skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe rhetoric is ever a threat to human life so I disagree with this move by cloudflare. Even if illegal credible targeted threats are made, the threat to human life is the threatener, not the content of the speech.

Oh, and KF sucks.
Where/how would you suggest hosting the SMB server? Is there a way for me to have (1) the Samba share mounted on my phone, (2) SyncThing syncs a local folder with it, so that I may edit files while offline?
Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (1996–2001)
I’m a US-UK dual citizen but my partner is Australian. I’m collecting the whole Anglosphere.

But when looking at living there, the wages/housing prices seemed like a poor trade off even compared to California. Although of course it’s a great place to live in many other ways.

I’ve heard of some of those but haven’t looked up their pay bands, not sure Afterpay has a moat though…
For a long time, there was a meme about "hardware" people not understanding software, and there was enough anecdotal evidence, to make the jokes about it funny. Example: "Never trust a hardware engineer with a keyboard, and never trust a programmer with a screwdriver."

I once mentioned this meme (referring to a specific anecdote) in a small group of CS people, and the big-name CS professor in the group immediately agreed with it, saying "They are our worst enemy!" (I think he was referring, seriously, to everything that has been learned, in his fields of CS and Software Engineering, beyond what needs to be exercised to get a program to compile and initially seem to work.)

My theory about that meme: all EEs (for example) will have done some programming (in some cases, like someone who can write numerous paragraphs of English, but isn't even aware of the gap between that and a great novel). And EEs might also reasonably have the impression that "coding" is easier than the hard real engineering classes that the EE had to pass. Of course, it's clear to everyone that CS people couldn't do the jobs of EE people, but it's less clear in the other direction.

To the extent that the meme is sometimes true, I think current market realities don't break it. A company driven by people with hard engineering/science backgrounds might realize it has to pay some market rate for software people. (And if the product obviously needed some kind of clown college skills, like face-painting, they'd pay for it, even if they thought those clowns had it easy.) But that doesn't mean they understand what's involved in the craft of effective software engineering, nor respect what goes into software staff's processes and judgment.

This isn't only about hardware and software people. I think it might be a more general human problem, across disciplines. It makes sense that software people will most notice the version in which they're on a receiving end, which I'd guess is usually on the other end of hardware people or (like most everyone else) business people.

(Additional theory: if an organization doesn't understand and respect some skillset, they might not be able to discern strong candidates when hiring for roles needing that skillset, and random results could be self-reinforcing.)

Of course a meme isn't truth, and it can be unfair to individuals. And some of the best software work I've seen was by people with EE/CE/math/no degrees, and I was also blessed early in career by working with great hardware engineers who did respect software.
Heh, I probably should've linked a source. I was just too disappointed to remember :(
Radiators can add drag, but they can also add thrust which exceeds that drag. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_effect).
Related:

Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688802 - Sept 2022 (100 comments)
Cloudflare has a really clear and seemingly mandatory option which is to just assert what we all know to be true: They can boot clients whenever they threaten their business. Everybody does this. There are near constant stories of users getting business-critical Google or Apple accounts suspended without warning or explanation. Those companies are ruthless about protecting themselves from liability and will err on the side of losing customers even when the violations aren't proven. Cloudflare wants to be seen as being above the fray and they just absolutely aren't. Anyone who thinks "it's just politics" is delusional. These are real people doing real things with real consequences.
Let's not be coy here - the ultimate goal is to exactly make them cease to exist. And indeed, in any other case such action would be pointless - if they're dangerous hateful bigots that endanger lives, then what changes if they move to another provider? What has been achieved by that? It's like the police would say "we caught this terrible murderer and we forced him to change the store where he shops for groceries and to wear different brand of clothes. Yay us!" What's the point then? The only case where it makes any sense if when the ultimate goal - maybe not immediate, but eventual - is to drive it out of existence.

CF alone couldn't likely pull it off, but as multiple prior cases illustrated, they are not alone.
Mind sharing some details about your setup?
Thanks! I’ll put some together in the next couple days just to make sure it gets done, so even though running those apps may not work (depending on what’s used), at least it’ll be easy to play with it.
Is it true you can detect these sorts of thing before birth or is it still a shot in the dark?
The law, at least in the US of A, puts freedom of speech in a sacred position. There is a reason for the Bill of Rights amendments, and the way they are written. You are claiming "rule of law" to act in a way the law would not allow were you government instead of a private entity. Your claims here, like in the past cases where Cloudflare has committed vigilante censorship, are disingenuous at best. While you strike at the things you hate, you cry that /you/ are the one wounded! Your hypocrisy is disgusting. You and your company do not deserve the position you now hold in the infrastructure of the internet.
> by extension don’t care if they’re spending their money wisely

What's wise for the management isn't necessarily wise for end-users.

