skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my reading of the statement was correct, the reason given was this:

"As for me, I’m going to take a break, and a research fellowship, as a place to think about what’s next. It’s hard to think about your future when you’re fully in your present, and for the past seven years, I’ve been fully present for this movement. But as I look around, I see global challenges such as polarization, inequality, and climate change, as well as opportunities for generational renewal and optimism. As a Wikimedian, I lean toward optimism, and plan to head in that direction."
Is anyone still crawling emails in 2021?
Do you know of many businesses which could sustain their operation without any revenue for two straight years?

If you do these are really inefficient businesses.

If you do however decide to say they non profits should do that, then what’s the point of having that money in non profits if you could just put that money in a savings account and supply the non profit every year?
Yes, the war between the UK & Germany would have gone differently without Churchill. It's quite a leap to go from there to state that Fascist Europe would have stood till today.

If Halifax were PM & there was a peace treaty with Germany, who's to say Halifax would still be PM the next year and the treaty upheld by the next guy? Perhaps the situation would have thrown up a Black Swan PM? Even if Germany could overrun Russia - could they hold it for very long? Even without Russia, they were stretched thin, and wouldn't have been able to hold their continental wide Reich filled with hostile natives for very long. Thing is, we don't know. While Churchill was important for how the war does progress, it's a mistake to suppose that Churchill is necessary & sufficient in every iteration to determine the course of the war. If not Churchill, somebody else would have come along. Besides, it was only a matter of time before the Americans would have been drawn into the war, something the Japanese ensured. Even if the specifics of Pearl Harbor hadn't happened, America was bound to get involved, sooner or later. Perhaps it would have taken another year, but America had continental scale resources and population to tap into.
An Enterprise of Solid Gold: Pirating Voltaire in Eighteenth-Century Europe
"The STN was founded in 1769 in the Swiss principality of Neuchâtel by four local notables who sought to tap the demand for French books by reprinting those that they judged would sell best, both in France and throughout Europe. Frédéric-Samuel Ostervald, the leader of the enterprise, had no experience of publishing. Nor did his associates. They set up a printing shop in the summer of 1769. Ostervald consulted a few leading booksellers, some of whom he already knew and others he got to know by handling the STN’s commercial correspondence. The most significant of his advisers was Pierre-Frédéric Gosse, Junior, a bookseller in The Hague, who ran one of the largest businesses in the Low Countries and, after thirty years of experience, had acquired a profound knowledge of the book trade everywhere in Europe, especially in France. Gosse sent the STN orders as well as counsel. In return, it furnished him with books at a reduced price."
Your congressman probably listens to the AMA more so than you when it comes to medical matters, here is one example of what they have to say on the subject I could find with a quick search:

> In March 1997, months before the Balanced Budget Act was enacted, the AMA even suggested reducing the number of US residency positions by approximately 25% from 25,000 to fewer than 19,000. “The United States is on the verge of a serious oversupply of physicians,” said the AMA and other physicians’ groups in a joint statement. Since most states require at least some residency training for medical licensure, reducing the number of residency positions would curtail the supply of doctors in the US.

> Fast forward two decades, and what once seemed like a glut now looks like a shortage. The growth in the number of residency positions—and thus the number of doctors—slowed after the passage of the Balanced Budget Act. From 1997 to 2002, the number of residents in the US increased by just 0.1%. Although the number of positions has increased since then, each year thousands of residency applicants fail to secure a position. Factor in an aging population and a projected increase in demand for health care services, and the US is now forecasted to experience a shortage of 46,900 to 121,900 physicians by 2032. Absent a meaningful response from Congress, it will be doctors—particularly residents—and their patients who pay the price.

- https://qz.com/1676207/the-us-is-on-the-verge-of-a-devastati...
I find that hard to believe, the sheer volume would overwhelm a human.
A very interesting point orf view.
Not management consultants specifically, but I get the vague sense that it'd go not too different from this Deloitte situation: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-m...
"The STN’s edition of Voltaire’s Questions sur l’Encyclopédie offers a good case study, which can be examined in detail through the correspondence between Ostervald and Gosse. The Questions was Voltaire’s last great work and the biggest enterprise—nine volumes in octavo—undertaken by the STN in its first years. When he first announced it to Gosse, in March 1770, Ostervald indicated that he planned to put out an original edition printed from a manuscript to be furnished by Voltaire himself. Gosse replied with a letter that contemplated the prospect of a surefire bestseller: 'It is an enterprise of solid gold…I will tell you right away that we commit ourselves to taking a large number…There are prohibitions to be feared, and one will not be able to sell the book openly, but that will only make it sell faster and better.'"
Failure of free market mechanism?

McKinsey optimized the business strategy to maximize profit. The strategy is locally optimal but a net negative at society scale.

