skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, I do not think that is "rude" AT ALL! Their fucked-up sense of perception is at fault here. I really wonder how such people can live their lives with such thin skin.
> Address isn’t likely to change

Addresses are already public records because property ownership and tax records are public.
What people say they value and what they spend their money on are usually very different things. The reality is that Tesla is selling well and companies that are investing in similar products are doing extremely well currently. For all their flaws, these cars are way better than ICE cars.

VW is getting a lot of criticism. Yet, if you try to order one now, you might be waiting until well into next year. They are selling pretty well despite the software issues. They have invested a lot in production capacity and they are on track to match Tesla in production volume in a few years. Few other manufacturers can say that. And most of those are based in China.
I'm talking about an elegant technical solution to cloudflare's very real business problem. If they deliver a solid open source solution to the dark web name resolution problem, there's less pressure on them to host all sorts of marginal content.

A rare win/win.

"civil society tends to operate in the open"

... Some of us aren't up to your standards of civility and propriety, and we're going to find ways to get on without your permission.
> "Our decision..." who are you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eastdakota

> CEO & co-founder of CloudFlare
I think you are trying to make your process sound like a workaround, but it is impossible to scale and sounded painful to me anyways.
> overusing them for a bit helped me better make good choices about them

This is my favorite learning method.
I'm so glad Apple finally shitcanned their inexcusable "butterfly" keyboard and embarrassing emoji bar. Jony Ive's departure was the best thing for Apple in the post-Jobs era. The guy is a pompous hack.
I'm still using joplin + dropbox
How much is B7/S24 missing compared to an operational vehicle?

Artemis 1 doesn't have the configuration of a fully operational vehicle either. Artemis 1's Orion doesn't have a fully functioning life support system, launch abort system, or docking system – and probably is missing other components too.

To compare apples to apples – SLS (without Orion), to just the components of Starship/SuperHeavy which form part of launch vehicle proper (as opposed to payload) – what is Starship/SuperHeavy actually missing?
> attention to image and presentation, both of themselves and the work: speaking in inspirational profundities while actually expecting the opposite, obsessing more with the optics of the lab and work than the work itself, pushing for PR that distracted from actual research, etc.

A theory I’ve heard from a few people directly: the groups working in the ugly, ordinary, boring buildings on campus are more likely to be doing the best work. Flashy buildings often don’t have impressive functional architecture, just looks, they attract vanity and image obsessed, and push out people who care the most about substance in academia.
https://archive.ph/RNk65
Just like that huge, untapped market for a cell phone with minimal software. Yup, people will be lining up around the block for the modern equivalent of a Motorola razr or Nokia brickphone.

There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
> at least provides consistency, rather than leaving the issue to fairweather service providers and perfidious content policies

Once again, I think this is a perfect example of what I mean when I say that people who advocate for more government involvement haven't thought about this issue enough.

Consistent censorship results in more censorship than you would see with inconsistent censorship by fairweather services.

If you want any argument about that, consider that Cloudflare dropped a number of sex sites specifically after SESTA/FOSTA was passed and not before.

Of course, it would be better to have neither situation, but an inconsistent patchwork of censorship is obviously less censorship than a consistently applied standard that even free-speech-absolutists like Cloudflare have to follow.

> or find ways around the letter of the law (Backpage pre-2018).

Once again, light legislation leads to more wiggle room for companies to interpret the law, which tends to result in less censorship overall. As proven by Backpage pre-2018.

You can still fight inconsistent censorship in the courts. You can still have laws struck down. You can still work to change public perception of censored speech or normalize it. Unless you're aiming for an acceleration of censorship (which is a usually a bad strategy), then "at least" and "provides consistency" shouldn't be chained together in the same sentence. If you believe that something is a negative outcome, a consistently negative outcome is worse than an inconsistently negative outcome.

This isn't just a free speech thing, it's just a general principle that accelerationists don't always completely grasp: the scenarios where accelerationism works to produce preferable outcomes are kind of narrow and rare. I don't want to get stabbed at all, but I prefer a world where I might get stabbed over a world where I definitely will get stabbed. Making the stabbings more consistent isn't an improvement.
For everyone about to comment on the garbage in the commit:

It looks like the committer made their changes in the top commit, then merged the updated CompViz StableDiffusion change set on top of it for some reason. That's where the license change, rick astley image, etc come from.

And yes, StableDiffusion from the original repo will rick roll you if you try to generate something that triggers its NSFW filter.

Here's the code that does it:

https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/main/script...

