skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the least highlighted part of the story, and the one being totally ignored on HN, is the alleged secret romantic relationship between a foundation member and the alleged female complainant. That puts a lot in perspective for me. What's even more interesting is that the alleged complainant was mostly active on pages related to women athletes, women's rights, abortion rights etc., so it's not a far stretch to assume she's a feminist. And from her perspective she was being stalked and harassed by a privileged white male, who in fact was just doing his job of correcting her grammar, deleting stubs etc. Also his rude behavior wouldn't have helped. So she went ahead and did what any radical feminist in power would do, abuse her power.
Mac keyboard user here. I considered this one a while ago, but the fact that it doesn't have an ESC key and also no function key row still holds me off.

What's your experience with that?
Paywall.
Subscription fatigue.
OS/2 had comsistently higher hardware requirements than MS DOS and Windows. Mainly the memory usage was way higher. This was the price you had to pay for the better system design.

The MS system software of that era is a prime example of how worse is better for software products.
Interesting how he chose the word "strike", commonly used to refer to workers, as if to imply users are working for Facebook or Twitter.

Every time a user submits something to them, it is arguable she is doing work for those companies. The companies do not produce content, yet they depend on it in order to draw traffic. What they provide is a centralised distribution channel. They rely on users to do the work of producing/submitting content.
> for long

Just the fact that all these weasel words have to get added should answer the question without them. Of course nobody would even give a shit if you said it once, like said admin said it once. And the best part is, it's totally speculation whether the ban has anything to do with it. So it's basically just a bunch of people saying "I don't know or care why this happened, because I know something for which they would deserve it", which is saying "fuck arbcom" -- not that we know or care about any of the context, at all. Not even saying "fuck you" to a person. I guess if he had said "fuck wikipedia" it should have been more than one year, because after all, that includes arbcom by definition.

I'm pretty sure I said "fuck HN" in other words before, one time I was so mad I actually took a break from posting, and after a year came back with a lot of upvotes on my last comment and a supportive reply.

> Behavior matters in society

This includes the ban, and arguing "my chess club owner would throw anyone giving them lip out instantly, so" with a straight face.

edit: actually, while we don't know for sure what the ban is for, it's pretty obvious it has nothing to do with "fuck arbcom":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_t...

> What we can say in this case is that the issues reported to us fell under section 4 of the terms of use, as noted above, specifically under the first provision entitled “harassing and abusing others.”

My description of much of this as "I don't know or care why this happened, because I know something for which they would deserve it" is correct - it's just not flattering.
Was this really a clerical error? He sold 90% of the shares to his dad and signed it without reading. If he forgot to sign it or signed the incorrect form, I'd call that a clerical error, but does not reading what you're signing also fall in that category?
> Gini coefficient went to zero (ie equal wealth distribution), the need for money would effectively disappear.

why would that be the case?

the need for money (and lending) should not disappear as long as there is any scarcity in any required goods.
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Yeah, a few days ago.
Put everyone in a numbered sequence unknown to them. Add their chosen number to their sequence number, mod 10.

This re-maps everyone’s choices so they actually have no idea what number they are actually choosing and efficiently redistributes the bias in their choices without massively complicated functions. It is also robust to changes in the distribution pattern. However it would only work well if you had at least 10 people and the number of people is divisible by 10.
Perhaps you could use an on/off switch, and do something like this.

function power_on() {
bool sw_pos_last = eeprom_read(SWITCH_LASTBOOT);
bool sw_pos_now = input_read(SWITCH);
if (sw_pos_last != sw_pos_now) {
eeprom_write(SWITCH_LASTBOOT, sw_pos_now);
factory_reset();
}
}

To reset, simply turn it off, press the switch, turn it on, done!

No power is needed to latch a reset request when the bulb is disconnected. Seems easy and straightforward, at worst you need to power the bulb on/off several times.

> I suppose you could add a big capacitor or battery so that it could be reset when not in the lamp, but that is non-trivial.

Even if you go this way with only a momentary switch, it's not trivial, but I don't think it's rocket science either, just an example to make the point: using a flip-flop and a 100 uF capacitor, with an isolated Vcc supply (can be supplied by the MCU). The flip-flop draws 1 mA of current at 5 volt, you press a reset switch to invert the flip-flop, when the bulb is turned on later, the MCU would read a different state and trigger the factory reset. 100 uF would give the user at least 2 minutes to react, assuming the worst capacitor. To detect the power loss of the flip-flop, use a comparator before MCU reapplies the power, the cost is less than 1 USD, and I bet the electronics engineers can come up with a even better solution.
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If the site offers 2-3 free articles to read, then I'm good. Otherwise I just back out.

