skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I would prefer is that they have a day in court. Even this twitter thread tries to make the case that these aren't "criminals" effecting the DDoS, but rather they should be viewed as "victims."

I'm entirely uncomfortable with the lack of due process and the easy justifications of vigilantism simply because some people perceive the site in a particular way.
> So when they mark the gsm number onto a ream of A4 sheets, is 80 the gsm of A0 or A4?

It's the same thing, since it's the grams per square meter. A0 is 1sqm by definition, and if you tile A4s until you have 1sqm of it, you get A0 (at least if you double through the small side every time: A4 -> A3 -> A2 -> A1 -> A0)
You're conflating fleet size numbers with the individual. And, an armored division is designed to recover vehicles with their own trucks, while retaining mobility. Military planning is all about %s, e.g. 80% are functional based on a table of equipment (TOE)

> That’s one reasons why tanks, when not in action, get transported on trailers.

While that may be a minor reason, the actual big reasons are the most current M1A2 SEP tanks at ~147,200 pounds destroy roads, convoy operations are a giant pain, tanks are an immense hazard to trucks and cars, and the fuel consumption is off the charts, making this not economical.

> The text even says “significant numbers of failures were recorded during months with zero usage”, indicating that keeping a M1 parked isn’t easy, either.

Zero usage doen't mean that preventitive maintenance checks & services cease. Given that even idling a 1500hp turbine for maintenance is a major undertaking that is a good amount of start/stop and usage of the entire system, even if getting no road time.
How was it determined that the life threats were credible? If they were *actually* credible I'd imagine Keffals is gonna end up dead pretty soon given the escalation of attacks on KF.

But they're not credible and nothing will happen.
> Quantum computing with todays technology :: Classical computing in the early era of vacuum tubes

There's still a big difference.

Even in the earliest era of computing with vacuum tubes (and even before), they were building machines that produced useful results: artillery tables, H-bomb simulations, cryptanalysis, etc.

Most things these machines were used for were simply impractical without them.

There's nothing even remotely analogous with quantum computing.
same for me.

"a river between mountains"
A move _away_ from paper, to government signed crypto certs and witness logs is the answer.

Then we just need to standardize on A5 as a standard for bills mailed out, since it'll fit inside of everyone's filing cabinets already. A5 for taxes would also be nicer too.

Then get school supplies made in A5 size (easier for kids to carry), and finally after a silent transition period where there's less and less in the US Letter size, we can relegate PC Load Letter to the Office Space movie.
Yup, I've used a paddle shifter in a rental for this very purpose--using the engine as a brake while going downhill.

My Corolla only has two possible downshifts and neither is all that good for holding speed on a downhill but the cruise control is integrated into the system--I can set a speed and the computer will do a pretty good job of using the engine to keep from exceeding it too much and since it's adaptive it will always avoid the car in front even if otherwise it doesn't hold the speed that perfectly. Since I found that out I've never touched the downshifts.
Supporting Kiwi Farms right to exist is not the same as supporting the content.
You can support a cause without supporting people related to it
I think he false-flagged the script.
There would be a benefit to thinking that way. Instead of doing a ridiculous sprint planning, instead just keep pulling from the backlog. Rather than predicting what you will get done (and invariably failing to predict well, or using developers own predictions as their accountability and a way to pressure overtime), perhaps just see what you get done instead. Then instead of planning, actual work could get done. Anyone needing estimates can look back historically and compute number of tasks getting done and extrapolate against the backlog.

By keeping the backlog prioritized at all times, and pulling from the backlog instead of a 'sprint backlog' - it avoids priority inversions. Planning what will be your highest priority, that possibly changes mid-sprint, is a priority inversion.

Kanban works well in all situations where sprints work well. Instead of trying to predict in a planning, you just do the work instead. Any predictions are still the same based on looking at historical data and comparing to the backlog, just less waste involved and less subterfuge to try and get developers to work overtime (I'm not aware of any sprint planning that really takes into account error bars, so the prediction/planning is BS & management planning porn, nothing more)
It's just packets and packets are speech. Just like the packets used to post this embody free speech
The first time they've been this concerned about fake reviews and they just happen to be all the negative ones.
Paolo Bacigalupi is fantastic if you're into eco-disaster sci-fi. The Water Knife[1] is also excellent, and with the extreme drought in the western US, feeling more and more prescient.

