skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s a failure of the rule of law on two dimensions: we shouldn’t be the ones making that call, and no one else who should was stepping up in spite of being aware of the threat.

sure, but I presume CF makes the decision of whether or not to facilitate access to/sell services to other undesirable bits of the internet all the time without requiring law enforcement intervention.

* Does CF wait for LE or a court case to block or drop malware distribution or command&control channels from their cache/NS/1.1.1.{2+} resolvers?
* Would CF wait until LE intervenes to drop a known, demonstrated CP host?
* Would CF continue to cache pirated material until a court stepped in even if approached by an alleged copyright holder?
* Would any of the above actors have a right of appeal with CF?
A non trivial amount of software engineers are musicians. My old boss had a phd in music theory and regularly played piano and sang.
Change nameserver and wait for propagation

It's not rocket surgery.

CF is incapable of "taking" any website offline - the only "power" they have, is the choice to not providing free DDoS protection, and/or to stop resolving the site's URL
I think it's gonna be like steam engines...lots of historical attempts until the stars align and suddenly people see the need.
What do you think the crimes of fraud or conspiracy are?
The difference is that VR headsets have 120 or so degrees of viewing angle, whereas this is much narrower. This will look as sharp as an HD TV, probably.
So, which sites? If they are scattered around, please post a couple links?

Arguing pure hypotheticals is rarely productive.
Not necessarily avocados, however, cultivating a perennial food forest in the yard or on municipal land is a thing.

Even growing ornamental native grasses or meadows instead of fescue help the native ecology.
Nobody’s pursuing 0 innocent wrongfully convicted though.

The current system from that perspective works great. You have to get pretty unlucky to get convicted as an innocent, especially in this day and age where a cop’s testimony isn’t worth nowhere near as much as it used to be.

And morally alone it’s far worse to wrongfully convict an innocent person than to let a guilty one go free.
You can tell by actually reading the account and knowing a little bit about the context. Plato's account is of a civilization that was defeated in a war with Athens ten thousand years before his time. Because Athens did not exist ten thousand years before Plato (something we can confirm through archeology) we know that Plato's account can't be true. Given that the point of the story is to demonstrate the importance of Athens, (according to the character Critias, Athens is so important that people in Egypt are still relating this story of something that happened thousands of years ago,) it's definitely a fiction.

Plato's dialogues were works of fiction that used fictionalized versions of real people as characters in order to illustrate philosophical points. The guy who relates the story of Atlantis is Critias, one of the members of the Thirty Tyrants, a clique who ruled Athens for a while, and Critias claims that he got the story from his distant ancestor Solon who was one of the lawgivers for Athens. To a contemporary of Plato's this would be as if he'd written a story about George Bush, relating a story that he'd gotten originally from George Washington, about how the United States had once fought a war against a long-lost evil empire back in the bronze-age. You weren't supposed to think it was true.
The panels may be the same but mounting it on your roof may not be optimal for angle and shade reasons vs putting them in an open field.
> A non-trivial number of VR users experience phantom sense of varying strength, including myself.

You have elegantly spotlighted the problem. Call me when they all experience it, always and every excursion into the virtual. Then we'll know VR developers have finally started paying attention to proprioception.
It is absolutely an opinion. Your metrics are right, but "it's a failure" is absolutely an opinion. It's your opinion, based on what you place value on. Mastodon is not a failure to the 200k people that use it, it's a success to them. Thats their opinion, because they value different things than you.

"194k people use it, that's more than the populations of 20 sovereign nations! That's a success" has correct metrics, as correct as yours, but using that to call it a success is an opinion. Just like your statement is an opinion.
This is literally the type of confirmation bias people use to justify taking supplements that have no plausible mechanism of working. Congratulations.
Yeah this is really weird. The author knows one "mathematical" measure, 'expected value', and calls that "mathematics". Ignoring the fact that mathematics have given us way more measures such as variance and the other moments that are just as important and "mathematical". Then microeconomics have given us 'utility' etc.

Finding one mathematical concept and saying "mathematics say this" is so strange.
Im arguing that all forms of art including both digital art and music is still "good" and none of it has been "ruined".

The very first OP in this thread is arguing that music was ruined by the availability of digital music compared to music 100 years ago. I think this is just the standard "kids these days" griping. I was trying to say that digital art isn't special, in that most of it is also crap but it's not hard to find good stuff. Music is the same as that and has not been ruined.
I'm not in any way, shape, or form comparing veterans to felons. If anything, vets are favored rather than disfavored for hiring. This is strictly about "learn to code."

I did a podcast where I interviewed vets or their spouses: https://operationcode.org/podcast

Many of them were, or are, in 4-year degree programs, but some went to code schools. Some had technical careers in the military, but not all. Very few were actually in combat, but nearly all were deployed.

