skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is Cloudflare heading to? Do they want to „own“ the entire internet traffic?
Not necessarily. If it's a femtosecond pulse laser, the instantaneous power is extremely high and creates a sufficiently intense field, but the time-average power is low enough that it wouldn't create much heat away from the focus.

Source: worked in a femtosecond laser lab
They're bent about kiwi-farms.
My wife is part of a focus group for public radio and she’s an avowed anarcho capitalist. She says things like “I suspect in 50 years the US will either not exist or be a much looser organization where the states rule” and the focus group woman says “that’s not going to happen!”, dismisses her out of hand, and refuses to write it down then moves on to the next person.

I think at a certain point the Midwest will have had enough of the stuff going on on the East and West coasts and it’s probably going to be a really bad time. Probably ultimately worse for the conservative parts but not after a very unstable and possibly violent period. I hope I’m wrong though.
yes. Note I didn't say it was a good thing. Just that it makes more sense that it exists.
The article does not suggest to use IPFS, the article says that the better alternative is to give users the freedom to choose whatever they want to do with their data. And to give some perspectives the article then says that when the user is in control, the user can then choose any options, from something centralized such as Dropbox, to something decentralized such as IPFS, or even "vanilla" P2P communication.
The point is the freedom to choose, not the choice.
Yeah, I mean most (all?) new projectors sold the last 5-ish years have been laser. There’s of course a lot of xenon projectors around. Probably most.
I'll admit it has been a long time -- androidx was only just showing up when I stopped developing for the platform.

> AppCompat, AndroidX, and their other library projects have basically made SDK concerns something you rarely have to think about at this point.

I kinda wish this meant they would spread out the releases a bit more, say 2-3 years apart. At least then they'd have even more motivation to ensure that the support libs et al offered compelling features that don't require manufacturers to stop being lazy.
In what contexts do you prefer it?

As others have said it breaks findability, default browser nav (back then forward again you have to start over or watch it gracelessly attempt to autoscroll back down 600 posts and often fail), renders the scrollbar visually near-meaningless, detrimental to performance, and seems to largely be utilized just to maximize scroll time on visibility driven ad platforms, like all popular social media.

What do you like so much about it? Just the miniscule added convenience (that happens to be weaponized against you anyway as stated above)?
Survey data source: "To obtain a power of >.90 to detect effects of r = .20, 300 U.S. citizens whose native language is English were requested on Amazon Mechanical Turk."

They need a better sampling method.
Pretty sure the Bible also isn’t taught in public schools.

This is why I strongly support school choice. Let the parents decide how to raise their children.

Also that said, those sections of the Bible typically aren’t highlighted, aren’t graphic, don’t appear in all bibles and kids will get abridged versions.
So it's not the case that it'd be too much work or technically infeasible for such a permission to be available to us. It's just that Apple doesn't actually care about us or our privacy.
Much easier to get a global view of Internet behaviour when there are only one or two DCs worth of ClickHouse clusters needing tapped

Related question: given this obviously generates logs, what are CloudFlare doing to protect log data in transit within its own network from similar attacks to the Google-NSA episode? ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i... )
I still use Sandstorm! Some of the apps are a bit outdated but the security model means that mostly doesn’t matter.

The WordPress Sandstorm app is slow enough at rebuilding the static side of our large site that I’ve been meaning to try forking it or building my own though. But Sandstorm itself has been great.
the military industrial complex is pushing ufo propaganda because they hope they can use the fear to increase the military budget
Imagine inserting a smaller file-less malware into WordPress PHP?
Considering that the security services are made up of people trained to work illegally and in secret - this seems not only plausible, but probable.

Based on what we've seen from room 641a, through Binney and later, Snowden - along with various national "scandals" - it seems security services will commit crimes and conspiracies, undetected for years - and when revealed suffer no meaningful concequences.
They have terminated service for 8chan, The Daily Stormer, and KiwiFarms. I'll leave it up to you to determine how fair of a description "censored" is.
What Everyone in Tech Should Know About Teaching and Learning
Google has recently screwed this up too with Material You where every single icon looks basically the same. App icons should be distinct. They are there for you to recognize the app! Monochrome and uniform shape does not help with this.
It makes total sense. The more diversity of ideas the more filtering noise and evaluating paradigms capacity you need. A simple ideology creates a prefabricated filter so people that can't or don't want to put the work can outsource filtering discernment to ideologies and save brain horse power.

They also willingly brainwash themselves when they allow ideology dictate their behavior, of course.

