skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a few copies of Encarta lying around on Archive.org if anyone is interested in getting a copy:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=encarta&and[]=mediatype...
Goldman sachs isn't a partnership, and the potential for corruption and nepotism is always huge in any structure. That's why they extend loans to new partners, but the whole point is that partners no longer take salaries, they are equity holders in the actual firm, and they're obviously not going to let just anyone become a partner because they have money. What exactly do you see as the difference here between having to buy your way into the partnership after the other partners vote and then taking equity versus being promoted to partner after the other partners vote and then taking a salary? Who exactly is supposed to own the law firm in the second case if not the partners?
Does Python have something analogous to RVM or Gemsets, or Bundler (Bundler can exclude incompatible dependencies at runtime)?
I remember moving schools at age 12 and the computers in the library had encarta. My friends had PCs with CDROMs and could print out Encarta for homework where I was stuck copying stuff out from a paper encyclopedia. Memories!
It feels an awful lot like the people putting out this statement want to position themselves as the actual driving force behind the focus on shareholder value in the 80s, and thus use that branding to also posit an authority to change future corporate governance in a way that accommodates the current political climate. It's absurd to think that they would have that kind of power, but that aspect of it is probably harmless in the long run; I think the bigger concern is how this statement can be used and incorporated as a bigger vision for governance that appears to address fundamental problems with the way our economy is run without actually addressing them, much the way a focus on plastic straws lets people feel like they're addressing ocean plastic without actually addressing it.
It's a matter of economics.

An ISP could build the required infrastructure to support everyone's peak desired simultaneous usage... but then they'd probably have to quadruple (or worse) what people are paying for it just to break even, which the market wouldn't support, so they'd go out of business.

The same way restaurants could invest in enough space to handle all demand for Friday nights and Valentine's Day... but would go out of business because they couldn't keep it full enough to pay the rent the rest of the week/year.
Whether they were trying to pull a “Banksy” or not is unclear, but if this was accidental, the announcer should’ve stated such rather than trying to slickly blame it on his accent. It wasn’t just his pronouncing but also displayed on the screens.
Amazon had it's share of trashy classic copies for a while.

https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Illustrated-Platin...
Who Becomes a Member of Congress? Evidence from De-Anonymized Census Data
Russian sailor's 1969 message in a bottle washes up in Alaska
> Wikipedia + Google is superior in pretty much all imaginable ways.

Ah, but does Wikipedia + Google have MindMaze?
Is it just me or do the groups have a significant overlap in their margin of error?
Could use 'sscr' perhaps? (although close to scr for screensaver files)
Well, I believe you get more privileges in HN when you have more points. And it makes you look more attractive.
Not only is the study in itself flawed, the data on which it relies on is flawed as well.
I spent the last 6 years writing C++. Would not recommend for a new project, unless some very specific conditions are met. The main reason being the memory (un-)safety and the costs it generates.
I would be unsurprised if some other species had oral histories. It seems that elephants and crows are able to communicate about specific locations and people while their referents aren't around.
I have a theory on the dynamic being described, based on my experiences as a software developer.

When you are juggling and prioritizing a list of tasks, they are occupying short term memory. If you can perform the current task from muscle memory, you don’t upset working memory. But as soon as you start having to think about it, and worse once you start editorializing in your head, things start to drop off.

Worst case results of this phenomenon have occurred when you finish a hard task and you have to ask yourself, “what was I doing?/why was I doing this?”

So you want your tools to be unobtrusive. People who love hand tools know this. Somehow we do not.
Sure, congestion is a thing, but:

- I feel like there should be some oversight or required transparency about how and when they're applying throttling. Can they throttle customers in under served markets all the time to save money?
- They're currently throttling sites not protocols or users. Why? Did some sites pay them off? If they need to throttle they should be applying that process equally among sites. "But AT&T didn't slow Amazon.com's Prime Video at all"
- I would be curious to see where bandwidth problems play out in terms of "carrier could build more towers, but hasn't" and "we've reached the actual peak of what's possible with current technology.
Of course it's nothing like that. That was one dollar, while this is 20 billion.
Specialized AI chips don't seem like a very good business idea to me.

The way we do things (in AI) today - we may be doing things completely different tomorrow. It's not like there's a standard everyone has agreed on.

