skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you edit using Visual Editor and compare that to the old wiki markup, you will understand. Visual Editor much faster esp. with automatic citation templates. My time is valuable (more than when I started as a poor college student) and my tolerance for bad UX has declined as technology in general has improved. And that's just one tool which has improved. There's an annual community wishlist survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_20...

And yes, it's reasonable. I work in tech as a software engineer and it's not as cheap as people think.
This is how I'd always envisioned software and computer professionals would dress growing up

The modern crop of so-called pros has nothing on those pioneers here's my middle finger to all of you
There is ZERO lock-in with this service. If people want to continue to do hand code reviews themselves, they can. There is also ZERO in Amazon's announcement that implies this is just about improving code specific to Amazon's platform.
Stop being open source purists and start understanding reality. Many (most?) of the posters about this topic critiquing Amazon live in open source unicorn land, and seem to have almost no understanding of business realities. (Sorry for not saying what I really think but I thought I should be polite.)
That's a PDF which has been compiled by LaTeX.
I would consider hyperbole worse than snark, when considering if a post has value under the site guidelines.
What one night stand with iOS feels like for Android Developer
Not really a billing opaqueness issue, but endless lambda loops are a nasty spending risk. One idea how to at least partially protect against it ttps://theburningmonk.com/2019/06/aws-lambda-how-to-detect-and-stop-accidental-infinite-recursions/

Disclaimer: I have not personally been involved using lambdas for anything serious, so my experience is limited.
I wouldn't donate to a charity which simply billed that they were aiming to cure Alzheimer's, either. I'd want to know what they'd accomplished so far, what they were planning to use the money for and, critically to the discussion at hand, if expenses seemed out of proportion with the activity I'd want to know why.

I don't claim in the parent comment that Wikipedia don't justify their expenses (although I don't think they do so sufficiently). I'm responding to the specific claim that there shouldn't be an expectation by donators to understand the benefit of their donation.
"Frankly, if a nonprofit can't justify to laypeople why they should have money, they shouldn't have money."

You can't run a government by referendum.
If the attacker doesn't declare war and the defender doesn't respond by going to war then the blunt answer seems like it'd have to be a no.
Besides, nobody can find the fork anyway. Google banishes such clones to SEO purgatory immediately, from which you are basically guaranteed to never return (especially as a pure clone).

That has been true for a decade now, since the days of Stack Exchange complaining about the clones riding their CC licensed content to easy Google ranking. You can put up a perfect clone of Wikipedia, you'll get nearly zero traffic despite having millions of pages of high quality content.
Anyone who thinks Google is a failure should reconsider. They have had their share of bad decisions, but nothing has yet challenged their dominance. They keep spreading to other areas of tech. They may not dominate the AlphaBets, but they sure attract attention and investment.
Click-bait redirects here.

The figures don't look anything like growth rate of cancer, they look like growth rate of a toenail.. 10-15% a year.

Then the author claims that "spending is growing at an ever-increasing rate" like cancer. But it is not. Draw a trend-line over the spending graph, and you'll see that the growth rate is actually damn linear (and well aligned with revenue growth).

Rest of the article is reasons why spending should be reduced. Well maybe it shouldn't. As long as there is revenue growth, maybe it is better to invest the revenue on better tools. When revenue growth stops, you've got the better tools you invested in, and can then reduce spending by not building further new tools.
This is basically just a link to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20380523 with lots of speculation.
The ‘Amazon effect’ is flooding a struggling recycling system with cardboard
That would be a very sensible way to dogfood Outpost indeed.
My interpretation of this (based on what the article says) is that you are providing an opcode->[instructions or microcode?] mechanism?

Which seems unlikely to be correct, because they already have licenses that allow new instructions/features.

So is it actually "this instruction should be turned into these signals to these ports"?

(I'll try to read the white paper once I'm not on a phone)
> It's fortunate that the best jobs are the most fair, but even if a place sucks, a first SWE job is still a first SWE job.

