skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article seems to have been posted to make a false equivalence with the current Kiwifarms situation. There’s a pretty clear difference in urgency between taking down DDOSers and deplatforming a forum that is a gathering point for a mob engaging in mass harassment, stalking, and SWATing. One is a nonviolent crime. The other is a crime targeting an individual that had already escalated to the point of a high risk of violence, with no sign of slowing down.
> Notesnook is our proof that privacy does not (always) have to come at the cost of convenience

Won’t implementing note sharing be harder for this app than for one that isn’t encrypted?

Encrypted data storage is harder to work with than plaintext data storage and until developers have good tools to close that gap, they’re not going to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence
What smartphone company would you recommend?
I know right? Autists should know their place.
This article is not very articulate on the point, but goes to the real touchy point with the Kiwifarms decision. Based on what I know it seems Cloudflare made a good decision, but:

1. The internet is vast.

2. Figuring out what someone is doing on the internet even if you did somehow have full transparency over the data they send/receive is hard.

3. Any policy of intervention is going to leave behind a stream of poorly prioritised actions that are highly questionable.

4. Just because we see something doesn't mean it is there. It is usual for the first impressions to be wrong. Often even after researching an issue thoroughly.

I don't think there is a free speech issue here, but I do question whether Cloudflare has the motivation or capability to actually execute a policy of policing the internet fairly. All the pressure is going to be to police the internet for specific political goals.
> But just be aware that if your site becomes the next pariah of the internet some way or some how, CF is prone to drop your services as well.

There's a dril tweet for everything.

https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
Clickbait BS...
Yuuup. I currently work on multivalue systems and it is quite fun to think about an alternate reality where pick popped off instead of Linux and sql. Though I do think we are in the better timeline today.

If anyone wants to try out universe which is one of the truly more modern multivalue database, I wrote an installation guide.

https://nivethan.dev/devlog/installing-universe.html
> Browsers do filter by default with safe browsing URL lists for malware

Yes, for malware. As in, software created by criminals to damage your computer and/or steal your personal information.

That's not even remotely comparable to what StableDiffusion does here. What they do is refuse to generate content you requested, based on opaque criteria that no doubt are ultimately influenced by quasi-religious sentiments retained from the Bronze Age.
The issue (I believe according to the author) is that Cloudflare is now choosing to withhold protection for Kiwi Farms, taking a moral stance and should be more responsible for other moral obligations or none at all. IE. Should they stop providing protection for more sites? When is the next Kiwi Farms?

I don't agree with the author because it is still early (and the author might be putting Cloudflare under pressure for some personal gain in some rhetoric), but these questions are interesting and is part of the cancel culture we are seeing more of.
“promptly and firmly by a justice system”

The Justice system is almost never prompt. Despite the fact that some laws have been broken, the police likely won’t take a situation seriously until _after_ there’s a dead body. They aren’t in the business of preventing people from getting killed. They’re in the business of putting the killers in jail.

So, yes, maybe a more ideal solution would be a dramatic reform to policing, but, if that’s not going to happen any time soon, what solutions are available?
Google Keep, everyday (till they kill it)
Your comment was not cordial. It was concern trolling.
Russia lies. A lot. Why the hell go to the premise of taking anything they say at face value?

There are multiple steps before going to war. Putin was looking for an excuse to go to war and also tried fabricating stuff like Nazis controlling Ukraine (which has a Jewish president) because he knew this is a flimsy excuse. Repeating this nonsense gives validity to a war criminal.

> Russians and Ukrainians are currently killing and maiming each other.

No. One side invaded the other. This isn't symmetric.

> The history of the situation is complicated

No. There's a lot of noise in terms of history. But people use it to mask simple facts. A dictator invaded a sovereign nation. Killed civilians who he claims to protect.

The US isn't at fault in any way. You can't negotiate with a liar who violates agreements. Russia attacked US elections in a blatant way and explicitly instigated a policy of sabotage. There were plenty of opportunities along the way to de-escalate. But the US didn't escalate. It very explicitly stated early on that no soldiers will go into Ukraine. It made it hard for Ukraine to join NATO, etc. Putin violated the status quo.

They arm Ukraine because the alternative would be the annihilation of the country. So far the Russian forces took over areas and forced migration into Russia, killed people in the streets, etc. These are terrible people.

> To summarize, I'd prefer if we made an effort to not kill people.

This is nonsense. A lot of effort was put into that. Unfortunately, sometimes the only thing you can do is stand up and protect your country. This is what the people of Ukraine are doing. Putin isn't giving them a choice.

They have talks all the time. In the talks people literally got poisoned!

