skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the api incredibly hard to use as someone who hasn't used swift or macOS API's before. Because of the way some of the code runs as a separate plugin from the main app, you can't really use traditional logging as a debug tool. There is also a lot of split state to be handled. You have to provide sync anchors and diffed tree updates to change the folder contents, which just aren't available with most backends.

I started on a program to mount a website resource directory on your computer using this api, but I gave up due to the restrictions of the api: https://github.com/mathiasgredal/Itslearning
I don't know what particular thing I said that you're responding to, besides the watermelon thing. Dream on? About what?
Were any of them made _for_ stalking/doxxing/harassing? It's a totally different ballpark.
Has there even been a precedent of a domain being revoked for such a thing?
Some call it "research grant bullshit bingo" - you massage the grant contents till you hit the currently necessary bingo combination for getting your grant past gatekeepers of money.

In similar vein is padding grants with equipment (including software licenses) that is often secondary to the needs or sometimes even was already available, but which would in turn enable you to work more efficiently on 20 more projects and be passed to institution after grant ended, helping other people.

Grant review and acceptance is quite often a question of what's fashionable and thus might get unspoken extra points in evaluation.
Intent is the key ingredient to crime (or other behaviours society does not tolerate). You totally ignore this.
Yes, a medical abortion approved and administered by medical professionals.

I don't think the medical literature suggests taking homemade drugs from strangers on the internet.
Why would the US make any laws against doxxing? As of so far we've been nearly completely allergic to any laws for privacy. It's going to be very problematic in itself attempting to make a legal argument that disclosing an anonymous persons name is not protected under the first amendment.
that's an amazing stat, so I went looking for a primary source - what I found so far was a blurb in this Guardian article that links to another Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/how-amer...

"US statistics are bracing. A nation with 318 million people accounting for just 4.5% of world population consumes more energy for air conditioning than the rest of the world combined. It uses more electricity for cooling than Africa, population 1.1 billion, uses for everything."

I'd love to see some charts that break this down visually (energy consumption by region/type).
Absolutely ridiculous.

Rust itself is written using plenty of unsafe code, all of which runs on top of fundamentally-unsafe CPU architectures. And yet it manages to expose a safe API to its users who somehow to write memory-safe Rust programs every day.

> You can't always hide the problem behind an API, because for instance an API may call back into your code and access data.

This is quite literally all that Cell and RefCell do and they hide this behavior behind a safe API.

Do memory-safety leaks in supposedly memory-safe abstractions crop up occasionally? Sure, nobody's perfect. But this idea that unsafety is uncontainable and spreads out everywhere until your whole program is infected and riddled with memory-safety bugs is completely detached from reality and regularly disproven by Rust developers on a daily basis.
This is a pretty weak argument and extremely susceptible to Goodhart’s Law. It feels like you’re treating the existence of vile sites like this as a metric for the health of internet free speech. Be careful you don’t make the continued existence of such bigotry your target
I would point you to oil and gas vs climate. Tell me which of the two won for decades because of financial power.

We have only just now reached the point where the last group of anti-climate people have begun accepting that climate change is real. They've simply moved their argument to "it wasn't humans' fault". This is 100% because of the overwhelming influence of energy sector finances vs environmentalists.

The same goes on with food/animal topics.

Sure, the odd paper comes out showing that something bad is actually bad. But as HN talks about quite often, being a researcher is a difficult balance between producing research that pleases the financial backers and which is of real scientific value.
Maybe they just need a rebrand... to PHP.js or something
There's a remarkable irony isln that there is such a sizable vocal camp that feels like malleability & focus on good low-level primitives for the web (see: Extensible Web Manifesto) is the weakness, that it takes native tool build good experiences.

The lovely point here is that change keeps happening, is everywhere. The fancy good stuff today becomes a bad fit for what happens next, stops being a strength & becomes a limit.

What is so cherishable about the web, it's enduring quality, is that it's still a pretty good pretty flexible model. It's low level model, without a ton of opinions, that we can compose higher order systems out of. (Just by making some new elements, ideally, in many cases, although issues like front end data stores & routers sometimes/often end up as orthogonal concerns, not integrated into the document as a (tree) set of resources (elements). But they can be: react-router for ex shows using the page computation.

Flexibility & low-level capability arent the be-all, but the lack of commitment to specifics has allowed the web to keep going. The web as a system of opinions doesnt meed a lot to say for itself; the page is both structure, and, if we choose, the mechanism and machine too (again vsible in react-router, or works like Use.GPU's Live environment).
Is this a good thing? That internet vigilantes are able to decide what can stay and what must go? If Kiwifarms was a hive for so much illegal activity then certainly the FBI must have heard of them by now and I'd expect them along with the courts to be the arbiters of justice rather than some angry people on Twitter.

