skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia is drowning in money?

Their audited financials:

- Cash in hand: $100m, Annual expenses: $91m
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim...

Internet archive:

- Net assets: $2m, Functional expenses: $18m
- https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...
> Otherwise how can you beat hard-wired speakers and a dumb 8-channel amp?

Because it saves you running wires around the house and getting an 8-channel amp accessible from one place rather than every phone. I can run wires, but... what's the point?

Even if I did want to run the wires, either the time to do that + required tools/materials, or getting an electrician costs me more than a set of sonos speakers.
Azure Functions runtime 3.0 is now generally available
> To add to this, that yang subreddit actively encourages people to create Twitter accounts (if you don't already have one) to participate.

Not only that, Yang ran a couple of UBI-themed contests offering a chance to win money for following and retweeting him. What better use is there for acquiring an army of fake accounts?
Up and coming HN post "How I used GPT-2 to join the Yang Gang". (clearly I am a bot)
In the solidarity protests for HK in Vancouver almost everybody wears them for obvious reason. Would be interesting if Canadian police require to remove them...
Wow, I just tried it and had no idea. I can kind of understand now why there is so much hate towards the "orange site" on twitter and some other spaces.
FP, REPL Driven Development and generative testing.

In short, I have been doing Clojure since last year.
> Yang has gone from 0 to 1

Yang hasn't gone anywhere, he's been bouncing around in the same range for months with no systematic progress.

> and is going to see exponential growth as Iowa gets closer.

If he did something radical like doubling his support in Iowa in the, what, 10 days remaining, and the sources of support he gained were optimally distributed for him to move up positions, that would still only get him to fifth from his current sixth in Iowa, and he'd only be a little over half the support of #4.
> It's something inherent to us as a species that we came together to create a resource for everyone to access and that it has such a high level of quality

I like the explanation that Wikipedia is built on nerds' need to correct each other.
Apparently silicone ones exist:

https://www.amazon.ca/Collapsible-Silicone-Water-Bottles-Cam...
Wired: The Feds' Battle Against Huawei
I'm as surprised as anyone, but Yelp seems to be holding on. G's reviews just aren't as good, and don't seem to be as critical. Not sure if it's just easier to game? Pretty much everything on Google maps is a 4.0.
I think many to one eventually becomes the real challenge. IOW how to get the message to the lowest ranking person able to deal with the issue depending on its content.
If there's cat5 at the keypads back to the central hub, and the speaker wires go to the keypads, then you can just hook the wires from the speakers to the cat5 - choose one or two pair (depending on the distance, you might want to "double up" to lower the impedance over the run), and hook 'em up. Then you just need to figure out a distribution system at the central hub location.

If you find you can run the speakers on a single pair per speaker - that will leave you with 2 other pairs on the cat5 - which you could use for control or communication.

But what I would do before all of that is try to reverse-engineer the protocols or whatnot that the whole system is currently using, so you can keep the keypads/amps and such, and create some kind of custom main "head unit" later.
Article tells nice story but offers little explanation. Why did the lake end up 11 m shallower than planned? Why starting to rebuild took fifty years? What does "bail réel solidaire" actually mean?

Also they are planning to have 35 people in the village, that sounds very tiny.
Letting the mind wander like that is precisely why I read books in the first place. Sometimes I'll only read one chapter in 3 hours and the rest is just daydreaming.
Completely understandable, I admit I could benefit sometimes from stating things more plainly and avoid unintended confusion. Especially via text where tone doesn't always translate well.
That’s a later development in CRT TVs, where if there’s no signal you get a flat blue generated by the TV instead of noise. Hence the often quoted tidbit that Gibson’s line “The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel” (close enough) doesn’t scan as a grey sky for younger readers.
Embrace the Chaos
> how do you devour a whale? One bite at a time.