I think part of this is just the free market at work. Some companies will pass on great talent to meet diversity goals and those that are focused on hiring the best people will end up giving themselves a better chance at succeeding
This is pure nonsense. You might as well that the person who is the biggest creditor is the same as the biggest debtor via some horseshoe theory of finance. The Euro can't be a reserve currency because the Eurozone cannot support large capital inflows, which is because Germany is dependent on having an export based economy. Seriously, you are confusing plus with minus, addition with subtraction. To be an issuer of reserves requires that you allow foreigners to run surpluses against you. Thus no currency zone that requires running surpluses is going to be a reserve currency as long as plus is not the same as minus.
I would assume nobody. Unless it's explicitly stated in the Alphabet corporate charter, there's nothing that requires them to have an employee with the title President, or any employee with any particular title at all.
1) Azure's cost reporting is pretty good

2) No cloud has proper spending limits (aside from barebone compute like linode). It works on your bill continuing to get pricier as their overall multitenant costs come down.
The Internet Archive could take over the fork. I trust them more than I trust WMF.
My (totally unsolicited) ¥2 is you probably need to overcome that assumption very early in any conversation if you expect assistance

I've been celibate for medical reasons for over 14 years. I've been a member in good standing here for over a decade. I've gone to great lengths to avoid trouble. So far that seems to benefit me just enough to not yet be banned and that's it.

And it really shouldn't be that way. And I don't feel any good would come out of digging into those details here and now.

Do some social engineering to reveal their physical locations. Then strap tannerite-based nailbombs to UAVs? As long as we are brainstorming here...

That's good for a chuckle, but the reality is I'm far too poor to do anything like that. I'm not exaggerating when I say I routinely don't have enough money for food.

If I could come up with the means to assassinate six or ten assholes across the globe from a distance, I probably would be wealthy enough to pay cash for the building I want and would, therefore, have no reason to be sitting around stewing and wishing a few assholes would choke to death on their next bowl of soup.
It's more than a small nitpick since if we depended on factorization to find primes, RSA wouldn't be a practical cryptosystem to begin with.
No, no, you did not need to interleave blank cards with original cards to duplicate a deck. That was something you could do on a keypunch if absolutely necessary.

The IBM 519 Document Originating Machine was a 514 Reproducer with a mark-sense reader attachment. That was the "document originating" part. Loaded with an 80-80 reproduce board, either machine could copy a deck of cards. Two feeders, one with a reader, and one with a punch, going to separate output stackers. Duplicating a card deck was its most common use, although it could do a few other tasks.

The 514 and 519 could be cabled up to a 407 accounting machine, using a cable almost 2 inches in diameter and a huge connector about two by six inches. This allowed the 407 to generate new punched cards with results from a tabulator run.

The little glass window front and center was the comparison display. The original and new card were usually re-read by a second set of brushes and compared, as an error check. That display showed any differences.

The 1401/7090 combo was fairly common. A lower end configuration used the IBM 7040, and that setup was popular with universities. The usual setup was to have some tape drives shared between the two computers, with manual switches. Cards were read into the 1410 and written to tape, and output was written to tape on the 7090 and printed on the 1401, using a 1403 printer like the one at the Computer Museum in Mountain View.

Here's what a job, as a deck of cards, looked like.[1]

[1] http://sky-visions.com/ibm/7090/ibsys/jobs/arg1.fo
Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores
Perhaps they didn't envisage it turning into a giant surveillance and advertising machine. I doubt that is what they imagined when they started on their PhD's.
Development on focus has been halted last I read.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/27/mozilla-geckoview-firefox...
On the back of an envelope?

Seriously: with a pen, a scrap of paper, and a calculator.

If I want to keep the calculation I'll copy it to a plain text document or to a spreadsheet, or copy it to a notebook.

