skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On and before May 2021, the death rate is about one per month. It's pretty much impossible that just by chance there would be seven consecutive months with no deaths

That's possible, but it's worth pointing out that only unnatural deaths are cataloged. This does not include deaths by a natural cause.
> Why are Californians like this?

They aren't Californians if they moved away from California.

Also all of the people that I know who moved from California weren't liberals. They did act/vote like NIMBYs, but they weren't liberals.
I realized everyone wants to pile on Uber for a multitude of reasons, but this article misses a huge macro problem - that’s the transportation industry as a whole has never been profitable.

While yes, their are rare expeditions (Southwest), airlines / buses / etc has never been a profitable sector.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gabeklein/2019/04/23/why-making...
>Shouting “fire!” In a crowded room is not free speech

stop using this dumb analogy. it was invented to justify prosecuting people for speaking out against the draft, and it was later denounced by the very person who coined it.

in this case it's more like: a random person who never went to the theatre before shouted fire in the theatre, the person was summarily booted from the premises and banned by the theatre staff. then later on the police come by and shut down the theatre because they hosted fire-shouters.
Why is Uber not profitable?

The taxi business is profitable business and Uber launched app-based taxis.

So I expect Uber is not profitable because of conscious choices, not because the business has "no road to profitability".
I don't think this is necessarily exclusive to Serverless, rather any event-driven architecture. I work with a mostly event-driven (via GCP Pub/Sub) microservices backend, and adopting statelessness and idempotency where possible massively simplifies application logic.

Without idempotency your transient error retry logic becomes really complicated. You need to handle which stage(s) have completed successfully and which failed, which then makes your service stateful.

All this complexity comes from a lack of idempotency, if you can get rid of that, you could just Nack the message and let Pub/Sub retry it automatically with exponential backoff.
Calling well-established science replicated over many years and large-n studies “dodgy” simply doesn’t make it so.
Side note but I take offense reading things like this: "The company bet big on formalizing its program of worker misclassification, teaming up with Lyft and other gig-work companies to spend $225m to pass California's Proposition 22, which would allow the company to abuse its drivers with impunity."

Both the left and the right tend to claim that election results are rigged, but of course only when they don't like it.

Prop 22 was directly voted by the people of California with a relatively huge margin for a Proposition - 58%. Yes Uber etc spend a lot of money promoting it but many other Props with big money support have failed. Treating voters like sheep that vote on whatever is being advertised is naive and dangerous.

The right will do the same thing, usually not claiming money influence but rather using the fact that big media is mostly left leaning.

Both sides have to trust the voters may know what they want and perhaps it wasn't the money or the articles that drove the election results, but policies.
Here’s how: Don’t allow user generated content unless you can effectively moderate it. That should go for FB as well. We don’t need to start from the assumption that these services must or even should exist. If you can’t moderate, don’t build something that allows strangers to put information in front of millions of other strangers!

Note that if you simply don’t want to moderate content (ie free speech absolutist), that’s a much different argument than you can’t do it effectively. If you want to and can’t do it, then don’t.
It’s already back at the .ru TLD with ddos-guard
Flagged the submission for misleading title.
What reason is there for not pushing the server to GitHub now?
> how can we expect the shrinking hobbyist segment of the internet to manage?

By moderating early and often.

KF created an atmosphere where doxxing and harassment were tolerated, accepted, and lauded. The easiest way to survive as a hobbyist is "Don't do that." Set up clear policies that discourage harassment early and enforce them.
They are identical to me. I have never showed signs of color blindness in such tests.
Gab CEO made the same claim when gab was banned everywhere. He said there was a suspicious increase in really bad content a few days before.

Obviously it’s completely unverifiable, but in the timeframes we are talking, if 30 minutes is too long to remove bad content, it’s super easy for any bad actor to take down any forum on the internet.

The precedents set here are terrible.
> Can anyone dispute those accusations?

Guilty until proven innocent. And naturally we’ll take away your freedom of speech since your guilty, and also generally disregard anything you have to say to defend yourself, we don’t listen to someone guilty of a crime.
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It's fine if haskell is not mainstream, as long as people experiment radical ideas with it.
Because if we banned sites for causing suicides then Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok would be off the internet.
I’m not pro censorship but you’re making a huge leap saying we need to be regularly exposed to radical ideologies in order to identify radical ideologies? Why would that be true?

Frequent exposure to something normalizes that thing, it doesn’t make it stick out and be more identifiable.
> Free speech is free speech and must be protected at all costs

[citation needed]. Even IRL law in extremely pro-free-speech nations is rife with "imminent threat of danger" exceptions to their laws.
You didn’t though. It is obvious you have an attitude towards the access of underage children to cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers that differs from that of evidence-based medicine, such as that practiced in Sweden or the UK where such access has been severely curtailed.
> The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained

How can you be ultra naive and give talks and publish an article?

