skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy protections should apply regardless of whether it's a megacorporation or a disorganized group of independent actors.

Most of the individuals targeted by Kiwifarms are not running for office, or own prominent businesses. They are for the most part unemployed nobodies who live at home. I don't see any public interest in naming these people.
> Don't estimate
I agree.
But in my experience, the real problem is out of the developers' hands:

1. On a project, my team worked hard not to miss any deadlines. it worked, but the project was delayed for other reasons, and the PO told his superiors that the project was delayed because of the development team anyway.

2. On another project, my team didn't need to estimate or have a deadline. BUT at every meeting the boss said the project was behind schedule. WE WERE LATE EVEN WITHOUT A DEADLINE. Total nonsense.

If your boss is crazy, your job has a lot of politics, etc, nothing will work, and this kind of environment loves to embrace Agile methods.
Nearing 50 years for me. Still program every day. Still get excited about it.

I plan to continue until my brain no longer works. Have no interest in retiring.
Most of the posters on the site might do nothing illegal, but one or two did make actual threats that crossed the line into criminal conduct. Even if the posts were immediately deleted by moderators, people still took screenshots.
Near was dealing with way more than KF. He wanted his thread deleted because it documented him absconding with thousands of dollars of donor money and dozens of rare games he was supposed to return or donate after archiving. He further engaged in rather aggressive behavior with other developers in the emulation community. His thread had actually been dead for nearly a year when he suddenly emailed Josh asking for it to be deleted (which he offered six figures). He threatened suicide when Josh gave the email to his lawyer and asked whether or not said approach by Byuu/Near was legal. Funnily enough the email and the resulting spike in activity on his thread was actually precipitated by a few posts on here about him.

Again, my stance is as follows: KF is filled with despicable behavior and people. However we absolutely must be accurate and precise when it comes to what happens there and why certain people would rather the site not exist.
Ah sorry, I replied before I realized that you weren’t interested in actually discussing the topic.
As little middle management as possible.

Flat hierarchy is an other kind of bullshit, clearly established leadership is important.

When you absolutely need middle management, force them to also do some real work, if they can’t, don’t hire them.

Most of the bureaucracy problems are magically going away when middle management is gone.
Yes, in a way we agree.
>what really matters: treating their vehicle as a modern electronic device.

I'd take clunky old software over "all sorts of fit and finish bugs, and ... above average in mechanical problems" any day.
The admin already admitted that he would make a torrent of the site while considering his giving up scenario - public pressure on providers to drop their service does make continued access and community harder and less organized
But by outright saying the interview process is broken one sorta kinda fails the soft skill test, no?
Sure, but that's also kind of the point - they aren't special in any meaningful way.

If you look at their reports - they are going to have to massively cut costs somehow.
Probably because each level of support is using an outdated isolated system, that have minimum interoperability beyond call routing.
Yeah pretty much. General purpose compression algorithms do a good job but pale in comparison to what Roaring achieves.

I wouldn't use the word exotic but rather specialized and/or optimized.

Infact later versions of Roaring use run-length-encoding (RLE) containers in addition to array and bitmap containers which is a technique shared with more traditional/general compression algorithms.

In effect rather than achieving "very good" compression, Roaring is very close to "optimal" compression for sparse bitmaps.
But computer programmers are over paid and janitors under paid.

It is because if all the computer programmers went away the world would limp on. If all the janitors went away we would be swimming in shit.
> The government has been pressuring companies to deplatform sex workers for ages, but SESTA/FOSTA were still a worse outcome. I don't want the government trying to do run-arounds to the First Amendment in the first place, but if you're drawing a comparison then the world where they were privately pressuring companies was less censorious than the world where they started openly threatening website operators with felonies.

Passing SESTA/FOSTA didn't require any "help" from free speech advocates. The government has had a longstanding policy to go overboard against prostitution and prostitution-adjacent material long before Section 230 or SESTA/FOSTA existed. Legislating run arounds against the First Amendment (e.g. Cosmtock Laws) and pressuring private industry (e.g. Hays Code), have been goto strategies since the country's founding, if not before. The solution has always been to fight it out in the courts (as in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition) or find ways around the letter of the law (Backpage pre-2018).

Pushing the issue to government at least provides consistency, rather than leaving the issue to fairweather service providers and perfidious content policies.
I love this, especially the mindfulness. I have been struggling to get in a rhythm and feel confident (long ago I was a good chess player and only returned to it and other games like competitive MTG recently). Needless to say, I have bombed… a lot. But indeed I am still alive haha. I have always been interested in being “mindful” but it can feel so abstract at times. Things intrude. But this is sage advice, thank you.
Failure rate is higher in cloud severless than on transitional machines or in VMs... Especially since many people do not do the extra steps necessary to skip going too the edge of the cloud provider and back in.. do they often go through additional services that can break that make never would when the requests are on the same box.

