skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ORoaming: Why haven't any other smartphone manufacturers built this yet?
Harder to drag, doesn't do motorway, takes lot of parking space (in some German towns now we have specific cargo bike slots because of it)…..
I think the parent comment can be interpreted as "German universities are bad, but free" (the students don't pay tuition fees, or only a trivial amount)
Thinking out loud: Maybe by decentralizing the things being attacked? AFAIK it's much harder to DDoS a torrent than a website. Of course, moving a p2p/decentralized websites would require solving a number of other problems.
I gain security and confidence in my employment by knowing the code base, the stack and the business domain. I pick projects that are core to the success of the company. In twenty five years, I was only laid off once and in that case, 18 of 20 were let go in 2008 when an engineering firm lost all their work.
It's one step closer to Eugenics (with a capital E) in the same sense that legalizing weed is one step closer to the entire population being addicted to heroin. Same ballpark, different game.
Only way to be sure, would to not buy their hardware. I wouldn't trust their preinstalled software to follow the rules.
I'd love to use Logseq, but in my experience the mobile app is quite buggy.

Otherwise it works surprisingly well with my existing org-mode notes, if not 100% compatible.
“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”

- Maria Mitchell, 19th cent. American astronomer
The part about the mechanical guy being the top dogs seems more to do with the fact that a car must mechanically be safe above all else right? Like, I should be able to drive a car if the software fails. But the mechanical parts and components are the things that cannot fail or have a much lower tolerance to fail. It stems from a culture of not relying on software too much no?
> or I need to speak, is unacceptable to me. I consider ut terrible in terms of safety and UI

Speaking is terrible for safety now?
I also don't agree with no estimates.

The problem is I see estimates like this;

$COMPLEX_REQUIREMENT: 12 days
BACK END - 3 days
FRONT END - 3 days
UNIT TEST - 2 days

...

Which is almost certainly gonna be wrong, so it useless. But "12" is a number and number can be added.

We have 274 man days this quarter, and of course we allow time for bugs and leave and stuff, so sum of estimates is 263, so that's our plan for the next 3 months.

Never works.

Estimates are useful for making branch decisions though.

So knowing is it 1 hour or 1 day or 1 week or 1 month or 1 year (which is closest) is useful for deciding if it is done (hint if it involves code at all then not 1 hour!)

For each category, accept it might take up to 5 times as long. So 1 day = 1 to 5 days. 1 week = 1 to 5 weeks and so on.

Is it a disaster if the thing took 5 weeks?

Id there another "1 week" tasks that is more urgent than the one you are thinking of doing next?

That is the level.

Then don't track too closely how long it takes .. BUT ... maybe have a team leader flag at 2.5x estimate to discuss in depth if it is worth carrying on. In addition to standups/whatever to get unblocked or report the estimate was way off.

In a nutshell treat the estimate as a decision heuristic. But not as a developer skill measurement tool, or a timeline delivery.

If you have a real deadline, then presumably you agreed to it (some contract) and hopefully when coming to that agreement technical people were consulted, and loads and loads of buffer was included. It is like agreeing to host people on Christmas day - it will probably need say 20 hours of prep, but arranging it 3 months ahead of time and slowly working on it the whole time is a surefire way of success. Starting the project on 23rd Dec is a surefire way to fail. Common sense in real life (because we use common sense not trying to "optimise" every last second).

Also in real life if other things mean you can't host Christmas ... you don't agree to the deadline. Let's book a table at the pub. That is what you do. Companies tend not to do that, they agree to all kinds of silly things. And you get silly deadlines, and bullshit estimates as a result.
They could for example look at the papers that I published that explain my reasoning and show my data.
So you want to put everyone on a metered internet connection?

And then hit them with massive bills if they have a device that gets hacked?

Seems unreasonable given the current state of security.
What a nonsense storm in a teacup.
The Hypomanic American (2005)
Architect designing home is the wrong metaphor.

Buildings do not have moving parts. Their core structures are almost all fundamentally the same. There are problems to solve, but again, not dynamic systems, and always variations on very well known themes.

Programming is usually like building a new type of interdimensional alien spacecraft engine that interfaces with some other alien artifacts. There are usually a lot of unknowns, new concepts, many moving parts, unsolved problems, to build a new invention.
I didn’t know it was a requirement to move to Texas to understand the English language.
ECMAScript?
Encryption is nice, but what I really want is local-first, multi-device, and a very short time between when I launch the app and when I start being able to type. When I want to capture an idea or want to spend my limited time journalling, I want it fast. Hyperlinking and adding photos are nice.

Evernote has been focusing on collaborative features I don’t care about. Startup time to when I can start typing have been getting worse over the years. I’ve been seriously looking for a good replacement that lets me import from Evernote.
whats your learning resource?
Thanks, that makes sense.