I found that there was very little I could teach them about programming. They already knew everything and most had jobs. One worked at Google, last I heard.

So yeah: why not prisoners, assuming they're not psychopaths just trying to amplify their evil-doing abilities?
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Which is nuts (no pun intended), because there are nut trees that can grow well in arid and semi-arid conditions.

The thing is, in order to maximize commercial yields for shipping almonds far away, we end up with agricultural practiced that deplete soil and water resources.
>The fact that Kiwifarms have won every suit against them is an example of the legal systems failings.

Is this "I don't like the rulings of the court." or "The rulings of the court fly in utter defiance of legal evidence presented."?

Because if it is the former, you are the actual part of the real problem.

Winning in court every single time is a pretty strong argument that they aren't breaking the law even if they are disagreeable.
Maybe centralizing a measurable percentage of the internet onto a single provider to the point they are frequently in this situation wasn't a great idea.

Consider this next time you consider Cloudflare. Not because of what decision they made, but because they are trying to make themselves the pipe that connects any two points on the internet.
I mean, surely those things would be archived no?

Trying to make sense of this whole thing just makes me feel like i'm going mad, everyone supposedly knows that is common sense that they are guilty of several swattings, harassment, etc, but not a single person can show anything even close to resembling action, or even non-absurd obvious joke threats, while the archives do show rules against it(for whatever that's worth) and reportedly even by the detractors those threats had been deleted. How can something gain this much notoriety, show up in so many articles being blamed for those things and not a single source can give something backing it up that isn't wild speculation?

Sure they doxed people but I can think off the top of my head half a dozen other places that do that quite regularly, couple that are dedicated to it.

Maybe I should just stop trying to make sense of it at this point and go to bed.
It does set a dangerous precedent and will have a chilling effect. You could have done this silently. Blogging about this is disgusting.

It is not your job to be the police. You should let the authorities do their job.
They laid out their position rather clearly:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-a...
I cannot equate eugenics to aborting medically maligned fetuses. The former is based on superficial features of people that do not impact their physical or cognitive development, such as race, gender or sexuality, while the latter does, and it does so with increased suffering for the individual.
Andrej Karpathy on Machine Consciousness
It's paywalled.

Edit: not paywalled, accessible via another link.

https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/50/1/49/1468256
I was confused by this too.

The blog is called The History of FoxPro. The Ratliff interview is just one post of a number in the pre-history of FoxPro detailing the rise of dBase. Many of the others pertain to FoxPro.

http://www.foxprohistory.org/tableofcontents.htm

I agree with you about the FoxTales book. It was a great read.
Thanks for the tip. Any reason run.sh isn't mentioned anywhere in the documentation? https://talonvoice.com/docs/
He was actually the sitting president at the time (during the "lame duck" period after he lost the election) and I think that matters for something. You might actually be saying this, but I wanted to inform anyone else reading.
Brains are unlikely to be simple machines that can be made better by changing a simple variable… Unless this variable is able to boost learning, which can have a huge compounding effect on cognition.
What in-person conferences offer: feedback
Hi, I was a charge.co customer a few years back. It was neat, and bummed it's no longer around. For this new service would customers own the phone numbers as long as they're paying for them? Could they be ported to another service?
> it's still possible to get body sense in VR,

Accidentally stumbling upon proprioception is not what we're after. We are after being fully proprioceptively immersed within seconds of jacking in, and until developers place proprioception front and center in their development of VR, accidentally stumbling upon it is all we can expect.
I think it's a very Valley-centric opinion to think Microsoft doesn't have any consumer customers. Even putting aside all their other end user products consumers buy (XBox, the utterly dominant Office).

I certainly don't agree with your definition of a customer. People who buy a PC with a Windows OS on it know it's a Windows OS, and make that choice willingly. It's like pretending nobody is an Android customer because they buy their phones from Samsung not Google.
By that logic a bacterium and I are also basically intellectually the same before a superintelligence, in the Bostrom sense.
Fiction vs. nonfiction writing as a career path
I've never worked somewhere that did waterfall. But I did have classes where waterfall was tought as the way to do software development.
The idea that instead of turning a tactile dial I need to look away from the road to adjust temperature or volume if music, or I need to speak, is unacceptable to me. I consider ut terrible in terms of safety and UI.
Pools can be heated with heat pumps. Much cheaper than gas, even in the US. Curious if electricity is defined as resistive heat or an all out ban on using electricity (including heat pumps).

Tangentially, you can use a heat pump to move heat from within a structure into an adjacent or relatively close pool with a heat exchanger and properly configured coolant loops/condensing unit(s).

