that many farmers have to repair their own equipment and the capital to build something big, but most of what you would need that a person of decent skill couldn't do themselves is available off the shelf.

Someone could disrupt with a small scale competitor, but the place to start wouldn't look like a go-kart, it would look like this [1] 50-150 HP range, probably without a cab, with appropriate standard hitches, hydraulics, PTO, etc. You could learn lessons and scale from there. The couple of open source farming tractor things I've seen have been cute, but just not anything like what would actually compete, and there's no reason not to start with something that at least is in range.

1. https://www.caseih.com/northamerica/en-us/products/tractors/...
Italy in Talks to Sell ITA Airways to Delta, Air France-KLM and US Fund
I think you misunderstood my meaning - it was a direct response to the question of “what are you doing to xyz”. I am trying to make more money to pay for the bills.

Being in Eastern Europe myself I would comment that families support each other with this. No reason to call our homes “commie blocks” and “shacks”
I think as the system is getting more crowded, people are giving up waiting.

Is the system removing the queued jobs when users close the page?
You need the table before the machine starts, so “current state” is finite but possible states isn’t.

Think a given natural number X is finite Aka 2, a list of all natural numbers is infinite.
> A career typically requires 40 years of job security.

40 years ago was 1980. There's a vanishingly small number of fields that have had continuous job security from 1980-2020 (even ignoring Covid).

You might as well say that careers are over for everyone, and have been for a while.
I have worked at a startup, joined the founding team of a startup, as well as consulted at a VC before. IMHO, I don't feel that it is a pre-requisite to work at one first. Though there are spirits a successful founder needs to have, but "working" at a startup is completely different from "owning" it. The mindset, pressure, things to handle, are at totally different levels for the founder. And that's not necessary being gained/build by working at a startup.
"Invest or sex change" is how my brain initially parsed it, lol. Was your initial reaction the same?
Is Stripe using Stripe?
Hey HN!

"Isn't Stripe Billing doing this?" is one of the most common questions we get at Lago (open-source billing API for product-led SaaS - YC S21).

So we decided to run a simple experiment: try to replicate Stripe Payments's pricing (2.9% + $0.30) using Stripe Billing.

Should be pretty straightforward, right?

Here's the in-depth analysis: https://www.getlago.com/blog/is-stripe-using-stripe

TL;DR: Stripe probably doesn't use Stripe Billing to bill its own customers, or there must be a lot of custom development involved.

Curious to hear about other limitations you ran into when using Stripe Billing, especially if you're building a B2B SaaS company.

Note: We love Stripe (and partner with Stripe Payments) and we'd use Stripe Billing if we were an e-commerce or B2C company. This post aims at explaining, with factual examples, the problem Lago is solving for.
I think there have also been cases where celebrities or politicians have hired fake "fans" (basically actors) to show up to their appearances and make them appear more famous then they actually are.
Sure, and that will be done, including installation, for 80 million people before Christmas. 2022 that is. Or how much do you think such a transition will take?
The answer is lock-in. Once someone has spent $100s on some hardware that only works with your network it’s less likely they’ll switch.

Also control of the market. Some people said Google was insane to buy Android when they did but now they’re one of two players in the smartphone market. Meta would dearly, dearly like to have that kind of control (hence, IMO, the oversize focus on the metaverse)
I find it quite amazing how much commentary gets based on "Yes, this happened in two years. Now let's assume nothing changes hereafter."
Really disappointed to learn that Cloudflare contributes disproportionately to hate speech and misinformation

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19292/1906...

Seems like KF is not an isolated incident but a trend which has been established for some years now
A shame, feel bad for Kyle and his family. I don't think the Navy or SEAL command should be at fault for this, though. Kyle made the decision to take the drug, and he did so (presumably) illicitly and in secret. The nature of special operations units is demanding and grueling, and the selection processes should always endeavor to mirror that intensity.