Still, I don’t understand why Cloudflare goes out of its way to be a white knight when its peers have far less mercy. What’s in it for them? Companies at this scale remove the “don’t be evil” slogans they adopted when they were smaller.
Here he is demoing his cs50 project: https://youtu.be/3Kf4-zMNqq8

And Weezify, which he built: https://weezify.web.app/#nav/player/library
You're missing that nobody makes a fuss about AWS removing things. Unsavory and/or illegal sites are removed from AWS every day for TOS violations - a somewhat recent and notable example was Parler, the extreme-right-wing Twitter clone that was used to plan the January 6th insurrection.
I'd probably guess it's too expensive? IIRC the original Thunderbolt spec was a fiber standard and they moved it to copper because people wanted to power stuff and adding copper cabling for power + power negotiation was infeasible cost wise so they ended up with a copper only cabling solution instead.
I tried Joplin, and most other PKM/note-taking tools out there.

Eventually settled on org-mode. Encryption can be sync-time using restic/cryptomator (cloud sync), filesystem (self-hosted all the way), or save time using plain old GPG. As a bonus, there is a gigantic ecosystem around org-mode, and thanks to the platform (Emacs) it is nearly completely FLOSS and pretty much guaranteed to be around and kickin' when most commercial systems with either die, get acquired or just change too much for my taste.

Probably not for everyone, though.
It does sound confusing. Just like the different versions of java and distributions that we have now as well.

I don’t think they’ll ever do it though, given the history of oracle
At the very least:

- Moderators on KF felt the need to address the topic of swatting.

- People dox'd on KF were definitely swatted-- the missing evidence is to what degree the actual swatting was coordinated on KF. It's relatively indisputable that KF was in the causal chain.

- Harassment occurred, coordinated on KF to someone immediately after relocating from a swatting.
Sure, spaghetti code can and is also happening as an emergent property of a system that's increasingly succumbing to entropy -- due to all the factors you enumerated. That too. And I am saying that a lot of programmers lack the skills to recognize they are in a situation that promotes spaghetti code and they don't resist the symptoms that lead to it.

Can we live up to that? Absolutely, but it takes time, practice and a lot of screwing it up -- so, sadly, it can't happen with people who are still kind of fresh. Sad fact but what can you do. I made my peace with it, begrudgingly.
Those are going to suffer from electronics that flake out after a few years (flickering LED displays etc.) Long-term reliability is simply not a concern for German car manufacturers. You're supposed to buy a new car after a few years.
I do a lot of diligence before I believe anything. I have also seen this person doing targeted harassment with my own eyes on twitter. I am often skeptical of claims that wikipedia is obscuring information, and while this is a small creator, it is spooky to me.
> An IoT device not suddenly working is a good signal to endusers that it is compromised and being used illegally.

Given the overall quality of cheap electronics, if I had a camera on the fritz, even knowing what I do, the last thing I’d suspect is that it’s been compromised.
An absurdist thought experiment I've had recently:

Every single 'controversial' topic comes with an unspoken invisible "at current rate" percent sign/sliding scale, for any side of any debate about society.

(political/ social/ demographic/ financial/ health )

I believe lots of obnoxious contrarian things very strongly and yet I'm honest with myself that at some fuzzy unknown hypothetical percentage, my opinion would have to flip because the entire structure of society would transform, warp, and eventually collapse.

People should stop with trolley problems and start asking about the invisible number next to every prescriptive societal claim they hold.

Most people are not that honest with themselves EVEN for the categories they themselves are in.

So, downs syndrome:

Somewhere between 0% percent, iceland, all the way to 100% of all new children born are born with downs and kept... (lets say some virus or enemy action or monsanto in the water etc) ,

move the slider along one percent at a time in your mind...

What percent leading to implosion of entire US society/alternate 'children of men' disaster that upends everything demographically, every institution and economic reality that holds the country together?

All women are doomed to give up every dream they had, be it of working or of a healthy family, they are now nanny-slaves to special needs children, who will reshape family dynamics.

Half the healthy men have to break their back to keep current society infrastructure, military crawling along while the other half must rebuild all society around the new demographic burden.

Every healthy non-downs sibling becomes neglected and bitter as the special ones suck up all oxygen and finances.

All the aging adult population must now compete for healthcare with the new generation of special needs. Maybe some take one for the team, suicides to pass along resources.

The life of every useful american adult needs to now be rerouted to a future of corralling these "good hearted" but unstable giant toddlers in adult bodies, with adult strengths and "impulses" and food and resource needs.

Ethnic resentments ramp up as some group values shift at different rates, being resource drains or having an edge on others.

At what percent (10%???) would foreign powers smell blood in the water and begin planning invasion to get first dibs at the doomed superpower?