PS: Just paying behavior in exchange for convenience. World-view reason, consistency, logic and principles are totally irrelevant for ideology.
https://github.com/jwilk/url.sh/issues/2
Are you sure? That page says it's ages 50 and over, which seems like a senior discount. Reading here [1] I see So can you join AARP if you’re Under 50? Yes [...] However, you won’t necessarily get all the benefits available for those over 50. For example, some discounts offered by retailers have age restrictions and require you to be above 50 to take advantage."

[1] https://www.retailmenot.com/blog/why-joining-the-aarp-under-...
Why would companies purchase a license for something that nobody in their team asked for?

and why would people ask for something that haven’t used?

and why would people use something that is AGPL and they can’t use it anyway?

we would see a lot of AGPL projects out there if it worked the way you described
The “fighting words doctrine” was established in the US in 1942.[0].

> [The Supreme Court] held that "insulting or 'fighting words', those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are among the "well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech the prevention and punishment of [which] … have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem."

At least some things classified as hate speech, like racial slurs, seem to me to fall clearly under the category of fighting words. Is the fighting words doctrine fully unsound? Unsound only when applied to social media? Is hate speech just another name for it, or is it an expansion of it?

EDIT: My original link does not include the narrowing of the doctrine. [1] is a better source:

> the Supreme Court redefined the scope of the fighting words doctrine to mean words that are "a direct personal insult or an invitation to exchange fisticuffs."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fighting_words
It was a great movie except for the bits making Republicans and Nixon out to be bad. They're no worse than any Democrat. Other than than, great movie.
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Three problems with that:

1. Every time you restrict what people are allowed to say or write, you are in effect restricting what people are allowed to hear or read. I read and listen to many things I disagree with. Sometimes I even find the content abhorrent. But I don’t want the government saying what I can and can’t read.

2. Who decides? Any government body with such powers is ripe for abuse. And do you expect such officials to be unbiased in their application of the law? My bet is that each administration would use it as a cudgel against their political opponents.

3. What about religious texts like the Bible, Qur’an, and Torah? All of them contain commandments to do violence to women, children, and animals. All of them command the reader to kill homosexuals. Hell, all of them are pro-slavery. By any sane reading of your proposed law, they’d be banned. And if you carve out an exception for them, you realize that such restrictions are impossible to apply objectively.

The original proponents of free speech weren’t dogmatic, they were pragmatic. They simply thought the world would be better off if government agents couldn’t arbitrarily restrict what people were allowed to read.
I am always right somehow :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32714831
Uber showed this in 2018, I don't know how widely used it is now. I doubt any phone app uses it offline at least.

https://www.uber.com/en-SE/blog/rethinking-gps/
When to use it: Never

When to avoid it: Always
> crypto is worth money

Everything traded is worth money. Just because something can be exchanged for money doesn’t make it as desirable as drugs.
“The richest 10% of people are responsible for 52% of cumulative global emissions — and the 1% for a full 15%.”

"Of course, many Americans are wealthy in global terms. Oxfam has defined the world’s 1% as the 60 million people earning over $109,000 a year. They defined the 10% as the 770 million people earning over $38,000."

The vast majority of those reading and posting on HN are in the highest global wealth bracket(s). Myself included. This article isn't about billionaires and sports icons. It is about what Americans (and many Westerns Europeans) consider middle class.
Free speech is, in most countries in the UN, a human right, not a restriction on government action.

So, yes, I believe that private companies (which effectively make up the whole of the internet) are morally responsible for helping to provide platforms for legal speech.

Especially if they want to claim free speech protections for themselves.
"The internet" has "other people's infrastructure" built in to its very fabric. You cannot have the internet without other people's infrastructure, whether in 1995 or 2022.
Hint: bot detection is one of Cloudflare's products
Maybe I wasn't clear. I meant the people who were directly or indirectly responsible for the troops being there. Not the people who died.
I'm curious how you came to the conclusion that "all the aliens disappeared" for that period of time. Is there a database of sightings that shows a dip then?
Sounds like what you want is some regulation for content hosts, isn't it?
Those laws were made to protect specific groups and their basic human rights to operate in a society. You have you no right to force me to host your opinion however. Especially when that are dozens (hundreds?) of hosts that will pretty much allow anything if they will allow Gab, Stormfront, 4chan, etc.
Ahhh sorry I didn't realise, I thought it was just a typo :)
When I worked in systems engineering, some of the folks a decade or two older had supported tape-based computing systems. Tape damage happened all the time. They would splice it back together, manually repair corrupt bits and bytes with something like a hex editor, etc. I don't know all of the details, but IIRC sometimes they'd use magnetic viewing film, which you can still buy.

