skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of SWATing, harassment, and "driving people to suicide" this is a false impression, one that is intentionally spread by the site's detractors. SWATing and harassment is strictly banned on Kiwi Farms. The site owner aggressively removes such posts and cooperates with law enforcement.

The leader of the campaign to take down Kiwi Farms is Keffals, a transsexual Twitch streamer with a large underage audience. Kiwi Farms has documented Keffals’ sexualized interactions with underage members of her community, as well as her history in porn and online interactions with several open pedophiles. Some believe this is why she wants the site nuked.

See archived copy of the Kiwi Farms thread for documentation of Keffals' encouragement of doxing and SWATing, sexual grooming of minors on the “Catboy Ranch” Discord server, and her website which instructs minors on how to secretly obtain and self-dose cross-sex hormones behind parents’ backs:

https://archive.ph/HY4hK

The sketchy online pharmacy Keffals’ DIY HRT Directory promotes sells cross-sex hormones marketed to children, with holofoil anime lolita box art and labels that say “keep away from parents”:

https://archive.ph/zZMRp

The medical consequences of a confused child self-dosing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones outside parental and medical supervision can be sterilizing, irreversible, and lifelong. Keffals promotes the DIY HRT Directory on Twitter and Twitch to a huge audience of underaged viewers.

None of these details about Keffals were mentioned in WaPo or NBC accounts of this story. It is incredibly dismaying to see Keffals doing this to children, well-documented and for the most part out in the open, and realize that no one in the news media cares.

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EDIT: In response to a comment below...

KF's owner refused the New Zealand's government command to remove Brenton Tarrant's manifesto and shooting video. This demand was not backed up by American law. He cooperates with law enforcement requests for information on criminal threats and illegal material posted to Kiwi Farms.
Well, it's the most expensive television program in history on a cost-per-minute basis, it is critical for them that it looks like a success.
Many years ago I was a fairly prolific contributor to many Wikimedia projects. I not only donated a lot of my time on wiki, I donated time IRL. Also I donated money.

Then I ended up working for the WMF for a time on contract. After seeing how "the meat is made" (as they say) from the inside. I stopped donating.
This has all the hallmarks of an overreaction to a moral panic, not a rational response to the actual evidence. People become incredibly sure of their positions and don't even want to look at the evidence, but to be honest, the evidence doesn't matter, because people won't be persuaded by it anyway given the stress level and strong emotions.

Is the internet a better place without this site? Who knows. But that's not the question we should ask when making censorship decisions, because these panics invariably exaggerate the immediate harms of keeping a site and minimize the longer-term harms of terminating it.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/kiwi-farms-trans-activists-m...
Wait isn't each collection of 32 eth considered a separate validator no matter the source? If that's the case then wouldn't that mean that coinbase and other exchanges make up the massive overwhelming majority of those validators? If that's the case is it really good faith to claim that there are 400+ thousand validators and then arbitrarily put ethereum in first place?
California passes law requiring companies to reveal pay by race, gender
Also, if you are in the UK, you should note that "public schools" in the US are government-run schools. Our equivalent of your "public schools" are called "private schools" (EDIT: they are called "private schools" in the US only).

I think the solution of having the doctor manage this kind of thing is a lot better than what happens in the US.
> Doxxing, sometimes; swatting, no. Posting plans for any sort of real-life harassment on KF will get you mocked by other users and possibly banned.

then why does it happen all the time?
No it's never happened.
Telegram I can understand, but discord is a centralized platform that doesn't encrypt your messages. I'm astounded the authorities don't have a direct ability to just search their database at this point.
Yes, that applies to the chemicals that we currently have very good heuristics to guide the optimization, in a process that is usually validated empirically afterwards because of it's not perfect reliability.

At the same time, it doesn't go to lengths to discuss how the heuristics needed for the quantum computer are much more general and self-validating (if it converges, it converges).

But then, nobody knows if the classical algorithms will improve enough so that when we actually get quantum computers they will still be needed. That's the article's point... What is not different from the RSA one from my post.
> I know one thing, I will not be letting my children near discord.

You might consider being the kind of parent who a trans kid could talk to about their identity issues instead of trying to censor their access to content which they're going to see anyway. Are you aware of the horrifying suicide numbers among this group? Please don't be that kind of parent.

There are no heroes in any story. But in many cases in this field, it's the parents that are the worst villains.
Chia is famously decentralized when using “number of nodes” as the measure and yet is missing from this list.
Binance, Issuer of 3rd Biggest Stablecoin, to Stop Supporting Larger Rival USDC
Would you be okay with a website which targeted you, specifically, tracked down your home, your employer, your family? One which encouraged others to do the same, filled your inbox with hateful messages?

