skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you can't have it both ways. You can think firefighters should be a public entity run for the public good, or you can think firefighters ought to be private entities, and therefore that they should have discretion about who they provide service to. It'd be nonsense to say "they're private, except when they do things I don't like."

In the US, the way we apply this to private corporations is by calling them "utilities" and subjecting them to stringent regulation.

So do you support Cloudflare and other such companies being recognized as public utilities, like phone or electricity? Because that's what you're asking for, and honestly, I might take you up on it, even if this is the price. You just may not like what other regulations they might end up subjected to.
The article is misleading, the law says sex not gender.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Low-traffic neighborhoods, grassy tram tracks for sound dampening, protected bike lanes, etc are also possible and not utopian. We do ourselves a disservice if we think about them as some unattainable ideal. They exist, right now.
>I know one thing, I will not be letting my children near discord

Ten years later: why is my kid such a loner?

Discord is the main persistent group chat service in the west (telegram seems popular in the third world except for China). It's used for virtually everything. Socially it's almost equivalent to cutting your kids from any online chat.

Honestly, I would consider a total ban a mild form of child abuse.
You just proved my point by missing it, I'm impressed.

> Fahrenheit has nearly twice the integer resolution of Celsius. This is particularly helpful in describing body temperature.

Yet medical practitioners insist on using Celsius in the most of the world, what fools!

> 0 Fahrenheit is close to the typical minimum temperature, and 100 close to the typical maximum temperature, which can be tolerated by humans. Celsius 0 and 100 aren't even remotely close to this: it's surprisingly awful.

I am very rarely exposed to 0 F, in fact, I actively go out of my way to avoid it by seeking shelter during blizzards while on mountain tops.

You're more likely to encounter 0 F in a continental country, but in my temperate maritime climate country, a populated locale hitting -10 C / 14 F is big news, and only rarely would it get to -4 C / 25 F where I live. In other words, I have very little use case for 0 - 32 F.

So its intuitiveness to you, is opaqueness to me. Because you grew up with Fahrenheit, and I grew up with Celsius.

Scientists do use Celsius and Fahrenheit sometimes, unless your definition of scientist excludes everyone who isn't a chemist or physicist.

TL;DR - you prefer Fahrenheit because you think in it. I prefer Celsius because I think in it.
One of many, many comments saying that the country I hold a citizenship in should be eliminated; the land it exists on is "occupied"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32701383

Threats that what happened in Germany in the 30s will happen again, and it's deserved:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32701442

People blaming Jews/Jewish conspiracies for various actions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32692308

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32691199

I'd like to point out that I understand what's "vile" to one person isn't to another. I've had my posts reported as "hate speech" on reddit for saying that "the Fat Acceptance movement is dangerous" and that "Obesity is wrong."

Banned speech should have a very high bar -- direct, specific threats of physical harm.
I found the intro of one of the kings quest games run through SD a few days ago, but can't seem to find it now. It wasn't that impressive since I guess there wasn't much fine tuning going on, but I liked the general idea. It had a few funny hiccups, but I'd have expected much more erratic behavior, because there is no information shared between frames (I guess). But maybe this concept can be improved upon?
Weird. We started building a Mille Bornes clone game at work last week based on a particular data problem we are facing.

This game is great. Practice yelling in French.
Grammarly actively discriminates against blind people (2020)
I've seen 12 Angry Men it was impressive when I was in highschool, but now it seems like there were a lot of aspects of it which had holes. Protagonists were on the right, but they needed to do more, it isn't super convincing to me.
Answer (12 yr crypto dev & veteran):

Number of nodes is a poor metric that is easily gamified (pumped up), presenting an artificial picture. If a blockchain's economics purposefully incentivizes nodes, then number-of-nodes is entirely subsidized, in one common example.

Further, the "Sybil" factor - which one party controls many nodes - and other centralizing factors - e.g. 90% of nodes are on Big Cloud - also complicates the number-of-nodes use as a simple metric and useful comparator.
Recently I read the Great Gatsby and I wanted to look online to see how accurate the movie was to the book and if it was worth watching. There was a couple of blog posts, but I realized there was no go-to platform for viewing a film's accuracy to the book it was based on, as far as I could find. So, I made NovFilm.

NovFilm allows users to rate a film's accuracy to a book and discuss what they thought of both of them, and point out similarities and differences. The "Faithfulness Score" is the average of all the rating of a film's tendency to stick to its source material.

Tell me what you think!
In Europe there's a whole class of vehicles that are just enclosed quadricycles. They're limited to 45km/h and have some sort of weight limit, but they're great "city cars".

