skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How recent was this? I tried to add an article a year ago and found the process to be pretty crap
I think you’re right here though. For example, the staggering amount of Japanese-centric pages on enwiki shows how the interest of a monoculture can have an outsized impact on the community. But at the same time, why not the free content?
Sure, but latency and bandwidth are different things. Reducing latency by a few orders of magnitudes would open up tons of applications (not sure i agree that video conf is one of them, dont think latency of internet is the main issue there) but i don't think we are likely to see much beyond incremental improvements (light only travels so fast)
There are many ways to solve this that don't require uniqueness across all systems.

https://${customer}.hubspot.com/...
https://app.hubspot.com/${customer}/...

You'd do this at the proxy/forwarder level.
I got a source. My ex-Gf who was scrambling to get her brother to contact a family friend to make sure she didn’t get on a government list for being caught with me. The police stoped us when she was on the back of my scooter.
Setting up a country based IP filter is trivial if they don't want to serve EU and California.
Are there db dumps available with article edit histories? I know that there are article backups you can download, but I don't know the limits or extents of those archives.
404 and posted at least five times lat 14 days ?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23113465
> Their model is around workplace communication in general, it doesn't have to be remote

It doesn't, but I think the added value of Slack is much more prominent in remote scenario than when everybody is in (roughly) the same room. If it's not good enough to enable that - makes one think what it's good for?

> And maybe they're just pushers, not takers.

Then reasonable question to ask is - why not? What do they know that the takers don't?
Yes. My brief experience with TypeORM made me feel like it was written by people who really understand TypeScript, but maybe don’t understand SQL so well. It was a brief experience because I quickly lost trust in it.
By choice of topics primarily?

Wikipedia has some severe biases when it comes to what and who counts as notable. For instance, you can compare ”programming pattern” and ”knitting pattern” and try to guess which is a 50 year practice and which is as old as civilization...

That sort of topic bias is best solved by adding new contributors, but they will intrinsically have to be different sorts of persons, and historically that difference has caused issues for the newcomers: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/wikipedia-harassment-w...
The Stack Overflow fiasco was more about virtue signalling because nowadays you need to be (or rather show) “diversity and inclusion” as a business if you want to appear as a “better” company (useful for soliciting VC investment when you don’t have a profitable business), regardless of whether diversity & inclusion has ever been a problem at the company.
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I see! Thank you!
> React without jsx components is just as useless as Vue without .vue files.

It's not useless at all. JSX in React is just an alternate syntax for React.createElement calls.
Have you heard of effective altruism and givewell?

If you want to maximize benefit per dollar I don't think there's a better way.

https://www.givewell.org/
https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
> Different demographics have different interests, experiences, and knowledge. It's trivially obvious that getting a broader subset of society to contribute will also broaden the content.

Wikipedia wants to be an encyclopedia though, not a bag of personal anecdotes and life experiences.
The English Wikipedia can be part of the problem in some cases. It's not a democracy but a "tight-knit" community where insiders have a lot of influence, and even harassing, uncivil behavior can go on for a long time if it's perceived as "defending" the community's precious "work" from new editors. Part of the problem is also that harassment concerns must often be disclosed in private for obvious reasons, so a community-wide dispute resolution process might just not work very well for those.

And then there's Wikipedias in other languages and other Wikimedia projects, which come with additional cans of worms.
Good thing evil-mode exists. That was my own path - started with using emacs just for orgmode, now fully shifted over.
> Another biggie is floating point. Converting binary floating point to decimal floating point and vice versa is VERY VERY VERY SLOW, difficult to get right, and difficult to predict results.

I haven't read deeply into IEEE 754-2008 for decimal floating points, but it seems like it should be pretty fast (relative to system calls) to convert binary to decimal because 10 has a factor of 2.

> Unfortunately, ieee754 decimal float just isn't getting any adoption, so we're stuck doing these costly conversions every time we deal with text formats or big float implementations.

Is there any reason big float implementations should use decimal rather than binary? It seems like it is very straightforward to make a binary big float, and do operations on it. In fact, IEEE 754-2008 specifies interchange formats for all binary floats of bit lengths >= 128 where length is a multiple of 32.
Which is particularly damning given it wasn't even FB's fault.
Sure, except in this case the "source code reader" is also built from the source in question. More analogous, perhaps, to a self-hosting compiler.
In asian bathrooms that have "western style" toilets, sometimes there are signs telling people not to stand on the seat to use it as a squatting style toilet.
People, and I'd argue especially on HN (for an internet community), generally aren't out to promote harassment or exclusivity so it's telling how Orwellian things have become when such a statement - which on the face of it sounds good and worthy - is rightly recognized as Newspeak.

Wikimedia can do as they please, and if it results in a shitshow as many such efforts have before, then on their head may it be.

