skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? You know nothing of my views on HRT availability and created a massive straw man. Bobposting and Keffals both brag about how many young people they’ve gotten on HRT; this information is logged on Keffals’ thread and she started her rampage against KF when this archiving happened - well before any supposed bomb threat or harassment.

I have absolutely zero issues with trans people and support affirmation. I don’t like non-doctors/non-professionals, streamers who are essentially entertainers, telling kids how to medically change their body (without parental input) and then connecting them to sources that are of extremely dubious quality (bathtub HRT). I don’t think that’s a ridiculous stance.
Does it need to be active? It's done and it works.

It's not written in an highly unstable language. The safety of every bridge you drive over was probably partially validated using fortran numerical code from the 1980s.
Thirty years ago I asked a famous computer scientist at what age to they peak. He answered that we don't know as the field is too young and few have yet "peaked".
The latest revision of the Chevy Bolt is getting strong reviews in the cheaper end of the EV car segment. It may be the best around today in fact if you listen to Sandy Munro, a former Ford engineer that now does teardowns and provides consulting services to industry players.

The F150 Lightning is currently indeed very special but it's a limited window of glory. Got to hand it to them for being first alongside Rivian. I'm largely looking at Toyota and possibly GM myself for my next couple vehicles. Toyota for obvious reasons. GM has Super Cruise, which in my opinion is better autonomous driving tech than what Tesla has. Companies are just charging more than I want to spend for the top autonomous driving tech. If I were an old timer with retirement money, I'd already have a vehicle with it.

To your original question though, it won't be cheap, but a Silverado EV will offer a High Country trim with Super Cruise. It'll be a nice product.

And while quality at GM and Ford has been lacking, and still is compared to Toyota, the EV era is granting them a chance at a big reset. Where they failed in the internal combustion era, they could salvage their reputation with this clean slate. They're just simpler vehicles so less for their bean counting ways and shoddy manufacturing to screw up. Super Cruise has me optimistic for GM as those are the type of things that will be key differentiators going forward.
It sounds easy to say “shut down agribusiness,” but then you have a food problem.

I don’t know to what extent, but I can’t take “cut off ag” solutions seriously unless they can articulate the impact of the cut-off on food supplies and present alternatives for more efficient crops.
> Encourage you when these issues arise to think of them in the rule of law context, rather than free speech

That's a clever way of spinning the issue. But no amount of spinning can change the fact that you are clearly using doublespeak. Contrary to what you say in the post, this clearly isn't in the spirit of the policy you had promised [1], or even had advertised just a few days ago. [2]

You are mostly just giving in to pressure. I can't blame you for that, given that I have to use a pseudonym here myself.

Otherwise, if this was just a matter of different principles, you would also kick out media websites who regularly dox people, or publish dumps of hacked websites, etc.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/cloudflares-ceo-...

[2]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-a...
If it’s untracked entirely it’s garbage and rather shocking a company would release it.
Probably some kind of handshake?
Yes, the evidence for a causal link in swatting is weaker, but evidence exists: discussion of swatting on the site, proximal links in time between people being doxxed and being swatted, etc.

And then we have screenshots of them figuring out her hotel room immediately after the swatting and engaging in harassment.

There's plenty of evidence for the site being used to coordinate unlawful harassment, and moderate evidence for them being used in highly dangerous harassment (e.g. swatting).

I think you're engaging in motivated reasoning. It's like if someone is known through extensive evidence to have assaulted others 100x, and there's moderate quality evidence they murdered someone-- arguing that they shouldn't be in jail because you personally don't find the murder evidence convincing enough. OK, um, we disagree about the murder thing, but what about all the other crimes?
I agree with everything you wrote. Protesting at someone's home is still not the same thing as SWATing them, and I think you know that.
I don’t care if they’ve been terrorized what I’m saying is I don’t want people faking suicides as the next attention grabbing strategy, and as a way to wrongfully throw blood on other people’s hands. Just do not cross that line. Deaths are one of the few things that people still somewhat respect online.
Yes, this is pretty much limited to English videos in my experience.
The only practice that I've found to be reliably agile is simply having more one-on-one meetings and less large group meetings. Large group meetings tend to waste time for at least some of the people in the group. Often, if you get 8 people together, most of the conversation is between 3 or 4 of those people, while the other 4 or 5 are bored and disengaged. One on one meetings tend to be productive since the meeting would not happen unless one of those people needed to talk to the other person, so 100% of the people in attendance are needed in that meeting. (I'm excluding those companies that have mandatory one-on-one meetings, where the mandatory nature of the meeting sometimes makes the meeting as useless as a large group meeting.)