Also, if you have a browser open, you can just type equations into the console (using JS syntax):

> 3 + 4 / ( 5 * 0.9 + Math.PI) + Math.pow(2, 4)
< 19.52345108949519

Edit: or just open Terminal, type 'python', and use in interactive mode:

>>> import math
>>> 3 + 4 / ( 5 * 0.9 + math.pi) + math.pow(2, 4)
19.52345108949519
Parent specifically said a failure of the "Alphabet" thing.
If you want to give "straight dope" on a controversial issue, you don't do it by caricature without evidence.

Instead you present incontrovertible evidence that proves your point.
The originally linked article is quite misleading regarding the multiplier:

> But this study found a much bigger impact: Every $100 given directly to the poorest households was generating between $250 and $270 in GDP. That’s a fiscal multiplier in the range of 2.5 to 2.7 [...]

The paper itself states 2.6 +/- 1.5 which is a huge range of possible values. It sounds like the article is instead quoting the central estimates for income and expenditure.

The paper says that they're sure the multipliers are greater than 0 only at the 10% significance level.

So thanks for linking to the paper!
Ublock origin supports this straightforwardly,and works wellon Firefox Android.
Key takeaways:

Fashion companies are looking to invest in “enabling” startups that help them implement new business models or technologies.

Venture capitalists and incubator executives like founders who don’t gloss over the challenges they face.

Founders should have concrete data on the competition and potential consumers, as well as preliminary results of having tested their idea.
"A for-profit cannot own a nonprofit because a nonprofit has no owners. However, a for-profit can set up a structure in which it effectively has control over the nonprofit, subject to applicable laws, including those regarding private inurement, private benefit, and corporate self-dealing. Such control structures are perhaps best known between big for-profit companies and their corporate foundations and also between big financial services companies and their donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsoring organizations."

http://www.nonprofitlawblog.com/can-a-nonprofit-own-a-for-pr...
> FWIW, I've used IRC, AIM, MSN messenger, and other proprietary messaging clients and platforms and none have been as sluggish and unintuative to use as Slack.

You think slack is bad, wait until they force you to switch to teams.
I think the CEO of Waymo has already said that that driving in bad weather is likely much farther away.
You really believe this will free you from traditional code reviews? I would treat it as an advanced linter, and from the pictures looks like that's how it integrates itself in github.
That's true of Kubeflow. I'm not sure that project will be as keen on being as "compute substrate" agnostic as Metaflow too, given its connection with Google.

If you feel inclined jump in the Flyte Slack and share your thoughts :). At my company we're on Kubeflow/Argo now, but things are developing quite a lot in this space so keen to not be myopic.
The small, oval shaped lakes that you can find littering satellite imagery of northern Siberia, northern Alaska, etc... Those are where I first discovered that these sorts of pictures induce anxiety in me and that there's even a name for it. Unsettling is a good word to describe the feeling it elicits.
Yes hope more people start using latex.
Commission to present revamped ePrivacy proposal
My read is that the parent commenter isn’t saying that Google is a failure, but rather that the “Alphabet” branding was a failure.
Easily bypassed with Wifi or 4G.
WT.Social – News focused social network
Yeah, RDS is pretty expensive but unlike raw compute you do get guaranteed performance.

The issue with AWS is that it's easy to add new services without finding new vendors so companies just spend more and more on AWS as features are not as important as 'cost savings'.
I don't know their lives. Maybe they will do stuff like Bill Gates. All I know is that if I were them, I'd have stepped down long ago. Either way they achieved great success and are leaving on a high. I don't know how anyone can interpret it differently.
Sinkholed
I went to a community college with an IBM 370 that used punch cards. When they got rid of the mainframe they had punch cards left over that they gave out to students to write notes on them or study cards.

The IBM PC/XT replaced the Mainframe on a Novell Network using DOS programs.
I was excited when I read the title - I thought Amazon might have finally taken the review fraud on their site seriously and released a tool to combat it. sigh
“So whatever device you're reading this on either has a direct linage back to a 7090 (with Android/iOS/macOS/Linux being varieties of Linux)”

Yikes. macOS & iOS has nothing to do with Linux.
A quantum computing future is unlikely
Noted. We're working on a Community Guidelines page, and I'll make it a point to address these concerns. Thanks for taking the time to share this!
A Telegram bot please.