No wonder the billionairres rolled their eyes.

Not defending the billionaires here in case HN hippies make angry noises.
Why is Hacker News giving a platform for Kiwi Farms?
All this hand-wringing over a troll site losing its DDoS protection, and meanwhile Apple and Google blow away people's entire livelihoods at random and everyone hardly even blinks.
Ah right, that makes sense.
Agency inventories of AI use cases
Very sensible advice to not pass on dangerous toys after things in them have been banned:

> Here, we have investigated levels of these compounds in toys and childcare products that were purchased prior to and after legislation on stricter exposure levels was implemented (total of 157 items, 54 and 103 new and old, respectively). We found that a larger portion of older toys and items (83.5%) contained amounts that exceed legal limits, compared to newer toys and items (29.6%). Concentrations of DEHP, BBP, DIDP, and SCCPs were significantly higher in old items, and both DEHP and DINP were found at concentrations exceeding 400,000 mg/kg in several old balls, which is approximately 40% of the weight of the toy, and 400 times above the legal limit. These findings indicate that old toys have the potential to pose a greater risk to children, and that regulations can be useful tools to protect children from exposure to toxic chemicals. We also stress that the waste framework directive, which urges reuse and repurposing of objects such as second hand items used for dress-up play, can lead to continued exposure via chemicals in older items. We conclude that movement towards circular economy threatens to expose children from legacy compounds already restricted on the market if efforts are not made to remove these items from circulation.

I guess we've been through this a few times, with lead in paint, and old prams that cut fingers off, second-hand cars for young drivers and so on.
Publicly calling someone a rapist can very well get someone injured or killed. Unless you’re a victim whose pleas are being completely ignored by the legal system, it’s not justifiable and not something that should be taken as anything but a threat to someone’s life.

I have no clue who these people are or what the situation is, but I’ve seen more than enough angry mobs appear out of nowhere after an accusation of a crime.
Thanks for replying! Yes, that's a way. I nearly managed to pull it off a few years ago, but ended up being more relevant on the non-dev stuff, and that led me to the wrong track (as in, not the one I wanted, but the one paying me more). I got better and better as a PM and now it's hard to convince anyone that they should let me go to a less strategic role. In the sense that developers are often executing the roadmap, not defining it (at least where I am), and paying me for (slow) execution only is kind of a waste of my domain knowledged and experience. But you're right, trying internally may be the best/safest way.
There are really several levels of concern as far as I can tell.

1. Temporary disruptions (short term)

2. Temporary disruptions (drawn out)

3. The World Has Changed

1 is really about everyone hoarding TP, "the wheat runs out" between $whenever and the next harvest, etc. It's annoying, but nobody really dies. Just a lot of discomfort.

2 is more when you have to do a cold start of a national grid after a REAL blackout. No electricity for weeks or months. Maybe some deaths, but in the end society basically stays running even though a big thing happens.

3 is a nuclear war, an air-transmissible disease with a 30% fatality rate, etc. The event will eventually end but the world has definitely changed.

Lots of people are prepared for 1, and "the preppers" that folks like to make fun of are in pretty good shape for 2. Almost nobody is prepared for 3 and to try and be prepared for it in a way other than building a self-sustaining community seems like a fool's errand.
This website is notorious for clickbait. This article doesn’t really contribute any value.
You do know that the employee can simply sue you.

If you're running a business you have duty of care obligations as a Director.

You seem to be completely ignorant of the seriousness of situations like this.
It would be quite ironic if hydrogen vehicles ended up beating electric. Though it seems sort of silly given that hydrogen must be converted into electricity, but who knows.
This is very non-content to be honest. The main claim here is:

> This seems to be based off one of two things (lists two cases)

But it's just guesswork, we don't know if and what cf saw and what was reported to any law enforcement.

Random possible alternative: Cloudflare got a considerable increase in their "kf complaints" pile and because of the outside pressure legal actually looked at them for the first time and said "we can't take this risk". There's just so many ways this could've played out, null's "it wasn't even us, promise" is just meaningless.

Neither kf nor cf is great at being truthful and open at the moment. We can wait for the arrests or court documents if any will happen.
As the famous Albert Einstein quote goes: "there are many dubious diagnoses of van Gogh on the internet".
"At least three suicides have been tied to harassment stemming from the Kiwi Farms community, and many on the forum consider their goal to drive their targets to suicide. Members of the LGBTQ community and women are frequent targets."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/03/cloudfl...
Isn’t the whole point of Cloudflare to stop DDoS, though?