If my 2-3 article trial is over, I just open on Private mode or Temporary Tab extension on Firefox.
I also would not pass in a database client instance. I would pass in the config for the database client though.

I think that the class which ineteracts with the database directly via the client should be tightly coupled to the database client. It's not very often that you change database and when you do, you can just swap out that entire class completely. Classes which interact with the database should expose simple interfaces for performing actions against the database and those wrappers should be replaceable.
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Do you have any source for this (that isn't just rampant speculation)? If these things are going on and actually impacting editorial work within Wikipedia itself, it sounds like we are due for a nice little Wikipediagate...
It is true that WMF should have communicated the reasons for the ban better and worked more closely with the community. However, I do not understand the extreme upset. From what I understand, he was an extremely toxic element of the community that drove new and old users away due to his repeated harassment, which does more damage than having him off the site and loosing his prolific enforcement of the speedy deletion policy.

One of the reasons why they should have communicated better is seen in the following abstract. It also demonstrates how toxic the community is and reminds me a lot of how GamerGate started: The ex-boyfriend of the game developer of "Depression Quest" alleged, in a very long rant, that she was sleeping with a game journalist for a good review in order to profit from it. Of course, that was complete bullshit as, even believing she slept with him, (a) he did not write a review for the game and (b) the game is for free. It is and was never about actual misconduct on the side of the victim of harassment but rather about their identity and how that upsets the community because they're an "Other" in "their" space (here, a woman and a transgender editor)

> Those dynamics are central to Fram’s ban. Egged on by Fram’s insistence that the foundation had actually banned him because of a grudge, and stymied by the foundation’s refusal to name the complainant, Wikipedians began to scour his history on the platform, looking for someone to blame.

> Much of that blame fell, perhaps predictably, on a woman and a transgender editor. In 2017, a fledgling Wikipedian accused Fram of monitoring her activity on the site to such an extent that felt like harassment. The editor, whose contributions focused on women athletes, lesbian history, and abortion rights, felt that Fram’s pattern of correcting her spelling and deleting her stubs — short, unfinished articles that are culled when they sit dormant for too long — demonstrated a lack of good faith.

[...]

> More recently, Fram had an acrimonious semantic debate with a high-profile transgender editor over whether referring to them as “xe” constituted misgendering. It culminated in an ugly claim by Fram that he would not be misracing a black person by calling them the n-word, only being racist.
"Please, stop being cruel to individuals whose names have come up in the course of this issue"

> On Wikipedia and in the forums of Wikipediocracy, a site where Wikipedians gather to discuss and criticize Wikipedia, users speculated about a secret romantic connection between the woman editor and a member of the Wikimedia Foundation board and about whether the trans editor might’ve been pretending to be trans to win a fight with Fram. The vitriol toward those two users grew so intense that Risker chastised some Wikipedians in her critical note about the ban.
Thank you for the remark. That is indeed also what I am looking at, or more precisely the interaction between structure and moderation policy. Stackoverflow is a very good example of how they interact. At such an early stage, I am mostly trying to identify structures on which policies can be built, as policies are much easier to change.
It's a stream of JPEG frames separated by boundaries. You can see the traffic in dev tools, sort by size and you should see the stream is the largest transfer, and increasing.
Not to get into an extensive debate, but this is a complex issue where intelligent and well informed people can disagree.

As you note, obviously the concern has nothing to do with hosting bandwidth or similar. The concern driving the removal of stubs and other undermaintained pages are (1) editorial, relating to the quality of Wikipedia as a resource and (2) the efficient expenditure of maintenance labor.

The effort by volunteers to maintain Wikipedia utterly dwarfs monetary donations to the foundation even by the most conservative estimates. Similarly, the amount of potential harm caused to the world (or an individual, or to the public's goodwill towards wikipedia) due to an article which is grievously incorrect or malicious due to being unmaintained also dwarfs petty operating considerations.

The concern is that articles that no one cares about are potentially places where damaging content could fester and dealing with them, even inadequately, requires expenditure of editorial resources which could be better applied elsewhere.

There are contributors at both extremes of this ideological split, though most people are somewhere in between. The political dynamic has created something of a impasse where contributors more on the extreme end of include-everything oppose the addition of tools that would allow less aggressive handling (such as making those pages accessible only to logged-in users, whom are presumably better informed about the sausage making) because of the justified concern that these measures would also be applied to more borderline cases which are currently included.
Google Lifts Ban Form Huawei Smartphones – Resumes Android License
Wow. I kept zooming out and there was more and more. That is incredible.

