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I completely agree with you on this. It's wild how many posts go grey on here that call kiwifarms exactly what they are, a site whose purpose is harassment. Coordinated harassment. Off site harassment. They have people who aren't completely stupid who coordinate things less directly on the site but off the site just for situations like this where they could be like look nothing bad's happening on our website why are you mad at our website... But the freaking nerds here in hacker News are like oh no free speech! What the! I don't know who to trust here anymore I don't know who to take seriously and I don't know who is acting in bad faith or who actually can't read in between the lines... It's wild.

You could see it in the posts from some people on here they repeat the same things. They either say they don't know the website at all but then they say that they're not actually defending it but then they go on to defend it and then they go on to also say things about corporations... Like why not Twitter why not social media...

They are expert manipulators gaslighters and just overall horrible bad people. There is no gray area here with this.
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Ask HN: Are V2 of GCP APIs generally worst than V1?
Of the GCP APIs I've integrated with, I've noticed the later versions are worst than the v1. I am not talking about beta and alpha versions, but supposedly generally available V2.

For instance, I used Google Cloud Functions V1 and V2 API.
The V2 API returns no results when listing functions, whereas the V1 API correctly returns results.

Can't discern if this reflects a downward trend in GCP's product quality, or just the nature of GCP's API product life cycle.

https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/reference/rest/v1/operations/list
https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/reference/rest/v2/projects.locations/list
Worse how? Because they're enjoying something that needs to be done? These hogs would be more than happy to kill and eat you if they could. They regularly break into back yards and kill pets. If an animal is happy to pop slats off a fence and disembowel my cousin's dog I'm happy to put a bullet in it.
Anecdotally, as a Chicago transplant, I was shocked at the atrocious quality of windows when I moved here. Only fit for blocking the wind. Doubt they would be legal to install in the Midwest.
Ask HN: Do you use foreign keys in relational databases?
I use foreign keys quite often in my schemas because of data integrity, while my colleague has a no FK policy. His main argument is difficulties during data migrations which he frequently encounters. He rather have a smooth data migration process than having an unexpected error and abort the whole operation that the migration is only a small part of. I suspect the errors might be mainly caused by not considering data integrity at all at the first place, but I can feel his pain. To be fair, as far as I know, he never had major data problems.

He is not the only one I've met who insisted on not having FK. I've even seen large systems prohibit using JOIN statements.

Personally, I see the data integrity out weights the inconveniences, do you use FK for your systems, what are your experiences?
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I'm so frustrated these days with a lack of keyboard controls in GUI applications. It's like developers just want to limit you to being able to operate their software with one single finger. And most of the time they're bad at UX, so you wind up not having coherent workflows even with a mouse.

I'm a huge fan of vim keybinds. The concept is fantastic, you've got a panel of switches in front of you that you can make do anything, why limit it to being a typewriter? That said, ctrl keys are fine. I can live with it. It works. If that's all I can get, please do it. Any desktop application should have at a bare minimum Ctrl shortcuts for everything.
Agreed.

If this is an entirely corporate offering, with supporting EULA - you could accept it as simple monitoring requirements. But without that clear separation of corporate, and potential end user devices, this feels more to me perverse - like spying - than anything.

You are removing the right for someone to make a mistake.

That being said; the idea of a system to which a conversation is mutually engaged (“contract”), but to which a single party can immediately and entirely redact their contributions is flawed at best.

Feels like some kind of in-between is required - hopefully with clear end user understanding.
This is my opinion, through and through. Regardless of your views on regulating companies (breaking up cloudflare because it's too important vs not doing that), I believe we can mostly agree that companies should not be making moral decisions on what content we should access.

Moral decisions are a two-edged sword: we may all agree kiwifarms is bad and should be blocked because we agree trans people have a right to live without harassment; and if Cloudflare agrees with us, they'll block kiwifarms and we'll rejoice. But what if Cloudflare had a different value set from ours? What if they decided to block all pro-abortion-rights websites? They would, after all, be within their right.

It's my opinion that governments should ultimately be the deciders of what goes. Kiwifarms is allegedly committing several crimes. What should be investigated is: why did law enforcement not get involved sooner? After all, Cloudflare can be ordered to stop serving a person or legal entity by a court of law. So why hasn't that happened?
Many people don’t get the vast amount of planning and slack inherent in these systems.

If a power plant takes ten years from beginning to first megawatt, you need to be approving plants ten years before the one they’ll replace goes offline.
Right, which I already acknowledged.
So you have this entity Sauron trying to forge a tool to control and dominate all life. I think the people at Amazon are well positioned to write this narrative.
> “The Rings of Power” has been fending off trolls for months, especially ones who take issue with the decision to cast actors of color as elves, dwarves, harfoots and other folk of Tolkien’s fictional Middle-earth.