Missed a step. You gotta kill it first.
Yang is often referred to as a “tech entrepreneur” but it’s practically a smear to insinuate he’s some billionaire (a common assumption). It’s more accurate to say he’s a nonprofit entrepreneur given his dot-com was a charity organizing company and his nonprofit works with startups in underserved markets.
There is a lot of wisdom in this post. I think there are some people who have a knack for recognizing talent, value, whatever you want to call it, and protect and/or share their own social capital to encourage (boost?) what they see and remove impediments to it flourishing. It's not a guarantee, but it might be a signal. If the baseline is a 1 in 5000 shot at the NBA, there still may be 10 of those deep boosters among the 5000 who do the same things, but come up short. Yet 10 kids reduced their odds from 1 in 5000 to 1 in 10.
140K miles on that Civic is just breaking it in, for sure. My wife's 1995 Civic has over 330K on it, and my daily driver 2007 Civic is nearing 200K. They both burn very little oil and neither has lost appreciable fuel economy. We do try to take good care of them, from a maintenance perspective. (I'm in Ohio, and the road salt is taking its toll, however.)
Yeah, that's something we have received feedback about several times. The initial reasoning was something like this:

1: We didn't have MFA until we had PRIME. Generally speaking, we only add new features to our higher-end plans.

2: Our business model doesn't allow us to give away stuff for free. No ads, no selling data, simple subscription based pricing. MFA costs us money (SMS, phone calls).

So that's the logic, which I understand might not be very convincing. We are exploring making it part of our free plan, or a lower tier plan.
Well the barriers are pretty low today. Even fairly small companies like Axis (they make security cameras) or ubiquiti (routers and access points) can work with CPU vendors to license their tech and get a custom CPU. With an opensource IP the barrier will be even lower. Maybe even within a well funded kickstarter range.

Maybe for a killer home router with a 100% open hardware+software platform that can route 8 ports of 5Gbit/port at line speed that would more trusted than random commodity hardware.

Or something to handle say 8 security cameras and use machine learning to handle all 8 streams for not just motion detection, but also identifying what person/object is in each stream.

I'd certainly pay a premium for smart devices in my home that I knew that I could trust, wasn't spying on me, doesn't require cloud connections, used open APIs/standards, and wouldn't die with the next time a company dies, gets bored, gets greedy, get purchased, etc.
What's saddening is that Mint was so ahead of their time in this area, but it just didn't happen.

Why can't your banker do your taxes for you? Why can't they tell you how you'll pay for your kid's college tuition? Why can't they give you a personalized budget to reach some level of wealth in a certain number of years? Why can't your banker tell you when you're ready to buy a house or if you're borrowing more than you can realistically afford? Why can't they tell you when you're reaching dangerously high credit card debt or whether you can really afford that auto-loan?

They could do all of this with the current data that they have. But imagine if you gave them more data, like your current employment position, geographic location, and family status. They might be able to tell you if you're being under or over-paid, how others similarly situated plan their savings, or when is the right time (if ever) to move from renting to owning real estate.

Banking systems have an enormous wealth of data, that can do so much good, but they are still mostly a simple table of deposits and withdrawals.
A program that uses subprocess would not have the single core constraint
True, fixing mobile is slightly more involved due to the current design. But I've made a note and we will get it fixed soon!
What if I don't have a Google account?
One Question You Should Never Ask Your Boss
He’s right, but we should take every winning battle we can, no?

Absolutely. Things like this serve to raise awareness that tech companies such as Google and Facebook are sleazy and exploitative. When people who used to brag at parties that they were “a googler” feel ashamed to mention it then some progress might get made.
Haven't heard "darts" used to mean cigarettes before (I'm Australian too). Possibly it's something used in a specific region, rather than all of Australia.
What about something like this?

http://strobe.audio/

I mean - that's just the first hit I found searching for open-source multi-room audio streaming for the raspberry pi. There were others.

Seriously - once you got one node to work, at that point clone the sd card (just dd it), and pop the image onto new cards for each new node. I don't know what kind of configuration or fiddling you might have to do, and while it isn't a "plug-n-play" thing like Sonos, you (and everyone else here) probably have the smarts to figure it out.