I've known managers who say "Group meetings are great because I get to meet with everyone at once and it saves me so much time!" But that only benefits the manager. Meanwhile some of the people in the meeting are just sitting there, killing time, bored, waiting for the manager to have 10 minutes to talk to them. By contrast, more one-on-one meetings, even if only for 10 minutes, allows everyone to be involved during the moments when they need to be involved.

When we criticize some of the rituals and bureaucracy that has become associated with the word "agile" most of the time we are criticizing group meetings. That includes the daily standup. I've run teams successfully by having quick one-on-one 10 minute meetings with everyone on my team, everyday. But I rarely feel the need to get the whole team together. In fact, when I'm leading a large team, I never need to get the whole team together, it is always some smaller subset that I pull together.

If you are the team leader, then you need to think carefully about who you need to talk to for any given purpose. If you have the discipline to only talk to the minimum set of people you need to talk to, then you are freeing up a lot of people to keep working on their real work, since they are not in a meeting with you.
I’ve noticed a lot more Dungeons and Dragons with platform teams, a lot more use of “bro” in product teams.
If they're so worried about FOSTA, it seems bad for their Head of Sales to offer services to an escort directory, no?
One has to wonder if it’s intentional.
> Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives. If positive engineering is taken to mean the day-to-day work that engineers do to deliver productive, expected outcomes, then negative engineering is the insurance that protects those outcomes by defending them from an infinity of possible failures.

Interesting creation of an "improper noun" (to borrow a phrase from a HN post from a couple days ago).
The larger the company, the more bureaucratic it is, and also the more siloed individual divisions are.
I used one of the more modern Pick variants (D3) at job during the first internet bubble. It did support a SQL query syntax, which I think makes it distinct from MVS et all. In any case its much lauded nesting feature in practice just ends up being a different way to do joins, and not particularly superior as I recall.
It's entirely okay to bully people who've made billions atop open and open source software into contributing back to the community.

Especially when you can make the case that doing so will help their bottom line and legal footing.
What people get wrong about America’s burnout problem - mandate for happiness
Nothing new for KF. What is new is the attention is now on Cloudflare
so 1 low level engineer at Cloudflare also knew weev?

Cochran passed away 4.5 years ago
https://facebook.com/events/defremery-skatepark/jaime-cochra...
Fun fact: Joplin log files include plaintext secret keys when you enable E2EE. I moved away from Joplin after that plus a data loss incident where Joplin decided that it wanted to delete all of my notes in the repository. Too many foot guns there! I did like the software though.
>Microsoft was taken by surprise by the “BYO movement”

They did still eventually address the root cause with WSL/WSL2.
No, it turns out Cochran was not the insider ally Weev claimed - although "i'm a nazi" Cochran took over from Weev as the public-facing president of GNAA (Gay N*** Association of America) while also blogging at Cloudflare as an employee, it's a different Cloudflare employee who is allegedly the Stormfront insider.
> But they are trying very hard to not become the arbiters of what is terrible and what isn't terrible

I don't think so. "Trying very hard" would entail doing the actually hard thing which is to continue to provide service to the controversial website. That's the only action that would allow them to stay true to the principles they claim to believe in.

Censoring kiwifarms is the easy way out. It reveals exactly what Cloudflare has become: arbiters of which sites are allowed to stay up on the internet.
What's more likely:

That this user has compromised the backend of HN via some exploit in order to make a couple of posts?

or

They are the type of person who regularly deletes their old posts?

Because I see the latter on reddit, twitter, etc, all the time, while the former has serious security implications for every user on HN.
'Discriminating Data' by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is a really interesting read about the impact and influence of the eugenic origins of statistics to new fields like network and data science too. Highly recommended.
It's simple: go woke and go broke; and the joke's on them because this season cost them nearly $1bn.
CMU 15-799: Self-Driving Database Management Systems
Very interesting and instructive course from Pavlo / CMU on self-driving (ML optimized) database systems.

A motivational essay attached to lecture 1: "On Machine Learning Agents for Autonomous Database Management Systems"

- https://15799.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2022/papers/01-backgr...
A subtlety of point 2 is that not all products or services benefit from multiple deploys per day. If each deploy creates work or risk for the customer, then beyond some point, frequent deploys may be harmful. Your customers may have more valuable things to do than consume or help QA the latest increment of your offering.

