skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> WMF sites being a thing that have a shared telecommunications Single Point of Failure

In fact, one of the long-term projects in WMF is making sure the infrastructure is resistant to single-point-of-failure problems - up to whole data center going down. We are pretty close to it (not sure if 100%, but if not close to it). Of course, if you consider existence of WMF to be point of failure, it's another question, by that logic existence of Wikipedia can be treated as single point of failure too. Anybody is welcome to create a new Wikipedia, but that's certainly not a point of criticism towards WMF.

> It was able to be shut down because it had an SPOF: Napster-the-corporation owned and maintained all the "supernodes"

WMF does not own the content or the code, both are in open access and extensively mirrored. WMF does own the hardware - I don't think there's a way to do anything about it, unless somebody wants to donate a data center :)

> If the Great Firewall can block your site/content entirely with a single rule, you have an SPOF.

True, though there are ways around it. Currently witnesses with Turkey blocking Wikipedia. See e.g. https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror for ways around it.

> Instead, to answer such problems, you need true distribution.

I am skeptical about the possibility of making community work using "true distribution". Even though we have good means to distribute hardware and software, be it production or development code, we still do not have any ways to make a community without having gathering points. I won't say it is impossible. I'd say I have yet to see anybody having done it.
But if somebody wants to try, all power to them. You can read more about Wikimedia discussions on the topic here: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Distributed_Wik...

> such that you can "bring Wikipedia with you"

That already exists, there are several offline wikipedia setups and projects: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline/List_of_Offline_...

> this can take the form of preloaded "Wikipedia mirror in a box" appliances

We are pretty close to this - you can install working Mediawiki setup very quickly (vagrant or I think there are some other containers too, I use vagrant), dumps are there. Won't be 100% copy of true site since there are some complex operational structures that ensure caching, high availability, etc. which kinda hard to put into a box - they are in public (mostly as puppet recipes) but implementing them is not out-of-the-box experience. But you can make a simple mirror with relatively low effort (probably several hours excluding time to actually load the data, that depends on how beefy your hardware is :)

Most of this, btw, is made possible by the work of WMF Engineers :)
Yea, wings on spacecraft are about as elegant as parachutes. They can make sense for certain uses, but, as a rule of thumb, they are inelegant and not futuristic.
In most non-profit organizations, costs never go down. Once a budget is set for programs, staffing, etc, they don't just go away and in fact, they often continue to grow without bound. See any government budget ever for evidence.

So if donations don't continue to grow to match or at least keep pace, they could start running a deficit to eat away those reserves in no time. And once a non-profit organization starts running at a deficit, some contributors will question their contributions and they may shrink accordingly.

Those reserves could disappear in just a few years.. unless there's a change, two years should show the direction and another couple years, the course will be set one way or another.
As other commenters have said, its not specific to any cuisine. You can have "premium" any cuisine that you like. The difference seems mostly to be the people starting these businesses. If its easy for people from other countries to get a visa/start a business in the US, that will attract more "premium chefs". But if its not that easy, and the people running the restaurants are first-timers or relatives of immigrants just trying to make money, it would be hard for them to open a "premium restaurant".
oops, I was confused - thought the comment was talking about a language named GC, rather than the fact that Nim has GC.
Many of us have been trying to get this to trial. It’s the most direct way to defeat a law.
Relative to other public companies, it basically would have have zero money to re-invest into growth. So there'd be no expectation of returns on investment—no reason to buy the stock.

Dividends are nice, but dividends would stay small if the company itself stays small (because it's constrained from growing.)
Darwin 0.1 and Rhapsody DR 2 booted – Fun with virtualization
China's biggest foreign takeover backed by Syngenta shareholders – May. 5, 2017
Way I see it is, if we can land a rover the size of a minivan on a different planet, we should be able to do this without much more effort. Money, perhaps, yes; but, we've already done it.
2 years ago a seed round with 3,5 million dollars and you are doing the MVP. Where the hell went the other 3+ million?

I don't think you will get the money, the are red warnings every where. Only release the MVP ( not code) if he asks to, but stop development.

Good luck
Technically, the space shuttle and this space plane are lifting bodies, which I think is pretty cool and elegant.
Um, what if the server returned, say, a JPEG? Or a plain old HTML webpage, complete with inline CSS and script tags?
This guy documents his process of moving to Tokyo and buying a house there. Pretty insightful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w
How would you implement something like push in HTTP for example? I remember, that XMPP had to come up with some hacks (BOSH[1]) to do it over HTTP.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOSH_(protocol)
> Behind their fences, shielded from human encroachment, the penguins have had decades of peace and quiet in their minefield. Native flora has regrown around them.
"Natural systems have returned to not quite a pristine state, but a state where you've reached climax communities in certain parts," says Paul Brickle, director of the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute.

