skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rome was a multiethnic empire. I don't see what being Roman or not has to do with ethnicity.

The Roman people living there being ethically Berber, that is, African. The name Africa itself probably coming from the Afri Berber tribe. They were both Roman people and also ethnically African.

And Berber tribes despite not being from subsaharan Africa did, through thousands of years of contact, have significant ethnic and cultural admixture with various subsaharan African peoples. Not that North Africa is less African than subsaharan Africa.
The placebo effect works for psychosomatic conditions.
Yes, the post was quickly removed but screenshots only take a moment.
> What industry conspiracy are you trying to insinuate? Is it big pharma? Doubt it.

There was another HN front page article today about how legalization caused a measurable decline in the stock prices of the big pharma companies. There's a long track record of cannabis replacing opioids for pain management. MDMA, psilocybin and ketamine are not patentable, and if they can displace regular, lifelong use of antidepressants with a small number of treatments, that sounds like serious threat to their bottom line. Seems pretty plausible to me.
>Endless reminder that having multiple layers of moderation protects free speech, it doesn't restrict it.

Cloudfalre claims to be an infrastructure company. Now we're somehow discussing "multiple layers of moderation". This was fast. No limiting principles in sight either.
There was more time between Cloudflare dropping 8chan and KF than between Cloudflare dropping Stormfront and 8chan. By the (very dubious and limited, but) only metric we have, the rate of Cloudflare's "bad site" removals is slowing, and its a factor of 20 or 30x from monthly like you're claiming.

The sky isn't falling, and the slippery slope is demonstrably not there in this case.
I think everyone except clinical narcissists have this problem to some degree. We all experience stress when on a clock or under observation.

You can get therapy but it will come down to exposing yourself to stressful situations so you gradually desensitize yourself. I experienced stress learning to play poker at real games, but the more I played the less I felt stressed about it.
Our decision today was that the risk created by the content could not be dealt with in a timely enough matter by the traditional rule of law systems.

Post the screenshot then. Show us what changed between when CF said "KF is acting within the bounds of the law and will remain online" and today.

Refusing service to customers you find contemptible is completely reasonable. Continuing to service customers out of a sense of fairness even though you find them contemptible is also reasonable. Pretending that you have a sense of fairness that keeps all legal entities online and abandoning it to protect your bottom line is hypocritical and cowardly.

Being a company that protects the vulnerable is every bit as honorable as being a company that stands for freedom of expression. Today Cloudflare proves it is neither.
Try to stay on topic, I'm not going to rewrite my arguments over and over.
> Does it really have value for people? Not really.

You must be joking. The very fact that you are posting here indicates that you are making use of countless products of science. They're just not products of science that are tied to any political controversy or help anyone to gain political power, so everyone takes them for granted and doesn't stop to think about them when they think about "science". But they should.
This is indeed really a nice book. The accompanying website https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com is very useful as well.
That’s from two personal friends who are both extremely active in the emulation scene. Feel free to discount it - when the site’s back up, I’ll grab the screens of users in Hector’s streams that use the same exact eccentric writing style Byuu/Near did. (Archive.ph is too stale to have it.)

He should be on this list: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra... But there’s nothing.

https://jp.usembassy.gov/services/death-of-a-u-s-citizen/ Nobody was ever able to get any of the documentation listed on this page from the Japanese side, even family, and the Japanese continually report they have no record of the death. There are also no “blotter” style documents in Japan or the USA documenting his death.

I’m willing to be proven wrong - and accept others will not believe what is hearsay to them - but as someone who has been involved in emulation for years my Bayesian prior is extremely, strongly on the side of him being alive.
You can do it with just a gyro, if it's sufficiently large: by fixing the user's head in space you don't need any sort of position tracking.
archive.org has many results for "Shareware Breakthrough", look through them to find the right one.
There are other green ground covers than grass that require less water, less chemical treatment, etc. It wasn’t until the 1960s or 70s and a big advertising push from Scott’s Lawn and similar companies that the all-grass, perfectly manicured lawn became a thing in middle-class America. Prior to that, mixed grass+clover+weed lawns were the norm.

