skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article links to several research papers. Did you try reading those or do you only read "facts" that align with your world view?

To help you out, here are the researched facts that the article links to:

1) 1918 Spanish flu virus found in corpses buried in Alaska's tundra https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17944266

2) Study on the effects of permafrost melt in East Siberia and the 18th and 19th century deadly infections it might release http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/gha.v4i0.8482

3) Results from a study on the viruses present in the corpses of Stone Age people http://www.istc.int/en/project/84980DF9853EABD94325690B000F3...

4) Frozen bodies found to have contained fragments of DNA of Smallpox virus http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1208124

5) Proof that frozen bacteria from 32,000 years ago can actually be revived http://ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10...

6) Did i say 32,000 years? I meant 8million years http://www.pnas.org/content/104/33/13455

7) Not just bacteria, 30,000 year old viruses can be revived as well http://www.pnas.org/content/111/11/4274

8) Ancient bacteria are resistant to 70% of known antibiotics https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13803

9) Many of the bacteria emerging from melting permafrost may already have antibiotic resistance because natural resistance to antibiotics is so prevalent https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10388.epdf?referrer_ac...

But yes, lets talk about facts.
Yes, and that revenue comes from begging banners that more often than not create the - entirely false -
impression that if people don't donate, Wikipedia will blink out of existence.

In the early days, when almost everything was volunteer-run, hosting costs were indeed Wikipedia's main expense (as explained in that old quote from Jimmy Wales). These days, hosting amounts to about 2% of expenses, and most of the rest goes to staff costs (incl. about two dozen people in fundraising alone). Meanwhile, most of the value - the actual content - is contributed by unpaid volunteers. The paid staff have absolutely nothing to do with it.

Nobody minded working for free when there was just enough money to cover hosting costs. Now, however, there is an influx of $100 million in donations a year, and none of that benefits the average contributor, the people actually writing Wikipedia. That grates a little, much like in the monkey fairness experiment (Google it if you're unfamiliar with it).
The number one issue with this festival for those of us in the Caribbean (and those of us who are also involved in the entertainment industry) is that this casts a very negative image on festivals here in general.

This is in spite of the fact that throughout the region, much larger and more elaborate events occur frequently, e.g. carnival in Trinidad (and everywhere else), St. Lucia Jazz Fest, Reggae Sumfest, SXM, countless large sporting events like the ICC Cricket World Cup, etc.

I'm performing at a new one called Tmrw.Tday in Negril in two weeks - luckily the Fyre thing happened too late to affect ticket sales for that one I think.
There's a 1-michelin star ramen next to my house that serves ramen for 800 yen.

http://gm.gnavi.co.jp/shop/0117018901/
Of course there's many ways to solve any problem, but GP asked for a resource, and I gave one. Anarchy has been used realistically, and the book was written to be a realistic approach organizing people.
I don't know about Japanese house inspection culture, but their car inspection system is designed to keep only new cars on the road. Essentially a stealth tax to discourage driving. So if your car fails inspection, which costs about $1000 just to attempt, you may as well part it out to Americans and buy another car...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor-vehicle_inspection_(Japa...

Its possible given that Japanese don't like used houses that something similar exists for purchase of a used house, perhaps an inspection that costs $25K would discourage used house purchases.
Awesome idea but a) would like to see it/try witbout signing up and b) try to find other people to follow because Musk, Gates, like HN, tend to read the same dry business/"self help" books. I'd like some novels/biography/etc books to read!
Sorry, should have specified iOS. Don't know that it makes a difference, but our two data points say "maybe".
Whatever the X-37B does, it seems to do it very well. This is its fourth mission.

Missions - that don't need people - are the luckiest missions in the world..
I think you overestimate the influence of hobbyists in technology adoption.
Why do the workers wear Hazmat suits in the image?

Maybe my interpretation is spoiled by all those sci-fi disaster movies and games and they are just wearing protective suits in case of fire etc.
> Pretty sure this article could have been called "Wikipedia's Costs Growing Unsustainably" instead of the clickbait headline.

That's not what I got at all. And that's why the article is interesting.

Wikipedia's funding is what's growing unsustainably. It's higher funding that's pushing the costs higher. And that's what makes it interesting (and only a little click-baity.)

It seems, having taken people's money for a charity, you have a moral obligation to spend the money on the charity, whether it needs it or not. And as a manager of said charity, it's very easy to believe (or to convince yourself) it needs the money. Or otherwise why were we making plaintive pleas for money?