You're perpetuating a false Russian narrative that has been discredited time and time again.
Not everything can be idempotent, nor immutable, nor stateless. But if you adopt the core assumption that you will achieve those states in the places where they can be achieved (and attempt to make them easily achievable with patterns that support them), then when you do isolate situations that cannot be, like physically shipping a product, you can pay more attention to to making them correct. Most of the innumerable in memory, business logic, database operations, etc., behind the shipment can be made idempotent, which gives you more confidence that you didn't trigger a physical shipment because of an issue.

In other words, the decision to ship can be made idempotent. And that, in a modern software app, the result of a pretty complex set of things that can individually go wrong.

You could argue that Amazon made themselves something of a success by bringing at least the principle if not the actuality of idempotency to the shipment itself. By making it easy to get a replacement shipped.
Apple Notes is my go to.

Plenty of great new features, but the core is still snappy and easy to use.
As I wrote, penniless immigrants crossing the southern border migrate to every part of the US. How do you think they manage that? Have you seen the news footage of caravans of them walking thousands of miles to get to the border?

Every corner of the US was settled by penniless people, including the colonists who arrived here penniless.
Wasn't Musk talking about sending people to Mars by 2029? Nasa is talking about bringing samples back by mid 2030's but it seems like Musk will have already ventured onto the planet. Does he plan on a one way trip where these people are not coming back and is it also an experiment to see if they survive without a Martian Plague?
I wonder if the exact same story as the iPhone vs Nokia/Motorola/Microsoft/et al is happening in electric cars. At least the article hints at the exact same thing happening. May be folks more knowledgeable with the auto industry might be able to comment
Those are complete non sequiturs. Being smart doesn't detract from being 'good'. People here aren't anti Apple CSAM reporting. They are against routine privacy invasion for people who have nothing to do with CSAM. I am sure if the scanning had a zero percent false positive rate and there was no privacy invasion lots of people would be for it.
Precisely, once human lives are in extreme danger, it's a different situation
You've linked me to a summary article on depression by Verywellmind. Please provide actual specific evidence for your blanket assertion that depression is very rarely caused by lifestyle or life events. Remember, you've made this assertion as if it were fact, and I'm merely asking you to actually prove it. If you can't, then stop asserting it as if it were fact.

> There is no contradiction here; the correlation you think you see is not causation.

You're doing literally the exact same thing. You're pointing to chemical differences in people with depression and saying "there, that's causation! it has nothing to do with lifestyle or life events!". Consider that the chemical differences that result in depression could be caused by lifestyle factors and life events (and it's undisputed that these things cause chemical differences).

> You misunderstood. Daylight regulates mood. Sunlight can cure depression; it does not cause depression.

No, it's you who misunderstood me. If sunlight cures depression, then our basic actions in life are the issue, i.e. our lifestyle is a low-sunlight lifestyle (something very much in conflict with the environment our brains evolved in).

You simply haven't given enough evidence to back up your confidence on the idea that depression isn't caused by our actions in life, or life events. Yes, brain chemistry is involved, we know that. But our actions and experiences affect our brain chemistry. So you're going to have to work a lot harder than you have to rule it out.

The most I can see you saying is that the start of the causal chain (life events) doesn't matter because you only care about the end of the causal chain (brain chemistry). But this is a wildly different statement to saying that actions or life events aren't part of the causal chain, which you appear to be asserting.

You're basically saying "getting shot doesn't kill you, bleeding to death does!"
$250/hr
If what StableDiffusion did was ask the user something like "The prompt you entered may result in the generation of content some people find objectionable. Are you sure you want to proceed?", then I would buy your argument.

As currently implemented (and the implementation took more work than a confirmation prompt would have!), it's an obvious attempt to control, rather than protect, users. They try their best to dress it up like a joke, but it clearly isn't.
Do you have any evidence to support your claims that Cloudflare donated money to Westboro Baptist Church? Unless you have good evidence, your claims are slander.
What's at the heart of the entire Cloudflare situation is this discussion around the platform's alleged neutrality.

I do not understand this at all. If I run a business, and I see that unambiguously bad actors namely abusers, criminals, stalkers, harassers or whatever use my services to facilitate their actions I have a very clear ethical obligation to step in. I don't go "well the law isn't here, it's not my problem". Making money of unsavory individuals, metaphorically selling both shields and guns at the same time is unethical. Dodging that responsibility is moral cowardice.

The law isn't in every place, it's slow as hell and dysfunctional anyhow in some jurisdictions in particular but that's no excuse for inaction when it is within ones power to prevent harm. It should be that simple.
Drought causes Dutch wooden pole foundations to rot
Veritasium has a video about Newton discovering binomial power series and forever changed the way we computed pie.

Previously people bisected circle which was painfully slow.
But why do they collect your information through the IVR in the first place, if they can't pass it to the agent?
There are tweets where Keffals advocates for exactly that. I'd link one but last time I did I got flagged.
I think it would be intellectually dishonest to imply that there is no objective “bad”. At some point it goes beyond yelling fire in a theater, into the realm of certain and immediate harm to the whole.