The Korean DMZ has a similar thing going on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone#Natu...

"This natural isolation along the 250 km (160 mi) length of the DMZ has created an involuntary park which is now recognized as one of the most well-preserved areas of temperate habitat in the world.

Several endangered animal and plant species now exist among the heavily fortified fences, landmines and listening posts. These include the extremely rare red-crowned crane (a staple of Asian art), and the white-naped crane as well as, potentially, the extremely rare Siberian tiger, Amur leopard and Asiatic black bear."
Look into filing a breach of contract suit yourself. in my opinion, threatening lawsuits is silly and the only stands to make you look bad but filing one shows that you're serious and puts you at the top of the payables list.

In some venues it's very easy to file cases like this.
Good Computerphile episode on understanding what is going inside a neural net, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFdMrDOx_CM . Looking at high information neurons to see what they pick up can yield a lot of insight into the problem.
>Drug-use disorders were most prevalent among non-Hispanic Whites, followed by Hispanics, then African Americans.

I wonder if thats represented in jail demographics.
One of the things that computers really have going for in the case of "algorithmic sentencing" is that they are NOT biased; they are just machines that repeatedly and reliably run an ordered set of instructions X, their program, free of any human emotions that can override such logic.

Algorithmic sentencing, when implemented correctly (i.e. the X that it runs is not biased), have the potential to be vastly more "fair" and "just" than any human jury could be.

For example, from a widely circulated online video of a joint talk given by a lawyer and a cop at a law school:

"the [Jury's] perception is that if you're sitting next to a defense attorney, YOU have to prove you're innocent" [1]

Juries are comprised of people off the street who have no expertise in determining things like innocence. The average person is subject to all sorts of biases, most of which they aren't even consciously aware they have.

Knowing this, if I ever had to stand for trial in front of a jury of my peers as a defendant, I'd be scared shitless, _especially_ if I was innocent.

As you can see from the linked video, machines actually have a pretty low bar to live up to in order to outperform humans.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE&feature=youtu.be...
On that point, does that mean Rust libraries tend to have logging hooks or are all errors emitted by Result's?

What about non-fatal errors such as retries in a GUI library that loads an image from the web, how are they logged or otherwise propogated to the developer?
That's not a bias of the programmer
In the real world, Hamkins' program would search forever, never outputting anything. In the context of a "nonstandard" version of the line of natural numbers, "finite" no longer means what you think it means. In this context, Hamkin's program does output something after a "finite" number of steps, and Hamkins can make the program output whatever he wants by changing the meaning of "finite" instead of changing the program.
Fair enough, but in any case, the argument wasn't on whether what he said was fair or correct, or whether the reaction was appropriate, but whether the (over)reaction was because of some unrelated case.

I mean, it's not exactly uncommon for anything involving pedophilia, often even when there's no actual evidence of such, to explode in Think Of The Children hysteria, and a man in an official position calling a 13-year-old a "predator" sounds exactly the kind of thing that can trigger it.

So the question is: are barristers often referring to 13-year-old as predators, and the media just specifically picked up on this case?
Consider the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Indicator_Symbol s. In every way that matters, these "act as" one 'character': you can't set your cursor position to be between them; backspacing one should delete both; the flag takes up one terminal col (even if it is rendered as two) such that "\033[1Dx" (cursor-left 1, print "x") will overwrite the whole flag, etc.

But it's the font that controls those semantics—because it's the font that knows what flags do or do not exist. For any pair of RIS codepoints that doesn't form a flag (in the opinion of a given font), they behave like two separate characters.

Thus: one grapheme cluster, or two, depending on the font.

And another example—this one much less "idiomatic", but not specifically decried by the Unicode committee: http://kudakurage.com/ligature_symbols/

That's a font, making entirely-arbitrary clusters out of codepoints. As far as I am aware, it's fully within its rights as a font to do so. There's nothing in the Unicode standard saying that the code-points ['f', 'i', 'l', 'e'], put in a row, can't combine to form a single grapheme cluster. They don't have combining behavior themselves, but—unlike, say, things in the Unicode "Separator" class—they don't have any property that says they don't combine with anything.
In 2015 (perhaps more recent than other comments...) I was in trouble for starting powershell via a shortcut and using it to kill the monitoring process. Apparently it was "causing intentional damage", when in fact I just wanted to finish reading something online after the teacher disabled the internet.

Luckily they didn't take it any further than a stern telling off, unlike the article.

