skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A disappointing aspect of being a Programmer at 40, 50, or even 60, is that you’ll meet a lot of people, often your managers, who will think of you as an non ambitious loser.
“I used to be a coder but now I’m 32 and the ‘Director of User Experience’ - did you never feel the need to do a little more than coding?”
Trees have their limitations: https://www.dezeen.com/2021/07/05/carbon-climate-change-tree...
I think this is becoming increasingly common for Cloudflar e which sets a bad precedent. They can scream however much they want that they don't want to make these decisions nor do they like to be put on the spot but it doesn't save them from the backlash of being a "curator of the internet".

Moderators get the worst backlash everywhere in the world. The only difference is that Cloudflare continues to refuse the fact that they have quite a lot of power over whose traffic they let through. When you, basically, govern 20% of internet traffic you must take the responsibility for it as well.

This article is a nonsensical shout in the air. Cloudflare, like Google, is not looking over every single request that goes through them. They take these actions after enough noise is raised to highlight the issue. The problem is that Cloudflare will become prone to bullying.

What I mean is that if I have a good number of fanatic followers, I can raise noise against a rival platform and get Cloudflare to, at least, scrutinize it and, at worst, deplatform it. Cloudflare will need to set in place some policies to protect themselves from this.

If Cloudflare does this kind of thing enough times, they will unintentionally become a policing force. That's really not a good place to be in for a business.
Red Hat and (Maybe apple still) have engineering teams in Australia.
I don't think it aimed at being achievable only by few.

They mentioned in the release of the coin that it was celebratory. So if it brings kids to being aware of such puzzles and gets the press to open more eyes to it, it's a bigger win than some super nerdy puzzle designed to hire future analysts.
>StableDiffusion from the original repo will rick roll you if you try to generate something that triggers its NSFW filter.

Just replace in scripts/txt2img.py:

- x_checked_image, has_nsfw_concept = check_safety(x_samples_ddim)

+ x_checked_image = x_samples_ddim

And be done with it.
That proverb isn’t true and stems from a generation that didn’t understand mental health
Revenge porn, rumors, and defamation are already huge problems in society. Being able to generate such things on demand with AI models will make it significantly worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/07/many-re...
How do you intend to generalize this case to other websites with user-generated content? Because the precedent set today is that a single threatening user-generated comment is enough to pull Cloudflare security services for the entire site, regardless of how quickly the website performs their own moderation, as long as it stays up long enough to be screenshotted and passed around on Twitter. That's basically carte blanche to deny service to any website with user generated content whenever you want.

Cloudflare's post the other day seemed like a very reasonable framework for making decisions on issues like this, but Cloudflare's actions today just severely undercut your credibility on this issue.
Why not store the configuration in a dedicated configuration service and let the app fetch them from this configuration server without the need to go through the environment variables layer? Wouldn't it simplify a use case where you have both web and mobile app and have them both fetch configuration in the same way?
If we take them at their word, it's ideological. They seem to be somewhat libertarian and believe they shouldn't interfere except for the most serious cases. If I recall, they've even stated that the 8chan/Daily Stormer decisions might not have been made today.
> And the clear truth is that there is simply not a similar kind of discourse going on on the left. There isn't.

I have personally seen more left wing calls for violence against their politcal opponents than right wing ones. By a factor of about four.

As far as I can tell your assertion is baseless.
I mean, buying a used 2015 model of any major car manufacturer does basically that. Sure it's "used" but it still works and you can get it cheaper.
Pay and benefits are good, 40 h/w + extra when overtime happens, 30 day vacation,....
A shameful decision was made. It had to be justified obviously but still not any more or less terrible.

BTW Cloudflare is effectively hijacking kiwifarms.net by re-directing visitors to their blog page.

