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But that introduces a huge bias toward political and scientific topics and away from anything else.

FF6? Irrelevant video game, how many wars did it win, why should it be there?

Pfizer? Why should we allow companies to have individual pages, it's just free marketing?

At some point, you cut Wikipedia's breadth down to something that could reasonably be handled by a team of a couple dozen editors. And then you might as well just go with a traditional encyclopedia.
I've been in IT for 20 years next year. I've been a sysadmin this entire time. Back in Virginia (Silicon Valley East), I made great money, but here in Texas, I make a pittance.

I'm in my mid 40s and have been looking to get into something else, but building on my existing skills. No one is even looking at me.

I'm toying with the idea of maybe going it alone. Start a small IT consultancy. Not sure what angle to look at this from.
I'm not trying to put out a "woe is me" here, but rather appeal to the others in here that are toying with the idea of maybe going it alone in some capacity.

I've put out literally tons of resumes/CVs in the last couple of years and nary an interview. It's not like I don't have skills, but it seems that employers now want sysadmins to also be programmers and network engineers and coffee monkeys all at the same time.

I've also entertained the notion of getting out of IT altogether, but it's all I know. A guy I know bought a small cleaning company and he now cleans houses for the wealthy at 150-200 a house x 4 houses a day. He splits this with one other person. Not quite sure. But in my mid 40s, I don't think my body could handle a purely physical job.
Don't forget, you have to use half of that vacation time to go to the dentist, doctor, car repair, visit your dying grandmother, funerals, taking care of kids while your wife is sick, etc... Yes, 2-3 weeks is total trash. Employers just view us as cogs in the wheel, not as human beings with human needs anymore. You get punished for having to take time to do personal things. It is completely maniacal.

I had to use 1 week of my 2 weeks PTO to go support my wife having a child in the hospital. It was complete BS. I was so angry at my boss, furiously angry that he would treat me and my family with such utter disrespect as to take away my hard-earned vacation time simply because my wife needed my support.

Paternity leave? What's that?
Unsuccessful attempts, maybe, although I doubt it. These kinds of stories tend to be greatly exaggerated, so: citation needed.[0] Meanwhile, there have been actual laws (not attempts!) that criminalized deviation from the heterosexual norm not so long ago -- or even today in not-so-nice countries.

The point is: Yes, the public sphere is also changing, but it's changing slowly, and the participants of the discussion who see a danger to freedom of speech are >95% hysterically exaggerating.

Meanwhile, it's good to keep in mind that there are <5% crazies in every group, including chess players and LGBT people. Listening to them is never a good idea.

[0] When you dig down, what you usually find is some minor committee discussing whether they should change the language used in their own bylaws and/or publications. I.e. it's not legislation, nobody is being forced to do anything, and most of these initiatives don't even pass in the first place.
Sadly it's true. Please allow stub articles and trivia sections. Or was the ban of trivia section a push for Wikia of the Wikipedia founder!? So many great articles eg about fictional characters of movies, etc got deleted. I mean it's fine to remove marketing spam from companies, but it's not like insightful articles cost that much storage space, so why delete articles?

The English language version is still good to okayish. But the German language version is completely infested by deletionits. So many good articles vanished, so many photos and pictures got deleted - it's very strange that German version has such a different guidelines/standard. de.Wikipedia sincerely needs a review from international bodies.

The German Wikipedia org also maintains the toolsserver which is used for mapping and things like that for all language versions. The WikiData project also is from German branch.
No, we're deeply committed to continuing to release projects on Github.
> I just want more facts so the correct action can be taken.

So you do think your mind could be persuaded by more scientific evidence, but you don't state specifically what sort of evidence it would take to do it.
This may be your third.

Ecuador has a city/monument running through the "Middle of the World", (the equator line as calculated by French Academy of Sciences in 1736).
As it happens, however the equator actually lies about 240 meters north of the marked line.

Having been there, its funny to see how many tourists take photos straddling the 'equator', evidently the expense of relocating the monument to the actual equator isn't viable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Mitad_del_Mundo
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Also, you have to work twice as hard to acquire a fraction of the money that you would in SV. Raising a seed round requires one of the founders dedicating months to elaborate spreadsheets mapping out the future of your company for the next 4 years, down to every paperclip you plan to buy.
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The past 3 wikis of people I've read have been false; either recently vandalized or wrong for a long time. The Wikipedia admins have free reign to vandalize any article they want... But why? It's the admins who have been doing the vandalizing and citing unreputable sources. I don't understand why; have they been hacked?
One other thought comes to mind--the submission pattern of different subfields of science vary tremendously. There are also questions of expediency--for example, perhaps a student was graduating and they decided that the work would be published quickly in scientific reports, or perhaps another group was rumored to be publishing soon. It's impossible to say. If it were my field, I would just read the paper myself to see if it were technically sound instead of stressing too much about the fact that it's a scientific report. If it wasn't my field, I would check to see how cited it was in the future...
I would start donating if they would do something against this.
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Awesome... But only at least 25 years too late...
No, because you're failing to distinguish between game-changer tech - transistors, DNA sequencing, operating systems, powered flight, all as classes of original and unexpected inventions - and refinement tech, which is made of game-changer inventions made smaller, cheaper, and more widely avaialable.