(And that happens in a world of good intentions. When fundraisers become cynical, you end up with the US political outrage machine, which operates simply to raise money rather than to effect political change....)
Yes, the title is unfortunate. The conflict between the Ottawa convention and the environment is the interesting bit.
How do you feel about this:

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
Unfortunate that posting factual thoughts about terrorism are downvoted. The "threat of terrorism" is how the right wants to organize the west.
I agree with GP about not liking the ad-hoc instant messaging culture. Personally, however, I am all for using them for scheduled meetings where meeting in-person is inconvenient. I love technology, but not abusing technology at the cost of learning, relaxing, and getting work done.

Similarly, in general I don't take unscheduled phone calls. But I am all for scheduling calls and will make time, find good reception, and be ready to give my undivided attention when taking a scheduled call.
> on non-critical functions such as community outreach, local chapters, yearly conferences

These are critical functions if you want to have live developing community. If you just want to have a site that answers http requests, sure, not critical. There are billions of those. Making sure Wiki projects work as communities and not just as IP address answering http requests is what makes it critical.

> One thing to keep in mind is the WMF != the Wikipedia community, it is very possible to truly support the Wikipedia mission without also supporting how the WMF is ran.

Absolutely. But in doing that one must not forget what the point is. If you declare chapters and and community development unnecessary, what is necessary? Just server maintenance? Nope. Google has tons of expertise in maintaining servers, still can't make communities. Their Freebase project is no more, Wikidata is alive and well. Something to learn from this?
50,000 Evacuate Hanover After Unexploded WWII Bombs Are Found
He's an unknown candidate that showed up at the last minute. People who voted on the first round weren't necessarily aware he was an option.
Ask HN: What are some great for-profit social ventures?
I'm sorry, I just don't understand how (presumably) an adult can make a comment like the grandparent's, conflating socialism with dictatorship, in earnest. It frustrates me to see people believing such obvious propaganda.
Just a shot in the dark, but hydrazine, a typical hypergolic propellant for spacecraft, is super toxic.
>Why waste your money at Wealthsimple when you could open a Vanguard account and put the money in a target date fund?

Because I would have to know what any of that stuff is, hence: "can't be bothered to learn more about how to manage my investments myself right now"

Thanks for the links. Also I'm a Canadian and their MER is lower than everyone elses all things considering, even tangerine.

What can I do as a Canadian?
And rather importantly, with a dedicated type you're a bit less likely to encounter and off-by-a-thousand error when there's confusion about millis vs. seconds since Unix epoch.
I hope you're joking. You should be washing them after 1 day of wearing, maybe even less.
It's not a stupid question at all, and it cuts to the core of a lot of problems with AI and algorithmic-based anything.

Any sufficiently complex programming project will end up reflecting some assumptions and biases on the behalf of the programmer. As more programmers contribute to a project, it won't reflect an individual's biases, but will still reflect those programmers as a group.
The ANSI C++ standard requires exceptions in the first place. The moment we start talking about disabling them, we're not talking about standard C++ anymore.
Don't want financial data tied permanently to a popular username of mine. I realize it looks like an Ad yes. I provided the third paragraph for people unfamiliar with WS returns as background to the $5m number I posted.
I had created one when I was in the US, so I do have one. I can't add a European phone number to it, but I can receive SMS with it.
The threat isn't one of invasion or punitive payments, it's simply "if you leave, we're not going to give you preferential treatment in trade or politics". It's kind've self-evident - if you choose to leave the union, why should you still get to play with their toys? If a US state seceded from the union (not that it can), the US wouldn't give it sweetheart deals.

If you choose to go it alone, then why shouldn't the union say 'business is business', and do the standard thing in business: hardball. Use your size to squeeze the best possible deal for yourself. The UK 'wanted' out, and that's what 'out' gets you.
Yep, this is what I always wanted it to be! But maybe or_panic would be better. Naming things is hard.
There are research papers linked in the article with experimental findings. That is not "theory".
I wonder how much of this could be counteracted simply by capping profits, such that all net revenue in excess of some fixed amount is forced by the corporate charter to be turned into either employee compensation or stockholder dividends.

Sure, such a company would have no chance of succeeding in the stock market, but what if it never plans on IPOing in the first place?
I was waiting for the part where they explain that the water is so clear because of invasive non-native mussels that have pretty much taken over. In other words the lake isn't clear because it's clean, it's clear because it's dead.

So when new EPA regulations kick in that allow ships to now dump their bilge and ballast liquids anywhere they like, expect to get more of this.

(Best link I can find for a quick search: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2672/what-is-the-ze...)
I think you kind of missed my point, and crucially, missed that I was specifically questioning usage of the word "essential." You very clearly read far more from my comment than was said or implied. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14286020

Personally, I think a lot of the language you chose to use in that giant wall of text was quite unfortunate. I'm not interested in being a party to your ax grinding.
A History of CLU – Barbara Liskov (1992) [pdf]
You do need to be careful when arguing about names: the official upstream advice from the Python core team is that, for example, invoking "python" (just "python") should always execute Python 2 (or report "command not found" if no Python 2 is available). Invoking Python 3 should always be "python3".

