skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>What I wonder though is how much those stories are a part of the average Afro American active culture. Do they grow up reading those books too, or they do so reading Tolkien instead?

I read Tolkien, because my mother was a nerd, and shared her love of sci-fi/fantasy with me. I presume she got her exposure to sci-fi/fantasy at university (graduated 1973), despite attending an HBCU. I really do wonder who introduced her to Tolkien.... I can't say I've ever consumed any "high fantasy"-like stories of African origin.

>>>If the experience of an Afro American child is Marvel Comics, Disney movies, and Tolkien stories, and you continue to exclude them from the characters, it just seems wrong.

This is a bizarre line of thought that has really only emerged in the past ~15 years or so, IMO. Growing up, I never once looked at Sean Connery as James Bond and thought "I can't relate to this guy because his skin is too light." My favorite Marvel character in the early 90s wasn't Blade or Black Panther, it was Cable.

All of this cultural squabbling is the fault of a loud demographic of predominantly-young, emotionally-immature, college-brainwashed intersectionalists, deep in a the Hollyweird bubble. We have members of the black community who are critical of this nonsense, but they are often marginalized by the mainstream. JustSomeGuy on YouTube (a black guy from Chicago) shits all over the "woke" LOTR community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy089HU5Ksc

Also Eric D. July ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhFvd5vkB8o ) who calls out modern "diversity" characters as "tokenized": they're not actually black/minority characters, they're just the exact same white characters with a lazy skin-color/sexual orientation change. That's why Eric July went and created his own entirely-new comic book universe, which pre-sold $3M+ dollars of comics in just a few weeks. Almost no coverage from mainstream comic websites, and discussion of his success is banned on the major comic sub-Reddits.

>>>And maybe this is my point as well, if you write fantasy, but your experience is American, why wouldn't you include people of all color in your story? But if you did, you'd one hundred percent get some folks come out and say that fantasy stories are European inspired and should only have white people in them.

I think this is a strawman. I've never heard such criticism for Game of Thrones. My understanding is Westeros is based on the War of the Roses period in England, but the world is still built with other regions and non-white cultures (Dothraki = obvious not-Mongolians, etc...). But if they had cast Wesley Snipes as Eddard Stark, there would be a rightful uproar.
Which wasn't what KF doing.
Just FYI moog music’s employees have been trying to unionize and the corp has been doing some shady union busting tactics (and some
shady employment practices that kicked off the unionization effort in the first place). Personally I won’t be buying from them until they allow the union to form unimpeded or the workers reject it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CiAvIrwL-VC/
When will we get a USB-C iPhone?
More importantly: they're not protected by a reverse proxy anymore. Behold, people can attack freely. Uptime will turn to shit, people will grow bored of trying to access it.
As far as I'm aware, KF didn't come with the kind of direct liability under US law that sex work content does. I welcome the chance to learn that I'm wrong here!
Moors are not black. Or maybe they are from an US point of view, but nobody in Europe would call them black. Africa is divided by the Sahara desert, and most black people come from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Cloudflare just dropped them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/03/cloudfl...
> it's up to them to find someone willing to tolerate their bullshit

Or host themselves. ISPs are common carriers. Their freedom of assembly is abridged in a way others' is not.
Am I missing something? The linked source contradicts that comment. The source only links one post by one user - a horrible attempt at a joke by my reading - and it was removed.

Is there more?
Though Plato said 10,000 years before, this is the most likely source of the Atlantis story, as the eruption destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri as well as those on the coast of Crete. It's possible the eruption led to the collapse of the Minoan civilization.

Another quite compelling theory posits the destruction of Thera also caused the Biblical ten plagues of Egypt.
I found a Jill of the Jungle box in a land fill a decade ago.

I also remember cosmo's cosmic adventure, jetpack, dungeons of drakklor, galactix, vga miner, Hugo's house of horrors 1-3, ancients, kilo blaster, skyroads, dracula, xargon, captain comic, commander keen, chopper commando, ken's labyrinth, brix, solar winds.

Never heard of the ones in the article.
I thought of the same idea myself, but (as someone who worked on Let's Encrypt with Peter) I don't think Let's Encrypt would be willing to make this choice for all of its subscribers, and I think Peter himself would place a higher priority on web sites getting encrypted than on the web sites paying tribute to him (and increasing the network traffic associated with a TLS handshake might provide a slight disincentive for some sites).

It's a super-sweet idea, though!
KF has their own server, own ISP/router boxes, own IPs, and their own colo hardware. The issue is that it's not that expensive on an absolute level (hundreds of dollars to take them out for a day) to just saturate their gigabit downlink. You get another gigabit downlink, they saturate that too. Ten gigabits, a bit harder, but still pretty easy. You need to have hundreds of gitabits of downlink on standby (at least, I assume Google has terabits of downlink and clever load balancing). That's not something even a well resourced city newspaper could set up at their headquarters without digging major fiber interconnects and hooking up to fiber lines going to the couple closest internet exchanges.