Game changer tech changes what can be imagined. Refinement tech changes what can be bought by consumers.

There's been plenty of refinement over the last few decades, but not nearly as much original game changer invention as in the previous decades.
It's funny to see how the HN crowd reacts to this. If AI was a magical bullet, don't you think doctors would already be replaced by machines? Also, most people don't think rationally when it comes to diseases... You might be able to self-diagnose using google, but that's not something most people can do without ending up thinking they have cancer.
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I feel the opposite.

I think, in the future, ideally, you will be able to do a programming interview, using a tool like kite, in a language you don't know and feel comfortable.

So when I am learning a new language, I don't want to have to look up if the length of a vector is len(), length(), .len, .len(), .length() and so on. In fact, I don't want to do this for languages that I do "know".
> In truth, longer lines would probably be fine, except that 99% of the time when your line is more than 80 characters long, there's a better way to do it with shorter lines.

myDescriptiveResultVariable = myDescriptiveMethod(myWordyVariable, myVerboseVariable);

That's 87 characters.
The irony in the end is that most of the deletions aren't actually deleted, just a bit marked to hide it.
Your chance of getting confused BY a criminal is probably more connected to your ability to comprehend and communicate.

Perhaps you not understand the metaphor. Developing takes time and money to produce accuracy. You're advocating greater per-capita investment for an ethnic group. That's racial discrimination. You are advocating racism.

It should come as no surprise that there's a difference. It is therefore suspect that they avoid mentioning the magnitude of the difference; it must not support their case otherwise they would highlight it.

Critical reading, logic, and reason will help protect you from this type of manipulation and inadvertent racism.
And the second.
In the future you might want to consider a self-hosted version for enterprises that require by policy more security than your current offering. For $$$.
When can people sue Apple for HFS+ issues. Those must be multiple of times higher then anything caused by Windows 10?
> Point out Tesla's crossover SUV with the range of a gasoline vehicle and the price point of a Chevy Equinox ($25k). I'll wait.

Whoa — you have to realize what you just did there, right? This is a massive shifting of the goalposts from what you said Tesla's problem was earlier, which is that SUVs and light trucks are what sells.

Anyway, I don't think most people with SUVs actually go through a full tank of gas a day, so having completely equal range doesn't seem like that big an issue. So now it sounds like Tesla's major problem is that they're competing with the Range Rover rather than the Equinox.
But you have literally zero time to enjoy any of those things. You live in the office 80% of the time, your entire life is sitting pretending to be busy, then going "home", where you spend less time than you do at the office, getting a few hours of sleep and eating whatever you can get delivered, which is never really good, then trying to get a few hours of sleep and entering another day of meaningless toil. Your entire life is subjugated. You're practically a serf, with no real control of your own life, owned by a huge corporation that will discard you like wet tissue paper the moment you ask for the privilege of having a human life.
Where is Richard Stallman when you need him? This thread seems indefensibly void of "free" vs. "open-source" software ranting. (Seriously though, the restrictive license on this is really a bummer.)
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So the key here is that cos(pi/5) = phi/2. From there, you could relate pi and phi in many ways.
The proof of cos(pi/5) is quite simple, neatly done here: http://faculty.wwu.edu/curgus/Courses/125/Pentagon.pdf
I see no evidence of the latter. They simply haven't been doing their job, period, regardless of who is in the White House.
You can still read Facebook messages on the mbasic site.