A lot of electric ones have been popping up, although many of them are closer to the $5000-9000 price point.
This reminds me a little of the cuban offline network (https://www.fastcompany.com/3048163/in-cuba-an-underground-n...)
That's in Christianity too, a good tree produces good fruits. Judge a person by their fruits, ect.

Programming requires more conscious specificity than faith wants to indulge in, so we need more than it.
Agreed. Immunotherapy is a great start but it is only applicable for a very small section of cancer patients. I hope we can look back at our current treatments as barbaric once we unlock more specific treatments. Cancer also isn't a one size fits all, it might end up as a lot of similarly manifesting diseases that don't have a general holy grail fix.
Have you read through it? I have. I don’t want to do it again.

Sounds like we’re not going to come to a conclusion here, which is fine.
> estimated cost of 51% attack

Someone already built that one here: https://www.crypto51.app/
Nitrogen Fertilizer production is a base for the modern world that billions would die without, and with no identified economic replacement. It relies on fossil fuel to be produced. It is produced in the 100s of millions of metric tons a year.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nitrogen_fertilizer_con...]

The closest non-fossil fuel alternatives are various types of hydrolysis, which at current natural gas prices on the US are 3-10x more expensive per kg of hydrogen produced.

If you want world population to drop precipitously, make it expensive to produce THAT.
The zeitgeist of the 2020's is about acceptable censorship and the "bad guys" who should be removed from "polite discussion."

Everyone is very careful to explain "how the government shouldn't be banning people... but thank god corporations will do it."

I don't know how we get past this.
This is more about cities seemingly being hollowed out by gentrification than just the new development.

How much are gentrification patterns in cities like the Game of Life, a cool hip area gentrifies stultifies, rots, then is reborn.
A lot of tagging programs add them as they just get appended or prepended to the file regardless their content. Sometimes one program reads a format but writes in the other, I have personally found a FLAC in the wild with ID3v2 at the front, ID3 at the back (corrupt) and FLAC metadata as well. The FLAC metadata inside was wrong, the valid one was outside at the front (sadly it was a broken JIS encoding).

There is no sane approach to media. Between legacy formats, legacy tagging, and all kinds of implementation specific bugs, you are in for a ride if you want to cater to more than one decoder out there :)
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The count is "reachable nodes", which is a fraction of the number of total nodes. Most people don't open a port to allow incoming connections and their node will only make outgoing ones. Bitcoin has closer to 50k users running Bitcoin Core, with many others using SPV wallets like Electrum.

https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/histor...
yeah. it is funny. I defend it on the merits: Kiwifarms is a funny site and it deserves to exist. you're just pointing and sputtering, as if I'm saying something obviously preposterous, but I'm not.

the idea that a website ought to be completely erased from the internet just because people on it say mean things is a very new idea, and one that I haven't been convinced by.

if you don't like it, just don't visit.
Good people do make good code, they aren't spared the struggle of life. His attempt at working would be seen as good. He didn't experience a moral failing, for failing to produce commercially viable code.
What would you have Hungarians do? The comment above yours seems to suggest that it's ecologically irresponsible to live in hot climates where AC is required, but also ecologically irresponsible to live in cold climates where heating is required. Hungary has a temperate climate, but the summers there still get dangerously hot, and the winters dangerously cold.

Why did Hungary remove protection for forests to allow people to collect firewood? Presumably because they think it's necessary. So what would you have them do instead, abandon their country?
There's a lot of incorrect things in this, but to address the incorrect thing most relevant to this discussion:

What you are asking for is called compelled speech. If what you think "free speech" is were true, the government could force newspapers and online news websites to publish articles written by the government that they do not agree with.
Less the "imperial" part and more the "almost whole"---it would work just as well if the pages were say 20cm by 30cm---but it is very convenient when doing layout (both electronic and physical) that both the content and the margin are "nice round numbers", and the natural divisions are also nice round numbers that you can easily measure with a standard ruler. 1/2" margins all round? Then the area is 7½ by 10. Printing a 2-up booklet? Each page is 5½ by 8½, exactly. If I had to design the size from scratch to optimise this property I'd probably go with 8"×12" (or 20cm×30cm!) but I assume there's some older printshop standard we're inheriting from here.

Not saying A4's not good. Just acknowledging that "nice round numbers" are convenient sometimes. Standards that use US-traditional measurements seem to do better at that for some reason.
I'm not sure Microsoft agrees with that statement.
Anyone can SWAT anyone with enough personal information and a cell phone. You cannot stop swatting by taking down a forum like KF- because a swatting attack is trivial to execute, and can be falsely attributed to any party.