And here's what it looks like:

https://twitter.com/qDot/status/1565076751465648128
Also, software is ultimately written by humans, for humans. A very overlooked thing in many circles. It seems so simple, but folks off in the deeply technical universe of engineering should remember it.
Learning to write code is “easy”. Learning how to communicate with people is hard.
I agree but can also see how such a finding may be difficult to demonstrate
Because the post in question was removed by KiwiFarms moderators, in accordance with KiwiFarms's long-standing (and long-enforced) rules against threats of violence etc.
“normalization of puberty blockers.”
So if I threatened you right here in this post, and someone screencapped it before a moderator deleted it, then HN has no right to exist? Or does there need to be another person or two also threatening you? Just the fact that it happened, regardless of it being against the site's TOS and taken down by site admins, means that the site is now complicit and loses any right or privilege to protection?
> It's quite simply because Tolkien's work shows Germanic, Finnish, Greek, Celtic and Slavic mythological influences. That spans almost the entirety of Europe.

He was a gifted linguist, influenced by Germanic, Celtic, Finnish, Slavic, and Greek language and mythology.[1]

Yes, indeed, as the wiki you've drawn from states, Tolkien, the man, was influenced by his studies of various ancient cultures. But to create his fiction he drew from his own life, his Christianity, his experiences during WWI, and Norse and Finnish mythology. Tolkien did not draw on the entirety of the catalog of European mythos to build his world. If you can show me, say, how one of his characters draws from characteristics of a specific Greek hero or god, or likewise for any Germanic, Celtic, or Slavic stories, I'd really be genuinely interested.

I have already named the specific Finnish source that Tolkien borrowed from, and provided a specific example of Tolkien borrowing from Norse sagas, namely, using characteristics of Odin for a few of his characters. Please provide any specific example of Germanic, Greek, Celtic or Slavic influence in Tolkien's work, and name the source. Just one will do, so please take your pick.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien%27s_influence...
That's why you have unique invoice numbers - it converts the (paper) protocol into an idempotent one
I agree good voice recognition has huge potential, but I still feel the existence of a touch screen that controls most functions brings tons of problems with it.

My points 1 and 2 above still stand. A screen that can control everything means you have complex underlying software and all the problems that come with that. There’s another commenter here talking about a stack overflow bug from a software update in Porsche Taycans that caused the whole engine to shut down. I keep reading about serious bugs like this. I believe there was a Tesla bug that caused the entire screen to go black and become nonfunctional. I just can’t believe it’s 2022 and we’ve regressed to having to reboot our cars.
What does "KF" refer to?

Nevermind, found it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/03/cloudfl...

See also: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/
I think you mean homegrown companies and Canada had Flickr, Slack, Autodesk, SideFX, Hootsuite, Shopify and Corel just to name a few off the top of my head.
Mmmm, not sure about that: https://generalaviationnews.com/2011/10/24/why-lead-reduces-...
So we should pivot to building an open source payment processor for porn?
Simple: it's the job of a good line manager to embed and ingratiate themselves well enough with those doing the engineering work, that at any point they can give a reasonable estimate for how long a certain thing is going to take when asked middle or upper management. That is, WITHOUT adding extra process.

> I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: ‘A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.’
This is funny to me, in a perhaps sad way. I've interviewed quite a few Tesla software engineers and worked with several ex-Tesla software engineers in various capacities.

The impression I have is that Tesla software is fucking terrible, generally. I'm sure there are some smart folks there and I don't mean to disparage anyone working there but, the stuff I've seen or heard is enough that I would never purchase one of their vehicles for those reasons alone.

That being said I've worked with even fewer folks from other automotive companies, and the impression I get from them is that for the incumbents it's nearly as bad as one could imagine, so the article doesn't surprise me.

All of which makes me pretty sad. My most recent vehicle purchase was largely driven by the desire for the least "smart" features possible. But why is this?

In software, the closer to metal you are, the harder the problems are (mostly due to constraints) but the worse the job is -- pay, culture... it's all bad. Why?
34 myself, and same. It’s kind of anxiety-provoking because if I have to find something else,
I’m scared I won’t be able to.
I've canceled my Jetbrains subscription this year after about 10 years. While Goland is gold, Webstorm was a constant source of issues and annoyances. VS Code is light years ahead in the JS world supporting Vue (Volar), Svelte, Tailwind - to name a few. In Webstorm, essential bugs / missing feature are open for years. Fixing Tailwind support took ages - no idea if it's working properly now.

After switching to VS Code I found that almost everything you get with Jetbrains IDEs is available (often better) as a VS Code extension. The only area where Jetbrain has an edge is their integration with DataGrip, which is brilliant. But then, turned out DataGrip doesn't support the recent SQLite version. The answer from the Jetbrains support was a link to an open source repo that was not maintained anymore (or for a period of time - who knows). That's what I go after paying for 10 years for their ultimate package.

Now I'm a more than happy VS Code user. The only thing I really miss is DataGrip.