You can buy a product that's great for your business needs, that the users will absolutely hate. Both of those things can be true at the same time.
"But the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?

Therefore, either one of two things: either the anti-authoritarians don't know what they're talking about, in which case they are creating nothing but confusion; or they do know, and in that case they are betraying the movement of the proletariat. In either case they serve the reaction."

- Engels, On Authority 1872
In fact the speech/threats is evidence against the threatener. Let them hang themselves.
Seems cool. However, I went down a several-hour rabbit hole trying to build non-documented dependencies and eventually gave up.

The reliance on mono/skiasharp makes this a far less portable application, and to say there is Linux support seems disingenuous. Binaries only exist for Ubuntu, the binaries are said to work for non-ubuntu systems but nuget fails to install them.

Building from scratch leads to several undocumented dependencies and I'm still receiving increasingly inscrutable build failures out of the box. Feels like 2005... My patience ran out.

If anyone on an RPM-based system gets everything up and running, drop me a line.
There was one threat which was immediately removed by the moderators. Why is it your business to take down an entire site because one user on it broke the rules and was stopped by the site moderators?
On the off-chance that this is a serious question and not gaslighting, start with this investigative journalist's thread: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/15657972205318144...

This isn't recent either, the same reporter wrote on the site back in 2016: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-trolls-cheer-trans-woman... (linked to from his Twitter thread).

I personally witnessed Near's live-tweeted descent into despair, culminating in their suicide (https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1409230358977998851?lang=en, https://twitter.com/near_koukai/status/1408986839743037448), all driven by KF.

As Near described it:

> But Kiwi Farms has made the harassment orders of magnitude worse. It's escalated from attacking me for being autistic, to attacking and doxing my friends, and trying to suicide bait another, just to get a reaction from me. I lost one of my best friends to this. I feel responsible

The behavior from just the Daily Beast story alone exceeds the harm caused by things like spamming, for which CloudFlare does ban email users. CloudFlare even runs a dedicated service that "crawls the Internet to stop phishing, Business Email Compromise (BEC), and email supply chain attacks at the earliest stages of the attack" [1].

One could only wonder how magical the Internet would be if CloudFlare could stop doxxing and account hijacking attacks at their earliest stages! Or... you know, at least not facilitate those attacks coming from within their own network. Because once this all crosses into harassment, stalking, doxxing and mass online bullying, it stops being about "speech" and starts being about facilitating and organizing criminal activity.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/email-securit...
Thanks. The posts says all AMD-based ThinkPads are affected. And I can't confirm that with both of my T14 Gen 1s which I leave on S3 for multiple days. I haven't tried the S0-something yet, but will do. It looks like you did way more research than me, so I believe that it's a real issue. Perhaps it's down to individual component combination, like planar revision, battery, etc.?
> Water/Electricity utilities don't cut the supply to rapists and terrorists

These services are not typically used in the act of raping or terrorising someone.
> I wish that car reviewers would do their job and be critical.

Well, it’s all about Youtube clicks now. Who shows more new cars faster. Being honest and critical does not help those individuals because that will cause that they’ll stop receiving cars for reviews.

You see. Today to review a car, you have to get s special press car. Can’t pick up a random rental and do a review for it.
I think you have just convinced me to buy German cars exclusively from now on; I very much do not want a car which is "just a computer with wheels" - the less software in the car, the better!
I've needed it myself lately. :) Enjoy your weekend!
You've only got a one in a million chance of losing 20 times in a row.
If you lose 19 times in a row, sure you can take the sure million on the last try. But it doesn't make any sense to take the sure million at the beginning.
They should ban green accounts on anything that relates to gender, queerness, harassment, discrimination, race, etc.

Basically non-tech things that stir up a lot of gross opinions masked behind sock puppets and throwaway accounts.

HN is becoming painful for me to read. Just so much hate, which is especially disconcerting to see it on a forum like this one. Which is supposed to be a place for smart discussion.
What is gatekeeping
> I feel frustrated by this debate; do people really believe that having every speech question litigated in court is good for freedom of expression online?

Yes, of course it would be. The end result of litigating free speech in the court system, is that the court system would rule in favor of the speech, almost every single time.

The courts have extremely strong protections for speech. They are way way stronger than what private companies do.

Just adding the word "government" doesn't make something more scary. In this case, adding "government" to the enforcement mechanism for speech would mean that basically nothing gets banned.
Attempted murder, I only wished that sites were brave enough to keep them up and work with law enforcement rather than take them down out of fear of legal risk
Technically, this incident seems to be corruption.

