skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When X is 2, you have one of the most important functions in the family of functions that display exponential growth. It is the one in which the exponent is 0.

This is technically correct, but also purely academic. If I called the function f(X) = 5 in an analysis exam "exponential", then I would be laughed out of this exam, and for a good reason.

> This is really weird phrasing, since you're on much stronger ground saying "not growth" [arguable] than you are "not exponential" [flat wrong].

"not A" implies "not (A and B)". That's all I meant.
I’m not so sure. The Queen bees responsibilities as a “leader” are literally just to stay alive and reproduce. Most primate leaders have a lot more responsibilities which they need to excel at.

Maybe statistically they still turn out to not matter? Would be interesting to know.
I suppose everything is headed for destruction.

In any case, I wasn't arguing that accelerationism is incorrect... just that it tends to be associated with angry feelings, political, professional or otherwise. Also, while I can think of many things that got worse and then better... I can't think of any cases where it happened deliberately.
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It is necessary for Wikipedia.
Since you're already setting up a website, it can be as easy as a form on your site, with some spam counter-measures.
Same. The yearly local value added from eship alone at the university I work at is in the 200-300M+ USD/CHF range. The global value added is significantly higher.

I imagine that technical universities, like ETHZ/EPFL, have a much larger annual impact
I think you were joking, but totalitarian regimes have done this before (Romania's orphan crisis was the result of similar policies, iirc).

The poverty/immigration dance - if you reduce poverty, women have less children. Eventually you reach the point where you need to allow immigration to provide enough workers to keep your aging population from starving. Immigration is an existential threat if your country is based on a single ethnic identity (e.g. Han). Immigrants are poorer and therefore have more babies, and at some point will become the ethnic majority, or at least a sizable minority, large enough to cause problems (and economically vital so you can't just round them up and deport them).

Getting middle-class people to have more babies is difficult.

Edit: of course, this isn't a problem if you don't base your country's identity on an ethnic identity.
> It's their foundation to run, they have big plans, and it you don't like it you can ignore it.

(Some of) the execs are manipulating people to donate, many of the donors wouldn't have donated, had they known that there was enough money already for Wikipedia.

> If people feel that they were somehow tricked into their donation

Problem is, they are unaware about having been tricked.

They generally don't know about this discussion at HN.
Well maybe in the post WW2 days, but when Trump wanted to buy Greenland it wasn’t legally ours to sell.

Greenland has been moving steadily toward independence for quite some time. It’ll likely take a lot more time because “money” but it’s been a long while since we (as in Denmark) “owned” Greenland in the sense that it would be ours to sell.
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That's interesting, because Harvard has less students than that in a country with 5x the population. So, in terms of enrollment number / population, oxford is more like the whole ivy league rolled into one school.
I tried Mylo but didn't really like it so I ended up with Apple Photos.

At least they "allow" me to have a local copy of my photo library unlike Google. So in any extremely unlikely case they nuke my account, I have my locals.
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> If I called the function f(X) = 5 in an analysis exam "exponential", then I would be laughed out of this exam

That's not true at all; you'd have to look at the context. If you called it an exponential function as part of a discussion of exponential functions, you'd raise no eyebrows.

Even if you were doing it in a weird way, it's unlikely you'd get laughed out of the room; math exams are not known for penalizing you for being correct.
Religious claims and cited sources of any group generally worth nothing, we only care about down the earthly deeds and imposed policies when/if in power.

Not every religion is a religion, that is.
Yes, and there was a huge qualitative & quantitative difference in the ways in which the the tests were designed & carried out. The US tests were specifically designed to be at altitudes where all debris would quickly de-orbit due to drag. China, OTOH, blasted one of their weather satellites in a much higher orbit - 528mi up - resulting in far higher counts of of high velocity space junk which will orbit for centuries. It was the worst incident of creation of space junk in history [1]. China has since committed to more responsible practices.

[1] https://www.space.com/3415-china-anti-satellite-test-worriso...
In the UK after the Conservatives came to power in 2010 electing an Old Etonian, I felt culturally there was a shift towards "posh" is good as a signifier of status and social power.

I feel like in the last 5 years or so it has turned to posh is "uncool".

In the US, I feel like they had something similar. Obama was elected in 2008, but some people did have concerns of electing someone unestablished. To assuage these concerns, Obama promoted and kept safe the interests the elite at the time. Not detracting Obama here - that's the position he was in back in 2008 when some would have considered electing a black man to the Office as unthinkable.
Agreed. But if you could maintain a system that avoids a very unlikely scenario with possibly huge disastrous consequences, then why not?
I don't understand why people are downvoting you.