>When would you prefer an SMS/WhatsApp message over an email?

Formatting issues with email. And I don't check my mail often, on my phone alerts for chat is instant, email delays.

With telegram, whatever device I'm on works unlike WhatsApp.

I'm currently forwarding emails from you to Telegram but the formatting ish remains. Some lines at the bottom are stripped.

Issue:

It would awesome if books started right at chapter 1. With mobydick, Had to receive 15 emails of testimonials to get up chapter one.
Ok, so based on https://www.arm.com/why-arm/technologies/custom-instructions

It sounds like this is that you get to specify custom RTL for a given opcode, you are still restricted to whatever functionality is in the standard ALU.

The problem I'm having with the public docs is that they all seem to say "you can replace this [hand coded assembly example] with [a custom opcode]", but don't give an example of the actual implementation of the opcode. That would at least show some sense of what is possible.
IIRC they started a web search engine project that went nowhere.
Uh, sure, there are common negatives. But from what I can tell, it really does appear that women have to put up with a boatload more shit than men in addition to the negatives they have in common. And a lot of it hits in exactly the areas that make up for the rest of the shit - try having every one of your nonobvious decisions challenged, subtly or overtly, and see how easy it is to work through your problems with managers or whatever.
Specifically, 5e.tools includes full results (class features, items, spells, monsters, ...) from a large number of books, which are definitely not all open content.
Or stuck in the pre-history of language design.

If Go's design was perfect, its eco-system wouldn't feel like Java 1.0, full with libraries to replicate what should be language features to start with.

The first time I saw "go generate" it was on Borland C++ 2.0 for MS-DOS, released around 1990.
So what does this mean for company cybersecurity? Will companies be motivated to secure their networks by higher insurance rates? Will insurers hire infosec auditors? Will insurers stop offering coverage, and leave companies to consider hacks as Black Swan events?
The tendency to dump all kinds of unrelated stuff in the kernel is a very bad trend. It increases the attacks surface of the kernel in unpredictable ways and will lead to security issues, especially with something as complex as an interpreter.
If it is as smart as some people here think it would probably output: "are you f#$king with me?"
Mainstream news is still far from accurate enough to gain a real understanding of the topic. At best it's a way of seeing what powerful people or groups are talking about but that's still far from actually being informative which is what the general public assumes the media to be. It's hard to see how useless news is more helpful than fake news.
I Listen to Podcasts at 1x Speed
Maybe this is the beginning of the end of Facebook's supremacy.
Sundar seems to be turning into Google's Ballmer, for better and for worse.

The lack of direction, apart from the bigger projects is noticeable.
Which API specifically are you referring to (GetFuntionConfiguration ?), and which APIs are you comparing it against?
While I don't know that I agree with the analogy between nonprofits and governments, I'm not suggesting that Wiki allow us to vote on actions. I'm responding to the claim in the parent that donators shouldn't expect to understand what benefit their money is bringing.
> An example CloudFormation from a Re:Invent (AWS conference) session silently failed to tear down some resources.

Similar happened to me at a Kubernetes/GCP tutorial. We started with a $100 credit. The tutorial included setting up massive (for tutorial purposes) instances. Because I had played with my account before and had created a single instance before, I hit account limits and my tutorial code failed to work. A frustrating experience richer a was very busy at work when returning from the conference.

When getting back to my tutorial code 3 weeks later, I noticed that less than $1 of my $100 were left. The n - 1 instances I created during the tutorial had been running for 3 weeks. User error of course, but at which SW job no errors happen?