When a person employed in the government interacts informally with their friends, relations, acquaintances, the unoffical involvement should stop with "here's the name of the office where you file that complaint" or possibly "my office handles that; send it in through the usual method and I will make sure that I don't work on it". But human nature is to make things a little easier for the people we like or are predisposed to like. That's often harmless. It is sometimes quite the opposite.

The "old boys' network" feels good to the participants but is corrosive to fair treatment.
Fly it once, then put the whole thing in the rear-view mirror and go with SpaceX.
And the US will continue to eat their lunch. How many high impact software companies are coming out of Germany?
I turn 50 this year and started programming on a VIC-20 when I was 10. Still program everyday with the latest stuff that is out.

e.g. https://shv.notion.site/Creating-Remember-When-51fdf609421d4...
KiwiFarms does more than just harass Keffals. Whether you agree with her views or not is irrelevant. At least 3 suicides have been caused by them.

After the swatting incident, Keffals stayed in a hotel one night. KiwiFarms were able to track her down in a matter of hours. With nothing more than a photo on her Discord that happened to include the hotel bedsheets.

Their vitriol isn’t something that you can just “grow thicker skin” against. These people will harass you until the day you die, and never give up.
Tips for Aviation Tin Snips (2021) [video]
https://github.com/

90% of what's in that page is information you literally do not want when you come visit their website

People working at Github have no idea what their website is all about

The "trending" culture is a death sentence to our civilization
Electricity isn't? And Cloudflare is?
Unicode Art
Use something like flux and you'll immediately see an improvement in ability to sleep after sitting in front of a computer.

Personally I can't sleep at all if I'm looking at blue light. I didn't need a study to tell me to justify the change.
Under pressure, security firm Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms website
>> If you don't feel you can program anymore, then you can move into management, UX, or analytics

I would rather die. I write code for a living. If I can't do that, welfare.

Management. UX. As if.
Everyone here has defended the CEO right to make those decision. The disagreement is his argument and justfication.
He should just come out and say "I did it because i can and want to" not those long winded excuses
The phone tree needs your information to route your call properly, the service rep needs your information to service you. Conveying the information to the service rep is harder than routing your call, so it's not always done.
The 1996 coins are often somewhat expensive, that year is "rare."

Someone discovered a loophole where by they could sell things in exchange for a US Mint silver coin and not charge sales tax on that transaction. Conveniently, neither did they need to charge sales tax for selling someone a US Mint silver coin. Thus they sold a lot of coins, briefly, and a lot of merchandise without tax.

I knew one person who still had thousands of circulated 1996 silver eagles from that trick. He'd pass them out to friends and kids with a lecture about how the Federal Reserve Note was not real money.
Carr also made Pirate Battles and Treasure Island, at least one of which I remembered from my childhood, whereas I've never played Capture the Flag.

The sprites used in the shareware game I played remained etched in my memory, along with the red and blue colors for the teams, the top-down view with vibrant colors, the Windows 95 GUI, and keywords like "trapper" and "scout" (the other game apparently had "digger") but I had forgotten the name over the years and took me a lot of searching to find it again.

There are some communities like Reddit's tipofmyjoystick that are geared towards locating games by description, and the process inspired me to contribute to curation/catalog sites for games.
Abandonware sites fulfill much of that latter niche now, but these are not abandonware!

After I found the game's name, I found that there were very few Google search results for "shareware pirate battles carrsoft" or "shareware treasure island carrsoft". There's room for more shareware catalogs and searchable, browseable thematic directories.

He still sells a bundle of his games at carrsoft.com and I bought them recently. Highly recommend!
Using a Commodore 64 on the modern internet
Ah, I didn’t know there were more of these things, thanks!
Alternate version: https://archive.ph/moIax
Do you have sources for Byuu/Near spotted alive? First I’ve heard of it.
> ...you can AMA about Down's here if you want...

I've wondered about modern education for children with Down's. My impression is that they currently show much greater cognitive development than what I remember from 50 years ago. I have assumed that this is due to improvements in special education. Can you say anything about this?
Any Sensor, Anytime, Anywhere
Solar powered autonomous sailing vehicles have sailed 800,000+ nautical miles and spent 18,000+ days at sea collecting data that provides unprecedented intelligence for climate, mapping, and maritime security applications
I think the issue was mainly that (from the viewpoint of those complaining) she harassed the LoTT’s family at their homes and then went live with the article before giving anyone connected to LoTT (including LoTT herself) sufficient time to address her questions and statements.