One which hid behind Cloudflare in order to hide their identity while simultaneously exposing yours?

This is how KF started and continued to operate.

You have a line. I have a line. What is happening here is that we're trying to define a common line which works for society, and it is going to "slip" over time as views change.

In the past, that line would have included books which even mentioned homosexual behavior. Today that is more tolerated and accepted, which is good in my opinion because gay people certainly exist.

I guess what I'm saying is that the line is going to have to slip a bit, and in more than one direction.
You say that like we should.
SD had a single user show up and discover how good the model was at generating gore, and suddenly many, many users showed up to generate gory pictures, and every channel was filled with gory pictures until they put in overly-broad keyword filters to stem the flood.

They've been really open about why they're doing what they're doing on the regularly weekly "office hours" Discord audio chats.
Facebook was made for sexual harassment. It was originally made so that Zucc and his friends could rate the girls at Harvard.
> Your argument seems to be that it is possible to characterise an extreme site in some sort of systemic manner.

My argument is exactly the opposite. That there are lots of grey areas that can not be categorized, but Kiwifarms is not one of thsoe grey areas, as Cloudflare discovered when they started getting dox'd by KF. There's no need for a system here, KF is very squarely a horrible site.

The rest of your post with regards to my argument is obviously moot since it is the opposite.

I am very familiar with KF and have been for quite a few years. I actually haven't kept up (much) on KF in recent years, but I saw that people were pushing for its removal and I was very glad to see it.

As for other sites being "way worse", there are a few... but not that many, actually. Most of the really bad sites are relegated to onion and are much harder to access. Those are really more of a problem for the FBI at that level of shit. I'd advocate for them to be taken down too, of course, if they were worse and also using CF or other services.
‘ratsmack: harassment was explicitly their stated goal from the very beginning. The very name is a play on the first person they decided to go after (and why the forum formed).
> Ultimately, if you want to handle all of your load with only renewables, you're going to need to build about 3x what's needed, just to account for wind turbines not running, sun not shining, etc, and you're going to need to replace most of it in 15 years, with rare earth materials that will start costing a lot of money.

You're getting downvoted for living in the real world and opposing the approved climate messaging.

It is really a shame to see all the people that have been bamboozled by the "renewable energy" propaganda and refuse to see the obvious (very negative) implications of following through on that policy.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is implicitly morally corrupt or a member of some interest grooup, I have no clue what switter is and i'm sure many others don't either, kiwifarms has been on the media for the entirety of the last week.
I think it's worse than that. They aren't banned precisely because people are making money from it.
Why is it that big businesses see no punishment for vastly larger crimes and small communities are harshly dealt with?

Because they have more resources and it's easier to take down a small target than a large one. I am more than fine with Zuckerberg and others being held to account for harms negligently or callously inflicted by Facebook.
I've had the exact opposite experience. Velocity has helped my teams multiple times. It gives a sense of how much productivity drops when we add new members and if we don't recover within an expected time then we know something is up. It's also used as a rough early indicator that projects are running late and that there's no way we can hit expected time lines. Teams escalate and get alignment across the larger org on how to handle it (move dates, get additional help, etc.).

> Velocity metrics are as loathsome as the horoscope because neither provides any insight on why something went wrong or how to fix it.

This is such a weird statement to me. Of course it doesn't tell you why, it's just data. It's up to anyone that works with data to figure out what's going on.
I'm weirded out because I thought about the game for the first time in about 15 years just a few days ago (after seeing a speed limit sign and a severe tire damage sign in close proximity to each other) only to have it pop up on HN.
> I don’t recall saying that at all. My gripe is that different discipline always seems to be architecture and the design patterns topic has been talked to death for over 50 years now.

I concur with the spirit of this gripe. While architecture certainly might be ripe for fruitful parallels, I think it might be over-emphasized because most discourse is derivative regurgitation. Most people are not generating original insights from their own experiences, but regurgitating (at best mildly extending) Christopher Alexander (or other derived work). Christopher Alexander tied to mine architecture for systems metaphors (because that was his background), and a group of software folks back in the day tried to map that to software development -- in other words, a lot of it was purely incidental. And they were all barely scratching the surface; there are likely many other fields with many other interesting analogies. Fresh perspectives that try to mine new lessons (from different domains) would be really interesting.
> Is the internet a better place without this site? Who knows

Uh I do
Why does it feel imminent?
And I think you should read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32712037