This article feels a bit quick to write off the negative reviews as being from racist “trolls”. A quick look of reviews on Rotten Tomatoes [1] shows a lot of negative reviews that seem legitimate to me.

I personally enjoyed the first two episodes, but the show is far from perfect.

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_...
If a crime has been committed, arrest the perpetrators.
I haven’t really followed the evolution (and apparent dramatic increase in complexity) of C++ since C++11 or so. What does all the additional complex syntax give us that plain old

std::string say_a_to(std::string what, std::string name) {
return what + ", " + name + "!";
}

does not?
thanks, decided on the 32GB.
Pussypassdenied is basically misogyny, fatlogic is fat hate, religiousfruitcake is full of Islamophobia and antisemitism, combatfootage is just videos of foreigners dying with vile bigotry filled comments(wouldn't be surprised if many of them were innocent). Reddit hardly does anything about the hate they host, honestly.
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> What's the precedence set by continuing to do business with kiwifarms?

Continuing to do business with Kiwifarms is an acknowledgement that individuals are responsible for their own actions, and any illegal activity such as swatting is the fault of the individual.

Are Mark Zuckerberg and Meta responsible when people livestream murders or plan terrorist attacks using Facebook? Obviously no.

Now I will acknowledge that there's some dispute over Kiwifarm's actual role in any illegal activity here. Did they encourage or organize criminal activity? As somebody who hasn't followed this drama from the beginning and who doesn't know what actually happened on Kiwifarms, I'd be a bit interested to try and read the source to try and somewhat figure out the truth of what happened for myself free of bias about who did what to who. Unfortunately, after shutting the site down, it's now impossible to get an objective answer after the fact and piece together the truth about this drama for myself. And trusting corporate claims or biased actors on any side of this story is just about impossible in today's hyper-politicized world.
I’m going to really ruin things for you: eventually, in the end, the ring dies.
Just use Google Colab, it's free indefinitely because Google is paying for it.
Not really. We were talking about terms of service, and I imagine posting child porn is against the ToS. The system proposed lets the content stay up until an appeal period is over.
Was mucking around with Sd and one of my first thoughts was making a "Where in Stable Diffusion is Carmen Sandiego"
Don't be such an ass.
Thats an interesting idea. Where I live I think you would have to have significantly colder air outside to compensate for the humidity of just bringing in outside air, unless if could be dehumidified. I think there would be a limited window of usefulness.
Definitely a matter of personal space and personal space!
Given that there isn't one number (or five numbers or five thousand numbers) that can tell you if your engineering team is good or bad, there is no easy mapping between high and low velocity and good and bad, and velocity can't really be compared between teams or even the same team on different projects, it does have uses.

Particularly when a team has multiple projects, looking at each project's velocity helps you see if you're smoothly building out new features, getting bogged down, distracted by bugs in an old project, consistently underestimating the effort required for all things, etc.

It's a terrible target, not good for evaluation, but a handy metric for a PM to quietly check and use to make sure things are proceeding smoothly. The PM should probably know by other means but no one is perfect.
If it was done text-to-image, what you see is the result of using the same prompt.

E.g. in Stable Diffusion, from a single prompt like "modern residential interior, concrete, glass, wood", you can generate a vast number of images, using different seed values.

The images will have something in common due to the prompt.

The Tudor mansions are almost certainly there in the training data, but not being selected for.
Yep, if you hear about it it means it got pretty damn bad - these utility balancing grids are usually pretty good about keeping from potentially impacting anyone (asking industrial uses to shut off, etc).
I think in this case it’s delivering “across the street” from the delivery address, not the restaurant address.

