skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're arguing about skin color as if a) no people of color lived in Europe at the time, and b) you're completely avoiding touching on the origin of Tolkien's evil races and nations, and in particular orcs. If hobbits, men, and elves need to be white, then orcs necessarily need to be black and brown people, no?

The problem with line of thought is that Lossarnach which mustered to Minas Tirith during the seige of Gondor were described as swarthy (i.e. dark skinned).

Also, the Easterlings were poignantly humanized by Sam.

"It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace all in a flash of thought which was quickly driven from his mind."

All of this is a far cry from the stark dark people bad racism you've posted about a couple of times now.

Finally, the orcs also had slanted eyes, did Tolkien also hate Asians? Are Orcs supposed to be African or Asian? Pegging orcs as "dark people" simply doesn't fit as orcs don't closely match any ethnic group in particular. Orcs aren't even a single race for that matter. In any case, dark skinned=bad sounds a lot like allegory, which Tolkien finds distasteful. It is my theory that due to the time we all live in, you are (subconsciously most likely) hammering a square racism peg in a round hold.
The standard shouldn't be whether someone is struggling with mental health.

It's whether or not that person would be alive today if it weren't for this targeted violence

As someone pointed out below people have been found liable for (at a minimum)contributing to someone's suicide.

Victims have specifically wrote this in a suicide note. And these sick people follow up on their deceased FB profiles commenting and basically bragging about what they've done.
Related: The Land that Scrum Forgot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk#t=5m37s
Well said.

It is especially important to have balance in the undergraduate B.S. degree. At this point, the foundational knowledge is presented, and a broader perspective of the applications of computer science (e.g. software engineering, database design, compilers, operating systems, applied artificial intelligence, etc.) aids in decisions toward which concepts to focus on next whether it be for enterprises or as a researcher.
Are you (we) an engineer because the other kids didn't play with you, or did they not play with you because you were an engineer??
> All levels of awareness have responsibility. While telcos and ISPs do have enforcement mechanisms when they are made aware

I don't think that's right? Legally we've set things up so that no matter how despicable your site is, your telco or ISP can't decide on their own shut you off. They're regulated as infrastructure, and are required to keep doing business with you. They'll shut you off if they receive a court order, but not on their own judgement.
I mostly agree that is the claim that they are making. I already quoted the relevant part of the earlier blog, so here's the part from today's:

"While we believe that in every other situation we have faced — including the Daily Stormer and 8chan — it would have been appropriate as an infrastructure provider for us to wait for legal process, in this case the imminent and emergency threat to human life which continues to escalate causes us to take this action."

I say "mostly" because there is also the interpretation that they believe there were multiple appropriate actions in the earlier cases. I still feel it's a 180 turn from the earlier blog post, though. They set out a clear principle just last week, and already have found an exception that they neglected to mention.

Edit: This doesn't necessarily mean that their revised approach is wrong, just that it's a turnaround.
But I think you just showed that its really pretty similar.

And my gut reaction to the title of the article is that we really need less fraud and that we're very, very far from optimal right now. Although I'm not very concerned at all about fraud against government programs to help the disenfranchised. I'm more concerned about the endless e-mail, phone scams, door to door scams and all the stuff that prey on the elderly and vulnerable.

Similarly with the immune system it would be interesting to consider wiping out Epstein Barr and maybe eliminate Multiple Sclerosis, along with exterminating the mosquitoes that bite humans and cause disease.

But zero is likely not achievable or a stable optimum, and we're probably not going to cure the common cold or wipe out influenza and we may not want to (at least not without quite a bit of science fiction, global access to medicine and nearly 100% acceptance of vaccination in the population).
Ignoring attacks, what will happen to their hosting bill now that requests aren’t going to a CDN anymore?
Sorry, I can't wrap my head around how this comment relates to mine. Can you clarify?
I'm not sure your definition of optimal makes sense if you don't take into account the cost of reducing it?
> We live in a new world where context and letting arguments stand on merit is irrelevant.

Did legitimate accusations against powerful people "stand on merit" in the past? Look at how long it took folks to get taken seriously about Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby.

It's entirely possible the pendulum swings too far, but it wasn't in the right spot to begin with either.
The Jan 6th riots were peaceful, until they weren’t.

Everybody has a right to feel safe in their own home.
I do wish people would archive these pages to dissuade any doubt of wrongdoing.
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Idempotency > Computer science meaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence#Computer_science_m...