There is a very real risk these specialized, expensive devices will go the way of the Bitcoin ASIC miner (which saturated secondary markets at a fraction of its original cost).

Source: I do ML consulting and build AI hardware.
I'm sorry, this is just incorrect by somebody who either hadn't fully used Encarta / Compton's, or doesn't remember them.

I have been looking for 5+ years for a tablet or PC "Atlas" which can easily, with a click of button, show me graphs, or colour regions, based on specified criteria such as political types; economy; climate; productivity; and other interesting stats.

Wikipedia articles are horribly inconsistent about format and details they use for different geographic regions. They are even worse at showing overviews, especially across categories and regions. It takes me hours to gather info I'd get in Encarta in a few clicks, at which point I give up. Google Maps doesn't have any of these markings / mappings easily accessible; and neither is trivially accessible offline.

This is not to say Google Maps and Wikipedia aren't AWESOME - because they are; and I wouldn't dream of replacing them with Encarta for 99% of things. But there are significant use cases which have been lost and not replaced with anything of equal ease of use.

FWIW: I'd pay $50+ right now for a good off-line atlas. All I can find in app stores when I search for "Atlas" is scans of maps :S
There also was the Encyclopedia Brittanica, not sure how it compares to Encarta. I remember getting it on DVD or CD and choosing it instead of Encarta. No idea where it went.
I'm not sure if the information is better or more complete then an offline Wikipedia dump combined with the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
That's very debatable. I, personally, would much rather that people in possession of drugs go free rather than the police using the dogs as an excuse to search people they don't like the look of.
I just finished watching “Stranger things” on Netflix. It hits home. I was allowed to wander with my friends during the day, granted I got home for dinner. We used to walk almost a mile to school and back on our own. We didn’t have mobile phones and our parents really didn’t care. It was a way of life. “Where are your kids? Somewhere with their friends”.

I think the iPad generation now live virtual lives with their friends. Kinda sad but that’s what fearmongering by media gets us.
If the math was solid, you'd have a point. But it doesn't, so you don't.
As a company working for one of the companies impacted by this weirdness we are just as concerned about the potential implications here as you are. We have followed up with JFrog about this and are waiting for a response from them about this.

I'm glad others are seeing these weird things too and it's giving them pause as well.
This harkens me back to the era of random publicity “multimedia” CD-ROMs. I remember being /thrilled/ that I got a free CD-ROM from Toyota!

Before websites were really a thing, having your own multimedia CD-ROM to give out was some kind of status symbol!
I've served over there and of the bases I've seen I doubt a single one would be "destroyed" in the total sense. There are just so many, most of them are large and spread out, and the structures are usually reinforced concrete. At the start of this soft targets would be moved anyway. Meh.
I am 24 and very much remember it! Simpler days!
I miss it as well, as the author points out it isn't large and is easily contained on a thumbnail flash drive (several times over!).

I've started creating an offline reference library[1] because I see that search engines will be over whelmed with crap and frankly I don't want to have to find cell service to ask my handheld device to locate a factoid.

If you've read that now more than 50% of Google desktop searches don't result in a click, it is because Google is getting better at 'one boxing' the answer so you don't need to click through to read it.

[1] That project started by digitizing my referenced by less often used text books. Which lead to me digitizing text books for others as well. After Google's win on digitizing books is fair use for air cover much of the work applies NLP and a bit of machine learning to pull out facts which are not, in themselves copyrightable.

[2] "Google Wins Copyright Suit" --- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/04/18...
Are you kidding me? Encarta was the bomb. As a kid, in the days before the computer was an endless source of information and distraction, I would just browse Encarta and learn random stuff.

Once some kid in my third grade class asked why race cars made noise they do when they passed, the teacher didn't give a satisfactory answer, and I was able to explain the Doppler effect to them based on animation I watched on Encarta.

Good stuff.
It varies wildly and unpredictably.

We could talk about era (this is largely 90s and more recent), location (small towns are often better, suburbs are overzealous but not viciously policed, cities are less likely to intrude but often more heavy-handed when they do), income, and race (the predictable biases). There are definitely places where children have been systematically taken away (mostly poor, minority communities).