Basically the fraudster is asking to deliver to a location other than where they actually live, because they don’t want to be traceable. They don’t want the delivery person to ring the door, because then the fraudster might lose out on the food.
The old-school method to do this on purpose was a smear of Vaseline on a glass filter in front of the lens!
I'd humbly suggest that those anonymous comments put up or shut up.
Does Using “The” in a brand name improve it?
"Many companies used to use Nginx or Kong as their API gateway, but then later switched to Apache APISIX." Wondering why.
Everything that matters to people is as easily mapped out to metric units. I know how to span my fingers to get either 10 cm, 20 cm or 25 cm, and how to pace my steps to get 1 m. Arm span is easy too, I simply get my height and can work based on that, as I do when measuring heights. Step pacing is quite visible and I see it regularly in the open in various contexts. Metric people know how to do these kinds of things. Real estate agents or construction workers might refine their paces to achieve greater precision, but even people who have never had the curiosity or need to do so can get a rough estimate of a meter that's probably good enough and not much more imprecise than the length of the step of another person (like feet… Charlemagne's giant foot became the standard unit for peasants with half the foot size for centuries…). I've never felt any personal interest in measuring weights based on fist-sized rocks either (sandstone or granite by the way? you've got all sorts of density ranges out there…), but I'm sure you could find something as intuitive if you needed it and I sure can get of sense of weights expressed in grams in a kitchen and have also developed a pretty good intuitive feel of heavier stuff based on a few experiences moving 25 kg and 50 kg bags around that proves useful from time to time.
I think you missed the joke. Ontario CA can be both a city inland from Los Angeles or the province Ontario in Canada.
I'm not sure who it was, the director, producer, somebody, who gave an interview fairly recently in which they stated one of the central themes was "how far into evil will you go to do good?" Given that that is diametrically opposed to the central theme of Tolkien's work, which is that it is worth not using/doing evil in order to fight evil even though it is much harder and requires greater sacrifice, I elected not to view this show.

Perhaps after it is done someone will say to me "oh it wasn't like that at all" and I will enjoy it then.
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You /can/ package python applications into a single binary -- just a zip file prepended with a python shebang. You can do much the same with the base python libraries. No one does it, I presume, because the community is against vendoring dependencies that way, the same way they are against static binaries.

https://bwackninja.github.io/2020/11/25/packaging-python.htm...
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It has an airport roughly as large as LAX that services mostly cargo planes.

Should be possible to get a flight from Ontario, CA to Ontario, CA.
What's a reasonable price?

What about any USB-powered camera with onboard recording and a "solar generator" like the Goal Zero with a panel or two to keep it juiced? If a USB cam like the Wyze doesn't do it for you, power a POE injector and small NVR or internet connection.
it's possible there was a banging of trash cans too lol
Free speech is a right that is balanced against other rights and things like inciting violence can limit free speech. I don't think many people on this forum believes in unlimited free speech.

I think the issue is whether Cloudflare("CF"), as an internet infrastructure, should be involved in balancing free speech with other rights and if so, what kind of bar should they have before deciding to act.

Looking at the issue in this way, your argument that:

> Cloudflair's decision to stop doing business with kiwifarms is a step towards free speech, not away.

may be right and most people would agree. But some people may be more concerned about how CF has reached that decision and the future implication of this action. After all, there is a possibility that CF may have gotten this one right even with inconsistent reasoning/ shaky evidence. In that case, there may be future cases where CF jumps the gun too fast.

Some are also scared about how much (perceived) power CF has over current internet infrastructure. This is understandable as CF is a company and their decision making process isn't as transparent as public system. But if there wasn't such dominance by CF and it was merely one of many competitors, this wouldn't be a big contention.

TL;DR People are arguing about different things: short term result and long term implication. You can agree with the banning of Kiwifarm but still be concerned about how CF reached that conclusion.
I always thought apps were introduced because website weren't designed with "touch" in mind and still aren't for the most part. When you take away the mouse you need something to replace it that works just as naturally.
While I get where you are coming from, I myself am a decent programmer, and a terrible mathematician. So from my N of 1, they can’t be the same skillset.
They can. But those neighboring states may also be undergoing power issues themselves due to temperatures.

And by the time the demand in CA is high, the sun has set on many neighbors.
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That seems like a rationalization to me, and one that doesn’t actually make anyone’s life better. Inequality is a fact of life. You both work hard, but you could do his job and he couldn’t do yours. He almost certainly knows that and has come to terms with it. You don’t interact with him because acknowledging the disparity causes you discomfort embarrassment. But doing that doesn’t make his life any better.

And, of course, people aren’t just their jobs. Maybe you like the same sports team. Maybe he likes to talk about his kids. Who knows?
Or, even more difficult, are you on track to deliver your twelve month goals? Hard to know, and easy to lie to yourself.
You could absolutely have it both ways if both parties agree to those terms though. If the agreement is for the work to be performed by a specific person, either in word or intent, then it could be breach of contract.
I'd imagine an e rickshaw would eliminate the need for a pickup truck or an SUV for most people. Get one with a back that can open like a ute and you can haul anything.
See I'm pro freegan nugget liberating but as you said, definitely anti-this. I had a friend w an IM client in 2010 or so (maybe trillian?) with a plugin that notified him if I opened his profile to chat w him, as well as telling him whether I was really invisible, and finally one that gave a desktop notif if i was typing to him (NOT the typing indicator in a chat window with me).

