skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found it quite hard myself, but there are a couple of values that I use as heuristic:

- it is either looking to get sustainable as early as possible,

- or, if not, it is a research into the unknown (e.g. quantum computing, different purpose of db, new kind of AI, space exploration, green earth initiatives, even the early phases of blockchain)

Another points would be if the founders have the motivation to give back rather than take as much profit. My current company's founder have a dream to make an incubator for aspiring game makers, for example.

> I have never worked in an early stage startup.

The young company I have been in is when it was 1-year old. Founders are not looking for a mere "engineer", but one that can drive the team "above and beyond" style, because it is important for a small company. But, it is very difficult to see in people. The common mistake of many is to look for their own virtues in other people, which pretty much limits the other set of people not having the same virtue. E.g. Founders that focus on verbal communication and sales filter out people that cannot speak fluently, even though those are excellent product and engineering people.
As is often the case, the scrollbar indicates the number of comments on the article, not the length of the article.
Exactly. I hate focus-follows-mouse, but would love focus-follows-gaze.
This rewrites history because there were active cases of inciting to violence on 8chan before they pulled the plug
So you do care about your users. They are just not the "end" users, but I don't believe that you disagree with the parent post.
The islands have been there since the Holocene sure. The sea level rise was in the Holocene and started the process, but the legends and the historical maps of the islands were made much later than that. The changes since then are due to erosion.
A lot of IT infrastructure comes from Europe
You need to rehearse, or to put your self in the situation as much as you can.

For example, go to as many chess tournaments as you can.
Have you ever heard of a so-called 'mild' Phenylketonuria that can escape diagnosis? I've heard of it mentioned here and there but I'm not sure if it's really well known (or if it's even proven - I don't know much about it). I know someone who I have a possibly far fetched hypothesis that they might have something on the Phenylketonuria spectrum. That is they are grew up relatively normal but suffering from some severe mental disorders as they age. When they were young they had the characteristic mousey smell that is mentioned in Phenylketonuria.
> I agree with you, and I think that refusing to establish a firm line is what opened them up to this campaign.

Additionally Mr. Prince had options at his disposal after the first time this happened. Cloudflare's a large valuable company. He could have retained a 'Director of Enforcement' after that event and told the world "their word is final on enforcement actions, I am removing myself from the moderation pipeline to focus on growing the business". Then if one of their decisions backfired, dismiss them. There's plenty of talented people willing to accept a large compensation package for that risk.

>If they had said, "we believe everyone should be respected, and any time a site coordinates harassment, we will remove it from our service," I would have had a lot more respect for them. If they had said, "we host content from Nazis and Communists, and we are not proud of it, but this is an infrastructure service and everyone is welcome," I would have had a lot more respect for them.

Probably also something to consider: this is a public company. The latter option is maybe not tenable for a large public corporation subject to the whims of shareholders. By that I mean times and beliefs change over time and a public company has to adjust to that in order to continue to attract investors. Private companies can work with whomever they feel and if it's their niche to work with 'high risk' clients, nobody is stopping them.
If I'm investigating you over a bomb threat I'm not going to tell you beforehand so you erase any evidence.
High socioeconomic status = charitable with their $, selfish with their time
Really? As a non-native speaker, for most videos for which I might have a need for subtitles they're perfectly useless.
Or it's inconsistent bs and they obviously know that bringing them back on would be a terrible publicity event, impacting bottom line
I'm not sure that "this person only faked their suicide to escape harassment" really absolves Kiwifarms of much...
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I have small hands (and you know what they say…). The Rick was the only full-length bass I could play. Took forever to stop sounding like a coffee can full of rocks.

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It's quite simply because Tolkien's work shows Germanic, Finnish, Greek, Celtic and Slavic mythological influences. That spans almost the entirety of Europe. I don't feel you are arguing in good faith here. Either you are willingly ignoring it's European heritage or just haven't done the research on it.
I was actually monitoring the Keffals threads to laugh at the salt on display. It was hilarious at times, then you'd run into stuff like people determining what restaurants she was likely to be at so they could detonate a bomb and kill her. It's such a brazen display that, even if it was a joke, I don't think the first amendment would be an acceptable defense if your door got busted down over it.

CF should have kicked them off long ago, but when they say "Escalating threats", they're really underselling it IMO. KF already tried to murder Keffals via swatting, so I have a very hard time believing the "it's only for teh lulz" crowd.
As I already explained, those more extreme individuals plan these actions in more covert locations - smaller forums, subreddits, image boards, discord, telegram groups, etc. There are no rules banning such behaviour in these places. The owner and mods of KF actively not only delete such content but repeatedly remind people of the prohibition. They also actively report users who violate US law and fully cooperated with any legal demands brought by State and Federal law enforcement. Josh has even banned mods who disagreed or facilitated such behaviour outside the forums.
This is such a bad faith comparison and in no way related. Facebook hosts its own content/infrastructure. Cloudflare's DDoS protection service and Facebook as a whole are not related.