And this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728365

The fight over Kiwi Farms' Wikipedia page is intense. Keffals, a central figure to this story described in the second link above, is now quoting the Wikipedia page as fact because it quotes an NBC News story which quotes... Keffals. If you don't rely strictly on primary sources it's impossible to determine truth in this situation.
Not at all. My only problem is that I can never be 100% sure my emails are going through. Shame that some large servers don't send bounce notifications (khm, outlook)
Yeah, when you intentionally cause harm and even drive people to suicide, its worse than unintentionally causing harm.
> not having foreign-cuisine restaurants and not buying salmon from thousands of kilometers away. Cloth production should follow the same idea

These isolated communities exist. Their quality of life is lower. But anyone can join them. From hippie communes to Amish communities, Luddism has a long tradition in modern society. (I’m ignoring the ethno-racial undertone in implying there can be an objective arbiter of what counts as true local cuisine and culture.)
Even if Facebook were made for harassment (which it wasn’t; you’re thinking of the website pre-FB), they would have since evolved and given that up.

KF never evolved.
I never called it undefined behavior. But you shouldn't modify that stack space directly, you should either use setenv via libc or you should use prctl.
Binance owns the crypto market. They are effectively the "central bank" of crypto.

Continue to play at your own risk but it's their game now to manipulate as they choose --- and this is just the latest proof.
Freedom of speech is a cultural value, it's not something strictly defined by the US constitution. It's the reason there is a constitution not the other way around.
And on Debian and presumably derivatives there are packages xmille as well as bsdgames which includes mille.

edited for reduced ambiguity.
I don't know or care about spam, but SendGrid is one of the most prolific sources of malware and phishing emails out there. Their opaquely rewritten URLs are an annoyance to security teams everywhere, enough that I've seen enterprises simply block ct.sendgrid.net or any URL with /ls/click, which isn't the kind of thing large companies typically have the will to do.
I would have expected a communist (i.e. poor) country to have more use for some properties of the paper system:

1. You can easily calculate the weight of that letter without a scale, and stick exactly to the 20g limit (or whatever) for the cheapest postage rate. (I remember doing this in the 1990s for air mail letters to relatives.)

2. You can crush 2, 4 or even 8 normal A4 pages onto a single sheet while photocopying, and save paper/money. Although maybe by the time photocopiers were available in your country, the cost of paper was no longer an issue. (I would press the 2-on-1 or even 4-on-1 button when printing at university, to halve the cost at essentially no inconvenience.)
"Comparing programming to architecture" might sound silly, but it's possible to learn about design in general from other design-heavy fields.
I can’t wait for the follow up article Things Programmers Believe About VINs.

I’ve worked in the automotive industry for over a decade, and learned that manufactures have messed up and produced vehicles with vins that don’t checksum. That sometimes you will come across vehicles with a VIN that were produced before things were standardized. Recently I needed to deal with a Model T Ford and any system that tried to be too smart about VIN ended up being a struggle to make work.

I’ve also seen titles and insurance with matching entry errors and we actually need to use the “bad” VIN to transact

Yes you should use the checksum to help detect entry errors, but do not require the VIN actually passes.
In addition to being too new, Scalable Matrix Extension is for Armv9 - the M1 and M2 are Armv8 architectures
It's a slow emergency in the sense that the effects will slowly increase, but it's very much a fast emergency in that the actions we take now are vastly more effective than they would be in a decade, or even a year. Because it's a self-feeding system, we will have to work much harder in the future to get the same results we could get by making reasonable mitigations today.
Most printers sold are letter size by default. Most can accommodate A4 but the defaults need to be changed, you need to arrange new suppliers of office supplies (A4 is less prevalent in the US than Letter size) etc.

I‘d imagine that printer sales are declining in the digital era, which slows down a transition, and most of the ones remaining are at institutions with a lot of inertia (government, medicine)
The focus on passing/not talking about it might return. I'm fortunate enough to pass. The past few years I felt like I ought to be out, irl, to dispel the negative stereotypes my conservative acquaintances were hearing about. But things are getting increasingly ugly, and I get treated better when people don't know I'm trans, so I've stopped speaking up.
Why not, drugs are easier to buy on Instagram for the average person. Even though AlphaBay is very easy to access, it's still not that easy. Everyone has an Insta account.

Now, hiding their identities... yeah, some improvements can be made
Statically compiled binaries almost always still use a libc, either by dynamically linking it or by statically linking it.
These two studies are not normalized on time so slightly more events in ~two months for A vs B verse a lot more in ~one month for C vs D means more total events in A than C.

Really, if you believe the primary difference is that pfizer was a lower dose and that this isn't all just noise, the data seems to be showing that there's a pretty short window where the risk of the jab wasn't made up for by benefit such that a longer study lost ground on finding a measurable risk.
I'm not a compiler expert by any means, but I would've thought the more functional nature of racket to be a plus for writing compilers. Plus, there's the nanopass framework.
> Tests make refactoring slower, because you might have to also update the tests

No, tests can make refactoring slower, because they often test implementation detail instead of interface. Being able to distinguish the two is not as easy as it sounds, typically it requires deep understanding of the domain, which people writing tests might not have yet.