The fact that people continue to grow grass lawns in places like Arizona is baffling. There are other choices.

FWIW, I mixed clover into my lawn 5 years ago. I no longer have to water it at all through the summer. Mowing is half as frequent. And it doesn’t brown as much over winter. No idea what anybody would do anything different, except for not knowing any better. I’ll never do an all-grass lawn again.
If they think those earlier decisions were the wrong call, then why haven't they rescinded them? There's no law that says that after you kick someone off your service, you can never invite them back on.
As a member of a minority that went through ethnic cleansing this is remarkably offensive and ignorant.
Show HN: Create a Triangular Maze [video]
Right, and CF is arguing that something is incredibly dangerous or illegal about KF's content right now, so it's the same, no?
"the threat"

Ever think the feds have half a brain among them, and know there's no threat?

I know how gullible people are in these culture-warish times, but I still hope you've lost credibility with some significant fraction of us. Maybe those of us old enough to remember when the average techy was libertarian and opposed censorship. The Farms is right back up, by the way. But at least now you can wash your hands of it. Don't think Twitter will stop coming at you though. You need to understand those people want to punish and teach.
Technical question: Cloudflare says they are currently intercepting requests for Kiwifarms and redirecting them to the linked blog post. What does Kiwifarms need to do to remove their dependency on Cloudflare and make their forum visible again [edit: at the original address]? Can they do it unilaterally by changing an DNS address and waiting for it to propagate? Or do they need Cloudflare's cooperation?
> Tesla‘s vehicles have been found to shut off the advanced driver-assistance system, Autopilot, around one second before impact, according to the regulators.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/15/tesla-a...
Uh, this CCS system uses the CO2 to produce oil, which would be quite an own goal if it wasn't for the fact they are brazen enough to pretend that "out of sight out of mind" is a real strategy when dealing with CO2 emissions.

Also the use of gas in oil extraction also means a sizeable amount of that CO2 you just paid for in energy to capture goes back into the atmosphere anyway.
I said this somewhere else, but there’s 2 things at play here:

- A utopia where people don’t defect in prisoners dilemmas (most types of crimes like shoplifting: the store won’t have to hire loss prevention and cashiers, and you pay less for their reduced costs) is ideal, but:

- Such a utopia doesn’t and can’t exist because defection individually increases utility at the cost of everybody else. Hence cashiers, loss prevention, KYC, etc.

Thus the real world is a careful optimisation problem where we have to search for an equilibrium at which society as a whole benefits the most. People can argue all day about where this is, because the trade offs involved are non-obvious:

- More surveillance means, all else being equal, less crime, but police officers can defect too and only arrest minorities and use said surveillance for something else, etc.

The problem is walking through a very high-dimensional search space, and we humans are had at it. There’s no real solution though, because individual incentives don’t line up to solve it.
Why specify Europe? Why not just say the Solar System? Or the Western Spiral Arm of the Milky Way? Or the Local Group?

Inexplicably, you chose to be incredibly vague. Just because France is in Europe does not make Europe representative of France. You can say the Eiffel Tower is in the Milky Way, but this is overly broad and imprecise; it makes far more sense to say it is in France.

Similarly, Tolkien borrowed from very specific Scandinavian sources, and that is borrowed; his works are not based upon these sources nor upon ancient Scandinavian culture. To conflate Scandinavia with Europe is the same mistake as conflating France with the Milky Way.

Your claim that Tolkien based his works on Europe is incongruous because it is overly general and imprecise, and it is also a pretty good example of the vagueness fallacy.
You do realize that before Allied Mastercomputer, her intelligence and yours are basically the same? The only difference is in how good you are to others.
If I have a group telephone discussion about how great the Nazi party was, is AT&T hosting the nazi discussion?