I've been pretty generous with recurring yearly donations up until now but I'll honestly put things on pause until we see how some of this plays out.

If anyone is genuinely concerned about the impact this may have, I would suggest archiving a recent dump of wikipedia at the least. It's only ~25GB.
Thanks, I hope this will be useful for other people!

1) When I google for some advanced operations (like multi-column sort), the advice seemed to be export as CSV and do it in openoffice.

2) While orgzly is a good attempt, if you google around you will find lots of limitations (it's too long since I've used it), as it is a reimplementation of org-mode so can't hope to be feature complete.
1 decibel per account?

What does that even mean?
Years ago I worked for a startup that provided CMS and ecommerce software for small business. Each of our 3000+ customers had their own MySQL database.

We had a long tail of customers with negligible usage and would run several thousand MySQL databases on a single server. As customers scaled we could migrate the database to balance capacity. We could also optionally offer "premium" and "enterprise" services that guaranteed isolation and higher durability.

Scaling was never a real issue, but the nature of our clients was steady incremental growth. I don't think we ever had a case of real "overnight success" where a shared host customer suddenly melted the infrastructure for everyone.

However, managing and migrating the databases could be a real issue. We had a few ways of handling it, but often would need to handle it in the code, `if schemaVersion == 1 else`. Over time this added up and required discipline to ensure migration, deprecation and cleanuop. As a startup, we mostly didn't have that discipline and we did have a fair bit of drift in versions and old code lying around.
So you're just going to ignore the randomized antibody tests they did in Italy and Spain?
Yes, but you rarely can put it in the open this way. It's one thing to say "I think remote teams are hard to make work efficiently, let's not risk that" and another is "I crave control so I won't allow remote teams even if it were easy to make it work". And you could get away with the former easily as top management is happy with "don't mess with a thing that works" approach. But now when we'll have an example of remote teams working, the former argument is dead. Now if your real argument is the latter, you won't be able to lay it bare for everybody to see, so insisting on banning remote work would be way harder.
Posting from a throwaway for obvious reasons.

> Codes of conduct aren't censorship... It is essentially a list of "how not to be an asshole".

It would be great if that were true.

But it's not, and we both know that.

A Code of Conduct a thinly-veiled justification to harass and bully your ideological opponents.

There's an XKCD that talks about this. Dumbest thing Randall Munroe has ever written: https://xkcd.com/1357/

You can "show someone the door".

And there will be a welcome mat, doughnuts, and a lot of friends on the other side.
Exactly this. I find the article unconvincing as far as its conclusion is concerned. At the end of the day, shareholders pay for the stock-based compensation with dilution. There’s no expense to the “company”.

As a thought experiment: say someone works for $0 in salary and 100 shares of Worthless Corp. After a year of work, our employee attempts to sell their shares, only to find no buyers. Unsurprisingly, their shares of Worthless Corp are worth $0. Did Worthless Corp incur an expense somewhere?

As far as I can tell, Worthless Corp received a years worth of work at no expense.
Traditional TV executives would never go for it. Even if they did, the inflexibilty of regular TV schedules would still be inferior to listening when you want. Plus as you mention they would have the discipline to not cut into it.
Almost all societies have multiple classes of citizens. Significantly less have multiple currencies.
Almost all of the examples you listed occurred following a war, an intervention/support by foreign powers, or an unsustainable system collapsing.

For the US, the first two are extremely unlikely to happen, while the third is still essentially harmless if the US is the global hegemonic power and if Americans in general continue to desire national unity. While people are critical of aspects of America, most still believe in the fundamental idea and structure of the country (unlike say, the constituent USSR states.)

I don’t see any of these things changing anytime soon, so no, I would say there will not be a revolution in the next 20 years. There may be massive democratic change, but this is expected. The media and Reddit specifically is not reality and I’d be skeptical of basing your analysis on such sources.
It would probably better to link to the linked page

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

Note that the risks are dramatically different for different age groups, so if one calculates a grand total this requires assumptions about age distribution. The page notes the data is about the US.
This is the biggest thing people don't get - this is not the flu and surviving it or having mild symptoms does not mean that you didn't signed up a chornic CVD or metabolic disease based on the early data that the virus causes a permanent myocardic injury, lung scaring, and God knows what else. We'll be studying the damage for the decades to come! I think many people forget that even the "benign" HPV causes different types of cancer, and we recently found it. So, a new virus means being extra careful, but how can you explain this to people who strongly believe that Bill Gates wants to chip them thru vaccines and that 5G kills birds and people?
Then you need to establish strict(er) notability guidelines.