We see something like .0001% failure rate with API gateway behind custom DNS, and supports response was "this is in SLA, try adding retry code" (which needs idempotency).

So we have to do extra engineering, including idempotency and bypassing API gateway in some cases, to mitigate the issue.
The rest is context for readers on who's being defended by the ceo and rest
Tell me then - why does Cloudflare still offer its services to drug dealers? To sites run by terrorist groups like ISIS? To outright criminal scamming operations?

I have no faith in your principles. From my perspective, the only principle you have is your share price. That's fine, of course. I don't expect you to stick your neck out or risk your business. But don't pretend like this is some principled stand.
That is good news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIUQq7t6brM
> If your argument is that moving speech to the government level is good specifically because the government won't censor it, then don't pretend that we're arguing about where moderation should occur.

You said the following: "do people really believe that having every speech question litigated in court is good for freedom of expression online"

That was your statement. And I responded to your topic and statement that you brought up.

Yes, it is descriptively true that if courts are the ones to handle free speech issues, then yes that would result in more protections for free speech.

If you disagree with that, and think that there should be less free speech protections online, feel free to argue that.

But the original statement that you made, was about would speech be more or less protected, than if rando private companies on the internet, were the one's in charge of what speech people are or are not allowed to make on the internet.

> they actually wanted a court to tell them

You are confusing a few issues. There is an outcome, and a process.

A process can still be important to go through, regardless of the outcome.

The whole point of the court system is to have checks and balances.

That is what people want, when they advocate for the court system to look at an issue. It is about the process. It is about saying "if something is arguably so dangerous, that you think it should go down, then it is important to have checks and balances, and that is why we put the court in charge of it".

Because if we don't have a process, or the process is bad, then this can effect other speech situations in the future.

For all we know, cloudflare is now going to have significantly increased pressure to take down human rights website because of this, and if this current takedown had instead gone through the government, then that pressure wouldn't have happened.

This is why process can be important, regardless of the immediate outcome of the in the news issue of the day.
Does he mention this somewhere? Last time I spoke to him, he was working on Stripe Press, his interest in fraud and spam prevention long predates his work at Stripe.
There is a project in Canada in which they are legitimately trying to learn about carbon sequestration. They have an army of phds working on this and spend a lot of money on monitoring. I’d thought that this was associated with this particular coal fired plant. Anyway, here is a thread.

https://ptrc.ca/projects/co2-eor-and-storage/aquistore
In about 1996 I was doing the same thing with radio shack walkie talkies.

Some neighbor was on their phone all night, every night.
For readers not familiar with salaries in Australia, [1] indicates that a labour hire employee in Canberra on a take-home rate of ~AUD$120/hr places that person in the top ~3.6% of income earners in Australia and easily within the top 1% of the world. Per the OECD Regional Well Being Index[2], Canberra shares a 10/10 score for income with a small number of other US regions and is the only non-US OECD region with a 10/10 income score. When considering other quality of life factors, Canberra easily leads the OECD regional index at a sum of 106.74 vs. 82.81 for California, which also scored 10/10 for income. New Hampshire, Minnesota and Vermont share second place at a sum of 96 with income scores of 9.9-10 and fifth place was Victoria (Melbourne) in Australia at a sum of 95 with an income score of 5.8.

[1] https://www.ato.gov.au/About-ATO/Research-and-statistics/In-...

[2] https://www.oecdregionalwellbeing.org/assets/downloads/OECD-...
The CDN with what it does it good to learn. However, you have your home router and you just want 22/80/443 port forwarded at a minimum, 80 is just for certbot.

That is the basis of the security. I should also say I like configuring Grafana and other system monitoring tools.

This all sits behind the home router so no hosting fees. Sure the IP address can get reissued and changed but I am okay running that risk.

Thunderbolt 4 cables are not USB C cables, they cost more but they are cheap compared to other networking solutions for point to point.
4k120 x2 in $LATEST_AAA_GAME or in notepad?
This is simply not accurate. There are countless threads on politicians, media personalities, business people and others.

Just because the site started with Chris Chan (an individual with his own issues) doesn’t mean that similar individuals are the site’s only purview.
Strangely or not so strangely the embedded content doesn’t play on safari on iPhone
That's easy. Are they calling for illegal actions against people?

That's a pretty easy litmus test.

As a colloary, it's akin to comparing "I don't like the president" vs "Let's go kill the president" (this is a comparison of allowed vs unallowed speech in the USA, not a call to).

Advocating voting against is 100% legal. Advocation of killing is 100% ILLEGAL.

Kiwifarms was doing the latter, up to and including actions threatening violence, "assisted" suicide, and murder.