(the effect of the small covid numbers (0.1%??? ) was sobering and has reshaped everything I think about how people and societies work, and I'm grateful for that lesson)

So, yeah, what's the highest percentage of total new births of these happy loveable people that you personally would still hold your current opinion about?
Obviously not all projects are the same, there are certainly pieces of software that would be disastrous to do that with, I'm just speaking generally. For reference, my (very not-startup) team is ~20 engrs in 3 teams responsible for ~30 services and we deploy stuff ~25x/wk.

Also a 'crunch' around the end of a sprint sounds like mini-waterfalls.
Banking on Oracle caring about goodwill is not going to be successful.
You would still have wars and thus need the military, just their leaders would be open as to their motivations for doing so.
Some things to learn from the British East India Company's growth and demise
"Language" is just an interface. You can SQL a filesystem if you want, and also can build 3rd party indexers that query engines can benefit from.
Your name doesn't start with "A" or "B", by chance? ;-)
Cloudflare’s line seems to be where bodily harm comes into play (e.g. Kiwifarms people enabling SWATing via doxxing, stalking by mobs, etc) which is above and beyond just normal criminal activity. The situations really are not very similar.
*SARCASM ALERT

>> These are my friends that I'm talking about. They don't want to be, will never be, and never could be if they wanted to, productive members of society.

So right, we should’ve nipped it in the butt and cut them out of preschool. ;)
Sure, but KF hasn't specifically clarified whether the block was without _notice_ as opposed to just without _discussion_. And even if KF had specifically claimed that there was no notice given, I still want to ask CF to confirm or deny this. I may be suspicious of CF, but I don't want to turn around and trust KF's statements unconditionally. Also, I've attacked CF for this [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32709749] and I would want to change what I said if I was wrong.
That definitely simplified it. :) That said, we could (and for a few weeks, did) bring in a second developer with no issues.

My last job had me on a ten person developer team and I would not try to use that process there - although I'd consider splitting that into a couple of smaller groups focused on a specific product/system and using a very lightweight process for those groups.
> we shouldn’t be the ones making that call

Well, who should? Is anything with the authority going to or even inclined to in the slightest?

Cloudflare has maintained a lobbying/policy department since quite early on, but I'd argue that the post from the 31st wasn't so much that there _should_ be policy against this than that there simply isn't. Given the coming EU DSA or, hell, the comical farce that is/was Texas HB20, it seems clear that further government regulation of online speech is coming in some capacity. How is Cloudflare discussing these issues with lawmakers? Are they taking the approach that existing law and enforcement mechanisms are fully sufficient, or are they arguing that there is a common strain between KiwiFarms, 8chan, and the Daily Stormer that has demonstrated a known pathway between speech and violence that needs some sort of updated legal framework?
> What's creepy is the very real world that we're approaching where anyone can create porn of anyone else given a few pictures without their consent.

Why is that a problem, exactly?

> That can cause all sorts of lasting psychological harm and other societal negative consequences.

Like what? To me this sounds like a problem with how some people want to have absolute control over what others do and want everyone else to play along. That's what I find really creepy.

Someone wants to generate porn of me fucking a donkey? Let them. They already could do that with ms-paint and I don't get magically harmed if they do.

This reminds me of the old saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but AI-generated/photoshopped/glued-together pictures of me fucking a donkey will never hurt me" :)
> Do you have any evidence for this?

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-chemistry-of-depression-106...

> This contradicts some studies I've seen on the matter, for example, one where 75% of chronically depressed patients reported clinically significant histories of childhood trauma

There is no contradiction here; the correlation you think you see is not causation. Generally, if there is an external trigger for depression, it is more immediate than having an abusive childhood decades ago, such as recently losing a loved one, or recently getting fired, or recently being physically abused. But in essence, our bodies make us feel the way we do, and more specifically, the brain and its electrical and chemical processes, no matter what external trigger we may want to point to for a cause, the reaction is fundamentally an internal process.

> Not to mention that your second cure, sunlight, is literally an example of things we've done or events in the outside world (i.e. time spent outside).

We evolved on a rotating planet. Daylight regulates mood as it does circadian rhythms. Sunlight will cure depression; it does not cause depression.
Joplin is significantly better than Evernote for being quick to start typing. Sync runs in the background without preventing you from editing which is why I moved over. Has a decent ability to import notes from Evernote to Joplin as well.
Sad “zero sum” based view that people in low paying areas force themselves to adopt to pretend they aren’t missing out.

“Oh, all of those people making way more must be immoral.”
Have you worked on a German car?

If so, you're likely tired of the "German engineering" myth. Most often, you'll find overly complicated, failure-prone designs that are worse than their simpler domestic counterparts. This isn't just in such things as emission control, but even in what you thought were solved mechanical problems generations ago: hood releases and power windows.