A more accurate claim would be, if someone makes a Facebook post containing an illegal threat of violence, they (Facebook) _do_ ban the account of who made a post containing illegal threats of violence.
people > process

creative work requires a different environment than widget-making.
Remember that you can vouch for comments via their direct link (in the time stamp).
So they will stop the harassment by DDoSing them?

I’m not defending them and what they’re doing to Keffals is beyond wrong but what does this hope to accomplish?

Dragging cloudflare through the mud might seem like a good idea until someone else whips up the twitter mob to get them to drop <random cause you support> so they can be DDoSed off the interwebs.

Next time they pressure cloudflare they have a playbook to go off of to get what they want.
Then this is worthless as a decision making system since your decisions will always already be the one that maximizes expected utility via this unknowable transformation.
Maybe they didn't know. It seems to me like it's not "you scratch mine, I'll scratch yours" but more like "we all scratch each others."

Like the whole troop owes one groom per day. But nobody can pinpoint who was the shirker.
You sidestepped the question. He asked for proof.
I was reading the Expanse books and one thing that drew my attention is how easy and seamless they do data syncing over hours of light delay, asynchronous data updates, inter-operability... No way it would with our CRUDs and current SQL databases and programming languages
>Stacks like foxpro and dbase allowed people like my uncle in his basement to start a massive business, or maintain the list of shirts he sent to the dry cleaners.

Ha. After my webmaster internship at the local newspaper ended, I took a gig doing data entry for a guy operating out of his basement on Visual FoxPro apps for things like HVAC equipment selection and other calculation software for area manufacturers. He'd talk about the dozens of developers and millions of dollars that it took to build the in-house solution, and how everyone preferred his application. He must have had a champion in the company, because his software was freely downloadable. He was fond of saying "FoxPro is very robust," and absolutely resisted learning anything else. For various reasons, I ended up going elsewhere... It was 2003, FoxPro was deader than dead.

To me it was, anyway. I just visited his website, which somehow is still around (and still designed for 800x600 monitors), and he's still using and promoting Visual FoxPro as of 2020. Hey, go with what works for you, I guess.
> EVERYONE forgets all of this CS stuff

Can you point out a thing in standard CS curriculums that doesn't doesn't come up in software once in a while, assuming you are not doing react and express js entire life?
In 2000 came across a binary space partition algo that did this, but used a small scheme interpreter to codegen the c++ BSP code. Would love to find out the library name... have now forgotten it.
I briefly did customer support like this, the bigcorps have various call centers many of which are other companies outsourcing it (I was and am in the US although obviously offshore exists too). I don't think there is a technical limitation, it is just a decision both companies make on the cost/benefit of having to come up with some protocol and integrate/require that with every 3rd party call center.

There were Tier 1's people talk to, no idea where they are and I was WFH taking escalations and asking same questions again.
I dearly wish there was public-sector internet that was governed by the same rules as the post office. Stay within the law and nothing happens to you, violate the law and get arrested.
The full arrays do get expensive, although not too bad. I work at FeatureBase and we have a whole analytics DB built on a roaring variant... for perf reasons it's usually worth it to bias toward the bitmap representation when you get past about 2k set bits, though it does take a bit more space.
indeed, if you are gonna be mad at someone having too much of the pie, at least be mad a people who actually do have most of the pie
There's nothing actually misogynist here, though? It just looks like vulgar humor to me.
> "genocide" is extremely loaded

That's fair, I was trying to frame it from the point of view of people who might disagree with it to answer OP's question. Might have come across a little strong, so we could call it a state sponsored eugenics programme, then. The systematic reduction or elimination from society a class of people deemed undesirable by the state through the funding of genetic tests and abortion services.

> And being gay doesn't cause brutal, head to toe, lifelong (albeit a short life) material suffering in the individuals, like most cases of Down Syndrome do. It's not just cognitive issues, if you're unaware.

I have known a number of people with downs syndrome who are very happy a lot of time time, and wonderful fun people too. And on the other hand, let's say trans people for example can suffer excruciating depression as well as physical suffering too. So my concern is valid.

If people with downs cross some certain threshold dreamed up by state bureaucrats that others do not, that does not give me much comfort. Where exactly are these arbitrary lines drawn, who decides them, how might they change? Pretty concerning if you ask me, and I'm not anti-abortion nor even anti-abortion for this reason.