And once you have it figured out for one - the copying it and duping it to the other nodes and setting them up is probably not much of a stretch.
How so? They point out the difficulty balancing personal privacy and tools to identify criminals who have evaded justice. Just because you don't agree with the relative importance placed on either side doesn't make them dumb or naive.
> Pantone 448 C colored flowers

want!
Flickr increases Pro subscription price
Er... why do you say that?
I don't know about 23andme, but I have read Privacy Policies of similar services in the past and they are all riddled with legalese and unclear phrasing that make using the service a complete no-go for me.

Also note that if the policy seems clear you have to follow and read the PP's of their partners and 3rd-parties, and then their partners, etc.

IANAL and you should be before bestowing your trust in such service, unless you don't mind having your DNA profile out in the open.
Kudos to the author for writing this up and making it work. The feeling that washes over me, however, is relief that we now have platforms like Netlify and a few others that do this for us.
Does silicone not leach? Isn't it a synthetic compound as well?
I think you both agree. Magenta is easy to generate, and the CGA electronics were designed around easy to generate colors, not pretty or good looking colors.
And if someone kills every memeber of your family, and they leave DNA behind, but police are not allowed to use DNA databases which WOULD find the person that commited the crime and they don't have a match otherwise (since we're already making assumptions that something will definitely happen)?

I mean this goes both ways. One thing I don't understand about this whole hate for DNA databases and matching relative's DNA on HN is... why?

Why does something that can help police catch criminals is such a bad thing? Because there are false positives? But those exist in pretty much all other investigation techniques. Cell phone positions, being seen on a surveillance camera few blocks away, having a similar car and being in the area, etc. Why is DNA so much worse?

In fact wouldn't adding more variables, such as DNA, to the existing techniques reduce the number of false positives as in "Oh yeah it's the same car, but there's 0% DNA similarity so no need to investigate further"?

Police "barging into your house with assault rifles and ballistic protection gear, and pointing guns at all members of your family" seems extremely overkill for a, let's say, 10% DNA match. And if they do really do that, then it's a problem with a police that needs to be addressed - not the DNA databases.
Gave me a funny idea (its terrible I know) point a web cam at each remote worker (you) then give the boss a traditional remote control with all 20 "TV" channels. If the boss is looking an indicator light goes on and you get to have a one way conversation with the boss in listen only mode. (extra points for steampunk design TV/RC)
What's the CSS hex code though? Or RGBA value?
Pros and Cons of Owning an Amazon Business
Great article! Thanks for the link.

Nowadays I cringe when I regularly see small fridges completely encased in furniture in hotel rooms, with no air circulation. They get very warm and even the top surface of the furniture sometimes.

I wonder what William Holladay, the grandfather of the article's author, would have to say about that.

The idea of putting the compressor on top is also interesting, why is it not being pursued? Noise issues?
Just put the following in your bashrc and it will simplify everything:

Alias emacs=‘vim’

:)
Suddenly the muslim veil makes sense. It's definitely a great way to combat face recognition. This is part of why I think a ban on wearing it in public is a bit overreaching - in public is exactly where it's needed.
> In fact a quick check on twitteraudit.com

Yang: 95%; 1,061,978 Real 48,878 Fake

Bernie: 69%; 7,052,953 Real 3,124,469 Fake

Warren: 84%; 2,966,118 Real 560,776 Fake

Buttigieg: 93%; 1,481,598 Real 102,999 Fake

Biden: 84%; 3,375,998 Real 619,266 Fake

Trump: 79%; 56,463,132 Real 14,292,673 Fake
Running a realistic factory honeypot to capture real threats [pdf]
The Go development story is already pretty easy. Easier than Python if you need concurrency or performance.
I was speaking with my dad about this the other day (who was a politically active university student during independence). He thought that she has quite a bit of leeway to be anti-democratic so long as GDP growth stays around 8% per year. He has been back several times in the last few years, and what struck him was how muted the response has been from BNP supporters. Economic growth seems to have hushed a lot of criticism and partisanship.
> 1. design a flawed API (it's fine! APIs are hard)

> 2. ship it in the most-used browser, despite objections

> 3. get cross-browser working group to fix the API

> 4. oops, too late, that would break the web

Is this about DOMParser?