We were both into computers so he acted like it was a funny/novel piece of tech but he used it in daily life. Felt like stalkerware. You don't stalk your friends, and you don't violate their consent in the same way that friends dont use a patched snapchat client that disables screenshot notifs/keeps photos. Thats creeper shit!!!
I agree. Really enjoyed watching the first two episodes. Was a little frustrated that the next episode wasn’t ready to watch. Most shows, I’m fine waiting.

Yes, there are changes from the Silmarillion. How could there not be. That is a massive book written more as a reference for Tolkien than as a single cohesive narrative. It’s not the kind of writing that would translate directly to video. It needs some translation. I got out my 1977 edition to peruse after the shows, but am not surprised if there are differences.

Also, yes, there are some dark skinned people in this new work. Big deal. If that kind of thing “takes you out of the story” then perhaps you should ask yourself why that is.
Easy, just delay the stream by 5 minutes, they already do that in egames.
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This is not a Tolkien show. This is a show by Amazon wearing Tolkien's world as a skinsuit. The same thing happened to Star Wars. The viewership of this show is still riding on the name recognition, but as soon as it flops, people will stop watching more. Give it 5 years, and the original Peter Jackson trilogy videos will no longer be culturally relevant because nobody wants LoTR content any more, while record amounts of it continue to get produced.
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Won't someone please think of the children argument.

Trafficking is much worse then anyone thinks argument.

Two things going around the alt right circles.
> ...within its rights to refuse service for businesses that are unsavory...

- Labor union organizers and socialists used to be considered unsavory.

- The civil rights movement used to be considered unsavory.

- LGBTQ people used to be considered really unsavory, pre-1970s.

Guess we know what the parent poster and those that agree with them would have said about businesses refusing service to those movements had they been around then.
Corporate Slack clients could just disable the ability to delete messages entirely in Slack's enterprise settings, no need to install a hacked client.
Ironic that they've been fined by the Irish DPC, considering that Ireland has been the key enabler of FB/Meta's tax avoidance for years.
Ask HN: How to Learn
Im looking to learn a previously ill/undocumented topic: the YouTube algorithm, yes I know it sounds childish etc, however im making high quality content of software development, AI dev, etc whilst making it digestible for YouTube, I know about the YouTube "meta" and the patterns which make a successful video but im not sure how to learn the algorithm.

From my current "research" I have gathered these things about successful content creation:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ebazr6dT

I've made a whole page of notes and theory from professional social media analysts and top YT creators from these links: https://pixeldrain.com/u/cKUQB63g
I am really just spotting patterns and learning this basic factors of the algorithm which may just be correlation, not causation, I know that the top creators know "the algorithm" and have actually learned it however it isn't publicly available on the internet as they have previously stated this in the past.

So im asking, how does someone learn about an undocumented topic without just "spotting patterns", im also asking for resources that show how the algorithm works or potential connections to people who know about it or are interested in it

Id figured this is a good place to ask as many people here have worked on complex algorithms and content creation
> what's wrong with shared hosting?

You answered that yourself:

> It costs less than $10/month

That’s a lot of dollars for a static website. There are a myriad of free options and there have been for years. Kinda disappointing that they weren’t mentioned. Anyone wanting to deploy a static website knows the big 4, completely free: Netlify, Vercel, CloudFlare Pages, GitHub Pages.
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There's the issue that the assembly language does something that is well defined and the prompt for an AI image generator is subjective.

That makes them hard to compare.

So far AI image generators don't have a lot of understanding of syntax. They struggle with something like "four red cars above five blue cars". Rather if you prompt them with "darts vader drinking beer in the backrooms" the system activates "darts", "vader", "beer", and "backrooms" in different parts of the image with certain kinds of consistency checking involved in selecting images to show you. Most of the time people like the results but it's not guaranteed to do anything at all other than consume resources and make some kind of image. Contrast that to an assembly program which could be proven to do some task, say sort a list, correctly.
My mom was a night guard, then a janitor for many years. I tagged along to some places she worked. I got to play and hang out after hours in the interesting buildings. But yeah, we were "invisible" so to speak. People were often impolite and rude to us because they saw us as beneath them. I always make a point smile and greet the janitors and other service workers I encounter, partly because I know what it feels like to be "invisible".
Ha? This is even dangerous! You're basically yearning for an authoritarian regime. With simplistic argument and some false assumptions you conclude it's more efficient bcz it does not waste basically trial/error. However, this has been proven times after time that such "alternative political philosophy" will defeat its purpose and become highly corrupt. Furthermore, we're in a incomplete information game, evolution is a must, and you can not 'design' things apriori.

Western societies, at least when it comes to political philosophy, are far more efficient than their eastern counterparts if you meant it.
> The people engaging in this activity are worse than poachers

Sausage is yummy, and pigs do ecological damage.