When government agencies bust websites associated with criminal activity the most they do after taking control of the homepage is put up a jpeg of the taskforce responsible and a few notes then call it day.
Deglobalization is insanely inflationary. Get ready.

a huge portion of the physical objects the average American interacts with were made by someone who makes an amount of money that would be unthinkable for an American worker. Our standard of living cannot exist without someone to dump that burden on.

I'm 100% in favor of this occurring but just realize that this transition could be hugely painful for most Americans.
Generative models.
It's literally one line of code so you don't generate unexpected boobs. Save your ire for the nannies that won't let you generate NSFW images at all.
There's no soil erosion that goes 13km inland without an accompanying sea-level rise.
Sure. I worked on a legacy (monolith, >5 years old, no automated test coverage) thing and managed the teams that turned it in to a modern (microservices, ci/cd, full test coverage) thing. So, kind of a naturally occurring A/B test.

Five years ago, we deployed once per sprint, and it was a big deal: the test pass takes this many days, the change management team needs this much time, etc. So quite often, finishing a story on day N might mean it goes out on day N+4, but finishing it on day N+1 means it'll take two more weeks, day N+18. That's where the urgency came from: that "tax" of lost time due to infrequent deploys. So there was a lot of pressure to get things into a given sprint. Hence, sprint commitments.

Now, on the same platform but with frequent deploys, we still have pressure to get a story done by a certain day sometimes, but the sprint cadence no longer affects our ability to do that. It goes when it goes. Without that pressue, we realized that sprint commitments didn't serve much purpose, so w stopped doing them, and we haven't missed them.

That's what I was referring to - it's not the sprint that matters, it's the "tax" on deployment time, which varies depending on where you are in the sprint. Take that away, and you stop caring where you are in the sprint, like a teenager in summertime losing track of the days of the week.
Cloudflare still protects all those forums which harm people. Kiwifarms is the only one which was sensationized by the twitter crowd.

Look at crime.to. They still send bomb threats [1], exchange stolen credit card data [2], harass people to the point where they lose their houses [3] (SWATing, breaking in into their house and much more included), and probably more on a daily basis.

Still protected by cloudflare. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me.

[1] https://archive.ph/mOBGB

[2] just browse the forum

[3] https://www.merkur.de/bayern/nuernberg/drachenlord-youtube-w...
JavaScript is trademarked and not related to Java. ECMA should adopt the name “JS”. Just JS, not an acronym. That’s what people call it anyway.
It's basically just a wireless keyboard, phone, ssh client, remote vim/shell, screen sharing device like a chromecast, and a tv
I didn’t mean solitary confinement. The prisoners can interact with other people during their sentence, just not with others prisoners.
Noisy kids in the back.

People with speech problems.

Accent issues.

Driver gets annoyed, curses and looks at the dashboard touchscreen at the wrong moment....
LiveScript would have been better.
Here’s the part that jumped out at me:

> The problem is that Scrum started out as a lightweight wrapper around Extreme Programming (XP) to make it palatable to management, and it is all that extra cruft that people of added that is the problem.

Look at that statement, and then let’s abstract it and make it a bit more “polymorphic.”

The problem is that process ______ started out as a wrapper around idea/adhoc practice _______ to make it include management, and it is all the other crap that is added that is the problem.

Every time management gets involved with the teams I work on, this is what happens. I hear tales of people who have “helpful” management. Some of my managers have been the nicest guys, and tried to do well by me. But because they’re not part of the team, they rarely add value, but rather burden the team with their non value adding presence.

(Kinda ranty, I know, I’m just channeling the OP which was titled a rant, I guess)
There are definitely bullying, abusive people out there in academia (just as there are in industry too). I think the references thing you mention is one reason why so many people seem to put up with it.

But there are also very many extremely caring, dedicated people in academia, who love mentoring and building up their students and postdocs.

