skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is a historical story or even a fantasy story taking place in historical times, like say for example king arthur and merlin then I agree with you. But if the story does not take part in europe or a specific place or cultural background the why does it matter. So long as the actors actually a good fit in portraying the character who cares?

The problem a lot of people have is when they read LOTR for example they presume everything is supposed to be relatable only to people of european ancestry. Other than Tolkein being influenced by a european background there is little you can reasonably say it requires europeans for adequately portraying the character.

Stories are meant to be told and if you want to tell a fantasy story to an audience you don't go out of your way to explicitly exclude anyone resembling your audience. That isn't being woke, that is just capitalism. I wouldn't like Abe Lincoln or Hery VIII to be portrayed by a black person but LoTR, Narnia and other stories that are european-inspired but not set in europe don't need such restriction.

I mean where was all this outrage when Cleopatra was portrayed by a white woman for example?

If the actors are good it makes no difference other than the initial phase of "I didn't imagine this character to look this way" but the same goes for hair color, height, stature, etc...
False. It is unobvious and ungross
Yes, I do. One is connected to the mains water, while the other goes through a series of pipes to the boiler.
This is a history of dBase, not FoxPro.

Wayne Ratliff, in the late 70s, built a revolutionary piece of tech: a high-level memory-managed language that regular people could use (from early 80s!) to build database-backed user interfaces. That was dBase.

It is the greatest NoCode tool of all times.

The best release of dBase was dBase III Plus. Everything that came after was a trash-fire. dBase was interpreted - you needed the source .PRG to run it. So a couple of folks formed Nantucket and built Clipper Summer 87. It was primarily marketed as a compiler for dBase. But later
versions of Clipper became their own language, and remains my most favorite programming language.

In parallel, there was FoxBase, originally a cheaper and then faster version of dBase, which was then turned to FoxPro with its separate command window and output window (thanks to a port to the original Mac GUI which necessitated it). Excellent product, extremely wide adoption for building business applications until FoxPro 2.6 for DOS.

For a detailed history of FoxPro, read FoxTales by Kerry Nietz. Anyone who's used dBase/Clipper/FoxPro would find it deeply enjoyable!
The nreal air hit most of your requirements. AR overlay. 4k (although I don’t know if that’s overall or pair eye. $599. Wireless with android phones. I only found out about them through the article, I’m going down my local phone shop tomorrow to see if they have any stock and see if I can test them out.

https://www.nreal.ai/specs/
Forgive me if my understanding is wrong, but if someone were to host a message board or similar site with UGC and have it backed by Cloudflare, and a troll makes posts and threads threatening disasters on multiple occasions even though the site's administration removes them with haste, would Cloudflare also deny service to them? Basically take the current situation but instead of Kiwi Farms, replace it with "Grandma's Cat Forum".
It's easy to claim no evidence exists if you get to be really picky about which evidence you will accept. Sociologists don't get clean room labs and from scratch experimental design for their studies and have to work with the available data.

That "perfect" study you are looking for in fact can't quite exist because you can't control for all variables with respect to any systemic issue and variables like career and education are likely too deeply connected co-factors with housing.

It doesn't sound like you have any interest in being convinced, and it sounds like you are happy being a contrarian here.
Why do you hate marsupials
Helping other sinners eat is a bit different than one company helping another company sell hate on the internet.
I dont have an account there... My HN is also not some driveby throwaway. You are putting words in my mouth now because you are out of arguments. This is a discussion forum.
Anti-Cloudflare = extremism?
*they, but yes
I mean that the cost of living in SF isn't relevant because you can move. I'm claiming that if you're top ~25% software engineer with 5+ years of experience, you're much better off working for one year in SF, then moving to France for 3 years vs moving to France and working with 3 years parental leave. You'll have way more money at the end of 4 years if you spend a year in SF.
I don't have any huge problem with eastdakota's comment here, and I think I agree with Cloudflare's action (I listened to a Behind the Bastards podcast recently that covered an individual who was bullied until they committed suicide by kiwifarms, so I understand the stakes) but - there is nothing in their comment that presents "actual information"; it does not present any facts; it just presents the perspective that their legal team would like all of us to take on their action. dmw_ng's criticism is entirely fair.
It's not an infrastructures job to enforce morality outside of the law.

That is a dangerous place to get to. Due process has incredible value. It allows us to live free lives while also punishing and preventing crimes.
As a consumer, the price of Great Wrap is more than Saran, or other generics. Probably double the price. But I buy cling film about once every 3 years, so do I care if it costs me an extra $5?

