skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about not-reporting, i'm talking about the uselessness of reporting... you report, the police does nothing. Who are they going to sue? You did what you had to do, the police will do nothing, and suing the police for not investigating 5000 different people from all around the world... well.. good luck with that.
I like Die Hard 4, which is a decent action flick with Timothy Oliphant playing a rogue hacker ripping off the US government.
Domsday prepping is a really interesting pyschological phenomenon.

First, this seems to be way more common in the US than other countries.

Second, there seems to be a strong correlation between preppers and certain politics (eg pro guns, anti government).

Third, there are a lot of people who have imagined victimhood as a core part of their identity (eg [1][2]).

So this brings up to a subset of these: the rich prepper. For me, rich people are the biggest reason why doomsday prepping is a complete waste of time because rich people (who have disproportionate power in politics) have the most to lose.

So why would rich people be preppers? To me it shows the power of the underlying psychology (eg the persecution aesthetic).

[1]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-white-victimhood-fu...

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/the-eva...
Plus they are more like a general mirror of society where obviously there are bad actors and dark corners but not pretty much exclusively.
Call for presenters.
Then usage of “they” here is suspect, everybody is political, even if you don’t ascribe to be part of a party.
Russia as well. A lot of these companies had lots of connections to people high up in the state, but they were not exactly state guided.
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You do not want the government to be the sole arbitrator of what content should be online”

That’s exactly what I think should be the case. The US government is supposed to reflect the will of the people and having a representative democracy is a way to achieve that decentralization. If the power structures that arise from this model threaten this process then the first goal should be fixing it rather than introducing a new process where a smaller ideological group gets to harass those within companies into acquiescing to their moral guidelines.
You need billions to invest billions. For the most part those billions aren't piles of cash, they are the market value of shares in the companies they own and operate. To take that away from them, you'd be taking away control of those companies. Who are you going to give that control to instead?
> But they obviously didn't put any effort into the syntax.

Ackshually moment here, but they did put a lot of effort into chosing syntax which would require very little look-ahead on the part of the parser (given current or even decade+ old parser tech). I don't understand their reasons for doing so at all, but that's what they did.

The result is... not very human-friendly IMO.
I thought this was a moral discussion and not a legal one.

What Cloudflare did was legal too.
> a house divided cannot stand.

When Lincoln said that, we went to war, and the side that didn't want to enslave people won.

Polite society has no room in it for people who think that calling for the death of LGBT people (AKA people) is acceptable.
Becoming? Where hast thou been, oh wanderer of the virtual wasteland..
For people who don't like to hide an essay's worth of scum behind a two-syllable word, "stealthing" is used above to describe putting on a condom to obtain consent and then discreetly removing the condom after consent is obtained.
This has been a moral discussion since the beginning, not a legal one.
Then if the site promptly deleted allegedly unlawful content, why was it deplatformed by CF?
The article mentions the use of CyberChef in cracking the puzzle.

CyberChef is an online Swiss knife that merits a lotta love.

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

Here is a GitHub repo of about 70 CyberChef recipes, and other related things:

https://github.com/mattnotmax/cyberchef-recipes
Overlooked in the article: the Yuan/Song invention of movable types made of tin, which melts at low temperatures similar to that of Gutenberg's type metals. But they didnt catch on due to the poor ink adsorption.

Source:
https://books.google.com/books/publisher/content?id=d__HBAAA...
Today it's this, tomorrow it's something else. Not CP or DDoS-for-hire though, Cloudflare will happily protect those forums and services.
No, I did not suggest that. Read the big picture.
It’s a monster pain in the ass to learn well enough to see the benefits.

The lightbulb moment can be arbitrarily bright (and it is) but if the path to it exceeds readable maximums around pre-return investment you’re going to get modest adoption.
This is often cited as a reason why Printing press didn't get moving in cultures using Arabic script, including Turkish lands.

Of course we can print anything today. But in early days some of these things add additional complexity and barriers to what is already a very nascent tech and social trend.
2M seed without an MVP would be incredibly difficult right now. Certainly not impossible. But way, way harder than it was 12 months ago
"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... "
Ditto, I've been waiting patiently for my tower GPU to finally succumb for a few years now.
Stable diffusion is a great example.

First Nicola Tesla for electricity, then transistors, then programmable microchips, then operating systems, then video games and because of them GPUs came into existance, them machine learning, then GPUs because more programmable because games required more and more freedom in shaders, then eventually deep learning, and now stable diffusion.