One major challenge, especially in STEM, is that the main way to tell the abusive apart from the supportive is through watercooler/gossip networks -- but so many young college graduates in STEM fields find gossiping distasteful, or don't see the nature of the mentor/mentee relationship as being super critical, or feel awkward asking lab members what they think when they visit, or don't feel like they have the social capital to spend asking, or just plain worry that the question itself will speak poorly of them -- and as a result they often don't find out what they're in for until they're in it and it's too late to extricate.

Committing to work for someone for 5 years is a huge deal, and you should be pretty sure you'll have a good working relationship before you start!
'"Let's be very honest again," Bolden said in a 2014 interview. "We don't have a commercially available heavy lift vehicle. Falcon 9 Heavy may someday come about. It's on the drawing board right now. SLS is real."'
Hackers caused a traffic jam in Moscow using a ride-hailing app
Depends, really. Most software is doing basic CRUD and efforts can be estimated reasonably well. Some other software, like your example suggests, is literally rocket science. But even here estimates are typically not too far off.
I've been using the HuggingFace diffuses repo[1] with 6GB of VRAM fine.

It's well engineered, maintainable and with decent installation process.

The branch in this PR[2] adds M1 Mac support with a one line patch and it runs faster than the CompVis version (1.5 iterations/sec vs 1.4 for CompVis on a 32 Gb M1 Max,

I highly recommend people switching to that version for the improved flexibility.

[1] https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers

[2] https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/278
No. I'm afraid you misread. I self-studied in 2017, while working on my own startup (and living on under $1k/month).
Can’t you just call it ECMAScript, or are they somehow different these days?

Guy Steele told me once that Sun registered it with ECMA so they could tell people (governments?) that it was a registered standard and that ECMA was the easiest/fastest/most compliant way to get there.

I’d always thought that ECMA was a weird place to register it.
What if you threaten the life of Jeff Bezos or Amazon employees online?
Attacks on Samsung?

The best way to prevent illegitimate data collection is to run software made by people who don't have it as their business model.

E.g.: Lineage OS.
As I explained above I didn’t mean solitary confinement. I meant simply not mixing with other prisoners. They should be able to see counselors, educators, visitors, etc.
It may happen some time, more likely when the problems being solved are less interesting than the hobby programming. But I'll be programming either way. :-)
Probably for the same reason that upon hearing “your call is important to us” you instantly know that the call center is understaffed, the company has no interest in talking to you, you’ll be hearing that elevator music for quite a while longer, and call centers are a cost center.

While technically possible, it would cost slightly more money to actually make it happen and so it isn’t done.

Or maybe it used to work that way 20 years ago when the flow was designed and ever since it’s been changed over and over no one actually bothered to look into it: the requirements was just “make it ask the same things as it always did” without wondering “why”.
It's the same at the doctor's or dentist's. Every time I got they hand me a paper form and ask me to fill it out even though they already have my info. They could just ask "has anything changed" but nope. They could also do it all online before I get there but nope. If they're required to file they could print out the info and just ask me to verify then sign it but nope.

As for the phone tree, FAAMG is no better
It is very likely that people in the core technical teams are not even aware that Oracle owns the Javascript trademark.
As they mentioned in their article on Wednesday, cutting service to site A means that they're going to get a lot of angry people and/or governments wondering why they could dare to provide service for the equally vile (in their eyes) sites B, C, and D. They've just exacerbated this situation.
Most people can't communicate effectively. They can write words and make sounds, but the amount of accurate information being transferred is minimal.

Programmers gets all the shit when others can't communicate, since it isn't until you actually try to write it down into a program that all the missing pieces people failed to communicate upstream start to show up. Programmers jobs wouldn't be hard if other people actually knew how to communicate properly.
IF the above is true, it sounds more like a convenient excuse to do what you’ve wanted to do all along.
>Why is that a problem, exactly?

Do you really need someone to spell out to you why being able to create realistic-looking porn of anyone might lead to some issues...?

>Someone wants to generate porn of me fucking a donkey? Let them. They already could do that with ms-paint and I don't get magically harmed if they do.