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The 40% figure comes from ~2 million stub articles out of ~5.3 million total on English-language Wikipedia.
Beats Studio Wireless (latest edition). The noise-cancelling is so good that I can't tell when somoenee has walked up to talk to me. On planes it manages to cancel out nearly all engine noise. The bluetooth connection is great and works over a surprising distance, this allows me to wander about my office as I'm pondering a problem. Had an issue with the original pair I purchased where the left ear got disconnected after a few months. Apple sent me a replacement pair and haven't had any other issues since then.
Etymotic er4p with a custom null audio cable and ACS custom eartips, this is not noise cancelling, it's total blockage, when you have music playing someone can stand in front of you shouting at full volume and you won't hear anything but your tunes

Although ACS no longer make custom eartips there are other places that do such as snugz, without doubt custom tips are the single best upgrade you can buy for your sound
I'm using the MSVC build of Rust. That doesn't preclude using lldb as a debugger.
not sure it's official. http://hn.algolia.com/
That occurred only months prior to these two militias nearly squaring off. Seems as though Boggs had a big ego, and bit of a bloodlust
There are major costs associated with cutting carbon emmissions before we have better technology. That is why people are questioning the 'science' of global warming. If we as a species are wrong about global warming in either direction, that is a big problem.
Conversely, if a cultural touchpoint shared with millions of neighbors isn't worth writing about, what is? Wikipedia isn't a newspaper so most current events probably aren't worthy of long-term documentation. There are more bands and songs than actors and movies. WP doesn't aim to be a summarized mirror of scientific journals. And yet it contains a little bit of each of those because someone thought they were worth writing about.

I'm asking seriously:

1) What's the problem with every movie (or actor or song) having its own page? They're not all linked from the front page, so they don't pollute WP any more than the existence of some rando's blog dilutes the Internet experience of people who don't visit it.

2) If movies (or actors or songs) aren't worthy of documentation, what do you feel is?
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How many GBs would the database take on a local machine? Wouldn't it be possible to pick and choose what libraries to include in it?

I'd rather have a few gigabytes on my machine than have all the code I write automatically in the cloud.
Ahh yes, just an honest mistake, and so long as only one million people are killed, not two, then we can promptly dismiss any concerns. Is that how it works?

I wonder if you think the NYT had a hand in pushing for the first Iraq war? How about in Yugoslavia? Panama? Libya? Syria? Or were all of those moral and noble humanitarian wars where the death and destruction was worth it?

Although the Iraq war is the best and most blatant example of the NYT's warmongering, it is far from the only one. All of these wars combined easily resulted in millions of deaths.
>1. An editor, usually a woman or a minority group member, writes a stub for a requested article, including references and assertion of notability.

>2. That editor leaves the project, typically because of harassment or because someone deleted one of their articles.

Well that was a wild extrapolation. Plenty of people add a stub, don't bother to finish it, and never edit again out of basic disinterest. Since Andrea is almost certainly just guessing, I'm going to guess that the stats (if stats were to be gathered) would show little or no correlation between protected status and failing to complete articles.

As for the topic of spurious deletion of stubs, I don't see the value in it, it would be nice to hear the rationale for the policy.

I think that contextualizing stub deletion as an identity ("The Deletionists") is utterly ridiculous and reads as a personal attack rather than a genuine interest in improving the quality of Wikipedia. It is clear that editors are applying the deletion policy in some fashion, so if there is a problem, it is in the policy. Maybe Wikipedia should send email nags to authors of new stubs. Maybe the policy should guard against deleting articles which are too new to survive.

Calling somebody a "deletionist" is hostile and dismissive. What happens when you're applying the policy legitimately and deleting a six year old stub with one sentence and a single unrelated/incorrect citation, and somebody comes by and accuses you of being a "deletionist". Labeling people is a good way to put them on the defense and ruin a conversation.
Starve? The monkey is always growing. And the smartest monkey in town by a large margin.

Yet, it's infuriating how dumb it is.
Interesting, thanks.

So they're just claiming all stubs (and no "full" articles) are in danger of deletion from these deletionists?
Read the agreement you signed. I don't have the faintest idea whether it is anything like what you signed, but https://www.xfinity.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/Subscri... states:

"Termination by You. Unless you have signed a minimum term addendum, you may terminate this Agreement for any reason at any time by notifying Comcast in one of three ways: (1) send a written notice to the postal address of your local Comcast business office; (2) send an electronic notice to the e-mail address specified on www.comcast.com; or (3) call our customer service line during normal business hours. Prior to affecting such termination, or any other change to your account, Comcast may undertake actions to verify your identity and confirm your election. Subject to applicable law or the terms of any agreements with governmental authorities, all applicable fees and charges for the Service(s) will accrue until this Agreement has terminated, the Service(s) have been disconnected, and all XFINITY Equipment has been returned"

Seems fairly clear to me, except for the "Prior to affecting such termination, or any other change to your account, Comcast may undertake actions to verify your identity and confirm your election" part. I guess a weasel could easily take 90 days to do so.
The two years I spent in Corporate America on any given day was either living an episode of The Office or Office Space.

People burnt out by fire drills coming from above, scared to use PTO as it was "bad optics", not receiving credit or appreciation, etc.

