skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question--what is the best way to report or educate other thread participants about these sorts of things? I cited a credible source as to the usage of that topic as part of active measures. Are we just supposed to let those topics fester here?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20068381
We suspected this at our primary school: across gender and ethnicity divisions, STEM and literacy scores were highly correlated.
Wednesday: Sacrifices as Part of Worship
This is how I feel about the ACLU. I donate to them because they're helping families separated on the southern border, but their PR is just so... Fox News. Except left-wing of course.
> while views increased 10x over the past 15 years, expenses have increased by 1250x. That leaves a 125x

Wikipedia is probably a money laundering operation. How else to explain the cooked books feel of those numbers?

Edit: wow way to anger The herd! seems I've hit a nerve so I know I must be onto something. The fact that people don't want to consider this point of view makes it more likely to be the case because it's shielded from inspection, by The mirage of goodness conveyed by Wikipedia's reputation perhaps its charity status. I suppose such shielding must be how many money laundering operations work to disguise themselves. so people being outraged at the suggestion is exactly as intended and doing the work of hiding the money laundering business. This is fascinating. Well done!
I used to assist walking large dogs at an animal shelter on Wednesdays whilst at uni. When I offered any kind of help for 4 hours a week anytime and this is what they asked for specifically. During the week it is primarily the elderly who volunteer walk, so the shelter avoided giving them the larger dogs and had to "make do" with short walks / single field roaming.

It was of course amazing for me - it didn't seem right. Huge walks with some of the best dogs in the place.

Recently I was on a small team did a lot of work validating whether a particular employment divide "startup" concept worked. We concluded that it did change prospects, but not meaningfully enough to warrant divergence from current channels. Our findings to be released soon.

I do what I believe in, and where I feel the efforts have the greatest impact. Naturally this means charity largely lands around me.

I'd like to give to Mozilla/EFF and some open source projects; but ideally by convincing employers.
In firefox it skips one letter at a time and maybe that is the intended behaviour, but it doesn't seem consistent with what I'd expect from a WYSIWYG editor.

I'd expect there to be 2 positions between the "e" and the "t" that the cursor would stop at so I can either insert text with the formatting of "one" or "two"
Magnetic Poles Are a Myth
What’s to wonder? Cancer stories get clicks. Facts are optional.
I'm a Xoogler myself, I understand the struggle.

And I agree that I've never known any individual Googler to be evil, or intend to be evil (Although I've seen questionable decision making at times).

But whilst no one Googler is evil, the larger body that is "Google" has turned slightly further towards evil (In my personal definition of the word evil).

It's still nowhere near what I would consider true evil, I would probably go back to Google one day if the opportunity presents itself. But I would argue the Google I see today is less "good" than the Google I saw 5 years ago.
Not quite the question that was asked, but Charity Navigator is a great resource for finding/evaluating organizations you might want to give to: https://www.charitynavigator.org/
U.S. House Passes Xinjiang Bill, Prompting Threat from China
Very nice article. I'm intrigued by the Khovanov homology and its relation to the geometric Langlands program. I don't know any knot theory yet but fortunately I know quantum mechanics, quantum fields theory, statistical mechanics and algebraic topology. So maybe this is a game I can learn to play someday.
Yep,

It appears that their biggest expense is the $38,597,407 in salaries distributed to ~350 employees. This makes the average salary $110,278 at the Wikimedia Foundation. I don't really have anything negative to say about that.

However I guess you could question why they need 350 employees. So I looked at the projects they are currently working on:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia_p...
I still get charged a buck a month when I have zero services running. I tore everything down a couple months ago and verified recently. I haven't had a chance to complain because it is such little money but aws billing is complete shit and their alerts are a dark pattern.
>> BeerSmith is fine and I've seen it used at a number of different craft breweries, but ultimately it is indeed a glorified spreadsheet.

Then again, so is most line-of-business software. ;)
From 2018.

For reference, the discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411227
I'm not sure this is a direct competitor or not but just to pass on info to HNers, here in Japan Mercari is #1 for buying and selling used stuff online.

It's mobile 1st. Take a picture of the item you want to sell, add a price and it's on sale. They've done nearly everything possible to make things as seamless as possible. When a sale happens you get notified where and how to ship it. They partnered with the post office and the 50k+ convenience stores so you can ship from the stores. At both locations they auto print labels via QR codes and offer fixed box sizes. I think they do a little bit of escrow (not 100% sure the actual mechanics) but I believe the buyer pays immediately but the funds are not forwarded until the buyer approves the item. (really not sure about this part)

Certain things seem like it might only fit Japan. The convenience store partnership is huge since, at least in populous areas there is always multiple within 2-5 min walk. Even post offices are relatively many. I also don't know to what extent a more trustworthy populus helps.