1 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23209924-the-water-knife
Tbfh, he's wrong. The modern (read: based on electricity and fossil fuels) way of life is dependent on cheap energy. China is currently the biggest emitter in the world. Not because they're particularly wasteful necessarily, no. Surprise, an enormous amount of energy is required for a modern society to sustain itself, especially when that country is home to 1.4 billion people. They've built more nuclear reactors than all other countries combined in the past decade, and they're still heavily reliant on gas and coal (62% coal, 5% nuclear). Nobody knows how to efficiently and cleanly generate that much energy.

For comparison, France, which produces 78% of its electricity with nuclear, only generates about 380 TWh per year with nuclear power plants (2019). China generates ~350 TWh/year with nuclear. 5% of their energy production produces as much as close to 80% of France's energy sector.

And before anybody chimes in with "but they produce everything for everybody in the West": Only around 10% of their production is exported. They have the biggest domestic market in the world and they have the largest middle class population in the world. They have money too and they consume like any other economic actor.

And all this is before considering things like how energy-intensive producing fertilizer is, and fossil fuels are a required part of getting the necessary ingredients.

This can't be solved by consuming/producing less unless a part of that solution is wiping out a significant part of the human population and getting rid of modern civilization. Solving the energy issue (and by extension poverty, resource conflicts, etc.) requires us to actually figure out how to generate enough cheap and clean energy for 8+ billion people.
If you have a BSD system, or if you have bsdgames installed, you can run "mille" to play Mille Bornes. This version was done by Ken Arnold, who also created the curses library. Even better, I seem to remember that Mille Bornes was the first program to use curses, but I can't find a citation for that now.
Good point, actually, I forgot about prior probability. I concede the logic of your point.

Personally, I am a trans woman, so my social circle includes many more trans women than the average. And I am not a predator, and I don't know any predators personally, so I conclude we're not likely to be predators. But I'm just a random person on the internet, so you can't know if I'm telling the truth, or even if I am, whether my circle of friends is a representative sample of trans women in general.

I do find it distressing how the worst examples of my group are held up as typical of us, though.
I want content-neutral infrastructure.
KF are scum and much of what they do should be illegal, but I want those decisions made in a court of law where they can defend themselves, not by whoever got in the ear of the right tech CEO. Platforms aren't people and shouldn't have rights.
In the present day, yes, that's true. However, once we develop AGI, this deficiency could* go away permanently.

An "educated society" just means a "necessary amount of trained cognitive power to direct energy towards the goals/purposes we value". Currently that's exclusive domain of the human brains within our workforce. However, there is absolutely no fundamental requirement for the cognitive power to be human. Once AGI is achieved, artificial constructs could rapidly (no 20-30 year training cost per single unit!) take over the vast majority of cognitive burden from humans.

I personally believe that we will achieve AGI on a timescale far far shorter than any kind of mass attempt to improve education across the world.

*Whether AGI is used to usher in a utopic civilization, or one of many possible dystopias, will of course depend on what groups end up being in control of it.
When I work with a framework, let's say Ruby on Rails, and I don't use the build-in ORM, I still use Ruby on Rails.

Agile is an idea, a concept. Scrum is a tool (or even a framework, according to its website), and for a tool that's associated with a concept of being agile and flexible, it's incredibly rigid.
I can't tell if this would be the motivation of a Metal Gear Solid villain, or the motivation of a multi-disc JRPG final boss.
"Beautiful woman" gives you nudity roughly 90% of the time.

In a recent open office hours, they basically said that without the filters, everything quickly becomes overrun with either gore or things that verge on porn, because it only takes a small fraction users to flood every available space.

In the meantime, they've watched the gender demographics on periodic user surveys tilt dramatically toward men more recently, and they're concerned this might be one factor in that.

There are a billion different ways to generate porn images, and billions of porn images already existing. They'd rather SD not be a source of more.
No, GOF didn't introduce the "strategy" pattern. What they did was catalogue and describe the "patterns". Perhaps GOF invented the name "strategy", don't know about that.
3 years is a bit short. In the last year or so, I've twice needed to find old documents -- ~5 and ~7 years old, respectively.

I keep receipts for significant purchases (electronics etc) in one envelope per year. It's so little space I keep these indefinitely, so if I sell an 8 year old bicycle I should still have the receipt.

Everything else is in an A4 (now this comment is on-topic) file, and with so much being electronic these days it takes a decade or more to fill one up.
Should all the photo editors add a mandatory NSFW filter as well? How is this different?

https://pixlr.com/ is far better suited for producing naked picture of celebrity x than https://www.drawanything.app/
Agreed. It's just that UDS are hard to work with due to this limitation.
You and people like you truly have no idea how much harm you are causing, do you? It is utterly irresponsible to encourage anyone, but a child more than anything, to take this type of medication without medical supervision. Consequences can be extraordinarily dire.