(Which upon a parse error generates a DOM tree with an 'error document' instead of returning null or throwing an exception...)
the comicality of thinking that a uniformed soldier in space would care about camouflage

Consider that air forces throughout the world wear blue uniforms, yet no individual in uniform is ever going to attempt to camouflage themselves against the sky...
In France mountain rescue is provided free of charge by the french state (only exception is when you are skiing on an official ski run). In Switzerland it’s not free, and almost all the population is a member of the 2 main associations that will cover the costs.
Just like inkjet printers.

Is this disclosed when you buy the fridge?
The “cloud car” that Waymo and Uber promise is really cool... until you have kids. I think it will be big business for singles but as a parent I can’t imagine not owning a car. The car has the car seats, books, toys, snacks, diapers, etc in it at all times. I can’t imagine Ubering around schlepping all that shit.
map and filter are not concepts of FP - they are just syntactic sugar around for loops. fully evident if you check any native source code. many languages (such as go which I currently use) do not even have these functions but can apply FP. this is by design of simplicity and visibility: it does not get much easier to read than a simple for loop and know the exact iterations count at runtime.
The amount of data is growing superlinearly while their resources (probably) aren't, so a dropping price for storage is currently allowing them to keep up (if just barely so).
I think the defaults matter a lot in such cases. Does anybody remember if that checkbox for installing google chrome was checked in by default or not?
Why people are complaining about that? If you don't want it just change your search engine to whatever you want. That just take a minute.

PS: Just for experimenting I switched to Edge (new) & Bing to see what's different. And I really liked Edge, it's faster than chrome and has some privacy controls like cross domain cookie handling. Tried firefox before edge. But did not liked it, because It's ui is crap also some functionalities may not work because devs are optimizing the websites mostly for chrome.

But Bing as a search engine is not powerful like google because of lack of data.
You shouldn’t use IDs in E2E testing
r/india is just cesspool. They do not care about free speech or liberty; they just want to control the narrative. The comments section is a shit show. It's hard to find a decent comment. It's all gomutra/sanghi/fascist/chaddi. At least on the other Indiaverse subs, we see some decent discussion. The best debates on CAA are on r/IndiaSpeaks. It's pro-BJP, but you can still criticize them there. And a lot of randians have found an outlet there.
RCA and XLR are still pretty much the standard. You just need to look for studio equipment from companies such as Genelec, Neumann, Pioneer et.al.
hell yeah, this is what I'm on about, I'm still learning stuff about emacs tricks here. I love this, thanks for bringing this up!
^this +1. took me years to learn.
Daily+Deal-Letter+Get+For+Free
There is literally no reason for one company to use another’s brand other than to deceive the consumer.
I agree that nobody needs to shed tears for Google. However, what's more concerning here is that it's the users who would face the brunt of this decision.
which patents? does it include 64 bit?

surely most of the x86 patents have expired, yet i don't see any interest in open source implementations.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. This is anecdotal, but I signed up for Mint as a pretty naive college student who had no idea that Mint was tossing my financial data all over the damn place. A few years later I eventually learned how Mint really works and promptly deleted my account (and then purged as much advertising data as I could in a bout of paranoia).

I hope the next generation of personal finance apps maintain strict privacy guarantees while running on a subscription model. I'll definitely be giving Monarch a look!
I believe its mostly to do with the business model of Mint. In their initial years they were radically focused on the product and customer experience. But as with every so-called FREE product owners, founders of mint have now shifted their complete focus to monetization.