It might not be documented well online, but if that really is the last copy in existence, it would be worth tracking down some mainframe-era sysadmins to ask for tape recovery advice, IMO.
> The issue is that when we abandon the general principle it immediately becomes a question of what speech is ok to ban and this can be weaponized by rivals.

The question of what speech is ok to ban is THE question. I think we all agree there's a line somewhere. I think it's more than one line, it's a bunch of line.

Private expression, public expression, public expression for monetary gain (ads), public expression without age-wall, ...

> People always imagine themselves or people they agree with in the position of determining what gets banned, but they should imagine their political rival or enemy in that position.

No need to imagine, it's what I currently see happening.
> “Driving” signifies something very different for the American worker at a big-box store who is forced to commute in her car to the mall versus the private equity manager speeding a gleaming Lamborghini around the cliffs of the Italian Riviera

Good grief. Feel free to write out your resentment as much as you like. But there’s no need to pretend this is about helping or changing anything.
Perhaps centralization is the fate of an internet where it costs $5 to boot a website off of it.
Ukraine envoy: Russia has forcibly taken 2.5M Ukrainians, thousands of children
What purpose does it serve?
I didn't say for free, I don't think anything is or should be free.

We have "the phone company" equivalent on the internet (registrars and hosts) denying access to ideologies they don't approve of. If you don't think that's denying speech, then let's just agree to disagree.
I believe such actions are to let robots think they have succeeded. If you want to send an exe you can 7zip it up and put a password on it. Sure it's a little inconvenient but it's an option.
I have a fun story about using Warp while on vacation (Bahamas). I was finding that my net traffic felt like it was slower/more variable than I'd expect with uneven speedups and slowdowns.

On a whim I installed and turned on Warp and suddenly my internet speed was both palpably faster and more consistent in its speed. I think it possible that one of the side effects of encrypting your traffic may be that it evades ISP traffic shaping.
> The company that wants to force CSAM

Every big company forces it, Apple tried to make it better but it was PR failure.
Nobody bothered to understand their papers properly.

> doesn't encrypt iCloud backups

CSAM scanning on device feature would have allowed that, now they need to keep scanning in cloud.

> I can't even install and app without an apple account.

How easily average users can install app safely without Google account on Android? Underlining the word safely.

You are talking from the perspective of 0.01% users.
IMHO, it comes down to the economic structure of peering in the US (as I understand it? And not sure globally?).

Tl;dr: You have negotiating power based on the number of end clients you connect to the network.

And connectivity is an extremely high capital, low margin, and predatory industry.

Consequently, "build useful services, that cause more people to connect through you, that then allows you to favorably peer and lower your costs" is Cloudflare's strategic business model.

So yes, they would very much like the entire Internet to run through them. Or more accurately, terminate to their customers.
I don't think tropes are mistakes. In fact, looking at tvtropes you see lots of examples from the most popular and successful movies, TV shows, books, etc.

If you're a writer you should be trying to say something new, but you shouldn't try to make everything new. People would be confused and put off by something that was violating and subverting every trope in fiction, but they would be amused by something that subverts one or two tropes in an interesting way. And subversion isn't even necessary to be good fiction, you could imagine a well executed work that isn't pioneering, but is still quite satisfying.
Scrollbar hasn't been useful for that (at least for me) ever since websites started putting comments after the content (e.g. article, blog)
In the past and in the present endorsing certain ideas would make people less likely to want to associate with you. The mix of ideas that will make people less likely to want to associate with you has changed, and as such the need to self-police is falling on populations that haven't felt it before, but we'd have to really get into the weeds to work out if the number of "off limits for polite society" topics has really grown.

Some things that have changed. First, many social interactions have shifted to the online space, and we've failed miserably to provide a public square online. There mostly isn't one, only the online equivalent to shopping malls and private clubs (albeit with permissive entrance requirements). These shopping malls and private clubs have become so ubiquitous that only people with opinions too extreme for them are looking for alternatives. As a result, the few public spaces that somehow pop up in the cracks become the host of concentrated extreme speech, which is not really a viable foundation for a community.

Second, the current online platforms record everything posted on them in perpetuity. Many of them make this content infinitely searchable. To some extent this is just the nature of digital communications, they are inherently easy to archive. So, us smallfolk have lost the benefit of ephemeral communications. This is a big deal -- I think lots of us who grew up in the pre-internet era have some memory of saying something that's in retrospect pretty embarrassing, but is now lost to time.

It is one thing to say something in front of friends and get called out by people you have real relationships with, and another thing entirely to fall under the wrath of the open internet. In fact, I think this is quite bad for public discourse, as a number of people have just been shamed into silence, and others have figured "I've been banished by everyone but the bigots at this point, may as well fit in with them."