If I started swatting people I read about in the newspaper or yellow pages, would the newspaper or yellow pages be to blame? Should they be taken down? Should the new york times be refused service by cloudflare? Should WikiLeaks or Charlie Hebdo have their domains taken down and their IPs revoked?

The whole world is not some sort of first-world bubble where we can all safely live our lives and log into our coporatist social media at the end of the day. We have to come to terms with the fact that journalism and free speech is inherently risky but necessary for the maintenance of free society. I mean look at what happened with the panama papers or arab spring, everyone involved gets assassinated and the movements are just completely dismantled by the surveillance system within a decade. The USA is a massive exporter of the means of surveillance to the third world, and this is sort of what we are entertaining with this type of reasoning.
At the start of the article it says Russian troops get paid $50K if they are wounded (presumably lightly, for the scheme to work). Color me skeptical, but I seriously doubt that. Russia is not that rich or that generous.
Compared to the shit sysadmins normally have to deal with, setting up nodes and spinning up custom nets is a breeze in recent years.
I have about 2000 gbp worth of headphone gear (I’m not an audiophile, but I do like good sound)

;-)
No one has a right to use Cloudflare DDOS protection services. No one has a right to a twitter account. No one has a right to force companies to host their bigotry. This isn't how rights work.
I guess I expected that if you wanted to see sources you would retort with your own published sources.
Answer (0 yr crypto dev & veteran):

I start a new coin call $FOO. I release 1,000,000 coins. I sell one coin to a friend for $1,0000, and keep the remaining 999,999 coins for myself. The market cap is now $100M.

> Number of nodes is a poor metric that is easily gamified (pumped up), presenting an artificial picture.

You can game either one.
It's had an angry mob of copyright fanatics targeting it since it's inception
> The AFW system uses a lidar-sensor infrastructure that locates vehicle position and at the same time detects obstacles in the factory environment. Seoul Robotics’ lidar-detection software uses the static monitoring sensors to create a digital twin of the environment, including object classification and positioning for the vehicles. Then, Embotech’s motion planner sends control commands to the driverless vehicles via mobile radio.

I suppose this remote control then stays in the car for nefarious ^H well-meaning parties to take over?
It's funny that there's contention on this. Here's someone trying to answer the question in 2002:

> The purpose of this document is to answer the question "When did we start seeing web-forms that captured credit-card details, and passed them to CGI-scripts, thereby enabling interaction with server-side applications

<http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/WCBirth.html>
I'm generally extremely allergic to time-based micro-estimation like this, but it sounds like you've got the rare healthy implementation of it. (Or as healthy as it can get, at least.)

Two questions, if you don't mind:

1. One of the biggest dangers of time-based estimation is the cultural danger around the "penalty for getting it wrong." It's got quite a lot of gravity to it, in my experience. Once there are time-based estimates for tiny bite-sized amounts of work, it's a hop-skip-jump to the toxicity of "holding people accountable for their commitments."

It sounds like you, as the team manager, are the one preventing this backslide. How do you think about maintaining a healthy culture around this when you go on vacation, get distracted, get promoted, etc?

2. What if a new discovery happens mid-week? Specifically, what if it's the kind of discovery that invalidates the current plan, so that finishing your "committed" work would be worthless (or actively negative) for the business?
My LG TV has a new Agreement.

I guess I’ll just unplug the network table, assuming it can’t tunnel back up the HDMI cable to my Apple TV.
> Nobody has ever suggested that Asshurt was a part of the daily stormer, she wasn't.

Then why link the slurs at all to accompany the argument?

> It was also a bizarre choice to defend weev, both from a legal and moral point of view. tptacek explained it well at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5978686

On that same page you linked there are about as many people in favor as against, tptacek's word is not the law regardless of his competency, and it sure wasn't as uncontroversial as you make it out to be.
Thank you for both notes!
On the other hand, I found the slides wildly entertaining. To each his own.
50% at the highest setting.
>building export power connections to Europe

Those export connections are there to benefit Germany industry who basically shut down some domestic production, because "green", and is instead importing its deficit from the others, raising the prices for everyone.

Portugal and Spain together are the only ones not connected to the shared grid and now have the cheapest energy prices in Europe, with Germany mumbling about it that this should change. Well done guys.
If this site and its users were transported back to the 50's, they would be begging ma bell and the baby bells to ban the phone calls of people they dislike. "They are too dangerous!" and "They are harming XXXXXX communities!"