> in a complex enough code base, refactoring is impossible without sufficient test coverage

Sure, and in my experience complex code bases are typically complex due to the amount of accidental complexity, not because they actually solve complex problems. Like layers of overengineered classes intertwined through dependency injection for the sake of being more... testable. See the irony?

And indeed, refactoring becomes quite hard. You have two options to make it easier:

1. Identify and remove accidental complexity.

2. Cover it with tests and set the complexity in stone.

It's like fighting cancer with painkillers. It might look like it's working, but you going to die pretty soon.

> Test that this code called from a tight loop doesn't query the db hundreds of time which would lead to the startup time taking minutes rather than seconds

Oh, this is a great example. I saw the exact same thing implemented couple years ago. The whole team hated it because it caused tests to break constantly. And yet nobody on the team had the balls to remove it, and they were even following the pattern for new tests, because past tests had it.

If startup time matters for your app, there will be plenty of signals apart from tests that it's broken. If startup time doesn't matter, why are you testing it?

By the way, you haven't even noticed it, but you conflated startup time with number of queries. You're testing the wrong thing. What if hundreds of queries are still blazingly fast (due to being simple and/or cacheable) and have negligible effect on startup time? What if existing startup time is already extremely high (e.g. you're loading ML models in memory)?

If startup time truly matters for you, you shouldn't be testing it, you should be monitoring it. And I'm not even talking about some complex monitoring systems. When someone on your team says their developer experience got worse, that's the type of alert you need to listen to.
Windows added UNIX domain sockets in recent years. They work everywhere now.
This lie lasted only for a few days. I was all over HN a week ago.
O.B. McClinton – Assessing Stone’s “100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time”
Something like BitTorrent wouldn't work well for dynamic content such as a web forum.
The Netherlands is working on making doxxing illegal[0].

And rightly so, imho. Isn't the goal of doxxing harassing someone? How would that translate to citizen journalism? It is more akin to threatening someone than adding to a debate.

[0]https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/07/08/gebru...
That's not because they hate energy but because they think it's not worth to tolerate the negatives associated with production of energy.

Energy production often impacts negatively the surroundings of the production area and that's why even those who boast for energy production at all cost are also NIMBY folks. Notice how wealthy prefer to live away from energy production sites, in prestine environment? turns out the poor and the middle class want that too.
So true!
I wouldn't even start telling that Google not just underpays polish employees but cuts on the RSUs claiming that TC is adjusted to location based pay.

In the end it turned out the whole non-US IT world is a sweatshop now. Not like it wasn't like this before, but with exposure from apps like Blind the 500 pound elephant is no longer to be ignored.

Plus, the whole crybaby about remote work being kewl is USA-driven cost/time employee savings rationale too. In Europe, remote doesn't make much sense because it's 2x times smaller than the US.
Sure! It's actually two businesses but they work in tandem; a registry (Neuenet) and a registrar (beachfront) on the Handshake blockchain/protocol (a decentralized alt-root…I know, bear with me). When the software I'm building is solid in production, it will be open-sourced (alongside a hosted service).

As an example, let's say you owned the Handshake TLD .testmasterflex…you'd be able to create SLDs (domains) and manage everything quite easily with my software. Currently, Handshake is in its second year and the ecosystem is quite barren so it's not friendly for non-devs. I have ~1k TLDs and setup websites secured with DANE and DNSSEC for ~900 of them. It was tedious, to say the least.

You may be thinking, “Okay, but hasn’t this been tried before? What makes Handshake so different?”

What I’ve gathered is, while alt‑roots have come and gone over time, Handshake came along at a great time; with a bunch of investment and an incentivized rollout to get developers interested in building upon it…and it’s working.

We’ve got ICANN‑accredited registrars like Porkbun, Encirca, and Namecheap selling Handshake domains. Namecheap even owns a handful of Handshake TLDs! The parent company of Porkbun, Top Level Design, operates .gay and .wiki on the ICANN side and claimed those names on Handshake. On top of that, we’ve got plenty of Handshake resolvers for your OS/platform of choice: macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, whatever. If that’s not support, I don’t know what is.

Anyhoo, lemme get off my soapbox to share some links.

- https://blog.neuenet.com/post/why-get-a-tld

- https://neuenet.com/

- https://blog.neuenet.com/

- https://twitter.com/neuenet

- https://twitter.com/beachfront_