They are hiring like crazy and hiring foreigners as well if you want a job in Japan. They're probably the #1 company for running dev meetups in Tokyo and those meetups feel like SV, all English, in rooms that might as well be at Google Mountain View including food and kitchens etc..

AFAIK they've had no luck replicating their success outside Japan
Ask HN: Best Practices when expanding a community geographically
Hello,
I run a site that showcases culturally relevant events to black community in Nashville. We want to expand to more cities but not sure best approach to get the word out.
I think they might no longer do this but for many years Linode's Atlanta location blocked access to IRC-specific ports, I believe because of a specific policy by their Atlanta datacenter.
Have to sign in just to save a search?

no thanks
I honestly don’t mind a world without Wikipedia.
Google Disability Support Now Includes American Sign Language
Do the math. Their expenses for 2017-2018 were 81,442,265 (81 million). To live off interest (let's say they pull a safe and solid 5%. If you can reliably do better than 5% with annuity-level thinking, good for you), they'd need 1/0.05 = 20 times their run rate, or 1,628,845,300 (1.6 billion).

They hold just under 135 million in assets, so they'd need 12 times what they currently hold. That's why living off interest wouldn't work. They'll need the telethon til they can make that equation work, or at least come closer.
I find that Nextdoor gets me more responses on for-sale items and none of them are scams. On Craigslist I get fewer and the majority are scams. I only bother with Craigslist these days when I’m looking to buy, or if I’m selling an item expensive enough to worry about getting the best price.
no he hasnt
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I agree. The cup-of-coffee keeps wikipedia running strategy feels kinda scummy, but hey, it's probably how they got so far in the black in the first place. No incentive for them to stop the campaign.
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I think good communications are especially important for nonprofits! If one is donating, they will want to know how their money will be spent.

The things do not need to be highly visible of course -- but they should be at least explained. I don't understand why they are not saying things like "we hired 50 more programmers to keep our servers running, and 25 more to develop new AI to fight spam".

Instead, I looked at "2018 Annual Report" [0], and found those specific points:

- Support researchers who make offline wikipedia

- Advertise itself in Nigeria

- Support participation of women in Wikipedia

- AI to detect vandalism

- Page previews

- Content translation tools

That's 1 user feature and 2 editor features. Did I miss something?

[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/
We erred on the side of simplicity to keep things manageable for our users.
Perhaps the app can manage to remember your address and phone number, instead of making you type it in every time even when you are logged in to your account? I dunno just guessing at some improvements they can make.
The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler
I am not familiar with them.
All I'm waiting for is to be able to install ublock origin. Without it, the borwsing experience simply does not feel fast like it does on Bromite (chromium + adblocker).
Finance report [0] says "Internet hosting" was $2,342,130, or 2.8% of their expenses. This is approximately the same as last year ($2,169,861, [1])

[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/fin...

[1] https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/financials.html
Is this HIPAA compliant? And how do we contact you? It's a little difficult not having an email address.
While I think your criticism about the example given is good, you're still only addressing the specific example given. The parent poster was trying to illustrate why gender parity might not actually be the ultimate goal. The example might have problems, but that doesn't necessarily invalidate the point that was made.
It'd be nice to know what Mozilla's plans are for Firefox Focus.

Felt like it was always a stopgap solution until Android for Firefox had been through its big overhaul.

Are they keeping it around until Firefox works on iPhone? Are they keeping it around forever? Should Android users on the bleeding edge consider moving to Firefox Preview in anticipation of Firefox Focus going away? There was a time where Focus was the bleeding edge.
There are thousands of people selling THC products on Instagram, I’ve even seen it on eBay. It seems like all these years of civil disobedience is paving the way to a sensible drug policy.
I agree, 50% is probably an unreasonable goal, I could maybe even see arguing that any percent based goal is a bad goal. The goal should be “enough so those who are feeling disenfranchised don’t anymore” but that might be too squishy :)
I used to do OpenVPN on port 53 (DNS) when all the various airplane wifi first launched. suuuuper limiting (that 230 MTU tho) and eventually blockaded. then there was the google XSS-proxy-redirect that I abused for awhile until google removed it (also hella limiting). then i decided all future jobs must pay for my airplane wifi habit, and my experience has gotten so much better (though there are some other tricks I find when i've got nothing to do.. like the redboot bug that gave me free IFE on a long haul flight :)
"Steve is our best salesman, but he keeps sexually harassing the interns and crashing the company car. Joe janitor just put in his resume..."
Seems unlikely. Larry Sergey previously attended all TGIFs. Then after a series of pointed questions at TGIF, they no longer decided to attend TGIFs.
How much money is waymo making?
#mysql on DALnet has been invaluable in helping me learn how to manage databases. I actually was on DALnet for the last 15 years and stumbled into a number of different rooms to learn various topics. #mysql has been the one that I ended up frequenting the most. Now I ask and answer questions there. Everyone is generally pretty friendly and welcoming (even though some people asking questions are often impatient).
who seem to be mostly/originally based in Slavic countries, which I find interesting culturally - perhaps it's due to a looser legal environment + activist academics?