I have not done enough research to take a stance personally on what happened.
Nope. Waterfall is still used and used correctly in situations where there are large and important contractual or compliance obligations. You wouldn't use an agile methodology in construction, you waterfall the hell out of that. Same for hardware projects where fab times can be very lengthy.

I don't blame you for coming to the conclusion you have, but you'd do well to signpost when you suspect something is true vs have reason and evidence that something is true.
We certainly experience interaction with people who don’t have much regard for our neurodivergence. I don’t think “neurotypical” means much other than as a lambast, but that isn’t to say it can’t appropriately describe a lot of my experience here.
Wow, never knew about Thunderbolt networking, thanks! NextCloud - been hearing a lot about this. What’s the setup/upkeep/maintenance like? Where are you hosting it? That VPN idea - would love to keep things accessible by IP whitelist, or just some way that the server is not being scanned for vulnerabilities on the regular…
A woman who taught the West how to cook Indian food
Free speech is not completely unfettered. Under Brandenburg v. Ohio, speech that incites imminent lawless action - and that would likely cause such action - can be punished under the law.

In all likelihood this appears to be what is happening with kiwi farms. Of course, the issue is that Cloudflare can’t undertake legal enforcement, but they have a terms of use and so contractually are duly within their rights to end service to kiwifarms.
How does these avoid optical constraints? I thought it was not possible to design lenses in such small space that would project image 2-3 ft away at least.
This idea of racism being a modern invention is merely an academic theory. There is no doubt there were periodic exterminations of Jews in classical antiquity and atrocities perpetrated against Jews throughout the Middle Ages. Antisemitism is racism.

Though the word "race" was probably coined in tandem with British Imperialism, Black slavery and the modern era, race, in fact, does not exist. Race is entirely a social construction, and regardless of the words used in antiquity, the same concepts were used to discriminate against, stereotype, repress and enslave peoples from the very dawn of civilization.
Waterfall was first coined as a smear for as far as I can tell "planning too much": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_W._Royce
but free, ammaright?
Then I suppose you have all the information you need to draw the appropriate analogy!
Does Waterfall as used today test software during subassembly development, if so its not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_W._Royce 's waterfall.
> I'm skeptical of concentrations of power wherever it is: government, Cloudflare, Facebook, etc.

Not to hammer the point to hard, but de-concentrating power is the exact reason why it is better to have moderation decisions across multiple layers of the network stack rather than in level 0 (the government).

Forum messes up on moderation? Not a big deal.

Web host starts making bad decisions? Tons of options.

Clouldflare banning you? Tougher, but there are multiple CDN services, if Cloudflare becomes evil it's not necessarily the end of the world.

ISP banning you? Now we start getting pretty dangerous, there are fewer options available to services and if moderation decisions are made poorly, that can have effects across the entire network for everyone.

The government prosecuting you? This is level 0 of the network stack.

The way that we guard against concentration of power is by de-concentrating it. Cloudflare (and to be fair, other large Internet companies too) are arguing for the opposite of that. In the specific case of Kiwi Farms, maybe this example is so egregious that it does make sense to have some new laws. I kind of agree with that. But no good law will be enough on its own to get rid of Cloudflare's responsibility, the only law responsive enough and fast enough to do that would be one that violated free speech rights.
> it should be quite easy to provide that evidence, right?

No. The post alludes to active investigations concerning, among other things, bomb threats. One doesn’t air evidence in that situation.
> Vigilantism isn't a great thing, but what choice do we have when authorities allow hate sites like Kiwifarms to stay online? After all, as Yonatan Zunger famously wrote, tolerance is not a moral precept.

In conclusion, vigilantism is fine if done against someone you dont like... cool
Does anyone have an example of the escalating threats and why now it's become a problem?

If the police can swat someone anywhere within an hour, what's special about these new threats that the police cannot deal with?
but "giving the individual the choice to listen to whatever influence they wish" means that when somebody uses the threat of physical violence to silence one of those influences, anybody who stands up for free speech must push back against that. everybody deserves to have their say, except those who would seek to silence others.

defending the silencers is incompatible with free speech.
Sure, but we can also criticise it on the side. Corporations aren't beyond criticism.
"but for 999.99 you can buy a dongle that converts one to the other."
No, Elixir Desktop is a great project as well. It packages up the BEAM entirely into a native binary. So Elixir/Erlang runs natively on the phone. LiveView Native will render actual native SwiftUI components into the SwiftUI viewtree. In other words, LVN is just a client whereas Elixir Desktop is the entire BEAM runtime/VM