Edit: this assumes some level of BGP filtering and monitoring of what IPs send you packets, you really need cooperation from your upstream providers and your own BGP router to even survive this much.
This is just a first-order analysis of the problem. Just because the things don't need to happen in an ideal world, doesn't discredit the fact that in our complex econo-political system, oil/gas companies can lobby to change laws and get out of legal cases, use loop holes in laws, and in particular engage in greenwashing to continue doing net harmful actions.

In this case, carbon capture is being used to enhance oil production, i.e. doing more net harm to our world.

The second-order analysis here is that unless one has a credible way, that has been demonstrated to work in real life, of stopping oil/gas companies from greenwashing, there is little point in supporting carbon capture technology.

Or to make a general point, a technology is worth supporting that when deployed in the real world results in almost immediate and permanent reduction in climate-change effects. If not, don't let the fossil fuel/capitalism lobbies distract you.
They really don't. Keffals, who has been spearheading this effort, has effectively been the target of hate from this one site which has stalked her across two continents. As far as I can tell she just wants to be able to live a normal life without worrying that taking a picture or posting a tweet could be used by this organized mob to figure out where she is and fuck with her life.

It's worth noting that she's based in the UK where it is really mainstream to be a TERF, it's the default position in most tabloids and magazines and plenty of TERF columnists get a lot of column inches to complain to their hearts' content. The likely next Prime Minister recently shouted "A woman is a woman" to screams of delight from a crowd - TERFs are not an oppressed, downtrodden minority there.
I'd say 50 is a little bit optimistic but if you're in your 40s you certainly have a few decades of hacking left if that's what you want to do. Nobody there to stop you.
> It would be nice to have a transcript.

I find text so much more accessible than video. Rarely have I seen a video that couldn't have been a bunch of slides or a blog post.

Unrelated to this video here, I started to wonder if that's why a lot of the content that tends to be associated with conspiracy theories or regarded disinformation is in the form of video and not text. Video is just so much harder to scrutinize and reason about because it's so difficult to reference specific arguments when they're talked about and not written down.
Cloudflare has probably more than one person now involved in monitoring with realtime tools what is being done on their network.

This doesn't take a lot of intuition to think that they have a better idea than a random person on the internet.
Because we’re a U.S.-based company subject to SESTA and the one site in question we took down affirmatively told us they were violating SESTA. SESTA is a very bad law. But, if you’re violating it, don’t wave that fact in the face of your infrastructure providers who are liable under the law for providing service to you. We continue to work to overturn or repeal SESTA.
It's fine for a business to do anything but it's not fine for the business to lie and say they are something they are not.

The question therefore becomes at root, are they lying? Is the company actually impartial infrastructure, or are they dishonest.

The past has shown that they are a little unstable in their impartiality.

Personally I'd like to see them making much more decisions to clean up the net but I'd need to see them being honest about it.
Just learned about this site thanks to Cloudflare. Crazy world.
Not really.

A big part of the issue is fossil fuels. These are essentially vast amounts of carbon from millions of years ago that we are digging up and pumping into the atmosphere. Burying trees is not the answer, not digging up the old ones and not burning them would help a lot.

Also, bury trees and you bury the nutrients they use to grow, locking them away from the next generation of trees and plants. To plant, grow, cut down and bury trees on any scale you also require machines ... that run on fossil fuels.
I had this too when I was young! Fortunately I was old enough to experiment and play with the sound, it was some sort of Spanish speaking program. Crazy stuff.
> The real question is why it got upvoted given that seemingly no one read it and has anything to say about the content of the post. I'd guess it's the people who just wanted a place to air their unrelated grievances.

It may be "a problem most people don't have", as you say, but it's still a problem that some people have, and homebrew is used by a lot of people, so another possibility is that people upvoted the article because they found it useful.
YouTube has transcripts now. On desktop, in the ellipsis menu under the video title on the right. On mobile, a "show transcript" button after expanding the video description.

They're not exactly formatted for nice reading, but on desktop it's possible to copy and paste the whole transcript wherever you like. I find the speech recognition astonishingly accurate. Of course you will still find mistakes, but overall it is almost always possible to get most of a video's content much faster just by reading the transcript.
> Not in any major city. Clearly you don't live in the US.

Huh, lived in upscale DC suburb for many years, now moved to different city. Housing seems lot cheaper here when I checked with some friends based in some London suburbs. Another one with house in Amsterdam almost sounded same price for half size house than I bought. But yeah, no public transport for me and I am like 10 miles from downtown :(.
What would the “legal process” look like?

