skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! That makes quite a few things clear.

As a naïve question, how does SBCL (Common Lisp compiler) generate such a wicked fast code? Other than actor model, it is also dynamically typed and hot code loading is one of the headline features there.
"Directed" has a meaning. "Go do this thing" is directed.

Honestly I'm very skeptical of any accusation of harassment online, seeing as you can just block people. Maybe I've never experienced it and don't know. When I ehar the word harassment I think of showing up to someone's workplace, home, things where you can't avoid them. Sending them messages that can be blocked, I'm not so sure. But that's a tangent to the topic of our discussion.

Publishing someone's address and telling people to go to their home and harass or harm them is direct incitement. This is absolutely punishable, because it's more than speech, it's conspiring to commit real world action, as you said. I'm curious, if that's the sort of thing they do, has anyone been criminally charged or convicted for such behavior? I mean that genuinely, I'm trying to learn about all this kiwifarms stuff as much as I can.
>It's very hard for me to take this seriously when the same rules are never applied to trans people and their advocates.

I know that I'm going to regret stepping in this pile of community dog poo, but ...

The simple idea behind "the rule of law" and the concept of "justice" is that it applies equally to all. Regardless of what someone claims to "support" or "oppose" online, death threats are illegal (and sometimes deadly) and should be dealt with accordingly.

I am personally unaware of "trans people and their advocates" having "free reign everywhere on the internet to harass, doxx, send death threats, call for the murder of JK Rowling". As Carl Sagan said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"; in the absence of such evidence, which your post is, your claims are inflammatory, at best. Were there an option to report your comment (or were I intelligent enough to know how that option worked), I would have done so.

I know that I should not have to spell this out, but it is not OK to threaten people's lives. This, regardless of whether (i) you are trans, (ii) you support trans people, (iii) you hate trans people, or (iv) none of the above.
Many people appear to be missing the point here. Cloudflare claims there was an imminent threat to life created by KF. That's a factual assertion that's either true or false (and well probably find out which.)

If true, free speech is not applicable. Blocking the walkie-talkies of terrorists coordinating
a bombing does not restrict "free speech" under any reasonable definition.

This level of tactical coordination to commit violence appears to be what they are hinting at in their post, and I take them at their word .

It may be they are lying and caved to pressure in regards to KF being generally heinous, but until we find out the specific information that caused them to assess an imminent threat to life, we can't really judge the wisdom of their decision.
>You think the KF owners are going to reveal themselves and sue?

Josh doesn't anonymously run the site. The site is fully legal in the US so he isn't afraid of being associated with it.
Why should the values of a superintelligence affect our own?
Flux does help.

For those that are really sensitive; nothing beats fl-41
Glasses. Used to have a massive migraine hit in 10 minutes exposure to fluorescent light.
Axon cover rx would push that to about 4 hours.

Amazing stuff.
You sound like you may have been a BOFH?

Or not?

I like you
Leftypol anyone?
Atlassian certainly does not value software quality.
Harassment is generally about power structures and power imbalances. You can’t examine the phenomenon without looking at power structures, which are embedded in organizations and institutions.

Critical theory also relates directly to analyzing societal power structures.

As such, any conversation about harassment is de facto on part of the ground covered by critical theory.

At the same time, I don’t see any reference to critical theory in this article, no citation to research or prominent researcher in that area.

So I don’t understand your where you are getting the impression that this article is about critical theory. Talking about harassment cannot avoid talking about power structures. I can understand the overlapping territory muddies the water here but if you think the article is about critical theory then you may be reading too much into it.
Also: tools that insist on crapping on my shell environment, `.{bash,zsh}rc` or `.profile` --

I like SourceTree [0] (to unfairly call out just one example), and while I'm aware of alternatives, it's cross platform, available to me without $$ payment ... but it is convinced that it cannot work without adding a block of code to my shell config.

@OrderlyTiamat mentions Python world Anaconda https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32706193

@acdna acknowledges the more general idea of namespace pollution but if I'm reading it right, doesn't think it's a security issue particular to HomeBrew https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707109

I can agree that taking over a namespace in the $PATH adds cognitive load to security vigilance, but I can accept that this is standard POSIX reality...

But I don't like it when tools add to my $PATH - and then edit my config files in addition to that.

I happen to like the UNIX way of filesystem structure for configuration.

Re-writing my configuration on program launch takes away that very UNIX strength of composable tools and text files.

[0] SourceTree: a nice Git GUI with `.ssh` integration -- https://www.sourcetreeapp.com

(the ssh keychain is still a problem for me but I've only been trying to fix it for 20 years, and yes I try the nice keychain CLI tool from drobbins and macOS keychain integration and stuffs)
Kiwi Farms is back on an alternate domain.