Do you know how much power it produces?
“Benefit from encrypted and secure text messaging, without any central server, utilizing a distributed network.”
Slightly off topic, but kudos to your contribution to the censorship on /r/bitcoin, you guys really won. I was skeptical of the mass bans you guys handed out, but you really pulled it off. You should give consultation to Wales on how to handle this situation. Maybe mass bans will be effective.
Kettle has to be the cheapest way of boiling water, so economising it away seems short sighted. Or do you mean by switching to only cold drinks?
It's right there in the article. Conclusions are mine, but the allegations are right there.
Sounds like the kind of advice I'll like to give my 38 year old self when I'm 50. Thanks for sharing your perspective :)
Australia has also huge potential in solar power and big problems with electricily, I wonder why they didn't invested serious money yet.
I like the concept of a "portfolio career". For better or worse, however, one of the things I want to achieve is to be financially independent... and that seems to be somewhat at odds with this kind of varied profile.
And if no objects are allowed in the room at all, then pick the lightest person and flip them :) Though flipping a person multiple times is difficult, so it could be biased towards 1 flip.
The pressure may cause the container to release molecules into the food. Plastic that is normally considered food-safe might not be food-safe at these pressures.
But it wasn't just about mankind making it to the moon. It was about getting there "before the bad guys". About making a show of willpower. About proving that no sacrifice is too large.
Pasteurizing is an integral part of the cooking/preparation of some foods, they won't taste right without it.

The best example I have (since it's local to me) is Cocio chocolate milk. It has three ingredients: milk, cocoa and sugar. If you just mix those together in the right proportions, it does taste okay, but nowhere near what Cocio is supposed to taste like.

To get the right taste, the chocolate milk is boiled in the bottle for ~30 minutes, which caramelizes some of the sugars, and then it has to sit for around a week to mature.

I consider myself a bit of a chocolate milk aficionado, and in my opinion, no other chocolate milk comes even close to that taste and feel.
Thanks for the suggestion, will read.

I've occasionally speculated that in a world with 8 billion people, there exists a job/activity for which I am the absolutely best candidate, because of the perfect match of my very specific mix of skills and the very specific mix of skills required. The tricky bit is finding that match, I suppose :)
I'm not going to weep for Wikipedia. The most I really use it for is finding links to real resources and I can do that elsewhere. I've tried to contribute before, but would always have my edits reverted. They also ban Tor, which is unacceptable.

Anyway, democracy is either good or it isn't. I'm of the opinion that it isn't, but it's queer to me that one could champion democratic ideals and then complain about the demographics. I vehemently disagree with the idea that white men are somehow incapable of cataloguing the world's knowledge, purely because they're not black or Chinese or women or something else, for obvious reasons.

It's interesting that this seems to be connected to the usual group of troublemakers, people who are easily offended, but we'll see where this leads.
Actually, the hack is to fix the incorrect behavior of the processor in real mode (not lowering line 20 to 0).

The fact that it was put into the keyboard controller was probably as it is a simple soc[1] with (in the case of a keyboard controller) about 256 bytes of ram and about 1-4K of rom. Which resources was probably still available to the motherboard designers without complicated logic or additional components. It is not the weirdest fix to imagine. note: modern variant of the keyboard controller can sometimes be flashed which is fun to play around with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-48
The problem is that JS Fonts and other CDNed stuff won't load and websites will hang or work weird - particularly Stackoverflow. Bc it's all over https you can't MITM it and inject your own with OpenWRT/piholes. Decentraleyes (a Firefox browser extension) fixes some of this, but not all. If anyone has any additional suggestions, please let me know (it makes life bearable in China without a VPN)
And many homes have battery backup systems as well. However, they all use lead-acid batteries. There is a real opportunity for better battery technologies to be deployed in India.
You can pretty much do that as long as you want anywhere in the US. That’s not disorderly conduct.
Also, solar and wind for electricity is a disaster in terms of CO2. People ought to look at the real numbers before thinking that intermittent energies instead of nuclear are going to save us.
That’s the point. A community that can keep people who are indifferent or hostile to its values out has some chance of survival. One that can’t doesn't. Keeping people like you or me out is not an incidental benefit of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, it’s indispensable. If you completely disagree with a community's core tenets they do not want you. And if you’re not a member of a community your feelings about how it should be governed are relevant only insofar as they are enforced by men with guns.
Wikimedia was created by the community, but it seems that some there might be forgetting who was supposed to be serving who.
I am having a great time. And my doubts aren't about societal norms; I've directly gone against societal norms at least twice (quitting my first well-paying, well-respected job to start a games company when I was 21, and quitting my most recent well-paying, well-respected job to focus on acting and filmmaking). I'm OK with that.

My doubts come from within. It's more about my own expectations for myself. For example, at my age and with my background, am I a fool for not trying to start a VC backed startup like everyone else? I guess there's a strong FOMO element in my questions.
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Benevolent dictator? Really? Seems like getting bounced for cursing people out is a very basic and mild response in society, not “ho ho this monarch is making up the rules from whole cloth!”
It seems to have the key components. An ephemeral timeline and new posts page, user submitted stories and content, and the like/upvote.