We seem capable of recognizing certain actions and behaviors as universally abhorrent. Nobody can say “Cloudflare is neutral… Unless you are CSAM”, or “Cloudflare is neutral… Unless you are a live video feed of a mass murder event”, and call it an odd definition of neutrality.

There are a lot of sick individuals out there, an unfortunate number of people unable to discern trolling from legitimate discourse, people who may be convinced to commit abhorrent acts or think that they found like minded supporters of their abhorrent behavior. It is not neutral to actively defend and support the ability of a platform to take advantage of those people and or to allow the promotion of such abhorrent behaviors.

It seems like Cloudflare finds themselves walking a tightrope across a bottomless chasm. Any misstep will have dire consequences for the future of Cloudflare and the precedence it sets for the internet as a whole. It seems at this point they have taken a path of extreme caution and attempted to weigh that against collective voice of reason.
You should not drag others into your criminal actions.
You decided to do it on your own and for your own benefit.
You did it and must now live with it. But done blame others and drag them in and say they "helped". This is on you alone.
> Herbert Diess’s master plan for beating Tesla Inc. hinged on replacing calloused factory hands with the nimble fingertips of 10,000 software workers who would transform Volkswagen AG into a tech player.

How can any product with 10K developers on it NOT collapse under its own weight?
Yeah it’s weird because you could definitely do some kind of data transfer with SIP headers.
And yet they continue to work with innumerable other services causing bodily harm. This was all about countering the negative publicity.
>"seems pervasive"

Sort of. I find real businesses with real needs who hire me as a contractor to design / develop software. They have no extra time and money for propaganda. I work either alone or hire subcontractors for help. How I actually do development is my internal business. They do not go into that area.
DDOSs can have more impact than you think. Such as taking down hospitals and the war in Ukraine. Not really sure which one can be worse though...

https://www.radware.com/security/ddos-experts-insider/ert-ca...
They'll push back unless it's not good for the union. And you might think that means "not good for the workers", but not always.

Unions basically mean you give up individual autonomy in your job in exchange for group protection.

In some cases that's an improvement, in some cases it's not.
Trust, we prevent DDOS with a trust system between nodes.

But this would put Cloudflare out of business so...
If the first test is positive, it is followed with a second, more sensitive test. It is not directly go to abort.
DDOSing is illegal, any illegal content on KF is quickly removed.
It’s worth to point out that there’s no consensus yet on whether ML models (as in the weights) are actually copyrightable. If you’re using them, you should probably assume that they are. If you’re distributing them, you should probably assume that they aren’t.
I have a pair of Nreal Air glasses which I purchased for my steam deck. I used them a couple of times then they went into a drawer.

The issue I had with them is that the screen moves with your head. I know this sounds super obvious, and I knew this would be the case when I purchased them; however, I did not understand how disorienting and frustrating it would be for gaming.

Most gaming HUDs are at the outside edge of the screen, and you look at them fairly frequently. If you’re like me, you do this by moving your head slightly with your eyes. I found it to be very distracting to move my head every time I wanted to check the edges of the screen because I would move my head and eyes and expect to be at my target… but not actually have arrived there.

Additionally, because I was required to look only with my eyes I felt like there was a lot of fatigue, and occasionally a bit of soreness, caused by constantly moving my vision past what all of my habits had trained.

I think that the idea of a glasses based screen is sound, but I will wait for a decent pair with AR built in before I buy again. If the screen were fixed into place using AR cameras it would be a really cool experience overall.
Then use ranges instead, problem solved
Likening a passionate fan to a whale does not work for me. A whale spends thousands to ten thousands times as much as a casual, but a passionate fan does not spend orders of magnitude more than a casual. A business analyst can only see this first-order effect as money is easy to measure; the second order effect of the passionate fanbase having a larger-than-usual reach and being to organise mass gruntle/review bombing/boycotts and other forms of IP burning/resistance is invisible to him, or he does not care because the cost is already sunk, whereas whaling is always an ongoing business.
Back in the early 2000's, I was involved with bringing up, diagnostics, and bench-marking large-scale supercomputers. Would occasionally tell management, with a day or two of notice, when would be a good time to schedule maintenance, rather than attempting to run customer's application codes. Back then, I was using spaceweather.com, a somewhat simplified and sensationalized version of the spaceweather.gov.