And if they ban me and I decide to use smoke signals to have this discussion is the sky hosting it?
What was it then? Were you in a customer facing role?

This wasn't clear from your original post at all -- you just said you had a lot of fun working there, not that you felt you treated customers super well.

If you were customer facing, and taking at face value you were wonderful to work with for outsiders, then yes, within Nokia you were a great outside facing person (and I'm sure there was at least 1 other in such a big company). But also with a lot of poor outside facing people (from the comments in this thread).
Just passed ten years in, started professionally at 17. Here's to the next 30!
> scientists recovered old administrative documents about the French revolution

History is not a science, although it can make use of tools that science has developed.

> And that's the best science can do.

Again, you must be joking. Even leaving aside my comment above, science has done a huge amount more than discover some old historical documents.
I've followed this story loosely here from HN posts, but does anyone have a blog/TL:DR post around the chain of events that are discussed in this post? (the early events the bubbled this up to ppls attention, and then the new imminent threats?)
Thoughtful engineers know that 'foreward progress' is neither.
I agree, the poster that was very obviously and hamhandedly trying to get me to say something that they could then twist into “I support terrorism” or whatever was indeed acting in bad faith. Thank you for highlighting this.
This is basically what had us choose the Polestar 2 over a Model 3.

The Polestar 2 felt like someone with a lot of intent and diligence sat down in the cockpit of the vehicle and asked some flavor of, "Should this feels like a traditional car or should this feel like new technology?" about every single little thing.

The UX of the car is Swedish "functionalism" at its finest. We drove a VW, a Tesla, a BMW, a Hyundai, a Kia, a Porsche, a Ford, and a Chevrolet too. For both my spouse and I it wasn't even a close race. We ordered the Polestar. We took delivery of it a couple weeks ago, and even though the $7,500 tax credit expired after the recent legislation passed in the US, I would gladly pay $7,500 more for it than its competitors.

The drive feel and the cabin UX are the parts of any car that you're constantly interacting with. To me those two factors outweighed pretty much everything else.
> what kiwifarms has been doing to "free speech"

What? Testing it? To make sure we can actually exercise it in practice? Because "be careful how you use it or you might ruin it for everyone" wasn't ever how the 1st amendment was meant to work. Like, what would be the point. Let's let the 1st amendment say you have to check in with anyone sensitive and if they don't like it, you can't say it, because "we live in a society" Let's have a new Mandatory Courtesy and Respect amendment.

I am so utterly ashamed of the tech industry at this point. I'm glad I retired and don't have to pretend to your faces.

"The Internet interpretes censorship as damage and routes around it." Oh how naive and libertarian us techies were in the reactionary nineteen hundred and nineties.
> Cloudfalre claims to be an infrastructure company.

Very obviously Cloudflare is operating at a higher level of infrastructure than ISPs or the government.

If they actually believe that they are infrastructure that people have a human right to access and that is so fundamental to the Internet that they should be treated as level 0 infrastructure, then they should consider dissolving the company and forming a public org instead.

Otherwise, yes, of course Cloudflare should have stricter standards. Even under Net Neutrality (which I support) ISPs have more moderation power than the government does. Banks arguably have far too much moderation power (I do think people should have a right to banking access), but I don't know anyone who would argue that banks should have no moderation powers at all, it would make it impossible for them to prevent fraud or abuse if that was the case.

Cloudflare obviously should not have as strict moderation as a web forum, but this isn't a binary choice. The limiting principle here is having multiple layers of infrastructure. It's choosing not to have a single company in charge of DDOS protection for 20% of the web.
Sure, if they don't pay the fee.

In this case, we all appear to have been cheering and begging the private firefighter to just walk away so we can burn their house down in peace.
> he changed his mind not because of the pressure but a surge in credible violent threats stemming from the site.