Posters in the Keffals thread believe the fake bomb threat was to blame for Cloudflare’s reaction. The account which made the post barely had any other activity on the site. The post itself was removed quickly by moderators. If it’s true that an obvious fake bomb threat which was swiftly removed was the cause for this action, Cloudflare has some hard explaining to do to its remaining customers. Fake anonymous posts and an ideological Twitter mob can apparently DoS your entire operation with Cloudflare.

If the threat was something else, I and other customers would love to learn exactly what it was.
It took literally half a second to come up with mainstream discussion of this rhetoric. Here's the first Google result: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/groo...
Similarly it seemed obvious early on, to me, that RIM should switch blackberry to Android with some customization aand port some apps over. They could still be a major player if they had done so. Instead they doubled down and buried their heads in the sand.
The 1st Amendment and Freedom of Speech aren't the same thing. Freedom of Speech is a philosophical concept and is, in fact, "freedom from consequences."
>I'm not arguing that the court should ignore the law and rule otherwise, I'm arguing that the law itself should be changed.

So long as you're arguing that instead of "tHe CoUrTs ArE nAzIs", then I have nothing else to add because I'm in full agreement with your sentiment concerning law.

>nothing Cloudflare did in this case was illegal, so what is your issue with it?

Of course; Cloudflare has a right to freedom of association and fundamentally I support whatever they choose to do, legally speaking.

However, there is a consequential problem in that the internet is becoming more and more centralized by the day and Cloudflare access is one of those facets.

Generally speaking, if you're a big website you either need Cloudflare or your own CDN to distribute the load and ward off hostile entities.

Consequently, Cloudflare is able to dictate a significant portion of the discourse on the internet by simply allowing or blocking their services. This wouldn't be a big deal if the internet was decentralized like it should be, but it isn't so the internet can't route around such nonsense anymore.
Equivocate does not mean what you think it does. More importantly, many times in history those “superficial features” have been associated by people, rightly or wrongly, with superior cognitive or physical abilities and used as an excuse for eugenics. Even more importantly, having known many people with Down’s I would caution you against saying that they have greater suffering and therefore would be better off not existing. Countless people feel differently about that.
New method to systematically find optimal quantum operation sequences
This is highly field dependent.
That's a whole lot of words for describing NIH syndrome [0].

But sure, yeah, there's value in practicing your craft and making all the things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
So why isn't he on this list?

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...

Ultimately all the sources go back to one dude: Hector Martin, who blocks people who asks him questions.
My favorite story about Wayne Ratliff is what happened to Ashton-Tate after George Tate had a sudden heart attack and died. They hired a hot shot software marketing guy called Ed Esber.

George Tate realized he wasn't a software developer and cut Ratliff and his team wide slack although he'd make suggestions sometimes based on his learnings with customers.

Ed Esber was a bit more arrogant and saw Ratliff and his crew as nothing more than mere employees. Esber famously told Wayne Ratliff that he was no more important to the company than the people loading the trucks! Ratliff quit and started a competitor. It was the beginning of the end for Ashton-Tate.

Ratliff created a new product that competed with dBase. In many ways it was a superior product but he couldn't market his way out of a paper bag. Meanwhile another competitor out of Perrysburg, Ohio had much more success in the dBase market and was later acquired by Microsoft.
No, I’m saying that being mean to volunteers is never a good move. If you want to have influence on a project, roll up your sleeves and contribute - and still be polite, nobody is getting paid to deal with rude people.
The most likely reason has been replied to multiple times, that the phone system doesn't pass it.

But another reason is this is a failsafe to ensure the right order number was entered, as with a phone system there are very few means of authentication before that point.
The difference between fraud and a bad investment or a foolish purchase consists entirely in the worlds spoken/text written.

“The price is algorithmically guaranteed to go up.” vs “there is always risk involved in investing.” Even “pen flown on the space shuttle” vs. “pen designed by NASA.” Everything else can be identical but they are legally different.

You can commit conspiracy without actually doing the crime. And one criminal acting on his own vs a conspiracy can be a matter of planning and moral comfort, not just material assistance (I think, IANAL).
When I hear agile and SCRUM I just want to puke. Luckily I've been agile free for all my programming life.
Still really unclear what law is being broken in that case. Unless you're proposing new speech-curtailing legislation. They're Intenet-famous. They're of interest to forever-onlines. This one in particular is of interest to women and parents who've so far resisted brainwashing.
The issue i have with this and will always with speech to text software. my voice will never pick it up unless im very clear and i take the time to prounouce a word or a chord?. I will have more luck writing in a stenograph keyboard or a chording keyboard then this. I like the fact that this technology assits for those who can have their voice be read by a computer. It will never work for me... Despite how modern a lot of this software has became.
Good riddance, this place made 4chan look like a walk in the park.
I can't tell if your posts are parodies or not. This "cut[ting] off access to hate" through the entire technology stack would just function to limit people's free access to inconvenient information. Think of the Russian state. It may decide that any expression of Ukrainian identity is inherently hateful, and censor it using this system. Do we want to bring such a thing to the West? When the truth is deemed hateful and violent, such a system will be used to uphold an empire of lies. And I'm sure there will be a "backdoor" for regime-approved hate targeting its foes to slip right through ;)