Special operations units will always attract people literally willing to die to get in or before they lose what they perceive to be a competition. I would know, as I was one of these people. I was with the 75th Ranger Regiment (2/75) for five years. The selection program at the time, Ranger Indoctrination Program ("RIP", now known as "RASP" these days), was basically a month-long PT-until-exhaustion hazefest. The first run we did on the first day of RIP in July Georgia heat was a 5+-mile run at a sprinting pace, and five people fell out due to heat exhaustion alone and were removed from the course. I was on the cusp of heat exhaustion, probably actually got it. But I wasn't going to quit - I literally committed myself to die before that happened. If I had a pulse, I was going to be a Ranger no matter what. This same attitude and a similar hot weather incident would nearly kill me almost a year later in Florida phase in Ranger school. I was a no-shit heat casualty, and I blacked out for a few hours. When I came to, I was told I was hyper aggressive with people, couldn't stand on my feet and was stumbling around, I cut holes into my uniform with my Gerber knife, and a Ranger Instructor forced me to submerge myself completely in a nearby stream. Nothing formally came of it, I graduated Ranger School, and always (and still do today) have to take special care of myself when it's hot. Running or hiking when it's 85+ degrees Fahrenheit outside is a nonstarter for me, and dizzy spells creep up pretty quick.

Not saying this to brag. This complete disregard for one's health to complete the mission and/or find glory is a common thread in special operations units. Jeff Struecker, a Ranger legend who was key player in the infamous "Black Hawk Down" incident in Somalia, recently said outright the Ranger mission is a suicide mission[1]. I was appalled when I first heard him say it so bluntly, but after some thought I think this is an accurate statement.

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/company/legends-of-the-75th/videos/...
Snap cuts 20% of staff amid major restructuring
I used to be me worried until I realized about the out of pocket maximum. But I'm still not sure how it works in practice. Are there ways that hospitals could charge for things that are considered separate from that number, like out of network or not covered things in the insurance plan? There always seem to be extra charges from what the health plans advertise, so I hesitate to trust their out of pocket maximum too.
Do you have a personal comment on the long and scary list of side effects it causes?
I can't tell if you're still a student at the big school, but if you are I would definitely prioritize building local friendships and maintaining them above meeting new people on the Internet. It sounds like the locals are pretty smart and would challenge you intellectually the way you'd like.
Sounds like a job for machine learning.

"Just" need a decent simulation of how that works, first!
Like the low caste tribals and Muslims held in Indias Goalpara concentration camp, they apparently have no homeland - as per Indian right wing media.
Is NMD related to NAD+?
How robust is that against server-side storage of user data?
Your startup should absolutely not be doing DNSSEC; virtually nobody does this, most especially at successful startups with security teams. This is a good example of why a good checklist like this would be useful; I wish I had one to offer.
The US has invested staggering amounts of money into work on anti-nuclear lobbying in France, a country which wanted an independant Europe on civilian and military nuclear. Hallstein, a former personnality of the nazi party ironically contributed to the European energetic dependence to the USA and Russia notably.

[0] https://livre.fnac.com/a2917645/Vincent-Nouzille-Les-dossier...
They have power over themselves and their actions, they have little or no power or real influence in the country. They're certainly not making it in any way fascist. In fact the only reason they have any standing at all is due to the Russian aggression, if the Russian's hadn't invaded Azov would be truly irrelevant.
Question for the Colab team:

The restrictions listed at https://research.google.com/colaboratory/tos_v3.html differ slightly from the limits listed at https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html specifically tos_v3.html does not mention these items from the faq

* using a remote desktop or SSH
* connecting to remote proxies

I can appreciate why those were added - I've read posts and notebooks explaining how you can use ngrok or cloudflare to do those things in violation of the restrictions in the faq and clearly many people aren't using Colab as intended.

Speaking as someone who has been playing around with the Colab free tier with the expectation of moving to a paid service once I know what I'm really doing, I'd like to know if it's likely these restrictions will be eased a bit with the move to a compute credit system.

I'm still learning and haven't had a need to do those things yet but I believe remote ssh access would greatly simplify managing things. The Jupyter interface and integrated Colab debugger are good for experimenting but I'm worried that as I get closer to production I'll need a way to observe and change the state of long-running Colab processes the way I could with ssh, ansible or other existing tooling.

Clearly I can build that myself or use something like Anvil Works https://anvil.works but that's time and effort I'd rather avoid if possible. So I'm hoping that the Colab team will ease the SSH restriction for people like me who want to use it for more traditional ops/monitoring of long running tasks.

Do you anticipate any change or easing of the SSH restriction?
I seem to remember them having more and more "as seen on TV" gadgets in the aisles as time went on. Weird vibe
I use the Docker one, fully insulates it from my actual machine; it's OSS, but there's a lot of code and downloading a bunch of models, packages and tools at build / run time so better safe than sorry.