skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. And the original comment provided exactly zero useful info on what the thing is.

Let's say someone doesn't know what Phabricator is. After the insightful comment that is "better than nothing" that someone will no exactly the same amount about what Phabricator is: zero. And will have to Google or rely on other comments to understand what it is.

The fact that "it's a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) application" has exactly zero value or use to anyone who wants to what Phabricator is.

Here's an actual useful comment that would actually provide actual useful context:

"For those who don't know, Phabricator is a collection of tools for collaborating on software (for example, code reviews). It's gained some popularity and Facebook is even running a custom fork of it. Fun trivia: it runs on a LAMP stack."
Hmm a possible variation on Muphry’s Law? What shall we call it?
That's not completely true, as it seems like the number of editors on English wikipedia hit a low point around 2013 and has been steady or going up since then.

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/...
Wikipedia (Like all encyclopedias) is a tertiary source. Its goal is not to provide the capital-T Truth, but to summarize as best it can contemporary knowledge. It aims to do that as neutrally as possible, but perfect neutrality doesn't exist, so all it can do is always try and get closer and closer to that ideal.
FWIW: Just checked you bio, it is wonderful : )
I was thinking about the cheap microwaves that use a mechanical countdown dial (like a kitchen timer) rather than just dials as a digital control surface.
It is also a specific comment.

The us intelligence service probably does not have as good relations to Huawei as it has to Ericsson.

The original Huawei response to allegations was to open themselves up to external audits and encourage other suppliers to do the same. Of course that didn’t help them.

Huawei today is banned from providing network services in denmark.
That explains a lot of the poor decisions Microsoft has made over the years. In particular the changes to the Windows UI. The trouble is they don't have enough taste to pull it off.
Yes I agree, that’s why I love military stuff.
Did you read their article? They mention how money they funnel into the fund is counted as "expenses", as is stuff like hiring 40 people just for fundraising. I have no doubt they could keep the website up and maintained on something of the order of $10m/year.
Google reportedly made it difficult for users to find privacy settings
The author linked the report: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...

I know it's from 2018 and maybe something changed, but: they took $115M. They paid $90M in costs, including $38M in salaries and <$1.7M to officers. Look at Part IX. You have all expenses listed. If you run any company ever, you know it adds up pretty quickly. Like other benefits to employees are $5M, pension plan is $1M, and payroll tax is $2M. They had $138M in assets, but only $64M invested in public stocks, and they took $2M from it, which is like 0.03% indicating they held some treasury bonds. So in absolute numbers, it seems big, but when you analyze it, it looks normal.

Imagine you just hire a techy support staff. Let's assume you only need 50 people, each making $100k to operate a global website in all timezones. That's probably like $140k total costs per employee (healthcare, benefits, payroll, all sorts of taxes). You need 50*140k=$7M/yr. Assume you buy AT&T stock with 6% dividend. You need $120M of assets to get $7M. There is no safety here, and also my calculation doesn't include maybe like 5% increase in costs per year.

I often wonder how could I create a fully self-sustainable non-profit: the one, that doesn't require begging for money and wasting time every year. Instead, the one that could operate independently. To make this happen, you pretty much have to invest the money very, very well, and diversify to the point where the yield is low, yet high enough to hire staff etc. (an example of sustainable donation is present in the Thorp's "A man of all markets" wrt. his endowment to UCI math department) For this you must have a pile of money, if you do the math, and it'd make perfect sense for Wikipedia.

Unless they shrink, lay people off and optimize, they'll need $2B to be fully self-sufficient and sustainable. Otherwise, the fundraiser will need to bring $100M/yr at least.
The depository institutions themselves don't actually pay much at all - FedWires are about $0.033 to the DI. Some DIs offer domestic wires free of charge like my bank does.

SWIFT international wires do cost the DI more, but not several orders of magnitude more. I don't happen to know that number off hand.

Some retail banks charge a lot for wires because they can - people don't use them frequently (as to your point its not what people want most of the time) and usually only for bigger purchases so the fee matters less.

However, if this is something you do more often, banks offer steep, steep discounts over sticker.
And Kidnapping of avocado growers is a billion dollar industry? How many are there to kidnap? That doesn't compare to the income generated by cocaine traffic.
WHAT?!

Hell, yeah, they are. They're rarely designed for aesthetics. "Do one thing, do it well, and lowest TCO."
Pixelfed is a federated image sharing based on Activity Pub protocol (compatible with Mastodon, Peertube): https://pixelfed.org/.
Thanks for playing with this, really appreciate it!