On top of that, I had actually revealed a vulnerability allowing anyone to access anyone elses' files earlier in the year.
It's a website not a person. Keep it clean, fool.
On-orbit satellite servicing and refueling has not been performed as of yet, but we are currently working on it: https://sspd.gsfc.nasa.gov/restore-l.html
It's funny how you're using this post for soapboxing as the op-ed has nothing at all to do with what you said. This is why vitriolic titles like that shouldn't be allowed.
"The modern Wikipedia hosts 11–12 times as many pages as it did in 2005, but the WMF is spending 33 times as much on hosting, has about 300 times as many employees, and is spending 1,250 times as much overall."

Are there any comparable data on the costs for 11x( 16 billion PV/M) this? (I'm thinking google/amazon here)

"their poor handling of software development has been well known for many years."

So is the problem inefficiency in the code/HW setup? That is solvable. Any pointers to the hosting solution used?
to go along w/ this--why not enter the market at $5, hopefully serve even a slightly better product, and get your competitor out of business and up your prices to $7 or $8, still cheaper, but better quality, and you'll stay in business longer, esp. if you knock your competition out.
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I'm pretty sure there's no tigers in DMZ. This isn't the Amazon, this is a strip of land between two belligerent countries whose population densities make California look like a rural utopia. If there was a tiger, I think we'd know. :)
In Tokyo maybe. In Kansai certainly not.
> Yes, and as emphasized in the article, WMF has done a terrible job at building better tools.

I respectfully disagree. I think WMF has done pretty good job. Could it be better? Of course, everything could. Is it "terrible"? not even close.

> For crying out loud, we are still typing in by hand the complete bibliographic information for each cited reference.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid ?
In any case "it misses my pet feature" and "the whole multi-year effort is terrible" are not exactly the same thing.

> is not enough justify years of high spending.

I think the work that has been done and is being done justifies it. All this work is publicly documented. You think it's too much and you have the ideas how to do it better - you're welcome to comment. I can not comment on your value judgements - you may seem some projects are more valuable and not done, you are entitled to it. There's a process which gets some things done and some things left out, and by nature not everybody will be satisfied. I only want to correct completely factually false claims in the Op-ed, and I believe I have done so. If I can help with more information, you are welcome to ask. As for value judgements, I think we'd have to agree to disagree here.
I was always impressed with the huge spacious apartments people working low paying jobs could get.

I guess Friends wouldn't have been that uplifting if it was shot in Rosses' cramped, leaky studio apartment.
thought i will be reading about the beginning of the end of political censorship and revisionism on wikipedia.

anyway, wp is a business and money is to be made with all kinds of shit.
Sorry, but sometimes companies do indeed need to take political positions if their existence is threatened. SOPA was a huge example of this and net neutrality is an upcoming partisan issue. If you'd rather they sit back and get shackled in the name of neutrality, you're not really for the project, you'd rather see it be at the mercy of other politicians without having any say or doing anything to counteract it at all. (it's also completely naive of the massive lobbying already going on. sounds like you just want your side to have a say and any opposition offends you)
I can see how the dataset can be biased, but I'm struggling to find any biases in the algorithms themselves.

Assuming I'm using some actual machine learning model and not my own hand-coded finite state machine, I just don't see how, say, k-means clustering could be biased (unless there was a bug in the programmer's implementation?).
"high-flying assets"
"That gives you Wikitext encapsulated in XML."

avar: "The goal of Wikipedia should be to spread the content as far & wide as possible, the way OpenStreetMap operates is a better model."

I am confused.

Doesn't OSM data come encapsulated in XML or some binary format?

As for dispersion of content, I could have sworn I have seen Wikipedia content on non-Wikipedia websites. Is there some restriction that prohibits this?

I have seen Wikipedia data offered in DNS TXT records as well.
Surprised nobody's mentioned this possibility as it usually comes up re: the X-37B. Terrifying but I think not out of the question given the strategic potential of such a weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
Not sure rent explains everything. Ramen is very high a high volume business, and the additional customers you get in a very dense city like Tokyo should make up for the rent difference.
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Yeah, that's not good advice. You're throwing good money after bad there.

The lesson learned here: work off a retainer system the way most lawyers do. I get two weeks of billable hours from clients up front; then I send them an invoice every week, giving them a week to pay it, at which point they've burned through the remainder of their retainer unless they keep current on invoices. That way I'm never out if they up and decide they're running out of money.

Your best option now is to talk to an attorney experienced in debt collection from insolvent entities. If they're going belly up, then the assets are going to be liquidated, and you want to be as close to the front of the line as you can get. Depending on the state, debts may have to be paid before employees are (though the pro-labor side of me thinks that's kind of shitty.) Be frank with them, but professional, and let them know while you understand the difficulties they're in, you have to take steps to protect your own business, so while you hope that you can work it out eventually you need to involve your attorney at this point to ensure your place in line.