I put Infowars forward, there has been an actual libel conviction, the perp openly lied in court and was called out by the judge and when it’s all said and done infowars will be doing the same thing and Alex Jones won’t be materially that much poorer, in fact some of the right wing media is calling it an assault on the first amendment and potentially going to market it. (I think it was Kirk on The First that I saw claiming that it was a liberal attack on the first amendment)

Complete and pure free expression seems like a concept for gentlemen and we are very much in a post-gentlemen US right now. I agree that there should be a legal process but by the time it can execute, kiwi farms will have morphed in to something new.
Didn’t the swat call announce they were a kf user? Seems a little odd. Moreover, are home addresses of congress people public info? It seems like a lot of people were fine with posting the addresses of Supreme Court members.
If encouraging violence against people is the standard you're on, then any website should be gone, including HN.

What you actually mean is that as long as its against people you personally dislike, then you're ok with that.
The word "directly" is doing a lot of work here.
It's not about speed. It's that in courts of law there's something called "due process" -- important safeguards designed to prevent injustice, e.g. the right of the accused to defend himself or herself.

The court of public opinion runs on emotion, with a loud enough megaphone accusers don't need to prove anything, and publicly traded companies are slaves to bad PR.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xk78x/switter-down-cloudfla... among others

"Cloudflare has been made aware that your site is in violation of our published Terms of Service. Pursuant to our published policy, Cloudflare will terminate service to your website. Cloudflare will terminate your service for switter{.}at by disabling our authoritative DNS."
as someone approaching 20years, i have existential dread that the bus may stop before im ready to get off. i appreciate this article and i find it comforting to see someone else find continued fulfillment, both professionally and personally, especially given the approach and attitude reads much as my own. what a treat, sincerely, thank you
So you dislike the word lobbying being used here, based on a seemingly pretty specific understanding of what that means.

Lobbying can happen in many ways, and have many different implications. It certainly sounds like it didn’t happen as a result of company/executive action (and at least Tavis believes that), and neither parent, gp or ggp claim so (in fact they agree the opposite is the case).

I rarely have casual discussions with friends working at regulatory agencies that come back to haunt other people. I also don’t think the word “lobbied” was used in a harmful or particularly egregious way, especially considering the context in which it was used (and explained).
Maybe, but people shitposting about blowing up half a city just to annoy a streamer doesn't really sound like the kind of threat that would make a company do a 180 on their position..
terrifying seems like hyperbole, in a world with people being shot at.
in the US, there needs to be serious proof of intent beyond just saying something to prosecute.
>I'm guessing KF members organizing the swatting a US congresswoman

This never happened. It was just blamed on KF by the people currently criminally DDoSing it.

I'm amazed by the credulity and lack of critical thinking in this whole discussion. Nobody seems to have the slightest interest in hearing from KF's point of view ... which is now at any rate impossible because they've been banished from the internet. There are two sides to this conflict and you aren't allowed to hear from one side, so the other side can just relentlessly make shit up, exaggerate, take things out of context, and it will be taken as gospel.

So many comments like "I've never heard of KF before but I looked at this hysterical out of context twitter thread and wow I guess it does need to be censored-via-DDOS".
That is only a first order approximation. Second order effects scale badly. Larger tanks for the same amount of propellant have more weight, which means they need to be built sturdier, which means even more weight, etc. LH2 can’t have a common bulkhead with LOX like Falcon 9 has, so that’s more weight, and sitting on top of the tank so the tank needs to be studier still. And LH2 is way lower temperature so you need foam insulation, which adds weight. And you don’t want that foam peeling off and hitting the SRB on the way up, so you need a layer of sealant, which (all together now!) adds weight.

Etc. etc.
Hate speech is legal by design.

There is already illegal speech, not all speech is protected.

If they broke the law, charge them with crimes.

If they didn’t, ignore them.
That sounds like a mouse issue, there shouldn't be enough jitter for that to happen. Common reasons would be a dirty sensor or maybe surface incompatibility.
Robyn supports GraphQL queries now
For the unaware - Robyn is a fast async Python Web framework with a Rust runtime.

I have been sharing updates regarding Robyn over the last few months and GraphQl support was one of the highest requested features. It is finally available now courtesy Strawberry-GraphQl .

This is a fairly unstable implementation at the moment but I couldn't wait to show it off

Do let me know what you folks think of it.
Not that Christie was attempting to reference. The title of the children's poem being used was "Ten Little N---", ("And then there were none" is the last line of said poem).

Whilst there are several islands off the coast of Devon, hers was a fanciful creation. The entire story just revolves around poem.
possibly better to keep quiet about high-minded principles one doesn't actually hold
Well I run a service with 100 million registered users and this is why we don't use Cloudflare. We use VeriSign BGP DDoS mitigation which is more expensive than Cloudflare (about 27k per year with our traffic) but i don't have the luxury of losing the business on a Saturday afternoon on a whim of an anonymous Cloudflare censor, their lawyer or even his Majesty Matthew Prince Himself making a preemptive liability decision on behalf of my own business.