(the reason for this is to avoid breaking ancient scripts which naively assumed that "python" would always refer to Python 2, and allowing Python-3-aware scripts to be explicit about what version they were targeting)
It seems like a 'blanket pardon' for anyone who has no other offenses beyond dealing something that is now legal could go a little way towards helping fix this. It also seems that reforms of sentencing where the maximum penalty was grossly disproportionate (think crack vs cocaine) could have retroactive implementation as well (downgrading spurious felonies to misdemeanors).

Not saying you can give people back the trajectory of their lives, of course, but it might help at the margins.
It also shows how necessary it is to have some sort of deprecation process. Maintaining nonsensical landmine features for compatibility with an operating system released 36 years ago is putting the interests of MS's lazy long-term users ahead of the interests of its current users. Even if MS maintained a policy of only removing functionality after a 10-year deprecation period, this "feature" would have been gone long ago. Transitions must be orderly, but they should still happen.

It's nice that Rust's toolchain is better able to live Windows crazy ecosystem, but that doesn't make Windows any less crazy.
> So basically this is just a consultant's sales pitch.

I think it may be more a particular mindset, where being in possession of a hammer (probably a very good hammer, nothing wrong with it) makes everything look like a nail. Even if in fact it is a complicated assembly line producing microprocessor chips, and bashing it with a hammer probably won't do any good.
Thinking is quite a bit faster. I have caught myself altering phrases mid-pronouncing because i was thinking more about it while talking and thought of a better thing to say. In practice that tend to produce garbled words.

You can probably notice similar things yourself if you pay attention, and that's the closest to evidence we can get at the moment due to lack of telepathy or equivalent technology to actually measure these things reliably.

As far as Neuralink goes, assuming it won't be made in the stupidest way possible (reading commands spoken by imaginary voice inside your head), it could be quite a bit faster than hands or speech.
Really? Twitter inserts a deliberate delay before updating the number of notifications you have?
If the goal is [fast, compiled, statically typed], a language like Crystal [1] would probably be a better fit for the author:

require "yaml"
config = YAML.parse(File.open("test.yaml"))

[1] http://crystal-lang.org
I don't care about my duplicate. I only care about whether my current consciousness continues. I don't think so highly of myself that there needs to be duplicates running around. Maybe Elon Musk or Ray Kurzweil feel differently.
Why isn't education a solution to improve assimilation? Also, poor example on using Turkey, I don't think you can find many Turkish people that are opposed to women's rights or tolerating LGBT.
No, you need to get annoying VISA for them because they are not European. It's not that easy.

We'll ignore for a minute that there is no shortage of SQL coder so it's really not warranted to recruiter from that far away. Unless it's a consulting company that tricks them to get minimum wage and resell them for more to make a profit.

We'll also ignore that they don't speak French.
Just ask your partner, they're usually pretty accurate!
I've interviewed a handful of people for junior positions, so take this with a grain of salt. I usually look for:

* Basic coding ability -- maybe a couple simple whiteboard questions, or walk through some code

* Able to learn things -- talking about past projects, interesting things they've learned, ask them to explain their past work to me (doesn't have to be tech)

* Able to ask decent questions -- Unfortunately I don't have a good standard for this, but generally I like candidates that can form a straightforward question about the role, the company, the tech stack, really anything.

Basically for a junior position, I am not looking for someone who will deliver a lot of value on day 1. Instead I am looking for someone who is curious, learns quickly, and can learn the necessary skills to deliver value later. A quick learner will be great in a year, a slow learner or someone who doesn't care to learn will not.

Good luck!
I think you're misunderstanding the problem described in the OP. When you build a project via cargo using the default settings, it fetches the git repository at https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index to enable it to resolve dependencies locally. This git repository contains metadata for each library on crates.io, where the metadata for a given library is located in a file with the same name as the name of that library. When the OP uploaded a library whose name was an illegal filename on Windows, git unexpectedly choked when updating the local crate index repo, impacting all Windows users.

It sounds like the concern you're describing is a different matter. It's likely true that if the source of a crate contains a file named "nul.rs", cargo on Windows will fail if it attempts to git-fetch the source (unless you're using Linux Subsystem for Windows, anyway). While this would indeed be a problem, it would only affect users who elect to use specific libraries, rather than serving as a denial-of-service for every Rust user on Windows.
> Any sufficiently complex programming project will end up reflecting some assumptions and biases on the behalf of the programmer. As more programmers contribute to a project, it won't reflect an individual's biases, but will still reflect those programmers as a group.

Can you break this down more? It doesn't make sense to me. If you're writing a machine learning application to take a dataset and match future inputs to past results I don't see how these biases can sneak into the program.