You see the same situation with Asia --- it's a collectivist culture, they have a very different perspective on IP in general.
Wolfram Alpha won't do the multiplication for me. Google does it but I only get the 7 most significant digits. Any other online ways to check this?

https://www.google.com/search?q=5094359522858399145550510235...

EDIT: This one works: http://www.javascripter.net/math/calculators/100digitbigintc...
No, Autonomous Vehicles will not result in a shortage of organ donors
Could you write a glossary for that post.
This is a big deal. Cold starts were always the huge Achilles heal for using lambdas for interactive APIs. Kudos for this.
people asked the same thing about facebook in 2008
> I don't think that this is idle scare-mongering

Is there evidence the WMF has considered a sale of its assets?
https://repl.it/repls/BeneficialSomberExtension
Before I bought a Xiaomi it was impossible to record any call (Samsung, HTC) and it seems it was by design. The only way was installing an app that somehow routed the recording through their servers (no, thanks) otherwise you could only record outgoing (or was it incoming?) sound.
(2017)? It seems the original article dates to 2016, but was updated for 2017 and 2018. (The trend holds, which is why it's on HN frontpage today.)
The point of the article, if I an reading it right, is that WMF was doing about as much good when it was spending 23x less. That means they could spend nearly twice as much as that and still live off interest.
Lead dust gets into the air. It is directly responsible for thousands upon thousands of murders. The decline in violent crime is a direct result of decreasing childhood exposure.
Check s4cmd - https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
Details in Sergey Brin and Amanda Rosenberg: Inside the Google Co-Founder’s Romance with the Google Glass Marketing Manager | Vanity Fair http://archive.is/kQvuR Febr 2015
How can I acquire customers faster?
I started my side project about 18 months ago, but started gaining traction only in May of this year (2019). I've acquired 3 paying customers, and continue getting sign ups for the free trial I'm offering. So far my trial conversion rate is 2.9%.

After some experimentation, I now have an understanding of the best way to drive traffic and potential customers to the site.

But things are going slower than I'd like. I'd like to be acquire at least 1 new customer per day.
In Australia where I live, selling goods online outside the likes of eBay and normal ecommerce has become a generally painful experience.

Facebook marketplace (and Gumtree to a lesser degree) have given the buyer this weird desire to lowball on pricing to the point of insult. It's almost like as soon as people open Facebook, they become this extreme version of themselves, and this extends to "haggling".
We have a domain verification process in place to make sure that only the people with the right permissions on a website can initiate a security test. There are two methods in which you can verify domain ownership once you've signed up for our service:

File Verification - You can download a file from Beagle and then copy it to the root directory of your website. Only a person with write permission/access on the website directory will be able to verify domain ownership by this process.

DNS Verification - You can generate a key from Beagle and add it as a text entry in your DNS. Only a person with access to edit the Domain DNS records will be able to use this method

This helps us to make sure that any sort of misuse is avoided.
This has been happening for centuries.

I think of the mercury used in gold mining in the 1800's as well as this book from the 1960's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring

I also read when the USSR came apart the world started to find out the scope of hidden environmental problems.

"Heavy metal pollution near Norilsk is so severe that it has now become economically feasible to mine surface soil, as the soil has acquired such high concentrations of platinum and palladium."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk#Pollution
Some of the customers for this phone are developers who want to contribute to its development. And some customers are so interested in it that they would prefer to receive the half-baked version instead of waiting.
“Extended bout,” but still. I guess you think about these things very differently when you’re working on geological time scales.
I don’t understand. It’s pretty reasonable to say that editor features, etc. are not worth the money if they are not noticeable to the basic user, which presumably accounts for the overwhelmingly vast majority of Wikipedia page views.
I think you mean a "novelette-length story", my good pedant.
This is really cool. I would love it if Nette was added to the list of Popular Frameworks on the Getting Started page. But the list of what is available is already impressive. I can't wait to implement this in a project!
Designing in 4D
Having lived and worked in the UK for five years, the class system overrides race. You would have to go far down the chain of accent, education, area you live in, people you hang out with and more before you hit race.