Instead of fixing their core products, they're creating new ones like Space. That is of course legitimate. They have all the right in the world trying to make more money. But it won't be my money.
Don't forget informing jurors of their actual rights and responsibilities.
We started talking about customizing software for your needs, and jumped directly to replacing the first stage bootloader.
You can put the seat heater back on the main screen in the latest update. Drag and drop it onto to the app bar.
It absolutely is not. Children cannot consent to sterilizing medical procedures. Doctors are prohibited by law from performing tubal ligations on women under 18, and most won’t do it on women under 30.

The science on trans youth is evolving rapidly; the UK, Sweden, and Finland just severely curtailed use of blockers and hormones on minors due to the clear risks of harm and unclear risks of benefit. I expect the US to follow suit in a few years, once our current political fever breaks and the medical evidence remains. The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine is a good place to review the science and track new developments:

https://segm.org/
Agreed.

It’s not hard.
Maintain a priority list.
Always work on what is #1 priority.
If #1 priority is blocked then work on #2 priority.

I've described this same approach as "risk driven development." Identify the highest risk to an effort's success, address it, then the next highest, etc.

If, during this process, a newly discovered risk is identified as being more than what is currently being worked, put the new risk at the front of the queue and address it.

This drives risk to 0, which drives the probability of success to 1.

And as you succinctly stated:

It’s simple.
It works.
I guess that the energy problem in EU will solve all the questions.
When you charge your electric skateboard with black plastic and touchscreen fingerprints, and you pay more than people at the pump, all will be good.

Germany with closed nuclear power plants, lack of cheap gas, lack of fertilizers for agriculture, and stopped chemical industry, will never be considered as a strong economy.
The future will be dominated by Chinese manufacturers.

And transition to "green energy" will result in coal burning, cold winters and service economy. You will own nothing. You will rent everything.
Owning a new vehicle will be for privileged ones.
> retirement will happen when I find something I enjoy more than problem solving/programming

After 49 years, do you actually see that happening? Or is it more of a ‘when pigs fly’ situation.
Maybe I should get into the credit monitoring business. Seems like the average person will end up with many lifetimes worth of 'free' monitoring from settlments.
As a counter-example: DHL is the only company I've called that does forward information to humans.
I'm not so sure that's changed much. Aside from your odd finance unicorn or BigCo (Uber/Twitter), every VC startup's Engg department has at least 50% of people being on the spectrum. Maybe they dress better now and wear a nicer haircut, but autism is alive and well in the tech world, and I personally hope it stays.
I am afraid you are misunderstanding the situation.

First, government authorisation is irrelevant. Shadow banking has the same effects. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banking_system And so do grey or black market operations. Or offshore banks (that don't fall under the local government's authorisation.)

Second, even in the absence of any minimum legal reserve requirements, why do banks need reserves at all? Among other uses, banks need reserves for two main reasons:

* Cash withdrawals

* Net settling of money transfers with other banks

Now you are right that a bank can in principle create a loan/deposit pair out of thin air: they just adjust their ledger that you have now have 100$ dollars in your current account, but also that you owe them a 100$. Voila: money from nothing.

Now here's the problem: debtors are seldom content to let the loaned funds gather dust in their accounts. Typically, they spend them. Either by withdrawing cash or by transferring the money to some other person's account.

Chances are that the other person's account is with a different bank.

Both the withdrawal and the transfer diminish the reserves of our bank.

(On the flip side: both cash deposits and your customers receiving a money transfer into their account, increases your bank's reserves.)

In summary: yes, in the instant of creation, loans create money out of thin air. But as soon as the debtor spends the loaned funds, reserves (and thus deposits) are required.

And that's why even in the absence of legal reserve requirements, banks have to attract deposits.

Does this make sense?

See also https://www.alt-m.org/2017/09/06/the-bagging-rule-or-why-we-...
> Regulations should help protect consumers make informed choices when purchasing things.

Why? And at what cost? Have you heard of cost/benefit analysis?
Worse yet, maybe people's TV viewing habits.
The amount of broken code that exists in production seems to disagree with that first statement.
There is consequences to everything. It’s the philosophical right to talk. Not the right to an audience or the right that people won’t be mad at you for disagreeing.

If I call your fiance ugly you may not invite me to your wedding even though I have freedom of speech. If I tell the waiter they’re ugly, they may not serve me food even though I have the freedom of speech. Everything has consequences.
Are you sure the United states cares enough about drugs? The Sacklers are still free and wealthy. The war on drug keeps the prison industry and slave supply rolling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...

June 27th, 2021, in Japan
Yes, IIRC, Clipper 5's big marketing point was `aeval`! (short for array eval, array.map in modern langs).