> Idempotence is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application. The concept of idempotence arises in a number of places in abstract algebra (in particular, in the theory of projectors and closure operators) and functional programming (in which it is connected to the property of referential transparency).
I was thinking the exact same thing today. I notice both Reddit and Twitter are basically for bored people to waste time. And the only people that seem to contribute to both platforms are people that a) have black and white viewpoints and b) self marketing. I can easily waste 15 minutes a day on them. I have now learn to spent that time meditating. My life has definitely improved.
Will you also ban violent threats from the left to Andy Ngo? He has been thoroughly documenting it. And published a NYT bestseller “Unmasked”, a written account of how violence from the extreme left is being ignored.

I’d like to see equal treatment, that’s the least worst option.

I want extreme objectivity at the highest level.

Edit: I’m questioning OBJECTIVITY and Andy Ngo is just a fucking example. Find some hypothetical antifa forum, the point is about standards.
I turned 60 this year, and still program for fun. I started at 11 - it's a lifelong habit at this point, like reading before going to sleep. I don't think that I'll stop any time soon.
Maybe I was unclear, but I completely agree both that your example does not prove that computation is a superset of thought. I'm looking for an example that would at least suggest the opposite- something humans can think that a computer couldn't compute.
I was referring to Stormfront there and how you called that situation "the Stormfront debacle", as if the bad thing about the situation was CF stopping working with them.
To the best of my knowledge nobody's life was threatened or endangered.

I'd compare it to a website shutting down someone's account because they send a meme where they might not have the rights, which is illegal, which also isn't usually resulting in a ban.

Now where you draw the line is a philosophical question.
>My guess is that the people who pressured CF to take down kiwifarms knew about this, and knew that they had bowed to public pressure before and removed sites.

It doesn't really change the situation. CF isn't a public utility, there are no sorts of 'due process' that they need to follow on cases like this, especially in extraordinary circumstances. Advertisers pull campaigns all the time due to public perception changing.

My critique isn't on Mr. Prince deciding to keep KF up or not, it's specifically on his trying to walk away from the responsibility of making a choice either way. If he does not like the unwanted attention received from having to make these difficult choices nobody is forcing him to be in that position where he's expected to.

Similarly, if KF's owner doesn't want to get banned from using companies services they can work on their moderation and public perception.
How about immigrants make their countries better?

There's no amount of meritocracy that can override billions of immigrants.

It's why immigrants are coming to America.

And how come Indian teams hire 99% Indians? They don't call that meritocracy with white people....

Also I didn't get lucky. My family has been here for many generations, and helped to build this country, got ancestors died building the railroad My grandfather got a purple heart in world war II.

My ancestors worked hard to contribute to create a country with a stable government and civilized society.

So it is really depressing to see collapsing in on itself. if anyone ever wonders, what Trumps appeal is That's why.
grandparent poster was obviously talking about stormfront
So there isn't then?
i don’t think your point is a valid retort; when you’re paying a landlord you are receiving something of value that you want for yourself, just like when you pay for a cheeseburger.
Twitter has the right to ban anyone for violating their ToS, including the (thankfully, ex) president of the United States. I don’t see any problem with that. You don’t have a _right_ to a space to promote your ideas from a private company, this is not how free speech works.

And no, the right to ban someone does not translate to an obligation.
That and likely how Taylor Lorenz handled the Libs of Tik Tok unmasking.
Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley
I mean we do map out sex. Just look what sells on porn and advertising.

The 'otherworldly experiences' lsd are not outside the bounds of what we have seen before.

A fey creature full of animus and life, may be intense and full of subjective richness for you, we have seen this imagery before in pagan worship.

It's not so difficult to describe a travelogue of the experience. Aldous huxley wrote The Doors Of Perception.
They want cloudflare to drop them so they can be DDoSed?

Reading the related article I thought cloudflare was providing hosting or caching but it seems they are (or were) providing DDoS protection.

Harassing Keffals is wrong. DDoS is wrong. Who’s right here?
Then don't use Cloudflare.
There is no consistent usage: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/323013/is-there-...
Why should I take this argument on good faith when literally this same argument has been repeatedly used in attempts to deplatform comedians, popular politicians, writers, journalists and tons of ordinary people?
But it doesn’t extend to advocating for violence. We can rightly enact limits on inciting violence.
Got it. interesting how they didn't just drop them as customers instead of making a big opinionated deal.
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You can search their profile on kiwifarms dot ru to get all information you want.
With all due respect, that may be true in most cases and a good message to receive for most people in therapy, but it's not true in all cases. As has been shown time and time again, humans are very receptive to propaganda and brain washing, and there's only so much harassment a person can take. A "regular" person might need to hear that the world doesn't have an agenda against you, that you're responsible for your actions, and if there's something about your life that you don't like you can take action to change it. But if there's an actual campaign against you, that advice no longer holds, and eventually that kind of harassment can definitively drive somebody to suicide. The only time I've heard of Kiwi Farms before today was when Near committed suicide. There's plenty written about the tragic event, but you can start with their goodby thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/near_koukai/status/1408940057235312640?s...
> nobody has proven their actions to be illegal

It's an excuse for Cloudflare to argue that its moderation decisions should be only based on legality, and that excuse shouldn't be accepted unquestionably.