>We opened a Pandora's box of hate and violence when we created the internet

With the advent of the internet, people's ability to easily communicate with each other was drastically increased. We opened up the ability for us to collaboratively see beyond the official narratives handed down through the media, government spokesmen, and educational institutions. Such a thing is of course abominable to those who desire centralized control over the demos, truth be damned, but I am grateful for it. Technologists should instead oppose anything like what you describe, and build technologies that thwart the efforts of those who wish to limit our ability to communicate with each other.
they would have to be Moriarty level like in their inventiveness, most people start low and then expand their inventiveness with experience, the low early frauds would establish the new invention in the society.

Also The invention of Lying: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058017/
Hardware, not software
The amount of oil being extracted is mostly driven by demand, not supply. Not entirely. After all extra supply means lower prices and therefore increased demand. But demand is fairly inelastic - that's why prices can change so rapidly and consumption remains fairly steady.

Therefore the choice of extraction technology makes little difference to how much oil we get. It just affects which marginal wells are worthwhile, and the likelihood of other kinds of environmental damage.

Therefore if you inject biofuel instead of water, you really have altered the net result. Not enough to encourage extracting fuel just to store biofuel, but enough to be better than a kick in the teeth.

Ideally we'll get to injecting fuel into stopped wells and start undoing damage. And in the meantime, current efforts mean that we'll have the technology when that point comes. And so this activity is on a path towards what we want.

(There are similar arguments for natural gas. Natural gas is a natural complement to highly variable renewable energy. So you want to add renewables, add natural gas plans, and use the natural gas to balance the grid. In the long run you replace natural gas with storage such as batteries. But in the short term, natural gas is on a path towards a sustainable future.)
> The biggest difference I’ve noticed between Agile and agile shops is that ceremonies or lack thereof make no difference.

The best project I ever worked on: one developer (me), one project manager on our side, one QA/test person at the client, and one manager at the client who was what we'd call a product owner on a scrum team.

No ceremonies, no pointing, very little backlog grooming. Shared Bitbucket repo for issue tracking. Deployments scheduled every Tuesday when their QA person signed off on the feature working as expected (this was in the days before CI/CD became common).

Worked great. Low friction, they got features and bug fixes, we didn't get hassled, and we could set up a call (or usually just a couple of emails) if we needed clarification or needed to explain why something was more complex to do than we or they originally thought. One of the best six month periods in my career, and I've been doing this stuff for almost 25 years.

I don't mind some aspects of scrum, but the things I don't mind (mostly around team autonomy and self-organization) seem to be the same things that are quickest to get thrown out when someone gets impatient.
> Companies set up automated phone trees to reduce costs, at the expense of frustrating customers

I'd modify that slightly to say they set up phone trees to reduce costs by frustrating customers. Adding friction to prevent people from getting refunds or other concessions, or getting them to give up without speaking to a human, is a big reason for these systems. They could easily make them better, but there is no incentive. That's why (usually) monopolies or places like rewards programs that don't want you to use them have the worst service, but if you ever call in to get a new insurance policy you'll be talking to a human in seconds.
Sleep Hypocrisy (2021)
Still depends on the food. Even local tomatoes and other “fresh” crops will be the same mono-cropping garbage unless you hunt down niche stuff at a farmer’s market (or in my case, grow your own!)
> We can easily have a trillion humans living in abundance in our solar system.

No, we can't.

The more educated people get, the lower their fertility rate. Western countries are well below replacement fertility now, with the likes of the US and Canada being topped up by immigrants.

The reason is thought to be simple. Parents have a limit to the amount of time and money they want to invest in their children, and much of the investment is zero sum (getting your child into "better" schools, enrichment activities, etc.).

Unless you can describe a realistic way that the rest of the solar system can be settled by people with no more than 6 years of schooling, or you are proposing an army of test-tube clones, a trillion people is simply impossible.
Portrait of the Artist as a Grown Man
It's quite incredible to see this level of denialism in 2022
M$/PC/IBM DOS memory management driver configuration
Have you worked at a company run by people with a background in software engineering? Imo that is the key, and a rule I try to follow.
I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
If your brain doesn’t work fine at 50, you either have a disease or you haven’t taken care of yourself.
Please point out the evidence for these death rates. Any way the death rates from disease don’t matter. What matters is the survivors. What we do know is this contact happened. That’s a fact. It was even common enough to be economically important. That’s all it takes for people from far populations or with distant ancestry to show up.
That's called spin.
I also vastly prefer to use physical controls than a touchscreen, but I’ve found voice control to be even more convenient (when it works, which should only improve over time). I don’t get all of the hate for cars with screens and voice when the latter is a very natural interface when driving.
> Kiwifarms controls their DNS; they can change NS records as needed, so I wouldn’t say the domain is hijacked.