I'm not shocked that their software sucks as well. Then again, other cars aren't exactly paragons of software engineering either. Nothing exemplifies that better than the shitshow that is built-in Bluetooth and "infotainment" systems.
Be specific. What did the US government tell companies en masse to redact, and what consequences did they threaten them with if they didn't?

(Just as a reminder, we do not live in the USSR.)
I have not, but thanks for the recommendation - I just put it on my to-read list.
So it's time to create fuse-postgres?
Thank you for detailed reply here and elsewhere in the thread. That probably took as much time as writing a new blog post, so it is really appreciated.

As mentioned before, as a newbie student of Elixir this is all very exciting. Please keep up the good work!
Now that KF is back up (good job, CF), please find me one post on KF that involves the planning of violence which wasn't either deleted or ridiculed into oblivion by the other posters there. If it's so common, this should be an easy task, right?
A simpler example: AWS hosts fakeLVbags.com. This site sells counterfeit luxury handbags, and says so clearly on the site.

Now AWS does not realize this as they are large and have lots of operations.

However, one day a journalist asks Amazon directly about this website, and there is an official press release by Amazon made about it.

AWS has had this illegal activity brought to their attention, as well as the fact that they are facilitating this activity. They openly acknowledge the site existing.

Legally this is very different from not knowing about what is going on! Not only does Amazon in this hypothetical know, they have admitted publicly that they know!

So… now to Cloudflare. Did Cloudflare, experts in this domain, not know about these DDOS vendors? And did not realize they were offering protection to those? Maybe not! But maybe. And knowing makes things a lot worse for them. Especially if Cloudflare connected the dots internally about the usage for illegal activity. But! CF simply might not have known, or had a complete picture. Or anything in between.
How about becoming cops? Since existing police officers are already exposed to criminals (and not even "nice", reformed ones), they (and their families) shouldn't mind so much.

Anyway, that wasn't my point; my point is that this kind of article is harmful to our profession, not the fact that the ex cons found something to work at that they like.

Just maybe keep the past under wraps. I don't want to know. If I find out, I'm getting the hell out.

Yes, sure, "anyone can code"; I get it. Or, maybe not anyone, but a person with the right cognitive aptitudes regardless of their background.
Graduate studies are highly specialized, and the higher the level and the later the student is in their career, the more specific it gets. Often, the specificity becomes so narrow that the only other PI working on anything similar could be more than 2000 miles away.
You have to admit there is a very significant difference between going online and saying manga sucks and participating in an organized and targeted harassment of a particular person.

I know why you are making that analogy: you are seeking to find a simple demarcation between physical violence and words. But it's clear in both the law and regular life that words and violence are highly intertwined and difficult to separate. This is why courts and trials exist. One person shooting another person is a simple fact. But what if the other person told them they were going to kill them? What if the other person had subjected them to years of physical abuse? What if the other person had subjected them to years of emotional abuse? None of these erase the act of the shooting, but they do contextualize it and change the law's assessment of what needs to happen.

It's also a big stretch to think that most people who equate words with violence are trying to justify doing violence. They are trying to foreground that words do indeed cause violence: either by inciting other people to physical violence or, as the GP has said, people do violence to themselves. Peoples' bodies do have harmful stress responses to being repeatedly berated and placed in an environment of emotional adversity. Those who place people in those situations are culpable, even if they did not put hands on those people.
This is where it would be helpful for people (such as this famous patio blowhard) to learn what cryptocurrency actually is and why it's not a joke. Some day maybe.
You know that just because you’ve imagined something called a superintelligence doesn’t mean there is such a thing, right?
Cars have very high temperature requirements for screens. Cars and their screens must survive very hot and very cold temperatures and last decades. Keep in mind the screen is right there under the sun on a hot day. A fancy beautiful tablet screen would last a very short time under car conditions.
> we shouldn’t be the ones making that call

So you believe that your company shouldn’t be constrained by morality? This is why I look skeptically at hiring any engineering and product leaders from Cloudflare at any company in which I work
It's not complete crap: Cloudflare facilitates the operation of "load testing" (DDoS) services by overwhelmingly providing the front end. Cloudflare claims to not care about content and provides security services to all, but perhaps Cloudflare is incentivized to do this by the fact that they make money on the DDoS they facilitate.

Cloudflare isn't a protection racket, but doesn't have completely clean hands, either.
If all of the people who could be janitors went away, there would just be nearly no people. Being a janitor isn’t really a special skill.
I think this should link to here: https://tinyclouds.org/trademark, not the front page.
"Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison"

https://www.metafilter.com/160710/Dont-make-the-mistake-of-a...
"You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle." -- Bryan Cantrill
>A total of 1,000 individuals in the United States between the ages 16 and 25 completed the survey

Okay, so they're going to group 16 year olds opinions in with people who are over 20.

Nah, not buying it as being a remotely realistic portrayal of Gen Z.