Yes, so currently our budget is low and we turn on AWS EC2 workers on demand... so most likely, "Pipeline running" triggers as we wait for about 90s for the EC2 instance to start. We should be able to keep machines on longer as we get our first few customers.

Thanks, we do support fetching data from JSON, is there a difference with "web JSON"? XML/RSS would be nice indeed, created this issue: https://github.com/hal9ai/hal9ai/issues/4
Vilnius built a ‘portal’ to another city to help keep people connected
Do you actually believe the person you are replying to is a Chinese agent? Just based on his comment?
Whose getting paid millions? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...
"The issue does arise when you aren’t able to understand the problem space enough to realize that what you copied from stack overflow has a mistake or doesn’t fit the requirement you need "

Yeah sure. A stupid programmer will remain a stupid programmer, even if he reaches a certain productivity by living off of stackoverflow ...
Indeed. I've been trying to find or come up with solutions that don't jeopardize personal safety (think journalists, or citizens living under an authoritarian regime) but that also allow freedom of speech (but not democracy of truth, because then you get a fertile ground for propaganda and a rift in communities).
ISIS is wahabist? I thought they were salafist and Al-Qaeda is wahabist (or at least its leadership is)?
RedBull Got Its Wings
There are about three great powers / political cliques with aspirations that interact through geopolitics. One is US led with roots in western roman church, the other Chinese, the third a culturally rich agglomeration of various authoritarian regimes that mostly are united by their desire for local power, disdain of democracy and both overt US and China influence.

You cannot live connected to the net without presumption that the security body of one or more of these has access to your data, and will trawl through this data with impunity.

The only thing you can do is to hedge your bets on which political entity has the most unencumbered access. So either US, China or the local neighborhood friendly authoritarian state security service.

I would imagine everybody of importance in the west presumes NSA listens to them, politely ignore this and just turn off their phones when they don't want to be eavesdropped.

It sucks that either I have to go full edward-snowden-harden-my-kit way, or then just not care about my privacy. I'm a bit lazy and not that idealistic and hence choose the latter.
I'm European-Kurd, and had to travel to Kurdistan Region (northern Iraq) for my sister's wedding a few years before I had to go to the US. I was denied my ESTA without a refund (it was $20 iirc, so not a huge amount but as someone who had just graduated, every penny counted for me) due to this exemption. Had to get a full visitors visa to go which took a lot longer, and was way more expensive. The exemption, which was put in place due to ISIS in 2013, seems reasonable though unfortunate.
See http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/
A recent Windows update added a large “News and Interests” widget to the taskbar. Clicking any of the news headlines or weather links in the widget opens a web page in Edge, even if your default browser is set to something else. Microsoft is pushing Edge anywhere they can.
Every long-term successful operation needs to sustain a few wild bets that look pointless today, with great probability will turn out to have been pointless tomorrow, but has just a tiny chance of becoming really important.

If you just optimise for today, you will die tomorrow.

Gradual improvements won't get you out of a local peak when that local peak is swallowed by rising tides.

If your organisation isn't doing things that look pointless today but in a principled way, I don't think it has great prospects of long-term survival.

Heck, even the wiki concept itself started out as this long-shot experiment nobody at the time expected to be successful.
Apple is swimming in money, why do I have to pay for a new iPhone?

Google is swimming in money, why can’t I post my ads on YouTube for free?

My employees have plenty of money saved up, why won’t they work for free?
Very very senior officials in Mexican government get busted for corruption all the time. It would not surprise me if this president was bought. Most recently, the former minister of defence who runs the entire army, the war against the cartel, and reports directly to the president, was arrested by the DEA.

https://www.lamag.com/article/mexican-military-arrest-lax/
Especially since you have to trust a third person anyways and once you're trusting anyone, you lose all the blockchain guarantees.
>Now the money's drying up (because Firefox's market share is dwindling) and Mozilla are having to cut staff, including staff who work on Firefox development, to survive.

I think Mozilla did some good or at least had the right intentions with some of their sideprojects and think they should keep trying.

On the other hand I have to contain myself from insulting their current CEO in this context given she made her wage shoot up whilst their marketshare was shrinking so much, laid of so many from the servo team among many others which i think could have been very important for firefox's future whilst at the same time running projects like giving half a million to artists to look into the potential intersection of AI and racism if I understood it well.
I wonder it's a project by one their new board members the addition of which i don't exactly see the point of either.