"The right man at the right time makes all the difference."
Those huge cloud deployments are exactly the ones that do unexpected bs at 3am
If legality is your bar to clear, then you should support Cloudfare as well, since what they did was perfectly legal.
On the one hand, it probably is at least partly an excuse, given that Kiwifarms is baaasically set up to create exactly those conditions, and I'm skeptical that the most recent incidents are genuinely worse than anything they've done before.

On the other hand, about bloody time they got rid of the site, and if they need to post a public excuse to feel justified in it, sure, whatever.
> As a Brit, there's a deep irony in the idea of someone fleeing to Northern Ireland for their personal safety!

Northern Ireland is probably one of the safest places in the entire UK to be if there's a threat to your life.

It's also, incidentally, the only place in the UK or Ireland where concealed carry permits are available.
> And where did I say we should kill all remaining farm animals?

Right here:

> Why kill and enslave animals if we don't need to?

Where do you think the animals go, if we stop using them for food?

You come across as demanding we cull our food herds, without replacing them — and then justifying it by saying that an animal wouldn’t want to be a burger… apparently saying they’d rather their species be annihilated entirely.

I’d rather have a harsh life than no life — why would I assume the opposite about animals?
Private companies are, in some countries, required to do just that. For instance, in Germany, banks have a legal obligation to provide people with basic accounts, even if they would not like it.

I can't take seriously the idea that corporations have any human rights at all. Corporations are distinctly non-human, so the idea that CloudFlare has "freedom of association" seems nonsensical. If I run a newspaper and print bold-faced lies, that's (rarely) illegal, but if you run false advertising that's not permitted.

I think this is a very large and unstated assumption. If you stick with it, where do you end up?

For example, landlords are private corporations and not utilities. Should they be free to kick out alleged bigots, too? Should their banks? If all the private corporations band together to decide to deny you service, rendering you homeless, unemployed, etc., in what meaningful sense do you enjoy free speech?
> Proving that it exists is effectively impossible

An existence proof is a thing, I'm not following your point. It seems like it's pretty easy to prove that KiwiFarms, in this particular case, engaged in targetted harrassment and has for quite some time. QED, right?

The point upthread is just asking for where your equivalent existence proof is for these left wing groups engaging in similar hateful activity. And you're not finding it. And I for one think that might be a good opportunity to revisit your priors about the kind of "extremism" that exists on the left, vs what you believe must be the case.
neat. thanks!
It's up to $2000+ here for health insurance now.

I'm in a company where the employees own and run it. We chose to have the company pay all health insurance and the first $8000 of the deductible. 99% of the time there is $Zero out of pocket for families each year.

We has been running like this for 20 years.
Snowden is a pretty good movie (though it takes some artistic liberties).

Enemy of the State - though an all pervasive surveillance state fortunately remains fiction (tongue firmly in cheek).
Hate speech (both punching up and punching down) is protected speech in the USA. So is "injurious" speech that is not defamation or fraud. It's a common mistake.

True threats and a specific form of incitement are NOT protected. Section 230 offers a site protection from some of the liability (otherwise Twitter would have been shut down years ago). But a person posting unprotected speech is fully liable.
By the time you’re handy with forM and whileM you’re past caring how they got imported!

Regular tail-recursion takes some getting used to coming from an imperative background, it’s arguably the fork point on whether someone is going to stick it out.
Thanks for pointing this out. Even the most exaggerated claims about the "death toll of communism" tend to fall short of estimates of the total death toll of British rule of its colonies (the Holodomor pales in comparison to the preventable famines in India alone) and the British East India Company played no small part in this.

We really should have a more critical lense of colonialism nowadays and abandon the badly aging romanticization of it.
the twitter pressure campaign
This is not true. The Tesla infotainment system can be restarted - even during - by holding both steering wheel buttons for 5 seconds. I've never had a problem with it (I've never had a problem with the infortainment system, I have had other problems with the vehicle) but I've tested this while driving and it does not affect the drivability of the vehicle.
Haskell is the "Periodic Table of Computation". You really can't advance to "organic chem" levels of complexity without first mapping out the elements and their key properties, and then further super-specializing in the structures of Carbon. Haskell's C/H/N/O is functor/applicative/monad/arrow and these are the elements of data/interpreters/evaluators/compilers. Software engineering is still in the alchemy stage – thousands of king-funded charlatans attempting to transmute lead into gold
Win32/Hive.zy
I’m usually opposed to government regulation in tech or giving the government power more in general.

But I don’t see any negative consequences of passing a law saying a platform must provide a reason with documentation if a paying user is banned. There also must be an independent review board that is answerable to the board of directors. But not the CEO.