What an absolutely wild take. Do you expect this line of thinking to be convincing when you're comparing AI-generated images to what someone can whip together in MS Paint? Come on. You, me, and everyone else reading here knows that's not even close to a valid comparison.
> What did the US government tell companies en masse to redact

https://reclaimthenet.org/emails-facebook-coordinating-with-...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/over-50-biden-administra...

I trust you can find many more links about this topic. As a side note, this is the part we have just learned. Is that all of it? FBI just told us it routinely instructs social media companies about which content they'd like suppressed. And, as we know, they get their wishes.

> what consequences did they threaten them with if they didn't

How would I know? I wasn't there. I know which consequences US Federal Government can visit on you if it really hates you, and that's a real lot of bad consequences. How it went on those meetings - I have no idea. Maybe they didn't even need to threaten - though they certainly did in public - the President accused Facebook of "killing people". Do you thing if the Supreme Commander of the US Army and the head of US Federal Executive tells you you're killing people and need to stop it - it's not something you need to think really really hard about?

> Just as a reminder, we do not live in the USSR

I know, I've been there. We're not. But we're inching closer and closer to there. When it'd become obvious, it'd be too late to complain - by then, any complaint outside of the boundaries of your private kitchen will land you is a big trouble. Better complain while it's still allowed.
I have been surprised/hurt at the lack of these opportunities. I make myself very available to interns, sometimes, we stumble on great discussions, but they insist on doing it all on their own. People closer to my cohort often reach out for mentoring. I don’t know if it’s an ageism thing, or I’m just an asshole and I can’t see it, or what. I’ve decided to quit trying so hard to “give to the following generation”. I’m glad to share, but it’s not worth my own sense of “not mattering anymore.”
I for one couldn't tell whether the poster you're responding to is writing sarcastically or not. ("Most people are vegan" really?)

That said...

> That said, you're countering a researched article, and the experiences of the vast majority of people in this thread, with...your anecdatum.

The article claims the following:

> For example, a recent large survey-based Swedish study (with 38 918 participants) on academic bullying revealed that 1 in 15 people have experienced academic bullying over the past years

I'd be shocked if the number of workers experiencing workplace bullying in industry is much less than "1 in 15"...
Samsung offers accidental backups to their users!†

†Contents of backups not assured. Data retrieval not guaranteed. No removal procedure. Access control is on a come and get it basis.
Are you for real? It takes 30s on KF to realize that the whole purpose is harassment. It has entire subforums targeting individuals. The quality of the moderation is not the issue here.
Master Foo and the Recruiter walk into a Bar.
That is fine until your side ends up on the unsafe list.

Maybe you think if there is a place that is too critical to these marginalized groups that is unsafe and should be blocked. Ok, but then what happens when somebody who doesn't agree with you gets into the a position of power? They could easily say if you support trans then you are indoctrinating kids and that is unsafe and block all LGBT websites.

You are advocating for an arms race. Are you sure you can win?
They don't lack measures, they lack motivation. They are not inclined to to protect any kind of marginalized community. Never have been, and they never will be.

Protecting copyright reinforces the system -the status quo. There's a financial motive, there's a social motive. That's why you see a lot more action on that front.

Protecting the marginalized is against the interest of far-right aligned groups (many, many, many law enforcement people happen to be far right, as do many in the judiciary, and FBI) -they see the silencing of "freaks" and LGBT people as being a Good Thing. Therefore Law Enforcement is anti-motivated, and the time (AND MONEY) that they spend on cases they don't care about to begin with is TIME AND MONEY taken away from persuing things like...policing copyright, or engaging in civil forfeiture or other profit-driven activities.