But for most people, this comes down to "99.5% of the time, no, but there's no way to be sure you're safe." It just takes a run of bad luck: an invasive bystander, followed by an overzealous cop or social worker, perhaps followed by a judge without much common sense. Which means that it has an extremely widespread chilling effect. I've heard several people say that they know the crime stats and aren't scared of their kid being attacked if they go out alone - but still won't allow it because they're scared of the police and child protective services.
I find this to be a recurring theme when banking security comes up. Every time I've ever been in a position to check, the specific claims made by HN comments about lackluster bank security practices have not been true. I assume they must have been true at one point, but commenters don't check that they are still true before commenting.
>China is very very short on dollars

$3T of dollar reserves would like to have a word with you.
Basic laws of supply and demand state that when you charge a fixed price and permit unlimited usage at that price, usage will approach infinity (that is, when the marginal price is zero). Everyone with a fixed price, unlimited usage plan has no incentive at all to restrain use. The wireless carriers cannot provide infinite service (the bandwidth simply doesn't exist).
A map of the brain can tell roughly what you're reading about
I miss it and I also miss a real encyclopedia collection. They both offer a thing Wikipedia always lacks: consistency, in writing style, in topic depth, in error rate. I still remember the weekend in 90s when I had a copy of Encarta and threw the whole weekend to click through topics after topics, and amazed at things it offered. It’s so much fun.
Did he start a project to find out why people were unwilling to talk? Or to find out how the police could adapt its behaviour to make people more willing to talk?

He didn't get a chance. He was fired for suggesting that people don't trust CPD because of over a century of corruption.
Looks like the latest Encarta is from 2009 ... I wonder if they would consider releasing their copyrights to the public
The content on Wikipedia far exceeds what Encarta had available of course, but Encarta was made during the height of the multimedia boom and features rich interactive media and educational narratives.

That entire time period is full of lost multimedia gems. From cooking CDs that had vetted recipes taught by professional chefs, to the Microsoft Wine Guide![1]

Sure now days all of that information is available on the web, but people have to sort through 90% garbage to find the good stuff. The number of recipes on the web put out by people who just don't even know how to cook is astounding.

There is something to be said for high quality curated experiences, and that is what those multimedia CD-ROMs offered.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzpNT8wAD3A
I can agree with everything you said, but I don’t think there’s really the paradox here or chicken-egg problem that you’re implying. It’s not difficult to make design decisions before building based on the specs of your components. It’s not hard to know that filling pixels via a scripting language or waiting on a synchronous internet request is going to hose your responsiveness. It is possible to make reasonable design decisions before you build, and to reach responsiveness before you optimize. The main reason people fail to reach responsiveness is for lack of making responsiveness an up-front requirement, it’s not for lack of optimization.
Yeah, as the article alludes to, Encarta was a product of the period after CDs came out but before there was much of a WWW, before most people had an Internet connection, and what home connections existed were mostly dial-up modems.

As a result, it was hard not to be in a bit of awe at how much information of various types you could suddenly have at home in the form of little silvery disks.
I would strongly disagree in this case. Wikipedia can be very opinionated and holds bias towards fringe information that has a niche passionate base of followers.

Google provides very shallow info and bites that give rise to information that is clever as opposed to well thought out.

I do not want to infer that they are bad resources, but I would argue that they are significantly lacking in the department of balanced, curated and well thought out information.
Not only that, but they advertise that they are giving you "10 GB of data at LTE speed" and that's not what you get.
The period of time before the infiniteness of the internet but after CD-ROMs could pack lots of information was fascinating to grow up in. You had lots of curiosity but still limited access to information so you deeply explored stuff.

Add to that, something like Encarta was curated by opinionated editors (whether or not you agree with them is different from the fact that the nature of content is different when it isn't trying to find consensus amongst absolutely everyone) and did not survive based on advertising as most internet content does today.

That set of factors made for a very different world of reading than today.
Vaping linked to 94 mysterious cases of severe lung disease in 14 states
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4418502/ This article from 2014 classifies fluoride as a neurotoxicant.
Many an evening was spent with clicking on Mindmaze
It's more of an inclination for speed than a problem. I have no problem with my current stack.

C# and .NET are VM/bytecode I think and like 1/4th the speed of C.
I was lucky to have Encarta at home when in school. I remember one kid complaining that I did well in a homework assignment because I had Encarta and the science teacher simply said he can't stop someone from using it to learn.