Cloudflare may be able to handle a botnet that can generate 250GBps of traffic, but a few hundred problematic forum posts coupled with some Twitter outrage totally jams them up. (Purposely leaving aside the qualitative details here.)

This shows that Cloudflare is completely defenseless against a certain variety of meatspace attacks.
On Windows the app Visions of Chaos (mostly)-automates the installs for dozens of ML models including SD: https://softology.pro/tutorials/tensorflow/tensorflow.htm and provides a fairly respectable UI.

It's also updated almost daily and tracks the latest features where possible.
Out of curiosity, what caused targeted threats to escalate over the last 48 hours? I'm not familiar with the site, but from what I understand they've been around for over a decade doing basically the same thing, so what caused this escalation?
Early in google life they skimped on ecc memory for their 30 thousand something serves (it was way back then). All sorts of nasty hardware bugs… Even in my time with ecc there was all sorts of cpu bugs that would occasionally mess up every job that happened to land on a particular node
'A'gile is broken and should be stopped. I am seriously considering doing something else than the job I love for the reasons in this post.
Background (1) : https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1566153033586810885

(2) : https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1566303971911909376

(3) : https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/599a356e-2bc1-11ed-a4d5-a...

Keffals did something extremely brave in using herself as a live-fire target. She knew she was being doxxed, so she went to Northern Ireland and mentioned looking for a particular kind of restaurant. This inevitably resulted in bomb threats and fake calls to the police.

Bomb threats are taken seriously in Northern Ireland. It seems that this time the threat was given enough credibility for Cloudflare to take it seriously and cut them off.

(As a Brit, there's a deep irony in the idea of someone fleeing to Northern Ireland for their personal safety!)
There's a false equivalence you're missing.

Facebook has billions of users. Kiwi farms, presumably, has several orders of magnitude less.
Calling Gutenberg a James Watt to Chinese printing press designs is... questionable. Afaik he was not aware of Chinese/Korean designs that he could have improved upon. Also, the Chinese designs arguably weren't presses, since they rubbed paper against a type - the screw was one of the many important innovations by Gutenberg. The article would benefit from focusing less on the "race" between Europe and China (which arguably wasn't one, but two largely separate developments) and more on the technology.
They lied before, so yes it's possible.
Ktock/buildg: Interactive debugger for Dockerfile with support for IDEs
One memorable chemistry lesson at my school[1] involved the teacher bubbling hydrogen through soapy water, while a student stood on the bench with a lighted splint and set fire to the bubbles of hydrogen floating up. They didn't explode so much as rapidly burned. (Of course they didn't mix much with air first, probably if the bubbles had mixed air/H2 they would have exploded more?)

[1] Health and safety wasn't much of a concern back then. I also remember another lesson where we lined up and plunged our fingers into a beaker of mercury. Quite a weird feeling.
How did they lie before?
As others have said it seems obvious dealing with about two dozen characters well adapted for engraving is easier than dealing with several thousand (at least) more complicated characters.
>>>I am personally unaware of "trans people and their advocates" having "free reign everywhere on the internet to harass, doxx, send death threats, call for the murder of JK Rowling".

DataRacer on Twitter is really good at cataloging this sort of stuff, as early as 2020:
https://nitter.net/dataracer117/status/1272737061703790592

Looks like there's finally some actions being taken in the case of JK Rowling:

https://www.thewrap.com/jk-rowling-death-threat-music-video-...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10976955/Police-inv...
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211122-j-k-rowling-r...

Keep in mind that this is a billionaire who seems to get mediocre support from social media platforms against threats of violence. What chance do the mere plebs have?
I am more likely to journal and blog if the friction to creating a post is as simple as opening a document and writing. The important part of journalling or note software is that you actually create notes. I did use Hetzner to run a Wordpress blog but it had an overhead of server expenses and keeping Wordpress up-to-date.

I don't want my data trapped in a proprietary system where it is difficult to export, so I use plaintext. I looked into Publii [1] but I prefer my current plaintext setup. Today I journal software ideas, computer ideas, startup ideas and community ideas on GitHub in the open, as README.md files. My journal is all public on GitHub at the following links. There are over 550+ journal entries, I am sure you shall enjoy them.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4

https://github.com/samsquire/startups

https://getpublii.com/
I think it's less of an upsell and more of a data collection and a market positioning. Google would like to, for example:

1. Be central in the machine learning ecosystem. This has broad ripple effects, such as recruiting.

2. Doing things there means Google can track how you use machine learning. This can be used for everything from understanding trends in machine learning, to, again, robustly identifying individuals for recruiting efforts.