How did he know they were credible and weren't just nonsense that was mass-produced by a GPT-3 clone?

It seems that nowadays, the requirements for kicking a site (with user-generated content) offline are: 1) a botnet with thousands of IP addresses, and 2) a decent GPU to automate coming up with posts that look like violent threats.

That sort of ruins Cloudflare's business model, but I half suspect that this new policy of the CEO won't be enforced consistently, and rather will depend on how many angry tweets are written. If that's the case, then the botnet and GPU from steps 1 and 2 can be used to create fake tweets too.

I'm not even saying he made the wrong decision, I'm just wondering what the next evolution of the meta-game is here.
On one hand, I clearly understand that, due to the programmability with macros, the express power of Excel is as powerful as any "real" programming language, and I've seen a lot of really complex engineering modeling done entirely in Excel. Imagine solving differential equations numerically using 10k cells in Excel, yes, it has been done! I respect their skills and achievements.

On the other hand, it just looks painful to me, and feels like constructing a skyscraper using a toothpick.
But there are alternatives, cloudflare isn’t the government, they don’t even have a monopoly.

How is this different from people complaining about facebook not hosting their content - take your stuff to some other private entity that wants to do business with you, these are not institutions which have any obligation or mission beyond making money - even if they like to make PR noises that may be misconstrued otherwise.

“Sir, this is a Wendy’s”
> I seriously doubt parent is earning that much.

And for all good reasons. They have to pay taxes. So yes, they change £500/day but they’re on progressive tax rate with a maximum of what, 38%? At least that’s what it was some years back when I was based in the UK. Hitting that tax rate in fourth month of a fiscal year easily.
You're too charitable. They are already censors and have been for a long time, but talk disingenuously and hypocritically about it every time they pull this shit off in public.
From my (very dim) memory, Pick was popular because it did everything some users needed and was easy to use (relatively speaking).

I never met anyone who used it, though.
Putin organized troops that were supposed to storm the capital on the first days of the war to kill Zelensky. If your insane narrative was the case then why did Putin lie about invading?

Why are Ukrainians fighting against Russia and so few are fighting with it?

There are Ukrainians who want Russian rule. That is obvious. But they are a tiny minority and elections proved it. Most of those who are interested in a Ukraine that is closer to Russia are fighting against it right now.
> - Then if that works, run another experiment
> - If it doesn’t work, go back

The problem is that if it doesn't work for a couple times, you get fired, or at least seen as incompetent.

Management want magic rituals that fixes everything, not the scientific method.
You can visit the archive links and live site yourself, the blog I mentioned adds nothing new. I mentioned them to illustrate the lack of attention paid to this point by the media; only such an obscure, relatively partisan blog has picked it up (so far).
If someone makes a Facebook post containing an illegal threat of violence, we don't ban all of Facebook for it.
Unfortunately it is still practiced in many environments, including most Navy software acquisition efforts, which are frequently run under a "systems engineering" process intended for hardware like ships and airplanes.

This process includes multiple reviews in a "SETR" (System Engineering Technical Review) process (https://www.acqnotes.com/Attachments/SETR%20Navy%E2%80%99s%2...), including steps like:

* SRR (System Requirements Review)

* CDR (Critical Design Review)

* TRR (Test Readiness Review)

Example of slide 15:

Example of Items from SRR Template

* SW Development Team

* Integrated Mater Schedule Highlighted with Software Milestones

* Software Entrance Criteria

* Requirements Analysis and Allocation Methodology (sounds agile to me!)

* System Specifications Tree

* Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL)

* Software Development Strategy

* Software Development Process

* SW Safety, Information Assurance and Security requirements

* Software Supplier Management

* Software Measurement

* Software Risk Assessment with Mitigation Strategies

* Issues and Concerns
Of course not. It wasn't an actual threat, though it sounded like one. The mods handled it as soon as they became aware.
The purpose is to document the bizarre (and oftentimes outright creepy and/or illegal) behavior of the terminally online. You know, stuff like helping your friend sell his bathtub brewed hormones to minors without their parents finding out. Or running a Discord server called Catboy Ranch that has several minors on it, and you send them personalized collars that declare them your property. Just ordinary, innocent stuff that is no one else's business, clearly.
> If there's a strong disagreement between student/advisor, causing them part ways, by default should be assumed the student has the rights to carry the research on with another advisor.