The approach, tone, use of sources, etc. should be exactly the same when writing about design patterns and knitting patterns (actually, I have the feeling pages about knitting patterns will be much more sound and factual than those about design patterns- but that's only a specific case...).
Thanks. I corrected her name. What culture influenced reading can produce :)
Israeli intelligence failures led to a ‘devil's advocate’ role (2017)
These articles are from August and January 2019, respectively.

And, yes, it is likely that these board members were among the board members that voted on this proposal, considering they are members of the board, and the board voted on it.

Is there any specific problem you see with these two as opposed to other board members, or why do you feel the need to point them out?
YouTube and TikTok are cavalcades of human stupidity.

Things aren't getting better.
Infocalypse: Mercurial over Freenet (2015)
No. At least not through the normal application process. I have worked with many brilliant Indian people, and some of my favorite colleagues were Indian. However, there is so much "noise" in India's talent pool [1] - bad communication, fake degrees, fake profiles, sloppy work - that it just takes too much effort filtering through it. I understand that it's biased, but simply not hiring from India seems to be the better business decision when there is good talent elsewhere.

Of course, the exception are people that come through the network, not through a "normal" application process.

[1] https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/
We did this for 2 large projects I worked on. Works really well for env. where you can get a lot of data per customer.
We had customers with up to 3-4 TB databases so any other option would either be crazy expensive to run and or to develop for. You need to invest a bit of time into nice tooling for this but in a grand scheme of things it's pretty easy to do.
Standards and a "universal" code of conduct to adress harassment and promote inclusivity, that all sound extremely American both in the approach taken and in its wording.

I impatiently await to see how it's going to be received by the international Wikipedia community. If I had to guess, I would say with a large dose of scepticism but who knows, that might work.
You didn't say what you do think the point of college is. Just that unnamed people other than you misunderstand it.

Granted, college is not just about gaining certification by authorities. But that's only your claim if I am very charitable. Your claim instead is about learning. Even spending money, meeting new people, and drinking irresponsibly can be learning experiences so I also have no idea what your claim actually is. Or why people seem to agree with you.
More than 50% of Americans get the flu shot every year, we kind of have some immunity, and, yet, 20K to 60K people die every year, when only 10% get it (due to the flu shots or the immunity). Remove the immunity and flu shot preventing some infection, and even if it's as bad as the flu and doesn't have any permanent damage, which it seems to have, we're still talking hundreds of thousands of dead bodies.
Yeah, I think dma is more common now, memory mapped registers aren't as common anymore.
Look at you go, immediately discarding everything that other persons could contribute on the sole basis that it would be content from people different from yourself, true meritocracy in action!
This could be an evolution of software.
modern cpus rarely do i/o that way anymore
Also known as "give'em rope". I did that to a few former "bosses". After a few months they were let go, hi hi.
Well, Wikipedia is a US-originated project. The CC license applies worldwide though, so anyone is welcome to fork it if that becomes an issue.
The post was originally called 'List of all 5 AWS partitions (AWS, AWS-cn, AWS-us-gov, AWS-ISO, AWS-ISO-b)', which is surprising, because many might assume there are only one or three -- the last two are only for Secret and Top Secret US Government data.

However, for some reason dang edited the post title, which killed it from the front page really fast.
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I have used this architecture at 2 companies and it is by far the best for B2B scenarios where there could be large amounts of data for a single customer.

It is great for data isolation, scaling data across servers, deleting customers when they leave easily.

The only trick are schema migrations. Just make sure you apply migration scripts to databases in an automated way. We use a tool called DbUp. Do not try to use something like a schema compare tool for releases.

I have managed more than 1500 databases and it is very simple.
lol why do you think this company even has a board
Clicked on the link thinking it was about another Vim clone, but this gave me quite the laugh! I love over-built solutions to slight annoyances.

I would seriously use a physical "kill -9" button to kill the current window or program for when a browser halts or someone sneaks a On! function into your code.
> Is eBay required to test every single product and sale, including the $150 used laptop that Grandma is trying to sell?

Private sales are different than commercial sales.

I'd argue that any marketplace that allows other commercial sellers on its platform should be held accountable for anything safety and tax related their sellers do.

They should take necessary precautions to verify the sellers and routinely check the products. In Germany VAT dodging by Chinese companies selling on Amazon (let Amazon deliver with FBA and just don't pay taxes afterwards) got recently regulated so that Amazon is liable and the amount of Chinese crap dropped significantly.
Overflowing hospitals with simultaneous overcapacity in unused emergency hospitals. A major cause of this overflowing is poor distribution.
Good article for those are are starting to explore the React UI Libraries. The post gives a great overview of libs.

However, you can include some demo to compare the bundle size and load time.
We have not seen the code of conduct. We can't imagine what it will be like based on two or three adjectives from this article.

I moderate a small community. When we introduced new moderators, we had to formalise the unspoken rules that governed our moderation habits.