It seems like the cost is nominal at Google scale for what Google is getting. I suspect the pricing for the higher-end services is less a money-making scheme, as at some point, free is no longer sustainable (and if unlimited CPU were free, that would be prone to abuse / misuse / overuse / wasteful use). The amount of money Google makes there is nominal at Google scale.
Both sides are the same, they are flawed people.
You will notice that those quotes came from the end of the piece, especially since you read it in the entirety.
How would an autism diagnosis help an adult? (Lets assume otherwise functional)

Not being sarcastic at all, just wondering what specific help would apply, since there is no "autism medicine". Then what?

Would labelling it sometimes do more harm than good?

I have seen what they provide to autistic children, and it seems to me, a layperson, that most autistic adults will have figured that stuff out the hard way over time.

I assume I could be missing something but don't have a clue what that might be.
Effective Troubleshooting
Keffals posted that she was going to Belfast, which caused the escalation of targeted threats, this time reported through a different more effective police service. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32712196
Connecting the dots is a feat in itself. By your measure, nobody can ever claim to have invented anything because they didn't first create the universe.
>you have an attitude

… against right-wing extremists - indeed, it’s called “not sucking at being human”.
> with Referrer and IP intact is a bit dangerous.

What would be the attack vector?

They now have my IP and the fact I came from https://news.ycombinator.com/

Even if I'm logged in on Kiwifarms so they know who I am they have no idea if I have a login on HN or even what thread I was reading.
Any theories on why Haskell scores so low on stackoverflow's 'most loved' metric? It's only 56.44% which means that 43.56% of the polled Haskell users don't want to use it in the future.

In the same chart you see a few other not-massively-popular languages that have very dedicated user-bases of people who are really into the language (Rust, Elixir, Clojure, Julia) and they understandably score very high on this metric. Why doesn't Haskell?
There are a lot of questions lurking beneath the surface of your argument, many of which invoke difficult questions like the allocation of power and responsibility between the public and private sectors. I definitely think that we need stronger laws about hate speech and organized violence, and most definitely better enforcement. It's telling that the government will spare no cost to shut down a dark net drug market, but won't lift a finger to save trans lives from websites like this. So, we might find a solution to this problem in law, but we could probably write several books worth of material fully expanding on the implementation and implications. In any case, we cannot expect this solution to be implemented by breakfast tomorrow. What we might find tomorrow morning is that Kiwi Farms is responsible for another murder.

Naturally, they will vigorously reject claims that it's a hate site: it's in their interests to portray themselves as such, and hate groups are not known for placing a high value on the truth. It's obvious to everyone else that they are, in fact, a hate site, and that their purpose is to organize harassment and violence. We do not need a court's opinion to make this judgement, though I would welcome such an opinion nevertheless -- these people should be held accountable in a court of law.

As a private business, CloudFlare enjoys the freedom to choose with whom it does business. If they were required by law to provide services indiscriminately, then they could not be held responsible. But that's not the case. No privilege comes without responsibility, and the means by which they exercise this freedom should be in accordance with their values. In terms of values, I expect them (1) to have values compatible with peaceful society, and (2) to act in accordance with those values. Should they fail to do so, it reflects poorly on the people responsible for making those decisions.
I think OP’s point was that nobody would want to help a cesspool of racists and pedophiles operate more effectively.
Is Docker eating up disk space?
KF seems to be the forum equivalent of the “I’m not touching you” game.

We (and cloudflare) are morally allowed to read between the lines.
Gab got business relationships terminated because a mass murderer became radicalized via interactions with Gab users (and people had the receipts). This was after a pattern of buildup of political rhetoric culminating in violence on their site that had repeated for years.
Yeah that’s kind of out of my domain. I was trying to avoid hawking my employer’s product. I’ve created call center solutions with Amazon Connect. With that, you can do basically any type of integration via a Lambda.

You can integrate with Salesforce and have a ticket with all of the information automatically pop up on screen by the time the call is transferred to a human.
That's a great way to kill the best parts of the internet.
Definitely. At a large company we used to be able to detect solar storms by checking the ECC error graph for different data centers around the world. The vast majority were correctable but of course probability says that a few were not.
I overlayed them in Gimp as layers and did A/B comparison with other people and neither could detect a change.
To be fair to CloudFlare, their entire business model is dependent on the US regulatory environment and section 230 protections. If there's a credible threat from Congress along the lines of "if the internet won't self-regulate, we'll have to do it for them", it's existential to their business.
yup the same to me..

I even overlayed the two images over each other and flicked back and forth between them.. they are identical
NASA to Stand Down on Artemis I Launch Attempts in Early September, Reviewing Options : https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/09/03/nasa-to-stand-down...
Tax transactions, not income or wealth.
With the upcoming Apple event, I wonder if this is another case of crushing the competition before Apple releases its own app?