I'm not celebrating because I'm not short sighted. We can all see where this is going.
Sadly, I've had to block him and all the other people on this self-righteous authoritarian crusade and don't think I'll ever interact with them again. Most of the security community (and larger technology community) used to care a lot about free speech, but they've completely abandoned that principle.
The answer is probably quite subjective. In my case, when I deal with materials such as wood, cardboard or paper I enjoy immensely to have dimensions that snap to a certain grid. Call it a mental defect if you will. To illustrate further, let me propose a strawman: would you have no preference between the A4 size being: (1) 210.32 x 297.912 or (2) 210x297? Does it not bug you that 210.25 was rounded down to 210?
Do you realize the word "service" has a meaning beyond "web service"?
Deep down in our heart we all know that kiwifarms is a forum made for hate and cloudflare has no responsibility to host them.

Yeah, sometimes the Twitter mob comes and cancels someone for no real reason, but this is not the case here.
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Has anyone made FFI bindings so we can write kernel modules in PHP yet?

I mean all this push for "Rust in the kernel" is nice and all, but do we really need fancy things like "transitive equality"? They have played us for absolute fools.

Sometimes you just want a language that really puts in the work to find a reason why "0x10" == "16z" should be true, no matter what kind of improbable implicit casts have to be done to get there.

PHP makes the impossible possible, and you've got to keep life interesting or it would be too predictable!
Unless that person is critiquing games from a feminist perspective.
I haven't encountered snow since my last manual died but that's my understanding of electronic traction control--give the job to the computer that can do a far better job than any human.

When the computer can outperform a human let the computer do it! Only give control of things where at least some drivers can outperform the computer. And, while not relevant to driving, if there's a grey area let the operator hit an override to use it. (Boeing--the plane does what you tell it even if you go outside the envelope. Airbus--the plane stays in the envelope no matter what you tell it to do. The first makes for broken birds, the second means the pilot in trouble can't decide to risk breaking the bird if that's what's needed. If you need 4g to clear terrain you do it even if the bird is only rated for 3g.)
You do realize that this wasn't simply about "discourse", yes? This was about active doxxing and swatting of real living human beings. Being transphobic might be just an (ignorant) opinion, but actively working to harm people needs to be shut right down.
Pretty much - only LCD (no backlight/etc) can rival them.

In my opinion wall clocks that run on a battery are a lot better than any digital clocks perception wise. They are also super cheap to make nowadays. Recently I had to fix one by disassembling it, clear the plastic gears/cogs, and silicone spraying them. Nifty little machines. My only regret would be not having solar battery as a frame. That would extend its battery life immensely, adding a tiny LiFEO4 would make run for decades.
The LAION-5B dataset was curated by researchers at Heidelberg University, and while it was filtered for nsfw content, the human form is less of an issue in much of Europe compared to views and attitudes in the US.
No. I noticed that problem when COVID lockdowns happened. And lots of people who don't work from home still haven't recovered their social lives either.

I realize a lot of people use work as a social crutch, but honestly if the closest friends you have are people who are paid to hang out with you, you have deeper problems.
Yeah, as much as one might be glad to see Stormfront, Kiwifarms and the like gone, the reality that without the protection of Cloudflare, pretty much any site without serious corporate backing can be taken off the Internet by anyone willing to pay a botnet operator a few bucks to have the deed done.
I got j&j because I would have lost my job otherwise. it was the only non mrna option available. also there was extreme social pressure from my immediate family. They refused to see me for over a year until I was vaccinated.

I still caught coronavirus about 2 months later.
It was not unofficial.
It got named because the alleged attacker called the police and said "it was me, Kiwi Farms user so-and-so." The user in question denied making this call and claimed they had been impersonated. This happened in the midst of the pressure campaign on Cloudflare, to a GOP House member known for jumping the gun who had no prior history with Kiwi Farms. If that's not extremely suspect I don't know what is.
`Beautiful` is already pushing the model toward sexualizing her, I mean the subject is going to be beautiful by default since the model was trained on LAION Aesthetics.

But yes, `a beautiful woman` is a fairly innocent prompt. My experience (also using SD without the filter all the time) is that the model very rarely produces sexual results unless intentionally pushed that way. Perhaps our mileages vary.
In a world where i can order drugs online with the comforts of a amazon order this sounds absurd.
> and which ones do you find counterproductive?

Now that one's easy: when some joker changes the code and ignores the commentary right above the affected line (I know this is a silly example, because this comment is more-or-less restating what the code does, but I have a hard time distilling the actual cases I encounter at $JOB into a tl;dr)

// if the list came back empty, warm the local cache
- if (items.isEmpty()) {
+ if (items.size() == 1) {

I do have some sympathy for not changing the method docs, or class docs, or a completely separate file that describes the code's behavior, but not reading the *but it's right there* drives me bananas
Ah, so they raised money for more stability for their growing team and so they won't have to focus so much on revenue. Seems like Sequoia's a great fit for them.