I don't think they should keep themselves busy with this kind of stuff but if they do fine...
If they keep themselves busy with this kind of stuff they should try to make an impact but if they want to analyse and highlight fine.
If they want to analyse and highlight i feel like they should give this money to researchers or a study or so.
But then they give the money to some bloody artists.
If it works i'd like em to fix world hunger with a painting next.
And what's worse....
They do it whilst they're laying of the staff of the ship they're sinking.
> People donating to wikipedia only want wikipedia, they are unaware of the other stuff wikimedia does.

On the contrary, Wikipedia itself has a lot of reliance on the other projects. For example, Wikidata solves the problem of interlinking Wikipedia languages and other projects when they're hosting content about the same real-world entity. In fact, this was Wikidata's MVP - the reason it got funded in the first place. It then took off from there.

Wikimedia Commons is a similar story - in addition to the obvious languages issue, there are a lot of concerns about media (such as licensing. enhancement etc.) that really are best addressed in a dedicated venue, with its own committed contributors. This has been very beneficial to Wikipedia itself.
Does anyone have any ballpark figures on the decay time of the debris blanket we're putting around the earth? Say we plunge ourselves into nuclear or biological anarchy and society regresses 50.000 years... will our descendants still suffer our shortsightedness?
Still a bit better than "Military grade encryption"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph
Project devs: Consider using CPACE (a password-authenticated key exchange) which is in the process of being standardized by IETF.

https://github.com/jedisct1/cpace
> Denmark, USA ?

There is a Nordstream 2 angle here that I have yet to figure out.
sadly this is how internet works now, you filter information with a simple binary decision:

if match_my_opinion:
return good_guy
else:
return he_must_be_brainwashed_and_stupid
Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming
That‘s wrong. The RBMK is not a fast reactor, it’s a pressure-channel boiling water reactor.

Fast reactors are/were for example the:

- French Superphenix
- Russian BN-600/800
- German SNR-300
- Japanese Monji
- American EBR II

The BN reactors are still operational.
I have 3 smx3000rmhv2unc's and 2 of them give an error "battery bus soft start fault", according to the expert:

"I suspect that the metering of the capacitor voltage is slightly wrong on this model of UPS. We've seen this error a few times and the units have performed fine both before and after. Its to do with checking the voltage rise on the cap on power on / battery supply. I think it meters out of tolerance and throws the fault when perhaps either the centerpoint is skewed or the tolerance is too fine."
How are no-js users cut off? At least the desktop site should definitely work fine (I never use the mobile so i don't know).

Hell, last i checked, wikipedia even worked if cookies were disabled (and you weren't logged in).

I'm also not sure what the unsteady connections thing is about? Wikipedia doesn't modify the TCP stack.
wahabis and salafists are sets with large intersection, but for practical purposes they are the same.
They online support open source because they are hoping to leverage that to sell you more Azure services.
I made sure to buy one with 3 memories and a 10 key pad, it's been fine
I’m Danish and this is a big scandal, but the reality is, when the US asks you dance like the vassal state you are.

We really shouldn’t have bought those f-35 planes either. They were more expensive, as in a gazillion times more expensive. The delivery schedule was already falling at the time. They were already terrible planes at the time compared to their competition. Most hilarious of all, they don’t actually fit into our small country because they are loud, so the government is still buying up properties in areas that they’ll have to fly over because the noise levels are so illegal they have to let people move away. They are also struggling with what to do with the airspace in one of our Airports, because the only two routes these planes have around it is over the ocean (fine but typically avoided during rain because of the low altitude they fly to avoid the airport) and our second largest city, ooops.

Somehow it still won, to no ones surprise. And that’s really just how it is. The US wants bases in Greenland? Well, it’s technically not really Danish territory but we’ll make an exception and to full colonial masters. The US wants a radar thing in one of our commercial airports? Sure! (Since moved to another part of Europe). The us wants access to data on Moslem citizens? sure thing! The US wants direct access to the internet infrastructure? Well why not!

I think the only thing we’ve ever really said no to was nuclear missiles.
Right, but supply inflation moving from 1.76% per annum to 0.88% per annum is roughly speaking utterly meaningless. People just latched onto this idea because they're using too few data points.
For some young people their only role models are terrible people who take advantage of their trust and get them into this life. It's a big issue in the U.S. too.
Hey, our infrastructure is already being paid for by existing users.

Our pricing plans are designed such that you cover your own storage + bandwidth costs, and then some more. We don’t have a "forever-free" plan, and don’t intend to have one.

And the compute requirements for a product like this are low (since most of the computation happens on the client).