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/heat-pump-swimming-pool-h...
If you're so worried about your ideological-divergent subject matter from being entirely unavailable in the future - why not start an ISP, hosting company, DNS provider, DDoS Protection Racket, Server Farm?

Then YOU could proudly serve the content of those poor under-served souls which you preemptively mourn
Having every engineering care about the user is inefficient. I don’t care about users, I care about inputs and outputs. By the time new stories reach me, the user should be entirely abstracted out.

It is more accurate to say every software engineer should care about interfaces. Not user interfaces, just interfaces. Code you write will be consumed by something or someone. That is who you care about, the end user is not always something within your horizon.

I work deep in the backend, the consumers of my work are other machines or developers. I don’t give a damn about the people at the very end clicking on pixels. My only interaction with them is when I look at their PII data in the database.
Honest question, what are some (or at least one) distributed databases that actually work? Asking for.. a friend
I can’t believe she forgot the most obvious one: “listicles are mostly harmless.” How wrong can someone be on the internet??!! Time to cancel my subscription, which I would do if I actually paid for this, which I didn’t. What a ripoff.
>doesn’t refute or even acknowledge any of the points

>>"communism" and "socialism" have absolutely nothing to do with mass murder or authoritarianism.
Haven't travelled for a few months but in the case of the 16" macbooks, they have the same external profile as the older 15" models because the bezels are so small and the camera notch is embedded into the screen space. I don't expect it will be highly usable on a plane, but it won't be worse than 15". Not sure what the screen design on the Thinkpads is but unless they've done the same trick of implementing a notch that protrudes into the screen for the camera, I couldn't see how they'd be as good.
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This is what happens when all tech platforms are ideologically biased because of the employee base is almost all progressives.
Depends. Are you attacking my credibility with an ad hominem fallacy? Just wondering. Because if so, it is only because my argument has confounded you, and if you can't beat that, maybe you can beat me.
I won't say they are doing it maliciously but rather most interviews are for finding good workers.

Higher leadership positions rarely rely on interviews and those that have them tend to use them as a formality.
Doesn’t this decision to arbitrarily moderate content compromise the possibility of CloudFlare being legally classified a common carrier?

I also find it hilarious CloudFlare pretends to care about free speech here when they have been caught red handed arbitrarily canceling peoples services and domains + even going so far as to prevent people from transferring their domains to other registrars¹

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576353 ¹
Not everything is amenable to unit tests, but if you can design a module to be unit testable, you should. And unit tests give others more confidence in your code — they allow other people to modify your code with confidence as well.
Should Signal block users if Signal has the ability to do so and they become aware that those users are using Signal to coordinate acts of terrorism?

Can we collectively re-learn how to argue specific situations without comparing them to entirely different situations?
>If CF was "just" DDoS protection, it does seem quite reasonable that CF should not be obligated to do any moderation. However, the service they provide comes with quite a bit more: instant production-grade global web hosting (caching) infrastructure and ability to hide your backend infrastructure from the general public.

You're contradicting yourself here. Those services you described in the second sentence are what is necessary for DDoS protection. Likewise, when cops arrest me for throwing a paint ballon at Richard Spencer, it's not because they're acting as his personal security detail. It's because I broke the law.

>However, this makes it impossible to make the hosting provider aware of what they are hosting.

Again, this is simply harassment prevention. If the hosting provider wants to know what is on their service, they can just look. It's not like Cloudflare is providing an encrypted service to keep hosts from knowing what is on their servers. It's just preventing people from harassing the host about it. Law enforcement can walk right through Cloudflare if they want, it's vigilantes who are stymied.

>If the content is only accessible over the internet when I connect to Cloudflare

It's accessible through TOR, IIRC.
I agree with all that. I still think Microsoft has lots of consumer customers though.
> simple, reliable, and boring

Please. Not just car makers, but all important software functions
Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) was made available in the US in 2011. It’s highly sensitive for detecting down’s syndrome. Self pay is now 100-300 USD but a few years ago I think it was as much as 3000. It’s fully covered and encouraged for geriatric pregnancies, which are much more likely to have an extra copy of chromosome 21.

The NIPT can screen for the sex of the baby earlier than it can be detected on a scan, so many women elect to have it done.

The first trimester ultrasound is around 96% accurate at detection of down’s syndrome.
That's accurate, it doesn't. Didn't want to put out a half-baked conversation experience, so had to shift focus to a rule-based bot. I'm no ML expert by any means, just an enthusiast. That's not to say it can't be extended to support NLU, the backend is modular.
I think you speak for a small minority.