I always puzzle why some economists oppose the basic idea of regulating drugs. Layman like us won't have the prior knowledge to tell the difference between snake oil and effective treatment. Drug maker won't have the incentive to conduct expensive randomized trials. Are we going to tell by reading Amazon reviews?
As far as I know, the usual range on those implants is no more than ~30 cm, so I expect you might need a pretty powerful transmitter to find them across a room.
Who’s Winning the GameStop Game?
It is not. Healthcare and communications are very much comparable if your life and livelihood are on the line. If the downside risk for both is a dead person then they are very much morally equivalent.
There are about 700,000 people of Iranian descent in the Los Angeles area alone (the largest such community in the US). Most of them are in the US to escape the regime, and most of friends and family in Iran who they keep in touch with. The people in Iran also have their own networks.

So a down-low friends and family approach could reach a lot of people.
Del.icio.us bookmarks is back in read only mode
You could try MATE, which is a fork of GNOME 2. For a lightweight desktop, I prefer XFCE. For full-featured, I prefer KDE.
The body may not have warped much, but that just means the force was transferred directly to the occupants with zero reduction from crumple zones. This is terrible for safety but good for the pocket book if you are lucky enough to escape unscathed.

With significant and well engineered crumple zones and fairly expensive components, modern cars are significantly easier to total.
When I hear “Foundation” and “stable financial position” I think endowment.

They seem to be making the same mistake as the Mozilla foundation. You’re living on your nest egg instead of the interest. Spending 4 times as much as you should.
Sad to see him go. I use wikipedia all the time. I imagine not much will change?
Why Security Defects Go Unnoticed During Code Reviews? [pdf]
Celebrating+Year+One+of+GeForce+NOW+|+Nvidia+Blog
I mean, if you really want to see the schedule for WikiIndaba 2017 that took place in Accra, here you go.

http://2017.wikiindaba.net/index.php/Programme

Try not to tear the armrests off your chair in rattles of indignation.
If you needn't to work, what would you do?
Assuming you needn't to stay in your daily job but could keep some basic living standard, what would you do?

Founding a company? Teaching? Playing with kids? Joining politics? Consultancy? Nothing?
Are there any free plans or discounts for HN users?
> can they break whatsapp encryption

They don’t have to, they just need Facebook to cooperate.
It really is a match made in heaven. Krita is awesome and amazing software. Blender is, of course, awesome too. I absolutely love the fact that I can sprite something in krita, bring it into blender, add weights and bones and animate it.
I can model a thing in blender, uv unwrap it and bring it into Krita, paint a diffuse texture and bring that back into Blender’s shader graph.

Now if only we could get a large library of OSS megascans textures for PBR based workflows I’d be a happy camper.
My cat will remove them within 20 minutes, never to be found. I've reluctantly settled on the non-safety collar after losing a half dozen. Although if I equipped one with RFID I could at least have a shot at locating his stash!
I would love to hear more from you about this. It’s different from my intuition even though I too work for myself.
Please download and use a standard theme pack for blogs, paid ones are usually better.

If you know visual designer, discuss the contrast aspects of your site design.
Only if the same can be done to CNN & MSNBC with the leftwing propaganda and divisiveness.
You can set the host to "*" on Android, but maybe not on iOS?

For example, my Mastodon app pops up to open all links that look like a Mastodon profile (https://example.org/@somename).

https://github.com/tateisu/SubwayTooter/blob/4cf16c6ee890a7d...
So entropy based active learning methods are an example of pool based sampling. Even within pool based sampling there a few different techniques.

Entropy selection for pool based methods looks at the output probability for each prediction of the model in the unlabelled data-set. Then it calculates the entropy of the distributions. (in classification this is a bit like looking for the most uniform predictive distributions) and prioritises those.

Entropy based active learning works ok but doesnt distinguish uncertainty that comes from a lack of knowledge (epistemic uncertainty) from noise. Techniques like Bayesian Active Learning by disagreement can do better. :)
I guess we’re “disrupting” foundations too.
> Same goes for vendoring with static linking. Does that mean I'm going to voluntarily load Linux distro DSOs into my address space? Programs that do that, won't have a future outside Docker containers.

Strong claim. Wrong, but strong claim.

The completely-statically-linked model you're proposing might be acceptable on servers, but on mobile and embedded devices like Android, it's a showstopper: without zygote pre-initialization and DSO page-sharing, Android apps would each be at least 3MB heavier than they are today and take about 1000ms longer to start --- and a typical Android device has a lot of these processes running.