Barring particular grant/funding terms, is there anything that stops this from happening today?
If what you say is true, Cloudflare's security service would be freely made available to email spammers.

Is that the case?
I think the definition of violence is a fair discussion. I think it has shifted a bit. To me words that cause physical harm is violence.
The fact that Kiwifarms have won every suit against them is an example of the legal systems failings. Organizing mass harassment should be illegal.

It shouldn't be up to harassed individuals to seek justice, prosecutors should be able to go after them. If the issue is with the law itself, the government needs to effectively legislate.
Thanks. Looks like commercialization of this design will be another 10 or more years from now.
It looks like cloudflare is their registrar.
He's been taken to court around 7 times. It's almost as if he didn't break the law, and people just think he must of because it be so nasty!
I used it for a month but didn't notice anything except that my beautiful laptop screen turning ugly for a part of the day.
There were no good choices because they didn't think through their ethics in advance -- even given their history with other sites like Daily Stormer... They decided they were "just" an economic entity, not a moral one. Unethical use of the services was something that tainted the buyer, but not the seller, and besides, should they really take on the obligation to think about such difficult non-technical things when that could be pawned off on lawyers or politicians or something?

The moral actors in their vision of the world are the "end users" -- the specific individuals using a platform for morally questionable purposes -- and the "government/legal system" which should be doing more to stop them from doing so. Platforms are these magical things that only have technical, legal, and financial obligations, not moral or ethical ones.

I personally don't agree with that view. Any large company doing business faces various ethical challenges. Failure to grapple with them in a serious way means Cloudflare's ethical challenges lead to 'one off' band-aid solutions rather than building a platform upon which to build to handle future difficult decisions.

This is over until the next one, and nothing obvious was learned.
Hasn’t Mr. Morgan based his entire career off of “winding people up”?
Should we ban Signal if people use it to coordinate acts of terrorism?
> Woke culture never seems to mention women's preference for tall men,

“Woke culture” isn’t an actual thing, it's a propaganda terms that applies to a fiction deliberately created for partisan political purposes.

But the real world social justice and DEI communities do in fact talk a fair amount about height bias as an aspect of physical. appearance discrimination, and it is by no means limited to women, though that may be where it shows up most in mate selection (it's very prominent, outside of mate selection, as a bias in assessments of competency across the board, and shows up a lot in the workplace.)
If you take your phone line and start making a lot of harassing calls with that phone, they will cut you off and tell the police. It does not seem that KF posters wanted the speech there to stay private.
Regarding the "purpose" argument. Authoritarianism is on the rise. What are you, some kind of wrongthinker? :)
Sure, because it’s given up. Those crashes are included in the safety stats.
We never told you we were violating SESTA. We never waved it in your face. You could have given us some warning, but you didn't.

Until you show evidence on your work to overturn/repeal SESTA, I'm going to call bullshit on that.

Cloudflare knowingly fronts many other sites that are clearly violating SESTA, so obviously you don't think it's that big of a liability as you claim to be.

Not to mention your Head of Sales reached out to us offering Cloudflare services a year after kicking Switter off when we mentioned we were dealing with DDOS attacks as an escort directory.
Doesn't matter. USB-C is not a video input. And if it were, Apple would still gimp it. I'm sure developers can't access the USB port on iPad Pros, just as they can't access the shitty Lightning port on anything else.
Lifetime of depression and multiple suicide attempts as well. If I ever do it, it'll be because I suffered my whole life, not because of the most recent thing that happened the week before.