I will refrain from name-calling, but I have never been as angry or disgusted by anyone else on this site.

Edit: I want to make it clear that the dire consequences I'm talking about are NOT feminization/masculinization, nor even common complications of either such as infertility.

Taking uncontrolled doses of hormones, at irregular times, without any kind of tracking of the quantitative effects (blood tests to determine effective levels), especially for someone undergoing puberty, can easily lead to hormone overdoses that can seriously harm pretty much any organ in the body - including at the very least the heart, kidneys and liver. Testosterone and estrogen have many many effects in the body outside of determining sexual characteristics.
Windows 10 has support for UNIX sockets.
IStandWithPutin vs. IStandWithUkraine: The interactions of bots and humans
For modern typeset documents it’s a close call but I’d say that A4 has a slight edge in that it’s longer and the extra width of US Letter in practice just means wider margins.

But it’s when you start folding and mailing the paper that the A* system really shines, US system is maddeningly frustrating.
In addition to icedchai's comment, there are two more issues worth quibbling about what's written here:

It's odd to say something like "REST was introduced in 2000 by Fielding", since it makes it sound like support for a feature. But REST is just a description of how the Web works. Fielding's dissertation is a retrospective, documenting what the real work of standardization at IETF and among browser makers and server distributions had already earlier enabled.

Secondly, JS was workable performance-wise in the early 2000s in Netscape 6, even without a JIT.
My grandfather built model planes out of balsa wood kits for at least two decades. Some of them had wingspans of 5 feet. :)
> since when is "doxxing" a crime?

The focus on doxxing is odd. There were SWATs. There were credible bomb threats. Since when is there a public obligation to sell your work to domestic terrorists?
Disagree--I used to have that objection with automatics, but the modern ones are good enough I no longer feel that way. Never have I felt my Corolla made the wrong choice about gears.
There have been loads of recent articles and posts on HN about the type of content Kiwifarms hosts and promotes, easily findable from the HN search bar. Even people who disagree with Cloudflare's actions aren't debating the odiousness of Kiwifarms' content.
The real reason Canadians and Brits should have opposed metrification: the transition wasn't ever 100% completed leading to horrifying Frankensystems where Brits buy meat by the kilo but measure their own weight in stone. Or Canadians still measuring train rail distances in miles.
Roald Dahl had a similar idea in the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vengeance_is_Mine_Inc.

The plan is simple: Pantaloon is always at the Penguin Club, so they'll show up and ask for him to come out. George will punch him and then escape in the rented 1934 Chevrolet the narrator has waiting.
If you know that for a fact, maybe you can elaborate.
I don’t agree with the parent re: regulating the internet, but private companies are by no means beholden to host or support content they disagree with (or, moreover, that they believe is illegal).

If there is enough political will and enough people that want to support KF garbage, there are other providers out there, or they can build one.
Guns don't work at scale for these things. You can't have a functioning society when the only thing keeping people in line is the threat of force.
Api is still socket api.. AF_INET vs AF_UNIX. It takes a few lines of code to have to option to switch between.
Ignorance makes sense..

I guess full stack developers means people who can read the top 5 lines of a stack trace
Still flaky with double ID3 tags (front/back) or issues parsing metadata (so it fails decoding), but the issues with variable block size were solved. Most FLAC I handle on a large system play fine.

There are other issues related to streaming the FLAC via Range requests depending if it is WebAudio, <audio> or directly in a tab, however this applies to all audio/media in general.
The overall problem with climate talking points is that it has become a trendy political topic, which often deduces into a battle between two sides instead of a civil discussion on the scope of a potential threat and logical solutions.

I admittedly don't pay much attention to it since I live pretty minimally anyway. Though, I cannot tell you how many homes in my area have "Climate Action" signs in front of their unnecessarily large homes. One home in particular has one right next to a gas guzzling jeep.

It's sad that so many human issues have fallen into the political spectrum where they are weaponized for power rather than resolved for the common good.
I see value in it too. Russia was a safe haven for US leftists and civil rights advocates during the 20th century. But they see no actual value in the speech they are protecting outside of 'trolling the US' for lack of a better term (at least after the fall of the USSR).
What is supported by medical literature and law/bureaucracy are not necessarily aligned. Abortion also faces this problem.

Ideally yes you would want a GP to prescribe you HRT. But if in the place where you currently live this is not possible without years of gatekeeping, or parents have veto power, gray-market solutions are the next best possible alternative.
>Maybe your views are currently acceptable, but will they be in 5, 10, 20 years?