It isn't peculiar when you think it through. Disgusting and absolutely depressing -yes. But not peculiar. It makes perfect sense from their point of view.
Companies can not be trusted with your data. Don't give it to them.
Could you successfully argue that its generic at this point? I strongly doubt anyone seriously thinks when you talk about Javascript, you're talking about only products and tools made by Oracle.
I believe ECMAScript is the specification of which JavaScript is an implementation.
Samsung is so bad at what they do. They have demonstrated over and over that they have no regard for security or their users. Their phones are preloaded with so much useless barely functional crap, and they pretty much wrote the book on corruption in Korea.
> by all the bigots that were offended by having two women kissing in the movie

It's bigotry when someone disagrees?
Yes, the megalomania of someone who makes their code and models freely available.
Warning: desktop app is Electron.
That's one of the reasons I work for a small company. There's just one boss, and he's also what in the US would probably be called VP, both formally and informally (there's a difference between the formal and informal hierarchy). He knows his limits, is technically adept although he doesn't know much about programming, and just cares about usability. As a consequence, there's no politics, no endless meetings (yes, I've done Agile too elsewhere, with those retrospectives, planning meetings and pointless burndown charts). There's no other team blocking me or forcing me to do something differently (because of course teams are self-organizing, but heaven forbid if you do something that touches the domain of another team). The salary is somewhat lower, but I actually enjoy my job.

Middle management is just nepotism, where incompetent/not-caring managers hire from their network to gain power.
> hate all the garbage they default install.

In India, samsung reinstalls new garbage bloatware with every update. I have to take my mom's phone and uninstall every one of them after every update. Thats the only way they keep prices low I think.
Good. Nice article and nice looking blog. But should have been a private letter to let Oracle save the face of "coming up with this goodwill gesture themselves".
Path syntax with shell globbing is the query language.
They indeed are. One of the main reasons I paid good money for a Keychron Q6 keyboard was that it has a volume knob. So much better/faster than dealing with moving the mouse to volume icon and scrolling.
Didn’t Cloudflare knock a ton of right wing sites offline during the 2020 elections? I could have sworn it was around the time they kicked Trump off of Twitter and then all these sites started being “removed” by Cloudflare.
Spending five large on a conventional bike would get you a status symbol—you’d come off as a cyclist for sure. For that matter, spending that dough on a Vespa would infuse you with an Aperol-tinged Italianate cool. You’d want to be seen arriving on your moped. But I don’t want anybody seeing me on my e-bike. It’s just kind of embarrassing.

Vehicles have symbolic value, like it or not. Cars denote freedom; commuter bikes imply, for better or worse, jerkitude or tweeness; motorcycles are cool; e-scooters are for douchebros. But e-bikes bear no clear character.

Even the sonic pleasures of motorized or nonmotorized two-wheelers are up for grabs. A motorcycle signals power (and maybe a caricature of outmoded masculinity) from its exhaust. But a bicycle makes no noise apart from the whir of its crankshaft and the chu-chunk of its derailleurs. My e-bike is pretty quiet, but the motor does whine at me when it engages. The battery, attached to the frame like a water bottle, also rattled like a jalopy before I strapped it fast to the down tube. At every moment, the e-bike reminds you that it’s not quite a bicycle, nor yet a motorbike.

A certain Fran Blanche shouts "Get a grip, dude" when reading out viewers' comments like this, shakes her head and moves on to the next one. "A motorcycle signals power [...] from its exhaust", and the exhaust is where these power-signalling exhaust-tuners can go together with their deafening noisy, dangerous and pollution-heavy vehicles. as can this crap article that is predicated on an almost completely unreflected, superficial report of the author's irrational and arbitrary value perceptions. Earned a [flagged] for the right reasons IMO.
I am guessing that Oracle is worried that if they give up (or somehow lose) the JavaScript trademark, that may threaten their ownership of the Java trademark - the later is far more important to them than the former.
> Agile Manifesto states: The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.

I refute this claim explicitly.

Written communications which are competently complete are superior to face to face in that memory and real time interpretation fail in comparison to the availability of objectively empirical reference.

The operating imperative is “complete”, and that all sides are “competently” literate.