This is pattern and I have witnessed it happening in india too with personal finance products. Infact founders are expressly building products on mint model: create free expense tracking app, spend a year on customer experience, acquire millions of users, and finally shift their focus on upselling financial products leaving customers in the lurch. This looks like a brutal barter system to me.

One day users will figure out a solution to this pervasive problem in software industry and will choose products/tools prudently.
Sounds like you're referring to the "employee" versus "contractor" question, which is a whole other distinction.

I'm talking about "full-time employee for a fixed-term" versus "full-time employee on an ongoing permanent basis".

In both cases, they're employees, not 'contractors' (so you withhold PAYG, pay their superannuation, etc).

But in the first case, you don't have an obligation to continue employing them after (say) 12 months.

The second, you are obliged to do so, so you can't turn around and say "we just don't want to employ you any more" after 12 months. You need to follow the redundancy provisions or terminate them for cause.

The problem is that it's not explicit whether businesses can actually offer the first type of contract (or more specifically, that if I employ someone on an 18-month, it's not explicit that they can't claim a redundancy payout when those 18 months end).
Come on... the guy was getting 250k/year in passive income, but to “survive” in SF he “needs” over 300k a year to make ends meet so he must go back to work... good that he’s still relatively young and going back to work is an option but I wouldn’t call it a failure to retire at 34 on 250k passive income. If he moved virtually anywhere else than SF, his whole family could live like kings and not have to work another day. This article feels tone deaf.
Right. They licensed not only their name, but their reputation.
How to Contribute to Kernel Documentation
That's fantastic! I'm definitely adding that to my spacemacs setup.

I usually end up doing that in two steps,
with the first being a recursive macro to quote each line:

q y s $ " A , <escape> 0 j @ q

Then visually selecting and replacing new lines with spaces:

V G :s/CTRL+Q CTRL+J/ /g
Recommending to donate is rather misleading.

Most of the work on Wikipedia is done by unpaid editors.

On the other hand, Wikimedia Foundation (the one that collects donations and manages the project) is accumulating donations and increasing spendings at ever-increasing rates, way above its maintenance and development needs. Just google a bit. Something like this: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9qqds7Z3Ykd9Kdeay/... Their history of being wasteful and not transparent about their spending is rather long.
The 80/20 rule applies to many these sort of things. In case of Wiki, it's 90/10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
r/ADHD needs this
But all of those things you've enumerated are available in a PC - Apple only makes the board and a few smaller unimportant chips that don't affect performance. You're not comparing apples to oranges when you say that MacPro is faster somehow. It'd run at identical speed given the same CPU, same GPU and same RAM.
Noticing You're Confused
Yes, but look at how those $91M break down. Almost all "actual" expenses (including hosting) went down from last year, but the salaries continued to grow by several million, as they do every single year. I love Wikipedia, but I've stopped donating for that reason.
Also, but the major cloud hosters proably wouldn't report compromises.
That's almost exactly my route to coding too - though I used the ZX Spectrum in the UK. I started with BASIC, then "assembled" programs by hand, looking up the opcodes in the back of the manual.

Even now I remember a lot of Z80 opcodes, largely as a result of hacking and patching games to get infinite lives.

I'm slowly working on building my own computer at the moment, with a real Z80 processor and an arduino to drive it. Fun stuff, but I've stalled for the past few months.
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Ok. I will think about it. ;)
I don't understand why this is. As the high end stuff gets down to 10nm-ish, shouldn't it have gotten way cheaper to fabricate micron-precision chips?
Intel Q4 FY 2019 Results: Record Quarter, Record Year
Culture is the biggest impediment to progress. Radio predates IRC by a 100 years. It's like most people DID NOT LEARN TO READ.
The 200M Indian Muslims are already ghettoized. And they do not mix. RSS's vision of Hindu Majoritarian India is a constitutional democracy without any minority appeasement.
Employee non-solicitation is in fact enforceable in California, e.g., see https://hkm.com/los-angeles/non-competes/non-solicitation-em...