More broadly, yes, in most contexts, I see a general trend away from elaborate code-sharing schemes and towards "island universe" programs that vendor everything. But these universes need to interact with their host system using a stable ABI somehow, I believe that SYSCALL is fundamentally the wrong layer for this interaction, as it's not flexible enough. For example, the Linux gettimeofday() optimization couldn't have been done without the ability to give Linux programs userspace code to run pre-kernel via the vDSO. How do you propose the kernel do things like vDSO gettimeofday optimizations?
This is exactly it. Somehow providing something for free means that every cent someone throws at you is scrutinized.
We should do away with settling out of court without a statement of who is at fault. The court could reject the settlement if the core issue of the case is not addressed.

By way of analogy this is why it’s a needed change. Applying settlements to criminal law I could murder you, and settle the case for some dollar amount and not have to admit guilt.

In short settling out of court is a way for the wealthy to avoid meaningful penalties.
And how are potential repeater unit failures accounted for?
Do the BridgeSupport files annotate whether you own returned objects and need to release them? Sprinkling in runtime.SetFinalizer calls based on ownership would be slightly nicer than exposing release/retain.
The author doesn't make a good case for "The main value of a software company is the mapping of source code and problem space in the developer’s heads" being a universal truth. There are some problem domains and practical development and deployment roadblocks that simply make certain source code more valuable than others. Nowadays it seems people are more willing to throw money at open sourcing solutions so competing firms don't have to roll their own but thats not a hard and fast phenomenon.
You can use progressive enhancement approaches with htmx, the hx-boost attribute is an example, if you like.

The active search demo:

https://htmx.org/examples/active-search/

is another example that can degrade gracefully in the absence of javascript: wrap the input in a form and do the normal post-back for non-JS enabled clients.

With respect to REST & HATEOAS, note the first term in HATEOAS: Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State. HTML is the hypermedia that Fielding was describing in his dissertation. (XML and JSON are not hypermedias, so I'm not sure what you are getting at with that as a comparisong)

htmx tries to use HTML (a hypermedia) as the data interchange, thereby respecting the uniform interface of the original web model. No side state, no interpretation, no special knowledge: just exchanging hypermedia with a server. This is in keeping with the network model Fielding was describing in a way that a React client, for example, is not.

htmx tries to extend and complete HTML along the lines it was already going, before it stalled. Yes, it uses the tools available to do so, which are javascript, unfortunately.
Yes, they do make exceptions for the mother's health. For example, here is the recent Alabama law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Life_Protection_Act

> he law provides for exceptions in cases where a fetus has a lethal anomaly (in other words, a medical condition that would cause the fetus to be stillborn or to die shortly following birth) or in cases where a pregnancy would "prevent serious health risk" to the woman.[9] The law also allows abortions to be performed "upon confirmation from a psychiatrist" that a pregnant woman diagnosed with a "serious mental illness" might otherwise take an action that would lead to her own death or to the death of the fetus.[7] The law does not ban procedures to end ectopic pregnancies[10] or procedures in which a dead fetus is removed from the uterus.[7] It does not include an exception in cases of rape or incest.[9]

> Abortion should be a medical decision.

You're arguing with me on substance, but the point of this thread is talking about what positions are "left" or "right." The idea that abortion should be a purely medical decision--that society should completely delegate to doctors the issue of when it's okay to terminate fetal life--is significantly to the left of where most countries are. Most developed countries recognize a significant state interest in fetal life after the first trimester. They make exceptions for unviable fetuses and maternal health, but don't delegate the decision to doctors completely.
Your neighbor asks you to drive them to the hospital. Do you lecture them on the failures of privatized healthcare? No, you defer your opinion to the relevant place and time.

This right now is about people having their access to uncensored communication cut off, and moxie asking people to help out. If you think their architecture is doomed, you're free to codify your opinion somewhere in a pull request or comment under an article about signal's protocol philosophy.
Because HFT helps the rich AF get richer but Starlink benefits normal people?
3 ways of recycling third-party code for AWS Lambda
Correct, both Google and Amazon told Signal not to use them for domain fronting: https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
I tried contributing and there are so many entrenched "don't touch my stuff" senior editors or moderators that it's often hard to do much of anything depending on where you are. I gave up after spending 40+ hours attempting to help clean up little known articles of a genre of music only to have 90% of what I did get reversed even though I am very confident it was within wikipedia guidelines. I was also harassed and accused of racism (by the subject of the article) after nominating his article for deletion because it didn't meet notability requirements.
Pretty simple. The ones who bought at the bottom and cashed out at the top.

Everyone else who followed the media hype and bought at the top with their life savings where already too late.
why did expenses rise by $21mm though? is the organization fortunate that donations rise fast enough to cover an annual increase in necessary spending, or does the spending grow as much as necessary to consume the donations?