There are immigrants at the bottom that feel discriminated against because of race but they miss the basics of the culture and the ones that learn the system excel.
There is Roll20, which allows you to play in online campaigns.
I don't know about "driving all the fun out", but whenever riding a bike comes up in conversations with Americans, they seem to assume that you need to go full-spandex, $1000 racing bike with all the accessories just for your commute. I always assumed this was because in the US, riding a bike is a weird, dangerous activity, so the only people who did it was complete weirdos, but I could also see it being a dudebro cultural thing ("making [your method of commute] your identity" as the other poster put it)
So get a volunteer from non-TSA employees who work at the airport in whatever capacity and clear it with their boss? I agree that this is a bit skeevy.
So in summary Wikipedia is a responsibly run nonprofit that spends slightly less than it takes in while providing a valuable service to millions (or billions) of users?
The rate of spending growth exceeds actual resource use growth by "lots."

Also, the cost of those resources — bandwidth, storage, etc — have been decreasing on a per-capacity basis over this time period. Bandwidth, compute, and storage are all vastly cheaper than they were 10 years ago or even 5.
Even if your observation is correct, it's not a bad thing. A failed experiment is hardly a failure. I doubt the legal border between Alphabet and Google won't prove useful in the future.
"but when you have billion user products, some people are always going to be pissed at you"

The problem with this narrative (which has been the official line for almost 7-8 years now) is it doesn't cause exaptation or adaptation. It is good enough to hold on to, if the goal is stagnation (which is what has happened with Search - you can point at things like wolframalpha, alpha go, stackexchange, quora, wikipedia, elasticsearch etc etc and ask why if the goal was to organize the worlds info, these things failed to develop internally - Similarly with Youtube - why did they missed being netflix or twitch, how did they not become the default platform for disney). The answer is the Scale has worked against that goal. So you stagnate.

The initial goal was to scale globally. That goal was achieved. After that new goals had to be defined. That did not happen because its hard to define achievable goals at that scale. The only default goal was empire defense - i.e. hold on to scale by hook or crook. For what? Well no great answer to that has been found. Which is hinting that global scale is counter productive to innovation whether technical or moral.

Its kind of like a football team winning the game and then staying on the pitch. Not playing any new games or restarting play. Then saying but guys we won leave us alone now.

I don't blame Google. But I expect Google to lead not to react and be defensive. And to do that the narrative requires honesty.
Request for anyone on the Lambda team who happens to read this: your API doesn’t appear to offer a way to retrieve the “last modified by” user when grabbing function metadata.

Very unlike other AWS APIs and very annoying.
Yep. We're all focused on lifting up girls, but ignore the suffering of the boys because ... some perverted ideology.
Facebook in 2008 had a singularity of users, so people were more comfortable with the answer.
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There are all sorts of alternatives. I'm just noting why they might not pick a local staff who has interacted with the dog.

I find the story interesting, but also it seems unlikely these guys are trying some real frame up job with a coat that their target is seen in the airport not wearing, and the security person carrying around. If anything it sounds like some guys goofing around.
This is how we do it. Two on prem datacenters, one colo, and a handful of on-the-ready cloud providers. We serve far fewer users, but we also are getting 20 to 50k per user per year. Needless to say, at the scale we have cloud is out of the question except in catastrophic scenarios.
Ask HN: How can I prepare for Job Interviews?
My first job out of college didn't have much of an interview, but now I want to jump to another company and I realized I dont have much experience with interviews.

I will be giving a lot of interviews, but are there any tips/links/videos from where I can learn how to become better?
This looks really slick, what's the stack?
Facebook was started by one college kid 4 years prior. Waymo has had the resources of one of the largest companies in the world for the last 10 years.
They were actually fired for e-stalking their coworkers. From The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/04/google_exemployees_...):

"The four engineers fired by Google just before Thanksgiving for allegedly e-stalking co-workers have said they will file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board claiming they were subject to an illegal intimidation campaign.

...

Google said it fired the workers for “data security violations,” saying they electronically stalked colleagues working on technology for US Customs and Border Protection. The company says they tracked fellow Googlers suspected of working those projects and leaked confidential information about their targets."
You're absolutely right. A degree is not needed but a structured university program does seem to succeed in putting the majority of its students through that study, while those doing self-study are more likely to miss such concepts for other things considered more "practical"
That reminds me of when they found out that people would clandestinely use the draft of a shared email account in order to send messages without actually sending an email. It’s ingenious and terrorists and even General Pertaeus used it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/11/12...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/special...