Those were never 1fa protected actions.
So what? The same applies. Sub Saharan Africa had frequent contact with North Africa and the Middle East. The Romans sent expeditions, and Arab traders travelled across much of the continent. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romans_in_Sub-Saharan_Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu#History

The Egyptians sponsored a Phoenician expedition that circumnavigated Africa. Finds at the ruins at Great Zimbabwe include items from as far away as China.

Check out this mural of the Roman emperor Severus and his wife from the 2nd century, and tell me again how there were no black people in Europe as long ago as Medieval times.

https://www.history.co.uk/article/severus-rome’s-first-afric...

And again, we know for a fact from Tolkien that the Numenorians ranged from the north all the way to the far southern continent, and the oceans of the Far East.
I was confused until I clicked on the provided link in the article to see they’re talking about bit maps. For me that space has always been critical.
> child predators

What's happened here is that they (and you'll see this has happened across a lot of the extreme right in America) have started to label trans people as "pedo" or "groomers", in an effort to make it seem like trans people are really child predators, which makes many people more tolerant of their attacks and more sympathetic of anti-trans policies such as bathroom bills.
My guess is the path planner hits an impossible scenario (“we don’t have enough brake authority to stop in time”) and that triggers the disengagement. Doubtful there’s a DISENGAGE_SECONDS_BEFORE_CRASH constant somewhere.
It has to be done in conjunction with protests by a politically protected group
I'm not sure where you're getting these ideas from, but not taking every threat seriously is a serious failing of internet forums over the long term.

(the next paragraph is an example and not real, do not take any intent from it, which in itself may be ironic considering the argument I'm making).

If I call out "We should kill assetlabel because I do not like their politics", in itself it is not a serious threat, as I don't know you and cannot act on it. But it would be a mistake to tolerate the statement, even in a 'joking' manner (you can see in my previous post the 'joking' manner is commonly used by fascists to downplay serious threats). Again, the issue with allowing this behavior is it normalizes it. Now we step it up, what if 4 people repeat this same threat, 10, 20, 100? With each person repeating the line the chances of someone knowing you and acting on this behavior increases greatly. Any such threat must be moderated, and sites must have a history moderating such behaviors and not tolerating them.

In the early days of the internet being anonymous was somewhat easy, and in the later days of the internet it is nearly impossible, and more worryingly you must continue to remain anonymous in the future after such threats are made against you as you have no idea how long someone may harbor aggression over the situation. Based the early days of the internet we've normalized violence and threats and carried it on much too long as it has consequences in the real world.
Stay with the facts, don't blow things out of proportion, and don't call people names. Some behaviors are not well received regardless of whether you are right or not.
The on-disk format is documented in the spec: https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/RoaringFormatSpec

It's very simple actually. I worked on adding run container support which involved adding support for the newer serialization format in roaring-rs and it proved quite elegant.
Fraud isn't fraud unless someone's resources are stolen, conspiracy isnt conspiracy unless some unlawful act is imminent or has occurred. In both cases, its not the words that are illegal, it is tangible, observable real world actions that are.
History by Numbers
Ask HN: How can both Verizon and Comcast be down?
Both Verizon and Comcast are currently reporting outages in parts of Silicon Valley at the same time.

WTF
Our retina only needs ~8 megapixels - the same number of pixels as 4K/UHD (3840x2160 is 8,294,400 pixels).

High pixel density is only required at the middle of where our gaze is - the surrounding can be highly compressed because our eyes are not very sensitive. No pixels are required where our blind spot is, and our colour and light level sensitivities varies from fovea outwards, so there are other compression possibilities too.

If the display can "move" with your eyes (high pixel density only for fovea e.g. contact lens) then the display also only needs a limited number of pixels.

https://www.picturecorrect.com/what-is-the-resolution-of-the...
For reference sake, here’s the post:

> Just rang up a couple of lads down in Belfast and
asked them to plant bombs in all of those places.
also, 3 armed men will be at each place, waiting.

Seems to have been moderated/scrubbed from the keffals thread but I do see replies referencing it.

The post was screenshotted and posted to Twitter almost instantly and it seems that the post itself was quickly moderated and the user banned.

Seems like a straw that broke the camel’s back situation, but it’s very odd how CloudFlare is talking about “moderation” when it seems as though KiwiFarms quickly took care of moderating it themselves.

And fwiw, I had no idea what KiwiFarms was before this week.
Let me clarify; I don't know who Keffals is, but I also don't care who she is either. Even if you proved that she was literally reincarnated Hitler, it would change nothing about my opinion on KiwiFarms. Destroying her credibility would serve no purpose to me, because my concerns in regards to the forum are unrelated to her.