Separately from deployments, in some less-than-ideally run organisations, management may whimsically change its mind about what the number one priority is from day to day. Two-week sprints can shield the delivery team from this, by acting as some kind of low-pass filter on thrashing priorities, to create space to get a few things entirely done.
It sounds like you were in a meeting discussing how to set up a separate organization and your suggestion was to give the work to people who are doing a poor job already and then you are hoping that they'll suddenly stop failing if you give them access to private company details, work projects, even research. I think the mindset in these parts of Europe is that the companies are where you do real work and anyone who is actually good will find their way into a company anyway. Everyone who attends these universities knows that they are bad, it would not be a shock. They are there not because of the university but because of their own work ethic.
Whoa I will definitely check it out tomorrow. Thanks for sharing!
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32693134
I mostly agree on this - my extension to #3 is that estimates are fine as long as when you inevitably sometimes miss your estimate, you're not held to the fire for not being a fortune teller and asked why you didn't get it done last month.

I'm also not sure I agree on your take on Sprints. In my mind, the value of sprints is that they provide a barrier where you should be able to go "we already loaded all our work for the next 2 weeks. If you want something done, we'll start it in N days." Done right, sprints are your defense against "can't we just do this thing".
If you don’t want a computer on wheels, you don’t want a German car, you want a second hand Toyota Corolla.

We had an Audi Q5 first and a Tesla second. My wife and I fight over who gets to drive the Tesla.

With a modern German car, you still get some the fancy features, but they don’t work very well (lane control comes to mind), and the electronic UI is much worse than Tesla. CarPlay is the only way out.

And let’s not even talk about the difference in driving fun.
I'd ideally like to be able to quit when an employer starts hiring criminals, and get the full compensation package, as if I'd been laid off, and the freedom to tell the truth about it in interviews.
I have been using 4u server chassis for my last few builds, great airflow, built well, lots of space, and not designed for a 12 year old, they are pretty great.

The only problem is that it really illustrates how desktop class motherboards are 90 degrees out of phase with regards to airflow.
To be clear, nothing I say is any sort of endorsement of Kiwifarms. Cloudflare is a business so it’s Machiavellian. Kiwifarms is… I don’t even know what Kiwifarms is. Something worse.

But you shouldn’t trust (meaning the way you’d trust a person you know) any business. Especially not well run businesses! They’re not people— and the better run they are, the more Machiavellian.
You may find Event-Triggered and Time-Triggered Control Paradigms by Roman Obermaisser useful (though focused on embedded systems).
> And I have no interest in screencapping a zillion messages over years of having been an internet degenerate to try and prove to you that some non-zero amount of it exists, via a tit-for-tat conversation on what's fake, what's an isolated instance, what's a false equivalence blah blah blah. It's tiresome

But... you brought it up. We're here discussing KiwiFarms, a site with a long and documented history of violent behavior and extremist rhetoric. And you invoked the idea of "extremism on both sides" as part of an argument for something about censorship. And the clear truth is that there is simply not a similar kind of discourse going on on the left. There isn't.

It's a bunch of hippies being mad about social justice, and occasionally pining for someone to seize the means of production. That's not SWATing, it's not doxxing, it's not harrassment. It's just not.
This is how you charge it. It really is horrible. I love my Mac’s but not this mouse.
> Telephony is a cost center for most companies

This is the key here.

> Since they transfer through a phone number, no data passes so they have no idea who you are

This really depends on the capabilities of the system and the willingness of the company to improve their CX.

For example, short info like customer name, ticket/account/order number, can easily be passed via text-to-speech, through the phone, to the agent on the line, before connecting the customer.
A melting pot devoid of individual culture or expression. It's ridiculous. They forced as many races as they possibly could into the same scenes, representing the "same" peoples to check a box for representation (cheaply) in the most homogeneous way possible, which is half the reason this show is so uninteresting.

It removes the entire concept of having different nations with different people who are proud of their culture and ways of being, each with something unique to bring to the table, say in scenarios of war, uniting together against something evil, trade, customs, and everything else that isolated groups represent on their own.

Globalism isn't even realistic in a setting like Lord of the Rings, yet here we are.
Kiwifarmers can call each other on the phone, stand on a soapbox in a park, print pamphlets and distribute them. They are still free to say whatever they want to whomever they want without fear of a Government throwing them in jail unless they break the law. Anonymous posts simply allow Kiwifarmers to say things they would likely never say to your face. Cloudflare simply chose to not allow their paid for service to support this behavior. Big deal.
I was the Manager of Information Systems at my old company. So, the computer guy who kept the exchange server running, set up workstations, basically the entire IT department.

Our sales people were Senior Account Executives, because nobody would talk to sales people.

Title inflation is real.

My friend Diane's card read "Queen of the Universe" ;-)
How does the content of the images look compared to the same prompt and seed for 512x512? I ask because when I make 768x896 with M1 MAX the resulting image is less coherent, more noisy, and or has repeating subject matter, nothing really usable unlike 512x512.
> This evoked Godwin's law real quick. For a purportedly "Nazi" site, KiwiFarms sure does lack swastikas.