Chances are, you still won't see anything, which sucks, I've been there. I hope it works out for you.
> If it was just about wasting money people give you, you'd never go into debt.

The point is that costs will continue to rise (or not fall) after the funding inevitably falls (or fails to rise enough)
Many methods in machine learning and statistics benefit from two types of theory:

1) Optimization theory - which says, if I repeat this iterative method N times I will find a (nearly) globally optimal solution

2) Statistical theory - which says, if I observe this process N times I can accurately estimate a population quantity with high probability

Deep learning does not benefit from the same theoretical guarantees.

For the most part the response from the community is "but it works really well!" which is a fair and valid response especially since what most practitioners care about is predictive accuracy.

Personally, I find applying neural networks extremely annoying at times due to the amount of twiddling of hyperparameters, slow convergence, etc.
Now we just need cheaper dual eye tracking setups and support for lower quality sections in your screen (just lower quality where you're not looking).

Open source community to the rescue!
Everywhere in the world salaries, rents and prices go hand in hand.

Not true. There's huge variations in OECD countries. Here's a graph showing house price to income ratio. I know this intimately because I live on the far left :'(

https://www.imf.org/external/research/housing/images/priceto...
> We are pretty close to this ... [things you'd expect ops staff to do]

That doesn't come close at all, from the perspective of a librarian who wants a "copy of Wikipedia" for their library, no? It assumes a ton of IT knowledge, just from the point where you need to combine software with hardware with database dumps.

The average library staff who'd want to set this up in some African village would be less on the side of the knowledge spectrum of "knows what to do with a VM image", and more toward the side of "can plug in and go through the configuration wizard for a NAS/router/streaming box."

Once I can tell such a person to buy some little box with a 4TB hard disk inside it, that you plug in, go to the URL printed on the top, and there Wikipedia is—and then it can keep itself up to date, with a combination of "large patches that get mailed on USB sticks that you plug in, wait, and then drop back into the mail", and critical quick updates to text content for WikiNews et al that it can manage to do using a 20kbps line that's only on for two hours per day—then you'll have something.
Agree with your point, but a bed town far away from the Tokyo center is still a bed town. Which not a very pleasant place to live in (99% residential, almost no stores, no restaurants around).
Kivy 1.10.0 released
Cool trick!
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Did anyone else immediately think "Codified Likeness Utility" when they read the headline?
You must live in a world where people don't make coffee at home due to cost considerations.

The main point of a nanny is to have someone else deal with your kid so that you don't have to.

Machines will almost certainly provide a worse experience than a human at the beginning, but the lower price expands the market significantly to those who could not afford those things before.

Teachers probably won't get replaced for the longest time since they're not paid out of your pocket.
Random thought. Why can't something like Wikipedia be run distributed through a blockchain? Edits are just transactions that are broadcast over the network. I imagine the total cost of that to individual contributors of nodes would be less than the millions they're paying right now.

EDIT: Turns out someone is already working on it: https://lunyr.com/
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I understand some of those aspects -- the curious part is that one cuisine from a third country might be seen as cheap food in an adopting country and premium in another adopting country -generally speaking.
Your logic is that they're a cancer because they ask for donations? Would you rather they run ads?
Closed borders means more than just closed border crossings.

It implies that foreigners need to be able to identify themselves and show their residence permits, border ingress stamps or other proof of them being in the country legally. In this sense it can be compared to the visa waiver which non-Americans from eligible countries needed to sign before crossing the US border. It contained questions in the line of 'Are you entering the US to commit crimes' and 'Were you active in the Nazi-party in Germany from 1932-1945'. While no criminal worth her salt would answer the former question with 'yes', it did give an additional legal handle to expel her should she be caught, as well as legal grounds to deny her access the next time she tried to enter the US.

This is not possible with 'open borders' as the police and 'border guard' have a very limited mandate to check on what they deem to be suspect individuals.
> But wouldn't that have more to do with the different approaches to memory management?

What makes you say that? Rust's approach guarantees more type invariants.

I don't buy for a second that type inference has much to do with this. Firstly, Rust has type inference, it just isn't global. Secondly, I've found that type inference everywhere makes the cognitive load much worse, not better.

And I wasn't actually drawing a correlation between cognitive load and expressiveness. Namely, expressiveness isn't the final word. Much of PL theory is devoted not just to improving expressiveness, but making that expressiveness more accessible to the masses. Compare Haskell with System F, for example.