I'm 60.
I've been doing this since I was a kid hacking into VAX clusers.
My motivation is as strong if not stronger than when I was in my 20s (despite doing four startups which were successful).
As for raw ability... claiming that is declining is not something that anyone can prove or disprove. It's just your opinion. But more importantly, it's not relevant. Raw ability is talent, and what matter is the APPLICATION of that talent. Speaking from my advanced age... one of the great things about maturing is that you become far, far better at applying your talents.

So if you are over 50, I'm sorry you feel this way.
For the rest of us, this sh*t really does get better with age.
If the largest town and also capital of your state didn't have water for a while, would you not expect your state government to intervene well before such a failure? The responsibility for such a serious issue doesn't simply stop at the narrowest jurisdiction, it expands until it is addressed. Not to mention I bet the town's budget is very much affected by state politics.
Using Two Sets of Invoices for Alibaba (Chinese) Goods
A few winters ago, I had walked across my floor, and unplugged something. I discharged some static into the screw that holds the outlet's faceplate, and my nearby desktop PC woke up. It wasn't plugged into that outlet, but it must be on the same circuit. I've haven't been able to reproduce.
The best debugging story I've ever heard (2010)
the modern western liberal view is to protect all basic freedoms (of speech;of privacy; of representation; of free trade; of presumption of innocence) as long as they belong to the 'correct people'; as for the ideological enemies no right is needed and no tactic used to curtail those same rights is deemed too low or too hypocritical
The site exists to document the lives of and poke fun at some of the most vulnerable people in society. Even if explicit calls for illegal actions are banned, being featured on Kiwifarms is like having a target painted on your back. Their efforts to violate these individuals privacy and pry into every aspect of their lives is just incredibly immoral.

If Kiwifarms users can't see that what they are doing already is unethical, why should anyone believe that they truly think these other illegal actions are wrong? They just know not to talk about it out loud because then you will actually get in trouble with the law.

The only reason the site has been able to get away with it for so long is because they are targeting vulnerable people who are least well equipped to legally defend themselves.
Any day, or part of, is the rule we work by, that way once they start you for the day they try and keep you entertained all day.

Otherwise it can be on and off and surprisingly the jumping between different clints/projects on an hour by hour basis is extremely demanding and limiting of productivity when done in an ad hoc fashion.
Safari introduced 3rd party ad blocker 7 years ago. If you want to run ad-blocker in 3rd party browser and apps, install and run Adguard Pro from the App Store. That’s been around for at least 5 to 6 years.
There are some resources I can suggest:

- r/nolawns have great ideas on what is possible. It does not have to be ugly or unkempt
- the local city, library, or university may have programs for growing native front yards. These are adapted to the local conditions. There are landscape designers who can work that

As an example, it is possible to grow perennial flowers in such a way that _something_ is blooming for much of the year. (Kinda depends on where you live).

The trick with (c) is to design something that looks like it is maintained. So one pattern some folks do is to put a clear boundary on areas left as meadows, and other areas that look like it is clearly mowed.

You can also get it certified as a wildlife refuge from the World Wildlife Foundation, and get an official looking sign. A sign that educates people about it also reframes how the yard is seen and experienced.
They’re still documenting how the code is supposed to behave. If they really never fail no matter how you change the code, you may not be testing the right things.
An idea I’ve begun to understand better is the the higher the formality.. often the lower the average velocity, experience, capability and trust in and among the team.

Standards, structures and processes are still something I wouldn’t do without, but the configuration or extent can vary based on the team.
Malware dev open-sources CodeRAT after being exposed
> developing software is not about writing code but communicating with people.

You often hear this from people who claim it's a revelation. I would say it's a bit overstating the case. Developing software is definitely still about writing code; you can't do it otherwise. But being able to communicate with people well makes your code maybe 100x more useful.
Xero is from New Zealand
I'm sorry... I refuse to believe there is a Rickenbacker bass anywhere in the world with a true neck.
You are free to make a decentralized crypto-driven platform filled with nazi's. What you're ignoring is there are very valid reasons these platforms don't exist. They become deplorable crapsack worlds that 'normies' will not visit. It is never going to have any mainstream popularity. "Oh, you're on that nazi child porn software". And it requires a massive amount of moderation to ensure such a form does not become a complete hellhole (see failures of NNTP).

When you pull your crypto driven system out of the light, you are going to have to fight what lives in the dark. If you screwed up the protocol of your system and it's taken over, well it's gone, you exist outside the law and there are no means to get it back. Do a bunch of trolls with stolen crypto generation means exist on your network and flood out all the legitimate users, well too bad.

Civil society exists between the authoritarians that want dominion over everything and those that embrace chaos and would leave the world in ruin. It is a delicate and imperfect balance, but where it exists allows humanity to flourish.