… you do know the holding company for kiwifarms is literally named “final solutions, LLC”, right?

https://mobile.twitter.com/keffals/status/156374856392608973...
I feel like the obsessive listing/ranking of things on the internet has sadly made some people lose confidence in their own opinions. As a super specific example, you almost have to apologize if you admit to liking Dark Souls 2. Before the internet, you could just like what you liked. Every single piece of media didn’t have a canonical analysis and ranking.
inspiring. been coding for 30yrs. feel lucky and proud. think coding is not only learning new language, but learn how the world function, and try to join it.
Yeah this is it -

Unconscious incompetent - you don’t even know how much you don’t know

Consciously incompetent - you have a rough idea of how much you still have to learn

Consciously competent - with willpower and effort you are competent at your job

Unconsciously competent - you are competent at writing code without effort or even thinking about it

Senior engineers (good ones) become unconsciously competent, and forget how difficult it is to write good code - because it’s now automatic!
Just like building a good UX for a website takes skill, so does building a good UX for a call center. I’ve only developed contact flows with newer cloud based call center solutions. But I’ve integrated them with Salesforce so by the time you talk to a human, they can already see all of the relevant information and it automatically pulls up related data.
Can we just skip to the end where the internet breaks into fiefdoms? AOL almost did it in the 90s.
You think that would be a viable option? One half of the country thinks that we don't need to hand over internet in the hands of Gov. The other half wants to abolish SCOTUS. But in spirit, if it works well like the post office, I am onboard with that idea. The other idea would be to pass laws that make what Cloudflare is doing illegal.
This is correct. All of this is just a law enforcement problem.
Whatever do you mean, an imminent threat to life is an imminent threat to life. Say, does Hacker News use Cloudflare?
There’s other successful hardware+software companies (Apple, Tesla) but they have had strong guidance (micromanagement even) from very strong minded leaders. Whereas a company like VW will get a new CEO every few years.

How can you really create deep organizational change without a strong top down leader that understands what needs to get done?
Huge +1 to both

> most software development today doesn't involve a lot of programming. That is sad.

and

> But there is still a ton which really is simply programming.

I think many can work on the latter. Have fun programming simple stuff as a hobby; for this involves a lot of (simple) programming and there's a lot of room here, unlike what the job or industry is after, where it's only plumbing.
>Shit, I'm old.

Congratulations on beating the alternative. 8) The point is, as long as you're still going, you can do whatever you want, build whatever you want, especially in programming. As long as you can input into a computer, you can build things. It's amazing and fun.
> You need to differentiate between the actions of a user/s and the site.

You do realise that KF was started to bully an autistic sonic fan, right? Have you actually been there?
Mu.

The question doesn't respect reality. There can be oligopolies or cartels with numerous participants. There can be sharp competition with only two participants.

Oligopoly (or its demand-side complement, oligopsony), can be defined by economic characteristics, or other criteria.

I'd strongly recommend the work of Joan Robinson on imperfect competition generally. There's also a whole political element to such questions --- economic power is a form of power, and monopoly/monopsony oligopoly/oligopsony both represent different concentrations of such power.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Robinson>
I guess your argument isn't convincing for me. A clerical inaccuracy is not evidence that whole account is false. And if Plato has some propagandish agenda about Athens (which I can totally believe), then that warns us the story may be exaggerated or one-sided---but altogether false?

It sounds like you're saying it's clear from reading the text that the dialogue is manufactured, even through the ancient language / ancient culture barrier. But why does that imply the content is manufactured?

If you told me a story about George Bush telling a remarkable story that was passed down to him orally through every president from George Washington, the only reason I'd suspect you were making it up is because it's inconsistent with the many other sources I was taught from, which don't mention such a thing, and I trust that they are relatively complete with respect to important events. Did Plato's readers have analogous sources? Do we still have them today?
Minors accessing DIY HRT from shady sources over the internet outside of medical supervision doesn't concern you?
They don’t care about threats of violence unless they’re targeted at law enforcement itself or at people they consider important.
Wow, mind blown. Effectively refuting a core principle of the Agile Manifesto, as you have done, calls the entire Manifesto and Agile itself into question.
The difference is you're hiring most other trades-people to do a generally fairly routine bit of work and then be done. A lot of programming is about doing unroutine work that has no clearly defined end-state.

I've been on teams where estimation is easy - you've got years of roughly the same set of devs doing fairly similar feature/bug work on the same code base to look back on and give an educated guess on sizing. Right now I'm on a team that's mostly doing integrations with third-party systems where our skill levels on the team vary between 20 years and 6 months of experience in the field, let alone this team.
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