It's nice that knowledge has become widely accessible with the Internet. The hard part I find now is knowing how to learn with so much access to information.
It really depends on the project. A lot of times that modern thing you're working with is just a wrapper around some C/C++ library (unless you're doing web dev - then there's a whole other set of issues).
This is no less naive than the Japanese plan to make America concede the Pacific by killing two and and a half thousand Americans. The Chinese are not stupid enough to think that would work, rather than having the opposite effect of enraging Americans.
Oh no, I've been looking for "modern Encarta" for years, in particular something that would easily show me different regions coloured by statistics and criteria - the ability to pick part of the earth, and then colour selected regions by economy, or productivity, or politics, or whatever, was phenomenal. Tablets _should_ be such a natural device for an educational geography product; but with free Google Maps + Wikipedia, nobody seems to be trying (at least I cannot find anything useful in my once-yearly attempts).
It's interesting how policies like fluoridation of water are accepted at face value assuming the highest of scientific / statistical rigor was used to justify them. Of course that is not the case. Yet it requires just that, not common sense, to even question the practice in a manner that people will not consider somehow off-kilter. Our faith in authorities is stronger than ever, while the scientific community struggles with our basic ability to reproduce much of the research we even today cite is rigorous even ground-breaking.
Consider sharing this sort of content anyway! Even for younger audiences, it's really cool to be exposed to new-to-you things.
My main concerns with serverless are unexpected costs and vendor lock-in, especially for small startups and side projects. I like that you can create an event-driven architecture and "glue" various services together (e.g, execute a lambda when an object is created on S3), but I feel like this setup could get out of control if you don't do a lot of planning and budgeting ahead of time -- these time costs should not be overlooked. A more traditional setup may not scale as well out of the box, but that could help you avoid system spike costs. I'd rather have my site go down than go into bankruptcy because of my serverless bill.
For a kid growing up, Encarta was far superior to anything Wikipedia offers today.

Sure, Wikipedia wins in sheer volume but that's it. Encarta was a well curated collection of knowledge that was consistent and perfectly suited for its audience.

More is not always better.
People use Anaconda to avoid this and get a pretty seamless experience. Lets you use multiple python configs on the same system and manages that for you.

I learned this when taking a computational finance class specifically to figure out why that and the quant/ai/ml community gravitated around python.

Python's advantages here came from about 12 years ago, when the syntax was friendly but other similar syntax friendly languages had a lot of overhead and other compromises. But these differentiators are mostly non-existent today, and Python is the only one with basically two different programming languages (py 2.x, py 3.x) operating under a single "Python" brand.
There's not much room for competition because the level of rules and regulations required to enter the market are very high. Basically the only companies that can manage that red-tape are massive corporations. The end result is a system like Epic that can do everything. These monoliths are usually large, difficult to change, and riddled with tech debt. Creating user stories for the thousands of different things that an administrator/physician/nurse/patient can do in these systems is seemingly an insurmountable task. I wouldn't want to try to rebuild a software system like Epic and I absolutely would not want to work on a system like that.

Furthermore, Epic is sold to administrators, not physicians. It checks all the boxes so it gets the contract.
> Yes, there's unethical people, and it's way too common in this business environment.

It is survivorship filter, good guys have much smaller chances to climb the ladder.
I remember in the late 80s and early 90s during the summers when it was too hot to be outside, we'd sit in the den watching PBS with a World Book Encyclopedia tome in our lap just flipping through the pages.
> Respectfully, that is a common and tempting argument, but no, no, and no. The raspberry pi 3 has a freaking dual core 64-bit 1.4Ghz processor that is more than fast enough to run full-screen video games at 60Hz.

Windows XP on a Pentium 4 was snappier than Windows 10 is on an i7 today.
> I don't see a comprehensive, community-approved place (book or website) where I can learn and understand the differences between the many ways of doing the same thing

Check C++ Core Guidelines https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC... which is a community approved collection of best practices for modern C++.
> The legal purpose of a corporation is to generate returns for shareholders.

This is legally incorrect. It's a meme that should die. This idea is based on the assumption that not acting to maximize shareholder value is defrauding investors. But this isn't at all true. Corporations are free to do whatever they want, as long as they're transparent about doing so.

Or to make the same point in the opposite direction: companies must act ethically, because not doing so ends up being securities fraud[0]. Since stock price is in a large part based on perception, things that negatively affect perception that aren't disclosed could be (and are) construed as defrauding investors.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...