For the industrial use, I don't know how it compares, but I'd suggest that at current scale it is probably a few dollars more per pallet.
DDOS and murder (SWATting is use of deadly force, so is attempting murder) are not interchangable crimes.
Thresholds in Security Event Alerting: a z-score love story
I can’t speak to GM but from my experience with a Ford Mach E they’re starting to get it.

The interface, while not perfect, is not the kind of OEM junk I’ve seen from others. They’ve got working OTAs, although it’s going slow and they’re learning.

They may end up outsourcing a lot of that to Google’s Android based car platform (also called Android Auto?).

But they seemed to have learned from Tesla it’s an integral part of the car these days and not something you tack on at the end. It will take time but they are genuinely moving in the right direction at a reasonable (but not fast) pace.
That article was about an issue with the internet centralizing around Cloudflare aka showing why everyone using Cloudflare is a problem.
I think that should be a question, but it shouldn't be the question.
The second and third link give me a 403
I'm sure that's what ought to happen, but you're not considering the bureaucrat's point of view here. If fraud happens on their watch, and there was a process that could have prevented it, it's their ass on the line. And since it's not their money that they're spending, it's perfectly sensible to spend $100k (most of which will be hidden as time, not capital costs) to not just avoid the potential loss of $500, but to avoid the far more damaging possibility of being accused of negligence.
> The findings were somewhat lackluster: it found that the psychedelic was only marginally better than traditional treatments at relieving depression.

This is said early on. But then the article continues and the gist is that it's still early days for psychedelics. That is, they compared well tested therapies with a new one (i.e., it's possible the dosage isn't optimized yet).

Given that psychedelics have been around much longer, then it's actually the newer (propriety Big Pharma) therapies that are coming up short.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/

We have blocked Kiwifarms. Visitors to any of the Kiwifarms sites that use any of Cloudflare's services will see a Cloudflare block page and a link to this post. Kiwifarms may move their sites to other providers and, in doing so, come back online, but we have taken steps to block their content from being accessed through our infrastructure.

This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and, given Cloudflare's role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with. However, the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before.
> I do tend to peruse extremist circles on both sides to understand the radicalism a little better,

Genuinely curious about what "extremist circles" you're perusing on the left that seem to fit into this category? Most of the big protest leaders in the various groups have always been and remain on twitter. Your text clearly implies there's some kind of secret conclave that the rest of us are missing, which is... not at all my experience.

What sites/communities/whatever are you talking about here?
There is at least one CF customer who was doxxed by Kiwifarms after expressing displeasure with Cloudflare's initial decision. CF CEO (eastdakota) blocked this customer when he complained about it [1] So much for free speech + great customer service!

[1] https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1565629001862873088
It might help the "victim" if they weren't constantly posting online and leaking their whereabouts. But hey, how else would they be able to solicit donations?

When I grew up, people used to say that you should never post your personal details online. I think we should normalize that attitude again.

It really makes me wonder why they decided to go with a DDoS attack as opposed to counter-doxxing the operator of KiwiFarm, who also seems to be a donation-soliciting public nuisance and "internet celebrity".
I have a similar skillset is there a good route into this as a side gig?
So is it your position that the phone company should disconnect anyone that they believe is saying mean things about people?

Mainstream social media also largely does not moderate nearly well enough to uphold the standard that you are applying to Cloudflare.
This is absolutely not how unions work in (most of) Europe. They don't get involved in day to day business. They just negotiate working conditions, pay scales etc.

Just saying it doesn't have to work that way.
I find if you toss out the 1's and 10's you'll get a much better idea of whether it's worth watching.
Very interesting. Editing code at the level of text is too low, ideally it would be raised to the level of thought. We don't think in terms of characters changing, we think in terms of higher level block constructs. It's not about the increased typing speed, it's about reducing cognitive load and making problem solving more enjoyable. Pairing with the Unison-lang style system of direct AST manipulation could be revolutionary, if the difficulty doesn't prove too high.
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Don’t have the time to work on it currently. Maybe someone here will find it interesting
I really do wonder what the sampling strategy is for surveys like these
Never ever join a grad school programme unless you are an Olympiad medalist working under a Nobel laureate. 95 out 100 return to industry with huge lack of relevant skills and a large opportunity cost.
> Australia is a petrostate pretending to be a service economy

Come now, it’s more of an iron ore or coal state than an oil one. Beef is more of their exports.

https://oec.world/en/profile/country/aus
They provided DDoS protection, and thus replaced what content was served through that. KF dot ru is still up because that uses DDoS-Guard.
Free speech is about giving people the freedom to say things I find disgusting. It's about giving each individual the choice to listen to what ever influence they wish. It takes the the power of ideas and elevates them above physical force.
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That's fair. It's still a massive improvement over the cars built before 2000 which would decapitate you with the steering column from a fender bender.
Because people in the US love taking other people hostage with firearms, in particular in domestic abuse scenarios.