I am from Brazil, mentioned in the article. I see wages of 60k USD year as a dream job (by the way, if you need a C or Lua dev, and don't want me to relocate to an expensive place to live, I am for hire, for that price tag, I really need it. I currently make around 11k USD year)
The teaching was personalised, flexible and interactive. That kind of system keeps people like me in the room, fired up and engaged. Kids like me, who don’t flourish in school, can benefit from such attention, and focus, and belief. A good society would strive to give it to them.

Yes, this is the best part of Oxford. My undergraduate education there consisted of:

1. Lectures to large groups of students

2. Some small classes

3. One-on-one or one-on-two "tutorials" with specialists in their subjects

#3 is the core of the Oxford system and is what makes it (and a small number of other UK universities who do this) special.

I went there from a bog-standard state school and it was an excellent education.
Neither push nor replace history actually work in Chrome, so the fault lies more with the browser than the developers.
With multicultural societies who knows what the sum of cultural alignments ends up as, combined with shallow consumer culture, where anything can align to anything as long it has a cheap price tag and a nice packaging, US-Europe cultural alignment will be in the near future a thing of the past.
Most of us in the west can't relate to the idea of government regulating how many children one can have, but hey, it might work for them.
you could model amplifiers, distortion effects, phasers and flangers, according to CoreAudioML project, which makes this possible
https://github.com/Alec-Wright/CoreAudioML
Discussion from two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27322020
When I was doing CS we had a lecture course on Pi calculus with very extensive hand written notes, because it was a field still very much in development and there was no textbook.

I think there is a lot to be said for taking a degree which lends an element of structure not chosen by you. Sometimes you need to learn the stuff that doesn’t interest you to have a foundation to really understand the stuff that does, and you might find there are other things you had never been interested enough in to even consider which will turn out to be really interesting.

On top of that I think tuition in small groups is much better than I’ve seen any meetup group manage. I’ve organized it once at a previous employer to help get some our application developers to the point where they could work on the our core vm and database, and I think they found it helpful being able to ask questions and talk over where exercises had given them trouble.
Ceaucescu tried that in Romania, and it went about as well as you'd expect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770
A service is completely different...

You are storing gigabytes of files on a remote server, which costs a lot of money, and get services to modify or whatever your pictures remotely...

And, compared to Linux, it works out of the box... (ok, this was a troll).
There is still a male surplus and culturally people still prefer to have boys because they carry their family name. Girls are married out of the family and if your one child is a girl there will be nobody to look after you in your old age.
Does curbing SARS-CoV-2 delay the end of the pandemic?
This has to be looked at country by country. Unlike Europe, China still has a large rural, poor population. Without regulation, their population will explode, something the chinese government probably wants to avoid.
The terrorists were US-funded and trained for the purpose of destabilising the region and as excuse for invasion. Just like the lies about WMDs.
And I do not see it as a problem. Apart from the title which makes me wonder what makes an artist "real".
Fairly happy to live and work in Copenhagen :)
Even as medicine it's like 10€/g
The price comes monitoring of vitals, talking, the room, the bed, stuff for emergency allocated...
Contrary to popular belief Aus has weathered the Chinese sanctions and has diversified its exports.

https://www.ft.com/content/95ad03ce-f012-49e9-a0c2-6e9e95353...

Specific image of how Australias export destinations changed from 19-20 to 20-21.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R3E5LsxV_iw/YK3oem5BqbI/AAAAAAAAP...
Pre-covid, I actually benefitted from Instagram advertising (without personalization) because I got to hear about new restaurants in my area... Considering that I block every other kind of advertising and tracking through rather draconian measures, I cannot compare if something else would have been of benefit though. I'd have done the same for Instagram, but then I found some rather excellent places through it, so...
This law is slightly different in that it’s about posting. So it’s more like if there is a possibility of hiring from Colorado consult an attorney and follow certain laws. That scales very differently from consulting an attorney after picking an employee from a specific jurisdiction.
Ugh this has become common in Silicon Valley. “We have a brilliant team of engineers who previously worked at FAANGUberAirBnB”…it’s sickening.

So is what the companies say about their board members and their C suite. I guess it could just be a reflection of facts but I fear this will lead to future startups hiring purely on this sort of credentialisms.
My point is that the WHO is literally, in recent releases, contradicting the usage you claim was primarily a communication error.

Their measles info page doesn't even talk about airborne.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles
The network is one aspect of a good voice call. The end devices play a surprisingly big role. A couple of years ago we were hunting down a VoIP packet delay variation problem. We placed fiber taps between all elements and did tons of traces only to find that a popular type of CPE was at fault. The delay variation was there before it hit the network.