Not just that. It's views that anyone else on the site shares. Your community on a site can be destroyed by the actions of a completely separate community on the same site.
tcp ports are much more versatile, you can expose it to the outside world as opposed to unix sockets. Now exposing an nfs server to the outside can lead to interesting possibilities: for example you can implement a local fuse file system which can be mounted remotely through the NFS. It's highly not recommended at this moment because there's no authentication implemented
They say Allegro CL was a new implementation written from scratch:

https://franz.com/about/company.history.lhtml
They nuke hate subs selectively. There are plenty of hate subs they leave online routinely and don't nuke.

Heck, there are plenty of anecdotes showing they bias towards keeping hate subs targeted at "majorities" alive, and have actively changed their ToS multiple times to discriminate between who they consider vulnerable.
Efficiency is not the same as negative growth.

There are actual, real-life proponents of policies that would have us shrink our economies and decrease the standard of living.
It's not really clear what your point is. Surely you aren't saying that your strategy is to allow your kids on any online site as long as it's public, but that's the only clarification you've provided here.
This would make bus, train and plane journeys pretty tedious.
I'm under no illusions that everyone is suddenly going to sacrifice quality of life to save the planet - humanity, writ large, is happy to burn coal until they choke to death on the fumes.

So how do we stop the slow-motion disaster that we're living in?

1) I completely agree that trying to minimize pain by teching our way out is important. The reason we have cheap wind and solar power is heavy government investment in research, which eventually trickles out and becomes commercially viable. The recent energy bill is great, but doesn't go nearly far enough. Still, if you take an honest look at the numbers, it's simply not going to be enough to avoid the worst effects.

2) We have to make it more profitable to be low-carbon than it is to burn things. I think that unavoidably leads to the conclusion that we need to tax carbon. It also has to be done in a smart way - not super-high all at once, and then return the proceeds with checks to the middle/lower income people who are hit hardest to solidify political support. The goal is to nudge people to change their behaviors, without doing it so hard that they vote you out of office.

Look, we were happy to keep dumping arsenic in streams until those externalized costs were built into the cost of doing business. The effects of carbon as a pollutant are here now - we can't keep pretending that they don't exist. What is the cost of Miami being underwater? What is the cost of wildfires and drought in the west? Yes, it will cost billions of dollars, but if it saves trillions, that's a smart investment.
I can read an analog clock at a greater range than I can read a digital of the same size. Usually not that big a deal for me but without my glasses the difference is substantial.
Vespa looks pretty compelling; indexing looks like a dream.

I'd recommend basically anything else over a customized ES / Solr cluster. Some of the least fun clusters to manage. Great for simple use-cases / anything you see in a tutorial. The moment you walk off the beaten path with them, best of luck.

Just an anecdote
Cloudflare and DDoS-Guard aren’t themselves DDoSing KF, though. They are just turning their backs. If KF wanted their continued protection, they could have stopped stalking and harassing people. But they didn’t, so here we are.

And of course I wouldn’t be happy if a website I support were DDoSed. It’s perfectly consistent to celebrate when a murderer gets convicted and be outraged when an innocent person does. There’s a difference between good and bad things!
Why should I not be allowed to use my freedom of speech to ask a company to not do business with someone doing something nasty?

Why should that business not be allowed to use their freedom of association to not do business with those folks?

Why is legal action the only acceptable approach to bad actions? Direct action, pressure, and boycots have worked well against injustices in the past; see sit-ins in the American south during the civil rights era as an example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
I think maybe you should read this.
You’re right, but they’re related.

KF has a right to exist. But if they want to be part of society at large, society owes them no great debt; they are welcome to remain insular and talk about their bullshit amongst themselves, or even host their own CDN mitigation service if nobody wants to work with them, but nobody is required to give them a platform to spew their odious content.
KF is essentially a deniable harassment vector (ie they say 'we don't condone harassment, so please don't harass Random Person* who lives at 123 Name Street and whose phone # is 212-555-1212 and whose email is... (etc)).'

Random Person is typically some very minor e-celeb or individual that finds themselves in the news, as opposed to an accountable official or someone credibly accused of a serious crime.

The point of such harassment is to drive Random Person off the internet and/or out of public life, so arguably it's just censorship-by-intimidation. I can't help noticing that the people who complain about DDOS being internet mobs seem indifferent to the fact that KF is itself an internet mob, and I'd be pretty surprised if most KF members haven't done their own share of raids, DDOS attacks etc.

I personally think DDOS and forum raids are both a part of internet culture, and pretty civilized compared to in-person harassment, swatting etc., and don't agree that everything should be turned into a police/legal matter given the various downsides of that.