Unless the programmers are changing the datasets then I don't see how this makes sense.
This is just maths, there's nothing dry about it compared to any other article about maths.
But then the WMF couldn't spend all the money on projects and conferences.

Just running the site is such a small fraction of the expenses of the foundation, that it would easily be financed from donations without aggressive begging banners. The banners are just there to finance that the author of the article calls "cancer".
I can't offer you any kind of solid case. My Python experience is admittedly limited. I've been working to get more into it lately.

Thanks for the resource.

Can I ask if you see any reason to not abandon Python 2 altogether when starting a new development project?
Technical people are really NOT in demand everywhere.

There are only a few cities with a couple of jobs for them. The USA has stuff in SF/NY mostly. France has some stuff in Paris. That's about it.
I'm not sure there's much point just repeating the article in the comments.
Personally I'd rather see a well curated and thought out list than random books. If I want random books. If I want a random book I can just walk blindly into a library.
Much better to include the feature in the training, and exclude it from the inference. That actually cancels out the effect, rather than just incentivizing the model to reconstruct it.
Using TLS1.3 with OpenSSL
So you're living on $15k per year? That's just slightly over $1k a month. My rent alone is $1k a month :).
I was also curious; here's what Wikipedia says about Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread":

> "In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes they thrive on and maintain poverty and scarcity, as symbol for richness and in spite of being in a time of abundance thanks to technology, while promoting privilege. He goes on to propose a more decentralised economic system based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation, asserting that the tendencies for this kind of organisation already exist, both in evolution and in human society. He also talks about details of revolution and expropriation in order not to end in a reactionary way."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conquest_of_Bread
Wouldn't it make sense for Cargo not to use crate names in file names, and use hexadecimally encoded hashes instead?
Huh?

From the OP: "After we burn through our reserves, it seems likely that the next step for the WMF will be going into debt to support continued runaway spending, followed by bankruptcy."

If it was just about wasting donations, they'd never go into debt. It's costs, and specifically costs-to-income ratio he seems perturbed about.
> I see no other reason why they should have 300X the employees.

Well, that's a little unfair. When you measure from 1, virtually any number will look like an absurd multiple. Calling it 300x makes it sound ridiculous but for a company with $80MM in revenue, 300 employees doesn't seem to be unreasonable.
I'm switching the subject back to tolerance and opinions, which you raised, after you tried to divert it to attacking straw men and demonstrating that you don't know the meaning of the word "fascist".

Liberals don't think "believing in the concept of borders and controlled immigration is intolerance", they think calling Mexicans "rapists" is intolerance.

So why don't you answer my questions? Do you tolerate what Trump does without permission with his tiny little hands to women's "pussies", and do you think the opinion he expressed about being able to get away with sexual assault because he's rich is valid and tolerable?
Toxic propellants. Nitrogen tetroxide / hydrazine. Both components are highly toxic.

The big space shuttle used those for its maneuvering propulsion, and ground crews had to wear all the protective gear after landing until the propellant had been drained.
Or it might simply be that people don't like to discuss specific numbers related to their income/investment on a public forum under their real name.
I'd suggest that a big reason for the success of AWS is not the efficiency of their data center operations, but the quality of their software. AWS is a software company that happens to sell cloud software. The pricing of their core services is not necessarily lower than the IBM/Google/Microsoft equivalents. People choose AWS because of the breadth and depth of the ecosystem compared to Google/IBM/Microsoft.

The old quote "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" had some truth to it, as IBM was the safe default choice. In the cloud, the truth seems to be "Nobody ever got fired for choosing AWS". AWS is the safe default choice... you'd really need a good reason to go with IBM in the cloud.
Terrorism is nothing. People are much more worried about healthcare, jobs and pensions.

If you are French, all 3 are mostly nationalized.
It's good that communication channels are still open. That's very import.

o Whatever you may feel always be polite with reminders. Do not make them angry or make accusations. It sounds like they're already in a frustrating position.

o remember they have a legal obligation to meet payroll. Next on the list is lights on, heat & rent. After that hosting bill. And then below all of these are vendors. Hopefully you are at the top of the vendor list!

o if they run out of money you may not get paid. That's how it works!

o over the years I only had this happen once. It was $9k, but I subsequently got 2k of that. Still every month like clock work I send "a gentle reminder" of outstanding invoice for $7k. They still respond. So I know if that situation changes in the future I'll be first in line to get paid.
You know, if you want to be an asshole, I'm not going to try and have a discussion with you.

The example the author gave is not the actual script he was using to monitor Jenkins. It's a small portion of it.

Seriously, if someone hasn't used Python before, I can't just assume that they know how Python's exception handling works.
Probably a space equivalent of the USS Jimmy Carter - i.e. hacking/surveilling unfriendly satellites.