WMF spent $52mm in FY 2014-2015. it spent $112mm in FY 2019-2020. is the core project really twice as expensive to run as it was five years ago?
In the future, coordination across Github, Linkedin, and other properties of theirs could exist (e.g. Facebook & Oculus). The not-that-nefarious-but-annoying one I can come up with immediately is better targeting for recruiter spam on LinkedIn based on hobby projects, code language, and Linkedin/Github connection graphs. I know they have ads on Bing that could benefit as well, but I don't know if they run their own ad network or how those things might tie together.

I think others could probably give the "evil" part a better take. Mine is just an unfounded guess around business/market research and future competition.
"source code being worthless" is actually a huge red flag that something is deeply wrong with the way our industry works. There is too much in-house knowledge that isn't being codified. Software production shouldn't be like e.g. Jet engine production, where it's all nontransferable lore.

I posit if everyone was automatically build able and deployable (say with Nix) across the board. Source code would have more value.

Now, it still would be true that less source code is better than more source code, so line by line / marginally source code is a liability. But reproducible functionality would be valuable.

The remaining worthless might have to do with much especially b2b proprietary software being utter crap, and all the value being in the sales relationship and none in product/service being traded.
Not a fan of downvoting in general. Bad ideas should be engaged and shown to be wrong, not shouted down by a mob.
We see again and again that Americans hate freedom of speech. So what is this but a power play? They want people to use controlled platforms where only American-approved activism is allowed. Actions that destabilize an enemy regime.

Iranians who use Signal are American proxy forces. By definition it is treason.
They don't actually have a lot of leverage. A hospital has a near monopoly on it's region/patients, but insurers have to compete with a dozen others to be accepted by the hospital. If the hospital wants to charge their patients, insurance just has a minimal amount of bitching they can do over prices.
How is a proxy operator in harm’s way? They aren’t in Iran, and the Iranian government understands the consequences of trying to do anything about it. Users are in no more danger than they’ve always been, and substantially less than if they didn’t have communications ability.
You have a lower risk of physical injury in a desk job. Compare finger fudging your code to bumping warehouse shelves with a lift and causing a bunch of it to fall down.
Who First Made the Caribbean Home?
The German government decided on a new, extremely strict copyright reform
> Also, what’s the ethical issue with pirating content that is not for sale? I’d love to see a copyright overhaul that formalized abandonware and extended it to back catalogs of film and music.

Copyright is often closely tied with the broader concept of authors' rights in European law. An author's work is closely tied to their reputation. Therefore, the author has an inherent right to some degree of control over how their work is exhibited or distributed, because their reputation could be harmed if the work was presented in the wrong way.

Just because these rights are not explicitly recognized by U.S. law doesn't mean they're not moral rights.
No law of physics says they must continue pouring tens of millions into outreach programs if all revenue ceases. Hosting wikipedia is their one true cost and is relatively tiny compared to everything else they spend money on.
But this doesn't stop them from doing that. If you have an expat friend or family member with a proxy, use theirs, if not, check the latest tweet with the hashtag and use that.
Sadly, I could not find an English article.

Good German article: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/uploadfilter-und-bagatel...

Google Translate seems to do an okay job: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
Hey, did anyone actually try to run this? I'm getting a bunch of errors when trying to run the sudo docker-compose up --detach. How would I know if it's running or not? Sorry, quite new to this apart from hosting a couple of personal pages on a vps.
That message was genuine, but quickly retracted and apologized for. That's not a real policy.
Starlink will need a license to broadcast in the country. And the dishes also need to transmit which will give away your position.
Who cares? Would be totally worth it because of unlimited geothermal energy!
I’m a physician, the biggest culprit in the opioid crisis is the government. They are the ones that started telling doctors that “pain is the fifth vital sign”. They are the ones that said they would pay doctors based on results of patient surveys - it turns out that addicts wanting opiates from doctors give you bad scores if you don’t give them what they want. And that has nothing to do with capitalism - more the opposite, it shows how good intentions together with the overwhelming force of the government can ruin people’s lives. So maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to encourage the use of government power in those cases where we agree with the political party using that power?

To everyone in this thread who has this overwhelming righteousness indignation about mckinsey - have any of you ever asked your elected representative about their view of the government’s responsibility for the opiate crisis? Would you ever vote differently based on the answers they give? Did any of the state attorney generals who are going after private companies ever do anything to stop the (federal) government encouraging the increased use of pain medication?

This is a classic example of unintended consequences by the government - the companies were just responding to the incentives the government created.
I think it’s incentives, partially.

Programmers say their job is to put themselves out of their jobs. People don’t want to be out of their jobs, really. And we know that doesn’t happen. If anything, it locks them into their job, as “subject matter experts”.

Also, most applications are built on a million layers of reusable abstractions. Even in the highest level of the code people are using frameworks and other libraries. A lot of source code is just business logic and glue code when you remove the stuff it is built upon, which tends to be much better (and many times, open and free).