WORTH REMEMBERING: By nature of an employee showing up daily is to perpetually commit to the job. It is entirely up to person and their risk capacity. Saw a lot of "stuck" people who didn't like their job, but also wouldn't venture out to change that or actually tap into their true potential.
I work for Volkswagen Financial Services and we actually opened up a completely new department in Berlin (VWFS is usually in Braunschweig) mostly to get closer to the world of startups and interact with them. So it _is_ reaching the big companies here, the Volkswagen Group is starting to have a lot of new departments here in Berlin. It's awesome to see because there are a lot of motivated people within the brand that want to work like this. It also seems like the minds of our managers are changing on the topic and they quite enjoy what we're doing here so far.
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

― Heraclitus

(I thought this quote was Xeno, but the internet says I'm wrong)
FWIW I never bothered to compile OpenSSL; I just installed it and link to it.

Can't wait until we can just use ring everywhere, though.
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Actually, it should just remove strings if it does not already.
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While my wife was getting her MBA, she one day turned to me and without context asked "what do you think of supply chain management?" Having no idea what she was talking about, I instantly retorted "I think it is evil and should be banned."

Now that I know what she was talking about, I'm deeply impressed by Apple's mastery of the subject, and see why Tim Cook is running the place.
Do you mean it doesn't show anything anywhere in Ohio? Something must be broken for you, then, because it shows me plenty.

Are you just looking at it zoomed out really far? It only shows a selection of chargers until you zoom in, otherwise the whole thing would just be a sea of icons.
Haskell offers unreasonably featureful tooling like hoogle and codex but at the same time lacks basic editor integrations even in emacs which is supposed to be the premiere editor.

Getting a good setup is something I can't do twice. What fork of ghcimod do I need this week and how many CPUs will she be pegging?
There's a lot of interesting things going on at the intersection of medicine and AI. That said, it's important to understand some of the limitations:

1.) Medical data is often quite sparse and quite poor quality

You may only get a few years here and there for a patient, and a lot of the things mentioned in the article ("cough is raspy", "I have a feeling it might be pneumonia") aren't always in the medical record, and even if they are they aren't in a form that's easily accessible to a computer.

2.) Interaction matters

Seeking medical care is an extremely vulnerable state to be in. A good doctor isn't doing just diagnosis, but teasing out the right bits of information. It's unclear how a computer will handle, "I feel I'm not getting the full story from this patient" situations. A good doctor (not all of them are) will have the interpersonal skills to get the full story.

Finally, even if you solve diagnosis, then what? You have to take action. For a lot of expensive chronic conditions, it's not like the answer isn't obvious or even particularly needs diagnosis. If you're overweight, you probably already know you should eat less and maybe be more active. Many times even people with certifiable diabetes diagnoses do not change their lifestyle appropriately. How you handle putting the diagnosis into action is a tough problem, and it's not entirely clear how things like AI will fix it. Convincing people to change habits is damn hard.

Disclosure: I work as a data scientist at a medical AI startup (www.lumiata.com)
This would rather vary with one's level of expertise. I remember when I was a beginner, I had to rely on the IDE that helped me get onto the speed. Sure there were tons of resources online, but a nick of continuity with the project may go a long way IMO.
This feature makes me think, "When all you have is SQL, everything looks like a relational database."

I recently confused some co-workers when they examined my Google Sheets query - not knowing Excel very well, I just wrote SQL-ish. Now they have to live with my SQL-ish spreadsheet or figure out how to redo it with Excel functions.
I highly recommend reading "Why the Allies Won" by Dr Richard Overy.

Everybody just assumes that the Allies were bound to win, but if you look at the early period you can see that it was far from inevitable. Overy does a fantastic job of analysing WHY.

One of the issues he addresses is our bombing campaign which so many people nowadays love to denigrate. It was actually crucial to our winning.

The Nazis in charge had every reason to downplay the figures of just what it was costing, but even they admitted to something like 40% of industrial production lost or diverted to air defence. So much air defence required against bombers that they lacked air superiority in crucial battles like Kursk. So much ammunition converted to anti-aircraft production that they lacked supplies on the front line and even lacked fertiliser for producing food.

At the end of the day you can only fight if you have the weapons and ammunition to do it with, so it becomes a battle between respective economies. On the Axis side only Germany really ramped up production. Russia did an outstanding job, with her people caught between a vicious onslaught by National Socialist who called them sub-humans and their own International Socialist rulers who barely treated them much better.

And nobody could believe what the US economy proved capable of - the most accurate estimates were made by the British but even these were way off.

It might sound dry but it doesn't read that way - highly recommended.