Giving people information and freedom is one thing. Having the state encourage the abortion of classes of people it considers "undesirable" is quite another, IMO.
Do you expect all the physical evidence of Elephants, such as bones, tusks, genetic samples, stuffed animals, photos and peer reviewed zoological descriptions, to disappear in the next 200 years? If so why? The Dodo went extinct 340 years ago and nobody thinks they were mythical. The mammoth even before that. Even dinosaurs are known to have existed, as a fact. We have vast amounts of physical evidence. So I really don’t understand what point you’re trying to make.
Actually, you are right. I would downvote my own comment I’d that was possible. Apologies.
In my work in severless, we see 10-40 (known) dropped requests power day. I highlight known because many requests fail with transient network errors that never make it to our logs, and others fail somewhere in the cloud provider black box before we get a log, but the caller gets a response from the cloud providers load balancer.

While 10-40 is not a lot in the scale of hundreds of thousands of requests per day (were not that large), when that request is a write event, that's very detrimental to customer perception/experience... It might even cost your business money (failing to turn off/delete something)... And the easy answer of "retry the request" fails with write events that are not idempotent... WHEN should you retry? A gateway error doesn't necessarily mean the back end didn't get the request.. just that your didn't get a response.

It's even worse when what you'd expect to be internal communication has this same failure rate.. your back end processes getting a random 504 gateway error in places it never happened before.. breaking longer running processes.
Does the abuse take the form of behaviors besides harassment found in other workplace environments, or is the behavior specific to the academic setting? I expected the later but the article seems to describe the former. Is this academic bullying or is it more like “workplace harassment in academia”?
Ok, the investigative journalist's thread shows literally no proof or even evidence that kiwi farms was involved in the swatting, and the man with the note apparently posted it on /pol/(?) so not even kiwi farms was on that one. Neither of the other two links said anything about swatting.

I'm serious here, and genuinely trying to understand this underlying consensus that the one to blame for it is that website, but I just don't see it.
Cochran is the person that both GossiTheDog and eastdakota were talking about. (I'm not sure about the Jaime vs Jamie spelling – my impression is "Jaime" is what she preferred at the time of her death, so I'm going to go with that – as to why eastdakota and the screen-shotted NBC News story spelled it "Jamie", I don't know – maybe just typos or autocorrect.)

My point was that the person I was replying to was either misinformed or disingenuous about eastdakota's reasons for blocking GossiTheDog. I don't see the relevance of the rest of what you are saying to my point.
Do Teslas seriously accept that? I guess that’s what being moved to Texas gets you.
Kiwifarms legal opponents aren't celebrities, or politicians, or even ordinary people. They are some of the most vulnerable individuals in society. If I had to be sued by somebody I would pick someone living with severe mental health issues every single time.

I'm not arguing that the court should ignore the law and rule otherwise, I'm arguing that the law itself should be changed.

Something can be both legal and ethically wrong. You can apply your same reasoning to Cloudflare's censorship of Kiwifarms: nothing Cloudflare did in this case was illegal, so what is your issue with it?
Context collapse strikes again
I'm 52 was a professional programmer for 20 years and an SWE 10 of them, up until this year and was glad to get out. Over time I wound up carrying more and more responsibilities, I was a team lead and owned bigger and bigger projects so I was getting tired from the constant pressure which made coding harder. I changed jobs. I'm at Apple doing internal developer support for an internal API. Work's easier, still get a SWE salary, and the new job's actually pretty fun. Worth seeing what kinds of other opportunities are out there, you don't have to be a code-monkey forever.
The tor dark web already exists and everybody knows what goes on there. There are already decentralized crypto-driven naming services.

Merely improving the tor network's name resolution has nothing to do with your grand philosophical argument against internet freedom.
or will they remember how people appealed to corporations trying to force them to provide services…I suppose we shall see
What would you recommend as a better alternative?
Nobody is arguing that any one group should have blanket free speech protections. There are definitely trans people who turn to harassment and threats to try to protect their community, which isn't okay.

But at least three trans/gnc people have died through suicide, directly attributable to Kiwi Farms. Near, a brilliant and widely respected open source contributor, specified in their suicide note that it was because Kiwi Farms had made their life hell for years (https://www.ign.com/articles/near-bsnes-remembrance). Just because there are some bad apples in the trans community doesn't make this okay, and they don't get carte blanche to make threats online - they get banned from social media like most other people. There is no trans equivalent of kiwi farms where they cheer driving people to suicide.
Hey louthy, do you still have the source code for that PS1 engine? Maybe put it on Github for all of use to gawk at and/or use in some fun PS1 hacking around.
I wouldn't give the trolls trading screenshots too much credit here. I assume Cloudflare is a little more savvy than that.
Been programming for 49 years - 44 as paid work; still going, retirement will happen when I find something I enjoy more than problem solving/programming.