If the alternative to this mob rule is regulation, then yes bring it on.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire. Today he would be castigated and crucified by well-meaning fools.
Oops, I missed that part when I read the comment I was replying to. Thanks.
Ya that paragraph is ripe for cherry picking that often quoted nugget. But right after it is "we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%". And further along, "the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail." That one I think is the most important. You don't even know what you should optimize until you measure. You could end up spending a lot of time and energy on the wrong problem.
> CDs were already seen as inferior to records quality-wise, and speakers had to be huge if possible

Doesn't sound very scientific to me.

> How does the audio quality compare?

Why compare with an old system from the 80s? I got to hear a friend's friend's modern audiophile setup. A dedicated room with Wilson Audio speakers (totally overpriced but amazing), high-end DAC, high-end amp... It was bliss. One of these $50K+ setup but bliss. This is nothing like a laptop, a soundbar or a Sonos.

> Or do the new multi room systems play in the same league as the old system that were used by enthusiasts?

I wouldn't be suprised they'd actually be better than these old systems. But they don't play in the same league as actual modern audiophile setups.
You don’t think someone should be able to make content and distribute it?
Contrasting Intel AMX and Apple AMX
I was similar; an embedded C++ engineer moving into web dev to get a project off the ground.

If you're going to write a modern web frontend like Next and Tailwind (which I agree is the right call) then I think continuing to use Typescript for your backend makes sense for sheer development velocity. Like https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app

I'd advise against Heroku compared to hosts like Vercel, Railway, Planetscale, etc.
I found this policy note that provides a decent overview of the research linking energy and educational. Results are mixed. I am still biased towards the link being there (study finding no link studies 200 students over 3 months, whereas the study finding a link was over 3 years with 10,000 students).

https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/40418-poli...
Well, to be fair: quantum computers can do practical computations—but because “normal” computers are so unbelievably well developed, it is not practical to do them with quantum computers.

The earliest era of computing was mechanical. The mechanism of thermionic transmission (vacuum tubes) was invented by Edison in 1883. The Colossus computer, with thousands of vacuum tubes, was the first practical use of vacuum tubes for computation, in 1943. We cannot yet assemble thousands of qubits together. Once we can do that, we will be able to perform many useful functions. However, even with thousands of qubits, many of the functions will be more practical to run on a classical computer (because classical computers are amazing and continue to develop).
This is a stupid clichee even on its on terms, but it doesn't even apply here, since shutting down Kiwi Farms does not just impose consequences on speech, it actually directly suppresses speech.
Personally I use FLAC for archiving purposes, to preserve a copy of my physical CDs. They're available in my home Plex server, but they'll get converted to a lossy format if synced to save some storage space on that device.
After reading this article about Go vs Rust, I don't think I can use Go anymore. It's simply not well designed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25616593
Decade and a half then.
ecto and phoenix are shining examples of well written docs but its hardly the standard for elixir as a whole. many of the docs for most libraries are just lists of functions. some might have a short description though you're usually relying on a dialyzer definition at best.
It is not without merit to assume the counter-argument is made in a bad faith. The discussion is about wider implications of deplatforming a specific site based on the mob justice of small group of people instead of legal proceedings where each side would be able to defend their position. It is also about the discrepancy between accusations and facts because the subject has become so distorted.

Last but not least, "...I would kick such people out of the healthcare system or make them pay more for living obese unhealthy lives." by Febra33 [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29286944#29287326 / https://web.archive.org/web/20220905202953/https://news.ycom...

Take from that what you will.
The Nazis also breathed air; that doesn't make breathing air immediately suspect.

Can we think of some good reasons for suppression of communication? I can name several (disruption of ongoing stochastic terrorism, disruption of immediate harassment process, failure to comply with the TOS of a private corporation voluntarily doing business with the offending party, use of network compromising service provision for third parties in the same system), and many of them apply to the KF situation.
What is supposedly being suppressed by Cloudflair is kiwifarm's ability to coordinate violent harassment campaigns against vulnerable individuals. I'm pretty sure neither the US nor any nation state includes immediate, credible threats of and facilitation of violence in their concept of Freedom Of Speech.

Moreover, I don't think it's new for a communication company to suppress such things. The problem as Cloudflair notes, is that while this isn't their job, the courts and states who should be suppressing and prosecuting Kiwifarm are falling down on the job.
What's the difference between a BA and a PM?
If you're not using it as a template language though, why use PHP in the first place? Having to use a separate framework puts it on equal footing with every other language.
Huh, I was under the impression, that it was based on turnstile and was sure, that I saw that somewhere, but now I cannot find any indication of it being the case. So maybe I am mistaken.

Nevermind then, turnstile is still something fitting for this topic : )