When HQ voice was introduced, we often measured higher acoustical noise as many phones' microphones and speakers bad quality was now exposed by the improved bandwidth.

The funny thing is, now that we have VoIP with expensive, carefully managed priority classes for telephony every business is using plain Best Effort Internet for Zoom and Webex calls.
No math is involved, only common sense : there's a certain amount of natural space debris surrounding planet earth. This amount has reached a steady state over the past few millions or billions of years.
Over the past few decades we've started launching stuff into orbit. Some of that stuff explodes.
Hence, there is now more debris surrounding planet earth.

Whether or not the amount of extra space debris has already caused an increase in collisions is a different matter, for which some statistics would be required. But that wasn't the point I was making.

In fact, it's quite the opposite of the point I was making : something has hit the ISS, and whether it's man-made or natural is (AFAIK) not specified at this time.
I really didn't have much luck with the de-duplication. I tried photostructure for about 3 weeks and since stopped. I was trying to pull photos from multiple different drives/folders into one central organised place. A few issues:

- The de-duplication didn't seem to work, it at least was defeated by my messy files. I spent many hours manually going through the results and finding many dupes. Then I lost interest in doing that and gave up.

Edit: I've just realised, was this (by design) simply copying each photo into the merged tree but then if I browse using the photostructure app it will hide the dupes? Can I prevent it making a copy? I want to use other file/photo browsers also.

- can't use datestamp info in the filename?

- very, very slow to sync from my external USB 3 drive. I'd be happy with that if the de-duplication worked. Also the status about what it's doing seems sporadic and half the time appears to be doing nothing at all. Maybe my laptop is too slow?

- no map view

I did like the feed of random photos. I saw loads of great old snaps I'd forgotten about. Somewhat bizarrely, when I wanted to share them quickly with others I ended up taking a photo of the photo(s) with my smartphone and sharing that via WhatsApp. That's more my failing but it did seem a bit silly that I resorted to doing that.
I’m happy and content working and living in Oslo.
A lot of these projects have come up in the last few years, either modding existing handhelds or using small kits with Raspberry Pi-s and the like to make new handheld devices that are rather charming and fun.
I remember when I wanted to build cool things on windows because this kinda stuff didn't happen.
Well this was before Windows 3.0, at that time Windows was dire and it still wasn't clear whether we would be adopting graphical user interfaces on a large scale.

If you think of the PC as running MS-DOS it was spot on.
Does it matter? If you're upset about the specific language used in the article, I'm sure there's ways of letting them know that doesn't involve a comment section of reasonably intelligent people.
I think the main problem is that the stuff is moving so fast wrt eachother that a particle isn't 0-dimensional but effectively becomes 1-dimensional, a long trace.

So you'd have to think of the debris as miles long strands, and suddenly it seems quite likely to hit one.
I'm surprised that the average number of hours worked per week was not one of the factors taken into consideration.
Well many people experience depression at some point, but "severe depression" doesn't affect a lot of patients.

Also, this comes off with a lot of survivor bias, all I can read is "ketamine made me superman".

It's important to remember that modern anti-depressants regulate serotonin and act on the same receptors than psilocybin and other psychedelics that are told to treat depression.

I would rather trust a medical doctor and science than follow an internet trend that encourage the use of drugs. I'm suspecting some have things to gain from drug trafficking, and so they spread information about those substance being better than listening to a doctor. Sorry but I prefer listening to my skepticism.
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China internally makes a big deal about their 56 ethnic groups, living happily in harmony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China

And woe betide anyone who dares be less than harmonious about being ruled by their Han big brother.
I went to a state school and state sixth form, and my experience definitely deviates from that presented in the article and some other comments here. I think the part of the article which focuses on more personalised teaching rings the most true for me.

There may be differences due to the subject, level, or college. I did a one-year masters in STEM in a very international graduate Oxford college. But the vast majority of members of the college were hard working, insightful, friendly, and not at all posh. There was a very friendly and open social life, and I definitely don't consider there to have been a great facade presented. Perhaps I would have found different in an undergraduate degree in the arts, or a different college, but I didn't get that sense from the people I spoke to from other colleges and faculties. My best guess is the Oxford college the article writer ended up in was rather more grand and snobby than any of those I spent time at.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that this certainly isn't the only experience, and I'm confident none of the friends I made there would relate to the article's assessment. I found it a fantastic place to meet insightful, honest, friendly people in addition to all of its merits for learning.
Nice to see kisi here.
The average software developer salary in Germany is €50 000 per year, just to take one western country as an example. I doubt Wikipedia would be much worse with European developers. American IT salaries are not the norm, and they're a bit insane. When your budget consists of donations, I think it's disrespectful to spend it on frivolous things like San Francisco salaries.