On the other hand, it came out in the Epic case that there is “no duty to deal”. Meaning you can’t force a company to do business with anyone as long as it isn’t for a protected reason.

The government can’t and shouldn’t force a company to do business with someone as in the Walmart case. Would you want the government to force a health or drug store to sell cigarettes?
Interestingly, Joshua Moon (the main perpetrator behind KF, http://www.kiwifarmswiki.com/index.php?title=Joshua_Conner_M..., and article’s author) is not just about anti-trans harassment, he is into traditional terrorism too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711617
“If” “we” “take” “that” “argument” “to” “it's” “logical” “conclusion” “…”
> It's obvious to everyone else that they are, in fact, a hate site, and that their purpose is to organize harassment and violence.

I don't think it's obvious. It sounds possible, sure, but they vigorously deny it, and when it comes to actual, falsifiable claims, I don't think the evidence is terribly strong. (For instance, the alleged "Kiwi Farms death list" contains people who did not even have an active thread on the forum). When you make a serious claim like this, it does seem like some more evidence is in order than "everyone knows it".

> As a private business, CloudFlare enjoys the freedom to choose with whom it does business. If they were required by law to provide services indiscriminately, then they could not be held responsible. But that's not the case. No privilege comes without responsibility, and the means by which they exercise this freedom should be in accordance with their values.

Then where does the limit go? Do you, as a general rule, support large monopoly corporations having veto rights over all public speech?
I've noticed the suprising absence of hybrid trucks too. They do exist but generally don't get talked about about much.

I'm guessing that if you have a fleet, then a hybrid fleet makes more sense than hybrid vehicles in your fleet. Use the BEV for the tasks they are good at, and slowly edge out the diesel trucks as the BEV tech improves.
More than one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823155 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815070 (Aug 2018)

You also deleted some comments around then, which presumably were even worse.

The main difference between your account and the GP, though, is that you were breaking the site guidelines within a day or two of creating your account. The threshold for banning is lower in that case, since such accounts are far more likely to be trolls (and often serial trolls). That, plus spam, are the cases when we use shadowbanning.

The GP account, by contrast, has been around for over a decade. In such cases, yes, we prefer to give warnings before banning. I think most users would consider that reasonable.

The same deal applies to you as to other banned accounts though: if you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The article mentions:

> Slim binaries were invented by Michael Franz in the early 1990s. They were motivated and opposed to the fat binaries invented by Apple during the transition from 68k to PowerPC architectures. OMI provided portable code based on a compressed version of the abstract syntax tree.

If you are interested in pursuing that topic, Vidar Hokstad wrote a nice blog post about it a couple of years back: https://hokstad.com/semantic-dictionary-encoding
> In the 90s, this was called boycotting, and I don't remember anyone having a problem with it. It's now been rebranded as cancel culture, and is somehow seen as petulant.

Every boycott has detractors; if those detractors are too numerous, the boycott fails. Boycotts are marketing campaigns like everything else in the world.

> In a capitalist economy, companies are guided by profit (in theory; Cloudflare has yet to actually be profitable IIRC). If people manage to affect that, they will take notice.

The point is to observe which direction this pressures companies to lean towards, and what this says about who holds grassroots or institutional power at any given time.
> The primary goal is to increase the left's institutional power

Is it that hard to believe that the primary goal of a group of people who were being harassed, at times to the point of suicide, is to try to shut down the forum that is harassing them?
woah dude
Our store had a couple registers on either end of an L-shaped counter. We didn't always open both. Our main register near the drinks was open and had a line. He approached me as I was doing some task near the other, closed register, which was also near where we stored the espresso machines for sale. So he didn't want to cut in line so much as to have me/us start a parallel flow for his purchase.

It's not a crazy idea; we appeared to have some spare capacity for it (although we really didn't). And he may have spoken to someone else about it earlier. It also wouldn't have been unreasonable to expect that once he got to the front of the line he would have been directed to the other register to wait anyway. He may have been trying to minimize the disruption he caused to the line. He may have also thought the line was too long and we should have already opened up the second register. We were very efficient with a single-register flow, but customers always tried to start up a second line before it was really necessary.

I'm not confident I did the right thing by him; just that there may be situations where losing a $300 sale may be the most profitable choice.
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>not primarily due to rich people

But?
forget faster - functionally better.

Firefox (at least in the past) used to break if you updated it while it was running (i.e. replaced / deleted / added files its active runtime depended on). So you had to restart it. In a containerized world, this goes away. i.e. you can replace the firefox "image" with a new one that will be used next time you restart firefox without breaking the existant running one.

with apt/deb you can't do that (besides waiting to update). On a multi user system (less prevelant these days for desktop use, but still existing) this can be really annoying to coordinate.