Started with Focal (PDP-8/I), Dartmouth Basic, Fortran (using my dad's account at the local uni) - in that order. Subsequently learnt Cobol (for work) & Lisp (out of interest) at about the same time. Shortly after going through the LispKit lisp implementation I realized I could implement lisp in pretty much any language I had at hand (often not well but still functional). At various times work has been more design & architecture but there's always a programming part to it.
Where are the most programming languages created?
It’s working on my iOS 15 iPad:

https://i.imgur.com/BAhNQJd.mp4
Contact your congresscreatures.
This article is great at putting important factors in relative perspective, with gems like: _There have been about 100 billion humans born during the 200,000 years we’ve existed_

As for most of the article, not one thing in that statement are precisely true, but sufficiently accurate to grasp the idea and make us wonder. Just think about this: nearly 10% of all human being that ever lived since our ancestors started walking on their feet are alive at this very moment.

And it goes on and on.

As for WW2, well, it has been quite important and transformative in itself, much, much more than the actual pandemic will ever be, no matter how freaked out some people actually are.
The point was, if I read it correctly, that comparing salaries is only part of the picture.

There is a yawning cultural divide between the USA and the rest of the world. Especially the non-English speaking world.

I am in an English speaking country that slips under the shadow of the cloud cast by the cultural hegemony of the USA (Aotearoa) and when I look around at my lifestyle, my friends, community, and the problems we have as a country and society - salary would not be enough to move me.

I am grossly underpaid by any standard (working on it) but the compensations of lifestyle and culture are well worth it
>The stuff they do is illegal

The content on the Kiwi Farms is legal.

Edit: Disregard this as I misinterpreted what I quoted.
That's why it's still in beta. But stable enough for you to use it, as SnazzyQ says.
The goal when developing software is to solve problems for people, so yes, being good at communicating with people is key. (You also have to know how to develop software, of course, but we usually take that as a given, since we're talking about software development, after all :) )

I would also say, that it's a special kind of communication. At least the part when someone talks to the users/clients/stakeholders. You have to be able to understand them and help them tell you what they need to tell, but what most of the time they wouldn't be able to tell by themselves. Because they don't have the analytical skills and, of course, also don't know what you need to know because they don't know the internals of the software being worked on. Besides this, it's also a bit of educating them about the software development process.
This is great advice and what I need to here. I asked the question because I bricked today at a tournament under pressure, but I needed to hear this, thanks!
Maybe it's because I'm from GenX and from that era but I still don't get why JS frameworks jump through all these hoops just to avoid server-side programming. Why do all these round trip stuff when you could just render it server-side to begin with?
KF doxxes children, including as young as 5 on record: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbSKeL_WAAAsYwY?format=png (just one coverage of this, there is plenty to find)
That all jibes with my experience. It was in a weird place where if you developed new apps with it using all the best practices, it was probably fine. If you started with the typical single-user app and scaled it up by accretion rather than by design, it ended up being a total mess. But if you were the kind of dev team that was likely to do it the right way, you were likely to pick something client/server instead of FoxPro in the first place.
Sure, if you work in the hottest and most pampered industry in the country and work in the most high paying region in the country you'll make a lot of money and end up rich. And America is great for the rich.

Hard to employ the entire country as software engineers making 400k in SF.
Thank you for all the follow up posts on this thread... It strikes me they're probably taking up as much, if not more, time just in the clarifications!
It is not possible for violence to occur via the internet. And if you believe that posts on the site somehow constitutes harassment to an illegal degree, contact law enforcement.
"The second type of "contractor" is where a services business is established that has numerous clients and/or may hire employees or engage subcontractors, accepts risk for work completed, carries a variety of insurances, manages more complex finances, performs a significant degree of business development to find more clients, etc."

Yeah so in private small/medium general engineering (eg electrical, mechanical, safety, controls etc) it's hard for the organisation to be profitable on any less than AUD200 per hour, paying out 60-70% of that to their best people and less for less experienced, but also slightly lower chargeout.

Larger public companies I am hearing maybe $50 more, but they have really been screwing contractor rates down, while seemingly putting little effort towards overheads.

Genuine talent is getting hard to find, people who can develop design from first principals rather than just what they have seen before (if that) is getting tougher and tougher, mainly because it is a specialised skill but EPC management views all engineers as fungible and hate to pay extra for even obvious talent, fearing a tsunami of rate increase claims from the donkeys.
It's still not great, but I am thinking of the negative externalities of tying up all software developers in tech bubbles, and having such a highly inflated class of worker in your cities.

Taxing those profits more readily might be one way to make the value from these insanely profitable software plays be more fairly distributed across society.
That makes no sense.

If you use Microsoft products you are their customer.

Splitting hairs is a bit silly