Clipper also had a huge array of third party libraries, I fondly remember Nanfor, Grumpfish, and SuperLib.

If you want to see some code, here's a repo of one of my Clipper projects: https://github.com/jasim/EasyAccounts

There is also The Oasis mirrors which have a large cache of Clipper code: https://harbour.github.io/the-oasis/docs/
> Its aggravating and sets the wrong tone for my support call.

One can read that in different ways. When I’m aggravated by the time I get through to a person I may communicate that by my tone. Having worked on the receiving end of support calls I know that’s common. Who else can they vent on?
I have the exact same issue with the same chair manufacturer.
Emotions are a little different though. The more you know how deep the lows can go, the more you appreciate even the smallest highs. There is a little utility in getting hurt.
In short, writing code is communicating with people! Often, the listener is future you.
CJK had abused people far before the west started abusing their own people with achievements. Karoshi first became an issue in 1980s. People overworked because they were expected to do so under the name of discipline and dedication. We all saw this being repeated in Alibaba, an IT company!

Still, this is a story of the past, and these days they're all suffering this "achievement society" issue.
It's interesting you mention electronics...

Just this week I called out a mobile mechanic from our state automobile club here in Australia, to replace the battery in my old 911.

He was really nice bloke, older guy, and we got chatting about cars.

Now he reckoned that he has the most problems with European cars, most of which are considered premium or mid level brands in Australia.

Always putting Euro cars on the back of trucks he said, because of problems with the electronics.

Japanese cars were still the best, and never once had a problem with the Hybrid System from Toyota!
I just don't get OP's "years have passed, only a few hundred thousand ppl use it daily, therefor it's an abject failure" stance.

Not everything has to be used daily by a million+ people to be considered a success.
The frequency of both skills in the general population would suggest otherwise.
Yes. With all these idiotic ideas of "everyone should code".

I never saw a lawyer saying "everyone should become a lawyer".
Probably more esoteric WPF stuff like bundling image resources in the DLL and defining control templates. I mainly remember how fiddly it all was.
Yeah, it's a meme as old as the forums themselves. It's hilarious that this one post that everyone immediately saw through was the one that made Cloudflare react.
Sure, but those kinds of updates are usually the kind that hackernews complains about. "Microsoft pushes mandatory, OPT-OUT windows update that prevents mouse from waking up computer!"
Even if KF was cooperating with law enforcement(I think they were, or said they would comply): how long should some company choose to help KF continue though? Is it when criminal charges get filed? After someone is hurt? After someone is arrested? How many people being hurt or arrested is enough?

But this is just business - that is all this is, not a right, not a government, not a monopoly, not even an essential service. CF wants to cast themselves as some principled and righteous defender, but they are just a business that was finding it profitable to provide services to another business, and now they don’t.
That is certainly the fringe theory of the long lost civilizatin of Mu (contintent in the Pacific?). Apparently it, Atlantis, and another empire essentially sub-orbital bombed themselves into non-existence causing entire landmasses to submerge. That's the fringe, out there theory anyway.
I believe I meet your two definitions, but probably not that of the guy you responded to.

I mean I CAN write tests, and I have on a some particular projects, but it was the exception, not the rule.

I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers--I'm not anti-testing or anything. I just never worked somewhere it was part of the culture. Just small shops getting stuff done.

Anyway I don't feel particularly knowledgeable about testing. I encountered a lot of situations (in web dev) where I didn't know how to mock responses and stuff like that, and couldn't get coverage in some spots.

But I debugged complex bugs in foreign systems a lot. I was the go-to guy at one shop for that. Full stack dev, and solo for most of them, so I got to design and implement my own solutions. Discover my own complexity, debug my own bugs. I think I've probably built, and at least temporarily maintained, at least 15-20 rails apps, and there's countless non-rails apps. Many of them are still up ~5-10 years later, just how I built them.

23 years coding, per the author of this piece, but only 5 years of getting paid for it. A generalist in the web world, but little experience outside of web.

Anyway, all that to say, I have no idea if I'm senior or not. I've never been called it. The metrics are not clear (or consistent) and I feel like maybe it's impostor syndrome to NOT call myself senior, but maybe I'm actually not. I don't know!

This also may be partially due to being self-taught. I have gaps in my knowledge that just reflect my own experience, rather than that of a curriculum.

I'll report back if I ever get more professional experience.
Then write the code already, just don't demand that someone else do it for you.
Umm, you don’t need the dark web to get SSNs.

If you know the person’s exact name and city of residence you can use a supposedly legit service to purchase their SSN for $50. I won’t post it here, but should be trivial to find the name of company.

I used this service several years ago when a contractor tried to give my business an obviously fake SSN as he thought he wouldn’t have to report the income.