The only positive about GCP I remember is that they promised not to overflow from the credit into real money from my credit card. At least that's how I remember it. Did not (need to) test, because I noted the issue $1 early. In AWS there is no such promise as we know.
Coming from a Solr/Lucene/Algolia background, my opinions on this:

What's good:

==========

- Focused search for question and answer databases (such as customer FAQs)

- ML-based semantic search without requiring any explicit configuration

- Connectors for S3, AWS-hosted MySQL/PG, Sharepoint.
Searching data already in the AWS ecosystem (S3, Aurora) is now easier,
and likely faster and cheaper too in some aspects like saving incoming/outgoing bandwidth

- Document-level access control at all pricing plans

- Managed search (similar to Algolia)

What's similar to existing search systems (Solr / ES / Algolia):

==========

- Indexing: All data has to be processed into "field:value" structure prior to indexing

- Indexing file formats: Plain text, HTML, PDF, MS DOCX, MS PPT

- Searching: Usual boolean filters and faceting but only at field level.

- Searching: Field and value boosts for relevance, but only at index-time

- Results: Highlighting support

What's missing:

===========

- No multi-lingual support. Only English. Given that it's AWS, I'm very surprised by this actually (or
I've missed out something in their docs)

- Can't configure text analysis for English. I feel this'll return relevant results for formal-style
content, but probably not for informal-style content like emails.

- No connectors for common internal systems: Outlook, JIRA, Confluence

- No built-in support for CSV, XLS, JSON (that one's odd!). They'll all require preprocessing which means additional infra costs.

- Doesn't seem to support range- / query- facets. I feel lack of range facets is a big problem, especially
for numerical data.

- No query-time relevance tuning

- No field-level access control

- Scores are not returned in results

- Common post-searching functionality is missing: rescoring, grouping, clustering

What's unknown:

============

- I don't see any information about phrase or proximity searches. Of course, they are usually relevance hacks in keyword-based systems, but sometimes users really need exact phrase matches. Does their ML backend handle this somehow?

- All search systems fall short while handling proper nouns - names, places, things, scientific names.
It's possible to alleviate it to some extent using part-of-speech aware indexing. Not sure if Kendra
does it in its ML backend.
Ummm, just don't click any of the links in the article though.
Do we even have a scientifically-backed set of essential biological or cognitive skills related to software engineering?

I would probably start with [1] and [2].

Paper [3] concludes that sex-based differences in risk tolerance tangibly impacted approaches to spatial navigation AND program development.

There's a few others on spatial cognition and mental information processing: [4][5][6]. Paper[5] in particular links spatial cognition to mental modeling, which was identified in [1] as a software engineering skill. And [6] directly connects it to navigating source code.

[1]https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eafe/74dddaf7ada62a52a2e712...

[2]https://web.stanford.edu/~roypea/RoyPDF%20folder/A17_Pea_Kur...

[3]https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4021352

[4]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03601...

[5]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2729....

[6]https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1268852
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EUC-KR doesn't improve much with LZMA (2% over UTF-16), but is better with gzip-9 (10% over UTF-16). I haven't studied this extensively, just did a few tests when waiting for it to download.
Why Notion is staying small as its valuation gets bigger
Investec and OfferZen launching programmable bank accounts
Individual motivation and well intent has nothing to do with the forces that drive a large corporate entity at scale.

Implementing censored search for an oppressive regime or providing research to killer drone programs is quite a different ball than "pissing off a few users".

Megacorps are only driven by one goal: growth. And Google has certainly proven that a lot is flying under the radar way on the wrong side of the good vs. evil dichtonomy.
Wikimedia is contributing a lot of time and resources to other Open/Commons projects as well, at least in Germany: Open Education, Open Science, Open Glam, Open Access, Open Government etc. They also invest in advocacy (lobbying for more Open Culture, Open Access etc), which is an important voice in the political process, since most grassroots initiatives can not sustain this kind of work for a long time. I don't see the expenses as necessary for the upkeep of Wikipedia alone, but as an investment to keep the ecosystem of Open Source/Open Access alive and growing, which benefits Wikipedia as well. While I think it is important to question the distribution of Wikimedia support for projects in the Commons (they probably could do more funding, e.g. a prototype fund) , having a strong institution to foster digital participation and Open Society is vital.