Now, we follow guidelines instead of intuition. Writing things down forced us to think about our behaviour, and to discuss the flaws in our unspoken rules. It makes our behaviour more consistent, especially towards content we personally don't like.

A code of conduct can be just that. A formal, consistent rulebook for a community.
You're making a false dichotomy there - there aren't only two ways. They could also have sincerely not thought about how this new platform would behave given the opt-in nature of it.

There have been similar incidents throughout tech history (and history in general) - it's not always that the culture is bad. It's also sometimes an honest mistake (at least, thinking through the ramifications of it is).
Ask HN: What Happened to Source-Forge?
Sourceforge.net was the centre of free/open software for a long time. But now it's just painful to go on their website and be bombarded by advertising and convoluted UX choices.

After browsing through some projects, I noticed they don't even support git, only svn, which isn't terrible....

It just feels like they're not even trying to adapt to a changing market which is dominated by git tooling. Such a shame...
> Generally any large social network will need to follow the 1 database per account strategy to some extent because of the tricky many-to-many relationship that groups/users have with other groups/users- this creates a cartesian product that is too large to traverse in reasonable time with one large database.

Once cartesian products start to reach certain sizes, a few trade-offs can be made.

The compute cost of traversing complex entity relationships in a relational database can be mitigated by using denormalization—allowing lots of duplicates since storage is cheap.

Another alternative is to switch to a network database so entity relationships can be traversed using graph semantics.
Thank you! Verily, the VAX omission is grievous.
> IP-based video conferencing that actually works, 100% of the time.

This is oxymoron. Our packet-switched infra simply cannot fulfill such promise.
"Lo and behold, a pile of unnecessary error conditions, cryptic errors, and lack of proper feedback.". Sounds like literally every initial experience I've had with a new language / library / framework (also, life in general tbh). Usually reduced by RTFM.
> where insiders have a lot of influence, and even harassing, uncivil behavior can go on for a long time if it's perceived as "defending" the community's precious "work" from new editors

It definitely happens, but the influence and uncivil behaviour by longtime editors are always, in my experience, very well disguised under a veneer of civility and lawyering. So the CoC will be completely useless against that, which is IMO the serious issue with Wikipedia right now.
>the two different settings interfaces (Control Panel and Settings) that have some overlap, but other features that are only in one.

All that's going to happen is we'll lose the control panel eventually, and get an inferior settings reimplementation instead.

That long scroll alone is really, really terrible.
>UMD magic thing

I use rollup for libraries and webpack only for fullblown frontend projects for precisely this reason.
You are putting up a straw man and then taking it down. Not everyone who is not panicking about COVID-19 is a conspiracy theorist.
> it seems like it should be pretty fast (relative to system calls) to convert binary to decimal because 10 has a factor of 2

I don’t see how this would matter?
I am studying in an "engineering" "college" of India. ("top" college by Indian norms, but not IIT[1]). And I totally understand this.

The mentality of 'gaming the system' is deep rooted in education system here, probably because education is so rote-oriented, mechanical and namesake.

[1] I would have difficulty believing current generation of IIT students would be any good either. These days the entrance process for IITs has become pretty game-able and people with money and time do that.
What a delightfully odd-looking vehicle.
An interesting point, but I don't think that's actually true. I doubt there are many places where you'd actually get in trouble for reading the Communist manifesto.

(But admittedly, this is spoken as someone who mostly has exposure to more liberal workplaces - so I'd be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.)
How would they deal with waste heat? The radiators would have to be quite large. Most existing satellites don't consume nearly as much power as an orbital data center would.
if you are learning vue and new to javascript ecosystem, would it not be better to start with index.html using Vue from a CDN, and switch to advanced workflow (node, npm, webapack, etc) later?

of course, if you are new, then this approach may not be obvious
You might be surprised at how much curation goes into those seemingly mechanical lists. I try to exclude the cases that aren't interesting, and unfortunately it's pretty hard to write software the distinguishes the interesting from the uninteresting. In fact, if I knew how to write such software, I could automate my job!
How did you come to the conclusion that the author is a bad teacher?

Sometimes I am in the same boat. Thinking, this should be easy, ending up yak shaving.
And yet, they're also right.
Women keep on proving they are NEVER equal to MEN and cant handle free speech
Have you used the clutch?

I have a kinesis advantage pro, which came with a footswitch.

I quickly found out that my feet are very clumsy and can't come close to keeping up with my fingers. Also I couldn't find a way place the switch that feels ergonomic and comfortable.

I tried to use the switch again last summer while reading a long kinetic novel but came to the same conclusion: it's very clumsy and just doesn't feel comfortable at all.
> ...but idk [if it really is cheating]

Maybe that's what they meant
Wow, the look of that website made me feel like a teenager again!