It is a very problematic catch-22 situation that is not helped by cops playing GI-Joe with combat gear.
Does "at all levels" include ISPs? Electricity providers?
Imagine I own a bunch of billboards around town. A customer comes to me with cash and wants to display someone's personal details and a message encouraging harassment on my billboards.

Do I have to wait for law enforcement to stop me from displaying their content? Or can I, as a private company, make a judgement call and decline their business?

I think the answer here is pretty obvious and your attempt at passing the buck is pathetically weak.
No one is answering you because it's obvious to even the most intermediate observer where this work is coming from.

The only reason anyone would give KF the benefit of the doubt is because they willfully are ignoring the activity going on in KF.
Entirely reasonable. I could draw a parallel to Postel's "hey point root servers somewhere else" stunt too.

https://www.wired.com/2012/10/joe-postel/
This is not how unions work in most of Europe. Except perhaps France where the unions have grown a bit much and strikes are too common. In the other countries I've seen they established a healthy and stable counterbalance. So I would argue it's not inevitable.
Probably not relevant to anything, but what do you do for your £500 a day? :)
I always find it strange that people take issue with having diversity. Toss all that, if you find "they aren't all white" takes you out of the scene you should do some soul searching I think. If you are taken out of the scene because they're shitty actors then you have a reasonable take.
There are still plenty of villages in Europe, where older people, who don't go to the cities, have never seen a black person in real life in their lives. So I would dare to guess very very few people saw a black women in mid 1800s in Tuscany. Objectively your perception of European history and its people is wrong.
kiwifarms users identified the victim's locations by identifying her hotel from a picture she posted that included a small portion of the bedsheets in the hotel she was hiding in after they intimidated her out of her own home.

in what ridiculous world does that count as "posting your personal details online"?
I understand law enforcement which is not on the side of anyone inherently other than ideally justice. You, apparently, are not. I suggest you look up "due process" to get a jump start on some crucial points.
LibsOfTiktok-esque forum that laughs at people being silly on the internet. Just archiving publicly available information.
I use Cloudflare on my sites, for both DNS and CDN.

The reason it's so popular isn't because of any conspiracy or vendor lock-in, but because it's a great product.

Back before I used them for DNS, any change I made to my records would literally take hours to propagate through the network and be reflected globally. Now, the updates are instant.

Their CDN product literally halved site load time back on my old shared host (less of an issue now I'm on DigitalOcean), while at the same time greatly increasing the number of concurrent users it can handle without generating spitting out Error 500 (internal server error).

If I need to disable their cache for whatever reason, it's as simple as logging on and ticking a single checkbox in my dashboard.

This is all for the free tier - God knows how amazing the paid product would be!
Can I ever have time to do something else, though? Like, can I ever get some work done, or go for a walk outside, or have a conversation with friends or strangers about some non-political topic without constantly have to perform a "I'm against bigotry" dance?

It would be exhausting to constantly be virtue signaling like that. Maybe that's why the Twitter accounts that do also often tweet about how tired they are.
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I don’t believe democratically voted tyranny is valid
I wrote the perfect article for your friends:
"The Case Against Unit Tests"
https://medium.com/avenue-8/the-case-against-unit-tests-b423...

They have their use, but they have many shortcomings.
Would I argue the same way in a completely different scenario that has nothing to do with what I said about standing against racism and transphobia? No, i wouldn't
The kind of software in keitai (feature phones), car ECUs, and video games is different from the rest of the software industry. They’re good at making gadgets with embedded software and nothing else. In particular, nothing ever gets reused and nothing is ever made more abstract or flexible - that’s why most of the products can’t be exported and the iPhone killed all the Galapagos phones.

There are a lot of interesting lessons in video games though; it’s the only kind of software people love using enough to write emulators for, and game developers seem to exist in a lot more countries than other software businesses do.
> Our decision today was that the risk created by the content could not be dealt with in a timely enough matter by the traditional rule of law systems.

Does Cloudflare wait for a court order before taking action when it detects a DDoS attack or when it suspects that a client is malicious?