So currently what we need money for is employees (engineers) and not infrastructure.
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Legalize drugs would not change anything, cartels here in Mexico get money from many activities, extortion, kidnapping and many businesses that from the outside look legitimate. Even compounds made to house the military have being attacked by cartels in recent years.
It's not just white guys
Please don’t treat the comments like a battleground for your irrelevant CCP crusade. I have read your comment history and it’s fairly obvious what you’re here for. It turns the HN comments to a hostile place.
No one says it will solve everything, but taking cocaine trafficking away from them will hurt them in their pockets.

There are only so much avocado entrepreneurs they can kidnap and extort.

Legalizing alcohol again in the US didn't make organized crime disappear, but it did make them much weaker. It has been a success.
Given HN uses HTTPS, there's no way they can determine how a particular user is interacting with HN just by monitoring the data being routed by India-based internet switches.
In one job, I used to support just about every size of networkable color and b&w printer from 2 manufacturers. In the cost analysis to operate these things, it became clear: the larger and more expensive printers were not just faster, more reliable, and easier to repair, their supplies were cheaper per page. Their acquisition costs were higher.

For anyone needing to churn out flat dead trees more than once a week: I recommend getting a used flagship color laser printer with a low page count and in good condition instead of an inkjet printer. No more running ink, no more calibration pages, no more dried-out ink cartridges, and no more overpriced supplies.
Yes, the standards for what counts as "good" Wikipedia editing have gotten a lot higher as well, at least wrt. mainstream topics.
Sure its inefficient. For example the complete Tezos network uses around 10kW of power while a centralized solution might only 1kW. Relevance: None.
If it were formal writing...

But it is not.
Hey, PhotoStructure looks amazing. I'm intrigued. How and when does bitrot detection work? I couldn't find it on your site. I spend a decent amount of time making PAR2 volumes so I can detect failures as I've not come up with a better idea.
Crypto only solves problems crypto itself created. DeFi is a perfect example of that.

The reason is that blockchain can only offer its trustless, decentralized and permissionless guarantees to things that are wholly representable on-chain. As soon as you try and sync it with the real world, the real world is the source of truth and the chain representation is meaningless.

Further, by boat anchoring solutions to the fundamental inefficiencies of blockchain, you leave your chain solutions at a material disadvantage to centralized, permissioned solutions anyways. This creates huge adverse selection bias, leaving only the criminals and scammers using it.

Concrete example: Sia has 800TB of storage - total! - in spite of an $800M market cap and millions spent on R&D. You could achieve the same result with a half of a 1U rack of hard drives and $40,000 - or a few bucks on AWS. Why? Because why on earth would anyone use it?

On the other hand, Chia has 1.5 exabytes of wasted hard drive capacity loaded up with bingo cards lol.

This is crypto.

DeFi is particularly fun, it's basically just decentralized 2008, a way to extend way too much leverage to people who simply should not have it, in exchange for fanciful 3-digit percentage APR to lenders.

It's all a damn mess.
Do you have a source on this? I dont believe we'd have any more addicts when we'd go with total legalization. Portugal is a great example (albeit they did not legalize but decriminalize).

This fear mongering on "freedom to use what every you like" should stop. It serves no purpose but keeping prisons full and street drug in bad quality. Why would we want to pay so much tax for that?

Every politician who claims to be in favor of "freedom", but cannot deal with the freedom to use what ever you like is a fraud.
s/consumers/americans/

In Europe credit cards are not very common, and debit card transactions are often not reversible.
No.

Its unfortunate but countries should invest in anti-satellite technology - especially countries with no bone is the space fight. Should a political situation develop that makes access to satellites advantageous - reducing LEO surveillance satellites to rubble is the best solution.
The encyclopedia wouldn't be what it is, absent these "sister" projects. It's all interconnected. (I have tried to address this in a sibling comment.)
Objecting to abuses of power by a super power is totally reasonable. Using it as a reason to say "oh, but this other super power totally wouldn't do that" is at best naive and at worst shilling. Looking at gp's comment history I believe they are just a regular Chinese citizen, and not a paid astroturfer - but I do understand how someone might suspect the latter from seeing just this one comment.
> That the real reason westerners fear Iraq is bigotry?

Hm? Westerners don't fear Iraq. It can't do anything to them.
The GDP graphs that are used to show faster growth after WW2 actually contradict their theory. The graphs show the previous big dips for WW1, yet while GDP rapidly shot up after that war ended, it soon reverted to the original trend line. So why was one war ‘good’ for the economy, yet the previous war bad?