On days when I knew what was coming, it was (almost) fun watching ECC single-bit error counters ticking up across the O(100k) nodes...like watching popcorn pop in a hot pan.
It's open-source. Patch it out yourself. It's not hidden.
Why do you think that is what the parent post meant? He said he doesn't care about "the right skin color". If he doesn't care about skin color, then why can't Black Panther be white? I don't think the post was claiming it matters if it is intrinsic to the plot.
That makes no sense. You can draw whatever you like with Photoshop. You can search for whatever you want on Google. That doesn't make the software "NSFW", and no country will block Photoshop's domain just because someone used Photoshop to create NSFW content.

Don't let people who are clearly motivated by a moralistic desire to control others hide behind BS pseudo-legal excuses.
I'm glad you've had a positive experience: everyone deserves a respectful work environment, both because it's the Right Thing to do and because it improves productivity.

That said, you're countering a researched article, and the experiences of the vast majority of people in this thread, with...your anecdatum.

Does it seem that absurd to suggest that, wherever you put an abusive person in a position of power with much at stake, abuse happens regardless of setting?
Standard notes fits those criteria and as a bonus is encrypted
No always. Take the very common union rules around seniority. Can the employer offer some benefit to an individual union member (e.g. preferred shifts, certain shifts that get bonuses, etc).

Sure! But often only by seniority.

So the guy who has been around the longest, but doesn't do a great (because the union will protect him) gets the best hours and best bonuses. Can you do a better job? Sure! But it doesn't matter, you don't have seniority.

Take that same scenario and apply it across a bunch of other issues you might have with coworkers and you'll get a sense how unions can go wrong.
Yeah, add on top of that severe water and food issues, a tsunami of unproductive debt, and leadership that doesn't care about a single thing besides staying all powerful at any cost.
Straight-up incompetence on the part of the systems integrator or designer

Can confirm.

My first ever programming job, 20+ years ago, was doing CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) and call-center integration stuff... basically, building IVR's and integrating them with backend databases and customer support apps. Truth is, there's rarely - if ever - any real technical reason to not have the agent shown the customer's information as soon as they pick up the call. This stuff was all being done decades ago.

As far as I'm concerned, it's either "straight up incompetence" or "straight up laziness" or some variation on that theme.
It is sad and pathetic that so many are unwilling to acknowledge the science and the well-documented data. It is even more sad and pathetic that so many are unable to do so. But, unfortunately, that is why society looks the way it does.
Your last is extremely easy to explain: if you say you're idle your immediately given a new task.

That's not a bad thing per se. However, management always fails to account for e.g. mental fatigue after finishing an important milestone that most of the time has been grinding hard at for the last month.

That fatigue needs a week or so to disappear by itself -- just getting one good massage, sex and sleep doesn't fix everything. If you're loaded with work again starting tomorrow you'll do a sloppy job and will keep accumulating more fatigue.

I'm not saying an army of unmotivated lazy slackers doesn't exist out there. It absolutely does. But not everyone is like them. Sometimes people really do need to relax a bit in order to recover their ability to be useful to the business.

Our stupid system of requiring 8h a day for 5 out of 7 days misses 99% of all human specifics and it simply doesn't care. That's not okay.
That's not the point at all.
Okay, so you are saying that these people are no longer going to campaign to take any sites which stop short of criticizing trans people. Let's just wait and see about that.
> It isn't guaranteed that such programs would be faster (though I suspect in some cases they would be), but they almost certainly should be smaller, which is important for Wasm, and other constrained targets.

Smaller in code size, maybe (though that possibly doesn't matter given that code is pretty compressible), but possibly less cache-coherent! One thing that's interesting about bytecode interpreters like BEAM, the JVM, etc., is that since all the actual native-ISA code is just the same small set of instruction impls being jumped to over and over, the interpreter can stay entirely hot in L2 or even L1 cache at all times; with the program bytecode being executed through, while less hot, being more concise, and therefore also being "hotter per byte" since code that does more per op will take longer to fully run through before it needs to be evicted in favor of something else.

This has been a consideration for decades—it's why programs compiled to Pascal p-code tended to be faster than programs compiled natively for the low-level (mostly ALUless) host instruction sets of the time.
But that's like the best job available in all of this.

Code monkey might be bad, but everything else is worse. I can't think of anything else, maybe there's something, but for a job easily attainable by someone with no connections whatsoever code monkey is pretty damn good.

Code monkeying has been very very good to me.
> Just archiving publicly available information

…as part of coordinated, targeted harassment campaigns with the ultimate goal of forcing the targeted individuals to kill themselves.

I don’t know if you think calling it “just archiving publicly available information” is clever or something, but it’s incredibly transparent.
Ask HN: What companies are great for a junior SWE looking for remote jobs?
Haven't tried the mobile app, still waiting for that. I take horrible notes on Google keep and then port them to logseq, usually it's not a lot of work because what I can write on phone takes longer than pc
Never buy Euro cars in Australia, they spend more time in the shop, the parts cost more and you'll spend a month at least waiting for the part.

They are simply not made for the conditions here.