I mention this in a few other places, but regardless of whether or not Kiwi Farms in specific should be illegal, there is a lot of other speech that is legal and ought to be legal that Cloudflare still shouldn't be platforming. It is a mistake to have all of all moderation decisions made by the government.

I mean, heck, automated requests and automated scraping are not illegal in the US, in fact they've been ruled legal even when that scraping was happening against the wishes of websites -- and I personally think that was a good decision. Where's the line between automated scraping and abuse? We're not sure, but Cloudflare doesn't wait for a court order before it stops what it deems to be malicious traffic, and it's not running around complaining that the government hasn't given it a precise definition of a DDoS attack.

Many things that can reasonably be characterized as direct attacks on people and public infrastructure are legal, and it's not clear to me at all that the correct response to that is to criminalize all of them. I personally think that Kiwi Farms crossed even a legal line (or at least what should be a legal line), but if people want to argue with me about that, fine. My position is not that Cloudflare should have dropped Kiwi Farms because it was illegal, they should have dropped it because it was suppressing their customers' speech with real-world threats and violence. The legality is kind of a separate discussion.
Why should an individual doing nothing wrong HAVE to change their own behavior simply to stop being harassed? That’s not a solution, that’s going into hiding.

Also, considering people doxxed her address and kept showing up / swatting her, I doubt that would even be a short term solution at all, other than emboldening the harassers.
Which specific sites that Cloudfare hosts or provides services to would you like to see cut off, y’know for equal treatment.
> Microsoft is in the same boat. Virtually no users of their products are actually their customers.

Apple has less than 10% of the PC market. What do you think the rest of them are running?
So much tldr;

I can't say what the biggest successes were of Foxpro, but for better or mostly worse, I was exposed to a use of Foxpro which brought a few hundred millions of revenue (and 20%ish percent of profits) based on it.

There was a multi-level-marketing company based out of the Dallas-Fort-Worth area of Texas in the mid 1990s which sold 1/10th ounce gold coins in a pyramid-ish scheme that rose to significant fame in the "home business (MLM)" market.

The compensation scheme was legit in that it operated as advertised. And indeed it made some marketing types very wealthy.

The entire backend, as it was in those days, was based on Foxpro running on a Windows PC.

I recall with amusement that the leader of that company invited me to review his binary tree calculion system to try to improve it. Foxpro wasn't actually the problem. The problem was a grossly inefficient linear system which couldn't manage binary structures with hundreds of braches and thousands of leaves.

To be fair, this system was built buy a guy who was a used car salesman with no formal training. What he accomplished was astonishing, but it was also an abomination.
Telcos and ISPs are forbidden from taking you offline for speech. The process is about whether you have done something illegal that goes beyond speech (for example, accessing pirated material or child pornography).
Waterfall is not practiced, its an ill-defined strawman meant to be the "other wrong way of doing things". At best its a self-deprecating measure meaning the more agile you are, the less you know where you are going, and the more waterfall your project management appears the more you know what you are doing. Is that supposed to sell me on agile? I want the strawman.
They stated they would commit suicide, a major news outlet and people close to the victim stated they committed suicide, and they haven't been heard from since then.
eastdakota is CloudFlare's CEO. That is his real Hacker News account. It even says this on his profile.
You are completely right, it has nothing specifically to do with serverless.
Your analogy is not good.

The equivalent of hooking up jumper cables would be adding a clump of neurons.

A chemical that washes over the entire system is more akin to giving the computer a clean/wash (not with water) when the computer has grime and dirt blocking various connections (/ neural pathways).
it's more likely the piston in her chair.
Try replacing your video cable, or putting a "ferrite bead" on it.
/usr/local is supposed to be kind of a "standard Unix tree" (with like bin & share directories and the like) that contains software manually installed by the system administrator, for the use of all users, possibly from multiple sources / by multiple techniques.

If one source of software or user takes over the whole thing, they are muscling out all the other valid use cases for that tree.

/opt is supposed to be a place where programs that don't want to co-operate are granted ownership of one directory to install stuff in, which they can organize as they wish. It's often used as a way to install badly-packaged proprietary software or to give "foreign" package managers a place to put their packages.