It's not a social network though. There's no concept of friends. Twitter is part way between the two. It barely groks user relationships - you subscribe to someone to see their stuff in your feed and that's about as far as it goes.
Somehow, when GE robs you of less than a minute of your life using a magic knock interface that would enthrall players in a video game, it feels like they still manage to age you by two decades with consumer hostile psychological warfare.
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That is a really nice check list. I think it is color coded as well to present information clearly.
> Embrace your neurology.

Love it :)

Best of luck with your projects, they sound like fun! Electronics and robotics are somewhere on my list, too.
I wish you would delete this comment and make it again without the loaded overtones that are going to cause it to get killed.

You're expressing an interesting observation but then ruining it with an overly politicized generalization that reflects poorly on you and your position.
Just eyeballing it there seems to be 1 square kilometer of panels total. At regular solar panel efficiency, output would be 1000-2000MW total. So the same order of magnitude as one nuclear reactor.
It's a growing industry though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Australia

As for increased investing, there's probably politics at play.
The bacteria is aneorbic so it's not a huge danger outside of canned food
That's a great way to think about it. Thanks for the insight :)
Wow, I don't even know where to start. You are right that the alleged relationship is actually the most interesting part of the story. Because it shows what's so wrong about the user base's reaction: Without any merit - reminiscent of GamerGate (see my other comment) - a secret relationship is alleged that of course biases every actor involved. The community piles onto one user without any good reason, except that she is a woman. And her behavior, writing about topics that counteract certain problems in the community (and are thus almost an act of resistance), is disdained by the insecure, predominantly male, user base that feels attacked by the implicit political act in her presence and writing focus.

Every single sentence in your comment is without a factual base - and you still manage to make massive leaps of logic between them. It is clear that you are motivated by an anti-feminist standpoint that has little connection with actual reality or contemporary feminist thought. And for some reason, you deem it justified to harass users for it. If a substantial portion of Wikipedia's user base is like you, then that's pretty unhealthy.
You can with iptables.
Fun fact: effective tax is not the same as marginal tax.

Fun fact: effective tax rates on the top were similar to now due to more loopholes then, which is why cutting that top rate didn’t result in massive revenue loss when it changed.
Researchers propose ways to avoid blackouts with renewable energy (2018)
You're correct, and we're all speculating because we don't know their situation. It could all be fine and the kids have other support systems ... but it doesn't sound good as written.
This. Net metering is cool and all, but with the wrong grid fee structure it ends up as a subsidy to the already well off.
Even if he would remove the vitriol in his comment, arguably it is still a pretty bad comment: Each sentence has no factual basis but is purely based on far-flung allegations and they still manage to make massive leaps of logic between each sentence.
That sounds fantastic and it's something I aspire to achieve; however this falls into the category of "should I laser-focus on this, or have a better work-life balance?". Part of my difficulty is figuring out the tradeoff of "sacrificing wellbeing today to build a solid foundation" vs "do not postpone enjoying life".
Thanks! Will read.
Turning the TV off whilst doing the house work is basically a rounding error.

You'd have to drink a lot of tea (or rather stop drinking) before kettle usage starts accounting for anywhere near 2/3rds of your electrical usage.

Air conditioning/electrical heating is possible. But if its 2/3rds of your energy usage, it doesn't sound that optional.

The biggest users of electricity are ones you can't easily cut out. Electric car, hot water, heating/cooling, cooking, washing machine, dryer, fridge. They're the major energy users in the home, and you can't easily reduce them by the 2/3rds required. Unless you took your shack to passivehaus standards, and that's only for heating cooling.
Define viable.

Could you buy a white-box PC with it already installed, for the same price as one with Windos on it? Were there drivers for all the hardware likely to be needed? No and no.

Sure it would run the programs, way more reliably than Windos could.

The playing field was sharply tilted, so there was never a possibility of fair competition.
It's hard to imagine an economy where there is no loans. If an economy is fully saturated and doesn't desire more loans, then that still leaves trillions worth of existing loans (and ongoing refinancing) that need to be served; if the amount of loans isn't growing then the banks won't grow but they can profitably operate with a stable amount of loans.
There is no factual basis to these allegations though. And besides your first sentence and the first half of the second sentence, the rest is completely unsubstantiated. Your comment on feminism and her perspective has no bearing in reality
Depends a ton on humidity. In a humid area like deep South or Midwest 90F is extremely uncomfortable. In a desert climate like SoCal 90 isn't bad in the shade, and not even uncomfortable with fans