I've been lightly following KiwiFarms for years now, have seen the level of bizarrely "proud ambivalence" exuded by Null for the actions of the forum members, and have thought that the site was a skidmark on society for most of that time.
I was referring the the stuff the people who want kf down were doying, ie selling homemade hormones to underaged children.
You and others keep citing "deleted within hours" as evidence of the site admins doing something to address the problem, when the horse has already left the barn. People who participate in those activities almost certainly have email or mobile alerts set up and have long since copied the victim's information.

I'd say it's evidence of conspiring to delete evidence before victims and law enforcement can act, particularly if the threads are completely deleted, as opposed to being locked and moved to a mod-only area so the posts are preserved for law enforcement action.

Are there any automated filters that detect personal information, filters that are trivial to employ?

Are the users who post doxxing/violence threads banned?

What is the purpose of the forum in the first place? Answer: to harass and doxx trans people.

I wonder how [redacted] would feel if people knew he was defending a site that exists solely to harass trans people.
Not op but I’ve worked in Agile™ shops, places that are agile, and waterfall-y enterprise stuff. The biggest difference I’ve noticed between Agile and agile shops is that ceremonies or lack thereof make no difference. Pointing doesn’t matter, extensive grooming doesn’t matter, extensive planning doesn’t matter, sprints don’t matter, etc. Grooming your work does matter but 30 minutes is enough for a high performing team to hash out a week’s worth of work. Planning does matter but it should be kept to high level product goals and nothing more. Sprints should only be used if you have something you’re actually sprinting towards. Most of the time that’s not the case. Points straight up don’t matter.

All of this being said this puts a lot of pressure on product managers because it’s hard for them to express how long something will take. The key here is that even if you do all the ceremonies you don’t really know how long it’ll take anyway.

The only way you can work like this is if you have built up trust from your PM. If you can throw all of the shit away and give the PM what they want they’ll go to bat for you. For agile to work there has to be an incredible amount of trust that every team member is going to do what they say. And the lack of trust is when you get Agile™
Not tolerating asocial behavior is not vigilantism. Me not accepting your calls for violence is not a violent act in itself. To think otherwise is near suicidal.
But the portion of the visual field that actually has good resolution is very tiny, so if you can get good eye tracking built in, you can cheat.
> Facebook hosts its own content/infrastructure. Cloudflare's DDoS protection service and Facebook as a whole are not related.

Pretend for the sake of argument that Facebook did use Cloudflare, or that my example were about some other platform that does.

> A more accurate claim would be, if someone makes a Facebook post containing an illegal threat of violence, they (Facebook) _do_ ban the account of who made a post containing illegal threats of violence.

Exactly my point. When someone does something banworthy on Facebook, we let Facebook ban just that one person, rather than banning all of Facebook.
If I search from my phone (with the query “codinghorror site:twitter.com”) I get no results, but if I search from a tablet I see results as one would expect. Weird…
Ageism is a thing.
The reasons VCs pass on startups – some are rarely discussed
Put less software in cars, build a nice car that's fully electric. It's simple.

I'd much prefer a nice, solidly built low tech car, rather than an iPhone with wheels.
Fed research papers warn about future risks from crypto CeFi and DeFi
Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM
Back in 2016, Musk was talking about landing a Crew Dragon capsule on Mars, albeit with no crew on it.

His original 2018 timeline was likely over ambitious, but SpaceX probably could have achieved it by now – if they'd stuck with their plan to do it. By all accounts, it was abandoned, not because of any technical or financial obstacles, but simply because they decided to redirect their resources towards a far more ambitious alternative (Starship).

I think landing an uncrewed Starship on Mars has a fair likelihood of actually happening, before this decade is over.
I won’t wade into the intricacies of defining Waterfall or whether it has merit, but it definitely should be mentioned that Kanban—a capital A Agile technique which most capital A Agile advocates find unstructured and unpredictable (as in tends towards lowercase a agile)—was popularized by an auto manufacturer, where safety and liability are at least as much a concern as construction.
The great thing about transphobes such as yourself is your are UNABLE to correctly gender the trans person you are currently in a huff over. You just can't do it! Because dangit they can't be HER catboys! Shes a man! It makes your motives very easy to identify. Thank you.
This is not a slippery slope leading to suppression of all dissent, 1984-style, if that's what you're asking. If another site starts up to dox and harass trans people, I could see a similar campaign against them.
> Higher leadership positions rarely rely on interviews and those that have them tend to use them as a formality.

How high are you talking about? My employer definitely has real interviews for 7-figure total comp positions.
can run with gui: https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion/blob/main/opt...
I believe we're arguing past each other. What I'm saying is there is no business model (one is even needed for free projects like the linux kernel) that motivates people to spend this effort. The people with the technical know how and desire to obtain the materials on it already use it. Beyond that group there is little motivation to expand such network, civil society tends to operate in the open.