Brew wanting to take over /usr/local is kind of like a package manager wanting to take over the whole /opt. It's overstepping its bounds.
Are you sure "doxxing" is illegal in all US jurisdictions, as well as the jurisdiction it is hosted in? If it's for the purpose of harassments it may be illegal. Remember California DOJ released (doxxed) online the name and address of all California CCW holders, including judges and other sensitive holders (DV victims, etc). At least California seems to think it's peachy.
You don’t have to be “far to the left” to oppose MTG; you just have to be a decent human.
After hearing about the drama and reading kf's pov, I can definitely understand why the people ddosing kf want it down. The stuff they do is illegal and absolutely vile but overlooked by the people in power because it suits their politics. It scares me as a prospective parent.
What specifically makes their victims 'weirdos' and why do you feel the need to comment that you get off to 'watching people do fucked up shit for internet clout'

That's exactly what you are doing right now.

They target trans women like Lizzy Waite and Clara Sorrenti.

And gay children...

What is so weird about kids who need support from the Trevor Project hotline?

Being queer is not a mental illness.
I think we're in agreement - the analogy to disease was flawed because eradicating some (perhaps many, all?) kind of disease would have widespread, uniformly positive effects.

The person I replied to seemed to think that exposure to disease helps in youth? Certainly seems like a widespread idea, but I don't know how true it is.
Yes! My mother and I would play this quite a bit together! Though it would always crash on us during certain quiz segments. But it certainly was the first time I learned of the term 'Union Jack.'

I'll give your sequel a try! Thanks for the nostalgic reminder!
I share this question, fellow DMV residents.
I can't even view the US Constitution [1] when my IP is on DigitalOcean (most of the time). Kiwifarms was perfectly accessible from the same connection last night. It's ironic talking about 'due process' when I can't even browse the highest law in the land due to this company.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
The Ethereum Merge: what it means for businesses
Reading this article, I can’t help but be despondent about academia. At some point, every scientist has some wild/mad streak. What happens when every slight deviation is punished? Does this kill innovation?

> That trainee called the report’s depiction of the lab an “alternate reality,” and the characterization of Sabatini as lascivious and retaliatory “deeply insane.”

> “They have the wrong guy,” a female scientist who knows Sabatini and Knouse told me. A female former trainee told me that the climate in Sabatini’s lab was “one of excellence.” She said that Sabatini could be demanding, but he was never demeaning or unfair. “I try to emulate him in my own lab,” another female former trainee said. A third female trainee said the lab could be informal, but it was hardly a locker room. “It just wasn’t in the air.“

And then young academics themselves throw out baseless claims found somewhere on the internet (?) that don’t correlate to reality at all:

> They hadn’t read the lawyers’ report, but they had read the internet, and they didn’t like what they’d read. NYU was about to hire a “serial sexual harasser,” as one of the demonstrators put it, trading grant dollars for their trainees’ “safety.” So where should a superstar researcher do his research? Where does the guy who’s going to help cure cancer go? “Uhhh, Prison?” Madeleine Sutherland, a postdoc, told me.
Cool. When you guys feel that some projects can benefit from it, please post some instructions. Ideally just a few shell incantations to replace Erlang's compiler and runtime so one can easily run Erlang or Elixir apps right away.

Appreciate your work a lot and would contribute but too much on my plate for that. Hence -- double appreciation.
I suspect that there may be a bit more to it, than that. You may want to find different friends to enhance your sample group.

I did write something about test harnesses vs. unit tests, a couple of years ago: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/testing-harness-vs-u...

TL;DR, test like crazy, but test smart.

My testing code (often, not unit tests), is generally much bigger than the code under test, but I'm just an old fogey, and everyone knows that old dudes can't code. I’m pretty sure that my code is so bad, it needs all that testing.

I've learned that lots of folks have some "litmus test," that they like to apply to others, where, if not passed, they are "bad programmers." In my case, I've learned that I'm a really "bad programmer," because I fail everyone's litmus test. In fact, I make a point of it.

Hey, it's a big world, and there's lots of freedom to believe as we please.
Yea they’re scattered around. Just hypothetically, I want promise that at the very least we are not in a ideological hell hole.

The details of this is irrelevant IMO, let me repeat the argument I’m posing: Is there an objective standard that can be applied across the political spectrum?

We should be concerned that there is a political hijacking. That sits extremely unwell with me. We need to condemn all violence otherwise any actions by Cloudflare are just politics and frankly, terrifying.
I sort of have the same thought. Cloudflare isn't really public facing so they don't have the same pressure to ban people, and any time you start banning sites you risk scaring off business. I don't have a large website, but I do have my own project/personal sites and with those I specifically use hosts that have a reputation for high uptimes even in the face of censorship (like Epik domains or terrahost)

It seems especially weird too considering how they just made a blog post promising not to do this (https://archive.ph/gJXgF), and then not only did it but used broad, over the top language which sounds, if I'm honest, a bit disingenuous. Like if someone's life is in imminent danger, you shouldn't be playing games on the internet you should be calling the cops