I know that Google takes those deplatforming decisions with ease, because they have billions of users but with Cloudflare's much more finite enterprise userbase, I would be careful to aspire to Google's heavy handed approach: for Cloudflare's customers, real money and real jobs are at stake.
Why shouldn't we prefer private parties administer the free speech which is most fitting for their platform, as opposed to overly broad legislation at the national level by a government which doesn't appear like they'll catch up on tech within 5 years?

Pressuring government does not mean that the government will suddenly develop technical expertise. Even if the "right people" are voted into government at every level possible in a simultaneous magical moment, it would still take years for the government to develop its own internal consensus as to the state of problems and solutions & to slowly develop a workforce to administer technical policy. But one must question as to whether this is even in the cards for your respective nation.

In the meantime, if we prefer companies deal with the matter, people who don't like how things are done at least have the mere theoretical possibility of going it another way, assuming your market isn't so unhealthy as to only permit one entity (in which case you have a problem which a non-technical government may be able to deal with). The government issues monolithic force-backed policy, whereas the free market can create a diverse product ecosystem for different kinds of people.

And isn't the authority which is exercised by companies one which is ultimately quite fundamental — the freedom of association? The freedom to not have relations with those you don't want to talk to? Everyone should be free to yell their message on public property, but people should also be free to withdraw from each other if they no longer wish to be related. It is questionable to say that free speech must hinge on whether one party wishes to be related to another, especially when that other party has to maintain their services via expensive engineers.
Exactly. Providers have Freedom of Association, and I argue that everyone should have freedom _from_ being doxxed and harassed.
The part that’s missing here is that the people KF are fighting are on the exact same level. Keffals doxed the KF owner’s mom, lied about the mom being an active KF user and called for her firing:

https://archive.ph/15nHu

Keffals has called for SWATing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220810180051/https://twitter.c...

Do you really think a KF user would SWAT a GOP Congresswoman in the middle of this fight over their DDoS protection, and the call the cops to identify themselves as a specific Kiwi Farms user (moderator “AltisticRight”), one who denies any involvement in this? To me that sounds highly suspect. We will likely never know the truth.

And here’s a box of the Internet pharmacy hormones Keffals instructs kids to buy and self-dose in secret, without medical evaluation or parental knowledge:

https://archive.ph/zZMRp

See “Homebrew”, first shop link:

https://archive.ph/K9hh4
I am pretty sure that we have not ruled out the possibility that a computer program could simulate a brain, have we?
Well…yeah. Realpolitik is about the reality on the ground not ideals and a perfect world that doesn’t exist.

Countries that lives in a fantasy world where you can cut off contact with every country that doesn’t meet your standards find themselves isolated pretty quickly.
Nah it's not. I think it's most likely someone who's naive, with an outside chance it's someone playing daft laddie
True but the UI did often require the stylus to be pulled out. Compared to the capacitive screens it was pain to use. I did try and I used the N900 as a daily driver for a good couple of years but that UI wasn't designed for use without the stylus.

I still however miss Windows Phone, there were some major mis-steps by Microsoft (the intial side load / developer story) forcing a software break with the move to Windows Phone 8. However as a user provided you could live with the pre-installed apps it was a great phone.
Then it seems to me the problem
here is insufficient law enforcement response.

If the illegal threats of violence aren’t being handled properly by law enforcement, that is not CF’s failure.

They feel forced to act because the FBI is incompetent.
Those politicians are retiring, or already retired (except the one that is currently running NASA).

Still the sink cost fallacy though.
I think somebody coded for “no contact with the smart key in the last 15 minutes“ … which is even more ridiculous because the car could easily be standing at home and never leave the smart key range.
Not familiar with Jak & Daxter, I found "The Making of Jak & Daxter" video[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHvUjmlWRAI
Really? Why? Trying something new before becoming a "master" in something similar seems like a totally reasonable concept to me. I work on Pulumi, and even I don't actively discourage people from trying its alternatives. Use what makes you happy, I say.
How far away from 4k120 x 2 are current video cards?
The obligation for a termination notice, time to cure any violations of terms, etc is something that would be in a contract you agree to. A service provider is able to have terms that allow them to cut you off instantly if they decide to put that in their terms - apparently, CloudFlare has terms like that.

Would I want my ISP or CDN to cut me off without notice? No. Do we know they actually cut KF off without notice? Also no - it's possible this is after they gave KF's operator time to respond. But also, I wouldn't operate a site like KiwiFarms, so I'm not terribly concerned about my CDN cutting me off for the same reason. If it became more of a widespread pattern with CF I would understand their customers getting nervous.
yes it is. free speech as a philosophy is about allowing all speech, cause other it's just mostly free speech.

you're just using the words to act like you have a moral high ground you don't actually have.