The average programmer salary in Sweden is $50 000. Why should I donate to people who earn more than twice my salary?
We're approaching Kessler syndrome. A situation where cascading collisions make certain orbits unusable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Here a more readable version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1398717229366235141.html
Some people may have considered limiting children to one per family to be "beyond government control", so there's probably some good sci-fi to be written/lived through on the topic of what a totalitarian government will get up to when it's realised that more children are "needed", but that most parents won't volunteer to provide this service.
I've been a paying customer of SmugMug for years and highly recommend them. I use it as a photography portfolio though, not as a Google Photos replacement (although it certainly can be used that was as well).
When was James bond perfect? He gets caught, betrayed, tortured, outsmarted in many movies before Casino Royale. He is deeply flawed as well.

I actually think James Bond doesn't work in a realistic setting. It just becomes a random action movie like what we've seen during the Craig's Era.

I just finished a full rewtch of the 25 movies and it's crazy how enjoyable the "old" ones were compared to the reboot. I remember my wife telling me during Quantum of Solace "I guess now it's more Jason Bourne than James Bond".
Have you tried going to Lowes to buy a part for your broken dishwasher? AFAICT, you can’t.

I’ve done a dishwasher repair, 1 dryer repair and 2 fridge repairs here, and a washer repair at my in-laws. Every case was a consumer-brand unit and every case the local home center was not capable to supply the parts from stock, so it became and “order online and wait” anyway. (For the washer repair, a local appliance parts store had the parts on-hand at ~$215 vs $55 online, which I politely declined.)
This rather dumb hit piece doesn’t impress me.

The main questions for the foundation are: is its mission worthy, and is it spending money well in service to that mission?

This piece barely considers this, and instead just presumes there’s something wrong with Wikipedia successfully growing.

There are so many poor points in the article… let’s see:

* the $10M/year number was a base number for 2013. Running Wikipedia at that level assumes nothing costs more and services will revert to 2013 levels. If that’s what you think they would do, you need to explain why that is a good idea or even possible.

* the fact that fundraising from end-users is working is a good thing, not a bad thing. If end-users aren’t paying the bills then someone else will be - in which case you have to balance their needs against the users’ - or no one will be and Wikipedia will stop existing.

* implying WMF financial reporting is “disguising” the amount of money and characterizing it as “funneling” money is misleading and unfair. It’s all transparently there, in straightforward form.

* Non-profits need to raise funds so they need staff to do so. Large organizations need a CEO and some managers. It’s OK that they pay people normal amounts to do these jobs.

* The idea that it’s offensive or wrong to ask end-users for donations is bizarre. Who else do you think should be paying for Wikipedia?

The only legit point I see (buried among the vacuous ones) is that Wikipedia should stay far away from any for-profit business. Yes, they are leaving a clear revenue stream on the table, but I think it will make their primary mission harder. Content flows freely into Wikipedia because it is given freely to everyone else. Once you start charging for the information in some forms, that all begins to change.
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> the greatest asset becomes it's greatest liability

I think Microsoft would agree with that point. I'm sure they would love to ditch Win32 and move on.
Imoportant to note that Censured is not the same as Censored

Censure: A censure is an expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism.

Censorship: Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient."
Because the easier it is the the more people are involved. That was the original idea of the WikiWay, to make editing simple [1]

Second if this is the way to go - and I don't agree [2] - the UI should reflect this workflow and not propose a different one that mostly fails.

[Edit] PRs also assume some kind of owner and committer relationship, which might be right for open source projects but is not the case of Wikipedia - even if many editors on Wikipedia consider the content "their own".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb - "Cunningham's idea was to make WikiWikiWeb's pages quickly editable by its users, [...] . The usefulness of Wiki is in the freedom, simplicity, and power it offers."

[2] Wrote a quite successfull wiki 20y ago called SnipSnap, the engine of which started Atlassian Confluence, and did several years of research in using Wikis back then.
The fact that Singapore is even on this list shows how weird these metrics are. Everyone I know who works a full-time job in Singapore, including my wife, is waaaay overworked. 40 hours a week is considered "light" among most companies there.
Oh I do think it was a good idea, and I do think waste disposal overall is pretty good - even if plastic is not disposed separately, it's sorted out in the waste processing plants.

The problem at the moment lies not so much in waste collection and end users, but what happens to it afterwards. For example, plastic is considered "recycled" once it's been separated and baled up. But most plastic can't actually be reused. A lot of plastic bales like that are exported - no longer our problem - and becomes invisible. It's often just put in landfills or incinerated after that. Would not be surprised if it's dumped in the ocean directly or via a river either.