Finally, most of the platforms optimize for engagement. Extreme opinions drive engagement. Can you imagine a club where the proprietor placed microphones on every table, selected conversations to amplify? Ok, now imagine the proprietor has a very poor grasp of the local language, and mostly evaluates which conversations are interesting by how large a crowd they've already drawn and how loud the argument is. That's the environment that most online discussions take place in.

It wouldn't be that surprising for a large number of the patrons to ask for strict admissions requirements. The only surprising thing is that we put up with this bizarre business model in the first place. Ah but the drink are free since the whole affair is sponsored by companies and foreign intelligence agencies. All the paid clubs couldn't compete with free.
For anyone unfamiliar with the movie or seeking some perspective on the film, I did very much enjoy this review/retrospective of RRR by Patrick H Willems, a channel which I generally enjoy. The same video is also on Nebula for folks with a subscription.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPU2D5Ftjbw
We use Cloudflare Warp at work. Honestly—and I say this as a Cloudflare fan in general—it doesn’t work well for me. I regularly have connection issues with it enabled. Video calls sometimes cut out for a couple seconds, and Tuple (which I use a lot) really struggles with it. It’s possible it’s my internet connection or something unrelated, but I don’t have any of these issues when Warp is disabled. YMMV and all that, so take this as the anecdote it is. For what it’s worth, some coworkers have similar issues, but others don’t, so maybe it’s region specific. (I live in Oregon.)
Kinda uneasy about how Cloudflare is positioning themselves to have insight into a huge chunk of the Internet's traffic (very much like Google has).

Even though there's no visible abuse right now, you know, Google's motto also used to be "don't be evil".
Most annoying is that the clickable elements are not identified visually.

This does have an upside. Sort of. People are more accepting of dark patterns, as when you have to mouse over the ad before the "x" to make it go away appears. In a different place each time, for the worst cases.
>people who disagree with me shouldn’t get to use the internet

Ok.
I think you're talking about the blog owner? This is a guest post a woman named Siri Helle.
Display ascending, ID descending, index redirects to the highest ID and becomes page 2/Max(ID)-1 when filled. So tough.
> we all draw a line somewhere the question is where we draw the line.

A secular amen to that, brother!
Name one bank that's run by a poor person.
Why use openVPN anymore when you can easily use Wireguard instead?
>> but I think even more important would be improving reliability and feature coverage in the OpenCascade CAD geometry library it uses

I've been wondering what portion of the FreeCAD "problems" people report are actually issues with OpenCascade. I don't have time to deal with any of it, just a question that pops into my head when I see complaints about FreeCAD. When I have time I spend it in Solvespace, which is decades behind commercial CAD but is so much more fun.
A very complete list. Maybe the article is missing Cherry Vintage Blacks.

I once participated in a machanical keyboard meetup. There were a lot of Keyboards on display - mostly homemade. The one that for me really stood out was one built using vintage blacks.
This is an odd comment. Of all the things to focus on in a movie, you choose this?
Backwards comparability doesn't prevent forward movement. Moving forward is an overused tagline from every meeting ever anyway. If we move along a path does the path behind us crumble into the abyss?

I see this as Apple breaking the app. Demanding and nudging users to auto-update the iOS, the consequences being the OS fails to run what it previously could run.
In contrast to some of the stories I see here, in my last job my team had a really strong track record of completing sprints as scheduled, but our product's architecture was doomed to fail from the start (we could've done it but it would've taken at least an additional year, by which time it would've been canceled).
San Francisco's Postwar Sex District (2006)
Concrete Mathematics [1], by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik. Wonderfully written (worth buying for the margin jokes alone) and approachable, but dense with information. Great overview of discrete math and algorithm analysis.

generatingfunctionology [2] by Wilf is an excellent companion book to Concrete Mathematics, going deeper into generating functions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics

[2] https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/DownldGF.html
> One alternative is to have your own domain

Unfortunately, should that domain ever expire, it'll likely be picked up by a squatter and that's your identity gone.
When I read The Selfish Gene that explanation was very convincing to my (layman's) mind, but I've since wondered if some sort of "multilevel selection" mightn't do a better job of explaining both individual and group behavior. (The idea of "memes" is an interesting metaphor, imo, and nothing more.)

This reminds me of a book I had hoped to read, "Darwin's Cathedral."
oh no...

anyway
RedReader is also a great choice on Android, I wish there was a native desktop version of it.
They probably mean that it becomes the mainstream/obvious view.

We take most of the society we live in for granted as the way things just are or should be.
Not sure what you mean - mullvad supports using wireguard?
It could also be the result of sending traffic over a better route