This doesn't answer if Snap is the right technology to do it, just why apt/deb (and related tech) have issues that they can't really solve.
Another interesting thing about C integers that the quiz doesn't cover is that remainder is not modulus. For example, in Python:

>>: 2 % -5
-3

But in C:

2 % -5 == 2

If you want to use modulus in C rather than Euclidean remainder, then you have to use a function like this, which does what Python does:

long mod(long x, long y) {
if (y == -1) return 0;
return x - y * (x / y - (x % y && (x ^ y) < 0));
}
Undefined behavior is probably the worst way we can imagine to define constraints usable by optimizers. Sad that major languages and implementations went this way.
Agreed about the percentage. A more roundabout way to think about it is also 100-(1/60*100) = ~98,3%
Progressive taxes. Heavily tax those who inherit millions and billions.
I am surprised that Oberon is relatively popular on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Of course it would be DDoS-Guard, the same service protecting HKLeaks, a site with the sole purpose of doxxing Hong Kong protesters.
The self-hosted-ness also provides the ability for me to access my notes, password protected as well, from any computer with a browser. If I'm on my work computer and remember an appointment or an important task, I can load it up, add the task, and it's there on any other device I access the notes through.

For a while now I've been aiming for a setup with minimal dependence on any specific device. The device is throwaway whilst the service is consistent. There are obvious limits to this, however.

(It feels like something like Nix would be perfect for scripting the device specific setup for accessing the services, I just haven't had the time or motivation to get into that)
the popup doesn't even make sense, there's no reason the image can't be updated behind the scenes and just take effect next time firefox is launched. just because a snap is in use, doesn't mean it shouldn't be able to be updated (i.e. can docker pull an update image without breaking my existent running containers).
It is true, however a lot of what we have today in multiparadigm languages originated from niche ones like Haskell. Jazz music had a lot of influence on musicians in other genres, say Pink Floyd, but PF is not exactly jazz.
The kid didn't enter into the deal independently since children don't have that kind of autonomy. Your comparison is invalid.
I've been a professional C programmer for nearly 40 years and didn't do especially well (I got about 2/3rds right). In my view it doesn't really matter. Enable maximum warnings and fix everything the compiler warns about. I also use Coverity once in a while, and every test is run with and without valgrind. If you do that you'll be fine.
I got most of them right. My god, what have I become?
I have used C quite a bit, and I’m amazed at how many I got wrong. Nice example of why C is hated by so many I suppose.

Personally, I love C but I don’t use it in anything serious. Probably for the best given I apparently cannot remember how C ints work.
Scrolling through the KF comments section, I found multiple accounts complaining about "muh freedom of speech" with a signature boasting about their involvement in threads that resulted in people killing themselves. Horrifying
Bottom line is that somebody (foreign governments, weev) will always take whatever a site's ToS are and repeatedly ram up right against the edges of the policy until they have extracted as many lulz as possible. This is tough to deal with if you have a conscience, or need money.

What they tried at first, which is very "90s internet", is to become a bit of a troll yourself:

"We are deeply committed to the principles of free speech and will never deny a customer service to our critical infrastructure based on the content of their messages. You are banned. Now, go away, lolcow."

Reddit did something similar -- not with the /r/thefappening, but later on with /r/the_donald. Recall when /u/spez randomly edited comments left by contributors there, sending a clear message "we have no rules, and we will break you if we feel like it". The public apology ( https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/ ) conveys the subtext that it will happen again, there are no firm rules, and you are not welcome here.

I dunno quite what the plan is here going forward. weev and null are kind of an amazing force for chaos and if you can get them defensive and off kilter, that's certainly interesting.

Overall though I have found kiwifarms a helpful resource for understanding online harassment. I appreciate that members do their coordination in the open; by reading forum activity you can understanding roughly where the next massacre will happen. The community targets lulz as weakness and many of their most persistent attackers have gotten sucked in and doxxed themselves, notably in the Chris-Chan maelstrom.

The community has successfully killed people and the fact that they have a centralized repository with documentation will be helpful for the next Michelle Carter style prosecution.
Which is how we end up here with a thread full of people morally outraged that a group decided to not tolerate hate speech, harassment, stalking, and driving people to suicide. I think you’re right that a majority doesn’t agree with the content but a majority certainly tolerates it.
Oh I don't doubt it at all. Especially if all he had to do was go into any other Starbucks, or even Best Buy, on his commute or errands.
Haven't written C in a long time. What a nightmare this is. Got most of them predictably wrong.