The law is by design reactionary. In this case, I don't mean that in a bad way; what I mean is that the law is designed to respond to criminals, not to preempt them. If all of your moderation decisions, even in cases that go beyond hate speech or bigoted content into straight-up abuse of infrastructure and direct targeting of individuals -- if you need that to be reliant on a court then you are giving up the ability to prevent abuse and you can only respond to that abuse.

Do you worry about due process when someone's site is getting knocked offline by automated requests, or is your primary worry about protecting your customers?

What's even worse is that by abjugating your responsibility to protect your customers even in cases where there are clear threats, and by encouraging the law to become even faster and more trigger-happy to compensate, you encourage the creation of censorship engines that are even more dangerous than the ones that you are in charge of. We should have better laws around doxing and threatening people online, but even once we get better laws, Cloudflare is still going to have a part to play in detecting targeted attacks. No just law is going to be fast enough or nuanced enough to make these decisions for you.

You can't get rid of your responsibility to such a degree that you won't need to make moderation decisions even about non-ideological and purely abusive content like doxing forums. And by refusing to recognize your role in that process, you allow people to be completely driven offline and censored in the exact same ways that your company is dedicated to preventing. It's no different than allowing a DDoS attack on one of your clients to continue because you haven't specifically heard from a judge yet that you should stop it.
The default behavior made it multi-user unfriendly. A lot of that likely came from trying to remain dBase compatible and beginner friendly. It was actually one of the better (behaved and performing) multi-user DOS and early Windows databases I used that wasn't based on a client/server architecture.

It was up to the developer to take care to avoid unnecessary locking. For example, you could open databases in read only mode, avoid locking when browsing via 'browse nomodify', don't lock the database until you actually needed to do your CRUD work etc. If you migrated apps to utilize SQL and other 'modern' (at the time) FoxPro features instead of the legacy FoxBase/dBase syntax much of this was taken care of for you. I had production databases with up to 100 concurrent users before the overhead of the locking mechanism really started to be a problem. (which back in the NetWare days was more than enough for many mid-sized business applications)

Just by way of comparison, I saw lots of 'what the hell were they thinking?' multi-user MS Access deployments starting in the late 90's that were even worse... without the ability to mitigate the way FoxPro apps could.

That said, of course client/server databases still scaled better, farther and easier.
Kiwifarms and unproven claims?
I don't think so
I like to think of it prisoner's dilemma style: the optimal amount of fraud is zero, the same way the optimal outcome for both prisoners is to both cooperate. But the equilibrium at 2-cooperate is not stable, somebody will gain more utility for themselves by defecting, the same way with 0 KYC on any and all transactions fraud is laughably easy.

Thus, the global optima is one where there is no fraud and everybody cooperates, but it's not a stable optima and we slide to the real world where there are tradeoffs for preventing fraud, and there reaches a point where rational actors deem the tradeoff unacceptable and thus accept some level of fraud.
Aren't far left people generally against police? Sure they'll call the police when they need them, but they wouldn't go out of their way to contact the police unless they themselves had been harmed.
Apple should get the credit for making the smartphone industry what it is today but there's no need to rewrite history.
Thanks for showing me this. Gonna show it to my therapist.
It is 44 years ago, that I worked on a program in FORTRAN and it is 43 years ago that I learned LISP. It is about 36 years that I am writing software for a living.

The longer I am a software engineer the longer I begin to understand that the soft skills are much more important than all the technical skills. For me software engineering is much about dealing with my insecurities and coming to term with my weaknesses. I also feel that it is a lot about dealing with your ego and a lot with cooperating with colleagues and bosses. The longer I am a software engineer, the more I understand that developing software is not about writing code but communicating with people.
We can do better than lame “derp you post here you must be autistic” replies.
> It takes the the power of ideas and elevates them above physical force.

This is exactly why dropping Kiwi Farms was the right decision. There is a difference between saying hateful things and doxing and harassing people with threats of violence.

We don't even need to dip into the endless debate about tolerating hate -- there's no level of ideological indirection here, Kiwi Farms was just very straightforwardly driving people offline with threats of physical harm and real-world harassment.
I very much doubt someone looking to get on with a normal life would gloat about supplying drugs to children without parental consent, lie about how officers treated them in jail on television, tweet they are hopeful a specific person gets swatted or parade around on social media when their harassment campaign gets users like Destiny banned from platforms.

I’d provide screenshots but documenting the escapades of public figures must be relegated to the memory hole these days.
As much as I don't like nazi's and troll farms, I believe they have the right to internet service until they start using it to threaten others with violence.

This said, this will always lead to the nazi's getting banned. At the end of the day they are incapable of not calling for violence. It is their modus operandi.