The way they broke down the traditional venture path with YC was eye-opening. Lots of divvying up the pie.
"Using velocity metrics is like looking for your lost keys under the streetlamp because that's where the light is brightest."

^ 100% agree.

Tracking output metrics (including LOC, # of PRs, velocity points) doesn't help you identify or fix poor tooling, culture, or processes.

Metrics like cycle time get a little bit closer, but still fail to account for team context or surface root causes.
Earth features 7B brains, each creating its own independent reality
Islamic State tests out NFTs
On Firefox the website renders and then replaces itself with an empty page. Endless (1000s of) nextjs errors on the console.
Post your name and address here.
> I will not be letting my children near discord.

This seems to be a hazardous approach to me.

My young son recently installed a sketchy browser on his computer while trying to install a mod installer for a game. I check on his computer every so often to make sure he's being safe, and noticed the browser. So I asked him where he got it, because he had obviously been using it and it was set to default. He told me it came with some mod installer he installed. So I told him about the checkboxes on install wizards that sometimes install bundled adware and malware. It was a good conversation and he asked questions about what spyware looks for and what the information they collect could be used for. He is now prepared for when this inevitably happens again. He watched me uninstall the browser and click through all the dark patterns in the uninstall process, and commented on how hard they make it to remove this stuff. I also looked at the website where he got his mod loader and, while I'm never thrilled about proprietary Windows binaries, it looks reputable within the community.

Now I feel pretty confident that my son will be more careful when installing things. If I just arbitrarily put some restrictions on his usage of the computer I'm not really preparing him for anything. I'm just delaying his development of skills that he's going to need later. I could either monitor and guide him now, or he could struggle on his own later. You can shield your kids and leave their curiosity to fester and turn into resentment, or you can use their curiosity to impart your wisdom.
The difference with torrent trackers is their index is public and can be mirrored.

Torrent sites like 1337x were born out of previously popular indexes (Kickass Torrents, h33t). [0]

It's not dissimilar to when a GitHub fork becomes more popular than the original project. [1]

To me, the biggest disappointment with web3 is they never cracked "distributed discoverability." It still relied on the old model, of proprietary indexes/marketplaces.

I'm way more inspired by the P2P efforts, especially Gnutella's initial attempts at distributed search. [2] Feels like this tech could still be iterated on and improved.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1337x

1: http://gitpop2.herokuapp.com/tobi/delayed_job

2: http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/developer/share/intro.ht...
The "point" is that anyone engaging in illegal violence, or similar, anywhere, should be punished via the legal system, and not via some other forms of illegal violence.

And that goes to anyone involved in any part of this whole fight.
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What I want to know is what makes a SIM swapper angry enough to do this to his "rival"? Is there some kind of online turf these guys are fighting over? Or is it just personal dislike/escalating online feud over nonsense?
https://archive.ph/xky0B
Being aware of your value != wanting to ruin your company. I feel like many programmers are actually very happy with their positions and don't seek to change them.
The author here. DriverKit is really a no-go. A while back I was asked to do a project based on DriverKit, it took me nowhere because of countless bugs and semi-implemented features, worse yet, it caused system crashes (and it was supposed to be stable).
Not to mention that this isn’t the government shutting them down, but private companies and citizens; free speech is only protected against government censorship and retaliation, not that of private companies or citizens.

Nobody is required to provide a platform for this.
or just use asdf
I think the problem here is that articles and publications in general do not provide enough detail to reproduce the results. Even though, that is the exact reason you write an article -- to make research reproducible. Peer-reviewed journals should, and they progressively try to be more strict about it, enforce the necessary level of detail and open-sourcing of methods.

Reproduction in science is a though problem -- not only it requires specialist lab equipment, methods or procedures, but sometimes "a trick" is needed. Inconveniently, it may not be mentioned in the publication for whatever reason. Therefore, giving an unexperienced PhD a task of reproducing somebody's work may end up to be a futile effort. But the idea is neat in general, I think.
Documenting any of:

- leader of a mafia

- any government leader

- billionaires in general

- anyone in a position of power

Investigating their crimes and doxxing them is very different from "lmao look at this piece of shit loser, let's bully it to death".
According to the second tweet that was factored in; didn't look at the details, but the analysis is not just about emissions.

The best way to use plastic bags is as bin liners by the way; you're going to need those anyway. Not possible in locations that use bin liners to levy waste tax though.