While I agree in part, the DDoS protection isn’t meant to serve alternative pages per-se. It’s meant to mitigate hostile actors by making them check a box or something.

It would be one thing to take it down (terms clearly make that okay); but directing to alternative content I see as a possible breach.
You've unlocked a memory. Probably 10-15 years ago, I tried a bunch of eye tracking apps and found one that somehow worked really well with my cheap USB webcam. I'm sure it needed to be calibrated first. It was classic developer software, snappy with bare-bones UI. Freeware, ran on Windows 2000, not sure if open source.

I wonder if I have it backed up or could track down what it was again. I was not much of a developer then, but these days it would be simple to wire up simulated mouse events.
Utah’s desert is a paleontologist’s playground
There's an important US Supreme Court case from 1964 (NYT v. Sullivan) that indirectly addresses this, noting that defamation claims by public figures against a news publication are subject to a heightened standard (and, conversely, that defamation claims against non-public individuals are not). If the NYT engaged in defamatory activities against a general member of the public, that member of the public could sue and have the same chance, in principle, of winning against the NYT as it would against anyone else.

The odd part about this debate is that platform companies very, very often have contract provisions prohibiting dangerous and even merely objectionable activities that could harm the reputation of the platform (or damage it or its customers). Platform companies having the power to yank controversial content isn't new.
So even when Cloudflare bended the knee, nothing has changed and Kiwifarms is still in service via Tor, .ru and have become even more uncensorable, just like 8kun, 4chan, Gab, etc.

This sounds like a total failure to bring them down, even Cloudflare knows it.
button is just a small lightweight element usually with a single string child. If passing a lightweight unwrapped click handler to a leaf node is a faux pas then honestly the react team needs to memoize by default. Your description "updating the dom every render..." And acting like indiscriminate useCallback is a panacea for your performance problems to me seems like a pretty naive take. But then again seems like the community opinion in this has shifted, I just honestly don't get it. And I do use useCallback btw, but only when I need to keep referential stability for known reasons,not as an automatic default
You're sharing EPOCH NEWS content, really? The QAnon / Falun Gong cult rag?
Even if it wasn't a false flag, moderators deleted the offending posts.
Right, and zoomers would probably broadly agree with that, but almost everyone else doesn't, so it's very contentious. "Sticks and stones" liberals still basically control the world, at least until we start dying off in 30 years or so.
> do you know how bad German universities are?

I am surprised from this quoted comment. Are German unis really bad? Why is there such a perception?
“You need more cowbell. You gotta have more cowbell.”

That’s hilarious. I’ve never accidentally triggered it. But my son seemingly never gets tired of getting into the car early and turning on “fart on turn signal”.

Anything that gets him to finish getting ready and get happily settled in the car is a huge win in my book.
"pick your poison" means "it's a choice between two or more bad choices".

There is no good choice here.
I think if you used to work with someone, and now they are dead – being upset at people publicly attacking them, when they aren't around to defend themselves, is a very understandable human reaction. eastdakota's reaction here is very human.
Please look into section 230, one of the most important pieces of legislation for the internet in regards to hosting content from other users.

A website isn't liable for what its users post. Also, a website isn't liable for what its users do.
Agreed, this looks awesome but that's a non-starter for me. I'll admit that I hate using OAuth for logins in general and prefer to keep all my accounts separate. However, I'd easily settle for Github/Gitlab for authentication, since I get that managing authentication can be a pain.
"But getting upset and starting off the chat with a real person in a bad mood or tone,"

They didn't say that. They never said they took it out on the employee. They said that the system caused the customer to be less happy than they could have been. Perfectly legit complaint, and a failure on the part of the people who set up the system.

That's actually why they came HERE to ask. That is something they have control over.
For HN readers outside of the US,"Target" is the name of a store in the US. Took me a minute.
People have already found and reposted the bomb threat posts, so that argument makes zero sense.
> Sequestering it underground is a good outcome.

This is the great irony of the CCS discussion.

Plenty of carbon has already been sequestered underground.

The general idea is to extract carbon from underground, then pump it into the atmosphere, and then extract it from the atmosphere and pump it back into the ground.

Yikes. We live in a pretty screwed up world to make that even seem like a necessary option.