I wonder if incentivising that might be the best path forward, by designing these plastic bags to explicitly be easily reusable as bin liners.
> this service that has the express purpose of instigating and facilitating targeted abuse

Source?
> Again, all the people who tried to prey on me were straight dudes and I think the percentage of predators are roughly equal between straight cis guys and trans women

Wait, so you're saying 100% of the people who tried to prey on you were straight cis guys, and 0% were trans women? But you're further saying that you think trans women are as likely to be predators as straight men? Doesn't your own experience contradict that?

You're upset that the trans women posted on KF are going to make the public think all LGBT people are groomers. I'm upset that they'll make the public think all trans women are groomers. And comments like yours feel like punching down, frankly.
The fine sounds like a lot, but Meta's profits last year were $117 billion.
Sorry, in short:

Assume partner (A) and (B) have existing social ties, ie. they're not strangers, and the closer, the better.

Options: (experimenter says)

1. "Hey A and B, for every day you meet your fitness goals, I'll give you 25¢"

2. "Hey A, for every day that B meets their fitness goals, I'll give you 25¢. Hey B, same goes for you."

With proper mechanism design, dollar for dollar, option (2) can be up to 30x more effective than (1).

At least in Pentland's studies, the dollar amount is token and intended to be so small as to be negligible. It being an excuse to strengthen the social relationship (around the new activity) is where the power to change behavior comes from.
> forcibly take the gas from Russia

Surely, you're not suggesting invading a nuclear power to seize their natural assets.
I think the $ syntax is the best decision they ever made. It's probably why they can keep modernizing the language so successfully.
Small note in case it helps others:

From the title I though it meant "MS throws away / bans all Java", but TFA is actually about how MS is "all-in" and supportive of Java usage.
Honestly, it depends on what that property is and if the person went on a killing spree based on their views on property X or for other reasons.

If Property X is something like the color of their skin, their sexuality, their gender, etc, then I would support cloudflare banning them.

I am certainly not the master of what should and should not be on the internet, and neither should cloudflare. As a society, though, there are some things that most can agree on.
> Is it somehow better for unelected robber barons to micro-manage every interaction of private individuals?

They can't, because we have laws against monopolies.
Quality, not quantity.
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This is simply a search engine homepage with a random background from unsplash. Searches are done using Ecosia. I wanted a simple browse start page that loads fast and looks nice.

I discovered last week that wwwdot.org was available, so I registered it and whipped up this page. What do you think? What would you add? Change?
> tend to NOT be on same side

When their common enemy is environmentalists, nature/animal welfare supporters (which includes those concerned with insect or soil life population), and human health experts (who raise issues with factory farmed meat effects on humans), the two forces you mention definitely do work together.

It is fair to say that crop corporations fight animal corporations less than they fight environmentalist/animal-welfare organizations.
Isn’t the simplest read on that statement “there should be legislation that means nobody has this power”? Basically, something like “if it’s legal I’ll do it, but I don’t think it should be legal”.

This is kind of dubious as a basic ethical position (if you think it’s bad just don’t do it) but note that it’s not entirely ridiculous as if it’s legal, others can and will pressure you to do it. Whereas if you cede the right to do a thing, you can’t be coerced by an angry mob to do it.
Why does everybody use tcp ports instead of file sockets for local communication?
I love the idea of self-sustaining AI driven automation. But unless the system is capable of 100% recycling, it needs raw materials. Some of those are going to become contested.
AirTags have so much anti stalking it’s annoying (when you share things like car keys in a family). I’m constantly reminded about how my wife has planted car keys on me or how I left them behind if she leaves with them.

If I wanted to stalk someone I’d get any gps tracker that doesn’t constantly remind whoever is carrying them that they are being stalked…

I can’t see how AirTags revolutionized anything in this space. So long as they are less useful for stalking than similar devices.
That would be interesting - but then how to rectify the fact that so many currencies have different values?
Have you ever been on a jury? That’s pretty much exactly how it works, aside from the fact that overt racists usually don’t make it onto the panel.
Way back in uni there was a distribution address with all the emails in it. To protect it, students weren't supposed to know it so they put it in the BCC field.

Except of course once, they forgot. Much hilarity ensued. This was also back when you could still send an email using any from address you wanted, though I can't remember if anybody used that combo.
I think this problem even has a name: HARKing - Hypothesis After Results Known.

One way to mitigate it is to pre-register studies as it's done in some areas like clinical studies.
You need a peak in torque on the wheels usually. Some can depending on how much power they make.
DDoS’ing is quite different from just turning your back on someone. It’s more akin to following someone around with a megaphone and shouting over everything they say so no one can hear them.

Sure, you might celebrate when that’s done to someone you dislike, but a lot less appealing if you imagine it done to a cause you agree with.